Alcohol is an amazing thing.
'Kind of ridiculous, actually. I'm fairly disappointed of how it affected me this long weekend when I went out camping with Cody and a bunch of his friends. Melissa came out too, but I was pretty far gone by the time she arrived (in other words, I was so drunk I don't remember it). Not good.
All things considering, the weekend was fun. I had a good time, I just wish I wasn't so shy when it came to meeting Cody's friends. I preferred spending a lot of the time in the motor-home. Well, for the first two days, anyways, but by the time I started getting comfortable with everyone, the weekend was practically over and the partying was slowing down.
Good one, Rachel.
Actually, the one night that I probably shouldn't have missed (the night when everyone was having fun and drinking), I had drank so much that afternoon that I had passed out before things started getting exciting. Yeah. Smooth.
But I did enjoy the weekend! I got to spend time with Cody (always a good thing) and his friends and we did have fun. It was nice to sit and relax around a fire and not work or worry about having to do anything. I shut my phone off and didn't check it all weekend.
Work. Work is work.
I won't say I hate it.. I've had worse jobs, one's that I've disliked more. This job at the mill is just.. tough. I've never worked a work day over 9 hours long and this one is 11.5 hours. Not only is it long, it's pretty laborious too. Being new probably doesn't make it any easier, I'm sure I'll get used to it after a while, but at the moment I am finding it hard to keep up with production. By the end of the day, my mind is mush and I zone out driving home; by the end of my first week, I felt exhausted and slept for about 10 hours straight afterward, even though I've been getting 7+ hours every night that week. It's a bit daunting and I'm not looking forward to going back tomorrow morning, but this is the best paying job I could get and I'm sure I'll feel better once I get my first paycheck this Friday.
I hope I don't become the weak little kid on the crew. Not too mention that I'm a girl, that would make things even worse if I couldn't keep up. I don't need to deal with people complaining about me being too slow or something.
Fuuuuck. I need to get some sleep so I'm not stumbling around tomorrow. Yeah, my bed time is around 8-10PM now. Preferably 8:30PM. Around there, anyways. So far, the more sleep, the better.
Rachel
15.5.10
13.5.10
stop waiting for Friday. live now.
I hate it when you want to write something and the window just sits open and empty because you can't think of what to write and think that ignoring it for a while might help.
It doesn't.
But check this:
It's a wolfdog. I've been looking at pictures and breeders sites and I want one realllyyyy bad. (You can click the image to go to the website I got it from- this guy has a pack of them and has gorgeous pictures of them!)
So I've decided to get one when I grow up.
I guess they're pretty high maintenance, but I'm pretty sure I'd be willing to put up with that. They're gorgeous animals and I love dogs and wolves, so why not have the mix? Not to mention that I'd love to own such a photogenic breed. Their personalities and behaviors are awesome too, I get excited just thinking about owning one.
Haha.
I also wouldn't mind owning a dog that needs to be active as it would get me out of the house as well. I would love to have a good running partner, I'm sure training one to run with me wouldn't be hard at all.
Anyways.
This weekend I'm helping out running the lights and sound for a dance performance. I'm a bit iffy about this as it's sounding like the lady running the performance has quite high expectations as to how the lighting should look.. and we don't have that much time setting and programing the lights. Kind of annoying, but whatever. Not to mention that I am being talked up as having a really good eye for it all even though I don't think I'm as good at the lights as they are probably thinking. Well, I guess I'm just going to have to give it a shot and hope for the best. There is the rehearsal on Friday, which is when we'll be programing the lights and then two shows on Saturday and one on Sunday.
Man, I prefer drama performances way more than dances. Way more.
Last Sunday (Mother's Day), I woke up at 4:00AM and left the house by 4:45AM and drove out west in hopes of taking pictures of the sunrise with some mountains. I stopped at the gas station to fill up the Beast and the attendant there was curious as to what I was up to so early in the morning. Pretty sure he thought I was crazy since it was really overcast that morning and didn't look like there would be much to see. There wasn't, in town, but once I started heading west, the clouds started thinning and soon enough there wasnt' barely any clouds in the sky and the s
un was able to coat the snow-covered mountains with a pink/orange light (the one picture on the very right hand margin of the page- 6:08AM- was taken that morning). It was an awesome morning. I saw a Skunk, several Coyotes, a herd of wild horses and a fair share of Elk. The flats in Ya Ha Tinda was gorgeous, the frost coated everything and made it all look white and sparkly.
