Before 8 this morning, I was having a horrible day. I ended up putting on my sweater upside down twice, don't ask it's a very large neck sweater, then I kept on picking things up and putting them down and losing them, like the hairbrush, mascara etc. Then I was making lunch and the salad dressing wouldn't come out of the bottle, so I squeezed a little harder and it exploded everywhere, on my jeans in my hair, so I had to take another shower. I get to work and find that a piece of code that supposedly takes 360 developer hours has been assigned to me, so I stomp off to get some coffee, but I stepped on my heel wrong as I was going through the doors and fell on my ass. If I had just seen that happen, I woulda laughed.
Hopefully my day starts looking better.....
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Social Butterfly
Holy man, have I been a social butterfly lately. I can't really remember when I last vegged on my couch by myself at home. I'm not complaining, I'm busy but fun busy and that's what it's all about.
This weekend was lots of fun. Heather came in from Regina and I dragged her to all the Saskatoon events. Friday night we went to the Pat nightclub for $1 highballs and $3 mini pitchers, where I enjoyed 12 drinks. We did some speaker dancing, the ever smooth brush off the creepy guy by dancing away move. Shannon and Alyssa decided to have a competition to see how many asses they could grab, I wonder who won? From here we went to Crackers for karaokee, I actually got up to sing with Shannon. By all means we shouldn't have got our song played, we got there too late, but we worked our magic on the dj, a 40 year old guy with a curly mullet. Once the karaokee was over it was time to stop at 7-11, I was so hungry! But people refused to let me out of the car, so I went head first over 2 people to get out of the back seat and smoothly turned myself upright to get out. I'm sure others would agree on the smoothness of this move ;) Then I bought taquitos for all, even though they wouldn't let me out, that's some good revenge, take that jerks.
Saturday we went shopping. I didn't really buy anything, I'm not too impressed with the spring line this year. I like colours in spring and everything seems to be black, white and brown. Oh well, I think I have enough spring clothes anyways so it's for the best. I did, however, buy a new black belt, that looks like my old black belt, except it's not falling apart and the holes aren't ripped. You have no idea how long it takes to come across a basic black belt, it was insane. Some Regina friends were in town for the Billy Talent concert so I had supper with them at Fuddruckers.
Saturday night Heather and I went to Barbara and Brant's for a board game night. We played Marry,Date or Dump and Scene It Squabble. I was on my game for Scene it. The girl team won all the games of Scene it again. This prompted Brant to clean off the board of anything that would scatter, and flip it agrily in frustration. Like tipping the chess board but taking all those pesky pieces that could make a mess off. Ha, ha, Barbara trained him well. I found out Steve and Marnie are moving 2 blocks away from me, and their apartment has a pool. Toni's boy got really drunk, while playing pool he wasn't even aiming for the right balls or in the right direction sometimes. It was pretty funny.
Sunday we tried to meet the concert goers for brunch, but the plans were changed and rearranged so many times and we were hungry while we were trying to figure out where they were and what exactly they were doing, so we went to Denny's. I had Moons Over my Hammy, the name is still funny sober. Usually we go there after the bar and I end up ordering it because it just sounds ridiculous. Sunday afternoon, I putzed around with the computer, got sidetracked by Monopoly Tycoon, played some raquetball and hot tubbed. I also made it over the Y to do some weights. As I was leaving I noticed people gathering in the class room, so I checked the drop in schedule and they were doing kickboxing. So I stayed for that. It was lots of fun. The choreography was pretty easy for me, I thank Billy Blanks for that, and I got a good workout.
Tonight the social butterfly continues, going for Sushi with Marshall, tomorrow is guitar hero night, wednesday is gymnastics. Thursday is usually a girls night but I might be okay staying home for a night. My couch is so comfy!
Work has been really sucking lately. I keep on getting more and more documentation. I was going to explode with frustration. But then this morning I got some code, yay! So I've been compiling and integrating and programming all morning. Now that's alot better. I do have to write a report on this when I'm done the code, but at least I have life line that's pulled me out of document frustration.
