BORED!!!

Well, it's been awhile since I've updated my blog and I figured I had better post a little something since I'm sitting here all bored and such. So I haven't been to work in 5 days, which sounds like it should be fun, however I'm really wishing I was there today. We had a nice 3 day weekend (it's Family day here in Ontario...the Liberals promised if they got voted in during the last provincial election they would give us a Holiday in February...and they actually did) and I managed to get sick. At first I thought I just had a happy little cold, but I went to the Doctor today and surprise I have a sinus Infection and walking pneumonia. LOVELY! It does however explain the elephant sitting on my chest. I got fun drugs though, which make me pretty happy inside. The Congestion that was giving me man voice just didn't want to go away, so with any luck, the drugs will make me sound somewhat female again!

Lets see, what else can I say? Oh I went to a dance on Saturday night. While I was sick. I don't know why I do that. I don't even like dances when I'm healthy so why going to them when I don't feel well seems like a good idea I'll never know. I pretty much just hung out with the Old Ladies club in the Kitchen as it was more fun than actually dancing. (Before anyone gets upset, yes I did go in a dance for a bit...it was just more fun in the Kitchen)

Here's a really bad picture of me and a pretty good picture of Holly. My eyes always seem to disapear when pictures get taken...I find it annoying!!!

Here's Suzette and John...they take better pictures then I do :) John would not be a member of the Old Ladies Club, but he's still fun :)

Here's Amee and I...still not a good picture of me, however I don't think we took any good one's of me that night. Oh well...life goes on!

Well this weekend is the temple trip and I`m super excited to go. I`m heading over to the Family History Center so I should have more names to do this weekend. I`m telling you, if you haven`t started doing your own family History you should totally jump on that Bandwagon cause it`s loads of fun!!!

PICTURES!!!!

For all of you out there who are currently prego and about to have babies...take pictures ok??? All of us singles (namely Me) like to live vicariously through looking at YOUR pictures! So don't let me down...I need them! :) Before I get to the pictures of my niece however I'll share a few points from my week...

Last weekend we had O'l ladies night at Amee's...good times. We broke out the dating for Dummies book...and learned how to flirt. Haha, man there's some serious inside jokes there, however you would really need to see me for me to explain them, so let me just say that the book is seriously troubled when giving flirting instructions...if anyone were to actually practice them they would look like an ape. No joke...next time I'll take pictures. We even practiced on a few poor males on Sunday at break the fast...good thing they were good sports. Although we did have a volunteer for our Coach...it has possibilities.

Sunday night I enjoyed games night out at John Wright's. I don't know if you've ever played 4 on a couch, however if you haven't I would seriously recommend it. You could probably find the instructions online somewhere. It's a nice fun confusing game for all involved...sadley the girls lost 3 out of 4 games. Also enjoyable, snowball ambushes on people just showing up. Probably not really a Sunday activity, but it sure was fun. The element of Surprise is always a good time.

Now to the pictures...some of these are on facebook, but I love them so I'm posting them anyway...you'll all just have to deal :)

So here's the proud Papa (My brother Kris) and his little girl. Not even home yet and already exhausted!

Poor Hannah had a little bit of Jaundice so she had to live in an incubator for a couple of days!

Hannah and her Catapiller...it's pretty much the same size as she is!

Hannah at Home...she looks like my brother I think...she's kinda small to tell right now though!

Anyway thats pretty much it for me this week...thankfully it's Wed and only 2 more work days to go!! Maybe If I'm really lucky tomorrow will even be a snowday...keep your fingers crossed for me!

Crazy Week!

Well this week and last week have been absolutley insane! I've gotten good news and Bad news and life as I once knew it has ended! (Ok so maybe I'm being a little overdramatic but somedays it certainly feels like it!!!)

