I bought the new Red Hot Chili Peppers CD today. I made sure to pricematch another stores price and then get my discount. I was hoping that I could confuse Julia, the newest cashier and friend of my sister Amy. Her always charming sister Alex, was also working and I probably should have stopped and chatted for a bit but Ben wanted to get moving. I hope that she won’t be too upset because of that. Since it was Julia’s first day, I really did the best I could to confuse her. Zellers seems like such a strange place. . I thought that most stores wouldn’t like to hire people from the same family, but at Zellers they seem to like hiring from the same families. I suppose it wouldn’t interfere with the work too much and it could be convenient if people ever needed rides.
Back to the CD talk .. I have already listened to the CD a lot since I downloaded it. I am the type of person who downloads the CD and listens to it a whole bunch then decides to purchase it. This way, I don’t buy stuff I won’t listen to. Also, it seems like I hardly ever listen to the actual CDs, since I will normally rip the CD to my computer or Xbox or whatever. Listening to CDs is more of an inconvience, I prefer to just pretend I’m giving money to the artists. Some of my favorite songs on this CD are: Dani California (not really but its good), Snow (Hey Oh), Tell Me Baby, 21st Century, and some others. Overall I think its worth the cost since the 2CDs contain a lot of music.
I have been wanting to get a haircut for almost a week now. . Last friday I had to choose between going to laserquest and the haircut. I chose laserquest because I wanted to show off my shooting skills. So, my plan for the haircut had to be pushed back a bit. Today, I went into Regina after work and tried to get a haircut. I don’t know why Regina is so difficult. First off everything seems to close at 6. . . Next, the places that are open till 8 are booked!? I suppose it was just bad luck. Some positives that came out of going to Regina include buying some used DVDs from Rogers video, and buying some drinks and ibuprofen from Zellers while getting good customer service. I received very quick and responsive service from the good looking cashier who did a fantastic job at putting all of my merchandise into bags. The other service in the store was interesting, with the new recruits receiving their training by the mall. They are the future of the store and I could just see them getting their ball and chains attached. With wonderful service like that who needs to shop anywhere else? I know I’ll shop there again!
Trailer Park Boys season finale was last night and it was a really great episode. In fact, I would have to say that it was one of the best episodes ever. The show had a mix of everything that makes up Trailer Park Boys. The ending was very good and it almost felt as if this was not just a season finale but a series finale. I felt after watching it that all the loose ends to everthing were resolved and that the future was looking good. So, if the rumours of a seventh season are correct, I will be very interested to see the direction to where the show moves. I’m sure that Mike Clattenburg has some good ideas but unfortunately, it has been said by the actors who play Cory and Trevor that they will not be back. They had said they weren’t very happy with the direction their characters have been moving. I can’t really blame them. . I know I wouldn’t want to be playing those guys for that long!
The weekend is over and I ended up doing pretty much nothing. I think in the future I should plan on doing nothing then when I actually do something I’ll feel like better. The plan for this week is to work from Tuesday – Friday (only 4 days), then work at Zellers on Saturday. Even thought I pretty much work everyday it doesn’t seem like all I do is work. I still have lots of time to watch downloaded tv shows, and listen to music.
I had my second soccer game of the season tonight. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to pull out a win and lost 3 to 0. We all were feeling very tired after playing in such heat. I am pretty sure the entire game was played with the temperature over 30. We just aren’t used to those temperatures and our energy melted away quickly. By the time the second half came and some clouds moved in it was too late and our tank was empty. Now, we have to wait two weeks for our next game. I am hoping that our team will schedule some form of practise in this time or else we won’t be improving as fast as we could be.
The Matthew Demyen Reunion Tour today at Zellers was excellent. I returned to my roots and gave a lesson on the ways of Stock person. I was flying around the store at a very quick pace and provided the utmost level of customer satisfaction. I was moving so fast, that everyone else had to run to keep up. It was fun being a stock person for one shift, but I don’t think I could ever go back to that job. I did so much more work than one person ever should and got paid the same. I would probably rate my wage today at around $13/hour. So after Saturdays sideways departure into the world of working at Jewelry/Cosmetics, and then the Reunion tour on stock, I am all set to continue my envious job of working at Home Electronics.
