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A Very Special Piscean

I found this today on Wishcake's twitter and I thought I would try it. My description is SO accurate its scary. Apparently I'm a true-blue Pisces!

Emily will never grow up, and nor would we ever want her to. It is Emily's ability to be innocently fun-loving and childlike that makes her so endearing. Emily last name is extremely clever and sophisticated. There is, after all, a very big difference between being childlike and being childish. Emily is open minded, unselfish and able somehow to approach each new day with a spirit of real, fresh inspiration. That explains why Emily enjoys life so much and it also explains why other people, looking at Emily's life from a distance, cannot understand why she enjoys it so much. Those of us who know and love Emily find her enigmatic, mysterious or even downright baffling. We can't help liking her, but nor can we quite manage to work out where she is at, where she is coming from, what she is up to or what she is in to. Emily's tastes and preferences are what some people would call eclectic, others would term unusual and most folk would classify as 'just plain weird.' Emily, though, is consistent in her inconsistency. There is method to her madness. Emily is interested in - even fascinated by - so many strange, different topics and subjects because Emily is such a natural experimenter.

Emily doesn't need to travel the world in search of variety. Emily can wake up one morning feeling quite sure that she is one particular kind of person. By the afternoon she will be someone else. Her personality will not change, her loyalty will not waver but her mood will evolve allowing her to explore, enthusiastically, ways of behaviour which only a few hours ago seemed unattractive. Thus Emily last name creates a world in which there is constant variety and excitement. Boring people, who like to follow life's laws to the letter and stick rigidly to one fixed plan find Emily hard to handle or even to relate to. People with a sense of adventure, a sense of imagination and, most importantly of all a sense of humour, cannot get enough of Emily's company.
Here is the website its from - website.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday!

My long lost blog...

Geeze Luigi I'm bad at blogging! I read blogs and twitters daily, if I have time. But I appear to be super lazy about writing a blog post. I'm going to try to be better at this! Here's an update on things I've been up to.

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School. Its been very busy and frustrating. Murphy's Law continues, I don't understand why. But every little thing that can, has gone wrong. Or at least been a huge pain. This week coming up is mid-term week so its extra hectic. I commute two hours to school and just over an hour to clinical for four days each week and its getting really tiring on me. I don't have anyone to commute with, so its expensive and exhausting. Also, OSAP angers me beyond words, only tears. I hate you OSAP.

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The boyfriend and I have decided to move in together. Which means I'm moving over an hour away to the country! I'm so excited for this. I think it will be great for me to have a new beginning in a fresh town and learning all about how they do things up there. I'm also excited to move out from home. I love my mom so much, and I probably couldn't do anything without her love and support, but I'm so ready to be out on my own!

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I've been battling stomach issues for years. I constantly have an upset stomach and is always worse when I'm stressed out or anxious. I have IBS. It got so bad for me since I've started school. Every day I come home and my stomach is so bloated that I look about 7 months pregnant, I'm not even exaggerating one bit. My stomach will be rock hard and hurt so much. Then on top of that I started getting daily, all day, nausea and heartburn. So I finally broke down and asked my doctor for something. She gave me ranitidine, which helped for a bit then all my symptoms came back and now she gave me prevacid, which I think after about a week may actually be working. I am so thankful for this. My stomach has gone almost flat(except for my chub of course) and is pain-free. HALLELUJAH! I seriously will not miss the old ladies from the nursing home at my clinical coming up and rubbing my belly because they think I'm pregnant. Not at all. It is so embarrassing.

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I'm about to become an AUNTIE EM for the first time! And I could not be more excited. Hopefully the little one(I know the sex but its a surprise) will be here tonight or tomorrow! Mom and I held a baby shower for her(my SIL) and I think it went well. I took some pics, but of course I'm still attempting to learn my camera and I had it on the wrong setting and didn't adjust it, so they are all grainy. I was mega disappointed. So I only got a few that turned out from my camera, and they are not really of the baby shower at all! My eleven year old cousin came over early because she wanted to help. Yes she is tall, taller than me.

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So, these are some of the things that I've been doing. Hopefully I will update and create blog posts much more regularly in the future! Off to have a blissful(really not, I'm doing homework and studying for mid-terms) Saturday night alone watching movies, eating chips and drinking root beer(these things are all true though).

