MAN, I feel like a woman!

I'm almost scared to post that I'm home alone for the next three nights. What if those crazy movies ( which i am too scared to even watch previews for, so who knows if this is even a story line) where some creep ( obviously ) reads this married girl's blog, then totally plans to get her on the one ( or three) night of the year that her husband is away. what if he totally stages it so that it looks like the couple's adorable jack russell ( or other breed dog) has killed the wife. then the husband comes home devastated to have lost his wife and lost his love for/ trust in/ friendship with "man's best friend". guaranteed i will not sleep tonight. not a wink..... because my imagination runs WILD. and i start having heart palpitations at the mere thoughts that are concocted in my head. ahhh.... it would probably be worse if i had caffiene. i should really think twice about drinking this pot of tea that is steeping. But alas, my husband is working nights. for 3 nights. this schedule is RIDICULOUS. i simply cannot imagine how families cope who have this kind of backwards ( in my opinion) schedule. these have been the worst 2 weeks (schedule wise). augh

monday marked the 2 year anniversary of the tragic car accident that took my best (school) friend's life. i think about geoff weekly. sometimes daily. he was a brilliant, sweet friend. we went to school since grade 1 together. we were 'rivals' ( with grades ), but great pals. we were neighbours and spent afterschools and summers canoeing, bikeriding, trampolining, boating. every morning in grade 8 and 9 we sat on a heater and did the wonderword in the newspaper (which we both delivered and would cover for each other's routes for holiday coverage etc). the last time i saw geoff was in may 2005, a few days before i moved to medicine hat for college. we talked and hugged and cried. i never knew that was the last day i would see him. he helped me (tremendously) through a great illness that consumed me in junior high. he would bring me homework and most of all he brought me comfort. i adored him for it. travis (starving student himself) bought me a very expensive plane ticket ( which i still haven't paid him back for) to ensure i made it home for geoff's funeral ( which was one of the hardest things ever). that was among the things that made me sure i loved travis.

travis' dad also died just a few months after we started dating. the fact that we helped each other through such difficult times (in the beginning of our relationship) makes me so confident that we can get through anything that is thrown at us. i love him so much.

even a few nights apart while he is on night shift.

so i'm gonna get out my hair curler and girlie music dance around the house singing....

pukey pukey and monica's closet

mr. shymanski has had a disturbing change to his work schedule for the past 2 weeks. he has been working 10 hr days x 7 days/ week. he usually has a nice mon-fri 8-4 gig. these 10 hr days run from 7-5. It is now 10:37pm. The 10 hour day has officially come and gone, but Alas, Mr. Shymanski is still at the plant fixing problems. He may be there all night. Perfectly appropriate that he is stuck working for the first time, on the day/ afternoon/ night that Mrs Shymanski has been headachey, pukey (is that a word?) and down right feeling awful ALL DAY. Mrs Shymanski went to a friend's house this evening ( even went against the 'no night driving rule' - a temporary aftermath of the lasik eye surgery), and upon returning home, puked her guts out. Thankfully, she was able to get out of the new car smelling CRV in the nick of time. Augh. I should really take advantage of these long days by scrapbooking, but Mr Shymanski's hockey stuff, our golf bags and everything else that makes this tiny house rip at its seams is cluttered in that room. Its becoming much like Monica's closet on Friends. The rest of the house? Immaculate. But don't enter that storage room. Augh. Chloe and I are missing Mr. Shymanski. Boo Hoo.

margarine. ( you know the old lady who prounounces it MAR-JA- REEEN)

PLEASE. if you never read another blog again...... read this one.

