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I am almost finished my exams for this part of the summer. So far I am not ecstatic about how my exams went, but oh well, they are done, and what is more important, tomorrow is camping time! I cant wait, I'm so excited, eventhough they are expecting rain. big deal, our tent is still pretty new and so it should be waterproof! Besides there is nothing better than hearing the rain on your tent while you are warm and dry and cozy inside it relaxing, while smelling the fresh wet forest smell, I think that might be one of my favorite smells, especially when the earth was hot and dry before, are you with me?
I will be posting some awesome cat pictures soon, I know I keep promising this, but exams have gotten in the way.
Alright I'm going back to learning more about emotional and motivated behaviours, only a few more hours and I will have a whole weekend of camping! Yay! Anyway, Happy Canada day everyone! enjoy your weekend

lovely weekend but back to work

On friday night Alan and I got our stuff all ready to go to go to J's cottage so we didnt have to do all that much saturday morning when we got up. I ran some last errands and we checked the oil and tire pressure on the car and than we drove for just over 2 hours to the cottage. I drove and it was my first time driving on a cottage road (=dirt and gravel) I was a little worried, mostly for meeting on coming traffic, but I was lucky, nobody came. We both had a really good time at the cottage I felt all the stress just leave my shoulders. It was nice to meet some new people, hang out with some friends and just laugh and not think of all about all the work that is waiting for you at home. We stayed a little later than we planned, so we didnt get home until after 1:00am. That was fine for me but Alan had to get up early to help his friend S move. I stayed home to study, which I did for a good chunk of the day. And I napped for another part. I called my brother to wish him a nice trip as he is going on a business trip to Spain, lucky bum and my sister-i-l to wish her a happy birthday. After that I found a tasty recipe for a fish baste online and modified it a touch to make tasty salmon on the barbeque for our sunday night dinner.
The rest of the week has mostly just been study study study. I have three exams only days apart, one tomorrow thursday and saturday, but I keep telling myself after I'm done my exam Alan will come and pick me up from school and we'll go camping for the Canada day long weekend. I can not wait to go! I *so* need a mini vacation :) Anyone want to come?!? We're going with our usual group of maritimers and it should be an awesome time. We got a group site that holds 50 people, and we're not close to capacity yet, if you dont have any plans, this could be it!
I should get back to studying now though. Have a good one and we'll talk to you soon!

So far we have caught 3 squirrels in our trap. It clearly works on squirrels, but what about groundhogs?!? Perhaps I chased the groundhog away for good last time, I can be pretty scary dont you know!

Bye bye Broccoli

I think it must have been because I posted that picture yesterday, but the ghroundhog has discovered our veggie patch. I found it dining on our broccoli yesterday afternoon. I tried to chase it away and it hid underneath our deck where he clearly has made a little hiding spot/2nd home. We have therefore now bought a humane groundhog trap and are trying to get rid of said animal and move it to a different location in the forrest where it will be able to live happily ever after and leave our flowers and veggies alone. We considered building a fence, but it will be to expensive this year, and since he pretty much hides/lives underneath our deck, we just want it not there. I will keep you update on the status quo.
Last night Alan took me for dinner at the works, because I really wanted to try out the new place they built here. It is just as tasty as the one downtown, so *yay*! I had a turkeyburger with peanut butter, Monterey Jack cheese and bacon. It was alright, would have liked it better if the peanut butter had tasted more like sate sauce, but it wasn't bad, and I was happily surprised by the cheese whcih really gave the burger some flair. All in all it was tasty and it was nice to be out on a date.
Today is my big study day. Unfortunaly I slept in longer than I wanted, but clearly my bosy needed it. My stress levels are really high the last few days. With my exams coming up and organizing my project and finding courses to register for this coming fall/winter, I have just been mood swingy and grumpy and I do not like it. I really putting a lot of pressuring on myself to do well and even though I can rationalize that I shouldnt do that, and it really isnt necessary/ will just make things worse for myself, I havent been able to not do it and relax. Probably once I have a few things checked off my list I will feel a lot better. here's hoping! Anyway, I better start working on that list!

