Cow, Castles, Cookies, Calgary, Carey, Cirque, Carry, Chips, Crazy

First off, my apologies for taking so long to put up a post!! Life has kind of been insane with school and everything else, so here is the longest post in the world. Okay, maybe not, but it has lots of pictures and such. And the longest title by far. haha..

Amy, Amy and I with our nacho mountion (spelled wrong as a joke...) These are two of my friends from Trinity. They both gradded last year and I miss them at school but am glad we can still hang out during other times!

My friend Jenn came to visit from Calgary last week. It was last minute but definitely a great surprise and we had a lot of fun. Jenn just moved back to Alberta from Quebec (where we met) and her dad is a truck driver so she caught a ride with him to BC. I met them both for breakfast on the Monday and then Jenn went over to the island and on Wednesday I picked her up and we hung out for a few days. On the Wednesday, Jenn came to class with me and then we went and watched Canucks cream the Flames, 6-1. Jenn's a Calgary fan so I had fun with that, and with Vancouver's win against them on Thursday, so we're all good. :) We went to Bridal Falls which was really fun and then we headed to Harrisson to see the international sandsculpture competition which was amazing as per usual! On the way we stopped at the BC Hazelnut Store to pick up some tasty treats. Mmmm.. here are some photos from our day together:


I kept looking for the bear but sadly did not see it. I had my camera ready! After taking a picture, I don't know what I would have done however!



I love all the moss on the trees up there. They have about 125 different varieties of moss in this one forest alone. Pretty cool.



Jenn and I by Bridal Falls


here are some of my favorite sculptures from this year



Baby being born
All of the feelings and emotions that are inside someone- the psychology student in me loved this one. :)





My new favorite motto :)

Friend Cow (Jenn's friend) came along for the trip too


I got hungry for steak.. poor Friend Cow



Last weekend, my mom, Bobbi and I headed to Las Vegas for the weekend which was a lot of fun. Didn't take a lot of pictures, but we went to a bunch of shows and did a lot of shopping! Right before going to Cirque de Soleil, we were getting somethign to eat and noticed people with large cameras. Bobbi asked them who they were waiting for and they said Mariah Carey.. so I pulled out my big camera and stood and waited with them. The photographers got ushered off and I was still waiting for my mom and Bobbi when a guy came up to me and said "Since you're taking photos for us tonight, you can come to our special section over here.." haha.. Here I was being deemed a press photographer! I opted out and went to Cirque instead which was amazing!! Before that we saw Danny Gans, a comedian/impressionist-very entertaining!

We bought a few shoes...

Night lights. had i been by myself and had a tripod i think i could have had a lot of fun with the lights

Inside the mall

Dinner at the Cheesecake Factory-mmmm!

The Eiffel Tower- we stayed in the Paris Hotel so enjoyed the view




Me with some shopping bags... on the way back we only had one checked suitcase for the three of us and 7 carry ons plus 3 purses!! hahaha..

We all bought matching shopping shoes!
The view from our hotel window
Friend Cow trying to help close the suitcase. Didn't help much..



This week, Kristen, Jocelyn, Krista and I had a three hour presentation in our human sexuality class. We did a presentation on trans-sexualism and it was super interesting. Generally people bring a snack and it can be related to your topic.. so we made sugar transgendered people. We thought we were pretty clever. Jocelyn did an amazing job of rolling them out and cutting them into their shapes.

I did an amazing job of decorating them. Later ones actually had hair and stuff too.


Matt saved the people from the fire... Actually they are dismembered, so I guess he just saved them from being burned?

Kristen was in charge of putting the cookies in and out of the oven.. Little did she realize that parchment paper slips off pans quite easily.. She got excited pulling a batch out and the parchment paper slid, plunging the little people to their deaths at the bottom of the oven. They broke into pieces and one lit on fire upon contact with the burner. Kristen stood there with her oven mitt yelling at the top of her lungs "FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!!!" By the sounds of it, you'd think there were huge flames engulfing us all. Thankfully it was just a little fire and I turned the oven off and it ended and Matt saved the rest by pulling them out of the oven. After a quick vacuum of the oven, we were ready to go once more! Sadly, the little people did not make it. Some had pretty bad burn marks. Sad day.

