I got new glasses today. I had an eye appointment this afternoon and the glasses were ready by 4:30pm. They have magnetized clip on sunglasses. Very fancy. I was hoping to find my old ones but it has been two weeks. I couldn't stand wearing my old ones anymore.

Early this morning my friend Jann had her baby. She woke up at 5:45am at home and had her baby in the hospital by 6:30am. It is a boy named Kieran Aksel. He weighs 8lbs 5oz.

I'm waiting on hearing if my sister is done her thesis yet. This afternoon I stopped by to show my new glasses. She was writing the conclusion.

sorry, it's been so long

Man, it has been a long time since I updated last. Currently I am Regina for the Easter break or what I like to call "no chance for work". A recap of the past couple week...

I have working a lot lately. I subbed more this month than any other month so far. The subbing has gone well and I only had to use my outside voice inside once. I think teaching experience has made subbing much easier for me. I have many new students that I tutor. Right now I have 5 university students, a high school student and 2 grade 7 students. It has kept my evenings very busy. So been subbing and tutoring I did not have much spare time for blogging last week. Please forgive me.

This past weekend I was at a family church camp. I felt so anti-social. I wasn't feeling well so spent most of my time in my room sleeping. The meetings were good.

There was one pretty big event that occurred at camp -- my friend Laurel had a baby. Laurel has been one of my closest friends for my entire life. I was a bridesmaid in her wedding in 2001. She recently moved back to Saskatchewan when her husband Greg got a new job. Her due date was March 31 and she really wanted to come to camp. At her doctor's appointment, he told her to go to the camp, the baby was not coming anytime soon. Three hours after she arrived at the camp, her water broke. Her husband rushed her to the hospital where the doctor was convinced that the baby was going to come quickly. Then nothing happened. They had to induce her the next day and then nothing happened. They had to try vacuum assisted birth and nothing happened. They had to do a c-section because the baby was in distress by this time. Around 11pm on March 24, Kayce Elizabeth was born. She is 9lbs 2oz and 22 inches long. A big baby especially for a girl. Greg, her father, is an engineer so I'm convinced she is good at spacial reasoning. She was ready to be born and thought "Me, going out that way, ain't happening." Smart girl. She is adorable. I visited them in the hospital on Sunday evening.

In other waiting for babies news:
Also this past weekend, my cousin Heidi went to labour also at the camp. She is 8 months pregnant. She was rushed to the hospital. They were able to stop the labour. She is able to go home.

My friend Jessica is also pregnant (who was not at camp) and is way past over due. I heard if she didn't have the baby soon they were going to induce her. I'm still waiting to hear news.

I am also waiting to hear news about my friend Jann who was due this past weekend. She wishes she could have been at camp but couldn't if they baby wasn't born yet.

So in summary: the people I know are out of control having babies. There are more that are due later in the year.

So that brings me to now. I am in Regina visiting my family. My parents brought my grandma home with them after the camp. She is going to be here for a couple weeks. I don't feel so guilty about not getting to visit her at camp.

"Paging Dr. Mary, Dr. Mary"

Congratulations to my sister for being accepted into the Ph.D. program at University of Victoria. Things are falling into place for Maryanne and Chris.

My eyes are so tired from wearing my old glasses. They are way weaker than my new ones. I might even have to break down and wear my contacts tonight when I go out. I hope they find my glasses at the doctor's office. I hate my old glasses. I wore them for 2 years and never got used to the dark plastic frames. If I don't find my glasses I won't be able to afford new ones. I will have to get new lenses for my old frames. Sigh.

Tonight a group from my church would like to visit the place we are having a youth retreat for May Long Weekend. Before we can go ahead with planning the activities we need to see the place. We have a planning meeting on Saturday.

"My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again"

It has been a strange day in Jannyville.

I was awoken this morning at 8:35 by the emergency dispatch system looking for a sub for the whole day. School had already started but they had just got the call. I arrived shortly after 9:30 only to be informed that they didn't need anyone. There was a mix up and another sub was already there. I was informed that I would still be paid and I would work for the morning filing cumulative files. So I was paid for a full day of work to file for a half a day. Unusual but I'm not complaining (except for my back which is killing me). Even more unusual was that when I got to the staffroom to retrieve my things a teacher was rifling through my lunch. She was alone in the room and when I walked in she sees me and proclaims "This isn't my lunch!". Well, duh. Yours was right beside you in a plastic grocery bag and you were looking in a cloth red lunch bag. The principal said that sometimes lunches get stolen but I thought he was joking.

I woke up from my nap this afternoon and to my surprise it had snowed. The ground was completely covered from the time I got home to the time I left again two hours later to go to the doctor.

As I waited for the doctor I was trying to read The Odyssey. The attempt at reading was unfruitful the TV was on near me with a loud kids' cooking show called Edible Incredible. I took off my glasses while I was reading and I have no idea what happened to them. I don't know if I took them with me to the doctor's office or left them in the waiting room. I realized they were gone when the doctor came in. The nurses and I searched everywhere and I never did find them. I left my name and number and they said they'd call if they found them. Oy with the poodles already!

I'm pretty sure I am never going to get these German songs out of my head. I've had a song about a pretty little bird stuck in my head for the last 24 hours.

