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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Its been a while! Quite a while….

Life has been pretty busy lately. For those of you who aren’t aware (I don’t know why you wouldn’t be, but I’ll continue anyway) I am currently enrolled in the Web Development program (well technically now its called Internet Applications and Web Development because they decided to change it for some reason) at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario.

Yes, its quite a ways away from home, but as I’m sure most of you are aware, I was born in Ontario and lived in Ontario until I was 13. This is the longest I’ve been in the province since then. But, I had never been to Oshawa before, in my life so it was still a new experience for me. And driving in Ontario has been quite the experience too, since I learned to drive in the middle of nowhere in Northern Alberta, and got my driver’s license in less of nowhere in Southern Alberta.

With that said, I’m enjoying myself. For the most part. I’ve made a few friends. I’m not the best at making friends since I tend to be slightly anti-social at times, but I have met a few people that I really like.

Roommates

These people include my roommate. She’s pretty cool! I have to say she’s the best roommate I’ve ever had.

I liked the first roommates I had (Leandra, Dana and Eden) at Lethbridge College, but I didn’t stay with them. It was nothing personal against them, but an opening came up in the two bedroom suite, which was my first choice in residence so I took it, thinking it would be good for me with homewokr and such. I was correct, in that sense but the roommate situation, not so much. My roommate Katelyn was nice… as far as I could tell. She was always locked inside her bedroom and I rarely ever saw her. She hung out with me and my friend Cara once or twice but when we got back she went into her room and shut her door. The last day that she was there at the end of the year we went to Tim Horton’s for and ended up hanging out and talking for two or three hours. And it was fun but we don’t keep in touch. I did see her once in Lethbrige a few months ago and we talked for a few minutes but that’s it.

My roommate at Peace River Bible Institute was pretty cool. I like her too and we got along pretty well but we didn’t really hang out much.

But my roommate here in Oshawa I get along with really well. We seem to be a lot alike in personality, but in a good way. We haven’t gotten into any fights or anything yet lol. We seem to like the same TV shows, so we don’t fight over the TV at all. She watches it more than I do though, which doesn’t bother me at all. She even has relatives in Alberta too, and she’s been there, which is cool. I like her. Like I said, best roommate I’ve had!

Classes

My classes have been pretty good so far. Some have been fairly boring for me though, but only because I’m not actually learning anything. Well, I am, but I’m not. lol.

Mathematics for Computing
Fairly easy class. Learning things that I will definitely use. Remember things that I don’t remember how to do from high school math. And by “remembering” I mean that I’m remembering that I learned them but I don’t remember how to do them. Luckily, this class isn’t a normal math class. Its been described as being like an intro to programming class. We cover, briefly, some math concepts, and then we switch over to how to do them as if we were using them in JavaScript, rather than regular math.

Vector Graphics
This class is all about Adobe Illustrator. Definitely learning things in this class. Although, I took a graphic design class in Lethbridge, it didn’t cover as much about Illustrator as we’ve done in this class. I have a gigantic assignment due in a couple weeks where I have to recreate a company logo. Some how I got sucked into doing the Firefox logo. Its one of the hardest ones to do apparently, and I’ve already seen that. I started on it last week. All I’ve done so far is outlines but I don’t know what to do with half of it. Its very complicated.

Interface Design I
The instructor for this class is ridiculously hard to listen to! He’s extremely mono-toned and even more quiet. This class has been somewhat repetitive for me from a class I took in Lethbridge, so sometimes I don’t pay attention. I try, but its really hard.

Communication Essentials
Fancy name for English. I tried to get credit for this class but failed in that attempt. This is the third post-secondary English I’ve been forced to take so I’m doing pretty good in it so far. I’m a terrible writer. I’m fully aware of that. I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words. Or sometimes coming up with topics. I’m fairly good with grammar and spelling and such though so I have a pretty good mark so far.

Digital Imaging I
This class is all about Photoshop. Also, repetitive for me. Bigger projects though.

