I am in the best mood I've been in for a long time. I'm about to head out to Sal's to have a cinnamon bun and a tea (yeah, I have a coupon) while studying. From there, I will go to the Y and run run run. I've also been considering purchasing a bathing suit and doing lunchtime aquafit. That could be fun. Hang out with some middle-aged ladies. Get in the pool. I love pools.

I'm also going to contact Dave about throwing a party. A fancy party. We love food, and I love throwing parties. Fancy parties. Maybe I can make myself another dress.

Clementines were super cheap at the Forks today. $3/box instead of $5-8. I have already eaten 5 of them. They are my favourite fruit in the entire world. Except maybe freshly picked raspberries. *drool*

I also picked up some 50c coleslaw, 99c/lb big ripe tomatoes on the vine, and some bananas. We also went to Sun Wah, where I bought some awesomely priced sushi-grade tuna ($10 for 1.5lbs), some BBQ eel, an avocado, and some treats. I bought these little ice cream cone-looking things. They're basically a wafer around an aero chocolate, if I had to compare it to something. Not that I'm counting calories, but they're only 50cal/pack, which will help me with my snacking urges. I should qualify that by saying I'm not on a diet. I'm just eating much much better these days. Little snacks like that are things I need so that I don't just cave and go buy a box of macaroni and cheese and a bag of chips. Salt is delicious, but eating processed foods to get it is kind of bad for me.

I'm really just trying to live better these days - more exercise, more fresh foods. I thought it'd be harder to do, but with all the great prices at the Forks, it's actually been cheaper in a lot of ways.

Anyhow. My mom was the one that accompanied me to all of the places I went today. We also went for lunch at a place on Sargent. I introduced her to Ethiopean food, and I think she enjoyed it. It also turned out that we ordered like 2x more food than we needed - it was so cheap! Also, it was really nice to get out of the apartment and hang out with mumsie. She's a nice lady.

Tonight is Aaron's birthday party. It's at Bourbon Street Billiards, so come on down if you're feeling bored. We'll shoot some pool, get drunk on cheap beers, and enjoy the mild seediness. I do love that place.

Things are really good with me lately. Cherrystems is doing a lot better than when it first launched a year ago. I'm getting sales from the store, and new memberships. At this rate, hopefully I'll be able to become a Visa merchant, incorporate, and pay off some startup costs quickly and get on to becoming a charitable organization. Hoozah! I've also taken out my very first advertisement. I'm advertising in the Winnipeg Roller Derby League's bout program on the 27th. Sexy times!

Oh things are great with me. I hope they are with you, too.

Later, gators.

I ran 2 miles last night! Well, a total of 2 miles. A bit of walking in there, as I'm still doing interval training. In 26.5 minutes. Pretty good, I say! 16 of those minutes were running, 5 minutes were warmup walk. The remaining time was little breaks in between.

It also means I've passed another barrier - running for 5 minutes straight. Whoa! To think that just over a month ago, I was running for 60 seconds and having a hard time with it. I'm diggin' it, yo.

ALSO! I can now bench 50lbs and my weight-assisted pull ups are up to 85, chin ups at 100. That means that I'm lifting that much weight after subtracting the counterweight from my own weight. I've never done a full chin up in my life. Ever. Even as a child. I'm pretty excited to watch the weight get higher and higher. Squats are dumb, but effective. I don't get excited about squats. I don't like squats. That said, I'll probably be proud when I start using the bar for squats.

This morning was quite heavenly. I woke up when Aaron did, then went for breakfast with Brynna. I had a really nice time, and am glad I've turned over a new leaf, so to speak. I meant it when I posted a while ago that I felt like a new person. I realized I was spending a lot of time at home, and that branching out again was completely necessary. I changed a lot when I went for the monogamous, committed relationship that I have now. It took some getting used to, but now I find myself completely happy and ready to continue bettering myself as a person.

Annnyway. Tonight we're going to see Kevin McDonald of Kids in the Hall fame talk at Aqua Books. After that, who knows. Tomorrow is Aaron's official birthday party.

I should mention, Aaron's birthday was on Tuesday. I'd been asking him what he'd like to do, and he was so unsure and flippy floppy. He wanted to do *something*, but had no idea what. He decided we should go see Avatar, but sounded unconvinced. Enter mischievous girlfriend. At midnight (yeah, we had a countdown), I gave him a book. It was a Dan Savage book that I'd had signed for him at the celebration week talk. It was made out to Aaron, and had a comment asking "Where were you?!". I'd asked Dan to make the book out to Aaron, he asked me who Aaron was, and I explained that he's my boyfriend, probably a bigger fan than I am, and that he couldn't get the day off work. He then added the little note. :) Yay!

