pictures

my big plan is to start scrapbooking. i decided to start with recent pictures so that i can get caught up and working backwards won't be as stressful if i have now finished.

i can't believe how many pictures we take now that we have a digital camera. i don't know how people can be so organized to scrapbook well. holy shit.

we actually won

funny story.. well kinda. we had our replay of the semi final game tonight for hockey. the team we're playing is really rought, but miraculously the game isn't as bad as usual. in the third period they score. 1-0 them. then we score and it's huge! and then we go into 5-minute sudden death overtime. the same girl who scored for us puts the puck on the goal line and i tap it in. we win! everybody's happy! girlie there tells the ref and the whole team that she put the puck in the net. fine. bitch.

then knitting was good. we were all yawning around 10pm so that was bad. i still didn't get home until 11:30. i left my hockey gear in the car because bringing it in is loud and i didn't want to wake the kitties. who am i kidding?

i'm getting through the great gatsby in french and i'm finding it better than it was in english, but i think it's because it's almost like i'm skimming with all the words i don't understand. i look forward to reading it every night though.

i watched shawn of the dead last night. it was a really funny movie. i especially like when shawn demonstrates killing his girlfriend and himself. maybe you'll know the part if you've seen it. thanks to goodlife for giving me free rentals.

one_more_time

do you ever worry that you're going to forget all the funny things that have happened to you? things that made you smile?

i had a good day. i slept in and went to the gym and did groceries and stuff like that then went to french class. i got home and watched jeopardy and the amazing race and a thing about cleft lips and pallets. there's a really neat organization operationsmile.org who send doctors and nurses all over the place to perform surgury on kids so they can smile. if i was a doctor i would sign up for a two week tour.

avril lavigne is coming to ottawa. why isn't kelly clarkson?

i told you

i said i would keep you updated about my grandfather and his car situation. monday he went out and bought a mercedes, though he surprised me and bought a 1999. he went out today to look at houses. crazy crazy.

i had a good weekend. it was busy but relaxing, and nice to have jon around and to see everyone.

tomorrow i'll start posting regularly again.

so many changes

so i waited to post until more people told me about where they host their sites. i got three responses (and one earlier) so that's not too bad.

i had hockey last night... semi final action in arnprior. we tied, which is good and bad. good because we didn't lose. bad because we have to replay the game, instead of going into shootouts or some other tie-breaker. so we have to play again. at least this time our goalie will be there. we pulled up another goalie and she did great, before and after she hyper-extended her knee. i feel weird because i missed my french class to go to the game.

i was all excited because i thought we might be going to thunder bay for the weekend (it being a long weekend for those of us (not me) who work), but we aren't going.

i sent a whole bunch of pictures to be printed and i'm going to make a scrapbook with them for 2004 and start on 2005. this is exciting stuff. okay, maybe it's only exciting for me and the lady who's selling me all the scrapbooking stuff.

did anyone else think that 24 was really slow this week? i felt like it lasted two hours instead of just one. in my opinion that was the worst episode of all four seasons. monday was just a big disappointment, looking back. pilates sucked too. the y keeps letting beginners into the advanced class so we can't build on past weeks we have to learn how to breathe every class. i definitely won't be signing up for that again. but i have my new goodlife membership to get me in shape. i had my orientation today and i learned how to use all the machines (the weight is air pressure - how cool is that?

my grandparents are moving back from holland.. in with my parents again. so i spent a lot of time today helping my mom clean their house. i give my grandfather till the middle of next week to have bought another mercedes. and i think i'm being generous. wednesday. i'll keep you posted.

hosting

where are you hosting your website? what is a good price per year to host?

not sure what to say

i'm really not sure what to say. i've been getting annonymous comments and i don't know how to respond. so i don't comment back. is that bad?

