Oh...What...A....Day!

Let me start off by saying, O...What...A....Day :)! Today Alyssa & I went to the lake. We wanted to get our first tan of the summer :). Notice I said "tan"?....not "burn."...Yup apparently I forget to tell the sun that. It's my own fault I know, I told myself that I wouldn't BURN myself this summer because not only does it HURT, but it's extremely BAD for your skin :S.ooooops! I am now suffering from a painful burn! I'm REALLY not doing that again! After going to the lake we went to work. I picked up Hannah on the way but neither Hannah & I started work until an hour after Lyss so we had an hour to kill. We decided to walk to Mac's :). Last year when Hannah worked at DurhamSchool of Music with me, every Monday we had an hour and a half spare at the same time so it become tradition to walk to Mac's :). Today we got slurpies, just like old times and drank them on the way back, only to find out that when we got back we BOTH HAD ORANGE lips and teeth from the slurpies. How embarrassing...especially because we had to TEACH SOON. I frantically licked my teeth and lips like a CRAZY PERSON ...and it worked :). I no longer had orange teeth....but it didn't matter, because my first student didn't come....and my second student didn't come. (It's her second last lesson before her PIANO EXAM....ahhhhhh) ...and then I had a spare. So if my students had CALLED I wouldn;t have had to come into work until an hour and a half later. Oh well. That's how life goes sometimes! :) My next student ACTUALLY showed up...thank goodness :). She has an exam in a couple weeks and I recently have been very nervous that she might fail, because she does NOT practice like she should. We had a "mock exam" last lesson which she laughed through and fooled around and basically didn't even care about. We had a little talk last lesson but I wasn't sure if it even made a difference. Today she came in and played EVERYTHING almost perfectly!!!!!! Not only is she going to pass now, but she is ACTUALLY going to get a good grade!!! Wow...that is DEFINITELY a load lifted off my shoulders. Although I did all I could with her and nothing else could be done UNTIL she practiced I still would have felt bad if she failed...but I can't practice FOR my students ALTHOUGH I OFTEN ...very often....wish I could! I told her after she was done "Did you know that right now I am the HAPPIEST teacher in the WORLD?" :) :) Finally the stress was off & then my new student walked in the room. Her parents told me that she was taking an exam in 3 weeks. I didn't worry too much because I figured her last teacher would have her pretty much ready. You know what they say....NEVER ASSUME! Three weeks is NOT enough time to teach her everything she needs to know. There is stuff she has to do for her exam that she has NO idea how to do. "Well stress, it was nice to say good-bye for a LITTLE while, but might I say, WELCOME BACK!"
This is a little bit how our conversation went
Me- "Have you ever done playbacks before?" (She has to do playbacks for her exam- the examiner will play something, she plays it back)
Her-"A PIGGYBACK? What's THAT?"
Me- "I said a PLAYback!"
Her-"No! WHY did you say PIGGYBACK?"
Me-" Ummm....ok, I will show you what a playback is next week. Have you ever done a clapback?"
Her- "OBVIOUSLY"
She is an 8 yr old girl & I honestly could NOT tell if she was being rude or that's just how she talks...I have no idea...She left her lesson after our half hour was up and I think I sat there in a confused state for a while like "what on EARTH just happened!" Our whole lesson was me asking her if she knew what so and so was and her either saying... "no" while giving me a sigh like "hurry up and show me already...FOR REAL aren't we done learning new things?" or a "yes" (OR "OBVIOUSLY") while kinda rolling her eyes as in "WHY ARE YOU EVEN ASKING ME THIS, Of course I KNOW!" It was definitely one of the weirdest lessons of my life...! We'll see how next wk goes :S! On a not so happy note, something is wrong with my car I think...which means I have to say good-bye to my PAY CHECK :s....!!!!!!!

