Christmas kittens

I hope everyone has had a nice Christmas. I had a nice time. We visited family and what-not. The food was delicious.
On boxing day, Mike, my sister Amanda and I went to the SPCA in Edmonton to adopt some kittens. It was so busy it was a gong show! The place was absolutly packed to the rafters with people waiting to adopt pets. Over 80 pets were adopted that day (according to their counter on the wall) and we ended up waiting almost 4 hours to get out of there and got two of the last kittens. They had to stay open an extra hour just to finish processing everyone.
It was really nice to see so many adoptions going on; the place was pretty much cleared out of animals (cats anyway) by the time we were done. I just hope they all stay adopted and went to good homes.
I have to admit, I expected more people to be returning unwanted Christmas pets than adopting new ones, but I'm glad to say I was way off the mark on that one!

Our kittens are adorable! We got a four month old, sleek black kitten who we named Puck in honour of Shakespeare's " A Midsummer night's Dream." We also got a tiny, two month old, fuzzy grey kitten who we named princess. She is the cutest thing I've ever seen!

Anyway, if any of you are considering getting a pet, I highly suggest going to the SPCA. You pay a fee (about $140 for a kitten), but they have their first shots, you get a free vet visit, their fixed and you get six weeks of pet insurence and one year of liscencing with the city of Edmonton. It's a pretty good deal.

Have a good night everyone, Puck is bugging me for some attention so I gotta go.

The dreaded Christmas cold...

I have to say I love Christmas. It's my faverite holiday. But it never fails, every year, I get a cold around this time.
I don't know whether it's from the weather or the shopping stress or what, but I always get the dreaded Christmas cold.
Right now I'm hunkered down with a nice mug of hot tea and a box of tissues trying to will myself better.
I'm almost done my workout for the day, so I can go to bed soon and get some rest. Who needs sleep anyway?
At least I'm pretty much done my shopping.

I love giving presents to people, but I hate shopping. I think next year maybe I'll crochet some scarves or something. A gift from the heart sort of thing.

Anyway, that's enough feverish rambling for one night.

Merry Christmas everyone and drive safe!
God bless!

I'm back...

I just wrote my last finals on Friday. Finally I'm finished!!!
I've been a walking stress case for the past two weeks and I'm so glad it's over. This year, the science department scheduled our geology finals (all five of them) to take place in three days a week after classes ended. It was a nightmare circus of pain.
But now that I'm done, I find that I still feel residual stress. I haven't gotten any marks back yet so I'm in that weird limbo state where your worried about how you did, but you can't do anything about it; your exams are done.
I was looking forward to relaxing and letting loose for the holidays, but I'm finding that I still have a thousand things I want to get done over my brief break. I'm trying to let some things go, because I really need to recharge for next symester, but it's hard.
It's funny how you can trade one set of stresses for another.

"Take a deep breath, relax, enjoy." That's becoming my holiday motto.
Or at least I'm working on making it so:)