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Cancun

Hello
Well we are back from cancun. Had a nice vacation but sadly Kevin and I switched back and forth from being the one who got to be sick. I guess it was good we werent sick at the same time. Explain this to me. How can a person be sleeping just fine then wake up with a little sore back, but assume its just from sleeping in a hotel bed so you fall back asleep, 30 minutes later you wake up with the worst back pain you have ever had. You can't lay anymore but you can't stand up straight either. Your hunched over like a 90 year old grandma who hasnt looked straight ahead for 10 years and just able to stare at her own feet. Anyways after about 5 minutes of that my stomach starting hurting so bad from the back pain and wobbled my way over to the bathroom and puked up bile for a little while. (yea fun trip!) Then my back still hurt so bad I just layed down on the cold bathroom floor, but if you have ever been to a beach resort you know how the floor in your room is always covered in sand from the beach and whatever bugs that you brought in with you, so I didn't stay down there long. ANyways after about another 30 minutes the pain went away and I fell asleep. The very same night just a few hours earlier Kevins throat closed up so much he could barely swallow the smallest pill you could find so we had to have a doctor come to the hotel and check him out. His tonsils are so swollen you can barely see down his throat, in fact you can only see down one side of the hangy downy thing. Anyways the doc was really nice and really good, he brought the medicine with him when he came to check kevin out and he even drove us to a nearby atm so we could pay him (as they dont have atms at the hotel and we had no money with us).
On some better news we went on a jungle tour where we got our own 2 person little speed boat thingy and drove around on the ocean to a coral reef area and then we got to go snorkeling for 2 hours. It was great. We took a water camera so we will have to get those developed. We saw a lobster and stingray while we were out as well as lots of fish.
Anways below are a few pics. Hope you enjoy. Happy graduation Zack, wish I could be there (but NO ONE invited me!) and I love the pics Susan and Jason ;)
and my vote is for Kai Robert.
Later!
Leslie

Well its official, after spending 60.00 to get into see a doctor (since I'm not canadian) one look at my throat and the doc precscribed me with amoxicillin for strep throat. Oh what fun~! My throat actually doesnt hurt today, but I hvae absolutly no energy and the taste in my mouth (supposedly from all the puss in my throat) is awful. There will be no kissing for me for the next few days (if only i had this taste in my mouth the last 2 months, my relationship with Kev would be so much better. oy vey. Well I'm very weak and have no desire to do anything, but I really should, so I am off, and I will try and stop posting boring messages in the future.
later

Hey
Just waiting for Kevin to come home from his parents house so he can take care of me. I took care of him when he was sick so now its his turn. I feel like poo. Just thought I would put my address up here since I know people have been asking for it and I never seemed to have all the info for you. and now that you know my address a certain uncle can send me the house episodes i havent seen starting from sleeping dogs lie (wink wink) :)
Anyways here it is
228 Queens Quay W
Unit 606
Toronto, ON
M5J 2X1
Canada
home phone - 416-792-0924
cell phone (kev has it most of time) - 416-648-1443
peace

sick

Hey
I'm sick and tired so no new exciting post from me. I think I caught what ever Kevin had. Guess i will go to a walk in clinic tomorrow, to bad I dont have insurance here anymore.oh well. sorry still no pics, place is still covered in boxes and my laptop is fried again so i cant upload any pics yet. i could put them on this computeer but that would mean i would have to find the wires and well i dont feel like it. Im going to cancun on saturday so that will be fun I will put pics up of that afterwards too. okay enough of this boring update. susan jason put pics up of the baby shower, sorry i couldnt make it!

