Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas Everyone!
I hope Santa was good to you all because I raked it in this year. I was so bloody excited about all the presents under the tree I didn't even care if they were for me or not. I have pictures to prove it! Its been years now since I was home for a Christmas where I got presents! 2 years ago when I was home I was heading to Oz so i got a plane ticket and some sunscreen or something like that. No big presents with lots of wrapping paper. So this year my child like love of presents came out in full force.
Its was a fun morning to say the least.
I'm heading to Kingston tomorrow for a visit and ill be back for new years at Tom's. Its going to be a good night!!! Cant wait. I love being excited for nights like this.
Eat, drink and be as merry as the drinks let you...xoxo

One of those emails

1. Where do you work? GoodLife Fitness Clubs, waiting not very patiently for a supply teaching job
2. What color are your socks right now? White
3. What are you listening to right now? Coldplay, who is in charge of this music at the gym, oh right its me, ah well its late maybe everyone will get tired and leave early.
4. What was the last thing that you ate? Pad Thai…gotta love the Thai food!
5. Can you drive a stick shift? I’ve been know to drive one…but I wouldn’t touch the A4.
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Pink, Blue, Yellow…anything bright!
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My sister…as always.
8. Do you like the person who sent you this? Silly question, Erin is the mother of my kids so of course I like her!
9. How old are you today? 29 going on 30 heading for a mid-life crisis
10. Favorite drink? Volka…or coffee depends on the time of day
11. What is your favorite sport to watch? It was Rugby when I was in NZ, but really it's anything live. I don’t like watching sports on TV
12. Have you ever dyed your hair? Hell yes! Who remembers of the days of the Bleach Blonde pixi?
13. Pets? Other peoples dogs who I think are mine, and Mao (I still call him ‘our’ cat)
14. Favorite food? All food…anything homemade, or Asian if Im eating out.
15. What was the last movie you watched? Taladayga Nights…tooo funny
16. Favorite day of the year? Hmmmm, my birthday I guess, if im having a good birthday.
17. What do you do to vent anger? Yell? No maybe not yell, vent for sure. Bitch more like it.
18. What was your favorite toy as a child? My big wheel, oh and Barbie cant forget her!
19. What is your favorite fall or spring? Fall for me
20. Hugs or kisses? definitely hugs, which lead to kisses, which leads to a lot more of my favourite things
21. Cherries or Blueberries? Blueberries for sure.
22. Living arrangement? The folks are putting me up for now….when I have some money to pay rent in about 5 years maybe ill move out on my own- sniff sniff
26. When was the last time you cried? Just now when I thought of living with my parents for the next thousand years
27. What is on the floor of your closet? Christmas presents
28. Who is the friend you have had the longest? Gee, let me think….Amy is by far my longest friend ever, we met when we were one and played together ever since.
29. What did you do last night? Had dinner and lots of red wine with Tommy Boy.
30. Favorite smells? Coconut, and the skin of someone I love
31. What inspires you? life
32. What are you afraid of? life
33. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? Did someone say cheese????
34. Favorite dog breed? Any dog that loves me!
35. Number of keys on your key ring? 1 Parent house, 2 car, 3 gym, 4 colleen’s house, 5 Tom’s house (notice how none are my house)
36. How many years at your current job? Good god not even one and I hope it doesn’t have to be much more than that
37. Favorite day of the week? Any day Im not working night shift or morning open.
38. How many states have you lived in? Man, here we go. Canada 2 provinces, 4 countries and traveled to many more
39. Favorite holiday vacation? Thailand with the girls
40. Ever driven a Motorcycle or heavy machinery? Yes, both in Canada and abroad, love those scooters

Yacht Rocks!

Geoff had a great party the other weekend...all in Yacht attire love boat styles. Aubrey and Brad had big news for us too - yeppers she's preggers!

And this stage of our lives begins...

Im sure Ill have more to say about all this later on, for now only congrats are in order.

Well its happened!

Yep, snow!
There is snow on the ground and I dont know if its going to go or stay but i dont like it one bit. Its not like i can even get excited about skiing, or becoming good at skiing...there is no where to go around here.
Nope now its just about scraping the car, warming the car up for a half hour before you drive 3 mins down the road, boots which i dont have yet, hats, mitts, scarfs which i need to buy. I am not prepared for this at all. grrrrr. Ah to be in 30 degree weather with sun and beach and surf again. I should have stayed in Oz and kept warm.
Yep, snow!

