Nov
22
Five Busy Blondes
Filed Under Family, environment, erica, furniture, internet, life, personal, photography, thoughts, university, writing | 2 Comments
Wow, not much going on as of late! Finals are coming up for those of us in school…naturally an important time of year. Micaela celebrated her birthday earlier this month with a new Lululemon sweater which I have yet to see, but am already very jealous of! Paisley - I love paisley! Kate and Scott are obviously back from their honeymoon, but seem to be having the same kind of difficulties that D and I are having getting telephone and internet service worked out at their new house. Who knew the real world would be this difficult? Leah’s birthday is coming up - always a party - and I hear that Lauren is getting snowed on in Ottawa and is planning to head to Tremblant soon?!? Luck-yyy!! By the way, Lo, I see that Allison Forsyth is sitting out the ski season - there’s a spot on the national team open for ya!
D and I went to Pier 1 Imports last weekend - I was there to browse, D was there to buy a coffee table (even though we have 2 already - long story) despite my insistence that we did not need a new one. I was holding out just fine…until he pointed out a red and brown wood chest with inlaid flowers on the side…possibly the coffee table/storage unit of my dreams. Browsing turned into buying and we now have 3 coffee tables (though one is destined for the woodpile at the farm).
Now all we need at the new apartment is a rug for in front of the gas fireplace! I love this design for a rug - in fact I would buy that one except it is a coconut fibre doormat. I guess I will continue my search!
I”m always looking for a creative output, and I love computers, so I’ve decided that my next ‘project’ (as in, the project I will take up when I no longer have to spend evenings at school!) will be a blogging project. Or, rather, a continuation of THIS blogging project. I want to use the Wordpress CMS and design our own, unique theme for the site! This goes along with a side project that I can’t mention right now. 
I am excited to get started on it and have found some great resources already, such as those on Lorelle’s blog. I know that there are many super cool free Wordpress themes available on the net, but designing one myself will give me so much more satisfaction in the end, and also skills to build on.
Speaking of designing and skillz, we’ve not shared this photograph on the blog and I think we should because it is absolutely beautiful. These are our Oma’s hands as she works on Kate’s wedding dress - she hand-stitched thousands of beads, crystals, and sequins onto the dress over the summer! I like that the photo highlights her own wedding ring. She and Opa will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in January - and we’re having a big party to celebrate next summer!
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Nov
12
How To Say I Love You
Filed Under erica, life, love, relationships, thoughts, writing | 2 Comments
Man. Our posting frequency has seriously diminished since the wedding. Of course, we have our reasons…life went back to ‘normal’ and we had to catch up on stuff we had abandoned for the sake of the wedding. Case in point: I had to study for a midterm (I had a midterm on Halloween :p ), and prepare to move to a new apartment! Also, Kate has been away on her honeymoon in Costa Rica this past week. I can’t vouch for Micaela, Leah, or Lauren…WAIT, I take that back, Lauren DID post the ‘optical illusion’, so, way to go Lauren!
Today I’m posting a link to a touching, yet sometimes odd, essay entitled How To Say I Love You by Paul Ford. I feel it is important to note that it is written from a male point of view, simply because I found some of the suggestions to be confusing when I first considered them from my female POV.
Ford poses his “How-To’s” in many different ways. Some are short, simple statements that cause you to think twice, such as (2) with freshly cut flowers, assuming she is not a flower; and (46) At Thanksgiving, to her twin sister, by accident. Others are fun, inspiring, and applicable to real life: (47) In glow-in-the-dark-paint on the bedroom ceiling; and (82) Change your status to “interested in: just friends”.
Some suggestions spoke to me from my unique perspective on the world - especially (50) Branded onto her favorite pig; and (86) via the poetry of Pablo Neruda or Jorge Luis Borges that you have copied into a small black journal. I also loved (100), but I’ll leave that one as a surprise.
Ford includes his wedding vows as ways to say I love you…awww! He also spins multiple “I Love You’s” into fictional stories. Truly, this article is about how small, seemingly inconsequential acts are really testaments of love!
What little things do you do to say ‘I love you’?
Nov
8
Optical Illusion
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My Psychology professor showed us this optical illusion today- he loves them, and i thought that it was appropriate for this, seeing as how we’re pig farmers.
Lauren
Today I was lying in my bed thinking about how I should have gone to Guelph. I just wanted to be closer to home.
Oct
10
I’m a Winner!
Filed Under agriculture, farming, life, money, university, writing | 3 Comments
This morning mom called my office within the first five minutes of me getting at work.
Mom: “I checked my email this morning and there was an email from your prof Owen, want me to read it to you?”
Kate: “Sure, I guess” (thinking that this will be about a course that mom was interested in and wondering why she would want to read the email to me)
Mom reading the email: “I have some good news, and because I don’t have Katelyn’s email address I’m contacting you hoping you will pass this on to her. Katelyn’s
“Dairy Days” video won a bronze award ($100) in the Canadian Farm Writers Federation annual writing and broadcasting awards last weekend”
Kate: “Woo Hoo $100!”
Well I guess the rest of the conversation doesn’t matter because woo hoo I won!
The Canadian Farm Writers Federation (CFWF) is a group of ag journalists, which includes reporters, editors and broadcasters in business and government, specializing in agricultural communications. The CFWF represents over 350 members who belong to organizations all over Canada. In conjunction with their daily reporting, they put on a competition annually, which includes categories such as “television, radio, and daily, monthly and weekly press reporting; media release; press column; press editorial and press feature.”
I won the bronze award in Television News Reporting. I made the video in my Agricultural Communications course at Guelph in my last semester there, it was one of the assignments that we had to complete. The topic assigned to me was ‘Dairy Days’, which is a program put on for Oxford County students in grade 4 to get a first hand look at dairy farming. I did research before the event (there was not very much information!), contacted people to interview, attended the event with our production team who get footage of the event and edit the video, interviewed people at the event, put together a script, taped voice overs (my fave part!), and then got to watch the final video.
My prof entered a bunch of videos from the class and amazingly enough our classes work came in 1st 2nd and 3rd! The must make him feel good as the prof.
So I’m guessing you want to see the video now right? Ok no laughing, I do look kind of silly… but here you go! And feel free to take a look around at other videos on Youtube added by “AgriComm” that our class produced, I do have another video on the site, see if you can find my other one.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNbBYT_Oig]
If that does not work please go here DAIRY DAYS
