Monday, November 22, 2004
It's been awhile...well, not that long - but still.
In the past week or so I have been addicted to a message board which I'm sure a few of you are semi-addicted to as well; because of that, I have been posting all my stuff on there instead of in here, so I have decided to post something today - just to keep the blog alive!
I bought food today. The Decadent chocolate chip cookies to be exact - they're my favourite, and I like to eat almost all of them in one sitting....but I don't. I am fully capable of it, and would really enjoy it, but I do have some self-control. mmmmMMMMmmmm
I bought food today. The Decadent chocolate chip cookies to be exact - they're my favourite, and I like to eat almost all of them in one sitting....but I don't. I am fully capable of it, and would really enjoy it, but I do have some self-control. mmmmMMMMmmmm
I am now a fan of road hockey. I played for the first time a couple of weeks ago with a stick that was taller than me, and was right handed (I use a left handed stick); it was still suuuuuper fun though! I now am the owner of my very own hockey stick...it's a junior stick...yup, I'm short enough to have a junior stick...it's all good though! This is not my first hockey stick, however. I had a goalie stick when I was little. I got it after watching D2 The Mighty Ducks - that's the one where they brought in the girl goalie - Julie "The Cat" Gaffney; and after that I wanted to be a goalie and make awesome saves that make the crowd go silent even though it's obvious I saved the puck...I was 10!
Tomorrow night I'm going to go to the Clayground here in Wolfville to paint a clay thing for my mom for Christmas - the awesome thing about it is that 15% of the proceeds of my purchase goes towards breast cancer reasearch!
That's all I have for now!
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
What a weekend!
Wow! This was quite a weekend, and I am about to tell you in what will probably be the most rambling and gramatically incorrect thing you will ever read...but here goes!
It all started on Saturday night when Greg (Dub) and I were sitting in my house and heard a loud BANG and a huge flash of red light from outside, and the lights flickered. Then we heard Amanda yelling to us :
Amanda: FIRE!!!!
Me & Greg: Call the fire department!!!!
Amanda: I don't know the number!!!!
Me & Greg: 9-1-1!!!!
Amanda: That actually works??!!
It turns out that the power lines outside our house exploded and the tree beside them caught fire. Amanda did call the fire department, and when they drove up to where the fire (which was now just glowing wire) was, they pulled out two pylons and set them underneath the glowing wire...apparently pylons will stop the fire and make the wire safe. About an hour later the same thing happened again, and once again the fire department came (Amanda knew to who to call this time), and the pylons were checked to see that they were still in their proper place - who knew that another fire would take place with the pylons there.! We all go to sleep - end of Saturday night.
In the middle of the night, we are awaken by yet another loud exploding sound, and the power goes out. We hear loud rumbling sounds that we think are trucks outside to fix the power lines. So now the power is out, and I am supposed to work at 8:30 in the morning. I keep waking up and checking Greg's watch to make sure I don't oversleep, because maybe they will still need me at work even though there is no electricity. I finally leave for work and find out that the loud truck sound isn't a truck working on the power lines at all, but is really just the generator at the old folks' home at the end of the street. I get to work, only to be told to go back home because of the lack of electricity. Jeffrey came home that morning and told us that the entire Valley is out of power and that it may not be back for a few days!! HOLY SHIT! So me and my roomies spent the rest of the day building awesome snowforts and having a snowball fight! That night we went to meal hall for supper, because they were giving away free food, and when we were leaving (probably around 630-7ish) we looked up at where tower is, and you could not see it! It was like there was nothing there....it was sooo creepy, but was one of my favorite things about the weekend. Later that night, me, Greg and Jeffrey decided to stroll the dark streets of Wolfville...and what did we find out?? Joe's was open! And it was packed! Walking down Main street were large groups of people all herding to Joe's. Meanwhile, Matty, who is supposed to be working, is at home just laying around on the couch - lazy bastard (hehe...just joking matty). (Matt also likes to tell the tale of how he stepped out on to Main Street just as the power was going off - he loved it! ) The rest of Sunday night was spent watching movies until our laptop batteries died one by one.
Now it is Monday and there is still now power....so we decided to go to Halifax! The girls piled into Carolyn's car, and the boys took the bus. We all ended up and Dan and Adam's place where we played poker, and video games, and had showers ---the shower was great considering I hadn't had one in a few days. That night a few of us went out to Maxwell's Plum (i hope that's the name)...it was the first time I had ever been there, and I really liked it - it has tonnes of different kinds of beer, and the best part is, you can eat peanuts and then throw the shells on the floor after!! Matty also wanted to take the hot "barmaid" home - they laughed, they chatted, Matty pretended to be british and she bought it...hehe. Now, the worst part about Monday, was as soon as we got to Hali, we found out that Acadia had gotten power back! Which meant that we had to come back today....guess they got the power back sooner than they thought.
