Drink Club

So as you know my cousins, sister, and I have this little club known as Drink Club.  It had all started one New Years Eve when a long island iced tea concoction went wonderfully wrong.  The coke was completely forgotten about and we ended up with more of a limeade (not limeonade) drink.  Anyways, everyone had so much fun I continued this tradition on to the summer where I brought ceasar ingredients out campint, this turned out to be a real hit as well so the tradition lived on.  It has been almost two years now and I came up with the best idea...Drink Club scrap/recipe book.  I want to capture every drink we come up with in this book, success and fail, as I had mentioned in an earlier blog.  I will need to get my cousins to go back in time and remember some of the drinks they had come up with, then go through old pictures and see if I can find anything that would be associated with these drinks to put into the book.  Now these pages are going to be nothing special, I want this book to be one that gets put through all the experience, it will be brought along on all the trips, it will get drinks spilled on it, it will get beat up, it will have character.  So turning a fun tradition into something even more memorable...here is the progress so far, just need a picture for the front.

Also, wanted to take a moment to mention how much I'm loving this Scentsy stuff.  Thank you Auntie T :)  I am burning a mystery scent in there right now because my mom gave me some and I didn't write the names on them, it could be White Chi Tea, it could be Flower Shop...who knows!?!

Also, something else new and improved...bangs!!  When you go to the beauty salon and tell them to do whatever they please they really will and you may come out with a completely different hair style from before!  I don't mind them so far...we'll see how it goes.

The boy-cotting of drinking continues, today is day 59.  I'm allowed to cheat this weekend but I'm not sure if I will... I guess we will have to see how the trip goes.  Yes, trip, this weekend is the VANCOUVER WEEKEND!!  So Thursday will consist of work, yoga, school, packing, and Thursday night we are off!!  Shall be a long day but worth it!  Plus we will gain an hour on the way there, consequently loosing it on the way home but we've planned this out nicely it shouldn't dent our schedules too badly.  I'm thinking I'll have to get another magnet for the fridge...hmm.

Half The Family

So the long weekend has come and gone, it was nice to get that little break especially for me because I got a break from the pool too!  I usually only get a one day weekend so a 3 day weekend felt like a really long time!!  Friday night me and my mom drove out to Taber for the weekend.  I stayed at mmmmber's house, I think the dogs are starting to really like me.  Or maybe they just like everyone.  Anyways, they were so cute.  Because my mom's birthday is this week we decided to do some surprise stuff for her this weekend.  Only half of us were out there though, no boys were able to come they were all busy and Julie ended up getting sick so we only seen her for a few hours on the Saturday, but that's ok because I get to see her and Justin next month which will be here before we know it!  In the mean time, Amber and I got a ton of visiting in, which was really nice.  Just the two of us!  Friday night we spent some time visting with her parents, my mom, and Gary & Jody.  Then we went back to Amber's place and got to work on decorating for the birthday and made this trifle...it was such a good idea because my mom doesn't like birthday cake so this worked perfectly...plus it looked really awesome too.  Who would know that a dessert that looks this excellent could be that easy!  Washing/slicing the strawberries took the longest of the whole dessert!

Oh Kraft Canada, how I love you.

I was in charge of drink club this weekend (even though I'm doing my sober - gig I'm still partaking in drink club).  It was a raspberry/peach/lime type thing that went over well with everyone.  This drink was a success.

And here's the drink with the bartender!  Looking at all that booze I was adding to the alcoholic drinks made me really want some....oh man does spiced rum ever smell good when you can't have any.  So does beer for that matter!!!!

Julie and I decided that we should have a recipe/photoalbum type book to add all of our drink club drinks into.  It think this would be an awesome idea!  I know the exact book to find for these recipes.  Regardless of how well they turn out, into the book they go with either a "Success" or "Fail" written on them.  I'm not sure how we are going to go back in time and re-create the previous ones though.  Guess this will be part of a new "monthly project."

School starts up again tonight, teacher's convention is over.  It's not the best weather so I hope I get there on time. 

This weekend we are having some friends over for a games night, everyone seems to be going to Mexico, so not very many people will be coming but we will still make it fun!  Plus, we don't have long to wait before our Mexico trip so I'm getting excited for that too!  Plus another trip coming up even sooner...VANCOUVER!!!  It will be my first time ever there so I'm really excited.  It will also be my booze cheat weekend so I am not sure if I will break my bet or not...I'm allowed two cheats but I've been doing so good (53 days in now).  I almost want to see if I can make it the full 100 days in a row...but at the same time I want to have fun, and running around with a bunch of drunk people when you are sober is never fun.  Either way I'm pretty excited to go.

