Weekend of fun :)

Well, this weekend was awesome! :) Sat. night we were gonna go out (me, Bree, Britt and Ada) but by the time we all got to my house it was 11 pm! :P So that plan was scrapped. Either way we just hung out at home, ordered pizza, talked, drank and all that good stuff!

2 coolers and a few hours sleep later, I called work and asked if I could start my shift an hour late cause i was kinda hungover and my head hurt.. yes, i'm a cheap drunk. (the funny thing is, my manager had told me the night before not to drink too much cause I had work.. lol) :P Either way he was cool with it, and didn't seem TOO mad! Also that day (sunday) was the pride parade, but since I had to work Bree and Britt went to it alone.. hehe they said it was pretty intersting! (lots of drag queens and topless girls.. :P)

I got the day off from work today so Bree and I went out to the ROM and saw the feathered dinosaurs, egypt, and greece exhibits, but both of us got SOO cold (cause of the AC) that we decided not to take our time there! :P We walked down Younge, up Church, ate and got some ice-cream! :) hehe it was fun, rating guys without shirts on a scale of 1-10.. sounds like something you'd do when you are in highschool, but I never really went through that stage and since I'm single... why not?!?! haha :)

Anyways, we stopped at a park to relax and some weird 30 year old guy was staring right at me, and walked up and asked me for my number cause I am (according to him) "really pretty"... it was kinda odd.. of course I didn't give it to him and he left.. lol :) Vercheto said that that area is really sketchy... ewww.. lol :P plus he sounded pretty gay to me.. lol

Afterwards we walked around the mall... basically lots of walking going on, and then she caught her train for kingston! :) So this weekend was really fun! Bree got to see her boy; I got to hang out with people that I havn't seen since before the summer started, and I even got to meet a new friend (Ada) :) So that makes me feel good! hehe
Yay! :)

(oo and the ipod is awesome! got about 25 songs on it so far.. Now I finally have some good music to listen to while on the subway and bus) :)

A little bit of a rant! :)

To people who love air conditioning this is gonna sound blasphemous, but I just don't get it.

What is this obsession with air conditioning? I mean I literally freeze all day; from the moment I step onto the air conditioned bus, to the air conditioned subway, then to the airconditioned mall, and then to my (even more) air-conditioned store. I feel like an ice cube! When did people in Canada get so warm that they needed to have the AC blasting at 15 degrees all day long? Do we get too much summer here, a whole 2 months, that people need to feel cold during it? 15?? I mean that is what its like during the fall and spring!! lol wow I am sure I sound so bitter but I really don't understand it. Maybe its just me, and I get cold too easily, but shivering all day through work, and being forced to buy myself a sweater to wear to work.. during the hottest days of summer, makes absolutely no sense to me! It's the summer, enjoy it! Feel a tiny bit warm and think to yourself "wow I'm warm, this is a lot better than winter :)" Or are we too preoccupied with not sweating or something to enjoy the heat. Maybe its for those people that can't stand the heat and always need to be cool... but when did they get so abundant that the entire mall thermometer had to be set to 18, and my Soft Moc store to 15??? Argh.. I just seriously don't get it.. I hate being cold.

Alright that's all I wanted to say! :) If anyone knows what is going on please let me know! I mean other than being a waste of energy I don't see the use of air-conditioning!!! :P

Also as a less bitter note I'm off to the Yorkdale mall tomorrow morning to get my new ipod mini!! :) Also I work from 12-9, so that should be fun.. And on Sat. my friends are coming for the night and to sleep over so that's gonna be awesome! :) But for the time being I'm alone, hehe 2 nights sleeping in a house all alone.. I can deal; once again its a good learning experience! hehe :)

Everybody do the blog! :)

Holy the blogging trend has started! I wonder how long its gonna go on for? hehe :P

Well lets see, I finally get a day off, Yuppy! :) I also get paid on friday so that's gonna be pretty exciting! :) I thought of what would be fun to write about.. and I got to thinking about embarassing stories and that I should share some with my readers although they are never as funny in writing as they are when told in person.. lol
so here goes... (as a side note for some reason embarassing things happen to me only when in different countries!)

