Its been 10 days since I last posted. That sore throat I posted about on October 9th, turned into a bad cough. It's been almost 3 weeks with this cough and I'm still coughing, but not as much as before. Seems like I get sick when the seasons change. :(

sigh ... another holiday...

It's the Thanksgiving weekend! Hooray! :D Altho I know I should be celebrating, for some reason I'm not feeling too happy about it. Maybe its because all my friends have "plans" to spend time with their boyfriend or girlfriend, and with their family.

Conversations over MSN seem to follow a familiar line...

them: how's the job hunt?
me: oh, the same. whatcha up to tonite?
them: thanksgiving dinner with my boyfriend/girlfriend's family... how about you? OR we're going to {insert far-away destination here} for the weekend! how about you?
me: nothing.
them: any plans for the weekend?
me: um, no. my family's in toronto. i have thanksgiving dinner with my boyfriend's family on Monday tho.
them: toronto? that must be hard.
me: yah... some holidays are harder than others...

I guess I miss my family. I miss my mom lots, but only when we get along =b i miss her more when I go shopping, or when I go to the gym. I would love to drag my mom to the gym with me for a workout :) I wanted to take a cooking class at the Cookshop. It would have been nice to do that with my mom.

I miss my dad too cause theres so much that I'd like to learn from him. Like flower arranging =b and learning more about fixing up the car by myself. I would have LOVED to go go-karting again in Whitby. That was so much fun! :D

I miss my brother even tho he used to make fun of me all the time when we were younger. I think we're close but its probably not so noticeable to other people. I don't think we *act* like we're really close tho... which is kinda weird, I think.

So what am I trying to say? Treasure the time you have with your family, no matter how annoying they can be. :)

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Pretty amzanig huh?

My boyfriend's cat, Tina...


Photo: CS for BCG

Isnt she cute?! :D She's 13 years old.. which is equivalent to 68 human years. Wow, eh? She has a real character and just LOVES to get your attention.

I hate being sick. I've had this sore throat for over a week now and it seems like its taking FOREVER to get better. :(

ARGH...

How come my archives don't show up on my blog page? :( I got a hold of Mike's template and everything looks the same. I don't get it. What am I doing wrong? I don't want to have to pay Blogger to help me with this... stuuupid.

Nerves...

This morning I was placed in a situation where I got so nervous that I started stuttering and rambling on. How embarassing...

My core...

I was asked a question the other day about who I am. And the person made a statement that we are who we are based primarily on our core beliefs about ourselves, our attitudes, what we believe is important to us, etc.

I didnt really wrap my head around this one, but today I think I understand a little bit better. If you believe in something, its part of you, as a person, right? But what if someone tells you that they believe something different than you on the same topic? There's no right or wrong, is there... Its just 2 people with 2 different perceptions and beliefs. What's hard for me sometimes is to understand the other person's belief because my own belief is so engrained in me as a person.

I can be pig-headed and just walk off believing what I believe is right. Or I can try to come to a compromise with that person. But I dont think that works unless BOTH people want to come to a compromise, right? It does take "two to tango", am I right?

I love surprises... but not all surprises. I only like the good surprises. The bad ones can just stay at home. =b
Today is/was a day of surprises. Right now I'd call them bad surprises, but I really can't judge their "goodness" or "badness" until I know what the outcome is from these bad surprises. Am I making sense? =b

And what's funny is that I learn a lot about myself and other people from the occurence of good and bad surprises. I don't always like what I learn tho. :( Sometimes I find out stuff that I wish just wasn't true. And then you're faced with a decision to act on what you've learned. And sometimes those decisions are so huge that they turn into a big major event. And that major event affects your life in a big way...

So that's what we call life, eh?

"... there's not a day that goes by where I don't celebrate..."
I can't imagine how happy I'd be if someone said that to me...