On Strike...

Well not me, but my professors. I totally agree with their cause...the only thing is that technically I should be finishing my semester on the 21st and well, I haven't been to class in about hmm about a month!!!! I wonder if the school will reimburse me a third of my tuition? HA! That's wishful thinking!

So anyways, I'm almost done settling in. This weekend will be our first apartment party to celebrate my quarter of a century. It should be awesome. And there will be pics. Have no fear about that!

In knitting news...well not much is going on, I'm not knitting much, I've got a little bit of an Oolong sock going (which is going to be gorgeous!!!!) but I just can't manage to stay focused for a long time which means that progress is slower than usual. Ugh!

Don't you love it when you look outside and there's no more snow. And it's not even April yet! I can't wait for the summer. This year I'm not planning any major trips but a lot of little road trips around Canada and the US. I kinda want to discover my own continent. My first destination, I think, will be Halifax followed by Denver in June for a HUGE North American Couchsurfing event. After that...we'll see how my wallet is doing before planning anything else. :D

Off I go!
Toodles

St-Patrick's shenanigans...

As per usual after the parade, I took off with my ladies and we hit the Irish Embassy (not the actual embassy but a bar with a confusing name...) and we proceeded to drink. A lot.


As opposed to the past few years, this time we hooked up with a whole bunch of other friends. This kept shenanigans to a record low this year and was actually quite awesome. The rest of the pics are on Flickr.

Moving

I moved. Yay! So now I'm all settled in (kinda) in my own place with Serge and our roommate. Every previous time that I'd moved, it seemed like such a looooong shitty process but this time, everything was moved in 2 hours. I had some awesome friends helping out (especially with the constructing of my IKEA stuff) and my father (bless him!) made pizza from scratch so that I wouldn't have to shell out for food. Needless to say it was 8 million times tastier than anything I could've ordered :D Anyhow, everything is good here. It helps that my professors are on strike. It gives me a little more time to spend reading in bed with Serge (what a terrible life I lead...).

Anyhow...

my 500th post is coming up fairly soon. I feel like I should go all out and do something to make it special, but I don't know what...maybe a change in appearance? I don't really know...any ideas?

how a 24 year old can still get grounded...

The sun is shinning, we get an extra hour of it (yay!) and it's VERY slowly getting warmer outside. I'm also getting healthier!

I'm so freaking happy about this.

A couple of days ago I started being messed up sick (high fever and severe lightheaded-ness). It got to the point where my mom (bless her!) had to ground me so that I would stay in bed for 48 hours without moving or doing anything. Now I'm not one to get bossed around...but if you've met my mom you can understand my compliance...What!?! She can be scary!

Anyhow all it took was a lot of mom-made soup, antibiotics for the bronchitis that I have, tiger balm (so much stronger than any vapo-rub out there) and 16 hours of sleep and I started feeling better. So good actually that I started getting restless. For fear of getting yelled at by the mom (!) I just got packing for my move on Sunday and well...that's what I've been doing since.

So to all you moms out there who think that one day your babies will grow up and leave you all alone, well...I don't know where I was going with that statement but you can laugh at me because really...I'm about to turn 25 in 3 weeks and my mom totally grounded my ass. And I'm soooo thankful for it!

Moms rule!

Sickness...redux

This morning the second I sat down at work, I felt it wash over me. The flu. Yes, it has hit me twice in the span of 3 weeks. Joy. Fucking JOY...! At least it's given me some knitting time. This evening I came home and instead of packing I stayed in bed with tea full of lemon, ginger, honey and other stuff, some painkillers, kleenex and Serge. We watched too many episodes of How I Met Your Mother and finished knitting a hat.

Hold the pres...what did she say?!?!?!?!

Yes yes yes, I finished the Greenery Hat and I quite like it. I don't know if I'll wear it...I might just give it away around Holidays 2009...or not, I haven't decided yet. Anyhow, that's all that's going on here.

Toodles and please stay healthy!

march break

March break is the most perfect-est time of the year. Now if only it could coincide with the St-Patrick's Day Parade so that I wouldn't feel bad about skipping class to nurse a hangover...

But I digress.

This march break has been full or work, good friends and lease signings. I move in 10 days. I'm freaking out. 10 days!!!!! That's not much time to get all my shit in boxes but I'll manage. It's going to be awesome to move!!!

On the knitting front, I've cast on a hat! It's pretty much the highest level of fiber-y commitment that I can muster up these days and it's going pretty well. I think that I'll manage to finish it before the winter is over.

Other than that, there's nothing really exciting going on here. I spent an awesome weekend at my cottage with friends. OH! My team won at pub quiz...LOL! Ok I'm off to have a bit of an adventure so that I have actual content to post!