Canadian Lyndsay

Oohh, and I thought I’d gotten so good at remembering to update my blog.

It’s been a busy past few weeks.  Thanks to the start of spring break for Calgary’s elementary school students, I was unable to get a flight to Winnipeg last weekend.  Instead, I ended up at home in St. Catharines. It was a lot of fun, I had a great time with my parents and my sister and her boyfriend.  But it was really really hard being away from Dave for so long, and I had a little meltdown when I got back to Calgary Monday night.  So, since not many people were in the office, I decided to come home to Winnipeg on Tuesday night, and work from home on Wednesday and Thursday.

What a great decision.  Except no work got done thanks to a nasty bout of food poisoning or 24-hour flu or something.  I was able to do a bit of work, but not very much.  Because of being sick, Dave and I were not able to fly to Toronto tonight for Easter weekend, but instead we will fly to Hamilton tomorrow morning.  On Monday night, Dave will fly back to Winnipeg and I’ll fly back to Calgary.

I will post more about the weekend when we get back.  I don’t really expect to post much this weekend, so y’all have a nice holiday!

I joined Facebook quite a while ago… took a look, got bored, and left. Two days ago, I ended up back on… I can’t quite remember why I went on but all of the sudden it hit – the addiction!

I’ve added probably 40 or so long-lost friends and classmates. It’s absolute madness! Last night I spent a couple hours chatting with my friend Lyndsay (yup, spelled the same way and everything). We went to elementary school together! It’s been 10 years, and we’re having a blast catching up.

So now I have a new addiction to curb. Being addicted to social networking sites isn’t new for me, so I have a good idea how to keep it at bay. But the novelty of it all will take a while to wear off, so I’m sure I’ll be on often to see what else is happening.

Okay seriously.  Having a time bomb in my abdomen is no fun.  The twinges of pain are occurring more frequently and more severely.  Please, please appendix – hold out just five more weeks.  Five weeks and the nice man with the scalpal will set you free.

My appendectomy is scheduled for May 3 and I couldn’t be more excited.  My first bout with appendicitis was in August 2003.  That means I’ve been dealing with an irritable appendix for three and a half years.  Far too long!!  Of course, my last incident, about six weeks ago, I finally got a surgeon who offered to take it out.  I declined, however, because of my new job.  But now it is scheduled and it’s going sooooo slow!!

I have no idea what a burst appendix feels like.  In the past day or two I’ve felt a lot of pressure pain in my abdomen.  Hopefully I’m just bloated!!  Geez.  What woman HOPES to be bloated anyway?

Fingers crossed… five more weeks!!

My sister loved the movie St. Elmo’s Fire. I admit, I’ve never seen it. But I know that it’s a cheesy 80s movie starring Emilio Estefez, Demi Moore, etc. What I didn’t know is that it’s also a phenomena that occurs on an airplane.

Sunday night, coming back from Winnipeg, I found that there were no passenger seats available for the Regina to Calgary leg. This meant I was offered the “jump seat”, a little fold down seat located in the cockpit of the plane. It was a lot of fun, the pilots were great.

As we were landing into some low heavy clouds, I started seeing lightning. But it wasn’t lightning it was St. Elmo’s Fire. I guess the friction between the clouds and the static electricity around the nose of the plane create these beautiful blue lightning bolts… of course, they’re not lightning, but a similar theory. Seeing these blue bolts flash along the windshield and nose was beautiful.

My first time flying jump, and I got to witness this. Poor Marshall, in all his many hours flying in the cockpit, has never seen it once. I hope he gets to see it soon. It was stunning.

I didn’t post yesterday because I was busy sleeping, working from home, and beating the boys at Skipbo.  Yes, Dave and I went to Dawn’s place last night to pig out on pizza and play cards.  Dawn and I beat Dave and Glenn two games to one, but it was definitely close, all the games.

Dave and I have decided to buy season tickets to the Bombers this year.  Hopefully Dawn will find out our seat options soon – we are excited about the season, it’ll be nice when we know where our seats will be!

Maureen gave Dave some money to buy my birthday present – so last night we stopped at Polo Park so we could buy these diamond/sapphire earrings that I’ve had my eye on for a while. They’re beautiful!!  Hopefully I’ll find a nice dress to wear to Maureen’s grad dinner, and I can wear my beautiful new earrings.