tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57891532011-04-21T21:06:09.949-04:00Thoughts of a Canadian University StudentKarliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02591484933005525101noreply@blogger.comBlogger1801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789153.post-1111423042908811442005-03-21T11:37:00.000-05:002005-03-21T11:37:22.906-05:00

My picture for a contest at HOL.

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The robe is hanging funny on me because I'm walking towards the camera, but you can see my robe. It's made of almost a charmeuse material, with a Beauxbatons logo embroidered on.

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Here's the underclothing for my Beauxbatons uniform. Although it looks just like a Hogwarts costume, the sweater is in fact decorated with gold and purple, and the tie is also gold and purple.

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MOVINGAll righty, this is the end. Well, not really. I've decided to amalgamate my blogs, because I'm having a really hard time keeping up to having two. Therefore, this blog will still be here, but not updated. All my new updates are at A Long Yarn All Wound Up. All my archives from this blog will still be here. Thanks for reading, join me at the new place (bring blog-warming gifts!). Be

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Sorry about the lack of posts, they may be missing for awhile. I managed to get myself pneumonia, again, so I've been sick and my wonderful Mummy has been here doing my dishes and fetching me hot water. Aussi, j'ai découvert que mon Français est très mauvaise, mais j'ai aussi découvert un petit blog qui s'appelle Pure Laine, et je vais le lire dans un effort pour améliorez mon Français.

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1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you. "Do get on with it, and don't bother about anything else!" From "Leaf by Niggle" in JRR Tolkien's Tales from the Perilous Realm

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Quick post here, I finished the essay, and I got to school yesterday in an effort to get some lab work done, but no dice. There was a class in my lab room. An unfortunate side effect of a small University. Right now I am finishing up hand-painting my yarn. Pictures to follow.

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While attempting to come up with something for dinner, I just inevented (well, combined recipes and changed seasonings) a very awesome recipe. Potato Wedges with Aioli Wedges: 4 Baking Potatoes Vegetable Oil Salt Paprika Basil Steak Spice Heat oven to 400F. Slice each potato into 8 wedges, toss in a bowl with some oil, salt, paprika, and basil. Bake about 40 minutes, until golden and crispy.

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Here's the random picture, for yesterday. This is a drilling truck, to drill very narrow and deep holes for seismic charges, when running seismic lines (it's actually from the same trip as last Friday's picture). If you're curious, to get my random picture I open up the picture folder, put my cursor on the scroll bar, and close my eyes while I move the scroll bar up and down, until I stop

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Recognize the line above? It's from an old Scottish folk song, Loch Lomond. Why am I quoting it? Because last night I went tubing at Thunder Bay's ski hill, Loch Lomond. It was soooooooo much fun, I can't describe how much fun it was. You travel up to the top of the bunny hill in the chair lifts, and down one side of the bunny hill they've created two very wide chutes. You grab an inner

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I took this test awhile ago, in my 2nd year of University. It tests your epathy quotient (EQ) and systemising quotient (SQ). It's interesting to see where you lie against the population, and it gives you some insite into yourself. I scored 24 on the EQ, which is quite low. Women typically score in the 40's. I also scored 49 on SQ, which is quite high, especially for a woman, they typically

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I have this essay to write. It's 3000 words on Mass Differentiation. I also have a chance to go out tubing (going down the icy slopes of Northern Ontario in inflated tubes). As per my friend Elizabeth's suggestion, I shall try to write some of the essay, until I find out if I am going tubing tonight or not. *Sigh* If any of my readers are geologists or astronomers, any tips on writing a

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Here's a wonderful cocktail that my bestest-friend Elizabeth and I came up with one night. And we got totally smashed. But they're bright pink, girly, and sweet. Perfect for a girl's-night-out, or a treat-yourself-right spa night. Pink Elizabeths 1 bottle of peach-flavoured sparkling water (Clearly Canadian or other) Grenadine Maraschino Cherries Vodka (Skyy is really nice, or if you want to

