They're Here!!!

Paul's Aunt Wendi and Uncle Roger arrived into the Vancouver Airport yesterday afternoon at 2:30pm our time it was 10:30pm their time in England. Wendi and Laura and Jenni came directly to our place with the luggage and Paul and Roger followed in the rental car about a half hour later. They were extremely tired but very glad to be at our place. We had a wonderful (if I do say so myself) dinner of homemade Manicotti (very easy and quick to make) and salad and then a homemade Raisin Cake that Paul's mom made.

It was an early night for them as they were both asleep on the couch at 8:15pm. Oh well, we will have a great visit with them while they are here and we are all off work next week so we are looking forward to that.

Great Weekend

I had a great weekend. I was able to hang out with an old friend of mine - she and I were best friends in high school and kind of lost touch with each other after. We see each other a few times a year and it is always great to see her. We went for dinner and then back to her place and just had tea and watched some tv. We made tentative plans to get togethor again this comings Saturday night.
On Saturday I went to a baby shower for our friend Lauren and her new baby - what a cutie!!! It was nice as I have not seen one of the girls there since Laurens wedding. Mary and I then came back to my place and ended up going to Ikea and Denny's.
Sunday Paul and I had a BBQ to go to as one of his buddy's who moved to the states about 10 years ago was in town for a couple of days. The last time we saw Jeffe was about 5 years ago. It was great to see him and catch up and to see a bunch of the other old friends as well. Lots of memories were relived and many of the old stories retold and they just get better every time I hear them! He is making plans to come back to Canada next July or August and is hoping to bring his 2 kids with him this time.

Barenaked Ladies!!!!!!

I was prompted to put this picture of me and Ed Robertson from the Barenaked Ladies up here as they are coming back to Vancouver in February and I am going to yet another BNL concert (I think this makes 9 or 10) and their new album came out on Tuesday - if youdecide to get it you need to get the Deluxe verson and download it from iTunes as it has 27 songs on it and it is amazing!
I was lucky enough be able to meet him, Jim and Tyler when they were in town last December. They are my all time favourite band and I was very calm when I was talking to him (Ed is my fave!!) but when I went back to my seat I completely lost it - I started crying and shaking. Very funny, you can ask Mary if you want confirmation on that one! After the concert I turned into a crazy stalker fan as I noticed that the bands buses were right outside the venue. My VERY good and PATIENT friend Mary said that we could wait to see if we could meet all of the band and we got to meet the 3 of them and get autographs and a girl that was behind us in the line up was kind enough to take my picture with Ed and email it to me. Thanks again for being such an amazing friend that night and in life Mary. I remember that moment for the rest of my life and was glad you were there to share in it with me!

Getting Ready

I am actually glad the Paul's reletives are coming to stay with us. It has prompted me to get off my butt and stop procrastinating on doing stuff around the house. Now that I am feeling better and that Paul is doing alot more around the house I feel a lot more motivated to tackle the things I should have done a long time ago.

Last night I organized the spare room and the closet, washed most of the blankets and put them into the rubbermaids ready for storage and organized the closet in our bedroom and went through our old clothes and got a HUGE pile ready for pickup. Tonight so far I have done more laundry, done all the garbage in the house, finished in our bedroom, cleaned and organized the bathroom from top to bottom, written lists and lists and more lists of what is still left to be done. I am hoping to tackle it all this weekend (plans for the tattoo fell through this weekend but possible in November!)

Being Sick

I hate being sick!!! What is even worse is when you are sick and you have no idea if you have a cold or the flu or something else. I woke up yesterday morning with a headache that was borderline migraine and a temp that was just above normal but felt fine otherwise so I went to work. I was at work until 1:30pm when I got progressivly worse so I went home and stayed in bed for the rest of that day and night. My temp slowly climbed and finally peaked at 102.3 degrees and then it broke at around 2:00am. Needless to say I stayed home from work today and slept most of the day. The weird thing is I only had the fever and felt totally fine otherwise. I had the body ache but no other symptoms. I did not feel nausaus or stuffy or anything else. As I am writing this my temp is slowly climbing again. If this keeps up I might have to go to a doctor and I really don't want to...

Paul and I had a great weekend. Friday we had our friends wedding that that was fun. They had the ceremony on the beach in Port Moody and the sun shining and all thier friends were around and it was really beautiful. Paul looked great in his tux as did all the groomsmen. Men look so wonderful in tuxes! The bride was beautiful in her gown and the bridesmaids looked great as well. The reception was fun, catching up with old friends including Angela and Lionel and feasting on a really nice indian dinner buffet (my car still smells like curry as I had to pick up all the food from the restaurant and some spilled in the car!)

The next morning we were up an on our way to go spend the rest of the weekend with my Dad and Heather for her birthday. Everything was great up there, lots of people food and drink. We got up in the morning and had breakfast and then spend 3-4 hours on the dock catching some sun and then we took the boat out on the water for a couple of hours each day. Then we partied at night! It was great to see my dad but he can tick me off and hurt me like nobody else in the world - not even Paul!! It is not what he does as much as what he can say to me. He does not see me very often so he spend the whole weekend picking on me and talking about how wonderful Stacy and Nicki are (Heathers kids) and how they see their mom and him all the time and phone and email all the time. Okay... great but what is his point, they live in the same city that they do. I am the one that has gone to see him all the time, I email at least once a week and call him when I can - the phone works both ways as do the ferry and email. It just makes me feel like I am a bad daughter because I don't get to see him all the time and that it is my fault. I know it is not and that he should make more of an effort as well but try telling him that. I honestly think that I would get more out of a brick wall sometimes. Oh well.

While I am on a roll, I am feeling really overwhelmed at home trying to keep up with ALL of the housework and working full time. I tried to talk to Paul about helping out a bit more at home when he is at home instead of spending 2-3 FULL days sitting on his butt watching tv and playing video games. When I tried to talk to him he just call all defensive and turned it around so that it was my fault. I hate it when he does that. He says he does his fair share around the house but taking dishes and just piling them on the counter (so that I can put them in the dishwasher), pushing a broom around once per week do not constitue a fair share of the workload. If you counted keeping a spot on the couch warm and the remote control company then yes he does MORE than his fair share. Oh well, after more loud "discussing" we agreed to talk about it again when it is not midnight. I will keep you posted on what happens.