Success and Busy times ahead!

As you know I am trying to graduate in the spring and so I have been looking for a supervisor to work with in order to be able to do my fourth year honour's project. On tuesday I went in to meet up with a prof, who's research is in neuroscience and than mainly focussed on epilepsy research. He is taking me on as a undergrad student and I am so excited, it sounds like he is doing a lot of interesting stuff, he still publishes regularly and he is very well respected in the field, so that is always a bonus. I am meeting with him again at the end of the summer at which point he has a better idea where they are with the research and what his grad students are doing as they get first dibs. Than I will have a choice of 3-4 projects and pick which ever one seems the most interesting to me. This is a pretty sweet deal as often profs will not let you do this and just sort of assign you something to do. I feel very relieved that I have now found a project and my plan can go ahead as I wanted. There is a website with his research on it, let me know if you're interested and I will forward you the link.
I am now looking into what courses I will be taking next year as registration season is coming up. And I have been keeping extremely busy with school these last few days/weeks as my finals are next week already, which is absolutely insane! I still have *a lot* of work to do before then. So that is what I will be doing today, study study study!
This weekend is M's new girlfriend J's cottage party. I am looking forward to the break, we are only going up for saturday as I need to study on sunday and Alan has other commitments but even a day at the cottage will feel as a short but sweet vacation!
Are veggies are doing well, some peppers are already growing and beyong the flower stage and some of our tomatoes have flowers now, which means they will start growing tomatoes soonish!
I think we have spinach coming up, we have peas and beans starting and I have seen carrot leaves, so so far so good! I will keep you posted on the progress! Here's a picture of our just planted garden. There is alittle bit more visible there now, so soon time for an update picture, plus we havent finsihed the brick work yet.

We've got growth

Heheh, that sounds funny, especially if you say it with a voice of a caveman who doesnt speak english.. anyway, hello everybody!
My life has been a lot more exciting lately, I have also felt extremely busy, so that could be why.
First things first:
Fijne vaderdag papa!!
Our exciting news of the day is that we now have radishes growing. They are already showing up and I think we may have some spinach showing as well, so That y friends is super exciting. I feel funny and super domestic, but at the same time, *so* exciting to see your first little veggies grow. In the mean time we have expanded our vegetable family with some left-overs from Mr and Mrs yard (aka, two more tomatoe plants, and red peppers) and a donation from popa, he grew us beans! isnt that so cute?!? I believe they're called kentucky something or other, either way, super cool. We now have to find a place to park said beans as out veggie patch is getting rather large, So exciting!!
On friday we celebrated a joined Birthday/father'sday for Mrs and Mr, they had a barbequewith hamburgers and turkeyburgers, salad and lots of other good stuff and three types of desert. It was fun.
Saturday I played soccer for the first time since I hurt my back. We played men down for the first half, we played the best team in the league so we didnt reallyhave a chance to score, but it was a lot of fun, the next half we forfeighted and lend some of their players and continued to have fun until the last 10 minutes where I once again put my back out. I went to go for this ball, and I shouldnt have It is already feeling a billion times better than the first time I injured it though, so even though it felt worse at first the swimming etc must be doing my back some good! We went to S&L's housewarming party saturday night and had a great time.
Sunday we went to visit grandpa and had a pick-nick lunch with him and that was a lot of fun as well. We hadnt been able to visit in a while, so it was nice to see him and it was good for him to get some fresh air, plus pick-nicks are the best! I love them!
This morning I got an email back from one of the neuroscience prof's I emailed about a 4th year project supervisor. He wants to meet with me tomorrow, so I am pretty excited and I am going to be doing some research on his research so I sound semi-intelligent when we talk about it. I hope this will work out so I have found my supervisor and I can continue making my plan. Besides from what I have read his research sounds pretty cool, so we will see, I will keep you posted for sure!
Alright, well, I'm going to get ready to run some errands, see ya.

Lot's of cool stuff!

