♥~♥such fragile moments we share♥~♥: Holidays

Relaxing Canada Day....

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:12:51 GMT

Junk food...

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:17:23 GMT

Ok so letting two pregnant women go shopping might not be the best idea in the world, mind you it is a lot of fun. I honestly do eat pretty healthy on a regular basis, especially when it comes to being pregnant. There was that while there was I was munching on Twix and poutine but hey it happens! It is not very often that I actually have junk food in my house and when I do my junk food consists of multigrain chips with salsa, or the odd chocolate bar that captures my eye. Even last night I ate my supper and passed on dessert. I haven’t felt much for sugar since I got pregnant.

But yesterday Amanda (mine) and I went out shopping and ended up stopping at the Bulk Barn. Huge mistake! This is a store where you can get lots of junk foods cheap and in bulk, I mean you scoop the product yourself and pay per pound. The fact remains with Easter being here and there being so much chocolate and such how could I not buy any? I decided since everything looked so good that I would get a bit of everything, Amanda did the same. Eveything we looked at seemed like it was the best thing in the place. I think we spent together about $40 on a bunch of candy. I know sad! I now have in my cupboard some hot lips, big sour keys, some mint patties, and of course some mini-eggs. I know I will have help and Kenny has already eaten more sour keys than I have. It’s funny I think maybe he has got more of a sugar craving since I have gotten pregnant than I have.

In fact he was just telling me last night about how much he really didn’t care for chocolate when we first met…I had actually forgotten that cause he eats it so often now.

Busting out...

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:06:18 GMT

As it turns out I am busting out of my Christmas pj’s!!

And loving every minute of it, for the most part anyways. A few of the chocolate eggs I have been munching on might have helped this situation!!

When the mood doesn't strike...

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:50:21 GMT

I am just not in the “Christmas” mood. The other day I truly thought that I was getting there. I started for a few minutes to get excited about being with my family. The funny part is that I should be so happy right now and I am not. I am not sad or depressed either, I am just numb. I have no feelings it feels like, or at times I have to many. I cry when I least expect it and when I should cry I just stand there. I have had the best year of my life. I got married and pregnant within the last few months, as we had planned. I should be on top of the world. I have a wonderful family, and some of the best friends that a person could ask for, I love my husband and am excited that we are starting a family. Life really is a fairy tale for me right now. All the things that I least expected to have in my life I have. Why am I so blah?

In the past at Christmas the shopping part usually helps, so this year I tried. I always leave a few things until the last minute so that I have to rush around with the rest of the world. Their excitement and enthusiasm usually helps, but this year I just couldn’t stand how rude people are. They shove and push through lines when if they would just wait and be patient they would get through faster and without running people over. I just can’t stand how rude everyone is right now; does no one understand what this holiday is about? I mean I don’t believe in the whole God thingy, but I do believe it’s a time when you enjoy your friends and family. Enjoy being alive. Be thankful for what you have. I mean even without being in the right spirit I am still happy for what I have. A friend looked at me like I had four heads a few days ago when she asked what I got Kenny for Christmas, or what I think that he got me and I replied, “nothing I hope”. We have never bought each other things, for Christmas or birthdays. We don’t need to, we have each other. It’s more that enough for me!!

I survived...

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:37:24 GMT

So I have not crawled into a hole and died like everyone told me I would when I turned 30. I told people that it wasn’t going to bother me one bit. To be honest with you I think it bugged other people a lot more that I didn’t care. I don’t feel 30 so why would I let it bug me?

We had a few friends and family over for a little bit of a celebration. I did not drink cause as soon as I got halfway through one drink I felt like I normally do. Not interested one bit! I did however enjoy being surrounded by people that I haven’t got to see too much of lately. I mean I see them but I am so tired cause of the horrible hours I have been working, that it doesn’t feel like I see them. (does that make sense?) I even am working on work at home right now. I just decided to take a break so that I could finally make an entry. What ever happened to free time anyways? Do you lose that at 30?