That night, Aaron got home from work to find his favourite pizza from Little Pizza Heaven and a bottle of root beer. I'd attempted to download some of the new Venture Brothers episodes (we're generally waiting 'til the season is done so we can watch it all at once), but downloaded the wrong one so we watched Futurama instead. Pizza, root beer, Futurama. And then I gave him another present. A model of the first lunar landing. It's a Buzz Aldrin Rocket Hero brand model, the same one listed here.

After asking him if he'd like to make his way to the theatre to see Avatar, I could tell he wasn't so hot on the idea of leaving the house. I suggested he spend the night playing KOTOR. So he did.

It was a pretty great birthday for him, I think. I was glad.

Today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I had constant nightmares and could hardly get back to sleep after them. This resulted in sleeping in, when I was hoping to get up early and finish memorizing rules for a test. I will write it Thursday instead, as I'm just really off my game right now.

But now the whole day has this.. damper on it. I don't like it one bit. I should go outside and do something, but I'm not sure what.

Grumble grumble.

Things have been great in the last few days, though. That's why this sudden sadness is so incredibly unwelcome. I'll write about the good later, when I feel good.

I hate to be a total Winnipegger in my bargain posting here, but I'm always astounded that I don't do my produce shopping at The Forks more often. Today I picked up 4 yellow bell peppers (99cents/lb! GET EXCITED!), a loaf of Country Harvest twelve grain bread, 4 ya pears, 2 zucchini, and a bunch of cilantro for $5. YEAH WHAT? Sorry. I'm having a moment here. That would cost twice as much at safeway. So for those downtown-dwelling folks that read my LJ (I know there are a lot of you), hit up The Forks for your produce. It's all really ripe and needs to be used soon, but that's how a market should be. For a lot of us, it's walking distance. With the awesome weather lately, it's double nice to walk to the forks for your groceries.

And hey, there's also a fromagerie, wine store, fish monger, and meat shop (where you can get organic local beef, elk, chickens, etc). You can get everything you need for tonight's dinner there - and it's often way cheaper than grocery stores. Why do I always think it's so expensive?

Ah, I feel good about things today. Yesterday was the day I moved forward again in my C25k program (couch to 5k). Christmas business made Aaron and I take 2.5 weeks off of the gym, so I started back over kind of. I repeated week 2, plus 2 more days of week 2. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't pushing myself too hard too fast. Last night I started week 3, which I'd never attempted before. It's 90 seconds of jogging, 90 walking, 3 minute jog, 3 minutes walk. Repeat.

Now, some of you may be thinking "3 minutes of jogging is nothing", but to me, it's huge. I cycle. I have cycling muscles. I have never ever ever ran in my whole life, save for gym class. And that was hell. I was always ashamed of not being up to par with everyone else, but was never given guidance on how to get there. It was always just barked orders to run more. Fuck you, Mister Badiou. And the horse you rode in on. (high school memories)

When I started the program, I was hardly able to jog 60 seconds. I simply haven't ever trained those muscles beyond walking. While I do walk a lot, it's not jogging. So I pulled up my bootstraps and endured the sore legs. Yesterday was a big hurdle for me. I'd only ever jogged 90 seconds. The leap to 3 minutes seemed huge and unattainable. And then I tried it. Success! So happy! It may not seem huge, I know. But remember - I'm learning how to run from zero. Next week moves up to alternating 3 minute jogs with 5 minute jogs, with 90 second walks in between. It gets harder faster, but I can do it! For example, by week 3 I'm only running 3-minute spurts. The end of week 6 sees 25 minutes of straight jogging.

On the personal news front, not much is new. School's back on. Studying for Logic test tomorrow. Brynna came over yesterday to take photos of me for her thesis. It was a really neat concept.

Things are 110% great with the lad and I. I noted yesterday that it's insane how quickly everything just went back to normal. I'm a fan. Also, after shopping around for apartments, I don't know where else would be better than here. I looked at the Rideau Tower and found that the kitchen looks like my parents', all wood with ornate brass accents. Straight outta the 80s. Same with the bathroom. It made me appreciate how modern and sleek our cabinetry is. Yeah, I'm talking about cabinetry. What?

