YAY!!!
I can't wait!
We are getting up at about 5 a.m. to leave... I should really be sleeping, but luckily, Chris likes to drive, and driving puts me to sleep.
So I will snooze a little on the way, and will see you when we get there!
Cross your fingers for good weather!
(Highway forecast looks good!)
:D
T.A.K.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Pepper on my back
Don't ask.
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I think I need to practice patience.
A lot. Now. (See, I can't even wait to practice it...)
argh.
I am going crazy in my own place. It's really getting to me.
I can't wait.
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I get to go home for Christmas, and as much as I am super excited about it, I CAN'T wait to come home.
I know, it sounds kind of bad, but it's just that we get to set up the rest of the house.
I will no longer have a huge pile of boxes in my bedroom. I won't have a cramped computer area. I won't have to worry about all the stupid little things I haven't been able to get out of my head.
I can't wait.
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I also can't wait for Sunday morning. We get to go to Cold Lake!!!!
AIEEE!!!!
I mean, um, yes, I am looking forward to it.
(Fair warning, I will be crying when I get home, and it won't be a bad thing. I just miss you guys so darn much!)
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Gonna go have a shower now.
:D
Mah house.
The last time it will be this cramped. (Hopefully).
:D
Yay!
As of January 1st ishness, we are open for visiting.
Maybe. Email. Or something.
:D
T.A.K.
_____________________________________________
I think I need to practice patience.
A lot. Now. (See, I can't even wait to practice it...)
argh.
I am going crazy in my own place. It's really getting to me.
I can't wait.
_____________________________________________
I get to go home for Christmas, and as much as I am super excited about it, I CAN'T wait to come home.
I know, it sounds kind of bad, but it's just that we get to set up the rest of the house.
I will no longer have a huge pile of boxes in my bedroom. I won't have a cramped computer area. I won't have to worry about all the stupid little things I haven't been able to get out of my head.
I can't wait.
_____________________________________________
I also can't wait for Sunday morning. We get to go to Cold Lake!!!!
AIEEE!!!!
I mean, um, yes, I am looking forward to it.
(Fair warning, I will be crying when I get home, and it won't be a bad thing. I just miss you guys so darn much!)
_____________________________________________
Gonna go have a shower now.
:D
Mah house.
The last time it will be this cramped. (Hopefully).
:D
Yay!
As of January 1st ishness, we are open for visiting.
Maybe. Email. Or something.
:D
T.A.K.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Ow
and ew, too.
I have a somewhat different post today...
I will start at the beginning, way back when I was young. From what I've been told, I was sick to the point that I had a fever above a certain temperature that it can start to cause problems with dental development. As a result, my teeth have had way more problems than I care to remember, and it hasn't yet stopped.
Anyhoo, later on, when I was like elevenish, (not elvenish) I noticed one of my teeth, third from the back on the top left side, had a brownish tinge to it.
After showing my mom, and then the dentist, the dentist concluded that I would later on have problems with that tooth. (And he was right, just like when he said that three of my back teeth would need to have crowns, and that I would have my wisdom teeth removed at about 16.) I think my dentist was either a fortune teller, a really good dentist, or wanted money...
Either way, the tooth ended up having a few fillings, and about 6 months ago, one of them fell out...
Since then, the hole has gotten progressively bigger, and started to hurt a little. A few days ago, it began to get excruciatingly painful, to the point that I was on Tylenol all day yesterday, to no real avail, and had used almost a whole bottle of Anbesol (reg strength- never used before...). Last night, it was bad enough that Chris suggested we call a dentist this morning and get it pulled. Or something.
And that brings me to today. Woke up and called a dentist, they got me in for 10 a.m. and after a quick (and painful) test to see how the nerve ending was doing, I was given some options:
-root canal (expensive) and then within 6 months a crown (expensive)
-extraction, followed by either a bridge (expensive and can cause complications later), a partial denture (expensive and not very appealing), extraction and surgical replacement with a titanium tooth that would be embedded into the jaw bone (most expensive, would be in the city, would be in a while) or just extraction.
So far, I chose just extraction (ow!) and will decide if I want to bother with anything else later. (when we have insurance).
The 'risks' with leaving it as is now:
the teeth on either side might cave in (tilt), and the tooth that normally coincides with the one that was pulled, might come up. Of course, this will take a while to happen, and I have a long time to decide what I want to have done, if anything, when we get insurance. (I am sort of leaning towards titanium already).
Yeah. So that was my morning. how was yours?
I am now sitting here, the freezing starting to wear off, with gauze in my mouth.
Good times.
The good Doc gave me a prescription for antiinflammatories. Not sure if it is a painkiller, too, but will know soon.
My left eye was frozen, too, when she froze my mouth, so that was weird.
But I am going to go, the freezing is going away, and the pain is coming back.
ttyl. TAK
I have a somewhat different post today...
I will start at the beginning, way back when I was young. From what I've been told, I was sick to the point that I had a fever above a certain temperature that it can start to cause problems with dental development. As a result, my teeth have had way more problems than I care to remember, and it hasn't yet stopped.
Anyhoo, later on, when I was like elevenish, (not elvenish) I noticed one of my teeth, third from the back on the top left side, had a brownish tinge to it.
After showing my mom, and then the dentist, the dentist concluded that I would later on have problems with that tooth. (And he was right, just like when he said that three of my back teeth would need to have crowns, and that I would have my wisdom teeth removed at about 16.) I think my dentist was either a fortune teller, a really good dentist, or wanted money...
Either way, the tooth ended up having a few fillings, and about 6 months ago, one of them fell out...
Since then, the hole has gotten progressively bigger, and started to hurt a little. A few days ago, it began to get excruciatingly painful, to the point that I was on Tylenol all day yesterday, to no real avail, and had used almost a whole bottle of Anbesol (reg strength- never used before...). Last night, it was bad enough that Chris suggested we call a dentist this morning and get it pulled. Or something.
And that brings me to today. Woke up and called a dentist, they got me in for 10 a.m. and after a quick (and painful) test to see how the nerve ending was doing, I was given some options:
-root canal (expensive) and then within 6 months a crown (expensive)
-extraction, followed by either a bridge (expensive and can cause complications later), a partial denture (expensive and not very appealing), extraction and surgical replacement with a titanium tooth that would be embedded into the jaw bone (most expensive, would be in the city, would be in a while) or just extraction.
So far, I chose just extraction (ow!) and will decide if I want to bother with anything else later. (when we have insurance).
The 'risks' with leaving it as is now:
the teeth on either side might cave in (tilt), and the tooth that normally coincides with the one that was pulled, might come up. Of course, this will take a while to happen, and I have a long time to decide what I want to have done, if anything, when we get insurance. (I am sort of leaning towards titanium already).
Yeah. So that was my morning. how was yours?
I am now sitting here, the freezing starting to wear off, with gauze in my mouth.
Good times.
The good Doc gave me a prescription for antiinflammatories. Not sure if it is a painkiller, too, but will know soon.
My left eye was frozen, too, when she froze my mouth, so that was weird.
But I am going to go, the freezing is going away, and the pain is coming back.
ttyl. TAK
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Hoping for news tomorrow.
Still haven't heard much more from the 'Prospect'...
Other than that, not much new here in Hinton.
Um... let's see. I guess the only thing really to mention is that we will be going to Cold Lake for the 24th, 25th, and 26th...
Since Chris and I are a little tight on cash, we really haven't done much this year. Save for decorating with our old decorations (way too early, in some peoples' opinion).
Going to go... haven't got much to say this time.
Um... yeah.
:) Hope to see people soon... !
Other than that, not much new here in Hinton.
Um... let's see. I guess the only thing really to mention is that we will be going to Cold Lake for the 24th, 25th, and 26th...
Since Chris and I are a little tight on cash, we really haven't done much this year. Save for decorating with our old decorations (way too early, in some peoples' opinion).
Going to go... haven't got much to say this time.
Um... yeah.
:) Hope to see people soon... !
He was a good person
One of my favorite pictures of Job. A super cool kitty.
This was back in August '05 while kitty sitting. I don't think he liked us that much. He wanted to stay out when it came time for us to leave, but eventually resigned to coming in, although not without quite the conversation.
He will be missed. And he will be remembered.
Sorry to see you go, Job.
This was back in August '05 while kitty sitting. I don't think he liked us that much. He wanted to stay out when it came time for us to leave, but eventually resigned to coming in, although not without quite the conversation.
He will be missed. And he will be remembered.
Sorry to see you go, Job.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Went to Edmonton
And Chris had some pre-position tests to do...
Eeeeeee!!!
His vision is 20/20, his hearing is above average, and he passed the other test. We are just waiting for the results of the drug test, which we already know he will pass. (Never done any in his life, like me!)
So, just going to be waiting for him to get a phone call from the HR department!
Eeeeeee!!!
So, yeah!
While we were driving in, the car hit a patch of ice, (I like to call it road) and we kinda went sideways. I, of course, freaked out. Chris was driving.
After that, I was nervous the whole trip, when we were driving on the highway.
But, after staying overnight in a hotel (really didn't want to drive home same day, even though I didn't really want to stay in a hotel- not a fan of them), we drove home, and made it in good enough time, for the conditions.
And, of course, while we were in the city, we had to look for a store that had a Wii for Chris to buy. Even I am surprised, he sure didn't look very hard. We only looked at about 3 stores. After 3 no's, Chris figured the whole city was sold out, and that it would be futile to try to call more stores.
"Doo doo doo doo do do do do do, do do do doooo"
(Music from the LOTR:Fellowship of the Ring- the part where they form the fellowship)(of the ring).
Anyway...
Chris picked up his Yamaha receiver, from Repair. He bought it, for way too much, (he argues that it was not too much, that it is worth it) almost 2 years ago. It has been in repair for most of the 2 years. The first time, they didn't replace the right thing. And it broke again.
The second time, they sent it to an authorized repair centre, and it apparently cost them ~$600 to fix the real problem.
Now, Chris has it set up real good. So good, in fact, that I am going to not bother trying to watch tv out here. (The freaking remote has an LCD screen on it, for gosh sakes! It took me forever to figure out his tv remote, then his Harmon Kardon receiver remote. Now there's this Yamaha one. Gah!)
Gah!
Gah!
Oh, well. If it breaks again, I am going to try to make him sell it. (It's been broken for most of the warranty period, and I personally think it would be better to sell it before it breaks again. Chris' typical response to this is that is should now be fixed and won't break again. I probably won't be able to restrain myself from saying 'I told you so' if it does break again.)
:)
Meh. So... Who else out there is already decorated for Christmas?
Just me? Oh.
Got a really cool plant this weekend. Mom saw Chair's Rosemary tree, and decided she wanted one. She drove to a Safeway, and they were out, and then called me and asked if I could pick one up, and one for me, too. The first store we went to was out, but I bought a really little rubber plant. It has four small leaves, the longest being about four inches. I remember the one we got from my Great Aunt Olive, it was HUGE! I think it will take years for this one to get that big. I hope.
Anyway, back on track, the second store we went to had some of the plants left, and Mom bought two. One for her, one for me.
When I got mine home, I cleaned it thoroughly, as it had a lot of dead leaves on it. I watered it really well, too, and it must have been really thirsty, because it just kept taking it! Finally, after over a litre of water had been poured in, it started to drain a little bit!
Overnight, it has really perked up, and has gotten bushier!
I can't wait to cook with it!
And, I think I am going to get some small Christmas decorations and decorate it... just some really light ones. I don't want it to fall over or anything.
I think I will buy some little candy canes. And a tiny angel or something.
:)
Yeah, so, I have been really happy with my plants lately, I haven't killed any in a long time!
I must be getting better!
:)
My Aunt, Uncle and Cousin are moving this weekend, and I hope that they have a safe trip, good weather, and that everything else goes smoothly for them!
Gonna go now, got some laundry to do, and maybe some sewing!
If I don't post before Christmas, I hope everyone has a good one!
:)
T.A.K.
Eeeeeee!!!
His vision is 20/20, his hearing is above average, and he passed the other test. We are just waiting for the results of the drug test, which we already know he will pass. (Never done any in his life, like me!)
So, just going to be waiting for him to get a phone call from the HR department!
Eeeeeee!!!
So, yeah!
While we were driving in, the car hit a patch of ice, (I like to call it road) and we kinda went sideways. I, of course, freaked out. Chris was driving.
After that, I was nervous the whole trip, when we were driving on the highway.
But, after staying overnight in a hotel (really didn't want to drive home same day, even though I didn't really want to stay in a hotel- not a fan of them), we drove home, and made it in good enough time, for the conditions.
And, of course, while we were in the city, we had to look for a store that had a Wii for Chris to buy. Even I am surprised, he sure didn't look very hard. We only looked at about 3 stores. After 3 no's, Chris figured the whole city was sold out, and that it would be futile to try to call more stores.
"Doo doo doo doo do do do do do, do do do doooo"
(Music from the LOTR:Fellowship of the Ring- the part where they form the fellowship)(of the ring).
Anyway...
Chris picked up his Yamaha receiver, from Repair. He bought it, for way too much, (he argues that it was not too much, that it is worth it) almost 2 years ago. It has been in repair for most of the 2 years. The first time, they didn't replace the right thing. And it broke again.
The second time, they sent it to an authorized repair centre, and it apparently cost them ~$600 to fix the real problem.
Now, Chris has it set up real good. So good, in fact, that I am going to not bother trying to watch tv out here. (The freaking remote has an LCD screen on it, for gosh sakes! It took me forever to figure out his tv remote, then his Harmon Kardon receiver remote. Now there's this Yamaha one. Gah!)
Gah!
Gah!
Oh, well. If it breaks again, I am going to try to make him sell it. (It's been broken for most of the warranty period, and I personally think it would be better to sell it before it breaks again. Chris' typical response to this is that is should now be fixed and won't break again. I probably won't be able to restrain myself from saying 'I told you so' if it does break again.)
:)
Meh. So... Who else out there is already decorated for Christmas?
Just me? Oh.
Got a really cool plant this weekend. Mom saw Chair's Rosemary tree, and decided she wanted one. She drove to a Safeway, and they were out, and then called me and asked if I could pick one up, and one for me, too. The first store we went to was out, but I bought a really little rubber plant. It has four small leaves, the longest being about four inches. I remember the one we got from my Great Aunt Olive, it was HUGE! I think it will take years for this one to get that big. I hope.
Anyway, back on track, the second store we went to had some of the plants left, and Mom bought two. One for her, one for me.
When I got mine home, I cleaned it thoroughly, as it had a lot of dead leaves on it. I watered it really well, too, and it must have been really thirsty, because it just kept taking it! Finally, after over a litre of water had been poured in, it started to drain a little bit!
Overnight, it has really perked up, and has gotten bushier!
I can't wait to cook with it!
And, I think I am going to get some small Christmas decorations and decorate it... just some really light ones. I don't want it to fall over or anything.
I think I will buy some little candy canes. And a tiny angel or something.
:)
Yeah, so, I have been really happy with my plants lately, I haven't killed any in a long time!
I must be getting better!
:)
My Aunt, Uncle and Cousin are moving this weekend, and I hope that they have a safe trip, good weather, and that everything else goes smoothly for them!
Gonna go now, got some laundry to do, and maybe some sewing!
If I don't post before Christmas, I hope everyone has a good one!
:)
T.A.K.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Weather Network Weather Watch*
*Say that 3 times fast.**
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Special weather statement issued for regions of southern alberta by
ENVIRONMENT CANADA AT 3:10 PM MST SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2006.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ISSUED FOR..
CITY OF CALGARY - AIRDRIE - COCHRANE - OLDS - SUNDRE - OKOTOKS - HIGH RIVER - CLARESHOLM DRUMHELLER - THREE HILLS - BROOKS - STRATHMORE - VULCAN - KANANASKIS - CANMORE - BANFF NATIONAL PARK - JASPER NATIONAL PARK - MEDICINE HAT - BOW ISLAND - SUFFIELD - CYPRESS HILLS PROVINCIAL PARK - FOREMOST - LETHBRIDGE - TABER - MILK RIVER - CARDSTON - FORT MACLEOD - MAGRATH - CROWSNEST PASS - PINCHER CREEK - WATERTON PARK - NORDEGG - FORESTRY TRUNK ROAD - HIGHWAY 734 - ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE - CAROLINE ***- RED DEER - PONOKA - INNISFAIL - STETTLER - HANNA - CORONATION - OYEN.
A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN ALBERTA ON SUNDAY.
SNOW WILL BEGIN SUNDAY MORNING IN WESTERN REGIONS AND SPREAD EASTWARD DURING THE DAY.
SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY AND SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 CENTIMETRES ARE POSSIBLE BY MONDAY EVENING WITH THIS SYSTEM.
ADDITIONALLY, EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW MAY GENERATE HIGHER AMOUNTS ALONG THE FOOTHILLS.
THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF LATE MONDAY AS THE SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD INTO SASKATCHEWAN.
FURTHER DETAILS FOLLOW IN THE NEXT REGULAR PUBLIC FORECAST AT 4.00 PM MST.
______________end of weather warning_________________
**If you actually did, you should leave a comment saying so... :)
***Sucks to be her... (Caroline... get it? bah. Bad joke. Anyway.)
____________________________________________
Special weather statement issued for regions of southern alberta by
ENVIRONMENT CANADA AT 3:10 PM MST SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2006.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ISSUED FOR..
CITY OF CALGARY - AIRDRIE - COCHRANE - OLDS - SUNDRE - OKOTOKS - HIGH RIVER - CLARESHOLM DRUMHELLER - THREE HILLS - BROOKS - STRATHMORE - VULCAN - KANANASKIS - CANMORE - BANFF NATIONAL PARK - JASPER NATIONAL PARK - MEDICINE HAT - BOW ISLAND - SUFFIELD - CYPRESS HILLS PROVINCIAL PARK - FOREMOST - LETHBRIDGE - TABER - MILK RIVER - CARDSTON - FORT MACLEOD - MAGRATH - CROWSNEST PASS - PINCHER CREEK - WATERTON PARK - NORDEGG - FORESTRY TRUNK ROAD - HIGHWAY 734 - ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE - CAROLINE ***- RED DEER - PONOKA - INNISFAIL - STETTLER - HANNA - CORONATION - OYEN.
A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN ALBERTA ON SUNDAY.
SNOW WILL BEGIN SUNDAY MORNING IN WESTERN REGIONS AND SPREAD EASTWARD DURING THE DAY.
SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY AND SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 CENTIMETRES ARE POSSIBLE BY MONDAY EVENING WITH THIS SYSTEM.
ADDITIONALLY, EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW MAY GENERATE HIGHER AMOUNTS ALONG THE FOOTHILLS.
THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF LATE MONDAY AS THE SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD INTO SASKATCHEWAN.
FURTHER DETAILS FOLLOW IN THE NEXT REGULAR PUBLIC FORECAST AT 4.00 PM MST.
______________end of weather warning_________________
**If you actually did, you should leave a comment saying so... :)
***Sucks to be her... (Caroline... get it? bah. Bad joke. Anyway.)
Styling the water pipes
While I wasn't aware that water pipes had hair, let alone needed to be styled irst thing in the morning in the coldest day of the year, so far... I did happen to have an extra hair dryer that I don't care too much about.
I woke up, a little over an hour ago, to LOUD, SCARY banging noises coming from the general area of my bedroom closet. (Right next to the bedroom closet is the hot water tank).
Chris and his Dad were outside (poor frozen guys) trying to figure out which pipes were frozen...
Then they came and got a hair dryer from me to try to thaw the pipes, which we still don't know which ones are frozen... so it was little better than futile.
As a result of waking up earlier than expected (by about 4 hours) and the sheer way I woke up, I am not feeling well. The jolt of adrenaline from being semi terrified is making me feel sick, and plus lack of sleep with the pills I am taking (prescribed...) I feel really sick.
I think it's either time to switch pills, or actively work on coming off of them. The side effects are getting noticeable more often. Or maybe I am just screwing up my sleep patterns too much...
Either way, not feeling well for no reason that you can really deal with, SUCKS.
And that's me today.
Plus the way I woke up has gotten me so tensed I keep clenching my jaw... not only does that hurt but I am getting a head ache. No matter how much I try to relax and focus on not clenching, it ends up happening.
Meh. Such is life.
So, yeah... That's me today. How are you? How freaking cold is it where you are?
If you say anything warmer than -20 (ahem, CELSIUS), I may not be held responsible for my own actions (jealousy, envy...)
It got to -33 ish Celsius, which is... hold on... about -27.4 Fahrenheit.
Which doesn't seem so bad.
Here's the last nine hours, according to the weather network.
What does "dew point" mean? Cause those numbers aren't friendly, either...
I want to hibernate. I am all for snow, and wintry driving conditions, and starting your car to warm up a few minutes before you leave the house, and I can deal with the lower fuel mileage, but this is ridiculous.
I can't remember the last time I experienced temperatures that felt this cold... (Meaning of course that it may have been colder, but that I probably wasn't outside for it).
And everyone was saying it would be a mild winter. Yeah, in California...
I have to go, and try to sleep some more, I am feeling worse.
So, yeah.
Anybody got any ideas on how to fix frozen water pipes that you don't know where the problem is?
(I forgot to mention, we have heat wrap around most of the pipes, and it's been plugged in since the beginning of winter... So the whole freezing thing is a bit of a piss off)
:) Blaine
I woke up, a little over an hour ago, to LOUD, SCARY banging noises coming from the general area of my bedroom closet. (Right next to the bedroom closet is the hot water tank).
Chris and his Dad were outside (poor frozen guys) trying to figure out which pipes were frozen...
Then they came and got a hair dryer from me to try to thaw the pipes, which we still don't know which ones are frozen... so it was little better than futile.
As a result of waking up earlier than expected (by about 4 hours) and the sheer way I woke up, I am not feeling well. The jolt of adrenaline from being semi terrified is making me feel sick, and plus lack of sleep with the pills I am taking (prescribed...) I feel really sick.
I think it's either time to switch pills, or actively work on coming off of them. The side effects are getting noticeable more often. Or maybe I am just screwing up my sleep patterns too much...
Either way, not feeling well for no reason that you can really deal with, SUCKS.
And that's me today.
Plus the way I woke up has gotten me so tensed I keep clenching my jaw... not only does that hurt but I am getting a head ache. No matter how much I try to relax and focus on not clenching, it ends up happening.
Meh. Such is life.
So, yeah... That's me today. How are you? How freaking cold is it where you are?
If you say anything warmer than -20 (ahem, CELSIUS), I may not be held responsible for my own actions (jealousy, envy...)
It got to -33 ish Celsius, which is... hold on... about -27.4 Fahrenheit.
Which doesn't seem so bad.
Here's the last nine hours, according to the weather network.
What does "dew point" mean? Cause those numbers aren't friendly, either...
I want to hibernate. I am all for snow, and wintry driving conditions, and starting your car to warm up a few minutes before you leave the house, and I can deal with the lower fuel mileage, but this is ridiculous.
I can't remember the last time I experienced temperatures that felt this cold... (Meaning of course that it may have been colder, but that I probably wasn't outside for it).
And everyone was saying it would be a mild winter. Yeah, in California...
I have to go, and try to sleep some more, I am feeling worse.
So, yeah.
Anybody got any ideas on how to fix frozen water pipes that you don't know where the problem is?
(I forgot to mention, we have heat wrap around most of the pipes, and it's been plugged in since the beginning of winter... So the whole freezing thing is a bit of a piss off)
:) Blaine
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Homesick at 1 a.m.
I have been sitting up, listening to random ring tunes on Rogers.ca, and because Chris mentioned I could make my own ring tunes, I have been fooling around with that idea... so far so good. It's easy! (If your phone has the capabilities to add data from a computer... other wise, don't know how)
But anyway, just listening to music, and thinking about what ring tones to use/make for some family members has made me homesick.
I basically try to avoid thinking about home (that's why I never call, sorry) because it makes me feel homesick and lonely. I am truly glad to hear a familiar voice whenever you guys call, and please don't get worried, I am fine...
Just felt like writing about it, is all.
I can't wait to see my big sisters new house, and wish I could have helped her move. I can't wait to just hang out with my whole family again, just be in the same house again. It's only Nov. 25, and I can't wait for Christmas now.
With all of the positive things that have come of our moving to Hinton, including a new friendship and 'niece', I knew that above all, I would miss my family. Just like I did in Edmonton. I just keep underestimating how bad it is until it gets here, you know? I catch a glimpse of a picture from Home and I feel a jerk in my heart...
Is it bad that I block out thoughts of home so that I won't get upset? Now that I think about it, it sure sounds bad...
Oh, well, whatever gets you through, right?
Fair warning: Just like Thanksgiving, when I come home for Christmas, I know I will cry. Not because I am upset or anything, just happy to be home. So bring an extra shirt.
:)
Love you all, and miss you terribly. Can't wait to see you at Christmas!
xoxoxo (x a lot more)
Blaine
But anyway, just listening to music, and thinking about what ring tones to use/make for some family members has made me homesick.
I basically try to avoid thinking about home (that's why I never call, sorry) because it makes me feel homesick and lonely. I am truly glad to hear a familiar voice whenever you guys call, and please don't get worried, I am fine...
Just felt like writing about it, is all.
I can't wait to see my big sisters new house, and wish I could have helped her move. I can't wait to just hang out with my whole family again, just be in the same house again. It's only Nov. 25, and I can't wait for Christmas now.
With all of the positive things that have come of our moving to Hinton, including a new friendship and 'niece', I knew that above all, I would miss my family. Just like I did in Edmonton. I just keep underestimating how bad it is until it gets here, you know? I catch a glimpse of a picture from Home and I feel a jerk in my heart...
Is it bad that I block out thoughts of home so that I won't get upset? Now that I think about it, it sure sounds bad...
Oh, well, whatever gets you through, right?
Fair warning: Just like Thanksgiving, when I come home for Christmas, I know I will cry. Not because I am upset or anything, just happy to be home. So bring an extra shirt.
:)
Love you all, and miss you terribly. Can't wait to see you at Christmas!
xoxoxo (x a lot more)
Blaine
Friday, November 24, 2006
Behind with the blogging
I have thought about blogging a few times this past week, but keep forgetting about it, or don't have the time... (rather, don't make the time)
Umm... let's see, what's happened since I last 'blogged'...
- Quit working at the source... got a different job with more hours, and better pay... oh, and it's nowhere near as stressful...
- started working at IGA (privately owned- there's 13 in alberta owed by the same company, one of the founders is Chris's best friends grandfather)
- Chris got an interview with CN (YAY!!!) He had it today, and we won't know for a few days if they are going to hire him or not... (5 people in the tests and went for interview, and there were 3 positions)
ummmm... can't remember much else...
oh, I upgraded my cell phone... and got a new one in the mail (the one in the picture is white, mine is black)
ummm... not much else is new... have a headache, so going to go now... will (*hopefully*) update more later!
Miss everybody (I am homesick again already....)
Love ya lots
Blaine
Umm... let's see, what's happened since I last 'blogged'...
- Quit working at the source... got a different job with more hours, and better pay... oh, and it's nowhere near as stressful...
- started working at IGA (privately owned- there's 13 in alberta owed by the same company, one of the founders is Chris's best friends grandfather)
- Chris got an interview with CN (YAY!!!) He had it today, and we won't know for a few days if they are going to hire him or not... (5 people in the tests and went for interview, and there were 3 positions)
ummmm... can't remember much else...
oh, I upgraded my cell phone... and got a new one in the mail (the one in the picture is white, mine is black)
ummm... not much else is new... have a headache, so going to go now... will (*hopefully*) update more later!
Miss everybody (I am homesick again already....)
Love ya lots
Blaine
Thursday, November 02, 2006
What's a Meme? This is a Meme...
1. What is your craft, & how long have you been doing it? I guess I would say that my craft is taking pictures. I have been doing it since approximately October 10, 2004, which is the date I got my digital camera. Since then, I've just been taking more and more pictures.
2. Are you a vegan, vegetarian, veg-curious, veg-friendly or other? I guess I would say that I am veg-friendly. There are certainly a lot of veggies I like, but there's probably more that I either just don't like, or will only eat a certain way. (Like green/red/yellow/orange peppers... either cut up in small pieces and cooked or cooked thoroughly in a sauce- stirfry... And only like tomatoes in sauce. Not fresh. Ever.)
3. What is your favorite color(s)? Do you particularly dislike a color(s)? Oooh... good one... I LOVE a darkish sage color, kind of in between sage and a light forest green, and I adore Navy Blue. I also like every color that I see day to day in Nature... as I could easily prove by showing you some pictures... Earth tones are my newest favorites... yummy browns and tans...
4. Do you have any allergies (such as pets, foods or cigarette smoke?) Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! You either must be joking or really don't know me. I am allergic to just about everything under the sun now. It started out small: cats, rabbits, bigger dogs. Now I am allergic to almost all animals, and can't even be around cats for 10 minutes (and I am on a daily antihistamine) without my throat swelling up. My allergies also trigger my athsma, which has continually gotten worse since I was diagnosed in my teens.
My allergy list has grown to also contain some sort of seafood (they weren't overly specific when I went for the allergy test, so I just avoid all of it - I also don't like it) and trees. I am certain that mold is on the list, too, and most other things like strong perfumes - read ' teenage girls' - and smoke, etc. also aggravate me. I'm not sure that I can even stop taking my antihistamines over the winter months anymore. Last time I tried was 2 1/2 years ago...
5. Do you have any companion animals? If so, names and types? Well, Pookie was one of them, and since she passed, I am certain she is still here. She was a Poodle/Terrier/Cocker Spaniel Mix. One of the most polite and mild mannered dogs I have ever met. (Unless she's around a young child- she had always been uneasy around them, since she was a puppy and was bombarded with not-so-great attention from a toddler.) And she is always great company. Her son, Patches, who is now 6 1/2 years old, lives with my parents, but I still call him my dog, too. He is super cute, and puts up with my camera. A lot. I have hundreds of pictures of him, if not thousands.
6. Do you collect anything? Pictures. Old money, funny money. (Funny Money referring to strange and exotic coins or bills from other countries. Years ago, I even collected U.S. Quarters when I came across them because they were so foreign to me.
7. Do you have a favorite vegan food, snack or dish? If no fav that's vegan (for those who aren't vegan), what's your favorite food? Uhhh... Err... I can't think right now. There's too many to list. I love a great chicken caesar salad. Chicken Souvlaki, with warm pita bread and tzatziki sauce. Ribeye steak BBQ'd to rare or medium rare with Montreal steal spice on it. Potatoes. (You name it, potato wise, I probably like it. (Lately been eating a lot of the packaged scalloped type... Yum!) Sorbet... I have been making my own here at home, and Oh. My. God. Strawberry and Peach are so far in my 'fighting for #1' list. Want to try Banana Sorbet, so I can mix it with strawberry... or orange... or pineapple...
8. What tools/supplies/accessories for your craft(s) are you wishing you had but don't? Also, what do you have TOO many of? (basically a wish and anti-wish list) I am hoping to someday be able to buy a more professional camera... Probably with help from my sister... She took the 2 year course... I'd also need more memory cards if I was to buy a better camera... and probably batteries/battery pack. Oh, and photo paper and ink... or whatever else. Too many of? Does that happen?
9. What type of handmade item would tickle your fancy? What don't you like? (Keep in mind this swap is open to all types of crafters.)
The kind of handmade item that tickles my fancy is paintings... I like them much better when I know the artist. How do you get into painting when you know nothing of the materials? I think I would like anything homemade if it was made for me, because someone took the time to make it for me. One of my most treasured items is a handmade journal I got for Christmas from my Mom, who got my Auntie to make. It rocks.
10. Is there anything else you would like your pal to know about you? Uh... I swear I am not clumsy, I just hurt myself lots... I love animals, just can't really be with them. :( My idea of a great day is one where I spend a lot fo time with nature, either just driving and looking at it, or taking pictures... (of course).
And I'd also like my pal to know that I love them very much! (And miss them, too!)
:) T.A.K.
2. Are you a vegan, vegetarian, veg-curious, veg-friendly or other? I guess I would say that I am veg-friendly. There are certainly a lot of veggies I like, but there's probably more that I either just don't like, or will only eat a certain way. (Like green/red/yellow/orange peppers... either cut up in small pieces and cooked or cooked thoroughly in a sauce- stirfry... And only like tomatoes in sauce. Not fresh. Ever.)
3. What is your favorite color(s)? Do you particularly dislike a color(s)? Oooh... good one... I LOVE a darkish sage color, kind of in between sage and a light forest green, and I adore Navy Blue. I also like every color that I see day to day in Nature... as I could easily prove by showing you some pictures... Earth tones are my newest favorites... yummy browns and tans...
