Laziness

I'm not even going to try to make an excuse this time. I just haven't been motivated at all to blog.

I have been busy, busy searching for and scanning pictures for a slide show for the wedding. I have some adorable ones of baby C, that I'm trying to talk him into letting me post.

I'm starting to come down from summer, and realize that back to school is just around the corner. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Normally I'm super excited to go back to school (I'm a loser like that), I'm normally stir crazy after a couple of weeks, looking for something to occupy myself, but this year seems to be different. I don't know if my classes just aren't appealing to me, or if I've been on break for so long, I've forgotten what school is like. Really I think I'm nervous going into my last year. As soon as April comes I will actually need to find myself a real job. No more sleeping in until noon, time to grow up. Anyways enough about that, I again have some catching up to do. OH and this is my 100th post! (never, ever thought I would get here). I know most people do something creative to celebrate, but I'm just not that talented. Suggestions are welcome, anything you want me to write about? answer? whatever.

Day 22: A Website: I'm pretty boring. I have three websites, that I visit frequently, Facebook, blogger, and goodreads. Other than that I only look elsewhere for research, or if C tells me to go there.

Day 23: A Youtube video: Look above, I only go in youtube if someone sends me a link. My brother did show me this one yesterday which I thought was cute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee6ieYi7hkM
....I hope that worked

Day 24: I live in a city just outside of Toronto. I can't really say much about it other than that C and I have big plans to move. It's not what it used to be, and I'm actually a bit of a country girl at heart (although I would never give up my high heels and cute summer dresses for jeans and rubber boots). I would love to move to a small town, own a bunch of land and have a huge country house. With horses. And possible pigs because I think they are cute.

Day 25: My Day, in great detail: Are you sure you want to know? I woke up at 7 and got myself ready to go to my sisters to watch the girls. I got into a slight argument with my mom before I left the house (I won't get into it) and had to stop for gas on the way there. I'm not great at getting gas, in fact I pretty much hate it. I picked a shell station which I thought would be fairly easy to get in and out of, and pulled up to a pump, but my gas tank was on the wrong side. Fine, I move, and get to a pump that is pre pay only (this happens to me EVERY time. I swear pumps in which I can go in and pay don't exist anymore) Now I'm pretty annoyed, but I figure I will just put the gas on my debit card and keep the money my dad gave me. Fine. I enter the amount, wrong, so I had to cancel, which takes a lifetime. I finally get it all figured out, get my gas, and try to leave, finding out the the exits from said gas station are only one way.....going the WRONG way. Now I'm fully in a bad mood. I get to my sisters, and lay on the couch, hoping that B, who normally sleeps until about 9 will sleep in today because of the little sleep I had the night before. Nope. Today she decides that 7:50 is a great time to get up. I get both the girls and myself fed and dressed, talk to the bestest on MSN for a bit (she just bought a car! very excited for her) then head out with an old friend, N and newest addition baby B, for a walk to the bank. While out I decide to stop at McDonald's to get a drink for K and myself. We walk home, I say my goodbyes to N and baby B, get in the house, only to find out that I was given coke instead of Diet Coke I can't drink regular, I'm diabetic.) Not my day. I make lunch (mac and cheese) and put B down for a nap (not going to lie, I napped with her. Had a few fights with a 16 year old trapped in a 5 year olds body. Drove home, made dinner for C and I, watched Degrassi, and Say Yes to the Dress, while C fixed my computer which decided it no longer wanted to start about 3 this afternoon, and am now blogging, and getting ready to go home for the night. I've had better days.

And Finally, Favourite Fridays at Jen's blog

This one is probably over done, but I loved the shopaholic books by Sophie Kinsella. I found the writing hilarious, especially the situations she got herself into. I could also really relate to her, because I can find any way to justify a purchase. I will literally talk myself into it, using the most ridiculous excuses imaginable.



Another one that I read recently was Marrying Up by Jackie Rose. I got this book for 5 dollars at Chapters, and was actually pretty word about it, but it turned out to be really good. It's about a girl who writes obituaries for a living, who decides to write her own as a therapeutic exercise. She decides from this that marrying rich is the way to solve her problems, which leads her on an hilarious journey with her best friend to find the perfect rich man, which of course leads her to the exact opposite.

