EuroTripppp

6 days! Then Ireland-Scotland-England-France-Belguim-Netherlands! I must say though, trying to find stuff to do is overwhelming! theres so much, in so little time! We could spend months in Ireland (and I'd love to..) the same with Scotland! Too bad we only get 2 weeks to do all that ^!

Dear Diary

I never had a real diary... I'd always get one (they were pretty).. want to write in it, so I'd pretend to put something important.. which was really "dear diary, hi" or " i saw a cat" very awesome of my child of a self.

Might have to do with the fact I would rather read than write, I had a snoopy sister or I never had anything worth writing about. Boring life I led eh?

Anyone else as boring a me?

La la La AMAZING!

So I watched Bones last night, It was a pretty good episode btw. It featured a childrens science show personality who wanted Bones to go on his show.  It pretty much reminded me of Bill Nye. Yay! Childhood tv shows! Things were so much more amazing when you were a kid. It's true, don't deny it. Bill Nye video.. watch me

On a HAPPPPY note, less than 3 weeks til I get my house! Tres exciting! Take that BMO mortgage woman! I dont need a man to get a house now do I. Sexist *****. ( In short, I went to my bank she sed your gonna waste my time, wait til you have a husband to help you.)

Going floor hunting today, it shall be fun.  Until  I can't find what I want for a resonable price:( boo. Hardwood is way to expensive! Comeonnnnnnn Direct buy! Dont let me down!
 

Cheers,
K

Beer

While in Portland, Maine, I experienced the most amazing beer ever.

Shipyard Brewing Co. PumkinHead beer. delicious. If you've ever had beer, you know what Im saying when I say aftertaste, well imagine beer w/o the aftertastes AND delicious pumkiny flavour exploding in all your taste buds. Yea, an orgasm in your mouth is right.
If your ever down that way(or up) def try it out and think of me and how thankful you are you read this.

Cheers,
K

Button Magic

So after reading an article on "Placebo buttons" it made me think, what are all of the "magic" buttons that make things work ( not really, but pushing them make us think they do). The article touched on a few,

Cross walk buttons

Fake thermostats in offices

Elevator door closing button (apparently disabilities act made those go out of style)

oh and the "clients looking over my shoulder looking for me to change something, ill just open this, and move this and close this, wa-la! happy customer"

What others can you think of?

cheers,
K

I've been working on the railway,.....

So today I feel like a certain sister who worked and blogged last year. I <3 lunch hours of surfing the web with potential for blogging.

Tis all.


Cheers.
K

Measurement systems

Units bug me.  The whole world should operate within the same system of units, thus immediately eliminating any issues in mistaken units.  Airbus 380? not a problem, fuel amount? Great! Strangely the accidents I know of having to do with units are aviation related... not sure if that's because I'm a pilot and I just tend to learn these things, or they just largely happen in aviation due to the more commonly used imperial system in North America in combination with metric.

Work uses imperial.. and metric.  Tres confusing sometimes, til of course you realize whats going on, then it's "hmm.. ok?"  But it's not like one company can change the world by swapping entirely to metric. Sadly.

One day. 

The world will be.

Metric.

<3
K.

Ottawa

Im still not convinced Ottawa is part of Canada.

I've been here for little over 3 months, I've yet to like going outside.  It's either a hell-hole of heat, or a pit of rain.  Now you may think I'm exagerating, saying, " I was in Ottawa, it was beautiful!" I call bull shit on you. Wherever you were before must have been miserable.  I'm East Coast born and bred, Ive seen shit weather all my life, but nothing compared to Ottawa. 

An example of the riduculousness: check the weather yesturday, the weather network calls for suns across the board. check the weather 12 hrs later, 3/6 days are raining. 

I was informed thursday last week that this was a weird September, its usually really nice in September here. To be honest, I dont remember September, I looked at the calendar and was shocked to see October.

On a happy note

Cheers!
K

Elections

Just want to say YAY! No more Liberals! Shawn Graham wasn't exactly the pride of the Graham clan to say the least.

At least he failed on the attempt to sell us out to the french. Its not every day your gov't official wants to screw your province over for money... Hmm wait a second! It is!


hehe something funny I found... good ol' Quebec Hydro... good thing that fell through, We'd be as screwed as NFLD... :S

Sorry for lack of coherent though.. I just wanted to comment on the fact libs are out! and PC back in their rightful place, theres a reason canada still exists, and it sure as hell wasnt the liberals.

Bookshelves

Have you ever really given thought to bookshelves/cases?  I never, until I came to the realization that I need one.. and a big one at that.  My bookshelf need is on of the floor to ceiling variety, but as luck has it, they dont come, shall we say, "pretty" "decorative" "stylish" and spacious.  Along my stumbles however, I've come across quite a few...lets call them "artcases"  practical use as a shelf, but main priority as a feature object for a room (seen to right is one such example). 