1.) I got mistaken for a prostitute! It's true, we (my sisters and parents) were walking around Geneva and all of a sudden this weird guy who had just gotten off his mo-ped grabbed my arm! I looked up at him totally puzzled and scared (I'm sure my face said it all :P) and actually shouted "ahhh!" in his face and then ran away! :P I ran into a store with my sisters and we were wondering what happened, and then we looked around the street and on every corner there was a prostitute posing and stuff!! So that was a little bit embarrasing.. i must have looked like a prostitute and I was only 15! on the other hand I guess I was a good looking one if he chose me.. umm..that's just wrong :P..

2.) In Italy (Pisa to be exact) there are such things as alarms in the shower.. its for use when something bad happens in the shower and you need assistance (apparently it happens often??? lol) Anyways it looks like one of those light switches that is just a string you pull (and only outside of the shower does it tell you its an alarm).
Because it was such a hot day I was thinking to myself, hmm maybe it puts the ventilator thing in the bathroom on so it'll get rid of the steam! I don't know why I even thought it would do that, since there were no grates in the ceiling or anything, but there I was pulling it repeatedly.. As excpected, it didn't do anything so when I got out of the shower I decided to ask my sisters what that string did.. They explained to me that it was the alarm and I felt so embarassed! I was like.. omg what if the guy at the lobby comes upstairs and is all panicky and wonders what happened and I just tell him that I was pulling it by accident.. plus I can't speak Italian!! I was feeling so embarassed that I decided to hide my face (in shame) in a white towel and after a few minutes of "oooo nooo I can't believe I rung the alarm", as my head emerged from the towel there was an enormous red stain on it.. Yes, my nose had started bleeding.. really bad!! So now if he walked up he'd see me, with my nose bleeding profusely onto the hotel towel and feel shitty for not having come right when the alarm rang, and I'd have to explain to him that it was my fault and nothing was wrong!!!! oi.. luckily he never came, and convenienty we went out for dinner just a few minutes later. If he did go up eventually he would have seen a completely wet orange towel drying on the bed (my sister tried to wash out the blood from it in the sink)..lol as a side note, if I were really dying in the shower.. I'd probably have died.. oh well, it was lucky for me at the time :P

3.)Have you ever needed to go to the bathroom (number 2) so bad that you felt you'd collapse? Well if u havn't then I'll tell you.. it really unpleasant (to put it mildly)! Especially if you are at Waterloo Station in London and don't know where the bathrooms are.. So here I am, getting total gut cramps and no-where to go! (I think it must have been an allergic reaction to the fish and chips I had just eaten). My sisters and Fritz were buying stuff from a "Boots" store (the equivalent to Shopper's), and I told them that I couldnt take it and rushed off in search of a bathroom! I was running around thinking "oh man oh man.. I gotta go sooo bad!!" and my vision was going blurry and I was sweating like hell! (lol.. those of you reading this are probably really grossed out, but it really is quite funny to remember it!) So I finally found the signs for where the bathrooms were and then I remembered that you have to pay.. and I had no money what-so-ever, not even the 10p that you need to get inside, but when I got there, lo-and-behold the coin machine was out of order!!! So it was free! :) I ran inside and took a nice umm... explosive S*#@!! That experience is the closest I think I've ever come to 1.) pooping my pants.. other than when I was a toddler 2.) beleving in a higher power that just happened to have broken the coin machine! :)

Anyways hopefully you guys enjoyed those, and if any of them don't make sense, u can feel free to comment and tell me so! :P And feel free to share your embarassing stories with me! :) I'd love to hear some!

Comfortable?

Hey everyone! Alright I'm gonna spit out an idea about comfort. To be exact comfort zones. I'll use my personal experience so it'll make more sense.

