Aug
22
I got kicked out of my own bed last night.
Filed Under birthday, love, random | 16 Comments
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.
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Jun
26
An “I Love You” I Will Always Remember
Filed Under Calgary, cars, love, personal, relationships | 4 Comments
Tim and I have been in a relationship together for two years, seven months, and nineteen days, and approximately sixty-five thousand kisses. We are a pretty affectionate couple, and tell each other how much we love each other about seven or eight times a day, give or take a million. I will always fondly remember the first time he told me he loved me, but recently I had someone say those three magic words to me that may have even topped the first time he whispered them to me. It was … get ready … his mother! My possible future mother-in-law. I wouldn’t say that Tim’s mom and I are especially close or anything - I mean, I think she is a wonderful mother, and a great and very kind person and has never been anything less than supportive of me and Tim, but having lived two hours away from her while in University, topped with the fact that I don’t spend too many holidays there (because I can’t bear to leave my OWN family) .. well let’s just say that Tim has been to the Bontje farm on many many many more occasions than I have been to his.
The morning Tim and I took off on our adventure of a lifetime together, Tim’s mom, Maria, made us a big brekky and had some of her best friends over to say godbye to Tim (and me, I guess!). Well, by this time the car was jam-packed, we were prepared for the worst gas-mileage Tims ‘94 Mercury Grand Marquis had EVER gotten, and Maria leaned over to me and asked me not to murder her son, but to be patient with him as he has yet to realize that I am always right, and told me that she loved me then gave me a huge big loving welcome-to-the-family hug. And I, well I just just stood there dumbfounded while fighting back the tears. But I gained my composure, returned the love and hugged her back really hard. It was such a special moment, one that I will always remember. If Tim and I ever take the big walk down the aisle (alongside Mic and Kent), I can know that my new family will love me and treat me just as well as my current one.
As soon as we drove away I turned to Tim and said “YOUR MOM JUST TOLD ME THAT SHE LOVES ME!” Typically male, Tim looked at me confused and said … “So?”
Apr
26
I’ll Let You Buy Salt if You Buy Me a Diamond Ring
Filed Under life, love, micaela, psychology, relationships | 6 Comments
One important thing I have learned while dating Kent is that if I put an idea into his head, there is a good chance it will come out of his mouth as his own idea a few weeks later. Leah calls this A Sign of an Abusive Relationship. You might call it Manipulative. I call it Being Resourceful. And I promise, I only use it for good. For example: Kent drinks a LOT of diet coke. He probably drinks more per day than I would even consider drinking in a month. Which of course is really bad for him, so when he complained that he was gaining weight, I suggested maybe it was all the diet coke. No, he said, diet coke is good for you, coke is bad for you because of all the sugar. Two weeks later he said to me “I feel like I’m gaining weight. I think it’s all the diet coke.” SUCCESS! Yesterday he drank three glasses of water at work and I guess only about a million minus three glasses of diet coke. He’s a chef, I guess they get thirsty. Plus diet coke is free at the restaurant. So I suppose I’m getting somewhere, and he is three glasses of diet coke less likely to die of aspartane-related illnesses.
I also decided that if I ever want to get engaged or married or anything fun like that, I should start putting that idea into his head as well. Not that I need to get engaged RIGHT NOW, but it’s always good to start planning ahead, plus it’s fun to talk about it. I have managed to work the idea of diamonds into many conversations, for example this one:
Kent: I found this pink Himalayan salt for $200 a pound on the internet…. *a few minutes later* What’s our postal code?
Me: Are you buying $200 salt?
Kent: No, I’m buying $8 salt. I’ll buy you something too, okay?
Micaela: Is it sparkly?
This seems to be working too, but not quite in the way that I originally planned.
Micaela: Where do you think you’d be in your life right now if you weren’t dating me?
Kent: Looking for you.
Micaela: Awww.
Kent: Does that get me out of buying a ring?
Feb
26
Heidi Klum Pregnant, and other things I love.
Filed Under blonde, love, micaela, relationships, thoughts | 5 Comments
For the past couple of weeks I have been making my way through season 2 of Project Runway. There is some great designing, I am completely in love with Chloe and Daniel, and Santino’s impressions of Tim Gunn are hilarious. However, the most awe-inspiring part of this season for me so far, although I haven’t made it to Olympus Fashion Week yet, is HEIDI KLUM in all her pregnant glory. Seriously:
Am I wrong???? I hope to look 1/3 as good as her when I am pregnant, off in the very distant future (sorry Leah).
Other things I love these days:
1. Late night blogging and late night glasses of wine.
2. Ladies night on Friday, at which 3 of the five blondes outlasted all of the other tables of ladies in our town, and in fact all of the other tables, until we were left sitting on the floor, very proud of our #1 status:
Clockwise from top left is me, Leah, Katelyn, and my best friend of 19 years, Michelle.
3. The Sex and the City movie!!! Which doesn’t come out for 3 months but I am anxiously awaiting.
4. The book I am currently reading, Manhattan: When I was Young:
5. My crazy, fun, cute boyfriend who I got to spend the whole day with today (unheard of for us)… and by the end of the day he still couldn’t be in a different room from me for more than 12 seconds. I like to think that I am totally loveable, not that he is needy… Just kidding, he isn’t needy (I don’t think.) Just kidding again…
6. My sistas! Kate’s wedding day, pretty dresses, Sandy and Marcie, Leah’s pose, and all of the things that make this picture great:
And a million other things… all for another day.
Micaela.