So that was the crazy powerless weekend in Wolfville.
It all started on Saturday night when Greg (Dub) and I were sitting in my house and heard a loud BANG and a huge flash of red light from outside, and the lights flickered. Then we heard Amanda yelling to us :
Amanda: FIRE!!!!
Me & Greg: Call the fire department!!!!
Amanda: I don't know the number!!!!
Me & Greg: 9-1-1!!!!
Amanda: That actually works??!!
It turns out that the power lines outside our house exploded and the tree beside them caught fire. Amanda did call the fire department, and when they drove up to where the fire (which was now just glowing wire) was, they pulled out two pylons and set them underneath the glowing wire...apparently pylons will stop the fire and make the wire safe. About an hour later the same thing happened again, and once again the fire department came (Amanda knew to who to call this time), and the pylons were checked to see that they were still in their proper place - who knew that another fire would take place with the pylons there.! We all go to sleep - end of Saturday night.
In the middle of the night, we are awaken by yet another loud exploding sound, and the power goes out. We hear loud rumbling sounds that we think are trucks outside to fix the power lines. So now the power is out, and I am supposed to work at 8:30 in the morning. I keep waking up and checking Greg's watch to make sure I don't oversleep, because maybe they will still need me at work even though there is no electricity. I finally leave for work and find out that the loud truck sound isn't a truck working on the power lines at all, but is really just the generator at the old folks' home at the end of the street. I get to work, only to be told to go back home because of the lack of electricity. Jeffrey came home that morning and told us that the entire Valley is out of power and that it may not be back for a few days!! HOLY SHIT! So me and my roomies spent the rest of the day building awesome snowforts and having a snowball fight! That night we went to meal hall for supper, because they were giving away free food, and when we were leaving (probably around 630-7ish) we looked up at where tower is, and you could not see it! It was like there was nothing there....it was sooo creepy, but was one of my favorite things about the weekend. Later that night, me, Greg and Jeffrey decided to stroll the dark streets of Wolfville...and what did we find out?? Joe's was open! And it was packed! Walking down Main street were large groups of people all herding to Joe's. Meanwhile, Matty, who is supposed to be working, is at home just laying around on the couch - lazy bastard (hehe...just joking matty). (Matt also likes to tell the tale of how he stepped out on to Main Street just as the power was going off - he loved it! ) The rest of Sunday night was spent watching movies until our laptop batteries died one by one.
Now it is Monday and there is still now power....so we decided to go to Halifax! The girls piled into Carolyn's car, and the boys took the bus. We all ended up and Dan and Adam's place where we played poker, and video games, and had showers ---the shower was great considering I hadn't had one in a few days. That night a few of us went out to Maxwell's Plum (i hope that's the name)...it was the first time I had ever been there, and I really liked it - it has tonnes of different kinds of beer, and the best part is, you can eat peanuts and then throw the shells on the floor after!! Matty also wanted to take the hot "barmaid" home - they laughed, they chatted, Matty pretended to be british and she bought it...hehe. Now, the worst part about Monday, was as soon as we got to Hali, we found out that Acadia had gotten power back! Which meant that we had to come back today....guess they got the power back sooner than they thought.
So that was the crazy powerless weekend in Wolfville.
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Halloween Weekend
Let's start with Friday, October 29. I went to New Minas with Greg (Dub), Matt and Cole to look for a Halloween costume - I decided to be a fairy instead of Matt...what a tough decision. After looking around New Minas and buying fairy wings and a wand, we called for a cab. While waiting for our drive, a man walked into the mall and stopped right in front of us. He smelled of alcohol, and keept talking about how it was "fuckin' cold", he also tried to shake all of our hands by holding his out and moving at the wrist pointing his hand at each of us...I didn't know what to do.
Once we were back in Wolfville, Dub and I went to the Stove & Cycle store (what a weird combination) to look at snowboard stuff - which they didn't have out yet. So we went to the second hand store to find a fairy dress for me. It was a very weird experience looking for a fairy dress in the lingerie section of a second hand store with my boyfriend.
The next day Meghan, Amanda and I perfected our costumes - Amanda dressed in an 80's-ish leopard print dress, and found a 42 DD bra to stuff....her boobs were stuffed so big that I grabbed one in a picture and she didn't even notice til she saw the picture! Here are some pictures of that night!
Once we were back in Wolfville, Dub and I went to the Stove & Cycle store (what a weird combination) to look at snowboard stuff - which they didn't have out yet. So we went to the second hand store to find a fairy dress for me. It was a very weird experience looking for a fairy dress in the lingerie section of a second hand store with my boyfriend.
The next day Meghan, Amanda and I perfected our costumes - Amanda dressed in an 80's-ish leopard print dress, and found a 42 DD bra to stuff....her boobs were stuffed so big that I grabbed one in a picture and she didn't even notice til she saw the picture! Here are some pictures of that night!
