Viva Las Vegas

Well one more day of work and then we are off! I am so excited! I have never been to vegas and I cant wait to see all the big hotels and gambling and rides and shopping and and and.. TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL! how cool is that!
Tonight I called Derek (wonder if I am spelling that right) back! Well! That was an hour and a half I should have been using my house phone for! Worth every penny. Thanks ladies for handing out my phone number to random boys at the bar! Good thing I know him.. but YOU guys didnt know that.. I could have a scary stalker now! hahaha


Bedtime! Have a good week everyone.. lol.. Jodi is probably the only one who actually reads this and she will be with me!

Ikea SUCKS

SO.. turns out that Ikea isnt quite as great as they think. They sent me ALL the way home with 7/12 WRONG cabinets. YUP. So now I have to go all the way back. But on a brighter note.. the flooring is done!I am a little worried though cause part of it seems like the seam isnt attached properly. BUT mom cleaned my room. LOVE YOU MOM. OH .. AND.. HE CALLED. But wait. I locked myself outta the house so I didnt know until it was too late to call back! I will have to call tomorrow! But I am excited. He seems like a nice boy.

Long Day

Well I have just arrived home. Apparently I am still just as frustrated as last night about this whole NO FLOORING issue. As I am wide awake right now I was going to get a jump on things and throw a coat of paint on the walls tonight but he TOOK the paint tray WITH him! and I dont have a roller handle here. I might see about sanding and priming where he repatched over paint though.. that way we can paint tomorrow. I would wonder if he was even coming back.. but his drill is still here. I kinda wish he would just take his $700 and jet. I'd have to beg help from family and friends.. and right now everyone is super busy. I am lucky enough to have Roxanne and Mom and Dad coming over tomorrow. Rox figures that with dad here Mike the turtle might Rabbit up. Oh! looks like he left a message to call him and let him know what time to show up on Sunday. Yay.

Today was long.. Out to edmonton and back.. spent all my $$ on brand new cupboards. I can't WAIT til they are in! Hope its not too hard! LOL. night.

A turtle could work faster.

So TURTLE MIKE.. STILL doesnt have the flooring in. I am going to call him in the morning and tell him that it NEEDS to get done. I am beginning to think that he shows up at noon and does nothing. Jodi thinks he has ADD. Possible. Today he did about an hour and a half MAYBE two hours worth of painting and unwrapped the laminate and put down the underlay. I think I PERSONALLY could have done that in like the morning. Let alone the whole afternoon and evening. WHAT THE HELL. I asked him to paint because I wanted him to get the flooring done. I will now have to call him tomorrow so that he can install the laminate before we bring the cupboards back. If I thought he was such a slow painter I would NEVER have mentioned it. I am a WAY faster painter. Thank GOD I am not paying him by the hour. I would already owe him the entire amount and all he really has done is the prep. SO SLOW.

On a much better note I just got home from jodi's Bachelorette Party. I think it was a success and that she enjoyed it. I had quite a bit to drink so I should probably go to sleep. Roxanne is coming tomorrow at 7:30 to drive me to Edmonton. We wont quite get out of town when she has hoped cause I have a couple things like picking up my truck to do still! Remind me to ask her that boys name. I feel awful for not knowing what it is. LOL.. yikes. but (as I blab cause I am all drunk) he has this cute smile.. AND I mighta had a crush on him a couple years ago. How funny is that. Night!

Does anyone else have a stove and a fridge in their living room?

Yep that's me! Contractor Mike came. And he gabbed for an HOUR and a HALF so I missed my blood donar appointment which I am kinda sad about.. but oh well! Sometimes selfish me who wants my house back will put herself first. Mike gave me a quote at what seems to be a reasonable price to do the work necessary. He is starting tomorrow morning. Dad asked if I got any references. Which I fully intended to do. BUT Allana likes to let people screw her over sometimes soooo just like when I get tenants.. I sorta went by my gut feeling. Now that I write this I am beginning to wonder about my lack of judgement! Since when have my choice of tenants worked out. Uh OH. Now I wont sleep. Great. No references. Holmes on Homes would be laughing at me. Maybe its good that that guys name is mike too? I do believe that people with the same name usually have similar behaviours. I hope so. At least he doesnt have any money yet. Nope. I will not budge on that factor. $$ are very important to me! haha.

So since he is coming tomorrow, today I had to remove anything that happened to be left in the kitchen. So the fridge and stove had to go.As I have SOO much storage guess where they are. Ya the living room. Its kind of cozy. I had joked before about plunking the fridge in front of the tv so that other stuff would get done. Well! Since fridges dont slide on carpet AT ALL it is hardly out of the kitchen. Oh and did anyone know that laundry baskets FIT inside refrigerators? Yup. This is handy so that I dont have to load and unload the darn thing each time it moves. Not that its ever going back into my kitchen. I have this feeling that my NEW fridge arrives on thursday. THEN I will have two couches, an old lazy boy, a tv, coffee table, end table, stereo cabinet/bookshelf, microwave,stove, and TWO fridges in my living room. And most of you know that this room IS NOT very big! lol. Well its bedtime! big day tomorrow!

