It's been a busy month. It's well into spring and though I've brought out the summer clothes there's hardly been a day worthy of wearing them. I don't need the 40+ with humidex weather but would it hurt the sun to come out for a few hours every day. Sheesh.

I bought myself a new computer. It's a laptop. I cheaped out and decided against going Mac (much to my brother's stern disapproval). Naturally, I needed to find some fun new software so I set out to find some cool new things I could find for free on the net. This led to me infecting my laptop with a few trojan horses and viruses, then infecting my external hard drive and my old desktop all in one big 'ol fun time... not! Luckily, I had a long weekend to reformat my laptop so at least that is back up. Neil's going to try and fix the desktop sometime soon, I think. Neil was out of town for the long weekend and kept getting crazy panicked texts from me like, "No internet. Please Help." So I'm sure his attempted break from me was thwarted by my incessant neediness.

So that I didn't go too stir crazy, I ventured out to my aunt and uncles in cottage country (Bradford is not really in cottage country -- but they are apparently going to buy a hot tub and that will make their place N & I's weekend get-a-way north of the city). The plan was to go out to some greenhouses to buy plants for my planters. I also planned to make a little herb garden on my patio. I got my planters made up and my herbs potted, then I spent the day landscaping my aunt and uncles front yard. It was a nice break from fretting over destroying my laptop after owning it for all of three days.... Got my plants home and they are on the floor in my living room as it was raining on Sunday and Monday and I had wanted to get out there and wash the patio floors/furniture before I filled up the space with other stuff -- add to that the fact that it was May 20th and too cold for my damn plants to be outside anyway. Arg! Hopefully next weekend I can get out there and get everything cleaned up and out so we can start hanging out on the patio and partaking in an after work drink or enjoying our famous and fabulous (well at least to us) weekend brunches outside.

I'm also deep into planning my summer. My brothers are coming out here at the end of June and we've booked rooms in Ottawa for Canada Day. I am very excited about this as it should be really fun! Ottawa is one of my favourite places in this country as it is really quite beautiful and being there for Canada Day just seems like an event to experience at least once in your lifetime! Being a freak, I'm also excited because I have convinced the boys that we have to go to Medieval Times while they are here in TO. Come on, don't roll your eyes... it will be awesome!

I'm driving back to Regina with the boys (yay, Canadian Shield/Great Lakes Adventure!!) early in July and plan to stay about 3 weeks in Regina visiting my niece and nephew and my pregnant sister (whoops... did I let that slip? It's old news now anyway) -- and the parentals, etc. My sister's friend Linda is getting married and I'm excited for that too -- she is having a traditional Indian/Hindu ceremony and the girls are going to be wearing saris. She's having a traditional catholic service afterwards too so it will be a big day with lots of costumes changes... my sister is the maid of honour so it's going to be interesting to see her all sari-ed up.

Sometime at the start of August, I'll start driving back home. Should be fun. August is still very unplanned... for now.

Other than that, nothing much to report. Work, eat, sleep. Repeat. So my life goes.

K