Oh my GOODness!!

WOW!! Where have I been that I haven't been updating my blog since before all this snow came? I should be so excited that the snow has finally arrived to STAY!!

Other thoughts since the snow has arrived...

**The canal is almost ready to be opened. It only needs a few more centimetres to be cleared for safe skating. This is what should've happened weeks ago (pre-Christmas), but atleast we're getting some kind of winter. Winterlude is going to be starting the first week of February where all the winter festivities will take place downtown, including snow sculptures, ice sculptures, cooking, beavertails, and of course skating on the Rideau Canal.

**Winter shopping was great the other day because most of the retail stores are selling their winter wear for 50% of the sale price!! It was hard to find the right sizes because of the sales, but regardless, sales+shopping=fun!!

**Hairspray the musical is almost here and I am so anxious to buy my tickets (which don't go on sale until Monday) so that I can get really good seats. I love seeing musicals!!

**Will & I bought a painting the other day. I'm very picky about my art, but I fell in love with this piece. The overall picture is obscure, but very warm and simple. I'm more of a simplistic person.

**I am in love with my mp3 player that Santa gave me that I am constantly changing the songs on it because I'll have them memorized by days end. I am also in love with my housecoat (that has penguins on it). It's so warm, especially when I'm heading downstairs (in the cold basement) before going to bed.

** I am stil reading Emma (as you have seen that the book has not been rated by me yet) and am finding it a harder read. The spelling of the 19th century throws me off and I'm still getting used to phrasings they used like "four-and-twenty" which I still have yet to learn what it means. I did, however learn what "fortnight" means, from a coworker who has an Australian background and says that he still uses it in his daily vocabulary. It means, if you were wondering, two weeks. And here, I always thought it meant a few nights. Who would've thought it would be so distinct of a word.

**I don't know what it is about the winter weather, but I'm always finding myself so tired. It doesn't help when Will works night shifts and I am waiting up for him to make sure he gets home safe (especially with everything that's said on the news, I tend to get worried) and then I'm up before the sun comes up every morning. It doesn't help when the parking lot light is on right outside our bedroom window. But since Christmas (Santa was really good to me), I have been spoiled. I got one of those face masks that you wear when you sleep, and I tell you, I can't tell whether it's day or night with that on and I get a better night's rest with it (not counting my horrible cat that likes to sit so close to my face that his whiskers constantly go up my nose, and when he can't sit still). So I really have to rely on my alarm clock to be set and working to wake me up each morning, or I could wake up at 10am thinking it's 6am and completely miss a day's work!

**I am somewhat proud of myself and my lack of cooking capabilities. If you know me, I'm not one who is a great cook, but Santa again stopped by and gave me not 1, not 2, but 3 (counting the family one) recipe books! So, tonight I attempted to make an alfredo sauce for pasta as we needed to use up our cream. I needed Will to give me step by step instructions in order for me to make it properly. I am someone who likes order (such as exact measurements and time accuracy). When something didn't add up with his instructions - I immediately called him to see what I could do to fix the situation. He told me just to taste it and see what was needed to add to the sauce. I am also someone who has no idea of what to add and what things need when cooking. That's what I have Will for!! My own personal chef! Lucky me! Atleast I am trying!!