reading lights, eating love, running home

reading lights, eating love, running home

Well hello again friends, family, foes, acquaintances. I have quite the blog post for you, for I have been up to a lot in the month of December of the year 2010. Let me start by showing you one of the things I accomplished on December 5th.

I was involved in a 5k run thanks to the lovely Christine Lyons (she was the one who invited me). I had just started going to the gym at the beginning of November and I actually really like it.

The only problem I have with it is that it takes up a lot of time...walking all the way down to KNES (15min walk from ICT [these are buildings at the UofC by the way]), getting a key (I once left from a class in the ICT to go to the gym, got all the way to KNES, realized I left my gym bag in the class, booked it back, grabbed my bag, went all the way back to KNES and there was a looooooonnnnng line up - needless to say, I didn't go to the gym that day), getting changed (they don't have change stalls in the change rooms so I change in the bathroom which is sooo uncomfortable), then working out for an hour, then get changed, walk all the way back to ICT and wait for the bus to go home.

Anyways, so Christine invited me to do this run, and I had recently decided I wanted to do a triathlon in July, so I accepted!

Christine picked me up in the -7*C weather and we went down to Eau Claire Market where the run began. We met the rest of our group and put on our great shirts and pinned our numbers on. Burns had to work but he was finished before the race to begin and he came and surprised me!

We were probably the spiciest ladies there.

Burns ran with me the first 5mins then waited for me at the finish line :D what a great boyfriend I have. My time was one of the following: 32, 34, or 36. I FORGET!!! But I was so happy with myself because I had never ran 5k outside before! Not to mention how cold it was.

Remember my preference post? Well Burns and I painted our silhouettes and this is the end result.

Berekti moved out on December 14th.

Breanne and I set up our cute lil Christmas tree!!!

So much of cute we are!



Prezzies!!!




On December 19th after church, Burns and I came home to find this!

A prezzie from me to him! He's scayowed.

So he started stripping because he was so happy to be getting a present from me.

Just kidding!!!!!! Sheesh settle down!

I actually got him a nice shirt for Christmas!

Showing off with his "smoulder"...not to be confused with "blue steel".

Dang he fine.

Then we had Christmas dinner with Breanne and Marshie!

Chicken Hurry = da bomb diggady! (See "Company's Coming - Casseroles" for recipe).

Just chillin' and waiting for the food.

Then Breanne started a grease fire. Here's how it went:

Paige walks into the kitchen to check on some of the food she was making.

She notices a putrid smell....a smell of burning/rotting flesh.

Well not quite but it was gross.

Paige: It smells really bad in here.

Paige looks over to see a pot smoking profusely.

Paige: Breanne...the pot is smoking.

Breanne comes in to deal with the pot, grabs it, and puts it in the sink.

Suddenly it BURST INTO FLAME!!!

Not kidding...flames licked at the sink tap, they reached for the ceiling, they clung to the grease which created them. Enough? Okay moving on.

Paige was about to turn the tap on and put water in it, then she thought....would water just make it worse? So she didn't do that.

Marshie grabbed a towel and started trying to put out the fire.

Burns walks in, cooly, calmly, opens the window and throws the pot in the snow.

*Note: some of this dramatization may or may not be true/exaggerated.

All she wanted was to cook some mushrooms for the pasta!

Then the missionaries came over right after this little incident while our house was FILLED with disgusting oil smoke. They shared a message with us then left us to our food.

It turned out so great!

Then we had dessert! MMMMmmmm pie and ikes cream!

So sultry

I'll just mention quickly that Breanne and I planned this dinner on Saturday..or maybe even Friday? Anyways I told her I would take care of getting all the groceries for dinner. So I was pretty busy Saturday and went to Lita's Christmas party and 8:30pm. Then Burns and I went to Denny's with Christine and Blake at 12:30am. Then I realized that I was supposed to get the groceries! I was so sad because I knew Breanne was excited about this dinner and so was I, but where could I go at 1:00am?

