Swim, Sore, Shopping

Happy Late Tuesday Evening! I am trying to reach my goal of posting more each month than I did last year, so I figured I'd give another posting update.

Just got home from the pool and grocery shopping-good times all around. For the first time ever tonight I paid for a gym membership. Since I was old enough to go to the gym, I worked at the gym and have always had a free membership. So it is really weird to be paying for one now! ha! But maybe that means I'll actually go. So I bought a three month student membership to start. Go me!

So tonight I walked to the post office to mail some stuff and then went to the pool/gym. I decided that to start getting back into swimming laps I would increase by ten every time. So last time I swam 40, today I was going to swim 50. Heidi came just as I was starting, so she went to work out while I swam. She wasn't out yet when I was done 50, so I swam 70 laps instead. My body is already super sore and I can't wait for tomorrow morning! haha.. I think the extra twenty did me in! :) Oh well, at the same time it feels good to have worked hard to make myself incredibly sore. As long as I can still walk and move my arms in the morning!

I had another funny story but at the moment I am not remembering it.

It is now 11:20pm and I still have not started studying or doing homework. Sigh. I think I will make cue cards before bed and then hopefully actually do school related work tomorrow!! (cleaning seems WAY more appealing...)

Have a great rest of the week!!

Done, Dream, Die

Happy Snowy Tuesday all!! I'm off to go swim some laps at the pool, but thought I'd write a quick little update first! :) I have not been doing any homework still. Time is ticking. Shoot. But I finished painting my bedroom and bathroom and put stuff back up on the walls. I love love love love love love love love it! It makes me happy. The pictures don't quite do it justice.. but if you ever want to come over for tea, then I'd be happy to show you, just let me know! :) I posted a few pictures but in the big shot of my room the glass on the picture frame reflected funny, so that's the flash not a weird white mark on my walls.

For never having painted a room in my life, I think I did a decent job! Yes, there is paint on my ceiling, baseboards and even on the carpet and the perfectionist in me cringes.. But at the same time, I'm working on embracing imperfection and symbolically I will do so with my paint job! haha.. So for now I will simply enjoy it! And I was excited to finally put a few of my pictures into picture frames to hang. I ordered a shot from hawaii that should be arriving anyday now! And my bedroom is ready to receive it! It has always been my room to have a blue bedroom, so I am quite happy that it is finally so! Last night I fell asleep in my bed (which was in the middle of the room) under many blankets, with the window wide open letting in freezing cold air, hoping I would not die from the paint fumes. Thankfully I did not..

Now I guess I have no excuse to procrastinate the homework!! I have a midterm on Friday for a class I will have only gone to three times, so that should be interesting! Hopefully after my swim tonight I will get cracking on it!
Tomorrow night I get to see my friend Liz from Quebec who is studying at SFU for a semester-SO excited to see her!! I visited her a couple years back in Quebec City but have not seen her since.
Also, thanks to Elsie for the church tip for sundays. This weekend I'm on worship team at my home church but soon I will definitely come check it out! I have been wanting to check out churches in Langley and so that will be my first one! Is that where you attend?
Okay folks, I'm off to walk to the post office and then the pool! I have lots of mail to send out (having lots of homework to do also makes me very motivated for letter writing.. If anyone wants to swap addresses to send snail mail in letter form or postcard form, I'm in! Always looking for new people to write! :) (and secretly, i love getting mail!)

Updated Countdown:
14 days until Colorado and Las Vegas!!
23 more days until Bahamas!
3 more months until I graduate!!!!!!!!

Have a great evening friends!

Homework, Happy, Hurry

Happy Sunday! Or Happy Stay-in-Bed-all-day day!! Leslie and I declared sundays as such after being at bible school together for a year. We try to stick to it most of the time. Today however, I did not spend the entire day in bed.. but I did in fact drive to the Vancouver airport to visit Leslie who was on a layover there for a few hours on her way to Mexico. So nice to see friends from out of town! :)

Thursday night my fam had a family dinner at the Keg and we hung out there for quite a few hours. I love my family-more and more I am reminded of that and am so grateful for every one of them. Even though they mocked me mercilessly for not being able to wash my vehicle very well.. (we won't get into that).

Friday I went to my Learning and Behavior class for the first time this semester. I got numerous looks that said "We've never seen you before, why are you in this class?" haha.. I have a midterm next week and I have only attended one class. Not like me at all. In all my years of university, I have only missed two classes.. Now in one semester, three weeks, I've missed about ten classes. Oops. Oh well, I'm sure it will all work out in the end!

This weekend I have been hanging out with friends and catching up on homework. Don't feel like I have gotten much done however because I feel pretty restless. But hopefully the restlessness will settle down soon.. Maybe I'll go finish painting my room!! :)

Anyway, I must haste to get cracking on the schoolwork!! Independent studies are nice because you don't have to go to class, but not nice, because i have NO motivation and have huge things due all at once. Shucks. haha. Have a great Sunday evening!!

Buzz, Blasters, Bravo

One ride that Lindie and I really enjoyed was the Astro Blasters. You get to go through and shoot stuff to defeat Zurg (from Toy Story). They take a picture of you and then you can email it to other people so here's a copy of one of the pictures!

Disneyland, Daring, Dazzling

Hello all!! I just got home from Disneyland on Wednesday night and had a fantastic time! On Saturday I flew to Calgary and hung out with my friend Jenn in the afternoon. Then Lindie, her sister Erin and I went to see the movie 'Yes Man' which was absolutely hilarious. The next morning we flew to L.A. We arrived at about three and then walked to Disneyland where we stayed until closing at midnight!
I took the above picture as a joke because int he movie Yes Man there's something called jogging photography. Well usually you jog and take pictures but these guys were jogging so I figured taking a picture of them doing it was enough. :)
Monday we spent the morning until closing at California Adventureland which was fantastic! I had never been there so that was fun. Plus we saw lots of characters. In the evening we went to Disneyland until 11pm and we watched the Fireworks which were incredible along with the light show called Fantasmic.
Tuesday we spent the whole day at Disneyland and Lindie's friend Misty joined us and we were later joined by her friend Rachel.










All in all it was a fantastic time!! It was so nice to just not think about anything and just go enjoy Disneyland for three straight days of fun. And now back to reality and the grind of getting all my schoolwork done!! Yay!

18 days until Colorado and Las Vegas!!