Not a Big Deal...

While proofreading my boyfriend's resume for him I found myself wondering where in the heck I found such a good catch. I always say he is a "smart ass" but this is not true...he is very smart and talented and I knew some things that he had accomplished but not all until I saw his resume. I was skimming and saw that he had won the Governor General's Award(pretty big deal I would say). I was like " Wow, you won that!?" and he replied "Well yeah, I think all Valedictorian's just get it."
Apparently being Valedictorian and winning the Governor General Award is just not a big deal... what a nut;)

Soup and Sandwiches

So I took myself out for lunch today. The thing about eating in a restaurant alone is that you have no one to look at or talk to and therefore you can "people watch" to a greater extent than can normally be done whilst with a companion. I have few pet peeves but one that drives me crazy is the "scraping of the bowl". I have never in my life seen someone scrape the bowl for the last remnants of soup as I did today. I always bug my Mom because she is famous for that...particularly with her yogurt;) Anyway, for approximately 4 1/2 minutes this lady vigorously scraped her empty soup bowl trying to get more soup when everyone could clearly see there was none left. After the third minute I was ready to go and give her two dollars to buy another bowl so she would stop it. Another thing that happened during lunch was I changed my view on teenagers. Working at the junior high/ high school last year I found myself being perturbed by the younger generation. Today I saw groups of teeny boppers who were extremely polite and donated money to "camp for kids", talked with mentally challenged people, gave up their seats for people older than them and asked me politely if they could borrow the chair from my table and then all thanked me and smiled. WOW! I was quite excited about all of it and was almost contemplating for a moment to teach high school instead of elementary...
All in all, a pretty good lunch I would say:)

Lots of Laughs

I have been really busy working in Tisdale. Last weekend was my 28th birthday and my boyfriend came to Tisdale for the first time and met my Mom and all of my friends that live around there. It turned out well! The bar hosted their annual ball tourney last weekend so it was crazy busy and I worked 55 hours in one week and then worked a bunch of shifts straight right after that so that I could have a couple of days with Brian. As it turns out we ended up going on a little trip to Regina...fun fun fun! He had an appointment and needed a driver so we decided to make a road trip out of it. We stayed at the Hotel Saskatchewan which was super posh and also a little gawdy for my liking. Flowers galore and then when you thought there could be no more flowers there was;) Floral every place you looked...haha. An array of funny things happened while we were there. First we stopped at a liquor store and there was a busker outside of it singing CCR and about 12 other people. It was a little scary and they were yelling something or other about a treaty to us as we left. Then we decided to go to the casino. We called the shuttle and were waiting outside and I got in the wrong vehicle! Oh well, who knows one van from another right? We were playing Roulette and this drunk guy from Somalia came and was calling me "sweetie" and trying to tell everyone how to play and he seemed to think he knew how to beat the game. A lady from Italy was beside us and would bet on everything so that she always won but really would lose much more than she won each time. The Somalian was also trying to give her pointers and saying that Somalians love Italians. She was looking a little perturbed at all this and we didn't stick around to see what happened and moved on. Then after no luck on a couple of slot machines we decided to play Blackjack. Now I hadn't played in a long time so I wanted to watch Brian for awhile before I sat amongst a bunch of professionals;) I actually did pretty well EXCEPT some guy bet on my hand or something(I still don't really know what happened) and put some chips behind mine and then he won and then I got all excited and grabbed all of the chips but they weren't mine. The dealer was like "That's the funniest thing I have seen all night!" and then the guy(whose money I attempted to steal) immediately left our table...haha. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. The next day we went to a Vietnamese restaurant and the lady who was working there said "feel like me know you long time, you have such friendly face!". Brian had an appointment and his hands were numb and not working well because of the anaesthetic so I opened his pop for him. She came over and gave him "the look" and asked how long we had been together and then said that he was one lucky guy because I was so nice and happy. Somehow all of her comments throughout our meal implied that I should kick him to the curb and that he was not a nice happy person. It was really, really funny! Moral of this story...I gave her a huge tip for the compliments and Brian tipped her as well for being such a funny gal:)
Regina is totally bonkers....

