Weekend Wrap-Up Picture Post

Eeek!  Where did this day go?  Apparently by fast is where it went.  I hope y'all had fantasmic weekends!  We spent Friday night doing what we like to do best.  Dinner and a movie at home.  We watched It's Complicated.  If you haven't seen that movie I highly recommend it.  My Mister literally got a sore throat from laughing so hard.  Like he had to have a cough drop before bed.  That's some sewious hilarity.  Saturday I spent the day lounging at the pool with some friends and their darling kiddos (why I didn't take pics of this cuteness, I'll never know) while the Mister spent the day ripping up concrete from my brother and Silly's (what I call my sister-in-law for you new readers) patio.  Isn't he a sweet Mister?  Saturday night we celebrated one of my best friend's birfdays, Miss Alysia.  We went to Salt Grass and followed a fantastic meal with the funfetti cake that HER Mister made her (By request, her favorite cake is funfetti with white icing, luckily for me I don't discriminate against any cake, to me all cake is created equal.  Except fruit cake, I'm not even sure that should be considered edible) followed by a short bit of hanging out due to the tired jack-hammerer and his pooped preggo-meggo wife.

{Happy birfday birfday girl!}

{Sleepy girls from a day of poolin' it up!}

Sunday we forgot to set out alarm clocks and missed church got some much needed rest, woke up and proceeded to be useless and nap the rest of the day away have a lazy Sunday.  That night we celebrated the twinkie's birfdays (late obviously since their birfday was on July 7) and had a great time eating burgers, enjoying good conversation and endulging in the twins' birfday cookie cake.

{My beautiful momma and her daughter, The Good Year Preggo}

{Opening their presents ...}

{Happy Ally-belle}

{Happy Andrew}

{One of my parents' dogs, Bentley, doing what she does best.  Be cute and act strange ...}

{My momma and Bentley.  I'd have to say, she's the hottest 56 year old I've ever seen.  I've got some good genes ... And hopefully she doesn't kill me for divulging her age to the WWW}

{Dewishous cakes and cheesy smiles ...}

{Daddy and mommy to be with uncle and auntie to be ...}

And THEEEENNNNN, after the party, we proceeded to head home and go to bed.  And by WE went to bed I mean the Mister went to bed and I tried to fall asleep until 3 am.  And I've been told that there is such thing as pregnancy induced insomnia.  And this is night number 2 that I've not been able to go to sleep.  And I'm praying it's a fluke.  I would appreciate you all joining me in that prayer because 18 more weeks of not being able to sleep = CRANKY MOMMY.  So I'll let you know how tonight goes in the manana.  Speaking of tonight, as for now, I'm actually feeling a little sleepy so I'm going to go test my luck at actually sleeping.  Wish me luck blogosphere!  Good night y'all!!!

Olympics Date

I also had a date during the Olympics. We decided to head downtown to take in some of the sights, so he picked me up and we headed to the skytrain. Once we got there he went over to pay for parking, only to find out that the machine didn't take debit, and he hadn't brought his VISA. So, I paid for it. It was an honest mistake, but it still left me feeling kinda peeved.

The skytrain and the downtown core were PACKED. The guy was trying to be a gentleman, and kept putting his hand on my lower back to guide me through the crowd, but again, it sort of skeeved me out. I don't mind being touched by someone I know, or someone I'm crushing on, but I wasn't really feeling him, so it bothered me. I wanted to yell "personal bubble please!"

Once we were down there we wandered around for a while, and he wanted to take me to a fancy seafood restaurant that was right on the waterfront. The only problem was he didn't know where it was since he couldn't remember the name. I started asking random Vancouverites for help, and we eventually located it.

The place was packed, so we took a seat at the bar. Strangely enough, I'm 99% sure I had gone on a date with one of the bartenders a year or so before that. I kept staring at him trying to figure it out. He probably didn't remember me and thought I was a weirdo. We ordered a couple drinks, and then ate our meal at the bar.

Because of the fact there were two bartenders working together behind the bar, there was a miscommunication about who was bringing us our bill, so it took a little longer than it should have. So what did my date do? YELLED out "Excuse me, can we get out bill?" I mean, it was LOUD! I shushed him and was like "You can't yell at the waiter!" to which he assured me that he wasn't yelling, only talking loudly. Riiiight. Well let me tell you, as someone who's slaved through work in a restaurant the last thing you need is some customer reaming you out for a simple mistake.

We got our bill, and my date went to pay at the front. He came back a minute later telling me that the debit was down, so we'd have to stick around a while until it came up. "Well how long has it been out for?" I asked him. The answer was 3 hours. Well, I wasn't about to stick around in the off chance the computer came back online. I suggested he walk to an ATM and take out cash. He agreed, and wanted me to come with him. I figured I better stay there so they didn't think we were dining and dashing. A little while later he was back saying that the ATM wasn't working either. Damn him and his stupid not bringing his VISA card. We pooled together what we had for cash, which luckily was enough to cover the bill. I wasn't too happy about having to pay. It's not that I mind paying for myself, but I expect a man to pay on the first date. Also, if I knew I was paying I wouldn't have gone to the fancy, expensive restaurant he'd suggested.

After we left we decided to head to Sochi house. I wanted to take a look in the gift shop at the Team Russia jackets, with the red and white. After standing in line for 10 or so minutes we discovered that it was closed for a private function. I walked to the front of the line to find out if I could just take a peek into the shop, and was stopped by two grim-looking Russian security guards. They blocked me out like I was a terrorist or something, instead of a 5'6" blonde girl. I couldn't even take a look, so we left.

