Oh My Gosh! It has been forever since I have posted anything. Life has been
insanely crazy. Since December, life has continued on the downward spiral. I
filed bankruptcy, my truck got repo’d. The truck getting repo’d really sucks.
Seeing as my blog is called XterraGirl and I no longer have an Xterra. I may
have to buy another one once I get discharged, as long as I can afford it of
course. Although I did find out that 2015 will be the last year that they are
making the Xterra, so I may have to win the lottery and buy a Jeep Rubicon
instead. Then I’ll be JeepGirl. Or maybe RubiGirl. I don’t know yet. Only time
will tell what is going to happen.
Anyways, there will be a post coming up. A recipe. I took some inspiration
last night from a dish that I saw at Costco, but wasn’t able to afford it. Keep
a look out…. (although I am going to write it as soon as I finish posting this,
so you won’t have to look out for long)
Ta ta for now
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Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Friday, 28 June 2013
It’s Been Awhile
Oh My Gosh! I am alive! No I have not fallen off the face of the Earth. Although at times it does feel that way.
Things have been insane here lately. I’ve been working like there is no tomorrow, along with trying to find a new job as the one I currently have does not pay me nearly enough. So with not enough money, things have been a bit stressful at home between Justin and I. This is not a good thing at all. Although through the stress we have also been going on a few little trips here and there.
We have bought a kayak. And we both have our fishing licenses so we have been fishing some of the local lakes lately. I have only caught one fish so far, although everyone says that it does not count as I was not able to bring it out of the water. I was just able to get it to shore, and then the stupid thing spat out the hook. It wasn’t a very big fish. Only about 6” long. Either way, it was my first fish that I have ever caught.
Along with fishing we have still been going 4x4ing. There has been some new trails that we have tried out. Unfortunately, I was not able to take many pictures as my camera battery is dead and I cannot find my charger for it anywhere. I know that it is in the house somewhere because I have charged my battery once before. But can I find it now? Nope. So I have been camera-less for about a month now. Hopefully I can find it soon, otherwise I’ll have to find one in a store. I really don’t want to buy a new charger, but I can’t live without my camera for much longer.
The internet down here, has been very finicky lately. It took about 20 minutes for me to connect. I have figured out that swearing loudly at it, makes it work. Sometimes…
This is just a quick little update. I hopefully will have some time to make a real post sometime soon. Complete with pictures.
Until next time 
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
These Boots Were Made For Walking And That's Just What I'll Do
So this post is extremely old at the moment. I originally wrote out the jist of it on my blackberry on Dec 9, 2012. One month later I'm actually getting around to putting it onto my blog. It won't be the whole post as I have to add photos still (I'm blogging at work again because my boss isn't here and I don't really have anything else to do), but it will give you something to read for now until I can get the photos up. Plus I will be doing another post today as well (minus photos) that I started writing on my blackberry the other day. So there will be two partial posts today. And now onto my story....
December 9, 2012
I got new tires for Truck on Friday. They are Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs. We went with 75's which are an inch taller than the ones that I had on her originally. These ones are really knobby and have a nice deep tread pattern. They are all season tires but have a mud and winter rating, which is something that I really wanted when we were getting a new set of tires.
So on Sunday, Justin and I decided to go on our weekly drive. This week we decided to up the Chipmunk Creek Forest Service Road (FSR). We started out on the Slease FSR. While driving on Slease there was a little bit of snow, nothing that made us really put the tires to work. When we turned onto Chipmunk, it was a totally different story. There was a lot more snow on that FSR. But as we are the adventurous type and we wanted to test out Trucks new boots onward we went.
***Yes I call Trucks' tires boots. They are not shoes, as those are the brakes. These are boots.***
We were following a single set of tracks the majority of the way up. At the end of those tracks was a smaller pickup with chains and they were playing with a snow machine. After their truck there was nothing but fresh powder just waiting to be driven in. Now this is what I'm talking about. Fresh powder. New boots. Lets go!
We didn't end up going as far as we had hoped. The snow was rather deep and we were literally plowing our way through it all. So we got maybe half a km past where the guys were playing with the snow machine before we decided to turn around. Where we turned around, we were in about a foot and a half of snow and at an elevation of 2771ft. I opened my door to see how deep it really was and my door made a "door angel" mark in the snow.
Needless to say, we will have to try this trail out again some other time once a couple more people have driven on it before us.
December 9, 2012
I got new tires for Truck on Friday. They are Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs. We went with 75's which are an inch taller than the ones that I had on her originally. These ones are really knobby and have a nice deep tread pattern. They are all season tires but have a mud and winter rating, which is something that I really wanted when we were getting a new set of tires.
So on Sunday, Justin and I decided to go on our weekly drive. This week we decided to up the Chipmunk Creek Forest Service Road (FSR). We started out on the Slease FSR. While driving on Slease there was a little bit of snow, nothing that made us really put the tires to work. When we turned onto Chipmunk, it was a totally different story. There was a lot more snow on that FSR. But as we are the adventurous type and we wanted to test out Trucks new boots onward we went.
***Yes I call Trucks' tires boots. They are not shoes, as those are the brakes. These are boots.***
We were following a single set of tracks the majority of the way up. At the end of those tracks was a smaller pickup with chains and they were playing with a snow machine. After their truck there was nothing but fresh powder just waiting to be driven in. Now this is what I'm talking about. Fresh powder. New boots. Lets go!
We didn't end up going as far as we had hoped. The snow was rather deep and we were literally plowing our way through it all. So we got maybe half a km past where the guys were playing with the snow machine before we decided to turn around. Where we turned around, we were in about a foot and a half of snow and at an elevation of 2771ft. I opened my door to see how deep it really was and my door made a "door angel" mark in the snow.
