sharylneedsmoney

So my brother recently wrote an entry on is blog that I believe was in part directed at me. It was about people and their blogs and the sins they commit. Now I am the first on to admit that I don’t keep this site updated with every tidbit of m life or every thought that runs through my head, but only cause I’m sure no one really cares. I like reading my brothers blog! It’s interesting, informative, sometimes funny, and there are pictures of my beautiful niece (I don’t like the pictures of the million and a half spiders that hatched but that is a personal issue that I am working on). My life is just not that interesting. Well, thats a lie, my job can be pretty unbelievable somedays and I could tell you about it for hours! But I won’t cause that would get boring for you but more importantly I can’t cause that would go against confidentiality. So what does that leave in my life to talk about?
- I got a new Mac (but I’m behind on this whole technology thing)
- I moved in with Tammy (she bought a condo which is great news for her — all it means in my life is that I don’t live in my parents basement anymore)
- I’m bartending today (really not that exciting)
So pretty much nothing in my life is overly interesting according to me. But I will try to write more and maybe I’ll actually have an interesting blog that will make my brother proud (cross your fingers haha)

OK I LIED (but only a little)
As you all know by now Relay For Life is a large part of my life, and it happened last weekend! Here are the stats:
85 teams
just under 800 participants
over 200 volunteers
raised $330,000!!!!
that is a record for Red Deer!! It was awesome! Oh and the Bow Fashion Show was a success!

So… it has been a long time since i have taken the time to write anything here. So what’s new? Hows about the point form version?

- We went to Vegas, it was awesome… even the part when I hit Carl the Coyote with all four tires.
- In related news my car got it’s first repair — a brand new front bumper!

- When we got back I started my new job as an Employment Consultant for people with developmental disabilities. I was right - it is challenging but it can also be the best job because you are helping people to reach their goals and you get to watch them succeed. But most of the time I am frustrated and tired. You never know what your day will bring you when you go to work; you could have one client to see the whole day… and then your phone rings and all hell breaks loose! and then you end up staying at work until 6:00 or talking on the phone all day or driving all over the country side. Or it could just be a quiet day of paperwork - you never know. I’ve been there 6 months now and I work with the best group of girls! It helps you get through the day when you have a good team to laugh it all off with.
- Side note: Still working at the westerner.

- Brad and Karin finally had Claire. She is cuter than anyone else’s niece — her and Julia are tied but we all know how cute Julia. They are 2 friggin cute kids. I’m not biased. Julia is growing up too fast. I try to see them both as much as my jobs allow.

- Thanksgiving, Christmas and all those other fabulous holidays

- Somewhere in all this the Relay For Life 2008 committee formed and took over my life. Tammy and I are doing the Media/Promotions again and were also nominated to head up the Team Recruitment & Retention sub-committee. I’m not sure if this was a good idea. We are responsible for promoting and getting teams — I hope we do alright because otherwise Relay this year might be smaller than expected.
- always keep in mind my link on the right where you can make a donation. I’d appreciate it alot because it’s basically a part time job this year and I want lots of donations to show for it! Besides the fact that it’s a great event for a a great organization! There - thats my plug

- Jana Too is still alive and swimmin’! I know you were all wondering about her. I’ve had her for like 2 years now. Does anyone know how long those fish are supposed to live? She’s a trooper, she’s been through a lot!

- On January 28th (when winter finally came and it was -40 out) Tammy and I hoped on our plane to Varadero, Cuba. We stayed for 2 weeks this year and I seriously recommend it to anyone. It is a gorgeous country with so much history. We had a great time and just when it started to get cloudy there we got on a plane and came back to Canada where our 2 weeks of brutally cold winter was over. I think next year I want to miss winter again — it was awesome.

Since I got back I’ve just been hanging out, working, doing laundry and not much else. My life is a bit on the boring side. Yeah there’s the roadtrips and the vacations and the not really knowing what my day will look like every morning but take all that away and I’m kinda bored.

I’m going to post pictures from Cuba so check it out! And don’t forget to pledge me!!!

What was I doing five years ago?
- Working at a hardware and a whole lot more store & the westerner
- registering for college classes and freaking out about going back to school
- driving around in the corsica
- partying a lil too much
- and on this exact day I was a bridesmaid in my brothers wedding

Five years, Derek & Shannon have been married for 5 years! Congratulations you crazy kids!