This weekend was lots of fun. Heather came in from Regina and I dragged her to all the Saskatoon events. Friday night we went to the Pat nightclub for $1 highballs and $3 mini pitchers, where I enjoyed 12 drinks. We did some speaker dancing, the ever smooth brush off the creepy guy by dancing away move. Shannon and Alyssa decided to have a competition to see how many asses they could grab, I wonder who won? From here we went to Crackers for karaokee, I actually got up to sing with Shannon. By all means we shouldn't have got our song played, we got there too late, but we worked our magic on the dj, a 40 year old guy with a curly mullet. Once the karaokee was over it was time to stop at 7-11, I was so hungry! But people refused to let me out of the car, so I went head first over 2 people to get out of the back seat and smoothly turned myself upright to get out. I'm sure others would agree on the smoothness of this move ;) Then I bought taquitos for all, even though they wouldn't let me out, that's some good revenge, take that jerks.
Saturday we went shopping. I didn't really buy anything, I'm not too impressed with the spring line this year. I like colours in spring and everything seems to be black, white and brown. Oh well, I think I have enough spring clothes anyways so it's for the best. I did, however, buy a new black belt, that looks like my old black belt, except it's not falling apart and the holes aren't ripped. You have no idea how long it takes to come across a basic black belt, it was insane. Some Regina friends were in town for the Billy Talent concert so I had supper with them at Fuddruckers.
Saturday night Heather and I went to Barbara and Brant's for a board game night. We played Marry,Date or Dump and Scene It Squabble. I was on my game for Scene it. The girl team won all the games of Scene it again. This prompted Brant to clean off the board of anything that would scatter, and flip it agrily in frustration. Like tipping the chess board but taking all those pesky pieces that could make a mess off. Ha, ha, Barbara trained him well. I found out Steve and Marnie are moving 2 blocks away from me, and their apartment has a pool. Toni's boy got really drunk, while playing pool he wasn't even aiming for the right balls or in the right direction sometimes. It was pretty funny.
Sunday we tried to meet the concert goers for brunch, but the plans were changed and rearranged so many times and we were hungry while we were trying to figure out where they were and what exactly they were doing, so we went to Denny's. I had Moons Over my Hammy, the name is still funny sober. Usually we go there after the bar and I end up ordering it because it just sounds ridiculous. Sunday afternoon, I putzed around with the computer, got sidetracked by Monopoly Tycoon, played some raquetball and hot tubbed. I also made it over the Y to do some weights. As I was leaving I noticed people gathering in the class room, so I checked the drop in schedule and they were doing kickboxing. So I stayed for that. It was lots of fun. The choreography was pretty easy for me, I thank Billy Blanks for that, and I got a good workout.
Tonight the social butterfly continues, going for Sushi with Marshall, tomorrow is guitar hero night, wednesday is gymnastics. Thursday is usually a girls night but I might be okay staying home for a night. My couch is so comfy!
Work has been really sucking lately. I keep on getting more and more documentation. I was going to explode with frustration. But then this morning I got some code, yay! So I've been compiling and integrating and programming all morning. Now that's alot better. I do have to write a report on this when I'm done the code, but at least I have life line that's pulled me out of document frustration.
Monday, January 22, 2007
More Snowmobiling
I went out to the lake for the weekend. It was gorgeous out there, not too warm, not too cold. I learned how to drive the ski doo, not too much too it. It was lots of fun. I really enjoyed it. There are trails that meander up and down the valleyside, along the lake and in the trees. Went to Spanko's, a run down warm up shack. It was my Dad's birthday so we had cake and presents and more family and all that, fun was had.
This week looks fairly busy, hosting a movie hot tub night on thursday, finally getting a haircut, bowling tomorrow, plus it's the day to up my weights at the gym, yay! I figure I still have one week to get in shape for gymnastics, face it, I'm not going to be able to do anything in that class, but at least I can try to be in shape for it. Then baseball season is coming up, so hopefully I'll have some upper body strength for that.
