sick day

Yesterday I took a very rare sick day.

Somehow I seemed to contract a stomach flu bug and it hit out of nowhere.  Let's just say nothing stayed down in my stomach and I was flat out in bed every single moment of my day yesterday other than making the trips to ease my stomach pain and nausea.  I guess the picture above of tea isn't relative to yesterday- there's no way I could have had tea, other than water and a little apple juice, I ate a total of 9 soda crackers and 6 Pepto Bismol.

Hadn't been sick like this in 5 years!

But I am feeling a whole lot better today, I can actually stand up without fear of a sprint to find a bin- must've been a 24 hour thing.  I hope none of you pick it up!  Today I guess I can watch some tv shows/movies/read to pass the day unlike yesterday- there was no hope of me doing any of those without making the belly churn.

Time to start gaining back some strength, on the menu: toast.

black friday off

Today is Black Friday for our American neighbours and Canadians were preparing to create a similar situation for our retail stores here.  Fortunately, I have the day off!

So I've spent most of my morning browsing tumblrs and as I was checking mine, I was updated with a fact that someone I don't know actually re-posted a photograph I had taken that I'd posted on my tumblr!  For any average tumblr person with many followers, this might be a regular occurrence.  For me, however, I was kind of excited!  Means I've created something that's worthy of space on another persons private domain (some of these 'domains' are so incredibly creative, I'm in awe).  For those unfamiliar with tumblr, it's simply a place where you can share either photos, quotes, etc, that inspire you or just appeal to you-  you can either post things from your own personal collection or re-post things from other people's tumblrs.

Also appears that I am getting readers from a broader spectrum than my inner group of friends or family here on this blog as well!  So thanks to those who actually read this!

Anyway, once I decide to put myself together for the day, I'm going to go and visit my cousin who just had her little baby girl, Chloe, a week ago; I haven't yet met the little munchkin.
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Exactly one month until Christmas!!

It's winter.

My roommate and I had done pretty good with not turning on the heat in our house due to our heated kitchen floor which kept our toesies warm enough.  However, the night that it snowed enough for us to have a more permanent blanket of snow on the ground (aka, shovels were brought out), the temperature in the house dropped to 11c...that was enough for me to cave.  Especially when my nose felt like it had been subjected to an evening in the fridge.  I've been wearing my wool socks from Peggy's Cove on a daily basis.

And now that the snow seems to be more permanent, I've looked at how many weeks there are til Christmas: 4 weeks!  Looks like it's the perfect time of the year to watch my favourite movie Love Actually.  And I also happened to stumble upon a box of new Christmas mini-lights in one of my boxes- those will add to the warmth and coziness of my little cabin-like home!

fresh bread

 

One of my favourite smells is freshly baked bread!

I decided to throw the ingredients into the bread machine before I left for my basketball game.  It smelled so good when I got home; it's so welcoming opening the door to the warmth and smell of that freshly baked goodness.

Don't hate because I documented bread...

It also snowed all last night so we've got a layer of white outside.  What's keeping me "okay" with it is this homemade-bread toast with homemade jam and some Christmas music playing.

fake english

You're sitting in a coffee shop and you hear a couple beside you rattling off in some other language and you have no blessed idea what they're saying.  I had a Korean roommate one year in college; you can imagine the (often humorous) barriers...  I've always found it so interesting to think that those weird sounds they're making actually make sense to the other person.  Sometimes a language difference can cause you to think the person is less educated (it's shallow, but don't deny it, it happens).

So I've always wondered what we, as English speakers, must sound like to foreigners.

This gives me an idea.