Almost the Weekend

Today is Thursday, which means in the world of education students it's almost the weekend!  THat's right, no classes on Fridays during class time (when we're doing our practicum then we work full time).  Since I actually have a free weekend coming up, I have a few plans aka a 'to-do' list!  I want to bake some raisin bread & some rye bread, make a batch of granola, go toboganning, go to the library and write some letters to friends.  Basically a hang out at home time but with a bunch of baking thrown in:)  My perfect kind of weekend.

Friday night I"m going to also watch some volleyball action at the university and hang out with a great friend-looking forward to seeing you jules:)

One other tidbit...I just bought this great toque from 10,000 Villages as my birthday present from my Grandpa.  It is hand-knit, lined with fleece an

d made in Nepal.  It appears to be made from a whole bunch of scrap wool but it's very warm and I think it looks pretty cute.  I've got a picture here for you.

This is me in my new toque...I look pretty pleased:)

Here's a picture of the toque sans head....

A sad highlight

the highlight of my day...finishing a paper that's due on Thursday!  Now only 1 more paper due for this week and then I can get going on the assignments and presentations that will be due next week:)  Oh the joys of being a student...you're never done until the term is finished.  

Just thought I'd post with this sad reality of my life so you can all know what's going on around here.

Hopefully you've got more interesting things happening in your life these days.

On a more positive note, it's beautiful outside and walking to and from school is a joy.  I now wish my walk were a lot longer instead of wondering if I will be able to feel my digits by time I reach te building.  

Ok, since I've digressed to talking about the weather, which is not something I"m proud of, I'm going to sign off for tonite-1 paper down and now off to bed.

January Fun

WARNING...for all male readers-the next few pictures are not likely to be interesting to you...read/skim forward if you choose, but know you HAVE been warned...

Firstly, I wanted to show my new blonde look.  So I've got a before and after to show you how dark my natural color actually is.  I hadn't coloured my hair for 1 year so it was all natural hair left on my head:)

This picture (as unflattering as it is) was taken during my first (and so far only) pasta making adventure.  It's kind of hard to see my hair, but overall it just looks pretty gross (I think).

The AFTER picture was taken on Friday night after getting my hair highlighted.  I'm not really sure why my dad chose to stick his arm + orange peel in the picture, but it's there:)

My other Fun thing that I wanted to post was my Castle Birthday Cake.  That's right, at 23 I chose to decorate and design a castle cake as my birthday cake:)

So here's a few shots from the creating of the cake...

This picture shows the very base of the cake.  It's a chocolate cake with a cafe flavoured whip cream filling and covered in chocolate gnash...and that's just the beginning!

This was the castle before decorating.  All of the structural pieces were assembled and covered in icing at this point.

And here's the finished product.  You can't see it, but in the middle of the castle there are whales and frogs swimming in the chocolate pond.  The sentries are little penguins on top of the whales and at the end of the drawbridge are two little frogs.  I'm not sure who Prince Charming is, but I'm supposed to be represented by the pretty girl in pink:)

I enjoyed the cake with some good friends on Friday night after we went out and got manicures and pedicures at a place in the mall.  It was a fun time...even when you get 'old' you can still have good parties!

Winter=Warm Woolies

It's been ages since my last update, but I'm finally going to share some pictures from my Christmas and other random events from the past few weeks (there are a few highlights).  I was originally going to do a year-in-review type post but haven't gotten around to it so a picture collage will have to come instead.  If you really want highlights from the past year, just look over my posts from 2008.

So what's new?  I'm heaving into classes with my last semester of school!  Yup, I graduate in May!  It seems my profs have decid

ed that they should lay on the work since it's our last term in the faculty so needless to say, I'm not short on school work to do these days (thought that doesn't mean I procrastinate any less:))  I'm still looking forward to my placement that's going to be out of Brandon.  I still don't know where I'll be teaching this fall, but there seem to be endless options...I'll let you know when I know!

Now for a few Pictures...

This one was taken on Christmas Eve, a bunch of friends came over and we played games, ate food and laughed a lot!  We also decided it should be 'dress-up' night so everyone put on their 'good' clothes before we celebrated the evening.




Here's me with my two 'sisters'!  Only one is biological but the other one is over at our house almost often enough to life here...

Christmas Morning was relaxing...I got two really fun gifts that I'm loving so much.  The first was a pasta maker (as seen in the photo)-I've only used it once but it was so much fun...also I've realized that pasta making is really an art form, therefore I should practice more.  Such yummy homework:)  My other fun gift was a battery-powered frother.  SO now I can make frothy drinks that are so delightful.  

There's a few pics from the Christmas celebrations at my house.  I'm going to post a few other January highlights soon.