Tests and Cd's

Okay...so it appears that it has been nearly a month again since my last post...it's not my fault, the time just flies by. So here's an update on what's been happening in the exciting life of Jerthom!!!

a couple of weeks ago I applied for a temporary full time position at work. There were two of us in the running, and on Wednesday last week we were approached by the Manager and asked to write a test for the position. I was asked to do it on Friday (as that worked better with my schedule) and the other girl asked if she could do it on Thursday.

Soooo....Here's what happened....

Thursday I'm at the house called 925. It's a day service that is a little smaller then the big center. So one of my coworkers get's off the phone and turns to me and says

"Susan (my supervisor...the manager was sick) said you have to go do your test in an hour"
I says "WHAT!!! I'm supposed to do it tomorrow...Crap...I haven't studied at all"
"you can go look at the policies and procedures manual right now if you want"
"Okay"

So I procede to study for the next half hour...not much good considering it's like taking a test and the content is a foot thick binder....and studying for a freaking half hour!!!

I bombed the test. No word on who got the job yet though!!!

*Editor's note: I got the job....the manager said I did great on the test. Who knew I still had my college BSing skills...hehe!!!




So this afternoon I took my class 4 road test. It was scheduled for 2:30 so I spent the morning studying the book and making sure that I know how to the pre-trip inspection. Even though I spent hours on it, I still got five demerits on the pre-trip...however you need 7 demerits to fail...booyah...the road test was awesome...the guy was cool, very relaxed and we just chatted about life and that. Not an anal guy at all...I was happy. I passed.



So I get home from the road test, kind of tired cause I've been studying and sort of stressing over the test (for apparantly no reason, it was easy) and I find a package by the door. It's from Christian Marketing Canada. I'm thinking, sweet, my parents bought me something, or someone sent me an early birthday present...a book or something. Open the package and booyah...the complete 8 album set of Jars of Clay. The reason I received this is because a couple of months ago I entered an online contest from Sendthefire.ca, which is the Salvation Army youth site. It was a simple contest. All I had to do was listen to a podcast of an interview with the Jars of Clay lead singer and answer a couple of questions. The prize was a the new CD Good Monsters from Jars of Clay....signed. I thought sweet...I like them, and want their new CD. So turns out the guy who got the signed albums lost them...so the courtesy prize was the entire Jars collection. Works for me.


Anyways, this is my life this last week. Life is busier lately which is good. We have a 23 year old guy staying with us from Switzerland so I have been showing him around a bit, and took him shopping...I will write more about him later...this post already has three stories...and that is my limit.


A shout out to Kathleen as she travels to Costa Rica today...Happy trails my friend!!!

Peace,

Jer