shoes!

just saw these.

and wanted to share. i think those could make good wedding shoes. yah??

i got asked to do an exciting thing today. i am very excited about it. i was asked to mc the fundraiser bout in september (roller derby). apparently this also includes doing the music (!!!!), which is probably the best part. i was told i would definitely need an assistant to operate the music, because you can't do it from the floor at the hassen arena. so i asked tyler if he would do that. i also asked trystan if he would help me out with the mc'ing, so i think we are going to do it together. we're going to get fantastic outfits and be the best at it. haha.

i don't know if i mentioned... i love my hair cut. my bangs are awesome. longer than i had originally planned on wanting them... but... i just need to be on top of maintaining them, i think, and they will be awesome. i can't do the rolled up look with them this short, but i might like them this way better? not sure. we'll see. the rest of my hair feels SO MUCH BETTER with the ends trimmed. it was pretty yucky. and erin didn't texturize it very much, but so far it is working for me fabulously. although, i haven't actually styled it down yet. i think i am going to try that tomorrow... i will give you a report on how that goes.

i get to go to the water slides again tomorrow!!!! my friend shelly bought a card with like 50 hours before the slide season opened, and so she has been taking people (because 50 hours is really hard to use yourself...). its really really nice because you don't feel the pressure of needing to stay the ENTIRE day because you paid $20 to be in there. you just go for as long as you can/want and have a good time. i love the water slides.

bethany joined my mom and i in our cooking extravaganza today. in fact, my mom went canvassing this morning and bethany, owen, rhiannon and i did all the shopping for it. we did a farmer's market run, and also went to nature's fare, simply delicious, and safeway (and i had to run out to super store later on - if you don't buy your spices there, you should. so cheap and so awesome!!). upon arriving we were on a mission for the woman with the beesting cake. it's my favourite. its like a spongy cake on the bottom, with custard in the middle, and shaved almonds on top with probably a honey glaze? so delicious. she wasn't there though... it was a bit of a bummer. we had to do about 4 laps of the market before i managed to finally get all the things on our list (except onions). bethany and i got breakfast egg muffins at the fare to try and make up for the lack of beesting cake. the egg muffins at the fare have chipotle salsa on them - they're pretty awesome.

today's menu included marrakesh stew, home made twix, pesto, and a squash soup that we didn't finish... that is to be finished tomorrow. bethany realized she screwed up the caramel for the twix, so they didn't really harden the way they were supposed to. but we put them in the freezer and will eat them frozen. they still taste DELICIOUS. i had the stew for dinner... and am on the fence with it. we left out the spicy... and i think it is just lacking something? and it has eggplant in it... and i really don't like eggplant. i gave it a shot... and i just don't like it. its kinda... weird. pretty colour on the outside though. haha.

i think that's it for now... be back on thursday i suppose.

hold on my heart.

i'm at work... surprise surprise...

tyler and i went to kelowna yesterday, to michael's to be more exact. we didn't make any other stops on our trip to kelowna. it was strictly a craft supplies trip for making wedding invitations. we found an AWESOME peacock feather stamp. got some paper. some letter stamps. and a few other random things.

we brought all our loot back home, and promptly started experimenting with designs. between the two of us, i THINK we have a design that we both like. a winner, one would say. it will include buttons, which i am quite excited about. so now we just have to finalize some times, some menu items, and get some faux photo booth strips printed and we can send them all out!!! i think it is fair to say you can all expect the wording on your invitation to be a bit odd, as i do believe tyler wants some say in that. i'm really excited about putting them all together. we are going to have a craft party - you're all invited, should you choose you would like to attend.

other than that... still need to make it to vancouver for a fabric trip. i have finally nailed down the dress patterns i am going to use for the bridesmaids. next is MAKING the dresses. haha. coommmmeee oonnnnnnnnn eryn. lets get a move on. we'll do suzanne's first, because my mom and i thought that would be easiest considering she is right here in town. i hope nothing backfires with those. obviously, i have to make 2 of them WELL in advance because of time. dear bridesmaids, PLEASE do not gain or lose a significant amount of weight. THANK YOU.

other than that... pretty typical sunday morning around the radio station. after work, however, i am taking rhiannon to gardom lake to pick up her KITTEN! which i am very excited for. my mom has come down with bethany's flu and couldn't take her. she was supposed to go yesterday and was apparently very bummed out about not being able to go when planned. so i said i could take her today. should be fun. i am so curious to see this little kitten. i love kittens. i want one. tyler is always going on with this nonsense about not being able to have 3 cats in a little condo... pfffffft.

he's right. i know.

i think that's all i have for right now. i think some sewing needs to be done this week. like... a flower girl trial dress MADE would be nice. so i am going to work on that... hopefully.

if i could turn back time.

currently rockin' out to some cher at work. haha. it sucks. oh well.

