murphy's law

i'd like to know who murphy is and asking him why he made up this stinkin' law....

About a month ago i agreed to sub a 6:30 am pilates class on Nov. 28. that is today. Well don't you know it but because its been so cold (-28) the school where i teach decided to close just for today! Yes, i would have had the sleep in day that i've been waiting for for three weeks, but no....it was a 6:00 am start for me this morning in the deepfreeze.

.....On a better note, i came home and slept for another three hours and now am drinking a yummy eggnog latte.....

nothing really.....

hi......i dont really have much to say that i can think of at the moment....just wanted to write seeing as i haven't in about a week or so......

I just got home from soccer practice...good practice tonight. There are six of us that are usual attenders, and its a fun six people. now i should really shower and go to bed but i'm never very tired when i get home from practice. Home, i love my home. I started decorating a bit for Christmas already...i know i'm a keener....but i bought some decorations so i HAD to put them up to see if i wanted to keep them, now i realize i need more. i also bought a four CD set of christmas songs. old style versions with nat king cole and ella fitsgerald and frank sinatra....let the Christmas music begin!

It started snowing today again....yay! i have a feeling its going to be a fun winter. i'm so ready to do winter activities. maybe tomorow i'll get out my snowpants...oh i'm so excited. there's actually a pretty good hill across the street from me for toboganning. Who wants to come toboganning?? hmmmm i just realized i dont have a tobogann....or a crazy carpet.....well, that's gonna have to change.

with nothing to say i could probably keep writing, but i should go get unstinky and get some Z's. hope all my fans out there are keeping well ;).....and warm. good-night!

I have seen dead people

I just fullfilled a tiny goal today! Ever since hearing about Gunther Von Haggens BODYWORLDS exhibit of plastinated human bodies i have REALLY wanted to see it! It was showing in Toronto in February of this year, but sadly flights didn't work out to get there in time. So when i was in vancouver this august i saw it was coming to science world and promptly planned to come back for it! Well....today it happened and i have been impressed, educated, and enlightened. We couldn't take pictures inside the exhibit, so these are off the internet and they are part of body worlds 1. i went to body worlds 3, so i didn't see these exact specimens.....but they give you a pretty good idea of what i did see!

This prodedure allows for such reality and detail its amazing! each bone, nerve, muscle, tendon, ligament is there to see. Although I previously was amazed and appreceative of the body, this has heightened it considerably!

Although i didn't see this guy...many of the plastinates had muscle sticking up to expose underlying tissue like he does. One of my favorite parts was seeing the arterial configurations! They injected plastic into the arterial tubes and then chemichally harden it and take away all of the tissue so what is left is just plastic replica of the arteries and capillaries. but the system of that in our body is huge, obviously blood needs to get everywhere! but just imagine a meshwork of red webbing in the form of a body and you can sort of picture it! Our lips are basically all vessel!

This is a smokers lung as you can read. A 20 cig/day smoker takes in about a cup of tar yearly. A lung Tarred is a lung scarred! I went crazy in the gift shop too! Now when i take my class to the U of C cadaver lab it will take on new meaning. The human body is a wonder....the most intricate of God's creation. His attention to detail on us is mind-blowing...He wants us to function to the best of our ability and has given us all we need to do it, packaged in an amazing vessel that really is beautiful right down to the last cell. :)

lunch

kelly if you're reading this, this is for you......so i went to cost-co for lunch today. I had a craving for fries, then poutine was mentioned which immediately makes me think of cost-co becuase they have poutine that i beleive is the closest to the real stuff i first tried in quebec. Yet again i wasn't dissapointed! I feel the need to let the world know...well at least the world of people that read my blog (which i'm sure isn't very big) that if you want good poutine, GO TO COST-CO! You see....then after a great lunch you can walk around and taste test the desserts. today we had almond roca bar and nanaimo bars (another of my favorite things). Really, what a successful culinary experience!

.....then i have to mention that after cost-co we went to get gingerbread lattes at starbucks and that was just like icing on the cake! speaking of icing, today at church they were giving away cake becuase we were having a celebration sunday. I ate the icing off of mine and threw the rest away. that tells you how important icing is to me!

Can you tell i've enjoyed my eating experiences today?!