wedding website/blog

justin and i have a wedding website/blog that we started earlier this month, but kept hidden away as we've slowly added content and made it look presentable. now - with just under 10 months to go - we're finally ready to uncover it and share our site with you guys...and the rest of the world (as is the case with the internet). anyway, it's there for you to poke around. enjoy!

find our site at: jusandsharon.wordpress.com
don't forget to sign the guestbook! :)

a productive day of doing no work

this past week has been crazy so today i gave myself the day off after my evaluated interview in the morning. (i'm not sure if i'll come to regret my decision to do almost no work today, but i'll deal with that later i guess. :P) since i decided not to do any work, but still wanted to do something productive, i ended up taking a little trip to the textile district here in hamilton in search of fabric for my bridesmaids dresses. (random fact of the day: apparently this area of hamilton is the home of the original tim horton's store.)

the area itself seemed a little sketchy, but the people in the stores were all super friendly and helpful. i went in empty-handed and left the area with little snippets of fabric samples, stapled to business cards. surprisingly, finding certain fabric in specific colours is pretty difficult (in retrospect though, i'm actually not sure why i thought it would be easy, haha. wishful thinking i guess.), but i'm glad i was able to find potentials.

next step: show justin and see what he thinks. :)

...and the wedding planning continues.

swamped, but almost out of the murkiness. kind of.

oh man, this past week and a half have been nothing short of crazy - i forgot how stressful being a student can be! i thought undergrad was stressful at times, but so far grad school has proved to be much worse. o_O

anyway, even though it's only tuesday, this week has been hectic. i had a big assignment due yesterday, another big assignment due today, and a presentation this morning in addition to all the other work i've had to do for classes and tutorials which, to some degree, has kind of gotten lost in the cracks. aghhhhh.

thankfully the craziness is slowly coming to a close. tomorrow we have our evaluated interviews where someone from the community comes in and we do initial interviews in front of groups of 6-7 (ahh!) and after that the big things will be out of the way for this month. although i still have something due next week. oh wait no, make that two things.

good grief, it just never ends. o_O

good thing i'm sentimental...

...and don't delete anything. even off computers i don't use anymore, haha.

so, as all of you already know, i was super sad when my hard drive died and i lost all my pictures since nothing was unrecoverable. :( anyway, i woke up this morning wondering if i had left my pictures on my previous laptop which is now my parents'. i didn't really have high hopes as i thought that i had transferred all my pictures onto my usb to put on my mac and deleted all those pictures as to not take up disk space on my parents' computer.

i guess i chickened out from deleting them off their hard drive because when i clicked "my pictures" what came up but all my pictures from when i got my first digital camera to 2007 when i got my new computer! :D yesssssssssssssss. i'm still missing pictures (obviously) but at least the gap isn't so big anymore, yay! :)

next step: transfer pictures onto macbook and back up, back up, back up!

my last 'single' thanksgiving

so i had thanksgiving dinner with justin's family this past monday night and it was a great meal full of lots of good food. highlights included justin somehow knowing what i would and wouldn't like (yes he knows me that well) and doing a little quick switch on the plates to make it look like i ate what i really didn't. not sure if we pulled it off well, but no one said anything so maybe we did, haha.

after dinner i was stuffed of turkey and ready to crawl into bed or sit at the table for another hour or two trying to digest everything. unfortunately, i couldn't stick around for long once i had finished eating because i had to drive back to hamilton so i really couldn't choose either of those options. anyway, while i was getting ready to head out the door, one of justin's aunts reminded me that by the same time next year, i'll be a mrs.

:O

...and i suppose justin will be a mr. but since he already is one, that just doesn't have the same effect, haha.

thanksgiving weekend 2009

this weekend was nothing short of busy. every night was filled with meeting up with friends, a worship team practice, and thanksgiving dinners, and the days were packed with our engagement photo shoot and thanksgiving lunch. not to mention we had breakfast at a friend's place before the madness began on sunday. oh and i had a paper to write that i handed in today.

all in all, it was a productive weekend filled with time spent with those i love. yup, i have much to be thankful for. :)

twenty-six

today i turned 26! :O a friend asked me a pretty interesting-but-tough-to-answer question tonight: in my 26 years, what were the two most memorable highlights?

here was my answer (i.e. the first two things that came to mind):

1. performing my piano concerto with the north york philharmonic at 15.
2. when justin proposed to me. :)

thanks for all the birthday greetings everyone! can't wait to come home this weekend.

t e n

we're ten months into 2009 and ten months away from the big day. :)

kseniya simonova | s a n d . a n i m a t i o n

a ukrainian sand artist depicts her country during the second world war on ukraine's got talent. she is so creative and super talented...and this video/her work is moving. check it out.