4. Do you have any allergies (such as pets, foods or cigarette smoke?) Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! You either must be joking or really don't know me. I am allergic to just about everything under the sun now. It started out small: cats, rabbits, bigger dogs. Now I am allergic to almost all animals, and can't even be around cats for 10 minutes (and I am on a daily antihistamine) without my throat swelling up. My allergies also trigger my athsma, which has continually gotten worse since I was diagnosed in my teens.
My allergy list has grown to also contain some sort of seafood (they weren't overly specific when I went for the allergy test, so I just avoid all of it - I also don't like it) and trees. I am certain that mold is on the list, too, and most other things like strong perfumes - read ' teenage girls' - and smoke, etc. also aggravate me. I'm not sure that I can even stop taking my antihistamines over the winter months anymore. Last time I tried was 2 1/2 years ago...
5. Do you have any companion animals? If so, names and types? Well, Pookie was one of them, and since she passed, I am certain she is still here. She was a Poodle/Terrier/Cocker Spaniel Mix. One of the most polite and mild mannered dogs I have ever met. (Unless she's around a young child- she had always been uneasy around them, since she was a puppy and was bombarded with not-so-great attention from a toddler.) And she is always great company. Her son, Patches, who is now 6 1/2 years old, lives with my parents, but I still call him my dog, too. He is super cute, and puts up with my camera. A lot. I have hundreds of pictures of him, if not thousands.
6. Do you collect anything? Pictures. Old money, funny money. (Funny Money referring to strange and exotic coins or bills from other countries. Years ago, I even collected U.S. Quarters when I came across them because they were so foreign to me.
7. Do you have a favorite vegan food, snack or dish? If no fav that's vegan (for those who aren't vegan), what's your favorite food? Uhhh... Err... I can't think right now. There's too many to list. I love a great chicken caesar salad. Chicken Souvlaki, with warm pita bread and tzatziki sauce. Ribeye steak BBQ'd to rare or medium rare with Montreal steal spice on it. Potatoes. (You name it, potato wise, I probably like it. (Lately been eating a lot of the packaged scalloped type... Yum!) Sorbet... I have been making my own here at home, and Oh. My. God. Strawberry and Peach are so far in my 'fighting for #1' list. Want to try Banana Sorbet, so I can mix it with strawberry... or orange... or pineapple...
8. What tools/supplies/accessories for your craft(s) are you wishing you had but don't? Also, what do you have TOO many of? (basically a wish and anti-wish list) I am hoping to someday be able to buy a more professional camera... Probably with help from my sister... She took the 2 year course... I'd also need more memory cards if I was to buy a better camera... and probably batteries/battery pack. Oh, and photo paper and ink... or whatever else. Too many of? Does that happen?
9. What type of handmade item would tickle your fancy? What don't you like? (Keep in mind this swap is open to all types of crafters.)
The kind of handmade item that tickles my fancy is paintings... I like them much better when I know the artist. How do you get into painting when you know nothing of the materials? I think I would like anything homemade if it was made for me, because someone took the time to make it for me. One of my most treasured items is a handmade journal I got for Christmas from my Mom, who got my Auntie to make. It rocks.
10. Is there anything else you would like your pal to know about you? Uh... I swear I am not clumsy, I just hurt myself lots... I love animals, just can't really be with them. :( My idea of a great day is one where I spend a lot fo time with nature, either just driving and looking at it, or taking pictures... (of course).
And I'd also like my pal to know that I love them very much! (And miss them, too!)
:) T.A.K.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
My Boo
My Boo. With her baby. I miss her. She must miss me, too, because she comes to visit.
:)
T.A.K.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Huh
I am Creative. I do creative things. I just don't say so. I don't think I have either
a) anything good to say or
b) anybody who cares
to bother to write very often.
I express most of my creative energy taking pictures, mostly of nature, in and around Hinton.
I also cook. I have begun to play around with some other things, and my most recent accomplishment was a scrapbook I made for my sister and brother in law for their wedding. At first I didn't think that my sister liked it, but I now realize that that is so not true.
I recently moved to a town about 6 hours away from my family, and my best friend lives in a city 3 hours away but is always busy working or sleeping.
Not only am I in a new place, which I do love, but I also feel super lonely.
Thankfully, my 'sister-in-common-law' is great, and since she is a SAHM with a 6 1/2 month old, she is just as grateful as I am to get out of the house, or just have the company of a friend.
I don't know what else to say. I probably won't update this again for a while, since Ivew recently become kind of turned off of the idea.
Me.
a) anything good to say or
b) anybody who cares
to bother to write very often.
I express most of my creative energy taking pictures, mostly of nature, in and around Hinton.
I also cook. I have begun to play around with some other things, and my most recent accomplishment was a scrapbook I made for my sister and brother in law for their wedding. At first I didn't think that my sister liked it, but I now realize that that is so not true.
I recently moved to a town about 6 hours away from my family, and my best friend lives in a city 3 hours away but is always busy working or sleeping.
Not only am I in a new place, which I do love, but I also feel super lonely.
Thankfully, my 'sister-in-common-law' is great, and since she is a SAHM with a 6 1/2 month old, she is just as grateful as I am to get out of the house, or just have the company of a friend.
I don't know what else to say. I probably won't update this again for a while, since Ivew recently become kind of turned off of the idea.
Me.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
I don't normally do this
This post is going to be a little different.
I was reading my Hometown's newspaper online, and clicked on the Opinion section. If you want to know what I read, here it is.
Here's part of what I would like to respond. (Highly recommend reading the article before reading this... might not make sense if you read this first.)
I was contemplating sending this to them, but I know it would be edited and lose some of it's meaning.
Re: ‘War on Tobacco’ Editorial by Chris Miller, Oct. 24, 2006
By any chance, are you a smoker, Chris Miller?
In our society, people should be allowed to go out to a restaurant without having to suffer through breathing in a cloud of poison. While I believe that everybody has a right to smoke, if they so choose, why does it then mean that smokers have the right to decide that everybody else around them has to breathe in deadly toxins?
Yes, I’ve heard the ‘if you don’t like it, leave’, but where is the fairness in that? Are you saying that people who don’t want to be exposed to unnecessary toxins should stay at home? Well, how am I supposed to do anything?
If things hadn’t progressed the way it has, there would probably be smoking in grocery stores, drug stores, hospitals… Then what? Am I supposed to just deal with it or leave?
The issue of smoking has been around for years, and isn’t likely to disappear anytime soon. There is no clear answer, because smokers and non-smokers have very differing points of views. Everybody’s rights are being infringed upon because of this issue, and the lines become grayed as a result.
Not all oil patch workers smoke. Not every non-smoker has an issue with smokers. And no, smoking bans don’t affect the tobacco companies. It just makes life a little better for those of us who don’t choose to poison ourselves daily, the slowest suicide besides living. If you really want to smoke, then do it by yourself. Poison yourself. Kill yourself. Leave my lungs and health out of it.
Other I’d like to add…
Whatever people choose to do in the privacy of their own homes, is up to them.
What people choose to do when they are affecting other people, is not always up to them.
Deal with it.
(Maybe the Gov't of Canada needs to sit up and realize that the cost of health care is as a result of people not taking care of themselves. Maybe they should refuse to pay for services that are needed as a result of people smoking, overeating, doing illegal drugs. If people can take the responsibility of choosing to do things that harm them, maybe they should deal with the consequences, too. If you smoke, and get lung cancer as a direct result, maybe you should pay for the surgeries, and chemo...)
I think people these days just don't take responsibility for their choices anymore. People drink and drive, and expect to get a light sentence. They abuse other people, and expect to be out of jail in a few years.
I think there is something seriously wrong with people, and health care systems, and everything else.
I am getting exhausted just thinking about all this crap I want to say.
So, this is my response to the issue that the Cold Lake Sun's Editor has chosen to bring up. I don't mind if people want to leave comments, but keep it tactful please.
To anyone out there in my famly and friends who smoke, or whatever else, I am not attacking you. This is my general opinion.
Anyway, I never thought I'd be posting anything like this, or posting a disclaimer to hopefully prevent anyone from being offended by a post like this.
Sigh. This is the kind of crap that makes me depressed about the world we live in.
And then I read my Auntie's blogs, or look at pictures of my sweet little cousin painting, or Chris's niece, and I feel better.
:) Just had to get that out, I think.
TAK
I was reading my Hometown's newspaper online, and clicked on the Opinion section. If you want to know what I read, here it is.
Here's part of what I would like to respond. (Highly recommend reading the article before reading this... might not make sense if you read this first.)
I was contemplating sending this to them, but I know it would be edited and lose some of it's meaning.
Re: ‘War on Tobacco’ Editorial by Chris Miller, Oct. 24, 2006
By any chance, are you a smoker, Chris Miller?
In our society, people should be allowed to go out to a restaurant without having to suffer through breathing in a cloud of poison. While I believe that everybody has a right to smoke, if they so choose, why does it then mean that smokers have the right to decide that everybody else around them has to breathe in deadly toxins?
Yes, I’ve heard the ‘if you don’t like it, leave’, but where is the fairness in that? Are you saying that people who don’t want to be exposed to unnecessary toxins should stay at home? Well, how am I supposed to do anything?
If things hadn’t progressed the way it has, there would probably be smoking in grocery stores, drug stores, hospitals… Then what? Am I supposed to just deal with it or leave?
The issue of smoking has been around for years, and isn’t likely to disappear anytime soon. There is no clear answer, because smokers and non-smokers have very differing points of views. Everybody’s rights are being infringed upon because of this issue, and the lines become grayed as a result.
Not all oil patch workers smoke. Not every non-smoker has an issue with smokers. And no, smoking bans don’t affect the tobacco companies. It just makes life a little better for those of us who don’t choose to poison ourselves daily, the slowest suicide besides living. If you really want to smoke, then do it by yourself. Poison yourself. Kill yourself. Leave my lungs and health out of it.
Other I’d like to add…
Whatever people choose to do in the privacy of their own homes, is up to them.
What people choose to do when they are affecting other people, is not always up to them.
Deal with it.
(Maybe the Gov't of Canada needs to sit up and realize that the cost of health care is as a result of people not taking care of themselves. Maybe they should refuse to pay for services that are needed as a result of people smoking, overeating, doing illegal drugs. If people can take the responsibility of choosing to do things that harm them, maybe they should deal with the consequences, too. If you smoke, and get lung cancer as a direct result, maybe you should pay for the surgeries, and chemo...)
I think people these days just don't take responsibility for their choices anymore. People drink and drive, and expect to get a light sentence. They abuse other people, and expect to be out of jail in a few years.
I think there is something seriously wrong with people, and health care systems, and everything else.
I am getting exhausted just thinking about all this crap I want to say.
So, this is my response to the issue that the Cold Lake Sun's Editor has chosen to bring up. I don't mind if people want to leave comments, but keep it tactful please.
To anyone out there in my famly and friends who smoke, or whatever else, I am not attacking you. This is my general opinion.
Anyway, I never thought I'd be posting anything like this, or posting a disclaimer to hopefully prevent anyone from being offended by a post like this.
Sigh. This is the kind of crap that makes me depressed about the world we live in.
And then I read my Auntie's blogs, or look at pictures of my sweet little cousin painting, or Chris's niece, and I feel better.
:) Just had to get that out, I think.
TAK
Saturday, October 14, 2006
"Laughing at the kid, I thought you were"
that's one of Chris' more recent 'Yoda-isms'.
It's hilarious when we catch them, but it's usually about once a week he talks in Yoda speak by accident.
(For those who don't know: Yoda is a character from Star Wars, and he talks kinda backwards. He is known worldwide for his speech behaviour, and commonly imitated by geeks and non-geeks alike. Also: he's not a human character, kind o a little green alien with big pointy ears.)
Chris doesn't do it on purpose, but I catch them, make fun of him (a little) and we both usually laugh our butts off about it.
Come to think of it, we laugh our butts off about a lot of stuff. We are really goofy people, when you get to know us. Consider yourselves warned for when you come to visit.
You are coming to visit, aren't you?
________________________________________
JOY AND MAT BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!!! THE HOUSE THEY MADE AN OFFER ON HAS ACCEPTED IT!!!! IT'S HUGE, AND SHE PLANS TO HOST CHRISTMAS, IF SHE'S ALL SET UP TO!
Here's what I know about it:
- It is on approximately 24 acres of trees and a bit of wetland...
I will update more a little later!!!
It's hilarious when we catch them, but it's usually about once a week he talks in Yoda speak by accident.
(For those who don't know: Yoda is a character from Star Wars, and he talks kinda backwards. He is known worldwide for his speech behaviour, and commonly imitated by geeks and non-geeks alike. Also: he's not a human character, kind o a little green alien with big pointy ears.)
Chris doesn't do it on purpose, but I catch them, make fun of him (a little) and we both usually laugh our butts off about it.
Come to think of it, we laugh our butts off about a lot of stuff. We are really goofy people, when you get to know us. Consider yourselves warned for when you come to visit.
You are coming to visit, aren't you?
________________________________________
JOY AND MAT BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!!! THE HOUSE THEY MADE AN OFFER ON HAS ACCEPTED IT!!!! IT'S HUGE, AND SHE PLANS TO HOST CHRISTMAS, IF SHE'S ALL SET UP TO!
Here's what I know about it:
- It is on approximately 24 acres of trees and a bit of wetland...
I will update more a little later!!!
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Who wouldn't want $40 worth of red tacky stuff?
Me, probably. Unless it was cool red tacky stuff...
It would depend. If someone got me a $40 gift card from a store that had red tacky gift cards, see, now that would be alright.
Did you know that farming causes cancer?
What a load. Chemicals cause cancer. Environmental behaviour causes cancer. They are generalizing things WAY too much.
Oy. I totally lost my train of thought of the awesome post I was going to write.
I think I am going to go to bed, and read.
YES, READ!!! Yay!
Joy gave me a stack of books by an amazing author, Sophie Kinsella. I had already read her newest, "Domestic Goddess" and have now finished 2 more books since returning home from Cold Lake.
By the way, Joy, thank you so much for everything you gave me!! I have read lots and relaxed more since you gave me these books.
:)
Apparently, Sophie Kinsella has also written books under another name, and I have yet to remember her pen name, and look up the books.
:) I am happy. Yay!
Going to bed now.
It would depend. If someone got me a $40 gift card from a store that had red tacky gift cards, see, now that would be alright.
Did you know that farming causes cancer?
What a load. Chemicals cause cancer. Environmental behaviour causes cancer. They are generalizing things WAY too much.
Oy. I totally lost my train of thought of the awesome post I was going to write.
I think I am going to go to bed, and read.
YES, READ!!! Yay!
Joy gave me a stack of books by an amazing author, Sophie Kinsella. I had already read her newest, "Domestic Goddess" and have now finished 2 more books since returning home from Cold Lake.
By the way, Joy, thank you so much for everything you gave me!! I have read lots and relaxed more since you gave me these books.
:)
Apparently, Sophie Kinsella has also written books under another name, and I have yet to remember her pen name, and look up the books.
:) I am happy. Yay!
Going to bed now.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Ow. Also: free hugs!
My arm hurts. Well, both of them.
I worked my butt off (not literally, thank goodness) today at work and in the process, I scratched (read: scraped pretty badly) my left arm. It is bruised along the scratch. I can't remember what I was doing when I did it, because I did enough other damage to other body parts today, that I only remember the most recent.
I gouged the inside of my right pinky. I scratched my other arm. More of a scratch, less of a bruised scrape than the first one.
I almost twisted my ankle when I was up on a ladder. (Thinking about not wearing my fantabulous chunky-heeled black shoes (kinda like boots...) to work anymore...)
The most recent injury of the day: walked to Chris's brother's new place tonight to visit, see the new house, and on the walk back, my shoes (Dr. Scholls, by the way) began to rub pretty fiercely against the back of my heel... My left foot now has an open sore, which by the way, Garnier Fruictus shampoo and open sores DO NOT MIX! OW! And the walk from our place to theirs is only 0.75 Km.
So... what's new?
Oh, I am going to Cold Lake this weekend. Friday morning, I am driving to Edmonton, and then whenever my brother and his roommate, and maybe Jare, are ready, we will be off to Cold Lake...
Monday morning, we will be returning. I have 4 days off, because my boss is understanding and laid back, almost to a fault.
Chris won't be able to join me on this trip because he has to work straight through. I am pretty sure his family is coming to visit, so at least he won't be alone or anything.
____________________________________________________
On another note, and completely out of nowhere, my aunty linked me to this video, which has had me thinking.
First of all, I don't hug anywhere near enough. I hope to change that. So, if you are reading this, feel free to request as many free hugs as you want. Just tell me the sign may be invisible, but you can still see it...
