After thoughts

My sister wrote a fabulous overview of our specatacular trip to New York, so please go to her blog to read all about it!

www.insidejennashead.blogspot.com

I do have to say that it was seriously AWESOME! What a place!!!! Could be my most favorite place I've ever been to. Someday maybe I will live there. Hey, if there's a place for midget's on Broadway, I'm sure there will be a place for little miss me (nothing against midgets of course. i pretty much am one!). Yes, New York is the place to be. I think they must spend millions and millions of dollars on decorations there because there was extravagence EVERYWHERE. Beautiful decorations, lights, wreaths, everything. What a place.

Well I wrote my last final exam this morning. It took me a total of 21 minutes, and nobody was allowed to leave until 9:30, so I wrote out a list of things to do before I had to be at work at 12:00. Yes, it may have been the easiest/simplist exams I have ever written. Sample questions are as follows: What continent has the most developing countries? ummm.... Africa?........... What is one consequence of deforestation? uh, endangers biodiversity...... like geez, no wonder I only went to 7 classes in 2nd semester. I was the first one out of the entire PAC gym. 600 people are stuffed in there, as there are about 5 different exams being written at the same time. So I don't know why nobody else was done as fast as I, but it didn't matter because I had stuff to do!!! I also got back an assignment today, which I got 96% in, my highest mark in an assignment ever I think. That was a nice early Christmas present.

I think I am all ready for Christmas, as of 12:00 today! I did all my shopping yesterday and today, in between final exams in the morning and working at 12. Crrazzzzzy I tell you. I'm really happy with everything I'm giving to people, which makes me feel so happy and excited to give. I even accidently bought somebody two presents... I don't know what I was thinking, but now I have an extra pair of men's pajama pants to give to somebody!!! My mom said she got my dad some for Christmas, so maybe I'll give them to Jeff or one of my brothers. Maybe I'll take them back and exchange them for some girly ones for me? No, I already did something selfish today... I couldn't pass it up.... Bridget Jones' Diary 1 and 2 for $19.99!!!! WHAT A DEAL!!! I can't wait to watch them over and over and over. Hmm and I haven't even seen the first one, just the 2nd one but I loved it so I'm sure I'll love the first too. So seriously girly. All I need now is the Titanic and the Notebook and I am all ready for major girls night out, I mean in. Actually the only time I will ever watch the Titanic ever again is if it's on TV some night and I will have to be THAT bored. It's a good TV movie on a cold winter evening.

Tonight is our department staff Christmas dinner so we are all going to the Granery for a delicious dinner, can't wait. Afterwards, going to Jeff's so I can wrap all mine and his presents for people, and tomorrow evening is Christmas at the Eagle's house, so we're opening some presents. Christmas Eve morning (which is also Jeff's 28th birthday), we're driving to Calgary for a few days, and we are also going to go to Banff on Boxing Day, and home on Tuesday.

For New Year's, I do have to work Friday the 30th, but then I don't have classes or work until January 4th, so I have a few days off there too.

There you have it, my schedule for all the world to see!!!

Merry Christas everyone!

Frank Sinatra sings it best...

start spreading the news.... i'm leaving today... i want to be a part of it...

new york, new york...

these vagabond shoes... are longing to stray... right through the very heart of it,

new York, NEW YORK!!!

i want to wake up in a city that doesn't sleep! and find i'm king of the hill! top of the heat!

these little town blues... are melting away... i'll make a brand new start of it, in old New York!

if i can make it there i'll make it anywhere, it's up to you,

NEW YORK, NEW YORK!!!

i want to wake up, in a city that never sleeps, and find i'm number one, top of

the list, king of the hill, a number one!

these LITTLE TOWN BLUES....... ....... ohhhhhhhhh they'll be away.......

i'm gonna make a brand new start of it, in old new york!
annnnnnnnnndddddd... if i can make it there, i'm gonna make it anywhere,

its up to you,

NEW YORK, NEW YOOOOORRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKK!!!

How's this for an update?

I started working full time this morning! I completely forgot what traffic is like in Saskatoon at 8:00 am... I'm more used to 10:00 on my way to school! Big difference. So I was almost late, but not quite. those phones start ringing right when we open them, 8:30 am. Anyway my point is that I'm happy to finally be making some money just in time for Christmas.

Speaking of that, I have not started my shopping except for Kayden's gift. Furthermore, I hardly have any idea what I'm getting anyone. Even worse, I'm not sure when I'm gonna have time to do it! I have an exam Thursday, and then all weekend I'm in Winnipeg, and then next Thursday I leave for New York, and then the week after that I have two more exams and then it's CHRISTMAS! Okay so writing that all out made me realize I have to do it early next week, Monday after Winnipeg, and done before Wednesday so that I can pack for NYC. I also have Friday night this week. That would be a good shopping night, the malls are usually less busy that night. But Friday night is Elim's musical...It'll have to be later. boy oh boy.

I have another hair appointment Saturday morning... I think I want to go darker once again... just lowlights, nothing too scary... but I feel my hair needs to be slightly more bold, a little more drastic... we'll see.

Back to the shopping thing, I still don't have a dress or an outfit for this weekend's fancy Christmas party at the golf and country club in Winterpeg. I am starting to feel that the dress thing may not be a good idea afterall and may go for my usual black pants and fancy tank and pretty heels. Still worried, again, I don't know when I'll go shopping for something. Thursday I guess. It'll be hard to give up my Thursday night TV to go shopping. Survivor is down to the bottom 5 this week, the Apprentice at the bottom 3, The O.C., well I can't miss it, and I missed the last half of ER last week so I don't know what happened with the whole marriage proposal thing. These are important shows to me. JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW.... for the record.... Thursday is officially the ONLY day I watch TV anymore. So that is why I allow myself the four shows.

Well, I just read a fantastic book, Memoirs of a Geisha, now a major motion picture :) It was so good, I read it in about 3 days. I can't wait to see the movie. I love love love reading a book before the movie. I have read In Her Shoes, The Constant Gardener and now this one in the last few months, and have only seen In Her Shoes. Which I loved too. Book was better of course, but still a good fun movie. I'm looking for another good read for the Christmas holidays after my exams, so please, suggestions come my way. It doesn't even have to be a movie either ;)

So my car is a problem once again. I have zero heat or defrost about 50% of the time. I LOVE THAT IN SASKATCHEWAN. FRICK, HOW ABOUT I JUST WALK IN -23 CELCIUS???? I'd love that too. Anyway it is being fixed tomorrow. I hope to top it all off it costs me $300 (knock on wood). Wow I can't believe how superstitious I just was... I actually knocked on my desk! Haha, wow I'm shocked with myself.

Lynnel, Chad and I drove to Moose Jaw on the weekend, and we went and saw the tunnels and had a lovely supper and then went to the mineral water pool! It was so much fun! The pool reminded me of the hotsprings at Fairmont or Banff. Half was inside and half was outside and it was a perfect night for sitting in the hot pool outside with the snow all around. Chad met some friends there, so me and Lynnel considered it our little day together basically. We had some funny moments. One I can't say on here because it's bad. Hehe, maybe I'll tell you if you ask me. We didn't get home until 3 am on Sunday morning, so it was a very full, but fun filled day! I like Moose Jaw. Such a funny little name. Sicamouse is a funny little name too. Those moose must have been running rampant back in the town-naming days!

Well I best get back to studying for my crazy hard exam on Thursday morning. Environmental Geography. Should be interesting to see my mark go down by a million percent seeing as this exam is worth 40%. Too bad...I'll have to work a little bit harder and not be distracted by blogs!!!

