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I worked through Christmas this year, like I had any choice, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as years gone by. Something strange happened this year…stock wasn’t a real problem, most of the people who wanted to get a Apple TV got them. It seemed that whatever was big this year wasn’t to big for us, we just had it.
Things never got crazy until Christmas Eve, normally I close but this year my assistant decided that I didn’t need to close the department which was nice but really threw me off. I like closing on Christmas Eve, only the real crazies show up, besides we closed at 6:30 plenty of time to get home before my boys show up. I spent Christmas day doing something that I have come to enjoy, I went to a movie, this year I had some friends join me. Frankly when you only have one day off for Christmas it really is nice just to relax and do something for yourself, therefore my day a movie.
I needed to get a new laptop, my old one died on the day we left for the National Championship in Hamilton. I was going to wait but last weekend I got a steal of a deal at work. A HP envy 14″ and man I thought I liked my Sony before this one, it was a 13″ and I was always looking for the keys and not having my fingers in the correct places, not to mention that the graphics on the new one are bitchin’. I can actually touch type at a descent pace so I might just write a bit more. Started a new page about Hilltops football, should have done it two years ago. well I will use it to post about our run and attempt to three peat.
How do you know if your ready to start a new relationship. or if your asking this question should not the answer be self evident. I have been single for just over 3 year but really I haven’t been alone at all in that time. The last year has been some thing of a gone show as I have been friendly with a couple of ladies, something that has never happened to me before, seeing two at the same time that is. I was very clear to both that I didn’t want a relationship and that things could end at any time, one has been somewhat OK with this the other just dropped the, it’s been a year now I want more. I’m thinking about it, but I think I know the answer already….I’m not ready yet.
So this is the first time in forever I am off for three weeks of holidays, IN A ROW. Week one consists of spending some time with Carlyle golfing and we are off to Kananaskis today and then maybe one of the courses in Calgary. Week two is Fishing with Canute at Lake Besnard, the whole week just fishing and no Internet or phones, can’t wait. Week three is a mixed bag of the Saskatoon Jazz Festival and working for the Hilltops during the Canada Day Celebration at Diefenbaker Park.
It has been awhile once again since I have put anything onto my blog. This doesn’t mean that I have not had anything to ramble about, just that I have been kinda busy (and very lazy). Life continues, as you can tell since I am writing this. Many things have happened and many more are going to happen.
Work continues to hold my interest, but at this time football is demanding more attention, which is a good thing. My junior team of which I am the manager is the Saskatoon Hilltops and we are making a run at being the Canadian National Champions, one more win and we host the final here in Saskatoon. This year has been a lot more work than I thought it was going to be, but also a lot of fun. I just hope the boys can finish the year off the way we all want to. It’s hard enough saying good bye to the 5th year players, saying good bye with a Championship would make things a bit easier.
The reason I decided to to write tonight is that I went for dinner with a friend from high school, we haven’t talked in a couple of years as we have been living in different cities. It is always a good time when we do get together and we seem to fall back into the old rhythm that we had back in the day. Hopefully a little wiser since we are a little older, but pretty much back to the days when we would talk on the phone for hours listening to music. There are people in your life that just should be in your life and she is one of them. We have been friends for 27 years and probably over that time only seen each other less than 10 times, but each time it seems like we were talking just the other day. During our conversation she said something to me that I hope will stick with me for a long time, it was a question put to her for which she is still searching for a answer.
“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
I did it! I went to Las Vegas with a friend from work for six days. While it was not exactly the vacation I would have planned I got out of the country and relaxed, which was the intent. Even though this was not the correct place to go with my friend, I am a party person and Vegas is a PARTY town, my friend is not. It was a good thing that I knew this going in otherwise my first vacation would not have been so good. I can hardly wait until next year, I think that somewhere warm is in the cards.
I have been thinking about traveling for the last couple of months and I have two weeks of holidays starting in less than a week. I haven’t finalized any plans but I really have to do this and go, no matter that I will be going by myself. I just need to do this, hopefully I will post from where ever I end up.
This is one of those things that I never thought I’d do, because I just never had the inclination to go to one of those sports dinners. So there I am at the Hilltops clubhouse and the question is asked, “Does anyone want to go to the Sports Celebrity Dinner? Wayne Gretzky is the guest speaker…and the tickets are $300. Well I’ll pass cause I don’t want to sit and listen to Wayne for $300, even if the club is paying 1/2 the price of the ticket. But you know how things go and I end up there anyways so here I am waiting to see Wayne get piped in by the best pipe player in Saskatchewan and hmm there is no Wayne. Well I guess they wanted to make it more special so they have him announced and led in by none other than the Prime Minister, well gees the night just got a little more interesting. Now they are going to have a question and answer period with Stephen Haper and Wayne Gretzky and the Prime Minister is the question asker. Well a couple of questions go by and then Wayne says well I thought that it would be great if I had the greatest player of all time come and join us. Well if you were my little sister this won’t be a big deal to you since she was used to seeing him when she’d go and visit her friend, but there he was Wayne Gretzky’s idol and the most important hockey personality to come from Saskatchewan Gordie Howe and now he’s sitting down with the other two, Wayne and Stephen, and they continue the question and answer period. All in all it was a good evening and Wayne was the focal point of the night, but truth be told he is not a great speaker so the night was stolen by Kelly Chase and his blue humor at the expense of his friend, at least I hope they are friends cause otherwise ouch, Wayne Gretzky. I guess that this is just another in a long line of things that I thought I’d never do…kinda glad I did though.
It doesn’t seem like it, but I mostly count my year from the time I do inventory at the store to the next time I do inventory. Christmas falls somewhere in between and the dates of inventory change from year to year. I must say for my first year back in my old store things went relatively well, that is to say I didn’t kill any customers, nor did I truly want to. People need to know a few things though about Christmas shopping and I think I will point them out, granted they are not obvious but come on.
1 It’s not the employee’s fault that we sold out of a item, either you came to late in the day or the company didn’t buy enough. If there is more to get we will try and get some more it’s Christmas try and be a little happier.
2 Presently we don’t sell Wii’s and frankly trying to buy one two days before Christmas….come on.
3 I don’t control Apple’s production line. Trust me even though I don’t make any money selling Apple computers, if I could have gotten you a 27″ so that your Christmas wasn’t ruined I would have. Same thing applies to the Magic Mouse, don’t look at me like I have two heads when I tell you I haven’t seen more than one, why would I lie I don’t know you and if I did again why would I lie.
4 On Christmas eve you should not be shopping for gifts five minutes before the store closes. If you haven’t got all your presents before the nice lady comes over the intercom to announce that we will be closing in 15 mins. your screwed go home. Some of the staff have families and would like to go and spend what little time we get at Christmas with them.
So now that inventory is done I can start a new year and get ready to do it all over again, but I think first I will take a vacation and forget about this Christmas and inventory it will make doing it next year so much easier.