DEALS! :)

On Friday I decided to go shopping at zellers. Having worked at zellers I have learned to search for sales, and then remember the price of what I'm buying because nine times out of ten, it will not scan at the sale price! lol. I had quite a few things I needed to buy and found AMAZING deals on everything! (well...except for my sour gumballs...I paid full price- 87 cents- for those! lol! I can't resist sour things, I think it's my weakness....) I found a cookbook on sale for $5 which is an amazing deal! Yes, cookbooks, another one of my weaknesses :)! I scanned EVERY single thing I was buying at the price check before going up to cash just to make sure the sale price came up! On my way up to the cash I noticed they had 1.18 litre bottles of shampoo and conditioner on sale for $5!!!!!! AMAZING DEAL! I figured that would save me money in the long run so I grabbed one of each and walked up to the cash...without scanning them! Everything scanned at sale price...until she scanned the shampoo at ten dollars... She called to do a price check after I asked if they were on sale only to tell me "No, sorry they aren't on sale. The 700 ml. ones are on sale but not these." I told her I would just pay for the rest of the stuff. After paying I walked back to the aisle where I had gotten the shampoo & conditioner and sure enough it said SALE- 1.18 litres -$5! Oh goodness...all I wanted was to buy my shampoo :(. So I grabbed the sign right of the shelf and took it up to cash and got my sale price. :). It brought back memories of when I used to work at zellers and literally EVERY item scanned wrong...The customer would get angry...I would call the department for a price check...and no one would call back.... it was very frustrating! I often just gave the discount the customer wanted and hoped I wouldn't get in trouble for it. :S. Lol, it is nice now to be the annoying customer rather than the cashier! ha ha :). Saturday night Jonny, Holly, Joel, & I went bowling! I have never done so awful at bowling in my ENTIRE LIFE. The only time I actually didn't do half bad was my last few tries  because by that point I was angry at bowling and took my anger out on the bowling ball. It worked :). We tried to fit in three whole games of bowling which meant we had only 12 minutes for our last game. It was probably very humorous if anyone was watching us because we looked like we were in fast motion! Unfortunately Jonny was in "too fast" mode when he threw a ball BEFORE the machine thing was fully up. The ball hit the machine and EVERYTHING stopped. Umm...oops...it was jammed. The guy in charge came to fix it and said VERY sternly "You have to wait until the machine is READY BEFORE you throw the ball!" BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD Jonny! Jonny always does silly things like that! Sometimes it's embarrassing but he makes me laugh! :)

Always good for a laugh...:)

Well today I didn't do much at all! I stayed in bed FOREVER this morning reading my new book until I finally forced myself to put it down or I would have spent all day in bed reading. I had to teach tonight which I dreaded since Jonny finished work at 4 and I hate working when I know he is at his house and I could be there too....if I wasn't WORKING .... LOL. I have two students who are booked for a piano exam in a little over a week and today told me "oh by the way...I can't go to my piano exam!" ummmmm...........what? " These same two students also would not print off their exam form from the internet which they are supposed to print off when they register for their exam...I have been asking for WEEEEEEEKS for them to bring the exam forms and finally got frustrated and just printed them myself. One of these same students also STILL HASN'T paid me for recital (a month late! seriously) Another one of my students would not sing properly....she constantly burps during her lessons...grosssssssss! After my 5 yr old student's lesson tonight he sat in my chair and said in a high voice "Find an 'A' on the piano." Ha ha...he was trying to be me :). lol. Somehow tonight was a good night at work though...not sure how...but it was :D! Lyss & I got subs after work and dessert from a bakery! yummmm! What a good day! :)

Good-Bye :(

Well Jenn, Michael, and I had an awesome last few days together! Yesterday we all (including Lyss too) went to have lunch with my dad at his work. :). It was a beautiful day outside yesterday so we took Michael to the park. I taught him how to blow dandelion seeds :). Well not so much BLOW them....I taught him how to shake them lol! He was so excited and kept pointing at more dandelions for me to get for him. Jenn & I were taking pictures and we wanted one together so we put it on timer and I told her to get on my back ...lol....that didn't work very well at ALL...I fell over onto the pavement and she fell on top of me. We could NOT stop laughing and finally I squeaked out "get.........off......me......" but she couldn't because she was laughing too hard...ha ha! When we got home Jenn & I decided to help my parents out so I mowed the lawn...(which by the way was the first time it was mowed this year so the grass was longer than usual which made the job FAR more difficult...I now have bruised hands :S)....and Jenn made supper :). Then Jonny, Jenn, & I went out shopping...or should I say Jenn & I shopped and Jonny chauffeured us. He followed us around the stores but didn't actually SHOP (he's not much of a shopper), after I felt a little bad that I had asked him to come so I asked him..."did you have fun?" He said "ya of COURSE!" What a good chauffeur :) Jenn & I then played mario & watched gilmore girls when we got home (the story of our LIFE)! :D Today we went to have lunch with my mom at her work :). (I have gotten A LOT of free lunches lately...lol:D) Today kind of just slipped by and before we knew it, it was time for Jenn & Michael to leave :(. My parents & I took them to the airport. We got stuck in traffic which I didn't mind because we got to spend longer with them :). My dad bought all of us dinner and then it was time to say good-bye. I hate saying good-bye...but I will be visiting Jenn within the next month or two so this time I got to say "See you next month!" :)

Surprise!!!!

