June posts

June 5, 2009

FRI 5 JUN

Oh the weather... sob sob... :( By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

It makes me sad, because it is June after all and what are they getting in Calgary and saying that we will get here... SNOW!!! or white stuff, whichever you prefer to call it. Not that it would be the first time, but it hasn't happened in a long time that I can remember. I can take it in May but once we hit June... nah it should be rain (I know we don't have anything to say about that but still).

Anyway, I have some information to print for birth announcements for a friend, so I guess I have my work cut out for me tonight... who knows I may get energetic and find some other things that need doing to complete at the same time. Like packing stuff, but that all depends if I figure out what I'm doing for projects for the last stamping evening or not.

Time to run though because I'm hungry and it is suppertime after all... so more later

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June 9, 2009

TUE 9 JUN

Blah blah blah blah.... By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

I feel like I've written a book once again with my two other posts tonight.. but I had to think of something to put on my main page.. ha ha! Even if it is just totally random. Randomness does seem to happen when I'm tired so that is all I had to say :)

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June 10, 2009

WED 10 JUN

I feel like I don't have a life anymore.... :( By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

... Every single night of this week I have something and it is driving me crazy... I'm so not getting things done when I want to so I'm starting to stress a little. I can tell because I'm starting to forget things such as appointments. Today I phoned and made an appointment then put it into my schedular and promptly forgot... Oops... so now I should have called and told them, but I forgot that as well

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June 13, 2009

SAT 13 JUN

34 days... and... counting down! :) By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

Well it is getting oh so close now... I'm finally starting to feel more excited about it since I finished favours so that is a good thing! On one hand it won't come fast enough and one the other hand it will be here before I know it so that is kinda freaky.. I will survive like usual though, so I'm not freaking out yet!!

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June 15, 2009

MON 15 JUN

Our house now.... By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

Well John moved in on Saturday so hence the lived in look

The kitchen with the new flooring.... as well as a new fridge and stove, and yup the old dishwasher.. ha ha, gotta love the color

The bathroom with the new paint job and flooring.

Living room... can you tell that there is no such thing as a desk for the computer yet.. oh well a make-shift station works just as well...at least for John... :)

Different view of the living room....

Ummm according to John I'm the artist, so if I had taken the picture the closet doors would be closed..

Yes, unfortunatly for John I put my foot down.. I get something new for after the wedding as well.. that being the quilt! So he has to make due with other blankets.. ha ha :)

When I saw this picture, the first thing that I said was "oh so the dog has a spot on your bed eh?" Anyway our bedroom suite is pretty much all there other than the night tables.. so eventually you will get pictures of that... or you can come visit some time :)

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June 16, 2009

TUE 16 JUN

Going to the dentist sucks to say the least!:( By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

Well since I have awesome benefits from work right now I figured I should get my dental work all done... and ya my mouth is sore right now so say the least :( Yes I know, I know go take some tylenol or something but I'm stubborn and hate taking that stuff so I won't until it hurts an awful lot more than it does right now.. and right now it is almost pushing it, it doesn't help that the freezing just came out so I'm going to give it some time and then see what happens. Anyway back to packing my stuff I go! Which is a whole different post again so I will leave that for later, or tomorrow :)

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TUE 16 JUN

Ok, so I should be in bed.. but...:P By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

.. I am sitting at the computer.. and textin' so ya what can I say. Anyway tonight after I got off of the phone I went to hang out with my bro's and sis in the pool so that was pretty fun, once I got in there that is. Evert decided to get me in the quick way, so he pushed me in, and yup if you want me to scream try that out with cold water.. even then 19 degrees celcius isn't bad compared the 16 that we went in the first year we had the pool. I screamed till mom came and told me to shut up.. ha ha :) Then I hopped back out and stood on the edge till they started splashing me and out came the pail and from there a full blown water fight with all up us standing on the edge other than Evert who hid under the cover and would appear every once in a while, with us trying to get him wet... Oh I guess that is right he was about as wet as he could get there.. Oh well it was fun! I have a feeling I will be paying for it tomorrow though because my muscles will be sore.. so we will have to wait and see. Anyway time for bed now, because that is really more important than my blog.. even though it doesn't seem to be so right now.. I know it will be tomorrow when I can't get up!

