Yep It's me.

update at last!!

2007-02-28T20:50:00.000-08:00

Alright. I'm REALLY bad at updating. Pretty much, I don't have that much to tell. Banff... well.. I'm not the biggest fan, this year. For many reasons, but mostly just one, which if you've talked to me at all this year, I'm sure you are aware of. Anyway. Lets see.. Um.. I went home, for my mom's 50th birthday party. That was so much fun! First time Jonah, Sam and I have been together in a number of years. I hadn't even seen Jonah in two. We had a big surprise party, and despite their being a storm that caused a couple people to go off the road, it turned out quite well. I was only home fora few days, but it was great.

James Epp came out for another weekend of scary movies. Well, he mostly slept through them. The original Wicker Man is a must though, it's... very bizarre. Hm.. Matt Andersen came to Banff! James, Jody, Dave, Joy and I went to see he and Charlie A'Court. Matt is friggin amazing, I can't get over it. He rocks. Gives me good bumps. Oh, I got drugged at this pub at a going away party for our friend, with that stupid date rape drug. I drank like an inch of my drink, felt sick, got up to go, and passed out while hugging Matt goodbye. Lucky me, so I didn't pass out on the floor or outside. They called the ambulance. It was really weird. I woke up on the floor and didn't know what was going on. Off to the hospital which cost me $345 for the ride, and they did nothing. Retards.

I'm going home in April, I think. Our lease runs up March 31st, then I'm going to go to Calgary for a week or two, then home. Jody says he's going to come visit for a week or so this summer, and we're going to take a road trip. I'm pretty excited about that. Also, I am thinking about going to school in Fton in the fall. Maybe. We'll see. In the mean time, here are some pictures from home, as well as a couple from Johnston Canyan.

Happy New Year/Birthday, Willie

2006-12-31T19:58:00.000-08:00

I'm not very good at updating. Not a whole lot has happened.... I turned 22 a couple weeks ago. James Epp came and spent the weekend with me, took me snowboarding at Lake Louise for my birthday. Tons of fun! We watched a bunch of scary movies. Plus he got me the Christmas tree :) Then there was Christmas... I went to Calgary on Christmas Eve, and came back Boxing Day night. Karen and I went Boxing Day shopping downtown. It wasn't as busy as I expected, and there were some pretty good sales! Other than that... not a whole lot going on. Working, eating, sleeping. Whoot. It's New Years Eve (Happy Birthday, Willie!!) and I'm sitting home alone. Joy and Sherri are working, and well, I refuse to call the Canmore guys. Things are kind of weird there right now. Anyway. I can't wait to go home.

Happy New Year!

Ivette and I!

Another classic Jody shot

O Christmas Tree

2006-12-23T16:49:00.000-08:00

Thanks to James Epp, we have a beautiful Christmas tree!

50899 minutes until Christmas

2006-11-19T22:41:00.000-08:00

I don't really have anything to say, not much going on. Work, sleep, argue with James. Jody and I saw Borat the other day. Shocking. Watched Casino Royale last night in Calgary, he's a way better Bond than Pierce Brosnan. A lot more... attractive? Not sure the word. Hot isn't really it, but he's a lot sexier, I guess, than good ol' Pierce. Though what's with those little shorts?

I never thought I'd like John Mayer, but Continuum is a great CD! Check it out. Also... Ginger Beef. If you've never tried it, do. Highly recommended.

848 hours til Christmas. 35 days, if you prefer.

Pictures... Jody and I, and James, Jody, and I.

Trick or Treat!

2006-11-02T18:58:00.000-08:00

Check out those kick ass ninja stars. I think Joy and I were most definitely the oldest trick or treaters in Banff. Apart from the parents taking their small children around, but you can't really count that. I definitely felt a little silly. Pretty sure we were the only people driving ourselves around. We hit up the non transient part of town, which was full of kids. We must have been right in thinking it was the best place to go, because we didn't see kids anywhere else! Then again, we live smack downtown, not really many houses here. Just businesses. Anyway, it was freezing cold, I was sure I was going to get frost bite! Being the genius I am, I forgot mittens. Plus there's like a foot of snow. Felt like Halloween in January.

It was also James' birthday, so... happy birthday James.

2006-10-26T18:56:00.000-07:00

Claudia was here Tuesday!!!

And then there's James.

sleep deprivation

2006-10-22T15:13:00.000-07:00

I'm being sucked back in to James' sleep habits. Thursday Reid was in town to visit, stayed the night with us. He and I made fajitas for supper, well, mostly I did. With his broken hand and all, he can't cut ot stir. He tried to stir the veggies and flung them all over the stove. Then he, Sherri and I spent an interesting evening at home. They got drunk and did a somewhat dirty dancing show in the kitchen. It was.... interesting, to say the least. Then they tried to invite our neighbor, Bob, over. He stood in the doorway a bit, but I think he was a little creeped out. Reid, Sherri and Joy ended up going to the Hoodoo, and then James come over and we went for a long walk. Reid came back not long after we did, and we stayed up until 4 just hanging out. Reid fell asleep and said something to James in his sleep 'Your mom has ants? Awesome, I'm in'... lol. Good times.

Then Friday, after working with a couple hours sleep, James and I went to Calgary to see a movie. But we left too late and got there just after it started, and it was sold out. We ended up just driving around, with James working out his anger driving. We went back to Canmore, and stayed up til 3:30 with his mom, and then watched a movie til 6. His grandparents were there visiting, and kept coming down to the bathroom, and giving us funny looks cos we were are still up. We fell asleep at 6 something, and I slept on the couch til like 2:30 in the afternoon, until James eventually got up. Sooooo tired. He brought me home, but ended up waiting for me to shower and then we went back to Calgary. Met up with Eric, and went to see the Prestige, the movie we tried to see the night before. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped. Ah well. Finally got home at 2ish, sleep... sweet wonderful sleep.

Calvin was maybe coming to visit today. Said he'd email me before he left Edmonton, to let me know if he's coming or not. I highly doubt he will, but you never know. It's actually a pretty inconvienent time, I'm sick, and I'm going to Calgary tomorrow night to see Claudia, and staying til Tuesday night prolly. I can't wait to see her!! I'm so excited :)

Alrighty I'm done for now. I gotta go clean the bathroom or something.

Banff

2006-10-12T20:24:00.000-07:00

Alright alright alright, it's been too long. We just got the internet last night, after 3 calls to Telus, because they're retarded. Nothing I did at all, of course :) Actually no, they didn't set it up properly for me, and had to change some stuff before I could get connected. And of course they didn't know Macs, so it was fun trying to figure out what changes I had to make. ANYWAY. I also just got the wireless working. Before it was just my computer online, but Sherri couldn't even figure out how to get on the internet via Safari. Ah well. Now she's stuck with the cable and staying in the corner with the cushionless futon. Ha.

So we're here in Banff, we've got an awesome little place, stressing the 'little', and we're both employed. Tomorrow will be the last day of week two for me at Bow Valley Basics, and office supply store, which Joy also works at, as the Desktop Publisher. But shh, that's a secret until tomorrow. It's a good job, lots of fun. Plus the hours are only 8:30-7, so I'll never work evenings, and only the odd Saturday. They're of course closed on Sundays.

Not a whole lot else to tell... Claudia is coming through Calgary on her way back to Honduras in a couple weeks, I've taken a day off to go visit with her. I can't wait to see her!! Hmm what else.. James, Jody and Eric took me disk golfing. Lots of fun, but I'm not so good at that. Maybe I'll put up some pictures from that too... maybe. Anyway, that's all I have to say. Enjoy the pictures.

Disk golf:

2006-09-04T14:59:00.000-07:00

I've been listening to a lot of Alexisonfire lately. Just for the record - they would be a lot better without that screaming dude. I'll never understand screaming in music. Personally I have a hard time considering it music. A little here and there, maybe, but not as your lead singing. More Dallas Green, please.

Another note - Maybe it's just me, but I always seem to have a summer favorite, music wise. I listen to the same musician/band a ton during the summer, until I get somewhat tired of them. Last summer it was Jack Johnson, this summer Jason Mraz. I always do that with everything. Find a musician/band I like, and listen to them to death. Find an author I like, read all their books until I'm tired of it. And so on.

I was interviewed for a couple of newspapers for my job. I've read one so far. I sound like an idiot. They quoted me exactly, even if I repeated myself in a sentence. It's awful. When writing an article, you don't just print exactly what any idiot says, you're supposed to use your journalism skills and do some editing. If I say some long rambling sentence, in which I repeat myself, don't put it in it its entirity. PLEASE edit me. Good grief. I sounded so ..... unintelligent. Accurate portrayal? Maybe so.

I'm planning on going back to Canmore on the 19th. Hopefully finding a job and a place to live *fingers crossed*
Anyone in Canmore have a lawn that Sherri and I can camp on?

Boiled Frogs

2006-08-29T06:35:00.000-07:00

Ho hum. Another weekend passed. August is almost over, and summer seems like a distant memory. It's so cold these days. I sit shivering in my little back office. All bundled up. I think I need mittens.
Jess was home on the weekend, first time I've seen her all summer. Didn't realize how much I missed her. We did our traditional Tim Horton's visit, where we ate way too much. Another winner quote from Jess, in response to what she wanted in her hazelnut coffee:
Tim Horton employee "Do you want a double double?"
Jessica (all laughing and embarrassed) "I don't even know what that means!"
Obviously not a coffee drinker.