PS. I find posting and moving around pictures so annoying on this thing, it never works the way I want it to, that's why the pics are in weird places, I just couldn't get them to move and gave up. But I thought they were cute. I don't know if its because I have a laptop without a mouse or if I'm not doing it wrong or am just plain bad at it. But I find this blogging thing difficult. I need to take a class or something.

You motor-boatin son-of-a-b****!

Movie trivia anyone?




This is Jake. He is a cat. He is black and white. He is also annoying. He comes to sleep with me when I'm having trouble sleeping. He probably thinks this is nice of him. He's wrong. He licks himself a lot(which is loud in the middle of the night). He has the LOUDEST purr - ever(again, probably amplified during the night). I call him purring a motorboat. Jake runs his motorboat a lot. Like all night.



Its a good thing he's cute.

Brady's Love For The Boyfriend.

During the strike from school(three months long in total), I spend about 2.5 weeks at the boyfriends house. I absolutly love being there, it feels like home. The town, the people, his family, and of course him! He lives over an hour away from me right now(which will be changing in the summer!!! can't wait) so any opportunity to spend more than 2 days together we jump at.

Brady is another reason I love going there. He also loves it there and seems so happy and content. Probably becuase there is no fenced in yard like at home here so he gets walked 3-4 times per day rather than just once a day at home. Also I think Brady prefers to play and wrestle with any man over me. I think I'm too gentle for his liking or something.

So anyways, when I met the boyfriend, he was not a dog person. My first thought to this was Oh Dear, this isn't going to work. But he tried SO hard to become a dog lover, I was sooo impressed and touched with his effort. Not only to accept Brady, but also accept the little ways that I spoil Brady - he will even pick him up when he takes him out because Bradys little feet get too cold. Ah! My heart melts. Brady has also weasled his way the boyfriends bed, under the covers. And the cutest thing of all is that when he doesn't think I'm listening I can hear him baby-talking to Brady! Adorable.

While we were staying there during the strike Brady began to wait for Mike at the door everyday starting at 5:15. I think Mike really got to love seeing his excited little face every night. Here are some photos I took of him. Sorry for the quality, I'm still learning how to use my camera!

Random Thoughts for Today

Most days I wish that I could focus all my time and attention on loved ones and on doing nice things for others. It always feels so good to do a little something, even as small as a nice compliment for someone to help brighten their day! I hate having the feeling that there is never enough time to devote to this, although I guess its something that we should always strive to be better at.

Every day, I wish that I could spend all of my time with Brady. I love being so close to him that I see so many sweet tiny moments and mannerisms and goofiness and frito-smelling feet that I know nobody else will ever get to experience. Although at the same time, it also makes me kind of sad that the whole world doesn't get to see all of his wonderfulness. Not sure if that's a word, but it is today.

Here are a couple of completely embarrassing photos of me and Brady. I'll share them, even though I look so terrible and they are dork as all get out.

Teaching him to 'kiss' is by far the cutest thing I've taught him. He just presses his lips up to yours, no tongue. haha Adorable. I love my boy!

Slacker.

So I've been super lazy in posting anything lately, but I can blame school! After three months of strike we were finally allowed to go back. Which means tons of homework. Luckily I had a couple things completed during the strike, so that helped. And may I just say that group work stinks. I wish they didn't make us do it. So here is my homework list for the next two and a half weeks:

-ethics presentation(just need to email all the info due to lack of time)

-statistics assignment(seriously the hardest thing I've ever attempted doing. Makes me feel so stupid)

-ethics paper

-theory of nursing paper

-study for stats exam

-study for lab test and for an exam

I was supposed to go away this weekend with Mike and his friends to his parents cottage, but I had to cancel due to this huge workload. Which stinks. We don't really do anything for valentines, but I'd rather be with him for it than with my textbooks and computer. I feel like we are the only people who don't do anything for valentines. People act so shocked to hear that we don't and some even say 'oh you should make him do stuff anyways!'. My friends don't always give the best advice! I mean I certainly do enjoy the treats and chocolates and such, but I just can't get into it. MM I'm craving valentines treats like nobody's business now. Darn.

So yes, that is what's new with me. Off to type until my fingers bleed! Oh and a pic, because every post needs a pic!