Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Not suitable for my photoblog


But I like it anyways. Another Fun picture from Burgers wedding :)

Sunday, August 27, 2006

A Burgerific Wedding

Just a quick post since I'm heading off to bed soon, but I just wanted to post quickly with some pictures from burgers big day. She'll have to tell the complete story since I just know the face value stuff.

The wedding was beautiful, and the butterflies were super cool. They would land on people, and I got a cool picture on one in burgers grandma's hair. A couple of minutes later she actually had two in her hair! The wedding went off without a hitch (as an observer, I'm sure burger might argue on that one) and the dinner was delish. The speaches were awesome with burgers mum and burger boy's brother (surprisingly) steeling the show. Very funny speeches. I'll post some of the wedding type photo's here, but I also have some cool non-wedding ones that I'll post this week on my photoblog.

one bad thing about my camera... takes too long to focus. As soon as she came into shot I pressed the button but the focus got confused I think.


Gen doing her reading...


At the end of the Ceremony, May I intoduce Burger and Burger boy!


Burger and Friends (AF was supposed to tell me if I was showing too much skin, but he was obviously slacking off on this job last night since I think he enjoyed looking at the skin while other people probably not so much.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Zzzzzzz...

For some reason I'm particularily tired these days. Perhaps I should be back on iron. who knows.

So this past week, what did I do? Good question :)

Friday - Went over to AFs apartment at night and we watched a movie. Hmm... trying to remember which movie it was. Right Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Weird movie, not entirely sure I liked it, but I do have to say that Johnny Depp was amazing in it like usual :)

Saturday - We did a bit of shopping, I finished buying Burger and Burger Boy's Wedding present and went picked up t a couple of CDs (New Sam Roberts and a Bob Marley Compilation thing). We later went to the Camera Store and I bought my new baby. The one, I posted last week - Nikon D70. It was expensive, but I love it :)

Sunday - we went for a longish bike ride together, I on my road bike and AF on his mountain bike. I'd ride ahead for a bit and cycle back to him. It was super windy and took a lot of effort, I did around 47 km on hills and in wind. We then headed over to AFs for the night

Monday - We took off the day sinc AF had an interview with for a job in Missisauga so we were there yesterday morning and then headed into Toronto for the afternoon. We went to MEC, wandered around, and went to the ROM. They have a LOT of stuff closed right now for renovations, but I think that we had both seen enough by the time we were done. Then it was back to the Loo last night and I seriously passed out for a good solid 9 hours. I feel like I could easily fall back asleep now, but I'm back at school today and must be productive.

So things to Note:
1) my Photoblog has one picture from this weekend posted right now, from playing around with my new camera. I'll have more posts this week with other stuff from this weekend so you can check out how my knew camera looks. It is AWESOME! I love it :)
2) AFs Job interview in missisauga. Yep, that is causing a lot of problems right with logistical crap. a) I'm moving into his apartment in Kitchener at the end of September and have already gotten rid of my apartment, b) Arash doesn't have his drivers licence, c) there is no easy way to commute on transit to Missisauga from waterloo, d) if Arash gets the job, he has to give 2 months notice to his current apartment building to move out. Man, this is just a messy situation. I don't want to even think about it right now. (Anyone know someone who commutes to the Saug everyday from KW that can give my Boy a ride???)

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Another week another post

So what is going on in Laura Land? Not much to be honest. What was that the Nej was saying about nothing exciting in singledom. Well, nothing exciting in coupledom for me these days ;)

So last week...
Friday - Went for my usual Friday ride with PS, shorter than normal though since it was a "cutback week". In the evening I went over to AFs apartment and we got ready for his mum's visit to town. We went grocery shopping, had dinner, and I started preparing food for the weekend while AF finished cleaning his apartment. I must say, by the time we were done, the place was spotless.

Saturday - We picked up his mum and aunt at the bus station had a nice long lunch. In the afternoon we went out to st. jacobs to stroll around and had a quick tour of the campus (for his Aunt's sake, AF's mum worked on campus for about a year when they were still pretty new in Canada). We went to the maharaja for dinner (yummers!) and went out to the flying dog for about an hour at night to give his aunt the full Canadian experiance. I hope she wasn't too shocked by anything she saw, all in all people were pretty tame. We left by 12:15 though, so it could have gotten worse later at night.

