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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A little message to my nice blogger-fans!

Hello all! I've been too tired lately to write much. I started on a new shift (9am to 5pm) and it's taking me a bit of time to get re-adjusted to waking up in the morning! But even though the job isn't all that fun, the people I'm working with are nice and so, the lunch hour and the breaks go by... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

SMASHED TOE! No SKI! No SNOW!

I heard a yell this morning just after brewing the coffee: Mom! My toe hurts! What? Which toe? My big toe, you know the one I hurt in Germany? This one again! What did you do? I don't know. It was fine last night. it didn't hurt. But this morning it's swollen and I can't put my foot on the floor. Do... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 20, 2009

A brand new BABY in the family!

That's it: My sister has had her baby! A little boy, 19 inches long and 6 lbs 9oz. Both are doing well and will be staying in the hospital til tomorrow. The dad is at the hospital looking after them both as there is a shortage of nurses in the maternity (or so they told him. Actually I think it's a... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

IT'S TIME TO JUMP IN!

That's it! No more courses on this and that: we are going on the phone today! Tax payers be aware! But do not be too scare about it: we are soft collection only. No threats and no repossessions. Actually, we are the ones who are a bit scare and anxious today: so many details to remember. Most... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Why, oh why, does it have to be now?

I just got an e-mail from a college to teach there for a few weeks, replacing a teacher who is going in sick leave til the end of the semester. I had given them my name way back last summer and had forgotten about it. It would have been a perfect course for me to teach and a way to put a foot in the... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Ottawa Rideau Canal, longest skating rink in the world!

It was such a beautiful day yesterday I decided that we had to go out! I succeeded to extricate my son from his bed BEFORE noon and to convince him to come with me on the canal to skate. You see, yesterday was family day in Ontario and thus, son had no school (I work for the feds so I did work... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 16, 2009

THE COW PARTY!

We went yesterday to our first ever Cow party. It was MoooO.K. And we learned where the term and the event comes from. You see, the man and woman of this couple are both from Jewish decent but none-believer and every Rosh Hashanah or Xmas seasons or Easter etc. they had to go to one parent's house... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Freeman's back!

While I was in the shower yesterday afternoon, getting ready for an evening at the restaurant with another couple, who should come to have a chat? Freeman, of course. Poor little old man, as I wasn't available (I was certainly not to go outside in the cold in a single towel!), he had to talk to my... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Steep learning curve and...Where's Freeman?

We all got in front of our computers and started to learn how to open different systems using different keys and F option on the keyboard. I feel like when I was at the university and have to learn Fortran 5, a computer language to actually program the computer. I somehow just about always succeeded... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 13, 2009

My Governement Job...

Well, it's over......................... All the soft courses are done, so now we're starting the technical stuffs with two computer screens on at once and how to move fast from one data file to another. We met the tech. trainer yesterday and she is rather hyper, not at all like our trainers up to... Sign in to see full entry.

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