not another manic monday!

hello!

i have had a most wonderful day.

my dad and i had eye appointments this morning and we knew half the office, what a laugh. and dad picked out the coolest new glasses for himself. the lady who helped us was such a dear, she continually kept saying, now Blaine, lets try these on! oh Blaine, what do you think of these? every sentence started with Blaine. but she wasn't annoying at all. she was very nice! and also had the hottest glasses on that i had ever seen.

next, i went for brunch with my mom, Jenna, Kyle, Kayden & Haylie and Jenna's mother in law, Beryl. i had the best hash browns ever. and my niece and nephew are the sweetest and most fun ever. kayden is getting a mohawk today. i'm super nervous to see him. i hope its cute.

then mom and i headed to the new walmart and i bought the most random and fun assortment of things. i took a picture for you all to see!

So, here we can see THE most fun little desk organizer i have EVER seen. it's so mini and it fits all my stationary stuff!!! i was very much in love with it from the moment i saw it.

next we have my plastic magazine/file organizers. MUCH needed, as i have some cardboard ones from IKEA and these are much sturdier.

then we have my tide to go stain remover! how fun! what a great thing for my purse. i can't wait to get a stain. hopefully not too big of one though!

and finally, my puffs to go Ultra tissues, which i actually came in a pack of 6. they are perfect for home, car, purse, work and school bag! ah!

not pictured here, i bought some Olay face toner and a huge box of Special K, but i didn't feel like going upstairs to retrieve those items. but they are not forgotten.

i spent much time looking at cds and pondered so long over which one to buy that i did not buy any. i considered many options. i looked at Keane (i have recently fallen hard for this band - check out a song called "bedshaped". i have the live version on my myspace but its better not live), The Fray, Goo Goo Dolls, Fergie, City & Color, and Gwen Stefani. then i thought about replacing my old cranberries cd that is long lost and was a favorite. couldn't decide so came home with nothing. hahaha. i ruled out fergie and gwen only because i was looking for a cd that Jeff would actually like listening to in the car on our drive to Edmonton. anyone have any other suggestions???

oh yes and Rascal Flatts on Friday night was sooooooooooooo awesome. here's a pic of jenna and I before the show:

we had wicked seats. I have some videos from Jenna's camera (I FORGOT MY CAMERA!!! i was so mad), but i will upload those on youtube and post them later. jenna has been bugging me to do this for forever. oops. my favs were My Wish, Broken Road and What Hurts the Most. oh yah and "skin" although i normally am totally sick of that song. performances are always different though. they make the songs come to life. it was completely amazing. they are 3 extremely extremely talented guys.

there was a gong show after the concert but i amn't (i wish that was a word. i use it secretly in my head all the time) going to get into that now. lets just say it involved missing out on hanging with the guys from Rascal Flatts at the Longbranch (okay not that they would talk to me but still, they were there and i coulda been too. who knows maybe i could've had a two step from one of them!) because i was too busy in the parking lot with a verrrrrrrry unhappy boyfriend, a non-existent tow truck and a part of the car on the ground that was supposed to be attached to the car. yep. not good.

well now that my day is half over and i haven't started my reading for my night class on tuesday, i am officially doomed. so i must go before i spend most of the night awake reading World Bank reports.

And America's Next Top Model starts again Wed night!!! YESSSSssssssssssssssssssssss.

i have saved up mega bucks for my edmonton trip (we leave thursday) so i am totally pumped to go shopping at Jacob, forever 21, the Aldo outlet, Ikea, MEC (we're getting new camping equip), and ALLLLLLllllllllllllll those other fabulous stores saskatoon doesn't have. yet. i am firmly believing that i can branch out from my regular "simple classic" style (aka boring. my shirt in the pic above shows this in and out) (my earrings are cool though. but they are jenna's!) and get a few pieces that are more exciting and slightly more trendy. not too trendy of course. no no, not me. i am not flashy! but even just a few accessories (earrings and headbands are on my list) and shoes will do the trick. and i totally want something polka dot. mmhmm. yummy.

okay world bank reports here i am.

bubye friends.

ride em cowboy

greys anatomy was fantastic as always. i knew she would be okay. i loved the last moment with izzie and denny. and the last moments the chief had with merideth's mom. the "heaven/in merideths mind" thing was a little strange at first but i really got what they were doing. my mom predicted very early in the show that her mom would die and meet her there and she was soooo right. when merideths mom told her she was anything but ordinary... well done, well done. so emotional.

i also watched the series finale of the o.c. and it was really good. ctv didn't think it was good enough to show so i had to watch it at 11 pm on Fox. stupid ctv. i was so happy they went into the future and showed seth and summer get married. such closure :) but i'm okay with the o.c. ending. i hardly watched it at all the last two seasons. some day maybe i'll rent the dvds and watch them in the summer or something.

