21st Century here I come!

omg im waaaay hip! im blogging from my new blackberry which im nicknaming 'crackelberry finn' lol.

In honor of this being my first attempt I'm avoiding a full on blog and this is more of a test run. plus i think because its been so long since ive blogged i keep getting popups saying i need to do some updates which is waaaaay distracting. i am blonde after all.lol.

so in advance i apologize for my many typos. i promise ill get better sooner or later.

Also I would like to send a shout out to my dad who celebrates his birthday tomorrow so dad, this blogs for you.

Your the best dad a child could ask for and even though you're far away, we think about you every day.

We hope you're surrounded by love and laughter and get lots of hugs and kisses from your adorable son and beautiful Mrs.

Know that we are thinking of you and that we send oodles of love to you!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Love Kim and Keith

Like father like daughter, like mother like daughter

So like, you know how we all fear turning into our parents? I do too. I mean, I always joke that ‘the higher power’ took all my mom’s bad qualities and all of my dad’s bad qualities and combined them together to create me. Hehe. It’s sad but it’s true. My mom has GORGEOUS hand writing and my father; well I refer to them as chicken scratches. No offence dad! :)

Case and Point Numero 1

So the other day we had a department meeting at work and we had to write up a list of certain key points and then present it to the other teams. While we jokingly discussed who was going to write out our key points. I was mistakenly encouraged to do it as my fellow co-worker felt my hand writing couldn’t quite possibly be as bad as his. OH, how I begged to differ but my team didn’t believe me and I was put in charge of writing up our information. At the end of it all, this fellow co-worker read off our points to the other teams and at the end said ‘And I think we’ve just proved that a girls handwriting can be just as bad as a guys’ or something along those lines to which I told him he threw like a girl. Lol. That’s right; I can take it AND dish it baby!

I AM my father’s daughter. *sigh*

Case and Point Numero 2

The other night I was over at my parents celebrating my Auntie Pegster’s Birthday. My mom and my Aunt got to talking and laughing about this one time they went downhill skiing and how horrible they were at it. My mom got into her experience on that trip and it sounded quite similar to what happened to me the one and ONLY time I went downhill skiing. My mom apparently has issues with holding on to rope too….read on. :)

Now, this has got to be one of the FUNNIEST stories I could tell you all but have held back b/c it really is just SO embarrassing and I don’t think I can do it justice via blog. However, I shall try in an attempt to bring some laughter to your day.

I was about 16 or 17 and was in Brandon, MB to visit family. My aunt and uncle got this BRILLIANT idea to go downhill skiing. I had gone cross country many times (thanks dad) so thought, why not?! I’m sure it’ll be fun…like really, what could go wrong? To be honest I’m not even sure where we went. I just hoped in the car and let them lead me to the time that became known as ‘The Time I Almost Died’. Okay, it was more like ‘The Time Kim Skied right into the Lodge, ‘Dislocated’ her Elbow, and Took Out about 20 skiers’ not in any specific order. :s

So yeah, it was like awesome – NOT! First of all the ski instructor (who was HAWT) introduced me to the ‘bunny hill’. Now, I’m sure it wasn't as big as I remember it but seriously, I’m from the Prairies so the ‘bunny hill’ to me was a freaking MOUNTAIN. For whatever reason they had the lodge at the bottom of the hill which at the time I thought was silly of them. Thinking back, I wonder if they put it there to stop people like me from skiing right off into the bush and directly to my death. To be cautious I asked the ski instructor if anyone ever skied into it and he said ‘No' and that was that. So like, this is where I should have gotten a sworn statement from him but yeah, did I mention he was cute?

The second I grabbed onto that rope to go up to the ‘bunny hill’ was the minute it all went really wrong. FAST!!! Because I was visiting in Brandon and the whole skiing thing was a random idea I hadn’t packed properly. All I had was my favourite pair of mittens that were wool to cover my hands and all the other clothes I had on were contributed by my aunt and uncle. If any of you didn’t know this, wool doesn’t hold up real well when there’s a thick rope cutting through it. You can only imagine how quickly I began to slide backwards once I was up high enough that the rope had finished cutting through my mittens and started cutting into my skin. And guess what happens when you start sliding backwards and there are about 20 people behind you…you take them OUT baby! All I remember is the ski instructor yelling ‘LET GO OF THE ROPE, GET OFF THE ROPE, GET OUT OF HER WAAAAAY’ to the people behind me as I flew down backwards screaming like a crazy lady. I even think I peed a little I was so FAH-REAKED! Or maybe I peed a lot, I can’t remember which. Did I mention this story was embarrassing?

Despite being extremely embarrassed, the ski instructor, was not only HAWT but was also very kind and gave me a pair of gloves to use for my second attempt going up. Oh yeah, I’m smoooooth. I got up to that ‘bunny hill’ without any problems. Going down was a different story. I somehow manage to plough right into that Lodge FULL FORCE. Did I mention that the ski instructor was also a BIG LIAR, DID I?! End result: I ‘dislocated’ my elbow and even though I had no doctor to prove it, I could hardly move my right elbow for the next 4 or 5 days.

So the other night I hear my mother telling us about how she had issues holding on to the rope when she went skiing and ended up taking out all the people behind her. How embarrassing! If the same thing hadn’t happened to me I would have made fun of her.

I AM my mother’s daughter. *sigh*

To finish off my downhill skiing experience my uncle had the NERVE to brag that he spent the day doing the Black Diamond runs and HE hadn’t EVER been skiing before. BUGGER! So then I bragged by saying ‘Well yeah but did YOU ski BACKWARDS? Didn’t FREAKING think so BUD’! lol.

*Bows*
The End

YAWN....

