Yikes!!!!!

Even though I have no readers I'm not one to quit talking to myself. haha. I'll just look at it like writing in my journal. You know where your most inner thoughts come out. When pen meets paper..except in this case it's when finger meets key.
The past week has really opened my eyes to see how hard it is to be surrounded by kids 24/7. Honestly it's so exhausting. I have no idea how single mothers do it with working outside of the home too! Crazyness. There were points in which I said, I don't think I'll ever be able to be a mother. It tests your patience and you understanding. At some points you just want to run and hide. I understand now that lady who sat in the middle of her kitchen, on a chair with a teatowel over her head. She told her kids that she needed a time out and when they saw her like that they were not to talk to her or even notice her. haha. What a funny/creative solution.
I think the most challenging parts have been the 5:30am wakeup calls by little one. She hasn't been sleeping well because her mom and dad have been gone for so long. I long for sleeping in until 8:30 again. When she wakes me up that early I bring her to my bed and ask her to go back to sleep for a while. This morning she wanted to play. I held her hand gently and said, it's time to sleep now. Instantly she layed down and I didn't hear another noise from her until 7. WOOT!! She is soo cute though. This afternoon she made me laugh quite a bit. We went to watch the assembly at school and after the song was done she said, Ok, my turn to sing. Then she started to go as if she was going to go to the stage and sing us all a song. haha. I stopped her and said you can sing on our way home. haha. What a funny kid.
Only 3 more sleeps. Last night I went out while the grandparents watched the kidlets and I have to tell you I missed them. Isn't that crazy?! I missed the routine I thought I was happy to get away from for one night. What is happening to me?? Am I getting ready for the mommy train?! Yikes!

The update to show I'm still alive.

Hello bloging world. I don't know if anyone even reads this any more. It's only been 4 months since my last post. I'm taking care of the two g's for the next 12 sleeps. It's pretty exciting so far. But I have to say all the all nighters that happened before hand are sure taking their toll on me. Yikes! This must mean that I'm getting old. haha.
My weekend in Calgary was a lot of fun. I mostly played guitar hero 3. Let me tell you, it's gotta be one of the best games out there. I even got my dad hooked! Now that's a good game if it can draw him in.

Brenda's Wedding Day!!

This is going to be a short, but sweet update. Today is my cousin Brenda's wedding. She's going to be getting married to Keith Zseder. It was so funny yesterday because I was talking to Dawn about it and when I went to say his last name I had a french accent and it came out more like Zaadaar. haha. Both Dawn and I laughed hard about it. Then later on Gabriel asked if he could go and wake up Cameron. I told him, sure! So he went and woke him up. When Gabriel came back down I asked him if Uncle Cameron was resilient instead of resistant. haha. I was having word issues. haha. Again Dawn laughed at me. Let's just say that there was a lot of laughing involved yesterday especially when it came time to writing the limerick. For those going to the wedding you'll know what I mean. I can't say anything much about it in case anyone from the wedding reads this before the event happens.
I've never been so excited to go to a wedding before. I don't know what it is about this one but I'm soooo pumped! I bought this dress to wear to it and when I first bought it, let's just say it wasn't flattering. It was about a size too small...but it was the only one left and I was in love. So I decided that I would work my butt off and lose some weight that didn't really need a home any more. So I got to it and now the dress fits beautifully. I'm so excited.
Last week while Dawn was visiting up in Kelowna she found a dress for herself but needed to find some jewelery to go with it. So we went to the mall. I was like that's perfect because I knew of a necklace that they carry at Ricki's that I want to with my dress. Well, when we got there they didn't have the necklace I wanted any more. I was kind of, ok, really bummed out. So we kept our walk going. I was originally on a hunt for some high heeled shoes that would look good with my dress. So as Dawn went into Aldo accessories I went into Aldo shoes. When I first saw the sidewalk sale table I saw a shoe that I thought might just work out perfectly. So I went to go and get Dawn to come and check it out. But while I was in the accessories store I decided I should take a gander and see if I saw anything that might work. Well wouldn't you know it, the exact same necklace that use to be at Ricki's was now here. So I went to purchase the necklace and the girl at the desk said, did you see the matching earrings? I was like no way!! How perfect!
By this time Dawn was over looking at the sidewalk sale table of shoes. As I walked over she held up this one pair of shoes and I said, they're nice, but I like these ones. As soon as I held them up she said, yep those are the ones! So I went inside to see if I could try them on. When I asked the girl she said no problem. Went and found out that they only had a size 7 left. I was like, I'm a size 8 but I like them so much maybe I can squeeze my foot in. No such luck. So I asked if I could try on another pair that looked almost identical and she said sure. Went into the back but only had a size 7 in those as well...but on her journey found a size 9 of the original shoe. Tried that on but my inner Goldilocks came out. Too big. So I asked her if she had any down in the Richmond store because Dawn was going back the next day. She called down there and they said yes but we can only hold it until close tomorrow. No problem Dawn said. So the next day Dawn went and picked them up for me. (THANKS DAWN!!!) When I tried them on they were just right!!
I'm so excited for this wedding I can't help but tell everyone about it! Even my customers who have no idea who I am, let alone my cousin! haha. But everyone sends their blessings their way! Congratulations Brenda and Keith!!

