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Well the new year is going alright.
Christmas was great; Brock and I went up to Qualicum for it. Steph and Meg were up too, and we got to visit Jill as well. It was great to see all of my family. Because of exams, I didn't do any of my christmas shopping until a couple days before, but it worked out great, half in Vic and half in Nanaimo. And I'm excited for next year because we're talking about doing Christmas dinner at my place with Stephanie cooking - so I'd get to decorate my heart out and get a real tree and put on a real dinner. So I figure this will be the perfect excuse to get a dining table at some point over the year and host some dinner parties to test it out!
New Year's Eve was fun as we bounced around town. After starting out at Ren's, we hit midnight at Marion's and then rang in the new year at Sopranos.
I managed to make it up to Mt. Washington for skiing once so far, but now the chip in my board is fixed so I can't wait to get back there (if it will stop raining)!
After putting the disaster of last semester behind me, I've now totally changed my attitudes. Despite having an 8.30 class every day I haven't missed any yet, which is a great start for me. I think I've got all my classes sorted out now and I've streamlined my schedule a ton. I'm cutting out things like webcomics and fanfic (and most of the internet), TV and pretty much anything that's not school, so hopefully I'll be less distracted.
As of now, I'm quite sure that I'd like to do grad school, so mostly I'm just trying to focus my life so that I might actually get there.
I am however, pretty majorly committed to Tsukino-Con so I'm still doing that, and it's starting to really shape up! We have a lot of events planned and organised and it looks like it's all going to come together nicely. I found the most amazing wig for my Miku costume and I've already got the material and patterns, so I'm planning to whip that together over reading break.
Yesterday was a great day for con stuff for me, as well as just being a great day overall. I had a meeting with Krystyn to sort out the Cosplay Contest stuff in the morning and then there was a dress rehearsal for the Lolita Fashion Show in the evening which ran excellently. Everyone looked so awesome! And then after that Jill, Brock and I made her Thai Noodle Salad (with the incredible smoked tofu from Save-On) at my place and watched the first episode of the Firefly DVDs she gave me for christmas. And damn her for it, it was amazing. I might have to ration it over the semester as my one TV show - if we don't accidentally marathon it first...
Ooh, I've also totally cleaned up and rearranged my apartment - I flipped around my living room, and prepared my den for the proposed future dining table. Then I bought about a million of those pretty hat boxes from Michael's and have been downsizing my unneeded junk so that what's left is out of sight.
I managed to see quite a few movies over the break: Avatar was great, Sherlock Holmes was exactly what I was expecting and hoping for, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus was very interesting, and I loved Dangerous Liaisons.
Christmas was great; Brock and I went up to Qualicum for it. Steph and Meg were up too, and we got to visit Jill as well. It was great to see all of my family. Because of exams, I didn't do any of my christmas shopping until a couple days before, but it worked out great, half in Vic and half in Nanaimo. And I'm excited for next year because we're talking about doing Christmas dinner at my place with Stephanie cooking - so I'd get to decorate my heart out and get a real tree and put on a real dinner. So I figure this will be the perfect excuse to get a dining table at some point over the year and host some dinner parties to test it out!
New Year's Eve was fun as we bounced around town. After starting out at Ren's, we hit midnight at Marion's and then rang in the new year at Sopranos.
I managed to make it up to Mt. Washington for skiing once so far, but now the chip in my board is fixed so I can't wait to get back there (if it will stop raining)!
After putting the disaster of last semester behind me, I've now totally changed my attitudes. Despite having an 8.30 class every day I haven't missed any yet, which is a great start for me. I think I've got all my classes sorted out now and I've streamlined my schedule a ton. I'm cutting out things like webcomics and fanfic (and most of the internet), TV and pretty much anything that's not school, so hopefully I'll be less distracted.
As of now, I'm quite sure that I'd like to do grad school, so mostly I'm just trying to focus my life so that I might actually get there.
I am however, pretty majorly committed to Tsukino-Con so I'm still doing that, and it's starting to really shape up! We have a lot of events planned and organised and it looks like it's all going to come together nicely. I found the most amazing wig for my Miku costume and I've already got the material and patterns, so I'm planning to whip that together over reading break.
Yesterday was a great day for con stuff for me, as well as just being a great day overall. I had a meeting with Krystyn to sort out the Cosplay Contest stuff in the morning and then there was a dress rehearsal for the Lolita Fashion Show in the evening which ran excellently. Everyone looked so awesome! And then after that Jill, Brock and I made her Thai Noodle Salad (with the incredible smoked tofu from Save-On) at my place and watched the first episode of the Firefly DVDs she gave me for christmas. And damn her for it, it was amazing. I might have to ration it over the semester as my one TV show - if we don't accidentally marathon it first...
Ooh, I've also totally cleaned up and rearranged my apartment - I flipped around my living room, and prepared my den for the proposed future dining table. Then I bought about a million of those pretty hat boxes from Michael's and have been downsizing my unneeded junk so that what's left is out of sight.
I managed to see quite a few movies over the break: Avatar was great, Sherlock Holmes was exactly what I was expecting and hoping for, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus was very interesting, and I loved Dangerous Liaisons.