5 in 40

I'm getting better at this running thing. Ive managed to shave 10 minutes off my time and I ran 5 km in only 40 mins. Much better than the hour it took me my first time - grin-
Ken's 30th Birthday is Saturday night. I cant believe the 30's are here. I don't think I'm ready for mine. I swear Ill have a melt down if I'm were I am now on my 30th....look out loony bin here I come!

Kingston, again.

Just spent the last day at the hospital again. Grams is doing great. She actually looks good, for as good as you can look lying in a hospital bed. But we played cards and she was spunky as ever yelling at Colleen and I about how she is sick and we should be nice to her! And people wonder where I get my spunk from...ha you don't know spunk until you meet an 88 year old who is determined to beat her grand kids at cards.
So we had her up and standing, she is sitting in a chair and no longer has tubes attached to her. So all in all, she is doing really well.
Mom is going to stay with her for the next week so Ill be off duty and able to relax now that I know she is back to normal.
Alright...I'm burnt out from the drive. Time to lay down with the sheep.

Grams

So its been a busy and stressful few weeks. Grandma finally went in for surgery and after a very long couple of days she is in ICU and is off the wires and tubes and such.
I don't really want to talk too much about it all, its hard to see someone lying in a hospital with everything sticking out of them. Too much to deal with. But I wanted to let those of you who were worried know that Dorothy is on the mend and I'm hoping when i drive back to Kingston Thursday she'll be able to talk and be entertained by me again. Ill be happy when she's home and I don't have to do the drive with all the stress and worry of, well, of it all.
Ill write again soon, when I'm in more of a cheerful mood and I've actually been able to sleep a whole night straight through. I'm just happy I could be home for all this, for her.

Halloween

Man, I didn't do anything fun for Halloween this year. Not one party or even going out. That's not like me at all! I love Halloween. I even dressed up at work and stood all night letting people into the gym looking like a freaking fairy!! Although I did look cute and lots of people said how great my costume was...so of course it wasn't all bad *grin*

I ran another 5 km in only 50 minutes. I'm getting better at it too. I think ill go again tomorrow and see how i do. Its going to be a long one i bet and I'm going to die thinking i can do it.
Ah well at least it will give me something funny to write about.

Not too much else to tell. Still waiting for anything to happen. I hate this part of life...just waiting. Im thinking I should have gone back to Asia and made some money since nothing is happening right now. At least then i wouldn't be as broke as I am now.

ah life.
I guess i should just shut up and enjoy the free time.

6.6 km

Well I sort of made it, 6.6 km yesterday. It was cold and windy and we went down a big hill and then slowly up a major road that is one large gradual hill (Mississauga Rd then up the Collegeway for those of you who know it) I walked, quickly mind you, almost the whole way up the last lag. I mean I had already ran 5 Km before that! Everyone was walking by that point, I even caught up with the 'running mommies' who were in front of me the whole way (a group of stay-at-homes that make up most of the running group)
I finished the whole loop in 45 mins. Not bad considering my last run was only a 3 k'er. I guess I'm getting better at it, but I think i need to practice more, another run on Thursday is in the cards for me I think.
My muscles aren't nearly as sore today as they have been in the past which is a great sign, but it could have something to do with the amazing massage I got at work from the the massage therapist, thank god for Allen!
Enjoying a day off today and staying as far away from the gym as I can.

You Beck-cha!

Last night we went to the Beck concert at the Ricoh Coliseum (exhibition place) Such a good concert! We were dancing in our seats, in the isles and of course singing at the top of our lungs. Wherever you go you gotta have fun!
They had little mini band puppets; which creped me out a little bit, but they were funny. Each band member had a puppet that dressed like them and there was a mini stage that they had on camera; so as the band sang you watched the puppets sing too. But besides that, they had dancer boy. Just a guy who did nothing in the band but dance. I want that job! How great would life be if you just had to dance for a band at every concert? I wonder where you apply for jobs like that?

Good times.

I'm a Graduate!!

