All booted up and no place to go.....

Sigh...the lament of the single 48 year old gal. All the smug married are at home together eating Chinese and watching Braveheart while I sit here with my cheese and crackers resisting the urge to drink cause how stupid would it be to be hung over tomorrow with no good party under my belt. Sigh. Another lonely Friday night where all the fabulous people are busy and all the stalkers are circling. Ah, it's not all that bad...have a sappy romance novel...needed that after the newest John Grisham where 3/4's the way through the book I got so mad at John I threw the book down and started marching around the house yelling and screaming at the author. I got over it though. It's a sure sign of being single when you have a rip roaring fight with an author that doesn't even know you're alive. Also not a good sign when the telemarketer is trying to get off the phone with me. Sigh. Things will look up tomorrow cause tomorrow I have PLANS. My PLANS more than make up for a lonely single night cause once my PLANS are carried out all the smug married will be living vicariously through me. Ha!

Clearing the room!

Wow, you know you are unpopular when.....you go to a dinner dance, start out at one table, watch everyone leave right after eating, join another table and watch them all leave as well. But the humiliation doesn't end there....they all leave their 50/50 draw tickets with me so I am sitting at a big round table, all by myself, with 300 50/50 tickets which I can't leave, a fake smile plastered to my face, watching the 2 girls on the dance floor dancing to the 5 piece band. Ugggghhhh! And, to top it off, I don't have the winning ticket. Humph. At least with a partner I would have someone to share in my discomfort. Maybe next weekend will be better!

single!

Single life is really good most of the time but sometimes it sucks. Like the end of a long 11 hour day at work when it would be nice for someone to be there to pamper me a bit...pick out a tv show, feed me, rub my feet. Sigh. Especially after 2 nights, Friday and Saturday, of staying at home. Oh well. It's better to have some sad nights then put up with nonsence like having to watch sports or stupid action shows. At least I can relax, listen to jazz and read a good book. So really, is it so bad not to have my feet rubbed? I can rub my own damn feet!!!

Lamborghini!!!!!!

Yesterday was a crazy, crazy day!!! I met some friends for breakfast and they introduced me to one of their friends who owns a whole lot of very cool and very expensive cars. He had driven there in his 2007 Lamborghini worth $750,000!!! AND...I GOT A RIDE!!!! This was the most thrilling and probably most dangerous ride of my life (close your ears mom!). This car speeds up and slows down immediately. It's like all the other cars are going in slow motion. When we got to the guys house he showed me his other vehicles...another Lamborghini (only worth $350,000!), a corvette (the crappy car!), a hummer and 2 hot rods from the 1930's but with race engines in them. I wish my dad could have been there with me. After that I still had fun...went boating with my friends...enjoyed the sun......

Ahhhhhh....heat!!!

I love, love, love the hot weather....bring it on! I have air conditioning in the office, house and car and a beach around every corner. I live in vacation land and the heat is wonderful. The tourists have come out and they are so different and interesting. We get every type here from the dreadlocked french kids, the elegant city ladies walking the boardwalk in their high heels and the young guys who have worked out all winter so they can show off their six packs in our little city. Then, for added amusement, there are always your gangs of drunken teenagers. Everyday is a vacation in Kelowna!!

Another Saturday...7:34am...time for a hike.....have my coffee....had to get it quietly as 2 girls sleeping on my couch....so sweet when they're asleep....except for the drool....which is getting on my couch...yuck...teeanagers....will get ready for m&d visit next weekend...hope it doesn't snow again so they can actually make it here...ok...time to get ready...must hike...

Happy Easter now get cleaning!!!

Ah, the Easter frenzy! The colouring of the eggs! The Easter Bunny bringing way, way too much candy for the kids. Ok, I'll help eat a bit of it. Actually, haven't seen Eric at all...may as well eat all of it...I can always replace it at half price on Monday. Am not happy that friend Saffire is now following M&D's blog and finds it more interesting than mine. Humph. Just cause I don't know how to put cute little cartoons and pictures on mine. It's not like I have all day to figure the computer out. Computers are for the very young and the very old. I am much too busy to learn. After all both Survivor and Amazing Race are on now. Also, a warning to M&D's friends as Saffire is also cyber-stalking them!!! Don't worry Saffie...you too will be old some day...actually in about 4 months!!! OK...now have smart alec Daughter sitting beside me, mocking me and offering to show me how to put cute stuff on the computer!!!

