Positive thoughts and prayers needed

As most of you are aware, I work in the auto parts manufacturing industry. Last week our work family experienced a horrific incident. One of our tool makers, while working on a lathe had his hand ripped off. He was flown to Hamilton Hospital and had his arm amputated from the elbow down. Mike is touch and go right now, so please, keep Mike and his 21 year old daughter in your thoughts and prayers and please, if you work with heavy machinery or know of anyone who does, remind them to respect them. The moment you loose respect for your equipment is the moment your life can change forever.

Gus Gus

Well it's true. Little GusGus is a blanket sucker! But just this blanket. He's such a funny little fellow!

Do I hear Bells?

Let me start at the beginning. In September I told my boyfriend that I was going to propose to him this year. We both had a chuckle about it at work over a bin of parts. I know when I left that he thought I was kidding. I walked away and approached one of his good friends (Kenny) to say 'hi' and proceeded to tell him. My plan was to do it on Halloween at Kenny's house. Kenny is doing a haunted house this year and we are going there to spook it up with them. I thought it would be really funny to propose when we were all gored up.

So, on Thursday my sweetie informs me that he has booked Friday off, (which is awesome as I was done Friday at 7am) and then says he wants to go to the ROM. (For those of you that don't know the ROM is the Royal Ontario Museum). Now, this put me in a bit of a quandary. The ROM was one of our first dates. What's a girl who's about to propose do?

I caved into the completely cheesy romantic side of me...that's what I did! With ring in my purse we were off to the museum. Traffic was horrible. We were stuck on the highway for a little more then an hour. Then we got lost. Then we got stuck in more traffic while trying to find parking. Then we had to figure out how to get to the museum from where we parked! ANARCHY!!! Finally, we got there...slightly soggy but we got there. The first exhibit we hit was the China exhibit. They had all sorts of beautiful statues from the Ming Dynasty, just incredible...my favorite was the very angry camel. Well the two of us are tucked into two cushy chairs in a corner so Aaron can fiddle with his camera lenses. (I had purchased his ring that day just before we had left...had to speed things up a bit.) So I asked him if he wanted to see what I had bought today. I hand him the box and he's like "What is it?" I mean really, I asked if he wanted to see it and how is going to see it without opening the thing I hand him?!?! Boys are silly. Anyway he opens the box and there is this little metal box...he thought it was earings that I bought, and then he opened it. "Oh! you bought me a ring!" So I look up and I said "Will you marry me?" and what does my honey reply with? "What? Sure" Now I am laughing "Can you not answer with a sure and give me a yes or a no please?" Turns out, my honey thought I was kidding! So folks, it has finally happened...I am getting married!

We spent this weekend telling our families. We only have two more family members to tell and that happens tomorrow. So far everyone has gotten a kick out of our proposal and Aaron is enjoying telling it! I hope you enjoyed the wedding proposal of two very unconventional people!

Haven't been blogging much lately so here is a quick update. Been busy with work, they are going full board which I think is silly but that is what they are doing. We are currently building like 30 boxes for Sadie's mom. She is planning on giving them to her staff for Christmas. We are filling them with some chunk soaps, a popsicle soap, a spa cloth which we make by hand and some bath salts. My time is also filled with looking after our new kitty. He is about 6 weeks old and super duper cute. He is part Maine Coon and part domestic tabby. We have named him Sir Livingston Angus Edward III or Gus Gus for short. Gus Gus is the cutest little fuzz ball ever! His sister Zoe was a bit jealous at first, actually pissed is more like it but she is coming around. Just the other day they had a lovely moment which involved Zoe giving him a wee bit of a bath. So our new addition to the family is fitting in well.

In Memory

Zeus "Phatty" Yeoman
March 1995-September 14th, 2009
May he rest comfortably on the eternal couch.

On Monday I had to put down my baby Phatty. I am devastated. He was 14 years old and my big suck. His sister is lost without him and our condo seems very empty. Phatty had a good life and was loved so much. My friends and family came out to support Aaron and myself and we ended up with an impromptue wake for him. He was loved by all for his gentleness and his super size as well as for his totally laid back attitude. We all loved to rub is big belly and listen to him purr from across the room. My fat cat will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Rest in Peace Phatty, Mama loves you.