Yes it's true. Saturday they actually gave me my masters degree! It was SUCH a good night. We had the ceremony at the metro convention center where Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was the guest speaker as he has a Phd from Griffith. Then we went for dinner at the CN Tower 360 restaurant. AMAZING food and what a view! We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day weather wise. The skies have never looked so clear over Toronto, a beautiful sunset with an even better full moon rise. Then, the night out with all my classmates….just pure fun. I haven’t seen these folks in over a year and it was so good to catch up with everyone. All in all, it was perfect, seriously, perfect.

Canadian Thanksgiving

I thought those of you away from home for thanksgiving (and not having me to cook for you) I could at least post some pics i took up at sunridge farm. I forgot how beautiful fall is, all the colours and the smell of chrisp air. The air actually has a smell to it, and its amazing. I was so happy to be able to go to the farm and see all the colours of the trees. *Sigh* Its great to be back here and to remember all the things I missed about Canada

5km!!!

Well I ran 5km today. It tooke me 50 minutes...but i did it, with some walking breaks inbetween the spurts of running. Now i just need to work on my time and running the whole thing without walking.
Tuesday Im going to do 3km again and see how that goes. Maybe Ill be able to run the whole thing!

Vroom Vroom

My car....isnt it great? Cant you just picture me driving it?
Im sure ill post lots of pics of it...because I love it so.
If youre around ill take you for a spin...you know you wanna!!

3 km and counting

So I started today. On my way to running 5km! I started at 9 am and ran 3km, my legs are killing me now, but I guess I shouldn’t complain. I’m actually really excited about the hope that Ill be able to run 5 km before snowfall so I can train all winter for a 10km race in the spring. I really just want to wear a bib and cross a finish line. Trust me I know I wont be WINNING any races, I just want to be in one. That's not too much to expect is it?

alright already!

Okay so someone complained that I haven’t posted anything in a while...So sorry my life is too boring for anything worth a posting! Hear the sarcasm? Anyway, here’s what’s been going on...

I had another interview, that totally bombed!!! Well really, they had already picked the person they were going to hire because the questions they asked me were really dry and the principal just listed the question wrote one comment about my answers and then moved onto the next question. They had no interest in getting to know me or what I had done in the past. They hadn’t even looked at my resume. So that was a big waste of time, although I did get to practice my interview skills which is always a bonus.

Last night I went to the blue jays game. Amazing seats, 12th row from the field. All the fowl balls were flying over our heads; we were worried that one was going to hit us. But I must admit after my two giant game beers I wasn’t really worried about anything! I just love going to live sports events, the beer somehow tastes better when your watching a sports game, doesn’t it?

Also today Pops and I are going to check out some used cars that his buddy is selling. He owns a car dealership and is selling all the cars off cheap! I’m hoping I can find something to suit me for now. I just need wheels to get me around for supply teaching (when that gets started!) and then in a year or two, when I have an income of some kind, I can afford to get the car I want. But this is all talk as of now, so I'll find out this afternoon if there is anything worth test driving. Ill keep you up to date on it all.

Grad is coming up soon. I’m getting excited to dress up, put on a cap and gown and see all the people from my program. It’s been awhile now since we’ve seen each other. I think I might have to buy a new dress too *sincker* poor, poor me.

So that’s it as of now.

Stevie

Did you hear? Yep it's true. Steve Irwin died this morning. Incase you didnt know Steve was a passionate conservationist and wildlife advocate in Australia. He was killed when a stingray barb went through his chest off the great Barrier Reef while filming a new documentry. Its a saaaaad day for the crocks!

Im Baaaack!

Okay so Im back in the land of the living and my little stint into insane-ville is over. Yes I can go down hard...but lucky for me I have padding to bounce back with.
So new attitude and a new blog look. Im done with it all. No more living less. I want to live MORE. Live the most I can while I can, when I have no real commitments. My life should be fan-freaking-tasic, and so it shall be.
I am on a mission. And by the little hair on my chinny chin chin no one better stop in my way. Of course unless they are stopping in for a visit, you know how I love visits, all kinds of visits.
The least I can say is thanks for the sock pulling Jar, Te extraño.

And so today's quote is in honor of your visit and your leaving...again.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down

xoxo

Babes!

