and november is here

Greetings to all blog readers lol

I cannot believe it is november already. It seems like only yesterday it was the summer. Either way I am happy that the year is flying by.

The only downfall is that i feel like i haven't accomplished much. I feel like i always need more hours in a day.

So let me update on everything that has happened. My parents anniversary has come and gone and the party went well. There was some drama before hand with my brothers and it did put a bit of a damper on the party but my parents enjoyed themselves and everyone had a good time. The cake and cupcakes were amazing. Some of my family who didn't know i had made the cake thought that it was store bought.

I am attaching a couple of pictures of the event and mostly of the cake and decorations. I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off and didn't take as many pictures as i would have liked but i have an amazing boyfriend who took some pics and video taped for me.






















We also celebrated one of my fav holidays and anthonys which is halloween.. for the first time in forever i gave out candy and for the first time ever i carved a pumpkin but not just one i carved 3 and anth carved one... and dressed up for it lol. anth always dresses up at halloween and last year i dressed up for him but i alwys cap the cost of my costume.. this year i decided to be one of my fav animals... a black cat lol.. nothing crazy just ears, a tail and a choker with a bell on it. lol. after handing out candy which was a bit of a disappointment cause i had a lot of older kids who shouldn't be out asking for candy, we warmed up at my house and then i added makeup and whiskers and went to anthonys house where we took some pics and hung out.

here are some treats from that night










Thats it for now lol

worse blogger ever

hahahaha

i really should try to keep up with blogging.. the funniest part is its on my favorite bar on my laptop and it stares at me all day and yet i never update...

life has been good..

and it will be crazy this weekend... my folks are having their 40th wedding anniversary and i am throwing them a party at home to celebrate. nothing crazy big just the close family and some food and cake that i am making and all that fun.

i have this new thing to make cakes for occasions.. i made anthonys bday cake which i think was cute.. i made a football field with players and everything. i even painted one team to be the miami dolphins, his fav team.

so for my folks i'm gonna do it red and white to tie in with the 40th anniversary. there will be strawberries and red piping and all that fun stuff... and i think i might top it off with some sparklers yay!

so its gonna be a crazy weekend. i swear i will try to update this since i suck...

Turning over a new leaf

I'm really bad at this blogging thing... oh well

So i have decided to change my life around and start taking better care of myself. I decided to start eating healthier and try to lose some weight.

So as my first step i went to the doctor and discussed some options with him. I am gonna get my thyroid checked out. He gave me some good advice and i joined a website that has a health tracker and it definitely helps.

So on the site there are challenges that you can do. The first one i decided to try and do is the salad a day challenge. Along with this are 3 mini challenges. They include eating a whole fruit a day, drinking 6-8glasses of water a day, and 30 mins of exercise daily.

I have to say it has been difficult especially cause i work in a mall and well they are not know for the healthiest foods. But i am doing well.

I have also included my own little challenge and that is to have only 1 coffee... yes only 1 per day. that is hard but i will do it.

So as of today i fulfilled the exercise by walking around the mallbefore i started work. i also had a super yummy salad and had quite a bit of water. i think i fell short at only 4 glasses. i only had 1 coffee and had a yummy healthy snack when i got home from work. so far so good.

ive also made sure my parents are well aware of my change in lifestyle so that my mom doesn't make me bad food.

I am definitely gonna keep going and have to remember mind over matter. the mind is a powerful tool and i plan on making sure it keeps me ont he right path.

lack of trust....

so why is it that parents seem to have a lack of trust and judgement in their kids...

really? it seems like most parents are somewhat hypocrites... take mine for example..

don't get me wrong i love them to death but some days really i just don't get them. so every college/university student has some debt, unless their parents are loaded and got them through school without the kid ever working for their money.

anywho... i have debt and my parents found out... that in itself was drama that doesn't need to be told but now that they know anytime i sit in my room and look like i'm thinking they think i'm up to something bad.

for example literally like 5 mins ago i was looking through my planner to see what was coming up and to check scheduling days and all that so i can plan my life and my dad mumbled something and my mom was like, waht are you doing? doing calculations in your head for something>

okay seriously ppl i'm old enough to handle my own shit and i dont need you too to stand behind me and see everything i do in my room. hence why its called MY ROOM... if i'm on the computer they come up behind me to see what im doing... like haven't they ever heard of privacy...

its very annoying...

so to all your parents out there, please keep some trust in your kids... some times we don't wanna be with you and we wanna do our own thing and jsut cause we are in our room doesn't mean we are always up to no good...

events coming up

i love to schedule my days and weeks and all that jazz... i like being organized and having a list of things that need to be done and giving myself a time frame to do it in...

