weekend in edmonton

so its monday again! time flies. thought i'd try to write a quick blog today. quick because i have a very busy week at school and i have a whole lot of work to do today. i have a midterm and an assignment due tomorrow. then i have my usual 5-6 hours of prep work for my night class on tuesday... or wednesday if i want... we get to pick what night we want, and although i highly prefer tuesday's class, i rarely have it all done in time! by far, this class, which has run all year long, has taught me more about international development than the rest of my classes combined. and the prof hardly does any of the talking... it is entirely student discussion with the leadership of the prof. anyway it is a lot of work every week. i'm now counting down the days till i graduate!

so our trip to edmonton was much fun! we got there Thursday and went straight to rexall center to the hockey game. we were 1.5 hours early but there was lots to do. we were in the very front row against the glass, so we had club seats. that meant we got to go to the lobby where only club seat people got to go! we had a roast beef dinner buffet and sat at tableclothed tables and ate among "the elite" :) haha. when the oilers went onto the ice, they walk through the lobby so everyone down there got to cheer and stuff when they walked through from their dressing room to the ice. it was kind of exciting. as you can see, we got there before just about everybody else!!!


our seats were fantastic. the players look so young up close! i made two awesome signs for us, and they took this one (to the left) away from us! they weren't allowing anything that had to do with the ryan smyth trade and kevin lowe, the guy that did the trade. yah the officials didn't like it, but everyone in our section thought we were heroes. i'll have to post a picture. we got to keep the other sign (below) but it was definitely not as cool.

well the oilers lost 0-5 againsts minnisota so jeff wasn't thrilled (as you can see by the look on his face here) but we still had lots of fun! friday we got up, had breakfast, and hit the outlet stores and Ikea. had lunch at Joeys (we NEED a joeys here. so delic). sat night we drove to jeff's aunt and uncles house who live about an hour outside edmonton. they had horses.




saturday it was west ed mall time and i was having shoppers bloc as i called it. i couldn't find anything to buy and i was kind of grumpy. jeff was having a shopping spree and it was just making me sooooo mad that he found so much and i didn't like anything. anyway he bought me a shirt at banana republic to get me going and then i was fine from there on. shopped from 11 am till 7 pm.

sat night we were so exhausted we didn't even go for supper. we had a really late lunch so we weren't starving at least. but we could hardly move. so we watched "the departed" at the hotel. SUCH a good movie. and promptly fell asleep.

sunday went back to the mall because i still needed a pair of jeans and some black work shoes which i never did find. but that is okay, because i underspent on my budget and have some money left to buy stuff here. this is absolutely amazing news.

all in all, successful shopping trip and so much fun. i bought: 2 pairs of shoes from Aldo (one pair is the sexiest shoes i have ever owned...they are dressy, but i want to wear them everyday), a Mexx blazer, a sweater from Abercrombie & Fitch, 2 shirts from Banana Republic, a tshirt from the Gap, a pair of dress pants, 2 camisoles and a strapless bra (need that for summertime!). oh yes and a hat.

2 things i learned:

1) $500 does NOT buy a girl a new wardrobe. not even close.
2) Jeff is the best boy shopper EVER. he was sooooooooooo patient and he even picked stuff out for me to try on. he bought me a shirt when i was sad and he wasn't grumpy at all, even after 8 hours of west ed shopping. i was so proud of him.

still need to buy: black work shoes. dress for the numerous weddings i am attending this year. pair of jeans. sigh. i need more money!!!

anyway, like i was saying, jeff really was the perfect companion on this trip. if he didn't come into a store with me he would just wait outside with his blackberry and play poker or suduko or something. he suggested i go here and there and picked stuff out for me to try on and gave me his opinion and so on and so forth. perfect. i cried cuz i was frustrated about not finding a pair of jeans (i cry about dumb stuff sometimes) and he was okay with going back to the mall on sunday. he even wandered around ikea with me and he hates that store. so i was very impressed with my wonderful boyfriend this weekend.

