Year In Review

(Very photo heavy - just wait for them all to load please!)

2008

January

Trip to the ROM to see the new dino exhibit

February

Visit to my cottage, where the heat was not working (*brr!*)

Skiing at the cottage!

And, of course, my birthday! (28 on the 28th!)

March

My karaoke birthday party!!

April

Sock Scavenger Hunt!

Trip to London to visit friends
(Sam too, but I promised not to post pictures of her eating ice cream)

May

Hamlet explores the great outdoors

Anime North!

June

Moving (the last move for a long time... I hope)

July

Canada's Wonderland!

Yarn Crawl!!

August

2nd Annual Stitch 'n Pitch

Librarians In Stratford!!

My well-deserved-and-very-much-appreciated summer vacation at the cottage :)

September

Thornhill Village Festival (with biting baby llama)

Gaining enlightenment with Dee

October

In search of braaaaains at Nuit Blanche

Display of books (the librarian's favourite) at Nuit Blanche

November

Saul's wedding and my Ottawa Adventure Weekend

December

Christmas!

12 hour Boxing Day Rock Band 2 marathon
(Unicorn Pants Rules The World!!)

And that was my 2008. I hope 2009 is just as much fun!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Merry Christmas!

Seeing as how it's Christmas Eve and I'll (hopefully) be too busy to blog tomorrow...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!


and

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!

Seven Pounds

Since I was snowed in at the mall yesterday (darn), Corinna and I decided to see a movie once we had done the majority of our shopping.

(Honestly, people thought I was nuts for driving to Mississauga in a snow storm, but it was the best Christmas shopping day ever. There was barely anyone in the stores, no lines or fights, and I can think of much worse places to be trapped than at Square One. So the drive there and back was a bit harrowing. We all need a little excitement in our lives!)

*ahem* Anyway, we went and saw the new Will Smith movie "Seven Pounds"


Neither of us had any idea what this movie was about, but since Will Smith is so hot such a good actor (and there was nothing else playing) we decided to check it out.

It was... dramatic. Kinda boring at times. Will Smith was good (as he always is) but I found myself wondering what the plot was at times, and whether we had gone on some huge random tangent for a good chunk of the film. Rosario Dawson was very good (and I usually don't like her in stuff... unless I have her confused with someone else. She was the chick on Lost, right?), and I liked the big Great Dane named Duke. He looked like a cow :)

I would recommend renting this one... or wait until the library buys it and get it for free. The end wasn't bad but it was very abrupt, and by the time the explained why this guy was the way he was, the audience had already figured it out from the vague flash backs.

So a resounding "meh" for Seven Pounds. If you must see a movie before Christmas, go see Bolt. It was SO CUTE!!

*tap tap* Is this thing on?

Well, lots has happened since the last time I blogged. Unfortunately, not a lot is interesting... or blogable.

I got my Christmas shopping done... only to tell my family about it and discover that they had already bought some of the stuff I did. So with only a few short days before Christmas (and all my free time booked up), I have to get back to the mall.

I had a really fun Friday evening with some friends, eating sushi and going to see "Bolt". The movie was a lot better than I thought it would be. Very very funny and cute, and engaging. I loved the fanboy hamster!


I've been doing a lot of knitting on my shrug ... but I haven't taken any photos. Nor have I taken the photos from my Ottawa adventure off my camera yet. I swear it's on my to-do list.

Anyway, my family tree is decorated, we celebrated my dad's birthday, and today my sister is giving her phD (PhD? PHd?) thesis defense. Then we're going out for dinner. Good luck Amanda!

See? Lots going on, not terribly interesting. I am looking forward to new years, though.

Partay at the ROM! Woo!

Lack of an Update

Well... I don't really have anything to blog about.

A friend of mine has recently rekindled my interest in the novel I've been writing since 2005... so if you want to read it, just go to my website. The story is called Spirit Saga.

(If you do read it, please email me your thoughts good or bad. I can take criticism as long as it's constructive)

Almost Christmas! Gotta get my last two gifts... ugh.

Have a random LOLcat.