What do you see me doing???

What do you see me doing as a career ?
There are many things that I'm interested in, but I'm not able to make a decision at all. So, any suggestion on what you think you can me doing would be helpful!!!

Leeroy Jenkins

Alright, let's do this. LEEROOOOOY nnggg-JENKIIIINS!!!!!

- Grant

Mason's enjoying his picnic table.
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This is at the Penitentiary musem. It was a neat place.
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Work

Work is going really well. This past Friday was really busy. One co-worker had the day off so we were down a person. I'm not looking foward to the summer vacations when we're down a person for a week or two at a time.
Salaries are being amended, whohooo. I know at the end of my three month probation, I get a raise if I did well. I guess PBB is known as the lowest paying broker, and upper management said that by the end of June, that will change. So this upcoming raise might be substantial!
Again, I'm rethinking my choice of career. I know I go through this train of though often, but I seriously am up in the air. I can't afford to go to school just yet and I'm not even sure what I'd go to school for. I know I don't want to work at a broker, just be a worker bee and input date into the computer for the rest of my life.

If I hear this one more time...

I'm going to go crazy. Grant plays World of Warcraft, and I guess one of his friends showed him a website that had some sound bits from the game. A guild was planning a big attack on some enemies, and even had people crunching numbers to see the probability of survival. Anyways, outta nowhere, this one player comes in, yells' LEEROY JENKINS, LETS DO IT!!" and than they go attack. I don't remember what else is said, but Grant absolutley loves that saying. So , he plays it every frigging chance he gets. I even think it's on the computer when we boot up. It was funny the first time I saw it, but after 100 times, No way.
I don't mind World of Warcraft. I play sometimes for about 30 mins. I'm a night elf priest, so I don't kill things, I heal. I just usually go on to talk with other ppl.

Too many regulations.

The regulations for crossing into the States are getting stricter each day. I know there was talk about having a passport to get into the States. And now, commerical shipments HAVE to be set up electronically before the truck gets to the border. They were issuing fines for not having them set up before the trucker gets there, something like 5 grand for the first infraction. They've since done away with that, but they're turning away drivers if they don't have their shipment in the system.
That makes it hard for small businesses that need to bring something down to the states. They have to declare it as commerical goods, and than they need to go through the trouble of getting a broker, getting barcodes to be able to put their shipment into customs computer shipments.
And Canada is going to be like this as well. Canada customs was supposed to implement this in spring of this year, but have postponed it until next fall. Thank goodness. What a mess this is going to be.

What I'm Reading

I've finished off The Hounds of Baskerville, as well as the Red Headed League.
I really do like Sherlock Holmes books. I'm still reading "Torment of Others"
After that, I'd like to read Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. There's also a book called Border Guards, and it's written by someone from Kingston area and the book is set in the Thousand islands.

Mason's passed out. This is on the way home from Connor's baptism. What were they giving him at the Church nursery?? Spiked holy water.
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We tried giving Mason spaghetti and meatballs. He didn't really enjoy it.
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Grant's got Mason hooked.
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What's new with Mason

Mason's recently contracted a tummy bug :( He was throwing up and had very messy diapers. But he's doing well today.
We have to keep a close eye on him, he loves to climb up on things. We're afraid he's going to fall off something and bonk his head.
We also have to move the book shelf up into our room. He rocks the whole thing and tries to climb it and books are falling off.
Mason has all his molars in now, so in total he has 12 chompers.

Happy Day to us

It's our 2nd anniversary today. We went out for dinner at the Grizzly Grill, thanks to a 25$ gift certificate we recieved in the mail. Grant had a great steak! And I had great chicken.

What's new in the zoo

I haven't been updating the blog like I should. I don't really come online after I get home from work.
The dreaded bugs are gone, thank goodness. But we have a little problem with hornets in the house. So far we've killed three, we have to find out where they're coming from.
Grant went to Ottawa lastnight with the military. He saw the self-help houses that we'll be living in once we get posted there. We've been told horror stories about them, but Grant reports that they're not all that bad.
We've been BBQ'ing lots thanks to the Grant's wonderful parents. In fact, tonight we had a shin-dig with our friends. Steaks were to be had by everyone.
Mason's doing well. He's eating more adult food now, whooohooo. Oh yah, we do have a funny story about him. We were letting him walk naked around the upstairs while we were getting his bath ready and we hear a *tinkle tinkle* We looked over to see him peeing on his exersaucer with a great big smile.

Well, I'm sure there are more things to say but I'm getting kicked off the internet. Grant want's to play his with his new love, World of Warcraft. I'm getting jealous.

I'm such a doorknob

Yesterday I locked the keys in the car and had to get Grant to come and get me. I had the ignition key off the key ring and when I went into the store I just took the ignition key. The door key was sitting in the car.
Today, I did the same friggin thing. It was raining so I took Mason out through the front with me, and I left the keys in the cupholder. Grant couldn't get me because I was at Walmart at the other side of town. Luckily CAA came to my rescue.
Seriously, I'm going braindead.

The flies are taking over Kingston.

We have a serious problem with these little black flies in Kingston. There are swarms and swarms of them outside. We cant open our door for more than a second because tonnes will get in the house. The cars are covered with this bugs, and I wear my coat over my head cause the bugs'll get in my hair.
YUCK.
Where's pest control???

Grant's Bday

It was Grant's bday yesterday; he turned 25!A quarter of a century. I got him the DVD "House of Flying Daggers" and a wireless control for the playstation.
Some of his buddies came over and they had a couple of drinks and went to the bar. He got delivered back to the house pretty drunk. Needless to say, hes in bed right now and will most likely remain there for the weekend.

Good report

I had my first months probationary review last week from work. My boss said some really nice things about me :) I thought I wasn't doing all that good. When I input data into the system to clear drivers coming to the border, I have to hand it off to my co-worker and she'll go over the information to make sure I have it all correct before sending it to customs. It seems like every shipment that I've done she changes something. But I've now come to realize that she is very anal and likes things done her way. An example is if goods are shipped in bundles, and I pick BDL for bundle, she'll just change it to PCE which is piece.
They also think it's funny that I've got little sticky notes around my computer screen for reference. Well, there are tonnes of clients that we deal with, and having those notes up at eye level are just so helpful!

Crocheting

I should finish crafts that I start. I have so many crocheted and knitted things on the go. I'm almost finished the baby blanket that I'm making for my friend who is due in 2 weeks. I need to go to a wool store here in Kingston to ask them to help me do the border. I don't understand how to.
I'm also in the middle of making a scarf for my sister. It's a really cool scarf. Just a normal garter stitch but it has a wool called "Matrix" and another wool that has sparkles in it. I'll post a pic once I'm done.
I have so much wool that I don't know what to make with. I'm going to have to stop buying it, I'm getting a surplus of wool.

Where are the tow trucks??

I wish I had a cell phone today. I went out to Food Basics because they have an awesome sale on. It's their 10th anniversary so they're selling lots of things for a buck. A couple of items that grabbed Grant's attention was the fruit roll-ups, sodalicious and Michelenas. So I went and got some this morning. Well, I forgot to get cat food and had to go back out. The place was packed. Cars were parked in the lot where there were yellow lines baring you have parking. Ppl were parked right under the NO Parking zone. If I had a cell phone I sure would have called and got them towed. I hate ppl who park in places they're not supposed to. On K-rock the other day, one of the morning djs was complaining that he almost got a ticket for being in a parking spot and not paying for it. He said he was just waiting for his wife to come outta the store. He should have paid for the spot, he's taking up valuable space where someone else might want to park.