Wow, they must be getting sick of me here at the future shop. I'm very loyal though! haha. Anyways, this week hasn't been hecktic at all so I don't have any excuses to why I haven't updated. This weekend I went and helped out at the farm in High Bluff. It turned out to be a lot of fun. I got the nickname, Alice. I'll explain later.
To understand why I was out there I'll give you the very short explanation. A lady in our church has a daughter and she just lost her husband in a car accident. They were one week away from their one year anniversary. They also have a young daughter, who is almost 3 months old now. This accident happened just over a month ago. Well, this couple lives on a farm and just having a new born in the house is a lot to handle not to mention running a farm at the same time and all alone. So some of us from the church went out to give her a hand cleaning it up to sell. I got to use a pressure washer. SOOO much fun. My job was to wash the entire outside of the house. Well, it took me two hours just to do half of the front of the house. When we breaked for lunch they changed the nozzel and then it took me less than an hour to finish the rest of the house. haha. In the morning all the guys gutted the basement. It had flooded and there was mold growing in the walls. Not too safe with a new born or anyone living in the house. After lunch the men focused their attention the the deck while I filled gofer holes with dirt. So fun. After all was said and done the house looked good. When we came back to town I went home and rested. I was soooo sunburnt. I still am. Just call me Bob. (the tomato, from Veggie Tales). Oh, yeah I have to tell you how I got that nickname. When I was pressure washing the side of the house I kept falling into the stinkin' gofer holes and the guy who was working along side of me called down to me, how's your adventure in Wonderland Alice. haha. It was really funny.
When I got home my friend Lori came over, we watched Benchwarmers. So funny. Then I called my dad and talked for a while. I guess there were too many moments of silence and I fell asleep while I was still on the phone. I woke up and said, oh are you still there? My dad answered yes, what happened did you fall asleep? I had to be honest and told him that I had. So I hung up the phone and went to bed. When I woke up, in time to go to church I didn't feel well at all. I think I may have encountered heat stroke. I felt cold, yet I was sweating. Retarded body. So I went back to sleep. I didn't wake up until 2 in the afternoon. I woke up to Puss in Boots licking my shoulder. How endearing right? Wrong when you have a sunburn. I woke up in pain. So I got up and went shopping for a baby gift. I had to be at a baby shower at 3. I knew what I was getting her so I didn't need much time in the store. But of course as soon as I got to the photoshop in Walmart there was a sign saying I'll be back at 3. I was like oh gurr...that's what I get for procrastinating. So I went and got the other things I would need for the gift. Finally it was 3 and I went back and she still wasn't there. Errr!! So I went and doddled around the store for a few minutes. When I got back there I was greeted by a really uncheerful teenager. I asked her if they sold gift certificates. She said no we don't. I asked do you honour Walmart gift cards? She said no. I said, ok I want to give this package deal to my friend for her baby shower can I just pay for the time now and book the appointment and if she needs to change the time she can call down? Nope, (was her answer) you should probably just come in with her and pay for it then. GRRRr...I don't know why my logical solution wouldn't just work but whatever. So I went and got baby clothes instead. I really wanted to give her professional baby pictures but whatever. So I got in my car and headed towards the shower. Baby shower not actual shower, I had already taken a shower. Anywho, so I was driving towards the exit of the parking lot when this girl who wasn't paying any attention to what she was doing came barreling out of the parking lot. If I hadn't slammed on my brakes I would have been t-boned. Like a steak. Our cars came in less than a foot of eachother. Grr...time for some angry music. So I turned on my limp bisquit and my metalica. And away I went. I was told that the party was on Dennis street so I went up and down Dennis looking for a purple door. Finally an hour later I gave up and went to Future Shop. I was like Ruth do you know where Jenny lives. She said, I know but I don't know what the street is called. I said well I've gone on all the roads with names and I can't find it. So she called Jenny. 13th street. What the heck. So I got to the party after my little break down in Future shop. That's right people. I cried in a store. I was burnt, I almost got hit, had to deal with stupid Walmart girl, had heat stroke still, drove around in my car for an hour without air conditioning, and I was grumpy. So I cried. But it only lasted a couple of minutes. I pulled myself together and away I went to the party. When I got there Jay appologized for giving me the wrong directions. And then I got to hold the baby. She's soooo sweet. After the shower I went home and I went to sleep. I woke up about 4 hours later and played my farming game. It's sooo much fun to be a farmer and not have to deal with the smell. Then I went to bed again after talking on the phone to my mom, dad and my friend Miguel.