i keep on falling.... in and out of love with you

today was a good day. i really do like the warm weather and the fact that i have my own car to zoom around in (in which to zoom around). i got paid again by ei so i went to bayshore and bought myself three shirts. nothing fancy. that might come later. and i got the incredibles, which we watched tonight after my french class. i've been reading the great gatsby in french and i'm happy to report that my french teacher commented today on my speaking saying that i was improving a lot. thank you, gatsby.

breaking news (well possibly not): both our cats can now jump on the counter.

so i went to that class yesterday (body pump at goodlife) and my body is still killing me. so i didn't go to the intro to cycling class today and i might not go to the two classes i was planning on attending tomorrow. we will see how i feel in the morning. i'll keep you updated i'm sure.

year-versary

happy one year-versary to this blog two days ago (march 12). yay me!

kicked my ass!

i did a body pump class today at goodlife and it kicked my ass. my quads almost made me fall down stairs all afternoon. they're doing much better now, thanks. tomorrow is an intro to spinning class. i don't know if i'm looking forward to it or not. i guess i'll have to wait and see how it goes.

24 tonight was awesome (when is it not?).

not much else to report. i have to say that i'm glad i'm not in school right now because now used to be crunch time for me. everything is due tomorrow or in the next couple of weeks at least and then you have to start worrying about exams and finding the time to study for those all while trying to keep yourself sane by eating and getting fresh air and finding those spare minutes to kill the kingston bugs that are everywhere. it was hell and i'm glad it's done. oh, i didn't even mention the trying to find a job for the summer aspect of this oh-so-fun time of year. and what about finding a place to live next year/the summer? yuck.

i have to do laundry.

why be YOU when you can be NEW?

jon and i had a date night friday night. we went out and i ate mcdonalds and then we saw robots in kanata. i can't remember the last time we saw a movie together alone. the movie was really funny. i laughed a lot a lot.

then yesterday we went hog-wild at ikea trying to get cat-proof furniture. we got a new wall shelf and a coffe and side table plus a dvd holder thingy. we spent a lot of the afternoon getting it all put together. we had to rearrange our living room. we moved the couches around and took down the wall unit and the shelf that rolo was always getting on. i like the room now but it's definitely missing something on the wall. that will come soon enough.

speaking of walls, i got jon's diploma framed and it's now on the wall in the dining room. and soon enough the picture from my grad that sarah took and framed for me will be up on the wall in there too.

the dvd rack is supposed to be up on a wall but we don't have wall space that's useable in the basement so for right now it's sitting on an end table. it's sexy though. i really like it.

i had a hockey game last night. it's our second (of three) playoff game and we won 7-0. highlites: i scored a goal, and, during my first shift, i took out my own center (head-on collision, sent her flying, and gave myself a headache for the rest of the game). our third and final playoff game is next sunday night, somewhere in the east end. depending on where we finish (first or second, cause otherwise we don't move on) we play the following tuesday or thursday nights. i would prefer to not play in arnprior, so i think i want to play thursday.

i decided to play with the nepean sharks this summer and i have been welcomed to their website/forum. i'm looking forward to playing ball again. i feel like it's been a year since i played.

i finished all the books i have so i started the french novel that i picked up from the resource center at my french school. gatsby, le magnifique is a little hard, but i'm getting through it. i imagine it will take me the whole three weeks i have it for.

the last thing i want to tell you about is my free week long membership to goodlife fitness. i plan on attending 6 or so fitness classes, but likely i won't be using the gym part of it much since i really really don't like doing that. i get bored easily. i'm still going to my pilates class every monday night. i'm a busy girl i tell ya.

free money!

i just got money from ei. sweet sweet sweet! now i can go and find a volunteer position.

the inside

so here's a picture of the inside of the car with all the red.

fear IS a factor

you know what i've been watching a lot lately? fear factor. joe rogan is great. he pumps up all the players and then gets the other people to talk shit around each others' backs. the show wouldn't be half as cool without him.

it smells like paint in our house because parts of the car are being painted in the basement. everything on the inside is red, but things under the hood are changing to blue.