Of course I didn't tell anyone I was going out there. I made the decision to go the night before and set an alarm on my phone and iPod, but didn't think of leaving a note or something for anyone who woke up and found me gone.
Silly me.
But I was back in time to wish my momma a Happy Mother's Day before heading off to church with the family at 9:30AM. I had left a card and gift on the table for her when she woke up, though.
Yeahhh. I still haven't been officially hired at the mill. It's pissing me off, but apparently they want to hire me, they just haven't found a place to put me. I guess the planer is full, which I'm kind of glad to hear because I haven't heard anything good about working at the planer. But a job would be nice right now.
At least I'm being paid $15/hour for this lighting gig.
My work-out regime is going... okay. I'm not losing really any weight. Well, scale-wise. I've been getting more toned, I guess, so I suppose I'm just losing fat and gaining muscle. I would like to lose the weight, though. I still have about 3 and a half months... but I need to really start working at it. Yesterday my sister and I went out for a run and we beat out previous times on the route. It was awesome, but I felt really weird afterward. I think I wasn't hydrated enough or something. But for not running and working-out much for the past week, I did pretty damn good. I'm thinking about running the hill today. It's probably best if I do.
Ugh, I hate worrying about my physical appearance. It's tiring and I always feel down about it. I can't remember the last time I was really satisfied with how I looked because no matter what I look like or what people tell me, I always think I am too fat or something. It's degrading.
Holy shmokes. I was worried that I lost this post when my computer battery suddenly died. Oh jeez.
I guess I should get ready for the day and actually accomplish something today.
I'm going to brush my Bud today. He's due for a good brushing. I'm going to take him for a swim afterward too. And take pictures of him, I haven't done that lately.
Good times.
Rachel
Oh. Shit, can't take him for a swim... apparently there's a bear in the river reserve and my folks are forbidding me from going down there. Boo.
It doesn't.
But check this:
It's a wolfdog. I've been looking at pictures and breeders sites and I want one realllyyyy bad. (You can click the image to go to the website I got it from- this guy has a pack of them and has gorgeous pictures of them!)So I've decided to get one when I grow up.
I guess they're pretty high maintenance, but I'm pretty sure I'd be willing to put up with that. They're gorgeous animals and I love dogs and wolves, so why not have the mix? Not to mention that I'd love to own such a photogenic breed. Their personalities and behaviors are awesome too, I get excited just thinking about owning one.
Haha.
I also wouldn't mind owning a dog that needs to be active as it would get me out of the house as well. I would love to have a good running partner, I'm sure training one to run with me wouldn't be hard at all.
Anyways.
This weekend I'm helping out running the lights and sound for a dance performance. I'm a bit iffy about this as it's sounding like the lady running the performance has quite high expectations as to how the lighting should look.. and we don't have that much time setting and programing the lights. Kind of annoying, but whatever. Not to mention that I am being talked up as having a really good eye for it all even though I don't think I'm as good at the lights as they are probably thinking. Well, I guess I'm just going to have to give it a shot and hope for the best. There is the rehearsal on Friday, which is when we'll be programing the lights and then two shows on Saturday and one on Sunday.
Man, I prefer drama performances way more than dances. Way more.
