Monday June 20, 2011

Well my goodness I almost forgot to write tonight!! Well that would have been a travesty! haha ;) I was just so busy keeping myself occupied on photobooth, haha! Well, my 21st has officially come and gone and I must say, it was a good one!! I had a delicious lunch at Olive Garden, got to chill at the mall and get a smote carmel apple…which, I just had about half of it an hour or so ago and I should not have eaten that much of it, I am feelin it now. (…and I looked totally ridiculous eating it…it was the size of my head.) Anywho, it was just a good day over all. I got back from a run of picking up aprons and they had a chocolate cake with candles waiting for me! It was really nice. Everyone was really nice! Dale and Bea even got me a card :) so sweet. (and itunes money!) So yea, other than my minor stomach ache at the moment from eating too much, haha, wonderful day. Well, I guess that is about all I have to say…other than it is now 2:05 and I should be thinking about going to bed soon…but really i'm not that tired. hmm. oh well. I guess after i write this there isn't too much I can do…other than watching missy higgins videos again, ha! (which, I guess still sounds good to me! haha) Until next time...

Sunday June 19, 2011

Well well well, I am already back and it is only 12:25 so I don't even know what to do with myself! (Although, I still haven't gotten my shower which I normally have done by the time I write my updates but, I wanted to chill for a minute before taking one…and also there are a few people out there chillin and I don't feel like going out there, haha) Anywho, I guess it being 12:28 not it is technically my birthday…and I have already gotten 3 people who have texted me and Buni, Claude, and Lynn already told me happy birthday when it was 12 when we were in the office, haha. …although, I wish I still had unlimited texts when I was here so i could respond to everyone! oh well. Oh, but I am also not including Missy Higgins in my birthday count, who wished me a happy birthday earlier this week ;) (she just came up on my itunes, haha. ("More Than This" look it up, good tune…it is actually a Roxy Music cover)) Aanywho, hmm, well, I don't know if a run down of today's events is worth mentioning but, I guess I could mention the highlights. Talked to dad for fathers day, also caught up with mom. After making my second run 'April Wine' was playing at the stage they have here and I met Buni and Paul…and really, who knew April Wine had such a following in Winnipeg? (I had never heard of them, but apparently an old rock band, haha) Oh, and I took a couple more pictures to upload. Although I just realized as I as walking into my room that I left my dang camera in the office! Guess i'll just upload those pics to the computer tomorrow. Well lets see, anything else exciting to say about today? hmm, not really. It was actually a kinda slow day. I mean, there was always people around, but not nearly as full as any of the other days. BUT, everyone is excited because tomorrow we open at 3! Which means call time isn't till 2…opposed to 10 we had this morning and 11 the day before. So it shall be nice to sleep in and take it easy, then we are going out for lunch for my birthday! yee-haw! Well, I guess anything else that I type would just be babbling (not much different than the rest of anything else i've typed thus far but, oh well.) Also, one thing about macs, they don't come with solitaire already installed in the computer. Where is the game section?! (not like I ever used it before on the hp but now that I have no internet I find there is not to much to keep me occupied on the computer other than coming on this little notepad and ramblings about nothing at all to no one at all. (which is why I had taken a few more pictures tonight so I had enough to upload to occupy my time, and I go and forget the camera! (if you can't tell I am still a little bitter about leaving it.))) ugh, hmm, well I guess I should go get my shower. and with that, that's all folks! PEACE

ok, I of course got side tracked and haven't left yet but I feel I need to update one more time just to announce that computer chess is crap. …and apparently i don't know how to play chess, haha. that's all.

Update number 2. Well, I at least have gotten my shower this time, but it is now 2:20 and I'm not really that tired. Because of the lack of entertainment on my computer, what I have been left with is Missy Higgins videos. On my old laptop I had a handful of missy higgins videos I had ripped of youtube that were I guess my favorite so I had a nice little stash of videos on my itunes I could watch. Fortunately or unfortunately for you all (ha, like there is even a "you all") anyway, almost all the videos are from missy higgins (and although I don't exclusively have missy higgins (just barely) those are the only one's I have watched.) So anyway, I have spent some of my nights and also when I was bored before the carnival started, watching all of these missy higgins videos and let me tell you, they are probably not good for the addiction I already have, haha! For example, if I had access to the internet at this point in time my status would read: "Amy Ergle- is in love with missy higgins, y'all are just going to have to deal with that." Or something along those lines. And probably in my best interesting I do not have internet; so I just come onto here to ramble about my infatuation and enter what would be a status update. ok, I am really going to try to go to bed this time.