I finally got around to adding a new gallery to my site. I use to have an old one that wasn’t very good that was lost a long time ago. The new one is based on Gallery 2.1.1, you can check it out at http://gallery.menalto.com/ It looks like it has a whole bunch of useful features and should be a good way to present all of my pictures. You can check out my gallery at…removed due to being vulnerable to hack… I would like to hear any comments you may have about anything I should change or modify.
Tomorrow will be my first EDO. Yay, no working tomorrow. I think I did a really job by scheduling my EDOs. I only worked 4 days this week; I’ll work 4 days next week; 4 days the week after that. So basically, I won’t have to work a full 5 day week for until after my first month is finished. The thing is, I have a four day weekend, and I don’t have anything planned. So with nothing to do for four days I might as well be working. If anyone has some ideas of things I can do let me know, I’m open to suggestions. Since Victoria Day is on Monday May 22nd I’m sure other people are in the same situation as me. Maybe I will go get a haircut or buy a new game. . . or better yet, I could play a game I already own. These ideas just keep on rushing to me.
I’ve been told I should “Spice it Upâ€, and I suppose I could. The thing is I don’t really know what I should be spicing up. If anyone has suggestions feel free to tell me. The past couple days have been enjoyable. Working during the day and relaxing after that. It is nice to come home at a regular time and not have to worry about anything. The evening of May 16th was rather interesting. A fire swept threw Village RV on the east side of Regina. It gutted the building and left nothing behind its path. Luckily, nobody was hurt and a lot of the RV’s in the parking lot shouldn’t be affected. It will be a big loss since they just finished that new area maybe a couple years ago. I decided to snap a picture off on my way to work in the morning while I drove by. I always like to take pictures of things while I am driving. My favourite picture has to be the car on its room on the ringroad during a really icy day. Another one would be a picture of 6 cars in the ditch on the trans-canada just outside of Regina. My picture from today is not very good. It’s hard to make out much but you can see the front of what was the main showroom. I guess that is what I get for taking pictures on a cellphone camera driving 100km/h on the highway.
Last week, Thursday, I bought myself DDR. Its such a great game for exercising. I’ve been getting not bad at it. I prefer to stay with Light because the higher difficulties are too much for me. On Light I have been able to get A or B on almost every song. I have 3 or 4 AA’s. So I think it’s not bad for owning the game for 4 days. I also like how you can keep track of how many calories you have burnt off. It’s always fun to look at when you go play for a while then come back and see you burnt off 800 calories! I would keep playing but after my Div 2 soccer game Monday night, I don’t have the muscle to skip. By the way, that was a great game and we played very well together for the first game of the season. This team will do well. The score was 6 – 3 in case anyone is keeping track.
I have been working for a week so far at Sask Learning. I have been enjoying it, working on webpages all day can prove to be interesting even though the work appears dull. It’s fun finding problems and stuff with webpages and fixing them, I like to see progress. I’m also proud of myself whenever I can successfully make a webpage smaller in size while maintaining the exact same look and feel. The only thing I’ve not really enjoyed is parking. One of the main reasons people don’t like to go downtown is because parking is terrible and its way overpriced. If the city was actually concerned with revitalizing downtown they would lower parking rates and increase the amount of parkade space available. So I ended up getting a parking place for $50 a month 3 blocks away. I guess its not that far, way better than the $110 right beside my building though. I don’t think my lazieness is worth $60 a month. Lastly, I believe I will be doing a double work term now. Yay, 8 months of no school! This means I will have a lot more money for University.
The Coop program is such a great way for students to get great work experience while making money to pay for their schooling. I would highly recommend that all students who are able to be in the program, to get in. I will be graduating University next year with absolutely no student loans or debts. I will also have 16 months of work experience that will look really good on my resume. Setting up oneself for the future should be a priority and nothing something to be procrastinated on.
