At least I’m a cute raccoon.

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Mr. X and I had a very busy weekend. He had an urge to rearrange all of our furniture so that we could fit his New Bike! inside the house when we pick it up on Tuesday.

Did I mention he bought a bike?

So now our apartment is rearranged, providing Max with lots of stimulation for his little kitty-brain. Seriously, if you ever think your cat is getting bored with his life of being trapped in your home (especially when said home consists of 6 small rooms), just move things around. It’s like Disneyworld for cats.

Speaking of animals, Mr X finally ventured into our barn for the first time! Although we’ve been together over 5 years, up until now the barn has been one place he has adamantly refused to go. We were at the farm trading vehicles and talking to Dad when Dad suggested that we see where they will soon be building the new office and washroom (the barn has been recently majorly renovated. You might say, torn down and re-built). I immediately said YES! and we didn’t give Mr X a choice. Off we went! He wouldn’t touch any of the pigs (not even the day-old piglets), but I feel it was a major step in our relationship. I can scratch that marriage ultimatum off the list (I told him that the wedding would not go down unless he had gone into the barn. I don’t think he realized how serious I was).

On Sunday, Mr X, myself, Katelyn, Scott, Micaela and Kent went golfing. It was a beautiful day - except for the wind. Our course is often very windy and Sunday was no different. I was stupid and forgot to put on sunscreen. My legs, arms, and face are bright red. BRIGHT red…except where I was wearing my sunglasses, prompting this comment from Mr X later in the evening:

X: “You look cute.”

E: “Do I look like a cute tomato?”

X: “No…a cute raccoon.”

So there you have it. I look like a cute raccoon, slathered in aloe vera gel.

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Jul

11

Redeeming myself after a month long vacation from blogging

Filed Under friends, life, micaela, personal, summer, thoughts | 10 Comments

You may have noticed that I have not written in here for a LONG time! Well I have good reasons… well sort of. I have had a crazily busy spring and start-of-summer. I have been away about 7 out of the last 10 weekends, I’d say. But don’t feel sorry for me, all of those weekends, aside from Brownie camp and a training weekend for a camp in Toronto, have been strictly for fun purposes - for example, a concert in Toronto (Leonard Cohen - AMAZING SHOW), a musical in Toronto (Dirty Dancing - also an amazing weekend!), visiting Kent’s family in Toronto, a weekend at my friend Rebecca’s cottage at Turkey Point, and I spent this past week at my best friend Michelle’s cottage in Muskoka. An excellent week of lots of boating, sunbathing, ATV-ing, waterskiing, tubing, campfire-ing, eating, and reading. I had a wonderful time hanging out with my two longest best friends and our boyfriends. And I will admit it - I was not one of the ones doing the waterskiing. Tubing I am okay with, but waterskiing just seems over the top scary to me, weirdly enough, considering I grew up snow-skiing and snowboarding just about every day in the winter. I have tried surfing while I was in South Africa, and I am not afraid of things like roller coasters or high diving boards. This week I decided it was probably because, while I swam in lakes and oceans tons as a child, I didn’t spend any time on boats (besides canoes) and I think I only have one memory of tubing as a kid and it does not end very well! We definitely were not deprived children, don’t get me wrong, but my parents preferred vacations (trips out west to visit family, camping trips everywhere, road trips through the States and Canada, trips to Disney World, Europe, ski vacations in Vermont…) to cottaging. I think I’ll be the same way when I’m a parent. Cottaging is relaxing and all, but I definitely prefer the excitement and culture that you get while travelling.

Anyways back to my point, today I visited Katelyn at work and I asked her if she had ever been waterskiing, and she answered “NO! I’m scared of it!” So I’ve decided that this is one thing we can blame on our childhood! Unless any of my sisters would like to prove me wrong… but I am okay with the idea that I will never be a waterskiier. Kent is naturally good at every sport he tries, he even tried waterskiing with one ski this week, and he will randomly pop out with facts like “Did you know I won the grade 11 athletic award in high school?” and “Did you know that I won an Ontario doubles tennis tournament when I was a kid?” So he has no fears about sports and is convinced that I HAVE to try waterskiing by the end of the summer, and I would be great at it, and why don’t I just try? I’m not so sure… my answer is MAYBE.

