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I came across the blog of a girl who I used to be pretty good friends with and for obvious reasons we aren't any more. This girl thought that she was the smartest person...like EVER! And if your dared to have an opinion that different from hers you were not only wrong but an idiot to boot!
Well life is turning around quite nicely. We've both recently gone back to school and while she's complaining about getting a C+ on her midterm, I'm doing a crazy little happy dance because not only did I ACE my last final exam, I've been getting A's and A+'s for my final marks.
Looks like girlie isn't so smart after all. And maybe....just maybe, she should consider the fact that someone else might be able to teach her something.
So the other day i got an email from one of my friends who's __th birthday is coming up (she'd kill me if I actually put her age lol). So for festivities she want to get everyone together to go to the Canadian Cancer Society's 3rd Annual Great Pumpkin Charity Ball.
Unfortunately for me I've already got plans for that weekend but in case anyone out there in the blogsphere is in the Ottawa area and wants to support a great cause here's where you can find more information on the Charity Ball www.greatpumpkinball.com
Here are some highlights:
Venue: St. Brigid's, 310 St. Patrick St. at Cumberland in the Byward Market
Live Band: 52 Gigs Rock’n’roll Dance Band (DJ TBA between sets)
Big Party: 600 people; 2 levels
Theme: "Anything Goes" and we mean "Anything Goes"
Prizes: Grand Prize Draw; 50/50; prizes for best, worst, sexiest & stupidest costume
Silent Auction: Great prizes to bid on -- bring that wallet!
Cool Stuff: Fortune Teller; Souvenir Photo Booth
Tickets: $20 (Buy NOW as this event will obviously sell out)
Booze: Cash Bar (great prices; must be 19 or over to attend)
Food: Finger foods will be served but don't come looking for dinner
Tickets go on sale October 1 and are available at the following locations:
Spirit Halloween Store (225 Elgin St. 613-569-0000)
Spirit Halloween Store (St. Laurent Shopping Centre 613-746-4266)
Spirit Halloween Store (2148 Carling Ave. 613-715-9999)
Cody Party Rentals (1060 Olgilvie Rd. 613-741-1881)
AUDREY'S SPECIAL! Bring your ticket or buy at that location and receive 10% off any COSTUME rental or purchase. Get your receipt stamped from Audrey's to enter a special Audrey's draw at the charity ball event.
Spirit offers 20% OFF when you provide your e-mail address at point of purchase.This event will sell out so get your tickets early to guarantee your admission to this incredible extravaganza!
From time to time I find myself with a little more time on my hands than I know what to do with. So while waiting for my class to start last night I took a Personality Test and apparently I'm an ISFP (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling Perceiving) person.
If you want to read more about my personality or take your own Personality Test visit: www.MyPersonality.info
I suppose this is what happens when you try to juggle work and school as much as I do. I'm rethinking the 7 courses that I am enrolled in this fall....what on earth was going through my head?? I have a full time job for crying out loud!!
Work is super hectic for me at the moment, so much so that I am currently taking a break from the work that I brought home with me. What really sucks the most about this is that I've been sacrificing a social life for work and school. Worse yet is that my friends don't understand my desire to continue in school. We all completed our degrees at essentially the same time but I'm the only one who's gone back to do more. I'm not content to just stick it out at my current job and party it up on the weekend, I want more.
I also think that being the first of my friends to have bought a house is also a pretty big difference too. Most of my friends are primarily focused on their boyfriends/girlfriends, parties, pets and work (in that order too). Which can also be a little hard to deal with sometimes being the only singleton in the group. Being single, 27 and owning my own car and home seems to be pretty intimidating to men. I just don't get it. Most of my guy friends say that chicks that are clingy, needy or flighty are such a waste of time and energy but on the other end of the spectrum independence, self-sufficiency and the ability to think also seems to be difficult to live with.