Extensible HTML
Obviously title, if you know anything about anything related to website design. So far the easiest class in this program, for me, because not only have I learned about it in college previously, I’ve been working with HTML for about 8 years. Most of my knowledge is self-taugh, but I got the basic understanding of it in a computer programming course I took in Junior High. We’re just starting to get into CSS, barely. Which is something else I’ve known for a while, but its all self-taught, and some things I picked up at LC.

Work

On top of my school work-load, I also have a part-time job. I transferred from Michaels, The Arts & Crafts Store in Lethbridge, Alberta to the one in Oshawa. I’m currently working way more hours than I should be too. I do need to talk to my manager about that but I’m going to see if I can make it past mid-term stress (which is happening right now) and maybe it won’t be too bad. I might have to ask for less hours though.

Anyways, I should probably get back to my homework. I finally finished my Photoshop project that’s due tomorrow but I have an XHTML assignment due on Friday night and a group project for Interface Design due on Tuesday and I have to work tomorrow night, Friday night and Saturday. And with my luck, probably Sunday too but I haven’t seen next week’s schedule yet.

That’s all for now.

Peace.

… ok did I really just say that…? I never say “Peace”… Weird.

P.S.
Oh yeah, an update on my friend Chris Craigman: he unfortunately did not make the top 16 of the MuchMusic VJ Search 2.0. But he totally would have made an awesome VJ!

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School, Work, Moving, etc.

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I am slightly pissed off right now. And a little stressed. I wasn’t until about 10 minutes ago.

As I’m sure many of you are already aware, I am now at school in Ontario. And to make that whole even even more stressful we moved from Taber to Medicine Hat two weeks before I left for Ontario. Because of that I had to get my address changed on my driver’s license and I didn’t think to do it sooner than I did so right now I am without photo ID. Obviously I was given a temporary driver’s license, which is just a piece of paper. So stupid. But this problem has already caused a problem here. I went to get my school ID card and they need photo ID (like a drivers license) before they can issue the ID card. The lady at AMA in Medicine Hat said it would be two weeks for my new license to be mailed to me (in Medicine Hat). My parents don’t fly home until September 9th. So then it will be another week before I get my real card. Luckily, the girl who was there to do the school ID cards was able to get her boss to let me have my card and then bring in my photo ID when I get it. That has to be by the 30th, so it better be there by the time my parents get back to Medicine Hat!!

Before I left, my manager at Michaels in Lethbridge (Chris) called the manager at Michaels here in Oshawa (Mary) to see if I could get transfered. She wanted to meet with me first, before she said yes. She wanted me to call her once I was settled in and stuff. So I called today. She’s on fricken holidays! I’m pretty sure she did not tell Chris that she was going on holidays when he talked to her two weeks ago. Ugh. That pisses me off. Now I have to wait until Wednesday. Next week is going to be extremely busy as it is, without having to deal with trying to get a job that I should already have. And the assistant manager also, was apparently not in today.

Today I have to go to The Brick in Whitby to pick up the night table my parents bought for me the other day. Once I do that I’m going to try and get the rest of my crap organized in my room. I’ve done pretty good so far. I’m impressed with myself.

Anyways, I have a few other things I want to do today before I go to Whitby and its just about lunch time.

Talk to you all later!

Keira

P.S. My roommate hasn’t moved in yet. I moved in early though, on Wednesday. Most people probably planned to move in on the weekend. My cousin Dan moves in on Sunday.

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New Things, Stress, and Craziness

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

A lot has been happening lately. I knew it was all coming, but it always seemed so far away. Now half of it has passed and here I am stuck in the middle of this crazy messed up thing and I’m so stressed out and I’m tired and I just want to curl up in a ball and forget hte world… at least for the next couple weeks.

Last week (August 12) we moved from Taber to Medicine Hat. I’m still working in Lethbridge though. So right now I’m driving just over an hour and a half to get to work. Good thing is that’s almost over. I have two shifts left. Since we have a huge reset in the beading area of the store to do next week, a bunch of us (mostly the replenishment crew, and a few others) are doing some over night shifts. Since I had planned for my last day to be Tuesday, August 25th, I’m doing Sunday night and Monday night. Then I’m finished. So if you are following me on Twitter or are a friend on Facebook, you likely noticed that yesterday was my last day shift. My last day dealing with customers!! lol… until I get to Ontario. I’m getting transferred to a store in Oshawa for when I’m at school. That way I will have a little bit of income while I’m there. And I didn’t have to actually quit my job.

