I'm a hermit and PROUD of it!!
Yep, that's right. The only ops I have for ever coming online anymore seem to be late evenings...and I'm only up right now because i have the day off tomorrow and my inner night owl is really made at me for being ignored for so long.lol.

As my subject title states, i have declared myself a hermit, and i like it.lol. There's not enough time in a day nor enough energy to fuel the time we have.haha. I've been very good lately, go to work, work, come home from work, sleep and repeat. throw in some eating and a day off full of tasks and laundry....and you have my everyday grind!

Since the days are getting shorter for good ol' winter, it seems all i do is drive either in the dark, or in dawn/dusk. Pretty soon, it'll be that creepy only drive in the dark days and I'll really feel like I'm losing my mind. I hate that time of year...that and it means freak snow storms will maroon me in a hotel in richmond...but that's fun..i like them. i'm weird lol.

I've got so much flying around in my head i'm surprised I haven't just fizzed out and sat in my own drool haha. (try and image that one!)...lets see.....

~ hiring people at work is a constant job right now for seasonal. Pulling people off the application system, sorting through them, calling people in for first interviews, conducting first interviews, calling them back for seconds with ryland and thomas, calling them if we hire them and confirm them for the training sesson, CONDUCT training session, put those people into our system AFTER doing orientation....running the monthly touchbases...yep

~ House preparations... notary hasn't called us back so I'm back to harassing Dave to call her again. We only have a few weeks to get everything in order and it seems like time is just flying by... Drafted a letter to the strata council for a meet and greet and a talk about their move in/out rules and all that stuff. decided we should book a carpet cleaner sooner rather than later to make sure they'll get done after the walls are finished...and yea, wash, fill, and paint the walls...picking colours!! omg...so much, but SO excited. Oh, and I look around at all this here and go "oh my god, i have to pack all this up!?" yep....thank god we're moving slowly.

~ TAP! My talent assessment is coming up the same day we get the keys for the house. I have a mock interview over the phone with gail on thursday that i need to prep for, but haven't started.lol. doh! On the first, i've got to get snazzy, transit downtown, go through a few interviews with a few gm's each, then transit back where dave will pick me up and we'll start work on the place....i'm fighting with the regular nerves. I've been through it before and know it's a big deal but nothing to be worried about, but i'm still nervous of course.lol, what to wear, what to say..

~ Work in general picking up for the holiday shopping season. Last year we handled it amazingly, Nothing compared to my first christmas/boxing day experience. It's getting busier and a little bit more stressful...but that's why we're hiring! to help with the lacking coverage! hooray!

My day off tomorrow will, hopefully, consist of:
- getting my car insurance renewed as it expires thursday!
- moving some boxes from my current living room down to storage
- prepping for my mock interview and assessment in november
- having a nice dinner for the first time in a while with dave...somewhere
- Laundry...laundry....laundry
- Collecting garbage for garbage day....yay (we forgot it last week!)
- Call notary myself if I have to...i hope i don't
- Deliver letter to strata if i can find out how...
- get boxes from my dads and possibly....start packing up some stuff and put those boxes in the spaces i've made by taking my boxes to storage

Notice some sort of trend here? Not the stuff, the way i list? lol, i've become the master of bullet notes and task lists...it's the only way i can remember everything i need to do.lol, and now i just realized how much shit i need to get done on my day off this week....ewww. then start my six day streak before my next day off...crazy!

Lets see..i could write about my bike and my thanksgiving weekend...but i think i've bored people long enough! i also told myself I would go to bed half an hour ago so i woudn't sleep the day away and accomplish nothing....boo.

Thanks for reading Hermit Tales, by Me. lol

Lata!

LETS GO PEOPLE!
Alright guys, this is the last favour of the year I'm going to ask of people....

DONATE FOR THE AIDS WALK!!

It's really sad that I'M the only one who donated...it really is... Donate a little, donate a bit more, a bit more and you get a tax REFUND.

All you need to do is go online to http://www.bcpwa.org go to the walk page, look up my username: MeganEvansON and donate!! Don't like doing stuff online? Talk to me in person and make a cash donation.

The walk is the 23rd, so you have until the 22nd to make a contribution to the BC Person with AIDS society.

Lets go guys! It feels great to donate to a good cause, and every little bit helps.

Please.

P.S. Thanks again to Lizzie, the only one aside from myself to donate to the BCSPCA Paws for a Cause walk. You rock liz!

Good Cause Stuff!
Hey guys,

Once again, the time has come for me to ask you to part with a few dollars of your hard earned cash to donate to one of two, or both, worthy causes...the BC SPCA Paws for a Cause is September 9th, and the AIDS Walk is coming up September 23rd.

I'd like to thank liz for being the FIRST person besides myself to donate, THANK YOU LIZ!

If anyone is interested in either, please let me know one way or another. Or you could just go online! I have an account wit the spcs under the user name: MeganEvansON. You can donate there and even sign up to walk if you have the day off!

i haven't opened a profile with AIDS walk yet, but it will be under the same user name when i do. I'll let you all know. Over a certain amount will warrant you a tax rebate form to receive some of your donation back come tax time....and IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE!! A few bucks would be appreciated, it doesn't have to be much.

