Been a long while!

Gosh...I am not very good at this.  It has been ages. 

All is good...time sure does fly that is for sure.  I am off on a vacation day today - B had a doctor's appointment and I had some unused time from last year eat up so I took that day off.
Nice in being the house during the day - a work day that is.  Did not miss my drive into the office today.

Nothing really new to report.  Still waiting on official word from the court house to tell me that I am officially free and clear.  Got to be coming shortly I figure. The paper has only been sitting on the judges desk since the end of February! 

Met an old work friend for dinner the other night.  Had not seen her in a while so it was great to catch up.  We worked together for 5 years.  She has recently just returned for a vacation thru Thailand and love it.   She is back to work only for a couple of weeks and then off to St. Petersburg - yup Russia for ten days to visit with the love of her live.  He is working over there to help them get there IT resources all ready for teh next Olympics.  Pretty neat gig.  He has been then since September and will be for a total of four years.  Every few months they meet in a new country.  I believe after  Russia, it will be Greece.  Wow hey?

K is just back after a weekend with her Dad in Sask. It was her Grandmother's 75th b-day. She had a good time but I think missed Mom but she did enjoy all their snow out there.

K's knee is healing.  Thank goodness.  We are hoping for full clearance to resume sports again.  She has been chomping at the bit but understands that you can't rush this type of injury. 

Booked a trip to Vegas next month.  Bellagio here I come.  Looking forward to it.  It was my Mom's 70th b-day this year so she and I are going for 4 days in May.  We are seeing the show KA and Lion King.  Awesome deals out there right now...this trip with tickets to KA (they came free) $500!  Thank you Allegiant airlines!

Well that it is for now...gotta go get a little lady from school soon.

Prepping the bucket list for 2011

I know I know...23 days have already gone in 2011 but did I ever say I was on time for anything??  haha.. maybe I should put that on my list to achieve this year? 

I am going to create a list of things I want to accomplish this year.  Don't know what they all are yet..but I have given my self a deadine to come up with at least 10.  This way I at least have a chance as completing something every month...yeah we will see!

All else is good... except now I have to monitor my blood pressure at home...seems the meds were not doing enough so the dosage got upped a bit.  Kids are good, cat is good..and I am good.

2010 The Year Wrap Up

So 2010 was quite a year.... I decided I wanted to do a recap.  Partially to remind me what I did but really just to see all that happened cuz it really was a year.  I am excited as we get going on 2011 because this year is going to be MY Year!

Here we go:

Had my first ever MRI - yes once will be enough if I am lucky.
Had my first ever Mamogram.  Whooo whoo I'm in the club.
Retained a lawyer for the first time in my life.
Had to have a tooth pulled.
My dad had a stroke.
A coworker backed into the side of my car.
Had a second Mammogram the ultrasound type
Filed a legal separation.
Bought a townhouse = now I have a mortgage of my very own.
Got a new cat.  My little Doo.
Lots and lots of house painting = I am now a pro.
Have a t.v in my room.
No more car loan = she is all mine now.
Saw my first ever Cirque de Soliei - WOW.
White Caps Games
Went to Lady Gaga concert -love her!!
Went to Seattle and Las Vegas for a holiday.
Went to Great Wolf Lodge in WA - FUN
Transfered littlest to another elementary school.
Struggles with the teen.
Got shingles, high blood pressure pills and anemia.
Fun scrapbooking weekend away in October.
Justin Beiber concert FREE and box seats.  Yes, I know a major score! 
Canucks Hockey Game.
My buddy got cancer :-(
Third Mamo of the year.
More layoffs to deal with at work :-(
Learned how to fix things a man normally does around the house.
Learned how to play Mario Brothers on the Wii - yes, really.
Got a PVR - how did I survive before??
Put up the outside Christmas Lights - all on my own.
Got a white christmas tree for my room.. just cuz I could.
Got rear-ended = car to the repair shop for the second time this year.
First Christmas morning in 13 years with no kiddies - it was actually okay.

I am sure there is more to add to the list but frankly this looks like enough. On to 2011!

now what???

I have shingles  :-(  That is all I can say.  Pain like you won't believe and guess where????  my eye lid. 

Stress related of course and more meds.

When will it all end?

Meet my new friend

Here is the best thing that has happended to my little family and he loves us like crazy.  I miss the Love Cat dearly but I know that she is happy where she is. Not sure exactly how old Dusty is but guessing under two.  Hard to believe that his previous owners left him with the trash and moved away.  :-(

Well he has found himself a new forever home with us and his old life is forgotten.  He has a home to roam in, made new friends in the complex and sleeps in a pink satin bed from build-a-bear (don't ask - he loves it) and is carried like a baby constantly.  Has many toys to play with, food and water whenever he wants.  Yep...he's a happy boy!

Paint + New Carpet = Happy Paige!

Been very busy of late. My nails are covered in paint but it is worth it!  Three rooms painted, carpeted and now on to the family room..  Ahh good thing I love the colour I have chosen.  Gray all the way baby!  It also pays to have a friend that works for a carpet company too :-)

HOT HOT HOT

It says 35 degrees in my car and it is 7:00pm at night!  ugh...... I might need to invest in a/c. 

HAPPY POPPA'S DAY DAD!!

