Great Weekend

So I had Wednesday and Thursday off. So I've deicided that they were my weekend.

Tuesday night (Friday night) I went out to dinner with Heather, it was quite delicious although I ate too much. I officialy tried spinach and artichoke dip, it was shockingly delicious. Who knew spinach was worth eating? Plus it's filled with iron, which will hopefully help my low in ironess.

Wednesday I went shopping with Jo. This should not happen again for many years. I spent lots of money. a lot. Then I came home and tripeed over all the stuff I had brought home from school. Why did I buy all this stuff again? I have enough stuff! Oh wait... it's because the red sweater looked fantastic on me. Damn you wonderful red sweater!

Mike and Jo and I then had Christmas together. We went out for dinner (Jack Astors, damn good). I had an Oreo Milkshake! Man I love oreos in anything... except as just oreos... they're only ok on they're own. We then hit Best Buy where I bought more stuff. Then we went to my house where we unwrapped presents and watched an Ellen standup comedy movie.

Today I went cross country skiing!!! It turns out I'm not that awful at it. I only fell 14 times. Quite succesful really. We also fed chickadees out of our hands. I want to go cross country skiing more, it was all physically satisfying.

I have to go to bed, because tomorrow is basicaly my Monday.

Good night!

so I'm on a little vacation

Between work and napping, I haven't been blogging. I'm taking a little break just because my computer's current location is not terribly convienient. I tottally just spelled like 4 words wrong there.
Christmas was great, so much lazing around. Everyone seemed to like the gifts I got them so that's great.

OK I'm not eloquent right now... I'm going to bed.

Back

So. I am here. At home. YAY! I'm home in Aurora. Anyone who wants to hang out, please contact me, I'd love to see you. Although I will have to fit you in between work and stuff.

Anyway, I'm off to work, perhaps I will post longer later.

-Christine

Flashback

So I ate pizza in my room last night. And whenever I left and then came back in my room I was struck by the strong smell of pizza that filled the room. After a while I didn't notice the smell anymore. It reminded me of when the yearbook room was painted, and it smelled strongly of oil paint fumes. But we got used to the smell after spending a few minutes in there. We then would spend hours in that small little oily painted fumey room. Then later people would come in and point out how strong the fumes were and we would have no idea what they were talking about.

So in conclusion I can only assume that we lost many many brain cells in that little room. How we all made it to universities and such I don't know.

Tuesday

Today I got a lot done. I managed to study Youth Justice (hey young offenders, we can so, under certain circumstances, release your name!)

I outlined what I had to study for my impending Cognitive Exam.

I went to my last physiological psychology class. Man that class was boring.

I fixed this thing on my computer that was broken, yay me! I am really proud of that one because it allows me to say impressive things such as; "I fixed the DirectAccess option by reinstalling the drivers". It makes my life so much easier now, because I can launch word with the touch of a button.

I ate breakfast, lunch AND dinner. Hey! That's impressisive people, eating takes time, and I am damn well going to count it as an accomplishment.

I packed something for tomorrow I need to remember.

I emailed Peter about something.

And by the end of the night I will have birthday ninjaed a door. YES!

In other news I am starting to panic about Christmas shopping. I have only gotten my Dad something. And I'm also doing the stressing out of who do I get presents for? In residence it's hard because you live with them, but would you get presents for them? This was so much easier in High school when I just told Eve I wasn't going to get her a present, and she told me she wasn't going to get me one, no harm no foul. Some people, if I don't get presents for them it may turn into a whole big thing. But you know what? I don't want to get presents for them. I've tried making a list but it keeps needing revising. This is bad. I figure I won't start Christmas shopping till after exams, but I finish late on the 20th. That leaves me like 4 days to finish Christmas Shopping. So Mike and Jo, you may not receive you presents till later.

G

A lttle dark... then bright!

I miss having a best friend at school. My best friend here went out with the whole high school drama of year. It's not really her that I miss, just the place she filled.

I had an excellent weekend. I hung out and lazed around the house (between bouts of Candian Tire of course). Watched Hitch with Michael, we watched the whole thing together, except for the end, which he slept through. He woke up when I was turning off the tv... "What happened?? What happened to the movie?" "It's over, you fell asleep.",...... "Really?" that struck me as hilarious cause he was asleep for like 20 minutes, and we learned in psych class how people in stage 1 of sleep will sleep and swear they weren't asleep. Oh knowledge, ye make life hilarious with your accuracy.

