I know what you are all probably thinking. You're thinking that autumn is probably your favourite season of the year because of all the beautiful colours of changing leaves, the crisp air, and Thanksgiving and Halloween are just around the corner. Well I love all those things too. I'm just in a depressed mood because it's getting colder and I can't go outside as much as I would like to because of my cold allergy. I even had to dig my winter coat out from the back of the closet. I feel sorry for Dixie too, I would love to take her for longer walks but I can't without getting sick. If am feeling this bad now, I am REALLY not looking forward to winter.
I have started taking a new over the counter allergy medication. It's about the 5th one I've tried, nothing ever seems to work. This new one is called Desloratidine and it's basically the store brand of Aerius, a well known allergy medication. I prefer to get the store brand because it's the same thing except you get more at a cheaper price. Unfortunately, no allergy pill really works for completely stopping my allergy from happening, it just makes the hives go away a little bit faster once they arrive. When my mom was visiting I tried one of her prescription allergy pills called Singular, but it didn't work either. I really wish there was a cure for the stupid allergy, it's so hard to live with.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Busy, Busy, Busy!
Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted in a month. I have been really busy though, and I know it seems like I say that all the time but I'm getting married okay, I'm actually extremely busy lol.
For the past 8 days I've been playing host to my Mom, youngest sister, and Grandmother. They came last Saturday and left yesterday. How am I feeling after a very loud and stressful 8 days? Let's just say I slept in today and relished in the silence. Its not that I don't like my family, its just that I really enjoy my quiet time. Plus the fact that my Grandmother seemed to starting fights for no good reason. I love her, but I would have been more at ease if just my Mom and sister came out. Going home for Christmas should be interesting.
Something good did happen while they were here though. Actually, something amazing happened. I bought my dream wedding dress! Oh my God I never knew that I could ever lay eyes on such a beautiful piece of clothing. I don't want to explain it too much here in case Jeff reads this, but its gorgeous. Not so keen on the $1090 price tag or the $200+ in alterations that need to be done to shorten it, but hey you only get married once right? Got to make it count! I tried on the sample dress and then I ordered it in my size. It will be in the store in January and then I can go in and have fittings. I can't wait to go in and try it on again, I am seriously in love with this dress!
Well I'm laying in bed and sending this via my Blackberry and I'm getting pretty tired. I'll try to post more often, honest lol.
-Ashley
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on the MTS High Speed Mobility Network
Friday, August 20, 2010
Posting From My Blackberry!
YAY! I finally figured out how to post from my Blackberry! I have been trying to figure out for awhile, but it turns out that what I was doing is only available in the US. Figures! What I had to do was go into my blog settings and create an email address for my blog. Now all I have to do is email my blog from my Blackberry (hurray for unlimited data plans!) And it instantly posts it to my blog. Now I post whenever and wherever I feel like! Uh oh, this might not be such a good thing haha!
-Ashley
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Lonely, Boring Night
Jeff is yet again at another Toastmasters meeting in Winnipeg and he won't be home until around 11:30pm, so I'm stuck here all by myself (well, Dixie and Sampras are here of course!) so I decided to post a blog.
I was really sick last week. I had a fever of 102°F for 3 days straight and I felt like I was going to faint every single time I stood up. It felt like I had the worst flu in the history of flus, but I didn't have a stuffed up nose and I wasn't coughing. All I had was the fever, faintness, tiredness, and my head felt like it weighed a million pounds. I thought it was going away on Friday and I even spent the day in Winnipeg with my bridesmaid on Saturday, but when I got home on Saturday night it just all came rushing back to me. I think I've kicked it now though, hopefully anyway. I had a bit of a stomach ache but it's going away now.
Jeff and I got Blackberry's a few weeks ago. It's so cool because Jeff and I synced our phones with the Google Maps app and we can see each other's exact location. It's really neat, like right now I can see that Jeff is obviously finished his meeting because he is doing some grocery shopping at the Superstore. I even emailed him our grocery list from a grocery list app that I downloaded. It's so cool, I feel like I don't know how I lived without it before!
Holy, it's the middle of August and the temperature here in Southern Manitoba hit a high of +12°C today! I mean, I know we have some extremely cold winters, but we have really hot summers and that temperature is just WAY too cold for this time of year! It's especially weird because last week we were in this incredible heat wave where the temperatures where in the +40's! I don't understand this weather, but it is supposed to warm back up to the mid +20's buy the weekend so hopefully that happens.
