Mom arrived early Friday morning, I was in the shower when she arrived actually. We decided to go to lunch at Jungle Jims so we could say high. The restaurant manager served us and gave us Sam's employee discount! It was a very nice meal. We then headed over to Canadian Tire so that I could by some more paint while it was on sale. They didn't have any left, but I got a raincheck for the sale. We ended up there for awhile actually... mom bought me some new shelves for the apartment and convinced me to buy a full size BBQ. (which is awesome**thanks mom**) We decided to go to the Regent mall and mom and I ended up buying duvets for our beds. She bought us the duvets and I bought the covers for them. We came home and dropped everything off, but then drove back up to get Sam when he was done work around 4pm.We thought about going to a movie, but decided not to in the end. It was a nice visit. I have since put my feather bed back onto my mattress, added the new duvet and bought a new pillow, it's like sleeping on a cloud! Work is going by fairly quickly, it's getting really busy again, so the calls are back to back which makes the day go by quick. Sam is going to Dartmouth for the long weekend to see his brother-he's gotten sick and Sam would like to see him. So I get the apartment all to myself! I might call some of the girls on the weekend to hang out or something, maybe for a BBQ.
I was out this morning walking Gizmo and heard someone yelling at me from down the hill, I turned and saw a girl....looked around to make sure she was yelling at me....ran down to meet her and saw that it was Gillian McGinnis!! She gave me a big hug, she was heading to work, but we chatted for a bit. She has been in Fredericton for this month doing research at STU. It was really nice to see her, turns out she is moving to Halifax tomorrow though. She is going to Dalhousie University to get her Masters in Urban planning. That is pretty exciting. To bad she's leaving tomorrow, oh well at least I got to see her before she leaves. Anywhoo I gotta bust over to my Doctors appointment.....

My week was good and I did not get sent home early any day last week or this week...it will be nice to have a full 80 hour pay period. BTW Susan it was great to receive a comment, keep them coming :) I went driving this morning from 11:30am -1:30pm. It was nice we did alot of turning. We went to some quiet residential area in New Maryland and just did alot of turns. He said that I make the turns alittle to drastic and quick...I guess I need to believe the car will turn, but when it doesn't start to turn when I want it to I get worried, therefore turning to abruptly. I still have lots more driving time so I'm sure I'll improve. At the end of the driving time I wanted to get dropped off at the Fredericton mall instead of home (so I could get some lunch) and I did have to turn onto Prospect street and drive along that busy street for awhile, I think I did just fine. Last week Monica had called Sam and told him she didn't think it was working out and not to come back to work. Sam was shocked because she had led him to believe he was doing well and would be supervisor in a couple of weeks, but on his day off (Monday) called him and told him that! So he went out later that afternoon and handed out some resumes. Tuesday or Wednesday he got a call from his friend Steve (they had worked together at the Hilltop and Mikes) and he offered him a job. We went there last night for a late lunch. I had won $20 on a scratch ticket and $4 on another one, so I treated us out. He started today at 12pm. Later on tonight we are going to a party that my friend Victoria is having. She gave me her address and phone #, but I threw it out while I was cleaning my dresser off. I think I remember her address (not her ph #), but I'll call Alicia to make sure it's right before we go over. Alicia and I where making plans for today (emailing each other back and forth) but when Victoria invited us to the party, we decided that would be easier/cheaper. I have been painting the floor in sections because it takes more than 4 hours to dry since I'm putting the first coat on a little thicker. So far I have alittle over half done. While Sam and I were out Friday I bought another can of the Stoncoat (on sale for $10 less) and some clear coat protector just to make sure it stays on well without chipping. (and easier to clean) I did a section right before I went to bed, so it could dry overnight and I wouldn't have to worry about anyone walking on it. Well....lets just say Gizmo had something else in mind....I woke up and there were paw prints all over it! Not enough to wreck the coat altogether, but its a good thing we're doing a second coat to say the least. It gets me worried though because the paint gets on the bottom of her paws and she licks it off (she won't let me wipe it off cause she's weird about people touching her paws). I hope she doesn't get sick. I did my best to get some of it off last night.
I also got my spot in the shift bid. I am number 3 out of 5. My friend Joanne is number 1 and she already told me she is taking the 11am-7pm shift which there is only one available, then there are 2 shifts for 12:30-11pm (Mon-Thurs). So she gets the 11-7pm and even if number 2 wants 12:30-11pm, I will still get it as well. Numbers 4 and 5 get the 3-12am. I think I will be able to get it adjusted so that I can take the bus both ways and it is the same shift I'm working this mth! (11:4am-10:15pm), they adjusted my friends schedule a full hour so that she can take the bus, so 45mins shouldn't be a problem, I really like working four days on and three days off, it's nice. Gotta run.....:)

