2010

top list for 2010

4 day road trip may long
cute little motel and winding roads of awesome

finishing upstairs renos
meeting the ladies with bosman

OMG IS SO FLUFFY I'M GONNA DIE!

(dars)

the mini one meeting the gso's mini ones

random walks to aspen heights



getting my photo taken with my favorite snow man

dancing with bosman on his bday

tasty's cake

sneaky hugs from TnA

screeching weasel and chixxdiggit with a super cute boy

floating down the river with the mini one

after work coffee with serfx

new roommate

every moment of my job

finding out kandar got me wow time

making the decision to go back to school

picking dandilions in the back yard

kaigiepoo

watching the twins graduation ceremony

aprikat beer

mario macaroni parties

swimming at the dawe with the lil ones

having such a supportive family and friends made the tough moments bearable

NetFlix and wow on the couch with the gso

bleep bloop

I stole this news piece but thought it was super interesting

The Emirates Palace Dubai hotel, has apologized for displaying a lavish $11M Christmas tree. (Image: Getty)

Abu Dhabi hotel apologizes for $11M Christmas tree

21/12/2010 8:30:00 AM

by Daniela Syrovy
Emirates Palace hotel in the United Arab Emirates erected a 13 metre Christmas tree adorned with $11 million worth of jewels. They now regret it. Is the tree in bad taste or should we loosen up and enjoy the elaborate gesture?


The folks in Abu Dhabi have received international attention after luxury hotel Emirates Palace decked out a 13 metre Christmas tree with $11 million worth of jewels. The government news agency has now issued a statement saying they regret the "attempts to overload the tradition" of decorating a tree for the holiday season. The statement was issued after critics condemned the tree as being in bad taste.

At first this story did not compute for me. Emirates Palace, a hotel in a predominantly Muslim country, has erected a giant, jewel-covered Christmas tree?! Something has gone awry in the world. It turns out that in the United Arab Emirates many hotels follow the tradition of putting a tree up in the lobby, to make visitors from abroad feel welcome.

I can appreciate the gesture though the irony of it leaves me wondering if extreme cultural sensitivity only occurs in Canada. Here, schools are removing ‘Santa' images and have replaced the term ‘Christmas concert' with ‘winter concert,' leading some to speculate about our country's cultural compassion and its ability to kill Christmas. Meanwhile in the Muslim country of UAE, publicly displayed Christmas trees are commonplace.

That said, this particular tree - described as the most expensive tree in the world - is a gaudy, tacky, tasteless PR stunt. I understand an ambitious attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records, but if you were decorating a tree to truly show your holiday spirit, perhaps you'd be better off with a tree that is dressed by the community and not an overzealous jeweler.

A more modest tree might have done a better job of not rubbing in the fact that you're one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Abu Dhabi holds 9% of the world's oil reserves. We get it. You're rich. You're really rich. No need to shove it in our faces, especially not during a time when the emphasis is meant to be on giving. There are so many better ways to spend $11 million.

If the hotel and the country truly wanted to draw positive attention to themselves they should have donated a large portion of the $11 million to the countries starving labourers, who for twenty years have worked tirelessly to build the UAE up to its current state of metropolitan glory.

http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/dubai_hotel_apologizes_for_11m_christmas_tree/b9756dd2

pics that i've been trying to post up for the last bit, are finally done, blogger isn't being fail tonight cuz its 4am

kandar showed me this

its pretty rad
it's a site with a 360 video

i can't sleep, i was so dead tired i passed out on the couch and now i'm so freaking tired but my mind keeps circling. i keep thinking of all the things i have to do before christmas and this weekend and so on and so forth. i hate leaving things until last minute. i feel like i should have way more done. so instead i'll post stuff that i totally found on the internets instead.

SO entertained

I hate cable, there's nothing ever on and you pay for a service that is rarely used. What I do love is movies, and the ability to watch a TV series without commercial breaks or having to own a pvr to watch them (i work when all the good tv is on).