Sunday - We all had breakfast together and I went out shopping for a bit with his mum and aunt while AF slept some more (he sleeps a lot, damn lazy boy, and I do realize you might be reading this ;)). We had lunch and it was time to head back to the bus station. Not too much exciting for the weekend, but it was nice anyways.

Monday - I worked from home after getting my car fixed. It had a leaky exhaust pipe and the shop was able to cut out the bad peice and weld in a new bit for $202 including taxes. I was putting it off for a long time since the dealership said $1300 and I was afraid of the cost, now that just seems silly to me :)

Tuesday - hmmm... not much yesterday. I was at school late so by the time I got home it was just regular type stuff.

Wednesday - today. Hmm... nothing so far. My legs are sore though, like muscle sore. It actually feels like it did a day or two after my marathon, well, my quads anways, not the rest of my legs, I can't for the life of me figure out why they hurt this way. Last week consisted of 2 runs (short, 6 km) one easy shmeasy swim where I did mostly pull and a shorter than normal bike ride but monday after my bike ride my legs were just killing me (did around 40 minutes total on my trainer since I kept getting interrupted). I can't figure out what is going on :(.

And that is it. Oh, and I decided that I'm going to get this :)

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Mid August already?!?

Where the heck did the summer go?

Okay, so I guess it has been over a week since I last updated sorry gals? I just don't have the need to update when nothing too exciting is going on in my life. First a quick recap of my week.

Last Wednesday - Nothing? can't remember what I didn
Thruday - Ditto
Friday - AF and I went to a party for one of his friends taht was finishing her PhD. It was pretty goodtimes.
Saturday - we went for a mountain bike and then headed into TO to his mums place
Sunday - we went to the beach with his aunt and mum. It's amazing how quickly his aunt adjusted to Canada and had no problem walking around all day in her bikini. Note: in Iran, the womens beaches are blocked off with dividers from the main beach and the dividers actually go like 100-200 m into the water to keep the men and women separate. At night we drove back to Waterloo
Monday - Ultimate lazy day we slept in, watched a movie and talked. REally, nothing exciting.

This week has been more of nothing, back at school and what not. The only exciting thing to report is that I have been in contact with the person I know at dillon and she says that my resume is impressive and is giving me hints on what to change and helping me with my cover letter. Good stuff :)

Other stuff - So for some reason I'm starting to think about marathons again. I think I might do another one next fall. Originally I thought I'd wait at least 5 years before doing another one, but in hindsight I really truly enjoyed my long runs last fall. Crazy, I know! I guess I'll wait and see how the next few months go. Anyone up to doing a marathon with me? Please?

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Damn it's hot!

Wow, yesterday we reached the highest humidex I ever remember seeing. It topped out around 44.7C. Yuck. Today, the air temperature is supposed to get up to 36C which will be the highest temperature ever recored in Southern Ontario. Yikes! Wouldn't be surprised if there humidex approached 50. Ugh. (Last night I drove in my car for about 15 minutes, when I got out of the car, my glasses fogged up, that is the first time this has ever happened to me in the summer. Wierd.

Okay, now onto the regularly scheduled post.

Friday I palnned to work from home, but if I'm honest, I'd let you know that I didn't do too much. I did a long workout and got ready to go out for the weekend. AF and I went camping on Friday night with one of his friends and we rock climed outside Friday evening. We were supposed to climb again on Saturday morning/afternoon but his friend was too hungover. instead we just took our time and packed up our stuff to head to Toronto for the rest of the weekend.

AFs other aunt is here right now from Tehran, so we visited and did a couple of errand type things and generally had a relaxing weekend. Sunday night we headed back to the loo and that was that.

Yesterday I worked from home for the day and got some progress made I'm now running my model again (well, doing the column calibration) and it is going a little slowly. Oh well, I guess that happens. Stay Cool Dudes and Dudettes!