No Sleep on a Friday Night

Well, I made it through the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life on Friday night. This is the first time I've done anything this socially active, and I have to say it was an interesting experience.

First of all, the weather sucked. It rained all night and it got really close to zero degrees. It was certainly interesting to walk a relay outside in the rain. The track got really torn up and muddy and all of my joints started to protest very loudly. My muscles weren't really sore, it was everything else!

It was a fun time though. I got to know my team members a lot better and for the first time in I don't know how long, I wasn't sleepy late at night. Usually I don't make it past 10:30pm, but I didn't feel sleepy at all on Friday. So I had been up from 5am, went through the night and finally went to bed at 8:30am Saturday morning. Of course, I wasn't very coherent on Saturday afternoon..... =D

It certainly gives you a feeling of well being and belonging to do something like the Relay for Life. Kind of reminds you that there are bigger problems in the world than your own. It also felt nice knowing that I had contributed something. And of course, there's the willingness to let loose and party with people you don't know for a whole night in the rain! I don't think I've danced or sang so much in a very long time!

In other news, Nathan and I had engagement photos taken today. Our photographer, Rene, is very fun. He's really goofy and I like that a lot better than someone really serious. I hope the pictures turn out good. Rene said we were very good fake smilers.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Well, it was just one of those weekends I guess.

I was very productive Saturday morning, got a lot of errands done (good). Spend $200 getting fluids changed in the truck (ugly!), but the truck was very happy afterwards (good). Came home and saw that one of our neighbours had started building a fence without asking for our input (BAD!). Talked with the other neighbour who had no real fence plans yet, but works for a lumber company so we can get cheap wood (good!). Weeded and put bark chips around the tree(looks really good). Got really muddy shoes and tracked mud everywhere (bad). Spent 2.5 hours waxing the truck. It looked beautiful (good). Wax created a static field and all the construction dust in our neighbourhood adhered to the truck in nice circular patterns (BAD!)

Sunday I was really sore from the (almost) pointless waxing, so I spend most of the day reading my book (Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier) and finished it.

So yes, it was a good weekend and it was a bad weekend. I think in the end though, I came out on top. I'm looking forward to the long weekend though. It will be nice to have an extra day off again.

The Wonderful World of Weeds & Construction

I can't believe how many weeds have sprouted up in our backyard in the past 2 weeks. I must get some Round-up and go on a rampage (on a non-windy day, of course). I also can't believe that they're tearing up chunks of curb and sidewalks in our neighbourhood already. There was a memo attached to our door on Saturday saying that we had to have our vehicle off the street by 7 am every day until the 22nd of May. I really can't see anything wrong with some of the sections that they have marked. Ah, the joys of living in a construction zone..... On the plus side, I think all of the lots on our block will be finished this year, so hopefully there will be less construction noise and dirt. They've also started on finished the loop road in our neighbourhood, so soon I won't have to walk 15 minutes to catch the bus! Yea!!!