Thanks in advance to those going to donate after this...i'll mention you by name when it happens...please help out!

Thanks!

Update From Home!
Hello All! Taking a late night opportunity to write a bit (or alot...we'll see how i ramble haha) about st johns!

St Johns:

So after we arrived in the airport, we were met by my step brother, his fiancee, and courtney's mom.... lets just say, she's aggravating..poor mom got sucked into a conversation with the husband's ex hah. She drove us to our hotel and dropped us there, apparently it was the bachelor and bachelorette party going on george street (look it up guys, it's famous for pretty much being nothing but bars).

The Battery Hotel was a bit of a dissapointment....It looks way fancier on it's website, it overcharges for the standard room that isn't well upkept....yea. Dave and my room was on the second floor, pretty much within climbing reach of the back roadway. There was at least a view of the bay (which was smaller than i thought it would be). The room was bright yellow one three walls, and light blue on one. There was a map of newfoundland with big pic representations of stuff to see around the province. Above that it said, "Nfld. Saying: You're face could stop a clock".....yep...oh, and above the bed...was a picture of three old fisherman guys, holding their catch! The guy in the middle, his fish was being held as such, so that it's mouth was open....definately nice and romantic to go with the view of the bay lol.

After dinner from a horrid waitress, but good food, I was so tired i actually fell asleep at 11pm their time...so...4:30 our time! Woke up the next morning and we all met in the lobby. Dave, Cam, mom and I had planned to walk around and take in the sites, so that's what we did. Stopping at the timmys for breakfast of course haha.

We walked down the two main streets by the water, saw a german tall ship that came into dock that morning. While we were looking at it, a cute blonde girl came over with a news camera and asked if she could as us a few questions about the ship...as she's asking, cam and mom (on either said of dave and I) are slowly shifting away out of site lol. Dave tried to do the same as I was handed a piece of paper to help set up the lighting, but he ran into my mom and they literally started pushing at one another to try and get away lol. SO, dave and I were interviewed by NTV....didn't get to see it though. Couldn't find it on the net either...oh well. I just find it funny that to get on tv i ended up going across the country haha.

Cam needed to pick up his brother from the airport, so dave, mom and i took a cab to the avalon mall in a more main part of the town. walked around, had lunch, then decided to walk back...that was further than we thought, about half way there mom's knee started to swell lol. We hailed a cab who already had a passenger, but he picked her up anyway! I gotta say...i was so confused by the people....out and about, most of them are really friendly, helpful...but if they're working or something, they're really disgruntled and rude....

Anyway, dave and i took multiple detours through the waterfront neighbourhood, took some pics of some nice stone churches and crazy multicoloured houses. We got back to the hotel with a few horus or so to spare until we all met for dinner. So about 30 minutes to relax in the room ( i was pretty pooped). Then dave and i took another cab to the top of signal hill (where the first trans-atlantic communication by morse code was ever received) for some sight seeing.

Saw some whales breaching off the coastline, watched the fog roll in as fast as it rolled out...the coast made my day. it was by far the prettiest part of the place. We still had some time to kill, so dave and i took a path down to the cliffs. from there we walked all the way around the narrows and into the bay. we ended up back in the town and had to walk back up the hill to the hotel lol. It was crazy, i was proud of dave, there were some scary parts for people afraid of heights. The path was right on the edge of the cliffs, one part was so narrow, there was a chain attached on the rock wall to keep people from falling...dave took a video of it so he wouldn't feel like looking down haha.

By the time we got back, we had just enough time to read a little, change, then head to the lobby where everyone was waiting with cabs. We all met at the Keg on the waterfront for dinner, Had good conversation, food, and wine lol, then while everyone else took cabs back to the hotel, dave and I opted for more walking...because we could...and because i noticed the HORRID sunburn appearing outta nowhere on my upper body and face... On the way we stopped at the local store *insert banjo music here!!* to get some sunblock and vaseline (opted for cuz they didn't have aloe vera)....i say banjo music...because there were two people behind the two tills in the entire place....one was a 4 foot tall woman with bad teeth..and face.lol. Sounded as scrunched up as she looked, not a nice personality at all either. The second, was a tall lanky guy with buck teeth...i called him cletus in my head...it was entertaining.lol.

I walked sOOOOOO much! I haven't been able to walk around like that in a long time. Dave and I used to do that a lot, so it was nice to get back to it a little, see the town and it's tiny streets, weird talkin people, and crazy houses. Lets just say, for the next three days, my calves actually were sore! We aren't talkin flat walks here, major hills everywhere lol.

As this has been LOTS of rambling....as i expected....i'll update about the wedding later on today...as i actually have the day off...and then start a seven day stint before i head off to the lake for three days...yeap....my life, is work...

Thanks for readin, you must be bored...or karen, who's starved for any type of information of the real world haha.

Buh Bye!

P.S. Quote from Clone High....cuz it's funny... "Don't uh damage the merchandise ladies..and by merchandise...i mean my JOHN!" - Ghandi after taking lessons from JFK