So, we just got home from our wedding in Mexico. A week that was filled with amazing moments, with SEVEN amazing days - not just one, and for that, I feel like the luckiest women.
The trip went according to no one's plan; we ended up getting married on a different date then what is engraved on my wedding band and we spent more time in the water having showers and bathes then we did in the Ocean or pools, but we would not change a thing. Life takes us where it will and Ty and I are fortunate to have realized the beauty in that journey, without conforming to a timeline, to standards or to what others think is right.
We boarded a plane and met our 19 friends and family members on a beach in Mexico. We were set for an incredible week surrounded by people that were even more incredible. There were group dinners and naps in Cabana's, card games and Quiddler, Shopping in Playa Del Carmen and Climbing Ancient Ruins in the Mexican Jungle, laughs and tears, moments that are now memories and perfection captured in pictures. There was nothing that I would have changed and, in that realization, there were things I was able to let go of that freed me.
Ty and I have always followed a very natural path, one that is distinctly ours. We have found a comfort in each other that we do not take forgranted; we have a home with each other that does not require a fixed address; we have built a life as partners, accomplices, friends, pet parents, as a team ..... as husband and wife; we have chosen love, but do not use that love as an excuse for taking each other forgranted or laziness; we are each others fans - not just friends, we truly enhance each other, we have found "it" - without classifying IT, without naming IT, without tagging IT to a calendar date or a white dress; just living IT, and appreciating that we have found IT in one another.
Ahhh, we have so much to look forward too!
S
Monday, February 22, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thankful for Fridays
As I finish up my workday I realize how much I love Fridays, and not because they are the day before the weekend, but because it is always a fun day and everyone is in a slightly more upbeat mood!
On Fridays I typically go to work in jeans, which I love, because it feels like such an over-the-top, spoiled-to-work-where-I-do luxury. Not EVERYONE gets to wear jeans to work on Fridays after all you know! Then, at some point throughout the day my co-worker normally reminds me that today is the day to sanitize our desks - so then the whole office smells clean - which I love, just that clean smell, it reminds me of Fridays. Normally doing this task the front office full of girls typically break into casual conversation and often times laughter about something, but just a time to talk amongst friends, which also feels like an over-the-top, spoiled-to-work-where-I-do luxury, because not EVERYONE gets to work with people that they consider friends!
Then, because it is Friday, I go home to my half-finished house, with my smiling husband and goofy big puppy and we are in a good mood because we start planning our weekend, or go out to meet friends, or take the puppy for a walk, or watch a marathon of say yes to the dress (a show I just love all about bridal!) but always something I enjoy - Friday nights never seem to be the nights I have to accomplish yucky things like arguing with Hydro or Bell, or cleaning the bathroom, nope, not this night for it is Friday night. And I don't plan to NOT do these things because it is Friday night, I just don't even think of it because I am so happy.
Yes, Friday's are great. Right now I have just finished a vent session with my work friends and the office smells deliciously like peanut butter and cinnamon and just earlier it smelt like french fries and vinegar - another small thing that makes this Friday superb!
Looking forward to a great weekend of husband time, spa appointments, picking up my wedding rings, shopping and lunch with amazing friends! How blessed am I?
Have a great weekend!
S
On Fridays I typically go to work in jeans, which I love, because it feels like such an over-the-top, spoiled-to-work-where-I-do luxury. Not EVERYONE gets to wear jeans to work on Fridays after all you know! Then, at some point throughout the day my co-worker normally reminds me that today is the day to sanitize our desks - so then the whole office smells clean - which I love, just that clean smell, it reminds me of Fridays. Normally doing this task the front office full of girls typically break into casual conversation and often times laughter about something, but just a time to talk amongst friends, which also feels like an over-the-top, spoiled-to-work-where-I-do luxury, because not EVERYONE gets to work with people that they consider friends!
