I'm still alive!!
Whoo, it's been ages since I posted to my journal! There are two reasons for this...sort of. One, I am addicted to Facebook and have barely any time away from it to do anything, much less post to my journal. Ahem. Two, I've been busy.
I know, I know. There's no excuse! Although I notice that there hasn't been much posting by anyone else anyway so I'm not going to continue to feel guilty about it! (However, you should check out my page at Facebook cause I have lots of photos and stuff on it!)
Today was Emily's Victoria Day Parade. Well, it isn't actually Emily's parade, but her band was marching so -- of course -- being the obsessive mum that I am, I was up at the crack of dawn to take her down to Mayfair to march. I have a parade day tradition of meeting John and Sachi (parents of one of our grads from Selkirk who is also in the band at Reynolds) for breakfast at Smitty's and then we watch the parade. It's nice to catch up with them at least once a year! :) There were zillions of bands marching today but I still think Reynolds is the best, because at least they march and play at the same time. And they play a march, more to the point! I like their look too, even though I completely empathize with Emily that the band pants are crap to wear -- they look great, though!! Anyway, they did very well and they looked great and I hope they win again this year.
We've been busy at school, because we're now into final report writing and winding down to the end of the school year. Yeah! I am really looking forward to being at home, relaxing for a few weeks this summer. No long bus trips for this girl! Well, I will miss some aspects of the bus trips, like going to fabulous places and meeting fab people and having fun. Oh well, I have a stack of books to read and lots of movies I want to catch up on, so that will be good. Not to mention cleaning out the garage...again. Maybe I shouldn't mention it and it will just go away!! Muff, are you coming over to Victoria for a visit in the summer??? :)
I worked on getting the pool up and running this weekend. Brig helped, which was great. Now it's just chugging along out there, swishing chemicals all over the place but looking pretty good. I hope we get hot enough weather that I actually want to go in it!! Emily and I are swimming at Commonwealth Pool twice a week -- lengths, which I swore I would never do -- but it has definately helped my shoulder so I guess it's a good thing. Maybe I'll lose the 10 pounds I put back on from losing it over last summer...in the winter...now I'm really confused!!
We had a great breakfast yesterday at Tino's with Brig, Rod, Pet, Dylan, Meg, Trav, Em and me. It was lots of fun. This weekend we're going to go into town to look for dresses. Em needs a wedding and a grad dress so maybe we'll find something that can do double duty? i hope so! (Just to catch those of you who aren't in the know up, Emily is currently "in a relationship" with Steven Edwards - another band geek - who's in grade 12 and he asked her to his grad. So I get to buy two, count 'em, two dresses - one for his grad and one for hers next year. Oh goodie! :) (Actually, anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE buying clothes, so I know you're not feeling sorry for me!!)
Sue has been really busy in the garden. She's working to get it ready for the wedding. Pel and Dylan and some friends were over on the weekend getting rocks and dirt for her and moving them around where she wanted them. She was thrilled. She's still sewing, but spending more time during the day out in the garden. We purchased a DVD player that can play European and Pal formats, so we've been enjoying the "Victorian Kitchen Garden" from the UK the last few nights. She also purchased an opera from Italy and had her VISA card frozen for day or so because of it. As you can imagine, she was not impressed!
Well, I'm going to go now and get dinner started! Much love to you all,
Pen
I know, I know. There's no excuse! Although I notice that there hasn't been much posting by anyone else anyway so I'm not going to continue to feel guilty about it! (However, you should check out my page at Facebook cause I have lots of photos and stuff on it!)
Today was Emily's Victoria Day Parade. Well, it isn't actually Emily's parade, but her band was marching so -- of course -- being the obsessive mum that I am, I was up at the crack of dawn to take her down to Mayfair to march. I have a parade day tradition of meeting John and Sachi (parents of one of our grads from Selkirk who is also in the band at Reynolds) for breakfast at Smitty's and then we watch the parade. It's nice to catch up with them at least once a year! :) There were zillions of bands marching today but I still think Reynolds is the best, because at least they march and play at the same time. And they play a march, more to the point! I like their look too, even though I completely empathize with Emily that the band pants are crap to wear -- they look great, though!! Anyway, they did very well and they looked great and I hope they win again this year.
We've been busy at school, because we're now into final report writing and winding down to the end of the school year. Yeah! I am really looking forward to being at home, relaxing for a few weeks this summer. No long bus trips for this girl! Well, I will miss some aspects of the bus trips, like going to fabulous places and meeting fab people and having fun. Oh well, I have a stack of books to read and lots of movies I want to catch up on, so that will be good. Not to mention cleaning out the garage...again. Maybe I shouldn't mention it and it will just go away!! Muff, are you coming over to Victoria for a visit in the summer??? :)
I worked on getting the pool up and running this weekend. Brig helped, which was great. Now it's just chugging along out there, swishing chemicals all over the place but looking pretty good. I hope we get hot enough weather that I actually want to go in it!! Emily and I are swimming at Commonwealth Pool twice a week -- lengths, which I swore I would never do -- but it has definately helped my shoulder so I guess it's a good thing. Maybe I'll lose the 10 pounds I put back on from losing it over last summer...in the winter...now I'm really confused!!
We had a great breakfast yesterday at Tino's with Brig, Rod, Pet, Dylan, Meg, Trav, Em and me. It was lots of fun. This weekend we're going to go into town to look for dresses. Em needs a wedding and a grad dress so maybe we'll find something that can do double duty? i hope so! (Just to catch those of you who aren't in the know up, Emily is currently "in a relationship" with Steven Edwards - another band geek - who's in grade 12 and he asked her to his grad. So I get to buy two, count 'em, two dresses - one for his grad and one for hers next year. Oh goodie! :) (Actually, anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE buying clothes, so I know you're not feeling sorry for me!!)
Sue has been really busy in the garden. She's working to get it ready for the wedding. Pel and Dylan and some friends were over on the weekend getting rocks and dirt for her and moving them around where she wanted them. She was thrilled. She's still sewing, but spending more time during the day out in the garden. We purchased a DVD player that can play European and Pal formats, so we've been enjoying the "Victorian Kitchen Garden" from the UK the last few nights. She also purchased an opera from Italy and had her VISA card frozen for day or so because of it. As you can imagine, she was not impressed!
Well, I'm going to go now and get dinner started! Much love to you all,
Pen