Well, nothing else is really going on. My ELF package still hasn't arrived, but it should be here any day now. I also ordered 2 palettes from Coastal Scents on Saturday, they came in a combo set so the price was like $5 cheaper. I ordered the 88 Metal Mania palette and the 88 Warm palette. Here is a link so you can see the exact combo pack I ordered: http://www.coastalscents.com/cfwebstore/index.cfm/product/2146_122/combo-set-6.cfm I'm so excited for them to arrive!
-Ashley
I was really sick last week. I had a fever of 102°F for 3 days straight and I felt like I was going to faint every single time I stood up. It felt like I had the worst flu in the history of flus, but I didn't have a stuffed up nose and I wasn't coughing. All I had was the fever, faintness, tiredness, and my head felt like it weighed a million pounds. I thought it was going away on Friday and I even spent the day in Winnipeg with my bridesmaid on Saturday, but when I got home on Saturday night it just all came rushing back to me. I think I've kicked it now though, hopefully anyway. I had a bit of a stomach ache but it's going away now.
Jeff and I got Blackberry's a few weeks ago. It's so cool because Jeff and I synced our phones with the Google Maps app and we can see each other's exact location. It's really neat, like right now I can see that Jeff is obviously finished his meeting because he is doing some grocery shopping at the Superstore. I even emailed him our grocery list from a grocery list app that I downloaded. It's so cool, I feel like I don't know how I lived without it before!
Holy, it's the middle of August and the temperature here in Southern Manitoba hit a high of +12°C today! I mean, I know we have some extremely cold winters, but we have really hot summers and that temperature is just WAY too cold for this time of year! It's especially weird because last week we were in this incredible heat wave where the temperatures where in the +40's! I don't understand this weather, but it is supposed to warm back up to the mid +20's buy the weekend so hopefully that happens.
Well, nothing else is really going on. My ELF package still hasn't arrived, but it should be here any day now. I also ordered 2 palettes from Coastal Scents on Saturday, they came in a combo set so the price was like $5 cheaper. I ordered the 88 Metal Mania palette and the 88 Warm palette. Here is a link so you can see the exact combo pack I ordered: http://www.coastalscents.com/cfwebstore/index.cfm/product/2146_122/combo-set-6.cfm I'm so excited for them to arrive!
-Ashley
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Going Insane!
First of all, that 30 day challenge thing I was doing on here... obviously I have failed horribly at keeping it up to date so I've just decided to let it go. Getting engaged right in the middle of the challenge didn't help its cause either, I am just too damn excited to write about anything else!
Actually I'm not feeling very excited about the whole wedding as of late. Things are just getting out of hand. I mean, we have 11 months and 18 days to go before the big day and our families are pushing us to get everything done RIGHT NOW! We already have the church and the reception site booked, plus the DJ, so we are well ahead of schedule. I'm also getting my dress next month, so that will also be out of the way.
My mother is also driving me nuts. She says that I HAVE to spend the night before my wedding in her house, no matter what. The only problem it, there will be 16 other people there! I will get no sleep and there is no way I will be able to get ready in the morning. My hair and makeup people won't even be able to park or get in the door! My sister and I already talked and we are going to be staying in a hotel the night before and that's that. I don't care what my Mom says, I don't even live there so I don't know why she wants me there for that one night so bad. If she wants to see me the night before, she can come to the hotel, it's that simple. I just don't need my 2 grandmothers, my grandfather, my aunt and her boyfriend, and a whole bunch of other people crowing around me in the middle of a Southern Ontario summer on the morning of my wedding, it's just not happening. I will have a panic attack I know it, so I'm just doing what I want to do. It's my wedding dammit! Jeff agrees with me too, he wants to make sure that everything goes perfect for us and he even offered to put my maids of Honor and my bridesmaid in a hotel too so that they have room to get ready also. Oh my God what a shit show this is turning out to be!
To make matter worse I've been really sick this past week. I went swimming the river for the first time in 3 years because I have to be cautious with my allergy. First time in 3 years and I get sick of course. I had a fever of 102.5 F for 2 days but it seems to have gone down now. My head just feels really heavy still, like I have an extremely bad cold but I'm not stuffed up or anything. I just hope it goes away soon. Tonight we are going to the casino to try to win the $150k jackpot in Bingo (not likely to win lol, but it's still fun). I hope I am feeling a bit better by then at least. I've been living off of vitamin C tablets lol. They are the only thing that works for me. We are going tonight with my bridesmaid and her husband, who is also in our wedding as an usher. It's going to be really fun.
Well, I'm off to get my day started. Talk to you all later!
Ps. I just found this wedding template and I am loving it!
Pps. Oh and I also just made a HUGE ELF order this week, so when it comes in I'll show you what I got!
