Interesting Weekend to say the least

So on Friday morning I wake up at my usual time of 5:30am to call my van pool driver and let him know I am not coming on the van that day because I am driving myself. I was bringing my cousin home with me for the night from Mount Saint Vincent University. We were going to do a girls night, rent a chick flick, hit the gym and then ruin the whole thing by eating food that was horrible for us. I hadn't had a good girls night since before Christmas and it was going to be a blast. Anyway I get into the city and head to the parking lot down by the waterfront only to realize that I don't have any money on my at all. So I pull up to the ticket window and ask the guy if he takes Credit cards. Of course he doesn't so I have to park the car at the end of the lot because by this time of the morning the lot has filled up quick. I walk back to the top of the lot to use the ticket machine so I can avoid getting a real parking ticket. Well the damn thing wouldn't work. I had to get the guy in the ticket booth to come out and help me with it. We discovered that it was broken... which was something I already knew as soon as the menu wouldn't pop up on the screen. Anyway he ended up printing me off a ticket in the booth and letting me pay him later thank god. I get into work late and am bombarded by a crapload of stuff to do before I leave that day. The best part though was the day flew by fast! Four o'clock hits and I'm out the door for the weekend FINALLY! My mom meets me at work and we drive out to the Mount to pick up my cousin. We have to work on my aunts, her moms, 50 birthday scrapbook that I'm making for March. It is taking me forever but I love the way its coming together. Anyway, we had a great time, got six more pages done and did our girls night it was a blast! Saturday we had to drive Amanda back to residence because she had a volleyball game in Truro the next day so we went to Sackville to visit my other aunt and uncle who live out there with their three kids, Alison (18), Michael(15) and Melissa (13). We got there as they were right into the hooch and having a great time. The bf, my cousin Amanda and I were sitting down looking at the photos from their trip to Ontario over the holidays. When the slide show was over my cousin Alison released a some very interesting and shocking information to all of us. She proceeds to pull up her shirt to reveal a belly button ring. I swear to God my aunt and uncle were going to keel over when they saw it! The first words out of my aunts mouth was "YOU IDIOT!" nevertheless it didn't go over well hahaha.... Still so funny and worth the visit. That was about it. Works been on my ass about doing to same thing over and over again. I swear if I have to redo the companies website again I'm going to scream! Such is the life of a pawn in the corporate world.

HI HO HI HO Its off to the gym I go

Okay so I have made a resolution to hit the gym at least three times a week. I am never ever very good at keeping resolutions, like the time I swore I was never going to go out bar hopping on a Thursday night because I was always dead tired the next day at work, well that lasted for all of one week and then was never spoken of again. I had to dance its just what I love to do! Anyway alittle bit of a tangent back to the task at hand, the gym, so I have actually been doing really well. Going four times a week! I know shocker eh? Well I headed there last night to do my regular hour and a half workout and there was an older fellow there. I have to explain how my gym works... its attached to the newspaper office and is actually run by the editor there, its a huge two room place with a bathroom and nice new shower area. There is a ton of cardio equipment, free weights, stability balls and weight machines. The main room has two walls entirely covered with mirrors so you can see yourself work out. Its a nice little gym, with a stereo system and tv with a library of movies to watch while you work out. The best part about it is its 24 hours and unsupervised, you have an access card that you swipe at the door to get in and out and basically you're on your own to do what you please. Nevertheless I always go to do my workout as soon as I get home from work about 5:30pm. Uusally the place is empty at that time so I can claim my eliptical machine, pop on my ipod shuffle and start grooving while reading my magazine. Yesterday wasn't going to be any different until I got there that is. This is where we get back to the older fellow. He was working out with the free weights in the cardio room so he could see himself in the mirrors. I thought nothing of it as alot of people do this. Well he tells me to come back in 20 mins cause he was almost done his workout. I look around the room and see there is nobody else in there but him and I am soooo not leaving because he wants to be by himself, he could go back to the weight room if he really wanted to be alone. This is how the conversation went.

Me: "I'm not leaving I'm only going to use the eliptical machine and won't be in the way at all. I'm not much of a weight lifter at all so you don't need to worry about me using them."

Him: "I want to be alone when I work out so I suggest you leave." Insert stern glare here.

Me :(not backing down one bit) "Tough. This gym is for everyone to use whenever they want and I am going to use it."

