Count Down!!!!!

This is the last day of 2010!!!!

I'll be singing at City Hall from 10-12 tonight, and ringing in the new year on stage.
I'm kind of super excited.
Then after I'm going to have some major Katlin/Savannah time :)

I'm glad we started this blog this year, and I hope we continue to use it.
And Savannah actually properly starts....


2010 was full of so many memories and adventures, I hope 2011 is just as exciting, unexpected and wonderful.
I love you girls.

To now and forever.

grey nail polish

My nails are painted grey now :)
It's so satisfying. I've wanted matte grey nail polish for so long. And now I have it, and it's exactly right.

I'm also chilling out in my new black hoodie that I've wanted/needed for the longest time.
Thank you Christmas for finally getting here so that I could get all those things that I picked out and my mom insisted that I had to wait for.

I'm put some songs on MO's old ipod, and now I'm just enjoying listening to tunes, new and old.
It's been I while since I've really listened to anything... and it's nice.
This is a good evening.. I forgot how nice relaxing with a purpose is.

I'm adding some pictures to my other blog, and I decided I would write you girls something while I was waiting for them to load.

Having a journal back makes me feel so happy.
To be honest, I really missed them.

Maya, I think you should be prepared to pass on another journal with yours once you get in.
After the rotation at the end of January it'll be back in your hands, and i think you should find another journal to send around, it's getting full :)



p.s. If you girls have any song suggestions, I would appreciate them :) I'm trying to expand my music spectrum. Plus I still have my itunes gift card to use....

LETS DO SOMETHING THE EVENING OF THE 28th!!! :D:D:D:D
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
today was alright lol. Some family drama but a bit of time with pingping made a nice memory for this christmas :).
Christmas eve was the real christmas for me! :D was up until 3am lol.
Aside from parental warfare the holiday season is pretty great :D
i cant wait for montreal :) no drama!! :D:D and endless frolicking lol
Pingpings parents are having a huuge dinner on the 27th so im looking forward to that x).
thanks for the undies maya ;P hahahahaha
hopefully will see you all soon<3

YES

I'm totally up for tomorrow.

(Maya, I approve of your Christmas colouration)

The rest of the day was just as fun :)
The kids were so good, I still can't get over it.

Monika, you forgot your undies, and the journal!
(Katlin, why didn't you text her!!!!!!!!! lol. I'm blaming you my dear :P)

I hope we can squeeze in some more quality sistar time before everyone goes back to life(and I still have an extra week off of math... not trying to rub it in or anything...)

Our advent candles are almlost completely burnt out.
3 have been burnt down to nothing, and one is getting pretty darn close.
The last candle, that we lit this morning, is more than half gone too.
We figure it's the big day, might as well go all out.
When else are we going to be using them anyway?

I always thought that candles lasted forever.
Apparently that's less true than I thought.

I'm planning on watching Fame tonight :)
It's basically tradition that we always get at least one movie at Christmas.
Which is good, since we never buy them otherwise.
So our collection is slowly growing from year to year :P

Our turkey dinner was SO yummy.
Except for the mashed potatoes.
I don't know what was up with those. But they were pretty gross...


I WANT TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN SOON!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas my loves.
I hope you all had a great day too.

I think that's long enough... :P

Heyyy!!! So now that two people have posted since my last post, I figured it was 'okay' to post again ;).

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha, I'm proud to say that this is the first time I've used coloured text in one of my posts! It sounds like Rachel had a great morning so far, and I just talked to Savannah on the phone <3>

I love you girls so, so much :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) here's to a heck uv a lot more toothbrush bending, ice cream buying, dutch-blitzkrieging (haha Katlin :P ), sushi making, sushi eating, aerie underwear and major major fun times!!!

hope to see you real soon (as in TOMORROW, ahem!) and till then, frohe weinachten!!!!

Love,

Maya

MERRY CHRISTMAS

It's the big day girls!!!
(or the day after for Katlin)

The day has actually been fabulous so far.
Everything Christmas should be, and probably more.

The Kids have been good as gold.
Taja's been very thankful, which is quite a change from last year.

Last night we had our traditional Christmas Eve eating party with all our friends who make the best food(besides you girls and your moms, of course).
Mo was there, and Viola too.
We went tobogganing, and used those ice lamps we made the other day.
We also decorated our neighbours tree out back with garlands of pop corn, dried fruit, and raisins for the animals.
It was such a great evening!


I feel so warm and happy right now.
Micah and I are cuddled up in my bowl chair in my room.
Him on his DS and me typing away to you.
Every so often he hands me the game to get him out of a tough predicament.

Taja and I watched Alice in Wonderland(the new one) and then we painted our nails.

Dad got back from work not too long ago, and we'll be opening the rest of the presents.
There is still a healthy sized pile underneath the tree.


Turkey dinner with all the trimmings is being cooked as we speak.


I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!


p.s. Katlin, I have my Elliot CD now, but haven't gotten a chance to listen to it yet. We will be having that ranting sessions soon!

gotta love homework... not.

Welcome to Katlin's Procrastination Posts, episode #1.

I'm writing an essay for C&C on North America as an overmedicated society. Or at least that's what I told my mom I'm doing. Actually, I'm watching a video about frog hunting;)
But really, today was Christmas morning for my family. WHY AM I WRITING AN ESSAY?!

