Cottage fun with Chris

The family cottage
Me trying to drill the slushy ice
Chris and Me

Ding Dong Merrily on High - An update on me!

That song has been stuck in my head for the past 20 hours...I can't get it out, but I'll survive.

Christmas is only in two days, and my Mom in in the hospital, she's been there a week. She went in for a test, and they found more things wrong. They're hoping she can come home today, or at least for Christmas hopefully, so Dad and I are cleaning the house, and this afternoon I'll be Christmas baking.

I got through the end of school, it was a busy and possibly the most stressful week of my life. The teacher who yelled at me and my group apologized to me, saying he was too hard on me and not on the rest of the group, which was nice, cause I felt pretty low after all of that. It's amazing how an apology can restore respect. Even with the apology it was a lot in one week, and I'm hoping that all goes well in my marks. Luckily I had lots to look forward too, like wedding dress shopping with Charity, meeting Nuna, going to the choir concert and carol sing, going to see Narnia with Chris, Charity and Matt(yah double date!), and coming home with Chris. We got dumped with tonnes of snow and therefore went sledding. The two of us on a kids GT was dangerous, yet soooo fun. We also did a lot of relaxing, enjoying the north and hanging out with my Dad and Aunt Betty. He left this morning to head back for a family party.

Mary Richard and the girls are suppose to be down tonight weather permitting, which I'm super excited about. I still can't believe its Christmas already. This year went by so quickly, and my life has changed quite a bit. For the better of course.

Well thats the update on my life right now...Merry Christmas everyone!

Stress Ball

Whoa, it's been a while since I last posted anything. Mainly this is because life has been hectic to say the least. Currently I'm simply taking a break from my life to write this post. It's really a venting post this time, so take no offense, if I become offensive. Let me start with sharing the stress that is my life right now. First, exams are always stressful, papers are also stressful, put them together and you have stress squared. In two weeks, I had six papers, a presentation, and four assignments, all before my exam week. Those stressful days were increased with the added stress of being late for the presentation because of car trouble and then having the prof yell at me, in front of the class saying if it was the real world I would be fired and a lot of other not nice things. Further, in an email later that week I received a two page single spaced list of things I did wrong in my paper for that presentation, and that if I didn't fix these things by this Thursday i would fail the class. Now for those of you who know me, you know I don't fail things, let alone do papers that are so horrible as to be criticized like that. If I don't pass this class I don't graduate. The prof doesn't like me, which doesn't help the situation, and a number of the notes of things 'wrong' with my paper seem nitpicky because he doesn't like me. Now, rewriting a 25 page paper is no simple task in itself, not to mention trying to finish other papers and studying for exams on top of it. So basically I just can't wait to be done. I just need to make it through to Friday afternoon and I'll be alright. God's pulling me through this, I'm not sure how I'm still functioning, as sleep is hard to come by because when i am sleeping my dreams are stressful and wake me up. Either way, I'll make it through, and hopefully my next post will include the more happy and exciting things that are going on in my life.