Adventures

So this morning I got up and went to my orientation at Safeway. I was looking forward to a tour of the store and all sorts of fun things, but most of the time I was on the computer doing their training exercises and watching videos on WHMIS stuff, so that was a little disappointing. I'm working a full day tomorrow though, from 9:30-6 in the floral shop learning a bit about what they do over there. Right now is the busiest time of year because it's Mother's Day on Sunday and everyone wants to buy flowers for mommy. While making her breakfast in bed and doing all the cleaning for a week is my idea of a good mother's day gift, I can't help but love the rainbow parade of colors in that department; I helped organize a display of rose bouquets with a lovely woman named Darlene and just had such a nice time of it.

When I got home I realized that the weather was going to turn nasty (it's been raining steadily since around 5:30 pm and the temperature is dropping) so I told Gramma we had to go grocery shopping NOW rather than after dinner. She drives now, but her bad elbow was so sore today from driving yesterday that I was given all driving responsibilities today and drove all the way to Superstore and back, weathering massive winter pot-holes, SUVs and the longest train in history to get there, buy a crapload of groceries, visit the Real Canadian Liquorstore (nope, I'm not kidding; there's no such thing as a liquor control board in Alberta) to get 4 bottles of wine (for company, apparently) and a bottle of Gibson's Rye Whiskey (Gramma's poison of choice) and speed home in time for the sky to open up and rain down on us.

I'm baking cookies this evening because Gramma has a taste for a cookie.

Delish.

-Laur