Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Christmas Break
As for Christmas news there's lots! We have some family comming for Christmas and also I will get to see my very best girlfriends on the 23rd and I'm really excited for that because I haven't seen them in a really long time. It'll be nice to have the time to catch up. I don't have to work too much over Christmas, but I would like to have a few more shifts but we'll have to wait and see, if any of the girls need I can cover some shifts. I have to work on my birthday but that's alright, at least it's a morning shift and that's the last one I'm scheduled for..which is a problem. But apart from that Curtis will be home soon, he gets home on the 23rd and I'll be seeing him on the 26th and I can't wait!!! It has been wayy to long, I miss him like crazy but at least we'll see each other soon :) Anyways, I think that's about it for me. I'll try to be a little better about posting more often... rather than like a month apart for each one!
Cheers!
Holly
Sunday, November 15, 2009
A Moment of Relaxation
Not sure if I've mentioned this previously, (I probably have..) but Curtis is comming home for Christmas yay!!!! So excited that I will be able to see him finally! I really miss him, it sucks that he's all the way in Ottawa for the year. So it will be nice to go and spend some time with him this Christmas. I'm really looking forward to it.
That's really about all that is new with me for the time being, other than I'm already starting my birthday preparations since I'm going to have to make a reservation asap! So I figured an early start would be for the best! Anyways, I best go get my day started!!
Cheers
Holly
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Romeo, Oh Romeo...
School is still going alright, just working away at it. I have to write a few papers and I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with those but I'm chipping away at it little by little. It's kind of difficult because of the topic but I'm going to make it work haha I don't really have a choice!!
Today I'm thinking about donating blood. I've always wanted to but I think there's actually a clinic being held up at the school today and tomorrow so I'm thinking I will actually go through with it and I'm excited for it because I will finally know my blood type! Anyways I suppose I should actually make the effort to go and get ready for school!
Cheers!
Holly
Monday, October 5, 2009
School Update
Anyways, that's all for this update!
Cheers!
Holly
Thursday, September 17, 2009
General Update
Nothing TOO new really, my sister just got her first apartment and is moving out in a few weeks which is crazy, so she's out and about trying to find furniture and other bits and bobs that she'll need. So that will be good for her I think, so I hope it goes well. It will be nice that she's on her own, I think that will help her to appreciate everything that she may not have appreciated so much before!
School so far is going really well. I only have three classes I gave up on French the minute the teacher started giving the lesson in French...I haven't done French in like 3 years so I understood maybe 1/4 of what she said haha! So yea, that didn't last long, still have English, Greek and Roman Studies and of course Astronomy. I really hope that Astronomy goes well because I hate science and I need to get a science done for my program and I just really want it all to work out! I just had my first lab for that class and it was awesome, I learned a few new constellations and also got to see Jupiter and its moons through a telescope which was super cool because Jupiter has always been my favorite planet ! But yes, I wrote up my lab which was good, and I really hope I get a good mark, I tried really hard but I still feel like it wont be good enough, but I suppose I'll find out on Monday when I get it back, so everyone keep your fingers crossed for me, because I REALLY need to do well! Other than that though school is great, gotta try and get working some more very soon!
As for the working out thing...I could really do better, though the few times I have gone to the gym have seemed to make at least a slight difference! So thats always good, it will make it easier to keep going. My friend Yasmin has a bellydancing video she's going to let me have so that could be fun! But otherwise I just need to get my butt in gear and get going more often! I have plenty of time, just have to get myself to do it! So I will..somehow I will!
Anyways as far as I know that's about all I really had to say. I went to see Julie and Julia tonight and it was very adorable. Kind of makes me wish I had more of a purpose for my blogging, sadly I do not! Ah well, c'est la vie!
Cheers!
Holly
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
First Day of School!!
Cheers!
-Holly
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Shame on Me
Other than that, a lot of people that I work with are gone or leaving soon, all quitting which is lame! Ah well, such is life! But work is pretty good mostly, I still like my coworkers and we've got a few new people now so thats good!
My good friend Darcy is directing a play for the Victoria Fringe Festival and I'm really excited to hear how his opening night went! It's called Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, it's about 3 prisoners of war from very different backgrounds coming together through awful circumstances. At least that's what I think it's about! Either way I think it will be a really good play and I'm actually going to go and see it on Monday night so I'll get to see for myself :)
Last but not least school starts up VERY soon, and yet, not soon enough! I feel as though I've been waiting forever for it to get going but I don't start until the 9th so I've got a ways to go yet! Though I did actually go and get my student ID the other day and the picture is sooo much better than my old ones thank goodness, maybe because I actually TRIED to look decent in it! So I'm really excited to get that started, and I'm going back to school shopping on the 2nd with Yasmin!! Can't wait, we're going thrift store shopping and I'll probably grab a notebook or two whilst I'm out and then that way I don't have to bother with it later! :) Anyways, I think that's really all that I have to say for the time being!!