Our presentation thankfully went better than that one batch of cookies... We had two guest speakers come who are both trans-sexuals. So, the man was originally born with a female body and the woman was born with a male body. Super interesting to hear their stories and their experience with it. They answered any questions we had and it was really a good experience.

And now it's Thanksgiving long weekend and that is something I am thankful for! This past week, every night was up until 3am finishing a paper or a presentation due for the next day. never have i ever been in this situation before.. ahh.. I have been stressed and overloaded and kind of reached my breaking point this week where I couldn't go on and couldn't do anything more. Thankfully I'm on the up and up and have stepped back from everything and can view it from a better position. Extra sleep this weekend has probably helped as well!!
Friday night, Chrystal and I went to Cats the musical and it was fantastic! Great songs, great costumes and incredible choreography!! We both love musicals and are determined to see all the ones we can!!

Tomorrow I have two family gatherings. Brunch at ten with my dad's side of the fam and dinner at 5 with my mom's side! Should be a full day (ha-no pun intended...) Then back to the grind with school!!!

That's all for now! Congratulations if you actually made it to the end! :)

Vacation, Vegas, Very

Greetings from Vegas! Currently I am looking at the Eiffel Tower out of my hotel window.. hee hee.. This is just a quick update to let you know I will be udpating soon!. My friend Jenn visited last week so I will have to post pics and update soon.

So all this to say i won't post til next week but stay tuned!

Bookshelves, Bob, Birthdays

I have bookshelves!!!!!! Matt did me the favor of putting them together while I watched him. haha. Okay i helped a little. Now that I just thought of it, I should take pictures of the books actually on them.. um.. but i wasn't that prepared.. so that will wait until a later post! But here's the bookshelves in action.

We have a psychology club at trinity and i am the president. ha. Anyway, we had a kickoff the other night and watched What About Bob. It was pretty fun.
The other night it was Kristen's birthday and we rang it in by doing homework at Denny's until midnight and beyond. it was pretty fun. She even got a brownie! So Happy birthday Kristen!!! (belated)

Could, Cord, Cut

So, I have been wanting to post every night but i have no idea where I put my camera cord so I cannot upload all my amazing and exciting photographs. Sad day. I lost my camera charger too. Well, not really lost, but it's somewhere in my house and I have NO idea where. Dang. So this post would be a lot more exciting with that cord if I could upload the photos cuz then i'd have stuff to inspire me.

Instead I took a couple of photos of myself for your viewing pleasure. Okay, well I cut and dyed my hair, so I thought I'd show and tell. :) Let me know what you think of the new do. I love it.
Presently I am stressed. I thought I was taking it easy this semester but now I realize I'm taking five classes, being a T.A. for two profs, volunteering a bunch every week, working two days a week, involved in some stuff during the week and plus I am doing my thesis so i have a dumpload of research to do. bah. but today i changed the topic of my thesis and am way more excited and into it than before. But I will talk more about that some other time perhaps. or not, because it's research and might be confidential. Hmmm..

Anyway. I'm tired and sick. So I'm off to bed. But hope you all have a lovely day.

I leave you with a quote and a countdown:

"Familiarization, in a word, makes it unnecessary to attend, to think to feel, to live fully, to experience richly." -Abraham Maslow

Hmm.. wonder where in my life I'm a bit too familiar or comfortable...

Countdown:
5 days until October (I say that in a doomsday sort of way because I keep thinking it's a month away)
8 days until I go to Las Vegas!! YAY!

Tasty, Theft, Turn-Off

So I can't get this not to underline, so underlined it is. I saw these pictures on someone's blog and it made me laugh really hard so I thought I would share it with you. These are anti-theft lunch bags. Think about it. Your sandwich will never get stolen again. I didn't realize sandwich stealing was such a big deal anyway... Enjoy.