Blast from the past...

I have started scrapbooking as you all know. I am not very good at it yet but I think that will come with time. Contraryto everyone's suggestion I am not doing a theme for my scrapbook, I am just treating it as a photo album and using it to display the pictures creatively.

I was doing some pages the other night while Darryl was playing Need for Speed on the 360 and I was going through all my pictures and remembering all of the old times with my friends and how much fun we used to have. I had a certaingroup of people that would always go out to the bar about three times a week together and we would always have a blast.Remember those little glow sticks for your mouth? We used to always have those when we went to the bar when they first came out.

When I was in college we never needed an excuse to get everyone together and pre-drink at someones house and then go out and party at the bar. I miss those days, now people in the bar drive me nuts, drunk people make me want to smack them and I can barely stay awake to pre-drink nevermind go to the bar..lol. I am pathetic, I know, I am well aware. Well I am kind of over exaggerating but you get the jist.

There were pictures of the concert we went to at the college with Treble Charger and Sum 41 (before Sum 41 was really big). We got to go back stage with them in the room they were partying in and got pictures with them. They had huge bottles of vodka and bowls of fruit and food everywhere. It was pretty sweet that we were just hanging out like they were no different from us, which really....they aren't.

I had pictures from when I broke my wrist up north, and I had my cast on trying to swim. Me straddling a blow up whale in a pool so that I can cool down equals pure hotness. lol.

It was my first trip camping and as soon as we get there Lo Lo says we should go into the lake, sounds like a sweet idea. Normally they just jump off the dock but I don't know how to dive so I asked her if she would walk in by the rocks with me. So there we are holding hands inching our way into the water when one or both of us (I can't remember which) hit a slippery rock and fell. All night I justput ice on it and drank so it just seemed like a sprain to me. After I got up in the morning and tried to get dressed without much luck, I realised it was more then a sprain and we spent 5 hours in the hospital. During the wait Lo lo felt sickpartly because we drank so much the night before and partly because of the grosse hospital, so she went out to the car to lie down after throwing up in the bathroom. When I came out of the hospital with a cast on and knocked on her window she nearly had a heart attack. The whole drive home the next day she was panicking about how my mom was going to react and how she was going to kill her for getting me hurt when I was in her care. LOL! My mom was really pissed but notat Lo lo more at me for being so clumsy.

There we a lot of pictures from when I was younger and looked A LOT different. I was a very homely child so I don't really like looking at pictures from when I was younger. Then there are pictures from my grad 8 grad from when I was a sizetwo and beautiful that I don't like to look at either. Even my highschool graduation when I was a size 7 and tiny I don't likelooking at. Although that one is partly because I was dating an asshole and partyly coz I am a fat ass now. lol.


Ahh reminissing....I miss college :).

its almost Friday!!

Last night I went on a road trip with my sisters. I had a lot of fun and it was definately worth driving in the horribleweather on the way there. One of my favorite places to shop is GT Boutique so we went to the one about 30 minutes outof town and then we stopped at Michaels on the way back in to town. I got some sour dinos which are by far my favoritegummi candy, a new tooth brush, tooth paste and some lighters for the kitchen to light my candles. After that as I said we went to Michaels and picked up some scrapbooking supplies, I think I definately have to pick up some stuff at the dollar store from now on because even though the stuff at Michaels is really cool it is also really expensive. I got some coolpress on quotes, decals and a nice background for the wedding page I am making for Laura's wedding.

I cancelled my guitar lesson for today because I have not had any time to practice and I don't want to look like an idiothaving to go over everything. I feel really bad about it and Darryl seems disappointed in me and says I can't stick to it butthis week has just been wierd and I have not had any time to do it. It seems like the minute I get off work times zooms by.
I am almost done the book I have been reading, A Million Little Pieces and I am really sad about it, I wish it would go onforever. I am thinking about buying his new book at Costco called, My Friend Leonard, I think. It is normally about $30 butCostco has it for $19.

