Monday June 27, 2011

Well, it's only 12…pm, and i'm just waiting on everyone to get everything set so we can start driving to Regina, our first pit stop on our drive to Calgary so I thought I could waste my time by coming on here to write this since I am in my bunk where there is no internet, haha. …wow, that was a long run-on sentence. ooh yeaaaa, (hahaha, when I was typing that 'oh yea' was just being sung over my itunes, which was the reason for my "ooh yeaaaa' because it is MMMBop. haha!)

Ok so, back to my normal time of updating right before bed. We are in Regina right now on the way to Calgary. We stopped at a little strip mall place/walmart parking lot and are staying in our same bunk houses. (No worries, there are about 20 other trailers/RV's here too so, it isn't weird, haha.) I guess we pulled in around 10 then Claude and I went into Wal-Mart for a bit before meeting Buni and Paul at some restaurant for dinner…it was good. I had chicken and bacon pizza. But anyway, enough about my dinner menu. For the drive thus far I was looking at the huge map book thing Buni had in the truck. I don't know why but I really love maps. …actually I kinda do know why, because I like to travel and just looking at maps kinda takes me there a little bit. (weird, I know) But anyway, as I was going through this book I realized I reeeally want to travel across the country. I mean, not like I didn't before, but, there is just so much of this country I haven't seen. Although most of the states I were studying the most were all of the states out west…where mountains are, like Montana, Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, California. Each page was a detailed road map of every state and let me just tell you, I turned the page for Oregon and it was like, GREEN. (you know how they have green on the maps that indicate forests or parks or whatnot. And that is what I look for in a state on a map. I am not kidding they had the little tree symbol on every centimeter of the coast! Sooo, naturally it made me want to go to Oregon again really bad. I would also like to go to California really bad and Washington. I don't know when this would happen but, i'm pretty sure it needs to! If I could just make a lot of money and start saving, then I could just have a few weeks, like a month or something and just go exploring out west I would be the happiest person ever!! Like seriously, how fun would that be?! My only problem is that I would need a car and I can't rent one cause i think you have to be 25 or something and not only would it be kinda time consuming and boring having to drive through the boring states like Oklahoma and Kansas, but the gas bill would be pretty substantial I suppose! But anyway, a girl can dream, right?! Dang, I really wish I could have done the Belmont West thing out in LA for the Spring semester cause that would have been an awesome spring break trip but, oh well. Ok well, I don't want to bore anyone with my hopeful ramblings so I guess I can shut up now, haha. So the point of this story, I need to play the lotto here in Canada because they don't take out taxes on the money you win and when $30 million is advertised to win the lottery, you actually win $30 million! shooot. haha. Night all. I'll be boring you again soon i'm sure. Until then…

Sunday June 26, 2011

Well, well, well. The first carnival is officially finally over. I am getting done a little earlier than I thought…although I am the only one done and everyone else is still breaking down their games. It only 3:23 and I'm not too tired. I've got to say though, there have been many times throughout this week when I thought to myself: I love people…or this person or that person that works here. One thing memorable about today was Nathan. Let me tell you about Nathan. He is a little mexican looking guy (?) I dunno what nationality he looks but, i dunno, that doesn't matter. Well anyway, he stutters a lot when he talks and I can only even understand him about half the time. Well I will sitting outside the office one morning waiting on Buni and so was Nathan. He was our worker that didn't work at any of the games but whose only job was restocking (blowing up balloons, basketballs, ect.) Well anyway, so Nathan and I got to chat for a good 10 maybe 15 minutes and God bless the guy. I was able to learn a bit about him and I enjoyed our little talk. Since then he would always come up to me and just talk for a minute or so…telling me the same thing 5 times but, I didn't care, I wanted to hear him anyway. So onto my story (haha! that wasn't even what happened this morning I'm meaning to talk about, haha.) So I go out of the office to wander around and he walks up to me a little sad looking and starts talking. He said he was just feeling very sad and how he needed to get out of this town (oh I know the feelin' Nathan) and then he just starts crying. I felt so bad, like I just needed to give him a hug or something…and I aaalmost did but, I didn't want to frighten him, haha. So I asked him what's got him so sad and listened to him talk for a little bit…stood there in silence for a little bit, but hopefully not an awkward silence, just a silence that let him stand there for a minute and not have to talk and also maybe not feel alone. So anyway, one of his concerns was that he really wanted to travel with us to Calgary but then I heard he wasn't going to. Although last I heard form Nathan tonight he told me Randy said that he could go and work for a ride (?) although that isn't with or through us so, I don't know how reliable that is. But, I hope it's true anyway. I'd like Nathan to be able to go to Calgary. …and I know it's big but, if he does end up going I hope I run into him again. I don't expect anyone to be reading these, but if there is anyone out there that is, include Nathan in your prayers tonight. I'm not exactly positive what all is going on in his life but, if he was shedding tears this morning, he's got something on his mind and a little prayer never hurt anybody! One thing that I did learn from him that I will share with you is that he is…either 60 or 90 days sober, which I told him was good. He got out his keychain and you could see the little key chains they give you for each month, you know, 30 days sober and whatnot. He said he just got his last key chain last month and I think he said it was 3 months? But it might have been shorter. Anyway, I guess that's enough about Nathan but, it was on my mind so, I thought i'd share. Well, i'm positive there are more stories from today I could share (like Ronnie asking me again if we could go out) but i'm not trying to write a novel here. I hope everything is beautiful where you are! I don't know when i'll be able to upload this seeing as we leave tomorrow for Calgary and we won't get there till Wednesday and then we leave Wednesday for Banff too (!!!) but, oh well. Until next time…