I was so comfortable with my ex-boyfriend and our pseudo-relationship (it was pretty disfunctional towards the end) that I would lie to myself and say everything would get better, or that eventually he would get his ass in gear and everything would be ok. That was my comfort zone.. I was happy lying to myself as long as we were still together and I didn't have to be alone. As unhappy as I was, it seemed ok for me to live that lie.

And even though I was "comfortable", he was not and so he told me it had to end. Suddenly I found myself thrust out of my comfort zone and into a "state of uncertainty", being really alone for the first time in almost 2 years. Little did I know that I wasn't alone at all. It took a break-up to realize how many people really did care about me. As soon as I told my mom and dad they hugged me and we talked for a really long time. My sisters were both really supportive (obviously since I went to Ottawa for a week right away and now I'm in TO for the rest of the summer!) and all the rest of my family (you Gale) and friends who I've told have been really supportive :) Basically this has been a great experience, you realize immediately just how much you mean to people :)

Either way, continuing with my comfort zone theory, I basically had to find my comfort zone all over again. However, this time I chose to raise the bar for myself! I have heard that the best way to adapt to change it to always be slightly outside your comfort zone. Basically for the last few weeks that is exactly what I have been doing, and I have to say that is totally working! Only now am I settling in to a "zone" which I feel is right for me! :) Working with different people every day, becoming more open and more independent.

I am finally happy :)

yay for pictures! :)

This is me, my hair isn't that great cause I need a haircut badly! But its me in my stylin' new pants, shoes and shirt! :)

So yup today was another good day :P Just worked a lot again and sold a few more shoes.. same old same old.. tomorrow I work from 2-9pm :)

Hmm what else is there to say.. I think that my younger grandma is one of the happiest people I know. She is always laughing and smiling, doesn't excessively judge or analyze people, and basically is really caring :) Sure sometimes she thinks she knows everything about everyone/everything, but that is her querk (and everyone has a few :) )!

As another question, but basically the complete opposite, who do you guys think is the most unhappy person you have ever met (and what makes them unhappy)? ( I have a pretty good answer for that one... :P)

Alrighty well that's it for now! *sleeeepy* there is nothing more rewarding then to go to sleep at night with your feet aching from being on your feet all day and having worked for 8 hours straight! :) It's a totally awesome feeling!

"Do you really like it, is it is it wicked?" :P

Woo Hoo! I have sold $10,000 worth of shoes up to date! and I only got the job last week, so that's pretty good! :) My boss keeps asking if he can clone me (cause i'm so motivated and follow instructions etc.) and when I told him I had a twin he just kept laughing! :P lol

Anyways lets see.. the happiest person.. I would think it would be Mr. Saunders' wife.. she just seemed so nice and relaxed and totally content :) Always smily and cheerful. I'm sure that she has many things that she is unhappy about, but on the surface it seems like she's happy.. Who do you think the happiest person you know is? (question directed at anyone who feels like replying) :P

On a side note I do think this is the happiest I've been in a long long time! I don't like anyone at the moment but I just feel totally content as well! I guess I just didn't think that I could feel happy without a "significant other" in my life, but since coming to TO and learning to do things on my own it feels great! I talk to people on MSN, meet new people through work (both coworkers and customers), plus when I'm home I get to spend time with my favourite magical gnome and his parents! so that's really awesome as well :) Basically this is everything I could ask for and this summer has been amazing so far!

:) ok that's it for today! work from 12-9 tomorrow! :P

btw the transit system in toronto is very safe! (directed to a certain someone losing sleep due to worry over me taking the bus at night!:P)

"life is life na na na na na! "

Well today was rather interesting.. I guess.. didn't make as much money (only sold $1000 of shoes) but still :P

A Bulgarian guy came in the store looking for a pair of shoes for his mom and sister in Bulgaria. After twenty minutes of talking to him in English I asked where he was from and then we switched over to Bulgarian and talked for a while. It was funny :P

Also I was waiting at the wrong bus station for the bus today (cause I was trying a new route) and then a woman came over and told me that they didn't come after 10pm or something, so that was kinda nice :P I mean I would have just sat there for a long time, so I like nice people like that hehe

other than that.. nothing much is new :P kinda boring day today but oh well, hopefully tomorrow will be better! :)

Oh and I had a really weird dream today which included me being really mad at Gerri and us not speaking to eachother! so it was kinda weird! :P I woke up irrationally angry with her! don't u just hate it when that happens? lol well there is more to the dream and why i was angry, but i'll just tell people if they care! hehe

that's all for now! :)

don't worry anonymous' I won't foget you guys!

