another week and charity event

So let's see what to say about this last week. Work is going good. Learning quite a bit, the people I work with are great and I have to say that while somethings feels the same (what I said in my last post of the speed of the work and having close quarters to work in with my co-workers) somethings are different and those are the things that I really enjoy. For instance, back in camp when something needed to be done and the information was being relayed to the workers it had a certain ring to it. Let's call this a test. Can you tell which one of these two statements is from camp and which one is from my new job:

A- "Hey bozo and 'penis'--head, you guys keep f&(*ing up, get your f&(*ing a$$ $*&t together and f&(*ing learn, here is what I want you f&(*ing idiots to do from now f&(*ing on"

OR

B - "excuse me. I see that things are done this way. If it is possible could you please do it this different way to make things easier on the next people. Thank you."

If you guessed A was from camp, especially when Radio was doing the info relaying, then you are correct and win a gold star. I have to say that it is so refreshing and nice to be in an industry where the only people that swear and belittle me are the customers and not the staff or supervisors.

Another thing that happened this week was that the Mrs and I went to a charity event for the food bank. There was a silent auction being held by a couple of her twitter friends and she sort of volunteered me (as in they asked her if I would do it, she asked me and I find it so hard to say no to the Mrs) to bake a pie for the silent auction. I attempted a lemon supreme pie (cream cheese bottom, lemon pie topping on top) kind of pie. Turned out not too badly though the top part was melting by the time we got there so it had to be frozen to preserve the look. We almost lost the pie on the way to the event because we were on the bus and the bus was about to turn left at the lights that were yellow and going red. The bus driver was accelerating through when a cabbie decided that he couldn't wait for the lights so he gunned it through the intersection making the bus driver decide whether to slam on the breaks and send everyone in the bus lurching forward OR drive through the cabbie and remove him from the world's gene pool. The Mrs and I both agree that the bus driver made the wrong, however it was the more humanitarian, decision and slammed on the breaks. The Mrs and I both agree that the bus driver should have gone through the cabbie. Anyways, by breaking it caused both the Mrs and I to lurch forward and nearly crushed the pie between herself and the seat back in front of her. Luckily all that happened was that the casing it was being carried in got a little bent but the pie was unhurt.

The event was basically a silent auction where you bid with food over money to help raise donations for the food bank. Basically you came in and weighed in the food that you were donating and the conversion rate was 100g/100ml/$1 = 100 TIKI points. You then would take the tiki points and use them to bid on the items that were up for grabs. There were a lot of really interesting items and my pie was part of a 'pain/pleasure' package where you got two yoga passes, a case of honey cinnamon water (made and brewed here in edmonton by the owners of the shop we were at...not too bad stuff actually), and my pie.

It was a fun event, I have to say. It was funny to watch because at the beginning no one was bidding on anything. It was all just the minimum bid. However, as soon as the auctioneer called out "20 minutes left in the bidding", people started to hover over the bids and put in their last minute bids. A few bidding wars started to the point where some people had two going at the same time so they would write down on one and instantly go to the other one to put their name down and back to the first one. One of the girls wanted a package so badly that when it was announced that it was '1 minute left to bid' she wrote her name on the form but held the pen as if 'I am thinking..do I want to bid...what should I bid...what amount should I put' to stall. It was funny to watch. In the end, I won two of the packages. I got 2 passes to a yoga studio and 250grams of specialty tea from the store we were at in one package and the other had a big black forest cake (really really good one too) and two more passes to the same yoga studio. Funny thing is that I noticed the yoga passes expire on Sept 30/10 and I wrote the company asking if they can be extended but still no answer. So looks like the Mrs and I might have to go and do some yoga in the next 4 weeks.

Also my grandmother and mother have been down visiting for the last week. Definitely different having people visiting and me being working during the day than being able to take an extra week off work to do nothing but visit and spend time with them. But we have all survived, got things done that we needed to get done and all.

Tonight I go to night shift for the first time. I work the 7pm to 3am shift so it definitely will be interesting to see how awake I am for my first shift. I am up now at 8:30am to see my mom and grandmother off to the airport then going out for lunch with A and V (V is back from camp for her time out) and then hopefully grab a two hour nap before heading in to work. Gonna be interesting.