My weekend…last weekend

So last weekend I completely forgot to write a post about! Funny thing too is that this weekend is when I did the most stuff too!

To start off with I had sushi with my coworkers daughter Danielle, it was nice because she loves sushi. We went to sushimaru and it was equally as good as it was the first time. I had a crunch roll, a beef terri roll and a california roll since I love them so much. We had a good talk though her baby was gone in Ontario with her boyfriend for a friends wedding so she had some time to focus on being on a grant jury. It is interesting hearing about her job though since she studied anthropology in school, so it is interesting to get to know about different culture etc. 

Then later on that day we went to the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it was seriously so good. I watched the turtles as a child and it reminded me so much of watching that show, and stealing vhs tapes from my guy friend back then (Lockie). It was good too because it explained how they became mutated and such. It had very good comedy too. 

Thennnn the following day…we had our bonfire at Nancy's house. Lise was not able to go since she was sick, which was ironic because she was the one that invited herself over to Nancy's in the first place. It was just Ghis, AJ, Nancy and I. We had sooo much chocolate, we made banana boats (mine was burnt), hot dogs (mine was burnt as was Ghis's) had some McCann's moisture chocolate heaven in a pan…not the real name but you get the point…and some chips. AJ specifically chose the chocolate too since she knows chocolate. She brought Reese peanut butter cup (one of my favs) and some cadbury chocolate bars. I brought the bananas and the marshmallows even though Nancy had some already. Also let me tell you Nancy's property is beautiful. She lives on a few acres of land, she had an old fashioned pillar farm house and has the kitchen of my dreams. It is big, and has a big island in the middle of it, white cupboards and a grey/black granite that looked beautiful with hard wood floors…insert drool moment….To say the least it would be the kitchen of my dreams, her place was gorgeous and it honestly didn't surprise me with how glamorous she can be at times. 

But that was my weekend…last weekend…it came a week late but at least I still remembered it! It was so much fun, and I love everyone that I have here. I am so glad that I moved to Red Deer, I have met honestly the best people and they feel like my little family. I just feel love from everyone here and I hope I reciprocate those feelings! 

Sushi time! - SushiMaru Edition!

Tonight I went for sushi with Jesse, Lise, Alyssa (AJ) and Nancy. Basically all the people that I really enjoy at work. But anyways we went for sushi, and it was sooo good! 

Jesse got hot wings, fries with gravy and some Calimari (which was really good ). 

Nancy got some Calimari as well with some fries.

 Lise got the philadelphia roll, the beef teri roll and the crazy sexy lady roll (it had this blueberry sauce on it and it looked like when heinz made their purple ketchup, but it was different more of a sweet roll). 

Alyssa got the scary eye roll (reallllly good as well), the love me tender roll (reallllly good), some smoked salmon and some spring rolls. 

Lastly, I got the avocado roll, the crunch roll (sooo good, doesn't look appetizing but it was soooo good), the volcano roll (good as well) and a normal california roll. I thought it was all zoo good. Our waitress did not really know english that well so she got someone that did know english better and he was great, he was really funny, gave us great service, explained some of the different kinds of sushi to us. 

So we had a great night of laughing, talking about work, eating sushi and literally sharing everything. Everything was so good and I would suggest this sushi restaurant literally best sushi place I have been too wayy better than lethbridge and their presentation was beautiful. Everything tasted good, the prices were unbeatable too. 

link is down below 

http://www.yelp.ca/biz/sushimaru-red-deer

Hanging out and the lobster summer party!

Today I hung out with Danielle (Lise's daughter). I have to say that it was really nice to be out of the house and hang out with other people. We just mainly talked all day, we were supposed to crochet but that didn't happen. It at least gave me the motivation to continue working on a blanket that I was redoing forever. But it was nice to just hang out with Danielle, her son Alex, who is so cute. He is such a flirt but he is so shy, when I walked in he just ran away, and was he clingy when he was over. Danielle says he is never so clingy, but all he wanted to do was be cuddly with Danielle. But it was so much fun to hang out with them all.

Then later that night we had a lobster bake. It was sooooo good. Dr. Jenkins provided all the lobster and the booze. The last time that Jesse and I even had lobster was in lethbridge at the keg when he chased me with the shell because I think that they are creepy looking. They look like things that should be off alien vs. predator. But it was cool, I got to learn how to take a lobster apart and get a work out even trying to get at the meat. There was also a potluck and all the food that they brought was really good. All the nurses came, some surgical processors, some Dr's and our managers came. It was cute because Dr. Ryan brought his two little daughters and they are just sweet as sweet could be. They look exactly like him. But it was fun, I got to try some different kinds of wine. I liked this cupcake one and a few red wines I like, also I tried some different beers too like Alexander Keith's india pale ale. We went with Lise, her husband and Alyssa (she just got back into her full time position, she took a leave of absence). 

And after the lobster bake, we just talked at Lise's house for about an hour afterward about funny stuff that happened at work. It was fun to have a good laugh and relax, Jesse laughed too it was good to see him laugh after he hadn't laughed that hard in a long time. 

But I am so grateful for my department and I love them so much I had such a great time and I am proud to be part of the endo team! 

A social life..at last

This week has been a great development in the "code operation: begin socializing" movement that I have been trying to force myself to do. Since being in Red Deer, we mainly have been worried about, living here, money and living here…let alone trying to have a social life. Finally our lives seem to be calming down after the storm that raged through our lives, so I thought it is finally time to socialize. 

