Where has the time gone? Here we are 22 days into the first
month of a new year and even though nothing has really changed in my corner of
the world it seems like everything has changed. I know that must sound really
dumb to some, well ok, it sounds dumb to most, hell it even sounds dumb to me!
I already have a pet peeve to start out this New Year and
that is Canada Post taking away door to door mail service in order to cut
corners and save money and I really can understand SOME of the logic there. I’m
still young enough (most days) to walk to a corner community mailbox to collect
my mail, but as I look about my neighbourhood at the seniors and the ones with
physical disabilities that live around me I have to ask, what these folks will
do? It is winter here in Canada and with the plows leaving mountains of dirty
icy snow on the boulevards I really wonder how these folks are going to get
their mail.
Over the Christmas season I took a part time job at Walmart
here and wow, I really hate to stereo-type but those pictures you see people
posting on their facebook pages really are true. I have certainly seen my fair
share of plumber’s cracks and I swear more than half that I saw were on women!
I also learned that the costumer is NOT always right and as a sales associate the
way we help costumers when they have questions about a product is by reading
the box of whatever they want to buy thus showing them you ARE knowledgeable
with that product. Since I was working the Electronics Department, I read so
many boxes that I am an expert on how many watts a speaker gives out as well as
many other products of the electronic age…NOT. I know nothing of that product
yet because I read the box to the customer I know what I am talking about. So
it wasn’t too long after the holiday season that I decided that being a Walmart
employee was not my calling. I am now back to doing what I know best and that
is being on the front lines as a receptionist at a local business.
Not a picture I took...lol
I am now starting to put another item of my bucket list into
action, but now I have a dilemma. I really really really want to get to NYC
this summer, but another item on my list is next in line and friends have
suggested this one might be a whole lot better. A group of us would rent a
large cottage in Port Dover (my favorite tourist place) and spend some much
needed rest and relaxation on the shores of Lake Erie. It is close enough for
the partners to go back and forth to work leaving us females the days free to
wander the shops, have wonderful times at the lakeside restaurant deck having
lunch and drinks. They both sound really fun and a week at the lake vs a long
weekend in NYC will cost about the same, so I’m just going to let destiny play
a role in what happens this summer. Besides which I am the first to say I was
born under the wrong sign and everything I “plan” always seems to not work out,
so leaving it in destiny’s hands is the way I will go!
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Thinking about summer sure does make me smile since we have
entered into yet another deep freeze. This one isn’t as bad as the first one
but it’s still damn cold. It’s called the Polar Vortex and it certainly has
most of Canada and some of the USA in its grip. All we can do is grin and bear
it and stay as warm as possible.
Niagara Falls Ontario Canada
