The 2 Hour Cake...

This is me preparing my cake. As you can see I have everything I should of used sitting infront of me.
The cake all mixed in together ready to go into the oven, with all the ingrediants I thought.

basically what it turned out to look like....

I didnt put the oil in the cake.. even though I had it sitting out infront of as you can see in the first picture. So the cake was like an oatmeal texture... but you know I still ate that and put icing on it. I just cut out the bad parts. I want to get more cake mix tonight so I can make a good one this time and REMEMBER to out in the oil. JEEESH!

introducing Foo Foo. a.k.a - Gator.

So this is the dog I have been going on and on about. His name is Foo Foo, I dont think Im spelling it right because its french for "crazy crazy" I was told by Claud the owner. Before I knew what his name meant, I started calling him Gator because I thought Foo Foo was too feminine haha. But now, his biological name totaly suits him, he is a crazy dog but he is the best dog ever. Hes awesome on a leash, never barks.. doesnt go after other dogs and listens! If I could take him home I totally would. I love this dog hes so cute!

At the river, people were on boats so we was watching them go by.

Chomping at the water, he LOVES the water.. unlike my dogs back home - Meeko and Sara! I would let him off the leash but I still dont know what he would do.. swim away? Run away? Who knows.. so I dont try yet.

Cutest picture ever! There was a stick floating by and went after it, but the water was moving too quickly so he couldnt get it. He is still shedding his winter coat so thats whay he looks all uneven and sickly haha.

Probably my favourite picture of him so far. He is such a curious dog!

Walking up to me, after I took this he shook so all his gross dog wetness and smell got on me.

Relay For Life

This was one of the kids I gave money to for him to shave his head. He got a buzz cut at first and then the lady asked if he wanted to go shorter, so he did, and after he couldnt stop feeling his head. He kept saying "I never felt so FREE!" haha. Where his hair used to be was just white too! Haha

The cow bell people would ring when one of your teammates would pass by the team tables.

Reppin' the relay for life shirt. WHATS UP!? Yeaaaahhh boiiiiii !!!

A lovely shot of the scenery we have to look at during our walk and a glimps of how the light was shinning through the clouds.
Me and Sheller.. we started off strong and walking together but then we got tired and took turns of walking. Oh well, what can you do.

Our team name and the time slots of all us walkers on our team. We got nuggets of GOLD!

I participated in a relay for life the other day, it was a pretty cool experience. Cant say that i loved walking in a circle for an hour... but there was activities and free food so it was fun. I donated money and then some people got their heads shaved.. brave souls.

It was a big turn out I guess (for Dawson) and they had a bbq with some live bands and random people would go up and sing, that was pretty entertaining to watch lol. They could of had a better lay out for the walking path though, because you walked in this circle that was way to small for a track haha.. so things got pretty repetitive fast.

It started at noon and then ended at midnight, so it wasnt like the ones back home where it goes through the night, I guess this one was more family friendly. My walking time as it will show in the picture was at 5pm.. just in time too because when i finished walking at 6pm the bbq

started, and oh my god was that delicious!

I want to just chop off my feet...

So I did get that other job at the grocery store, its going really good so far but stressful because I cant remember the different codes for the food! Its going to be the death of me I swear. That, or I will get a blood clot from being on my feet all day that will travel to my heart and I will go into cardiac arrest. Im going to put money on the 2nd option, its the most likely one that will happen. My feet have NEVER, in my entire life, hurt this bad. The other night they were hurting so bad I was actually feeling sick, I was 11 hours of standing on my feet!! I worked 830am til 430am at the hotel and then 530 to 730 and the store. I came home to a a feast that my floor was putting on so I just HAD to stay up for that because that would of been my big meal of the day. But as soon as I hit the pillow i just passed right out. Being on my feet all day, is turrible.. Ill be coming home with deformed feet or something for sure. My heels are red right now, and a massage would be terrific, but the only place I can find is never open and their pedi's are probably like $50.00. I try to give a foot massage to myself but its just not the same, they just hurt so baaaaaaddd. Ill probably get used to it though, by the end of the summer Ill be able to stand for 12 hours straight.
Having 2 jobs isnt that exhausting YET... it probably will be by the end of the summer, right now its just painful. Ive asked for every tuesday and thursday off, and that wont start happening until mid june I was told, dont know what the delay is for?

house keeping is NOT for the faint of heart...

Ahhhh, where to begin? Well, I think Ill start with the hair.

Hair:
This is E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E!! Like even in places that it shouldnt be, it amazes me. I know that it it normal for people to shed hair, and me being a girl I shed hair a lot, especially after a shower and Im drying my hair. But this is a whole other story, and its always the little black curly ones too!! Ugh. So, to clean a bathroom we have to clean it top to bottom each time we do a room, and it takes me forever when its only supposed to take about a half hour to do a whole room (it takes me 15mins to do just ONE bed! But Ill get to that later) which is crazy. Anyways, the bathroom is always completely soaked, its like the people dont even shower in the designated area.. so I have to dry all that and THATS where the hair is. And since everything is wet.. the hair sticks to you. As I was leaving today I found a clump madded in with a lint ball stuck in my sock.. wonder how long that was there for today? Also, the towels always seem to be covered with these little black curly hairs.

Toilets:
I will be very short with this one. I am totally repulsed sometimes, its like people dont even TRY to get it in the bowl (this includes #1 and #2....) I cleaned one tolet the other day and I should of just BURNED the rags.. but no, we normally just take them to laundry and then those people deal with it. But these rags were actually thrown out, Im just gunna say it clumps of poo were on them. CLUMPS. And of course I was the one who had to do that one, I definitely was gagging with that one, my eyes were watering and tears were running down my face.. but hell would freeze over before I would wipe my eyes evem if I was wearing some heavy duty gloves. No way, it probably was a site and a half.

