b’s blog

I am one of our sales guy’s assistant as well as the art room manager right now. This salesman is on vacation right now so I’m supposed to look after his clients. Usually, this just involves receiving email and fax orders, writing them up, following them up through the printing process, the occassional call to clarify something and that’s it.
Today I had to actually physically go out and meet people. I wasn’t nervous or anything but I almost landed flat on my butt walking around in the ice and snow in my heels. (I wear sneakers in the office!)

Adam’s going to be a father soon.

He bought a Basset Hound puppy!
I went with him to see the mama and the babies and he picked out a tricolour female.

The Pet Expo was this weekend. Adam and I were surprised when we saw a black bear and Betty the Grizzly Bear there. Many people took advantage of the petting zoo with the wallaby and baby goats etc. This is one place where pets were allowed and many of the booths had treats for pets, not people.

Received a package from Holland today. Loving them and using them at work.

Now I can have a Cheesymite scroll and remember the good times! And one of the stores if just a 3 minute drive from my house! The only difference is here, they call the store Cob's Bread instead of Baker's ... [Continue reading this entry]

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has discounted, rush tickets for students and people under 26 years of age as well as seniors. LeAnna invited Adam and myself to see the Classic Landmarks Masters Series at the Winspear Centre. [Continue reading this entry]

Went to the Ice on Whyte Festival on Friday. The ice sculpting competition was still in progress so we were able to watch the teams in action. Had a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Is on now until the 28th. This year they will have an adult sized ice castle with slide as part of the celebration 100 years ago of the annexation of Strathcona into Edmonton! woo hoo! Anyone want to go on ... [Continue reading this entry]

Has a display of vintage bikes that looked really cool. Some I swear look like the ones you'd see in War movies in Europe. There were also Vespas, Motocross and regular Motorcycles. Here's a pic of Adam on a limited ... [Continue reading this entry]

for Vicki and Mis_n. This past week we had blizzard warnings on Wednesday and Thursday. A low pressure system was to bring in Arctic air and dump 10cm of snow overnight on Wednesday. The temperature did drop to the -20Cs ... [Continue reading this entry]

I like lights. You know the strings of them you can put on trees during Christmas, or the kind that cascade down like icicles. I think they look pretty! [Continue reading this entry]