i wrote a paper ALL day yesterday and I had a midterm too. i dropped my paper off at the university at 10:30 pm b/c i knew i wouldn't have a chance to today. i made my dad come with me. i didn't want to go missing or anything. its scary there late at night! i managed to write a midterm, write my paper all day, take a break for greys, write for another hour, go to the uni and be home in time for the o.c. it was a very busy day! i missed my little bro's concert at walkers nite club (hello how is it that he is playing at night clubs??? he's 17!). anyway i heard it was a good time. sometimes i can't wait to not be a student anymore. my evenings will be free! and i'll have a SALARY! wow. what a thought.

jenna and i are going to Rascal Flatts tonight, sitting in the 15th row on the floor! its gonna be so awesome. i better get my camera all charged up. Yeeeee haww. i love country music! afterwards i am meeting up with Tanis and Regan for some white chocolate brownie at Moxies. delicious. what an almost perfect day (besides having to work!).

to make it even more perfect, jeff suprised me and took me out for lunch today. it was so nice! i was going to eat some yogurt and 2 oranges for lunch and instead i got a clubhouse wrap and salad. and it was especially nice to have a cup of coffee to help me make through the afternoon. today seems like my lucky day - free tix to an awesome concert, it was casual day at work today (yay jeans!), a suprise lunch, jenna making me lasanga for supper (yummmmm), and favorite girls to hang out with. maybe i should buy a lotto ticket too!

k bye ya'll!

"Some Kind of Miracle"

these are my pre-show thoughts to the much anticipated Greys Anatomy tomorrow night.

First off, please note the addition to "Amuse Me" : i have added the Greys writers blog, called "Grey Matter" - http://www.greyswriters.com/. they update it every week after the show and its the writers thoughts. great fun and i read it every week.

Second - Denny, i loooooooooovvvved Denny and there he is, in Merideths "dream" (SHE IS NOT DEAD!!!). But Dylan, what is the big deal with him? i hardly remember him. he had something to do with the show with the bomb when Merideth had to hold the bomb in someones body. but i honestly don't remember dylan being all that significant in the show and Shonda (the main Greys writer) talks about him a lot. so if anyone remembers why Dylan is so great please comment!!!

Thirdly - I have already made mention to this - I do not believe she is actually dead. well she could be dead but she's coming back. i have NO doubt about it. the show tomorrow night is called "some kind of miracle" and this just solidifies my opinion! what do you all think? obviously she'll be alright! otherwise this show is over! if someone is going to die, my prediction (thanks to Angela) is that it will be either merideths mom or the chief (he DID retire afterall). one thing i have heard - maybe Izzie to reunite her with Denny? i doubt it though!

Other thoughts - I love Christina, I love Izzie. I thought Izzie's speech last week was great. I loved when she told George that Callie was a mistake. that was awesome of her even though i don't know if i agree with that. Shonda (i talk about her like she is my friend) says that Callie is the sexiest woman on television and ever since i read that, i think she's right. i love this show. am i missing any great parts from last week?

All in all, THE best show on TV and i'm quite excited to see it tomorrow night.

any thoughts?

back to my home i dare not go

okay so I have had my facebook account for a couple months now, and I don't really get it. apparently it's the hottest thing since myspace. I'm not sure how many more internet networking sites I can sign up for before I reach my personal quota of stupidness. anyway if anyone can explain why facebook is the bomb, please, do tell.

as you all know, I went to The Farm this weekend. I feel like I've titled it by starting it with capitals. I think that is nice. anyway, it was...... very boring. Jeff went snowmobiling ALLLLLLLLLL effing day on Saturday and I did absolutely nothing. I watched TV from 9:30 am till 7:30 pm. at one point I managed to get off my spot on the couch and go outside for half an hour to go pet baby cows which was really kind of cute. I would've taken some pictures but I hadn't managed to get off my lazy bum and have a shower so pictures were out of the question. but this one little guy was super feisty and I was a little worried he was going to butt me with his little cow head and chase me around the barn so I kind of kept my distance from him. her I mean. I was dealing with baby cows here people, not baby bulls. I'm not completely nutzo. so these baby calfs, they're really even more gentle than a puppy and yet here I was, nervous around them. they make the loudest moooooos. I jumped a little every time. I was glad nobody was in the barn to watch me. cuz I'm a total loser when I'm all by myself. aren't we all?

there were no new baby kittens this time. I was quite disappointed.

so at 7:30 Jeff's cousin came and picked me up and I was more than relieved. we headed over the a little town bar. every time I go to "the country bar" I feel like I'm in an old country western movie. small, wood cabin like feel with 100 people packed inside and the jukebox a'wailin and the vlt's cha'chinging. it was alright. its not too often I hang out with Jeff's friends without him there but I was glad when he finally did arrive. cuz I freaking missed him after my loonnnnnnng boring day.