I had more, but while trying to spell check, I lost over 1/2 of my post. shitty kitty.
anyway.
basically here's what I said:
- free hugs link is cool.
- free hugs from me.
- my nails are really long. (white part is almost as long as the pink* part.)
*both times I typed 'pink' today, it first came out as 'oink'. Thus the reason for spell check.
- I need to go so I can straighten my hair, and cut/file my nails.
Gonna go now. Sorta depressed about the missing chunk of my post. I hate it when that happens.
(And, yes, I used the 'recover post' feature. It didn't bring back very much.)
:) TAK
I worked my butt off (not literally, thank goodness) today at work and in the process, I scratched (read: scraped pretty badly) my left arm. It is bruised along the scratch. I can't remember what I was doing when I did it, because I did enough other damage to other body parts today, that I only remember the most recent.
I gouged the inside of my right pinky. I scratched my other arm. More of a scratch, less of a bruised scrape than the first one.
I almost twisted my ankle when I was up on a ladder. (Thinking about not wearing my fantabulous chunky-heeled black shoes (kinda like boots...) to work anymore...)
The most recent injury of the day: walked to Chris's brother's new place tonight to visit, see the new house, and on the walk back, my shoes (Dr. Scholls, by the way) began to rub pretty fiercely against the back of my heel... My left foot now has an open sore, which by the way, Garnier Fruictus shampoo and open sores DO NOT MIX! OW! And the walk from our place to theirs is only 0.75 Km.
So... what's new?
Oh, I am going to Cold Lake this weekend. Friday morning, I am driving to Edmonton, and then whenever my brother and his roommate, and maybe Jare, are ready, we will be off to Cold Lake...
Monday morning, we will be returning. I have 4 days off, because my boss is understanding and laid back, almost to a fault.
Chris won't be able to join me on this trip because he has to work straight through. I am pretty sure his family is coming to visit, so at least he won't be alone or anything.
____________________________________________________
On another note, and completely out of nowhere, my aunty linked me to this video, which has had me thinking.
First of all, I don't hug anywhere near enough. I hope to change that. So, if you are reading this, feel free to request as many free hugs as you want. Just tell me the sign may be invisible, but you can still see it...
I had more, but while trying to spell check, I lost over 1/2 of my post. shitty kitty.
anyway.
basically here's what I said:
- free hugs link is cool.
- free hugs from me.
- my nails are really long. (white part is almost as long as the pink* part.)
*both times I typed 'pink' today, it first came out as 'oink'. Thus the reason for spell check.
- I need to go so I can straighten my hair, and cut/file my nails.
Gonna go now. Sorta depressed about the missing chunk of my post. I hate it when that happens.
(And, yes, I used the 'recover post' feature. It didn't bring back very much.)
:) TAK
Thursday, September 28, 2006
OMG... the leaves... the trees... the mountains...
It's almost too much....
But not really.
I can't wait to get MY camera back... I sent it for repair, and even though I am super grateful for the camera my boss has generously offerred to let me use until mine comes back, I miss mine... much better quality pictures...
I don't know what is up with this one, but it sucks. All the pictures are blurry, or just plain don't turn out.
But, seriously, it is GORGEOUS here!!! You don't even know. And blurry pics aside, you might not get to see it, it is changing so fast...
I am a little homesick...
Can't wait for thanksgiving. Hoping to have a big turkey dinner with everybody there (siblings wise...) Chris won't be there, he has to work straight through the holiday...
Kinda tired... not feeling good... think I might be coming down with something...
Hmmm....
I bet it's partially as a result of not eating much lately...
I am probably not sick, just stressed. Staying up late so I can see Chris for 10 minutes before I go to bed. Not getting enough sleep, not eating... lots of stress...
Speaking of which, I think I will go have a bath and go to bed...
Will update more another day. I pretty much don't work weekends (unless I choose to) so I will probably update tomorrow night or Saturday...
:) TAK
*UPDATE*
Woke up with a headache today, so I didn't go to work. Tylenol barely helps, and doesn't make the light sensitivity go away, just the actual pain... dizziness rmains too.
Good times...
:) ish
But not really.
I can't wait to get MY camera back... I sent it for repair, and even though I am super grateful for the camera my boss has generously offerred to let me use until mine comes back, I miss mine... much better quality pictures...
I don't know what is up with this one, but it sucks. All the pictures are blurry, or just plain don't turn out.
But, seriously, it is GORGEOUS here!!! You don't even know. And blurry pics aside, you might not get to see it, it is changing so fast...
I am a little homesick...
Can't wait for thanksgiving. Hoping to have a big turkey dinner with everybody there (siblings wise...) Chris won't be there, he has to work straight through the holiday...
Kinda tired... not feeling good... think I might be coming down with something...
Hmmm....
I bet it's partially as a result of not eating much lately...
I am probably not sick, just stressed. Staying up late so I can see Chris for 10 minutes before I go to bed. Not getting enough sleep, not eating... lots of stress...
Speaking of which, I think I will go have a bath and go to bed...
Will update more another day. I pretty much don't work weekends (unless I choose to) so I will probably update tomorrow night or Saturday...
:) TAK
*UPDATE*
Woke up with a headache today, so I didn't go to work. Tylenol barely helps, and doesn't make the light sensitivity go away, just the actual pain... dizziness rmains too.
Good times...
:) ish
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Congratulations!
"Thank you for sharing your compassion.
Your answers reveal you are: The Compassionate Listener
You know those phone calls, late on Sunday nights. The voice on the other end asks how you are, then pauses. You know what’s coming. They need a sympathetic ear and you have one of the best. You’re what’s known as a natural empath, a person with an exceptional ability to assess someone’s emotional condition by listening and observing. You know how to offer support without necessarily creating a solution. You are the safe environment people are looking for to unburden themselves. Although you may hesitate to provide a physical solution (like solving the problem), you can help people solve their own problems by letting them talk it out. Friends consider you more open-minded, liberal and tolerant. You are probably interested in other cultures, are more open to new experiences, and may do volunteer work. You tend to enjoy life, and you have the capacity to help people feel better through your non-judgmental openness. You could find great career satisfaction in one of the wellness professions, including Massage Therapy."
From the Compassion Quiz at http://cortiva.com
So, does this sound like me?
Your answers reveal you are: The Compassionate Listener
You know those phone calls, late on Sunday nights. The voice on the other end asks how you are, then pauses. You know what’s coming. They need a sympathetic ear and you have one of the best. You’re what’s known as a natural empath, a person with an exceptional ability to assess someone’s emotional condition by listening and observing. You know how to offer support without necessarily creating a solution. You are the safe environment people are looking for to unburden themselves. Although you may hesitate to provide a physical solution (like solving the problem), you can help people solve their own problems by letting them talk it out. Friends consider you more open-minded, liberal and tolerant. You are probably interested in other cultures, are more open to new experiences, and may do volunteer work. You tend to enjoy life, and you have the capacity to help people feel better through your non-judgmental openness. You could find great career satisfaction in one of the wellness professions, including Massage Therapy."
From the Compassion Quiz at http://cortiva.com
So, does this sound like me?
Friday, September 15, 2006
Hey, got a job!
An old one, technically.
The guy who used to work at the Source in Edmonton (Kingsway Mall) now is 'owner' of the one here.
Since I have experience working at this particular store, it kinda makes sense.
While we were at the store yesterday, he mentioned how he was short staffed (like most places in Hinton) and that he just had another person leave. I told him that I would apply, but that I don't like the selling part of the job. (Read: I was kind of joking.)
I said I loved doing the paperwork, doing the order (receiving), and putting away stock, but that the rest of it sucked (selling and customers).
He said he'd hire me to come in, do the order, maybe some paperwork, cleaning. $10/hour.
Freaking sweet.
I start Monday at 10.
Anyway, just figured I'd let you know...
:) Blaine
The guy who used to work at the Source in Edmonton (Kingsway Mall) now is 'owner' of the one here.
Since I have experience working at this particular store, it kinda makes sense.
While we were at the store yesterday, he mentioned how he was short staffed (like most places in Hinton) and that he just had another person leave. I told him that I would apply, but that I don't like the selling part of the job. (Read: I was kind of joking.)
I said I loved doing the paperwork, doing the order (receiving), and putting away stock, but that the rest of it sucked (selling and customers).
He said he'd hire me to come in, do the order, maybe some paperwork, cleaning. $10/hour.
Freaking sweet.
I start Monday at 10.
Anyway, just figured I'd let you know...
:) Blaine
Let it snow!
(Like we have a choice!) :D
Here's some of what we've been dealing with today...
Crappy Road Conditions.
Whole bunch of snow on my car... Wondering about Chris's on the right? We just got back home from the store...
Here's a pic from about 1130 pm on thursday Sept. 14, 2006. It didn't start snowing until about 9 am. So a little over 12 hours, on a pretty warm day (it was slushing more than it was snowing) where most of the snow than landed melted. Here's what was left at the 'end' of the day. It's still snowing.
How to know when the cat wants to come in. (I told him he wouldn't want to go out in the first place. It was super cute watching him take a step, lift his paw up really quick, put it down, etc...) Sid is an outdoors cat, and it even boggled his mind when I opened the door this morning and he saw the snow... (If cats could go "Holy Crap!", that's what he would have done!)
Even though it looks like he is fogging up our window (if he could, I am sure he would, he's a bit of a brat) he's actually mid-meowrl... a.k.a. "Let me in I am freezing my tiny little kitty tush off!"
I was going to show you pix of the buns I made today, but the picture isn't uploading, I think there is a 5 per post maximum.
Anyway, I have already eaten 2 out of the first batch of 6 that I put in the oven.
I think they need to rise more before they go in (I let it rise as a whole, then, broke them into little rolls, and put them in the oven (after about 35 mins...)
The second batch rose again, wow, that sentence sounds kinda familiar, anyway, and they look like they will turn out better.
ttynt,
Blaine
Here's some of what we've been dealing with today...
Crappy Road Conditions.
Whole bunch of snow on my car... Wondering about Chris's on the right? We just got back home from the store...
Here's a pic from about 1130 pm on thursday Sept. 14, 2006. It didn't start snowing until about 9 am. So a little over 12 hours, on a pretty warm day (it was slushing more than it was snowing) where most of the snow than landed melted. Here's what was left at the 'end' of the day. It's still snowing.
How to know when the cat wants to come in. (I told him he wouldn't want to go out in the first place. It was super cute watching him take a step, lift his paw up really quick, put it down, etc...) Sid is an outdoors cat, and it even boggled his mind when I opened the door this morning and he saw the snow... (If cats could go "Holy Crap!", that's what he would have done!)
Even though it looks like he is fogging up our window (if he could, I am sure he would, he's a bit of a brat) he's actually mid-meowrl... a.k.a. "Let me in I am freezing my tiny little kitty tush off!"
I was going to show you pix of the buns I made today, but the picture isn't uploading, I think there is a 5 per post maximum.
Anyway, I have already eaten 2 out of the first batch of 6 that I put in the oven.
I think they need to rise more before they go in (I let it rise as a whole, then, broke them into little rolls, and put them in the oven (after about 35 mins...)
The second batch rose again, wow, that sentence sounds kinda familiar, anyway, and they look like they will turn out better.
ttynt,
Blaine
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Hmmmm....
I have been thinking...
(Yes, I know that I shouldn't, I just have too much time on my hands right now)
... You know how most little girls play house and dream about having their own children, homes, families...?
I am starting to realize that it is more an instinct. The side of us that thinks about the money issues, the impact on relationships and lives, that's all conscious thought. The whole "waiting until we're ready" thing.
I would just like to mention that I am 100% sure that
a) I am not pregnant;
b) I have not recently thought I might have been;
c) I do not plan (with OR without Chris' knowledge) plan to be pregnant anytime soon;
d) all of the above repeated again for good measure!
If you think too much about it (and I think most people do these days), you'd probably never have had children. Now, I am more than certain that those of you with children will tell me the pain of childbirth, the pregnancy symptoms, and all of the other 'fun' stuff that comes with kids growing up was well worth it.
But seriously, these days, there is so much out there, and plenty in here (pointing to head) telling people how hard it will be to have kids. The money it takes, the time you won't have. There's articles on how to manage time better. I just think people over think the whole issue.
I would guess that in general, the second time around would be easier.
IF you saved all of the clothing, toys, carseats, etc. You would have all of the hand me downs, and diapers, formula and sleep might be the only thing you'd need. (Although, after the first few years of hand me downs get worn through, I think it would get more expensive: school).
I, of course, have never had children. I speak only from the guesstimation part of my brain. That same part that overthinks everything else, can rationalize babbling about something I have no experience with.
I think I am trying to tell myself that every time I log out of my email account, the articles that pop up aren't 'must-read'. That they don't know everything about everything. That I won't need to have spent hours each week reading articles that vary from the previous month's worth by a sentence or two to be a good mom, when the time comes. That I don't need to read those articles on how to live with people, how to talk to people. That I just need to trust my instincts, open up, talk to people, rather than sitting around watching television. I think I am in information overload.
I have a solution; it's quite a lot easier than most people would think. This is my plan:
Eat simpler. Not every meal has to be a big one. (Simple doesn't mean drive-thru.)
Live simpler. When someone is talking to you, mute or turn off the television. I have learned and am slowly being more conscious of the fact that talking to Chris, my friends, my family, or even just sitting and listening, is better for me than staring blankly at the TV. There is only so much you can learn from watching CSI reruns. Or Simpson’s, Will & Grace, Friends...
And why watch the food network? In moderation is okay, but when I started to watch it every time I turn on the TV...? (Up to 5 hours straight sometimes...) (Warning: strange tangent being taken ahead)
I will admit I am guilty of not really being able to just be. I am not really sure which genre of books I am interested in. I get really frustrated going to the library.
Occasionally, I will find a really great book, and absolutely love reading it. I go to the library to get another, usually check out several books, and end up not reading most of them.
I just don't know what I want to read.
I can honestly tell you I'd never get sick of reading cookbooks. But they have NO PLOT!
I have considered writing a really great cookbook that has a plot of some kind, but just can't seem to put it together.
I've always secretly wanted to be a writer, but can't get past the first few pages of a story. It never develops.
How can I find a bunch of really great books?
I am getting kind of sick of the self help ones, the spirituality ones... I have a few I haven't yet read, so I would like to not add to that list until I have crossed a few more off of the list.
Besides, I have a few more that I have already read, that I would like to read again. Some of those amazing books you find, that you can't bear to just borrow them from the library, you want to have a copy. I have some of those.
I want to set up a little nook in the den. A comfy chair, good natural light, some plants (probably some herbs) a bookshelf, and several good books.
I have everything (except the plants, well, grown ones. I have oregano started, only one seed came up, so far) that I need besides the books.
I don't know what to look for when I go online on the library's book searching page. I usually start with one book I really liked, and then go from there to similar books. Then I get sick of reading the same thing, and eventually stop reading them. If I haven't found anything new, I just kind of stop reading.
I think I need to go through my old books. I have been lugging them around for a few moves, and haven't opened them, and want to know what's in there. I think I will sell my old Stephen King books. I was a huge fan in my pre- and teens, but haven't touched one, or even had an inkling of an urge to, in years.
I want to find my 'Professional Cooking' book and reread it. I also want to buy 'Professional Baking' so I can learn more about baking.
I never get bored going through those books.
Next time I am in Edmonton, I should go to NAIT's bookstore, Reads and Needs, and see if they have any used copies of the baking one for sale, even though I am sure they are scooped up almost immediately.
So, it is late and I was tired before I started this, so I will go.
But first: Please, please, please, leave me any suggestions for book reading that you might have. I would appreciate it if anyone could leave me any titles, authors, anything, even genres you think I'd like to search and see.
You never know, I might just have to take up romance novels if all else fails...
But I doubt it.
TAK.
(Yes, I know that I shouldn't, I just have too much time on my hands right now)
... You know how most little girls play house and dream about having their own children, homes, families...?
I am starting to realize that it is more an instinct. The side of us that thinks about the money issues, the impact on relationships and lives, that's all conscious thought. The whole "waiting until we're ready" thing.
I would just like to mention that I am 100% sure that
a) I am not pregnant;
b) I have not recently thought I might have been;
c) I do not plan (with OR without Chris' knowledge) plan to be pregnant anytime soon;
d) all of the above repeated again for good measure!
If you think too much about it (and I think most people do these days), you'd probably never have had children. Now, I am more than certain that those of you with children will tell me the pain of childbirth, the pregnancy symptoms, and all of the other 'fun' stuff that comes with kids growing up was well worth it.
