New Years Eve

Good afternoon guys!!
Can you believe it? it's New Years Eve. Tomorrow it will be 2012! Where did this year go? Although it's been fun, I am very ready to get rid of this year, and bring in the New Year.
Anyway, I have had a good week, and xmas was so fun. I same my whole family, and finally got to see my cousin, who is now engaged! Which is really excited, in 2013 they are having their wedding in Punta Cana, which will be really exciting. I got lots of nice things, and the biggest one i got was a nice new eReader, which i'm very happy with. Now I don't have to pack hundreds of books when i go on vacation, and i can just download them onto this little thing. Ha-ha. And I got one of my new favourite tv shows on DVD, Vampire Diares, which if you haven't watched it, you should. It sounds really lame, but it's actually quite good and it's nothing like the Twilight movies, so not to worry.:P And last night I had a nice evening with my second family at dinner, and then with Evie and another friend where we played some pool, and went out for a walk and got stuck in the rain. Ha-ha

Anyway, I must go and get ready for my dinner tonight. I am family a family New Years dinner with my family, and then I am helping bring in the New Year with my friends, and we are having a large party which will always be fun.:) How do you guys celebrate New Years? Staying at home, nice and warm watching the ball drop in New York, or bring there when it happens? :)
Anyway, i shall be seeing, Evie, Lee, Miah, AND Sari tonight as well as all of our other friends.:)
I hope you guys all have a nice week and i will be seeing you guys in 2012!!! (So weird.;P)
Cheers!
-Mars. =)

It's been a whirlwind of parties! phew!

Tomorrow's New Year's Eve!! Which sadly also means I'm late by a whole day for my blog :P I can't remember the last time I actually blogged on a thursday...
But yes, today was the second last day of 2011. Kinda crazy to think about, another year passing. When I have my birthday in 2012 I'm gonna be turning 20, woah! Cross that bridge when I get to it hah.
So I had a pretty good Christmas, I was pretty exhausted by the time Christmas Day actually came around because I had parties like every day for an entire week before and one on Christmas Day. Man I was tired. It was nice spending the day with my family though, sometimes it just makes me think, when we're all sitting around the kitchen table eating breakfast together (at 11:30 hah, I'm the youngest at 19) how nice it is to have a family as close as mine. Love that closeness! Hooray! And I got some sweet presents; a straightener (like the nicest one I've ever used. no joke.), a new top (my sister picked it out so naturally its super stylish AND flattering), a cd+dvd of Adele doing a live performance (one word: AMAZING, can't get enough of her songs), chocolate (obvi :P), the most hilarious pajamas from my grandma (prison break style pajamas :P white and navy blue horizontal stripes, with a bit of pink trim! I've worn them a couple times and they're super soft and warm so I'm not complaining I just appreciate the humour in the situation too), oooo and money for the movies which I LOVE getting :D.
This past week was a little busy too but I sort of feel like I'm staaarrrting to get back into my own rhythm again, which I like. I also had a good talk with my mom today which helps!
Well I'm really excited to see ppl tmr night at the party. We'll eat some good food and chat and visit and it's just gonna be fun - yay!!
till next week
Evie :D

Fast

Literally the fastes blog I will ever make.

I've had no time today, currently on my way home from dinner at an ok Italian restaurant. Though Christopher Reeve and Danny Divito both had visited... My reasoning for it being ok, it didn't have a basic pasta or spaghetti and meatballs. For me it's all about the basics that make you better then the rest.

Anywho on my way home, writing on my iPhone. Once home I'll be getting my final final post chemo shot (something I needed after getting two infections resulting in two blood transfusions,) then I'll keep reading Mokingjay-- the third book of the Hunger Games, easily one of the best series I have ever read. I don't get bored! And I get bored by books a lot. After reding at bit I seriously need to sleep. Having a heard time keeping my eyes open now.

Happy New Year Everyone! Can't wait to see you all, and let's get ride of 2011 once and for all ( fair to say its been the worse year of my life.)

Miah

The Haul

Hey all, Lee here (a bit late, as usual).

First, a run down of some holiday gift highlights:

• A great new coat and hat- really love them
• Feist's new album Metals
• George Harrison's ex-wife's autobiography (oh and she's also Eric Clapton's ex-wife)
• A sweet magnifying glass- very pretty and medieval-looking
• A nice dress, with sweet shoes to match
• Home-made cookies, decorated in a very creative way (for example, one gingerbread man had a full digestive system drawn out)
• And of course a lovely hot chocolate mug with accompanying hot chocolate+marshmallows, as well as a pretty day planner and pen. Thanks Rae!

