Pat said that Gizmo can stay in Fredericton with me all summer, so moving isn't as urgent as I thought it was going to be. I'll try to find a place for September. There might be a place downtown on a little off street that allows small pets, she said a small dog would be o.k. I have to call the woman again and ask when the apartment is going to be available. My friend Lisa from work also is going to ask her landlord about the other apartments available in her house (there are 4 or 5 apartments in total). Hers is huge and she had a huge dog. She said that the owners were pretty good about animals. But she pays $900 I think, so I don't know if we could even afford an apartment in that buiding. I have a huge assignment to do for my advanced research methods class. She gave us an 8 day extension, because she finally realized that no one in the class understands what to do. My friend Rose is in that class and she talks alot, I told her that I wasn't to sure about what to do. She then began to tell me what she thought we were supposed to do. Which didn't really make sense and she kept talking while I was trying (very obviously) to read about the assignment. So I got just about nothing done in that class and then had to go to my religion class and hand in an assignment and sit through another presentation, yawn!! I have to finish my portfolio for my developmental issues class. I only have 4 days of school left, woohoo!!! I am so sick and tired of doing research and writing essays, and sitting through ridiculously boring lectures. Sam is being great about me looking for a new apartment so that we can have Gizmo! We rather not move, but he is begin so great about it. He bought me the newspaper the other day, just to see if it had anything different than the online one. I looked online and it turns out that the Ol'Roy dog food that I buy Gizmo was one of the dog foods that got recalled for being contaminated with rat poisoning!! I have 4 or 5 boxes under the cupboard, but I'm just going to return them. I haven't had a chance to get to the grocery store to buy some pedigree(one that wasn't recalled), so she got a can of flaked chicken today, spoiled dog! Although a can of flaked chicken is cheaper than the dog food that I bought yesterday at the pet store next door. It cost me $2.27!! For a regular can of dog food!! Well gotta go get some lunch...

We went to look at the apartment yesterday. The house itself looked really nice, so I was pretty excited. Turns out that the basement had been chopped up into two ridiculously small apartments. The one that we looked at was supposed to be a 1 bedroom, but the girl has said that it could be made into a two bedroom. I figured it would be a pretty big place. The actual "bedroom" wasn't even a real bedroom. It was a curtain that had been hung across part of the kitchen and the girl had a double bed and nothing else and that barely fit. The other space that could be converted into a bedroom, was part of the small livingroom area that also was curtained off. The space wouldn't have even fit a single bed!!The kitchen was tiny and the appliances were very old. We left very disappointed. Pat said that we don't have to rush, but it still doesn't help me to find a place that will allow dogs and that isn't some crappy, tiny apartment. This is so frustrating!! AND then there is the job situation, there is nothing available in this city, or at least nothing that I've seen. I'm going to an information session on Wednesday, hopefully that will be some help, but the employment help at my school sucks. I went to the student employment office last year for some helpe looking for a job, thinking they might know something that I don't (being an empliyment office). The girl just brought up the government website that I had looked at for the past month. That was all the help she gave me!! Well...I'm going to go get dressed and work on an assignment....

O.k, I FINALLY found an apartment that would allow me to have Gizmo. I am, was, very excited. I emailed the guy asking him when he was going to come sign the sublet agreement. He wrote me back "sorry I got a job in Toronto, I won't be needing the apartment!" We are going to go see the apartment on Saturday anyway, cause it's right on Smythe, close to Priestman. It's in a basement apartment in a house and heat and lights are included. I told Pat and she said that she has a couple of people interested in the 1 bedroom, so she's going to help me in my search for a subletter, she said I couldn't pass up an apartment that would allow Gizmo. I've still got a month and alittle to find a subletter, so I think I'll be o.k. And I have Pat helping me now. I guessed the right password for my adsforum thing and so I posted the information and I emailed some people who are looking for a 1 bedroom. And really, I know from my own experience, 1 bedrooms are hard to come by in this city, so I think I'll be alright. Anyway I gotta get something to eat....

Turns out it's by an apartment basis and they don't allow dogs in the partcular apartment that is available. No apartments in this city allow dogs, no matter how little. I just keep hearing from landlords that it's really hard to find a place that will allow dogs, yeah I know!! I'm looking!! Stupid people, anyway I still have to search some more listings before class.....

