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.