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!!

A New Direction

Well, yesterday I wrote an amazingly long blog only to have my computer completely crash as I was trying to publish it. I was too frustrated to even try to start over so I decided to leave it until today.
A couple days ago I was stressing big time. Maybe I was just being over-emotional due to certain girly stupid stuff, but I was completely freaking out. Money and school were what were occupying my mind... or rather the lack of money and the amount of school ahead of me. It's just been a month and I was already panicked about how the heck I was supposed to pay for 5.5 or more years of school, and I really don't want to be stressed for that long. So I decided to look up information on 2 year programs I might be interested in. Then I found something that I had seen a lot of but never actually considered. And the more I thought about it, the more it worked for me. Early Childhood Education! There are a ton of different directions I can go afterwards, but initially I will get my certificate that will allow me to teach preschool. It was absolute perfect timing, as the program starts in January, and only takes 3 semesters! So that means I will graduate (with the cool ceremonies and everything! even the hat!!) in April 2006!!! That's not long at all, and it all just makes sense. I can see myself doing this much more than the other stuff... Also, if I want to upgrade and get a diploma, it will just take 6 more classes - 3 core courses, and 3 in one of 2 specialties: Special Needs or Infancy. I think I would opt for the Special Needs one, as that would allow me to be a teacher assistant at public schools. The best thing about all of this is that I can get into the career right away, and work my way through school at night if I wanted to. Eventually, I can also take the Child and Youth Care program, and with all of these together I could get a bachelors in Child and Youth Care. I am a lot more relieved now, this makes a lot of sense. And a nice bonus factor is that Jason will grad at the same time as me! It all just works out well...

In my lost-blog I wrote also about the wedding this weekend. It was absolutely beautiful! Tara looked gorgeous... I couldn't look at Scott during the ceremony, he was teary, and that was making me cry! And Jason looked... tall. Haha, well pretty much everyone was around the same height, and then there was my boy, towering well above everyone. But he looked amazing too, which was torture! I couldn't hang out with him, he was running around with the wedding party doing wedding stuff. But that's ok, I was busy decorating and dealing with the guestbook. All in all it was a great wedding, and I am super happy for Tara and Scott, they are a great couple.

My last blog was a lot better, but this will have to do... So now I have to go memorize a script for church, which I really should've had memorized earlier. :S

A Beautiful Day!

I love the sunshine, and how it just makes me feel so happy... It's not very good though when you have a lot of school work to do... But I just checked the forecast, and it is supposed to stay sunny and nice all weekend, so the sooner I get this stuff done, the more time out in the sun I'll have later. It's even supposed to be nice on sunday for the wedding, how perfect! Biking tomorrow will be awesome, hopefully it's not too slick in the forest. Later today I have a job interview to go to!!! Hooray!! It's all the way out in Abbotsford though, so hopefully it's not on days that I'm not at schoool, because that would be a long way to go all the time... We'll see... wish me luck!

Happy Autumn!

Well Mom's birthday was awesome, she was totally surprised when she walked into Swiss Chalet and found 20 some-odd people there waiting for her! She even cried, which was good.
I'm just eating some lunch right now and procrastinating getting to my homework. It's going to be a busy weekend though, with Tara and Scott's wedding, and their cousins down visiting, I won't have much of a chance to do too much homework later, so I can only procrastinate so long.
Last night Jason and I went down to a little wharf place in Poco, beside the Mary Hill... It was really sweet... We've been there before, but I just love going there at night with him. The river's right beside us, and you can see the bridge downstream a bit. It's actually really pretty. We just walk back and forth and keep each other warm, because well, officially today is Fall, and it's been getting cooler.
Anyways, I really do have to get to that reading. So many words....

Hooray for a title.

Hi! Just trying to kill some time and decide whether or not to go put up my mom's birthday sign at the church tonight or tomorrow... I think I'll probably do it tonight but my mom has to be fast asleep, and she isn't yet. So blogging it is. Anyways, it's my mom's 50th birthday tomorrow, and we have some suprises for her. I won't write them yet just because I don't want her accidentally seeing this before the suprises happen. I think I've already said too much. Meh.
Anyways, not too much is new, I was stressing over what I thought was a big assignment due on Monday for Geography... But realized today that while it IS a big assignment, it's not due until October 13th. So yay! Except I turned down going out tonight cuz I thought I'd only have tonight to finish it off. So blah. But that's ok, it's kind of nice to wander around home with sweats on all day and just be lazy... Except I cleaned the house, so that's not entirely lazy. Mom was on my case to clean recently, cuz next weekend is Tara and Scott's wedding, and Jason's cousins from Logan Lake are coming, and the oldest's girlfriend is staying here. So I had to get a "spare room" ready for her. Tonight (well... today) was Scott's stag, so Jason's been out with him and all the other groomsmen. The plan was to wake him up with an airhorn early, dress him in a pretty dress and feather boa, and go play paintball, then dinner and then a comedy club or something. Sounds like fun, and it was especially funny finding out that Garret and Kevin tried on 8 or 9 different dresses at Value Village before deciding on that one.
Anyways, I think I'll head over to the church to put up that sign before I get too ridiculously tired to drive.

Classes and Fun

Well I am alive, for those of you who thought otherwise. I am taking a much needed break from studying. I am getting used to this school stuff still, although it is only the 2nd week... I'm assuming it will only get busier. I wanted to also say that it IS possible to comment without signing up as a user. Just comment as an anonymous guest, and in your comment say who you are!! Sound good? Anyways, I really can't write a long time because I must get back to Guinevere and Lancelot's romance. Ahh chivalry.