In a perfect world, if I could custom order a man, here are some of the things that I would want built in:
- taller than me (5'8 or more because I'm 5'7) - dark hair - great smile/eyes (a nice butt wouldn't hurt either lmao) - post secondary education (college or university, something!) - has some personal goals and is driven to acheive them but is not arrogant - has an adventurous streak (willing to consider nutty things I want to do, like bungee jump) - is good with kids and wants some of his own - can cook so that I don't always have to - likes all kinds of music, movies and books - has to enjoy reading because I have sooo many books and I love talking about them and sharing them with people - has a strong sense of family - great sense of humour and laughs as much as I do (I often crack myself up) - doesn't mind going to church especially on the special occasions (Christmas, Easter, etc.) - is patient (especially with me when I'm frustrated about something) - gives good hugs because a crappy day can sometimes be fixed with a really good bear hug - has some interests different than my own so that we can teach each other things - dependable but also independent
And probably the most important thing is he has to love me BECAUSE OF my faults and not IN SPITE of them. But all this is of course in an ideal world.
Maybe if I'm lucky writing this all down and sending it across the internet will work like it did in Mary Poppins where the kids wrote down what they wanted in a nanny and she appeared. *sigh* what a nice thought.
Well, it would seem that since I've finished my dinner and have rambled for long enough that it is now time to return to the moutain of work that towers before me.
So I spent this passed weekend at school learning how to (properly) use Adobe Illustrator...and I must say that I didn't care too much that I sacrificed my weekend because I had a lot of fun.
Our final assignment on Sunday was to bring in an object that we were going to recreate in Illustrator. Well, absentminded as I am sometimes I forgot so after rummaging around in my purse I found a packet of gum. Thank goodness for big purses! lol
Below is the actual gum package that you'd see in the store and below that is what I managed to crank out of Illustrator. I think it's pretty good...even my teacher liked it! Thoughts?
So as I was preparing to book my sky diving adventure for next weekend I came across this article on SNAFU-ed - both people had over 4,000 jumps under their belts.
I think that I may reconsider this exercise for the time being and instead tether myself to a giant steel walkway in Wakefield. Bungee will have to be the source for my adrenaline fix.
The stories that I hear about my relatives never cease to amaze me. Whether it's my dad's side of the family or my mom's there is always something.
DAD'S SIDE My cousins (George, Christine and Mark - who are siblings) seem to have some kind of crazy baby race going and they (or their wives) are cranking out kids like they are going out of style!
With four boys under the age of 12, Christine is in the lead and might I add extremely out numbered. Following right behind her is George, with a girl and two boys - the most recent one making his grand entrance last Saturday (September 5, 2009). Finally, playing catch up is Mark who has one son and in two weeks time will have another baby (gender unknown at the moment). Sure it doesn't look like much of a race but if you consider that Mark & Laura have been married a little over two years and that George and Karen have been married only a while long than that.......... it's a regular little baby-pa-loo-ZA!
MOM'S SIDE
So as far as anyone knows none of the cousins on my mom's side have had any kids but they are getting married....or on their way to it.
My cousin Adam recently got married but didn't bother to invite any family except his mom, brother and sister...WTF! Not even our grandmother was invited or even notified for that matter that he was getting married, I told her when I accidentally came across it on Facebook.
Then there's Kevin. We essentially grew up more like brother and sister because we spent so much time together but that can also lead to a fair number of problems too. Anyway...he just recently bought a house with his girlfriend and we're all pretty certain that they are headed for that aisle in the not too distant futur.
And then there's ME. I'm nowhere near getting married and having children (not that I wouldn't love to - 'tis the curse of singledom); instead I'm doing things a little differently.
I've completed my university degree.
Spent a year working full-time, part-time and went back to school part-time.
Bought a house all buy myself. It's not a huge place but it suits me just fine.
And this term on top of FT work I've taken on a full time course load (7 classes) on a part-time schedule.
To put this last point in perspective, I'm enrolled in three different college programs at the same time. By 2012 I will have completed all three programs and on top of my degree in Sociology/Anthropology I will have the following certificates: Media Communications, Public Relations, and Graphic Design - Print. Ok so I may sound like a bit of over achiever or something like that but I'm really not I just don't have any idea what it is that I want to do in terms of work/career.