i watched a total of 3 movies today. crazy heart. nick and norah's infinite playlist (which i had been wanting to see, but everyone watched it without me so i just never got a chance...). and whip it! (my i'm-bummed-out-and-need-to-be-cheered-up movie). i also watched the first two episodes of the tudors. needless to say... i didn't leave the house until i had to go to work. i also flat ironed my hair today, which i almost never do these days. all the ladies in the office were convinced that my hair was WAY longer than they remembered. haha.

i discovered the photos from vernon on laura's photo blog and had some good chuckles. the jumping photos of jasmine and i are EPIC! and my favourite. haha. there are a bunch of good ones. tyler won't stop talking about how funny jodi looks in the front of the family shots. he said he wants to just blow up jodi in that picture and put it on the wall. he's being ridiculous. he thinks jodi is a funny looking dog. i didn't even think she looked funny looking at all?

i'm getting my hair cut tomorrow! i am VERY excited about it. erin is going to do it. i had wanted to get tyler's sister to do it... but... she is very busy, and i am very impatient. haha. and SO frustrated with my hair. my bangs are awfullllll... and driving me crazy. so drastic things need to be done. i decided i want to go with SHORT bettie page bangs. so... the blunt bangs, that curve upwards on the sides. i will try and do photos after i get it cut? i also just desperately need a trim on the rest. and i want less choppy layers. i want to go for a more classic pin up look as my hair gets longer. right now, the way it is all choppy, it is really hard to even curl because all the ends are all over the place... i guess mostly it just hasn't been cut in about a century and needs some attention. i also have this short blonde piece at the end in the side/back. i want it gone. haha. it looks so weird. the joys of being a hair model and not caring enough to colour your hair again after that.

tyler and i are going for a bike ride tonight. i am pretty excited for it. i haven't ridden my bike in what feels like forever. because it basically is. tyler has gotten all these new things for his bike... he pretty much HAS to ride it all the time now to justify it. haha. he got BRIGHT orange handlebar tape. cool new pedals. and a bright red seat. i have purple handlebar tape which i still haven't wrapped. oh well. i was going to do it today... but tyler took the electrical tape to work, and we didn't have anymore at home. so it didn't get done... for yet another day... oh well.

i should probably get back to focusing on my show.... oops! perhaps i shall write again on sunday. or try and work it out with the computer at home - it drives me insane! seriously. hate it.

phew... i just caught up on my blog reading! i still have some comments i need to make... but... time to write one myself, just so i don't leave work tonight and forget to do it.

things have been pretty busy around here. i really wish that the computer at home would let me blog - i have pictures from when madelaine, caleb, and gabriel were visiting that i would like to share. also, pictures from my camping trip last weekend. which was fun. although we couldn't have a campfire, there was a meteor shower. so tyler and i took our extra sleeping back and hiked up to the beach and watched the meteor shower for a while. talked about some things. it was nice to just take a moment and be just the two of us. i think i have gotten so used to it being just us, that when we spend prolonged periods of time with other people and don't have any of our space... it gets to be a bit much. it was nice to take those few moments and just chill out. tyler borrowed his parents kayaks and we paddled around the lake a bit - not very far, and none of us actually knew what we were doing in the kayaks. haha. but it was still fun.

i have been a bit bummed out lately. i feel like i have no friends. i don't do anything with anyone ever, and it is starting to bug me. my work schedule isn't convenient. but the people i have considered my closest friends have moved away, or just stopped trying. i feel like it has been months since i last talked to people. it depresses me. i have been trying to make an effort to hang out with new people and make new friends, but its so much harder. i don't know why. i have been trying to hang out with a girl from the fare for MONTHS now (like since before i quit, in december) and her and her boyfriend finally came over for dinner on tuesday. we had roasted veggie panini (so good!) and quinoa salad. and then we played settlers of catan. it was a really fun night. and it was cool for tyler to finally meet them and for us to all get together. i was glad.

but what is bugging me most... is that i have this group of friends that i consider very important and dear to me. my group of friends that i really cared about involving in my wedding in different ways so they were a part of that moment with me. and its like they have just all dropped off the planet (except jasmine, of course). one of which LIVES IN TOWN, and i can't remember the last time we hung out. perhaps the engagement party? which actually was months ago. granted, most of them live out of town. but hello... pick up the phone? maybe it is just too much for me to ask for this effort... but i would just like something, so i don't feel like i am on the bottom of everyone's priority list.

i guess i have been feeling this way about the wedding, in general. like... 'why do i have to invite this person again? they haven't even asked me to hang out in months.'

but that's just me complaining. sorry.

i'm really tired. and i don't think i have anything else to really write about. perhaps i will write again tomorrow... during my shift....

today was a pretty good day. i went to the beach (very briefly) with doug and delanie and their kids, plus andrew. i had to take off early to go to work. i came in to work early because patrick wanted to show me how the music is chosen. we programmed my sunday morning shift, or some of it before my evening shift started. it was pretty cool. i like choosing the songs that are going to play when i am on air. i think patrick wants me to learn so i can be the back up for music programming. also, he wants to change things a little for the easy listening sunday mornings, because the music that is being played currently on that show has some oddball songs that are NOT easy listening. he told me if i bring him some songs that are slow and canadian, we can test them out and add them for the sunday morning shift. i'm REALLY excited about all this.