We decided that we would supply the hot dogs, pop and the munchies. Jo brought her yummy Chinese casserole and Mattie and Hil brought me a birthday cake. Oh it was so yummy. LOL I think I felt myself gaining back all the weight that I lost for the wedding. Ooooppps. I got lot’s of great friends that know me so well and bought me the perfect gifts. Thank you all! I even got a few shots of me in the “over the hill breast suspenders”. I am just waiting to get them downloaded. I promise that they will be up soon. I think that w all had a great time. We were up until about 2am listening to Matty and his drunken garble, so we know he had a good time!!

Sunday wasn’t much for a day really. I cleaned the house after work on Saturday but it needed to be cleaned again after the party, so we did do something. The rest of the day was just lounging. Watched a lot of TV and it was nice to have nothing to do. Today was just back to the same old. I really need to either leave my work at home or find a new job. For now I will go back to doing my charts so that I know where I am come tomorrow morning.

Song of the day: Fun Day – Stevie Wonder

I knew it couldn't last....

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:37:14 GMT

...my time off from work that is!!

Ok so the holidays were good while they lasted. A quick trip into work today to get a few files that I needed to do some work at home basically cost me the rest of my vacation. I knew deep down inside that I should have snuck in at night when no one was there to get what I needed. I guess we need to run a shift tomorrow maybe Saturday, and I spent the afternoon today running a shift as well. Oh well, I really didn’t want to sleep in and maybe spend some time with some friends anyway…right?? LOL Maybe I should have listened to the voices inside my head this time!!

Anyway the trip up north was a lot of fun. My mom and I got couple of days and a night just the two of us, oh and her dog that likes to bite me. She ripped a hole in my Casey Mears shirt as soon as I got there. I am hoping that I can sew it up. It has been ages since I have spent that much time alone with my mom, and I enjoyed it so much. We have decided that we should do this every year. I think it is the best thing both of us have thought of in ages, and I am looking forward to next year. The night we spent a lone it took us two hours to build a fire and when we got it going finally it rained. A lot of laughs were had over that one!!

It was rainy the first few days on and off through the day, cloudy for another and then my last day very sunny. Don’t worry I now own SPF 70 sun block now so I was safe. I put it on every hour and took an antihistamine before I went out in the sun and the bumps aren’t as bad this time. They are there, but nothing like when I spent the day at the water park. It rained each night so a fire was usually built and then drowned, not a huge deal besides all I would have done is made a fine dinner for the skitters anyway. LOL I am just so much fun to take up north!!

We drove over to the store daily so that I could call Kenny and let him know that I was ok, as well as give Aunt Sue a call to see how she is doing. You know that after having a lung removed she left that hospital less than a week later. Wow eh? As she told me that she wanted to go home on Tuesday when I went to see her on Friday I just laughed and said ok. I never thought they would have let her leave so early. They did though. I am going to go up and see her this weekend. I wanted to go today but I wreaked that when I went into work!!

I missed Kenny a lot while I was up north, definitely wasn’t the same with him not being there. I mean I loved it spending the time with my mom and Ian, but I missed Kenny enjoying the wilderness with me. I actually ended up staying a day longer so that I would get a day in with Ian’s parents cause I never really see them. I guess it wasn’t so much a day with his dad though, mostly his mom cause I ditched the fishing day with the guys so us ladies could relax on the dock and drink. It was great cause I got the company of the ladies and I fished off the dock the whole time. You can see my great catches in my July photos. I took one of each fish that I caught. Nothing much to look at really but a lot of good laughs.

I was so sad to leave. It’s just so peaceful up there that I didn’t want to go. I did want to get home to Kenny though, to my own shower and bed. It’s always nice to come home after a few days. It was also really creepy when I drove home and this weird guy was looking at me funny in my car. I didn’t know what he was going to do drive me off the road or what. So I just backed off and let him drive on ahead of me. He eventually took the next exit. I think next time I will be sure to take some one with me!!