Saturday night was tree trimming, with Corner Gas for entertainment. Damn that show is hilarious.

So yay good weekend!

Sigh my room is clean

Since my room is clean I have nothing left to procrastinate with. I feel like I want to do something tonight, but I don't know what. I don't feel like going out htough I think. I'm so indecisive today it's annoying.

oh so much chocolate

My brother Michael got me chocolate and a gift certificate for my birthday. The chocolate is currently being consumed at an alarming rate. Now if this were, say a couple of boxes of Smarties this wouldn't be so bad. I would eat the boxes, feel a little sick, but I would have no other chocolate left to consume. This is not the case.

Michael bought me Smarties and Hershey's Kisses from the Bulk Barn, so basically I have ALOT of Smarties and Hershey's Kisses. I've seen babies that weigh less than these bags. And oh man is it good. I'm in chocoalte heaven over here. I fear though that I will be more than slightly hung over on chocolate tomorrow.

On a side note, does anyone use the proper finger when pressing shift? I always use the right pinky. No matter if I should use the left or not. Like when I just capitalized that 'L' and the 'I' I totally used my right pinky when it should have been the left. I also use my right thumb for all spacebar related moves. Is that normal? Anyone else?

So some thoughts

I don't feel strengthend by this. Or empowered. I just feel a little a more lost than I was before.

bah

Felt like posting... have nothing to say... so ends this post.

Open Letter to the Blackeyed Peas

Dear Blackeyed Peas,

Alliteration does not make everything ok. Alliteration will not save the worst song lyric of all time. And if you ever use the term; "Lovely Lady Lumps" again, I will stop supporting your song; "Don't Phunk With My Heart" and of course if I stop supporting that song I will also have to stop supporting that other song of yours, the one that sounds JUST LIKE IT!

Oh and don't rhyme 'hump' with 'hump'. There are plenty of other words that rhyme with 'hump'.

Love always,
Christine

Good Weekend

So I had a very excellent weekend.

I went shopping on Friday, I bought new pants! I almost bought new shoes but they didn't fit right. Friday night I went to a Barenaked Ladies Concert with Mike. You have two options to read my review of the concert.

Option 1: This one is for all those of you who really wanted to go but for some reasons could not go to the concert.

The concert was awful. They didn't even play their own songs! They just did covers of B4-4 songs. Disgraceful. AND they poked everyone in the eye on the way out. Awful.

Option 2: This one is for people who got to see the concert, or are indifferent.
The concert was amazing. It was their Christmas concert so they played from their Christmas CD. They also played old stuff (I think they did a song from every CD) and they did a couple songs which are going to be on their new CD. I think my favourite was when the drummer sang Felise Navidad. So good!

Saturday day I went to Bodyworlds with Angus. So. Cool. Dead people, plasiticized, so you can see all their organs and muscles and bones. It was fascinating, to see everything on the inside. We also ate pizza hut, which was delicious. Saturday night I watcehd RENT, it was a fantastic movie. I had never seen it on stage though, so maybe I have no idea what I am talking about. Either way it was great.

Sunday night was dinner with family. mmmmm.... bloor street diner.
It was a good weekend.

End of Shift

Walksafe is almost over for the night. I got a whole lot of work done while walksafing. I was abe to find a thesis, outline my essay and finish writing about two of the subheadings for the essay. This essay is supposed to be 12 pages long and is due Thursday, while not an unreasonable length I really wish I had started writing this earlier.

In other news...
MY BIRTHDAY WAS AMAZING!

Dinner with Mike and Jo was good, well the service was not excellent but Mike and Jo are always fun. Jo made me a cake which was delicious. We then went to HP4 at Imax! I enjoyed the movie. Yes there were parts that were changed and left out and that was quite the frustrating. On the whole though I thought it was a great movie. Oh and I ate movie popcorn, which is always good.

On my actual birhtday I got to go to church for the first time in ages. It was fun seeing everyone and it was fun casually slipping into the conversation that it was my birthday! The rest of the day I worked on an assignement that was due tomorrow, I finished it too! That was my gift to me. We also went out for dinner as a family (minus one brother :( ).

I have of course recieved many a present for my birthday, but I will not list them in fear of looking tacky and superficial.