Krista's not coming over for Christmas, so it'll just be me and Derek... Darn, I almost think we'd hang out MORE if i was the 3rd wheel haha. Because she actually tries to include me.. Oh well. Me and Ty can chill:)
I guess that'll also give me more time to work on my essay... Gah, this is killing me. It's HOLIDAYS.
Plus, I haven't seen you girls nearly enough, and I haven't hung out with anyone from gym, Kristy, Gavin, people from school... There's just not enough time:(

Anyways, I think I'm gonna go make some salad (more procrastinating) since I've eaten way too many cookies and chocolate orange today:P
I'm sure I'll be back soon!

now that was HOT. period.

ahaha, that title actually sounds pretty funny now that I think about it. But it IS relevant. Guess what I did for the first time in my life today??? Two syllables...YOGA!!!!! Woohoo!!!! I've wanted to try yoga forEVER, and today I went with Savannah and Colin and Rosemary :) :) :) :) :) :) Thank you SOOOO MUCH!!!! It was hot yoga, and I've never felt so 100% refreshed in my life! wooooot :)
beat that ;)
Actually, this whole weekend has been SUCH a blast :D thanks to you girlies!! Awwww, and my bro is SO happy that he got to come to sushi with us on Saturday <3 it defs brought back some of the cuteness in ma bro :P I lurv him...teehee, I went to his hockey game today and I cheered SOOO LOUD!! haha, there was this one lady on the other team who had a machine that sounded like a siren, and she blared it so loud - it made me angry, haha, so I totally opposed her on the cheering section ;) oh yeah! :P well, I figured since I only go to see my bro play a few times a year I had to make up for the lack of cheering. And whaddayaknow??? He scored, twice!!!! First time scoring in months :) :) :) :) :) I'm so prouuuuuud. A little obvious? nahhhhh
And now I'm scrapbooking! I've collected all the brochures and tickets and programs and pictures and letters from the past year, and I'm organizing it now. :) so SO many good memories...no, scratch that - AMAZING moments, unforgettable. I LOVE YOU GIRLS!!!!!! I was looking forward to seeing you for soooo long, and now all I can think about is the two hours we spent together yesterday :D
here's to two weeks of awesomeness...sistars, snow, christmasy spirit, baking cookies, YOGA (haha, I sweated like a dawg!), fires in fireplaces, snow angels, sledding (yet to happen), sistars, snuggling up with a warm cat, sistars, warm socks, sistars...haha, and Katlin's awesome tea :P
nightio all!

sushi and love

Seeing you girls today was absolutely fabulous.
I've missed you so much and this extra dose of sistarness was just what I needed.

It was fun that Jala and Ganesha could join us.
It was good times.

That was SO much food.
lol.
For real.
We're pigs.
I love it.

Thanks Kate for coming back with me and sticking it out through the terror of it all :P
For you other girls, wondering what I'm talking about, let's just say that bed time can be scary.
At least Jadon went off to bed with absolutely no fuss.
He's the perfect child.
At least most of the time anyway.

shhh... roomate's sleeping :P

AHEM, i could've totally introduced you to mp3 converter!!!!!
just sayin
so yeah, 2 exams left, both 2moro.
both of which i started studying for... today :D
this week has been so fun,ironic because its exam week lol.
excited for break :)
excited :)
excited :)
wooo!
ps. i give my roomie tuck-ins when she goes to sleep hahaha, im the night owl ;)
p.p.s.my friend says he'll sharpen my skates for free!!!
p.p.p.s. i love rootbeer
p.p.p.p.s. Andy is scared of snakes---- why??? o__o lol
p.p.p.p.p.s. i want sushi... NOW!!!

I love my ipod!

Some songs I want to share with you:

Christmas Lights - Coldplay
Merry Christmas Baby - Brighten
Ho Ho Hopefully - The Maine
Anything by The Script... (my favourite band!)
How to Save a Life - The Fray
9 Crimes - Damien Rice
You Raise Me Up - JOHN MCGILL!!! his voice = love. download this NOW.

I had more but I forget now... More to come later:)

Also, Matt just introduced me to the wonderful YOUTUBE TO MP3 CONVERTER. Best thing ever. Any song you could ever want, only a few seconds away. How did I not know about this before?!

Santa is coming to town!!!

Yesterday we headed off to the mall for a visit with Santa.
Yesterday was one of those everything days.
For about 89% of the day Taja was a monster, and Micah was completely perfect for the entire day.
I mean, how many kids would be able to stay postive and not start crying when he's inbetween a 6-year-old screaming at him and a baby crying at the top of his lungs?
Taja fussed through the whole Santa thing too.
And then after my flute lesson we were going to get thai noodles, we drove all through town,  but the resturant was closed.
Which actually really sucks because Micah was the one who wanted noodles, but Taja fussed and said that she did, she wanted to eat something that mom made.
Poor little boy was having a rough time, but was perfect all the way through it.

I was so angry by the end of the day.
Taja just kept getting everything she wanted, and even when she fussed she still got to do nice things(and she fussed A LOT!!!)
And Micah, didn't fuss at all, but he didn't get to do anything he wanted.

He was really tired before supper, so he had a nap.
Then when he woke up he got to stay up late, so I decided it was time that he got to do something nice.
We played down stairs for a while.
Then we shared a candy cane and read some books.
This inspired us to make chocolate chip candy cane cookies.
Then after all our cookies were baked we went back down stairs and played 'donkeys'.
Hahaha. It was just like old times. You know, when we used to play that we were wolves or monkeys....
but now we play donkey's, since donkey's are Micah's favourite animal.
We also played some other random stuff, and just basically had a ball.

So yeah.
My evening with Micah was amazing!!!


Oh, I'm sick. And it sucks.
I've been coughing SO much and it's driving me crazy.
I didn't sleep well at all last night.

I'm also terrified that my voice is ruined forever.
That's a very scary thing, and I'm trying not to freak out about that too much.
It could just be the whole cold thing that's messing me up right now.
But I'm frightened that it might be more....
so yeah.

My life is everything right now.

