It’s so true

I don’t remember where this came from. But the other day my Boyfriend messaged me on gmail chat and said he received this in an e-mail:

“At my old job everyone in my department chatted online even though we all sat right next to each other. It seems stupid, but it’s less disruptive to your work to type out a few words instead of calling over cubicle walls. One of my coworkers was right in my line of sight, and I could see his profile, though he would have had to turn around to see me. Sometimes while chatting, I’d say something a little funny and he’d type LOL, meaning ‘laughing out loud.’ The thing is, I was able to actually see him, and he’d be sitting there with the same blank look on his face and definitely not laughing out loud. As a result, I don’t feel like typing LOL is adequate to let people know when I’m actually laughing out loud, so now if something really makes me laugh out loud, I resort to telling people the old fashioned way. I say, “That made me laugh out loud,” or if they’re in the same room I’ll just laugh out loud.”

I am definitely guilty of “LOL” overuse, and often tell the other person if I really did lol, I type it out “Wow, you seriously just made me laugh out loud.” Are you guilty of this too?

Continue Reading

Safe’n’sound

How was everyone’s Christmas? I ended up getting delayed at the Toronto airport for 3 hours (two of it being on the airplane itself, my butt was so numb by the time we landed — I could have been half way to Dublin while sitting on that plane). At least the westjet flight crew were really awesome about it. They were being so silly and ridiculous on the plane, I had to sometimes shake my head at them. At one point the pilot came on and said something along the lines that they all didn’t wake up this morning to screw us passengers over, everyone wants to get home for Christmas and what newfie is going to take them out on George Street. They also gave us some chocolates, to which some of the newfie men towards the back of the plane just shouted out to open the bar! :)

The flight was long since there weren’t any tv’s! What gives? At least we had an exit row seat (no extra leg room) so the BF and I were just sitting together so there wasn’t a third seat by the window, just an empty gap. Once we landed everyone clapped, it was a pretty rough landing , and everyone was so happy to be home. I think we were all skeptical of getting back since it took us 2 hours to leave the runway. Re-fueling the plane in case we had to stop in Halifax after flying to Newfoundland. The other 2 airports in NL must have had some bad weather. So we were a bit worried that if we couldn’t land, we wouldn’t be making it home for Christmas.

We did though!

I ended up getting off the airplane and immediately saw 4 people I knew. One, as soon as I got off the plane I was greeted by some westjet crew and one of the guys happened to be my brothers good friend. How random!? I guess that’s what you get for coming back to a “small” (pop. 125,00) city. I waved to a few more and spoke to my old high school friend’s father. Such a small airport and of course since it was Christmas Eve, people were coming home from all over.

I also noticed how strong a lot of newfie accents there were. I’m so used to being around people from Ontario that I think I have acclimatized to it all.

I woke up at 10am this morning (after going to bed at 4:00!!) by a phone call — my brother is still on the oil rigs, and we think it’s doubtful he’ll get off on the 28th. It’s disappointing for sure, and they’re backed up on flights since another oil company keeps taking out the helicopters.

My parents are in bed, my boyfriend’s at his parents and I’m sitting infront of the fireplace wondering what to do next. I took my first LUSH bath tonight. I took photos of the little bath bomb I used, so I may do a mini-review of that since a few of my Twitter followers wanted to know about some of the things I bought.

Surfing the internet alone is a bad idea. Not so bad when they’res a sale over at Lululemon though! I ended up buying these, and these pants. Mainly for the gym, but also for comfyness because you can’t have enough lounge pants. Even though these technically aren’t lounge-wear. But I don’t care, really. I restrained myself from buying this bag and these shorts. I could have went wild.

Sorry if there’s a lot of spelling errors. I’m on my mom’s new laptop and it doesnt’ detect spelling mistakes like my computer back home does, lol. Okay, so I’ll be on twitter most of the time, if I’m not updating this site during the holidays. 

Take care and have a wonderful happy holiday season!

Continue Reading

Heading home for Christmas

Can you believe that we’re open today and I actually have to work? It’s a ghost town in this city today. I just want it to be 4:00PM so we can head out on the road to drive to the airport. I hope my car has a good car battery because I don’t have any booster cables and I’ll be leaving it in the Toronto’s Park’n’Fly for over a week. You would have thought we’d learn from our last lesson when we came back from BC and got stranded.

jade-bonsai

All of my presents are wrapped and taking up one whole suitcase. My clothes on the other hand is going just in my backpack. The BF and I exchanged gifts last night and one of the things he got me was a Jade Bonsai! I usually kill Bonsai’s within having them for a year, but I quickly learned last week (while eying some new Bonsai’s at the mall) that I had the most difficult Bonsai to look after, before. The Juniper.

Where am I even going with this? It’s such a mumbojumbo post. I’m trying to not go insane with impatience today as I just want to be home in Newfoundland! A few more hours!!!

I’ll be on vacation after today, and will be back home — so I don’t expect I’ll be updating everyday as I normally would. But we’ll see how things go :)

Continue Reading