Month: September 2011

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Catching Up With Friends

Today, I drove out to Taber to visit with Donna, Ken, and Midnight. I’d promised to bring lunch, so I stopped at the Taber IGA and picked up buns, cold cuts, cheese, potato chips, Caesar salad, and cheese cake. It was quite the spread!

They are at the RV dealership from whom they bought their new rig, where they are trying to get some particularly bad kinks worked out. It just goes to show that a new rig isn’t a guarantee there won’t be any problems. Issues aside, they are thrilled with their new home and confident that all will be set right since the dealer is working fervently to get everything fixed.

As fate would have it, we will be seeing each other again tomorrow. As a teaser, I’ll just say that Jody knows exactly what sort of gift is best suited to celebrating a full-timer’s three-year anniversary!

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A Torrid Evening

*fanning myself*

Today was another manic day of managing. I finished at almost 8 last night (!) so I wasn’t able to get any fliers delivered. After all the running around I had to do today, I then had to carry super heavy fliers and walk around for 3 hours. Add to that that it was almost unbearably hot out until about 8PM! I’m beat!

I need to go in for about an hour tomorrow, but then it’s off to Taber to see Donna and Ken (yaaaaay). Jody is kidnapping me on Sunday and I’m taking Wednesday off to go to Calgary with her. So it’s not all work and no play here. 🙂

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Pleasantly Shocked!

I came in to work this morning to discover my Quebec driver’s abstract waiting in the fax machine! When you don’t have a QC license any more you have to go through another service, the Service de la diffusion et liaison–corps policier (er, the police corps broadcasting and liaison service).

I thought that if the SAAQ (DMV) took three months and $65 to get me an abstract the last time and nine months to cancel my motorhome registration monthly payments and send me a reimbursement that there was no way the SDLCP (or whatever initials they go by) would be any faster. Well, they have demonstrated themselves to be the exception that makes the rule as they are apparently the only efficient government-run organization in the province! And they didn’t charge me for this abstract! Merci Mme. Langlois!

After work, I headed over to Lethbridge Vehicle and asked to be served by the gal I’d been emailing with. She confirmed that I had everything to get a full Alberta license, so she called head office to get confirmation for the trade. Well, she got a tongue lashing for not digging deeper into my file! I don’t think it’s reasonable to be expected to ask everyone who comes in “Have you ever held a Quebec driver’s license?” but I do agree that she should have questioned the fact that I only had two years of experience come up. Anyway, she apologized sincerely and made it right so there’s no sense beating a dead horse!

Confirmation was finally given by head office, so my shiny new probationary Alberta license was put through the shredder and I got another paper interim license. I’ll be glad to get my official license in a couple of weeks because carrying my passport for photo ID is stressful!

Well, all that excitement is over and with my health card now being valid, I’m an Albertan! I have to go roll on the floor and laugh now.

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Labouring on the Labour Day Long Weekend

It’s been a busy weekend for me between supervising both a move-out and a move-in, and doing a marathon transcription session. Alberta has a bunch of long weekends in a row, but they’re all the first one of the month! Not very practical when you’re managing an apartment complex! Work will slow right down by the end of the week, so perhaps I’ll be able to take a day off and make up for this past weekend.

I really do need to get out more so I have something interesting to blog about, don’t I? 🙂

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Three Years on the Road!

This evening three years ago was my last evening in Ottawa before heading cross-country. Surreal!

I have a post prepared to commemorate this anniversary, but I’m waiting for a few more pieces to fall into place before I publish it. Look for it later this week.

As to what I’m doing to celebrate, well, I’m working on the transcription file from hell. 🙂