Sunday, Thanksgiving Eve :)

     Wow, the week flew by! Amanda got back on site yesterday, and she was greeted with a huge bear hug from me. Even though she is contagious with a cold/flu. She'll have to spend days getting things back on track, I'm sure.
     Well today was turkey dinner night. It was quite yummy too. The turkey was juicy, not dried out. The dressing was almost like Erb's, potatoes and gravy both good. Only thing missing was squash, turnip or sweet potato (or all three!) and pumpkin pie. There were some beautifully decorated cupcakes (the cupcakes are legendary here - fantastic buttercream icing and moist chocolate cake) I did get a picture but I'll post that another night.
     The beautiful weather has been continuing on. I've got outside most days, just to marvel in the warm autumn air and think about how the days will be growing shorter very quickly.
     I won't be going home on this rotation, I will be meeting Thor in Calgary. I've only ever been to the airport in Calgary, I've never seen the city. We'll rent a car and probably drive to Banff in the mountains. I'm quite excited about both seeing Thor after a couple of months and also driving through the mountains. I've heard such wonderful things about Banff and the mountains and how beautiful it is there. There are quite a few people from British Columbia that work here so can give the "ins" to seeing the area. What not to miss and stuff like that.
     I'm not doing Lena's 4 am to 2 pm shift while she's gone since Amanda is back. That means setting my alarm for 3:30 am. And yes, it is busy at 4 am. I had two bathroom lockouts to do. The second one, I got all the way over to H, the furthest dorm from the main building, and no sign of the guy with the lockout. He never did come back or call so not sure what he did. The nice thing about being off at 2 pm is the laundry is generally available and also the gym. Hannah the task master is back tomorrow so I'll beg for her help in getting me back on the exercise track.
     It was really nice to see Aimee again after 3 weeks. At least I'll have one family member around for Thanksgiving day tomorrow! The weekend has been fairly quiet. I remember my first weekend here and it was dead slow and I kept thinking I would be struggling in another job that had me watching the clock drag for a whole boring 10 hours. That's really funny now, as I can't wait for the weekend slowdown to catch my breath again. I make things harder on myself too. This afternoon for instance. I came back to my room from the front desk, threw a load of laundry in, went to exercise a bit in the gym, then came back for a shower. Oops, my towel was in the wash machine. Back down to the front desk to get a towel. Back to my room. Back down to give Aimee a shopping list (she's going into town tonight) and have dinner. Back up to my room. My mouse is dead. Back down to the front desk to get a battery. (That wasn't the problem, unfortunately. I guess I need a new mouse). Back and forth to laundry a few times. Now I'm looking at my bed (with the brand new comforter on it, fresh out of the bag. Thanks Tom!!) and can't wait to crawl in so I can get up at 3:30 again!