My little Orange Buddy

Hey Everyone!

Well... I came home from shopping two nights ago and as I pulled up into my driveway an orange tabby cat ran out of my garage. Apparently he had been chillin' in there for a little while. He was super friendly and he came for a walk with us so that we could ask the neighbours if he belonged to either of them. It turns out that he is a stray.

Apparently, according to one of our neighbours, people will just drop off their cats in the country if they don't want them anymore. This is disgusting to me. I can't believe that someone would have a pet and then just throw them away like that. You can tell that our little orange buddy was a house cat and didn't live outside his whole life because he knows to go outside to do his business and he's a very affectionate little guy. He can't stand not being around us when we're outside. My boyfriend made a little cat door so that he can come and go in the porch as he pleases so that he's got somewhere warm to sleep.

I went out and bought cat food yesterday (we fed him meatballs and leftover turkey the first night because we didn't have any cat food... no cat food will be good enough now lol) and a couple bowls from Dollarama so that he's got his own little food dishes in the porch area. He seems to like us so we're hoping that he sticks around and helps us out with the mice population in the spring/summer/fall seasons...



Above is a picture of him yesterday morning when I was leaving for work. He looks exactly like one of my parents' cats Oscar so we named him little OJ for Oscar Junior. (My boyfriend named him so I didn't really have a choice in the matter... I just call him little OJ lol)

He's such a nice little guy but my boyfriend is allergic so he can't come inside the house. He has to stay in the porch area so we are going to insulate it this summer so that he'll have somewhere warm to go in the winter. I just go out there and chill with him in the evenings and read or watch tv. We've got a tv hooked up out there and he loves the company. I feel bad when I have to leave him to go inside... I would love it if I could have him laying with me on the couch in my nice warm house. Oh well... he's used to being outside for a bit already so hopefully he's not wanting inside too bad.

When we wake up in the morning he's usually outside running around so he enjoys it enough. Plenty of little animals for him to hunt and keep him busy while we're at work.

Well, that's it for me today... I hope you guys love him as much as we do already! (It's only been 2 days)

Megs

It's that time again... finally!

Spring is here!

I realize it has been WAY TOO LONG since the last time I posted something.  I was out in the sunshine all day today raking leaves and collecting all of the stray branches that have fallen all over our property and I thought: "It's about time I started blogging again"... cause you know, working outside always makes me want to come inside and type... :)

All kidding aside, I got really excited to be outside in only a sweatshirt and jeans!  Such a great feeling to pack away the winter clothes for a few months and bring out the cute summer dresses and spring jackets/boots!  

I'm having my friends over on Friday for a bonfire and it looks like the weather is going to be great!  We'll actually be able to enjoy being outside and see the stars (they are so beautiful outside the city)!

Well... hopefully I keep this up, it has been a really long time as I said... 

Happy Spring Everyone!

Megs

The SarcMark!

Finally a way to let people know that you are being sarcastic in written text!

How many times have you been typing out a message to someone on MSN or even in an email and it was meant to be sarcastic and they didn't get it!

I was forwarded a pretty hilarious email the other day entitled "Random Thoughts of the Day" and one of the items was that there is a dire need for a sarcasm font. Luckily for whoever came up with this forward, THERE IS! (Well, not so much a font... but a symbol).

See the link below to the article I found:

SarcMark

Also... for your enjoyment... the original forward:

Random thoughts for the day

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap whenI was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told youhow the person died.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind oftired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment atwork when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this -- ever.

15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

18. My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?

19. I think the freezer deserves a light as well..

20. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.


I hope you guys enjoyed it! So funny the first time I read it... and still funny when I read it now!

~Enjoy~

PICS

Here are some of the many "before" pictures that I took of our new place!!

MY NEW HOUSE!!!

We got possession of our house yesterday morning and man oh man did the day ever start off disastrous.  First of all, my cell phone alarm was not enough to wake me from my 6-hour coma that I was in (obviously because I couldn’t fall asleep originally due to worrying about the house and what we were going to do first) and then when my boyfriend and his parents showed up at the house in order to start cleaning and moving things in, the key that we were given only worked in the garage key hole and not the house.  I know what you’re thinking: “Maybe the keys for the house were left in the garage?”  NO.  So we had to phone the lawyer, have him phone the other lawyer who then mentioned that the son of the guy whose house we bought was on his way to read the meters anyway so he could give us the key he has.  I know, confusing. 

