I learned something today. If you really want to seriously piss off your Father... buy your Mother a dog! Somehow I inadvertently ended up buying an adorable 6 month old Silver poodle for my Mother.

Mother is over the moon with excitement and said she probably won't sleep tonight. My Father , on the other hand, threatened to set my car on fire! He's not thrilled. It's a good thing I don't go home until April!

Currently her name is Sadie (which will be changing), she'll be getting a hair-cut and the barrette in her hair will be long gone too; but here's a first peek at the newest addition to our family.

So this morning my Boss asked me if I wanted to run the payroll department. He then went on about how it would be a promotion and would be good for my career. I told him that I would think about it and let him know tomorrow.

I then went back to my office and proceeded to stress out about it all day. Thing is I have ZERO desire to take over the payroll department. The position doesn't play to my strengths in any way and frankly I can think of few positions that would bore me faster. I wouldn't mind learning the position but to be stuck there responsible for it for the next 6 months or more wouldn't make any sense. So tomorrow I'm going to decline the position and cross my fingers that something better suited to me will come along soon.

I had a mild revelation tonight. While I was laying in bed being frustrated with life in general I realized that I'm really no different than any of the other people here. My company is full of talented young people. We're all on somewhat the same level and while some of us are in more stressful positions than others we're essentially all in the same place.

All of us want to move onward and upward. All of us are stuck here far from friends and family. All of us are tired and run down.

Essentially we're in our late 20's and the game of life is starting to get a little scary. I know I'm not the only one that's thinking maybe I should go back to school. Did I make the right choice in choosing the "career" path that I have? Are the sacrifices now really worth it? What will come of this path I've chosen? These are the things that torment me on a day to day basis but in some small way tonight I'm comforted by the realization that I'm definitely not the only one.

I think having the patience to wait on life and see what it's going to bring you; while also aggressively pursuing the things you want is a very delicate balancing act. Learning to live with that balancing act is the real trick.

I have had an awesome day. Started off this morning with lunch with one of my best friend's from high school L. She moved here from Edmonton quite some time ago and works in the area where my Sister lives. After a good bit of catching up she went back to work.

I on the other hand met up with someone and went on a date. Went for coffee, wandered around Coal Harbour talked. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed myself.

After that I met up with my new (old) best friend who I'm going to refer to here as 'G'. We went out for a superb dinner of Italian food and then met up with my friend Chris and her BF for dessert. The whole evening was superb. Awesome conversation, amazing food and really good friends. Now I'm sitting here waiting for Sister to come home from one of the many dates she's had this week. There hasn't been one night that I've been in bed before 1AM since I've been here. I'll be glad to be back in my reality soon enough but until then I'm enjoying the fun.

Well I'm in Vancouver and as usual things are pretty good. I spent the weekend in a drunken stupor with new (old) friends and had a great time. Now I'm thinking it's time to just kick back and relax.

It's weird actually. Whenever I come to Vancouver a few days into it I start to think it's really time to go. My brain starts to repeat old patterns and my emotions take a huge hit. I saw my counselor yesterday which was good but as usual the emotions are swirling still. Gonna take a bit before I get this figured out.