Yesterday was a much better day than Monday. The highlight of the day was going for supper with Karen to celebrate her upcoming 26th (AHHH! hehe) birthday. We sat and chatted in the restaurant for a good three hours. It was nice to catch up and to go see the progress that has been made on their kitchen (considering last time they didn't have a sink and the fridge was next to the front door! hehe), it's coming along nicely. Got to see Karen's crazy peach jello mould....hehe. Oh and got to see the old Mr. Mugs books! Was that ever nostalgic!

Jason and I have had a rough couple of months or so with family stuff. It seems that his family keeps having health issues and it gets hard after a while. I admit that most of these people I don't know very well, but I see the stress in Jason and his parents lives and feel sad for them. I particularily feel sad for Aunt Doreen and Uncle Jim. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer this week and that has weighed fairly heavily on my mind. Having not dealt with much death in my life it just blows my mind. What do you think and feel when you know that you have such a short time left on this earth??? Having only been married for one and a half years, I can't imagine losing Jason, how hard that would be. Makes me sad to think about. It sounds like Jim and Doreen are handling it well so far, but I know Jason's dad is taking it pretty hard. I really hope and pray that this will allow an opportunity for Jason and I to share our faith with his family. I can't imagine how hard it is to go through something like this without the strength that only God can provide. *sigh* Please remember us in your prayers.

Having a BLAH day

I went to work early this morning because I had an appointment booked for 1030am. Well that's not THAT early, but I went in nonetheless. I did some laundry, returned some phone calls and waited to hear the chimes jingle on the door indicating that my client had arrived. A few minutes past 1030 I heard the jingle and sure enough it was my client. She is an older lady who has been having lower back pain for the last few weeks. This was to be our third appointment. She had just been to see her doctor and he said she shouldn't have the massage because the pain is not muscular. So she came to tell me that she was cancelling our appointment. Oh good, so now I get to just sit here and wait until my next appointment at 1pm. So I did a bit of reading, made a few phone calls, answered a few phone calls and had my lunch. Then had my 1pm appointment. Then it was 2pm and I had nothing to do until I was allowed to leave at 430ish. I think we are TECHNICALLY supposed to stay until 5pm, but reallly when the phone hasn't rung for hours and NO ONE has stopped by looking for an appointment, chances are no one is going to phone or stop by in that last half hour. So I decided to leave. (Between 2pm and 430pm I quickly ran over to Sears to return a shirt I had ordered out of the catalogue that was too small. I wanted to order one size bigger so I did that, and instead of just ordering the other shirt and switching the two, they gave me an in store credit for the returned shirt and made me order the new one seperately on my mastercard....grrr, now I have to spend another $19.99 plus tax at Sears instead of just getting the cash back or getting it reversed on the credit card....) I pulled out of my parking lot downtown and noticed that the traffic was quite backed up. I figured that I was in no real great rush so I pulled in and waited through 5 green lights until I could turn left from 23rd St onto Idylwyld. Then it took me probably another 20 minutes to get from 23rd St and Idylwyld to the 8th St exit on the freeway. *sigh* I hate construction. The 8th St exit is closed for resurfacing. There were signs all along Idylwyld from downtown saying that it was closed and the freeway was down to just the left lane. I am pretty sure that Saskatoon drivers are some of the worst drivers in the world, but this woman in front of me proved it. She swirved around the signs and pilons at the 8th St exit and took it. There were paving trucks and whatnot lined up all up and down that street. There is no way she could have gotten through. I just wonder, did she not speak english, or was she illiterate? How could someone not understand all the orange pilons and signs mean DO NOT ENTER even if they can't read them. Anyway....from there on it was a pretty good drive home. Just one of those days though...where you feel all crappy and blah and almost like crying. It didn't help that I spent the better part of my 'down' time at work reading a book that is creepy and scary from the church library. Not quite sure yet why it's in the church library, but it is intriguing. I would say that so far the highlights of my day have been a wonderful supper cooked by my sweetheart and the fact that my car didn't leak today even though it sat out in the rain all day! Woohoo!

Know what makes me mad?

Having to live in fear. Not that I live in fear, but I am sure you have all heard about the women who were attacked downtown in the last while. They were attacked in broad daylight on busy streets. I work downtown and now I feel a little paranoid about walking from work to my car. It is only about one block, but now I find myself looking over my shoulder as I walk. The other night the documentary Bowling for Columbine was on and I watched part of it. I don't know that I have ever seen the whole thing but it is quite interesting. It talks about a lot of things but mostly about how Americans live in fear. I don't want to live in fear, but I also don't want to be naive. The reality is that I have to walk to and from my car when I am at work. I guess I just need to be smart. I can't control other people's actions.

As Per Lynette's Request...

Here's the back of my hair. Who knew I had so much natural wave 'n whatnot back there ;)

The New Do

I am enjoying my new hairdo, I will probably post a picture of it soon. It is nice to actually have a hairdo and not just a long blah hair. I am thinking about buying a flat iron to help style it. The hairdresser used one on my hair after she cut it and I liked the way it made my hair look. But maybe it was only because she was a hairdresser, but I haven't had too much trouble in the last couple of days styling it.

