Happy Birthday to Me & Gone for the Weekend

This weekend, Louisianna, Mel S and I are heading to beautiful Niagara Falls. Why??? Cuz its my 20th Birthday tomorrow. Thats right, I will no longer be a teenager as of tomorrow morning.

Here is a tribute to my Birthday tomorrow as tomorrow is a busy day and I won't be back till Sunday late at night...

I was born to my great & loving parents at 3:28am on

October 27, 1986 at Guelph General.

I was the first born to my parents who were married two years before I was born. My mom was 22, and dad was almost 25. I was 6lbs 13 oz with lots of hair of dark brown hair. They named me Meghan Joyce. My first name was after Meg on the Thornbirds, as my mom loved watching that series while she was pregnant with me. My middle name is after my grandmothers middle name, her name was Dorothy Joyce. I feel privilidged to have been named after my grandmother and will forever love her even though she has gone to heaven. My middle name often gets used as my first name by my father. He will always says, "Joyce!, can you grab me the....". My mom, dad and I lived in a house on a cute little street, where I had mickey mouse wallpaper in my nursery. They also had a Mustang at that time, in which when I was fusy they would cruise around the street until I feel asleep in my carseat.

So Happy 2oth Birthday to ME!!

Now here is what I'm doing:

Saturday at 7am picking up Mel S, then picking up Louisianna, then picking up lots of coffee.
Getting on the highway and driving to Niagara Falls.
We are staying overnight at one of the hotels with an indoor waterpark attached to it!!!
The lady told us we could start using the waterpark when it opened that morning. It opens at 9am, so we are leaving at 7am, and we'll get there around 10am. It is going to be lots of fun.

We'll find parking, see if the room is ready (probably not), get changed into that bathing suit that I haven't worn in a few months cuz its been sooo cold to swim, and go to the waterpark for a while. Then we'll check to see if our room is ready and get checked in, relax, go for dinner, and enjoy Niagara Falls.

Sunday we are going to go back to the waterpark stay there for a while, do some more touring, and head out around 5pm towards Canada's Wonderland for Fear Fest. This is where we'll meet some more people and go on all the rides at Wonderland. Then head back home after that.

Monday I then start my new and very exciting job. Tomorrow is my last day at the appliance place, where they have tried to beg me to stay..yah right. I'm so excited about me new job. They have interview tomorrow for my position at the appliance place so I hope they find someone, if not, too bad. I'm really a nice person and I really hope that they find someone. They are nice people, but they need someone who can be nice and talk to the customers for them, as the head tech doesn't have people skills and my boss doesn't like talking to the customers on the phone.

But enough of them. I'm excited about this weekend and can't wait. I'll post some pics from the weekend when I get back from work and before I have to leave for puppy classes on Monday.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

New Job

As in my previous post my current job wasn't working out. People were asking how my job was going and such. So I mainly told them not good. They don't treat their customers how they should be treated since they are the customers bringing in the business. The whole business is slightly disorganized with scheduling the customers. Up until today everyother day that I have been there I have only been given the next days schedule in the morning. So today I got tomorrow list of people I had to call to see if they were available for tomorrow for one of the technicians to come have a look at the appliance. However today he gave me up until Friday's folder with people, which was great cuz people had more notice and were happier with a few days notice.

So back to Saturday. Saturday morning I got up whenever my body wanted to which was 7:45am..whats with me...it was a Saturday!!! I guess I'm used to getting up at 7:30am for work. Oh well, so I went to our computer room, which was in much needed help for some organizing. My dad runs a construction business, my mom does the bookwork, I do the filing now since my mom doesn't like that part, plus I like doing it. So thats what I was doing going through tons of invoices that needed to be organized into the right folders. Then I had to make some new folders and such. So I'm busy doing this when I get a phone call. Its a family friend who had offered me a weeks worth of work if I wanted some work if the appliance place didn't work out. They run an Air Ambulance company close to here. So we were talking and she was like this is what I need you for and this is what I can pay you and such. So I was like well I'll have to think about it, as you said that you only needed me for 1 week so I still have to find another job before I tell the appliance place I'm quitting. Then she says no I want to hire you. I was like what. She said G (her husband, and also the head captain and vice-president of the company) and I have discussed it and we feel its time that I get an assistant. Plus you have worked for me before and know what we do. As well we need someone we can trust as you will be seeing bills and invoices. I was soooo happy. So we talked a little bit more, and we decided that I would think about it over the weekend and let her know at the end of the weekend.

