Holy Balls, what is up with this weather? It is getting on my nerves big time.

I’m tired of going outside and freezing my butt off while getting down poured on. IT IS ALMOST JUNE PEOPLE.

Watch all my plants get flooded to death too. Next time I see a cloud I’m going to punch it in the face.

That was the disaster that was my deck a few weeks ago. Chads Mom had bought me some Pansy’s as a pre flower season gift. I sort of just plopped them in my big planter with out any sort of rime or reason, but they grew like weeds. I guess they really liked the deck. I wish I could have kept them, but I had to make room for my Birthday plants. I tried transporting the Pansy’s to another pot, but it just didn’t work out.

Two trays of plants and flowers. I think we over bought. Actually, I know we over bought, but it’s hard when certain flowers come in a tray of 6 and you really only need 4. This year, however, I am going to keep track of everything we bought and how well it grew so that I know for next year.

The planters are done!

Took me a while to figure out where to put everything. I had to squish a bunch in there, but I think it worked. The large pot is mostly made up of greens with white flowers. The small pot is probably going to turn out to be an assortment of fuchsias and purples. It’s going to be a bit of an experiment.

When I told Chads Mom my vision of flowers in tea cups, I explained to her that I needed a really small, delicate flower. She knew exactly when I needed and it worked out so well.

They are so so adorable! Unfortunately the weather has somewhat killed the purple ones, but I think I see new buds forming so I have hope.

My little Ikea Palm really grew last year, and keeping indoors for the winter seemed to work out well. I think I’m going to keep the Ivy I bought last year inside since it seems to like it’s spot and with all the plants now outside, I don’t want it to be too much.

Elise got me all the flowers for the hanging basket. There were three different flowers in there but I just added a forth. Those white flowers took off right away and are partially taking over the whole planter.

Giant Herb Garden #1!

Rosemary and Basil. The weather has also started to kill some of the basil plants so I will most likely have to replace those. Damn weather!

Herb Garden #2!

Sage, Oregano, Thyme, Chives, Tarragon. I’ve already started to use them and I love having them so readily available.

I had this conversation with Chads mom while we were out plant shopping, about how I think of my plants as my kids. Every morning I go out and see how they are doing. Every night when I get home from work I go out and see how they are doing. When it rains too much I go and pull the little ones in, and when it’s nice and sunny I try to arrange them for optimum growth. I think about them all the time, and I worry about them when the weather gets bad. I really want them to do well and grow. It’s really like these plants are my kids. I think that’s partially why I am freaking out about this weather so much.

The other night I cracked the bedroom window open a bit to get some fresh air. I woke up at 3am to the sound of a down pour and all I could think about was my poor little herb garden because it is the only thing that’s not under a cover, so it gets the most abuse. It was the worst sleep ever because I kept waking up to see if it was still raining and I was so worried that everything was going to be ruined.

Forget being a crazy cat lady. I’ve turned into a crazy plant lady!

I just really hope the sun decided to come out some time soon!

There are too many photo posts on my blog. They take too long to load.

Today feels like a Friday. I kind of wish it was.

At least I don’t have to make dinner tonight.

There was energy in this office but I think it got Claudia annoyed because shes swamped with work.

I’ve been doing the same thing all day today, and now I’m bored.

Chads Internet died so I can’t even chat with him. Totally lame.

Elise’s bridal shower is this weekend, so is Chad and his sisters Family Birthday Parties. Then we have to get our butts in gear to organize camping. WoopWoop.

I’m just tired and want to go home today.

Damn this busy life and busy work schedule. I mean, I like being busy, but there are too many damn things to do lately. Work has been exploding, which is nice, but you know that leaves me running around like crazy. I’ve been in a rut, trying to dig myself out of this hole that is filled with things I should do instead of things I want to do. The ‘ME’ time seems to be fading.

I need to cut back on my elaborate dinners (sorry Chad), not stuff myself silly so I need an hour to digest, and take some time each night to do what I want to do. This whole fashion blog takes up a lot of time, and the result isn’t even that amazing. I just don’t have enough time to give it these days.

I finally got together with Matt for some birthday Sushi. We went to Shiro, which I have never been to before. Matt says he use to go there all the time as a kid. I was definitely up for the experience!

It’s super cute inside, and I always love to watch them make the sushi.

