Sunday is rest day?

If Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, why do we choose Sunday as cleaning day?

Tonight we’re putting up the Christmas tree so I had to clean up the living room and start rearranging items; rearranging lead to a massive clean up.

Our dog sheds like crazy, and I’m pretty sure I could have made ten more dogs solely out of his shedding fur; The worst part that collects his fur is the carpeted stairs leading up to the second floor. I was getting tired of looking at the collection of fur collecting deep in the crevices of the stairs so I pulled out my vacuum (the vacuum comes with an amazing tool that when you hook it up to the wand it starts to spin the wheels/brush in the tool… awesome!) and cleaned that sucker up! The bucket in the vacuum was full by the time I was done; those stairs are now spotless.

Vacuuming lead me to sweeping – hallway, livingroom, kitchen. Soon I’ll clean the livingroom and kitchen floors; then I’ll wash the windows too.

Dinner is defrosting in the fridge and soon I’ll throw it in the oven.

Can we just have one Sunday where we don’t clean?

Walking in a winter wonderland

Every year I always have one wish…. for it not to snow until after my birthday. Now granted where I live that could be near impossible, but twice already I’ve had a birthday without snow… and today was the third time. When I was born my parents said there were blizzard like conditions going on outside; for nearly my entire life I thought I was born in the winter…. until I was in the 10th grade and realized it was still autumn when I was born.

I dislike snow, with a passion. It’s cold, it’s wet, and we have to live with it for at least six months of the year. We only get three months of summer like conditions if were lucky; then there is spring and autumn (autumn this year was pretty damn awesome!). Where I live the temperatures can get down right cold… arctic cold! January is our coldest month on record with temperatures getting low as -60ºC/F. Yes, that cold! I have eczema and the cold isn’t nice to my skin.

It didn’t snow today… until this evening. I had no snow on my birthday and it was wonderful! I looked outside around 5pm and the ground was covered in snow… it was time to turn on the Christmas lights. I think it’s here to stay. We have blue LED lights and they are so pretty! Quite a few houses on my block are decorated with lights, something that I haven’t seen since I was a kid (either too lazy or afraid they’ll get stolen).

I looked at the snow and felt all warm and cozy inside; it was so pretty out there and now I can finally get into the holiday mood. All I need for winter is just a touch of snow and mild winter temperatures; no six feet of snow or frigid temperatures.

Tomorrow we’re putting up the Christmas tree and hopefully, if we can find tie wires, we’re putting out the Christmas decorations outside.

Hopefully sometime in the upcoming weeks my sister and I can go to this. It’s an outdoor display of Christmas lights, and it is super pretty. My sister and I try to go every year. Last year we didn’t go because we wanted to take my grandmother and when she passed away December 1 of last year, we just were not in the Christmas spirit… not even on Christmas Day. The year before I took my grandmother and she absolutely loved it.

What I like about winter:

• Hot chocolate
• Ice skating (even though I can’t skate)
• Freshly fallen snow
• Christmas lights
• Mittens and scarves

The big 2-7!

I turned 27 today and I’m looking forward to turning 30 in three years. Age is nothing but a number, it’s about how you feel and I feel like I’m in my early 20’s!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to my U.S. readers!

Enjoy your holiday and don’t go to crazy shopping tomorrow!

Weekend plans

As American’s celebrate Thanksgiving and brave the lines for Black Friday, us Canadians are doing absolutely nothing this weekend.

Except for me.

Tomorrow we will be celebrating Thanksgiving; my dad is cooking a ham (we won’t get our turkey until next week), and I am going to make some sort of a sidedish (perhaps scalloped potatoes). For dessert it will be Paula Deen’s Dark Rum Pecan Pie (drooling already). My dad thought it would be fun to have Thanksgiving again… any reason to eat ham and the fixings is always a good reason!

Saturday is my 27th birthday. Last year I didn’t celebrate because my grandmother suffered a massive stroke and then passed away on December 1st. It was kind of a crappy birthday and I really didn’t feel like celebrating. It was my first birthday without my grandmother coming over to celebrating and I just wasn’t up for it; I didn’t even have a cake. My birthday was non-existant.

This year I was going to go out with friends; but thanks to Employment Insurance that seriously curbed everything… until a free dinner coupon popped into my inbox from Boston Pizza. I get free pasta and a dessert! Happy Birthday to me! I’m going out with a friend and we’re going to have a blast. I’m also going to get free ice cream from Marble Slab (think Cold Stone for Canada but nowhere near the awesomeness!) and then pick up my free birthday gift from Sephora.

On Sunday my sister and I are putting up the Christmas tree and I’m going to figure out why the timer outside isn’t working (I suspect mice, or that I didn’t turn it on properly). We have pretty blue LED lights; I’m going to Costo to buy more so hopefully my brother-in-law and I can hang them off the eaves. First we have to find our tree… it’s in the basement somewhere!