my first attempt of making steak

Scott helped too.

For Kerstin and Bugaboo

Hi girls,

Kerstin, if you change the place of the I and E in your name, you would have the same name as my sister.

Bugaboo, I am currently looking for your name. I'm sorry if you don't like my new name for you. I think it's better than calling you "The Other One".

Here are some pictures of my trip I thought you might like,

It's -58 outside with the windchill

My car is not going to start tomorrow.

I am back in Canadaland, back from our trip to Disneyland. It was great, we had a little trouble with the connecting flights on our way home, but it was all worth it when we finally got home.

Scott picked my parents and I up from the airport, took them home and then we came back to my place. It was 11:55 pm when we got to my apartment. When I walked in the door he told me to close my eyes. He went into the apartment and turned on Dean Martin music. He came and lead me into the living room and we danced to "All I Do Is Dream Of You". When the song was over we said Happy New Years to each other and kissed. When I opened my eyes I saw that it was midnight. My apartment was decorated with balloons and lights and a Happy New Years banner and paper hats. Scott had made a special playlist on my iTunes and Champagne was chilling in a bucket in my kitchen.

Best New Years Ever.

I hope that you have a wonderful 2009.

I need to post becasue it's Christmas

I just had a wave of emotions come over me. It feels like I am going to throw up, so I'll write about it.

It's Christmas.

Christmas is an odd time.

I had a relative, a good friends Dad, and an old neighbour die in the past 2 weeks.

That brings up the emotion of loving everyone in my life more than ever.

Also, in 10 days, my family and I are going on a family trip,
the trip is a gift from my parents,
all we need is spending money.
That makes my heart happy and I love my parents so much becasue they are SO wonderful becasue I relaize that not everyone get this opportunity.
My boyfriend will be staying in Saskatoon. I am going to miss him so much.

This weekend we went to a Christmas party. One of the big things at the party was Rock Band . I hate Rock Band, and video games in general. My sweetheart likes videos games, but not crazy like. I have had experiences with children and adults (or, in this case, bigger children), that have not been good. The experience with the child was that the child was very spoiled and was very dependant on their video games. The experience with the adult was worse. I did not grow up with video games and I would like to think that I turned out ok.

My boyfriend and I have talked about this, and I know that things change and not everyone is the same. It's just hard to shake experiences.

You know how you have friends that you wish you could spend more time with? Ones that are cooler than cool? Well, that would be my friend B . She got engaged this week. Congratulations. She deserves all the happiness in the world. I love her.

Good night.

So today...

was the day of our Care & Share lunch at school. Our bussiness partners, WBM, come in every year and serve an AMAZING turkey dinner to our students that is cooked by a well known Chef in the city.

Special guests always come,

Mr. Rathwell, the Director of Education, came, who

let me graduate when I was 4 credits short in high school
who gave me my job
who told me to call him back after I couldn't be on the sub list becasue I was screwed over by my Tech school (SIAST)
who hired me as an EA even after he no longer had the job of hiring EA subs
and knows me and always addresses me by my first name. I know it's not much, but its huge to me.

I love him.

and Santa came too.

and

Mr Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan came. He served Turkey and stuffing to everyone and was so nice to one of my little special needs girl that I work with when we went through his lone.

A very nice man.

I didn't take any pictures though.

My Dad usually comes to it every year,
but missed this one.

25 days until sunshine

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends, your country has a lot to be Thankful for.
May your new leadership lead your country into a brighter horizon.

:)

25 more days until my trip!
It's really stressful,
but it will be a lot of fun.
It still hasn't sunk in that we are going,
and it's will be odd not having a "White" Christmas,
we are going to decorate out Hotel room (which is only 1/2 a block from Disneyland).
It snowed a little bit last night,
which is nice.
The day was a little gloomy,
and I have been sick for the last couple of days,
but I am feeling better (and probably will after a shower),
and the sun is coming out a little bit.
This afternoon, my friend Kim and I are going on our annual Kim and Keri Christmas shopping day.
I have next to no presents to get,
so it should be a great day.
I have put in my availability for the next 3 weeks,
so hopefully I can work like a madwoman between now and my trip.

I have a couple of lumps of coal to wrap before we leave,
so I should go and do that.

Have a great weekend!

