Well, there goes that Idea.

So A called the Iranian embassy yesterday afternoon. He has to get his passport renewed. He thought it would take a couple of weeks, based on how long it took his mum, but never called to verify with them. Um, no. 6 weeks. So he will get his passport back mid September. On top of that, because he is an Iranian citizen instead of Canadian, he will need a visa to go to pretty much any country. (except for iran, then I would need a visa). Visa’s usually take 2 to 3 weeks to get, could be longer though if there are any problems. Like being from an Axis of Evil.

So it looks like Hawaii is definitely out. Greece and St. Lucia are almost definitely out. St. Lucia *might* still be an option since it is a commonwealth country. That leaves… Canada. :( Don’t get me wrong. I love our country and I definitely do want A to see more of it, and to travel through Canada with him, but I’m not sure October is the best month for it. Also doesn’t seem to honeymoony to me and kind of boring.

I’m a little sad :( I was looking forward to seeing something new and going somewhere different. The last time I went anywhere even remotely exotic was three years ago now, and I want to travel. Not see the same sights as I have seen several times before.

I’m also a little frustrated with A. If he got his passport renewed (or started to) a month ago like I suggested, he would have it by now and we would have plenty of time to get a visa. Or, if he had his Canadian citizenship (like I have been nagging him about for over 2 years now) he wouldn’t even need a visa to go most places). I told him he should bribe the people at the embassy to process his visa faster. Or that he should explain that his fiancé is going to leave him for giving her a bad honeymoon (jokingly of course).

Good Bye Hawaii. Good bye Greece. Good bye St. Lucia.

Shocking

Another Blog update already that is ;)

Last week was pretty good. I only had two half days in the field. I think the last time I had a week like that was probably in April. Wow. On Tuesday morning I had to go out to dig a couple of test pits at the sit I spent most of June at, and then on Wednesday one of our main clients had a gasoline spill, so I had to go out with the PM for the emergency response. Really though, there wasn’t much point in my being there.

The weekend was good. A’s mum came down on Saturday and we took her driving. (She is trying to get her full license by the time of our wedding since if A’s grandparents come, she wants to be able to drive them around and out of TO on the weekends). On Saturday night we watched my sister’s wedding video so that A’s mum could see what a north American wedding was like. To be honest, the video was MUCH the same as our wedding will be ;).

On Sunday morning I took A’s Mum driving again, while A worked on the back door. We replaced the spring on the back storm door, the handles, painted the actually door (Hawaiian Cinder http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Match-of-Behr-S-G-710-Hawaiian-Cinder-p/mpc0080979.htm) and replaced the hinges and door knobs on the back door. It looks really good now.

Also, yesterday afternoon I booked our room for the night of our wedding. As D suggested, we are staying at the Montrose Inn in the Campbell Suite http://www.montroseinn.ca/bedrooms.htm. It looks like a really nice place. Plus, Road to Avonlea was filmed there ;) (when Cecily had to go to the Sanatorium when she had tuberculosis.)

In other news, it was decided last week that we aren’t going to Iran or Scotland for our Honeymoon. We have been convinced that October is not the time of year to visit Scotland, and Arash doesn’t want to go to Iran for our honeymoon since the visit would be all about visiting with A’s family and not relaxing and enjoying ourselves. We will save that for another trip. A is pushing for Hawaii , which I admit would be lovely. Personally, I’m pushing for St. Lucia or Greece.

Long time no update (AKA Wedding budget woes)

So it looks like the last time I updated was early June. Oopsies. Story of my life – Work is crazy busy. That is basically it.

On June 11th a dig an dump job started that I was doing the field work for. I was out at that job site every day between June 11 and July 4th. Long 4 weeks. In June I was 138% chargeable. Go me. It’s actually kind of sad. To date this year, I’m over 100% chargeable, my chargeability goal is 85%. Busy. Also, at the end of June I started pay roll deductions to be a shareholder in my company. Last year share prices increased almost 30% plus a 10% dividend. Should have bought shares last year!!! Hopefully we will do equally well this year. We must with all this overtime I’m putting in!!!

