Teddy

So I purchased this little car on New years Day 2011. 

It was in really good shape; needed a new drivers side mirror and a good cleaning and that's all

My friend named it Teddy shortly after and it just stuck.

Teddy has been a good little car, especially considering what all I have put the poor guy through the past year...

To start off within about 2 weeks of driving Teddy I was on my way to the University (running late of course) and it was icy out...of course; it was January in Edmonton.... I did not take the road conditions into consideration at all and coming across the high level bridge there is at turn at the end well I failed to make the turn and slid right into the rails.... BIG time denting my rim and destroying my tie-rods and a few other important components in the front end. Luckily no Body damage... although that is usually easier to repair cause I just pay my daddio a visit ;)

So Luckily I was in school with about 6 mechanics at the time, so when I finally made it to the University after being yelled at and flipped off on the high level bridge by all the friendly Edmontonians for about half hour. They all took a look at it and my buddy tracked down some used parts and got me all fixed up the following weekend! yay for mechanically inclined friends! 

So a couple months later I was in my practicum at Jasper Place high school.... we had just had a fresh batch of snow the night before and yet again I was running late, and half asleep on my way to school so I ended up missing my turn and in an attempt to flip a U-turn at the next intersection I slid right into a curb. At first everything seemed O.K. and my car kept working well for a few blocks at least then it shut off and wouldn't move.... Eventually I made it to Jasper place and the mechanics teachers took a look at it and this time I again dented my rim BIG time and needed a new one (same side even) I also managed to crush my A.C. compressor and some other things in the front end yet again. They got it all fixed up for me before the end of the day and I was on my Merry way. 

A few months after that I was at my parents place and turned a corner leaving there house and heard a big clunk.... so my car had to stay in southern Alberta for about a week to get rebuilt.

In my defense these cars are made to be disposable...and can't stand up to ANYTHING!

This next story tops them all though...

In June on my way to my friend Stephanie Bennett's birthday party my buddy Justin came by to go with me and I said I could drive if he moved his car out of the way so he backed into the alley to make room for me to back out of my garage. I ran into the house grabbed my keys~opened the garage door~quickly jumped in my car popped it into reverse and backed out of the garage.

I heard a CRUNCH and my initial thought was OH NO MY NEW MIRROR!!!

However as I turned and looked to my left I realized GOOD GRIEF MY WHOLE DOOR IS GONE!!!

In my attempt to quickly get out of the garage so Justin could park and we could head to the party I neglected to shut my drivers side door before backing out of the garage.... YIKES!

Can't blame the weather for this one.

This is as close as the door would come to shutting

It folded all the way forward and crushed my front fender as well....

 Stretched the hinges wide open

The nicely twisted door

 Managed to force the garbage can through the wall

 more garbage can damage...

This is where the top of the door went through the wall

So I was bicycle bound for a week... My dad showed up on the weekend with a new door and Fender... It helps to have connections :) he called around and found me a silver door and fender off a scrap car... fit perfectly and I was back in business. 

Knock on wood.... but I haven't had any major issues since I figure Good 'ol Teddy needed a break... and I need him to last me till I leave at least.... so this winter I have been driving like a grandma and I have been leaving way earlier for things to kick my speeding habbit..... so far so good. I'm just gonna keep on being as cautious as I can..... This little car has already been through so much.... It deserves some TLC for a while.

Save driving everyone! It's gonna be a safe and joyous winter :)

Shout out to Karla ;)

Today I had planned on heading out to my place in Spruce Grove and getting a bunch of my stuff  'packed' away a bit better before it gets to cold out to do so before I leave.... but then my boss gave me 2 tickets to the Eskimos game for tonight and I remembered that my dearest Emma was gonna be in town for the weekend.... So I did not go to Spruce and now I have a few hours to kill as I have already done my banking and we made a big breakfast and now she is at NAIT for a few hours till the game.... So I am currently sitting on my couch with nothing to do. Which is a VERY VERY weird feeling.... as most of you know I have a VERY hard time sitting still I ALWAYS have something on the go so I'm kinda not sure what to do with myself right now..... So Blogging it is...

I never thought I would EVER have a blog because well honestly who would want to read about all the junk I do? My life really isn't that exciting but I have grown to Love it- I was forced into it by my dear friend Steph but now I actually do it on my own without being nagged too to much. But I like it because I have a TERRIBLE memory!! and if I didn't write down my ridiculous adventures somewhere they would be lost forever!! So yes Karla this is a shout out to you!! haha Start a BLOG so I can creep on you as well!

This is my friend Karla who is going to start a Blog right away! ;) 

(I was gonna take a picture with you at the wedding on the weekend for this purpose but you took off to soon so I had to make do with what I had haha.)

I honestly didn't think anyone knew about my blog but it turns out more people know about this thing than I realized..... guess I better be on my best behavior haha.

If only I could keep up!!!

Wow! where has the time gone?
seriously.
each week seems to fly by faster and faster than the last.
I wish I could keep up with everything, especially this darn Blog.
So I am just gonna briefly post on some of the bigger FUN weekends I have had in the last while.....
I could seriously spend all day writing all the funny stories and mishaps but sadly I just don't have time I REALLY need to keep a journal.... well I do keep a 'journal' but I send it away all the time.... anyway here's my life over the past while in a nut shell.....

