Then

I'm sitting here listening to "Then" by Brad Paisley, not only does it excite me to be going to his concert in October, but it reminds me of mine and Wade's "kinda first date"

Truthfully there are a lot of songs that make me remember certain events or things that have happened in life, or songs that I link to memories. It's something I've done for a long time, it's an easy way for me to remember life events, and associate a song that describes how I was feeling during that event. 

Wade and I had only known each other for about two weeks, with a few days of constant conversation via text, Facebook or in person when he wasn't working. He asked me if I would go with him to pick up hay in Creston. I had the day off that he had to go, and totally wanted to go, it meant I got to spend time with the guy I was crushing big time on. He was beside himself when I said I would go with him, and I was so excited. There were two songs that we both sang to on the drive, something neither of us did with other people, Wade told me that on the drive back. Second Chance by Shinedown is the other song. 

Anyways, Wade was so kind, he bought me Subway for lunch. He had a BLT with lots of ranch and mayo (two of his favourite things), and I had a turkey breast and ham, heavy on the cucumbers! We sang Second Chance quietly to each other on the way there, I am not a loud singer unless I'm alone, and Wade really wasn't a singer at all he had expressed to me. He was surprised with himself. On the way back, "Then" came on, the songs were on shuffle. I had only heard the song a few times, as I didn't listen to much country music at the time, but the lyrics came naturally. I'm not sure what it was that drew me into this song, and drew me into singing it with Wade, whether it was quietly or not. We were both singing, looking out the window, but the words, the tone it set, and where we were at in our friendship, made the song and the lyrics feel so right, and so totally true. 

Every time this song comes on the radio, or through shuffle on iTunes, I think of this memory. Of the way I was feeling, the things I was thinking and feeling, the way Wade was with me, all of it into one. This drive was an extreme "get to know each other" kind of drive. Wade told me a lot about himself and I told him so much about myself. It was good to connect with someone like that, only knowing them for a short time period, but learning and feeling so much for one person so quickly, it's one feeling I'll never forget. It was overwhelming, but so incredibly comforting at the same time. So many things drew me to this amazing man, so many little things that now, make me smile and think about when I first met him. Things that make me have that rush of feelings and emotions again, it still overwhelms me, but comforts me at the same time, I know he's mine now, and I'm here to stay, I wouldn't trade anything in the world for what I have with him. 

It's amazing when you find someone who does all of this for you. 

Find My Peace Of Mind

It's been a while since my last post, so I figured it's about time I write another one.

We spent the weekend back in BC, visiting some family and my god daughter. It's hard to believe that she's already walking, and she's so adorable. I can't wait to have a child of my own. My little cousins are all getting really big too, running and walking, and oh the talking they're doing.

Everything has been fairly uneventful because it's been raining pretty much for a week! It's getting to be a bit ridiculous, we've had some breaks in rain and are able to get a few things done, mow the lawn on Sunday, get the yard all cleaned up, that kind of stuff. The yard truly is looking fantastic now that everything is cleaned up, we're getting the weeds under control, and making a few changes to the view of it. The only thing that needs done now, is paint! The deck needs resurfaced as well as the sheds!

Our neighbour is on his last leg. I went and talked to the Manager about his behaviour, as yet again he's mowing into our lawn. He was given a written notice this time, and the manager said next time, his file will be given to a lawyer and he'll more than likely be evicted. It's getting ridiculous the way this guy is. You shouldn't have to continually go to your manager or call the cops about your neighbours behaviour.

I may have a few more potential clients for coffee products. On top of that, the walk to raise money for Crohn's and Colitis research is coming up too! As well as Wade's 24th birthday, and my brother's 21st birthday, all within a week, so needless to say, our next week will be busy, plus Wade has been working long hours, yesterday he was gone from 7am-10:15pm :( BOOOOO!

Here's a picture of our beautiful dog, Dacia

Has anyone watched the TV show "Food Factory"? It's pretty neat, I enjoy learning how they make food like Jelly Bellys!

Recipe Alert: Blueberry Cheesecake Bites

This is one of the recipes I've tried off of Pinterest. I tried them as bites (ice cube tray), and as popsicles. Personally I preferred the popsicle method better.

You'll need:

2 cups of fresh Blueberries - I used frozen Huckleberries
1/2 cup of Cream Cheese
6 tablespoons of Icing Sugar
2 cups of Cool Whip

Directions:

Puree the blueberries, icing sugar, and cream cheese in a blender or use an immersion blender. Gently fold in Cool Whip, and spoon into ice cube tray or popsicle molds and freeze. They turned out delicious!

Enjoy!!

**I don't have a picture of them at this time, but I'll get some next time I make them**

I'll Be Waiting

We had a very eventful weekend, my brother was gone all weekend. Wade and I had the house to ourselves. We did some cleaning and organizing, did lots of yard work, got a lot of stuff in the yard done, and it's starting to look really great.

We took out all the ugly rocks that were between our deck and the walkway, and we've put in Cedar Mulch in place of it. We built up my garden so the dogs won't dig in it anymore, built a flower box to house all of my lily bulbs, filled up my nice big planters and bought some flowers for them as well. We ripped out a section of chain link fence with a gate attached to it that was remaining at the front of our deck beside the house, it had an ugly, dead bush between the fence and deck too, so we ripped that out. We've also done a lot of weed killing this weekend, trying to get everything looking great. I still can't wait to show it all off. There's still some work to do in the front, where the fence and bush were. We've got a few things to there, put up a board along the front to hold the mulch in, but we'll mulch it and put one of my planters there. It's going to look great!

