tomorrow night- florida!

hello hello

Here i am
busy week here in windsor. jon has finishes his exams! yay! his last one was on wednesday. he left to montreal yesterday by train.
I forgot to mention that jon and i exchanged our chanukah gifts, I got him this chair massager, but I dont think we like it, so Ill return it. He got me tickets to see the circus here at the casino in january, im so excited! he put the tickets in a old box to trick me!


We went out to celebrate thursday night. We went to Red Lobster, neither of us had been there, well maybe i was there in florida once, but many ages ago! it was very nice, perhaps our new favorite restaurant. the caesar salad was very good! I will post the pictures after. Then we had a coupon for a movie, so we went to see Four Christmases, we went in with low expectations, but it turned out to be great, we laughed a lot!


Friday I had the day off, and there was a mini storm here, well they call it a storm, really it was just a regular snow fall in montreal terms. So we needed to buy a shovel, we went to canadian tire, and got the last one!

We always like to monitor the beer store on sunday mornings, when it opend at noon. there are always tons of cars there! weird.

I am working monday, tuesday, and half day wednesday, and then taking a shuttle to detroit airport, and landing at 955pm, my mom and dad will be waiting!

hello

Hello there
this is a page I made today, about my beloved Clarabelle, who is no longer with me.
Last night while Jon was studying, I went to a movie by myself, I have never done that before. But I enjoyed it. I went to see Role Models, a stupid funny comedy, well it turns out, it was hilarious! I loved it, kept laughing out loud. Yesterday I cleaned chickens, and today I did 3 loads of laundry. I am turning into quite the housewife. Jon has only 2 more exams, and hes done on Wednesday. Here is a cookie card I had made for him at mrs. fields. (does anyone know why I chose pink and green?)

I just made an excellent supper, and we even ate at the kitchen table! We had a very good salad, one of my favorites. (couldnt have it up to this point because I never remembered to buy sesame oil), then we had chicken with italian dressing and corn flake crumbs, and then green beans almondine. Friday night I went to my staff christmas party, it was at a restaurant/hall. I suppose there are no vegetarians in Windsor, because it was buffet and everything had meat or meat sauce. Quite interesting. Tomorrow at work is my residents christmas party, santa will be visiting. I have now helped out at 4 other exact same parties, so hopefully I can pull it off. Florida in ten days!

day off

ventured out on my own today across the border.
I have been having scrapbook withdrawal, and found out yesterday that in Michigan there is an Archivers store, which is a chain of scrapbooking stores. I believe its the only one of its kind, its not like michaels, its just scrapbooking. So I checked it out today, and it was beautiful. They had many of the new products, although I have most of it from when I went home in October. but I will look forward to going back after the new products are released.
So then i went to the mall to go to Macys, bought nothing. Then to TJ Maxx, Michaels, and marshalls, nothing! i guess thats ok since the exchange is so bad now. And let me say, thank god for my GPS, the thing is amazing! I would still be in Detroit without it, they are doing so much construction around the border area, its impossible to navigate.
Good news is, I did not have to pay duty. In fact, not once at this border have we had to.
Back to work tomorrow.

Decided to change the background to this, because im going to florida in 2 weeks!

3 weeks

Im off to florida in 3 weeks, cant wait! That also means 3 weeks until Christmas, that came pretty fast, it was just halloween!
Yesterday at work, I was in charge of a card night, and I had to break up a fight between 4 residents! They were yelling at each other that one was too slow, one lost the count, one didn't know who the dealer was.... oh my. I told them it to calm down, its just a game!

Here it is!

P.S. Oh wow! My blog buddy Ash just mentioned me on this blog recognition think going around. How cool! I shall mention that I enjoy reading hers too because she takes very nice photos! A new blog that I now check EVERY day, is cake wrecks.

My very own Chanukah Tree! I love it! I was so excited to find it on sale at Zellers, and find blue and silver decorations. If you look closely you will see some chanukah garland on it. The one ornament on it is a cruise ship, that we bought last year on our cruise. Normally it is on display with our other cruise ship.
These are all our Chanukah presents that my mom sent me! Before I knew I would actually see her in Florida on Chanukah.
Here is our new friend, that I won in a gift exchange last week at my work Christmas party. As you can see, he already made friends with Mimi and Frog. We named him Rollo. When you touch his hand he sings and dances, very cute.
And finally, this is my Christmas tree at work, I decorated it all by myself. Its in my area, so it was my job. Its not as nice as the others, because I used whatever I could find that was left over.
Yesterday Jon came to see my work because we were having a bazaar.
Here is a picture from noemis wedding in july.

