Or at least that is what I tell myself.  Seems to be a good mantra gets me through my day and makes me laugh well at least when my biggest challenge is the evil kitchen cupboards, evil employers and a tornado apartment.

I really should ggo shower that interview is sneaking up on me, but I will get there eventually.  I dunno what to wear as it is just a pizza place but still first impressions and all that jazz.

I'm so happy I got more fabric from my salvage of my old life that has been packed in a trailer for years. I also found a couple of my fav old wardrobe pieces quite excited about that....

While cleaning my old stuff up I happened upon a scary site a rat had died in the trailer ( its in the country) due to the poison my mother had laid to keep the pests at bay because no matter what there will always be some.... now normally this whole ordeal of finding this dead thing would not have bothered me but well I guess I'm getting to soft from living in the city.  Or it could be the fact that he was staring right out at me from inside a box with his mouth open and his HUGE Teeth right there...... needless to say I was freaked and would not continue the mission of getting rid of that stuff until he was disposed of..... Thank good for my moms man he handled it no problem.

I myself could not believe how freaked I was like really its dead. Back when I lived on the farm it was nothing for me to scoop up mice and let them go in the field, as they often got into the dog food.  Clean up horse shit, and at the time of the birth of my filly horse placenta.  Take care of a bunny two rottweilers and 3 horses and a number of chickens at any given time or help mommy dog deliver pups but now a rat... a rat scared me a dead one at that... like really I have had to dispose of them before and had to put a pellet in ones head when he became stuck in a trap and was vicious( hey who wouldnt be when in pain).   On top of all the animals and stuff I have also never flinched at the site of blood or gore. I don't lose my cool and proceed to assist and keep everyone else calm.  I mean I have seen toes almost severed toes, huge gashes and glass hanging out of a wound on top of other things. I have even had to rescue a friend from drowning on his own vomit because he drank to much. Thats a quick que to sober up lert me tell you....

Anyway I guess I'm just hoping I'm not losing ability to keep cool and collected no matter what the situation.....

Well maybe not so much but I spent all day yesterday trying to get them to look good and I still have to do allllllllll the upper cupboards and oh guess what one set of doors is being difficult and wont come off

And this song so suits this day. So I got a call from papa johns yesterday cuz I am the pizza slinger extrodinaire..... well maybe not but they at least want an interview.  So thats what I'm doing today at 5.  Now its already 1:44 pm and I'm lounging in my painting clothes and debating on whether or not to try and get anything done in the next couple hours.  Painting i think is on hold as it is rather messy but maybe I'll rehang the doors that are done and then start cleaning.....again blah.

Oh my friend erock's band is playing tonight at the Organic underground so I think I'll head down there and see him and enjoy the awesome coffee.

Ummm whoops! Totally lost my train of thought.... well anywho ... oh wait I am so not in love with the color the landlord got for my kitchen cabinets its a nice bright color at first it looks like a lovely off white...... until you paint it on and then let it dry.....ugh now its kinda really pinkish and it looks so dull.... I hope it looks better when they are all done

  Well even though I don't have a job at the moment I seem to be quite busy.  I spent yesterday at me moms cleaning and sorting through my storage trailer, that was hell but quite productive Almost got it cleaned out and I went from like a million boxes down to like 5 woo!  

 The day before that I spent dismantling my kitchen cupboards and cleaning them for painting. While attempting to get that done I was also doing dishes and cleaning house. In particular the spare bedroom, which is damn near done.  I also tossed two garbage bags of clothes and shoes.

Today I am in the begginning stages of painting i have laid down the first coat on the lower cupboards and laid out the doors in the spare room and they are next.  I have to keep shooing the cat so he doesnt wreck my paint.  I am also in the process of doing laundry and I'm biting the bullet and actually using our busted ass dryer in the building.

My sister in law and my bro have a dresser for me so that the new roomie aaron and I can all have dressers bah!  I'm waiting for them to come drop it off as well as my salvaged fabric that is being washed from the storage trailer.

Upside it's going to look fabulous in here when I am done.  I can't wait for Aaron and I to buy a house I want to decorate! 

On my other creative side I started making birdcage veils which are my new thing.  I have made 3 and I'm hoping I can sell them.

Here are two just gotta find other pics, problem with photographing your work as yourself as the model it is quite hard.  I see a trip to value village to get a styrofoam head and wig for photos..... hmmm

  this last photo is just me playing with feathers love the colors though.  I'm looking for ostrich feathers for my veils but i dont want to pay stupid store prices so will keep hunting at local farms. ummm so I guess i better get back to painting so I can have a kitchen again.... wish me luck!

