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Oct 11, 04 Thanksgiving Day

Wow, what a weekend. It started out being quite abit depressing, as friend after friend, classmate after classmate left for home, leaving just Kelsey and Myself home...alone...abandoned...even Westdale's party houses were subdued, quiet, vacant.

BUT!! God is always full of surprises and Kels and I had a fantastic time this weekend! I can't even remember all we did...but the words "productivity", "efficiency", "laughter", and "loved" captures it all. We went grocery shopping, ate at a Lebanese restaurant and watched Zoolander (i can't help cracking up everytime i think of it) on Friday night followed by a full Saturday of: working out at the gym, going to ikea, staples, Limeridge Mall, Blessings & Walmart and getting many errands done and many things bought...all this shopping in 6 hours...then we stayed up till 2:30am baking (apple pie, cornflake oatmeal choc chip cookies, pumpkin bran muffins etc...) and putting up shelves...and watching Miss Congeniality as we baked...

We are HANDYGIRLS!!! HA! little did we know that with a borrowed drill and alot of praying for wisdom and safety, (not to mention we put on our chemistry lab glasses for protection), and alot of experimenting and laughing our heads off....

Then on Sunday, we had our highlight of our week: Church and College and Career small group PLUS Thanksgiving potluck...our med school friend, Peggy joined us for the first time at church...and she enjoyed it! COOL! Then our friend Andrew came over and helped us with our further "drill into concrete" dilemma shelving questions...he went to Home Depot with us ...and the rest of the day was spent putting up more shelves (i drilled into concrete and brick!!! and mortar!!!)...My friend Roger who was supposed to help me with the shelves is gonna be really surprised when he finds out i managed to do it ALL BY MYSELF (well...with alot of advice from ppl)...either that or he's going to be hurt that i did it without him....(oh dear)anyway...then i re-decorated my room and talked to my 2 best friends from BC, Mom and Dad and my relatives till 3:30am. I love my family! I missed them alot this weekend. But it's funny cos i love living in Hamilton...so i sometimes feel 'torn'...although i consider Hamilton my "home".

Then TODAY, slept in, went for a jog, and went to Pastor Lane and Deb's house for an awesome Thanksgiving Lunch/Dinner....gosh, that was truly wonderful. Talk about applying Sunday's sermon on 'community'. Got to hang out with some of my most favourite ppl from church there...i couldn't stop laughing...they are so hilariously funny! As Bre'el put it (who finally returned from her friend's wedding in the States on sunday night...yippee!): "after this, i feel like we truly had a Thanksgiving Dinner" [paraphrased] (not because of the food, but the fellowship...i added this part to clarify the context) Yah. I couldn't agree more, we felt loved. Thanks, Fusillers!

After spending the past month not wanting to talk to people and feeling like sticking my head into the soil....this weekend was great not only because things got moving and done, but because i felt i had the mental and emotional space to dwell and relax and ponder and think and pray. (about a whole range of issues) Thus, the writing of a blog update (plus Jason's prodding today too! lol).

ok, this is way too long. sorry! i don't even think ppl read this anymore...
sherm