my world

My friend batman found this fun website where you can 'colour your world' and show people where you have visited. I decided I would do mine to see what percentage of the world I have been to so far.


The answer is only 6%. I would love to see a lot more, but it's not in the books right now. This is how much I have seen of Canada. Also, not enough just yet! Ooh the plans that are wurling through my head will unfortunatly have to wait until I am done school...




We didnt end up going shopping last night as Mrs had found an awesome deal some place and went ahead and bought it. Instead i went to watch Alan's soccer game and had a fun time. Tonight we're going to go for dinner at a pho place with some friends of mine. Her uncle owns the restaurant and I am curious to see how this restaurant measures up to all the other pho places I have been to in this city (=quite a few)

Meet the new baby and great weekend!

Long time no write. I can't say I have been that busy, I just havent felt like writing all that much, but today I do. I couldnt decide how to start this time, so I used both titles. First things first. This picture is a screen shot from an ultrasound my brother and sister had done. It's a 45 minute movie of the baby that they put on dvd for you and I am getting a copy when my mom comes over. I am *so* excited!!!! That will be the best birthday present ever! I am teasing my brother that his little baby has inherited the infamous family nose, which is rather large, but in reality it's a cute little nose :) I think it is the most beautiful 6 month old in the belly baby I have ever seen dont you?!?


I havent gotten back on the exercise wagon yet. I am still convinced I'm going to be running today though..
I had a really fun weekend this weekend. Friday I wrote my midterm (that wasnt the fun part, wait for it..) Than the O-train didnt show up for 45 minutes (wait for it) and than Alan called me while I was on the train to tell me he was coming to get me. He picked me up and we went to see Transformers. I really liked it!
Saturday was soccer time, and we had a fun game even though we lost. I am getting a little frustrated with my lack of ability to actually make the ball do what I want it to do, I think I am over analysing it so I should just go and have fun! After soccer we bought Harry Potter 7. It was such a beautiful day I felt like going to the beach so I called my friend Batman. Her husband J was going windsurfing, so it worked out really well and we all met at the beach. Alan came to learn how to windsurf and we hung out on the beach. It was my first time at the beach this year and it was awesome. Saturday night I met up with my friend J and we went to Hooley's for drinks and dancing. Again *so* much fun! When I came home I found out we had caught a skunk in our trap. Oops... Alan got it out the next day by hiding behind an old sheet so the skunk couldnt see him. He carefully lowered the sheet over the trap and propped the trap open with a piece of wood. He didnt get sprayed! I wish I had thought to take a picture because he looked really funny.
After this we visited with grandpa in renfrew, had chineses buffet for lunch and met up with our friends (old neighbours)J&J (too many J's here!) for dinner, probably the last time we'll have dinner in their old apartment before they move to our side of town! Yay! We'll be neighbours again. sort of... We had lots of delicious food and J and I had lots of delicious drinks. It was fun times!
This week has been pretty uneventful. Tonight Mrs, J and I are going shopping for a wedding shower gift for a family friend of ours.

Rain drops keep falling..

and falling and falling and falling. They woke me up in the middle of the night along with some thunder and lightning (2:30ish). It is now 2:30 in the afternoon and it is still raining. It has not stopped raining for 12 hrs. Way to go! I feel right at home :) This is honestly the coolest wettest summer I have experienced here so far. Not a bad thing per se, as summers can be a little bit toooo much, but at the same time I must say I kind of miss it. It is good for our lawns and gardens, and it is going to be warm on the weekend. Good timing up there :)
I went out for lunch and to see the Harry Potter movie on tuesday afternoon with my friend B. I liked it. It wasn't the best of the movies so far, but it was still nice to see. You need to have read the book s to understand it I felt, it is a lot of 'random scenes' stitched together otherwise. This weekend is the big 7th book unveiling. I am hoping to get my hands on a copy before someone spoils the ending.. We will see if I'll be able to or not. Ok, back to studying Business, only one more midterm to go and it is the weekend! yay!
Ps I almost havent exercised at all this week and I really miss it, tomorrow is soccer and than back to running.

1 down 1 to go

I just finished writing my first midterm of the 2nd summer semester. I think it went well. Speaking of going well, I finally got my marks back for my exams and I did better than I thought I would, As per usual. This is very nice and slightly frustrating as I was again convinced that I was going to fail. Luckily for me I was wrong :)
I have one more midterm to go on friday, which I still have to do a lot of work for. First I am going to Oliver's with a friend from class to celebrate my midterm is over though.
Our vegetable garden is doing well. Most pepper plants have little pepers on them. 3 brocollis and three lettuces are growing back, our pea plants are growing back and so is the spinach. Time for another groundhog yousay? Indeed it was, but we caught this little guy before it could eat our veggies. It was only a young animal, I hope he'll like his new home in the greenbelt along with groundhog numero uno. Our tomatoe plants are full of unripe tomatoes. I cant wait to taste them! Our radishes are doing well also, to bad neither Alan nor I like them. Oh well, more for his parents I guess. Anyway, time for drinks. Write you later!

I DID IT!

I am so excited to let you know that I ran my full 5k and I did a good job too! I am really proud of myself and had a really good time doing it. I ran the 5k in 28:20 ish minutes (i'm not sure as I was focussing on making it over the finishline and I assumed someone else would keep track of the times. I was about 30sec after my friend batman who motivated me to go running and I am totally pumped to go now. Congratulations batman! And thanks again. :)
I am taking a day off running today because me legs feel pretty tired, but I am going to keep running to improve for the next race Batman and I are thinking of doing in september.
This week is study week, appearantly I already have midterms now, so I better get my bum in gear and get studying and watching lectures. Talk to you soon!

