Cupcakes and shopping

Mikaela came over on the weekend. I needed new shoes, and Mikaela the shoe diva came shopping with me to metrotown. She scored a tshirt, 2 tank tops and a curtain for her bedroom door.
Mik helped me pick out the best shoes, black and light blue skate shoes (Vans). They are super cute and now I can throw out my ugly holey shoes that leak when it rains.
No more soggy feet!
We also made spice cupcakes and cleaned up.
My rosemary plant was looking not so good, so we repotted him in a huge pot and hopefully he will feel better.
Mom and Dad brought nectarines and apples from Princeton! YUM!

Haven't had many bad dreams, but this is also because I am not watching Heroes right before bed. De braining people isn't cool before bedtime that is fo sure! Its good those, I definatly recommend to watch it! Made sure that I have something happier or less scary to watch before bed.


Been watching Gossip Girl before bed and on the ipod, and its full of drama! I havent had anything crazy dramatic so its nice (Aria, you should get into it).

I can smell cigarette smoke at the moment....not good, the windows are shut and its coming from downstairs...ewwwww not cool.
Time to get the airfreshner out and hope it doesnt happen to much more.
(I can hear the downstairs person hacking up his lungs)

Just got off the phone with Tony, hes still at school, he had an ecg done on himself so he can figure out how to do it on someone else.

Work is so boring, I have been making a Christmas list of stuff. Also been crafting Christmas cards and presents. I love crafts! I am gonna get going, bed time soon :P

Ps: Peppermint mochas are one of my new favourites!

breaking glass

Its weird, Jen was having issues with glass breaking and now Tony and I are having the same trouble. We broke 3 cups in 1 week. Thats a lot of cups, and one was a white corel mug. :(
We are both getting into the tv show Heros. I like it and Tony loves it. His favorite character is Hiro (the little Japanese guy). Hiro is pretty funny!
Gtg I think Tony is watching it without me

crazy dreaming

A couple nights ago, I was dreaming, dreaming of the end of the world, which wasn't too pleasant but anyways, dreaming away when laughter tinkled into my dream. It got pretty loud before I woke up fully to figure out who was laughing. Tony was laughing, hysterically in his sleep. I rolled over to look at him and his eyes were open and he was laughing in his sleep.
So creepy to see someone doing that sleeping.
Asked him what was so funny, he stopped and opened his eyes more now kind of awake and said "I'll tell you later" and that was it. He stopped and then the giggling started again quietly.

What an interesting sleep.

Never found out what was so funny, and that made me sad.

Interesting stuff about Tony's schooling

Tony came home today from his first day of school, he didn't look too good.
I was all excited to hear what his day was like.
He had the most worried kind of look on his face when he showed me some of the courses he was taking. "I don't know if I am in the right profession or not" he said.
Why, well, apparently he is doing the biology stuff that is related to the engineering he is taking.
He told me that they will be testing some of their "experiments" on themselves, this involves needles he told me with the most worried face. Poor guy. Thank goodness I am not near that profession.
He said in his Labs they might do field trips to the hospital.
*I shudder at the thought of that*
I made it clear he wasn't to test anything out on me, EVER!

Dad, you should hear some of the stuff he might be doing, I was excited.

need to get outta here!!!

Call center workers stressed and depressed...

I kinda always knew this, but I always thought that other jobs were just as bad. Man was I wrong.
School soon for me, I can feel it.

Skimboarding

This was the weather on our second last day. We were pretty sore from surfing, so we brought out the skimboard and Tony had fun in the rain on the beach.


This stuff is so important for skimboarding or surfing. We tried skimboarding without it and wiped out hard on the beach. Looks like we have carpet burns on our knees.


These three ingredients are best after 2 days of surfing, at least, the advil and aloe vera.


This was the rainy day fun we had. Tony was having the best time. He almost had it a few times, and wiped out a bunch. I missed him falling cause I was collecting sea shells and watching out for washed up baby jelly fish.

Surfing in depth...hahhahaha

So, the first day we were out here, we checked the place out, had amazing fish and chips at big daddy's fish fry.