Saturday June 25, 2011

Well, I am writing a little earlier than my normal time tonight because i'm….(wait for it) waiting on a snack size m&m mcflurry to come for me! hahah. I was working in the office when I got a call from Claude over the walkie talkie asking if I wanted anything from McDonald's. Of course me being Amy said i wanted a mcflurry. So I arrived just in time to give him some money and Lynn drove off with him, Randy, and Savannah and are gonna bring me and wally back some stuff. I'm excited. Well today was a good but tiring day. It was crowded and the numbers were good so, that is always good! Although, I did fail on my mission on getting fries. Claude had to work Pop A today because Conrad was gone and every time he was on break, I was counting the money from my pick-ups, haha. So I went over to the fry booth at one point just to get the fries on my own but Cameron wasn't there and no one else knew me : / so, maaaybe that will be something I can accomplish tomorrow. …and as for the itunes, I knew i wasn't really gonna do that today, but I did try but the internet was really slow and not working to great at the time so I just cancelled my quest to discover new music (also because of the fact I think at this point in time either Buni or paul had music going over the loud speakers, so i couldn't just sit there and sample music. Anywho, tomorrow is the last day!! I miiight now write tomorrow night because right after close is break down, which apparently lasts until around 4:30-5 or so in the morning…probably/maybe longer. But then Monday we are off to Calgary and then Banff!! (which i am totally excited about!…I get to see mountains! woo hoo!) OH, and I also discovered today that Emily and Lindsey love Grey's Anatomy tooo! yay! So we talked after dinner about our favorite characters and certain episodes from this season and last…finally someone i can talk to about one of my favorite shows!!! haha. Oh, and a guy asked me out, ha! Oh Ronnie…I think he just graduated high school. He is about 300 something pounds and is always up at the office asking Buni and Paul questions…mainly Buni and driving her crazy, haha. Anyway, I found that comical. So there you have it, my run down for the day. kinda. Now just gotta make it through our last day tomorrow…and we open at 11 instead of 12 so call time is 10. It's gonna be a long day I can already tell. Until next time...

Friday June 24, 2011

Nothing like crawling into bed at 2:20 in the morning. Needless to say it was a late night at the carnival. The fair didn't close till after 12 sometime so I didn't end up leaving the office till 1:45…when before getting back to my room I saw Claude, Wally, and Randy sitting out talking so I naturally had to stop and talk for 15 minutes. But now I am all cleaned up and ready for a nice nights sleep. Well, I don't really have much to say about today. It was kinda unusually slow earlier today but it definitely picked up after the sun went down (which around here is sometime after 9, haha) I'm curious about Calgary coming up though because I was just warned again how crazy busy it gets…and if I thought right now i'm having late nights. woah, look out Calgary! haha. I'm sure I will probably be dead halfway through that one. ha. But I will keep you posted. So, on the agenda for tomorrow (but since you will be reading this tomorrow…or probably even after tomorrow…I could even say yesterday…but then again that is only assuming anyone reads this…which I don't) now where was I? Oh yes, on the agenda: see Cameron and get some fries!! The whole time I have been here I have been meaning to go to Buni's sisters fry stand thing and see if Cameron (her son who also went to good ole SJS) would hook me up with some free fries! But of course being the wimp that I am, I have been too scared to go by myself because I don't really like asking people for free stuff. Sooo, to solve my dilemma, Claude goes there probably more than once a day to get fries, drinks, ect. so I am going to have him go with me my first time over to break the ice! hahaha. yea, i'm awesome. Although I do realize I am a little late seeing as the last day of the fair here is Sunday buuut, they will be with us all summer so, my outlook is still promising. Also, I at some point need to look for some new music to download from itunes. I got a lot of itunes money for birthday (!!!) so it's new music time! :) I already have some albums that I have thought of buying in the past but never ended up getting so i might go sample those one more time and get them if I still like what I hear, haha. Alrighty well, I guess that should be all from me for tonight/this morning. Until next time…

OH, and what is going on with the Casey Anthony murder trial thing? I've been missing it!!