Tonight I am going to be working out again, only at home. I have lost another pound which is good only 7 more to go untilI have lost 20 pounds and then me and Darryl can celebrate by using our gift certificates for dinner and a movie. He hasalready lost the 20 pounds so I just have to catch up to him. I just think a lot of the weight he gained was becauseof not working for his almost two weeks off work for the holidays. He was eating the same amount but doing nothing in comparison to what he does in a day at work. I think that is why he lost the first ten so quickly but this last ten heworked really hard on eating properly and stuck that diet out, so I am really proud of him. I have a lot of weight that I wantto lose so this is just the beginning of the battles and as long as I keep losing about a pound a day I should be good. I do realise that, that wont keep up but even 3 pounds a week I can live with. I have about 45 pounds to go to get to my goal and I realise that, that is not going to happen over night but atthe very least I want the majority of it gone before summer and the rest off by the end of the summer.

I know you guys love hearing about how I am a fatass. Have a great day all! It is -30 here so if it is anywhere close to thatwhere you are try and keep warm!

I have blue fuzzy slippers

Today is the third and last day of my fruit flush and last night instead of the protein shake and the veggie salad I had a chicken breast. I personally think its not a big deal because basically I had my protein shake and no veggie salad. I was talking to Darryl about it this morning and he doesn't think I should go on with the diet anymore because I cheated and I wont lost any weight anyway. I think he is wrong because I have been basically eating barely anything, with no carbs or anything so of course I am going to lose some weight. I don't know, I am going to finish the diet but tonight I think I am going to have a normal dinner because I am going to work out with my sister afterwards and I don't want to pass outfrom lack of food. Last night I actually went to bed at 9pm because I was too tired and too hungry to stay up any later.I am going to Good Life and getting a 30 day free pass and I am going to go workout with my sister I think about 3 timesa week for those 30 days and then I am going to go once in awhile with her and pay the $10 for a day membership.

My day is going pretty good and uneventful. I got really mad yesterday because I spent a lot of money on this new bookand then I put it in my bag on my way home and catelope juice spilt all over it. I keep all of my books really nice and newlooking so I was really pissed off when that happened. I was thinking if I wasn't on this stupid diet that would have neverhappened.
I am trying to find a nice resort for me and Darryl to go to for Valentines day. We decided that this year we wont buy eachother presents that instead we will just go away. A lot of resorts that I am finding are very expensive like, $200/nightper person, before tax. I am going to keep looking and try to find a diamond on the rough that still has reasonable prices.

One thing I hate about dieting is that I have to pee every five seconds. Have a great day all!

I'm a rockstar!!

Wow! I didn't realise how long it has been since I have written. Last week was pretty uneventful so I really didn't have much to write about.

Last Thursday I had my first guitar lesson, it was great and the guy that is teaching me I went to highschool with so thatmakes me a little more comfortable. I started learning Crazy Mary by Pearl Jam and the beginning to that White Stripes song, can't think of the name of it. I have to make sure that I practice this week so that we can move on to other thingsand I am sure I will be tested and if I know as much as I did last Thursday I don't think he will be impressed. I also want to change all of my string to the new ones so that they all match and don't look wierd.
My mom bought me a scrapbook and Valerie has been nice enough to print off a whole bunch of pictures for me for it, frommy birthday and lo lo's wedding and everything. We are planning on getting together this week and scrapbooking a bit.

My weekend was pretty good but uneventful. We just did a bit of shopping, and did some grocery shopping. We went toCostco and looked at some of the furniture and tools and talked about what we want to do to the house in the summer. I am really looked forward to having a patio set and being able to come home from work and sit on the patio with a beer. Also we are planning on getting a new bbq so being able to barbeque things and have them not burn will also be somethingI am looking forward to. Right now we have one of those bbq's that there is no blame over the grill except for one area where there is one giant flame.