In other news, this holiday season has turned out to be somewhat lazy! I almost miss exam week, in which I was doing more and seeing more people. However, I do relish the time spent with my family; the full nuclear family, seeing as my sister is back from Calgary for a few weeks.

Yesterday, my sister and I, who have developed a bit of a crush on actor Richard Armitage* – the very embodiment of Tall, Dark and Handsome – watched most of North & South, a somewhat boring miniseries (on Netflix). Oh gosh it was worth it for the ending. (When I say we watched most of it, I mean we watched the first and last episode, and saw select scenes from the two in the middle). It's sort of Pride and Prejudice-y, and at the end the guy gets the girl, or the girl gets the guy, and it's just amazing. Amazing.

Also a few days ago I watched Notting Hill- probably the best of its genre. I'm not even exaggerating; it's so full of heart, it's clever, the acting is great, and, well, it's got it all.

Any other suggestions for super romantic, and yet somewhat respectable movies?

Looking forward to seeing you all.

-Lee

*Richard Armitage plays Guy of Gisborne on BBC's tv show Robin Hood, for reference.

Boxing Day?

I have to make this blog kinda short cause again i'm on my grandma's slow internet and it's my moms birthday..so we're celebrating :)

So this may sound kind of weird, but I've never actually experienced "Boxing Day"...I'm always visiting my grandma at this time and the US doesn't have boxing day. Also, the "Black Friday" in November that the US has for great sales? Yeah, I always miss that too because I'm in Canada then. Haha clearly I'm bad with getting good deals on things!!

Apparently Boxing Day is absolutely crazy because it is soooo busy?

Also, today is my mom's birthday! So today we've just been hanging around and celebrating! I made brownies and was bored with regular brownies so I decided to get creative. However, they basically taste the same. I bought this fudge mix to add with the brownies and put m&m's in the mix as well. They basically all just melted and it tasted just like regular brownies..but whatever :p Brownies are still amazing :)

Isn't it weird how my next blog will take place in 2012!?!?!? HOW CRAZY IS THAT!? I feel like 2011 just started!!!! I hope everyone has a safe & happy new year and I'll talk to you guys again in 2012! Does anyone have crazy new years plans?!

-Sari :)

Eventful week

Good late evening ladies and gents,

It has been a complete action packed week. I started my week off with getting my beautiful new TATTOO on my right shoulder blade. I love it, cause it represents my family, both present and future. It's a nautical star which has two different colours in each of the points. One side is red and one side is black. The red represents my present family, and the black represents my future. It was fairly painful getting it at first, but then i started to get use to it and just numbed out the pain. I also have a fairly high pain tolerance which comes in handy a lot. Ha-ha. But it looks great, and is healing very nicely right now.:)
And then I got to see people I haven't been able to see in a while, and had a nice and fun chat with them. We did a secret santa thing, and thank you to my santa for the great present.:) Then I got to go out for dinner with my best friend who I haven't been able to see since she goes to school farther away. And then the two of us got together with our other best friend. It's been a while since the three of us were together, and it was great to just be able to chill out, order in food, and talk about different things. We had a great time just talking about things that have happened to us, and funny moments we have had in past years together. Haha, it was one of the best times I've had in a while and laughed that hard. These two girls I have known forever, and we always have the greatest times together.:)
And NOW in two days it will be Christmas. I only have one more present to get and I will be done!:D I actually went into a shopping mall the other day....and never again will i make the mistake of bringing my car. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. People right now are CRAZY while shopping, honking and yelling, and doing all these things just to get parking spots. Anyway, it will all be over in two days and we can all get back to our regular lives. Although I always love seeing my family. It's always fun around my house. Because my older brother is an actor, he seems to ALWAYS find it necessary to be impressions of people, and such while opening presents. It's always a laugh with him around in our house. You'll hear about three different sides of stories with him and my dad around, from when he was younger.
Anyway I'll let you all go get on with your shopping.
Happy Holidays, and Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it.:)
I shall see you all hopefully next week.

Cheers!