Wow, thanks for the comments everyone! Next time leave your names as well please! :P although I can figure who wrote what so its all good
(and don't worry I won't forget you "anonymous" and I can get u any kind of shoes you want, but you have to come visit and pick them out yourselves! haha ;)

Today was a good day at work.. I sold $2000 of shoes, so for a sunday that's pretty good :) For my first payday i'm going to have worked about 76 hours, so my boss said that is going to be something like $800 for me (with taxes deducted!!) that makes me pretty happy! ipod shuffle here I come! :)

oo and people who can't speak ANY english and come looking for shoes are irritating!! :P so frustrating.. u want to help them and they are pointing at shoes with shoelaces and saying something in a different language, and u are supposed to deduce that they want shoes without shoelaces! :P I know it doesn't sound too bad, but trust me, its really difficult to figure out what they want, especially when there are lots more people in the store that need your attention! hehe

btw if anyone has any questions I can answer them, just leave me comments of what you would like to know.. hehe and if u are "anonymous" that would be cool too! I can answer anonymous comments :P haha actually that sounds like it would be kinda fun! aannyywaayyss.. I'm off! only work for 4 hours tomorrow, so i'm counting that as a day off since I work for the next 7 days straight ( four days of 8hour shifts and three days of 4hours shifts)

:)

p.s. Gale don't worry u didn't steal my idea! :) and I got the first post! haha love ya girly, and feel better cause you are awesome!!! :)

realizations :P (this one's a long one, so get ready!)

Well, another day at work, and this time I sold $3000 worth of shoes.. which for me ends up making me about $14/hour! :) for 8 hours.. that's not too shabby in one day haha, and tomorrow is another grueling day of work :P oh well who am I to complain?? its money! lol

On a side note, I came to the realization that if my ex-b/f and I hadn't broken up.. I would never have come to TO, and would never have gotten this job, or this much money, or this experience. After this summer in TO I think I am going to be:

1.) more independent: cause I have to take the subway and get around by myself, and basically do things on my own when I am downtown :)
2.) more confident/self-assured: since I am selling shoes like crazy
3.) more outgoing: since I need to approach total strangers and ask them to buy shoes from me! haha seems to be working for now :P
(if anyone can think of anything else I am going to be.. then let me know :P)

So in general every bad thing can have something good come out of it. At first I thought the breakup was a bad thing.. (though seriously I havn't cried half as much as I thought I would, and I havn't had ANY evil "stay-up-late" bawling sessions since the break-up.. and I was having some of those even while we were going out!) :P Basically I feel a lot of pressure off my shoulders.. now I need to take care of myself, and even though I do miss the good times, I am happy that the bad times are over and will never have to do that again!! :) Next time I will be wiser in who I choose to go out with, and I won't try to change the little things about him to compensate for some the big things that are lacking! (cause there won't be any big things lacking! :P)

So that keeps me going, and i'm genuinely happy with my life at the moment! :) Sept. starts the new school year, and a new year to hangout with/find new friends.. and maybe guys (with my new outgoing attitude that shouldn't be a problem really :P rriiiggghhttt... haha) but for now I am totally comfortable with where I am and I'm just gonna enjoy the summer for what its worth!

