so not really much to report.....its been an average week.....
its starting to get colder. much colder. lynda is not likiing this so much.
there were snow flurrys on saturday morning......i did not see them as i was sleeping.....
today is halloween....lyndas first halloween.....when she finishes work......lynda is going to a halloween-ish party where they are all dressing as bible characters. she is looking forward to the pizza which will be at said party as she has not eaten much today at all, as lunch was crap and dinner was likewise.....
lynda got her first ever halloween candy (yes is candy because its in north america).....
lynda is going to be scared tonight when stephen makes he watch a scary movie because its halloween......
lynda realises that the photos in teh last blog did not work and so will try to fix said issue....
lynda's apartment got skunked again.....it smells......very very bad....
lynda has the golf cart this evening....she likes this.....
lynda i sdone with talking in third person, she is amused at herself, and will be leaving now.....
lynda likes comments on her blog....
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
the apartment
so.....i thought it was time to write again......im going to attempt to write every wednesday cos im in teh office and got nothing to do...we'll see how it goes eh!
so i figured i should show you where im living so......here goes. my apartment is smallish, id call it one and a half bedrooms....you walk in the front door, and on the left is the kitchen which opens into the main living room,
which is a reasonable size, with our tv n couches and our new fish!! (yes i bought fish...theres 3- i own hunter and ezekial, yvonne had noah but he died so we replaced him with reuben today! so cute!)....we have a small bathroom with bath which is nice on occasion, then past the bathroom and into the main bedroom which houses me, yvonne from scotland and sarah. yvonne has top bunk, sarah has bottom and i get the single bed. score huh! ashley has a tiny room to her self (the half room)....we all share a closet which is actually a good size. and thats pretty much the whole thing really! so its nothing huge. we just got a door put in between the bedroooms an dthe main room which is sweet seeing as im always the last one up, i dont have to be quite so quiet anymore!
outside is starting to cool down a bit, and the colourful leaves are changing quickly and then falling off of just falling off with little change to colour. apparently its been a weak fall, with little colour compared to normal, but for us foreigners who've never seen a real fall its pretty spectactualar anyway. im learning if i wanna take a photo of a nicely changed tree to do it that day because by the next day most of the leaves will have fallen off with the wind.
i spent one aftrenoon this week putting som eart up on the walls of the paartment. yvonne and i have been meaning to do so for a while now because we hated the stuff thatw as up. so i found some matt boards and got some photos printed, and put them up. looks sweet. i have some of different flowers ive taken, one of andrew and lucy from the photo shoot i did when she was 8 days old, and some of sydney. its good, make sit feel more homely which is nice. and ive become a clean person! crazy huh!! because we live in such a small space and there are always people in and out so i like it too be clean. so heidi and i have decided that contrary to popular belief, we are not anal, we are just particular!
last night, some of the ladies decided to doll ourselves in black dresses and heals and head to our favourite resturant one99!!! was such a good night, i had duck and it was amazing!!! it was such a great and a sweet change from eating food we've cooked all day, and served and cleaned up after! fine dining is amazing! we did however leave there and head to walmart, followed by maccas for mcflurry's followed by blockbuster for a movie and then to boston pizza to get cheesecake for one of the girls and mints!!! they have the best mints ever!!!! yvonne and i pretty much live on them and kelseys mints....sad huh!!!!
anywaysy- hope that brings you up to speed a little!!! hope your all well and ill write soon.....
so i figured i should show you where im living so......here goes. my apartment is smallish, id call it one and a half bedrooms....you walk in the front door, and on the left is the kitchen which opens into the main living room,
which is a reasonable size, with our tv n couches and our new fish!! (yes i bought fish...theres 3- i own hunter and ezekial, yvonne had noah but he died so we replaced him with reuben today! so cute!)....we have a small bathroom with bath which is nice on occasion, then past the bathroom and into the main bedroom which houses me, yvonne from scotland and sarah. yvonne has top bunk, sarah has bottom and i get the single bed. score huh! ashley has a tiny room to her self (the half room)....we all share a closet which is actually a good size. and thats pretty much the whole thing really! so its nothing huge. we just got a door put in between the bedroooms an dthe main room which is sweet seeing as im always the last one up, i dont have to be quite so quiet anymore!
