Oct
15
Can you define your life in six words?
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I don’t know about some of the other fiveblondes, but my favourite website is Postsecret.com, and two of my favourite books are the two Postsecret books I own. Every weekend I (unlike most people) get excited for Sunday to roll around so that I can jump over to Postsecret.com and look at all the new secrets!
Even though I will always love Postsecret, I’ve found a couple of new sites/books kind of like it! One is Six Word Memoirs. This is a site where people post about their lives in SIX WORDS! It could be a part of their life, or something they’ve experienced, but I still find it fascinating! While I was looking at the Postsecret book on Amazon, it recommended me a book (don’t you love it when they recommend you books?). This book was called “Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant To See”. This is by far the cutest book EVER! It has original pictures of love letters from random people that were found in random places around the world. Some of them are even on things like cocktail napkins, and some of them are heartbreak, like the word “liar” written 183 times.
Hope you enjoyed these books/sites, because I LOVE them!
Anyone else have any books like these that they love? Share!
By the way, I should probably STOP making blog posts in order to keep away from studying. I have a feeling it won’t be very helpful to my successful university career…
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Oct
14
Some Birthday Lovin.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my one and only boy, Kento!
Here are a few things that I love about him!
He’s always a good time:
He fits right in with the family:
He’s crazy talented at sports (first day snowboarding right here):
He is a wonderful chef and he truly loves what he does and is always trying to improve at it.
He loves to travel and always wants to see new things:
He enjoys (puts up with?) the craziness that is my family and friends:
…actually, he’s usually as crazy as the rest of us:
He’s a fine fisherman:
He is insanely talented at guitar:
His dream is to one day have a family that looks like this (pictures by Laura Novak:
BUT most importantly to my life, he loooooves me:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENT!!!!!!!
Aug
28
Surprises!
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On Saturday night after I got back from a week facilitating at a camp, Kent and I headed up to Toronto for the start of our small vacation. We got to his parents house late and went to bed right away. The next morning we woke up and ate one of his dad’s AMAZING breakfasts that he always makes when we’re there (and, I have a feeling, when we are not there too), and headed off for my first (of many) surprises for the weekend. We met Kent’s friend Ryan and Ryan’s girlfriend Perola at Horseshoe Valley for some Tree Top Trekking Adventures AND the longest zip line in Canada! It was pretty awesome and also REALLY challenging (my abs hurt for a few days after). Kent and I both finished the beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses. Next we went out for dinner with Ryan and Perola and headed to their house for the night. There we hung out and played lots of euchre - I always take advantage of situations in which I am with 3 other people who all know how to play euchre!
On Monday we had a lazy morning at Ryan’s house, then Kent swam down a waterfall and I was terrified for his life, then headed off to Huntsville where we went to a restaurant called the Cottage, where we had our first date two summers ago. We ate there, did a little shopping, did a hike, and then I had my next surprise of the trip, Kent had booked us a room at the Deerhurst Resort! He told me to wait outside in the parking lot while he went inside and got our keys… by this point I was getting a little suspicious. So I sat in the parking lot and read and he finally came out and we went up to our room, which was a beautiful suite. He told me to wait outside the room and he’d go in and “see if it was nice.” This made me even more suspicious but when I went into the room everything seemed to be in order. We went for a swim at the Deerhurst beach, played some basketball, went for dinner at the Deerhurst restaurant, drank lots of champagne and just had a great evening hanging out together.
Aug
22
I got kicked out of my own bed last night.
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I got kicked out of my own bed last night.
There I was sleeping away, when all of a sudden I heard a very familiar voice:
“You’re snoring too much! Go sleep on the couch.”
Obediently, and also because I’m a sucker and refused to be relegated to the couch the evening before, I moved my sleepy bum to the couch and there I finished the night. Now, I’m not normally a snorer. It’s just that after an overly exhausting birthday celebration trip to Cedar Point (apparently aging does this to you), I managed to pick up a nasty cold that’s been going around. A friend we saw last Friday now has it, as does a co-worker I share my office with. Perhaps the most frustrating part is that my nose isn’t stuffed up at all - it’s all in my throat. It hurts to swallow.
It’s 11:30 and I just chugged a Neo-Citran, so I’m going to make the rest of this short and in point-form, because that’s what lazy bloggers do (I am totally kidding, lazy bloggers just post a picture, but said laziness can be forgiven when said picture is accompanied with a witty caption, and oh good god I am alienating readers now, YOU ARE NOT LAZY! Did you see I updated the blogroll?) because it’s 11:30 and I just chugged a Neo-Citran:
1. Twilight. Started reading it. Enjoying it, but I’m now really pissed that I already know various plot points. I “spoil” movies and TV shows for myself all the time because I love to be ‘in the know’, but I don’t think I’ve ever spoiled a book before (with the exception of Harry Potter 7, but that doesn’t count because it was the seventh in a series. And because I say it doesn’t count). I don’t know how to explain my reading habits.
2. 
Isn’t Mr X a cutie? I couldn’t find quite the right balance between the black and brown for his hair/facial hair colour, so I alternated. Also, although he owns several similar blue and white button-up shirts (I have the iron burns to prove it), he doesn’t own a jacket like the picture, but isn’t it nice?
3. Besides the fact that I am now officially in my late twenties, gawd I feel old. Physically old (thanks to the cold) and mentally old as my friends marry and procreate. There is so much more here that I’m leaving it for another day.
Wish me luck as I try to make it through the night without being kicked out of bed.