I mentioned this to Christine, and bless her soul, she mentioned that Wal-Mart was open 24hours a day during the holidays! I was saved! And so were our bellies for the next day. So Burns and I went to Wal-Mart at 2:00am and got food. I was kind of surprised at how many people were there at that time of day. Not that there were a tonne of people, just more than I expected.

So anywho, we had dinner and then we headed to the Choirside put on by the Institute Choir. Breanne, Marshie, and I all sang in it.

I was headed over to Rick and Denise's for dinner yesterday when I noticed this fantastic sunset! SOOOOO much better in real life...but most sunsets are when I take them with my lil camera.

Denise cooked a fantastic dinner of enchiladas and then we had a cute little Christmas. We exchanged gifts. Denise got me some yummy perfume: Lolita Lempicka. Burns opened his other prezzies from me: some slippers and a book that I made for him (ganks Arianne! - she helped me).

Then Burns, Arianne, Daryn, and I went to THE CALGARY ZOO LIGHTS!!! :D

My first time! And Burns. And Daryn? Arianne???...no not Arianne....?

Writing wishes for the wishing trees. I wished for my tuition to be paid off. *knock on wood*

So much of Asian! ^_^

Awww Darianne sooo cute.

Burns doesn't kiss girls on the lips.

Drizzt Do'Urden and Guenhwyvar

The tunnel of llllloooove.

Burns couldn't resist the inner child in him.

Then we went to Timmy's to warm up with hot chocolate.

Oh and we were sitting pretty close to some other people (a guy and a girl) and he was hitting on her like CRAZY!!! Seriously I didn't know people were actually like this. He was just ridiculous and soo loud! Talking about his gf and what he should get her for Christmas, then telling the girl at Timmy's that she's cuter than his gf. "Be my girlfriend from Monday to Friday. Come on I have an opening. Be a maneater." OH MY GOSH!!!! and the whole time she was just like...whatever. When he left to throw stuff away I wanted so bad to just look at her and tell her to run. "Come meet my mom." "Let's go to a hotel, my room, I just want to be comfy you know? Right? RIGHT???" Sorry I'm just so overwhelmed with his pushyness.

I'm officially done exams as of 8:30 this morning! WOOT!!! Hence the reason I am finally updating my blog. Last week I woke up at 5:00am (most likely going to bed at 12:00am) 3 days in a row. I woke up at 5:00am again this morning cause I had my last final (finally) at 8:00. IT'S OVER!!!

And I can't believe I'm done my 5th semester of University! 2.5 years baby!

And I'm sooo PROUD of Burns! He went back to school to upgrade Math30 and Physics20 this semester. He is done Math30 and guess what his final grade is!

93%

!!!

GOOD JOB BOONIE!

He still needs to finish Physics (he'll be done in January).

Now we can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the Christmas spirit.

AND I FINALLY GET TO GO HOME!!! TOMORROW!!

I haven't been home since Thanksgiving.

Oh and Breanne and I are having Roommate Christmas tonight when she gets home from work.

Now just a fun fact. These are all the books I read this semester.

There's supposed to be another text book in there but I forgot about it until I started posting. Oh and it looks like I read the His Dark Materials series but I was just substituting this series for the Hunger Games because I don't actually own those books. Lita lent them to me and I don't even know how I got good grades while I was reading them.

Infants, Children, and Adolescents (600)

An Introduction to Brain and Behavior (500)

Principles of Microeconomics (300)

Cognition - Exploring the Science of the Mind (500)

Historical Linguistics - An Introduction (200)

Gang Leader for a Day (300)

A Long Way Gone (200)

The Hunger Games (300)

Catching Fire (300)

Mockingjay (400)

For a total of (drum role please).....

3600

3600 pages in 4 months. How did I do it you axe?

Not a clue.

AND

Not only did all this great stuff happen, Without the Fall (me band) finally recorded 2 songs!

Check 'em out!

http://www.myspace.com/withoutthefall

2 more coming after the break!