I got to go home early on Friday! I was able to leave at 9pm. I got home and surprised Sam, we sat around and watched t.v together and a movie online. It was a nice evening. Saturday mom and richard came up to Fredericton for a visit, they rented a room at the delta and invited us to hang out for the evening. Richard treated us all to a wonderful seafood platter each and some bailey's at the delta restaurant. Mom and I had quite a buzz on, she had bought this martini type drink that was 15% alcohol and we just drank that over ice as well as some drinks called "Monkey" (which are really good) and a ceasar. We all ended up watching the show Punk'd for the remainder of the evening. It really is a funny show, I had never watched it before. Sunday Sam and I watched movies and t.v together again. It was a nice day, he made us supper as well. He's just waiting for the manager of mexi-cali rosa's to call and tell him when he starts and what his schedule is. He had to wait unitl today to get a reference from Monica. I checked my work email this morning and I have been scheduled offline to learn how and practice some coaching. That was pretty fast! I figured it would take a month or more for them to start training me to train other reps. I think that will be very nice. I start at 4:45pm, have offline work from 5-6pm and have a break from 6:15-6:30pm. So the start of my shift will go by pretty quickly. I start my drivers training one week from today! It is going to be so hard having to get up and be out the door by 8:15am!! I haven't gotten up that early in years! It will be worth it though to have me drivers license finally. Right now I sleep in until 11:30am-12pm! I'm going to have to start getting up earlier this week so that it's not a huge shock to my system when I have to next week.

I had a supervisor (mark) sit with me yesterday and listen/evaluate to my calls and how I handle calls. I checked my work email this afternoon and he had emailed me my results. He said that I am meeting expectations for everything and that I don't need to have as many calls graded as I am having done right now (10 per mth). He wrote that I am very polite and I have a calming affect on people. He wrote that I am doing a really good job and he feels that I am ready to help coach other representatives! I think that's pretty cool. I would get to be off the phones and listening in to help other people. :)
Sam went for an interview at Brewbakers today and he called me to say he has a second interview on Monday. They offer benefits and the guy said that they usually start people at $9 and hour, but with Sams experience they can negotiate. It would be part time to start out with, which would work right now because he still needs some time to complete the GED. There are chefs there as well, so when he does get his GED he would have someone that can sign off on the hrs required to write the block two. Then he would be able to become a real/certified chef. He needs to get back to work anyway, he's getting bored. He was talking to Monica at Pizza Delight and she pretty well offered him a job, but there are no chefs there, so it wouldn't be as good. Gotta run.....

I hate working until midnight!! It really blows! It was busy enough all day long (because they had sent alot of people home), but later in the evening it was really slow. They sent some emails around to see if anyone wanted to go home,but I didn't even reply to any of them. I'm a full time/flex customer service representative and my hours just got cut back to 35hrs a week for the rest of the mth. It's July and I reallyl rather not work 40+hrs anyway, but they made it so I start an hour later and still have to work until midnight, so if I do take a home early, I'm loosing out. I got home early last Friday and was off at 9pm! I came home and surprised Sam. We decided to go out to Nickeyzees to see the bands play. It was a really nice evening. Saturday we had decided to have a BBQ, so that I could meet some of his friends. We had about 8 or 9 people over for burgers and sausages. It was a really nice day. He and Amir had planned to go out and party somewhere, but Colleen (one of his friends from school) and I decided to stay in and play the nintendo and playstation. It was a really nice evening. She left shortly before 2am and Sam arrived home shortly after that. Sunday I had made plans to go shopping with Alicia, so we were up and out the door by 1pm. I had been looking at carpet cleaners for a couple of years now, and I went to check them out at Walmart. There was a bissel steamcleaner on for 89.99$!! I bought that and some cleaner and a couple of other things. It really was easy to assemble too! Three screws and it was together. I got home shortly after 5pm and Colleen called to invite me over to Jihla's apartment to hang out and have some drinks. I fixed myself something to eat and caught a cab over around 6pm. It was nice getting to meet them better. Jihla is moving at the end of the month to go to Halifax and she wanted to have a girls night out before she went. We made plans to go out tonight after work. I'm going to reply to the home early emails today, so that we can spend more time out. Jihla's working tonight as well, so I'm going to call Colleen when I get to go and she will come get me or we can figure out where we are going to meet.
Oh yeah....I was writing about how much I hate my shift this month, but we got our shifts for next month and I was number 1 so I knew I would get my first choice and I will have a four day work week (mon-thurs) 11:45am-10:15pm, with Friday, Saturday and Sunday's off! Woohoo!

I hate working this crummy shift! Yesterday was SO slow! There was almost a 10min wait time between some of the calls. It was crazy and boring. I did some return mail, but that gets boring real quick as well. I signed the home early book for today and tomorrow (I had a drive last night, so I didn't want to leave early and have to pay for a cab). My drive has Thursday's and Friday's off, so I have to cab anyway. At least if I get sent home early today I might be able to catch the bus.
Speaking about the bus....have I mentioned how sick and tired I am of depending on it? Well....I am so sick of the crummy bus system that I booked some time off (so I can start later and still be paid) to take drivers education! :) I am enrolled in with First Rate drivers ed to take a four day course from july 28-31, 9am-4:30m. By the end of this month ladies and genetlemen I will have my license!! Woohoo! It will make for some long days (9am-12am), but I'm not to worried, it's only four days. Then I can work on getting a car for myself and Sam (he's going to start saving to take drivers ed as well).