Happy Chinese New Year!

Personally, I'm the year of the Tiger, so it's not my year, but for those 'year of the pig' people... yay to you!!! Ed and I celebrated by making a teriyaki chicken stir-fry, which was delicious. I love Chinese food! I'll probably have it at my wedding reception, I have it at birthday dinners, It's a treat and a requirement :D
Hope you all did something special, even if it was just having a nice cuppa with someone special.
xox

Happy 1st Birthday Ella!!!

My third wonderful niece turned ONE today!!! She has this infectious smile, and is gonna be a superstart no matter what she does :D
Lots of Love, Ella-Bean.
Your Auntie-Sarah
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Happy Valentine's Day!

To All my family and friends, I hope you had a good one!!!

I had a great night out with my Eddie. We had champagne (sparkling wine :D) and strawberries then went out for supper. Before we left he gave me roses and chocolate. What more could I ask for?!

I hope all your nights went well, no matter what you did. Whether you were with friends or a significant other.

Lots of Love!

xoxoxox

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SNOW!!!

I woke up this morning, and immediately became a 5 year-old again. Ed got quite the shock when I screeched: "Look, look!!!" I spent the morning hoping to see something on the University website saying: "CLOSED!" Alas, nothing. I was torn, but at 5 to the hour I did pull myself out of the house to brave the kids throwing snowballs on the way up to class. It was clear that the numbers were lowere than usual.
There were a few inched of lovely packing snow on the ground, which was perfect for snowmen. As I trudged to class, all along the (usually) green hill leading up to campus, there way a blanket of snow dotted with students in just coats, throwing snowballs, and building massive snowmen. Back at home, I built a mini snowman with Ed (pictures soon), and went in to have some nice warm tomato soup with grilled cheese :D
My winters in Montreal were always covered in snow, starting from Hallowe'en, and going right into April. Hollowe'en costumes had to be big enough to accomodatea snowsuit underneath, and flowers coming up in April would most certainly be frost bitten into May.
The snow is a lovely thing, and I wish there was more if it, however I wish this country would relax when it came to it, and not tell people to "travel only if necissary!"
xox

Never Thought I'd Do This!!!

So, last night was interesting. I'll explain: For past few days, Ed and I have been sharing a key because his seems to have got missing again. So, I'd go out without the key, and Ed would meet me, and he would have the key. Therefore, when I had Volleyball from 8-10pm last night, I headed out without the key knowing Ed would come to meet me at the Sports Centre after training. As we were walking home, he says: "I found my key!" "Good!" I say. We continue to walk home. At our front door, I learn that even though he found the key, it didn't quite make it out with him, and he'd left it inside by accident. And, since I didn't have a key, we were lcked out, and none of our housemates were home!!! So, failing to get in the back door, I checked the kitchen window (One main big one, and a little one above it). The lock on the inside of the little window on top, was just closed enough that I could jiggle it open. Doing that, I used my scarf to pull up the other handle, therefore unlocking the bigger window. This is when I found myself climbing over my sink. As I stared at the sink, from above (!?) I wondered how I looked.....
Needless to say, we got in, and Ed put his key in his pocket.
xox

One of Those Days, Ya Know?

*WARNING...MILDMANOURED RANT AHEAD!*
Today, I woke up at the crack of stupid to review and print my bioanth report due in for noon. This was all going according to plan, however "why be dull" thought my computer. When ever some one asks me about A.I. (artificial intelligence) I always reply "computers KNOW when you need them to work, cause they don't!!!" Well, my poor little lap top decided to be "intelligent" this morning, because he wan't playing nice. *grumble grumble grumble* It was all down hill from there...I will explain:
1. While waiting for the lap top to boot up (which took forever), I got ready to fly out of the house gathering all my stuff.
2. I set the printer working, and continued gathering
3. I came upstairs to see that my lap top shut off (it has a bad habit of this) and had cancelled the printing.
4. Ed came to help me (Thank you, Sweety!!!) though the lap top still was not cooperating (petulant child).
5. When trying to start the computer (again), it shut off straight away...then finally booted up.
6. When Word Perfect was up, and the file opened, the printer command cause the programme to freeze not one, or twice, nor thrice...but four times *expletive deleted* Plus, there was a message on the screen saying something like: 'you're computer crashed during a backup, and did not log off properly, therefore some files may be lost' I didn't realized they usually log off before crashing?!
7. Ed to the rescue (this 10 minutes before it's due, by the way) he saved the file onto his mp3, and with tears down my face, I pelted out to Tom's (house mates) car, cause he gave me lift (Thanks Dude!).
8. Then for the next 30 minutes, I ran between Marlowe (anth building) and the Lib trying to print this *expletive deleted* report off.
9. During which, I encountered 5 obstacles: It was suggested I go and try to print it off in the Lib, instead of just handing in the mp3; then the mp3 wouldn't fit in the usb ports on the computers in the Lib!; I went to get a "usb extention cable" (you learn something new everyday) which then worked in the Lib computers; but the Corel file wouldn't open in this version of word *quite explitive deleted (it was a lib after all)*; so I emailed the file to myself, the lady I was handing it into, and my professor; which we then realized that both she, and my prof couldn't open it *polite expletive deleted (I was in the presence of teachers!)* The conclusion I have come to today is that things come in 3 cubed!
Two good things that have come about today is that I had a great coffee/chat with Kayleigh; and the (usually) mean vending machines in the lib cafe gave me two mint aero bars ("the bubbles!"), for the price of one! :)
I 'm going to have a stern discussion with my lap top tonight to make him understand concequences of his actions!
Moral of the story...hand write everything!!!
xoxox