I really just want to go to the movies, or go shopping, or just hang out with you girls.
Let's just say, Christmas holiday's can't come any faster.

come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together

Today was the annual Christmas tree hunt with my dad and bro :D We're such a cute team(L) Our house smells amazing now, and we're just waiting for the branches to settle so we can decorate!! Yay, my favourite!
I'm in a very good mood now, due to the Christmas-y atmosphere and the fact that Debbie came down to visit. I love her so much, because I know I can always count on her for anything. Seriously, if I asked her to bring me home the moon, she'd find a way. She's the closest thing I've got to a second mom <3
I feel like the whole Christmas spirit is finally sinking in for me... I'm remembering why this time of year makes me so happy. Life has been so stressful/sad/crazy ever since I retired, and I honestly didn't think I'd ever be the same. I'm glad it's finally coming back to me...
Oh, on another note.. The Glee version of Baby It's Cold Outside is soo cute (with Kurt and his soon-to-be bf)!

something

BEAUTIES!!!!
hello there, I hope December is treating you well so far. I'm actually in a bit of a time warp right now, I have lost all sense of time...gahhhh!
So this week has been kinda ridunkulous, our schedule has been turned inside out and upside down, and the result is...majorly bruised toenail (yeowch!) and a sore body plus a tired, tired mind. But, right now, I'm on over-tired mode! And that means, hyper time!!! woot woot :P
We had our student council-held "Winter WOnderland" event tonight. Basically we spent the last two nights baking cupcakes, icing them, baking brownies, making rice krispies, popping popcorn and making hot chocolate which were given and sold to the younger students whilst playing the film "The Polar Express." Prime, I must say. Hope you agree ;)
We finally FINALLY had modern class today!!!! It was the best thing all week :) :) :) :) :) :) I love it, it is truly amazing how dance can make one feel...to be honest, I hadn't really felt that way for several weeks. Incidentally, we hadn't had modern class for several weeks either...hmmm, coincidence?
I love you girls SOOOO MUCH and we need need need to get together uber soon. Kay?
I want to write more, but it's after 11 and I have ballet class tomorrow bright 'n' early, so ta ta for now.
cheerio, pip pip, toodaloo and all that

everything

Hey My Girlies,

So I though my life was settling down after the craziness of last weekend. Haha. That's a joke if I ever heard one.

I had recording for the itunes single with glee yesterday, as well as a choir rehearsal with the phil.
Tonight I have a dress rehearsal for MYS.
Tomorrow I have glee in the morning, then we go and sing at city hall for a kitchener rangers thing. After that I have to head over to WPL for a carol sing-a-long with the phil.
And then on Sunday I have the big concert with all three of the 'menno' choirs (the children, mine, and the adult choir).


I think I've decided that I want to do phil again next season(as in september 2011).
There are big plans!!!!!
The plan is that we will tour next June!!!!!!!(in 1212...)
so yeah. that's kind of really exciting.
And I don't mean like touring to niagra falls or anything, I mean, EUROPE!!!!!!!
Like some of the possibilties are Austria, Rome.... and she listed several other exciting places that might be apart of it.
That would be SOOOOOO amazing.
We'd get to sing in some of the most spectactular churches in the world. The sound would be INCREDIBLE.
Basically, we'd just sing, and do a LOT of sight seeing.
I'm sososososo excitied about that now. It had better happen.
Just thinking about that makes me so happy.
Plus, Amanda B, our choir director, would be wonderful to travel with. She is so nice and genuine. Also, she is so enthusiastic about this endevouu, it could be nothing but wonderful.
She would also know alot about where we were going, and she would make sure we learned a lot, but she has a great way of making it fun and casual.
Personally I think she should homeschool her kids, but she likes having her own time to much.... she says it wouldn't work. But I think it would. Her 4-year-old son is really smart and she loves her kids so much. She's always talking about how amazing being a mom is.
But I guess, being a professional and having a job and career are just as important to her too.


Glee last sunday was SO much fun.
Well,it got fun during the show. Dress rehearsal was... not fun.
But yeah, after last weekend(which was craziness) I woke up on Monday with absolutly no voice.
It was awful.
I'm slowly getting better and I'm almost at 100%, but not quite...

I barely even looked at my math over the past week and a half, and I have an assignment to hand in today.
I worked on it last night, and a bit today, and now I only have 2 questions left.
I hope I do alright on it. It's triangles.... so it's not too bad, but still.
I haven't done any practice questions or anything... so we'll see how it goes.

Right now the house is over run with small homeschoolers.
We are expecting 8 moms, and that means they'll be close to 20 kids here. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Yeah. What else can I tell you?

I'm reading a really good book right now! :)
It's one of those books that it so luxurous that you get totally lost in the world of the story. It's the first of a serise that is a prequal to another serise that I really liked.
To tell you the truth, I'm liking this book better than the original serise.
I'm a sucker for historical fiction, and this story is set in 1870's. AND it's not just fiction, it's full out urban fantasy! IN HISTORICAL ENGLAND!!!!!
so yeah. Basically it's just the best of everything... plus there are some really attractive male protagonists. need I say more?
;)

Fish Drama

For the record i did figure out how to do the origami fish :P
hmmmm... i'm getting the urge to go to bulkbarn LOL.
I'm sorry rachel, but i love pants hahaha :D
i will try once i get home after exams when i have time to look at the clothes i wear xD.
Man, Mondays are wicked- finally a bit of time for moi :). This weekend was pleasant. Friday night pingping and i went to the lights display--- the dolls are a bit TERRIFYING (just for the record :P). On saturday i went shoppinggggg with Amanda which was nice. Then yesterday i worked 8 hours and came home tired, but luckily for me the girls made dinner :).
I went out to lunch with my dad today which was nice.
Wednesday im not spending the day at the school lol. I am frolicking :D
anyways, i need to readddddddddddddd xD
ps. All our fish are dead.
p.p.s except for Jonah the handsome lil beta :P
p.p.p.s I love and miss you all :)

no pants december

I invite you all to join me on this epic adventure of fronzen proportions.

So I(and several other girls from the cast of R+J and beyond) have declared December No-Pants Month.
It's like no shave november, except it's for girls and is less gross and awkward.
So yeah, from here on it I'm going to TRY and wear nothing but skirts and dress(tights are allowed, and encouraged. Frost bite is not cool).
There's even a facebook event(which means it legit :P)
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=136215239767774

so if you are crazy enough/want to change up your wardrobe a bit, I encourage you to join in :)



On another note.... I haven't seen the new Harry Potter movie yet!?!?!?!? WHAT IS THIS!!!!!
That has to change, and who ever is willing to take me, I except your offer :)

Also, has anyone else realized that there are only 21 more days until Christmas(20 if you're Katlin...)

november, I will miss. But to be honest. I'm gald you're over.

