Updates to my last entry.

So where to begin....well I have been working at the hospital quite a bit, I am on day 4 of a stretch of a 7...yay I can see the end coming! I am still coughing a storm...but sorry to say the phlegm has disappeared and is now just a dry cough, so i have no gross disguisting stories about my mysterious illness for my blog today.

The house is apparently painted the right color. I have not witnessed this myself but am told so by reliable sources that the house is the proper color now. I will check on that this weekend and maybe if my loyal blog readers are lucky they will see a picture of the paint color choice that had been choosen to be displayed on the walls in the house. Also the cabinets are in the house (and they are the correct cabinets...haha). The railings are stained to match the cuboards now (still haven't seen this myself either.) And the painters were suppose to be done painting by today but my source doesn't think the painters are done yet either.

So a bit of progress in the ever marching saga of house building. I mean from the possession date originally being October of 2006, I would say that we are not that far off schedule...(notice my sarcasm?)

So anyways I have three wonderful days left of work at the hospital then it is off to the tropical setting of Manitoba. Anyways it is late and I should sleep.

The official pondering buzz.

So this is the way I feel. I have had this head cold for about four days now and it is not getting any better. I wake up and my head feels like a storage facility for phlegm, and I have never felt like my head is going to explode the way I have over the last few days...yes it is true, my head may explode...so try not to stand to close me till this all blows over.



So aside from feeling yucky, me and Ashley met Rick, Nathan and Rob D. to do some quadding yesterday. It was fun and once I got going (no I did not get past the first gear), it was a piece of cake. Mind you Rick and Rob D. felt it was not a good idea to teach me how to go into reverse until I could drive the quad properly in first gear. So needless to say I got stuck at the edge of the field parked in the direction of a dirt pile. So Rick had to push my quad backwards to get me aimed in the right direction so I could continue on in learning how to drive the quad. I was actually laughing so hard because I really suck at quading. Rick was very helpful out in the field and was very encouraging to me during my moments of stupidity where I couldn't get the quad going again and kept stalling. He's a good teacher. Ashley on the other hand did really well, she actually made my quad driving look really, really, really bad.



So we had fun until the boys decided to call it quits....which we all agree (well Ashley, Nathan & I) that we should have spent more time out there. But this is something we will attempt to master at a future date because it is quite fun. But I have never been good at driving a manual, I love automatics. So Nathan's gonna try to get us to try an automatic quad sometime when we have time to go out and practice our quadding skills. Don't laugh....I will become good and master a jump or two. Just wait and see.



Other than not to much happening around here. The house is coming along, the driveway is ready to go...but in need of repairs because they finished the driveway on a day that was to hot resulting in gigantic cracks all across the driveway. So someone is going to fix that. The painters painted the interior of the house the wrong color (due to someones dyslexic ways). So the carpenter is done for now until the finishing carpentry needs to be done after the flooring is in. Next comes the cabinets and then the painters will regrace the house with their presence and paint the house the proper colors...I will be there to make sure they get it right the second time around. Then comes the flooring, then after all that the carpenter will come back in and finish the finishing carpentry....somewhere in between I think the lighting goes into...and then voila the house will be done.....so I hope....so the projected date of possession may hopefully be August??? heehee no one really knows at this point and time!...actually they never gave a possession date after they failed to meet the October 2006 possession date. (long story!)


So while all this is happening and my dad will be here to take care of business, I am heading off to Manitoba for the first week of July...so for my fellow Manitoba readers (I actually don't know how many of you read this.) I will be around from the 3rd to the 8th staying with my auntie arlene. So that is some exciting news! I need the vacation.



Now I should probably go study because I have my last final exam on Tuesday before the summer begins. So if you don't mind I am going to head off to read up about Freud and Erickson and their views on how development occurs over the lifespan....it isn't actually that exciting.



Ps- I do promise to keep my blog updated a lot more than it has been. I realize that it has been awhile since I have blogged and I apologize to all my loyal blog readers.

For the finale...

So it is pouring rain outside and it feels like minus 30 degrees inside...mostly because for some reason the airconditioners are still running even though it is cold outside. I am sure by tomorrow the sun will be out and it will return to the hot, hot +30 degree we've been having. So I figured I would take a moment to blog.

I finally picked out and decided on the colors for the house...which everyone had me second guessing my decisions and making me really wonder if I should be allowed to pick colors because I know nothing about interior design. But finally I picked the colors and what is done, is done. If it looks horrible, then I will repaint every square inch of the place myself...heehee probably not!

They are putting the siding up on the house finally, but they don't get very far from day to day mostly due to the fact that when I drive by and check on the progress, I only ever see one man working...I feel bad for him because the front of the house and part of the side of the house goes up two complete stories and working on ladders and scafolding yourself is NEVER recommended. So hopefully when I drive by, the other guy is just on his lunch break or whatever. I can believe that there are two people putting up siding...it makes it seemingly go by faster.

So they are going to begin to paint the interior of the house and then hopefully we can get in and start doing some flooring! Yes it is a project for my dad and Nathan...I will try to help but I am quite busy with work right now and school. I have a huge paper due on Monday and the question I have to focus on is: DO PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DIE?
It touches on whether or not euthanasia should be allowed and legalized or should it remain unlegalized. So I have to get the views of two medical professionals or someone else..heeehee now this paper is due next week Tuesday and I have yet to seek out advice or help from anyone about this...I am such a procrastinator but I am telling you that it will turn out to be an amazing wonderful paper on my part. I do great amazing work in the midst of stress and chaos!

Color schemes a plenty!