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This is for "Friday's are for Random Pictures" for Jan 21. This is a helicopter used while doing seismic surveys for petroleum exploration. While working for EnCana this summer, I had the opportunity to spend the day with a seismic crew, and watched them do all the stuff they do. We even felt them set off a charge, which was pretty cool. You could hear a "thump" sound, and the ground moved a

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Here's what has happened to me on the MWF I've missed. Monday Jan 17: I'd started the doll (see below) over the weekend, but I needed to get elastic to finish her clothes, and stuffing for her. I was going to go to the mall or Wal-Mart after class, but since it was very, very cold (-35C, unknown windchill) I decided against it. Wednesday Jan 19: I went to school very early so I could get some

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Here's a little rag doll I made for my cousin Olivia, she's just turned 3. It's 15" tall and made from Simplicity's Raggedy Ann pattern, with a few minor alterations in how I did the hair and face. She has more clothes than this, she has jeans, dress pants, a little shirt with her name stitched on it, a purple knitted sweater, green polar fleece jammies, and polar fleece slippers.

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Here she is with the doll, I tell you that was no sooner out of the bag than she started dressing it in lots of different outfits. I'm glad she loves it so much!

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I didn't post yesterday, sorry. I won't be able to post until next Friday again anyway, because my dumbass computer still has stuff wrong with it so I have to send it in to Dell to get it repaired. So here's my "Fridays are for random pictures" picture. This is me and the rest of my geology group from U of A the day we arrived in Hawai'i this past February. I couldn't believe how green the

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I had my first day back at class today, and it's quite exhausting actually. My Igneous Prof speaks so quickly and flips through slides so fast I can hardly take any notes before I miss what he's saying, and the labs are long and difficult. The Geophysics class requires three 3000 word essays, along with two midterms and the final. And I still have tonsillitis or something so I can bet voice

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"Fridays are for random pictures". Here's my random picture for Friday, it's a sunset over Calgary this summer, from the 20th floor of our building.

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All right. I'm thinking of amalgamating my two blogs (I have one knitting one, and one 'other' one). Now the question is, do I have enough non-knitting readers on this site that I would bore them if I amalgamated? Cause if not, my life will be easier if I join them together. Besides, I'm afraid my knitting readers (I SWEAR there are some! I swear!) will get bored because I don't usually have

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A random photo of me, in Hawai'i this past February. Hey, there's an idea. If I remember, every Friday along with my post I'll also put up a random picture from my computer.

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I'm getting better from the cold/flu/some-sort-of-horrendous-bug that got me yesterday, and stopped me from going back to TBay. I think it's turning into tonsillitis, which is something I can handle. As long as it doesn't move it's scratchy little fingers into my lungs I'm happy. Nothing much is new here, and I don't have anything to post except that it's been FREAKING COLD HERE!!!!! I mean,

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And last but not least, here's my Mom, Dad, and I playing "The A-Maze-Ing Labyrinth" on New Year's Eve. We played the game, and not long after we finished we had people come over and visit. If you're curious, I lost. Big time.

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Here I am, digging out a foxhole. Our fort became a World War II kind of thing, with Allan's cave a ways down and to the left, and my foxhole in the top of the pile. There's a tunnel leading from the cave to the foxhole for "secret escape", so now we just need a telegraph in the cave. Very cool.

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Here's Allan digging out the cave in our snow fort that we made yesterday. It's a very cool fort, that we made in the snow piled up from what was scraped off the driveway. This snow pile is almost taller than I am.

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I am supposed to post today, but I must go pack so I will post tomorrow instead. See you then!

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OK, so it's Saturday not Friday. So sue me! Technically the New Year starts today so my resolutions haven't been broken yet. And here they are: 1) Write in blog Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2) Take my vitamins/eat healthy every day 3) Excercise more 4) Lose 5 lbs - what this actually means is lose 5 lbs of fat, I don't care if I end up weighing more due to muscle mass later on 5) Knit more 6)

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I have mono Ergo I will probably not be posting for quite some time. That is all.

