Summer 2013

I have not blogged for 5 and a half months...yes FIVE and a half months!!! I am terrible with keeping up with my blog! Well this has been ONE of the best summers of my life. I got to go on 2 vacations AND bought a house! But let's rewind to vacation number one :) Jonny took me to Cuba for our 1st anniversary. I seriously CANNOT believe that we have been married for a year. We decided last year on our honeymoon that we would go on a SECOND honeymoon for our first anniversary...so we did! :) 

Cuba was ABSOLUTE bliss. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to be born in the Caribbean somewhere and there was a slight mix up and I ended up in cold snowy Canada . ;) We had a week of laying in the sun and swimming. Cuba officially has the most beautiful beaches that I have EVER seen! I think I must have said "pictures just don't do it justice" about 20 times a day that eventually Jonny started reciting it with me every time I started to say it! ha ha ha ... 

It was nice to get away for a bit and enjoy some time alone together without Jonny's phone ringing every couple minutes (he gets more phone calls than anyone I have ever known lol) :) Ahhh...I think I'm ready for another vacation to Cuba :). We got home from Cuba and got the keys to our house 5 days later! I had been packing up the apartment since January because I was HOPING we would get a house soon :). So I did have a head start on my packing at least :) We were so happy to get the keys to our VERY own house :) 

even though they gave us our keys at 2...and we excitedly drove over to OUR house only to find that the previous owners were still there...and their moving truck was 4 hours late :S. So we came back at six, when they HAD to be out....and they STILL were not out...so Jonny and I sat in the car...and looked at OUR house and had some funny conversations of us going into the house and locking the owners out and claiming everything that was still inside as our own...ha ha cuz TECHINCALLY it was our house at that point...but we waited patiently :) Our house has kept us busy. The first week consisted of sanding and staining floors and painting. For 2 people who have never stained floors before, Jonny & I had an interesting time at first. After many youtube videos and visits to home depot , we were ready to begin...our first room took SIX hours...and it was a small room. We were under a time deadline since the floors had to have time to dry before we moved our things in. We had to be out of our apartment in 3 days and we were starting to feel the pressure. I may or may not have shed a few tears over my freshly painted walls that got stain splashed on them :( It had been a LOOOOONG night lol. After another trip to home depot and a very helpful employee, our second attempt at staining went SO much better :) We were excited to have a finished basement...only to find a slight problem that caused us to have to rip half our basement walls out :S ...ahhh so is life :S ;) So our basement is currently under construction and we have a junk pile that is taller than me in our backyard....whaaaat? you mean I actually have a backyard under that huge junk pile?? Yes, I see a couple trips to the dump in our near future ;) . Our house is keeping us busy but we love having our own place. 

At the beginning of August we got to go on Vacation #2 with Jonny's family to Ohio. We got to go to the Creation Museum, got to see Wicked, and went to a wedding. I also have a new "first" to share. My "first" time wearing a saree!!! 

I was so thankful that I had my mother in law to dress me that morning.... How people dress themselves in sarees I will never know! Well for a girl who hated curry only a few years ago, I now find myself CRAVING curry...and wearing a saree! When I'm out shopping by myself sometimes and I see random Sri Lankin people I usually look over and smile at them thinking "we have a connection"....and then I realize they are probably wondering why this random white girl is smiling at them :S ha ha . Amazing what marriage can do to you! I love it.  

Jonny & I went to the CNE last Saturday as our last "summer trip." We look forward to the CNE every year! Jonny wanted to buy a broom or mop this year (they always have such cool things there) so we went to EVERY SINGLE broom and mop demonstration...everyone claimed that THEIR broom/mop was the BEST....but we did end up leaving the CNE with a broom much to Jonny's excitement. (ha! now maybe he will help me SWEEP more....I am SOOOOO kidding, Jonny is SUCH a help with housework...love him) .We bought some pizza and orange pop for lunch. We had about a third of our pop left and Jonny put it in his pocket and we continued shopping. As we were at the counter buying our fudge then Jonny looked down at the orange pop sitting on the counter and said "how did that get here, oh nevermind I guess I just put it up there ha ha" So we bought our fudge and walked away. Jonny offered me a drink of pop so I had a bit and then he finished off the bottle. I threw the bottle in the garbage...we stepped outside...and Jonny pulled OUR orange pop out of his pocket....WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? WHAAAAAAAAAAAT? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT????? 

we...just....drank....somebody....else's...pop....

WE JUST DRANK SOMEBODY ELSE'S POP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am an OFFICIAL germaphobe after working at the hospital and we JUST DRANK SOME RANDOM PERSON'S POP!

I mayyyyyyy have slugged Jonny in the arm at that point and said "HOW COULD YOU NOT FEEL A BIG BOTTLE OF POP IN YOUR POCKET????"

Jonny says "uhhhhh....I thought it was our water bottle?"

Grrrrrrrrrrr.....so the REST of the day may have been spent pointing out the particularly slobbery children who you would NOT want to drink after or other such people ...ha ha ha ....uggggh I'm still waiting to see symptoms of the contagious disease that I must have contracted....