Janet and Karl (I was in their wedding in the Yukon 3 years ago) have had a baby boy! Seth, I just love that name! He was born Thursday Aug 24th at 7 lb 13oz.
I have their new email address if you want to wish them well, just email me and ill pass on the address.

I can’t wait to meet him; I can barely believe they are parents now, where has the time gone?

Maybe it would help

Okay so maybe a hug would help. I feel like I should reply to what I wrote yesterday. Not to worry there is no serious depression happening...just vague not happy in my life right now depression, you know the normal, almost 30, what the hell am I doing, kind of depression.
It’s just so strange not living my own life and trying to figure out what I want that life to be. All in all, a work in progress. Sometimes I guess I hit the bumps in the road and the feeling of having no control of my life right now intensifies those bumps to the point where I see them as mountains and I’m alone trying to climb up and over them.
metaphor, metaphor, metaphor blah. Whatever, I’m just trying to say that is life is messy, and when you need to work out what the hell your doing sometimes it hits you hard that you have no idea, clue or plan of where it’s going.
I like to at least have a bit of a plan and right now...I’ve got nadda.
That’s why you need to have friends fly in (literally) to save you and to help you talk it all out. Jaret arrived yesterday and I must tell I’ve never been so happy to hear from someone. It was a total surprise and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Ill keep you posted on my life plans, once I come up with some!

Single....sucks

I’m most likely having my last weekend off for a while and I’m sitting at home wasting it. My friend that lives around here goes away on the weekends to visit her boyfriend. If I want to go downtown to hang out I need to crash there and that causes couch surfering plans which seem too difficult to plan out, plus I have to get there somehow. And besides if I do go out with the girls downtown they all have boyfriends that they are more interested in hanging out with and I end up being the tag along single friend, which I am starting to HATE being.
God who would have thought coming home would lead to a decline in a social life. I was always thinking I was coming home to a great group of friends that I couldn’t wait to see. But in reality, people have lives; they have busy lives and most of the time I’m just crashing in on them making their lives my own. Living with the parents and working this stupid part time job feels like I’m living a non-life. I’m in such a weird, unfriendly, lonely, unwanted part of my life right now. Nothing I do is what I want to do. I don’t have friends that I can play with whenever or that are willing to go on adventures. To tell you the truth I am just so damn bored with it all. I never do anything fun. I work, I sleep, and I live at my parent’s house. Doing anything on the weekend means I do it alone as there is no one that lives near me, on the weekends at least.
God I sound depressed don’t I? Well I guess I am. I’m in a rut and I hate it. I’ve been living someone else’s life for too long now. I wish I could get out of it...but it’s hard to get out of when all you have is yourself and your mom's car. Blah...Ill be in a better mood next time I swear, I hope. See what Mississauga does to a person! Man, I need to get out of here.

Did you call?

What's that you're sick? You need a supply teacher? Here I come to the rescue...dum da da!!!

Yes yes, no need to cheer, I know its exciting. You have heard right. I had an interview and I am now at the very least on the supply list. Who knows there are still 2 weeks left before school starts so I could still get a full time or at least a term of full time. But my god I'm just happy to be on the supply list.

And before you ask, yes I'm still working at goodlife too. Hopefully that will only be for part time come Sept. But as for now things are pretty sweet.

A little less stress on my shoulders that for sure.

Sarah and Lisa

Sarah and Lisa
Originally uploaded by Sala.

Another great girls night out on the TO town!

Our lives as kids

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitch hiking .

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

Aren't you proud that we actually lived through it all?
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Got it!

I got the job. I’ll be working reception at Good Life Gym. Free gym membership, hot guys, and no responsibilities, sounds like the perfect job doesn’t it? I’m really only excited about the free membership perk and the fact that this unimportant job is going to be fun and easy. They wanted me to take a sales position and then move up through management (god knows why) But I turned them down and said I really only wanted reception where I could greet people and take it easy and the two managers that interviewed me were fine with it. I think they were just excited that I wasn’t 16 and I had a ton of experience, both work and life. They even gave me $1.00 raise before I even started. Tuesday is my start date - training day really, so after that I’ll have an idea of what I’ve really gotten myself into.

