Yollie B's 24 B-day..

Well, its my birthday today.. YAY! I haven't written a blog in ages.. but today harder wrote one for me for my birthday so I thought I might as well do one. My life has been great lately. Work is going great, I finally took the plunge and moved into Customer Service and realized its not as bad as I thought it would be.. the only thing thats challenging is sales, but I think that'll come with time. As for relationships, I'm still with Paul.. of course! He's such an amazing man, I could never have dreamed of anyone more amazing. He's great! He treats me like a queen and he's my everything! My whole life I kept searching for someone and always kept finding jerks, losers, etc.. until I met him. He totally swept me off my feet and I love him more and more every day :-) I'm hoping that we can move in together within the next year or so and then.. who knows maybe one day he'll even propose to me.. hehehe. As for my friends, I've gotten a much better group of friends than I used to have. Marla isn't hanging out with my "enemies" so to speak anymore and her and I are getting along a lot better, we spend more time together and talk a lot more. And of course I'm still friends with Harder. Between him, Paul and Marla they're the 3 people I count on the most when I need someone to talk to, need advice, etc. besides my parents of course. I'd like to make special mention to Harder in my blog, since he wrote an entire blog for me and my birthday and I was so honored and excited about it! He's been such an amazing friend. In our friendship there been no drama, no backstabbing, etc.. Just friends and having a good time. Even though we get to see each other like twice a year for our birthdays.. which now seems to be a ritual, we still remain good friends.. talking on msn, corresponding through text messages, etc.. Honestly, I must get at least 20 text mesages from him in a week and then theres the prank phone calls.. These mostly happen on the weekends and theres no rhyme or reason to the time of the calls! There's been a many of times when I'm sleeping on the weekend and I don't even answer my phone cause I know its Harder pranking me.. lol. But, we've had tons of fun.. since the first time we met at the super 8 when him and Sharon came.. then my birthday a few months later that year in 2004.. then in 2005 when Paul and I went there for his birthday and Paul and I got to witness "Ricky Harder, drunk as fuck.. as Elvis pissing on a dumpster" Anyone who witnessed will never forget that event.. and when I'm bored or down I watch the video and just listen to all the craziness and fun we had that night and have a good laugh. The next time we hung out was for my birthday last year which was awesome. We did some karaokee, shopping, rubber chicken hunting, etc. One part I was happy about was Harder and Paul hanging out and going out for breakfast together, etc. I was happy to see that my best friend and boyfriend got along so well! The next time we hung out was Canada Day, 2006. A month delayed due to Harder being insane and going to Cold Lake, Alberta. This was another remarkable event. The best fireworks I've ever seen in my life that weekend and just an overall great time! So, since its my birthday and thanksgiving is a week away.. I'd like to give thanks to all my friends. To Marla for being honest with me and realizing who was her true friend. To Harder for always being there for me, listening to me, giving me advice, being a drama free friend and always giving me a good laugh, Harder is one of the best friends I've had in my life! And last, to Paul for being the most wonderful boyfriend in the world, for being there for me, caring for me, loving me unconditionally, being my best friend and boyfriend and for being my everything. Words cannot even express how much I love him! I'm so greatful to have all of these people in my life as friends! :-)

