BACK TO NORMAL

My two weeks vacation is ending today. We didn't travel during my vacation but I had a great time at home. I been for a few parties but I spent most of my time at home, watching movies and cooking. I'm going back to work tomorrow and I hate thinking of it but I have no choice. I need to work and save not only for my family but for myself too. Money is one of the reason why I'm working but the main reason is to expose myself to the public and improve my french. I admit that my french is not perfect but it's good enough to communicate to the public. I practice my french most of the time at work because I have no choice, they don't speak english and I'm happy because I see my improvement in speaking french.

I'm working 5 days a week full-time, Monday to Friday, day shift only. This is one of the reason why I don't want to leave my work. My boss give me the hours I want and no weekend. The only thing I don't like is nobody can replace me if I'm sick or have an appointment somewhere during weekdays. I hope my boss already found someone to work with me.

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LONG HOUR AT WORK

I don't know if I will be happy or not to work 11 hours today. I could be happy coz I will get more money but the weather is so nice today...I wanted to enjoy the nice weather because summer here is very short and its not all the time that its nice..

But I have no choice. Nobody is available to work tonight..well I will just deal with it

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SEVERE HEADACHE STRIKE

Severe headache strike again. I finish 2:00 pm today because of my headache. Good that we found somebody to replace me. It's really hard for me to leave that soon because I wanted to have more hours to pay for the no-pay sick leave that I took before christmas but I can't handle the pain anymore. I just had a little nap and I feel a little better now with the pill that I took. I hope this pain will be gone tomorrow coz I really don't want to cut my hours again.

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BACK TO WORK

Oh boy! I really had a hard time to get off from the bed this morning. After the long vacation I had, I don't feel to go back to work but I have to. I need to save money as much as possible for my trip to Philippines to visit my family. I want to have extra money so that I can buy anything they will want. I never seen them for 4 years so I want to have a memorable vacation.

I'm so excited now...3 more months to go...yopiii!

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HARD TIME

Oh boy, I really had a hard time waking up early this morning. I been waking up too late since I took my 5 days off. I was back at work today and I need to woke up early to prepare. I set my alarm clock at 7:00 in the morning but I didn't get up at 7:00 hehehe . I extended to 7:30 and then took a quick shower. My time was so tight but good thing I arrived at work on time:-)

I will start again soon tomorrow but for sure I will get up as soon as my alarm clock will ring. I have to...I need to. Next week will back to my normal working hours, long day at work until we can find another full time worker that I can share my hours.

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NOT A PRINCESS ANYMORE

Everything went fine today at work. My new colleague works not bad. I can't compare him to his brother that works with me for almost a year. He's only 2 days at work and aside from that, he's only working there temporarily until my boss will find another one. It could be nice if he will stay longer but of course I can understand also why he wanted to work in another place and win 20$ per hour. That's the minimum salary he got in his previous job. Like his brother, he has broken hours too but he lives just across the street so there's no problem with him.

In my side, I'm so sad that I'm no longer a princess at work. I'm like a princess before with my previous colleague and with my boss. I'm working with two man and they both don't want me to do the hardest job. My boss wants me to tell him what to do to help me. Imagine? I have to tell my boss what to do? Hehehe I'm the boss of my boss ..cool! But now, everything change, I hope it's only for today or in few days while I'm training the new one. 

For now, I need to rest and be ready for another long day tomorrow.

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HE'S LEAVING

The guy that work with me already give his resignation letter effective this coming monday. I'm a bit sad because we had a very good team. He's nice and very responsible. He works very hard. But with the minimum salary that he got, I can understand that he will find a better one with a good salary. He found a new job at $15 per hour, 40 hours a week. I feel sad that I lost my partner at work but I'm happy for him.

I will be working overtime until my boss will find another worker to replace him. I hope he will find one as soon as possible.

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AFRAID TO BE ALONE

(Lac La Blance- Photograph by me)

I remember the first time I was alone in my whole life was the time when the husband works in United State for a 1 year contract. The first day was so difficult for me. I was crying and crying and crying when he left. I was not able to sleep in the night. I already had my ticket to join him but it was scheduled 1 week after because he still needs to find a place to stay. He wanted to have the place before I will arrive. 

One week after, I flew to Vancouver. I had a bad luck when I arrived at the costume. I had my US tourist visa which is good until 2014 but they didn't allow me to enter US because I need to have a TD visa (my hubby had TN visa and they told me that I'm not visiting my hubby but living with him). Good thing that I have a friend to stay in Vancouver. I called the US embassy the next day to have an appointment to get my TD visa but unfortunately, there was no available time before 1 month. I have no choice but wait. Hubby visited me in Vancouver every other weekend. 