Good news first....I'm an Aunt!!! Woo Hoo! Kris and Catherine welcomed Hannah Julia Chatham into the world on Thursday Jan 24th! She weighed in at 6lbs 12oz and I would totally post a picture but they haven't sent me any. There's no cameras in Yellowknife or something??? Come on now, I want a picture of my Niece! Anyway I guess they're all doing well cause I haven't heard anything else from them...I've even left 2 messages and I assume if something went wrong Mom would have heard about it. I promise I'll post a picture as soon as I get one!

Bad new...Michelle has been diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Not cool in any way shape or form and I have no idea if she'll kill me for having posted that. She's handeling it WAY better then I did...I had to get a blessing before I felt any type of Comfort (please no one mention that to her, cause she doesn't need to worry about me) however now I'm doing ok even though it still SUCKS! I REALLY wish there was something I could do...like give her a Kidney or something, but there isn't so we all just have to deal with it...and I should probably go get tested myself...but I'm holding out on that option for now.

So there's my crazy week in a nutshell. If you notice to the right of my Blog I have a fun little poll going to see where I should go for Vacation so if you haven't already done so, please take the time to click a box. I'm interested to see what will win!

Holidays are Fini!

Well, Christmas has come and gone and it's all back to real life. Which is kinda sad really, I was having a grand time in the Scosh not working, just doing nothing all day well, except for the part where I did the running around, and the grocery shopping...and everything else that no one else had time for. It was fun to see everyone I got to see and I'm sorry that I didn't get a chance to really hang out with everyone. When you haven't seen your family in 8 months, you just really want to spend a good chunk of time with them. I do have some cool pictures though.

So here's Teeny, Davis and Sammy. I think Davis had on more makeup then Kristine...it's all right though! He can pull it off.

These are my Cousins Kayla and Brad. How cute are they??? I have to admit that one of the things I miss the most are all the Kids. Being in a Singles branch and not really knowing any family's with Kids I don't really see a whole lot of them out here. There's just no one for me to play with!!!

Grampy plowing the driveway. When Mom and I went up to Fredericton for the weekend they got 30cm of snow on the Saturday. So Grampy goes and and gets this super cool tractor from the garage and procedes to plow out the driveway...which is really more like a cul-de-sac in the yard...the thing is Huge! Anyway I thought it was cool enough to take a picture!

All right so I Know Debbie would KILL me for posting this...(so please don't tell her Rob) but I ran into my favorite girls at the Superstore and had to get a picture. Incidently I don't really have any pictures of Morgan smiling....I really don't think she liked me all that much :) Everytime I saw her she would cry, so I guess it was me :) It's all right though...Emma still likes me :)

Those are some of the fun highlights from my trip! I'll post more pictures off to the side. Plus there's always facebook.

Anyway I'm now addicted to the show Project Runway. I don't know if you've ever seen it, but it's totally awesome. It's a bunch of fashion desingers trying to win the money for their own clothing line. Seriously, I have no idea what I ever did before TV on DVD. Actually it's sad how it's consuming my life. Well...that and reading. (I actually did read the Twilight series Kristi, I LOVED it, you should totally read "A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray)

I hope all is well and that you had great Holiday fun!!! It's back to the real world now!!! P.S. If you had the choice to go to Salt Lake or Ireland which would you choose??? I need comments on this cause I only have enough Vacation this year to do one, and both have come up, so please, please give me your feedback!!!!

Skipping Church

I was reading Rusty's blog and happened to Notice that he didn't go to church today, well I'm sad to say, neither did I. We had a "snowstorm" last night and today, and well Carolyn's car just isn't really equipped to make the drive in. So we stayed home. I did take some pretty pictures of the view from my window however!

See how pretty everything looks...There's nothing like snow that hasn't been touched. Mind you by tomorrow it will be all brown and yucky looking, but for today it really looks like a Winter Wonderland.

So I'm happy to say that I have finally finished Grey's Anatomy Season 3. Man is that show ever addicting. All I have to say is that Meredith and McDreamy better stay together or I will be Sooooo mad. I've invested enough hours in that show that I feel I'm entitled to the ending that I want. It's like the Ross and Rachel thing. They just need to be together.