Well...guess who flew in on Friday morning? JENN & MICHAEL!!! I couldn't say anything before because it was a surprise for when my mom got back from Australia last night :). Jenn & I went to church but had to leave early to beat my parents home to surprise my mom. We felt pretty dumb leaving church after being about only 2 minutes into the sermon. lol. Oh well. Jenn, Michael & I hid in the dining room and the idea was when the door opens Michael would walk over to check it out and surprise my mom. (We even practiced it once...I walked in the door and talked with and aussie accent...LOL) Michael didn't do QUITE so well in the real thing...when my mom walked through the door I had to poke him a bit to get him to walk to the door lol...but when Mummy saw him she was SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!! Michael is SOOO big now :). He now is like a little boy more than a baby, but he still LOVES being cuddled!!!! :) . The other night I cuddled him while he drank his bottle and it was the BEST :).

Yesterday Jenn, Jonny, Lyss, & I played mario. It was hilarious! We were FULLY YELLING AT EACH other when we would mistakingly kill each other. ha ha. It was fun :). Jonny kept purposely throwing us off cliffs and killing us :(. Sometimes in the game we would randomly pick each other up just to be annoying. Poor Jenn was not very good at the game so at the hard part she said "HELP! Somebody put me on them!" LOL...SHE wanted someone to pick her up and carry her through the hard parts. ha ha ha !

Oh , did you notice we MADE it past May 21? The rapture didn't happen as PREDICTED. lol. I knew it wouldn't happen because no man can know the exact time that Christ will come back...but at the same time I was a little anxious for 6:00. Crazy I know...but around 5:30 Joy pulled out her phone and we (everyone at our table at the wedding on Sat. ) all kept checking the time. When it got to 6:00 I grabbed the table leg and started shaking the table...I whispered "EARTHQUAKE! EARTHQUAKE!" (lol I had to whisper... it was in the middle of the speech at the wedding ha ha) Unfortunately nobody believed it ;). Ha ha! Once again God has shown men that he is in control ...and will come back in His own time :).

Perfect Saturday!

Today Jonny, Joy, Jon, & I went together to Alicia and Dustin's wedding! It was a beautiful wedding! I just love weddings! I love the atmosphere and EVERYTHING! :). I remember one summer when there were SOOO many people getting married ...IT WAS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY! Now this year, hardly anyone is getting married and it's depressing because weddings are the HIGHLIGHTS of summer :(. Oh well. Today was such a nice wedding :). On the way home Joy, Jon, Jonny, & I sang at the TOP OF OUR LUNGS TO OUR CDS. I laughed soooooo hard! The boys occasionally sang like girls while Joy & I would sing like boys. Maybe you had to be there but as I sat there beside my man, with two AMAZING FRIENDS in the front, and looked out at God's beautiful creation I thought "Does it get better than this?" I really feel like I am one of the luckiest girls in the world. God has blessed me more than I could ever imagine!

I don't want to be an orphan ANYMORE!

Well I am about ready for my parents to come home now :) But I still have to wait until Sunday :S! Oh well. I have spent most of my nights at Alyssa's house and then Hannah slept over at my house the last two nights. On Monday night we watched a movie and played some mario :). We kept mistakingly killing each other and then we would laugh like crazy ! ha ha. We climbed into bed around 1 in the morning. An hour later I whispered... "Are you still awake?" She said "yaaaaaaaa"....We found out we had both been staring at the ceiling for the last hour? WHY? I don't know...we had been so tired and now COULD NOT sleep. We talked for quite a while longer and then decided we might as well get up at play more mario! Finally we fell asleep around 4 in the morning :S! Last night we actually both fell ASLEEP at a decent hour though...thank goodness :)! We talked about all our funny memories in highschool and laughed until we could hardly breathe. Sometimes I miss highschool and wish I could go back just for ONE day, only one :)