 

Then, luckily my boyfriend’s mom was the one who had to deal with the guy when he showed up otherwise I think I would have had to deal with a few assault charges lol (My boyfriend and his dad were ready to kill the guy because he was being an ass).

 

Yeesh… so then, once we got started we were able to get all of the living room and dining room furniture moved in and the kitchen, upstairs bathroom and downstairs bathroom cleaned and ready to paint.  I’m heading back there tonight to start painting as Rob and his dad were there this morning taping and covering everything.  We pick up our “new” fridge and stove from my parents house this evening and then we’re going to attempt to drop them off at our house tonight…

 

It’s a mish mosh of ridiculousness.  So many things to do, so little time before we move in… I spent $250 on paint last night!  And that only covers MOST of the upstairs that needs to be painted!  There’s one wall that currently has wallpaper on it (that is going to be ridiculously hard to remove because it’s above the stairs and a really high wall because we bought a bi-level)

 

I took a bunch of “before” pictures of the house to show the colours and all of our stuff all over the place before we start painting and putting stuff in its rightful place… I will post those in a separate post because there are a lot of them!

3 more sleeps...

Hey Everyone!

So... there are only three more days until we get possession of our new house! I can't wait... I've been doing a bit of research trying to find the perfect colours to do in our living room, kitchen, and two upstairs bedrooms but I'm having a bit of trouble picking one...


This is a picture from the listing of our living room... so we've got a huge window to work with... and oak parquet flooring... our couches are green but more of a blueish green than the one in this picture (this was the old owners living room). Don't worry, I will be taking before and after pictures as we renovate and making sure that I discuss what we're doing step by step as we go along.

Now, what I'm thinking is that I'm going to do the wall behind the couch and the wall with the window in a creamy beige colour and then add aubergine accent walls (Yes, two accent walls as well). The one wall that separates the kitchen from the living room I will want aubergine, and then the entranceway wall that leads downstairs as well could be aubergine or maybe even a darker grey colour... I'm still working through that in my head. I'm going to go in there on Monday and then while my boyfriend and his parents are cleaning and patching, sanding and etc. I will head over to Home Depot and pick us up some paint! I can't wait to see the transformation!!

I might even take a video!

Oh yeah, look for future posts about me entering a contest that I need your help with!

Have a good one!

The Results are in!

Well... the results are in!  I'm a 7.5 according to beautifulpeople.com and accepted as a beautiful person lol.  Well that's good to know... but I never did find out how much they charge for the service because when I clicked on the link to send my verification email it didn't send.  Maybe the 7-8 range of people only get a fake acceptance lol.  

But yeah... experiment over, I found that it's actually quite pleasing to find out that I am one of the "beautiful people" according to the site.  The funny thing is that with over 20,000 people adding profiles each week, the current members spend all of their time rating new people.  What a dating site lol.  And, some people don't get rated at all.  I was only rated twice... and it didn't show who the first person was so I assume that it's a computer generated vote (Of midway at 5) to get you started and then other people have to vote either 10 or 1 to sway the rating.  Jean Yves from France voted me as a 9.75 lol on all three of my pictures... so that must mean something... but it didn't show that first one... so I can only assume.

Ah well... pretty hilarious though... I deleted my profile because I don't want my pictures floating around on that site anymore... not that I didn't post them on my blog, but still... I find that there is a bit of a negative connotation associated with that site, and I'm not going to pay for the service so really, it would be pointless for me to keep it.

Anywho... just thought I'd fill you guys in on it!  Yay to being accepted... so shallow though ha ha ha.

Oh yeah, I bought Christmas lights for on our new house the other day!!  I'm getting a tree tomorrow on sale for $40!!  (If they have any left when we get there) I'm so excited!!  That means that I could plausibly spend another $30 on decorations for it and still be in my budget!  (I'm getting a check back from insurance from a massage I got a few days ago and I told myself that I was only allowed to spend that amount on the tree and lights & decor)

I can't wait for Christmas, I'm getting so excited!!!