Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What another one!!! this is my 4th hong kong shift in 3 shift in 3 weeks

hey after mooching my brother's laptop for the week while I work on saving money to get mine fixed I figured it was the best time to write an update. Well today is tuesday and it is my last hong kong shift till the 7th of February you know how excited I am to have some time off. Hong Kong is that late shift that goes from 12am-5am and it's boring. So I will be excited to be able to have this weekend off and to do stuff I want to do. So yesterday was FHE and I almost killed myself 3 times tobogganing which of some of it I ran into a tree and then I went over this jump and the intertube which i was on went one way while I remained going the other cause me to land funny but I am fine you would never know I was running into things last night. Sunday I went to church and then Saturday it was our monthly temple trip I was able to go and it was so amazing. How I loved being able to go and How I loved being able to have my grandfather baptized in the temple saturday night it was so amazing and I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful gospel in my life that I can help my relatives even on the other side feel the same things in which I feel in getting there work done in the temple.
I hope that everything has remained well with you all, that you know that I am always thinking about you and that I love each and everyone of you. I have had a busy day today but I am always excited when I am busy its better then being bored all day Right! its nice to see of the things that are excitingly happening in your lives. I love watching the video's you post the pictures and just hearing about how things are going! I hope all is well and until next time my friends.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Busy no sleep...

Hey well today is a blog update... You might get a few less of these over the next few days and weeks as my computer is screwed up and I need to get software to fix it which costs money. Money in which I don't have right now. My brother is down for the next few days in which that means I can update while he is here I am actually not taking him back to Brantford till sunday night and the exciting thing about that is my car shall be fixed, most of the big problems by then. So there has been a lot going on in needs of fixing of my car. I have in the last few days had the bypass in which was fixed in like april it has to be replaced. Then my alternator was starting to go so to be safe then sorry I got it replaced. I had a defaulty gas cap which was causing my check engine light to stay on so it was replaced and my good old windshield wiper on the driver side. I also had fixed the hose in which was causing the leak from the windshield washer container. So There has been alot going on in that regards.
What else has been going on. Well not much, This weekend is a crazy busy one for me I work from 6:30pm-5am saturday morning tomorrow night. Saturday night is the temple trip in which I am hoping to beable to go to and then sunday is church and taking my brother back. Then its back to another week. In which Tuesday Night! I work hong kong again. AHHH by friday The 30th I will have worked 3 hong kongs in 2 weeks. Good thing the girl that is working it with me works on the 31st to give my poor body a chance to recover. I hope everyone has had a good week thus far. Last night after institute I went to a movie with my brother and Courteney and Mike N We went to see Paul Blart Mall Cop. At the galleria and the night before I went to see twilight with Claudia. So this week has been pretty busy. I hope all remains well with you, I hope you have good weekend. Like I had a good week. Until then

Monday, January 19, 2009

Today was a good day

Today was a wonderful day in the life of Crystal.. You might be wondering why? I received a letter in the Mail today! It was very special for me, It made me laugh it was from Sister Moesinger. Then I received a brief but lovely e-mail from Hannah! I love and miss her so much! Her being in Utah on a Mission and Me being here has really put some strain on our wonderful friendship that we grew over her time home. I miss our crazy trips to Wendy's and our wicked awesome hang out sessions. But I know she is where she needs to be. I have had the most wonderful Day! To receive an e-mail and to also receive a letter from two people I love is truly amazing. I went to FHE tonight and it was like we where able to be little kids again. We finger painted even though I was not necessarily excited about getting my hands dirty I did it! Although I was not impressed with the end result! I guess I am way to critical about how things look. We learnt some really neat things about how colours like green are perceived did u know green can be a relaxing and yet mean laziness colour. if you don't want to eat paint your plates purple. If you want to eat lots Orange is perceived as that colour. I don't know why I put that in there just cause those are the colours I can remember. There is many things that represent each colour! I had fun learning about the colours and almost killing myself at FHE I was trying to get out to go talk to President and the chairs got tangled in amongst each other and I almost wiped myself out. Anyways I walked to Church for FHE I have done alot of walking lately and it was refreshing to beable to listen to such wonderful music about the Prophet Joseph Smith on my walk, I hope all is well and until next time.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Blogging isn't it such fun

