Elizabeth came in over the weekend and since this is such a pretty time of year we stopped by Bowring Park to enjoy it. Afterwards we went to the mall and shared chinese food and a DQ Blizzard. Then it was movie time! We watched "Red" which turned out to be as good as I had hoped!
Today is this pretty girl's birthday. Throughout the past two years of our friendship she has continued to be an incredible blessing in my life. She shows me every day what it is to be a good and supportive friend and I thank her so much for her kindness. Give her a big hug whenever you see her because she is wonderful.
Oh, happily ever after, wouldn't you know, wouldn't you know.
Oh, skip to the ending, who'd like to know, I'd like to know.
Author of the moment, can you tell me, do I end up, do I end up happy?
My sister, Catherine is a very smart girl. She has a quick wit and can be clever in her conversations. She makes me laugh a lot. I think this is why, when I catch her saying something completely ridiculous, I treasure it and don't miss the opportunity to poke a little fun at her. She gets me all the time too.
Yesterday we were having a chat about her weekend at YC (after coming back in from our disaster of a fishing trip) when she brought up that a guy she knew had started up a new band and named it Cain.
Catherine: Sure, Cain killed his brother. Mom: That was the reason he got kicked out of the garden. Cat: Uhh, no that was Adam. Mom, I know more of the Bible than you do! And all I know about Cain is that his Mom was in on it, and they put fur on his arms. Me: No, that was Esau and Jacob... Cat: Oh. And wasn't he (Jacob) put in a hole? Me and Mom: No, that was Joseph. Mom: So do you know who was in a fish? Cat: JONAH! Um, I think I need to go back to Sunday School guys. Mom: You said it!
Favourite quote of all time from her though was when she came into the kitchen wondering what we were eating, looked really confused and exclaimed, "Is that fish wings?!" She will never live that down.
Oh, that girl.
Title making reference to the hilarious Twitter account/Book Sh*t My Dad Says
I'm back in St. John's, and I tried to be a healthy grocery shopper by refusing to buy myself anything chocolate or sugar related, because if it's near me I'll probably eat it. I was feeling strong about this decision, a whole 24 hours, until I saw this (originally found on The Kitchn.) Soft and gooey chocolate chip cookies with ice cream on top? I. Want. Now.
Last week, September 30th to be exact, I went along with my father and sister on a little afternoon fishing trip.
The food fishery was on and the waves were few so we went out to see what we could catch. It was my first time out on the water in quite some time. Unfortunately Mom wasn't feeling well, and Elizabeth had to wait on a call for work so they didn't join us.
We packed up the boat with everything we needed. Well, except for a snack! We had already started our journey when I regretted not grabbing a package of crackers before I left the house. Not for its seasick-calming effect, but for its hunger curbing powers.
I feel like fishing and crackers go really well together.
It was probably my most pleasant fishing experience I've ever had in the history of fishing with my family.
Catherine was the first to get a nibble on her line.
And it was a big one.
She wanted to pass it off to Dad so we wouldn't lose it, but he was busy with my fishing pole instead. She let me hold it, but since it was the first fish/a big fish and I wasn't used to reeling things in at the time, I kinda lost the big fish. I felt a little bad about it, but mostly thought it was funny. It was funny because Catherine was "rotted" at me for the remainder of the trip and would not let it go. Even to the end.
I happened to attract and catch the next fish, and it ended up being the biggest fish of the day.
She caught the next one though not long after (thank goodness!) so it appeased her slightly.
We caught other beauties too. :P
Catherine cut the cods throats for them. Don't trust her when she's in this state of mind.
The weather has been amazing so far since I've been back on this beautiful, rocky soil and I'm glad we were able to appreciate it in this way for a few hours. The day was like this for most of our trip.
A few other folks were catching their quota as well. A lovely couple happened to have crackers and gave us some! I was incredibly grateful!
The wind picked up so we had to put on our jackets and soon after, headed back to the harbour. It was a good day.
Here are some videos from the day. I was sort of yelling because I didn`t know if the motor was going to drown out all of the sound, but you could hear us pretty well after all.