So this is my last weekend of freedom I’m sure, I'm hanging in TO and my flat mate from oz is coming up to visit. Then on Sunday I'm going to hit the Beaches Jazz festival with Ken and some friends. Last night I went to a charity art auction and then had drinks at the Drake hotel. The Drake is definitely a cool place, I didn’t see anyone famous but it was fun people watching anyway. This is going to be a weekend of Toronto fun, just the way I like it!

Janet's Babes

Janet is due in about 2 weeks. Still waiting to know if its a boy or a girl, but whatever it ends up being its a fun thought to know another Janet will be in this world!

Life as I know it!

Phew, a lot has been going on for a girl like me, with no job and living with the folks.

Life is picking up pace and I’m happy to be running in it. I have a job interview on Monday with Good life. Can you believe it? Me, working at a gym? I’m mostly happy about the free membership perk. Hey, Ill even work for free if I get a membership. It’s worth the cost of the dame thing. So I'm guessing I’m going to be super hot and majorly in shape come Sept when my new life starts *grin*

So I hope this job pans out, not that I can offer them many hours or anything but hey who could resist me? Besides if my hours wont work for them I have another job I’m going for at a clothing store (50% off for employees would really help with my new teacher wardrobe that I have to buy!)

And, I have a lead on a fab apt in High Park, although I think the landlord is a real jerk (only joking Tommy boy) so maybe that would work out and my life would be happy and fun again. Plus, I’m trying to get a good deal on a car.

So lets see if I can sum up this weeks events for you……

1. Job interview at gym to get great new in-shape hot bod (oh, and make a little cash)

2. Possible apt in the west end - which I love - with my best bud

3. I got a NEW phone for $58, to buy it at a store is $250, thank you weird guy in Waterloo! He wanted $120 for it but I got it for $60, however I only had $58 on me so he took that! What a bargain - we just have to unlock it so I can put in a sim card and get it working

4. I need to get my new car sorted so I can actually make it to the west end!

So nothing has happened yet, but I have a major drive to make some cash now so I can move out, and get the car, and pay for the new phone!
All I need now is a job for September teaching with a huge salary and ill be happy as a peach. Everyone cross your fingers for me!

They say its my birthday

Well it's happened. 29 years old and living at the parent's house. One year to go before I shrivel up and die as a spinster.
It’s strange being home for my birthday this year. When you’re living away from home birthdays and such feel like such a big deal. Then when you are home, they, well they aren’t as important.
I miss the parties being thrown for me, and tons of people coming to them who are just happy to have an excuse to party.
Ah well, Happy Birthday to me. Spinsterhood here I come!

Circus Time

Colleen, Eddie and I went to check out the Shrine Circus on Canada day. It was fun minus all the sacry old man clowns. i dont know when or where I developed a fear of clowns but my heart starts to race and I jump a foot in the air if they come near me or Lord help me they TALK to me. So besides me hiding behind Eddie all night I had fun. Something a little different to do when your stuck in the 'Sauga.

Pride Week

I went to my first ever pride day. God what fun! Tom and I went down and enjoyed the people watching...I mean parade watching. Then we met up with Dave, Kenny and well a bunch of people including Sarah and Gus from Taiwan. We had a number of drinks and headed out to Church Street. The beer gardens were wonderful darling! Lots more drinks and dancing and watching the make-outs happening around us...."Red card, You're outta here!"
All in all a fun, crazy, different day. Im glad I went.

Tom showed me how it was done!

Im Having TOO Much Fun!

Dont hate me beacause Im beautiful.
MAC photo booth, my new FAV thing to play with!

Hanging in the Big City

Since I’ve finished my thesis, and all the school work is behind me, I’ve been REALLY busy, doing nothing!

No really, I’ve been getting my applications together, working on my resume and trying to volunteer. But mostly, I’ve been trying to catch up with friends I haven’t truly hung out with in ages.

