Attempt at an update

It's been so long since I have posted anything here. I don't even know where to being.
It's kind of pathetic that it's been so long yet, I am trying to think about what I have been doing all this time and the answer is: absolutely nothing. There has been a whole lot of staying home and trying to keep warm. Chopping of wood and building fires. Our family had an another attempt at a Christmas dinner and failed miserably, although we had 3 Christmas dinners with 3 different family's this year and I was sick all through Christmas with my family, and into the new year. I've been trying to eat more healthy and fill my diet with words like "multi-grain" "no sugar" and recently cut out pop, chocolate and sugar with much success.
I've seen my beautifully pregnant Sister-in-law (who is due in March with my very first authentic niece or nephew), Jasmine and Spencer (they grow up too fast) Virginia and her family. Met William's new pride and joy; Emma who was born early December. Spent quite a bit of time with the family and Brittany. Celebrated my father's birthday and Danny's birthday. Packed up Danny and sent him off to work in Ontario twice. He's working in Timmins right now. So I am at home with the dogs in enduring snowy nights of Manitoba weather and patiently waiting for Spring and my garden full of Tulips to come out.

Black Hole

bet y'all though I fell off the face of the earth didn'tcha !

I cheated myself,
Like I knew I would
I told you, I was trouble
You know that I'm no good

It's not Christmas music but it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Martini Krunkedify

"I’m feelin yummy head to toe
You see me
Ain’t got no patience so let’s go
You see me
Look, I’m diet drama
Wanna spend the night
Don’t bring pajamas
Man there’s so much heat beneath these clothes"

Having a "Christmas Cocktail Party" on Saturday.

All my favorite boys are coming and Krista so I will ply them with dips and culinary delights as well as an bountiful array of Holiday Martinis.

fun fun fun.

Underwear is your friend.

I have one thing to say about the Britney Va-Ja-Ja & her being a shitty mother topic.

If she doesn't want her kids, I will gladly take them.
Cause I can't have any and I always wear underwear and hardly ever go out. Except for on thursdays for Anola stripper night (and who doesn't do that).

Pure Beauty

"If there's a winter storm, and I'm there to keep you warm,
in whatever shape or form"

I love it as much as I love Danny.

I love my job and all the goodies I get.

First this










and now I just brought home one of these puppies...

Why I love Erik Spindler

He filled out one of these email questionaires (this one you fill out about the person sending it to you) He knows me better than anyone ! (except Vanessa, hers was bang on, too)

Your name: Erik Spindler
Where did we meet: High School
Take a stab at my middle name: Jean
Do I believe in God: Maybe?
How long have you known me:11 years
Do I smoke: nope
What was your first impression of me upon meeting:
Cute and funny
Color of my eyes: green
Do I have any siblings: yep, Ian the bro
What's one of my favorite things to do: listen to
music
Do you remember one of the first things I said to you:
Sucks about Chris Meecham, eh?
What's my favorite type of music: folk
What is the best feature about me: Loyalty and sense
of humor....and a nice rack!
Am I shy or outgoing: outgoing
Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules: Mindy makes the
rules
What's your favorite memory of me: Our trip to the
states
Any special talents: Can eat chicken wings faster than
me.
Would you consider me a friend: All hail Mindy! YES!
If there was one good nickname for me, what would it
be? Mindler
If you and I were stranded on a desert island, what
one thing
would I bring? Blind Melon - "Soup" or a naked picture
of Matt Sheridan

Burning Ring of Fire

So my town is burning down. Well not completely. There is a major forest/swamp fire around the outskirts of Ross, which I can see from my kitchen window example A:
It started sometime on Tuesday and was still burning this morning when I left for work. The sky over Ross is now a bright glowing orange haze however no one in this goddamn city (Winnipeg) gives a shit. Everyone is Grey Cup Ga-Ga and couldn't give two shits about us. Nothing on the news, no mention on the radio, nothing. There are ambulances posted on a couple roads in the town where the fire is nearing the roads and houses waiting to evacuate people but who cares !
Let's care about the stupid football game that our own team was too crappy to play in !

Let Ross burn so long as we have our Nelly Furtado half time show.

here's a few more pictures to further my cause.

"Ho, Ho, Ho, not a merry christmas"

Well halloween is over. I sat in the dark and watched "What ever happened to Baby Jane" by myself ate a crappy dinner and didn't hand out candy for the first time. With the recent snowfall there were only 3 kids wandering the 2 streets in Ross, it just wasn't worth buying candy. Plus there would be leftovers that I would be forced to eat, just so, you know, they wouldn't go bad cause candy can do that you know.

So now that Halloween is over we transition over to the start of the Christmas season. It's now time for Mindy to bring on more stress to her life by handmaking all of her gifts, planning a small but lavish christmas party, spending entirely too much on other gifts for immediate family and especially that spoiled husband of hers. Baking an entire arsenal of cookies, bars, squares, snowballs, rum balls which we will only eat about 8% of and the rest will sit in the freezer until the drunk snowmobilers or stoned quaders show up unexpectedly and I have nothing to feed them but half frozen christmas baking.
It's my favourite time of the year but I just can't help but wonder how it will all come together if Dan is in Timmins until December 22nd. It just won't be as much fun by myself.

Thought of you dear...

This was on T.V last night and I instantly thought of Vanessa and the time she worked on this movie and our little group was so proud of her, and knew she was well on her way.

currently

bad moods
frequent
stronger
and deeper
burning red
and vibrant

it's time
to give up
and resign
to facts
and realities
it's time.

Team Stripper

And now in the category of worst argument ever and another example of pure 'Toban stupidity... check out this article.

If you don't like the strippers, then don't go.
They aren't stripping on the street, they aren't luring in underage kids, and they aren't posting advertisment with any kind of nudity.
Let us have our strippers and keep your bible-thumping-french-canadian mouths shut.

Fuck you Ste. Anne, seriously.
You aren't changing my shiteous opinion of you very well.


ps. god help me if my mother-in-law reads this.

Pie Eyed Whiskey Face

"Smoke baby, smoke baby
More alcohol baby
Cocaine in Montreal
And black out on a plane baby
An early flight will leave
And on it will be me, yeah
I'll be half asleep
And you'll get up at three"


I'm off to Montreal next week for business/blowing it out huge. Last year it was T.Dot for the U2 concert, this year it's Montreal for a Ottawa/Canadiens game and some conferences. See how blown out I was last year?











I might need a liver transplant on Tuesday, but my husband might also need one cause he's going to be home alone (shudder).

ps. that's a drink lid on my head from the concert. My boss proclaimed me "princess blowout"

"My old friend, I apologize for the years that have passed since the last time you and I dusted off those memories but the running and the races, the people and the places
There's always somewhere else I had to be time gets slim, my old friend"

"Her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl, she's a beautiful girl and everything around her is a silver pool of light. The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm, she holds you captivated in her palm."

"I heard you play guitar. You got pedals around your feet like rocks around a fire. I don't know if we'll meet, I don't know who you are. You're just a traveled ghost that I admire from afar"

In honor of the Kraus Reunion

"Some people are born to shut up and sit behind the desk
Some people are born to be safe and cannot take a risk
Handcuff up your boss, yeah, and be rough
He might like it, like it
He'll get a rise, you'll get a raise
Don't tell his wife about it"

He's so on the list

(*the list being a list of people Dan and I have mutually agreed we can sleep with, without consequence if ever given the opportunity):