Little Black Panther

He looks so vicious in this picture! I love it... but it's just an early morning yawn. For those who don't know, that's Xander. He sleeps a lot - particularily in his favorite spot - this cat post. Anyways, I just wanted to thank my friends for coming out on Friday night with me - it was a blast. For those who didn't come - you missed out lol. In either case, it was just what I needed. I felt great yesterday morning too which is the best part of all. I guess that's it. How boring. Well, I'm out - my tea and book awaits! 'night 

The Third Time's a Charm!

So I have tried twice now to get this up for you all to read. This is attempt number 3 so I hope you enjoy! Just so you know, the first one was the best but I lost it so this is just a thrown together version of the first one. So here it goes.

Well the day has passed - my birthday. Every year when it comes I don't know what to expect. For some reason I tend to wake up gloomy and face the whole day negatively - focusing more on the fact that I'm another year older and reminding myself how much I wanted to have accomplished by this day and haven't.

This year, however, has been different. It has been amazing and wonderful and I've never felt so special in my life. I have so many friends that have went out of their way to make sure I know they're thinking of me. All the little priceless things that people did Tuesday caused me to have a perma-grin on my face. And not just any grin - this big, dorky, grin that is hurt my face. I fought back happy tears a few times too... I wish so much that everyone could know just how much their actions have meant to me. Little things like a huge spongebob squarepants balloon (it's so big it can't really be counted as a little thing lol) on my chair (as you can see from the other picture there), randomized sticky notes in the plans I was working on that spell out 'Happy Birthday', cards and greetings by people whom I don't even know how they know about my birthday, but am so glad they do from their wishes of happiness. And of course, everything that Chad had done to make the day truly stand out in my mind. His undying patience with my growing moodiness as it approached would've been enough, but he was sure to greet me first thing in the morning with pretty pink tulips and a perfect princess present. (I am keeping that present a bit of a surprise since I want to show it off before saying anything about it). Then after work we went out for supper at this beautiful restaurant with incredibly great food (Newport Grill - it overlooks Lake Bonavista). Everything about it was perfect - the setting near the fireplace that still overlooked the lake, the servers that were sure to always be there whenever needed, the food that caused us to both pause at every bite to savour the flavour, and of course my company. I can't help but smile remembering our 2.5 hour long supper. Yup... it was THAT good. And then last night the spoiling continued as he took me to Curious George. It was sooo cute!! AND we had the ENTIRE theatre to ourselves. I couldn't have asked for more.

So in closing, I want to thank everyone for everything. I think next year I will just be excited for my birthday knowing that I have so many wonderful people in my life to make the day everything that it should be.

I love spongebob

This was at my desk when I got to work on Tuesday hehehe 

Bruised!

heh - I finally figured out how to put pictures up on here so here's a picture of me two days after my fall at Fernie. The bruise is gone now though... it looked a lot more gruesome in person. My shoulder is just finally starting to get better... hopefully I'll get to go boarding again soon!

One more day!

I have decided to start writing in this more. Mostly because I am terrible at emailing people back and never seem to have the time to call or talk on msn. Yes... I am useless. And I think that my life might be interesting enough to share with you all so...

One downer is that I can't seem to log on at work so I have to write them at work then try to remember to put it up at home. It's quite the process.

So tomorrow is my birthday and although I'm trying to be excited, the past few years have proven to be a disappointment just because I hope certain people will phone or email me and they don't. (ha, if that doesn't guilt you I don't know WHAT will!). I am excited, however, for what Chad has in store for me since he has proven to be extremely thoughtful and perfectly creative. My goal is to just enjoy my birthday this year instead of putting myself down for not being further in life and for not acheiving the things I had hoped to by this age. In retrospect, I am a lot further financially than I had every hoped by this point in time. For those of you who don't know, I bought a condo in Calgary and for those who know Calgary real estate know how trecherous this really is. Places are WAY over priced here... to compare: my two bedroom, two bathroom, 950 square foot condo here in the south end of calgary is almost worth as much as a newer, 4 bedroom, nicely landscaped home in lethbridge with a huge yard and hot tub and what-have-ya. It's sick... but at least I know that it's helping me get ahead. So I guess I can't complain :)

Also in recent news, my shoulder is still aching from my snowboarding injury 2 weeks ago. I caught my toe edge and flipped my board - landed on my shoulder and then my hip and slip down the mountain some. Thankfully I didn't tear my rotator cuff, but I did injure it so now it's lots of physio and whatever else for me. I hope I get to go snowboarding again soon. I drove yesterday which probably wasn't the best idea but I didn't have much choice. I've been lucky that Chad has been there for me as much as he had. He hasn't complained once about chaffeuring me around to do my errands. What a great man I have!

Yay to one more day till my birthday!!