-Ashley
Actually I'm not feeling very excited about the whole wedding as of late. Things are just getting out of hand. I mean, we have 11 months and 18 days to go before the big day and our families are pushing us to get everything done RIGHT NOW! We already have the church and the reception site booked, plus the DJ, so we are well ahead of schedule. I'm also getting my dress next month, so that will also be out of the way.
My mother is also driving me nuts. She says that I HAVE to spend the night before my wedding in her house, no matter what. The only problem it, there will be 16 other people there! I will get no sleep and there is no way I will be able to get ready in the morning. My hair and makeup people won't even be able to park or get in the door! My sister and I already talked and we are going to be staying in a hotel the night before and that's that. I don't care what my Mom says, I don't even live there so I don't know why she wants me there for that one night so bad. If she wants to see me the night before, she can come to the hotel, it's that simple. I just don't need my 2 grandmothers, my grandfather, my aunt and her boyfriend, and a whole bunch of other people crowing around me in the middle of a Southern Ontario summer on the morning of my wedding, it's just not happening. I will have a panic attack I know it, so I'm just doing what I want to do. It's my wedding dammit! Jeff agrees with me too, he wants to make sure that everything goes perfect for us and he even offered to put my maids of Honor and my bridesmaid in a hotel too so that they have room to get ready also. Oh my God what a shit show this is turning out to be!
To make matter worse I've been really sick this past week. I went swimming the river for the first time in 3 years because I have to be cautious with my allergy. First time in 3 years and I get sick of course. I had a fever of 102.5 F for 2 days but it seems to have gone down now. My head just feels really heavy still, like I have an extremely bad cold but I'm not stuffed up or anything. I just hope it goes away soon. Tonight we are going to the casino to try to win the $150k jackpot in Bingo (not likely to win lol, but it's still fun). I hope I am feeling a bit better by then at least. I've been living off of vitamin C tablets lol. They are the only thing that works for me. We are going tonight with my bridesmaid and her husband, who is also in our wedding as an usher. It's going to be really fun.
Well, I'm off to get my day started. Talk to you all later!
Ps. I just found this wedding template and I am loving it!
Pps. Oh and I also just made a HUGE ELF order this week, so when it comes in I'll show you what I got!
-Ashley
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wedding Planning!
Hello all, I'm sorry I haven't updated in a long time. I've been so busy lately! First off, I just had my final exam for my business law course on Tuesday. I won't get the mark for about a week so I'm not sure how I did on it. Hopefully I did okay though. The last few weeks have been so filled with school work that I haven't had time to do anything else. Now that school is over though, I can focus on things that I actually want to do...
Like plan my wedding! Holy holy I am so freakin' excited still! I know I got engaged like 3 weeks ago but I'm still all giddy and stuff, and now that school is over I can finally get into the nitty gritty of planning. We already have our church and reception site booked, so that's all taken care of. We are getting married back in Ontario because there is no way that I would expect my family members and Jeff's family to pay to come to my wedding, that is just ridiculous. Besides, almost everyone we know is back in Ontario. We also have our wedding party all picked out too. I couldn't chose between my two sisters so I made them both Maid of Honor. I have a bridesmaid too, she is a friend from here in Manitoba. Jeff is having a friend from Ontario be his best man and his two brothers are going to be the groomsmen. Our ring bearer is a kid I used to babysit and our flower girl is the daughter of my parents neighbours. Our 2 ushers are friends of ours, one from Manitoba and one from Ontario. So that is all worked out. We have actually done a lot for only being engaged for 3 weeks. Oh well, I want everything to be taken care of so that I'm not more rushed than I need to be near the big day. We have decided that the date is going to be July 30th, 2011.
My Mom, Nana, and youngest sister are coming out here in September and we are going wedding dress shopping! I'm so excited, I went online and picked out a few dresses that I really like and printed pics of them so that I can bring them when I go. I am getting the dress here so that I can go in for alterations and things like that. I'll just take it as carry-on when I fly home for the wedding. I have picked 2 nice bridesmaids dresses, but I need to show them to my sisters and my friend first to see how they like them.
Oh another awesome thing... my aunt is a professional florist who did the flowers for THE QUEEN in Halifax a few months ago... and she is doing all my flowers for FREE!! That's right, $3000-$4000 worth of red roses for free. Holy crap, I was so excited to hear that! We also have a DJ for really REALLY cheap because my Mom and Dad are friends with professional DJ's. Our wedding is going to be freakin' awesome!
There is still a lot more we need to do though, but I think we're off to an amazing start!
