Yesterday when I went to see my cousin at "Lush" I bought a seaweed fresh face mask, BB Seaweed it's called. Well I used this product and as you can see for yourself this product produced amazing results! I am so impressed I want to buy the company! 
I made chili over this past few days. I spent the time to cook the navy beans adding only what I chose to, this way I ensure that they are low sodium. I also did the same with the kidney beans. Today I added a can of tomatoes with zero sodium, spices, and hamburger from the farm which is extremely low fat. I think that this is the best chili I have ever tasted, it's so wholesome!
I LOVE sticky notes! The one thing that I've never loved about sticky notes though is that I will stick them on my desk, on my wall, or anywhere I can stick them but when I go to find one of them sometimes I can't seem to locate it. It's almost like I needed a sticky to remind me where my other sticky was...crazy making I tell ya! 
Today Herb had to come to the city for some parts for his big truck. I like it when his truck breaks down because I get to see him! I know that sure doesn't sound nice, but oh well... whatever works! :-)
I went back to part two of my nutrition seminar today and afterward decided to take a Sunday drive to see what I could see. I was on side-roads, mainroads and stopped off at a few places. I took quite a few photos today, so many that I had trouble choosing only one photo tonight. 
Tonight I was hoping that Herb was going to make it to the city for a visit, that was our plans. As it turns out he was on his way to the city and got a call for a job. After a quick call to let me know he turned around and headed for work. I was a tad bit disappointed although I understand, after all work is work. 
Tonight I was out at a meeting, afterward a very good friend and I went out for a tea and salad. I decided since I was out anyways I might just as well pick up my groceries for the week. I like to go late night shopping, hardly anybody is in the store and I don't have to walk a mile to the store in the parking lot. Well tonight when I went into the store it was pretty mild weather wise, I came out of the store about 40 minutes later and here I was back in winter... just like that in the blink of an eye and it's winter once again. Only in Alberta! 
I purchased some new tools the other day and set them aside forgetting all about them. I spotted them today and wondered how I could forget about a new pen and pencil set. I am an avid note taker while I'm in class, when I'm at home it is seldom I pick up a pen. I have now realized how much I have come to rely on my computer. I type my notes, essays, I print off my directions to get anywhere in the city, I even type most letters and send them via email. I don't even write cheques, why with internet banking and the cost of ordering cheques? 
I am now a student member of the ACSW, Alberta College of Social Workers. What does this mean to me? It means that this is all beginning to get so real, my educational journey is now not only books anymore. I asked myself why this might be and the only thing that comes to mind is that I am now a "member," I am a part of a larger body. I am going to be a Social Worker and I will belong to this association... who would have thought?
Today when I was taking my photo of Grant MacEwan, which used to be a College and now is one of our Universities, well something just didn't seem right. I looked at the photos a few times to realize what it was, the skies were blue today, a beautiful blue at that! I haven't seen skies this blue in some time now or maybe I have but haven't noticed them as much as I did today. It seems that it's been gray or grayish most days, today was a wonderful, welcome sight!
Last week I purchased a magnetic cork board, this week it was on sale for $10 less than I paid for it. Tonight I went back to the store where I purchased the cork board and they refunded me my $10. Seeings how I had "saved" the $10, I thought that I'd see if they had one of these printers still on for half price, they did so I bought one. While I was saving the $50 from the printer, the ink was buy 2 get $4 off AND get a free package of HP paper. Now how could I resist these savings?
Tonight I went to the Ice Festival in Old Strathcona. There were some amazing sculptures and this one of the Giraffes was the one which took first place in my eyes, even though the judges rated it second. First place had melted quite a bit so I couldn't quite tell what it was. It is rather unfortunate for the sculptors that we have had unrealistic warm weather lately, it's been on the plus side which is extremely rare here in Alberta, especially in January... not that I mind a mild winter such as we're experiencing. 
Late this morning as I sat at my computer my phone rang, it was my oldest son asking if I'd like to go to the Farmers Market, I gladly said yes. I don't get to see my son and his wife that often as we all lead very busy lives and I haven't been to the Farmers Market in a very long time. 
Today I went to pick up my sister Julie to go and visit a cousin who is from our home town up North. My cousin is in the hospital and just had some major surgery. I'll be damned if I didn't get lost going to pick up my sister! Oh, I did find my sisters place eventually and we finally made it to the hospital and I had such a good visit while I was there. 
