sausagefests & surprises

The past couple of weeks have been full of sausagefests, surprises in a variety of forms (good and bad), and plenty of shutter-clicks, as well as strawberry kiwi-flavoured candy from The Boy when we went to go see The Mechanic on Friday. {Note: it doesn't matter how bad the movie might be (I'm looking at you, Crank 2), they could call a Jason Statham movie THE JASON STATHAM MOVIE and I would go see it. The Boy still loves Mr. Arnold and Mr. William Shatner, but Mr. Statham is where it's at for me}

The past couple of weeks have had their handfuls of good moments with a quick visit from the 'what are you going to do with your life this year?' ghost. Though I try to take life a week at a time, it's hard to stay positive when people ask Oh, what have you been up to lately? and the response is Ah, you know, trying to find ... some kind of employment ... and just hoping I get accepted somewhere ... you know, just, waiting. It's so hard to be in control of what's going to happen to me this year; I guess all I can do is try my best and see where the winds take me? I sound like a pirate. Speaking of pirates, specifically from the Caribbean region, one of my main 'hope this happens this year' goal is to go to somewhere tropical for a week-long vacation (most likely Cuba). So cross your fingers I get to enjoy some white sands and palm trees this spring?

'Til then, and to keep up with the 'week at a time' mindset, here's a little recap of what I've been up to lately - in reverse order (gotta switch it up every once in a while!):

Last night involved one of my closest friend's boyfriend's surprise birthday party (that's a mouthful)! Me and another uber close friend missed the surprise by minutes - since we ended up right behind the birthday boy on the way to the house and kept hoping we wouldn't be spotted. Then, as we parked farther away down the street and I shuffled out with a bottle of wine, I -SLIPPED- on a patch of ice and fell - me and my bottom are fine, but the wine bottle completely shattered. Apart from that - oh, and setting the smoke alarm off because of the candles on the cake - it was a really fun time, complete with guitar/drum/music jamming (we sang anything from "All The Small Things", "Wonderwall", "I Want You To Want Me" and "Maps"), beer pong with water for all the DD's, and playing with balloons.

For the past month, I've volunteered for a club at my university as an editor for a show. We've shot a couple of episodes, and for a little bit of promo, I was in a photoshoot last Thursday! Above is just a standard headshot for each person, but then we wandered around outside without our jackets and took more photos, which will hopefully be ready for sharing soon!

Another closest friend and I have gotten into the habit of exploring more things around our city - we're pumped about a new skating rink (complete with lit-up shapes all around it) behind one of my favourite coffee shops , where we each had white hot chocolate (mmm).

And then a weekend before, I attended an actual sausagefest - true, it was a majority of guys there, but the host bought a pig, which we ground up, added spices, and then made our own homemade sausages. Oh, and me, The Boy, and another lovely lady peeled up a good 5lbs. of potatoes to make roasted potatoes. It felt really neat being part of the dinner process and then eating the finished result knowing you made it ... on the same table where raw pig sat. Yeah, that sounds kinda gross. But trust me, it was good. 

Now, with all my ramblings out of the way, I gotta ask:

Are you a take each day/week at a time kinda person, 

someone who plans ahead meticulously, 

or c'est la vie, whatever will be will be person?

Hope you all had a great weekend!