September comes to a close

September was just here and now its pretty much done. This was a very busy week with the two 30th Dogwood Anniversary celebrations with the Tea on Wednesday and the BBQ Dinner last night. Both events were spectacular and fun but working special events is EXHAUSTING! Last night we were worked off our feet. Judy, Chris and Nancy and I were running around like chickens. What an initiation for Chris and his inaugural Dogwood Special event. Both the tea and the dinner was catered by Centennial High School but we had to rent all the dishes etc which meant we were cleaning off the food and stacking dirty dishes and cutlery on top of all the other tasks. On Wednesday we had entertainment by our Songsters choir group and the Drama group and last night it was a full concert by the Mop Tops who act and sound like authentic Beatles...so the music was great and lively and all the important dignaries came out to an awesome evening. No doubt...tired as hell as the end of the evening.
This morning...we woke up when Chrissy was heading out to work. Had to return some carafes we had rented. Did the Wings deposit and then off to find dessert for the party we had been last minute invited to. Thank goodness Sharon suggested the Valley Bakery as it was their 50th Anniversary celebration and all their speciality squares were 50 cents each!!
Then because the rains had not yet arrived...Darcy and I wandered around Chinatown for a couple of hours...had lunch at Hons...it was fun being tourists for a little while.

Quiet Saturday evening

Isn't it always a quiet Saturday evening? The main flurry of Wings registration is done...made the first bank deposit of the season and it was a huge one. Bought a new goose down duvet and cover for the first time in maybe 10 years...guess the one we have been using was worth the price we had paid at that time. It was Bay Days so my $350 duvet cover was only $130 so I can't complain at the deal. Darcy wouldn't let me get the matching bed skirt and pillow shams...I should sneak back and do it anyway. So we are heading into the last day of summer. The chill is coming but I like the cooler temperatures so I appreciate the fall months.
It was a busy week at work...Darcy was away on a fishing trip/work related week on Vancouver Island at Painters and Sonoro Lodge. He brought home only a single fish thats in the fridge at the moment. Chrissy is making it to school but has decided that she needs to cut back on work. We hope its to do more school work and not to ferry Luis around like she seems to be doing.
Caiti has a great car-pool set up for the commuting to Penticton for their clinicals so she is holding her own fort there in Kelowna.
I didn't apply for the full-time senior centre assistant position...I am going to hold out and see if I can apply for the RPC one when it comes out and hope for the best.
Not much else really thats worth blogging about...ho-hum life.

September

I cannot believe that in the whole month of August I did not write a single post in this blog. That is amazing that the whole month went by and I did not get a chance to put anything down in writing. Time just has a way of slipping by and before you know it the days and weeks have flown by.
What happened in August? Well I guess Darcy and I spent our 22nd anniversary at the Regionals for swimming and we worked that whole weekend. We did spend 5 days in Prince George for the BCSSA Provincials...it was nice to get away but it was one strange weekend starting out with the amazing thunder and lightening storm on the Thursday night to one drama after another. We did go visit Barkerville on the way home which meant that it was a very long day getting back. Chrissy took a week off working thinking she could spend it at the lake since Michael and Alicia were going but that didn't work out too great and she was home by the Tuesday. She did take the week off to try and regroup herself anyway. We went down to Tulalip last weekend to do some shopping and then this weekend we did a day trip to see Caiti as she moves back on campus for year 2 at UBC.
I am moving on to covering Judy's work for the next few months full-time and then wait and see what happens at the end of October with the job situation with the hope that something comes out of all this shuffling around.
Raye became a gramma and has a little baby grand-daughter named Kiera. We bought a really nice outfit in Irish green from OshKosh.
Perhaps, this fall will give me a little more time to write...but Wings also starts up again with the try-outs on Thursday so no retirement for me yet from this job.
Today...cooking a turkey so we can get it out of the freezer. We just spent the whole day at home, Darcy and I since Chrissy was at work collecting her double time. Tomorrow she has to figure out what she will do for this last year of school...be it physically go to school or do everything online...it has to be her decision to make. She wants to continue working because she likes having the income to spend on her car.
Life just goes on...thats the way it goes.