outside is starting to cool down a bit, and the colourful leaves are changing quickly and then falling off of just falling off with little change to colour. apparently its been a weak fall, with little colour compared to normal, but for us foreigners who've never seen a real fall its pretty spectactualar anyway. im learning if i wanna take a photo of a nicely changed tree to do it that day because by the next day most of the leaves will have fallen off with the wind.
i spent one aftrenoon this week putting som eart up on the walls of the paartment. yvonne and i have been meaning to do so for a while now because we hated the stuff thatw as up. so i found some matt boards and got some photos printed, and put them up. looks sweet. i have some of different flowers ive taken, one of andrew and lucy from the photo shoot i did when she was 8 days old, and some of sydney. its good, make sit feel more homely which is nice. and ive become a clean person! crazy huh!! because we live in such a small space and there are always people in and out so i like it too be clean. so heidi and i have decided that contrary to popular belief, we are not anal, we are just particular!
last night, some of the ladies decided to doll ourselves in black dresses and heals and head to our favourite resturant one99!!! was such a good night, i had duck and it was amazing!!! it was such a great and a sweet change from eating food we've cooked all day, and served and cleaned up after! fine dining is amazing! we did however leave there and head to walmart, followed by maccas for mcflurry's followed by blockbuster for a movie and then to boston pizza to get cheesecake for one of the girls and mints!!! they have the best mints ever!!!! yvonne and i pretty much live on them and kelseys mints....sad huh!!!!
anywaysy- hope that brings you up to speed a little!!! hope your all well and ill write soon.....
Saturday, October 13, 2007
gap jeans????? more like CRAP JEANS!!!!!
so bougth myself some nice new jeans when i was in the states to get me through a bit of the cold, wore them once in new york and bought them back to the ranch. so last nigth i put them on for the first time sinc ei got them in canada, crouched down to pick something up and the RIPPED!!!!!! like a HUGE rip!!!!! all the way down from the zipper and the across the leg so theres a huge gapeing hole like about 20cm long!!!!!
so took them back to gap in canada today same company right??? yes!!!! but can they take them back cos they're jeans suck????? NO!!!!! and why???? because of customs crap?!!?!!!! what the???? so if i wanna get my money back or get new one so im not loosing ove rhalf a weeks pay check on nothing i have to get them bakc to the state!!!! GAY!!!!!
so took them back to gap in canada today same company right??? yes!!!! but can they take them back cos they're jeans suck????? NO!!!!! and why???? because of customs crap?!!?!!!! what the???? so if i wanna get my money back or get new one so im not loosing ove rhalf a weeks pay check on nothing i have to get them bakc to the state!!!! GAY!!!!!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The Skunk
Oh and i almost forgot.....this country has the most retared animal i have ever met in my life!!! the skunk! tell me what use it has other than to annoy lynda.....
our lovely little apartment has been sprayed by a skunk 3 times in a week!!!! 3TIMES!!!!! and the smell of skunk is like nothing you have ever smelt. its actually suffocating its so disguisting!!!
and its the same stupid skunk, it lives under our apartment....jamie and matt were out with bows and arrows today trying to coax it out from underneath to kill it! we all just want it out of there.....
yvonne got up one morning to leave for work and was stuck inside, because said skunk was very happily rumaging through our rubbish.....
i think we need to name our little skunk.....
our lovely little apartment has been sprayed by a skunk 3 times in a week!!!! 3TIMES!!!!! and the smell of skunk is like nothing you have ever smelt. its actually suffocating its so disguisting!!!
and its the same stupid skunk, it lives under our apartment....jamie and matt were out with bows and arrows today trying to coax it out from underneath to kill it! we all just want it out of there.....
yvonne got up one morning to leave for work and was stuck inside, because said skunk was very happily rumaging through our rubbish.....
i think we need to name our little skunk.....
Thanksgiving
ok so final blog for now.....just spent the weekend at the Daniels place- they're kinda my adpoted family while im over here!!! i met laura last year and we bacame pretty close, so they tend to look after me! so this was my first reall full on thanksgiving....i had to work the first half of the weekend which sucked, but after saturday lunch was finished at the ranch, lauras sister heidi drove me, yvonne (my scottish roommate) and steven (another token scotsman at ranch!) down to missisauga for a weekend of fun, food and being away from the ranch!!
mostly it was just alot of relaxing really!!! it seemed that whenever we stopped we napped. we made it to church on sunday morning which was great, and then had thanksgiving dinner with lauras extended family. thanksgiving ffod is pretty good! lots of turkey, mash potatoes, sweet potatoe and gravy basically!!! after dinner, we headed out for a walk down to the river, which was really beatiful. all the leaves are changing colour and its looks amazing!!!
