Current mood:	My head hurts!
Current music:	Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac

I think the Motrin's backfired or something...
You’d think being gone for two whole weeks, one would be a bit busy, but the girl who replaced me did an excellent job and well here I am posting!

All is going good. Andrew and I left on Friday the 29th @ around 1pm, thanks to my boss letting me get off work early that day to get a head-start for the trip. We never reserved any campgrounds for August-long (lesson learned) so finding a place to stay was very frustrating. We felt like losers. I was feeling very discouraged, but Andrew kept trying to find positives and he kept trying to make me feel better. Our original plan was to be by ourselves for a couple of days. Visit my aunt Nita and cousin An and all their troop for a couple of days (didn’t REALLY want to visit them, but figured since we were close-by mightaswell). Then spend a couple days in Hope and then off to Vancouver for a few days. Well since we couldn’t find ANYWHERE for August-long. We crashed with An&Nita for the whole weekend. Which was a pretty good time… I mean with all things considered, we were in fact with my crazy auntie Nita. So the first night we just found some place (ANY PLACE) and we got a really great BEAUTIFUL secluded campsite in a place called Yahk (nice name right?!) Then headed off to Penticton to An&Nita’s. An’s husband Rob had his powerboat so we spent most of the time on the beach or in the water swimming, tubing, sea-dooing (WHICH was terrifying thanks to Andrew! He made me cry once because he was going so insane on the thing I thought for sure we’d flip. Then he felt bad because he scared me then I felt bad for being such a freaking baby, but hey! I don’t know how to swim and yes I was wearing a very secure orange life-jacket, it all makes me a little nervous). But we spent about 1 hour on it and it was worth the $$$. We left Penticton, to my sheer joy… [Okay! Let me humiliate myself. Let me show you how pathetic I do actually feel on this subject I’m about to mention… An’s church friend brought her family too, and her 13-year-old daughter got a crush on Andrew, right? Well that’s all fine and cute and oh-so sweet… But after awhile it really drove me nuts, and I’m not sure why. I mean, yes I admit I am a jealous person when it comes to my man and he’s the same when it comes to me, so we’re both on the same level with that flaw… But come on! She was 13 for the love of gawd! I could not figure out why I was letting myself be so bothered by her! I mean she did (It’s difficult trying to explain) she really like tried to get attention, you know? It was constant. I mean I felt like him and I didn’t really talk at all the whole weekend because she was seriously constantly walking with him everywhere and talking with him the whole time and wanting to go tubing with ONLY him and her mom just thought it was so adorable, and he thought it was cute, but after a few hours or a couple of WHOLE days it started to bother me. And she’s wearing this little bikini thingie and she was a bit developed for her age (well Andrew thought she was 10) but she looked like a mini Jessica Simpson with the J-LO sunglasses, to me anyways. As I’m typing I’m just cringing at the humiliation towards myself. I mean I feel like the lamest person ever, but she just pissed me off! And I was glad to leave. *smacks head against desk* I’m a loser, I just said it.
I remember once my sister-in-law got annoyed at this 12-year-old Jessie who got a crush on my bro and we all made fun of Aron for it. I mean Aron was SUPPOSED to be an adult and be cool with it and think it’s sooooo charming but holy, I take it back, because it’s annoying man. Well, it CAN be I guess. I don’t know… I know I have my flaws and I am irritated with myself for being such a knob. This is the first I’ve mentioned this… and prolly the last. BAH!] Please don’t think too less of me now, I just had to get it out or something.
*cough* Anyways, we managed to get the hell outta there on Monday morning (and yes, I could tell darling Madeline was upset. HA!). There were other things annoying me too though, which I’m sure contributed. We were both upset that our plans weren’t working out at first, and there were 6 little KIDS (yes, I AM including Madeline). And Nita is just TOO much most of the time. Rob was cool though. He was a lot of fun and turns out he has a great sense of humour, so that was good.
So we left and spent three days in Hope (WHERE the first Rambo movie was filmed). It was a beautiful little town, and we found a great secluded campsite. It was great just being with nature and being with Andrew alone and just having eachother’s company. We had a blast!
We got bored in Hope one day, so we drove out to Chilliwack and spent the day at Cultus Lake, which was so neat! We played mini-golf at Giggle Ridge…Loser bought ice cream, so I got Andrew a cherry ice-cream cone and I got meself a Smartie ice-cream cone. There was bumper boats and a huge waterpark there. And the lake was beautiful! We’re thinking about spending a few days there next summer.
Finally on the 4th, we headed off to Vancouver. It really wasn’t what I expected. I guess I pictured in my head it’d be like Calgary but bigger and prettier and more fun. I didn’t expect sooooo many busy busy busy people everywhere all the time! Maybe I’ve just got too much cowgirl in me, but it totally reminded me of L.A. Can I say that I like Calgary more. I’d way rather live here. I mean, wow I sound like such a bag here. I did really like it! I mean I really liked L.A. but both cities seem very fast-paced and just busy. We had so much fun there too! And Andrew and I had been alone in the woods for days&days so maybe the crowds just seemed a little overwhelming to us. Well, Su&Morgan sure showed us a great time! It was soooooo wonderful hanging-out with them! The first day there they took us to a mall. Metro something, which was the biggest and it had a TNT! We ate some Korean food for a little snacky and just hung-around. They bought a whole bunch of food and Asuha made us these elaborate oh-so-TASTY Japanese suppers everynight! Gawd-damn that was some good eatin’.
The next day Su had a class, so Morgan took us downtown. We shopped in fun, 17th Ave type stores. Lot’s of 80’s style goin’ on. Later we went to the aquarium in Stanley Park which was soooo fun! The beluga whales were sooooo cute and awesome! After he took us to the ocean, which Andrew had never seen before. It was sort of in a bay, so you didn’t really get the full-effect, but the big boats were cool.
That night we all just stayed in and ate our asses off and watched a couple of movies. Guess Who (Meh!) and The Upside to Anger (I really can’t stand Kevin Costner). Morgan and Andrew proceeded to get drunk on Asahi.
The next day we met Su at their school. Had lunch at The Red Onion and spent the afternoon at Grannville Island! Best ever! By far my fave part! The market was the best best best! We all had such a wonderful time there. The houses on water were very cool, everything over there I loved. Except for the pigeon pooping on my newly washed Mayonaka.
After that we went to the other side (I want to say English Bay) so Andrew could see the ocean all open-wide and stuff. We all just sat on the beach forever. THEN, they took us to their favourite store on Broadway called Wonderbucks. I bought a very cool candle holder for $3! We got back to their place and while Su prepared supper and Andrew rested, Morgan and I went to the grocery store to pick up some red lettuce for supper and Sunchips for fun. On the way back he took me to his favourite place… Crap, forgot the name but it’s a very popular bubble tea place. I had the strawberry while he had the watermelon. We got back, had super and headed on back to a beach... Not sure which one, but it had a lot of logs on it. That night was the finals for some world fireworks competition. I guess there was about 300,000 people there. It was so beautiful just all of us cozied up, leaning against logs on beach, watching the sunset and waiting for the show to start. Sweden won, but China was my favourite. Walking back was insane! It was like the red mile… So many people, very cool to be apart of it.
So, when we got back Andrew and Morgan got hammered… and up we were the next morning getting ready to leave. We left by 10am and I had a cold from hell (which, by-the-way originated from Madeline… bitches). I was lucky and had Andrew drive the whole 10 hours or whatever it was. I stayed in my pajamas and slept quite a bit.. I’m so sexy!