Im going to Florida!

So the great news is that yesterday I got my work schedule for the holidays, and after arranging a few shifts I was able to get 5 days off! So im off to Florida on Christmas eve. cant wait. i dont know what I would have done if I had to stay alone in Windsor for the holidays. Jon will be going home.

Last thursday was jons birthday, I made him sushi, it was my first time, but came out quite good.Here it is all cut, my favorite is cream cheese and avocado.


Jon opening his gifts, the best was the beatles monopoly, that he didnt know existed! And I made a donation in honor of him to the michael j fox foundation.
For his birthday cake, he wanted a bluberry pie, also a first for me, and it was fabulous! Definately a keeper.

All good things

HI all
Iwill start with some great news, my lovey is going to come visit me! Marvin gave sam her chanukah gift early, and its to fly her to windsor! We just need to pick a date.

I am on a puzzle kick, and here is one I recently completely. Its the cover of the 3rd beatles anthology, its now hanging in the apartment



I finally sat down to scrapbook, and here is a page I made with Steph and Hillary.

I have also read some good books recently, and now Im reading the new Hugh Hefner biography, which so far is very good. (except that its really heavy!)

my weekend

I worked Friday until 8, there was Diners Club, where 20 residents can pay to have a special meal, and we set up nicely with table cloths and so on. Was a lot of work, especially since it was my first time. But it went well.

Saturday I went out from 11:15 until 5, and it was pouring the entire time. I went to about ten different stores, in and out of the car with my umbrella and my pants soaking wet. I did manage to get a GPS, rolling pin, and some chanukah and christmas gifts.

Today I drove to the dollarama to check out the GPS, im very happy with it. I did some scrapbooking, Ill post the pages later. Jon and I went to the new Superstore (loblaws) that opened near by, and I loved it! Much better than the one that I have been going to, which is huge. This one is very similar to loblaws at home, so I felt at home! I got everything to make sushi for jons birthday on Thursday. I hope I can do it. I am also making him a blueberry pie.

AND A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER MIKE TODAY!

Conference

Today was a very long day. I was chosen from work with 8 others to go to our head office in Sarnia for a conference. Who knew that Sarnia was 2 hours away from Windsor. not me!
I had to be at work at 7am, it was pitch black when I got there!

The memo I got said to dress causally and comfortable. So there I am dressed in my Lululemon outfit, only to walk into a room where everybody is in 'business causal'. ooops. my bad! I still think I looked better than the lady in the baby blue suit, black shoes, and gold belt. (Jon thought it might look like this)

I actually really enjoyed the day, there was a great motivational speaker, and I got to know some people that I work with. I also learned more about the company that I work for, and how much everyone loves it. Everyone there works in long term care or retirement homes, and they all love their jobs.

Still sick

I cant believe this, im still sick. I didnt even go to work yesterday. Im a bit better today, I tried not to get too close to the residents.
Tomorrow I must go to a conference of some sort for work, its for new employees. I thought it was near by, but it turns out it is in Sarnia, which is about 1.5 hours away. I have to meet at work at 7am to go on a van. No one will want to sit with me because I will be sniffling and sneezing on them!

Windsor=Liars!

So I thought it was great when everyone in Windsor told me that it doesnt snow until January. Imagine my surprise to see snow on my car this morning! It wasn't a lot, but it was still there!
At least it was a good topic of conversation with me at work today, I brought a bunch of the residents to look out the window.
Im just waiting for Jon to come home from school, I have dinner ready and then he needs to go back for a project meeting.

new pictures

Hi there, All of a sudden people from all over the world are landing on my blog, please let me know what led you here, thanks.

Thought I would share some photos from the past few days of life here in Windsor.

This is one of my personal favorites, jon trying on my red jacket.


Here is mr frog getting ready for his bath.


and this is me, as Minnie Mouse on Halloween.

