All is quiet on the village front...

Well, my life has been quiet and uneventful lately so I haven't had much fodder for new blog posts. But can I just say how happy I am that the days are FINALLY getting longer? My goodness, it seems like FOREVER since it was light out when I leave for work!

Here's a pretty wintery photo to look at until I can think of something to blog about.

I would love to take credit for the photo, but I can only take credit for finding it, saving it, and posting it on here.

One of these things is not like the others...

One of my EA's has been out sick for a couple of months. My students have been asking about when she's coming back, so we made her a booklet of get well pictures and letters. Most of them wrote things like "I miss you, Mrs. C!", "Are you coming back soon?", "I hope you feel better soon!", and "I hope I can see you soon!".

As I was looking through them, I found one that was not like the others. It said, "Dear Mrs. C, I played on the snow hills today. It was fun."

Just keeping her caught up on current events, I guess!

Favouritest puppy ever!

Oh how I love this puppy. His name is Jake and he lives at my parents' house.













Jake and the arrow on the computer. He's trying to attack it...with his tongue.

One of those days

This morning in the shower I couldn't remember if I'd conditioned yet or not. Then I couldn't remember if I'd shampooed. I knew I'd done at least one of them but I couldn't remember which. So I shampooed AND conditioned again. Then I turned off the shower without rinsing out the conditioner.

I can see it's going to be a great day.

SERIOUSLY???

I went out to my car on this very cold morning to find my car not plugged in. I KNOW I plugged it in last night because I remember checking out my apartment window.

Someone UNPLUGGED MY CAR AND STOLE MY EXTENSION CORD. Who does that? Seriously. There's got to be some kind of honour code in Saskatchewan about extension cords in the winter. You just don't do that. Not cool, dude. NOT COOL.

Starbucks saver

Yesterday I left a Starbucks with 2 delicious drinks in hand. One was for me; the other was for my friend Regan (although I did taste it). There was a lady sitting on bench in front of the dollar store. She waved to catch my eye, held up her drink and said, "Not that I work there or anything, but I just got a cappuccino at the dollar store for 2 bucks. And it's delicious!"

I guess she was trying to be helpful, but does she really think that someone coming out of a Starbucks is going to be converted by dollar store powder cappuccino?

Squashed!

This was my supper tonight.



Can you tell I like squash?

Seriously, I LOVE squash. I can even remember when my love for each kind of squash started.



Ahh, spaghetti squash. My first squash. When I was in high school, Dad baked it and then served it with butter and parmesan cheese. Mmm...still eating it that same way.











The first time I remember eating zucchini was grilled on the barbeque. I think I was in high school for this one too. Now I usually just saute it in a little bit of olive oil with some salt. Dee-licious!


I had my first butternut squash this spring. I loved it immediately. I actually remember thinking, "How have I made it to 27 without having tried this?" So nutty and sweet, butternut squash is perfect just mashed up with some margarine.

Acorn squash: this one is easy to remember because I cooked my first acorn squash tonight. I was almost nervous to eat it because I didn't want to not like it. Well, it was delicious. Very similar to Butternut, but not as sweet.

I don't know if I've ever loved any food SO HEALTHY this much. Squash is high in beta-carotene, fibre, vitamin C, and all kinds of other good stuff. Oh, and 0 fat and low in calories! And so yummy!