My favourite is featured on the bottom left as a staircase.  Im not sure how this could every be incorporated into my house, not sure if it could even survive my house, but I'd sure love to try. 

Nom

I just went to Boston Pizza. I am now full. It hurts to move.  ug.

Cuba in a day!

That is all, go on about your day now :)


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Cuba!

YAY! 10 days til Cuba! Im super excited. :) Started gathering supplies yesturday.

P[Sirenis playa Turquesa Resort]

My survival list:
Sunscreen
Burn lotion (im too pasty not to bring it)
Swim Suits
Shorts/Shirts/Dresses, etc (cottony)
Advil
Flip Flops
Monies!
Rain Coat (apparently its might be rainy season?)

Anything else I should bring?

Cheers
<3

Iron Ring, Exams... and life..:S

So, it's coming... what you may ask.  Life.  The Real World.  Responsibilities. Ye, know, the gross stuff u hear horror stories about in first year uni, about how Suzy got a degree and now works a 9-5 and has no life outside of work cuz theyre dorks, you know, adult stuff.  Soon enough, you walk out your door and find yourself 45, married with 2 brats who are worse then you'd ever thot of being as a kid due to the lack of social equiette thats developed over the past 5-10 years. 

Enough of that dreary talk.  Got my Iron Ring. -dances-  4 long years done with, though, considering a masters,  so I guess I could end up being around a bit longer.  But yes. Passed in my lsat report today, pain in the arse it was. Took over 2 hours to print due to the formatting disappearing when I hit print.  Soooo not a time.  Killed a few trees too :(, but all is well now.  2/4 on exams, and done friday! Then its off to the SUNNY land of Cuba, where alcohol comes included and so does the sand.  super excited!  One downside is though, Im pasty, so Ima gonna burn to a beat red colour:(. Go Go gadget Sunscreen!!

Cheers

<3

Now Taking Applications...

Today I went home. Not to my apartment, but to my land of birth. Its kinda of a big deal there... ye. Anyways, I live on the border of Maine and NB, therefore, we go overcross a bunch, and today happened to be one of those days. Presque Isle is pretty mudh my favourite place to shop, everything is cheap, and shopping for clothes is an enjoyable experience. Me + DEB = hours of enjoyment.  Today in particular I just went to browse, didn't quite end up that way to say the least. Started out with jeans, ended up with a pile of dresses. At the time I found the dresses I pretty much changed focus into "I need a dress for ball and iron ringggg"!!!!! Found one! Haha. super cute, black and white, classy.  Now at this point, Ive found what i want, and just waiting for me ma to come pick us up, thats when we decided to take a further look at dresses, and that was when I found my future wedding dress! Bam!. only black. :)

So, in order to be able to get my dress (which was only $150!) I need to find someone to marry, therefore I am now taking applications for marriage. :)

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Gone...but Here!

Haha. so I kinda disappeared there for.. oh say half a month? I do have a legit reason.  But ye. So pulled an all nighter last night to try to get progress done a glider design report due today.. anot sure if it worked or not.. see about that when we go to work it out again.

So, question for people. Whats your plans for March break? I was previously going to Flordia... but this has since changed.. Boo.

Super powers? I wish!

So the day has finally arrived! FRIDAY! not my favourite day of the week, (I TA labs... its annoying being at school til 530), but this week I think its a good day. So mainly this is due to the SUPERHERO pubcrawl the engineers are hosting, and best part... we get capes! BAM! That totally sold me on it. This is the first pubcrawl Ive been on i believe that originally starts downtoan and goes uptown, kinda neat, not so much on the walking home part, but Ill deal.

ps.. still need a costume, if anyone has ideas!! hero or villan!

Prolly the best day of this week.. Saturday! "International kiss a pilot day" therefore, I expect lottsa kissy's!!! lol This makes me laugh. Ive been missing out all these years not knowing about this! And the fact its the night before V-day, even better, we take precedence! hahaha.

Worst day? This I think I will chalk up totuesday or today.. tuesday was attrociously full of classes.. which I cant seem to get up for my 9 am one on time.. oh well. Today was a bit gross mostly due to the fact  I was in meetings all afternoon (like 1230-630), but a good point, went and got my car looked at, now I have heat and presumably cool air, as well as no more "chirping" and got my burnt out/ lights replaced! Now for a fuel filter and ol' Crayon will be good as new! <3

Cheers! Enjoy the weekend! 

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Midterms are... awesome?

So I got blog "policed" at for being lazy and unimaginative.. I laughed. <3 you Robyn. She wrote a nice lil blog alllll about me! It's amusing reading about how other people see you and memories that stick out to them. A lot of these memories strangly involve alcohol.. this is kinda the opposite of how things usually go eh? 

