a fresh blog

When I first started this blog, my attempt was to share my voyages and experiences with my friends and family who are scattered all over the world... Facebook has now taken care of that for me and as such, I haven't used this blog in almost two years.

From a fresh perspective, I have decided to change the reasoning of this blog to be about how disrespectful we have all became, myself included. I am a pretty standard human being. I have a middle income position at my work with a sub-standard income, I have a cat, a fiance and a baby on the way.

My first point of disrespect is that some people are so lazy or consumed in their own lives that they cannot shovel the sidewalks on their property. It is everyone's civil duty to keep the sidewalks clean and if you are not able, then you should have someone hired who can do so. I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where we quite frequently get snow and people should be able to walk by your home without hitting pavement. Particularly small children and women who are six months pregnant.

Clean your sidewalks!!

my new necklace

i am now the proud owner of a beautiful new necklace after my weekend of being thoroughly spoiled at elk ridge resort! thanks goes out to my awesome boyfriend, and no, to all of you who want him to do it for you. haha..

**p.s. the la ronge ice wolves won the SJHL championship last night during game 6 in Yorkton. We will host Dolphin in LA on friday!

Game 1 of 2010 SJHL Championship

the La Ronge Ice Wolves against the Yorkton Terriers friday, april 2nd. this is the first goal of the series here in La Ronge. check out the mariah's on the ice after the goal!




unfortunately, we ended up losing this game in overtime but we won the second game yesterday 3-1.

a st. patrick's day snowstorm

for most of the past few weeks, our daytime highs have been above zero.. even yesterday was a balmy 8 degrees outside and all of our snow had disappeared and La Ronge became it's usual mudpit.

as I had to work night shift on st. patrick's day, I put myself to bed around 7pm and it was still warm and raining out... a few five hours later, this is what I walked to work in.. I'm pretty sure some of the drifts in the parking lot are now over a foot deep.

March came in like a lamb, climaxed as a lion, and probably out like a bitch...

Yay La Ronge!

Ice Wolves on the Win!

Our darling Junior A team here, the La Ronge Ice Wolves, finished 3rd in the regular season and beat the 4th place team, the Humboldt Broncos, to go up against the 1st place team in the division, the Flin Flon Bombers.. who we CREAMED Sunday night!!!

Our fans started a tradition during the Humboldt series, that when we score a goal, we throw a fish out onto the ice.. this originates from Mafia times when people who found a dead fish on their doorstep soon found themselves dead. The team has embraced it by bringing their own cooler to keep behind the bench and bbq's up the fish after every win!

Friday, our next series against the North Battleford North Stars begins in North Battleford. We will see Mr. Pearson and his team in La Ronge on Tuesday!!! May the winning continue!

some more pictures from the olympics/whistler

whistler village at night
Bonnie's Olympic podium with her Bronze-medal friend!
Bonnie and I at the top of Whistler mountain outside of Christine's restaurant!

final days in Vancouver...

me and my friend at the Aboriginal Pavillion... quite a line up to get into the gallery unfortunately so this is as close as I got.
cider at le maison du quebec...
pilsner at the saskatchewan pavillion...
At the top of Blackcomb mountain at Whistler, outside of Christine's restaurant during our peak-2-peak adventure!!!

FOR ALEXZANDRA!

Alexzandra,

These pictures are for you from the Olympics.

off to the olympics

seems like November 7th was yesterday... but in reality it was 3 months ago and I am now off to Saskatoon to catch my flight to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

thanks to the congestion, I'll catch the brand new Canada Line Skytrain from the airport to go downtown and then trek myself across the west end with my suitcase unless by some miracle I can catch a cab to Bonnie's.

more pictures will follow this week I'm sure.. it's only two days until the opening ceremonies!!

Love you all.

moon over coop

the moon over the sunset from the coop parking lot... most days the vistas in La Ronge will take your breath away.

Finally recovering from some kind of stomach sickness... I managed to eat three square meals today so that's a huge improvement.

5 days until I head to Vancouver for the OLYMPICS!!!!! Yay!!!!

