Trees

Today I emailed the city to ask about tree planting in the spring. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a while but is unavailable during the winter months. Hopefully it’s not a convoluted process like much of the city services are. Signing up for the bin keeper project earlier this year wasn’t terrible but this tree program seems like it will require a lot of jumping through hoops. Why? Just give me some saplings, a shovel and a location and let me go to town! Maybe I’ll just go rogue and get my own baby trees to plant if it seems like too painful of a process.

If you want your community to help, don’t make thinks complicated over cost too much effort to even sign up.

Experience Challange #21 Master Of Christmas!

Every year for the past five or so years I have been telling myself that I will smarten up and do all my Christmas shopping in November to save myself the headache that is gift hunting in December. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Christmas. What I hate is the crazy people on the roads, crazy people getting into fights over parking spots, lunatics ripping stuff off of shelves and arguing with cashiers over the price of the pair of socks they are trying to buy. The hectic mayhem that Christmas has turned into is definitely not the idea that comes to mind when I think of ‘the magic hustle and bustle of Christmas’.

This year I finally managed it. I purchased all my gifts before November 22^nd! Nice. I had tons of fun wrapping too. This must be the first time in history that the wrapping is done (mostly) before the tree is even decorated.

Speaking of decorating, Nicole and I decorated the daycare. Still November I might add! We just love it too much. Decorations, the festive….ness of it all. Hah. Love it and the clients don’t seem to mind either. =)

Sometimes

I think I ask too much of people. 

Experience Challenge #20 NIN Concert

Week 20, bitches! I wish this post was more creatively written but my brain is mush. a couple hours sleep after a rock concert and tons of running around on a busy Friday don't mix with this ginger. 

Boy am I dragging my ass today. It’s currently 2:38pm and I want nothing more than to curl up and have a nap. I guess it’s all worth it though. Last night I got to experience a Nine Inch Nails concert for the first time ever. I have always heard good things about Trent Reznor’s show performance but I had no idea how much it would blow me away. I’ve always been a fan of NIN but yet I never got the opportunity experience it live. The closest NIN ever got in the past years was Victoria. Boo!

But now he finally came to Vancouver. Yes!  I have never gotten to see a concert in Roger's Area before either so it was a two for one deal!. Pretty sweet. 

To be able to see him down there and sing his heart out along with thousands of us singing back was crazy. Needless to say, it was amazing. I have never witnessed such an amazing visual experience at a concert before. The stage was amazing and almost seemed out of this world with how everything moved. Mesh screens in front and behind the band where used to project images in addition to tons of floaty lights and crazy backdrops. It was amazing. AMAZING. I just want to say amazing over and over again. I feel like I can’t express my experience with it properly in word. It was just…. awesome. That said, Trent played a little too much from his newest album; it would have been nice to hear some older favorites but in all I can’t complain. It was astounding. At the end one of the songs they closed with was Trent’s version of Hurt. Wow. I was blown away.

Interesting concert to people watch at. Such varying degrees of personality. Old couples, young average looking people, guys dressed up in tux’s with chains and studs in them, a girl with dreds down to her knees. Interesting….yes, interesting.

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Find someone, anyone. Family, friend, fast food worker. Thank them. Thank them for what they did or what they do for you. Sometimes the smallest thank you can mean a lot. 

Idiot Moments

Good morning! Is it a good morning? It’s been a crazy morning so far for me. I was a bit of an idiot and forgot to put my work key back on my keychain last night. Now normally, I arrive at work at least 15 minutes early to eat breakfast and get anything that needs to be done in the office completed before I have to turn on any lights or welcome the clients waiting outside. It’s nice and quiet and I have a few moments to myself. This morning I arrived early with Timmies in hand and Zoey by my side as per usual. I grab my keys and look for the one that opens our lunchroom door to get in. Gone. No blue key. What? I look at the keychain over and over like an idiot before checking all my pockets. I run to the car and check the seats, floor, jacket pockets in there, the center console. Nowhere!

Now, this is normally where my anxiety kicks in and I blow up into an unbelievable mess. This time I was calm and collected which is kinda unusual. I make a few calls before finally my bosses wife answers. I feel like an idiot admitting to her what I managed to do but she’s my hero and rushes down to save me. I’m lucky I have understanding clients. Our resident wiener dog and his owner are fantastic and she had a laugh with me outside the front doors after I told her I would hold her pup so she could zip off to work. All said and done, we opened only a minute past 6:30. Not bad. Thanks Karen!

Ah, I still feel stupid though. I’ve been working since 2005 and I have NEVER ever done something like that. It was bound to happen and some point right? I guess I’m just lucky that they live up the road from the daycare.

Here’s to hoping that the rest of the day goes a little better.

Pride & Prejudice

Well the past week or so have been eventful in ways.

Daycare work has taken up most of my time. Between, daycare upgrades, making and prepping advertising for flyers and websites and everything in between plus getting us prepared for starting obedience classes, needless to say I’m pooped. Not trying to complain though, I love my job. It’s really starting to look that the majority of the crazy stress we were put through a few months back is behind us. We can now look forward into making this place a fun and exciting part of our future. I can’t wait.

I finally did something this past weekend that I haven’t really done in a long time. Stayed in bed all morning! Well, not exactly true. I have a tendency to get up quite early (Read 6:30am) just to get all the stuff I need to get done, done during the short 24 hours of precious time I have in a day.

This weekend I did wake up early and did a few chores before I found myself clawing back into bed. Boy was it nice. Nothing more wonderful than going back to snuggle in a dark, warm room with someone ya love!

It was really nice and I think I really needed it.

Sunday I went to a play that my brother’s girlfriend was in. I haven’t been to a play in ages and had it not been for her, I probably wouldn’t have gone because it’s of a genre that I usually try to avoid. Classic romance. Blah. The play was Pride and Prejudice, adapted from the novel by Jane Austin. Not really my style (Fantasy, sci-fi and action is where my heart lies) but they had a few comical moments to keep us going. She did a phenomenal job and I was really impressed and glad I went to see her accomplishment!

On Thursday I get to go see Nine Inch Nails in Vancouver. I am super stoked and we will be going with a few friends so I can’t wait. I’m so ready to cross it off my bucket list/challenge!