November has been a crazy monster of a month.
I finished nanowrimo today.
I'm actually so happy.

But to be honest I've become really over whelmed by everything that's been going on.
November was a really emotional month for me.
I had many ups and just as many downs.

It was craziness, but I don't think I would have changed it. Well, not most of it anyway.

Now.
My mom just calculated that in the span of 10 days(the first day of that being this past Thursday) I will be in 14 performances with 4 different groups.
:O
Oh my goodness.
It really doesn't seem like that much until you say it like that.
what was I thinking!

Excited for school to endddd

Sleep is such a wonderful thing x)
Rachel's play was TOTALLY WICKED :D
it was thoroughly enjoyed by moi and ping ping ;P.
This weekend was family weekend basically. So a bit boring but oh well.
last night my roomie and i stayed up till 2:30 watching a tv show called Chuck.
I want to see you girls this week :) hurry up and stop being busy rachel!!You,Me,Katlin, date.
I have a skype date with Olympia tonight to discuss our New Years adventure x)
I got my skates and mittens and other wintery things from home, and since there's snow on the ground still, i think they'll come in handy.
I am currently struggling to make our beta fish an origami fish friend. It's incredibly complicated lol. but i am DETERMINED -_______________-
2 pieces of paper are not going to outsmart me :P
I can't wait to start enjoying wintery things. Skating with a hot chocolate to follow, christmas shopping with Rachel who will inevitably spin around on the spot-somehow disoriented :P :P.
I put Christmas lights in our room. And im getting my boots today from mum :D wooh for warm feet :D <3

a mishmash of my life

I'm feeling pretty sistar deprived right now... I miss you all so much, and I've hardly talked to any of you in what feels like at least a year. :(
So anyways, here's a sorta update on what I've been doing...
I wrote a math contest on Wednesday. It went... hopefully okay, since this is the year I'm looking for scholarships and stuff. I used up 2 hours of the time, which is much better than the first time I did it:P
On top of the math, school's been SUPER busy. I've had a lot of FTC stuff, plus history club, tutoring, and two ISUs given out... The one for history has actually given me a lot of trouble, which is surprising considering its my favourite class. It was nearly impossible to pick a topic, since we're doing "dark chapters" in history, and they have to basically be little known war crimes/genocide/shocking events/mass murders that never get put into textbooks. And to be honest, I'm not interested in that sort of stuff. I don't really want to know about it.
I finally ended up picking the treatment of aboriginal people in Australia. Hopefully I can get into it enough to write 3 pages and make a cool visual.. and get a good mark. It's so hard because last year I was SO interested in my topic, and I put a lot of work into it. And I don't want to let my teacher down when this year's isn't nearly as good:S
On a different note, I went to watch the gym meet today. It was fun, and really good to see everyone<3 Emily S, one of the little girls, came with me (she's SO cute!); and Joy, Alison, Alex and his GF Jess all went too. Watching the level 9s really made me realise that I was ready to be done... I'm not cut out to be in that world anymore. Everyone from my generation is gone, and I don't really fit in to any of what's left. I don't want to be the bitchy older girl, and I'm not the tiny up-and-come-er. Its still really sad to be leaving the gym world behind though:(
One thing I will say though... Our club needs someone to just clean up basic competition stuff. Common sense mostly. Like, Emily and Missy's hair was disgusting. USE GEL PLEASE, it looks a thousand times more professional. Also, SMILE a few times and stop being so obviously nervous. It makes a huge impression.
Anyways, I should get some sleep. Lets get together soon <3

Chroma Serenade & Eme r g e n c e

I've just seen one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my lifetime. We just came back from the National Ballet's second program of the year, and my entire existence is so blown that I can't even think - much less write. I hope I clicked on "english" in the language bar; my tongue is speechless and my heart's going flibbertygibbet. and I'm officially a dweeb for writing this late, my roomie needs to go to sleep (not to mention I do as well) but I just needed to tell you about this epic, epic evening.
love you all
g'night

Sunshine :)

Aww my lil' sisters! Rachel i am extremely looking forward to your show friday xD.
I talk about it at least 3 times everyday hahahaha. I'll go knock around some drama-causing noggins in your name if you'd like :)
Today was a great day! Wednesdays tend to be that way when no classes are scheduled for EVERYONE xD
A very exciting evening that's for sure lol.
One girl stapled her finger all the way through and we counselled her through it all, poor girl<3.
My roomate chopped off her hair and it looks wicked :)
We came home from pickin her up from work and the guys left a homemade cake in the shape of a fish for us lol. Pretty friggin awesome! Lol, they left a note saying "I didnt steal your fish, but hopefully this makes up for your loss!"
yep, 3 of our fish died lol, because the other fish apparently have cannibalistic tendencies :P
I dis-love them all now, and only have love for Jonah our dear little beta hahahaha.
He likes to be petted... bahahaha ;P
I hope you're all feeling a bit better :)<3
Here's something to look forward to--- Christmas break!! Toboganning, christmas cookie baking,fire!!!!!!!!!!! (hahahaha,fireplace fires of course....), snowangels, rolling down snowey hills, throwing snowballs at Andy... (u all have permission;P),hot drinks of any kind mmmm, snowflake hunting, and FRIGIN AWESOME TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i forgot, skating ^_^
Sorry im in a very christmasy spirit, christmas music has been playing nonstop in rez hahaha. And we decorated our doors in christmasy themes x)
big huggy for you all<3<3

the other train

I'm dead. So, so tired, and everything is happening right now...
I can't even keep my eyes open, I'm feeling the same way as you Rachel - any and every thing sets me off. And I'm coming down with something too...:( yikes
I really, really try to disregard it, I mean, we're all so lucky living in Canada with family and friends, and this is an amazing amazing school...but the headache just comes creeping in and all of a sudden I just want to go crawl into a corner and put my head in my hands.
I hope the rest of you are having a better time, and I hope your show week turns into the best one you've ever had Rachel. I wish wish wish I could come see you, but I don't think I'll be able to come home this weekend :( I want to SOOOO BAD. But we have photo shoot stuff all day saturday, my parents have activities all weekend, and to top it off our car just broke down...
so, all the best, and I sure hope some luck comes your way, cause it sure hasn't settled down here. Love you all

train wreck

I'm going to be a disaster.