Last week when I start eating right I lost 7 pounds. Now I am on this retardedly hard fruit flush diet that is supposed to make me lose 9 pounds, here is hoping. So many times I have felt like saying fuck it and just quit, but, Darryl was doing itwith me and urged me to continue. It was funny coz he would motivate me to move on and when he was drinking the shakes and gagging I helped him take his mind off of it. All I have to say is I better fucking lose 9 pounds.

Zipitee Doo Da

I know you guys have heard this more then a couple times before but I am now on a diet...again! I am hoping I can stickto it this time but, as you know it is really hard. Yesterday I had two bottle of water, oatmeal for breakfast, two tangerinesfor a snack, 1 tuna sandwhich for lunch and a granola bar for dessert and then I had hamburger helper for dinner and a pepsi (hey I worked for it). Today so far I have had oatmeal, large green tea and a bottle of water. The only change I havenoticed so far is peeing every five seconds. I do feel a lot healthier and like I have more energy. I am hoping to start working out when I get home but when I am always the one to cook dinner lately its kind of hard. I am already starving todeath by the time I get home and feel really weak because of it. I printed off some more recipes so I am hoping that onceI start getting into a routine it will get easier.

Darryl has also started a diet with me, some guys at work said something about him gaining weight and ever since then hehas been determined to lose it. If nothing else we will be healthier which is important. I am hoping to have lost all the weight I want to by the summer so I think losing about 50 pounds in 4 months isn't bad and I would settle with less then50 I just want to lose the majority of it by then. I am sick of being self conscious and depressed about my appearance.

My sister got her lip pierced this weekend. After my mom freaked she ended up spending Friday night at my place. It was nice having her over, we stayed up until 2am watching a movie which I had tried so hard to stay awake during and fellasleep during the last 20 minutes. The next day we just hung out driving around and window shopping. That night me and Valerie went to a quiet little cafe I have wanted to go to for a long time. She treated me to a drink and a dessert. It waskinda of weird because all of the menus have no prices, which immediately made me think of that saying, "if you have to ask you can't afford it". This did not seem to bother Valerie in the slightest, as much as I am not a fancy girl at all it was nice to just hang out and talk, a pub is more of my thing and a place that has more then 8 alcoholic drinks is more my placebut it was nice to have a change of pace. What was also weird was that all of their drink are called the "pink one" or the "red one", on a small menu it tells you what is in each. I had a laugh picturing Darryl figure out which one he wanted,considering he is colour blind, saying, "well the green one is red and the pink one looks red too!" lol!

I went to La Senza on the weekend and spent $130!! That is so not like me but I needed bras and they had a great dealon underwear 5 for $10. I thought Darryl was going to freak out when I told him but he had just spend a lot of money onthe weekend as well so he took it quite well. Tonight I have to go to Music Pro and get some new strings for my guitarand I am going to get my new book tonight as well. YEAH!

Happy Friday the 13th!

For all of you who are keeping track to my hectic schedule (rolls eyes) you know that I should have had my first guitar lesson yesterday. Well the night before at about 10pm I was tuning my guitar to make sure it was ready to go for my lesson and I broke one of the strings. I was telling one of our students how it keeps going out of tune all the time and he thinks that the strings I got with it are just cheap. I am going out tonight to get two packs of fender ones so hopefully they work better and I can replace all of the ones on the guitar now and then have an extra set in case that happens again. I was originally going to go to my lesson anyway and just buy some strings from them but apparently they don't sell any so I had to cancel my appointment. It figures I also cut all my nails off my left hand too and now I could have had them on for a week longer. I have a week to get all worried again, wahoo!

Right now we are getting a new phone system put into our office so I am just waiting for him to run the wires and then tell me I will have no phone or internet until he is done.

This weekend Darryl is going away for a hockey tournament, I am going to miss him like crazy but he should have a good time. He doesn't get to spend enough time with just the guys so he totally deserves it. I am a little worried because oneguy that is married picked up some chick and slept with her last year and they had another girl stripping on top of a table and screwing two guys in front of everyone. I totally trust him but there is the little devil on my shoulder that makes me worry even though I know he would never do anything like that.