The guy wrote me an email this morning and he and his girlfriend are going to take the apartment for May-August!! There are now 2 apartments down the street that are available, one specifically for May. Although I think I would prefer the one that is on the third floor. The guy, Tom is probably going to come over on Saturday or Sunday to sign the sublet and give me the money for the month of May. Then I'll call about the apartments down the street. Woohoo!! I've got to set up a time for the movers to come give me an estimate on how much it would be to move us. The guy said it was 85$ an hour and that included 2 movers and the truck, I don't think that is unreasonable. We'll just have to start packing. I'm so excited now. I'll be done school in less than 3 weeks and then I'll be graduating and done with school all together, which is very exciting. I skipped my Gerontology class this morning, it's snowing out alot and all we do in that class is copy notes for an hour and twenty minutes!! I'll just photocopy them from someone. Woohoo!!

Woohoo, the guy actually called me 3:10pm and told me he was running late and would be here in about 20mins. He came, and saw the apartment, said it was definately one of the nicer ones he had seen and told me he would get back to me by Tuesday. He said he still had to talk it over with his girlfriend, but he liked the apartment. If he takes it I'd be able to call about the one down the street. He looked like a mature person, and asked if he would have to pay all 4 months up front! So I don't think I'll have anything to worry about. I told him that I had a couple other people coming to look at it on Tuesday, just to put alittle pressure on him to get back to me. I actually have no one coming, but he doesn't need to know that. hehe :)

I had a nice weekend. Gill and I finally got together Friday night and bought each other a couple of drinks for our belated Christmas present to each other. We went to Boston Pizza, the drinks were a really good size. Lots of places sell drinks and they end up being ridiculouslu small. This wasn't the case at BP, which was nice. Saturday I went to work. The day went by quickly. It was good. I then returned home and got some liquer ready and later on I took a cab to my friend Lisa's house. She had invited some people over, they were late, so we sat around drinking. When they did show up we all finished our drinks quickly and piled into someones car. We ended up going to Boom, it was packed. As was everywhere else, We didn't end up leaving Lisa's until 11:30pm or a little later, so bar options were limited. We all had a really good night though. Some of us left at about 2:30am and went to the Pita pit. I had only ever eatten there once before. They have some huge, awesome pita's, I got a philly steak one. We then headed back to Boom to pick up the others, some went with, I forget her name, but the one with the car, and some called taxi's. It was raining, so I decided to walk with Lisa back to her place (so that she wouldn't have to walk alone). We tried calling every cab in the phone book, repeatedly, but they were all busy. Finally, I seen a cab coming up her street and ran out and flagged him down. Thankfully he stopped and picked me up. I got home at about 3:30am. I hadn't brought my keys with me because Sam was staying in the apartment building and drinking with Luke, Tina, and Matt. Well I rang our bell and no one was home (except Gizmo, who was barking). So I was locked out!! It was to late to buzz any of the other apartments to get let it. Thankfully, some random guy came downstairs to go outside for a smoke and let me in. Woohoo! I came in and started getting ready and Sam came home shortly after. Turns out he had gone downtown as well, to the Tannery. He said that he had to wait a full hour for a cab. I was supposed to show the apartment to that guy today, he said he would call before he came at 3pm. Well it's 3:02pm and I still haven't heard from him. I don't think he's coming, which is disappointing, I can't post on the adsforum because I forgot my password and tried a bunch of different things that I use for passwords and I think it locked me out or something. I can't creat a new account with the same email address, so the adsforum is not an option for me. Well I'm gonna go work on some school junk, write later.....

Holy Cow!! I do not want to join the RCMP!! What a load of bullshit that would be. I went to the information session last night. The recruitment process is ridiculous!! You start by taking a test, o.k good enough, then you get a one on one interview maybe a month or so later after they reviewed your test. After that you have to take a polygraph test to really check your honesty on the test and during the interview. You might hear back later on. When you are accepted to go to "Depot" the RCMP training camp, you have to fly out to Regina, Saskatchewan. You have to stay there for 6 months of ridiculous mental and physical traing (6 months!). You get NO pay during the 6 month training and have to provide your own personal items (they said on average it costs $2000-$5000), thats shampoo, toothpaste, gym clothes, laundry soap, etc. AND after you've finished this 6 months of intense, unpaid training there is no guarantee that you will be accepted into the RCMP!! How fucking crazy is that?!! OH!! and you have to be able to move anywhere in the country at any time during your service, by on call all the time, and work shift work! One of the presenters had been with the RCMP for 15 years at right now, he was working 4 10hour night shifts, then 3 days off, 4 nights on, etc. What shitty hours!! There are some upcoming career fairs and other information sessions that I'm going to go to. Well gotta go make some lunch.