Saturday June 18, 2011

Phew, Day 2 is officially over. It was another good day at the carnival and my feet are still tired, haha. Well, (if you were wondering) it is now 1:27 and although no one is reading/will probably read this, I am kinda liking that I started this little diary/documentation of sorts because it gives me a chance to chill and listen to a little bit of music before hitting the hay. Without my internet like I normally have, I would at this point in time be mindlessly scrolling through Tumblr, Twitter, or Facebook; I've been able to use this little notepad during my normal social media time before going to bed. Anyway, I just went and reread that sentence/train of thought, changed it a bit and I still don't think it makes sense…oh well, it is late, and i've had a busy day, haha. Sooo yea, hmm, on my walk back to my little room I thought of things that I should/could write on here but now that I am lying down typing I seem to have forgotten it all (go figure) haha. Oh, but I did remind myself when I was in the shower that I hadn't yet eaten any cotton candy or carmel apples or junk food so far and I was very proud of myself! Then I realized it was only the end of day 2 and I didn't feel so impressive, haha. although, before I even started working and the carnival opened I thought how i wanted those things so, yea, I am still going to be proud of myself, even if it has only been 2 days!! Well, not too much different today than yesterday, although there was one more pick up and I believe more money was made today than yesterday, so that's always good. But I will tell you something about my days. The mornings/early afternoons are probably the easiest and pretty chill, but then as the night goes on and you have to do more pick ups after you have already done a couple and counting all the aprons, the end of the days do seem the more tiring. But anywho, tomorrow for some reason the fair opens at 11 instead at 12 so call time is 10…in which case I should probably get some sleep. Still debating if tomorrow will be the day or not. …you know, the day I finally get a carmel apple or cotton candy ;) haha. we'll see, and I will definitely keep you posted. (whoever "you" is) Well, until then…

Friday June 17, 2011

Phew, the carnival has officially started! I am pleased to say I am just crawling into bed at 1 (which I guess isn't to late actually) and boy can my feet tell it's day 1, haha. But, in spite of my feet being a tid bit tired, today was a good day! Getting started was a little fast passed because the fair opened at 12 when some had originally thought 3, so there was speed walking around going to booths and getting/making signs for people. After we opened I was able to chillax for about an hour and I finally got to catch up just a LITTLE bit on the Casey Anthony trial which I had been following thus far in Florida. I do kinda wish I could still watch all that stuff cause it all seems so interesting but, oh well, moving onward. So I get back from my break and I ended up doing 3 pick ups tonight…well, i'm not sure what exactly they are called but, I go around and get everyone's aprons, take all the money out, count it, write it down and enter it into the computer. We have hmm, well, we will count the games together. Short, Pool A, Pop A, Baskets, Tubs, Long, Pool B. So, 7 games. Now, I know you might not be following my terminology so let me explain. Short= the smaller/shorter of the 2 basketball games they have. Pool A= the pool tables where you call a pocket and hit the ball in. Pop A= one of the dart games where you try to pop the balloons. Baskets= trying to throw softball like balls into the baskets tilting sideways slightly. Tubs= same thing as baskets but with tubs. Long= this would be the larger/longer of the 2 basketball hoops. Pool B= (See Pool A). So there you have it, those are all the games I go around to to collect the aprons and count money. Now, I would go through the names of all the people that work at said booths but, that would be a rather long list of people i'm sure you wouldn't know, and also I haven't gotten 100% of the people's names down yet, ha. But, I will say, Claude (pronounced cload) is one of my favorites (and he thinks I look like CJ…and for that, I will take it as a compliment; for CJ, I do apologize, he really didn't mean it, haha.) Anyway, I was also able to chat for a minute with Sadae when she had no one at her game (she was at the baskets) (OH, and ps. Claude was at Pop A) and she's nice. She is one of Piper's friends (Piper= future room mate who won't come until Calgary.) But anyway, I guess this has been more than enough for tonight, i'm sure anything else I could add will be mentioned eventually. So, here's to falling a sleep with the sound of a nice little storm that just started as I closed the door to my room. Here's to another exciting tomorrow. Until then…