Then comes this great invention called NETFLIX

this now allows me to watch the greatest series of television shows ever! RED DWARF, INVADER ZIM (my favorite comic book dude made him and jthm)

not to mention rescue me and a ton of awesome movies, documentaries and kids shows like PINGU!!!!!

i have a hard time going to bed after work cuz there's so much awesomeness on here, and cable has totally lost its shine and luster. (not that it really had a lot to begin with....Diners Drive ins and Dives was awesome that's about it)

too bad my interwebs would cost more if i canceled it. bah.

late night

between bugging someone to start an online dating profile/playing wow/watching a movie and eating a pizza pop i found time to remember how much i love this track....

late night

between bugging someone to start an online dating profile/playing wow/watching a movie and eating a pizza pop i found time to remember how much i love this track....

stuff i don't do enough of anymore

so i've come to realize i don't blog about cool stuff anymore, i rarely blog period but i've lost my awesomeness of posting cool beans kinda stuff...

I'm working night shift again. It's my last shift outta the three that I picked up. I think I might actually apply for the Days Nights full time line....I know I hate days but the money might be worth it. I have some calculating to do to figure out if it's going to be worth it or not and how many days vs nights for the shift dif. Nights I make an extra $5/hr and weekend nights an extra $8. evenings I get an extra 3.50 so for days i wouldn't get any extra, hmmmm. like i said i'll have to do some calculating.

one great thing about night shift is looking up stuff when i get bored which happens ... believe it or not

so I got bored and decided to look up nerdy desktops and found this...it's pretty hawt.




i think i'm just gonna leave this page open and keep adding to it through out the night. =) so enjoy my little random night shift awesomeness....




cool book that's cool

if i had 1000.00 kicking around i would get one of these for the wall when you come into the house

learning curve

i wish things could be easier but then i wouldn't be learning anything and i would stop growing which ultimately would become me not living anymore. i just hope things work out the way that i want to an extent and that i don't lose everything that means so much to me. i've learned so much from all of this. i appreciate my home, relationships, and job way more that i have ever before. although i still do not have any appreciation for laundry. ugh. i know i'm always going to be one of those people who has to learn life's lessons the hard way. i just hope that it's not too late.

picking up the pieces and trying to glue them back together

i've been trying for the past two weeks to post up pics from pure and it's just not working out for me. a lot of stuff hasn't been working out for me. and as harsh as reality is sometimes maybe it's a wake up call to start doing what works again. i start back into counseling tomorrow. i have to start running again and keeping up with my vitamins.

i know i hurt the gso a lot. and it wasn't his fault. i had all this sadness stuck in me and even though he was perfect in every way, i still let it come through and wasn't taking care of myself. he's been so good to me, we've become so much closer in the past few months. i couldn't ask more from him. i just hope no matter where our paths lead us that he's happy. that's all i've ever wished for him and if we could be happy together that would be even more awesome. all day all i could think of is all the great things we've done together, all the trips, all the goofing around, all the secrets we shared and all the cooking we've done. he's my bestest friend and the greatest boyfriend, and as much as i hate losing video games to him i still think he's the best video game partner in the world. he's so talented and smart, he has the biggest heart and i love him so much. i don't want him to move far away. although i know we have to have time apart, it hurts but i know it has to be. i just hope he knows how much i care for him and how all i wish is for him to be happy.

i know i need to focus on getting better and figure out why i'm so hard on myself. i pray for forgiveness and i pray for insight, and i pray that one day this will all be behind me and that one day we can be happy together again. no matter what happens i'll always love him and always leave that door open cuz it's just so amazing. i'm just sorry for all my mistakes and wish i could take them back. i'm terrified where things are going and i don't want them to continue that way. i'm hurting so much and i'm tired of it, i hate that just when people start opening up or getting close i feel so much hurt inside. i'm scared. i don't want things to keep going in this direction. hopefully going to counseling will give me some tools so this never happens again. as hard as it is to say i do have some hope, much more than i have in the past 3 days. i hope things will work out, i hope things can work out between me and the gso and i hope things will work out in my soul so i can allow happiness to be part of me again. so here i go on the road to getting better....

