well, after much tweaking, i must say that i am actually rather pleased with the outcome. let me know which of the two layouts you prefer. the good news is that i know understand quite a bit more about how blogger templates work. i might one day be able to work on my own.

I finished the book i wanted to finish, i also finished my final project in music history. it just needs to be printed and dropped off at my professor’s house on monday. of course, that also means that i need to find the address. you are surprised that finding the address will most likely be a problem aren’t you?

on another more exciting note: Lisa’s grandmother rocks. She have Lisa $50 to take me out for lunch and gift certificates to the movies. Woohoo. I bought the two dictionaries i wanted, lounged with Lisa, finished my paper and read some yesterday before going to get Lisa at work. Then we went to Elixor (yummy leftovers too!) and then we went to see The Family Stone. It was good. it was definitely a Christmas movie, but it was good. i would not have been thrilled had it cost full-ticket on Friday, but as a free movie (hehe) or a cheapie tuesday movie it was good.

Steve was supposed to go snowboarding yesterday but it never panned out so he just ended up going with his friends to nickels for dinner. this means that i ate better than him. yeah.

Well, it is already getting kind of late in the morning and there is a shower to take and reading to do. i was supposed to work on stuff for the office during this week, but that never happened. maybe later this afternoon or tomorrow evening before going to bed.

what do you think? i was supposed to be doing homework, but instead ended up playing with this. the white lines are bugging me. they cut the page wrong, but are integral part of the background image. alas. i will get back to work.

UPDATE: Also just realized i have lost my titles and the comments. Hmm…will play around with that sometime soon.

i don’t really feel like this, but after reading that everyone that i read has posted, i feel obliged. for those of you who were informed of this development - steve and i were not broken up. he said he didn’t mean it like that and that he was sorry for leaving me hanging. he was just mad. i sent him a text message that was almost an exact copy of the apology he sent me last time he was a big ass, and i think he got the whole “i am sorry, but don’t get all self-righteous on me because you can be a moron too” message.

Yesterday was good. we did nothing. i slept for a while during the day, read some of my book, cleaned my room before going to his house and organized bookshelves. we made frittata for dinner. it was good. we watched the godfather and two discs of that 70s show. He was so hot (i mean like burning up fever-wise) in bed that i ended up relocating to the corner of the futon is his bedroom at like 4 in the morning because i couldn’t sleep. he woke up about 2 hours later i would say and bee-lined out of the room. then i heard him running around upstairs. i called as he left the room to say i was right here, but he didn’t hear me and in the dark couldn’t see me. it was funny. he was petrified. it was much like the time i fell asleep in a closed-drawer when i was four on vacation with my parents. they were convinced i had been kidnapped via the open skylight. it was my snoring that eventually clued them into my hiding spot. steve was mad i didn’t just wake him up instead of dressing in all his clothes and curling up into a ball on the futon. why would i wake him up?

Apparently i have gotten into the groove of blogging. we finished disc 3 of that 70s show today. we only woke up at like 1pm. we were lazy. his parents had raclette made for dinner. when i got home i ate trifle and fudge. all bryan’s cookies have been eaten.

Tomorrow i am going to finish my last project for school and probably will be going to chapters to buy the latin dictionary i could not get in ottawa. they were out of stock. i have checked and they are supposed to have one in pointe-claire.

So, apparently my “friends” are mocking me. Nice. it’s always good to know that you are being mocked.

To continue where i left off yesterday in the Christmas adventure. Christmas morning i opened presents with my parents after waking up with quite a cotton-mouth and headache. I tried to turn off a lamp that was not even on because it was hurting my eyes. I think i was a tad hungover. I got some nice loot. A deskchair that is supposed to be assembled by the time i get back, a sweater, a pair of jeans, a dressshirt, a necklace watch (i will be able to type without worrying about losing my watch!), a beautiful scarf, hat and mitt set, a pair of “satin” pyjamas, Cinderella…the list continues. Then we came to my aunt’s. Lunch was fantastic. All the stuff that just says Christmas is sparkly lights, mashed carrots and turnip, brussel sprouts, turkey, cranberry sauce. yum. i got more good loot. the tea ball was the best. we are planning on going to Chapters to use the gift cards i got on a new latin dictionary.

Then we went to my other aunt’s. The food was not as good. she made fudge. i like fudge. my aunt lorraine had made trifle though. i like trifle more than i like fudge. the evening would have been much nicer if my grandfather had not started it by telling me that my Dad could go fuck himself for not wishing my grandparents a merry christmas. anyone who knows how much my Dad worries and cares for his aging parents will realize that there is no way my Dad forgot to wish them a merry christmas. my grandfather is going deaf is the problem. the also stank of guinea pig cage. i was not a good kid and hid a lot to get away from the smell. they should be in a nursing home.

we came back to my aunt’s after getting lost in Ottawa. We listened to the Rent Soundtrack (just my Mum and me, my brother and Dad took my grandparents home). We drank more tea and went to bed.

yesterday we spent the day with my grandmother. she smells great by the way. she made us lamb and pork chops. i had homemade apple sauce for dinner. we took naps in the afternoon. i beat my aunt and mom 8-2 at cribbage with my Nana. we rock. we play a lot more than either of them, but i always get put on my grandmother’s team on these things because people forget that i play online and am actually much better than they would suppose. we came back here after dinner and i watched Cinderella in bed.

this morning is shopping. i am supposed to be home around 7:30. Hopefully Steve will have dropped off my purse at the house so i may go out and see Veronica before she leaves for Ohio. I know this is a very long and detailed account of Christmas, but i was enjoying myself the whole time and i hope that shows.

I have managed to read a whole 50 pages of the first school book i was trying to read over the break. What break? it’s already almost over!