Hey I am currently laying in my bed and thought it would be a good time to write a blog since I haven't in a day or so. So Last night I made it through my first night of working Hong Kong although I was ready to fall asleep for the most part. Let me tell you working Hong Kong is the most boring shift that you can work but the easiest shift to make lots of money on! Anyways I did not make it for sacrament or for Sunday School I arrived at church just for Relief Society! I know crazy to go all the way to church for one hour but there was a reason to that. I was having company over for lunch after church and needed to make sure that they knew where they where going and stuff. I then walked home from church the church is about 10-15 minute walk from my place. I hope that you fellow bloggers had a wonderful sabbath so after all of my company left after our lunch and spiritual thought I went and fell a sleep since I was still tired from working so late! The only problem I have with working Hong Kong Shift at work is that it throws my sleeping pattern out of whack for the next like week.
So tuesday I am going to go see a movie! This will be my 2nd Movie since the last time that Karla was home that being at christmas! This tuesday I am going to see the Twilight movie, the Last movie I watched was Yes Man with My ex roommate a couple weekends ago. When Karla was Home Oscar her and I went to see Bedtime Stories! The movie that Adam Sandler plays in! As I lay in bed at 3:03 Am I reminise about how grateful I am for the saviour in my life. I was listening to a CD that Hannah made for me prior to her going back on her mission! And there was a song that I really like it talks about the saviour and how he knows what we are going through! But, I really enjoy it I have done a lot of walking the last how ever many days or so! Good for my cardiovascular system. Big word for someone with a small vocabulary.
I hope all is well, That you always remember that I love you and am grateful that I have had the opportunity to come to this earth to meet all of you people, You have all impacted my life in some way and I can never be more grateful for the Lord giving you to me as a friend. Anyways I am finally starting to get tired so I hope to be asleep shortly so I will close this blog! Continued success in whatever you are doing!
Love ya Lots

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Life... New Uniforms and Working Hong Kong Yikes

well my fellow blogger friends it is another installment of my life or day or whatever you want to call it.
So I woke up on thursday and felt pretty good then all of a sudden I had these huge hives all over my body and then began to think that I ate something that caused this although I do not know what caused it I do know that I have been taking medicine to try and get it to go down and by today I am still itchy but not enough to cause me to be concerned. I am hoping that soon it will be all gone! I am not excited I am working the late shift tonight and its snowing outside. So I am not going to clean off the car I will either walk to work or take the public transit which may cause me not go to to church in the morning because getting done work at 5 am then I will not know whether or not I will wake up for church at 11:15 am.
Although we did recieve our cool new uniforms which I am graciously going to like more then our old one's Oh how I am not going to miss our ugly beige dress shirts and the ugly vests that went with them.. The new Uniforms are Red and black and I am not a big fan of red but I can handle it better then beige. They are also much warmer then our old one's the old one's you would feel the draft anywhere and I can graciously say I felt no draft at all last night as I tried my new uniform on and wore it for work. I was probably the happiest person and I was so happy I even broke out in a little dance. YES I broke out in dance! I know about something so strange as a uniform but you have to understand that our old uniforms where way too dressy at least these uniforms are a little more casual but still nice enough. The vest pockets even zip up which is good for me because I am notorious for losing things out of my pockets also another bonus of our new uniforms.
So what else has gone on the last few days not much just worked last night and back in to work Hong Kong tonight! I am kind of excited in some ways to work hong Kong but then in other ways I am not it's a very late night and causes my sleeping pattern to be all out of whack. I am happy because it gives me extra hours although this week I will have worked three shifts which is better then my 1 shift that I am currently getting and I will get two shifts next week and the following week which two of those shifts are Hong Kong shifts and its also more an hour to work Hong Kong! Bonus of working hong kong.
Anyways I hope that you all have a wonderful saturday night doing whatever it is that you will be doing while me on the other hand will be sitting at work bored out of my tree! I will put up an update on in a few days of my nights after hong kong until then!
I am off... maybe have a nap before work.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