Got a skimboard and tried it out. We weren't that good, but its mostly because we were new at it and we didn't have any wax on the board to keep us on. Had a big wipe out with the board and landed in the very cold ocean, no wet suit at that point. Tony also did the same thing but kinda did a face plant.


Second day out here, Tony was determined to try surfing, so we got lessons for 2 days and equipment and off we went. 2 days of surfing is hard work if you haven't done it before. We went to Pacific Surf School for the "Experience Package".
The instructors were awesome, ours was a long blonde haired aussie I think his name was Jeremy. He told us how to get to the "Car park" at the beach, which Tony then thought of Aria and thought it was awesome.
(Aria might be sighing right now).



So first, putting on a wet suit. We got our suites, they were wet and dripping. I was thinking to myself, "How the heck are you gonna get on a wet skin tight suit when its hard enough to get wet regular clothes off and on???"

Well, for me it was like putting on a wet pair of panty hose that were 2 times too small. I could barely get the legs on and had to keep sinching them up so I could get my arms and the rest of me in. I sat in the car struggling for forever, Tony had to help me pull on the suit. He didn't as bad a problem as me, his was looser than mine.


Those suits leave nothing to the imagination by the way.

We learned all about rip tides and under tows and how not to get sucked out to sea. I had been in the water up to my knees the day before and that aint warm water, so I was really skeptical that these suits would work. Everyone was walking into the water and I started too, wincing and just waiting for the shock of the cold to hit me. THOSE SUITS ARE MAGICAL!!! I didn't feel a thing walking in, it was like I could feel nothing. It was wet nothingness that I was walking into.

First days waves were ok, not too big, perfect in my mind for learning. Second day, awesome high waves. The board outside the parks said "Extreme" waves and all the surfers were out on the beach. I wiped out hard a bunch of times. Had my board hit me on the head pretty hard.
There was another time where I was trying to get up on my board, and I did, and it flipped (cause I was not standing in the center of the board) and the fin hit me in my inner thigh and man that hurt.

(These are Tony's chapped red and somewhat bleeding hands from our extreme few days)

Tony made me realize that it would have been a lot worse had I not been wearing the magical wet suit. I have pretty bad bruises but I cant imagine what would have happened without the thick wetsuit.

Surfing worked muscles that I didnt know I had. Man, if I took up surfing I would have awesome abs and amazing upper body strength.

surfing+fun= pain

I didn't realize how many muscles I had, let alone the fact that they could all hurt at once.
It was lots of fun though. Couldn't get to standing, but got on my knees and it was fun.

My arms and shoulders hurt the most although my abs hurt now too, I didn't feel them until later on. Its raining lots right now, but was nice enough not to rain for surfing.

Happy painful anniversary to us! It was lots of fun.

I need a hot tub...asap and maybe a drink.

going going gone

Just for a while I shall be gone.
Going to the island on a belated honeymoon.
Hopefully we shall try skimboarding or even surfing, surfing is a little scary to me though.
Tony is sad at the moment, we are leaving to drop the bird off tonight at his moms house.
He didnt realize that we had to take the bird tonight, he thought it was tomorrow.

Babo's Bird

You know how everyone looks like their pet? Well, Babo looks just like his pet peeve! BIRDS


Babo cant stand birds! They always eat the crumbs his cookies leave behind! Well, too bad because one bird has taken a liking to Babo and now likes to call him mommy.


Sounds serious, right? And Babo doesn't have a mean bone in his body. So now Babo's bird is... Babo's bird. Luckily Babo doesn't have shoulders either. Have any cookie crumbs?

(my bird got pretty freaked out when Babo's bird was in her cage)

obviously not!

Obviously its not the scented room freshener that has been going for a couple of hours now since hes been home -- he hasnt noticed it yet , hehehe!
He hasn't been complaining of being sick.
I haven't heard him sniffing -- which drives me crazy!

I wonder what it is?
Maybe hes got a poor immune system.
Or maybe its the weather that has been hot -- until recently.