What's Under Your Hood!!!

Ok, so today as I left the house in direction of work I heard a strange noise when I touched my brakes. I was like, geez, what now? But didn't have the time to really contemplate the noise. After my shift was over I left with a huge smile on my face. I was determined to brake in my Rollerblades for the first time this season. (Let's just say that Kelowna's sidewalks and roads are a lot smoother than in Manitoba). I had a great time. I went for about an hour the whole time with a goofish looking smile plastered across my face. I pretended I was on skis and went side to side. I would be one of those people that get made fun of but I didn't care. I was having fun. When I got back to my car I took off my skates and jumped up and down. If you've never done that I encourage you to. Your legs feel strange after you take off your skates and then when you jump they feel ultra weird. It's awesome. So I put my shoes on and waited for the guy who insisted on going before me but was now looking for something and not driving just sitting behind me so I couldn't back up, to go I just played with the tunes on my stereo. Then I heard the noise again. I was like, geez that doesn't sound right. So instead of waiting for Mr. I gotta go nowhere fast, I popped the hood. When I lifted the hood there was a tail of something that went running down. My fist instinct was to poke it with a stick. I think I've been on facebook too long...I just gotta poke everyone and everything. haha. But the poor thing got stuck. I didn't know what to do so I ran over to a guy who was just getting into his car. I asked him if he had a cell phone and he said no. So I ran to the next person I saw...still no luck her cell phone was dead. Then I ran down to these two girls on the beach. They had a cell phone I could use. I called animal control and they told me to just poke it with a stick. Wow...thanks a lot! haha. So I went back to my car and poked the thing. Then I saw what it was stuck on and helped it get free. Finally it was free..but it wouldn't leave. It wanted to stay. I was telling it "You can't stay, you have to go". "You can't make this your home, it's my car!" I guess it wasn't fluent in English because it just wouldn't leave. It was a mean looking thing. It's called a Marmot. I don't know what that is, but it's bigger than a squirrel and smaller than a raccoon. Kind of like a huge gopher. It hissed at me a few times too. That's when I got mad at it and yelled! I yelled, "Don't you hiss at me, this is my car!!! You weren't here first I've had this car for 7 years!!!" The people around me were laughing at me. I was like, well I have! haha. Finally the thing got poked one too many times and ran off. Right under the wheels of the car that had all the curious children in it. The car was moving. It didn't die, it just ran off injured. I sure wish Animal Control had come down. Good luck little buddy!

Ramble Central.