Well it seems as though I have a tickle in my throat. I woke up with it yesterday. Wednesday night at work I was calling Bingo without a microphone, so I think that might have made it worse. I have to work tomorrow, so I was off today, that was lovely. I tried to relax so I would not get more sick, I did that buy lying on the couch and watching 4 consecutive episodes of the OC.

Jon and I went out to dinner tonight, to a new place. (well new to us) its called the Mangolian Grill. You get to pick all your vegetables, meat, and sauce, and then they make you a stir fry. Just like our beloved Zyng restaurant in Montreal, but 3x the price. When we were leaving they gave us a 2 for 1 movie coupon, so that was quite nice. We shared this ginormous drink in a huge martini glass. It was green apple alcohol and 7up, quite good. The picture is from jons cell phone so its not too clear.

In 2 weeks, we are going to see Madonna in Detroit, really looking forward to it!

It turns out that I may get 4 consecutive days off at the holidays. That is what my boss said to me, but I wont get excited until I see it on my schedule. I kept telling my mom that I NEED to go to Florida, because there are things there that I cannot get anywhere else! Such as my nail polish at the flea market. How can I not buy it there? I ALWAYS buy it there. Well, it turns out that life goes on when you must buy nail polish at full price in the mall. So thats what I did yesterday, I went and bought the new color I wanted, for 9.85, instead of 6 US!

I do hope that I get to go to Florida though.

Today it is hot and sunny in Windsor. I was out in a t shirt. Just finished buying jons birthday presents, now I will have fun wrapping them.
I forget to mention, that while on the way back to windsor from the toronto airport, we got lost. This was after the flight was an hour and a half late, full of turbulence. And then, to make a long story short, in between london and windsor, there are no service stations open late, and all the small town were completly dark, so of course we ran out of gaz. Luckily we have the canadian tire auto club, and they came with gaz at 1am. We got home at 2.

I thought all our car trouble was over, until sunday while i was going to work, the battery light came on once again. I thought i was going to die. Brought it once again to canadian tire, and they informed me that there was a broken wire due to installing and removing the alternators.(the first problem). so they were nice and sent me yesterday to and from work by taxi. I hope to never go to canadian tire again. I told the lady there, becky, that she is my best friend in windsor.

I am bored in Windsor.

What kind of activities do people do alone in the evenings?

Montreal, Cake, and Coach

After my last post erased, I will probably put this in point form!
Here it goes. So up above is my family at my sisters engagement party. My future BIL is to my right. The party was very nice. And they got beautiful gifts.

Here is me and my last cake decorating class.

Here are some of my supplies
And here is the final cake, with the Wilton rose. I didnt quite master it, but its not bad!


Today on my way home from work, i went to the new coach outlet! yes thats right, a canadian coach outlet 10 minutes from my house! I bought 2 things, a weekly planner, which I really really wanted, and a white summer purse, majorly on sale! Today was a good day.
Tomorrow is halloween, and I will dress as Minnie Mouse at work.

ahhhhhhhhhhh

Im so very very mad right now. actually i am swearing but i wont right that. I just wrote a huge post with tons of pictures, and it was doing its automatic saves, and the all of a sudden i must of highlighted the whole thing, pressed a key, and it all erased! i cant find it anywhere. so mad. and i have to go to work now.

New cake

Here is the cake from last nights class. It was hard, we learned the wilton rose, and I think it will take years of practice to get it. I have one class left next week. I dont think I will take level 2 yet because there is so much preparation! For every class you need a two level cake and 3 batches of icing! We also learned the shell border, thats the pink around the bottom.
I finished my first week at work, 5 days straight! Im starting to learn a lot of names of the residents, but theres so many! Yesterday we had scrapbooking on the schedule, and theres a volunteer to come in and do it. Well, it was a creative memories consultant, and I told her Im a scrapbooker, she said I will be so impressed! Well let me tell, i was not impressed! in the least!!!!
She cropped every picture into a circle. Used only white background paper, with a thin border sticker. Not my style at all!

Tomorrow I go home! yay!
Driving 4 hours to Toronto and then flying to Montreal.

2 pictures

This is the plane at the Windsor airport. The airport is the smallest airport I have ever seen. There is no separate place for arrivals or departures, and only one gate. One person at one desk, and one security line to take you to the one waiting area. The plane had 9 rows.