I head over to the machine and plug in my earbuds from my ipod, set up my magazine and start my routine. The whole time he is glaring at me in the mirror. It was kind of scary at first but then it really got pathetic it was like a ten year old having a temper tantrum. He then makes a huge show of putting the weights away and then proceeds to kick off his sneakers in opposite corners of the room, hard enough to bang off the walls of course the whole time trying to get a rise out of me. I continue to ignore this childish behavior and proceed with my workout. He then makes a huge show of coming over by my machine to get the cleaning solution to clean off the equipment he was using the whole while staring at me in the mirror it was rather hilarious by this point hahaha. He then of course comes back by me to replace the cleaning stuff and dump the dirty paper towel and says to me in a sarcastic tone.

"You have a good night now!"

I told him I would with a very bright smile and went back to reading my magazine. Five minutes later after he has finished retrieving all the stuff he threw all over the gym in his tantrum he was out the door with a slam. It was hilarious! I could hardly suppress the giggles. I called the manager of the gym when I got home and told her about what happened and she was going to have a word with him seeing as how they track who comes and goes from the gym by the cards. For me it was just another story to tell but I'm sure he has most likely scared off some of the patrons who are less bullheaded than me. Anyway I am not going to the gym tonight its my night off but what I am dying to do is go out dancing. I have the bug and I just need to boogiedown. Its so hard to do that when none of my regular party girls are around anymore.

Note to self find some fun people! hahaha.

OMG is the cold never going to end!

Okay so I still have my freaking cold, its getting better, I think.... I don't know for sure. I can't stop coughing still but it seems only in the nighttime and early morning do I actually break out full blown coughing attacks. I may have to cave and actually go to the doctors sometime soon. I should also definitely clean around my desk area its starting to look like a breeding ground for animals. So gross I know. Anyway, the bf and I went to a highschool hockey game last night. He had already headed out for his regular hockey night but ended up coming home ten minutes later cause the rink was booked for a highschool game so we bundled up in our warm clothes and headed to the rink. It was a blast! His aunt was there along with his cousin who's bf plays on the team so we all had a good time cheering for the home crew. What I truly enjoyed though was spending time with the bf, he gets so excited during games because he loves the sport so much and its great to be a part of something he loves. We're hoping to catch a Moosehead game at the end of the month we haven't gone to one of those since we first started dating two years ago. I can't believe how long its been! Well on that note I'm actually going to get back to work I have so much to do today its not even funny.

Tired, coughing and oh so sick

Okay so I haven't updated about anything over the holidays yet I swear I'll get to it but today I want to vent about having a crappy cold. I hate them. It is now Monday 7 days after I had the initial symptoms of having a bad cold and I still have yet to get over it. The worst part is the coughing, I can't stop. The bf slept on the pull out couch last night because my coughing was keeping him up. Therefore I am tired as hell as I didn't actually get my cough to stop waking me up till about 1 in the morning. *YAWN*

Well anyway I'll tell you about Christmas, it started out great actually, the bf and I spent alot of time together and with family. Eating way too much food and staying up way to late. Christmas eve was spent out visiting his relatives. We started at about 3pm at his moms house and never got back home till 1 in the morning. Christmas day was hectic though, we slept in and I finally had to drag the bfs ass out of bed so we could open presents before we went to his parents house for Christmas lunch. I received a great amount of presents one being my 3 month membership to the gym that I am proud to say I have been using even though I have this stupid cold that won't quit! I digress, nevertheless we ended up throwing our clothes on and leaping out the door to head to his parents house. His sister worked over the holidays and she works as an RN at a senior citizens home. Shes the pill lady hee hee, anyway she had to work at 3 so we had to eat christmas dinner early there this year, a ton of food was set out in the kitchen as per usual. His mom is a great cook the only thing is she loves to pile up your plate again and again! It was very satisfying though and filling but we weren't done yet. We headed over to my parents house for Christmas dinner there that evening. I didn't eat a thing, well except for the taco dip my aunt makes that I simply adore. Time was spent that night playing cards and hanging with my little cousins and bascially having a great time. Christmas presents were exchanged and my mom loved the painting by the way. I was satiated and tired and ready to go home and conk out.

The rest of the break was full of family and shopping and candy and friends. I'll save that for another time though time for me to head out and find some cough drops or something to take this cough away argh!