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August 28, 2007 at 7:41 pm · Filed under sponsored
If you ever ask me about going on a vacation, my ideal answer would always be: beach holidays! I looove the beach, and a holiday isn’t a holiday unless the beach is involved. I’ve grown up alongside beaches all my life, and currently we live about two minutes from the beach. Yet, somehow, I never get tired of going to the beach. I think it’s the most calming experience ever. When we think about our next vacation destination, we are also seriously thinking about utilizing Dial-A-Flight because of the fact that I get to talk to someone instead of just trying to book online. While booking online is convenient, I sometimes get anxious because I don’t get to speak to a real live person about spending a lot of money on a flight or a trip. Dave and I have been talking about going on a beach resort holiday, specifically Hawaii (for our honeymoon coming up!). Even though Hawaii is so well-known, it still feels like a place where exotic beach holidays take place, doesn’t it? However, just because it’s exotic doesn’t mean it can’t be obtained with a cheap flight. With dial-a-flight, tropical holidays get more and more reasonable by the year!
August 28, 2007 at 6:54 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
It’s already over one whole month since Dave and I got married. Wow, the time goes by fast, doesn’t it? I remember just last year thinking that our wedding would never come. I tell ya this much, though: boy am I sure glad that we don’t have to plan for it anymore. The planning stage is completely done with and we’re both very happy to be settling down once again. Life is simpler, and I don’t feel the need to have to fill up this “extra” time. I have this big box of wedding stuff that I still need to go through and organize, but that will come in time and I am in no rush. I also still have to make thank you cards and send out photos to everyone with the cards, but I can’t do that until the photos come in from the photographers, so we’re still waiting on those.
Next thing you know, we’ll be nearing our first year anniversary and thinking of anniversary gifts! Can you believe that? Being married is very fun, and we crack jokes at each other all the time about this new and hip “title” we’ve suddenly given ourselves: husband and wife. Yeah, we’re hip, yo. We’re really hip. Be jealous. 
August 27, 2007 at 10:00 pm · Filed under sponsored
Dave and I spend a lot of time at the beach, especially during the summer. While we used to take our bikes there on the weekends, we are still planning on it again in the future. The weather hasn’t been so good here lately — not good enough for us to go cruising at the beach. Plus, our bikes aren’t very good in beach environments because they’re sort of bulky and a little too high-maintenanced for it to work properly sometimes. What I would really love is if we got beach cruiser bikes. Since we only live about 2 minutes from the beach (two beaches, actually!), I think it would be better if we have bikes dedicated for just the beach. It would make more sense, and on top of that, it would motivate us to go to the beach more often if we have bikes dedicated to it. Haha. They are so reasonably priced and inexepnsive too, that there is really no excuse to at least get a beach cruiser bike for short trips and joy riding. They look so much fun and they add such life to a regular bike ride! If you peruse through the women’s catalogue, you’d see so many cool ones too. I like the bright colors — made perfectly for the beach, of course. They look so much fun, I want to go out and get one now and ride it to the beach everyday, at least until summer ends!
August 27, 2007 at 8:25 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
While we were at Gabriola Island this past weekend, we hung out a lot outside. It was so very comforting, and at the same time it made me realize that I wish we had a bigger porch, or a viable back yard where we can have some cool teak outdoor furniture for our summer outdoor living. I think besides a garden, our potential new home will have to be able to hold outdoor furniture so that we can have barbecues and picnics with friends and family from time to time. I would love for our kids to run around outside during the summer — the whole picket fence nine yards, yo! — while we relax and read, or chat and drink some long island iced tea together outside while we watch them. It would be the life. Perfect scene to come home to every evening, and perfect weekend to look forward to every week.
August 24, 2007 at 8:48 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
I think I will have to start looking into online file sharing for work because my computer there keeps eating my files while I am working on paperwork. Last week, I had to re-do the same progress note sheet for a client about 4 times because it wouldn’t save, and then when it did, it would give me an error when I tried to open it later or the next day. So then I had to re-do the whole file — writing all the session notes from scratch from the last month. It was painful, and it pissed the hell out of me. With Driveway, I will be able to save large files and share with my coworkers (particularly Jen, who is really the only one who reads my service logs anyway — poor girl!), and be able to edit right then and there instead of having to re-submit or re-email all over again. I’ve been rackin’ my brain about how to make this easier on me, and I think I’ve found the perfect solution! It’s free too!