Also, some of you may have been aware that my friend Amanda was pregnant. We hadn’t really hung out much lately. I’ve been busy with work and the move and stuff and she’s been busy getting ready for the baby and hanging out with other people. I don’t want to sound bitter about this but, maybe I am a tiny bit. When I got home from PRBI, Amanda and I hung out practically everyday, more often after she told me she was pregnant (she was scared to tell me because of how someone else reacted, but that’s another story). Then when Cara came back from school we sort of stopped hanging out as much. I’m not entirely sure what happened and I’m sure its partly my fault. I thought we had gotten really close but then it just faded away. I mean I could have put in more of an effort but I felt like half the time we hung out, she just didn’t really want to be there. Like there was something wrong with me. I’m know there are things wrong with me, but it didn’t feel like she felt that way before that. I found myself just getting rather annoyed after a while and didn’t put in much effor anymore. And for that, I apologize. (I doubt that Amanda will read this, mostly because I know she won’t have much time now.)

Anyways, back to what I was originally going to say about Amanda… I was talking to her on the phone (the conversation started through text message) on Monday the 17th evening, when I got off work, around just after 5:30. She was 2cm dialated at the time so we knew the baby was coming soon. Her due date was September 1st, by the way, but obviously he was going to be early. I found out the Tuesday morning, around 11:30am, when I was going for lunch, via text message that Hunter William was born on Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:08pm in Taber. We talked some more via text message throughout the day while I was on breaks and when I got off work. He had to be taken to the hospital in Lethbridge later on. All she told me was that there was something wrong with his breathing and his heart. I asked her again how he was doing earlier today and she said he was still in the hospital and they’re still waiting for test results. So at this point I don’t really know much. I don’t even know how much Amanda knows. I haven’t seen the baby yet either since they’re still in the hospital. She’s been staying with him in Lethbridge. I really hope she gets to take him home soon. I also hope I get to see him before I leave for school.

Its now officially less than a week until I leave for school. We’re driving out and my parents are flying back, so I get the car while I’m at school. We’re leaving after my parents get home from work on Wednesday, August 26th. My move in date for residence, I  believe we chose for the 2nd. I don’t remember for sure, but I think that’s what it is. School starts on the 8th.

On another random note… in addition to all the stuff that’s happening lately, I’ve had a lot of stuff on my mind lately. More specifically people. I don’t know why. This started a while ago but it got weirder a few days ago. I was unpacking some stuff in my new room and I found my old journals/diaries. I don’t write in them very often. I think the last time was about 2 years ago. I was looking at an old entry. It was one of those stupid email forward quizes (now mostly used on Facebook) that, for some reason, I had written in my journal. It was a personality quiz thing. One of the questions asked you to write a person’s name next to some different colours. Then you get the results at the end. For one of these colours I picked a certain person and the result for it made me think about that person again. Like I said, I had been thinking about this person quite a bit before I read this, but this made me think about them more. I realized that I miss them a lot. It didn’t help that people have been asking me a lot about this person lately too. Its weird. Its closing in on a year since I’ve talked to this person. The last time was around October, 2008. I get random wall posts or status or photo comments from them, but other than that we’ve had no communication since October-ish. (I don’t remember the exact day). I kept texting the person but they stopped replying.

Who am I kidding, its kind of obvious its a guy I’m talking about so I’ll stop saying they and them. For some of you this may be more obvious as to who it is but if you don’t know, that’s fine. Lets keep it that way.

Anyways, we haven’t talked in a long time and I kind of want to talk to him again but I don’t know what to say. I think things were a little awkward last time. I’m pretty sure that’s the problem, but I don’t know how to get past that. We live too far away from each other to go out for coffee or whatever just randomly. And now I’m going even farther away for school. I think the fact that we were closer to each other for a little while last year kind of freaked him out a little bit. Then I didn’t really tell him I wasn’t coming back after Christmas, until after, because he randomly sent me a message or text or something (I forget what form it was in) and some how it came up that I wasn’t back up north, that I had stayed home. I don’t think we’ve talked since that. So, I guess if you include that conversation (which wasn’t long btw) we have talked since October, but that was in like January or something.