well today's blog is quite different then most posts,I haven't done much today been out and about in the awful cold weather requiring me to bundle up! that is right I wore more then a coat today! I was in snow pants hat and mitts and a coat and wore boots! and even 2 pairs of socks, Today it was -14 degrees and its suppose to be at least -29 degrees. It's not suppose to be any better tomorrow when I am suppose to have more running around to do. will make for a fun day! I hope that things are going well for all of you! I am looking forward to a little later when its been so cold here over the last few days that it has been cold enough that it cannot snow! I think I might of ate something yesterday that I am allergic too without knowing about it. Because I was really itchy and since I have taken so Allergy Medication I have been fine! Which is kind of odd I knew I was allergic to bug spray but whatever I ate made me break out in Hives.. It will only have happened in the last couple of days but It will be hard to figure it out! I hope all is well. I am likely going to fall asleep early I am really tired I did so much today. I hope all is well and until next time.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

A bit of this and that

Hey Blogger Friends,
its time for an update, The last couple days have been difficult, I stopped by Hannah's house to pick up my book on tuesday! And as I was talking with her mom, I began crying cause Hannah and I have spent so much time together over the last 6 months or so that I really miss being around her and miss our talks and our hang out time. But I know that she is needed there in Utah, more then I need her, I read what she wrote in my book and it really helped give me a boost even though it's still sinking in that I won't see her for an entire year, I received an e-mail from her on monday, Even though it was short and brief I was very happy to have been thought of to be e-mailed by her.
Well, what else has been going on with me I had the strangest experience on monday night and then tuesday I will take time to share it with all of you, On monday night my Work called to see if I could come into work at 11:30 but unfortunately I was at FHE and didn't get the message in time they filled the shift I was like that is okay, then I get a phone call from my mom too call the 3rd ward sisters as they had called looking for me, Well I called them and they asked if they could get me to go on an appointment with them at 10:30 on tuesday morning, I understand know why I wasn't suppose to work at 11:30 well, A little later that morning I get a phone call from work saying that they wanted to know if I could come in and fill a shift at 2:30 due to the snowy weather so I was like Sure, so I feel like I was really blessed by the lord because even though I didn't get the 11:30 shift I still was able to work that day at 2:30 and picked up some hours but was also able to go out with the sisters.
So it was an interesting experience all around but something that I am grateful for! It made me see that heavenly father really does look out with me because he gave me those extra hours and still let me go out with the sisters. I know that he really does love me. I have been really learning a lot about myself and about my friends the past while, Learning about how much I am grateful for each one of them werever they are whatever they may be doing in life, I hope all is well with you all know that I am fine that I miss you all, But that I know that distance is only how far we want to make it, distance is only in miles not in what a true friendship is about caring, Know that I love you all and know if you need anything I am always here for you! Until next time

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Where have these days gone!