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TUE 16 JUN

Maybe... By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

.. it would be useful to define who us is :) So here goes: Evert, Willard, Jared, and Brit were in there when I came so ya the five of us.. great fun!

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June 17, 2009

WED 17 JUN

One month to the day today.... By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

Yup I'm finally starting to get excited about the wedding! Well maybe I should change that... I have been excited all along but contained excitment because of everything that I had to get done yet... now that most of the stuff is done, I'm super excited!

I go down to the states next week so then I can deal with stuff in the house and get things sorta figured out.... So that is that for now!

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June 19, 2009

FRI 19 JUN

Oh I'm such a bad child... Tiny vent!! :P By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

Apparently, but I don't care which is an issue I think.. maybe not... ha last night after going to the topic we went out for coffee with several of us. Anyway got busy talking and it was late so I was home late, uummm I'm on my way home and get the typical call, where are you? Me: oh on my way. Them: well you are supposed to be home.. Me: Sooooo.... Them: Nothing so...: Anyway so that was that... yup the joys of my life don't you envy me.. ha ha gotta love your parents. I mean it is awesome they care buuuuuutttttt... you know I'm not going to go to the bar or movies soooooo.....

Anyway so then tonight I have a bridal shower to go to.. Them: So what time are you going to be home. Early than last night right? Me: total silence... So in the end they got no answer, but I'm home at 11 on the dot so what can they say... yup I'm home but on the computer late.. so what... not any difference in my opinion I'm still not in bed.... Just had to vent, I'm not super ticked about anything, just the general fact that I think it is kinda crazy that they are still trying to control my life when I'm leaving in how many days???? They still only control certain things the rest they have no say over no matter what they try now already.. bad I know, I know... Yup so that is my fantabulous life at the moment and I'm loving every last minute of it!

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June 20, 2009

SAT 20 JUN

Oh gotta love a slow day! By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

So this morning... way before I was ready to get up of course my alarm goes... I woke up thinking what day is it today.. Then Oh that is right Saturday :( So I had to get up because as it was I had kinda put it on for about last minute kinda thing so away I go... Anyway so then the reason it was a slow day... well, there was very few people at the Farmers Market today so that wasn't great for sales at all! It was awesome for having a chance to go around and chat with the other vendors though!

I took Brit along today so that was alright it worked out that way as well.. and the thing was I have to watch the annoying wounds that I got at the doctors yesterday because I had him remove three moles... yup the joys..

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June 22, 2009

MON 22 JUN

It's raining and I'm freezing.. :( By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

brrr... well lets just put it this way the run for work this morning wasn't a whole lot of fun because of the rain and the cold.. but I had an experience It is called a liquid nitrogen tank... and yup they didn't finish it exactly according to protocol so when I turned the corner and tipped the tank, and yup the joys of having to transport that stuff when people don't do it the right way... Then went out for lunch and sat around for the rest of the day trying to feel like I had stuff to do...

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June 23, 2009

TUE 23 JUN

Oh do I have to get up early...:( By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

I'm still contemplating whether or not I want to get my butt out of bed early or if I want to leave at a reasonable time... I think I will go with the earlier one, but that means I need to get in bed on time tonight... so I guess that will be the deciding factor. So in other words I shouldn't be here but packing and getting ready... so I guess in that case....

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June 25, 2009

THU 25 JUN

Sunnyside Update.:) By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

Well things have been busy here... All I can say is that the trip down to here sucked because I didn't have anyone else along... makes for a really long drive. Anyway so I got here yesterday evening at around 5:30 or so... made pretty good time in the end! Anyway so last night for all my saying that I was going to bed on time in the end it was late... took a bit to fall asleep even then.. Anyway so I got up around 9 this morning.. then went to the duplex to straighten up the kitchen with Katrina... Trust me this took a while since I really don't know where I want everything yet but eventually I will get it all figured out.

Then around lunch time we headed back to mom & dad's for lunch, and then to help Tori & Arlin set up the tables for the reception.. Then Katrina had a brain wave so we headed down to Prosser for some shopping which is another whole post in itself... so I will do that later because there is pictures that go with the story :)

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June 27, 2009

SAT 27 JUN

More... By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

So we got it in the car and then Katrina had to try wipe off some of the dust.. etc from the car door..


