I had a wonderful long weekend! I slept in on Friday and lounged around in my p.j's for awhile before calling mom to see if she would be up to get me. It wasn't the nicest weather so we decided that it would be better to come and get me on Saturday instead. I read all day and eventually got showered and dressed. It was nice. Saturday I got up around 9:30am and showered and got ready, had a couple cups of coffee and figured mom was probably at home doing the same thing (drinking coffee), so I figured I would call and see when she would be coming to get me. It was about 10:30am or around there at this point. I called and she said that she was about 5mins away from the apartment!! I nearly fell over with shock! It was great! We all had some more coffee (on the broken coffee maker, which thankfully didn't explode), watched some Girlicious and headed to Saint John about 11am. The drive was very nice, no deers! We didn't do to much when we got to Saint John. Richard was off at 7pm, so we made reservations to go to the Delta for dinner. Mom and I both enjoyed the buffet and some drinks and Richard ordered fish and fries (I think). Our buffet came with everything! I even left some room to eat dessert. I was never really interested in cheese cake before I met Sam, but now I always make sure I eat it when I'm out and it's an option or dessert is included. hmmm..... We were then going to go bowling, but got to the bowlarama on the westside and there was a wait to get a lane. We then decided to go get some movies and a game for the Wii at blockbuster. We rented sleuth, license to wed and braim academy (or something like that) for the Wii. License to Wed was funny, sleuth we didn't finish (sunday). Te wii game was pretty fun, just easy things but you have to be really quick at it. Sunday Mom and I went to Giant Tiger and bought some new clothes. I got some really nice shirts and a dressy skirt and matching top. Mom picked out some new tops as well. We had a reallly nice boiled ham dinner, there were enough left overs for me to pack a whole bunch of ham and vege's (I ended up forgetting on Monday though *grr*). Monday mom had to work so I lounged about with Gizmo for awhile and then headed down to Giant Tiger to buy a new coffee maker, since ours has been broken for about a year- and we've "fixed" it kinda, and return a couple fo shirts mom had bought the day before (she hates trying stuff on, I was trying Everything on and modeling too!-so I knew it all fit). I found an awesome coffee maker! It's got a timer and everything. I set it the night before and by the time I shower and get dressed I have a pot of coffee brewed and ready! It's wonderful and long overdue, it was only $29.99! Mom and Rich drove me home around 5pmish. I got home and decided to treat myself and Sam to dinner. We went to Hannah's and I had a turkey dinner. I worked 71/2 hr shifts for my "practicum" for collections, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and then I go back to my 8:45 shifts Friday. It is really nice having the extra time not at work. Alicia has been giving me rides home while I get off at 10:30pm (the last bus is at 10:20pm) which is really nice of her. I get home before I would on the bus anyway. Tomorrow I have to get back into the longer shift (boo!!). Hopefully the summer shifts are more barable. Collections really isn't any more difficult than billing, easier in some ways. Sam surprised me and is making something for us to eat and wasn't even playing WOW when I got home. He went to service nb today for an appointment with a representative to get a referral for a program that he would like to take. He'll know next week if he got the referral, otherwise he would have to pay $1800!! For a 2mth program at that! Anyway it smells like dinner is ready!!mmmm!!