byGinene

I can’t believe I’m doing this… again! 20 days from today I will be returning to Bermuda to work at KFC. I swear this time that I’m going to blog more often and memorialize the experience. So much has happened in the last 2 years since I left. My lovely granddaughter was born. I’ve had…

I’m actually writing this post from Bermuda. I thought I would continue posting stories when I returned to Canada but as it turns out, I did not. Why? Who knows… busy starting a new job, busy being a new grandmother, busy not being so damn lonely as I was in Bermuda but lonely in a…

August 18, 2014 – October 30, 2022 A very significant chapter in my life. I have no shortage of stories from my time at KFC. I have learned a lot. I have laughed a lot. I have cried a lot. It’s taken a huge toll on my health. It’s forced me to develop some new…

Here we are, exactly one month until I leave this little island and go back to… I’m actually struggling with what to call it… my real life?… reality?…the great expanse that is Canada?… Not really fair to call it reality or my real life, my life has been pretty real here. This has been a…

I’m into my last month of work at the Bermuda KFC. I’m counting down the days now. Since the calendar flipped to October I can literally see the end! My staff had a going away party for me last night. The cake was fantastic, very creative. Half the Canadian flag and half the Bermudian flag.…

Before I moved to Bermuda a little over 8 years ago, when I was still considering whether or not to move, friends said to me ‘aren’t you worried about hurricanes?’ From what I had read and heard, the consensus was that I didn’t need to worry, ‘we only get a hurricane every 10 years’ is…

At the risk of jinxing it… I accomplished a huge feat this week. My staffing levels have been quite low, for a long while. I’ll get a couple of people hired, then lose twice as many as started. My net number of staff has been going lower and lower. I should have about 35 and…

Random… as I think of random stories I’m going to share them. I think I explained how I had shared so many stories in FB then lost them when my account was disabled. So as things come to mind, I’m going to document them for posterity. People often tell me I’m so calm in the…

And here’s one of those stories… One of my staff walked into my office today to tell me about a strange situation. He was out front of the store power washing the sidewalk. A guy came up to him and told him that he tripped over the hose, dropped his phone and the screen cracked.…

Now I’ll jump to the end of the last chapter of my life. And I don’t mean the actual last chapter of my life, like it’s the end of my life right now. I mean the last chapter before the chapter that I’m currently in. After being married for 20 years, my husband decided to…