I’m in the heart of the city right now and got the full T. dot tour yesterday. I mean it, I’ve traveled around a ton of places in the world, mostly where English is not the first language, and yet I still have drama on the subway here! The street car driver actually got out of the car and walked me to where I had to wait for my transfer, then he told the guy where I needed to go and said he would take care of me. (grin) I asked him how he knew I wasn’t from here and the guy laughed and said “honey your smile gave you away as soon as you got on, you’re too nice to be from here” I just laughed at the fact that I’m 28 and 11 ½ months old and this guy was walking me up Queen to be sure I didn’t get lost. I even crack myself up at the stuff that happens to me.
So this mission I was on last night, I made it from the west end, to the east end for dinner, to right downtown for drinks with another group of friends, to back in the west end knocking on the door at 1 am to let me in to crash! What good friends I have to put up with my wanderings!!!

I still need to see a couple more folks and I feel like I’m slowly getting back into it. My fav part of being back here is the fact that I never have to say goodbye to people again…I can truthfully say “Ill see you again soon”
I can’t tell you how good that feels.

Im done!!!

Sweet relief, the thesis is done! My shit is all over my parent's house, and i have been sleeping for the last 2 days straight. God stress really takes you for a spin doesnt it? 2 weeks of not sleeping and working on this paper has worked me over so now my body has shut down.
But now, now i have a new mission...work!
i need cash, i need a plan, and i need to get out of my parent's hair. There isnt even room for me to unpack, Im living out of my suitcases which are in the middle of the living room!
It amazing how much space a person needs. Well we will have to see what happens. Im thinking a car should be high on my list of needs right away. There's so much to do when setting up a life again, but this time im doing it with no money...hmmmmm this is going to be interesting!

Sarah's Welcome Back to Canada Cross Country Tour!

My cross country tour started in Vancouver and stayed with Gus and Sarah, my friends from Taiwan. It was so great to see them and to see Gus finally in Canada! We had a great weekend of hanging out and catching up. I managed to do a bit of work on my thesis and Gus and Sarah continued going to school/work. Later in the week I went to my flat mate from Oz. Katie picked me up from Sarah & Gus' and I moved onto my next friend for some chill time, more catching up and a lot of laughing. Again I did more work on my thesis.

THEN...the trouble trio drove in and shook things up. Laura flew in from Toronto, Mel flew in from Alaska and Cathy drove up from Whistler. The weather was beyond gorgeous so we jumped in the jeep and drove out to Whistler. However Cathy thought I was still a tough outdoors girl and we went for a small hike on top the the mountain called the chief. Well, it was nice, all up hill because we were hiking a mountain! There were stairs, ladders, logs anything and everything you can think we had to climb it. I was doing good until i thought we were at the top and it was only our lunch break! So another hour up. Flat rock we shuffled up with chains to pull ourselves and once we reached the peak...my god! it was so beautiful. You could see all the mountains surrounding you, the ocean to the right, bright sunny clear blue sky and the gasps of breath from everyone around me, they were trying to steal the oxygen I so badly needed!

Heading back down was another story and my legs were shaken so much, although it was hard I was laughing the whole way which of course made it tons easier to breathe!!!
Back down and heading to Whistler, Cathy lives in a 1.2 million dollar log house which is nicer than any hotel Ive stayed at. We made dinner and had a great catch up. The rest of the weekend was full of canoe trips, hikes, and sun bathing...I'm telling you it was the nicest sunniest days Ive seen in about 3 months! It was almost 30 everyday!

Saying goodbye to those girls was hard knowing it might not be until the first wedding that I see them again (of course i don't think the weddings are too far off now) I got back on another plane and have landed in Calgary. I walked in the door said a quick hello to Erin and went straight for baby Jane. My god, she is so cute! Erin is an amazing Mom, as if I had any doubts, and Jane is just the nicest, cutest, happiest kid ever. Tim is very pleased with himself that he made such a cute baby and whenever he walks in the door from work Jane's face lights up. I cant even imagine how big she will be the next time i see her. I'm guessing she will be walking and talking! I almost don't want to go just because I'm going to miss everything about her growing up! (I know its not my baby....but i can at least be the crazy aunt who smothers her in kisses and presents cant i?)
Well I got a lot done on my thesis here, I think my Lit review is done. Now i have to move on to the other aspects of the paper. Only 6000 more words to go!
Ill be in contact after June 4th (D-Day) Oh and trust me Ill be posting tons of pics after that.
If your in Southern O, ill see you soon
xoxoxox

Baby Jane

Erin and Jane in the UGG boots I brought her....she is soooo cute!

