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The wonderful world of twitter.

November 29, 2009 By 10 Comments

Twitter has the “favourite” function, and I try to remember to use it every time I see a tweet that I think is funny/thought-provoking/charming. Looking through it today, there are a few that I seriously need to share. You can find my whole list here if you’re friends with me. If you’re not, send me a request and I’ll accept you, promise.

MarthaStewart: i have a very very serious question for all of you: HOW OFTEN DO YOU WASH YOUR SHEETS/CHANGE YOUR BED?? i would like lots of answers please

Oh gosh. Martha, both my wedding and I will be forever thankful for you for imparting upon me your tissue-flower-making wisdom, but your idea of what is “very very serious” and capital-letter worthy in this world needs some adjustment. I didn’t answer this on Twitter, but I’m sure my answer would have to be “not often enough for Martha Stewart standards.”

johncmayer: If you think “Party in the USA” is ironically awesome, go home. If you think it’s authentically awesome, let’s dance.

I find it hard to stop myself from favouriting every second John Mayer tweet. I just love the way he thinks and writes and sings and I could go on and on… instead I will just wait until the next time I am with Reggy to discuss these important matters further.

ericablonde: Not only is my husband the perfect man for me, he’s also the perfect brother for my sisters.

Aww! Love this sentiment. D-dawg really is the bestest (and he reads the blog so bonus points for him!)

whoorl: I truly believe a person’s essence can be summarized in their last 10-20 tweets. Me? Air guitar, lip gloss, making plans and happy joy joy.

Love again! I fully accept and appreciate that everyone has their bad days, but I have been known to unfriend people for constantly posting nothing but negative tweets. Happy tweets make me happy, and there are good moments every day. Tweet about that once in a while. Even if it’s just lip gloss!

CynGagen: RT @kathyireland “Whoever is happy will make others happy as well…” Anne Frank. Thank you all for such a beautiful adventure.

That sums up what I meant in my comments in the previous tweet quite well. Thank you, Ann Frank.

whoorl: “I’m not a really religious guy, but I do pray for opportunities to make fun of people.” HAAAAA. Doesn’t get better than that.

Now I don’t know who Whoorl is quoting there, but that just makes me laugh.

dooce: Me: “Leta, Katey is going to help you–” Leta: “Kate, Mom. Kate. I call her Kate.” Me: “NOTED, TOM CRUISE.”

hahaha! Enough said.

whoorl: Reverse psychology potty training is awesome. (Although, I’m a little disappointed that he’s actually falling for it.)

Apparently I love her tweets! I can totally imagine feeling the same in this situation.

burnace: Cruise Ships: Might as well just rename them “Drunken Maze”.

I’ve never been on a cruise, but this idea very much makes me want to go one one! Thank you, Laura.

nicolerichie: When asking my friend what she’s done on her birthday, she says “Well, I sent my mom flowers because she gave birth to me today”

Such a nice idea!

kasiafink: Last night at alumni dinner, met a funny, wise 95yr old man who told me the secret to a lasting marriage: don’t take yourselves too seriously.

And aren’t we all guilty of this sometimes? This could be my favourite marriage advice of all time.

jonoearle: Leah hasn’t tweeted for 16 hrs. I’m really worried about her.

Sarcastic of course, but hilarious to me! Leah loves her tweets (and I love Leah’s tweets too.)

fragileheart: loves saying things that she’ll regret later. I think it makes life more exciting.

To me this is usually what makes life horrible, but I like thinking of it as exciting. Thanks Reggy!

kylaroma: Sometimes my mom really makes me laugh: “I like spending time just with you, it reminds me of when we used to hang out in the 80′s”

Liiiike… when she was a baby/small child??? Love it.

PerezHilton: P.S. Just because you say “no offense” doesn’t mean it’s not offensive! Duh.

Yes! I hate that saying. When I hear “no offense, but…” I automatically get ready to hear something super rude and offensive.

nicolerichie: I’ve been at the airport for hours. I’m so bored. I think I’m gonna prank call my mom

Sooo randomly amazing.

wishcake: I’ve decided that I love the expression “rise and shine”. I never really thought about it before.

Me either! But now that I have, I’ve decided that I love it too.

taylorswift13: Leno, Access Hollywood, Hannah Montana movie premiere. That’s 5 dresses in one day. I love it.

And I’ve decided that my new goal in life will be to have a five-dress-day.

micblonde: “Be the spark, especially when it’s dark.”

So apparently I sometimes favourite my own tweets. I love this little rule to live by.

laurenblonde: @ericablonde You can make those so easily! It’s just like felt isn’t it?

laurenblonde: @ericablonde omg. I’m mom.

