Billeting etc

I'm going to be living with a lady from work for the next ten days starting this Friday. Should be fun.

yea, that's all I got right now. Work's fine, kinda boring. I'm getting my bosses mum in law to make me some moccasins. They'll cost a pretty penny but they're moccasins and they'll be worth it.

bye for now.

ya win some, ya lose some

Turns out today, we have yet another person going home. My good buddy Sean from Edmonton has decided to go back home. So that's 8 for now but we're getting two more people on the 16th. We probably won't be getting another person in Sean's place cause it's a bit late and I think the 16th is the cut off date for new recruits.

man, I'm gettin real real worried that by the time we hit Halifax we'll have like me and two other people.

Being house manager succks, it's boring like woah. I'm going out with Sean tonight since he's leaving on Monday. :/

How's it goin, eh?

I havent updated this mofo in a while so here goes nuthin...

we had a third person go home earlier this week. The Katimafamily is getting real real small. We're getting two more replacements--a french dude and some other person we know nothing about.

I was sick most of last week with the flu. I'm feeling better now though, which is good. I'm house manager (read: house bitch) next week with one of the french chicks, so that'll be cool cause I havent really spoken to her much. I'm trying to figure out our menu so we're not scrambling at the last minute like the guys have been this week.

oh yea, I bought a freaking banjo yesterday!! I may have $2 to my name, but I'm now the proud owner of blue hair....and a freaking banjo!! I didnt have money for finger picks or a song book so my fingers are bleeding and I dont know what the hell I'm doing yet but i look damn cool, that's for sure!

In the spirit of Movember (movember.com) I've decided to give up shaving my face entirely for a while. We'll see what happens. I might get attacked by one of the girls in the night with a razor but ah well.

I dunno, it's been goin ok here. I've been in bed all week so I'm kinda out of the loop. Some people are starting to drive me a little batty but that's to be expected I suppose. Stuff'll figure itself out, I mean, we wont come to fistacuffs or anything. I'm pretty sure the asian dude is secrectly Jackie Chan anyways. I dont wanna mess with that.

ok ok so I'm rambling now. Oh yea, if and when I get money I'm thinking about getting my eyebrow pierced. We'll see though, I don't do the whole staple gun to the face thing.

So far, weekends suuuuuuck

yuppe, that about sums it up. There;s not much to do cause it takes so long to plan and actually do stuff with nine people, nevermind having to figure out what "competency" each activity falls under. I'm joining the gym this week so hopefully that'll bring some sort of alone time back into my life. The wireless internet in the house is being cut off this week cause people (myself included) use it way too often. I understand where the decision is coming from but now I have to actually attempt to be social. dammmit.

New blackberry came out this week.

Bell and Telus are getting the iPhone soon. My iPod is about to kick the bucket--I get about an hour of juice out of a full four hour charge. Stupid iPod.

I might sound really crabby but I'm actually doin alright, I'm just really tired,

g'night

I'm bored, dear God I'm bored.

Wake up at 7:30, go to work for 8:30, work til 4:30, home by 5, dinner at 6, activities til 9 and bed by 10. yuppe.

why is there nothing to do in Timmins!!! I'd get drunk but that's not even allowed!

I mean, it could totally be worse it's just not what I expected.


and I miss my cat dammit :/

TGIF!!!! (bout freaking time)

So, it's finally Friday. Work has been ok so far but it's quite a change going from butt sitting to babby sitting. For those that dont know I'm helping out in the daycare at the Native Friendship Center. It's pretty sweet cause I get a 2 hour nap time but some of the kids can be a handful and much to my dismay you're apparently not allowed to give em a good boot in the butt. The people I work with are fine it's just a bit of an adjustment working with a bunch of Native ladies talking about going to karaoke and bingo. We'll find common ground some time, or not, whatever.

So far there's two people going home in the house (one as of just now) so that leaves us with....10? i think. It'll be weird if/when we get new people. Apparently if that happens it'll be some time in early November.