This is for everyone who reads this. It's called an UPDATE!!! I don't mean to yell. I don't really know where to start. Um...I got a new workout ball, a punching bag and a skipping rope. That's pretty exciting in my world. I bought a really pretty dress for my cousin's wedding and I want to make sure it fits beautifully for her special day. So I'm going to get fit!! It was funny the first time I was punching the punching bag, I was like, this is ok. Then I thought I wonder what will happen if I start thinking about work. Suddenly I was kicking the crap out of the thing. ha ha. I guess I have some issues! haha. It is a good stress reliever though! Then Dawn and Corrie came into my room where I was punching it and bouncing on my work out ball at the same time. Well I double bounced myself and went flying forwards. I landed in an awkward position with the punching bag between my legs. Dawn made reference to something I should know nothing about and we all laughed. Let's just say it's something you would find posted on her blog. hahahahaha...just kidding Dawn.
Today was Father's day. It was the first time I have been able to spend this day with my dad in six years. So I found it really special! We first started by going to church. Then we went to the car show that took place downtown, by the sails. We walked along the waterfront looking at cars. I was kind of confused why people with boats didn't think of bringing their souped up boats along the shore line. But I guess nobody thought of that. Then we went to Moxie's for lunch. It was sooooo good. Our server was good, a little strange, but good. haha. I know I'm not one to say anything about someone being strange because I am as weird as they come, but he was talking in a whisper and kind of hard to read. So I think strange is a good word. haha.
After lunch Cameron and I hit the W to the ALMART. While we were there we goofed off a little. I think I might have scared an older lady...oops. I was pretending I was a car and I had to screech my tires to stop in time. I apologized but she just gave me a funny look. The sound effects didn't stop there. Then Cameron and I were thinking about how funny that would be to run into someone. Not in a car but by pretending you were the car. And then try to explain to the person how the brakes haven't been working right lately and make up some elaborate story of what was going on. haha. I think it would be great. But that's just me.
My sister said the other day that I was 14 year old girl. And she said that she thinks I will be forever. haha. She also said that I was a quirky girl. haha. I'm cool with that. I have some really weird habits. One of them including that I still, at the ripe ol' age of 26(almost 27) listen to Adventures in Odyssey every night. It helps me fall asleep. :)
Speaking of my sister, she and her family came and visited us last week. It was sooo much fun. I had a blast. The second day they were here all we did was play nintendo wii. We played Mario Party 8. What a great time. I loved playing with Gabriel and Grace out in the yard. And on the bouncy ball. Great times. I can't really think of the words right now to say all we did...but it was fun! haha.
Can you tell my brain is fried? I'm soo tired right now. I guess that kind of explains why all the rambling.
Oh, yesterday when I was working I delivered some food to someone else's table for them. When I was walking back I smiled at these two girls who were staring at me. I didn't think much of it. Then I ended up running out their appetizer. When I brought it to them I recognized them right away. It was Simone and Sega! I went to Bible College with them. How exciting. So I caught up with them a bit, but I had to run because it was sooo crazy busy. I won't get into it this time...but let's just say after that shift I had a long haul on my punching bag...haha.
But it's sooo exciting getting back in contact with people from school. It's been so long. Yeah, ok, I won't bore you any more with my rambling. Until next time. Peace!