not only did all that happen, but he also gave me some big compliments on my two interview features i played on the show tonight (food for thought, and marc the movie guru!). i was really proud of myself, because those are both things that were completely my ideas, and my responsibility. i think they work with the show. and i found two fantastic people to help me out with them. jayme, who some of you might be familiar with through her new food blog. and marc, who is a friend of mine from vancouver who is actually in school for broadcasting right now. he also went to vancouver film school for writing, and worked in a production office for a while. he knows movies!! i thought it would be a cool way to add something to my show, as well as give him a chance to be on air a little. patrick has also been telling me a lot lately that i am sounding really good, that i have nice phrasing and i don't talk too fast or too slow. it makes me feel really good about the extra effort i have been putting in lately. i have just been trying harder. and it shows, i guess! and then, just before he left, patrick told me that my bright blue shirt was a fantastic colour. hahaha.

i paired a bright blue tank top with silver sequined lightning bolts with these awesome feather earrings i ordered. they have long black feathers with little peacock feathers with blue and green shimmery-ness. they are beautiful. and look really cool with the tank top.

i guess all in all i feel really good right now. it's a good night. can't wait for my shift to be over... tyler and i are having the enchiladas that are in the freezer (mmmmmm!) when i get home. i am VERY excited for those.

my mom and i haven't cooked much this week (and i don't really have any food left at home... uh oh!). we were supposed to cook yesterday, but then i had to work for them because they had to do a job for a contractor. it was a BIG job with A LOT of scraping. it sucked. and what sucked worse, is that i twisted my knee at roller derby practice on wednesday night, so it wasn't feeling so good. my mom wrapped it with a tensor bandage, and i popped some advil and it was good for most of the day. at the end, it was throbbing pretty good. i iced it that night, and i took more advil... and it's pretty okay today. so that's good. i made a new friend at derby... and she told me to call her and we'll go skating. i'm REALLY excited about this. i need some help. work on my skills.

tyler is working tomorrow, because we're going camping next weekend, and this way he doesn't miss a day on his paycheque. i'm KIND OF bummed about it because saturday is usually our day to hang out together and do whatever. oh well. at least doug's family is visiting and i will have things to do and keep me busy (of course, i could always do the dishes and finish the laundry... but... that isn't fun). we're going to hang out with his friends tomorrow night, matt and kelsey, which should be fun. we haven't really hung out with them... they came to our engagement party, and my birthday party, and tyler and matt go to school together when they do their 6 weeks in class... i like them. for some reason, we just never hang out with them. they invited us over tomorrow night and i am kind of excited about it. i like hanging out with new people. doing something out of the norm.

and finally... the other thing i am excited about... MAD MEN IS BACK ON TV! season 4. so exciting. haha. i love all the glamourous fashion on that show. love love love love!!!!!

... time to focus on the last hour of my show. one more hour. one more hour... and then enchiladas!!

smokey smoke.

it isn't very nice in the okanagan right now. not only is it really smokey, the weather is bad. clouds. chance of showers. chance of thundershowers. YUCK! this isn't summer in the okanagan... well... the smoke is pretty normal. but i don't like it.

madelaine, caleb, and gabriel are visiting right now at my mom's. its fun. we went to o'keefe ranch yesterday. i hadn't been there in.. what feels like it could possibly have been a million years. haha. i love all the old furniture. and they have beautiful peacocks. i don't remember there being peacocks. and i also don't remember the sheep with 4 horns. its crazy looking! doug's kids are fun to be around. they are the cousins i know the best. although gabriel keeps telling me i look like a mom. and caleb says i am like a young aunt, and that the twins are like old cousins. haha.

we all went to the beach yesterday evening. packed tortelini pasta salad (pesto and fresh tomatoes... simplest thing, and so delicious). it was a nice way to end the day. the smoke cleared a little tiny bit. the earlier part of the day was a little bit cooler, i didn't really want to go to the beach then. that's why we did o'keefe, which is better to do when you get a cooler day. and then it warmed up. so after the ranch, we did the beach for dinner (makes sense, right?). rhiannon and madelaine came and slept over at my house after that. we didn't really get much of a chance to hang out though, because it was alright kinda late (and i had to get up at 5, as usual on sunday mornings - i also have to do it tomorrow). we got ice cream sandwiches, and watched a couple episodes of glee. i was tempted to watch a third (the lady gaga one is next... and that one is soooo funny), but i was super tired and went to bed.

also, the boys came home from their camping trip early. i WAS a little glad, because i missed tyler. and it was nice to have him home last night... although it was much cooler sleeping by myself, without the human heater.

i'm tired and REALLY wish i wasn't at work.

i took some pictures at o'keefe ranch yesterday. i'll see if i can manage to put them up somehow.