Kelowna: Day 10

So today I thought we would be going out to do stuff... but turns out we just stayed home just like every other day previously. haha. My mom and sis went out to buy more grocceries, though.

I woke up at around 3pm and took a shower, brushed my teeth, and waited to Skype with my bf. Decided to go eat some banh xeo (vietnamese pancake) while waiting. Went on Skype and chatted for a few hours. Then I watched the live action drama of Ouran Highschool Host Club, that was fun to watch. Too bad there was only three episodes. T_T I'm eager to watch the fourth one and more!

I've already packed most of my stuff. I just need to pack my laptop, charger, blankets, and some minor items before we get going.

I was also able to access my timesheet for work, today. Made me happy since I need to report my hours I've worked before the deadline. Pay cheque comes in soon. :)

Also managed to stop my polyphasic sleep. I just stay up later instead of napping... and I fall asleep and wake up at a reasonable time (I woke up earlier at 11am, but decided to sleep in until 3pm today).

Kelowna: Day 9

Amggg Day 9! So today I had to wake up super early... woke up at 6:45am, didn't take a shower since I thought we were going within 15 minutes to leave at 7am... so I only put on my BB cream and some bronzer/blush and filled in my eyebrows. We didn't leave the house until 9 or 10. -_- Sigh. Lmao. So here I am, stinkier by a day... but you can't smell me so it doesn't apply to this post!

We headed over to Omak, WA. Lots of shopping was done at JC Penny, Payless Shoesource, Dollar Tree, and Wal-Mart. I ended up buying a gift for my bf, and my family bought a bunch of grocceries, shoes, and random clothes and some stuff for the house. I also bought some Crunch chocolate in the 'bunch' form and sped-ate it while shopping in the shoe store. Wal-Mart was pretty fun to look through because it was just so freaking gigantic! I ran over to the school supply section to try to find a combination lock for my locker (the dollar store's combo locks had too short of a rung) but they didn't have any... guess they were all sold out? I also headed over to the beauty aisle to find products we don't have here in Canada. I found a few, but the weird thing was... they didn't have 'testers' for their products, so I had no idea how the color would look if I swatched it on my hand. Meh.

I also looked at this dry shampoo I've been wanting since the other day I saw a commercial for it. It was about 3 or 4 dollars US, but I didn't need it that badly to go buy it. Maybe I'll purchase it within this week when I feel like it. o_o

We drove back home and on the way back I kept falling asleep. We made a few stops to pick up some fruits that were picked off the trees. We got home and found a watery mess on the kitchen floor left by my niece and her friend(s). Ah, teens...

I watched a drama episode and now I'm getting ready to head to bed. It's kind of early to be sleeping... it's only 11pm and no one in this house really sleeps until 2am or 1am.. lol.

Tomorrow I think we're going to go to the park. Hopefully I can get something for myself since I haven't really bought anything for myself on this trip whenever I got the chance to. XD Buying gifts is easier.

Kelowna: Day 8

We didn't end up going bowling today... I could have gone groccery shopping again, but I slept in past noon as my mom and sister were getting ready to head out. Woke up a bit later at 3pm, had some salad rolls and played with the dogs as usual.

I plucked basil and mint leaves for dinner. A lot of people came over to try Pho and have salad rolls. One of them brought over their dog... not sure what breed it was though. My sister's dog and my dog kept barking at the other dog... had to tell them to keep it down but my sister's dog was really angry lol.

We didn't go anywhere after dinner. I'm actually waiting a few more hours to head to sleep, since tomorrow we have to get up at 7am to head to the states. Random road trip much? We're going to do some window shopping I suppose. Maybe I can get something cool. I'm currently charging up the 3DS so I won't be bored since the dogs won't be coming with us, so gotta occupy my time with an alternative.

I found out that my t-shirt for my employer made it to him, and that his reimbursement also made it back. :) Now I'll have less to pay off my bills :) He picked up the t-shirt yesterday and then the reimbursement arrived today. I think maybe my text messages were a bit too much? I sent him one two days ago to let him know, and he didn't even reply. But the tracking number told me that he picked it up the day after I sent him a message. Maybe he just needed some time to go to the post office, or he really didn't know the noticed arrived. Blah, oh well. Doesn't seem like he's mad or anything so I'll just leave it at that.

Kelowna: Day 7

Wow it's been a week already!!

Today I woke up earlier than usual.. about noon time to wake up and have some spaghetti. :) We decided to head out to the mall today to do some shopping. The mall we went to really doesn't have a lot to offer but we took a look at a few stores and ended up buying clothes for my niece and for my cousin. Then we headed back home to have an early dinner.

