and all the things i scripted they sound unfounded

this past weekend i went to megs cottage in muskoka. the weekend was full of food, booze, fires and friends. eight of us went up, pretty much all in separate cars at different times, bad planning on our parts. meg, jamie and i came up together around 3 on friday, peter came up around 8. james and mars came up separately around 11 on the friday and tia and brandon made it up for lunch on the saturday. everyone got along amazingly! i couldn't have asked for a better group to go with. there was way too much food from cupcakes to watermelon and burgers to pasta salad and i swear the guys went through more beers than some people have in a lifetime. 

it started raining after james and jamie got this fire started.

the thing that sucks is i have to drag people in pictures with me.

i do not have camera accepting friends usually

hi peter.

my wonderful smores..

after everyone realizing im weird because marshmallows gross me out.. unless they are with a piece of chocolate and squished between two graham crackers i refuse to eat marshmallows.

my sangria failed. did i mention i attempted sangria? i love sangria.. normally it is an amazingly delicious drink.. mine turned out tasting like soda water:

 a) because i added double what it asked for

b) because the container was too small and i didn't stir the sugar in properly (it was all at the bottom)

c) i love red wine sangria, i should have stuck with the same recipe i usually use

i didn't share.. but i dont think anyone wanted it lol

the day we left it was absolutely beautiful.. likely.. thats my luck

i like this cottage deal i can't wait to go back. maybe next time with a successful attempt at sangria.

i like no tv and no internet and being near the lake

and going into town and getting ice cream

and drinking wine with friends near a bon fire

and night swimming.

have a good long weekend!

  

i want a frog

ive been so frustrated today that i want to cry. you know those days when everyone is just the most irritating human being on this earth. im just going to write since i need some me time and talking to myself may get me a diagnosis titled insane. okay so i get into work today and i find out my favourite coworker had been let go just this morning. this sucks beyond explanation. at work there are 3 full times, 2 of which are the managers, and 5/6 part times. the coworker im closest with, another part time, dylan, just took a leave of absence for the rest of summer which already upset me, he was great and i miss him there. now one of the full times, shelley, got let go. they fired her! i know i shouldn't make this about me but i dont know what i am going to do without her!.. she didnt deserve to be fired. i mean, i know they had their reasons and i do have complete respect for management but personally i dont think the reasons should result in termination. it frustrates me so much! she did nothing wrong, but apparently her productivity wasn't at par.. ahhhh i want to scream. she was like our "work mother"..i wish her luck in finding a new job.. and i wont lose touch but still im sad.
so some words of wisdom people.. its extremely annoying when you walk into a store 10 minutes before close and ask for a bunch of sizes in clothes/shoes.. do you not realize that we have probably already counted our tills, cleaned up our back room, and swept the floor? do you also not realize that many part times are not closers and only get paid until the hour of close and not a second more? omg its soo annoying when people come in at 8:50 when the mall closes at 9 and they want 5 pairs of shoes to try on.. obviously im not going to say no but are you friggen kidding me! why couldn't you come 20 minutes ago. i had people in the store until 9:15 tonight. oh and to make it worse, she took out the clothes she had previously purchased from other stores and held them up to herself while wearing the shoes.. ahh! i happened to be closing tonight (my shift was until 9:30) but the part time i was with was only paid until 9. i let her go at 9:15 once the customers were gone, but counting the till, deposits and closing the store takes awhile and i was there until 9:45.. its ridiculous. to top it off my sister was picking me up from work and had been waiting in the car for 20 minutes so she was not in a good mood when i got in the car.
not done. i come home and i have a message to call this women i babysit for back. i call her and she is in a bad mood and she is getting all frustrated because she is trying to plan a 2 week trip and needs 24 hour a day coverage for her daughter. she needs to know which days i am available for the next two weeks and doesn't understand that i only know my schedule a week in advance. i can't friggen tell you my schedule for the week of july 11th yet i dont know it! she's like well why cant you book that time off.. umm maybe its because my other job is priority.. im 23, my main job is no longer babysitting like it was when i was 15. your older son and daughter could probably book it of just as easy as i can why dont you start by asking them. she was seriously getting mad, raising her voice over the phone, because she had it written down somewhere that i was available.. um no.. i booked 3 full days off from my other job fully allotting 72 hours undivided attention to babysit and im also available any other time the mall is not open, im not booking anymore time off! 
ahh this is such a bitter post. i actually love babysitting the little girl. she is a sweetheart. but when i babysit it is a choice not an obligation. i shouldn't have to give up hours at my other job to babysit and i shouldn't feel forced into babysitting. i also want to clarify that i like where i work. it is a good part time job (i dont want to stay there forever, its not a career for me). the employees and managers are all very kind and the group is close. everyone contributes in some way or another but it wont be the same without shelley. 
maybe people are just incessantly annoying, by nature.
oh on a cheerful note.. green earth, the store beside us at the mall is selling the cutest little frogs. i want one. i want to name it surge. or maybe frolic. maybe i will buy one. how long do frogs live?       

