Happy Christmas to us! This is me, putting my new digital camera to use!
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Atomic Everything
Only three more days till Christmas. Can you believe it? Amazingly enough, working in an environment that DOES NOT play Christmas music for every hour of every day makes it much easier to be Christmasy. Having completed all my Christmas shopping (and having failed to buy anything the least bit surprising at all for Sean) I will be spending the few remaining shopping days at work or at home. There's no way I'm venturing out to see all the psychos out there. It's really kind of sad how stressed out some people become at Christmas. I did brave the liqour store tonight though, because it really wouldn't be Christmas without dark rum. Thankfully I wasn't ambushed. The person who rang me through asked me some weird questions though.
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view) I won't be gracing the C-gar with my presence this Christmas. I'm dissapointed to not be seeing family but I am excited to be having my first Christmas (ie. making dinner, having a Christmas tree, etc). Sean and I did buy our first Christmas tree (a fake, abiding by our apartment building rules about fire hazzards) and it is definetly in the Charlie Brown spirit. It totally suits our apartment and it only took one string of lights to light it up. I was a little skeptical when we got it home (it looked significantly better decorated at the Spirit of Christmas Store) but after stringing it with trees, stratigically bending the branches, and adding decorations it looks quite a bit better.
The other dissapointing thing about not venturing home for Christmas is the part where I don't see all my friends there. However, Alie isn't going home either and instead she came to visit me this past weekend. It was sweet times (depsite the Midnight Club DUB edition playing). Sean and I successfully hooked her on We Love Katamari and she helped me finish all my Christmas shopping. There was also much consumption of alcohol and Christmas movie watching. Apparently I didn't see all of National Lampoon's Christmas vacation - but I did make it through Love Actually and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Michaela also came to visit on Saturday, which was a sweet surprise. Sean and I ended up watching Bad(der) Santa with her - not recommended to anybody to watch (as if Billy Bob wasn't scary enough before being Santa). Rewatched the Dark Crystal with her too - and I think I appreciate the movie more now than I did as a small child.
In preperation for my upcoming four days off I have rented 7 movies. I figured I'd better get to the movie store early - because most of the good older movies get rented at Christmas. Infact, I picked out four DVDs, and Sean three. I rented Season 3 of Six Feet Under and am quite looking forward to watching it. I don't think I'm going to brave the Boxing Day shopping (so many people) so I'll be spending it watching Six Feet Under.
Everyone should be looking forward to my New Year's potluck - I certainly am. I'm hoping that quite a few people will be coming (although so far, officially there is me, Sean, Ryan, Carly, and Kim.) I believe Leanne is coming too, and we've invited a few others. Hopefully it turns out to be fun. I'm quite looking forward to some drunken game playing.
Oh Christmas,
make it merry!
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view) I won't be gracing the C-gar with my presence this Christmas. I'm dissapointed to not be seeing family but I am excited to be having my first Christmas (ie. making dinner, having a Christmas tree, etc). Sean and I did buy our first Christmas tree (a fake, abiding by our apartment building rules about fire hazzards) and it is definetly in the Charlie Brown spirit. It totally suits our apartment and it only took one string of lights to light it up. I was a little skeptical when we got it home (it looked significantly better decorated at the Spirit of Christmas Store) but after stringing it with trees, stratigically bending the branches, and adding decorations it looks quite a bit better.
The other dissapointing thing about not venturing home for Christmas is the part where I don't see all my friends there. However, Alie isn't going home either and instead she came to visit me this past weekend. It was sweet times (depsite the Midnight Club DUB edition playing). Sean and I successfully hooked her on We Love Katamari and she helped me finish all my Christmas shopping. There was also much consumption of alcohol and Christmas movie watching. Apparently I didn't see all of National Lampoon's Christmas vacation - but I did make it through Love Actually and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Michaela also came to visit on Saturday, which was a sweet surprise. Sean and I ended up watching Bad(der) Santa with her - not recommended to anybody to watch (as if Billy Bob wasn't scary enough before being Santa). Rewatched the Dark Crystal with her too - and I think I appreciate the movie more now than I did as a small child.
