Canada is a-Coming!

Things have been a little rocky for the past few days but they are finally getting back to normal and where they should and have always been. i'm leaving for Canada in about 1 week and 1 day... woop woop!! camping, laying in the sun and reading are going to be what I immerse myself from the 24th through the 3rd. I was going to count the number of days, but decided that i didn't really want too... hahaha!

I just read an article (with pictures, of course) about "2 hot 2 handle" stars, it's about their homes and their 'bods' if you will. It was stating about said star's renovation of a home and I read about a waterfall. I all of a sudden got real thirsty. weird! I'm talking about being so thirsty that I'm ready to immerse myself in a waterfall and soak it all in. crazy!!

I have a new memory card for my camera and lots and lots of batteries. Hopefully I will have uber pictures of my journey in the Canadian "wilderness". I'm hoping that we'll be able to have a campfire this year. The first time I went about 3 years ago there was burn ban due to a drought.

I'm already getting anxious about getting back because there is still sooo much to do with the house, the wedding and with my life in general. Apparently I was unaware when the New Year came that it was going to be chock full o' craziness.

OH! one more thing, I'm going to be taking at the very least 2 books with me. One is going to be Under the Tuscan Sun (since the movie is amazing) and I need a suggestion for a second one. I'm in a quest for knowledge this year so no Nora Roberts or Danielle Steele please. They are both great authors and what not, just not for me in the year 2008. Any suggestions would be wonderful. Much like my blog name... please and thank you!

of course that would happen...

the other day when i was moving stuff from the apartment to the house i was cleaning out some trash from good old Passat. i'm not really a starbucks frou frou kinda drinker but i was enjoying myself a frappuccino. well i didn't finish all of the contents and i certainly wasn't about to at that very moment so i threw it away... naturally, like most people would do. only because i am a special breed of human being, when i threw it in the dumpster the lid some how popped off and splattered in my face and all over my shirt. 'are ya kidding me?!' is what i wanted to yell! the said dumpster is one of those huge ones that you would find behind most restaurants or in my case, an apartment complex. it's got the door that slides on the side with mountains and mountains of garbage. yep, and somehow i managed to squirt myself in the face with whipped coffee something or other... and of course that would happen to me.

my wish 'to do' list

it's definitely summer time and boredom has officially kicked in. i was half expecting to take summer school classes this year, but since that was a bust it never really felt like i was out for the summer considering that i was fully prepared to be taking them. i didn't want to get into 'lazy mode' i guess. so here we are, 2:30 in the afternoon on a sunday and i just rolled off the couch about 30 minutes ago. i have been doing pretty well at keeping up in the dishes since the appliances in the new house are what we like to call 'out of date'. i haven't attempted to use the dishwasher, i'm afraid it's not going to do anything except be ridiculously loud. what's sweet about our little set up is that the wireless router will reach the kitchen unlike in the apartment. so whilst i am baking/cooking/jamming (jamming not to be used in the sense of making jams and jellies, but that's me listening to my music on little speakers connected to said ipod) i can update and use online recipes while my raspberry scones are baking away. my new 'thing' that i'm doing, is every sunday i'm going to bake something new that i haven't done... or done in awhile. let's not forget that cooking/baking is a huge passion of mine.

this sunday raspberry scones, next sunday... i'll let you know.

when you're a celebrity...

this is too funny. for those who may not know, I work at a bank. well i guess we all did a great job at customer service. enough so for some dude to put an add in craig's list under 'missed connection'. Buah-haha-ha-haha!!

here's the link if you want to check it out. i must say that he's a little old for me. i like older dudes and all, but not that old!

http://columbus.craigslist.org/mis/725224644.html

oh and we found out about said dude's post because of another customer who had told us about it. this customer also let slip that the gentleman posts the same thing every few weeks!

my idea of the perfect day

we are having a small gathering this evening, like most people do, and i have been asked to bring a dessert. so in the midsts of preparing nummies for Melon and I's dinner, i have also been preparing some nummie strawberry cream puffs.

the most perfect day consists of being in the kitchen on a cool rainy day with nothing but my music, my bear and myself. oh and of course having my 'adult' drink to sip on all at the same time.

i love having the house to myself!

damn the ohio bugs

if i wake up with one more bug bite somewhere on my person i am going to rage out!

and if i find one more spider in the downstairs bathroom, i won't kill it. they scare me. i had Melon kill this grosse big one. totally creepy. when he smushed it he felt it pop... ick!

what a disappointment

i'm reading the Jungle by Upton Sinclair because I'm always being told about the grosse ways in which they slaughter the animals and the awful unsanitary ways in which the meat and meat by-products are packaged and processed. I know it sounds nasty that that would be the reason that i am reading said book, but i think that i went in expecting too much. come to find out that the damn thing is more about politics and organizing unions (which is not all bad), i'm just not in the mood to read about it. i'm totally bored with the book and with about a chapter left, it feels like torture to try and read the rest of it...

needless to say, i don't recommend reading it.