the feeling's sinking in...

I think that I've finally settled into life here in Guelph. Getting my room all settled in, starting a new job, reformatting my computer, all that good fun, I guess. I'm gonna try to take pictures of my place sometime today. I've finally finihsed decorating most of it, even though my living room is a bit sparse. No TV, but neither me or Adrienne really watch it enough to warrant it. I do sometimes wish I had some super nintendo or something.. haha! I've been trying to liven it up with some plants and stuff.

My new job is rad... I've been quite enjoying myself the last two weeks. I'm working with almost 80 other students around my age. It's been training the last two weeks, so I've been able to get to know some of the other people quite well. Definitely a welcome change from my hermit-like lifestyle I had been leading the weeks prior to that. The first friday, we had a half day at work, followed by a bbq lunch provided for us... Saturday and Sunday night, there were some parties happening, and good times were had. Monday was Victoria day, and Scott had a little shindig at his house... BBQ, followed by some fireworks, drinks and card games. Wow, I never thought that playing Pit drunk was so ridiculously funny. An apt description of it is Old Maid on steroids!
But man, oh man, that whole weekend, I felt like I was eating hamburgers and hot dogs ALL weekend.. I was feeling pretty lardy by the end of the weekend. Also, I'm gonna upload some pics from the weekend onto yahoo photos... Website will come when I get stuff up there!

Oh, back to the job... Besides training, this week was spent preparing for all the samples we'll be getting. The lab's goal is to test 1 million samples this year, so 1 million bags need to be labelled. We spent the last 5 shifts labelling bags. It'd be quite monotonous, if we couldn't sit at a big table with like 10 people and just talk. And this thursday, we went on a field trip... Visited some orchards and a fruit packaging plant, lunch and then on a winery tour at Jackson triggs. And all this was paid for, and we were getting paid FOR it! Good times, good times.

I've also finally jumped on the bandwagon, 4 years late... I upgraded to windows xp. I couldn't handle not being able to download my photos to my computer, so I after organizing my computer, I backed it up and clean installed winXP. My computer can't QUITE handle it, but it's holding up the fort for now. And I get to have my pretty pictures on my computer! yippee!

But I think that all the excitement of the changes has worn off. I was looking at livia's pictures from her geography trip to bc, and it just made me miss it... Talking about black tusk, and west coast coniferous trees, and even looking at pics of china town and gassy jack. My heart's been especially sentimental or something. It's not so much teary, but more the funny pangs of emotion in the heart when you feel like you're missing that thing that would just it THAT much better, whether it be your lover, your dog, or cake. Hearing about mark moving to a new place, reading jackie's blog, and cooking delicious meals by yourself has given me that feeling too.
It happened today too, despite today being really nice and relaxing so far.. Woke up 11ish, and made some buttermilk waffles using "just add water" mix. Let's just say it'll take a few times before I get the recipe down. I sat outside on the balcony, watching the clouds float by, and it was just one of those moments when you wish you had someone dear to you to sit there and enjoy it with. Despite the nippy temperatures, it would be a perfect day to sit and read in the sun. I think maybe I'll go do that now!

| feeling: OK |
| listening: The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt 1 |
Today's Fotolog: Land of Dandelions

p.s. hehe... which one of you was it that searched "joming blog some" on google? hahaha, so great!