tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40547294244547976792024-02-19T02:06:59.083-08:00The View in the Northraeannenicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09968026353938560341noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054729424454797679.post-16027714865515966832014-04-22T11:01:00.001-07:002014-04-22T11:01:30.439-07:00Keeping it Casual Pub Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The end of March saw us girls all get together for a pub night put on by the psychology club Alanna is part at The Thirsty Moose. We all gathered for pre drinks and games at my place before bussing up to the pub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cheers!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The bottle of wine in my hand probably has something to do with the big grin on my face ;).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Courtney, Andrea, Alanna, me, Alexis, Rachel, and one of her friends (I'm can't quite remember her name right now!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love my time spent with my girls!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Midway through the semester we started getting cabin fever. Snow was starting to melt in Prince George, so my friends and I piled into my vehicle and we drove north to Crooked River Provincial Park with grand plans of have a campfire and hot dog roast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Unfortunately we forgot that the northern location meant more snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Eventually we turned around before we even got to the campsite because Kristi and Alanna didn't put on proper footwear and they had cold feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And the happy couple before they left me behind, making me the only member of the family still left in Canada, let alone the continent of North America. Not the best way to lead into exams!</span></div>
raeannenicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09968026353938560341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054729424454797679.post-70520528747386775762014-04-22T09:26:00.000-07:002014-04-22T09:26:16.809-07:00Winter at the Lake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have gotten SO far behind in my blogging, this second semester of school was a bit of a struggle mentally/motivationally speaking. Now that I'm back at home before I head back to work for the summer, I thought I'd throw up some of the pictures I've collected over the last few months (and get back to writing once I'm all caught up again). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These are from ice fishing, when I came back to the lake at the end of February for Reading Break.</span></div>
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<br />raeannenicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09968026353938560341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054729424454797679.post-33568173716572396562013-12-30T16:32:00.001-08:002013-12-30T16:32:42.067-08:00Christmas at Eagle View<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Usually we do a big Mexican gift exchange but this year we decided to switch it up and get fireworks and Chinese lanterns, which worked out for the best anyways as the flu hit a bunch of the family and they ended up staying home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Christmas morning meant a Skype date with J from Belgium. We all opened our stockings and gifts from Santa while she watched on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dad has a habit of buying himself a bunch of presents and then just getting mom or me to wrap them up for him, so this year I made the label match who truly was giving the gift!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mieka was in kitty heaven with all the bows and ribbons and paper scattered around the room, and we all settled into a Christmas coma on the couches. So thankful and happy to have been able to spend time with my amazing family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've learned two things from last night. One, my family is weirdly obsessed with bodily functions. I've never heard so much talk about how to remove earwax properly (????) in my entire life. Two, if your grandma says she doesn't know how to play a card game involving money, she's probably lying - Grandma insisted that she would be no good at Rummoli (also, if you've never played, try it. It's addicting), yet she kicked Mom's butt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On a completely unrelated note...it's Christmas Eve morning <i>already</i>. Say whaaaaat?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every year, my dad's side of the family gets together to make wreaths and have lunch. We went over to my auntie's house in the afternoon and visited and drank and crafted away until we had about eight wreaths made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My wreath...complete with the cone of <i>Pinus monticola </i>(that's the forestry student in me coming out).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My little hooligans AKA the cutest cousins ever.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What started off as an afternoon turned into an evening, and eventually we wandered home with full hearts and tummies. What sort of holiday traditions do you have?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Finding the tree was half the struggle. Next was finding all the decorations out of the shed, and deciding how to hang the lights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Every year we use handmade Christmas decorations that mom made when I was really little. They're all painted by hand, and I think it's the coolest thing because there is so much more detail and more story to each piece than anything you could buy in a store. When I'm finally forced to spend my first Christmas alone, you can bet that I'll be trying to emulate her's!