Happy Newish Year!!

Better late than never, eh? I haven't posted on this thing since September! That's so sad. But really, I have an excuse. In the past few months, we have been super busy looking for a house! To buy! And we BOUGHT ONE! It's actually a condo, but still. We move in at the beginning of February and I'm already counting down the days till we have a place of our own. Super psyched. I'm as psyched as this penguin:


Just in case the video doesn't embed here. (the video isn't showing up on my screen but I am on a completely ancient and pathetic computer right now.)


Anyway, I've been in Ontario for the past two and a half weeks over the Christmas holiday but I am going back to Alberta tomorrow. I can't say that I'm really sad to be leaving everyone again because I'm seriously so ready to start preparing for the new place. I have to start collecting boxes to throw stuff in. I have to start throwing stuff in boxes. I have to buy a couch and a dining set and a dresser because our condo will be very empty without those things. I have to start imagining the decor!

I'm kind of thinking I should do a couple of New Years Resolutions. Not that I ever keep any, of course:

1)Eat more vegetables, less crap
Okay, sounds good enough to me. I've been figuring out recently that cooked vegetables will not make me throw up. Unless they're rotten because fresh veggies in Fort Mac don't exist. I've been eating nothing but total crap lately because of the house-hunt and then Christmas, so this resolution is a must-do.

2)Sign up for a nightschool French class
I used to love French when I was in elementary and middle school, but gave up after grade 9 when that witch of a teacher YELLED at me for giving the wrong answer on the first day. It's one of my biggest regrets. Not only did it close the door to many cushy government jobs, but I feel that not knowing more than one language just limits you when you want to travel. The boyfriend and I have actually been talking about doing this for a long time now. So probably not this semester but the fall one we will take a French course at the local college. Je ne parle pas l'espagnol. Or French, either.

3)Start playing with InDesign again, and learn Dreamweaver
Cause those programs are just cool and, like French, can improve my ability to get a cushy government job, especially in PR.

4)Clean up my damn room
On a REGULAR BASIS. Since my room in my new place will be MUCH bigger than any of the shoeboxes I've been living in for the past five years, I will FINALLY have a place for everything. 2011 will be the year of organization, feng shui, zen, chi, nirvana and decorative baskets.

I guess four resolutions is enough. Don't want to overdo it now, right? Notice I didn't say anything about weight loss and exercising. The reason for this of course is that if I resolve to lose weight, it is a scientific fact that I will NOT lose weight. So it's best I just leave that alone and pray that my consumption of more veggies and less crap will lead to a side-bonus of weight loss. Darn, I think I just jixed it.

Till next time!

♥♥♥
Monica