So that was our trip! It’s good to be back in the swing of things in Calgary. It is cold here though, and I’m sad to see summer go. It never fails that everytime, at this time I have the urge to buy school supplies. I haven’t been in school for how long now, but I still get that feeling. Pretty soon I’ll get to buy them again… I’ll have kiddies one day.

Our house went up for sale on Saturday and we had the first viewing yesterday. So it feels good to get the ball rolling on that, but trying to keep the house clean, showhome quality is sucky. Many the fear of spilling in that place is just toooo much, heh heh heh…

Everything with Andrew is great too. Our fight at the Stampede was our last… I’m a lil shocked that we haven’t even bickered or anything. We’ve been doing a lot of talking and I think it’s helping being open with eachother. He has a few issues to work out from his past, and I’m fully-all-the-way-here to support him and help him in any way I can. It’s so great that I can really tell him anything… and I mean any concerns that I’m having, and we always come to a mutual understanding/agreement or whatever. I love him so much. He’s so funny! Gush! Gush! Gush! Anyways, life isn’t perfect but that’s alright. I’ll get through all this…

Connor will be moving to Newfoundland on the 25th. Saddest auntie ever!

Well, I don’t know. Fall is coming and soon it will be Halloween and Thanksgiving and then Winter and Christmas. No more reruns. It will be dark outside most of the time now. Wow, can summer really be over already? Will I be 23 by the time it’s hot outside again? BOO-URNS!

Andrew and I were talking about starting to by xmas gifts early so we can save money and not be totally poor and frantic in December…. And man I don’t have many friends anymore, well just compared to last year I had so many people I wanted to give just a little something. But thinking about this year. It makes me glad and not sad because they weren’t even friends anyways. They were pathetic and they made me pathetic for 11 months. Well, I guess I made myself that way by choosing to be around them. OH! And I found out that my old roommate Janet got engaged to her boyfriend. Congrats to them! How everything’s different so much.

I’ve sent a few emails out to my friends since I got back from my trip and I haven’t heard from anyone. What did I do? Am I that awful?
I think I’m nice.

Anyways, it’s really just gotten gloomier outside to I think I’ll head home for the day. I have an awful headache right now… I wonder what a migraine feels like? Because ow man!