{"id":85,"date":"2010-12-20T01:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T09:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sara\/?p=85"},"modified":"2010-12-20T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T09:52:39","slug":"things-i-love-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sara\/archives\/85","title":{"rendered":"Things I love&#8230; Monday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a bit ashamed that I&#8217;m already behind on my second Things I Love Thursday post, but a Friday exam and a Saturday full of desperate house-cleaning and a dinner party kept me firmly away from the internet&#8230; torture indeed for a computer science student. However, the upside is that I have even more lovely things to coo over:<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 For Christmas, my boyfriend took me to get professional photos taken of my golden retriever. I love that dog more than anything in the whole world (in fact, I even have his name tattooed on my foot) and this was the best Christmas gift I could have asked for. :) I was lucky to have my incredibly talented friend <a href=\"http:\/\/shaneoosterhoff.com\/index2.php#\/home\/\">Shane Oosterhoff<\/a> work his magic behind the camera, and I seriously can&#8217;t wait to see how they turned out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 My sweet better half also got me all sorts of wonderful gifts, including a monster hat and an adorable panda dayplanner for the new year! (I have a serious fetish for stationary, particularly the cute stuff.) The best part was that I got to give him his gifts as well, which he loved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 A bunch of friends came over tonight to play boardgames and stuff ourselves with way too many desserts. I finally made a lemon\u00a0meringue pie that didn&#8217;t fall to pieces. AND Cranium is the most fun game I have ever played.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 My kitten is growing into a lanky, awkward teenager cat and it&#8217;s adorable. He is truly my familiar- he stays up until 5am with me, drinking my tea and purring in my lap and keeping me company while I draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 Speaking of that, I&#8217;ve been drawing a whole lot again and it feels wonderful. (I was a &#8220;professional artist&#8221; (in the sense that I made a fair bit of money from selling paintings) for many years but art school ruined my love of painting, until now). I&#8217;m going to be setting up my website soon so then I can share it all. :)<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 Did I mention that FINALS ARE DONE? Today marks my second full day of freedom and thank God for that, is all I can say.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 My boyfriend is going to Alberta for Christmas which <em>sucks<\/em>, but on the bright side, I am going to park myself in front of his enormous iMac computer and play videogames and draw nonstop. I am only going to move for tea and possibly pie and go to bed at 8am and not wake up until 4pm and that is a promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665 &#8230; starting on Monday, I guess, since I am going to see Kid Koala at 8pm tonight (Monday) at the Biltmore. I&#8217;ll probably be exhausted but it should be fun.<\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays everyone! I know the very last of you will be finishing up your exams on Tuesday, I think, so good luck. And for the rest of you that are already done, enjoy your freedom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a bit ashamed that I&#8217;m already behind on my second Things I Love Thursday post, but a Friday exam and a Saturday full of desperate house-cleaning and a dinner party kept me firmly away from the internet&#8230; torture indeed for a computer science student. 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