Happy belated birthday Alison! We all love you so much.

Don't forget Elim Christmas Presentation this weekend! It's gonna be amazing!

Love Kristin Anne

yah so...

ah yes a new blog today. it's about time, right megan? it's been too long but not too long compared to kristy-anne. ahem. anyway, life has gotton a little bit easier lately. i am finished all my esssays, projects and assignments, except for one little group presentation on wednesday afternoon. i'm not worried about this because it's not academic at all, it's simply talking about my volunteering experience this semester. i'd like to say in my presentation "i am so happy i did this because it will look so good on my resume" but i think i'll refrain and just state that here on my blog, for the record. yes that is a smart idea.

well let's see what is new. hmm i need to buy a new dress in the next few days. unless someone out there has one i could borrow for a night, that'd be great too. i need it for jeff's christmas banquet in winnipeg next next weekend. i want it to be just right... oh sigh, so much pressure. a girl at work here says she has one for me, problem being she is a little bit teeny tiny, so unless the dress has an umpire waist, i can probably kiss that goodbye. oh the issues of being a GIRL! i also need new fancy shoes/sandles, as the ones i had that i loved got washed away, along with most of my shoes and other things.

i guess thats what the insurance cheque is for (i thought it was for shopping at H&M in Manhattan).

hmm well sorry to disappoint but i just don't have anything else to say. lame post, i know. i'll try better next time!

i heart new york!

yes it's true folks, i'm really going there! my parents are taking my sister and i there from december 15 - 18, four short but going to be VERY filled days! can you imagine, new york at christmas? it's gonna be absolutely beautiful. i don't know why but remember in "home alone 2: lost in new york", well there's this scene that i've always remembered, where the kid is running from the bad guys and he hides out in this HUGE toy store right in times square and its all decorated extravagently for christmas, and i've always remembered that scene b/c i thought it was just so beautiful.

well now i get to GO there! our hotel is in times square too, half a mile from the ed sulliven theatre. we are trying to get tickets for david letterman on thursday night. friday morning we are going to radio city music hall christmas extravaganza!!! and friday night we are going to the brooklyn tabernacle christmas production!! and then saturday night we are gonna go to a broadway show but we haven't decided on one yet. and sunday we have to go home which is so sad, but hey at least we get a few great days to enjoy!

so yah i just wanted to shout it to the world :) the week i get back i have two final exams to write which absolutely SUCKS but hey, it's almost CHRISTMAS!!!!

I love love love NEW YORK!

poor molly, she is upset because matthew is practicing the trumpet right now. just what i love to be listening to at 10:16 pm when i'm trying to wind down. urrgggggg, the joys of living at home. she is snuggled right down beside me laying at my feet, keeping them warm. and as most of you know, molly and i aren't even the best of friends. oh good mom is making matt going to bed.

well i had an extremely busy day yesterday, and today i made up for it by sleeping through my first and second classes. sunday night i was so worried about this week that i tossed and turned in bed until about 2 am before finally deciding that i would make myself wake up at 6 am monday morning and get some work done really early. so i did. i was up at 6, showered and ready for the day by 6:45, and on the computer working on a powerpoint presentation before 7 am. i'm telling you, getting up early is a really great way to start your day. for me at least. i am so much more efficient, and i can get all the things i am worried or stressed about out of the way so that my day goes by so much better.

so anyway when i got home from work on monday afternoon, i started a completely different assignment, and it was the dumbest assignment i have ever done. it was about saskatoon's wastewater treatment system. i.e. sewage. oh yes it was lovely. we had to write as though we were writing to a politician about what needs to be changed about our treatment system, and believe me i had a few things to say about the june 29th sewage back up!

take a wild guess, who do you think has the best sewage treatment system...
victoria, calgary, saskatoon or regina?

in case you were thinking about writing your politician about the quality of your clean up, i'll have you know that Saskatoon has a grade of C+, compared to Regina at a C. now people, i don't know about you, but i always thought regina was a "dirty" city... yet it seems they are doing a better job of keeping their water nice and clean than pretty little saskatoon is. as for who has the best treatment system in Canada, it's calgary. they rate an A+. yee haw.

alison you would be so proud to know that victoria has the worst sewage system in all of canada. in fact it went from a F- in 1999 to completely "suspended" in 2004. i don't exactly know what suspended means but i know its not cool! more than 34 billion litres of raw sewage are discharged back into the ocean every year, and they only do preliminary treatment, which isn't even technically treatment at all, which is just nasty. NASTY!!!!!!!!! don't go swimming in the ocean. and maybe invest in culligan.

that whole class has absolutely nothing to do with my major, it just is my natural science class requirement that i absolutely must pull through.

tomorrow is my presentation on development and global health. its a good topic. once i get over my nervousness, i'm sure it'll be a really great presentation. i'm quite proud of it actually because its the first time i put together a powerpoint point presentation, and after hours of work i think it looks fabulous. pictures, clip art and everything. but unfortunately i don't get graded on a red-hot powerpoint. i get graded on if i do a good job speaking. i'd rather sing a song in front of 2000 people!

my jeff is working in toronto and in surrounding area this week. him and his coworker are travelling down to detroit on thursday night to watch a hockey game which he is seriously stoked for. haha, instead of stoked i wrote "stocked" and then i started laughing at what that could mean... he is all stocked up for the game.... beer came to mind, and then i laughed.

well i went to young adults this evening and i have to say i really enjoy some of these girls that i have gotten to know this year through sunday night cell at charmaine's house. i love going there sunday nights because her house is so calm and warm and always smells like baking, and she always has smelly candles lit, and its just a really nice way to spend a sunday evening with some really fun and sweet girls that i just love. so yay for charmaine for putting up with us for the last year or so! and for baking cookies or bread with homemade jam or cake or whatever it is you have every week!

this blog is long enough. i'm going to practice my presentation to myself in front of the big huge mirror in my bedroom.

i can't wait for the week that i get to just reeeellllaaaaaaxxxx. its out there somewhere, i know it is......!

it's friday!

jann arden was AWESOME. i just loved her. she is so funny and a great performer. she sounds better in concert than on her albums. she is very down to earth. even jeff had a good time. he liked the fact that jann recognized her audience was mostly women and made a few jokes about the men that were dragged there. we had lots of fun and it felt nice to dress up and do something a little bit different. i wish i took some pictures.



denver's spooktacular party is on saturday night and i don't have a costume. i am hoping he will accept me dressed up as a stressed out student. yep that sounds good to me!

i'm done midterms but now i have a 4 assignments (which are each 6-8 pages, basically 4 essays), a presentation and two 12 page research papers to write in the next 3 weeks. that's insanity at its worst. i think i'm just gonna go to sleep and wake up when its all over.

let's get happier.....

things i am excited about
(in order of appearance from now until jan 1/06):

-spooktacular extravaganza 2005

-kristy-anne coming to visit next weekend

-nov long weekend when i get to go to a wedding and wear a pretty dress and have fun

-Cats

-december when classes are over and i get to make some money (even though working sucks)

-december in general b/c i can truly be excited for christmas

-dad's christmas presentation

-alison & leon coming to visit

-a weekend in winnipeg for jeff's staff christmas party, all expenses paid

-CHRISTMAS!!!! in calgary and in porcupine plain (thats gonna be a hard one to work out this year...)