The Server's Rant

I have to admit my inner Naomi came out of me yesterday. For those of you who don't know who Naomi is watch the movie "Waiting". Then it will all be clear to you. For the last couple of days I think the heat has gotten to some people. This apparently means they get to be extremely rude to their server! YAY for me! I am not a violent person but I am clumsy, so hitting them is out but "accidently" spilling their drinks all over their laps isn't right?! haha. Just kidding I would never do that on purpose. I did accidently do that to a lady last week though, luckly it was just water. But the bad part was I was in the middle of cleaning up her friends mess because just moments earlier her friend spilt her water all over her. So the poor girl was sitting within 2 glasses of spilt water. I felt really bad! (She was not a grumpy customer even after the spillage). Anyways, back to the story about the grumpy customers that I sometimes had an inner voice telling me to be clumsy towards.
So the other day I had this table of 4. 3 of them guys, one a chick. 2 of them Foreigners. For those of you who have seen the movie I know what line your thinking of right now...let's take a moment and laugh. haha. Ok! Enough laughing. The one guy that wasn't a foreigner was one of the rudest people. I had to think to myself, maybe he's had a really hard life so give him the benifit of the doubt. He would yell at me across the restaurant. "Miss can we order". I'll be right back sir. Like geez my hands were full of plates going to another table...it's not as if I'm just layed back in a chair taking in the rays. They had starters, which makes thier meals take a little longer and when I brought out their meals one of them, I'm not sure which one...but I'm pretty sure it was in English because I understood it, said "Finally!" As I'm leaving the table to bring out the next two plates the rude little man replied in an annoyed tone, "My phone is charging can you go get it for me, I need to see whose calls I've missed." Ok, one I didn't know you even had a phone. Second, I'm not your freakin' secretary, and third, can I finish bringing out everyone else's meals first? Geez! So I go and I find his phone for him and bring it to him. Later, after he had finished his meal but everyone else was still eating he got on his phone and started talking. Not a big deal right? Wrong! He was pacing around the restaurant and talking with vulgar language. The manager had to tell him to sit down and ask him to refrain from swearing. Can't get worse?...oh just wait! At the end of the meal I brought them their bill, standard procedure. Then they left with the money on the table. When I went to go and collect it to close out the table I realized something. Their money was stinky! And I mean making me feel woozy. It was soggy and wet and covered in freakin HP sauce. SICK!!!! I believe this is when my inner Naomi came out. The rest I could handle but this! It was so gross.
That was story number 1. Now for story number 2. This is kind of a rant session for me. Yesterday, Sunday, it was a beautiful morning. I was as chipper as the birds outside. Smiling like a fool. My tables were awesome until a big black cloud came over Kelsey's. The whole morning I had people who were just getting up and going to the buffet before I even had a chance to greet them and ask what they wanted to drink. I take less than a minute to greet them. It happened about 5 times yesterday, enough to frustrate any server. Anyways, this one table I had took the cake. Literally he had cake for dessert. haha. He was really rude though, but he only seemed to be rude when his friend was away from the table. The rest of the time he was quiet! WEIRD! I just realized that. Anyways, he like my other 4 tables, went and got the buffet before I was able to greet them. I asked them both what they would like to drink. The polite guy asked for coffee and then headed off to the loo. The second guy asked me what type of teas do I have. So I listed off all the kinds. Then he asked if I had blackcherry. I was like, no sorry, just the one's I listed off. Oh, well then do you have White something. I was like, no sorry just the ones I listed off. So in an angry voice he said, fine, I'll have Earl Grey and I want the bag in first before you pour the water(Ai Yi Captain Grumpy pants) I didn't know why he was using such a mean voice to say it..it was as if he was getting mad at me for screwing up and I hadn't even done anything yet. Well, with tea you serve it with milk automatically. But he insisted on tracking me down at another table and following me(I didn't realize he was behind me...I'm not use to having a shadow) until I noticed him. Then he said, I want milk instead of Cream with my tea. Ok, dude, just sit down I haven't even gotten to the back to get your tea yet. Geez. So I bring it out...everything is hunky dory. Later on he was away from the table but there was an empty plate. So I took it gently placing his cutlery on the edge of his napkin. Later on I went to go and get his friends plate while he was away from the table. The rude man said, yeah, this time don't put the cutlery on the napkin. I was like, ok. So I put them on the coaster that held two creamers and a little pack of sugar. I leaned them up against it so that the cutlery wasn't touching anything except for the edge of the plate. He yelled at me. He yelled "Don't put it on his stuff, GEEZ!!!!" I was like, what's the freakin' big deal dude, I want to smack ya! So I just walked away. Seriously though, what's with people lately thinking, I'm hot and uncomfortable so I'm going to take it out on someone. Well people, don't mess with people who work with your food. (I would never do anything to it personally but I'm pretty sure there are some out there that would).

Mouth meet Foot.

I had one of the biggest foot in mouth moments today at work. haha. I was doing a coffee round (meaning it doesn't matter whose table it is, if they have a coffee cup you fill it). And I went to this one table and asked the gentleman if he wanted some more coffee...he was like, "yes, no, um, maybe, no, yes...um ok I will". I responded, wow, did I twist your rubber arm? Thinking this was funny...then he responded, "No, I had to give those back to the hospital." I looked down and realized that he was an amputee..man did I feel like an ass. haha...good times. My first thought was this is so going on my blog. Awesome!

Wishes

Wouldn't it be nice:

Not to have to worry about the small things.

To build a sandcastle and live in it?

To have an unlimited supply of chocolate without having to suffer the consequence?

Not to have to work?

To sit on the beach all day and not have to worry about suntan lotion?

Not to carry your burdens? (You don't have to you know!)

To watch Dr. Phil and not yell at the TV!

To have a friend that just gets you without having to explain yourself.