Ugh, I hate to admit this but lately, I'm boring. I think I have a bad case of the winter blahs. Thank goodness for having cable right now because my mind is numb. I pretty much just want to stare at the t.v. if, and when at home. I would make fun of myself if I knew I wouldn't reach over and slap myself. Then again, I wonder if I even have the energy to smack myself. lol.

I mean, I have the day for crying out loud and all I can think about is how my back is sore and I still feel like I'm fighting a cold or something and how I don't want to do a thing. :s
Could I BE any more lame?!

I know I'll snap out of it once the sun comes out to play but for now, I kind of want to sleep away the day. Hhmmm, this makes me rethink buying one of those 'Energy Lights' that people use in the winter to save themselves from depression. they're WAY expensive but perhaps totally worth it. I think I just figured out what to do with our annual bonus. hehe. OR, I could pay bills and get ahead of them for once....that could possibly get me out of my funk too. Oh, all the possibilities!

Well, now that I have something positive on my mind I should really push myself and maybe do some exercising before the energy disappears on me.

Runners = CHECK, IPOD = CHECK, ENERGY = almost a full CHECK.lol.

Stay tuned for more blogging

Happy New Year everyone! I realize I have not blogged as much lately which makes me think that it's quite possible no one reads it anymore. EEP! But alas, I should have my very own computer back up and running soon. Aside from becoming addicted to HGTV by watching many, many episodes of House Hunters we've been busy enough around the Cullins Household.

We celebrated Christmas and it was lovely! I only worked two days in between Christmas and New Years so I actually felt rejuvenated. It was as though I had a bit of a holiday which is always nice. The trick was not signing up for every Christmas festivity that came our way. As always we took part in the most important events but put some on the back burner to take place after Christmas was over.
Following Christmas celebrations, we spent our 1st year Wedding Anniversary celebrating at a local B&B. We stayed at the Dragon's Nest Bed & Breakfast and it was AMAZING! I plan to dedicate an entire blog to that beautiful place once I get a chance to download some of our own pictures but in the meantime, please see the link below. We HIGHLY recommend staying there if the chance ever comes your way. Or, if for whatever reason you're not able to justify staying at a B&B in your own home city, it's a GREAT place to have friends or family to stay at if your own home is tight on space. :)

http://www.bbcanada.com/8361.html

In one sentence I would say that Dragon's Den felt 'Like home away from home with more ambiance and a better breakfast than I could EVER make'. hehe.

I hope all of you are well and still stop in to check and see if I've posted anything every once in a while. I seriously do hope to poste more stuff. I have a long list of things to blog about. Some things you have to look forward too...

Our night at a delicious restaurant in Vibank...
Our night a the Dragon's Nest B&B...
Our weekend with my niece in our tiny little home...
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.

Cheers everyone and Happy New Year!!! :)

Remember me???

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this before but I married a man that I went to high school with. As you may already know, we were not high school sweethearts and didn't actually meet till much later in life. I guess people could say that when we're all cute and cuddly, we're making up for lost time. teehee.

The thing is, I don't remember Keith at all from high school - like not even a blip on my memory radar. This is something that we often joke about and I find it odd that I don't remember him in the slightest. I mean, he's a pretty memorable guy in my opinion and I'm wishing I did meet him in high school if not for love then at least for his humour. :)

Buuuut, that's not how it worked out which is usually a-ok. However, recently we ran into two, not one, but TWO people we went to school with and alas, I remembered these two gentleman quite clearly and when Keith asked me if I remembered them. I kind of wanted to lie because I felt bad for not knowing him. And the thing is, I'm the queen of feeling guilty and I do this even in situations when I really have nothing to feel guilty about. And of course when I feel guilty, what happens? Well I usually end up having some messed up dream about it and wake up thinking WTF and end up trying to put two and two together.

Cut to: Me sleeping not so long ago. Me dreaming. Me back in high school but at the age I am now - so like 24. hehe. WHAT?!

All I can remember clearly from the dream is sitting on an exercise mat during gym class and some guy trying to kiss me and I'm like 'Dude, get off of me, I'm married'!!!! So that's all I remember aside from waking up and thinking that the guy looked familiar to me. I was like, maybe he's someone famous or something and then it just CLICKED about two hours later. It was KEITH in high school and not like my 30 year old husband Keith but teenage Keith. So I guess that makes it okay....because making out with some random teenage boy in high school in my dream is much more pervy than making out with the high school version of my husband, isn't it?

Yeah, I know, I'm majorly messed up.lol.

Zombie

I'm still suffering from bloggers block but at least now I think I know why! It's simple - we got Sasktel Max cable.lol. Some people wouldn't consider that having cable television as a distraction constitutes as 'bloggers block' but I beg to differ. I mean, I watch, then I stop watching and then I go to type and I have nothing to type because life has been pretty slow and why is it slow? Because I'm spending my spare time watching peoples lives on t.v.
I literally become a zombie in front of that thing. :s

Right now it's nice to have because it's cold outside and I never deny myself of cheap entertainment. We have it for the next three months but I already know that I won't miss it when it's gone. I'll be like, goodbye commercials that drive me nuts and HELLO SPRING!

For now, I sit back with the essence of control at my fingertips and CHANNEL SURF. lol.

Errrrgh - Arrrrrgh

I cannot write for the life of me lately. My apologies people! I've spent the past hour trying to create a blog and it sooooo isn't happening. :s

I think I have bloggers block and all I can do is throw my hands in the air and wave them like I *starts dancing*....ahem, I mean, throw my hands in the air out of frustration.

This blog = Epic fail!

Back to the 'drawing board' I guess.

If I don't beat this block by Christmas, have a HAPPY HOLIDAY everyone!!! :)