Hello Blog.

All my roommates moved out, and with them, moved the internet. It's been interesting trying to do an internship with no internet. I sincerely apologize to all of my family and friends that I've been bumming internet off of. I'd also like to take this moment to thank fast food restaurants, the U of L, and Starbucks for free wifi. Even though when I was sitting in the Starbs parking lot last night at 10:00 I was 76% sure I was going to get shanked.

So besides working on my internship and scrounging for internet, what have I been up to? Well, I moved out of the hobbit hole that was my bedroom and claimed the much bigger bedroom next to it! The walls are big and blank and I've been having fun planning on how to decorate the place. I'm also in the market for a nice cozy reading chair, so if you know of anyone looking to get rid of one, hook a sista up.

My kitchen window is full of seedlings for this year's garden and so far they're doing really well! I've got tomatoes, basil, zucchini, kale, spinach, and green beans started. The carrots and lettuce I'll just put straight in the ground once Alberta decides to accept the fact that it's May and give us some sunshine. Yesterday it snowed h-core and I seriously considered transferring schools to BYU Hawaii.

Another thing I've been doing fairly regularly is practicing my French. I use the Duolingo app on my phone, and work on a few sections while I'm waiting for water to boil or during down time in the early evening. I've always dreamed of being bilingual, which probably will never happen, but hey! I know how to order ice cream in French. That's all you really need, right?

My to-do list for this week also includes: laundry, making a meal plan and grocery list for the next two weeks, organizing my bedroom, cleaning, responding to letters, baking some pumpkin spice loaf and banana muffins to freeze, and mailing a present to Momma Froc for Mother's Day.

Inspiration for this week:

I sent this to a few of my homies last night via snapchat.

You know, it's a good thing this blog isn't a child, because I leave it alone so often that Child Services would have a field day.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! (I'd say happy Passover too, but I don't have any Jewish friends yet. Insert sad face.) I spent it with my family! Instead of driving straight home, I decided to meet up with them in Regina while my dad was in a training meeting with this guy.

The drive was uneventful except for looooots of rain. And these mammoth clouds.
For the record, I would just like to say that it's the highway between Medicine Hat and Regina that gives Saskatchewan a bad name. Flatter than a tone deaf choir boy.

On the other side of the province, the fam actually drove through a blizzard, and could only go 60 km/h for most of the three hour drive. I arrived four hours before they did and got lost in an unfamiliar city went exploring in the rain.
 The next morning, Mom and Dad woke up early and went to the temple, so the sibs and I chilled at the hotel, ate easter candy, and watched youtube videos on my laptop, which was rigged up to the TV.
 The rest of the day we bummed around the city, then drove home. Easter Sunday we went to church, and there was a potluck after the services, so no big Easter dinner for us. And then Monday was Logan's birthday!
 This guy turned a big 2.0, and we celebrated by throwing him a moustache party. He invited the missionaries and our Grandpa over for dinner and presents.

I've never taken a dance class in my life, but I looooove me some dance! I'm a huge appreciator, and a huger (Is that a word?) viewer of dance movies, TV programs, and documentaries. This made me smile today:

I went for a 1.5 hour drive this afternoon. "Chantelle!" you cry. "That's a terrible waste of money and precious fossil fuels!" 

1. I am down for adventuring at all times. (And in all things, and in all places...) It doesn't really matter what it is. You could call me up in the middle of the night, and I'd be game.

2. My love languages are mix CDs and happy notes.

3. I have this thing with candies. I eat them in order of colours I like the least to colours I like the best.

4. Approximately half of my speech consists of movie quotes and song lyrics. Other normal phrases in my vocabulary include "dang Gina!", "grooglies", and "absit".

5. You will never understand what true love is until you've seen me in IKEA.

6. Though not clumsy, I'm weirdly accident prone. Like, I cut my finger on a pineapple once.

7. Recycling is my jam. It probably drives my roommates crazy. Especially when I go postal at them for putting recyclables in the garbage and then pick them out. Don't judge me. We only have one planet, yo.

8. I've never met a holiday I didn't like. I like excuses to celebrate.

9. I use the self-checkouts at the grocery store 98% of the time even though I get self-checkout rage. It's like road rage, except everyone can hear you when you pull out your sassy words.

10. I love hugging. There's nothing better. Except maybe if you showed up on my doorstep with a pot of mashed potatoes.