My life is a blur again at the moment. I'm so busy. There's some cool things coming up at work, that's taking some time, I'm busy catching up with friends, it's hard to get us all together these days and then put Christmas shopping on top and sheesh!
Friday Ryan and I went out with Vecima people and then Ryan had free tickets to go see Great Big Sea. It was an awesome concert, we had box seats, they were really good. I felt a little like a poser, I don't know Great Big Sea's songs well enough and the audience could sing them all. We both really enjoyed the Acapella songs, it was fabulous for a free concert. Lots of family visiting was done this weekend, my parents were up for the weekend.
I've started swimming regularly again. I try to hit the pool every tuesday and thursday. Man do I get sore the next day though! My times are pretty slow at the moment, but they tend to bounce back pretty quick.
I've made a resolution to myself that I will make my lunch every day this month. No more eating out for lunches. Alot of the time I end up grabbing fast food or a grocery store special which is high in salt and fat. Plus I want to have some extra money this Christmas. It's expensive eating out every day. An added benefit is that all the weight I lost in Vegas won't come back. I get so entrapped in work some days that I literally don't move for 6 hours. Since we have an open office concept, I get really good at blocking things out like conversations, noise, lunch time etc. I'm really bad for it. And I notice it in weight. Plus I'm going to Mexico in less than 8 weeks now and I want to look like my amazing self in a bathing suit the whole time. :)
It's hard to believe that that vacation is coming up so quick. Vegas was just here, then I'm taking a week and a bit off at Christmas time, which I think is mostly planned out now. Hooray travel! I think I'm going to keep an eye out for seat sales to Vancouver for May and June. I really really want to hike the west coast trail, and I know I wouldn't have to twist Ryan's arm to come with. I've got the hang of this vacation thing now, if I book the flight, I will go ;) I've just got to stop over-analyzing everything. Also I want to shove a bunch of money aside to go to Europe either at the end of next year or the beginning of the next. A hiking trip in between will be perfect :)
Well I think I've rambled on here enough for now, I've had enough of this sitting in front of a computer on Sunday night thing...
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Sure, why not?
What's your favourite Dr. Seuss book?: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish or Hop on Pop
If you could live in any home on a television series, what series would it be? I dunno, I'm not a huge tv fan and I like alot of sci fi, which I wouldn't want to live in
What's the longest you've gone without sleep?: I dunno, I need sleep and it doesn't matter where I am when I get tired enough
What's your favourite Barry Manilow song?: Don't have one
Who's your favourite Muppet?: I've always loved Miss Piggy. Erika was right, she got shit done!
What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?: I don't think I've ever broken a habit...
What's your favourite web site?: www.disapprovingrabbits.com and www.icanhascheezeburger.com
What's your favourite school supply?: Pens and Post-its, I still love em
Who's your favourite TV attorney?: I can't even name one, oh Lionel Hutz!
What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?: Las Vegas of course
What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?: I don't have the patience for either
Where were you on September 11, 2001?: At university. I remember being upset there was news on the radio on the drive to school, but I didn't actually listen to it long enough to figure out what was going on.
What's your favourite tree?: Apple Trees
What's the most interesting biography you've read?: Tie between Courtney Love's and Randy Pausch's
What do you order when you eat Chinese food?: I dunno, I don't eat chinese that often. Vienamese however, when I go there they know to have a Beef Satay Noodle Pho sitting there for me.
What's the best costume you've ever worn?: Lara Croft, I loved that costume, I was Tombraider at least 5 years in a row.
What's your least favourite word?: ascertain
If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?: Maine?
Who's your favourite Care Bear?: I honestly don't remember care bears well enough
Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation: if something doesn't have an explanation, I usually invent one
If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?: Somewhere without war and has Tigers
What did you have for lunch yesterday?: I had penne is a chicken cream sauce
Where do you go for advice?: Ryan, Dad, Mom, Barbara, Toni
Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?: I use both quite often
Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?: Nope, 3 more months :)
Have you ever been stung by a bee?: Wasps yes, bee, no
What's the sickest you've ever been?: Probably 3 years ago when I had to go to the hospital for food poisoning/crohn's possibly. It was painful! In the end I think it was stress.
What's your favourite form of exercise?: Swimming and running.
What's your favourite Cyndi Lauper song?: Don't really have.
What did you do for your 13th birthday?: I had a pool party in my backyard, oh the days of having a pool.
Are you afraid of heights?: Terribly! But if I work at em I'm okay. Took me a year to walk over the Train Bridge here in S'toon, a little while to use my balcony....
Have you ever taken dance lessons?: At one time I did. I think I still want to learn to jive better. All I've got going for me is the Barrell Roll move.