Sunday, January 1, 2006 - Year 2005 in Review

Well.. 2006 is finally here.. YAY!! and I MUST say that 2005 was a MUCH better year than 2004. To sum it up 2005 had less drama, better friendships, less lows and more highs and just an overall better year. To recap here are some of the main events that shaped my life in 2005. The year started off kinda.. blahish.. There was a major blizzard and our plan to go to Saskatoon for new years fell through. I felt horrible for ditching Harder.. driving to Paul's was scary and all we did was bum around and watch a movie.. It was better than the previous new year's but not what I had anticipated at all. January went alright, busier than hell at work, lots of overtime put in and I even applied for a team sup. position at work, I didn't get the job, but it gave me insight for the future and hope that someday I'll be able to get a promotion at work. February was pretty decent too.. celebrated Valentine's day with Paul of course and hmm ya that was about it.. March and April weren't the greatest months.. We found out my Gido (grandfather) had cancer and he under went some major surgery and was in the hospital for a long time. He finally went home sometimes in April I believe, he pretty much just lounged around and was sick a lot, he started getting worse and was finally hospitalized and a few weeks later he lost his battle and past away at the beginning of November. It was a very sad time of course, but he finally was no longer suffering and in pain. I had got the chance to visit him about 2 weeks or so before he passed away and am very happy I got the courage to do that and got to see him before he passed away. It was one of the hardest things I did, because I was scared to see him so sick, but it gives me peace to know that I got to see him. As for the rest of the year... May was alright, nothing to exciting there.. in June Paul and I went on our first road trip together and ventured to Saskatoon for Ryan's 23rd birthday.. This definetely was the funnest part of the year.. I got to meet a lot of Ryan's friends, got to see him drunk very drunk and most importantly got to see him pee on a dumpster.. probably not something everyone wants to see there friend do.. but when its Ryan.. its frickin' hilarious. July and August were alright.. there was a lot of festivities going around in Regina because of the centennial and also exhibition.. we took in a lot of different things.. the most memorable one was Canada Day and watching fireworks off the Albert St bridge. In July my sister and 2 kids came to stay with us.. it was kinda chaotic but fun, they stayed for 3 months and left in October. In August Paul celebrated his 22nd birthday were he got some kick ass presents from me of course.. In September not to much happened.. except the insane busy-ness at work started and hasn't stopped. In October Harder came down for my birthday, it kinda sucked cause I was sick and miserable, but I was a trooper and still had fun, we went out to the pump and "pumped it up" and also went and did some karaokee the next night at the crown and hand.. the highlight of the weekend was trying to find ryan a rubber chicken. Right before my birthday my Grandma passed away... and this is where all the drama from 2004 finally comes to an end. Because of the situation with my aunt we hadn't talked to my Grandma in over a year, so her passing didn't upset me at all, however it upset me that Marla was taking my aunt's side again and going to the funeral and bailing on me for my birthday. I had pretty much had enough, Marla had been constantly ditching me for her other friends for well over a year and I was sick of it, I was very close to just ending my friendship with her because I didn't like getting treated that way.. when finally it all came to an end. Marla kept calling me to go out and wasn't hanging out with her friends at all when finally she told me that her friends had just stopped talking to her.. I was happy that her friends were not talking to her as mean as that sounds, but I had finally got my friend back.. she started hanging out again with a couple of her friends, but not my aunt.. something happened apparently some back stabbing and lying and they don't talk anymore. I was so relieved that all the drama and tension was gone. I don't think I've even realized until writing about it how happy I am to finally have Marla around now and back as the friend I had had for the past 10 years. So, this definetely was a turning point in 2005, my Grandma passed away and that drama was gone, and Marla stopped being friends with my aunt and even more drama was gone.. phew...! Then in November... I celebrated my 1 year... yes ONE YEAR anniversary with Paul! It was great.. I never thought I'd date someone that long.. well I mean I didn't think someone would ever date ME that long!! haha. Then December.. Christmas was different this year, Gido wasn't around :-( and everyone came here for Christmas.. considering Christmas was pretty good because I was surrounded by lot of family I don't always get to spend Christmas with. OHHH and of course I can't forget to mention the GREATEST Christmas present EVAR.. I got a PROMISE RING from Paul.. (I still wonder where my earrings are.. hehe) I was beyond excited and just totally.. speechless!! It was the greatest gift and ahh just wonderful :-) So that sums up 2005 and to celebrate it last night Paul, Marla and I went out for supper and then went and played pool for a couple hours and then came back here and hung out with my parents, played some games and ya.. just hung out. It was a lot of fun and definetely the best New Year's I've had in a LONG time! 2005 was overall a decent year, I learnt a lot, and a few lows and a lot of highs and can't wait to see what 2006 brings!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!