Last night I had one of the weirdest dreams of my life. You know those little things you stick into your corn on the cob so that you don't have to hold it with your fingers? Well I had a dream that Jenn was at my house and she got mad at me and POKED ME in the head with one of those things and I had a huge hole in my head. I was so scared of her in my dream and even said I "hated her!" (whaaaaaaaaaaaat?) In my dream I was back in grade 12 and was forced to move to a different school with Hannah. The school was HUGE and extrememly strict. If people didn't pay attention in class they would get expelled immediately. I hated the school and wished I could move back home. My dad was a teacher lol! Then I thought "I won't even be able to GO TO DURHAM COLLEGE NEXT YEAR because it's too far AWAY!" And then I think my alarm went off....weird dream....

Today I plan to clean up the house before my piano students come and then go to Jonny's for supper tonight! This is the first day since my parents left a week ago that I am actually staying home for most of the day :) with nothing to do. It's probably good considering I just cannot get rid of this cold! It's SOOOO ANNOYING!!!! My poor little Misty is fast asleep beside me and everytime I cough she opens her eyes the tiniest bit and gives me a look like "Is this FOR REAL? I'm trying to SLEEP!" I'm pretty sure I have the snobbiest cat in the entire world :) lol! When I was at Alyssa's house I would come home every morning and feed Misty. That meant that she got her supper (tuna) for breakfast since I wouldn't be home at night. Now that I have been home the last two nights she has gotten her supper at normal time. The poor cat doesn't know whether to meow in the morning or at night for her supper. I threw off her groove :). Well that's all my news from the last two days. Eventually I will get back to blogging every day when I am ACTUALLY home :) ...or maybe not....summer is a little dull for me sometimes I may have nothing to write :S lol

Happy Birthday Jonny!

Happy birthday to my amazing perfect man! Today is Jonny's 23rd birthday! We have now been dating for a year and nine months :). We have liked each other for 7 years...but I will leave it at that ;). The last year and nine months have been the absolute highlight of my life. Honestly until you find "your other half" it is hard to understand how much exactly you can fall in love. I never thought I could love anyone so much as I love Jonny. Jonny is my best friend! I can talk to him about ANYTHING at all and he always has good advice when I need it (and sometimes even when I DON'T need it....lol). We are very similar in so many ways. One of the ways we are similar is our LOVE for spicy food! I have finally found someone who ENJOYS THAT BURNING FEELING and tears that come from spicy food! When I am with Jonny I know that I want to spend the rest of my life with him. I never would have imagined that someone could care SOOO much about me. Someone who once kept the phone on ALL night because I had to stay at home alone for the first time and was so scared. He said "Cheryl...you sleep...I will stay awake until I know you are sleeping. If you wake up in the night my phone will be right beside me and I will wake up too!" Someone who brings me flowers and soup when I am sick. Someone who watches chick flicks with me because he loves me ;). (I think he actually likes them and it's just a cover up...lol) Someone who surprises me with little things such as chocolate....more chocolate....oh, and did I mention chocolate? I could go on forever. I only hope that I show my love to him as much as he shows to me. I want to give him the WORLD for his birthday but he claims he wants NOTHING for his birthday...lol...BOYS! So I took him out on Friday instead :)...maybe next year I will give him the world ;). He is my best friend, my love, and my hero. I love you Jonny! Happy Birthday!

A Summary of my Week :)

