whee~ it's christmas month already! ^_^

to cap it off, i've got a new layout! i hereby call it Scarlett.Starlight . Scarlett, because as promised, i wanted to put SJ on the header for version 7. it really took me a long time to search for a fitting pic, and i discovered this just last week on a French sj fansite that is a great source for all her lovely photos. this is photographed by Sheryl Nields, who also did her shoot for Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive issue. the other half that is Starlight is mainly due to the British alt-rock band Muse, whose song of the same title is one of my faves (that explains the lyrics excerpt). another to credit is the background pic which i got on a wonderful graphics site. the template's in all shades of pink, huh? i'm going oh-so-girly again *blush* ... i've also switched to Blogger Beta. the good thing is that i'll be able to archive my entries into a dozen categories -- that would take a lot of time though, considering i've got 210 posts of all sorts of b.s. =p ... a little problem i have with beta is that i have to log-in everytime i post (can't seem to get the "remember me" function intact). hope the Blogger guys know about this.

luckily the much-feared storm didn't hit the city... but then our CWTS activity pushed through yesterday. we actually had the first of two GK activities the other sunday that left me exhausted, but this time i was totally unprepared since i didn't know we'd be continuing it (with the late go-signal announcement that i only got through text the night before) immediately after the storm. so instead of spending a lazy sunday at home, i went into "Bob the Builder" mode! we were 'trying' to build structures in some remote place in qc -- the boys laying the hollow blocks & levelling the surface, while the girls heaved sacks of land (with a mix of smelly fertilizer!), gravel, and stones in a bee line to the houses. we had to do it under the excruciating heat of the sun, man! i was sweating all over the place! i went two shades darker, and i even had a minor ankle sprain because of those sacks! but then i know i'm doing this for the greater sake of humanity... (ha ha)

spending the last of my free days... another break in about 2 weeks =)

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