In Lloyd for my pre-CaRMS training camp. On the to-do list:
1) Sleep lots
2) Eat better. Spent the last 2 weeks in Halifax and as usual when on my own, I revert to my staple diet of pasta and shake-and-bake. For once, I was better off than my housemate who as far as I could tell only ever ate bacon and eggs, macaroni and cheese and hamburger helper. Still, I was feeling ill by the end. All hail the return of the vegetables!
3) Stop worrying about things that don't matter like whether the brown of my suit jacket matches the brown of my suit pants and start worrying about how I'll reply to interview questions.
4) Re-visit my research AGAIN.
5) Watch lots of Food Network.
6) Finalize CaRMS tour planning. Hotels are mostly booked. Buses are mostly booked. I have nightmares about losing my luggage, losing my laptop, missing a flight, getting lost in the ghetto of numerous cities. Why do I worry about these things and not about my actual interview?
7) Start LMCC studying. It's so close and yet so far.

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Happy New Year to you and yours!

This is how I spent mine. Finally decided that after 3.5 years of dating, it was time to go down with Kev and his family to their vacation home. Spent 2 days in Vegas. BLECH! Really not my style. Mystere and the Bellagio were beautiful. Everything else was tacky-gaudy-noisy-consumerist-too-much-bad-cheap-food. Was very happy to get out of there.

Spent my New Year's Eve playing board games, my New Year's Day doing a beautiful hike and the next 2 days golfing and working on my golf swing, sleeping 9 hrs/day, reading some books, playing pickle ball, watching silly TV shows and just enjoying the quiet life. We had a 7AM flight out of Vegas today so we drove in last night. Made one last stop at Bellagio for beautiful pastries, ordered some amazing Thai food. Camped out that night in the airport with movies, books, snacks and lots of Coke. Won $4 at the penny slots and splurged on Starbucks. Stumbled our way onto 2 airplanes. Arrived home to discover my luggage had not accompanied us and finally this...bleary-eyed trying to cram the last week into one post but desperately, desperately needing my bed =)

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