Song of the day: Holiday - Madonna

Some R & R...

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:32:39 GMT

Sorry not much to write. I just got back from up north and all I have right now for you is a few pictures of my trip. It seemed like it was too much work to take too many so I just too one picture of each of the tiny little fish that I caught. I hope that you enjoy them until I have more time to write!

Song of the day: I’m Back - Eminem

1 week off...?

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:14:00 GMT

I have decided that I am going up north during my shut down. Unfortunate for Kenny that he could not get this week off at all. Then I found that my mom was at the cottage herself, so I thought that my mom and I can have some time together alone. Been years since we last did that. Don't worry I should be back Tuesday and I am sure to bring back lot’s of pictures.

I am certainly looking forward to a great relaxing time after the day of hell that was yesterday!!

On a rock down by the river...

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:09:25 GMT

Our Canada Day celebrating wasn’t anything too special, but it was that way on purpose. We decided that this weekend we would do nothing unless we wanted too. It’s our way of getting more time together and starting to say no to everyone else and learning to do thing for our selves once in a while.

Saturday after fishing we stopped by to see what was going on in the pub. Kenny’s uncle was down for a bit, drunk and a skunk he was but it was fun to watch. His plane for BC left in the morning I wonder if he got up for 7am to get to Toronto?? It was good to see everyone that was there but I had no camera so the only pictures I took of the night are on Randy and Jo’s camera.

Sunday we decided since we got to bed so late that we would skip the Fireman’s breakfast that we were supposed to go to and sleep in. Off went the alarms and the cell phone ringer and we got up around noon. It was so nice!! We got showered and went over to the pub to watch the race (kind of) and hung out with Kenny’s parents. Decided after supper to come home and watch Pirates 3 but it wouldn’t play in the DVD player so we watched Spiderman 2 instead.

Today we slept in until 2pm. LOL I know how bad is that!! My camera was fully charged this time for our fishing excursion. I did not get another picture of the machine that you get the worms from, but if you look at the last entry you will see it. Serious it does look like a pop machine and the worms come in a pop can with a lid with holes in it. They are kept cool so that they don’t die. Very red neck, but very convenient!

We got burnt from the sun off the river just on the left side of our bodies. It looks so funny. We caught a lot of Catfish (which I now refer to as "poo fish" as when I try to get them off the hook I guess that I squeeze them a little too hard and they poo on my hand) again today with Kenny also catching a Bass. There were the odd Sunfish or Rock Bass. I even tried fishing with corn and chumming the waters with corn in order to try to catch a Carp. No such luck. In fact for the first time Kenny out fished me!

Song of the day: Cat Fish Blues – BB King

Opening up a can of worms...

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:53:42 GMT

Last night we decided that we should go fishing, just a nice relaxing night down at Pittock Park seeing what we could catch. Pittock is a damn that the Thames River goes through and the water there at one point used to be clean enough to swim in. Now it is just very dirty and the fish are sick. In fact many of the cat fish that I caught were deformed in many different ways. My camera was dead but I did manage to get a picture of the machine that you get the worms from. Yes it looks like a pop machine. Yes the worm come in a pop can with a lid with holes in it. Man how red neck is that?!?

Song of the day: Keep Fishing - Weezer

I'm back...

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:13:03 GMT

So the trip up north was different for sure. Taking the three kids up was what made it so different but it also made it so much more enjoyable having them see and learn new things. In fact there are some more photo’s that are on my brother’s camera that I need to get cause there are just so many things that I don’t have to show you, but there are many that I do, so please take some time to enjoy the pictures I have added of our trip into the June photo album.

We had a great time with a few minor problems here and there but I am pretty sure that we all had a good time. The drive there and back is always very long but the traffic on the way home made it that much worse. I don’t think I have ever hit so much traffic on my way home from the cottage ever and the walkie talkies that we won at Blake and Lyndz buck and doe only worked properly for the drive up and a bit of the drive back. It made it easier to talk between vehicles when you were right behind each other once you got a bit of a ways between the cars they didn’t work that great. Then one of them stopped working all together and all we could do was hear them they couldn’t hear us.

