Productive Weekend

I just had a very productive weekend; I got a lot of house-related tasks done. CT stayed over all weekend, which was nice. That is the most time we've spent together. Since I am still living with the folks (for another 2 weeks), CT and I had to sleep in separate rooms, but oh well. Soon enough I will be in my own place ;)

On Saturday, we went to Home Depot and looked at paint chips to get an idea for colours for my bathrooms and my bedroom. We then headed to Yorkdale to shop for bedding, bathroom accessories, and to look at TV prices. I ended up getting shower curtains for both bathrooms, so I will work the colour scheme around those. For my downstairs bathroom, I got a shower curtain with rocks all over it (SOOOO me) and for my upstairs bathroom, my shower curtain is light turqoise and brown, so those will be my colours in there. For my bedroom, I am doing an african/jungle theme, so my walls are going to be a sandy colour with black accents. Yay! It is all coming together.

On Sunday, CT and I went shopping all around town for TVs. I had the following criteria: I wanted a good brand, larger than 40", projection, widescreen, HD compatible, and I didn't want to spend more than $1,500. CT and I went everywhere and had it narrowed down to 2. Later on yesterday, I took my mom and brother down to look at my first choice. (I wanted my bro's opinion since he used to work at The Source, so he knows about these things). He said the TV I picked out was really good (and it was on sale), so I decided to get it. It is a Hitachi, 46" widescreen projection HD TV in my price range. Exactly what I was looking for. It is SOOOO sweet! I am excited! Can't wait to be watching Leaf games on that puppy next season.

So many things to do in the next couple days before the trip out west on Friday. I am looking forward to that. I'm sure it will be a blast!

Only 13 days now!

Until I get my house! YAY! It is getting so close and I am getting so excited, I can hardly contain myself.

This coming weekend, I need to do some comparison shopping on a few items. I want to get a new tv. My little 21" tv is not going to cut it anymore. I want something big and fancy and HD ready (since I want to get HD satellite). I also need to get a DVD/VCR combo, and look into prices for a phone and answering machine. Should be fun!

After much juggling and careful thought, this is my proposed renovation schedule (you don't have to read it if you don't want to, I just want to plan it out, and who knows, you may be interested):

May 2: renos begin (I get back late the night before from my trip to visit Mrs. JB). My mom hired an interior decorator to come in and help me pick the colours for my entraceway, and living/dining room. That will hopefully happen this day. Also spend the afternoon cleaning and removing wallpaper.

May 3: painting begins! I have hired a couple painters to help me, just waiting to hear back if the scheduling will work out (I originally had them scheduled for the following week, but because my dad is only available to help me on the weekends, we had to switch the order of painting and refinishing the floors).

May 4: painting continues!

May 5: still painting! My goal is to get my living room, dining room, and my bedroom painted in these 3 days.

May 6: floor sanding begins

May 7: floor sanding complete (hopefully)

May 8: finish any remaining sanding work and apply first coat of finish

May 9: buff and apply second coat of finish

May 10: buff and apply third coat of finish

May 11: buff and apply fourth coat of finish (if required). If it is not required, start moving my stuff in!

May 12: have furniture delivered and satellite installed.

May 13 and 14: move in the rest of my stuff.

May 15: back to work for me. But I will be living in my new house!

Whirlwind weekend...

Why is it that long weekend always go by so quickly? I had a good time though. On Thursday evening, I went to Red Lobster with my mom for LobsterFest. It was soooo good! I had a meal that had 2 different types of shrimp, crab legs, and lobster. Yum!!!

On Friday was the family Easter dinner thingy at my house. It went pretty well. (I’m always a little worried about how my grandmother will act). But, she behaved herself pretty well, which was good. There was one part where she was asking Carlos a lot of questions and putting him on the spot, and my brother’s girlfriend leaned over to him and said “Welcome to the family”. I guess she has been put on the spot by Oma before.

Saturday, I went shopping for a bit with my mom and then I headed out to Carlos’ place. It was funny, when I was going to leave, this is the conversation I had with my mom.

Me: Well, I’m off. Wish me luck meeting Carlos’ father.

Mom: But I thought that was tomorrow.

Me: It is.

Mom: And you’re going to Carlos’ now? When will you be back?

Me: I’ll be back tomorrow evening.

Mom: Where are you staying tonight?

Me: At Carlos’.

Mom: Oh really? (with that look on her face).

Me: Yup. Well, see ya later!

I got in my car and I just had to laugh. I’m 25 years old, so it’s not like she could forbid me from staying at his place or anything, but I don’t think she was too happy about it. Little does she know that when I move to my house Carlos will likely be staying over quite frequently. Hah! And there is nothing she can do about it!

Yesterday was the family dinner at Carlos’ place. I had met his mom before, but it was the first time I met his dad and sister. It went well, I think they liked me. I brought a dessert that I had made and when his sister tried some she said “Wow, this is really good. She can bake; she’s a keeper!”. I said “that’s a short list of criteria!”. I think his family really liked me, so I was happy about that. They are really nice people.

