A long overdue update

Sorry for the long delayed post my loyal (are you still loyal?) readers. The last two months of my life have been a serious blur. At the beginning of March a big TCE remediation job that I am working on started up, and since the end of the month it has been go go go. Busy times. Also pretty hard on me sanity wise. When I have to be out there the day starts at 6 am which means I have to be up at 4:30. The day isn’t over until 6 or 7 pm, so it makes for a long brutal day, and doesn’t leave much time for doing other things like spending time with A, keeping in touch with friends, exercise, photography, and what not. The most hours I have worked in one week was 65. Horrid. I ended up getting the overtime I banked that week paid out to help pay for our basement renovations. Now, on top of that there is the fact that we are doing major home renovations in our basement. Last time I posted I mentioned that we had ripped out the carpet, in the basement. Since then we have: painted, put in dri-core, put in engineered hardwood, installed baseboards, and painted the trim around the doors and windows. We are now about 95% done the basement renovations, but A and are both thoroughly exhausted. We still need to caulk around the baseboards, paint one more coat on the door and window casing and baseboard, paint the doors, move everything back up stairs and install the doors. We could easily take care of that in a weekend, but we took all last weekend off of any worries and relaxed. It was long overdue. The last time we truly had a relaxing weekend would be Easter?

The wedding plans are coming along well. We have a caterer (yay!), and the tent rental is confirmed. I have bought the invitations, I just need to find the time to make them, and have bought the centre pieces. I have booked off hotel blocks. We have registered (Sears and The Bay). There are still a few important things we need to take care of, but I think we are finally in okay shape. I keep having weird wedding dreams. The other day I dreamed that instead of my father it was our office manager that gave me away. Kind of makes sense since I am working so much these days. I also have reoccurring dreams that my dress comes in, and I go and try in on, and it isn’t actually my dress. It has been black. It has been a pant suit. It has been short. It has been everything but what it is supposed to be! When I ordered it back in December the lady at the store said it would be in around April 14th, and after waiting for the phone call for a month, I called the other week to check on whether it had come in. Apparently when it reached the American quality control centre they found a pull in the material and the dress had to be completely remade! It’s a good thing I ordered so far in advanced!!!

I guess the Cat is out of the bag and I can finally share the news I have been holding in for a few months too. My sister S is preggo again. I’m very excited for her, but the only bad thing about the news is that her due date is Oct. 2. Exactly 2 days before our wedding. I recently found out that one of my cousins is also pregnant and due on Sept. 20. S is going to try to make it to the wedding (and is still planning on buying a bridesmaid type dress), but my cousin is not planning on coming. Which kind of sucks, but it is a happy occasion, so I can’t dwell on the positive now can I!?!

Speaking of Cats, Jenny is doing well and is loving going outside. She gets to go outside for about half an hour or so most days, but she stays in her harness and is tied to a post. She is a bit of a scrappy cat, so I don’t want her to get into a fight. In the evening she spends most of the night in front of the door howling to be let outside. It is actually quite funny and is more dog-like than cat-like. It gets annoying pretty quickly though.

I guess that is it for now. I promise to be more diligent about updating from now on!