So if June wasn’t bad enough chargeability wise, on July 5th and 6th I got ready to and went up North to Mattawa to work in the bush from the 7th to the 14th. I came back down on the 15th. The first full week in July I was 180% chargeable. The second week (last week) I was 170% chargeable. Phew. I guess that is what happens when you work 17 days straight with no break :(. Hopefully I will be able to take a couple of days off later this month to relax. Well, at least one.

So basically. I have been busy.

Somehow in the insanity of the last month and a half, I have managed to fit in the following things.

1) Had J and C up for a weekend in June. Nice visit and the fabulous ladies helped me with the invitations. I’ve got so many compliments on them, but really, the kudos goes mostly to these gals who did most of the real work while A and I figured out the wording and babysat the printer so that we wouldn’t ruin many vellum sheets!!!
2) Had my aunt, uncle, cousin and her kids over for dinner on the long weekend. It was nice seeing them all again
3) Went to J&Ps on the long weekend and got to visit with EK&W, burger, J&P, J&G
4) Went to see Get Smart – Hilarious. I would recommend it to anyone. I was not disappointed!
5) Got invitations addressed and sent out (almost all) exactly 3 months before the wedding. There were a few that A had to find addresses for. Lazy boys ;). We still have to invitations to go out. For his groomsmen *eye roll*
6) My Dress came in! Dad has paid the remainder of the deposit.
7) Ordered MIL dress for the wedding (bad me, did this too late and have to pay an extra $25 for rush.)
8) Picked up my wedding ring. It is pretty nice, but it ended up costing $200 more than he quoted me which makes me a little mad. :( I think he used more gold than he expected he was going to.
9) Got my hair piece. It was about half of what I budgeted for
10) Booked toilets for the wedding.

I think that takes care of most of the big things for the wedding, though I still need to get a hair stylist (boo!) and arrange for the bus transportation to and from the wedding. I called a place at lunch today and it looks like it is going to be more than double what I had budgeted for it.

At this point it looks like our wedding will likely be about $1000 over budget. Not that we have an extra $1000 just lying around. Oh well. It sucks because a lot of the cost have gone up astronomically since S&Ws wedding – like tent rental went up about 40%, $5000 vs. $3500. Photographers 300% from $500 to $1500, DJ 200% from $250 to $500. Our wedding is going to be smaller and cost $3000 more. Everyone in the family was making fun saying that it is because I have more expensive tastes (which may be true), but that is so not it :(

So after another very hectic week last week, I am now back in the office.

I was out at the remediation site last week doing my air monitoring. I’m not sure if I wrote before, but on the days I have to be out there, I have to get to the office for 6 am to calibrate all the equipment and get to the site and set it up before work starts for the day at 7. They typically work to about 6 pm so by the time I take down my equipment, transfer/save data, and get it back to the office it is 6:30. Add ontop of that my driving and I’m gone from home from about 5:20 to 7:10. It also means setting my alarm for 4:30 so that I am awake enough to drive the 50+ kms to the office. I ended up working 59.5 hours last week and fell asleep on the couch at 7:45 on Friday night. I’m such a party animal.

Sure enough, 5:30 Saturday morning rolls around and I’m wide awake. I stayed in bed until 6:30 and then got up for a run. It was my first run in a few weeks, but I was able to make it 9 kms with little problem, so that was refreshing. I feel so completely out of shape these days.

Saturday we headed down to Toronto to help A’s mum move into a condo that she bought. And that took all of the day. On Sunday we went to Ikea with his mum to buy her a house warming present and ran into of all people… my dad and Nora. That was strange. But it was a pleasant surprise. Nora is getting an ikea kitchen in her Toronto Condo and had to pick out the handles for the cabinets. They ended up getting a fabulous deal – 75% off so they ended up saving them selves a couple hundred.

