Category Archives: Weekend Update

Yee-haw, it’s rodeo time

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This past weekend marked the annual Rodeo Weekend in my hometown. It draws a huge crowd, including the majority of my family members, and it’s always a good time! On Saturday morning my mom, Isla, step-dad and I piled into the truck and headed “home” for the day to visit, laugh, and take in the sights and sounds of the annual parade. (And feasted on freshly made bannock – a parade-watching staple!) I didn’t go to the rodeo itself since Isla is still a little too young, but she did enjoy watching the parade.

Here’s some photos from the day:

(Long) Weekend Wind-Up

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This past weekend was a holiday one here in BC, so that means that Monday was a day off for those who could take advantage of it! Of course, since I’m on maternity leave every day is a proverbial day off, but it doesn’t mean I can’t try to enjoy it, right? Right! Of course, the May long weekend is usually cursed with less than summery weather, and this weekend was spot on. It rained, there was windy, and a little bit of sunshine here and here.

Anyway, I didn’t get up to much for the weekend. Kyle worked Thursday-Monday, and got off work this morning, so we didn’t have any extravagant plans. Generally, we don’t anyway. With the May-Long rain curse, we avoid things like camping and such – plus, it’s the first “big” tourist weekend of the summer, and that there be cray-cray.

I suppose the biggest thing is that my bestest good friends got engaged on Saturday!! I’m not going to lie, but I was totally surprised when Callie called me and told me the good news, but I’m so excited and happy for her and Dave. Whenever someone I know gets engaged it just makes me all giddy with the memories of my own wedding and how much of an amazing day it was.

On less exciting topics, I gave my take on Silver Linings Playbook (the movie) for my friends over at We Came from the Basement, so please feel free to jump on over there and let me know what your thoughts on the movie vs. book are!

I’m also pretty sure that Isla is cutting more teeth, because after two weeks of sleeping all night and being a happy, awesome baby, she’s now back to waking up in the middle of the night in a rage, drooling, and being quiet testy. I think I almost hate teething more than Isla does. Almost.

On a lamesauce note, I really want to give some people the big ol’ “F-YOU”, but I won’t because I’m a nice person most of the time and doing that would only cause more problems.

Time to put pyjamas on, crawl into bed and read a book before bed.

Blarg.

Whirlwind

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Oh em gee, my weekend seems like it was crazy busy, even though it probably was a snore to most of you. Probably because I have just been so exhausted lately, so everything takes that much more effort. Hell, life in general seems to be crazy busy lately.

Work has been crazy busy with municipal election stuff, and there’s a big ass spelling bee coming up in the new year that I’ve been busy with as one of the organizers.

And then there’s life – moving, packing, renting, living – whew!

We found a renter for our townhouse in an amazing THREE DAYS. Neither Kyle or I thought we would find someone that quickly, despite when everyone told us. (“No problem, you’ll rent it out easy peasy!”) I had them sign the rental agreement Saturday night so that was a lovely weight lifted off our shoulders.

Now it’s time to pack like crazy fools. Why on earth did we decide to take a quicker possession date? Oh, because we’re crazy people. And I guess the lower price tag helped too. It’s just so hard to pack when we still have to live here for a couple more weeks! It’s going to be uber stressful, for sure.

But – my weekend was pretty laid back overall. I went with my mom and step-dad to a Ukrainian bake sale and got myself a dozen cabbage rolls. YES! There was a HUGE line-up at the door when we got there at 11 a.m. (when it was suppose to start). Apparently people started lining up at 10 in the morning! And it wasn’t exactly warm this morning either (-3°C/26.6°F)! In the sun it was tolerable, but waiting in the shade? I nearly froze to death, I swear. I wish I took a picture of the craziness of the line-up.

After the back sale, I did some grocery shopping, came home, and had a nap. Kyle went to work, so I made myself some Chinese noodle soup with long won ton noodles, chicken broth, a little onion and a hard boiled egg. Delicious! What on earth on long won ton noodles?

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Seriously the best thing ever. So glad my dad brings things like this back for me from his trips to Vancouver. Like the Chinese say – “Long noodle, long life!” ;)

Luckily, Sunday was a lazy day, spent slowly packing some more things up and making a list of all the different things I have to have my address changed on. Such a pain! This time I think Kyle and I are going to have mail forwarding done through the postal service. Less hassle that way!

How is tomorrow already Monday??

How was your weekend?