Hope you are keeping cool in the hot hot weather there.  Hey...could you please package some up and send my way?  It seems summer has not yet arrived in Vancouver.

Wow...

We had a crazy windstorm here late afternoon that dragged well into the night.  Lost power once for a couple of hours and then we managed to get dinner done and then you could hear the transformer in the area pop and go.  Well that is a sure sign that nothing is going to happen for many hours.  I rounded up all the candles in the house and hoped that I could clear the dishwasher properly in the dark.  Oh well, came back on around 11:30pm. I was a really noisey storm, the trees were bending in ways you don't normally see.  In fact the sky was grey almost bright, not pitch black as you would think.

Oh the joys of living on the coast I guess.  Well, the girls are off to cross border shop today.
See Ya!

Light?

Yup...it is and it is at the end of my tunnel! Don't need the sunglasses yet but I will.
Can I say about friggin' time?????

ugghhhh more school to be missed!

Can we just have a week where they both go to school for the full 5 days?  Poor Brayden is sick again.  I am hoping it does not develop into a chest infection. He sounds awful and with only 4 days to go till March break.  Good Times Again!

Movie Night

Funny! I think I was laughing harder then my kids
 :-)

Busy

Lots going on to report at a later date!

But happy to have tickets to:

Yippee!  My favourite artisit is coming back to town.  August 23!  I be there!  Can't wait.  Tickets were literally sold out in minutes. Heck..I might need a date for this? :-)


Today was also a very important day. I can finally discard my bootlegged copy of New Moon for the real thing!  Yep.....was off to Rogers Video bright and early to pick up my official copy of sigh sigh  New Moon. Already watched it tonight too!

Olympic Photos

Just back from rainy soccer this morning...

and headed downtown for the rest of the day.  Bringing my camera as I want to get some shots of the pre-Olympic excitement and all the changes downtown.
Hope to get something posted later today.

P.

What a talented friend I have

Check out what my buddy Chriss (here is a link to her blog.  Just check how talented this girl really is!)has made for my employer. Neat eh?  This is going to go in our employee lunchroom so the staff will see how we are doing to achieiving our new store openings for this year.  We have cute little pony beads that will go in it as we open the stores.  You can see we have had to try it all out.  Everyone wants to be the one that adds the beads so I see excitement coming when we open a new store!

Pre-Olympic Fun

So I am chair of our Social Committee at work and we decided drum up some Olympic spirit as we lead up to the opening ceremonies.
Everyday we have some fun little contest and here is what we have done so far:

Quatchi - was a prize to a quick trivia question

Our Olympic Cupcakes from Safeway and today we did a guess how  many olympic jellybeans were in the container.  936 to be exact by the way.

ughhh what a long day!

Trapped on old Annacis Island tonight.  Due to this horrible accident, it shut down the Alex Fraser Bridge in both directions.  Got to leave the office at 7:50pm and it was still backed up out front out our building.  I managed to sneak the back way off the Island.  So glad not many people know that route or I probably would still be out there fighting to get home.  People were out of their cars and milling around and you could hear the helicopters in the sky.   Very sad for sure.

:-(

Soccer Weekend

It was a soccer weekend for us.  Yesterday Brayden played and it was sunny ( a major treat) but cool. Sorry no photos...my battery died!  Today Kaylin played and I froze!  She was in goal for the first half and did an awesome job.  Our team won 4-2.

Another great save!

Congrats on a great job from Coach Derek!.

The Week

Nothing terribly exciting this week went on.  Just a busy one.  Lots of rain - I mean crazy rain.  My drive to work the last couple of days have been slow due to huge puddles.  Oh well...finally saw some sun this afternoon and that is enough to totally forgive all the rain that came.  Hoping the weather this weekend will at least hold out for the kids soccer games.  We are travelling for both...Surrey/North Delta for one and New Westminter for the other.  Crossing fingers.,

Had my MRI on Wednesday morning.  Was at the hospital bright and early at 7:55am and did not have to wait long. The MRI tech was really great, but I did get worried when he kept asking questions like "are you afraid of confined spaces?  are you claustrobphic? etc.  I finally told him...no more talking about it..lets just get it rolling  :-)  Oh it was confined alright. The test took about 20 minutes and it seriously was like a jack hammer was be operated beside your ears. Crazy, becuase there is nothing wrong there - just take the photos of the back and I will be good to go! :-)  Oh well, in the last 8 weeks, I figure that I have had enough radiation and whatever else is in those scans that I should be glowing!   So, hopefully I will hear that the bulge is shrinking?  Can only hope.  And at the request of my Neurosurgeon, trying to drink the extra water and lose my stress!  Haha..that should be fun.

Speaking of stress...how would you feel if your child called you on a dark and pouring rain night from a park where he was supposed to have a soccer practice. Turns out that was earlier cancelled.  He is asking if he could get a ride home because he had just been dropped off and turns out no one from his team was there??? Right...because it was cancelled remember?.  Normally one makes sure before leaving a child in a park that all is good.  Oh yes, did I mention that you are not in the area to pick him up in short minutes and he is borrowing someones cell phone at the park to call you?  Yup...welcome to my world.

Here are a couple of recent pictures of my silly girl and oh yes, got the nails done today.  You know me, I like designs.  See what I have today.

And that is about it for now.  All my news and gossip.  So we will see what comes next!

Paige.