Needless to say, we will have to try this trail out again some other time once a couple more people have driven on it before us.
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Can't Contain The Excitement
I'm super excited for this Saturday. I finally get a Saturday off from work (been here for 2 years and this will be my first Saturday that I haven't had to use vacation time to take off). But that's not why I'm excited.
I decided last weekend while Justin and I were driving over mountains (literly. I will make a post about this later as I'm again posting at work) that we should head up to Sloquet Hot Springs and camp in the truck over night.
This is going to be a totally different experience for me. We would tent it, but we live in the Wet Coast so it's constantly raining. Not the best weather to be in a tent in. So we are going to pack as little as needed, and then when we get to the site fold the seats down in the Xterra and blow up the air mattress in the back. I've been reading about sleeping in the back of the X on one of the forums that I read. Everyone seems to really enjoy it. And I am super stoked to do it. Hopefully this first attempt goes well. Then I'll want to do it all the time.
And of course I will make a post about our trip to the Hot Springs. So that's two posts that I am going to be writing now. I'll probably do the mountain one tomorrow, since I have the day off. Although I do have planing and packing for the trip to do. I will try to fit it in.
Ta ta for now :-)
I decided last weekend while Justin and I were driving over mountains (literly. I will make a post about this later as I'm again posting at work) that we should head up to Sloquet Hot Springs and camp in the truck over night.
This is going to be a totally different experience for me. We would tent it, but we live in the Wet Coast so it's constantly raining. Not the best weather to be in a tent in. So we are going to pack as little as needed, and then when we get to the site fold the seats down in the Xterra and blow up the air mattress in the back. I've been reading about sleeping in the back of the X on one of the forums that I read. Everyone seems to really enjoy it. And I am super stoked to do it. Hopefully this first attempt goes well. Then I'll want to do it all the time.
And of course I will make a post about our trip to the Hot Springs. So that's two posts that I am going to be writing now. I'll probably do the mountain one tomorrow, since I have the day off. Although I do have planing and packing for the trip to do. I will try to fit it in.
Ta ta for now :-)
Monday, 19 November 2012
Shout Outs To Other Blogs That I Read
I'm writing another post at work, as it is slower today and my boss isn't going to be in today so I figured I'd quickly make a post. Which will have to be even quicker as one of my salesmen is going to be giving me items to bag and tag.
I have mentioned in my first blog that I am an avid reader of other blogs. So I thought I would share with you the list of blogs that I read regularily (when they update, as some of them haven't been updating lately). And as checking the addresses for all the blogs, I noticed that one of them has updated. Now I'm excited :-)
So I'm going to start with the cooking blogs. These are the four blogs that I print off recipes the most. Once I start doing more recipe posts, I will link back to these pages if I used one of their recipes. The blogs are not listed in any particular order, just how I got them off my blog list.
Cooking Blogs
Curry And Comfort
Eat Yourself Skinny
And here is her button:
The Farm Girl Recipes
And her button:
Skinny Taste
Travel/Overlander Blogs
Home On The Highway I came across this blog while lerking through a 4x4ing website.
Drive Nacho Drive I got linked to this blog from Home On The Highway. I now read both of them religiously.
Life / Everything Else
Barnes Daily Circus I started reading this blog after seeing her address in a comment on this blog.
Filing Jointly...Finally I can't remember how I came across Lauren's blog, but I read it from the beginning over the course of a month.
And Lauren's button:
Naptime Is For Drinking This is one of the ladies who I have "met" through a forum that I frequent quite often. The potty training stories are the best.
Don't Encourage Me This is one of my Uncles. That's all the introduction that this one needs.
So those are the blogs that I read. I want a button now. But I have no idea how to go about making one. Maybe once I get more readers, I will create myself a button. I hope you check out these other blogs and maybe you'll find a new favorite within them.
I have mentioned in my first blog that I am an avid reader of other blogs. So I thought I would share with you the list of blogs that I read regularily (when they update, as some of them haven't been updating lately). And as checking the addresses for all the blogs, I noticed that one of them has updated. Now I'm excited :-)
So I'm going to start with the cooking blogs. These are the four blogs that I print off recipes the most. Once I start doing more recipe posts, I will link back to these pages if I used one of their recipes. The blogs are not listed in any particular order, just how I got them off my blog list.
Cooking Blogs
Curry And Comfort
Eat Yourself Skinny
And here is her button:
The Farm Girl Recipes
And her button:
Skinny Taste
Travel/Overlander Blogs
Home On The Highway I came across this blog while lerking through a 4x4ing website.
Drive Nacho Drive I got linked to this blog from Home On The Highway. I now read both of them religiously.
Life / Everything Else
Barnes Daily Circus I started reading this blog after seeing her address in a comment on this blog.
Filing Jointly...Finally I can't remember how I came across Lauren's blog, but I read it from the beginning over the course of a month.
And Lauren's button:
Happy Endingz: Confessions of An Erotic Masseuse This is the first blog that I ever started reading. I don't remember how I got to it, all I know is that I love reading CJ's stories.
Naptime Is For Drinking This is one of the ladies who I have "met" through a forum that I frequent quite often. The potty training stories are the best.
Don't Encourage Me This is one of my Uncles. That's all the introduction that this one needs.
So those are the blogs that I read. I want a button now. But I have no idea how to go about making one. Maybe once I get more readers, I will create myself a button. I hope you check out these other blogs and maybe you'll find a new favorite within them.
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