In preperation for my upcoming four days off I have rented 7 movies. I figured I'd better get to the movie store early - because most of the good older movies get rented at Christmas. Infact, I picked out four DVDs, and Sean three. I rented Season 3 of Six Feet Under and am quite looking forward to watching it. I don't think I'm going to brave the Boxing Day shopping (so many people) so I'll be spending it watching Six Feet Under.
Everyone should be looking forward to my New Year's potluck - I certainly am. I'm hoping that quite a few people will be coming (although so far, officially there is me, Sean, Ryan, Carly, and Kim.) I believe Leanne is coming too, and we've invited a few others. Hopefully it turns out to be fun. I'm quite looking forward to some drunken game playing.
Oh Christmas,
make it merry!
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Run, run, run, run, run......
I recommend to one and all to check out "Talkie Walkie" by Air. The song that had me inspried was "Run" - a couple of listens and I was hooked.
The job goes, and it goes. I feel I'm getting worse at balancing. Not really a good thing. Lots of things going on there though - and being head teller is going fairly well. I know I don't have as much work as some tellers do (alteast I have a partner in crime, who takes care of all the forgein) and more than some other head tellers. It would be nice if the title "head teller" came with a raise, but it doesn't. And neither, sadly, did my continuation into the new year with my employer. I recieved a letter today stating that my salary for next year would be the same as I had started out with. It would have been nice to have been recognized for all the hard work put in, taking over the head teller position with next to no training etc, but really - that's asking a little much.
I hear people talking about school, and I realize I missing being in school. I really could go to school forever and ever, but I'd have to only take a few courses at a time, with breaks inbetween. I find my attention span only lasts a few months. It seems to be about four. Maybe one day I'll get a job where I love it so much I won't start to fade at the four month mark.
Now, don't get me wrong - my new job is far superior to fitting people into shoes. I just miss working with friends. It was pretty lax at the old work. I work with tons of really cool people right now, but you just can't have as much fun at a bank. There's too much money to be serious about.
Sean and I are looking forward to Christmas. Well, I am anyways. I'm stoked to buy a christmas tree this weekend (although fake) and set it up. I'm dissapointed to not be seeing my family, but most of my friends appear to not be going home anyway. We're also looking forward to having Ryan and Carly move in virtually next door to us. Even if they will be living above the guy who walks around in his bath robe spritzing his plants all the time. Not to mention accross the hall from HMV guy.
Now I must go and attempt to break my cat's habit of sleeping on the keys of my piano.
The job goes, and it goes. I feel I'm getting worse at balancing. Not really a good thing. Lots of things going on there though - and being head teller is going fairly well. I know I don't have as much work as some tellers do (alteast I have a partner in crime, who takes care of all the forgein) and more than some other head tellers. It would be nice if the title "head teller" came with a raise, but it doesn't. And neither, sadly, did my continuation into the new year with my employer. I recieved a letter today stating that my salary for next year would be the same as I had started out with. It would have been nice to have been recognized for all the hard work put in, taking over the head teller position with next to no training etc, but really - that's asking a little much.
I hear people talking about school, and I realize I missing being in school. I really could go to school forever and ever, but I'd have to only take a few courses at a time, with breaks inbetween. I find my attention span only lasts a few months. It seems to be about four. Maybe one day I'll get a job where I love it so much I won't start to fade at the four month mark.
Now, don't get me wrong - my new job is far superior to fitting people into shoes. I just miss working with friends. It was pretty lax at the old work. I work with tons of really cool people right now, but you just can't have as much fun at a bank. There's too much money to be serious about.
Sean and I are looking forward to Christmas. Well, I am anyways. I'm stoked to buy a christmas tree this weekend (although fake) and set it up. I'm dissapointed to not be seeing my family, but most of my friends appear to not be going home anyway. We're also looking forward to having Ryan and Carly move in virtually next door to us. Even if they will be living above the guy who walks around in his bath robe spritzing his plants all the time. Not to mention accross the hall from HMV guy.
Now I must go and attempt to break my cat's habit of sleeping on the keys of my piano.
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