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Hullo Peoples!

I know, I haven't posted in a long time. Sorry! First of all I would like to wish everyone a wonderful new year. Hoping that the good is fabulous and the bad is survivable. On New Years I was up north. Again. Yes, I know you're jealous ;) I went up on a Wednesday with my Aunt and Uncle and 3 cousins, and my parents came up on the Thursday and Rich and Naomi came up on the Friday night. When I got there it was really late, so I didn't see much of the snow until the next morning, and when I woke up and saw it I couldn't prevent a huge grin from spreading across my face. So beautiful! I think there was about a foot and a half then, and Thursday I went snowmobiling with my uncle in it. On Friday we cleared off a nice big section of the lake for a ice rink and then went skating :) That night it started raining. So Saturday was basically a rainy day, and all the snow dissolved. Some of the ice on the lake melted too, but it was a perfect amount, because when it froze again the whole lake was super smooth. But I am getting ahead of myself. Saturday was New Years Day, and we were inside for most of the day because of the rain, but Mom, Aunt Steph and Gramma made oliebollen and appel flappe and we ate those and had a general day of being pleasantly lazy, eating and socializing. Some friends of ours who live up there came over as well, so we took them for a ride on a couple of the snowmobiles and then went sledding and built some forts etcetera. Sunday we went to church and ate and socialized some more... Monday the lake froze and we skated to the other side of the lake and back. It was so much fun! You could go really fast and keep picking up speed because you had a whole mile to skate across! After that we played some ice hockey and did other random outdoor activities. Monday night Uncle Pete, Aunt Steph and the kids went home. Tuesday Mom and Dad left for home around 9:00AM. Rich, Naomi and I stayed. We went snowmobiling to the Temagami Tower, where Rich finished carving a heart he started during the summer when we ATV'd up. I finished carving my name. Then we went into town, got some gas, and headed back to camp. When we got to camp we loaded the sleds up, finished packing and loading everything, went skating for the last time, and then said our good-byes and headed out. I hate goodbyes!! We got home late that night, and I literally grabbed my suitcase and other bags, walked downstairs, dropped it all on the floor and crawled into bed. I don't think I even put pajamas on. Oh well. I was tired, okay?! :P 

There! I think that is a pretty good account of my New Years... 

Other than that, what's new? Well, my new laptop of 3 months broke. It's the hard drive, and apparently not my fault, which is good! But the bad part is that it is possible that they won't be able to retrieve all of my information from it, so I may lose a number of files, pictures, and other stuff, including 3 months of school work. If I lose my school work it is my fault; since it was a new laptop I figured I didn't have to worry about backing stuff up. Guess I learned my lesson there! :P

Hmm. I had the most amazing night EVER last week. Well night and morning technically :) Dan, Reba, Kristi, Henk, Joyce, other Kristi and I all went to Henk's house and watched 1,2,&3 of Pirates of the Caribbean. But before we did that Henk made a delicious supper of some sort of chicken dish, fries, wraps, bruschetta bread, and some sort of broccoli salad. mmm, good! When we were done all the movies we cleaned up and then sprawled, sleeping bag clad, on the living room floor. We got to sleep around 3:30 in the morning :D :P The next morning we woke up around 8:30/9:00 and then Henk and Kristi made waffles, which were also delicious! Kristi, Reba, and Dan took me home around 11:30, I cleaned our bathroom downstairs and the two-piece upstairs and by 2:30 in the afternoon I had crawled into bed and fallen asleep. :S  Mom woke me up around 7 that night, and I got out to eat supper, then I showered and went back to sleep. I slept until 8:30 the next morning. :D I'm gonna blame that sudden need for sleep on a week of really late nights up north :D And I wasn't feeling really good, so my stomach get's blamed too ;) :) 

I've been doing a lot of shopping lately too! I bought a gorgeous coat, and super cute boots as well as a few shirts and other random items. Oh, and Vanilla Musk perfume! :D My all time favorite :) But no more shopping for a while now, because my bank account didn't really love my splurge. Oh well, I should be good for a while now :P 

Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment. There is a good and bad part to that. The good part? They are going to put a permanent retainer behind my top teeth now, so I will no longer have to wear my other one at night. The bad part? They also have to fill two cavities. :( I hate it when they put fillings in!! Oh well. I'll survive, and I suppose that's what matters. 

I found a fantastic quote today, and I want it to apply to me. "I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn't brighten her own. ♥"

Anyways, my brain is about to go to sleep for the evening, so I'll talk to you all later!!

 ♥ ♥

Heather aka Violet Moonbeam :)

p.s. I will hopefully post a post of just pictures tomorrow. :)