Girly!

This is for my mom...

This entire week (well okay except monday cause I was working in the garden) I have worn a dress or skirt! I guess my mom finally got her girly-girl!

I bought 2 new skirts cause they're nicer to wear when it's hot and I don't like wearing shorts (I'd wear bermuda shorts though).

So Tuesday I wore my green skirt from Italy:
Wednesday and Thurs I wore my new skirts, one's grey linen and super cute and the other's white with bright pink flowers all over it (pink too!)

and yesterday (friday) I wore a jean skirt to work, but bought a dress at work and wore that the rest of the night.




Today I plan to wear either a skirt I just need to do the finishing touches on (sewed it myself!). I need to do the hem as you can see.. and I don't think it's that well made, but I didn't really have a pattern.. just some pointers from the internet... as you can tell from the back view I didn't take my hips into account and had to add more fabric, this black in the lining I thought it would be a bit different :P


or another dress I bought at work yesterday! I like this one, but I think about 4 other girls at work have it!

Mom I guess it only took 24 years for me to become that girl you always wanted in dresses! Oh and sorry about my hair.. I know its messy but this was an in promptu fashion show before I really got ready for work this morning..

Hot Hot HOT!!

Its sooooo hot here today!!!! This is what the weather network is telling me...

34°C

A few clouds

Feels Like: 42

It's hot! I left nice air conditioned work early cause there's nothing for me to do.. and I almost melted on the bus ride home!!! The walk from the bus stop was almost worse!! By the time I got home I had sweat dripping down my forehead and all my clothes were clinging to me! After I got home I had to wash my face and wipe my back off :P I walked in the house and it felt like a fridge.. I looked at the thermostat in the house...

25 degrees! Crazy! That is not normally considered "cool"

I wanted to prove how hot it is outside in pictures.. I took some of my wilty plants... here you go!

This is my tomato plant (see the tomatoes on the side?) on the front steps along with my starter plants that never really came up the second time around.

Here is the side of our backyard and the neighbour's pool.. I kinda wanna go in it, they're not home right?? Well actually we found a kiddy poool in our backyard when the snow melted.. its dirty and kinda gross, filled with bugs cause its just been sitting on our driveway for a couple months, but I am highly considering washing it out and sticking my feet in it tonight!

And finally, its gotta be hot if the dandelions are wilting!!!

Old stuff a.k.a snow

I was downloading the pictures off my phone and I found theses guys that I wanted to share...


This is a freak snow storm.. maybe not so freak since it was winter in Ottawa... but I left work and there were a few flakes falling.. by the time I got off the bus (maybe 10 min later) a couple blocks away it was blizzarding!! I could barely walk I was being blown away, and my hood wouldn't stay on!! bbrrrrr!! Makes me cool off a bit in this 30 some degree weather!


I was so excited when we saw this.. maybe a bit scared at first, but Simon explained it to me... It's a big machine that eats the snow piles off the sidewalks/side of the road. It poops it out into a truck and takes it away! We were lucky to see this one night after Simon had picked me up from work, since we live downtown and all and snow is yucky downtown :p


I guess the theme of these older pictures is snow! This was about a week before we moved to our house (the house in the picture is the apartment-house where we used to live) We were not very happy that it might snow when we wanted to move! Moving in the winter is not fun!!!

That's all folks!

Working hard!

Helllooooo

I have been neglecting to write on here, maybe cause nothings been going on or maybe cause I'm too busy! This weekend was really good, Simon and I both had Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off!! Sunday I don't know what we did.. lazed around, Monday I planted our veggie garden and cleaned the entire house! And Simon worked on final touches of stain etc on the dresser he's refinishing for us. He also helped me clean the house :) The place looks amazing!! I really hope it lasts a little bit! Today (Tuesday) We went to the Museum of Nature cause it was its grand re-opening this weekend. We were there for a couple hours then went to the mall and did some shopping cause I had a coupon!

Here is my garden:
Simon built the wood part around it and put up the stakes/plastic netting cause there's lots of little animals around here, and we do back onto a park...


