TIme Goes By....

So 2018 is already half way over. How is that even possible?  It only feels like we just celebrated Christmas. Now we are on to Canada Day and summertime. And like always, I'm back to only posting in this blog twice a year. Nothing new there, I see. Although I do happen to think often about posting on here, however nothing ever transpires from it.

Being that we are half way through the year, I'm going to do a recap on what has happened so far.
1 - Had another successful (haha) year at the tax place. Although being back this year, I realized again why I stopped working there in the first place. So this year, will definitely be the last year that I am there. It is too much of a headache, and in this year in particular, it wasn't worth my time. Majority of my time was spent on my phone, playing games and not helping clients.

2 - I bought a motorcycle! Specifically I bought a 2018 Honda CRF 250 Rally. Awesome fact about this bike (who will from this point on be referred to as Girlie). She has the limited edition black paint scheme, and her serial number is #1 in the edition. So that is pretty cool. I haven't put many km's on her yet. I have decided to take riding lessons, as I figured I'd get a better handle of how to ride it as opposed to having Justin teach me. He did try teaching me, but I ended up getting more frustrated than anything, which wasn't a good thing. Today, I passed the Motorcycle Skills Assessment (which removes the restriction of having someone supervise me while I ride). So in two weeks I will be doing the traffic portion, learning about riding in traffic. Then in mid-August I will be taking my motorcycle road test. So that gives me lots of time to practice between when I do the traffic course, to when I do my road test.

3 - In September, I will be going back to school part time (online) at Capilano University. I will be taking the Legal Administrative Assistant program. It's only been 14 years since I graduated high school. It is about time that I figured out what I want to do career wise. I am super excited for this program. It will take three years to complete (seeing as it is online and part time, as I will be continuing to work full time). Once I successfully complete this program, and have the grades, I can move onto their Paralegal position. Which I am also excited to do.

Other than those three big things, it has just been minor things. Competed in a couple archery tournaments (although we've really been slack on that lately), bought myself a new DSLR camera, went to Calgary to buy a new dirt bike (Mini Me) for Justin, been on a few fishing trips (some together, a couple solo ones), and have been working. Oh, and I also just completed my Occupational First Aid Level 2 for work. So I'm certified in that now.

I will attempt to try to post more here. I really want to start getting into photography more (hence the new camera) and I think here would be a good place to showcase my pictures. Although that would also require having more traffic come to the site. Otherwise I'm just doing it for my own enjoyment. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Until next time, lovelies!!

It's Just A Truck....

So at the moment I am on Craigslist looking for a new vehicle. Well then I thought, "Hey why I don't see if the local auction place has any cars?" They didn't online, so I then went to the website where the Xterra got repo'd to. Curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the Nissan tab to see what they had there. Very last vehicle on the list, was my Truck Truck. They had taken all my decals off the back, but I knew it was mine because in the first photo, I saw my flies on the sunshade on the driver side and the Mossberg sticker from off of the 4.10 shotgun. I am currently trying not to cry because I miss my truck. I'm repeating in my head that "it's just a truck".

But she isn't just a truck.

She was my adventure getaway vehicle. She was my mobile tent for when we went camping. She was the vehicle to drive my drunken friends. I love that truck. And I wish to hell that I was able to afford to get her back. Heck, she's going on auction this weekend. I could buy her. Although I don't think she'll go for my budget of $2000. Plus I don't have the money needed to fix her up. She has a lot of issues right now.

I just hope that whoever buys her, loves her as much as I did.

Archery And Fishies

So this past weekend there was an archery shoot out at Semihamoo. It was just a fun 3D shoot. I had not realized that it was happening until I had gotten home from work on Saturday and Justin mentioned that Josh was going to take his nephew, Adam, to the shoot on Sunday and wanted to know if we wanted to go too. He also wanted to go fishing on Sunday so we figured that we would go early in the morning to do one round of the course (usually takes about hour and a half to two hours to complete depending if it ends up bottle-necking or not) and then go up to Stave Lake to try and find this creek that has some monster trout in it.
We had planned on being there about 8:30am, so that we could have breakfast there (the ladies always make the best food) and then get some shots in at the backstops as we haven’t shot in just over a month. Josh and Adam were going to meet us not long after 9:30 as that was when Josh was picking Adam up from his house. So we end up getting there at about 9. Have some breakfast and end up talking to Dick, whom we always shoot with at the range that we belong to. After a bit of conversation, we headed out to the backstops to warm up. My 20 and 30 yard pins are set up nicely. My 40 and 50 yard pins leave something to the imagination. We really need to get back into our rhythm of going to the range so that I can set those pins up properly. And start heading to the Thursday night shoots so that I can start figuring out my yardage again. Needless to say my shooting that day was not my greatest. I haven’t even tallied up the score cards yet. There was too many zeros for my liking.
One of the best shots of the day, Justin ended up making. We were at a wolf target and everyone had already taken there shots, and Josh told Justin to shoot the wolf in the eye. This was the resulting shot:

He got the wolf almost dead center in the forehead.
I was bored while we were waiting for the teams ahead of us to go, so I started having some fun with my phones camera and shadows. I like the second picture the best. It is currently the wallpaper on my phone, plus is my profile picture on Facebook.
 
After the shoot, we headed up to Canadian Tire so I could buy Justin a new fishing rod (I broke his a few weeks back when I fell trying to get out of a lake. I was more concerned for the rod than the fact that I almost smashed my head on a log). I got him a pretty blue one with flames on it (which I will be using until I get my own rod). We then headed up to Stave Lake to find this creek. We never did find the creek. So since we couldn't go fishing, we decided to buy some fish instead.

The pond in the backyard is in need of a good cleaning.
This is our pond. There are about 10 koi's currently in the pond. They don’t do a good job at keeping it clean. So we decided that it could use some plecostomus. So we bought two pleco’s.




 


                   This is them still in the bag before we added some of  the pond water to the bag to help balance out the pH levels.









Justin had the honours of pouring the pleco’s into the pond.

  One of them instantly swam towards the rocks deeper down, whereas the other one stayed up near the top. Here is his picture. He is really hard to see, but there is a pleco in the picture. He is the darker smudge that is in a kind of ‘u’ shape in the middle of the photo.

We haven’t seen the pleco’s since we put them in the pond. However the rocks are getting cleaner, so they are currently still alive. It is still rather warm out here so they can stay in the pond for the time being. Once it becomes colder though, the lady at PetSmart told us that they should come inside the house so that they don’t die over winter. The only problem I see with that is that we can’t currently find them. Hopefully when it comes time to bring them out, they are a bit bigger so that we can actually see them to catch them.

Good news readers! I have bought a camera charger. It is currently waiting at my PO box in the states. So I will be getting that on Monday and I will be able to get actual good photos of the following weekend as Justin and I are going camping for 5 days with his parents. Should be fun times!!
Ta ta for now!!

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