I’m not exctly sure why I’ve been thinking so much about this guy lately though. I don’t really know if I still have feelings for him because I haven’t seen him since October and rarely ever talk to him, but for some reason I keep thinking about him. I went for quite a while without thinking about him though. Its just been the last month or two. And, as I mentioned, people keep asking about me and him. At my cousin’s wedding on the 8th, most of my mom’s family was there and  one of my uncle’s likes to bug me about boys whenever we see each other. He asked if I had a boyfriend and somewhere in the word “no” he decided that I had 2. So the rest of the day I was being bugged about having two boyfriends. Then other people, who knew a little bit about me and this guy, were asking about him and stuff. I got stuck in a whole conversation about him and how we hadn’t talked in a long time and stuff.

That got me thinking though. I miss the conversations we used to have online after I moved to Taber. And even the ones we had when we were still in high school together. He was so much fun to talk to. Before the complication of having feelings for each other as more than friends. Before that, we were really good friends. My favourite conversation was one we had until about 3:30 in the morning. We were talking about arm hairs and toe hairs. Sounds stupid, I know, but I swear to you it is, to this day, the most hilarious conversation I have ever had with anyone. One of the few online conversations I’ve had where I have actually laughed out loud. I had to try and be quiet to because it was after 3am and my parents were in bed. It was really hard lol. I miss those days.

(Oh, I forgot, we have actually had a few short converstations (that died rather quickly) online since then, mostly talking about school and other random stuff. But nothing really important.)

I’ve been debating for the last couple days whether or not I should send him an email to see how he’s doing. I don’t really know what to say to him. I’m not always the best with words. Ok, I’m usually not. It would be nice to have a conversation like we used to, but its been so long that I don’t know if we can. I don’t know, I guess we’ll see if I can work up the courage to do it. I don’t think he reads this (I don’t think many people do), but if he is reading this, I hope maybe he’ll email me first. I think it would be nice to know how how feels.

I don’t know.

I should really stop rambling now though. This has gotten quite long and I hadn’t intended for it to be long.

My stomach is growling. I’m going to go make something to eat. I guess that’s all for now. I know I don’t post very often anymore but I’ll try to post when I get to school to let you all know how things are going.

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Moving.

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

I haven’t posted in a while because, well, I’ve been busy and stressed and stuff. My last post was about whether or not to move. Well, now my decision has been made. Its going to be a pain in the ass, but its done.

Today, we got our first offer on the house. We accepted. No counter offer. Just accepted. In the houses that I remember selling (the one we lived in from when I was 5 until I was 13, and the one we lived in from when I was 13 until I was 18) we had counter offers. This is the first one, I am aware of, that we did not make any counter offers. They offered a little below our asking, not too much, and I don’t think they really had any conditions, except the closing date, which is fine. They had a couple issues with dates, but it worked out. I guess their house closes on July 15th or 13th or maybe it was the 25th, something like that. And they, at first wanted  around then, but now apparently they’re going on holidays so the date is like August 12th or 1st or something. I totally forget now and my parents aren’t here right now (and didn’t take their cell phone, as per usual lol) so I can’t even ask.

Anyways, so I am definitely moving before I leave for school.

Speaking of school, on Thursday I got my residence stuff. So, the timing was kind of good… ish. lol. I don’t know. This is so weird. So, I’m moving soon. Then I’m leaving for school right away. We chose the date September 2nd for me to move in to residence. School starts on the 7th. Still don’t know exactly how I’m getting there. My parents haven’t decided yet if all three of us will fly out and I will get a new car there or if all three of us, two of us, or one of us will drive out and my parents will both fly back. Lol. We have no idea yet. This is so whacked out and stressful.

