MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas everyone! 

I'm here in Bowmanville, Ontario for the holidays.  Jeff and I arrived here on December 19th around 9:00am.  We had to leave for the airport at 3:00am becuase it takes a couple hours to get there from Pinawa and we had to be at the airport an hour early because we have pets and checking in with them takes longer. 

Oh my God the checkin experience, let me freakin' tell you about THAT!  So I went through the metal scanner and I knew that I was going to go off because I was carrying Sampras and his collar always makes it go off.  After I put him back in his carrier this big, butchy, freak security lady started to scan me with the hand held scanner.  I swear to God it must have been broken because it beeped on me in every single spot, even spots with no metal at all!  Oh it gets better... the butch lady actually made me undo my jeans in front of at least 50 people and then she proceeded to put her huge disgusting hands down my pants, with all these strangers looking at me!  She even touched my bare ass and my... lady parts!  Ugh, worst experinece of my life.  I was almost going to cry I swear.  And then after all that she made me go through, nothing was wrong of course and I was free to go.  You know, I saw a sign there that said if someone was going to search you like that they had to take you to a private room.  I should sue damn it, it was so embarassing!  At least the flight was smooth and nice.  Fucking Winnipeg Airport... UGH!

ANYWAYS, today is Christmas so I'll tell you what we got.  It'll put me in a better mood.  The big gift that I got from my parents was a JVC Everio digital camcorder.  I have been wanting one of those things for about 5 years now.  There are lots of different versions of it and mine is the High Capacity one that holds 2 SD memory cards.  We don't have a card yet though, we are getting one tomorrow.  I can't wait to use it, I'm so excited!  I also got an alarm clock, a family photo in a nice frame, a Nintendo DS game, and lots of other little things like stocking stuffers and stuff.  Jeff's parents gave him some money to buy whatever he wanted and they gave me a nice shirt and some snow pants that I desperatly needed because God damn it's cold where I live!  Overall it was a pretty awesome Christmas.  We still don't have plans for New Year's Eve though.  We are going back to Manitoba on January 3rd.

I told Chris I would put this last part in lol:  Chris and Jeff are playing Halo 3 on XBox 360 right now and Chris will not get off and let me play Scene It on XBox.  JERK!  Hahaha.

-Ashley Easton

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Christmas is in 10 days!!  More importantly though, I'm coming home to Ontario this Saturday, only 4 days away!!  I'm so excited to be going home because I miss my family and friends and if I had stayed here in Manitoba for Christmas, Jeff and I would have been pretty damn lonely.  Practically all of the people we know are spending Christmas somewhere other than here.  I can't really have Christmas without my family, what kind of Christmas would that be?  Besides, what's a Christmas without "Ashley Presents: Christmas Eve Slumber Party Ooooooooooooh Nine!"?  It's going to be great!

So what else has been happening?  Well I had to go see a dietitian because my cholesterol levels are a bit too high for my doctor's liking.  It's mostly genetic though.  My Dad has high cholesterol.  I'm really glad that I went to see the dietitian though because she wrote out a meal plan for me and it tells me exactly what I can and can't eat.  Before I wasn't too sure and I would make a bad food choice and not even realize it.  Now I can go grocery shopping and know exactly what I need.  I really just need to eat more fish (which I love, so that's not a problem at all), more bran, and less sugars.  Oh and absolutely NO cheese products, because apparently cheese raises cholesterol like no other food there is.  That's fine though, I was kind of going off cheese anyways, I don't really like it.  Jeff is also buying me an elliptical in January because staying active helps to lower cholesterol and I can't be active for half of the year because winter lasts for 6 months here and I am allergic to the cold.  Having the elliptical will be great because then I can workout indoors.  I have to go back in June for another test to see if my cholesterol has gone down.  Hopefully with my new diet and new elliptical, it will go down no problem.

Oh I also wanted to say that I got my final mark back from my Bookkeeping and Accounting course... 79.41%!  I thought I failed for sure.  I also learned that 28 people dropped out before the course was over!  It was hard, but not THAT hard.  Oh well, at least I did well.

-Ashley

I'm Free! For Now...

Hey guys, sorry for the long absence, I've just been so busy with school.  I had a final project that was a HUGE pain the ass.  I thought I would have to get an extension on it and everything.  Jeff gave me confidence though and I made it through it, I even got 91% on it!  I'm really happy about that.  At first my professor gave me the wrong mark and it said I got 116% percent on it.  I emailed him and was like "Um, something seems not right here..."  Damn me and honesty, he would have never noticed if I didn't say anything!  Oh well, 91% is still really good and I'm really proud of myself.  It definitely boosted my confidence level.  I took the exam last Saturday in Winnipeg at 9am.  I don't have my mark for it yet, but even if I failed, I still passed the course.  I don't think I failed though... hopefully. *fingers crossed*  So now I don't have anymore school!  Well, I am probably starting the second course in my program in February or March, but I still have a lot of free time until then.  The next course in my program is Website Development and Design and it's only 3 months long.  It should be super easy since it teaches you how to make a website using HTML and I already know how to do that.

So now all I have to do is sit around.  Oh wait... CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!  Yes folks, today is December 1st and that means Christmas season is officially here.  Well, it was here 2 weeks ago when the Toronto Santa Claus Parade was on, but Jeff wouldn't let me start celebrating Christmas until after his birthday, which was November 25th.  We went to Jennifer's Restaurant for Jeff's birthday dinner.  His birthday just happened to fall on a Wednesday and every Wednesday is all-you-can-eat pork schnitzel at Jennifer's for $9.50.  Jeff is obsessed with it.  I don't like it, I always get the shrimp dinner when we go there.  He had fun though, a bunch of our friends went with us.

Sooooo yeah, Christmas = 24 days away!  AND we fly home in 18 days!  I'm so excited! 

-Ashley