-Mars

Partying partying yeah! Fun, fun, fun, fun :P

Good lord this week was busy :O phew! I actually have had a holiday party everyday since like saturday. I am so tired, like you wouldn't really think that eating out every night would be that bad but I miss like sitting around the table with my family eating stir-fry...mmmm stir-fry. I miss stir-fry. That is I miss my dad's homemade stir-fry :P BUT I definitely also had SO much fun this week!! I got to visit with so many people and I met a bunch of new people, I attended both of my family xmas parties and got chocolates from both joke gift exchange events :D Can't complain right? Plus I randomly got my xmas shopping done like last week so I didn't have to worry about that all this week which was really nice cuz it wouldn't have been super fun braving the chaos of xmas shopping so close to the day and feeling the stress of last minute shopping. You know those moments 'Oh watever they'll probably like it, I'll just get it anyway' those are the not fun moments of xmas shopping :P So I got the 'OOooooo she/he'll love this!!' moments instead and I'm very pleased with the gifts I'm giving. Hooray!
So our party this week was fun ya?? Lots of chatting and dancing and eating and exchanging presents. The signs of a good part my friends :) and OMG how embarrassed was I when got that prank gift GOOD LORD, not sure my face could have gone redder hahah :P AWKwarrrrrd. BUT my secret santa gift was Amzing!! I love books! You know me too well Miah :P I haven't started either one yet but like I said it's been a crazy week.
OH! I also worked a christmas party this week too. On Wednesday and there were like 100 people there all lookin fancy and eating fancy food. They sang some carols later in the evening (aka after they'd all had enough to drink :P). It was pretty good actually, like not as stressful as it could have been which is nice. I made like $150 which is also nice ;P I defs need the money right now. I keep thinking bout getting a job cuz I feel like I want more money so I'm keeping that on the back burner, who knows what the new year will bring!! This past year brought so much right? :)
I too am sorry we missed you Sari! We got another week to have a visit though so I'm sure we'll see you!
I think that while this season can get crazy with the like constant partying, it's also really really nice to see people I don't see very often. Even if I don't get a good long talk in with them, it's still nice to just say hi and ask them briefly how life is going and stuff. And hopefully I have another week of visiting as well as a super fun new year's do to party at!!
Till next time guys :D
Evie

Hanukkah Party

So I'm doing this again, blogging via the iPad. I was going to o upstairs at around 11, but I've discovered that there's a new episode of the Graham Norton show, and I'm very excited! Anyway I had a blast with everyone last night, and thank you Sari for my present! Though you were very missed and we need to get together while you're on break.

So a few things. Yesterday was the first night of Hanukkah, and well it's actually not that big of a holiday. Like if you miss a night it's ok, and well commercialism has simply made it as big as it is. That being said this Saturday, yes Christmas eve is my family's Hanukkah party. We've made every joke about this possible. Only those who haven't been bar/bat Mitzvahed will get presents ie plural, the rest of us partake in a secret Santa sort of exchange. The biggest part of the party, the thing that everyone who can count past 20 partakes in VERY SERIOUSLY is the dreidel game. Everyone must come equipped with $5 worth of dimes, and that means this years total is $140. Tables of 5/6 people spin it out then each table gets a winner, then those winners have a finale. I've never won it all, though made it into the finals twice. Once I split the winnings with 3 other people since they were all from the same family and had an unfair advantage of winning it all. Oh yeah the seating rule ( like when we start the first round) you can't sit with those you share a house with. Long story short really excited for this, it's always loads of fun!

Also today I went to the hair dresser and officially shaved off all of my hair. I had kept some as a fear of loosing it all and an experiment to see how much would fall. Its wasn't as emotional as I thought, and yeah, I'm bald bald now. So here we grow!

Ok back to Graham Norton.

Miah

Successful Secret Santa!

Hello people,

I'm falling asleep, so I'm afraid I have to make this a short one. Secret Santa was fun today! I am very excited to try out my new hot chocolate + mug, and I have to decide what clever things to write in my day planner. Because I can't just write my day's plans. No, I have to write something clever. Most definitely. Using the sweet pen that came with it. Thanks Rae!!

It was nice seeing everyone today; too bad we missed you, Sari! But yes, when you come back to Toronto we will go for fun times- very fun times!

I really am falling asleep. I guess I've napped the past few days, so I'm not used to going the whole day without a nap (not including the short one I had this evening while watching SNL or whatever).

