TRIUMPH!

Remember the Crush of the Week: Realizing We're Old Edition in which I extolled the beauty of Omar Shariff, and yet Lyn still insisted that he was not handsome and that our mother was wrong for ever considering him a "hunk"?

Well Funny Girl is on tv and Lyn just sent me these Instant Messages: "Omar Sharif, you sexy S.O.B. Damn you." and "I'm sorry I doubted you."

I haven't felt this vindicated since I don't know when.

Lynmara has changed her tune, and it now goes like this:

Ink

I'm at that point in the term where the sheer volume of work I have to do is putting me in a pretty much constant state of panic. What better time is there to blog?

Today in class, a friend gave me an email address of someone else that I need to get in touch with for a project I'm working on. I wrote it on the inside of my forearm, and throughout the day I'd catch glimpses of it. This got me thinking, a tattoo there would be AWESOME.

Potential tattoo ideas from brainstorm earlier today:

1. "Axl Rules"
2. My to do list (I'm sure I'll need to buy drier sheets and call my grandma again in the future)
3. The email address as it is currently written on my arm.
4. "Left Arm"
5. "Right Arm" (because I'm funny that way)
6. Surprised Kitty in full surprised mode.
7. ABBA Tribute.
8. Dawson Leery crying.
9. Blockbuster Rewards Membership information.
10. This guy in this video.

I'm open to suggestions. Thoughts?

Holy Crow!

So, I was over at The Eagle and Child and reading Marc's post about being nominated in the "Art and Photography" and "Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy" categories for the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards, run by the fabulous Schmutzie.

Now, I'm a daily reader of Schmutzie's blog, but I haven't had a lot of time lately due to my candidacy exam to keep abreast about CWA. But since I recently wrote and PASSED the dreaded exam, I've got a bit more room in my schedule for surfing the net. Thus, after giving Marc some well-deserved congratulations for his nominations, I went to the CWA website to check it out. Lo and behold, I found that our poor, little, and often-neglected (by us) blog was nominated in the "Group" category!! Hooray!

Now, as far as I can tell, the only qualification necessary for being nominated for this category is being a group. We totally group THE HECK outta Canadian bloglandia, so I hope this means we've got a chance to win.

Thanks to whoever gave us the nomination!! I'd hug you if physical contact wasn't so frightening to me!

**UPDATE**
I've also just found out that my post on glee and Disability was mentioned in the January 11th post of Ouch, a BBC blog about Disability.

This day keeps getting better and better.

i'm in the mood for a melody

Pictures!!!

I just figured out how to get my photos from my phone onto my computer, and so you shall be forced to see some of my photos from the last couple of years.

When I moved to Edmonton, my friend Jordan helped me unpack my books. I told him not to worry about order so much. You get what you ask for, I guess.

Close-up of his work. Really? Upside-down? Sigh.

This is my bunny friend. He slept in front of my window all fall. Cute!

I tried making sugar cookies. Didn't work out so much.

This is my bus stop. Not interesting, but I like the photo.

This is the time I saw Benjamin Button at Tim Hortons.

You maybe should have thought your name out a bit more, there, Mr Butlin.

This is the library I worked at over the summer.
My picture is on their website, but I'm in disguise.

Hehe. I totally found these this way. Kids are awesome.

Speaking of awesome kids, this is my cousin's daughter.
She's buckets of precious, and we had fun together.

Hope that wasn't too boring. I'll post more on facebook, if anyone cares to see them.

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Help Lawrence Welk* to wish my Grandma a Happy 90th Birthday!


See Dad's and Bronwyn's blogs for posts on Grandma's B-day.


*This post was my brother's idea.

Grown-Up Christmas

This was my first grown-up Christmas, away from "home" (i.e. Saskatchwan) and away from family.

Well, I wasn't entirely away from my family. LynnieC flew out to spend three weeks (which are sadly done on Monday).

LynnieC, at the beach on Christmas Day

And Maryanne and Chris are family.

Maryanne and Chris, after Christmas Dinner

And Derek and Ariann are as good as family.

Derek, enjoying Christmas cheese and crackers.

Ariann, playing board games.

But it was different, and untraditional, and adult.

But it was also good.

For the rest of the photos, go here.