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. :)

now a mrs.

we're married!!

our videographer and friend put together a SDE for our wedding day which totally rocked everyone's socks off. check it out here! :)
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for more details check out our wedding page.

cooking corner: lentil pasta

i've never cooked lentils before...until today.

i have a new housemate who just moved in at the end of last week and she graciously cooked dinner for me yesterday, so i decided to return the favour and cook dinner for the two of us tonight. since she doesn't eat meat, i was originally going to make monterey beans and cheese, but when i went to my cupboard i realized i had no beans. nor did i have enough rice for the both of us.

what a fail.

anyway, i discovered a can of lentils i bought because i wanted to try my hand at cooking them and i decided that tonight would be the night. i looked up a recipe for lentil pasta online (since i happened to have pasta in my cupboard) and then i looked for the one that would be the easiest and most time efficient to cook. :P i eventually found one that matched my criteria although i modified it slightly since i didn't have all the ingredients and i was too lazy to go to the store, haha.

i started by chopping up an onion and tossing it into a small pot with extra virgin olive oil. then i added some dried sage and salt (no pepper because i didn't have any, oops) and then a can of tomatoes once the onions were browned. i then brought everything to a boil and then turned down the heat so it would simmer for about 20-30 mins. at some point during this time i opened my can of lentils and rinsed them out. once i decided the tomatoes were ready, i added the lentils to the little pot and let that cook for another few minutes. i then added the little pot to a bigger pot, which held pasta i had cooked while my tomatoes and lentils were cooking, and mixed everything together before serving.

i wasn't sure how it would turn out since i was missing some ingredients and since tonight was the first time cooking lentils. fortunately it was a success and actually quite good if i dare say so myself, haha. and it was so easy to make! yes, i think i'll have to try this recipe again sometime. :)

o n e

we have exactly one month to go before our big day! :D things are continuing to come together as we start tying up loose ends in preparation for our wedding! i gotta say, FH has been nothing short of amazing throughout the whole process - he has been so supportive of me being back at school and not in toronto, and he really stepped up and has done a lot. i am so grateful and thankful for him, and i can't wait for him to go from future hubby to hubby. :)
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for more details and updates, check out our wedding page.

hamilton, the place to be?

...ok, no i don't believe that statement for a second. BUT since coming to this town in september of 2009, i've randomly run into three people from my past. pretty crazy stuff. but even more crazy is how, upon reflection, each experience has gotten slightly more embarrassing each time. here's what i mean:

meeting #1: noob on campus
this one, being the first, wasn't actually that bad. it was my first day of orientation and i had no idea where i was going when i turned the corner and *BAM* there stood a friend i hadn't seen in literally 5 years. totally unexpected and i had no idea he was even at mac. anyway, i've since had dinner with him and his gf a couple times throughout the year, so that has been good. :)

meeting #2: elevator randoms
this time i was going to my friend's place to meet up with some mac friends for dinner. i got into the elevator and pressed PH and then a stranger came in with her head down. she looked kinda familiar but i was like, nahhh that can't be her, there's no way. well she raised her head and it turns out that it was her afterall. haven't seen her in 5 years either so it was nice chatting with her a little bit after getting off the elevator. too bad this was during the brutal heat wave that hit hamilton, so i was sweating like a pig the whole time. plus i had just power walked to my friend's building since i thought i was running late. lovely. i'm surprised sweat wasn't dripping off my face and onto the elevator floor. hahaa. gross.

meeting #3: hospital cafeteria cougher
so today i ran into the third person - someone i used to go to high school with who apparently just started her first day of residency at the hospital i'm doing my placement at. totally random! too bad i was still recovering from this mother of a cough i've been trying to battle with for the last week or so and with every word i said a coughing fit started. i literally coughed like a maniac while she stood there trying to get words in edgewise. i also tried to cough into my elbow, but i mean that only works for so long. ah well, i'm sure she found it lovely and i'm sure the rest of hospital thought my coughing fits throughout the day were endearing as well.

hmm, i can only imagine what the next random meeting will be: bathroom stall with a broken lock? gahhhh.