Another Christmas come and gone......it always seems to go by so fast.

I had a great Christmas. We had our gift opening here with my mum, sister and Lucas, then went over the Chris and Isabelle’s for more gift opening and lots and lots of food. I think we ate for like five hours...It was a great time, I love being with my family..or I guess I should be saying families....

I got lots of super gifts....NHL 2003, NASCAR thunder 2003, leather gloves, a cashmere covered water bottle, lamb things, another make up case (cause believe it or not, the other one is full!) and lots of other goodies..I was spoiled rotten! Still have another gift that I can’t wait to open!

And yesterday we , we as in my sister, my brother Lucas and I went to go see Lord of the Rings:Two Towers, it was my sisters fist time, mine and my brothers second and I swear, I’m ready to see it again. But this time I want to watch the fist one, then go see Two-Towers. My brother lent me his super LOTR DVD, so I have the extended versions and all the extras to watch... I love that movie...The good thing about seeing it over and over is that you catch things you may have missed the first or second time around.

Today we watched Spiderman. It was good. I enjoyed it. I really like fantasy movies...I can’t wait fro X-Men to come out next spring.....And last night we watch the Crocodile Hunter movie- wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be....definitely not oscar material but as entertaining as the TV show, so it was good times.

I wish life could be like the movies sometimes. I’d love to live in a world where there are super heroes, being saved, true love, all those things..I mean it would be fun as long as you were always saved.....and never in any real danger.

So we spent most of the day in our jammies and watching tv or playing hockey, racing....we even ordered out pizza for dinner, which, if you can believe it, was my mum’s idea! And that brings us to now. Where I’m finally updating my much ignored blog.

I got back to work tomorrow. It’s been great having this time off, but I, ready to go back not. I’m starting to feel antsy and want to get my paperwork done and see what kind of numbers we did and all that stuff.....

So good night and hope you had a great holiday, I gotta get outta here now, there’s a spider in the room and I can feel it staring at me and I’m scared it’s going to jump on me...so I’m just waiting for my mum to get back so she can squish it.....








my christmas wish still hasn't come true...but I'm still hopefull........

MERRY CHRISTMAS!


It’s here again. That time, Christmas. I do have to admit it is my favourite time of the year. I love the music, the shopping, the people, the shopping, the gifts, the shopping....did I mention I loved the shopping?

But seriously, I love giving people their gifts. I love seeing their expressions as they open them, and hopefully like them! Like today when I gave Spiro his gift, I swear he looked like a little boy...so happy and excited...

So now all my shopping is done, I finished all the wraPPING. We ate a huge turkey dinner tonight with pirogies too! So now everyone is in a little bit of a turkey comma....and either sleeping or in a semi-conscious state. We are planing to watch some of the extras from the Lord of the Rings DVD, they way things are going, it’s more likely that we all fall asleep before eleven!

I can’t believe that Christmas is tomorrow..It always seems to get here so fast..... I guess it’s because of all the preparations and stuff that the time just passes by....and it’s all for one day....one day only...At least the Jewish got it right with the eight nights..why don’t we do that? Either way, I love it and I’m happy it’s here. I think it’s more the getting together of family that I like. It’s not often we all get together so when we do, it’s really special.....Yeah I know I’m cheesy, but we’re a cheesy family, we’re really close.

SO take care and have a great Christmas...or I guess I should be more PC and just wish everyone a really generic “HAPPY HOLIDAYS”....

I know what I asked Santa for, now I’m just waiting to see if my wish will come true!

Wow it’s been quite busy at work, as you can image with the holiday rush.

But it’s not quite as bad as I was expecting....I mean it was busy, but not THAT busy...nothing I couldn’t handle!

I’m just glad I have the next four days off to relax and just be with my family. It feel like I haven’t seen them in forever....I’m really glad to have my sister here. It’s strange having someone else in the house besides my mum and me, very busy....but in a really good way. It’s strange, the moment I saw her, it was like she had never left, I guess that’s a good sign....

Work work work..it feels like that’s all I’ve been doing. I guess it’s because it’s kinda all I have been doing. When you work nights, from like noon until nine, it makes it feel like your entire day is work. You wake up late cause you worked late the night before, then you go right to work, no lazing around, and when you finish work. There’s not time to go out or do anything cause you have to wake up early the next day for work...and this goes on and on and on......

