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Well I am ABSOLUTELY thrilled to be blogging again because my internet has NOT been working for the last WHO KNOWS how long. It works for a few minutes and then stops working. It is so depressing. But it has ACTUALLY been working for a few hours tonight so I am finally loading all my engagement pictures on facebook :). Unfortunately it is taking FOREVER to load the last 5....but I won't give up! I will be patient...and wait ...and wait...and wait :). I had a GREAT wk with friends this week! :). On Monday Alyssa and I went to the mall & I got some amazing deals. Surprisingly I bought NO clothes...that's a first for me. Alyssa and I went to East Side Mario's for lunch. We both ordered sandwiches off the lunch menu and with the sandwich it said we had a choice of salad, fries, or soup. We both picked caesar salad and then asked how much it was to order a garlic bread. The waitress told us the bread comes with it at no extra charge. So we got two loaves of garlic bread...and a MASSIVE bowl of salad. (we were supposed to only have a single serving each) Once we finished the salad, the waitress asked if we wanted more...then she brought us our sandwiches...with FRIES! Somehow we ended up with WAY more food than we ordered. We thought she maybe thought we ordered off the dinner menu or something but sure enough our bill came and we weren't over charged... hmmm...we still aren't sure how we ended up with SO much extra food but I'm not complaining :). On Tuesday Jenna came over for a few hours and we caught up on the last few months. (I hadn't seen her for quite a few months). On Wednesday Joy & I went to the beach! The water was ABSOLUTELY FREEZING...so we didn't even swim. We walked in the water up to our knees and stood there until I got goosebumps...it was SERIOUSLY cold. We talked about EVERY possible THING to talk about... :). We talked about weddings...and babies...and weddings...and babies...and then I educated her on CPR ...ha ha ha :) Today I met Shannon at Starbucks and we talked and talked and talked. (I have done ALOT of talking this wk...lol) Starbucks has some deal going on where you bring your receipt from the morning back to them after 2 and you can get a grande cold drink for 2 dollars...I have NEVER gone to starbucks twice in one day...but it was a good deal! lol...I did share it with my mom though...;)..so I don't feel COMPLETELY guilty...My mom and I shopped this afternoon and she bought me some awesome stuff to make cards with. I LOVE making cards :). She also bought me Wendy's for dinner! I love her so much! Not just because she buys me stuff ....but she is such a giver...she really is. This Saturday I leave for vacation for a week with Jonny's family :)

Wooo hooo! WHAT....A ....WEEK!