So, this weekend its just me. I have been trying to plan what I want to do. I got my gst cheque and since I am REALLY due for some new bra's I am going to go to the mall and check out the sales they have there. I am thinking about finally taking a bath in my beautiful ensuite tub, and doing a face mask and watching chick flicks. I also really want to go to the movies and maybe out to a bar with my sisters. I am also probably going to see what Sammy is up to since him and his gf are on the rocks I might see if he wants to go out or something. I was also going to call my friend Gravy but he was an ass to me last time I spoke to him so it looks like he gets no Jackie visits.

I really want to see Memoirs of a Geisha but, since its a chick flick and Darryl wont be home I thought it would be the perfect time to go see it. I also want to get some stuff to start scrapbooking. I really want to scrapbook our house warming party, my birthday, and Cuba and my mom got me a scrapbook for Christmas so I just have to get the stuff to do it and I will be good to go. Oooh! Maybe me and Valerie could do that this weekend!

As you know I have been meaning to start cooking and try out some new recipes and I did!
Yeah me! On Tuesday I madesauteed shrimp, devilled eggs and ceasear salad and then last night I made easy cheesy chicken, devilled eggs (Darrylloves eggs) and roasters. The chicken wasn't that great, the outside sauce I didn't like (Darryl thought it was good) but the inside was very bland. Atleast I know now and I can go on to try another recipe instead. I found this really good sitehttp://www.allrecipes.com/ and all you have to do is type in the kind of dish you want to make be it, chicken, beef, low-carb and then it will bring up a whole bunch of recipes. Other users of the site then grade that recipe between 1 and 5 stars and give their opinion or what they did different to improve the recipe. I really like it and I plan to go on their and put my review for the shrimp and the chicken.

Yes, ignorance is bliss thank you for asking

The election is coming up here in Canada and there is so much everywhere that says, vote for this party and so one and itis a really confusing time. Me and Darryl found everything very overwhelming and weren't sure who to vote for and who wanted to improve the things that we were concerned about. Last night we watched the debate on tv and had manydiscussions between us on what they were argueing about and what their views were. We thought that watching the debate would make it more clear for us on who we wanted to vote for and who would make Canada better. Unfortunatelythats not what we got at all, I feel as if you have to think well, what change sucks the least. I have tried talking aboutthis issue to different people to try and get their view and maybe uncloud my thinking but everyone I have spoken to hasthe same view I do.

Last night we went to the clinic to get Darryls lump on his chest checked out and then we came home, made some dinnerand then put together the new filing cabinet while watching the debate. Exciting, I know. Oooh and I did some laundry in there as well. Darryl has been really tired from work lately and I have found it so frustrating because there are things thatI want to get done in the house and he doesn't want me to do but he is too tired to do it himself. Urgh!

I was really gung ho last week about cooking and eating right and with all of the fast food coupons that have been in themail lately I have found it really hard to get motivated to cook. At work I have all this motivation and then I get home, I am tired and cranky and don't feel like doing anything for dinner. Tonight however I am planning to make some garlic shrimpon a skewer with deviled eggs and cesaer salad. I think that should make Darryl happy, he has been upset that I keeppromising to make cesaer salad but I never feel like it.

It is so nice and sunny outside, it looks like spring. Have a great sunny day all!

Happy Friday!

Ahh yes today is Friday, wahoo! I can't wait until tonight and this weekend. I have so much that I want to get done and I am really looking forward to when it finally gets done. I still have to take down the Christmas tree, I have a load of laundry that has been sitting in the dryer for three days now, tune my guitar, finish cleaning the bedroom, do more laundry,start and empty the dishwasher and I think that's it. OH! And I have started planning to eat a lot healthier and start cooking a lot more so I want to start that as well. I have thought about it for awhile that if I ever had a kid they wouldn't be able to eat the crap we do so do we. Darryl is really excited about this because in truth we never have anything that is made from scratch, most of our dinners are hamburger helper or presidents choice wings and roasters or something.Which would probably be a good reason why I am tired all the time. Now I have time to cook and keep the house all clean and everything so I intend to do it.

