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I'm in absolute agony with my back. This is the worst its been in years and I can barely walk, move or do anything for that matter. The best part? My portfolio is due tomorrow and this has slowed me down so much trying to assemble everything and look good. I'm probably going to the clinic tomorrow or something after dropping off my portfolio. I just hope it doesn't cost me too much time from work because I can't afford it.

I will gladly take back rubs and cookies.

An in other news, I have jumped on the bandwagon and am now reading A Game of Thrones. Haven't seen the show yet, don't know when that'll happen.

I love my Merlin, but I feel like I need a fresh spring layout for my journal. However I am having a hard time choosing what I should make. I think of making a Fringe one, but then I think of making a Tangled one. I cannot decide, so here is a handy poll to help me decide (or if you just like filling out polls that's fine too).

[Poll #1729818]

I also finished reading all of The Hunger Games: ( there be spoilers )

Has anyone see this Extreme Couponing show on TLC? I gotta say I'm kinda scared of these people and also pissed off. I'm all for saving money and stuff, but the amount of some of the things they have is just stupid. And what's worse some of them just buy the stuff because they can get a deal and don't need it/use it. I know some donate what they buy to charities/food banks, but c'mon, you don't need a year and a half worth of diapers when you yourself have no kids. Or 1,000 tubes of toothpaste.

My Wifey, I received your card today!!!! Which is odd since there is no post on Sunday's, but it is only because no one checked the mail box on Friday, so YAY!!! Thank you very much. It is now with my other cards. ♥ ♥ ♥

I hope everyone had a good or a relatively good Christmas. Mine was actually pretty good; I wasn't really expecting much (both out of the actual holiday/presents), but overall it was nice. Mum and I stayed home and did nothing and dad came over for Christmas Eve/Day. We basically ate, watched TV/movies, ate, slept and ate some more.

Now the oblig present moment:

You sometimes when you make up a Christmas list and you put down something that you're 99% sure you won't get, but thought you'd put down anyway? Or just set yourself up for relatively low expectations overall? That's kind of how I was feeling about some stuff on my list; most of the stuff I put on I knew I had a fair chance at getting, but a couple of items I was like 'that'll never happen, but whatever. *writes it down anyway*. Yeah, well that 1% did happen because my dad got me two things I didn't really think he would.

1st: the Kobo eReader. It's so cute and tiny and cute and book-like. :D It's more of a basic eReader with not a whole lot, but for what I want/need it for it'll do perfectly. I also know 100% that this will work within Canada. I got so confused looking at other eReaders on the market and hearing that they worked fine in Canada and then hearing they didn't and people had a lot of hassles with them. So there we are. I also got gift cards to the book store where I can buy books/ebooks and now I cannot make my mind up as to what I want now. *headdesk. The cool thing is with the Kobo is that they pre-load 100 classic novels (i.e. Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, War and Peace ect.) onto it when you buy it, so even if I cannot make my mind up as to what I want to buy I do have a lot of choices to choose from right now.

2nd: SEASON 1 OF SHERLOCK (BBC) ON DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Since the invention of boxed set tv seasons my dad has never once bought me one before even though they show up on my lists every year. I am very excited. :D

But I think the best present of all is the pair of slippers my mum bought me from Superstore (like WalMart). She got me these nice light grey slippers that can be worn both inside and outside, but she realized when she was wrapping them on Christmas Eve that she picked up one Large sized slipper and one Small sized slipper. XD So now I have a slipper for one foot.

Today I had to work the Boxing Day morning shift. I haven't worked a Boxing Day in about 4/5 years and I remember why I hate to. The second we opened our doors at 7AM it was lined up to and pretty much out the door from that point on. It was crazy. PEOPLE, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SLEEP IN ON BOXING DAY!!! I hate working retail on occasions like that. For those of you who may not be familiar, Boxing Day in Canada is like shopping on Black Friday in the US, tons of deals/sales go on and it's nuts. I had to get up at 5:30am this morning (I have not been up that early for any purpose in years) and I fully support that 5:30am should be illegal. I am going to bed soon and it's probably the earliest I've been to bed since I was, like, 10 years old. Can you tell I'm a night person? :P

donna_c_punk, I received the book yesterday! Thank you so much, I cannot wait to read it. :)

Speaking of reading, I finished the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians book. I enjoyed it a lot and liked the idea of all the Greek mythology. Not my favourite, but I probably will read the next one at some point.