Well guess who got the honours of sitting in the back with the trunk... Cynthia.. :)


So we got to the duplex and it was time to unload our purchase... since it has rust on it etc. it is going to take a little work. So for now we put it in the garage and I will deal with it after the wedding.


So out of the car.. onto the ground then time to pick it up again and put it away...


Yup here we go!


Trying to find a good spot to park it... we figured that this would be as good as any other place.


Finally the end result! We were proud of ourselves... awesome shoppers and we even mangaged to move it all by ourselves! ha ha :)

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SAT 27 JUN

Antique Shopping trip.:) By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

The story about our trip to Prosser..

So you can kinda see the antique store behind us.. we parked across the street so we had to carry it across the crosswalk to the car.. must of been a sight, but we were having fun so at that point we didn't care what anyone thought! Especially when you get a really good deal on something.. According to James we woman buy anything that we "think" is a good deal.

So here is Katrina and me carrying it.. Cynthia had the camera... And away we go!

What happened... as to how we ended up in the antique store. Well we finished helping Arlen and Tori set up at their reception site, then Katrina says.. hey I know about this purse store in Prosser do you want to go.. Cynthia and I figured sure why ever not.. So away we went. We finished checking that out.. in the end we didn't buy anything, but that was alright.. to expensive for me anyway!

Then Katina spotted then antique store as I saw the quilting store so we had two more things to do... making it a great thing to have done!

At the quilt store I got my cutting mat etc. so that worked out really well.. and then to the antique store.. where we found this trunk.. We first just walked around upstairs.. saw all kinds of things that brought back memories.. things that our Oma's have etc. such as bowls and baking dishes.. it was very interesting.. anyway then we found a stairs that went downstairs.. so we had to go check that out.

Katrina saw a chair that had a toilet seat cover on it and thought that it was actually attached to the chair. It was one of those old wooden chairs that when you take the cushion off it had a hole in the centre. Anyway so we were all doubled over with laughter.. it was to bad that we didn't take a picture of that chair because it was pretty funny.. at least to us it was.

So once we hauled the trunk over to the car, Katrina spotted a spider on the bottom.. and so she freaked out. "ah there is a spider on the bottom" I calmly take my flip flop off and killed it.. once again we all had the giggles.. come to think of it, it was pretty funny.. Anyway then we had issues because we couldn't get it to fit in the trunk of the car.. hmmm no string so we couldn't tie it down either.. so what about the back seat..

As you can see we had to try putting it in the trunk both ways.. in the end neither one worked so then out it went again! But for $25 we couldn't leave it behind.. especially not when the lady gave it to us for that price rather than $30.. all because we lugged it up the stairs and to the vehicle ourselves..

Ok, time to try the back seat.. it took a bit of figuring and I had to run to the other side and lift it up so that we could get it in, since obviously there isn't room for two of us at one door..

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June 30, 2009

TUE 30 JUN

Yay, for almost being done work...:) By Alise Van de Bruinhorst

Well I have 5 more working days left.. unlike my ticker is telling you.. since it also counts weekends and days off! Anyway I'm getting most of my stuff done which is fantastic.. at the same time people seem to have a way of driving me crazy! I have been getting all the EPIX info (maintenance Work Order system) entered, which is a little bit of a job but it is getting there.. and I figured by Friday I will be caught up on all that.. then I have to finish training someone on that next week, and that is that!

anyway the frusturating part it that everyone figures I have nothing better to do than finish their crappy things that they don't want to do themselves, so the work keeps piling on.. and ya that is making me really grumpy! Like people... oh so you should know everything about MSOffice.. uummm ya but seriously I don't use it enough to just be able to do some random thing and change your wacked up docs...or their stupid documents that they want sent by courier.. which is fine but seriously that is one of the easiest things to do so go figure it out.. soon I won't be there and then they will so in my opinion they might as well now.. and ya of course I don't really say no to a lot of things.. but today I did.. He wanted me to look at his doc yesterday.. well i don't have time.. so I told him I would try.. he said if I didn't have time he would come get it.... so guess what I did.. I just didn't look at it.. ha ha, bad I know, but at this point I don't care!