Can't I just put my BABY in the theatre?

Well, I must say that I am very impressed with people who get their whole degree while working full time. Wow. Actually, people also included in this category are people who do full time studies and full time school and people who have kids, do school, and work.

I am absolutely wrecked tonight, and I have impending assignments. Gah. I am so tired, and my mentality is that I worked hard all day at work, and am absolutely too tired to do any sort of school work at all. In a perfect world, I would just crawl into my bed right this second and sleep until I have to get up for work tomorrow (which I may just do). All of this is leaving me absolutely craving my degree, so I can be done and go to work and have my evenings to myself. What a thought! I could go to work, come home, have my dinner and do anything, guilt free! All of these thoughts are making me lean towards only taking one class in the summer semester. I still think it will be sorta brutal, but I also don't want to take five classes in any one semester next year. If I only take one class in the summer I will have 4 and 4, which isn't as great as my original plan (4 and 3), but still more manageable! (I did 4 and 5 last year). If anything, doing 4 and 4 means many more lamenting blog entries to come! How exciting for you, reader!

[I read Dear Abby everyday in the paper at work. She calls most people "dear reader" and it was all I could do to resist putting 'dear' in front of reader in that last remark. I also read the funnies everyday now. Did you know that they actually have a storyline that progresses day by day? I didn't, and now keep up with Baby Blues and Dog Eat Doug (sad, I know).]

Not too much happened last weekend. One exciting thing was that Matt, Lauren, Jordan, and I went to see Indiana Jones! It only opened on Thursday I believe, so we went and sat in line outside the theatre. I find this to be a very fun experience. It just makes you SO excited to get in and for the movie to start, even if you aren't that excited for the movie in the first place (like me with this one). When we were sitting in line we saw some total characters as well. There was a guy who wanted to bring his entire shopping cart into the theatre and spent a fair amount of time arguing with a manager who tried to stop him (even I could guess that that goes against every fire code in the place), a guy who just went to the front of the line we were sitting in (luckily the guy behind us told him to hit the back), and a woman with an entire unfolded napkin stuck to the bottom of her shoe (how could she not notice). As for the movie, it was not bad. Not really my type of movie, but watchable, and I wanted to see what happened. The whole ending was kinda strange though. Apparently not typical. Also, throughout the whole movie, Indiana was called 'Dr Jones' and that totally just made me think of that Aqua song.

Anyway, that's enough for me. I was looking through my camera and found some pictures from when Lauren and I made delicious cupcakes! Maybe I'll get around posting them sometime, but def not tonight! I'm off for a bubble bath and bedtime!

Ciao!

PS- L, you still have my mom's containers. :)

I suck at summer posting

Hola! It has been a while since I posted! I don't seem to be spending much time on the computer lately. I guess since I spend much of my day at work on the computer, I'm really not interested in doing so when I come home. However, I still like to check blogs, and as I am always disappointed when others don't update, I'll spare you the disappointment and update tonight!

The problem with that, however, is that I don't have a lot to say!

Last weekend (May long) I started my guitar history class at school. I think it is going to be way cool. I think I convinced Matt to come to one of my lectures with me... rock in the 70s perhaps? We should have lots of fun. We watched a video last Saturday which was a history of the electric guitar and I learned lots of fun facts, but when I went to share them with M, he knew them all! Hmph! I really enjoyed the first class though. Plus the prof felt bad that we were starting on a holiday so he shortened the class by a lot! That is always a good time. I really wish I could be brave enough to tell people to quiet down during movies. There were some girls talking at regular volume right behind me during the movie, and I wanted to tell them to shut up, but I couldn't get my courage up. I don't know why, but I always do that. I think I think that if I ask people to quiet down during a movie, they will just be louder out of spite. Luckily the girl next to me cleared her throat really loudly and obnoxiously, and they got the hint. A tactic I'll have to try!

After my class, M and I had a pretty laid back night! We made a fire and sat out by it roasting hot dogs (or "dogs" as the guy in the line in front of L and me at the Costco food court said tonight) and marshmallows. His parents came home later and kinda hung out with us. Lots of fun! Plus, I read my book by the fire Love the One You're With (which I was really excited for and anticipating fully, but didn't really enjoy), so it was a great night. (Because I got to read leisurely. Not because my book sucked).

Sunday we met up with L and J and walked around Kensington for a while! It was really fun, but sooooo hot! I don't think I drank enough water, because I felt TOTALLY drained! Later L, M, and I went to two movies at the cheap theatre (Leatherheads (such a snore) and The Other Boelyn Girl (really good!)). (Too lazy to link those, btw).

Tonight L and I had our date night because she has to work tomorrow, so we went to Costco for the aforementioned dogs. Delicious. We watched a really crappy movie after, though: Numb (Matthew Perry). It was brutal. A do not see. I had tons of fun though, as usual!
L: Do you know what mothballs smell like?
N: Of course.
L: How do you get their little legs apart?

