Christmas Up North

Hello from Timmins, land of little snow, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! We are all up here, visiting the hub's family, and a bunch of friends are descending on the town and we are having a huge, blow-out party at G's sister Nancy's house on the 27th...apparently, fixins' are being gathered to make pomtinis, and I'm thinkin' that maybe we should get a pomagranate with which to embellishto decorate the cocktails.

In other news, I've had cramps and a myriad other aches and pains the last few days and just want to sleep. V has been sick, too, and threw up a bit yesterday and slept a lot. She seems fine today, though, and had a lot of fun opening presents (though she seems pretty ungrateful for all she's gotten). Gotta NOT spoil the girl, though it's impossible up here with her relatives constantly throwing presents her way.

Turkey time tonight!!! We've had some lovely food up here and it's been virtually impossible to eat properly here, keep on with my WW program. Oh, well...after the holidays, I'll resume the careful eating, but for now, I'll just try and limit gross intake.

Have a wonderful holiday and a great 2007, everybody!!!

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Blaaaaaaah!

I just found out I've gotten an A- in both the copyediting and content editing courses I just finished. There's some confusion about whether I need to have a combined A or an A- in those courses, plus the production editing course I'm taking in January, in order to be able to get an editing placement once I'm done my courses in April 2007. As I started my editing certificate program in January 2006, when the placement requirement was a mark of A-, I'm hoping that's the requirement and not the A they've decided on for those students starting the program in the fall of 2006. Whatev. I'm mighty pleased that I got an A- (though peeved I evaded that elusive A or A+) and can now rest and relax over Christmas. I have sent out a few resumes in the past week and have some friends working on getting me some contacts in the publishing industry so that I can take on a part-to-full-time job in the new year. I really want to really get my brain going again plus bring home some bacon so we can really get going with these house renos. We went and looked at a great house around the corner, in a cul-de-sac, and what I expected to be selling for $450K or so is actually selling for $644K...Oh, my God!!! Well, there go the plans of getting out of this olde-tyme house and into a newer one...I'll just have to live with these authentic but somewhat despised 6" floorboards and damned French windows. Blaaaaaah!!!! The next goal is to redo the bathroom but it's slow-going. We've dawdled all fall, but have gone so far as to decide what we want...now we just need to GIT 'ER DONE!!!! (Hub's least favourite saying) Well, enough rambling...off to git cleaned up for the main hombre's arrival...

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Little Finnish Christmas Pics

These little pics kill me b/c they're so cute. They're from the Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki's newspaper's) website. A-frickin-dorable!!!

I thought I'd just write a little more to add to my last post, since it was a bit of a downer. :-)

That is all.

December Doings

Well, I wrote a blog entry and it disappeared into the ether so I'll try again. Basically, here are the things that have happened now in December. Sadly, and I just found this out this morning, my godmother, Aino, died in Finland last Thursday, Dec. 14. I loved her...she was a very funny, kind lady and I hope she got my Christmas card with a picture of me, Hub and V so she remembered how much I loved her. Very sad. Otherwise, had our Finnish family Xmas at my mum's this past weekend. Tons of relatives and a good time. Now we're preparing for a trip up north to see hub's family over the holidays. Sure it'll be cold as a witch's T--, but that's to be expected when you're practically at the Arctic Circle. In other news, I've now lost almost 30 of my Hungarian pounds and I'm thrilled!!! About six more to go!!!



That's about it for me for now. Happy holidays, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, etc. to everyone!!!

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