On my way home on Sunday, I stopped by a friend of mine’s for a little visit. She lives in Toronto, but was at her parent’s place for the weekend, so I got to spend some time there hanging out. I hadn’t seen her since January, so it was nice to see her again. I got home around 10pm last night, so it was a busy weekend! But very good.

And back to work today. It’s a ghost-town around the office, I guess a lot of people took today off. I would have, except that I am taking 2 weeks off coming up, so I figured I would work today and take advantage of the quiet office.

Happy Easter Monday everyone!

Let the concerts begin!

I am going to my first concert of the year tonight. Three Days Grace is playing here in town and I am really looking forward to the show. It will be the first time I've seen this band live. CT is going with me (it was part of his birthday present from me).

I had a great weekend. CT and I spent like 30 hours together; it was awesome! That is the most time we've ever spent together in one chunk. We met up with his friends (a couple) at the hotel and sucked back quite a few drinks at the hotel and then went for dinner at a pub to watch the leaf game. It was a lot of fun! I really like his friends, they are a lot of fun. And I guess the girl is really happy to have me in the group now since she's used to hanging out with a bunch of guys. She's a really nice girl, I could see us becoming friends.

Sunday, we went for breakfast (buffet) near the hotel and then went down to the Jays game. It was a good time! Every minute I spend with CT is amazing. Even if we just do nothing, I enjoy just being with him. Man, I've got it bad ;)

This weekend, for Easter, CT is coming to my place for the family dinner thing, and then I am going to his parents' place on Sunday for their family dinner. I will get to meet his dad, sister, brother-in-law, and nephew. I hope they like me! I'm sure once they see how much CT loves me and what a great catch I am, they won't be able to help but love me too! :)

Birthday celebrations

Here we are at another Friday. And it could not come soon enough! Today was the first day when I actually feel like I can join the world of the living again. I barely ever get colds, but this one was just nasty! I’m sure my coworkers wanted to throw me out the window at some points since I was always coughing and blowing my nose. I think the worst is over now *knock on wood*.

I have another full weekend coming up. Tonight, I am going to a ladies dinner party. It’s at my house actually. My mom is hosting it, so there will be some people her age, and some people my age. I’m sure it will be fun.

Tomorrow, is my man’s birthday. He’ll be 28 tomorrow. We’re heading to Toronto to meet up with some of his friends (the couple we went out with on St. Paddy’s). We’ll have dinner with his friends, then stay over at a hotel for the night, woohoo to that ;) Sunday, we’ll meet up with the friends again for breakfast and then go to the Jays game on Sunday afternoon. Should be an awesome weekend!

Down with the sickness

I woke up this morning with a raging sore throat AND a nasty cough... not a good combination! Every time I cough, I want to die. I went to work for the morning since I have a big meeting with a client tomorrow that I had to prepare for, but I came home at lunch. Geez, I hope I am better tomorrow or this could make for an interesting meeting! I can barely talk and when I can, it's all deep and crackey like. Great. This should be fun tomorrow!

On to happy things, I met CT's mom yesterday. His dad wasn't there because he had gone golfing for the day. But, I got to meet his mom. What a nice woman! As soon as I got there, she gave me a big hug and jumped right into stories of CT's childhood. It was cute. I think she liked me, which is great!

After that, CT and I went to one of his friend's place to watch the pay-per-view wrestlemania thing. I didn't really think I'd like it, but I figured I would give it a shot since it's something CT likes and it would give me an opportunity to meet some more of CT's friends. I had a good time! Wrestlemania was better than I expected, it was quite entertaining. I actually enjoyed it, who would have thought?!?!?

This saturday is CT's 28th birthday, I am excited about giving him his present. I got him some Maple Leafs stuff as well as tix to go see Three Days Grace. They are playing in town here on the 12th. CT mentioned awhile back that he would like to go to some concerts this year, so we're gonna kick off the concert year with that show.

One of CT's friends asked us yesterday how long we have been together, and CT piped right up with "it will be 2 months on Tuesday". I thought it was adorable that he has been keeping track ;)

Something else that I found very cute was yesterday, CT told his friends about something his landlady had said. (I met his landlady briefly when we were out at a pub for St. Paddy's). CT's landlady ran into CT's sister at some point after she had met me, and she said to CT's sister "So, I bet you're excited to meet your future sister-in-law!". (CT's friends know his landlady, so CT brought this up when the discussion was on her). I thought it was so cute that CT would tell his friends this in front of me. Tells me that he is not totally freaked out at the possibility that I may be "the one". Sounds like he's getting serious about me! Which is great, because I am totally serious about him! He is the perfect guy for me. What we have just feels so right. Can't explain it; it's just right.

What a rush!

I was at the Leaf's game last night at the ACC and the leafs won 7:0 against Buffalo! It was amazing! The leafs made Buffalo look like fools! The leafs played amazing, they played like stanley cup champs. It may be too little too late, but I certainly enjoyed myself! I picked the right game to go to! It was a blast!

This afternoon, I am meeting CT's parents. I hope they like me! After that, I am meeting some more of CT's friends. Should be a good day!