Well, that about sums up my summer......with a few lessons learned

1. Vaca to the Caribbean is a MUST

2. Never wear a saree unless you have your M-I-L to dress you ;)

and MOST importantly

3. ALWAYS check to see if there is a pop bottle in your pocket BEFORE you pick up some random SLOBBERLY child's pop bottle and continue to DRINK from it and allow their GERMS to manifest inside of you and grow a nasty GERM tree

Sisters by birth-- Friends by choice!

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of.  You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.  ~Amy Li

Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends.  ~Author Unknown

 I had an awesome time hanging out with my sisters the last few weeks!!!....but now they have both gone back home, so the nostalgia kicks in. We played games for hours, laughed, reminisced.... 

I remember one afternoon my sisters and I going out to the shed in the back of our big backyard to play "house". One of us (yaaa I think it was me :S) slammed the shed door shut only to find that when we tried to open it, the door had latched shut from the outside and we were locked in. After what felt like HOURS of yelling we eventually got rescued by a neighbour.... my sisters never let me forget that I was the one who locked us in....that's PROBABLY why they used to tie me up to the big pole in our basement every time my parents went out. Ha ha.  I had lots of practice getting out of the ropes,  just to have them tie me up again!! It was one of the many joys of being the youngest....kind of like when we played house and I ALWAYS had to be the "baby".....or the pet. ;) 

I remember one time when we went to a big craft store and Sister #1 (I will leave you guessing as to WHO sister #1 is) ;) was leaning right over a huge barrel of pom-poms, when Sister #2 (who would not want her name revealed ha ha) saw an opportunity that couldn't be passed up. She pushed Sister #1 and she fell head first into the barrel of pom-poms! We had come right from school so we were all wearing our uniforms....a pleated, wrap around kilt....not your ideal thing to wear if you are planning on taking a nose dive into a barrel of pom poms! I looked up to see a huge barrel with two kicking legs sticking out of the top of it. Sister #2 could not pull her out...she was STUCK, so I had to run to get my mom to help pull her out. Ya there were pom-poms EVERYWHERE by the time we rescued her. This story still strikes me as just as funny as the day it happened...it usually comes to my mind when I'm in a serious setting...when it is inappropriate to laugh...not sure why that always happens!

We had fun playing dolls and barbies together. I had fun pulling the head of my Jenn's doll. It was fixable, don't worry...I THINK it was an accident ;). Alyssa had fun sitting on my FAVOURITE doll's head. Thank goodness that was fixable too. Jenn & I had fun helping Alyssa's barbie "jump" out of the tree fort. Unfortunately THAT was not fixable. So we took the path of brilliance and temporarily fixed the barbie's head so the next time Alyssa played with it, she thought that she broke it....Sorry Alyssa :(. 

These are only a few of my many memories with my sisters. Things weren't always perfect between us... but we became the BEST of friends...!! I miss the days when there was only a wall in between as instead of many, many miles. When I need to talk to someone or have big news to tell, my sisters are the first ones who I call!  I am so thankful for my awesome sisters! Although we don't get to see each other nearly as often as we used to because of distance and the business of life, I feel we appreciate our visits together even more because of it. I am so blessed to have two sisters who are my very best friends! 

Life! - one day at a time!

Wow I am terrible at keeping up with my blog. 2 and a half months since my last post!! I wish I could tell you it's because I have been SOOOOOO busy, but really I just don't have too much to write about ha ha. I'm more "bored" than "busy" these days!

I am enjoying my hospital job although I don't get quite as many hours as I would like, but it's a start! Sometimes I watch every minute tick by on the clock, other times my shift flies by. Sometimes I only have a couple patients I'm taking care of, and when they are all sleeping I get a LOT of reading done! Some shifts are interesting , for example such as an elderly lady trying to choke me!! (ha ha no joke! It was scary..). But then some shifts make me so happy to be working there. Just the other day, I was taking care of a lady who hardly spoke any English. She was trying to talk to me all night but I couldn't understand anything she was saying :(. Then she smiles really big, points to me and says "Princess!" Besides that and the word "thank-you" , I didn't understand a word she said all night. But we had a great time together still because although we couldn't understand each other, everyone understands a smile. I would smile at her, she would smile back and vice versa :).

Jonny & I have been married for seven and a half months already!!! I can't believe how fast time has flown by. I feel like we were JUST married, yet at the same time I kind of forget what it was like to not be married.     When we were dating, I used to live for the weekend when I could hang out with Jonny. I figured that would change once we were married since I would be with him all the time. Nope, I still look forward to every weekend for Jonny's days off!! I try to keep busy when he is working and I am at home. I often get bored and lonely though, but very soon he gets to start working from home 2 days a week!! I am SO excited, even though he says I'm not allowed bothering him...ha ha we will see how that works out ;).

My sister Jenn is coming to visit in a couple of weeks! I am SOOO excited because not only do I get to spend time with my awesome sis, but I also get to play with my adorable nephew and MEET my precious little niece! I CAN'T WAIT!!