I'm sure I mentioned this back in like May when JK and I went and had photos taken. It was quite fun and I hope in the future I can do it again. so anway lets look at some pics   this was taken without my knowledge because I was just there for moral support but since I know the photographer he took pics of me. Don't I look amused? just enjoying the beautiful day. Quite honestly I do not think I'm photogenic nor do I think  time should be wasted taking my photo but it was a fun day. Well there are far too many photos to go through but you get the idea.  Anyway 
Later Dayz

Bah!
Last night I couldn't sleep I read a whole novel in a few hours and sat and thought about the technicalities and weird insights all of which I would have loved to blog about but alas I was unable to do so. Aaron was asleep and had to get up super early and with the computer being in the room I did  not want to wake him. So I feel asleep trying to keep it in my head.... but its not there anymore just some vague memory of the idea..... anyway

So my Best friend has no shifts they have not called her. I worked last night and no one talked to me much.  Except at the end of the night when I was leaving and they asked if I would take a shift on monday or thursday... my friend's shifts.  I told them I would think on it and promptly told my friend she told me she would rather I have the hours than anyone else at least until I go to a different  job.
  Well I thought about it and I was gonna tell them that I would take a Monday shift.  Well my new roomie messaged to say she wouldn't be in til about 3 or 4 so I thought ok well I work around then but it's important to get the rent money and give her the key so I can avoid this in the future i.e when she goes to move her stuff in. 
I messaged the boss to ask to come in maybe an hour late, she told me no. So I was  like fine ok and was about to text the new roomie and tell her to meet me at work when the boss messaged me yet again and told me not to come into tonight? like WTF? Seriously? I can't show up late but I can just not come in? what drugs is she on? 
Well I proceeded to discuss with my fiance and such and told him I think thats it I'm done there is only so much one can take.  He agreed and supports the decision wholly. So I am washing my work shirt and will be returning it  to them in the near future and I'm done.
I have a job orientation next week, granted it is just temp work but anything has to be better than this. So I won't be without work for long.
Opinions? Suggestions or just comments? let me know what ya think of this workplace.

Brandi

Oh ya wait you guys may not know but Aaron asked me to marry him the day after my bros's wedding. Of course I said yes.  So far I have my dress and my maid of honors. Woot! And we know our venues so thats cool we are thinking a sunset ceremony and just munchies at the reception to keep costs low. I also lucked out my ring was on sale and my dress was a gift from my sister in law Megs! So all is well on that front.

We are looking at getting a truck a 74 chev halfton and I'm excited I love the look of these trucks and I'll get to drive it if only Drive Test Centres would come off strike.

After my last blog entry I ended up getting up to 33 hours per week at work which is great and we are having a gf move in with us for a few months. Which is probably a good thing as work is getting downright terrible.  The bosses daughter is quite difficult and has been making threats to Deyna and just being an all around problem. Last night seemed to top it all off.  I had made Deyna a Mrs. Claus suit and after work John drove me to pick it up just to get her to test and make sure it fit.  Well after returning to work Aaron was there and we were all just chatting and the daughter showed up and right away you could tell she was intoxicated. When she came in Deyna asked what she would do for her and she said nothing and then stumbled behind the counter and stated she wanted a slice.  Deyna told her she should not be behind the counter and that it would be  $3 for the slice to which she got pissed and started calling Deyna terrible names. I said hey cut it out and She just kept going off. Deyna again reiterated she shouldnt be behind the counter and bosses daughter or not she had to pay for the slice to which the bosses daughter flipped Deyna the bird and called her some more names at which point Deyna said that she needed to leave as she was the only one working and that when her parents weren't there it was deynas asson the line and therefore it was like it was her store. To which I totally agree being as I also close the store 2 nights a week and I'm responsible for what goes missing or anything else goes wrong. We have had orders from the boss that no employee that is intoxicated comes behind the counter. I totally see Deynas point. Well the daughter freaked and said it wasnt her store and she was going to call her mom to which Deyna said go ahead.  So she did nad of course not much happened except for the daughter threatening Deynas life and her job while the boss was on the phone with Deyna and Deyna telling the boss that this was enough she had already let her daughter away with harassment once and she was calling the cops.  So she did and the daughter booked it and of course the cops took all the info and Aaron and I waited around so that we could provide support and they never showed.  So now Deyna got a call telling her not to come into work and that her hours were getting cut back. and the cops still have not followed up and Deyna is ready to quit and I don't blame her. But we talked to her and advised her to make sure she gets an incident report number from the police and that she reports all of this to the labour board in hopes that something can be done.  Because this is not the first time the bosses daughter has been like this and has caused numerous people to quit for the same type of treatment.  And to top it all off the boss told Deyna today that she should have just ignored the daughter and let her do whatever she wanted and this would never have happened.

I have had my own problems with work. They take away my shifts because I called in with a migraine and the next day they told me not to bother coming in even though I told them I was fine. And this past week I hurt my arm bad after covering a shift for Deyna cuz she was puking her guts out and on the shift I was supposed to close by myself I called in to say that i was not able to move my arm and didnt think i should come in to which the boss agreed and told me to get better only to take my shift away the next day. So as you can see it seems deyna and I have found the crappiest place to work.