Too much going on, too much fun!
This week looks fairly busy, hosting a movie hot tub night on thursday, finally getting a haircut, bowling tomorrow, plus it's the day to up my weights at the gym, yay! I figure I still have one week to get in shape for gymnastics, face it, I'm not going to be able to do anything in that class, but at least I can try to be in shape for it. Then baseball season is coming up, so hopefully I'll have some upper body strength for that.
Too much going on, too much fun!
Monday, January 15, 2007
Summer Loving Weddings
This weekend was so busy and weird. Friday night after work, Blair, Shannon and Juliet came over for video games and pizza. That pizza never tasted so good. Shannon and I went to pick it up after hearing that having it delivered would take 2 hours, or 15 minutes if we picked it up. Later I went to Paul's where we met, to go to a hole in the wall place called Cracker's for Karaokee. Adventures were had, I think the guys ganged up on me to get me drunk to get me to go sing. Which I did, Summer Loving from Grease. I dueted with Jeff, who is way to good to have to sing that song with me. Did some dancing, watched Paul as he reciprocated some attention from some cougars. Too funny. I ended up keeping up with the boys in drinking, which I shouldn't have. But I did without being too sick, so all in all not bad. I ended up crashing on Paul's hide a bed for the night and woke up at 9:30 the next morning. Exactly 30 mins to go before I had to meet Barbara, Toni, Debra and Barbara's mom for wedding dress shopping.
I met them at the bridal store, only 10 mins late, not that bad. We watched Barbara try on some beautiful dresses. So pretty! And we found the dress. Not too bad! We then went and tried on bridesmaids dresses and found some absolutely gorgeous ones that looked good on all of us. I get to wear the whip cream skirt that I didn't get to wear in July! Hooray! And to top it off, I am a size 0. Sweet! Who says stress has drawbacks? The dresses are in colours called stone and mocha. Now to invent some other places to wear it.
Needless to say Saturday I was absolutely exhausted. I was excited about finding the dresses but in rough shape from the night before, in desperate need of a nap. So I showered and ended up taking a nap for 4 hours and then talked to Phil for a while and decided to call it a night.
Sunday was productive as well. I got my den closed organised nicely so I can access everything I need to and pile the christmas stuff in there. Did some grocery shopping. Ended up finding a really cool pair of ballerina shoes at WalMart for $10! Also I'm going to be acquiring a spare bed for the den, graciously donated by my parents and aunt and uncle. It'll be nice to have a place for overnight guests again. That's exciting. The fire alarm in my building went off last night at 11. It was a really weird alarm too, at first I thought it was on the cd I was listening to. It was kinda a techno beat associated with it. Then I realized I was listening to an acoustic cd and that could not be the case. But the alarm went off. Everyone on the floor was confused, but I did get to meet my neighbors, although none of them really seemed to care. Everyone on my floor seems to keep to themselves pretty good. Then I had some sweet dreams about firefighters coming to rescue me....
I met them at the bridal store, only 10 mins late, not that bad. We watched Barbara try on some beautiful dresses. So pretty! And we found the dress. Not too bad! We then went and tried on bridesmaids dresses and found some absolutely gorgeous ones that looked good on all of us. I get to wear the whip cream skirt that I didn't get to wear in July! Hooray! And to top it off, I am a size 0. Sweet! Who says stress has drawbacks? The dresses are in colours called stone and mocha. Now to invent some other places to wear it.
Needless to say Saturday I was absolutely exhausted. I was excited about finding the dresses but in rough shape from the night before, in desperate need of a nap. So I showered and ended up taking a nap for 4 hours and then talked to Phil for a while and decided to call it a night.
