Last post of this year??

So, Tyler just got me on the interweb...  We are pretty bored here at the airport.  We should be boarding now but our flight got delayed 45 minutes, so it's been a long wait.  There has been a few things to keep us occupied for shorts periods, but I will get to those later.  First, I must tell you about the long and boring day we have had so far.

Right on cue, I woke up at 6:30am, no alarm, no kitty, just from the training of getting up every day at that time.  I wasn't impressed at all.  Tyler said that if I just tried to go back to sleep, I could, but I know that wouldn't happen.  I was already out of that sleepy haze and ready to get going.

Tyler showered and I tried to look for some food to eat for breakfast.  It seems like we did a pretty good job at cleaning out the fridge as we only have butter, mayo, potatoes and a few other non breakfast items.  It was kind of sad.  I had toast with nutella.  It made me very excited for the week to come as there is almost always nutella on Boxing Day.  I'm very excited for the Christmas days ahead.  But first, we have to get home.

Tyler went off to work and I just kind of sat there, thinking of all the things we might have missed in the packing process, what we could possibly leave behind... all sorts of things were running through my mind. I was also trying to spend lots of time with Kitty as she is now at our friends place for Christmas.  I gathered all her belongings and put them by the front door so we could transfer her as quickly as possible when Tyler came home for lunch.

When Tyler did come home, we shoved poor Kitty in her taxi and brought her over.  She didn't so much like that walk.  And then she was stuck in the taxi.  It was all very sad.  I'm hoping she is doing alright now in her home away from home.

We waited around the house for a bit before heading off to the airport.  After seeing the wonderful weather that was outside, we knew we would be getting home tonight.  Tyler had a hot dog for lunch and I had some more toast.  Our home is old mother hubbard right now.

After getting checked into the airport, we sat there for about an hour before boarding.  It was very rough sailing and for the first time in my life, I my heart almost stopped due to turbulence.  It felt like we were literally falling from the sky.  And then we got to Port Hardy.

Once getting to Hardy, we were informed that the key to the fuel truck broke off in the ignition and therefore the plane couldn't refuel.  It seems like there will always be problems when I try to come home.    I don't like that trend.

We finally arrived in Vancouver.  We tried to check in but were told it was too early.  Apparently it's not safe to carry around luggage that's already tagged.  We didn't really understand that logic as we think it would be safer to have it tagged.  Any way, it doesn't matter.  We enjoyed a dinner at White Spot with our giraffe bags and it was all fine.

We past through security following a few people who probably have never flown before.  The girl ahead of me kept on her big coat and a bag around her shoulders.  And she had to fish for her laptop at the bottom of a different bag.  It was ridiculous.

And now we are sitting here, waiting for our delayed flight to come in.  Looks like we will be boarding at 10:30, getting us to Edmonton around 1am.  And then we have to make the drive down to Tyler's parents place.  But, once we get there, there is a very nice soft comfy bed waiting for us.  That's what driving me to not abandon this trip.  Actually, there is much to look forward to, but tonight, right now, that bed is something of an 8th wonder of the world to us.  We are super tired.

A few interesting things have happened to keep our minds stimulated.  There was a guy sleeping next to us that had a snore that would rival a bulldozer.  It was just amazing.  Tyler walked the halls to see how far away it could be heard.  In a noisy terminal, Tyler could hear it about 150 feet away.  And then a cat came around the corner.  It was a sweet cat who was slinking around, acting like it couldn't be seen because it was so close to the floor.  Pretty cute.

And now there is no snoring man as he woke himself up (or maybe it was because I was laughing at him), and no kitty to watch.  Just waiting for time to go faster so we can come home to the land where snow flies.  It's not Christmas out here.  Things are still green.

I played some pac man and solitaire while Tyler reads a new deer magazine.  I'm sure it's more of a hunting, shoot the cute deer type of magazine, but I always try to find the cute pictures of the alive deers.

I don't know what these next 2 weeks have in store, but I wont be blogging about it.

Merry Christmas!!

Sonja

Tomorrow

Well today I woke up tired again.  I don't know why I haven't been able to sleep good.  I was tired when we went to bed last night and didn't get to sleep until after midnight.  So that was kinda irritating.

