Sex and the City - a few spoilers

So last night I went to the movies with Tess, Charlynn and Samantha! It was a fun night! I met Tess at the scrapbook store and we did a little shopping.....well, I did a little shopping! Tess did a LOT of shopping and I eventually had to DRAG her from the store kicking and SCREAMING and foaming at the mouth :)

I think Tess likes my favourite scrapbook store hahahaha! I didn't get much - a chipboard album from the sale table and some bee stickers - but it was double stamp day so I really should have spent more money lol!

Andrea phoned to say she couldn't make it (this is becoming a habit Andrea and now I am paranoid lol - you know this right???????? If you keep not showing up I'm gonna think you don't like me!!!!!! Lol ok ok I'll tell everyone you had a valid reason and you sent me a lovely email this morning but STILL.....lol j/k !!!!)

Then as soon as Andrea hung up the phone rang again and it was Samantha who arranged to meet us at the mall. So we headed off there and got something to eat and met Sam and ate and then went to the cinema and got our seats nice and early but not early enough because everyone else had the same idea and the only decent place with 4 seats together was the very back row!!! So thats where we sat!

Then I ran out to meet Charlynn (so nice to see you again Charlynn) and we got in line for some snacks and Tess comes out to find us and joins us for some snacks (that was so much fun lol) and we thought we were late for the movie...we raced in only to find we weren't late at all! Then Charlynn started throwing popcorn around.....(how childish is THAT???? Of course me being all mature threatened to call security...I mean she was trying to throw it down our tops......
OMG!!!!!! So funny :) Then Samantha who was wearing a top too high to get popcorn down actually lowers her top so we can get better aim!!!!!!

But alas the fun has to end and the movie started....

Tess announces she is in love with Big...and Kieth Urban is in fact actually her number two guy....and Ryan her husband...well I'm not actually sure what number he is.....lol! Poor Ryan! Then when Big proposed (poorly the first time) we compared Ryans proposal with Lloyds proposal and were laughing a LOT because RYan and Lloyd are so similar - and both soooooooo CHEAP!!!!! They will get along so well :)

Oh and in case you don't know how Lloyd proposed to me, we were sat on the sofa in Scotland and he muttered to me 'So Whats the cheapest we can get married?'

Romantic huh??????? ;)

Well, it made Tess laugh :) I think she may well have spat out her cola ;)

The movie itself was wonderful - I laughed, I cried, I clapped out loud (omg I think I was the only one in the cinema that did (Lloyd would have cringed) and I REALLY cried at Charlottes crying angry face when she was hugging Carrie in the street after Carrie had hit him with the flowers....to me that just summed up their friendship totally - that whole thing about friends being there for one another through thick and thin.

The movie made me miss all my best friends from back home. It made me want to go and hug Lianne and have coffee at her house. To go have lunch at the garden centre with Lynne. To go out for dinner with Mandy or just go round to her house for a good natter. To spend the day with Faith just chatting about EVERYTHING and catching up over a bottle of wine. OMG to do the same with Kara over a bottle of plonk in Spain :)

Of course to spend time with Julie but she died and I know I can never have that time back with her.

All my closest closest friends like Sex and the City are so so far away and moving here has meant starting new friendships in a completely new culture. Over the last year or so several new people have come into my life and a few have become very special to me - and finally just recently I have learned and felt that a few of these might actually 'fit' :)

I have friends that I can cry with, laugh with and be me with. I wonder if any of them will be there when I blow out the candles on my 50th birthday cake.......

monkey girl!

Abby showing how nimble she is at climbing the door frame - yes she can climb to the top :)

dandelion clocks

I had fun with Sam and Abby today blowing dandelion clocks....I love when little ones blow them because they always put them too close to their mouth and get the seeds stuck to their lips :)

I took this picture of a dandelion clock out by the rhubarb - click on it to see it bigger - I love how it came out considering it was taken outside by the garage!

Peony

My Peony has come back well and now we have to move it. This flower bed has to be dug up and flattened and turned back to lawn so the peony can't stay here. I know they don't like to be moved so I hope it does well. The flower bed is a mess because it is half dug up from me removing all the day lilies for Val! It's all being moved because I'm getting rid of the flower beds totally and we are redoing the front porch and not having flower beds there at all. Hence all the long grass and weeds!!

This peony seems to be pretty tough and it has survived Charlie chewing on it and moose chewing on it - it disappears to NOTHING every year and sprouts from the ground every year - a couple of weeks ago it was nowhere to be found and then it sprouted from the ground and SHOT up to what you can see now.....almost over night!!!! I tell you, the plants here in Alberta AMAZE me...and in just a few weeks the flowers will open and will be STUNNING. I love watching the ants eat open the flowers. Such a shame its not a bee friendly flower. This one has deep red double bloom flowers. I worry every year that it won't grow back but it does!

Foxgloves

I only bought two this year but they should spread next year...bumble bees love these :) All the perennials I bought this year are bee friendly and spread :) My yellow daisies have already gone to seed for the most part and I collected the seeds and planted many of them throughout the flower bed so next year I should have a lovely selection throught the front flower bed. here's hoping!!!!! I want it to be a lovely wild and crazy flowery tangle of bee friendly colours!!!

In my thoughts....

Please can you keep Donna (from Scrappers Haven) and her family in your thoughts please.

Her Mom has been in hospital for a while now. She has COPD and needs to have a lung transplant. Last I heard, she wasn't doing too well. Her Mom is doing all she can to avoid going onto a ventilator as she is scared she will not come off of it again. I know this is worrying them all.

It's a very frightening time for this family. Please keep them in your thoughts. Donna I am thinking of you and your Mom and hope for some good news very soon.