Ok I'm going away. This should be yay time and I'm really stressed but I thing it will work out ok. We don't have a lot of expendable income and I really should be careful with what I spend on this but I think it will go well!!!
We plan to go to a variety of places... Edmonton stay with brother = free food ! Yay!
Ideas:
Fort Edmonton
19th-century
replicas of streets from 1885 (the frontier era),
1905 (the year Edmonton became Alberta's capital).
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The Corn Maze
Though the correct pathways can be walked in under 30 minutes, most directionally-challenged visitors - adults and children alike - will require about one hour to travel through the maze of more than 5 km of twists and turns and 85 decision points. sound good?
Travel to Calgary visits friends- then on to Lake Louise!
There we can do the Ink Pots
The trail starts in Johnston canyon where you can see about seven water falls.
After viewing the falls one has the choice to turn back or go to on to see
the ink pots.
Next
Go to Columbia Ice fields at noon have lunch there on the ice!! The Columbia Ice fields Parkway parallels the continental divide which marks the watershed point of where all water flows East or West.
COOL!
Did you know...?
At 1,384 m (4,540 ft) above sea level, Banff is "Canada's Highest Town".The highest point along the Icefields Parkway is Bow Summit at 2,069 metres (6,787 feet) above sea level, while the elevation at the Village of Lake Louise is 1,534 metres (5,033 feet above sea level).
next... Driving to Yoho National Park BC
after that...Drumheller!
What is now Drumheller once lay on the Coastal Lowlands by a vast Inland Sea. The environment was ideal for the dinosaurs that roamed the area. Great sheets of ice that crept down from the north retreated little more than 10,000 years ago carving deep trenches into the prairie landscape. Erosion has since sculpted the hillsides, uncovering the bones of dinosaurs and shaping the dramatic and mysterious badlands. Early explorers noted the coal and bones in the valley – and prosperity as the first mine opened in 1911. The world class Royal Tyrrell Museum is located here and town services a large agricultural and ranch area.
The Hoodoos site is located 16 km south of Drumheller on Hoodoo Trail (Highway 10). Hoodoos make a great stop on the way to the Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site in East Coulee as part of the Drumheller Self-Guided Tour.
We'll try to do this !
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
work again
I'm not enjoying my job. I think that can be sensed in the first entry I ever made. I have to say this system to test and test and test somemore for a job really isn't a lot of fun. People say how easy it is in the Public Service but I can tell you that any job is a job! Lately I want to change mine and any attempt I've made to change jobs I has met with the dreaded testing people. I'm sick of tests! Since last year I've tested about 20 times. Some are 3 + hours long others not even an hour, I've done tests at home and sent them back, I've done tests in rooms full of people and I've done testing in the smallest of rooms. I've been called for an interview to only find out that there was a testing component. I'm just plain sick of testing!!!!
Today I interviewed and I didn't feel great about it. I hope I gave enought to mark high. There are 4 people competing for it. I REALLY hope I get the job. Just in case I am going to contact my references and cross my fingers! Maybe I should't contact them?? Would that be bad luck???
Argue!
Today I interviewed and I didn't feel great about it. I hope I gave enought to mark high. There are 4 people competing for it. I REALLY hope I get the job. Just in case I am going to contact my references and cross my fingers! Maybe I should't contact them?? Would that be bad luck???
Argue!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
kids
My kids continue to surprise me while they grow, at 12 and 10 they can be really funny and sometimes a real pain. They say things and use words very effectively, they have better vocabulary than I do. Lately they say "now that's random" when you say something out of the blue. They also see things differently than I do and sometimes they see them like I used to see them. I learn from them and I hope they learned from me so far. They like to take photos and here are some of their photos. This one was on a walking trail
I think they have a real eye for things....
Sometimes I let them do something and it's like a flash back to when I was a kid. The rock they dive off for the first time I remember climing up to do the same....I notice this most often at the cottage where I grew up. They get to stages where I can let them go alone to the island or up the hill to the berries and I remember being there with my mom and alone....it brings me back seeing them excitted to go alone or try something the same way smells bring memories back.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Don't bite the hand that feeds you!
Okay~This has been a week of up and downs.
I had an unprovoked verbal attack by a temp help person in my department when they heard that they had been unsuccessful in the job test they did. I guess it was partly a their judgement on what I do and part frustration for not succeeding on their own.
The thing is this person is not charming or nice to anyone around them except the bosses and frankly she feels I am and yes she said this "of less value" than she is.
I felt a sense of release when I found out she might not make it to the next round in a job competition for our area. Now that is changing to smug happiness. The stupidity is that I was actually helping this person before the attack. I know her family and felt bad that she's been around so long and not able to get in a real job. Now I feel like I have a reason why she's where she is. If you bite the hands that feed you you'll not be given more! I have asked to get her out of the contract and out of our division. She'll likely be gone within a month when she expected to stay on until Spring. It will be a shock to her even though she treated most of us like crap.