I wish that these things were easeir to figure out *sigh*
Got an email from my ex boyfriends wife this morning, not cool.
Apparently she's tired of trying to work it out and she's done with him and says I can have him, uh what?
It would seem that living four hours away and having the occasional conversation suddenly means I want his dumb ass back. As a friend he's fine but he is a terrible boyfriend and it would seem he's also a terrible husband.
How do you convince a suspicious woman that despite what she may think, you want less to do with her husband than she does?
I'm really a sweet person, why do women think I want their boyfriends/husbands?
Ok so classes started again and I think this term will be pretty manageable. So much so that I have decided to add a 3rd certificate program into the mix. Oh yes that's right, on top of working Monday to Friday 7am to 4pm, classes already scheduled for Monday and Tuesday nights, hitting the gym and maintaining a social life and going out with my lovely girls...I'm adding three more courses!
Because I am glutton for punishment I'm now enrolled in three certificate progams:
Media Communications
Public Relations Practitioner
Graphic Design - Print
Yay, go me!
So over the next 28 months (5 semesters) I have to complete 19 courses...hmmm I'm pretty sure that I can pull this off, it may mean a few less nights out during the week and a few more headaches but worth it in the long run.
Now all I really seem to need is the funds. School is unbelievably expensive, luckily my work is helping to cover some of the courses. Thank goodness for Continuing Professional Development budgets!
Every morning this week when I've woken up it's felt like Friday. This is killing me because it's making the week feel extraordinarily long.
In fact it's only 1:13pm right now and I'm about ready to take a nap! My life would be so much easier if I drank coffee.
The downside is that it's only going to get worse as the fall wears on. It'll start getting darker even sooner, the sun will come up even later and the temperature will becoming increasingly frigid as winter looms.
I'm definitely not ready for winter, we've barely had a summer.
Well there's a new kind of silly American southern, the kind that tries to shoot a dragonfly with a rifle. Read on...
Man misses dragonfly, shoots friend Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A man who says he was using his rifle to shoot at dragonflies accidently shot his friend in the head. Police said when they arrived the friend was bleeding heavily.
But he was conscious enough to be able to tell paramedics that the whole thing had been an accident.
According to Georgetown Times, in South Carolina, in the US, the friend and a 38-year-old Johnsonville man were in the woods in a nearby hunting club practicing with a rifle.
The man said he was trying to shoot some dragonflies when his friend walked in front of him and was shot in the head.
It has been ruled an accident by investigators, police said.
Two local schools was closed down for a time as police investigated the shooting.
"Not knowing where the victim may be or where the shooter was, I advised the administration of Carvers Bay School to lock down the campus for student safety," Deputy Ryan Owens wrote in his report, the newspaper reported.
"Carvers Bay Middle was locked down as well."
The friend was flown to a Charleston hospital for treatement.
This definitely goes under the heading of WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!Oh and the spelling mistakes in the article belong to the author. Correct me I'm wrong but I believe they have spell-check in Britain too.
I can't believe that it is almost that time again....my classes start next Monday. The next three weeks are going to be tiring.
This week I have to finish up editing the video podcasts and get them posted to the website. I have to begin/finish writing up the minutes from the Annual General Meeting. Trying to discern decisions from a meeting where all the delegates are yelling over one another for two and a half hours just SCREAMS fun, don't you think? And as if transcribing the minutes weren't enough I've also got to find time to begin laying out the profiles from our sponsors for the Corporate Directory. Fun times.
And the good times just keep coming. Next week I have my first class on Monday night (7pm - 10pm) and I have to wrap up whatever I didn't get done this week plus do all the updates in our database. Then when Friday rolls around I'll definitely be taking a nap after work before heading out for Ms G.'s birthday at Absolute. Saturday I'll be getting another early start as I have to drive down to TO for my nephew's birthday party which is at 3pm. Saturday will be a mix of making nice with the in-laws, screaming children running around covered in cake, my nephew opening presents but being most entertained my the paper and me wishing that I had bought stock in Tylenol because head will be splitting.