After a long day in classes I decided to get soup for supper. There is this Vietnamese restaurant, Doan's, not to far from where I live and they have awesome soup (Pho). While I was waiting for them to prepare our soup I couldn't help but notice this interesting decoration. I was going to ask what the bamboo signified around the vase like decoration but forgot to, it might mean something, it might just be a part of the decoration... I"ll have to ask next time I am in the mood for Pho... unless anyone knows what this signifies.
Although this isn't the greatest shot, I got to see the Olympic torch pass right before my very eyes tonight! I came home, packed up my camera and asked Cheryl is she wanted to come to watch the Olympic torch pass by. I'm glad she came with me, it's always fun when we do things together although it seems whenever the two of us go anywhere together something happens. 
Today after I was done with my classes I had a friend come over to give Cheryl some help with her math. I feel that it's best to get the help than to struggle and not understand. I went to take a photo of the two working together and up came the hoodie and down went Cheryl's head. I did show her this photo and she gave me permission to post it so all is well in my home tonight.
Cheryl, my niece, bought me this water fountain for Christmas. I currently have it sitting on my nightstand but am thinking of moving it to my desk. I love the sound of the fountain trickling away but don't turn it on often enough sitting where it is.Generally by the time I get to bed I just fall in and it's lights out in no time at all.
Both of my boys are die hard Oilers fans. It is surprising that neither of them have given up on this team, the team hasn't been doing so well. The last cup that the Edmonton Oilers won was in the 1989 - 1990 season, that's 20 years ago! The team did come close in 2006 - 2007 making it all the way to game 7 of the playoffs but couldn't quite pull it off and lost to the Carolina Hurricanes. 
I was at home for most of my day, reading, making notes, doing laundry... that sort of stuff, and it was absolutely gorgeous outside, a beautiful +4! Around 9 tonight I couldn't take it anymore, I HAD to get out for a bit (spring fever set in) so where else is there to go that late at night other than good old faithful WalMart? I went under the guise of "needing" a tote to put away my Christmas decorations, the tree is still standing.
Well here's the book which I will be reading for pleasure when I get the time between text books and essays. I want to learn more about my camera. I wonder what they don't have out for Dummies? I'm trying to think of some odd subject... wait a second, I wonder if they have Social Work for Dummies? That sure would save me a ton of money on all those text books and an immense amount of time in reading! I'm going to have to do some investigating!
Today I couldn't believe this, some people are actually still riding bikes in this weather! Today it was about -20c down at the college, the freezing cold winds cut right through my jacket and I have a three in one coat. It was cold. I don't know how these people do it, bad enough it's freezing out there, but the roads...they're almost sheer ice in some spots. There's also embankments or mounds of snow on the sides of the roads so this makes me wonder where they are riding. I know that it's illegal to ride on the sidewalks, so if they are driving on the roads please watch for them. I view this as not being a wise choice and I can only guess how many accidents there might be caused because of the bicycles on the roads. 
Good-bye Christmas decorations, hello brand new year! Only the decorations are being said good- bye to this year...and no they're not all put away yet (I still have the tree to take down one of these fine days but I'll get to it). I'm going to try to resolve to carry Christmas with me as much as I possibly can this year. 
I went to log in on the computers in the library today and I couldn't get in, I kept on getting "log in error." I went to the help desk and had to be relogged in through the main computers. I was only gone from December 17th until today, hardly long enough for a computer to forget me! 
Today I spotted these cute little guys while I was at the Chinese Superstore. I wanted to purchase these three baby Buddha's and bring them home with me but this year I am going to attempt to declutter my life so I passed them by. This is going to be a real challenge for me to get rid of many of my things which I do not use, but if I'm not using them why keep them? 
Tonight I went to the Jubilee to see Jesus Christ Superstar with Johnny, his daughter and her husband. I had never seen this performance but I remember hearing the songs years ago. This musical was quite interesting, it's not anything that I'd rush right back to see again but none the less I'm glad that I went. 
This first day of 2010 I am sitting and reflecting on this past year. When I first set out to do this Project 365 I never realized just how much fun I would have doing so. I have taken photos of everything from donkeys to toilet paper rolls and almost everything in-between. 