Hee Hee

Ha, I just noticed that I haven't updated for over a month! My bad. Thanks to those of you who may still have interest in the random thoughts I write down. Today is my day off. I could get use to them. I wish every day could be a day off. Does anyone know any jobs which pay you for relaxing??? I'm totally interested and promise to work hard at relaxing!!! Whatever.
So what have I been up to lately? Not much. I went on a blind date a couple of weeks ago. He seemed really nice. I knew he had lost his last girlfriend. She had passed away. But I didn't know that it had been so recent. Like we went out on a Friday night. Her funeral was on Sunday!!!! That's right she hadn't even been buried yet! Um, a little too soon to be going out on dates me thinks! So that didn't work out to say the least.
*Crazy Cat Lady Moment*
I haven't had one of these for a long time. The other day Puss in Boots was watching me do my laundry. I was busy playing with the washing machine and when I turned around she was sitting in my laundry basket. It was so cute. So I picked up the basket, with her still in it, and walked around the house. She thinks she's a queen and I don't give her much discouragment. Whenever she has her need to be treated like a diva she climbs into the basket. She has me trained quite well. haha.
Another Crazy Cat lady moment...well, I wasn't here for it, I was inside, but my dad had PB outside with him while he was watering the garden. She had climbed into one of the trees and was about 6 feet up in the air. My dad didn't know how to get her down so he arched the hose and sprayed the top of the tree. PB jumped out of the tree and looked up as if to curse the rain for raining on her. She had no idea that the water came from the hose. My dad called for me to come and get my wet cat back into the house. So funny!
*Crazy Cat Lady Moment* is over.
So yeah, that's about all the new stuff in a nutshell.

I Forgot I Had A Blog

Earlier this afternoon, while playing an awesome game of Settlers of Catan, I realized that I have a blog. Yes, I totally forgot I had one. Sorry to anyone who may still read this and want to know about my life. My bad indeed.
So what's new with me? I went to my niece's birthday party on the weekend. It was a total blast. Dawn is an awesome party planner. She made this wicked teddy bear birthday cake. It didn't only look great but it tasted out of this world. Really, in order to eat it we had to board a space shuttle and leave the world to try it. Kind of expensive gas bill, but soo worth it. Grace was so funny when she was opening the presents. She would open one and then go to thank the person by giving them a hug and saying, "sank you". So freakin' cute. Also, on the way back to her Winnie the Pooh seat she would give Joey, Corrie's best friend (whom she's in love with), a hug every time. It was very funny.
When I was just sitting in a chair minding my own business, just smiling like a fool at all the things around me, Dawn and her friends in the kitchen started calling me coo coo. I don't understand where this came from, but they all seem to think I'm a young version of Dawn and therefore I'm coo coo. This of course picked up by the children in the room and soon I was being called Auntie Coo Coo. AWESOME!!!!
My favorite part was the game. Joey and I became competitive in getting points. You see, we made our pizza's at the same time, mine looked prettier so I got a point. You have to pick the people who don't realize that they're playing. This gives you a better advantage on winning. And if you don't win it's ok because they didn't know that they were even in a contest and therefore won't throw it in your face. AWESOME. It's win win for you. However, I let the cat out of the bag and threw it in Joey's face that I won that contest so we continued for the remainder of the party to play this game. He ultimately won, darn my big mouth. But only by one point. I give myself props for getting the two other points that I got. I took the first piece of cake, which means I got a point because I beat Joey in getting some cake. haha. And I also got a point because I got a real fork and he got a plastic one! Yeah!!!!!! I will gloat! That one I had to strategize with Dawn, the fork handerouter! WOO! So yeah, it was a rockin' awesome party!

We Are For Sure Related to Crack Granny!

Today my dad proved that he's related to Crack Granny. (This is an endearing name that we call my Grandma, please don't take offence). He came home from a business trip which was a day early in my mind so the house wasn't clean...ahhh. I was rushing through some errands after work so I could get home and clean and was greeted by two boxes in the entrance way. My first response was, "OH NO". Then I said, "Hello?". I was greeted by my dad. I told him to get out..haha. I wanted to have it clean before his arrival. Anyways, that's not why I think he's definitely related to crack granny, that comes a little later in the evening.
First we watched a few shows. The first one being "America's Next Top Model". Ok, I watched that one by myself. But we did watch "Search of the Next PussyCat Doll." We had a lot of commentary during that one. Like, did they really have to show the girls puking? I would have just taken their word for it. This is when the crack granny moment happened. Dad was talking about something happening on Saturday. He looked at the calendar to verify the dates. I just looked at him like he was crazy and said, "Dad, that's last years calendar, and it's in the month of December." Not only did he have the wrong month, but he was in the wrong year. haha. It was an awesome moment.
After this moment we watched American Idol. I didn't like the girl who went second. She was the only one that I asked when the song was going to end. It seemed like it went on forever. Dad just laughed at my dramatics. Well, I have a few more updates just stewing in my head, so stay tuned for updates in a short time frame:)

Pictures from the party days. Read the previous post for more details

Cameron and Becky.
The incredible Spiderman cake that Dawn made. She should go on the show...Someone's got talent.