Come Sunday I may be comatose out of exhaustion and sugar overload. But I will still need to figure out when I'm driving back to Ottawa, thankfully Monday is a holiday (thank you Labour Day) so I've got time to figure that out.
The week after that: not nearly as bad. Classes Monday and Tuesday nights. I have no idea at this point what the work week has in store for me but on the weekend I've got to play nice with the boys. (Get your mind out of the gutter!) Three guys that I went to high school with are trekking it up to Ottawa to go see some wrestling thing at Scotia Bank Place, as for the reasoning behind it I haven't the foggiest. Anyway, we're going to go back to the aerial park for some trapeze-like adventures and some zip lining. After that I think the plan is to camp in Quebec somewhere but the prospect of being out at some desolate camp site with those three guys does not sound very appealing. Oh well, I'll cross that hurdle when I come to it. I just hope that it doesn't rain otherwise I'm the lucky girl who gets to end up with three houseguests who are as graceful as rhinos. The things we do for people...geez!
It has definitely been "one of those weeks" so when I came across this picture on my computer I decided that I just had to share it.
I'm not sure why but I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside when I see it. The word that comes to mind in fact is "hope" but I can't pin-point why. Something to do with long brilliant summer days, sweet butterflies in the tummy, racing hearts, everything is going to be OK, the day will start again tomorrow...HOPE.
I'm not 100% on how it is that I found this picture. I'm sure that it had something to do with Google or Bing. [Flikr source]
I've just discovered a new site for news/research that I never knew I wanted to know about. The New Scientist (Online News) is filled to the brim with new research to the questions that I never realized I needed the answer to. Such as:
How can my cellphone tell me who my friends are? → Answer
What does sex during an MRI look like? → Answer (video)
Why do geeks make for more attractive mates? → Answer
How can the three little pigs help to identify time of death? → Answer
I ♥love♥ that researchers are finding new and interesting ways of sharing and exchanging these ideas so that they become more appealing to the everyday person. Personally I enjoy reading about new ventures in science and research (what can I say I'm a geek at heart) but it doesn't really seem like the type of thing that would draw in the young-ever-connected-tech-savvy masses especially in this age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Well I know how I'll be spending my next few lunch hours....
This weekend I tested my hand at cooking and it.... well.... hurt. I literally ended up searing my hand on Friday night, not fun. Needless to say I won't be making stir fry again any time soon.
Sunday I made another attempt and I did not let the hyper-sensitivity in my hand dissuade me from my task. (Did you know that when you burn yourself that even your mere proximity to a heat source can commence the agonizing throbbing again?)
Soldiering through, I successfully made a delicious pot of spicy chicken and tomato stew, yummy zucchini potato pancakes and little broccoli/cheese fritatas. I'm so proud of me.
Aside from burning the crap out of my hand on Friday and having to resort to a peanut butter and banana sandwich for dinner (because while I ran around like a nutter trying to stop the pain and find the polysporin I forgot to turn off the stove and scorched my dinner), I'm slowly figuring out the whole cooking thing and can now add the above items to the growing list of things I can make. Which includes:
Three cheese baked ziti Shepard's Pie Baked Creamy Mushroom Chicken & Rice Pork Tenderloin Ribs Turkey Joe's (sloppy joe's with turkey; very hard to mess this up) Parma Rosa pasta with sausages Quiche
I'm glad that the repetoire of meals I can make is growing but I am much more of a baker than anything else. I wish that it was acceptable to live on desserts, muffins, cookies, breads and cakes alone...I would be such a happy camper. GINORMOUS but happy!
Today is my three-year anniversary at my current job and sometimes I really wonder about how I ended up doing the work that I do.
Today I have spent almost the entire day editing video podcasts ... and using QuickTime of all things! Editing the videos from the conference would not take so long if:
I didn't have to use QuickTime....there's got to be a better program.
I didn't have to manually enter all the chapter timestamps one by one.
I didn't have a million other things coming across my desk that are all equally "URGENT". (My boss thinks that everything is urgent and I'm then left to decipher the degree of urgency based on what/how much is bold, in italics or bright red, to name a few.)