This week is pretty boring at work. I’m working on the most boring report ever and it is kind of hard to keep interested in it. It is the Liner monitoring program of the Keele Valley Landfill. Sounds like it could be kind of interesting, but a) I have next to no interest in landfills and b) annual monitoring reports are as dry as bread crumbs and with less flavour. (I have no clue where I got that analogy from, it just came to me, but I like it).

Today is 4 months exactly to the wedding. I spent some time at lunch starting to make address labels for the invitations which I hope to get out before the end of the month. I stepped on the scale this morning and it was pretty depressing. Since finishing my half ironman last summer I’ve gained around 15 pounds. I’ll need to lose at least 10 to comfortably fit into my wedding dress. It is just so hard to eat well when you are in the field all day long. It doesn’t help that my laptop has been broken since January so I can’t track my food on weight watchers in the evening. My laptop is fixed now though, UPS tried to deliver it yesterday and they try three times before leaving it at the drop off centre. I was originally supposed to be working at home this afternoon (I had a couple of jobs that would have taken half of the day in Woodstock and Brantford and rather than drive all the way back to the office I was just going to go home and work – it got cancelled last night at 9:30) so I would have been home to accept the delivery. I will just call UPS tonight though and ask them to take it back to the shipping centre which isn’t too far out of my regular drive to and from work so I should have it back tomorrow. Food wise today is going well, I just have to keep with it this time!!!

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!

Doctors, Rust, and asebestos oh my!

So last weekend I went to the walk-in clinic. Like I thought, they don't do female exams, but the doc did write me the perscription I need and I start taking it as soon as I get my period (should be any day now). Hopefully my skin will be clear by the wedding. He also refered me to an ob/gyn so that I can get my exam.

So this weekend we got started on our basement renovations. The first thing we noticed was that our ducts in the downstains are rusted. For some reason, they ran them through the concrete below the slab, and water has got in and rusted out ducts. So all winter we have been literally heating the ground below our house. After much discussion, we are going to fill in the existing vents with concrete (with the exception of the bathroom, and then put in new vents off of the main bulkhead which runs through the ceiling in the den downstairs. hopefully this will result in lower heating bills and less humidity in the downstairs.

The second lovely thing we noticed after pulling up the carpet was old tiles. we pulled the nail strips up for about 90% of the area breaking several tiles before it occured to me that the tiles could contain asebestos. Apparently like 95% of tiles pre mid 80s contained asebestos. Nice. A and I have to talk about whether we want to test the tiles for asebestos or not. We can leave the tiles in place and just cover them up, but we will have to dispose of the dammaged tiles. Actually they recommend that if you have asebestos containing tiles that the best thing to do is cover them up so that they won't be dammaged. The asebestos in tiles is non-friable which means fibers won't be realeased unless they are damaged.

So all in all, I had a pretty stressful weekend, but it sounds like everything is sorted out and we can get to work on finishing the basement up.

Doctor Shortage

I’m so frustrated.

So there are no family doctors accepting new patients in Woodstock, so for the first time in my life I am without a family doctor. Go figures I actually need a family doctor too.

So I used to have pretty horrible acne. Back in first year it was the worst it had ever been. I ended up going on medication to get rid of the acne – Diane 35 which was a form of the pill that was actually prescribed for acne and not for the general purpose of the pill. When my dad retired I switched to another form of the pill that was supposed to help with acne. While I was on that I would get the occasional break out, but nothing too horrible. Nothing like it used to be. Well, now I no longer have a family doctor, so I can’t get a prescription, and my skin is getting horrible. In another month or so it will be back to where it was when I was 19 years old. Something I really don’t want. Particularly with our wedding coming up. Basically in order for it to be cleared up in time for our wedding, I need to get into see a doctor now, but I don’t see how that is even possible.

Um. Hello.

*Sigh*

Ah. Slowness.