But seriously, these days, there is so much out there, and plenty in here (pointing to head) telling people how hard it will be to have kids. The money it takes, the time you won't have. There's articles on how to manage time better. I just think people over think the whole issue.
I would guess that in general, the second time around would be easier.
IF you saved all of the clothing, toys, carseats, etc. You would have all of the hand me downs, and diapers, formula and sleep might be the only thing you'd need. (Although, after the first few years of hand me downs get worn through, I think it would get more expensive: school).
I, of course, have never had children. I speak only from the guesstimation part of my brain. That same part that overthinks everything else, can rationalize babbling about something I have no experience with.
I think I am trying to tell myself that every time I log out of my email account, the articles that pop up aren't 'must-read'. That they don't know everything about everything. That I won't need to have spent hours each week reading articles that vary from the previous month's worth by a sentence or two to be a good mom, when the time comes. That I don't need to read those articles on how to live with people, how to talk to people. That I just need to trust my instincts, open up, talk to people, rather than sitting around watching television. I think I am in information overload.
I have a solution; it's quite a lot easier than most people would think. This is my plan:
Eat simpler. Not every meal has to be a big one. (Simple doesn't mean drive-thru.)
Live simpler. When someone is talking to you, mute or turn off the television. I have learned and am slowly being more conscious of the fact that talking to Chris, my friends, my family, or even just sitting and listening, is better for me than staring blankly at the TV. There is only so much you can learn from watching CSI reruns. Or Simpson’s, Will & Grace, Friends...
And why watch the food network? In moderation is okay, but when I started to watch it every time I turn on the TV...? (Up to 5 hours straight sometimes...) (Warning: strange tangent being taken ahead)
I will admit I am guilty of not really being able to just be. I am not really sure which genre of books I am interested in. I get really frustrated going to the library.
Occasionally, I will find a really great book, and absolutely love reading it. I go to the library to get another, usually check out several books, and end up not reading most of them.
I just don't know what I want to read.
I can honestly tell you I'd never get sick of reading cookbooks. But they have NO PLOT!
I have considered writing a really great cookbook that has a plot of some kind, but just can't seem to put it together.
I've always secretly wanted to be a writer, but can't get past the first few pages of a story. It never develops.
How can I find a bunch of really great books?
I am getting kind of sick of the self help ones, the spirituality ones... I have a few I haven't yet read, so I would like to not add to that list until I have crossed a few more off of the list.
Besides, I have a few more that I have already read, that I would like to read again. Some of those amazing books you find, that you can't bear to just borrow them from the library, you want to have a copy. I have some of those.
I want to set up a little nook in the den. A comfy chair, good natural light, some plants (probably some herbs) a bookshelf, and several good books.
I have everything (except the plants, well, grown ones. I have oregano started, only one seed came up, so far) that I need besides the books.
I don't know what to look for when I go online on the library's book searching page. I usually start with one book I really liked, and then go from there to similar books. Then I get sick of reading the same thing, and eventually stop reading them. If I haven't found anything new, I just kind of stop reading.
I think I need to go through my old books. I have been lugging them around for a few moves, and haven't opened them, and want to know what's in there. I think I will sell my old Stephen King books. I was a huge fan in my pre- and teens, but haven't touched one, or even had an inkling of an urge to, in years.
I want to find my 'Professional Cooking' book and reread it. I also want to buy 'Professional Baking' so I can learn more about baking.
I never get bored going through those books.
Next time I am in Edmonton, I should go to NAIT's bookstore, Reads and Needs, and see if they have any used copies of the baking one for sale, even though I am sure they are scooped up almost immediately.
So, it is late and I was tired before I started this, so I will go.
But first: Please, please, please, leave me any suggestions for book reading that you might have. I would appreciate it if anyone could leave me any titles, authors, anything, even genres you think I'd like to search and see.
You never know, I might just have to take up romance novels if all else fails...
But I doubt it.
TAK.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
So. Freaking. Bored.
Oy. I need a hobby. Something I can do, here in Hinton. While I am awaiting news on the job front, I am slowly going crazy.
I am getting bored in the kitchen. (SHHH!!! Don't tell anyone!) I made banana bread, I made cupcakes, I've made a roast dinner, I've made a chicken dinner. We've also had lazy days of KD or hamburger helper.
I made soup out of the leftover roast(from a week ago), and plan to make soup out of the leftover chicken(from a few days ago).
I already printed a bunch of recipes from foodtv.com (all from Good Eats with Alton Brown). I already tried the potato and mushroom au gratin (didn't really like it, but know I could make it better next time). I tried the stuffed mushrooms, which I also didn't really like, but know I could make a little better next time. I have also made Chocolate Ice Cream, finally putting my ice cream maker to good use. We tried it straight out of the ice cream machine, but haven't tried the finished product, yet.
I am out of things to do online, am sick of cooking and baking because of the dishes.
TV is boring. Movies are boring. Chris and I have already gone out to Wildhorse Lake, we also went for a drive down past Cadomin, a town south of Hinton, where we were just kinda driving around. Yesterday we went to Miette Hot Springs, and had a lot of fun on the road there, very squiggly. Oh, and we got a year's pass to all of Canada's National Parks... not very expensive, either, compared to the price per visit.
We basically got there, and turned around and came back. We did, however, stop long enough for me to use the washroom, and to take some pictures of the elk that were in the parking lot.
We saw one that looked quite ill. He had a huge swollen round thing on the right side of his face, looked like a tumour. The left side of his mouth wasn't much better though.
I need a job! At this point it isn't even about the money. I just need to get out of the house! (Besides Chris' brother, sister-in-law, and baby, I don't really know anyone in Hinton... )
I feel great, having gone down in the amount of medication I take from 100mg to 75mg.
Haven't noticed any side effects...
Besides good ones...
Want to see some pictures?
Yes? Okay!
Let me try to upload some...
Okay, the pictures are not freaking working... So, I will try again.
Nope, still not working. Will try again later.
I am getting bored in the kitchen. (SHHH!!! Don't tell anyone!) I made banana bread, I made cupcakes, I've made a roast dinner, I've made a chicken dinner. We've also had lazy days of KD or hamburger helper.
I made soup out of the leftover roast(from a week ago), and plan to make soup out of the leftover chicken(from a few days ago).
I already printed a bunch of recipes from foodtv.com (all from Good Eats with Alton Brown). I already tried the potato and mushroom au gratin (didn't really like it, but know I could make it better next time). I tried the stuffed mushrooms, which I also didn't really like, but know I could make a little better next time. I have also made Chocolate Ice Cream, finally putting my ice cream maker to good use. We tried it straight out of the ice cream machine, but haven't tried the finished product, yet.
I am out of things to do online, am sick of cooking and baking because of the dishes.
TV is boring. Movies are boring. Chris and I have already gone out to Wildhorse Lake, we also went for a drive down past Cadomin, a town south of Hinton, where we were just kinda driving around. Yesterday we went to Miette Hot Springs, and had a lot of fun on the road there, very squiggly. Oh, and we got a year's pass to all of Canada's National Parks... not very expensive, either, compared to the price per visit.
We basically got there, and turned around and came back. We did, however, stop long enough for me to use the washroom, and to take some pictures of the elk that were in the parking lot.
We saw one that looked quite ill. He had a huge swollen round thing on the right side of his face, looked like a tumour. The left side of his mouth wasn't much better though.
I need a job! At this point it isn't even about the money. I just need to get out of the house! (Besides Chris' brother, sister-in-law, and baby, I don't really know anyone in Hinton... )
I feel great, having gone down in the amount of medication I take from 100mg to 75mg.
Haven't noticed any side effects...
Besides good ones...
Want to see some pictures?
Yes? Okay!
Let me try to upload some...
Okay, the pictures are not freaking working... So, I will try again.
Nope, still not working. Will try again later.
Emailing My Blog
If this works, this will be my first post via email!
Just checking to see if, and how it works...
Yay!
ttyl,
TAK
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Why can't I be friends with cats?
Well, besides all of the allergy symptoms, there's very obvious symptoms:
Like, for example, my face looks like I decorated for Christmas...
Get it? Red and Green...?
ahem, anyway.
Yeah, this is about 15 minutes after a brief encounter where I scratched the cat, and then washed my hands immediately afterwards. I didn't really touch my eye after that, either.
I guess this means for sure I can't have cats?
Damn.
Going to look into the allergy shots that you can get, find out how that works....
Anyway, just wanted to share this little tidbit of disgusting picture! I promise I will never again post another picture of when I get pink eye, though. Remember?
Although, I guess linking to it is no better...
Oh, well.
If you really don't like my once a year swelled up eye pictures, then don't read my blog once a year. Read it daily! Then you will become accustomed (Read: desensitized) to me and my personality....
Or not.
Whatever.
Anyway...
Does anyone read this?
Hello?
Oh, well, talking to yourself is nice too. Just as long as you don't answer.
What if you do?
Cause I do?
Should I go see someone?
LOL... I am gonna go now. This rambling sure takes a lot of time!
TAK
Like, for example, my face looks like I decorated for Christmas...
Get it? Red and Green...?
ahem, anyway.
Yeah, this is about 15 minutes after a brief encounter where I scratched the cat, and then washed my hands immediately afterwards. I didn't really touch my eye after that, either.
I guess this means for sure I can't have cats?
Damn.
Going to look into the allergy shots that you can get, find out how that works....
Anyway, just wanted to share this little tidbit of disgusting picture! I promise I will never again post another picture of when I get pink eye, though. Remember?
Although, I guess linking to it is no better...
Oh, well.
If you really don't like my once a year swelled up eye pictures, then don't read my blog once a year. Read it daily! Then you will become accustomed (Read: desensitized) to me and my personality....
Or not.
Whatever.
Anyway...
Does anyone read this?
Hello?
Oh, well, talking to yourself is nice too. Just as long as you don't answer.
What if you do?
Cause I do?
Should I go see someone?
LOL... I am gonna go now. This rambling sure takes a lot of time!
TAK
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Pictures v 3.6
Oy. More pix. They take forever to upload on here, but it is easier than resizing so I can upload on flickr without going over my monthly limit in 6 pictures.
16. This is a pic I took of Chris hand surfing out the window. It turned out really funky, and I like it better than the ones that did turn out!
The trip home from Cadomin was gorgeous. Even with all the smokiness.
Anyway. Gonna go get some sleep.
Get to go job hunting later! Yay!
ttyl.
16. This is a pic I took of Chris hand surfing out the window. It turned out really funky, and I like it better than the ones that did turn out!
The trip home from Cadomin was gorgeous. Even with all the smokiness.
Anyway. Gonna go get some sleep.
Get to go job hunting later! Yay!
ttyl.
Pictures v 3.0
Whew. More pictures...
11. Another picture of Wildhorse Lake. It is much more breathtaking when you're there. Chris and I might go there weekly to have dinner. We'll see.
12. This is a pic of Kinky Lake, which is right next to Wildhorse Lake. Not much to see unless you have a camper. And/or a boat.
13. We went exploring southbound on Highway 40. Towards Cadomin, the coal mines, and an abandoned ghost town called "Mountain Park" where Chris' late grandfather was born. We didn't go as far as the ghost town because it started to get late.
14. A deer on the side of the road. She was obviously enjoying the yellow flowers she was eating, devouring them hungrily. There were another 5 deer behind her, two of which looked as though they'd been born this year!
15. A view of the cement or coal mine near Cadomin. We couldn't figure out which it was, there was a lot of signs for both, it was unclear.
Just a few more pix.
11. Another picture of Wildhorse Lake. It is much more breathtaking when you're there. Chris and I might go there weekly to have dinner. We'll see.
12. This is a pic of Kinky Lake, which is right next to Wildhorse Lake. Not much to see unless you have a camper. And/or a boat.
13. We went exploring southbound on Highway 40. Towards Cadomin, the coal mines, and an abandoned ghost town called "Mountain Park" where Chris' late grandfather was born. We didn't go as far as the ghost town because it started to get late.
14. A deer on the side of the road. She was obviously enjoying the yellow flowers she was eating, devouring them hungrily. There were another 5 deer behind her, two of which looked as though they'd been born this year!
15. A view of the cement or coal mine near Cadomin. We couldn't figure out which it was, there was a lot of signs for both, it was unclear.
Just a few more pix.
Pictures v2.0
Here's more pictures
6. Once we got all of our stuff in and started to unpack...
7. This sleeping angel is actually a bit of a monster. He takes every opportunity to hiss at me. He also is wreaking havoc on my system. (allergies).
8. I just love that sign. It's hilarious to me.
9. There were a few families at Wildhorse Lake while we were there on Sunday. It was cool to watch the kids playing (these were only 2 of the many that were there). Isn't it gorgeous?
10. Chris was putting out our campfire, and as I was trying to take a picture, the shutter was stuck partially closed. I think it made a pretty funky picture. :)
Probably more to come...
6. Once we got all of our stuff in and started to unpack...
7. This sleeping angel is actually a bit of a monster. He takes every opportunity to hiss at me. He also is wreaking havoc on my system. (allergies).
8. I just love that sign. It's hilarious to me.
9. There were a few families at Wildhorse Lake while we were there on Sunday. It was cool to watch the kids playing (these were only 2 of the many that were there). Isn't it gorgeous?
10. Chris was putting out our campfire, and as I was trying to take a picture, the shutter was stuck partially closed. I think it made a pretty funky picture. :)
Probably more to come...
Pictures v1.0
Here's some pics of our drive to Hinton, plus some others...
1.Driving through Edson, the last part of it before out of town limits.
2. View while driving. (I barely look at my camera if I take pix while driving. I just kind of aim in the general direction of where I think it is, and hope to get a good shot. I never really know until I look later!)
3. More views. Closer to Hinton. Mountains visible.
4. The sunset was fantastic on Aug. 31. Just about the best I could have asked for, while driving to my new home.
5. More absolutely incredible sunset. This was in the town limits! We were 3 minutes from home when I took this one.
More pix in next post....
1.Driving through Edson, the last part of it before out of town limits.
2. View while driving. (I barely look at my camera if I take pix while driving. I just kind of aim in the general direction of where I think it is, and hope to get a good shot. I never really know until I look later!)
3. More views. Closer to Hinton. Mountains visible.
4. The sunset was fantastic on Aug. 31. Just about the best I could have asked for, while driving to my new home.
5. More absolutely incredible sunset. This was in the town limits! We were 3 minutes from home when I took this one.
More pix in next post....
Sunday, September 03, 2006
We're home
We've made it to Hinton. We managed to get all our stuff off of the truck in record time, with very little help from anyone else! (We planned it that way. Not only does it seem to go smoother, but then we can organize the boxes into rooms as we unload the truck.
I've had to start using my athsma inhaler regularily, as I am supposed to, because of the kittyness of the house, which is minor. Sid (ze kitty) is mostly an outdoor cat. He comes in to eat some kibble, drink a little water (if he can't find any outside) and sleep. Oh, and he seems to prefer his litter box which is indoors, to the great outdoors where he can do his business wherever...
Yeah, so besides all of that, he's out terrorizing neighbor's animals, I imagine. (Or being lazy and smugly laying in the shady grass watching us unpack the truck for 2 1/2 hours). His excuse for not helping? "I'm a cat." I know, pretty lame excuse, hey?
Anyway, the Reactine seems to be working, besides the occasional sniffling and mostly non existent other symptoms: throat itchy-hasn't yet happened- and ears feeling itchy deep inside where it's not safe to stick mini cotton balls on a stick...
So, besides my sinuses working overtime, and taking my athsma meds as per docs orders, life is normal.
Oh, and I went from 100mg to 75mg of my antidepressants today.
That's how good I am feeling, and have been since the first morning here (yesterday). The second Chris or I notice a difference in anything, I will go back to normal. Oh, and if we notice nothing, I will stay lower...
So far, this move has been totally different from any other one I have had. In what way? In all of these ways:
- There was more than enough room in the U-Haul truck.
- Loading up the truck was easier than we expected. (Especially the emptying of our rented storage space. Only took Chris and I about an hour and a half, and that's with slacking. That was about half of our stuff.)
- The drive was nice. Long, but nice. Towards the end, the last 2 hours or so, I started getting really tired, and so kept myself loaded with sugar (bad) and stopping every half hour or so to stretch my legs and breathe in some fresh air (good). Oh, and get a hug from Chris. (good)
- When we pulled up the U-haul, Jason and Kellie were at the house, and immediately helped us to get the car off of the trailer, get the trailer unhooked from the truck, back up the truck, and then start off loading stuff from the truck.