Now I am back home for the next few weekends, until Kent and I head to Toronto (again! We should really just move there…) for his friends’ wedding. Which is fine with me.. I am a social butterfly but I am also a homebody. Hence the fact that it is Friday night and all of my friends are out having fun and I am sitting at home waiting for my boyfriend to get home from work and listening to an outdoor concert that is going on in my town. Although I’m not sure anyone actually has to go to the concert because it is such a small town that everyone must be able to hear it from their decks! I love being home as long as I know that I have other options, then it seems more like a choice than simply my own loser-ness showing though. Tomorrow night I am heading to an outdoor Rascall Flatts concert with two friends from work and a few others.

I admit that I have not been taking any pictures this summer that I can post, well actually that isn’t true, I have been but they are all on my best friend Michelle’s camera. She lost her camera cord and so they haven’t made their way onto facebook yet, so here is a picture of me at her cottage from last summer!

Hope everyone else has been having an excellent summer too!!

Jul

6

Picture Every day for a Year!

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Thanks for all the great suggestions! I’ve decided that I’m going to do a summer theme for the first month, starting tonight at a barbeque!

I’ll post my flickr account later tonight!

Jul

3

My Birthday Wish List

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Scott’s parents are cleaning out their basement and in the process we get the random things that Scott accumulated in his childhood. So far we got a large collection of tapes (Jimmy Buffet, Dance Mix, bird sounds etc), an old guitar and a box of random papers and things. In the box I found many things that made me laugh, some until I was crying. Let me tell you some examples…

- a cookie recipe- Scott was so excited to find this cookie recipe because he says it makes the best cookies, what kind of kid (boy) saves a cookie recipe!? Anyways that’s not the funny part, I read the ingredients and came across something I could not make out and I asked Scott what it said, “chips” he replied after glancing at it, I started laughing my head off, Scott had spelled it ‘cips’ and there is no way I would ever have been able to figure out that that is what it said! Scott’s not the best speller in the world.

-I also found a salad dressing recipe, which he was REALLY excited to find.

-And then I came across a notebook, the cover read ’stuff to by’, and following on the first page was a LONG list of things that Scott wanted to buy, and if he got them he crossed them out, lets just say that not very many things were crossed out. Here are some examples:- mini touch lamp, 1 more N64 controller, Banjo-Kazooie, a door lock for room (if allowed) [crossed out!! hahaha I wonder if this is because he wasn't allowed, or if he got it], beanie babies, 12 function computer [anyone know what this is?], a Canada bond. The list goes on and on with many other things such as lots of speakers -40 watt, 30 watt, 100 watt and 50 watt [he must have had large music plans]. Let me tell you I was laughing so hard as I read this list out loud to him, I don’t think he got what was so funny. What a funny boy! And as I write this he’s outside making a ball catcher contraption out of wood and canvas, I’ll let you know how it turns out.

And since my birthday is the next of all the five blondes I present to you my birthday wish list! Just a few things that I can think of that I would love to be presented with on my 23rd birthday (on July 31st! The middle of summer).

A bike helmet, so I can feel safer when I am biking.
New irons for golfing, because mine are so very old, and last time I took lessons (in university) the instructor said my clubs are dead. If thats not a good excuse I don’t know what is! Plus Scott got me a new putter last year and my old clubs are brining my golf style down. haha
New clothes, oh yes new clothes. I feel like I need to be on a makeover show because many of the clothes I wear are years old, and really should be replaced. But I guess thats what happens when new clothes are not on the top of your priority list!
A pretty pie plate! I love me some homemade pie especially when I can bake it in a cute dish!