I'm only posting because Kristen is nagging me!!! :P

As some of you may, or may not, have heard, Greg and I broke up. Turns out he only used me to get free tuition to finish his degree, and then dumped me after having a months-long affair with a chick he met on the internet (and I just thought he was cruising for porn, like normal guys, silly me). As you can tell, I'm still in the "angry, men suck" stage of the recovery process.

In other news, the 16th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics starts this coming Friday. If I manage not to kill anyone (They know who they are.), or have any type of complete meltdown, I'll be really surprised. Stay tuned.

(There Kristen, happy, now ;) )

TTFN,

HAPPY EASTER!!!

The ultimate gadget!!

I'm surprised it took so long, but the rimroller has finally arrived!!!

What is a "rimroller", you ask? For those of you who are fans of Tim Hortons "Roll up the Rim to Win" contests, this gadget rolls the rim of the cup up for you!

It really works! Greg ordered me one. I came home for lunch today, and he's all excited because it had finally arrived. I took my time, going downstairs to get something to nuke, and putting it in the microwave. Greg was doing his 'excited dance', getting more impatient because I didn't rush over to the coffee table to look (I'm SO evil that way.). I couldn't help but laugh when I saw it.

Lee Valley admits that its not their usual thing to sell, but it was such a great Canadian product, they decided to distribute it. You'd think Timmy's would be selling them at their stores (at about $5 each).

If you order one, better order a bunch of other stuff. Shipping was almost 8 bucks!

TTFN,

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!!!

Hope it's a good one!!!

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SNOW IN OCTOBER!!!



Yes you ARE seeing that correctly. At 5:45 pm on October 12, I took this picture of the snow. So far, none of it is sticking (knck on wood)

In other news, we went up to Greg's parents' cottage for Thanksgiving. I took this picture of the full moon poking through the trees.



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Labour Day, 2006

I took a few pics at the Labour Day parade. They're here.

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Vacation and birthday, 2006

I just came back from vacation and birthday celebrations

Maria came up for the birthday bash, and we went up to Kettle Point (it's only a couple of kilometres from the cottage) . Pictures are here.

I celebrated one of those "milestone" birthdays on Thursday. If you want to know WHICH one, pictures are here. (Yes...that cake IS what you think it is!) Thanks to Karen for baking tha cake. Thanks to those folks who came up to help me celebrate my birthday...on a weeknight!

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Xmas in July (on Civic Holiday Weekend)

It was that time of year again. Yesterday marked the latest in Oakes family reunions. Pictures are here.

If you want the original, uncropped versions, please email me.

In other news, seventeen days until I hit that "milestone" birthday. Ugh.

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Photos from the garden here.

On Canada Day weekend we went to Greg's parents' cottage. Greg ended up with a bug all weekend.

I don't know if I want to go up for the family reunion next weekend. The last three times we went up there, something bad happened to one/both of us.

• Easter- Greg got his teeh broken
• Victoria Day - car accident on the way home
• Canada Day - Greg's mysterious bug

Stay tuned...

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HAPPY CANADA DAY!!