Canada is too cold! and other musings

I know it's a cliche - kind of, "Canada is cold" but really it is. At least in my area of the country. Here I was, used to the pleasantly warm climate of Iowa and then, I got back to Canada bam! COLD! The furnace in my house turned on!! (the furnace never turns on, my parents like to keep things an outrageously cold 60 degrees in the day, 66 when people are home) It even snowed in Calgary last night! Thankfully it hasn't been that cold, but it's only a little above freezing here. I'm not a happy camper, at least in that respect.


But, I'm having a good summer so far. I love my job at the U of A. and it is so nice to be home and to relax a bit. No more school for me! until I actually have to teach in school.

Other big news: My grandparents are having their 50th anniversary celebration this weekend. Everyone is in town, all of my aunts and uncles and their kids, great-aunts and uncles, cousins I don't know. It's going to be a "big to-do in Nottingham". It should prove to be a fun day even if some of the organizers are going a little over the top. We are having coffee and some refreshments after church and they are going to decorate the basement of the church and there has too be 'x' amount of squares, 'x' amount of cookies, 'x' amount of cake, etc and the 'x' is on the order of 10^2 - that's hundreds to the non exponent-savy. (I needed to throw in a little math/science nerdiness, too much left brain use recently) It's a little crazy but I'll just smile and serve cake awkwardly because it's at the church that we left :)
The actual party should be good though, great food, time to talk to the long-lost relatives and my sister and I are going to sing.

I'm getting so excited about teaching and setting up my classroom. I just bought Harry Wong's "The First Days of School" and I've been reading it, taking notes and just imagining my wonderfully run classroom complete with procedures for everything.

Sidenote: Andrea, you should read it, it's really good, Wong is the guy that Cella loves, you probably saw a video by him too.

See I actually posted within the time frame I set out. So there doubters - you know who you are.