Saw 'Step Up' on the weekend. TERRIBLE acting.. good grief. But, Clement was a production assistant on it, and was in it for couple seconds. That guy was a pretty good dance tho, since they pretty much had to teach him before they filmed.
Anyway. I missed Renee and Wilson's wedding, which I'm super sad about :( Nikole sent me some pictures, and it looked like a blast. Even Paul was there, who I haven't seen in two years!!! I miss you Paul!!!

2006-08-23T15:56:00.000-07:00

Myself, Claudia and Jean

2006-08-23T15:54:00.000-07:00

Claudia and I

Canoeing Woo hoo!!

2006-08-22T09:15:00.000-07:00

So this past weekend, we went on a canoeing trip... a fund-raiser for the Nicaragua/Honduras project. We went canoeing on the Kedgwick and Restigouche Rivers. Mum, Jean, Claudia and myself. We went up Friday night, and were on the river at 11 Saturday morning. A bit behind schedule. A few others from Falls Brook were taking some kids camping at Mt. Carleton, then going canoeing with us. Only Carolyn lost the keys to the van, so it was a bit of a delay. Anywho, we ended up going without them. Canoeing was awesome... Claudia and I went together, we had so much fun! Got lots of sun... burnt my face and knees... good times. Mum went with Jean, and got ordered around the whole time... haha. I was the only one who's ever steered before. Mum and Jean kept veering into the bank... lol. We canoed more on Sunday, after a nice Saturday evening meal of wine and fresh salmon. Ymm ymm. Although, I'm not a big fan of either of those things.

Some pictures...

ahh I'll put them up later. It keeps erroring.

2006-08-08T11:49:00.000-07:00

2006-07-31T12:18:00.000-07:00

So, our mailbox has been vandalized yet again. Last time it got hit with a baseball bat, or something. This time... well... undetermined. Anthrax?? Could be. Only the yellow kind. It goes like this:

Saturday night, mum and I were watching a movie, and we heard all this commotion at the end of the drive way. People talking and laughing, then driving off. We're like, meh.. just stupid kids. Sunday, our mailbox is covered in... something. Looks to be extremely fine yellow sand. It's almost powder, but it's definitely crystallized ish like sand, all sparkley. Mum was like... right freaked out. She stood on the other side of the road while I was brushing it out with a paint brush. She didn't want me to touch it, and she was freaking out that it was blowing all over me. There was like a centimeter of it on the bottom of the mailbox, inside. I sniffed it (much to mum's ..dismay), but it didn't smell. Dad thought maybe it was from a fire extinguisher... I haven't seen one used, so I don't know. But I'm pretty sure it's not yellow? Anyway. I lived, so it couldn't have been poison. It was pretty funny watching mum freak out about my being near it, though :) She said I was only doing it(sniffing and blowing it around) to get her going. Only a little true.

White Wicker and Kittens

2006-07-26T10:52:00.000-07:00

Claire and I had a big chat at work yesterday, about the inevitability of our becoming spinsters. We're both convinced that we're doomed. And how silly it is when people say, well everyone finds some one. NOT SO!!! Think of how many single middle age to old people you know. More than you'd like to think. That'll be Claire and I. We were talking about how we'll be bitter old women with no friends, because we'd be too jealous to be friends with married couples. I can't imagine. Growing old alone?? It's hard enough now sometimes, being single, but imagining being like this for the rest of my life? Honestly... I think I'd sooner die. I gotta tell ya... the single life is not for me. For a while maybe, but.... not forever. I'll say this now. If I'm single at 40(and that's pushing it), please, I'm begging you.. someone shoot me. Right in the head. Make sure you don't miss. It's gotta be a gooder.

Some say love is not for sinners....

2006-07-17T07:33:00.000-07:00

Still here. Working. Picked raspberries this morning, and now I'm wet and cold. No change of clothes. :( Why oh why didn't I bring more clothes??
Less than two months til I'm back in Canmore, God willing. I'm so ready to move on... I can't handle being home, bored out of my mind all the time. PLEASE no more weekend siting home the whole time.
Also... come on now. I've had this friggin piercing for three months now, and it's still not healed. I'm getting a little fed up. Not sure if I should take it out or not. Wait a while, I guess.

This is your life, and it's ending one moment at a time.

2006-07-11T07:10:00.000-07:00

Ok I'm really slacking off. But as I'm sure I've said before, there's not really anything worth telling, since I've been home. Not much, at least. I work. That's about it. Work is... ok. I'm getting a little fed up with the bugs. They're not very nice this summer. I'm tired of getting bitten.
On a good note, I finally got to the waterfall! Rachael and I have been talking about going to it for over 2 years now, and I finally made it. We actually looked for it back in April, but couldn't find it. Sam since flagged it. Anywho... a few of us drove up in Olivers' truck, and went down. Talk about steep. And I thought getting the the drinking waterfall was hard. Geez. I must admit, I was disappointed. It was just a little trickle. I knew there wasn't much water, but Rach and I hoped to rapel it. Nope. Too many trees... it is quite high though. Ah well.
For the last two weeks we hada guy from Katimavic staying with us. He came to work with mum and I. It was.... interesting. It's always weird having someone strange living in your space. At least, I find it to be. It was over all ok. He did have quite the annoying habit of following me everywhere, especially at work, but evetually I got used to it. Kind of like having a puppy trail after you.
Tonight, Mum, Sam, Garett and I are going to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest !!!!!!! I'm SOOOOOOOO excited! I can't wait to see it!!! Woo hoo!!

Just because I'm missing the Canmore life:

Yep

2006-06-22T05:20:00.001-07:00

Well. I'm not very good with this thing now that I'm home. Not much to say, to be honest. I'm working at Falls Brook Centre (www.fallsbrookcentre.ca) again this summer. It's a pretty good job, so that's good. I do a lot of gardening/weeding/mowing/cooking, and am also organizing their fall fair, which is a pretty big job. I'm in the middle of booking musicians right now. It's a stressful job. A lot rests on me it seems, if things don't go ok. Anyway. I did it last year and everything went fine. So here's to number two.
Other than work, life is pretty boring. EXCEPT: Kevin, Richard and Chris coming to visit me!!! They stopped by for a night and a day while on their Maritime Tour. It was so good to see them!! I couldn't have picked anyone that I would want to visit me more! We had so much fun :) Pretty well played cards the entire time they were here. Stayed up til 4am playing, and even played while driving to Maine. I have to say, playing cards while driving isn't the most steller idea. Sorting was the hardest. Plus everyone could see my cards. I managed to get us around alive, but I was definitely questioning that at times. We at least had the good sense to hide the cards at the border :) I hadn't played cards since Arkansas really, so it was good to play again, and with the same people :)
Also, the other night, Erika, Amber and I went to Woodstock. We were in McDonalds, and when we left, didn't Erika throw her retainers in the garbage. For frigs sakes Erika! She just got them a few weeks ago too! Anyway, we went back once we remembered, and I rummaged through the garbage til I found them. Luckily they were on the topish bit. Everyone clapped when I retrieved them :) And then.... the McDonalds people offered some warm water for her to put them in. And when she gets home and tries to put them back in, realizes that is wasn't in fact 'warm' water, but boiling hot water, and they melted out of shape!!!!! :S And at 50 bucks a pop, that really sucks.

So I guess that's all I have to say. Mum, Dad, and I are going to spend the weekend at Jean's cottage in St. Andrews. A weekend on the ocean should be nice. Not sure what we're going to do... go canoeing and kayaking.. lay on the beach... not sure if there's any sand or if it's rocky... hmm... oh well.

Still home sweet home

2006-06-04T22:38:00.000-07:00

Alright. So... as much as I miss Canmore and want to go back, looks like I'm stuck in Carleton County for another summer. FRIG. I'm working at Falls Brook Centre again. Which is ok because I like the job, it's pretty fun. Organizing the fair again. Whoot. Anyway, it won't be that bad. Sarah and Erika are around... Jess is in Fredericton so I can go visit her some... Levi's around til the end of the month... sigh. This is going to suck, isn't it? Either way, I'm stuck here.
Guess what I did today.
12:30 - got up.
12:30-4:00 - Watched Sam play Goldeneye: Rogue Agent.
4:00-7:00 - napped.

That's a lot of sleep. This better not be the summer's trend. It's rained all weekend, so there was nothing to do but sleep.

Some pictures:

Rachael, we were cooking in the breezeway
Me
Rachael and I, when we were about to go sleep outside back in April

2006-05-26T12:01:00.000-07:00

Take me back to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the (boys) are pretty.

I want to go back to Canmore.

Canoeing the Coldstream/Becaguimec/St. John

2006-05-21T08:46:00.000-07:00

Whoot. Life in Windsor... bah. Boring! Luckily, this past week has been a lot more interesting. Erick van Til, from Summit, was down for a wedding last weekend, and he stayed with Rachael and I for the past week. It was so good to see him, it'd been over a year since I saw him last. Anyway, Erick and Rachael were at my house for three days. We did a bunch of stuff. Toured Woodstock, checked out the waterfall in Lower Brighton, went to Maine so I could apply for my US Passport (whoot whoot, I am a dual US and Canadian Citizen), went thrift shopping, cooked food, watched X-Files, drank my two Mike's left over from New Years 2004, and hung out at my house a lot. With Willie. My dog. Rachael and Erick fought over her affection. And the best part of the week..... canoeing. Tee hee.