thats about all for now. hope everyone had a nice weekend as well!




thought i'd add a couple more pics. sadly i only pulled out my camera at the game... i have no other pictures!!!!

and only one of jeff and i...

i love how i look terrible in both the pictures! ah!

oh well. the point is.... we had fun!

back to my home i dare not go

okay so I have had my facebook account for a couple months now, and I don't really get it. apparently it's the hottest thing since myspace. I'm not sure how many more internet networking sites I can sign up for before I reach my personal quota of stupidness. anyway if anyone can explain why facebook is the bomb, please, do tell.

as you all know, I went to The Farm this weekend. I feel like I've titled it by starting it with capitals. I think that is nice. anyway, it was...... very boring. Jeff went snowmobiling ALLLLLLLLLL effing day on Saturday and I did absolutely nothing. I watched TV from 9:30 am till 7:30 pm. at one point I managed to get off my spot on the couch and go outside for half an hour to go pet baby cows which was really kind of cute. I would've taken some pictures but I hadn't managed to get off my lazy bum and have a shower so pictures were out of the question. but this one little guy was super feisty and I was a little worried he was going to butt me with his little cow head and chase me around the barn so I kind of kept my distance from him. her I mean. I was dealing with baby cows here people, not baby bulls. I'm not completely nutzo. so these baby calfs, they're really even more gentle than a puppy and yet here I was, nervous around them. they make the loudest moooooos. I jumped a little every time. I was glad nobody was in the barn to watch me. cuz I'm a total loser when I'm all by myself. aren't we all?

there were no new baby kittens this time. I was quite disappointed.

so at 7:30 Jeff's cousin came and picked me up and I was more than relieved. we headed over the a little town bar. every time I go to "the country bar" I feel like I'm in an old country western movie. small, wood cabin like feel with 100 people packed inside and the jukebox a'wailin and the vlt's cha'chinging. it was alright. its not too often I hang out with Jeff's friends without him there but I was glad when he finally did arrive. cuz I freaking missed him after my loonnnnnnng boring day.

Sunday I tried to do a little more than just sit there and I managed to get out a little bit. it was really a beautiful weekend. I'm such a wimp though and I just did not feel like snowmobiling. I kind of think maybe I should have. for some reason I am just scared crapless of being on the stupid machine and I don't have that much fun on them. unless I'm driving, then I'm in charge and feel a bit more secure. I think one particular day - "Sunday Snowday From Hell" - screwed up my perception of snowmobiling :) anyway I have snowmobiled since that day (Feb 05), I just wasn't feeling it this weekend. next time i will! Jeff and i decided that we are both adventurous but in different ways - i am "explorative" adventurous, as in I like traveling and backpacking across europe is right up my ally, and he is "danger-seeking" adventurous, as in bungee jumping and whatever else. i think we'd be a funny team for "The Amazing Race."

i watched two movies this weekend - Jeff bought me "The Devil Wears Prada" and i have been meaning to watch this since it came out which was FOREVER ago! i loved it. Meryl streep was fantastic in it. very funny. not an academy award winning storyline but light and fun and girly.
...4 kristin stars!
"The Illusionist" - okay i am sorry but i could NOT stop comparing it to The Prestige which i absolutely loved. i wish i had seen this one first so that i could love Prestige even more, but no, sadly I liked Prestige much better. i know i know, they have a completely different story line but the whole magic thing, well it was really the same and was just ASKING to be compared! STILL, I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE! after about an hour...when it picked up :)
...3.5 kristin stars!
its just that i would give The Prestige 4.9 kristin stars. true fact.

and i thought this was gonna be a quick blog.

okay so today was Monday and Saskatchewan's first ever FAMILY DAY which in my opinion is a real treat. i think us prairie people suffer enough throughout January and February. we need like an entire week off, and i don't just mean the students. the govt should treat us all to a week off in Mexico.

