Daring to Be » 2005 » March

I found out about French immersion today. Nicole and I got in the same one, just not our first choice which was Montreal. We’ve both been accepted to go to Rivière-du-Loup from May 16th until June 17th. Definitely better timing than from June 6th until July 7th like Montreal would’ve been. Fits into my schedule better, I’d only have two weeks with nothing to do. I still don’t know if I’m going to go though. It depends on whether or not Nicole decides to come back from Spain in time for it or not. That and whether or not I’m brave enough to go alone. It is five weeks in a French community many, many miles away from home.

I don’t know! I’m such a scaredy cat, yet I know it would be an experience of a lifetime. Please everyone, leave comments giving me advice. It would be greatly appreciated!

I didn’t nap last night like I planned. Nope, Law and Order: SVU came on and it was a gooder. The break from cleaning definitely helped though, I got my room done like I had hoped. Now my apartment is so fabulously clean I can hardly stand it!

Not much else is new. Just got back from the gym. I lack discipline. This may be my second day going in a row, but remember I didn’t go for two weeks. And I think I was only there today for 45 minutes or so. I’m quite disappointed in myself.

Oh, apparently my cousin Amy is in Regina so I think I’m going out for a drink with her and her fiance tonight. I might have to stick to water… my funds are getting pretty low. I budgeted pretty good, but then I had a bunch of unexpected expenses come out of nowhere. Like both the black and colour ink for my printer running out within a week of eachother. It’s $20 to fill each, so $40 right there. I also need more contacts, $20 for 3 months. I’m almost all out of computer paper too. I want fancier stuff for printing out resumes as well, so that’s MORE moolah I don’t have.

I miss having a job. Well not so much the job part but the having extra cash part! Yes, I know, it’s almost summer which means time for summer jobs but right now my summer is split into three options: French immersion with my sister (should find out right away), summer session, or finding a job. I guess I have a month before I have to worry about it, but I like knowing darn it. As much as I would love to go to French immersion this year, I am hoping (just a bit) that we don’t get the bursary. The only thing I would have to pay for is my flight there (wherever we get in) and spending money. I have an old RRSP from Telus plus my income tax to pay for that. The reason I sort of hope we don’t get in is because Nicole and I want to go together but she is in Spain until June. I’m only in school until the end of April. That leaves all of May with nothing to do. Can’t take summer session, and no one will want to hire me to work for a month!

No point in working myself up over it. I have plenty of things (like finals) I can stress over before summer ever gets here. Which, unfortunately, feels like never.

I decided that my apartment needed a good cleaning, and so that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 2 1/2 hours. I’ve scrubbed till everything is sparkling and every room is finished except for my bedroom. Tackling a huge heap of clothing just isn’t appealing to me right now. Cleaning is hard work, and I’m about ready for a nice long sleep. If only I could find my bed…

I finally got my butt to the gym today. First time in about two weeks. Eep. It’s amazing how much strength you can lose in such a short amount of time. I was lifting a good 10 pounds less than I could two weeks ago. Hopefully it won’t take much to get back up there.

As ridiculous as it is to take a nap at 8:30 PM, I think I’m going to. Then perhaps I’ll have enough energy to clean my room tonight. Or maybe not. I might end up crashing for good and wake up tomorrow morning. Can’t say I would complain!

I had such big plans to get alot of schoolwork done this weekend, but here it is, 2:00 PM on Saturday, and I’ve accomplished absolutely nothing. I don’t even feel guilty about it!

I haven’t done much of anything so far this weekend. Mom had a family supper on Thursday night, Friday I watched TV then later Julie and Roseanne came to visit for a bit, then I watched more TV. Today, yet more TV watching. It’s been great! The only thing that bothers me is the fact I forgot my glasses in Regina, so I’ve had to wear my contacts all day. I’ll get over it.

Yet another cousin (Kassidy’s little sister) has started a blog, I’ve linked at the right, go check her out. My family will take over the world! It’s because not only are we terribly smart, but also damn good-looking!