Ben Kent, called us up and wanted to go canoeing. Well he wanted to go climbing but it was raining, so this was plan B. So he borrows a canoe from some dude, since he only has one and there's 4 of us, picks us up and off we go!
Our plan: Put in at the Coldstream behind Rebecca and Courtney's, paddle down to Coldstream and meet up with the Becaguimic, and paddle down to the St John River, and then take out at the Hartland Church, where Ben's truck would be waiting. Takes about 3 hours, give or take.
Alright, so off we go. Erick and I in Ben's canoe, and Rach and Ben in the other. Now... their canoe was a lot bigger.... not a lot a lot but enuf that they floated higher. Makes a big difference when you're going through strainers. Also, they wore their life jackets. Erick and I... didn't. They were those nasty old school orange ones with the big floaty thing behind your head. So, we figured we prolly wouldn't drown on the Coldstream. Anyway. Did I mention it was raining? And had been for a few days now? Yeah, the water was pretty high. And moving pretty fast. There had obviously been some serious flooding on the Coldstream, cos there were trees and strainers and crap EVERYWHERE!!! It was crazy. Yes, Erick and I tipped. There was this big tree, full across the water, and it was about three feet off the water. We thought, man, we can just slide right under that. So we come up to it, and I lean back, and pretty much fall in the canoe, so I'm basically laying down in it, with my arms and legs out, haha. Anyway, I slide right under, but we drifted too much to were the tree was lower, so it totally clotheslined Erick. Oh yeah, Erick is like 6'4, and doesn't easily duck under stuff in a canoe. So anyway, we go over, and oh man... the water was frigid. We couldn't feel our legs practically right away. Ben and Rach went downstream to catch my runaway paddle and life jacket... tee hee... while Erick and I flipped the canoe over. The current was so strong too. We didn't even get out of the water. Just rolled the canoe over and lifted it out of the water. It was only like waist deep water. Anywho... we got back in and off we went. Tho we were pretty much freezing the rest of the day, cos it was cold and drizzling so we didn't dry at all. And this was like right at the start. Twice more we almost got smoked by strainers, but we managed to get out. Once, we were right under the top of a tree, so it was all branches and crap, and oh man, I was NOT going over. Erick said I was doing some crazy Matrix moves, trying to not get caught by the tree. I knew if I did, then we'd be done for sure, cos if we both got caught... a swimming we could go. But we made it. And the other, lol.. it was right on a turn, and most of it was obstructed by a strainer. So, we had to try and stay as close to the middle of the river as we could, then paddle like mad to get to the right to get around this strainer. Well, good luck. we all went all the way to the left, and there was this big like 3 foot diameter stump thing sticking out over the water. Back I go into the canoe, slide under it, and guess what, Erick gets caught. And we're going over. I'm flailing and carrying on, trying to get to the left so we don't go over. Finally we're stable, and I look back at Erick.. lol. The stump is between is, and he's just got his arms around the tree. Tee hee. Ben and Rach come by and hit us, but we hold them steady and then they go on. So anyway, for Erick and I to get loose of the tree, he had to climb over it, lol. The whole time, he's like "This goes against anything I've ever learned about canoeing." haha... but there was no other way.

Friggin Rachael and Ben squeaked past everything. Coincidence? I think not. Obviously the ones wearing the life jackets wouldn't flip.

It was a great day tho :) We had so much fun! And once we got off the Coldstream, which was over half of the trip, almost, then it was clear sailing. The Becaguimic was AWESOME!! oh man!! Great big wavey things, we were getting some serious air with the front of the canoe! Prolly because A. Erick was in the back and weights a lot more than I, and B. by this time there was so much water in the back of the canoe from our almost tippings that Erick's feet were pretty much submerged. And every time we hit a good wave, I got splashed. Frigging cold. I couldn't feel my feet, haha. So yeah, it was a wicked trip. Way harder than the Buffalo. We were expecting a pretty easy paddle, that that was teh hardest (and more fun) I've ever had canoeing. Then of course we went to Matt Grahams and I sat soaked and freezing. lol.

But now they're gone :( Erick has gone back to Ontario for a week, and Rachael has moved to Ottawa. I am once again alone.

Pyromaniacs

2006-05-04T16:53:00.000-07:00

Until tonight, I never realized quite the degree of pyromania my brother and I had when we were little. Honestly. Mum, Sam, Kait, and I were sitting around the table talking tonight, and somehow that topic came up.

Imagine me, 3 years old, running off down the road with Sam and Daniel and Oliver Arnold, to light matches and drop them down into the oil in an old engine. Them being 5, 8, and 4. None of whom should prolly have been lighting matches, let alone teaching the 3 yr old tag-a-long girl. And that was just the beginning!! Everything Sam and I did seemed to involve fire. We'd swipe some gasoline and go off and find a big ant hill. Pour the gas all over it, and light it. Ever hear the sound of fire rushing through ant tunnels? Or, we'd take all the over-ripe cucumbers and zuchinni's (sp?) from the garden and burn out the inside, and use them as chimneys, after lighting a fire in our fire pit. OR... all the times we'd go up to Kai's, and all we did there was go out in the woods and ...you guessed it, light fires. Though these were camp fire types, we never burned things down. And apparently we'd go light fires with Steffen and Lea too, but I don't remember that. Basically, we lit a lot of fires. Where were our parents, you ask? Well,they trusted us. Figured we were pretty safe. Lucky for them, they were right. The hundreds of fires we've lit, and nothing's been destroyed. Though Sam tells us he and someone just about burnt the barn down once, smoking straw or something retarded thing.
Anyway. I've either blocked most of these memories, or else just didn't think of them all at once to see the obvious connection... of a couple of fire addicts. Ah we've come so far :)

I won't comform.

2006-05-02T16:07:00.000-07:00

One for the record, I hate going to the dentist. Honestly. $100 for barely 20 minutes of painfilled 'work'. I'm pretty sure she jabbed me with that stupid metal thing more than she hit my teeth. My mouth isn't that big, get better aim.

Sam tells me today that it's up to me to have kids. Excuse me? I'm going to be the only source of grandchildren for my mother? Well she's crap out of luck. How many times do I have to tell them, I don't like kids. Prolly I'll be an old spinster who no one'll marry anyway, so she'll have to rely on... well. Maybe Sam and Jonah will adopt? Or maybe her next dog will have puppies.

Once again, why am I here?

2006-05-01T12:45:00.000-07:00

So, last night. What a strange mixture of.... I'm not even sure what. The ups and downs of being back in the regular home life. Sarah and Erika came home from school this weekend. I went to Sarahs for a while, and then later we went to Erika's to see her and Amber. It was so good to see them again, I miss them so much. They're the kind of friends where it doesn't matter how long you go without seeing each other, when we're together again it's the same old "SHE" team, haha. Anyway, before going to Erika's, Sarah and I went to Shekinah. Shekinah is this monthly youth service that was started up 4 or so years ago, by Stephen Page and a bunch of others. Every year the band has changed by way of people graduating and moving on. I started going last year because Jess was leading the band. And I got roped into doing over heads whenever I wasn't working. It's pretty much a social 'get to see everyone from camp thru the winter' kind of thing, more than anything else.

So, Sarah and I go. As soon as we sat down, I looked at her and said 'Remind me again why we're here." We both wanted so badly to leave. It was the weirdest feeling ever. Sarah's in the outs with the camp and Jacksonville people, so she didn't want to see them, and I just felt so out of place. I didn't really want to see anyone anyway, except a few that I didn't even get to say more than hi to. Plus, since when did Shekinah turn into a concert? I coudn't believe it. There were 10 friggin people on stage. I'm sorry, but you do not need 7 singers. It sounded absolutely terrible. There was so much disortion and feedback, not to mention way too many people that didn't have it down. It was obvious with their constant looking at each other for cues, and people coming in at the wrong times. Plus side, it was good to see Lucas up there!! He sounded really good, despite everything else. Haha tho I'm defintely a little biased towards him.
Anyway, it definitely made me realize that I've outgrown this place, especially the group of people around here that I normal would hang out with I.E. the camp people. There's so much stupidness going on around here that hardly anyone knows about, or if they do, they choose to ignore. Too much politics within the churches, and the camp especially. Some serious changes need to be made, and no one who could do anything about it, sees it. It drives me crazy. The narrowmindedness of the Chrisians in Carleton County astounds me. And how figureheads in the church can get away with constant mental abuse to their own children, and no one dares to say a word. I hate that I've come back to the same old crap. It does nothing but make me want to get away even more, which isn't such a bad thing. I fear that I'll never be able to come back here and live. Or if I do, it'll have to be a completely different life. Unless big changes are made, I don't want anything to do with all the, dare I say corruption? of this place. I realize it's like this most places, but being my home and all, I notice it so much more. I prolly sound pretty hard hearted but I could leave this place and never look back. Aside from select friends and family, I couldn't care less if I ever saw anyone again. I just don't want to be here anymore. it's funny how I've always thought I would end up here, always WANTED to end up here. Even after Summit. But living in Canmore definitely changed that. I'v totally fallen in love with that place, and all I want is to go back.