Wow. As I look back on this last week I realize I had a very busy week....but a fun week :). Monday was the day I had been waiting for for MONTHS. Finally...I can REGISTER for classes! I was at Jonny's house at 8:55 AM since registration began at 9. (my internet hasn't been working lately so I decided to trust Jonny's internet :D) SOOOOO many people were on the site trying to register for classes that I had to try lots of times to get on the internet. FINALLY it worked ...and then I realized I only had ONE choice of schedule. I had been told I could pick my schedule which is why I wanted to be the FIRST one on there to get the best schedule! lol. So then I called Durham College because I thought maybe I was doing something wrong...I was on hold for a few hours in total. I called back a few times throughout the day and FINALLY got through...and I found out I only have ONE schedule choice. :(. So Tuesdays I will be in school til 6. Thursdays and Fridays aren't looking so promising either, but the other two days are ok :S. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes. On Tuesday my mom wanted to go wedding dress shopping with me. I told her we would go look but I wasn't going to CHOOSE a dress that very day because I needed more time to decide on what I wanted. Little did I know that I would find the PERFECT dress....and that it would be HALF PRICE...and that I would leave the store the PROUD owner of a wedding dress! lol...yup I couldn't resist that deal! :) Tuesday night I taught piano and showed off my engagement ring to my students! lol. My one student said "If I had a ring like that then I would stare at it all day too!" lol...!!! Yes, I still stare at the ring...sometimes while driving....bad bad! On Wednesday Jonny, Lyss, and I went to the lake....PERFECT day! I was in the toddlers class on Wednesday night and we only had THREE kids! I don't REMEMBER the last time we have only had THREE kids in there. You know what that meant? MORE FUN! LOL. The kids were SO SO SO GOOD that I gave them TWO snack times and THREE puppet shows! It was DEFINITELY a much quieter group than our usual twelve! Yesterday & today I went to a CPR course. The weather was absolutely KILLER HOT yesterday and where we were having the class starting getting warmer....and warmer...and warmer... We were told there was air conditioning on but we weren't feeling it. We all got out of class 3 hours early because of the heat :D. Today we also got out 3 hours early ...for no reason :). Today we got to do CPR on the mannequins and all that fun stuff. One mannequin lost a lung. One mannequin baby lost a head. Another mannequin got sat on. Yup, lots of laughs today! The class was pretty fun and I have now become a hypochondriac....really. Did you know that women can have HEART ATTACKS and not even know it? They often just ignore it...because women can take pain so well. (take THAT boys).... Did you know that fatty acids will stick inside you FOREVER?....Good-bye McDonalds fries! Yup...like a said...a hypochondriac. The class was a little gruesome at times too...Do you know what to do if you find an amputated limb on the ground? I do! Did you know that if someones intestines ARE HANGING out of their body you should NOT put them back in? Did you know that it is VERY easy to pop an eyeball out of your HEAD? ummmm ewwww. I'm actually very glad that Durham college required me to do the CPR class because I learned SO MANY valuable things! Did you know that in Ontario if somebody is DYING (as in lying on the side of the road, unconscious....etc.) we do NOT have to HELP them? Isn't that absolutely awful? The ONLY time you are LEGALLY required to help a 'dying' person is in the workplace. I think half the problem is that people don't KNOW CPR and don't know HOW to help someone. That absolutely ASTOUNDED ME.... Both times when I drove home from my CPR class I managed to take a little detour. Yesterday I took a nice LONG detour in the opposite direction of my house. Only when I ended up at the MALL did I realize that I went the wrong way :S. Lol....today was only a little detour....I somehow went in a little circle at first but figured at my way home after! If anyone needs a GPS....it's me! lol. Today while driving home I had my music turned up and the song had sirens in it. My heart LITERALLY stopped and I thought "OH NO , NOT ANOTHER SPEEDING TICKET!!!" Even though I KNEW I was going UNDER the speed limit because I was on a back road with no one on it and I wanted to hear the end of the song! lol. Well that has been my week so far. My parents are going to the cottage tomorrow and I'm stuck at work. I asked HALF the world to take my shift but so far it's a no :( boooo. I think I will despise work a little EXTRA tomorrow :)

Engaged! WOOT!

Well it's official...I am ENGAGED! WOOOT WOOOT WOOOT! I actually cannot remember a time in my life when I have been HAPPIER than I am now! Seriously I have had my head in the CLOUDS since Friday and I CANNOT stop staring at my ring! It is the MOST BEAUTIFUL RING I HAVE EVER SEEN! I tell you...that man of mine... he sure is AMAZING!

 So here is the story....

We went out to a place called Toula restaurant on the 38th floor of the Weston Hotel with an amazing view of Toronto. I thought we were going out as a surprise for my mom's birthday- she fully played along asking where we were going to dinner.

"Are we going up the CN tower? Are we eating on Captain Jack's boat?"

And there I was in the back seat laughing at her ...little did I know that the joke was on me. Ha ha. She knew ALL along where we were going...:)