Btw today was an amazingly hot day and its so awesome! :)

I look as good as most women in the world! (LOL)

Holy, I sold $1800 worth of shoes today from 3-9pm! It was insane :P My boss is funny, he thinks i've never done any hard work in my life cause of the way I hold a mop, and cut up boxes (he said I look dainty and fragile).. yea whatever dude! :P I do hard work... when i need to.. lol And both him and my assistant manager thought I was like 27 or 28! And I don't look that old at all! I think it must be the nice dress clothes and my mature/professional attitude :P haha that's it.. right well they thought a person going into 3rd year Uni. should be older than 19, but they are kinda out of the loop cause neither of them at in Uni :P

Either way its a pretty fun job and I'm having lots of fun in TO! I don't work tomorrow hehe so I get to relax and let my feet recooperate from the non-stop standing and walking! Ohh and if anyone needs any info on shoes u can ask me :P I'm learning quickly and I can give pointers as to what you should look for! hehe

Ohh and if you wanna come visit me, just go to the Soft Moc in the Eaton Centre, there's only one and its near the foodcourt with Jimmy the Greek and stuff! haha

well that's if for today :P

Hi, Can I help you find anything? Oh those look great on you! :P

Yay! First "real" day of work, from 2-9! It was lots of fun and totally hectic at times! :) I was training for the first bit and then from about 5 to 9 i got to actually sell shoes! And guess what?? I sold $980 worth of shoes today!!! Everyone working there (including the manager) was totally amazed at how much I sold cause its my first day! :P but I think its just beginners luck so we'll see what happens tomorrow! I Can't belive how many people like Birkenstocks! haha I sold 3 today! :P

haha I work tomorrow from 3-9, then sat from 10-7 and sun from 12-6 :) so yay! lots of work for me! hah. Hmm other than that nothing much to report... got some mayo (from a taco) on my pants.. lol so exciting! :P but I'm kinda tired so I'm off to bed! :)

I swear eventually there will be more interesting stuff on this blog besides me working!! :P

1st day at the Cuddly Dwarf! :)

I had my first work day today! Worked for 2 hours and basically was trained to find shoes and put them away and stuff. Tomorrow I go in from 2pm and work till 9pm, then afterwards there is a meeting with Clarks shoe company to which I need to go :) Lots of training, lots of walking, but for money so its all good! I can't believe how busy it was today! I mean he said their usual sales are about $3,500-$4,000 a day!! and sometimes even $6000 like yesterday! so that's gonna be awesome!(no time to get bored) :)

Also earlier today Lucy (a friend of the family's) wanted me and Viara to work at her store for a few hours so we did :) it was pretty fun cause its a very cute antique store and we got $20 each for doing practically nothing! heh

On a different note, my ex-boyfriend emailed me today saying he's moving to Vancouver in September. That was a little shocking but I think its a good thing. :) I mean we have seperate lives now, and we aren't goinng to get back together, so in many ways this is for the best :) Tomorrow makes one month of us being broken up, so for that little time I think i'm doing pretty well :) We now move on with our lives, and I have faith (not in god :P) that my life will just keep getting better. Sure its hard sometimes, and thinking about it makes me sad.. but overall I am coping well and as I said it'll only keep getting better from here :)

If anyone has any comments on these "developments" please feel free to comment! hehe :P (especially you Gerri, but anyone can lol!!)

Gonna work at Soft Moc aka. cuddly dwarf! :P

Thanks for the posts guys :) hehe they were awesome!

I went to Jean Machine today and had the interview; it went pretty well and he said he's got a few more interviews to do and that he'll call me by next monday :P little does he know that I already got a job! haha I called the manager at Soft Moc and I start on Wednesday!! so exciting!

It's weird cause it only took 4 days of applying to get a job and I start this week! :) I have figured that since this is probably my first and last ever "retail" job (since I'm going to be applying for SWEP next year with Queens) I would rather work at Soft Moc (a high end shoe place) than Jean Machine or Footlocker, cause its a little bit more relaxed, and there will be older people for me to help. No bribing or stealing, as we were extensively warned about happening at the Footlocker interview. Plus its in the Eton Centre, so on my lunch break I can shop! hehe

On a lighter note... Ipod mini here I come! :) too bad that at the moment I have 95 cents in my bank account! hehe