I think that's enough for today.

Playing Catch Up.....

.....So after that weekend I obviously fell behind on my 30 Days of Blogging.

Day 18: My Future Wedding:

When I first got engaged my wedding involved this:

Casa Loma in Toronto. Beautiful venue, but way too ridiculous with the restrictions.

And this:

I haven't totally given up on this one yet, I'm working on C.

My actual wedding will be held here

The goal is to have a beautiful reception, filled with lots of flowers and candles. I will still have a slight princess theme and wear a poofy dress, and probably a tiara. Despite what a lot of my friends think, I don't want anything over the top. My wedding will be fairly big, but I want to keep it as simple and traditional as possible. For example, I don't want a 10 tier cake with a fountain and bridge. I more attracted to a simple three tiered cake with flowers and the traditional bride and groom sitting on top.

Day 19: A Talent of Yours:

I don't consider myself very talented. I used to dance (Jazz, ballet, musical theater, acro, lyrical) but I stopped when I was 13 so I don't think it counts as a talent anymore. I like photography, but I don't consider it a talent, more of a hobby.
I;m pretty good at remembering song lyrics and naming songs just from listening to the first few bars. I don't know how many people remember the show "Don't Forget the Lyrics" with Wayne Brady, but I used to watch it religiously and I was pretty good at it. C used to joke that he was going to put me on it, because I would win. So it's kind of odd, but I guess it can be considered a talent.

Day 20: A Hobby of Yours:

As mentioned above, I consider photography a hobby. I like it, but it's not something I would pursue professionally. I also like to scrapbook. I find it relaxing, and a good way to preserve memories. Most of the time I can't be bothered to drag out all of my stuff to do it, but when I do I always enjoy it.

Day 21: A Recipe:

I have covered many times on this blog my lack of cooking ability. I don't deny that I am hopeless in the kitchen, and that if it weren't for C, I probably wouldn't eat. One recipe that I did find, and that I do enjoy making when I feel motivated it Ranch Chicken. It's pretty easy (it has to be, if I'm going to do it)

You need:

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Ranch dressing
Italian Bread Crumbs

Take the chicken and dip it in the Italian dressing, then roll it into the bread crumbs. Place the chicken on a tray (I would put tin foil down or they will probably stick)

Cook on 350, for about 45 minutes.

It so good and really easy. I normally make either scalloped potatoes, or rice to serve with it.

Weekend Updates and Injuries

What a weekend.....

Friday my sister, brother in law and I took these two monsters to wonderland for the day

The day was beautiful, and SO hot. We spend the day riding the rides


Playing the games, and winning toys




And painting faces


At 5:00, my mom picked up two very tired little girls, and C met us for some adult amusement park fun.


I used to live at Wonderland but I must admit it has been a long time since I have gone there and spent the whole day walking the park. Needless to say when I got home Friday night, I took a long hot bath, got a heating pad for my back, fell into bed feeling like death and repeating to myself over and over again that I am WAY too old for this crap.

Saturday was C's grandfather's memorial, so my alarm went off at about 6:40am (not a nice time on Saturday). So I drag myself out of bed, stand up......and almost fall flat on my face. Apparently while dragging myself around Wonderland the day before I managed to pull a muscle right behind my right knee, and I cannot put any weight on it....awesome. I managed to make it through the service (in heels) but I was finding that the pain was getting progressively worse as the day went on. We were supposed to attend a birthday party Saturday night, but the birthday girl decided to cancel. This was alright with me because not only was I exhausted, I also couldn't walk. So C and I grabbed dinner, went to his place to eat and took a four hour nap. We then woke up and watched The Perfect Storm (awesome movie) and he rubbed my leg, helping to work out a huge knot. I can know walk, with minimal pain, so whatever he did, it worked.

