Tuesday's Tunes

So, my music taste has always been a bit different from my friends. I've always been a total pop lover, and most specifically a boy-band lover. While my tastes have broadened somewhat now that I'm an adult, there will always be a spot in my heart for my absolute favourite boyband, the Backstreet Boys. I am totally thrilled that they have a new album coming out this month so of course I had to share their new single here today.



Any other boy band lovers lurking out there? Any albums coming out this month that you're excited for?

Happy Canada Day!

Hubby & I on Canada Day
a couple years ago.

So, it's been a month. I have yet to get into that "routine" that I talked about back at the end of May. (Obviously.) I'm going to try again though. I want to thank Melissa at Dreams & Colour for co-hosting the Canada Day link-up that reminded me of my blog.

Today we're off to our annual church Canada Day barbeque/picnic. Wishing the weather was a little bit better (it's been raining for a week straight here in Halifax) but I'm sure we'll still have a good time. Lots of food and fun coming my way.

Here's hoping I can be a better blogger from now on! Maybe meeting some new Canadian bloggers will help me with my motivation.



Sunday Social

1. What is your favorite Social Media outlet? I am a Facebook addict and I freely admit it. Jonathan hates it and keeps saying he's going to delete his account but I won't let him. I recently started using Twitter a little more as well.

2. Do you subscribe to any daily news reads? If so which ones? I don't subscribe to any. I follow a local paper on Twitter but that's about it.

3. Favorite Magazine to have by the pool? I'm not a magazine lover. I'd rather have my Kobo loaded up with a trashy romance when I'm by the pool.

4. Favorite summertime song? I'm not sure about my favourite "summer song" but the song I find myself turning up and singing along to right now is Here's to Never Growing Up by Avril Lavigne. When we're hanging out on the patio or by the pool I generally like to listen to the stuff I listened to in high school, there's no one song that really says SUMMER to me.

5. Best Summer concert you’ve been to? For years my friend Beth and I headed to PEI for the Charlottetown Festival of Lights concerts. We saw a bunch of great bands, from Lifehouse to 3 Days Grace to Hedley. Collectively they're all my favourite summer concert.

Hope you're having a great weekend!

Friday's Letters

 

Dear Spring; Please stop being a tease. I would really like more than one warm, sunny day every week. If April showers bring May flowers then what do May showers bring? Hopefully something good! Dear Work; Last week wasn't so good. Hopefully we've got everything back on track now. I think we do, I feel like I worked my butt off this week. Dear Sydney; You are an indoor cat. Please stop trying to sneak out every time I open the door. I'm not sure what I would do if you ran away. When the weather is nice I promise to take you out on your leash so you can get a little fresh air. Dear Husband; I'm so glad you're finally feeling better. I know that cold really kicked your butt - I don't think I've ever seen you quite so miserable. Let's do something fun this weekend, k? Dear Sunburn; You suck and you're making my arms really hurt. But I have no one to blame but myself. Hopefully this time I've learned my lesson.

 

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

Thursday Thoughts

 

 

• How is it that there is only one day of May left? I seriously don't understand where this year has gone. I started out the year with so many goals and plans and I feel like I haven't accomplished anything over the past five months. I better get cracking if I'm going to get all the books read and movies watched I wanted to. I think I've given up on recipes.
• I managed to get my first sun burn of the season yesterday. It was the first really nice, really sunny, really warm day we've had all spring so Daisy and I went and spent the morning on my parents' deck. Someday I'll learn that I need to wear sun screen... Hopefully before I end up with skin cancer or something.
• I really need a new blog layout. But I don't really know what I want, and I can't really afford to pay for one. I was hoping my brother was going to get me Paint Shop or Photo Shop for my birthday so I could make my own again but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Should have gotten it for myself instead of getting my hair done. (My hair does look pretty adorable though.)
• I need to learn to take constructive criticism better. I had a visit from a "specialist" at work last week and it didn't go nearly as well as I would have liked. I took it really personally and went home quite upset. I'm used to being good at what I do, and I'm not used to be the person in-charge. Going to be a bit of an adjustment, but I just have to buckle down and make the changes she asked me to and remember that it wasn't a personal attack and that she was trying to help.
• Jonathan and I have discovered Sherlock. I have a really short attention span, so 90 minute episodes were an adjustment, but I highly recommend it. It's something a bit different. We're starting season 2 now and I'm pretty excited.
• I need to stop watching cooking shows. We love Hell's Kitchen, and now Master Chef has started too. And we're watching Top Chef Canada. All I want to do when I watching them is eat! But I'm totally addicted...