A Normal Life For Once

So we finally had a weekend without a bunch of travelling, events, projects, etc... to worry about!  Since I have spent most of February being sick I got quite a bit of housework done this past weekend which really put me ahead.  Laundry pile is finished and I even accomplished washing all the bedding to get these germs out of the apartment!  Saturday was work at the pool as per usual, then I stayed for a bit after work to get some swimming in (February challenge), then it was off to lunch at my parents.  The rest of Saturday was filled with cleaning until it was time for our soccer game which was a late one 10:15 p.m. and I got an assist!  It was awesome, the play went as planned for once, I passed to the other forward by the net and it was a bit of a high pass to get it passed the players blocking then he headed it right into the net, score.  Excellent!  We ended up winning, it was a fun game. 

Sunday was perfect, slept in then decided it was time to get the bottles done and get that money into the trip fund...not much longer before Mexico!  So I loaded up the SUV, took the bottles in, afterwards I really wanted to go to Lush so we explored Southcentre Mall to find there was no Lush there but ended up going to HMV of course and bought a couple movies and such.  Sunday night was pretty productive for me as well...

Got my mom's Birthday present ready to go:

*there is a little hint on top to what it is*

YES I EVEN REMEMBERED TO TAKE PICTURES!

 



Then I got the rest of my Math homework done...here are some things I'm working on

It's not as complicated as it looks

I've been getting into a new show now 24, It's so crazy - always has you thinking.  Spent all night trying to figure out what happens next with 24...it's my new Lost :)

 

I also got thinking on my other February goal for the rest of this month since it's almost over now this goal may have to run into next month as well...I figure this is better since I will probably be doing my card making all year...

February Challenge:

• No buying new movies/tv series for myself

This also got me thinking of March challenges and the fact that have so much to look forward to for the next couple of months...and these little invites will give you the hint...

I'm getting super excited for everything coming up!  This weekend will be a visit to Taber, that should be a blast, plus a long weekend...I will have an entire Monday to myself to work on some projects!  I'm also going to try to keep up with the picture/blog thing...this might be difficult for me but I will try!!  Usually the winter months seem to drag on forever, but keeping busy is the key!!!  Cheers!

A little bit Husky

Alrighty, here's a bit of an update...

As for my monthly goals, they may change a little bit.  I'm thinking that I will still keep on card making, but I don't know if I will be able to finish this project this month, so I'll add another one I might be able to keep my focus on easier.  I'm still contemplating what that will be.  As for physical goals, I will be doing the swimming however I've found I've been trying to cram a lot of yoga into my life lately and maybe will have the challenge of swimming/yoga for February.  My yoga pass is up towards the beginning of March so I'm trying to get in as much as possible before it expires! 

School, well that is starting up next week Tues/Thurs nights.  I'm not really looking forward to highschool math because it's not something that will further me in my career, it's just some stepping stone I have to get over before I can begin to accomplish my goals.  And it has to go all the way until JUNE...BOO.  I'm eager to hear back from Mount Royal on my acceptance into the degree, I kind of hope they interview me so they know I'm serious about this.  I also need to write them a letter saying I will not be finishing my SAIT certificate so they no longer need to evaluate those last two classes as transfer programs for me...hopefully the first two will make the cut, if not oh well just one more class I have to take.  I'm realizing more and more how big of a commitment this is and how much time it will consume, I know it will be worth it in the end.  Yes, I want to live life of course, but this is just something I have to do to be able to live the kind of life I want.  Yup, got my sights set on those big bucks!!  Plus I've realized I do not really like these redundant jobs I've been doing lately and want to do something where I have to think harder and actually use my education for.  So here's to one hell of a long haul!

As for the boycotting booze, so far I'm 35 days liquor free (haha I sound like an alcoholic).  I'm beginning to miss my beer though, oh sweet nectar!  Anyways, I've confirmed with my boycotting booze buddy that I'm going to go for 100 alcohol free days... that is April 10th.  I get two cheats, one I'm using possibly in Vancouver, the other I'm using at a rather exciting event we were unexpectedly invited too....

Work....let's start with the pool first.  I couldn't be happier with my classes this set...no complaints here!  Husky, wow talk about learning.  I've come from having absolutely no idea what I'm doing with these Geographix projects I've been helping with and creating to being able to complete one whole one on my own.  I'm also getting better at loading deviated well survey, and georeferencing (taking paper maps, scanning them and lining them up with our GIS grid system on the computer, then importing them into geologist's projects), and I've also learned for the first time how to load geologist's picks on formations.  It's pretty neat once you've got it down.  I can see how people would get frustrated with it though.  Anyways, a lot has been accomplished in a short 6 months and I'm proud of what I'm able to do now.  I never thought I would do so well with geometry and hadn't a clue how to read latitude and longtitude when I left college...just more learning to come.  Nothing will stop me from achieving my goals here!! 

Julie...I haven't been able to keep up with your blog, that will be my next week goal, catch up hahahaa!  You would think that now since we have internet at home I would be on top of these sorts of things!!!  Also, very excited to see you Feb long!

One more thing, I know everyone who has a blog seems to incorporate a lot of pictures in it, that is one thing I need to work on!!  I just never seem to think of it at the time and the pictures I do end up with have nothing to really do with what I'm talking about!  That is another goal!

P.S. I hope the Day Zero Project website is back up and running soon!!