Yesterday we had a crazy day weather wise. It was hot and humid, and cloudy then sunny, very confusing. I have always suffered from headaches. Typically they are fine, and I can live with them without medication. Occasionally I will need to lie down for an hour, close my eyes and wait for them to go away. I woke up yesterday with a slight headache, but nothing to be concerned about. I spent most of the morning in bed, recovering from the past 2 days, and finally decided to move at about 4 to get ready to go to a pick up soccer game that was planned that evening. I still had the headache, but it wasn't nearly as bad as any headache I'd had before so I decided I was fine to go. About halfway through the game I was finding that that pain was getting worse and worse, and decided that I probably needed to eat something. At this point there was thunder and lightening, so we collected the boys from the field and headed to McDonald's. I got my food, and it seemed to help for maybe 10 minutes. Then I got the worst headache I have ever had in my life. I don't like using the word migraine, but I honestly think that what I was dealing with is what people who suffer from migraine's deal with. Every time I moved my head I had a wave of nausea, I thought I was going to pass out, and the slightest sound made pain shoot through my entire head. Not fun.

So all in all my weekend was fun, but painful. Hopefully next weekend goes better.

Day 17: An Art Piece

I'm not even going to pretend that I'm a person that is interested in Art.

I like photos. My room is covered with pictures of friends, family, my nieces, or C, but nothing artistic. I assume when I get my own house and have more walls to fill I will buy photographs of artistic scenes. I like landscape photos, things like beaches, forests, old cities, sunsets. Here are some examples:

*All photos were found through google. I do not claim to have taken any of them*

I think this is about as artistic as my walls will ever be.

I have a very busy weekend coming up. C and I are taking K and B to Wonderland tomorrow, then we have his grandfather's memorial and a birthday party on Saturday, plus soccer on Sunday, so busy, busy, busy. I'm hoping to keep up with my 30 days of blogging while all of this is going on.

I also managed to finally get out an see Charlie St. Cloud with a good friend on Tuesday. I read the book, and was less than impressed. I found the narration very sporadic, and confusing. Time jumped without any warning, and half the time I was questioning whether the characters were alive or dead. Overall I was pretty disappointed with the book. The movie was 10,000 times better (Zac Efron may or may not have had something to do with that). I found it really different from the book, but for once I thought it was a good thing. It flowed so much better, and just generally made more sense. I teared up several times, but you will recall from my list of 20 favourite things that I enjoy movies that make me cry, so this was a good thing. So for the first time in my life I am going to advise you to simply skip the book and just see the movie.

And I think I have gone on long enough for today.

Day 16- A Song That Makes You Cry (or nearly)

Bob Carlisle - Butterfly Kisses.

This is a very popular father/daughter song at weddings, and I have yet to make it through the entire song without balling like a big baby (this includes hearing it in random places like the car, malls, my house.....). I can't explain why. It's just such an emotional songs.

I did have a much longer post planned for today (in which I would have mentioned a lot more songs that bring me to tears...I'm a emotional person) but I for some reason can't keep my eyes open for any longer today. I'm exhausted. So I'm going to pop a movie into my DVD player, climb into bed and will save all of my useless information for tomorrows post.

Until then!

Yet another fail....

I feel like I haven't been on blogger in a lifetime, and it's only been 3 days!

I missed a couple days of my 30 day blog challenge. I have no excuse other than the fact that life got away from me. We have had a busy weekend, which ended yesterday with a surprise 20th birthday party for my brother's girlfriend. So today will be spend playing catch up.

Day 13: A fictional book.

So seeing as I have talked about my favourite fictional books a few times on this blog, I figured I would use this topic to tell you about a fictional book I just finished reading.

Stolen is the second book in a series by Kelley Armstrong. I read the first book, Bitten, and had a hard time getting into it. I found a lot of it was character development and much of the action didn't take place until more then halfway. So I was bored for the first half, but once the action picked up I was hooked on at least giving the second book a chance.

Stolen was completely different and had me completely entranced by the first page. In Stolen, sole female warewolf, Elena, is captured and held hostage by a group of humans who are studying her for research purposes. While in captivity she meets many other kinds of people from the underworld, including witched, demons, shamans, and, of course, vampires. Stolen was filled with action, and kept you guessing about the fate of all of the main characters the whole way through. I have basically decided that these books are Twilight for adults. They deal with the same subject matter but are written in a much more mature manner, and deal with heavier subject matter. After reading Stolen I definitely recommend giving these books a shot.