Many more pictures to follow from that adventure.

a quiet saturday (*fingers crossed*)

very tired today... damn holidays.

mark and I spent the better part of yesterday doing the kitchen inventory, so needless to say my hips hurt from kneeling and climbing and i'm getting phantom pains in my fingers from being in the walk-in freezer for an hour. what a mess.

anyways, one day of rest and then we have a world junior's hockey game tomorrow and an ice wolves game tomorrow night! it shall be a good Sunday.

I'm off to my favourite place in La Ronge this afternoon, the library.

xoxo

shawn's homemade christmas pie's

Shawn's homemade apple and cherry pies.. entirely made from scratch and entirely delicious!

We're still eating leftover ham and turkey sandwiches on homemade bread... delicious.

shortest days of the year in la ronge

9:15am... finally a little twilight over lac la ronge (yes, that's the view of the back of the hotel from my balcony)

9:28am... sun blasting right through my bedroom window into my face.. yay!

4:11pm the last spot of sunlight overtop of the post office

North hit by power outage

North hit by power outage

a cold cold lobby

cutting off the fingers of my magic gloves because it was too cold to work without gloves on and too hard to type with gloves on.

Newfie Ingenuity

One morning, three Newfoundlanders and three Albertans were in a ticket Counter line at a train station. The three Albertans each bought a ticket and watched as the three Newfies' bought just one ticket.

"How are the three of you going to travel on only one ticket?" asked one Of the Albertans.

"Watch and learn," answered one of the Newfies'. All six boarded the train where the three Albertans sat down, but the three Newfies' crammed into a toilet together and closed the door.

Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around to collect tickets. He knocked on the toilet door and said, "Ticket, please." The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.

The conductor took it and moved on. The Albertans saw this happen and agreed it was quite a clever idea. Indeed, so clever they decided to do the same thing on the return trip and save some money.

That afternoon when they got back to the station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip and watched, while to their astonishment, the three Newfies' didn't buy even one ticket! "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asked a perplexed Albertan.

"Watch and learn," answered the three Newfie boys in unison.

When they boarded the train, the three Albertans crammed themselves into a toilet and the three Newfies' crammed into another toilet just down the way.

Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Newfies' left the toilet and walked over to the toilet in which the Albertans were hiding.

The Newfie knocked on the door and said, "Ticket, please."



As you can likely tell, it's 5:30am on a Sunday morning... god bless night shift. I'm in the process of training some new staff and lucky for me, I'm getting lots of administrative work done. Dawned on me today, as I'm watching the temperature drop, that I really miss Miami. I think tomorrow we are shooting for a high of -20C. Yipee!!! Luckily, the 14-day forecast shows an upward trend in temperatures.

All my Christmas presents are bought, will drop those in the mail tomorrow so everyone has them in time for Old Man Red's visit on the 25th. Hopefully I selected some good presents.

Love you all.

a night in prince albert

believe it or not, after a full day of work, two hours of driving and another 90 minutes spent in a smoke-filled casino we headed to a bar called belly up in prince albert friday night.
this is my current roommate, shawn


our new food & beverage manager is arriving tomorrow morning, Tracy, and we might also have another girl moving in, Mandy, if she accepts the job of sales & catering coordinator.

so i'm having a very lazy sunday, lots of driving and drinking this weekend... not to mention the hours wait for a car wash in prince albert yesterday afternoon as the car wash in la ronge is closed when it's below freezing outside.

the olympic torch

the olympic torch ran by my house in La Ronge on Saturday Nov 7.. that is Mr. Wallace running there. this is my inspiration for the week. i am very short staffed, working about 10 different shifts this week and tired. enough said.

more pictures to follow soon, promise!

a visit to the gardens at the governor's house in victoria

bonnie in front of rows of roses and rows of roses and rows of roses...

my favourite new bird bath

bonnie and her birds

my regal seagull on the waterfall!!

graduation flowers

yes, this post is a little delayed, by about 14 days.. but anyways, these are the flowers that i received on graduation day in lieu of being there