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That was Izzy saying hi. No crazy kitty pictures yet, I have been a littlebusy, but I'm working on it, trust me!
First thingsd first, my brother and his wife had to go in for their 20 week ultrasound, and the baby is doing wonderfully! Everything is formed well and where it is supposed to be! *so* exciting! We know what it is too, so if you dont want to know stop reading for a while..... It's a girl!!!!!!! I would have been just as excited with a boy, but at the same time, I wont be the only girl born into the family anymore! Yay, that's awesome! now we're at equal strength with the boys too! It is all becomming so much more real now, I'm on cloud 9!

On friday we went to L's birthday party we celebrated big as it was a big occassion, so we spent lots of money on fancy food at the empire grill, we had a pretty good time, but I didnt feel the food was all that extravagant, so I was a little bit disappointed to be honest. All the same we had a good time though!
On the weekend Alan and his dad put in our vegetable garden boxes (again, pictures will follow soon!) It was hot and sticky, so it really wasnt the most enjoyable time putting it in I'm sure. I felt a little bad I couldnt help because of my back. But, the garden boxes are in, and we bought a whole pile of veggies and they are in and it looks amazing. Thanks boys!! So so far no wildlife has been eating our veggies yet. We planted lots of tomatoes, green peppers, carrots and radishes, peas and beans and lettuce and broccoli an green onions and spinach and we have a whole pile of fresh herbs that I am trying to find a spot for elsewhere in our actual garden. How cool is that eh?!? I am bad, everyday IO go out to check if anything's to be ssen yet. And yes, I do realise it takes a week or ten days minimum before seeds germinated. Some of our veggies were planted as plants,the tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and lettuce, the rest are seeds, I feel excited like a little kid. Once the bricks are in and the path is all done and pretty it will look absolutely amazing! I cant wait!!
I got my mark back for business and was rather disappointed, I expected it to be a higher than it was, but it wasnt so so be it. It's still a good mark, it just means I will have to study a little bit harder for my finals, which are in 2 weeks from now already. Arrghh scary thought. I have decided I want to graduate in April, so in order to make that happen I have to find myself a supervisor for my 4th year project. This could be a problem as most people already have found their profs by now, so it may be a needle in a haystack, but I'm going for it. I figure I have nothing to loose, I'm going to give it a shot and if it works than great, of it doesnt than.. oh well, I havent lost anytime. So that's my new plan, I will keep you posted. And on that note, I'm going to go water our veggies! Talk to you later

Backpain = no fun at all!

Good day to all. Last week when i was pretending to be bob the builder when building our planting boxes for the backyard without help I managed to pull a muscle in my lower back. Since I had never really injured my back before I didnt think to take it slow for a few days to let it heal, I figured some extra excersise would do it good. Not so. After building some more my back hurt like crazy. See I always assumed you would feel it when you hurt your back, non of this, nothing going on, dubduduuu, the next day you cant bend over kind of thing.. But appearantly that does happen. So than I figured, well I'll do a little bit of running during soccer to make it better, again mistake. So now it is wednesday, a week later and I am still not able to bend over and scratch my toes without feeling my back. Ok this is a big huge whine fest, it is nothing excruciating, just stiff and a ltitle sore, but I have to be very careful to not hurt it more, and so I am bored because I cant do a whole bunch of things I would like to do right now. Suck it up princess and do some schoolwork.. yeah maybe ;)
Yesterday I met up with my friend L and we went shoe shopping to find her something nice for her birthday, which we will be celebrating on friday. I am looking forward to it, it should be a lot of fun! We're supposed to all dress up fancy and although I am not usually into that, this time I am really feeling it!
It is june and it is 12 degrees outside. what is going on here?!? at least the sun is shining.
I took Izzy to the vet for her booster shots yesterday. It went well, she is growing very well and looking healthy. She has taken up biting lately and eventhough the vet didnt have any good advise on this the receptionist did, she suggested giving her a stuffed animal about her own size she can attack to her hearts content. We did and it seems to work. It is hilarious to watch, our cute little kitty becomes a vicious lioness when she sees this little animal, she goes straight for the jugular. She bites us a lot less it seems Yay! Alright, well I'm going back to studying. Talk to y'all later