Life.

Today is a great day to start something new. A new attitude, a new lifestyle, a new life. I am not getting enough hours at work so I will be going out on the town today with my resume in hand. You might think I'm crazy for trying to find a new job while in the midst of planning a wedding. I do too! However, it's been clearly stated that I need to do something about not working so I will conquer that bull too. I am feeling torn in many directions, however, with school finally being done I have more time available to bring in some coin.

I am also doing the baking for the tea at the wedding. Yesterday was fun and I was able to scratch off 5 items off my list. I think I only have 12 or so more things to make, 2 of which can't be made until the week of the wedding. I love to bake, and I love to watch peoples faces and hear their comments (as if I came up with the recipe..haha...yeah right, I just know how to read and follow instructions).

I also decided to make the wedding cake myself. I may need the grooms help in constructing the cake topper, but the baking part I'm going to be doing myself :) Talk about a project. It will be interesting to say the least.

Let's see, what else can I tell you? Oh, right I started working out with my brother's girlfriend last week. We did one session of a 20 minute bootcamp and lets just say I forgot how much that guy makes you sweat! haha. What fun. Within 20 minutes we had done more than 100 pushups (when i first started last year I could hardly do 10). We did countless burpees, and these weird jumping jack things in the form of a pushup. Do I have to say we were doing our upperbody workout? And 2 days later my arms are still sore to move. haha. It's a good sore though. You would think that we were dead after that workout but we decided to go for a 20km bike ride afterwards. So not only were our upperbody's sore, but our bums and legs too.

Yesterday I was running back into the house for something and thinking I was cutting corners by opening the garage to run in rather than turn off my car and use the key to open the front door I tripped going up the stairs and landed on my left foot and my left wrist. I scraped my ankle and my toe beside the big toe got really banged up (huge purple bruise surrounding a cut) and my wrist was all red for the remainder of the night. Talk about being clumsy. I am just glad no one saw that. As I limped into the house, holding back the tears, I climbed up the stairs to my room and grabbed the one thing I had gone back into the house for.

That's been my last few days in a nutshell. Please pray for me as I am stretching myself into many directions and as I search for a job for the summer time with a needing of 3 weeks off.

Angry/Confused/Upset - Pick one

Am I going crazy? Simple question right? I feel like I am the craziest person right now. I am overwhelmed with so many emotions that right now I am so angry. I am angry at all the emotions that are swirling inside me not making sense of anything. I wish my brain would just process one thing at a time. I had a conversation tonight that really upset me. It's when one person takes all their frustrations and grumpiness out on you and you're left standing there saying WTF was that all about. When someone has built up so much resentment and frustrations and just pours it all over you at once and you leave not knowing the exact reason they are upset because there was just too much laid out.

I'm left hurt and confused and super ticked off.

Congratulations

Good evening or very early morning to you. Today was a fun-very-busy day. Aaryn and Tifni were married today at 1pm. It was a beautiful wedding and watching the two of them take this step in life was wonderful to watch. It felt very surreal and I teared up a few times. She was a gorgeous bride and he was a very handsome groom. The speeches that were given by the family members were well thought out and well delivered. I don't know what to say except that it was a fantastic day. The weather co-operated and was nice and sunny yet not too hot. An outdoor wedding gone completely perfect.

Congratulations you two! I wish you nothing but everlasting happiness

Falling apart, but so in Love

Hello everyone. Today is Saturday and I'm suppose to be baking. However, my back is so sore that I can hardly stand. What is up with that? I feel like a little old lady. And the worst part is the robaxacette drugs have worn off and it's only been 20 minutes since they started working. What is up with that I ask you? Please someone take this pain away. It's so deliberating! Enough whining Michelle, just suck it up.

Well I started some baking the other day (part of my contribution to the wedding) and I have to tell you it's been fun! I really enjoy baking. It's not even hard to resist the temptation to eat it while I go. I continue to think of the dress I must fit into so "snap peas" are my new best friend. I love the crunching sound they present. It's like they are announcing their deliciousness....yum! Let's take a moment to celebrate them. *Pause*

Ok, that's enough time! They're snap peas after all. I am really looking forward to this Monday. Brenton's brother is getting married to a wonderful girl! I'm so excited for them both! I think it's so romantic when two people decide to spend the rest of their lives together. It's like the joining of two villages. Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic (ok, for those of you who know me well know there isn't a maybe needed in that sentence) but I really enjoy the union of two. When she walks down the aisle and their eyes lock....oh...so fabulous!

I look forward to the day when Brenton and I are old and gray and still poking fun at each other. When he reads to me or I to him, I long for the days when we are so intune with each other that we don't have to say anything but understand exactly what it is the other needs. It's romantic, it's love, it's us.

Girls Night Out

Last night I went to my future-sister-in-laws bachelorette party. It was a lot of fun. We had dinner at a really nice restaurant. I had a green salad with a poppyseed dressing (very yummy) and mac and cheese. After dinner we went over to the bride-to-be's sisters house. There we had a glass of wine and played a game. If she was able to answer the question (that her husband-to-be had given answers to) then she could open a gift, if she got the question wrong, however, than she would have to chew a peice of hubba bubba gum and keep adding to it. It was a lot of fun, yet near the end we changed the rules to that we could just play the games and do the gifts later on because it was taking away from the joy of the gift (she had a lot of gum going on). It was really funny. After the game she opened her gifts and we all just sat around and talked to get to know each other a little bit. Good times.

I always feel awkward when people ask me about my wedding at someone else's wedding shower and such. I want to keep the focus so badly on them but I don't want to be rude to the person who asked me the question. What is the proper protocall for that? Am I a bad person for answering? I try to change the subject back onto the person we are celebrating.

Countdown Queen

Now that school is done I can turn my attention to the excitement that is held within the summer to come. I have a group of countdowns on the go and I look forward to each event with great anticipation! My countdown looks something like this:

1. Aaryn and Tifni's wedding---------------------4 sleeps

2. Running the 5km------------------------------6 sleeps

3. My best friends Karen's birthday--------------8 sleeps

4. Karen and Tims 9 year anniversary-----------11 sleeps

5. Cameron's birthday----------------------------14 sleeps

6. My mom comes to town-----------------------33 sleeps

7. The Blocks come to town----------------------36 sleeps

8. I get married to the love of my life------------42 sleeps

9. Christmas-----------------------------------182 sleeps

Not that I'm counting :)

To cheat or not to cheat

Moral issues. How do you handle when a student from your class blabs all the details about an exam to the class who is to write the exam the next day? Would you call this cheating? Please leave a comment on how you would handle it! I would call the prof to make sure the other class had a different exam in order to keep the cheating irrelevant. Would you call this cheating?