First day of training.

I went through 5 1/2 hours of web training today. It was a little bit long winded and it was a bit too much to absorb. But it was okay overall. I have about another 12 hours of training and then I'm on the floor. Kinda scary. But I know I can keep my head above water. Why are there so many women cashiers? No I'm not complaining :D

Missed the bus....

....the Contemporary Motor Sports 1-Day Spring Blowout sale bus that is. All because I was training from 8-5 the Saturday that the CMS sale was occuring. I'm so sad. Last year I got a great deal on my CAI from there and this year I wanted to go pick up a set of 18" inch Tenzo rims wrapped in Nexens and maybe splurge to get some Tein Coilovers. But sadly I totally missed the bus on this sale. Hopefully I can find a good deal on these in the upcoming months. I've waited a year and I missed it because of training! Blah!

Agent Orange reporting for duty!

So after a week of thinking about whether or not I would attend my training sessions at the Home Depot this weekend I finally decided that I would give it a try, thinking that I had nothing to lose. And after 16 hours of paid training, I'm really glad that I went. There are so many positives about working there that I don't care what all the haters say. Here's a few perks.

- 50% of my tuition will be reimbursed
- 3 days of paid sick leave
- Any donations I make, they will match it. So if I had worked at Home Depot last year, they would have matched my "shave your head for cancer" fundraising. Meaning I would have been able to donate $1000 to Cancer instead of $500.
- Super flexible. I told them I had exams in two weeks. They gave me minimal hours this week, and gave me the next week off....with no hassles.
- Profit sharing
- optional medical and dental insurance
- stock options available
- starting wage is great
- I can switch to any department after 3 months, and training is provided and paid for.

*all this was started on the first day of training. No 3 month wait.


So to all you haters out there....


HAH!

New look

I "borrowed" it, hehehe.

Now all I need is a nice title picture.

Must See Movie!

Slither, it opens March 31st. Click this link and then search for the link to the trailer on the left menu. It looks very entertaining.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439815/

Here's another link to it from http://www.calgarymovies.com

http://www.calgarymovies.com/movies/movie.asp?id=-1932794237

Enjoy!

Generation Next

A few blogs down I posted Jimmy Fallon's new Pepsi commercial now I'm posting an update
to it since I found the "longer version" to the commercial. Now I don't really know what makes me so infatuated with this commercial. Could it be Jimmy Fallon's awkwardly amusing body language? Could it be the lookdisplayed on Parker Posie's face (I assume that is Parker Posie)? Or is it the terribly cheesy trance being played? I don't know what it is, but I find it more addicting than roasted soya nuts....mmmmmm nuts...err soya nuts :D

Anyways here is the Extended version


I also found out that Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives) is doing a Spanish version of this. You can find it at this site http://www.pepsiworld.com/ads_and_history/ titled Rain

And for those of you who would like to add this song to your iPod or other mp3 listening device. Right Click the link I provided and "Save Target As". The song is Streamline by Newton.

Newton - Streamline:: Right Click Me

Enjoy!

Rrrrrroll up the rim to win!

I love my French Vanilla Cappachino's. So with the annual contest of Rrrooll up the rim to win contest at Timmy's I have been buying a few more than I usually do. After 5 large cups, I have only 1, 1 free coffee. I have done better in the past but I'll take 1/5 this time around :D

What's a day in the life of Natalie Portman like? (Edited)

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Mmmmmm Trance.....

This is the only time I have enjoyed Jimmy Fallon. The only other time was when he was in the movie Taxi, and it was only good because of Giselle.

Enjoy the trance!

Show Boating American

This is the video clip of Lindsey Jacobellis in the Gold medal round for boarder crossing. The jist of it is this: Lindsey Jacobellis was leading the race and on her way to the finish line she decides to do a bit of "show boating" and does a little trick on the very last jump/hill before the finish line. Her over confidence is her achilles heel and she falls down she feverishly gets up again but not before it is too late and loses first place to the girl that was trailing her and has to settle for second place and the silver medal. *cue nelson laugh*

My thoughts? She should have waited for the jump at the finish line to do her "cool move". But then again that wouldn't have been as funny as this :D

Sportsmanship.

The team we played tonight had none of the above. They acted like it was a game of college ball/nba callibre. They would talk trash to us even when leading by 20 points and more. They would push and shove us and when their 6'4" guy rejected our 5'3" guy they would whoop and holler like it was such an accomplishment. At the end of the game they mockingly gave us three cheers and a few of their players didn't even shake our hands.

Sorry to break it to you guys, but this is Intramural Men's B league. If you guys are so hot why aren't you in A league? Yeah I thought so. You sorry excuses for human beings.

We have the next week off and then 3 practices and 3 games remaining. I hope we can win all 3 and I believe we can win at least 1 of the three.

The best part of the night was when we shook their hands and Andrew proceeded to their bench to say "Nice game Spaz", to the spaz of their team. And he proved Andrew's point by spazzing out, hah, what a fluffer.

Go Yellow Fever Go!

1st Practice

Yellow Fever had our first practice yesterday night and it worked out pretty well. We had 10 that showed up and actually had an extra (making it 11) that wasn't on the team. We ran a few drills, practiced personal skill and did some offense/defense plays and I think as a group we picked up quite a bit of knowledge from Tim and Mike M. (our basketball gurus) in an hour and a half session. We ended off the night with a 20 minute game of full-court action, and wow was it ever intense. When we finished we pretty much collapsed on the side lines. It was very nice seeing Andrew out there last night and I eagerly anticipating him being on the lineup this Wednesday night for our game.

Our game will not be an easy one as we are playing the first place team in our division. This team beat the first team that we played this season pretty badly. And if that first team we played beat us badly, then I really don't know what to expect tomorrow. Though I think as a team we have improved greatly from that first game.

For us to be succesful tomorrow:
-We have to play a tough defensive game and get all the rebounds both offensively and defensively.
-We have to put into play what we learned last night (offensively/defensively).
-And lastly I believe the key to winning will be decided with how patient we are when we have possession of the ball. This means no panic shots.

Go Yellow Fever Go!!!!!!!

The Ravinator

I was shown this last night and I just absolutely think its awesome. Enjoy!