What's your favourite newspaper?: don't read. I usually go to cbc.ca for my news and watch the local news on CTV or listen to Talk Radio
What's your favourite Broadway musical?: They're all my favorite, I love musicals. Mamma Mia, Grease, The Producers, Phantom, all so excellent!
What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?: CS 340 I think. I couldn't understand the prof for the life of me. Then I realized that he wasn't actually teaching us stuff we needed to know, that was all in the book, he was just doing extra math on the board. Once I figured that out the class went much smoother.
What's your favourite knock-knock joke?: I think this is the one Dad used to tell us all the time. "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Lettuce" "Lettuce who?" "Let us in, it's cold out here"
What's your favourite commercial?: I agree with Erika, the one where the man bends down to tie his shoe outside of the jewellery store. I laugh every time.
If you could go to DisneyWorld with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?: Ben Affleck, barring he doesn't get sick or dizzy on rides.
Do you prefer baths or showers?: Showers! In my condo I have unlimited hot water. I love sitting in the hot tub as well, but I wouldn't call that a bath.
Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?: I don't chew gum, it hurts my jaw
What's your favourite breakfast food?: All of them, I love breakfast foods. If meals could just consist of breakfast foods I'd be happy. Eggs Benedict and Tomato Juice is my fav if you made me pick
Who's your favourite game show host?: Bob Barker!
If you could have a super power, what would it be?: Meh
Do you like guacamole?: I love guacamole, I love Avacados, I can't believe I never had one until I was 20.
Have you ever been in a food fight?: Possibly.
Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics: I dunno all the words to any song!
What's your favourite infomercial?: I love infomercials! Right now it's the one for that steam mop. I wonder if it really works, we all know how this ends up....
What's the longest you've ever waited in line?: Ugh, I also hate lines. Forms and lines are my nemisis. If something requires either of those, they get procrastinated.
What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?: Kittens!
Have you ever taken your picture in one of thos ephoto booths ? Back in highschool
If you could live in any home on a television series, what series would it be? I dunno, I'm not a huge tv fan and I like alot of sci fi, which I wouldn't want to live in
What's the longest you've gone without sleep?: I dunno, I need sleep and it doesn't matter where I am when I get tired enough
What's your favourite Barry Manilow song?: Don't have one
Who's your favourite Muppet?: I've always loved Miss Piggy. Erika was right, she got shit done!
What's the habit you're proudest of breaking?: I don't think I've ever broken a habit...
What's your favourite web site?: www.disapprovingrabbits.com and www.icanhascheezeburger.com
What's your favourite school supply?: Pens and Post-its, I still love em
Who's your favourite TV attorney?: I can't even name one, oh Lionel Hutz!
What was your most recent trip of more than 50 miles?: Las Vegas of course
What's the best bargain you've ever found at a garage sale or thrift store?: I don't have the patience for either
Where were you on September 11, 2001?: At university. I remember being upset there was news on the radio on the drive to school, but I didn't actually listen to it long enough to figure out what was going on.
What's your favourite tree?: Apple Trees
What's the most interesting biography you've read?: Tie between Courtney Love's and Randy Pausch's
What do you order when you eat Chinese food?: I dunno, I don't eat chinese that often. Vienamese however, when I go there they know to have a Beef Satay Noodle Pho sitting there for me.
What's the best costume you've ever worn?: Lara Croft, I loved that costume, I was Tombraider at least 5 years in a row.
What's your least favourite word?: ascertain
If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?: Maine?
Who's your favourite Care Bear?: I honestly don't remember care bears well enough
Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation: if something doesn't have an explanation, I usually invent one
If you could travel anywhere in Africa, where would it be?: Somewhere without war and has Tigers
What did you have for lunch yesterday?: I had penne is a chicken cream sauce
Where do you go for advice?: Ryan, Dad, Mom, Barbara, Toni
Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?: I use both quite often
Have you ever been snorkeling? Scuba diving?: Nope, 3 more months :)
Have you ever been stung by a bee?: Wasps yes, bee, no
What's the sickest you've ever been?: Probably 3 years ago when I had to go to the hospital for food poisoning/crohn's possibly. It was painful! In the end I think it was stress.
What's your favourite form of exercise?: Swimming and running.
What's your favourite Cyndi Lauper song?: Don't really have.
What did you do for your 13th birthday?: I had a pool party in my backyard, oh the days of having a pool.
Are you afraid of heights?: Terribly! But if I work at em I'm okay. Took me a year to walk over the Train Bridge here in S'toon, a little while to use my balcony....
Have you ever taken dance lessons?: At one time I did. I think I still want to learn to jive better. All I've got going for me is the Barrell Roll move.
What's your favourite newspaper?: don't read. I usually go to cbc.ca for my news and watch the local news on CTV or listen to Talk Radio
What's your favourite Broadway musical?: They're all my favorite, I love musicals. Mamma Mia, Grease, The Producers, Phantom, all so excellent!