lost book club

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Literary_works

i think this might be my new reading list

it's a list of all the book in the tv series lost that they have/read/display

updater

*sigh* i can't find my camera sd card adapter so i haven't been posting pics or anything really cool lately. i've been on days off since wed, and have the rest of this week off too. just been really really busy with the GSO getting things all sorted out and transitioned. today we're going to calgary to take my mini one and her older brother trick or treating. i love it. its my favorite season and my favorite day with her and it makes me so happy to share that with him. we went to a halloween party on friday at a co workers which was super fun. also the GSO got us an Xbox360 *does happy dance* it's pretty sw00t. my ex husband traded me my VW golf for a brand new 50" plasma screen TV! so playing vidja games on it is so pretty. this month has been pretty stellar. i'll post up picks of the party, and the rave we went to at the begining of the month PURE. and hopefully of some from tonight. in all things that have been going on i have to say i'm really happy. nothing's easy but i know from experience that things that we work the hardest on, are the things that come with the greatest reward.

so i dunno if i posted about the creepy set of coincedences my mini one pulled together about me and the

sometimes i don't think he understands how much he really does hurt my feelings. i know he's down right now and i know that it's

Pure

after a 5 year leave of absence in the rave scene i decided to check it out again with the GSO and got us tickets for PURE. i'm so glad i did, it's totally what we needed after the past lil blips in life. it was awesome to get out of the city and enjoy amazing beats and being part of a bigger glom of people that are all there for the same reason.....phat beats, good times, and hands in the air moments. i don't think i could stop smiling there even if i tried. i had a few girls tell me how hot he looked in his pants and how awesome of a dancer he is =) i just smiled and said i know, i'm lucky.

i really do appreciate him and everything he does for me. it was amazing to go to this party and smile not only because i'm where i belong but because i got to be there with him. everything just fit perfect. and i meant what i said to those girls, i'm lucky.

i forgot how much i love to sew clothing. it's been a while, prolly 2 years since i sat down and made a skirt or pants. there's something to be said about the whole process that i love. i love the challenges that it brings i love the creative side that comes out when i sew. it's like i go into a different mode and become a different person and everything just flows. i have a lot more concentration than i did 2 years ago so it's a nice change to get a project pretty much done in one sitting rather than a span of 3 days with 12 short periods of productive work. i think it helps when i make stuff for people that i know and love. other than a minor accident with the scissors i think they turned out pretty good. i will admit i'm procratstinating on the skirt. i hate making stuff for myself. *sigh* i have to just get over it and do it.

busy but happy

this is gonna be awesome, i'm biking on my mod'd stationary bike thinking about how awesome this extended long weekend is. sewing phat pants and a skirt for PURE on saturday night, (pants are pretty much done, just have the skirt now. what started out as my nephew wanting to come over and play world of warcraft and street fighter has now turned into him and my niece, their new little brother coming over for the day and going swimming, which has morphed into the gso bringing his kidlets too, i'm super excited it's gonna be hectic and fun. only one missing is the mini one but i think she has school and we're running out of hands so maybe next time i'll invite her and her brother. i get to meet brenty's new addition, he got a new puppy and i'm so excited to meet it on saturday when we stop in to get my carstarter checked. :AN is coming to town and we're going for a quick coffee on saturday, i got the mustang out of the drive way, and have a potential buyer for my vw (on the condition he keeps the sticker on it that says 'i read your email'). i have turkey dinner with my mom's side on sunday and then coming up i'm meeting my cute french girlfriend in kananaskis. i'll post some pics of PURE i'm sure. *does happy fun dance* *twirl* don't think i could get much happier. sw00t for long weekends for cute girls!

i love waking up to stuff like this

I had this sent from one of my closest hardcore friends from morecore that i got to be very close with.
we haven't talked in a while and every time i hear certain tracks or roxette or mixes i think of him and miss him so so so very much. i always want the the best for him and hope that happiness finds him as much as it finds me when i think of him. so it was a great surprise when i opened up my email and found this with a note saying he was thinking about me. <3 you a bushell and a bunch. thanks for making my day so amazing. (yeah i teared up at it all :P)

brakes

so with the help of the gso and his dad, i learned how to change the brakes on my car, and actually did one side of the car (with the help of the guys but still). it was pretty easy minus the one set of screws we had to drill out. i have to say that's one thing about the gso that i love. he show's me how to do stuff and lets me do it on my own or at least with some help from him. i've always been an independent person and so it makes me feel good to still have that independence along with having some help with stuff.