He wanted to hang out more, but I couldn't take it any longer. We got on the Skytrain and headed home. Needless to say, there was no date number 2.

Olympics Day 1

The day they announced the Olympic Games were coming to Vancouver I was ecstatic. I still remember that I was driving, about to get on Highway 1 when I heard the news.

8 looong years later it was here! I got tickets online for two events: the opening ceremony and ice dance.

The day of the opening ceremonies I met up with my friend Genevieve who was coming with me, and a few other friends who were heading down to enjoy the atmosphere. We drove to Surrey, then stopped at DQ to get some slushies. Note: never do this... they're gross. We also bought some mini bottles of Vodka to cheer them up a little.

The ride down wasn't as crowded as I would have thought, but we were short on time so we immediately headed to GM Place (Ahem... Canada Hockey Place.)

Once inside we were stunned... everything was lit up a lightish blue colour. There were huge Olympic rings, and a large mountain/slide set-up.

On our seats were octagonal drum-shaped kits that we'd use during the ceremony. They included a poncho, flashlight with coloured film, plastic candle and drum stick.

The pre-ceremony where they taught us how to use everything and got us ready for the performance was hosted by Tamara Taggert and Ben Mulroney.

The ceremonies started with a countdown. I knew I was going to be yelling out "4"... so I texted my parents to let them know where to look for me. Upon telling my dad "I'm a 4" he replied back with "If you got your boobs done you'd be a 10." Oh Dad!

The ceremonies were pretty good. The "I am Canadian" speech was amazing, as was kd Lang singing "Hallelujah." I mentioned to my friend that the song made me think of "The OC," and she said it reminded her of "Shrek." She also (being from Quebec) didn't recognized who kd lang was, and remarked that the singer had a high pitched voice for a man.

The longest part was when all the countries did their walk around the oval. When you're watching on tv you get tidbits of information, like how many athletes are competing, and who's carrying the flag, but you don't get that watching live. When Canada came out the crowd went WILD! There were so many athletes competing for us; it was amazing!

I could have done without the long speeches, and everything being said in French first... but the amazing graphics of the whales spouting water, and punky fiddle playing made up for it.

And who can forget... the arm of the cauldrom that just wouldn't come up! First three little squares opened up in the floor, and we knew something was happening. The three arms started to come up, and it became apparent to us that something was wrong... especially when the music started re-playing. But, as good Canadians we made do, and turned it into a lot of fun at the Closing Ceremonies.

I'm truly happy and proud I got to see something like this in my lifetime.

New EXCITING Blog!

I know, you're all SHOCKED that I'm posting on a weekend!  To tell you the truth I am too ... BUT I just had to share with you this exciting tidbit of information!  Remember my friend Ginny that moved to Taiwan with her husb?  Remember how I told you I was bugging her to start a blog?!?  Well, she (they) did!  I'm so excited to follow along and live vicariously through them.  For all of those that said you'd be interested in following along too, here's the link http://www.ourincitingincident.com/

I miss you already Gin!

On the Road

Kristen Stewart
has been cast in the role of Mary Lou in an upcoming film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's cult classic novel On the Road.

On the Road Shooting is scheduled to begin in August 2010.

Kristen Stewart Is Getting Ready For "On The Road"


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Favorite Fridays & Girl's Night!

Happy Friday loverlies!  Friday means a lot of things.  It means no working for 2 days, it means the weekend is HERE and it also means ...

And this week's topic is just. plain. mean.  Why you ask?  Because today's topic is ...

Favorite Cocktail

Like I need any more reason to remember that I'm not endulging in these tasty treats!  I had a reminder of one last night when we went out to celebrate my best friends divorce (I realize that sounds strange, but it's been a long time coming and a COMPLETE blessing that it's over and DONE with!)

Here's the one I was reminded of last night ...

And second, any fruity, tropical, umbrella added version of these ...

Oh how I miss you tasty treats.  BUT OH how worth it it is to abstain from them for a measly 9 months!

Now, back to last night.  I got a group of girls together to celebrate my MOH's (and best friend since 8th grade) recent divorce being finalized.  It's been a long time coming, a lot of stress and sleepless nights and a lot more hassle than it needed to be but our prayers were answered last Tuesday when it was all DONE and put behind her!  Now she's single and ready to mingle (at least that was the theme last night) and I don't think she's going to have ANY problem finding someone wonderful.  I mean just look at the girl ...

{Drinking her Mambo Taxi at Mi Cocina in her special "celebrate" flute that Julianne brought her.}

{Alysia, one of my bestest friends and her pregnant friend, Gigantor.}

{DEWISHOUS non-alcoholic beer.  This made me VERY happy ...}

{I just had to take a picture of how inappropriate this looks ...}

{All the single ladies.  Actually, there were only 3.  Don't ask what I'm doing, I have no idea ...}

And last but CERTAINLY not least I'd like to say a big, huge, FAT ...

to my blog bestie and Soulmatey for the AMAZING job she just landed at a prestigous law firm in ATLANTA!  I am SO proud and thrilled for you Soulmatey!!!  You SO deserve this!!!  Please feel free to go wish her congrats soon.  She had to go private during the interview process but will be back public again in no time with a totally new blog design from none other than MY fabulous designer and good friend, (who happens to be pictured up there in the girl's group photo) Fabulous K!  So hang in there and be patient with her!  She'll be back to her full force hilarious adorable self SOON!!!

 Okay, that's it from me today loverlies!!!  I hope you all have t-e-double-rrific weekends!!!

It's Soooo True

Guys, next time you see a "hot" blonde at the bar... think twice!