and with that thought i shall turn on my glorious electric blanket so that i can fall asleep and dream of white sandy beaches and blue sunny skies. goodnight my bloggers, sweet dreams.

p.s. and, um, Edmonton lost the game against Vancouver (???) on Saturday night and i cried remorseful tears. (*******lies).

day two

oh boy the oilers lost last night. too bad so sad. but at least i didn't forget to blog about it. cuz thats the deal (see "THE CHALLENGE" below).

okay anyway i'm going to home with jeff this weekend to his parents' farm. have a great LONNNNNNNNNNG weekend, ya'll. i get to see baby calfs and play with new kittens. so cute.

bubye bloggers!

the day of love

now on to better and more important issues (see below post!)

i love valentine's day. obviously i love it because i'm in love. haha.

so every year jeff and i have gone out for valentine's day but this year i wanted to do something different. last weekend we kind of had a "valentine's weekend" because we had dinner at The Keg on Friday (we shared delicious appys of breaded asparagus and snow peas, i had the most amazing steak dinner EVER and it was topped off with a wonderful glass of white wine) and on Saturday we went and saw The Pursuit of Happyness (which i pretty much cried through, such a sad movie). so i wasn't feeling exactly date deprived.

so i decided to make a romantic dinner pour deux. i'm not the most gourmet cook so i kept it kind of simple with chicken fettucine with my homemade vegetable cream cheese alfredo sauce. i even went and bought fresh parsley, and believe me, my mom will be putting parsley in every single meal of hers for the next week as i bought enough for a parsley salad! i needed like, 1/25th of the "bushel" that it came in. i just realized i should've thrown asparagus in my meal. oh well. next year. i have awesome spices from Epicure so those made it extra delicious! i LOOOOOVE my chili lime spice the best. it has a great kick. mmm. anyway. we also had caesar salad and fresh bread. for dessert we had chocolate turtle cheesecake with fresh strawberries, whip cream and chocolate sauce drizzled all over. if that doesn't sound like heaven on a plate than i don't know what does.

the funniest part was that i made it at home for us, as it was a wednesday and my family was away for choir and whatever else. before my mom left, she set the table for jeff and i, complete with table cloth, candles, chocolates and matching red napkins. my mom, she is such a romantic. she can't help herself. so we dimmed the lights and turned on jack johnson for a little atmosphere. it was very movie-ish of us. i've never done dinner like that for us before so it was fun.

oh yes and the best part of all were the GORGEOUS flowers i got from Blossoms. ohhhhh i love them. they are beautiful. i may have to post some pictures.

so anyway, Valentine's Day was another success. we had fun. it was romantic and it was special. isn't that the point of vday? i know its so overcommercialized, etc etc, and i can completely understand why some people get annoyed/sad/mad/etc. over it. but i also think its nice and its so important to take a day and make it special for your loved one. sure there are other days in the year that couples make special for each other which is totally important as well, and we do that too. but there is something about Valentine's Day that is nice.

and i especially like that i'm guarenteed to get gorgeous flowers. jeff really is a romantic underneath. i know he's reading this (especially because of "the challenge"), so Thanks Love!


p.s. side note. out of the 20 people who have already viewed my blog today (and its only 10:30!), look where they're all coming from - Saudi Arabia, 2 from China, 2 from USA, Brazil, South Korea, South Africa, Portugal and Greece! thats crazy! but i think i like it.

the challenge

jeff says if i'm going to go to the hockey game with him in edmonton in 2 weeks that i have to prove my "love for the oilers" to him by saying one thing per day about the edmonton oilers. this may be difficult as my true allegiance is elsewhere but i'm up for the challenge. and obviously i'm not a die hard fan so really, big deal. so today it begins.

okay so i'm soooooooo excited for tonights hockey game between the oilers and the buffalo sabres. it's going to be awesome because the sabres haven't won a single game against the oilers in their home arena in over 11 1/2 years. can you believe that, its been over a decade! i may have to miss greys anatomy for such a time as this. GO OILERS!