Today I woke up and went to work. It was fairly busy for a Monday and that made me happy. After work I went home and was greeted by a deceased cat in my driveway(which is in the back lane). This cat always visits my house and it is still really young. At first I thought it was just sleeping. Then I got out of my car and I knew right away that it was no longer with us. There were flies everywhere around it. So I went inside and looked up the Humaine Society. They aren't listed. So I went back outside and saw my neighbours. I asked them if they owned a cat. They said yes. I was like, um...what does it look like(hahahaha...I have a joke in my head that has a line like that in it and it made me laugh....can't really do it over the computer though so if you see me ask me to tell you the dead cat joke ok). They looked at me with a weird look on their face like, why do you want to know what our cat looks like. So I just told them out right I have a deceased cat in my driveway. They popped their heads over the fence and said nope, that's not our cat. Then my male neighbour said, I can get a garbage bag. I was like, no I have an old towel I'm going to wrap it up and take it to the vet. And that's what I did. Man that thing stank like poo. It was like an ongoing fart all the way to the vet. I had to turn my head out the window to get some fresh air so I could survive the drive. The ladies that the vet clinic were soooo nice. They took down my 411 and said they would call to let me know what was going on with it. So yeah, that's my life of the weekend in a nutshell. Hope you've all had a great weekend. Peace Out.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
My Weekend Adventures
Howdy all from our local Future Shop. I don't really have anything new and exciting to write about so I think I'll just babble for a few minutes. Aren't you lucky to come across my written babble. Welcome to the inside of my mind(a very scary place sometimes.)
On Saturday night, after work, I went over to my friend Lori's pad. It was so much fun. We played old school nintendo. We played Wheel of Fortune and of course Mario Bros. What fun. After a while of playing I went home, it was around mid-night. When I got home I was headed for bed when I came across my cross stitching. No eighty year old trapped in a 25 year old body could resist that so I stopped in my tracks threw on the movie Anne of Green Gables and went to work. At about 2:30am my phone rang. I was like who on earth is calling me at this ridiculous hour. And what am I doing answering it. haha. Well it was my friend Jeremy. He was in town until Sunday night(he's from Red Deer Alberta). He asked me if I wanted to go for coffee. I was like, now? It's almost 3am. So of course I went. First I had to pick him up and then we headed for the world famous coffee shop, known as Humpty's. At Humpty's we caught up on a bunch of stuff and then he asked me if he could go to church with me in the morning. I of course said yes but we would have to pull an all nighter. So that's what we did. At 10am I fell asleep and there was nothing going to wake me up. At about noon Jeremy called me. This was funny because I was in my room sleeping and he was in my living room, about a whole 6 1/2 feet away from me. He didn't want to come into my room(so respectful) so he phoned. I woke up to the phone, so I guess saying I wouldn't wake up for anything is a lie, because apparently I would wake up for a phone call. Anyways, he phoned to say he was going to go to his mom's house. I asked him if he wanted a ride I would get up(it was about noon at this time) . He said he could walk and that I could sleep. But that wouldn't be very nice of me so I got up and gave him a ride. I dropped him off and headed towards the church to see if there was any glimmer of hope it running late and catching the end of it. No such luck. There was nobody there and the doors were locked. Oh well. So I went home and called Lori. I asked her if she knew if there was anything going on for young adults. She told me that they were all meeting at the church at 3 and going to the lake. Awesome I'm totally going. I went to get all my stuff ready and realized that I had left my full piece bathing suit at my mom's house and there was no way I was wearing a bikini in front of the young adults. So I went to Walmart. I knew they were having a sale on their swimwear. When I got there I had less than an hour to find a swimsuit and get to the church. All you chicks know that finding a swimsuit is hard enough to do in a swimming season but an hour? Let's just say I'm the shopping and bargain queen. Not only did it only take half an hour to find but it was a good deal too! And it was flattering. YES!! So I ran home with my prize purchase secured in hand. I ran in the house cut off the tags got ready and headed out the door. And because I'm such an eager beaver I was the first to arrive.
