Throwback Thursday

June 2006, Part 2 - A trip to Naramata, B.C.

 In my pjs in a public space. Nothing has changed

 This look right here tops every look I've ever put together.

New Project!

I've got big plans for this baby. Yep! Can you guess what it is? ..... A sign for my ring bearer of course! I had seen many on Etsy that I loved but you know.... I wasn't into paying $50+ for a sign.... so I decided to just make it myself. I went to the scrap bin at Home Depot and found this (it was free by the way). It is a bit too long for my little guy so I've measured out the size I need it to be and my Dad is bringing it to work tomorrow to get cut. After that I will need to sand, paint, drill some holes for the rope and then add the wording! I will make sure to update as I go! 

Until then, here is some inspiration to see kind of what I'm thinking.

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Two Lies and a Truth: The Reveal

Last week I posted a little game to get everyone active...

... about 3% of viewers commented on that post. Oh well. At least some of you felt compelled to. Here are the results!

1. When I was a child, this line came out of my mouth:

a. "I'm full....but I can have dessert because only my dinner compartment is full... not my dessert compartment" 

b. alarm goes off , "I'm already awake stupid machine!"

c. Mom is on the phone planning a date and I want to talk to him, "Hi. Do you think you wanna marry my mom? .... Because I want you to get my mom a baby. Oh. Okay. Bye."

2. My favourite thing to do as a kid was:

a. play barbies

b. ride my bike

c. play basketball 

3. When I was a kid I wanted to be this when I grew up:

a. an architect - I still would be but I found out in grade 5 that I was horrible at geometry and then in grade 8, it wasn't getting any better so I had to get up that dream

b. a lawyer

c. a doctor

4. In high school, I was on/in:

a. the soccer team

b. vocal jazz - I tried to be on the soccer team but it confliced with this.... 

c. nothing. I was totally lazy

5. In college, the job I had was:

a. tutor

b. I didn't have a job - I did not have a job! I was not lazy haha I was too busy with school and doing practicum while in school. It was like working full time and going to school full time... at the same time

c. worked at Walmart

6. In high school, a classmate once pegged me as:

a. the best dressed

b. the cranky one

c. the one who knows all the gossip - Yep.. I always knew everything 

7. As a child, I thought I could be in a talent show for:

a. singing - like every other child

b. dancing

c. comedy

8. It took me this long to be able to drive on roads that had traffic:

a. 3 weeks

b. 1 day

c. 2 months - Nobody guessed this actually. For the record I was learning standard so yes it took me a while to be able to drive in traffic without stalling. 

9. I originally went to university to do this:

a. be an architect

b. be a lawyer - Love law! I found my law class so interesting! But.. I didn't want the lifestyle of a lawyer (always working and stuff) and I didn't want to go to school for 8 years so I ultimately switched it up. 

c. be a teacher

10. I consistently do this wrong no matter how often I'm corrected:

a. use "half time" for every break period in sports - Soccer is my main thang... 

b. say "I seen" instead of "I saw"

c. set up the computer wires in the back

So anyway the person who guessed the most right with a whopping 9/10 right was...

Jolene!! Congrats Jolene. I have nothing to give you for your efforts except this recognition (maybe when you guys start making me money I can have some cool giveaways ;)) 

Throwback Thursday

We have now moved into June 2005. My friend Shay used to have a trailer just across the border near Seattle so in these pictures, we were spending the weekend there (and also burning our school work woohoo!) 

We are still BFFs! In fact, she is a bridesmaid in my wedding :) 

Organizing the Files

Once a year you should be going through your file folder (I sure hope you have one). So of course I went through mine and have decided to show you my process. 

We use just a regular file folder right now, nothing cute because we needed something cheap that works. We got this one from Staples. It is pretty standard.

While the file folder works, over a year, documents will build up that don't need to be there anymore. In other words, we don't need them at all anymore. This is what it looked like before I tackled it.

This file folder has all the tabs I feel are necessary for the basics. If you have your own business and such, you will want to get a separate one. 