The cottage that we stayed in was beautiful. I am going to see if they have a website cause if you ever want to go away somewhere beautiful then this certainly is the place. The cottage was very clean and had almost everything you needed to make yourself comfy, and what they didn’t have the store had ready for you. Each time I go up there I think I fall in love a little more. In fact enough this time that Kenny and I have agreed that we will just head up there for our honeymoon. What more could you ask for than a whole week by ourselves with a nice fire stove and a lake in the back yard to fish in. Sounds like the perfect honeymoon to me.

My big fishing moment was the big bass that I caught. It wasn’t huge or anything but it was the biggest fish that any of us caught. There was however a lot of Rock Bass caught just to keep the kids excited about fishing. All you do is dip your hook into the water by the dock an within a minute or two you will have a Rock Bass anywhere from 3 – 4” to 6 – 7” inches long. The kids think it’s great that they are catching something. Kenny loves to fish with (or when she gets bored “for”) Tori and they really were the fisherman cause they must have caught about 30 or so. Even Payton fished for a while with Shawn, until she had had enough.

Amanda (brothers) and I didn’t really get much girlie time except for the drive up when we both went in my car and left the guys in the van with the kids. She ended up with a migraine Saturday night, which also cut into our girlie time, it's too bad a found a drink that I like the taste of. She is not big on the cottage life and faired out pretty good when she was feeling well. I think she really enjoyed seeing the kids have so much fun.

My man Juan finally won a race. I was sos excited when I got the message on my cell phone from Jo. I am alo so sad cause I was not able to watch it, being that we were trying ot drive home during that time. I would like to ask a question to the Gordon fans that happen to be in my life and bug me all the time about what an incredible driver he is a little something. What points race did Gordon win in his rookie season?? NONE!! Ha ha ha ha!!

I would happily do that trip again, I mean there were some really good times that made up for the ones that gave you the splitting headaches!!

Song of the day: Family Business – Kanye West

I am outa here...

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:52:37 GMT

Just heading up north. Wish I could stay and chat longer but the ship is about to set sail. I really need to leave this city though as I have just been working way too much. I will be back Sunday with lots of pictures and hopefully some time to make an entry. I still can’t believe that I got done work a day this week before 5!!

Song of the day: Holiday - Green Day

If a Christmas tree falls...

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:31:10 GMT

on top of me in the living room does anyone else other than my cats hear? I think not! But if the neighbours were snooping in the front window they sure would have had a great laugh. Last night I did come home and take all the ornaments off the tree, all except for the angel that was way up at the top. I thought if I just got on my tippy toes and pulled the tree towards myself a bit that I might just be able to have the whole tree fall on top of me. LOL I did get the angel though, and the tree was not heavy, nor did it hurt me. It did make it rather hard to push it back to it’s standing position when I was laughing my butt off. The cats all ran away scared, not that they would have been much help. The tree itself sheds quite a bit so after Kenny came home and did his share of taking the rest of the tree down I had a rather large mess to vacuum up. Never seen a fake tree shed quite like this one!!

We didn’t do much last night after the tree. I was just exhausted from the inventory that we have been doing at work I snored my head off from 8:00pm until the alarm went off at 6:00am. We finished the inventory today, not too sure why we do it twice a year but remind me next time to call in sick. I also had to do my first "written warning". It was hard to do cause this guy is usually never a problem, a little hyper but works hard, just seems that he got used to sleeping in over the holidays too much and the last two days has been over and hour late for work. I hope that tomorrow will be much better as we are back to normal production, which means that I get a few extra minutes to myself during the day, and there won’t be a million questions to answer!!

P.S. I really need some help I am trying to customize the colours on my page, and I was wondering if there might be somewhere that I can go to get custom number colours, or maybe something that I am missing cause this guessing at the numbers thingy really sucks!!!