I just have a feeling...

that won't settle until I write in my blog. Today, Scott and I did some running around. It was good, but Christmas Shopping season in Saskatoon has officially begun. It is kind of crazy - I think that more people should stay at home and shop online. I should keep this short, but this evening (well, it's 4 in the morning, so it would be last night), we stayed at home and made some iron on shirts. The Oilers were playing Colorado and The Notebook was on TV.

A pretty wonderfully, simple evening.

Have a great Sunday.

:)

Time to unleash my ADD

So, I haven't written anything since October, horrible really.

Let's see what's new...

We were going to have a Halloween party on the 31st, but since Scotts friends are all married...with children, it was cancelled.

I had a Tressure Hunt for our students, which was sucessful. I am thinking of doing one for Scott for his Christmas present. We are going to have our Christmas on the 19th, instead of the 24th, becasue on the 24th, we (everyone in my family) are going to be boarding a plane for California for 10 days. There is a joke somewhere in there about going to the Happiest Place on Earth with my family (kidding).

I got a raise, and a bonus at work. It's about time the powers that be decieded to give us the shells for the peanuts that they pay us.

We had plans to watch a scary movie on Halloween, but that didn't happen. Instead, a couple of days later, we rented my favorite scary movie ever,



It's old, but still creepy enough to make me jump.

Our next movie night, you guessed it....

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 1 & 2!

My wonderful beyond words boyfriend has decieded that, since I saw Ironman, The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones with him (all of which I wanted to see), that he should watch HSM 1 & 2 so that he would understand High School Musical 3 when we go and see it in the Theatre. Wow, what a guy.

Here is the picture of Saskatoon that I have been promising

TA DAA!



Let's see, what elsecan I randomly jump into to make your thoughts think. Oh yes, the Riders. They lost to BC. It's like I always told my Grade 3's last year "Oh well, maybe next time." Scott had a chance to go to the game, but didn't have a means there. There was an auction on the Radio for a Rider VIP Package, which ended up being sold for $1500 (the money was going to charity), and the best thing was that the radio station was going to match the amount and give their match to the same charity.

This weekend was good, I worked Saturday (worst, shift, ever.), and on Sunday, Scott and I had all of our parents over for dinner. Let's share some photos from that, shall we.














Good night.

getting ready

Tonight, I painted my nails Black Red.

Tomorrow Scott and I are going Halloween shopping for Food for my treats for the kids, candy, and Tressure Hunts treats for my girls that I work with.

Also tomorrow, I am reading the children's story that I have written to a couple of classes.

I'm tired.

and I have a strange bump on my hand that won't go away.

back from the game...

and I forgot my camera.

It was a great game. Family friends have corporate tickets, so we had dinner in The Green Room. It is a place that corporate tickets holders can go and have a drink before the game, have a free (amazing) dinner and go back at half time for a warm up beverage (Ity will even be hot and waiting on your table for you if you order it before you leave when the game starts. It was super great. The Riders won 55-9 against the Edmonton Eskimos. I will be the first to admit that I have no interest or attention for the game of Football, but I do live in Saskatchewan, so I have to pretend.

It was really windy and I was freezing, but it was great. The way back home was sqishy becasue Scott and I had to half sit, half lay in the back of my parents Jeep. Not comfortable at all.

It is, in fact, so windy, that I guess no one wants to head out for the evening. 2 of my neighbours on my floor have people over, as well as the people that live below me.

No Biggie Biggie Biggie though,

goodnight

My life is great, I just have to write about this

One more day. This has been a long, hard week. Although I have worked at both jobs almost everyday this week, it has been long in other ways. I had my car broekn into on Friday. I worked a night shift last Friday and it has been in me all week. Meaning, I have worked all day and then came home, exhausted. Thinking that I wouldn't sleep if I napped so early in the day, I kept myself awake, then getting a second wind at 8:30 - 9 and staying up until 1.

This weekend we are going to the Rider game in Regina. Pictures will be shared.

I am super excited about this coming week, mainly Halloween!!! I am making Bug Juice, Chocolate Mice, and Goblin Tongues for my class. I am also planning a Treasure Hunt for the little girls that I work with. AND...I am going to my 2nd (insert story here for another post) Halloween party!

Should be fun!

Good Night.

The Friars

My honey left me a mesage on the phone Friday for me to listen to before I went to (or at least tried to) sleep before my n12 shift on Friday.

I'm sharing this with the world!

Campfire Hot Chocolate Recipe

This is a great Winter beverage to make after a night of shovelling, or when
getting back from Christmas shopping. The recipe makes about a 2 liter
container.

