A funny story to let you know I am alive

8 Days until my exam - woohoo!

Tonight while Kev and I were walking the dogs we were discussing our slight ant "problem".  You see, there have been a few ants in our house, not a lot.  Kevin has taken it upon himself to kill any and all ants on our entire property.  I can't even tell you how many bottles of ant killer he has gone through.  (This is a touchy subject that causes the OCD to flare up big time.)

Anyway, so on the walk I mentioned that I have only ever seen one ant in the house.  Not a big deal to me, it was one of those small little ants.  

Our conversation went as follows:

Me: I've only ever seen one ant in the house. 

Kev:  Where was the ant?  When was this?

Me:  In the front hall, when I was putting on my shoes.  It was like 2 weeks ago.  No big deal, just a little squish and he was gone.

Kev:  You can't just squish them and leave them there!!!  Ants come to get their dead people!!!

Me:  You are crazy.

Kev:  No seriously, they leave little trails behind them, that is why they walk in a line.  When they come across a dead one they pick it up and take it home.  I've seen them do it.  

Me:  Awww, that's kind of nice of them to do that.  

...anyway, that is our conversation.  The bolded line is really the only reason I even posted this.  I practically peed my pants when he said this to me. 

Adventures with dogs

There have been three puddles of pee in our house in the past three days.  We know from past experience that this means that something is wrong.  Our girls do NOT have accidents unless something is wrong!

Someone is sick, but who???

All we have are puddles of pee, but no clue who is creating them.  

So, not wanting to clean one more puddle, Kevin and I decided that both dogs would visit the vet and we'd let them figure out which dog is having the issue.  Kev called the vet and made an appointment for both dogs today at 3:30.  

I left work at 3, went and got the dogs, and brought them both to the vet.  

They were expecting us, and as soon as I walked in, the vet tech said "so Bailey and/or Burgundy isn't feeling well??" and I said "yes, we're not quite sure who!"

As I was saying that, Bailey squatted on the mat in the waiting room to pee.  Alright, problem solved, Bailey is the one you need to deal with!  So she quickly went and got a syringe and sucked some pee right up from the floor!  It obviously had tons of bacteria in it (because it was from the floor) but the vet was comfortable giving Bailey some routine antibiotics to hopefully clear up any bugs that are giving her troubles right now.

Isn't Burgy a lucky girl??  She was about to get a needle stuck in her bladder to extract urine...and it would have been for nothing.  Maybe Bailey knew it and was trying to save her the trouble??

Regardless, it was just too funny not to share :)

A bit of a confidence boost!

I got my grade back for the last course I did - 82%!  Woohoo!  

My grade was accompanied by a letter from the CGA congratulating me on my "academic excellence"... The letter is prominently displayed on the fridge.  In university, 82% wasn't such a big deal, but the course was so freaking hard that I am over the moon.  This is another reason why I am very excited to do the next 12 or so courses through a University!

My Econ exam is on June 9th - I'm in the final month, which actually makes it much easier to buckle down and focus (even more) on schoolwork.  The end is in sight - and I can't wait!  

St. Paddy's Day Kegger

Brace yourself, I'm about to blog about a social event.  There will be real pictures, not taken with my Blackberry.  Prepare to be amazed!

This year, we were invited to a St. Paddy's day Kegger at our friends Ian and Laura's house.  It made me feel like I was back in University again.  Oh wait, I am back in University again.  I guess I should say that it reminded me of the fun kind of University. 

Court sporting some beer goggles pretty early on!

Kev and Scott - looking good in green!!

Can't have a St. Paddy's party without green beer!

So fun!  I ate so much green food.

Smiley Jen

Scott is doing us all a favour and posing to prevent any indecency.  You can use your imagination.

Laura (our wonderful host) and Jimmy!

Lola and I

Megan and Justin

Kerri

The stretchy green people...

Catherine and Court - looking good!!

"....allll by mysellllfffff...."  

(Jackie took this picture and explicitly told me the caption I had to use)

The sun is still a shining!

Justin and Jack

Love these boys!

Keg stands on the balcony - in the afternoon?  I think yes.

Perfect juxtaposition against the kids playing in the park, lol.

Cuuuute siblings!  :)

Evinou's + 1

Uh-oh - it looks like Laura fell victim to the green ball.

What a meanie, not telling her that if you were holding a pitcher, you didn't have to drink the entire thing when the ball is dropped in it!

Jackie is having a good time.

Justin and Ian.

Jen, Cath and Jane

Kev and Wheats - posing interestingly...

Me and the hubster!

Court's turn with the keg

Thank you Laura and Ian for having us! 

I'm baaaaaack!!

I'm probably not going to be near as faithful as I have been in the past to this blog, but I am over my blogging funk.  I think it must have been the two consecutive days of sunshine we've had.  Totally threw me for a loop.

A quick update:  I have a little over a month until my Econ exam - not looking forward to that.  However, I am now officially a student at Athabasca University (in Alberta, LOL) and I start my next course through there on June 1st.  I am looking forward to it, as I know it's not going to be near as difficult as doing courses directly through the CGA.  (The credits are a direct transfer though.)

Anyway, work is going great as well.  I don't really have much to complain about - I've just been so darn busy.  Since I've only been getting to the gym twice a week, I've had to find other ways to get some exercise... and that includes going for walks with my sister and our dogs!

Today (and yesterday) Sarah and Sadie came by after work to go on a nice 6km walk with me and my girls.  It was just too beautiful out today - THIS is what we've been waiting 6 long cold months for!!

When we got home from our walk, we hung out in the front yard a little bit - so the dogs could slobber and drool and drink water like wild animals.  (I'm talking to you Sadie!)

I noticed that our Magnolia tree, which was gifted to us last Spring, has a BLOOM!  Only one, but it's a bloom nonetheless!

 A closer look... don't mind the quality, I took these pictures with my Blackberry!

 This is my attempt at getting a portrait of the girls sitting next to our blooming magnolia tree!

 I can guarantee you that they would not have been this cooperative if they weren't so gosh darn tired!

 I'm so proud of that little tree.  It braved a brutal winter!

 I would have to say that my mission is complete!

 ...and one more, just because I love this picture of Bailey.  Could she look any happier??

Hiatus

If you haven't been able to pick up on it - I'm on a slight hiatus from my blog. 

There are two main reasons for this:

1) I am drowning in this economics class.  I can't keep up with the material and can't understand it even when I try to keep up with it.  So that means I have to put even more effort into it, because I only have to get this one ECON course and then it's back to accounting.  I'm so mad I even have to take this course in the first place - probably because it's sucking the life out of me. 

2) Because of #1, I have zero life right now, so really I have nothing interesting to blog about even if I had the time or energy.  But that's really not true I guess, I used to blog about nothing. 

After a night of doing economics for so long that my hand has literally stopped working, my brain is so fried I can't even begin to think about writing something here.  I have been feeling really guilty about that and have brought up the screen once in a while to come up with nothing.

I'm not going to let myself feel guilty any more - of all of the 'to do's' nagging in my head, this blog is just not very important right now. 

I'll post something here and there for sure, and maybe once I disassociate this blog as being an obligation, I might have more interesting things to write...but for now, I need a bit of a break.  :)

1 year ago

One year ago today we lost our sweet girl Madison.  She is still greatly missed by all of us and we still cannot believe that she is gone.  :( 

She had such a bright, shining spirit that we can't help but smile when thinking about her. 

We love you Maddie, and miss you forever and ever! 

(Click here to read my memorial post for Madison)