but one things that i don't like doing is scheduling time for me and anthony. this leads to me feeling like crap cause i like spending tons of time with him but lately it seems we spend more time togethe working on the company and what not then having dates.

we have decided that from now we are going to have mini dates to keep from going nuts and that way we dont get bored and end up watching tv all the time...

so far from now til the end of september we have much to do lol... first and foremost is the gift show yay! after that are a few bridal shows to check out competitors and what is out there in terms of tying the knot.. then we have some fashion shows for me...

plus we have the cne and movies and dinner dates and all that fun stuff and hopefully another weekend or at least a day at the cottage in the water again... i love that hammock...

k i gotta stop thinking of the cottage or im gonna lose the steam that i have produced to keep moving forward and be productive...

k off to bed.. today will be a long and hard day but i plan on remembering the good times with my grandma and just being with my mom during this tough time.

peace out!

Yay to summer and updating blogs in the backyard under a sun shade

It has been hot and humid and sunny and well except for the somewhat unbearable afternoons, this summer is awesome!

It reminds me of california which just makes me miss my cousin and adorable goddaughter even more.

needless to say i have been keeping super busy with many a project and things. work is going great, anthony is working hard at his new job... lets see

our invitation company has definitely picked up a bit.. we got two orders for two cool couples and one was bigger than the other.

our first order was for an ex coworker of mine that i still am somewhat in touch with.. hers was a small order. the second order was for a couple that susan encountered at a michaels and gave them our number and well their order is done and they will be spreading the word about us to all their friends and family.

yay!

we are definitely looking forward to more orders and i think we found a niche by providing completely personalized, couple inspired and designed ideas. yay!

What else hmmmm... it will be a year on saturday that my grandma passed away.. its hard to believe that it has been a year already.... i definitely miss her and wish she was still with us but i know she is with us always watching down from heaven.

there are many things that me and anthony will be doing this summer when we find the time. i will try to update more often and include pics...

enjoy this lovely sunny thursday, well here at least!

stupid G20 summit

My lovely city of toronto has been destroyed by stupid ppl who have no life and who decide to protest, and half of them if not more don't even know what they are protesting.

How dare you chant "whos streets?, our streets" and then go and destroy street fronts and break windows of stores and spray paint windows...

if you really have so little of a life that you must make the lives of hard working people into hell, then you all deserve to spend 16 hours in a small little cage of a detention centre... you deserve a beating of a lifetime...

i understand people want to protest against the government but some of the violence and stupidity is unnecessary...

you bitched that the government spent a billion dollars on extra security and police, well guess what you proved the government right cause you acted like idiots and made the police a necessity.

Thank you for ruining the city and giving toronto the beautiful a very bad facelift!

ASSHOLES

blogging is definitely not my strong point

wow, its been pretty much a month since i have blogged...

yeah definitely been busy and well some days just plain lazy lol.

Life has been hectic and i have enjoyed the majority of it... but i definitely wish i had a couple more hours in a day or better yet, some more privacy and time to myself to do stuff without it being after midnight...

really there is only so much a person can do after a certain time... anyway...

work is going well, my schedule changed a bit which kinda sucks but at least i still have my hours... plus i get to train a newbie which is always sort of fun... what else hmmm, been working super hard to get the company off the ground and we ahve finally started working on our website, but getting around to doing samples is gonna be hard...

anth has a job interview and we never know what his schedule is til the week of which is kinda annoying, and my schedule is now set and well sometimes it conflicts with anthonys.. there is only so much we can do in a couple of hours of seeing each other plus we have so many other things to do...

needless to say life is insane and this is definitely when i wished i had my own place so i could just do my own thing on my own time without having to be interuppted or have to please other ppl...

i do hate working on stuff so late and then during the day i have to help my folks and when i do get a chance to be on the computer, i get called to do other things or i have to get ready for work and don't have enough time....

i definitely gotta get more productive when i do have time or else nothing is gonna get done...

so thats my blog and vent for now... stay tuned

April showers bring May flowers...

I can hardly believe we are days away from being in the month of may... goodness that went by super fast...

Many a fun thing is coming up... we have dinner at anths sisters house, a rock musical to go watch, mothers day, and every wkd that its nice out lol... i love when the sun shines for longer than like 5 hrs lol...

we have had some good days here, sunny and decent warm... its been awesome...

here are some pics from the past couple of days...

update!

Wow!

I need to start trying to update this thing more often... I definitely need more hours in a day or i need to start scheduling blogging time.

So the biggest thing really that has happened is that i ate tooo much at easter lol...

Kidding!

Let's see what I can run down that has happened...

