And...I just realized that almost every time I blog, I seem to be playing catch up. I guess that's the story of a procrastinator's life.
So...to catch up:
I had my three weeks off in December, and that was great. It's all a blur to me now; about the only things I remember are the pain and frustration of my first snowboarding trip (and looking forward to my next one) and spending lots and lots of money during xmas.
The best xmas present? It was from james, of course! A nice little Canon S400 digicam that fits in the palm of my hand. I'd post some pics up right now...if I knew how. I guess that's something else I'll have to play catch up on...
Oh, and the festivities...james invited me to dinner with the family xmas eve, which gave me warm fuzzies, even though I was a bit nervous...then james and I spent the countdown to new year's separately (with our own girl/guy friends), which kind of surprised some people...if we were Ben and J. Lo we'd have been on the front page of the tabloids in no time flat! But really, no big deal...we compromised. I wouldn't want to spend my new year's away from my bf every year, but once is ok.
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I saw Wonder Boys yesterday, which stars Micheal Douglas, Tobey MacGuire (sp?), Katie Holmes and that guy who's always getting arrested - Robert Downey Jr. It's a funny and insightful movie about an English prof (Douglas) who's life is changed by this awkward/socially disfunctional but brilliant student of his (MacGuire). I feel like I'm writing a movie review right now...anyway, Douglas's character can't finish the follow-up book to his debut novel, which won him many accolades. During the movie, Douglas pulls out his manuscript and starts typing page number two thousand something...we later find out that the story has no direction and that decisions aren't being made in order to provide that direction - a sort of allegory for his own life. And I guess it could represent many others' lives as well, including me, with my almost constant indecisiveness...
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As we emerge from one of the worst winter storms in recent memory, I am thankful that I didn't get wiped out by a snowplow or swerve into oncoming traffic. I was up in Eganville (north of Ottawa) Sunday and Monday, where it was too cold to snow...on the way down for meetings in Peterborough, the weather got steadily worse. I ended up doing a 180 into a snowbank, then I got into a van with two strangers cause they offered to get me to someplace warm and call their friend who had a tow truck. Lucky for me that a) the men were actually nice people who didn't want to abduct me; b) the car was not demolished; c) I was not hurt. I really should prepare myself better for those types of situations...
I decided then that I wouldn't be braving the roads again until today and stayed over at the Lindsay Inn, where I ate a whole pizza and watched tv all night (including the movie mentioned above).
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Tidbits...
TV: I'm back on the reality show bandwagon. Current addictions - Donald Trump's The Apprentice and the third season of American Idol. I found out yesterday that the contestants on Idol have to go through a pre-screening process before they face the wrath of Simon. What I'm wondering is: how do some of these people, who very obviously cannot sing, get past the first audition?
Music: Cranberries (No Need to Argue), Madonna (The Immaculate Collection) and U2 (Achtung Baby!) - all on cassette! Why? Because I finally learned that not all rental cars have cd players.
Car: NOT the Hyundai Accent. I rate it the most unsafe car to drive. EVER.
posted by Sonia @ 5:11 p.m.
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