I planted peas along the back so they can grow up the plastic stuff, two rows of yellow beans which do really well here I've been told, some butternut squash and those big plants I bought two are broccoli (the ones I started from seed died.. twice!) and a tomato plant.

We also bought a planter with a 2 foot tall plant in it, it also has 4 tomatoes already growing on it!! woo! I planted sunflowers on the side of the house and in pots at the front of the house too :)

Thats it for now, well I have other stuff but I'll do it separately!
Later!

Scones with Jam and Cream

This speaks for itself...

laziness=guilt!

So I was lazy last night on the couch until 9pm when I knew Simon was on his way home from work.. then the guilt hit me! I quickly ran the dishwasher, washed the dishes that didn't fit in there, swept and washed the kitchen, hallway and bathroom floor, cleared off the coffee table and put away the laundry!! whoa! I was still doing this when Simon came home. The sad thing is.. I made Simon's lunch for today but I left the 7 layer dinner out on the cupboard all night!!! Simon found it this morning! So much for freezing one and eating one! I made brownies today. I had daycare this morning then while I was waiting for my chicken noodle soup to cook for lunch I whipped up the brownies! I wanted to make scones too so we could have scones with jam and cream tomorrow, but I used all the sugar for the brownies!
Well now to watch some much missed daytime tv! and maybe a nap before going to work again tonight!
later!

sooo tired

I remember reading a while back on Roxanna Froese (Hooge)'s photography blog things called "mom moments" like things that you do as a mom that's unique to moms... well one of them I did today.. I'm no where near a mom! (I'm NOT pregnant) It just proves I'm sleep deprived!!

What did I do you ask?

I came home from work, put on comfy clothes and reheated some supper.. After eating I made some tea, by putting a mug of water in the fridge... cause that's gonna heat it up! In my defense the fridge is right next to the microwave...

oh boy!

Simon met me for lunch at work today :) it was nice, we went to subway right by where we used to live downtown. He then drove me back to work... but 3-4 blocks PAST where I work.. and he was already late for work so I just walked back, it was silly cause he thought he had to drive me further still and I was asking where he was going! We've switched roles now! On Wed/Thurs I work 9-5 and Simon's working 1-9 so he sleeps in and I have to get up by myself. I liked it much better when I could sleep in and he went to work!

I wanted to take a picture of what I made for supper.. made last night, ate tonight. We have a problem that by the end of the week there's only one of us home for meal time at any given time so we have a lack of leftovers. I've been making a dinner at night on wed so we have something to eat thurs and fri. Last night I made seven layer dinner mmm and I accidentally peeled/cut too many potatoes so I just made 2 casserole dishes of it! mmm!! I was going to take a picture, like I said above, but I sat on the couch when I got home from work and haven't wanted to get back up! I also want to make cake/brownies/cookies or something cause we don't have any in the house (what is this world coming to!! I must stop working so I can stay home and bake!) but we don't have cocoa for the texas sheet cake I want to make, soooo too bad we'll just have to look at the picture of it from the last time I made it and drooooool!



I was also supposed to (well not supposed to, but needed to) do the dishes and run the dishwasher tonight.. that still might get done, but for now I'm chillaxin on the couch. I was watching tv then the show I was watching was over so I played Solitaire and now I'm typing this! I feel super lazy! I can't remember when I ever worked this much! Oh probably right after I came home from europe (IN 2004!) and worked part time at Save-On AND full time for Elections BC... yep the last time I really worked! I personally liked last summer, lived with mom and dad and did close to nothing all summer!! Simon says he can't wait until I work full time so I can appreciate how much money things cost... I don't know if this will work... I think I'd just spend more :P

Okay I'm starting to feel a slight amount of guilt for not doing anything around the house now.. I should at least close the curtains and turn on some lights cause its dark now...

Maybe I'll have a nap before Simon gets home! hehe shhhh!!!!
Later dudes!

Hi hi :)

I've been too tired/lazy and not doing much lately to post anything here.. This working thing really eats up your time!! I'm learning a lot about Breast cancer at work though! I keep telling Simon all the stuff I'm reading about at work.