Last Sunday (Mother's Day), I woke up at 4:00AM and left the house by 4:45AM and drove out west in hopes of taking pictures of the sunrise with some mountains. I stopped at the gas station to fill up the Beast and the attendant there was curious as to what I was up to so early in the morning. Pretty sure he thought I was crazy since it was really overcast that morning and didn't look like there would be much to see. There wasn't, in town, but once I started heading west, the clouds started thinning and soon enough there wasnt' barely any clouds in the sky and the s
un was able to coat the snow-covered mountains with a pink/orange light (the one picture on the very right hand margin of the page- 6:08AM- was taken that morning). It was an awesome morning. I saw a Skunk, several Coyotes, a herd of wild horses and a fair share of Elk. The flats in Ya Ha Tinda was gorgeous, the frost coated everything and made it all look white and sparkly.Of course I didn't tell anyone I was going out there. I made the decision to go the night before and set an alarm on my phone and iPod, but didn't think of leaving a note or something for anyone who woke up and found me gone.
Silly me.
But I was back in time to wish my momma a Happy Mother's Day before heading off to church with the family at 9:30AM. I had left a card and gift on the table for her when she woke up, though.
Yeahhh. I still haven't been officially hired at the mill. It's pissing me off, but apparently they want to hire me, they just haven't found a place to put me. I guess the planer is full, which I'm kind of glad to hear because I haven't heard anything good about working at the planer. But a job would be nice right now.
At least I'm being paid $15/hour for this lighting gig.
My work-out regime is going... okay. I'm not losing really any weight. Well, scale-wise. I've been getting more toned, I guess, so I suppose I'm just losing fat and gaining muscle. I would like to lose the weight, though. I still have about 3 and a half months... but I need to really start working at it. Yesterday my sister and I went out for a run and we beat out previous times on the route. It was awesome, but I felt really weird afterward. I think I wasn't hydrated enough or something. But for not running and working-out much for the past week, I did pretty damn good. I'm thinking about running the hill today. It's probably best if I do.
Ugh, I hate worrying about my physical appearance. It's tiring and I always feel down about it. I can't remember the last time I was really satisfied with how I looked because no matter what I look like or what people tell me, I always think I am too fat or something. It's degrading.
Holy shmokes. I was worried that I lost this post when my computer battery suddenly died. Oh jeez.
I guess I should get ready for the day and actually accomplish something today.
I'm going to brush my Bud today. He's due for a good brushing. I'm going to take him for a swim afterward too. And take pictures of him, I haven't done that lately.
Good times.
Rachel
Oh. Shit, can't take him for a swim... apparently there's a bear in the river reserve and my folks are forbidding me from going down there. Boo.
3.5.10
life is beatiful.
I love the song Life Is Beautiful by Sixx AM. It's awesome. A bit depressing, I guess, but I like it.
This weekend I spent the whole weekend with Cody (my bf, yo) and had a blast. I love being at his house and visiting with his family and I always have an awesome time hanging out with him. He's such a sweet guy. Yeahhhh, but we went to they gym (we practically go everyday, we're pretty good work-out buddies) and we watched movies and we shopped for things for the motor home and went back and worked on the motor home.
What's the motor home, you ask? Allow me to show you:
I know, right? It's quite the machine. Cody has a bunch of stuff planned for it and there's a lot of work to do, but we're both realllyyyy excited to work on it and get it all 'pimped' up. I guess I'm not the best person to help him work on it as I don't know much about wiring or anything to do with the engine and shit like that, but he's teaching me stuff as we go along and I help him out with whatever I can. It's got a wicked engine in it though, the idle sounds like it belongs to a muscle car and it's got quite a lot of power. I think it's got a 350? 360? engine in it. One of the two, haha. Ahh, man. I've got a lot to learn.
Well, I haven't heard from the mill as to whether I got the job or not. I went and wrote my aptitude test on Friday, that was pretty easy. I'm hoping to hear from them this week, sometime. I reallyyyy need the money, haha. Being flat-out broke sucks ass.
Real life sure knows how to kick me in the butt.
I've been doing fairly well with my work-outs. I am going to be running mostly at home this week instead of at the gym, so I'll be working on hills more. I'm noticing weight loss, even though the pounds aren't going down as fast as I'd like. Well, slow weight loss is better than fast, it's easier to keep it off that way.I'm doing the weight-lifting on the weekends, this weekend went a lot better than last weekend! My leg work-out was awesome, it felt really good. I'm getting stronger, so that makes me happy. I can't wait for the fall, though. I miss running with the team soooo much. I've been watching one of my team members run, and it's amazing. Willy Kimosop just won the Toronto Sporting Life 10km yesterday with an impressive lead and finish! He's such an inspiration and I'm sure he's going to go places, maybe the Olympics to represent Canada if he gets his Canadian citizenship. I hope I'll be able to run some of those races someday, I've never ran any big road races yet.
