Today I am going for the very first REAL pedicure of my life. I have had 2 before, but they have been at Marca, and from what I have heard, they are not as good as a spa one. So we'll see how this goes. I am excited to go! Cause I have been feeling pretty crappy for the last couple of days (woman stuff....) and I think that a little pampering is in order!
Jay's parents are also up this weekend. We are going to spend some time sorting Jay's cupboards this afternoon to make room for some potential wedding present space, as well as get rid of stuff we don't need. We are also going out for supper tonite to Montana's...mmm! I think I might have the fajitas, we'll see how I feel at supper time!
Tonite we are going to go to the church for a while to hang out with the young couples group. We are going to put together some shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child, that sends the shoe boxes to children in third world countries for Christmas. I had fun at the dollar store picking out items the other day. And just so you know, if you go to the dollar store and buy stuff for the shoeboxes (well at least the one in the Confederation Mall), they will give you a 10% discount on everything.
Well I am off to get my feet looked after :) Have a great weekend!
"Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're probably right." -Henry Ford
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Jason's Birthday
Jay and I celebrated his birthday yesterday, as he is busy this evening. I cannot even put into words how much fun I had suprising him and spoiling him last night. I think that is one of the nicest feelings, the gratitude and excitement expressed for the surprises I planned! I am glad to say that he was very pleased with his gift (a replica of Sting from the Lord of the Rings movie), because the Cutting Edge does not refund purchases, just gives credit on other purchases...hehe. I knew he'd love it, because I have watched him drool over it for the last few months :) And I made an angelfood cake for the very first time in my life and it turned out very well! Very tasty....mmm I will have to do that again sometime!! Maybe I will become domesticated yet, haha!
Friday, October 22, 2004
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
There's a first time for everything!
I have experienced a few firsts this week so far and it's only Tuesday!
- I got my very first cell phone (for work), and I have been having WAY too much fun programming stuff into it and playing around with it. I even gave Jay a one-minute phone call today just to make sure it works alright, and it does! It is a used Nokia 3285, blue and it fits just nicely in my purse!
- I went to my very first tupperware party last night at Karen's house. It was a good party, with a yummy cheeseball! Veggies 'n dip were also good!! I did not buy anything because it is expensive and I think maybe at some point I will buy some. I think I will wait though, until I see what Jay and I get for the wedding and maybe fill in a gap or two with an over priced item from Tupperware.
- Jay and I had our first session of premarital counseling today. Back at the end of August he and I went to the church and did a survey type thing, that Pastor Leyton sent away to be scored. Today we spent most of the hour and a half going through our results, telling Leyton how we met and what has brought us to this point in our lives and our relationship. We answered fairly similarly on most of the questions. But as Leyton and common sense tells us, this survey is not there to determine whether we will have a good or lasting marriage. It is there to show us any areas of weakness, growth potential, or possible conflict areas. We discussed a few things, then he gave us an assignment to work on then we meet together with him again next Tuesday for session number two.
- It is the first time in over two months that I have been without my engagement ring. Jay took it yesterday to Ben Moss to get my wedding band made. Since my engagement ring was specially made for me, they have to use it to create the band to be the same thickness and to determine the appropriate width. I feel naked without it, but until then (hopefully less than a month!) I have borrowed a cubic zirconia ring from my sister. She bought it from Avon. The 'diamond' is probably about 2-3 carats in size with 2 more one carat ones on either side. It's pretty gaudy looking, but makes me feel less naked without my ring. Oooh, and Jay's ring came in already (we had to order his size in), so I gotta go pick that up sometime!!
- I got my very first cell phone (for work), and I have been having WAY too much fun programming stuff into it and playing around with it. I even gave Jay a one-minute phone call today just to make sure it works alright, and it does! It is a used Nokia 3285, blue and it fits just nicely in my purse!
- I went to my very first tupperware party last night at Karen's house. It was a good party, with a yummy cheeseball! Veggies 'n dip were also good!! I did not buy anything because it is expensive and I think maybe at some point I will buy some. I think I will wait though, until I see what Jay and I get for the wedding and maybe fill in a gap or two with an over priced item from Tupperware.
- Jay and I had our first session of premarital counseling today. Back at the end of August he and I went to the church and did a survey type thing, that Pastor Leyton sent away to be scored. Today we spent most of the hour and a half going through our results, telling Leyton how we met and what has brought us to this point in our lives and our relationship. We answered fairly similarly on most of the questions. But as Leyton and common sense tells us, this survey is not there to determine whether we will have a good or lasting marriage. It is there to show us any areas of weakness, growth potential, or possible conflict areas. We discussed a few things, then he gave us an assignment to work on then we meet together with him again next Tuesday for session number two.
