••Update••

So heres an update on my life thus far. After my last post I went to the IKEA Christmas Party. It was great we ate we dance we had a merry old time. My boss Kevin one this leather recliner hes been having his eye on for a while. There I danced with many of the lovely girls of IKEA, which very much good. My dancing surprised a lot of people and those of you who have seen me dance know why.

On the 18th I had my Birthday parties ... thats right I used the plural sence. At work I had one party and I must say that It was pretty good. Not only was the party good itself ( I loved the attention) the party had the most anticipation any of my parties had. After work I had dinner at the Keg with the folks. A few days later I had the party with my friends, going in I expected a bigger turnout, but I appreciate the people who did come I enjoyed myself.

Christmas was okay, I really missed having my sister and brother-in-law there but it was okay I had on okay time and I had Christmas pt. 2 when the arrived a few days ago. Also my mom as usual pulled together a fantastic spread - awesome food.

Also one last thing, I think I may have villianized the girls in my last post, which wasnt my intent. As you know Im somewhat of a weird and wacky guy and I think they needed some time to warm up to me which I think they have in the last month. So that front is all good now

Tasting Tears not tasted in Years

There was this after work party today. I wasn’t going to go because I wasn’t really invited. One of the staff however convinced me to go. So when I got there I realized that everyone was dressed nicely, because they knew about it yesterday and I didn’t know until this morning. So I sat down I was at the end of the table and pulled up a chair dressed in my work scrubs.

The party was a belated birthday celebration for one of the girls in Comm-In. Everyone else there was talking except me, and I came to realize something. You see whenever that girl and her friends are around I regress back into my high-school self. That was the most painful and miserable time in my life and -lucky me- I got to experience it again.

You see Its not anything specific these girls do Its just a lot of little things. They rarely talk to me, greet me or in any way acknowledge my existence unless they want something from me. There is one big thing however, it s the way they treat my boss. You see in many ways I see him as a lot like me we share many interests and have a similar personalities. So here’s “the rub” These girls are like half in love with him, they hang on his every word give him affectionate nicknames and whatever he does he seems golden in their eyes. This is absolutely fuckin’ infuriating considering I’m almost always working at his side and I’m the frustratedly single one of the two.

As the party progressed this feeling came became more and more intense and If I didn’t get out of there when I did I would have just exploded. As soon as I got home SONIC played “Hurt” by Johny Cash. Being in such a raw and vulnerable place I just sat in my car and cried.

Man I could’ve really used a hug.

All Hallows Eve

So Halloween has come and gone and I'm pretty proud of costume, I went as Ash from Army of Darkness and if you don't understand the reference then well ... I feel sorry for you. No seriously the costume went over big, or at least to those who understood it. Most people noticed that I shaved my beard for the costume.



The Chorus party was nice, Although I lost a saw tooth to a Toothpaste Pirate. I got there shortly before they got the dance underway, They brought out Thriller much earlier than I expected and as soon as it started all eyes turned to me. You see I can dance. Unfortunately I wasn't feeling the magic and I fell my performance suffered accordingly.

That Tuesday was the Staff "Party" we had a lot of people dressed up, 43 actually. I was the only one in Comm-in that dressed up which is a little weird. I didn't win though which I was a little disappointed by, but then again I didn't get it to the level of completion that I really wanted. I will be posting a picture of my costume once I get a copy.

Radio Sonic

So a coworker of mine "Chris from IKEA" had 102.9 Sonic FM over at his place this thursday for the "Home Edition" where they choose a applicant from those who had submitted submission form, I was looking forward to being there except for the fact that I had to be up at 4:30pm, but I wasnt alone pretty much the entire Comm-in department was there.





I carpooled there with Kevin and we got there shortly before 6, which is when the show started. The radio people said that his was the best turnout they have had before 6am. This was the first time I saw a radio broadcast and it quite the experience. Chris was totally in his element on the radio, and pulled in a pretty good haul in prizes at the very end.