indigo spirit

i was just casually walking through mapleview mall full intentions of going into hmv and buying lady gaga's born this way cd and i passed this store with a sign in the window i couldn't resist. it was indigo and the sign was buy 3 books get the 4th book free. see on a regular basis i am completely against sales like this.. like with clothes, buy two get one free kind of stuff.. my intentions were to buy one, why would i spend money on two just to get a third when i only wanted to buy one. these kind of promotions are only an attraction if they allow you to spend less and still get everything you want, not to spend more and get extra then you want. anyways i wanted three books, well four, but one of them i have to get from a used book store or something because im not spending the hard cover $30 price for it. its always easy to pick a fourth book i want to read though

i saw something borrowed and im sure its one of my favourite movies im so excited to read the book! ill tell you how they are after i read them.

cottage life.. cant wait

im leaving for my friends cottage today! muskoka/huntsville.. i love it! soo excited..

quick post before i leave

omg this was so long ago!

caroline, meagan and i..

have a good weekend! 

i need a cottage

my life has been way too busy lately. i always think i have nothing to do, but for some reason i never have any time to just sit and read. last week/weekend was insane. coffee with james on tueday night, wednesday morning i gardened for my grandma than headed to toronto to visit meagan. i was in toronto from wednesday til friday, catching up with friends, walking around downtown, friday night i came back and had my first soccer game of the season. im just playing for an ancaster adult league, its just for fun and i love it. we won the first game! saturday i worked 1-6, took my dad out for a fathers day dinner down on locke street, then i went to the burlington sound of music festival to see the last half of tokyo police club play. sunday i worked from 11-5, which actually ended up being 11-5:45 (i had some issues closing/balancing the til) then i headed to brantford for a fathers day get together my uncle always hosts.
the get together was fun. i have some amazing cousins and i love catching up with my aunts and uncles. monday i went to the gym, had to run some errands, celebrated my sisters birthday and went out for drinks. tuesday i worked 11-9:30.. wow long shift. now this morning, im gardening again for my grandma until around 2:30 and than im babysiting at 8pm until who knows when..
ahh i kind of feel writing these blogs are pointless but whatever..
tomorrow im leaving for the cottage til sunday or monday! im so excited. i cant wait.. we have barbeques and sangrias planned.. cupcake baking and card games. swimming and reading
ohh so just lastly.. what do you think goes through a dogs brain lol..
my sister and i were thinking about this.. do dogs worry like people do.. they have humans slave to them, pick up their poop, give them exercise, feed them, house them.. they sleep the majority of the day.. oh the life of the dog..!

birthday messages

i think i have more fun on other peoples birthdays than i do on my own. i hate being the centre of attention and that seems to be the common occurrence on ones birthday. unfortunately for me, i have a sister and a best friend with a birthday on the same day. i owe meagan a (happy 23rd!!) birthday celebration still.. i couldn't split myself between two cities in one day without a car. 