-new years eve

-semester 1 ending, semester 2 beginning (i love brand new classes)

that's all i can think of at the top of my head, but i have to admit it made me feel better!

have a great weekend...
kristin anne

Oh sweet Carmen

Truly the cutest blog in the world -

www.bunisintheoven.blogspot.com

It's Carmen and David's brand new blog. She is pregnant and is due in April. David has started a column in the newspaper at the University of Lethbridge, it's called "He's Pregnant." Now they will be posting the pregnancy journey on a blog! She is just gorgeous, so check it out.

Yikes. I'm Scared.

SCHOOL
there are only about 3 really horrible weeks that i have this semester and the end of this week/beginning of next week happens to be one of them (i'm smudging them together). i'm scared. i sit and think about how scared i am that i am not working on assignments, reading my books or studying for that last midterm (i've already written two which were actually fine). oh why why why do we procrastinate? why do i not have just a teensy bit more urgency for schoolwork? no, instead i come to that place where it's 3 am and i think, would i really regret it if i just quit now?!!! and i dont just mean quit that particular assignment, i mean quit the whole thing. ha i'm laughing at the thought of it all. can you imagine me quitting university in year 3? oh i'd simply die of madness. tonight i volunteered to put together the entire powerpoint presentation of this group project that is due next week. why did i volunteer? because i want it done right and i can't stand to let someone else do it. that was just ridiculous of me. but so far it looks awesome, and i know that when i do something like this, it gets done right. just the way i like it. but oh the work involved! our group project is a presentation on international development and global health. right up my alley, i just love this stuff. i find that at almost every opportunity i get to chose my own paper topic/presentation/project i do it on some aspect of women & children and social aspects, particularly health and education. so interesting, so sad.

JEFF AND KRISTIN
we're going to jann arden on wednesday night. i'm so excited.

it's also our two year anniversary this weekend. i had to make up a date for this because we actually met on my 21st birthday and we sort of just became "us" over the course of a month. so in order not to celebrate 2 exciting days at once, i decided that our anniversary will always be the third weekend of october. i'm so smart.

BITS AND PIECES
thursday i get my hair done which i'm also excited about. i'm missing my blonde so i think it will reimerge, ever so slightly, at about 3pm thursday afternoon. stay tuned.

my fish is well, thank you for asking.

i saw wedding crashers on saturday night... so funny for those who haven't seen it yet. really it's such a good movie, besides those moments that nobody warned me of, when a certain body part was on the big screen flashing in my face about 8 times, yikes where did that come from???

alison, when does leon come to town to sing for us?

the song i was trying to think of in my last post... i'm pretty sure it was an alannnah myles song...still trying to figure that out. wait, wait i don't think it was her actually. yah i'm not sure.

BLOG AWARDS
blog that i related to the most this week: my long lost kelowna friend, megan horban. oh her post is so me, from school to overload to the blue and brown colours of our room. read it to further my comments in this blog, particularly the school part. check her out on my links.

blog with the most heart and soul this week: kristy-anne glubish. brought me to tears.


goodnight friends, over and out.

canadian idol?

i've got two tickets to the C95 big party tonight if anyone wants them....

i thought of the song i would sing if i ever were to try out for Canadian Idol, but it just slipped my mind. i wanted to put it on here so i would remember for next time :) i always pick out songs i would sing if i were to go on there, i've done it for years, but i know i still never would. hmm thats annoying that i just forgot it. it was a woman, someone like janis joplin or melissa ethbridge but it wasn't either of them. i'd LOVE to do 'piece of my heart' by janis but it's been done over and over, but man would i belt that song. anyway i just love kelly clarkson. it's not that i would even want to make it big like that (what canadian idol will EVER make it that big anyway, in fact, what american idol will either?), but i do like to sing. i'd sing sheryl crow and india arie. and all kinds of other songs.

well i'm going to go buy a plant for my fishy.

Rex

Welcome to the family Rex!!!

(please don't die)

Weekend Fun

High time for a new blog I think.

I had a weekend without Jeff which was a little bit unusual for me. I'm very used to him being away during the week with his job, which works out fine for me because I'm busy with school. But he's always home on the weekends! However this weekend, the Oilers and the Riders took precedence over little me. Both teams lost, which serves him right for going without me :) haha, just kidding, I'm glad he had a weekend with his friends because I had a fun weekend with my friends. Friday some of us played Ramolie and I kicked butt when in the last hand I got the
7-8-9 combo. Quite exciting, I was like, shaking with excitement, truly.

Saturday, Cory and I went shopping at Superstore, and I found out that something I had bought there last month had gone on sale, bigtime... I had the receipt with me in my purse and after a little bit of arguing with Customer Service and having a little chat with her supervisor, I got a return of $79.00. That felt good.

And Saturday night we started off with a girls poker night (our first ever... there will be more where that came from!), and then the boys came and invaded our night with "ooh ooh let me see what you got"," don't do that", and basically telling us how to play.... they couldn't help themselves, I understand that. But still, next girls poker night will be strictly that. girls. and a big sign on the door, no boys allowed.

sunday afternoon jeff came home and he spent most of the afternoon sleeping on my couch with another football game on, but i was just happy to have him home again.

but my weekend sans jeff was nice none-the-less.

something else exciting that has happened this weekend is that i bought a fish! my very own, separate than my dad's fancy fish tank in the family room. no this guy is in his own special bowl in my room. he's truly beautiful. he's a turquoise chinese fighter fish. i am yet to name him, but lynnel came up with a good one - Rex. i think i like that name, but i'm still open to suggestions.
i love him. i wish he could cuddle like edwin could but since my mom isn't allergic to this guy, he's all i get for now. i'll take a picture soon and put him on here for all to see.

well i best get back to work now, SEE YA....

girls and flowers

Jeff bought me some flowers for my birthday. I thought they were pretty pretty. They were sent to me at work, which is one of the best feelings a girl can get. Especially when you work in an atmosphere full of women ;) Women really appreciate the flowers and ooh and ahh over them, and say "oh i wish my husband would send me flowers! your man is a keeper!". trust me, every time a girl at work gets flowers from her significant other, we go through the same process. and then we all go home and say to him, "so and so got flowers today, how come you never send me flowers?" and the cycle continues...

besides flowers he got me great seats to see jann arden. i told him back in May when they went on sale that if he was smart, that is what he should get me for my birthday and he actually did it. so i'm pretty excited to see her.

thats all for now...

September 26, 1982

it's my birthday! i accept flowers, cards, presents of all sorts, money in quantities of $20 and chocolate cupcakes with candles.