When everyone got there we went to Safeway to pick up some snacks for the day. Then we headed out to OakLake. So much fun. The water was really gross looking but once you got your mind past that it was refreshing and warm. I don't know if it was warm because the sun had been pouring it's heat into it all week or if it was due to all the children's warm deposits. Anyways, we had a good time. After soaking in the sun and the urnine, oops I mean the lake we decided we would try our hand at lawn bowling. I've never done this before and let me tell you it was fun. I apparently got a little too competitive and starting hitting the opposition in the head with bowling balls though. In my defense it only happened one time. And I didn't mean for it to happen. I was bent down to pick up the red bowling ball(my team's color) and my friend Dave was bent down beside me picking up a green ball. I didn't realize he was bend down until I was half way up and by that time I had smacked the side of his head with my ball. I felt so bad but he told me it didn't hurt enough for him to want to kill me. After I heard that relieving news we continued on with the game. I still feel really bad about it. Those things are heavy and not forgiving. We then headed back to town and finished our really awesome day at the beach. When I got home, you would think I would head home right? Nope. Instead I went over to Ruth-Anne's house. We were looking at her brother's wedding photo's (he just got married two weeks ago) when we could hear the newly weds in the other room. We listened to their conversation a bit and it was sooooo funny. They were playing with eachother and it was cute to listen to. Then Ruth and I watched a movie and then I went to bed. The end. Peace Out.
On Saturday night, after work, I went over to my friend Lori's pad. It was so much fun. We played old school nintendo. We played Wheel of Fortune and of course Mario Bros. What fun. After a while of playing I went home, it was around mid-night. When I got home I was headed for bed when I came across my cross stitching. No eighty year old trapped in a 25 year old body could resist that so I stopped in my tracks threw on the movie Anne of Green Gables and went to work. At about 2:30am my phone rang. I was like who on earth is calling me at this ridiculous hour. And what am I doing answering it. haha. Well it was my friend Jeremy. He was in town until Sunday night(he's from Red Deer Alberta). He asked me if I wanted to go for coffee. I was like, now? It's almost 3am. So of course I went. First I had to pick him up and then we headed for the world famous coffee shop, known as Humpty's. At Humpty's we caught up on a bunch of stuff and then he asked me if he could go to church with me in the morning. I of course said yes but we would have to pull an all nighter. So that's what we did. At 10am I fell asleep and there was nothing going to wake me up. At about noon Jeremy called me. This was funny because I was in my room sleeping and he was in my living room, about a whole 6 1/2 feet away from me. He didn't want to come into my room(so respectful) so he phoned. I woke up to the phone, so I guess saying I wouldn't wake up for anything is a lie, because apparently I would wake up for a phone call. Anyways, he phoned to say he was going to go to his mom's house. I asked him if he wanted a ride I would get up(it was about noon at this time) . He said he could walk and that I could sleep. But that wouldn't be very nice of me so I got up and gave him a ride. I dropped him off and headed towards the church to see if there was any glimmer of hope it running late and catching the end of it. No such luck. There was nobody there and the doors were locked. Oh well. So I went home and called Lori. I asked her if she knew if there was anything going on for young adults. She told me that they were all meeting at the church at 3 and going to the lake. Awesome I'm totally going. I went to get all my stuff ready and realized that I had left my full piece bathing suit at my mom's house and there was no way I was wearing a bikini in front of the young adults. So I went to Walmart. I knew they were having a sale on their swimwear. When I got there I had less than an hour to find a swimsuit and get to the church. All you chicks know that finding a swimsuit is hard enough to do in a swimming season but an hour? Let's just say I'm the shopping and bargain queen. Not only did it only take half an hour to find but it was a good deal too! And it was flattering. YES!! So I ran home with my prize purchase secured in hand. I ran in the house cut off the tags got ready and headed out the door. And because I'm such an eager beaver I was the first to arrive.