I ran upstairs told me mom and almost cried when I was telling her. I was like..guess what!!!...shes like what....I was like H offered me a job. I was soo excited.

So I took the weekend to think about it. Called H up Monday morning on my way to work at the appliance place, and told her I was going to tell my boss today. So I would call H later when I knew what my last day would be. I was only going to give them to the end of the week as they get paid weekly, and I had only been hired since last tuesday.

I went to work, but my boss ended up leaving to go home with her sick son. So she gave me her phone number to call her if I needed to. So I waited an hour or so and called her but having to leave a message just saying to call me when she had a moment. So I get a call back a little while later, and I told her that I found a permanent full-time position as this job was only a temp position. It was a temp position that might turn into a permanent but not sure as the girl has carpel tunnel and they have to diagnos her as not able to return to work before they can say its a permanent position. I told her I can stay till the end of the week, but to let me know if I can go sooner than that (plus I wanted this friday off as its my bday). She asked me today if I could stay till the end of the week. I said yes. Dumb me..I should have said till Thursday. Maybe I'll call in sick or something..lol...I couldn't that kinda mean.

I called H up today after work and told her I can start whenever after this week. So I start Monday at their company. I'm so excited. I'm going to be an assistant to the President of an Air Ambulance company. I'll work 9-4 daily. Having weekends off.

Well I should get going. Bailey and I have been doin puppy training classes on Monday's and we have to practice our lay downs, our sits are perfect, but laydown is harder. They say its harder for a tiny puppy.

Working Girl

So I technically have not had a job since after my contract was over up at the resort. It was my personal choice as I wanted to go away on the trip to New York, and have some time to relax. Cuz hey, when am I ever going to get a chance to not have a job.

During the past few weeks I have been working though. Just not technically on a payroll at any company. More under the table type of work. I have cleaned a house with my mom's friend as her parents were coming up and needed help. It was also my friend Jordan's and Tristan's mom, who is like a mom to me too. So I didn't mind helping her out. I helped her for 2 days and she paid me. Then I babysat/looked after/picked up from school and such for her other son who is 11yrs old.

Also my dad runs a construction business, in which he does more than just construction. He also does tree work, like pruning, major tree take-downs and such. With the past few storms that we have had he has had a lot of tree work. So I have been doing yes physical labour of pulling brush and cleaning up from after the tree take downs. As well I was able to help do some actual construction. I even got to use a drill!!...we were screwing down some plywood on a boathouse deck for the duradeck (like vinyl) could be put down after. I also did some chalking so the lines would be straight, or get the guys the tools (if I knew what they were), and the move this and move that girl. It was fun as we did a lot of the work on an island. So we would pack and unpack the boat each day. At the end of the day I actually felt good, as I had been outside all day, and the day went by fast. Not to mention the pay was nice, as I wasn't expecting to work during my time off.

So to say the least, I have been working, but also taking life as it comes the past month and a half. I starting applying for jobs a few weeks ago. Heard nothing, but kept handing them out. I heard from one place, but we could never get a hold of each other, and so I though they stopped trying. I then got another call and had an interview and didn't get the job. A few days later I heard from the place that had been trying to get a hold of me, and we set up an interview which was for this past tuesday. So I went to the interview, it lasted 5 minutes. Went home and then called me about 2 hrs or less later to say when can I start. I said whenever. They said tomorrow.

So I have been working 9-5 since Wednesday. I'm working at an appliance service shop. I take calls for appliances to be fixed. Get all the information. Take warranty calls. File the invoices. Call people to set up appointment and make sure someone will be there or a door will be left open, or the boat will be there for the technician to get to the island and such. I also set up the next days parts (I still have no clue what any of the part are, thank goodness they are labelled with the last name and the invoice #). Its a lot of info that I don't know about yet, as I never really had to worry about whether my fridge was a maytag or g.e. or thermadore, or sub-zero, or viking. Hey I'm starting to learn some names. lol....So I'm still deciding whether I like the job or not. They kinda threw me into the job, and said hey theres your desk, this is the phone, this is how you get messages, these are the files, have fun. Thats what it felt like. I'm sure they hate me by know, as I ask questions all the time. However I'm sure they would rather have that then me screw up their office. Its just a small office, 2 technicians, the co/owner which she does the books and stuff she is also the head technicians wife, and me. So there is only 4 of us. But we are always busy. The first two days weren't too bad, they just expect a lot from me, but they gave me no training. I also don't like how they do their scheduling, and how they treat people, but I guess thats business and they haven't had to worry about it as they are always going to have work. See they are the only service shop that services sub-zero within over 40 minutes of us. So everyone that lives on the lakes calls us, meaning all the cottagers who only come up on certain dates, or have someone else to contact as they have left for Florida or somewhere south for the winter. Today was good though, I was able to learn more about warranties, and start some filing which helped me learn more. Also I'm getting used to the info I need to ask when they call. A bonus is I get paid every week. However, I don't get paid till next week, as they paid from the week before. So I get paid from Wed-Sat this week next Fri. I don't work Saturdays, but sometimes they do service calls on those days, so there might be an odd day in the summer or when we start to get super busy they might have me come in on a Sat to help get caught up with paper work. As long as I know before hand I don't mind the odd Saturday. As long as I get my Sunday's off. They like those days as family days too which is good.

