Perogy Fest

Well another Ukrainian Festival is over with..... and I survived it. Barely. As I probably said in a previous post I'm working in a restaurant, and the other waitress has gone on vacation for three weeks and may not come back. Or at least may not be welcome back. It may have something to do with her not showing up for her shifts and not calling the boss to say why. Either way she's not there, there is another part time waitress who was supposed to help this past weekend, plus a couple of people were hired. The other waitress never showed for her shift and when she did show, she was going from bouncing off the walls to falling asleep standing up. I swear to the almighty that she was on something for she was soooo spaced out that she didn't know where her orders went. and she took them.

One of the people she hired had never waited tables before, he said he applied for a cooks or dishwasher job. I showed him the basics I mean it's not rocket science, but apparently his brain is soo messed up that he can't remember how to work a coffee machine. It has a button on it that tells you to push it to brew the coffee. For doing dishes we have three sinks set up 1 for washing, 1 for first rinse, and then the final rinse before stacking them to dry. He screwed that up too. For some reason when the water in the first one was cold and dirty, instead of changing the water he started washing dishes in the second one. He told the manager that he'd wash her dishes, and not wait on tables(he was insulting and swearing about the customers), needless to say he was fired.

As for the other people that were hired to help out this weekend, not a single one showed. So for three days Thursday, Friday and Saturday I worked basically from open to close. That's about a good 11 hour day. Now you may say I'm nuts. I don't see it that way, I see it as helping out my employer who was in a bind. Her son had to go to Winnipeg cause his son was in a tournament to see if his baseball team would make the Provincials, so he couldn't be there to help out.

For the most part I had a really nice time working this past weekend, the only downside is that my knee is starting to lock up if it is in one position for to long. Then I start walking like I'm crippled and need to be in a wheelchair. Maybe someday I will be, who knows, It may not happen for a long time. At least I hope not. That's all for today.


Later All and Be Well

Computers

Hey everyone it's been awhile since my last post. I know I'm so lazy about it. :)

I had Dwayne wipe my comp and reinstall windows on it. It was running so slow and it seems as if I got hacked or something. My hotmail acct was sending out spam emails and pretending they were coming from Blizzard. Blizzard is the company who has Warcraft, and they frown on those things. And someone was on my facebook acct when my computer was turned off. so needless to say it was time to reformat, the only way to be sure there were no viruses and such on it. Now I'm just waiting for Warcraft to download so I can play on my 2 days off. That's another blog post there, just not sure when. Maybe today if I get industrious. :P

Later all and Be Well

OMG

Like the title says...omg.

It's almost the middle of July and I didn't post anything this month. Bad Ely. :P I'm just gonna do a quick recap of the things that happened.

Brittany turned 15 and spent all of her birthday money at the fair. Her birthday being at the end of the school year, the fair is always in town then. At least she didn't go to Country Fest with all the drunks out there.

We had a quiet couple of weeks and then Zack turned 10. We got him Call of Duty: Black Ops and a Halo figurine. He needs some bad guys to kill with his jedi. :)

And in just 1 more day Dwayne and I are going to see Harry Potter!!! Not taking the kids tho, this is mommy and daddy date time. :)

Coming up in the next couple of weeks is the National Ukrainian Festival, when we go from a sleepy city of around 9000 to bursting at the seems of about 40,000. Who knew that a lot of people like perogies too. :)

That's it for today.

Later All and Be Well

Paladin's

Well I named the blog Ely's Life because of Warcraft and one of my favorite toons in it. A mage. Well recently I started playing a paladin and so far I'm liking it. A pally can play three roles in a group, Tank, Dps, or Heal. Now I've played a melee class before, in fact I've been an off-tank with a warrior during the original Warcraft. Sometimes called Vanilla by those of us who have played since the beginning or near enough to it. :) I myself have been playing since November of 95 or 96, not sure which and too lazy to check right now. Lol. Back in those days Hunters were considered a joke by any serious player, considering most of them were idiots. But if you were to find a good Hunter they went on your friends list for future groupings, or if they were unguilded then you invited them to your guild. I joined my first guild Order of Bahamut with my warrior Errana and I met some really nice people.