Right now I’m so tired, I have no more energy so I think I’m just going to go on to bed and rest up....

You ever wish you could do something but be able to see the outcome before you actually did it??... I wish there was a way to see into the future to see how it would all turn out...But then if you could see into the future, you would really mess up your life’s course and stuff and throw the earth off balance or whatever...oh my, the rambling of a really tired girl..


Goodnight!


Christmas eve tomorrow......that means presents really soon!!!!
I think I like better giving the gifts than receiving them. I love to see the look on people’s faces and to see how the like their gift....I hope everyone likes the gifts I got them...they’d better...or else..or else.... Well I guess they’ll have to exchange it....
I treated myself to a gift already. I got myself a cell phone. Just for the heck of it. It’s blue for now, like the picture, but I’m gonna change it for black......I set the ring to be : Push It by Salt and Pepper. Originally I had the theme from Bevely Hills 90210....I may go back to it, but for now, I like Salt and Pepper...

What we really need is a fresh coat of snow....get rid of the brown/grassy smush we got going on now....

Alright, this time I mean it..goodnight

OH MY GOD.


Last night...i saw..........

Lord of the Rings: Two Towers and oh my god.....

It was so incredibly awesome! Spiro, Nick and myself all went to see the midnight showing of it. It was us and like 300 other people. The theatre was like completely sold out! It was nuts! There were the typical geeks there with their scrips and people having conversations in elvish....but what can you do right?

So we sat there for three hours..memorized. It was so great. I think I’d rather see it without reading the books. It was so exciting not knowing what was going to happen and now we have to wait an entire year before the next and unfortunately last one. It was everything I wanted it to be. Some part were a little slow going and that creature think really made me feel funny, not funny ha ha but funny like a knot in my tummy...and those tree people kicked ass!

And so at three thirty this morning, the movie was over. *Sigh*. Spiro was so incredibly nice to drive me to the “docs” as he likes to call it, it’s actually a dam, but I’ll let him pretend....

Got home at five, met up with the gazette delivery guy...that’s when you know your home waaaaayyyy late. Got in, washed my face, got into my jammies and feel asleep in record time. Woke up at like noon and went down;town to finish my Christmas shopping. Only have one more person to finish up with and I’m done.. A new record for me, usually I leave it until the 24th.


And that’’s about it. My seester will be home tomorrow and I can’t wait!

Had a great week-end, besides the ankle spraining of course.....

Sine the NY trip has been put off, I still had the four days off and it felt gooooddd!

I spent about 95% of it in the kitchen doing all my Christmas baking. For some reason this year, I’ve had a little trouble with it. I NEVER burn things and twice I’ve overcooked or ruined or had something not turn out...strange. I guess I’m a little out of practice. But non the least, I’m sure no one will complain, at least no one better complain!

And I spent some nice quality time with my mum. Since I’ve started at Benefit, it’s as if we haven;t seen each other. I work night and the nights I am home she has meetings and we just keep missing each other.
We are “ships that pass in the night” as my mum says....

But this week end we spent together, eating meals together, while I was baking she was doing her Christmas cards and just hanging out together, listening to Bing in the car....Elvis too.....good times.

And today I should have gone downtown but didn’t. Rather I stayed home to finish the baking, and vacuum, clean...just to help mum out a little.

And now on Wednesday Lord of the Rings is coming out... So lucky me, I have off so Spiro, Sandra and I are supposed to go see it and I can’t wait!!!!

On Saturday-oh my god- Spiro and Sandra took me out to experience Marathons. Oh my god. It was the greatest souvlaki experience ever. From the famous marathon salad to the dollar fries (which were described to me as curly with ruffles...) The tzatziki was stupendous. Just the right amounts of tangy garlic zip and soooo wonderfully creamy and so much of it too... The salad..man that salad. The dressing was so sweet but yet tangy, a true party in my mouth. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh my mouth is watering just thinking about it....The pita was that right amount of puffy-ness and kept all the goodness warm inside....ohhhhhhhhhhh, poulet dore, I dunno if you still have the BEST souvlaki anymore, I’ll need the two Greeks to come to my hood and test it out....I think they may be pleasantly surprised, but I don;t think it’ll win over Marathon’s.

