Ahh, a day off. It sure felt good not to have to work today. It's the first time I've had a Thursday off in a while. Feels weird. It also felt like a shopping day! Today I purchased 4 xbox games!!! There was one wicked sale going on at EB Games. I picked up 3 second hand games there and got 25% off. I even got a Halo 2 lanyard to make my old supervisor jealous. He was all proud that he attained level 12 in Big Team Battles in halo, well now I have a halo lanyard and he doesn't! But anyway, I then hoofed it over to Best Buy and picked up the two remaining 1 GB minidiscs. Oh, and a copy of Knights of the Old Republic II. It's supposed to be a sweet game, and the first one was fun, so it can only lead to more fun! Now, trends show that I play on the light side of things first... Like Knights of the Old Republic I, and Fable... So I'll probably head down that road again, saving the universe or whatever.

Lots of snow ended up falling today. We were hit with a messy storm. So messy infact that it messed up my evening. I was supposed to go to a movie with the nurse, but it was cancelled on account of the road conditions from her place to mine. This of course makes me sad. But beyond that, the evening was ok. I ate a "G Dubya steak sandwich" at Lone Star. My little cousin was in the Bronco Billy club so we had to go for free eats for him. He wore a foam hat, and got the standard happy birthday sung by the staff, which seemed to make him happy. He probably had more fun with the hat than the ice cream desert he got. I'm surprised he actually ate the desert. It was drizzled with chocolate sauce, and he's not the biggest fan of chocolate. We made him try it, and he ate it. Weird little kid. The rest of the night was spent at home. At home with a visit from the girl next door that is. She was calling on her cell phone, asking me for help on downloading music and uploading it to her MP3 player. I helped as much as I could over the phone, but the connection kept cutting out, so she finally switched to the landline in her house to call. People and cell phones... I have one, but I'm not that crazy with it. Anyway, she was wondering where her download of Kalan Porter was and why she couldn't find it for download again. In comes me with good plannning! When I was last over at her place helping her find music, she queued up the Kalan Porter CD for download. But knowing her, I decided to download the same thing when I get home, just incase she didn't manage to download. And would you know it, I was right. Saved myself a lot of hassled it did. Crazy non-tech people. You should have to take a "computer user" test and get a license to operate a PC... Just like driving. Oh well.

Oh, and to top the evening off, a few games of Halo 2 with my friend NonVermillion in Moncton. His free Live ends soon, so he's trying to get all the gaming in he can. Poor guy. Live is so much fun. He's going to miss it.

So this is my day. Tomorrow is another wonderful day of no work, so I hope to enjoy it! I have that bank appointment, so hopefully I'll be on my way to securing a safe future, or something. Yay!

Wow, my new shift sure is long. 10 hours, same amount of breaks as an 8 hour shift... It sure wears you down... But thankfully it's my "friday night". I have two days off to recoup before the weekend 2pm to midnight shifts. I'm sure glad that only comes once every three weeks. But anyway, our team at work broke a sales record or something for one shift. over 100 sales. I suppose I did my share, which felt good. Hopefully if we keep up this horrible sales stuff we'll get some special projects or something. I'm itching for some nice free things! Also, my last supervisor is sending away my raise to be approved, so hopefully I'll get it. I could use the extra money to pay off that student loan and those other things in my resolution. I've started the road to meeting my goals or something... I've set up an appointment with the bank to start an RRSP, and I'm going to stop by the gym tomorrow morning. Go me! And what's going to be keeping me entertained as I trek around town? Why my new minidisc player! I'm so happy with it. I've been transfering music onto it for the last hour, and I still haven't even dented the gig disc. I've thrown on some Mixmaster mike, Beastie boys, DJ Bobby B and Deltron 3030 to keep me going for tomorrow. And what if I run out of music? Well it's got a radio too! Great little music device! I'm so happy. Yay me. Anyway, big day ahead of me tomorrow, so I gotta get my rest!

It's finally 2005, and just like everyone else, I am going to make some new years resolutions. The fact that I didn't make any before the actual event, and that it's already 3 days into the new year means nothing really. I just figured out a few things I wanted to do for this new year. I also figured I would put them in writting somewhere so I would actually have them somewhere to remind me. I figure they'd go something along these lines...

1. Start an RRSP --- I'm obviously not getting any younger, and the sooner you start one of these the better right?
2. Join Goodlife --- Yeah, this one's probably on a lot of people's lists, but for me it's important because I'm actually tired and snowboarding recently reminded me that I'm not in the shape to enjoy the things I want to, so, no pain no glory or something like that right?
3. Lead a cleaner life --- This is basically a good thing in general. I have tried to cut out soda last year, but it slowly crept back into my life thruout the year. Infact, I drank a can of ginger ale and a 710 bottle of pepsi today. Not the best thing to injest really, but I was a little too lazy to refill the water bottle in the fridge. Hardly a good excuse. Going to work on that too.
4. No excuses --- I honestly made jokes about it the other day. I said "I don't make up excuses after I fail something, I make them up before because I know I won't succeed." Hardly a positive attitude, and of course this was in reference to snowboarding. Hardly a day out to brag about either, but maybe my attitude was a little misplaced.
5. Be more assertive --- This is basically because my friends at work have actually been pushing me to fight for my Tier at work. I knew I didn't really deserve it, but I met the target my supervisor made for me at work, and I *WILL* get my Tier and raise. I have the 40 sales I needed. A dial to DSL migration, and a Basic to HSE upgrade. Along with all the other sales I *WILL* get my raise. Either that or find a new job because that would just be rude of them.

And also as a sidebar on all these boasts, I'm going to cut myself off from the internet a bit. I'm also going to cut out watching tv/movies. I've already disabled my MSN from starting up automatically, and I'm going to unhook the cable in the basement, and pack away my remotes and controllers. I'm going to eliminate those damn life draining things. I haven't seen some of my friends in a while, and after not making it to a new years party and receiving a comment like "where the hell were you" makes me realise that hey, people do really want me around, and I don't want to be at my house all the time. Besides, I could use a little colour.

So this is my plan. By this time next year, I *WILL* be back to an ideal weight. I *WILL* be more social. I *WILL* be a tidier person. I *WILL* be prepared for the future.