So Funny

I swear, too funny. This guy follows me to the clubs and steals my moves!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

Somthing to think about

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't
supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have
your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder
every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it
felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best
friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did.
You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll
eventually lose someone you love.
So take too many pictures, laugh too much,
and love like you've never been hurt because
every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of
happiness you'll never get back

Leaving on a Jet Plane

My bags are packed and ready to go, I'm standing here outside my door, I hate to wake you up to say goodbye....

But I will!

Right, so I'm outta here and I'm signing off now as I travel Canada for the next month. I might be able to put up an update from here to there but we will have to see the access I can get to a computer.

2 weeks in Vancouver, 2 weeks in Calgary and then home to Toronto.
Canada are you ready for me again?

I hope to see you if I can on my trip and wish me luck with all my flights.

Goodbye NZ its been well worth it!

If you know me

If you know me at all you know how much I hate goodbyes. I don't deal well with them at all so I usually always avoid them, but when you are leaving a country for good and you know your not coming back, then the 'goodbye' is inevitable.
I've started my goodbyes this week and I know now that when I say goodbye to someone its forever, a very unsettling feeling. You would think I would be really use to this leaving people thing...But Im not.
I cant believe Im here already, its come and gone so fast.

2 years of school-check!
Head home to get a job-check!
Finally grow up and get back to the reality of real world- don't ever want to check that off.......

This week is going to go by so fast and my suitcases aren't even close to being packed yet. *stress*

To Catch You Up

Lets see, a lot has been going on. Last weekend I went away to Lake Bruner. It was an awesome weekend however it piss poured rain the entire weekend and on top of it all the boys’s broke their boat. We never got to go out on the lake or go water skiing (which secretly I wasn’t going to do anyway) but everyone else was really bummed about it. I was just sorry we didn’t get to go for a speedboat ride!

So we sat around, drank a million bottles of wine and played cranium (my new fav game, Im an expert at humdinger!)

As you can guess, pretty much a dream holiday weekend for me! There were 6 of us, 2 couples, a baby and Greg and I the singletons, although Im pretty sure Greg had other ideas! Ill tell you more about that when and if I see you.



Check out the pics in my photo album link. I know they are not that exciting but give me a break; it was raining the WHOLE weekend.

Too Funny

David Gray!

Let me just say....

Front row center. David Gray was amazing...truly amazing.
Plus I have a new boyfriend, Pete Murry. He opened for David and he is from Australia and Im in LOVE!!!
awesome awesome awesome concert!

More to tell you but im out the door for a long weekend away in cottage country!

I swear this country is trying to kill me!

That’s it! I’ve had it! I swear!

Since I have been in NZ I have
-Fractured my arm
-Had a severe cold for almost 3 months
-And now.... now I have officially thrown my back out.

I spent the morning at the chiropractors and I have an inflamed joint or something.
The doctor had me all over the table: sitting, standing, and bending, everything. This sucks. She said that all I can do is rest and ice it. But resting is the problem, I can’t rest, I can’t sit and I can’t lay down, basically Im an old woman that is falling apart.

I need to get back home where my body might act normal for once. Im so sick and tired of being, well, sick and tired!

Rugby Girls!

As it was Karen's last night here we all went to the Rugby game. Jacqui also joined us, because she knew we would be causing trouble and that means fun!
Ive actually been able to follow the game and I really like it. This is one sport that makes sense and it moves fast so there is always action. Plus the guys arent bad looking either!
Our seats were so great we were only 2 rows off the grass. Everytime the ball was kicked through the goal post it would land in the crowd. We were ducking balls all night. Never got hit though thank god!
The Christchurch Crusaders (black and red) creamed the South Africian Cheetahs 53-17. It was awesome!
After we went out to the bar and had pizza and drinks. We of course went to the rugby bar and low and behold half of the team showed up! And we didnt reccongnize them so we just kept staring at them saying I swear he should be on the team he's huge. It wasnt until the next day when we watched the highlights of the game did we see the guys from the bar on the TV. Yep huge fans we are. Didnt even know it was them. I mean I could have gotten an autograph or something!
It was a fun match no matter, and our seats were awesome. A great way to end off a weekend in NZ. Anyone up for a match when I get home? I can explain it all to you.