Sunday was productive as well. I got my den closed organised nicely so I can access everything I need to and pile the christmas stuff in there. Did some grocery shopping. Ended up finding a really cool pair of ballerina shoes at WalMart for $10! Also I'm going to be acquiring a spare bed for the den, graciously donated by my parents and aunt and uncle. It'll be nice to have a place for overnight guests again. That's exciting. The fire alarm in my building went off last night at 11. It was a really weird alarm too, at first I thought it was on the cd I was listening to. It was kinda a techno beat associated with it. Then I realized I was listening to an acoustic cd and that could not be the case. But the alarm went off. Everyone on the floor was confused, but I did get to meet my neighbors, although none of them really seemed to care. Everyone on my floor seems to keep to themselves pretty good. Then I had some sweet dreams about firefighters coming to rescue me....
Sunday, January 14, 2007
February Stars
Hanging on
Here until I'm gone
Right where I belong
Just hanging on
Even though
I watched you come and go
How was I to know
You'd steal the show
One day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call,
and bet it all
Hanging on
Here until I'm gone
Right where I belong
Just hanging on
Even though
I pass this time alone
Somewhere so unknown
It heals the soul
You ask for walls I'll build them higher
We'll lie in shadows of them all
I'd stand but they're much too tall
And i fall
February Stars
Floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February Stars
Here until I'm gone
Right where I belong
Just hanging on
Even though
I watched you come and go
How was I to know
You'd steal the show
One day I'll have enough to gamble
I'll wait to hear your final call,
and bet it all
Hanging on
Here until I'm gone
Right where I belong
Just hanging on
Even though
I pass this time alone
Somewhere so unknown
It heals the soul
You ask for walls I'll build them higher
We'll lie in shadows of them all
I'd stand but they're much too tall
And i fall
February Stars
Floating in the dark
Temporary scars
February Stars
Thursday, January 11, 2007
7 years ago...
So I was reading an email from Erika, she always does these little survey things, which I, in turn, do and post on here, and one of the questions that was asked was "Out of your high school friends, who do you think ended up exactly where you expected?" She answered me, which made me think, when I was in high school is this were I thought I would be?
My first impulse is to say no, after everything that's happened in the last 5 months. But you know what the real answer is? Yes. This is exactly where I thought I would be, back then, this is exactly what I was striving for. Somewhere in University, those expectations changed, but the newly single girl that had just graduated high school predicted this exact situation. I had made a list of life goals back then:
I've done all of those except for the travel ones. I'm exactly where I had wanted to be. In 6 months I'll be turning 24 again. I'm going to make some more goals for myself. I'm going to keep the travel ones on there and move them to the next phase of goals and add some places. I'm going to have to start thinking about what I want to accomplish by the time I'm 32. Should I put some romantic goals in there? Those are always so touch and go though. I think I'm better off keeping me happy and having someone to share if it happens. So relationship goals are out. (Sorry to put you guys through my whole thought process!)
This isn't a brag post or anything, it's more that I'm in awe. It's been a while since I've stopped to examine these questions, I'm just surprised by the outcome! I look forward to doing Erika's survey right before I turn 24 again. I'm sure lots will change in 6 months time still. It's amazing all the things we've all accomplished in the last 7 years, the things we wanted and the things we didn't even know we wanted.
My first impulse is to say no, after everything that's happened in the last 5 months. But you know what the real answer is? Yes. This is exactly where I thought I would be, back then, this is exactly what I was striving for. Somewhere in University, those expectations changed, but the newly single girl that had just graduated high school predicted this exact situation. I had made a list of life goals back then:
- Finish University
- Live in a big city downtown
- Find a good job
- Buy a house/condo
- Travel to Europe
- Travel to Mexico
- Do a cartwheel
- Learn another language
I've done all of those except for the travel ones. I'm exactly where I had wanted to be. In 6 months I'll be turning 24 again. I'm going to make some more goals for myself. I'm going to keep the travel ones on there and move them to the next phase of goals and add some places. I'm going to have to start thinking about what I want to accomplish by the time I'm 32. Should I put some romantic goals in there? Those are always so touch and go though. I think I'm better off keeping me happy and having someone to share if it happens. So relationship goals are out. (Sorry to put you guys through my whole thought process!)
