My week at work went pretty well. I left work early on Friday so I could catch the bus. (it was pouring buckets out!) I got soaked just walking to the bus stop half a block away. Sam and I rented the movie "Annapolis" when I got home. It was a pretty good movie. Saturday Mom and Richard were supposed to bring the dog up for a couple weeks, but they never showd up for some reason. I sat here all day waiting for them too. I went and met Sam for a couple beers at the hilltop at 11pm which was nice. Sunday was Joe and Allison's going away party. It was alot of fun. We ended up going downtown to Shelly's house before heading out to the bars. I seen Julia while we were out, Mohawk and all. She's so fun. We got home at about 2:30am, Sam had to be to work for 11am....I'm glad I wasn't him. I slept in. :) I work 6 days this week. I applied for a student line fo credit, well filled it out and had the bank fax it to SJ for Richard to sign, and then they can mail it to the Scotia office for me or mail it back to me and I'll send it. Well gotta go make a supper to take to work.....write later.....

I got my student loan "notice of assessment" yesterday. It turns out that, even though I've lived on my own for 2 years and pay all my own bills, I can't get a student loan, because Richard makes to much. Apparently the government expects his 'parental contribution' to be 20 thousand dollars a year!! How realistic is that? The government expects your parents to put you through university if they aren't a low income family. I went to the bank today. I'm going to apply for a student line of credit. Grr....stupid government....... I don't think I'll have to much of a problem getting a line of credit though, I do all my banking there. I'm still going to send in a confirmation of earnings form when school starts so that I can be considered for the millenium bursary. I applied for lots of bursaries last May, so hopefully I'll get a couple of those. I can always stay at connect part time. the pay is decent. The bus schedule changes every September, so if there is one shortly after 11pm, I'd be able to stay. I biked home yesterday. The ride down York street was nothing. The bike back up it was a little more challenging to say the least. I got home in 25mins though. It takes me 40mins to walk up. We got off 35mins early, the systems crashed. I still got my hours though, cause I started 50mins early. I'm going to go buy one of those giant tubs of ice cream at Zellers.....write later....:)

This week went by really slow. I worked 6 days this week and only have today off. Then it's back to work tomorrow...ugh. I did however make 10 sales on Friday....I've only sold 10 one other time, so I was preety happy that I sold so many. We called Texas all day, which I love. The people are generally really polite...a few here and there that aren't, but for the most part it is the friendliest state to call. The men are really nice. They always call me "ma'am". I slept in today and it was great! I work 5-11am monday to Friday, so when Saturday comes and I have to work at 11am, it throws my sleeping pattern off a bit. I have to catch my bus at 9:58am, BTW. So I get downtown almost an hour before I start work. I'm glad that I got there early this Saturday though. Alot of the day shift people had called in sick last Saturday (their Saturday to work) and were trying to make up the hours by coming in this Saturday. So alot of them got sent home because they were taking computers that the night shift people were entitiled to. I got a hazelnut latte at Second Cup downtown before work yesterday and I was Awesome! I think I had tried a plain latte before and wasn't to impressed by it, but thelavoured ones are great!! To bad they are 3-4$ for a small or I'd buy them more often. Sam and I went out to lunch yesterday. I had a turkey and swiss sandwich on a croissant with a cesar salad. It was very enjoyable. This morning I cleaned Snowballs cage and let her out for a hop. I block off all the spots that would give her access to wires, but I forgot to move the phone from the coffee table, so I went to go make a coffee and when I returned she had chewed through the phone cord!! Silly bunny!! So I went to Zellers and Sobeys and finally the dollar store to get a new wire. I bought two (or so I thought) , but one turned out to be an extension cord. Oh well at least it was only 1$. They wanted 8.79$ for one at Zellers!! and it was 12-15 feet long. That would have been far to much. I'm going to go make a coffee....write later.........