</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Black Santa has always been a favourite of mine and my sister. Every year, we make sure he has a spot in perfect view on the tree. Mom says she doesn't remember making him, but I think he's just the coolest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The gingerbread man I made when I was three...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When we first set up the tree it seemed like there was a bit of a lean to it, although we didn't think much of it. Today, a couple days after it was decorated, I was sitting in the living room reading a blog when suddenly I was watching our masterpiece slowly fall to the floor. Lots of branches to the face and needles in the hair later, mom and I salvaged it and had it back to its former glory. It was a Christmas Vacation moment!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: justify;">Having been at home for a few days now, that inevitable feeling of boredom started to wash over me. It wasn't that I'm not having a good time with dad and mom..it's just a bit of an adjustment from constantly being surrounded by friends in the city. And my sister, who is in Belgium, is notably absent, so I'm missing my partner in crime!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I moped around the house for a bit Thursday morning before Dad finally convinced me to go for a quad up behind our house. It had just started to snow (GASP!) so if we wanted to get up there, that was our day to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's a series of lakes tucked away from most people, accessible from some old logging roads and horse trails that my dad and grandpa cut out. There's now a trap line set up along the way, and a little trapper's cabin at the first lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dad and I took decided to take advantage of the lack of snow around the lake (while Prince George got a dump of it, Burns Lake was the dry spot..with only skiffs of snow in places) and get our Christmas tree. We took the quad out back and behind our place and wandered around, looking for the perfect tree - which I thought I had some cool pictures of, but turns out that forgetting the memory card for a camera is a terrible idea. Before we cut down the tree, we had a little picnic lunch and fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I was left with the duty of cutting down the tree, which resulted in sappy and tangled hair...</span></div>
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<br />raeannenicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09968026353938560341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054729424454797679.post-45837884964003457222013-12-16T23:13:00.002-08:002013-12-16T23:14:10.782-08:00Fire in the Sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"School's, out, for, the winter!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"School's, out, for, ever!" (just kidding...I wish, though)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On the drive back home, we were greeted with a wall of fire lighting up the night sky from the slash burning being done on cut blocks above Tchesinkut Lake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You know it's Friday the 13th when you have two exams scheduled on the same day. After watching multiple vehicles get stuck, as well as seeing a bus getting towed along the road yesterday, I was starting to question if I would even be getting up to the university to write my exams. Luckily, the snow has stopped (for now) and it's giving crews a chance to clear the roads so it's not so gross to drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Prince George has been under a snowfall warning until Thursday morning due to close to 30 cm expected to fall. My exam wasn't until the evening, so I luckily got to spend most of the day curled up in bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Procrastination + a mid </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">study sugar craving=THE BEST chocolate chip cookies around. It made almost three dozen cookies, so if y'all want to get hooked up with some Christmas baking, let me know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You know how whenever you take your camera with you somewhere, it seems like you see normal, everyday stuff? But then the moment you're stuck with the camera on your phone, animals are suddenly swarming about like flies? For the first time in a long time I actually had my 'camera camera' so I was able snap some pics of the deer and swans on my drive home from town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's something incredibly peaceful about being at the lake. Exactly ten more days till I get to be back here again...it's going to be a constant countdown!!!</span></div>
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<br />raeannenicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09968026353938560341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054729424454797679.post-11519452743956708862013-12-03T13:23:00.001-08:002013-12-03T13:23:33.558-08:00Gingerbread Boys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After the big Christmas party Friday night, a few people stuck around Saturday to decorate a passel of cookies that Kyla and I had whipped up. I used my great - great - grandma Henkel's recipe (it's top secret, so I'm keeping it under wraps for now..shhh). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But I'll give you a few hints as to what (not) to do when making the best gingerbread boys in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">First of all, make sure to SLOWLY bring all your sugar, lard, molasses and corn syrup to a boil. I had a couple chunky bits that hardened weird when it heated up really fast at the beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I made my dough the night before to save time when we actually wanted to decorate and left it in the fridge overnight. Unfortunately I forgot to take it out and let it come to room temperature so I was stuck with a very hard ball of dough when I wanted to start cooking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The cardinal rule of baking: When one is lacking a proper rolling pin, one must make use of the nearest wine bottle *wink wink*.