Happy Anniversary D&M, now quit eating donuts!!

Sometimes I wonder why I have issues with food and then I read what my parents have been up to. Who buys a dozen donuts and scarfs them down immediately?!!! Who does that??? My parents, that's who. Gross. It has taken me a couple of decades to realize that you don't have to eat everything all at once because there may never be another donut offered again (although, realistically, my parents ARE pretty old so they may never get another chance to eat a donut.)( if they keep eating those bloody donuts they may just die of a donut related incidence!). The truth is there is ALWAYS another donut around the corner. We can get a donut whenever we want. We don't actually have to eat twelve at a time. Now smarten up Mom and Dad...I don't want to hear these disturbing donut stories anymore!!!! Contrary to rumor and public belief I actually DO want you alive (well, for a little bit longer anyway)!! Oh yeah...Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad....here's to 51 years of happily ever after!!!!

Oscar!!

omg..tomorrow is big gala event at my place and it's a mess! Oh well...just good friends...no nasty judgemental acquaintances that I must impress by my superior housekeeping skills....don't think my friends mind pushing the laundry off the couch before sitting, or, alternatively, using said laundry as cushion since actually cushions are a big mangy and not as clean as laundry. Also, no point in cleaning floor when friends will just drink too much wine and start throwing sh*t around anyway (must remember not to get cream puffs this time.....SAFFIE!!). Crap,,,bad words in blog...parents will be distressed...I'm sure it goes against the whole "watch what you are writing cause the whole world can read" thing...even though I've only got three followers and I suspect they have all heard the sh*t that comes out of my mouth before. Opps..there I go again. Sorry about that. I'm just a bit stressed is all. Going to buy goodie bags for my guests just like at the real Oscars...some smelly stuff and some glittery stuff...also will buy really good chicken wings....ummmmmm (will also get celery sticks for the friends that don't actually eat). BTW, my prediction for best film is "Hurt Locker"....hope Avitar doesn't win as was too common in it's story line...they can win for best visuals though.

HIKE!!!!!

OMG, I hiked today!!! Yippie!!! Yay!!!!! After 16 weeks of not hiking due to first cold and then stupid broken toe it felt amazing to get out there. Thought I was going to have a heart attack and probably took an extra 20 minutes (normally takes a little less than an hour) but I did it. Toe doesn't even feel horribly bad. I'm soooo happy. Didn't even mind the bit of rain and at the end of my hike God parted the clouds and a ray of sunshine landed on me. I said "Thank you Jesus" and Myrna, who had slowed her pace to a slow crawl and stuck by my side said "Jesus?!! You're thanking Jesus?!!! Who was it that stuck by your side? How about thanking me?!!" Opps......ok....sorry Jesus but I will have to give the thanks to Myrna. My faithful friend, Myrna who doesn't mind caring for the handicapped. Sigh. Well, I have a very exciting day planned....doing nothing and then watching Saffie's kid play hockey in Penticton. Look out world, here I come!!!!

UG

Ah, the weekend! A thing to look forward to....the long week is done and two luxurious days lay out in front of me. Gee...it's only 4:05pm and I miss work already. Hummmm. Nothing on the agenda tonight. Ya, that's right, nothing...well nothing you can prove anyway! Will try a hike tomorrow. Don't think the fast girls will wait for me. The fast, skinny girls. Humph. I used to be one of them. Well, maybe not quite as fast but I am the girl that makes them feel good about themselves. Tonight? Tonight I will colour my hair. The grey that is poking out is not me. Grey is for old people. Like my Mom. But not me. Even though my poor old mom is old, she is too young to have an old woman for a daughter. So, you could say that I die my hair for my mom. Anything for my mom!!!

TOE!

Why can everyone break a toe and just go about their business?!!! Why am I the only person in the whole wide world that breaks a toe and needs over 13 weeks to heal (still not healed!!!).
Why does Rupert break a toe, pop it into place and keeps on going?!!! Stupid pirate! Should have voted him and his dumb broken toe off!!! Not that I'm bitter or anything. Humph.