The last month or so at work has been Go, go, go. Not so much fun. Most of my lunch hours I have worked through in an effort to get through the backlog of work. Well. Finally, as of right now, I don’t have anything majorly pressing that I have to take care of. Well, there are things, but everything I am waiting for someone else to send me information, review a report, etc. There is stuff I can do to keep myself busy as I still do have a backlog of work, but it all has deadlines well into the future. I think I will spend some time this afternoon clearing off the mess that is my desk. That would be good.

So what is new in the world of lj? Not much to be honest. I have just been working my but off for the last month. I have also been fighting a cold since Christmas which keeps on threatening to get worse, but so far hasn’t been that bad. I have a feeling that with my new found slowness at work, it will come charging on next week.

One exciting thing that I am starting to work on is a big remediation job here in London. The site is contaminated with chlorinated solvents and they are using soil mixing to lower the concentrations (dilution IS afterall the solution to pollution ;)) and then excavating the soil out. It is a pretty big job that is supposed to take until the end of May. My job is to conduct air monitoring to ensure worker safety (part time, not every day) and to go out there with a drill rig to take samples of the mixed soil for classification (haz vs. non-haz). Fun stuff. I wish it were an in situ job (ISCO anyone ;)) but the land belongs to the city of London and they don’t want anything in situ.

Any who. Not much else going on here. I will update my wedding blog as well for wedding related stuff.

A real update

So It's been a while since I did a real update.

January has been an intersting month. Pretty busy here at work, but not busy enought to stress me out. My major stress as you all probably know is Jenny. She is back to her normal piggish self and meow's constantly at you until you feed her. She is a lovely cat though ;). She had her follow-up appointment at the vets on Saturday and all of her blood levels came back normal and the vet thinks that she won't have any lasting side effects. She won't have to be on the kidney food forever (thank god, it is expensive!) but she will have to switch to "mature" cat food. Normally cat's would be 8 before they would switch (Jenny is 4 or 5) but apparently it is easier on the kidneys and lower in calories than the normal kidney food.

In other unrelated news, my laptop screen died yesterday and A can't fix it. He looked up things online and it could cost as much at $200 + labour to have it fixed. I don't have that kind of money (mostly due to Jenny's Vet bills), so I don't know what I'm going to do. A is going to call HP and see if they will fix it for me for free. It is just a few months out of the manufacturer's warantee and apparently they will sometimes fix things like this. I did nothing wrong, it was probably just a bum part. For now I have it set up with my old CRT monitor so at least I have a computer at home.

I got some sad news last night. My dad's Cat that we got when I was in highschool died last week when he was on vacation. She was sick over christmas, but when dad was going to take her into the vet she was better. She took a down turn right before he went skiing when he didn't have the time to take her into the vet (like friday night before leaving sunday afternoon). She was truly a wonderful cat and I will miss her dearly. She was the first cat I ever really loved and was the one that made me turn into a cat person. When I had my knee surgery and was feeling VERY sick afterwards she would curl up on my lap and stay with me all day. She was cuddly and kind, and a killer. Seriously, best hunter I've ever seen. Not afraid to kill the odd weasel (including the week of Sarah's Wedding). She had a wonderful life and lived to the ripe age of 11. Lizzie, I will miss you.

100 Things about me.

I saw this on another blog and thought it was cool. I've been working on it for a couple of weeks. kind of hard to come up with 100 things!!!

