Blah..humbug

To summarize;

My life is boring right about now

and

I am facing off against THE IMPENDING DOOM!

Yes, there are less than two weeks until I leave and that means less than two weeks to complete such (GIGANTASAURUS) assignments as:
-english research paper
-chemistry lab portfolio
-science topics agriculture project
-english journals (equivilant of an entire terms worth of material!)
-tests earlier than the other kids
-PACKING!!! (yes, this one may take the longest of them all sadly enough.....)

but the good news kids, is that Emily will be exempted from her only remaining exam (chemistry in nature) and that is good.

On a TOTALLY unrelated note though, I'd like to extend a heart felled laugh in the general direction of the world for all this hype concerning a day coming in less than a week; June 6th.

Honestly, it's like people actually believe that's a greater IMPENDING DOOM than the state of my english homework!

Convert people, convert! Save yourselves from a sure and fiery DEATH which is BOUND to come to you on this SPECIFIC day of the gregorian calender and which is sure to seperate the rejoicing from the rejected!!!

Hey!-I've got a great idea, why don't we just stop the earth from spinning and then that day will never come...or reterograding....YAH, brilliant!

oiy-and check out this stamp eh, hmmmm.....only $6.66 plus shipping...

A Jolly Good Day

Today was a good day for British comedy.

Much to my delight, my computer FINALLY had a specific video codec installed and I was able to enjoy (in both sound AND video) my greatly anticipated LOOK AROUND YOU series. Later on in the day I made some good headway on a series which my "boss" actually lent and recommended to me; The Office. I had heard much good about The Office from other sources and of course, as with all British comedy, I was not left disappointed.

After that I preceeded to go tag-team shopping with my mum and sister (aka one destracts and the other loads the cart with all good things) and the sum came to an appalling sum of money. Upon returning home I determined taking the dog out for a long walk would be an ideal task to escape the wrath that should be inflicted on me for coming shopping.

It was about 11 o'clock (23 o'clock for those of you who may prefer military timing!) by the time we set out and we headed over to the back lane. I ended up discarding my shoes and Char's leash and running all along the burm to the lake. Running barefoot, laying in the grass next to my dog, starring up at the stars, cartwheels, scrunching my toes up in the grass and escaping the cacophony of regular city street lights. It all seemed very pastoral-or, let me rephrase that, about as pastoral as it appears to get in Winnipeg suburbia.

Anyway, we ran back to the shoes and leash and eventually departed back for home, but part way through I decided my feet were a) too hot in shoes and b) happier out of captivity so I opted again for no shoes. See, this is my theory: We have the Envirothon competition coming up next week and instead of freaking out and/or pouring all my time into studying the binders, I'll just learn from Mother Earth herself via the diffusion of Earth-knowledge. This is actually so logical I made I diagram.

Arrr

In my spare time (while babysitting) I managed to set up the two pirate ships in a scene of battle. It might just qualify for the highlight of my weekend. = P

None of the pictures have been edited so you will have to excuse my poor photography skills. I think my favourites would probably have to be the first three pictures though...

And regarding the final picture...that was actually a few days back when I thought the remains of my apple juice looked "SO COOL" distorting the pear tree behind. (yes, cringe if you must, but it was a) a "SO COOL" idea at the time and b) helped me develop a love hate relationship with my manuel focus!)

Shifty Divots

As per usual our household was in a cleaning frenzy in order to get our home in show room condition, as opposed to its regular condition of being next nominated for the TLC show Clean Sweep!

Today's Target Zone: yard/garage/shed

Mum: Look, I'm trimming up the cement pathway.

Emily: Mmm. So I see.

Mum: How would you like to transplant these strips of grass onto the dead spots in the backyard once your done with the shed?

Emily: Mmm.

Mum: Excellent!

Results:

Nasty looking spot.


It's a little bit shifty.

On the other hand though, I think it looks great so maybe I'll ditch pediatrics and just charge balding old men outragous sums of money for my sweet services. Then again, not, but its still nice to know I've got my backup plans covered!

I leave you with this:

Dirty fingernails.

A picture of the moon.

Tis the Season for Ice Cream!

Tis the annual (belated) re-opening of the BDI celebration! Although admittedly I went a little earlier this season (best friend has hook ups!) this was my official first paid for ice cream sundae of the 2006 BDice cream season. How exciting! This one also happened to have more raspberry sauce than the freebie, but I hear that guy was a newbie...he'll learn....or get his arse fired! Skimping on sundae toppings is a major no-no in my books!

It did come back and bite me on the arse in the end though because as I was trying to rearrange everything in the car some topping leaked out the sides and spilt on the drivers keys and lets just say it was highly sticky and not pretty.

After inhaling our respective ice creams we (sisters night out!) went out in search of some cheese in a store that would be open at 10:23 on a Thursday night. Our poor father was rather devastated about the lack of cheese in the house, and admittedly so was I, but slightly less so as I had finished off the last of it for my lunchtime grilled cheese sandwich. We found some shifty looking cheese at the 24 hour shoppers drug mart but opted for 4 cartons of $0.99 1L chocolate milks instead and desided to pursue some cheese at the local 7-11....they have everything right?

Wrong! They appeared to have everything but cheese and so we went home dissapointed, delivered what was left of mum's root beer float, and I had to put my special project for today on hold. But have no fear, due to my seemingly abundance of newfound time (whoot-AP exams will wrap-up this coming Monday) I will commence shortly and be sure to document the event!

And now it is time for some more Paul Gilbert-Down to Mexic0!!