Gizmo is doing great! Jackie was nice enough to drive me down at 6pm to go get her and she came bouncing over in the best of moods. I have to switch her to the vetrinarian food Medi Cal. It is only 6 or 7 $ more than pedigree, but I can only buy it at the vets, which is not to close. The surgery cost me 560$! The food was another 20$. I have a follow up appointment in two weeks, they are good enough to give me that for free. I am so lucky this month turned out to be a 3 pay mth. My entire cheque went to Gizmo. Thankfully I get one tomorrow that will cover rent. I'm going to look at the pet store close to home to see if they carry it as well, and price it there. Jackie and I seen the kidney stone, it was the size of a gumball! I took yesterday off because a)I didn't want to go to work and b) mom and richard came up to Fredericton to get mom's passport. It was nice to see both of them. Gizmo didn't seem to fancy that dog food that I gave her...hmm... I wonder if that is because she is still feeling abit off from the anethesia OR if it's because she is super fussy? And if it is the latter, what am 'I supposed to do?Continue feeding her a dog food she doesn't like? I did compare the ingredients on the medi cal to the beneful ingredients...and they do sound alot better. I'm probably as much to blame for her fussiness as anyone, but she is so cute! She's worth it.she is great company, never talks back to me. ;) Holy cow!! Tomorrow is November 30th! That means that christmas is only 26 days away, and barely that! Today's almost over!! (BTW does everyone appreciate the ridiculous amounts of exclamation marks that I've used in the last two posts?!) I suppose while reading this it would sound as though I'm really excited or yelling...oh well!!!!hehehe Aww...man I am way to tired...Sam went home on Monday and I have not slept. Anyway I am going to go make some tea and unwind a bit, chow

I am Fabulous!!...You may be thinking "why Krista are you fabulous today?". I am more fabulous today (than any of my other fabulous days) because I have found a way (dispite my useless team manager) to get Christmas eve OFF!! When I emailed my team manager and staffing about my request being deleted, they were of no help. But I was not discouraged, oh no! I emailed the head of human resources about my request being deleted and that I had been number 2 on the waiting list. (I never would have gotten approved-there were no more hours available). The head of human resources however could tell how upsetting this was to me, and pulled some strings and will have it approved! So, I now will have Dec 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27th off (I might get approved for the 28th-I'm 1 on that waiting list). I now have more faith in the company! I don't like the job itself, but instead of looking for a new job after x-mas I think I'll look for a position within the company doing something else. They are always sending out emails about job opportunities, I just have to start reading them. I am not going to mention this to any of my other team mebers-because I know a number of them are still scheduled for Christmas eve. She told me not worry if it doesn't show up in my schedule editor immediately, I will have it off. I was grinning from ear to ear for about two hours after I got her email. Woohoo for me!! Sam went Saint John tonight I guess, I knew he was going tomorrow for his mom's birthday, but he got off early and left this evening. I have the whole apartment to myself. I can watch whatever I want....or actually use the computer...I won't have him to sleep with though, but I've got Gizmo! I think I'm allergic to the soap at work, my hands are all red and itchy for the past couple of weeks. Stupid crappy soap! Oh well, I guess I'll just have to bring a little bottle of my own, I've got everything else in my purse. Well it's almost 11pm, I'm gonna go see what's on T.V. :0)

Gizmo is sick! I took her down to the vet today because she has been having a hard time going pee and I figured it was another bladder infection. It turns out that she has a bladder infection again because she has a kidney stone! The vet took an x-ray and I seen it..it's pretty big. She goes for surgery next week to have it removed. It is going to cost between 400$ and 500$ just for the surgery. This is after spending $188 on today's visit. I am not going to be able to buy much for x-mas presents. Thankfully I received a backdated GST cheque yesterday (because I didn't fill out my taxes until Sept), but that doesn't even come close to covering it. I am going to have to max out my visa or something. Poor Gizmo, I didn't get the x-ray done last summer b/c her bladder infection was cleared up, but she has been yelping since then when we pick her up. I thought that she was just being wimpy, turned out it was from the pressure this stone has on her bladder...poor Gizmo! Oh and by the way I was at work and checking the request viewer for my schedule to see if I had been approved for x-mas eve off. It's missing! It got deleted or something. I don't care I am not going in on Christmas Eve. No way. Seriously...how many people are concerned about their gas bill enough to call on Christmas eve? I wouldn't think to many. I'm not even trained in the emergency or collections department either, so the ones that are likely to be calling on Christmas eve, I would transfer to a different department. Whatever....I hate working there. I am really sick of the whole call centre thing. I am going to find something different after Christmas anyway. Gotta go, write later...

I got my shift bid back the other day and it's not to bad. I still have Thurdays and Sunday's off, but now I work a 1/2 hr later. Instead of getting of at 9pm I will be getting off at 9:30pm with an hour for lunch instead of 1/2 an hour. I figure I can work 1/2 an hour of over time a few couple of days a week and bank it. That way when I call in sick on Christmas eve I can get paid for it. I figure I can go to SJ on Dec 23(sunday), call in sick on the 24, have the 25 & 26 off and go to work the 27. I have requested the 23 and 27 off, so I might get approved and get to stay down an extra day. It's not to bad, except I will be getting off a 1/2 hour later than Jenn and won't be able to get a drive home anymore. But cabs are only 6$ and I get a 5$ credit after 10 rides. Still cheaper than owning a car. I can always put a note on the bullitin board in the lunch room. Maybe. This Friday is Jackie's birthday party and I'm pretty excited. We don't have much for a plan yet, but we've got all week. I can't blog or go to facebook while at work, but I can check my emails during breaks, so we'll be able to plan something. I did so much today! I went and got groceries, cleaned the fridge, rearranged the kitchen area, did three loads of laundry, and cleaned the bunnies cage. Oh and I even made the bed! I slept in though, this all happened after about 1:30pm when I got out of bed. I did receive an email from Service N.B about conducting interviews in the near future. They want to have a number of people available for upcoming positions in the next two years. It said something about being for term positions, but I figure if I can get my foot in the door, I could be transferred or something. More on that when I hear anything back. I'm going to go make a hot chocolate, write later. :)