I've also been thinking about furniture lately, and it has been frustrating the hell out of me. Part of me wants to really settle in to this place and get some matching, "grown up" furniture. But I also don't want to look like I'm cheap and trying too hard. That eliminates most things from places like The Brick. No offense to anyone that buys furniture there - it's just a personality thing. I feel like it wouldn't fit with who I've become. It does fit most people, and that's fine.

I've been looking at Pulse Furniture's stuff and will likely get something from them or eq3. Who knows when that will be, though. There's also the problem of the orange couch. It is awesome, vintage, and in great condition. In an antique store, it'd sell for $300-$400. That'd be a good way to fund new furniture, but at the same time - do I want to get rid of this once-in-a-lifetime piece? If only I had a basement I could just keep it in. A rec room.

My green couch is comfy as all hell, but only because my dad and I fixed it that one time. The workmanship on it was terrible. The whole seat section was held on by 3 screws. We're talking about a load of up to 600lbs (3 adult men) sitting on that couch, being held up by 3 screws. Of course it broke. It's now held up by about 8 screws, but it's in a really cheap wood. I learned my lesson and will never buy Ashley Furniture again. Crappy crappy workmanship for a "bargain" price. Thing is, most bargain prices are like $200 less than you'd pay for premium stuff that won't break and is actually made with care. I buy my clothes that way - I should also buy my major furniture that way.

Either way. I have a lot of things on my plate, and the couches are the last thing. The couches I have don't match, but they work. They provide a place to sit. There is no immediate rush to replace them. Things like a bookcase and some kind of shelving to replace the pepsi rack would do just fine for the time being.

Look at me, rambling away about furniture. I'm 25 now. Sheesh.

Ah, things are back to normal. Well, at least they're back to what I find normal.

There are rumors going around about work, but I really couldn't be forced to care. There are always rumors going around about work. Whoopee. If I lose my job, I lose my job. I'd probably be happier in retail, but the pay isn't as good. I can also do social work. I can do bartending, serving, and cooking. I really don't mind skipping from job to job - that was my life. This Via Rail job has been the first I was at for much longer than a year, and now its been 4 years. I've kept it solely for the cash, travel, and time off. There could be a whole world opened up for me if I do lose it. So why spend any time worrying about it?

I'm going to contact EI to see if they can help me get my driver's license. They do all kinds of training for people, and driving lessons are relatively cheap on that scale. Then I can also be a prison guard. Badassss.

All of this future career planning is stuff I've been doing anyway. Via was never my answer. So again, I do not worry. This is all a statement of just how fine I'd be without them.

Life has been awesome. NYE was positively wonderful. About 20 of our close friends got together here at our apartment in their fanciest garb to ring in 2010. I made an array of appetizers, including beet-pickled deviled eggs (the eggs were awesome and faded from pink to white, with yellow stuffing and oregano and chili garnish), smoked salmon cucumber roulades, smoked whitefish in potato nests, stuffed mushrooms (some with escargots), eggnog-iced cupcakes, and some topping-on-cracker arranged goodies. I also provided 8L of sangria. It was amazing stuff. I even made it properly - let it stew in its delicious juices for 24 hours before the party. Once everyone was drunk, we busted out the chips at about 2:30am. 'Cause fancy appies don't matter when you just want to eat *SOMETHING*.

My birthday came around quicker than usual this year, it seemed. I hardly planned anything at all. Still, a great group of folks accompanied me to KFC/Taco Bell for their Tuesday specials. Following, we headed across the way to Rucker's to play some video games and whack some moles. It was wonderful. The night was rounded off with a completely different group of people at an abandoned Lo Pub. Too bad Jack never got back to me about planning something there, especially when he suggested it - I guess that's how it goes.

I can't believe I forgot about the existence of the Yellow Dog. Should have thrown it there. Oh well! Friends and beer are awesome anywhere.

Since then (I guess its only been 3 days), things have been great. I've had some good project time, used my serger a bunch more. Found some fucking ridiculously awesome material at Fabricland with roosters and "prairie chickens" (I'd never heard of these, but Aaron has). Made a bag with roosters on it. Will make more things with more birds on them. BIRDS.

This weekend is going to be lazy/productive. School stuff to do, projects to make, and it's blisteringly cold outside. Also, I've given up the drink for a while again. The exception being birthdays. This will help me save money.

Made gnocchi again yesterday. It's bloody amazing. Also, if you're not using http://foodpile.net, you should get on that shizzy. That's where I put all my recipes these days. My username is "kate". YEAH, out of left field, huh?

