High Speeds + Bugs + Open Mouth = More Protein!

I passed! I'm smart again!

Today I took my first "test" of sorts for ages and ages. I don't think I've had to write a test on anything since I graduated from college all those years ago, and I had been dreading the day when I had to do another one. However, to tell you all the truth, it wasn't actually that bad.

For those of you down in New Zealand reading this and remember my slender frame zooming around the streets or Christchurch on a wee-little moped, well, I'm back at it BABY! and this time I'm legal! That's right, I took my scooter drivers licence test today and I passed with flying colours. I'm so happy. I forgot how much I loved zipping around on that little Yamaha FZ50...

Don't worry, there will be photos coming shortly...

Dial 'A' For Murder...

Well, I guess a fox or a raccoon had a pretty good meal last night. Somewhere, a mamma duck cries...

Dr. Kevorkian I am not...

Today at work I was doing some gardening when I suddenly disturbed at fresh duck's nest with 13 fresh eggs and a mamma duck. I peaked around a small bush and out ran this mamma duck without making a noise. I nearly crapped my pants... especially when I found the 13 eggs!

My co-worker and I asked a neighbour that was watching our antics and he said that the duck and its mate have been in the garden for a week, but yesterday there hadn't been any eggs. So there is a small chance that I disturbed the mamma duck as she was laying. Hopefully this 13 isn't an unlucky number. I wouldn't be able to live with myself!!

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ME! If anyone out there can spare a coin, a bill, a blank cheque, anything, don't hesitate to throw it my way.

I went in to work yesterday to find a pile of envelopes on the table in the staff room. Quite obviously these were pay slips, yet for some reason there wasn't one with my name. When I asked about this I was told that my information probably didn't get into the system early enough and that I would have to wait until the NEXT pay period to get paid.

Now, I don't know how many of you out there are able to spread $2.96 out over three weeks, but that's what I've got to do. If you have any tips or hints as to how I'm going to make this happen let me know. I'm stumped...

One Week Down.

It's now been one week since I started my new job at River Bend Golf and Country Club, and I have to say that it's been quite enjoyable. Each day I was doing something different, though I'm sure that will change to being repetitious activities day after day soon enough. At the moment, however, I'm really enjoying things. The highlights of the week include:

1) Using a gas powered backpack leaf blower
2) Zooming around the grounds in little golf carts laden with gardening tools
3) Working for thirty minutes on Wednesday but getting paid for three hours
4) Wearing a construction hard hat and feeling like a "real man"
5) Simply getting off my ass and starting work again!

So I'm looking forward to the upcoming summer for sure. Being outside is going to be amazing, and I found out that I'm allowed to wear shorts instead of having to wear long work pants all summer! Woohoo!! Today I got fitted and ordered my work "uniform", which is going to consist of two polo shirts, two moisture wicking t-shirts, a wind jacket, and a fleece jacket. By the end of the summer I'm going to have one killer farmers' tan!

Another five months of this and I hope to have saved up enough money to get my skinny, farmer-tanned ass to BC! Time for the wagon train to start gassing up!!

I'm in the money...

Thanks to all those people out there that were so positive about my finding work... Your good vibrations really paid off, and today I had my first work day since returning to Canada. I have started work as a "landscape maintenance worker", ie I cut grass and pull weeds all day. Hey, it's a job, right?

Actually, I had a really good week last week, and was offered another position as well. This was through one of the agencies I signed up with. It was a warehouse/factory position, and while it was slightly higher paid than the job I took within "landscape maintenance", I decided that it would be better to spend the next few months outside in the bright sunshine and beautiful southern Ontario summer weather than in a stuffy, hot warehouse. Plus I get free golf at my new job when I'm not working, and at the regular price of $90/18 holes, I think that's a pretty good bonus for working there.

So today I got to play with a gas powered leaf blower, a gas powered "power broom", and I got to drive around a little golf cart laden with tools. This coming Saturday I'll be trained to drive a ride-on mower, a ride-on rake (I don't get it either...), and other crazy "landscape maintenance" machines.

Yay me, I have a job! Hopefully I'll be able to save up enough money by the end of it all to make my move out west to BC, where my heart and mind live. Bring it on!