Blog

Mom now writting me asking about Blog and whether I'm going to keep blog up. My response is will write blog only when I have something funny to say, probably something about my Mom's blog! Ok, maybe will include boring stuff as well. Such as Darling Daughter cleaned her room yesterday! Hallelujah!! BF was an encouragement as he helped take DD's bed apart (during which he had us cracked up, making comments about various odd things found in DD's room!). He also removed DD's TV and ugly piece of furniture said TV was standing on. TV absolutely no use to DD as does not have a remote and it would be impossible for DD to actually GET UP and change the channels. I mean, really, OMG, that would be, like, dumb!! Anyway...today we will buy paint and paint DD's room this weekend. A hideous shade of purple I think. Will update.

Happy Birthday Dad and Paul!!!!

Auch! Forgot to wish my Dad HB!!! He is very, very old today so I will not post his age. Also, very personal information. As a matter of fact, forget you read about the whole birthday thing...I don't want to get in trouble. Gee Whiz, this blog stuff gets complicated. Also, ignore the fact that it is also Uncle Pauls birthday....nobodys business really....but, Happy Birthday to anyone who may have a birthday today!!!

Am I a little girl or an older woman??

My darling daughter was horrified to see that I have a blog. She said "what are you? A little girl? Only little girls write blogs!". Hummmmm. "Well", I said, "Grandma has a blog". "See!" she said. "SEE!!!". Ok. Maybe I should give up on the Blog. Maybe my whole social network will fall apart because I am engaging in a little girl/old lady sort of thing. I'll have to think about this.

too early!

Uggg...I wanna go back to bed but today is the day I volunteer at Church. So have to go and make some sammies and salads and run the cash register saying inappropriate things to the church people...not letting them have their food til they say thank-you....saying "you're welcome" when they haven't said "thank you"...that sort of thing....must train the world to be more polite since their parents obviously haven't. Gee...can ya tell I'm kinda cranky this morning? Then, Sheila, that sneaky little so and so, is picking me up which means I will be trapped and actually have to stay for the service.....grrrrr...it better be a good one! Ah, shouldn't have had 2 glasses of wine last night (okay 3). What is the point? All those calaries and a bad attitude in the morning. Must learn to control my impulses. That's the nice thing about hanging out with the staff of KGM...no booze. The world would be a better place (or at least less cranky) without it. That's it...as of this day I will not drink alcohol anymore. I quit. I also will not have a Starbucks cupcake with icing after eating a piece of Starbucks banana bread...come to think of it...I may actually have a food hangover. That's it! No more sweets...I'm done witht that junk. Mark my words!

I know it is highly unusual to post 2 blogs in one day (is it? My Mom only ever writes once) but I really had to comment on the parinoia on my parents...I mean, look at it folks...do they seem paranoid to you? They seem a bit worried that I am going to spill the beans on all our famlies nasty little secrets. I mean, I would, if we had any, but the only secrets that I know of is that my mom from time to time wears these horrible multi coloured knitted pants. I mean...who knits pants? And although this blog is open for the world to read, the only readers I seem to have are my parents....and, no, I am not going to post my blog on my facebook right now cause I'm not sure I would want to lull my friends to sleep....that honor is reserved for my dear mom and dad.

First day!

Day one of Blog. Felt really behind the times cause my Mom has a blog and I don't. I can go to my Mom's blog and read all about her shopping, laundry, house cleaning. She also writes about Dad's wood chopping and car fixing! Fascinating stuff. No...really! It's strange but I feel closer to her when I know what she is doing. I really think she needs to spend a bit more time off the computer and cleaning her house though! Ha ha! She used to be such a clean freak. Had us kids terrorized....we couldn't leave anything lying around and we had to leave the kitchen SPOTLESS if we ever cooked or made a snack. Don't know where I went wrong. Since I broke my toe Rachel is getting a bit better. She has even done a bit of housework without me asking...miracles of all miracles! Hey...if my Mom can talk about housework, so can I!!! Today kind of gloomy out so, since the doctor says I can heel walk, I will do housework. Unless I don't feel like it. Which I'm thinking I don't. We'll see. Stay tune for another exciting episode of "Sonja and her housework"!!!!