I almost got in a car accident tonight. My roommates and I were on our way home from a friend's house when a mini-van coming from the other direction started turn left and stopped right in our lane. It is a good thing that my car has good brakes and I have quick reflexes. My roommates were a little freaked out but I was surprisingly calm.

Things are better between my roommate and I after our "altercation" last night. She barely spoke to me for most of the day. We watched our tape of Alias tonight. As we watched the show we started talking again.

Fun task

Thanks for the suggestion Maryanne

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don?t search around and look for the ?coolest? book you can find. Do what?s actually next to you

The nearest book:A Return to Modest by Wendy Shalit
Fifth sentence:"Mostly I was afraid I'd get pregnant"
I plan to not explain the context.

If you do not have a blog you can email me your sentence.

"It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me"

I have German songs stuck in my head. I had my concert tonight with the symphony. We also had a dress rehearsal this afternoon which equates to a lot of singing this past week.

After the concert, my friend Ky and I went to our church for a games night that was already in progress. The only played one game called Quiddler (a word scramble-type game). My roommate had a bit of tantrum at the beginning of the game when she found out she couldn't make a certain play. She freaked out on the owner of the game. She was being rather rude. I told her that she didn't need to get so upset and it was just a game. She looked away and made a motion with her hands like I was "yapping" too much and she was not listening. I very sternly told her never to do that to me again. She is older than me but she certainly was not acting like it. Later at least she admitted she threw a tantrum but apologized to no one. The ride home was very quiet. Normally she is rather talkative. The only time she is ever quiet is when she knows she is wrong or has done something she knows she shouldn't have.

My parents came up for my concert. Between the dress rehearsal and the concert, I met my parents for supper. After the concert they came to the games night as well.

Horrible Adventures in Hair

Last night my friend Bronwyn tried to lighten my hair and it went horribly. It wasn't her or my fault. I dyed my hair in October and only my roots changed color. My roots were dark blond. We went and got more hair dye but that only dyed my roots red. I went back to the drug store today and got "soft black" hair dye. That was the only color close to my natural color that would cover everything. I currently am deep conditioning my hair to counteract the over processing.

Happy Procrastination Week!

This used to be my favorite procrastination site:Ze's Page. You need to check out "How to Dance Properly".

Post your favorite procrastinate link.

Hotmail aka the email tease

Hotmail keeps on telling me I have new email when there is none. I get excited "Yes! Email!" only to come crashing down when I realize there is none. Booo. Just right now I had new email but it was only Hotmail member services. Double Booo.

I have been so forgetful tonight. As I entered the Education building at the university, I realized I left my choir music in the car. After choir I left my music in the auditorium.

Practice was horrible tonight for me. I was standing beside this woman who I am convinced has never been to practice before. She was singing the songs so poorly it was completely messing me up. I in turn messed up Ky. It was a viscous circle. I remember to avoid that woman in the future.

same old, same old

Friday night my friends and I greeted my friend Tina at the airport. It is her spring break this week and she is visiting until Thursday. Her plane was supposed to get in at 11:30pm but was delayed and didn't arrive until 12:15am. We were the "jerks" at the airport. We had a big banner that we wrapped Tina in after she walked through the gate. It was pretty silly. My sister came up to visit on Saturday to see Tina.

I subbed again today. Four days in a row, a new record. It was mostly math and computer classes but the last class of the day was drama 9. I was a little worried about drama because I have no experience teaching it at all. When I arrived at the auditorium there was a student-teacher there who volunteered to run to the class. She made them do these relaxation exercises and two girls feel asleep. It was very funny. The two girls are identical twins and one of them is named Xochitil (pronounced ?Sochee?). I had never heard that name before.

More Amusing Oscar Pictures

A roaring Rosario Dawson.


Elton John and Elizabeth Taylor and a very scary birthday cake.


Oscar's Grandmother


Farnsworth Bentley and Sean Combs. I love dapper men!


Scarlett Johansson - I'm not sure why people said she looked good at the Oscars.

There were some panicked moments last night for me. I received the official call for subbing for the rest of the week when the dispatch system hung up on me. It never called me back. I left a message at the emergency desk explaining what happened. I was scared that someone else got the assignment. The lady called me in the morning and entered everything in manually.

I went to the doctor today for my first shot. I thought I was going to set up the paper work so an RN could give me the shot. It turns out they no longer have an RN at that office so I have to make an appointment. The doctor made me wait a half hour after the shot. He was worried I was going to go into anaphylactic shock. I have had these shots for more than 4 years I do not think now I will suddenly develop an allergic reaction to it.

My friend Tina is coming to visit tomorrow. She is staying until Thursday. My sister is coming on Saturday morning to see her. I have lots of house work to do.

What happened to everybody? No one has left a comment forever and a day.

I just got off the phone with the man I subbed for this morning. I will be in for the rest of the week but only for the mornings. He is a man who works part-time because he has MS. He is having a bad week. He told me that it is so bad he can't even scratch his face. :( Poor man. I'm sad he has to go through that but I'm am glad to have the work. The vice principal is going to see if she can find more classes for me to cover.

My allergies have been horrible the last while. I have to go back onto immunotherapy shots. I had been taking drops but they have not been working as well. My family doctor moved away so I start to see a new one tomorrow and get my shots set up. Fun times getting a shot in the arm.

My new nickname is Thelchtereia (enchantress) because recently a young man called myself and my friends sirens. All of us have siren names now.