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This is craziness. I haven't been healthy since Thanksgiving. I got a cold right after Thanksgiving, that turned into bronchitis, and is now strep or some other strange disease that is swelling up my throat like crazy and making it look like it has gangrene. I still have a stupid essay to write, the last one for Structure, 2500 words on closed loop strained markers. On an unrelated note, does

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And here's me and two friends (Lucy the gypsy and Amy the pirate) at the party. In this picture you can see my ears better, as well as the top and colour of the dress. Yes, I was wearing a watch. I know elves don't wear them, but whatever. When you're not immortal time actually does have meaning! 

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Here's a nicer picture of me in the dress. I cut off my head in the top picture because I was blinking and looked a little silly. 

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Here's me at a Hallowe'en party in my 'dream dress'. I made it out of two layers, the top is crinkled chiffon and the underlayer is a very light synthetic (no idea what the material is) in the same colour. They are both a very light lilac-periwinkle. I cut the fabric using a woodburning tool so that I wouldn't have to hem it and it looks amazing. The pattern is from alleycatscratch at the

Karliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02591484933005525101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789153.post-1098844709693992732004-10-26T22:38:00.000-04:002004-10-26T22:38:29.693-04:00

Oooh look! It's another Thanksgiving picture! This one is of me driving the boat to blueberry hill. It's the first time I've ever driven a boat! 

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Here's my cousin Donna and Becky in the boat at Ghost Lake this weekend. We were going out to look for emeralds (since they'd been discovered in the area) 

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I just went out for a long drive with my sister. We hopped in the van, cranked some ABBA Gold, and picked up a smartie blizzard. Then we drove around Dryden, on some old highways, everywhere. We had a really good conversation. She's turned into a real teenager, and was talking about some of the guys at school. I warned her (with a big grin) that guys are, well, not exactly thinking with

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Olivia swinging at the park a few weeks ago. 

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I've figured out why so many people have crushes on celebrities. It's because in a show, or in a movie, we get to "know" them well (albeit we are meeting their characters, and not their own personality). Nonetheless, since most characters depicted as the sort of people one would find attractive, it's not that surprising. And after that interlude, I need to blurt out my latest crush. Topher

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So the X-Prize has been won, by the American team with SpaceShipOne. Nice to know someone finally won it.

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Had a pretty good weekend, Friday I got a blue Betta fish, went to Lucy's for dinner, and then we went to Amy's for the Geology party. There were some VERY drunk people there, but I got to know lots of people a lot better. Saturday I hung out, cleaned the apartment, and knitted until dinner. Then Laura and I went and picked up some movies (Bridget Jones's Diary and Calendar Girls) and watched

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I'm sitting here at school, between classes. I'm trying to find out more information about campus rec here, but their website sucks. All it does is tell me all about varsity teams. I know they offer more than that, so why isn't it on their website? Where the heck am I supposed to go for more information? Anyways. Yesterday I wrote some more of my structure essay, I now have 1612 words. I

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This is the dyed wool, all dried and wound. I tried varigateing it, which is why it looks shiny - that's actually different colours. It worked pretty good, it's evenly done just not a lot of difference between the shades. 

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Although this looks like bloody spaghetti, it's actually merino wool I'm dying with kool-aid for felted slippers. I now have coral wool - and a coral wooden spoon. 

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Oooh, one slipper is finished! It's made with Ping-Pong wool in "pink power" and a plum acrylic. It was super fast to knit.  

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These are the things I bought today! Pink is for socks, the cream is for felted slippers that will be dyed with the Kool-Aid. Rings to make beaded stitch-markers, new needles, and my Gryffindor patch came in the mail today, so I can finish my robe! Woohoo! 

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A Fine Resume I just received this by email, and thought it nicely encapsulated the accomplishments of our esteemed leader. Read it. Get mad(der). Go do something about it. This individual seeks an executive position. He will be available next January, and is willing to relocate. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20520 EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Law Enforcement: I was arrested in

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It's once again been a long time since my last update, so here's some more news. I finished sewing the robe for my Hermione costume, which I'm wearing to school the Friday before Hallowe'en. It turned out VERY well, I used black and wine cotton broadcloth and McCall's 4340 pattern. I altered both the length of the cloak so it came just to my ankles, and I reduced the bell on the sleeve. I

Karliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02591484933005525101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789153.post-1095292063512607972004-09-15T19:47:00.000-04:002004-09-15T19:47:43.513-04:00

This is my cousin Anton (standing) and my Aunty Iris (in denim) at the mine. 