I like this picture of Gab and Corrie working on a toy car.

This is what happens when you've had a house full of kids that aren't yours. Take it from Corrie, it's an eye opening experience.

Below: The boys playing with their cars.

Dawn is always doing something to get the camera to notice her. haha.

Below...Grace helping Dawn in the kitchen.

Me and Gracey.


Grace with a big spoon of Rice Krispie Squares.

Grace likes to crawl in the table.

This is Gabriel as Batman! Chloe is beside him
as a superhero princess.



Gabriel (below) is him opening presents.

Gabriel eating rice krispie squares out of the bowl.

Gabriel and Grace both eating some yummy treats. Perfect kodak moment...they're so cute.

Dawn and Gab in Brandon. How did this picture get in here? Oh well..it's cute.

Corrie and Grace playin' with a balloon.

Corrie smokin' some pretty awesome tasting stuff. Tastes like apples.

This picture is awesome. Uncle Cameron with Gabriel playing a game.

The Best Weekend Party

Gabriel's birthday party was a blast. Where should I start. How about the kids birthday party on Saturday. We all dressed up as our favorite superhero. It was awesome! Gabriel came as Batman. When he answered the door to greet his friends he proudly proclaimed, "My mom's the Incredible Hulk!" He was so proud. It was also awesome that she, my sister, would be behind him to greet the children with a scary welcome. One child was too afraid to join the party. His mom had to convince him that everything was going to be ok. Once he got into it though he and Gabriel were unseperatable. The party started with lunch being served. We had Hawaiian pizza. I was happy because that's my favorite kind of pizza. Want your way? Give me some hawaiian pizza and you'll get it. haha. After lunch we played this game with the silly string. It was representing Spiderman's webbing technique. The object of the game was to see who could best web the action figure. It came to a close score, but I'd have to say Chloe won. She has mad skills yo. One child was so confused because of silly string coming from his can there was a bright pink mist. We checked the can and found that it was actually neon hairspray. haha. Thank goodness the little girl, Chloe, who was wearing a white satin dress was untouched by such a bright dye. After this game we turned our attention to coloring our favorite action hero. After our picture was colored we attached a magnet to the back. I think the adults were more into this activity than the kids. This lasted a while but while the adults were entertained with the coloring aspect of the activity the chillin's were busy entertaining themselves. We soon played a scavenger hunt game. That was a lot of fun....for us spectators. The chillin's seemed to lose interest in the hunt about 20 - 25 mins into it. Corrie finally gave a very specific clue to where the superhero action ring was hiding. Finally Chloe found the ring and when the prize was presented to her she politely refused. With some convincing she did take the prize..... for her sister. haha. After this activity we had some birthday cake. Gabriel's face of excitement when he saw the cake was priceless. Gab was so gracious when he allowed the candle he had just blown out to be relite so a little boy could blow it out too. The cake Dawn made was unbelievable. Next Gabriel opened his presents. There was one little boy there, the age of 3, who didn't really understand why Gabriel got to open presents and he didn't. So he had a little mental breakdown. I was shocked at what his friends brought him. Gift one: A hoodie. Awesome, kind of weird, but awesome. The second gift was a hoodie. Ok, still weird, but awesome. Gift 3 was a neat art supply and chinese crackers, awesome. Gift 4 and 5 were both hoodies. The kid scored 4 hoodies from a kids party. Does anyone else find this weird? When I was five turning six I believe I got toys from my friends and clothes from my family. But ok. Poor Gab looked appreciative, but slightly disappointed. The night before he went through his toys to make room for his new ones. The rest of the time the kids played with Gab's new art and crafts gifts until it was time for them to go home.
The next day instead of going to church Dawn, Grace and I stayed back to get a head start on the dinner for the family and friends birthday party. What a party it was too. Corrie, Jared and I all had a break for Dawn out in the backyard before the party started. Dawn made an exceptional meal. Turkey dinner! YUM. I only wish I took a picture of the delicious spread. I helped by putting the cranberry sauce in a bowl. And I left it as a big blob! Yeah! I'm awesome. I thought it looked funny. Gab's gifts were awesome too. He received a blowup Spiderman bed that's totally travel fun. Also a Superman action toy. A Batman game to be played on the tv. Some awesome Action hero shoes. His mom and dad got him some pretty amazing electronic remote control cars. That was by far the biggest hit. He received so many more toys and cool stuff too. What a happy kid.
The cake Dawn made for the family and friends party was also amazing. KUDOS DAWN....I HOLLA A SHOUT OUT AT CHA SISTA.
The next day, Monday Gabriel came to me and said, "Aunty M, you only have..." then he looked down at his hand to count, then looked up at me with sad little eyes and said, "no more sleeps here....if you want you can stay for one more sleep." How do you say no to that? You put the blame on your brother. And that's what I did. Plus it was the truth. haha. It was one of the best weekends ever.
I know some of this stuff is repeated from a prior post...but it just makes the story complete when it's all together...ya know?

