That's It, I'm Back

Me and my long hair

I'm sure you have been waiting impatiently on the edge of your seats, eager to read the next mediocre blog post I come up with. My apologies for it being so long again, I feel as though I have lost my groove when it comes to taking time out to sit down and write one of these monsters... it actually takes more concentration for me than I would've thought. I suppose it doesn't help much that I usually have nothing of particular interest to talk about, it's not like I sit here and discuss current events, so it is often quite difficult to find a good topic. I originally toyed with the idea of throwing out this blog altogether, but then I realized I am WAY too self-indulgent for that and would rather carry on talking about myself and my lazy days here in Kelowna.

Let's rewind a little bit and quickly (I use that word loosely) go over exactly what the heck happened over the past month since I have last written. Basically, as soon as Christmas was over and the New Year began, my days became ticking time bombs to find another full-time job. I figured it would be a perfect time to go career-hunting since all the kiddies were back and school. I soon came to find that it is the exact opposite. Many retail jobs reduce their hours after the holidays are over and lay off their seasonal staff, so I figured I would go down a different route entirely and look for a job that perhaps wasn't in retail. I was cruising on Kijiji looking for advertisements and postings when I finally stumbled upon a "Junior Sales Consultant" position at Telus. Intrigued, I sent in my resume hoping that it would be some sort of career-like opportunity. I really want to find something that I'll stay in longer term, so the fancy job title caught my eye. Damn those fancy job titles.

The position turned out to be a door-to-door sales crusade, in which I accepted and was evidently selling Telus home services. (e.g. Television, Internet, Phone) The office was fancy and clean; it was downtown in a chic building called "Atomic 33 Marketing" which immediately stunned me. I felt professional and well-to-do when I would take the elevator up to floor 3 every morning. All just shoe-shine on a boot. Day after day (which essentially was only four days) I would trudge up and down highways in the snow, clinging onto my clipboard of colorful brochures and application forms, pounding on each door that I would approach. After having the door slammed in my face nearly 78 times, (if not many, many more times than that) I still kept going at it. I figured I would give this job my absolute greatest shot and not let myself down by not trying. Everyone around me was convincing me otherwise, but for some absurd reason I refused to call it quits after one day. I found that the job itself did not intimidate me; I am perfectly comfortable walking up to a strangers door, someone I will never see again, and have them shut it on me. All I would mumble to myself was, "Next!" or "Yeah, I'd probably do the same thing." My cheesy smile and oh-too-perfect self-introductory pitch usually turned people off within their first glance. However, the thing that bothered me about this job was walking by myself at night, a twenty-year-old female, up and down an unlit highway out in the middle of the mountains. The doors that I would knock on would be 20 minutes apart. I'm not going to lie, they were not ALL like that... I had a few good streets here and there, but for the most part I just could not handle the discomfort of walking by myself at night alone. On day four I ended up calling my manager and quit on-site. I figured there had to be OTHER jobs out there in Kelowna... ones I'd like better... for the same amount of money. So I peace'd out and that was that chapter in my life.

The new look of my bedroom - notice the Jack J poster too

Since then my days have been filled with endless resume-dropping-off, babysitting my nephew, and sleeping. It's a tough life. I still get shifts at Hallmark here and there which has been fueling me for the past two weeks, but I'm still in hopes of finding something permanently full time. I had an interview at the Sony store last week, and I am setting up a second interview for the end of this week or beginning of next. With that particular job, there are three interviews: pre-screening, preliminary, and secondary. My pre-screening went exceptionally well if I may say so myself... although it may have only been 1 of 3, it still went just about as good as it could've in my opinion. There would be nothing more embarrassing than the owner of the store Googling my name, finding this blog, and reading this post thinking, "Wow, the interview did NOT go that well." So here's to me hoping that my self-confidence isn't false. However, I do look forward to the second interview and cross my fingers that it went just as good as the first. This job would be ideal: it's close by, full time, hourly wage PLUS commission... and who loves flatscreens and video games more than I do?

That's basically the gist of what has been going on in my end of the world. Mikey and I have been playing craploads of Modern Warefare on our Xbox Live, we're absolutely addicted. Sometimes Chris comes over and we have a few beers, eat pizza and play video games... I'm such a nerdy teenage boy at heart. I really do love it though. For all of you fellow Winnipegers, (all 2 of you that probably read this) I am indeed attempting to plan a trip back home within the near future to come and visit. It's bizarre how much I miss seeing the wind. I am also in the process of taking up some workshops at the Centre for Arts & Technology campus here in Kelowna, it is a digital art school that I have been drooling at the mouth to attend even before I moved out here. I kind of wrote it out as an option to attend for right now but they had a small symposium at the mall the other day and I found out they have day-long workshops on various topics that interest you for a decent price, so I'm thinking I'm going to go take a few of those and meet some people with similar interests as me. There's a few Adobe courses in there I'd like to check out so that has been on my radar as well lately.

Anyways, that pretty much concludes my catch up blog. I feel bad I have not been writing more but I am hoping now with all of this free time I have somehow gained, I will write more often. Forgive me if it is a few days in between posts as I usually try to think of things that are at least SOMEWHAT interesting to read. (I'm not sure if that ever really comes across.) I'll also try to make a better habit of taking more photos to liven these novels up a bit.

Until next time, this is Bree Hawkins signing off.

PS - Did I mention in the last blog post that we have a new addition to our family? Her name is Mr. Mojo Thomas, a bearded dragon. The reason that is her name is because we originally thought it was a male... and we let the boys name it. We recently found out that she is a female so we couldn't really think up another name that Landan and Brodie liked. I can't wait for her to get bigger though so I can take her for walks.

Mr. Mojo Thomas, the beardy