It was a great week. And I survived it with only a few tears.

I can't remember what day what happened so I'm just gonna write it all down.

Groupanoid, Strongarm, my Seneschal (from Eisenmarche) and I went for our first annual Deluxe Pedicure and Paraffin. It was awesome! The only sucky parts were Seneschal getting cut and having a really strong antiseptic put on the cut and that we were separated. Seneschal and I were able to share a room with a divider and we talked them into opening the divider. It was quite an experience and one we totally want to repeat in February (we figure every coupla months'll do). I have to say that myluc loved how soft my feet were and boy oh boy...shoulda done it sooner. I don't have a foot fetish but I loved how he'd stroke my feet while we were watching tv. Ahhh.

Also this was the beginning of my birthday week. I turned 28 on the 24th and didn't really want to plan anything on my actual day cuz of memories from last year. I just kept repeating. Please don't let anyone die on my bday this year please please please.

Groupanoid is terrific. She gave me gift certs for shopping at the mall...and Strongarm presented me with 4 of the 5 Harry Potter books were out. The 5th she couldnt' seem to find in the adult style but that's okay. Way above and beyond the call of friendship and I totally thank her. She listened to what I wanted..which was o'course awesome. I wanted for xmas and my bday the whole books series and well the third movie. It didn't come out til the 24th but I was hoping someone would buy it. And they did.

My little bro Sprout and his partner Wee wee (hee hee) and friends were making their way from Calgary to come to Vancouver. Not to see his big sis but Avril. I know I know. Could he be more gay. Ummm...yup. =0) They are staying with my other brother Stretch due to the fact that they are all smokers and myluc and I are allergic. GACK! Oh well, *shrug* what can you do?

Didn't do too much on Tuesday, bought a chicken dinner from Safeway cuz I really didn't want to cook and set my alarm for 1201. Talked with my mom and opened her gift. It was a battery operated head massager. Kinda a travel pillow which vibrates too much and well...I used it to scare the cats...the vibration was really really loud. She tries her damndest but I really really would have been cool with just the card. Although, I have to admit that it was way better than the kiddie pink and purple hair stuff she sent one year. I was turning 25 I think...not 10. She tries and I love her for it. But you know. I wanted Luc to be the first to wish me a happy birthday on my day.

My alarm went off at 1201 and all I heard from myluc was "wtf!" got kinda a hug outta it. When his alarm went off at 530 ... lets just say...went to work with a big smile. It was my day and nothing was going to ruin it.

It is a policy of my lawfirm that all the support spend $20 to get a gift. I was totally looking forward to it. The lawyers purchase a bouquet. Other than the pink gerbera like flowers it's an awesome bouquet and o'course the card signed by everyone from the firm was good. They may be lawyers but they like to crack jokes...at the expense of each other even. It was pretty funny. One of the lawyers, I'll call her Cranky (more often than not) asked if I felt any older and I wanted to have a smart retort but nope....didn't think of one until after "Why do I smell like mothballs or Vicks?" I never get to give as good as I received.

I received two gift certs for Coles/Chapters bookstore which is awesome because I looooooooove books and just spent $40 the other day on myself. I also received a really cool birchbark box with a candle. The only thing missing was that fakey pine scent. But I can rectify that. I also received a really nice huge angel mug for the month of November. That just means I have to return the one I borrowed. Those big cups are awesome for cold days. Or whenever.=0)

My little brother was going to meet me for lunch and I was totally psyched. Lunch came and went...no Sprout. Good thing that I have friends to have lunch with who wanted my day to be a good one.

400 came and went and then the phone rang. It was Sprout. He said he'd pick me up after work and drive me home and then go to the concert. It wouldn't give us much time to visit but it was better than nothing. I was so excited. I told everyone that my little bro was coming to pick me up. 430 came and went and nada. Just as I was leaving for the skytrain my cell rang and he said they'd be there in 45 min cuz I didn't get off until 530. WRONG! There was no misunderstanding on my part as I had Groupanoid confirm that I told Sprout 430. Needless to say we didn't get to hookup and I was a little upset.

And then I get home to a voicemail from Stretch saying "Happy Birthday! Do you know where Wee Wee is?". Umm yeah...with the group going to Avril...duh. They're staying with you and you don't know that? We had quite a conversation and I ended up hanging up because I didn't want to hear about how Wee Wee was supposed to go with Stretch while Stretch had new tatty's done and that they hadn't really hung out and blah blah blah. It's my day. Darn tootin' I get to be selfish if only for one day. Grrr. He made me so mad.

Myluc's 'rents didn't make it out from Mission cuz of flooding. But it was better for them to be flooded there than away from their 2 dogs and 4 cats who need meds. So it was all good. I had received a bday email from his mom and at least she remembered.

