First off, thank you for your comment Daphne. I don't know how to use this setup for sure yet, so I hope you're seeing this. :)

This was a good week as far as new things go. I opened my own chequing account at the bank, and even such a simple thing as that gave me such a feeling of satisfaction, that I went hog wild and opened a savings account as well. lol Then I went to Costco to take out a membership through my karate club, but the store was closed. I haven't been back there yet, but I'm looking forward to doing a big shopping when I return to it.

Yesterday was my first day at work. I'm working 5 days per week, 4 hours per day. This is perfect for me right now because it gives me time to do things with my family and work at other things that interest me as well. So yesterday what I had to do was take a four hour training session on hazardous materials and bio chemicals, then write a LONG test on it. If I scored 80% or better, I would have my 'safety license' which would allow me to handle & transport these chemicals. I must have passed, because I was given my ticket. :) Then I was given my name tag with the title of "Office Specialist, followed by my name, then "I'm In Charge Of Customer Service". But what I'd really like to know is.....how come somebody with all these fancy titles only gets slave wages? lolol

So today was my second day at work. This time I was trained (translation: sat and watched) my trainer do her day's work. It took the whole four hours for her to show me which papers go with which receipts, where to staple them, what to add to them, what to initial, what to sign in full, which envelope, bag, book, box or filebox each piece goes into, and at the end of the four hours we made the bank deposit. Upon returning to the office, she said "O.k, have you got it now? Tomorrow you'll do everything I did today while I sit here and watch you, then you're on your own because I have the weekend off.". All I could do was say "HUH?" I have no idea what all this woman did today! I have to admit, I'm feeling rather ill at the prospect of doing this by myself on Saturday & Sunday!What if I'm too old to start over again like this. If you hear I've been fired this coming weekend, so be it. I really like where I'm working, but I think half the fun is that I just like to be out working! NO! I'M GOING TO LEARN THIS JOB AND KEEP IT! I'm getting old. I'm not dead!

What kind of example would I be to my kids if I let this get the better of me?! I was going to return to college for my Herbal Consultant Certification in September, but I think I'll put my income toward the family's karate tests in December, then start the college course in January.

OH!! BEFORE I FORGET....The other night my mom's dog was barking like a loonatic upstairs at 3:00 a.m. I got up and looked outside just as my mom's lights all came on upstairs. So I turned mine on also so she'd know I was up in case something was wrong. After checking out the yard front and back (through the windows), without seeing anything amiss, we both shut our lights off and went back to bed. The next morning the neighbour behind us called us outside. He said somebody was trying to break into his house the night before via the sliding glass door. He got up and turned on the floodlights, but by the time he made it back to the glass door, whomever was there had run away. However, they kicked the fence down between his property and ours in their haste to escape. These are 6 foot tall cedar boards, and they were smashed right through the middle. After looking through the yard here, we discovered the front gate (chain link) was on the ground at one end because the hinges had been bent down at the other end. We figured whomever it was, they must have jumped over the gate when they ran away. It does have a U shaped piece of metal that slides down over a post to open & close the gate with, but if you didn't know it was there you'd never get the gate open. And it was black as pitch that night. The neighbour called the police, but they don't respond to B&Es anymore. There are just too many of them here. But THAT'S why the dog barked like that! Anyway, that was our excitement for the week. Time to get my things laid out for tomorrow. Another 6:00 a.m. start!