"There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever not for better, some have gone and some remain. All these places had their moments, with lovers and friends, I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living, in my life I've loved them all..."

It’s becomes a busy summer, which has meant less time for blogging. However, fortunate to have today off I thought it was time to get back to it. Working two jobs makes for a busy summer, but I’m still having a really good time. CityLine is going really well, and I really like the people there, like any job there are a few intimidating people, but that’s to be expected.

Bluenotes however, is starting to make me angry (aside from the fact that most retail jobs are a pain in the ass). We recently moved to a store about three times the size of our original. Not only that, but the store now looks exactly like a mock up of American Eagle just not as expensive. With a bigger store, comes a new manager because apparently the one we have does not have enough experience to run this one. I’m not sure if I quite buy this reasoning but I digress. It hasn’t even been a week since she took over and it’s already frustrating. Now I admit, I’ve had a confusing schedule. I booked off yesterday to attend a wedding of a good friend and I booked next weekend off to work the Much Music Video Awards. I mean, come on! That’s a once in a life time opportunity and with the ownership of CityTV up in the air like it is, the Awards (if still existent) could be very different come next year. The point is, I booked it off in the book, told her I booked it off and she still scheduled me for every one of those days. Also, now that our store is larger everyone’s got that crazy mentality of the iron fist, all work and no play while working that I became acquainted with from my days at Canadian Tire. Not that I obeyed it then, as Dana, Amanda and Brent well know and luckily I’ll only need this job for another 2 ½ months tops, so it’ll be interesting to see how that all goes.


I had a really great time this weekend. Usually I’m not the type to go on about how fantastic certain days/weeks are, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one, which is what I think made it so good. Friday night I dragged Amanda to Slainte which isn’t her first choice of places to attend, but I appreciated. Dana joined us as well for some drinks and some girl talk. Chris Chambers was playing with the band, Matt Danko working behind the bar. Lots of good friends. Saturday was really great. I had dinner/drinks with Brent who I hadn’t seen in a long time. You never know how it’ll be when you see someone and it’s been a while, but I really had a lot of fun (no one tell him that, lol). That night Steph, Morgan and I celebrated the monumental tradition of June 9th. We had drinks and good conversation in Morgan’s big back yard. With 2 jobs and not living in Hamilton I hadn’t seen them as recently as I would have liked, and I was really glad we had such a classic reason to get together and make the most of it.

Last night, with Dana as my date I went to my first Jewish wedding of a good friend of mine. It was a beautiful ceremony, the bride looked amazing and they both looked so happy. Normally I would peg myself as too cynical to think that two people ‘belonged together’ but I feel fairly confident in saying that they do. He even wowed the guests by showing off his guitar skills on stage with the band, and for a relatively shy person like he is, it was really cute. Dana and I were fairly convinced we were the only two single people there, and I had an odd encounter with a lady in the bathroom telling me of her boyfriend troubles. But that aside we drank, celebrated and danced.I can’t wait to take them out post honeymoon for some drinks and get to know this bride better, lol.

Back to work tomorrow, but I think this weekend has put me in a great mood to battle out the rest of the week. Next weekend I work all weekend at the MMVA’s but I think it’ll be exciting, here’s hoping!