i haven't been feeling like myself today. i'm hoping tomorrow is better. i have some stuff to do before i have to leave for french. you know how hard it is to stand and wait for the bus with the new car sitting in the driveway begging to be driven? it's mega hard.

look what i can do!

i made this:




i was learning how to use double pointed needles and didn't want to throw away what i had already done so i kept going and finally made it into a bag for my needles. ugly? yes. useful? kinda.

i had my first french class tonight. it was fun. we got a new textbook and everything. i'm happy that i have something else to get me out of the house. one of the new people works at transport canada and says she might have a job for me. who knows. maybe i'll even get a job out of the deal.

during the day today i went out to price out some scrapbooking things to see if i can get them cheaper than from creative memories. i think i could, but i can't tell if they're of the same quality. more investigating is required.

i did it!

i finally signed up for my french class. it starts tomorrow night. just like last session i go every tuesday and thursday nights for 2 hours for the next 7 weeks or so. the nice lady on the phone was telling me that i can come in anytime before my class to pick up my book. she's like: "i guess that would be today since your class starts tomorrow". guess so. is that a problem? didn't think so.

pilates starts tonight. i'm glad. i'm terrible at doing anything on my own so i need the classes to get off my ass. plus 24 is tonight. tonight = good night.

pilate on!

don't be mean

my little scrapbook party just ended. i have to say that i had a great time. it was me and julie and marianne and shauna, the lady from creative memories. we each made a 12" by 12" page. i think mine turned out well. i really want to start doing this seriously, but it all starts with me printing my pictures, something i'm not very good at. but that's going to change. i've already bought the pre-paid package of 100 prints from loblaws. i just need to send in my pictures. that's my goal for this coming week.

another goal: register for french classes.. since they start tuesday night.

i bought a new winter coat today. it was on mega sale at sport chek at the mall. it's red. i've never had a red coat before. i'm happy. i'm happy i branched away from blue.

we went and hung out with my dad today for a bit. my mom's out of town for the weekend doing job stuff (at another golf show). we thought he might be lonely. plus it gave us an excuse to drive around. the new car is still great as can be. it's getting redder and redder by the day. right, the picture of the interior. soon, my pretty.

we saw be cool last night. it was funny enough. what was really funny was the guys behind us spilling some candy in the middle of the movie and hearing it fall everywhere and fall down to the row we were on. after the movie we noticed empty beer cans and tons and tons of sun flower seeds where they were sitting. so they were laughing so loud cause they were drunk. oh, i get it!

a little incident

there was a little incident tonight with me and a pot full of boiling water. i managed to burn my hand and in my reaction to get my hand away from the ouch splashed boiling water into my face. i have a couple red marks but no blisters. thankfully.

the neons in our car are finally working and one day i'll take a picture of the interior and post it here for all to see. it's all very red.

scrapbooking this saturday is a confirmed go. this could be fun or it could be not so much fun. but i'm guessing the former.

now now there there

wow snow. i thought we were done with that shit already. apparently not.

i like how i get emails from my "friends" (people i used to know who still think we're close) and they're asking how school is going. well it's going well except I'M NOT IN SCHOOL! retards. it's weird how you can't think of other people. you think that everyone does what you do. it's hard i know, but try and realize that not everyone is like you. please.

i'm going to take another french course. i just have to call them and register. and i'm going to do it all in french. that's the plan at least. i won't cry if it doesn't happen though. other decisions made by me lately: i'm going to play ball this summer with nepean. it's cheap and the girls seem nice. we'll see how i feel mid-july.

update

my life hasn't changed all that much since we picked up our new car. meaning i still spend most of my days at home. i think i'm happier though. does that make me materialistic?

i'm collecting t4s these days. i have a nice pile. i know i said i didn't know what one was but i was lying. i have t4s coming out ... well, they're everywhere.

i think i'm going to take up computer games to pass the time. i know we have a million on this computer i just have to learn how to get into them and then how to play and then.. who am i kidding? i'll just stick with my spider solitaire. no! i can't since someone deleted it. at least there's still yahoo games.