Thursday June 23, 2011

Phew, it seems like this day went by kinda fast, but looking back I can't believe this morning was only this morning! haha. (did that make any sense? probably not) Anyway, the fair didn't open till 3 today so, that is always nice, but you know what that means? Errands. That is what I did up until fair time. Oh, and did I mention i'm live?! Well…not really, but we have wifi in the office now so I can update my blog everyday! (how lucky are you?! hahaha) So that was first on our list…which took a while; then the bank, then the canadian superstore, then a store almost exactly like Ross, then Wal-Mart then finally back to the fair where we were a little late for call time (which was 2.) Upon our arrival almost all the games had to be switched around because 4 people quit. So it was a small flurry of moving tap around on the aprons and then having another person show up outside the gate that wanted to be hired and getting him in and set up…so anyway, the afternoon went by fast. Then it was back to normal of doing pick-ups and counting the aprons, ect. Then I decided I really should do some laundry when on my way back to my room some guy comes up to me and said he had been talking to so and so and something else, but that they were trying to put together a little bible study with some book and I am in? And just like that with a fist bump I had signed myself up to be a part of this bible study some people are trying to get started! haha. (I believe Buni had known some people that had always wanted to start one so she told them I might want to go and there you have it.) So anyway, I had actually seen this guy before and he's pretty nice so, it should be interesting! (at least) I'm kinda excited about it…and i'll be able to get to know some more people out here. I just got back from my shower and passed the nightly gang and they were asking how I was ect. so I asked how everything was going with them and Randy was saying how much he really liked today…that it was kinda busy and that his daughter and grand daughter were able to come and see him. It was really sweet. I was able to meet his grand daughter, she is 4 or 5 I believe and let me tell you she was a cutie…and Randy is such a great grandpa (although he doesn't really look it…and another side note, I really like Randy…and all these guys that'll be traveling with us as a matter of fact, haha) So yea, I would definitely say today was a good day! I think it's funny though me commenting on my 1am witting time when I started this thinking that was maybe late…and here I am writing at 2:37, haha! So, tomorrow's call time is 11, the fair opens at 12. I can't believe it is already Friday!! Time sure does fly. OH, but in other exciting news, Paul booked us rooms today in Banff for in between this spot and Calgary!! He showed me some pictured off the website and it looked really nice!! I'm exited!! And of course will have to make sure my camera is fully charged! Ok, ok, I know you don't have all day so I will be done typing, sometimes it just happens that I start and keep going and going (most of the time only who knows what about, haha) and before I know it I have a paragraph when I just went to add a sentence (case in point, right now.) So anyway, that's all from me. I should really get some shut eye. Until next time...

Wednesday June 22, 2011

So i'm sittin there going through my old ipod and listening to music/deleting songs off itunes and I just realized I haven't wrote anything yet for today so i figured I guess I should probably go ahead and update. (…although there really isn't much to update about) Today was just a normal day here at the carnival. Actually, it was cold and rainy all day so…not so fun. But tomorrow is Thursday which means there are only 4 days left! Phew, time sure does fly. So we have Thursday-Sunday left then we pack up and head to Calgary. Paul said we will be there by Wednesday and we still might go to Bamf, which i really hope we do because I heard it was really pretty! But I also did hear that the last part of the drive to Calgary was really pretty because you can see the mountains so I am at least excited about that! (You know how I love my mountains!) So anyway, I guess I don't need to go and bore anyone (myself) by trying to think of something to ramble about so I will just go ahead and stop here. But yea, another good day. Until tomorrow...

Tuesday June 21, 2011

Well, it is now 2:37 and I just got in from sitting outside with the carnies for a few hours talking…well, half the time listening to claude talk about his puppies and show me 600 pictures he has on his iphone, haha. (man he likes to talk! ha) But it was nice to sit out and talk with the gang, I like them. I also got to hear Wally's view on Christianity and religion…lets just say I probably won't be convincing him to join me at church anytime soon….but the sad thing about it is, the things he was saying I didn't really know how to respond to like, it was a "yea, you are right, and that kinda does sound terrible buuut," Oh well, the summer is young and i think i'll be joining them out there for talks a lot more often! Anyway, it was freezing out and raining so, that was no fun. But Claude just helped me make the heat work in my room finally! After it's been freezing in my room all day!! Well, I guess that's about it. We don't open until 3 tomorrow so that's exciting! Call time isn't till 2 so at least I get to sleep in…and maybe Buni will have some errands she will need to run that I might be able to tag along for. Ok, ok, this really is it. I'll listen to a few songs then hit the hay. Until tomorrow night...