What's the most memorable class you've ever taken?: CS 340 I think. I couldn't understand the prof for the life of me. Then I realized that he wasn't actually teaching us stuff we needed to know, that was all in the book, he was just doing extra math on the board. Once I figured that out the class went much smoother.
What's your favourite knock-knock joke?: I think this is the one Dad used to tell us all the time. "Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Lettuce" "Lettuce who?" "Let us in, it's cold out here"
What's your favourite commercial?: I agree with Erika, the one where the man bends down to tie his shoe outside of the jewellery store. I laugh every time.
If you could go to DisneyWorld with any celebrity alive today, who would it be?: Ben Affleck, barring he doesn't get sick or dizzy on rides.
Do you prefer baths or showers?: Showers! In my condo I have unlimited hot water. I love sitting in the hot tub as well, but I wouldn't call that a bath.
Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?: I don't chew gum, it hurts my jaw
What's your favourite breakfast food?: All of them, I love breakfast foods. If meals could just consist of breakfast foods I'd be happy. Eggs Benedict and Tomato Juice is my fav if you made me pick
Who's your favourite game show host?: Bob Barker!
If you could have a super power, what would it be?: Meh
Do you like guacamole?: I love guacamole, I love Avacados, I can't believe I never had one until I was 20.
Have you ever been in a food fight?: Possibly.
Name five songs to which you know all the lyrics: I dunno all the words to any song!
What's your favourite infomercial?: I love infomercials! Right now it's the one for that steam mop. I wonder if it really works, we all know how this ends up....
What's the longest you've ever waited in line?: Ugh, I also hate lines. Forms and lines are my nemisis. If something requires either of those, they get procrastinated.
What's on the cover of your address book or day planner?: Kittens!
Have you ever taken your picture in one of thos ephoto booths ? Back in highschool
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Va-ca-shun!
So I've been back for 2 weeks now, but I haven't blogged about my vacation yet! I'm sure most of you have seen the pics. I'm sure most of you thought, Las Vegas?? I thought you were going to California?
Well, it's a long story. I was supposed to accompany Ryan to San Jose about 20 mins outside of San Francisco. He was supposed to be on a work trip and I was tagging along and then we were going to take a couple extra days there to tour once he was done work. Late at night 3 days before we were supposed to leave, we found out the work trip had been postponed. It had already been postponed once, I had to keep on shuffling my vacation around. But the way I planned vacation in work timelines was that I needed to be here at the end of November. So I couldn't push the vacation back anymore.
We discussed and a stressful day later of planning, asking permission and setting up, we booked a last minute trip to Vegas. We booked it on Friday morning and flew out Monday morning.
Vegas was awesome. We did lots of site seeing, saw Cirque Du Soleil, I got to go Factory Outlet shopping, it was warm enough to hang by the pool and swim and tan, the hotel was pretty fancy, it was the MGM Grand. We were total gambling N00bs. We enjoyed playing Roulette but we were done at one table and took our Roulette Chips in our cash bucket and walked away. We had a couple drinks, played some slot machines, then decided to play our chips at another Roulette table. When we sat down, the 'dealer' noticed our chips. He told us that the casino was looking all night for them. Apparently, you're not supposed to take the Roulette chips off the table, you need to cash them in for Casino chips. It was apparetnly a big faux pas. Roulette chips are marked specially for each table and there's only a certain amount. We had no idea.
We did enjoy Bloody Mary's. Ryan likes them even better than Caesars. I can't figure out how to make them. They must have 'bar tomato' juice in the states. Our tomato juice certainly isn't the right consistency.
The wax museum was fantastic! Check out the photos, we had tons of fun there. Cirque Du Soleil was indescribable. So fantastic! We ate at alot of Buffets, they were reasonably priced. Ryan ate so many crab legs, he almost kept a waiter employed full time by removing the shells from our table! We had this one sushi buffet that was so amazing! So many different types of maki and nigiri sushi, plus they had Sashimi! They also had Udon Noodle bowls, tempura, all of your favorite japanese foods were there. I've never stuffed myself that full before.
Ryan discovered Tira Misu. Every buffet I was on the lookout for it. To a lesser extent he discovered Creme Brule but he went Tira Misu crazy.
I really enjoyed Sigfreid and Roy's secret garden. They had baby white tigers. The cubs would play with eachother and wash eachother. The trainer was in the pen and telling stories about the cubs and the other large cats that were there. It was so interesting. They also had huge white lions, panthers, cheetahs and llamas and dolphins. There was a baby dolphin too. He was cute.
Ryan pet a Manta Ray at the Shark Reef at Mandalay bay. I pet one too. We did so much I can't even begin to write it all. All in all it was a well deserved vacation, and I'd do it again.