For dinner we had rice with satay chicken, some egg, and some vegetables. My niece had to babysit again so we waited for the child to come over. Then we headed over to the carshow but as soon as we got there it started to rain. The car show was in a parking lot... yeah, very wise move. Haha. We huddled underneath a sales tent for a few minutes. Then the storm got crazier and wind started blowing the tent here and there. We decided to get inside the car and go home.

I went on the computer for a bit and hung out with the dogs. Really sleepy right now but I'm in a meeting on Skype. *yawn*

I think we're going to go bowling or to the park tomorrow or go see salmon birth.. ahh, I have no idea.

Kelowna: Day 6

Sleeping last night and the night before wasn't very great. I've been doing some polyphasic sleep and I don't like it one bit. I wake up way too late in the afternoons. =\

Today I didn't really do anything. We ended up not going shopping. I had some fried shrimp, wonton soup, and some cookies and an icecream sandwich. Played with the dogs for a bit... and mostly just went on the computer all day.

This morning my boyfriend texted me telling me he had come back from his vacation. I was excited but he was really tired so he decided to take a nap. After his nap we just talked on Skype for a few hours about our vacations. It was fun. :)

Also had a visitor today. My niece was babysitting this little boy so while she was doing that I had to hangout with my dog for a bit to calm him down. Every new visitor is just too much excitement for him and he can get carried away.. after an hour or so he calmed down and the little boy was very obedient and didn't stick his hand out. My dog sniffed him and all was fine. :)

Tomorrow we're supposed to go do some shopping! I'm excited, haven't shopped in a while... like, legit shop... all I've done was window shop haha or buy really small things. We'll see if I want to pick up anything or not. Maybe I'll get a new bag. Kinda been wanting one for a while now. We'll also go to a carshow later on. I've never gone to one before. Wonder if I'll see import car models... :O

Kelowna: Day 5

So I realized my blog posts about this trip are not very detailed at all. I write them right before I go to sleep (youtube video watching) so I don't really feel too obliged to make a detail post. But then I read over them and to me, they just look repetitive and simple. So.. from now on I will write more detailed posts, starting with this one!

Today I got up at 2pm. I was actually awake around 9am or 10am before that... since everyone wakes up pretty early here and two people who were staying over were leaving to go home today. I could hear everyone's voices here and there... I just stayed in bed and tried to sleep for a few more hours. Eventually I fell asleep and woke up once again around noon to hear someone had come for a visit. Then I went back to sleep... and woke up later.

I woke up and was greeted by our visitor, I said hello and asked her how she was. She told me she was good so after our little chat, I went to grab my items so I could get ready for a new day.

I think the longest part of my morning routine is blow drying my hair. I used to use one of our visitor's hairdryer's... because I thought it was my sister's, but it wasn't. And then our visitor went home with her hairdryer, so today I had to ask my sister for one. Anyway, the reason why blow-drying my hair is such a long task is because the one I used before was kind of weak. The one I used today was more powerful. I would say it takes about 5 - 7 minutes for my hair to dry... not completely, though. That would take too long. Actually, 5 - 7 minutes is what it feels like it takes... it's probably only 3 minutes, but I have no idea since there's no clock in the washroom or anything.

I finished my morning routine and headed out of the bathroom. Ate some of the cookies our visitor brought us, and had a chat with our visitor. She asked me about school and such, and told me about her child who is also going to school. I also went on the computer for a bit to check on job postings for fun, and then I went on FB for a bit. Mom told me to go get ready to go shopping so I went to get ready.

We headed over to my brother-in-law's shop. I found my niece and greeted her. She was with her friend so they didn't really pay much attention to my presence. My niece stayed at the shop with her dad, and so we headed off to Superstore to go buy some groceries for dinner tonight and for future meals.

Superstore was giant... for some reason I think it's more giant than the Superstore back home, but whatever. The colors of the store weren't green like at home, but they were blue/white/red. Interesting...

We walked around and picked up some meat, vegetables, some bread, and a few fruits. I was too fixated on the bakery aisle with all the pre-packaged cheesecakes in President's Choice boxes and the freshly baked in-store cakes... last year my family would purchase strawberry cheesecake from wal-mart every 2 or 3 days.. haha, and we would eat a piece everyday or so (well I did). I don't think we'll be getting cheesecake this time though... or maybe we will at the end of the trip?

Went to checkout and paid for our stuff. Mom bought a scratch lottery ticket thing.

For dinner we had some nice hot bowls of Pho. I also had some more of the fresh apple juice from the other day. There's half a milk jug of it left... I hope it doesn't go bad soon. It's really good!

Didn't do much for the rest of the night. MSN-ing.. and the usual. :)

Kelowna: Day 4

Today was another stay-at-home day. I woke up at around 2 or 3pm and had some congee and chicken salad with the grown-ups. :P Played with the dogs for a bit afterwards and did some studying for work as well as chatting with friends online.

