Ever heard of a Degu?

Here are chocolate! Plural because there are 2 but we can't tell them apart so they are both named chocolate.

Degu's are very gentle and never bite. They sure are fast though! so they are very hard to catch. Very intelligent too.

Face Book

Ever heard of www.facebook.com ??? Well it is a pretty incredible site in which you could connect with people you haven't seen in a long time.

It was pretty exciting to see that Marc Lecour started a "youth at KRT" and looking at the pictures of the Dale era was quite amusing. Saw myself on some of them too.

I can't wait to scan and post some of the old pictures I have lingering around.

Please sign up and check it out, its free! Beware... its addicting though.

Job Situation

Well my job situation seems to change every couple of weeks. The last 3 weeks I have been filling in for someone I know who was off taking care of family matters. Well she returned this tuesday after the long weekend but I was asked to stay on as much as possible to help them get caught up with many needed things. This was at www.valleyleather.ca a upholstery furniture manufacturer. Then Randstad the employment agency called with a 6 day placement at Coca Cola here in Brampton. I started training for the reception position yesterday and I must admit that I went home feeling quite gloomy. The thing is that it doesn't seem to matter how much I practice typing it never seems to improve my speed and my brain has a hard time capturing names on the phone(specially when I don't know them) and the lingo in the corporate world is also something I don't know yet. Then today I returned to Valley Leather to continue the work I had started.

Weeks ago I was trying to figure out what I am really supposed to be doing work wise and also realizing that as a single mom I need to make a decent living. So I decided to use my outgoing personality and walked into Leons furniture and began to ask a salesperson how I could do what he does? This sales rep. really liked my tenacity and spunk and kept saying to me that I would do well in sales and asked me to bring in my resume. I brought a resume in a few days later and he introduced me to a manager and I had a 30 minute or so interview, after which I filled out an application and was told I would have to meet with the head sales manager before anything else could proceed. Three days later I met the head sales manager who informed me that he was watching my interaction with the "Top sales rep" on that first day and had stepped in and told him to ask for my resume because he liked what he saw.

Today I was informed that I have been hired on by Leons! The job is solely commission so I have to work for every penny I receive. The sales reps at Leons do make a decent living though and it would give me the opportunity to make way above a level that a clerical position could pay.

So yes I will have to work weekends which is a drag and Bill has assured me he will take Anisten more on those working days. Leons has a 10 day training time in which you are paid just minimum wage so I have yet to stay in the poor zone for a bit.

I have been told that I would be starting in the electronics/appliance areas so who needs some technology?

An emerging young lady

I guess every parent has these moments... Anisten and I stopped at Walmart today to buy some cat food. On the way in the parking lot we run accross a lovely couple who had been part of our "Just me and the kids" program at Bramalea Baptist. They helped out as leaders.

Well if you know me then you know that I never could just pass by without saying hello and a few other words. Well the proud moment came when as we say our good byes and walk away that Anisten says to me "wasn't it nice to run into them" it sounded so grown up and so polite... not that is not the proper term "caring" would be better.

Saturday Anisten will turn 10 and it seems like only yesterday that the holloring, crying, colicy baby was in my arms. Now I see a young lady emerging who cares for others. I also see a young lady who is known to many as talented and deep thinker/introspective who is not afraid to be an individual and stand up for what is right.

I guess today I am not the rantin chick but the gushing mother chick!

What? Okay... Maybe it was just my imagination?

Last Sunday night I was fortunate to hear the testimony of a lady who spoke of how God cares and answers prayers for us.


This elderly lady told of a time many years how her husband had been layed off and they had gone for 3 days without proper nourishment so she took time from her 3 children to go down to the basement and cry out in desperation to God for food.


After a while she "heard in her head" a voice saying "go to the store and buy milk" She did not have a penny to her name but none the less she packed up her 3 children and headed to the store.


At the store she knew she couldn't go in without money, after a short time she decided that it must of been her own imagination and not God, so she turned around and started walking home when she looked down and saw a $10 bill on the sidewalk. At that time $10 not only bought her milk but a whole weeks worth of groceries!

And some still think there is no God and/or that he isn't good? This lady and I would beg to differ.

I am the Rantin chick after all

So I am going to rant! OK being single sucks at times. But the issue really surprises me at times. Today I surprised Anisten and we went to Walmart to buy a new bike for her, as the old one was pretty small by now. Well off course the guys who built the bike at Walmart couldn't take the extra 5 seconds to pump up the wheels to the proper pressure so I had to detour on the way home to a gas station. So I find myself boiling on the inside, and realize that pumping up the tires is something I am more than capable of doing but guess what? I want a man to do it for me. Does this make me weak? No I think just honest.

God did make man and woman to be together and be helpmates to one another so I think my anger, desire, longing whatever you want to call it is ingrained in me. So the problem is I am alone....... And yes that really stinks!

Oh well since I don't have the power to change this today I guess I have to rely on the wisdom of My Heavenly Father. One day at a time I go and I must remember that his Grace is enough to get me through each day. Hopefully it wont be too long of a wait.

Wives do have their purpose