Time to head back to HQ so I must be off.

ahem

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hungry

Gah. I am both frustrated and hungy.

I really want to eat melted cheese right now. On pizza, on nachos, on anything really, just some melted cheese. Instead I am eating rice cakes. Because I don't own cheese. By the time I go out and buy some cheese and melt it, it will be dinner time. I will have to satisfy this craving another time.

I am frustrated because the check out system at the biggest library is ridiculous. At the same desk is:
1. Checkout
2. Issuing new library cards
3. Renewals
4. Hey where's my book?
5. Can I get that book from somewhere else?

Option 1 and 3 should have a seperate desk because they are such speedy processes. But they don't. Instead I waited 20 minutes to check out my books. The line up wasn't long, it was just that three people were getting library cards made and that is a very long process. Very annoying.

Not Damp, But Soaking Wet

Walksafe is most interesting today, and by 'most' I mean 'moist' and by 'moist' I mean completly soaking wet.

It is raining. And it's not fooling around out there, it's being pretty damn serious folks. A few of the streets here look like they belong in Venice. I don't just need hipwaders, I need neckwaders. In short, I am wet.

In other news my young but oldest brother has a very special day today. Today is his.....
BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

yay for mikey! Happy birthday great brother! I hope your day was magical and filled with delicious food.

In even more news I am currently (as is everyone) swamped by projects. I have many assignemtns, readings, a yearbook to edit and grad schools to apply to.... wait... no... that's Shashi. Damn. I believe I just have three assignments then a test to slog through before exams, so while not Shashi-busy, I am still busy.

That's it for now, unless we walksafe ourselves to another computer.

cough.. clears throat...

ahem.....


9 DAYS TILL MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!

Always sleepy!

I dislike that I am constanly sleepy, even when I get more than enough sleep I need to nap during the day. I feel I would get a lot more done if it wasn't for my sleepyness. Angus suggested that maybe I'm aenemic (I so can't spell that word). This made sense, except for the fact that I donate blood regularly, and they don't let you do that if you're aenmic. So the sleepyness persists.

There is this display at the science center I want to see, I thought of going and seeing it this weekend but that wouldn't leave me much time to do anything else. It's a really cool exihibit (I think that was too many i's). It's real human (dead) bodies on display. Presereved and stuff so you can see every little part. That is so cool.

Anyway this day has been going well so I'm pretty happy (maybe that's related to the nap I just had. Off to dinner!

Brain fried

I had a test yesterday, I think it's safe to say I won't want to be seeing the results. I finished an assignment due for tonight which I think went ok. I am currently walksafing and am suffering from the shortest internet attention span of all time. I flip between reading blogs to reading emails to reading nothing. I think my eyes don't want to look at a computer screen. I was up late last night so I'm running on low sleep, maybe that's why I can't focus on anything.

The Canadian Tire Christmas party on Saturday was amazing. So much fun. Lots and lots of drunk people and lots and lots of dancing. Have I mentioned that I love most of the people I work with? They're really nice people, so friendly and kind. And people bought me drinks which was nice. Mostly the fun random dancing was the best part.

I'm going to surf on somewhere else now.

Going Home

I love going home. I love living in rez too. Just sometimes it's nice to go home, for oh so many reasons. Because it's home, because I can where pajamas and eat breakfast, cause my mom and dad and brother are there. Because it's cozy. And often I like going home because it's a huge reminder that there is a world outside. As a student I find I can get lost in student life. In studying endlessly, trying to jam in parties, trying to enjoy my friends and all the drama that goes along with that.

When I go home I find it easier to remember that the next quiz will not make or break my entire life. I can remember that the latest drama doesn't matter. And my job is simple, I mean it's hard to do, but there isn't much I take home with me, outside of hilarious stories of stupidty, kindness and rudeness. I love my life here, but I'm glad I can get a reality check every other weekend.

In other news I have a pedometer! It's a little gizmo that counts my steps. U of T is having this pedometer challenge, so for a $12 deposit you can count your steps. Our don started a step challenge on our floor and many people have gotten into it. Last night I broke 20,000 steps (before I was around 12,000). I think Angus and I's trip down yonge street was what put me over the edge. Today has been a low step day, around 1,200 right now. I think work will be insane though, I'll probably reach, roughly, a million. Yup I'd say a million is a damn accurate estimate.