This is funny if you know our mom – her favourite line is “I could make that!” She’s not all talk though – she does go on to make it!

kateblonde: Just spit on Scott while brushing my teeth next to him…sorry hunny! hahaha

I think my love for this tweet is partially how Katelyn spelled hunny (I’ve been spelling it that way ever since), and partially the pure silliness here.

johncmayer: I just voted on People’s “Is John Mayer a Keeper?” poll. I clicked “Love Him” but “Lose Him” is winning at 63%

Guess what I voted??? I love the ability make fun of themselves, in people.

johncmayer: paraphrasing Paltrow on People.com, truly love this line: “You don’t really get it, because if you did, you would like it.”

johncmayer: And I love it without a shred of irony, because it’s so honest. And it’s sort of how I feel more often than not. Isn’t that how we all feel?

Ahh. Yes. I feel like this about so many things – my husband’s intense dislike of John Mayer, for starters.

micblonde: Tipsy Kent: “Baaaabe… why am I so blessed?”

Don’t you love it when your significant other says just the perfect thing? I do, apparently.

leahblonde: loving her girls weekend! Sappy movie, check. Next up – Martinis and babysitting. Not necessarily in that order.

Ohh Leah. You make me laugh.

The end – hope you enjoyed my favourites as much as I do!

Filed Under: humour, micaela, nablopomo, twitter

A kitten, a mustache, and some serious baby excitement.

November 27, 2009 By 8 Comments

I’m working on the living room update, and I have the cutest little helper in the world. Levi needs to be 100% involved in everything we do at all times. He would never, ever consider hanging in out in a different room than Kent or I. I just needed to share this picture of Levi helping me sand the coffee table:

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This is my last post for NaPoBloMo and it’s been fun to see updates by my sisters every day, but I’m actually very glad November is over. Kent and everyone at his restaurant have been celebrating “Movember” this month, growing mustaches to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer. Of course I support the cause, but I’d prefer not to have my kisses with a side order of mustache! On the other hand, I don’t even recognize my dad without his mustache, so maybe it’s something you get used to. Kent has been trying to tell me that next he will be celebrating “Mothousand and Ten” so perhaps it’s something I’ll have to get used to… (no way.) He even has the handlebars goin’ on:

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The end of November also brings us closer to BABY SEASON! Our good friend Laura’s is due on December 29, and Kate’s is due on January 18. How am I supposed to get ready for Christmas when it’s so much more fun to just sit around and ask Kent, “GUESS HOW MANY MORE DAYS!?!?!” and “Look at this picture of Kate’s belly for the 43895th time!!!!” Luckily he’s just as excited as I am so he plays along.

It’s also made me realize how much more fun it is to not find out the sex of your baby in advance. I realize there are advantages and disadvantages to both, but the suspense in not finding out, to me, is pretty amazing. It wouldn’t be nearly as suspenseful, I don’t think, if we already knew what Katelyn or Laura were having. People always say “it’s the only surprise left in life,” and I was reading a book (I forget which one, maybe it wasn’t even a book*) where someone said something like, “What, no one throws surprise parties anymore? No surprise flower deliveries? What surprises have fallen by the wayside in the past few years???” which made me laugh because of how true it is. It’s definitely not the only surprise left in life – but it is sure one of the most exciting! Previously I’d been unsure if I’d want to find out or not when I have kids, but now I’m sure that I won’t.

*I remembered, and it was a book – Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin

Filed Under: animals, cats, micaela, nablopomo, Scott & Kate Plus One

Some living room love.

November 22, 2009 By 9 Comments

My living room needs a little love. Between the wedding which took over my life, and saving for a house, I haven’t really put any effort into making it a beautiful and comfortable place for us. Now that we are both working days, we spend a lot of time hanging out in this room together in the evenings and so it’s really coming to my attention that it needs an update in a big way.

I’m not going to post before photos yet, until I have the after photos, but we have so much old, secondhand furniture that just isn’t very nice that I’d like to get rid of or improve:

- An flowered lazyboy that used to be my Oma’s
- A small fake wood bookshelf that I’d like to replace with a big one
- A scalloped edged coffee table recently bought off craigslist which I will paint
- The old, IKEA (I haaaate having ikea furniture.) coffee table which is in the corner on it’s side, pretending not to exist

And what I need to get:
- A couch or something to replace the lazy boy
- Curtains for the windows
- A large bookshelf to replace small bookshelf
- A floor lamp

These are some photos I’ve saved on my computer over the past bit as inspiration. I apologize that I’m not sure of the source of any of them so if you know, just give me a heads up and I will credit it:

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This coffee table looks a lot like mine and I’d like to paint mine white too. Also, we’ve been looking for a sectional but just can’t find one we love, but I love this one!

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I saved this one when we first moved in as inspiration because with the location of the window and fireplace it’s the same layout as our room and the walls are a similar-ish colour.

And… that’s it! I thought I would have had more but most pictures seem to be kitchens and bedrooms. No wonder I haven’t done anything with ours, I need more ideas and inspiration. Any living rooms out there that you absolutely love?