I got home from work and did the hug n' nose rubs (3x) and kisses (3x) myluc and I are weird. I asked him where my gifts were and all he said was "don't turn on the microwave, don't turn on the oven." So what'd I do, run over and look...nada...in either. He laughed and said you are too easily trusting. Yeah! That's me. He presented me with the 5th Harry Potter book and the 3rd movie. Myluc and I went for all you can eat japanese at a place he said he'd never go again. That is definately the last last time. I wanted to give them one more chance. We did. Not again. Got home and settled in to watch Harry Potter 3. It was just as kinda creepy as I remembered from seeing it with Strongarm.

Overall I had a very awesome 28th bday week. Totally made up for last year and o'course I'll do the same next year and begin reminding everyone in October. It's not so much the gifts or the cards. It's people saying "Happy Birthday". It gives me warm fuzzies.

Last night after work Sprout, Wee Wee and friends (not naming them cuz they just don't count in my world) picked me up and dropped me off at the mall. It was a short trip but I got to see my little bro and meet Wee Wee. Now I have a voice to match to the person. Sproutnik gave me a reallly cool ring and a turtle whose shell comes off to reveal a grasshopper (part of the turtle), and a new xbox game. (Myluc and I picked up an xbox and a game apiece and then he decided every cheque to get a game.) Needless to say my counts only at 2 now...*shrug* what can you do?

Strongarm and I met up had a quick bite to eat at the food court and then went to watch "National Treasure". It was a hokey indiana jones kind of movie but I loved the puzzles that the characters had to solve. It was a 7 out of 10. We laughed where we weren't s'posed too but it was too cheesy not to.

And that brings us to today. Workin' busy, chattin' tons and no plans for the evening. Hope to hook up with my bros but we'll see.

Fill you in again ... soon...hopefully.

*HUGE HUGS*

The once a week is going to turn into a when I can posting.

Myluc and I attended my adopted bros (he calls me cuz) medieval wedding on sat. It rained and rained and rained and I was so glad to finally get to the log cabin they had reserved for the wedding. Yes, it was in the backwoods of Maple Ridge but it was quite nice. The couple merged wiccan/pagan with modern(?). It was quite beautiful especially when they each read their vows to each other. The highlight of the wedding for me was to see my family from Nova Scotia and Cranbrook and talk with a bro from Korea who unfortunately couldn't attend. All was awesome.

Sunday myluc and I just hung out. We didn't do anything. We watched movies and ran out once for some groceries. It was my night to cook so I had to pick up some meat. We ended up with some pork chops and potatoes and corn. And alas, the pork was dry. Myluc blamed the cut of meat but it was me. I always mess up one or more meal during the week.

It's Tuesday and I have only one more day to go. Lucky girl I am I was able to take Friday off and myluc and I are doing something *fingers crossed*.

There is a Bransle ("brawl") Friday night that I'd like to attend to do some dancing and visiting and then on Saturday, Folk Heroes, the folk group I played the bodhran with are performing. I also need to get some accounting done and some cleanup of my filing. Cleaning, clean up...what fun.

Hope that all is well and will continue to be so.

This seems to be turning into a once a week post. So here goes.

Friday

Took Nut to the vet. It was a new doctor who spoke very fast with bad english. Nevertheless...Nut is on 2 months meds and then back for a checkup and a $300.00 teeth cleaning. Fun stuff. We took Trigger home and then went out to get some movies. We're addicted to the old section of VHS and cheap not New Release DVDs. Cheese mostly but it was all good. I really enjoyed Gothika and Romancing the Stone and the second Jewel of the Nile. We didn't get to watch Waterworld but that's okay. No loss really. Ruffled while watching the movies. It was all good.

Saturday

Woke up to continuing the ruffles and watching whatever myluc had downloaded to DVD. We're addicted to the Lost and o'course Charmed. Haven't missed a season yet. Groupanoid came by to pick up the ruffles. I was almost finished. Missed part of the end of the black but no worries she said. Heading out about nooon to myluc's 'rents. We had a late dinner of enchiladas with a new recipe that his mom hated and tried to recreated into something better with low fat sour cream and tons of veggies. His dad wasn't too thrilled at all. We headed out about 830 all in our medieval clothing. I can't really call it costumes cuz myluc and I wear it often. I must say though that we received a whack of compliments and o'course his 'rents loved the clothes. They just kept repeating that it was so comfy and why did the style have to change to such uncomfy present day clothing. The hostess was dressed as a hooker with plastic boobs busting out of her top. We stood together and were the "boobie girls" because I happened to mention that mine were real while hers were fake. I of course was wearing a bodice and having the "boobies" to fill them out put her plastic ones to shame. We left about 930 and sta and watched Meet Joe Black. It was quite a good movie. We didn't watch it all and they went to bed at 11. Not having cable I stayed up and watched the Food and Home Networks.

