One year later in TBS spirit ...

It's been a year, to the day since my last work day at The Body Shop. :(

A year ago, I packed up my things and left my little store behind. I had no idea what the world had in store for me and I was terrified.

In the past year, I have found out what it's like to be unemployed, I was reminded what it's like to be on the interviewee's side of the interview and I have learned a lot about myself.

I also realized how lucky I was do be able to do a job that I love for 3 years. I realized how much I grew and how important my career is to me. Even as I worked for TBS, my job was my job and that was that. Since I've left, I learned how much more it was to me.

As I sit here, many many kilometers away from home... I wonder where I'm headed career wise. How much longer my current job will hold me down.

PS: Hi, Whit! :)

Poor Salty!!

This makes me cry.
There is something horribly wrong with me.

Grand Finale - Fight or flight!

Everyone has that favorite TV show that got canceled. (Thanks, Reality TV!) Humor me, for a second and think about the series finale - did you cry like a little girl or did you feel frustrated and like TV cheated you like the cheap whore that she is?

It got me thinking about the Lost series finale and I have to admit, I'm terrified.

Half of me wants answers because I'm curious, intrigued and mystified. My brain will explode if questions remain unanswered for all eternity.
The other half doesn't want to know and would rather keep loving this show's brilliance for all the same reasons.

I'm curious to know how it all turns out.
I'm intrigued to know what everything means.
I'm mystified because it's all very very good.

I don't want it to end. It has to, I know. Whether they answer the questions and I get the closure or all the mysteries sit comfortably in the "pending" file for all eternity.

I CANNOT for the life of me try to guess what my feelings will be like when Lost ends. *gasp*

Will I be sad because it's over, like The Fresh Prince of Belair?
Will I be frustrated because the ending sucked bag, like Seinfeild?
Will I blame reality TV for, yet another, awesome show taken off the air, like Arrested Development? (PS: I know reality TV doesn't have anything to do with Lost ... it's just fun to blame someone!)
Will I cry all the tears in my heart, like Friends?

I hope I'm not disapointed because I'd love to keep watching this show forever and ever. Reruns galore!!

Lost in 5 days

It does take a lot less than 5 days to get lost if you try to comprehend this show, but it's very very very much worth it. It takes more like 5 seconds.

In 5 days, it will be the begining of the end for Lost fans and I don't really know how I feel about it. I want to KNOW but I don't.

Not knowing what the heck is going on is what makes this show so captivating. If they answer all the questions, it won't be anything more than what people thought it was in the begining : plane crash survivors on an island. *bore* What makes it so exciting is that it's so messed up - I don't want the thrills to go away.

On the other hand, I want some friggen answers! I've been watching this show for 3 years now (I caught up on seasons 1-2 over weekends thanks to Nick!) and I've been totally wrong about every single prediction I've made. I want to know what is up with that puff of smoke they call the Monster and I want to know what lies in the shadow of the statue. Is that too much to ask?

I'm so torn.

In 5 days I will lose my soul to endless theories about alternate time lines and trying to figure out what the heck crawled up Ben Linus' culottes. I thought I may as well warn as many people as I know, just in case I go missing. If that does happen, I'll be in the basement probably hanging a pendulum from the ceiling, chalking lines on the floor and trying to "find the island". Don't mind me, I'm lost.

Update - Still very much snowed-in

Yep, that's right. It's 10:40pm and we're still snowed-in, it's still snowing and the wind is still crazy. I've never seen a storm last this long. Mother Nature is very determined.

Though I must say how happy I am to be living on Base right now.

Some of our friends who live a couple houses down the street from us braved the cold wind and snow to come have dinner with us. (Delicious honey mustard cranberry pork!)

After dinner, we move over to the living room and our friend says "Hey! Someone plowed your driveway!!" What!? He was right, someone had come and plowed or shovelled our driveway while we were having dinner. The wall of drifting snow was about 6 feet high last time I checked. We couldn't see any tracks coming towards the house or anything like that so we were really wondering who could have done this. We started calling friends to ask around and thank whoever it was! Our friend Gary said he'd seen our neighbor shovelling our driveway earlier. We were shocked. He's a nice man but we don't really know him. We were expecting that a friend of ours, having seen the photos on Facebook had decided to surprise us.

Js ran over to bring him some of the desert we'd made for our guests to thank him - we had some left over as I apparently like to cook enough to feed a small country. He said he got bored sitting at home and saw how much snow Js had shovelled during the day and decided to lend us a hand. Got bored?! How nice is that!!

I feel a lot better now about ever being stuck out here by myself in the winter. As long as he doesn't move away!!

Snowed-in Sunday

Today, I'm experiencing my very first real snowed-in day of winter in the Prairies. Quite the excitement.

The picture right bellow is our drive way and front yard area nearly an hour after Js had cleared the way. More on that bellow.




Basically, we cannot go anywhere. We couldn't even back the car out of the parking space if we tried. The snow drift that has accumulated in our driveway is almost as high as the car itself. Roads and highways are closed. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like in Ottawa with this kind of weather!!

It's been snowing with insane winds since we woke up this morning and it hasn't even calmed down. It's now 3pm and I'm wondering how I'll manage to walk to work tomorrow.

I amused myself by taking pictures of Js as he attempts to clear our driveway so we may leave the house tomorrow. The minute he turns around, wind blows the snow right back in our yard and he has to start over again. It's a community effort as the roads are still un-plow-able and we have to shovel our way to our next door neighbor's to help him out.

Wedding Planning Status Update : Photog booked! Hurray!

Title is self explanatory but doesn't even begin to show my excitement. :) We're really happy with our choice. He's one of those photographers we emailed, thinking he'd most definitely be booked already but figured it was worth a shot. Was it ever!

Of course we haven't met him in person but the days spent creeping on discussion forums were well worth the research. Only good things about him and the more samples of his work we see, the happier we are with our final choice.

So here it is, we have booked, confirmed the date, signed on a dotted line, sent a deposit for Garrett Elliott photography to be a part of our special and immortalize our memories and make special moments last forever!

Here are another couple photographers we considered for our big day :

Andrew Geddes - He photographed our friends Maggie and Marc's wedding in May 2008 and it was wonderful!

Genevieve Albert

Eva Hadhazy