Well those are my major 2 complaints.. I now have a whole new respect for house keepers at hotels, next time I am in a hotel I will be tipping and leaving fruit because here thats a luxury and Id rather have fruit than money! Haha. Although today I did get a whole piece of chocolate cake from this one lady as a tip haha. It was gross, wayyyy to chocolatey for me, but nice.

Diamond Tooth Gerties

michelle has turned into a beer drinker now because its so cheap. "fancy" drinks like a screw driver (orange juice and vodka) are crazy expensive for such a little glass, you basically finish it in one drink.

ugh this is a GLORIOUS shot. taken by michelle. it makes me look 5000lbs with sausage fingers! captures my gut nicely. its just a horrendous angle all round.

michelle and kristen

one of the routines. did not intend to take a butt shot, but it happend

me and sheller looking all spiffy at the first show we went to.

this is one of the routines they do. i didnt want to use a flash during the show so the picture isnt the greatest.

There is this awesome place called Diamond Tooth Gerties. They have these shows where these girls come out and dance all old school I guess its supposed to be like a burlesque show kinda? Anyways it so much fun. The women comes out and sings in the audiance and theres gambling in there which I have yet to try out. Its just all round good times.
Last night we went there again at an impulse because we wanted pizza and that was the only place that was open. We ended up staying for a show and having some beers. I also had an amazing caeser (sp??) salad.. Ive been dying for suppers, so Im going to have to crack and go to the store and buy some supper food.

Also mom, send me chocolate or a donation for a junky bike would be FANTASTIC. And Aunt Julie, dont worry about the curtains.. Since im so handy Ive hung the blankets that Im not using in the window since we dont use them because its been SOO hot. Does the trick, Its not as dark as I would like but doesnt really matter because it seems that I can fall asleep in any amount of light now.

Also coming back last night, it was probably around midnight.. it was the darkest ive ever seen it! And it wasnt even that dark, it was probably like back home around the time the sun starts going down at supper.

a random walk to the river

Awesome, gunna get this as a present for someone.

Dont know what this was exactly, it was just written on the side of a building in massive letters and I thought that it was neat enough for a picture.

Move over Kate Middleton, Kate Klondike is here.

These are some ladies Ive been hanging out with. From left, Kristen who is also from the Brantford ghetto. What are the odds eh!? Have to go across Canada to this remote little cut off community to meet someone else from my hometown. Then there is Jackie who works in the kitchen, then the tool in the middle is me. Michelle on the end.

Hottest. Picture. Ever. I was actually amazed at Michelles photography skills, because normall she takes the worst ones of me, but this one is kind of epic.

the "downtown". its so small and half of the buildings are fake haha.

Probably the best picture michelle has ever taken of me. This is down by the river, the water is very low and apparently I was standing on the river floor? It was freezing too! Wont be swimming in that.

Another picture of me and the surroundings by the river. Should be very pretty once the leaves and stuff start coming back to life.

This is apparently why a lot of people come to Dawson. The land slide like thing in the hill at the top at the left is called "the dome" and there is a trail you can hike up to and get this amazing view of the yukon. A couple people I work with have gone up there, I myself will have to work up to that Im a little out of shape to be hiking up massive mountains that some people bring oxygen tanks to.

The one and only ambulance station.

UPDATE:

I have had 2 FULL days of work so far, among other training like days, but these were full where I actually have to clean all day each and every room fully. Tomorrow we have our first batch of guests coming in and they're from Australia, so we were told to learn where the bars are and the hours of them (after taking my soci class I find this a little stereotypical). So god knows what tomorrow will be like!

The weather has been fantastic! I actually think I'm burnt a bit on my face... well that doesn’t really say much considering I burn so easily, but it has been great. It is FREEZING in the morning and then gets hot in the afternoon/evening and then gets chilly at night, so its either layer up or suffer with just a t-shirt on because you're going to be boiling by the afternoon. Thank god the hotel has air conditioning on already or else with cleaning rooms and with running around id be a sweaty pig.

The fan has still be going strong all day and night, Michelle and I have learned to keep it on during the day even while we are at work because when we come home it like a sauna in our little room. The fan is small, nothing like my wind machine back home – shout out to my wind machine! I have been trying to make my room feel more like home, but haven’t had much luck because I've been so exhausted once I get back from work and I want to relax. Doesn’t help to that EVERYTHING closes at like 5pm... I'm not a runner.

I now work this week from 830am to 430pm with no days off, I think my manager knows that I was looking for a second job, so she must of thought that I couldn’t get another one if I working 24/7 with the hotel haha.

Ugh I hate laundry. If I didn't have to do it I wouldn’t. In college I would go weeks without washing my jeans, if they were smelly or stained then they were good to wear all month. But no, since I'm scrubbing bathroom floors its a definite that I wash my work pants each week.. maybe even twice if I'm up for it. But I'm scared to death to put my clothes in the dryer! If I shrink my clothes.. and god forbid my work clothes.. then I'm outta luck. Ill pass on thrift store clothes for haning out.. and I doubt I don’t know if they would let me get another uniform just because I shrunk it. Who knows.

AHH! Had my first church supper tonight, it was delicious. First supper I've had since I left Whitehorse so its been a full week of just lunch at the wekstmark and then my miniwheats. But this supper was so good, I don’t know if it was just because I haven’t eaten like that in so long it tasted so good or if it was actually good. But I will for sure be catching the other one this Tuesday.