Cheers!
- Holly
Friday, August 7, 2009
Two Very Random Thoughts
In other news however, Yasmin and I are thinking that maybe since a bunch of the girls that we work with are going back to school we can finally get our Susie Homemaker group going! Let me explain that a little, basically we plan on getting a group of girls together (and it will probably be the girls we work with because we're all pretty good friends) and then we're going to learn skills that the vast majority of us don't seem to posses so that when we have families of our own we'll know what we're doing! So we're going to learn things like how to darn socks, how to crochet, how to sew on a sewing machine and by hand, how to mix the perfect cocktail, how to be a great hostess, just stuff like that. So I'm reallllllly, hoping that we'll be able to get that going because I need those skills, haha best I can do is sing some lullabies and that's pretty much it! But I think it's an awesome idea (and for the record it was Yasmin's idea, and yes she's the one who named it too!) So yes, thats about all I have to say for now.
Cheers!
Holly
Friday, July 31, 2009
Day 7!
Cheers!
Holly
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Back to It
I've been out for two really good bike rides with Yasmin this week, once out to Mattick's Farm on the Galloping Goose and once out to the hospital also on the goose but in the opposite direction. I was meaning to go for a hike this morning but I decided that maybe I just needed a restful morning! But I'm rather happy with myself for being able to get right back into being active because I got pretty lazy toward the end of my trip haha! But this year is my year for getting really active and I'm actually excited for it! I'll be joining the swing dancing club at uni and also an intramural soccer team most likely and then I'll also have a gym pass for the school gym so that will be good! Lots of opportunity to get fit! Now if only sweets weren't so appetizing....
School this year should be good, I'm feeling really excited for it. Money is a bit of an issue at the moment but considering that I just got back from a crazy, month long, whirlwind trip, it seems logical that funds will be a bit tight..well more than a bit but I'll manage just fine for first semester. Second semester on the other hand, well, I'll deal with that when it comes along! For now I'm just focused on making things happen for first semester. And as pathetic as it may sound, I'm totally excited to go shopping for back to school stuff, I've always loved getting new pens and notebooks and things, how dorky eh? Ah well, and also this year I've decided to invest in a new backpack so hooray for that lol!!
Cheers!
-Holly
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
All the stuff I missed.
Prague- I hated Prague to be completely honest, there really wasn't much there for me it seemed, plus I felt like it was really sketchy there. The biggest highlight there was going to the Sex Machine Museum and watching a porno from 1925 from Spain. Funniest thing in the world!!
Munich- Totally amazing and I was only there for one afternoon/night. We bought Dirndles which are the traditional German dresses and we definitely wore them out to the beerhall that night, by far one of my very favorite nights on the trip! Munich was really gorgeous though, I'll definitely be going back to Germany at some point!!
Swiss Alps- Soooooo beautiful!! Nothing compares to the mountains there, absolutely nothing. Our campsite was great too, there wasn't much to the city though, you could walk through it in about ten minutes. We slept a lot there hahaha it was a nice change! We didn't really do much there to be honest but it was gorgeous and that was good enough for me!
Edam- This little town wasn't even mentioned in passing for the tour but I loved it so much that I'm giving it it's own section! By far the most adorable little town I've ever seen, we got to ride little granny bikes all around it and it's such an old little town and everything just looks like it's straight out of a movie, it's awesome! Definitely a place that I want to return to, its so peaceful there!
Amsterdam- TONS of fun!! Saw a sex show, aka people having sex on stage and lucky me I got directed to sit in the front row....also I bought a joint for the first time and I still have the tube it came in so I did the two important things in Amsterdam haha! But other than that, we navigated the canals on a paddle boat which was SOOO slow going! But it was fun, as long as you don't get lost, which thankfully we didn't!
So yes, all in all it was a fabulous trip and I think that I would do Contiki again but only a short trip, if ever I do a long trip again it will be be on my own, because then it's not just go, go, go all the time which isn't always fun. Sometimes, you want to sleep in! Best time ever, though I've come home sick, wickedly sore throat and a nasty cough but I'm working on it! Anyways, that's all for now, when I think of something else important to say I'll try to be good and make the time to write it here!!
Cheers!!
Holly
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Venice to Vienna!
