We had the Christmas formal for the university this time at the Hotel MacDonald instead of the Sheraton.  A good time was had by all and for a few photos of it check out the snapshots area of my website under university.  : )

They Found Nemo!

I forgot to mention earlier too that me and a bunch of friends set up Bryan in a surprise 25th birthday party.  It was so funny, he didn't have a clue about it.  We were worried he was going to be grouchy like he was on his real birthday day.. but we needn't have worried ;) .  There were about 25 people there or so and we played games and ate a ton of food.  A good time was had by all.

The Nemo pic was sent to me by Sarah.. so funny.  I haven't seen it yet.

In August, Bryan's brother Rob was married to Erica, and the wedding was very nice.  Brad came up from BC to attend the wedding, and afterwards Bryan and I followed him and his girlfriend Juanita back to Castlegar with them for a two week holiday.  The holiday was fun, and offered much needed rest.  We went boating one day, swimming another day in a secluded stream area, and played a lot of golf on the PS2, lol.  We also went hiking and exploring, saw the Colin Farrel SWAT movie in theaters, and went snipe hunting.. or at least the guys tried to.  ; )   I'm getting the photos redeveloped as they were messed up in the first developing and will put some up here later on.

Other than that, not a lot is happening.  I've been fighting off a cold for the last week that doesn't seem to quit but hopefully that'll be done with soon.  I have my first stats exam this friday.. wish me luck. : )

I spent most of the week at my parents place, painting things outside and doing a bunch of errands for them.  Now that I'm in the city again, all I can hear is sirens and noise again.  Ahhhhhhh home.  lol.  Today as I was running errands I saw this guy with a briefcase who was looking down at the ground looking puzzled across the street.  So I approached and noticed that a man was passed out on the ground (nothing really new downtown but new that no one else was around or nearby yet).  I spoke with the man with the briefcase and I guess he's from Europe- he mentioned he didn't want to leave the guy alone because one time back in Europe he had left a sick man to get help and the guy had died while he was away.  So, he stayed there with the man today while I hunted for help.  I had my cell phone on me, but it turns out that I didn't need it because there were ambulances and fire trucks in front of my apartment building anyways dealing with something else.  So, I left the two men there and zipped back across the road to tell a man in a fire truck about it.  Funny thing is that he still had to call it in- when he said that I figured that they'd have to call in someone new from the hospital (which is dumb, just across the street) but no, they eventually sent out one of the small emergency vehicles at the other scene to take care of the guy.  He was just really drunk (at 7pm).  So that was kind of interesting for me.  Met an interesting new person and did a warm-fuzzy thing.

Added a new pic under photos.. well it is an old pic that was emailed to me but I put it up.  : )

I worked on my report most of the day, and finished cleaning off my computer.  The weather was rainy and cool which is nice after the heat wave we had out here.  I'll be doing the 'happy dance' like this dog soon enough when I'm finally done this course. : X

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Today was interesting- my computer wouldn't start this afternoon.  It would stick at 'Loading Windows' but nothing would load.  Sooo I spent the time cleaning, making a latch hook rug, going to the festivities downtown, etc.  I also pulled out Sleepy Hollow while waiting.. (yeah yeah for the Depp).    Eventually the computer tech guy visited me at 7pm and got my computer going for the moment.. I still need to do a wipe eventually but I'm able to backup my files and whatnot.  As for the festivities.. right now a few restaurants all have booths set up around the park about a block from my place and they are each offering 2 dishes for sale.  You buy tickets and spend them on whatever dishes you like.. I think its great.  Its a 10-day smorg for me.  

I couldn't pick which picture to put up... so I picked three.  *cackle*
I added a new 'emails' section under Anarchy- its just a compilation of a few funny emails I found.

Well.. my research project is all done, yay.  However, I was dumb and didn't take enough pictures.. I realize now that I should have taken more, so I'm going to stick out one more chunk of pork for a few days to get a few shots then I'll wrap it all up.  I have been working on my report and presentation already, and things are going well.