I also have to find a job or two or three in Medicine Hat so I have more money before I leave. I’m still hoping I will be able to transfer to the Michael’s there so I can stay with the company (and I’ll probably work at the one in Oshawa too when I’m at school. I don’t know. This is so friggen stupid but I can’t do anything about it. I want to stay with Michaels until I can get a job in the web industry though because I really like working for them and it would show a certain amount of loyalty, even though I’m going from store to store because of things that are out of my control.

If I do work in the Medicine Hat store, it’ll be the third Michael’s I’ve worked for. I worked in the Grande Prairie store for 5 months when I was in grade 12 (in 2005), then I moved. Last summer I worked in the Lethbridge store for like 2 months (no one in Taber would hire me for the first two months of summer break so finally my dad agreed that I should apply in Lethbridge) then I went away to school for one semester. When I came back I applied for jobs in Taber again and no one would hire me again so I finally went to Lethbridge again and ended up back at Michaels again (same store, second time). Now I’m moving to Medicine Hat, hopefully will be able to transfer so I don’t have to reapply or anything, which is easier, I think. Then I’m also hoping that I can either transfer to the Oshawa store or I will quit and then apply once I’m there. And if I’m back in Alberta in the summer, and even Christmas maybe, I can work at the Medicine Hat store again. I don’t know, I guess I’ll take that one as is comes.

This is insane and I hate it.

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Job Search Update

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

So I got another call from Safeway. They want me to come back for their cashier test thing. I really don’t want to do it now. Partly because it takes an hour to an hour an a half of my own time (which I have lots of right now, but still). The other reason is because I’m sick.

On Tuesday night I started coughing a dry cough a little bit. Then I woke up yesterday with a slightly sore throat and I was coughing more and by the end of the day my chest was hurting from coughing. I did take a Tylenol cold before I went to the interview yesterday and it helped a bit but my throat was still dry.

By the time I went to bed last night it was pretty bad so I took a night time Tylenol Cold and it helped me sleep, until 5:30 in the morning. That stuff knocks you out but if I only take one when I’m sick I’ll only sleep about 5-6 hours. If I take two usually it’ll keep me out for longer, then I fell funny if I wake up before it wears off lol. But I took a daytime one when I got up and then went back to sleep around 6:30 until just after 10:00. So that was good. I got more than enough sleep lol.

I feel so much worse today. The weird thing is that I’m not stuffed up at all. I just have a dry cough. That’s my only symptom lol. And a little trouble breathing, but that’s because of my asthma, but I take Advair for that and I’m supposed to up my dosage a certain amount when I get sick. But that stuff has kept me from getting sick as much as I did before I started taking it. Its amazing!!

Anyways, I also don’t want to go to this test thing because I really don’t want to be a cashier! Like I said in my last post, I’m a sales floor person! I’m very tempted not to go, but I said I would. I’m going tomorrow afternoon.

But after that, my friend Amanda and I are going to see Push. I’m so excited!! It looks so good and I want to see it so bad!

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Job Search, 2009

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

As you may or may not know, I came back from school at Christmas and decided not to go back. I’ll explain the reasons why later, in another post. So I’ve been looking for a job. I got back in the middle of December and handed out lots of resumes and applications and didn’t get any phone calls. I put off applying at Michaels Arts and Crafts for a few reasons. I knew I would get hired because I worked at this store in the summer and I also worked at another Michaels when I was in high school. I really wanted to get a job in an electronics store or an electronics department in a bigger store, because that’s where my passion is, technology, electronics, computers, etc. Unfortunately, all the experience I have in a retail electronics setting, is a few months in the electronics department at a small Wal-Mart. It took me months to even get into the department and I made the mistake (for various reasons) of quitting without giving two weeks notice and now I can’t work in a Wal-Mart ever again. I mean I’m ok with that except that its pretty much the only retailer in the town I live in. There are lots of small stores and one grocery store.

I finally gave up and applied in the city thats half an hour away from here, which I had to do in the summer too. After more applications and no response I finally went back to Michaels. Of course they hired me again. I got my job offer yesterday. Its a new position that they have in the store. I don’t really know what I’m going to be doing exactly except that I will be working a consistent 25 hours a week (7am-12pm, Monday-Friday) rather than whatever random part-time shifts I can pick up that would all be evening shifts. So this is better since I have to drive 45 minutes to get to work. But it doesn’t start until February 16th. So I’m not starting yet.

