Yep, it’s been that long since I posted. Wow.
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Ahh, the weekend. Today is Sunday, the official last day of my week off from work. As sad as I am I am quite refreshed and content by this past week mostly due to the amount of time I got to spend with Shawn. Yeah, I know, blah, blah, blah, mush, mush. But it’s true, so you’ll all just have to suck it up and deal with it. And I have missed him more than I thought I would these past 2 months of him on night shift!
Then at night Shawn and I went to Pub St-Paul for our belated anniversary dinner. We generally love this place, but last night was crap. Too busy, too crowded and awful food. Plus they moved us from one table to another and Shawn never got a placemat or a knife! (I had to ask for a knife for him! Sheesh!) After we wandered around Old Montreal and then met up with Monkey to watch the fireworks. You can see the entire night’s worth of photos if you CLICK HERE. And for now, a teaser…
OK, so I should go run and put on something appropriate for company as Monkey and Ravi will be here in minutes to go to lunch with Shawn and I. I can’t go out in a baggy tanktop (that makes me look like I have Old Woman Boobage) and cut off flannel jammie pants. I just hope today doesn’t turn out to be as expensive as yesterday!! It is with a heavy heart that I must return to work on Monday morning. Heavy because I have quite enjoyed my week off gallivanting around with Shawn. Starting Monday I am back to only seeing him for about 30-40 minutes in the mornings, still too sleepy and grumpy to really appreciate him. I am so not a morning person. I then get to have perhaps a 5-20 minute conversation with him some time around 12:45 a.m. when he gets home from work and comes into the bedroom to change. It is rare that I don’t wake up when he comes in the room, being the light sleeper that I am, but I am not always fully alert and often will fall back asleep rather than hold a conversation. Still, it would be nice to have that trust fund and just get to putter around every day. I could get used to that you know. This week, though short, was just a relaxing week full of adventure as we would drive around and about and just be together. Not to mention all the fun of my barium x-ray at the start of the week. Woo and hoo! Monday at work will be full of file purging and packing as we are moving our office to the New Building the following Monday. My boss, the awesome person that she is, has been purging our files all week and won’t be in the office for the first two days and our Big Boss will only be in the office on Wednesday, in-between his vacation and leaving for a conference. So we’ll be packing our offices and his for Monday. Looks as though I’ll be working all next weekend, but I don’t mind it because I know that we’ll have quite a few laughs as stressed as we will be and as awful as the work will be. I enjoy working with these two people more than I think I ever have working with anyone. Makes up for the fact that I don’t like the actual work. Hmm. Although I didn’t get to the emails I had wanted to reply to or write and I didn’t exactly go post crazy on here, I did manage to sneak in a few hours here and there on the computer. I did get some work done (yes, I know, work on my holiday? For shame!) and I discovered a couple of great new blogs which I hope to keep up with (we all know I probably won’t since I can’t even keep up with the ones I read now! Jolynn! I miss you! I am so sorry I haven’t been around lately!!). And even with my neglect of all things cyber-y, I bit the proverbial bullet and started a book blog called Beyond Books. It’s all linked up on my sidebar over there *points* and I hope to do it proud. My good friend Kyle is now an official graduate of the RCMP and he is one of the many people to whom I desperately owe an email *sheepish wave* and yet I still have yet to be able to get myself into email-mode. I am such a lazy person when it comes to email these days. I used to be the Queen of Correspondence, but these last few years, I just can’t seem to settle down enough to write anything to anyone. I am even slacking off big time in the sending birthday cards department. Bad me! *slaps wrist* Well it’s almost 5:00 p.m. and Shawn is on his way to work and I think I will go back upstairs and pick up one of the 5 new books I bought myself this week at the bookstore. I should have just come home and started reading right away that day rather than go see Harry Potter 5 which was about as fun as watching paint dry. *yawn* Ah, well, it’s now crossed off my list and I can go on with the rest of my life and pretend it never happened. I know the last book comes out… tonight? at midnight and I will not be there in a line waiting for my copy. I will get my copy in about 2 years when it’s out in paperback in the US as all my other copies are the mass market US versions. I like those covers better and the fact that there is a little picture before each chapter, makes