Go Riders!

Jamaica rocked. Check Facebook for all 220 of my pictures.

Only 4 more days until the Riders win the Grey Cup! Seriously, I am so freakin excited. I remember the 89 game like it was yesterday, even though I was only 9. 18 years later, they're gonna do it again, I can feel it!

That's all I have to say.

Jamaica!!!

I'm going to Jamaica in 4 days!!!! That's all. Oh, and I just bought the new album by Nikki Sixx's new band, The Heroin Diaries. It's amazing, and everyone should check it out.

Summer's end

Can you believe that summer is almost over? How crazy is that? It seems like we spend all year waiting for June, July and August and before you know it, Labor Day is just around the corner. I really have got to figure out a way to make the summer months slow down because it seems as though January and February take forever to get through. Ok, that's the end of my "summer is almost over" rant.

I loved Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm so sad that it's all over. I think I sobbed through the last 200 pages just because I knew that it would come to an end. Yes, I'm a dork. I openly admit that and am surprisingly okay with it.

With the end of summer comes Cassidy's birthday. She's going to be 7 on Sunday. I honestly have a hard time believing she is so old. I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday and now I'm planning her 7th birthday party. Tomorrow she'll be 18 and moving out. Somebody stop the madness! Anyways, we're going to Let's Play for her party. It's this really cool indoor jungle gym and arcade place that is just way too much fun. I love it b/c adults can play too. And seriously, what 27 year old does not want to jump into a great big ball pit? So amongst other things, I bought her High School Musical for her birthday. Now, I'm not so sure that was a good idea because I'm going to be walking around singing Breaking Free for the next 3 months. Oh well, it's still a cute movie. A bit cheesy and waaayyyyy to Disney perfect, but cute nonetheless.

Ball season is almost over, finally. I love playing ball and am always itching to get back on the diamonds starting in November, but I'm getting tired. However, my slo-pitch team only has one game left next Tuesday for the league championship. That's kind of exciting. I say kind of exciting, because I still have a hard time saying that slo-pitch is a real sport. Fastball and baseball, absolutely. Slo-pitch....not so much. And I just don't get those teams that take it oh-so-seriously and don't even crack a smile while they're playing. Like come on, it's slo-pitch! Any sport that you play better after a few drinks does not qualify as a real sport. My fastball team is done for the year now. We finished 4th in our league after a tension filled play-off series that involved me getting kicked in the face by a runner sliding into home. The dangers of being a pitcher.

Hmmmmm. Not much else is going on. I'm glad to have my girl back from Saskatchewan. We're pretty lucky that we had so much time to visit with friends and family this summer. It was nice. We'll have to do it more often. As we were driving to my ball game last night, Cassidy asked me if I missed my friend. I asked her what friend? She said the friend that we had a sleepover with in Saskatoon. For some reason, she couldn't remember Leah's name. So I told her that yes, of course I missed my friend. And then she asked if we were ever going to see her again. So I'm taking that as a hint that we don't go back home nearly enough. I will do my best to change that.

I'm off to Jamaica in 3 months!!! So excited. And I still have 40 minutes left before I can go home for the day but I don't think I can ramble on about nothing for that long. So, I'll go now and see if anything new has happened on People.com in the last hour.

Bye!
Megan

Vacation

It's almost vacation time. 1 more day of work this week and then I'm off to Lacombe for the weekend for provincials. Back in the office Monday & Tuesday next week and then I'm off until August 7. I'm going to Saskatoon to pick up Cassidy and I can't wait to see her! Then I'm going to take Leah and the kids for dinner on Wednesday night and Tuesday I'm off to the farm for one glorious, stress-free week. Lara's wedding is on Saturday and that will be soooo much fun. Then my plan is to blow up Cassidy's kiddie pool, set up my lawn chair and read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. So excited.

Back to Sask?

Sigh. Maybe. I'm back at work today after a week out of office. Okay, so 3.5 days of that was technically still work b/c I was in Red Deer for training. But I don't mind training. I get to stay in nice hotels and check out different restaurants and I went for a wicked massage. But it was still work. Thursday after my training was done, I headed home, unpacked, re-packed and headed to the airport - destination Regina, SK. I booked the latest flight b/c I wasn't sure when my training would be done so I sat in the airport for 3 hours. Normally, I wouldn't mind b/c Calgary has a decent airport so I can easily kill 3 hours just by shopping. But I didn't consider the fact that everything would be closed by the time I got there. So I finally get on the plane and am itching to take off because I really, really miss my family and my little girl by this point. Then the overly-fake-happy stewardess informs us that there are 5 people who are stuck in security and we would have to wait for them. I'm incredibly irritated by this - the rest of us managed to make it through security on time so my vote was to leave without them. Turns out, my vote doesn't count. So we finally land in Regina and my dad is there waiting for me. We don't get back to the farm until around 3 am. I was tired. I had been up since 4 am the night before. Be thankful that I spared you that long story about how I was woken up by a bunch of little punks running up and down the halls of my hotel. So anyways, I woke up at noon and went outside. And then it hit me how much I had missed Saskatchewan. It's just so quiet and peaceful. No sirens, no stereos, no random yelling fights on the sidewalks. Just peaceful.

Okay, I'm back and it's 2 days later. To sum up my trip, it was really good. I had a great time relaxing and visiting with family and friends. The wedding was beautiful, pictures are posted below. I'm looking forward to going back at the end of July. My plan is to head down to Saskatoon for a day or so around the 25 then to Neudorf until the wedding. I love holidays.