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This is my little cousin Olivia at the Panorama mine. 

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So I haven't updated in forever...so sue me, I've been busy moving and starting school! Just kidding. Things have been good, my singing teacher is really nice and says I have lots of potential. My structural geology class sounds a little nightmarish, with 3 essays, 2 midterms, labs, and the final. Thunder Bay is pretty nice, and I had a great time with Laura (an old friend from, well,

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Some brief notes: -had my final presentation today, it went well all things considering -work has been exhausting this week, but also going well considering -last day is tomorrow, I'm flying home this weekend

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I've still been sitting around, playing Uru some more and watching more TV. I'm so BORED, but hopefully today I might get to go out for a little while with Janice, who needs to return some things to the mall. Still planning on Edmonton this weekend!

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Funny anti-Bush link.

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I found one of these buried in my inbox, and decided to post it. Some of the info is obviously not complete, but it's all part of the mystery... LAYER ONE: On the Outside Name: Karlie Birth date: Sept 14, 1983 Birthplace: Northwestern Ontario Current Location: Southern Alberta Eye Color: Very golden brownish Hair Color: Natural - med blonde, Now - dark auburnish blonde Height: *sighs* 5'3.5"

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So it did turn out to be appendicitis, so my rock-solid excuse for not updating for a few weeks was that I was a) in the hospital b) in surgery c) recuperating from said surgery in Okotoks at my Aunt Jean's with my parents. When my parents found out I was having surgery, right before we had to move out of SAIT, they decided to drive up to help us move everything over to Janice's. I'm glad they

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Here's a quick update. We went to Buck Lake for the long weekend, and had lots of fun playing with the cat, Charlie, we went tubing once, suntanned, read, and put together a few puzzles. One of them has no border (so that the edges are puzzle pieces with tabs and slots), comes with five extra pieces, and has a repeating pattern. It took 3 hours for us to put it together, and it had 750 pieces.

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Here's Allan's coat. Right now it's missing buttons and buttonholes, as well as a good dose of ironing. Allan - a warning, even once it's done it might need a few strategic safety pins to make it look nice and sharp, since fleece is really soft and floppy. 

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Sooo pretty. And worth 11,200 CAD...

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Holp! So. One of my friends is engaged. Wow, what do you do when everyone around you suddenly begins to change, with their lives unfolding before them? My life, at the moment, is rather like one of those tents. You know, the ones that get stuck halfway through pitching them, and lean sideways, so all the rain puddles and leaks in, and then falls down when someone outside sneezes on it?

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New Computer! Yes, I got my new computer. Hip hip hurray! Yeah, I'm nerdy, but that's OK. It's amazing, with XP, 512 Mb RAM, 60GB harddrive....it just goes on and on. Not much else is new here, I will be leaving SAIT shortly, and then back to Lakehead. I just bought some material to cover the loveseat my parents will be giving me for my new apartment. It's a really nice shade of

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Just a quick note to explain my lack of blogging for a month - I'm getting a new computer, Dell Inspiron 5150 with 512 Mb RAM, CD-R/DVD-ROM, 60GB Hard disk space....sweet ass in other words.  I promise when I have it I'll crazy update, and once I move back to Ontario I'll try to update every few days.   New things: ~went to Cirque du Soleil, absolutely amazing ~found out SAIT was kicking us out

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Here's the logo I embroidered on the robe, using gold a silver-black thread. 

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This is my Beauxbatons robe, unhemmed obviously. I have NO idea what the fabric is, but it is super soft (almost has a flocked feeling to it) and is very slippery and sheer. A pain to sew. 

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This is us having fondue. The camera was sitting on the crooked TV. You can also see my very orange hair. 

