The wedding of D+G!

At last! Congratulations to Diana and Gerwyn on their wedding nuptials. The venue was beautiful, the bride was gorgeous (her bridesmaids weren't too shabby either!), the food was delicious, and the After-Party at their new home was a blast! Thanks so much for including me on your special day! Best wishes to you both!! Whooo-hooo!!

ICE ICE Baby!

No, not the Vanilla Ice song (although I have to admit, I DO like that song!!).

I recently discovered the In Case of Emergency (ICE) program that you should be doing with your cell phone address book. Quel told me all about it while we were waiting for the police to arrive at the scene during our car accident last week.

For those that don't know, the ICE program allows people (paramedics, police officers, firefighters, etc.) to contact your next of kin- your emergency contacts on your cell phone should you ever be unconscious (knock on wood).

Basically, you should enter: *ICE - (name of emergency contact person here) as their name in your address book, so that it shows up at the top of the list (which is why you need the *) and is easy to find in your cell phone contacts.

Am I the only one that hasn't heard of this?!!? Anyway, just thought I'd make you all aware!!

~your friendly neighbourhood sTan

Our photography mishap!

Quel and I decided to be adventurous today! We wanted to have a photography day and agreed to head out east to whatever city/town we find, with our final destination being Napanee. Why Napanee you ask? It was just 2 hours away (1-1/2 depending on your speed), which I thought was a good enough distance for a day trip. (Oh, and there's a frozen food store out there I used to always go to on my drives from Montreal, and I wanted to stock up on some food!).

Photography shots below:


and THEN....

If you've scrolled down far enough, you will see why I've titled this blog 'mishap'! The photos show my poor CRV in a car accident! :(

We didn't even make it to Napanee. As we were stuck in traffic near Belleville, a stupid mother f*ckin' driver (yes, I'm still angry and will continue to refer to this man in this manner) with a U-Haul truck decided to try and change lanes even though there wasn't any room for his truck. I was his first victim, damaging my entire rear right side. AND, if that wasn't enough, he continued to move through the traffic of cars, and plow through 4 other cars! The stupid mother f*ckin' driver didn't have anything to say once I approached him. He wanted to just wait for the police to exchange all information.

If it wasn't for the flat tire he got from hitting all of us, I honestly think he would have kept on going and hitting more cars. How do you not STOP after hitting the first car? Wouldn't your first reaction be to hit the brakes?? Anyway, the cop came and we all had to fill out reports, get towed, blah blah blah.

I think stupid mother f*ckin' driver fell asleep and didn't realize until after he hit all the cars. It just doesn't make sense to me. I even asked the police officer to do a breathalyzer on him! He told me he didn't smell any alcohol on him. It just doesn't seem fair... as a result of one man's stupidity, 5 cars are left damaged.

Which leads me to my next vent - what's the point in purchasing a car that you love, a car that you take care of, a car that you spent good money on... when in the end, a stupid mother f*ckin' driver ends up taking it away from you and damaging it? As some of you may know, this is my 2nd vehicle that I've purchased and loved - only to have them both taken away from me by stupid mother f*ckin' drivers! Arrrrrrgh!

Alright, thanks for letting me vent. Quel and I are both ok, there were no injuries and that's the most important thing.

I was sooo lonely!

I've been meaning to put some photos up at the condo, so I went into my storage locker to find some of the frames I had stored in there. Since they were all still packed up and wrapped in newspapers, I decided to just take them all home and go through them there.

As I unwrapped each one, I was filled with sooo many memories! What I didn't realize, was the AMOUNT of memories I had to unwrap! Geez! In my little apartment in Montreal, I had accumulated so many photo frames!! I know now that it was because I was so lonely over there... I had to be surrounded by so many familiar faces throughout my apartment! Check out all the frames I unwrapped below. Good thing I came back home when I did!! :)

Oh, and just in case you're wondering - a lot of these will be going back to storage. I'm not lonely anymore!! :P

The Cougars are out on the town!

Diana's staggette was a night to remember! The evening started with dinner at Bar Italia. We played some games, ate delicious food, and saw Di drunk! We then headed out to Klub Kave, a new strip club (more details can be found on both Di's and Saads' blogs), but I have to say... it was nice to be an 'observer' this time around rather than a 'participant'!!

Glee!

I went out for dinner with some co-workers last week, and during dinner they had mentioned the TV show Glee that they'd been watching. I've never even heard of it! And then, at Di's bridal shower, it was mentioned there as well from a few people.

So I told Ron about it, and the good husband that he is got me all of the episodes to watch! I just finished watching them, and it's hilarious... I enjoyed it very much!! I love when they just break into a song... it's a bit cheesy, but I loved it!! And the highschool teacher's kinda cute too! So I guess that makes me part of the Glee club too! :P

18 Days to go until D+G!

Ever since I've been 'funemployed', I told myself that I would start swimming daily. Of course, I kept saying it to myself believing one day that I would actually do it! Well today's the day ladies..... FINALLY! With only 18 days to go until D+G's big day, and me fitting into my bridesmaid dress... it was as good a day as any to start!!

Day 1: 25 laps, 100 sit-ups

This is the minimum I have to do daily, but I'm hoping to increase each lap and sit-up as the days pass... only 17 days left!! :)

A bridal shower for Di!

Di's lovely bridesmaids: Sue, Saads, and Sally (aka the 3-S's) hosted a bridal shower today. Saads was kind enough to offer her home for the venue, and we had lots of food and fun! I made cupcakes and brownies (nothing compared to Mel's cupcakes though). We made Christmas ornaments for D+G's first Christmas tree together (you better get a tree Di), and played games: Price is Right, Di Trivia, and my favourite - He Said, She Said!!

I had taped Gerwyn a couple of days before the shower asking him some questions (which was hilarious!), and then we asked Di the same questions to see if they were the same answers. A small sample clip of Gerwyn is below.

Thanks for accomodating everyone ladies.... it was fun! ;)