I asked Lise and Ghislaine at work if they wanted to go out for dinner one night and while I was talking about East Side Marios some of the ladies were like..well why not go there? Especially since they had not gone to East Side Marios in a long time. Anyways since I knew that it would be super busy, I decided to make a reservation..normally you would have to wait 20 minutes otherwise. We were all saying how it feels like an expensive nightclub where you need to be "exclusive" to get in and everyone else looks at you like "you b*tch" because you got in first without waiting at all. But we all laughed, we indulged, laughed and indulged some more. It was so much fun. 

The next day we invited Lise's daughter Danielle and her boyfriend over. We were initially planning on going to a movie but it just didn't work out. So we changed it to a movie in at our place. It was so nice doing it that way first though because we never got to the movie but we got to get to know them first. It is interesting because Matt is a chef and went to culinary school so he told us about some of the food how to make a good stock stuff like that. Its nice since he said he could give me some tips like how to make better pasta sauces and such. Danielle also has a degree in Anthropology so its cool because she told me about different cultures and the respects/disrespects of a few. It was a very enlightening conversation that I enjoyed with both of them. They both are super smart, super down to earth people and both Jesse and I enjoyed their company very much.

Then last night Jesse went to Guardians of the Galaxy, and that movie was very well made. Very funny and I would recommend this movie to anybody. 

But that has been just the last three days. For not socializing a lot since arriving in Red Deer, We sure made progress and I am happy about it! 

Moving..scams..and mom coming to visit

So our perfect little house in Red Deer turned into a real nightmare. On July 12th or something like that Jesse told me that the guy we were renting from..who we thought owned the house really actually was only renting. Not only was he renting, but his landlord has NO idea that we were staying there. He told us if we were to stay there we had to rip up our lease agreement and agree to stay there as "just friends". So I started to panic..any normal person would and we finally agreed that we had to move. The following monday I told myself that I needed two things. 1. Meet the original landlord, and 2. get a new agreement, Rob could not deliver either so we decided to move. Luckily we found another place a lot sooner, in a good neighbourhood and basically now we love it here. Took a lot to get here but now we are here. 

But when we moved in mom decided to come down to help us unpack. It was so much fun when she came down, she motivated us to pack and we got to spoil her. And man did we..we took her to East Side Marios and let me tell you..best food ever…and did we ever hoard food into our bellies for that. We had to wait 20 minutes to get in but we got our food right away, it was amazing. 

Then we took mom to the Collicut centre which was fun, we did the steam room, hot tub, mom went down the water slide a few times (I think she really liked that) and just swam. It was sooo much fun. 

But I am so glad I got to spend some quality time with my momma even due to the circumstances. I am truly grateful for my mom and everything she does for us. She truly is the best mom ever and I wish I could do more. 

But that has been my life for awhile, we love our new place, we have an awesome kitchen, huugge living room, huge bedroom, walk in closet and the best shower ever with an adjustable shower head. It truly is great and I feel like this truly is where we are supposed to be, even through the hardship. 

The Collicut Centre

Jesse and I decided to finally do something in Red Deer. Like legit it was the first time we left the house…NOT for groceries…pretty sad. But anyways we decided to go since both of our bodies were screaming after this week of work.

Anyways they have a salt pool, a big hot tub, a few little slide, a wave pool and the monster of all saunas (it would not stop blowing steam until you stopped it). But it was a fun day… Sorry for the short post but literally that is all we have done thus far in Red Deer, and it was very relaxing.

Going home

This weekend Jesse and I decided to go back home. Jesse got a cheque in the mail and I was getting really homesick so we decided it was just the best decision. When we started going down to lethbridge the car began to overheat really bad, when we left Red Deer it was like 35+ so it was understandable why it was overheating. We had to pull off at least twice to let the car cool down a bit, but we were not the only ones that were doing this. We saw many other vehicles pulling off to the side of the road to let their engines cool down. However, it did put a damper on how fast we got home. We had to only go 100 km/h compared to the 120/30 that we normally go when driving. I can't lie, I am pretty sure we pissed off almost everyone on the road especially when the speed limit was 110 and we were going under the speed limit. But going through Calgary wasn't that bad, everyone else was going slower than normal so it was fine. But we got to mom's around 5. When we were there we bought Jesse a 5" grinder since its hard on his body using the 7"grinder that he had at work. But after that we went to my mom's. 

 But man I am telling you to see the house without all of our stuff and just mom's stuff is so surreal. She really did a great job on decorating her place, it looks empty there but I know that is how she likes her house to look. 

When we were there she gave us some leftover chinese food that she had at Juanita's. I guess that they had a lunch or something like that. Juanita also made some homemade cheesecake…and let me tell you…best effing cheesecake on the planet. Mom says that she just used condensed milk, cream cheese and some lemon juice. But I can tell that she made it more on the heavier side for the lemon juice, which I LOVE in cheesecake. 

I also got to see Charly too, he really has turned into a grumpy old man cat. We managed to clip at least one of his paws (I think mom should just take him to pet land to get his nails clipped). But he was not happy to see Jesse at all, he had this look like he was so confused. Well we left, mom went to Calgary for a week to go see Aunt Val and while she was there Grandma took care of him. But he cuddled up to me later which was nice. It was good to see my baby boy. 

Later on we went to Grandma's and she has new teeth! I couldn't believe it, I knew that she was getting new teeth but I thought they would be the same as her other ones since she loved them so much. But her smile looks totally different, you can tell she likes that you can see her teeth more. Its just weird seeing her with a different set of teeth. 

Even later on that evening, we went to go see Transformers: Age of Extinction and we all loved that movie. Except it is a long, lonnng movie. But we all liked it so that was good. 

We didn't stay very long but we got lots of stuff done and got to enjoy our weekend for once so it was nice.