Song of the day: If a tree falls - Bruce Cockburn

This is the end...

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:35:13 GMT

of 2006 my friend...ha ha ha....betcha have The Doors stuck in your head, well if you are my age or older, or even just have good taste in music that is.....

Yepper....it's the last entry of the year! Short but just a little reflection on the fact that it’s hard to believe that another year has passed by so quickly. So much has happened in this last year that when I sit back and think about it I wonder how crazy this coming year will be for us.

This year was the year of boys as I have a new nephew, my best friend gave birth to her first boy, as well as friends of Kenny’s found out that they were having a baby and it is going to be a boy.

I got a new job. Not sure yet if that is a good thing just yet! It’s not what I thought it was going to be but it has sent me in a different direction than what I was heading in before. This has brought some challenges and learning experiences that I know will better me in the years to come.

I even started watching NASCAR, what a surprise I know, something I swore I would never do. The weird part is that I even enjoyed it!

Blake and Lyndz got engaged on my 29^th birthday. *~*whoot whoot*~* (Wow that means this new year brings the big 3 - 0!) This also means that I have someone else going through the stress of planning a wedding the same time as I am.

The begining of last year I healed and learned to trust again. Kenny and I got engaged, we bought our house in the fall and celebrated our first year of being together shortly after. When I say it like that it all seems so fast but I feel like we have been together forever, like it has just always been that way.

There is just so much that happened as I read through this year of blogs that has gone on that makes this year such a great year. There might have been a few ups and downs but we made it through and hopefully next year will be even better! I hope that you all have a great night tonight and look forward towards what this next year might hold for you. We will be spending the night with Kenny's parents and some of our closest friends.

P.S. No drinking and driving!!

What do you want to be when you get older....?

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:41:05 GMT

We had a great time with my mom’s family and friends at the party last night. I don’t remember a Christmas with my mom’s family that was so much fun. There were 30 of us all together, with 10 of them being kids all under the age of 10. Maybe that helped a bit more with the fun factor. No matter where you turned there was always someone to talk to or play with, it was a very busy house. In fact last time I think there were that many people in that house my brother was having a party when my mom went away about a decade ago.

Best of all were the kids, I don’t get to see both of my cousins kids that much and in my on cousins case I get to see her kids once a year if I am lucky. Kim and her husband David have 4 beautiful children, 3 boys and a girl. Her little girl (Lauren) was born with a birth defect that does not allow her bladder to work the same as yours and mine, I think it was actually on the outside of her body when she was born. She has gone through a lot of surgeries and has been given the ability to allow herself to drain her bladder through a tube. She is 5, and still has to wear pull-ups, which she is very embarrassed of. I can only imagine what kids tease her about, it is hard to realize that someone else is a miracle baby when you are a child, they are just weird to you. To them she is a baby that has to wear diapers still, to me she is one of the strongest people I have ever met!

For some reason Lauren took such a liking to me that she wanted to show me how her tube worked. My cousin was very surprised as Lauren has never asked for anyone to watch her before, it’s normal for her to try to hide everything from people. Remember I only see this child one a year if I am lucky. I have never had a child that I didn’t know very well decide that I should watch them do something they hide from the world. I though I should watch and make her feel as comfortable as I can.

I watched as she showed me how she got herself ready in amazement. I told her that it was really cool, and really I was not lying. It looked to me like there was a tube put into her body that went from her belly button to her bladder, she would insert another tube into that tuber and it would drain her bladder for her. She talked me through what she had to do as I marveled in what the Dr’s were able to do for her. When she was finished she cleaned herself up packed all her tools in her bag and then she looked up at me and said, "See, I am different." She looked so sad about it. I choked back the tears (as I do right now typing this) and said to her, "No honey you are special."

Afterwards I took her out to see a buddy of mine that was there, he is the one that lost his leg back in the summer, he too has been through a lot. I wanted to show Lauren that there are other people that are special too, that she wasn’t alone. She looked at his leg and asked him what happened, he was so great about it and told her that he had been run over. She said that he was special like she was. I smiled, she said special not different. She knew that she was not alone.