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jare and Dave really got into the spirit of decorating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A few icing bag explosions later, and countless sprinkles ground into the carpet, we decorated probably close to 100 cookies in two hours! Quite the undertaking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Notice the tacky Christmas sweater on Mr. Moose. He's very stylish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm back at the lake for a few days before my exams start, so I'll have some lovely pictures from around here for you all soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Friday night Courtney, Kyla and I undertook the big task of feeding around twenty of our (tipsy) friends. Normally this wouldn't have sounded like a terribly difficult task...but my apartment is not built for that many people. After busing down from the university, we scrambled to get all the food that people had brought down spread out buffet style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Crowding into the living room, we feasted on our dinners in front of our TV fireplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I wish I was able to get more pictures of the food, because there was <i>so </i>much there...meat balls, pizza rolls, mac and cheese bake, won tons with brie cheese and cranberries, deviled eggs, brownies, cookies, egg nog...but it was like vultures had descended on the apartment in place of my friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And finally after a few too many Twisted Tea's and a bit too much spiked rum (er..I mean spiked eggnog) we called it a night and settled down for a long winters nap. If this party was shindig was anything to go by, I'm guessing I'll have a permanent food baby for all of December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For an appetizer tonight I'm making Deviled Eggs - it's one of my favourites I used to love as little kid when mom would make them. They're also super easy to make, so no excuses to not try them!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Boil the eggs for about 15 minutes, and when cool to the touch, peel (it speeds up the process if you run them under cold water).</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: justify;">If you don't hear from me until Saturday, it'll be because two papers and a final lab exam have got me locked into my bedroom and avoiding all contact with people. BUT, there's a very special Christmas post coming up, so something to look forward to!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The last weekend of November has come and gone - how does this even happen?!?! My parents came down for the weekend, and because it was Mom's birthday we had a big ham dinner to celebrate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They also played delivery man/woman for me and brought down some of my Christmas decorations I had squirreled away at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We aren't allowed real trees in our apartment, so we needed a plan B. And let's be honest here, fake trees that are attempting to look remotely like a real tree are lame. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Awhile back I had started a blog focusing solely on food...but it wasn't really my thing. It's not that I don't adore food (which if you haven't figured out yet, you will very quickly), I just wasn't feeling the whole blog thing yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've been waiting the past few weeks for my new Gore-Tex Kangaroo Upland Boots from <a href="http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/78325?page=womens-gore-tex-kangaroo-upland-boots-leather-and-fabric-cap-toe" target="_blank">L.L. Bean</a> to get in. Finally, the other day I was able to bus downtown and pick up my early Christmas present from mom and dad.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I know what you're thinking - why have I never been to such an awesomely themed night? That's exactly what I was wondering too. Jare, Jas, Caroline, Kyla and I donned our best Ravenclaw outfits and headed to The Thirsty Moose Pub.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">***Correction: The Leaky Cauldron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Moose had magically transformed itself into the famed Leaky Cauldron/Great Hall, complete with house tables, floating candles,</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> banners and themed drinks!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Clearly, we had to sample all of the themed drinks that were offered - you can't pass up something like that! We started off with Butterbeer (butterscotch schnapps, whipped cream flavoured vodka, cream soda)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> ...and continued on to the Dementor's Kiss (eggnog, rum, cinnamon?) and Amortentia (sourpuss and grenadine).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So we conjured up some of our own (basically just a strawberry mojito minus the mint - which the pub had run out of for some strange reason). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also with some less than honest tactics. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But once the Golden Snitch was found, we dropped back down to third, and in a classic Harry Potter moment, Gryffindor won, Slytherin was stuck in second, and Hufflepuff was far behind in fourth. Gryffindor, being the kind people that they are, bought our table a pitcher of beer so we were slightly less bitter about losing to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's safe to say this was one of the best pub nights I've been to so far. We're all keeping our fingers crossed that they plan one for next year too!!!</span></div>
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