So much to do, but loving it!

Happy Christmas Eve to you!!! I am so excited for Christmas. It totally snuck up on us this year. I think it's due to lack of snow. I finished all the last of the errands yesterday just to find out this morning that there are still more things to do! haha. I am not too worried though, because one of those things is to finish off the Christmas cookies I've already started to make. They are so yummy (my favorite). I had made them for the wedding (Moose Balls) and there were so many left over so I gave my brother a bunch (they're his favorite too). When he was down to his last seven he had strategically placed them on a plate and put them in the fridge. Safe right? Wrong! His friend was over (I won't say which friend to keep privacy) and decided he had to go for a shower. While he was in the shower his friend ate all but one of the cookies. My brother was so sad and asked me if I could make him more...I said maybe for Christmas and waalaa I have made them...well almost..I'm half way done. They take two days to make just because they have to chill over night.

Another thing I get to do today is go to the dreaded Wal-of-the-Mart. I have to go and pic up a few pictures and then Hazaaah my Christmas shopping is complete!

I so enjoyed the gift my sister and her family gave us this year. They bought a sheep and delivered it to a family in need! That's right, THEY delivered it. And what made it even more special was that it went to a family I personally know! I am so touched and I'm so glad it brought the family so much joy!

I am feeling so blessed this year! Our first Christmas as a married couple. I am finding that my husband is very much a child inside still and I LOVE that about him! We are having so much fun getting ready and playing and just being plain old silly! I am also enjoying spending time with family! I love this time of year!!!!!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!!

Season's Greetings!

Merry early Christmas. I love this season! It's one of my favorites. I love the baking and the family gatherings. I love that people come from all over the place to just be together. Tonight is Brenton's Christmas party. I am really looking forward to it because it will be my first taste of the Christmas season this year. Hopefully it will put me in a Christmas shopping spirit..I don't know why (maybe it's my lack of joy for already) but shopping this year has hit the back burner. It's not that I don't have a million ideas of what to get people, trust me I'm thinking about it constantly through the year, but I just don't want to have to shop for it. I'm the male type of shopper..I go in and get it and leave. I don't care to window shop or graze around, I'd rather be at home sipping on some hot chocolate while I work on a cross-stitching picture.

The other day Brenton's work decided to cut out "Christmas" and re-insert "Holidays". This is offensive to me. The "holiday" is called CHRISTmas! It's our christian celebration! It makes me sad. I don't ask those who are Jews to call Hanukah anything other, or Muslims to call Eid anything other. I don't have a "Holiday Tree" set up in my house, I have a Christmas tree set up! Grr...I'm extremely frustrated at my offensed state. That's my second rant of the day.

Let's go 3 for 3. I have a stupid cold! I call it stupid because I don't think it's very smart! haha. It started out as a really sore throat, like someone had taken sandpaper to it. The second day was like knives were in the back of my throat and every time I swallowed it would stab (which surprisingly felt better than the sandpaper feeling). The third and worst day I woke up and didn't say much to Brenton as he left for work because my throat was so sore...but as he left I went to say "I love you, have a great day" and it was like a dying frog had entered into my voice box and took over. He gave me a really strange look and said, you should go back to bed. And that's what I did for the whole day. I slept. Yesterday I woke up with a cough but felt much better and became more productive than I have been in the last 4 days. And today I still have the nasty cough, which I give until noon to dismiss itself, and then a party tonight :)

I've been looking over my blog for the last while, yes it hasn't been updated very frequently(my bad) but it is also lacking in pictures. I feel as though I must fix this soon.

One of my favorite Christmas Memories: I remember going to my Grandma in the Yellow House's house and watching the movie "Annie" and jumping into the heaps of snow outside her door and reading her "Homemade Remedy" book. I loved reading that thing. Also playing the game "MasterMind". I loved that Grandma in the Yellow House loved playing games. She would sit with us for hours and be undistracted. It was absolutely wonderful!

What a pain in my head!

I see what you're doing! Yes you! You're sitting there, staring at your screen aching for some entertainment. Something to draw you in and escape your own reality. Maybe you're looking for something hopeful to consume you. Maybe you want to read something that will make you stop and think. I don't think you will find that here today. I am just battling a headache that I've had for 3 days now. Some may strike it up as not consuming enough water. Let me tell you, that's not the problem, my frequent washroom visits attest to that! Another argument, my diet. It has not been very nutritional, however, I did have a good dinner last night and still a headache today. I wish it would just dissolve. I am going for a massage today and I'm hoping that the sore spot on my lower skull is the cause of the headache and she can work it out for me :) That would be epic!

Yesterday I was able to sleep in! The first time in weeks! It was amazing! I didn't wake up until quarter to 10 in the morning! It was so wonderful to see any number other than 4 or 5 on the clock! I almost cheered out loud when I saw it, almost in disbelief I got out of bed and emerged out into the living room where my husband was sitting. We had a good visit before we took off to the hockey game. The hockey game was so much fun! We witnessed two glass panes shatter from the impact of a puck. It was a great game with the score of 2 to 1 for the Rockets! We won!! I like how when you go to a game and you say "we" won as if the spectators did anything to help, haha. I also like how grown ups are yelling at these kids who are out on the ice playing a game! haha. It makes me laugh, especially random yelling guy. He wasn't there yesterday afternoon, so I took over his mission and yelled random things out, such as, "Make it an oreo" or "It's time for some pickles" haha. Brenton and I would also make commentary for the fights, we thought we were halarious.

After the game we went out for dinner with B's family. It was his momma's birthday and we went out to celebrate. Dinner was so good and full of laughs and good times. After dinner we headed over to his Aunt and Uncle's house to have cake! It was such delicious cake!! We also played games. There were two games going and the one B and I tried out was "Ticket to Ride".

We actually have this game at home but have never played it. It was so much fun! Very strategic game and just a funny time overall. B's one cousin's intention for the entire game was to mess up everyone else's plans. haha. It worked, haha. So much fun!

Then we came home and went to bed pretty much straight away! Well, I'm going to leave the brightness of the computer screen to give my eyes a break and hopefully remedy the headache that still exists in my head. Until next time

Michelle

Be silent, be still

Just another manic Tuesday! I usually have house cleaning day on Tuesday's. Today is no different, except I don't seem to have the motivation. Actually lately I haven't had the motivation to do much. I am sinking in my desire to get into the school district and begin my career. I so badly want it! I am starting to loath going to work because being there is not my desire. I know it's a season and this too shall pass, but when! I want to be passed it now. I may complain about it endlessly but it doesn't mean I don't appreciate having a job. I enjoy the people I work with, for the most part :) It may just me, but when I'm on my break I enjoy solitude, quiet and drown out my surroundings by losing myself in the paper and reading about what's going on, mainly in Vancouver. However, I seem to find when others are in the break room at the same time they enjoy to talk. I become eternally annoyed while carrying on the conversation. Other times I find myself reading the same line over and over praying that they just stop talking. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a great conversation and being social, just not so much when I'm trying to escape my reality.

Tonight I have plans to go to my brother's girlfriends work and help her out with her Gala night! I am looking forward to it. It should be a lot of fun.

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!! :)