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I’m on holiday!!! And it feels great.

My feelings exam was fine. She made us do the short answer question before the multiple choice, which was really odd. She actually made us hand in the short answer questions mid-way through the exam, so you couldn’t even use the multiple choice for hints if you forgot everything, haha.

After our exam we all went to Crystal Mall (an Asian mall near my house) for lunch. I had a beef noodle soup in a clay pot. Sodi-YUM!

Scott came home on Friday. I made him a chocolate birthday cake and a ham dinner with lots of stuffing. (It was his birthday on Thursday). I gave him a Canucks hoodie before he left, and a pair of winter gloves (finally!) when he came back.

He brought me sooooooooo many treats!! Five different kinds of Tim Tams, Freddo frogs, my world maps bathing suit, Savoys (thanks Vicky!). He even brought me a piece of hazelnut cake from Ganache (where we got our wedding cake!).

me enjoying a piece of wedding cake for breakfast dessert

PLUS he ran to Trader Joe’s on his stopover in L.A. and brought back tons of stuff from there too!! I am so spoiled!!! The airport security took the spekuloos cookie butter though because they were hungry it is a “liquid”. What a bummer. I still don’t know what that stuff tastes like.

the Tim Tam portion of my stash

I’ve hid everything that is still sealed away in the cupboard because it’s too many treats to have at once. I will ration it out over the next several months.

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It’s kind of crazy that it’s only been 3 days since I last posted yet I have so much I want to say.

1) I wrote my last difficult exam this morning. It was kind of horrible. Luckily I only have one more easy(ish) exam to go and then I’m DONE this semester!! I will spend all tomorrow memorizing feelings stuff and then Thursday around lunch time I will be officially on winter break.

2) We decided that Scott isn’t going to come to Fiji. :( It sucks, but Scott has another family wedding to go to next July. (I can’t go, again, because I have clinical). We agreed that it is only really responsible for him to go on one of the two trips, and he chose Australia. He also wouldn’t be able to get enough time off work for both even if we did sacrifice some of our savings. He IS still going to join me for the L.A. portion of my trip though, which is awesome.

3) I bought the LAX-NAN-LAX part of my flights! And now I will pretty much have my fingers permanently crossed until the trip is over. Fingers crossed that BCIT doesn’t go on too long of a strike, the hospitals don’t go on too long of a strike, my flights don’t get delayed/changed, it doesn’t rain the entire time I’m in Fiji, etc etc. I just keep reminding myself what Kate told me a while back: things generally work out for me. I suppose she is right. ;)

4) I found $8 Santa suits for Santa Skiing!! And there is skeleton the day after Santa Skiing! (BEST WEEKEND EVER COMING UP)

5) Ginger cookie fro yo sandwiches are a really freaking delicious dessert.

6) Scott gets home on Friday! Finally!

7) Sounds like Rosemarie had a great time in Melbourne. I made her a big list of all my favourite things to do there and I think she actually did each thing on the list! It must have been a really fun week and I’m so glad that Scott was able to (and is nice enough to) spend so much time hanging out with my sister. You can read her blog here: http://threepiece.wordpress.com/

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BCIT might be on strike again tomorrow. They haven’t made the official announcement yet though so there’s still a chance I might have school. It’s ruining the vibe of my Sunday, to be honest.

They’ve just been picking random days to strike, so it’s not super disruptive, but still bad. I still haven’t bought my Fiji flights because I’m paranoid that the strikes are going to mess up the schedule for next semester. I hope I will know something soon though because the flights are at a good price right now!!

Scott is in Australia right now! I got a quick note from him saying he was in Sydney. I missed chatting with him though because I was writing my online research methods midterm. Dang. Rosemarie arrives in Melbourne tomorrow.

I painted my nails last night while watching dumb movies. They’re grey with a matte grey accent nail with shiny grey dots. It’s been a long time since I painted my nails last!

Well, back to work for me. Exam week is rapidly approaching.

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Scott and I redeemed our vaneats.ca DD Mau voucher the other night. The package came with two half banh mi sandwiches (one grilled lemongrass chicken, and one crispy roasted pork) and a smoothie (we chose avocado) for $9.50.

The sandwiches were really really good. All the fresh veggies tasted great and the bread was crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. The crispy pork one was definitely the best, but the chicken was still good too!

(By the way, if you haven’t tried banh mi sandwiches yet, you should! They’re Vietnamese. They typically have cucumber, pickled carrots and daikon, mayo, cilantro, some type of meat, and hot sauce on them. DELICIOUS).

The smoothie was good also. It was made with avocado and almond milk. The avocado taste wasn’t super strong. I liked it much better than the time Scott and I tried to make avocado smoothies at home.

It was a great meal. The package was enough for two people to split for lunch, or one hungry person for dinner!

I will totally go back to DD Mau sometime. I want to try their BBQ duck banh mi, and I would totally order the crispy pork banh mi again. YUM!

DD Mau Menu, Reviews, Photos, Location and Info - Zomato

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It’s flipping cold out!!!! Time to crank up the thermostat I think!

It’s my last week at my fall hospital placement. My placement went fine I guess but I didn’t really start to feel comfortable until this last rotation. Hopefully they are pleased with me overall. I don’t know how good my chances are to get a job there though when just last week the boss lady asked me what my name was. :/

(I have been told not to take that personally because she is bad with names, BUT STILL. Yikes for me.)

I had a good weekend. On Saturday I did homework and streamed the world cup skeleton races at Whistler on the TV at the same time. Then Scott and I went out for banh mi. It was delicious, I’ll post a review in another entry soon. We came home and Scott had to do work stuff until after midnight!!!

I was quite busy on Sunday. I got up early to make muffins and then take the bus to IKEA to get something for a Christmas present. Then I met Scott at Metrotown so we could pick out some winter boots.

Neither of us have any waterproof footwear so we decided to invest in a good pair of winter boots once and for all. Atmosphere was having a BOGO sale for Black Friday so that was good for us. We both chose North Face hiking boots. I love mine, they are so warm and cozy! Scott’s have wifi. I am glad to finally have the right type of footwear to wear to Whistler, last time I wore sneakers and had wet socks the entire weekend.

Anyway then I came home and had lunch and did more homework and made cookies and then made dinner (mac and cheese with butternut squash. caramelized onions, apples, and bacon AKA PRETTY MUCH THE BEST DINNER I KNOW HOW TO MAKE). We finished off the day with Amazing Race and then I went to bed at 9PM because I am a grandma I have to wake up at 5:30 AM for work.

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Well that’s me all caught up. Scott leaves for Australia in 5 days. Have I mentioned that Rosemarie is meeting him in Melbourne for a week??!! I soooo wish I could be there, but I’m really glad that she will get to meet some of my Aussie family. And Scott has orders to take her to all my favourite Melbourne places!

Scott will be gone pretty much the entire time that I have to be studying hardcore and writing lots of exams. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing yet. I’d better go buy some frozen pizzas….