I'm going to take this weekend to relax and reconnect with my puppy. I missed him sooo much the first day I was gone, it felt like I felt my baby after being on maternity leave. He was soo happy to see me that night, I hugged him soo much. Our family is going up to the farm to see my Nana and Papa (my dad's parents), I always love going to the farm. There is so much to do, hikes through the trails and bushes, tons of land to go explore, and the smell of Nana's cooking is the best (your's is too mom).

Have a good weekend!!..I'm going to sleep-in tomorrow (if Bailey doesn't wake me up) and make french toast for breakfast!!!

A Day at the Park

Saturday a bunch of people were suppost to go to Horseshoe Valley Resort to go Tree Trekking. Because of this snowy, raining weather we have been getting around here it was cancelled. At 7:00am I got a call that it was cancelled after I had already showered and blow dryed my hair, as we were leaving at 8am and I had a few errand to do before. At least I got to go back to sleep. Well since my whole day was going there, and was for some other people too my friend Louisianna (middle in pic) planned something for some of us friends to do. After I got the call at 7am I called her, and Mel S (left in pic) another friend that was going. Louisianna called the other two guys that were going. We all went back to sleep except Louisianna. She stayed up and planned a day of stuff for us 5 to do. Thanks Louisianna!!!

Our day went like this:

#1: I picked up Mel S and we traveled to the grocery store where we were meeting Louisianna, Chris F, and Chris R. We then hopped into my car (well I took my moms for the day as it has more room for us than my tiny Sunfire. She has a Freestyle SUV)

#2: We all traveled to Barrie, where we sang our hearts away (well some of us) to many songs. It was about a 50 minute drive. We then went to a park in Barrie to have our picnic. We parked the car and brought all the stuff to a nearby picnic table that was sheltered as it was very cold outside and windy. Thanks Chris F for packing the lunch.

#2: All 5 of us 19+ up to 25 yrs old all played on the park equipment. There were no little kids there so we had lots of fun. We played tag and ran all over the equipment, as well as Mel S slide down the slide and hit a puddle at the end, making up all crack up as we saw it coming as she was making her way down.

#3: Feeding the birds. This is where you found Mel S most of the time. There were seagulls and Canadian Geese.

#4: Headed to this aquarium that had tons of fish, and a huge shark tank. We looked at the different fish and tanks and such. As well we found some Nemo fish. I would love to have a huge aquarium, just wouldn’t like to clean it..LOL.

#5: Tried to find a place that could take us for dinner. But on a Sat night in a big city. There was no such luck. The lowest time was 30 minutes, but we didn’t have that much time as we needed to catch our movie. So we finally found a place that would take us right away. However, it took forever for someone to come and take our drink order. And it took forever for the food, and forever for the bills. It was good food. And we had already decided to go to the later show so we had time to kill.

#6: Drove to Orillia which was closer to our houses to watch the movie at the threatre as we still had time to kill. We ended up seeing Jackass 2 as Man of the Year wasn’t playing in the Orillia threatre. It was playing in the Barrie one where we were, but we decided to travel closer to home while we had the time to kill. The movie was hilarious. I don't think I stopped laughing till after I had gone to the bathroom after the movie was over.

We then travelled home, while some of us sleep. It was a fun day, and I was so tired that I sleep till almost 10am the next day. Which is very unusual for me. I'm not a person who sleeps in a lot. My dad once told me Early to Bed, Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.
Thanks for the awesome planning Louisianna, it was a great day!!!

My Spoiled Pup

While shopping at a store recently with a friend we came across a new accessory for my puppy, Bailey. It was the cutest thing ever. Now what colour to get it was the question. They had blue and pink. We both liked the pink, but Bailey is a boy. We finally decided that Bailey wont know what colour it is, and pink matches more of my clothes than his. So we got the pink one..Now what is it??

