Bad day
I never want to be a downer with my blog or people to feel sorry for me, but then I remembered what a blog was for me. You can read it you can comment on it but its a way to get my thoughts down and not just rolling around in my head hurting me more.
Today I got up went and worked my butt off and came home to enjoy my friends for the hoildays. ( all I could think about at work was how much fun they all were having together)
I come home and no one was here, no telling of where they went, no 'Joy come and join us after work' or someone coming to get me and join in all the fun. And even if I did know where they were I'm not the person to just show up. So that made me sad. and that was my day.

Unstoppable force defeated

For the last couple nights my friends and I have been playing a t.v triva game. Now my brother and friend Aaron have a vast amount of triva knowledge , every time we play a game when we're together the two combined are unstoppable. ( add our friend Cory and you might as well congratulate them and put the game away before you start)
I must admit that the first time we played I cheated :( They would go six spaces and then I put them back five.) So last night once again Dave and Aaron are a team, and we made sure Cory on another. Well first they had to get Joy's a big cheater out the way, ' don't let her by the board', just for fun and I did deserve it. Well we ended the game ( with out me cheating) Dave and Aaron last!!!

Note: Dave was tired and so was my other brother, Aaron was mainly by himself.
Note: Cory's team won, that man is a dictionary
Note: Came in second, don't care because we still beat the unstoppables
Note: Blog boring, don't care because we beat the unstoppables

12 Days of Chrismas

For the last two days this '12 Days of Christmas' song has been plaguing me. When do the 12 days begin? Do they start 12 days before X-mas and go on until that day or do they start the very day itself. Now I have been asking different people and they have come up with ' I believe it begins on Christmas day and carries on to the ukranian Christmas' or 'It's the 12 days before' and act like I'm stupid for asking such an easy question.
But when does your true love start to give you these insane gifts of love? And what are you to do with these gifts?
Five golden rings! I think that's over kill. Maids a milking? Lords a leaping? swans a swimming? Well I know the song wasn't written in Canada.
Last thing, as I look around me this year and I'm asked what do you want this Christmas, as nice as two turtle doves would be. I look to see I don't really need anything or even really want things, it's a nice feeling to have. Not to need.
Merry Christmas, God bless us everyone.

Mind Reader


Well today was along day for me, for my morning shift they called me in early and then I was the last to leave at three to start again at five. Then this one lady I work with was sick and needed to go home and I was the only one who could cover her shift in the bar ( which I told them when I started I never wanted to work, but the money is better over on that side, the question I have to ask myself however is, 'being a Christian is it wrong to work in a bar?").
Anyhow on with my story, I was almost done my shift at 10:30 pm and the bar tender was taking over the tables.
I over heard these two guys say what they were going to order when she wasn't around, so before she went to the table I bet her ten bucks what they were going to eat ( I guess that to is wrong). She agreed, went over and sure enough with the first guy I'm right. So before the next guy orders she says and your having the stake, he looks at her in surprise and say "Yes how did you know!", " Just a hunch" she replied. Comes back to me, " Was I right or was I right?" I smile in victory " Yes! Are you some kind of mind reader?". Me not being able to carry anything on, told her I over heard and asked if I still got my money. Ya, I can say I came home not ten buck richer that for sure, but then a little later she forgot another order and asked me again if I had heard. " You were on the other side of the building!" I replied " Yes but you're the mind reader, take a go at it". I just have to say I was two for two.
Well for lack of a better blog and wanting to tell someone my boring story, you get a look into the everyday works of a ' Bit of Joy'.

Old Men, why?

I have to say my luck with men is bad, but lately it just seems to be getting worse.
I never have had men under the age of fourty hit on me and they seem to be getting older and older as the days go by. I had one old guy ( around 70) two nights ago say to me he'd pay the bill and his wife would join another table. Then he adds since his wife will be busy for the next hour would I like to go home with him.
Then another day I have a group of guys all in their 50's hitting on me. Now I don't mind a guy a bit older, but this is getting too old and the older they are the dirtier they seem to be. If I wanted old I would scope out the old folks home here in Cold Lake.
Another thing I don't understand is, why the older men seem to be so dirty? I thought back in there day they were gentlemen? What happend? What is it about me that says, old men over 50 come hither?
AAAHHHHHHHH!
That is all...

Foot meet mouth once Again

I think that over the space of a couple of months this foot and mouth disorder is getting to be worse and worse. Before I know it, not only have I shoved my foot in my mouth but half of my leg has gone with it.
The other day at work, the owner of BP'S is putting up Christmas tree's all over the store. We got to talking about Christmas and growing up in a big family ( she also comes from a family of 8 siblings) and I was saying how I love tacky Christmas tree's where nothing on the tree matches.
Later on when I was done work I asked her if she needed any help, she replied no she didn't want any tacky looking tree's around the store. I thought o.k. and went to eat some lunch with friends. A little while later ( get ready here the foot comes) I take a look at the tree she has spent the last hour on, it was red and gold, ribbon and bows, with a gold angle to top.
With just a little thought I said " Sylvia, I thought you didn't want a tacky tree". ( Right there, was one of my most shameful moments with my disorder, well that and saying 'death will become you' to someone, or 'she killed him' and it turns out the guy really is dead, 'I could give you a ride but it will cost you' to a customer when they asked me for a ride home. On and on I could go and I'm sure my friends could add to this this).
I think if I can't over come this little problem, I'll be out of a job, friends and losing family. Why is it so hard for me to think first? Maybe I should have thought it out before writing this, but to late...

Count Down

I'm now on my big count down till Christmas. Before I knew it I heard marry Christmas from a customer and it hit me, " Wow, Christmas is 24 days away!" I get so caught up in work, and that fact we had no snow didn't help. Now I'm in a little bit of a panic, I have so many people to buy for and no real time to shop. You know how you just want to find the perfect gift that fits each person, but with the stores so full it's hard to get it all done in one day.
Today I made a Christmas cd and sat infront of our fake fire place with a cup of tea. It was so nice!.. just part of this holiday I love so much, I can't wait to put up our tree, make a ginger bread house, snow forts, go skating, but finding the time is another thing. I guess I should have gone shopping today but it's not so fun on your own.
Oh, to be young again having the Christmas holiday time off of school, with all you friends together, thinking of fun things to do with your time and the only work you have is maybe a job or two around the house. My sister always said to me, " Joy, enjoy being your age, being young because it all goes by so fast". I really wish sometimes I didn't spend all my time trying to grow up and be older, it really does go by so fast! I'm not old by any means but holidays just don't have the same enjoyment they once did. And they seem to come and go so much faster then when I was younger, Christmas seemed to take forever and now it seems like we just had Christmas not that long ago.
We'll the store's here in Cold Lake are closed and so I sit in my living room writing this, if only I had a visa I would be shopping now instead.
Oh well life must go on.....So this is Christmas.