- We stopped unloading after we had enough stuff unloaded to survive the first night. (Bed, clothes, bathroom kits, valueable/breakables from the cars.) Jay and Kellie were offerring to help unload more, but we decided to quit while we were ahead. We relaxed and chatted together over beer, and we learned a LOT about the neighbourhood.
- We were somehow motivated enough the first night to get a lot of stuff unpacked or at least a little better organized, and basically, all of the boxes that had filled the kitchen area were gone.
- In the morning when we started unloading the truck, we managed to keep it somewhat organized, and kept the more important things to the side.
- Everytime we needed something, or went looking for something (ie: vaccuum bags/ shelf for a glass topped A/V stand that was stored away from one another), we found it almost immediately. Seriously, it has started to creep us out a little, in a good way, I guess, that things are going so smooth.
- We were motivated again last night, and we somehow managed to unpack almost all of the kitchen stuff. Anyone who knows me knows that's a lot of stuff. We went through almost every box we had in here, and of course the ones we didn't go through had the stuff we were wondering where it was.
- By about 9 p.m. today, we had all the kitchen stuff (minus the HUGE box of plastics we still need to sort) organized, cleaned, put away...
- Jay and Kellie left a lot of their stuff here until their house is finished, including the satellite receiver/satellite and their internet modem and cables. (That's how I am here right now). All we have to do is switch out the receiver with ours, and get internet hooked up. Surprisingly, we haven't sat down and watched any tv yet. Well, not me. Chris was watching some discovery channel while I had a shower this morning. I've only been listening to music, thank g.o.d. for satellite and the like 40 channels of music. Most with no commercials. PLus I can get Edmonton Radio stations on the tv, too.
- As a result of the discovery that we had about 8 large-ish boxes of dry pantry type foods to unpack, and not much in the line of places to put it all... we went out and bought a pantry from Hell-mart. There isn't that much available for shopping here in Hinton, and Canadian Tire didn't have any. We don't have enough cash to go to the Brick, the Sear here is appliances only, and the Liquidation World (1st choice) is closed. Paper on all the windows. I assume renos, but there's absolutely no signs saying what's going on. Not even store hours. Just a "Help Wanted: Apply Within" sign posted on locked doors. No wonder no one works there. Can't apply if they want to!
- Whew, we got the pantry home and set up in record time, and unpacked the food boxes and organized the food in even better time. We've got almost the entire kitchen done.
- Considering we don't have access to one of the bedrooms, and the addition/den, plus there are a few other things left here we kinda have to set up around, the place is starting to take shape pretty quick.
- The other room, the one we want to set up our computer(s) in, is full of our stuff, because we need a place to put it until Jay and Kellie are able to move their stuff into their new place.
- Jay and Kellie came by today to clean out the fridge/freezer of their food so that we could put stuff in there. Kellie was apologizing for having all of their stuff here, and I told her it's no big deal. I think she felt bad mostly because she saw we got a lot of stuff done already, and she thought she was restricting our unpackingness. Which isn't true. We are more concerned about the kitchen stuff and our bedroom (lots of clothes and 3 dressers) than we are about setting up the guest room (will take 15minutes) or the computer(s)-maybe an hour- and the den-25 minutes.
- It won't take us very long to set up the other stuff. Today was a good day. So was yesterday. Tomorrow will be a good day. So far, we plan to go buy some smokies and buns, grab some packets of mustard and relish (from sev) while we find out what time Chris has to start work on the 4th.
We're going to go to Wildhorse Lake. So. Freaking. Unbelieveably. Gorgeous.
Everyone who comes to visit will be personally brought to Wildhorse Lake at least once per visit.
Hint. Hint. It is so gorgeous out there, I will refuse to let you leave without having seen it.
I am going to go now. Tired. Hungry.
Happy Anniversary to Chair and Jason! Hope you happy many many more! (I know you will!)
Congrats to Craig on getting your own class! Hope your first year goes great!
Hope you all do great in Red Deer!
Love ya, will miss ya, you better come visit.
:) T.A.K.
I've had to start using my athsma inhaler regularily, as I am supposed to, because of the kittyness of the house, which is minor. Sid (ze kitty) is mostly an outdoor cat. He comes in to eat some kibble, drink a little water (if he can't find any outside) and sleep. Oh, and he seems to prefer his litter box which is indoors, to the great outdoors where he can do his business wherever...
Yeah, so besides all of that, he's out terrorizing neighbor's animals, I imagine. (Or being lazy and smugly laying in the shady grass watching us unpack the truck for 2 1/2 hours). His excuse for not helping? "I'm a cat." I know, pretty lame excuse, hey?
Anyway, the Reactine seems to be working, besides the occasional sniffling and mostly non existent other symptoms: throat itchy-hasn't yet happened- and ears feeling itchy deep inside where it's not safe to stick mini cotton balls on a stick...
So, besides my sinuses working overtime, and taking my athsma meds as per docs orders, life is normal.
Oh, and I went from 100mg to 75mg of my antidepressants today.
That's how good I am feeling, and have been since the first morning here (yesterday). The second Chris or I notice a difference in anything, I will go back to normal. Oh, and if we notice nothing, I will stay lower...
So far, this move has been totally different from any other one I have had. In what way? In all of these ways:
- There was more than enough room in the U-Haul truck.
- Loading up the truck was easier than we expected. (Especially the emptying of our rented storage space. Only took Chris and I about an hour and a half, and that's with slacking. That was about half of our stuff.)
- The drive was nice. Long, but nice. Towards the end, the last 2 hours or so, I started getting really tired, and so kept myself loaded with sugar (bad) and stopping every half hour or so to stretch my legs and breathe in some fresh air (good). Oh, and get a hug from Chris. (good)
- When we pulled up the U-haul, Jason and Kellie were at the house, and immediately helped us to get the car off of the trailer, get the trailer unhooked from the truck, back up the truck, and then start off loading stuff from the truck.
- We stopped unloading after we had enough stuff unloaded to survive the first night. (Bed, clothes, bathroom kits, valueable/breakables from the cars.) Jay and Kellie were offerring to help unload more, but we decided to quit while we were ahead. We relaxed and chatted together over beer, and we learned a LOT about the neighbourhood.
- We were somehow motivated enough the first night to get a lot of stuff unpacked or at least a little better organized, and basically, all of the boxes that had filled the kitchen area were gone.
- In the morning when we started unloading the truck, we managed to keep it somewhat organized, and kept the more important things to the side.
- Everytime we needed something, or went looking for something (ie: vaccuum bags/ shelf for a glass topped A/V stand that was stored away from one another), we found it almost immediately. Seriously, it has started to creep us out a little, in a good way, I guess, that things are going so smooth.
- We were motivated again last night, and we somehow managed to unpack almost all of the kitchen stuff. Anyone who knows me knows that's a lot of stuff. We went through almost every box we had in here, and of course the ones we didn't go through had the stuff we were wondering where it was.
- By about 9 p.m. today, we had all the kitchen stuff (minus the HUGE box of plastics we still need to sort) organized, cleaned, put away...
- Jay and Kellie left a lot of their stuff here until their house is finished, including the satellite receiver/satellite and their internet modem and cables. (That's how I am here right now). All we have to do is switch out the receiver with ours, and get internet hooked up. Surprisingly, we haven't sat down and watched any tv yet. Well, not me. Chris was watching some discovery channel while I had a shower this morning. I've only been listening to music, thank g.o.d. for satellite and the like 40 channels of music. Most with no commercials. PLus I can get Edmonton Radio stations on the tv, too.
- As a result of the discovery that we had about 8 large-ish boxes of dry pantry type foods to unpack, and not much in the line of places to put it all... we went out and bought a pantry from Hell-mart. There isn't that much available for shopping here in Hinton, and Canadian Tire didn't have any. We don't have enough cash to go to the Brick, the Sear here is appliances only, and the Liquidation World (1st choice) is closed. Paper on all the windows. I assume renos, but there's absolutely no signs saying what's going on. Not even store hours. Just a "Help Wanted: Apply Within" sign posted on locked doors. No wonder no one works there. Can't apply if they want to!
- Whew, we got the pantry home and set up in record time, and unpacked the food boxes and organized the food in even better time. We've got almost the entire kitchen done.
- Considering we don't have access to one of the bedrooms, and the addition/den, plus there are a few other things left here we kinda have to set up around, the place is starting to take shape pretty quick.
- The other room, the one we want to set up our computer(s) in, is full of our stuff, because we need a place to put it until Jay and Kellie are able to move their stuff into their new place.
- Jay and Kellie came by today to clean out the fridge/freezer of their food so that we could put stuff in there. Kellie was apologizing for having all of their stuff here, and I told her it's no big deal. I think she felt bad mostly because she saw we got a lot of stuff done already, and she thought she was restricting our unpackingness. Which isn't true. We are more concerned about the kitchen stuff and our bedroom (lots of clothes and 3 dressers) than we are about setting up the guest room (will take 15minutes) or the computer(s)-maybe an hour- and the den-25 minutes.
- It won't take us very long to set up the other stuff. Today was a good day. So was yesterday. Tomorrow will be a good day. So far, we plan to go buy some smokies and buns, grab some packets of mustard and relish (from sev) while we find out what time Chris has to start work on the 4th.
We're going to go to Wildhorse Lake. So. Freaking. Unbelieveably. Gorgeous.
Everyone who comes to visit will be personally brought to Wildhorse Lake at least once per visit.
Hint. Hint. It is so gorgeous out there, I will refuse to let you leave without having seen it.
I am going to go now. Tired. Hungry.
Happy Anniversary to Chair and Jason! Hope you happy many many more! (I know you will!)
Congrats to Craig on getting your own class! Hope your first year goes great!
Hope you all do great in Red Deer!
Love ya, will miss ya, you better come visit.
:) T.A.K.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Made it to Edmonton
Without much trouble. Sitting at Willy's place, awaiting Jarrod, so he can visit briefly before we have to say goodbye.
Leaving within an hour(?) to drive another 3 hours to Hinton!
Sounds like we're going to be alone the first little while, which I think might have been a good decision. It might have been pretty stressful to all be in there, especially with Miss Heidi. She's in charge, don'tchaknow... She's 4 months old, almost 5.
Anyway, better get going to hang with Jarrod.
Will talk more when we get computers set up in the new place.
Leaving within an hour(?) to drive another 3 hours to Hinton!
Sounds like we're going to be alone the first little while, which I think might have been a good decision. It might have been pretty stressful to all be in there, especially with Miss Heidi. She's in charge, don'tchaknow... She's 4 months old, almost 5.
Anyway, better get going to hang with Jarrod.
Will talk more when we get computers set up in the new place.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
33.5
Hours to go, that is...
Until I leave this house and move to Hinton...
Starting to freak out a little bit...
And it's prohibited me from packing.
Like I told Chris I would.
... I really should go, but I am not sure if I will.
Okay I will.
You talked me into it.
I am just worried about how homesick I will get living this far away from my family. (Not to mention anxious. But that's more of a medical problem...)
Anyway.
Gotta go pack 'n'stuff.
Until I leave this house and move to Hinton...
Starting to freak out a little bit...
And it's prohibited me from packing.
Like I told Chris I would.
... I really should go, but I am not sure if I will.
Okay I will.
You talked me into it.
I am just worried about how homesick I will get living this far away from my family. (Not to mention anxious. But that's more of a medical problem...)
Anyway.
Gotta go pack 'n'stuff.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Moving
So, not only is it a reality, but we are moving in 6 days. Five if you read this on Saturday.
We are picking up the u-haul on the 30th, loading it up and staying one last night.
The 31st, we plan to get up early... we'll have a 6 hour drive ahead of us.
We, so far, plan to sop in Edmonton, to help my brudder set up his wireless network, if nothing else. We might hang for a bit, go for dinner or something, but most likely we will stick around his place and hopefully leave by... 2 ish? We will have the whole next day to unload more, but still.
Nice to get it done and out of the way.
So yeah, I probably won't respond to any comments left on here, or any emails I get, because we already took apart our computers and they are packed up (one less thing to get distracted by).
I do have access to my parents computer, but, I have lots of other stuff to do.
If anyone really needs to talk to me, they'll just have to use the old-fashioned way: telephone. At least we can try to keep it modern, you can call my cell phone, if you have the number. It won't be changed until I get organized in Hinton.
So, until I set up my computer again in Hinton, see ya later!
Blaine
We are picking up the u-haul on the 30th, loading it up and staying one last night.
The 31st, we plan to get up early... we'll have a 6 hour drive ahead of us.
We, so far, plan to sop in Edmonton, to help my brudder set up his wireless network, if nothing else. We might hang for a bit, go for dinner or something, but most likely we will stick around his place and hopefully leave by... 2 ish? We will have the whole next day to unload more, but still.
Nice to get it done and out of the way.
So yeah, I probably won't respond to any comments left on here, or any emails I get, because we already took apart our computers and they are packed up (one less thing to get distracted by).
I do have access to my parents computer, but, I have lots of other stuff to do.
If anyone really needs to talk to me, they'll just have to use the old-fashioned way: telephone. At least we can try to keep it modern, you can call my cell phone, if you have the number. It won't be changed until I get organized in Hinton.
So, until I set up my computer again in Hinton, see ya later!
Blaine
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Do you think people can be friends with turkeys?*
Hey, wow. Been awhile. Been busy.
If you are reading this, and you are my sister, stop reading now, bacause I will be talking about something that you aren't supposed to know about yet. Later. But, still, just please stop reading, I want it to be a surprise.
So... what are you waiting for? Go away. Go to ebaumsworld.com or something.
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Whew. I am in Meadow Lake. Came out here tuesday morning (8th). Chris is helping out the store out here. Staying in a Super 8 hotel. Kinda nice, actually.
I got bit on my outer left thigh by a spider the first night I was here. I woke up with a huge swollen red spot (swollen over an inch across). It was really itchy, and had two red dots in the center. I never saw the spider, but assumed.
Listening to: Fort Minor "Where'd you go?" Good song.
Basically, I have been sitting in the hoetl room while Chris is at work. A few times I drove him to work, so that I would have the car to run to Extra Foods to get something to eat. (No microwave here, but there is a small coffee machine for hot water...) Bought a bunch of packs of noodles, some cutlery, a couple of mugs and 2 bowls. (They were cheap, really cheap). Bought stuff to do: the reason why Joy can't read this!
Since Joy and Mat became engaged on the 25th of December 2005, I have been planning things. (It's what I do). I started collecting stickers for scrapbooking, and glue and double sided photo tape, and all sorts of other stuff.
Chris has a Canon Selphy Photo Printer, and I bought some paper and ink cartridge for it (It uses a film ink, it's really cool. It prints yellow first, then red, then blue, then a clear protective coat!) The kits for it have 36 sheets of paper, the backside of which has postcard like printing on it. You can send them in the mail! It comes with enough ink to print the 36 sheets.
I have basically spent about 30 hours in the last week working on the scrapbook I am making, and it isn't even close to being done. I have all the wedding pictures on Chris' laptop, but all of the bridal shower, bachelorette, assorted others, are on my computer at home.
So, whenever I get home (leaving to go to Edmonton on Monday with Willy to help him to get his apartment set up a little more. Not sure when we will be back.), I have to search my computer and do a bunch more work on it. I want it to be done by the time I move...
I have a lot of stuff in it. I hope Joy will love it. And Mat, too, of course, but it will most likely make Joy cry, and Mat smile. And probably me cry.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, I should probably explain the title...
* I have a long history of half asleep mumblings that make no sense to the person I am talking to.
ie: while I worked at McDonald's, I (more than once) woke up in the middle of the night, after dreaming about working, and said things like "what are you doing? we need another drink!" and giving someone shit for having made too many McFlurries. It made complete sense to me at the time, but he was so confused... and now I've done it to Chris.
I had some sort of dream involving people and turkeys (!?!) and a discussion where we were trying to figure out if people could be friends with turkeys. (Don't ask, I don't know). I remember dreaming it, and thinking that I should ask Chris, because he would know. Then I was kinda half asleep, and I asked him. He said "what?", as most people would expect. I repeated the question, "Do you think people can be friends with turkeys?" and he, still trying to grasp that I was actually asking the question, said, "I don't know. Maybe?"
Then, of course, because I was thinking that he would think I am crazy, I decided I needed to tell him that I was thinking straight. Oh, and not crazy. So I told him that I was thinking rationally and not crazy, and he was all "are you sure?". I rolled over and I remember smiling to myself, thinking, it's okay, he's just half asleep. He will realize that he wasn't thinking clearly, when he wakes up later. I was content and satisfied that I had asked the question.