Now I should mention that this is the 2nd time she lashed out verbally and did this kind of thing, although this time was much worse. You are probably wondering what she attacks? The first time I made a comment on a frustration with my husband and his lack of cleaning she said she's heard me complain before and if he's that bad just get rid of him. Not letting her get away with this I asked "Then with all the complaints I've hear on your partner you should be single by now. And besides I have kids and morgage to consider while you are just living with the partner in the house that was owned before you even met ,so for you , leaving would be a peice of cake!" This didn't go over real well when I turned the tables. I came out of that thinking this person likes to judge but not be judged. I also learned that she only wants to talk not listen. She doesn't even notice that she never asks how something is in your life she just talks about herself all day.where was I ah yes the freak out...
Well this time it's apparently monitoring how many personal calls I get and how long my lunch break is and telling me I didn't do parts of my job and she had to do them. The stupid thing is that she was hired as a support role for my work?! At any rate I was really PO'd and I told her that if anyone I work for had an issue with me or my calls they should approach me and tell me so. in my own defence I rarely take lunch elsewhere than at my desk and when I do go I leave at close to 1 when she takes hers from 11:15- 1 and doesn't even know when I left, so she's assuming that I was gone since she left I suppose which in her mind makes it an hour and a half??
The "up" came when I spoke to the managers and found out this person is rubbing them the wrong way too. Petty as it sounds I liked that. It made me feel like hey- I'm not the only one that can't stand the drama and the nasty attitude. You know when a person spoke of her to me recently they mentioned that she's so unaproachable that you cannot even greet her in the morning without a look like she wants to rip your head off....Gee I want to see that face every morning!
Either way I am hunting like I'm on a Safari for a new job. I need a change but I also I hope she's gone before I find one! I am cautiously optimistic about finding a new spot...a few tests and even making it to interviews and then being asked for references stage....I am on pins and needles waiting for word!!!
I had an unprovoked verbal attack by a temp help person in my department when they heard that they had been unsuccessful in the job test they did. I guess it was partly a their judgement on what I do and part frustration for not succeeding on their own.
The thing is this person is not charming or nice to anyone around them except the bosses and frankly she feels I am and yes she said this "of less value" than she is.
I felt a sense of release when I found out she might not make it to the next round in a job competition for our area. Now that is changing to smug happiness. The stupidity is that I was actually helping this person before the attack. I know her family and felt bad that she's been around so long and not able to get in a real job. Now I feel like I have a reason why she's where she is. If you bite the hands that feed you you'll not be given more! I have asked to get her out of the contract and out of our division. She'll likely be gone within a month when she expected to stay on until Spring. It will be a shock to her even though she treated most of us like crap.
Now I should mention that this is the 2nd time she lashed out verbally and did this kind of thing, although this time was much worse. You are probably wondering what she attacks? The first time I made a comment on a frustration with my husband and his lack of cleaning she said she's heard me complain before and if he's that bad just get rid of him. Not letting her get away with this I asked "Then with all the complaints I've hear on your partner you should be single by now. And besides I have kids and morgage to consider while you are just living with the partner in the house that was owned before you even met ,so for you , leaving would be a peice of cake!" This didn't go over real well when I turned the tables. I came out of that thinking this person likes to judge but not be judged. I also learned that she only wants to talk not listen. She doesn't even notice that she never asks how something is in your life she just talks about herself all day.where was I ah yes the freak out...
Well this time it's apparently monitoring how many personal calls I get and how long my lunch break is and telling me I didn't do parts of my job and she had to do them. The stupid thing is that she was hired as a support role for my work?! At any rate I was really PO'd and I told her that if anyone I work for had an issue with me or my calls they should approach me and tell me so. in my own defence I rarely take lunch elsewhere than at my desk and when I do go I leave at close to 1 when she takes hers from 11:15- 1 and doesn't even know when I left, so she's assuming that I was gone since she left I suppose which in her mind makes it an hour and a half??
The "up" came when I spoke to the managers and found out this person is rubbing them the wrong way too. Petty as it sounds I liked that. It made me feel like hey- I'm not the only one that can't stand the drama and the nasty attitude. You know when a person spoke of her to me recently they mentioned that she's so unaproachable that you cannot even greet her in the morning without a look like she wants to rip your head off....Gee I want to see that face every morning!
Either way I am hunting like I'm on a Safari for a new job. I need a change but I also I hope she's gone before I find one! I am cautiously optimistic about finding a new spot...a few tests and even making it to interviews and then being asked for references stage....I am on pins and needles waiting for word!!!
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