This morning we left our scuzzy hotel (yayyy!) for lovely Vienna, and I have to say that when we were driving there I totally felt like I was back in BC, it was all mountains and trees, it was gorgeous and yet I was strongly reminded of Heidi haha so I found that kind of funny! We had two service stops on the way and both of them were awesome, haha there was one that was called the Hansel and Gretel service stop and it was the most adorable thing ever!! It looked like a little candie house, super cute! Anyways, we got into Vienna at about 5pm tonite, and we're staying in the most awesome hostel! And I've already gotten lost! WOOT! haha! I'll get to that in a minute though. We had some time before we had to leave the hostel to go into town, so we got to check out our cute little rooms and that was good, and then we did a short tour on our bus and learned a little bit, though I didn't retain much now that I think about it! But oh well! Then we did a walkabout dinner, which is basically a fend for yourself kind of thing and that was good, I had like the best chicken soup of my life omg it was sooooo good! And then after we left the resturant we stumbeled upon this guy who was playing classical music on water glasses it was amazing! He was soo good, and super funny! Anyways, then we decided to come home instead of waiting for the coach because we didn't want to wait, so it took us ages to find the metro station and then we went all of 3 stops, and then promptly realised that we had no idea how to get from the station back to the hostel, so we wandered a little, not far from the station though, and then we tried looking at a few of the maps and that didn't work that well, haha then finally we asked a guy at the station and he told us where the right exit from the station was, cuz there's exits on like every floor of that thing! Anyways, we did eventually get home hahah so that was good, tomorrow is a full day in the city and it will be amazing I'm sure, I'm really looking forward to it and then we get to visit the Schnapps Museum tomorrow afternoon :D should be good fun! Then afterwards is a lovely Viennese dinner, mmmmm pork schnitzel!!! Can't wait!!!
Cheers!!
-Holly
P.S only 10 days left, AHHH!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Corfu!!
Cheers!
-Holly
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Roma
Cheers!
-Holly
Saturday, June 27, 2009
France to Italy!
Anyways, in the few days before we left France we went from Ville Franchee to Antibes and got to stop at Baune and Lyon on the way :) Lyon was kind of neat to see, and Baune was pretty fricken cute! Um, once we got to Antibes we went to a bowling alley which was kind of funny, that's really the only thing to do there! But it was good fun!
We got to go and see Monacco as well as the Montecarlo casino which was quite the sight but even Monaco and Montecarlo just themselves are awesome to see! Lots of nice cars :P Also we got to see the palace of the royal family that has been ruling the country for 700ish years, which is cool, amazing view from the top!
Day after that we went to see Nice, so we took the train in and did lots of shopping and we saw the chateau that's there and that was a really great view from the top, had ourselves some lovely French food :) and then we went over to the beach which sadly was rock, and went for a swim in the mediteranian sea and YES everyone, I did in fact go topless for a little bit, maybe like 10 mins, not even, hah but at least I can say that it's something I've done!! It was lots of fun that day, the only shitty bit was standing on the train platform for a half hour :( but oh well, that's part of the adventure, anyways I'm quickly running out of time so I best hop off right about now, I get to spend the day in Florence tmo and then it's off to Rome, the Eternal City, can't wait!!!!
Cheers!
-Holly
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Ville Franchee
Cheers!
-Holly
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
London to France
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Pre-Departure!
Last night was really fun, we did a bit of a send-off party, starting at Peacock Billiards and that was lots of fun, had some food, played some pool, spilled a pitcher of beer all over a friend of a friend lol. Then after much ado we moseyed on over to Retro Night at Evolution which was an absolute blast!! It was so much fun, I was really pleased with how the night turned out. I did have a whole lot to drink though so I definitely wasn't feeling so hot this morning but it turned out alright, no puking so that was a plus! Haha! Then I spent the day with Yasmin and that was lots of fun, didn't shower until like 3pm LOL!! Yea, all in all it's been a good day, I'm finally all packed up and ready to go so I guess my next entry will be from London...hard to believe!!
Cheers!
- Holly
Friday, June 12, 2009
7 Days and counting!
In other news however I think I've got all my school stuff set up. It's a bit of a pain because my registration date is when I'm on holiday so my parents have to try and get me all signed up for everything so me and my dad spent about two hours working on my time table so that they would know what to sign me up for and when. So hopefully everything works out alright! We'll see what happens I suppose :)
Cheers!
- Holly
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
10 Day Countdown!
Cheers!
- Holly
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Debt and Other Thoughts.
Apart from that I'm getting REALLY stoked for my trip and absolutely can't wait! Through the Contiki website I've managed to get in touch with a few of the other people on my trip which is kind of neat. I just picked up all my flight info an all my papers from Contiki and there was lots of really neat little things in there. Lots to look at for sure! I can't believe I finally get to go to Europe considering I've wanted to go since like the 8th grade! So yay!! But that's about all for now I suppose, I only have 9 more shifts of work left and I'm off! (16 more days!)
Cheers!
- Holly
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Othello
Cheers!
- Holly
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
University Here I Come....Again
Cheers!
- Holly
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Change
from here....
to here...
Which if you ask me, is a wonderful change of pace. Going from a dirty logging town to a gorgeous island!
Cheers!
