Not much new, just trucking along...

We're starting to settle into the routine of our classes, and trying to figure out how to keep concentrated on school when we're so excited about moving in just over 3 months. I'm finding that January is going really, really slowly. Usually it's a faster-feeling month because classes don't start until about a third of the way in (really, classes started January 10th this semester). But I guess since there's so much else to think about, and so much we're looking forward to, January is just crawling by for me. It also sucks because I don't like winter in Calgary. I know that's mostly because I'm from the Lower mainland and can't hack really cold, but that's not entirely it. I think I dealt better with the cold in Regina because there it gets cold and stays that way. Here, the Chinooks are really nice when they happen (like right now, as we're supposed to get a high of +14C today, yeah, you read that right, plus, not minus!), but then I can never acclimatise to the cold. Instead it will be +8 or something one day just to set me up and dash all my hopes with -20 the next. That's what I have a hard time with.
So, for those reasons, I'm sick of January and I want it to end. February will be a whirlwind though. We know 3 couples who are due to have babies in February, 2 of them here in Calgary. There's babies popping out of the woodwork right now (but not for us, I know what you're thinking). It's an exciting time!
So that's my January-Blues post. I think what January needs is a holiday at this time of the month. I know there's Chinese New Year, maybe that should be celebrated on a larger scale by everyone because January seems so dry for holidays. It goes, "Yeah it's New Years, now enjoy over a month of regular plain life..... whee.....". One of the hints to myself that I think I should be an elementary school teacher is that my months revolve around their main holidays. Remember back in grade 2 or so, when you would come to school on the first day of a new month and the clasroom would already be decorated with stuff from that month's holiday? The chalkboard would have a new festive boarder, there would be big pumpkins or hearts or something of the like hanging around. Think of that as how my brain is decorated the beginning of every month. But perhaps you're getting weirded out being in my brain, I'll take you out and let you loose now. Go... be free...