( and my comments that i posted on it)

http://alifeinprogress.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/smooth-as-butter/#comment-218

pictureless blogs are boring.

travis and i out on our FIRST anniversary!
our sweet little baby, Chloe. She loves stumps. Lucky for her, our backyard is full of them.
Me and my adorable little dog.
the whole fam. back row (left to right). rachel (sister in law), philip (brother), travis (husband)
front row (left to right). ryan (brother in law), leah (sister), myself (3 days after lasik), hazel (mother), jack( father)

sushi and costco

today was the day i work my one day/ week job at the optometrist office. it was 'jeans day' ( we get to pay $2 one friday per month to wear jeans. the money goes to the charity of our choice. i chose cystic fibrosis. i got reading this blog www.confessionsofacfhusband.com Also, I had a schoolmate die well before graduation from it. after work, my sister and her husband and travis and i went out for some delicious sushi and headed to costco.

oh costco......costco is our weakness. this was our FOURTH visit this week. its pathetic. the workers recognize us. my friend Gen works there, and sometimes it feels like we work or live there with our frequent visits. its mental....we usually visit 1-3x/ week.augh! and if you are at all familiar with costco (or anything like us....) a visit = minimum $90.00 (ok, usually $150). the deals rock, it just adds up way too quickly. this week, we bought some groceries, a book, some candy, 2 hoodies, some PJs, an I Pod touch, cheese.... its ridiculous.

anyways. the $17.00 hoodies absolutely ROCK and i'm loving my new PJS. We live in a crappy town which we hate, so blowing our money is justified?? Augh.

i watched 'baby mama' and it is pretty darn funny. if you LOVE SNL..check it out.

i'm off to make travis' lunch for tomorrow and head to bed.

get to know me

who am i?
my name is angela. i am the third born child in my family. i live in a small, dirty city which i detest. it is the city that i grew up in, dreamed of leaving. i finally did ( to attend college in another province), but somehow ended up back here. my family lives here. other than that, we are here strictly because of my husband's job (which for the time is a very good one, especially for someone just out of college)

my parents live on a lake in the city. they are building a new house which is turning into a quite an adventure. my brother ( 4 years older than i) and his wife ( she's from england) recently bought an adorable little house in this city. they have a sweet little min pin/ chihuahua. my sister ( 6 years older than i) and her husband moved back from living in vancouver for the past 6 years. they bought a beautiful new house a few blocks away from my brother.

i am a lifeguard/ swimming instructor ( I run a small swim school in my spare time www.freewebs.com/splashswimschool ).

i live for photography, swimming, golfing, scrapbooking, music.

i love to cook and wish i could devote more time to sewing projects. my friend charissa is an amazing seamstress.... http://billygoatdesigns.blogspot.com/ (buy some of her stuff. its awesome and made in canada. i LOVE the headbands. way the heck better than any lululemon)

i also really love this blog.... ( I'm all about going green, saving the earth and being healthy and find my opinion very similar to jen's. ) http://alifeinprogress.wordpress.com/

i've always loved photography. it enables me to express myself, create art, preserve memories and have great photos to scrapbook with. i took photography throughout highschool, and recently bought the CANON REBEL XSI. I'm now dabbling in the world of digital.

One of my great loves is TRAVEL. I have been across canada, many of the states, germany '03 england ( twice '04,'06), ecuador/costa rica ('05), mexico ('07), dominican republic ('07), hawaii ('08). My husband and I are planning an extended holiday to Panama/ Costa Rica this december. Next year, we hope to drive the oregan coast to California and possibly head over to europe. Its great to have a husband hooked on travel.

On the topic of my husband..... We met in spring '04. We started dating in spring '05. Got engaged at the end of '06. Married june 23, 2007. I love him to bits. He's quiet and thinks before he speaks. These things... I am not.

Together we have the cutest dog ever. We adopted her in April 2008. She is a short haired, long tailed, jack russell terrier named Chloe. We have affectionately given her about 10 nicknames and taken 2000+ photos of her. We are obsessed.

I am an optician/ optometric assistant. I do this job one day/ week. Travis works fulltime as an Instrument Technician at the husky oil refinery in our town. They are partially to blame for the stinky smell/ pollution which makes me sick and makes me detest this town.

For our 1st anniversary, we bought ourselves golf clubs and got quite into it this summer.

We love The Office. its on right now. so see ya!

first things first

hello there. welcome to my new blog. where i am going to attempt to blog more regularly, more controversally. i'm angela. i used to blog over at www.atshymanski.blogspot.com

I guest posted on my workmate, Chelsey's blog a few weeks back. Check it out: http://chelsandjonpoelman.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-first-and-last-post.html

I will be back to blog later ( mr. shymanski just bought a new I Pod Touch and wants to set it up)