Filed Under: decorating, micaela

What I believe today.

November 17, 2009 By 10 Comments

I’m feeling MUCH better now. Looking back on last week I see now that every day was filled with small letdowns that just added up and weighed me down. I like how we measure things in days; weeks; months, so that you always feel like you have the opportunity for a fresh start.

Today I believe:

  • That if you can count on a few fingers the people you could call anytime, with no plan or conversation in mind, then that’s enough.
  • That the world would be a better place if every girl had four sisters.
  • That sometimes you have to know when to give up on something that hasn’t been working the way you need it to for a long time.
  • That thing that feels like a problem… well maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s just life. And maybe letting it make you crazy will only result in you being crazy. Let it be.
  • That you should spend approximately 50% of your time with your significant other being ridiculously silly. Because really who else do you get to do that with?
  • That Lauren has the cutest face in the world and if you start looking at it you won’t be able to stop. I fully admit to my “staring at Lauren” problem.
Filed Under: life, micaela

When life is hard.

November 12, 2009 By 8 Comments

Sometimes I feel like there is no point to me blogging these days. The best blog posts to me are the ones that are open and honest like this one or many of this girl’s. Since so many of our readers are people that I know in real life it’s often easier just to gloss over the details that aren’t pretty or happy.

But you know what? I also love the blogs that just post pretty pictures of perfect lives because I like to believe that some people’s lives really are that way all the time. I mean it’s okay to be happy and to blog about that. But not when it’s just not how you feel. Even the most positive blogger, I like to think, reaches that point where they have to say, you know what? Sometimes life is HARD.

Sometimes life is hard.

I am an underemployed girl feeling like life is more stagnant that I want it to be.

I am a girl who knows I can get a lot more out of life than I am, right now. I am a girl who knows that I can put into life a lot more than I am right now.

I am a girl who feels my husband’s emotions, both the good ones and the bad ones, way too much and lets them affect me instead of just being me, which brings circles of positivity (which are wonderful) or negativity (not so wonderful.)

I am a girl who lets feelings of being unwanted by a friend ruin her day.

I am a girl who sometimes finds it hard to trust and sometimes finds it impossible.

I’m a girl who looks towards the future instead of living in the present, which really, is all I ever have.

I am a girl who wastes precious seconds of her life with these things that I know are not me, not really, or not the me I would prefer to be.

I’m aching to write about all of the good things so, I don’t know, so you won’t feel sorry for me? So I won’t feel sorry for myself? Because something in me says you shouldn’t end a blog sadly? Sometimes life is good and sometimes life is great but right now I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about how sometimes, life is HARD. You know?

Filed Under: micaela, not so happy, personal, relationships

Micaela & Kent's Wedding #2: At the church.

November 12, 2009 By 6 Comments

There were big time nerves:

There were shaky hands and struggles with the ring:

There was an overly passionate first kiss:

There were the particular feelings of happiness that were brand new:

There were family and friends by the hundreds:

There were missing pen mishaps and more laughter:

There were two beautiful voices and one beautiful pianist up in the balcony – sadly not pictured.

There were perfectly supportive friends:

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And there was now a husband and a wife.

(Next up – the reception – but not until next month as my flickr has reached it’s limit.)

Filed Under: micaela, Wedding

Micaela and Kent's Wedding #1: At the farm.

November 7, 2009 By 12 Comments

Some pictures of the ladies and a few men getting ready at my parent’s farm on our wedding day. Please enjoy because it took me forever and a day and more than a few stressed out moments to 1) choose the photos and 2) actually upload them without my computer dying.

My dress, made by the talented Couturesmith

Bart, our Dutch farmhand this summer got to come to the wedding. He opted to wear a bow tie. So cute. Actually he had us take a poll, and the bow tie won over the regular tie.

Krista was our hairdresser and is a family friend. She has done an amazing job on my hair for Katelyn, Erica, and my own wedding and is just the sweetest girl ever. If you are in the London, Ontario area and need a hairdresser Krista is your girl! Let me know and I will give you her info.

My bridesmaid Michelle and her adorable dimple. They requested hair flowers which I thought was a nice touch.


Pretty sure I had the cutest bridesmaids ever!


A nice one of my parents.


Leah and dad! So sweet.


My friend Dane drove us around in his amazing car. The car shots are some of my faves (and my bouquet? Amazing.)

The town my sisters and I grew up in was having its annual garage sale that day so we stopped in. I picked up a veil for $5 which you can kind of see in this shot:

And then we were off to the church! To be continued…

Filed Under: micaela, nablopomo, Wedding Tagged With: , ,

November.

November 2, 2009 By 14 Comments

This was going to be my first wedding post – I chose pictures, got them all ready to upload on my flickr… and then Explorer froze. I tried again, and it froze again. Repeat. Repeat. So since I have to leave for work soon, you’ll have to keep waiting for a couple days (sorry, Sally.)