Tickled Pink

Everything in my life that I was dreading is finished...final exams, the spring cleaning of my condo, and my brother's move from Alberta. I now have a few days to just relax and do fun stuff before I start work:) This is where I unveil my new boyfriend(drumroll....) named Brian. I made supper for him last night at my place(first time I have had him over!). I showed him my culinary skills...not them at their peak but definitely didn't wreck it;) He just wanted pasta so it is pretty hard to wreck that. Speaking of culinary skills....everyone in Japan thought I sucked during two different occasions 1) When I "manned the grill" and took 5 hours to barbeque stuff and it didn't turn out so well 2) When I attempted to make all of us "foreigners" a traditional Christmas dinner with two toaster ovens and some chickens. OK I am done with my reminiscing ...so yestersday we went for a walk and played in the park and ate ice cream like 5 year olds...good times! I debated going on the spring loaded horse but decided against it since I have been "bucked off" those things on two different continents on previous occasions already. I was hoping he would(so I could laugh at him) but sadly no... We went to play Risk with his friends today. I have not played that game since high school. I seem to remember being really good at it and always winning but today sadly I lost and was taken over. My mission was aborted when they realized what my mission was as I wasn't too secretive about it. oops! Guess I have forgotten how to play but it was fun anyway. Anyway, just want to let everyone know I am doing great and am a little smitten(cho sukoshi) at the moment and happier than I have been in a long time. Hope you are all well! Love you! xoxo

Moving x 4

Craziness and complete bonkerdom! So my brother is moving back to Saskatchewan and in an attempt to be a good sister(not that I am not one already!) I went with my Mom and her boyfriend to help him move. It actually was a really fun trip, we took turns driving and having "nap time" and singing songs as we always do on long road trips. We went to see my Grandma which was awesome since I hadn't seen her in almost a year. My Grandpa just passed away but Grams is doing great...spry as eva! We visited and took her to the casino and ate a bunch of food(always do...she is the stereotypical Ukrainian Baba). Anywho, I worked my butt off (as did everyone) cleaning and packing things yesterday. I left early this morning to come back to Saskatoon(7 hours away) with a car load of Brant's things and have begun my own work that needs to be accomplished. I am moving, have someone moving out and have my landlord's daughter moving in so I came to clean the place thoroughly! I have been scrubbing for over an hour and thought I would take a little break. Other than being busy and running all over the country I am doing and feeling pretty darn chipper! Until next time...Tress

Bookless Bliss

This is me smiling because I am happy!!!!!!!I AM FINISHED SCHOOL! Just wrote my last final...it was a toughie! I have made it through the year and am pretty pumped that it is summer and I have four whole months off from the books:) I am going out tonight to celebrate the great year and my good marks;) Hope all is well with you guys!

The Whirlwind That Is My Life

So my life right now is a bit crazy and it will only get crazier I am sure...
I am done school and have decided to work in Tisdale for the summer. I am writing final exams right now and have been driving back and forth to Tisdale(2 hours away) to work between these exams...it is bonkers! I am trying to juggle working, traveling, social life and exams at the moment and it is wearing me out. Not to mention I have become an avid LARPER in this past few weeks(just kidding). For instance, I worked till 2:30am last night, got up at 8:30am this morning, drove back to Saskatoon and am now leaving to go study at the University with my friend! All in a day's work right? Other than that I am doing fairly well. There will be a lot of moving and stuff next week as my brother is moving back to Saskatchewan and I somehow think I am going to have to help with that and also I may have people moving in and out of the condo I live in at the same time. My friend from Alberta is down right now and so I am going to go visit her tomorrow which I am excited about since I haven't seen her for so long but when the heck am I gonna have time to study????haha
Oh well, I am sure things will begin to settle down soon. Hope all is well with all of you and sorry if you can't get a hold of me...like I said I'm a tad busy for the time being;) xoxo