22 days and counting!

The trip is getting closer – yay! And with all the purchases I made on the weekend with the girls, I think I have everything I need for the trip.

I counted and there are a total of 21 work days in October. I will be in the office for 6 or 7 of them. Crazy! Next week, I am in the field on Monday and Tuesday, then I work the overnight shift in the field on Wednesday night (Wed 5:00pm until Thurs 10:00am that includes travel time to and from site). So that should be interesting. I’ve never worked a night shift before. Good thing is I won’t be alone, there will be someone else on-site with me, so we can keep each other sane!

Then, the week after that, I will be out of town Tuesday through Friday. The week after that, I may be in the field surveying on the Monday and Tuesday, in the office on the Wednesday and Thursday, and then I have the Friday off because it’s the day before my trip and I am hitting the spa with my mom! Yay! Then, Saturday the 21st, it’s off to the Dominican Republic for 7 days of fun in the sun!

I have been giving more thought to getting a tattoo lately. I have been wanting one for at least 3 or 4 years now. I would get a wolf paw print, likely on my lower back. I have decided while I am in the Dominican, I will get a henna tattoo of something similar and then if I really like that, I will get a tattoo as a birthday present to myself (my birthday is at the end of November).

So here we are at another weekend! Tonight, I get to watch Grey’s Anatomy and CSI that I taped from yesterday. Tomorrow, a couple of CT’s friends are coming over (the couple we spent the weekend in Toronto with back in April). They are a really nice couple and the 4 of us get along great. So, we will likely go out for drinks or dancing or something in town. Then on Sunday, it’s off to Toronto for a leafs pre-season game against Detroit! Go leafs go!

Yay, only 25 days until the trip now!

I am getting really excited for the upcoming trip. It’s getting pretty close now! Only 3.5 weeks left to go! We got our tickets yesterday, so that was exciting! Everything is set now. We leave on October 21st and return on the 28th.

I had a great weekend. Met up with the nej and lj for a trip out to the Kingdom on Friday. It was a lot of fun! It wasn’t as jammed-packed as it usually is, so that was nice. We actually had a little room to dance. On Saturday, we went for a shopping extravaganza! I bought a lot of cool stuff! Some stuff for the trip and I also bought this really hot black and red silk dress. We were ready to head home and I saw the dress in a store window, and I just had to go in and look at it. So, the girls convinced me to try it on and boy, I loved it. I wasn’t planning on buying a dress, but I just couldn’t pass it up. Total impulse buy, but I love it! I think I’ll take it to the Dominican. It may get wrinkly in my suitcase, but if I hang it up once I get there, it should be okay.

I have so much to do at work before my vacation, so that will make the time go by quickly I think! Hopefully I can get everything done. We are short on field staff, so I have to do well install supervision myself instead of sending a tech to do it. Which is fine, just means I will be out of town for 3 or 4 days, likely the week of thanksgiving. Still need to get it confirmed though.

Have a great week girls!

Woohoo! Another weekend!

This week has been a fairly easy week. I had a bit of a cold earlier in the week, so I worked at home for a couple days so I wouldn’t infect anyone at work. I am on the mend now though. Today is the first day that I actually feel back to my normal self. Just in time for the weekend ;)

Tonight, I am heading up to the nej’s to meet her and lj for a night out at The Kingdom. Our annual September trip to the Kingdom. For the last 3 years, we have gone once a year in September to the Kingdom for a night out. Should be good times. Then, tomorrow, the plan is to go shopping in Toronto. I don’ t have a lot of money to spend, but if I see something I just have to have, that’s what credit cards are for ;)

Only 4 weeks until the trip now! I just got an email from expedia saying our tickets have been sent out by courier, which means we will have them either today or Monday! Yay!

Monday again

I survived the conference. It went well. Very tiring, but I actually enjoyed myself. Standing at the booth was difficult though; by the end of the day on Thursday, my ankles were swollen big-time! I got lots of overtime in though, which is nice. I banked a few hours since I want to take the day before my trip off without using vacation, and the rest of my overtime I will get paid out for. I could really use the extra cash. Things are really tight right now trying to pay for the upcoming trip.

Last night, CT and I took my Dad and one of his friends to see a wrestling pay-per-view live in Toronto. It was our birthday present to my dad. It was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed myself and CT even bought me a T-shirt of my favorite wrestler. We didn’t get back until 1:00am and then I had to be up at 6:00am this morning for work, so I’m a little tired. I think it will hit me more this afternoon. Then I have pole dancing class tonight, so I won’t get to go to bed early. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow night I can go to bed early.

The trip is less than 5 weeks away now! I’m getting more excited with each passing day.

Wasaga was a success!

