Canadian Lyndsay

Hanging out with my cousins is always fun because they have some really cool games.  Games like Settlers of Catan, the Farming game (a monopoly like board where you grow and harvest crops), and Ticket to Ride, which we played last night. You build train routes across North America.  It is definately nice to play a different sort of game.

We also visited our friends Susan and Mike yesterday, who have a sweet two-week old baby boy.  He is absolutely adorable.

Today is all about laundry as I fly back to Calgary on the 6:00 flight.  Tomorrow, however, will be madness as I attempt to get my drivers license changed to an Alberta license and get my new-to-me car registered.

I finally found a car to purchase. The deal has been made and I’m going to pick it up on Monday. I figure, surely it can’t be that difficult to buy a car in Alberta while maintaining my Manitoba residency right?

Wrong. So now I have to hurry up and get my Alberta drivers license because I need that before I can register my new-used car. OKay, but that can wait a few more days can’t it? Wrong again. My birthday is on Wednesday, which means my Manitoba license expires then. So really I have about two days to do the whole thing.

Which meant that I didn’t do nearly as much work from home in Winnipeg as I had expected because I had to spend the afternoon running around gathering drivers abstracts and letters of experience from both Manitoba AND Ontario. Plus I had to call Shaw and get some sort of paperwork saying my name and Alberta address. Since I was expecting to keep my Manitoba residency as long as possible, everything has my Manitoba address on it. Except, thank you Kristina!, my Shaw bill. Whew! Shaw faxed me a statement of account, I sure hope that’ll be enough.

Okay, the weather in Winnipeg is brutally cold and there’s lots of snow.  After two years, it’s not a big deal to me.

But the weather here in Calgary is just WEIRD.  I mean, yesterday afternoon it was +13 degrees Celcius – a few hours later it started snowing and I woke up to 2-3 inches of snow on my (rental) car!

It snowed all morning and the sun came out and shined all afternoon. Madness.

Everyone knows that the web is my passion, one of my main reasons for living. In the past several years, I have administered and moderated many boards. At this point, I currently administer two forums – the Niagara Classic Mustang Club forum and MW, a private forum for Canadian ladies, of which I am part of a four-admin team.

But a few weeks ago, I took on a moderating position with a very busy forum, one that has close to 1000 visitors daily and several thousand posts. Although this is not a paid position, and the other mods are simply doing it for fun, I see it as more of a job, and a reference to follow. We will see how that works out. It’ll be a great challenge and I look forward to getting settled soon in Calgary to really dive into it.

Yes, I am late once again updating my blog.  But wait a minute – I don’t have a deadline either.  So haha I’m not late, I’ve just left you in dramatic suspense.

So what’s the deal?  When last I wrote, I was tossing around the idea of taking the WestJet job.  As most of you probably know anyway, YES I accepted the job.

Week One of Lyndsay-now-works-for-WestJet is now complete.  Monday I had an all day orientation, and Tuesday got started out busy.  I had my photo ID done at the Hanger, and even started attending meetings that day.  There have been many meetings all week, and I LOVE my coworkers.  I really think I’m going to enjoy working here.  The days fly by and I find myself actually wanting to work on the weekends.  Of course I haven’t, yet, but I’m sure I will.

Right now it is Sunday night and I’m sitting in the airport waiting to board my flight to Toronto.  Yes, you read that right.  I’m already going on my first business trip.  Four of my colleagues and I will be in Toronto Monday and Tuesday for meetings with our media buying company.  We also will meet with our Google representatives, and I’m told we’re going to a Microsoft launch party as well.  Fun!  I’ll be back in Calgary by Tuesday.