I love Christmas. Even when i am not happy about the presents i bought people i still love the feeling of spending a whole day with the people who knew you as a kid. they have some of the best outlooks on what you are actually like.

The 23rd with Lisa and Veronica was great. We were so at a loss for stuff to do (not a bad thing) that before dinner V & I wrapped fifteen boxes of Tic-Tacs. We wrapped them in ribbon, brown paper, a photocopy of a ten dollar bill, duct tape…anything you could think of. it was a blast, tedious, but a blast. We ate good food, tried to convince Luba we were on drugs. i squeaked the word “tea” at my super-sonic highpitch volume until Lisa could not stop laughing. it was fun. we ate more (clodhoppers) and watched some gilmore girls.

Despite Steve’s waiting until the very last minute to get my Christmas presents, i must say i was pleasantly impressed. The top two items on my list: a body pillow and That 70’s Show Season 3. He made sure someone else (his cousin) got me the other item i REALLY wanted: the rent soundtrack (yes, i will burn you a copy Lisa). His Mom must have been sufficiently shamed by the nice presents i bought his family last year, because i got a beautiful beige and white striped angora sweater. it is a little itchyy, but beautiful.

I had a nice conversation with his cousin about learning languages, work, etc. She is nice and will be added to my MSN. I knew she was nice beforehand, but i didn’t know her MSN sign-in name.

I was a little drunk, my eyes were burning from all the chainsmoking and i had a body pillow and a garbage bag of loot when i walked out the door - did you notice what’s missing? no, not a coat, i have lots of coats that wouldn’t be a problem. I forgot my purse there.

i will end on that note for now. Me Mum and me infamous Auntie Lorraine are up. Happy Boxing Day. Updates on the Christmas Adventure will follow in the not-so-distant future.

wow. i haven’t been this physically tired since working at subway. i worked all day; it was hell. i brought work home for the week off because i do not want to have to deal with it when i get back. i must do said work on the sly because otherwise a certain father-figure will be mad.

The Chapters at Rockland closed some time ago - news to me. We were supposed to go at lunch, but as it was not there right after work we rushed out to Fairview. My grandmother now has Christmas presents from my parents. Then i came home and had some Chef Boyardee. Then we went to the Metro to buy supplies for the baking extravaganza. I have made chocolate brittle, shortbread, peanut butter cookies and sucre a la creme, plus wrapped it all in a 3 hour period. your applause is appreciated. Note to self: do not place baked goods outside to cool if it is snowing, no matter how lightly.

I yelled at someone today. I do not know who this person was. I thought it was Lisa and Veronica whom i had just spoken to ten minutes beforehand about when i would be able to give them an ETA for Christmas tomorrow. I told my brother in a very loud voice to tell “Lisa” i was busy and would call her back. It was not Lisa. I have no idea who it was. I am sorry unknown caller.

Yeah, so my feet are swollen. I still have some wrapping to do. I have to wait for the cookies to cool before going to bed. Apparently the brittle is best kept refrigerated, but i don’t have room in the fridge and i don’t think the cookies are best-kept refrigerated. However, brittle is supposed to be all stuck together in my mind. i still have six presents to wrap.

Funness is that i just figured out that i do not have to go downstairs to ask my brother to lend my his digital camera for tomorrow - Lisa has one. Yeah!

I need sleep. i am going to read for a little bit and then off to bed

I found this a couple of weeks ago on msn’s news page, but ever got around to posting it. For those it doesn’t immediately click with, it’s how much the 12 Days of Christmas would cost today.

Gotta love Calvin and Hobbes…My aunt sent me some today that i hadn’t seen yet. i didn’t know there were any. I am feeling better. Apparently all my digestive problems were school-related because i haven’t had an upset stomach since Tuesday night. Woohoo. Got an A- in Latin. Another woohoo. All the presents are bought. now i just have to wrap 6 of them and bake tonight: peanut butter cookies, shortbread and sucre a la creme. hopefully it will all turn out. Merry Christmas everyone!

i am exhausted. i have not been keeping up with my blog readings, sorry. i went Xmas shopping today and i forgot an entire side of Steve’s family. My Mum is supposed to pick me up some boxes of chocolates for the people i forgot. i need a smack upside the head.

My exams went okay. Did i mention i am exhausted? tomorrow night i have two more people’s presents to wrap, plus the ones my Mum is bringing home. I also need to do some baking for my grandfather. i work tomorrow. i want to sleep.

I promised myself that i would let myself blog between taking notes for the essay question i am prepping and actually trying to outline the sucker. woohoo. what a great break. i think i might go get a chocolate bar or something as a real treat.

Yesterday Steve and I went to the Marche aux Puces in Ste-Eustache. We were shopping for winter coats for him. We were not successful. We came back to my place and goofed off downloading music to make him a new CD. We were going to go out to La Belle Province for dinner (sharing a poutine - how romantic… - it is. if you will remember our first date Vero), but we ended up going over to his friends’ new apartment for dinner. She made some kickass italian sausage sandwiches. I know that doesn’t sound too kick ass, but i watched her make them and when i do it for you, you’ll agree. She also made cheesecake with an all-natural raspberry glaze. yum.

Another one of his friends showed up. Apparently a construction worker has a woosy job. this is news to me, so i guess Steve and i are history because i wouldn’t want to be seeing a woos. It was a pretty funny conversation. The guy delivers food to restaurants for a living and apparently it is a very sore spot for him that construction workers think he doesn’t have a hard job. Steve says it is a rant that just keeps going.

Well, i have brownies in the oven, a cup of tea, tea biscuits and a blueberry candy cane…i have no more reason to put off prepping the last question of the exam. wish me luck