Pansies

Hey mom,

I've managed to keep the pansies alive!! They're FULL of blooms right now, I know I should break some off, but I like them all. This pic's for you!! :)

Blender Adventures

Have you ever heard of Will it Blend? If you haven't, you really need to visit this site, it's pretty funny.

Tim and I had a blender adventure of our own last night. We were making a rather yummy fruit smoothie for dinner as it was late and we didn't want to eat anything heavy. Tim had put a LOT of fruit in the blender and it was having difficulty mixing up all the fruit. So despite coaxing, adding milk and more coaxing, my little blender just couldn't seem to conquer all that fruit.

So I got out a spoon and started gently sifting around the frozen chunks of fruit to help the blender along. Accidentally, I launched a bunch of the fruit out of the blender onto the counter. Not thinking, we scooped up the wayward fruit and tossed it back into the blender.

Within a minute or so after returning the fruit to its home in the blender, we heard a funny clinking noise coming from the blender. At first we thought it was the gears slipping, so we took the blender off its stand and tightened everything up. The clink continued. We stirred up the smoothie thinking some some of the frozen fruit was being stubborn and wouldn't blend. The clinking continued. We were stumped.....

Then I noticed that one of the screws from Tim's bike shoes was missing off the counter. They had been sitting nearby, but certainly they couldn't have been close enough to be effected by the wayward fruit.....could they?

Needless to say, we discovered that (thankfully) our blender is not as high-powered as the blender on "will it blend?" Otherwise, as Tim put it, our poor duodenums could have been in some trouble.... (we didn't eat the smoothie in case you're wondering, and the screw was relatively unscathed) :P

Traffic

Tim and I drove home from Kingston yesterday, and sure enough, there was lots of long weekend traffic to contend with. During the drive I was regularly getting frustrated and I was talking with Tim, trying to understand how it is that traffic happens.

See, I understand how traffic happens in really populated areas like Toronto, but tell me, does anyone know how you can get stop and go traffic in the middle of nowhere? We were on a stretch of highway between Belleville and Cobourg that has very few towns, on/off ramps, and only one major highway that feeds onto the 401. However, we were regularly STOPPED on the highway! How does that happen? I just don't get it, there wasn't a huge influx of cars onto the road at a certain point, no bottlenecks, no accidents, just lots of traffic.

But if there's no interruption in the flow, how is it that you can get stopped so often? It was so annoying. Anyone have some insight that I'm overlooking? :P

Cottage Shenanigans

Tim and I are at his parent's cottage this weekend. We decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather yesterday. :P

My weekend

This past Saturday I wrote my licensing exam, well at least the first component of the exam. It was a four hour exam consisting of 200 multiple choice questions. I've been preparing for it for weeks now, studying with classmates and dedicating every spare moment to being successful in this exam.

Despite every preparation, it's really hard to say how I did. It's one thing to prepare for an exam, and feel confident that you will succeed. It's totally a different thing on the day of the exam when you get to the exam site, feel the tension in the room from everyone's apprehension, brave the flutters in your stomach, the racing heart...and do well. I hope I did well. I tried my best, I studied hard.....the rest is up to God. :)

The rest of the weekend was actually really nice. After the exam a whole bunch of people from class went to Boston Pizza for lunch, and it was really fun. :) I enjoyed it. We got to sit around, laugh, and recover from the gruelling morning. Tim joined us for lunch which was really nice, and after the lunch we went to the movies and watched Spiderman 3. So relaxing.

And then we came home and TIM HAD CLEANED THE HOUSE!!! What a great guy eh? Tim's been so supportive in the past few weeks while I've studied, I don't know what I'd do without him. :)

We had a wonderful evening full of fun, the outdoors, good food and "Heroes" (great TV show, you've got to watch it sometime). Sunday was also quite relaxing....I have to say, it's a great feeling having this exam behind me, I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

Just keep hoping & praying that I passed. :P