Oh my goodness…. Its 2009 already.

A new year, a new me, to quote my cousin. There is so much that I want to get done in 2009. Like finally finishing our house, or at least get it all put together so when we choose to sell it, it will be ready. And of course having a baby. I’m “baby crazy” as most people that know me would say. Another big one is to get into shape, we have been going to the gym about 4-5 times a week, and staying there for at least 45mins. 30 on the elliptical and 15 on the sit down bikes. I’ve started to feel a little better, the scale tells me that I’m down 8lbs(since the start of December), but I don’t like to believe what they say, my mom says that I should go by how my cloths are fitting. I bought 2 new shirts that don’t fit right now and I would like to be able to fit into them by the summer, unless I’m pregnant, then that’s okay if I don’t fit them. J

Christmas was good. We got to go see all the people that we wanted to see, and spend some extra time with my mom (we finally found someone that could watch the dog overnight). We got everything we wanted/asked for, plus a little more. It seems like Christmas took forever to get here and of course like every year its gone in a blink. We were driving last night and some people still had their trees up, lights going and all. I took ours down on the 27th, I don’t like leaving it up longer then it needs to be. Same with the out-door lights, they are still up, just not on. We’ll take them down the next time its nice out.

For the past week the weather has been crazy, -42 with the wind chill one day and then 2 days later the Chinook comes. When the weather is like that it’s not really all that good, Kyle and I both get head aches. But its okay, we just take the extra strength stuff and tough through it.

Last Friday (the 2nd) was my 2-year anniversary for working at AGAT. It sure doesn’t seem like its been that long. But then again we have owned our house for 2 ½ years now. So its not all that shocking. And in 2 weeks I will be 22. Sometimes when I think back to things I cant believe that some times I have to day that something happened 12 years ago.

Anyways, I don’t have anything else to write about, that I can think of. Bye byee for now.

December

December…

Winter I guess is finally here. We had a pretty good windstorm the other night, it didn’t bring very much snow with it. But it blew so hard and flung the screen door open I thought it was broken, but it was okay.

We got all our Christmas lights and decorations put up. And I’m glad that we did it last week when it was “nice” out. I’ve wrapped all the parents and other family members gifts, and I think today I will attempt to wrap Kyle’s.

We are going to hold off on any more renovations to the house till the spring, the only thing that is left is to finish the stairs and front entry. Well the only ‘big’ thing. And we need to use a wet tile saw, but wont when it’s so cold and snowing out side. Unless my dad tells us of something we can use inside to cut the tile we are out of luck till spring.

We finally chose a gym to join, on a 1 year contract too. So no backing out this time, I think we will be more diligent with going this time around, first off we have a car so it is easier to get there and home, and in order for us to have a baby my doctor said that I need to loose weight, because weight loss will give your body a 'kick' in the reproductive area (her words). So I’m excited, we went last night and we are going tonight too. I want to loose 15lbs by Christmas, and I’m not drinking pop anymore either, well maybe 1 can every 2 weeks. But water with dinner every night, I already drink a lot of water, but not so much with food, so I hope this will help.

We got our Christmas plans all straitened out. We will go to Lethbridge in the morning on the 24th, spend the day with my mom, Brooks(mom’s husband) and my Grandma who is up from Orem Utah. And any other family members that happen to pop by. Then I think we will go to my Aunt Denise’s house in the evening for my dad’s side of the family’s Christmas get together. Then back to Calgary for Christmas morning with Kyle’s parents, then we will go home, have our Christmas with just the 2 of us, plus the dog and cat. Then back to the in-laws for Dinner. I think I’m going to see if my Dad, his girlfriend, Heather and Beau will come over for early Christmas dinner and gift opening on the 20th, or21st And if that doesn’t work then we would have to do the 27th. I’ll have to call him and see what there plans are then we can decide. Christmas was always pretty crazy, having to decide where everyone goes for those days, and wanting to be with all the different sides of the family. But we are going to try and see everyone this year and see how that works out.

I’ve decided that instead of buying people that I work with gifts I’m going to bake cookies and put them in cute little Christmas looking containers and just give those out. Its better then spending a bunch of money on people and I think that people like it better because you took the time to put everything together. I hope that people will like that.
I don’t have anything else to report on. TTYL…

November all ready...

I cant believe that its November already. in under a week it will be Kyle's 24th Birthday! YAY. then soon Christmas will come, the new year, then my 22 Birthday. This year has gone by a lot faster then i thought it would, so much has happened.

We have decided that we aren't going to sell our house just yet, the market has really dropped, so we'll wait till it starts to pick up. we have a "friend of a friend" that is a realtor and she said that the market should pick back up in 1-2years, we are okay with waiting, the house still needs a lot of work done to it.