gosh i'm good.

how bad is this?

i just opened up the chocolates that i had bought for jeff for valentine's day... heheheheh.... evil laugh.

i was CRAVING some chocolate. and they're Reese chocolate hearts. my absolute favorite. pass that up, as it practically melts in my drawer? i don't think so.

i have a week to buy him another bag of chocolates. hahahahaah. another excuse to go to the new walmart again! it's awesome there. so big and full of fun treats and excuses to buy stuff. i LLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEE walmart but don't tell anybody in my classes that because i am supposed to hate it. large corporations = bad bad bad. just like me eating jeff's valentines day chocolate = bad bad bad.

i am bad.

ON THE OTHER HAND....
the day lynnel and i came back from walmart, i told jeff that i had bought him his valentine's day stash. mistake. he promptly snuck down to my room and came up with a mouthful of chocolate (not the reeses). i asked him if he read the card i'd bought him and he replied, "well no, i wasn't looking for that." hello i think maybe if he'd at least betrayed me by reading the sweet, sentimental card i bought him, i might feel a bit better. maybe i'd think he cared about love and romance and i'd feel better about the freaking five dollars i spent on a damn card!

therefore, i'm thinking he deserves the fact that i opened up his (my) Reeses.

i can always put the leftovers (yeah right) into a cute little bag or something... mix in some sweetarts... he'll never know...

mmm, i like sweetarts too.

my friends

ok someone please tell me why i need to have a blog, a hi5, a myspace, an msn space and whatever else i have??? i don't know. oh well, it's kind of fun. passes the time when i have nothing to do. which actually never happens anymore now that school is back in session. i think this is gonna be a crazy busy semester/year. so let me tell you what i'm taking, since i know about 3 of you care.

History of Europe in the 20th Century - seriously, what better class could exist than this?? Oh how i love history, especially these years. oh the world wars, depression, soviet union/cold war and so on and so forth. Yes I am in love with this class ... besides the fact it is 8:30 in the morning ... i'm famously bad for skipping 8:30 classes. but I think I love this too much to skip. we will see!!!

Environmental Anthropology - um yes i'm not too sure exactly what this class is about. the prof looks like the little man from monopoly, but he is not nearly as cute or as happy. no he's a bit of a drowner and he rambles for ever, but the class seems to be easy. and the textbooks are interesting. one is a novel called Ishmael and it's about a gorilla. it won a whole bunch of awards and is very highly acclaimed i guess. i get to do a book report. can you believe it, a book report for a 300 level class. love that!

Classics - Women in Antiquity - oh gosh another class that i am IN LOVE with. i've never felt this way about school before!!! haha. its wonderful. it's all about greek and roman women in ancient times. so far we've been learning all about greek goddesses' and myths and stuff like that and it's so fun. it's a last minute elective that i picked and i'm so glad i'm in it.

Sociology of Development - 400 level seminar class that includes 1 hour presentation. could i be more scared? i doubt it. but i signed up for the first week to do my presentation, and i'll just get it all over with so i don't have to ruin the rest of my semester. it's still not till oct 2, but thats like, 3 weeks away. that's pretty much tomorrow!! its on the most boring topic ever - development theory from 1940s - 1970s but i don't care. that stuff is like 2nd nature to me now so maybe i won't be as nervous. otherwise could maybe be a good class. we'll see. its on monday afternoons, 12:30 - 3:30, and i get Monday mornings off, so it potentially could be the best day of the week for me. can you imagine, loving your monday? eek! now i'll love sunday nights even more than ever (sunday nights happen to be pretty much my favorite night of the week, i don't know why, i just love them.)