Wife to Wife Link-Up - The In-Law Edition

 

I have to admit that things started out a little bit rocky with my in-laws. For the first two years we were dating Jonathan actually didn't tell them about me. There were a couple different reasons, none of which really matter now. We even broke up about it (for about two hours) at one point. Apparently they asked him if he was dating me, and he denied it. (And yes, I still married him.) The "secret" ended with a confrontation between his mom and I at my checkout at work. It wasn't pretty, but truthfully it needed to happen.

 

I have a great relationship with my in-laws now. I actually consider myself lucky in that department. There's nothing they wouldn't do for us, and I enjoy spending time with them. We have dinner together every Sunday and my mother-in-law and I chat for hours. Jonathan often jokes that I know more about what's going on with his family than he does. (And he's probably right.)

Oh, How Pinteresting!

It has turned into an absolutely gorgeous day here, I'm so excited! Really wish our barbeque was working. I have shepherd's pie all ready to go in the oven, but it's so not a shepherd's pie kinda night. Oh well, I guess there will be lots of time for barbeques now that the weather is finally coming around.

Once again I spent far too much time on Pinterest this week. But if I didn't, what would I blog about on Wednesday?

Tuesday's Tunes

Sometimes I think my taste in music hasn't evolved since I was 12... For some reason I absolutely love this song. I don't know what it is, but when it comes on in the car I turn it up and sing along at the top of my lungs. Does anybody else have any "guilty pleasure" type songs? I can't be the only one...

Have a great Tuesday everyone!

Weekend Update

I work in retail (well, in a grocery store, which I consider retail but my husband disagrees with me every time I say that I work in retail) so weekends don't really mean a whole lot.

On Saturday I worked 8 to 5. When I started telling people about my transfer the first thing they said to me was, "You have to try the peanut butter burger at Darrell's." Darrell's is right next door to my store and has won all kinds of awards for their hamburgers. Still, the idea of peanut butter on my hamburger bun weirded me out a little bit. I decided to go for it on Saturday though, and am I ever glad I did! If you've never had peanut butter on your hamburger I recommend trying it! I know it sounds crazy, but it's totally delicious.

I spent most of Saturday evening in the kitchen. We were having a potluck lunch at church on Sunday so I made sweet and sour meatballs (super easy and tasty) and a hamburger pasta dish. I also baked cupcakes. I was feeling lazy, so I just used a cake mix and Duncan Hines Frosting Creations. (Seriously cool - you buy the tub of frosting and a little flavour packet. I bought mint chocolate to go with my chocolate cupcakes.)

On Sunday we were at the church from 9:30am to almost 4pm. Such a long day. It was good, but so long. We had a guest preacher so we did a morning and afternoon service (instead of morning and evening) with the potluck in between. There was so much food! I felt like I was going to explode - but it was worth it. (This is my plate - my husband's was twice as full!)

Daisy was super excited to see us when we got home. She gets so lonely. Since it was actually a super nice day (first one this spring I think) we decided to take her out for a nice long walk. We took her to one of our favourite parks and walked around the lake. It was gorgeous. We ended the night with a fire in our backyard fire pit. We even roasted hot dogs for supper.

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

It's Okay...

Slowly trying to get myself back into blogging. I figure some link-ups will help give me something to write about and will maybe (hopefully) bring some new readers by. So, today I'm linking up with Amber and Neely for "It's Okay" Thursday.

It's okay that I've only blogged three times so far this month. (And the month is almost over!)

It's okay that instead of cleaning my house yesterday on my day off I spent my free time thinking about and planning blog posts.

It's okay that I show up at my parents' every Wednesday at lunch time and let them feed me.

It's okay that I haven't read anything other than trashy romance novels in weeks.

It's okay that I'm currently addicted to Criminal Minds and that we've watched almost two seasons in a little over a week.

It's okay that I buy Daisy a treat whenever I go anywhere. (And it's okay that she's already destroyed the new toy I bought her when I was away last weekend.)

It's okay that I eat Subway at least once a week.

It's okay that I'm almost 31 years old and my favourite song is currently "Heart Attack" by Demi Lovato.

Tuesday Tunes

I absolutely love both of their voices, so it stands to reason that I would love this song. Enjoy!

'Cos maybe, you're my wonderwall...

I missed Tuesday's Tunes this week so I thought I'd try out a different music link-up this week. This is one of my favourites from junior high.