{"id":67,"date":"2010-12-09T15:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sara\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-12-09T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:38:39","slug":"things-i-love-thursdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sara\/archives\/67","title":{"rendered":"Things I Love Thursdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">One of my favourite things about being on the BlogSquad is that I get to read things like <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/lillienne.wordpress.com\/\">Lillienne<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&#8216;s <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/lillienne.wordpress.com\/category\/things-i-love-thursday\/\">Things I Love Thursday<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> posts. Upon a bit more digging, I found out that this is actually quite a widespread routine amongst all sorts of bloggers, and I love the idea of\u00a0espousing happiness wherever possible. I feel like too often, I only blog when I am frustrated or stressed out and, while I am undoubtedly a bit of a pessimist, I&#8217;d also love to be able to use this blog to focus on things that are wonderful and lovely and pleasing to the highest order. So, I figured I would take after Lillienne and do them myself! Without further ado, my very first Things I Love Thursday (replete with cute heart bulletin points):<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u2765 <\/span>One exam is over, and only three left to go. <span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Ok, maybe it hasn&#8217;t been the greatest term ever, but one bad term is not the end of the world. What&#8217;s better is that in a few weeks, it&#8217;ll be a fresh new term. That not only means a new opportunity to set some goals but also&#8230; new school supplies! Eeek, I am such a sucker for notebooks and pens. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">\u2765 <\/span>Christmas is coming!<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> Apart from the vast amounts of chocolate I am almost certain to imbibe, this year I am presenting all of my friends with paintings for their gifts! All of their requests are turning out to be a total hoot to draw&#8230; one requested a unicorn, another requested a cat on a love seat (and let me tell you, &#8220;Siamese in repose on divan&#8221; is possibly my finest work yet) and yet another is stuck with the ugliest monster I can come up with (by default, since he didn&#8217;t respond to my &#8220;what do you want me to paint for you D:&#8221; text in time). I&#8217;m loving the chance to draw fun stuff again, and the fact that I get to give them away makes it even better. In fact, it almost makes me miss art school&#8230; almost. (:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2765Birthdays are coming up!<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> My mom&#8217;s birthday is on the 11th, which means that I get to troop out to Langley to visit my family and my most handsome golden retriever and tell my mom how awesome she is (though she totally knows it anyways). Then it&#8217;s my birthday on December 29th which, at the very least, means I get delicious cakes as a &#8220;right on&#8221; for being born. Cake for doing pretty much nothing? Yes please!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2765My kitten is absolutely adorable and even if he is a pest, his belly is so round and irresistible to snuggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2765My friends are lovely and even though we didn&#8217;t get much studying last night in the CS labs, we took Photobooth pictures that were so hilarious that I was crying with laughter from the end. I haven&#8217;t laughed so hard in forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u2765Bernoulli&#8217;s Bagels! Oh my god, yesterday before my exam I had their Bagelwich for breakfast (which is ham, cheese and egg) on a jalapeno bagel and&#8230; well. I have been thinking about it nonstop. I actually cannot wait until my next exam when I can get another one.<\/p>\n<p>\u2765My friend Dave came up with an amazing drink to get at Starbucks- a medium coffee with two pumps of peppermint and two pumps of chocolate syrup. It&#8217;s just like a peppermint mocha but with less milk, so the flavour (and caffeination!) is even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>\u2765I love having a roommate that I can finally be friends with, instead of one that spends hours in the kitchen singing along to Justin Bieber and watching that reality show about teen parents (and incurring my wrath in the process). Now I have a roommate who shares his snacks and has great discussions about Noam Chomsky and cereal at 3am.<\/p>\n<p>\u2765Snow! We don&#8217;t have any yet, but the stuff we had awhile back was lovely. I hope we get some again soon. (It seems like our snow tends to come a bit later, like around January\/February).<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite things about being on the BlogSquad is that I get to read things like Lillienne&#8216;s Things I Love Thursday posts. Upon a bit more digging, I found out that this is actually quite a widespread routine amongst all sorts of bloggers, and I love the idea of\u00a0espousing happiness wherever possible. 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