Dan's Pants

Dan left his pants on the bed.


Notice anything different?


This is what I found sleeping inside his pant leg:


He didn't want to come out!


Even when Dan shook his treats, he had to justify getting out to get some.


My camera cut-out while I was filming. Here is the rest of it:

(Don't mind the mess in our room)

Nothing But Hope

I have now been unemployed for 2 weeks. I have to admit, it is nice having a bit of a break. I'm not a morning person and I have really been enjoying sleeping in this whole time. However, I know that as each day goes by, we get further away from our goal of owning a house this year. We do enjoy our time spent together though. Dan has been getting a few call-backs for interviews which brings our spirits up, but still no word on a for-sure position yet. And as for me, I've got nothing. Not even Recruiting Agencies (which whom I hate dealing with) aren't calling me. I even started looking for jobs before I got put on part-time hours. I'm blaming it all on the economy. I'm thinking that Recruiting Agencies are now finding it hard to keep up with the applicants so they are only contacting the ones with a lot of experience and school behind them, and that's not me. Sure I have great experience, but the schooling for accounting, I don't have. And I don't really plan on changing that. Accounting has never been my favorite thing to do, and I know I wouldn't do well in schooling for it either. Personally, I think you learn more in the work-force than you ever will in an Accounting course. Dan has suggested that I go to school this summer or fall for something that I would really enjoy. I just never can make up my mind though. Maybe a Photography beginners course? Who knows? We'll first have to see if we could fit it into our budget, which looking at it right now, would seem almost impossible if we are still going to buy a house this year. However, right now I'm just glad Dan is getting some interviews, especially with Home builders. We're hoping that might help our process move along smoother. Everything is so up in the air, I'm just praying that it all falls in the right way.

From High to Low

This past weekend Dan and I went to Edmonton. It was a blast! I took Friday off from work but I made up the time by working an hour extra each day last week. We took off to Edmonton right after I got off work at 1:00pm on Thursday and drove straight to West Edmonton Mall. First we went to the Water Park! Such a good time! I highly suggest going to the Water Park on a Thursday. It wasn't busy at all, and we hardly waited in line for our favorite water slides! Even the wave pool wasn't packed! Plus, since we went for the last 3 hours of the day, it only cost us $21 each instead of over $30. And we still did the same amount of things that we wanted to. They have a new water play-place there with a giant bucket and all. I'm pretty sure they thought it would be a great hit for kids, but for adults it's awesome! They have similar areas at the Southland Leisure Centre and the Village Square wave pool here in Calgary, it's just a lot bigger in Edmonton. We then went to BP's for dinner and then to our hotel to have a much needed night's sleep. The next day we went swimming in our hotel and then went off to West Ed once again, but this time it was to shop.

Dan found some Kanye sunglasses! He didn't buy them though ;) We also saw the Sealion show! We were just walking by just before it started and got a pretty good view. They were first showing this cute little Penguin. You can just barley see him in this picture if you look close.

And here's a shot of the two seals that they had. One of them was HUGE! They did some pretty nice tricks too.

After the shopping, Dan had a DJ show to do to help out one of his friends from Edmonton. That's pretty much why we took the trip in the first place. We headed home after the show (Friday night).

I went back to work on Monday morning and finished my month end duties only to then find out that I was being laid-off. Wow, from such a fun weekend to this?! They just didn't have any work for me to do, and they couldn't see anymore coming in the future. I know that they really didn't want it to come to this, but they had no other option. I don't even blame them. They took my iPhone and everything. I think I miss my phone the most. My whole life was on there and it was taken away from me in a matter of minutes! I had Dan come back to pick me up. So now here we are, both of us are looking for a job. If anyone reading this knows of any positions, PLEASE let me know. For both Dan and I. It has always seemed that lately, right when we think we're doing ok, and getting that much closer to buying a house, something like this happens. I know that we've just got to fight through it and know that everything will work out in the end.