Haha, there is a basic sum up of my last week or so, which I didn't really mean for this entry to turn into, but oh well! Better a boring update than none at all, correct?

Oh, and PS, I got my hair cut. It was driving me crazy over the weekend, so I got it all chopped off last night. I like it so far. No one seemed to notice at work though, so I felt kinda bad about it. To be fair though, I often wear my hair up at work, so I guess it may be difficult to notice. Maybe I'll post a picture soon!

Additionally, I noticed that it is starting to rain. That's my cue to jump in bed under my warm duvet, open my window, and listen. I love rainy weather. I would do well in Vancouver. I told Matt today that I don't work in the rain, and that reminded me of one of my favourite Seinfeld quotes:

Newman: It's raining. I don't work in the rain.
George: You're a mailman! Not rain, nor sleet... it's the first one!!

(I did work today).

Fly by

Time craaaawls during the semester I find (naturally), but May is absolutely FLYING for me. It's almost the middle of the month? How did that happen?

I am finding going to school at the same time as working pretty difficult, to say the least. After working all day I am NO mood to come home and do schoolwork, so I haven't been, so I am super behind on all my reading. Sigh. Ah well, this is what I have to do if I want to finish my degree next April (which I do). I am so tired after working all day though! Even though my job isn't physically tiring, I am just done by the end of the day. All I want to do is come home and sit on my bottom and watch tv. Which is what I have been doing. See the problem?

I warn you not to buy the new Triscuit flavour; Rosemary and Olive Oil. I thought it sounded like it might be ok (I didn't really know what Rosemary tasted like), but they are NASTY. You've been warned. I was so excited to try them today, and I ate one as I packed my lunch this morning. I thought they were gross then, but it was 8 am, so I figured that any spice wouldn't be especially appealing. Good logic, but incorrect. I tried them again at lunch and I still thought they were nasty, but by that time I was all excited for Triscuits so I had to go buy regular ones.

Not too much else is new here, I just figured it has been a while since I updated, so I may as well post something! I'm looking forward to the long weekend; the temperature is supposed to be 26 I heard! I'm psyched!

Also, I was thinking about this commercial today. Sorry it's Christmas and sorry it's crappy quality, but it has always been one of my favourites. I was wearing a long skirt today and I think I was thinking about how embarrassing it would be to have it accidentally tucked into my undies after leaving the bathroom (which happened at school one time but I was lucky enough to catch before I left the bathroom) and that led me to thinking about this commercial!

Hopefully my next entry is more exciting than the world of crackers. Until then!

"For you, a thousand times over..."

Wow. So I made good on plans to read during my freedom from school! I made short work of The Kite Runner (which has been one of the books sitting beside my nightstand that Matt's mom got me for Christmas) and I thought it was great. Sad, but great. Last night Matt and I rented the movie, and I sobbed through the whole thing. Terribly. I am NOT a movie crier at all, but this movie was just absolutely brutal for me! I don't think I would have found it as sad if I hadn't read the book (they develop the characters a lot more in the book than the movie, as most do) before the movie. SO SAD. Gosh. So, in short, it's a great story, but read the book/watch the movie at your own risk. Maybe pick one or the other. Even the title of this blog (quote from book and movie) makes me teary. Man.

Nothing is too too new with me. I worked my first 40 hour week of the summer this week! Today was kinda an eventful day. We unexpectedly are down one employee now, so I got moved from Accounting to Downstairs (more adminy). I was packing up my accounting desk today into a box to move, and I had a lump in my throat! It was the craziest thing! I really don't mind moving downstairs, and just starting out as I am it is probably good to get knowledge in different positions, but all I could think of was how sad it was to pack up my desk. I hope I never have to do it for reals (like for a permanent transfer out of the company...). Apparently I am just being loaned to downstairs, so I didn't have to pack up my desk (I'll be back in September to accounting I'm told), and thus I guess I made a slight fool out of myself by stripping my desk, but I use all the stuff on a daily basis. Plus, I couldn't very well leave my Cranium calender up there! Also today, work had a barbeque in the shop area, which I was so looking forward to. However, I had a little headache this morning and it turned into a full fledged migraine at about 1130, complete with nausea. Ugh. So I didn't really get to enjoy the barbeque; I hid at my desk with my uneaten burger waiting for the pills to kick in and wanting to die. Luckily by the time the pills did kick in and I felt better, there was still some of the delicious cake left! Which, as we all know, is the most important for me (a total sweet tooth).

Anyway, that's the basic news for me. Sitting here with a cool cloth, waiting for Matt to get out of the shower, waiting for my second set of Tylenol to chase the reminents of my headache away, waiting for my grades to be posted, waiting for L to get back so we can watch this week's Survivor, and wondering why on Earth my COMS professor is starting the class tomorrow when all the other Spring classes (even my other weekend one) don't start for two weeks!!