- It is the first time in over two months that I have been without my engagement ring. Jay took it yesterday to Ben Moss to get my wedding band made. Since my engagement ring was specially made for me, they have to use it to create the band to be the same thickness and to determine the appropriate width. I feel naked without it, but until then (hopefully less than a month!) I have borrowed a cubic zirconia ring from my sister. She bought it from Avon. The 'diamond' is probably about 2-3 carats in size with 2 more one carat ones on either side. It's pretty gaudy looking, but makes me feel less naked without my ring. Oooh, and Jay's ring came in already (we had to order his size in), so I gotta go pick that up sometime!!
Friday, October 15, 2004
Evil Banks
I dislike banks. I had no reason to until yesterday when I got my visa bill and saw that the new visa they had sent me because I was no longer a student, was one with a $35 annual fee. Now why would I want to go from a card without a fee, to one with a fee? I am sure their records show that I maybe use my visa about 5 times a year. I am definitely not in it for the points, but I have in case of an emergency, and just in general to try and build up a credit rating. So I called the Visa number on the back of the card. And just so you know it takes FOREVER until you can actually talk to a person, and if you hit the wrong number accidentally because all of the numbers are worn off of your parents phone, you have to start ALL over again! Yippeee! So after 2 tries I got on the phone with Andrew and asked why the heck did they think I needed a card with a fee!?! Well apparently it was MY fault because I did not call to update them on my status as a student. But my thought was, why did they send me a non student visa if they didn't know I was no longer a student?? Well anyway, Andrew said that because I called to complain within 2 months of receiving my new card that they would take away the fee and just send me the fee-less card. Bah, stupid companies. Maybe it's not the bank, maybe it's the evil credit people.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Thanksgiving
A time to be thankful for our many blessings. What a great weekend I had! I am thankful for a great fiancee, who has a fairly normal family (what's normal anyway?! hehe), who I get along with and who showered me incredibly with MANY gifts this weekend. Jay's mom held a bridal shower for Jason and I this weekend. There were over 20 women there, so we were spoiled big time! We only got 2 duplicate gifts out of all of them, so it wasn't too bad :)
Also this weekend I got a chance to meet a LOT of Jason's relatives! Most of his aunts and a couple of uncles and both of his grandparents. His gramma is very cute! She is deaf as can be, and she came up to me and said it was nice to meet me, and how are you? I said I am good to which she replied 'well I am gramma' haha, not bad for a 91 year old woman! I think I finally have all his aunts and uncles sorted out, and who belongs to which side of the family, it was good to put faces to names!
Another sad bit of news that you've probably already heard about is the fact that Christopher Reeve passed away this weekend. I think it was great what he did for spinal cord research. It is a shame though that usually it takes a famous person to educate the public about specific disabilities or illnesses. Like I think of Michael J Fox who has Parkinson's disease. I am sure many people were less familiar with it until he was diagnosed. Or like spinal cord injury and Chris Reeve. When my dad told me that yesterday I was pretty surprised, but I could almost see a little fear in his eye. I think he still has some fear that Jason is going to die young. I think it's all about looking after yourself and Jay is right on top of that. Not that Chris Reeve wasn't, but I think maybe he pushed himself too hard physically.
Also this weekend I got a chance to meet a LOT of Jason's relatives! Most of his aunts and a couple of uncles and both of his grandparents. His gramma is very cute! She is deaf as can be, and she came up to me and said it was nice to meet me, and how are you? I said I am good to which she replied 'well I am gramma' haha, not bad for a 91 year old woman! I think I finally have all his aunts and uncles sorted out, and who belongs to which side of the family, it was good to put faces to names!
Another sad bit of news that you've probably already heard about is the fact that Christopher Reeve passed away this weekend. I think it was great what he did for spinal cord research. It is a shame though that usually it takes a famous person to educate the public about specific disabilities or illnesses. Like I think of Michael J Fox who has Parkinson's disease. I am sure many people were less familiar with it until he was diagnosed. Or like spinal cord injury and Chris Reeve. When my dad told me that yesterday I was pretty surprised, but I could almost see a little fear in his eye. I think he still has some fear that Jason is going to die young. I think it's all about looking after yourself and Jay is right on top of that. Not that Chris Reeve wasn't, but I think maybe he pushed himself too hard physically.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Interesting Day
Okay, so maybe today at the university wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. It was boring as it could be, but Jay came and hung out with me for the last 1.5 hours so that helped. I kind of likened it to working at Impark. I sat around and when someone came to the booth, I perked up and talked to them, and HOPEFULLY it will get me some clients. I wasn't terribly agressive, I figured if people were interested, that they would stop and talk to me. If they weren't interested, they wouldn't stop. So, I spent just about 4 hours of my day sitting doing not much of anything.