I got an email from a guy that he is really interested in subletting our apartment in May. He'll finish out our lease and then he can either stay or move out again. My username and password have been fucked up on the ads forum so I didn't know if I was going to be able to find someone to sublett. I went to the unb housing webpage and found a link to people that were looking for subletts and emailed a couple of people. He emailed me back pretty quick, so that's a good sign. There is an apartment down the street that allows cats for 20$ extra dollars a month, but I've been to one of the landlords apartment buidings and seen, with my own eyes, a little dog living there, so he must allow dogs to. They have been doing alot of renovations on the building too. I walk by it all the time on my way home from the bus stop after work. The best thing it that it is a month to month lease, no being trapped into living somewhere for a whole year. OH, mom told me to look into just getting a moveing company to come and move me, it would be cheaper to just hire someone to move us, than for Sams parents or my parents to drive all the way up to Freddy to move us. I emailed a company and they will do it for $85 an hour, and that includes two movers and the truck. I wouldn't think it would take much longer than that to move down the street, they even provide some packing materials if you need them. I had to go to this research and ideas fair today and go to 5 presentations and write a short paragraph about eahc one of them, I've been to about 2 1/2, well 3. So I have 2 more that I have to go to. Then it's home for lunch, write my religion essay, and I'm off to the information session for people interested in joining th RCMP. Well, I'm going to type up those 3 presentations that I've been to and do the other 2 later....:)

March Break is coming to an end, tonight is the last evening.....Then there is only 4 weeks of school left!!Woohoo!! I am so sick and tired of doing research all the time and writing papers, doing interviews, etc. I will be very happy to be done. Sam and I got up this morning and went to Mikes for breakfast. It was awesome. He got a breakfast pizza, hash browns and toast and I got has browns, two pieces of french toast, a piece of ham, ant we both had a couple coffees. It was only $15!! We are going to go there more often. I just got done printing my second interview. This one was 27 pages. I still have no idea how I did on the first one, because she didn't hand them back yet, which she was supposed to do a week before March break.Tomorrow we are doing a content analysis on some newspaper articles. I found them, I think, cause she never really told us what she wanted. Grr....stupid...dim...wittted...lazy...professor...grr.The second one she's not even going to mark, unless you don't do well on the first one and want her to, cause you think you might to better. She's going to take the best 1. Well I don't know if this one is any better because I did very similar questions. It would have been nice to see the first one and know where you could improve and then do the second one-which you could probably do better on. But we won't know until tomorrow, and by then we can't do anything to improve the interview, because it's already done!! hmph!! I'm going to a research fair on Wednesday, an assignment for my advanced reasearch class, whichc probably won't even get marked, cause she's so lazy. Then I'm going to the RCMP information session. I'm pretty excited about that. I think it would be really interesting to work for the RCMP, and the health benefits don't hurt either. I've got to go and ask my religion professor about what she is looking for in our research paper. Christian Right is very similar to Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians, which makes it really confusing when a person (me) is trying to do research on them. Sam is going to cook tonight, or at least that's what he said, he went and took a nap and I'm having a hard time getting him up to cook. He bought some fresh fetticine noodles and fresh cilantro and some really nice sauces. I think we will rent some movies tonight. Well I gotta go.....write later....oh BTW...I noticed no comments, not one on my last post....I figured I would get a plethora of comments...it was kinda cute, my chocolate statements....I'm hurt!! :) so there better be some comments to make up for it on this one!! :0)

