It’s mega snowing!! (At least for Vancouver standards!). This is the most accumulation of snow that I have ever seen here in the last two winters. And it’s still coming down hard!
I am so so glad I don’t have to take the bus anywhere today, it must be pandemonium on the roads out there! Nope instead I’ll be staying inside and playing more Settlers of Catan on Scott’s ipad. :D
EPIC WEEKEND AHEAD!!
I am already so so excited for this coming weekend. Scott got the 24th off so now he has a five day weekend!! It’s nice that we get to have a little holiday together. We really haven’t been doing that lately, he’s been to Australia twice without me, I went to Ottawa without him, he went to Edmonton for work for two weeks without me, I’m going to Fiji without him and then he’s going to Australia again without me!!! It is silly how badly our vacations have been working out.
ANYWAY this long weekend is gonna be funnnnn. Santa skiing, skeleton, more skiing, a kegger, Christmas… all while being at Whistler with friends?!! Can’t get any better than this!
Added bonus that we have awesome friends who are letting us stay with them, and drive their cars, and that we can get a free lift ticket by dressing like Santa on Saturday. Epic fun weekend while still on a budget!! Perfection!
PERMA-GRIN!!!!
Us all dressed up for Scott’s work party on Saturday night.
It was pretty much the exact same party as last year. Ridiculously expensive drinks, delicious buffet dinner, long speeches, casino games, etc.
My favourite part was the baked brie dessert cheese. OM NOM NOM. And getting to take a paid taxi home. :D
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.
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/