Sunday I tried to do a little more than just sit there and I managed to get out a little bit. it was really a beautiful weekend. I'm such a wimp though and I just did not feel like snowmobiling. I kind of think maybe I should have. for some reason I am just scared crapless of being on the stupid machine and I don't have that much fun on them. unless I'm driving, then I'm in charge and feel a bit more secure. I think one particular day - "Sunday Snowday From Hell" - screwed up my perception of snowmobiling :) anyway I have snowmobiled since that day (Feb 05), I just wasn't feeling it this weekend. next time i will! Jeff and i decided that we are both adventurous but in different ways - i am "explorative" adventurous, as in I like traveling and backpacking across europe is right up my ally, and he is "danger-seeking" adventurous, as in bungee jumping and whatever else. i think we'd be a funny team for "The Amazing Race."

i watched two movies this weekend - Jeff bought me "The Devil Wears Prada" and i have been meaning to watch this since it came out which was FOREVER ago! i loved it. Meryl streep was fantastic in it. very funny. not an academy award winning storyline but light and fun and girly.
...4 kristin stars!
"The Illusionist" - okay i am sorry but i could NOT stop comparing it to The Prestige which i absolutely loved. i wish i had seen this one first so that i could love Prestige even more, but no, sadly I liked Prestige much better. i know i know, they have a completely different story line but the whole magic thing, well it was really the same and was just ASKING to be compared! STILL, I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE! after about an hour...when it picked up :)
...3.5 kristin stars!
its just that i would give The Prestige 4.9 kristin stars. true fact.

and i thought this was gonna be a quick blog.

okay so today was Monday and Saskatchewan's first ever FAMILY DAY which in my opinion is a real treat. i think us prairie people suffer enough throughout January and February. we need like an entire week off, and i don't just mean the students. the govt should treat us all to a week off in Mexico.

and with that thought i shall turn on my glorious electric blanket so that i can fall asleep and dream of white sandy beaches and blue sunny skies. goodnight my bloggers, sweet dreams.

p.s. and, um, Edmonton lost the game against Vancouver (???) on Saturday night and i cried remorseful tears. (*******lies).

day two

oh boy the oilers lost last night. too bad so sad. but at least i didn't forget to blog about it. cuz thats the deal (see "THE CHALLENGE" below).

okay anyway i'm going to home with jeff this weekend to his parents' farm. have a great LONNNNNNNNNNG weekend, ya'll. i get to see baby calfs and play with new kittens. so cute.

bubye bloggers!

the day of love

now on to better and more important issues (see below post!)

i love valentine's day. obviously i love it because i'm in love. haha.

so every year jeff and i have gone out for valentine's day but this year i wanted to do something different. last weekend we kind of had a "valentine's weekend" because we had dinner at The Keg on Friday (we shared delicious appys of breaded asparagus and snow peas, i had the most amazing steak dinner EVER and it was topped off with a wonderful glass of white wine) and on Saturday we went and saw The Pursuit of Happyness (which i pretty much cried through, such a sad movie). so i wasn't feeling exactly date deprived.

so i decided to make a romantic dinner pour deux. i'm not the most gourmet cook so i kept it kind of simple with chicken fettucine with my homemade vegetable cream cheese alfredo sauce. i even went and bought fresh parsley, and believe me, my mom will be putting parsley in every single meal of hers for the next week as i bought enough for a parsley salad! i needed like, 1/25th of the "bushel" that it came in. i just realized i should've thrown asparagus in my meal. oh well. next year. i have awesome spices from Epicure so those made it extra delicious! i LOOOOOVE my chili lime spice the best. it has a great kick. mmm. anyway. we also had caesar salad and fresh bread. for dessert we had chocolate turtle cheesecake with fresh strawberries, whip cream and chocolate sauce drizzled all over. if that doesn't sound like heaven on a plate than i don't know what does.

the funniest part was that i made it at home for us, as it was a wednesday and my family was away for choir and whatever else. before my mom left, she set the table for jeff and i, complete with table cloth, candles, chocolates and matching red napkins. my mom, she is such a romantic. she can't help herself. so we dimmed the lights and turned on jack johnson for a little atmosphere. it was very movie-ish of us. i've never done dinner like that for us before so it was fun.

oh yes and the best part of all were the GORGEOUS flowers i got from Blossoms. ohhhhh i love them. they are beautiful. i may have to post some pictures.

so anyway, Valentine's Day was another success. we had fun. it was romantic and it was special. isn't that the point of vday? i know its so overcommercialized, etc etc, and i can completely understand why some people get annoyed/sad/mad/etc. over it. but i also think its nice and its so important to take a day and make it special for your loved one. sure there are other days in the year that couples make special for each other which is totally important as well, and we do that too. but there is something about Valentine's Day that is nice.