This isn't a brag post or anything, it's more that I'm in awe. It's been a while since I've stopped to examine these questions, I'm just surprised by the outcome! I look forward to doing Erika's survey right before I turn 24 again. I'm sure lots will change in 6 months time still. It's amazing all the things we've all accomplished in the last 7 years, the things we wanted and the things we didn't even know we wanted.
Snow Day!
Wow, I've never seen anything like yesterday in my entire life. Yesterday morning, blizzard warnings were in full effect. But, we live in Saskatchewan, of course there's a blizzard warning, doesn't necessarily mean it will! But it did! The drive to work was alright, I could at least see 6 or 7 car lengths in front of my vehicle. But by noon, it was a total white out! The whole city of Saskatoon shut down, bus service, cabs, all businesses. I abandoned my car here at work and got a ride home with Shannon and Blair. Couldn't see anything on Circle Drive. I made it home safe and quite timely given the circumstances. From my condo I could see downtown in total gridlock, bumper to bumper for at least 3 hours, that was once some of the white out was letting up. When I first got home I couldn't see a foot in front of the window!
Today driving down the streets here is like driving in snow tunnels, plus you need to dodge cars that were piled under the snow that haven't been moved. Just unreal! To top it all off, yesterday while we were awaiting announcements of what was going on with work and the weather, there was news that a car in our parking lot was on fire. So there was drama there, I was sitting here waiting for my license plate to be called as one of the vehicles that was damaged. But luckily, for once, I escaped, 3 cars were damaged in the fire. My car was parked across the far aisle from the fire, but is fine. Phew!
Shannon gave me a ride back to work this morning, my car looks fine in the parking lot, just a little snowy. I need to go out later and plug it in. No one is really at work this morning. But it seems things are getting back to normal. I will never forget this snow day.
So I had a nice afternoon off, my Christmas tree finally got put away, closets organised and measured. All I have left is to tackle my storage room and decide on materials I want for my closet organiser.
Today driving down the streets here is like driving in snow tunnels, plus you need to dodge cars that were piled under the snow that haven't been moved. Just unreal! To top it all off, yesterday while we were awaiting announcements of what was going on with work and the weather, there was news that a car in our parking lot was on fire. So there was drama there, I was sitting here waiting for my license plate to be called as one of the vehicles that was damaged. But luckily, for once, I escaped, 3 cars were damaged in the fire. My car was parked across the far aisle from the fire, but is fine. Phew!
Shannon gave me a ride back to work this morning, my car looks fine in the parking lot, just a little snowy. I need to go out later and plug it in. No one is really at work this morning. But it seems things are getting back to normal. I will never forget this snow day.
So I had a nice afternoon off, my Christmas tree finally got put away, closets organised and measured. All I have left is to tackle my storage room and decide on materials I want for my closet organiser.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Secrets
What a weird week. So much going on, so much gossip, so much to do.
It came out today at work that Shannon and Blair are dating. I'm happy, I'm terrible at keeping secrets and almost let it slip more than once. I'm actually really surprised no one caught on, I made enough slips, oh well. Now Paul designates that I'm not in his circle of trust. So I fixed his Venn diagram on his whiteboard for him.
On the weekend I partied with a group of friends, we went to Beily's. I didn't realize on Saturdays that that place turns into a club! Lots of dancing was done. Roberta was in town, I haven't seen her forever, she helped me with my dancing moves. ;) Barbara and I got in trouble for dancing on a speaker. Brant gave me a really funny but good drunk rant, and Brant's brother was trying to hit on Roberta. So fun was had. Since Barbara and Brant missed new year's we made up for it pretty good. Sunday was a very rough recovery day. I'm too old to celebrate new year's twice in one year. But it was worth it.