As I go through it, I make sure to staple any documents that are together that are not well... together. This makes sure that if you ever need to pull them out, you aren't searching through all the documents in case one got lost.

Brandyn and I are with the same bank but we do not have a joint account (which is a personal decision I will talk about in another post). Because of this, I put the name on the outside of each of our folders that has our banking information in it. This just takes a step out of finding the information we need. Instead of taking out both folders and opening to see which bank account it is, we just see on the outside.

When it comes to paycheck stubs, after the taxes are done for that year, they are shredded. I take the T4s and staple them to the tax form for that year and file it under taxes. For the paystubs and anything needed for taxes for the current year, I paperclip them together (I do not staple because you will constantly be adding paystubs to this) and then I file under employment. Here shown is a T4 from when Brandyn quit his job after we moved. I find it comical that under the reason, they put "following spouse." 

While I am sorting through, I am also laying them out by category and in the order that they will be put in the file folder. Right now, my work space is my bed :)

Here are three piles that will not go back into the file folder. The right is Brandyn's school work, the middle is an instruction manual and that will go into my manuals binder and then the right is all things needing to be shredded. I highly suggest shredding because identity thiefs sift through your trash.

As you can see Brandyn's school work that he needs to keep is a pretty big pile. I needed somewhere to put them but I didn't want a bulky binder taking up space on my bookshelf. 

I found this at staples and basically it had dividers on the inside but I easily just pulled them out and placed the paper in. I needed two for this big pile. You could use a binder if you wanted but I am lacking space and I could easily store this in a box in the closet with my file folder.

 Here it is all cleaned up! Much better and there is no clutter or papers we don't need anymore. For the record, I do not keep credit card statements or bills after they are paid. All that stuff is easily accessible online.

No more soapbox Sunday

So I'm posting to inform that there will be no more Soapbox Sunday's. I enjoyed doing them and I definitely got some reactions from people but I have started a new adventure (will reveal with time) and that doesn't really fit what I am going to be doing.

If you really like them and want me to keep posting them on my Youtube channel, please let me know by leaving a comment below and I may consider it :)

Also if you saw my blog post yesterday, please participate. I have a few comments there and it is entertaining hearing the answers!

Pwease :) 

Two Lies and a Truth

Ok! So I've got some quiet readers and that's ok. I don't really make my blogs that interactive but today is different. Today I am playing that little game: Two Truths and a Lie. So I've come up with some questions and then a bunch of answers and well I'm sure you know the rules ... but in case you don't... you have to pick which one you think is the truth! So when you have decided, post it in the comments below and next week I will reveal the answers :) - PS Mom you aren't allowed to do this. You probably know all the answers.

1. When I was a child, this line came out of my mouth:

a. "I'm full....but I can have dessert because only my dinner compartment is full... not my dessert compartment" 
b. alarm goes off , "I'm already awake stupid machine!"
c. Mom is on the phone planning a date and I want to talk to him, "Hi. Do you think you wanna marry my mom? .... Because I want you to get my mom a baby. Oh. Okay. Bye."


2. My favourite thing to do as a kid was:

a. play barbies
b. ride my bikec. play basketball 


3. When I was a kid I wanted to be this when I grew up:

a. an architect
b. a lawyer
c. a doctor


4. In high school, I was on/in:

a. the soccer team
b. vocal jazz
c. nothing. I was totally lazy

5. In college, the job I had was:

a. tutor
b. I didn't have a job 
c. worked at Walmart


6. In high school, a classmate once pegged me as:

a. the best dressed
b. the cranky one
c. the one who knows all the gossip


7. As a child, I thought I could be in a talent show for:

a. singing
b. dancing
c. comedy

8. It took me this long to be able to drive on roads that had traffic:

a. 3 weeks
b. 1 day
c. 2 months


9. I originally went to university to do this:

a. be an architect
b. be a lawyer
c. be a teacher


10. I consistently do this wrong no matter how often I'm corrected:

a. use "half time" for every break period in sports
b. say "I seen" instead of "I saw"
c. set up the computer wires in the back


Alright dudes and dudettes (although probably mostly dudettes), have atter!