In other news, my mom and sister are picking up my sister's boyfriend from the airport. Cool! The more the merrier, in this household! Tomorrow, we might see my brother. He's super busy at work, but I think things will let up closer to Christmas. All in all, I think the house will go through some pretty packed times!!

Alright lovelies, time for me to sleep. Maybe shower first.

<3

Lee

Florida & Detroit Airport & Dial-Up Internet

Ahhhh Mars, that is soooooooo exciting about getting a horse!! Let us know when you have a show because I definitely wanna come see! :)

Ok so I'm currently at my grandma's house in Florida and her internet is terrible! She still has dial-up, so when you log-on, it makes those weird sounds and sounds like you're calling someone, it cuts off her phone line (so i try to stay on the internet for as short of a time as possible) and takes a ridiculously long time to load anything on the internet. But then again, whenever I complain about the internet problems, my parents lecture me about how I shouldn't be on the internet and I should take advantage of the weather and things to do outdoors. Ok, they have a good point. But still!! I guess I've just become accustomed to wi-fi: it's fast and you can use your computer anywhere.

Yesterday, my mom and I flew to Florida and we had a connecting flight in Detroit...which was a really cool airport! Whenever we have connecting flights, usually we connect in Atlanta, Charlotte, or Philadelphia, so Detroit was a nice change. I tried to take pictures on my phone to show you the tunnel and water fountain that they had, but it didn't do a good job actually capturing them. So, I'll just explain them :p

There was this tunnel (really longggg) that had those moving sidewalk things on both sides. However, the part that was really cool was that the walls and the ceiling were these glass-like panels that kept changing colours. Basically, you would be standing on this moving sidewalk for 4 minutes (no joke, it was a long tunnel) and all you would see is different colours! It was AWESOME! And when you got upstairs and reached a new terminal, they had this modern water fountain that was really cool.

(Note: please bare with me for this explanation...I tried to explain it to my dad yesterday on the phone and he had no idea what I was talking about...so hopefully I do a better job now. This is why I wanted a photo hahah). Ok so about a meter off the ground was this black, circle rock (it's a big rock...about the length of approximately 3-4 cars). The top of the rock was completely flat, with about 10 holes on it. The holes were really small (about the size of a water bottle cap) and they were equally positioned on the surface. Then, water would shoot out of one hole and land on another hole on the opposite side of the rock. All of the holes were shooting water simultaneously. It was really cool cause none of the water would land on the top of the rock and overflow, but you would constantly see water keep shooting out from different holes and then just disappearing in different holes. Hahah i hope that makes sense...because it was really cool when I saw it but I feel like I don't really know how to explain it lol.

Anyways, I have to go so that I don't keep my grandma's phone line held up for toooo long! Have a great week and happy holidays :) I'll talk to you next mondayyyy!!!!

-Sari

Done Done Done!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am DONE!!!!!!

Woohoo!! I finished my last two exams today, and I am SO HAPPY!!!! I don't think I have even been so stressed in my life. Party week...here I come!!=D I have so much planned for next week. Haha dinners, parties, and hanging out with friends again. Haha, but it should be fun.:) All of the people in my program went out for drinks after we finished our last exam....Although it was kind of like 1pm in the afternoon....but it's cool. Hahahaha.

Hmmm, I'm not ure what else happened....ACTUALLY, I have finally gotten my wish and my parents have finally caved in. I AM GETTING A HORSE!!!! Well not ALL mine. I am leasing it from a woman up in New Market, for the 2012 show season which i am actually SO excited for. I don't think I've ever been so excited for anything.:P Riding has helped me throughout the years to just forget about things and such while riding, even just for a little bit. And I haven't been riding at all because of school, so to have my outlet for energy back is nice.:) Her name is Sweety, and I love her. Haha, she's going to be a great eventer.=) All you guys should come see her when we start to do some eventing.:) (ie. Sari, Miah, Evie, and Lee).:) It'd be a lot of fun.:)

Anyway, I must go. I think I'm going to go and die in a hole now. Haha friend now has a cat and I am slightly allergic to cats. Haha, what happens is if i tough the cat then touch my face (ie. my eyes, or my nose) my eyes become red, itchy and watery, and my nose will run, and i can't breath. Haha, so pretty much i become a hot mess.:P But I forgot to wash my hands after i touched the cat, and my eye got itchy so i rubbed it....big mistake....Haha.