One week from today and I'll be back in the Scosh. (I feel bad since I'll have missed 2 weeks of church back to back. Next week it's all about the airport.) I'm pretty excited about that since I haven't seen my family in 8 months. That's a pretty insane amount of time. Plus you know, there's the whole Ocean thing, and friends...it should be a pretty good time. Plus there's all the presents that await me :) I can't discount the cool presents. I'm excited...7 sleeps to go!!!

Ranting

Ok so I'm a total copy cat and figured that I would totally go for Julia's whole rant blog...what can I say, I totally loved the idea. Even if it makes me a horrible person for ranting when I should just be patiently loving everyone all the time....

Rant #1: I HATE hanging out with drunk people. I went to my work Christmas party last friday and as much as I truly love my co-workers, I'm sorry guys, but I don't want to hang out with you when you're drunk. It makes me uncomfortable. I don't see how loosing all your inhibitions and doing things you would be totally embarrassed about when you're sober is fun. I just don't get it! Perhaps it's just because I'm a stick in the mud, and because I don't know what it feels like, but I don't care, drunk people are not funny to me. It just makes me sad.

Rant #2: Julia if you think the whole plow thing is bad in Halifax you should see what it's like in London. The don't even START plowing until there's 4 inches of snow on the ground, and if you're not right down town, sidewalks don't get done at all. Seriously, Hello, Safety anyone???

Rant #3: I hate taking flack for not going to YSA activities. Honestly, there was a point in my life when I lived for those things, and all I ever wanted to do was hang out with the YSA, at whatever activity was coming along, but I've outgrown that and I just like hanging out in my apartment with a good book, or TV show or something. I'm all about small groups, and sometimes a large activity is fun, but organized activities with chaperone's just makes me feel like I'm 14. I'm not less active, I'm just a homebody.

Rant #4: Piggybacking on Rant #3, I DO NOT want a YSA activity at my Parent's house on New Years Eve. That BLOWS!!! All I want is to stay home with my mom and eat Chinese food and watch sappy chick flicks. Unfortunately for me, my cousin seems to think that the YSA have to have a party on New Years and someone convinced my mom it was ok to do it there. Anyone want to spare me from that torture and invite me somewhere else???

Well, I'm going to stop there because Honestly I think I could go on and how sad is that??? Pretty bad eh! Oh well! Well, two more weeks until I go home, I can't wait to see the Ocean!!! I'm super excited!!!

Here's a picture of Annick, Lisa and I at the Party on Friday night....I think this was actually before the drinking started :)

Christmas, Christmas time is here...

I love Christmas! Whats not to love? Pretty lights, pretty paper, and beautiful trees! Ok, so I could totally do without the snow, but nothing can be perfect :)

So Caro and I put up our Christmas tree last weekend. We went on a field trip to Wal-Mart and picked out the 29.99 special :) It's not the most elegant tree I've ever had, but it's fun. We had an awesome time wandering around picking out decorations. Here's a picture...(please excuse the movie poster behind the tree...)

It's not the most spectacular tree in the whole wide world, but it doesn't look completely hideous. Or at least it doesn't until you turn the lights on. Let me explain, so I like white lights, but Carolyn prefers the colored one's so I said fine, we'll get the colored lights not really thinking that they could be all that bad. However at Wal-Mart when we went, all they had were these new fangled LED lights. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for saving the environment but man, these lights are HIDEOUS! They're completely floresent. They make a perfectly average tree turn into the tackiest tree in the whole wide world. So as were putting this thing up I'm almost peeing I'm laughing so hard. I took a picture but it really doesn't capture the complete Nightmare of these lights!

So you can kinda see the purpleish glow emitted by these lights, but unless you see them in person, you really can't comprehend the true painful expierience. Let me just tell you, next year, if Carolyn and I still aren't roomates...she gets to keep the lights :)