-Ashley
Like plan my wedding! Holy holy I am so freakin' excited still! I know I got engaged like 3 weeks ago but I'm still all giddy and stuff, and now that school is over I can finally get into the nitty gritty of planning. We already have our church and reception site booked, so that's all taken care of. We are getting married back in Ontario because there is no way that I would expect my family members and Jeff's family to pay to come to my wedding, that is just ridiculous. Besides, almost everyone we know is back in Ontario. We also have our wedding party all picked out too. I couldn't chose between my two sisters so I made them both Maid of Honor. I have a bridesmaid too, she is a friend from here in Manitoba. Jeff is having a friend from Ontario be his best man and his two brothers are going to be the groomsmen. Our ring bearer is a kid I used to babysit and our flower girl is the daughter of my parents neighbours. Our 2 ushers are friends of ours, one from Manitoba and one from Ontario. So that is all worked out. We have actually done a lot for only being engaged for 3 weeks. Oh well, I want everything to be taken care of so that I'm not more rushed than I need to be near the big day. We have decided that the date is going to be July 30th, 2011.
My Mom, Nana, and youngest sister are coming out here in September and we are going wedding dress shopping! I'm so excited, I went online and picked out a few dresses that I really like and printed pics of them so that I can bring them when I go. I am getting the dress here so that I can go in for alterations and things like that. I'll just take it as carry-on when I fly home for the wedding. I have picked 2 nice bridesmaids dresses, but I need to show them to my sisters and my friend first to see how they like them.
Oh another awesome thing... my aunt is a professional florist who did the flowers for THE QUEEN in Halifax a few months ago... and she is doing all my flowers for FREE!! That's right, $3000-$4000 worth of red roses for free. Holy crap, I was so excited to hear that! We also have a DJ for really REALLY cheap because my Mom and Dad are friends with professional DJ's. Our wedding is going to be freakin' awesome!
There is still a lot more we need to do though, but I think we're off to an amazing start!
-Ashley
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Day 12 — Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
I just finished cleaning my whole apartment and I needed to sit down for a bit. My feet are killing me! I guess that's what I get for being a little OCD and spending the last 4-5 hours scrubbing almost everything I can see.
Jeff's brother and his girlfriend are coming tomorrow from on Ontario for a visit! I'm really excited, it's going to be so fun! They are only staying until Monday, but this was a really good weekend to come here because it's our town's annual birthday a.k.a. 3 days of non-stop partying and drinking lol. It's going to be a really good time. I just hope the weather holds out. About an hour ago there was just HUGE storm with the loudest thunder I have ever heard in my life. We get some pretty wild storms here in Manitoba. The forecast says that there is a 40% chance of rain on Saturday and I really hope its wrong. Our town has fireworks that night and an outdoor beer garden tent. Please don't rain!
Today is Sampras' 2nd birthday! He's growing up too fast lol. I told Jeff to buy him a can of tuna for a special birthday dinner. I know he's just a cat and has no idea what a birthday is or even what the date is, but I know it's his birthday and dammit I'm going to celebrate!
Well that's all I have to say for now. Talk to you later!
-Ashley
Jeff's brother and his girlfriend are coming tomorrow from on Ontario for a visit! I'm really excited, it's going to be so fun! They are only staying until Monday, but this was a really good weekend to come here because it's our town's annual birthday a.k.a. 3 days of non-stop partying and drinking lol. It's going to be a really good time. I just hope the weather holds out. About an hour ago there was just HUGE storm with the loudest thunder I have ever heard in my life. We get some pretty wild storms here in Manitoba. The forecast says that there is a 40% chance of rain on Saturday and I really hope its wrong. Our town has fireworks that night and an outdoor beer garden tent. Please don't rain!
Today is Sampras' 2nd birthday! He's growing up too fast lol. I told Jeff to buy him a can of tuna for a special birthday dinner. I know he's just a cat and has no idea what a birthday is or even what the date is, but I know it's his birthday and dammit I'm going to celebrate!
Well that's all I have to say for now. Talk to you later!
-Ashley
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Day 11 — A Photo of You Taken Recently
I had to go on Facebook to find a recent picture of me. This was taken in May by one of my friends:
A bunch of us here in town had a little party at friends house near by. I got pretty smashed and when that happens, stupid pics of me are taken. This is a prime example haha. Oh well, we were all having fun and it was awesome, so I don't care!
-Ashley
-Ashley
Friday, July 9, 2010
Day 10 — A Photo of You Taken Over Ten Years Ago
I couldn't have even been over a year old when this picture was taken, and I'm 22 now. So this for sure falls into today's category. Check out my awesome zoo animal bathing suit, I was rocking that thing haha!
-Ashley
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