I've just had two glorious days off in a row, I always have Sundays off but this week I also got Monday off for Rememberance Day. I had really underestimated how great two days off in a row can be! I think I'm going to put in some bids to have Saturday and Sunday's off, I know I probably won' t get it, but I can still try. Jackie, Sam and Alicia (from work) all joined me at the 20/20 club on Friday. It was a nice evening out, but it's way to much of a cougar bar (the cab driver even called it in as 4 people to Cougars) that we should go to a younger bar next time. The DJ was not the greatest either, it took a long time for any of our requests to get played. I invited Lisa to come with us on Nov 23/07 for Jackie's birthday festivities, I hope she can join us. I can't believe that Jackie will be moving back to NS in less than a month!! It makes me sad, but I know it's for the best. I'm gonna miss you Jackie! :0) Oh well I have a completely unlimited calling plan to anywhere in the maritimes, so we'll call each other lots! Oh yeah...back to the shift bid...if I get Saturday's and Sundays off + Christmas and boxing day, I only really have to worry about getting Christmas eve off (which is a Monday). That would work out even better and give me an actual vacation for Christmas. Maybe working a later shift for this bid would allow me to have a vacation. Sam has a whole week off for Christmas to go see his family, so it would be awful lonely if I couldn't get any time off other than christmas day and boxing day. I'll look into that more when I get to work tomorrow. Anyway...I'm going to go see what's on t.v :)

I still haven't been approved to leave early on Friday Nov 23/07, when I applied to use floater time for Dec 6 I was approved in one day. Oh well, I only work until 9pm anyway ( I think), I'm not to sure when our new shift bid will start and end. I called in sick with a stomach ache one day, so I lost ALL of my attendance points...yup All of them! for being sick ONE day, I lost all 15 points! They don't even take into consideration that I'm there 1/2 an hour or more before every shift to check all the stupid emails and logg into everything! Nope! They don't even care. One girl from my training class has been late quite a few times, takes random breaks, and leaves her phone unattended...but she is higher on the shift bid than me! Whatever...I think I was number 23 out of 25 last shift bid and I still got a decent schedule. I don't care about having Saturday and Sunday off because Sam works all weekend. Alot of people on the team take later shifts to have those two days off. I am going to put Thursday and Sunday off and 12:30-9pm as my first choice, maybe I'll get it that way....cause I was actually perrusing the calendar the other day and realized that Dec 27/07 ( a day I requested off-but have not been appoved for) falls on a Thursday...I think I'm going to keep that to myself and try to keep Thursday's as my day off. I get November 11 and 12 off, which will be kind of nice to have two days off. Well enough about work!
Today was a hair do day for Gizmo and I, I dropped her off at 1:45pm to get groomed and walked over to The Heade Shoppe to get my hair cut as well. Jackie had recommended them. My hair is just at my shoulders and kinda whispy in spots, I got bangs again too. I was looking at a picture the other day from first year university and I realized that I like how bangs look. When the girl styled my hair she used a straigtener though, so it's flatter than it will be when I style it. I like the haircut though, she thinned it out really well, so I don't think I'll have to spend to much time blow drying it. Gizmo's hair turned out well, her hair cut ended up costing more than mine! She got her nails trimmed as well I suppose. The groomer even tied a little pink ribbon around her collar! Anyway I'm going to go stretch out on the couch and watch some t.v....write later

Work went by pretty quickly this week. I had Sunday off, worked mon, tues and wednesday and then had thursday off. I worked today, which dragged horribly. Partly because daily processing wasn't complete until 3:30pm, so from 1-3:30pm we had to do most of the work on paper and then record and set up accts later in between calls. Thankfully the only app for supply that I had were with existing customers or new customers who passed the credit check. Jenn left early because she wasn't feeling well, but Alicia was getting a drive and was able to drop me off at the corner of Regent and Montgomery. So I didn't have to pay for a cab at all *sweet*. I had cabbed there this morning, I really didn't feel like walking (it was really windy and cold). I've tried to use some of my "floater" time to get off early on Nov 23/07 for Jackie's birthday festivities. She has informed me that I will either need Saturday off (b/c of my hangover) or need a late shift. I don't work until 1pm, so I think I'll be alright. Man...I really hope that I don't have to work in a call centre for to much longer...it eats away a little bit of my soul every day...sigh. (I really did sigh to, it wasn't just a typed one ) :) I've been approved to use some floater time so that I can go to a doctors appointment on Dec 6/07, 11-1pm will be floater time, so if my shift falls within that I can be late and still get paid. I totally lied to my supervisor though...hehe..my appointment is for 9:45am before my shift would even start-but I told her it was for bloodwork and I wasn't sure how long it would take. HA!! :) It is stupidly difficult to get any time off at this place, so when I have a legitimate reason (I'm using the word 'legitimate' loosely) I'm cashing in!! I'm going to go watch some t.v...:)