Tomorrow is the big day!

Ok this week I have been a bundle of stress for no particular reason. I dont like it but there it is. I'm not that good at tackeling a mountain of things still on my To Do list and instead of starting I get overwhelmed and dont want to do anything. I really need to learn how to deal with that, because it is no fun.
Speaking of fun, I had a really fun time at the bachelorette party I attended last saturday. It wasn't really all that outragous, there were a couple of funny games at the maid of honour's house, but mostly it was just a real fun girls night out. I had a little to much to drink, this seems to be the theme of bachelorette parties. We met up with the bachelor party on the way home as they had rented a yellow schoolbus to drive them around. It got to drive us around to our designated places of inhabittance/cars for whomever was still able to drive home. Yay no cab :)
I havent gotten my marks back yet which is to be expected yet slightly frustrating as I am still not sure if I'm allowed to stay in the class I am taking as this depends on the mark I got on the final. I had to register for my fall/winter courses this past week. So far no real luck with the winter term yet, I am trying to get into a course I think would be very interesting but it is major restricted. So I am trying to work my way into that one. My other courses arent set in stone yet, I may still change them, I will let you know later on what I will be taking, it will be busy anyway.
I have been pretty good with running this week. I am not convinced I'll be able to run the full 5k, which I need to change as I defintely wont be able to with that mind set, but anyway, I am really glad with how much I have improved though. During my last run I came close to running 4k. I am super happy at my progress from coming from 1.6k to running just under 4k in about 10 days is not bad. I realyl feel it is mostly in my head and in my breathing. If I can keep a steady pase and just focus and run with confidence it goes so much better than if I think about how far it is and how hard etc etc because than I start talking myself down and that doesnt help. I am not from a very athletic background, I have never done anything like this before. I have done a lot of dancing, but in this regard that doesnt realy count. I never played sports or running so I am new to the 'mental preparation' thing that I need to do. I think it is very good for me on many levels and I am looking forward to tomorrow. Today I get to pick up my race package, probably after soccer and than we are going to a get together at Z's place. It should be fun!
One last thing before I leave, my mom is coming to visit me for my Birthday!!! I am *so* excited! She'll stay for 2 weeks while I have time off of school. Sweet!!!

Sweet victory!

So much to tell you, but first things first. We finally caught our damn groundhog. It is in the trap as we speak, waiting to be moved to a new habitat. I actually saw it go into the trap which was the icing on the cake! Alan saw it earlier today as it had flipped the trap on it side and was eating the apple in it without actually springing the trap. But he reset it and placed some heavy stones on top and around it so that our hog couldnt puch it over. After circling the trap about 10 times (I'm not even kidding) It finally discovered whcih side was in and.. the hog is ours!
Ok I dont hate the animal, honest, I feel kinda bad for it, but we're going to find it a ncie home away from our veggies. Bye bye groundhog, hello Brocolli... maybe, if it survives this second attack.. we will see.
this past weekend was camping weekend and it was fabulous. After finishing my last dreadful exam which we will not talk about right now, I took the bus home, grabed some clothes, and jumped in the car. After a quick McDonalds Detour we were on our way to fun and relaxation.. and rain.. The groupsite was absolutely fabulous, it was nice and big a very well set up with different levels of little mini sites attached to a main campground with tons of pick-nick tables and a firepit. Alan and I set up camp and right after we were done it started pooring rain. It rained for most of the rest of the afternoon, stopped for supper and then rained again for a good chunk of the evening. luckily some of our friends had brought extra tarps which they strong up in the trees and it made a very cozy dry area which we all piled under. We played cards, had lots of junk food, drinks and laughs it was good and our tent works well, even in rain. The next day was nicer. We swam, played washers, played frisbee, drank more, ate more bad food, playedmore cards, had another (more succesful) fire than the first night, and made smores and cooked marshmellows. It was awesome. It was Also M's birthday, which we celebrates with a piniata (?) filled with candy, presents and a realy freshly baked birthdaycake and icecream! M got a camping oven for his birthday 2 yrs ago and it actually works really really well! you put it over top of your colemanstove and away you go! Awesome!
Monday we packed up our tent and had breakfast, lounched around for the rest of the morning and went home early afternoon. We had lunch in a very country little family diner on the way home (Woody's Pit Stop) and had Pizza and Poutine for lunch, delicious! At home I had a three hour nap and helped Alan clean up camping stuff, we had camping leftovers for supper and had a lazy evening and watched Indiana Jones, the last crusade.
Yesterday I went shopping with my friends J and K to find a nice outfit for R's bachelorette party this coming saturday. I can not wait, it is going to be fabulous, I'm sure pictures will follow.
And to finish off a nice day with a nice ending our friends K&J came for dinner. It was *so* nice seeing them again and catching up. I havent seen those two nearly enough this summer, hopefully we can have another get together again. We might do a weekend of camping/cottageing with them. Hopefully this will happen, it owuld be a lot of fun!
I am signing up or a 5k run on july 15th. K inspired me, I am *very* excited. This will force me to go running and also, I have always wanted to do a race. I am not expecting to do extremely well time wise, as I am not in great shape yet, but I am going to give it my best shot.Today I ran about 2k, but I didnt stretch enough so I started getting a cramp and I ended up walking the last 400m I was planning on running to Alan's parents house. Tehre I swam for about 20 minutes and than I came home again. It was a nice starting day for excersise, I'll keep you posted.