Then, because it is Friday, I go home to my half-finished house, with my smiling husband and goofy big puppy and we are in a good mood because we start planning our weekend, or go out to meet friends, or take the puppy for a walk, or watch a marathon of say yes to the dress (a show I just love all about bridal!) but always something I enjoy - Friday nights never seem to be the nights I have to accomplish yucky things like arguing with Hydro or Bell, or cleaning the bathroom, nope, not this night for it is Friday night. And I don't plan to NOT do these things because it is Friday night, I just don't even think of it because I am so happy.
Yes, Friday's are great. Right now I have just finished a vent session with my work friends and the office smells deliciously like peanut butter and cinnamon and just earlier it smelt like french fries and vinegar - another small thing that makes this Friday superb!
Looking forward to a great weekend of husband time, spa appointments, picking up my wedding rings, shopping and lunch with amazing friends! How blessed am I?
Have a great weekend!
S
Monday, February 1, 2010
SURPRISE!
Surprises? I enjoy them, well most of them - well really, I enjoy every surprise except for the one I got when I came home tonight. As I open the front door I see that the mailman has been here for the first time in a week and a gazillion pieces of mail (well 6) fall towards me. After I get in the door and take off my boots and coat I sort through the mail, it is our normal mail - bank statements, something from my work insurance and something from our personal investor, and a bill from Hydro One, that last one is where it all went wrong. Let me explain.
Two months ago we got an insanely high hydro bill (at the time I thought it was insane that is!)and I called and we worked out a payment and everything seemed fine; until today! So today comes around and I open our new bill and I find that this one is 4-figures, that is right folks - four numbers, a decimal and two more numbers, for TWO MONTHS worth of Hydro. Now maybe to some people this isn't overly high (if this is you, you spend too much on Hydro!), but for me, at our last house, our average bill was $110 per bill (every two months). So I call them and I inform them that there has CLEARLY been a mistake, to which they inform me that it is indeed correct and there is nothing wrong with my meter, they are cocky about this and their brand-new smart meters that are NOT wrong - she even went so far as to guarantee that it was correct, so I asked to have someone come and look at it to make sure, she obliged and scheduled a work order.
That is all I get - after 30 minutes on the phone; you fix nothing, you tell me I am wrong, and you schedule a work order telling me that they will find nothing wrong.
So in another 2 weeks I will likely suck it up, pay the $ X,XXX.XX, and shortly after drink away my sorrows on a Mexican beach!!! I so need this vacation to come faster; the faster the better!!
Sorry for this to be a downer entry, I don't intend on being a negative person, but I could not believe my surprise and thought I would share it with the group. Off I go to find ways to save/make money so I can afford our Hydro bill!
S
Two months ago we got an insanely high hydro bill (at the time I thought it was insane that is!)and I called and we worked out a payment and everything seemed fine; until today! So today comes around and I open our new bill and I find that this one is 4-figures, that is right folks - four numbers, a decimal and two more numbers, for TWO MONTHS worth of Hydro. Now maybe to some people this isn't overly high (if this is you, you spend too much on Hydro!), but for me, at our last house, our average bill was $110 per bill (every two months). So I call them and I inform them that there has CLEARLY been a mistake, to which they inform me that it is indeed correct and there is nothing wrong with my meter, they are cocky about this and their brand-new smart meters that are NOT wrong - she even went so far as to guarantee that it was correct, so I asked to have someone come and look at it to make sure, she obliged and scheduled a work order.
That is all I get - after 30 minutes on the phone; you fix nothing, you tell me I am wrong, and you schedule a work order telling me that they will find nothing wrong.
So in another 2 weeks I will likely suck it up, pay the $ X,XXX.XX, and shortly after drink away my sorrows on a Mexican beach!!! I so need this vacation to come faster; the faster the better!!
Sorry for this to be a downer entry, I don't intend on being a negative person, but I could not believe my surprise and thought I would share it with the group. Off I go to find ways to save/make money so I can afford our Hydro bill!
S
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