(just kidding guys, all i want is a little love!)

hope everyone enjoys my birthday as much as i do!

love 23 year old
kristin.

today

chad just came over. we had cereal. chad and i have a long history of eating cereal together. all of our cereal choices were healthy ones tonight, until i found the reeces puffs hiding in the pantry in the laundry room. (yes, that is where all the goodies hide in this house). however... we decided to choose the healthy choice, and ate some Quaker Harvest Crunch. delicious! i am suprised and delighted at how far along "bran" cereals have become. it used to be that we simply had raisin bran. i like raisin bran to this day, however i usually put some brown sugar on it, and then it's not so healthy afterall. anyway chad and i had a lovely chit chat about nothing particularly important, yet delightful none-the-less. yay chad for being a good friend.

i got to catch up on days of our lives this afternoon. a person really only needs to watch that show once a month or so to catch up with. i'm very confused though because at the very end, STAN showed up... at Sami's wedding. i thought stan WAS sami. in fact, i KNOW that stan was sami, so tony dimera must be up to something very very sneaky once again. in other news, i hate that mimi and belle are no longer friends... it truly saddens me, and i hope that mimi doesn't turn into the next evil villan. because i really liked her before.

kristy-anne was in town this weekend and we had so much fun catching up, her, me and lynnel. what a delight that girl is. we stayed up till 2 in the morning, a phenomenom for me. and tanis was also in town with her little sweet baby, Kennedy, which was a lovely suprise as well. oh girls, why do you all move away from me?

tomorrow i start my volunteer work with the Good Food Box organization. should be interesting i guess. they give us a free lunch at the end of it, so that's a bonus. i should feel happy by the fact that i will be working with 3 people who i don't know, so it will be a lovely opportunity to make new friends. i have a little problem with feeling comfortable with my little circle of friends, and not feeling much of a need to get to know anyone else! i've been working on it though, especially with people at school. there's one girl i've been hanging out with that i graduated high school with, and haven't really seen since we graduated. she's in my major, so we have a couple classes together and i really am happy that we are friends once again. oh what a nice story!

if anyone is looking to buy a new cell phone, please let me know, i'll do the 2 for 1 thing with you... thing is, you need to take my cell (it's only a month old) and i will get a new one, which is actually the exact same one as mine, but it's PINK. i want it so much because it is so so cute. so yes, please let me know if you want a new phone immediately.

YAHOO i just found my long lost jack johnson cd!

ooh speaking of music, i am so excited because lynnel and i have tickets to go see CATS! i LOVE broadway musicals so much. this one will be great. even the MOVIE, phantom of the opera... amazing. the show just haunts my mind... not as in "ghost" haunt, but in my mind i think of it and i get this whole dreary, but wow feeling about it. the music is so amazing. i don't think Cats is quite as... disturbing... as phantom is, but it will still be great. i've downloaded all the songs so that i can sing along in lynnel's ear the whole time. i'm sure that she will think that is really nice of me, just in case she misses a word or two. my most favorite show ever was seeing one in Prague in the national theatre. it wasn't in english but it didn't matter, they translated the words on a screen in english... and there were two girls from switzerland beside me and they let me look through their binoculars as often as they did. it was so incredible.

goodnight my friends, sweet dreams.

back to school

i have been in this screen numerous times this evening, trying to figure out what to say. at one point i was all ready to get started, but then the boys came home and turned on "that 70's show" and i got out of the mood. i like to blog when it is quiet and when i am alone.

well i'll say a bit about school. i think i will do alright this semester. the two classes i'm most excited about are History of the Developing World and Global Health and Community (CHEP for short, don't ask me why). The CHEP class is through the College of Medicine and it's a fourth year class that is half med students and half international studies' students, so it makes for a really interesting mix. the class is gonna be more work than i've ever done but i've also never done fourth year classes, so perhaps this is the norm? i guess so. in our second class we already had mini presentations on particular diseases... guess what i had to do? diarrhea. oh yes, it was fabulous. once i got over my own silliness with the word diarrhea and started to learn about how many children in developing countries die from it and other related causes like dehydration, it really wasn't funny anymore. for this class we also have to volunteer at a community organization, so me and 3 other people in my class are working for Good Food Boxes, which packs healthy food and distributes it through Saskatoon. really it promotes healthy eating. should be alright, i like the people i'm working with so that is a good thing.

i'm thinking about applying for an overseas internship this summer. i've started the application process for two CIDA (canadian international development agency) sponsered internships, once in Ethiopia and another in Gambia. i would really love to go anywhere... lately i've been leaning towards Haiti, but that scared my mom a little bit. she said i couldn't go but i told her she can't tell me no anymore. we'll see how it works out. these internships get a lot of applications and only a few get picked, so the chances are slim.

i took a biotechnology class for one day (i've since dropped it) but i did learn one funny thing. scientists are currently working towards putting the hepatitis B vaccine in carrots. yeah, so instead of getting a needle, one day you might just have to eat 10 carrots. don't ask me any questions about this, i have just given you the extent of my knowledge on the hepatitis B/carrot issue. i just thought it would be handy because it would prevent other students just like myself from fainting in grade 6 after your hepatitis needle. eat a carrot, save face. why didn't i go into marketing?

my other classes are geography - environment, population and human. my minor is human geography. i am in my third year university and i have just recently figured out what human geography infact is. basically its the study of human interaction and their effects on what goes on in this earth. that's pretty broad. what i've just said is everything that happens can be put into the catagory of "human geography." wow am i ever going to be smart when i graduate, i am literally going to have to learn everything.

that's a very overwhelming statement.

we had a guest lecturer in one of my class last week and he was awesome. he totally made me realize that i do love what i am learning and that i need to keep at it. people who want to do everything end up doing a whole lot of nothing, right? i'm learning about stuff that i am passionate about, but i get easily frustrated because there are no clear-cut jobs out there that are looking for ME. i think when the time comes i will find what i am looking for with this. sometimes i feel dumb when people ask me what i'm taking and then the "oh so what are you going to do with that???" question and i have to answer "Um i don't know... save Africa?" i'll find something, but in the meantime i have to work hard and educate myself so that i can save africa, or at least one little african girl or boy.

i hope someone else needed that pep talk besides myself.

Prague in black & white

Vienna

so much to say

it's the annual golf tournament here today (lovely day for golf).
jeff has a ball tournament all weekend - what if the weather is like this? i sure wouldn't be in a sports kind of mood. i guess i'm not all that sports minded in the first place. maybe that would help. although... lynnel and i have been faithful gym go-ers for the entire month of august so far. i have gone three times a week, and lynnel goes almost as much. yes its really a miracle, i'm sure most of you think i'm lying but i tell you the truth. anyway back to the ball tourny, i don't care if it rains all weekend because a couple of the players are renting a hot tub all weekend so we'll have some fun there. (too bad i didn't start working out in june.)

i went to jenna's house for lunch today and kayden was watching Dinosaur. i said "oh kayden look at all those dinosours", and he said "oh auntie, those aren't dinosaurs, those are carnitores!" i said "oh you mean carnivors?" and he said "no auntie, carnitores." well who the heck taught him what a "carnitore" is in the first place?!! what a smart boy. and then i taught him the word "energy" because he is full of it. he asked me if i was full of energy too and i said no, not as much as you are, and he was truly concerned. the eyebrow thing and everything.

school in 2.5 weeks!

oh right, three geography classes... take away that exclamation mark and turn it into a frown.

i get a very mini vacation from sept 2 - sept 6. it's mini because it includes the long weekend, plus friday and tuesday. vacations are never true if it includes a weekend, but i'm grateful for it anyway. soooo i'm going to yorkton thursday night to stay with tania for one night and then jeff and i are going to manitoba for the long weekend to camp. i sure hope it is sunny and HOT!!! we're going with his friends carl and kelly and they are some of my favorite camping people. this is our 2nd annual sept long weekend camping trip at.... i forget what its called. but still, it's fun.

anyone who was curious about how our house insurance worked out - we get 65% for all personal items. they are doing everything 100% when it comes to building, painting and carpet, this 65% is just our stuff. my mom and dad are happy because for things like our 10 year old leather couches, this is a steal of a deal, but its not the best for me because so many of my things are new, like my computer and furniture and stuff. oh well i am just happy i still get to do some shopping. i'll have a few hundred dollars to spend on clothes, but i think it'll end up just going to my text books this year. b-r-u-t-a-l. we fared a lot better than many of our neighbors who got anywhere from a whole lot of nothing to about 50%. and hey i got my entire wardrobe drycleaned for free which was nice, especially for my white poofy jacket from the gap and my grad dress and actually all my fancy dresses. and i'm so excited about the new carpet that is going in, it's so comfy. it's like cushions for my feet. what luxery.