Who Cut the Parsley??????

Today at work I had a funny day. I don't know why but I was kind of hyper. No wait, that's me pretty much every day except the days that I'm grumpy. Anyways, I found my day to be more funny than most days. When I first got to work I decided I would cut the parsley. No not the cheese, the parsley. But while I was walking out of the cooler with the two bunches I put them together and then started walking really slowly. Yes, I was pretending they were a bouquet. You never know when you'll be asked to be a bridesmaid. Well, I wasn't expecting an audience. As I neared the parsley's gillotine I noticed my audience watching me contently. I stopped and she burst out laughing. Awesome, it is my job to make those around me smile. First victim..*cough* I mean my first success of the day. Then I started chopping frantically. Ok, maybe that was a little melodramatic but it also drew the attention of an audience. While I was cutting the parsley I said outloud..."This relationship is over". haha. My Apparently all that I do is noteworthy today. I hope you brought your notepad and pen...to take notes. But she said to me (my new audience) "It's scary how you can go from sweet to crazy, cutting everything up in sight in a split second." I think she has some parsley issues.
Later on in the day I was talking to the new guy. He's a little hard to read so far...I don't know what his sense of humour is yet. But I told him something funny and instead of the normal laughing response he actually said/spelled "LOL". I laughed at his response and he just looked at me. I stopped laughing immedietly and then told him, "You know you're allowed to actually laugh...you don't have to spell it out." He just walked away.
I have a question for all you people who don't read my blog....and for those of you that do read my blog...I'm thinking I'm going to get a better response from the people that read my blog than from the people who don't read my blog...I don't know why, it's just a hunch. Anyways, my question to all of you is this: Who is your favorite children story author? My favorite is Robert Munch. Love him. L O V E him. Who's yours?

Dirty Minds

This weekend was Gabriel's birthday weekend. If you don't know who Gabriel is you obviously don't know me. Or you just don't listen to me when I talk about my nephew and niece. STOP tuning me out. haha. Anywho. It was Gabriel's(my nephew for you slow people) 6th birthday party. First though I was taken to a wedding shower. Most of the time everyone just ooo's and ahhh's but at this shower the word "sex" and the word "penis" were yelled out at the top of one's lungs. Yes we were playing a game called "Dirty Minds". It's an awesome game. The purpose is to come out with the cleanest minds. For example I will give you three clues and you have to figure what it is by the end of this post. Then I will post the answer....no cheating now. Let's see how dirty your mind is.
Clue Number 1: Coming in me is better than going the other way.
Clue Number 2: You'll be greeted by a Peter before I swing.
Clue Number 3: Enter my opening and I'll keep you up forever.
Good luck.
Like I said it was the funnest shower ever. On Saturday Dawn and Corrie hosted a birthday party for Gabriel and his friends. It was so fun. We started off eating pizza because one of the kids had to leave early. Once lunch was complete we played a game with silly string. It was a superhero party so what's not best but to trap down a superhero action figure with silly string. It was funny because a couple of seconds into it one boy was yelling, Mine's not working. So Dawn quickly took it away. It was neon hairspray. Awesome. Someone(being aunty M) didn't read all the labels. hee hee....ooops.
After the silly string game we(all dressed up like our favorite superhero's) were directed to the next activity by our superhero leader...The INCREDIBLE HULK. AKA. Dawn. We colored some superhero pictures and attached them to a magnet. So awesome. I think the adults were more into it than the kids. Lucky for us...we didn't have to fight over the felts and crayons.
There was a scavenger hunt that took a really long time. It was so funny. Corrie was giving them very specific areas to check for the superhero ring. But it still took them a good 20 minutes to find it. There is more to my story...but that will be saved for another post. It's lunch time. So until next time.....Peace out.
Oh yeah, and the answer to the 3 clues earlier is "Pearly Gates". Where was your mind at??