I remember that myself and a pally named Bohdica were made officers because we were dancing on tables. :P This was an awesome guild with just the bast people in it, however it was torn apart by a group of players that made it goal of going around from guild to guild to see if they could break it up. Well they did, and it pissed us off. There was a mass exodus of players from the guild and in turn we formed a new guild called OOB. It was a play on the name of the old guild name. Now I stayed with them for a long time. When the Burning Crusade expansion came out I decided to make a new toon a mage. I named her Elystia :) Now while I was leveling Ely the guild was busy tearing thru the new areas as fast as possible to get to the new raids. I went more slowly and was leveling the warrior and priest at the same time. Usually when I was letting my mage get some rested xp. Eventually I just decided that I wanted a break from raiding. I wasn't keeping up with the rest of them and I really just didn't want to tank or heal anymore. I wanted to throw fireballs or freeze things.

Well I've leveled them to max in the latest expac so I decided to make a class that I normally don't play. A paladin. So I did the melee tank and dps thing. Not much for melee. So I decided to try healing on a pally. Now Dwayne said that healing wasn't so bad just to remember that you have no HoT's (heal over time) Well most of my toons have been on the alliance side (hubby calls them pretty toons). I decided to make this one a Tauren (female of course). She is now just a smidgen away from level 52 and so far I'm liking it.

Work

So it's been 2 weeks of working and I gotta tell ya, sometimes my feet kill me. I work for 3 hours a day and almost all I do while working is cleaning. I know it's gotta be done but seriously. This is just something to do for extra cash until school starts in the fall. I'm going back to school, and hopefully getting fully funded by my band. Then if I want to work I can. Probably not going to tho. The course I'm taking does have 2 sessions of work experience in it. As it's a business admin course I'm taking I'll be working in an office. No more waitressing or working in a restaurant for me. :) Yay!

On the plus side of working I get tips. But sometimes you get customers who are really cheap and don't give tips no matter how good the service is. Dwayne and I go out if the service is good they get a tip. If it sucks then they don't. Most of the places we've gone to have good service.

Well that's my rant for the day.

Later All and Be Well

Hockey

Well last night was the final game in the Stanley Cup finals. Vancouver choked and lost it to the Bruins. Oh well can't win them all. What I don't understand is, Yes we lost, but why do people feel the need to go out and vandalize. Really, is breaking windows, starting fires and rioting gonna change the final score? Nope. Idiots. Grow up, stop acting like a baby it's just a game. It's not like your gonna live or die based on the outcome. All it does is give you a bad name and show what a poor loser you are. If you're one of the unlucky ones you've now got a criminal record to show it. For the ones who didn't get caught and charged, I say 'You should have been.'

Now I have a feeling if people out there actually read what I have to say then I'm gonna be criticized. All I have to say to them is 'My life doesn't revolve around sports.' Yes I do have sports teams I cheer for, but I'm not a fanatic about it. I don't feel the need to put down people who don't cheer for the same teams I do. If we do that's great, but if not, you won't lose me as a friend. It just means that if we do discuss sports we will have heated debates. :P

There is my 2 cents worth.

Later All and Be Well

Kids

Well time for another post. I was reading some of the blogs I usually follow and on this one, she talks about she doesn't like playing or interacting with others alot. I say that if your gonna home school your kids that you will need to provide them with other children to play with. If you don't know alot of people with kids then going to the park is a great way for kids to become socialized and meet kids. When my daughter was younger, around 2 or so, I went back to work and she went into daycare. When she started Nursery school she was prepared to interact with other kids and knew how to follow instructions. She was also well on her way to reading and know her numbers.

Now my youngest, I didn't go back to work as he was diagnosed with food allergies and they were pretty severe ones too. I didn't realize how many foods contained milk or eggs. I was making my own bread cause all the ones in the stores contained both milk and eggs. Needless to say that we lived on Rice and Potatoes. No cream soups for us :(

Because I didn't put him into daycare and he only socialized with like 3 or 4 other kids, when it came time for him to start school, he was at a disadvantage. Oh he new his alphabet and numbers and was starting to read, but he did not know how to interact with other kids his own age. It was a huge shock for him. He had the same kindergarten teacher as his sister did and I explained about him not going to daycare and how he might have trouble adjusting to the other children. I was lucky that the school was one that believed in helping kids adjust to new experiences and situations. For that I'm grateful.

For all those out there who don't put their kids in daycare or some such, at least have them part of a play group that meets regularly so they can learn the social skills they will need to survive as they enter the bigger world.

OK off my soapbox now :P

Later all and Be Well