after our walk we pretty much went back to eating!!! hahaha.....follwed by napping....followed by watching many movies!!! pretty much the perfect weekend! hahaha.
but the best bit was definately getting to hang our with laura, ian, von, steve, heidi, julie, ruthy, and eric!!! and the rets of the family. was so nice to be just away from the ranch and get some space and some relaxation!!
i vote australia adopts thanksgiving!!!
mostly it was just alot of relaxing really!!! it seemed that whenever we stopped we napped. we made it to church on sunday morning which was great, and then had thanksgiving dinner with lauras extended family. thanksgiving ffod is pretty good! lots of turkey, mash potatoes, sweet potatoe and gravy basically!!! after dinner, we headed out for a walk down to the river, which was really beatiful. all the leaves are changing colour and its looks amazing!!!
after our walk we pretty much went back to eating!!! hahaha.....follwed by napping....followed by watching many movies!!! pretty much the perfect weekend! hahaha.
but the best bit was definately getting to hang our with laura, ian, von, steve, heidi, julie, ruthy, and eric!!! and the rets of the family. was so nice to be just away from the ranch and get some space and some relaxation!!
i vote australia adopts thanksgiving!!!
Start spreading the news....
so new york city was just as amaizng as it always is! love that city. we hada little scheduling mishap and i ended up arriving in new york a day before mum and dad and had no where to stay....so big sister to the rescue booked me a hotel and i arrive in times square sheraton at 1am on a saturday evening! dropped my bags and went to explore...because its the only city you can shop at 1:30 in the morning so im gonna make the most of that!!
the next day i spend shopping like crazy then met mum and dad down in chelsea where we would be staying the rest of the week and had a generally relaxed evening just catching up with them a bit which was nice.
monday morning we slept in which was amazing!!! an dthen headed downtown to ground zero. its still crazy there! we then headed west to the hudson river and walked along till we reached the south of manhatten island to catch a ferry to staten island. this is the free way to see the statue of liberty pretty close!!!! we then headed up to the east villiage and down past NYU through SOHO, up to the best chocolate place around an dthen headed bakc again to SOHO to have dinenr at 8 mile creek, the aussie bar and resturant!! i had some amaizng australian lamb and pavlova for dessert!!! great all round!
day 3 found us heading to the NBC studio for a tour, i liked it but i think lots of the stuff about some of teh specific shows was lost on mum and dad!! i got to do the weather for our little tour broadcast- so much harder than i expected- especially when you have no idea where thinsg are in the country to point to them!!! we then toured up through times square and down to 34th street to the wonderful macy's. this is where dad left mum and i to shop and he went off exploring on his own. i found so much sweet stuff including my very much loved new steve madden shoes.hehehe.....dinner that night had been booked for us by the lovely julie at an amazing resturant attatched to the french cullinary institue and can i just say- if you are ever in new york- GO THERE!!!! its called l'ecole and it cost $40 for a 5 course meal with some of the best food i have EVER tasted. everything was perfect even the service!!!
then came my final full day in the city and we headed up to central park to explore seeing as we've never managed to get a really good look around in there. we walked up through the amll which is probably one of the most common shots of central park used in the movies, and up to the big fountain which is probably teh otehr most commonly used shot in movies!!!! by the fountain were this awesome jazz blues band called the blue vipers of brooklyn . they were amazing and just playing for passers by, they were so good i even bought they're cd and its now the favourite kitchen cd back at ranch. after central park i split from mum and da dto finish the shopping i needed to get done, and met them down in greenwich villiage to get cupcakes from magnolia to bring back to ranch, then headed back to the apartment, after a nice rush and a quick dinner up in the theatre district we went to see HAIRSPRAY the musical on broadway!!!! was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! we had amazing 3rd row seats, that we got half price, and it was everything i expected it to be and more. its definatly one of the best musicals ive seen, and having seen teh movie made it all teh more sweeter as i could sing along!!! loved it! and yes i do indeed love link!! hahah
so after packing lots of stuff back into my hockey bag, thursday morning saw mum and dad wlak me down to9th ave to get a taxi off to the airport, and aftre a bunch of tears from mum and then a few from me in teh taxi, i was on my way back to ranch. all in all it was a great trip and i loved gettin to see mum and dad again and get to enjoy new york with them!!