I got my visa and stay in Seattle for 3 months only that I suppose to stay there until the end of hubby's contract. I didn't like the place. We lived in the hotel and I can't cook. I need to go out if they clean the room. So I decided to go back home and stayed alone for 7 months. 

I thought it was easy for me but I was wrong. I can't drive on that time and my french was not yet good. I found it hard and I'm always praying that his contract will be over and be together again.

After his contract, he didn't go back. The company where he worked always called him to go back with all the good benefits and higher salary but he chose to stay with me. I was so happy with his decision.

But now, hubby is scheduled to fly to Alberta for a short term job but it can be extended. I don't want him to go but he likes the job and the salary is way to high. I said okey thinking that I will be okey since I can drive now and I'm working. I will only be alone at night. 

Six days more to go and he will fly to Alberta. As the days goes by, I started to feel lonesome. I can't imagine myself on the day that he will leave to the airport. Just thinking of it makes me cry. 

I'm so afraid to be alone. I know he always call me but alone in the house, I don't know if I can survive. I'm too dependent to him. 

I can't change the plan now. I have to accept it...I think I can do it...no...I CAN DO IT..I HAVE TO.

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6 DAYS STRAIGHT

I will be working 6 days straight this week because one of my co-worker that use to do the opening every weekend will have her vacation. My boss wasn't able to find one to replace her but me. We have nothing to do this weekend so I took it and I will be off Sunday and Monday. I wanted to have more hours also to put in my time bank so that I can get more paid holidays this summer and hopefully visit my family in Philippines this coming January.

We are still Tuesday and I still have 4 more days to go...ouchh! Just thinking of it makes me feel so week. Too bad, I can't watch the Rodeo this Saturday. I love to watch it but as I said, I will be working. I didn't see the schedules of activity yet and I guess there's still another Rodeo in Sunday.

I hope the weather will be nice so that we can go there and see some of the activities.

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BEFORE GOING TO WORK

Febuary 21, 2012

Hubby left for work very early in the morning, 6:20 am. I was not able to sleep back after he left. I tried so that I will not feel sleepy at work but I wasn't able. So what I did, I get up and do some cleaning in the house. I vacuum the bed room, living room, bathroom, dining room, kitchen and computer room. I wanted to vacuum the basement but I decided to do it tomorrow. After I clean everything, I felt good. I open all the window to get some fresh air.

I just realize that it's so nice to wake up early in the morning and do something. You don't feel tried at all. I will try my best to do this often. My work will start 9:30 am and I usually leave from the house 9:00 am because I want to be at work ahead of time.

I'm now ready to leave to work. It's so nice because I still have time to blog. I have to go now and happy tuesday to all :-)

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FIRST DAY OF WORK

Today is the grand opening of Quiznos Sub where I work. We had two weeks of formation started last monday until the next two weeks. We are 4 that already had experience in the same resto so boss ask us to help train the new one. I'm doing the opening always starting 9:00 am to 4 pm. I love my working hours because I'm only working in the day time during weekdays and I'm off in the weekend. In this way, I can still enjoy the summer, doing barbeque every night and go out in the weekend. Boss confirm me this morning that I will do the opening always..yes!!!!! I really love my hours..

Now that I'm working, it doesn't mean I will stop blogging. I will still continue as long as I can.

That's a promise :-)

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AT WORK

I arrived too early at work this morning. I decided to go early because I want to relax before the start of work. We have wifi at work so even if I'm working, I can check my email and facebooking as long as I have time. We were quite busy at work today but still I was able to work properly. I like my work now even if I don't have enough time but there's always good side in it like I will enjoy my summer especially that I'm off early in the afternoon so we can do bbq every night and spend more time in our patio. I'm off in the weekend also we can easily plan for a weekend trip and I can ask 1 week off anytime I want. But this afternoon, I found a very interesting job and it's a full time job with 40 hours per week. As usual, there's good side and bad side on it. The good side is, I will earn more money and it's too close to our house. And the bad side is, I will not have a weekend off and we can't plan for a weekend trip. I still pass my resume this afternoon and I don't have any response yet. Just now, I regret why I give my resume. I don't know, but I really had a regret. If they will not accept me, I don't mind hehehe. Will, I will just wait.

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