Sorry!

So I'm thinking that that snow last night was my fault, due to my last entry on here.

Sorry everyone! :)

Love it!

I cannot believe the gorgeous weather we are having! It is the end of October and it is still beautiful out. At work Lily and I were talking about the weather and she said we are supposed to be snow free for another two weeks, but I have my money on snow on Halloween. It always snows on Halloween here.

I am feeling so so so much better. Now that I am test free for two whole weeks, maybe I can find some time to de-stress. I'm pretty excited. I have a few things to do in the next couple of weeks (like my Ast paper- eek!) but hopefully that goes ok.

I realized yesterday that Matt doesn't come back until Sunday! Gah! That means I have a Friday night and another Saturday night that I have to be lonely. Maybe I can actually find something interesting to do! We'll see what happens.

Other than that, not too much new on this front. Matt texted me saying that he can't wait to take me on a cruise, so I guess he is having a great time and thinks that I would like it. So that is exciting!

What else, what else... my last couple of entries have been tiny marathons so I am trying to make this one at least a little substantial. Maybe I should just leave it where it is at!

Have a fantastic rest of the week!

Color me exciting

So Matt has left for his cruise, and I'm already lonely! Hence why I'm blogging at 9 o'clock on a Saturday night; color me exciting. I wish he was here; I love those lazy Saturday nights when we cuddle up on the couch together and watch a movie or something. Or the Saturday nights when we go out and do something; but I'm just in the kind of mood right now where I would like to be on the couch, under a blanket, and snuggled up next to Matt. Sigh.

I've been having a rough couple of days. I'm at a point right now where I just want to fast forward through the next five years of my life. I know I don't really want to because I would be missing out on all the fun times that will no doubt happen between now and then. I want to be done with school, mostly. I think a lot of it is stemming from my Astronomy test on Thursday. I studied quite a lot for it, and I thought the test was really difficult, so I'm worried about what I got on it. I wish he would post the marks already; how difficult could it really be to mark multiple choice? I expected this breakdown of sorts though, as it usually happens to me mid-fall semester. I don't think the winter semester is as bad for some reason. I just feel stressed all the time about school which leads me to be unproductive, which leads to more stress. See the vicious cycle? I feel like I have a knotted fireball sitting right at the top of my ribcage. It is so unfun that words can't describe it. I haven't been eating very well lately either, which usually makes me feel even worse. That will be a goal for me for this coming week; to eat less junk food and hopefully nip these feelings while they are still relatively controllable.

I haven't posted here about my epiphany yet! We had a guest speaker come into my abnormal psych class on Thursday, and as I was sitting there listening to her tell her story, I came to the realization that I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I don't want to deal with sick people forever. I had strange feelings when I was listening to her talk, and I realized that it isn't for me. Another thing that helped me come to this decision was something that Matt's friend's gf said last week when we went out for dinner. She is switching her major from being a social worker to a dietician. She works in a home with some disabled people right now, and she said that she is already getting worn out. She made the point that when she has kids she wants to be totally and fully invested in them, and she thinks her work she is doing right now would hinder it. It was something that I was kind of mulling over in my head all week and it was interesting that a few other factors added up to me changing my mind about psych. The guest speaker and the fact that I found out that you pretty much need to do your honors degree to be considered for grad school, which is something that I'm not really interested in at this point. Plus, the more I thought about the kids point, the more I agreed. I feel the exact same way, and am pretty sure that I would burn out early if I had gone into a career in psych. I had a talk with my boss (who used to be a nurse) and she totally agreed with me, as did Lauren and Matt and my parents. It is nice to have support for my decisions. So now, the plan is that I'm going to get my undergrad, and then my goal is business! I hope I can get my MBA. I think that that will be a much better fit for me, and I'm excited! I really love my office job, and I can be happy in that sort of setting for my career. That plan is of course subject to change like most of my decisions about school. This kind of adds to my stress a teensy bit though, as many apply and few are accepted... but more on that when the time comes.

Ei, ei, ahhhh

This is very silly. Lauren and I are updating at the same time! I wanted her to update, and she wanted me to update, so here we are, sitting beside each other in the Elbow Room and updating! This website is showing up in some sort of Asian characters which is a little bit tricky!

This weekend was pretty good! Matt and I went to a cheap movie on Friday which was good. I quite like going to the cheap theatre, if there is something good. Sometimes it is nice to go to the real theatre, but this weekend not. There was nothing there that I wanted to see anyway. We went to the Nannie Diaries. It was actually pretty cute. Matt enjoyed it (shh) as well, which I kind of didn't expect, but was happy about! I think I may have liked the book a teensy bit more though.

Saturday we went out for dinner with Matt's friend and his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's sister and boyfriend. Whew! It was fun. We also got spotted by some friends of Jordan, and Lauren later got the info third hand. Haha. It was funny that she sent me a text message asking how Open Sesame was. It was silly, because after we had dinner, we were just kind of standing around outside of the restaurant like we didn't know what to do next; like hang out more or not and eventually we just went to our respective homes. I told Matt on the way home that everyone seemed kind of unsure about what to do, and he made the point that you can't really go home with each other on the first date! So true! If it had been Lauren and Jordan, we would have definitely gone home with them; we need a date for the four of us soon!