Day 14: A Non-Fictional Book:

I have to admit that I don't read a lot of non-fiction. Most of what I have read has been because some teacher is making me in school, and I probably didn't pay as much attention to it as I could have. One that did stand out to me was was "The White Rose" which I had to read in my first year of university. This is the description of the book, which I took from Wikipedia:

a non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime. The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo (German secret police) and they were executed by decapitation in 1943. The text of their sixth leaflet was smuggled by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke out of Germany through Scandinavia to the United Kingdom, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, retitled "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich."

The novel "The White Rose" went into specific details about the capture and execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister who were two of the six main members and who were both beheaded on the same day.

The White Rose is graphic, it offers a different perspective of Holocaust literature then we are used to, and it leaves a lasting impression on its reader.

Day 15: Your Dream House

This topic comes at a perfect time, seeing as C and I went for a long drive yesterday, on a hunt for some of his family history, which landed us on some country roads. One thing I love to do when driving in the country is to look at all of the houses, and yesterday I came across my perfect house. It had everything, and of course, it didn't occur to me to take a picture as my mouth his the car floor and I started to drool a little. So I figured I would describe some elements that my dream house must have (all of which this house did).

-I'm a white picket fence kind of girl, I think they are adorable.
-A Wrap around porch.

This house is actually pretty close to the one I saw yesterday. Isn't it beautiful??

-A balcony coming from the master bedroom:

A window seat

I am back to being officially caught up. Hopefully it stays this way!

Day 12 - Something you are OCD about

Do you have all day?

I like to consider myself borderline OCD. I have many, many, many things that cause me unnecessary stress and drive C nuts. So I'm just going to list a few things that immediately pop into my mind.

1) My books: I'm obsessive about my books. I'm careful with them. I don't like bent covers or pages. Loaning my books out is rather stressful because I never know how they are going to come back (I should show you what "The Time Travelers Wife" looked like when my sister gave it back....). When I'm finished with a book it goes straight onto my shelf.....which is in order by height. It took me hours, but it is now a favourite part of my room. I'm hoping for a new bookshelf for my birthday because mine is now too full, causing me to double the rows. This is greatly upsetting my OCD and it needs to be fixed.

2) My DVD's/CD's: I have a slight problem with lining things up, as C puts it. It makes me happy. So my DVD's are all arranged on my shelf in alphabetical order. Followed by my TV seasons (also alphabetical), then VHS (again, alphabetical). My CD's are also in their stand in alphabetical order. It's just so much easier to find things this way. C used to have his DVD's all over the place, until I also got a hold of his stand and fixed it too my liking. He doesn't keep his as pretty as mine. I've been noticing lately that things are a little messed up and will need to fi it shortly.

3) My pictures: This I completely admit is a problem. I take A LOT of pictures, and I am crazy about how they are organized. Pictures on my computer are renamed by date (year, month, day). event. People found in photo. They are then organized into separate files on my computer, based on who is in the photo (friends, family, C, K, B.....). I also get at least 75% of my photo's developed. They are then sorted and I decide which photo's I want in frames or to scrapbook and set those aside. The rest of the photo's go into an album. The album has to be one that has the lines on the side for me to write on. I write the date of the photo, the event and the people in it. Once a photo goes into an album, it does not come out under any circumstance. If I change my mind and decide that I do in fact want to frame said photo, I will develop a second copy (This doesn't happen often, I have my system down to a fine art).

4) My morning and bedtime schedule: I have a schedule. I know exactly how long it takes me to do everything, and any blip in this schedule is cause for a bad mood all day. I also have odd bedtime habits. Things like needing to have a drink of some sort on my bedside table, every night, even if I'm not thirsty and closing my closet door every night right before I get into bed. I cannot sleep with the door open. It's a childhood thing. C doesn't get it and I can't explain it, it's just the way it is. If I am in bed and the closet door is open, I will not be able to sleep until I get up and close the door.

I know there is more but a) I can't think of them right now and b) you probably really don't have all day, so I will stop here.

Hope everyone is having an excellent weekend!