First of all, it's show week.
That's code for the 7 days you have to try your hardest not to burst into tears at any moment because just about anything and everything could set you off.
I'm WAY behind on word count and this is the last 7 days I can do anything about that.
I have to work on my assignment and test too.
And practice so music might have to happen too.

Also drama surrounding other things in my life is going on right now too...
so yeah.

This week of craziness that might just send me tumbling over the edge.

Adding on..:)

Katlin and I are list buddies so here's my Christmas wish list xD
from my mother im getting contact lenses lol
random stuff....
-Winter jacket :)
-jellies
-laundry money, loonies lol
-..... money....
-long sleeved shirt x)

thats all xD

23 days until Santa's in town

Here's what's on my Christmas list:
a Blackberry (woo! fingers crossed)
Aerie undies
jewellery (rings, silver necklace)
books: Nice Recovery, The Devil's Cure, An Abudance of Katherines, I Coriander
a cute jacket
body wash
hot yoga passes
another book, I forget what it's called.
V-neck shirt
MAC lip gloss
a nice cardigan
....and that's all I can think of..

blurb

Rachel i cant wait to see your show :)
crazy, weekend. Andy's bday yesterday. Not much hwk for this week xD. Talked to olympia yesterday^_^. our pet fish are eating eachother. cant wait for christmassss :D :D

6 days 'till show

Opening night is less than a week away.
There is only 11 days left of nanowrimo.
Where has November gone?


Over the next two weeks I have show week for R+J, the first rehearsal and the shows for Charles Dicken's Writes a Christmas Carol, KW Glee's final concert(other than the New Years Eve one of course), I'll be singing at a chruch service with MYS and singing at the menno singers big concert with the 3 choirs together.
Yeah, and try to finish my novel in the midst of that...
I'm also trying to read some books that I'm supposed to bee reviewing, and it would be great to keep up with my math course.

But yeah, other than that I'm pretty sure I'm totally free.



Oh lol. I at least have to let you know that this happened, we'll go into detail about it someother time...
MO and I went shopping for pingping's present and had the most intense experience every.
We'll have to reinact it for you sometime :)

Monika, Queen of Disaster

I single-handedly flooded the laundry room.
First of all, I dropped my detergent on the floor and started mopping the mess up. Then, as i am mopping, this huuuuge rush of water comes flowing towards me. I drop my mop and run out screaming "AAAAAH!!! GUYSSS!! COME! I DUNNO HOW TO EXPLAIN!!!" soooo, yeah, i flooded the laundry room. Pretty tragic situation lol. Hollywood kind of tragic. Spent about half an hour mopping up the mess lol. So yeah, i have the title of walking disaster right now haha. Anyways, i need to write some paperssssss.
And Katlin, you should do it :)

BINGO.

It IS always the crazy ones who end up making history. Not just that, but it's the 'crazy' ones who end up "making peoples' days" and creating moments that remain blazed in memories for years to come.
Katlin, I think if your gut feeling is that you shouldn't just let it go, you shouldn't. I mean, sometimes it is just too much to take on (opposing people or an idea or authority etc) but if you cannot get it out of your mind then that is showing that it truly means something to you. And you should stand up for matters that have a profound meaning. Personally, the only thing that gets to me is when highly-opinionated individuals refuse to let up on an issue that doesn't concern them whatsoever just for the sake of argument. You are the total opposite: as far as I can tell, you've been thinking about this issue for a long time, your thoughts are both thorough and just, and you aren't aiming to "topple" people or authority so much as just to raise awareness. Are you hoping only to open eyes about specific world issues, or are you wanting to impact the manner in which school authorities deal with them? Because, I find - again and again - that people often shove things away out of spite, ignorance, or selfishness. I would base my opposition carefully on whatever their main reason was; that way the situation can be approached more professionally and, if you like, elegantly. That, I think, is something that people will notice. A "formal opposition" as opposed to a loud-mouthed teenager who is rebelling for the sake of rebelling (not you obviously). It's just hard sometimes because adults and authority in particular have the tendency to immediately brand any opposition as "teenaged rebellion" and will come down with force. If you can convince them diplomatically and thoughtfully (it is a major strain on patience, I know, so frustrating) then not only will they likely listen to you and follow your lead, but you'll have a reputation that will allow you to act further.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lecture or anything - I hope it didn't come across that way. You probably knew all that already, but I just wanted to remind you of your natural sophistication, cause I find I forget about it when I'm really passionate about a frustrating situation.
Best of luck sis,
keep us updated!

YES!!!

Katlin,
(I was going to write this as a comment. But I thought it might get a little too long...)

I think you should totally do this!
It's not right that you guys just got brushed off like that.
If this was something that you were willing to put your energy's into, and you truly believe this is important, then  it's important that you take a stand.

I mean, as a teen, I think I would be interested in hearing kids my age speak about something that's happened(and is happening) to other children. It's something teens can relate to more than only being to and having the opportunity to think about what is now the older generation.

I do think it's important to remember both. Each situation effects our history and who were are and able to be today.
I think that this could become something big, and if you can be the person to bring this topic to light.
Go for it.
Show them that they can't just push something like this under the rug and get away with it.
And if you do end up ruffling some feathers, it's for a good cause.
Don't stay quite. It might be the easy thing to do, but is it worth it?

You may be crazy, but look at history.
It's always the crazy ones who end up making a difference.

should we do it?

