A Blessed Life

Hey there!  So yesterday was a bit of a slow start... we had power-outage surges a couple of times around 5:30 am that woke us up, and since the alarm was gonna go off for 6am, we didn't get back to sleep, though did we ever want to.  So it was an earlier start than the already dreaded 6am, and while I got up, I didn't wake up for several hours.  Didn't help that we had the window open for the cats all night and it was cold down here yesterday morning!  So I did not do my yoga, though I did sweep all the upstairs, vacuumed down here again, and washed counters, etc... so I did move about a bit.  I finally woke up while tidying the house, then decided to get into a cute summer outfit all colour-coordinated. 

 

But yeah, my house is so nice and clean right now and I am loving it.

Here is our TV room all cleaned... I pulled everything out, and off, and vacuumed EVERYTHING, and Febreze'd all the cushions, and washed all the blankets, and yeah, it's totally awesome.  We have a totally awesome TV room anyhow, but having it clean it incredible!  So yeah, except for my spare room (maybe I'll take a pic of that as it is now, and then when I get it clean I can post before and after pics), the house is clean and I seriously want to keep it this way.  It's so nice.  So why, oh why, do I let it get SO bad...... *Sigh*.... But not anymore.  Nope nope.  The house is gonna stay clean.  It's not gonna get gross anymore.

Oh, and on Wednesday we made our own pizza's for supper.  So good!!  I used a veggie mix that had red and orange peppers, onions, zucchini, eggplant, tomato, mushrooms, and green peppers.  It's a Europe's Best frozen veggie mix.  The only thing with them that I'd do next time is chop them up a bit more... they are kinda big cubes so it was hard to distribute around my pizza.  I used a garlic and basil tomato sauce for the base, and topped it with some cheddar, mozza, and feta.  I cooked up some chicken breast in some fajita mix, and added some of that, and as a treat I added a layer of honey maple ham on the bottom... but just a thin slice.  It was SO good.  Never thought eggplant and zucchini would go well on pizza, but it was good.

But yeah, anyhow, it's now Canada Day (HAPPY CANADA DAY!) and we just sent our guests off to continue their road trip.  We had a great visit.  Ryan's mom, and his grandparents, came and stayed the night.  We had a wonderful dinner at the Sawmill yesterday evening, and an almost good breakfast at The Loft this morning, save that they screwed up grandpa's order and he had to order something else, and only got his food after we were all done.  And they didn't even discount it. :P  But the food was good, as always.

So they are off to Saskatchewan now, and we're gonna go get some snacks and drink stuff, and then we're just gonna be at home playing games!  And I was thinking yesterday about just how blessed I am.  Seriously.  I mean, this year has been pretty awesome in some regards already.  For my birthday Ryan drove me to Vancouver for the weekend so I could see Cavalia!  It was SO amazing!  Then the end of April/beginning of May we flew to the coast for a good week of visiting with family, and I got to meet my newest nephew, and play with my nephew Jack, and I even got to see my beautiful niece for a bit and my energetic oldest nephew Lucas.  And it was so awesome to see everyone and visit.  June we were in the mountains.  And next weekend we're gonna go see Dralion! Cirque Du Soleil's Dralion Video Trailer!  So yeah, that's super exciting!  And even with this summer class starting up on Monday... I mean, as much as I'm kinda like, "Ewwww, Math Stat's", really, here I am, getting to go to school so I can accomplish my dream of being a vet, and I can take this summer class, and I got into all the classes I need to for my last year of pre-vet, and I have a wonderful husband who supports my dream and works very hard so we can pay for my schooling, and amazing parents who are helping me, especially in providing accommodations and advise/support too.  So I can't even really complain about school, because it's a privilege and a blessing.  And we just got to visit with family again yesterday and today.  And we have an amazing trip planned for August to the mountains for Ryan's early birthday... gotta love those group-deal things, like groupon and livingsocial.  We're going here for 2 nights in a 1 bedroom suite with a gourmet kitchen in it, and we're getting 2 dinner theatre tickets, a float trip down the Bow River, bike rentals for the two days, and a 5pm late checkout, for, ummm... $470, or something like that, when it's usually all close to $1000.  Yahoo!  So that's gonna be a great little trip for Ryan.  He LOVES the mountains and is a bit upset that this summer class has ruined our July camping options... but hopefully this will make it up. :)  So yeah, we're blessed, I'm blessed.  I mean, flip, my life is really pretty awesome!  And I love my kitties!

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Haha.  So I never really got this thing done, and I just finished up that last part, and it's now midnight, and I'll just fill you in on the rest of the day quick then post this and wonder if anyone can get through all of this.  Yeesh.  :D
So yeah, we started games around 11am, and we finished playing games around 11pm.  Yahoo!  We stopped to make supper (shepherds pie) and that was about it.  We were more than a little crazy near the end.  It was hilarious!  We played 7 unique games, and 8 game plays total.  We played Colossal Arena, Citadels, Guillotine, Alea Iacta Est, Ave Caesar, Smallworld, and Elfenland, then played another round of Colossal Arena while waiting for the fireworks to start.  We had played everything else at our place, then we went to Colevin and Ebony's to watch the fireworks from their awesome 9-story view.

Oh, but on our way we figured, mmm, Starbucks would be nice.  But they closed early for the holiday (something I appreciated as a staff member but not so much as a customer, go figure) so then we're like, hmmmm, Second Cup is close and they have later hours... and we head over and the lights are on and we're excited and we get out of the car and we see the sign that says All Holidasy 7am-11pm, and it was just turning 10pm, so we were stoked.  Then we pulled on the door.  It was locked!!  The two girls behind the counter looked up and gave us a funny look.  We're like, ummm, Hello, you're sign says 11pm, and it's 10pm!?!?  What's up?!?  But all we got were funny looks as they cashed out the till.  So now I'm all "Super Grrrrrrr" at them.  At least, if you're gonna close early, write it on a piece of paper and tape it to the door. "Canada Day Hours: ---pm" (fill in the blank).  How hard is that.  Seriously.  Instead, you get my hopes up.  Ugh.  Anyhow, rant over.

So we went and watched the fireworks, and we could see not only Spruce Grove's really awesomely, but also some ones in the country, and the ones from Edmonton even!  So that was awesome, though I even got a few bug bites up at 9-stories.  Not impressed.

Now it's totally bedtime.  We were all so tired.  Ryan is already asleep.  I just kinda needed to wind down a bit.  Oh man, so many games, and we were getting so intense.  Elfenland has never been so heated and crazy!  I think we're totally being affected by our multiple playings of Colossal Arena and Smallworld lately.  Games were more laid back before those ones came on the scene.  But it's awesome, so who cares?

So here we are at the end of our final Colossal Arena game!  Good times. :)

Other than that, all I really have to report is that I've been pretty bad about my eating the past few days, what with company and our own private party, but I'm hoping to get back on track tomorrow.  Tomorrow we're hoping to check out the local farmers market, get some exercise at Colevin and Ebony's (they have an exercise room in their building), and then we're gonna play even more games!! Woot! 


So I hope you all had a marvelous, wonderful Canada Day!  Cheers and goodnight!