Its starting to get cold out there again, we had our first snow fall last week. but it warmed up so most of it is gone. but in the mornings i still have to scrap my windows, which i dont mind, its better then taking the bus.

we still havn't heard back from the fertility clinic about our appointment. and havn't heard anything about Kyle's test results either. he did it more then 2 weeks ago and the doctor hasn't called or anything to let us know about it. its very frustrating because we want to find out if its just me with the problems, or both. we are still trying all the time ;) so who knows what will happen. i will call the doctor again today and leave another msg. and maybe she will get back to me. i just want to know if we are getting our referal or not and then to know when the appointment is would be fantastic. i have the number to the clinic so i figured that i could just call and see if i can make a appointment my self. but i dont know if they let you do that. but anyways. i will call and we will see whats going on with it.
For more about my condition(mainly the family members that ask me about it) you can check it out at this website(or just google PCOS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome

but i better be getting back to work. i'm sure i'll have more to talk about in the next little bit. TTYL.

Amanda

My fantastic "New" Car!!!!

And of course when i say "new" i mean a 2002, but only owned by one person before me. so anyways. Yes indeed i have a new car. it is a 2002 Saturn SC1 3Dr. its while and oh so cute. It has new front tires, and is really in need of new rear ones thats forsure. just had a oil change 2 weeks ago. this guy that lives across the street from us seems to think that these cars have coolent issues. and that i should let him take a look at it. i think that he is a mechanic so i would have no problem letting him take a look. but we will just have to wait and see. but oh the freedom of having a car. being able to drive to work, not have to take the bus everywhere, being able to go where ever and whenever we want, not having to call and see if Kyle's mom will take us to get groceries. I LOVE IT!!!!! we already made a sightly big trip. we drove it to Airdrie to go to the walmart super center, they have really good prices on chicken, so we got 3 packs of 6, at around $10 each. it was awesome.

hopfully we will be going to the gym on friday(*crosses*fingers*) and getting our memberships all done. i'm really getting sick and tired of looking the way that i do. i want to get as close to weighing 170lbs as i can. if less then fantastic. Kyle is feeling that way too, be wants to be 180-190lbs. we changed our diet, we eat alot better then we use to but still nothing, but i guess not losing anything is better then gaining, right?? sure, why not.

this weekend is going to be "busy" i guess our friend Andrew is going to put in our new front window. so last weekend we bought new "brick mouldings" for the windows, they are alot thicker and wider then the other ones, so we are going to need to run them threw the table saw and try and trim them. so that will be interesting. we will have to wait and see.

oh well. but i'm still really happy about the car. and thats all i have to write about for now. so ttyl. bye byee for now.

A new month...

...with a list of things to do.

I haven't typed anything is a while and I have quite a bit of stuff to talk about....

This past Saturday (Aug 30th) I took my road test to get my drivers license! I did really good (or so the guy said) except for the fact that I didn't slow down and yield at an uncontrolled intersection, so I failed. I wasn't very happy. But I will go again this Saturday and try another time. I’ll go to the same place so I kind of know the route that they take (the guy said it was a planed out route that they always use, so I will know what I’m doing). And hopefully I will pass because I really want to get my license and then we can get a car, because its starting to get cold and we don’t want to have to be taking the bus in the winter anymore. So that will be the first little bit of Saturday.

Later on in that day (noon-ish) we will be expecting a guy to come in from a furnace cleaning company to, you guessed it, clean our furnace (and ducts too). Its $139.00 for the furnace, 12 vents, and the dryer duct too. My mom said that is a good price. Its starting to get cold and we want to be able to turn it on with-out smelling that nasty smell that comes from the ducts from the last people that owned the house, as well as the gross smoking smell. And it will be nice to turn them on and not have dust everywhere, we're going to have the furnace inspected too. but that will be next week. so I guess I’m pretty excited about that.

a few weeks ago I canned some peaches with my cousin Kim and her mom, my aunt Nancy, and now this weekend(we hope if they are ripe enough) we are going to can some pears, which reminds me I need to go get some more big jars, I better write that down, done. anyways... I’m really looking forward to that because maybe then we won’t run out of the peaches so fast. I tend to take a jar(just a .5L) to work everyday and have that for breakfast. we only have like 4 little(.5L) jar left and like 9 of the big jars(1L) left. I was thinking that I could go out and buy some more peaches just from a store or a roadside stand, but I don’t know. they are going to run out fast and once they're gone that'll be it for the year. so I think I’ll do that. my mom said that she would bring her canning stuff down when they come down on the 12th. so I think I will plan that for then...

