Living essentially full time in Kitimat now. My last turnaround I took a trip to Vancouver with my gf (at the time..), this turnaround I only took 4 days off work instead of 8 and I am staying in Kitimat. Things here really aren't so bad once you get used to not being able to go anywhere past like 5 pm (as it's all closed..) You really get into hobbies and or hanging out with people. With the little time you do have, that is. MY next turnaround I am excited to get to PG and spend 8 days with mny niece and my cat etc. My record player is a big thing.. I miss it a lot as well as my record collection. I have already brought a tv and a PS3 and my laptop etc to Kitimat so it's going to be a lot to move back when I am finished this job... I'm sure you understand! Also I continue to buy records online while I am out of town so I return to a growing collection each time and there's still some I haven't even listened to. As well as comics I haven't read. I only bring a few at a time for comics as I am worried about damaging them on the flight or drive. So I have weeks and weeks worth of comics at home waiting to be read.. As well as new comics showing up to my inbox each week. ..! Oh well.. Lots to fill my time once I am off work! I would get more done in my evenings but by the time you shower, have dinner, have a toke, work on the truck some with some friends it is suddenly time for bed.. Oh shit still have to pack a lunch for the next day and make sure coffee brews in the morning! Morning. My nemesis. Actually, that's not true. I LOVE mornings. My favourite time of the day. Afternoon you're just a slob if you're still in your PJs sipping coffee, looking at boobies on the interwebz. My nemesis is time in the morning before work. Especially when you are sharing a little kitchen with two other dudes who are trying to shove their prepared lunch into their cooler/kit and stumble out the door for work. It's like a 3 stooges scene when we all head for the coffee at the same moment. If you haven't read one of my previous blogs our current work agreement is 20 days straight then 8 days off. 10 hours shifts, 7 days a week. So we get up at 4:30 7 days a week and get to the lunchroom for just after 6 to be at our work station for 6:30. Then we do our toolbox talk and stretches and daily paperwork/safe work plan. We are good at getting out of there right at 5 when we are off work. Our contract also allows us to stop work and clean up at 4:30 then return to lunch room to gear down and finish up paper work at 4:40. We rip through that shit and are often leaving the parking lot at 4:55, home by 5:10! Doobies and the gym and shit!Life is getting a lot better lately even though I just went through another break up. Sort of just let this one roll off.. Plus summer is coming up! Not going to put any pictures in this blog because now my Instagram posts to my SG page!! So check out my page and my link to my IG if you like!!
xoxo, see ya in the pit!
Dave