Holy cow, I've been sick lately. And it seems like all of my students have been getting sick too. It must be the flu season. Everyone is walking around sneezing and coughing, with headaches and stuffy noses. boo hoo. I just want to get better. I think I have had a cold and/or flu for about three weeks now. Enough already!

However, I did manage to have some fun this weekend. It was my Mum's 64th birthday this weekend, and to celebrate we went to the Palliser Hotel for Sunday Brunch. It was soooooo awesome. The Palliser Hotel is great, and the brunch is out of this world. There were so many choices. My favourite thing had to be the "eggs pacifica". They were a kind of eggs benedict, but with salmon instead of ham. I put up a picture of some eggs benedict for people who have never seen them before. Just take out the ham and add smoked salmon. I also had a omlette that was made in front of my eyes, a belgian waffle (also made in front of my eyes), a huge pile of different kinds of fish (including trout!), and about a dozen different pieces of cake. I was a little bit full after brunch :-) I guess that is the trouble when to you to a buffet style brunch. However, it was just amazing. I think my Mum had a really good time too. I was a bit worry about my Dad though because he has diabetes and he ate a lot of cakes, and then he forgot his diabetes pills. However, I guess it was a special occasion one time only type of thing so it's okay.

Anyway, if you are ever looking for a super fancy place to take some one for the best brunch of their entire lives (it was so fancy, that there was even a guy playing a grand piano while we ate brunch), I totally recommend the Palliser Hotel on Sundays (but be warned, it's exxxxppppeeeennnnsssssiiiiivvvveee!!!)

Skating Rocks!

Wooo Hoooo! It's the first day of a long weekend and already I'm having tons of fun. I just got back from Bowness Park where I went skating this morning. It was so great. I love skating outdoors on natural ice. The air was cool and crisp as I whizzed over the ice. I felt so alive. The best part was that it wasn't very crowded this morning either. There were only a few people on the ice. I wonder if my students have ever gone to Bowness Park. I really think they should check it out. It's probably my favourite park in Calgary. The pond is huge, and their is something quitesentially Canadian in skating outdoors on a pond.

Anyway, I gotta go and enjoy the rest of my long weekend!

Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray
Hooray today is my birthday
Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray
Hooray today is my birthday

It's not the pickle's or the pear's
It's not the beaver's or the bear's
It's not next week or yesterday
Hooray today is my birthday
Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray
Hooray today is my birthday!

This is a picture of some cheese.

Day off for Scott!

Hello world!

I had the day off yesterday. I was so excited because I thought I was going to have a nice long weekend, but I got sick! Isn't that typical. It seems like I always get sick when I don't have to go to school, but suddenly when I have a day to do anything I want, I'm as sick as a dog. I think I have the thing that has been going around the university for the last few weeks . . . runny nose, fever, sinus headache, etc.

However, it didn't destroy my day off. The first thing I did on my day off was go downtown to get my new driver's license. My old one expires on Friday (MY BIRTHDAY!), so I had to get a new on Monday or I'd be in trouble. Naturally, first I went to the wrong building to go and get my new license, so I had to walk all the way across downtown. That meant that by the time I got to the registry office, I was all hot and looked pretty weird for my picture. My nose was running and my face was bright red, and my hair was all messed up from my toque. Anyway, the lady took my picture and then wouldn't let me see it. I bet I looked like a freak. Then, when we were doing all the information, she asked me if all the details were still the same . . . for example, do you still weigh 194 pounds. I said yes. Ulp. I guess what I meant was that I want to weigh 194 pounds, you see, I have gained a few pounds in the last five years. When I went home after getting my license I weighed myself and I was 204 pounds . . . holy cow! What happened to me? Anyway, I now need to lose 10 pounds pronto or my license will be wrong. No more donuts for me!

After that depressing morning, I really needed to do something fun, so I jumped in my car and I went to Banff. It was really great. I went to the hot springs and soaked away all my worries (and maybe a couple of ounces). Now there are only four more days until another long weekend . . . woo hoo!

My House is so Clean!

This weekend I did nothing exciting at all except clean my house. It took me two days to clean everything, it was such a mess. The worst part was the huge piles of laundry I had been ignoring for so long, but finally they are clean. I even managed to finish all of my ironing. Usually I hate ironing, but I just bought season 3 of the show "24" and I watched three episodes while I ironed all my shirts and pants. I was so happy to finally be finished my ironing, but now I am addicted to this show "24". I want to watch it all the time, but I have so much marking to do that I can't watch too much TV or I'm going to fall way too far behind.


Anyway, my house is clean! Yahoo! Hmmm, it doesn't sound like I have too exciting of a life lately what with just cleaning my house and doing my laundry. I wonder how I could spice up my life . . . . give my students more homework? Naw :-)