This is the first cake I made in my cake decorating class. its not perfect, you will see the creases in the white icing part, but im still happy with it. The rainbow was traced on wax paper in piping gel, and then transferred onto the cake, and then you use the piping gel as your outline. I put Jons name on to cheer him up! I bought 2 cool things, a trim n turn cake plate, it turns while you ice it to make it easier. And then I bought a cake dome, that makes it easy to carry the cake. Right now its sitting on the base. Next week we are learning the wilton rose.

Another day

hmmm
What to say.
Nothing exciting going on at all. Nothing to look forward to, except my trip home on thursday. After that, its work every week with no end in sight. weird! Dont know how people do it.
I had two real days so far, saturday and sunday ill be shadowing someone, and then on my own.

jon is back at school, trying to get back into it. And I am cleaning the apartment. Fun Fun.

In good news, I read the most fabulous book! My friend erin gave it to me, The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, excellent! its one of those chick lit books that you read in 2 days :)

This has not been a good few days.
I flew home because of Jons grandfathers funeral, and since ive been home, I have 2 more! Could you imagine!
Sadly, a very good friend of my parents, who has been suffering for a long time, and then all of a sudden my cousins father.
Tomorrow is jons grandfathers funeral, and I hope he will start feeling better and getting back to normal.

Sadly Ill be coming home tomorrow...

I am excited to see my family though,

and its a big jewish holiday tomorrow night, so it will be nice to be together.

Really sad news

Today I got the call that Jons grandfather has a cerebral hemorrhage and it is not good. So today was jons first day back at school after the 3 week strike, and when he walked in I had to tell him. It was not fun. They are very close just like me and my grandparents.
So we don't know what to do, if we should come first thing in the morning, or wait. Not to mention that I have my first day at my new job on Wednesday. Oh boy. This sucks, thats all there is to say.

By the way, jons grandpa, who he calls zeida, is really cool! Hes 87 and still wears jeans!

And to think, all day I was thinking I was going to come blog about having to bring the car in again today to Canadian tire!

Thanks to my friend Claude, I personalized my blog!
I saw the link from her blog, and it was really easy to do.

i got the job!

yay!
Its the one i had the interview with last week. I guess they liked me!
Its to do activities with seniors at a nursing home. The place is really nice, and its 20 minutes away, not bad. I start on Wednesday!

Something to look forward to...

I just signed up for a 4 week cake decorating class at Michaels. Im really excited, I always wanted to do it. And all the classes in october were 40% off, so its costing me 22$ for the 4 classes. I hope its fun.
And im going home in 3 weeks today!

Our New Year

Here are 2 pictures from the dinner I just made for jon and I
and here is the nice presentation i made!so yesterday I went to the synagogue here to pick up a challah, and the woman asked me if someone called. but I had been out all morning, she said someone was calling to invite us to dinner! So when we got home, we called, and we went for dinner. They lived in a big beautiful house, and all their family was there. They were so nice and friendly to us. The husband is a lawyer, and good friends with the Dean of the law school here. By the way, jon is still not back at school! this is the third week. and no school tomorrow, so we could have been home for the holidays. oh well.
Today we went to the synagogue, we went for an hour. There is not a big jewish population here, so it was sad to see it so empty, there were many many empty rows.
yesterday I had my interview, It was a group one, me and 2 others. One lady had 15 years experience working with seniors. thats all!

Life In Windsor

Jon swimming at pelee island


On the ferry to Pelee Island, 1.5 hours!

On the river, Peace Fountain (claims to be biggest fountain in the world, shoots up 70 ft)

Jon taking a nap

Glo Golf mini putt

Great discovery yesterday

yesterday I made the great discovery of my new favorite store: Bulk Barn. Its canadian, but not in Quebec yet. its a grocery store, but everything is in big containers, and you fill up how much you want in a bag, and they weigh it. Like at candy stores. but its amazing, they have everything! Every type of flour, sugar, pasta noodles, cake mix, falafel mix, garlic powder, baking powder....theres so much! so cool! So i enjoyed that finding.

Jons school is still on strike. its been two weeks now. So he had only one week of law school so far, and he is left to learn everything on his own. hopefully it will be back on monday.

tomorrow we may go to Pelee island for the day, not quite sure what it really is yet.