Stampede started today. I'm exhausted already becuase I had to get up at an ungodly hour to work at our breakfast. But I'm taking off at 2 so I can hang in for 3 more hours. And... Harry Potter mania is starting again. I'm so excited for the movie/book it's quite ridiculous. Goes to show that you're never to old to stop believing in magic.

Long time, no blog. It's been crazy here lately. Summer is here and with summer comes the end of school for Cassidy. She's leaving for 6 weeks to spend time with her dad and my parents while my baby-sitter takes her summer holidays. I'll miss her terribly. After Stampede, of course. I enjoy being on my own during Stampede. I've been doing a lot of travelling lately to get trained for my new job. Still with the same company, just a promotion. Which came with a nice, big raise. So now I have money to invest in company stocks. I guess it's time I research stocks and all that good stuff. I know nothing about investing. However, I have friends that do so I'll have to call on them to teach me the ropes.

I started playing fastball again. The first few games I was so sore that I could barely walk. And last game I had 6 strike-outs and hit a triple. It's all coming back.

I was so proud to say that I was resisting the Facebook temptation, but I caved yesterday. It's actually kinda fun. Now I have to go through all my pictures and find some to post so everyone can see what I'm up to. What a brilliant invention. Whoever thought of Facebook must be so rich by now. Wonder if he's single???

So the wedding season is sneaking up on me again. Next week I'm taking off for Sask to go to Chad's wedding, then Lara's is month after that. When fall comes around, I'll have 2 more classes to take (ick) and then I get to reward myself with a nice, week-long trip to Jamaica for Roch and Pearl's wedding. I can't wait. It'll be so much fun.

My Habitat for Humanity event went off perfectly last Saturday. I had a few last minute cancellations, but overall it went really well. Our crew leader was a really cute young guy. So I was very encouraged at first until I realized he had the personality of a rock. And then was informed that popped steriods like candy. Sigh. Oh well. I did get some really good pictures of his arms. And they let me play with drills and power tools all day. Then we had a partay for my 27th birthday. Did you know that 27 is officially old enough to start receiving birthday cards about aging? I found that a bit disturbing. I feel very old this week. I just can't stay up partying until 4 am anymore.

We've had some crazy weather here in Calgary lately. I don't think it's stopped raining for more than a day since May. I may be exaggerating a little bit, but we did get a few wicked storms. I love thunder storms, I find them strangely calming.

I'm going to Mamma Mia on Saturday! So excited. I love ABBA. Not sure why, but I love all their songs. So it should be a good show. And that's about all I have to say right now.

Bye all!

This and That

So I haven't blogged in a while. That's pretty obvious to those of you who read my blog (thanks!). It's been busy around here lately. Mostly with work. How boring is that? It's actually not boring at all, I'm really starting to love my job. I don't know why...there is so much to do and it's insanely stressful but it's also very challenging and I love seeing the results of improvements that I initiated. However, those improvements are still few and far between. But it's coming. Like my mentor from Houston tells me every week... You can't eat an elephant in one bite.

Speaking of elephants, I've had this crazy urge to take Cassidy to the zoo. Actually, I want to go to the zoo but it's a great way to spend the day with her. And it's an awesome excuse to eat hot dogs and ice cream cones. The snow is finally gone and it looks like spring is here. However, it's pouring rain right now. Blah. This weekend my volunteer council is participating in the Bow River Clean-Up. It's an annual event where tons of people divide into groups and each clean the garbage along their designated section of the pathways in Calgary. It's usually a lot of fun and you see some pretty weird things... Also, Calgary is an eye-sore right now. The paths get so dirty over winter.

I think I finally found a church that I enjoy going to! It's St. Giles Presbyterian and I really enjoyed it last week. We found it through my brother in law's parents. Their old minister left St. Albert b/c his wife had some personal problems and now he's going to be preaching here in Calgary. So we went to check it out and I really like it. Yay. It's so hard to get up and go to church on Sunday when you know you're going to be bored during the service. Looks like the search may have come to an end. A belated thanks to Leah for that advice...

Ball season started again. Finally. We had our first double header on Tuesday. It was tons of fun, but I took a beating. Yes, I know you're all saying "how do you take a beating in slow pitch?" it's possible. In this league, the umpires make you stand so close to the plate, it's freaky. And I was filling in for our regular catcher b/c she was late. I got hit in the head twice. TWICE!!! I have 2 huge bumps on my noggin. And then I was on first and got smoked in the shin by a line drive. I like to say that I lost the ball b/c the sun was going down and I couldn't see, but actually I just wasn't paying attention. I'm such a klutz, it's ridiculous. But I hit a triple, so that was cool.

2 hour Grey's Anatomy tonight! I'm excited. I think I'm more excited because my shows are all ending and I will have no more TV obligations. That means that summer is coming.... My favorite girl got booted from America's Next Top Model last night. Too bad for Brittany. I'm cheering for Renee now. She's got an edge. I like that.

So a couple of months ago, I was blog surfing and I found Gina's blog through Leah's and read one of her posts about teachers. It was so infuriating that I had to leave a long-winded comment. Anyways, the author of the original article somehow found her blog and left comments for all the comments on the post. I'm infuriated all over again. I'd leave a link so you all can read it but I don't know how to do that. So you'll have to search just like I did! If you're reading my blog, you're probably procrasinating anyways, so this is just one more thing that you can do before you get back to work!

K, time to go and make dinner for my little cutie pie. G'night all.