the sun is shining, the birds are singing...
... and I'm stuck inside working on crappy assignments. *sigh*
We played soccer in the park yesterday with some friends, which was loads of fun. I actually managed to score a couple of goals but they may have been flukes. My team won too, though the game was very close. I now ache pretty in places I didn't know existed but it's good. We played Risk in the afternoon, and I got wiped out so fast, it was like watching a sinking ship and not being able to do anything about it.
I had some strange dreams last night. In one, my sister had her baby - it was a girl and she named it Cinderella Cameron. Don't ask me why. She just said "Cinderella was a very popular name in the 1800s." *snort* Dreams are inexplicable. I think she must be due in about three weeks though. Speaking of babies names though, what are your favourite names?
I have just three assignments to do, one mostly done and two I haven't started at all that involve some research, but I'm aiming to get them done by end of Tuesday so we can go up to the cottage on Wednesday. It'll be really cold up there (it's been nice and mildly warm and sunny here recently) but we need to get out of the city for a bit and away from all our responsibilities here. Edit: I've just heard we're not going. Don't know why yet but that Adam's mum doesn't want us to. Grrrrr.
We watched The Other Boleyn Girl the other day - actually I really liked it. I was expecting something quite bad just from what friends had said, and I thought the two American actors playing the sisters would be painful, but they were good. Still don't know why you can't have British actors playing British characters, except that they think a US audience would be alienated by it (dear me).
I started a Flickr account yesterday, but I don't have any photos up yet. It's good motivation to make me go for walks around and take photos - and maybe I should include people for once too?! Only, the digital camera that we have is actually not ours (we borrowed it "indefinitely" from Adam's parents, who forgot we had it), and the battery is stuffed - it runs down after the first three photos (that's what happens when you recharge a battery that wasn't completely dead), and you can only take happy snaps with it. If we ever get jobs (cross fingers) and have some money we plan to treat ourselves to a proper manual $500 camera. Actually now would be a good time because of the recession, but sadly we have no money. Typical isn't it?
One of the other things we've started is our balcony herb & veg garden. Seedlings aren't really available yet for the herbs but we've got pots going with seeds of a couple of different kinds of lettuce; spinach; more chives (our chive plant from last year survived - they're hard to kill!); and a couple of other odds and ends. Oh and Italian flat-leaf parsley. It's so satisfying, growing things! My wild rose is about to put out leaves, and one thyme plant survived though it's a bit woody. I'm hoping it'll grow past the wood. Some of our terracotta pots broke because we left the soil in them and when they froze and thawed it cracked them. We know next time to empty them of soil - though some of the herbs like rosemary should live through winter.
This is a bit ambitious (for me), but one of the sessions I'm doing in my internship is handmade teddy-bear making. Which I haven't done since grade 8 when I made one with my Mum's help and supervision. So I need to find a good pattern and try it out first so I know what I'm doing. And trust me, I can't sew for crap. I just think it'd be really fun and apparently this kind of thing is popular with the kids. I thought I'd also teach them how to make friendship bracelets - do you remember those? Haven't made them since high school but they were a big craze back then. You use cross-stitch thread in different colours and knot them into patterns. It's quite easy but I need to refresh myself. It's been, what, twelve years?
We played soccer in the park yesterday with some friends, which was loads of fun. I actually managed to score a couple of goals but they may have been flukes. My team won too, though the game was very close. I now ache pretty in places I didn't know existed but it's good. We played Risk in the afternoon, and I got wiped out so fast, it was like watching a sinking ship and not being able to do anything about it.
I had some strange dreams last night. In one, my sister had her baby - it was a girl and she named it Cinderella Cameron. Don't ask me why. She just said "Cinderella was a very popular name in the 1800s." *snort* Dreams are inexplicable. I think she must be due in about three weeks though. Speaking of babies names though, what are your favourite names?
I have just three assignments to do, one mostly done and two I haven't started at all that involve some research, but I'm aiming to get them done by end of Tuesday so we can go up to the cottage on Wednesday. It'll be really cold up there (it's been nice and mildly warm and sunny here recently) but we need to get out of the city for a bit and away from all our responsibilities here. Edit: I've just heard we're not going. Don't know why yet but that Adam's mum doesn't want us to. Grrrrr.
We watched The Other Boleyn Girl the other day - actually I really liked it. I was expecting something quite bad just from what friends had said, and I thought the two American actors playing the sisters would be painful, but they were good. Still don't know why you can't have British actors playing British characters, except that they think a US audience would be alienated by it (dear me).
I started a Flickr account yesterday, but I don't have any photos up yet. It's good motivation to make me go for walks around and take photos - and maybe I should include people for once too?! Only, the digital camera that we have is actually not ours (we borrowed it "indefinitely" from Adam's parents, who forgot we had it), and the battery is stuffed - it runs down after the first three photos (that's what happens when you recharge a battery that wasn't completely dead), and you can only take happy snaps with it. If we ever get jobs (cross fingers) and have some money we plan to treat ourselves to a proper manual $500 camera. Actually now would be a good time because of the recession, but sadly we have no money. Typical isn't it?
One of the other things we've started is our balcony herb & veg garden. Seedlings aren't really available yet for the herbs but we've got pots going with seeds of a couple of different kinds of lettuce; spinach; more chives (our chive plant from last year survived - they're hard to kill!); and a couple of other odds and ends. Oh and Italian flat-leaf parsley. It's so satisfying, growing things! My wild rose is about to put out leaves, and one thyme plant survived though it's a bit woody. I'm hoping it'll grow past the wood. Some of our terracotta pots broke because we left the soil in them and when they froze and thawed it cracked them. We know next time to empty them of soil - though some of the herbs like rosemary should live through winter.
This is a bit ambitious (for me), but one of the sessions I'm doing in my internship is handmade teddy-bear making. Which I haven't done since grade 8 when I made one with my Mum's help and supervision. So I need to find a good pattern and try it out first so I know what I'm doing. And trust me, I can't sew for crap. I just think it'd be really fun and apparently this kind of thing is popular with the kids. I thought I'd also teach them how to make friendship bracelets - do you remember those? Haven't made them since high school but they were a big craze back then. You use cross-stitch thread in different colours and knot them into patterns. It's quite easy but I need to refresh myself. It's been, what, twelve years?