Its this cute little doggie bag. It had many pockets, including a cell phone pocket, as well as a cushion in the bottom of the bag for him. He isn't too excited about it yet, but I am!!!...LOL...He's not to trilled about the leash yet so the bag is great.

I also picked up a cute lil suade jacket to keep him warm during our cold winters up north. He'll probably out grow the jacket by the time the snow falls but he needs its now for the cool weather anyways. He also had a rain jacket that my mom got for him. His jacket matches my moms jacket. Its so cute when they go out together with them on, as they are the same colour almost. It looks like we cloned my moms dog Ty, and had Bailey.

So this is my spoiled puppy. He's my life right now. My baby.

Well I'm off...this weekend is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I have a family dinner with my dad's side of the family tomorrow (Saturday), and a dinner with my mom's dad, his lady friend, and my family on Monday at my house. I love turkey though and can't wait. Especially when my mom makes turkey soup out of the rest of the turkey...yum yum.

Have a good weekend, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Blue Man Group

Every morning on our local radio station they have a contest called 'What do you know?', it runs at 7:45am in which they ask a question. They usually are something like 'according to a recent survey, the #1 thing women think about in the shower. What is it?'

You then call into the radio station and try and answer the question. My dad is really good at these questions and has won a few times. As well two guys that work for him have also won when they were all on their way to work. So my dad with one of the winnings won tickets to the BLUE MAN GROUP. My mom and him ended up being busy that weekend, so they gave the tickets to me. I had no idea who they were and what they did, but my friend Louisianna did. She has wanted to see them for a very long time. So her and I planned on going. I was then online looking to see where are seats where and the internet showed that the show was cancelled. So I called the threatre, and it was forsure cancelled. I then called the radio station just in case they were giving out other cancelled show tickets. We ended up getting another date to go if we wanted. So we went this past Saturday.

The concert was at 8pm and was about 2 hrs and 20 minutes away from my house according to Mapquest. Plus you needed to add city traffic to that which would be about 2 hrs 50 minutes, plus you need to add Mapquests wrong turn which is about 3hrs 20 minutes. We made it to the street we were suppost to be on, then saw the threatre, know where to park. We tryed one parking lot but it was full. So we finally found a parking garage. We get our ticket and find a spot close to the exit. And what do we see when we finish parking...this sign....Be alert! Check back seat, Lock your car. Great, two young women have to walk through this city to get to the threatre. Oh well, we have our keys in our hands between our fingers just in case. Really it wasn't that scary. The sign was kinda funny more scary.

We got to the threatre by only a 3 minute walk from our car. Got our tickets, went to the bathroom, then found our seats. Our seats where on the main level, 14th row back and we had isle seats. It was a great time. It started out with them doing a paint drumming, where they had paint flying up as they hit the drums. They got the audience involved with saying things and bringing two people up on stage. I tried not to make eye contact with them when they were coming into the seating, as I didn't want to go up there. But they sometimes manage to stare right at you, but then they go away.
At the end they do a grand finale, where they are rolling out streamer paper but its ticker and wider than normal streamer paper. They have huge rolls of it at the bad of the threatre, and they get the audience to keep pulling it towards the front. Sometimes you wouldn't get any paper, then all of the sudden there was a huge pile of it. They also had lights flashing and everything. It was so much fun. We were able to get a picture just as the paper was going everywhere, then were told to turn off our camera...LOL..at least we got a picture.

After the performance was over, we headed to Starbucks which was right down the street. After that we proceeded home. About 1/2 and hour after we thought we were on the right track according to mapquestes directions, we ended up going past the threatre again! So we just kept following the directions, however we couldn't find the road that we wanted and we knew we were lost for sure. We ended up calling Lousianna's dad as he was a truck driver in the city. So he helped us get out part way. But then we ended up getting stopping at a gas station and asking for directions. We were soo happy when we finally found the highway. It took us 1.5 hrs to get out of the big city. Plus we had another 2 hrs home. Boy was I tired when we got home at like 1:30am. However it was a fun night! Thanks for coming with me Louisianna~!!!

On another note, my puppy Bailey is doing great, he's a bundle of fun, and brings some new entertainment to our family. He has had a few accidents, bcuz I didn't take him our soon enough after he ate...ooops..I'm learning too. When we had our first dog Ty, my mom and sister did most of the work with the training, know its my turn. He is also starting to recognize his name. For the first bit, he didn't respond to his name. Now whenever I come home from being gone, he comes and gives me lots of kisses when I call him.