Then, two months after applying at Safeway, the grocery store here in town, they called me. I have an interview this afternoon. I’m not really sure I want to work there but if I can pick up some part-time shifts in the evenings a couple times a week I can get myself at least 35 hours a week so total.

…Four hours later…

Ok, so I didn’t get to finish writing this post before I went to my interview. The interview went alright I think. It wasn’t very formal, which is usually better for me! lol. I don’t do formal very well. I don’t know if I’ll get it. I still don’t know if I even want it though. I’ll probably just be a cashier and I’m not really that good at that kind of thing. I don’t like handling cash. I mean I guess most people would pay for groceries with debit or credit card so its not all terrible but I still don’t really like having to deal with that situation. I’m more of a sales floor person when it comes to retail.

Yeah, so I don’t really know whether or not I’m going to get offered the Safeway job or if I will take it but I guess we will find out soon enough.

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LiveJournal and Babies

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I keep getting drawn back to LiveJournal, though other websites. It’s rather odd. I still have my LJ but I haven’t posted in it in almost 2 years. I’ve decided that I might start posting in it again. I will likely just post the same stuff that I post on here, but I might not. I don’t know yet. I’m hoping to find a way to connect them. I know there used to be a way that when you post on LJ it can post to your WordPress blog with older versions of WP but I like posting on my WP (right here) better than LJ, I’m not sure why, so I’m hoping there’s a way to go the opposite way. I’m sure there is probably a plugin or something. Hopefully I will find it. I’ll have to redo my LJ layout at some point, although I’m not totally hating it right now. Anyways, I just made a post in my LJ, and thought I would post it here:

Yeah, I know I had said in some posts (friends only posts) that I wouldn’t be posting on LJ much anymore. The last time I posted was Tuesday, November 21, 2006. It’s been almost 2 years.

I decided I would post something on here right now because I keep getting drawn back on here from links and stuff from other websites. So I’m thinking I may start using this a once in a while.

I may do some editing of old posts. I may not. I’m not really sure at this point.

Those of you who are able to read the friends only posts right now can see that I was in a really bad place when I used to post here. And I mean really bad!! Honestly, I don’t even know that person anymore. I mean I know that I was depressed and whatnot but I think at the time I didn’t see it the same way I see it now. It’s kind of strange.

Anyways, those of you who I’m still in touch with now (in the last few months) know that I’m no where near that person I was two years ago. That’s not to say that I don’t get depressed now. I do. Not nearly to the extent that I used to. I guess it’s still for similar reasons that it used to be. ut I can definitely say that the devil does not have the hold on me that he has had in the past.

There are very very few people who actually know even a tiny bit of what I was feeling (that was never posted anywhere on the internet). I kept a lot of my feelings to myself. Back then I didn’t have any friends or family or anyone that I really felt I could trust with the feelings and thoughts that I had. What people saw on the outside is not what was on the inside.

Although, I apparently have this thing that when I’m not really showing any emotions on the outside or if I’m just thinking about stuff (or nothing) or whatever, and not really paying attention to the expression on my face, people think something is wrong. I can honestly say that some of the times when I responded with “Nothing” when asked “What’s wrong” or “Yeah, I’m fine” to “Are you ok?” I was telling at least half the truth. But I would be lying if I said that I was telling the truth every time.

I do have to say that I’ve been asked those kind of questions a lot less in recent past. God is working on me. I’m not even the same person I was six months ago. Actually, now that I think about it. Everything seemed to change around the time I turned 20. I never really thought about that before but that is about the time that things really turned around for me. It’s kind of odd. Or not so odd I guess.

But going back a little bit in topic here, I would be lying if I told you that I’m never depressed anymore. I still struggle with things. The big thing I think is that I worry about what people are thinking about me. Not all the time. It’s very much a situational thing. It’s when I’m around certain people that I really get thinking about. Even today, it happened. I was just all of a sudden feeling like “They totally think I’m stupid and weird” and things to that effect. If I was to tell you who it was some of you would would understand why, and others would probably be surprised and try to tell me it’s not true.

