Busy Busy

Sorry I haven’t been on in awhile. It’s been a pretty stressful time the past few weeks.

My office has been busy busy busy, which is good I guess. Richard got laid off, then found a job for two days and then was told there was no work. He has had a couple of interviews but no bites yet. After having him unemployed for two months now, we have literally no money left; we have had to increase credit cards just to pay bills. I never thought I would find myself in this position, but when you have a partner who like to live above their means, I guess that happens.

With the two day job, it put Richard back into a position of needing a 4×4 so we were out looking for vehicles and attempting to sell one of our current ones. In the process, Richard has wound up in two accidents; one left no damage but still got put through on his insurance bumping it up an outrageous $130 a month, the other was not his fault however it was a hit and run on his car, I doubt we’ll ever see the person responsible. We also decided to never go back to two car dealerships in the city ever again; one tried to sell us a horrible vehicle and the other started harassing us when we said no.

We got to hang out with my parents staff this past weekend (for their staff party), and it was a ton of fun! Just wish my own Christmas Party could have compared considering the expense my boss went to.

So, Christmas is less than a week away, and there is no snow.. to be honest it’s a bit depressing. Well, hopefully the Holiday season will go well, and quickly with no major hiccups. I guess we’ll find out.

Other than this there is really not much to report. In case I don’t get back online…

 

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Rundown of the Week

I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve put a post up.

I’ll give a quick rundown of the week:

Richard ended up getting fired from his job (which I expected) but has already found a new job and started with them yesterday. He has decided to stay in his current trade just do it differently.

We decided to put up an add on Kijiji to help us meet some new people. We did get a few e-mails from a few ‘weirdos’, however we seem to have found two people who are nice and very similar to ourselves (we meet them tomorrow).

We had my staff Christmas party in Banff on the weekend, and to be perfectly honest it was pretty awful. The food at the restaurant wasn’t that amazing (especially for the price, good thing we weren’t paying), and made both of us sick. We both had planned on going to the ‘after-party’, which would have been paid for but after feeling a bit better, we both ran into the same conclusion… we aren’t clubbers and that was basically the type of place everyone went to. So, we simply went to sleep.

The hotel experience was also horrible! Not only was the hotel decor completely off-putting but the noise was beyond ridiculous. Our room was sandwiched between two extremely loud rooms, and I was woken up around 4 in the morning and stayed awake until we left immediately at 8:30. It was probably the worst weekend (that was supposed to be good), that I have ever had!