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Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Here's a (blurry) picture of me in the Beauxbatons shirt I made this Christmas. The picture at the top is the image I created, mostly from doodling in my GeoPhys lecture at EnCana this summer. I tidied it up and coloured it in Photoshop. I am very proud of it now! Plus I learned how to use the neato gradient tool in Photoshop. Very cool.

Karlie@5:40 p.m.

Donate to the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Relief!

I donated $20 to the Canadian Red Cross today, for the Tsunami relief. The latest figure I have heard is over 70,000 confirmed deaths, with the toll expected to rise to 100,00 from just direct effects once every area affected has been reached. That will probably at least double in the coming days due to the lack of fresh water and spread of disease such as cholera, tyhpoid, and other organisms.

You can also check out:
American Red Cross
Unicef - Canada
Unicef - USA

Other ideas are to check OXFAM, UN, or any other relief agencies.

Karlie@5:20 p.m.

Here's Anton and I standing in front of the igloo. I am wearing: brand-new longjohns and wool socks, cords, snowpants, sorels, undershirt, fleece hoodie, scarf, parka, ear covers (fleece things that slip on your ears), hat, and two pairs of mitts. Like I said, -34C. The igloo is quite big this year, it is almost always tall enough to stand in but this year since we have at least 60cm on the ground, the blocks are all about 2 feet thick. For reference, I am 132 cm, which is about 5' 3.5" .

Karlie@5:20 p.m.

Monday, December 27, 2004

Well, Christmas has come and gone. My family built our traditional igloo again this year on Christmas day. The temperature outside? -34C. (-29.2F). However, hopefully this year it will last a little longer, seeing as it's this cold out. Last year it was +6C on Boxing Day, so our igloo collapsed. That was the first year we lost the igloo! I have pictues, I will post them soon.

I have also made a New Year's Resolution that I will write in here every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and other days if there's something good. I hope I can keep it up (ducks bolt of lightning).

Karlie@7:47 p.m.

Monday, December 06, 2004

Hello. I haven't been posting lately. Sorry, this blog is one of the casualties of mono, along with two of my classes this semester. This bites big time. Oh well. I've been hanging at home, knitting and watching TV. I have become re-involved with watching "Days", but mostly because it's so hysterically funny. You know the reason so many women watch soaps? Well it's like this. When people (particularly guys) watch sports, they yell at the TV, to the coach and the players. We do the same thing, sort of. Watching Days for me consists of "Oh my God, see now SHE's going to come back from the dead and marry her half-sister's ex-Dad" interspersed with hysterical laughter and gasps for air. Today, for example:

"Oh NOW I get it. Belle's ex Shawn was being held in a dominatrix-type cell in a mountain MANSION by evil Jan who used to torture Belle's friend Chloe and she brainwashed him into marrying her. NOW I get it!"
"Even better, so now we see Bo and Billie's stillborn daughter Georgia, who they delivered, confirmed themselves that she was dead, and buried themselves in the cemetary, is not actually dead but is possibly being held in the same European Castle as all the presumed-dead Salemites who were fake-serial killed and held on an imaginary island then spirited away by the DiMera family. Let's take the private jet there."

And I won't even go into the fact that Belle used sewing scissors to cut up a photograph. That is just entirely wrong.

Karlie@9:40 p.m.