I'm back about my whole Remembrance Day Speech issue...
My mom mentioned something to me this morning: this could really blow up in the media. And it's true. It would make a pretty good story, the kind that reporters would probably snatch up in a second. Students against school. Old ways against new.
Our group was really divided on whether we should just let it go or not. Obviously, it's done now and we can't change that. Plus, we don't want to get on anyones bad side in the school. We don't want to take the risk of getting in trouble.
But what about the bigger picture?
Isn't the whole point of Free the Children to stand up for what we believe is right? Demanding a change in the world?
This has happened in other schools, and will continue to happen again. But we could stop that, by fighting back. Plus, we'd gain public support and awareness of our cause. So when you think about it based on what's best for THE GROUP, we can't just let this perfect oportunity pass. I feel like we could really make a change here!

Any opinions? Am I insane for wanting to make this a big deal?

call me, now.

So I just want to give you two the biggest hug ever, I love you both and I can just hear your voices speaking when I read your posts. Your thoughts are both brilliant and so sensitive, I feel so renewed reading them.
Here's to a future that turns a whisper of peace into the spoken word.
Love you.

call me contradictory, but...

I think remembrance day is important.
I understand what you're saying Katlin, and all you're points are valid, but isn't the same true of every Holiday we celebrate or acknowledge?

I believe it's important to remember what's happened in the past so that we don't make the same mistakes in the future.
I think your speech definitely shouldn't have been cut, because you're right, it totally relates. But let's be honest that's not the fault of remembrance day itself, it's only the opinion of someone of higher power in your school who is ignorant of the fact that remembrance day is not just about one war that happened long ago, it's about everyone who was effected by any war, anywhere.
Like I said, I think remembrance day is like any holiday
Saying "if they did so much for us... why think of them only once a year?" is very true.
But you can also have a list of every other Holiday or day of importance (earthday, christmas, mother's day, father's day,family day, random acts of kindness day... need I go on?)
I think if you really believe in what you're celebrating it shouldn't ever be a once a year thing.
"Lest we forget" might not apply to those who support our troops now, but not everyone agrees with that either, right?
I guess remembrance day is like any holiday, religion, or lifestyle.
It means something to you that it might not to someone else.
It's very personal.
Like most holidays, the real reasons for it's existence has been lost somewhere a long the way.
I think remembrance day is important.
When I think about it, it's not just about the veterans who died, it's about those who lived had to face the memories and nightmares for the rest of their lives, it's for the victims on both sides, it's about every war that's ever taken place, it's about our future and learning from our past.

Okay. My rants done now too <3

call me unpatriotic, but...

I think I'm against Remebrance Day.
Here's why:
1. If veterans did SO much for us, why do we only think about them for one day a year?
2. War is not about freedom. Canada never had to fight for it's freedom, we were given it. So how can we possibly understand the concept of freedom?
3. My speach/powerpoint that was supposed to be at the assembly was cut for being "not appropriate for Remembrance Day". It was about child soldiers, which relates pretty well in my opinion.
4. "Lest we forget" clearly hasn't applied to anyone who supports troops going into war NOW. We should have learned by now how horrible war is, and not keep paying for it.
Okay. Rant done for now.

A Poppied Field...

It's Remembrance Day today. Everything feels so solemn and stately today...we had our ceremony this morning, which was put together by the student council. Boy, did it ever take a lot of preparation - no major mistakes or anything though...thankfully. It tears at my heart to think of all the victims of greed for power and wealth...we're so lucky to live in a country like this, today.
I'm so so tired...my eyes are really swollen today too :( I can't think straight, my head is just pounding...ouch.
I think that's all for now, my eyes are closing.
To now and forever, and the red of the poppy...

SistER issues :S

Hey girls(LLLL) lol maya
so my sister is being totally stupid:(
Her behaviour is so irritating!!!! Shes always so rude to me and annoyed with me, and then the next minute shes all like were best friends right??? Actually its usually in reversed order :P
Ok well ill try and blog more but its late now so i love you and goodnight(LLLLLL)

Welcome, Penny!!

Wow, I can't believe this happened, but... OMG, SAVANNAH POSTED!!

Okay. Outburst done. Now, a bit on my life.
I started my math tutoring at lunch today. The girl I'm with (lets call her J) seems pretty nice, just not very good at basic mathematics. We went over finding the distance from a point to a line, which is a pretty complex thing for the beginning of grade 10. Lots of steps, with pretty new subject matter. But I honestly think shes completely capable of doing it, she just needs to work on basic stuff like multiplying fractions or simple algebra. Or knowing how to use her calculator properly (harder than you'd think lol). Overall though I hope it went okay. We're meeting again, so she must think its worthwhile:P
Now I'm going to Rachel's for dinner (again lol). More yummy food and sistar time, sounds good to me:)

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so i finally got onto this site :D

I'm such a rebel, i totally skipped school to come hang out with my favourite people in the world and eat lots of good food with them<3

another crazy weekend

This past weekend was rediculous!

Three concerts, and 4 rehearsals later...
I had so much fun, but by Sunday evening I was completely worn out. But it was so worth it.

Tonight I have my costume fitting for r+j, and I'm really excited to see what I'll be wearing... excited and a little scared about everything that goes with it. Katlin knows what I'm talking about. You'll all hear about it later ;)

Katlin and I are planning to see eachother for a bit this after before I have to go for my fitting... we still need to plan that.
I was going to just invite myself over there... but we're having curry hear, so maybe that might be the plan now.

Tomorrow I get to go paint set pieces for r+j at Rockway. That should be pretty fun. I wonder how many people I know I'm going to run into. I probably know more than a quarter of the entire student population there, possible closer to half...
Then on Thursday we're doing a work through of the show. I'm so excited... I think we might need to work on the opening fight a bit, cause I almot got a sword to the head, luckily my partner didn't actually want to kill me, cause it would have been way to easy.

I'm on track with my nanowrimo. I want to get ahead again so that I don't have to worry when show week comes up.
Savannah! Our show is touring to you're school!!!! You need to come see it!!!!

Yeah, that's basically the paln for this week, plus another choir rehearsal and nyubc(book club) and as many hang outs with my loverlies as I can possibly fit in.

