Newly Wed, not Dead

Hello all! I haven't written on here in a long time so I bet nobody even comes to this site to read any more. That's ok though, cause I enjoy just getting my thoughts out of my head and this is a good way of doing it. I am now a married lady :) The wedding was so much fun. We didn't realize how quirky it was until after it was done. From B walking down the aisle to the pink panther theme song, then having the slide show after the bridesmaids walked down, but before I walked down (and I'm so glad we did it that way because my sister made me cry just before she turned to walk down the aisle.) When my dad and I got down to the end of the aisle and we waited for the song to end, right after he gave me away we took a self-photo with his camera(the picture turned out great! I'll have to post it on here sometime). Instead of having a unity candle or sand we had a box with a bottle of wine and two glasses and we each put a love letter into it and sealed the box by nailing it shut, for it to be opened on every anniversary with a new letter and bottle of wine to replace it for the following year. So romantic! Our ring bearer, my nephew, carried our rings in on a penguin from club penguin, the rings were on the penguins arms. Just before we had our first kiss we did our secret handshake that we've been doing since our second date. And after we signed the registry Brenton pressed the Easy Button, you know the one from Staples. We also had a group photo with everyone that was present at the ceremony, such an awesome idea and I can't wait to see the pictures! Our officiant is the chaplain of the BC Lions football team and he sported a "Go Lions Go" cheer on the back of his jacket (He missed a game for us, which is a big deal and we are so grateful!) It was just an all over really fun time and I hope everyone who was there enjoyed themselves. I have only given you a little bit of the picture for the ceremony, maybe next time I'll tell you about the tea and then the reception.

Sorry it's been so long since I last wrote on here, I guess I'll chalk it up to being a newly wed =) Until next time
Michelle

Evacuated

This weekend has turned into one hectic weekend. I had a couple of to do lists that were pretty much accomplished (which is happy news to report). Then on Saturday I finished work early because it was quiet. When I left with Brenton we took my car back to my house so we could use just one car (more efficient on gas). His parents happened to be around the area with the truck so we called them and asked them if we could use the back of it to move my big chair out. They said yes and came right over. I watered the plants outside and then Brenton and I were off to Fabricland on the mission to find a certain button. As we turned the corner to come down Dilworth mountain we saw a big cloud that just didn't look right. I asked Brenton if that was a tornado (remember I lived in Manitoba for 6 years) and he said, no that looks like a fire. As soon as we were done at fabricland we went to the mall and did a couple more errands and then we headed over to his place. We started packing a few things, just in case, and it's a good thing we did, about an hour and a half later he was evacuated. I have never felt that way before. As I stood there looking at all his stuff I didn't know what he would want (he was busy running around the building finding the right people to get to turn off the vents that were sucking in smoke from outside). First thing I grabbed was all his pictures. Then some clothes for him to take. Then all the wedding stuff (it had to be moved to a different location anyways). Then it was off to Brenton's parents house which is where he's staying in the mean time. At this time there are 3 major fires on the go and hopefully they can be contained in a short period of time. The emergency people are doing an amazing job! (I will post pictures soon)

Looking Forward

It's another baking day. I am really enjoying the baking, but so close to the end is starting to feel a little over done. I have 4 or 6 things that I plan to conquer today. I don't know if I will bother with the other two. They sound good, but it means a trip to the grocery store. It's 10 am and I have already finished one item and started on the other two. They both need "cooling" time in the fridge so I find myself at a stand still in the baking department. So I thought, hey why don't I go update my blog. So alas here I am.

I quit my one job. It wasn't giving me enough hours and it feels so good to be out of there. I don't normally complain about my job but a couple of the managers there were extremely unprofessional and it really bothered me. I am just happy to be done with that part of it. The rest of the job was fine, I loved the people and the job itself was very easy.

I have started back at my first ever job. I went back and talked to the manager there and she took me in no questions asked. It's been so fun being back there with a few of the original staff that I worked with once upon a time (10 years ago).

That's about all. I haven't started to go crazy yet with planning, but I'm sure that will come. There are just a few last ends to tie and then we can party like it was 1969!! :)

Feel like I've been hit by a car...oh wait! I have!

Well the last few days have been really clumsy to say the least. Last week I tripped going up the stairs and hurt my left foot. The toe beside my big toe was a pretty purple colour for a couple of days. I sported a beautiful array of scrapes up the centre of my ankle and it was beautiful. Then yesterday I decided that it had healed enough to do some more damage to it (yes the same foot) as it got caught under the couch (don't ask how that happened cause I don't know) I tried to remove it again, thinking I had I took a step with my right foot. As I did this I realized that no, my left foot was still stuck and as a dead tree I fell to the floor. Did I try to break my fall with my hands? No! I just fell, literally straight down to the floor as though I was a solid tree. If that wasn't enough I was on my way out the door and forgot something. I threw my keys to an unnamed patron (I know who it is) and asked this person to start my car for me because it's been making a really annoying squeal when it starts and hoped that by the time I came back the squealing would be gone. When I came back into the garage I walked down my arch nemisis (the stairs) and walked towards the drivers door (this placing me left side of my body to the bumper) as I stepped down the last step the car lurched forward and threw me 2 to 3 feet back up the stairs and into the wall. What happened you ask? My friend had thought the car was in neutral and when releasing the clutch (the emergency break doesn't work so well unless it's really all the way up) the car jumped forward causing this reaction. My first reaction - pain. Then I started to laugh. Did this really just happen? Right after (and I mean within 15 minutes) falling to the floor in the living room. It was just so spastic and halarious. Only because no one was severely injured. I walked away with a bruised ankle and sore left side of the body, and my friend with a bruised ego. It was a freak accident! And I guess that's what I am right now :) haha. Just plain o'l clumsy.

One Month Left

Only one month left until the big day. People keep telling me that I'm really quite laid back and not very stressed. I think I leave the stressing to the other people. In fact Brenton told me that I was more stressed about school than I am about the wedding. It's not because I don't care, trust me I care!, but it's one day. I'm more excited about the marriage that follows. I can't wait to start this new chapter in our lives. The wedding will come and go and most people won't remember the details of it. So I'm not going to stress too much over them. I still want them, and I will work hard at getting them all done, but if something isn't right I'm not going to cry over it. I love Brenton and that's all that matters. I'm thrilled to have anyone come in and join us in our celebration of our uniting.

Baking progress: I have about 7 more things on my list to make (2 of which can't be made until the week of the wedding) and 1 of those things is a two day event all alone :) But they are my favorite and I'll probably make extra to keep at home to share with my soon to be hubby. The other day he asked me if I would make extra of everything so we could start our marriage life out with a full freezer of goodies. I was like how about I make those extra's at a different time. haha. Yesterday I made 2 more 9x9 pans of raspberry coconut square. It's so yummy. Today's adventure will start once I get off my butt and go to the grocery store and pick up some icing sugar so I can start making some more yummies. I hope to conquer 4 items today. At 6:30 tonight I start a fondant decorating class. That's right people I'm decorating my own cake but need help in knowing how to do things. It's going to be so much fun, and if it doesn't turn out, it's just cake. It will still taste good.

School update: I just got my mark back from the "hardest exam I've ever written". The mark I got on my exam was 52/60. Making my final mark for that course an 88%.

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.