Anyway, i shall stop rambling on about my cat allergies, and let you all get back to your busy days ahead.:P

See you all next week.:)
Cheers,

-Mars.=D

I am the DANCING QUEEN......at least that's how I feel sometimes :P

Woo everyone is done exams! Awesome :)
I'm excited to do lots of visiting and stuff over the break, I think it will be fun! And I feel like last week's blog was a little short and kinda weird so yea, hahah sorry bout that! You know I can't even make it up to you this week because not too much has happened.
Oh wait! Hold on, I worked this past Sunday and I made like over one hundred dollars, woo! I was pretty pleased. And you know it went super well, sometimes it can be really stressful cause it's catering and so many things can go wrong. Like mostly I do coat check so I could potentially lose somebody's coat (which has happened before...it was a mink coat :S), or if I'm serving I could drop something or if I'm helping set up OR take down there are so many things that could happen...I shudder just thinking about it :P BUT having said that Sunday went smoothly all around. I set up the coat check with my fellow co-worker (and good friend) and so we got out of setting up the downstairs and then people started arriving so I was at the door all night doin the coat check thing....it was kwl. I did a couple rounds cleaning up empty glasses but overall so not stressful compared to other times I've worked. So hooray for that!
Week number 2 of not having guitar but I'm still looking up new songs so I haven't missed it too much yet. New favourite song? Blue or Gray by Jaymay - check it out :)
Okay so I also went out last night WOO. With a new crowd which was like, SO fun - yay! It was someone's 19th bday so the whole night was just epic - three different places which does mean that we only spend like a short time at each place but you know the last place we hit up was the BOMB. I had such a good time dancing guys, you dont even know :P
OOOOOOokay, time to go now
till next week!!
Evie :D

Holy Fucking Freedom

Hey all, I'm finally done! I can hardly believe it. I finished up today with Genetics, and it was decent. I kind of thought it would be the easiest of the 4 exams, but I was suprised by the amount of detail we had to remember from lectures. Less about theory, more things like "what three pieces of evidence, discussed in lecture, support the multi-hit model of cancer development?" Luckily I remembered all 3 :P

Afterwards, my brother, his girlfriend, my grandfather and I went for lunch at a lovely Swiss restaurant where they specialize in chicken (lol). Good times were had by all, and now I'm back on campus to celebrate the end of exams with friends, most of whom have finished (some of whom unfortunately don't finish until Monday or Tuesday).

I really can't wait to see you all this break. Miah, congrats on finishing your two bonus chemos! Let me know how the latest one went. I know that when you heard about the 2 extras many weeks ago, yesterday must have seemed impossibly far away. But you've done it, and if your doctor is true to his (her?) word, you're done! Like the real done!

Love you all lots,
Lee

Books

Have any of you guys (other then Mars) played Words With Friends? Cause I AM ADDICTED! Strangely though, cause I'm not one for Scrabble. Spelling was never my thing... As of now I'm playing with a bunhc of strangers and Mars.

Anyway, in other news.

Like Sari I'e been reading the Hunger Games, though it's no coincidence. Sari, Mars and I decided to read it together. Though I read it a lot faster since I have a lot of spare time on my hands. But, OH-MY-GOD is it good. Like you actually get hooked within the first two chapters and seriously can not stop. Well you can, but you really have to force your self. And dude, things are so messed up! I honestly could've read that book in 3 days, which is abnormal for me since I'm a slow reader. Anywho I'm waiting to get the second one since at Hanukah I usually get a plenty of gift cards, some Indigo. So in the mean time I wanted to read something else, equally as good, but not as intense. Like I actually had to take a deep breath at the end of one chapter. Its like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows good, you know? Like how each page you don't know if someone might die? Ach so good! Anyway since I'll be in chemoville tomorrow (Yeah! Actual last one!!! Not as excited this time round, cause I already went through those emotions and I don't want to disappoint myself again... but my doctor did promise last one.) I wanted to read something on my iPad because I don't need both hands to hold it up and turn pages (my iv usually ends up in my right hand area, aka dominant hand,) also since I plan on going to Montreal soon it'll mean only one thing to pack! Which really applies to both MTL and chemo. Since my sessions are all day long I bring a bag with food, water, ipad, the blanket that my late grand-mother knit, the occasional book/magazine. Not to mention my purse and coat... I probably should put my wallet and stuff inside the purse in the bag... Anyway its alot, and by the end of chemo I'm too weak to carry the bag so my mom usually takes it, oh yeah my mom has her own bag and stuff. Soo back to my rambiling point. I wanted to read a book on my iPad, and I enjoy reading off iBooks more then the Kobo app cause its easier, more appealing to look at, I have iTunes money vs. paying with visa, and more its authentic. But whats annoying is that iBooks doesn't have a whole lot of selection, though it is gaining. Proof? The Something Borrowed series wasn't available in iBook when I got it, but it is now! And it's a series I've wanted to read for a while so we shall see how it goes! Also I like reading series and I like looking at series, especially ones as plainly, simply and colourfuly designed as the Something Borrowed series. As of now, 3 pages in.