Speaking of relationships, Toni has a boyfriend too. All my single gals are hooking up! Her boyfriend seems very sweet and was able to take the teasing Brant and Brenden dished at him.
The gym has been going really well so far. My arms are pretty sore most days but stuff is getting easier to lift, take that 4L milk! I'm going to throw in some core workouts next week too. I notice my back is getting sore and the only way to fix that is to strengthen my core. I'll be in tip top shape in no time.
This weekend is filling up already. Dress shopping was moved to this weekend, plus there's a free reign on overtime at work here, which I will take advantage of. Also I finally want to do some home projects or at least start! Fun keeps on getting in the way though. I also have a full run of personal maitenance that needs to be done, oil change, car wash, hair cut, dentist, eye brows waxed, ugh!
I'm also craving sushi, I think I'll make some for supper tonight...
It came out today at work that Shannon and Blair are dating. I'm happy, I'm terrible at keeping secrets and almost let it slip more than once. I'm actually really surprised no one caught on, I made enough slips, oh well. Now Paul designates that I'm not in his circle of trust. So I fixed his Venn diagram on his whiteboard for him.
On the weekend I partied with a group of friends, we went to Beily's. I didn't realize on Saturdays that that place turns into a club! Lots of dancing was done. Roberta was in town, I haven't seen her forever, she helped me with my dancing moves. ;) Barbara and I got in trouble for dancing on a speaker. Brant gave me a really funny but good drunk rant, and Brant's brother was trying to hit on Roberta. So fun was had. Since Barbara and Brant missed new year's we made up for it pretty good. Sunday was a very rough recovery day. I'm too old to celebrate new year's twice in one year. But it was worth it.
Speaking of relationships, Toni has a boyfriend too. All my single gals are hooking up! Her boyfriend seems very sweet and was able to take the teasing Brant and Brenden dished at him.
The gym has been going really well so far. My arms are pretty sore most days but stuff is getting easier to lift, take that 4L milk! I'm going to throw in some core workouts next week too. I notice my back is getting sore and the only way to fix that is to strengthen my core. I'll be in tip top shape in no time.
This weekend is filling up already. Dress shopping was moved to this weekend, plus there's a free reign on overtime at work here, which I will take advantage of. Also I finally want to do some home projects or at least start! Fun keeps on getting in the way though. I also have a full run of personal maitenance that needs to be done, oil change, car wash, hair cut, dentist, eye brows waxed, ugh!
I'm also craving sushi, I think I'll make some for supper tonight...
Monday, January 08, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Flannel Sheets, where have you been?
I'm completely exhausted, this week has been so crazy busy. Tuesday I had to do a bunch of laundry from Christmas and such, and I played a bunch of guitar hero. I also started doing the weights at the gym as my primary work out instead of cardio. I also set up my USB phone adapter on my computer, so you can skype me and I can talk to you on a real phone. Dave, Brett and John, I'm looking in your direction for that one, you all have headsets.
Then last night was filled with more laundry, organizing my storage room, unclogging my tub, playing with skype, and changing the sheets on the bed. I got these flannel sheets for Christmas and I put them on. I've never had flannel sheets before. Let me tell you, these were the most comfortable sheets I've ever slept in. So soft and warm, I couldn't get up this morning. So cozy. I think I might go right back to bed after work! But I won't.
Tonight I'm going to head over to Old Navy and Future Shop. Should be some good after Christmas deals by now. I bought the sweater I'm wearing now after Christmas at Old Navy for $3. I remember I had bought the same one for my sister for her bday in a different colour in September and it was $35 then. Then I'm going to Barbara's to visit her and Moose and hang out. Then maybe to Martoonie night after that. Depends how bad those sheets are calling my name.
