First of all I want to thank all of you for your comments about my pets. I am doing much better, mostly due to the fact that I have convinced myself that they were both suffering and they are not anymore, which has to be a good thing. That and I have a wonderful fiance that puts up with me randomly bursting into tears for no apparent reason.

So this week has been busy, busy. We went to Niagara over the weekend with some friends for a well deserved break. We had fun, went to the Casino, Yuk Yuks and saw a "Star Spangled Celebration" at the casino. If any of you live near the Niagara, I recommend this show. It was a grouping of many musicals, where they performed some of the more famous musical numbers and it was fantastic. The singers and backup dancers were exceptionally talented, and I was very impressed.

Saturday we went shopping, my favourite thing to do in Niagara. Although this is what I was looking forward to the most I didn't buy anything. I came close in Coach, but having "C" there constantly informing me about how ridiculous the prices are kind of took the fun out of it. So I left empty handed, but do have high intentions of returning soon, I need a new wallet.

This weekend has also brought new updates on the wedding front. We have all of a sudden gotten back into the swing of things in terms of venue hunting....and it's turning out to still be just as frustrating as its always been. I have decided that this is because "C" and I are both control freaks, but in different areas. I want a venue that will conform to my vision, which I'm not willing to give up and "C" wants a venue that will conform to our "budget" (god how I hate that word!) and we are having trouble finding the perfect venue that is a happy medium. Hopefully I will have a more positive wedding updates in the next few weeks.

Until then!

How I Pass the Time in Boring Classes

I apologize for my recent blogging absence. My only excuse is that I am a pretty big procrastinator, and have spent the better part of the last week trying to will myself to start and complete an assignment that I had due today. I am proud to announce that I started the assignment at about 11:00 last night and officially finished it at about 10:30 this morning. I am currently sitting in my boring Substantive Editing class and trying to successfully waste three hours. This is my thousands of dollars in tuition money being put to good use!

I have a couple of things that I have been thinking about blogging about, so I figure I will break it up into several different blogs. "C" took me to Niagara Falls this weekend, so I may as well start there.

We left Saturday evening and came home Sunday evening and overall we had a nice weekend. Niagara is somewhere that "C" and I have been going to for some time now, and we always enjoy ourselves. By now I think we have seen every "touristy" thing you can possibly find in Niagara, so this time we kind of stayed away from all of that. We didn't go down to the falls, we didn't walk Clifton Hill or any of that. We went down specifically because we had tickets to see a show, I wanted to shop and "C" wanted to go to the casino, so that's what we did.

So we started off Saturday night at the Casino. I hate the casino. Not just Niagara's casino's, pretty much every casino. I can't justify putting twenty dollars into a machine to watch it spin around for about five minutes and that's it. It's just not something that amuses me. "C" on the other hand LOVES the casino. Problem is, he's not very good at it. He has absolutely no will power. This particular time he put a twenty dollar bill in one machine and withing five minutes was about around two hundred dollars. Now in my mind....this is an excellent time to cash out and leave. Technically he did what he came to do. He won money! But he's mentality....completely opposite. He instead wants to believe that the machine's want to give him money. So he continues to play....and play...and play...and play. So yeah, two hours later he walked out forty dollars down and in a bad mood. I don't get it.

Moving on to Sunday. This is when we did my favourite thing....shopping! This is also where "C" and I switch roles. In this situation I am pretty much out of hand. I can convince myself to buy pretty much anything, and make it so that I "NEEDED" it, not just that I wanted it. "C" on the other hand take son my role in the casino by following me around and making comments on the fact that I am wasting my money and could be spending it on better things. I disagree. So I mangaed to do some damage. And (here is some exciting news) I GOT MY BOOTS!!!! You might remember me blogging about them earlier. I did not get the exact same ones that I showed you, but I did get similar ones, for about sixty dollars less. Here's a picture:

I also splurged and bought these:I love shoes, these are adorable and they were ten dollars. This needs no justification!

I also bought a pair of skinny jeans and several new shirts.

So yes, we both ended up spending more money then we had and therefore, all in all, had a good weekend!