a nearly perfect day
yesterday was the great clean, mom came over in the morning and we finally got at the last of the setting up that the house needed. I finally put up my shelves and made my audience (all the little statues and nicknacks that i own are now on the wall behind me facing the TV with my like some giant live studio audience. Also i got through that massive pile of laundry that was slowly taking over the floor in my room.
All this cleaning was great but it left me with little time and little strength left at the end of the day to put towards the studying that i was suppose to be doing for the exam i had today. So i went to bed early with the intention of just getting to it today
And what a day it has been! I woke up around 8 and had some coffee in bed while i read through my chapters getting ready for my exam at 11:30. Nic slept beside me the whole time, keeping me warm and making me smile every few minutes with his cute mornings sleep faces. By the time i felt reasonably prepared for the exam i still had 10 minutes left before i had to hop into the shower so i curled back up in bed and enjoyed the last of the warm snuggles. Once the alarm went off i popped into the shower while nic made breakfast, bacon and cheese sandwiches! He then drove me into school. On our way down the Riverside i got to see so many of Ottawa's wildlife locals hanging out in the water. I saw two herons, several ducks and even our pair of while swans.
Got to school, wrote the exam, which was pretty easy i am happy to say. Got out in time to discover that my financial woes were soon to be done with, my OSAP has finally arrived and will be done and in my bank account in a matter of days. Also the butterfly exhibit is on at Carleton right now. For three years now i see it advertised and have always wanted to check it out but every year it seems i let it slip by without me making time for it, but not this time. It was possibly one of the most beautiful things i have seen in a long time. Two large greenhouses with butterflies and giant moths flying freely all over them. There were easily hundreds of them, some as large as my hand (a few of the moths that were chilling out in this special area were easily almost as big as my head). Right as i was leaving a troupe of kids from a local daycare were showing up and they handed the children cut oranges so that the butterflies would come over and land on them, it was such a sight to see the wonder in their eyes as butterfly after butterfly started to come and land on them. For one or two of the little ones this was just a little too creepy and they started to cry but most of them were really good about moving very slowly so as not to scare them and paying attention so as not to touch their wings.
On the way home i had to take my new OSAP forms and bring them to a special post office to send off (kinda like a money order i guess) and the closest one was a St Laurant. As i was walking by i noticed that La Vie en Rose was having a super 2 for 1 sale and decided to spend 30$ and get myself some nice new lingerie (to anyone who has been feeling a little rollypolly i totally recommend them, they had stuff for all forms and figures which was good because i am still toting around my little pot belly that i have yet to shake off)
Then when i got home to walk lilly we ended up going out for at least and hour and a half adventure to check out more of the neighborhood, found a new gourmet food place and bought some special cheeses and pate for tonight when Nic gets home. Then once i bought those i realized i could just serve them alone so we continued our walk up to Montreal road found the closest LCBO to get a bottle of wine to go with our dinner.
Seeing as how it was already shaping up to be an awesome night i also stopped in rented a new shooter game for Nic and i to play on the Wii tonight called Dead Space: Extraction.
On our way home Lilly and I took the long way along the water and there we saw the pair of black swans that also live in the same water as i saw everything else earlier this morning. We stopped for a while and watched them swim gently along. It really helped me to remember how very VERY lucky i am and how lovely life can really be.
Now to go set up everything for when Nic gets home tonight!
All this cleaning was great but it left me with little time and little strength left at the end of the day to put towards the studying that i was suppose to be doing for the exam i had today. So i went to bed early with the intention of just getting to it today
And what a day it has been! I woke up around 8 and had some coffee in bed while i read through my chapters getting ready for my exam at 11:30. Nic slept beside me the whole time, keeping me warm and making me smile every few minutes with his cute mornings sleep faces. By the time i felt reasonably prepared for the exam i still had 10 minutes left before i had to hop into the shower so i curled back up in bed and enjoyed the last of the warm snuggles. Once the alarm went off i popped into the shower while nic made breakfast, bacon and cheese sandwiches! He then drove me into school. On our way down the Riverside i got to see so many of Ottawa's wildlife locals hanging out in the water. I saw two herons, several ducks and even our pair of while swans.
Got to school, wrote the exam, which was pretty easy i am happy to say. Got out in time to discover that my financial woes were soon to be done with, my OSAP has finally arrived and will be done and in my bank account in a matter of days. Also the butterfly exhibit is on at Carleton right now. For three years now i see it advertised and have always wanted to check it out but every year it seems i let it slip by without me making time for it, but not this time. It was possibly one of the most beautiful things i have seen in a long time. Two large greenhouses with butterflies and giant moths flying freely all over them. There were easily hundreds of them, some as large as my hand (a few of the moths that were chilling out in this special area were easily almost as big as my head). Right as i was leaving a troupe of kids from a local daycare were showing up and they handed the children cut oranges so that the butterflies would come over and land on them, it was such a sight to see the wonder in their eyes as butterfly after butterfly started to come and land on them. For one or two of the little ones this was just a little too creepy and they started to cry but most of them were really good about moving very slowly so as not to scare them and paying attention so as not to touch their wings.
On the way home i had to take my new OSAP forms and bring them to a special post office to send off (kinda like a money order i guess) and the closest one was a St Laurant. As i was walking by i noticed that La Vie en Rose was having a super 2 for 1 sale and decided to spend 30$ and get myself some nice new lingerie (to anyone who has been feeling a little rollypolly i totally recommend them, they had stuff for all forms and figures which was good because i am still toting around my little pot belly that i have yet to shake off)
Then when i got home to walk lilly we ended up going out for at least and hour and a half adventure to check out more of the neighborhood, found a new gourmet food place and bought some special cheeses and pate for tonight when Nic gets home. Then once i bought those i realized i could just serve them alone so we continued our walk up to Montreal road found the closest LCBO to get a bottle of wine to go with our dinner.
Seeing as how it was already shaping up to be an awesome night i also stopped in rented a new shooter game for Nic and i to play on the Wii tonight called Dead Space: Extraction.
On our way home Lilly and I took the long way along the water and there we saw the pair of black swans that also live in the same water as i saw everything else earlier this morning. We stopped for a while and watched them swim gently along. It really helped me to remember how very VERY lucky i am and how lovely life can really be.
Now to go set up everything for when Nic gets home tonight!