Tuesday, December 30, 2008

"I look forward to sand in my crotch and a beer in my hand."

So it looks like that Maui trip in May will end up being a ladies trip with all four of us! :) After getting together with Pam, Maja and Darla, we all agreed that it would be absolutely awesome to go to Maui together in May. I couldn't imagine going with a better crew! It will be 10 days filled with sun, sand, drinks and many adventures! I look forward to it! Now all that's left is to book the tickets... then we'll know for sure who will actually come.

*Blog title: Quote from my lovely friend Pam when talking about our Maui trip in May.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Sometimes I am compassionate

And sometimes I am not. This was taken when I was not compassionate... though I did offer the homeless guy a hug! It was all I got. Tonight I went out with Pam, Maja, Darla and Matt... we had good fun and good drinks... good drinks lead to seeking for more good drinks, which had us walking through a homeless person filled area (not too sure where, was too busy making sure I did not fall in snow while wearing heels). Anywho Matt took this photo while we were telling a guy politely no we don't have any change. The glance speaks for itself :) Had fun though :) looking forward to more times out!

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Back to postcards and daydreaming

This morning I find myself single again. I also find myself with a feeling of a weight being lifted. The past couple of days have been a tough one with Justin and I deciding whether we should be together or if we're just better apart. It would have been easy if he was a jerk or an asshole, but he's neither of those and that's what made the decision that much harder. Now I think we're on a course that is good for the two of us. Though we're no longer sharing each others life, we will still be close. I know I will make sure that he's doing well and that he stays happy. Whether I can do anything about it or not is something completely different.
So it will be interesting to see what 2009 brings. I head into it single and an extra bit more lonely since I've lost Minette. She'd been there through all my heart aches and heart breaks and this is the first I've tackled on my own. I miss her and this Christmas was an little bit tough. I missed her hiding under the tree, picking out the present that had cap nip in it and batting it around the living room... what was especially hard was seeing the piles of wrapping paper with no Minette underneath. She LOVED Christmas because of the multitude of boxes that were laying around and because of all the wrapping paper she could chase bows and ribbons in.
Anyways I will keep my head up and my smile on because that's how I feel inside. Despite the recent changes, I feel strong. Also very ready to tackle my last term at Utopia Academy. 2009 will be the year I graduate and also the year I become an RMT. That's quite exciting :) I've worked hard and I deserve it.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

More distractions!


The plan: To rent House M.D. Season 2
What happened: I bought season 2, 3 and 4... it was cheaper then renting all of them cuz they're previously viewed. That's fine with me :)
Now I am too excited to nap!! :)

Christmas 2008


Well Christmas has already come and gone and what a unique one it was. I am quite fortunate to have the loving family that I have and I've really enjoyed spending some time with them. Now that Christmas is over though it's time to start focusing on school again. I've already written out a list of things to study for and it's not as scary as I thought... there are still 3 assignments and 7 finals to study for... however it's not as bad as previous terms where I had over 10 finals to study for. Also one of the finals is on the 2nd of January which is a bit of a blow but will mean that it's out of the way that much faster.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Almost done!

This week anyways! I still have a mid term to go before break officially begins. My to do list is endless for before x-mas... for the first time in years I am almost contemplating having someone else wrap my x-mas presents... Will trade massage for x-mas present wrapping! :P
Oh this break will do me good!!!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

I am dislexic

And sometimes it shows. Usually I catch myself and correct myself but other times, like today it totally passes me by. Today I handed in an assignment on magnesium instead of an assignment about manganese. Yeah WOOPS! At least I did the assignment but it was on the wrong mineral. Damn shit! *sigh* I need a break! 3 more school days until Christmas break/study break!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Snow covered life

The first thing I did when I woke up this morning was that I peeked outside to see how much white stuff had fallen from the sky. I was delighted to see that the road outside is currently completely covered and we now have about 8 to 10 inches of snow covering the ground. Yipee! Hopefully the drivers that take take our street to go to work will realize that there is still a thick sheet of ice under all that lovely white fluff. Now the weather just has to stay cold for the next little while and I will be quite happy. With long underwear under my cloths I have kept quite warm these past couple of days so I have been enjoying the cold very much. I am tempted to go out and shoot this morning... maybe I will do that between school and work. We shall see. I love snow and the cold and I hope it sticks around.