So I had a TME midterm today. Went horrid. Noy due to my lack of studying, more to the fact that it was a super gay test and made no sense. But oh well. only 15%. Have another tomorrow.. Which Im currently playing procrastionator at, which is fun. Found a new anime series to watch, "spice and wolf" not bad, kinda annoying that it has subtitles. Dont the Japanese know english is wayyyyy cooler? booo!

Anyways.  <3 for now.

Good (?) Times in the Hood

So.. I've been a tad bit lazy with the posting.. but I've been busy...and sick, again.  Last weekend was the robotics competition at school, WOOooo fun stuff, if I wasn't lazy I'd post some pics, had a wicked playing field this year, there were snowmen!! And school doesnt like me very much lately, assignment due monday, tuesday, lab due wednesday, work wed, work thursday, meetings  all afternoon thursday assignment due friday, work saturday,. and it repeats.. everyweek.

But on a happy note, I finally got a flexible work schedule!  2-3 shifts a week, and when i want one of my days off, I can just ask my boss! which is just in time cuz now I can go on my sorority pubcrawl! <3 happpy bout that! speaking of pubcrawls, The EUS Superhero pubcrawl is next friday(12th) ...we get CAPES!!!! THIS is EXCITINGGG! haha, woot for caps. Its the first pubcrawl I'll have gone on that starts downtown and goes up, which is sweet, we get to go to the nursing bachelourette auction! And I can get drunk at work for cheappppp.. which is good cuz Im poor.

And the reason Im poor.. March Break.. It's gonna be great. The guy I'm going with is coming up this weekend for the Atlantic Engineering Competition (still sad my group dropped out on me) so Im pumped to see him, It'll be a year exactly since I saw him. Which is sad :( Oh well! Im sure i'll want to kill him after spending a week with him :)

PS ...we still need ONE more person to go with us...... any takers...? (need a motorcycle tho) Come on.. DEALS GAP!! MIAMI!! DAYTONA!!! THE BEACH!!! BIKE WEEK!!! FLORDIA.... how could anyone say no? I know I never.  :)

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Note to self(and Candice).. dont go jogging in the winter

So, it's Tuesday night. After a hectic day of school, which was made better by my two hour lecture being cancelled, and allowing me to go sit with the girls at the Haiti fundraiser table. yay! And a tiny bit better by the fact the midterm I was studying for all day (not hard really), took 15 minutes to write, but it was multiple choice, soooooo Im not expecting good on that respect, but it wasnt bad.

So now, Im lying in bed just surfin the net, when Candice texts me. "Wanna go for a jog," now I'm thinking, hmm this sounds nice, I missing circuits therefore I should do something. So we go. now for all of you that know Freddy, you prolly know this, the city is F'in LAZY. What sarted as a "jog" soo turned horribly wrong. The walking trails of Freddy are covered in a nice coating of ice and snow, even after the massif amount of snow that melted that day, (which is why we thot it'd be ok) there was still only the BRIDGE that was "clear" clear being able to run on and not kill yourself.

Now,  having made it across the bridge, we continue on the trail, which seems promising. Not 5 mins later were we confronted with a MASSIF lake. So being the weaklings we are, we DIDNT cross it. lol. Instead, we decided to go through the snow field (which didnt have freezing water) to the sidewalk. During this jaunt, somehow it turned into a race (which I won! woot!), and this is where my story come to now. During our lil "race" I twisted my hip somehow... who knows running in calf high snow is hard, and it seems our adventure didnt like me, as I wake up today with aches all over. Boo. <3 u candice. lol

On a high note for our "adventure in downtown/northside freddy" going back across the Westmorland , we were bad and used the old sidewalks they had blocked off! woot for jumping barracades!

Kittys, oh < 3

So, anyone whos been around me, knows I have two adorable little beasts, Valentino (Tino) and Jager(meister).  They cover me in hair, they climb my walls, they bust up my blinds.. but, I adore them still. At the moment, the youngest, Jager, is trying to dig a hole in my bed, he's a bit off. Hes about 14 mths old and looks 6 mths, I call him my perpetual kitty, cuz thats what he is next to any cat his age, his brother Tino is twice the size and 2.5 times as heavy, and hes only 4 mths older! Id love to demonstrate the difference with a metre stick next to them stertched out, but i dont have one :'(.

Anyways, My point. The boys get into "tantrums" when i neglect them. So ther other night, while at work, they decided that the blinds were in their way. So I wake up in the AM, to see, wow, my blinds arent quite work. So now before I move out I have to find blinds. So getting to the point finally,  if anyone sees blinds on sale for cheap, I need me some! So give me a heads up! any colour will do, lol.  :)

Cheers,

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