Canada Day was fun, went out to the Fort Saskatchewan parade with my parents and Baba- I pretty much got poked awake at 8am and was told 'get up! we are going now!'   I enjoyed it.  We stuffed Baba full of hot dogs and pie, and she was happy- we all had a good time.  Later in the evening Bry, his mom, and I went to see the fireworks downtown.  The city put on a pretty good show.  I wanted to run through the high level bridge waterfall but no one would go with me.. and I probably would have caught a cold anyways, the evening was chilly!  : P

Mom's been redesigning the yard back home so we've been doing a lot of planting and plant shopping.  I thought this picture was funny- we decided to plant the leftover potatoes we had from last year's crop instead of buying new seed potatoes.  So we pull the box of old potatoes out of the basement, and they already have these huge stems on them as they were growing like mad in the dark trying to find light.  We ended up chopping off most of the stems, and planted them like that.  They should do well.  The purple potatoes there are called 'Russian Blues' and they are purple inside too.. when you make mashed potatoes out of them you get funky blue mashed potatoes.  Kind of weirded us out out at first, but they are really tasty.  And in case you were wondering... yes, the pink potato there makes pink mashed potatoes too lol.

This weekend was a good one- spent it mostly at my bf's place.  We threw a surprise going-away party for Brad on Friday- he's now moved back to BC.  The plot: Bryan took Brad out to the strippers, and in the meantime five of us snuck over to Bryan's place and  set up the party and waited for them to come back.  Brad was so surprised and the look on his face was funny.  We drank and played Cranium and talked all night, I enjoyed it.  I scared the heck out of Rebecca too, it was funny.  It was really hot in the house and we were bored so we all went out back on the deck to wait for the boys (me, Michelle, Becca, Christina and Christina's roommate).  Anyways it was dark and thundering pretty violently and was pretty dark out by this time already, and we were just out back listening for the car to come out front.  Long story, but at one point I had to dash around the lawn to the side of the house to see if a particular car was them.. and I'm always really quick and quiet and Becca thought it was some sort of animal dashing through the yard and she screamed like something was going to attack her or something.  It was hilarious- none of us could move or think, we were laughing so hard.  She had already drank almost a full bottle of wine by that point so that was probably half the problem, lol.  Good thing it wasn't them that time as our laughing would have given us away!  The only other noteworthy thing was that I probably blushed the most I have in a verry long time with merely one sentence and a word spoken over the phone.. and actually I'm so not going into details here. LOL.  Dork.  You know who you are!!

We're going to miss Brad, he's a really great friend, but we all plan on visiting him out there in BC in August.  Also, he'll be out for Rob and Erica's wedding on August 9th, so we'll see him then too.  : )

I have finished the trial run of my research project and I'm all ready to start the real thing and get it all over with. It'll be pretty work intensive for the next 3-4 weeks collecting all the insects.

Went to a pool hall with Bryan, Brad and Rebecca about a week ago.  It was a lot of fun, and I have to admit that I've never been that drunk before ever.. I think it was a heinous plot.  I don't even remember walking out of the bar that night.  I do remember most of the way home.. but for some reason my arms really hurt the next day along with a nice bruise on my head, lol.  Had a blast though.  I swear that my pool playing got a bit better as the evening progressed.. what? no way.. it wasn't that everyone else was getting worse.. nope.. *shake*  Picked up three nicknames.  Awhile ago I was Lady Deathstrike with my uber long nails (bry's idea) (they are great for defense).. then it was AADAC kid after the drinking fest (dad's idea), and lately its LJ (brad's idea).

Other than that.. been keeping busy.  I've been drawing more, and working on my embroidery pictures that I haven't touched since probably last summer.  I'm going to try get into watercolor again, and maybe acrylic painting.  I also brushed the dust off my PS1 and have been playing that a lot recently too- mostly rpgs like Shadow Madness, Legend of Dragoon, Breath of Fire, and FF9, but I also dragged out Metal Gear 1 and have been playing that again too.  Brad's going home to BC sometime later this week. :(  we'll miss him, but  will definitely keep in contact with him..  Eventually I'll have to find a job (ew), and probably a new apartment.. want someplace with better access to parking and whatnot.. I'll probably miss this place though- it feels very much at home.. cement walls have a plus sound-wise.. the staff are nice here... public transport is convenient... I like how my apt is set up poster-wise and furniture wise.. I think I'm slowly talking myself out of it.  I dunno, never done apartment hunting before, I know I'll need help.  We'll see.  It doesn't hurt to look around at any rate.

