Kyle Thomas

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Scheduled Life

I’m a routinist, yes I just made up a word. A routinist is someone who always follows a schedule or routine.

Everyday I get up at the same time, have a shower, get dressed and then pop two pieces of bread in the toaster. After standing in the kitchen aimlessly for 2 minutes the toaster pops and I smother the toast with peanut butter and raspberry jam.

I then go off to work and show up at the same time everyday, which is about an hour before I really have too. I eat lunch at the same time everyday. Then of course I come how cook a meal and plop myself in front of the TV for the evening entertainment. Finally at about 9:30pm I head off to bed where I’ll read for about an hour.

Done. That is my routine. No it doesn’t sound all that different from most people, but at the age of 20, I have a routine of an old man, or something.
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Sure everyone once and a while I’ll go crazy with the routine. I’ll change from toast to yogurt, or eat out instead of in, but I quickly go back to my, safe, routine.

The reason I bring this up is because I have never really known anything else. I have always gone to sleep relatively early and then gotten up and gone to work earlier than most. You can say that attitude is in my blood or I just acquired it throughout highschool. So what is so weird is seeing others routines. Both my roommate and boss have bizarre routine, if any. My roommate, who is the boss mans younger brother, and I all work at the same place, we do different things, and we have different schedules. Like last night for example. All three of us were at the office at about the same time all day yesterday, and at 5pm we all left and when home. I came home and cooked supper and what not, but roommate and boss went home and slept for a couple hours, I can’t do this, then just as I’m about to go to sleep, roommate gets up and goes back into work.

I understand that we all work differently, and this post is merely an observation. What I find interesting is, that according to Facebook and emails, they would have left the office again at around 4am. Which makes it only an hour before I got up, I don’t here anything while sleeping so I can’t be certain.

I wonder when I will see either of them today? Noon? The funny thing is I feel like the dull one, by doing the same thing every single day.

Am I?

A Coffee Shop For You

Like the two other towns I have lived in I have found my coffee shop. And by “my coffee shop” I mean a coffee shop in which I feel comfortable sitting and spending time in. In Yellowknife it was, obviously, Gourmet Cup, but I didn’t mind Javaroma either and in Dawson Creek it was Cafe Europa. Both were nice, relatively small and the owners were delightful to deal with.

Now I have found that here in Fort St John at a little shop called Patch Java. The shop was called Cosmic Grounds before new owner Devon Wrigglesworth reopened the space as Patch Java in May of 2010.

I admire owners like Devon, not to say the other coffee shop owners in town are different, I just haven’t met them yet. He is the type of owner that is at the forefront. Always working on the front line, serving customers, socializing and making sure that everyone is satisfied.

With a different lunch special everyday of the week, I don’t think I’m going to get bored of this place. Oh and did I mention the free WiFi, yeah that is good too.

The problem with me and coffee shops is I have the overwhelming urge to get behind the counter and make drinks. Not to boost or anything, but I make a damn good latte and with the proper jug I can even style it with some fancy latte art.

But I digress I’m am glad I have the skills but happy at with where I am currently. Although I do intent to start writing down all the drink special I have in my head. Muddy Snowman, Kyle’s Choc Chip Frozen Mocha, Haystack Latte, and so on.

One Year Later

Funny to think that one year ago I was on a plane back to Yellowknife for the Thanksgiving weekend. I was like many other students heading back to Yellowknife while being away from school. The only difference was I really wasn’t happy with my situation.

I was in Dawson Creek, BC, a fine city of 10,000 people, taking a program for Business  Management or something or rather, I was 1 of 3 people in the classes. This was a problem. The content was very dry, and very unappealing. To top that, because of the lack of human interaction I was getting, and being to reserved to go out, I went into a depressing slump.

Shiny happy peopleI wasn’t happy, I wasn’t learning anything, and I wasn’t meeting anyone. Sure you can blame this partly on me for not taking the initiative to get out, but that was just who I was. Needless to say when I went home for Thanksgiving, I made the decision to quite school and drive back to Yellowknife upon returning to Dawson.

I do not regret that decision one bit, maybe I regret the $5000 I was in debt, but that just comes with the experience. Over the next year I got to do some amazing things, and grow as a person. I worked my way out of debt, slowly, wrote up business proposals, got government funding, consulted at a large conference, had a booth at a trade show, covered all most every event in Yellowknife during the time, was “Media” at the 30th Folk on the Rocks, fell in love with Hawaii, got a “good job, we should talk” from the mayor of Yellowknife, toured around Alberta and BC in September (creating the current debt I have now) and got offered a job on the eve of my 20th birthday in August.

Needless to say I took the job and that is what leads us to today. Had I not do all those things, and pushed myself to get out of my shell, I don’t think I would have taken the job, nor do I think I would have been offered it. I’m a bit of a believer that the resume is dead, and in this case mine was, I don’t even know where it is, my boss – friend – Andrew, kept a close eye on me for a year after we met in Dawson Creek, while I was in school, and I guess thought I had the potential to help grow his business.

The story of what I actually do at work is for another day, but I will close this post with a smile on my face, because I’m happy. Although I’m in debt $3000 right now and am 1500km away from family and the city I love, I know I’m in the right place and I’m having a blast doing it. I’m a huge believer in only doing what you love, and I can truly say I love what I’m doing. I’m working in a great place, with great people, with a LOT of great opportunities.

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Talent Comes to Life

I get such an adrenalin rush working yesterday. I wasn’t doing anything overly hard or out of this world, I was doing what I know.

I have done much what I did yesterday before but on a different scale. I’m use to working a long and on little project. I have never had the support of co-workers right there.

Now it seems like I’m unstoppable. I started noticing how I could do things and was efficient about it.

Long story short is, yesterday, I realized I am doing what I am suppose to be doing and discovered that with a little support and work available I can actually do it.

I’m sure others would have known I could do it for a long time, but I think this was a real self-confidence moment I had.

First Day of Work

So its me first day of work today. Like real work, where I actually make money. It is quite a surreal feeling knowing your getting paid to help people and connect with them.

I’m so happy that I have been able to take what I have learned and apply it to helping people discover new tools and new ways of communication.

It’s funny really, for the first time I don’t feel nervous about something. I feel 100% comfortable. I suffer from anxiety, so this is definitely a sign that I’m doing what I am suppose to be doing and am in the write place.