They served breakfast there but I was pretty disappointed they served scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and fruit. I guess I was expecting a little more variety at the end Lynda Steele from Global showed up and played the "IKEA or North Korea" game where she had to Identify whether the given term was an IKEA product or something involving North Korea. She failed miserably.

At the end I made my way to work with the Comm-In girls. Since we went I had to make up the time which was an hour and a half so it wasn't to bad

Last Weekend

So I had another busy weekend last weekend last weekend. On Friday I had to stop by Sherwood Park so I could get my tires and oil changed and bum a free meal at my folk place. I couldn't stay long there though because son I had to make my way out to Capilano for Grants Birthday. This was the second time I was over to my place and I managed to find it with only minor assistance. the party was held all in the basement of his place which was cool because I never really got a look at it when I was over for his housewarming party. The crowd was like 90% chorus community, which was good because I knew all those people and I that made me feel a little more comfortable.

Later on Grant and gis friend Ryan retreated to Grants studio to do some jamming, I stopped in there for a while and it was a cool I never been in that setting. For the most part it was just Ryan doing some improvizational musical ramblings, which he has a great talent for. After that Sarah B. dragged us out to play "sociables." It was a interesting game kind of a mix of 52 pickup and Truth or dare. I didn't participate because I don't drink but I did watch as a social experiment, It had nothing to do that many of the women ended up in their underwear (It had nothing to do with that). I also found out later that it was also Pearls Birthday so I gave her birthday greetings before I left. As I was heading out the door I ran into Mike G. And he was like "your taking off already?" I came back with "Yeah I have Chorus in the morning..." I realized right after I said it that everyone else there had the same thing in the morning. I don't know why I used that excuse I had much more legitimate excuses in my bag. Ah well Cest la vie.

Saturday the Bass sectional was pretty dead, I think a lot of people were recuperating from the party last night. So the sectional was pretty uneventful, There was a small discussion of Disney sequels which was topped by Kaleb ending it with an Awesome Joke " Pocahontas 5: She's Finally legal." Later that evening it was the UAMC Pigless Roast. It was fun, Candice was there which was good, I enjoyed seeing her again. We played a few games before e dinner. There was regular catch as well as "Leaf catch". Leaf catch is where you throw a ball into a fall tree and try to catch leaves as they fall out of the tree but before they hit the ground. There was also some Frisbee there. I don't now why but no matter what I try I always veer to the left. Anyway I had to cut the pigless roast short, because I had D&D. That was also funny somehow me and the DM ended up reciting lyrics from "Jump around" from house of Pain. Which happened again the following Wednesday with Grant.

Sunday I didn't end up going to church because I had a long weekend and I had Dodgeball in the afternoon. Later on I left for the venue which after much exhaustive searching I never found. DAMN was I pissed, I didn't go last time making me want to go the more this time. There was also this really cute girl on the team and I thought this could be an excellent opportunity to get to know her outside of work.

Accountability

So I am again waiting for people to get back to me on various projects(at work), 2 individuals in particular. I have been after them for weeks to meet up with me and on several occasions they said they'd meet up with me and everytime they flaked leaving me to have to get after them again.

Now I can understand it if theyre busy and cant meet, but I think I'm not asking much that they either set a time they can actually commit to, or just tell me that theyre not coming.

Goodbye Lyndon

So today as the big send off for Lyndon we had this pot luck thing and for the most part. We gave the send off gift which was a 1.5 meter Vietnamese tribal mask. A lot of the party was socializing it was great to spend some time with smiles, chuckes and fuckles out of the work environment.

As the party wound down alot of the crowd went to Overtime downtown, when I said I wasnt going too Ron, Barb's (the boss) husband went into this huge tie raid on how a guy my age should be out at the bar getting drunk and the like, at the time I just laughed it off trying to be a good guest. But on the way back it really ate at ne how much his remarks bothered me.

I mean I dont really drink, and thats a lifestyle choice, I mean its not for any big reason its just that alcohol never really had any appeal for me. And if I did go to the bar I would just end up sitting around awkwardly discouraging offers for drinks and straing to hear any and all conversation.