So, it turns out I'm not working front desk at Gardens West. I will be a feature writer for them instead. I'm also a production assistant. What a dream!!! Somehow they hired me over the other hundred applicants who had writing experience. She hasn't even seen my work. Life is so unexpected sometimes. I'm heading out to Chiliwack next weekend ( ( Read more... )

Last day of work at Focus. Just waiting for Jason to print of the invoices so that I can mail them off. He's listening to angry metal music. I can just here the witty banter between John and Jason being yelled from one room the other. Pretty entertaining actually. Jason is an graphic artist. Here's a plug for Jason's work. Read more... )

Just for the records. I went for an interview yesterday for a gardening magazine called Gardens West. It was a 3 hour interview. I got the job. I'll be starting out as front desk/ office admin and will be expanding to other areas of the magazine once I get familiar with the company. It's a good company because they don't sacrifice the integrity ( Read more... )

When I was walking home from work I decided to step into a filipino restaurant called Galing-Galing for lunch. I've always been curious about filipino food since I worked at the Wall Centre. More than half of the employees were filipino and they would bring large lunches in rubbermaid containers and share with there friends that they worked with ( Read more... )

Walking is such a spirit enriching experience.
It filters out the bullshit.
Walking seems to invoke strange amounts of clarity.
It's really strange that I don't walk more.
Infact, see you later!

New home, new neighborhood....no time!!!! Bri's back...work has started! I'm soooo confused!

My brother and I took my parents out to Blue Water for there aniversary. There is a "Dine Out" special within the city at all the fancy restaurants. It allows you to get really really expensive food for just expensive prices. Apparently, Vancouver is one of the top cities in the world for cusine. Yet, I never indulge in any of those restaurants ( Read more... )

We are off the hook for having to pay for our next months rent. After several visits from random strangers (about 12 different groups) to our house. We think we found the perfect tenants. We brought the applications down to Bea's apartment to do the reference checks. Hopefully that works out. Janine (pronounced Sha-nin) who works for the ( Read more... )

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I asked to be laid off from GardenWorks at the end of November. I've been living it up unemployment style this month! It's great!!! What an underrated choice! I haven't been totally free of duties though. I'm starting an urban container gardening business w/ my friend Brian for the beginning of March 2006. He's heading to Vietnam on Sunday. So ( Read more... )