i had ANOTHER car accident last weekend. this one is a little more serious than my fender bender in may that didn't account to anything. no larry filed a claim against me this time. oh larry don't you know that i'm a student? larry was a jerk. he told me "don't want to scare you or anything but a guy hit me a month ago and it cost him $3300 bucks."

thanks larry, $3300 bucks doesn't scare me. i'd love to spend as much money as it costs for a year of school on your damn truck. pardon me.

well scary larry doesn't have package policy and i asked him why not and do you know what larry said? "generally i'm a good driver." what a loser. luckily i have a package policy so i only gottta pay my $200. i think thats how it works anyway. pleeeeaaaasssse let it work that way!!!

well, this is long enough now. bye for now!

mah jong

mah jong - my favorite game ever... i finally found a version of it on the internet that gives you more than a 14 day trial - it's free always. check her out:
http://www.by-art.com/mjong/mjong.php


i just stopped this blog just so i could play a round. but i'm back now.

so i'm pleased that it is friday. not that i have big plans this weekend or anything. jeff and i are going to the air show on saturday, but that's about it. last weekend was more fun because we went to the Ex and saw the chuckwagons and the demolition derby. OH MAN i just love those car derby's and i love the chuckwagons. it was too much fun for one day. we were there from 2:00 when the chuckwagons started, till about 10:00pm, when the derby ended. in between we did all the other Ex stuff you have to do. and jeff bought me a $5.00 caramel apple. yummy.

great so this is another blog that is going nowhere...

blog of the week: jenna's latest post. it's all over the place but i enjoyed it a lot.

so thats all for now, i think mah jong has dulled my brain.

On my mind

I thought it was high time for an updated blog. Only problem... not a whole lot is going on these days :)

I've thought a whole lot about moving out this year. I've wanted to be on my own for the last few years and I think that maybe I'll actually do it this year. It just hardly makes any sense at all with my parents in the city... I'm saving myself thousands of dollars living at home. I just like to daydream about it...

The first thing I'd do is get a kitten. I can't have a cat at home b/c Edwin gave my mom asthma. So cats are kind of a no-no in our household. I'm pretty sure if I brought home a kitten my mom would give it away. So I haven't bothered since it would only lead to heartbreak, just like a bad boyfriend. Why do that to yourself? hehe.

The second thing I would do is go shopping for all my own cleaning supplies. I love cleaning... once I start,
I do it the whole afternoon. Last Saturday, I cleaned out Jeff's fridge. It's relaxing. Now anyone who has seen my room may be thinking to themselves, ummm that is not the Kristin I know... well it's true, I have a messy room. But when it comes to the rest of the house, I like it spotless. My room may be MESSY but it still is CLEAN. There is a difference.

Thirdly... I would go to Wal-Mart and get very cute bathroom accessories. Like a pink and yellow striped shower curtain and matching bathmat and towels and soap dish, etc. etc. Oh man it would be so cute and fun.
I don't need anything really for my bedroom. As it is now, I already have enough stuff in my room to fill a house with pictures, candles and photos. And lamps, I enjoy lamps. I'd set up a little office area with the new computer that I just bought, and I still have to go buy some new furniture that got ruined in the flood, like a desk and some bookshelves.

The kitchen would need the most work. I don't have a whole lot when it comes to kitchen gadgets. I have a table and chairs. But nothing like mixing bowls and all that crap. But that will come. All in good time my friends.

So I just realized that my last 3 entry's, including this one, have all been about imaginary things. Good thing my blog's name is "Imagine That" because I do a lot of dreaming.

my imaginary trip to california.

i wish i could take a vacation... somewhere hot and fun. california would be perfect right now. come now, let's all imagine this together....

we'll wake up in our 5 star hotel in anaheim on tomorrow morning, and walk across the street to disneyland. we'll meet all the best characters - cinderella, sleeping beauty and snow white. we'll walk straight to splash mountain. wait in line for no minutes because i am smart and got us all fast passes so we can skip most of the lineups. although the lineups are half the fun at disneyland because they are so detailed. they are pretty much part of the ride. then we're going to indiana jones, thunder mountain and space mountain. those are all my favorites. disneyland is so great because the rides are seriously just so fun. you laugh the entire time you're on them. oh i'm so jealous that my brother is going there again soon. after disneyland i'd go to california adventure where i'd work up the nerve to ride that freaking scary rollercoaster. oooooh man that is fun times. the rest of california adventure is kind of not worth the money. the actual disneyland park is more fun.

the next day, we're driving to hollywood and spending the day there. maybe hit all the stars' homes. and go to universal studios, which is not to be missed. there is so many cool things to see there. then i'd want to go to long beach for a day and shop the little board shops and tourist places and lie on the miles of sandy beaches. all we need is four or five days. i can't wait to meet some stars. we'll meet them while shopping on hollywood blvd. i'd like to have a few words with brad pitt anyway. i think we'll have to get a hotel in hollywood... the beverly hills hotel of course, nothing but the best, because we need lots of time here.

oh wait, while we're in california, we may as well take the 2 hour drive south to san diego. san diego is so beautiful. there is so much to do there too, so i guess we're staying another 5 days. the san diego zoo and sea world are must sees. we're spending an entire day on the island - coronado village - because the beach is gorgeous and you can windsurf and sightsee and do all sorts of fun things. time to go shopping and walk all around in seaport villlage and have lovely five star meals with beautiful ocean front views on the harbour. oh man i'm not kidding guys, my trip to san diego with my dad, regan and regan's dad was probably one of the best vacations i have ever had ever. i'm truly enjoying my memories here.

alright, so since i'm driving and this is imaginary, i give us an extra 4 days. now we're driving north again to san fransisco. i suppose i'd have to plan this better. i think we would START in san fran, then drive to LA then finish off in beautiful san diego. i have only been in san fran once before and it was only for an evening, and i tell you that's just not long enough. it's a very very cool city with so much to do.

wow, what a great trip this has been. i'm glad that we all went together because the more the merrier! it's been a little break from reality.

textbooks - *warning* - this is a boring post!

hello all...

i'm not sure what to talk about today! oh oh my. last night i bought myself "the pilgrim's progress" because i had started reading it once in bible college but never finished it. and last night dad and i went to parables to price something out for insurance, and the new "modern language" version is out and on sale, so i bought it. why the heck not i thought. so if you've read it, leave me a comment with some of your thoughts on it.

i love buying books. books books books. i love to have textbooks and reference books and biography's and really good works of fiction. lynnel has begun an impressive collection of classics, like pride & prejudice, wuthering heights and great expectations. between the two of us, we could have the beginning of a great library. i also really like to look at maps. if i was really rich and had a fancy house, i would absolutely love to have a room that i would call "the library" or "the study," just like in the game of clue. i would have the walls lined with dark cherry bookshelves, and a matching desk that would be huge. and all the bookshelves would be filled with books. and there would be big maps of the world from different centuries on the walls. ooh fantastic. and there would be a dark leather couch with lamps everywhere. and i would have a laptop. yah, so i hope i get my library/study someday.

wow at 12 the office always gets so nice and quiet. i love it like this.

