Sigh

Well I must first start off by thanking Gayle for the wicked reference, because I am now an employee of Cineplex Odeon. I haven't started yet, it doesn't open until halfway through November sometime, but at least it's a job. And it seems like it would be a fun job! I hope I get free movies, that would be sooo sweet!
In other news (I sound like a news anchor) I found out the other day that I am officially going to Boston for New Year's. I'm super excited to see my family again, my Uncle Gary is getting married to ... well my new soon-to-be aunt Nancy. She's very nice, I met her in Nova Scotia. They both wanted me there a lot, and since I am going to school and can't afford to go, they are basically paying for one whole ticket, so me and my sister only really have to pay half the price... I don't know how to thank them, they are absolutely amazing people. I'm so excited to get to see my Pere-Pere again, and my cousins from Tennessee. I can't believe it won't have even been a year since I last saw them, that NEVER happens in my family. The only bad part about the trip is that I won't get my midnight kiss from Jason :( But I am going to call him at midnight in Boston which is only 9:00 here. Perhaps I'll even stay awake the extra 3 hours and call him then instead... depends on what I'm doing, and what he's doing too I guess.
Anyways, I should stop procrastinating and get to work on my homework, cuz I have to pick up Jocelyn from work pretty soon.

DooDooDeeDoo

Well I coulda slept in today, my first class was cancelled. So with my new extra time I made myself some breakfast and watched some Clean Sweep on TLC. A Wedding Story is on in about 10 mins, it's my favourite. I think I'll watch that and leave for my second class right after, so that I can stop somewhere on my way and pick up a present for Dianne, Jason's mom. It's her birthday today. I coloured my hair yesterday, it's beautiful. :) Well, it's a heck of a lot better than the red I had anyways. I never liked the red, I just couldn't die it again right away or it would be crispy... Now it's a nice dark dark brown. Good for wintertime. Speaking of wintertime, I am super excited for Christmas! I have been listening to christmas songs, and last week I watched "One Magic Christmas"... Yes, I realize it's very early.... I've been told... :) But I love Christmas and want it to hurry up and get here! I get to house-sit over the holidays which is super awesome! from Dec. 20th to Jan 4th or so. It's gonna be wicked. I love her big slobber dog, it's a bull mastif. And she has a kitty that's cute too!! yayy! Anyways, I'm gonna go watch the wedding story show... this blog had no point to it other than to kill time.... :)

Mondays aren't fun

Well not only was today a Monday, it was an extremely busy Monday. I had to be at school for 8:30 for my geography midterm. That's not any earlier than normal, just stressful because of the exam. It was brutal, the teacher doesn't "believe" in multiple choice so there were like 75 short answer and essay questions. Blech!!! I hope I did ok... Then I had a geography lab which was fine, just boring like normal... then after killing some time I decided to go to my car and head to Mission for my next class. Yeah. Well. I had been a complete idiot and while being all flustered about my exam when I got to school, I forgot to turn my lights off. Soooo, the battery had died, and I wasn't going anywhere. I think I sat there for about half an hour, asking every single person that went by if they had jumper cables. FINALLY, someone did. I don't know for sure, but I think some people just didn't want to help. But maybe that's just me being weird. People do that sometimes though. Anyways, I made it to Mission for my 3 hour history class.. and when that was done, I had to drive all the way back to Abbotsford for my ECE interview. (too much driving today!) My interview went ok I think... it was 3 of us in the same room, being interviewed by 2 professors in the program. All of us at the same time!! it was weird! Oh well, I hope I get in!!! I also hope I get a job at Cineplex. I stood in line forever on saturday, in the freezing cold to get a job... now it's Monday and they said they'd call after the weekend... hopefully they call... I don't know what I'll do if I don't get it. UGHHHH too much stress I need to go sleep!!!!

Surprise Adventure Day

First off I should say that the 12th of every month (well, not every, but some) is called Adventure Day. When Jason and I started going out we celebrated our "3month" and "7month" and all the insignificant ones like that, but instead of calling them "monthiversaries" or something, we called it Adventure Day because most of the things we ended up doing were adventures. So anyways, Jason and I had decided a few weeks ago that we would celebrate a year and a half together on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, because well, thanksgiving is too busy, and our actual "day" is Tuesday, when we both have school. So he had something planned for a while and said we'd do that. It was all a surprise. He picked me up at 11 this morning and we drove towards Vancouver. I had thought it was going to be the Planetarium, which woulda been neat, but he kinda tricked me and instead we went to Science World!! (much preferred over the planetarium, although i've never been to that one, I should go someday) I was soooo excited!! We had a ton of fun running around learning science things. I swear that place gets more and more fun as I get older. Went to the Omnimax show, which was "Forces of Nature". How appropriate is THAT!? So awesome, just so happens to be one of my big interests! It was a good show, it talked about the Montserrat Volcano, and the predicted big huge earthquake in Turkey, and one of my ultimate favourites, tornadoes. Haha I'm such a weirdo. Anyways, afterwards Jazoon took me out to dinner at this new place in Coquitlam Centre called Montana's. It was soooo great!! They have paper down on the tables that you can draw on! And their ribs were tasty-good! mmm... So great. All in all it was a great Adventure Day.

Bike rides are great stress relievers

Well the other day I went on a 16km bike ride at Gold Creek in Alouette. It was a beautiful day and the trails were absolutely perfect. The climb wasn't too frustrating, and the scenery, with the autumn leaves changing colour and falling combined with the evergreens was gorgeous. I could've gone for much longer but it was starting to get late and I needed to get back to go to church that night. (This was Saturday) I found that it really took my mind off school for a bit. I wish that could've happened more... Last night I was up until about quarter to 2 in the morning working on an essay. pretty crappy, but at least I got everything finished. I guess it's all part of being a student... So tonight I celebrated by not doing any homework at all and watching the Gilmore Girls. Tomorrow is crazy homework day so I decided I needed (and deserved) the break. I also found out that I got a B+ on my group presentation for English 170 last week. It's worth 15% of my overall mark, so I'm pretty happy about it... hopefully my essay does well, because that one's 20%... I really want to do well... This whole ECE thing is excellent motivation!! Hooray for direction!!