I got up at 7:30 and started getting ready for work.  It was the last full day of work.  I got to work and had a few things to do but it didn't last long.  It was a long and slow day.  I did a few x-rays and took blood from 1 person.  It was my longest day this week.  The week started out pretty good because it seemed to go by pretty quick, but the last two days have been pretty slow.  I have four more hours of work until I am off for 17 days.  It is pretty exciting.

I came home after a long day and we went to go see some wolf/husky puppies.  They were really cute and I want one, but they will grow up to be too big for our place right now.  We came home from the puppies and made supper, trying to clean up the last of our food, so it won't go bad while we are gone.  After supper we started packing for our trip.  We are just finishing up some laundry to finish up.

The Oilers are playing tonight so I have been keeping tabs on the game score, they are winning 6-2 5 minutes into the third period.

But we are off tomorrow.  The weather forecast is pretty good.  Sunny with cloudy periods.  So it is looking like we will make it to Vancouver and then we are home free.  Maybe we will be able to get onto the earlier flight to Edmonton.  We will see.

Tyler

Longest day EVER

I don't think a day has ever lasted as long as this one did.  I'm not usually the type of person who wishes time away, but today dragged on and on.  It never ended.  I'm surprised I made it to the end.

It started out alright.  I had a decent sleep with only one Kitty interruption.  I showered, ate some fruit for breakfast and headed out to work.

I wasn't sure what my day had in store but I was pretty sure it would be dull and boring.  And I was dead on the money.  I had a bit of work to do but quickly got that done and was sitting around waiting for the phone to ring once again.  It was a long day.  I can't even explain how badly I wanted to just be home.

Not much else to say about the work day.  I finally got to come home and started dinner while doing the dishes.  It really showed off my multi tasking ability.  Kitty got a good show.  Tyler came home and we ate real chicken burgers.  We had to eat quickly as we had plans for the evening.

We headed over to our friends house for a game of phase 10.  We had to keep it short as I was tired and need to get some sleep.

We got home a little while and now I'm blogging.  I'm going to bed super soon and can't really focus any more.  I'm still super excited about coming home in 2 days.

Sonja

3 days

Today the wind was vicious.  It was super windy all night and all of today.  And it poured buckets.  I woke up an hour later than Sonja again and then started to get ready for work.  I got to work and it started out pretty slow.  It picked up later in the day which was nice because it made the day go by quicker since we are waiting for Friday.

Some surprising news though, the plane came in and it was absolutely miserable, so if it can come today when most people thought it wouldn't, I'm pretty sure we will be getting out of here on Friday.  Especially since the weather report is looking up for us today.  It went from 15cm of snow that was being forecasted yesterday, to cloudy with sunny breaks.  So good news for us.

I came home from work at 5 and settled in and Sonja got supper started, when I got a phone call from work calling me back in.  I went back in for a half hour or so to do an x-ray and then came back home.  We were invited over to some of Sonja's co-workers place to play games.  So we went over there at 7.  It was nice because we got to drive.  They lived across town and it was still miserable out.  We played a couple games.  One called Apples to Apples and the other one called Rummolli.  I didn't win any of them.  We came home and drove around looking at all the Christmas lights that people have put up.  Surprisingly there are a lot of lights up here, considering there isn't a Canadian Tire you can just go to to pick up anything you need.

Tyler

Long monday

Today was a gong show.  It didn't start out that way and it actually was looking like a pretty nice day, until I got to work.

First of all, I got up without Tyler.  I hate it when he is on-call because he gets to sleep an extra hour and it makes for a lonely morning.  I feel like we spend less time together when he sleeps that one extra hour.  It's ridiculous.

So I get to work to find that my co-worker is out sick and I'm the only office worker.  Okay, I can deal with that.  Then when I started to set up the transcribing system, it wouldn't work.  Again, I can deal with that by calling the RCMP help desk.  So I call them up and after being on hold for a few minutes, I get yelled at.  Apparently I called the wrong number and the grumpy guy on the other line kind of told me I shouldn't be calling this number and all this.  It put me in a bad mood.  So I called the other number and ended up talking to a pretty nice guy.  And while I was talking with him, a cup of tea was poured all over the desk.  That part was actually a little funny but the system still wasn't fixed.

Any way, the rest of the day was pretty boring.  Besides a few phone calls, nothing really happened.  A few people came to the detachment to have meetings which meant that the person telling me what to do all day, was locked behind a door all day... meaning I kind of did less then normal.  I was pretty bored so I was texting with Amy and counting down the days.  I also made my list of what to pack for the 2 week trip.