Hey Everyone!
its been a week or two now since I last wrote a blog note to you! So here is my update on what has been going on these past days. Well On January 6th Hannah Left to go back to Utah and I was very sad but in some ways be estatic that she was finally able to return to go back to her mission and I know that is where she has wanted to be and no matter how much I miss her I know that people are there waiting on her to teach them the gospel.
Well What else has gone on I spent all of last week in brantford with my family! How I love them but am truly grateful to be back on my own away from the chaos of them because of the fact that my dad broke his foot he has been driving my mom and brother crazy and this past week he drove me crazy too.
Oh so those of you who do not know I have finally received my own land line!! That is right people can call me even if my cell phone gets disconnected hurray for that! Also Today it was church and I was able to go to church, and then I went to lunch at Jenny Ireland's with a few other YSA went to Amee's to play some games before the CES broadcast and went to the CES broadcast and was able to listen to our beloved prophet speak! Oh how I am grateful for a wonderful prophet. I really learnt alot from our beloved prophet! Anyways this upcoming week is going to be busy! Tomorrow is games night at FHE tuesday there is Institute at Fanshawe and Wednesday there is Book of Mormon insitute at the baseline Chapel Friday I work Saturday is our Nature Walk and I work Hong Kong and then sunday is church!
I do not know if I will be awake in time for church or even make it to church this upcoming week it is my goal to but working till 5 am makes it a little hard for you especially when you have church at 11:15 but I will see what I can do and hopefully I will beable to make it to church on sunday! After church on sunday we have decided to do another Lunch thing but this time we will hold it at my house! There will be about 7 to 8 visitors in my house next sunday I am very excited to beable to have guests over! I went bowling on saturday night with Chanel and then we went and watched a movie at the theatre... We went to see Yes Man! it was great and I bowled okay but shone my last game bowling a 216 its been a long time since I bowled and actually bowled that good of a game!
I hope all is well with you all! I hope that life is treating you well and your getting settled into being back at work or geared up for another semester of school! Know that I think of you often I keep you in my prayers and that I love you and that I miss you tremendously. I hope all remains well with you and until I update you next time take care be safe and I love you all

Saturday, January 3, 2009

I am very excited to post today! because I do not have to work tonight that is right I can do whatever I want maybe I will go rent a movie or something, Its great to be able to have some time off after a busy working 5 days a week schedule. I actually don't work again till next Friday!! and then the following weekend I work the Friday and the Hong Kong on the Saturday! I hope everyone weekends, have been great so far! Last Night I saw one of my co workers, Who I haven't seen in a very long time. She will start back to work next weekend. And work every other Friday it will actually be nice to have her back at work.
How I have missed being able to talk to her and stuff she is a good friend to me. I do not know what I am going to do with all my free time. I hope everything will work out for me I am kind of excited and I don't know what ward or branch I will attend tomorrow because of the fact that it will all start around the same the same time.
Today is a beautiful day outside I hope that it remains nice for the remainder of the day!
Until next post..

Friday, January 2, 2009

1st Post of 2009

This is my first blog post of 2009, I hope everyone had an exceptional time ringing in the new Year after work I went straight over to Karla's parents and spent time hanging out with my second family, Everyone left and we went to bed at 7am and I slept for literally 4 hours I woke up at 11 o'clock.
I had the hardest time sleeping and then I went to hang out with Hannah and her family and the missionaries where I received an amazing meal that Hannah's mom prepared, then from there I went straight to work, at this point I was just running on adrenaline because I was really just over tired.
I hope for those of you that made new year's resolutions, you fulfill those resolutions for this coming year, and those who are like me and make resolutions for the new year and never seem to accomplish them I hope to be a little better at accomplishing mine this year too.
For those of you that are getting Married this year 2009 I hope that your wedding day is a wonderful one and that you have many wonderful years together,
For many of you you know that I don't want to get married and I don't want any children and many of you know the reasons why but over the coming year I am not going to say that I am going to let the lord guide the direction with my love life or the lack there of. part of the reason is just me and part of the reason is I have seen many instances in my 24 years of exsistance that many friendships have become harder because of it. And I always want to be able to be there for my friends.
I am very excited for Hannah who Leaves on Tuesday to go back to Utah to Finish the remainder of her mission but in some ways very sad because she is the one I have been with a lot over her past 6 months at home and I will find it hard on tuesday morning to say good bye that is right I am going to the London Airport to watch her off. That means an early morning so that means going to be super early so I will be bright eyed and bushy tailed to go meet her and her family at there house, anyways this is all for this post its only january 2nd I have lots of time to catch you up on my life and what I am doing or what I haven't done, I hope all is well with you guys I love you all so much, Thank you for always going that extra mile to be supportive of me even when I haven't been supportive of you, I love you! I love the things you do for me, and I am grateful to our loving heavenly father that he gave me such people like you in my life.
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAVE A BLESSED 2009 SENDING MY LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.....