weekend widow

friday morning dennis jetted off to banff with his curling team for some doodlespiel tournament or something like that, which is really just code for a bunch of geophysicists schmoozing each other by day, and getting heavily intoxicated by night. apparently those geoscientists really know how to party.

so while den was off on this wild weekend, i was home, all alone.

at first i was really dreading him being gone. i felt a little something like this.

but when i stopped, and thought back to all those other weeks that we have spent time apart from each other, 2 days didn't really seem all that bad. and then i started thinking about all the things i could get done with him gone. for instance, i had just recently run out of the face moisturizer that i have been using for years, which also as luck would have it, has been discontinued. am i really old enough that something i use has been discontinued? running out of something that you have used from the dawn of time is actually quite a crisis (picture lisa kudrow's character in p.s. i love you, when her nail polish falls in the water). i had no idea where to begin, so since it was a fairly slow day at work i decided to hit up google, and do some research to solve my latest road block in life. i had only a few things that i was looking for in a moisturizer 1. if it was over $20 all it was getting from me was a under the breath laugh, and a big ole' judgement 2. it had to be more then a 150 ml container and 3. preferably recommended to use with a combination skin type.

and so i made a list of a few brands that fell into those three categories

then after work i drove up to superstore, list and all, to narrow down that list to just one bottle. it was a good thing that dennis wasn't with me for this, because there was no way he would have been able to stand by as i made my decision. 

i even spent some time in the joe department with out the following conversation taking place

d: are you going to buy something?

me: no

d: then why are we here?

me: cuz

d: that doesn't make sense

me: ya it does

oh joe, how i have missed you

i even got myself a little treat that normally i don't allow in the house, due to the fact that someone is lactose intolerant, even though this someone is in total denial. 

 

 

 i didn't even use a bowl

  i didn't realize until saturday morning how much body heat dennis generated. i haven't been that cold in a while, but i haven't been able to stretch out that much in a while either. 

and then the rest of the day...

but i sure am happy to have him back

and the goofy, random pictures he sends me

 oh and i ended up getting cetaphil face lotion. in case you were wondering.

my problem is

i know that isn't the best statement to leave so open ended, and i'm sure my parents could come up with a few zingers to finish it off. but never mind that, right now i want to talk about one of the major issues of being me.

so here is the thing, what happens when you have the tiny waist of a size 0, the huge thighs that come from years spent in the pool swimming competitively (seriously, this summer notice the thighs on the swimmers), and the legs of a midget? serious problems finding a pair of pants that fit! that's what happens.

i have dropped a lot of money on tailoring over the years due to this problem of mine, and i'm telling you it can be quite a headache. i have this one pair of pants, and i fell in love with them the moment i tried them on. it didn't even matter that they were more then $100, they were an investment. yes, an investment. the only thing was they were too long (story of my life), but no problem, i took them home to wash, then brought them right over to the tailors in south centre. i was so anxious to get them back that i paid the extra whatever to get them done in a rush, i just wanted those jeans on my body. so i get them back the next day, and when i put them on they were still waaaaaaay to long, WHAT?! i couldn't believe it. i'm still not even sure they even hemmed anything. but it was summer so i was able to just cuff them and go on my merry way. well i did that for a while, but then when winter came and cuffing them just wasn't an option anymore, i would just wear then with boots, but have you ever had to bunch up jeans around your ankle in boots? can you say uncomfortable? i can, and it was. so this past winter i found a tailor in our area of the city to fix this problem. oh the dreams i had of the day i could wear those jeans as is, no cuffing, no srinching, just me and my perfect fitting jeans. but that dream was not meant to come true, i tried them on and they were too short, TOO SHORT that should never happen in my world, NOTHING is ever too short on my body. oh and as an added bonus one leg is shorter then the other. awesome. and so i'm back to cuffing them up, but at least they fit better into boots.

i had given up on getting anything hemmed for a while after that.

but then last night, since i was banished from the kitchen (that's where dennis was studying, apparently i'm "too distracting", oh please) i was upstairs looking at the bin of things i have set aside to do something with, things like taking the fringe on some scarves off, sweaters to sew the buttons back onto, when i found two pairs of cords that i can't even remember the last time i wore, due to the fact (surprise surprise) that they are too long.

so they went from this

to this

see what i mean about the thighs?

and they didn't even cost me a penny

yes, I do believe they are

so the other day, well more like one day last week at work i stumbled upon this little website called Pinterest, You Are Drunk.  it is basically just a bunch of outrageous things that people have posted in pinterest, and then making fun on them.