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Oy, I didn't realize my last post posted so many times. Blogger was behaving badly (oooh alliteration) so I think it published a bunch of times. This weekend was OK, Ang and I spa-ed it up on Friday night, while watching "What Women Want". This resulted in the unforunate side-effect of my hair being dyed orange instead of strawberry blonde. On Saturday we headed to the mall and got ice cream

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Not too much new, obviously, seeing as I can't um, go anywhere or do anything. I did vacuum (since standing isn't a problem) and dust, I also did a minimal amount of beading. I finished a bracelet I'd been working on for almost a year, and I also started a necklace, but mine is done with silver-lined colourless and transparent black seed beads, and the tear drops are red glass leaves, with a

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Not too much new, obviously, seeing as I can't um, go anywhere or do anything. I did vacuum (since standing isn't a problem) and dust, I also did a minimal amount of beading. I finished a bracelet I'd been working on for almost a year, and I also started a necklace, but mine is done with silver-lined colourless and transparent black seed beads, and the tear drops are red glass leaves, with a

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Still sore...still bored...still at home alone...time to start my very own LOTR marathon. After a shower and some lunch. Speaking of LOTR, Angela and I are having a farewell/birthday party before I leave for Ontario, anyone who can make it down from Edmonton or up from the south or really from wherever can come (so long as I know you...I don't think many people read this who I DON'T know, but

Karliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02591484933005525101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789153.post-1086816390383138422004-06-09T17:26:00.000-04:002004-06-09T17:26:30.383-04:00

Here's me in my Beauxbatons outfit. I have another with the cloak. 

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You can't tell but it was raining prety hard in the picture. My close up of Darth Vader didn't turn out though, it was really fuzzy. 

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Well it's been a long time since I last posted, but life has been VERY busy. I've been working...kind of...I did spend last week at the CSPG conference, learning about new developments in oil and gas, as well as attending the two days of learning about core. On Friday Angela and I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. My verdict? It was really great, although the werewolf was

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Elizabeth and I on the weekend. We'd just been out to lunch. 

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Ang and I just got tickets to opening night, so we need to make costumes this weekend. I'm going as Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons, so I designed a Beauxbatons logo, which you can see at my deviantart site: http://tiamatfire.deviantart.com . I also invented houses since most private schools in Canada and Europe have houses. They're named after four of the fundamental metals in alchemy:

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So I am blogging here from an Internet Cafe in Jasper, halfway through second year fieldschool. It's been pretty good, although Tuesday was the worst weather EVER, it rained, sleeted, and snowed throughout the day. Bleh. The other days have been good, albeit hot. We've been doing about 10km a day, that's not including all the up and down (one hike invovled going 70m up a scree slope. If you

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I am 26.0335% geek (see link from Allan). If I didn't like LOTR and Star Wars it would be significantly lower. But that percentage makes me a total geek, which I already knew I was. Oh well!

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Yesterday was a great "spree" day. I went to West Ed, and first went to check out the formal dresses, since the one I'm sewing for Top Hat is not working out. I bought nice new pale yellow sheets to match my quilt, 50% off. Fabric to cover my plaid comforter, and to make an apron since I can't bake without getting flour all over me. It's a retro 50's pattern, I'm making the large one in the

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Ooooh my counter is almost up to 1000. I wonder what I should do when it gets there? I have friends who will give away a piece of art or something to the person who hits a significant number on the counter. I guess I could sew something...well, if you're the person who hits 1000 and you want a plushie (I make awesome plushies, I have a 26" Elanor Gamgee doll I made out of scraps from my

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From Allan -Pick up the nearest book. -Open it to page 23. -Find the fifth sentence. -Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. "They'll destroy her if we don't" -From The Last Command by Timothy Zahn. If you'd asked me this morning it would have been something from my Optical

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Here's my M.A.S.H. reading: Live in a mansion in Australia Marry Allan have 12 kids (ya right) Work as a mother and have a pink Civic! -side note as of Wednesday, 12 kids ain't gonna happen, and I don't know any available Allan's as of the moment. But a mansion in Australia and a pink Civic sound awesome to me! *yet another side note, to say that in the above addition, "side note as of

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You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla from Allan Thank you, thank you.