I'm a grad!!

So i owe you a proper post after that last one :P
I went curling tonight for the first time ever tonight :) it was sooo much fun! Lots of shouting and enthusiasm on my part haha.
I had commencement yesterday night. I definitely have mixed feelings about the whole thing. In the end i would say it was a nice evening :).
The best part was the sleepover after :D!!
SO much fun catching up with the girls fo shoo
anyways, i really need to get working on some psychology research paper, bs in my opinion :P
<3

$1.16

Is the amount available for withdrawal in my bank account bahaha.
thats all :P

we reached 50!!

hey all :)
guess WHAT??? We've reached 50 posts!!!! Actually 'passed' as this is the 51st, but hooray for this blog!!!
One major sorrow though, in all the fifty, only four of our fivesome have posted: thus far our mission to blogify Savannah is unsuccessful :( 'tis sad indeed...
so here's to Savannah making it onto the blog before another fifty posts have passed ;)
School is terribly busy at the mo, I have to give a major speech tomorrow at a fancy dinner (yikes!) and I am soooooo tirrreeeedddddd....my lil ol' eyes are just cloooossssiiinnnnnggggg.
I have to study for a test tomorrow too, better get on that. Guess this post will be shorter than I'd thought.
Here's to some wonderful times as soon as we can possibly arrange :)

green nail polish

wow. 3 posts by Maya in a row... I'm impressed.

Guess what!! It's NANO time!!!!
lol i have 2853 words written so far... only 29 days worth left to go :P

Halloween was so much fun. We had a bit of a party at Katlin's on Saturday, which was fun and random in the way our parties always are.
On actually Halloween night Katlin and I took the kids trick-or-treating around her neighbourhood.
Micah got THREE bags of candy!
Speaking of which... Katlin I have a bag of candy sitting here for you :P

Monika's sleeping over tonight, and I get to see Andy!!!! YAY :P

But anyway. What I'm I doing writing here? I have a novel to work on!

1/11/10

BAM!! haha, it's NOVEMBER :P hooray, now only 7 weeks till break ;) hahaha, I miss you girls so much, I'm already pinning myself on next break. But lots to do inbetween now and then. This week I am speaking at our fall donor dinner...I'm actually kinda looking forward to it. Let's hope it doesn't disappoint. Ping! ha, sorry, my hairpin just zinged off the floor vent...I'm a wee bit verbal today. THat's a good word, verbal. Sounds like an exotic gerbal. Apparently I'm random today too...
I also have a Chem unit test and an English presentation this week...and brrrrrrrRRRRRRR my room is FREEEEEEZING! yeowch, I woke up so many times last night shivering like a peeled eel...woweeeee, bad reference there...that's a Fred Astaire one by the way. Don't try and picture it, it doesn't work...if it does, then you've REALLY got something to worry about :P
haha, I'm outdoing the world!!!! how? oh, by blogging...three times in a row...before anyone else...and that's not exciting. kay, well, it's pretty good for me I guess. I actually have a bunch of work to do, but my teammate for a project hasn't come down yet...people need to GET WITH THEIR WATCHES. BAM!

a week in October...

Wow, I cannot believe this random October break is over... :(
'twas very nice, I must say :). Highlights? Let's see...
Monika's birthday partyyyyy!!!! SO much fun, and I wanna play Dutch Blitz nowwwww! I lurv birthday parties :D
My bro decided last minute that he wanted to see "Spamalot" at the Centre in the Square, so we got eyeGO tickets <3 I love going to see shows with him, and I think he really enjoyed the show too.
Relived our Tuesday noon hour concert get-togethers with Rachel...haha, complete with a walk in the little park (we almost played 'orphans'!) and a yummy chocolate bar...good choice Rachel! haha, that poor chocolate bar went through some trauma...good thing we finished it off quickly, didn't prolong its suffering :P
Saw my brother's volleyball game - aw, he's so good <3 I lurv my bro's skillz...haha, thank goodness SOMEONE in our house can hit a ball! I'm a goner I'm afraid...
Ye's!!!! SO fun! I just wish Katlin had been there too...we have to go again...I'm hooked. I love your newly finished room Rachel, such a nice job - well done. And it was so nice to see your siblings again too...CHOIR!!! haha, I miss it SOOO much - it brought back so many memories :)
Played the piano a bunch this week...finally. I'm working on Chopin pieces right now...I love Chopin!
I got to visit CSD!!! HOORAY :) :) :) I missed it SO much, and they have a lovely new location - four big studios!! They did SUCH a nice job decorating it...awww, I even got to take class there with Tara Butler - a Ballet Jorgen dancer...she's wonderful! I also got to see them perform at the Conrad Centre, "Ballet in the Studio" :) it was super nice to see them again, and I got to talk to a few company members afterwards <3 they are AWESOME!
Yesterday the MAMA Qs came over, piano quartet, for a much belated get-together. I baked an apple crisp...yummmmm :) and we had tea, of course!
Today we celebrated my mom's birthday with a lunch at our favourite Chinese restaurant....it's SO good :) THen I spent the rest of my day getting last minute things done, and I got my dad to help me put up shelves and artwork that had been lying around for a while...glad that's done.
Wellll, this coming week is sure to be busy, donor dinner, remembrance day prep, student council work, and the usual assignments and such...
It was SO nice to see you girls again, I already miss you...I hope you had fun last night :)
hey Penny, could you possibly drop off my journal? I'm not sure when I'll be back again...
Love you to the moon girls!
here's to our next memory-making adventure <3