1. if you don't know what pinterest is (if you care) google it, or ask around for someone to try and explain it to you, because i am not good at explaining things. seriously, i am banned from explaining new games to my family, dennis has to do it.

2. if you do know what pinterest is, you are fully aware that there are some pretty crazy things on there, i just don't know what some people are thinking. reusable toilet paper! really?

if you have a moment, click on the link at the top and check out some of the completely ridiculous things that people are passing off as brilliant, and some of the funny comments that go along with them.

 her humor might not be for everyone, but i totally relate to the sarcastic nature of this website, i feel like i am reading my own thoughts on the screen, i just haven't had the chance to think it yet. does that make sense?

impatiently waiting

dennis bought me the hunger games series for chrismas, and i devoured all three in practically no time at all.
they are amazing! and i would highly recommend them to anyone.

even better, the movie is coming out march 23, that is so close i can almost feel myself sitting in the theatre as the lights dim down. none of this waiting around for months, maybe even years for a movie to come out.

and what else makes that particular day so special?

it also happens to be my birthday.

how perfect right? i know.

our weekend

you know those weekends that are filled with barely anything?
well that's basically what our past weekend was, and it was glorious.
saturday we slept in, dennis got up to go work on our car with my dad, and i continued to sleep in.
i eventually got up, read a bit.
and then the rest of the morning, and most of the afternoon completely escapes me.

later that night dennis and i went out on a little date to go see the new sherlock homes movie. i didn't really like it, i just can't get into them. i feel like they tend to be in this weird limbo between an action movie, and a thinker. i get how some people might like those two combined, but i prefer them to be kept in their own categories.

but there were a few spots, like the "urban camouflage" that i really enjoyed.

oh but the end? awesome. so maybe i will go see the next one, and there will be another because, well, the ending just sreams a third installment. 

                              

then we made a quick jont over to the nearest superstore to pick something up for sunday.

evidence of how cold it was that night? i reached out to turn up the fan and my nail cracked in half like an egg on the counter. 

sunday, we had church in the morning, and oh boy was it ever a dramatic day in 8th ward.

later that afternoon we went over to shani and mile's, to celebrate shani's 28th birthday. 

happy tuesday from us!

oh, and friday afternoon? feel free to come as quickly as possible. thanks

Christmas in... January?

yesterday was a terribly exciting day in our house for many reasons, but the majors on the list were:

1. pick n' pull saved us hundreds of dollars!

AND

b. dennis received his new backpack in the mail. 

(get it? home alone anyone?)

his old bpack was starting to wear on the strap, in the weirdest place too, not even close to a buckle or anything else for it to rub on. we took it into spareparts where he bought it to get a copy of the receipt, so it can be sent in under warranty to be repaired, we had a few struggles in the beginning trying to get the correct documentation that we needed (you know how when you buy something from there they record all sorts of information right down the the name of your first born? i guess that didn't happen that day). it was turning into a long, and slightly painful process, so i just repaired his strap with my handy dandy repairing skills i gained sewing trampolines one summer. and when i was done with it that baby wasn't going to fray no mo. 

but after what has seemed like foooooooooreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr dakine finally got back to us, and just decided to send him a fresh new one. 

so that is the story of the backpack, and here is the story of a man falling in love with said backpack. 

he was so happy he even made me some hot chocolate! that is the third major exciting event of the day. 

indeed, a very good day