term four, no one likes you.

we were told, by the second years last year, that term 4 was the toughest term in the program with regards to the workload. well, turns out they were right.

i think this picture accurately depicts how everyone in my class is feeling right now:


good thing we only have to do term four once.

happiness is...

walking down the street on your way home when all of a sudden you have an urge to look up to your condo to see if you can find your unit and you see this: your husband on the balcony waving down at you like a maniac with a huge smile on his face.

that totally made my day...and made me quicken my step so i could get home and hug him just a little bit sooner. :)

p.s. can't believe we've been married for a month already!

back to reality

school starts again tomorrow. ughh.
goodbye summer, you were fun while it lasted.
(p.s. august 2010, thanks for being the month ever.) :)

book nook: the lovely bones

the lovely bones
alice sebold

this was the second of the two books i read on our honeymoon. the first book i finished was masquerade, the second book in the blue bloods series, and it was...a typical young adult fiction book about vampires, haha.

anyway, this book had been on my list of books to read for quite some time so i made sure to pack it to read while lounging on the beach during our vacation. (side note: reading beachside is one of the most relaxing things to do.)

the lovely bones is told from the point of view of the main character, suzie (a girl who was murdered early on in the book). basically the novel follows suzie around 'her heaven' and as she follows her family on earth as they try to move on and live their lives after her death.

while the idea behind this book was unique (or at least i've never read a book quite like this one before), i thought the plot was a little strange at times. while some parts were pretty good, others were just plain weird. all in all, i'm glad i finished it so i could cross this book off my list, but other than that i found it pretty ehhh - it wasn't one of the worst books i've ever read, but definitely not one of my favourites either. i guess i didn't really get the hype surrounding this book, but that's just me - a lot of other people liked it so don't take my word for it. :)

dust and dirt be gone

so...we now have a vacuum!

we were all giddy and excited the night we got our vacuum - it was like christmas all over again! it was pretty actually pretty funny (and somewhat lame), but that's not important. what is important is that our floors are now clean and can be stepped and sat on with confidence.

i've been trying to practice taking pictures with my new camera (wedding present from justin, yay!) since i've only ever used point and shoots before, so here are some shots of our new dyson (yup, it's pink!) that i took before the inaugural vacuum. :) p.s. i'm still trying to get familiar with and figure out how to work this camera, so please bear with me!

cooking corner: first dinner in our condo

this post is little late since we've been living here for a couple weeks now, but in any case here is what we ate for dinner our first night eating in:


^ beans and beef


^ eggs and mushrooms

we just added some rice to eat along with these dishes and that was it!
not bad for our first meal and it should only get better from here. :)