I booked my guitar lessons for every Thursday at 5pm, I am really nervous about it and have tried to rack my brain for which song I would like to learn first (if that's how they do it). Last night me and stolenswan went to Music Pro and I bought some new picks for my guitar and I was tempted to buy some other stuff but I resisted the urge and only spent $2.52.

I also went to Chapters which was very enjoyable and spent the last of my gift certificates for there. I am curious as to whether I will keep shopping there now that Christmas is over or if I will go back to the used bookstore. I think I will go back to the used bookstore because all of their books are in good shape and if I am getting the books for half price Darryl wont mind as much. I have a lot of books to tide me over until then anyway, I think I have about 6 or 7 that I haven't read yet. I started a new author a couple days ago named James Patterson, he was a couple shelves away fromJohn Sanford and where I thought I would find Robert Parker which is how I stumbled upon him. He was a staff pick and a "Huge National Bestseller" and he "joins the elite company of Thomas Harris and John Sanford". So I think I will pick up one of Thomas Harris' books next time I am in need of a new one and see how he is.

Saturday we are going to go to Ikea to get a new spice rack. With the new cooking that I am going to be taking on it involved me getting some new spices and my spice rack even without the new ones I bought is full! I am hoping to get a nice stainless steel one to go in place of the one I have there but who knows.


Well that's all for me, have a great weekend all! Catch you on the flipside!

Its too cold out!

Last year for Christmas my boyfriend bought me a Fender guitar for Christmas. It is my prized possession and I love it so much. Through out the year I never had time to play it with my two jobs, I couldn't afford guitar lessons and didn't have time for them either and every time I picked it up it was out of tune. I used to play the cello and I could tune it by ear but, I have not been around guitars long enough to tune it by ear so I was in desperate need of a electric tuner. This year for Christmas he got me an electric tuner and 10 lessons with a place right around the corner from my work. I am so excited about this and very nervous at the same time. I love the guitar and I could play twinkly twinkle on it at one time but I am very worried that I wont be any good at it and all of my dreams of playing the guitar and singing around the fire or when I am bored will be just be down the drain. I guess we will soon see. I am kind of bummed that I am going to have to cut my nails on my left hand but oh well. I am really excited that because I no longer have two jobs I have time to do this sort of thing.

For Christmas I got a lot of stuff, I got 5 books in total, a cd, undies, a date for me and Darryl, a house coat (so soft and cozy), a piggy bank, long johns ( I am always cold), a super comfy pillow I asked for, candles and candle holders, emergency kit for my car, a picture for my bathroom, some cute egg things (hard to explain) and I think that's it.

I have been doing a lot of reading lately, I have been reading a lot from my new author I like and Darryls mom lent me a book called See Jane Run and I have to tell you, you MUST read it! It is so good and suspenseful. There were parts that I was so anxious to find out what was going to happen that I couldn't read as fast as my curiosity wanted.

I am going to spare the New Years resolutions because every year I never do what I say I will so I am just going to keep trying to improve my flaws as I would without promising anything.
I am hoping that with no part time job for the next little while I am going to start cooking and getting all of the things done that I have been putting off for the last three months or so. I am really looking forward to it and so far I am off to a good start.

Its me! Mario!!

Well I am back! Feels good actually, I wish I didn't have to come back to snow and cold weather but c'est la vie! My vacation was wonderful, the sun, pool and booze were just what the doctor ordered. It was nice to just relax on the beachor poolside and not have to worry about anything. After about the fifth day of doing basically nothing but partying, drinkingand relaxing I got kind of bored and wanted to come home.

I have so much I could write about but I don't want to nor do I feel like it. Instead I hope you all had a great holiday, itsnice to be back and I promise a longer entry when I feel more up to it.

I got to celebrate new years twice this year, yeah me!