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.

eddie on csi: miami

eddie cibrian is now a regular on csi: miami, which yet another reason to tune in on monday nights (i love that show!) unfortunately, every time i see him all i can think of is his whole affair thing with leanne rimes (ughh, what a let down. what is with hollywood?)

oh, that and his failed boy band, 3deep. bahaha, they were so bad.

in the hammer: week three

time is flying by and i can't believe it's already the third week of school. the leaves seem to have gone into shock as well (re: flying time) and have been slowly dying and falling off trees in response.

ah fall, how i love you.

anyway, i came back from another weekend back in toronto all ready to crack open my books and get to my work for tomorrow morning (haha, yah i'm still a procrastinator at heart despite my best efforts to change bad habits). as i read through the reading list i realized that i never got around to buying the books needed to complete my homework (one of them is like a 50 page manual going for $60...umm, no thank you). so...yah, that was that. how anti-climactic. hope i'm not the only one going in with blank pages tomorrow.

oh and i got sick over the weekend so i'm currently drinking a cup of neo-citron before heading off to bed "early". tastes like gross. *shudders*

from bad to new

update on the macbook situation:

so i took it into the apple store, got help from a funny and super friendly genius at the genius bar, and got a new hard drive (thank you applecare). the good news is that my computer is now up and running again, and i got to keep my old hard drive (which they usually don't let you do so yay!). the bad news is that my old hard drive is still dead and the information on it has, so far, been unrecoverable. gahhhh.

this piece of information would haven't been too horrible if i had backed up my files and stuff, but unfortunately i didn't so i probably lost everything. hmm...is it bad that i'm more depressed about the fact that i lost all my pictures than all my documents?

alright lesson learned: back up your stuff people, back it up!

bad apples

my macbook stopped working yesterday.

i heard clicking noises and the whole thing froze up so i, and in retrospect this probably wasn't the best thing to do but oh well, did a cold reboot because usually that works. then things went crazy and my computer went bonkers. :(

first came the darkened screen. then came the beeps. then came the flashing file folder with the question mark instead of the apple. then came the disk utility repair attempt fails. then came my attempts to reinstall mac osx only to find that my hard drive wasn't even listed as a location to reinstall it anymore. o_O then after my three hours of looking things up on the internet, trying the things i found on the internet (from legit sites, obviously), and cussing at the damn thing, i gave up. i couldn't even call up applecare because everything happened after 9pm, ughhh.

long story short, my macbook is dead. and my hard drive is probably a goner too.

so...it's off to the genius bar today. all i can say is, good thing i bought applecare.

*click*

and...we now have a wedding photographer. :) i'm very excited about this one, yay!

o-week finished

can't believe i made it through my first week in hamilton already. :O time really flew by. hopefully this is a good sign of things to come.

highlights of the week:
- meeting a lot of nice people
- getting to know people more throughout the week
- almost getting mauled by a dog while cutting through the park to go to school.
- almost getting run over by the frosh parade (they were soooo loud and there were so many of them!)
- meeting the OT faculty at mac. they are funny and i like them.
- giving my legs the shock of a lifetime with all the walking i've done
- seeing justin on friday when he came to pick me up
- coming home for the weekend

mac is no laurier and hamilton is definitely no toronto, but i have a feeling these next two years are going to be alright. :)