My hope that I would be working less hours with the April shift bid opening has been foiled. I checked the shift bid and the only shift that works with the bus schedule will have me working 15mins more than I do right now. So instead of 8:45min shifts I will have 9hr shifts. Boo to long stupid shifts!! When I applied for this job it said that they hours would be from 35-42. After training I've never worked less than 44 and up to 47! I am really getting sick of being there ALL the time. I'm there 44 hrs this month and probably 45 next mth. I have enjoyed having weekends off though. Yesterday Sam and I spent the whole day together. We got up and went to brunch at Hannahs and then headed over to Zellers to pick up a few things. When we got home we had coffee and watched some t.v together. It was really nice. Today we watched some t.v together and Sam made us some scrambled eggs and toast before he started to play WOW. I cooked a roast for dinner and made some fries and gravy to have with it. We were out of potatoes, so I settled on fries. The reason BTW that I don't update as often as I used to is because I'm not allowed to post at work (I'm there all day), and when I get home I don't want to look at a computer after sitting in front of one all day. Sometimes on my breaks I write a post and email it to myself intending on posting it when I get home, but I always forget. Sam and I also stopped at the bulkbarn while we were out yesterday and got some treats. Sam got some chocolate covered coffee beans and I bought some chocolate covered rasberry creams. I've had a nice relaxing weekend, it's been nice to lounge about and do whatever I want (even if it is nothing!). I tried to book this Thursday off as a vacation day, Gizmo really needs a hair cut and the veterinarians office/groomers is not open on the weekend. It would be nice to have a day off as well, maybe go see a movie or something. Hopefully I can get approved Monday and be able to call. I gave them more than a weeks notice that I would like the day off and I checked the group allowance and it had the least amount of hours in the negative. I don't know if I wrote this last time, but I was checking the online message board for my skillset and it turns out that I have the entire Easter weekend off! I knew I would have Good Friday and had tried to book Monday off, but the message board said that we have it off anyway! Woohoo! It will be nice to have a long weekend. I get paid that Friday too, so it should be a nice weekend. The message board listed all the days that we get off for stat holidays and there is one almost every month until Christmas time. March is Easter-April I booked April 14 to have a long weekend-May19 (Mon) is victoria day-June-nothing but maybe I could work something out- July 1-Canada Day(Tues)-Aug 4(mon) is BC day (I work for terasen gas who supplies BC)-Sept 1 (mon)-labour day-Oct 13(mon) Thanksgiving and Nov 11 (tues) Remembrance day. I also booked the week of Christmas off and have been approved for Dec 22, 23, 24 (on waiting list to be app), 25-closed, 26 closed and approved for dec 27th as well. With weekends off that will give me 9 days off this year. I wish I could get a 9-5pm job though that would be nice. Oh well, nothings perfect! :)