  We had a three course meal (the last course was dessert...and I have to say creme brulee is the absolute BEST THING I HAVE EVER EATEN) and then near the end the waiter asked us about our food and then brought us these "complimentary" tickets and he said every night they randomly choose a table to go on a cruise and we had been chosen tonight so if we weren't busy at eight then it was just up the street. I seriously thought we were the LUCKIEST people in the restuarant ! My Dad and Jonny went to the yacht to check it out and see if it was "safe" while my mom and I shopped at some little shops. They came back and said it was PROBABLY "OK" to go on ;). My parents had just come back from a 10 day cruise so I STILL did NOT clue in when they said ...we aren't going to come because we really don't feel like getting on a boat again. So Jonny and I got on the boat. I thought we had won the DEAL of a LIFETIME! lol. Little did I know that Jonny had MADE the tickets himself and asked for a good "actor" to present them to us!! I tell you ...those were some REAL looking tickets. They even had the little dotted line to rip off the bottom half of the ticket which we gave to the boat driver. The boat driver totally played it up and said "OH WOW! THE LUCKY WINNERS!" ....yup I still didn't clue in.  lol The first twenty minutes were spent sight seeing around Toronto and then the wife of the driver said "we set up something special tonight so you can come on down" So we went downstairs and there was a table set up and rose petals and cheesecake and sparkling juice and a huge bouquet of my favourite flowers (Jonny had it ALL delivered).Somehow  I STILL did not clue in and the lady left and I said "wow...they sure do A GOOD JOB on this free boat ride!!!" And then I asked Jonny..."AREN'T YOU GONNA CUT THE CAKE?"
(I have a slight obsession with cheesecake...if I hadn't seen the cheesecake first and ACTUALLY noticed that the bouquet of flowers happened to be some of my favourites then I may have clued in. But unfortunately when my mind goes to food...there is NO coming back!!!!!! ha ha ha) and then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him :) I said "of course!"


....and that's the story! I did not suspect it at all! My mom asked me after "you really didn't suspect a THING?" and I said ...."If I suspected it would I have no mascara on and my hair in a ponytail?" lol....oh well. At least I was wearing a dress ! :)! ha ha ha!



Might I add that I am the absolute happiest girl in the WORLD RIGHT NOW? I hope this feeling never goes away!



I love love love my Jonny!

