Snow Days!

There are many reasons why I want to be a teacher, but this is just an added perk! Snow days for the rest of my life! WAHOOOOOOOOO! ;) I just have to keep reminding myself this when it's nutso weather out and university is still open... crazy people! ah well.

Return to Sender

Ever since I heard that Elvis song, I've always wondered what it would be like to get one of these in the mail... not as fun as I thought! Sorry you missed your Christmas love this year Brenna! :(

Adventures with Emily - Part 1

It's a bit of a ongoing joke with a friend of all the mishaps and "situations" that I seem to find myself in on a regular basis so, I decided to begin to record some of the more humorous/pathetic/"shake-you-head-at" ones.

Like today for instance:

This Monday morning was definitely the coldest one yet in Halifax this winter! BRR! School went as normal and I ended up after classes in the library. Now for you that don't know Mount Saint Vincent University, it's not deemed "The Mount" for nothing. The library is at the very bottom and my car was parked pretty much at the top. I will be the first to admit that I am not in shape so I was huffin' and puffin' my way up in the bitter cold. Once I arrived to my car, I unlocked her and then got in and shut the door only to realize... my door would not shut.

Yup. You read right. Here it is like -25 (that's Celsius) with the wind chill and my door will not close. Well immediately I see that the problem is that a latch must be so cold that it will not clasp so I send up a little prayer and begin to heave on that little metal doo-dad with no success. I remembered that I had forgotten my cell phone that morning at home (and come to find out that Esther wasn't home anyways at the time) and see that there is no way I can drive home on the highway holding on to my door. I then come to the conclusion that this is no job for a gal in her newly-washed corduroy white jacket (thanks mom) and stand up to survey the parking lot for a man. Tidbit #2 for those unfamiliar with the Mount... its female to male ratio is 8:2 so I wasn't surprised when there were no guys in sight.

I then proceed to run into Evaristus and look for Kev (senior lab instructor, one of my BEd references and accustomed to my misfortunes). I come to his office and my heart sank: he's not there. So I start looking through the labs and he ends up being in Micro and the students look like they're writing a quiz. Great. Well I decide to march right in and tell him anyways and the little angel that he is dropped everything to come help in the bitter cold. Well after trying himself and scrounging up some screwdrivers he finally was able to get the door shut. The only problem is once he opens to door to let me in the latch "froze" again. So I yelled "STOP!" after a few tries and decide to climb in through the other door. I then hopped in and was thankful (once again) that little Gertie has bum warmers! :)

Ma n' Pa

Guess who's coming to visit this weekend?! :)

Mass Spec., Infrared, NMRs....

Being in my last semester of my undergrad I've had to face the facts and finally finish the second part of organic chem :( My first quiz is tomorrow and in trying to prepare I certainly felt like this guy. Have I seriously forgotten all-things-chemistry?!
I'm going to need your prayers (thanks in advance!)

The Halifax Donair

So this past Sunday night I had the most fun I've had in a long time. I forgot how much fun it is to just laugh and goof off :) After gospel meeting in Halifax, a bunch of us young twerps headed across the bridge to go to Robert's Pizza, Donairs and Subs. Now I had only recently heard of the place and I was pumped for a good ol' Halifax donair (for all you who have never had the pleasure of consuming such a delicacy... I pity your incomplete taste buds! ). When we arrived, I told the gals that I would "go in" with them with whatever they chose as I had to run and get gas (Gertie was running pretty empty). When I got back, I come to find out that the three of us were going to share a medium and the guys were pairing up to share smalls. Now I was pretty hungry so at first this baffled me but once our orders were up I quickly realized that this establishment was a quantity over quality kind of place. I think the menu itself pretty much sums it up:

Notice the belly buster? That thing is insane. There is even a youtube video of some guy eating one... by himself! That is one load of meat! I also love the fact that extra cheese is an option!

We then all went to the Frith's to sit down and begin our feast and try to comprehend the size that a belly buster must be if 3 substantially hungry gals had a difficult time to finish off a medium!

"Emily Sandwich" and yes, we consumed that football!

This picture doesn't do the size justice but try to compare it with the can of pop. Insane!

So excited we didn't even take our hats off! Devon opted for a poutine.

Done... well almost :)

On a whole, awesome night with a awesome people and awesome food (although Euro Pizza still makes the best donair in my mind). It actually even made me miss Mexico because in a weird way donairs are like tacos al pastor..."Balcony Tacos anyone?!"

Family Package looks a bit sketchy...
some thought it was probably just the belly buster with plates! ;)

And we're off...

Well here we go.
It's what you've all been waiting for: the insight into the mumbo jumbo thoughts, neat findings and creative ideas of Emily's head :)
It's a scary place so don't say I didn't warn you!

As you can imagine, I'm still in the developing stages of trying to determine what this blog really is all about, but for right now... it's for fun! yay!
Hope you're as excited as I am.

To kick off the festivities, I thought I would share a video I recently came across... the NEW crayon song. super cute. agree?