Ebi Sunomono

This is one of my favorite dishes ever, so I have become somewhat of a conusor. Every place we go that has it, I try it. This is one was very good; definitely one of my favorites. You can tell when it is REALLY done wrong because they put lettuce in it and it’s the most bizarre thing ever.

Sushi Explosion!

Special Crab Roll – Super good but holy Spicy Alert!
Negitoro Maki – One of my favorite ‘of the moment’ sushi. This one was good but they stuck Wasabi in it and I died. I can’t handle wasabi in any amount.
Dynamite Roll – Can’t go wrong with that!
Scallop Roll – I’ve always been scared of them because they look so gooey, but when I stopped to think about it, I adore Scallops so why not scallop rolls!? This was very good!

BBQ Squid Legs with Garlic Butter

The sauce was amazingly tasty, the squid was squish, but then it always is. This one as good!

Chicken Karaage

I’ve had this before at other places and it’s been better. It’s hard to go wrong with deep fried chicken, but there was barely any meat on these bones which was disappointing.

BBQ Salman with Salt

Tasty, but such a weirdly shaped piece of fish! The way it was cut with the fins on made it look like it had wings!

Over all a good dinner. I was so full and the green tea was soo good. I could have sat there all night drinking it.

We went back to Matts house for MTV and Ice Cream which was epic. The Hills is so amazing right now.

I think I will spend the rest of the day dreaming about Ebi Sunomono.

• Matt and I are going out for sushi tonight. Birthday dinner of sorts. With Matt and I, it’s either Japanese, Italian, or Nothing. We would actually probably have the most amazing dinners ever if we lived together. That is my one complaint about Mr. Ciavarro, his lack of love for Japanese and things from the Sea.
• Shazzi B made Alicia and I hand made necklaces of awesomeness and I am so excited to pick them up. Hopefully I can get them this weekend. Shes got pictures up on her Flickr page but I’m not going to post them, because its a surprise. Haha. Not really but still. I want to wait until I have it in my hand!
• Finally organized Elises Stagette. We are going river rafting in the afternoon and then to Roosters in the evening. Two things I have never done before, but two things that are very much ELISE. The boys are going camping for Ryans Stag as well that weekend, so it will be much like Chad and mine was.
• Chads mom got me flowers for my birthday again this year. I love when we go out and buy flowers. I want to buy way more then I have room for, and this year we actually did. I have to go out and buy an extra pot just to fit everything. I planted it all Monday afternoon, just before all the rain came.  At least they are under the cover a bit, unlike my herb gardens. I may have to move those when I get home. They have drainage holes, but they just worry me.
• Chads mom also got me some Pandora Beads. They are so beautiful! I got a silver one and glass one. I want to go back and buy so many more. OBSESSED.
• My 2nd work trip to LA is booked. We will be going right in the middle ish of Summer – June 23 -27. So looking forward to it. I just hope the heat doens’t kill me. 
• Almost 2 weeks until we go camping and I get to see PATZ again!!!
• The storm has arrived and I’m not dressed for it. Damn.

Last day in America!

We didn’t spend a lot of time in the USofA as there were things to do back in Canada!

We headed off in the morning to visit St. James Cathedral, which was amazingly beautiful.

Cab Cab Cab

We stayed for mass and it was so cool. The choir was amazing and there was all these different things going on. It was a very  neat experience.

Hey there!

All the pictures don’t do it justice. It was so beautiful.

I found Forget Me Nots outside.

After visiting the Cathedral we headed back to the hotel, packed up and took off. We made a quick detour to Pike Place just so that I could pick up some Mothers Day flowers from the market for our Moms. Then it was off to Costco to buy some Ciavarro Cheese and then back to Canada.

We got to the Ciavarros at about 3 in the afternoon and spend some time there visiting before we headed off to my uncles for my family birthday dinner / mothers day dinner.

It was a lot of driving.

Zoey did all the pre washing of the dishes. I hope Pat explodes when he sees these.

Yea. Pretty un eventful day compared to the other ones. But we did lots of family visiting which was nice.

It was good to be back home but it’s always hard going from a King size bed back to a Queen especially when someone likes to sprawl (CHAD).

Even though I’ve been to Seattle twice now, I wouldn’t hesitate to go back down again. There are so many things to check out that we never had the chance to do.

So whens our next weekend away!?