Got hit in the nose with a fast flying Frisbee last night. Have to admit, it wasn’t the most pleasant of experiences. It has puffed up a bit today and I shall be getting ice from the Starbucks as apparently it can still bruise within fourty-eight hours. Boo hiss hiss. Especially after I got eaten alive camping and the bites have still not gone down.

The boy has an annual camping trip with his friends and this year I went along. I have to admit in the last hmm ten years or so, I think I’ve been camping twice. Both were for short periods of time, like two days and one was for a music festival which is an entirely different experience then regular camping. I went a lot as a kid but it has been awhile. I have been spoiled by friends with cabins. I get nature, without the tent. We arrived Wednesday night at one a.m after running around the city all night, doing errands and stopping in at a birthday party and stayed till Sunday lunchtime at which time, I said if I get one more mosquito bite/black fly bite, we are leaving. A minute later we started packing up. I admit, I am a bit more girlie then I thought I was.

The five days out involved some swimming, some reading, a lot of eating, fires, alcohol, card games, chatting, slapping of mosquitoes, making of sangria, some laughing, making bannock and of course the annual ‘Growers Challenge’ (who can drink a two litre of cider the fastest…my boyfriend got third…apparently it’s a challenge because it tastes so bad…I was the only one who thought so, possibly because I used to get drunk on cider back in the U.K and pft, only seven percent)

Tonight I am headed over to M’s for a movie/wine/cheese/catch up night. She is dating a friend of mine J, and I am still trying to walk a fine line there and not be nosy. (and trying not to get caught in the middle in case things go wrong-they are from separate friend groups) But so far it seems to be going well and hope it will continue to do so.

J actually came over on Wednesday to help with some electrical stuff we needed to do, including doing some rewiring so we could hook up the laundry machine. Woot, I am this close to being able to dry my jeans again. We paid him in beer and pizza and had a nice time chatting till midnight. M wants to do a ‘double date’ soon. I don’t think I’ve ever been on a ‘double date’ hmmm.

Tomorrow, I hope to get up early and hit up the farmers market. I love farmers markets. I love just looking around and drooling. Also checking out a massive used book sale, possibly with a friend then catch up with K, whom I haven’t seen in forever. Boooo. The boy is probably spending the day doing home renos, (after the farmers market) instead of working at work. I also hope to get a bunch of house things done this weekend, plus some reading and writing and get back into my thirty day shred workout. Arg. camping derailing me.

Free yoga at lunch outside at the park on Thursday. I love being able to do sun salutations to the sun! The boy’s mother and cousin have also been coming, so that has been nice. I really do miss yoga and wish I could do it more often, but it is quite pricey, especially the hot yoga.
Been really enjoying walking home from work everyday. I haven’t been making it out to the gym due to it being on the other side of the city, which sucks but with the weather so beautiful it is hard to motivate myself to go to a dark, dimly lit gym. Instead I’ve been walking way more often, including from work, doing my usual lunch time walking, running errands that I can walk to, that thirty day shred video and ultimate at least two times a week. A couple of weekends ago the boy and I both had appointments downtown and we walked to them, then run some more errands, checked out a festival type thing and walked back. We had afterwork drinks one Friday and I had my laptop so I walked home first to drop it off and then walked back and everybody was amazed I would spend that time walking. I am hoping to find a reasonably priced gym near by, but with the job situation so uncertain I find it hard to commit to a new gym.

Next weekend we have two engagement parties on the same day plus the boy’s annual guys steak night (which would take a natural disaster/death in family to miss) and the counter girls night out. Hoping to do drinks with former workmate soon but I swear we have opposite schedules.

Almost time to go and I have wine to buy