Nova Scotia

Last Wednesday I left for Nova Scotia to go and visit Jenn. I was up BRIGHT and early to get ready to go to the airport...at 4:30 A.M. :). Luckily I got there and there were NO lines at all so I got right through with LOTS of time to spare. Jonny bought me some breakfast, took me to where I needed to go, and then I was on my way :). It was my first time flying alone so I was a little nervous. At one point when I was watching the cool little tv that shows the path the plane is following then I got all nervous and thought I had gotten on the wrong plane. I looked at the path they were following and thought...uh...this is NOT going to take me to Nova Scotia...lol. I worried for nothing. I got there safe and sound! Jenn & Michael came to pick me up from the airport. Michael did not remember his auntie cheryl at first :(....boooo TO LIVING FAR AWAY! We went out shopping and just hung out around home and then went to church that night. The next day we went to a place called "Atlantic Playland." We had planned to buy a pass for the day but once we walked into the park we decided we would MAYBE just buy a few tickets. lol. It was not QUITE as good as we expected ;). We had LOTS of fun though. We took Michael into the kiddie pool where there was a family trying to cure their child of his fear of water lol. They would throw money into the water and say "Go get it...go get the treasure!!!" And the kid would say "nooooooooooooo I don't want to get my hair wet." Lol...it was funny. Then we went over to the water slides. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE water slides so I was SOOO excited. I paid my 2 tickets and walked up to the top of the slide. The "slow" slide was blocked off, only the "fast" one was open. EEEEeeeek. I felt a little nervous but got on the slide anyways. Ok clearly the "fast" slide was labelled by a TURTLE. It was not fast....not fast at all. At one point I slowed down so much that I thought I might get stuck! ha ha ha. It was still kinda fun ;) but I convinced Jenn that it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun and she just HAD to go on it!!! She really didn't want to but after much convincing she agreed. Michael and I waited for her at the bottom. When she FINALLY (and I MEAN finally...it took SOOO long to come down because it was SOOO slow) came to the bottom of the slide I yelled out to her "Ha I LIED! IT STUNK DIDN'T IT!" Jenn actually DID stop moving at one point and had to push herself with her hands! HA HA HA. Somehow it was still fun though...I even went on the slide again ;). Then we took Michael on a few rides. That night after Tim got home from work we all went swimming at a little lake. Perfect day :). The next day we just kind of hung around the house. That night we planned on swimming at a big pool close by that had...A HUGE WATER SLIDE!!! ahhhh soooo EXCITING! Unfortunately we missed the 3 dollar swim the night before and would have to pay TEN dollars each...jsut for a swim. SOOOO SAD. Good-bye waterslide...HA it was probably a SLOW one anyways ;) ;) ;). We went back to the same lake we swam in the night before. But it was not NEARLY as warm as it had been the night before. Now if you know Jenn, you would know that she is a big baby when it comes to swimming in cold water ;) ;). Suddenly she decided to be all BRAVE and walked RIGHT INTO the water ....while Tim and I stood in water up to our knees shivering. I don't know what came over her. But the next half hour was spent with "If you come in, you won't be cold." "Ok I got in the water, you can too." "COME IN." Lol...It's like we had switched roles. Usually Jenn is the one in water up to her knees. ha ha. I never did go fully in the water... I decided to be a chicken...and I quite liked it :). As we were living Tim took Michael over to the little park and had him riding on a frog. (One of those ones with the big spring in the ground so it rocks back and forth) Then Jenn & I decided that it was OUR turn on the frog! lol. We sat on the frog...and then leaned forward and the FRONT OF THE FROG ALMOST TOUCHED THE GROUND AND WE could not get off we were laughing SO HARD! I thought we were going to flip off or break the frog. Eventually I kind of rolled of and I think Tim & Michael thought we were ABSOLUTELY crazy. :). I guess that park was not designed for "big kids" ha ha ha! Saturday it rained and we shopped and baked :). I bought Michael one of those cool little stuffed hamsters that crawl around the house and make real hamster noises. He was a little scared of it and first. He only wanted to touch it if I would hold it for him! lol. Sunday we went to church, of course! I always love going to church in new places because it is SUCH an encouragement to realize that ALMOST wherever you are in the world there are Christians serving God, just like at home! I love it :). Jenn & I played phase 10 in between services....I think we played enough phase 10 to last us until I see her next! lol. On Sunday night we decided to try an experiment. :). We had read in a magazine that if you put coconut milk in your hair it will make it thick and it will grow faster. So we put coconut milk in out hair for an hour. It smelt REALLY good...We rinsed it out only to realize that a few hours later our hair still LOOKED WET! lol...thankyou coconut milk for giving me the GREASIEST HAIR I HAVE EVER HAD . EWWWWWWW. Luckily when I actaully WASHED it with shampoo the next day all the GREASE came out. lol. Is my hair thicker?....nope, not at all! lol...maybe it will grow faster? maybe? lol. Monday was spent playing LOTS of phase 10 again ;) and then taking Michael out to a field to play. I layed down on a blanket and Michael thought I was a trampoline OR SOMETHING...lol! It was so cute! Though it was painful when his forehead smacked into my nose. Somehow it didn't hurt him...could have been because I scared him out of his pain when I yelped in pain! ha ha ha! Finally...the dreaded time...going back home. Although it was not a long vacation Jenn & I found MANY many times to laugh until we COULDN'T breath :). Just like old times :). I got to the airport and it was not busy at all so I went up to check in and the man there noticed the design on my nails and said WOW your nailpolish is so cool! Then he asked how they did it at the salon and I told him I did it myself. He said "WOOOOOOOW really? How long did it take? HOW DO YOU DO BOTH HANDS?" LOL  And then another stewardness came over to look too. Ha ha ha. It was funny. Then the man told me "This is probably too much information but I painted my wife's nails the other day and THAT'S HARD STUFF! I COULDN'T STAY IN THE LINES!!!" lol.  It was too early to go through security so Jenn & Michael stayed for a bit until I had to go through. I hate saying good-bye. I turned back to wave to them one last time and Jenn said when they couldn't see me anymore Michael asked where I was :(. awwww. Our plane was a half hour delayed :S So I spent lots of time sitting in the gate listening to a kid behind me.

