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!!!

(read post below first!)

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.