Yes! I am still ALIVE :) I haven't had a chance to blog in a while so I will give a quick summary of my CRAZY WEEK :) . On Tuesday night Alyssa did not want to be home alone so she came over :). She also didn't want to drive home late since last time she did some deer decided to ruin her car ;). So she waited for phil to come pick her up after work...at 2:30 in the MORNING! LOL! We were SOOOOO tired by then and I regretted it the next day :). My parents left for Australia on Wednesday and I planned to stay Wednesday night by myself. I absolutely HATE being alone but I did it ONCE before so I thought I would be ok. I was actually VERY brave and feeling all fine until I walked into my room....and there was a spider. Big deal right? Did I tell you this spider was MASSIVE? Remember the story in one of my other blogs about the MASSIVE spider Joy & I found that time she slept over? Ya...it was one of those. Let's just say I slept at Alyssa's house that night...and every night ever since :). I come home though to feed Misty and cuddle her and sometimes she is SOOO BAD when I get home and jumps on things and knocks things ever because she wants attention ! ha ha! Thursday night at work I lost my voice. I was starting to get a cold when I went into work but after 4 hours of teaching...my voice was practically GONE! By my last student (5 yrs old) I was definitely ready to go home. It didn't help that he was being bad (as usual ...lol) and that it was easier to just sit there and let him be bad than hurt my voice trying to get him to listen. At the end of the lesson I still gave him a treat (cuz he was KINDA good sometimes)...and after ALL that he looks at it as says "THAT'S ALL?" ....woooow, So I told him "you know...it would be nice to say thank-you instead of 'that's all'" growwwwl. So then he said thank-you...;) On Friday for Jonny's birthday surprise I took him to medieval times with Joy & Jon. It was lots of fun :) . Yesterday I went to work (subway)  which was a bad idea. That cold that started on Thursday has been getting worse every day. Sometimes when I tried to talk yesterday NOTHING would come out and it's a little hard to SERVE CUSTOMERS when I have no voice! lol Luckily there were four of us working so I stayed in the back most of the time making bread, doing dishes and all that kind of stuff. When I first came into work though there were only two of us so I had to serve a few customers which was jsut EMBARRASSING. I Could hardly squeak out ANYTHING and one customer even asked me if I had no voice because I had done too much partying the night before...ummm not even CLOSE. LOL. My voice somewhat came back during the end of work which made me excited and then I went to Jonny's house and GOOD-BYE VOICE! Completely gone! I tell you....everytime I get a cold it is SOOOO bad and it's annoying...this is DEFINITELY the worst I have had yet though :S...which is why I am HOME on a SUNDAY :(!!!! I never ever miss anything because of a cold so this is just DEPRESSING! At least I can somewhat talk now though but I think I just coughed up a lung! ha ha ha! Oh that reminds me...yesterday I drove a new girl home from work yesterday... On the way home I was trying to talk to her with the little voice I had when I started coughing....AND COUGHING AND COUGHING !!!!! lol! I drove her practically the whole way home with one hand while the other covered my cough to try not to spread my germs! ha ha. I bet she was glad to get out of my car!!!!! oops! Oh well :) That's just how life goes sometimes :S :D!

Dear Nana

Dear Nana,
Today you are no longer with us, you are in a better place. This morning when the phone rang so early I knew it was bad news... well, bad news for us, not for you. I planned to write you a letter after my busy exam week but I couldn't find your address. I asked Mummy and she told me I could email it and someone would read it to you...so I planned to write you a letter yesterday. The reason I didn't write it before is because I was still thinking of what to say. Should I tell you good-bye or just pretend that everything is normal? I figured this would be my last letter to you so I had to make it perfect. Saturday night we found out you were in a coma...I was a few days too late....but please know that I love you, that's what I would have written in my letter... I wish I could be at the funeral but it is just not possible. This way at least I don't have to say good-bye but rather I can say, I will see you again soon.

Remember when I came to Australia and Mummy was really tired and went to bed and told us to go to bed too? You had a sly grin on your face when you decided we should bake instead :). So we were sneaking around the kitchen giggling when *CRASH* I dropped my pan on the floor....oops! "GO TO BED!" We laughed :). Or remember the other time when I came to visit and I didn't have room to bring a stuffed animal in my bag so you let me borrow "lambie" to sleep with? Everytime you called after Mummy & I went back home, you would tell Mummy that "lambie" was still on the bed because it reminded you of me. Leaving after every visit was the hardest. I would usually write you a letter shortly after I got home and often the ink would get smudged by my tears. They say that distance makes the heart grow fonder, that may be true because every visit we had together was such a highlight in my life! Once when you came here to visit you came to church with us and I remember introducing my best friend to you and feeling like I would burst because FINALLY I had a nana that I could show off too! (It was hard to show you off with you living so far :S)

All day today I have tried to keep my mind occupied with other things, but it's hard. The tears still come without warning. When I was in Tim Hortons today the girl was SO RUDE and I wanted to say "DON'T YOU EVEN CARE THAT MY NANA IS GONE?" ...but it's not like she knew....it made me think that we don't know what is going on in other people's lives and should ALWAYS always be kind because they could be going through something and a little kindness will go a LONG way.

