Ok, now that I know that people are actually checking out this site and NOT leaving comments (read the RED side panal: we thrive on comments!)...I'll have to put up a controversial issue and ask for all your opinions. By now, I'm sure that most of you (if not all) have heard about the woman who cloned herself and is going to raise this clone as her own daughter. Do you guys think this is ethical or dehumanizing? Right or wrong? Post your answers...ready...set....GO!

So how was everyone's boxing day? For me, it was the usual...insanity and fast-paced. Michelle and I decided to go to Kingsway Mall and NOT West Edmonton Mall...because then that DEFINETLY will be either stupid or crazy or both (no offense). We were too scared to go! Kingsway Mall was pretty busy as well, but I'm sure not to the extent of WEM. I haven't been to Kingsway in over 2 years, so I've forgotten most of what it's like. There's actually many good stores in that mall (if you're a girl!). Miche and I were saying how boxing day is such a load of BS, because most of the so-called "sales" are not really "sales anyways. They just lower the price from a ridiculous amount to what it SHOULD be in the first place. Regardless, everyone, including us, gets suckered into the world of consumerism. Ce la vie, n'est pas?

Apparently, I'm not the only freak in my family to go crazy with boxing day this year. My parents FINALLY decided to come to their senses and buy TEN (yes -TEN!!!) selves for storage from Home Depot. Long story short, if you've been to my house, you know what I am talking about...my parents are pack-rats. They keep EVERYTHING. Not sure if that comes with being Chinese...but my parents even have newspapers OLDER than me. They are sitting in boxes in the den, untouched, becoming more fragile and old and yellower every second. Dad plans to read ALL of these papers when he retires. Hello dad, what about the internet? We've got junk everywhere and it urks me! I guess not enough that I'll actually jump in and organize everything myself (too much time that I don't have required). Practically half our house (not exaggerating) is occupied by unused boxes, untouched items that are gathering dust. Gross. For years, I've complaint to my parents about how we need to throw things out or organize everything.

And just to SHOW you what I mean...here's the den in working progress...


Here's PART of my dad's newspaper collection (I don't think this is even half!) LOOK how YELLOW they are! EWW!
So as you see, my house is VERY *messy* (talk about an underrated word) - acutally only half of the house is like this (it's mostly the den and the ENTIRE basement). Needless to say, I'm very proud of my mommy and daddy for finally getting organizers for our junk, so that instead of having it build on the floor, it can build UP the walls! :o)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Hope everyone had an awesome christmas day! Mine was low key, and that's the way I like it! Woke up around 10AM (haven't been able to do that in awhile) and jumped on mom and dad's bed to wake them up. Talked to them for an hour there, then ate breakfast, and then opened presents. Which brings me to complain about how my brother is the worse cameraman ever! He used our camcorder to record the gift opening session, and when we viewed the tape later on, we realized he only focused on everything but the head! So we can see all the action, but can't tell who is DOING the action. It's kinda funny. Silly boy. The rest of the day, just chatted with some friends on the phone and had a big turkey dinner in the evening. It's almost midnight and I am STILL FULL. After dinner, I made short bread cookies and mom and dad helped me a bit. Mom accidentally put 2.5 cups of butter (EWWWW) instead of 3/4 cup and so we had to wing it by putting more flour and icing sugar in the ingredients AFTER the fact that we had refridgerated it 2 hours prior. Fortunetly, everything worked out fine. :o) YAY!

RANDOM CUTE PICTURE OF THE DAY: Mocha *not my dog, unfortunetly*! (he's kind of dressed christmassy!)


So I know it's been awhile since I've posted (and NEVER since Dan's posted), but we've been pretty busy with the x'mas season rush. I'm going to take this time that I have to catch up from my last entry...and bonus...I figured out how to post pix (thanks to Kelly!) Since my last post, in case you're wondering, my soccer team is NOT doing better...I think we've lost our last 2 games. Still haven't had a practice yet.

On Dec. 14th, Dan and I took a trip to Fairmont and Banff with the rest of the LADS (Lon, Adam, Dan, Sean) and Adam's girl, Genelle and Joe and his girlfriend, Patricia. Sean has a cabin in Fairmont, so we stayed there and went to Panarama to ski/snowboard the next day. D and I have only had 3 lessons (at Snow Valley) prior to our trip, so I think we did pretty damn good on the mountains - especially since we did mostly blue runs. Dan was REALLY cranky that day (*Hi grumpybear!!!*)- but I'll spare you the details. That night, we all headed to Radium Hot Springs, which was totally what we all needed! Then we went to Banff and stayed the night there, walked around Banff in the morning and snowboarded at Lake Louise for 1/2 a day. Lake Louise's conditions were much better than Panarama's b/c the snow wasn't so slushy and the weather was a bit colder. Plus, Dan wasn't so grumpy. ;o)
Some visuals: I apoligize for the BIGNESS of these pictures - I'll have to figure out how to resize pictures (I'm thinking I need a program to do this?)