Today I had my butt dragged out to the gym, which was the first time I've been to an actual gym since grade 10.  I was exhausted to begin with but made a good go of it.  And oddly enough I came out of there with more energy than I've had in a few days.  I think I needed to stretch out like that.  Today I'm visiting my parents and tomorrow I get to visit the oh-so-exciting-dentist while I'm out there.

This weekend I'm off to Calgary with Bryan and Brad to a comic convention.  X-Men 2 comes out on May 2nd so we'll probably see it while we are down there.  Looking forward to it all in all.

What I wish I was 
doing instead of studying...

Sarah's b-day was Saturday, which was fun. Had a BBQ, watched lotr2, played Mario Cart and Bond on N64 (well everyone else did, I sprawled on the couch and stayed with the group watching the movie), and we played a huge round of card games (game= asshole).  Sarah, Michelle, me, Bryan, Becca, Brad, Amanda (Sarah's friend from work), and Sunita (another of Sarah's friends) were there, and Michelle's bf showed up for awhile at the end.  Bryan kicked ass in the card games, being president most of the time, I did average sorta half at the top ranks, half at the bottom, lol.  I haven't played that in a long time.

Lets see..last night was fun too. Nik called me from Nebraska which is my second international call I've received this year woo.  (Amy called from Bosnia last month)  I think he racked up a good $30 phone bill in the process too which is like 'ouch' yet funny, but makes me wonder if I should pay for half.  Anyways, later that night we realized HEY we can netmeet over the internet for free because we both have microphones, so we did that for awhile too, lol.  And he has a drawl.  hehehehehehe   Don't deny it!  You know you do!

Muaha!  Who shall be my next victim to hear me ramble on..... 
PS.  I *totally* don't say 'aboot' or 'eh'

Squeak!

Went to see the Matthew Good concert yesterday at the Joint in West Ed mall with Sarah last night- for my non-albertan friends, the Joint is a night club plunked in the middle the largest mall in the world.  I hadn't been to that club before so it was interesting.  The concert rocked, was tons of fun.  Music wasn't too loud like it was at the Inferno for Smash Mouth last year.  Then again, I didn't have a migraine for this one like I did for Smash Mouth, so maybe I'm just biased that way.  Matt Good is a rock-type band but its not hard rock like most of the s tuff I listen to.  Afterwards we  went out to Humpty's to meet up with Brad (Smeagol) and Bryan (Bubbles) for a couple hours, was fun.  They had one of those stuffed toy game things there with the claw you control to grab the toy, and Brad and Bryan were really good at it.  Sarah and I went home with an armload of stuffed rabbits and a chicken, it was great.  The mall is huge, if you ever come to Alberta you should check it out- it has hotels, a dolphin pool, a submarine ride pool, and a complete full-sized Santa Maria ship replica, an ice skating rink, at least two theaters, (one has a fire-breathing dragon hanging from the ceiling that breathes fire every 15 minutes), over 800 stores, numerous bars and restaurants, a huge waterpark with waterslides, a large indoor amusement park with rides... oh man, tons more stuff.  I guess in order to compete to stay the largest mall in the world, they are now attaching condos to the edge of it, and expanding even more.

Oh, you should do the Care-Bear test!  *points down*

Nutshell is when a molecule goes from a high energy state to a lower energy state, it gets rid of the energy by emitting a photon of light. 

So this one guy in class goes: Oh, you mean it barfs out a photon?  

 LOL     

So I wrote down in my notes: GS-->ES = Barfs out a photon.

Yeah don't ask........chemistry humor 

Oh, and another lab.... lol...... I have a new title.  Princess of 1PS Phase-Separating Paper.  A friend told me that after I folded filter paper for like an hour for my group.  Then we joked that I earned a minor origami.

