So its 4:57am. For some reason I am up not sure why. I worked a 7 hour shift yesterday which was a little exhausting because its crazy there on saturday. Luckily I was doing fitting rooms however the bad side of that is I have to do a return closet and I couldn't keep it clean. This one woman saw the closet and said that it was messier than her daughters room. So my manager had to get someone to help me sort it. I was a little embarrased.
   So after all that work I only slept for 4 hours last night. I woke up at 3:30 and couldn't go back to sleep and really had no desire to. So by 4 o'clock my bed was made and I came down stairs. However there really is nothing to do at this hour in the morning. I mean the t.v. sucks, and no ones online. Not even my Dad who rises early every morning is not up. So here I am board out my mind.
   Sorry if there is any spelling mistakes. Its early and I suck at spelling to begin with. Also give me some ideas of what to do early in the morning if you have any cause if this happens again which I have a feeling it will I would be mad.

   Well La Senza phoned on Sunday and told me they were still checking my referance and couldn't get a hold of them. I was just giving up because the interview was around the beginning of August. So I gave them my new referance on monday and they phone today to tell me I am hired. I am extremly excited. I just really hope I end up being hired by the big store not La Senze express. I will see what happens when I go in tommorow to fill out paper work. I am just so happy. Chow for now.

            I know I haven’t updated in a while but I am not sure what to update on. I guess I could do a memorial on the summer. Unfortunately it is almost over. I mean I bought school supplies today. It doesn’t get more depressing than that. I keep telling my self I will try so hard next year so I will get super grades but we will see how it ends up. I just hope all of my friends end up in at least one of my classes. Also preferably all of you grade 12 gym takers will end up in my class so we can camp together. I mean talk about fun times.

            So what have I really been up to this summer? Well let’s see I started to run every morning. I wake up at 7:30 in the morning and start running at 8:00. I know many of you may think I am crazy waking up that early every morning but I am actually enjoying it. The latest I have slept in this entire summer is 9:00 and that has happened approximately Two times.

            I have also started drawing more this summer. I used to love it when I was younger. Then after the terror: AKA Grade 7 and 8 art teacher Ms. West I lost all my confidence in drawing. However starting again I have come to enjoy it now. Don’t hold your breath on seeing my drawings however.

            I also had a family melt down this summer. Most people think Grandparents are timid and loving. Well my grandmother got quite mad at me. She said my sister and I didn’t phone her enough and she felt like I was using her and all these hurtful things. You would have to be there to hear the things she said. Anyways she made me cry in a shopping mall. Lesson one I never cry. Ever since my Mom died when I was four crying just seemed like a waste of time. However my grandma hurt me. After our argument we had a long talk and now we are closer than ever. I got to say it was a crappy moment but the outcome was worth it. I guess people were right when they said fighting makes you closer.

            In general the overall change this summer was in me. I was getting to a point where I had lost all my confidence and felt worthless. However some where in this summer I found my self again. So next year I hoping my friendships with my friends are closer. I am going to try like crazy to be more outgoing. However I got to say it won’t be over night and I will need all of your help. After all I am timid Alyson who sometimes doesn’t get noticed in a crowd.         

So let’s start with the confusion. As you probably all know I am a Christian (Lutheran) and I go to church every week. At times when I was younger I wondered on occasion why I did this. It was just kind of a thing my parents made me do. I would go however I never really paid any attention in church and I never seemed to care if we went or not. In fact I always looked forward to the weeks we would spend in B.C. during summer because we didn’t go to church. As some of you know we then had trouble when a couple of notions the church passed such as infant communion. My friends from church didn’t understand why I disagreed against it. After they passed it I knew we wouldn’t be going to our church anymore and that we would just stay till the end of the year. Now that we have quit going (missed 4 weeks or more of it) I am confused. Something I used to want to get away from is something I feel I am missing in my life. I am not sure where I want to go to church or what I get out of church but I feel strange and out of place. One day I may understand.

 

Now the side dish of anger. I have been driving with out parents in the car since probably June. Its awesome I like the freedom and generally I can use it if I ask in advance. Well today I went out for Starbucks my Mom even happen to come. T’was fun. Anyways as I leave in the car this lady is waiting to park. I drive by her. Guess what she called me a Moron. I have never been called a Moron before so I find this slightly upsetting. On the bright side however my Mom said I didn’t do anything wrong. However who really wants to hear someone call them names. I certainly don’t like it.        