Wee! Excitement!

Christmas always makes me feel like a kid again, but in a good way. Two more sleeps! Though technically it's only one more sleep, as my family events are mainly going to be going down on Christmas eve. Christmas day will be a second Christmas. I've never had so much Christmas to be excited about!

I bought Aaron's present today (yeah, I procrastinate), and I'm pretty sure he's going to love it. It's in two parts, as I also had him as my secret santee. OH BOY!!

Things! Things are good! I'm starting to get things organized again, which is very nice.

Christmas season is upon us. It started last week with Aaron and Philip's grandfather stopping in for a "home cooked meal". I made the best swordfish steak that I think I've ever made in my whole life, and the boys had pork steaks. Stuffed peppers and sweet potato mash rounded out the meal, with a starter of french onion soup and fresh fudge for dessert.

Things did take a turn for the drunk on the weekend, though. Riley and Kristin threw their annual ugly sweater party, which was good fun. That's the night Aaron and I had the fight that needed to happen. The air was cleared and anger was vented. All is well in the house again.

I also attended Tara's Christmas dinner. It was splendid, despite the ethnocentrism from JewGirl, who hated everyone but her very specific type of Jewish folk. Especially those Ukrainians. She even made underhanded comments while taking some of the perogies that I'd brought. Stupid JewGirl (I can't remember her name, so that is her nickname - given because she wouldn't stop talking about how awesome it is to be Jewish and how stupid everyone else is). Nevertheless. The party was an interesting combination of minds.

Last night was an unexpected great time with Angie. And then Angie and Jacob. And then Angie and Jacob and Conrad and Tony. And then Angie and Jacob and Tony and Conrad and Dale. It was great. My lungs and liver are hurting today.

Tonight will be Aaron's work's Christmas party. Should be a swanky good time. I think I'll wear my holiday dress. Yeah, I bought a holiday dress. Also, I'm planning on making my dress for new year's. It should go pretty well, I hope.

Tomorrow is the Hot Live Guys Finale - they will no longer play shows. I somehow doubt that, but we're going anyway. Rowdyism. Christmas is nothing without rowdyism. I love rowdyism.

And then it is Christmas. Aaron and I will be spending the night at my parents' house enjoying some holiday cheer. I believe I have everyone's presents in order. Yes, this year I got presents for my family members. I'm usually depressingly poor and not organized at all, but this year I managed to pull it off. Crafiness may have helped.

If anyone needs something to take up their time on Christmas evening, let me know. We're going to host a wee orphan's Christmas dinner at our apartment since Philip and Aaron aren't going home for Christmas.

Busy busy busy.

This weekend was quite great.

Friday was Dale's brithday. I baked him a delicious apple pie, and he rented out the imax for a bunch of us to play video games in. It was really awesome, actually. 7 of us in the imax by ourselves, playing video games. We didn't really end up doing anything prior to the video games, though. I got to Dale's just after 9, we had a drink, then headed to the imax. If any of you are wondering about doing this, it costs $175 for 2 hours (10 or fewer people), and you get the whole place to yourselves. You also get 25% off the concessions, which was nice. So yeah, 7 people ended up paying $25 each and having 2 hours of glorious fun. They have an xbox and a Wii.

After the imax, we headed back to Dale's place. Lisa and Chris went home, but I was glad that they came out for as long as they did. We ate pie, played rock band, and were ridiculous. It was nice and refreshing, though we were all tired as hell when we noticed it was 4am.

Saturday, I went out with my mom. It was nice to have some hangouts and chat with her again. Good times. She took me to a store in order to learn more about sergers, as I only know what I learned in highschool. It was a really informative experience. Saturday night was supposed to be spent going to the Lo Pub, but then I realized I'm broke.

Sunday was an impromptu Grey Cup party at Dave/Mitch/Doc's place. Talk about the Riders being idiots, hey? They almost had it won, but then they couldn't count. I was the only Montreal fan in a room full of people from Saskatchewan (or with very close ties to it).

Today I'm also going to finish a project that I started about 3 or 4 months ago. It's stupid that I still haven't finished it.

I missed the bus due to the clocks in the home being set to completely different times. Oh well. means I'll study for a test that I have tomorrow and rock out. Maybe make and freeze some gnocchi too.

GOOD DAY!

I'm having a great day. Things are actually going my way.

