Friday

Kim is home today after being in Regina for the week. I have been up early and I thought about cleaning but my computer and coffee sucked me in again, like it does every morning! As you all know my hubby is a bit of a clean freak and I am a slob therefore you can imagine my house at the moment! although I have to say it is really not that bad. I feel that I fuel my husband's passion....his passion for cleaning. He loves it and I provide him a lot of wonderful opportunities to indulge in what he loves!!! God I am a good wife!!!!!!!!
I went for an ION cleanse yesterday for the first time since July and I am feeling pretty good today!My mom and I went out to diner last night and had a really nice time. Although she is having some trouble with one of her eye's. She has Glaucoma and one eye is progressing and it is very upsetting. She may have to postpone her month long trip to Mexico that she has been planning for over a year:( So today I am praying and sending positive vibes out to her! I love u MOM!
Oh yeah and I have had 2 vanilla bean starbucks cupcakes in the past 2 days!!!! My jeans are loving me for it!

oops

Ooops that last post was meant to be posted on my school blog. Sorry I am sure you were loving the new semester clean slate talk I was giving!
Kim is away on Training until Friday therefore I am left to do my own thing for awhile which I actually really like. I love him dearly however it is nice to have the place to myself and spread out a bit. My Mom asked me if I was going to be messy while he is away and I said........"YOU BET"!!!!!!! I love it, walking in the house and just dropping my stuff off at the top of the stairs. I am going to even let it pile up a bit! The dogs love it, it creates obstacles for them to walk through....it stimulates their doggy brains!
On another note my tracy anderson DVD arrived today. I just checked the mail tonight so I will be trying it out tomorrow. Tracy Anderson is Madonna & Gwenth Paltrow's trainer in case you were wondering. Oh and I went lane swimming tonight for the first time in a long while. It felt good to be back at it!
Oh yeah and I got a blackberry....yeah!!!!
School is really busy right now. I actually recieved a fairly large artssmarts grant for my photography 20 program and we will be teaming up with photographers and students from Yugoslavia and South Africa. We will be coming together for virtual exhibition sometime in July as well as having an actual exhibiton at SCYAP around the ssame time.
Oh and my ART studenst are having an ART EXHIBITION at SCYAP in Saskatoon beginning February 21st. If we are facebook friends I have probably sent you an invite! If I didn't check it out anyway!

New Semester, New Goals, Fresh Start!

Exams are finally over....yeeaaahhh!!!! You have started a new semester! The start of the new semester symbolizes many things...... clean slate, change, fresh start, energy, new ideas etc. Try to set a couple of goals for yourself in in all aspects of your school life especially art. Remember your blogs are now being counted for marks. I will be marking directly from your blog therefore you must be religious about updating! Feel free to post anything in between due dates, things that inspire you, thoughts or photograph work in progress and ask for feedback.
I jumped on ETSY this morning to find a few inspirations for the ARt show that is coming up soon! By no means are these my favourite pieces however they just jumped out at me when I spent 5 minutes searching for some inspiration!

I went to Starbucks today and had a decadent Red Velvet cupcake. I actually just left the gym stopped by Indigo grabbed a latte and a cupcake....so I promptly cancelled out my prior workout. Anyways my favourite Artist/Scrapper Elsie Fannigan opened up her Red Velvet store today so I had the cupcake to honor her! You can check out her blog on my blog list to the right!
Now I want to try and make my own Red Velvet cupcakes!
Kim went to the farm for the day today and I enjoyed a day to myself. I love him dearly however he does not like strolling through Michaels like I do or sitting down at Indigo reading random magazines for 45 minutes! He is back tonight and then basically gone for the first 2 weeks of the month:( Oh well!


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease 12 cupcake cups or line with paper liners.
2Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
3Add eggs and blend well.
4Make a paste of cocoa and food coloring and add to the butter mixture.
5Sift flour and salt togethr into this mixture.
6One at a time, add the following ingredients: buttermilk, vanilla, and water.
7In a small bowl, combine the vinegar and the baking soda. Fold it into the cake batter. Make sure it's incorporated, but don't beat it.
8Pour the batter into the cupcake cups. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the cake springs back when touched.
9Remove from oven and let cool for about 10 minutes, then turn out of pan and onto a rack to finish cooling completely.
10Cream Cheese Frosting: Blend together the following: 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened, 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened, 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Blend until smooth.

Weekend

Today is Saturday afternoon and we are having a really nice weekend so far. I had a good visit with the 3rd and final vet yesterday and it seems that my boy is ok for now ( knock on wood, cross your fingers and say a prayer). No need to rush into anything, just enjoy him amd keep him happy for as long as possible. I was preparing myself for this weekend however that is CRAZY and he is not going anywhere anytime soon. The best part of all is that he will not be poked or proded with needles. The one CRAZY vet at the University wanted to stick a needle in his bladder just to get a urine sample out of the poor guy.... I almost kicked her in the face when she brought that up! She had a few more retarted ideas and I seriously wanted to kick her...she was not even a real vet yet just a resident. Ok I am being mean now but REALLY let's stick a needle in a 13 year old dogs bladder just to get a urine sample!!!!!!!!! Let's stick a need le in your baldder and let me know how that feels you crazy freak!
On a happier note our good friends Dave& Laurel came in from Tisdale and we had a really great evening. We went out for diner to Amigo's and then out to the Jeff Dunham comedy show. It was a fun time!
Tonight Kass and I are heading out to catch up as I have been a little unavailable this past week with the whole Koda fiasco. God I love that guy!

Probably

The picture is a little snapshot of what I ate for breakfast for the past 3 mornings. That is probably the reason why when I went shopping last night nothing fit. It is probably the reason why all of my work clothes look like hell on me and it is probably the reason why all of my hard work with my trainer and wedding preparations have all gone out the window. I am Oprah for crying out loud a fricken big fat Oprah! In times of stress like now with my son I am polishing off a litre of ice cream. Why is it that my appetite does not go away when I am upset. I am a big fat emotional eating Oprah!
I am looking for a new trainer someone that is allabout pilates, cardio and physique type of exercises. Have you heard of Tracy Anderson? She is the trainer to Madonna and Gwenth Paltrow, she believes in small weights and lots of repetitions.http://www.tracyandersonmethod.com/ I want a trainer like her.
Not squating and lunging until the cows come home and my quads are huge and my ass is even bigger! ooohhh wait my ass is bigger b/c I eat a litre of ice cream for breakfast. i am not even an ice cream kind of girl......I do not really like any other kind of ice cream but cherry cheescake...i apparently LOVE that stuff!
On another note I am going to the vet today with my son to get an ultrasound to see what is happening with him. The vet right now believes he may have internal bleeding and/or his cancer is back. I was just kissing and snuggling with him and told his belly to BEHAVE!!!!!! We do not need that stuff happening in there! My goodness it is a belly that belongs to a dog that never behaved....but that was all the more reason to love him. Last night we went for a walk and he was having a blast! There was a little dog there and he was yelling at him. Koda has been yelling at me to, we even had a good howl all 4 of us on the way home from the park! If Koda is yelling and bossing me around then that is a good sign. Who knows in three hours you may not be able to pick me up off the floor though. I feel like when he is gone part of me will be gone forever. That fun, silly totally goofy part of me that he brings out. ENOUGH I am going to go and snuggle with him for awhile!
have a good day!

-40

Ooooooh I hope it gets to be -40 out today. Then I will have no kids at school because the busses won't run, just like yesterday!!!