Summer & co-op

Hello!

Man, am I too lazy to update this completely. Short and to-the-point will be my style for tonight.
I went to Vegas with Alex this summer! We went skydiving on my 21st birthday! woohoo!
I've started my co-op job at Natural Resources Canada as well.

Here are some photos for you all to enjoy until my next post which should be up just within a few months ;)Here we are on the plane-- probably the one to Toronto

Alex at M&M world

Alex & me on horseback in Red Canyon

Excalibur at night (the hotel we stayed at for the second hal fof the trip)

It's Teller! (There's one of us with Penn but I was too lazy to upload that oneas well)

In front of Bellagio (before the fountain show commenced)

Pam at the blackjack table on her birthday

Alex at the slots

Done!

Materials is freakin done! YAAA! That's right. Freakin done. Now I can sleep easier at night.

Long time

Hello!

Long time no blog. Thought I'd write down some useless random thoughts as no one has updated their blog in a while *cough*Alex*cough*. Hopefully by updating my own I will act as a model for others. :)

So summer school has started, as Ivan has noted. It isn't so horribly bad except for the fact that almost all of our professors would not be able to teacha monkey how to eat a banana. I'm not quite sure what that means but I thought it was clever at the time... the time at which I typed it... so a few seconds ago. I would say only one professor is very clear and organized.

Our Fluids midterm is tomorrow and the Materials final is on Thursday. God help us all. Materials is ridiculous... We are taught next to nothing and I think we are expected to know everything. I surely hope that the questions on the final are identical to the solved CD problems. Hopefully Haddad will mark us based on effort.

Hmm So I went to my little cousin Léane's first birthday in Montreal this weekend. She's so adorable. She likes to laugh and she didn't cry once. She's so easy to please. She can feed herself and she can walk if someone hold her hands. My other little cousins are also cute. I hadn't seen them in so long. They grew a lot. Virginia is going into grade 7 while her brother Justin is 7 years old. Ashley and Chloe are 8 and 5. Chloe talks so much now! She asks many questions. For Léeane's birthday we went to a Japanese restaurant. There was so much food! Tofu soup, salad, tempura, dumplings, egg rolls, pineapple rice, grilled chicken, big & small sushi... Chloe really liked the little sushi but I couldn't even eat the ones without the raw fish.

When the kids were done eating they went to the little colouring table where colourable tatoos were available. Have you ever heard of such a thing? Removable tatoos that you colour. That's amazing. Of course I took some for myself. haha....

Oh on the Friday night I went swing dancing with my brother and cousin. My cousin just watched and my brother danced with many people. I had an okay time but I was very nervous after not having danced in a long time. Everyone there looks like they knew exactly what to do, but afterwards my brother assured me that many of the girls weren't at my level yet so I assume the guys weren't either.

Anywho, last night I watched a movie called 'Water' which was about the Indian widows around the late 1930's, Ghandi's time. I never knew that widows were complete outcasts, almost as much as the untouchables. It's ridiculous. At the end of the movie a stat came up that stated that according to a 2001 census there are still tens of millions of widows in India that are pretty much ostracized from society. They live in a widow's home and are not to touch or speak to men except for the few that are used as prostitutes to bring in money for the house. They beg on the streets and only eat one meal a day. The money they do save is for their cremation. In 2o00 year old holy books it states that widows are not allowed to remarry after their husband has died because half of their soul dies with their husband. Oh, and some of these 'widows' are 7 years old. Anywho!! The movie ended on a very sad note.

Erm... that's all I have to report for now! My brother Bruce is going to Halifax to fnd a place to live on Tuesday as he is giong to Dalhousie this fall. Will is in BC having fun surfing with his friends. Daddy is in Yellowknife on business so it's just me and mommy at home.

Hope you are all having a fun summer!
I am looking forward to any weekend trips and August trips this summer!

New Photos Page!!

Hey everyone!!

This will be a short post, as I have been working quite hard on this site already. I have created a new photos page!! Yay!!! :)

<--- To view it, simply click on the link on the sidebar to the left

Or, you may click here

I hope you enjoy the photos!

Easter Weekend

Well last weekend was amazing. I got Friday and Monday off, so essentially I had a very restful 4-day weekend :)

I stayed up very late on Thursday watching The English Patient on tv, and on Friday we had fun playing board games at Steve's. Ivan beat us all at The Game of Life, as a $100 000 paid accountant. Then we played Bang a couple times and Citadels.

On Saturday afternoon I went to Alex's house out in the country. We did many fun things this weekend such as: played with/fed/milked the goats, rode on the 3-wheeler, explored abandoned farms and cars, played Jenga, played hours upon hours of Crokinole, biked to the sugar shack, and many other things. Oh, I also learned how to juggle!! (a bit) Alex's sister Christina got very good at it. I still have to juggle against a wall to be decent. I will hopefully add some nice photos later on of all these exciting activities in which I partook.