Mon Dieu, c'est frustrant!
I have a degree in Sociological/Anthropological Science. I love research, statistics, books and archives. Yet I spend my day editing videos, updating/maintaining/redesigning the website?!? WTF!? How did I end up here?
I suppose that with the economy in the state that it's in, I should be happy to have a job at all but I just wish that I had I job that had some semblance of relativity to my studies because this learning as you go is killing me. Everything takes so much longer and if I'm going to be completely honest my brain really doesn't know what to do with all the techie-type information.
In fact my brain is starting to hurt and I think that I'm actually losing other information because I am trying to cram so much in there at the moment. Between figuring out the video editing, the web design code, my graphic design classes (that work is sending me to) and my own classes to finish my Public Relations & Media Communications program, I'm going to start losing some crucial information! I just hope that it doesn't happen at an inopportune moment. Like forgetting how to drive while I'm on the highway or forgetting how my feet work when I'm at the top of a stairwell.
Thank goodness it's Friday and I don't actually have to do anything on the weekend but if you don't hear from me it's because I've probably forgotten what a computer is and am cowering behind the sofa because my MSN/Facebook/Gmail has come to life on its own with emoticons and instant messages.
*sigh* Fingers crossed that I'm still here Monday.
Paul Reubens will be taking his show to the stage in Los Angeles! Apparently iconic '80s kid show character Pee-Wee Herman thinks that it's time he ventured into the world of entertainment once again (read as: has-been actor/social deviant running out of money and career options).
This is definitely something that I would be interested in seeing firsthand, having grown up watching Pee-Wee Herman as part of my Saturday morning but since the trek from Canada's National Capital to the City of Angels is a little far (and pricey) it's not a trip that I will be making any time soon.
Wonder how far Santa Barbara is from LA....maybe I can get the Steger boys to go and tell me all about it. Oh well I will be there in spirit.
Ever wondered if you had enough grey matter to tell the difference between an adult film star and a tasty spud, well now you can test yourself with the game Pornstar or Potato?
Thinking of colours, time to change template. I wish that there were more to choose from....I wonder how I do about using one I find elsewhere on this wonderful little interweb?
It's nice to know that in the days/months/years that I have failed to keep up with my blogging it's nice to know that I flip to friends' blogs and find those missing days.
Reminiscing about days gone by is a nice distraction.
And reading a friend's blog is helpful when filling in the missing memory. There was one or two from 2006/2007 that I didn't remember seeing as I. and myself may have gotten a little carried away at the Irish Village but thanks to L. that evening has been logged!
So after two glorious weeks off it's back to work. And upon my return to the office yesterday it took me a little over 2.5 hours to get through the July emails and onto August. (I'd feel pretty popular if they hadn't been work related requests/questions.)
I had a fairly low-key vacation but that's just how I like it. No set plans, trying to run around and get things done; just taking each day as it comes. Ahhh...that sounds good right about now as I sit looking at the TWO stacks of filing I have yet to attempt. Apparently my coworkers took my absence as an opportunity to clear off their desks into the filing bin. Lucky me.
Most of my vacation was spent with my best and my nephews. We went to the zoo, to the lake, played in the rain, played in the pool and even managed a shopping expedition which isn't the easiest thing with a one- and three-year old. We also had a bonfire and introduced the three-year old to s'mores....he was not impressed.
I also took my time off to reconnect with some friends I haven't seen in years and to mend a bridge that had been blown to smitherines. K and I collected the splinters, shared a couple beers, traded stories from the years past and made nice again. That time apart definitely made a big difference. I love how people become more amenable to things after a beer or two.
Now that I am back in my own city and at work I miss my nephews more than I thought I would. I've talked to my best everyday since I've come home and every time Little B and I have the same conversation.
Little B: Are you coming to my house Auntie J?
Me: No sweetie, I'm at my house.
Little B: Why?
Me: Because it's where I live.
Little B: And you drive for a whole long day.
Me: Yep a whole long day.
Little B: Oh......Love you Auntie J!
