I didn’t know much about it, so I looked it up online, and I guess there are four categories, which includes residential houses.

The point?

Well, feeling proud of the work they had done, my mum decided to nominate their garden (at the house). She’s a bit embarrassed to say that she actually went through nominating them, and doesn’t want to seem like she’s tooting her own horn, but she saw the application form and figured, why not.

When I was back in Canada last week, we got a letter in the mail saying that they had made it into the top 60 out of more than 300 entrants!
Both of my parents were pretty happy, and they therefore were invited to a banquet in September where they’ll announce the winners.

The final judging happened over two weeks… so, we’ll see what the results end up being!

I don’t know if it was just the front yard or the back, but here’s a photo I took of the front yard before we headed out to the airport…

Best of luck, Mom and Dad!

August flew by. Actually, the whole summer has really just flown by.
I can’t believe how ridiculously busy I’ve been. With work, friends… life.

I went back to Canada last week for the week, which really, was too short. It’s hard to live at home again after living by myself, but a week hardly gives me any time to adjust to anything. Everyone wants to do something, and I want to give everyone a bit of my time, but it’s near impossible in only six or so days. I feel bad for not having been able to spend as much time with my parents as well.

The house was super empty without Watson there. It’s actually really hard to be there alone without him. I kept thinking I heard his little feet or his heavy sighs when got all comfy in a warm patch of sunlight on the carpet.

But yeah, it was a decent visit. I saw most of my family on Monday because they came to my parent’s house for dinner. My cousin Tyler couldn’t come which sucked because he’s the one I’m closest to, but I talk to him on MSN on a regular basis anyways. We were celebrating some birthdays, including my Uncle’s, Grammy’s and mine. So, Grammy made her special red cake… yet she forgot to put sugar in the icing.

Yeah.
The ‘icing’ was basically butter.
We had cake with thick layers of butter.

Tuesday I did some shopping with my mum, and went to the race track (horses) with my mother and Grammy. My mother and I came out up thirty cents.
… yeah. I bet on horses based on their cuteness. It doesn’t work out so well.

Wednesday was dinner with Kat, Melinda and Jenn, and then to the drive-in. Thursday I hung out with Kat, and then we headed over in the WORST RAIN STORM EVER to the theatre to see a movie. Seriously though. It was like someone was standing on top of the car pouring buckets down the windshield.

Friday morning my dad came to me and said he wanted to ‘burn a CD’.
I asked him what kind of music he wanted on it, and he just kept telling me he wanted to ‘burn a CD’. Eventually I learned that he wanted to make a CD with a demo of his voice so he could try to get some voice work. My dad has a really cool voice, so I think he actually stands a chance to be able to do that. I showed him how to record himself and burn a CD… so we’ll see how that goes.

The rest of Friday was insanely busy. First, I headed over to the campground. It was good to be back there, in a strange way. I saw all my old friends, I answered the phone, talked with my former boss and the family (who really, I feel are like my own), and went down to chat with this one couple that’s come camping with us for years. Then I went to dinner with my piano teacher. She’s pretty awesome, and we went to dinner, then back to her house to let the dog out for a bit, and then went to get ice cream. It was nice to catch up with her.

Annnd from there, I headed back to the campground for a good old fashioned campfire. It was really awesome and I’m glad that my friends were able to do it. We had spider hotdogs, roasted marshmallows and of course, Jenn’s infamous s’mores. Talk about nostalgia.

Saturday, Kat and I headed up to Toronto to hang out with Tony, who I hadn’t seen for years. We did some shopping, went on a wild goose chase for these ridiculous hamsters (don’t ask), and ate dinner at a former TA’s restaurant. It was a nice day, despite the hordes of Justin Bieber fans that crowded the train. No. I’m not even joking. It was insane. And there was a lot of glitter.

Sunday… I headed back home. Nearly missed my flight to Nagoya, but ended up making it safe and sound.

And… that’s my week in Canada.

I’m going to try to blog more…. so we’ll see if anything else pops up here tonight, haha.

He was fourteen.
And he lived a long, hopefully happy life.

I mean, he pretty much was the king of the household.

I can’t say I’m ‘ok’ yet, because if you know me at all, you’ll know how much I loved him, but it’s getting better. I think it’s a bit easier being so far away, because I don’t have to go home to an empty house, or pass the spot at the bottom of the stairs where his bed used to sit.

I was looking forward to seeing him in August, and while part of me wishes he could have hung on a little longer, you know he fought to hang on for as long as he could. My mum said he didn’t suffer, and that’s the most important.

There’s nothing really more I can say.
He truly was by far one of the most awesome dogs ever.

I couldn’t remember when I had posted it, so I was just browsing through.

I came across this post, which for some reason just made me laugh. I can still picture my dad doing it. Since I had written it before Pink-Spider.net was redone, it’s not on this site. I’d like it to be on the site, because I think it was a cute story, and my dad is awesome.

oh dad.
So, we’re in the living room. And my mum goes, “Hey, come here and teach me how to use the search thing on the thing”. I asked if she meant the TV or the computer, and she said the TV. She wanted to search for a program to find out when it was on, and she wanted to know how to do it for next time.

So I said okay, and got the remote from my dad.
We get to the screen where you type in the program name, and it says something like “Please use the on-screen keyboard to type in the program name you are searching for”, which is followed by a keyboard where you select the letters (using the remote).