I have been spending less and less time with those people but I can’t completely ditch them because they’re my friends. But at the same time there are things that make me think that they aren’t really. I also know that that is probably not even true. Its the same feelings I had all throughout high school, and even often in elementary school. High school was definitely worse for me though. I really hate that I still get those feelings. I’ve been out of high school for two years. I shouldn’t be feeling like I still am in high school. It brings back bad memories that I don’t want to remember.

This is also why I’m kind of scared to go to PRBI (Peace River Bible Institute), because it’s in the town where I went to high school and I don’t want to face those memories. I think that’s why it took me so long to finish my application. I did get it finished and sent out, but I haven’t heard back yet. Hopefully I will soon though because I’ve already been accepted to the two colleges (regular colleges) and I had to accept one because of the deadline so, just in case I don’t get into PRBI, I have a back up plan. My issue now though (and part of why I want to go to PRBI) is that I don’t really know if I even want to do that program and career path anymore. I’m starting to want to go back to one of my previous career path choices. I’m not sure why I want to but I do. I’m not closing the door on the other one but I’m starting to peak through the door of this one. I’ll elaborate more when I know more.

But anyways, now that I’ve rambled on for over half an hour, I think it should go to bed. It’s almost 12:30am and I need to get back into the job search in the morning. I’ve been looking for a summer job for almost two months. How depressing is that?! I mean really! Ugh. Anyways…Ttyl

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On a completely separate note, we have two baby snails in our aquarium. I will try to take pictures of them tomorrow. If I can find them, lol. They are so freaking tiny! And really really cute!! I’m sure there are probably more in there somewhere, but I don’t even know where the eggs are. I had convinced myself of the species of apple snail that they are but apparently I was wrong because I though she would lay her eggs above the waterline but I haven’t seen any. I’m not completely convinced that they still aren’t that type though. Maybe she just didn’t lay 200-300 eggs like she’s supposed to. Either way, there are for sure two babies. One was about 3-4mm when my mom called me up to see them around 9:00, and the other was about 1.5mm. Extremely tiny! Hopefully I will be able to find them tomorrow lol. Hopefully Phoebe, (our female Betta) doesn’t eat them lol.

I also think that our female snail has had other babies because there has been what looks like an empty snail shell (about the size of the bigger babies) sitting on top of the thinger (I don’t know what it is but the snails and the fish like to go inside and of top of it lol. I’ll get some pictures) in the tank for a few weeks now. When I first saw it, my mom said it was fish poo.. It’s definitely not! It hasn’t expanded like poo would lol. And it’s twirly like a snail shell, but very translucent, like babies shells. These two babies are definitely alive (or were at 9:00 lol). They were both an the glass and crawling around. And you could see their little teeny tiny tentacles! They are so friggen cute!!

Anywho…I’m getting super tired now. Time for bed! Good night! (or more like morning now lol)

Oh, and just a little addition to this before I head to bed, I want to say Congrats to my friend Nicole and her hubby Jeff. They just had a baby boy last weekend!

Edit: Ok so I got a WP Plugin that will crosspost all my WP posts to my LJ. I have it set so users have to comment on my WP Blog though because I don’t want to have the hassle of checking both WP and LJ comments because they wouldn’t be the same, which kind of sucks, I know, but it’s easier for me, and then I don’t get double the comments (not that I ever get comments anyway, but if I do…).

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Unemployment Sucks Butt

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

I am so frustrated right now. I’ve been without a job since the end of April (well technically since September because I was going to school but we won’t count that because my dad wouldn’t let me get a job then) and I still haven’t found a job. I’ve applied everywhere I would even consider working and I haven’t had a single phone call or interview. Not even for a part-time job. It sucks!

To add to the suckage, my dad won’t get off my back about the whole thing. He’s constantly making comments about me not having a job. They’re not even joking comments. We’ll be talking about something and then he’ll say something about me not having a job, when he knows how much it irritates me. Apparently he doesn’t think I’ve been even looking for jobs. But I have been looking and I’ve been applying.

