Ok, I'm not so cranky anymore- but still very anxious to finish my internship (THREE MORE WEEKS!). Today, I did something stupid. I scratched up the front side of my dad's car by backing up into a stoned wall. I was concentrating too much on not hitting the car behind me, and over turned the wheel so that the car brushed up against the wall. Yikes. Oops.

I built up scenerios in my head about what and how I should tell my parents...I was so nervous, yet anxious to tell them. I was mostly worried about being called stupid or foolish in Chinese by my mother, who I knew was going to flip out - and she won't ever let me forget it for as long as I live. I can just see it now...10 years from now when we have an argument that won't have anything remotely to do with cars, she will bring up this incident and somehow try to tie it into the argument. For some reason, she's good at that, but most of the times, it's illogical.

Anyhow, I ended up telling/showing my dad, who is much more rational than my crazy Chinese mom. To my shock and relief, dad shrugged his shoulders and said, "Oh, it's no big deal, just the fender". I offered to pay for the repairs, and dad really didn't care whether it is fixed or not. Man, I'm glad one of my parents are laid back. Then my mom found out and she actually didn't flip out on her usual rants. She was pretty calm about it, but of course - had to come to her own conclusions about how this happened - which means, she was trying to blame me and call me stupid in Chinese.

It reminds me of the only other time I got into an accident with my car, totally not my fault. Some girl opened her door into my car door and somehow my mom turned it around and tried to blame me for someone else's fault!! She is very irrational and I think she likes to see me feel guilty. I swear.

Ouch...we got killed tonight in the soccer game. The final score was 7-0 for the snobby Ice girls. And I mean snobby - I would try to make a joke or say something nice to the girls and they didn't even crack a smile. Their last goal was sweet, a corner kick followed by a header right into the net - and I complimented to about 3 of them - not one bitch said "Thank you". Rudeness is one of my biggest pet peeves! Ugh. I have heard from other teams we played against how snobby these girls were (and how nice we were), and man, are they ever right. Well, what goes around, comes around....

Think I sound bitter? I think I'm just in a pissy mood - not sure why. Pondering upon my life and I know I have it good, but I'm bored. I'm going to vent some anger: I don't want to work anymore, I just want to go back to school. I'm sick of working and waking up early 5 days a week to deal with some crabby kid in the morning, and his highly anxious mother. ARGH! I hate having to worry about getting enough sleep and I'm sick of my research project I have to do for my internship. On top of that, I'm frustrated in dealing with the multiple, non-stop injuries I am getting. Sunday, rolled my ankle again. Tonight, I got my knee bruised good (so good, it hurts to bend it) and my shins are all painted with bruises. I know I'm being a big baby, but it feels good to bitch and whine -because we all need to sometimes. I also need another holiday!

[Roz] Oooooh, tomorrow is the big game for my soccer team. We (Lions) play against Ice, a team that we are head to head with for first place in our division. Check out our standings. You'll have to go to Outdoor Guide, then Standings, then click on Women, Division 6B. The game's at Belmont #7 tomorrow, if anyone is interested in coming out for support. The address is 3310 - 132 A Avenue. Come watch us kick some ass!!!

FINALLY!!! I managed to put some houseboating pictures up (however, my baby #2-(the camera of course)- is not repaired yet). Dan and I downloaded the pictures onto his computer and then sent it over to my email. There'll be more coming, but in the meantime...click on my belly.

Boo! My camera was supposedly fixed but when I got it back, it still didn't take pictures, so it's back in the shop again.

Dan went paintballing today, in celebration of all the LADS birthdays, which all fall within 2 months (June and July). He managed to get a really cool welt on his bicep, therefore, making it bigger (so of course he's proud of it). Check it out!

Last night, D and I formally celebrated our one year anniversary (although it's almost one year and 2 months) by dining at a snazzy, expensive restaurant called Hardware Grill, then going to watch Miss Saigon. We also dressed up for the occassion, but unfortunetly my digital camera is *still* not fixed, even though the repair shop just gave it back to me. For some reason, it won't take pictures. :(

Dinner was amazing...remember that scene in Matrix Reloaded where the women in the red dress has an orgasm after taking a bite of her chocolate cake? That was me. We had smoked salmon over perogies for an appetizer, then for a main course, I had duck and Dan had elk. Mmmm-mmm. All specially made.

After dinner, we walked to the Taste of Edmonton festival, where my dad was volunteering (serving food) for his company. He was dressed like a cowboy, it was so cute.

Miss Saigon was fantastic, definetly recommend people to see it. At the end of the play, this old lady a few rows behind us shouted at Dan and I to "sit down" from our standing ovation because she couldn't see. Dan yelled back, "But look around, everyone else is standing up!" but she refused to let us stand, so we sat back down (grrrr, I didn't want to). I think she got alot of dirty looks from the people around us, so that was good. Two (hot) gay men snickered at her too and made a joke to us about taking her out.

Holy, it's been almost a month since I've last posted! We just got back from our weeklong houseboat trip in Shuswaps, B.C. and it was so awesome! One thing that wasn't so awesome: my camera had condensation in it, dont' know how it happened since I made sure it wasn't near water, but it didn't work after Canada Day. Luckily, it is still under warrenty so I'm going to get it fixed ASAP.


In short, I'll give a brief summary of the trip and post pictures when I am able to.

Saturday: Dan and I went camping at Tunnel Mountain Campground, Banff. Due to a sprained ankle of mine, we couldn't hike up Pyramid Mountain liked we had planned.

Sunday: Went White Water Rafting in Canmore, and did some cliff diving on the tour. Lots of fun, but unfortunetly, not as intense as we hoped it to be, even though it was the intermediate class.
Drove to Sean's cabin in Fairmont to meet up with the 7 others. We all went to the hot springs.

Monday: Boarded the houseboat

Tuesday: Canada Day! Roz drank 3 beer bongs (well spilled the second one, but redeemed herself in the 3rd round), had some chocolate mint shots, a Mike's Hard Icetea, and a pina colada cooler - not necessarily in that order.

*Us girls covered our bodies with latex bodypaint in the shape of maple leafs - drew ALOT of attention from other boats.

*I passed out earlier than everyone else.

*Dan gets hit on by a couger (and Kelly has a picture of it too!!!!) while everyone parties on the beach.

*I wake up in the middle of the night, go to the bathroom at least 8 times - puking 3 of those times. My very first time vomiting from drinking.

Wednesday: Dock at a beach at night and explored an enchanted forest. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen - lush, soft moss covering everything. Dan and I rolled around in it for awhile, but poor guy, got multiple orange bug bites all over his legs - enough to make him look like he had a disease. D also loses his cell phone.

Thursday: D and I go sea-doing for the first time - FUN!

Friday: Yuck, I think it rained this day - it was probably a day for boardgames, but I can't exactly remember.

Saturday: Beautiful weather, suntanning on the roof of the boat, jumping off it. The guys did wrestling moves off the top of the boat, and D managed to pop an air mattress while attempting to land on it from up high. The best part: whipping up yummy drinks in the blender, competition style.

Sunday: Final day on the houseboat - I felt sad! D, Kel and I went back home. Stopped in Calgary at Luciano's for pasta supper (mmmm!) and Peter's Drive-In for milk shakes. Yum!

Today: Cleaned out my suitcase, and FOUND Dan's cell phone at the underneath the hard panal bottom of my suitcase! Whoohoo!

Please visit Kelly's site to see pictures from the trip