{"id":387,"date":"2011-01-04T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:51:48","slug":"january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/january-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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January is upon us and I am celebrating the birthdays of Peter and Tabitha. This picture is of Peter’s party. I made him a Death by Chocolate Mousse-Cheesecake. I made up the recipe based on combining a few recipes and inventing here and there. It was to die for (almost).
Tabs spent her birthday (yesterday) at Big White skiing with Mist, her cousin Nem and Uncle John. John was kind enough to ski with 3 little gals all day. Tabs got her own new downhill ski equipment for her birthday. This is the year everyone receives ski equipment for their birthday. Next fall I am buying us all ski passes at Crystal Mountain (20 min from Kelowna). We will all be experts by year’s end. Peter seriously damaged his knee snowboarding at Christmas and is awaiting an MRI to see what is up. I believe if he heals well he will go back to skiing and leave boarding for the under 20’s. In boarding you fall hard. No escaping it. In skiing, one can actually fall softly.<\/p>\n

Waiting for darling niece Artemisia to arrive for a play date with Pip and then I am off to work in my home office. No review board for me anymore! Axed the survey so I don’t need ethics review for my study. Full speed ahead on my thesis writing now!
Peter and I saw Black Swan<\/b> last evening. Weird. Not as good as I thought it would be. I believe they should have delved into the retiring ballerina’s life a bit more (Winnona Rider). And a little more into the mother\/daughter relationship (Natalie Portman\/Barbara Hershey). The dancer’s (Portman) innocence and obsession with perfection were well portrayed though. People are so hard on innocent young women–acting like they are freaks if they are sexually naive. I hate that about society. Leave the darling young women alone!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I am rewarding myself with a trip once I pass my MA review. I haven’t decided where yet. Some ideas:
1. Spain & Greece. \u00a02. France \u00a03. India to study with the Dalai Lama \u00a04. Japan<\/p>\n

Not a whole bunch on New Year’s Resolutions. A few plans though:<\/p>\n

-Finish MA in 3 months time.
-Start 1 Bikram’s yoga class each week.
-Start Buddhist meditations at Yoga House Monday nights.
-Skate downtown on rink with girls each Tuesday night at 6:30 until it melts.
-Sign up for an international writer’s conference and painting work shop once MA complete.
-Sign up for Lake Country Art Walk for this fall.
-Find part time teaching job for next fall.
-Organize writing\/painting studio times each day for summer and fall.
-Paint with local group once\/week.
-publish Queen and Pizzaface novels (hardcopy and digital).
-Purchase 3 lenses for camera: portrait, macro and super zoom for wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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