I was only supposed to stay one night, but driving late in the dark was not very appealing, so I accepted Alex's mom's offer to stay another night. Ah, also the first day there my allergies weren't too bad. I'm not sure if it was his cat or just seasonal allergies, but I sneezed quite a bit. The next day I surprisingly didn't sneeze at all, even though I took no medication. The amount of pets this family has is astounding. It's quite a change from my pet-free home. They have 5 dogs (two golder retrievers, 2 , and , 1 cat, MANY goats (kids and adults), 2 barn cats, 2 ducks, a bunch of duck eggs, and fish.

I'm excited about hopefully visiting this summer when the berries will be in season.
How did your Easter break go?

Easter is upon us! ... almost

Hey everyone!

It's been a little while since I last posted, so I thought I just add another new one here. I planned on making my site super cool with extra links and a photo album and such; but I've been busy/lazy lately.

Tomorrow is my last day of work for this week! woohoo! I'm so excited. I'm also giving blood tomorrow because the bloodmobile (what a name...) from Canadian Blood Services will be at CHEO. Then I have a wonderful 4-day weekend followed by a Tuesday cadaver testing. Wednesday can be used to finish up my co-op report. Thursday is research day in which I will probably get to sit in on many medical/biomechanic presentations concerning research projects that are currently being worked on. I'll get to see two people presenting who I've done work for (by 'work' I mean compressive testing as well as data analysis). So it'll be interesting to see how the data is being used and what effect it will have on the medical community. Finally Friday is my last day of work! My bosses are kindly going to take me out to lunch (not sure where yet).

Apart from that I'm very excited about all the happenings of these weekends to come! This weekend I'm having Easter dinner with family on Friday night. Then on Saturday I'm going to visit Alex, his family, and their many pets 'round Easton's Corners (I think it's called). I will have to practice very hard at bumper pool and crokinole so that I can beat Alex and Caley. I musn't forget to bring my allergy medication either, as I am allergic to cats, spring trees, and mold.

Then Amanda is having a wonerful BBQ the following weekend! I hope it's nice and sunny that Saturday! We'll have plenty of fun playing outdoor games. Oh, when the weather gets even warmer we should have a water balloon fight/water gun fight. :)

And finally, the month will culminate with the much anticipated, fabulous murder mystery game! Yayyy!! Next weekend I'll go to Value Village to find a couple things. My friend is also having her engagement party on the last Friday of April.

And finally school begins on the first of May. Caley's birthday will be coming up very shortly! Oh, what can we do for Mr. Griener? I say we fill his room up with scantily clad ladies. Or perhaps we can all pitch in to get him a John Deere tractor. ;)

Lovely dayadate

Seeing as how exams are coming up for most (I suppose not for the people in our little webring, though) I will update my blog since others probably do not have the time to do so.

---I realize now that that first phrase was quite unnecessary since only Krystel has exams (out of the people that likely read this blog), and might even still update her blog---

This weekend was very very fun! It started off with Alex coming in from the outskirts and eating a wonderful dinner with me that I had prepared from scratch that I like to call Ambergeur Elpeur ;) Then we headed off with Caley to Maryam's birthday party at one of the Lees apartments. But I pulled an Amanda, and forgot Maryam's Malibu gift in the apartment. Since we had just crossed Laurier, I ran back up to get it but forgot that I had juice there as well. Oh well.

Many people were at Maryam's party. Now, as I am typing this, I am wondering why I am giving such details because (again) the only people that read this are the ones that were there. Anywho, it was a fun, interesting, and exciting night-- to say the least. There was some definite making out, vomiting, and making a fool of one's self. Some exhibitionism was also at play. All in all it wasn't an ordinary night. We ended up going to Space and having a marvelous time, right Caley? Dancing is lots of fun!

Then, on Saturday Alex and I had our (pronounced 'hour' not 'are') dayadate! The morning started off with trip to Rideau Centre to pick up some swimming goggles. Then we headed off to the UofO pool. Swimming was fun. Alex jumped off the first and second tower while I watched, from a safe distance. After swimming Alex went to get a haircut. Afterwards we proceeded to South Keys where we saw 'Failure to Launch.' That's right ladies, Alex came with me to see a chick flick. :) It was a pretty good movie, though some portions were obviously far-fetched and the ending was well, beyond cheesy. From there we ate dinner and saw a comedy show at Yuk Yuk's. It was really funny! We should definitely go sometime with everyone, especially on a Thursday because it's a 2 for 1 student night. I think this was the most amount of activities Alex and I have ever jam-packed into one day. :)

Oh, wow! I almost forgot the most exciting part:
When Alex dropped me off at home, he lowered the rear window on the driver's side of the car and it got jammed there (yep, just like in the van but this time it was the Grand Am). We very creatively covered the exposed hole with a garbage bag and duct tape. I'm hoping Alex took a picture so that I can share a visual with you all.

On Sunday my daddy and I went to go see the Greece IMAX movie at the Museum of Civilization. It was really well done. Nia Vardalos narrated it (writer/actress from My Big Fat Greek Wedding). I would really like to see the Kilimanjaro IMAX movie too. Along with this, I'd love to visit the museum. I haven't been there in so long. Because I still have the mindset of a child, I would have so much fun there! We could get dressed up in costumes and everything! :D
...Hopefully we can do that sometime later.

Only 2 weeks of work left! Yay!!