Sunday

It is always the same thing when we stay. myluc and father stay upstairs chatting about stuff and his mom heads out to her garden and I go downstairs for my cable fix of Trading Spaces, Clean Sweep, While You Were Out and anything else on the tube. Laundry gets finished and about noon they all come downstairs where we start a fire if it's chilly and watch a movie. Coneheads was the unanimous pick. myluc and I headed out about 2, stopped at Safeway to pick up dinner, wing it stop at M & M's for soup and onion rings and a pie. I love their pie. And then home to veg.

Monday

Didn't unload the laundry bag yet. Scrounging for work clothes and o'course socks. Myluc's black ones are all in the laundry bag and those are the ones I want. Up at 530 to give Trigger his meds is getting kinda old cuz he's a pain inthe mule to give meds to. He bit me this morning and spit out his pill. The second went down no problem. He's just not one you can give milk or cheese or even tuna to too help with the medicating. Oh well, whatcha gonna do. Work was okay. The day flew by. Was my night to cook. Watched movies. Heard about Groupanoid's costume. She said it was absolutely fantastic and everyone loved it and there was material left over. Tremendous! I'm so glad it worked out for her. Made my morning.

Tuesday

The day dragged.

(...to be continued)

Had to share all the pictures I had. Now you'll know who I'm speaking of either Trigger, Mickey or myluc or myself o'course.

Don't you feel for the mouse? 

Me and myluc "in the beginning" 

Me n' Mickey 

My First Tattoo - Isn't my Phoenix awesome 

Myluc n' Trigger 

My little brother (the blond) and his buddy 

All right. As you all can tell from the date of this blog. I haven't done very well keeping up. I have been pretty busy reading every other blog I happen to come across or those blogs that bloggers have linked. It is a huge blogging world out there. There are some blogs that are totally amusing and well thought out and then there are those well thought out blogs that I probably won't read again because of their content. My choice. Oh well. As much as it is a choice for those who chose what they want to write on their blogs.

Week in some paragraphs

Monday - Trigger or Nut (my kat) has finally adapted to the meds he's on to control his anxiety. It's a good thing because he's no longer freaking out and attacking my bf and I. The only problem is that since he's been on the meds his eyes are always dilated. It's really weird. And now Mickey (my bf's kat) has become the adult of the two. It's weird.

Tuesday- can't remember. Says what kind of day it was although I do remember sewing more ruffles.

Wednesday - still working on creating the ruffles for Groupanoid's (my friend Elizabeth) cancan costume. Slowly but surely. Work is hades but that's cuz the lawyers have the sniffles and well, taking out their stresses and bad moods on the secretaries. Fun stuff. Went to Groupanoid's moms to use her sewing machine. All the hems are done for the skirt. Totally psyched about that. I really really want a sewing machine now.

Thursday - I was totally hoping myluc (my bf's new nick) and I were going to have a date night, a movie with all you can eat sushi afterwards but noooooooo....had to take Trigger to the vet. But wait. The vet rescheduled so myluc and I went to the various music stores (HMV, Music World, Future Shop)...let's just say that each purchased 20 or so new DVDs. Sales are great. My issue is that I wanted to only get DVDs that would replace my VHS so then they could get passed along. It was so frustrating when I could only find Movie 1 of 2 or the movie but they were totally expensive. Expensive for me is over $20 when I know that somewhere out there I can probably find the DVD cheaper. Oh well, whatcha gonna do. Still working on the ruffles.

Friday - Today is going well. The law firm where I work at isn't costume friendly so I wore a shirt created by one of my trio (another story) that has huge fuschia sleeves and harlequin material. It's awesome. I think I was the brightest thing in my office. (Take that as you will.) Tonight the plan is to take Trigger to the vet, myluc is cooking and o'course finishing the ruffles. *fingers crossed*

Saturday - Hopefully the ruffles will be completed as Groupanoid is going to pick them up tomorrow morning. In the afernoon, shopping for the "Monster Eye Balls" Halloween appy that I have decided to make (basically devilled eggs with olives with pimentos...sooo exciting....NOT) and a pumpkin. Yes, I have decided (and recieved permission) to carve a pumpkin to bring to the party. Very exciting.

Sunday - Home. Yup. No plan. Wing it.

I will try to update but no promises. Hope y'all have a Spooktacular Day.

Thought I'd give this a try as I love to read my friends thoughts and feelings...rants and raves.