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While I am not here under the best circumstances, I am trying to take advantage of it as much as I can.

I got to see a bunch of my relatives yesterday, including my one aunt on my dad's side, and some second(I think) cousins I haven't seen in an age and a half. Also my sister!!! <3 <3 <3 *more hugs*

I am at my dad's now, spending some time with him and his wife (I like her, but it just seems weird to consider her my stepmother, since they got married after I'd left home!). I just ate a canadial maple donought, and am drinking a chocolate iced cap, and have some timbits downstairs. Tonight we are having salmond and scallops and fiddleheads!!!

Tomorrow, we are going canoeing somewhere, and Satruday I am going to the Fredericton Farmer's Market, after which I hope to spend the day hanging out with friends I haven't seen in aaaages! Hopefully, anyway :o I'm still looking to get a drive back to Monkeytown on Sunday moring, but I am confident something will work out.

Now, if only I hadn't left my powerbar at the Moncton hotel. Bah, I blame the Dutch.

Also, during my ridiculously long layover in To, I am going to get to see Rob, and possibly my cousin Melissa, who I also haven't seen in forever :)

Made it to Montreal after only an hour delay leaving Houston. Hooray! had an amazingly wonderfully delicious dinner, and opened presents last night. Good times abound :)

Tickets home booked - Dec 29 to Jan 9. And by 'home' I mean to my sister's place in Montreal, where I have never actually lived ;p

My sister is getting married tomorrow! (Okay technically today. In 15 hours :)

...I sleep now!

No, not like that, although she's pretty hot - you could make some real dollars. I's just sayin'

But she posted a video of her one-day exhibition for her Arts Practice PHD at the University of Aberystwyth. It is a work in progress still, but you should watch it, and if anyone has any comments/questions/what have you you can leave them here or on Youtube and she'll see them. I don't know if she had a statement or anything to go with it, but I'll see and post it here if she did. Edit: see comments for mini-statement :)

LEMON BAKEWELLS!

(and a knitted head scarf :)

Today is my sister's birthday! She is made of win! She is smart and saucy, and creative and classy! well mostly classy, anyway :D I love her to bits! i totally wish I could go see her more often ;_; I miss her hardcore, but I am glad that she is getting to go back to the UK and live with her monsieur soon! *a million loves*!

So, I get home in the late afternoon and there are two packages waiting for me! One is for Jodie - wedding shoes which I will ship out tomorrow as long as the post office is open. The other is for *me*! It is a big cardboard box from Godiva :V Inside was....A cooler! Inside the cooler was.... Two chocolate bunnies! that's right, my sister loves me *two* Godiva chocolate bunnies! One is a small white chocolate one. I haven't cracked it open yet. the other, the large milk chocolate one, is now earless. Oh, life is good! And now I have a styrofoam cooler to boot :o

In other news I gacked this and a few other songs from insertfancyname a few weeks ago and now I can't stop listening to it!

Rawk!

I would just like to state, for the record, that I have the Best Sister Ever. I almost feel sorry for you, missing out on her awesomeness, but hey, more for me!

Gloatingly yours,

Heather

I slept in nicely, got up and wrote a story for a new writing meme I am participaing in over at my writing journal (measured_words in cse there s still anyone out there who doens't know!), read some French shipwreck book, played with the Exia wiki, went and bought completely unnecessary groceries (baking stuff and whim things like nutella and tahini - it was right near the organic peanut butter, yum! Now I can for real make hummus :D), put together a crock of baked beans (the molasses kind) which ought to be ready around midnight, made cookies (oatmeal chocolate chip and oatmeal crasin), and then *finished* the French book! Once I got through the ship construction bits, it got a lot easier. Now I just have to put together a 30 minute presentation on it for Tuesday... I have checked and can't find any other sources to work from, although Kevin said that he thought there was a summarizing article in English somewhere. I think he is crazy :p I have checked ever way i can think of to seach for material from this ship - nada. Which is odd - it is a neat little wreck, assuming I understand it properly :V Ahh well - at least this class I'm allowed to talk about more than just the construction details, which in this case includes some cool historical background and a bunch of stuff about the cannons. Yay cannons!

What else. I just put a pizza in the oven, rounding out a perfect day of eating nothing but crap. i took out a tangerine to make myself eat at least one good thing today, but the last one I ate was bitter. I really wish there was an accessible local source for organic veggies here. I find all the citrus is overly pesticide-y, so that even the fruit is a bit chemically, and forget about baking with it :p Later tonight I may go to movie night,and get rid of some cookies. If not I'll just have to inflict them on other deserving folks!

I had a nice long chat with Hazel last night about all kinds of things, including the gym. I am going to check out the free weight page she keeps telling me about, finally, and then on Monday I'm going to see what they have... I want to get some beter back and core exercises. But first I am going to call my dad, since I missed his skype call earlier tonight because I had the voume turned waaay down on my computer so I could concentrate on reading in French...