Did anyone catch Al Gore on SNL.....pretty darn funny, he seemed so into it and relaxed, unlike Tipper...who sucked....

And that was my week-end. Perfect to a T and no I must go and make cookies and stuff....




and only 3 sleeps until my sister is home....

Oh my I’ve gone and done it again! Almost a week without updating...shame on me.

Well, the least I could do is fill you in one my week.

I’m still loving work but am really missing my friends. I eat lunch alone most of the time, cause no one I work with goes at the same time, my lunches are too late to eat with Aniter....I sometimes eat with Spiro, I can sometimes arrange to eat with David too..but for the most part, I eat alone. Blah. I don’t mind from time to time, but always makes me feel like I’m back in high school....But hey, what can you do right?

Funny thing about work. Sinmce I've started working there, at least one a day someone tells me that I have great looking skin. Now understand, I've NEVER had good skin. My pores are the size of dinner plates, it's oily and I break out.....but since I started working at Benefit...it's gotten better.....strange, must be the lack of stress.... And someone told me the other day that I look just like Toni Collette....?interesting..


I had not been feeling the Christmas vibe yet, until today that is..might have something to do with the 120 gingerbread men or the 76 shortbread cookies I made today.....maybe...or the Bing Crosby Christmas CD I had playing over and over....I guess it could be any one of those things.

I stayed over night at Marnie’s a few times this week, looking after her cat while she and the husband are away, it was a nice getaway but I am happy to be home now....

Last night I met up with spiro and he said he had a great surprise for me...surprise indeed...Because it was his “name day” yesterday, his mom made him a special treat: BAKLAVA. And last week I had made him some and he gave some to his mom and now she gave some to me! OH MY GOD! This stuff was the best tasting Baklava I had ever had....I was so sticky and nutty and phylo-y- that’s what baklava is meant to taste like.....It was great untl I noticed the honey had oozed onto my wool dry clean only pants and a few drops on my boots...suede boots....but you know what? It was worth it!


And today, things were going good, I got up, planned to go get the ingredients I needed for my baking, do some Christmas shopping, look around and then on my way to the bus....snap..I sprained my ankle....Holly crap it hurt like nothing else... I stood there for a few minutes no knowing weather or not to cry or sit down and whine... I opted to let a few tears out and go home... But home was very far away, I still had to get to the bus stiop, walk to the metro, from the metro walk to the train.... Not a lot, but when it hurts to walk...anything seems far.

Somehow I made it and my mummy took care of me. It still hurts tons now, even after taking extra strength motrin....I can move it sideways or up and down.....it’s pretty puffy too, a little black and blue......ouch....

I’m going to go take a nap now and resume the baking after that....

Promise to write soon!

Man...it’s been far to long since I’ve updated... The week has just flown by!

I’ve been really busy getting used to my new job.
I really love it. I love going into work in the morning, I love selling the products, I love the paperwork.. I love it.

I just need to get used to working nights and week-ends. I think it’s going to take another couple weeks or so, but I’ll get it eventually.

Who knew that you could go into work and not get that tightening pain in your chest...or those pesky stress migraines???

I have today (sunday) and tomorrow off which is good so that I can catch up on some sleep that I’m so desperately needing right now. I slept in to like noon this morning and it felt GREAT!!!! I don’t think anything could have woken me up, I think I was in a semi-coma....and I plan on doing the same tomorrow.

I am supposed to go eat lunch with Aniter demain. That will be nice. I miss her. It was last thursday or wednesday that I really started to miss people from Gap, not everyone, just a few. A couple of people came by to see me and I think that’s what made mew miss them. But I miss Aniter the most. I like the girl I work with, but it’s not the think. Working with your good friend or someone you’ve known for a week....big difference. Not as much laughing..or gas.....I miss Spiro too. But I got to see him a few times this week which was nice....