I also went to the chiropractor today. I decided that my back has been bothering me long enough, and I know that there is boney stuff going on in my back that couldnt be fixed through massage alone. So I went to see him this morning. He assessed me and found that I have a slight curvature to my spine (to the side in the middle of my back), and after testing my neck and saying how good it was, he did find one vertebrae that was slightly out. So after asking my permission he adjusted my back, my rib and then my neck. I have had my rib adjusted before, but never my neck. It was a different experience, very loud, cause your neck is really close to your ears. I think that chiropractors are alright. It can be a little scary I am sure if you have lots of stuff going on that's bad. But he said mine wasn't too bad at all, so we'll see how this treatment works. He said that he should probably only need about 4 or 5 treatments to get me back where I should be. So that's good! My dad had to go for 2 years to fix his neck but he never has problems with it anymore.
We also had our first real Bible study tonite. Last week we just got together and talked about our expectations of the group and stuff. But it was good :) I think I will enjoy being in a small group Bible study again! It's been a while!!!!
I also went to the chiropractor today. I decided that my back has been bothering me long enough, and I know that there is boney stuff going on in my back that couldnt be fixed through massage alone. So I went to see him this morning. He assessed me and found that I have a slight curvature to my spine (to the side in the middle of my back), and after testing my neck and saying how good it was, he did find one vertebrae that was slightly out. So after asking my permission he adjusted my back, my rib and then my neck. I have had my rib adjusted before, but never my neck. It was a different experience, very loud, cause your neck is really close to your ears. I think that chiropractors are alright. It can be a little scary I am sure if you have lots of stuff going on that's bad. But he said mine wasn't too bad at all, so we'll see how this treatment works. He said that he should probably only need about 4 or 5 treatments to get me back where I should be. So that's good! My dad had to go for 2 years to fix his neck but he never has problems with it anymore.
We also had our first real Bible study tonite. Last week we just got together and talked about our expectations of the group and stuff. But it was good :) I think I will enjoy being in a small group Bible study again! It's been a while!!!!
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Mind if I complain a little?
Have you ever REALLY not wanted to do something??? Tomorrow I have to spend the afternoon BY MYSELF in the tunnel at the university trying to talk up Dance Saskatchewan and giving 5 minute massages to people. I so do not wanna be there at all! I am in fact dreading it. But the more I dread it, the more I worry about it and I know I have to do it, so I better just suck it up and go there tomorrow and spend 4 hours of my time trying to find myself some new clients. I wouldn't mind so much if I wasn't going to be all by myself. But I just don't wanna do it *pout*! I was at the university for a little while today and I just don't like that place. I don't like crowds of people and at the university everywhere you look there is a crowd. There is no getting away from it, and I think that's half of what drove me nuts when I was going there! Jay has offered to come and keep my company for a while tomorrow, but if anyone else is reading this and has nothing else to do, I will be at kiosk number 2 (I think) tomorrow from about noon-330 or 4 o'clock. Who knows, maybe it won't be half as bad as I am expecting it to be. *SIGH*
Friday, October 01, 2004
The Great Commission
I have been working on reading The Purpose Driven Life for the last 38 days. The chapters I have gotten to now are about going out into the world to tell them about the gospel. I knew it would come, but I never expected it to hit me so hard. In the book Rick Warren asks you if you want to be a world-class Christian or a worldly Christian. World-class Christians are those who go on missions trips. I have never really felt called to do that, but it says that EVERYONE should do it. I have always felt that I have been put here by God for a purpose and that if I live my life the best I can to His glory that I have done my job. I realize I could get more involved in ministry but I never had intentions of going on a missions trip. Does that make me a bad Christian? It really kinda made me feel crappy yesterday. I have never felt like I had the gift of leadership. I have tried being a youth group assistant and camp councellor and for the most part I just felt kinda awkard and not very effective. In the book Rick Warren also talks about all the people in the Bible that God used who were not necessarily 'gifted' in their area. I just don't know what to think. I didn't think that this part of the book would hit me so hard. I guess I can pray about it, try to find some peace. I think that with the '40 Days of Purpose' coming up at church that maybe it will help to answer some of my questions. Also the small group that Jay and I joined should be helpful too! I am pretty excited about our small group, it's been so long since I was involved in a Bible study! Anyway, that's what's been on my mind lately! Any suggestions? Comments?