This post is brought to you by the letter....A

I got an A today...on a poetry quiz worth 10% and probably the only thing i will get an A on in my english class this semester but hey...an A is truly dear and hard to come by this semester...

I am working on a paper for my nursing class again, can't you tell, this is me, working...today while I was working on my paper, I went to the drug store, I got change to do laundry...then I did laundry...I cleaned my kitchen and desk, I gave myself a manicure, I made supper...I am still working on this paper...it's only 2 pages long...but it's coming rather slow...when you know that you are a B sort of paper writer the oomph to write just isn't there...I am finding it hard to get motivated...oh well...the dorms have their snack time right now...I might go get some, while I am working on this paper...

I wrote an email to the fam...

I am thinking about painting my toes now...I mean they are getting kind of left out with my hands being so pretty now...

but don't worry, I am still writing this paper...it's called multitasking.

A few of my favorite things...

Chocolate chip pecan cookies with coffee...

packages with clothes in them and books and money...

wedding invites from a friend...

a phone call from the parentals...

walks in the assinaboine forest with brown and yellow leaves everywhere...

taking a nap and then reading hamlet ( for class)...

extra hours at work...not getting fired from work (don't ask)...

Auntie Netty's home made buns with butter...

sitting and chatting with my roomate...

Korean soap opera's on utube...

getting random emails from friends and family...

reading a poem about TLC and remembering what an amazing summer I had...

girls nite with martini's and walks in the evening...

so, after a week from the pit of despair I am tallying up some of the highlights and there are lots...I am very blessed.

Hustle for Hunger

It was a blistery early saturday morning, but two bosom friends set out to conquer 5k's for the soup kitchen...for food... the intrepid runners would risk the windy elements and then go eat a well deserved breakfast...


This is not breakfast, this is cooking endeavors with the roomie...we had a floor potluck...so we made broccoli-cheese casserole and then i went to work and she went to the potluck...it was kinda ugly looking so I was glad not to have to go...this is the best picture I could possibly get of it...and I really tried, I took sefveral (said in Mr. Collins voice) but it was just an ugly casserole...oh well, it tasted good though.

This is just to say...

I hate your stupid english class
the in class essay
I got a B on
really sucks

I just wanted
to be smart
an artistic genius
but I'm not

and I feel like crying
so lame
and I'm ashamed
but your english class still sucks


this is a paraphrase on one of the poems we had to study in my english class...I got a B ( a very low B) on the in-class essay and it made me so emotional. I just wish i could burst out crying or something but I just am not that kind of person...so here I sit stewing about the fact that I just can't write...I guess alot of me wanted to surprisingly discover that I am a writer...but I am not, always have been a bit of a b student. Thank goodness for multipe choice testing...I can do that.
Oh well, on a positive note my friend shirley called-to keep me acountable about all the changes I have made (like joining a bible study and church sunday school group) as well as all the other issues I have:)...before she hung up as we were saying our goodbye's and giving our luv, she said, "at least you can say, I love you"...which was so encouraging to me. Maybe it's not that big a deal but it's a start....

# 246

a title for each post is pretty much the key in actually writing a good post...so here's to post 246...may it be a gooder...

there is a whole lot of white stuff on the ground outside...that is a whole lot of ugly I just don't want to deal with right now

I worked at safeway the past two nights...getting to know the guys that I work with alot...they are all so cute...and so young...Amir lent me a $ cause I bought my thanksgiving day dinner and he took pity on me...I only had 6 bucks....basically I really do feel abit of the cashier love coming over me again...the corny jokes...the lame produce codes...bulk carrots are 4562 and seriously people...why do you buy one carrot when you can buy a bag...for real...your killing me! Also there was an older gentlman who came thru with his cane and I asked him if he wanted to donate to breast cancer and he said yes, a dollar....so I said, well sir for 2 dollars you get 5 bonus air miles...and he laughed and said ok and then said I was as good as a used car salesman...and I laughed and told him I was hoping that was a compliment...and we both laughed and then he said, I would be very honored to buy a car from you...and it just made me smile the rest of the night...who says they would be honored about anything any more...
OH, then a lady told me I had AMAZING hair....can't you just see this lady ogling my hair...and vain little me started fliping and turning my head the rest of the shift until i realized I was giving myself a crick in the neck and I should just not be so vain...

in other news my cousins introduced me to chocolate covered jujubes...can I just say...props to Bev and Brenda these are going to get me thru the paper of death....I have officially reached 2 pages...2 more to go...psychsocial theories of lifespan development...yes, it is as stimulating as it sounds...

My bro in law Leigh called me 5 times last night just to talk to me...he actually kept calling ...I was at work so I answered when I got home and later thought, that was the nicest thing anyone could ever give me for this thanksgiving...we chatted and then i chatted with both my sisters and it was just the perfect end to a day of blowing snow storms and work....

does anyone remember in 'you've got mail' the whole Rose the cashier incident...'swipe, swipe' and 'happy thankgibbing'...it was all I could do to stop myself from turning into Rose and wish everyone a happy thanksgibbing...

I took three tests this week in school and am anxious about the results...so off I go to quench it with some chocolate jujubes...

happy thanksgibbing and may God bless us everyone... ( ok so I am jumping ahead a little...but you try looking outside my window...)

Family Reunion Pic's taken by my friend Lola

Pumpkins and Orange it's October!

Yup, donned the ole down vest and even wear gloves as I walk to work...it's getting cold out here...plus there is always midterms and papers to remind me that school is official getting crazy and I need to concentrate...or learn...or whatever it is to pull those grades in that make you say, ahhhhhh and sleep well at night....
as opposed to those other kind of grades which have you shifting uncomfortably in your desk at school and not making eye-contact with your profs...
I am taking an english course...my prof is not half as good as Mr. Lewis but she has brief glimpses of greatness...and taking this course reminds me of how much I luv words and poetry and dead weird people that make me think....
Also Dad I finished muggridge and you need to get me more...I luv this guy....mostly I am going to research william blake now...
also something ugly happened this week that almost had me worrying...almost but with my friend Lexi's bible study lesson in hand I just...fixed my gaze...I decided to look at Jesus and let the ugliness of what is happening just be ugly...it doesn't have to change, and I don't have to be outside or unconnected from it all...in fact I am not I am right in this ugliness but I can fix my gaze on who's important...Jesus...
I have now come to the personal conviction that all christians preach...sometimes not very much...but we all have to preach to ourselves to kick our own butts and sometimes it just can't help but come out on everyone around...maybe I am saying this because I come from a long line ( or should I say converging lines) of preachers...but I am sticking to this...christians are preachers...
I just needed to get that out...
I am writing thank-you's to people who helped with my whole South Africa trip...and then yesterday in chapel we had these two ladies come and sing stuff they wrote about world music and they got to south africa and I almost cried...they also sang this amazing song dedicated to the little amish girls who were killed back in 2006...
I have officially run 2 times this week and getting back into it is hard...I mean the numbers are just not as exciting as they used to be...2 miles is not the joy that 5 miles is...plus my legs hurt...oh well...I think I won't aim for running anything outside this winter but might enter another spring/summer run to have something to aim for...for some reason I tend to rely on goals that involve public accountability in order to accomplish anything...hummmmmm