2006-04-27T18:10:00.000-07:00

I put a bunch more Cali pics on my msn space. Crossing fingers that this link'll work
my MSN Space

Daniel, James, Rachael, Melissa and I in the Grove

2006-04-27T16:43:00.000-07:00

Hollywood sign

2006-04-27T16:38:00.000-07:00

James and I at Disneyland!!

2006-04-27T16:30:00.000-07:00

James, myself, and Rachael

2006-04-27T16:24:00.000-07:00

Rachael and I on the beach

2006-04-27T16:15:00.000-07:00

Still home...

2006-04-27T15:58:00.000-07:00

Ok. Posting finally. Lets see.. where did I leave off... ah yes. California. Well, we had a great trip. Well, Rachael and I had a great trip. Melissa... not so much. James.. I really don't know. I think he was pretty sick of us by the end of the trip :S Which... well, sucks. And I haven't heard from him since so, it's not looking good. But, I had a great time! We got our piercing on Sunday, as well as went and saw a movie in Mann's Chinese Theatre. Wicked place. Monday, our last day there, James and I went to Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure! It was SO much fun!!!! I had a blast, awesome last day in LA. Ah man it was so much fun. If you're ever there, make sure you go on the Hollywood Tower Hotel ride in California Adventure! It's the best ever! We went 3 times. We were there 13 hours, from 11-12am, and by the end we were so tired and our feet ached - James' especially - and my shoulder hurt so bad I could barely lift my arm. Still, it was definitely worth it, and I'm so glad we went :)

It took us 35 hours to drive back, opposed to the 25 it took us to get there. We went back up through northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and into BC. We didn't realize it was going to take that much longer, but seeing beautiful Oregon was worth the extra hours. It was gorgeous.

The morning after we got back, we flew to Toronto for Josh and Charisse's wedding. Goodbye Canmore :( The wedding was beautiful, I'm so happy for Josh and Charisse. They are a perfect match. It was so good seeing all the Summiters, and staying in Cambridge at the guys house. Then I had to say goodbye to Melissa and Rachael. That was hard, but I knew I would see Rachael soon, and we'd be together again at the reunion in only a month. I spent a week with Nikole. That was much needed, spending time with her again :) How I missed her!! We went to Niagra Falls, my first time there. It's so nice there, tho strangly just like being in Hollywood.

And now I'm home. Home is... just like always. I don't think I can stay here. I miss Canmore so much it's insane. I didn't think I would miss the mountains, but I do. And I miss everyone. James, Jody, Dave, Joy, Maggie, everyone. It's terrible. Rachael was here the last couple days, and we talked about Canmore and James and Dave and California forever. We miss it so much. Talking about made me really realize that that's where I want to be right now. The only reason I have to stay home is for money, and even tho it's a logical reason, it also seems to be the silliest. So... I'm starting to look into going back at the end of May.

Back to Rachael.. we've been talking about looking for this waterfall for two and a half years, and yesterday we finally went. And didn't find it. Haha.. we just have started too high, cos we walked until the water ended. Sigh. Mum or Sam'll have to show me where it is, and then we'll go back sometime. We had a great time anyway. We slept outside under my tarp, while it rained/snowed off and on. It's great to sleep outside :)

Anyway, that's about it. Take me back to Canmore.

Home Sweet Home??

2006-04-23T16:28:00.000-07:00

I'm home now. When I'm less lazy, I will post about California and the wedding and crap. But not now. Now I'm lazy. Ta

California!!

2006-04-08T10:35:00.000-07:00

We're off!! Actually, we've been gone a week now. I don't feel like putting up a bunch of pictures right now, but here's us off to the sunny coast!! It's early. Not really, haha, it's like... well I guess it's about 9am then. We were planning on leaving at 6, but then before James left the night before, we decided on 8, and we ended up leaving Calgary at 11 am. Honestly.

Anyway, off we went. James and I drove thru the day, and Melissa and Rachael thru the night. I drove thru a snowstorm in Montana, that was fun. There were times when I couldn't even see the road more than like a foot in front of me!! We hit Vegas at about 7am, which was too bad, cos we wanted to hit it in the dark. And we would have, if it hadn't talken us so long to leave, and then had the snowstorm slowing us down. All well, we drove down the strip anyway.

We got to LA at about noon. We met Daniel, James' friend, at Denny's for dinner. Lunch for all you weird people (James). In the days between then and now we've camped for a couple days, went to the Hollywood sign, drove thru Hollywood Hills, Bel Air, Beverly Hills. We went to the Grove, Santa Monica, 3rd Street, went to a movie at Arclight Theatre, went to Venice Beach, ah... I can't really remember that well right now. Oh, last night we went to see Michael Landau, who is apparently one of the greatest guitar playes of all time? It was in this tiny little room in the back of a music store in Orange, which is basically Anahiem. Anywho. Today we're doing laundry, piercing, and... who knows. Oh, Daniel and James are playing together tonight, so that should be pretty sweet. Ok, cheers!

2006-03-29T17:34:00.000-08:00

I finally got some deep fried ice cream!! As an appetizer :)

our 'Summit' table

And everyone else

w00t

2006-03-29T17:09:00.000-08:00

Snowboarding, I guess I didn't write anything. I went with Rachael last Wednesday, and I got trashed. I strained a muscle in my stomach, bruised my ribs... oh man. Having called in sick to go in the first place, I had to call in sick the next day because I couldn't even sit up. My stomach hurt soooo bad. And my.. ah... muscles on the front of my shoulders, whatever those are, killed. Like MAD. I couldn't even lift a pillow or something. I have never been in so much pain, not that I can remember anyway. But I lived, that's the good thing.

Thursday we went in to Calgary, so we could go to MEC, get some California stuff. I got an awesome Nalgene sippy cup. Yep, for little kids. I love it, tho I don't know how little kids get anything out of it. You have to suck so hard, my throat hurts before long. We also picked up James Epp and went to Chinook, and to East Side Mario's to eat. James got a balloon, but it escaped. Poor muffin.

Saturday, Joy had a surprise for us. All she told us was she had reservations for supper somewhere in Banff. I found out about most of it that day, because of someone leaving a msg on the answering machine, but Joy (and everyone else) did a great job at keeping it a secret. We went to Tony Roma's in Banff, and there was a ton of people there! And then Jeremy, Nicole, James and Reid showed up!! We found out earlier about Jere and Nicole, cos they called the house looking for Joy, but James and Reid was such a surprise! It was funny, because Rachael and I had been sitting at our own table, feeling all alone, but it ended up being like a Summit table. I haven't laughed that hard in along time. Jeremy and the guys talked about the Cambridge boys a lot, it was hilarious. Most of the stories I had heard last weekend when Jeremy and Nicole were here, but they were just as funny the second time, if not more so. I cannot wait for the wedding, it's going to be so awesome to see everyone! We came back here after, with Reid and James, and Jody met us here. We had a great time, laughing at Reid and all the crazy things he was doing. We did some nose blows, Reid tightened the lids on all our peanut butter (which we still haven't gotten off) and lots of other retardedly funny stuff. I miss those guys so much :) After they left, Jody was like, 'what kind of school did you go to???' lol. Only the best :)

Sunday was our last night at Banff Park Church, which was kind of sad. Even tho I didn't go every week, it was an amazing church, and I'm going to miss it.

Monday, Karen and Jess came to Canmore, and we hung out for a few hours in the afternoon. It was good to see Karen before I left, and Jess is a really cool girl. Also the rest of the Haags stopped by to say goodbye. Jody and I went and saw 'V for Vendetta'. Good movie, I recommend it. James was here when we got back, so we were up until 2 or so. James was 'upset' that I went and saw 'V for Vendetta' with Jody, because he wanted to see it with me. lol. So, I told him we could go see a movie on Tuesday. Which we did, along with Rach and Melissa. We saw 'Inside Man'. Excellent movie!! Go see it! And the music at the end is great. Thumbs up.

Tonight we have our last college and career group before we leave. Considering I just went for the first time last week, it's not a big deal to me, but Rach and Melissa have gotten to know a lot of them quite well and are going to miss them. They are for sure a great group of people. We're going to go hike Grotto in the dark. Should be interesting. The fam did it on Monday, and they said it's ice all the way up. I told Shane that if I break a leg, someone is carrying me out.

Two more days of work! Crazy busy days, but only 2!! And then, CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray for James. I have a feeling Melissa will kill or at least serious maim him before the trip is over.

Snowboarding!!

2006-03-24T14:59:00.000-08:00

White Swan Hot Springs

2006-03-23T14:12:00.000-08:00

We went to White Swan Provintial Park in BC on Tuesday night, a 3 hour drive, to their natural hot springs. It was great. We took two full vehicles. We all went in Dave Brayer's truck, and Rach and I snuggled in the back with James, haha. He "kept us warm". Tee hee. The hot springs were, well... hot. Too hot for my liking. It was hard to be comfortable. If I was fully in the water, I could only last a couple minutes before I had to get out. Then I was cold. I couldn't find the happy medium of partially in, partially out. So I got in and out every couple of minutes. What a hassle. Plus it reeked of sulphur, just like rotten eggs. But you got used to it pretty quick. We must have sat there for a couple hours. I got pretty ancy. Rach and I layed down in the river too, which was pretty friggin cold, only we were super hot so it wasn't too bad. Good times. Despite what it prolly sounds like, I did actually have fun!!