i feel kinda bad because i didn't make it down to calgary this week but i think it was really important to fix the brakes on my car. well i should prolly get back to sleep. the dryer woke me up with it's buzzing noise like the door to the unit at work.

bl00p

i find myself spening way way more time with family lately. i'm not sure if it's because i feel they need me or because i know things aren't going to be a long term idea. it seems that calgary is a destination that i travel to more and more often although i still wanna hit up edmonton more than anything.

the other thing that seems to be haunting me is taylor swift. i always seem to have her singing my life in her songs i should sue for copy right and make some money or just write a biography and settle it for good.

learning how to text

so the mini one wanted to learn how to text msg so i taught her how to text to my dad and to the gso, to my dad she texts
'love you grampa dan' and to brent she sends fdgdgdghdhgdhhdhgdhghdghghdg this is a joke and my favorite video is flying mario head' and when he asked her how to find it she told him it was on youtube and you just have to type it in....so later when i got home from the visit and the gso was done work we checked it out.....and i have to say i lmao at the thing. i think i have a pretty rad mini one. and i can see how i 6 year old would find this to be the funniest thing on the internet.

cool beans

ok so there's no beans but this other stuff is kinda neato....


Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. While this may be true, don’t take it as a sign you’re mentally lacking if you can’t recall your dreams. Most of us don’t remember many of our dreams and the average length of most dreams is only 2-3 seconds–barely long enough to register.

wow i must be super duper smart then! I like this fact. Although my dreams lately have seemed to be stressful or have stuff in them I'm really not happy with. They say that dreams are ways to get through things we're dealing with in real life and that its good to have them even if they aren't what we want them to be (usually most of us want good dreams that make us happy) I haven't had my re-occurring dream where I'm on a journey with the GSO but rather I've been having dreams of the mini one passing away. This could be because my last surviving grandparent is sick and her birthday is coming up, or it could be a change ahead. I dunno all I do know is that I just hope she's safe and happy. She sounds like she is when I talk to her on the phone. Maybe it has more to do with other stuff that I'm just not catching. And maybe I'm not dreaming about a journey with the GSO because we seem to always be on one anyways. I guess it's true that dreams really do come true. I just hope the bad ones don't. Yeah I'm stressing about some things in real life but on the whole I'm just really really happy and grateful for all the awesome people in my life. I'm so blessed.


Also I thought this was kinda(click on cool to see) cool especially for all you photographingish buffs and historeeeeeee-ans

blah i think i should really go do my best to sleep or i'll be up all night looking at cool stuffs on the webbernets. night night.

muscles, mini one, and fun.

I've tried to take the time to sit down and type out a post but the past few weeks have been a bit different in my routine that I haven't had a moment to actually sit down and type over things that are swirling in my head. One, I've had a head cold and really the only thing swirling in my head is mucus, Two, I've had a house guest for a while and I love them there, no complaints at all. People living there do entertain me and well, i prolly talk to them instead of typing things out to get it out of my head. There have been some big things. Went out with the GSO and Nic dancing, went to a house warming pre garage warming, worked out at the city supplied work out stations littered around the city. I love them! it's a free gym! but it's outside so it's gonna suck in the winter. Click here to see if one is close to you. You don't have to be a gym junkie to use the stuff and it works all your muscle groups. I know I have a lot to work on when it comes to upper body. This was quite apparent when I went to help the GSO move my huge ass couch out the door and could barely lift it. So yeah. Between this and Laser Tag and biking on the stationary I think I'll be in pretty good shape this year finally. I got most of my eating habits down, now it's just time to put some action into the plan and build a bit of muscle.

Also the mini one started grade one this year. She absolutely loves it and had a great first day. She told me she was bullied a little bit by a boy who sits next to her but when asked what she did when he bullied her, the response I got was "i just ignored him, he's a waste of my time, but if he keeps it up i'll tell the teacher" soooo cute I just love her to bits. I can't wait to see her this month!