Okay so I may not be so bold as to make my living room look that insane! But Today I spent sometime browsing through the showhomes here because I was told I cannot paint the trim in the house and the doors in the house, the same as the wall color. I honestly don't think it would look that bad, but apparently it's never been done before and will look funny.
So I took to the showhomes and honestly whoever decorated them has some serious taste issues. They may quite possibly have been worse than this photo! The first house had the whole mono-tone thing going for it, just plain old white and beiges...yuck!! The second house was getting closer to my taste minus the bright red painted throughout it mixed with the browns. The third house was closer which had the browns throughout (which I very much love!!) but then the baseboards and trim were an offwhite color, too close to white. I am not one who likes the color white in a house. White trim use to be the "In" thing to do but honestly it doesn't look good, it collects major amounts of dust and dirt and they do eventually turn black if left uncleaned.
So after having browsed the showhomes I sought out the help of my dad and Nathan to help me decide. I am now looking at new paint options for my walls and they want to start painting this week. But nothing has seemingly gone right with the building of the house in the first place. This house is definitely behind schedule!!!
So anyways other than my misadventures with the house it was a beautiful +32 degrees outside today. The kids spent the afternoon playing in the spray pool and having so much fun. It hopefully tired them out enough to sleep well tonight. We also spent a bit of time with Ashley because she came down from Calgary. I can say nothing odd or weird happened except Ashley thinks monsters live in her basement and Taylor helped her hunt them with the laser guns. Anyways until next time...I need to go to bed!

An adventure on the highway.

So this weekend I went to Calgary to get away and do some shopping and as well to hang-out with Ashley & Nathan. So I was driving up on the highway just enjoying the solitude and enjoying the ride up. Just outside of claresholm I switched lanes and drove for about five minutes when I noticed a duck sitting on the side of the road. I thought that was strange and kept driving. As soon as I was about to pass this sitting duck, it decided to fly. It was like a slow motion movie of this duck's wing flapping up and down as it was trying to get itself into the air. The only problem was that it was trying this infront of my car driving close to 120km/hr. So I am just almost sitting in a time warp in my car watching this duck flap and flap and it just kept getting closer and closer to my front windshield. I hit the duck! It smacked so hard into my front windshield that the impact made a huge "THUD" and I cringed inside knowing I hit this poor defenseless duck who was trying to fly away from the highway. As soon as the duck hit my windshield and I heard this "Thud" I shut my eyes! I did not want to see this poor duck hit my glass. Nathan told me it was a good thing I shut my eyes incase the beak of the duck hit the window and shatter it.

So I am not the first member of my family to hit a duck on that highway. I am reminded of an instance not so long ago when a certain younger brother of mine was driving up to Calgary to visit Ashley. He thought it was something else and as his wheels were about to drive over it, he realized it was a mother duck with little ducklings following behind. He hit a mother duck and left the ducklings on the side of the road to be orphaned. So we have this history in our family of hitting ducks on the highway between here and Calgary.

So as you can imagine as soon as I told this to Ashley, she couldn't contain her laughter and we were laughing until we had tears in our eyes and could barely talk. It was just like what were the chances that the two of us would do the exact same thing. Hit a duck, what are the chances?

So we had fun this weekend. I stayed with Ashley's family and it was quite a full house this weekend. They get a lot of guests because the girls both have boyfriends and they now have one of Nathan & Ashley's friends living with them who also has a girlfriend...so their house is never quiet...we are trying to persuade Ashley to move back here! We miss having her around...but she has promised she will come to visit, so hopefully we will have more tales to follow.

The real Story

So the real story behind the "Zellers" Saga is as follows. Ashley, her mom, my mom and I were wandering around the linen & bedding department at Zellers when all the suddenly Ashley's mom got a phone call. She said "Kristie, please watch Ashley, she has a tendency to wander off." I told her that I would do my best to keep tabs on the whereabout's of Ashley. I was following my mom around while she looked for her duvet cover and kept having to tell Ashley to keep up because she was stopping, looking and touching everything!!! Telling me how soft the pillows were and which bedding really felt like it had way to much starch put into it before it was packaged. Well I kept a close eye on her, almost too close then soon we were seperated from my mom. Ashley began to freak out and run around the store screaming that she was lost, now you think in the commotion, my mom would have found us. But instead I had to chase Ashley around the store hopelessly trying to catch her and calm her down. Pretty soon we ended up at the 'lost property office'...(see picture above). I told the man at the desk that it would be nice of him to please page my mom to the office to reunite us. Instead the man, deciding we were playing a practical joke on him said this "would the mother of the two twenty-something daughters, please come claim them"...."They really should not be left unattended!"

So that is how the weekend shopping trip to Zellers really went...

Tuesdays Ponderings

So today I started school again...I have two three hour classes per week for 6 weeks. It would be a lot of fun except it is Psychology. That perhaps is the most boring, uninteresting class that I could ever think of taking but since I need it for graduation, I have no choice but to pass the class so that I can get the credits. I had considered taking psychology before as a major...so glad I didn't!!! I really wouldn't have lasted long.

The weekend was really nice to get away and I am contemplating attempting to escape the city again to go somewhere...this far the plan is on hold because I am in school right now and I have a part-time job at the hospital as a clerk, when I can get the work. I have realized that after having worked so hard last semester and with everything else that happened to help make my life incredibly hectic and crazy, that I just need time away. I will travel this summer, just not sure where I want to go yet.

Today it reached an amazing +30degree's outside. Oh so nice except being stuck inside half the day plus the sky looked kind of funny all morning like it was going to rain. The sky really only cleared up at around 2 this afternoon when the sun actually began to shine outside.

Well I am going to go watch Catch and Release...I have no idea if it is actually a good movie or not. We'll see I suppose.