At Sean's cabin...the LADS themselves
Ok, Lon, this is a PARTY, why are you cleaning?! Anyhow, he's going to make a great hubby one day

Then on Dec. 17th, I went out with some of my friends to a university house party...in celebration of completing exams. Oh...how I miss school sometimes...but NOT the exams. The host was a girl named Hania, who I went to high school with (I only know her through my friend Suzy). There, I took some random pictures:
Drunk Twister...looks like fun!
Mmmmm...doesn't the food look appetizing?! Susan thinks so!

Dec. 20th - We all decided to go get shit faced at Jenn's then head over to Tonic, which was VERY very fun! Cheers!

Me and Dan, aww I like this one!
Me and my girls...Jenn, Michelle and Susan
And just for shits and giggles...I'll throw this one in here. When this picture was taken, I was feeling pretty *happy* and decided to take a pic of my ass b/c I think these jeans really compliment it...don't you? :oP

Dec. 21- Dan's Company Christmas Party!
So this is what I would look like if i was a cartoon...interesting. I took this picture on the night of Dan's company christmas party. I think I was just killing time and wanted to play with some of the settings on my camera.

Lon with his x'mas present from Dan, a THREE LITRE Heineken bottle...WOW. *sorry for the inconvenience of having to tilt your head to a 90 degree angle...still need to figure this one out too!*
The house that Genelle and Adam built...
...and the comments that it brought on...
I thought this was just hilarious...this is actually at D's banquet, and for entertainment, they decided to "rap" their speeches this year. Two cute old men looking and rappin' it like homies.
Here's Dan and all the rookies of the company singing Jingle Bells...or attempting too anyway!

Many thanks to Kelly (pictured below in the tropical island-like picture *sigh*) for helping Dan and I out with our website. :o)

Check out Kelly's website, Crazy White Girl with a Keyboard
It's one of our fave!

You know what's funny? This is my third post, and Dan hasn't even seen the site yet! HA! Ok, but I just had to post b/c my soccer team kicked ass tonight!!! WHooOp! The score was 5-1. I scored 2 of those goals, well 3 if you count the second shot I took, which bounced off a teammate's back and into the net. I won't lie...our team isn't awesome, but we definetly don't suck --although our standings do. We're either in 6th or 7th place (probably 6th after tonight) out of 10 right now...so we're slooooowly moving on up. YAY! The problem is that we don't have a place to practice right now, since elementary schools won't let us practice at their locations and other possible locations are booked up. It also costs about ninety ridiculous dollars an hour to practice at a soccer center. We may have the possibility of practicing in Ardrawson (I KNOW I spelled that wrong, but I'm too lazy to go spellcheck) - so we're keeping our fingers crossed.

[Roz's posting] I got a really funny forward in my email today to Nelly's website (LADS, you will enjoy this one!), directing me to play a game called "Slap that ass" - you guys have to try this one out for yourself! Just go to http://nelly.hypnosismedia.co.uk and click on PLAY GAME then select the appropriate category ("Honeyz" if you are a girl (DUH) and gentlemen, I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out your option). Bonus: It plays the "It's Getting Hot in Here" song! Whooo-Op! Knock yourselves out!

Hey, it's Roz here (without Dan) - just testing this out. After months of delaying, I will FINALLY begin our digital journal for your entertainment and enjoyment. I bought myself a digital camera about four months ago and vowed to have a site put up with tons of interesting photos to envoke feelings of laughter, sadness, disgust, confusion or whatever emotion it may bring to you folks. I have A TON of pictures waiting to be posted!! I'm dedicating this site as my- er--OUR, new hobby by geeking ourselves out for you folks. I know, I know, some of you are thinking, "What? Geeking yourself out? Don't you do that already?" I won't answer that one, I'll leave it up to the others to decide. ;o) I would end this post with a picture, however, I haven't exactly figured that part out yet, so for now, you'll just have to be satisfied with my emoticons. :o/ :oP :*( :~D