My First Week

Hello all,

I spent all of the last week in Edmonton for my job training as a furniture salesperson for Ashley’s Home Furnishings. I really enjoyed the training, the staff in Edmonton were very nice and it was great to be put up in a hotel for a few days. The Sandman hotel was amazing and every hotel should have a 24-hour Denny’s attached to it, as it is very convenient.

Once I started at Ashley’s Home Furnishings here in Red Deer, my mood was soured a bit. The store is no where near as stable as in Edmonton, and the potential for earnings is a lot lower.

Once I realized that, I was thankful for a call with a job offer from Staples. I will be starting as the Sales Manager of the IT Department on Monday morning, and it comes along with a $30,000 a year salary, compared to the commission-only renumeration offered by Ashey’s.

For anyone that is interested, I would highly recommend Ashley’s Home Furnishings to anyone seeking furniture, or even a place to work. The position is great, but only if you want to added stress of working solely on commission. I want to eventually purchase a home, and I am going to need a salary to qualify for a mortgage.

That’s Hot!

Hello all,

I watched Hottie and the Nottie just last night and first all, I must state that I am not a Paris Hilton-aholic or anything like that, but I actually enjoyed this movie.

The movie starts with a girl breaking up with her loser boyfriend. Said boyfriend then goes on a quest to find the prettiest girl from this school, whom he’s kept a picture of all these years. A point of fact, the picture of this pretty girl is from when she was 7. So once he finds this pretty girl, played by Paris Hilton, he discovers that she is single and will only date once she finds the perfect guy for her best friend, June, the ugliest girl from school.

After several attempts, including hypnotism, the perfect guy, Johann, comes into June’s life. Johann is only interested in June due to the fact that after he fixes her face and body, June will be hot, but will still be grateful like an ugly girl, and that is what he’s into.

This is when the movie starts to pick up, with some very humorous parts, including the main character, Nate, telling everyone that he is a stunt pilot in his spare time and likes to take children up to perform stunts for them, and endangring their lives in the process.

Eventually, Nate has a chance with Paris Hilton’s character, Christabelle, but only after a very pathetic attempt of a relationship test. The test being, that Christabelle will show up to a costume party, dressed as a bride, telling everyone she wants to get married, then pretends to be very drunk. The test is that if Nate really cares for her, he will stick it out with her. So basically Paris Hilton is very drunk and wants to hook up and the relationship test is that he is the right guy if he sticks around.

So after this test and Nate is in the room with Christabelle, Nate realizes that he has feelings for June and that he has cared for her even before she was hot, so he goes to her and they end up together.

Even though the users of IMDB only gave this movie a combined rating of 1.4/10, this is completely undeserved. The movie has some pacing issues, particularly in the beginning, but it does pick up once Johann enters the picture, and is humorous for what it is, a Paris Hilton-trying-to-act-movie.

I would recommend this movie to anyone who liked the movie She’s All That, which has basically the same plot, ugly girl turned hottie. Except in this movie, the ugly girl knows she is ugly and doesn’t change her personality once during the entire movie, so she comes off as a completely realistic, well developed character, unlike Christabelle. Clearly, Christine Lakin (June) stole the show.