What's your Degree?

What's the weather like where you are? How about outside?....How about INSIDE? I live in a basement suite of a house. This morning when I woke up, my house was approximately 10 degrees in the basement and the upstairs of the house was a whopping 12 degrees. Let me tell you it is COLD! So I layered up with 3 pairs of pants, a long sleeve shirt, 2 sweaters, a touque, my hood, a few pairs of socks, and some slippers. Then I made the ghastly trek through my igloo to the coldest room in the whole house: our bathroom. As I sat down on the toilet seat I think by buttocks were pierced with icicles.

After this, I went upstairs..not a whole lot better. But we found a space heater! So we turned it on, made some hot chocolate, took some marshmallows, so crazy utensils, and plopped ourselves down infront of the heater. So we decided to roast mallows on the space heater for brunch...we too had to rotate like marshmallows to keep both sides of our bodies warm. So this is me in my house...those were the best mallows ever! They were perfectly melted allllll the way through.

They browned so nicely!

So we called our landlord and he said, "the heat is broken? Oh, so it must be cold there, hey? I'm in SUNNY VANCOUVER - EVERYTHING IS GREEN...7 DEGREES!" BAh!! oh man. so we called ATCO emergency. "ah, yes ma'am.. we'll be there within 24 hours"... We could be dead by then. So a couple hours later, they came...not an ATCO job..they can't do it. Call Lennex.. Ok.. so, i'm outta here. And that's where I flew the coupe. Let someone else take care of it. Hopefully when I get home, there will be heat.

BTW - even when our heat does work.. our house is approximately 13 dgrees on a good day. But anyhow... I'm cold.

Textbook Fall

So, I was coming out of my friend's house carrying a LARGE tupperware container full of stuff. I was walking to my car, tired but in rather chipper spirit when all of a sudden I found my feet above my head and I was lying flat on my back with the LARGE tupperware container now resting on my chest! I slipped on a patch of ice (which my friend's aunt warned us about not an hour earlier) and had no hands to break my fall. As I landed on my back, hurting....all of me, including my tailbone, back, and neck, my friend, who was beside me began LAUGHING HER BUTT OFF... She felt bad after once she saw the tears in my eyes, but I told her I wasn't going to pretend that I wouldn't have laughed, because we both know I would have done just the same. So as I sit here on the couch relatively sore, I do not want to move and would like to summon people to bring me Dairy Queen...
goodnight

Little Presents

So I'm presently working in the maternity ward right now and I love it. There are so many newborns and they are to die for! Honestly, tiny little presents from God. Having a baby looks scary, but honestly, not as bad as I thought. Most newborns aren't that big. They are just too darn cute. Not as blue as I thought and not as mis-shapen as I thought. Yesterday was an experience and a half. We had a lady come in who was 31 weeks. She ended up delivering pretty much in the hallway! She screamed, "I can feel the baby coming!" as she was being pushed into the unit. So the nurses quickly pushed her into another room, one nurse holding a bulge at her groin area (we all thought it was the head), and the other nurse flung the lady onto the bed. As they pulled off her pants, the baby came out with them...breech nonetheless. (aka: baby came out butt first and folded in half). It was nuts...