We're shopping for Barbara's wedding and bridesmaid dresses on the weekend. Yay! So much fun. I'm going to have to remember to bring some tissues. When Heather found her dress I started crying, it looked so perfect on her! Totally out of character to me. But at least now I'm aware it happens and I can prepare. I guess I just have a soft spot for weddings or pretty dresses bring me to tears? I don't really know the reasoning behind it.
Then last night was filled with more laundry, organizing my storage room, unclogging my tub, playing with skype, and changing the sheets on the bed. I got these flannel sheets for Christmas and I put them on. I've never had flannel sheets before. Let me tell you, these were the most comfortable sheets I've ever slept in. So soft and warm, I couldn't get up this morning. So cozy. I think I might go right back to bed after work! But I won't.
Tonight I'm going to head over to Old Navy and Future Shop. Should be some good after Christmas deals by now. I bought the sweater I'm wearing now after Christmas at Old Navy for $3. I remember I had bought the same one for my sister for her bday in a different colour in September and it was $35 then. Then I'm going to Barbara's to visit her and Moose and hang out. Then maybe to Martoonie night after that. Depends how bad those sheets are calling my name.
We're shopping for Barbara's wedding and bridesmaid dresses on the weekend. Yay! So much fun. I'm going to have to remember to bring some tissues. When Heather found her dress I started crying, it looked so perfect on her! Totally out of character to me. But at least now I'm aware it happens and I can prepare. I guess I just have a soft spot for weddings or pretty dresses bring me to tears? I don't really know the reasoning behind it.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
The Holidays
And I'm back at work with nothing to do until the meeting this afternoon. Sounds like a good time to write a holiday summary.
I took the week off between new year's and Christmas and went back to Regina. Hung out a little with my buddy Dave, I woulda liked to see more of him but it was Christmas. There were board games at Heather's, where we learned that even though we grew up in the 90's we didn't really watch the news and therefore couldn't answer too many questions in 90s Trivial Pursuit. There was the friends Christmas party where I caught up with everyone, had a nice visit with Brett and Alnaar. I'm so excited for their wedding next year.
My family adopted a new member. His name is Pumpkin. He's another Orange tabby, but big and fat with tuxedo white pattern and paws. He's afraid of everything but he's getting better. Christmas morning I woke up to a paw in the face, felt more like home then.
Christmas Day I got a food processor, and guitar hero 2 as well as some other things. So far I've food processed everything I can get ahold of (I was chopping stuff like a sucker all this time!), and thouroughly wrecked my wrists playing Guitar Hero. So much fun, so addictive.
Spent alot of time with Phil. I quite enjoyed that. He spent boxing day at the lake with my family. It was nice.
Had a day at the spa with my family and uncle , I also brought Heather along. We had a nice relaxing time in the hot tub and a nice dinner at the restaurant.
Had some family time, although they complained they didn't see me enough. Got a day at the lake and had a nice visit at the acerage with my Aunt and Uncle. My uncle tried to give me a cat and I'm sure if I had left the car door open longer he would of put 2 in my car.
I spent New Year's in Saskatoon. I help a potluck at my place. We had a really good spread. Then some people went to the Pat. I went to Paul's and played some Settlers of Catan and drank myself silly, I recall being too attached to my resources in the game. The New Year came, with good drinks, games and friends and holiday crackers. Rang in the new year right.
Now you're all caught up. The holiday was fun and much needed. I enjoyed it thouroughly. So many friends, family, food and drinks.
Guess I should make some sort of resolution, that's what these first posts of the years are all about. I prefer to call them goals though. Here are my new year's goals:
I took the week off between new year's and Christmas and went back to Regina. Hung out a little with my buddy Dave, I woulda liked to see more of him but it was Christmas. There were board games at Heather's, where we learned that even though we grew up in the 90's we didn't really watch the news and therefore couldn't answer too many questions in 90s Trivial Pursuit. There was the friends Christmas party where I caught up with everyone, had a nice visit with Brett and Alnaar. I'm so excited for their wedding next year.
