beautiful addiction

It’s been so hot here the past few days, and extremely humid.  It’s making me sick to my stomach to even be outside and not in where it’s lovely and air conditioned.

On a positive note, we (Dave, Will, Nick and I) are going to see Batman: The Dark Knight in IMAX tonight for the midnight premiere.  I’m super excited!  I saw a 6 minute preview of the movie on Will’s special edition and can’t wait to see the whole movie now!  We pre-ordered our tickets a few weeks ago, and it’s sold out (obviously).  We plan on getting to the theater around 10:00 so that we have better chances of getting seats together and not being all split up!

On that note, I need to go take a nap because I was up until 6am this morning playing Guitar Hero with Will and then I got up at 12:30.  I had to go meet someone who was buying my laptop off of my for $250.  Extra cash for the upcoming vacation in September

I woke up this morning all bright and early to meet up with Will at his place because his family invited me to go blueberry picking with them at a local orchard.  So I got there around 9am, and we were supposed to leave between 9 and 10.  We’re sitting there playing Guitar Hero while waiting to leave and his mom informs us that the berries aren’t ready for picking and won’t be until the end of the month.  Great.  No blueberry picking for us.

Dave and I even went to the store last night and bought the beginning supplies to do some home canning because I wanted to make blueberry jam!  Not that it’s going to go to waste, we will end up going to the orchard when the berries are ready.  Plus, I’m going to try and make some homemade pickles this weekend if I can find cucumbers on sale for cheap.  We LOVE pickles.  And I’m also going to try to whip up a decent batch of strawberry freezer jam.

I’m super excited!

Anyone who really really knows me knows that I am a huge candle junkie. I love candles. I have candles in every single room of our apartment including the bathroom, and I enjoy lighting every single one of them. Now, over time I have become a candle snob and only bought from PartyLite. A former friend of mine used to be a PL consultant and I got a lot of stuff from her. I only ever hosted one show myself, but it was a great way to get free wax and some nice candle accessories. That was probably 2-3 years ago and I am still surviving off all the candles I got from hosting that one party. Anyway…

I went into the hallway closet where I keep all my wax together and pulled out enough to fill all my votive holders and tealights and whatnot and realized that…I am getting low on candles! I never thought I’d see the day, haha! So now I have to resort to either a) buy cheaper candles that I probably won’t like as much because I don’t really want to get involved with the PL scene again, or b) try other forms of “smell good” items.

…because I am also a fan of air fresheners.

What can I say? I love our apartment smelling all fresh and nice. We can’t very often open our windows because the cats like to push the screens out and get away outside. So unless we are watching them like hawks, we don’t get that warm summer breeze through the apartment, which then leaves me to the last resort of lighting candles and having air fresheners to make it not seem so “closed up”.

I have also become an air freshener snob and only like to buy the plug in ones from Bath & Body Works. I always get them when they’re on sale and stock up and that lasts me a few months for the two that I have plugged in.

But now…there are Renuzit TriScents. This thing is amazing! It’s like three of the B&BW air fresheners built into one! It’s fresh and calming and aromatic and just plain genius. (Plus? You can get a coupon if you go over to their website…$3 off!) I have it plugged in by the front door and it smells like heaven every time we walk in or when we’re just sitting around the living room watching TV or whatever. Can we say new addiction?

Ok…that’s my rambling for the day. See what happens when I get low on candles? I freak out and buy new products and fall in love with something that I can’t get enough of!

We went and watched fireworks last night (yes, on the 5th) up in Bay City and they were pretty awesome! We met up with Will and his family a bit before dark and just sat around talking and enjoying the weather. Then right before it was time for the fireworks to start, we went up on top of this bar that Will’s dad knows the owner of. It was a pretty tall building so it offered a spectacular view! Very nice. I think I got some good pictures with my digital camera, but I haven’t uploaded them to my computer yet. I messed around with a lot of the manual settings, which I’m not good at, and hopefully SOME of them turned out ok. The only bad thing was the the roof was all tar and I was kneeling down to adjust camera settings and my jeans got all blackened up, as well as my hands. Ick.

After the fireworks we went and hung out at Will’s for a while (’til like 1:30 in the morning, haha) and I borrowed some DVDs from him, as well as “Fight Clut” (the book). The DVDs I borrowed are: Azumi, Mirrormask, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and 28 Weeks Later. So yeah, it was a good night!

Dave had to be up this morning to run a call for work and had to be there by 9. I woke up at 8:39 and he was still sleeping! I was like, “Dave…you have to be there in 20 minutes!” Luckily he made it on time! He’s on his way home now, so I’m thinking we’ll probably go back to sleep. I’m tired because I got up when he did so that I could go buy the Sunday paper and pick up some packaging tape and bubble mailers from the dollar store. I’ve already gotten rid of 3 books on Paper Back Swap which is kind of cool.  That means I’ve got a few credits to go book “shopping”!

I had lunch with my best friend today who I haven’t seen in about two months. It was really nice to get out and have lunch at Tim Horton’s and just catch up with her. She’s having a baby next month and she’s got this cute little round baby bell! I’m so excited for her. She has two boys already, and her husband has 2 boys and 1 girl from his previous marriage. So this little girl will be coming into a big family that will spoil her rotten! Nothing like being the baby in a family of 6, and only 1 of 2 girls!

Anyway, we caught up and gossiped and agreed we would need to do it again very soon. Going to try to have a weekly lunch date of sorts. She only lives about 7 minutes away, so I don’t know why we never get together for stuff like this.

Aside from that I’m just enjoying the beautiful weather. It’s nice and warm and sunny for the 4th of July! We don’t even plans. How sad is that? Well, I take that back. We don’t have plans today but we are going to watch fireworks tomorrow about an hour from here on the water with some friends. I hear Bay City has a wonderful fireworks display, but we’ve never gone and I figured now is as good a time as any!

I went to Blockbuster today to try and rent Guitar Hero: Aerosmith but they were out. I figured they would be. Everywhere around here is out. Figured it would give us something fun to do this weekend since Dave is on call and we can’t really venture out too much in case he has to go into work.

Since I’m trying to save money, but I love to read and usually spend lots of money on my beloved books…I joined Paperback Swap which allows you to swap books with other members. If you send a book out, you pay shipping. For every book you send, you earn 1 credit. You can then redeem these credits to “order” books from fellow swappers and they pay to ship the book to you. It’s really not to bad considering you can send a book out media mail for under $3. (If you are interested in joining, click the link above please! I will get an extra credit if you do. Then you can refer people and get credits, too!) I’m hoping this program will cut back immensely on the amount of money I spend at bookstores!