1. I’m engaged to a wonderful man
2. I have a masters degree in Civil engineering
3. If I didn’t go into Engineering, I would have gone into either physics or Music.
4. I played the piano and flute well in highschool but rarely touch either now
5. I lost my $2000 flute on one of the many co-op moves in undergrad
6. I love photography. It is by far my favorite form of visual art.
7. My Iron Ring is my grandfathers and was the first titanium cast in Canada
8. I’ve almost lost my Iron Ring 3 or 4 times now. The most recent being last night at the gym.
9. I’ve only ridden my bike once since July.
10. As a kid I had aspirations of being a world class skier, but my parents never let me race
11. I lost my first tooth in Kindergarten on a class trip to the zoo. I was eating an apple on the bus and it fell out.
12. I love almost every kind of fruit there is. Except the ones that I like to call Vegetable fruits – tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc.
13. I’ve eaten a banana almost every day since my first co-op term.
14. I dislike most cooked vegetables when they are on their own.
15. I hate beans. Except chickpeas.
16. I get upset when A eats the last banana and screws up my week.
17. In 99% of my habits I’m a classic Type A, but I can’t keep anything tidy. My desk, my home, anything (I do keep it clean though).
18. Once I get in the habit, waking up at 5:30 am isn’t hard for me.
19. My perfect Sunday would be going for a run in the morning, coming back and snuggling up with a good book and falling asleep on the couch.
20. I would much prefer to nap than sleep in.
21. I love love love being hot. I don’t ever have trouble falling asleep when it is hot outside.
22. I find myself cold every day at work and they keep the heat set at 72F whereas we keep our home set at 68.
23. I was the 5th grade champion at my school in the shot put.
24. I was decently good at shotput and made it to the county level in grade 8 but didn’t continue in highschool because I didn’t want to be butch.
25. I was the last kid cut from every team in elementary school. I ALMOST made the soccer team, I ALMOST made the basket ball team, I ALMOST made the Vollyball team, etc.
26. I quit trying for team sports in Grade 7 because I babysat after school when the practices were.
27. I had three cabbage patch kids – Sophia Manda, Lauren, and Elmira. Sophie was my favourite.
28. I hate American spellings – color, neighbor, favorite, etc.
29. My favourite comfort foods are cottage cheese with cinnamon and sugar and bologna and ketchup roll-ups (has to be schneiders blue ribbon).
30. I was the worlds pickiest eater as a kid.
31. Number 27 was the basis for 75% of my dinners as a kid.
32. In grade 1 my teacher thought I was hearing disabled and made me get tested. I had perfect hearing, but just didn’t listen.
33. In grade two I had to get my eyesight tested. The teacher thought I couldn’t see because I always had my book propped up on my desk. It was to keep the kid next to me from copying.
34. I was a mediocre student as a child until about grade 4 or 5 when I started to excel at math.
35. I almost had to have eye surgery as an infant. My tear ducts were blocked so my eyes would weep. I still get watery eyes now sometimes for no reason.
36. My cat also has weepy eyes. The vet said the only way to fix it would be for her to have the surgery I was supposed to have when I was 3 months old.
37. When I was 6 I got lost skiing and had to hike up a 3 km run to get back to the main mountain. My sister (8 at the time) abandoned me to save herself.
38. When I was 11 I got lost skiing off piste and had to hike out in waist deep snow. I left my skies in the woods and the ski patrol resuced them.
39. When I was 12 I got stuck on a chairlift for 2 hours in -30 degree weather. I got frost bite on my feet and ever since then my feet have been super sensitive to the cold.
40. I had my first kiss after my 19th birthday
41. I have only kissed 4 guys and the 4th will be the only one I kiss for the rest of my life (god willing).
42. I’m agnostic. I believe in the whole big bang thing but I’m not sure I believe in superstring
43. I’m a science geek. When I was in kindergarten I watched science shows on TVO during the day. I remember asking my mom how big an atom was.
44. I hated reading until highschool. I thought because I was slow at it, it meant that I wasn’t any good (despite scoring really well on reading comprehension tests because when I read I have to make sure I understand every single word.
45. Highschool English taught me one thing. How to BS.
46. I quit the highschool cross country team in favour of the swim team. (practices at the same time).
47. I was a pretty good swimmer. My stroke was the breast stroke which does nothing to help me with front crawl in triathlons.
48. I quit the swim team in favour of the rugby team (practices at the same time)
