Well, my summer's been craptastic, how about yours?

In point form because I really don't want to rehash the misery of this summer in full on detail....

-William working minimum hours for last few months, only 2 hours some days. Paycheques reflecting this. Any hopes of a weekend or two away are fading fast.

-Saoirse hospitalized with asthma and pneumonia for 4 days. We both miss work, I spend evenings and nights, William does the day shift. Teenagers do nothing to help out in house.

-Receive letter from Immigration Canada stating that William and I have to attend an interview for his permanent residency on August 19. Great! We have to pay a further fee of $440 for "right to residency." What the fuck???

-William loses job. Not entitled to EI (Employment Insurance for you non Canadians) as he is not yet a permanent resident. However, he has been paying into EI for 2 years and 2 months, so seriously...what the fuck???

-William has job interview with temp agency. They would like to place him in 2 positions. Great! They want a copy of his work visa. Not great....it expired in May and Immigration Canada is only up to May 1, not May 20th in their processing. A phone call to Immigration Canada is placed and they say he can change jobs even though he is in between visas but they will not send anything saying that and they have no number for potential employers to call and get that information themselves. Jobs go bye bye.

-Go to a jewelery party at a friend's. I don't place an order of course, due to the non working partner and all that. The "friend" that told me a big whopper of a lie (never blogged about it, but I did call her out on facebook) comes in and totally ignores me. Yes, I guess that friendship is completely over. Was surprised to discover that it actually made me a bit sad. I've known we were heading to the end of our friendship for about 2 years.

- It's Sophie's birthday! Yay! But no party, everybody and their dog is out of town. Poor Sophie. We did have cake, she did get presents, but did she have any friends there? No. Not that she cares, but it makes the birthday scrapbook page look a little pathetic.

-I called in sick to work last Sunday. The next day my supervisor calls me. This is our conversation. Her: "Why did you call in sick?" Me, knowing she is not allowed to ask this: "Because I was sick." Her: "Well, it looks a little suspicious since you had a shift swap on Friday, an LOA (leave of absence) on Saturday and then call in sick on Sunday." Me, in total shock: "I was sick!" Once off the phone, I was really pissed off. About 5 minutes later I called her back, told her that I was totally offended by her asking me that when I did not take calling in sick lightly as I would lose my shift differntial and with William not working I count on that extra money. She says "Well, remember when you had all that time off last year and Roy (my old boss) was really upset with you?" And I say "You mean the 5 weeks I had bronchitis?" For which I had 2 doctor's notes! I have no idea why she brought that up, it is totally a moot point. Later that night, I find out from a co-worker that she had her office door open when she called me and 2 other co workers overheard her! Total breach of confidentiality there. I am still pissed off about it when I go into work on Wednesday and decide to speak with our boss. She does say it seemed a little odd about the shift swap, the LOA and then a sick day. I say it may have been odd had I been the one who requested it (which I was not!). It's not like I went from working the evening shift to a day shift, took off out of town on Friday night, had my LOA on Saturday and then called in Sunday pretending to be sick, which is what I am assuming they were thinking. Anyway, she said that my supervisor is not allowed to ask why I was sick, and that she will talk to her about shutting her office door. I so knew this one would be longer than point form, almost a week later I am still pissed off.


So that's been my summer so far. The weather has been awful, I think we have had about 2 weeks of nice temperatues, a week of hot, and the rest has been below average. I have not enjoyed it at all. William had another job interview on Thursday, she said she would love to have him work for the company and it would be about 2 weeks or so. I am really hoping he gets this because September is upon us and that means Catholic school fees X 3, playschool fees, indoor soccer for Liam and dance for Taylor and Saoirse. We are also due to go to Calgary in September as Liam is in intercities from the outdoor soccer season. It never ends does it? Luckily my mum has bought each of the kids an outfit or two and bought Liam and Taylor's school supplies. I have mostly finished my shopping for the kids, we did shoes and some clothing today and on Monday Old Navy is getting a phone call from me to complain about their false advertising. If it says ALL you can not then say "select styles". Bastards.

So how's your summer been?