When everyone got there we went to Safeway to pick up some snacks for the day. Then we headed out to OakLake. So much fun. The water was really gross looking but once you got your mind past that it was refreshing and warm. I don't know if it was warm because the sun had been pouring it's heat into it all week or if it was due to all the children's warm deposits. Anyways, we had a good time. After soaking in the sun and the urnine, oops I mean the lake we decided we would try our hand at lawn bowling. I've never done this before and let me tell you it was fun. I apparently got a little too competitive and starting hitting the opposition in the head with bowling balls though. In my defense it only happened one time. And I didn't mean for it to happen. I was bent down to pick up the red bowling ball(my team's color) and my friend Dave was bent down beside me picking up a green ball. I didn't realize he was bend down until I was half way up and by that time I had smacked the side of his head with my ball. I felt so bad but he told me it didn't hurt enough for him to want to kill me. After I heard that relieving news we continued on with the game. I still feel really bad about it. Those things are heavy and not forgiving. We then headed back to town and finished our really awesome day at the beach. When I got home, you would think I would head home right? Nope. Instead I went over to Ruth-Anne's house. We were looking at her brother's wedding photo's (he just got married two weeks ago) when we could hear the newly weds in the other room. We listened to their conversation a bit and it was sooooo funny. They were playing with eachother and it was cute to listen to. Then Ruth and I watched a movie and then I went to bed. The end. Peace Out.
Monday, July 17, 2006
As you all know, I love countdowns. I remember watching Much Music on Friday nights just to watch the countdown. It’s not that I was necessarily interested in knowing what the number one video was, I just love countdowns that much. So, what is the 74 more sleeps countdown? You’ll have to wait a while before I get into that.
What did you all do for Canada day? Me? I headed out to my mom’s place on Friday. Right after work. Whew, let me tell you about work. It was suppose to be dead because it’s a holiday weekend right? Wrong. It was so stinkin’ busy that I couldn’t think straight. My bosses and I got a little heated with each other but got it straightened out. I have two bosses and they each told me to do something different and every time one of them saw me doing something else I would get yelled at so I eventually cracked and said to them both, ok. What do you want me to do. We all need to agree. So we settled that.
After work, on the way out to my mom’s house, Puss in boots(PB) was in the car with me. She apparently needed to use the facility that was unavailable. I had cleaned out her litter box, put it inside a garbage bag and flipped it upside down. Note to self, this doesn’t mean anything to a cat that needs to pee. She flipped the litter box over and used her litter box. Then she flipped it back over to resume it’s position. Except, there was pee in it. She was covered in her own grossness. Well, she got embarrassed and came to show me what happened. At first I was like, why are you all wet. Then I pieced it all together and started screaming. I was soooo grossed out. When we got out to my mom’s house(this only happened about 10mins away from our destination) I picked her up and started heading towards the house...knowing that everyone was out by the fire. My mom came over and said, what are you doing? I told her I’d be out shortly but I needed go clean up an accident that we had. I gave PB a bath. She screamed through the first part, then she realized she liked it and sat still. Whew. Then I scrubbed down my legs(she had rubbed against them). Then we headed out towards the fire that was blazing. PB was all wrapped up in a blanket. I didn’t think that it would last long (her sitting still). But to my amazement she was quite content sitting wrapped in a blanket basking in the glow of the raging fire.
