Thank goodness we weren't being robbed

My, my, my, September has certainly flown by. I had such a good start to the month with all the posts I was making, but then hit a bit of a slouch. My bad.

Things are going well. I just had Johnny home for a week and now he's back to work. It's so nice to have him at home, even though I skip studying at school to spend time with him, it is so worth it. Oh my goodness, I never told you about how he surprised me!

H'okay, so:
Johnny wasn't suppposed to get home last week until Friday, which really stunk because that's when us rugby girls had to go to BC for some games and we wouldn't get back til Sunday night (we won both our games, by the way). So I had resigned myself to the fact that I wasn't going to get to see my husband until Sunday night and we would end up only having two and a half days together because he had to leave for work on Wednesday.

BUT!
Johnny surprised me by coming home on Wednesday instead so we had that night and all of Thursday before I had to leave and then we had all of Monday and Tuesday together as well as Wednesday morning. (follow me so far?)

So I got home after practice last Wednesday and I see that the light in our place is on and I could hear someone doing something in the kitchen so my first thought is that someone has broken in and stealing our stuff and it was up to me to beat them down and save the day. I quickly rummaged in my bag and got out the first thing I thought to use as a weapon: my rugby boot. With my stinky shoe in hand I slowly opened the door only to find that the burglar had cleaned my kitchen table and set it for dinner. As I put my bag down in the entry way and stepped into the kitchen, I found Johnny at the stove making dinner as if he'd been doing it our whole married life. A wave of relief, confusion, joy, anger and embarrassment flooded through me. Relief for the fact that we weren't being robbed, confusion for not knowing how Johnny pulled it off, joy because my husband was home and anger because my husband tricked me and came home before I got a chance to clean the house for him, hence the embarrassment as well.

Do you know what the first thing I did when I saw him? I smacked him on the arm and scolded him for tricking me. Then I gave him a hug and a kiss and thanked him for dinner and for tricking me. Then we sat down together and had a lovely dinner of perogie supreme (perogies, hamburger meat, sour cream and salsa).

The end!

puttin' a twist in your stem

Does anyone else play that little game you play when you're twisting the stem off an apple and you say the letters of the alphabet in your head as you twist, and then the letter it breaks off on is the first letter of the guy you'll marry?

I still play this game, but I need to change the rules now. Today I was twisting the stem off my apple and it came off on C and I thought, "I'm gonna marry a guy named Carl. Oh wait..."

Now that I'm married I've changed the game to just trying to land on the same letter of my husband, but it hasn't happened so far so I've decided to change the game again. From now on, when I twist off my stems, it'll be the letter of my first child's name. Which is a long ways down the road from now.

Better Together

Today I am thankful for my rugby ladies.

It's a lonely business to have your husband work out of town for extended periods of time, but it's not so bad when you're with friends and family. I met a lady today who told me her granddaughter just recently got married and her husband is away at work for a month at a time. I'm so grateful Johnny's only gone two weeks at a time. So to everyone working the semi long distance relationships because of work, I feel ya.

I can feel pretty lonesome sometimes when it's just me in my little basement suite, but luckily I have things to keep me busy. Right now, rugby is one of them. I love being with the Pronghorn girls. Honestly, you wouldn't think a bunch of rugby players would be nice people, but these girls are the funniest, sweetest group of girls you'll ever meet -- and I get to be a part of them.

High Class

Hey friends,

I'm trying to think of something fun to share with you but I'm drawing a blank.

Nevermind! I just thought of something...

Yesterday we took our team photos for the new rugby season. We were all dressed up in our gear and got our photos done for the FIRST time on the Pronghorn logo at the U of L stadium. You'd think it wouldn't have taken so long considering we're the most succesful team the school has. Oh well.

Anyway, I just wanted to share with you the last photo we took.


Beauty.

Back to the Swing of Things

Helllloooooo!

Sorry for the abrupt hiatus. Things were pretty crazy once EFY was over with all the wedding business and whatnot and now in my new place we don't have internet! So I've had even less of a chance to blog.

H'okay, I'm just going to give you a quick update on my life and hopefully I'll be able to give you something within a week.

EFY was awesome. I couldn't have asked for a better group of girls. I am so glad I got the chance to do it before I got married. Speaking of which...

I'm married now! It's weird getting used to the last name mostly because it's such a mouthful. But I'll get the hang of it eventually. The wedding was awesome and the food and people were fantastic. We honeymooned out at Kootenay Lake, BC and it was so awesome. I loved showing Johnny around my favourite places to go at the Kootenay.

School has started up and this semester looks to be a good one. I've got Anatomy, Wall Climbing and Music in Recital. There's also an Intro to Biomechanics class that I just picked up, but we'll see if I keep it. Along with school, there is also rugby. Wahoo! Glorious rugby! I was nervous that I wouldn't make the team again, but I did and now I'm excited to have an even better season than I did last year.

Alright. That's all I have time for now, but I will hopefully be back with something a little more fun for you.