My Weekend!

I had a very busy weekend. I drove 2 hours to my course on Friday evening and loved it! All people my age within a couple of years. The Friday was a lot of review and then I made the long trip back home. I finished up my mom's b-day card.

Saturday morning I was off at 7am to get back to my ASL course. We learned a lot more because it was a longer period we were in class. Was very good, the teacher is funny and makes the learning pretty easy. Then the trip back, I had to pick up my parents and a bunch of their friends and we went out for supper. 13 people we there, my dad paid for everyone's meals and drinks. I don't even want to know how much that was! Then back to our house, I gave my mom her gift and giant card which she really liked, as did everyone else that was there.

Sunday morning it was back to class where I think I learned the most of this weekend. At the end of class everyone was standing and mingled with each other and we all just started signing to each other, no talking (could only hear a few claps and laughter), it was pretty amazing to see how far we have come already that we were able to carry out full conversations with each other. It will only get better too! I do this all over again in two weeks, and I'm already looking forward to it. Unfortunately I have gone wayyy over my gas budget of this month, and it will likely be doubled (at least) before the month is over, so I hope I get a lot of work this month!!

Did you get your GST cheque yet?

I got mine today woohoo. $74! I was counting on it this month!! I have big plans for it, I am going to put it toward an ASL winter retreat. It's a weekend in February and they lodge you and feed you AND teach you ASL all for the low low price of $150. So I thought it was a pretty good deal to brush up and learn some more ASL.

I am going to sign up for it on Monday since all weekend and tomorrow evening I will be at a different ASL course. Once the end of February hits I'll be done that new years goal of completing TWO ASL courses! At the end of Feb, I think if some more come up and they are reasonably priced that I'll likely do more than just the two I had as my goal.

Oh yes, also going to update status bars now, I like that some are no longer going to be at 0!!

What are you going to do with your GST cheque if you get one?

Christmas Gift Card Decisions

One of the things BF got me for Christmas was a gift card to Futureshop. It's $100. I looked on the site last night and decided I most likely want to spend this money on a GPS. Since I travel a lot with work, and I also have a tendency to get lost. I found two that I liked that were pretty much identical, one a Tomtom and one a Garmin. Does anyone have any experience with either of these?

Currently the Tomtom is $179.99 after $100 discount. The Garmin is $199.99 after $20 discount. I think I might even wait a little longer to buy one, see if there are newer models that come out soon. I am in no rush, and not entirely sure that this is what I want to spend the gift card on.

My brother got an iTouch last night and was showing me some of the applications and it is very cool. I want one of those too. They have an ASL app called iSign and you can type in any word and it will show you the sign for it. Actions and all, it's quite amazing for the size of it. So he also got me thinking about that....hmmm GPS or iTouch. I don't really NEED either!

Lack of Motivation

Today I went to the gym and following Jolie's idea I am going to add a fun happy face sticker to my calendar. I find it so hard to motivate myself to go to the gym. Any tips??

Also, I find that once I'm at the gym I tend to avoid the equipment unless I go with my brother because there are often some scary jacked up guys on them. I think I will try and make it to a fitness class tomorrow if I don't get a call to work. Those are more fun.

I woke up with....

...my calculator.

Yep. I was crunching some numbers last night and apparently fell asleep snuggling my calculator, while visions of balanced budgets danced in my head.

Good Day

So far I've had a really good day! I was somewhat productive today. I renewed my library book,stretched, made supper for my family, and chatted with my cousin.

Tonight has been good too. Someone used my ING Orange Key and we both got $25 free! Thank you!! In case anyone else would like to use it, my referral code is 34362383S1. It means $25 for each of us if you start with a minimum of $100 deposit.

Also tonight is the premier of The Biggest Loser. There is a girl named Sunshine who I like because we are the same age. Although she has already been sent home she has a chance to come back with her dad, so I'm cheering for them along with all the rest! Canadian World Juniors are also playing their final game in hockey against the States tonight. States are winning currently but it's been a close game....Go Canada Go!! No offense to American readers ;)

Happy Belated New Years

Wow I was MIA for a while there. I left Thursday after work to visit BF and celebrate new years. We had a fun time at his friend's house. Lots of good company and good food! We also exchanged our Christmas gifts where he totally spoiled me! Chocolates and gift cards, and a willow tree figurine. It's the one called "sign for love" and it's the girl doing the sign for love in ASL. It was pretty much perfect! His parents gave me some nice educational DVDs that could be used in the classroom.

Teacher's haven't been sick yet this week so no work so far. Hopefully I will get at least ONE day this week. My plan today is to catch up on some blogs, and clean my desk area. It's quite disasterous. Also go to the library to renew my book, and to the storage unit to drop off some summer things (can we say procrastination?).

I have already broken my stretch everyday resolution. I knew this would happen, resolutions are like that. I am not disappointed, it's mainly just a goal to stretch as often as I can, maybe twice somedays, maybe only once others, maybe not at all other days. I basically just want to gain some flexibility by next year.

I have a busy month which I love. I have my ASL classes this weekend and in two weeks, BF is coming the weekend in between, my roommates are coming the weekend after ASL, and I am going to visit BF the weekend after that.