Maybe it was the mattress we had, after all, it was filled with fluff and wasn't a real mattress.
I guess we shall see how this goes.

Hopefully I don't hear him complaining of being sick as much this year.
I shall be praying for him, and hopefully he will be healthier this fall.

Moxy the newest ugly...

Moxy's got a lot of moxy.

She's a real get up and go Ugly,with far more energy than her older brother OX.
Why the big antennas?
Moxy uses them to pick up signals from all over.
Just the other day, OX gave the signal for them to remove any chocolate based substances from the fridge.


Moxy is very curious about YOU.
Whats up with you?
Why don't your toes point towards eachother?
Please discuss.

(will include picture of her toes which point towards eachother later)

hot days...

Today was hot out, hot enough to dry all my laundry, yay for saving money! Getting ready for my honeymoon, we booked the car, hotel and its getting exciting! Tony is also getting ready for school. He's applied for a student loan and now we shall see if he can get one with me working. We did work it out though and if he cant get much of a student loan we will survive, surviving on soup wooo!!!!

So today was so hot that Beth called and we went to the beach. I made lunch (sandwiches, juice boxes, chips and cookies).

The water was again pretty brown and full of fun things!

Beth started a trend amongst the little kids, cause once they saw her do this, they all copied her.

This was her creepiest face

She had my camera for a bit, and this is what she did with it...

Tony was threatening to throw me in

This was the sign where we set up our place, by a huge log. I got my camera back after that.

Do not get the photographer! YOU WILL PAY!

My sandy feet. I had sand in my shorts too.

Kathryn had a defective straw.

Tony really wants to do sailing, he wants a sailboat when hes done school. I wouldn't mind sailing either, I had lots of fun doing it at camp. My back and shoulders are burned, its time to be aloe vera-ed up.

Gardening with Miranda

Tony and I were riding the bus back home today and I took him to the plant store across the street. We were looking at the herbs, I really wanted a basil plant for my patio garden.
We browsed the ever so fragrant isle of herbs, checked out the cool fennel plant, and the curry plant. I kinda really liked the curry plant but decided against it. My fingers smell like licorice and curry though.
Tony picked out the rosemary tree and I found the basil after a longish search.

There they are! My new plants!

They taste really good, well, I only tasted the basil, but it was good!

That rosemary plant took a while to get out, he was rooted and all happy in his pot.

And now I am off to make spicy lentil soup and salad!

Her Bell

Tony was playing around with the zoom on his phone, but the bird was so cute. She has been doing this a lot recently.

Seriously...

I dont think I have to say anymore...

out and about

Finally had one! There was caramel, chocolate, and many different nuts all over my carmel apple. I didnt like the apple part as much, the rest was amazing!

He was eyeing it the entire time....

He liked the outershell of the apple as well.

It was pretty busy downtown today, with the fireworks and being saturday.

I like downtown, except for it being so busy. The bird is being extra nibbly and nibbling the cd case and Tony's phone. I am going to go now as the house is kinda a mess, but I will show off my new pants from Etsy later :)

Tony's Prank

1 hour and a half + 4 rolls of tinfoil = the awesomest desk ever!!!
Good job sweetie, you have done well!

its cloudy!

It hasnt been overcast and cloudy for a while. I have taken the sun for granted it seems.
Tony has been calling the bird a "he" and I don't like it, its getting on my nerves especially since he says "she" at first and then calls her a "he". I want him to give up, but he wont.

I was flipping through the channels and saw the Gorn on TV.


Painted another little painting for Tony. Its in the bathroom and I will get a picture of it when my camera returns or if the phone takes a decent one.

I have been browsing on etsy lately and been inspired to be more crafty. I have crafty plans to make magnets for my metal cupboards in the kitchen.

My neck has been sore lately, so I secretly stole Tonys pillows and I realized that yes, my dead flat pillows are the cause of my aches and pains I think. He was pretty miffed when he woke up with a sore neck and back. Time to get pillows :)

Helpful bird

Shes bringing me the laundry money!