The next day we got detailed instructions on making cocaine.  (Hey, it was relevant to the stuff we were learning.)  They make cocaine like wine!  They pick the leaves, throw them in an acid pit (mild acid to protonate it), then they stomp on them to get the chemicals out of the leaves and mix it.  Then cover the pit with a tarp for awhile so its not spotted while stewing.

Saw LOTR2 again yesterday with my parents... it was dad's b-day. : )  I've now seen the movie 4 times.... and still love it.  At the moment I'm writing up a presentation on pesticides and insect resistance to pesticides for wednesday.  *loves bugs*

Rebecca and I were really bored yesterday so we convinced Bryan to have us over and feed and entertain us, lol.  We had a good time- played ps2 games, hung out etc.  We picked on Becca's little girl Jordynne a lot- she's a real sweetheart.  I was so happy to have company because I've been hiding from the cold weather in my apartment most of the week since I got back from Sarah's. 

*glances down at the date on the previous post* 

  ...thinks...

Oh.  Okay fine!  So it was only 3 days I was stuck in the house but I was still bored!  rofl

We went and saw Daredevil the night it came out.  She lives on the edge of the city and there's a great theater there that is seldom overcrowded just because its out in the boonies.  The movie was really great, but wow it sure was violent.  I read an interview with Ben Affleck and he said he himself was surprised at the violent nature of Daredevil in the movie- how he killed a lot of people, etc, even though he's not like that in the comic books.  Affleck says that by the end of the movie, Daredevil gets to the point that he is at in the comic books, and I completely agree with him.  It was a character-developing movie.  He's signed up for another DD flick, and I imagine that one will be more along the line of the comics.  Anyways, Sarah and I ran out and bought the soundtrack immediately after we saw the movie.. well the next day cause the mall was closed.. and its a good soundtrack.  I have a new favorite song:  Bring me to Life, by Evanescence. Its GOOD.  Dload or buy the thing.  The song really stuck out in our minds in the movie, it really fit in as Elecktra's sort of Theme music.  Sarah couldn't stop giggling whenever Colin Farell (Bullseye) came on.  It was  kind of funny.  (She's obsessed, lol.)

Only one adventure to report, haha.  We decided to try make margaritas.  We bought the mixes and everything.  She's housesitting for a family friend now so we were there at their house, and they have one of the fancy fridges that make crushed ice.  It didn't really crush it enough so we finished crushing in a food processor-- yeah they didn't have a blender.  I mean who doesn't have a blender!!?  Everyone should have a blender. Yeesh.  But anyways, we managed to turn all the countertops pink from the mix, it was funny.  Mmm. Strawberry.  We got it all out of course, but there was a panicked moment.  lol.  I can just see it.  The owners get home from Maui and we go "Hi.  You guys need to buy a blender.  OH.  And your counters were pink before!  Honest!"   I discovered that homemade margaritas go down pretty good.  God I had a headache the next day.   : X  

Oh yeah, I added a few new photos to the site, go check'm out.

Oh man.. back to school again.  Sounds like too much work for me!  NoOooooOooooo!

I went to a house party at Mike's acreage for new years, then we drove into the city to watch the fireworks, etc.   It was odd though- the fireworks were horrible this year! They just shot them from one little corner of city hall.  I think they wanted to increase safety..... 2 years ago the fireworks were pinging off the building-sign off a tower-building and we got to watch molten firey plastic dripping down the side of the building.  Entertaining, but not good!

This is a special day as its the birthday of me and two of my friends.  Rebecca and I turned 23 today, and Bob turned 21.  Yeesh, we're getting old!

Overall the holidays were a recuperation and relaxation period, which was much needed.  I saw Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers twice in theater so far, I enjoyed it immensely.  I plan to see it again once or twice before it goes out of the theaters.  If you haven't seen it.... go!

Look!  Updates!  I re-added the Links page up on the top menu bar... I apparently made it a long time ago.. I just found it again recently and stuck it back up.  I must have accidentally toasted it awhile ago.  But its back! Rejoice!  I also added a couple illustrations.  And.. I ditched the bground here, looking for a new one.  I'll do more when I have time, things are picking up now in school.