Engagment Pics

I've posted our engagment pictures at the park that we took on Saturday.

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Food, Glorious Food

I'm not refering to Oliver, and nobody was begging for more.

Tonight, everyone in head office was invited to dine at Ichiban Japanese Steakhouse with the General Manager's from the hotels, who were on their way to Gimli for the annual GM conference.

I've never gone to Ichiban before, and was it ever a treat.

Our meal started out with Vegetable soup, and a cucumber salad. Very delicious. We were given the option of having Chicken Livers for an appetizer. I decided to be brave and try them. They weren't that bad.

Next the chef (who cooks right at the table), mixed up a batch of fried rice, after doing the "Japanese Egg Roll". I almost ended up wearing one of the eggs.

While we were eating the fried rice, the chef cooked up the main course of shrimp, chicken and steak. It was very delicious.

We were all stuffed, and some of us were more stuffed than others.

Sorry, there are no pictures, but I didn't think to borrow Charlotte's camera for the evening.

Church Picinic

Yesterday, Grant and I headed out to the annual church picinic. We had lots of fun. There were games, food, more games, and fireworks. It was also a great chance to visit with people that you don't really get a chance to visit with on Sundays. For the games, we were in groups of 4, and Grant and I were lucky to be paired up with Ray and Lisa. They are a wonderful couple, and a great example to us. The games were lots of fun, and spawned many laughs among the groups.

Long Overdue Update

I've been told by a few people that I need to update this blog. I guess they are right.

A lot has happened in my life since my last post.

I met a wonderful man, Grant, and am now engaged to him, with a wedding date of January 24, 2009. I was introduced to him by a coworker who knew him, and the rest as they say is history. He works as a security guard here in Winnipeg, and enjoys his job.

Wedding plans are coming along slowly but surely. I'm planning on making my own invitations, programs and wedding favors, so the coming months could end up being very crafty (and I'm not a crafty person).

I'm still working at the same job and still enjoy going to work everyday.

Big

Tonight I was watching television, and the movie "Big" was on. This movie has one my favorite scenes. This is the infamous scene where Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia are walking through FAO Schwartz, and come across the floor piano, and stop and play a couple of songs. This got me to thinking that there might be more videos of people playing this floor piano. I went to YouTube and found the following videos. I was amazed at what they can play with their feet when I can barely play these songs with my hands.





I realize that some of the songs are repeated but I was just floored watching these.

(Mis) Adventures in Cooking

I've never professed to be a great cook, but find that I can muster through the basics.

Over the past couple years I've made some pretty bigs boo-boos though.

The first mistake I can remember making while cooking was the first time I made chocolate chip cookies. They came out flat as could be. Mom and I figured that she accidentally told me the wrong conversion for tsp to mL and I ended up putting too much baking powder in the dough.

The next mistake (that I admit to making twice) that I can remember was putting a pot on the stove to boil for pasta, and walking away and forgetting about until I started to smell something burning. Ended up boiling the pot dry. The first time, I remember frantically phoning Mom at work to see if I could salvage the pot in any way, but sadly, it wasn't salvageable. The second time, I could tell right away the pot was a goner.

Recently, I put a pot of rice on the stove to come to a boil before turning it down. Once again, walked away and ended up forgetting about it, till my sister knocked on my bedroom door and said that my rice was boiling. When I went to the stove, it wasn't boiling. There was no water left for it to boil. I almost "toasted" another pot, but luckily, this one was caught just in "nick of time"

Sentemential Journey

This evening at work, I was visiting with my co-worker, and the conversation got around to back to school and school supplies.

This reminded me of our family tradition at back to school time.

Before leaving home, Mom would make a homemade "spreadsheet" of all the supplies that us three girls would need for school. Then she would go through the flyer's for that week and enter what prices she could. Then it was off to Weyburn, where the fun really started.

We'd park the car at the mall parking lot, and would walk to each of the stores that sold school supplies. We'd look at what was needed and mark the prices down on Mom's "spreadsheet". We wouldn't buy anything though. Just pricing.

Then we'd stop for lunch at the old Met store in Weyburn (this is the only time in the year that I remember eating lunch there). While having lunch, we'd go through the "spreadsheet" and figure out who had the best prices on what.

Then we'd go back to each store and buy what they had for the best price compared to the other stores.

This was back in the day when the stores in Weyburn were all in the downtown area and within walking distance of each other. Kinda hard to do it now.

I'm sure at time we all thought Mom was being way to fussy, but now being an adult and on my own and knowing how expensive everything is, I understand the need to for shopping around to get the best deal.

Looking back at everything that Mom and Dad made sure we had, and extra curricular activities they had us in, makes me really appreciate them even more. I love you Mom and Dad.