*I just checked out the weathernetwork.com and it should snow all day today and stay between 0 and -12 for the next 5 days! There's also more snow in the forecast (alternating with days of sun!)! Not only will this be awesome for snow shoeing as soon as I have time but maybe we will have a white Christmas! That would be so awesome :)

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Reason why I want a cat # 38973289

It's almost Christmas time and I've been really good!!!

Monday, December 15, 2008

From long underwear...

...to no underwear.... little beach here I come!!!
After having a great time playing in the snow this Saturday, Justin and I decided to book our trip to Maui for the month of May! Actually Justin just found some awesome prices so we're going :) We weren't going to go unless we could go for cheap! And we are! Less for $400 bucks and flying out of Vancouver!
Sure I am only going for my 6th time but I am pretty sure it's going to be just as awesome this time around... after all... on my 5th time there I discovered an other noodie beach :)
What a lovely grad present to me :)

Should have known better...

That just going to listen to some nice chill music with my path homework wasn't going to happen. Instead Pam, Justin and Steve came out as well and we all have a great time. I was introduced to gin and tonic and didn't even touch my study stuff all night! I paid the consequences on Saturday though... I failed my mid term. It's ok though the majority of the class failed it as well... and they stayed home and studied :P

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Musical love

It's the only kind I've been getting lately and this is what I've found:
Dan Mangan, Hannah Georgas, Arctic, and Christer are all quite worth checking out. They are all playing tomorrow night at Funderwear at the Biltmore. I want to go. But I have a mid term the following day. Fuckity fuck fuck. Maybe I will bring my path stuff and study while they are playing. It sounds low key enough that I might just be able to do it.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Absence make the heart grow fonder...

But too much absence pisses me off!

Last weekend was the first weekend that Justin and I didn't spend together since we started dating. We lived. I am proud of us. I miss him terribly but school has been so hectic that I only miss him when I wake up, am on the bus (day dreaming between studying) and before I go to bed. Otherwise I just don't have time. I don't even have time to eat. I am drinking a meal replacement just before I go to sleep and then I am going to pass out until too early in the morning, study and leave for my 7am appointment with my naturopath. Dear Naturopath... I am stressed!
Anyways next week is filling up quite quickly as well. What was meant to be a week filled with just two quizzes changed into a week with two quizzes, a final, a mid term and a project. Fuck! It's like a redo of this week! And this means that I will most likely not see Justin next weekend as well! Honestly, I miss our cuddle time and being with him. I was very tempted to ask a coworker for a hug today because I miss getting my hugs and cuddles :(
I've prepared myself for the end of this week and the following week. I stocked up on meal replacement and vitamin C/multivitamin/multimineral. So far I haven't gotten sick! I don't plan on it either. My immune system has been rockin' and we will make it through to x-mas.
The lymph drainage final... I think it went well. I think I passed. Which is good. I enjoy it and am looking forward to the extra class at the end of January so that I can get my basic lymph drainage. I know my stuff too so I will be a good therapist :)
Well my meal replacement (replacing lunch and dinner) is finished so I am going to bed.

"I am on little beach for drum circle and fire dancing."
That's the first message I got this morning from Frank, in Hawaii, who must be on vacation in Maui (he lives on Oahu). My reply: "I am awake at 5:30am studying for a final."
Guess. Who's having more fun?

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Rise and Shine

This morning I woke up at 6am... ready to tackle the world. I didn't wake up because I had to or because I had too much on my mind but my body was rested and ready to start the day. I thank lymph drainage for that.
Lymph drainage is definitely a unique creature. After the first day I felt exhausted, after the second I felt energized, after the 3rd I felt exhausted again and had a bit of an emotional reaction and after the fourth, and last I felt energized again and even stayed up until 11pm (which is a big deal for someone who's usually in bed before 9 on school days). The throat ow that I woke up with disappeared throughout the day and my body settled in to a general feeling of well being. This work is quite amazing. Looking at the case studies that we did, the work is also very powerful and yields great results. It's definitely something that I want to continue to work with and I am looking forward to taking the therapy 1, 2 and 3 classes. However this modality does not come easy.
I don't think I've ever felt so incompetent with a massage technique. Sure it's always a bit tricky to get into the groove of things when you first get started but even after 4 days of this stuff, I still have to think it through and go very slowly! Anyways I see that this work is worth the time and effort that I put in to it so I am still going to keep working at it.
Well since I am up this early, I am going to get started on writing the medical legal report... and then I'll work on A&P and then on lymph drainage (studying theory and hands on), then off to the library to work on pain and stress. The carrot at the end of stick is meeting Maja for Thai this evening and then spending the rest of the weekend with her studying and becoming smarter. It'll be great to have someone here that I can practice my hands on stuff with and they can practice it to. We can also work on the multitude of other assignments and tests that are due next week as well.
17 days until winter break/study break begins!

