Pensive Procrastination

So, this was supposed to be a post about my top 10 pet peeves...but I honestly struggled to think of one to start things off. I got to work early after getting my haircut so I figured I might as well type out a draft for the post today since I worked until 8. It took me 40 minutes to think of 7 pet peeves. When my co-workers came in I asked them if they had any. One of the guys couldn't really think of one (but he was a little distracted by a box of children's music toys). The other guy was blown away that I couldn't think of 10 and said he had sooo many, so I asked him if I could have some. Ha! Granted when he said what one of his pet peeves was it was less of a pet peeve and more of a fun quirk. But it's something that bothers him so it's a valid "peeve" to have I guess. Peeve...I don't think that can really be used in a sentence the way I just did. So here's my list of 7 things. Does anyone else have any pet peeves that I can have? Rea

What a GREAT weekend. We started it off with the drive-in with a lovely couple, and we had a blast eating sugar snap peas, grapes, strawberries, candy, and caramel corn. We talked we laughed and we posed for pictures.  This is me and Stephanie, just before the sunset! Rob and the lovely couple. Here's Rob being Rob and Stephanie smiling as she watches cute little girls giggle with their mom. Saturday we spent selling a motorcycle, hanging out with our niece and Rob's brother, and then doing pretty much nothing all evening. Sunday we slept in (skipped church :S) and went for a walk around Conestogo lake...which was fun but not quite the hike we were looking for.  Sorry about taking so long to do this post! The week gets going and the evenings just fill in so fast! Last night we went to a campfire and the lovely Yantzi farm. SO I am typing this up smelling like stale campfire...mmmmm!  Today I'm supposed to write about my most embarrassing moment. Maybe

Today one of my closest friends (everyone say "Hi Stephanie!") and I went strawberry picking. I haven't been in so long. In fact I think the last time I went I was around the age where I had no inhibition for eating as many strawberries as possible. Today most of my strawberries landed in the bowl. It was sooo wonderful to be out in the sun with the gorgeous breeze softening the heat from the sun. We had a lovely time picking strawberries, chatting, eating strawberries (and licking the juice off our arms that had dripped down while eating the strawberries...I ended up getting some on my bicep!). It's such a blessing to live so close to the countryside and for it to be so easy to get there. We headed off to Stephanie's parents house afterwards to visit with her mom (Lisa) and to pick some sweet snap peas and snow peas. As soon as I discovered that we would be seeing Lisa I was so excited! :) As always it was so wonderful to see her and just chat with her and

I decided that it is much too hard to write about 10 people that influence me because I'm not really quite sure if I could think of that many individual people and actually be able to concretely tell you why. I know that along the way there have been a lot of people that have influenced me, this is just a small selection of those who have done so. I understand that some of these are groups of people or two people but we will count them as a whole. Ruth... I've mentioned her before. I met her when I went to Taiwan. I know that God planned for us to be friends because how else do a girl from the UK and a girl from Canada meet in Taiwan? This special, lovely woman has been a voice of reason and wisdom many times for me over the past few years. I am incredibly blessed to have her in my life, even if it is just through the internet. I treasure our late night conversations from when we were in Taiwan and the late night conversations we have had since on msn or facebook when she

Wow, what a crazy week this week (but awesome). I got back from work today at 8:30 which will be my normal Thursday night arrival time during the summer. I had subway for dinner at 9...I love vegetables.  I realize today is Wednesday but for the first two weeks our late nights are Wednesday and for the rest of the summer it's Thursday. We (as in the "youth" and staff/volunteers) went to McClellan Park this evening and it's my new favourite place. It's awesome. That's all. OK, since you begged me I'll tell you why it's so awesome. 1) It has an awesome park, it's big and has a lot of sweet play structures and some semi dangerous play structures...which I've missed. :) 2) It has an amazing FREE splash pad, with a lot of different water sprayers everywhere. It was NUTS this afternoon because of the above 30 degree weather, but the kids still thought it was awesome. 3) There's lots of green space! 4) There's bathrooms! 5) There i

I realize that no one will be reading this today, as it's only an hour before the day officially ends. To be honest I'm not quite sure I want to keep writing. 1) I am going to start off with something completely off topic. Watch this , it's hilarious. Especially the last line. Rob and I just repeated it a bunch of times and giggled. "I'm your wife, I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!" 2) I love evenings filled with good conversation, random meals (decided on because of a dear friends "inspired suggestion"-her words), a good movie and lots of laughter. 3) Brave looks like it's going to be another brilliant piece of work by Pixar. Pixar is brilliant. I pretty much love anything done by Pixar, and I can count on it being pretty clean. If you don't believe me watch the trailer . I think you'll particularly enjoy when the father imitates his daughter. "I don't want to get married. I want to stay single and let m