My dad goes, “Wait a minute, I want to try something”.
He gets up and goes over to the TV. I thought he was going to try to make the picture more clear, because sometimes he thinks it’s fuzzy and tries to adjust it.

But no.
He takes his finger, and starts pressing the letters on the screen – like you would one of those touch sensitive screens at the ATM or movie theatre.

I said to him, O_O What are you doing?
And he goes, IT SAYS USE THE ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD.

No dad. No. That doesn’t mean you press the screen.
He sat back down all, I don’t know why it says use the on-screen keyboard.

Hahahahaha. He’s … not exactly totally in touch with technology. As you can tell.

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No reason really, just not a whole lot to say.
I’m back in Canada now, until Saturday when I have to leave at the ass crack of dawn. Not looking forward to that.

It’s freezing here, but it’s been nice seeing my family and friends.
Christmas was good. Same as every year, really. My cousin’s baby, Zion, is the cutest thing ever. Watching him and Watson together was absolutely hilarious, because poor Wattie didn’t know what to make of him. He started barking at the baby because he wouldn’t pet him… and you know how Watson is. Watson gets what Watson wants, so if you don’t give in he doesn’t know how to react, haha. He calmed down after a while, and kept trying to lick Zion’s face. The expression on the baby’s face was priceless.

Kat and I went to see Avatar in 3D… which was AWESOME. And 3D glasses are super hot.

Got my hair cut (needed it).

And… that’s about all.
Not really looking forward to the flight back, but what can you do.

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas, and has a wonderful New Years.

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I don’t know why.

I never have. As long as I’ve had a phone. Which really has only been about five years. Landlines, I’m okay with answering. But cell phones… I get really weird about. I don’t have any sort of odd paranoid thoughts about it, I just simply don’t like answering it.

SO. That brings me to today.

This morning, bright and early (at eight o’clock) my phone rings, waking me from sleep. I had to work at 9:30, so it’s not like it was the worst time to be awake. However, I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t answer. I do not want to talk to someone I don’t know at eight in the morning. It rang again. Different number, which seemed weird, but I didn’t answer.

It turns out, I have voicemail on my phone. WHO KNEW. BECAUSE I SURE DIDN’T. Not until I got some this morning.

From my mother.

Naturally, I called her back right away beacuse I thought maybe something was wrong. Why else would she call me at eight in the morning and on my cell phone no less, especially when I just talked to her on Tuesday.

Long story short, she just wanted to talk. Nothing was wrong, which is a relief. I also don’t know why it gave me actual numbers for the long distance call. O_O Like, it looked like a regular cell phone number… weird.

Cut to this evening after work. I get another call, but it’s “Blocked Number”. Again, I don’t answer it. It rings again… from the “Blocked Number”. So I figure, oh what the hell, I’ll answer it and see what happens. It ends up being Hideko, calling to make sure the number I gave her worked. Good thing I did answer it! It was really hard to hear her for some reason, because it was all muffled, but she’s on her way, so I’m excited.

I need to get over this not wanting to answer the phone thing though. I have no idea what it is. It’s not that I don’t like talking, I just really… hate answering. The same with things like Skype. I do not want to answer if people I’m not intending to call, call me.

Hm. This may come off sounding more crazy than I intended.

Everything is good at home. Found out a few pieces of news that surprised me, but aren’t of dire importance. I told my mum I had emailed her back on Thursday, but apparently she didn’t get it. We sat there going, I wonder why… for a while, and I kept asking her if she was sure she was using her email correctly.

Turns out, I’m a lameass and forgot to press send. I pressed save instead.
So I sent it off this morning, with an apology, haha.

I’ve been using Twitter quite a bit, and hope to make more use of it now that I get how to post photos and stuff. It’s easy, it’s fun. So if you want to follow me or chat on there, add me.

I am also trying to get my WordPress to work on my iPhone. It doesn’t right now, but there must be some way to fix that. I guess I have the wrong code somewhere.

On a happier note, Julie called me last night so we got to talk for a bit! It was nice to talk to her, because it’s been a while since we’ve gotten a chance to.

… sadly, that is all.

I’m really glad to finally have a phone, and the more I use it, the more I think that it was a good choice to go with be iPhone. All o need now is to get a pink cover for it. They didn’t have any pink in stock when I bought it, so I got blue. It’s a nice colour, but it’s not pink.

A week tomorrow is my birthday.
It’s kind of strange. Sometimes I feel like, wow, I’m almost 24 and I’ve accomplished virtually nothing. Other times I feel like I’m doing okay. Admittedly, I always thought my life would be a bit different than it is when I reached around this age. I’m not saying I’m. Of happy, I just thought things would be different.

Every time I go to the convenience store near work, if I check out with this one girl she always talks to me. She’s really nice, and even if it’s nothing huge, it’s nice when someone makes an extra effort like that.

On my birthday, after work, we’re all going to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. I think it’s nice that the school does that for everyone’s birthday, and since I really like everyone I work with, I’m excited.

My parents sent me a birthday present which came already. Two news shirts and some chocolate, along with a keychain and photos of Watson, my grandparents, my cousin and her new baby Zion, and the house. Especially the garden. My mum wrote comments on the back of them all, some of which were hilarious.

Yes… So none of this is terribly exciting. Looking forward to the June vacation because my wonderful brain twin is coming to visit.

I’ll have Internet again in just over a week so I’ll be able go update more and get back into the swing of S-T and such.

On a closing note, this took far too long to type out because I suck at typing on my phone.

Thank god for auto-correct.