Sari I found it real interesting that you also decide on things to do during the break. And also get very little done of that. I too have certain things I only do during my breaks. I play Sims (though I need to redownload it), read, write something, and something(s) crafty. This year I want to play Sims (easy to accomplish), read a few books Hunger Games was one of them and we shall see where I go from there. I have a few ideas for books and plays... and finally there are two crafty things I want to do. Well three, but the third takes a lot of though. Finish my never ending Harry Potter scarf, its gotten heavy and knitting takes a lot of effort! Do a cool tie-die effect shirt, and, design another shirt for my website. I actually had an idea today, but like I said that takes a lot of thought. Question, are Sari and I the only ones who do this? Plan things to do over breaks?

So... I think that's long enough. I'm off to watch the X FACTOR! Go Melanie! And boooo Nicole. While sticking on my Dad's lables for his holiday card.

1 WEEK TILL HANUKKAH!

Miah

Exams? Done!

Hey Everyone!!

So I am finally done with my exams and now I'm HOME!!!! The only downside is now I'm sick :( It's kinda like my body knew it had to wait until I was finished with exams to get sick...because literally, my last final was on Thursday and Friday morning when I woke up it was like BAM! Ughhh I hate the winter because thats always when I get sick! I went to the doctors this morning and found out I have laryngitis and the only way for my voice to get better is by NOT talking. This is actually realllyyyyy difficult!!! Nice thing is though, I'm feeling much better now. The only thing that I have left is my lack of a voice, but my fever, cough, etc. are all gone!

Once I finished my last exam on Thursday, I made a list of EVERYTHING that I wanted to accomplish over break. Is it just me or when you make a list of things you want to accomplish, you always view yourself as like some type of superhero? I always put soooo much stuff on my list and am lucky if I accomplish at least 10% of it.haha.

Just PART of my list includes: Watch all of season 3 of Vampire Diaries, catch-up on Glee (i'm 3 episodes behind), read the Hunger Games, read the book 1984, read this book series my friend gave me (4 books x 300 pages each), order my textbooks for next semester...etc.

Yeah, all that I've done is read 7 chapters of the Hunger Games and watched a ton of random YouTube videos. (by the way, THIS BOOK IS AMAZING! IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY READ IT, YOU SHOULD. I'M ONLY LIKE 85ish PAGES IN, AND ITS SO SO SO SO SO SO GOOOD!!!!)

I seriously cannot motivate myself to do anything ahah. Part of me is mad at myself for not sticking to my list, but the other part of me doesn't care. I seriously would rather just eat chocolate chip cookies and watch random videos..because it gives my mind a break from actual school work :)

Anyways, I should probably try to accomplish more stuff on my list... :p

I'll keep you updated next week on my progress! but, don't get your hopes up, cause it probably won't be too much!! :)

-Sari

Wine Wine Wine

Good Saturday evening to everyone tonight.=)

I have a great week again. I am finished ALL of my projects for the semester!!! I finished my last one of friend about my wine (we each got a type of wine, and had to pick a type that was derived from the main wine) and it was a lot of fun. We got to present it to the class, and talk about a recipe that we also to do pair with our wine and why we chose that specific dish.

