I like the weekends

I must say, this weekend was a good one, even though both the wife and I were not feeling well. Saturday was pretty much taken up with grocery shopping, but then it was off to a friend’s birthday party.

Our friends Ryan and Lorraine threw a birthday bash for Lorraine, and decided to go with a wine tasting theme. Everyone was asked to bring a bottle of their favourite wine, and we all shared. It was nice being able to try a lot of wines that we normally wouldn’t buy.  There were a lot of different red wines there so we were able to sample ones we hadn’t had before.

I am really starting to like red wine. I never did before, but out of all of the wines that we tried, there was really only 1 that I didn’t particularly like. It had an acidic bite that didn’t really sit well with me. I think in the future, that may be a party that we would hold though.

Sunday, we didn’t do near as much as we planned. With not feeling well, we didn’t get nearly as much of the outside work done as we thought we could. We still have to finish winterizing the yard. The water barrel is still like half full. With it about to start dropping below zero this week at nights, we will have to empty it pretty fast.

Now for the week at hand. It is only a 3 day week for me as I decided to take an extra long weekend next weekend. But it promises to be a busy one. If all goes according to plan, I should be getting my 9 month probationary review today. I can’t believe it was already 9 months since I was converted over from being a contractor to a regular employee. But I think a 9 month probation is a little on the extreme side. I suppose it does give them a greater amount of time to determine if the person s really the kind of person that they want in their organization.

So one of three things can happen in this meeting today, either I am told I am good, and am taken off probation, I am told I need to get better, and have 3 months more probation tacked on, or I am told I suck and get a pink slip. Of course, I am quite confident that it will be the first option. There have been no issues that would leave me to believe that the other two options are even a remote possibility.

I mean seriously, with the amount of extra work I have taken on, they couldn’t possibly say I haven’t been doing what is needed. I also thing that there is a good enough rapport with myself and my team lead/manager that they would tell me if there was something I needed to work on at any particular time.

I am of course writing this on the bus on the way into work, so when I actually get to posting it, I will know what the results of the evaluation are.

All I can hope for I guess is to no longer be on probation,,, and maybe a raise, that would be nice.

Other things to look forward to:

• This weekend is thanksgiving which of course means turkey dinner.
• Monday we are going to the corn maze with Ryan and Lorraine, should be fun
• this weekend is a 5 day weekend for me
• I get to wear jeans to work all week because I paid to support our charity event