All Around The World Round 4

If you saw my last post near to when it was published, you should probably check it again. I edited it so that most of its current information is new. I added most of the information about training week, and some stuff about my personal possessions.

I got an air conditioner. Just a one-room window-installation type thing, but it's been a life-saver in this past week's heat wave. A neighbour was selling his old one for $50, which I took him up on. A window air conditioner at Wal Mart costs about $200, and then I'd have to worry about transportation, so a $50 one was a steal for me.

I get that it will hike up hydro costs, and that it's environmentally unfriendly and will just heat up the outdoors in the long run, but heat rises, and my bedroom was easily the hottest room in the unit. It had been nearly impossible to sleep and the AC has changed everything for me.

It's kind of like when everyone was saying that those space heaters would cost us more when our electric heaters broke. The electric heat was already an expense, it didn't make a ton of sense that it would cost more when channeled through one device than another. And it didn't make a significant change.

My roommate has also installed an AC into his room. Apparently, a friend of his gave him one, but he hadn't thought about the details of installing it until I got mine. After I got mine installed, it motivated him to figure out his. So now there are two air conditioned rooms in the unit.

I have an Air Miles Rewards card now. Last time I tried for one, I got rejected because I hadn't lived in the same place for over two years. This time around, somebody gave me a card without question. I signed up, spent a few weeks telling people I didn't have the card because I wasn't sure how to use it. Today I used it for the first time.

This week at Summer Program, we had a special gust come in and give us an exotic animal show. In previous years, we have had presentations on more fear-inducing animals such as snakes and spiders. The goal was to freak everyone out a bit. This year, we chose a show with soft, pleasant animals, such as a cockatoo, a chinchilla, and a tortoise. The goal was not to overstimulate anybody, so this time I didn't get to drape a boa constrictor around my neck or have a tarantula crawl all over me.

Our end of week trip was to African Lion Safari. Me and a coworker wound up being left behind to deal with something. We didn't think we'd make it to the tour on time but the bus driver was super cool and waited for us. When me and my coworker boarded the bus, we got cheered by the group.

Last week I was asked to cover for someone, so I wound up working evenings as well as my day job. Whenever I work in both capacities, I shift on at 8:30 AM for my first job and shift off of my second at 9:00 PM with only enough time between them to travel. That's thirteen and a half hours, and it takes me an hour at the beginning and end of the day to travel. I usually do this twice a week, but last week I did it four times. My shortest day was when I had to decline a direct support shift because we were having a staff meeting, which was the longest day for everyone else. Only worked ten and a half hours that day!

All week I only got to see my garden by flashlight.

My sickness came back a bit too. My throat became sore, my cough came back, and my eyes even redeveloped their infection seemingly for a day. Didn't exactly get to spend the week resting though. I work on the weekends too, but far fewer hours, so at least I've been able to rest a bit.

This cough has been with me for about a month now. Ugh.