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More new pictures up on deviantart, some sketches of my sister when she was younger (the best one is "Baby, 10 months"), as well as a new devID and a couple other things. At the moment I have a massive sinus headache, that feels like my rock hammer snuck into my head last night and decided to drive its way slowly back out.

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Today has been beautiful, absolutely beautiful. It got up to 24C, sunny, light breeze....wow. I can't wait for summer to come! Unfortunately it's supposed to get a little cooler again, 8-14C. Oh well, I can handle that. I get to go home for Easter! I'm so excited! It's also my Grandma's 80th birthday. I don't have anything for her, yikes! I'll have to think of something. I'll also get

Karliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02591484933005525101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789153.post-1080517160186817892004-03-28T18:39:00.000-05:002004-03-28T18:42:24.950-05:00

Pretty cool, they're going to have windows in Inuktitut for the Canadian Inuit people.

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Oh My Lord. There are SO many people at West Ed today it's ridiculous. Between it being March Break in some places, the Junos, and the speed-skating tournament you could hardly move for the people. So, don't got to West Ed until sometime in April. It's also rainy, windy, and icky out. My window is open a slight crack, so a sound ranging from a low moan to a high shriek continues to

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I put some Hawai'i picture up on the deviant art site (see link at side I'm too lazy to html it). There's lava trees, lava flows, beach pictures, and waterfall pictures. Baby oh baby.

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Had a lovely pot-luck dinner at Elizabeth's last night, which culminated in her taking out her afghan squares (which, since she started at age 11 are not all exactly even and are in a myriad of colours) and me telling her it WAS possible to make a passable, even nice blanket out of them. We laid them out so that all the rows were of even length, if not even numbers of squares, we'll sew them

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Yesterday was the last day of dance, sigh. It was lots of fun to learn, and I'll be going back for Newcomer II next semester (with the lovely and talented Allan again of course). This year we learned: International - Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep Latin - Samba, Cha-Cha, Rumba, Jive. I can't wait to find out what next year is.......

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And here's a picture I took this summer...you can see this and much more at my deviantart site! I promise to have more pictures up there soon! Sketches too! It's an indian pipe, by the way. *apparently deviantart doesn't let you post pictures from its site. So you'll have to go there to see it.

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Yay for Sunday! Sunday was lots of fun, Angela and I took Allan to get material and patterns so we can sew him a Merry (Meriadoc Brandybuck) costume. We had a tough time with the vest, I mean really, who wears mustard yellow? But his frock coat is lovely forest green fleece, and we found the best (for cheap) material for a Fellowship cloak EVER. It's see-through-y with a slight pattern, soft

Karliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02591484933005525101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5789153.post-1079898846935821212004-03-21T14:54:00.000-05:002004-03-21T14:56:34.403-05:00

I want this shirt: But it's way too big for me. So not fair!

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Check out my deviantart account! Now I actually have SPACE to put up pictures of things!

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Some guy in Maine tried to commit suicide by nailing himself to a cross. According to the article: "Lt. Pierre Boucher said the man took two pieces of wood, nailed them together in the form of a cross and placed them on the floor. He attached a suicide sign to the wood and then proceeded to nail one of his hands to the makeshift cross using a 14-penny nail and a hammer. "When he realized that

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BUSY Weekend On Friday I rented some movies, Bend it Like Beckham and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. The first one was totally awesome, the last one, well, left something to be desired. I also made some double chocolate cookies, but unfortunately our very hot oven burnt the bottoms of the first batch. I slept in Saturday (for the first time since September, pretty much, since choir is now

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Sooooo tired. So very tired. And did I mention I hate Carbonates? Well here's me mentioning it again. I hate that class. I don't find it interesting, it's hard to stay awake when all you do is copy notes from the board, and I never know how to answer the lab questions. I've been scraping by with most of them, and most of our class failed one assignment (including me). Hard rock for me

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It's been a long time since my last post, but I think this deserves it. *from the CBC website, www.cbc.ca under local news and Edmonton. Web Posted Mar 9 2004 04:21 PM MST Student stabbed in U of A library "Edmonton - Police are looking for three men after a 19-year-old student was stabbed in a University of Alberta library Tuesday afternoon. The man was in a carrel on the second floor of

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