We played together for a while and when her brothers opened their presents and had got a remote controlled motorcycle that they said she couldn’t play with I took her downstairs and I sat her on mine. She was so excited. She asked me if I could come home with her. I laughed and said no, but I could come and visit, or maybe she could come and visit me.

Have you ever had a 5 year old little girl that has been through more than you have ever in your 29 years of existence look up at you with her big blue eyes and ask you what you want to be when you grow up? It just makes you smile to see how innocent she really still is, I see that she still gets to be a child, but she it still a stronger person that I. She says that she wants to be a nurse. I told her that she should be a Dr, so that she can help other kids like herself, she just laughed and said "ok". I hope that this day she never forgets, cause I will never forget it!!

Gearing down...and I am almost in neutral...

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:43:01 GMT

There will be no snow for Christmas!! I almost had a tear but then I realized that I really don't like snow anyways, I mean it's nice for Christmas to have a bit of snow, but I can live without it.

So work is going better than I thought today. Everyone is gearing down for our weeks holidays, we all started out in 5th...about half way through the morning we were in 4th...we had pizza for lunch and it was actually really good...after lunch I had no idea what happened to 3rd or 2nd. I think that people are almost in reverse right now really!!

We got mom's house cleaned, not as much as I would have liked to, but by 8:30pm I was ready for bed! For the most part it is clean and it's really not about how clean your house is so who cares. The good part is that we have a lot of family and friends coming for supper tomorrow! Besides the house will be dirty by the time we are all done anyways.

Tonight Kenny and I finish up our last minute shopping. I am not looking forward to the malls cause I know they will be packed but I do know that I don't have to work in the morning so we can take our time. Watch everyone else run around like chickens with their heads cut off while we get the last things done.

Fill in the words that come to mind about yourself...so I did....

Yourself: weird

Your Partner: perfect

Your Hair: straight

Your Mother: loving

Your Father: strong

Your Favorite Item: camera

Your Dream Last Night: crazy

Your Favorite Drink: chocolate milk

Your Dream Car: Eleanor (Gone In 60 Seconds)

Your Dream Home: current

The Room You Are In: office (work)

Your Ex: fuk-tard

Your Fear: flying

Where You Want to be in Ten Years: content

Who You Hung Out With Last Night: Kenny

What You’re Not: perfect

Muffins: banana

One of Your Wish List Items: happiness

Time: 12:59pm

The Last Thing You Did: scheduling

What You Are Wearing: clothes (thank goodness)

Your Favorite Weather: sunny

Your Favorite Book: vampire

Last Thing You Ate: chocolate

Your Life: great

Your Mood: meh

Your Best Friend: caring

What Are You Thinking About Right Now: Christmas

Your Car: 2004 Suzuki Swift

What Are You Doing At The Moment: working ?

Your Summer: wicked

Relationship Status: married (just about)

What Is On Your TV: model (69's Charger, plum crazy I think?)

What Is The Weather Like: rainy

When Is The Last Time You Laughed: 10 minutes ago

In Flanders Fields...

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:12:08 GMT

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

In flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

If I was to hand out...

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:37:59 GMT

a trophy to the best driver of today’s NASCAR race...it would go to the driver of my car...Casey Mears!! Who took out the very whiney and retarded Jeff Gordon in today’s race. I still haven't seen the crash but I hear he hit him not only once, but twice!! Hee hee hee. The man deserves a huge trophy as now Gordon will fall in the standings. The funny part is that Mears will be joining the Hendricks team next year, so he took out a driver that next year will be his team mate. LOL The main thing is that he took him out, ah...poor cry baby will go to bed tonight whining and sucking his thumb all curled up with his teddy bears!! I am sure there will be many interviews of Gordon whining away about how Mears took him out, the funny parts is that Gordon does that to people all the time so that he can win a race. It looks good on him!!

