Umm... Yeah

It's been a long time since I've posted. I've been swamped with work and I finally have a pair of days off in a row. Sadly, I've lost contact this last month with a lot of people just because my schedule has been quite different from most other peoples. The store has been open all of december until 9 every night except for Sunday... yeah, that includes Saturdays. My shift has pretty much been 1 - 9 most days of the week and has actually been tiring me out quite a bit. By the time I get home, make myself some supper and actually get done with eating, it's usually close to 10:30 or 11 and I don't want to call many people that late. Add the fact that most days my throat is extremely raw and talking some more is the last thing that I want to do. Things are slowing down somewhat, so hopefully people will welcome a little more social Kelly with open arms, and aren't too upset about my little disappearance.

Since things have been so profitable right now, I've taken the opportunity to treat myself. The biggest treat of all is that fact that all my debts (save for my car) will be paid off at the end of January. I'm looking for another part-time position since I'll be moving back in hours somewhat. If I'm successful in finding a second job by the end of January, then I'm planning on a trip to Cuba or the Dominican Republic in March. It will be kind of a late birthday celebration for myself, and it looks like it will be a birthday celebration for Nash. Wish me luck in making that happen, because it's very close to being a reality.

I also treated myself to a new set of speakers for my computer. I've always had my computer hooked up to my home theater system, but with things as they currently sit in different rooms, I had to bite the bullet and go with something seperate. I ended up with a 2.1 system that I have to say I'm EXTREMELY happy with. Honestly, very few things in life provide me with as much enjoyment as extremely crisp, clear and accurate music, and these do a very nice job... and they get REALLY loud. I got the system for a steal as well, so that makes things soooo much better.

I'd like to offer thanks to ShyAng for a nice little Xmas present. Sadly I can't take you for coffee there (since you don't actually drink coffee), so I'll have to substitute something like desert at McNally's instead the next time we go out. It sounds like you're not having the most wonderful season, so I do hope things take a more positive turn sometime soon. I send my love as always, and know you'll pull through this on top like you always do. Sorry I haven't been available more.

I'm less than 2 weeks until my BC trip. Snow has fallen, and Mt. Washington is open. So, I will get my first snowboarding experience in when I'm out there. I'm excited. It's also been a full year since I've seen Nash, and I am really looking forward to that as well. I'm beginning to think our friendship is a thing of beauty, even though I can't even explain how it evolved into what it is.

I think that will be all for now. Time for an afternoon nap, which had become a very wonderful thing this past month. I will post some new years resolutions shortly, which will be kind of interesting since I've never even made one in the past.

Merry Xmas

Well, my first xmas present has been presented to me.

I'd like to thank work for 5 days of holidays in January, and my parent's and Nat for the return airfare to British Columbia. Nat needed to use up a Westjet voucher that expired on Dec 31st, so she applied it to my flight which made things a whole lot cheaper. I was going to cover my portion of the trip, but a big fight broke out in my family when I told them I did not want anything this year for Christmas. So, I finally broke down and told them that if they HAD to spend money, they could cover my portion of the flight. Why the hell did that make everything alright?

So, January 12th I hop on a plane and a few hours later arrive at (what I hope will be) sunny Vancouver Island for 5 days of relaxation. On the 13th or the 14th, we'll be heading to Mt. Washington for a morning of snowboarding lessons, and then snowboarding the rest of the afternoon. We might try for a second day of snowboarding, depending on how beat down we are from that one. That is pretty much the only real plan that we have, but it will be such a fun trip.

I've only been to Vancouver Island once in my life, and it has left me wanting more ever since. I think it's probably been 15 years or more since I've been there, but I've wanted to live there ever since. There is something about the absolute beauty of that area that just captured my heart. The weather is so perfect in my opinion, with such a wonderful winter climate that allows you to be able to golf or snowboard at the same time of the year. I've never had the luxury of having a pleasant climate in the winter and so I've grown rather tired of these cold Saskatchewan winters.

This will finally be the real start of my effort to actually move to BC. I plan on doing a little job hunting while I'm there, and touching base with some people that I do know throughout BC in order to put the word out that I'm looking for jobs in the region. I am hoping by summer that I will have landed some kind of job out there. I've got accomodations set up in case I need a quick place to stay while starting a job and looking for a place to actually live, so that makes this whole process a lot easier. Another bonus is that I'm not tied to an apartment or house here either, so packing things up can be done very quickly. I'm actually becoming a pro at the overnight move.

I'm going to try not to bore everyone with constant talk about how excited I am about the trip, so I'll also mention other non-interesting things happening in my life... also known as stupid random shit that I feel like putting down here. In no particular order:

1) As noted above, I don't want people to spend money on me at Xmas. If this MUST be done, please choose to donate the money to your favorite charity as they will benefit from the donation more than I would. I will only accept a gift that involves spending time with friends or families (ie: gift certificates for coffee, food or something else that I will be able to do with the people I love)

2) Why is the windshield on my car cracking? A new crack just started from the drivers side last week, and is making it's way across the windshield. The best part is that it's right at my eye level. I guess it's really time for a new windshield.

3) I hate watching friends break up. 2 friends who joined me in Calgary for Nine Inch Nails have split as of yesterday and it's pretty painful to watch because the girl that I'm really good friends with could fall into a pretty big depression from this. I've spent most of my waking, non-working time on call to her trying to make sure she doesn't just lie in bed all day long. The good news is that she got out of bed to actually go to work, which is something that really surprised me. Relationships are stupid.

Where did the time go... or how do you all do it?

Alright... I'm up in the air about this sleep thing. On on hand, damn does it ever feel wonderful just to go to bed and sleep... and sleep and sleep. On the other hand, only having a couple hours left in a day after sleep and work really sucks.

I've learned one thing in the last couple of weeks: I have no time management skills at all anymore. It's kind of funny. I'm so used to having 20 hours in a day that I can kind of leisurely pace myself and I will still have lots of time to complete everything I need to. I can't even get out and see people like I want to right now because I continuously reset my alarm whenever it goes off. The only thing that gets me out of bed lately is work, and I seem to be great at delaying that until the very last minute.

I've got 5 alarms in my room (3 on my phone, 2 different alarm clocks), all set at 15 minute intervals, and I manage to snooze each one of them and roll right back to sleep. I do have a very effective final alarm solution... that would be my family, who are very good about dragging my sorry, sleepy ass out of bed 2 hours before I work. Man, I've never snoozed an alarm clock in my life, and now I actually need people to pull my out of bed. WOW... just WOW.

Also, I seem to have lost my nightmares as well. Those have been replaced by the always wonderful lusting dreams. I'll just leave things at that.

In other non-sleep related news, Suze emailed me telling me that she missed me a whole lot. She said I hurt her a lot with my comments, but she can sort of see where I was coming from. I pretty much figured that silence on my end would eventually lead to here getting in touch with me. Funny, I didn't even lose any sleep over that at all (sorry, it was supposed to be non-sleep related... it just kind of slipped in there).

So, I need help from my ever loyal 2 readers. Suggest some time management techniques, because I'm seriously lacking here. Looks like it's a good time to grab a 2006 dayplanner and start using that again. Also, I need some techniques to get my ass out of bed, which I know B-tard won't really be able to help with.

And so I'm still groggy, but I need to get ready for work. So, Good Morning to everyone, and when I'm done my 8 hours, I'm going back to bed... so Good Night as well.