A lot has changed in those 5 years but I think it’s all worked out fine, perfectly, (some might say) for the best! But really, looking back, it was so different for me. I have a much different life now… even a much different life than I expected to have then. Maybe I need a new five year plan…

Hey everyone!!!! Time to start giving me money again! Relay for Life is coming up. I’m technically not on a team this year but Tammy and I are volunteering on the committee so that means we are putting more time into it so you should give me more money (hahahaha). Seriously whatever you can give will help! Click on the link below or on the one I hope to have on the side!!! Thanx!!!!

Relay for Life

I’ve got the pictures to prove that I’ve been busy! As a matter of fact I just posted them all. It took me some time too so you better look at them many time.

We went to the Dominican Republic for a week and loved every minute of it! It was great and now I want to be back there! Especially since we landed in Calgary in the middle of a snowstorm. It was a nice break from winter. So check out the pics from that!

Also new pics in Julia’s album & I finally posted the pictures from the Aerosmith concert!

Ok…. so if you have been keeping up with the countdowns like I have then you know that I had like the crappiest week of school but seriously the best weekend in my short history. Well I mean it rocked at least! We went to the Guns n Roses concert on Thursday and then on Saturday the Route of All Evil tour with Motley Cure and AEROSMITH!!!! Whoo!

So Axel Rose has a psychic and apparently likes to meditate before the show and knows that the vibe is better for the show later in the night….at least this is what I’ve heard from my sources. But in Axel’s world people don’t have to work on a Friday, or in my case drive an hour and a half after the concert, so he didn’t start playing until 11:55….pm…. I’m not really complaining cause well he gets points for showing up and seriously he played for 2 and a half hours (that was awesome) but it was 2:30 in the morning! I don’t see how the vibe was better….. half the people were gone before the show was half over, and those of us who were left were sitting, enjoying the music, but we weren’t too excited or mobile by that time. Good concert, too late. And I know, my very caring oldest brother offered me and my friends a bed/couch/piece of floor but we were all wide awake and all I could think about was my own bed and so we made the drive and ended up in our beds at 5:30…..am.

And then there was Aerosmith! OMG!!! That was awesome! We got there and Motley Crue was already on stage so we got to our seats and rocked out to their show. Then the intermission: we got some drinks and made some friends and I know that I could barely contain myself - I was that excited. and then they started playing! We didn’t sit down once during their entire show! It was that good (and it was still the same day so we weren’t really tired) I called a lot of people and left messages of the concert on their voicemail, I recorded some bits on my phone (you can hear us singing in most of them but they are still great!), and Jodi took some picture (maybe after my exam I’ll finally get around to posting some pictures from the last few months). We had a pretty good time. Tammy’s favorite quote was from someone who won’t be named: “I love 2 bands… Aerosmith and Backstreet Boys!” I personally think that the person who said that showed that they are a well rounded individual who is tolerant of different things and I also think she is pretty! Anyway, after the show, we got ourselves back to the hotel (we did it with class at the Westin) and hung out for a bit before brushing our teeth in the heavenly sink, watching a little heavenly tv, and going to sleep in our heavenly beds! Ahhh…… It was pretty fabulous. All in all: Aerosmith rocks!!!!!

And now back to reality, one more exam and I’m done.

You know when you are baking cookies or making supper or even doing your hair and I’m standing there asking how much longer? Well……

Days until done degree: 6
Days of actual school: 1
Days until Dominican: 47
Days until GnR: like .5
Days until Aerosmith: like 2.5

I’ve set this up so I have at least 47 days of countdowns left however this is going to pretty much be the end of the school countdowns…. it is the end of an era. It’s weird. I have 6 days and 60 multiple choice questions standing in the way of me being finished (knock on wood that I actually pass art history and economics - we could be doing another semester here!). Hmmmmm……. it is a weird feeling. I don’t even know how to put it into words.

So I’ve been staying at my brothers and hanging out with Sparkle and I started to feel bad because those 2 have been blogging everyday and I have barely even had contact with a computer in the past week. I know what your thinking “but Sharyl, we live in the age of technology, how do you avoid computers?” Well…. I lied. I have been hanging out with them a lot, but it’s all word documents and power point with the occasional run in to check my email. But this is the first time I have sat down for some quality time in probably a week. The sad part? Other than school coming to a close I have nothing to write about…… talk to me in a couple days.

