Save on Foods

Today I started at the new Lethbridge Save On Foods and wow, what a difference. At the St.Albert location Save on Foods is known as a high quality, high priced, and very very clean grocery store, and this is part of the reason I love it so much. Almost everybody that works there is reliable (with a few exceptions of course) and you can count on them coming to work in uniform on time and ready to work.

Today I walked into Save on 15 minutes early like i usually do so I can do a produce walk and fill out papers and read the binder to see if there is anything new. I walk up to the front and introduce myself for the first time and the lady looks at the clock and gives me a huge smile. She was shocked I came even a little bit early and told me I would quickly become a favorite if I kept that up. From what she told me most people don't show up until 5 or 10 minutes after there shift starts! That just boggles my mind. Its a job you are getting paid for why would you come in late. The she took in my uniform. There I stood white shirt, name tag, black pants, polishable shoes, and apron, the complete uniform and she told me how impressed she was that I was wearing the appropriate clothing. As I took in the other cashiers I saw what she meant, most of them were wearing jeans or regular t shirts, just whatever. The tills were completely different so I had a bit of a hard time adjusting and the customers are completely opposite.

So in short. I came from a very regulated clean Save On Foods to a Save On Foods where they are a lot more lax with the rules. Where my Save on Foods is high priced, this Save On Foods sells food in the reasonable to cheap range, thus attracting more average people with normal standards (which is a good thing). Basically though, it feels like I am working at Walmart. The store is dirty, the cashiers don't really seem to care and the lineup are long and never ending.

Hopefully after a couple of shifts I will get in the groove. I just need to get used to it.

It Is Well With My Soul

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Refrain

It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

Refrain

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

Refrain

For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.

Refrain

But, Lord, ‘tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh trump of the angel! Oh voice of the Lord!
Blessèd hope, blessèd rest of my soul!

Refrain

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

Refrain

Everyone has a song that when they hear someone humming, the tune brings back a flood of memories. A song that brings you back a step or two in time. This is my song.

For many many years when I was younger my mom had a couple copies of this CD "Country Church' and it was always playing in the back round whether we were travelling to the store or doing the dishes. As a result I know allot of our church hymns as well as I knew songs off the radio. 'It is Well With my Soul' was always the song I begged my mom to turn up and put on repeat.

This Sunday was the first Sunday that I attended the Lethbridge Church and if anybody has ever attended that church they would know that their congregation is HUGE. So imagine my excitement when I saw on the very bottom of the song list 'It is Well'. And let me tell you it was one of the most perfect singings of the song that I could have ever imagined. 1000 voices raised up to the Lord, the organ silent. I just closed my eyes and sang all the words from memory. What a beautiful sound. After the song when I opened my eyes I saw people with tears running down their faces. How blessed we are.

Lethbridge Bound

After many goodbye parties for Save on Foods, Elves, church and meeting my other friends, It was finally time for me to leave. We loaded up the truck and my car full of clothes and furniture and books and we headed out. The trip was relatively uneventful with only one minor 'I'm almost out of gas' scare. We arrived friday night unloaded the big stuff and then headed to Richards soccer game and then it was off to search for hotel for the night. The next day we unpacked most of the rest, got a new phone number, and did alot of odd and end jobs.


Unpacking my many many boxes and suitcases.

This is MY NEW HOUSE! I live with three other girls Raylene, Lynette, and Anna. They all seem really nice and I think we will get along nice.

My room. I know my room is a mess but I haven't unpacked everything yet so maybe I will post a post move picture when the pictures are hung and clothes and boxes are hidden out of sight. Tomorrow I will move in for sure and it will be an eventful week as I try to get into the groove of life in Lethbridge.

This begins my adventures in a new area code. Feel free to visit at anytime.

I love...

... the first ten minutes of nice, hot bath.

... experimenting in the kitchen.

... taking and editing photographs.

... selecting the perfect card (even if I have to look at every one of them).

... bare feet and painted toe nails.

... flipping through the pages of an old favorite book.

... the new book scent.

... browsing through libraries and bookstores (another place I could spend hours)

... slipping into a clean bed with freshly washed sheets.

... daydreaming.

... receiving a good old fashioned letter in the mail.

... writing pointless lists.

... waking up on a cold morning buried under a pile of warm fluzzy blankets.

... the satisfaction of cleaning a really messy closet or room.

... a nice big bowl of hot soup and bread fresh from the oven on a rainy thursday.

Yum Yum... Perfect.

Ten

10 more days.

10 days to finish packing, sorting and organizing my suff.

10 days to say my goodbyes and I love you to family and friends.

I can't believe its finally time. It seems like just yesterday I made the decision to move and now in just 10 days my car will be loaded and I will be heading southbound down the QE2. All my plans are falling into place. I have a place to live, a job and my school schedule and only 10 more days in Edmonton.