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January 22nd 2003
my new 2ND - pandywaff OBVIOUSLY comes in 1st - favourite site

Alright...I got a little sick of just the same old single-color background for all of my pages...so I went looking for some new prints and patterns and stumbled upon this site (clicking on the picture of the green thing will take you there) and it just keeps on amazing me in a very, very good way! This place has pretty much every single background, picture and font you could ever want (hey that rhymes :D ) I am thoroughly impressed. The possibilities are endless!...

OHMYGOD I'M MISSING "FRASIER" (my amazement ends right about...THERE.)

January 21st 2003
wow...i've been pretty dilligent for this month

I just got some awesome news today...after all that - well, "stressing" isn't the right word...I guess it's just plain "working" - in bio my mark, going into the exam, is a 75%!!!!! This is VERY exciting, considering that last year at this time my mark was only a 70% (I'm doing BETTER this year? How? WHY?? HURRAY!!!!) and also considering that my final mark, after *hopefully* doing well on the exam, won't be the disgrace I'd expected, and might even be alright to use for university apps. I think I've earned the right to be very proud of myself :)

Got my actual G1 in the mail yesterday (*yay*)...it came, rather disturbingly, with an organ donor card and a very persuasive pamphlet urging me to sign the card. I suppose it shouldn't be a big thing - I mean duh, we're all (eventually) going to die, might as well try to benefit others in the process (alternate option: be REALLY REALLY annoying during your lifetime :D ) But why do they have to put it in with your licence? Especially your G1. They KNOW that you're very likely a fresh, happy-go-lucky youngster who's excited about getting this, your first piece of "adult ID" and they go and - oh. Wait. That DOES make sense. Damn them for being so...blunt.

Here's a thought: give organ donor cards to everyone in the neighborhood of the person who's just gotten their licence. They collection people would make a killing - no pun intended (heh heh heh :D )

January 19th 2003
it's gooooooooooooooooooood!

News, news, news...my exchange partner, Laure, is coming back to visit this summer! She's gonna be here for the month of August...I can't wait, it'll be good to see her again. Also prefer that she's coming here...I'm thinking I'll need some time before I go back there (s'alright, I'm not gonna go into that right now) - maybe next summer? I'd like to see some other parts of Europe though, while I'm there...a little globe-trotting before I enter university would definitely be nice :)

Other stuffs: went driving around the inside streets in my neighborhood (you might want to avoid the residential streets around here for a little while... :P ) I don't technically have my G1 yet, since I haven't received the card in the mail and they didn't give me a temporary one (for some reason...hm....i'm PRETTY sure I passed...???) but I mean hey, I'm doing 20 and 30 km/h - I don't think it's reason for any serious concern...

Other than that...I think everyone's pretty busy with exams coming up soon...well, YOU obviously aren't cause you're sitting there reading this (HAH gotcha...lol) it's nice to know that we're procrastinating together ;)

January 11, 2003
not quite "shushing gracefully"...

Still recovering from a physically devastating ski trip...went on Thursday and, three days later, I can�t completely stretch my arms out, my muscles are that sore. I didn�t even expect things to be this bad; I�ve been skiing before, and I wasn�t great at it, but I didn�t fall that much�things were more than a little different this time. Not only was I out of practice (the last time I went was in Grade 9) but because it had been so mild the day before and then turned cold the next, the hills were more or less a sheet of ice. Within the first three minutes of having my skis on, any hopes I�d had of seeming fairly skilled in the sport were crushed � I tumbled halfway down the trial run, stopped in an extremely awkward position, and then had to be helped to get back up in order to fall the rest of the way down too. The half hour lesson that ensued wasn�t much better...I fell getting off the ski lift, I fell practising my turns � I fell no less than 20 times, and each time I had to heave myself up using only my arms (since my feet and legs were immobilized by my skis and boots � or no, not quite immobilized, since my skis could skid quite a bit on the ice beneath, adding to the difficulty of the task...) I suppose it sounds like I should have been near tears at this point - far from it, in fact. All I could do was laugh � just picturing what a sight I must have been, trying to concentrate so intensely on staying upright, then all of a sudden my arms flailed and my feet flew out from beneath me and I crumpled to the ground like a Raggedy-Ann doll (except yes, I have bones and they sure as hell didn�t appreciate being bent the way they were...)

Anyway, eventually I got the hang of it again and stopped falling quite so often, and the rest of the day was awesome...coming home my arms felt like lead - as though I�d done a thousand push-ups - and the next day I found I could barely move an inch without some part of my upper body spazzing at me...a little r&r was all I needed though, cause I took the day off (well, sort of; my dog seems able to time his illnesses to correspond perfectly with my time off...) and I�m feeling much better today. (shh - don�t say anything though...I think I might be able to milk this for a while yet and get another massage or two out of it...heh heh heh...)

January 6th 2003
*sigh* it was fun while it lasted, anyway

So here we are, another winter break gone by and exams looming in the near future...but first, happy (belated) new year, everyone! Apparently I missed out on this new trend that's going around...it's called "complain every time someone wishes you a happy new year". Well phooey, it IS a new year, and if you think there's anything wrong with telling someone you hope it'll be a happy one, then fine. Have a bad one. And as for new year's resolutions, you've gotta have somewhere to start, and if people are determined to learn from the last year's mistakes in an attempt to make the coming one better, then far be it from me to criticize...

I made a couple of resolutions myself...well, maybe not really new year's resolutions persay...I simply made a couple of decisions that came into effect as of January 1st 2003 (heh heh heh)...and as for keeping up with them, so far, so very, very good :) First, I plan to get my G2 by the end of the year, or better yet, by about August or September. To prove just how motivated I am in accomplishing this, I GOT MY G1 ON FRIDAY (the 3rd, which, incidentally, was Chash's bday ;) ) I canNOT believe how ridiculously easy it was...all this time I was putting it off, saying I hadn't studied, I didn't know everything, I'd fail the test and it'd be a waste of money...well I finally sucked it in - and was "gently persuaded" by my family (it went something along the lines of "you're HOW old and you STILL can't drive???")- and wrote the damned thing. *yaaaaaaaay* take THAT, vile TTC!

Also started on my second resolution, which was to exercise on a regular basis. Hm...so far I've only really done this once, but it felt great (after the wheezing had died down...) Supposedly now (ages 16-18) is when a girl builds muscle more rapidly than at any other time in her life so I figure I should take advantage of it...although I'm not quite expecting Janet Jackson/Madonna type results...