I'm pretty addicted to Tumblr and all the stuff on there. I love just posting random crazy shit and looking at pretty things.

Now to get ready to get my passport photos taken and go out to dinner. Dad's taking us out for a late birthday dinner in honour of mum's birthday that was on Tuesday.

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I got my Complete Sherlock Holmes books today in the mail! I'm nerdtastically excited about them. They're two volumes and they're for students (so they were super cheap), so they have footnotes and glossaries and stuff with all of it and I am maybe a bit too excited about all this. YAY 4 LERNINGZ!!!

I went a picked up a second hand copy of Hound of the Baskervilles after I saw the movie. I always knew who the character Sherlock Holmes was, but never read any of the books, so when I saw the movie and fell in love with it, I was all 'MUST READ BOOKS!' I finished HoB and LOVED it. It's now, I think, in my top 10 favourite books now. :D

( Small spoiler for anyone who has not read Hound of the Baskervilles )

Um, there was more I was going to say I think, but dinner is beeping at me and I'm hungry.

Happy Boxing Day to all those who have it! It's snowing sideways right now. Honestly, this snow is just unbelievable. Never have I seen snow like this before here, if it doesn't stop then I'm sure my mum and I will be living in a igloo soon.

I'm glad that it seems that everyone had a nice Christmas. You all deserve it.

I don't want to say that my Christmas was bad, but it wasn't great either. The power went out the night before and my mum and I were going to pack all the food up and go over to my dad's so we could cook and have Christmas there, but then the power came back on, so we were able to cook here. My dad got stuck in the snow trying to get to our place instead and by the time everyone was in and settled we didn't get our breakfast until about 1pm. Then we opened presents and all that. I got some nice things from my mum and dad (although I know my mum was only able to afford a little bag of chocolates for me). I got a few books: Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote, Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann and The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. I also got some DVD's: The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray and Tropic Thunder. My main gift was a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet. Yay! There's no way anyone in my family can afford an Intuos tablet, so I will happily take this one. I tried it last night and it's weird at first, but so far so good. I need to practice more on it before I am totally comfortable in writing/drawing/colouring/whatever. Mum and I still need to go down to my Aunts and exchange presents with them, so I'll be getting a few things more, but overall I'm satisfied.

The rest of the day we just watched movies and stuff. My dad... my dad was ok at first when he showed up, but then his mood soured and he just kinda put a damper on everyone. He's been going through a rough time lately, which we can understand, but he has to drag everyone down with him and act like a baby when he doesn't get his way. He got all pissy when he didn't see dinner being started by about 6 pm. Well then he could start it, mum and I weren't even hungry. He was supposed to go to a family friends for dinner, but he cancelled because he thought that mum and I would need a place to stay for the day since our power was out. That was nice of him to consider us, but you know what? He could have easily gone to his friends for dinner since our power came back on, but instead he decided to sulk and make mum and I unhappy because he didn't get his way or we didn't pack up and go to his place for dinner. By the time he left mum and I just felt so much lighter and we just went back inside to watch another movie.

Ahhh, family. What holiday wouldn't be complete with some sort of drama?

There were nice moments to the day and overall we had a nice time, I just felt emotionally exhausted by the end of the day.

Now we're just going to watch TV and watch the sideways snow outside. It's a freaking blizzard again. o.O

I recently stumbled onto a fantasy series that I am absolutely enrapt with. It's the The Doctrine of Labyrinths series by Sarah Monette. The first book is called Mélusine and at first I wasn't too thrilled with it. I admit the first half of the book kind of drags and I found myself thinking 'I probably won't enjoy the rest'. I was wrong. The second half of the book is awesome and a whole lot more thrilling than the first half. It really picks up where the two main characters (they're half brothers) meet for the first time. The second book in the series, The Virtu is by far my favourite. I just don't want it to end. One of the brothers is gay and there is a little hot gay wizard sex in it, so if you like that go for it. The author writes her characters beautifully, the books are told from each brothers point of view. It may seem confusing when you first pick it up and flip through the book, but it fits and works so well. They're a fun read to take to the beach or just sit in bed with on a rainy day. :)

Moe went after a mouse that was in the living room. He's currently in another room under a bunch of boxes, but I don't know if the mouse is under there too. I hope it's ok. I hate seeing things get killed even though I know it's a cat's natural instinct.

