Oh work

Well, good news - the construction above me (which was actually TWO floors above me, not RIGHT OVER MY HEAD as I originally suspected) is now happening in regular hours, and only seems to be intermittent hammering, no crazy power tools. Awsome!

A friend of mine was in Toronto today and we met up for lunch. I wish she could've stayed longer, we had a good time. I'm glad she called me up!

Work called this afternoon. Filled with dread that they would be cancelling my evening shift today, I asked what they wanted... do I want to do an extra shift in the stock room? Sure! 7AM - 3:30PM... ok! Thanks! Bye.

7AM? Shoot. That's early. It's ok. I need the money, work is just down the street, I can make it alright if I sleep in until 6AM.

Oh boy.

A little letter to the people above me...

Dear Upstairs Neighbours,

Would you please refrain from starting construction until at least 9 am? Please? From the sounds of things, you're retiling your bathroom right above us. It's nice that you don't start right out with what I'm going to call a "mini jackhammer", but instead ease into it with a hearty round of hammering... but the hammering is still very loud and obnoxious at 6:55 am... it's really not much better then the jackhammering (ok, the hammering is MUCH better then the jackhammering, but either one will wake me up at a time in the morning I don't need to be up). Considering you will go at this all day anyhow, will starting later hinder your progress *that* much? Technically I don't need to be up until 10 most mornings, but I like to think I'm being friendly and compromising to suggest 9.

Please return this friendship by holding off on your workday just a little longer. Enjoy you cup of coffee a little later.

Thank you,

Under Construction

A long post...

I feel like I've been a very lazy blogger... I have the best intentions when it comes to updating regularly, honest! Everything else just seems to get in the way.

In the past month, I finished my frostbite mittens (named because I ran out of blue partway through the second mitt and switched to black... I think they look ok):

I finished my first "super hero sock" (named for the bright colours):

Check out the little rainbow at the heel:

The second sock is partway done... just about to turn the heel. No pictures of it.

I had to mail a couple letters (one was a birthday card for my Dad, yay Dad!) near the beginning of the month, and look at the neat stamps I bought:

They're just regular old canadian stamps, but very pretty and HUGE. That loonie is in there for scale. I thought it was approprite to include!

A note to my neighbour: Please, PLEASE! On a saturday morning.... just please refrain from pulling out your power tools and/or hammer until after 10am. 8:30am is just not cool.

A note to customers of the store where I work: In an EXPENSIVE store, do not expect a "sale" to mean rock bottom prices. They might become resonable prices, at best.

And to avoid the end of this post being a little negative.... LOOK! Cute guinea pigs!

Ginger and Lulu, very clearly being bribed into a little photo shoot.