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Tryouts June 4, 2010

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Well I registered for field hockey tryouts at the end of this month for a competitive club team. I’m nervous, because even though I’ve played the sport for 20+ years of my life, I haven’t really picked up a stick or played in a real game in about 2 years. And nobody knows who I am here in Vancouver. In my home town, I’ve never had to tryout for a club team before. Competitive/elite teams, yes. But just a club team? Never. So these tryouts will be interesting.

I know I’ll make a team, I just don’t know at which level. I would anticipate that this year will cost me about $300 in team fees and insurance, and maybe another $100-125 for a uniform. Expensive, but obviously worth it to me. Especially because we didn’t renew our ski passes or our climbing gym membership for this year.


Girls camping trip! May 12, 2010

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A couple of my girlfriends and I have planned a camping trip every summer for the past 2 years on the Labour Day long weekend. Last year’s was kind of lame because I was sick and had to bail out early. And the year before we got rained on. So we’ve decided just to plan it on a regular weekend in July. And I am super excited. It will be an inexpensive, fun weekend with my best friends here in Vancouver.

Speaking of friends, all of my co-workers at my new job are SUPER friendly. The girls I am most in contact with (including my boss) are all around my age or in their 30′s. They want to know about each other’s outside friends, they care about what everyone did on the weekend, and they actually want to hear stories, and they are genuinely interested in each other. I haven’t worked in such a great, positive environment like this since I worked at the rec centre.

And I know I’ve said this a million times before, but really – what a difference from my last job. Everybody here wants me to succeed and they want me to be in their work family. Whereas co-worker at my old job openly wanted me to fail, and made my life miserable. I wouldn’t go so far as to call my new co-workers my friends, but I could definitely see myself going for lunch/coffee with them or maybe even stuff outside of work later down the road. One of them has done all the cool hikes that BF and I have done, and even more. And my boss has invited me to go to her lunchtime boot camp class that she sometimes goes to. Although I have to be really careful about making friends at work. Mixing my personal life with my work life can get messy and I was never really a fan of making friends at work to begin with. But, since I’ve moved to Vancouver the only friends I’ve made is from past jobs. So. Yeah.


Thursday morning this and that March 11, 2010

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