Friday, December 5, 2008

Maybe I shouldn't have fallen asleep...

After a not particularly stressful day, I decided to swing by metrotown to pick up a couple of things for the OnSite Christmas. Things like window decals of snow flakes, wrapping paper and ornament hangers shouldn't have been hard to find... but they were. I sped walk through a mall that kept shouting BUY BUY BUY out at me and even though I only spent $1.14 for ornament hooks, I had an anxiety attack in the mall. Not surprising but still frustrating. Not having the courage to go buy paper I went home, defeated and exhausted. Mom and Dad were total heroes and went to Ikea to pick up the Christmas tree for OnSite while I was given time to go to sleep early... again at 7pm.
After lunch I felt a prickle in my throat. It kind of felt like a hair was stuck. After trying to remove it and almost making me throw up, I decided to leave it be and hope that it would travel during night time and I would wake and I would be all better. But that wasn't the case. After crying myself to sleep and sleeping a solid 9 hours, I woke up feeling like that little hair had transformed itself into many little razor blades. *sigh*
On the up side, I no longer feel like an emotional mess this morning... which is good. I also feel ready to tackle our last day of lymph drainage. There will be no extra class on Saturday because of the lack of interest (we need 6 in order to have a full class, 2 are interested, one of which is me). This is quite the good news because it allows me more then half a day to get ready for exams and such. It also looks like we'll be able to take this class in January in order to get the basic certification for manual lymph drainage. Many of the other girls are interested, however with our work load they don't really want to use this time to get the basic MLD certification. So I am gearing up for a full day at school, a shift at work and then a weekend filled with sleep and studying.
Can it be Christmas time yet?

Thursday, December 4, 2008

An Ikea Birthday?!

It's no secret... I love Ikea. It's a great place to get cheap stuff for the home. It also doesn't look super cheap which is also a good thing. Anyways I was on their website today looking for a coupon for the $20 x-mas tree which I will pick up shortly for the Christmas at OnSite that I am preparing for. Next week is tree drop off and decorating. I am looking forward to it but it is also a source of stress because of everything else that is going on next week.
While snooping on their website I found that you can have your birthday at Ikea! Now that's pretty cool! Unfortunately I am not between the ages of 5 and 12 so I don't qualify but still... cool! It sure beats McDonald's!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Crunch Time!

Recipe for a stressful next week*:

1 lymph drainage written
1 lymph drainage final
1 PD assignment worth 5% of final mark
1 A&P mid quarter worth 15% of final mark
1 Pain and Stress assignment worth 30% of final mark
1 Systemic Pathology mid term worth 20% of final mark
3 work days

Mix all together in a 5 day span and you will get a lovely stressed out, overly sensitive Janelle. Yeah I almost burst into tears today while performing lymph drainage on a class mates leg. But I reasoned that I didn't have time to cry because they I might miss something that might be on either the final written or OP. When reason wore thin, I turned into a goof and imitated the announcer from Iron Chef "Today's special ingredient is CORN STAARRCCCHHHH." (yeah there was cornstarch everywhere, we use it on our hands so that they are not tacky and glide nicely on the skin.... works wonders, makes a mess and entertains the crap out of me).

Just two and half weeks then it's break time. I've promised myself that I would spend an entire day watching House and cuddling with Justin. Hopefully he agrees.

*This is all I have to do next week... this week we have lymph drainage all week and if I fail this, I will have to do it over in level 600 when I should be reviewing and prepping for boards.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Wine please?

There's an open bottle upstairs with my name on it... I also feel like I am not going to be able to sleep tonight... so that bottle seems really quite appealing right now. But I am being good. I am not going to drink because I have my first class of lymph drainage tomorrow. I am looking forward to it and think it will be very interesting. So why can't I drink? Well I've noticed that when I have wine (or any alcohol for that matter) or caffeine I become less aware and patient with my therapeutic modalities. And being lymph drainage is one that requires a lot of patience and focus drinking wine is not really an option. Same goes for craniosacral therapy (which are all day Friday...). Really, I just want to go out for a drink sometime, catch up with friends and do the December thing of eat, drink and be merry. But that will have to wait until after the 23rd...