In sexier news, this preview pic of Jensen on the SPN Media website makes my girl bits go KA-BLAM!!!!

I meant to post about this earlier, but I was lazy and yeah... But anyway, Monday night gremmie_goo and I went to see a talk/book signing by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. We attended the pre-reception and had some yummy appetizers). Then after that the talk started and we had a great time. Then she signed everyone's books and if we wanted a picture with her afterwards we were welcome to hang around. gremmie_goo were basically the only ones left after the signing to get a piccie and I'm glad we stayed. She's such a great lady and so kind an down to earth. We basically told how much we enjoyed reading the book and how it's given us insight to change our own lives.

She's also a Heroes fan! She said in her talk how her sister gave her the first season on DVD and how she was watching it. We told her it just gets better and then I showed her my 'Vote Petrelli' button and she thought that was awesome. All in all it was a very enjoyable evening and both gremmie_goo and I were glad we went. We got our tickets just before the event sold out, so we were really lucky.






I put more photos up on Facebook if anyone wants to see more.

I've been wanting to update with photos of the aquarium, but I've been busy because I got a promotion at work and I'm busy training. I did post a video of the otter's I took over on my Facebook.

New Hulk trailer! I honestly have no interest in the Hulk whatsoever, but frak me, Edward Norton looks smoking. And Hi! Liv Tyler! I will be seeing this just for the sex factor, who cares if the movie is crap or that one of the last people I would ever think to be the Hulk would be Edward Norton.

I'm reading a really awesome book right now called Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella (the Shopaholic author). I definitely recommends it if you're looking for something light and fun to read.

I'm cold and I'm tired, so it's off to bed I go.

Does this mean we're all Russian now? I wasn't all happy with the way 6A was handling things and customer service, so maybe this could be a step in a better direction? Let's hope so.

Tomorrow is the last eppy of Heroes until whenever. *sniff* I don't know if I can handle it and I'm really worried about certain people leaving the cast. *clings all her shows* DON'T LEAVE ME! WHAT WILL I AVOID REALITY WITH????

A couple of weeks ago my Zip.ca subscription sent me Gone With The Wind to watch. Now I admit I've never seen it (just clips) and I finally wanted to sit and watch this after years of my mum bugging me to, so I did. Sorta. I can now say I've seen the first half of GWTW, but not anything after the intermission. Why? BECAUSE THE DVD'S ARE SPLIT IN TWO AND THE DAMN RENTAL SERVICE DIDN'T SEND ME THE SECOND DISC!!!!!!! Bah. Bastards, so now I have to a) send the first disc back and hope the send me the second disc or b) rent the thing or c) buy it. I'm leaning towards buying it because so far what I've watched I've loved. Maybe I can sucker my dad into getting it for me tomorrow.

Tomorrow my dad and I are going shopping for mum and out to lunch. I hope the malls aren't too packed but I guess they shouldn't be bad since it's a weekday and school is still in.

I'm taking Wednesday off work and mum and I are going to go down town to look at some of the big department stores Christmas displays and window shop (although we'll probably buy something, we always do). Then maybe after we'll go see Enchanted. I've heard nothing but positive things about it and I'm really looking forward to it. It would be kinda the perfect mommy daughter thing to do.

The snow is now de-snowing. :( Its warmed up and now everything is turning to slush.

Tinkerbell brought in another bird this morning, but luckily my mum was able to save it. After she grabbed the poor thing and stuck it in the empty drawer she put some seed inside and left it to warm up for a couple of hours. When she opened the drawer the bird was hopping around wondering what the hell was going on. I'm thinking we should put a cowbell on Tinkerbell, that would help the birds know she was around.

I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert . I don't normally read these kinds of books, but I'm really loving it and it makes me want to just take off so badly and travel to places and experience life. Sadly there's that little issue of money. Stupid money. Sometimes these books make it seem so easy to go and do that, but when you actually look at your life and try and figure out how to that it just depresses you. LOL

I also finished reading The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore. Such a good book and so damn funny. It's a great Christmas read (with Zombies and Angels).

[ETA] WTF?! LJ is saying that I have reached my limit of 1000 tags? WTF IS THIS?