I started in Taber because, obviously because I live in Taber, but now that I’ve gone a month without a job I started applying in Lethbridge. There are more places I wouldn’t mind working at but I go into half of them and they say they’re not hiring. EMPLOYEE SHORTAGE MY BUTT!!!! Frig. Ugh!

Anyways, I just wanted to vent that. Hopefully I’ll get a phone call from someone in the next couple days.

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The Job Search = Frustration

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Oh my goodness. Ok, so I’m sort of desperate for a job at the moment. I’ve been out of school since the end of April and I’ve been looking for jobs in Taber. I don’t really want to be in Taber but since I can’t afford to be driving to Lethbridge everyday or to live in Lethbridge, I’m kind of stuck.

Everyone is claiming to be hiring, but when I go into places to drop off resumes they say they’re not hiring, or they just never call me back. So, out of my desperation I re-applied at Wal-Mart. UGH!!! Yeah, I really didn’t want to, but I really need the money fast. Louise called me this morning and she said they could reinstate me. I just dropped off my application yesterday.

So apparently the rumours of Wal-Mart being desperate for employees is true. Lol. I believe it though. No body really wants to work there. And I can understand why. I mean I worked there for 10 and a half months and I really didn’t like it a whole lot. I mean most of the people were pretty good to work with. But there just seemed to be too much crap going on that you didn’t really see until you actually worked there, which is why all the young kids they hired would quit within a month or so.

Also, the pay isn’t that great. I mean I’ll get paid more now because minimum wage is higher, but I was getting more at Michael’s (part-time) in GP when I was 17 than I was at Wal-Mart (I turned 19 while I was working there before). But I really need the job and the income, even though it won’t be a lot since I only applied for part-time.

But it sounds like they might be in need of full-time stuff too. I only need work for the summer though. But everything full-time at Wal-Mart (other than department managers positions) are pretty much all evening shifts and I don’t think I can handle that again. It was stressful and I never did anything else because I would end up staying up late and sleeping in the next day and then get up and go to work again. And they were always cutting my hours so it was really hard. I would prefer consistent shifts but I know I won’t get that at Wal-Mart.

Anyways, I guess we’ll see what happens. Louise said she would call me back and let me know. Even though I don’t really want to be working there I do need something. I’m although planning to give them a full-two weeks notice this time before I leave, even though technically I won’t have to because I’ll be there for less than three months but I will anyway and hope it will help to make up for not giving notice last time. I was apparently supposed to have a “do not rehire” on my file because of that but if they’re desperate enough they’ll hire me again. I also know that I’m leaving at the end of August/beginning of September anyway for school so I know approximately when I’ll have to leave. I just won’t have the dates for a while.

Anyways, I guess that’s all for now.

Edit: So Louise just called me back. She didn’t realize at the time that I hadn’t given notice when I left before and that I have a “do not rehire” on my file. She said she had talked to Sharalee about it, pleading my case. But she said they won’t bring back anyone who did that. Louise said I could talk to Dallas or Sharalee and see if maybe they’ll let me come back.

Right now I’m kind of thinking that I will do it but I’m not entirely sure if I really want to. I mean I really do need a job. But I don’t really want to work at Wal-Mart but no one else is hiring me. I don’t really know what to do. I’m so desperate right now but I don’t know if I can do it. I can pretty much guarantee that I will start crying if I’m talking to Dallas or Sharalee about it. I was starting to cry just talking to Louise when she called me back. And she wants me to come back. She said that she doesn’t like that they won’t give people a second chance.

I remember, not long before I left, this guy who worked in the back, I think his name was Darrel, gave his notice (he was so stressed working there, which was part of why he left) and he left during his lunch break of his last shift and didn’t come back and they said he got a “do not rehire” on his file. On his last freakin’ shift. He had a whole 4 hours left and they still did it. It’s so stupid.

So, I don’t really know what I’m going to do.

Edit 2: I don’t think I can do it. The stress I’m getting from just thinking about it is reminding me of how stressed I was when I was actually working there. I don’t think I could handle working there again, even just for the summer. I wish Taber was bigger or closer to Lethbridge. I think I’ll start applying in Lethbridge and see if anything comes from it. I know gas is going to be bad what else can I do?

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