*Sigh*

I had my orientation for the Bay yesterday. It was long and VERY similar to a Gap orientation-so it was boring in the sense that I already knew the information that was being given. The class was supposed to be over by five, which would have made it perfect for me to take a five thirty train home, but no, it ran unto five twenty-too late and my next train was only at seven thirty. So I stayed late at work and organized our stock and cleaned and did my paper work and stuff....

Came home and Sylvie had Nancy over and she was making dinner and asked me over. She made so much food it was gross! WE ate Chinese fondue (which I don’t really like) baked potatoes, salad, hor d’oeuvres, rice, desert, cheese platter...it was enough to feed a large family. Needless to say, she has leftovers to last the rest of the month! It was a pretty chill night. Got the look of death when I refused to have my wine glass filled.....and much more fun-ness....

Came home at like eleven thirty and watched some TV and drifted off to sleep.....so happy to be in my hot bed with my fresh from the dryer jammies and puppy at my feet.....after of course I had my hot milk, toast and Nuttella....

I will try to update more often, I’m just having trouble getting used to the late nights and early mornings......

Holy crap! It’s been a lonnnnnnng time since I’ve updated!

But starting anew job really takes a lot out of you! I am loving it! I love my new job! I have TONS of things still to learn but because I’m so happy there, I’m like loving learning all about the company and the products.

I never felt nervous or anxious which is very shocking- Keep in mind, this is the same girl who gets panic attacks when she can’t decided what to eat for dinner....

So I started at the Bay on thursday. It went quite well. One of the Girls showed me around and gave me a quick run through of what my duties were...And selling att eh counter is good too. I see sooo much work to be done but it’s all the kind of stuff that I love to do like re-organize and clean and stuff like that....

David came by the counter the other day and he said he could see a real difference in it already- I just feel like staying there all night to fix it up!

The cash is good (i’m talking about operating the actual cash register...) I still haven’t had my training and it would seem that I wont be getting it anytime soon....I’m managing pretty well without it though- It’s pretty straight forward.

We had an amazing sales day on saturday- we made like $1,300 and $1,200 of those sales were mine! I was on fire! And it was even better because my country manager came by to visit to see how things were going- needless to say- she was VERY happy!

And that’s been about it. I’m still trying to get used to working nights, but that will come.

I’m really enjoying myself and I’m getting so much great support from my country manager, the Bay managers, the girls at other counters, David, everyone is so nice and patient!!

I had my first crazy customer yesterday that made me get all nervous though- she was so nice and we were having fun-until it was time to pay, then things got ugly. She said she was a “victim of credit card fraud” and I thought she was making some sort of joke so I laugh and then she said “ no really I am..” so whatever- she made it all confusing by saying that she wanted to pay on her HBC (hudson bay company) card and them pay with her interac cause she wanted the points. So I thought she wanted the HBC reward card, so I offered it to her but that’s not what she wanted, she wanted to pay with her HBC credit card and THEN pay the HBC card balance on her interact , why I don;t know but whatever.... So now she’s getting all impatient and angry saying that she doesn’t have the time for this, even though she had PLENTY of time a moment ago to tell me all about her recent break-ups and bunions.....SO now she’s like yelling at me cause when i swiped her credit card through my computer said to call the desk..so now she even angrier cause suddenly she has a car the outside waiting for her??? Whatever, so now my cash is jammed and she’s still yelling and now we pass her at the next cash cause she’ll pay interac and now she’s yelling at me and the girl who’s helping me and she got even more mad when her debit card wouldn’t pass on the first swipe and then she yells “ I JUST WANT TO PUSH THE BUTTONS AND GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE, I’VE NEVER HAD SUCH SERVICE!!I HAVE TO LEAVE I DON;T WANT TO ME LOCKED IN HERE I CAN’T STAY HERE ALL NIGHT MY PARKING METER IS GOING TO RUN OUT AND I’M GOING TO GET A TICKET I JUST WANT TO PUSH THE BUTTONS AND GET OUTTA HERE NOW!!!!!!”

And I’m like Okay calm down, it’s processing- when all I wanted to do was say would you shut the hell up? You crazy orange-tanned over weight, over bleached psycho bitch!

I was very happy to see her go, I called security and they said they tkae care of it.....What a freak.

And now I have monday (today) and tomorrow off to catch up on my slepp and relax......