International Co-operation - this is THE class, you know like THE class for my major. this semester is cooperation and conflict, next semester it turns into Development but same prof, same class, just a bit of a different stream. now this i am excited for, you see there is a new Department Head for IS, and he is a very different man from the guy before him. years before, each person had to lead, i.e. be the instructer, for one class each. this is no more, and i couldn't be more relieved. instead, we all have to contribute "equally" and contribution to class is worth 50%. so yes, i still have to be prepared and whatnot but i DON'T have to do a 3 hour presentation basically. so thats awesome. the other 50% is 2 "discussion" papers i have to write that are entirely my OPINION. this is also the best news because there is no research involved, no citations, no nothing besides my fabulous opinion. this also means NO FINAL EXAM/MIDTERM! Oh sigh i couldn't be happier.

so it all sounds fine and dandy but i have more reading than i can possibly keep up with. luckily i love reading so i hope i'll be able to keep up and stay focused. it should be an okay semester!!! and the best part of it all - no spanish. not one little spanish word will i ever need to say. not one. well hallelujah!

on top of all this, i am working still at blue x, wednesday and fridays, all day. but thats okay cuz i need the money and i don't mind coming in a couple days a week at all. besides i have to help angela plan her wedding!!! who, by the way, did not like me calling her a hillbilly in my last blog entry... hehehe, i can't believe she is still letting me be a bridesmaid!!! it was just a little joke cuz angela knows i love her!

what else, what else.... my running is going good. i've been keeping up with the schedule, PLUS i bought a yoga and pilates video at extra foods for $7.00 so i'm trying to do that too. i'm so bad with trying stuff like, twice and giving up but heck i'll try again. another healthy choice i've been trying - eating yogurt. i don't know what it is about yogurt, i just never ever feel like eating it. i even somewhat like it but i never want it, so i've been forcing myself. its just so so so good for you!

this is the longest blog ever. one last thing to say - i finally went golfing for the first time. and guess what i was GREAT!!!! well not like great as in professional but definitely great for a first timer. so there jeff!! and i got to drive the cart and that was fun too. jeff has taught me so much, like seriously i have learned how to camp, fish, golf, 2 step, and most importantly, eat chicken wings, but maybe i'll save all this for another blog!!!

k so i hope the lovely paragraphs made this blog managable to read, cuz i do realize its long, but its been such a long time since i wrote!!! i want lots of comments please, cuz seriously 5 just didn't cut it last time, and i think one of those was megan, and 2 were jenna, lynnel and jenn, my faithful commentors. like hello, alison you never leave me comment anymore, and you miss jolie, and you tania, and you my little mother carmen.... girls, do you not like me enough for a litttle love comment? really now.

(haha i just checked, and there are now SEVEN comments which is funny b/c when i started this blog there were only 5, but both of the last two were leah, won't she be surpised when she sees i finally wrote again!!!).

GOODBYE NOW LOVELY BLOGGER FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this should do for a little while...

Camping at WhiteswanLake
Niagara Falls - Maid of the Midst boat

ride, we were (obviously) very soaked!

ah, so as i sat here at work and opened up a fresh can of president's choice diet pomegranate sparkling soda, i thought to myself, "why not write a new fresh blog to go with my drink of choice." so here we have it my friends, a real update, in my own words, no blog picture cheating (well okay, just a little). now as a little side note, i have to say that i love putting up my pictures on here and writing about what's been going on, because truly, a picture says so much. and i know how much i LOVE when other people post their pictures, so hopefully mine are somewhat interesting to all of my faithful fans.

so summer has been great, as great as can be when one works Mon - Fri, 8:30 - 5:00. as you can all see, i did get to take a week off in july and we headed to Ontario for some cruisin down the freeway in the hot hot sun... above left is a picture of us right after we went on "maid of the midst" in Niagara Falls - it took us right into the center of the falls and it was absolutely awesome. we had such a great time. we have decided we prefer to be on holidays and would like to become professional holidayers. we are planning a trip to Los Angelos now... yah we leave tomorrow. hehe. just kidding, it's one of many imaginary trips.

