Friday, May 9, 2008

Surprize party and other stories

We had a surprize birthday party for my mom last Sunday. Everyone convened at my aunt and uncle’s in the guise that we were celebrating their twentieth anniversary. After everyone was there and had eaten a bit, and after Jordan and I showed up after I finished work, my aunt got up and started fiddling with the celebration banner that she had written “Happy Anniversary” on. We all watched as she flipped it over and the sign read “Happy Birthday”. My mom said, “But who’s birthday is it?” when she saw the sign and of course that made everyone laugh. It took her a second, but then it dawned on her that we’d tricked her.

Jordan’s parents arrived for a visit Tuesday early afternoon while I was at work. They came up from New Brunswick because Jordan is leaving on deployment very soon and he didn’t have time to drive down there. It was a nice visit and on Wednesday night I invited my mom, Mike, Krystal and her boyfriend, and my dad over to meet them. Our parents had never met and I figured after over two years plus the engagement, they probably should get to know each other a little bit! There was a lot of talking/discussing/debating/chatting so I think things went well.

Of course everyone keeps asking when the wedding is. No idea, yet!

In the past couple days I have read Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Ann Brashares), Shoe Addicts Anonymous (Beth Harbison), and now I’m on The Chocolate Lovers’ Club (Carole Matthews). All books excellent so far!

After Jordan leaves, we will see each other in July for vacation. We are going to Thailand.

Kavy @ 07:55 am {comments ?}

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Sparkle and shine

We had my dad over for dinner on Friday. I made pork roast and potatoes in the slow cooker. All day I smelled the divine aromas and finally we got to eat it. Delicious! Afterward, we sat around chatting about random things and our vacation in July. Dad signed my passport papers as my guarantor. Then he said he had to go back to the motel to watch the hockey game. As he left, Jordan went out into the hall with him and I didn’t know why, but I just started tidying up the kitchen.

A little later, Jordan asked me if I had taken my vitamin today and I said, “No”. He went into the bathroom and started shaking out vitamins. I followed him in and reached to take one out of his hand but he pulled his hand away. I didn’t know why he wouldn’t let me take one. I went into the computer room and then he came in after me and told me to pick a hand. Rolling my eyes, I picked a hand. Wrong hand. I said, “Can I have my vitamin?” but he asked me to pick a hand again. Fine, I picked the other hand, he dropped it into my palm. When I glanced down I thought, “Oh, that isn’t a vitamin.”

It was an engagement ring.

Kavy @ 08:16 am {2 comments}

Saturday, April 12, 2008

“If I was my real size, your cow here would die of fright.”

If you’ve seen “Mulan”, then you know what I’m talking about.

Anyway, I have a cold. I hate having to blow my nose when I’m on the bus. I know I’m probably grossing the people out around me, but I can’t help it. And then having to go to work and serve customers in between nose-blowing. Ick. But what can ya do?

I bought a new book today, Prisoner of Tehran, a memoir by Marina Nemat. I’ve been wanting to read it for awhile now, and I finally picked it up. First I have two other books to read though.

Kavy @ 07:39 pm {comments ?}

Monday, March 17, 2008

A bit of miscellanea

I never wrote about it, but Nancy & George’s trip here, in February, was enjoyable. We hung out, shopped, watched bits of fuzzy television (we don’t have cable), made drinks, played Life, and took tons of photos.

I have tickets to see Canadian Stars on Ice in April. I’m excited because figure skating shows very rarely come to my city! Now that we have a brand-new arena, hopefully more shows will occur. I’ll be going with Keesje and a friend of mine.

I have been playing lots of The Sims 2 lately. That means I’ve been busy keeping Simlish updated and in good working order. I love my little Simmies.

Tax time is here. I have received one out of three T4s. Arrrgh.

Kavy @ 05:18 pm {comments ?}

Friday, February 15, 2008

My first inventory

The store I work at had its first inventory on Monday. All employees had to be there. We started at 7:30 in the morning. I got a drive in with a fellow co-worker, Angela, who lives near me because I can’t get to work that early on the bus. (I have an hour bus ride to work.) Things went pretty smoothly for the inventory, I think. Most of us had already participated in other JYSK store inventories or had helped out with the counting that had been done on Sunday. Since I hadn’t worked on Sunday, it was all brand-new to me.

My job was to count the Towel Wall. At first glance, it’s a rather daunting task! The racks of different colours and styles of towels, handtowels, and bath mats seem to go on forever. Fortunately for me, the top half of the racks had already been counted on Sunday. It took me almost five hours to count what was left over! After that I just wandered, washed down all the furniture legs, folded bags with Sherri, Jeff, and Chantal, and eventually ended up washing some carts with Ginger and a group of others. That part was terrible! No matter how much we scrubbed, the carts still looked filthy afterward. All in all, though, it wasn’t too bad of a day and I was thankful for the extra-long shift.

I’m reading Sophie Kinsella’s book Can You Keep A Secret?. It’s hilarious!

Nancy & George are on their way here! They’ll be spending the weekend with us and who knows what we’ll get up to.

Kavy @ 12:23 pm {2 comments}