Toronto

I'm home. I got here late Sunday night and now it Wednesday. The condo Kevin found us is amazing! You guys would be so impressed. I will have to post pictures whenever we get everything unpacked and actually buy a couch, b/c right now the only seating we have is the bed and 2 camping chairs. :) But we found the stuff we are going to buy, but now we just have to order it from Ikea. Yes, ikea, because its the cheapest place we can find, and right now it doesnt make sense to spend lots of money on stuff since I dont even know if I will be in Canada in 3 more months. But hopefully I will be, because that would mean Kevin and I work out.
My body is finally recovering from my marathon packing and move job I did late saturday and early sunday morning. Every muscle in my body ached until about last night. I started working out at the gym today so I'm sure the muscles are going to start hurting any second again.
Anyways not much to say right now. Just unpacking some, shopping for furniture, getting some quality time in with Kevin when he gets off from work eachday. We still don't have a phone number, internet, or tv hooked up. Think we are going to skip out on tv, b/c it just wastes time when you could be doing other stuff, and all I watch is Lost and House, and Lost I can download off of itunes and house I can suck up to my favourite Uncle Bruce for burned copies of them ;)
Internet don't know if we are going to get (how am i typing this if I dont have internet you ask), some lovely neighbor doesnt have their wireless secured so we are stealing it, so thats wonderful! Saves us a LOT of money. Home phone we plan on getting they are coming in tomorrow to hook a line up, but thinking of maybe canceling and going with Vonage instead b/c they have better deals. The only problem with that is you need internet you can plug into, and since we are stealing from a neighbor I dont think we can go with Vonage, so don't know. Any suggestions??
What else can I ramble on about?
As I just got back from the gym (that is in our condo and is huge and also has a swimming pool and a jacuzzi!!!) I kind of smell so I probably should go shower, but I'll be lazy for a little bit longer b/c you guys can't smell me and no one is here to smell me.
Thanks for the comments left on the site from the last blog I wrote. They cheered me up. Especially the one from my big brother Kyle! I had no idea he was reading these. Thanks so much you really cheered me up last night when I read it, I was having a decent day, but overall my life isn't going the best right now so it was really nice to hear from you. You gotta make it to Toronto sometime! Wish Susan and Jason could come to, they would love the new place, the location is amazing, right on the water next to all the ferries that take you toronto island, but no they can't because they have a new love in their life now, a little asian with a barkelew butt. They soon will forget about me, so Kyle you and I will be left to fend for ourselves. And if you write back telling me you are getting married or having a baby I will be very mad. I can't lose all my brothers to girls and babies. ;) Just kidding Jason, and no Susan I dont hate you I LOVE YOU. Definitly the best, except that girl in Jasons 6th grade class who would shoot guns at Jason with me. :) yes Jason I have a crazy memory or stupid stuff like that and why that memory always sticks out I dont know. I guess it was just nice someone helped me beat on you then vice versa (i.e. David).
Okay well I think I'm done now. I gotta get to work on my damn thesis after my shower. :( Not fun
Oh and to answer Bruce's question, no I never did find the ring, I spent all day looking for it, calling pub after pub, walking the 15 minute path I took from the last club to my home over and over, got on my hands and knees in a grassy area I walked through. Quite sad. Every 10 minutes or so I automatically run a finger over my thumb where the ring usually is and I give myself a little heart attack when I realize I dont feel it, but then I remember that I lost it, and then I get all sad. Its a vicous circle.
ALright, I'm done.
Later

Worst day of my life

I've lost my ring from Kevin, and it couldnt happen at a worse time.
I honestly hate my life right now.
I can't believe I don't have the ring anymore.
I don't go anywhere without it.
Very Very Very Sad
:(