As you probably guessed from lj’s post, my triathlon on the weekend ended up being a duathlon instead, due to rough water conditions. I was glad to hear they replaced the swim with an additional run since I was nervous about getting sick from swimming in cold water. So, I was fine with the change. My goal was to finish my race in an hour, and I got a time of 59:54. Doesn’t get much closer than that! I was pleased! My mom did the race too and she beat last year’s time by 9 minutes! I realized after the race that I should have registered as an Athena (over 150 lbs) because then I would have got an award. Oh well, next time!

I spent yesterday in the field as well as this morning (I was there from 6am-8am), and I am leaving this evening for that conference out of town. So, I won’t be back to posting until next week likely. Have a great week everyone!

Race tomorrow!

Well, tomorrow is the big day. My first and only triathlon of the 2006 season. I gathered all my equipment last night and realized I have absolutely no idea where my bathing suit is. I am going to have to tear the house apart tonight to try to find it! I really hope I am successful. Otherwise, I may be forced to wear my 2-piece tankini, which still covers just as much, but is not nearly as practical for racing. But, at least I do have a plan B just incase I can’t find my speedo. Sheesh!

I am a little nervous about my race tomorrow. I haven’t really put as much training time in as I should have. So, I am just going to go and complete the race and do the best that I can. My mom is also doing the triathlon, so it will be fun for us to do this together. And CT is coming too to cheer us on. Should be a fun day!

Then on Sunday, we are having a birthday dinner for my bro who is turning 21 on Tuesday. Sunday is the only day for all of next week that I had free, so that’s when we’re having the dinner. Monday, my pole dancing class starts and then Tuesday evening through Friday, I will be out of town at that conference for work! So, you may not hear from me in awhile.

Poor Smokey is at the vet right now getting neutered. I can’t wait to pick him up after work and comfort him. I’m sure he’s really scared and will be happy to see me!

Hard to believe it’s after labour day already!

My weekend was good. CT and I went to his cousin’s wedding. It was a lot of fun. The food was amazing. We had a 5-course meal which was really awesome. If that wasn’t enough, there was a seafood midnight buffet! I was in heaven! Crab legs, shrimp, and lobster!!! YUM! CT and I danced the night away and we didn’t get home until 4:30am. Which made the rest of the weekend kind of rough because I was really tired. So, we didn’t get much work done on the house but instead just lazed around and watched movies. Which was really nice since we have been so busy lately and will continue to be busy for the next little while. I have no free weekends until November! Nuts!

Last night, we went out for dinner to celebrate our 7-month anniversary. It was really nice. Hard to believe it’s been 7 months already. It’s gone by quickly, but on the other hand, I feel like I’ve known him a long time. Things are still going amazingly between us and it’s less than 7 weeks now until our trip to the sunny south!

Next week is going to be a really busy week for me. On Monday evening, my Level 2 of pole dancing class starts, so that should be fun. Then Tuesday evening through Friday, I will be out of town for that conference. I will be glad when next week is over; I will barely see CT at all! But I guess that will make coming home to him all the better ;)

Yay, so glad it’s Friday!

I’ve had a good week. Having last Monday off sure made for a nice, short work week! Yesterday, we had out company’s first annual triathlon. We were given no details ahead of time other than to wear comfy clothes and to meet at a mall at 2pm. I was a team captain, so I got to pick my teammates, and man, did we have a good team. Out first event was bowling, which was really fun. Our team cleaned up on the first round, but got smoked on the second round. The second event of our triathlon was mini-golfing, which was a lot of good times. I even got a hole in 1! My team won that event. Our third event was go-karting, and I hadn’t done that in years, it was a blast! Our team also won that event, so we were the overall winners of the triathlon. Everyone got a prize, but my team being the winners, we got to pick first. I picked a lovely princess tiara which lights up when you press a button. They were all dollar store prizes, but they were very funny. Of course, the real prize was bragging rights ;)

Then, yesterday evening, we had our first annual company BBQ. I brought CT and it was nice for him to meet my co-workers. He seemed to fit in very well, which is always nice to see.

So, this weekend is a long weekend – yay! Tomorrow, I am going to CT’s cousin’s wedding. The ceremony is in Oshawa and the reception is in Mississauga. Should be good times. They have arranged buses to drive us from the ceremony to the reception and back, so that will be nice. Then, for the rest of the weekend, CT and I will likely do some work on the house. My roommate is moving out this weekend, so we will have some more space to play with. That room is going to be CT’s room to do with what he likes. He has decided to make it into a video game room, which will be pretty cool. I also have a room to myself, which I have made into a sweet home office.

Today is our first official day as a common-law couple. CT is officially moved in now. I thought it may be a little scary, but because I am 100% sure I want to be with CT for the rest of my life, I’m not worried. Of course, there is a part of me that doesn’t really agree with living together before marriage, but I know CT is committed to me and I to him, so I guess getting married is just the legal part. I know it will happen eventually.

Have a wonderful long weekend everyone!