So I had my interview at Second Cup and the manager phoned me back. I almost got hired however the other person had more experience than me. I was going to be his second choice. So now I am just put on a referance thing so if they need someone they will call me. I hate that stupid experience thing cause how do you get more experience if everyone wants lots before you get hired. Also why would someone with lot of experience want to work at Second Cup. I mean they pay minimum wage. Oh well.

            So a few unexpected things have happened in the last couple of days. Global decided they wanted to come and tape the volunteers working on the mural. However the news was on from 7-9am so not really anyone saw it. Guess what  though ------ I finally got interviewed on TV !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which makes me extremely excited. If you don’t believe me I have it taped. I only got asked a few questions but it was live feed and they only interviewed two kids. I am now famous. LOL.

            Then just when I was giving up on working this summer Second Cup phoned me to set up an interview. So I went to it. I have got to say that was one of the longest interviews of my life. Also unfortunately they only pay minimum wage however a job is a job. So I will see what happens. Hopefully it will be good news but if not so be it.

            Last night I decided to go grocery shopping with my parents. My Dad is one of those people who is super organized because he is always early and never forgets anything. So after about an hour of shopping we go and get our groceries scanned at the till. My Dad discovers that he forgot his wallet. So we had to have the bill saved and our groceries put behind costumer service. The man insured us that we did not have to worry he would watch them for us while our Dad went to get his credit card. So after about ten minutes the man comes over and tells us his staff started to put our groceries away. So our $150. Worth of groceries were everywhere in the store. When our Dad gets back the man made him pay immediately, even before he knew if he had all the groceries back. After unloading them in the house we discovered we never got our licorice back. I want to sue. LOL Moral of the story when my parents nicknamed Super Store as Stupid Store they really were not lying.

            Also after the discovery of how your porn star name is created I was disappointed to find out I will never have a career in that business. Mine would be Tanzey Bietz. Sorry but its never going to sell. Not that I would ever want that job. I just thought it was slightly entertaining. If you want to know your porn star name: you take you first pets name. Then you take your Mom’s maiden name and bingo there’s your porn star name.      

   : Now that is a good movie. I have got to say. I watched it the other day with my sister. Everytime I see it I seem to be more motivating for life, and I realize that I need to live life to the fullest. Put behind all my grudes towards people. Try and have fun and do everything I have ever wanted to. In the perfect world that would be possible but in my life its hard to do that. In fact it almost seems impossible. See in order to do that I would have to actually know what I wanted from life. I would also have to be more outgoing but I am just too shy.  

So today was the usual Saturday. I went for a run early in the morning which was refreshing and then I did yard work. However there was slight excitement in the day. I have been working on that mural in Brentwood to prevent Graffiti. Well they wanted us come to the mural today so the Herald could take our picture and do a little interview. Unfortunalitly they found no interest in interviewing me. L However to Fenna’s and my delight they did not interview Pieter today. I mean common Pieter snagged enough attention last year.

Conversation with Pieter:

Me: So what happened this year Pieter no interviews?

Pieter: Well after last year interview I had so many people from Hollywood calling me I decided to take it down a notch.

Me: Yeah you were also probably sick of all the girls calling you on the phone.

Pieter: Yeah they were always like: Oh Pieter I saw you on TV. (Insert Pieter’s girly voice here for more entertainment.)

 

So look in the Herald and you may find a picture of me who knows.

So being new at this I am not 100 percent sure what I want to write. First I guess I could start out with how this summer has been. Well so far I went on holidays to Fairmont. At first I was unsure of how it would turn out however I had a blast. Some of my favorite activities were going on a river rafting trip, going tubing with my friends Jenna and Chris Ham, and watching a German accordion player and yodeler sing at the Black Forest Restaurant to celebrate my grandparent’s 5oth wedding anniversary. Also believe it or not I got a slight tan, which is incredible for me since I am a fairly pale person.

Now a downfall of the summer, I have been looking for a job constantly. No luck however. I had two interviews and neither of the places wanted me. It’s hard to face rejection that many times. However I finally got over and realized this will just be my last summer off so I better enjoy it.

I recommend a movie to you it’s called the Perfect Man. I know most of you are not a Hilary Duff fan. I am not fond of her either. However I actually enjoyed the movie a lot. Let’s just say if a guy drew a comic of me like the guy did in the movie I would be head over heels for him. That is if it was a nice comic. Time to call it a night. I have other things to do. More later