yah so i've been totally browsing amazon.ca the last couple of days. i found every single one of my text books on there and i could essentially save myself over $100.00 if i bought on that site. although the thing is, i don't know how much i'd actually save when i start paying shipping and handling. and then there's the whole 3-5 week wait part - which isn't so bad if i bought them all now. and THEN there's the whole "do i really NEED that text book?" thing... this year i really gotta try to get as many cheap texts as possible. school is so expensive.

what a boring post this is. sorry guys i got nothing.

the dealio

first of all i'd like to congratulate my blog on 10,000 hits. you are so pretty now that you have had a makeover and your owner is so interesting and funny. i'm sure that she is as pretty as you are, little miss blog. thanks for being such a great read.

alright now that my tribute to my blog is done, moving on.

let's talk insurance. so the dealio was - take all your clothes to the drycleaners and then when you get them all back, anything that is stained, shrunk or ruined can be claimed. so we do that. thank GOODNESS lynnel and i made a huge list of my clothes that were wrecked before sending them off to be cleaned. because according to the drycleaners, everything i sent in has been cleaned and returned. however i started thinking - "now where are my favorite jeans" and "hey its camping time, where are my husky shorts" and finally, "what the heck else is missing here??" so i go back to my list of stuff and there are about 25 items missing from the drycleaners. wow what is THAT?! if we hadn't made a list, i would have no idea what was still missing. so good for us smarty pants girls. and we were both blonde at the time too!!! hehe. anyway i guess i just get to claim all the missing stuff too.

the fringe festival starts tonight. that's kind of fun. and i can't wait for the Ex. i love to go to all the silly shows, like the dog show, the talent show, the hypnotist guy, last year there was the chuckwagon races and the demolition car derby it was so much fun! i love cars bashing into each other it's so funny.

i'm loving big brother 6 so much. i love the "cool" group so much. i hope that if i were on big brother, i would be on james and sarah and kaysar and janelle and howie and rachel's team. they are WAY cooler than maggie. although i like jennifer and april. kaysar is the hottest muslim man i have ever seen. i can't stand maggie or yvette. oooh they drive me nuts! i laugh so much when they start talking about the "bad guys," like that is so dumb. i don't know yet who i want to win. i really like rachel and sarah. they sure don't say a whole lot about beau.

canadian idol - like who on earth is voting for josh palmer? that guy is brutal. i can't wait till he's off.

i went to jenna's house on my lunch break today. i didn't have it until 2:00 so i ate my lunch on one of my morning breaks this morning. jenna and i sat on her deck for almost the whole hour. it was so sunny and beautiful. i can't wait for the day when i get to have little babies at home and i can be a stay-at-home mom for a year. i'm sure by the time that year ends i'll be so ready to also go back to work. it'd be so nice to stay at home sometimes.

speaking of jenna, tomorrow is her 21st birthday, so make sure you say happy birthday to her.

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hair, holidays & highways

ladies: i need some sort of hair "smoothing" product - it must be light and non greasy/oily. i just want to make my hair shinier (if thats possible, muwhahah) and have zero frizzies. suggestions, please?

so far i'm enjoing being a lovely brunette. a girl at work here said she watched this documentary where they dyed the hair of a guy and a girl blonde for one day and brunette the next, and sent them out to compare reactions and attitudes. well apparently the blondes got more attention and flattery. the brunettes got more respect.

we'll see about that i guess.

i've had a couple people say they prefer me as a blonde and that is fine. the most important thing to me is that i've actually finally tried it. it won't stay forever probably so no need to wory.

well for those who don't care about my hair, let's move on to the next topic.

i had a great great weekend. i know i said we were going to greenwater but we ended up at anglin lake on friday night with renae and andrew and their cute little 2 year old son xander. then on saturday morning we headed to marean lake and stayed at a cabin there that was way to small for the 12 people and a four month old baby that stayed there! oh but we had a good time. sat night we went "glow golfing." i'm talking real golf, not mini golf, where the golf ball and the green glowed in the dark. everyone was given glow sticks that you could see for miles so that the group behind you didn't start golfing until you were gone. it was fricken fun. sunday and monday we spent the whole day at the beach, boating, tubing and waterskiing and suntanning, just the way summer is meant to be spent. at the lake. we ate like kings - steaks and ribs and potatoes and salads, not to mention midnight hot dog roasts. mmm hotdogs. it was wicked fun.

on our way home on monday jeff showed off his highway mastery to me. seriously that boy knows his saskatchewan highways. half the time we were driving on grid roads, then another time he went in the opposite direction that saskatoon was pointing and we ended up taking a ferry across the river and ended up on a different highway and made it home faster than ever. yes i was impressed. and the little mini ferry was fun too. (carmen - do you remember on our way home from sylvan lake that year and we took a ferry in alberta with my family? that whole trip was so much fun!).

i'm so excited that this week is already half over. this summer is flying by, it's already august. hard to believe.

who even knows what this fall will hold?!?!?

Here's a better shot!

Lynnel is officially a redhead,
and I am officially brunette!

Scary! I've never been a brunette!
AHH I'm just so EXCITED here!

UPS guy

today the UPS guy had something to drop off for one of the employees here at work and everyone at the front was busy with a client. i just happened to look behind me (my desk is right behind the reception area and you can look back into my department and ooh there i am!) and i see the UPS guy kind of searching for someone to help him. and i said can i help you, because most customers don't poke their heads in back here. and he said well i just need a signature. well i was happy to oblige, but the funny thing was, i could not get the scene from legally blonde out of my head, with the manicurist who is in love with the UPS guy and how Elle taught her to do that move, where they drop and snap or whatever. haha, come on most of you girls will probably know what i'm talking about (and you boys who have girlfriends and are suckers). anyway i was trying real hard not to laugh the whole time i was signing for this UPS guy, and i'm pretty sure he thought i was a silly little schoolgirl. thought i'd share this story with you.

long weekend is coming up! i'm so excited to sleep in on monday. jeff and i are going to greenwater provincial park to spend some time with his family and then on saturday we're going to marean lake to stay at a friend's cabin with a bunch of people. staying in a cabin will be nice because it has electricity (but no running water) but i do miss real camping, like in a tent. its just so much fun. so those are my plans.

our basement has begun the whole renovation process. mom and dad went to go pick out new carpet and paint today. i seriously can't wait for a room again. it's been weird sleeping upstairs. i can't wait to go shopping!!!

that is all today. come on people, get blogging, there has been some serious laziness in regards to blogs lately. i'm not impressed!!!

time flies when you're having fun

ahhhh! monday again! how does this happen so quickly? a weekend goes by sooooo fast! oh well it just means another week has begun, meaning another week closer to starting school again! everyone who reads my blog must think i'm totally wacked, seeing as when i'm IN school i just complain about it, but now that it's been several months, i'm getting all excited to go back. who wants to know my school schedule? i hear alison saying "Oooh me! I do I do!!!" and if alison wants to know, well that's good enough for me, it's my fricken blog people, and you're not gonna hear any apologies from moi :)

here goes
(feel free to skip)
(prof's names included in case anyone has anything to say about them!):

Term One
Geog 130 - Space, Place and Society: An Introduction to Human Geography (TBA)
Hist 229 - Europe in the 20th Century (Mark Meyers)
Geog 280 - Environmental Geography (Maureen Reed)
Geog 348 - Population Geography (James Pooler)
CHEP 402 - International Health (Lori Hanson)

Term Two
Span 117 - Spanish (Julio Torres)
Relst 110 - World Religions
Hist 229 - same as term 1
Anth 230 - Intro to Cultural Dynamics (Alexander Ervin)
Polst 447 - Ethnicity & Governance in Selected Third World Countries (Jeff Steeves)

i've got a favorite, i admit, steeves is the funniest, most interesting prof I have ever had. alison can attest to that, she did her masters degree under him. ever wonder where "BLAST!" actually originated from? no friends, not alison - steeves! oh how i laughed the first time i heard him say it! he tells the most interesting stories about africa and he's just the funniest little man.

oh its already 12:56, i have lunch in 4 minutes, so i must go for now. i had more to say but i think it'll have to wait, depending on how busy it is this afternoon!