Went for breakfast this morning with Dave, which I hadn't done in a long long time. It was nice to catch up. My gloms turned out to be pretty much blackened. I was sad, but Dave suggested I voice my dissatisfaction. I did. I got new gloms, AND! They didn't charge me for my breakfast! That's awesome because I'm pretty poor these days.

Writing a blog for Shawna today. Great topic, too.

Tonight is Dale's birthday. I'm waiting for him to get back to me as to what kind of sweet treat he'd like for the celebration. I love to bake, as you may all be well aware, so I'm quite excited. I don't really bake often because then I know I'd just get super fat. It's just Aaron and I living here, and most recipes make things in the area of 1 dozen. I need more events.

Speaking of events, Aaron and I are going to host a new year's party this year, I do believe. A formal dress new year's party. Yes. This is a fine plan. You should come.

I have a strong desire to build a model tall ship. It's something I'd really like to get into.

Cherrystems almost ready for her relaunch. Had more little problems than I'd originally thought (mainly aesthetic), but all is well. Aaron's had trouble working on it lately too, as Philip is living in his computing room.

Ok. Back to the ol' awesome day.

So I have finally decided to do what I wanted to do last spring and learn how to run. Now that I'm laid off, I have time for a routine. I'm doing the "couch to 5k" plan. You can find info here: http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

I only just started it yesterday, but I seem perfectly able to do that first week. It's just awkward running for me, as I'm not used to it. I'm on the better side of physically active already, so it wasn't super hard. Just awkward. Now I'll move through the weeks and, apparently, be able to run 5k within 2 months. I'll update my progress as I go. This week I'm just alternating 1 minute of jogging with 1.5 minutes of walking. Next week moves to 1.5 minutes of jogging to 2 minutes of walking. After that, it gets harder quicker. Or appears to. We'll see!

Today is Mind and Body. One of my last several classes in that course. Good Riddance.

Otherwise. There are crazy amounts of leftovers here, as I've been using my spare time to batch cook. I should really cull the herd before I made more soup this weekend.

Yeah, I think that's all the excitement I've got for the moment.

I am writing an LJ entry! First time in like two weeks!

Why the hiatus? Well, there haven't been many things going on in my life that I have felt need to be expressed to the public. I'm dealing with a lot of things in my head right now, but it's nothing that others really need to know that desperately.

Today has been productive. Woke up early in order to find my blue woollen beret. Found it under the sheets, however it got there. I have pink hair again. I did it yesterday. It always takes a little bit of getting used to before I'm 100% thrilled about it, so we'll see how I'm doing in two days. It turned out quite nicely for the first dye. I should note that the first dye is usually pretty shitty - the bleach never quite gets out all of the brown/whatever colour my hair was before, and so there are little patches of "darker" pink here and there. This year there are fewer patches. That is good. The first time I touch up my roots, I'll also get those patches. Then I'm solid from there.

Went to class. Wrote a blog. Ate a banana burrito.

I made pierogi the other night - 5 dozen. Sauerkraut and cottage cheese varieties. Yum. I need to buy sour cream so that I can eat them. Oh man, it's going to be deliciousville.

Philip, Aaron's brother, has been living with us for two weeks. He moved here from Saskatoon kind of on a whim, and we're trying to help him with the adjusting to life here. He's staying in the spare bedroom, aka Aaron's office/my sewing station.

I'm going to go to the Y at about 3. Just waiting for the lunchtime crowds to get the hell out of there, really. Maybe I will bring Philip, as he has been asking questions about it. He might enjoy that.

Otherwise, there's a show at the Lo tonight. Boats. I may go, as I haven't been to a show in a long time. Trouble is that lately I've been wondering why it is that just going to as many shows as possible was my priority for a long time. I'd rather just go to the really good ones. But tonight could be really fun. We'll see.

Uh. Yeah. I think that's it.

Out.

Home from a trip I accidentally took to Toronto. I'm really tired. I'm going to make butter paneer masala and some kind of pakora for dinner, I think. Oh boy oh boy.

I'm so happy to be home. I had one more trip in me. I took it, I don't regret it, but now I'm happy that the season is once again coming to a close. Time to go pink and concentrate on school.

SLEEP NOW.

I realized after that last thread about hair dye that the recommendation I've been making to all you folks has changed salons.

If you recall, I've been recommending Nicole. She's now at Angles Salon at 241 Lilac. You can make an appointment at 475-3575. Her price is the same, but now she's at a salon that doesn't jerk her around. The old salon refuses to tell her old clients where she went (and no, she didn't do anything to get on their bad side - that's just them being jerks).