And on Friday, my family went to the Distilary district to have dinner with some family friends, and my step-grandmother who also got us tickets to see "Parfumerie" which was fabulous. It's a whole comedy with 2 different stories in it. It's a lot of fun with them, and we went to this really cool restaurant, and they had pictures and such around the restaurant showing what it use to look like inside. After that, I came home, changed and then went BACK out to the Nightmare Before Christmas thing going on at a bar/club, with some friends from school, which was really cool.
And now I've been studying for my exams, which are all of next week. But I don't think I'll be studying too hard tomorrow, seeing as it's my "sisters" boyfriends company party, and all of her family and me are going. Haha, Should be fun. Drinks, dancing, and live music. I'm really excited. Haha. But we put our Christmas tree up today, well the tree and the lights. We are decorating it tomorrow. And the whole time my mum and I were singing along to Christmas music, and bouncing around my living room. Haha.

Now I must go, finish studying and practice singing (my parents might get me singing lessons for christmas and i haven't sung in forever. ie. not in public/in front of others.) Hopefully I shall see y'all next week.:)
Cheers
Mars. :)

drunk.....just a little :P

okay so if I'm being honest I'm a little drunk right now soooooo this is gon be short and random. Im going to a bar tonight!!! Woooooooo gon dance me up a STORM!

My week was good, the first week i didn't have guitar lessons in a while i guess, which is sad but I'm already looking up a billion songs to play so thats exciting :)

I did a bunch of bike/runs with ma sister and once with another friend so thats fun am i right??

ummmmm omg k i can't think, i'll blog bout this stuff next week guys - ttyl!!!

Evie :D

GON DANCE NOW

Made-Up Miah

Unlike the two before me I am DONE and DONE. I finished with my two courses yesterday afternoon once submitting an online paper. Unlike most places, I don't have final exams instead final projects and critiques. Critiques happen a week after official classes finish and teachers can either decide to do them or not., and well only 1 of my 2 teachers decided to have a critique.

Anyway. What to do with my month long break? Well there's chemo, and hopefully that'll actually be my final one. A possible trip to Montreal, and that's pretty much all I have actually planned. Oh also I'm seeing Hair when it comes to Toronto.

For now I'm doing projects to keep me busy. Like right now I'm building a photo book with iPhoto for the French exchange I did in 2008... better late then never! It was a trip that I went on the the original four of this blog, and though there were moments, it was a great trip.

Also today I went to a program for women with cancer to learn how to apply make-up, especially tricks to make it appear that you have things like eye lashes and eyebrows. Which was really why I went, because like Ma, S, L, and E know I'm not the greatest fan of make up. I dunno I prefer nothing on, kinda whipped it all off when I go home... Though it was really informative Also I did take a picture, but its on my phone... Oh and I'm NEVER going to ever go back to nail salon. Right now I'm not allowed to paint my nails, but yeah never again. One thing I learned today, don't pump your mascara, that gets air into it and then it dries faster. Also avoid water proof mascara (unless you're going to a wedding where you plan on crying) because it's really hard to wipe off and you're basically tugging on your eyelashes. Though actually we didn't do eyeliner or anything like that on me because MY EYE LASHES ARE GROWING BACK! And so we don't want to damage the new lashes. Oh I should mention I went to the Teen one today, and well I was the only one. Like the woman said it's hard to find young women and girls with cancer. But the hair guy did tell me about a program for young adults with cancer, and it sounds AWESOME so I cannot wait.

Ok back to my book. If I finish by December 12th I can get in time for Christmas, which means I can take it with me to Montreal to show my grandparents. :D

Miah

Almost done. Almost. Almost done.

Tomorrow- last day of classes for the semester.

NEXT Friday- my last exam.

So… I'm getting there! It's stressful, and studying is not going to be super duper fun, but the good times are right around the corner.

Secret santa, endless amounts of hot chocolate, reading, knitting… I can see it now :)

Oh hey guys I've been listening to an album my university acquaintance recorded himself, in his spare time. I think it's pretty sweet, and I actually got really flustered trying to tell him how good it was this morning. Can you say *star-struck*??

You should probably be able to download it from this link, if you're interested.

I guess I don't have tooooo much to say, since I have maybe one more biochemistry lecture to go over, but I think the coolness of the album I linked to will make up for this short li'l blog.

Much love to you all,

Lee

Coming Home!

Heyyyy Everyone!

I'M COMING HOME THIS FRIDAY...AND I'M SOOOO PUMPED! I SERIOUSLY CANNOT WAIT :)

I know i'm late posting, and once again I apologize for that. This time, however, it was due to a lack of time, rather than my terrible brain. Yesterday, I had my astronomy final and my moral philosophy final, and this morning I had my world literature presentation. Everything has been crazy and it's not over yet!