for August long we went camping with some friends, Angela (who I work with at BX) and her boyfriend who is now her fiance as of yesterday, Kim. we went to whiteswan lake which is about 30 minutes from the famous candle lake. we had fun despite the crummy saturday weather, as we pitched our tent in the pouring rain and set up a great big huge tarp and made a roaring fire. kim and angela had brought their black lab puppy who that night followed kim and jeff in the truck to go get firewood, and angela and i didn't see her follow them so suddenly we realized she was missing. so out we went in the absolute pouring rain with our little flashlights yelling for charlotte for 30 minutes, when the boys come driving around the bend with the dog in the box of the truck wagging her happy little tail. yes we were less than impressed and drenched the the core. but heck it was fun. sunday we went fishing because i am dating a hillbilly and all my friends are too. haha just kidding angela! :) i'm turning into one too, as i caught 4 of my own fish, my very own fish. i have graduated from beginnger to novice fisherwoman status. jeff needs to now buy me a cooler, more expensive fishing rod, as the one i have now has been called everything from a fisher price rod to a kindergarten rod. thats so uncool. i want to find a pink reel. now thats cool!

school starts in a few weeks and i'm not really looking forward to it, other than the fact that its my last year and i will actually have a really expensive degree. that'll be awesome. i'm gonna get my degree framed and send out really big grad pictures of myself to all my friends and family for them to mount in their front hallway in their homes :)

i have three new loves to discuss with you all:

1. in september a few girls from work and i are registering for brainsports learn to run clinic. they start you off running real nice and slow and for short periods of time, and by the end of the 8 weeks you should be able to run at least 30 minutes. so hopefully that'll be good. i need something to help me get motivated. at least lynnel will be back this fall so that we can go back to the gym together, as long as she takes a night class or something so that she'll have the membership. they teach you about proper stretching, running posture, nutrition and other crap like that. you know, all the stuff thats good for you. and they take you down all those beautiful meewasin trails by the river. so it should be good! you should join too!!!

2. so since i read sooooooo freaking fast i bought myself a killer. war and peace. 1392 glorious pages of war and peace. its got the smallest printing a person can read and i'm loving it. its taking me forever to read and its great cuz normally i read books in about 3 days. this summer i've read a million little peices and my friend leonard (you know that james frey author who's story is a big crock but still, great books to read), the life of pei, the devil wears prada, a couple of the shopoloholic books, 2 john grishm books, some dumb book i found on our bookshelf downstairs, and a few others i can't remember. so war and peace here i come! and i'm loving it so far, it's a great story. some parts are very quircky and clever and the characters are unique and it's lovely. hehe. i love reading.

3. and finally, i have bought my first installment of scrapbooking stuff! i was flipping through the good old entertainment book and found a coupon for a scrapbooking store on 8th street, and last night as there was a 1.5 hour wait between my Wed night shows, Rockstar Supernova and The Hills, i decided to check it out. so i got about 16 individually chosen peices of paper, a scrapbook, 2 gel pens, 2 packages of stickers, and some adheisive for $38.00. it's still not enough to really do a good job, i need way more stuff, but it's a start. it's so overwhelming being in there and choosing paper and stuff but sooooo fun. and the lady working there, she's a bit of a cooky one (as much as i love home sewn navy blue and white bunny rabbit jumpers), but she was very helpful. i had a fun time talking with her and trying not to laugh. she was very passionate about scrapbooking. maybe i will be too one day (my bday is coming up in 37 days so hint hint).

well with all that, and one sip left of my sparkling soda, i must bid you all adu. have a great great day!

love kristin

Guess where we were?

This pretty much is a dead give away...
Yeah, so Jeff and I took a little vacation from July 14th - July 18th... we jetted off to Toronto and had an awesome trip! Here are some of our highlights.

(I honestly just love my digital camera... can you tell?!!!)

