Hey there intrawebz! Sorry it's been so long, but I've been fairly busy lately.
So, turns out that retail in December is quite possibly the most infuriating thing ever, and I shall gladly enjoy the, y'know, day and a half I get off for Christmas. Woo. But seriously, I am looking forward to Christmas this year. It'll be fun to do something slightly different, and I'm really happy to not be spending it alone. Also, chilling with Rae's family is always fun. Wonder what mischief I shall get into. Still working on getting all the presents for the multitude of people that I'm getting gifts for this year, but I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to get the presents for my fam back to Vancouver on time or not. We shall see. Slightly worried that I won't be organized enough to get all of my presents purchased/wrapped/gifted in time. This is when having a girlfriend who loves to organize things comes in handy! (also, it helps when she's not reading this over my shoulder!) The place that I am renting is becoming slightly more and more interesting as I get to know my roommates a little bit better. M seems to be up at random hours during the day/night and has an incredibly loud (and annoying at 1:00 AM) sound system and a seemingly low regard for when others are sleeping. P on the other hand, likes to talk. He's pretty cool, and we get along well, but there are times when it's fairly obvious I do NOT want to talk. Like when I'm sitting in my room eating ice cream in my boxers watching a movie. Ah well, not like I'm home enough to let it bother me, what with the working a bajillion hours a week. Seriously, I'm pretty sure I'm getting close to 60 hours this week, plus 60 hours every week until January kicks in.
That's one more thing that's interesting about work. We've got a competition going on between all of the stores in our district (Edmonton and Saskatchewan) and the winning management team (read: Managers and Supervisors) get to go on a trip to....the Bahama's I believe is this years prize. Which, while not being incentive for ME to win this, I was made aware that the Seniors in the winning departments have usually, meaning almost always, gotten promoted to Supervisor. Which would mean that A) I would FINALLY be on salary/over the poverty line and b) It would give me supervisor experience so that after I finish going back to school I wouldn't have to start building my way back up a corporate ladder. Well, not entirely true, but it would give me a boost anyways.
I have already picked out my new years resolution as well, which is crazy, cause I usually don't make them. However, I'm resolving to either be back in school full time by next Christmas, or at least not working in Retail for the next Christmas season. That and man does my room need to somehow find a way to motivate me to keep it clean. It's Katrina-esque levels of displaced things around here lately, and I'm not a) unhappy enough with myself to clean it and b) don't have a big enough motivation to clean it. Which I really should, but I don't. Which also makes me sad. I should get a fish or something that would force me to be here more often and keep track of/care for. Seriously, plants aren't working and I'm nowhere near ready enough for any kind of rodent/feline/canine companion. As much as I would love to have one, I don't believe that I am ready for that level of care.
I'm also trying to find out more about school and courses that I can take part-time before going back full time to a program. I recently found out that NAIT has some wicked courses that I can take to prep me for the program that I am currently wishing to attend. Which would be nice. I should give them a call.
Alright, Intrawebz, looks like this one is slightly absent-minded but I'm signing off for now, to go peruse some random sites via stumble. Hopefully there's no more Russian porn that shows up, it'll sneak through pretty much ANY filter.
Wish me luck!
Craigers.
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