the next day i spend shopping like crazy then met mum and dad down in chelsea where we would be staying the rest of the week and had a generally relaxed evening just catching up with them a bit which was nice.
monday morning we slept in which was amazing!!! an dthen headed downtown to ground zero. its still crazy there! we then headed west to the hudson river and walked along till we reached the south of manhatten island to catch a ferry to staten island. this is the free way to see the statue of liberty pretty close!!!! we then headed up to the east villiage and down past NYU through SOHO, up to the best chocolate place around an dthen headed bakc again to SOHO to have dinenr at 8 mile creek, the aussie bar and resturant!! i had some amaizng australian lamb and pavlova for dessert!!! great all round!
day 3 found us heading to the NBC studio for a tour, i liked it but i think lots of the stuff about some of teh specific shows was lost on mum and dad!! i got to do the weather for our little tour broadcast- so much harder than i expected- especially when you have no idea where thinsg are in the country to point to them!!! we then toured up through times square and down to 34th street to the wonderful macy's. this is where dad left mum and i to shop and he went off exploring on his own. i found so much sweet stuff including my very much loved new steve madden shoes.hehehe.....dinner that night had been booked for us by the lovely julie at an amazing resturant attatched to the french cullinary institue and can i just say- if you are ever in new york- GO THERE!!!! its called l'ecole and it cost $40 for a 5 course meal with some of the best food i have EVER tasted. everything was perfect even the service!!!
then came my final full day in the city and we headed up to central park to explore seeing as we've never managed to get a really good look around in there. we walked up through the amll which is probably one of the most common shots of central park used in the movies, and up to the big fountain which is probably teh otehr most commonly used shot in movies!!!! by the fountain were this awesome jazz blues band called the blue vipers of brooklyn . they were amazing and just playing for passers by, they were so good i even bought they're cd and its now the favourite kitchen cd back at ranch. after central park i split from mum and da dto finish the shopping i needed to get done, and met them down in greenwich villiage to get cupcakes from magnolia to bring back to ranch, then headed back to the apartment, after a nice rush and a quick dinner up in the theatre district we went to see HAIRSPRAY the musical on broadway!!!! was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! we had amazing 3rd row seats, that we got half price, and it was everything i expected it to be and more. its definatly one of the best musicals ive seen, and having seen teh movie made it all teh more sweeter as i could sing along!!! loved it! and yes i do indeed love link!! hahah
so after packing lots of stuff back into my hockey bag, thursday morning saw mum and dad wlak me down to9th ave to get a taxi off to the airport, and aftre a bunch of tears from mum and then a few from me in teh taxi, i was on my way back to ranch. all in all it was a great trip and i loved gettin to see mum and dad again and get to enjoy new york with them!!
catch up
sorry!
its been a long time since ive posted an dyour all probably wondering what has happened to me....welll life has been CRAZY! ive been so busy!
moved into my house, started my long term job at the ranch and still getting use to canada crazy as it seems! im working mainly in the kitchen, which is always busy but the pats few weeks have been crazier than normal as ive been wokring 2 jobs here at ranch and im TIRED! ive bene in the kitchen but also hosting groups that come in and lookinga fter the weekend staff while they are here, so its alot of being on the ball mentally if that makes any sense! but the person im filling in for is back tomorrow which is amazing cos im tired! im ready to go back to wokring a normalish persons work load!
so before that craziness mum and dad came for a visit! they stayed here at ranch for 2 days to see wher ei lived, and then i met them in New York taht weekend, and we did all teh touristy things etc....ill do a separet blog for that!!!
ok....thats it for this one....
its been a long time since ive posted an dyour all probably wondering what has happened to me....welll life has been CRAZY! ive been so busy!
moved into my house, started my long term job at the ranch and still getting use to canada crazy as it seems! im working mainly in the kitchen, which is always busy but the pats few weeks have been crazier than normal as ive been wokring 2 jobs here at ranch and im TIRED! ive bene in the kitchen but also hosting groups that come in and lookinga fter the weekend staff while they are here, so its alot of being on the ball mentally if that makes any sense! but the person im filling in for is back tomorrow which is amazing cos im tired! im ready to go back to wokring a normalish persons work load!
so before that craziness mum and dad came for a visit! they stayed here at ranch for 2 days to see wher ei lived, and then i met them in New York taht weekend, and we did all teh touristy things etc....ill do a separet blog for that!!!
ok....thats it for this one....
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