I came to Saint John on Saturday, Mom and Richard picked Gizmo and I up in Freddy at about 5pm. Mom and Sam talked about Warcraft for awhile and then we went to Chapters/Starbucks for a caramel macchiato. They are such great foamy drinks. We got home at about 6:45pm, dropped Richard and Gizmo off at the house and went to pick Susan up, mom had suggested that we go and see the Chip and Dales strippers at the 3 mile. We picked her up and got out there at about 7:30-45pm. We ordered and got our meal at about 8pm (when the show started), we ate quickly and headed over. It was a different group called the Canadian International Strippers. They came out and strutted their stuff and took off some clothes (not enough clothes, cause they were wearing layers and it took awhile to get down to their boxer briefs). They did some choreographed dances and then did some individual dances, but stayed clothed alittle more than I would have thought any stripper should stay clothed. The night was good and we got some cheap drinks. I asked the owner, Mark, if they were really from Montreal (like the chip and dales), he told me that he was originally from Ontario but lived in Montreal now...he never ended up telling me anything about the other guys, come to think of it. Hmm... Mom hadn't been feeling that great, we stayed for alittle bit, but then took a cab to Sue's and got Darren to drive mom and I home. Sunday, mom was feeling worse and didnt want to do anything, so we stayed here. I was SO bored. Richard's satelitte in the livingroom wasn't working, he was watching the one in the room, and mom was playing Warcraft, so I had absolutely nothing to do. They don't have any movies either, so I just sat here all day. Finally at about 6:30pm we decided to go get something to eat and mom and I picked up the movie the Covenant. Sam had already seen it, so I never get a chance to rent it. Mom and I watched it, but it wasn't anything like we had expected. The characters were never developed and the story itself wasn't explained enough. I didn't really like it. Sam came home early from work on Saturday because he wasn't feeling well, they sent him home on Sunday, he doesn't work Mondays and supervisor found someone to take his shift for Tuesday. He has whatever mom has, achy, feverish, sore throat, etc. March break is going by way to fast. I'm going home tomorrow, I have a whole wack of stuff that I have to research and do some work on projects. The end of the year is coming so fast. I was finally able to register for the RCMP information session on March 14th/07. I was having some trouble and the student employment office couldn't have been more useless. I wrote them and email telling them I was having trouble and the only help that they gave me was to open it in internet explorer. What else would I open it in?! Stupid freaking.....anyway I got to register, and the first one changed my year to 1st year when I changed it from unb to stu check box. I didn't realize that and just registered again to fix it. It still fucked up and said that I was in my 4th year, but I go to unb. I figure that each of them have pieces of correct information and I'll be alright. I wouldn't want to ask the student employment office how to unregister and start over, they would probably just ignore me (like they've been ignoring my second email). Today I went to the Giant Tiger and picked up some really cute shirts. What does it mean by junior? The junior clothes didn' t look that much smaller than the regular ladies clothes, one of my tops is a 'junior' top apparently. After my time at the Giant Tiger I went to Susan's house for dinner. I brought a strawberry rhubarb pie, it was very nice to be invited to dinner. Sue gave me a pair of really nice brown dress pants. I have been searching for a pair for the last couple of months, but have been unable to find a suitable pair. My pant quest has now come to an end, thankfully! I also picked up some more chocolate bars while at the Giant Tiger, I'm such a sucker for a sale, but really, a .44cent chocolate bar (reeses and oh henry) can you pass it up?? NO!! you can't pass a deal like that up!! Or at least I can't and I am very happy believing that everyone else can't ( I want no comments telling me any different!!)-We are ALL suckers for cheap chocolate!! All of us!! :) Richard came and picked me up at about 7-7:30pm. Well I'm gonna go check out my new facebook page, see what's changed.

I just signed up for the facebook thing. I'm not to sure how it works, but I apparently invited a wack of people to add to my friends list or whatever. My advanced research methods class is cancelled for tomorrow, and I'm thinking that I probably won't be going to my sociology of religion class. Anyway if the snow ever starts, it hasn't yet, classes might be cancelled. So I might not have to worry about it. Jackie and I hung out tonight, we went to the Giant Tiger in Oromocto. We both ended up getting groceries. I bought a wack of reeses pieces butter cups, they were only .44cents!! I couldn't pass that up. I also picked Sam up some espresso dark chocolate bars. I never told him about the reeses. I'm just going to keep those my own little secret. He'll never even notice, he's so obsessed with his warcraft game! He doesn't even eat anymore, unless I cook for us. I came home from the Giant Tiger and he hadn't even cooked himself anything. I made some brocolli and cheese stuff chicken breasts and we slit a package of scalloped potatoes. It was quick and easy, especially since we have a new microwave. With this facebook thing, can anyone add you and see your information? hmmm.........well I'm going to go to bed, write later....