Pirates Attack!!

2006-03-21T12:32:00.000-08:00

As you can see, we tied up Dave the other night. It was completely his idea. He wanted to see if he could get out. We didn't try very hard - I used a lot of Granny knots - and it took him 48 minutes to get out. We want to have a rematch this weekend, and actually try :) Also while he was tied up, we thought we'd give him a little make up... haha. Isn't he pretty :) There are more pictures on my MSN Space

Seven more days of work left!! Ahh I can't wait to be done :D We have two new housemates now, and another comes today. Suman, Brandon, and Sarah. Yes, Brandon is a girl. Sarah comes today. I had to move out of my room, so I'm camping out in Joy's room until we're done. Which is a retarded hassle, but oh well it's not for long. On April 1st, we're off to California!! YAAAA!!!! :D Myself, Rachael, Melissa and James. Wonderful James :) Hehe. We are so excited! Camping on the beach... laying all day in the sun. What more could you ask for, after 6ish months of housekeeping?? Oh man, it is going to be so good.

Tonight we are going to White Swan, a Provincial (?) park in BC, with completely natural hot springs. It's like a 3 hour drive, but it's the experience I guess. Well I must be off. Ciao-io!

It's not hard to fall, when you float like a cannonball

2006-03-16T21:21:00.000-08:00

If you haven't heard 'Cannonball' by Damien Rice, listen to it. It's an excellent song.

If cats could talk....

2006-03-09T20:04:00.000-08:00

Aloha. Well, well, well. Steph was here!! As you can see from the pics. Her, Titus, and this Dan guy drove here from Winnipeg, for three days. To snowboard at Lake Louise. It was so good to see Steph again! It's been over a year. And I never figured I'd see Titus again. We actually went two days without seeing James. Imagine! Dave called me sunday night and James was there - I told Dave to tell him we miss him and that the house is empty without him here, hehe. He broke his streak at 10 days in a row. He was back on Tuesday tho, we hung out here, James helped me with a thing on my computer, then we went to the Paw to meet everyone else. We stayed up til like 4 that night, James, Rach, Steph, Dan and I. Then I called in sick, lol. I was actually some what sick, but I really didn't want to go to work. Not at all.
Last night, James came and picked me up, went downtown to see if the candy store was open, for more tim tam cookies. Yeah! I found some on Sat. in Calgary, we all had some Tuesday night. It's been two years, they are sooo amazing. Anyway, he and I went looking for more. The candy store was closed, so we went to Banff. The candy store there was open, but they didn't have any. We ended up driving around Banff for like almost two hours. James loves to just drive around. Then we came back to Canmore and ...guess what... drove around. It's fun, though. We went to BP's for a late supper. Then, we went back to his house. His parents were there, so I got to actually meet them. They pretty much made jokes at James' expense the whole time. They're hilarious, but I felt kind of bad for him. His cat bit my toe. It was funny, the three of them would like remember a line from a song, relating to what we were talking about, and they'd break out singing, hehe... it was so cute!

Don't drink the water in Banff! They're almost in a state of emergancy... they're under a boil water thing right now. James' dad told us about it, but it's a secret. :)

Steph is here!!

2006-03-07T16:30:00.000-08:00

Bryan Gillmore

2006-03-06T12:26:00.000-08:00

This is Bryan, Bryan Gillmore.....*pause*. Sorry, I almost barfed there. Whenever I say that name I feel gross. Bryan is by far the stupidest guy in the world. Not only the stupidest, but the ugliest. You don't know ugly until you've met, or even seen, Bryan. He has no knowledge of anything....ANYTHING!!!! He just sits at home and is stupid, fat, and ugly, and just spits and barfs all over himself, because he can't even stand being Bryan Gillmore....*pause*....eww, a dry heave this time. He's never taken the time to visit me....and I'm fine with that. I actually never want to see him again. You should never meet him, ever. And ladies, he'll be single for life, and is not a catch. This, my friends, is Bryan Gillmore......BARF!!!!!!!!!

2006-03-06T12:19:00.000-08:00

Jared didn't like that other picture. Let's see if he likes this one.

Jared

2006-03-06T12:06:00.000-08:00

This is Jared. Jared MacGregor. He is by far the coolest guy in the world. Not only the coolest, but the funniest. You've never seen funny until you've met Jared. He also has the most knowledge of the original Star Trek, of anyone I've ever encountered. Jared is SOOOOO cool :) This one time, he and Mark came to NB to visit Rachael and I. How great of a friend is he! Who drives hours to see his friends. Uh huh, Jared is way cool. You should meet him. And ladies, he's single. What a catch.

James

2006-03-04T14:57:00.000-08:00

Maggie

2006-03-04T14:56:00.000-08:00

Fuzzy Navel

2006-03-04T14:50:00.000-08:00

So tired... must... sleep... bah. I've about had enuf of staying up to ungodly hours cos people just won't leave. Haha, well, kind of.. but I don't really mind. James is at day 10 in a row of being at our house. Last night he left at 4. Four friggin' AM. I've gone to bed I think once before 2 in the last two weeks. It's getting a little ridiculous. But, every time someone is here, I just think that I have less than a month left here now, and I want to make the most of it. Even if that means going to work every day on 3 hours of sleep. On Wednesday, we had C&C here, and Shane fell asleep, so Trent and Dusty, who came with him, were stuck here. And no one thought to wake Shane up. So they and James (of course) stayed until 4 am. I made it til 2, but of the 8 people I was the only one who had to work the next day. Bah.
I need a nap.
Rachel has gone back to BC... terribly sad :( We all went out last night in Banff for a goodbye party. A couple pics... Maggie and James.

Meow Meow Meow

2006-02-28T19:02:00.000-08:00

I just wrote a great big post and I accidently closed it. Oh my goodness. Stupid Mac. Ok. Shortened version. Um, I'm exhausted. My two days off have been spent not sleeping. James was here until 6 am Monday morning. We stayed up all night listening to music and talking in my room. Then, we met up with him and went to Beamers Coffee Bar downtown, on Tuesday night. Shane and Dusty came before and after 20's and 30's and played NHL 2006 with Joy. At about 2 am, James and I went to Mac's, and when we were coming back there was a train, and instead of waiting for it, we went to his house, cos he lives on the opposit side of the tracks from us. I didn't think we'd be up that late, but, he didn't bring me home until 1:30 pm this afternoon. That was like almost 12 hours at his house. Holy cow. His parents got up at 6ish, and when they left for work they stuck their heads in to say hi. It was pretty awkward. James stays up all night a lot, since he doesn't have a job, but he doesn't have anyone else there. And never a girl. It was kind of funny. And he didn't introduce me or anything, so it was a little awkward. Who is this girl watching tv with our son, in her pajamas? He went to the top of the stairs when they left, and I could hear them talking about my shoes. Hehe, not sure why! Anyway. We mostly watching tv, and listened to music. Some of which was him playing. He played guitar for me for awhile, as well as piano. He 'wrote me a song' haha, on the piano. He just makes it up as he goes along. He's pretty good. I could listen to quitar and piano for hours on end and not get tired of it.

I kept making little comments along the lines of 'whenever you're tired, you can take me home.' I'm pretty good at staying up all night, but I kept thinking about having to work tomorrow. When he finally took me home I said I was going to hate him tomorrow, and that he'd basically kidnapped me. I wasn't planning on going to his house, and he wouldn't take me home despite my hinting. Not that I minded that much, it was fun.

His magic!! Oh my goodness. I've been hearing about it from Dave and Alex, and Kako was talking about it the other night, but I'd never seen any. He did a bunch for me this afternoon. He's soooo good!! It was all card tricks, and some of those were friggin impossible!! One of them, I picked a card, and then put it back in the deck. He split it and shuffled, with one half face down and one half face up, so they were all messed up. He cut the deck a couple times so I could see that they were messed up, and then he fanned the deck out, and boom... all the cards were face down except my card, the 7 of clubs, which was face up. What the heck!! In another, I was holding onto the queens of Hearts and Diamonds. He switched their order in my hands, and then he was like, which is one top and which is on the bottom, and when I looked, they were the aces of Spades and Clubs. What the heck!! I saw them as queens, and I never let go of them!! How did he do that?! He wasn't holding any other cards or anything, to switch with. He did a bunch with burying the 7, and it kept being the top card. Once he was like, "I'll even make it easy for you, I'll bend the card." So, he bent it, and stuck it in the middle. I could obviously see the bent 7 in the middle of the deck, and then he flicked the deck, and the top card bent up and there was the 7. Frig. I watched him like a hawk the whole time, I have no idea how it was possible for him to do these things. I made him do the fanning one again, cos that was the craziest. But this time, I picked a new card, and stuck it in the middle of the deck. And then, without doing anything to the deck, he just fanned it out, and my card was face up. Impossible. Utterly impossible. I was getting really frustrated, but all he would say is "It's magic." Grr.

Anyway. Tomorrow should be an easy day at work, thank goodness, since I've only have 2 hours of sleep. This staying ap all night two nights in a row is crap.

Hannah Out.

At BP's (aka Boston Pizza)

2006-02-26T21:43:00.000-08:00

After tons of trying and James' help, ta da!

2006-02-26T20:45:00.000-08:00

friggin picture won't work. I'll do it later. And don't get me wrong, James is tons of fun, I'm not complaining. He brings candy.

