Happy Mother's Day!
I just got back from dinner with my parents and 2 of my 3 brothers (3rd brother is working out of town this weekend) . It was great spending time with family - it definitely lifted my mood. My mother is the best - she barely stands 5 feet tall, and she is the cutest little mother in the whole wide world. My parents just got back from Florida, so they're all tanned up and absolutely despising the cold Halifax weather. Dad's positively brown from all the sun - he plays a lot of golf - but Mom mostly shopped in big, air-conditioned malls, so she mostly just freckled up. She's the funniest - we just got her on Facebook a few months back, and this weekend she asked me what all of those "omg"s meant. LOL
My two youngest brothers, Daniel and Darryl, were also there. My brother Darryl, the youngest, is the most laid-back of all of us. He finished university this year and is working at an NSLC as a manager (NSLC = liquor store, for those not from Nova Scotia) while he decides on what to do. Daniel is working as a carpenter right now and getting married this summer. He and I want to start playing poker at the casino seriously - we want to start a bankroll and see how big we can make it. Danny boy is quite a good poker player - he spent some time dealing at the casino before he started playing poker. He's got a good head for numbers and he's pretty good at reading people too. He figures the two of us can do pretty well if we play smart and enter the sit-and-go tournaments. He's calling it our new business venture.
It was great catching up with the Lever posse. Mom and Dad had a great time in Florida. Dad was happy to report that he had won pretty much every golf game he'd played against Uncle Bill; Mom got to shop to her heart's content. We looked at some pictures of the vacation while we waited for my brothers to arrive.
OK, well, I'm past the 300 mark for tonight, and I actually need to move along. Christine and I are going to finish our office tonight. We've finished the living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom: only the spare bedroom and office remain. Christine's office boxes are all in the hallway, so by organizing this we're actually doing two things: the office and the hallway. It's really coming together - I can't wait 'til we hang the last picture.