I have my Astronomy test on Thursday! I am so scared. I didn't realize that the first half of this course (all the material on the test) would be physics. Eff. I don't have a physics brain at all! Hopefully it goes ok though, and afterward I can celebrate with Lauren during our usual Thursday routine of dinner, killing time, Chain Reaction, and Survivor. Yes! Lo mentioned last week that we fall into routines so easily, and sure, we do. I kinda love it though. I love knowing that we will always be having dinner and then hanging out on Thursday. It gives me something to look forward to for sure, especially when I have my mid-semester blues, which I think I am coming into a little bit. Ah well! Plus, our restaurant of choice at the moment is delicious (always), relatively fast yet still a sit down place, and not so expensive. Plus, the music is fabulous. "Move your body, shake your body, hot. Ei, ei, ahhhh". Oh man. I hope we hear the song this week!

That is it for me for now! Have a good one!

An Ending

I was so excited to see that Lauren updated again today that I decided to update too! Maybe she will be as excited as I was!

Not much has changed from yesterday to today though, that is the problem! I have one announcement... I have stopped piano lessons! I am a little sad and a little uneasy, but I think it was the right decision at this point. There are many underlying reasons that make this decision a good one. My plan at this point is to work on piano by myself for a while, and maybe go back to a teacher after I am done my undergrad degree. One thing I do know is that I eventually want to get my Gr. 10 in piano, and considering how close I am, it would be foolish not to ever get it! So I am excited for that. Independent study could be really good for me right well as well. I certainly don't know everything, but I know enough to learn new stuff (if that makes any sense) and I won't have to stress about never having practiced for my lesson. I'll miss Shelly, but I think this is going to work.

Top reason why holiday Mondays are excellent...??







THEY MAKE THURSDAY COME THAT MUCH FASTER!!!

Matt leaves for his cruise in a little less than two weeks. In a little less than two weeks and in the week that he is gone I have a lab report due, a major midterm, a verbal report, and an astronomy paper due. How is that fair? Haha. I'm psyched for him though. And, he is going to scope it out to see if it is something that he thinks he and I would have fun doing as a vacation one day! I'm crossing my fingers.

That is about all for now I think. Oh, I went to Staples today to look at one of those huge hole-punchers... did you know that those things cost nearly 60 dollars?! Holy crap. I am so not interested in spending the equivalent of about five movie tickets on office supplies. I'll have to keep using the one at school, which totally works for me. I just thought it might be convenient. Maybe it is a good thing though. Where would I even put one of those huge things?

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

Time for a quick update! I have been told that it is about that time, so here goes I guess. I think I tried to make an update last week but ending up deleting it because it was boring and perhaps whiny. Hopefully this one isn't!

I had a pretty good weekend this week! Matt was sick on Friday, which was pretty hilarious. Not funny because he was sick, but funny because of what a fuss he was making. I always thought that it was an exaggerated complaint that guys complain a lot more than girls when they are sick, but I certainly got to experience the truth of that statement first hand on Friday. Poor guy. Haha, I think that at least part of it was exaggeration on his part because I found it hilarious. Who knows though! I am just thanking my lucky stars that he doesn't get sick that often- this is the first time since we have been together (knock on wood).

Saturday was thanksgiving dinner with my family, and Sunday was with Matt's. We had a nice (and delicious) time at both. We watched a really poor movie after Matt's dinner- 1408. I do NOT encourage you to see it. It did have so much potential and the trailers looked so spooky, but it absolutely fell flat. Ugh.

I had my second midterm today. I'm hoping that it was ok! It seemd like everything that I reviewed was not on the test, which is never a fun thing to experience. Next week is Astronomy, which is the one that I am really nervous about!

Anyway, Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

Classes

Sometimes I think that I would have been better off if I had been a full science major, working on engineering or something like that. I consider it... really!

Then, I take a class that is science-esque, and realize that I WOULDN'T LAST ONE SEMESTER in a science program. Although technically, I'm getting my Bachelor of Science degree. Don't ask I guess. I think I would survive a science semester, but I wouldn't really enjoy it. I picked a major I like, and I'm happy with my decision.

Classes are going well so far, except I am finding Astronomy to be a pain. Too bad we don't have an Astrology course at the U of C that could count as a science option. I don't care why the constellations are set up as they are, I would much rather know what they mean, or something like that. I remember being in physics at this exact same time last year, and hating my life and I think I probably swore I would never take a class like that again.

Sigh.

Its not all bad I guess. I am really enjoying my other classes! Except maybe Stats. Haha, so I am enjoying half my classes?

The weekend was pretty good! What did I do, what did I do? Matt and I had a great date on Friday night... we went to Across the Universe (a musical of Beatles songs). It was funny though, because I told Matt it was a musical, and when we came out he mentioned something about how he didn't think it would be the characters singing the whole time. He thought it would just be an all Beatles soundtrack. Silly Matt!

Another exciting week I suppose. I'm already looking forward to Survivor night, as per usual!