- Holly
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Filler
Cheers!
- Holly
P.S. Can you believe it's only another 32 days until I leave for Europe?! So exciting!!! :)
Saturday, May 9, 2009
A Night Out
Cheers!
- Holly
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Library Nerd
Cheers!
- Holly
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Treasures of the world!
cheers!!
- Holly
P.S. Only 48 more days to Europe!!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Chick Flicks
There are so many really great films for us ladies, but don't think we don't have a few good ones for men to enjoy with us too! In my opinion Armageddon is a good example, action packed and one of the best tearjerkers (if you ask me that is!) Also, Stand By Me is one that even guys will enjoy especially since it's all about boys, and their view on things.
I'm definitely one of those girls who falls to pieces watching chick flicks and I have so many favorites that I think it would be almost impossible to name them all! But I have a few all time fave's that tend to jump into my head when I think about girly movies. Titanic (go figure right?), Now and Then, Ever After, Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club and there's about a million more but I won't even try to name half of them, it would take forever! Anyways, haha I know that was a super random thing to talk about but honestly I really have nothing more exciting to say!! Sad eh?
Cheers!!
- Holly
Monday, April 20, 2009
Bear Lake
When we were younger we would go and get wet and then cover ourselves in dry sand all over and then run back into the water to get it all off. I haven't a clue as to why we found this as entertaining as we did but I suppose when you're young enough things just make sense! We also (for whatever reason) thought that Baywatch was the funniest thing ever and we'd always make fun of the large breasted women on that show..namely Pamela Anderson. So we'd all go running slow mo down the beach with our hands at our chests pretending we had huge boobs and imitated them bouncing around as we went and then dove into the water and came up laughing as though it was the funniest thing in the world but honestly even to this day if the four of us were to go to the beach..I'm pretty sure we'd still find it just as hilarious as we did then!
I have so many really great memories involving the four of us, we've all been friends for so long now! We're simply part of each other. It's too bad that we're all a bit far apart now but that can happen, we still keep in touch fairly well which is great :) But growing up with them was never dull that's for sure...the four musketeers <3
Holly
Friday, April 17, 2009
Cancer Fundraiser
-Holly
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Orcas Island Relived
Last summer me and my boyfriend went on a weekend camping trip to Orcas Island. It was our first time going camping alone and it was really quite nice. We started our trip in Surrey and then drove down across the border through Bellingham, all the way over to Anacortes, then we had to take the ferry over. Once we got to the Island it was just a matter of finding the campsite which we had a bit of trouble with at first because we were convinced we had already passed the turn off for it but eventually we came across it and found a nice little campsite which was fairly private. Or at least, as private as it gets considering there's not too many trees there. Then it was just a matter of finding a shop so we could get a bit of food since we couldn't take much with us across the border and it was actually kind of difficult, we had to go to two different places just to find hot dogs! But eventually we managed to get what we needed and I can't be sure but we either made lunch or had a nap it's all a bit fuzzy lol. Anyways, the rest of the first day was fairly uneventful and the next day we slept super late, had some breakfast and I think we went for a short drive around the island, and we ended up going for a short hike to the peak of the mountain at Moran State Park. The View was AMAZING and the forest was so lush and green. It was gorgeous and there was this one spot where there was a little pond and it had so many little newts (or salamanders, I don't really know which :S) so that was kind of neat to look at. Then at the top of the mountain is this skinny tower type building that was a fort at one point. So we had a snack at the top and then made our way back down and had a lovely little nap. I swear that's what about half of our trip was spent doing, napping! Anyways, that night we also went down to the water to see the stars, so we stood out on the dock and pointed out all the constellations that we knew of (and could find lol) and then it was off to bed for the night. Then we drove home the next day. Mostly it was just nice to be able to spend all that time together alone without parents or siblings or other people. We'll definitely have to go again. And that's my story!! The first pic is the one of the tower at the top of the mountain, the second is just a spot in the trees that I thought was pretty and the third is what we just assumed used to be a well at one point, other than that we couldn't really figure out what it was supposed to be! And no, we weren't holding the camera wrong, it's leaning :)
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Welcome
Well here I am, another person on the Internet writing about nothing in particular really. Lucky me I finally get to go on my dream trip to Europe, which I have been hoping to go on since about oh…the 8th grade. I jet off this summer with one of my best friends and we’re doing a month long Contiki tour. It’s just over two months until we leave and considering that I have wanted to go on this trip for SO long, I’m finding myself very unexcited at the moment. Although I’m under the impression that once I reach the last week or two before I leave then the excitement will finally kick in! It will truly be an amazing trip though I definitely can’t wait for June to come so that I can get this adventure started! I’ve never really travelled before and so I KNOW this is going to be a whirlwind trip of a lifetime!
Only 70 more days to go!
-Holly