Now who wouldn't miss that sweetness? Living 4 hours away was probably not my best decision but at the time I didn't have any nephews to spoil. Thank goodness the Labour Day long weekend is in a couple weeks, I'll get to go back and visit and celebrate Little B's birthday!
This having to work thing is a real pain, I wish everyday could be vacation. What a happy thought.
In other news, I've decided that before the summer is over I want to go bungee jumping (at the Great Canadian Bungee in Wakefield, Quebec). But I have to somehow convince someone to go with me because I doubt that I will have as much fun if I go by myself.
Bungee jumping is the second step in my summer adventures. The first was the aeiral park and ziplining. Gradually my adventures are taking me higher and higher because after bungee is..... yep Skydiving!
I love reading some of the nonsense that come out of the mouths of Hollywood Celebrities.
This news of a feud between Seth Rogen and the guys from Entourage for example. Honestly, does it really matter what one overpaid actor thinks of another actor? How about instead of complaining and mocking one another they simply continue making their millions and let the public make fun of them instead?
Don't get me wrong I like Seth Rogen and the guys from Entourage (except when Adrian Grenier decided he wanted to date Paris "I've-flashed-my-plumbing-to every-photog-imaginable" Hilton - ew!) but does thepublic really need to hear about their little bitchfest. C'mon ladies pick up your prada purses, buy a latte and get your knickers out of a twist.
Do you have something that you want to get off your chest? C'mon tell me a secret, I won't share it with the world I will simply file it away for the days when I need a good laugh. Or when I feel I need someone to help me scatter evidence and/or bury the bodies (yep that was intentionally plural). So don't delay!
Email me today to share your deepest and darkest, please note the secrets shared become the sole property of Life of what ifs and all subsidiaries thereof. If for some reason respondents wish to rescind submissions of secrets, please submit in writing (via email) your request to have your secret returned to you, ensuring to detail the context of the aforementioned secret. Those requests will be reviewed and deleted in the order in which they are received.*
Email your secrets to: you.can.reach.mena@gmail.com
* Ayres don't email me your secrets, those I do not already know are of no interest as I'm already part of all the good ones. lol
Mystery bruises are going to be the death of me, well maybe not the death of me but they are annoying.
Getting out the the shower this morning I found 8 bruises that I have no idea where they came from. In fact there's one on my thigh that is the size of a cellphone and it's purple!! You'd think I'd remember when something like that happened.
I'm considering a fourth tattoo but the question becomes where do I put it?
As with my other three tattoos, I told my mom that I wouldn't get anymore but now I'm getting antsy. There's a certain adrenaline kick that only comes from getting a tattoo and when people say that tattoos are addictive they aren't kidding.
With each new tat I gave myself at least a year in between so that I really thought it through and didn't end up with some heart/butterfly/guy's name etc that I would eventually regret.
I want to get the motto from my family crest, Amo (to love). It's been about 3 or 4 years since the last one and I've known for sometime what I want to get but am now troubled with where to put it, especially since it will have to be somewhere that my mother won't see. This is a bigger problem than it sounds, mainly because when I go home for a visit she has a tendency not to knock before she waltzes into my room.
This may take some more pondering....or I just hope for the best that my mom has decided to give up on the tattoo aversion.
So in an attempt to kill some time I decided to hit "Next blog" link at the top of the page. While I clicked through numerous blogs I was amazed at the number of blogs coming up that weren't in English. We're talking Spanish, German, Arabic, Polish and what I'm going to assume was Chinese(?).
Why is it when I want to kill time I can't find anything to read? Oh well, I moved on to TheOnion.com
I have a feeling that this week is going to feel about a month long seeing that as of Friday, July 24 at 4pm I will be on vacation and needn't be anywhere near a desk/computer/fax/copier etc until I go back to work on August 10. AAhh I can't wait.
Two weeks of playing in the pool with my nephews and taking them to the zoo. Sitting in the sun (hopefully) and relaxing with a good book. Working my way through the rest of the case of beer in the kitchen. BBQs. A night at the theatre with my mom (we're going to see the Sound of Music). And just all in all being lazy. Sleeping in, staying up late, visiting family/friends, it's going to be fabulous.