My little sis in law to be Daniela's bday was a couple days back... we took her out during march break and treated her to some books and yummy crepes and it was a lot of fun hanging out with her... here are some pics from that day









What else hmmm.....

Oh yeah.. me and anthony along with his cousins meagan and chrissy got the honours of chaperoning Danielas bday party with her friends... i straightened her hair and just watched over stuff and she was super happy i was there and i have realized that she really listens and takes any advice to heart so its awesome knowing i have that affect on her... its like the little sister i never had...

here are pics from her party











Next recent event is that anthonys hockey team won their division championship... it was a great game and i sort of lost my voice after yelling at them so much lol..

here are some shots from the game








Finally Easter!

Wow that was a feast and half... on good friday we went to anth's house and had dinner there with lots of yummy dessert, on saturday we stayed at my house for easter dinner... Normally we do lunch/dinner on easter sunday but my brothers were all going their different ways so we settled on saturday.

Again WAY too much food and yummy desserts. On Easter sunday i went to mass with my folks and then went to anthonys grandmas house and that was another feast... we have so much chocolate and yummy treats for a long long time.

I didn't take pics over the easter wkd except for a few... here they are

NEW HAIRCUT

so here it is.....

TADA!

slight frustration

*sigh*

this will be a slight venting blog yet again... lol sometimes you just need one..

so today i decided to stay home cause my dad needed to run some errands and needed my help... i figured that the errands would be done pretty quickly and then we would come home and I could at least get some researcing done for IASW...

apparently not, it started off at one place, then he couldn't make up his mind, and then they needed to buy more things which resulted in walking around the store for a while, then they decided to head to walmart which is a supercentre in our area, so we did grocery shopping and random walking around..

by the time we got home, had a late lunch and unpacked all the bags, it was late late afternoon and i had no time to do anything....

the worse part was that i just turned on my computer and was checking email and my mom was yelling at me to home and help her with dinner... needless to say by the time i was done helping out with everything, i had about 45 mins before dinner was gonna be served... so basically i got my emailed checked, facebook checked and read a few stories regarding the olympics and that was it...

frustration!

finally i have some time after getting home from having some time with my boyfriend and watching his hockey game to get stuff done and yup you guessed it, its 1:00 am... and im getting sleepy..

i really do hate unproductive days

Happy Valentines and Family Day

can you feel the love in the air???

k maybe thats the flurries hitting your face but either way, its valentines weekend, and for me and anthony our 1 year anniversary... can you believe it has been one full year!

its crazyness... here in canada we are celebrating family day which i believe in the states is presidents day...

best part bout family day is that i am off from work... but of course i have so many things to try and do that i never really get a day off...

so back to valentines..

me and anth started our day off with a huge bouquet of 12 carnations(one for each month we have been together), 3 gerber daisys(my favorite flower) and 1 white rose(which was the first flower i got from anth, last valentines and to symbolize one year) for valentines. he is very thoughtful.





then we headed to milestones for lunch which was yummy! and after headed to a portuguese bakery to have some dessert and coffee... we followed that up with opening a ton of gifts and that being said i can finally say what his anniversary gift was... a one year scrapbook that i made! it was so hard to do cause we have done soooooo much this year.. its crazy..








i got a ton of stuffed animals, a necklace, and lots of little stuff that was super cool... we both got each other pretty much the same stuff as our first year just in smaller version.. i got him a hedgehog and a very similar vday card, and he got me the white rose and a baby turtle to match the momma one he gave me last year...














yup we are nerds and soooooooooooo in love hahahaha....

here are some pics from the day... enjoy!

oh and i got a CUTTLEBUG! i am soooo happy hahahhaa

venting blog

*sigh*

so this blog is gonna be all about me venting out some frustrations about life lol...

really i could go on and on and on and on but i won't. I'm just going to vent about hte ones that are really bothering me.

First and foremost i hate money! I understand that it is needed to get by and live but holy crap it can seriously do some damage to a persons mental health.

Lately it seems that more money is going out than in and it is just beyond frustrating. First my boyfriends brakes were all screwed up, there goes that money, then birthdays and christmas, there goes more money and then the transmission goes...

they say bad things happen in threes and we had 3 bad things happen so now i'm hoping that we are out of the woods, but of course knowing our luck who knows...

I am trying to stay positive and work around everything and make sure that things run as smoothly as they can all considering but some days i just want to give up and say screw it all...

But i have to kep going and I know that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger but good gosh, how much more does a person need to go through to prove that we can be strong... its beyond frustrating...

Hopefully things calm down and we can get It all started with , up on its feet and hopefully get some money coming in to help with things...

*sigh* thats my vent...

time to get back to working and job hunting for myself and anthony.

cheers