After the fire grew tired(as did the rest of us) we headed inside and watched a movie and slowly each one of us fell asleep. The next day we headed into town after eating some awesome waffles. When we got to town we all realized that nothing was open because it was a holiday. haha. So we went for ice cream. Yum. When we got back to my mom’s house we all just relaxed outside. Well, Shawna and I relaxed, my mom started to work on her plants and stuff. After a while we got the Barbee ready to cook some steak. It was so good. We had steak with corn on the cob and potato salad, yum. After supper we all just vegged out and watched movies.
The next day was Sunday. My mom kept trying to wake me up to get ready but I refused. After I heard the door close and the car pull away I woke up and got ready. That’s right people, I’m a rebel. I showed up at the church five minutes late. Awesome! After church we all just vegged out again. It was awesome. And that’s how I spent my Canada Day weekend.
Now what’s up with the 74 more sleep countdown you ask? Well, it’s been asked of me to come back to ya’ll in BC and in 74 more sleeps it will come true. That’s right I’m moving back. And for those of you who can’t figure out what day that will be let’s just put it this way, 10 weeks and 5 days. Other of you who still can’t figure out what day that is it’s October 1st. Geez, do I have to spell everything out for you. haha. Can’t wait to see you all again. Until next time Peace
What did you all do for Canada day? Me? I headed out to my mom’s place on Friday. Right after work. Whew, let me tell you about work. It was suppose to be dead because it’s a holiday weekend right? Wrong. It was so stinkin’ busy that I couldn’t think straight. My bosses and I got a little heated with each other but got it straightened out. I have two bosses and they each told me to do something different and every time one of them saw me doing something else I would get yelled at so I eventually cracked and said to them both, ok. What do you want me to do. We all need to agree. So we settled that.
After work, on the way out to my mom’s house, Puss in boots(PB) was in the car with me. She apparently needed to use the facility that was unavailable. I had cleaned out her litter box, put it inside a garbage bag and flipped it upside down. Note to self, this doesn’t mean anything to a cat that needs to pee. She flipped the litter box over and used her litter box. Then she flipped it back over to resume it’s position. Except, there was pee in it. She was covered in her own grossness. Well, she got embarrassed and came to show me what happened. At first I was like, why are you all wet. Then I pieced it all together and started screaming. I was soooo grossed out. When we got out to my mom’s house(this only happened about 10mins away from our destination) I picked her up and started heading towards the house...knowing that everyone was out by the fire. My mom came over and said, what are you doing? I told her I’d be out shortly but I needed go clean up an accident that we had. I gave PB a bath. She screamed through the first part, then she realized she liked it and sat still. Whew. Then I scrubbed down my legs(she had rubbed against them). Then we headed out towards the fire that was blazing. PB was all wrapped up in a blanket. I didn’t think that it would last long (her sitting still). But to my amazement she was quite content sitting wrapped in a blanket basking in the glow of the raging fire.
After the fire grew tired(as did the rest of us) we headed inside and watched a movie and slowly each one of us fell asleep. The next day we headed into town after eating some awesome waffles. When we got to town we all realized that nothing was open because it was a holiday. haha. So we went for ice cream. Yum. When we got back to my mom’s house we all just relaxed outside. Well, Shawna and I relaxed, my mom started to work on her plants and stuff. After a while we got the Barbee ready to cook some steak. It was so good. We had steak with corn on the cob and potato salad, yum. After supper we all just vegged out and watched movies.
The next day was Sunday. My mom kept trying to wake me up to get ready but I refused. After I heard the door close and the car pull away I woke up and got ready. That’s right people, I’m a rebel. I showed up at the church five minutes late. Awesome! After church we all just vegged out again. It was awesome. And that’s how I spent my Canada Day weekend.
Now what’s up with the 74 more sleep countdown you ask? Well, it’s been asked of me to come back to ya’ll in BC and in 74 more sleeps it will come true. That’s right I’m moving back. And for those of you who can’t figure out what day that will be let’s just put it this way, 10 weeks and 5 days. Other of you who still can’t figure out what day that is it’s October 1st. Geez, do I have to spell everything out for you. haha. Can’t wait to see you all again. Until next time Peace
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