Monthly Archives: June 2007

RANT: Eager to Move

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I’m eager for our move to Nova Scotia.

I never thought I’d be so eager to move out of the woods. I thought I always wanted to live in the woods. Truth is I hate it more and more every day.

I hate that I can’t walk my dog anywhere. The highway is way too busy and the bush is full of bugs.
I hate the bizillion mosquitos that leave with me at least 10-15 new bites EVERY SINGLE DAY.
I hate feeling trapped like I can’t go outside and play because of all the friggin’ mosquitos that love my blood so much.
I hate having to sleep under all the covers when it’s 30°C out because the mosquitos that snuck in the house are biting my feet and arms and legs.
I hate the animals lurking at night.

Last night I took Monty out before bed in the dark. I hate going outside in the dark here. Maybe a fence would make me feel more secure, I dunno. Anyway, we walked around the yard twice, and then I heard something behind the garage. I think it was a big deer. I could only see the big tall shape and terrified it was a bear (there was one at the neighbour’s place last week), I started walking back to the house. Then I could hear it racing and I swear it was racing towards me so I ran Monty and I to the house lightning fast. My heart was RACING. Later I had to take him out the front door to pee.

Maybe I want to go back to nice countryside living. I don’t remember being too scared growing up on the farm. No animals chased me in the night. There weren’t too many mosquitos to bear. There were lots of places for a dog to play.

I can’t wait to have a fenced yard or at least the dog kennels out so my dog can go to the bathroom at his leisure. I want somewhere where he can run and play.

Maybe I’ve just grown old and soft. Probably. I know I used to love the woods. However, I’m serious, if a genie appeared to me right now, and I had to choose world peace or death to all mosquitos, I’d choose to kill the mosquitos. Sorry.

My Left Hand

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My Left Hand

Not sure what I was standing beside to get it reflect yellow (or maybe it was the flash), but it is a white gold ring. Here is the photos of it from a website:

My Left HandMy Left Hand

I will have the matching plain white gold band of the same width. Jeff already has it but I’m not allowed to play with it ;)

Yesterday we finally narrowed down all the men’s wedding ring bands and ordered Jeff’s. They are making it in his size and we’ll be able to pick it up in a couple of weeks!

We’re Getting Married!

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Jeff, the love of my life, and my very best friend, got down on one knee on Thursday June 14th and asked me to be his wife!!!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Since then it’s been a whirlwind of excitement with us driving to visit our immediate families to tell them all in person. Now they they all know I can expand the circle and tell everyone! I still have SOOOO many phone calls to make. Blogs, internet posts, and emails are just so much quicker! (especially since our cordless phone already died today and is back on the base until tomorrow for a recharge).

Wedding plans are now in the works. It is amazing how fast people switch their tone from “Congrats!” to “Now when and where!?!” We had started thinking we could just have a small wedding with only our parents, Grandmas and siblings, but I quickly realized that I just can not get married without having all my aunts and uncles and cousins there. Jeff’s family is just as large as mine so we’re already well into the triple digits. We are thinking around Christmas. Now we’re working on a way to simplify the entire idea of a big wedding into an affordable package since we’re also buying a house and furnishing it in the next few months! We are toying with the idea of having a daytime wedding with a lunch rather than a big catered dinner. I am hoping we can have a simple, easily planned, stress free wedding without a whole lot of picky little details. Just a nice simple day where I can marry the best man in the world (Jeff ;D) and have our family and friends there to share the moment with. Not to forget that we’ll also be planning this wedding from half way across the country.

I’m still working on getting used to this rock on my finger (I still take it off to sleep and put it back in it’s beautiful wooden box). It is the most gorgeous ring I’ve ever seen. I had no idea diamonds were so sparkley! I’m also working on getting used to calling Jeff my fiance rather than just my boyfriend. ;D I’m also working on getting used to these longer nails Jeff is encouraging me to grow to show off my hand and ring, but I’m seriously annoyed at typing with nails :no:

Cutting the Lawn – An adventure

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Last week when Jeff was out of town the landlord stopped by with a 20″ push mower for me. He had cut the grass with his riding mower on the May long weekend when we were in the Sault. He said “The first one was a freebie, here you go!”. So I cut that back lawn that day.

Last night Jeff tackled the front lawn. It took him over 2 hours if not 3 ! That front lawn is deceptively large!

Here’s my handsome hard at work (in the 30°C heat):


Jeff cutting the lawn

Jeff cutting the lawn

Today it’s time for me to do the back lawn again! Thank goodness it isn’t really thick grass.

Only Two Deer Now…

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I was worried that the big oil spot down the road was one of my deer, but I hadn’t seen any of them lately. But just now there were 2 of them on the lawn on the other side of the driveway! Mid afternoon, on a cloudy damp day, they were eating the lawn – and then the skinny one came to eat the flower garden!! She stared at me the entire time.

Video: (ignore Oprah in the background)

Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia

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Now that we’ve told our families, I’ll tell the blog-o-sphere that it is likely we will be moving to the Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia area later this summer!!

We’re pretty excited about it. We’ll finally be able to buy a house and I’ll be able to unpack stuff that has been in boxes since last August. We can buy furniture and settle down into a house.

Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia is 2.5 hours north of Halifax. Population 400. They selected Jeff for that office. Now he has to wait through a few different appeal processes before the job is officially his, so it will be awhile before we even can go on a house hunting trip.

It’s scary for both of us to move to a new province, but it is a job opportunity that Jeff just can not turn down, an opportunity that he wouldn’t likely get in Ontario, not for a long time anyway. We’ll only be 18-20 hour drive from our families and they drove that far to visit me in Thunder Bay so hopefully no one will forget about us if we’re out east. If we hate it, then he can always put in for a transfer somewhere else in the future, but I have good feelings about it – I think we’ll love it! The only problem is the livelihood of most of the residents will clash with the livelihood of my boyfriend, so I hope there isn’t too much friction and we’re accepted into the neighbourhood.