Continuing from my other post.....

So yes, the new place and the new job...

These are pictures of it in it's un-altered form.... we've been working our butts off, with much appreciated help from the grandparents here, and mom (Cheri) and Shawn, to try and get this place up to our standards. The kitchen is our priority right now so that we can make food here. We've been painting alot, and sanding and and stuff..... there will be reno. pics coming... these are the before shots. I'll have the reno and after shots up at some point, after the work gets done.

The office/spare bedroom.... this is where Shawn stays when he's visiting Stephanie on the weekends. We don't mind, 'cause he helped us paint. :)
Our messy bedroom... it's already come along way. A dresser newly acquired helped immensly. Mel, I think you'd love this room. :)

Our living room is a disaster right now, all covered in plastic to help protect it, etc... but this is the general layout of it...
A better view of the layout of the livingroom.

Our biggest project right now. Just wait till you see the after pics!
The downstairs bathroom... this will be a project for later.

Another view of the former kitchen colours, etc.... can't wait till we're done. :)

The place..... an idea of what it's like. The banisters/railings are so getting updated.
Upstairs bathroom... one day we'll re-tile, etc...
Looking down from the bedroom into the livingroom.
Looking from the closet side of the bedroom....
Looking into the bedroom from the top of the stairs....

And the whole job story.......

I handed out 7 resumes last Tuesday, and had one interview that day as well, that led the way for a work interview the next day. So on Wednesday I had the working interview at Tim Hortons from 10-2. You basically work for 4 hours, see how you like it, and they see how you work and how the other employees work with you, etc... You get paid for those four hours. Then I went for an interview at the country grocer from 2:30-3:30, and it went well too, but I didn't like them as much. Then from 3:30 till 4 something I had an interview at Francelli's coffee, in which they basically just asked how to get me to work for them, and offered a dollar more than Tim Hortons and promised me Sundays off. Then Ryan picked me up, we got home, I checked my machine and the Howard Johnson wanted to interview me for a front desk/weekend night audit position, so I walked down the drive and had that interview, and they wanted to start me on Sunday, if I wanted the job, with a bit better pay than the other places, but still, two graveyards, Fri night and Sat night, and then two day positions Tues and Wed is pretty rough, though it would have been different experience. Then I had an interview with Subway friday, which took like, 3 minutes, where they clarified my qualifications (what I did for Starbucks) which covered most of the manager requirements for Subway, and they said they'd call me. I think I was over qualified. LOL So then Tim Hortons and Francellis coffee were fighting over me. I was leaning towards Francellis, so I went in there again friday after my Subway interview and just watched, but because it's a small family owned business, it doesn't have the organization and professionalism that I'm used to, and so I'd want to change things, and I don't know how that would go over... they want to learn from me, but a new comer in staff coming in and implementing more standards and stuff for the staff would not create the best team I think. So I called Tim Hortons back, and they have promised me $9.50 to start (matching Francellis) and a guarenteed Mon - Fri 7-3:30 schedule that won't change unless I ask it to be so I can have a day off during the week if we need to go somewhere... with a strong possibility of becoming Training Manager in not to long... I'd be in charge of training, and that's pretty much it... I'd get into a managerial position, get a nicer uniform, etc. And the uniforms are free, and they have benefits that start after six months, and my pay would go up probably after 3 months of working there. So I couldn't really hard to pass that up. So I sat and thought it out, and in the end I decided on Tim Hortons... Never thought I'd say that, but I started at Tim Hortons at the wage that my Shift Supervisor position was paying me. We get 30% off plus free drinks, when we work, and it's SO easy to learn. I had NO problem with the four hour shift I worked there as an interview, catching on to the drink aspect of things in less than a half an hour mainly. So yeah, I'm a Tim Hortons employee.... Weird huh? It's different and yet the same, as Starbucks, and I like bits of both worlds, and don't like bits of it, but that's life. I've already after 2 days gotten a pretty good idea of how the till works.... It's a little bit to get used to, especially the early mornings, but me and Ryan get up and have breakfast together (there 'cause our kitchen is busted right now) and then I work. It's not bad.