I started reading "My Sister's Keeper" last week cause I didn't have anything to read on the bus after I took the bus half an hour away from downtown (east) to visit Simon at work for supper... then I had to take the bus an hour back home (cause we live about 20 min west of downtown by bus). Anyways it's an interesting book and sometimes makes me mad! I'm almost done cause I can't put it down!

Tonight Simon wanted to have appetizers for supper while we watch the hockey game... we weren't thinking that well cause we wanted to eat at 6 but the game's not on until 9 our time! So we ate while watching Friends and Simon might have the leftovers during the game. I feel kinda of guilty for eating all that.. we had chicken wings, sausage rolls, mozza sticks, spring rolls and veggies and dip... I feel like I need to go for a walk! I feel guilty cause we are now going to watch the biggest loser! hehe! And I think we're going to have some ice cream cones too... ehehe!

Here's whats leftover from our appys:

This is how we felt after eating all that!

Gotta go watch the biggest loser!!
Later alligators!

MMmMmmmMMmmm!

I made a lot of food today so I wanted to share it... but everyone is far away so I will show you pictures and then eat it all myself... oh and Simon can have some too! It was both of our day off, so we had time to do stuff, although Simon did more than I did cause he got up 2 hours before me!

1. Lemon Cupcakes!!! mmm! Thanks to Jessica, one of Simon's lab technicians for the recipe! She made them for something once and I had one and could NOT forget them!! So she gave Simon the recipe for me!

(I might scan the recipe into the computer so you can actually see it.. but not tonight!)

2. Leftover Pasta re-made! I made pasta and meat sauce last week for Simon cause he didn't have any leftovers for his lunch. Sophie and I had made pasta from scratch with her pasta maker one night so we had the leftover pasta to go with this sauce. We both had this for lunch for 2 or three days and even had it as a snack the night I made it! Anyways We still had leftover sauce so I decided we needed to eat it, so I made more pasta and mixed the sauce in with it and made some alfredo sauce to make it even saucier then put it in corningware, covered it in cheese and baked it in the oven!! MMM it was good! And we will be eating it for another couple meals! This was the most cost-effective meal(s) ever! I only used half a pound of beef (for simon) and half a pound of chicken (for me) then one can of tomatoes and one can of tomato paste, carrotts and broccoli! And we'll have eaten it for 2 weeks total! crazy!


3. My lunch Panini
It was a leftover kind of day! I had bocconcini in the fridge that needed eating so I made a panini with boccocini and tomato in it :) mmmmmmmmm

First day of work

I'm exhausted!!
I told Simon that I can't work anymore :P I get too tired!
I had to be up early this morning... 8am! Simon felt bad for me and drove me to work.. which made him late :P I worked hard-kinda all day! When I got there I had a tour of the office and stuff, had to sign forms and then they gave me a HUGE folder of background documents I had to read... I started them at about 9:30 and finished at about 2pm. I did have an hour break in there. The last bit I skimmed cause I had developed a migrane-like headache. It was also 30 degrees in the office today too!!!! It was cooler outside at 22 degrees! Apparently the office doesn't have control of the heat so they had to call someone to turn the heat off and they didn't come until about 1:30! When they did turn the heat off and the a/c on the temp went down by 5 degrees with the hour! It was finally nice in there! But I survived my first day and will go back!

Also, When we left for work this morning it was rainy.. which by the way it was hot yesterday and we left the car windows open overnight by accident... but when I came home from work it was sunny and not nearly as humid! woo!

In other news... I made a yummy supper tonight and brunch yesterday.... here they are....

This is the egg-bacon-cheese bread roll up thingy... I saw this on the tv show Best Recipes Ever... http://www.cbc.ca/bestrecipes/

and decided to make it! It was made with pizza dough that I made myself... but there was lots so I made a...

PIZZA!

We had this for supper tonight. mmmmm :)
Now I'm going to get off the computer.. Mom I know how you feel about looking at a computer screen all day and not wanting to be on the computer at home in the evening!!
Later Alligators!