Wow!

Wow! I only have two more shifts of work at Safeway, with Friday being my last day! I'm pretty excited!

My sister is coming home tomorrow, which shall be slightly weird as she's been away for a year and it'll be a bit grumbly trying to get used to her being here ALL the time again... Even though it's not as if I will really be around my house *that* much this semester... I am kind of secretly hoping that I will be able to acquire my own desk in one of the Chemical Engineering homerooms and thus be able to do much work there. I'm toying with the idea of getting a cheap MP3 player so that I won't have to listen to people be loud whilst trying to work...

I also have an interview with the Globe and Mail tomorrow. (AH!!!) The Dean of Engineering is supposed to be phoning me this afternoon in slightly over an hour, and let's say that I'm pretty nervous as I have a really excellent ability to make a complete fool of myself over the phone. O well! I guess, once it's done, it's done! haha.

I'm pretty excited about this weekend, for it seems that it might be a lot of fun! For on Friday evening, I will probably be going out with people from work, then on Saturday it is Heather's birthday sleep over (which are always fun and entail staying up really late talking about stuff), then Ian is going to pick me up at 12-ish from Heather's house for a picnic... then we're going to go to centre street. It might be a bit of a terrible monday because I have my advanced driver's test at 10:30! AH!!!

I'm not exactly sure what I will be doing during my week off... I think that I will go out to my cabin for a little while... (maybe for tuesday and wednesday nights, we shall see...) But if anyone reads this and is free sometime during next week, I would love to do something with you! (as long as it's not on Monday morning or friday evening!)

Well, Ian got back safely from his trip to the maritimes, which is excellent! I'm very happy to have him home again! :o) He brought me back a tri-cornered hat (I've always wanted one...) that's unfortunately too small for my head, but all they had in Louisbourg was small kids hats... But I still like it alot!! Plus a cool puffin magnetic bookmark (because I'm starting to read more :P) and some blueberry tea. I'm excited for this tea once it becomes cooler outside! It was quite happy, for Ian told me of many places in which he would like to take me some day :o) He even found this restaurant which had "please ask our server for our gluten free menu" written on the top of its menu, which is pretty exciting! :o)

I'm pretty excited for on the Weekend of the 8-10th, Ian's cousin is getting married in Lloydminster... I've never been to Saskatchewan, so this should be eventful! Plus, I have a really nice dress, vixen shoes and my grad jewelery to wear :P (plus, my mum even bought me a new bra for this dress, I was quite lucky!)

Anyways, enough babbling... I should probably go and make myself some lunch/snack of some variety and gather up my new purchases of the school variety before people start arriving home. Have a great day!

Wooo!

WooO! This is post number
And to celebrate, I got those fancy glittery texts. The excitement. I'm sure you all are just about as excited as I am.

I can't believe it's August. I probably spend more than half the summer wanting it to be this time, but now that it's here, it's just really weird. In 3 days my mum gets back from the field for good... and in 10 days my sister gets back from Germany for good. It's kind of crazy! Soon my house will explode from many, many McMechans.

Ian left this morning and it is sad :'(. I had to close at Safeway last night, so I had to say goodbye before work (as they were going to take the shuttle to the airport... which means that they had to leave their house by 7 in the morning, which means it's not a good idea to call someone at 11:30 pm if you want them to like you and to be well rested.) and it was really sad. I cried. Ian told me not to be sad for he would be back, yet I still was. alas. Thus I am now a "weepy woman." haha. But it was good because before he left we managed to talk about some stuff...
Well I have been keeping track of the flight dealy and his plane has already departed! I hope he stays safe *anxiety*.

I found out that I must take a block week course... It's optional, but it's probably sadly one of the most useful courses ever... For it's about basic and advanced excel, Matlab and Visual Basic. (for those of you who don't know what those are, they are programming things and they will be quite useful for my future desired career.) So there goes one week of R&R.

My dad has also decided that it's time to redo the front deck at our cabin, for he found out quite recently that the railings that we have are quite illegal. So from the week of the 27 - 1st, I will probably be spending some time out there helping my brother and dad rebuild the whole thing. It's kind of exciting!

My dog is really cute... for she's sitting in my lap.

I am really quite excited for tonight because my dad and I are going on a "date". First off, we're going to MEC and Coast Mountain Sports to look a tents, get this pair of shorts that he owes me and get some stuff for him. Then we are going to have dinner together and take dog for a walk. It shall be quite eventful!

Anyways, if anyone is reading this... and would like to do something with me this week, I would really love to, or else I will become even more of a weepy woman :P Especially on Friday and Saturday Evenings!!! :o)

oh, Joy.

Just when I think I'm out of the pit, the crap starts piling up even more. Oh, joy.

I guess it's all about attitude...

How does one go about accepting themselves?

I guess with a bit of faith and belief that it will get better, neither of which I have at this moment. Well, I have a deep hope that it will get better, but how on earth, I have NO idea.

I wish I wasn't so bloody frustrating to myself.

Edit: Sad day... Now that my sister is gone, no one reads this.. alas.

Innocence and Values

Over the last while, I've come to realize how utterly innocent and naive I have been and still am. I'm the kind of person who tries to assume the best in everyone and assume that they have a good enough brain/sense of values to not do things that I would consider stupid. For example, Until I was about 14-15 ish, I thought that people who drank were evil... You can tell that my parents never drank ever. When I was 11, I had to sit next to this guy on a plane who kept on drinking beer, and I was so totally shocked that someone would do this. In addition, I have always thought that people who smoked were pretty "from the devil" as well. I'm not so bad as I used to be, but I still struggle with it... for my opinion of people decreases slightly upon finding out that someone has smoked, done drugs, etc. I know that I shouldn't judge, but I kind of always assume that people hold the same values as me... I cannot say that I haven't sometimes desired to give myself away before married, just get drunk, etc. in times of much doubt and darkness for that would be lying, but then my conscience kicks in and goes: "Well, that's a waste of money, it will only bring you disappointment, it's important to look after yourself as you're a temple of God, etc." and so I don't. And thus, I assume that others don't either, but I guess they do?

I guess I've lived a pretty naive life, haven't I?

P.S. I guess that's what grace is all about, isn't it?