Well Nana, I guess this is the last you will hear from me for a while. Remember, you are always in my thoughts. I still cry for you but eventually my tears will go away. That doesn't mean that I will stop missing you but rather that I am looking forward to our next visit. Heaven becomes a more beautiful place to me as I say good-bye to people I love. Our next visit will be the best, we can avoid the tearful good-byes because we will never have to leave. But until then...I will miss you.

Love,
Cheryl

Why hello sun...I have missed your beautiful face! :)

FINALLY....SOME SUN! Today was a beautiful day outside! I sat outside and read. I felt like I was getting a tan and then came inside and had a RASH INSTEAD!!!!!!! HA HA HA ! How embarrassing :S ! I have never gotten a rash from the sun before.

This morning subway called me and tried to convince me that my new availability said I could work today & past 4 tomorrow. I have no idea where that even came from since I am UNAVAILABLE on mondays and can ONLY work til 3 on tuesdays because of piano both days. Ah well. I just will not give in! Last year I ended up working on a Monday before going to teach piano and said this is a "one time thing" (It just gets to be too much with working at subway in the morning and teaching piano til 9 at night :S). The "one time thing" turned into a phone call every single Sunday NIGHT for the next month and a half that went like this "Cheryl, we really, really need you tomorrow and I know you are not usually available but just for this ONE TIME...." And every....single...time....I said YES! I felt bad if I said no! This time I am STANDING strong! I have TWO jobs and have a set availability for both jobs so that I don't get double booked! I will not GIVE IN :).

Tonight was a good night of teaching piano. Last monday at this time I was celebrating my grad :), so I hadn't seen my students for 2 wks and it's sometimes nice to have a week off :) it makes the next week even more fun :) One of my students who has missed OVER HALF his lessons finally showed up today after not coming for 5 wks. He started off the lesson by telling me hadn't practiced....in 5 WEEKS.... :S....THEN lied to me....Then when I told him THREE TIMES not to do something....He did it anyways....When I told him to stop...He didn't ....When I tried to help him with something he pretended to pay attention but when I said the same thing two minutes later he said "whaaaat? I didn't know that"...."I JUST TOLD YOU!!!!!" But I kept my cool...and inwardly cheered at the end of that 30 min lesson. I love teaching.....but there are moments when I want to sit at the piano bench....put the kid in the my chair...and say "Hey, teach me since you don't need my help or listen to what I say anyways" GROWL!

You would think after both my stories that my day was bad...but really...it was great :) It's just my bad stories are far more exciting than my good ones! :) But now I need some good things to outwiegh my bad :) Lyss & I talked to Jenn & Michael on facebook....and Michael waved to us :) Then Lyss and I swayed back and forth and sang some siamese cat song off some disney movie and Michael started swaying TOO ! HA HA! Hannah & I went to some second hand store right by Durham and it was a complete waste of time but I have always wanted to go in there, so I can cross that off my list :) We ended up going to the convenience store after and buying creamsicles :). ANNNNNNNNNNNND all my students showed up tonight! That hardly EVER happens on a Monday.... :D. Ok now I can leave on a happy note :)

Success!

Well yesterday was a success! Alyssa & I threw a surprise party for my parent's 30th anniversary! :) The cool thing is ....THEY WERE ACTUALLY SURPRISED!!!! :) They had no idea :). The Lindemans took them out for the day for their anniversary so they didn't suspect a thing. Then when they came home Mrs. Lindeman asked to see the birdfeeder (SMART LADY :D) they walked into the backyard and "SURPRISE!!!!!" We expected to have more people come though so let's just say I will be eating sausages and hamburgers for the rest of my LIFE :) ! It was such a great night & the sun even shone the whole time :)! I had ALL the food that didn't need to be refrigerated in my car overnight so that means a FULL TRUNK of food! Sometimes my dad cleans out my car so I hid my spare key so he wouldn't see all the food :). I'm so glad it all worked out! They are the best parents ever :)! The people who came were so good with bringing desserts and salads :)! So many people told Alyssa & I that we did a great job with the party! That's one thing I absolutely LOVE about being part of a church family. People are honestly SOOO nice and encouraging! I wouldn't trade that for anything! Well I have decided I'm officially going to be bored this wk :S! I only work a bit this wk. I will just enjoy the time off & maybe go through all my clothes and get rid of some so I can buy more! lol ! I got quite a bit of cash for my graduation (what was I just saying about such a nice church family :)...and relatives:D) so I have decided that will be my spending money throughout summer :) yay! This is going to be a great summer! I know it :)

Well I didn't need taste buds anyways !

