i heart the guy @ canada computers!

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almost forgot. it's christmas time at royal ave!

this year, it's charlie brown + martha stewart meet king kong =P

 my sister came to see me today =)

and she came bearing gifts! haha.. chinese food & this christmas inspired candy on a stick thing she picked up one day at the hospital. hehe. it's really cute, dont know if i'm actually going to eat it, but it's fun to look at ..lol.. i had thought about where i wanted her to take me for lunch and decided on this greek place really close by.. i was all excited cause it's literally been forever since i'd last had greek food..

so i parked the car, only to find out that it's only open for dinner on saturday :( .. we got back in the car with the intention of driving around downtown hamilton, but ended up just going around the corner to crabby joe's where we had calamari & fajitas. YUM

with our tummies full, we went to canada computers to see what they could do about my broken baby.  after poking around, the guy says "it's a software problem.. it's going to cost you this, this plus this depending on this" ..he just kept listing stuff... and the warranty only covers hardware problems.. so i had this running calculation in my head of how much of a dent this could cause.. anyways, he shoves this disk in and says "i'm just gonna try this one thing really quick" ..and 10 minutes later, everything was just working again! felt almost as good as when i saw it snowing outside -- i'm not kidding. and he could tell how relieved i was..

okay so now everything's back.. i'm warm in my room and i should get back to studying. here's hoping i can stay awake long enough to make up for not doing anything this morning! eeps

technology hates me :(

in first year, i had a new computer all ready to go when i moved into rez.. a few weeks with that, and it went crazy on me.. and then shortly after, it crashed. i lost everything. had to start from scratch again. lucky for me, there wasnt much on there yet.

last year, my sister went to hong kong in september and brought home an mp3 player i had wanted.  something wasnt working properly with that either and after many frustrating hours, i took it BACK with me to hong kong in the summer.. and now it is cooperating quite nicely.

THIS year, i get a laptop.. everything was peachy until it too, started to go a little crazy on me.. should've seen it coming! it died on me last night.. last night was not a good night.  i had a final today.. lucky for me i didnt need it for this one.  i do however, need it for next wednesday's ..stupid children's lit notes had to be on the stupid laptop :( gonna take it in this weekend.. thank goodness the canada computers in hamilton isnt very far.. and my sister's going to come see me on saturday, so yay!

april's gone home for a little while.. wont be back til next thursday, so i've taken over her computer for now.. i called the computer people today and the guy said if he cant fix it in store they have to send it back to the manufacturer.. and it wont be back for a month.. a MONTH. what the heck do they do with it that they need a month?! ..

keeping my fingers crossed for good news when i bring it in..

oh! and i missed ANTM finale tonight, so if anyone says ANYTHING to me about anything that happened... i will hurt you... hehe

my housemates are out getting drunk...

i should probably get back to studying.

*sigh
iwantchristmas

a study day at home...

instead of hearing cell phones ringing and music pumping out of headphones that turned up too loud at the library, this is what i've been hearing:

sit, dea!
dea, lay down!
roll over, dea... rooolll over!
good girl, dea!

as you can see.. exam period = university students hard at work.
i'm told she almost got the roll over down. another to add to the list of tricks we've taught her. haha

i was having issues staying awake since getting up this morning.. almost went out for a walk in the snow, but bethany's door got stuck and she was trapped in her room! lol.. didnt take too long to get her out... and it provided me with a good laugh, so now i'm awake and really should get back to work..eeps

Currently Listening Christmas Interpretations By Boyz II Men Let it Snow see related

it's the simple things in life that make me smile like nothing else can.

 as sad (or gross) as this is, i didnt leave the house all weekend..

so you can imagine the shock i experienced as i ventured out into the blistering cold this morning.. (yea, i exaggerate a little sometimes.. but it WAS cold!)  ..it was the last time i would have to get up for a stats lecture, so i felt i should go  ... my fridge is once again running low or just plain lacking in several necessitites, but because i'm a big baby and didnt want to go back out into the cold, i opted for a nap in my warm bed at home before jazz... laziness got the better of me, and i loved the nap.. but i'll regret that in the next few days when i discover i have nothing to eat ..lol .. unfortunately for me, jazz ended up being quite the bummer, as i realized just how much i need to learn for this exam

true to exam form, the library was packed.. i couldnt get a desk at my usual spot, so i had to go to a corner where there were no windows.. several semi-productive hours later, i walked by a window to see the campus completely covered in a blanket of white..   

it was so beautiful.. from that moment on, people who saw me probably referred to me as that idiot girl with the huge smile on her face walking through the snow. haha.. it was one of those times where everything kind of melted away, and for a brief moment, there was nothing weighing down on me.. for the first time in a while, my heart was completely happy.  one of my bestfriends asks me every year, "what is it about snow that makes you so happy?" -- and i still cant give her a straight answer.  just look out your window and tell me that what you're seeing isnt gorgeous. 

back when maddog and billie still worked at kiss92, i'd wake up to their morning show.  one day in particular, they were discussing things that make people happy... and they took a minute to write down all the things that could make them smile.  i think their goal was ten things on that list... later that day i made my own list and came up with some ridiculous number just over thirty.. they were all simple things; snow was one of them

anyways, now the snow's fallen, i really, really want to go play ...why must school ruin all the fun!  

my family put up the tree at home this weekend ...i made my sister take a picture of it ..i dont care if looks the same as it did last year! i still want to see it!

all it needs is some presents underneath it ;)

exciting stuff happening over the break perhaps? i'm not going to let myself get too excited or i'll be very disappointed if things dont follow through.. but! i dont see why they wouldnt... either way, i'm going to leave it at this for now. haha

i like that i'm mad at you. i like that i when i talk to you now, i really just want to hurt you...
i like it cause it means i'm healing and that you're starting to disappear for a while.
yay me!

hi gladys =)

got our tickets today!! i cant wait til dec22!