August 24, 2007 at 8:10 pm · Filed under sponsored
I feel like I’ve been talking about luggage and traveling for the past few days. Understandably so, since it’s summer and we’re thinking about making several trips abroad, and little trips away over some weekends. The biggest trip of all, of course, is our honeymoon to Hawaii. We’re thinking of probably staying in Maui, and aside from staying in a hotel or something, perhaps we can consider vacation rentals. This one in particular is pretty cool. It’s a one-bedroom with lots of remodeled furnishings and appliances, such as a new bathroom (I’m so into bathrooms these days because we’re getting ours renovated in the next month). It’s by the water and it’s relatively cheap to rent for a couple of weeks. Only $69! I mean, seriously, that’s as much as a hotel stay, isn’t it? We’d have our own kitchen and our own sitting room too. It’s kind of like staying at a bed and breakfast, except without having someone else there watching over you like a hawk. Nice!
August 24, 2007 at 7:26 pm · Filed under daily, sponsored
Speaking of addictions, there is another one that is really weird. This time, it’s not entirely mine — it’s my mom’s. I don’t know if she still has them, though, but I reckon she does because every so often she’d tell me she got a new luggage and if I wanted it. Yes, my mother’s strange addiction is buying luggage. I don’t know if she has a particular brand that she likes, such as travelpro or something else, but she does love luggage. I don’t understand it either.
Speaking of luggage (my English teacher would’ve loved these awesome transitions I’ve been able to make in these posts ;P), I can’t wait to go on our honeymoon. We’ve decided (about 95%) on Hawaii. We just have to know when and how much we need for it, and we’re still saving up money, but I’m looking forward to Hawaii. Yaayyy. I’m looking forward to going away, but particularly going away with Husband.
August 24, 2007 at 7:20 pm · Filed under sponsored
Among one of my shopping sprees for furniture since the wedding (seriously, it’s been like a disease, almost!), I’ve been looking for a new coffee table and even browsing office desks. I don’t know what it is about office desks, but I think it stems from my love for school. When I went to uni when I was 17, I was so excited that I got a new desk in my dorm room (hardly “new,” but new to me!), imagining how I was going to set everything up and decorate it and where my computer would best sufficiently fit. And then when I moved out of the dorms, I was excited to get a new computer desk and do the same thing. When I moved in with Dave, I was excited when we got matching His-And-Hers corner computer desks. We still have them, even though we don’t use them anymore (laptops are so much more efficient when it comes to being able to computer anywhere we want — like, in front of the tv in the computer room on the couch ;P). I have an addiction for computer/office desks even when I don’t need any. Weird, huh? Is that strange? I think that counts as strange. Eh well.
August 23, 2007 at 9:46 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
Tink’s cuddling in my lap right now. She’s a furball of purring mess, as I’d like to refer to her as. The girl doesn’t quit. Little does she know we’re leaving her for three days this weekend to go on a mini-vacation to Gabriola Island. Poor girl. Hopefully she won’t leave us any lovely unwanted “surprises” that would require some scrubbing and lime spray, if you know what I mean. I hear that with cats, if you want to detract them from doing something, you either spray lime juice or put lemon slices on something (like the couch), or put mint leaves on it. I think I’m going to newspaper the couch and put mint leaves all over it so she doesn’t leave a mess. Hopefully that will work. Unfortunately we can’t newspaper everything, but the important things are the couch, and close up all the bedrooms and bathroom.
I had to get my asthma medication refilled. This stuff is getting expensive. I’m glad I don’t have to use any other medication as they can get quite bulky and annoying. If I did have medication to use, I’d probably end up using an air nebulizer, otherwise known as a portable oxygen concentrator. because it’s quicker and seems better to use with medication. When I went to the doctor’s up here to establish a family doctor for Husband and me, she ended up giving me free medication for my asthma. Yeah, you heard right. Free. Free. I was so amazed I just stared at her. Haha. In the states, I never get free medication. Even the “samples” I have to pay for. Every single time I go see a doc up here, granted I have to pay for the visit since I’m not Canadian and don’t have Canadian insurance, I still get my medications for free, like when I had pneumonia a few years ago. I was so afraid of going to a clinic in the states cuz I knew I wouldn’t be able to pay for it (this was before I had benefits at a job or at school), so I went to one in Canada. It was about $30 I think, for the visit, and the doc gave me free antibiotics for a week. That cleared me up and I was okay. Healthcare in Canada kicks ass, man.
August 23, 2007 at 8:49 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
Every so often, it occurs to me that I need more IBM memory. Yeah, computers get obsolete so fast, and you have to upgrade at least once or year to catch up with the rest of the technology burst. And every couple of years, you have to actually buy a new computer. I’m not sure what everyone else does with their old computers, but we end up keeping them around for a while until we can find a place to recycle them. Luckily, there is a place locally here, just a few blocks from us, that take old electronic parts (such as computer parts, monitors, keyboards, cell phones, etc.) and recycles them so that they stay out of the landfill. I used to never know what to do with them, and I always felt so guilty thinking about chucking them in the trash can for the landfill. At least now the government over here (in Canada) is accommodating to this need. What do you guys do with your old computer parts, anyway? If you can’t sell them, or they no longer work, where do you put them?
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