I went to the Fredericton Mall on Saturday to pick up some dog food, lunch stuff and these wonderful drinks called "Monkey" that mom and I had tried when she and Richard visited us. Well I went to Zellers at first, but decided dog food and lunch stuff would probably be cheaper at Sobeys. So on my stroll to Sobeys I noticed a new clothing store called "Urban Planet", so I stopped in. I have been trying to change up my wardrobe a bit and wear things that aren't necessarily the first thing I like in a store (more of the same things I already own). So I went in and noticed a really hot dress, it's long and bright (red, yellow, black, white and orange). So I picked that up right away, it opened on Friday and as a promotion it was buy one item get the second 50% off on everything. So I tried on the dress.....liked it but wanted a second opinion...so I peaked out of my dressing room and looked at myself in the mirrors outside the changing room...I noticed two ladies (between 40-50) and asked them if it looked o.k. They said that it looked great and I should get it. So I decided to get the dress and went to find something else. I searched and seen some things that I liked, but were a little to much like things I already owned. I did notice some funky looking shirts with a scoop type neck and a real flowing fabric in a nice orange color. I tried it on and it fit well. I also got a free prestige card for a year (20% off). They LC didn't have any of the Monkey drinks, but I was feeling happy enough about my new shirts, so it didn't faze me to much. I got home and had the house to myself (Sam was at work). I watched some t.v and wrote a blog post. He surprised me and called at about 9-9:30pm and told me he and Jilha were on there way to pick me up. We went over there for the evening, a couple of their friends from Iran were there as well. We all sat around drinking and listening to some music. It was a nice evening...the spoke persian amongst themselves a little to much though. That was the only downfall. Sam and I got up this morning and he treated us to breakfast at Hannahs. Later on when we got home Amir stopped and picked us up to go to a lebanese restaurant here in fredericton. I got a salad that was really good, to big though I brought 1/2 home for my supper.They both got some platters of some sort. We talked and ate until about 3pm, Amir and Sam dropped me off at home and then Sam at work. I had an appointment to go do 2 hours of driving 4-6pm, so I waited around and it turned out that the actual time was from 4:30-6:30pm. The guy who taught me in class (Shaun) is also my coach in car. The car that I drove in is a Honda civic, a nice little car, but very touchy. I had driven mom's cavalier and Richard's malibu before and didn't really have a problem turning, but I cannot turn in this little Civic. I don't know what the problem is....I can stay at the speed limit, stay on my side of the road, follow at a decent distance, brake o.k, but when it comes to turning.... I suck!! When we finally pulled into my driveway he asked me if I had any questions, I said no...just next time I would like to practice turning more. I also asked if I would always be driving the Civic or if I could drive the Cavalier that he has for training. Thankfully he said that I could try the Cavalier and that he usually drives it. Driving in the city for two hours is exhausting! (Now I understand why mom doesn't like driving long distances) I have my next driving scheduled for 11:30am-1:30pm next Saturday. Hopefully I can do better at turning. BTW I have noticed.....that I am not receiving any comments from Susan.....I wonder....have you stopped reading my blog?....Is it no longer interesting to you?........(sniff sniff)......do you not love me any more? (tear) :) Come on..give me something.

I really like working four days a week, having 19hr shifts. I was able to do so much yesterday. Sam had told me that the apartment was smelling really musty and nasty a couple of weeks ago. I have no sense of smell and had been oblivious to the nasty odor. I spent all day Aug 1/08 (new brunswick day) cleaning the carpets with my new steam cleaner. I did it repeatedly and thought that I had eliminated the odor. After busting my ass all day he arrived home and told me that it still smelled pretty gross. I was near tears after working so hard. We let it go for the week, becaue we are both working, and especially with my shift I'm gone all day. Yesterday however I was up bright and early. I stopped at the Dollarama and bought a wack of vanilla air fresheners . Right around the corner from the Dollarama is Canadian Tire where I bought paint for cement floors, like the "Hard Rock" stuff that you buy at Home Depot, but without being "Hard Rock"...I think it's called "Stonecoat". I got home and spent the afternoon tearing up the crappy/smelly carpet and putting air fresheners around the livingroom. Sam worked all day and then went over to Amirs for some going away party they were having. I don't know either of them that well and was pretty tired, so I opted to stay in. I had the apartment to myself...it was nice. I watched the movie "Be Cool" with John Travolta and Uma Thurman and just chilled out. Sam got home shortly after 1am, I guess not to many people were at the party, it was a last minute kind of thing. He'll get really bored now that his two best friends are moving away tomorrow. Jihla's moving to Halifax and Amir is visiting Iran for a month. He's going over there again after work tonight. We went to see the movie Hancock last weekend, it was really good. I just love Will Smith. We also went to Bootlegger and I bought us each a new shirt. I got a blue halter top for $10 so I told Sam that he could get a shirt for $10 as well. He picked a short sleave dress shirt with some interesting texture throughout it. It's nice to see him wear something different than a long sleeve dress shirt (which he wears every day with jeans and a fidora). I didn't make any plans for this weekend. I called Alicia last night, but she has plans for the weekend and I forgot Erica's phone number at work. I'm going to put some effort into making some more friends, I'm getting bored. It's kind of hard though, cause I'm always working. Oh well I'm sure I can manage to be alittle more sociable and start inviting people to go out. :)

What a long week! I never got to go home early at all this week, so I was upat 7:30am and went to school from 9-4:30pm, 5:15pm-12am was work. It made for a really long week, but I wrote my drivers educaion test yesterday (which I studied really well for) and it turned out to be easy. He had given us a review the day before (wednesday) and the final was pretty well the same thing. I had studied a lot of stuff that wasn't even on the test. Most of the people in my class were from the high schools and don't even have their permits yet! Only 3 of us in the class have had our 7-1 for more than 4months and can take our actual road test, he said that he would schedule us to do our in car training before the other people since they have to wait 4 months anyway to take their road test with the government. I'm very excited to be getting my license and a car eventually. It will make alot of things easier, especially since Sam wants to move next year. I'll be able to rent a truck. He starts his supervisor position Aug 11/08 (Monday) on the northside. I guess there is a bus stop right outside the restaurant pretty well. I was also pleasantly surprised to learn (last night) that "Georges Taxi" gives $1 off of their fares for people travelling to and from work. I have a three day weekend this week because of New Brunswick day, which is the beginning of my new schedule-so I get paid 10hrs! Then I work tuesday,wednesday and thursday and have another 3 day weekend. Anyway I gotta get ready for work. :)