49. I tore my ACL playing rugby.
50. After teaing my ACL I can’t do breast stroke well anymore.
51. My grandfather held the British record in a breast stroke event in the 1940s for a few weeks. He would have gone to the Olympics in 44 but they were cancelled due to the war.
52. I lived with my torn ACL for 5 years due to being misdiagnosed by a stupid doctor in Belleville.
53. I lived in the same house from the day I was born to the day I went off to University.
54. I love dogs, but I have a cat.
55. My cat’s full name is “Jenny-any-dots” but no-one ever calls her that.
56. My favorite fast food is a McDonalds Quarter Pounder. So greasy, but oh so good.
57. I started doing triathlons as a stepping stone for Adventure Racing. 7 years later I’ve only done one adventure race.
58. Up until the Winter of 2000 I had never run more than 6 km. I remember feeling very proud of myself after running for 7 whole kms one night.
59. I haven’t run by myself at night since 2002 when I promised my mum I wouldn’t anymore.
60. If I were independently wealthy I would train all day long.
61. I would love to be on the biggest loser although I don’t have that much weight to lose. I just think it would be FUN to train with the trainers on the show.
62. I’m an extrovert in most ways, except when it comes to dating I’m an introvert.
63. I love Microsoft Excel.
64. I’ve had lice twice once in grade 1 and once in grade 10.
65. My Mum volunteered in my grade three classroom.
66. My first crush was on a boy call Mark in the 4th Grade.
67. Donnie was my favourite NKOTB. The only time in my life I liked ‘the bad boy’
68. My favourite Authors are JK Rowling and Minnette Walters
69. My favourite TV shows are Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy.
70. I like the mean girls. My favourite characters are Amanda on Ugly Betty and Christine on Grey’s anatomy.
71. I have a tattoo of a sun on the inside of my left ankle.
72. I would only get another tattoo if I did an Ironman. I would get the Mdot tattoo.
73. I’m a people pleaser. I don’t like to make decisions that other people might have a problem with.
74. Model Calibration is the bain of my existence.
75. I never kept a journal consistently until I started blogging.
76. I have a love hate relationship with Wedding Magazines. They make me feel like I’m the worst bride ever.
77. I love to bake, but I end up eating way too many sweets when I do.
78. Everyone who has ever eaten my gingerbread cookies compliments me.
79. When I go to Subway I often eat more calories worth of cookies than I do of sandwhich.
80. My favourite colour is red.
81. By grade 10 I was lead flutist in our highschool band
82. My grandma had the highest scores in Ontario in standardized testing when she was in highschool.
83. I get complimented by total strangers (men and women alike) on my glasses.
84. When I was a kid I used to want glasses so I would read in the dark.
85. I had braces in grade 9 and half of grade 10 to correct an overbite. I had nearly straight teeth before hand. I also had to wear head gear at night for a few months.
86. I love aspartame sweetened products. I’ve been having them since I was a kid since we didn’t have any sugar drinks in the house. We made Koolaid with half sugar and half equal.
87. I learned to ski a few months after my third birthday.
88. Despite be a good swimmer now, I had to take my yellow badge (the first one) three times before I passed. Twice I wasn’t technically old enough then the third time I was afraid to put my face in the water.
89. I clearly remember moments of my young childhood. Like when I was 3 and 4.
90. I have a pretty good memory. I read something once and it sticks with me for ever.
91. I tried out for my highschool’s version of cheerleading – the Dance Squad. I did it because D didn’t want to try out by herself. I had no interest in joining.
92. I like to eat my skittles and m and ms by colour. But not in a certain order. I eat the colour I have the least of first leaving the one with the most till the end.
93. Except, I don’t like yellow skittles as much, so I always eat them first.
94. I have been to: South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Domican Republic, England, Whales and the US.
95. My dream trip would be to go to Patagonia. Partly so that I could say I was “living like a king in Patagonia”
96. I never skipped a class in highschool. I was a good two shoes. Well, more accurately, my father taught at our highschool and would find out in a heartbeat
97. I get frustrated and distracted when computers are slow.
98. I get corrected on English grammar by my ESL fiancé. Who knew “boughten” and “gotten” weren’t words? That being said, spell check isn’t picking up gotten. Perhaps I was right all along.
99. My favourite flower is the daffodil.
100. My guilty pleasure if fluffy novels.