Consider yourselves updated. Have a wonderful day. I hear it's going to be cloudy.

Playing catchup today. Finishing a couple of blogs. Laundry. Cleaning. Plan-making, promise-keeping.

While in Winnipeg station the other day, I spoke with a manager that said I'd likely be getting laid off this week. As such, I've started to settle in to the idea. I've begun plans to pack away uniforms 'til next year, stowing away the luggage, and prepping myself for the good ol' EI poverty that is to come. This year's going to be intensely different than the last few layoffs. I have Aaron around, who will help me stick to my goals. Now that we're working as a team on CS, everything will get sparkly, spiffy, and sexy a lot quicker. Also, he's a physically active guy and we eat rather healthily while at home. I won't have that garbage work food making me feel gross anymore. I'm looking forward to a more simple life, as well as a more varied and fulfilling one. At the same time.

Otherwise. I'm sure that since I've settled in to the idea that I'm done for the year, they'll call me for a trip this weekend.

Also, I'm thinking of planning a dinner party group. $20/head entrance fee, featuring a four-course meal with wine. Renting a table/linens/china, and really setting the mood. Meeting once a month or something over the winter. The $20/head covers all associated food and materials costs, so I'd not be pocketing anything. Just a classy meeting of friends over delicious, adventurous foods. I think I'll email Dave. He'd be into that.

Back to schoolin'.

Oh what a glorious last 24 hours I've had. Instead of dreading work and the like, I decided to have some fun. Thomas, Janine, and I went bowling last night. It was preceded by two pints of strongbow at a pub off Granville. There was some kind of weird corporate event that had most of the pub booked up, featuring ladies with painted-on vests and booty shorts. It was surreal.

Bowling was great. The lanes we went to were so retro, it was great. The pins were on strings, the scoring was done by hand, and there was a reset button to hit before your turn every time. All original equipment from the 50s or so. From there, we went back to the hotel and went our separate ways. I ended up watching TV 'til about 1:30 Pacific time; talked to Aaron on the phone, said goodnight and all that wonderful stuff.

This morning, I woke up at about 9am. Not too shabby. I started off the day with some news. Being that I live in a tin can most of the time, I hadn't really heard about this balloon boy phenomenon that's sweeping the internets. It's pretty hilarious.

Otherwise, today I went on a nice walk, came back, napped for about 45mins, went to the gym, then back here, then to the pool/hot tub for an hour. Now I have to hit the shower and start getting ready for work, which I have to be at for 6pm, or 8pm for you kids back home.

I'm so relaxed. I hope this feeling lasts the rest of the trip home.

I have been busy. Very busy. I've only slept at home twice in the last week, and won't be home until Tuesday. I'm in Vancouver at present, not sure about what to spend the night doing. Maybe go for drinks? I've eaten ten metric tons of sushi today from my favourite place today. It was pretty much the best thing.

I think plans are unfolding to go bowling and have some drinks with Janine and Buxty later. Who knows!

The first day of this trip, I was positively ruined. There was a small group of people in a certain tour group that were just trying to make my day miserable. They were telling other passengers that I should be doing things that I should NEVER do (leave my bar unlocked all night with an "honesty box"? Sure, and potentially lose hundreds of dollars out of my own pocket!). The thing was that they were convincing the other passengers that this is the normal process. Now I look like the bad guy. They did this several times, and my authority was just straight up being undermined. It brought me to tears three times, and I'm a strong lady. Eventually, someone brought the ridiculousness to the attention of the tour guide. He actually had to speak to the party and made them give me a formal apology in the morning. Yeah. IT WAS THAT BAD. I'm glad that it was obvious to a few passengers and that they stuck up for me. But yeah. It was just the fucking worst.

Anyway. Thinking about that made me feel a little "sigh"ish. I'm going to sit in the friggin' hot tub and then rock some serious bowling.

I am having an intensely hard time accepting that I'm back in school to up my GPA for entry into law. I'm having a harder time realizing my GPA will be ready in 8 months, not 22. I'm having a hard time understanding that I'm signing up to take the LSAT in February, and that so far my practice tests have resulted in some of the highest possible scores (170-175/180). I got June's test printed and will be doing it on Thursday under the same time constraints as the real one is issued under.

I might change my mind, or I might fall flat on my face. But a lot of me thinks this is kind of what I need to do.

Travel plans again on the backburner, but Canadian travel will still happen. Tons of it.

Aaron and I are this.. team. And it's scary. Holy shit, do I love him. Weird.