Today i went for a walk along the river, it was really nice! you can walk for hours, and the path is nice and clean. Was very sunny today!

I'm touched

I just went down to check the mail, and I got a letter from one of my clients from when I worked at the CLSC! This is a woman who has MS, and I visited with her twice a week for a few months. We did card making together. This made my day.

Other than that, I have a job interview next monday, its to do activities with seniors, perfect for me. Its a group interview, never had one like that. Besides that, NO ONE is hiring in windsor!

I posted this on the SC site

So last night, I went to a crop in my new home town of Windsor. And let me say, that it really made me miss everyone! It was like a complete repeat of my first crop at SC, walking in not knowing anyone, and sitting alone. Its so awful! The owner introduced me, and then they started calling me the 'new girl'! not in a mean way... but come on!
One lady couldnt understand why I didnt have a french accent!

After the owner who is only a few years older than me sat down, and she was very friendly. I think I impressed her with all my scrapbooking knowledge. So that was that, I dont think I will go again too soon, not to mention, their prices are through the roof!
So I just wanted to say I miss everyone.


Jon and I just went to see the Batman movie, I loved it! We were lucky to find it still playing. This afternoon we went for a long walk along the detroit river, it was really nice! Its called statue park, and there are huge statues and interesting things to look at.

My sister is having an engagement party on October 26, so jon and I are heading home! We will drive to toronto and fly from there. I look forward to seeing my family and friends, and going to scrapbook centrale!

Ohhhh boy
not a good day today
i was going to the loblaws superstore, about 15 minutes away, when i noticed the battery light was on, so when i got to the parking lot, i turned the car on and off, and then it wouldnt turn on. so... what am i supposed to do? i dont know a soul in this city. so i noticed a canadian tire across the street, they gave me the number to a tow truck, and they towed it back to the canadian tire near my apartment. (let me just mention, that when we moved from quebec, our CAA expired)
so.. we needed a new alternator, whatever that is. I had no choice but to take it, I dont know any other places to start comparing prices , so there goes 500$!
Jon knew what happened, on on his way home from school, he bought me a huge bouquet of flowers! so nice!

tonight we will find out who the father of kellys child is on the new 90210, it better be dylan!

scrapbook withdrawl

hello all
i have been here 2 weeks, and i only went to the scrapbook store once, the first day. \i didnt get a good friendly feel, so i never went back. I feel so sad not to have a store that i love, even when i wasnt working at sc, i would still go in quite often. i think i will go to back to see the store, maybe even go to a friday crop.
So far i havnt really made any friends, jon has at school. so far i havnt met anyone who has a lot in common with me. Other than my no scrapbook/no friends situation, all is good. My parents left this morning, we had a good time. it rained the whole weekend! yesterday we went to troy michigan, to a HUGE mall. very fancy, all the nice stores, nothing i can afford! haha out of the four of us, no one bought anything except jon. my mom and i were looking for outfits for my sisters engagement party, and for the holidays. not sure if im going to go to synogogue here, i will check it out.

First house guests!

My parents are coming! they will be here in 1.5 hours, jon and i just cleaned the whole apartment.
We have now been here 2 weeks, i cant believe it. Yesterday i bought a new laptop, it has a 17 inch screen, quite large. i hope its good, i had a stressful situation at best buy, so i ended up at staples, with a HP.
thats all for now!

Apartment pictures!

some of our 31 boxes

Big Leons truck with our bedroom set and couch

Our bed, it doesnt look it, but it is so BIG. I have trouble gettin on and off. There is supposed to be another tall armoire on the the left, but it didnt fit! People at Leons didnt measure correctly.

SO we put it here...

My messy scraproom. The desk is really much bigger than it looks, and it took me 5 hours to put it together! I thought I would die knowing Jon had the same one. But we did it together and it only took 2 hours.

Our living room. we were looking everywhere for that big frame, and just found it yesterday. I think we need a bigger tv, it looks quite tiny there.

If you look closely, you will see my 90210 and OC dvds, they look lovely all lined up.

Not sure what to put here, big open hallway. ( the apartment really isnt this dark, I am just not a good photo taker!)

The kitchen

I loved decorating the bathroom, this picture is not great, but its pretty! All matching.