Other than that, I went out for a jog/walk and worked out a bit with Viara (my older sister) so that was fun :) Julian is a little sweety pie who keeps smiling more and more every day and was smiling a lot at Fritz (my older sisters husband) today when he got home from work so that was really cute! :)

I got a job! :)

Yay! I got a job at Soft Moc (a shoe store) in the Eton Centre!! Its going to be 35-40 hours a week and I get $7 an hour plus 2% commission on each pair of shoes I sell! :) That makes me really happy! hehe

The manager was so nice, he kept saying how awesome it would be if I could work there, and how he thinks I'll do great and all that stuff! :) He doesn't mind that I have no retail experience, or that I'm going back to Kingston in the fall, so that's a plus! :)

I also went to RW&Co. and bought myself 2 skirts, a shirt and some pants (all dressy) cause I need fancier clothes in general, and for a job or interviews! :) I have another interview tomorrow for Jean Machine, and I'm gonna go just for the practice, but I think that the shoe store will be my choice! :) something about working in the Eton Centre! hehe its so awesome!

(someone comment on my blog! lol j/k :P)

yay :)

Another day in TO :)

Wow, lots of fun today! my parents came to Toronto to visit in the morning! :) We went to stores and visited people and it was lots of fun! My older sister and her husband also got a 32" LCD TV which is awesome!

We watched "Great Expectations" as the first movie on it and it was cool cause its an old movie that reminds me of Regina and its got Ethan Hawke, back when he actually used to look attractive! Oh and its got Mono- life in mono (one of my fav. songs) in it to so that's a bonus!! :)

Tomorrow I have 2 job interviews but they should be alright :) One at Soft Moc (in the Eton Centre) and another at some small clothing store on Queen St. that I don't even remember applying to! lol and even though I am ahead of myself a little since I don't have too much money at the moment, I'm downloading a bunch of songs on Limewire already for when I get an mp3 player :) (hopefully an ipod mini!)

some really good songs are: (according to me :P)
mono- life in mono
Laze - stepping out
dj tiesto - adagio for strings
Benassi bros - make me feel
benassi bros - hit my heart
global deejays - sound of san francisco
david morales - how would u feel
eric pryds - call on me
groove coverage - runaway
well that's just a few, but they are good lol :) hehe oh and BMPtv is good for ideas! that and dreamdance.de hehe :P so happy ! :)

Yay :)

Alright so I went for my first job interview today! I think it went pretty well actually. It was a group interview and the manager asked us questions in turn, so that was kinda interesting :) It was me, another girl and a guy. Even tho they both had retail experience I think I did well with answering the questions, and since the manager was in micro-biology at one time I think he liked the fact that I was in biology :)

I also managed to get downtown all by myself, and back home after the interview hehe so that makes me feel happy! That was my only reservation about applying downtown and its actually not bad at all :) All you need to do is take a bus, then the subway once going west, then south, and you are done :) hehe I love TO!

Everything seems to be getting better! I'm just really happy right now! Living in TO with my older sister, her husband and their baby is awesome! I'm really happy that they don't mind me being here and living with them!! :)

I don't have anything to worry about anymore, just look forward to life!

yay :)

First Blog ever!

Wow, my first blog ever :P so exciting! lol

hmm, today I applied to 64 places downtown Toronto. It was kinda fun, after the whole nervousness went away! After the first.. 20 I felt really confident and just smily and cheerful it was cool :) I feel like my self-esteem has totally increased since.. this morning!! :) It's awesome

Toronto's been really fun so far! (thanks for taking me in guys I really appreciate it!) Just relaxing and taking it easy, well except for the mad job hunting! 96 resume's in 4 days, that and trying to potty train my nephew, baby Julian! He is so cute :) He's such a good baby, he's already potty trained at 1 month, genius! :)

Alright so i have an interview at footlocker tomorrow! It's kinda scary since I only own two pairs of shoes and I need to make my way downtown TO by myself and back! :) but luckily I have a phone if I get lost or something, and I can always make stuff up about the shoe situation ;) I also have an interview on Monday for Jean Machine, so that should be fun!

well that's it for my first blog! wooo! :P