summer vacations

Summer is well under way and just thought of waking up at 7AM five times a week in just seven weeks makes me shudder! It's crazy to think that summer is almost halfway over and I haven't really gone anywhere! That is always how my summer's go, with the exception of Summer 2010 when I went away at the start of July. Usually however I stick around town doing nothing really important until the end of July and then August is usually crammed full of things I want to get down before school starts. Crazy but that's me.

This year has been a little different as I am not sure if I am going to have a job but one vacation is set in stone whether I get the job or not. That vacation is creeping up in two weeks time and even though I won't even be leaving the province it has to be, hands down, the highlight of my summer. I will be getting to see Rebecca again!! I am beyond excited for this encounter, I feel as if a part of my family is missing! I lived with her for 6 months, I don't even want to think about how far away the next time I will be seeing her after this is... But you have to focus on the good, I am so excited to see her and her aunt Solange again. I can't even think of words to express how happy and excited I am, ecstatic maybe? I will be travelling to the North of NB a couple of days before their arrival which gives me time to spend time with my grammie and see her new place, then I will be meeting up with them and we will travel down the province with some stops along the way showing them the beautiful province of New Brunswick. Neither of them has really explored it and it is Solange's first time ever so I am hoping it will be enjoyable! Then they will drop me off, spend a day in my town and then be on their way. It is going to be terrible to have to say good-bye yet again to Reb! :(

Then, job permitting my friend Shantel and I have a shopping trip down to New Hampshire planned which I am looking forward to because it will be a great place to get some school clothes shopping done but if I get the shop I will have to back out of it, which I hope I don't have to do but we'll see. I have no problem cancelling a simple shopping trip with someone who I can see whenever and see every day at school. But my trip with Rebecca, no way in hell I am cancelling that. I would even go so far as to say that I will decline the job if I get it if I cannot get the time. This is so important to me that it is a necessity. Hopefully it won't come to that!

tea, candles and kittens

The weather where I live has been gorgeous recently, and many days have been spent outdoors at the park or beach. But after being outside all the time, constantly out and about under the sun it is kind of relaxing for that one over cast day when you can just stay in bed still in your pj's all day. I am probably one of the very few people who feel this way but I need that day every now and then when I light some nice smelling candles, make myself a cup of tea and busy myself in a magazine or on the computer. It's kind of theraputic for me and of course my cats will eventually slink into my room and hop onto my bed where they will curl into a ball and be fast asleep in five seconds flat. Lucky buggers.

The other evening I did something that I kind of hope will become a weekly tradition. I am one of the ones who admits that she spends way to much time on the computer. Even if I visit all of my daily websites and do all that I deem necessary on the computer I will continue to stay on and mindlessly surf the interwebz until before I know it, hours have passed. I will be the first to admit that it's quite sad and pathetic. That's why the other evening I shut down my laptop, turned off the WiFi on my iPod, ignored my phone, lit up a wide variety of candles and grabbed a stack of old magazines, slowly working my way through them. It was in fact one of the most peaceful evenings I had in awhile and I enjoyed it a lot more that an evening spend staring at the screen of a computer yet again. Before I knew it my most irratible kitty Survivor, who isn't a kitty in any sense of the word being the eldest of my three babies and the big, bad, king of the castle I call home, jumped up onto my bed and curled up on my bed and quickly fell asleep where he remained all night and until 10AM the next morning.

That in itself was lovely just because know that he is older Survivor doesn't like to cuddle very much and rarely sleeps with me preferring to sleep on weird hard places like the telephone book or the table. When I woke up the next morning all three of my kitties had surrounded me and were all asleep. All in all, it was lovely and I feel that more evenings without technology are in my future.