2 cups Hot Chocolate mix
1 1/2 cups Coffee Mate
1 1/2 cups (white) Sugar
1 1/2 cups Instant Coffee Mix
1 tsp Cinnamon

Mix up to 3 tsp with 1 cup hot milk (or water, but I like milk). Top with
whipped cream if desired.

I hope you enjoy this!

love,

Keri

I had better be in bed by the time TMZ is on

but I probably won't, becasue it's almost 1 am on a school night and I can't sleep. My mind has this 6th sense that, when I have super busy days, the previous night I never sleep.


I would just like to say Hello to my friend Erik . He is very cool, he has a deep love for his family and music and people like I have never read of. Of course, we have never met. We crossed paths when we traded music . He is very cool. Check out his blog.

My boyfriend is also very cool. He thinks I'm beautiful, special and important, and makes me feel that way. I am very lucky. :)

I am very interested in the American election. By very interested I mean I LOVE watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report for their daily overviews of the news coverage. Funny Stuff.

so, here's an interesting little tidbit about me.

I go a little overboard.

We are learning about Saskatoon in the class that I am in, so I decieded to make a We Love Saskatoon poster with the students that I work with. Well, poster turned into Bulletin Board, which is turning in classroom project and PWIM picture.
A lot has been done on it since these pictures were taken,








we're learning about the bridges in Saskatoon




but I should go, TMZ is starting.

;)

to my fellow canadians and americans in a month

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving weekend was great. My family went to the lake for a Thanksgiving buffett, something that we have done for the past couple of years. TThe food was great, hangin out with my family was great, but THIS was tops,






This past week, Scott called me and asked if I could ask my Mom if she had any plans for brunch on Sunday, becasue he would like to make brunch for everyone (8 people). He did and it was fabulous!

Although it was a good meal, the family decided that we would start having meals at Mom & Dads again.

When I picked Scott up on Saturday, his Mom invited me for Thanksgiving dinner tonight! So, not all was lost - I do have wonderful left overs for tommorow for lunch.

This is a great Thanksgiving song, even though it is on his Christmas album. I love it year round,


Thankful by Josh Groban

Somedays, we forget to look around us,

Somedays, we can't see the joy that surrounds us,

so caught up inside ourselves,

we take when we should give,

so for tonight we pray for,

what we know can be,

and on this day we hope for,

what we still can't see,

It's up to us, to be the change,

and even though we all can still do more,

there's so much to be thankful for,

look beyond ourselves,

there's so much sorrow,

it's way to late to say, I'll cry tomorrow

each of us must find our truth,

it's so long overdue,

so for tonight we pray for,

what we know can be,

and everyday, we hope for,

what we still can't see,

it's up to us, to be the change,

and even though we all can still do more,

there's so much to be thankful for,

even with our differences,

there is a place WE'RE all connected,

each of us can find each others light,

So for tonight, we pray for

what we know can be,

and on this day, we hope for,

what we still can't see,

it's up to us, to be the change,

and even though this world NEEDS so much more

there's so much to be thankful for.

Have a wonderful Monday!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

and now about me....

:)

Tommorow, my boyfriend and I are going to the lake for Thanksgiving. My family has a cabin up there and I am trying to getthings ready but am mildly distracted by my face. I never have had the best complexion, but right now it is HORRIBLE. I don't know what to do. I have tried everything, but it just seems to come back with avengance. I am using products that I got at Shoppers, but I think that they are directed at younger peoples complexions.

Any suggestions?

That is all,
Happy Thanksgiving.

I am thankful that people are interested enough to read my blog.

song's about me now

Everything in Life,
is only for now.
I will go in this way and find my own way out.
I just want to put these wings to test.
Please excuse me if I act a little strange,
for I know not what I do.
It feels like lightening running through my veins
everytime I look at you.
I don't want to fake it
I just want to make it
I know that I am the Luckiest.
When the whole world fits inside of your arms
Do we really need to pay attention to the alarm
Cuz I love you more than I could ever promise.
And you take me the way I am.
When you say you love me
The world goes still, so still inside and
When you say you love me
For a moment, there's no one else alive
I want you,
more than anything
I can't stop laughing

Here's to a great season.

:)

I am in love with the blizzard of 2007.

I just realized that I have had this blog for over a year.

I was also thinking about the "resolutions" I made for this year.

Discipline.
Change.
Love.

All of them have put incorporated into my life.

I thought that I had a lot of write,
but I guess that's all.