Thursday June 16, 2011

So, I'm writing a little early today, on account that I am just sitting in my room doing nothing…well, kinda. Last night I was looking around on my laptop and forgot about garage band, so i did a little tinkering. I found that not only can you make music on garage band but they also have piano and guitar lessons too! Well, that is something i will have to keep in mind when i have a piano or guitar with me. So anyway, after watching some of those videos and going to sleep, i decided to tinker with it a little more today. I decided I was going to try to make a mash-up of songs…a few that were somewhat similar. Well, I did my best and what I ended up with was less than impressive, but it was my first attempt at making something on garage band so, i'll let it slide. After making my crappy song I decided I would try out working with loops and sounds instead of songs. I was able to get a good blend of 2 piano's and drum loops going but, I don't know if it could work as a song, i'm sure i would need some sort of bridge or other variation in the music…but I am pleased with what I have at this point. Anyway, I thought I could come on and update about my new finding of garageband, haha. Well, that's it for now. I'll update later today as i'm sure I will have some free time and i'll think of something I forgot. Until then...

Update*
After I wrote this message, I actually had my busiest day. It was a good one. :) Tomorrow is opening day, let the fun begin! ;)

Wedesday June 15, 2011

Okie doke, it is 4:52 and it's time to update again. There isn't really all too much I need to do before the actual carnival begins since my job is to help out in the office, but i'll inform you of what i've been up to anyway. Today I haven't been up to much, signed up a few more people in the office to help out then caught up on mail and Facebook since I was able to use the internet. I also was able to find the Pretty Little Liars that aired last night and watch that. Yesterday I fell asleep watching The Princess Bride so I came back to my room to finish that and I just got done watching 50 First Dates…now I am out of movies, haha. Well, I guess there isn't too much more to say, it's been raining a lot today so its been pretty soggy out (not very good carnival setting up weather.) Since I don't have wifi I was also able to finally go through all of my pictures I have saved and organize an album of all the feet pictures I have taken around. I have pics ranging from 2008 till now from Romania and Canada to Grandma's old house, so thats pretty cool. Going through all my pics though I wish I would'a taken some when I was at other places like New York and Jacksonville; I just think it is kinda cool having all those pictures of my shoes in different cities at different times, like a form of documenting where i've been. Anywho, who knows what i'll be up to next but, I guess that's all from me. OH WAIT, I dooo however have some exciting new. My first night here I got a text saying Missy Higgins responded to a tweet when I had asked her a question…I was very excited, seeing as I love Missy Higgins, haha. And so today I tweeted her again showing my appreciation saying I was going to tweet her next week for a mention for my birthday and she tweeted me again wishing me a happy birthday!! :) Anyway, much to my delight she tweeted me twice in 2 days, which of course made me excited. Okay, okay, I know no one shares my enthusiasm (or like nonetheless) for Missy Higgins so i will shut up now. Until next time...

Tuesday June 14, 2011

Well, it is now 2:13 and I arrived in Canada last night. We flew in, got some dinner at Boston Pizza (which was very delicious by the way) and i unpacked all my stuff in what will be my room for the next 2 months. After unpacking and chillin at Buni's for a bit, i got back to my room, fiddled around on my laptop and hit the hay. This morningI went to get  shower and much to my surprise the hot water was apparently not working, haha. So I took the best shower I could as to not get any water on me…it was interesting, haha! Finally get dressed and it's time to find the office i will be working in while the carnival is in session. I go and help clean/organize for bit before making my first stop at Tim Horton's (which, of course I remember Kelly Ann and everyone raving over when they came here for their mission trips and Amanda being from New York also enjoying.) Anyway, I got a delicious donut and it was back to do a little more work on the fairgrounds (hiring new workers, getting shirts, cleaning, ect.) At the moment I believe most of the workers are (or were at least 30 minutes ago) going on break for lunch. Buni went to the store so i've just been chillaxin in the office. I just made it back to my bunk house/room and have wifi or anything (leaving my laptop somewhat useless only as a glorified ipod at this point, haha) so i figured I could at least do what my mom requested and write down some of my little adventure. I don't really know what's on the schedule for tonight, or tomorrow really (probably some of the same things today, just making sure everything is set and ready for the fair to open. Which, by the way, is Friday which was my next point i was going to make.) So anyway, seeing as i am typing this on my laptop and don't have any wifi, i have no idea when anyone will read this or it will be uploaded (which, not to say that if i had wifi anyone would read it anyway, ha!) But anyway, that's where we are right about now. I guess i've got nothing else so, if anything exciting happens, i will be sure to document it. Until then...