My family adopted a new member. His name is Pumpkin. He's another Orange tabby, but big and fat with tuxedo white pattern and paws. He's afraid of everything but he's getting better. Christmas morning I woke up to a paw in the face, felt more like home then.
Christmas Day I got a food processor, and guitar hero 2 as well as some other things. So far I've food processed everything I can get ahold of (I was chopping stuff like a sucker all this time!), and thouroughly wrecked my wrists playing Guitar Hero. So much fun, so addictive.
Spent alot of time with Phil. I quite enjoyed that. He spent boxing day at the lake with my family. It was nice.
Had a day at the spa with my family and uncle , I also brought Heather along. We had a nice relaxing time in the hot tub and a nice dinner at the restaurant.
Had some family time, although they complained they didn't see me enough. Got a day at the lake and had a nice visit at the acerage with my Aunt and Uncle. My uncle tried to give me a cat and I'm sure if I had left the car door open longer he would of put 2 in my car.
I spent New Year's in Saskatoon. I help a potluck at my place. We had a really good spread. Then some people went to the Pat. I went to Paul's and played some Settlers of Catan and drank myself silly, I recall being too attached to my resources in the game. The New Year came, with good drinks, games and friends and holiday crackers. Rang in the new year right.
Now you're all caught up. The holiday was fun and much needed. I enjoyed it thouroughly. So many friends, family, food and drinks.
Guess I should make some sort of resolution, that's what these first posts of the years are all about. I prefer to call them goals though. Here are my new year's goals:
- Strengthen my arms and wrists and shoulders at the gym for baseball season. That means I need to do weights, yuck.
- Find some other fitness class to take part in until Baseball season, either gymnastics or something else.
- Go Snowboarding at least 3 more times before winter ends.
- Build my closet organizer, tentatively scheduled for next weekend.
- Take some sort of real vacation where I go somewhere that's not Regina, Edmonton or Calgary or Vancouver.
Monday, January 01, 2007
No better, just different
This is another one of those reflective posts. If you don't like these I suggest you wait for the holiday update, which I will be posting soon that's where all the fun stuff comes in.
I had a much needed vacation over the holidays. It's so strange, I went home and fell into my old Regina life, the friends and family, everything I was used of before the move. There were some new elements to it. Watching a new relationship develop, new traditions, it was very soothing. There were also some elements I deplored like the one christmas party, I'm sorry to my friends, it was just a daunting night for me, I'm sure you can guess why. But I fixed it by hopping into the new life after. Guess I'm just not ready for some things yet. Also a nice post by The Strong Man snapped me out of that funk quite quick. I invite you to read it, it's on the last post in December with the same title.
I'm moving so slow into a new relationship. I'm so scared of being hurt again and over compromising, although I'm reassured that it won't happen again. I've learned, and analyzed, I know the signs. I know now that I don't need to handle absolutely everything by myself, try, and you get 2 months worth of therapy to fix it. I'm strong but probably not as strong as I lead people to believe.
New years bring new beginnings. Here's mine with my clean slate. This will be my year.
I had a much needed vacation over the holidays. It's so strange, I went home and fell into my old Regina life, the friends and family, everything I was used of before the move. There were some new elements to it. Watching a new relationship develop, new traditions, it was very soothing. There were also some elements I deplored like the one christmas party, I'm sorry to my friends, it was just a daunting night for me, I'm sure you can guess why. But I fixed it by hopping into the new life after. Guess I'm just not ready for some things yet. Also a nice post by The Strong Man snapped me out of that funk quite quick. I invite you to read it, it's on the last post in December with the same title.
I'm moving so slow into a new relationship. I'm so scared of being hurt again and over compromising, although I'm reassured that it won't happen again. I've learned, and analyzed, I know the signs. I know now that I don't need to handle absolutely everything by myself, try, and you get 2 months worth of therapy to fix it. I'm strong but probably not as strong as I lead people to believe.
New years bring new beginnings. Here's mine with my clean slate. This will be my year.
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