The Update

Hello. I know, I'm not dead. So what's my excuse for not updating? Well my sister. Ok, not entirely her fault. But she did introduce me to this freakin' awesome game called Settlers of Catan. Let me tell you people, I'm hooked. So yes I've been on the computer. Yes I've had the time. But instead of updating my blog I've been playing "just one more" game of Settlers. This game is Monopoly meets Risk. Which makes up just the best game ever!! Ok, so now you know. That's why I've been MIA.
What's new. A whole lot. Where do I begin? Let's start with a couple of weeks ago. It was a Friday afternoon. I got off work and had the evening off. Boy was I excited. I went and picked up a few things from the store. On my way home I noticed a yellow Rabbitt on the side of the road. It was Cameron(my brother). So I stopped and followed him home. When we got inside I picked up my cat and cuddled her. I was in the kitchen area. My brother walked in and was stretching which for some reason freaked my cat out. So she scatched me during her quick exit. I don't mean just a little scratch. It was deep and bleeding. Once I maintained that crazyness we ordered some chinese food from the best place in town. The bacterial banquet. Ok, it's the Imperial Banquet. It's kind of a dirty little place, but man it has the best food. God made the dirt so the dirt don't hurt. On our way home we stopped at Canadian Tire to get some oil for Cameron's car. I told him I would just wait in the car but at the last moment I decided to go in with him. As we were walking in I was looking around and just following his body's direction. Suddenly he moved left and I turned to look and smack. Before I even knew what was happening I was seeing stars and my eyes were watering. He thought it would be funny to walk right towards the security alarm metal detector thing and then move at the last moment. Little did he know I wasn't paying attention behind him. He felt really bad and so he should. I suffered a swollen nose and two black eyes. Did you catch that TWO black eyes. I felt really dumb because all the workers were standing right there and stop to look at me. They heard the crack. How embarassing. But so funny later on. Still now, if I laugh to hard my nose hurts. haha.
Valentine's Day. Yeah I jumped about a week there because nothing I remember is really blog worthy...just blah blah blah stuff. So Valentine's Day. The day for all those in love. Or as I like to say in my low, slow speaking voice....Lovers Day. haha. I think it's funny. Anyways I worked the whole day. I lived vicariously through all the little couples, glazing across the table at eachother. I had this one table where I told them straight up that I was doing that. They laughed and the three of us had a great date. haha. Again, nothing really all that exciting happened. Well...that's it for now. The updates will be a little more frequent now.

Strange Things

Strange things have happened today. I was just sitting at the computer in the family room today when I heard a noise. It sounded like a door closing really hard. I thought, at first, that it might be Cameron coming home for lunch. But when I went to check there was no one there. But I checked down in the basement because I knew I heard some kind of noise...and maybe it came from down there. When I opened the door I could smell sulphur...like someone had just lit a match. I thought to myself, oh no...maybe there's a fire. When I checked downstairs though, there wasn't anything like that...in fact the smell was getting weaker. So I headed back upstairs and the smell grew stronger. I thought that's weird. Then I noticed one of Cameron's screwdrivers on the basement top stair. So I called him at work. I asked him if he had left one of his screwdrivers on the stairs. He said that he had left 4 screwdrivers on the bottom stair by the front door. I told him that there was only 3 screwdrivers where he said they were but there was one on the top of the basement stairs. He blamed my cat....but my cat can't open doors. It totally freaked me out. I went around and made sure all the doors were locked. I can't explain what happened...I can only put it under the category of strange things.