This post is the hardest thing I've ever been though. Ha. OK, but seriously, it's been really difficult writing the post. If you had asked me this when I was in jr. high or high school I could have told you a good many things in my life that were oh-so-tragic and horrible. But when I look back at that time now none of those things seem worth writing about. As I was talking to Rob about this post last night and bemoaning the fact that nothing has happened in my life that I feel is close to the hardships others have faced he looked at me and said, "It's supposed to be the hardest thing you've ever faced, not in comparison to that which others have faced." I understood his point, but still find it hard to write about things that others will probably read and laugh at. My life has been pretty easy in the grand scheme of things. I got made fun of every once and a while for being tall and while it hurt, most of the time I just shrugged it off. I faced some he

This post couldn't have come at a better time! My plan was to post every day for 30 days, some of you may have noticed that I missed yesterday. Missing it was totally worth it to see one of my camp sisters. Every time at the beginning of summer I always get this little camp pang in my heart and want to go back. Then I look through years of camp photos that I have, I can't decide if this is a good or bad idea... So, figuring out the first thing that makes me happy right now was pretty easy: 1. Seeing camp family, and/or hearing that so many in the camp family are doing really well. I can always tell when I'm talking to someone who has a similar camp family because instead of looking at me like I'm silly for missing some people I worked with at camp they look at me like they understand why I miss these people so much. I also know they have a similar camp family because they normally start telling stories of their own and we laugh and cry together. 2. As simple as

This whole 30 things is revealing a lot more about myself than I originally thought it would! Though, to be honest I don't really mind and I hope that you all are enjoying reading along as I divulge all this information. This weekend we were back where my sixteen year old self was doing her growing up and learning, the great big city of Newmarket! I had no pictures of myself at home when I was 16, so here's the present! Yes, Rob is holding up angry birds on his phone...  It was fun being back there right before I wrote this post. I also ended up going through a lot of memorabilia so that brought back a lot of memories and thoughts. I even stumbled upon my journal from Taiwan, which turned out to be a huge blessing for me. Anyway, back to these 10 things. It's hard to remember the exact things that were happening around that time. 1. Shave your head and accept your new hairdo with confidence. I know at times you will feel upset about how much hair you lost and the

My mom commented the other day that she was a little nervous about this post. I smiled because I knew that she need not worry about it. I think, like all children and their parents we went through some rough spots. In the end I was always aware of the fact that they loved and cared a lot about me. I grew up knowing that I was truly loved. I also grew up admiring my mom for her childishness, humility, hospitality, faith in God and ability to stand her ground. That last one is something I've come to admire as I've gotten older. I didn't really appreciate her ability to stand her ground when I wanted something as a child. I wanted what I wanted and didn't understand why I couldn't have it. I grew up knowing that no meant no. I tested this a few times. One time I sat down and said I wasn't moving until I got what I wanted. My mom shrugged and said, "Ok, see you later." and then went to hang where she could see me but I couldn't see her. At first I

This one is actually a hard one for me to think of. Not because I don't have fears because it's hard to pick one and make it concise. So bear with me... 1. I'm terrified of Math, more specifically being asked math questions in front of people and being expected to answer them. My mind goes literally blank. I just don't get math, I've also always detested it because there is only one right answer. I know that's why a lot of people love it. But I like English because there are more correct answers as long as you can logically prove your point. You can't do that in math, therefore it scares me. I believe that this fear started in grade 4 when our teacher would give us at least 4 pages of math homework every night. I was slow at it but I could normally figure it out. It would take me at least an hour and when it got harder tears were normally involved. This is also when I remember doing the timed math tests too, which made my heart beat so fast and I would fee

As I typed in the title of this blog and listened to the thunder rolling in I thought, "How the heck am I going to come up with 20 random facts about myself?" Ever since I wrote the post yesterday I've been trying to think of random facts that I can tell all y'all about. I came up with three, then gave up and decided to just write them down as they come. A stream of consciousness if you will. I will let the weather inspire me for the first random fact. 1. I love thunderstorms. Can't get enough of them...I love watching their power and hearing (and sometimes feeling) the sounds. Rob and I watched many storms last summer from our apartment. 2. When I was in grade 4 (I think it was grade 4) my friends and I were doing what we deemed the "duck walk", in this particular stance your arms are not very free. I tripped over my own feet (which was easy 'cause they were huge) and broke one of my front teeth. 3. I have funny markings on my front teeth beca

As the title of this post says, it's been a while. I kept thinking that I wanted to post more, that I was going to go on a posting kick and actually make this a regular thing one summer started. Then I finished all my papers, stopped having class, no longer had as much to do during the week and my creativity and desire to write for fun disappeared with all that craziness. I guess it just proves that this blog name was chosen for a reason. I was sitting the other day journaling and reading the Good Book when I had this brilliant thought about something to write about and I thought, "Hmm, that's interesting, maybe I should write about that." Then do you know what I did? I forgot what the brilliant idea was, that's what I did. I got up off the bed where "I was chillin' out, maxing and relaxing all cool" (finish that song...) and got up and left my thought right there. What a bust! I've been thinking a lot about writing and my inability to stick