Monday, July 10, 2006
Getting here was an absolute joke! Or at least the truck was, the rest of it was just plain scary! There were times on the highway that we were being passed like we were snails, and by larger uHaul trucks pulling larger vehicles no less! Danials ended up getting sick and both she and Anakin had "accidents" in their kennels between Kamloops and Surrey. I can't blame them or even get upset, it really wasn't their faults, but they did stink pretty bad.
We stopped in Kamloops for a couple of nights. On Friday we spent an amazing day on Kamloops Lake and the Thompson River in Uncle Frank's boat with Corry and her little family. Only went about half the length of the river, but it took us a few ours to get there. Uncle Frank wanted to take us all the way to Savona, but Chris (Corry's man) wanted to do some gold panning. After we got back, Uncle Frank took me aside to tell me how much he's missed John and I and how much he's missed taking Corry and I on the boat every summer. He was honored that Corry and I would choose that special childhood memory to share with our men, too. It was heart breaking to see him "choked up" like that so John and I promised that we would go back as often as we could every summer, so we could go out on the boat again. That night John finally got a hold of his mother at about 11pm, after he spent most of his free time trying. She had whined that she wasn't a priority on our stop in the 'loops, so he called and called and called. Turned out that she was working anyway and didn't have time for him. We told he we were aiming to be out of Kamloops at 8am so (with cats in the HOT car) we could beat the heat. So she says "ok, let's meet for breakfast at 9." End result was that we didn't get out of Kamloops until 11, almost baked the cats on the way, the car almost fell off the trailer, and didn't get into Surrey until after 4pm. If it wasn't for the amazing help from Kris and Ross (moving boxes from the truck) and Jackie and Sarah (helping me with organizing), I don't think John and I would have made it through the night alive. We owe all them a huge debt, and BIG thank-you hugs!!!!
On Wednesday we went over to Ross' for a game. Well, John gamed, I just made a nuisance of myself. All in all it was great to see the group again. Keeping up with the game was fun, too.
Last weekend we went out to Abbotsford to help Christine with packing and moving stuff for her garage sale. Everything would have been great except for her two selfish, whining slobs that she has for daughters. Anything nice She gets for herself, they destroy. Christine has a $1500 leather massage chair that she needs for her back. It's brand new, but one of the girls already got ink on it. I ended up doing their laundry while I was there because Christine wasn't home and grandma told them to do it, but because it was a chore they cried and had tantrums. Christine only had 2-3 hours of sleep the night before (for very good reasons) and had been going since she got up, getting ready for the move and the sale. By 8-9 o'clock that night her 10 year old started complaining that she was tired, even though she did almost no work. So she'd plant herself in the middle of the garage and go to sleep, making everyone work around her. Lots more happened that made a lot of people want to stand in line to strangle both these girls, but I'm sure everyone is finding this part boring. The end result of that weekend, though is we got a couch and chair for our living room. They need to be professionally cleaned because as I mentioned above Christine's girls are slobs. We got a Hepa filter for our game room, and a good bed with legs.
So I've got two jobs now, both of which should be cool. The first is a full time job in Langley as a salon MANAGER for the busiest "First Choice Haircutters" in the lower mainland. Over 400 customers a week! It's in Langley Center so it's only a bus ride away. The other is as an office assistant for one of the vets in my area! The pay is crap, however it's another-step-in-the-door for what I've wanted to do since I was a little girl. It will also work around my First Choice schedule. I'm so not going to have the social life I moved here, hell I'm not going to have a social life at all...oh well.
We found a great little church just around the corner from us. The lady who showed us around actually live on our complex. She was even the lady who let us into the complex when we showed up with our truck full of stuff on the first day! Everyone at the church knows the minister who married us, so now we have to go to our old church to say "Hi". Actually that pretty much leaves my cousins and our old church that we need to hook up with.
posted by Turnoc's Lady @ 6:38 PM,
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At 1:19 PM, July 11, 2006,
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Congrats on the jobs! It sucks that your social life will be cut into, but at least you're going to be doing (one job anyway) something you enjoy. Good luck. Talk to you soon. Sarah