Sad Puppy Story

You will never believe this story I heard on the news last night...it is so sad. This beautiful, 10-year-old German Shepherd dog was stabbed twice by it's owner. She has struggled with depression and was drunk, and just started stabbing her dog. I guess she hit the puppy once above the eye and once in the jaw and missed a major artery by 2 cm. Her husband woke up to the dog's whimpering and was able to tie a towel around puppy's neck to stop the bleeding a bit, though there was an awful lot of blood lost. The dog had no defensive wounds, but why would it? The woman was the master and the sweet puppy was just submissive and docile. Anyway, it was so horribly sad.

I had a music practice after work with Amy, one of the girls in our youth group, for a couple of songs but when I was leaving work my car was covered in snow and it took me about 15 minutes just to sweep off my car. After I left her house I had to sweep off my car for about another 10 minutes and it was coooolllllld :( Now, I fully admit that I am a snow-rookie southern BC driver, but some Albertans drive so fast that it's all I can do to not slide into the ditch! I got home safely, after praying pretty much the whole way :) and now I'm just SO ready for bed! Of course, after I finish watching American Idol and some laundry!

Monday Doldrums

I hate Mondays. I mean I really hate Mondays. It just takes forever for them to end. This morning was snowing and sooo chilly, it felt like -20 (Celsius for all those Americans!). After snow, melting snow, more snow, more melting snow, and now more snow, my poor little car is so filthy and I couldn't go through the car wash 'cuz another car had stalled at the entrance and was waiting to be towed! I had driven to work on the freeway and gotten pelted, and I mean covered, in mud spraying off a semi-truck ahead of me, and I barely even recognize my little Sunfire anymore :( There were a couple of bright spots...I had time to stop for a coffee at Tim Horton's on my way to work, and Lisa from work bought me a second coffee in the afternoon! That'll make any day better, plus it's Rrrroll up the Rrrrim to Win time again and I won another coffee...woohoo! We got home just in time to watch Corner Gas and laugh a lot :) I was born in Saskatchewan, so I think it's priceless!

After work I met Lee for supper and he surprised me with 2 new CD's of Roxette. I go in these waves of listening to classic 80's music, and that's my new sing-along kick - what a sweetie! Now I'll have to choose between those, Nichole Nordeman's Brave and Charlotte Church - choices, choices.

Mass emails can be a pain sometimes, but I realized the other day that they can actually be helpful. For example, I had lost touch with 2 of my Bible School friends, Cathy and Scott, but I found Scott's email address on a mass email and he gave me Cathy's. It actually worked quite well! And my friend Shannon, who I haven't seen in years, is on my email list now too. My goodness, the internet is a wonderful thing!

Until tomorrow, or whenever I post next...

By the way, my husband is very jealous that I've mentioned his daddy's Shelby Mustang and not his, "1989 Camaro Iroc Z Player's Challenge Race Car, originally owned by Richard Dean Anderson [who played MacGyver on the 80's TV series]" and I quote! Oh my, boys and their toys...

Oh, and did you see the closing ceremonies for the Olympics? Andrea Bocelli and Ben Heppner in the same night? Amazing! Really, I'm done now :)

I think I could become an addict!

Well, it's day 2 and I think I could very easily become a chronic blogger! Today we went to church with Lee's dad in Sherwood Park. Phil Callaway is an author/speaker/comedian from Three Hills, Alberta, and he was a guest speaker for the weekend. He was really funny and had many illustrations, but he still delivered a sermon with content. Lee's brother Jeff and sister-in-law Kay came with their three kids, so we had a very eventful and interesting dinner at Boston Pizza afterwards. The kiddies are 4, 2, and 9 months so I'm sure you can imagine...

We just got home after making a quick pit-stop at my father-in-law's business to take a look at his new (at least to him) 1965 Shelby Mustang convertible that he bought in Arizona in January. It's a really nice blue with off-white racing stripes. I've never been a car girl but I married into a car family, so I'm trying to learn! Lee was teasing me about being "all excited to write a new blog," so I see I have to work some persuasion tactics on him...

I was talking to my mom last night and my Uncle Bill called her to say that he has cancer of the liver. Apparently it is very fast growing, so we don't know how much time he has left on earth. He has seriously strayed from God and believes that nothing on earth happens for a reason and nothing happens after death, so my family is really praying for a miracle. We've been praying for him to accept Christ for so many years.

I've been reading the blogs of my friends, and I'm noticing things. For example, Cherylene's sister Wendy is engaged to Tim!! I didn't know she was dating a friend from our youth group...that's so cool!

I think today I feel like cross stitching for the rest of the afternoon. I'm making a stocking for Lee for Christmas, and with my broken arm in November it did not get done in time...too bad...I guess it'll have to be for 2006.

Well, here goes nothing!

I decided that I'll never know if I like blogging until I try it, so I am finally sitting down at my computer and doing just that! You'll have to go easy on me until I get the hang of it...

It is early Saturday evening in snowy Alberta, but it is warm inside my little house. The BC girl in me looks outside and says, "Brrrrr, this is not what I left behind in Abbotsford last weekend," but the slowly-adapting Albertan says, "it's not nearly as bad as it could be." As long as I live in a prairie province I will always be a freezing-fingered and cold-toed BC girl to the core!

There are a couple of perks living here. A sweet husband, the biggest shopping mall in Canada, and Family Day! It's the only long weekend in February, but it's still a good excuse for a day off work! My mom and I flew out from Calgary last Friday to spend the weekend in Abbotsford and Vancouver with my brother and sister-in-law, Aunt and Papa. It was surprisingly windy but beautifully sunny. Mom and I went for a late lunch at Dutch Mother's restaurant in Lynden, an ice cream cone from Edaleen dairy and a quick shopping trip to Bellis Fair Mall in Bellingham. It was a whirlwind but fun!

On Saturday, we went into Vancouver to buy shoes for Mom from Ingledews for her narrow feet and over to the Lion's Gate hospital to visit my Papa. He's 92 now and much weaker than I remember, but he's doing alright. Sunday I went to Northview with my brother, Brent, and after lunch Mom, Brent, Nikki and I all went to Papa's apartment in North Vancouver to help my Aunt Bet sort through his belongings before he moves into a different extended care facility. Then Monday had to come, most unfortunately. I just had to see Lana and David's apartment and new baby girl, Noelle, before I flew back to Calgary, but then all too soon it was time to leave. Talk about busy! Hopefully Lee and I can go back for a more relaxed visit this summer or fall.

I think that's all for now, so I'll go and play with my options on my new blog!