And time marches on

2006-02-26T20:06:00.000-08:00

Aloha. It's been a couple weeks, I guess. It's been insanely busy. Work has been busier the last two weeks than it was at Christmas. We've been working 6 days a week, and three days last week we had to stay past our 8 hours. It's so crazy and everyone is exhausted. Stupid Family Day weekend. At least it was a stat tho, and we got paid double time and a half. So something over 25 dollars an hour. :) It's also been busy doing stuff. Monday we had a desert pot luck, it was great! I made Mexican Wedding Cakes for the first time, everyone loved them :) They were great. We had over 20 people here, there was no where to sit, haha, so the 4 of us and Dave, Dave and Jody just hung out in the kitchen and everyone else socialized in the living room. Kind of funny, all those people there and we just hang out with our reg. group. Tuesday and Wed. was more hanging out with Dave, then Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, was James. That was kind of funny. James is a friend of Dave, Dave, and Jody, but we've never really hung out with him more than once or twice, and certainly not without the other guys. But, he went snowboarding on Wed. with Rach, and then he came in after they got back, and just stayed. Until 12:30 am, haha. It was really fun tho. We went to BP's for supper, (see picture) and then we watched Dumb and Dumber. Can you believe that's the first time I've seen it?

Friday he called came over at like 11pm, with us all having to work the next day, and we watched Domino. Good movie. James doesn't have a job, so he can stay up all night and not worry about it. All he does is going to Calgary and play gigs. He's a guitarist. Went to school in LA and everything.. lol. Anywho. He and Jody came over last night and we watched The Island. Excellent movie, I definitely recommend it. Very cool. Crap I forgot my food in the oven. Luckily it's not burnt. Phew. So anyway, the 4 of us keep joking about these guys we keep picking up. But, what guy wouldn'y want to come to our house? You're guaranteed the attention of 4 girls. Automatically. So, no wonder they like coming over here, hehe.

Speak of the devil, James just called. I'm here alone, but he's coming over anyway. haha

I'm sorry, but do you have any port?

2006-02-14T00:31:00.000-08:00

Happy Singles Awareness Day.

Yesterday, Rachel McIntyre and I went to Calgary. She had an appointment with a guy from a school, and invited me along. We shopped for 7 hours. We went to Chinook, hit just about every store, and then got lost trying to find Deerfoot, haha. We ended up (I think) at Southland, so we were like, this mall is a good as any other :) I had my first Ikea trip. That store is so awesome :) It was great. Plus they have super cheap food, like hot dogs and cinnimon buns and things like that.

Then we had to figure out how to get to Dave's from there. Again, we got lost trying to find Deerfoot. Honestly. We drove thru like... serious industrial park of some sort. Then we found Dave's, and my cell phone died while he was giving me directions to Alexs'... for frigs sakes. Yeah, we crashed this fondu party that he and his friends were having. I've never had fondu before, it was pretty good! We had cheese and chocolate. And they had this silly rule that if you dropped your food in the thing, you had to kiss the person to your left. Erik, on my right, lost the most, haha. But we figured kisses on the cheek were ok, because Erik was to Tavis's left, and there were 4 girls beside each other, lol. It was fun tho.. I'd met everyone before except Alex and Marina, who's house it was. Alex is Dave's ex, and her and Marina are both from Canmore. We were planning on staying the night in Calgary - Alex offered their place - but we ended up leaving at like 11:30. Even tho we'd put all this thought into staying, hehe. We bought some Axe deoderant, a toothbrush to share, underwear, lol, and of course, some champagne glasses and some port. Ah well...

We had bible study at our house last night.... someone said that if we had it there, then I would have no choice but to go... Ha! Foiled them :) But, I'd invited James, and then wasn't there, so ... hehe... maybe he didn't show up. He was invited to the fondu party too, but didn't come to that.
Anyway. I finally got a down comforter. I LOVE it :) Yay for Ikea.

Dolphins nap with one eye open.

2006-02-11T18:05:00.000-08:00

Last night we were all hanging out in my room, and Dave tucked us all in :) Melissa and Rach were wedged in the space between the bed and the wall, tee hee. Tee Hee!!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

2006-02-08T17:48:00.000-08:00

Jack Johnson doing the Curious George soundtrack? What, what, what?? Yes, it's true. And it's awesome. An awesome cover of the White Stripes' 'We are going to be friends'. Ch-ch-check it out!

I finally made it in to Calgary. Only took me two and a half months or so... oops. I went on the bus right after work - it was an hour and a half late - Dave picked me up, and I stayed Sunday night at his place. He schooled me at Mortal Kombat...altho I won the first one. Beginners luck. Also, he talks in his sleep, in both French and English. I didn't know that was possible, haha. And I've finally found someone else that covers their face when they sleep!! I'm not alone anymore :) Only, he uses a t-shirt instead of a blankie. Oh well, odds the difference.

Monday I went to the Haag's. Karen, Cathy and I went shopping, then I fell asleep on the couch. Karen and I, along with Melissa - a girl Karen works with - walked forever on 17th Ave, shopping-ish. Most things were closed, but I got the Curious George soundtrack the day before it was to be released, so I was happy :)

Tuesday, Cathy and I went to Wal-Mart, and went for a nice long walk on Nose Hill. It was super windy, but oh so warm. Dave picked me up, met all the family, and we went to his house for supper. Watched some Southpark, then off to Salsa dancing!! I was pretty iffy about that, but it turned out to be a lot of fun!! There was a lot of people, and it was a beginners class, so I wasn't completely lost. Dave is pretty good at it, tho... not sure why he's taking a beginners class. I mostly danced with random guys and a few girls, since there weren't enuf guys. Didn't dance with Dave much, and he seemed a little upset about that, lol. It wasn't how he 'envisioned' it. Him and his expectations. I told him we could dance together this weekend when he comes to Canmore :) Anywho, I need a nap.

Ta ta

woot woo

2006-01-30T14:35:00.000-08:00

Our house needs some serious maintanence. My sink takes like a gazillion hours to drain, my toilet doesn't really flush well, it just shoots shredded toilet paper back up. Our oven is terrible. Only one element works, and the door hardly closes. Dave tried to open the drawer under it the other night, and the door practically fell off! Arg. Not to mention our ....um.. what's it called. Thermastat. There's no cover on it, so the mercury is just in this tube, open on the top. It flashes and shocks you if you touch it.

As you can see from the pictures below, we went to Lake Louise for the somethingth annual international ice sculpting competition. It was amazing... some of those ice sculptures were unbelievable. So detailed. It's hard to see in the pictures on here, but it was crazy. We also went skating on the lake, around the ice castle.

When we came back to the house, Dave taught me some Salsa dancing moves, hehe.... He's in a Salsa club at school. lol Some time there aren't a bunch of people watching, I'll have to get him to show me some more. It's pretty fun.

Dave, teaching me some Salsa dancing

2006-01-29T18:15:00.000-08:00

Dave and I

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Rach and I

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Ben Hur - one of the ice sculptures

2006-01-29T18:10:00.000-08:00

The horses close up

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Rachael, Joy, and I

2006-01-29T17:48:00.000-08:00

Myself, in the Ice Castle

2006-01-29T17:42:00.000-08:00

Michael, in the Ice Castle

2006-01-29T17:39:00.000-08:00

Spring??

2006-01-25T13:34:00.000-08:00

Hello. Not much worth mentioning has happened lately. Things have been pretty...normal. It's spring time here in Canmore. Yes, in January. It's ridiculously warm. It's a gorgeous sunny day out. Yesterday Joy and I went for a walk with Rachel M., and it was almost t-shirt weather. So nice!!

Yesterday was Michael's 30th birthday, we went to the Grizzly Paw to celebrate. Good times. I went over to his house on Friday to play poker with he, Andrew and Rachel. Michael schooled us. It was terrible.

Joy and I had a multiple-hour cleaning of the kitchen today. This place is disgusting. We are getting so fed up. Neither of us cook much, but it seems like no one else cleans. I wouldn't want to cook in that kitchen, it is so disgusting. People do not clean up after themselves, or do dishes. I cleaned a cutting board today that Dave used when he cooked for us, two weeks ago. Ridiculous. We cleaned flour up that has been covering the counter since Saturday. How does that get left? Joy and I sit back and watch, hoping that whoever makes the mess with take iniative and clean up, but it never happens. GAH. Food will boil over on the stove, and does it get cleaned up? No. Every time you use the burner, the house fills with smoke, and no one does anything about it. Good thing our smoke detector doesn't work. I'm not even sure we have one. Sooner or later they're going to burn the house down.

PUT THE BUTTER BACK IN THE FRIDGE!!!!!!

Who is your Daddy, and what does he do?

2006-01-16T15:55:00.000-08:00

So, I'm home alone on Friday night, and the phone rings. I pick it up and a man's voice says, "I have a question for you" I say... "ok..." and then he says "Who is your daddy, and what does he do?" I was just like... what the heck. I started laughing, and it just kept repeating, and saying things like "Come on. Tell me now. Who is your Daddy and what does he do?" By then I could tell it was a recording (Arnold, no less), but it was still creepy. I didn't know who the heck it would be. I could hear someone breathing, but no one was saying anything, except Arnold. Finally after a few minutes, I hear Jared say "Bryan Gillmore" and hang up. lol... I should have known it was them! They called back and I had a nice long 40 minute chat with Jared :)

After that, Dave and Jody came over. Dave cooked us supper, a curried chicken and rice thing. It was pretty good, I wasn't sure if he could actually cook, but I was pretty impressed :) We played cards for awhile, and even tho Dave told me he's going to beat me at everything now, he wasn't doing so hot, hehe. We stayed up until 3:45, and then I was soooo tired the next day at work. Bah.