I sure have been writing on here a lot! But really who can blame me? I’m spending pretty much my entire life doing school stuff — this seems like the only break I am getting (except work and driving and sleep and watching Ellen with Sparkle this morning). And besdies, so many important milestones are going past me daily! Such as: moments ago I finished my last Economic’s assignment! That’s a pretty good feeling considering I’ve been hating economic’s for about 3 months now! All I have to do is write the final and it’s out of my life forever! Yay!

So I drove up yesterday and saw all the cars in the ditch at Leduc but I made it and so far have had pretty good luck with the whole driving thing. I also moved out of the wonderful place called HUB on Sunday! (Special Thanks goes out to Ma & Pop & Tanya) Woo — I have never been so happy to move out of a place. It is a little bitter sweet though cause it means that I am that much closer to not being a student anymore and I’m not a few feet away from Tanya at all times. Oh and I’m kinda homeless when I’m up at school. But my wonderful brother and sister-in-law have been nice enough to let me stay with them for a few nights a week. It really is very nice of them! That’s why I got to watch Ellen this morning with Sparkle cuddled up beside me (we bonded until I made her go to her room while I showered. She gave me a look that meant so many things — I was almost scared. Then I remembered that she is a dog).

Hmmmmm….. what else? Oh yeah! Countdown:

Days Until done degree: 14
Days of actual School: 5
Days until Dominican: 55
Days until GnR concert: 9
Days until Aerosmith & Motley Crue concert: 11

I love countdowns! It makes it seem like everything is getting closer! For example: In a mere 55 days Tammy, Jodi, and I will be drinking free pina coladas on a nice warm beach! Or in only 14 days I will be done school —- that sounds so much better than December 12th!

So it is freakin cold here in good old central Alberta! In case you didn’t notice. Like maybe you live in a hole underground or haven’t left your house in a week or something. But I think even then you would notice!

On the plus side………
Days until done degree: 15
Days of actual school: 6
Days until Dominican: 56

I’m not sure I’m going to be able to stop carrying around my student handbook for a while. It’s become my security blanket (my binky — hahahaha).

Oh yeah!!!! I just took a quiz to find out if I am in love or forcing it! Turns out I’m in love!! That’s exciting hey? Yeah! Woo!!! It didn’t tell me who I’m in love with though so that kinda let me down.

35 / 15

That’s the countdown. 35 days and I am officially done my University education, that breaks down to 15 days spent the university (classes and exams). Isn’t that crazy? I think it’s crazy. I think that it’s making me cazy! It’s weird - ya know? I’m findng it hard to deal with, hard to accept… I’m going to be done this stage of my life in 35 days. I know that so many people have done it an I know that everyone I’ve talked to has said that it is a weird feeling but I guess I didn’t believe it until now. Oh well, nothing I can do but get through it right? Right!

So I’m still the crazy girl commuting to school and today was intersting. I woke up and heard that there was an accident on the good old QE2 — I guess it was pretty major, traffic backed up, detoured to 2A and all that jazz. Everyone and their dog called me to tell me about it, so I left early, gave myself a little extra time. Turns out I did not need to do that. By the time I got to that point on the QE2 they were still cleaning up and I had to slow down to a crawl but not due to traffic, just because there were ‘men at work’ and I was being safe. Turns out a semi carrying those big cement square things flipped over or something (the radio had me believing that it was wet cement all over the road — it wasn'’t). Long story short, it was the best drive on the highway I’ve had all year! Everyone else decided to detour or wait or somehing so it was just me and a few of my fellow commuters, it was amazing! I have never been on that road with so few people. It was nothing short of fabulous. ….and that’s my story……

I also just wrote midterm in my economics class. Honestly I’m not sure how i went. You know how it goes: you think you did good and you fail, you think you failed and you did better than you ever expected. But I walked out of there and just didn’t know. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I guess I can only wait for the marks to be posted. Right now I am sittng in my favorite place on campus. It sounds stupid but it’s the quiet room on the second floor of Rutherford South — that’s right … the library. Obviously I am not doing any actual work right now but that is only because I can’t think about anything right now. I do have an assignment to do but I have all day tomorow to do that and I’m confient that after a good nights sleep it will work out better. HAHAHAHA — and now I’m blabbering on trying to convince myself that i is okay to procrstinate! That is so funny (well it is to me tight now). Ok — time to do some work I guess.