and i especially like that i'm guarenteed to get gorgeous flowers. jeff really is a romantic underneath. i know he's reading this (especially because of "the challenge"), so Thanks Love!


p.s. side note. out of the 20 people who have already viewed my blog today (and its only 10:30!), look where they're all coming from - Saudi Arabia, 2 from China, 2 from USA, Brazil, South Korea, South Africa, Portugal and Greece! thats crazy! but i think i like it.

the challenge

jeff says if i'm going to go to the hockey game with him in edmonton in 2 weeks that i have to prove my "love for the oilers" to him by saying one thing per day about the edmonton oilers. this may be difficult as my true allegiance is elsewhere but i'm up for the challenge. and obviously i'm not a die hard fan so really, big deal. so today it begins.

okay so i'm soooooooo excited for tonights hockey game between the oilers and the buffalo sabres. it's going to be awesome because the sabres haven't won a single game against the oilers in their home arena in over 11 1/2 years. can you believe that, its been over a decade! i may have to miss greys anatomy for such a time as this. GO OILERS!

gosh i'm good.

what's with that?

i've had 95 visitors so far today, and 80 something yesterday - more than double what i have been getting on average for the last 2 months that i've been keeping track. most are from crazy places like china, india, south america, all over the world.

i feel weird about the crazy influx of readers in the last 2 days. i've talked about going private before and may still do this. you'd have to have a google account to read my blog. does anyone have any objections?

how bad is this?

i just opened up the chocolates that i had bought for jeff for valentine's day... heheheheh.... evil laugh.

i was CRAVING some chocolate. and they're Reese chocolate hearts. my absolute favorite. pass that up, as it practically melts in my drawer? i don't think so.

i have a week to buy him another bag of chocolates. hahahahaah. another excuse to go to the new walmart again! it's awesome there. so big and full of fun treats and excuses to buy stuff. i LLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEE walmart but don't tell anybody in my classes that because i am supposed to hate it. large corporations = bad bad bad. just like me eating jeff's valentines day chocolate = bad bad bad.

i am bad.

ON THE OTHER HAND....
the day lynnel and i came back from walmart, i told jeff that i had bought him his valentine's day stash. mistake. he promptly snuck down to my room and came up with a mouthful of chocolate (not the reeses). i asked him if he read the card i'd bought him and he replied, "well no, i wasn't looking for that." hello i think maybe if he'd at least betrayed me by reading the sweet, sentimental card i bought him, i might feel a bit better. maybe i'd think he cared about love and romance and i'd feel better about the freaking five dollars i spent on a damn card!

therefore, i'm thinking he deserves the fact that i opened up his (my) Reeses.

i can always put the leftovers (yeah right) into a cute little bag or something... mix in some sweetarts... he'll never know...

mmm, i like sweetarts too.

girl blog...

i bought a bridesmaid dress today! for my friend Angela (aka angelina jolie), getting married in August! i realize i have a no shopping rule for one more month but this is mandatory.

it's G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S! I'm in love with it. it's bright blue KIND OF LIKE THIS! except its more turquoise than that... anyway. it's so pretty. it's very light and flowy and 3/4 length and strapless and it is so far my most favorite dress ever. it's totally a "Kristin" color(after PINK).

side pause: Tania - no fear, i have no doubt that i will love our dresses for your wedding just as much!!! I just haven't seen them yet, he he. soon we will pick them out!

i love dresses and owning dresses. i love shopping for them and i love looking pretty in dresses and getting to wear high heels and pretty earrings and putting on make-up. i LOVE this part about being a girl. JUST LOVE IT.

i also love weddings, and i definitely have my fair share of them this year:

Kristy-Anne/Darryl - July 27/07
Jeff's cousin, Stephanie - July 07
Jeff's other cousin July 07
Kerri/Rob - Aug 11/07
Angela/Kim - Aug 18/07
Raina/Garrett (Jeff's friend) - Sept long
Tania/Clarke - Oct 13/07

That is SEVEN freaking weddings. i have to go "wedding guest" dress shopping! i was at Bryan's with Angela looking at dresses for her wedding to see if we could possibly go cheap (so didn't work) anyway they have ALL their summer/fall dresses on sale BIG TIME right now and i love about 100 of them. BUT NO CAN DO UNTIL MARCH. am i making the wrong decision? i mean i have 7 weddings to go to, 5 of which i will not be wearing a bridesmaid dress. i currently have 3 dresses that will work which not too many have seen...i think i need 2 more.

no i am still going to wait for my Edmonton extravaganza. oh is Jeff ever going to have fun!!!