Merry Christmas!

We figured we'd better update this before Celia beat us up...

Chronicles of Narnia is awesome - go see it!

So, Christmas break has been super busy, and doesn't show too many signs of slowing down. But of course, it's fun busy - nothing like school busy! We had a bunch of friends over last night (more than we thought we'd able to fit in our house!) and had a great time (saw a bunch of people we hadn't seen in a long time) and we had Sharon's family over for dinner tonight. Tomorrow we're doing sound for the Christmas Eve services, and eating dinner with Frank's family (his brothers are home). Christmas Day we'll get up early, open presents at Frank's parents house, go to Christmas mass, then head to Sharon's parents for presents and dinner. Then we'll be going to the young adult retreat at Camp Morice. Then after that we'll be doing some computer stuff for both Westwood and the Diocese Office.

Sometimes in the middle of all this hectic craziness, it's hard to remember what this season is really about. Sure it's about family and charity and friends and all that, and it can be hard to take the time to reflect on why this holiday is here. But we need to take some quiet time and think about what Christ coming in the flesh really means. It's a time to celebrate the freedom we gained through Jesus being born on earth. Hopefully we'll be able to sit quietly in the coming days and truly thank Him.

We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Duh!

So I was fooling around with my settings on Blogger, and I click this tab called "moderate comments" and I'm thinking, hmm.. what does this do... and I see a list of comments that I've never read before! Here I was thinking that no one loved us, but I just hadn't approved the comments yet. Duh. I had no idea what "moderate comments" was when I turned it on. Oh well, I have now read all of the lovely comments that people wrote us.

I now officially have a BSc Computer Science (GIS Minor). Freaky. Well, as long as I passed all my classes - but I'm pretty sure I had at least a D in all of them even if I got zero on the exam (although I would have only had 50.1% in networking if I got zero on the exam - cutting it pretty close, considering I probably did pretty horribly on that exam...)

Frank's last exam is today at 6:00pm, then I have a job interview Wednesday morning, then hopefully we'll be able to de-stress! Yay!

--Sharon

Almost Done

Well, only one exam left for both of us. For Sharon, it's Databases (could be very, very bad) and for Frank it's Physics 120 - Astronomy (almost guaranteed to be bad). It's Sharon's last exam EVER. Frank isn't quite so lucky - he has to do a 4-credit course in the month of January, but then he'll be done. And then we're on to a whole new phase of life, supposedly. Freaky. Anyone know of any job openings? Job hunting can sure be a daunting task. But at least we'll have more free time - no more staying up till 2am working on projects. Or at least, we hope so :)

So, we're already planning more house renovations for Christmas break. On the list are: tiling the fireplace, building a new mantle, putting handrails down the basement stairs, and hopefully installing a floor and putting up some drywall in the laundry room. We'll see how much time we have.

And we've put up our tree! Christmas is coming...

No Wonder...

Well, one exam down, 4 more to go. We've gotten almost all of our Christmas shopping done, just a couple more presents and we should be good. St. Nicholas at Frank's parents was great, ate too much sugar, though.

We just got the funniest email from Vonage:

We would like to inform you of a system error that we have observed that has affected your account's billing. Unfortunately when you subscribed, the rate plan reflected a U.S. pricing in stead of Canadian pricing. We have corrected this error and your account now reflects the proper billing for your rate plan. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you we are therefore crediting your account for 1 month of service.

We were wondering why we were only paying $15 a month when the website said $19! Ha. We thought maybe we were really special or something :)

Busy busy...

This week is pretty hectic - Bioinformatics presentation tomorrow, GIS presentations Wednesday, and Sharon's Database presentation on Thursday. Then all the reports to go with the presentations are due on Friday! Plus, we have our small group coming over on Thursday evening (which probably means we should clean our place up a little bit...) and then it's St. Nicholas @ Frank's parents on Sunday, plus we're doing sound and lights @ Westwood Sunday morning. And exams start on Monday! Good grief.

In other news, we're now VOIPing with Vonage. They finally added PG to their list, so we didn't have to change our number. $15/month for 500 minutes a month, anywhere in North America. Plus caller-id, call-waiting, voicemail, basically everything you ever wanted for no extra charge. Considering we were paying $25 a month for Telus with no long distance, we thought this was an excellent deal! And we got the router practically for free from Radio Shack with a mail in rebate. So our mission now is to convert people to Vonage - if you call long distance, it'll save you a ton!

A New Beginning

Well, here's to a brand new blog. We've decided to do this blog together - you can visit Sharon's old blog at http://www.xanga.com/cling_and_clatter. There's over 2 years of interesting (or not...) thoughts over there.

Hopefully we can keep everyone up to date on the goings-on in our lives here. Glad to have you along for the ride!