Update People

Hello Hello to whoever reads this (and if someone out there reads this that isnt my mother, uncle, brother, to be sister,aussie cousin, or my someday lawyer Ali) leave a post so I know!
Anyways, sometimes I feel bad that I dont update often enough but then I look at everyone elses blogs on barkelew.com and realize I have nothing to feel bad about b/c you people never update!
Well today I went to London AGAIN. This time instead of trying to find random Africans at markets I just met up with my old roommate from my first year in Toronto. She is from Kenya but she hated Canada more than I did so she moved back to Kenya and then to here. Soooo to make a long story short she took about 50 of my surveys and is going to pass them around to her classmates (which sounds like are mostly african) to fill out. Only problem with that most of her friend and she herself are vegetarian therefore they aren't going to fill out the section on the questionnaire that discusses bushmeat, b/c well its meat.
Anyways, I went to london yesterday all by myself to Brixton market (the market I was suppose to go to with asshole from last saturday (who by the way still hasnt called me to apologize or even to say hi - the little fucker) Well again to make a long story short I got NO surveys filled out yesterday so I think I'm just going to can the London section of my thesis, and hope and pray that I get a better response in Toronto and NYC. Fingers and toes crossed.
Well all the essays for my classes are due tomorrow, I'm done with them, so I just have to read over them one more time, print them out, and then hand them into their pigeon holes tomorrow, then its DRINK DRINK and more DRINK all night long with the few classmates that are left in the city. So Saturday I imagine I will be a bit under the weather and sleeping the majority of the day, but then come Sunday I really need to start writing the thesis and packing up to get the hell out of dodge.

Love to all
Lippy

ramblings

Hello all
I'm extremly exhausted, but nowadays even when im exhausted I cannot fall asleep. Overall I had a total shit weekend. Lets start with Friday night. I do not go out Friday night but instead rush to make sure I have everything planned out for my trip to London that I am taking the next day to get my surveys filled out. I get a call from my travel parter around 9 to remind me to try and go to sleep early and get rest so I will be awake for the next morning to catch the bus to London. soo all sounds good, right? NOOOOO Jump to Saturday morning.... I get downtown to catch the bus at 9:30 (30 minutes early) I wait around for a bit then I start to call so friend/ travel buddy/ male protection for the day, no answer.... little more time.....no answer..... a little more time..... oh just got up had really late night, very sick.....little more time......just took meds head feeling better be just a little longer......little more time ...... give me an hour to take a shower......little more time (now 1 in the afternoon).....still sick be there in another hour......2pm my turn to just say screw it to late to go to london markets have to cancel day you little fucker!!!! So my Saturday was ruined and no surveys got done. Saturday night to depressed to do anything so I stay in..... Sunday comes and I go to London with another guy (luckiily he was nice enough not to cancel) but sadly he is english and extremely shy so he just stands there all day and doesnt help me get any surveys done, and I end up getting 2 surveys done total. aughhhhhhhhh, anyways come back to Oxford all depressed take a 2 hour nap then get up at 9pm to go celebrate May Day, which is huge in Oxford. Bars stay open all night, everoney gets trashed, then in middl eof the night you go to Magdelen Bridge and jump into the river then at dawn Oxford Uni choir climbs the towers and sings and then all the pubs serve breakfast and then drinking resumes for the rest of the day (its a bank holiday here). There is no real reason for the holiday, I guess the brits just needed another reason to drink, as if they dont drink enough. Anyways all my friends from class were all too stressed to go out last night to celebrateb/c our assignments are all due this Friday so it was just me and another girl, so we went out for just a few hours and it was pissing down rain so we called it a night midnight, so nothing special, no jumping in river, no 6 ambreakfast, no choir singing. And besides I had to get up early to go to London again today with the guy who bailed on me on Saturday b/c he promised to go today instead, oh NO wait thats not right, because he CANCELED on me AGAIN late last night because he had to stay up and drink all night and jump in hte river like a dumbass. The f-ing asshole I hope he hit the bottom of the river. Augh, I hate him. What a dumbass, so rude, he didnt even apologize to me. What a total waste of my time. Such a pathetic little wanker. GRRRRRRRRRRRRr Anyways so I didnt go into London today either so still just 2 surveys done. But I did get all my essays done for my classes that are due on friday so thats good, and I did talk to Sneha my old african roommate when I lived in Canada my first year and I am going to meet up with her on THursday and hopefully she will get some survey filled out for me. I will be so sad if she doesnt. Hopefully she has lots of friends here. Less then two weeks before Toronto, so excited to go home and see Kevin everyday. I totally fucked up my life the last 2 months so hopefully this summer I can prove to him and myself that I'm not such a dumbass and work things out. Okay enough of my rambings. Night Night