Why was that so hard?

When I moved in, I had the internet set up pretty quickly, and the guy that set it up could only find one spot for the router - WAY in the back of the basement in the electrical cupboard - which is a tad annoying and occasionally inconvenient...I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Telus on Saturday, and the end result is that they sent someone over to move the router - now it is comfortably located next to the piano.  My ipad still doesn't work properly, but that will probably be a call to Apple to get that fixed...hopefully that won't take 2.5 hours

A little CDO

I'm pretty sure most people have a little OCD in them; mine comes out pretty strong on occasion, and it was out in force today (I like to call it CDO because it's way tidier in alphabetical order).

I am the visiting teaching coordinator for our ward, and we have a magnetic board with all the names of the ladies and the visiting teaching partnerships and routes - and it was kind of bothering me that the magnets were different shapes/colours and sizes.  So I spent over FOUR HOURS tidying it up and re-printing them onto the same size magnets with the same font printing and the same colours.  MUCH better.  Now I can sleep easy!

"I've got bubble-lights you know"

Two things to report on today...firstly, I bought some actual art from an actual gallery; and you know it's proper art when you can send a note to the artist asking for advice on lighting it, and he actually comes to your house to help.  So here is Edward Michell and a piece from his "Heritage" series.  See those lines?  They're crushed diamonds - very cool.  So my interpretation is that the big line is the veil and the lines at the top are the people that have passed on and the lines at the bottom are us in mortality.  I'm such an art geek :)

This evening was Rod Hudsons 50th birthday party and most importantly I got to see Jan's Bubble-lights...she has been talking about these for months, and I must admit, I actually quite like them!

Happy birthday to me

Funnily enough, I remember exactly what I did for my birthday last year.  I was in Dallas, and I decided to stop in at Ruth's Chris for a steak on the way home from work...it may have seemed odd having a slap up meal on my own, but I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Today I went to work for a few hours in the morning, then took my team out to a movie in the afternoon - only a few of us went...Me, Natalie K; Teresa; Lucille and Tanya, and as it was my birthday I got to choose the movie....so we saw Les Miserable again - loved it!  Then I went to the temple, and finished the day off with a little soiree for my birthday at Marcia's place...a lovely evening with some good friends.  A perfect birthday.   I recieved a couple of gifts that I got in England, and no-one is owning up to - a pen/stylus and a bracelet - I love them both, but don't know who to thank :)

Girls night out with Bex

I love hanging out with Bex - she's always such good company; and I always like the excuse to go out to eat.  I'm sure she gets bored of going to the same restaurant every time, but she hasn't complained yet.  So this evening, we went to Joey Crowfoot for the usual Lettuce Wraps and chocolate lava cake.  Life is good!

This NEVER happens

I actually thought that I might have family coming to stay this weekend, so not only did I launder all the sheets, but I even ironed them....I NEVER do that, but it's surprising how nice they look when they are ironed!  I might even do it again some time.  Family didn't come to stay, so I'll get to practice again in a couple of weeks!

Here's to 2013

One of the great things about starting a new year is the resolutions....I don't know why we need to wait for a new year, but it seems to work.   I stole one of Dee's ideas from a few years ago; I set a goal for every year I have lived...so this year I have to set 52 goals.   I'm feeling pretty positive about it at the moment - but it's only day 1.

One of the 52 is to blog a daily photo again....I missed so many days last year that I really just gave up. I went down to Okotoks this afternoon for a New Years Dinner with the Etheringtons, Williams and Wallaces...it was delightful....and I even remembered to take my camera - and I took a lovely photo of the kids at the dinner table....when I realized I had no card in the camera - d'oh!

So I took this photo of the punch with my i-phone....how did we ever survive pre-PDA?