as for diana, she turned 21 and i decided it would be fun to take the birthday girl out for some drinks with friends. despite what my grandma thinks, 21 is not the legal drinking age in canada. drinks were no big deal, she has been legally drinking for 2 years now.. the real big deal was that we were paying for her drinks, so we got to pick what she was drinking..

hey birthday girl..

guess what you are drinking tonight..

we went to the whistling walrus. brie chose her first drink.. party in my pants. lol yup thats what it was called.. throughout the night our table ended up getting some interestingly named drinks. one called sunscreen which tasted like pineapple, a malibu barbie, raspberry rapture, tan lines.. oh and sex on the beach and some others i can't remember.. ohh and brie decided to order miss diana something else..

wait for it..

a shot. blow job..

and the boys got beer/cider.

the six of us.. we had fun celebrating dianas 21st

 

yeah so this was our night.. in pictures. diana i love you to death, you are amazing and i hope you had fun!

<3 

ohh all this on a monday night too

hi dad..

okay so i have never met your father as a father. if i've met your father, its been as a man, so i can't exactly say my dad is the best father there is.. but i can say he is pretty excellent. when i went out on the back porch this morning to wish my dad happy fathers day he gave me a big hug and said.. im so glad you are my daughter. thats the kind of dad he is. three daughters and he never makes us feel that we are anything less than perfect.
as little girls, our fathers (or a man of equal importance, such as a grandfather or other) are probably the most important men in our lives. my dad is still the most important man in my life. one day, hopefully not too too far away, when im married, there will be two (or more if i have sons) equally important men in my life. since im not married and i have no brothers lol, its my dad. im grateful for a man as wonderful as him for a father.
i love you daddy.
my mom is equally as important to me, but this is fathers day..

happy fathers day to all fathers out there

"any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad" -anne geddes

get sidetracked

pick a person.

pick a place.

pick a direction..

walk.

walk in a unique store.

buy something.

eat a treat.

take a picture.

distillery district

i went to toronto to visit meg, per usual.
i wanted to go to the distillery district in toronto.

i love areas like it.

bakeries, antiques, coffee shops, brick roads, no cars.

we kind of went at a weird time, on a thursday around 3 pm.

not many people were there..

we walked around entire downtown!

kensington market.. we got coffees, scones and chocolate covered espresso beans.

loved the espresso beans!!

we walked up dundas, front street, queen and college.

we went for sushi and bubble teas (our usual) on queen street

walked to the eatons centre.. i love forever 21 :)

 they were setting up for the mmva's.

i've never been.. they are always on fathers day

i love toronto. i would like to live there, downtown. i love downtown.

i'm kind of at a lack of words for this post.. busy weekend coming up!..sisters birthday, best friends birthday, fathers day.. i work both days, have a fathers day get together at my uncles on sunday also. i have my first soccer game tonight! ahh excited, kind of nervous..

have a good weekend!

honestly wtf

some wise website once told me..

if you cut a walnut in half..

you get a perfect heart.

i believe them now.

this wise website i speak of.. its called honestly wtf (here)

actually i intend to make a necklace out of these walnuts..

but for now..i just thought the heart was cool.

 ♥

sweets.

what is the sweetest thing someone has ever done for you? think. does your list of things come as easy as mine does? 

its the little things that count.

the things that show you people are listening when you talk and read when you write.

mine..

pictures speak loader than words

totally legit.

faultless.

these, in all their outright perfection, are red velvet cupcakes from hummingbird bakery

all the way from london

from james

james.. no one could have brought back something more perfect from a different country. i can't believe you didn't even eat one! umm maybe its because they may have radiation from going through customs xray scanners.. they are totally worth radiation lol.

despite the perfect cupcakes james brought back.. it sucks when your friend goes on a trip somewhere you wish you could go and comes back with some amazing pictures and all i want to do is post them lol.. cause i know he wont!..

i want to travel. see the world.

these made my day.