Christmas traditions =)

Making a Gingerbread House!!!

Making cookies!!!

YUM!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

BOO!!

Excited and busy!

I'm sooooo excited!! JD gets home in t-minus 4 sleeps!! We haven't seen him in 2 months!! Brooklyn is talking about "daddy" everyday really lots now. I can tell she really misses him.

He gets home very late Friday evening (early Saturday morning) after driving 14 or so hours to get home. And Saturday evening, we've got a babysitter lined up so we can go to his work's Christmas party. It should be a fun night. We rarely go out like that =)

And then my girls are taking me out on the town next week (most of us have that week off) for my 30th birthday to go DANCING!! I haven't been out dancing in awhile! Phew! It's gonna be a blast =)

And THEN! The day or two after Christmas we are making a trip to Vancouver to visit my sister nda her little family for New Years!!! Can't WAIT to see them and watch Brooklyn play with her little cousin Dariusz!!

On another note regarding busy. I've been trying to get to doing some reading and research to nail down my thesis topic...so far I know who I'll be working with (a Bison Ecologist here in town) and I know that I'll be doing some kind of mapping and ecological work with regards to Wood Bison (buffalo) that we have up here. Maybe something dealing with transmission of disease between herds (turbucolosis/brucellosis) as those issues are big up here. So needless to say, I'll be reading lots before Friday when I go meet with the Bison Ecologist. I want to have my thesis proposal in to my University supervisor before January. Wish me luck! I feel like I know nothing! ack!

Oh! And I am staying home for a third week with JD and my lil' Buddha!!! I decided that I'll take another block-week condensed course in the Spring. After reading up some more about it, I just didn't think that the course I signed up for in January was very much in line with my degree, so I opted out. But I'm really happy with that decision!! I get to be with my family for an extra week!!! =D

YAYYYY!!!

Money, Money!

I love you Mony mo-mo-mony

I love you Mony mo-mo-mony sure I do

Cause you make me feel
So good, so good
Well I feel all right
You're so fine, you're so fine
You're, and I feel all right
I said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(Mony, Mony lyrics by Billy Idol)

Okayyy. 

So I don't think money should make you feel that good...

(plus, I know he's not quite singing about money but that's my personal interpretation of the day...)

But money does come in handy when I am on a shopping spree, teehee!

Although, lately, I must admit that I am not pleased with money. 

The reason? 

The drop of the Canadian dollar.

It's always basically been at a lower value than the US dollar. 

But this year, it was up to par (practically equal) to the US dollar for months and months and months and I LOVED it! 

I was able to buy stuff online at basically the same exchange rate which is practically unheard of (to me anyways, since I've been old enough to buy stuff). 

But since oil prices have gone back down (which is also a good thing but in this case, a catch-22) the CAD dollar goes down too. Oh well, it's one or the other...and I suppose gas prices win hands down, understandably so.

Here are the:

3 STAGES OF EMOTIONS 

As The Value of Money 

Goes Down In The Dumpers (Again)

First there was DISGUST.

Then ANGER.

Now it's just plain SADNESS.

(yeah, I know...boohoo, Vita. Go away and cry! hehe)

Oh! I just realized that it looks like I'm flippin' the bird! 

No, I am not! hehe! 

If you look closely, there is a Canadian $10 bill in my hand! 

(no it's not play money! teehee)

(PS-teehee I love photobooth...my blog will never have to go a post without pics ever again!)