We had our Thanksgiving supper with my dad's family tonight. It was a great time, and the food that L'aunt Lynne makes is always the best. The kids had fun outside playing with bubbles and of course, as always, Kenny as a climber. It was even more fun cause my brother is a huge Gordon fan. I made up a new game where my niece runs around the back yard, of course turning left. She would start laughing when I would yell that she needed to watch out cause Mears just took Gordon out. I even made her walk the track while they cleaned up the debris. Even Payton played a little bit. She is too young though and losses concentration when she notices a pretty leaf. We got lot's of pictures so I will be sure to add them when our computer gets hooked back up online at home.

We did not work on the house today, cause we slept in until noon. Hee hee hee!! Hey I think not only did we need it but we deserved it. Then we had to do a few things and be there for supper by 3pm. Which meant that we couldn't make it to Alyssa's birthday party. I was hoping to make it there for a while. It did feel nice to not have to paint, but the kids sure did tire me out. We are curling up to watch a movie and have a relaxing night.

Snow much fun...

Tue, 23 May 2006 16:50:46 GMT

well we are back, and we had an amazing time. I am however feeling a little green though!! I went up with a bit of a cold and came back with a doozy!! It didn't help my cold that that it was freezing out, rainy, windy and lets not forget snowy and we slept in the van. When you are drunk you do not feel this!! Still sick or not, snow or not, yes I said snow!! We still had a really great time, probably the best time I have ever had up at my parents cottage. We drove up Friday night leaving at about 9 to avoid traffic, and it was smooth sailing all the way there.

Dave let us use the APC van so that we had somewhere to sleep. So with the seats all taken out and the futon mattress jammed in it we headed on our way. We had Satalite Sarah with us (Dave named her, lol, really not my choice in names, don't think Kenny's fav either), she was a great GPS system that we borrowed from the shop to help us find our way. She was great but anoying, and she only wanted us to make legal u-turns, now what fun is that?!? I think we made some illegal ones just to see what she would say!! We quickly found that when you choose no highways they really will take you no highways, in fact they will take you on all the back roads that are gravel. We decided that we didn't want it to take us 9 hours, cause that is what Sarah calculated, and we quickly chose to head back to the 401 so that it would only take about 5.

Saturday night we had a pig roast which was also a surprise 50th birthday party for my mom, and we all drank a little too much. I wasn't going to buut Ian and Kenny both told me that I would get rid of my cold if I would just start drinking. Remind me to never listen to them again. It was an early night we were in bed by the lastest 2. I got lot's and lot's of pictures now I just have to find the time to get them off the camera!! I am sure that you might get a good laugh or two from them....besides how often does anyone see me drunk.

Sunday was a recoup day, it was cold and rainy, sometimes snowy so we stayed inside and watched some moves and other stuff. We also didn't get up until about 1 in the afternoon so that didn't leave much time that day to do anything else.

We got a good nights rest for our ride home and our visit to Dave and Marilyn's cottage, which to me was more of a house. Beautiful up there though and the air so clean and fresh. Can't wait to get back up there hopefully with a bit more sunshine next time.

It was quiet and relaxing...

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:54:05 GMT

Well Valentine's Day was the best one ever cause I spent it with Kenny, my fiance!! Sorry I get little butterflies in my stomach when I say that, feel like an excited 16 year old girl going out on first date feeling. We both agreed not to get each other anything, so I decided that I would make him a card. I did a really cool cut and paste job, with lot's of hearts, all pink and red. It was kind of cute really......at least I think it was?!?!

Let me tell you, cut and paste isn't the same when you are 28, the paste doesn't taste as good!! We had a very romantic supper of Taco Bell, which is what I was craving bigtime! Hey, he said that I could choose, so how could I pass that up. Then had a relaxing candle-light bubble bath, and curled up together watching TV until we both passed out. Nothing too exciting for most people, but perfect as far as I am concerned.