Yesterday I bought a new bathing suit. I decided that I would like a new one before our holidays this summer so I started looking and didn't want to wait too long because sometimes by the end of the summer their selection isn't too great. Last week I was at the Midtown and checked out the Swimwear Etc. store. I don't know if you have ever been in there, but for the bathing suits that I found interesting there they were like $60-80 for the top and the same for the bottom. I maybe would have paid that for the whole suit, but not for each piece! That is just ridiculous :P So I checked out Walmart and found a very cute 'tankini' 2 piece bathing suit for under $30. Yay for Walmart (well in general...I hate the overall busyness and stinkyness of Walmart...)!

I guess that's all for now. I hope y'all enjoyed your long weekend! I know I sure did!

I chopped off all of my hair! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The Pitter-Patter of Little Feet

Last night our house was alive with the pitter-patter of some little feet. We have our small group Bible study on Mondays and being that this was the first time that little Spencer (in the picture above) had joined us for our Bible study, we just ate donuts and visited with eachother. Kianna and Jacob were also over. Our house was just ringing with the delighted squeals of little people who find so much joy in clinking glasses and saying cheers, and claiming kitchen chairs as their own ("my chair, my chair, my chair"). I am definitely not ready for motherhood, but I don't feel quite AS opposed to the idea as I used to. It's so amazing to watch these children grow and change. I can't believe what little people Kianna and Jacob have become. Makes me wonder what Spencer will look like and be like. I also look forward to the birth of my second nephew this July (that's coming up quickly, 1 1/2 months!! wow!). Life changes so quickly :)

Stuff

Today I got invited out for coffee by an 83 year old lady at work. The same lady who sold me perogies and carrots last October. I felt kind of bad because I had to make up a story to let her down easy. It is against our association policies to have a relationship with our clients outside of work. Of course that doesn't include people who were friends with me before we started our therapeutic relationship. She is a pretty lonely old lady, and I think she is depressed, and I felt kind of bad turning her down, but it just wouldn't have been appropriate.

Prison Break season finale is on tonight. I am excited, not that the season is over, but that we get to see what happens now that they are on the outside. I predict that everyone will either get caught or killed, other than Michael and Lincoln, and they will get away, find the hidden money and they will run away to Mexico with Veronica and the Doctor and live happily ever after. That should bring it up to one more season, and I think that would keep me pretty happy.

This is a week of many season finales and I just can't believe how much TV that I have gotten into watching. The Amazing Race 2 hour finale is on Wednesday (still rooting for the hippies), then last night was Survivor (not to thrilled with Aras winning), Thursday night is CSI (I wonder if Brass will make it?!) and ER (the preview looked pretty exciting). After this week all that's left is 24, which hasn't really thrilled me lately, but I can't wait to see the weiner president get his :P

Who knew a cab ride from work to home would be $22! Yikes! Won't be doing that again any time soon. :P

Little house on the prairie...

A couple of months ago we signed up for a service on the Century 21 website. We recieve emails about new house listings as they come available in the areas we are interested in. We just wanted to keep an eye on what is out there, even though we were pretty sure that we wanted to build. Nothing very interesting had popped up until Friday. There is this interesting house, in a good location, that's a little too expensive for us. I realize you can only tell so much from a few pictures of the house, but what we have seen we like. We weren't planning to make any moves in the house department for probably at least another 8 months to a year but what do you do. Maybe if we were to go look at this house we would realize that it is completely inappropriate for our needs, but maybe it would be a perfect house to go in and modify and make our own. I know that sometimes when you aren't really looking you find something good....but hmmm....what to do. It has now been listed for 5 days, which sometimes is an eternity when it comes to houses. I think that the price is too high, but maybe we could talk 'em down. *sigh* Gotta go back and weigh the pros and cons of building vs buying and modifying a house.

Hair

I remember back in high school I was pretty fearless when it came to getting extreme haircuts. There were a couple of times in the last 10 years or so that I have cut my hair fairly short when it had been pretty long. I remember people in high school who were so concerned about cutting their hair. They would never do it! That's too scary and why in the world would they want short hair like a boy! Anyway, I have been thinking lately about cutting my hair. Maybe short, but not too short, not as short as it was in grade 11/12, but shorter than it is now. Now I have to admit that I am the one who is a little bit scared. I am at a point where I mostly just wear my hair in a pony tail or pig tails and that isn't very nice. I like my hair down when I do it, but I find when I work that if I wear my hair down I get quite hot. But I was thinking if my hair was a lot shorter in the back it wouldn't cover my neck and make me so warm. But if it was shorter I would definitely need to take more time to actually DO it. Right now on most mornings I wash my hair then either put it in a pony tail, pig tails or just let it air dry then it gets put in a looser pony tail when it's dry. Do you have any suggestions for hairstyles or any 'DONT DO IT' messages? I could totally go for a change.