I promised friends I'd devote a whole blog post with pictures to my shopping finds. I won't disappoint, just not today :) I have so much other stuff to post on this blog too, I'm so far behind. Too busy living and not writing! I'll hit a balance soon, I can feel it.
Well, it's a long story. I was supposed to accompany Ryan to San Jose about 20 mins outside of San Francisco. He was supposed to be on a work trip and I was tagging along and then we were going to take a couple extra days there to tour once he was done work. Late at night 3 days before we were supposed to leave, we found out the work trip had been postponed. It had already been postponed once, I had to keep on shuffling my vacation around. But the way I planned vacation in work timelines was that I needed to be here at the end of November. So I couldn't push the vacation back anymore.
We discussed and a stressful day later of planning, asking permission and setting up, we booked a last minute trip to Vegas. We booked it on Friday morning and flew out Monday morning.
Vegas was awesome. We did lots of site seeing, saw Cirque Du Soleil, I got to go Factory Outlet shopping, it was warm enough to hang by the pool and swim and tan, the hotel was pretty fancy, it was the MGM Grand. We were total gambling N00bs. We enjoyed playing Roulette but we were done at one table and took our Roulette Chips in our cash bucket and walked away. We had a couple drinks, played some slot machines, then decided to play our chips at another Roulette table. When we sat down, the 'dealer' noticed our chips. He told us that the casino was looking all night for them. Apparently, you're not supposed to take the Roulette chips off the table, you need to cash them in for Casino chips. It was apparetnly a big faux pas. Roulette chips are marked specially for each table and there's only a certain amount. We had no idea.
We did enjoy Bloody Mary's. Ryan likes them even better than Caesars. I can't figure out how to make them. They must have 'bar tomato' juice in the states. Our tomato juice certainly isn't the right consistency.
The wax museum was fantastic! Check out the photos, we had tons of fun there. Cirque Du Soleil was indescribable. So fantastic! We ate at alot of Buffets, they were reasonably priced. Ryan ate so many crab legs, he almost kept a waiter employed full time by removing the shells from our table! We had this one sushi buffet that was so amazing! So many different types of maki and nigiri sushi, plus they had Sashimi! They also had Udon Noodle bowls, tempura, all of your favorite japanese foods were there. I've never stuffed myself that full before.
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Ryan discovered Tira Misu. Every buffet I was on the lookout for it. To a lesser extent he discovered Creme Brule but he went Tira Misu crazy.
I really enjoyed Sigfreid and Roy's secret garden. They had baby white tigers. The cubs would play with eachother and wash eachother. The trainer was in the pen and telling stories about the cubs and the other large cats that were there. It was so interesting. They also had huge white lions, panthers, cheetahs and llamas and dolphins. There was a baby dolphin too. He was cute.
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| From Las Vegas 2008 |
Ryan pet a Manta Ray at the Shark Reef at Mandalay bay. I pet one too. We did so much I can't even begin to write it all. All in all it was a well deserved vacation, and I'd do it again.
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| From Las Vegas 2008 |
I promised friends I'd devote a whole blog post with pictures to my shopping finds. I won't disappoint, just not today :) I have so much other stuff to post on this blog too, I'm so far behind. Too busy living and not writing! I'll hit a balance soon, I can feel it.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Too Excited
I'm getting way too excited for my vacation. Last night I googled the best shopping areas. I found a huge factory outlet mall 30 mins from where I'm staying. It looks like it's run by the same company that has the huge outlet mall right outside of Detroit, so it has to be excellent! I also googled the normal person mall and the closest DSW. I figure I'll spend 2 full days shopping when I get there (when Ryan is doing the bulk of his work and then I'll leave more of the sightseeing touristy stuff till the end, when he'll be more likely to be around to participate). Plus that stuff is more fun to do with someone, I don't want to drag him around shopping anyways.
I've found lots of tours in San Fran, tours of the Napa Wine Valley, apparently I need to google some more tours of the Sonoma Valley. I'd like to checkout the boardwalk at Santa Cruz, see the world's crookedest road in San Fran, see the bridges, have some seafood, see alcatraz etc etc etc.
Now to get through this week. I'll most likely have to put in some OT today and tomorrow to leave everything to go away for a week. Oh well, it'll be worth it! I can't wait.
I've found lots of tours in San Fran, tours of the Napa Wine Valley, apparently I need to google some more tours of the Sonoma Valley. I'd like to checkout the boardwalk at Santa Cruz, see the world's crookedest road in San Fran, see the bridges, have some seafood, see alcatraz etc etc etc.
Now to get through this week. I'll most likely have to put in some OT today and tomorrow to leave everything to go away for a week. Oh well, it'll be worth it! I can't wait.
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