Welcome Week -- weekend!
I honestly did not plan on doing any of the welcome week activities this fall because I anticipated I would be working but the overtime died off so I was able to go.... and boy am I glad I did I had soooo much fun!
It was a jam packed weekend! Laura moved back to town so we got her moved back into her place mostly Friday night & we went to a dance/ variety show highly entertaining.
After the dance the northern lights were out BIG TIME!
So Laura & I headed out to her trailer and set up her couch in the driveway and watched the northern lights! it was HILARIOUS! mostly because we were doin this on the driveway on the trailer park but any way SUPER fun and super cool to watch!!

We started out Saturday morning with a Breakfast party at some friends house.
Then we ran some errands and went swimming at the ledge for the afternoon (I had never done this before-it was fairly entertaining) There were tonnes of wedding photos being taken we counted 9 different wedding parties in the 2 hours we were there. Which I think is kinda funny that the background of their photos have people in bikinis all over the place.... but anyway. Also I think it is weird that we swim in the fountains of our provincial building- is this normal? does this happen in other capital cities? or is Edmonton just REALLY messed up?

Then we went  on the 'Amazing race' around Edmonton

Where we had to do a bunch of challenges and take pictures of certain things all over the city. It was surprisingly fun I really didn't want to use the gas in my car to do this but it was totally worth it.

Then there were activities after including a rock-paper-scissors tourny and prizes which was fun. 

But the best part of the day was @ 10:30 when tones of people from Millcreek went and played games in the water at the ledge till like 12:30 It was SOOOOO much fun!!!

Laura doin jazzersize or something--I'm not entirely sure....

 Laura & I-- cutest cuties :)

 Megan & I-- Posers haha

 Kim is the best!

 This was supposed to be a magic carpet ride....haha

Anyway ledge is WAY funner @ night time just sayin....

Then the next day was church and a fireside and they changed the ward boundaries and I got booted out of Millcreek..... SO SAD :(

But I will survive Highlands will be wonderful I'm sure (Haven't been yet due to a temple trip--cousins B-day--and conference--next weekend is thanksgiving--the next weekend is my friends farewell--the next weekend is my cousins farewell-- the weekend after that I WILL be going to my new ward. haha life gets soooo crazy sometimes!!)

Waterton Weekend

So the weekend after all the shuffling of the wards we had already planned. A bunch of people car pooled down to Kim Archibalds cabin which is half-way between Waterton (MY FAVORITE PLACE) and Cardston. So we drove down friday night and everyone we did a temple trip saturday morning which was awesome. I LOVE THE TEMPLE!!

My friend Megan (far right) has a sweet camera and took some WAY cool pics:

 I was just looking at my shoes here and had just said "O crap am I in your way?" haha she was like "nope you are what I am taking pictures of "lol

 I LOVE this one!!

 Yup... I'm a geek :)

Then we headed back to the cabin and had some lunch and waited for everyone to arrive,

this was the view from the cabin. 

 this was the cabin we all stayed at....don't be fooled by this picture this thing was HUGE inside!!!

 then we headed to Waterton for the rest of the day and went hiking. 

I LOVE HIKING!!!

This was Laura at the end of the hike her legs just didn't want to stand anymore

 This was at roughly the 'halfway' point it was soooooo flippin COLD but this pic was actually me posing to look like a homeless starggler

 da crew @ da freezing half way point

we may not look to impressed but we were having the time of our lives.... no jokes!

 Welcome to B.C.
my birthplace :)

 the end of our hike it was so windy @ the top I thought I was gonna blow away ....
literally!

 and the hand with the ring is my freaky swollen michlen man hand. for some reason on the way down my hands swelled up SUPER BAD! I had sausage fingers. it was weird.

Thanks for the AWESOME weekend and for the great hospitality Archibalds! you rock!!

MUMSY came to town

the weekend after waterton my mom came up and Daddio treated us to Manicures and Pedicures! I had never had a pedicure before it was lovely!

 Thats the cute little lady who was in charge of me.

 Mumsy & me

 My hands look super freaky in this pic

toes are weird...

Thanks for the fun weekend mumsy! I LOVE it and had a lot of fun!!

UGLY pants party!!

While we were down at the cabin we decided it would be a good idea to have an Ugly pants party for the girls during priesthood session which was 2 weeks away. So we did! 

It was SOOO FUN! we busted out the root beer Keg, and had a chocolate fountain and everyone participated and wore thier UGLY pants :)

Decor:

 getting it ready

 adding the dry ice to the rootbeer

 mixin it up

witches brew

 The PANTS!!

 chocolate fountain

 bye bye

 word up

Laura preparing for broadway

 dance dance revolution

 sexy pants :)

no one hardly drank ANY rootbeer!! we ended up bottling it and giving it to a bunch of guys

 this was mine and Megans sad attempt at polishing it off

 the lallygagers

 the last of the crew...

 unicorn sighting
(youtube that phrase it is a funny video)

And well there you have it that's what I've been up to over the past month or so...... I wish I could go more into detail cause there are tones of funny stories to go long with all of this.... but there just aren't enough hours in the day.....