Today I spent my day with Jonny! Perfect day... need I say more? He bought chicken wings for us from wild wing. We decided to get the SPICIEST ones (6 flames!!) After eating my first wing I said "this isn't even hot!!!" On the second to fourth wings I was starting to sweat and drinking ALOT of water ( yes I know that APPARENTLY makes it worse but I think it kinda helped!) By the fifth wing I was doing a little "ok this is too spicy" dance and saying "OW OW OW OW OW MY MOUTH IS BURNING!" I then ate some croutons (they were the only things on the table) and continued to enjoy the burning! lol. Weird as it is I love that burning feeling of spicy food :) My taste buds may no longer be alive but they were AMAZING wings! Jonny even bought me some cheesecake for dessert :). That's my official favourite meal...chicken wings and cheesecake :) :)

So remember the toad that was stuck in my window well? I can't find him anymore and I didn't hear him hopping against my window last night. My mom says it's dead...My dad says I dreamt it! Where ARE YOU my little toad? Well I should say BIG TOAD!!! I don't think he could have escaped on his own...I will gladly rescue him (as long as I have help and don't have to TOUCH HIM....EWWWW) if I can find him :(

Yesterday when Shannon & I went to check out the gym at Durham College we didn't even break out a sweat because we were just trying to figure out how all the machines work. We did try A LOT of machines though...and I'm DEFINITELY FEELING IT TODAY! I hurt.... EVERYWHERE!!!! I'm not sure what I did wrong...because really I didn't do MUCH... but I DEFINITELY did something wrong! ow :)

Poor little non-bat :)

Ok well remember about a week ago when I posted about the bat that I thought was outside my window? I have been hearing it off and on every night since then but last night it was CONSTANTLY banging against my window so I got REALLY scared lol so I slammed my door shut (in case the bat got into my room) & went to sleep in the spare room! I really did NOT want to be attacked by a bat lol . Well this morning I thought "I'm going to look out my window" ...I looked before since I had heard the "bat sounds" but hadn't seen anything...Today I looked and saw a MASSIVE TOAD STUCK IN THE WINDOW WELL!! And by massive I mean about the size of an apple! He is HUGE!!!! That explains all the loud noises! :) My window well is covered by some big plastic covering of which the bottom half is buried in the dirt so I can't take it off. I was really confused as to how the toad possibly got in there til I went outside... There is a BIG HOLE in the plastic covering so he was probably walking along through the garden...stepped on the plastic...fell in the hole...and has been in there for DAYS OR WEEKS! So sad! I called Jonny asking what I should do...I said "What does he eat? Should I throw some food in? He is probably all DRIED UP! Maybe I should dump some water on him...actually he probably would not like that!" LOL! Unfortunately I do not know how to get the toad out through the little hole...especially because there is a spider web in the way and also I don't like to pick up toads! lol ! So I left my dad a nice long note hopefully convincing him to rescue the toad while I'm at work!  As I ran out the door today I said "Good-bye little toad! I love you!" UMMMM WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? lol! This toad who tortured me for nights on end ....and I say I LOVE HIM? And I don't love toads...I don't even LIKE THEM! ha ha...I think I just feel bad for him being trapped for so long :( Shannon & I went to check-out the Durham College gym today! I stopped to pick her up and got to hold her baby brother! I wanted to take him home with me SOOOO BADLY! At the gym we were figuring out how all the machines worked because if you can't work it with a friend there you can just laugh together...if you are alone... that's just EMBARRASSING :) LOL ! There was one machine where Shannon already fastened the thing to hold down her legs but then she couldn't reach the bar thingy she had to pull down with her arms. So I said "oh I will grab it!" So I was there standing above her trying to pull down this bar (with weights attached by the way) and I could not DO IT! I was using all my might and NOTHING happened....we laughed so hard and she ended up standing up and getting it herself! I think I need to starting lifting heavy things! ha ha ! It has been a good day so far... :)

No school...No nothing...