Oh wait, I’ve just remembered I have accomplished something this weekend! Yup… many loads of laundry. Over ten in fact. I refuse to waste my money on coin-operated machines in Regina, so everytime I come visit I do laundry. Last time I was here was February break, so quite naturally I had alot of dirty laundry. Good thing I also have alot of clothes, so I never suffered by looking like a grungy homeless person at school.

Tomorrow is exactly a month until I move back to Saskatoon. The 28th is exactly a year after I moved to Regina. I thought I’d be in Regina longer, I was so scared/excited about moving. Yes, not a huge move, but I was pretty settled in Saskatoon. I’m glad I did move though, this year on my own has been a learning experience. I think that I’ve grown up alot. I needed to get away from Saskatoon for awhile too. It’s safe to say I wasn’t always making the best choices. Now moving back to Saskatoon will be like another new, fresh start. I look forward to it.

This entry would’ve been more interesting if I had, say, actually done something this weekend! I was asked to go on a “Pimp and Hoes” themed pub crawl, but I think it’s fair to say I’m too lazy. Not only could I get homework done this evening, but if I went on the pub crawl I’d probably drink way too much and as a result wouldn’t get anything done tomorrow. I’d be bad company to my family tomorrow as well, Mom and I are going to my Aunt and Uncle’s in Outlook, Sk for Easter supper.

Wow, this has been a pretty long entry for not having much to say. I’ll end it now, before I start another long, babbling paragraph about absolutely nothing.

I’d rather be anywhere but here.
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I am in the middle of feeling sorry for myself, as is evident in the above picture. Also, taking the picture and posting it is a way to procrastinate from writing some more of my paper. I am bad today. I skipped both Biology and English. The amount I care is astonishingly low though. I will go to school so my Psychology paper can be butchered by my prof, and then I’ll go to my Bio lab. Come home and pack at a super fast speed so I can get to Saskatoon and relax. Just for the evening, the next three days will be spent doing homework there.

I wish I had something interesting to say, but I don’t. I just wanted to do anything else rather than pretend to be smart while writing my Psych term paper.

Yay! My cousin Kassidy just got her very first blog! I’ve put a link on the right, go say hi.

I’m happy that she has a blog now. You see, there is Megan (born June 1983), me (born July 1983), and Kassidy (born August 1983) and we are all first cousins. It was alot of fun growing up, but quite naturally as we get older we start developing our own lives and as a result aren’t quite as close as we once were. It’ll be nice being able to keep up-to-date on eachother’s lives now that all three of us have blogs.

My appointments with my profs went great today, I feel alot more relieved about my term papers than I did previously. Hopefully I am able to get my butt in gear, write fabulous papers, and receive A’s. One can dream!

Am I ever sick of this weather. Yesterday, my car got stuck trying to get into my parking spot. It was rather warm outside, so the snow was just wet enough to make it impossible to drive. Good day for making snowmen, bad day for trying to get anywhere in a car. A bus got stuck on my street. Now it’s snowing again. Great, yesterday my parking spot was cleared after I complained about my incident (and my landlord wasn’t completely useless for a change) and now I’ll most likely get stuck again.

I’d skip school in a protest against the weather, unfortunately I have to meet up with both my Psychology and English profs to talk about my term papers. Which that in itself sucks because I haven’t started either! Ha. Should be interesting.

I’m afraid my face will freeze like this.
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I think I could go down in history as yawning the most. Ever. See, I happen to be very counter-productive. I can’t sleep at night because of the crazy amount of assignments that are coming up due in the next couple of weeks. But then I can’t work on those assignments when I am awake, because my brain refuses to function on so little sleep. It’s a sad, sad thing.

Well, back to the drawing board I guess. Wish me luck.

My friend Mike oh-so-graciously pointed out that the picture I used in my previous entry is in fact a picture of Saskatoon and not of Regina, where I am currently located. All I did was search for a picture of the weather, and that’s what came up, and that is exactly what it looked like here too. Some people are so picky.

First day of spring? (What you don’t see is the crazy blowing snow.)
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