I should prolly go back to work seeings how my break is over in 5 mins. I still love working at the hospital I can't believe how fast time has past that I've been here so long. Seems like I just started yesterday.

red ball x10 in my heart and in my bwain

i love this video and this song so much and for any of you who know my red ball theory you'll see why visually this makes sense but also why emotionally i'm connected to this song to. it's just really really pretty and makes me wish i knew how to play guitar.

PAT MY BUNNY

tonight was looking to be an average night but ended up being one of the best nights i've had
with my best friend bosman in a while.

we watched the undergard marathon and played uno and i only cheated once.

thanks for the super awesome night sweetie it's been too long since we played uno, hmm 6 years?


still sad that i couldn't find my carebear uno set but the new deck was rad anyways.

hold on here comes another heart ache

not sure why my lil heart hurts tonight. either someone i care about is hurting or maybe my feet just miss other feet. in that case i would be super lame but i can deal with that on a much better scale than having people i love hurt too. blah i'm a dork.

Happy Birthday to the GSO nerd stylez

we play world of warcraft and the highest lvl you can reach is lvl 80 here's all his lvl 80 characters on a cake i designed with the help of dairy queen and ernbots ipad

happy birthday bosman

so there's been a lot of not so great stuff going down in my neighbourhood and it kinda sucks. the gso ended up chasing some punk ass kids after they broke into a few cars in front of my house. and now some dude is going in my back yard and that's so not cool. i wish he was here all the time to protect me but i'm a big girl and can take care of myself.

i've been recoverying slowly from my stint in the hospital. i tried going back to work today and it was pretty brutal but i was getting so depressed staying in my house for so long. although it's better than being in the hospital hooked up to iv's. i just wish they could figure out what's going on in my bodkins. the gso has been so good and supportive through this and if anything good has come out of it i think it's brought us closer together. and if that's the case it was worth having to go through this for that to happen. i appreciate him so much. along with my friends family and co workers. i'm so lucky to have all the people in my life that i do.

today is one of my best friends birthdays and i'm so excited for him to be turning the big 30! bosman has been one of the constants in my life since we became friends 13 years ago. he's put up with all my insanity and ruckas causing and tears laughter and antics and i couldn't ask for a greater friend. happy birthday sweetie i love you so much. you mean a lot to me and i don't think i'd be as happy or as strong as i am today without all your love and support, random drives to the random places and all the other greatness that has come out of us hanging out. i hope only greatness, awesomeness and wonder to fill the rest of your years. I'm the luckiest girl in the world to be able to call you my best friend. i'll see you tonight at Bo's after i'm done work! love ya heaps *big smooshy hugs*

looking for used game cards

so i'm starting to get back into my designing and sewing and crafting and well i'm not sure if anyone
who reads this plays world of warcraft but they have game cards (gives you time to play the game) and well i'm looking for the used up ones. so if you have any or know anyone who has em PLEASE send em to me I'll pay the postage and their name will go on a list of credit towards them for the donation. thanks :)

blah sleeplessness

i can't sleep and i blame the gso i was dead tired then he started talking about how he wanted to do all these projects and it got me into thinking about projects then i got somewhat manic and went through a bunch of boxes that my brother had of mine. turns out they were all from when brenty and i moved apart. i found year books, photos of tim and i and nick and tennille and my wedding album and some photos from Germany.

Made me a lil sad but incredibly happy to remember all those amazing times with all those amazing people. and yeah i'm gonna brag i was hot on my wedding day dammit. but the one photo i was looking for in there i couldn't find .... the etnies one. oh well i'm sure i have it somewhere. i have no regrets i just think we got married too young and had too many things on the go that weren't in sync. *le sigh*

thanks for the memories guys they are amazing! i'll try to get my scanner running so i can scan them and post em.

it's awesome to think people like this still exist =) click on the photo to see the whole thing

so i heard this huge noise that freaked me out, it was like a loud rushing noise of gas trying to escape

round two in the plate of soup