July 11, 2013

• Rain drops keep falling on my head

  Today is day nine of my 30-day shred and it’s finally starting to feel like I won’t die… figures, considering tomorrow is the last day on Level One. I’ll start the next level on Monday, which I’ve heard from various sources is killer. That just makes me sooo excited to try it and then the third level too… NOT! Today I also tried a dance workout, but it wasn’t all that great because they didn’t break down the steps very well and went too fast. I ended up hurting my knees –not just my bad one, but both!– so I won’t be trying it again. 

  My friend Buttercup (the one I have a pseudo-crush on) and I planned to hang out today as he finally has time off. He works sixty hours a week doing two jobs, so he doesn’t have much free days to spend with his pals… especially since his girlfriend is, to quote him, “paranoid” due to his being a player years ago. Seriously, he was on his way out of that phase when I met him nearly ten years ago now. He’s not even going to tell her he hung out with me today because he knows it will send her into an insecure hissy-fit. I really don’t understand why guys go for girls like that; my mum is like that and she drives ME nuts, let alone my dad 

  I haven’t met her yet, but the only thing I’ve heard of her that I like is that she also bugs Buttercup about stopping his icky smoking habit. We were only together for two hours and he had three or four of the nasty things. If I so much as wrinkled my nose at him, he’d call me “wifey”. As his friend I don’t get a say in it, but considering he won’t stop for his gf either I don’t see how that make a difference. 

  Anyways, we stopped at Tim Hortons and he treated me to breakfast, then we headed for the park for a walk. This is what we usually do whenever we get together, and I like just strolling by the water with him. Just as we were about to get out of the car it had started to rain, so we chatted a bit until the rain slowed. He didn’t think I’d want to get wet, but I was willing to chance the rain. It’s not like I was going anywhere but home after, so getting soaked would have been amusing rather than annoying. 

  After we did our usual route, we went to Chapters to browse. We’d never done that before, but he knew I wouldn’t have any issue with going! *L0L* We both still had some gift cards from Christmas, and went about spending them. I got three books, one of which he suggested to me, and he got four –three of them being part of a box set that I convinced him to buy since he thought it sounded good but was being all iffy. Chances are we’re going to end up doing a trade to read each others in a month or so 

  We did another stop at Timmy’s (the boy cannot be without his coffee!) and he had me try a strawberry-banana smoothie (without icky yogurt). We shared that on our way back to my place, where I finally gave him his birthday/grad prezzie. For my college grad a couple years ago he gave me a gorgeous claddagh ring, so I crocheted him a blanket that was similar to his family plaid. I think he liked it, but it is pretty awesome if I do say so myself. 

  Back at my house we hung around outside; we usually end up talking for a bit whenever he drops me off. Mum came out to chat with him as she hadn’t seen him in a while either. It took years before she got used to the idea of him and I being friends, as she doesn’t think it is possible to be friends with someone of the opposite gender. Sure, I think he’s cute and sometimes wonder what it would be like if we were in a relationship, but I also am pretty sure we wouldn’t work out as a couple and am happy with things as they are.

  He continually teases me about going to Ireland to find a husband, which isn’t entirely far from the truth. If I happen to fall in love and marry an Irishman, I have no problem with that! I’m not sure I’d want to live in another country forever, but we’ll see how I like a year or two there. Don’t know what I’ll do if I love it more than anything and don’t fall in love or find a job that wants to keep me around. Is there I way I could move there for good without changing my citizenship? Unless they let me get a dual one, because I’m proud to be Canadian! 

  Mum didn’t bother asking much about him, just why she hadn’t seen him around in a while, and then started going on and on about her exercising and new diet and all that stuff. Even I was bored to tears by her and started zoning out until she finally went back inside to finish getting ready to leave. Her ramblings made me wonder if I was boring all of y’all with all my talk of workouts, but it’s just too bad, cuz you’re stuck with them until the end of the month 

  Buttercup said he’s going to be applying for the job he went to college with the aim of acquiring probably at the end of the summer. If he gets it, he’ll have about four months of training in Quebec (province, not city), then posted anywhere in the world. I would love it if he was assigned to the British Isles, because then we could do tourtisty stuff together! If he gets a choice, though, he’d go for Alaska or Australia as those are the places he’d like to see the most. He told me he could totally see everything he’d want to in Ireland in less than two weeks… *pshaw!* There is no way I could see everything I want in twice that time!

  SUMR

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