On Saturday, I got together with my friend, Memphis. I don't see her too often now that she moved two hours away. She invited me out riding and I had a lot of fun; I seriously can't remember the last time we both rode together. We went out to a her friend's place where she is keeping her horse. I rode her friend's horse, he is such a sweetie. A big softy. Anyways, I got some good pictures of Memphis and her horse, Freedom. They're doing amazing and look awesome together. She's working on cutting cattle and getting Freedom to be softer on the mouth. Freedom is such a beautiful horse, I love her face and the look she gets when she is listening to Memphis. Check it out:
Well, I guess I should get ready for the day and do something productive. Cody and I are going to the gym tonight and lifting more weights since we didn't go yesterday. He also needs to pick up some paint for the motor home so we'll be painting some of the dash and possibly the front grill tonight.
So excited for that motor home, man.
This weekend I spent the whole weekend with Cody (my bf, yo) and had a blast. I love being at his house and visiting with his family and I always have an awesome time hanging out with him. He's such a sweet guy. Yeahhhh, but we went to they gym (we practically go everyday, we're pretty good work-out buddies) and we watched movies and we shopped for things for the motor home and went back and worked on the motor home.
What's the motor home, you ask? Allow me to show you:
I know, right? It's quite the machine. Cody has a bunch of stuff planned for it and there's a lot of work to do, but we're both realllyyyy excited to work on it and get it all 'pimped' up. I guess I'm not the best person to help him work on it as I don't know much about wiring or anything to do with the engine and shit like that, but he's teaching me stuff as we go along and I help him out with whatever I can. It's got a wicked engine in it though, the idle sounds like it belongs to a muscle car and it's got quite a lot of power. I think it's got a 350? 360? engine in it. One of the two, haha. Ahh, man. I've got a lot to learn.Well, I haven't heard from the mill as to whether I got the job or not. I went and wrote my aptitude test on Friday, that was pretty easy. I'm hoping to hear from them this week, sometime. I reallyyyy need the money, haha. Being flat-out broke sucks ass.
Real life sure knows how to kick me in the butt.
I've been doing fairly well with my work-outs. I am going to be running mostly at home this week instead of at the gym, so I'll be working on hills more. I'm noticing weight loss, even though the pounds aren't going down as fast as I'd like. Well, slow weight loss is better than fast, it's easier to keep it off that way.I'm doing the weight-lifting on the weekends, this weekend went a lot better than last weekend! My leg work-out was awesome, it felt really good. I'm getting stronger, so that makes me happy. I can't wait for the fall, though. I miss running with the team soooo much. I've been watching one of my team members run, and it's amazing. Willy Kimosop just won the Toronto Sporting Life 10km yesterday with an impressive lead and finish! He's such an inspiration and I'm sure he's going to go places, maybe the Olympics to represent Canada if he gets his Canadian citizenship. I hope I'll be able to run some of those races someday, I've never ran any big road races yet.
On Saturday, I got together with my friend, Memphis. I don't see her too often now that she moved two hours away. She invited me out riding and I had a lot of fun; I seriously can't remember the last time we both rode together. We went out to a her friend's place where she is keeping her horse. I rode her friend's horse, he is such a sweetie. A big softy. Anyways, I got some good pictures of Memphis and her horse, Freedom. They're doing amazing and look awesome together. She's working on cutting cattle and getting Freedom to be softer on the mouth. Freedom is such a beautiful horse, I love her face and the look she gets when she is listening to Memphis. Check it out:
Well, I guess I should get ready for the day and do something productive. Cody and I are going to the gym tonight and lifting more weights since we didn't go yesterday. He also needs to pick up some paint for the motor home so we'll be painting some of the dash and possibly the front grill tonight.
So excited for that motor home, man.
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