It's why I turned so blue

Greetings devoted readers! I'm officially finished with my first semester. Yippy!

As soon as I finished I started cooking and baking. Sarah and I made a delicious spaghetti squash casserole and a butternut squash soup; this ambitious endeavor was taken on due to countless musings by myself on how one cooks a squash while enjoying the soups and dishes at People's Potato - turns out it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Plus, now I've got a stock of food to keep me until I leave and to keep on the freeze until needed.

I've been doing shopping trips to find things to send to people back home, making Christmas cards, reading, and making little goodies to give out. I attempted to make fudge but it didn't set so it's more like really sweet, semi too-thick pudding. But the choco covered pretzels and sugar cookies turned out fine.

It is -15 Celsius right now (5 in Fahrenheit). Holy crap, I'm so cold and the snow has only been around for a while. I don't know what I'd do with out my ginormous snow man suit. It's getting to the point where you're going to have to really coax me to leave the house. I'll be better once I get some wool to cover my feet and legs.

Today my friend Anna and I spent time in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Anna is leaving this week so it was really good to spend some quality time with her; plus, she's an awesome art museum companion because she is an art major and has been studying Canadian art - I learned quite a bit. The pièce de résistance was most definitely the James Waterhouse exhibit; the museum is the first to showcase all his works in one place at the same time and I really like his mythical subject matter. My favorite is Circe Invidiosa.

On Saturday morning Emilia and I will be entering the states! First trip is to see my friend Maeve who attends Boston College. I'm thrilled to spend time with a friend from back home on the other side of the states.