Later, when we woke up again, he asked if I remembered what I had asked him. It came back to me, and we just about pissed ourselves laughing.
Now that is a good way to wake up. Laughing so hard it hurts.
Oh, yeah, that was yesterday morning. Great way to start my birthday: being weird when I am half asleep!
I had a great day, actually. I was just relaxing, watching the food tv network (one of my top five fave channels). I worked on the scrapbook a little bit, added some awesome quotes from the actual basic marriage ceremony. I love working on this scrapbook. It makes me feel all warm inside. It's still a little weird to think I have a brother in law. And that Joy's last name is different than mine.
Anyway, my Mom called to say happy birthday, and then passed the phone to my Dad, and then my brother.
It was cool. I think it was the best birthday I have had in a long time. Really relaxing. Well, okay, two years ago on my birthday, I was working at RadioShack, and Chris felt bad I was working on my birthday and tried to buy me lunch. (I told him no, and said we'd just go for coffee sometime... *giggle*). That also was a good day. I remember my pregnant Auntie Chair came over and She, her belly-spud-Theya and I shared some amazingly rich chocolate cake. Which, by the way I have never had better...
By the way, Chair, you coming over totally helped with the homesickness. I was sad. I felt pretty alone in the city, on my birthday. I was sitting on the window ledge looking out the window a lot. (That was my favorite place in that apartment. There was a 10-12inch ledge along all the windows, and with a corner apartment, there was a lot of them. I would sit up there and stare at trees, or watch traffic. The first night we lived in Edmonton, it was stormy out. Jarrod and I stared out the window watching the lightning. Wow. I miss that place. A lot.)
Anyway. That took one heckuva turn.
Pause: watching music video: "Far Away" by Nickelback. This was Joy and Mat's First Dance song. Everytime I hear it, I almost cry...
Chris and I had an amazing birthday dinner last night: Subway. It. Was. SO. Good.
I had a 6" Chicken Bacon Ranch on whole wheat with lettuce. Wow. The best meal I have had in awhile. I loved it! I also had some cookies, and a root beer. Score!
Then, as if my birthday wasn't good enough, just before we were going to go to bed, Chris was checking his email, and played some music. I asked him to play Nickelback's Far Away, and when he did, I asked him to dance.
So my birthday was cool. I woke up laughing, relaxed and talked to family during the day. Went out for a great meal, and danced with Chris.
Yay!
Here's a pic of the newly wed Joy and Mat.
I was following the photographer around snaping up pix! She pissed me off a few times, and I am sure I pissed her off a few times, but well, that's life. I think we'd both have had a better day if we'd just understood from each other's point of view.
After thinking about it, I realized that she was just trying to do her job, trying to get the best pictures, including candids, for Joy and Mat to have for the rest of their lives. Pretty important job.
I just wanted to do the same. I got one fantastic picture, I don't want to share it quite yet, though. I have some surprises I am doing with it.
And I want to see Joy and Mat's reaction when they see it.
(It's the first pic in the scrapbook.)
Oh, When the scrapbook is done, I will post pictures of it, either here or on my flickr.com page.
I am hoping Chris will let me take his laptop to Edmonton when I go, and if so, I hope there is someone around Willy's apartment with an unsecured wireless network that I can leech off of for a few hours. Hee hee.
Here's a good one of Chris and Charity, just kinda hanging out. I was taking as many pictures as
I could, catching a lot of candids, and when I was to be in the pictures, Chris would take my camera and take a bunch. He did a great job, and got a lot of really good pictures.
Chair was trying to put ribbon back on her bouquet. It fell off at some point during the day.
And Here's one of the pix Chris took. Joy is looking at the photographer. Me and Chair are looking at Chris.
Will post more later. Hopefully, at least.
Hoping to somehow upgrade my flickr account to pro, so I don't have to resize all of the pictures I want to post. It takes forever. That's why I don't post many pictures...
Anyway, I have tea and cookies to get to. My favorite of each.
Twinings Earl Grey Tea and Dad's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies. I could live off of these.
But I won't.
If you are reading this, and you are my sister, stop reading now, bacause I will be talking about something that you aren't supposed to know about yet. Later. But, still, just please stop reading, I want it to be a surprise.
So... what are you waiting for? Go away. Go to ebaumsworld.com or something.
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Whew. I am in Meadow Lake. Came out here tuesday morning (8th). Chris is helping out the store out here. Staying in a Super 8 hotel. Kinda nice, actually.
I got bit on my outer left thigh by a spider the first night I was here. I woke up with a huge swollen red spot (swollen over an inch across). It was really itchy, and had two red dots in the center. I never saw the spider, but assumed.
Listening to: Fort Minor "Where'd you go?" Good song.
Basically, I have been sitting in the hoetl room while Chris is at work. A few times I drove him to work, so that I would have the car to run to Extra Foods to get something to eat. (No microwave here, but there is a small coffee machine for hot water...) Bought a bunch of packs of noodles, some cutlery, a couple of mugs and 2 bowls. (They were cheap, really cheap). Bought stuff to do: the reason why Joy can't read this!
Since Joy and Mat became engaged on the 25th of December 2005, I have been planning things. (It's what I do). I started collecting stickers for scrapbooking, and glue and double sided photo tape, and all sorts of other stuff.
Chris has a Canon Selphy Photo Printer, and I bought some paper and ink cartridge for it (It uses a film ink, it's really cool. It prints yellow first, then red, then blue, then a clear protective coat!) The kits for it have 36 sheets of paper, the backside of which has postcard like printing on it. You can send them in the mail! It comes with enough ink to print the 36 sheets.
I have basically spent about 30 hours in the last week working on the scrapbook I am making, and it isn't even close to being done. I have all the wedding pictures on Chris' laptop, but all of the bridal shower, bachelorette, assorted others, are on my computer at home.
So, whenever I get home (leaving to go to Edmonton on Monday with Willy to help him to get his apartment set up a little more. Not sure when we will be back.), I have to search my computer and do a bunch more work on it. I want it to be done by the time I move...
I have a lot of stuff in it. I hope Joy will love it. And Mat, too, of course, but it will most likely make Joy cry, and Mat smile. And probably me cry.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, I should probably explain the title...
* I have a long history of half asleep mumblings that make no sense to the person I am talking to.
ie: while I worked at McDonald's, I (more than once) woke up in the middle of the night, after dreaming about working, and said things like "what are you doing? we need another drink!" and giving someone shit for having made too many McFlurries. It made complete sense to me at the time, but he was so confused... and now I've done it to Chris.
I had some sort of dream involving people and turkeys (!?!) and a discussion where we were trying to figure out if people could be friends with turkeys. (Don't ask, I don't know). I remember dreaming it, and thinking that I should ask Chris, because he would know. Then I was kinda half asleep, and I asked him. He said "what?", as most people would expect. I repeated the question, "Do you think people can be friends with turkeys?" and he, still trying to grasp that I was actually asking the question, said, "I don't know. Maybe?"
Then, of course, because I was thinking that he would think I am crazy, I decided I needed to tell him that I was thinking straight. Oh, and not crazy. So I told him that I was thinking rationally and not crazy, and he was all "are you sure?". I rolled over and I remember smiling to myself, thinking, it's okay, he's just half asleep. He will realize that he wasn't thinking clearly, when he wakes up later. I was content and satisfied that I had asked the question.
Later, when we woke up again, he asked if I remembered what I had asked him. It came back to me, and we just about pissed ourselves laughing.
Now that is a good way to wake up. Laughing so hard it hurts.
Oh, yeah, that was yesterday morning. Great way to start my birthday: being weird when I am half asleep!
I had a great day, actually. I was just relaxing, watching the food tv network (one of my top five fave channels). I worked on the scrapbook a little bit, added some awesome quotes from the actual basic marriage ceremony. I love working on this scrapbook. It makes me feel all warm inside. It's still a little weird to think I have a brother in law. And that Joy's last name is different than mine.
Anyway, my Mom called to say happy birthday, and then passed the phone to my Dad, and then my brother.
It was cool. I think it was the best birthday I have had in a long time. Really relaxing. Well, okay, two years ago on my birthday, I was working at RadioShack, and Chris felt bad I was working on my birthday and tried to buy me lunch. (I told him no, and said we'd just go for coffee sometime... *giggle*). That also was a good day. I remember my pregnant Auntie Chair came over and She, her belly-spud-Theya and I shared some amazingly rich chocolate cake. Which, by the way I have never had better...
By the way, Chair, you coming over totally helped with the homesickness. I was sad. I felt pretty alone in the city, on my birthday. I was sitting on the window ledge looking out the window a lot. (That was my favorite place in that apartment. There was a 10-12inch ledge along all the windows, and with a corner apartment, there was a lot of them. I would sit up there and stare at trees, or watch traffic. The first night we lived in Edmonton, it was stormy out. Jarrod and I stared out the window watching the lightning. Wow. I miss that place. A lot.)
Anyway. That took one heckuva turn.
Pause: watching music video: "Far Away" by Nickelback. This was Joy and Mat's First Dance song. Everytime I hear it, I almost cry...
Chris and I had an amazing birthday dinner last night: Subway. It. Was. SO. Good.
I had a 6" Chicken Bacon Ranch on whole wheat with lettuce. Wow. The best meal I have had in awhile. I loved it! I also had some cookies, and a root beer. Score!
Then, as if my birthday wasn't good enough, just before we were going to go to bed, Chris was checking his email, and played some music. I asked him to play Nickelback's Far Away, and when he did, I asked him to dance.
So my birthday was cool. I woke up laughing, relaxed and talked to family during the day. Went out for a great meal, and danced with Chris.
Yay!
Here's a pic of the newly wed Joy and Mat.
I was following the photographer around snaping up pix! She pissed me off a few times, and I am sure I pissed her off a few times, but well, that's life. I think we'd both have had a better day if we'd just understood from each other's point of view.After thinking about it, I realized that she was just trying to do her job, trying to get the best pictures, including candids, for Joy and Mat to have for the rest of their lives. Pretty important job.
I just wanted to do the same. I got one fantastic picture, I don't want to share it quite yet, though. I have some surprises I am doing with it.
And I want to see Joy and Mat's reaction when they see it.
(It's the first pic in the scrapbook.)
Oh, When the scrapbook is done, I will post pictures of it, either here or on my flickr.com page.
I am hoping Chris will let me take his laptop to Edmonton when I go, and if so, I hope there is someone around Willy's apartment with an unsecured wireless network that I can leech off of for a few hours. Hee hee.
Here's a good one of Chris and Charity, just kinda hanging out. I was taking as many pictures as
I could, catching a lot of candids, and when I was to be in the pictures, Chris would take my camera and take a bunch. He did a great job, and got a lot of really good pictures.
Chair was trying to put ribbon back on her bouquet. It fell off at some point during the day.
And Here's one of the pix Chris took. Joy is looking at the photographer. Me and Chair are looking at Chris.
Will post more later. Hopefully, at least.
Hoping to somehow upgrade my flickr account to pro, so I don't have to resize all of the pictures I want to post. It takes forever. That's why I don't post many pictures...
Anyway, I have tea and cookies to get to. My favorite of each.
Twinings Earl Grey Tea and Dad's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies. I could live off of these.
But I won't.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Bridal Shower info
Bridal Shower will be held on July 29th, at Joy's (Mat's parents' yard). 2 p.m.
Any extra lawn chairs that anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
There will be silly games, prizes, desserts, drinks, laughs and fun.
Bachelorette will be held on July 29th, at Starz, 8 p.m.
Please keep in mind that the bachelorette will probably be... um... inappropriate, at best.
Any extra lawn chairs that anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
There will be silly games, prizes, desserts, drinks, laughs and fun.
Bachelorette will be held on July 29th, at Starz, 8 p.m.
Please keep in mind that the bachelorette will probably be... um... inappropriate, at best.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Monday, July 03, 2006
Holy Freakin' Countdown, Batman!
Not much time left, that's for sure. Luckily, I guess, my seester never reads this, so any potentially pressure inducing comments I make about the wedding won't be known unless someone tells her.
This means you. The maybe four people who read this...
You, shush-y! Cause I said so.
______________________________________________
Well, I called in to work today, because of pill side effects that wouldn't normally happen, but that occurred as a result of work scheduling me to work a week of nights and getting used to it, and then all of a sudden, saturday I worked 1-10, and sunday I had to be in at 8. Now, years ago, I could have done this no problem.
However, lack of sleep affects me and my pills in very negative ways.
Since I couldn't sleep until 3 a.m. ish on Saturday night, I had very little sleep when I was at work sunday. Then, I couldn't sleep last night, and had a really bad allover headache, was feeling anxious and nauseous, had a really sharp pain frequently shooting through my head on the one side ( light, noise, whatever, triggered it).
You know how the doctors assess your pain by asking you to rate it on a 1-10, with ten being the worst pain you have ever felt? I explained to Chris last night that my pain rating 'schedule' goes something like this:
1-3 bruises
3-6 my bimonthly cramps (yes, it is now 60 days. Still awaiting call from gyno)
5- minor surgery I had on my toe where the doctor 'froze' my toe, and proceeded to gouge
out half of my toe nail on my big toe. (At least he was nice and sent me home with a Rx for
T4's w/ codeine.
5- pain I have in my calf from a too-long-unreported work-related injury (torn muscle in my
left calf. Not completely healed, keeps getting reinjured at work)
7-9 pain after waking up after having my wisdom teeth yanked a la hospital. (Was knocked out
to do it, and because I had such a small mouth the jacka- I mean, doctor, had to force my
mouth to open more than it should and caused a great deal of pain and swelling. (I ended up
missing just over two weeks of school)
10 pain I had last night in my head. It was like a nerve or something. I have had it before, and
am sure I will have it again.
____________________________________________
Oh, yeah, the countdown: 4 weeks, 5 days left until the wedding!
2 weeks and 5 days left until the bridal shower/bachelorette party I am supposed to be planning...
Not sure if there will be a bridal shower, it is getting a little late. At least the bachelorette can just be thrown together, kind of an impromptu theme party at the bar.
Don't get me wrong, I want to plan a huge party, have lots of people come, play games, tell stories, have great food and drinks...
BUT, here's my reasons to not do that:
1- Time. The entire timeline has been so short that I just got the list two weeks ago, and (most)phone numbers a few days ago. So, by the time I am able to invite people, they will probably have plans. Besides, over half of the guests to the wedding haven't gotten invites yet, let alone the ones to the bach./brid. party(ies).
2- Money. I don't have any extra cash to spend on this. And it seems very innappropriate to have Mom pay for it. That's why the bach. party will most liekly be at Starz, and if there is a bridal shower, it will probably be a casual get together. (coffee, tea and cakes?). Maybe some crudites, too. (Basically a fancy French word meaning veggie platter. (Traditionally, lots of large pieces of fresh veggies, with 3 dips).
3- The wedding is casual. Why have a fancy schmancy bridal shower? I can understand meeting in the middle, but it is still on really short notice for this kind of thing.
4- Location. Yeah, I can hold a bach. party at a bar, (the one the other bridesmaid basically co-owns). Where am I going to have a Bridal shower? My parent's house isn't a great idea for the amount of people who may be invited, and same goes for anyone else who may be a possibility for a request to borrow their house. Not to mention, I think it would be kind of rude to ask to borrow someones house in two weeks. Pretty short notice.
5- Guests. I don't know most of the people I might be inviting to whichever party, so if I did do the bridal shower, it would have to be family only, save for the other bridesmaid. And then, if we do it that way, the guest list could range from 8 to 28, depending on if I just invite my maternal side (mom, aunts, grandma, cousins) or both sides, and how far up the genealogical line do you go? If it's going to be a small party anyway, do you invite second cousins, great aunts that you barely know? Where do you draw the line and take the parties' focus from braidal shower to family reunion, especially if you're doing a casual affair?
_____________________________________________
That is my dilemma. What to do? what to do? any suggestions?
It also doesn't help that the person I am supposed to be planning this with has a schedule opposite of mine, so we are rarely available at the same time.
Oh, and everytime we set up our first coffee to discuss it, she cancels.
_______________________________________________
Supposed to go tonight, for coffee, so hopefully it happens and we get something figured out.
*07.07.06 update*
*coffee didn't happen that night. I had to show up at her work the next night to get her to sit down and talk to me. Even then, she had people coming at her from all angles and we barely talked... awkward...
* Chris is in Edmonton, on course, again!!! It is almost a weekly thing now... Argh.
*melted chocolate...
