Well it is -23 and -28 with windchill right now. It was really cold yesterday too. So what did we do for fun? We went for a drive to a lake (that was closed, we couldn't get in) and then we fired a rifle! This is for all your viewing pleasure:

Kind of scary, eh?

We had a really tame weekend. Friday we didn't do much and Saturday night we had a movie night at Kalina and Tom's place. We watched Elf to get into the Christmas spirit!

Our diet is interesting. We're doing really well on it but it does suck a lot. Some examples of meals we've tried:

Cooking 100% cocoa and putting almonds in them and freezing them. My roommate tried this.. didn't taste so good apparently.
I've make a few meals that I just threw out because I didn't like them haha. Why does that not surprise anyone who is reading this?
Eating buckwheat hot cereal with apples, cinnamon, and coconut... I didn't like it very much but Alex liked it.
Plain yogurt, cinnamon, and apples.

I'll have to think of some more tomorrow because I am falling asleep!

It's been -17 for a few days now... -22ish with the windchill. Brrrr... It's good times though! Everyone is whipping out the parkas. For daylight it's definitely getting darker. It's dark when I go to work and dark when I leave work already.

I get to go shopping next week :)... if everything gets approved in Yellowknife. I have an appointment for an MRI in Edmonton next week. The way the flights work, I'll be staying at least one night.. maybe two depending on my appointment time. The flights all arrive from Smith at about 1ish and they all leave around then too. Hopefully things go through because I wanna go shopping :)!

My roommate and I started a diet this week. It's a health diet but it's kicking our asses at this point. We are going to power through though. We are not allowed any wheat, dairy, anything with sugar (including fruit), nothing with vinegar, the meat has to be organic (HAHA don't have that in Smith), nothing starchy.. so no potatoes or related veggies. We basically can't eat anything haha. I've been living off of chicken and brown rice. Alex made me a soup tonight :). We are on day 3 today and we haven't cheated yet but it's hard! If I end up in Edmonton I don't think I'll be able to make it because I don't think any restaurant will be able to accommodate my dietary needs lol.

My contract is going to be extended. I've also applied for another job that's permanent so we will see what happens there!

Oh I saw the ears, nose and throat guy. The tumour thing on my tonsil he would like to remove. He said he thinks he has seen something similar a couple times before HAHA. Sounds like a whole lot of confidence there! He gave me three options: take my tonsils out, biopsy the tumour in Yellowknife, or leave it and see if it grows. So we decided that it's best to biopsy it but that we will wait three months to see if there are any changes. He also wanted some time to think about it HAH. Oh boy. We actually didn't talk too much about my health because through talking we found out that both of us grew up partially in Trail, that he also partially grew up in Pine Point and that our dads both worked for Cominco HA! So crazy. The connections are ridiculous.

Ok that's all I got for right now. I've been meaning to do a post on what we do for fun in Smith. Hopefully that'll come in the next week or so! Hope everyone is doing great :)!

Here's a picture of Me, Kalina and Meagan after breakfast on Sunday morning :)

Things are going well here! Not a whole lot to report. Work is going well! We're a couple weeks into construction. Here is a picture of our office. There are 3.5 of us (my boss has a office offsite so she's only in our office a bit) in there and it's our only separate room at the moment so we all get kicked out from time to time for meetings. It's an adventure!

I have more pics in posts below of the past couple weeks!

Alex showed me around all the hangars at his work this weekend and he showed me this little gem! It's the first plane made in the NWT.

Smith Shopping!

This is what we do in Smith when we want to go shopping with friends. We have a clothing swap! Tons of clothes, it was a fabulous time!

Everyone brought stuff to Kalina's and it was a free for all. You can give or take as much or as little as you would like regardless of how much you brought. We're planning another one for the spring!

On Friday night Meagan and I decided to go crazy with photobooth (an application on Apple computers that lets you take pictures and use different effects). When Alex came over we pulled him into it. For the record, Alex and Meagan were drunk by that point, I don't have an excuse!

Bad Day :(

I'm going to rant about my crappy day!

First off I completely over slept and was late for work... oopsie! Then I go to the pharmacy to get my meds, including the one I've been waiting for, for a week. Turns out that the drug was back ordered from wherever they order it from and they said they will be lucky if it gets in by Friday. The joys of living up north haha! This is a drug for a really bad infection... so lets just let this infection go without any meds for 2 weeks and see how it does! The good news is that I got a compounded cream that looks to be working on my finger :)! I also have 10 days worth of antibiotics if the cream doesn't work but I don't want to take them.

Ok back to my bad day.. this isn't suppose to be a happy post! So I get home from work and go to take a shower because I'm dirty because I couldn't shower this morning because I woke up 10 minutes AFTER I was suppose to start work and there is no hot water. Then I realize that the house is really cold. So either our landlord didn't pay the bill and it got cut off or our hot water tank is broken. Today it was really cold out and tomorrow it's suppose to be -5 but it will feel like -9. I did go take a shower at the boys' place... a nice, warm shower :)! Now I have my long johns on, a wool sweater, fluffy socks and I'm curled up in bed for a nice long cold sleep!

Goodnightttt!