Dave came over, yet again, on Saturday, and he brought Erika!!! (As you can see, from the pictures below). I've never met someone who loves their cat as much as Dave loves Erika :) He's so funny when he talks about her. He thinks she should be a model kitty, cos she's so pretty. She is a very nice cat. She just sat in the corner for a long time, but eventually got used to us, and came out and made the loop around the coffee table, getting petted by everyone :) She is soooo soft and fluffy :) When Melissa went to bed at 11:30, she told Dave to go home, and stood there until he did. Cos 'Hannah needs sleep'. Yes, Mother. And the next day I defrosted freezers all day, so all I had to do was sit and hold up a hair dryer. No energy required.

Last night Joy and Melissa went to church in Lake Louise, but I didn't want to drive all the way there for church, it's like an hour away or something. And Rach was still sick in bed. Joy said that Michael bet her that Dave would be at our house when they got home...and...he was. lol. He and I watched "The Exorcist". The original, of course. I've always wanted to see it, but no one has ever wanted to watch it with me. This summer, Levi and Dave N. were talking about how scary it is, but that just made me want to see it more. Dave F. had never seen it, so I told him he had to watch it with me. It wasn't really what I expected. I didn't really find it that scary just... gross and disturbing. More gross than anything. We kept talking about the poor girl, having to act out that stuff. Holy crap. She must be traumatized. I would be, if I had to act like that. He left at 3:45 again. Now I'll have this week to catch up on sleep, in preperation for this weekend, I'm sure, haha.

Dave and Erika

2006-01-16T14:16:00.000-08:00

Dave and his 'Pouch Kitty'

Erika

2006-01-16T14:14:00.000-08:00

This is Erika, aka Kitty, aka KeyKey, Dave's kitty

Are my underwears showing??

2006-01-09T14:53:00.000-08:00

Last night we had our staff Christmas party. None of us really wanted to go, but Steven bribed us with giving us the day off if we'd come. We had to get all dressed up - yes I actually wore a skirt - and went to the Quarry, which is a pretty nice restaurant/bar here in Canmore. They rented out the place, so it was just us. Free drinks and free great food. I had the buffalo steak. I was a little sketched out a first, but it was soooo good! Three too many screwdrivers, but the night was ok.... Dave met us there when it was over, which was pretty funny. He just walked in and everyone was like.. who the heck is that. And Rach, Melissa, and I left with him. Today apparetly Trudy was like, who is that guy that can walk in the place and walk out with three ladies! hehehe.. well Dave can. Anyway, we went back to the house and watched the Emporers New Groove. That is such a funny movie, I never get tired of it! "Is that my voice? Is that MY voice??' hehe...Then, well, Dave left at 6am this morning. Another all-nighter. Honestly, Dave, you just can't drag yourself away :) It's really funny to watch you working yourself up to leaving, tho. Today had to have been the hardest yet. Especially when you fell asleep for those 5 seconds.
It's finally snowing! I don't get this place. The weather is retarded. It's like above freezing during the days... we have no snow!! Gah! This is the mountains! There is SUPPOSED to be snow!!!!!!!!

2006-01-03T12:16:00.000-08:00

Rach and Joy, last night

2006-01-03T12:15:00.000-08:00

Dave and I

Happy New Year!

2006-01-03T11:58:00.000-08:00

Well well well. I forgot to write anything when I put up all those pictures yesterday. Those were all from New Years Eve. We went to Michaels for a while, then went skating on the pond, which is a big tradition in Canmore apparently - there was a ship load of people there - and then went to watch the fire works. They were pretty impressive! Some awesome new ones that I've never seen before. I haven't skated in a long time, especially on hockey skates, so it was interesting!!
We all worked on New Years... Joy and I were supposed to have the day off, but they made everyone come in. It wasn't too bad tho, the rooms weren't nearly as messy as I'd expected. Dave came over later, we stayed up til 6:30am talking, and he was supposed to be going back to Calgary for class at noon. lol Luckily I didn't have to work so I slept most of the day. But it turns out he didn't need to go back til today, so last night we went skating then came back here to watch Fight Club. Good movie! Anyhow, he's gone back to school, so things should slow down a little. .... which is kind of sad.

2006-01-02T15:04:00.000-08:00

Melissa and Rach

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Dave's self portrait :)

2006-01-02T15:02:00.000-08:00

Michael, Rachael, Joy, Dave, Melissa, and Rachel - skating on the pond on New Years Eve.

2006-01-02T15:01:00.000-08:00

Michael tightening my skates

2006-01-02T15:00:00.000-08:00

Melissa, Rachael, and I

2005-12-29T17:59:00.000-08:00

So, Christmas was awesome. I was a little worried coming into it, but I didn't miss home in the least. Sure, it would have been nice to see all my family, but there's many years to come when I can do that! On Christmas Eve we went to the service at church, and then went to Michaels and hung out until about 11. Most of the people went skating, but I stayed and talked with Michael. Pretty much told him my life story, lol.
Christmas day, we got up and opened our presents before Rach and Joy went to work. Then I, of course, went back to bed. Rachael, Joy and I walked around Canmore for a while. It was practically raining. There is barely any snow. Oddly enough, it's gone on the lawns here before the roads, complete opposit of home. What's up with that?? Bare lawn and icy roads? Melissa made a big dinner for us, it was awesome!! And, 5 days later, the dishes still sit on the counter. Bah. Anywho, we once again went to Michael's, and played Cranium and Balderdash until some time after midnight. It was a pretty good time. I still have no imagination. The only votes I got in Balderdash were pity votes from Joy. Frig.
And again we went to Michael's on Boxing Day. See a trend?? Only, Dave invited us this time. And as it turned out, the guys played Risk in the kitchen and we sat in the living room and played poker. (We could do that at home, guys.) We ended up leaving once Annik and Shannon came to join us. Had a girls night thing, where we talked about the guys, haha. Take that suckers.
Tuesday was the only night in the past week that we haven't done something. It was actually kind of nice to sit around. Dave was going to come over but he cancelled cos he was too tired. But he showed up last night. Isn't that right, Dave? :) He said that if I taught him Texas Hold'Em then he'd teach me pool. Only Rachael and I were home, so it was ... a small game :) But once the other two got back Melissa joined in. We played until 1 or 1:30, and then we had this huge discussion about crap. Dave seems to think that girls don't do that. That and trying to see if Melissa's pirate ship would float kept Dave here til prolly 2:30. And we all had to work today.
Speaking of which. I had the worst room ever today.. It was disgusting. Basically they had a pizza/beer/sex party in there. That's all I'll say. Oh, and the shower cap was on the smoke detector on the ceiling. Interesting.

2005-12-29T16:45:00.000-08:00

Dave, saying 'I'm playing poker with girls, tee hee!"

Almost Christmas :)

2005-12-24T16:47:00.000-08:00

So I got up today at about 4pm, lol, after going to bed at 7:30am. That's when Dave left. He came over about 12 hours before that. :P It was funny because right after he got here, Andrew called Dave's cell to see if he was coming over, and he said no cos he was at our house, and then prolly 10 or 15 minutes later, Andrew called the house and was like "Hey what are you guys up to tonight?" Tho he'd just talked to Dave and KNEW what we were up to. So Joy was just like... do you want to come over? lol. So Andrew and Michael came over for awhile. It was pretty fun, we watched a movie and then had this big politics talk that I tuned out, and some other interesting conversations. And of course, Michael and Dave made fun of me. Michael and Andrew left at 11 or so, and I thought Dave was going to go too, but he, Rach, Melissa and I ended up staying up all night, while keeping Joy awake a lot, and they all had to work today :P I, on the other hand, did not :) Dave is a pretty deep thinker, as is Melissa, so we had some pretty in depth conversations. Too hard on the head for that time of night. But the time 4 rolled around we pretty much watched the clock. Rob had had the latest stay at 4:50am, but Dave has now beaten that. We had lots of fun, despite all the getting made fun of :P
Anyway.

Happy Birthday Erika!!!!!