it much more childish for me and therefore more fun! Ok, enough fritting around on the internet, I am off to the main floor to look out the windows at the rain and possibly read a book about a 14 year old girl and the summer she grows up which will undoubtedly make me cry. But that’s ok, it’s a good sort of cry. I have had so many things swirling around in my head that I have wanted to write about. My main problem is that inspiration comes at the worst of times. I am finding that with the computer in the basement, I am on it less and less. I like to spend my time above ground. Forget the fact that I never have time to goof off at work, so there is no longer a mad posting spree after I have done all I need to do. I am never done. There is just too much to do. And unlike the bookstore, where I had a lot of work but was able to conquer it and win, I just don’t have that here. A quick glance at a couple of updated blogs that I see in my feeds, but that’s about it. No posting. I finally got my iBook working again…(connecting to the internet). If it continues this trend, we’re looking into buying one of those little USB port wireless thingies so I can take the laptop to other exciting venues in the house. Like the bedroom where the air conditioning is! Woo! Even the kitchen, so I can sit and look out the window in the early morning sunlight and blog away with a tea in my hand. Maybe even in the – gasp! – backyard! We’ll see how it goes. I am fairly certain that I dreamed the entire thing and the laptop will no longer connect and didn’t really connect in the first place. Especially since I still haven’t gotten my e-bill from iTunes for the music I hastily purchased while I was online. Hehehehhehe… My Barium tests went ok, as far as those tests can go. I did not throw anything up this morning, kudos to me. Last night with the preparation glop I did. But that’s another story. So, on Friday we went to the zoo. I think I might have mentioned that. And I took (apparently!) 156 photos. Dear lord! Anyhow, you will not be subjected to 156 of them… only about 61 of them. Ha! Go look at them though, since some I think are worth it. Here’s a teaser for you all…
** The poncho isn’t being worn because of the birds! It’s because it was pouring rain in the afternoon and we wanted to continue wandering around the zoo! We just happened to find the bird hut while wearing them!!
And I have no idea if this link will work, but if you go HERE you can see the rest (it’s a Google album, and as far as I know the link should work… please let me know if it doesn’t!) What else? Oh, yes, on Sunday I did something I never, ever thought I would do in a million years… I met up with some of my former elementary school classmates whom I have not seen in about 20 years. I seriously put that entire part of my life behind me and never wanted to look back on it again. Then through Facebook I reunited with many people I hadn’t spoken too in ages and this sort of happened. And you know what? I had a good time. For me, you know, being out in a social situation and all. And there was much laughter and the painful memories are still filed in the back of my mind and I still cringe if someone brings something up that to me was as traumatic as can be and they just think of it as the funniest memory in the world, but I have come so far as a person that it didn’t completely bother me and I was able to look past it. Meeting up with some of these people should have had me breathing into a paper-bag in hysterics… I’ll bet you a dollar it would have about three years ago. I have changed inwardly so bloody much in the last 2 years I wouldn’t even recognize myself if I hadn’t seen me in a while. I did a ton of work on my soul and psyche and I think I am finally put back together. And we had quite the enjoyable afternoon and plan on meeting up again next month and perhaps even the month after, as other classmates come into town from various other places they live now. And you know what? I honestly think I will join them again. Sometimes, I don’t even know who I am anymore. But at least the person I seem to be is someone I rather like. I got maybe an entire hour of sleep last night. I have that stupid Barium X-ray in 2 hours. I feel like crap after the perparation drink stuff from yesterday afternoon – which didn’t do anything other than make me gag and feel like I have a rock in my abdomen. Did I mention the no sleep? I hate these things. |
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This weekend was quite packed with things to do and none of them were planned. Yesterday was a totally unplanned stop into BestBuy where we bought… a 
When I am restless and sleepless in the night, I rarely walk the two flights of stairs down to the basement to check my email, surf the web. I guess I am just content with the way my life is right now that I don’t feel the need to hide in cyberspace. I don’t know. For one who has always been slight over computer-obsessed, I have found my attraction to it waning lately.
