Hockey Night in Canada

As promised, 

I am nursing a herbal tea while watching a couple of good 'ol hockey games.  Price and the Canadiens got themselves a shut-out against the Sens tonight!  3-0.  It is so good to rub it in all the Montreal 'fans' faces how great Price is doing this season.  The fans here are the worst!  It's actually hard being a Canadiens fan here.  But I love it!  I always tell the story of the Habs being my dad's favourite team and so they have been mine.  : )  Told that story last night!  It's always delivered with  an honest devotion... especially after a few pints of blonde.

Those moose heart posts are hilarious!  It sounds like Mertch and Ticky's trip to Marsh Lake was sweet!  Mom, you are one busy retired lady!  I am impressed by your stories of hot tubbin' and dance partyin'!  Mom, congrats on the new phone!  I love that I can text you now!  You should just keep it on all the time if you have unlimited texting.  That way I can just text you when I want you to call me.  (or when it is 2am and I'm watching an amazing bluegrass show down at Grumpy's).  What kind of phone is it?  Is it an LG Rumour 2 by any chance?  If so, that is one tough phone!  I have flushed mine down the toilet and dropped it from three stories up onto the concrete below and it works like a charm!  Definitely the right phone for me.  And don't worry mom, I was really confused when I first got my phone.  But you will figure it out over time, trust me!  I'll show you some tricks when you get here.  ; )  I can't wait for everyone to start arriving in Montreal for the holidays!  My work has gotten really slow in the last week, so they are encouraging and even forcing some of us to take our vacation time now and for the next few months.  They even put a bunch of the newer employees to part time!  This is a bit worrisome, as Heather and Shawn's wedding is going to be one week at a 5-star hotel in Mexico this March.  I don't know how I am going to afford this, especially being that they are forcing us to use our vacation days now.  But I have received a lot of flack for even considering that I might not be able to afford a $1700 - (minimum) spring break vacation.  So I guess it just means some sacrifices.  Which might mean not going home again next summer.  That will make it 2 years since I've been home!  I miss it and I want to go there for a visit so bad.  

Anyways, the pics I posted are from the canal right in my neighborhood.  The tall building with the clock on it is the Atwater Market.  I had a huge long walk there on my day off for Thanksgiving and I wrote down all the things I am grateful for!  It was a long list!  Fall is lovely here, but the snow will be flying within the next few days I feel.  My room is FREEZING already.  I dread every four seconds of getting from my bed to the shower in the morning.  Need more blankets.  oh ya!  I wanted to ask if dad could bring my snowboard/boots/bindings to Montreal with him!  (Krista's Gnu).  I would love to have those for the winter here.    

Other than that, work is getting a bit better for me.  I am finally getting into my flow and my 'productive minutes per hour' have gone up! haha!!  After eight rounds of 'speed training,' I have been posted on the reference department board as 'most improved.'  haha!  It's like, "Hey you used to suck and now, you don't suck as much!"  Weird office.  I also received the 3 foot tall Superman figure.  Superman is passed around my team to show our appreciation for each other.  The new guy gave it to me because I always answer his hundreds of questions and because I thought it was cool when he took his insulin needle in the lunchroom.  I also got an informal quality review from my team lead who audited some of my files - a flawless %100!  So that's cool.  I have also been hanging out with a lot of people from there too.  There is always a crew of people looking forward to cinq-a-sept come 6pm Friday!  

Anyways, off to watch a movie I figure.  Love ya!