Anyway its halloween and I'm gonna try and have fun as it is my fav time of the year. I am going to dress up as a gangster and go to a get together at a friends house so Happy HAlloween Everyone!

Brandi

Look at that I'm too lazy to even think up a remotely interesting title. Had a nice weekend Got some awesome old school sewing books and some new to me patterns. woot! Still only working 16 hours a week and I'm still beat lol. Vee and Megs wedding is only a few days away. Amazing cant wait. I am yet again set up to go to career edge on friday so don't let me forget.  Hopefully they will help with funding for school.... fingers crossed.  The colleges have recieved my transcripts  so now its just wait and see.

I applied at rogers so we'll see what happens there. found a car for $150 but have been unable to raise funds oh well I'll get one eventually. hehehe I can't wait to see Aaron all spiffed up and hope I'll look nice in the new dress I bought... post some pics when I get them. August is a busy month hopefully things will slow down after that.... Talk to the Neurologist today got an appointment on Sept 17th so hopefully it wont be long after that, that we figure some stuff out.  Migraines are fewer but I think much more intense now when I get them. And sometimes they leave as quickly as they come. I'm still not on any meds because my doc has been super slow... But I found out today that he did send in my paper work for meds and disability but hopefully I won't need it soon. 

Well I'm pretty beat and I havent even cleaned my workshirt.... I really wizsh I had two would make life so much easier..... anyway time to get some rest Chiropraters tomorrow which I def need cuz I'm way out of alignment was slouching terribly all day today. Pain is coming back. I got a migraine the other day and I'm pretty sure thats when I threw my alignment out because my shoulders and neck hurt for like 2 days after.....bah

Later Dayz

Brandi

One more day to a new month. And a busy one at that the first weekend we have my brothers wedding which should be awesome. Hope my fat ass still fits into my dress.... ummm the next weekend we have a huge party at my moms for the whole weekend which should be fun I just hope I dont fall asleep early lol. Then the weekend after that we have Aaron's friends wedding which should be lovely and is non alcholic. then the weekend after that we are going to try and unwind at the trailer.... heres hoping. Now I finally got all of the curtains done for the trailer. I have to make my brother an apron before this upcomig weekend. and work and then I have to make fan blade covers for my sis and curtains for my living room. Argggh  And oh ya I applied for college and am waiting to see about that.  Oh and I got a computer. Mine is so ready to crash it already freezes for hardware issues i think and my power supply fan is going and for months my monitor has been flickery and weird. so heres hoping I can afford it. Well I have to run to the chiropracters and then to work.

Later Dayz
Brandi

Yes damn them all. Seriously who gets sick in the summer.... me apparently. Though I had some help.  Deyna was sick this weekend and we went to the Big Music Fest here and it was a rain or shine show.... so of course it rained. It was a pretty warm day but constant rain. So if we weren't getting wet from the rain we were sweating from wearing too much clothing and rain gear... couldn't win for losing.  The bands were great though. The best of who we saw was most Def Blue rodeo.  We wanted to see OLP but they were the headliner so they of course played last... by that time Deyna was getting worse and I wasn't feeling too hot either. So we bailed. It didn't cost us anything since Aaron won the ticks. 
The rest of Saturday I was fine and Sunday as well and most of Monday til the afternoon and then it all went down hill my throat got so sore.
Tuesday I had a sore throat, a tickle that never went away no matter how hard I coughed  and lots of fluid in the lungs... So bad I actually coughed myself into being sick to my stomach bleh...
Wednesday was about the same and I helped with clearing the old hay out of the barn and thought I was gonna die from not breathing as all the hay and dust had me wheezing.... Then I got a rash up and down my arms and on my legs a bit which was a combination of cuts from the hay and allergies... argh. Then  the stuffiness and sneezing started....
Which sucked because Thursday I had an interview with Tim Hortons so it was really hard to be positive and chipper... however that seemed to have went well so I'm hoping... .I can't not work it is driving me bonkers!
 Did some running around with julie and then went shopping with Deyna at value village and got some shirts for my dad at his request and also set it up so Deyna could get her muffler fixed.  Hung out with Deyna and Mike and Emilyn for awhile and when I went to leave Emilyn literally pushed Deyna out of the way so that she could come to me and cuddle... Cutie.Then I didn't want to go home but did as my phone was dead and I was so beat.

Now it's 1:25 am on friday and I'm still beat and have been since like 9pm but I have to stay up to take antibiotics at 11pm so by then I've reached my like 20th wind and then cant sleep... bah. And I have to get up at 7 am and take more.... bleh... Deyna figures we have to leave tomorrow morning by like 11:30 and since I need to shower ( though I'll prob get dirty at the shop anyway) I'll prob have to get up at like 10 ish ick.

So heres hoping the neo citran cough medicine and my pils for my migraines let me sleep lol. I know not much to read about but oh well.

Brandi