In tomorrow I'm meeting a girlfriend to go shopping for a new bikini and I can't wait. I honestly don't understand why women generally hate swimsuit shopping. Needing a swimsuit would normally indicate that you are on vacation or at least have a pool/beach to hangout at on weekends.
I've come to the conclusion that it would be nice if there was at least one person in my life that I could confide absolutely everything to and that they would be so kind as to tell me I'm an idiot.
There are people in my life who believe that they know everything about me and while they may know a great deal of information (some incriminating stuff as well, which is probably why I keep them around) they don't know me wholly. Not even my best friend, who I've known for 22 of my 27 years!
The last 48 hours has seen me do some stuff that, to be honest, I'm not exactly thrilled about and there is no one I can talk to about it. Except of course for the one witness to these events and that is the last person I want to talk to because they just won't get it. Or they'll get their feelings hurt or something and right now I just can't think about that crap. At the moment I'm feeling annoyed, frustrated, stupid, disappointed, disenchanted, dim-witted, exhausted, brainless and just plain crummy.
This weekend has shown me that I'm not the person that I thought that I was and that is COMPLETELY disheartening.
How do you make amends for something that you can't talk about with anyone?
With a friend visiting from back home I thought that it might be nice to do something interesting and semi-new. So we headed out to La Fleche Aerial and Adventure Park and went zip lining. Nothing quite like strapping yourself into a harness and flying through the trees of Gatineau, Quebec, ahhh good times!
That was then preceded by dinner and beers...a few more beers and blogging at 4 something am, fun. I am a little schemammered at the moment but need to finish beer before bed. Visits from friends from "back when" is kinda...well interesting would be a good word.
Will write more when not so intoxicated. Hope everyone has a nice weekend. It rained here, we got all wet. boo urns!
(Sobered up, came back and corrected the multitude of spelling mistakes. One should not blog or email following a few beers, especially when you don't normally drink to begin with. Ugh.)
This is without contest as good a reason as any to get a man drunk. . . . the truth (& champagne) will set you free. (^_^) I crack me up.
"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
Another 7 months have flown by...seriously where have they gone?? Living in Ottawa it doesn't feel like January was seven months ago maybe two, three at most. But that probably has more to do with the fact that winter accounts for about 7 or 8 months out of the year. Haha I jest I jest, it's only about 6.5 months!
♪ ♫ I am slowly going crazy ♪ ♫ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, SWITCH ♪♫ slowly going, am I crazy? 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, SWITCH.....♪ ♫ ♪ ♫
Had another birthday (been around for 26 years now), visited the dentist...the usual. And then there's the new and exciting stuff.
In May my best friend had her second little boy and he's absolutely adorable! Someone else for me to spoil. (^_^)♥
Over the Canada day long weekend I was in Montreal for a work conference that turned out to be more interesting than expected.
In August, I took my summer vacation and went to my best friend's wedding. Have I mentioned that this is someone that I have known for 22 years, and being 26 I think that's quite a feat!
In August, I also found out what was causing all the pain I was having in my abdomen - my stupid gallbladder!
In October, I had surgery to remove my gallbladder and let me tell you it was so nice to be able to go back to eating normal food again. No more B.R.A.T. diet. And for those of you lucky enough to never have had to live on the B.R.A.T. diet, let me explain. The B.R.A.T. diet is Bananas, Rice, Applesauce and Toast. The blandest stuff you could possibly live on.
And finally, in December I gave my notice to my landlord because I bought a house and I get my keys TOMORROW!! Yeah, I'm a little excited.
The last few weeks have been a blur. Running around dropping off and picking up forms. Signing this, that and the other thing too. Giving away furniture to whoever wants it. Putting boxes of stuff aside for charity. Trying to sell my desk. And packing, tons and tons of packing. It's amazing the amount of stuff that you accummulate over the years. Anyway, I suppose that I should get back to it, tomorrow is coming up quickly.
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