I got back yesterday from a really nice weekend with mom, Sue, and Cole in Moncton. I was able to work a day shift on Friday, so I could catch a bus to Saint John, it was really easy to switch. I got into saint john at about 7:30pm and mom and Richard picked me up. We ended up going to keystone kelly's for supper. Mom and I shared a chicken fajita dinner for 2. It was really good. We then went back to mom and Richard's house and watched a movie, I foget what it was called, but it was pretty good. Richard woke everyone up bright and early on Saturday (he was going to centreville on a bike run with some guys). So mom and I got up and went and picked Sue and Cole up at about 11am. We arrived in Moncton about 1:30pm, but our room wasn't ready until 3pm, for whatever reason. We then went to crystal palace. Sue and Cole got braclets and mom and I bought some tokens. Crystal palace is alot smaller than I remember.hmm.....Anyway mom and I went into chapters and bought some frappacinos at Starbucks and took a look at some books. I bought a book called "velocity" by Dean Koonz, I've read some other stuff by him and liked it. I work today through til Saturday. I hope that I can get my bonus. I work an extra 30-45mins+ 5 days a week and we are supposed to get a bonus if we have 72 hours of "logged" on time. It is turning out to be harder than I thought to get logged on time because the systems are always going down. What a pain in the ass. They made us go home an hour early yesterday because the campaign ran out of leads. I think I might apply at some other places. I see an ad all the time to work at a kiosk in the regent mall. The pay is $7.50-18$ an hour. If I oculd make the same per hour that I make now, I would go there. It would be closer and better hours. Anyway I'm getting hungry....:)

I wrote my post on Saturday before I went to work, I did awesome on Saturday for my sales. I sold 10 phone packages, that's a new record for me. I sold 5 last night as well. I work tonight through 'til Friday, but I do have the weekend off which will be nice. Mom said that she, Sue and Cole might go somewhere on the weekend, if they do I might go as well. Sam has applied to work at the forestry complex as a cook. It's through the same company that does the service for the university and hospital. So it would be unionized and include benefits. The guy interviewed him on the spot and said that there would be a second interview on Friday and he should get a call sometime this week. He likes working at Mikes, but he is not getting enough hours. He worked 7 days last week and still only cam eout with 45.5 hours. Last night, no campaigns were even available for the first hour and 45mins that I was there. We were just calling people and offering them "one bill", combining home phone bill with cell phone, but half of them didn't even have a cell phone with Verizon. What a complete waste of time. Luckily I got moved into the FIOS campaign with the other supervisor. I made 3 out of 5 of my sales in the last hour at work. Crazy! Thanks for the Birthday present Lisa! It was a very thoughtful gift. :) Not to much else going on.....write later.....

Work is going well enough, I get sales. My supervisor(the one I thought had forgotten about me) said that I was the best seller in his group when another supervisor asked him if hse could borrow his best sellers for a campaign. I got my raise, which will make a nice difference on my pay. :) I went home on Tuesday, went to my appointment, and mom and I went to see the movie "Lake House", we both really enjoyed it. I called in sick to work on Wednesday and stayed in SJ for another night, mom and I worked on my student loan on Thursday morning and afternoon.(which is now filed (: woohoo!) I figure I can take off a day here or there, I start work 45mins early mon-fri. It works out to be an extra 71/2 hours per pay period, so it will make up for the 6 hour shift that I missed. I miss Gizmo terribly. When mom arrived on Tuesday, some people were coming in the front door at the same time, and Pat seen mom and told them that she was going home today (with mom). I took that to mean that she had to go home. She told me today that she just said that cause the people were there and she didn't want them asking questions. Snowball is doing great!! I never realized how strange bunnies look when they are hopping around. Snowball dashes all over the place. She kind of looks like she has tourette's syndrome. I work tomorrow and then I have Sunday off. I only work until 7pm, Sam and I are going to go to Zellers and return our vacuum when he gets off at 8pm. He was using it today and turned it on, while it was on the cord. With our old one, that didn't do much. With the new one it sucked the cord into the spinner thing and broke it. So I'm just going to return it and tell them it broke while I was using it. They're pretty good about returning things. I don't have my reciept though, I don't want to return it for money, just a new vacuum, so I don't think it will matter. Anyway it is getting late and I think I'm going to go to bed.....write later....:)

Wow, it's been almost two whole weeks since my last post!! Jackie reminded me the other day that I hadn't posted in awhile. I'm doing well at connect. I make pretty good sales. I think I will get my raise at the end of my probation period. I'm doing better than the other two girls in my group. Tonight Sam and I are going to go downtown and check out the Canada day festivities after he gets off of work at 7pm. I think I'll check the fredericton webpage to see what time the fireworks are. I have today and tomorrow off, I work Monday and I have Tuesday off as well. I'm going to go to Saint John, mom told me I have a dentist appointment. Sam and I bought a new vacuum yesterday. We got it on sale for 15% off, so we only ended up paying $97.95 for it. It's a dirt devil bagless vacuum. Other than that there is not a heck of alot going on......write later....:)