I cleaned the upstairs part of my house really good this weekend too. by our fireplace we have a little kind-of shelf thing that I have pictures and stuff like that on, and under it we just store junk in it, and I cleaned that out, and all around the fireplace. I cleaned off all the coffee tables and the movie cabinet, in the kitchen I have a chine hutch type thing and I cleaned out the bottom of that, and re-organized it, as well as all the kitchen and kitchen table. I got 4 bags of garbage out of there. I would have done more but it was like 1am and Kyle wanted to go to bed. I think I will try and do the computer room tonight, either before or after big brother is on. it really needs it, we still have boxes from wedding gifts in there. we really need to get to the dump but I don’t think that will happen any time soon, maybe I should call up some garbage-hauling people and see what they charge. there sure is a lot. I’ll just have to wait and see, geeze, so much to do with so little time. and while I am writing this blog I have a little post-it next to my key board where I’m writing down a list of things I want to get done before the snow hits. including the other stuff I wanted to do this weekend(the back splash in the kitchen). oh my goodness. I kind of hope that they pears aren't ripe so I can try and get some of this done. lol. I have to call my dad and see when he would be able to help put in the back splash and the front entry tile.

and on top of all that we have decided that we want to move next year, and buy a actual house, not just a du-plex like the one that we are in now, unless its one of those really nice re-done ones with the extra sound buffers in the walls so we cant hear what the people next door are doing. we decided that if everything is done by December 31st we are going to put it on the market, first for a few months on welist. and if that doesn't work we will just get a realtor. but it all depends on if everything gets done. which I’m hoping it does.

but I don’t have much else to day. at least not that I can think of right now. so I better get back to work. maybe I’ll type out my list of things to do, now that I have a list that is written on 3 different post-its. so anyways. TTYL

Amanda

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my dad's birthday, he will be 55. Heather and I are going to take him out to dinner tonight, and then we are going to take him to see a movie on Sunday. We're going to see the X-files movie! I'm really excited to see it. When we were kids we would always watch that show with our dad, I really liked that show. So I’m glad that we're going to see it. We would go tonight but its Friday night and we figured that the theaters will be busy, and Heather has to give her friend’s dog some meds at 8:00 and she can’t miss it. So we will go on Sunday, I’m thinking an earlier show, but it doesn't really matter to me.

We get our new washer and dryer today! I’m very excited about that as well. They are really nice Kenmore, I think, front loader washer and dryer set. Dark blue. Super nice. And really big. I’m glad that I will finally be able to wash our blankets and not worry about only 1/2 of it getting washed because it wont all fit in there. I think I will end up doing a lot of laundry tonight. And we get our new fridge too. That one might be a little harder, because we were told that you should let it sit and "settle" for like 5 hours before you put any food or anything like that in it. And you have to let it get cold and all that. But it might be an issue because we don’t have any coolers to put anything in. we do have a little "bar" fridge thought, so I guess that could work. If it actually works. lol. we will have to wait and see. so now we will have replaced all the appliances in the house. but we decided that when we move if the new house and they don’t have new washer and dryers like our new ones that we will be taking them with us. I think it’s a good plan.

tomorrow I will be going over to my cousin Kim's house and we are going to can some peaches, as long as they are ripe enough. we were going to go to my aunt Nancy's house(Kim's mom) but I guess she can’t do them on her stove because it’s a smooth top. so that’s really good that we don’t have to go to Airdrie to do it, I can just walk like 5 houses down to get to Kim's. Which will be good because Kyle wasn't going to be able to help because we are also getting a new sheet of glass put in the window(the one pane(?) is cracked) and one of us has to be at the house, and because its Kyle’s friend Andrew that is doing it we figured that he should be the one that stays home. but that’s okay now, because once they are done Kyle can come over and help with the canning. so that all worked out.

I cant think of anything else to talk about, so I better be getting back to work. bye byee for now.

Where has the year gone???

Its the end of July, the year is more then 1/2 gone. there are 156 days left in the year, 150 days till christmas, and 177 days till my next birthday, it doesn't seem very far away. i just think its crazy how fast the time goes by, it may not seem like it(except on weekends), but it sure does. On thursday we are leaving for our anual trip to BC to Kyle's grandma's house. we will be there till tuesday(driving back then) and then i am back to work on thursday, i'm taking wednesday off because we are going to do down town and get all the name changes and all that done, along with getting our passports done too, we figured that if we want to go to mexico in november or december we should have those in order. so thats the plan for now...

we are going to buy a new fridge when we get back too. the one we have now makes alot of weird noises, and i'm pretty sure its going to break down any minute. its not very good at keeping things in the door cold either. and stuff in the freezer is either frozen solid, or kind of melting. so its about time. and i would like everything in my kitchen to match, so far everything is white, except for the fridge. another bigger purchas i would like to make is a new tub for the upstairs, its very old and just plain gross. its a nasty yellow(off white) color, and has the whole built in tub surround thing going on that i just dont like, it makes it seem much smaller then it really is. so a nice new tub and some new tile to go all around up to the celling would be really nice. i'm getting all these ideas now that i am talking about them that i have started to write stuff down that i want to do. and i know that we can do these things because(and i know this isn't the best thing to do but oh well) we took out a line of credit so we can fix up the house and sell it! i'm excited because i think we are going to try and get everything done by next spring and put it up. so here's hopeing(*cross fingers*).

i dont really have much else to say, i only have 1 1/2 hours left in my day, so that helped speed things along. i better e-mail my cousin and see if they can check in on the house while we are gone. bye byee for now.