OOOO we went to the Shania Twain centre the other day as a house. That was, well....interesting to say the least. Busts of Shania everywhere!! and apparently she's huge in Japan. who knew!? We also went on the Timmins Gold Mine tour that same day. That was most excellent. We got suited up in hip waders and hard hats and were carted some 600 feet under Timmins. It was pretty awesome I gotta say. Maybe mining's in my future?

All in all, it's been pretty ok so far, no major quarrels to speak of, I'm keeping busy which helps keep my mind off of home. That said, I do get kinda sad when all the kids' moms come to pick them up at the end of the day. .....where's my mom!?

oh yea, it's already winter here. We got 5 cms of snow last night and apparently another 10 or so tonight. It's only around -5 so it's not so bad...yet.

I took a sick day yesterday. I ended up sleeping from 7:30am to about 5 in the pm, so it was good I stayed home, I would have been useless at work. Today went well though, I'm on the mend.

anywho, until next time.

The calm before the storm

Welp, I start work next week at the Timmins Native Friendship Center next week and right now I'm just sitting on the couch downstairs catching up on a missed episode of House. Brent the PL is took off for the night so we'll see what people get up to. I might hit up the gym tonight but it's really expensive, so we'll see if I actually get a membership. People in the house arent really bugging me that much. I mean, there's one or two annoying people that's to be expected. Sophie, the francophone chick I got along with bailed on the group and went home this morning. We were all kinda bummed to see her go but that's life I guess.

Ummmm....the people (the girls especially) in my house have quite interesting tastes in music. Bands like Nickleback and Blink 182 are constantly playing, much to my dismay. The Timmins library is pretty sweet though, they have a whole classics section with stuff I've been wanting to read, which is cool. I really, really, like the PL so far. He's super chill and puts up with all kinds of crap that we do.

I have yet to check out the bar scene here as I'm the only person of age right now which is kinda lame but I might saunter down to Albert's later tonight, we'll see.

I miss all ya'll. Someone pet my cat for me.

"My pee is heevaporating!!"

Oh Les Francophones, je t'aime. As well as being fascinated by the miracle of evaporation, the French also loved to fool around with pronounciations. Par Example, the town of Cochrane shall now be reffered to as Cockring. J'aller au Cock-ring. epic.

Other goings on that have happened in the first week include a ridiculously successful Thanksgiving dinner, despite our oven crapping out an hour into cooking. Also, apparently it didnt take long for the first injury to occur-- Diane's at the hospital with the PL (project leader) cause she links she sprained/broke her ankle. I thought running on ice could be a bad idea. I hope she'll be ok though, roughed up ankles can be really annoying.

Interviews for volunteer placements happen later in the week, so that's kinda exciting.

I'm house manager for week 5, which is cool cause I'll have time to plan out my menu. I was thinking perogies. mmmmmm

OO!! Apparently I'm the only Anglophone who even speaks a word of French! Zut Alors!!

uhmmmmm....what else has gone on this first week? Computer time is evidently really hard to come by as most (ok 3) people in my group are facebook and MSN obsessed. (Apparently people still use MSN??)

Dolphins won the Monday nighter but of course I wasnt allowed to go and watch the game. They're real realy strict about this "no tv" thing, which is kinda good I guess.

We'll have wireless internet set up in the house later this week.

so until then,

au tonto

No TV and no beer make Adam something something...

Apparently there's no TV in the Katimavik house. Thaaaaat'll go over well. I'm doing my best to scope out all the free "watch House online cause hulu.com is lame and doesnt work in Canader" websites. So far I've only found one :/

That said, I'm kinda excited to see how I can get on without watching tv for some length of time.

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck I'm going to do for my 11 hour bus ride up to Timmins though. Oh yea, get this....it's supposed to SNOW in Timmins on Thursday. $20 says it'll be warmer in the NWT.

anywho, until next time,

adios

I have no idea what's going on...

testing, testing

I'm going to Katimavik in 10 days. I'll figure out the formatting (pictures, thoughts etc etc) tomorrow. Far too lazy today.

I'll hopefully be doing this thing 2-3 times a week when it's in full swing, we'll see.