"the ruff"

Kelly-Anne is in town with her new little addition to the family, Jacob! So last night Lynnel and I decided to have somewhat of a baby shower for her, except it was just me and Lynnel (and Kelly of course)! Hehe, we just decided to do it at like, 5:00 and Kelly was coming over at 8:00, so we didnt even try to start inviting people and stuff. So we went and bought the CUTEST little present from The Childrens Place. Then we bought strawberries and I already had grapes and blueberries, and we whipped up a little taste of heaven, thanks to Alisons recipe on her blog. You know, at first I was thinking, well this dip isn’t all that amazing, but as soon as you try it with FRUIT, its simply divine. We also had chocolate macaroons, chocolate covered almonds, and gummy worms for snacks! And a super fruit punch. We had a GREAT baby shower!

Then Lynnel had one of her ideas. She wanted to go on the roof. Now at first I had the entire story written out here as to WHY she wanted to go on the roof, but I erased it because Im just too chicken that the wrong person will read this. Lets just say we were spying on someone. Hehehehheeahhahahahahoohohhohoho. We were being little Harriet the Spys. Anyway I will not go on the roof, no sireebob. Im not a roof kind of girl, especially after hearing RYLANS roof story. (Those Schultzs, what is with their roof obsession?). Anyway here I am, very scared that Lynnel is crawling onto our roof, but Im like, okay Im not her mother, just let the girl go…

So I go to the other side of the house to make sure shes okay when I hear :

BOOM BAM BANG and I seriously almost died. I was convinced Lynnel just fell off the roof and killed herself. MY HEART STOPPED PEOPLE, IT STOPPED!

Lynnel is laughing, yes she is killing herself laughing. She says, wow I didnt know your roof went like that! I almost had a heart attack.

Anyway it was a fun night and everyone is SAFE!

A Song to Enjoy

okay i have a serious problem. i am hoping someone can help me out with this one -

the big brother 6 website will not load on my computer here at work.

AH! i have no idea who Eric put up for nomination, who is eating pb & j, what the alliances are this week, and if there have been any more secret rooms found. or even if everyone has figured out that everyone has a secret partner. OH MY this is an emergency. please, if you watch the show, leave me an update. it would be so much appreciated.

okay the office is so cold that my fingers are frozen and it makes it really difficult to type. brrrrr. i wish i had some tim horton's coffee to warm up my little heart (and little fingers).

159 days left until christmas (including today).

everyone please check out lynnel's blog for a fricken huge suprise. not only has she updated.... she has done something she has wanted to do for YEARS. i'm very proud. i can't wait for her to come home from calgary. i am going through serious lynnel withdrawl...

last night ashley van norman organized an awesome youth event - the amazing race! it was so much fun, and i didn't even get to play, i was just a clue giver outer. she organized it really well, and lots of kids showed up, so it was great. it would be REALLY good as an entire saturday afternoon event or something. (amazing race 7 is coming up soon!!!)

it made me want to organize another "SURVIVOR" event, like the one we did at our house in August 2003. there were a few glitches in that one, but hey i learned a lot! for next time perhaps :) if we ever did it again, i would want to make sure that the players were actually wanting to really PLAY it like survivor is played. like really seriously get into it. when we did it, we had too many people getting bored if they weren't going to tribal council, and we had others just leaving whenever, or having the team vote them out purposly so that they could leave. so that bugged me. but the kids that DID get into it were really into it and it was really fun. it took all day to play. it took me HOURS to organize too. good times, good times.

i tried to coordinate the colors of this blog to the song "red and yellow and pink and green... purple and orange and bluuuuuuue.... i can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too." however i screwed it up with the christmas colors, and then also with the portion about lynnel, but i chose red for a specific reason for that paragraph...hmm what a good clue i just gave! so i hope you all have the song in your head for the rest of the day!!!!

that is all for now. kristin, signing off.

Stuff

Let me clear something up...
first of all i think i need to clarify the relationship between the dog and i. molly and i have an understanding. she is not "man's (i.e. myself) best friend," as the saying goes. in fact, molly and i are barely even friends. we do not loathe each other, but we have an understanding. molly and i are simply existing roommates. her annoying habits bother me, and i'm sure my lifestyle bothers her as well. molly and i simply coexist. we don't talk, play or snuggle. there are 5 other members of my family that do all that stuff with her.

THAT BEING SAID....

there is an exception to this. when the entire family is away, molly thinks i am her provider and protecter. and i don't mind her little self wandering around the house. sometimes i give her a little reassurance pat on the back, feed her food and water and even might say "ohhhhh molly you look soooooo pretty today!"

so in my last blog where i was calling her my stupid dog and complaining about her being so scared, and all you commenters think i'm an animal killer - well perhaps this blog will clear up where i am coming from. i am hoping it will. she was lucky i was letting her sleep with me that night.

it seems to me...
at approximately 100 hits per day, it should only be 14 or so more days until i hit the magic number -

10,000 hits.

i will start planning my celebration - put a note in your daytimer to make a comment on my blog on August 2, 2005 (but keep on checking in case i'm a few days off.)

a girls vacation is necessary...
alison talked about a girls getaway in her last blog. oh i cannot possibly think of anything that would be more fun than us girls in mexico - drinking margaritas in the ocean, salsa dancing all night long and sleeping in on the hot beach. come on girls, let's each save $100/month, and i think we would be set for a pretty SWEET vacation Sept long weekend, 2006. yes please and thank you! oh i'm just all excited here thinking of it.

***sigh****

bridge city speedway...
jeff and i went to the car races on saturday night and it was fricken AWESOME. it wasn't just racing, it was all the beat up old cars that had to get as many laps as possible and they would push each other off the track and were all over the place. seriously i spent pretty much the whole 3 hours laughing because it was so funny. i can't explain why something so dangerous was so funny but we couldn't stop. in the second half, the cars weren't allowed to pass each other unless they hit the car they were trying to pass. ohh so seriously good times good times, i would recommend a night of this to anybody. the only thing that could've made it better would've been bull riding in the middle of the car track. that would've been absolutely wacked out.

i can't even imagine that?

