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Here is a link to a little picture montage from Joni with our song playing the background! Should get all the pictures from Erin and Joni by Monday! :)
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One more day of school until I am free for the weekend, and Matt and I are heading up to the cottage for a nice relaxing weekend, just the two of us! Can't wait! :)
Just a quick weekend summary while I eat my cereal this Monday morning. Friday we went to the Jays game with my uncle and Marika. Great game - they were so close. Came back from 6-0 in the first inning to being tied 8-8, and finally losing 9-8. Oh well - still very fun. The last one they got crushed and it was such a bad game so I can't complain about the action in this one. Came back and went to bed pretty early.
Saturday slept in, lounged around with a cafe mocha (made by Matt from our new espresso machine) pretty much all day, took a nap, then finally got out of bed and walked to Vineyards and got some good wine. Ordered Indian (yes, butter chicken is a "boring" choice, but delicious), and watched "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I just finished the first two books and the Swedish version was actually pretty good! Sunday slept in a bit again, went to the gym, then spent the afternoon and evening starting to watch the first season of "Dexter" because we both wanted to see it for a while but never got into it. WELL - we definitely did now! We finished the first 9 of 12 episodes in the first season yesterday! Crazy! It is a great show - very dark, but very plot twisty and interesting. I'm addicted! All in all, a nice and relaxing lazy weekend with the husband. No being kicked out of our place, nowhere to be, just home! :) So Joni's good friend came up from Texas to visit, and she was our second shooter for the wedding too! She is an incredible photographer, and today she sent me the link to her site to see all her edited pictures!
Her website is http://www.erinblinn.com/. From there you enter the website, and click "client access" at the top. The password is "mcadam." She has great pictures all organized into categories to see! She is sending a CD of pictures this week so I can post some soon too. I can't wait to get Joni's in a few weeks too! :) Yay TGIF! Heading to the Jay's game with Matt courtesy of my uncle's awesome work seats! Playing Tampa tonight at 7pm. No plans for the weekend so far - so excited to relax and (hopefully) not be kicked out our place again! Maybe we'll do some more neighbourhood walks?!
It's been one month: Happy One Month Married Anniversary Matty! Throw that 4.5 years out the window and start back at zero...booo...oh well - I'm going to milk these dates for sure now!!! :)
Wish me luck on the first married day of school!!! Friday we headed to the cottage with Matt's dad in tow, made great time - Friday traffic has not been bad at all this year - supposedly Saturday morning traffic is nuts, though. My parents were already there with Matt's mom. I wasn't feeling so great but we all caught up for a few hours before I crashed. Saturday we had a nice big breakfast, watched some of the wedding video Hope made (thanks, Hope!), but we're waiting for it to be put on DVD to sit down as H&W and watch it in full. Had a nice hot tub in the rain too. Then I took a few hours to fuss and get ready for Steph and Matt's wedding at Deerhurst, which is about an hour from the cottage. The wedding ceremony was beautiful - in the rotunda room with lots of light and a chandelier. Steph looked beautiful - lace fitted dress with a train, similar to mine, but with a sweetheart neckline and a tie-up back - just perfect on her. Matt looked great too, in a black tux with dark purple (eggplant?) tie, which matched the bridesmaids purple tea length dresses. The ceremony was short but sweet, and went right into a cocktail hour reception followed by dinner. Great food, all local - butternut squash soup sweetened with maple syrup, field greens with apple vinaigrette, chicken stuffed with ricotta (or similar), and rotating chocolate trifle and cranberry cheesecake - SO GOOD. Late night was sliders & fries, plus tons of sweet treats in apothecary jars made or purchased all by family - that was such a nice personal touch. Favours were blueberry and cinnamon jam (I can't wait to try it), plus a donation to the humane society. Wines were local too - Jackson Trigg - very nice. Lots of dancing and fun games and a great night all around. Matt was the DD so I enjoyed the wine and we danced a lot. Caught up with the pool girls Meg and Michelle, and also with Bianca (who is pregnant with baby # 2 - congrats!!!). Such