We had yet another incident with the neighbour. He spent half the weekend going through the rocks on our side of his house, picking out all the garbage, grass, weeds, and whatever else he found and threw them in our yard! ALL WEEKEND! So annoyed. Then, he mowed his lawn, and half of ours while he was at it, and didn't turn the mower so it was facing his house, so it threw rocks at our house, not missing the window by much over a foot, and narrowly missing me by not much more, as I was heading out to start the BBQ. I was extremely mad, I slammed my drink down on the table, and started yelling at Wade, "That f***ing asshole just spat rocks at the house and barely missed me!" - Wade was at the front door keeping the dogs from running out while I was looking at where the rock hit. Our small dog went running away, so I bolted after her, and naturally our bigger dog went after the small one. Once I got our little one, I was on the way back to the house, our big dog ran around the back of the neighbours house and into his yard, that's when we heard the neighbour say "it'll kill you over here" while he chased our dog out of his yard. Later that night, he was chasing our cats and telling them to "F**k off and get" I'd had enough, I had Wade call the dispatch and talk to a cop. The cop ended up coming out and talking to the neighbour, telling him to stop being a dick.

Naturally, we're waiting for him to do something next. We'll be talking to the manager tonight, as the neighbour also took a picture of our vehicles (as there are 3 outside now rather than 4), which it's been cleared by the manager, and it's incredibly rude and personally, he knows what our vehicles are, and probably has pictures of our license plates too, which is completely unnecessary. Now it's just a waiting game.

Creepin'

Originally Written and Posted on May 6th, 2013

So, the title to this post is really self explanatory, it is going to be about just that, creepin'.

Over the past week or so, our neighbour to our right, #215, has been making himself more "known" around the area. It started last Friday night, Wade and I were in the shower, and Wade had gotten out because Sadie was barking in the house, Dacia (the big dog) was outside tied to her line. When Wade came down the hall there was a knock on the door, and #215 was standing there and proceeded to tell Wade that he had given Dacia POTATO SALAD and water because she had been outside all day without any. Now, most of you know that bigger dogs, particularly ones with Wolf and German Shepherd in them want to be outside, so she whines, I let her out for periods of 20-30 minutes and bring her in. Usually it's to go to the bathroom, play with the cats, or just get some fresh air and roll in the grass, so no big deal. She comes in, gulps up some water and lays down for a nap. Anyways, back to #215 at our door telling us he fed our dog, he thought she was outside all day because every time he left and came home she was outside, but he obviously didn't pay that much attention to it...Thanks for making our dog sick for the whole 24-36 hours after feeding her potato salad, we appreciate the throwing up and diarrhoea greatly...NOT

Saturday morning, I got up with the dogs and it was gorgeous out, so I took them outside and put them on the line, came in to get them their breakfast, and when I went back out (maybe 4 minutes later), guess who was outside, petting the dogs...YOU GUESSED IT...#215!!! He also proceeded to stand there and talk to me, telling me how when he lived at his last house, the neighbour abandoned the dog and what not. Ok, well I understand that, but seriously, before you start feeding other people's dogs, potato salad, when there is ALWAYS a vehicle home, and if there's not, then no one is home and the dogs are in the house with water, ASK the dogs owners! Plus, #215 wouldn't go away, I text Wade as he was still in bed and asked him to come out because this guy was lingering.

So with all of this, all week, every time we went outside, guess who showed up to make small talk and be a little judgemental. We live in a cul de sac in a trailer court, and we have 3 vehicles plus my husband's company vehicle, so during the day, there's two here, and my vehicle isn't parked in the parking spot in front of the house, it's parked out in the cul de sac, and #215 asked us to move them out of the cul de sac because there were kids riding their bikes in there, and it would be anyone's worst nightmare if their children ran into someone else's parked vehicle. Now, he doesn't run this trailer court, and quite frankly, I don't give a rats ass what he thinks. Most of the children in the trailer court, ages 4-12 run around on foot or their bikes...without any adult supervision at all, therefore it would be the parents fault.

This weekend, we observed #215 being outside every time the neighbour lady on the other side of him was outside, for the same amount of time she was outside, and he made weird small talk with her too. She was painting their wooden garbage bin, and #215 was outside "cleaning" his truck, which honestly, as an observer, it didn't look like he was actually cleaning, maybe just taking out some paper and stuff, but there was no vacuum or anything used.

This morning, I heard our garbage can moving after the truck had been by and grabbed the garbage, I figured maybe #215 just moved it over since he had put his sprinkler on. Nope, I was wrong when I went outside, he brought it up to the stairs, I am not a lazy person, I go and get it every day after I eat lunch, so WTF??? Then when my brother got home from work and ran down to the post office to grab the mail. When he got back, we were checking to see how cold the pool was (still quite cold by the way), and I asked him if he could go around the back of the house and try to find the turn on valve for the garden hose so I could put the sprinkler on the lawn. #215 was outside, and proceed to follow my brother, from a distance (behind our storage shed and wood shed) around the back of the house, while remaining away from him, and as my brother came back, so did #215. Does that make any sense to you? It was immediate too, I asked my brother, and #215 was on his way as soon as my brother got down the stairs.

I have been purposely avoiding going outside over the past week unless Wade is home, I don't think that #215 would do anything, but he's creepin' me out. I'm not comfortable around him, and besides that, the last two days, he's been outside in just BOXERS, now that really creeps me out, and it creeps me out even more because there are so many small kids that are around the cul de sac, riding bikes or running around.  Not to mention that this guy is in his 40's at least! What in ones right mind makes them think it is OK to be walking around in boxers with small kids around, and trying to make small talk with neighbouring ladies?????