Ate some salad rolls and then munched on some cracker peanuts, realized they had saturated fats in them so I stopped eating them. I watched a few youtube videos for makeup (It's been a long time since I tried to wear colors while going out) and then fell asleep. Woke up to go brush my teeth for bed, but then found out some pizza was brought home so I had two slices of that.

Writing in bed right now. Going to talk with a friend for a bit and then watch more youtube videos. Not sure what we will be doing this week... drag racing is only on weekends so I think we will have some family outings this week. Probably going to the mall or to the park. Hmm...

Kelowna: Day 3

I slept in again, but this time only until 12. Had to get up so we could go to the race track to watch some drag racing. The cars were really loud! We stayed for a few hours and then headed back home.

I was really exhausted so I ate a quick dinner consisting of meatballs, lettuce/cucumber, and noodles stirred in with nuoc mam. Also had some freshly made apple juice a friend gave us earlier. It didn't taste like the traditional apple juice you find in stores! Naturally sweet, it was really good. 

I watched some asian dramas and then took a short nap for a few hours. Woke up to answer the door, and washed my makeup off and brushed my teeth. I'm sitting here now wondering what to do for a few hours. Hmm...

Kelowna: Day 2

Didn't do too much today. Woke up at 8am, to loud voices, and then looked at my texts from my boyfriend. He went to the states for a bit with friends so he was updating me before he went on his flight. Then I went back to sleep. Found another text from him. Then I slept again.. but more interruptions came as people were making their way in and out of the room I am sleeping in. Eventually I decided to wake up at 4:30pm. It felt good to sleep in for once!

After that I just ate, played with my dog (he was really sad today since my sister and her dog went out all day), and went on the computer to chat with friends and watch dramas. It's 2AM right now so I probably should get to sleep soon. We're going to go out tomorrow with the dogs and the family.

Right now I'm craving fried rice. I was watching a cooking drama... so that's why. >_< I should learn how to make fried rice so I can cook it when I crave it. :)

Kelowna: Day 1

I was going to make a separate blog for my traveling diary... but realized I have way too many blogs anyway, so I thought I would just post it here.

8 hour road trip across the border and here we are, in Kelowna. Took me a long time to gain access to the internet, since it had a weird filter on it that wouldn't allow us to sign in, despite us having the password to gain access. Managed to fix it by logging into the router settings and changing the max users to a greater number. I can't believe that took me 3 hours to figure out... but it was worth it. :)

I had some banana tapioca dessert. Time for some sleep.

Cucina Hand Cream

I actually bought something while shopping today. Cucina Hand Cream in coriander and olive tree!

I have been wanting this hand cream for a really long time. A few years ago I worked at a job that was in one of those high-end washrooms... and at the sinks, they had a nice big jar of this lotion that people would use right after they washed their hands. We would also use it while working, and it was just such an amazing lotion. I had really dry skin back then, so this would always do the trick. Fruits & Passion had a 50% off sale today on all their merch. I went to an outlet store so they didn't have the big jar available for this type, but I was able to get this 40ml size for only $2.50. Good deal. :) The only thing that bugs me about this is that there's so much air when you squeeze so the pressure makes a huge glob come out... I need to be more careful, as using too much makes me a little itchy. 

Nostalgia

Decided to clean my room today. Well, one side of it at least. My main goal was to create some space and also give the room a more polished appearance. I took my reusable bag and started digging through the massive amounts of paper stored inside. Tons of post-secondary school work, with some high school work as well. A lot of memories came about... 

I have tons of papers from my Japanese courses. I still have a script of a presentation I did with my first university friend/Japanese course friend. The presentation was fun and we did well. I didn't keep up with her much since she didn't really attend class... but I still keep up with her from time to time online. I also found a script that I presented with my boyfriend. We did alright on the presentation, as it was a higher level course... but it was fun nonetheless. I told him that I had found it, and we agreed to act it out again sometime. :) 

I also found some not-so-good grades, etc. I didn't bother to put those in the recycling bag though. Tossed them right into the keep bin. :) There were a lot of notes that I decided to put into recycling, as well as research materials, etc. I think I have way too much paper from schoolwork that I could definitely do something big with it if I recycled it all. But the memories kept coming... 

I feel so nostalgic now. Just a few years ago I entered post-secondary, attending my first year. Then, onto my second year... and then third, now fourth. So many years have passed by, but the memories have been kept. I also have some work from high school subjects. Cards from friends, gifts, etc... and even notebooks that I knew existed in my room but had no idea where they were located. 

I miss attending the same school as my friends. But I also love making new friends and learning with new friends. I also try to keep in contact with them. It's a challenge sometimes, but it does work.