*I quit my job(*!). Hoping to get hired as a packer for the company Joy works for. They are apparently super duper busy and very short on people. The super busy part is wy I haven't gotten a call yet... Though you'd think 5 minutes would probably save them a few headaches... and get me money!
*! Lots of reasons. Several personal, some I don't think posting on a public web blog would be wise...
ttyl. tired.
This means you. The maybe four people who read this...
You, shush-y! Cause I said so.
______________________________________________
Well, I called in to work today, because of pill side effects that wouldn't normally happen, but that occurred as a result of work scheduling me to work a week of nights and getting used to it, and then all of a sudden, saturday I worked 1-10, and sunday I had to be in at 8. Now, years ago, I could have done this no problem.
However, lack of sleep affects me and my pills in very negative ways.
Since I couldn't sleep until 3 a.m. ish on Saturday night, I had very little sleep when I was at work sunday. Then, I couldn't sleep last night, and had a really bad allover headache, was feeling anxious and nauseous, had a really sharp pain frequently shooting through my head on the one side ( light, noise, whatever, triggered it).
You know how the doctors assess your pain by asking you to rate it on a 1-10, with ten being the worst pain you have ever felt? I explained to Chris last night that my pain rating 'schedule' goes something like this:
1-3 bruises
3-6 my bimonthly cramps (yes, it is now 60 days. Still awaiting call from gyno)
5- minor surgery I had on my toe where the doctor 'froze' my toe, and proceeded to gouge
out half of my toe nail on my big toe. (At least he was nice and sent me home with a Rx for
T4's w/ codeine.
5- pain I have in my calf from a too-long-unreported work-related injury (torn muscle in my
left calf. Not completely healed, keeps getting reinjured at work)
7-9 pain after waking up after having my wisdom teeth yanked a la hospital. (Was knocked out
to do it, and because I had such a small mouth the jacka- I mean, doctor, had to force my
mouth to open more than it should and caused a great deal of pain and swelling. (I ended up
missing just over two weeks of school)
10 pain I had last night in my head. It was like a nerve or something. I have had it before, and
am sure I will have it again.
____________________________________________
Oh, yeah, the countdown: 4 weeks, 5 days left until the wedding!
2 weeks and 5 days left until the bridal shower/bachelorette party I am supposed to be planning...
Not sure if there will be a bridal shower, it is getting a little late. At least the bachelorette can just be thrown together, kind of an impromptu theme party at the bar.
Don't get me wrong, I want to plan a huge party, have lots of people come, play games, tell stories, have great food and drinks...
BUT, here's my reasons to not do that:
1- Time. The entire timeline has been so short that I just got the list two weeks ago, and (most)phone numbers a few days ago. So, by the time I am able to invite people, they will probably have plans. Besides, over half of the guests to the wedding haven't gotten invites yet, let alone the ones to the bach./brid. party(ies).
2- Money. I don't have any extra cash to spend on this. And it seems very innappropriate to have Mom pay for it. That's why the bach. party will most liekly be at Starz, and if there is a bridal shower, it will probably be a casual get together. (coffee, tea and cakes?). Maybe some crudites, too. (Basically a fancy French word meaning veggie platter. (Traditionally, lots of large pieces of fresh veggies, with 3 dips).
3- The wedding is casual. Why have a fancy schmancy bridal shower? I can understand meeting in the middle, but it is still on really short notice for this kind of thing.
4- Location. Yeah, I can hold a bach. party at a bar, (the one the other bridesmaid basically co-owns). Where am I going to have a Bridal shower? My parent's house isn't a great idea for the amount of people who may be invited, and same goes for anyone else who may be a possibility for a request to borrow their house. Not to mention, I think it would be kind of rude to ask to borrow someones house in two weeks. Pretty short notice.
5- Guests. I don't know most of the people I might be inviting to whichever party, so if I did do the bridal shower, it would have to be family only, save for the other bridesmaid. And then, if we do it that way, the guest list could range from 8 to 28, depending on if I just invite my maternal side (mom, aunts, grandma, cousins) or both sides, and how far up the genealogical line do you go? If it's going to be a small party anyway, do you invite second cousins, great aunts that you barely know? Where do you draw the line and take the parties' focus from braidal shower to family reunion, especially if you're doing a casual affair?
_____________________________________________
That is my dilemma. What to do? what to do? any suggestions?
It also doesn't help that the person I am supposed to be planning this with has a schedule opposite of mine, so we are rarely available at the same time.
Oh, and everytime we set up our first coffee to discuss it, she cancels.
_______________________________________________
Supposed to go tonight, for coffee, so hopefully it happens and we get something figured out.
*07.07.06 update*
*coffee didn't happen that night. I had to show up at her work the next night to get her to sit down and talk to me. Even then, she had people coming at her from all angles and we barely talked... awkward...
* Chris is in Edmonton, on course, again!!! It is almost a weekly thing now... Argh.
*melted chocolate...
*I quit my job(*!). Hoping to get hired as a packer for the company Joy works for. They are apparently super duper busy and very short on people. The super busy part is wy I haven't gotten a call yet... Though you'd think 5 minutes would probably save them a few headaches... and get me money!
*! Lots of reasons. Several personal, some I don't think posting on a public web blog would be wise...
ttyl. tired.
Friday, June 02, 2006
My Favorites
Favorite wine: Deinhard Green Label Reisling (2003 was preferred, but 2004 is now more available). It's a German white wine, not sweet, not dry. I was 'introduced' to it @ Chris' brother and sister-in-law's wedding. I love it!
Favorite TV show: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Favorite Doggie: Patches
Favorite Time of Day: Anytime I am laughing
Favorite item on my daily mental to-do list: Shower (love relaxing in the water)
Favorite way to wake up: With Chris, giggling and being silly, like normal.
Favorite way to go to work: on a day off!
Favorite place in the world: Wildhorse Lake, Alberta (Clear, crisp, water, surrounded by trees, lots of birds singing beautifully, mountain range in the near horizon. On a sunny day, it is Heaven)
Don't have time to continue, because I am currently distracted by CSI...
ttyl.
Oh, yeah, been referred to a gyno, awaiting a call from their office.
Favorite TV show: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Favorite Doggie: Patches
Favorite Time of Day: Anytime I am laughing
Favorite item on my daily mental to-do list: Shower (love relaxing in the water)
Favorite way to wake up: With Chris, giggling and being silly, like normal.
Favorite way to go to work: on a day off!
Favorite place in the world: Wildhorse Lake, Alberta (Clear, crisp, water, surrounded by trees, lots of birds singing beautifully, mountain range in the near horizon. On a sunny day, it is Heaven)
Don't have time to continue, because I am currently distracted by CSI...
ttyl.
Oh, yeah, been referred to a gyno, awaiting a call from their office.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Patches had a seizure
And I feel like bawling like a baby.
I am so scared for him. I know that he feels better now, but I am still worried.
He was out on a walk with my mom and her friend noticed when he looked up at her and then started to walk kinda funny like he was going to fall over. Mom picked him up before he did fall over, and carried him home. I'd just finished loading up my supper plate and she got home, looking worried.
She asked me to hold him so she could move her truck, and he. was. lethargic. He just flopped down in my arms. I started to cry because I was so scared. I am going to take him to the vet tomorrow. Even though he seems better now.
Hopefully, it won't be a new, continual thing.
We are hoping that it may just have been caused by him either
a) eating weeds that were sprayed with weed killer (which we will keep him away from- it's in the garden so we never thought anything of it).
or
b) he may or may not have eaten an ant... that may or may not have been poisoned... and that miniscule amount of poison could have triggered it, (we had some ant-infested pieces of wood on the side of the house, and the ants started to come into the house. Mom sprayed the yard with ant killer and poison, and they have still been coming in the house, though more in the basement than the kitchen. I killed one when I went upstairs to use the washroom last night, and because I just got back downstairs and wanted to get back to bed, I left it there till morning. (Tired + LAZY = NO GOOD.)
When I got up, the was-definitely-dead-when-I-left-it ant was gone. I didn' really think much of it. Then, later, I saw a dried up yellow spot on Patches' bed in the living room, and washed his blanket. I never thought anything of the fact that he'd been sick. He was also really babyish today, more than usual. He was pawing at my leg, more of a tapping/patting than his usual scratch or stretch. He wanted to be picked up. A lot. I never really thought about it.
Back to the abc's,
c) it could be just about anything. Who knows? That's why I am bringing him to the vet.
Sigh.
Now both me and him have to go see our doctors tomorrow.
Hopefully we will both get good news.
TAK.
I am so scared for him. I know that he feels better now, but I am still worried.
He was out on a walk with my mom and her friend noticed when he looked up at her and then started to walk kinda funny like he was going to fall over. Mom picked him up before he did fall over, and carried him home. I'd just finished loading up my supper plate and she got home, looking worried.
She asked me to hold him so she could move her truck, and he. was. lethargic. He just flopped down in my arms. I started to cry because I was so scared. I am going to take him to the vet tomorrow. Even though he seems better now.
Hopefully, it won't be a new, continual thing.
We are hoping that it may just have been caused by him either
a) eating weeds that were sprayed with weed killer (which we will keep him away from- it's in the garden so we never thought anything of it).
or
b) he may or may not have eaten an ant... that may or may not have been poisoned... and that miniscule amount of poison could have triggered it, (we had some ant-infested pieces of wood on the side of the house, and the ants started to come into the house. Mom sprayed the yard with ant killer and poison, and they have still been coming in the house, though more in the basement than the kitchen. I killed one when I went upstairs to use the washroom last night, and because I just got back downstairs and wanted to get back to bed, I left it there till morning. (Tired + LAZY = NO GOOD.)
When I got up, the was-definitely-dead-when-I-left-it ant was gone. I didn' really think much of it. Then, later, I saw a dried up yellow spot on Patches' bed in the living room, and washed his blanket. I never thought anything of the fact that he'd been sick. He was also really babyish today, more than usual. He was pawing at my leg, more of a tapping/patting than his usual scratch or stretch. He wanted to be picked up. A lot. I never really thought about it.
Back to the abc's,
c) it could be just about anything. Who knows? That's why I am bringing him to the vet.
Sigh.
Now both me and him have to go see our doctors tomorrow.
Hopefully we will both get good news.
TAK.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Hmm. Female Part Issues V.2.0
As in my posts from March 22 and 23rd of this year, I am having more female part issues. I will be making an appointment with the doctor as soon as his office opens tomorrow.
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Here's the run down.
Back when I was a teenager (Years ago...), my period used to be 40-42 days... (5 days of hell- really bad cramps and heavy flow. lots of pms. caffeine was very bad to ingest before each cycle began because it made the cramps worse.)
Then I went on the pill (BCP) for a few years, and my flow was a little lighter, slightly less cramps, but for the most part it was a bad idea. I think that it was my ingestion of hormone pills that triggered the anxiety, and the pills I took for that triggered the depression.
When I stopped taking the BCP, my anxiety almost completely went away. Changing meds also helped.
Now, I am still on anti-depressants for anxiety, and have issues with depression that I am sure causes lots of stress for those around me (say it with me, people: mood swings). I also take daily antihistamines, so that I can actually live. (I am gradually getting more and more allergic to everything).
Now, I am dealing with having my period every, oh, 60 ish days. (Don't even think of saying that I shouldn't be complaining). Today is 55 days.
I have been informed that it sounds like I might have ovarian cysts (from someone I know)... but who knows?
Gonna go help make invitations for a grande pooh-bah celebration a la August long weekend.
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Here's the run down.
Back when I was a teenager (Years ago...), my period used to be 40-42 days... (5 days of hell- really bad cramps and heavy flow. lots of pms. caffeine was very bad to ingest before each cycle began because it made the cramps worse.)
Then I went on the pill (BCP) for a few years, and my flow was a little lighter, slightly less cramps, but for the most part it was a bad idea. I think that it was my ingestion of hormone pills that triggered the anxiety, and the pills I took for that triggered the depression.
When I stopped taking the BCP, my anxiety almost completely went away. Changing meds also helped.
Now, I am still on anti-depressants for anxiety, and have issues with depression that I am sure causes lots of stress for those around me (say it with me, people: mood swings). I also take daily antihistamines, so that I can actually live. (I am gradually getting more and more allergic to everything).
Now, I am dealing with having my period every, oh, 60 ish days. (Don't even think of saying that I shouldn't be complaining). Today is 55 days.
I have been informed that it sounds like I might have ovarian cysts (from someone I know)... but who knows?
Gonna go help make invitations for a grande pooh-bah celebration a la August long weekend.
Friday, May 19, 2006
We just flip flop all over the place.
How about, instead of telling you where we've decided to go, I will just mass email everyone once we've moved, informing them of our destination.
We are thinking about Hinton again, already.
Great job opportunity for Chris, again... that's why we moved here...
HMMM...
We are thinking about Hinton again, already.
Great job opportunity for Chris, again... that's why we moved here...
HMMM...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Changed our minds
As much as we'd love to move to Hinton, and live so close to the mountains, and a cutey-patootie baby... We changed our minds. After lots of discussions and a few sort of arguments... Chris and I have decided Edmonton would be best.
I plan to go to school, and distance learning may be okay for some, but it is not recommended for post-secondary education, at least not in reference to child care and education.
Also, Chris may have more opportunities in Edmonton for his present employer. Not to mention he could go to school, too!
Besides, then we will be in a more "both families" centralized location. (Well, soon, anyway.)
Oh, yeah. I find it kinda funny that Chris and I aren't even engaged, let alone married, or ready to have children, but I am starting to feel the pressure... (Mom, your hints aren't as subtle as you'd think -> fyi check out her comment on "I don't know what to write")
Anyway. :)
Might be in Edmonchuck this weekend, looking for apartments 4 my brudder.
Might not be. It's kind of a bad weekend, the LOOOOOOONG weekend, and I don't know if most places will be open on the weekend. Also, we were thinking of asking my Aunt if we could crash at their place if we decided to stay overnight, and I found out they will be in Cold Lake for the weekend.
Not sure... What to do... If we are going... Or not?
I would kinda like to just have time off and not do anything.
Oh, and thinking about getting a different job. I don't mind this one, just need more money/hours. I could work for the same wage, and I wouldn't care, it's the full time hours I was promised that I am upset at not having. (Was told 40 hrs. Haven't gotten more than 32)... Pretty drastic difference.
Going to go to Canada's favorite coffee place, and see if he's still got the position open that is advertised. Not sure if he'll want to hire me.
Anyway. If I get that job, I will cut back the hours of this one, but not drop it completely. More money!
Still would want at least one day off each week.
Tired. Gonna go crash.
:) TAK
I plan to go to school, and distance learning may be okay for some, but it is not recommended for post-secondary education, at least not in reference to child care and education.
Also, Chris may have more opportunities in Edmonton for his present employer. Not to mention he could go to school, too!
Besides, then we will be in a more "both families" centralized location. (Well, soon, anyway.)
Oh, yeah. I find it kinda funny that Chris and I aren't even engaged, let alone married, or ready to have children, but I am starting to feel the pressure... (Mom, your hints aren't as subtle as you'd think -> fyi check out her comment on "I don't know what to write")
Anyway. :)
Might be in Edmonchuck this weekend, looking for apartments 4 my brudder.
Might not be. It's kind of a bad weekend, the LOOOOOOONG weekend, and I don't know if most places will be open on the weekend. Also, we were thinking of asking my Aunt if we could crash at their place if we decided to stay overnight, and I found out they will be in Cold Lake for the weekend.
Not sure... What to do... If we are going... Or not?
I would kinda like to just have time off and not do anything.
Oh, and thinking about getting a different job. I don't mind this one, just need more money/hours. I could work for the same wage, and I wouldn't care, it's the full time hours I was promised that I am upset at not having. (Was told 40 hrs. Haven't gotten more than 32)... Pretty drastic difference.
Going to go to Canada's favorite coffee place, and see if he's still got the position open that is advertised. Not sure if he'll want to hire me.
Anyway. If I get that job, I will cut back the hours of this one, but not drop it completely. More money!
Still would want at least one day off each week.
Tired. Gonna go crash.
:) TAK
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Happy Mother's Day!
To all mother's out there.
Hope today and everyday you realize how important you are. Not just to your children, but to your spouses, friends, parent. To the rest of the world. Where would we be without you?
:)
So, to all the Mom's I know: You ROCK!!!
Lots of love, hugs and squishes,
Blaine
Hope today and everyday you realize how important you are. Not just to your children, but to your spouses, friends, parent. To the rest of the world. Where would we be without you?
:)
So, to all the Mom's I know: You ROCK!!!
Lots of love, hugs and squishes,
Blaine
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