I am just so excited to come home.

Sonja

Tired day

Today was a tiring day.  I slept a little bit better last night.  I was able to sleep in until 9:30 which is always nice.  I got out of bed and got a call from work so I went in.  I was there for over an hour and then was able to come home.  I came home and we watched some of Dodgeball.  About an hour later I got called back into work.  Again I was there for about an hour before being able to come back home.  I came home and we went off to the store to pick up a few things we didn't get yesterday.  We heard there was another flea market, so we went.  It was the same as yesterday, but a little bit more tables of stuff.  We didn't buy anything today.

After the flea market we came home and I made some chicken balls for lunch.  I ate to many and have spent the rest of the day too full and tired.  Eventually I went and took a nap.  I was pretty tired and still am.  I woke up from my nap and we started to watch the Oilers play Vancouver.  It was a pretty boring game for us to watch, they were losing so after the second period we turned it off hoping that they would turn the game around.  They didn't and lost 2-1.

We are watching The Simpsons and I will make some popcorn as soon as I am done this.

We are excited to come home.  5 days left.  The weather is calling for scattered flurries right now.  As long as they aren't scattering at 12 when the plane comes in.

Tyler

Card night!

I woke up at about 5 and didn't go back to sleep.  I thought that if I went to the bathroom instead of just ignoring it, I would be able to get back to sleep and have a great morning.  I couldn't have been more wrong.  I just laid there, eyes not wanting to shut, wishing Tyler would stop tossing and turning.  Turns out, he had been awake since 3 for some reason and was a little restless.  It's annoying being awake when you just want to sleep.

Other then waking up too early, our morning was great.  We had made the grocery list Friday night so it was a nice relaxing morning.  Tyler had to go into work at 10, so we planned on going to the store once he got home again.  

And that's what we did.  We went to store and surprisingly found most items on our list.  We have to go back tomorrow because apparently, real chicken breast is not good enough for chicken burgers.  Tyler needs to have the mashed up chicken bits burgers that we always buy.  I would rather have real chicken but if that's what he wants, who am I to stop him.  

We came home, unpacked the food, and ate some breakfast.  There was a flea market at the hall today so we went to the hall to see if there were any possible Christmas gifts there.  There wasn't.  It was mostly just a used clothes sale with a few pretty cool things.  We entered a draw to win etched glass made by someone local.  It's this huge mirror with a really cool etching on it that I really really want.  We would buy one straight up, but they are pretty pricy for us right now, what with coming home and stuff.  So we will see if we win it a few days before Christmas.  

We didn't buy anything so we came home and cleaned the house.  We were having friends over tonight and one of them is allergic to cats, so we dusted, vacuumed and got rid of all the stuff that just seems to collect every where.  Our house is now ready for us to go on holidays too, so thats nice.

The day went pretty quickly.  We went to a craft sale at around 4 and bought a few really cool ornaments.   We will be bringing them home at Christmas to show off because they are just so awesome.  We just had to have them.  We also bought a pretty cool locally made tree skirt.  I'm looking forward to showing off these cool things.  I hope there is room in the suitcase for them.

After looking around, we came back home to eat some din din.  We had chicken burgers and they were so so good.  I love real chicken burgers.  They are so filling.

Our friends were coming over shortly after dinner was made so we got ready for them to arrive.  They showed up and we played another game of Phase 10.  Tyler won, the little Turkey.  I almost caught up to him but he pulled out all the stops.  Then we played Dutch Blitz.  It's a new favorite.  It was well received.  Another game with lots of laughs and the most ridiculous comments.  They just left and now it's probably off to bed.

Less then one week until we get to be home.  I can't wait.  Keep praying the weather holds out and lets us out of here.  There is nothing worse then when plans get messed up and the whole day turns into a gong show.  Trust me, I know.  At least this time, if things turn to crap, I will have Tyler's shoulder to cry on instead of no ones.  

The weather today was pretty decent.  Tyler went to the grocery store in his flip flops so I guess it was warm enough to do that, even though he said they were turning purple on the way home.  It rained a little and didn't for a while.  Kind of a blah day, weather-wise.    

 

Kitty is still coned.  Not much news on that front.  She still loves to sleep on my stomach at night, and I like it too.  She still loves to run around like a crazy person.  I'm going to miss her when we are home, but its a good thing we will be with family and friends.  I can't wait.

Sonja