YAY, A NIGHT AT HOME!!
Good god, I don't even know where to start in this journal update. It's been sooo long!
After today, I feel like I could self-implode at any minute lol. I think this may turn more into a whine fest then an update!
Why must everything go wrong when things are already confusing enough!?!??!? I'm in the midst of planning two vacations right now, which you think would be a fun stress-free thing to do. NOT. First of all, I lost my damn passport! I searched EVERYWHERE for it and turned up nothing. After the initial cost, the fee for swearing underoath with a lawyer that I did indeed lose it, the fee to pick it up in time before vacatation AND a $50 parking ticket, it cost me about $200 AND a days worth of my time. Oh and did I mention the miserable passport security officer who almost had me in tears? But whatever, it's done, it's taken care of, one of about a hundred things I can scratch off my "To Do" list. One month and two days until I'm on a plane and on my way to Vegas. That's when I'll know it was all worth it!
Aside from that, I somehow managed to become the "planner" for a family trip to Vancouver Island in August. It's not easy planning a vacation around 4 different families schedules, 3 different vacation homes, flights, car rentals, dog sitters...etc! Finally I said screw it, I'm just going to book everything and THEY can plan around it. I really am looking forward to the trip though! We're staying in a gorgeous 3500sq ft house hidden away on a river. The sides of the house that face the river are all windows. It's just beautiful.
Just about 3 weeks to Audra and Karmens wedding! That's been keeping me busy too. Sabz, Casey & I are planning the stag(ette) which is next weekend. We're doing dinner and a pub crawl. We need 20 people to attend in order to break even and OF COURSE we have only 15 confirmed of 35 people! C'mon people!!! You're driving me crazy haha.
I have to somehow get my bridesmaid dress altered before the big day too, but the last tailor I went to wanted $100 to do it!!! I said ya freakin' right, are you out of your mind?? To wear the dress for one day??? So I'm hoping to get Cleo (AV seamstress) to do it. Or if worse comes to worse, I'll buckle down and do it myself. Whatever I do, I have to get it done asap.
There, that's it for my whine fest. I hope you didn't mind.. lol. Maybe I won't self implode now. Maybe.
I started my summer hockey team, with my new co-ed team. It's been pretty fun so far. Very different then my winter league. The skill level of the teams have varied so much. We've played teams that could skate circles around us, and we've played teams that we're doing the circling. It'll be nice after tomorow nights game because all the teams will be moved into proper divisions based on their skill levels. So hopefully it'll be more evened out. I'm pissed at my teams goalie though. She's only showed up for 1 of our 3 games, and this past one she didn't even have the decency to book a back up goalie prior to the game. I ended up having to call Brad 5 minutes before our game started to have him come in and fill in. AND I got 2 goals that game, neither of which were credited to me haha. Ohhhh man.
I got a new fish, George (after Georges Laraque). He's a betta and he hangs out in the comptuer room. If it were my choice, I'd probably have 10 fish tanks around my house. He's doing well though as well as my goldfish who are reaching their year and a half marks :)
And my dad, brother and I recently went and got some tadpoles to grow into frogs and release. We had to make two different trips before we were able to actually find some! That was half the fun though. We put hip weighters on and walked out to the middle of a big swamp to collect them. Can't say I've ever done that before lol.
I'm getting my dad tickets to the "Walking With Dinosaurs" show coming to Edmonton at the end of July. It looks soooo cool. Tickets went on sale today, so I should probably get on it.
Other then that, we've been out to the beach a couple of times this spring/summer. Played some beach volleyball, basketball and went rollerblading...etc Went to the zoo. Had a bonfire on Karmens birthday which was alot of fun. We set of fireworks in the field near by. I tell you it's priceless to watch Brad and Sabrina running for their dear lives after setting those things up. It's been so nice being able to go and do stuff outside! Tonight, I plan to do nothing but veg out. I haven't had an evening at home in soooooo long. Maybe I'll do some cleaning and rent a girly movie :)
xoxo
Michelle
Emerald & I hahaha
And Bradley