Kid: "Daddy, next time I don't want to sit beside you on the plane. I want to sit beside the stewardness.
Dad: "That's not nice. We just won't fly anywhere again."
Kid: "Daddy' that's rude! VERY VERY RUDE! "
a few minutes later....
Kid: "It's STUCK!"
Dad: "Well HOW DID YOU GET YOUR LEG STUCK IN THE CHAIR???"
lol...the next five minutes were spent trying to get the kids leg out of the chair. It was kind of funny. ;)

Finally, we were allowed to board the plane! As I went to get my boarding pass scanned before getting on the plane the same man who had helped me before said "HELLO AGAIN!!! IT'S THE GIRL WITH THE PRETTY NAILS! " lol... I was hoping to sit by an elderly lady on the plane because they are the IDEAL people to sit beside...at least for me. And sure enough I got my wish :). And we even had a sit between us so we had lots of room. The elderly lady even offered me some cheesies :). And she looked over and smiled at me in between her naps. lol. So sweet. :). Our pilot was SO FUNNY. He made jokes the WHOLE way. The entire plane was laughing. It was a good ride back besides the delay and the fact that I underestimated how fast I read. I finished my book too fast and then had nothing to do. When we landed we were told that our luggage would be a TWENTY MINUTE WAIT.... boo! I knew I should have taken a carry-on. lol. Oh well. I got home safe and sound and got to see my parents who were FINALLY back from their cruise :)

Bored ...

Well I have once again neglected my blog...but for A GOOD REASON... I really don't have much to write about...my summer is pretty well uneventful. Monday was my last day of teaching piano until summer lessons so I said Bye to my five yr old student and told him to have a good summer. He then told me "I might come visit you." lol...uh ok...besides the face that he DOESN'T know where I live! lol. Tuesday was the ABSOLUTE MOST BORING DAY OF MY ENTIRE LIFE. Everyone I KNOW was either working or busy...so since my parents were away I sat in the house by myself almost ALL day (EXCEPT for 3 hours I spent at Jonny's house) I literally went into slight depression because I was so lonely and bored. I was glad when Jo came to keep me company for the night once she finished work! I opened the door and said "YAY! ANOTHER HUMAN BEING!"  yup. It was a long day! On Wednesday, Alyssa and I planned to go to the lake, wouldn't you know that EVERY single day was sunny last week...EXCEPT wednesday? So we played wii for more hours than I care to admit too! :). Shannon slept over on Wednesday night and we were talking about a game we used to play as kids called "grounders." I used to absolutely LOVE that game so the next morning at the park guess who decided to play grounders? Yup...we did. But it's EXTREMELY HARD with only two people. That afternoon Alyssa, Jonny, & I went to the lake and took pictures! It was a GORGEOUS day out! So warm! Then Jonny said as a reward for passing my 'G' test a few weeks ago we could go out to dinner! yaaay! Friday we spent the afternoon at a family picnic with Jonny's relatives! It was SOOOOOOO MUCH FUN! And guess what we got to play? GROUNDERS! yay! lol! And this time there were FIVE OF US instead of two... lol! Yup I am still in love with that game! We played water balloon games, monopoly deal, spud, etc... I ran around like I haven't run in YEARS! (yes I know that statement makes me sound OLD lol but I have no need to run these days...except when I'm late for something lol) For lunch we had soup. Now you have to know, I am still getting used to eating sri lankin food. I often don't recognize what I'm eating...I see certain types of food I have NEVER seen before. After getting my bowl of soup I noticed mine was the only one that had a little bright blue thing in it. Weird...before eating it I said "Jonny, what's this blue thing?" He looked at it and said "uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" ---BAD SIGN! I put it on my spoon only to realize it had TWO WINGS! lol...oops. This was not just a random food I didn't RECOGNIZE...IT was a weird metallic bug thing that I guess had fallen into the soup!!! Nope...not supposed to eat bugs! I am so thankful I ACTUALLY asked Jonny what it was instead of jsut eating it... EWWWWWW. After getting rid of my bug... I ate some of the MOST AMAZING SOUP I HAVE EVER EATEN! After a few bowls of soup I could no longer feel my lips...and might I say....THAT is what I call SPICY! None of this grocery store stuff that says "spicy" on the label but is a big disappointment. Oh spicy food how I love you! After the picnic we went out with some friends to see some fireworks by the lake! Next year I am determined to find some fireworks that last longer than 20 minutes!! ...Well that has pretty much been the extent of my week. Tomorrow Jo and I are going to visit her grandparents and then go to the lake. Tuesday is my first day of summer lessons (It's always exciting to have a change in schedule and meet new students) & then on Wednesday morning at 4:30 in the morning I leave for the airport to go visit Jenn. I have a good wk ahead of me :)