Distractions

i wish there was a way to get rid of ALL distractions when there is a paper to write. let's see, 2 more years of school = approx 20 more classes = at least, oh my gosh, TWENTY MORE PAPERS TO WRITE! AHADLFJADJFKADJF, I might as well quit right now! i don't think there is any way in heaven that i could possibly have it in me to write another 20 papers. i am glad that at this moment of time in my life i just have this one to write because i remember last sememster in march i had to write 5 in a 3 week span and let me tell you, those were the worst 3 weeks of my entire education, all the way from kindergarten to elementary school to high school to bible college to my second year of university (apparently i have never learned how to not do run on sentances).

speaking of kindergarten, i think that one of the reason's i must be so incredibly smart is because i took two years of it. no i did not FAIL kindergarten friends, in Ontario, kids go to jr. kindergarten and sr. kindergarten. ha, and then they go to grade 13! oh those suckers i am glad we moved before i had to do that too!!! but i can't even begin to imagine how smart i would be now if i had taken grade 13! okay so my old ontario friends, leave me a comment and let me know if that extra year of kindergarten and extra year of highschool made a significant difference in your smarty pants IQ today! unfortunately i think that only chris edwards is my only old ontario friend who reads my blog, so hopefully he STILL reads it, and does not do the old "lurker" thing he likes to do so much!

well this week i have been TRYING so hard to get my schedule in order for the fall for school. so far it's NOT looking like my most interesting/fun year ever. i have to take some sort of freaking natural science class. um NO THANKS!!! biology? i would but it's a 6 credit course with a lab, so thats 3 times the work i need to do. chem, physics and math 110, i would rather die than take. geol 108 - rocks? oh MY. so it looks like i'm taking some boring environmental geography class in second semester. this class will actually fulfull TWO requirements because i am getting a minor in Human Geography and i need this environmental geog class to get that minor. i'm a little bit scared but it will have to do. the only class that i'm actually a little bit excited about is European History in the 20th Century. i think this will be SUPER interesting, however it's totally not even a recommended course in my major, so i hope i don't waste 6 credits on it! anyway i am TOTALLY rambling here it's just crazy.

well to get off of school stuff, i have to say that my stupid dog molly is the absolutist worst companion in the whole entire dog world. when mom and dad are away it normally would be nice to have a nice dog here with you to bark when someone comes to the door and scare robbers away. NOT IF YOUR DOG IS MOLLY. if she was a human she would seriously have the highest blood pressure in the world. she is a maniac stress case. last night she was afraid of the wind outside the window, and she was trembling so much that the bed was shaking, and when i tried to push her off the bed so that maybe ONE of us could sleep, she would just sort of change positions, but eventually end up right back where she started. trembling and shaking because she's such a pussy. that's right molly, i called you a pussy. cat. MY OH MY. and tonight it's looking like a thunderstorm, i don't even want to think about how scared she will be tonight. since i got home from work she has not left my side. she follows me into the bathroom and for the last hour she has been sitting underneath my desk chair, and every time i move i almost run over her little paws. geez louise!!!!

okay so this is one of the longest rambles i have done in an extreeeeemeely long time. i imagine most of you have not been able to help skipping a word here and a line there, but that's okay. mostly i just wrote this to get my mind of the Habsburg Empire and what they did to the beautiful city of Prague. i find history papers to be extremely difficult because it's hard to put HISTORY into your own words. i find most of my paper ends up being footnoted and it doesn't seem to be my own work or something. most of my papers are more analytical than simply "fact re-wording."

anyway.

word of the day: saponaceous
definition: having the qualities of soap (and liable to slip away)
in other words: greasy
utilizing "saponaceous" in an every day setting:
"no i will not go out with you, you saponaceous pig!"

i'm sure most of you will find great use from this.


soooooo leave a comment and don't forget to tell all your friends!!!

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ah yes, now as i was saying. so jeff went and bought me a fishing rod this weekend! haha, something i've ALWAYS wanted. so last night i packed us a little dinner, dug out the lawn chairs and drove to blackstrap for the free fishing weekend. it was very relaxing and beautiful outside. mostly i was just glad that i was getting a nice tan while i was out there. and secretly i was thrilled that we didn't catch any fish because i know i would have freaked right out at little fishies flopping everywhere. and then there's the fact that if we HAD caught one, we would have had to eat it for dinner. so thank goodness we didn't catch anything. i can't eat something that i personally tortured and ultimately murdered. somehow the whole thing just seems wrong! however now that i have a rod i guess this is going to have to be a regular "quality time" activity.

i bug jeff about quality time and he goes out and buys me a fishing rod. what kristin means by quality time is obviously different than what jeff means by quality time. when kristin says quality time, she means going out for dinner, special romantic moments and lavish gifts. (okay so gifts isn't exactly time spent together, but they're so high up on the list that they can be substituted for time). jeff's idea of quality time is fishing.

well i may pretend to complain here, but really it does make my little heart glad that he wants to include me in an activity that is fun and relaxing for him.

so what else is new with me? i have to write an essay this week. it's for that class i took in the Czech. i have to write about whether or not Prague benefited from being ruled by the Habsburg dynasty in the 17th century. it's due on thursday and all i have for books so far is a children's picture book on prague from the publish library. woops. hello procrastinator? so i have to get my butt in gear this week and pretend i'm back in school. oh sigh.

furthermore, mom and dad are gone for the next two weeks. jeff is gone for the week like usual. lynnel is at the stampede. so is jenna for the next couple days. who is going to love me? i guess it's actually a good situation for the whole essay writing thing. yah. except that big brother 6 has begun and it's on 3 times a week!!!! heaven. trust me i'll keep you updated.

gotta go for lunch!

You and me go fishing in the dark

i worked for fricken hours on the new look of my blog. i really wanted to make it look different than all the other blogs from blogger, so i looked up some templates, downloaded and changed all the colors. i amaze myself at my web mastery.

in other news, i, kristin anne eagle, officially own my very first fishing rod. yes its true.

(chad... <----.... who IS this girl?)

stay tuned for further updates...

Broken Basement

I'm sure many of you have heard by now that our basement completely flooded on Wednesday morning. Saskatoon had been pouring for a couple days and the sewers couldn't handle it so the rain water chose a few houses to invade (there are several houses on my street, and hundreds in the city that this happened to). Kayden was over last night and he is very upset that the basement is "broken." He is especially concerned about his broken toy room and told mom that we'll have to buy him some new toys.

I feel super wicked awesome that the sewer chose our newly-finished basement to occupy. Luckily our house was only attacked with dirty grey water, we didn't have little poopies floating around, that would've been the most disgusting thing I had ever seen! When I got home from work at lunch time I looked down the stairs (the water covered just past the bottom stair, about 9 inches) and I could see my shoes floating in the living room. My poor shoes! It got so much worse when I went into my room and saw this absolutely huge mess. I was like this is never going to get cleaned up, it's impossible. I had to say goodbye to Kelly Clarkson, but luckily Jack Johnson, Jann Arden and Sheryl Crow found safety on higher ground (my top shelf). But goodbye computer and all my furniture, CDs and lots of textbooks. Last night Lynnel and I went through all the clothes that were on the floor and I'm pretty sure I'll get quite the shopping spree out of it all. Dad told me I shouldn't say how much on the internet but I have to say it is an exciting dollar amount. If insurance comes through for me that is.

Also exciting is that I officially own my first pair of rubber boots! Haha, seriously the city is slowly being taken from me... the longer I date farmers, the farther I become! Just kidding I think. (I still love my country music). Anyway.

All joking aside, it is actually quite saddening for me because I have lost some things that I can never get back. People laugh at me but I'm actually really upset that I lost all my High School/Bible College/University work - I kept all my notes, especially from university and I had every single essay and project filed away. On the floor. Gone gone gone. Also I had some of my favorite photo albums on the bottom shelf that are ruined, a high school yearbook and actually even my baby book. I also had a huge box of journals on the floor in my closet, songs I had written, diaries and other things that I would never show another human being - all in the garbage. I feel very sad about all of those things.

We had lots of people come and help us on Wednesday night. We took everything out to the garage and ripped all the carpet out. It's definitely broken down there :) So thanks to all of you who helped us.

Anyway things like this tend to work themselves out in time. In the meantime, Rubbermaid has become the answer to all life's problems - if you have anything important to you in your basement, I suggest you put it in Rubbermaid.