a fun night! Sunday the boys went golfing and I lounged around reading. I finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and started "The Girl Who Played with Fire." The first one took a bit to get into, but then it was captivating. I think the second one is even better so far! My mom has the third one which I'm sure I will devour as well. I don't have as much time during the school year to read for pleasure, but I hope I can catch a few moments to keep it up. When the boys got back we had an early dinner (serious 4pm early bird dinner because my parents needed to head out), and then read and watched movies and TV and went to bed early. Today we packed up and headed home. The fans were leaving the condo as we got there - SUCH good timing. Getting an invoice next week for the work they will need to do on the flooring, walls, etc. The condo will pay for most of it and we'll figure out the rest through our landlord or something. Glad to have peace and quiet. Now to a nice relaxing Italian dinner with my husband, and to bed EARLY since tomorrow is back to school!!!! Hot tub in the pouring rain Just before heading out to the wedding The bride with her parents Vows & Rings Cocktail hour! Meg and I with the bride and groom Favours & Table Rocks Table Decor - very Muskoka Smiley after a fun night of dancing!
So I came back to the condo on Wednesday night. Matt had come back the day before to 94 degrees (I'm not kidding), and put things back when the fans were removed. It was very dirty and dusty and I cleaned up as much as I could, knowing they would be back next week to mess it all up again. Turns out that happened earlier than expected. Yesterday morning Matt and I heard running water in the hallway when I left for work. I let the building know and it turns out there was ANOTHER leak on the 51st floor that dripped all the way down past our floor. There were wet marks on our ceiling when I got home, and by our windows the floors and walls were wet. It wasn't bad at all, but it was still annoying. All the washer hoses are being replaced now because of this issue. I came home today to 7 fans in the condo, stuff all pushed to one side again - it is so loud and hot in here, but I have to pack and finish up the laundry to head to the cottage and Steph's wedding tomorrow!
Glad we'll be away for the weekend and this mess. I really hope the fans are gone when we come back on Monday!!! It will be nice to relax a bit at the cottage tonight and tomorrow, then Steph's wedding tomorrow night - I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!! - and more relaxing Sunday! Have a good long weekend everyone! So we left yesterday, walked around Leslieville and Queen East, and then ran some errands. Realized they were not done with our place so headed out to Matt's parents' house in Oakville. They called us at 7:30 and told us there would be industrial fans in there for at least a few days. We ended grabbing some essentials at Shoppers and staying the night. We drove back this morning, and saw the damage. Half the flooring is gone, the baseboards are pulled out, and there are tons of fans blowing air and dust everywhere. All my clothes in the closet are coated in dust, our stuff is all pushed to one side of the condo, and we can't really stay there.
We packed up a few days worth of stuff and are now back in Oakville for a few days. I wanted to go in to work on Tuesday, so it's going to be a long drive from here! I have school stuff to do some prep, and there is a Goodlife within walking distance at least. Matt's parents are still in Kingston from driving Meg to school, but will be back tonight. I hate imposing, but at least we are with family! Of course I took some pictures to document this disaster! So much for all my cleaning this week... Woken up this morning to banging on our door and water pooling on the floor...awesome.
Turns out there is a leak in our neighbour's place (we share a wall), and their excess water is leaking into our place. Our laminate is coming up along the wall and you can see the water between it. The tile in the bathroom and front foyer is soaked and we can see water coming through the edges. We have used ALL of our towels to sop up the water, but it's going to keep coming into until the water in their place is gone....great... Plus when Matt pulled out the washer/dryer to see the leak in the bathroom, he tore out the silver duct attached to the dryer and we can't get it back very easily because it's short...so we'll need to buy a longer one or something... I thought the repairs would start AFTER we bought a new house and not when we were renting a brand new condo! |
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