"Everyone Loves Marine Land!"
The Killer Whale up close and personal!
Oh so cute Baluga Whales - it cost $8.00 to touch and feed them, so we stood back and jealously watched the rich people touch them.
Niagara Falls all lit up at night.... so beautiful!
The Maid of the Midst boat ride - it takes you right into the center of the falls, soooooooooooo scary and fun! We had a great view - right in the very front tip of the boat on the lower deck! We were soaked, but it felt good on a +40 C day (that's with the humidity of course).
Again, the beautiful falls at night time.
An afternoon at Niagara-on-the-Lake - a very quaint tourist town about 20 minutes outside of Niagara Falls. We took a walk by Lake Ontario, tasted some Ice Wine samples, stopped for a little lunch, and picked up some cherries and sugar plums! Who would've thought that sugar plums are a real fruit? Delicious!

No trip to Toronto is complete without a Blue Jays game! We went to two - Friday against Seattle, and Monday against Texas. Good times!
Right before the game. I love this picture!

old mcdonald had a farm

And on that farm there was a......

snowmobile????

well there certainly is on Jeff's farm :) we had lots of fun. even though it's very life threatening. at least it feels life threatening to me.

anyways, i just thought i'd post a picture from spring break and jeff and i went to the farm. i can't believe i didn't take any pictures of the little animals there!!! what was i thinking? there were several little cute calfs (calves? i don't know, little baby cows!!!) that were born that weekend. i was too scared to go pet them because i didn't want the mom cows to charge at me. one was seriously giving me the evil eye... i didn't want to get near her, and i had to get past her to go pet the other babies, so i just decided to look from afar. i still thought they were cute. one cow was trying to get her new baby to get up on its feet, but he just kept falling back down into the hay. so cute!

Be Mine, Valentine!

(Thank you Jeff!)

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.

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...

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?!?!?

(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!

My Loved Ones

For the eyes of Carmen and Alison:
How excited was I to see comments from two of my most LOVED girls that have never commented before?!!! SO HAPPY!!! Carmen, your blog is very... educational! Haha, I know it's for a class, that's too bad, perhaps someday you will do a "Thoughts of Carmen" one. I would be thrilled. And the reason I didn't mention you and... who did you take to grad again??... just kidding, I know!... anyway was because the video was taken right before leaving for the banquet I think... you weren't in it. You were busy taking pictures of your beautiful face in your own backyard!!! By the way, your grad date is engaged, I saw their picture in the newspaper about a month ago! I'll write you soon. And Alison, wow that is crazy that Leon competed against Michael Buble!!! I would definitely choose Leon over Michael ANY day. No word of a lie.
I miss you both a lot.

Bridesmaids and Weddings

Now if only Lynnel and Tania would comment. And Tanis. Because I KNOW you're all reading this!!!! You are girls that I love too. And so many more.... Kristy-Anne, my sister... I shouldn't start naming names because I'll forget someone... Oh man how am I ever going to get married and choose bridesmaids? This is something that keeps me awake at night!!! Hehe. Seriously!!! Speaking of weddings, I would like to take a poll on what everyone thinks of a New Year's Eve wedding??

***And don't look too deep into this question, there is certainly no diamond on my finger, and won't be for awhile!!!!!***

So are we for it or are we against it? Everyone is always looking for a good party on New Years anyways. So yeah, let's hear what you think.

E for Effort!
So away from wedding talk and moving a GIANT step backward, Jeff came home from Mexico on Monday night, and already he is in Edmonton as of this afternoon, because he now has business meetings there. I told him today that I am in dire need of an exquisit and expensive bouquet of flowers because he has been gone so much. He agreed, but that doesn't mean I'm getting any. Okay, so even safeway flowers would make me happy. I shouldn't complain seeing as I did get gifts from Mexico, my two favorites being a Hard Rock Cafe tank top and a silver chain necklace. All I ask for is for him to actually TRY to get me something I like when it comes to gifts, and for him to hit it right on the nose is becoming an excellent quality of his. He has always been good with gifts. Within the first month of us dating, he came home from Regina one day with a fall jacket that he saw at Old Navy (this was back in Oct, 03, before Stoon had one), and he just figured I'd like it.

You gotta love a man who gives good gifts!