For my world literature presentation, we are in groups of 4 and we all had to reach a play (my group had Ajax) and do a 20-minute presentation on it as well as a 25 minute video. Let's just say I'm extremely bad with editing and totally underestimated the amount of time that it would take to complete it. My astronomy final last night finished at 8:30pm and I basically stayed up for the remainder of the night/morning? working on it...Today I'm dead tired but it was worth it. We had to show a modern day interpretation of the play, so instead of having two warriors, we had two gangsters. One of the characters original name (from the play) was Menelaos, but we decided that a good gangster name would be Mo-Money...yeah..it was that type of movie. Also, the main character was having a "bad day" (since he went crazy and then killed himself..it was a very depressing play), so, at the beginning of the video, we have our entire group dressed up in overalls and yellow hoodies dancing along to the "Despicable Me" song. Although some parts were really embarrassing, it was a lot of fun looking back.

Anyways, so that was what I was doing all of yesterday and last night..and that's why I couldn't blog :( I'm sorry! Since I will have no school for the next month, however, I WILL DEFINITELY BE ON TIME FOR A SOLID MONTH! How amazing is that?!

Good luck to everyone with finals :)

-Sari

On time!

Hello ladies and gentlemen!
I am on time this week! This week has been fun. I got to taste wine and eat cheese and bread yesterday for my "Eating and Dining" class which was really cool. This week we tasted red wine, and last week we had "desert" wines, and the week before it was white wines.=P I love my program! Haha. And I have been getting all my marks back so I know where i stand before exams...I am passing everything!! Spain here I come!! (My parents are letting me go to Spain if I pass all of my courses this semester.=D)
This weekend will be very busy (hence why I am blogging to early on Friday. Haha) because tonight I'm going out to this really cool bar/club tonight for my "sisters" (it's my friends sister, but she has become the older sister I never had. Haha) birthday bash with her family and her friends. Haha, Somewhere call "Tattoo Rock Parlor" which is cool and next week some of my friends are going to the "Tim Burton Nightmare Before Christmas" thing going on there. Haha, so it should be fun.
And tomorrow some of my friends and I are going out bar hopping (again. Haha, yes i've become a party girl.=P) and going to a club called Faces. So excited!=D I am going to be so dead by the end of this weekend. Haha. Anyway i shall let you all get back to work, or school or such cause I need to get back to my class. Haha
ANYWAY! See you guys next week hopefully!!
Cheers

-Mars.

Feist is so cool...lovin the chills feel to her music :)

You know, technically it is Friday so I am blogging late but think about it this way: if I had blogged yesterday you wouldn't have been able to hear about the Feist concert till next week!
It was awesome. It was amazing. It was the best. And you know, it was so chills. Like during one of her songs a few people in the crowd stood up and started dancing (it was at Massey Hall so everyone was in seats) and she actually invited them up onto the stage to dance interpretively to her next song! It was hilarious and awesome. So then of course a bunch of other people wanted to dance on stage and it was basically all young people rushing the stage to get on and dance and stuff. And at first I was a little worried that the security or the ushers were gonna get all aggressive and start pulling people off but Feist was so cool about it; at the end of the song she just sorta said, "Well, I guess while you guys are all up here, why don't you just take a seat?" And so they got to sit on stage for the rest of the concert!! How freaking KWL is that? I'm not gonna lie I was a little jealous...but I think if I'd been on stage I would have been worried that some of the diehard fans around me would realize I didn't know the words to the songs and would like tar and feather me...or maybe just kick me off the stage :P Anyway, I really, really, really enjoyed myself it was such a cool, chills but epic concert. So thanks for inviting me Lee! And it didn't even matter that I didn't know many of the songs cuz the music was just so good I enjoyed it anyway! I might even get some of her new stuff that just came out :)
As for the rest of my week, I had my last guitar lesson till January when my brother and I will hopefully start up again. But I'm thinking maybe it's a good thing cuz our teacher gave us a bunch of songs that are somewhat difficult so I could use the time to practice and stuff :P I'll go back in January a PRO. Watch me.
Well, time to go for a bike/run with my sister I think (have I mentioned this tradition to you guys yet? My sister goes for long runs and I can't go for that long so I just bike beside her and get a sore bum? :P It's nice sister-bonding time though). Till next time
Evie

ps. fav song from the concert last night