Another Week in the life of…

Another busy week last week, though thankfully I was in the office all week. Just not my regular office. I had Friday off which was fabulous. I actually felt like I had a relaxing weekend for once, but it made getting up yesterday morning a little hard.

D and my Dad (and step-mom) came up on Thursday night to see our new pad. We had a quick visit with Dad and N, because they had to be back in Belleville by dinner time on Friday. D stayed and we went to London to go shopping. We went to the bridal store and checked out “the London dress”. D liked that one better than “the Belleville dress” but that didn’t really surprise me all that much. I’m going to wait until I get the verdict from Sister K next weekend. D and Sister S have been pushing for fancier and pouffier dresses than I would personally be attracted too. We spent the rest of the day Christmas shopping which was nice. I’m 99% done my shopping now, just one last little thing left to get.

Saturday we were busy running errands as we usually are – Dry cleaning, cat food, shopping for Christmas baking, Home Depot, Canadian Tire, lunch… by the time we got home it was getting pretty late. The snow started while we were out and for a little while we thought that perhaps driving to Kitchener for A’s Christmas party wasn’t such a hot idea. We looked at the forecast though and decided to go, but to leave when it started snowing again.

Sunday ended up being a wonderfully lazy day. I was supposed to be going to Burgers for our annual “Holiday Baking Extravaganza” but it wasn’t in the stars. Instead we were quite literally snowed in (our subdivision wasn’t plowed until 11 pm). A mounted our new speakers onto the wall (he’s very proud of himself) and we shovelled out the driveway, addressed our Christmas cards and visited a bit with some neighbours.

Yesterday was an uber fun day. I really should have just stayed in bed yesterday morning. First off I had to buy my breakfast and lunch ($20) since we had no food in the house – since we were snowed in we couldn’t go grocery shopping. And then somewhere between Woodstock and London I got a flat tire that cost $150 to fix. On top of that, I had to miss 2.5 hours of work yesterday dealing with my flat tire which came out of my banked overtime. All in all, I figure I lost $80 by going into work yesterday. Boo.

Now, only 3 days left of work before my long break. Yay!

The Busy Bee

Gee, I’m really bad about updating my blog these days . Sorry for being so neglectful, loyal readers ;)

I had a great time at the company Christmas party in Late November. I stayed over night in London at one of my work friend’s. It was a good time. I probably had a little too much to drink, but I guess I managed to hide it pretty well. The rest of the birthday week was fab. We had a great time with Jen and Christine in the ‘borough and then it was back home.

The following week (2 weeks ago now) I was in Mississauga for most of the week for work. A good time was had by all, but it was a busy action packed week. I was there attending a “course” for work, and networking. Since there were people there from my company all over North America we did a tourist dinner on Wednesday night – Dinner at the top of the CN tower!!! That was pretty cool since I had never been up before. I was in my hotel room from 11 pm to 7:45 am and 9 pm to 7:45 on the two days I was there, no chance to visit with Nej.:(

Last weekend we were busy around the house. Put up the Christmas lights, cut the thresholds for between flooring and what not. I wanted to go into work on Sunday but the weather was bad, so that didn’t happen.

Last week I was in Windsor for most of the week. Field work in cold weather is always a good time *roll eyes*. I had wanted to go across to Detroit to do some shopping, but halfway to Windsor I realized I forgot my Passport. Fun stuff.

This weekend was another busy one. On Saturday we went to Kitchener to do some Christmas shopping. We went out for dinner at the Maharaja which was nice since we miss ethnic foods… not much selection in the ‘stock ;). We wanted to call burger to see if they wanted to join us for dinner, but we didn’t know their new number. In the evening we went to one of A’s coworkers for a Christmas party. On the way home – at 1 am, with A drunk, we got a flat tire. I was very impressed when A managed to change it in his state, and equally impressed that the spare was a real full sized wheel, not a doughnut, so A should be able to drive safely on it until he can get the other one fixed. Sunday we were very productive. Almost finished with the thresholds, went grocery shopping, bought a tree, decorated said tree, cleaned the house – top to bottom and did the laundry. Yes. We were busy!

Today I’m working in the ‘saug. I didn’t have a fun drive in this morning. Tomorrow I’m in Barrie and will be until Thursday. I’m taking Friday this week off – D and possibly my dad and stepmom are coming down to see the house on Thursday night. On Friday D and I are going to London so that I can show her the dress I like there.

Next week, I’ll be at home every night. I’m excited already ;)