Well I have had an uneventful first two days of summer holidays! Lol..! Subway didn't book me for any shifts this week so besides teaching piano I have nothing to do! I am just waiting for this warm weather to come ALREADY ! I will gladly spend a whole day outside reading but I NEED it to be warm so I won't freeze to death! Ha ha! I can't wait to go visit Jenn this summer! I am missing her a lot these days and I really wish she could have been there for my grad :(. When Jenn & I get together we get pretty crazy :) Alyssa was usually always the sane one! lol I have to say though when I was a little kid Jenn MADE me crazy!! lol ;) She used to put on a wedding dress, turn out the lights, and walk slowly towards me, which may not seem scary right now....but have someone come TOWARDS you in the dark with a wedding dress and you will know what I mean! She also used to lock me in the shed as well and then make scary faces through the window! ha ha ha! But she doesn't scare me anymore :) . Actually not long before she was married she DID scare me ...but it was a mistake lol! I had headphones in while in bed cuz I was listening to music and I thought I heard something ...I may be paranoid but sometimes I hear the house creak or think I hear something and open my eyes ACTUALLY EXPECTING TO see a robber or someone in my room lol...but obviously that never actually happens...anyways I opened my eyes... and Jenn always had very white skin so in the dark ALL I saw was this GLOWING FACE! I couldn't figure out what it was and actually THOUGHT it was a random head floating in my ROOM! I screamed & poor Jenn could not figure out what was wrong with me...she didn't see that I had headphones in! I am officially scarred from that experience though because ever since then if I listen to music at night I only put my headphones in one ear so I can still hear other things going on ! lol. I sure miss my sis! :(

I'm GRADUATED!!!!!!

Woo hoo! I graduated...it's OFFICIAL! I am DONE! So exciting :D! Tonight I was extremely nervous to walk up the aisle since it didn't go so well in practice since my heels were too high...lol...I THOUGHT I could handle the high heels but apparently not. Luckily I found lower heels lol...and I made it up the aisle.... :) After that it was all a breeze and I felt like I was BURSTING inside! :) EEEEEEK! After grad then we had a mini celebration at my house. I was so excited that Shannon (Blachar) came over to celebrate with me even though she couldn't make it to my grad :). She's such a good friend :) I was sitting among some of my FAVOURITE people in the world, Jonny's family & my family. I had this feeling of SUCH HAPPINESS THAT I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN! Does that ever happen to you? I realized how blessed I am to have such an amazing family! I am also blessed to have a boyfriend who has an amazing family as well :).I got super lucky and got myself two of the best families out there :)  Honestly I love Jonny's family to death, his parents are some of the ABSOLUTE sweetest people I know, and I love his sisters too :)! So there I was feeling like I could burst inside from all the happiness of the night lol. The only people that were missing were Jenn, Tim, and Michael :(  Jonny & I made a mutual agreement not to get anything for each other for grad....AND THEN HE HANDS ME A PRESENT! Bad boy! :) He got me a GORGEOUS NECKLACE from "Peoples." I was actually tempted to wear it to bed lol! He is so good to me, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world! Well I better go to bed before I literally burst open ..ha ha ha.... oh the happiness :) :D

TOMORROW!

Well at this time tomorrow I will be in the GRADUATION SERVICE :) WOOt! Today my family as well as Phil's family and Jonny went out to lunch :) My dad decided to treat us all since my parents had an anniversary to celebrate (30 yrs tomorrow) Jonny, Phil & I are graduating, and Alyssa had a birthday on Wednesday. We had A LOT TO celebrate. :) I had a good meal and then....my mom and I shared a cheesecake. Ok this WAS A MOMENTOUS TIME in my LIFE SO LISTEN carefully....It was called white chocolate cheesecake (from milestones) and it was one of the BEST THINGS I HAVE EVER EATEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! I can't stop thinking about it! Oh the bliss....I would go through 3 more years of schooling again JUST TO HAVE A graduation dinner with that amazing cheesecake for dessert....hmmm....or I could work instead of going back to school and buy LOTS OF SLICES of that cheesecake....yup that's a plan. I got my grad present from Lyss and Phil today! :) I love presents! lol :D They got me a cd I have wanted for awhile and JELLY BEANS! YUMMM! I hate normal jelly beans but I love the ones with cool flavours. I was just eating them and opened my mouth with a partially chewed jelly bean and said "Mummy, what colour is this?" "ummm....yellow" "Ok. It was good. I have to remember I like the yellow ones." Ha ha ha! It's like a new adventure everytime I eat a jellybean. Ha ha ha! I think all this food today has gotten to my head. Must....stop....eating...... ya RIGHT! Next time I post on here...I will be GRADUATED!