Instead I will just have to chatter, I guess.

So it’s November – for many people it’s a horrible month full of cold, dark, dreary days but for me it’s always been a special month because my birthday is this month. And because Fall is my favourite season. Now it’s even better because of Nanoblomo.

My plans/goals for this month:

1. Find a real jobbbbbbb. I don’t think I can last another month at the coffee shop. Not that it’s a horrible time, I actually enjoy most of my time there a lot, but you know. It’s a coffee shop.

2. Have a fabulous birthday weekend! My plans include celebrating on Saturday night with a blogger friend, Fragileheart.

3. Get a new camera. I want a Canon Rebel very badly! And learn how to use it.

4. Plan a baby shower for Kate and the raspbaby. I am new at all of this baby stuff so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

5. Finish all of my wedding blogs so I can stop thinking about it… and win at Nanoblomo!

6. Go to the Hills Aftershow!!! Tomorrow my friend Jen and I are going to go be in the audience and I am way too excited about it. I have been watching it since it started, and I love the hosts Dan and Jessi. I’m so impressed that it’s a Canadian show that has made it so big, I actually like it more than I like the Hills.

7. I swear I’ve been sitting here for 10 minutes thinking of things, writing things down and then deciding they are way too boring to have on the blog (things like, clean out my car.) It’s making me feel very dull. So my number seven goal will be to add something new and exciting to my life this month. Ooh la la. What should it be?? Tell me what you think.

Filed Under: life, micaela

Three days of Micaela.

October 22, 2009 By 15 Comments

No expanding belly from this girl, but I do have a cute kitten…

Tuesday:

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Wednesday (wishing Levi would behaaaaaaave for once):

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Thursday (Levi had enough of the madness by today.) Guess what I’m holding??:

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Just…. because!

(Also, only a couple of days left to enter Lauren’s giveaway!)

Filed Under: humour, kittens, micaela

Oh yes, Micaela blogged.

October 17, 2009 By 11 Comments

So apparently the married version of Micaela does not blog, which is kind of sad and I intend to change that! Right now I will re-cap you on the exciting shenanigans going on in my life! (Or lack thereof, really.) To make up for my lackage of posting in the past couple months this post will be full of photos. Get ready. Get set.

1. I’ve been trying to embrace Toronto life and do lots of sightseeing while I’m living here. In the past couple months I’ve visited Casa Loma, a Jays Game, the Ukranian street festival, and to the “Creativ Show.” It’s been a busy couple of months getting back into life post-wedding, so this is just the beginning. Here I am at the Jays game!

2. We had a child! Sort of… Kent surprised me by getting us an adorable little kitten which I named Levi and he middle-named Maclean. Levi is much less maintenance than the real deal, although he does scratch and bite quite a bit more. The nicknames for our little ball of fluff are endless. Example: Levi = Leviticus = Levitate = Tater = Tater Tot = Baby Potato. Here’s one of our endless selection of pictures of him. Cutest little thing ever:

3. There was a few celebrations: Our first married holiday (Thanksgiving) which included lovely outdoor and seasonal things like pie baking, dog walking, apple orchards, and a campfire. My town fair, a celebration that I haven’t missed in all of my 25 years. And, Kent turned the BIG 3-0 yesterday! I can’t even belive that he is 30 and that I’ve known him since he was 26. Usually it feels like I’ve only known him about two days. I took him out for a little surprise dinner and took this quick family photo. Tomorrow we will celebrate with friends and family. This is our family, circa 2009,  complete with a coat over our heads (thanks Kent) and a kitten considering which part of my neck to bite into.

4. A little foray into being an artist! My mom called this morning and invited me to a crafting show with her and my Oma. They are avid sewers and quilters but I picked up none of these genes or much interest in them aside from loving all of the quilts I get as gifts. Still, since my previous plans included house cleaning and new job hunting, I could not say no. Spending the day with these ladies in their element was a great time, and I even did a craft! We saw a (dutch! booyah!) booth called Paverpol where people were making these amazing outfits on little dress forms using cloths covered in some sort of textile hardener that looks like mud. Mom and I signed up, paid $10 each and here are the photos of our journey.

Dress forms before shot:

About to drape the cloth:

 ”Sculpting!”:

And the finished products! I don’t know if the photos do them justice, but they were so easy and look so amazing!

 

 

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Mom’s:

Mine (less awesome… but still okay!) – the final version sitting on my mantle tonight:

That’s just a few bits and pieces of my life, and I promise to get back into my weekly blogging so I won’t have these huge recaps. I do love blogging, really. 

Question pour vous: What crafty/artsy thing have you done lately or been really wanting/planning to do?

Filed Under: cats, fashion, Holidays, kittens, life, micaela
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