2005-12-23T16:10:00.000-08:00

It's almost Christmas!!!!! It's Christmas Eve Eve, haha. I had today off, so I have 4 days off in a row over Christmas. Too bad I didn't know before hand so I could have gone home :( Oh well, we're going to have an awesome Christmas, I just haven't figured out when or how I'm going into Calgary yet. There's so much going on here that I have to work around. Frig.
Anyway, we had a Christmas dinner at the church in Banff last night. They had to drag me there, and I didn't want to leave once 11 o'clock rolled around. Haha the tables turned and it was Joy wanting me to leave, instead of the other way around ;) It was tons of fun. Although I don't think I've ever been made fun of so much all at once in my entire life. We sat with Michael and Dave. I've met Michael before, but Dave I've never seen, he's only home for the holidays from university. He's a pro downhill racer which is pretty cool. Anyway, right off Michael started making fun of my accent, so that went on for awhile, and then Dave came over, and Michael immediately was like, listen to her accent!! Dave is completely french, but is lucky enough to have no accent. But anyway, Dave started making fun of me too, so for the next 2 1/2-3 hours they made fun of my accent. Every word that I said funny they'd repeat and laugh, and then mock my when they were talking by trying to talk like I do. Dave was saying how it's hard to keep languages straight, especially the Swiss, who speak four. Then they started on about it must be hard for me to keep my languages straight, Indianian and Canadian. Do I sometimes have a hard time remembering my words??
THEN I made the mistake of telling them about our Christmas Tree Adventure. See.. we just went out in the woods and chopped a little baby down. It was in the bushes getting choked out, so it prolly would have died anyway. BUT.. it was on the town of Canmore's property, and we're not allowed to just go cutting down trees. And Michael works for the town, haha. Anyway, the next forever was the three of us arguing about why I shouldn't have cut the tree down. And being stubburn as I am... I just wouldn't give, haha. Even tho I was like, I know it was wrong and we're not allowed to cut the trees down, but who's going to notice! It's so small!!! But they were all like... defending the tree and crap, and I'm like it's not like it's going to know. Besides it's very happy to be our tree. lol It was a long argument and really no one won. Well, they would have if I'd only given up. But I didn't :) I even invited them over to see it :P Finally I was just like, I know we weren't allowed but I don't feel bad and I'd do it again in a second. At that point Michael walked away, but Dave kept on about it all night, haha, relating stuff to it cos I would get so worked up whenever he mentioned it.
Rachael and I played an exciting game of chess, hehe. She just learned this summer. Dave and Melissa were helping her, but I won anyway. Dave was putting too much thought into what my moves might be trying to do, so I think it just confused her more. I never plan out more than a move or two at a time, lol, it depends where she goes, I just wing it as I go along really. I love playing chess :)

Calvin says blogs are very self centered. Well I guess I'm a selfish person. Haha.
Cheers!

Our Christmas Tree :)

2005-12-19T16:58:00.000-08:00

mmmmm music :)

2005-12-18T22:17:00.000-08:00

Everyone likes music. I go through phases of really liking a certain artist for a while before moving on to something else, but I generally come back to them again after awhile. Right now I'm onto and back to Jason Mraz and A Perfect Circle. Two completely different sides of the music...scene... but, both very good :) I suggest listening to some Jason Mraz. Especially his acoustic stuff.

2005-12-17T17:35:00.000-08:00

Something a little different....
Joy took this last year at Joel and Chantel's wedding. Everyone together now.... AWWWW :) Hehe.. Jordan and Calvin. The bestest of friends :)

2005-12-17T17:18:00.000-08:00

Cutting it down... yeah you can hardly see it, but it IS behind me :|

2005-12-17T17:17:00.000-08:00

Going to get the Christmas tree... which I don't think we're allowed to cut down.

2005-12-17T17:15:00.001-08:00

Blowing out my candle on my birthday, haha... see the cake Joy made me?!

2005-12-17T17:15:00.000-08:00

Melissa and I

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My birthday desert :)

2005-12-17T17:12:00.000-08:00

James, Melissa and I, at Moxie's

2005-12-16T19:51:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I just want to punch people in the face.

Happy Birthday to me!!

2005-12-15T23:22:00.000-08:00

Ahh, 21... I feel old age setting in. Is that a grey hair I see?? Soon I'll be a old hunched over old lady with a cane, scaring little kids. Nothing more than a normal day really, except for the phone calls I got :) First time anyone other than mum or Dave has called for me!!! Well from home anyways. Anywho... Rachael and I deep cleaned today, and.. that was exciting, haha. We were both so tired that we took our sweet time.
I'm so glad Rachael is back :) We went into Calgary to get her at the airport. Myself, Melissa, Joy, and Joy's friend Rashelle, whom I met for two seconds once. We met up with James(Epp) at Chinook, shopped for awhile, then went to Moxie's for supper. We had to wait for half an hour to be seated. At one point I was like, "I think we'll be in soon, there's a ship load of people coming out," and they all looked at me like... 'what did you say??' lol.
So anyways.. Moxie's was good. James said that if I got the 'X-Treme burger' and ate it all then he'd buy. So... I did, and I did!! It was... big. Two inch-think patties and bacon and cheese and so on. Wow.. it was... big. I had to cut it up in pieces to fit it in my mouth. By the last few bites, I wanted to hurl. Way too much meat... bah. But as soon as I was done I was like... mmm fries :) hehe. and THEN... Joy had told the waitress that it was my birthday, so they brought me this awesome ice cream and brownie desert, with a sparkler on it, and James, Joy, and Melissa sang happy birthday to me :) Only problem was the sparkler was shooting sparks in my face, haha. And I have only like two minutes to suck it down, because by that point Rachael had already been waiting at the airport for about 20 minutes.
We went off to the airport to get Rach. Then off to Wal-Mart. Tho there were six of us in the car, so I layed across Melissa, Rach and James' lap in the back seet, while James tried to throw my shoe out the window, bit my foot, and stabbed me with a Rememberance Day Poppy. Ahh the abuse.
Good times :)
Joy made me a nice big chocolate cake :) mmmmm sooo good!! And, we went out in the woods tonight and chopped down a tree :) Definitely the Charlie Brown type. I'll put pictures up when I get unlazy.
Alright, over and out.

What?

2005-12-11T18:08:00.000-08:00

So... another Sunday down. Sunday is the busiest and worst day at work. The only thing that gets me thru it is knowing that I have the next two days off. Well.. ok.. it's not that bad. And I'd get thru it anyway. But, by Sunday the purple spray kills me. This week, I only worked two days! Yesterday and today, that's it. I had three days off. One because I was sick, one because I faked sick, and one because it was slow and Ruth told me to go home. Whoo hoo! Also, I didn't sleep for two nights in there. Honestly. I'm afraid I'm becoming a bit of an insomniac. The first night I layed awake all night cos I felt like crap, but the second night, no reason at all!! ... well.. ok, I was really mad at a certain someone who will remain nameless (Calvin!!!!!), and I couldn't sleep. So... two nights of laying wide awake. If you've never done it, let me tell you, it's not fun. I watched a bunch of X-Files episodes, and finally at 10 am fell asleep. The following night, I slept on top of my blankets upside down (with my head at the foot of the bed) and slept like a baby :) And I've been doing it ever since.

Not much else to say. Christmas is coming, fast. Kind of scary. Well not really. I'm really excited to be away from home, but at the same time.... I keep talking to my friends, and they're all sad that I'm not coming home :( And it sucks to think about all that I'm going to miss out on. And as Dave pointed out... who is going to keep them all in line?! No one!!! Horrible things can happen without me there to be the voice of reason!!! :S I hate to think about it. lol Ok that's it.
GOODBYE.

2005-12-07T18:18:00.000-08:00

Is that what I think it is?! Yep, Frog legs. Eat up, Rachael.

2005-12-07T18:15:00.000-08:00

Doesn't really look like he's in his element, does he :P

2005-12-07T18:13:00.000-08:00

This was a while ago, but it's Rach, Joy and Reid on Joy's 'Tramp' in the backyard.

Poker again....

2005-12-03T21:22:00.000-08:00

And yet again..... I won poker. This is ridiculous. I can't be that good... haha. They just won't bet high when I do!! Oh my goodness.
But, yeah I'm still the reigning house champion!! Whoot whoo :)

Toilet swimming

2005-12-02T18:50:00.000-08:00

Today was interesting. We were doing deep cleaning, which I have very love-hate feelings towards. Joy and I were done the rest of the room while Rach was still working on the bathroom. I asked if the toilet was done, because I was checking stuff off the list, and I guess they assumed that meant I wanted to do it. Not really. But I did anyways. When we were taking the toilet seat off, Rach dropped a rubber washer into the toilet bowl, and we were all like.. oh no. Joy and Rach argued for a bit, "You get it." "No, you." "You have gloves on!" So I just reached in and grabbed it... bare handed, haha. They're like, eeww that's the toilet! But it's just water. Anyways, a few seconds later, I dropped something else in, and just reached in again. Then I was laying over the open toilet cleaning the floor around in with a toothbrush (oh yes, deep cleaning is just that, deep and hardcore.) Anywho.. I was thinking, prolly most of my shirt was hanging in the water, but luckily it wasn't. Then I was just sitting there scrubbing the inside of the bowl with the brush, wasting time, and they're like.. "you really like that toilet don't you. You say you don't, but I think you're just trying to make us thing you don't."
That's my toilet story. Also, hanging in the hallway that leads to the staff dining room and laundry room and crap, is a sign for the guest laundry room. Usually when I'm alone I run and jump up and smack it with my hand. So when Rachael and I were walking down the hall, I got a good run and smacked it, but apparently really hard cos when I turned around it was just.... dangling there. By one side. Haha.. I knocked it off. We were both laughing like retards, and Laszlo was in the laundry room looking at us like... uh oh. Haha.. I'm like... "Laszlo!! Can you give me a hand??" hehe... And as usual, he just looks at us and shakes his head.

whoot

2005-12-02T17:34:00.000-08:00

Ok ok ok. Now I've made it so anyone, anyone.... ANYONE can post.. you don't have to be a member. Finally found a way around that without getting stupid spam comments. Why does everything have to have spam??

2005-12-02T12:56:00.000-08:00

Rachael and Melissa walking to work after all the snow :)