My house is a MESS!

Well! I just realized JUST how BIG of a SLOB I have become in the past month. There are clothes, flyers, cups, bills - mostly unpaid, pillows, blankets, golfclubs, other garbage, half dead plants, dirty socks etc all just LAYING around! Ick! I swear - when I get this kitchen mess cleaned up I am gonna become the biggest neat freak. This is getting embarrassing. Everything is dusty. The carpet smells like dog pee. My kitchen is MISSING. I walk on clothes to get to my bed. I walk on clothes to get to my desk. My mom would freak if she found that out! She NEVER let me leave clothes on the floor as a kid. Once I am at the desk I realize there is never gonna be anyway I will find what I am looking for in that big PILE! I have no kitchen sink.. so there are dirty dishes - even though I JUST washed a whole pile of them on Saturday morning in a "camping sink". I have to put on flip flops to get to my fridge cause the floor is so icky where the tiles used to be! And mom thought "Hurricane Hannah" had hit my bedroom as a kid. Well whatever storm hit my house was MUCH BIGGER! lol

BUT! On a much better note! Contractor Mike is coming in half an hour to give me a quote on what it will cost me to get this all fixed. I cant WAIT. I've waited so long for this!

Then later tonight I have an appointment to donate blood. I like doing that cause my blood pumps out like twice as fast as the rest of the people there.. and its about the only way I actually help civilization out! Apparently I have saved at least 12 lives now. What a nice feeling.

Golf + No Team = Disaster!

So on Thursday night Jodi and I went golfing without our team. They were busy out at One Island Lake on "vacation" and we couldnt find anyone else to golf with us. SO we went out alone and decided that since our score wouldnt count we would play as individuals instead of best ball. Bad idea! By the end of the second hole my score was up to 15! This is because I hit 5 or 6 balls right into the bush. It got to the point that Jodi just stood in the bush and waited for the balls to come to her. THEN on hole 3 Jodi's #3 driver BROKE! So then (as the pic shows) we spent like half an hour creeping around in the bush looking for it! Lets just say we just went home after all this!

Procrastination! FINALLY downloaded pics from the long weekend!

Here are the pics from our trip to Kinuso Falls on the long weekend. 100km on the quads.. Gordie rode in that backpack on the quad the whole day! Fun times! Until the trip home...

These are just 9.. click on the "photobucket" logo and you'll get to scroll through all of mine & jodi's pics from the weekend.

Crazy Stella!

Well tonight as Abbie was outside for a poop and a play I couldnt help but notice that Stella (super crazy neighbor lady) was driving up and down her driveway back and forth in her car with the trunk open while spraying windsheild washer. Interesting. Then I thought "maybe she hasnt noticed the trunk is open and something is binging and shes trying to figure out why" so I decide to be the nice neighbor and take a trek across the lawn to inform her. Well! Oops I think that was the first time I initiated contact with the crazy lady! haha.. apparently her car has a rattle when its in reverse. Turns out her 98 mercury car has 82000 km on it and has never been in a serious accident (did she not tell me that her husband died in a car accident in this very same car??)and all the fluid levels are up. I then got to explain what many of the things under her hood were. I am NOT a car person.. I dont ACTUALLY know this stuff..however I know a LOT more than her!! Oh and apparently it is just crazy that my living room and kitchen are open to each other "now your company can see all those kitchen smells" (what does that mean! its a dinky house your gonna smell all the food! And the lady across the road is siding her house.. and the other family across the road is doing renos and needs to paint their shed.. oh and "do you know how much that house over there is listed for" to which I answered probably 250 or 260.. "oh I dont think they could get more than 200 for that house its smaller than ours" well stella mls SAYS 259,900!! Then she almost ran me over as I was looking under her car to identify the crazy rattle she had going on so I let abbie chase her cat! hehehe.. now we are home again and that was about all the excitement I had today! Catch ya'll later!

New Pics!

AHH.. some new pictures!! I am a big fan of this whole picture thing.. so much better than me and my big boring stories!!

quiet evening at home

so these pics are rather old... from my trip down to ottawa with mom and dad and cleo last november (on the trip home from a visit to see ty).... anyways.. I was just fiddling around with a picture thingy online.. thought I was being all creative and then it turns out I just used the same website as Jodi did on her blog yesterday! hahaha.. nice.. ohwell mine is a tad different... now I will just have to download some newer pics!

New Job!

Well here I am.. just off for my lunch hour at the new job! Yay. Its so far been great. The atmosphere around here is very friendly and everyone seems quite welcoming. So far we have had two meetings.. well two that I have had to attend.. and both have been good and I hope that they turn out to have been productive. The one today was the sort of meeting that Univar SHOULD have had MONTHS ago.. it always seemed like everyone was out of the loop over there and the negativity due to that grew and grew until I finally had to get out! I feel sorry for the poor chaps that are still stuck there! As for the new job.. finance assistant at GP Chrysler.. its going good. It will definately keep me challenged and I basically report to the sales managers which is cool cause they all seem to be good at what they do.

Well! I should get going..