YO from the Fonz ;)

yo. Yup, mine's just a little 'yo,' cause the big one is reserved RE-SER-VED for "the fonz."
woot woot, I just finished watching an episode of Happy Days :) :) :) I lurv watching oldies on my comp with my bro...plus, he has a leather jacket too ;) ha, who knows? I might accidentally mistake him for the fonz one of these days...yeah, not gonna happen. My bro's legs are too long :P
okay, enough fooling. You probably don't know what I'm talking about...
yay, I've played the piano a bunch this week - finally, I missed it. Haha, Rachel, I went to get groceries from the same store as yesterday, and someone else had knocked over the chocolate :D majorly funny for me, and AWKward for everyone else...made it seem like I was overly social or something. Anyhow, it's cool with me. I only come in on my breaks, often enough to keep up my awkwardness. I'm not doing too badly actually...
yup, we definitely need an orphans reunion. I miss quilting maple leaves together with pine needles...coincidentally I'm cold too. But that's beside the point. No, I am cold...brrrrrr!
We have this honkin' big pile of wood outside, and we dong flarbin' can't light a fire cause the woodstove pipe is too sooty. shucksos. too bad the fonz ain't here, he'd fix it up good...
well, night ya'll, my bro is out of the bathroom and I'm getting shipped in...it's 10pm X) yay
<3

:)

Monika's party was a blast! I'm so glad that we were all able to hang out at last!!!!


Whenever Maya has a time off it makes me so happy!!
I bike over to her house today, and it started raining on me! And I kind of got lost like I always do when I bike to her place.
I mean, I ALWAYS go the same way, but some how I always end up lost... somehow.
We went to the noon hour concert today(remember those things?). It brought back so many memorises of eating our lunches in the front row every week.
Maya and I even headed over to the 'park' across the street after too :)
I miss playing orphans by the fountain.




We also bought some groceries for Eva. I remember running errands for her when we were little to :)
And we kind of bought ourselves some chocolate too... and me, with my exceptional poise and grace was able to knock nearly every other bar of chocolate off the shelves too.


I just finished working on some math, and I should probably do some more so I can stay on top of everything... but I'm not feeling very motivated at the moment, so we'll see what becomes of that.


I really want to start my NaNoWriMo novel, but it's not november yet!
I don't even really have a plot yet, but I want to get started just the same. I'm excited, and nervous, cause more people know I'm doing it this year, so if I fail... more people will know.
I'm planning on going to the kick-off party on sunday, I'm actually really interested in seeing what kind of people take part in this kind of crazy thing.
It'll be nice cause I actually know some one (remotely) my age whose doing it this year. So it'll be fun to have someone who understands where I am.


Can't wait to see you all tomorrow!!!!

slightly confuzzled.

Well, life certainly has been chaotic lately.
Although this weekend looks to be AMAZING:D
Heres my schedule for tomorrow: market w/ the fam, baking muffins, homework (ew), coaching kindergym:), getting ready for MO's, then PARTY!!!
I gotta confess... I thought you were turning 19. I have no idea why. Lol, then after I told a bunch of people it was a 19th party, I realised it wasn't. And was extremely mortified that I forgot how old you are:P
My brain has been messing with me...
Last night I had this REALLY weird dream. I was late to get to coaching, which was making me very, very mad. And my dad took the longest way possible to get there, because of construction. So I was pissed. AND we had to stop for food, making me even MORE late. While we were stopped I saw Emily, and I freaked at her for not being already at the gym... So I slapped her across the face as hard as I could. Haha, and later when I woke up I didn't know if it was real or not.
My violent streak is showing itself... :P
Seriously, what is my subcontious DOING??

no time to think about titles. period.

well that was a blarf of a day. Truly uninspirational, taxing in every way, and way, way too long. I've seriously been on the tail end of my existence for about a week, and I'm running on adrenaline and arrowroot cookies at the mo. Yup, I never had arrowroots in my childhood, major miss-out, and now you can thank them for me being able to write to you now.
I'm coming home tomorrow...I'M COMING HOME TOMORROWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am honestly drowning right now, I hope the water won't get any higher before tomorrow...
It seems like such a short time to wait for home, but so much has to fit in between now and then...an entire English essay, draft work, plans, references, and the darned thing itself are due tomorrow. Major, major math test, for which I need to study - I'm feeling helpless, really. Biology presentation, and question sheets in Chemistry, Biology and Math due tomorrow.
Yup, basically that means 'see ya'...

Blog CPR

BAM, blog is back in action you poopers :P
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh just finished my hwk for Field Ed. What an awful class. Every ounce of my being rejects the idea of attending it -_-
ANYWAYS
I have two minutes to write this post, then its volleyball. I'm really going to try being enthusiastic while playing. Develop SOME sort of heart for volleyball.
Woooooooooooooooooooooo for saturday :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
woooooooooooooooooooooo for tomorrow :D
and an XXXL wooooooooooo for reading week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my two minutes is gooooone
see you in...72 hours
damn straight xD <3

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Monika!!!!
I hope you have a fantasic day.

Yeah. Just though I'd blog it to make it offical....
I LOVE YOU!!!!


p.s. My room is almost done! I should be moved in my tomorrow!!!!!!
I just need to organize first...

Golden moments&leaves

I loveeeee having no class friday afternoons :D
it makes my awfully boring morning class worth sitting through :P.
Soooooo, this week has been sufficiently WICKED :P. Tuesday's soccer game was a bit tooooo fun, and about 8 of us went to Crabby's afterwards, at 11pm haha.
Sooo, it's pretty clear that i'm "one of the boys" in soccer lol. I don't mind being part of the brotherhood :) i wouldn't have it any other way. Buhhhh, apparently some girls are "in love" with some of my brothers -_- as long as they don't try to use me as a connection i'm cool lol. Just really, don't use the word love when you've just started talking to the person. HAVE SOME SELF-RESPECT!!! ahahaha, jk :P
This weekend looks lovelyyy, except for Sunday= work, but i never expect that to be exactly enjoyable.
Last night i took out the girls to bubbletea :) YUMM, i haven't had bubbletea for about 2 weeks which is so WRONG haha. My birthday is Monday, i guess i'm looking forward to it- to be honest i haven't spent much time anticipating it.It's going to be a lovely memorable day is all i know :)<3

tonight i am playing soccer with Andy :). We played Wednesday too, and i hurt my right foot out of stubbornness-_-. I went against his advice and tried to shoot hard with my right foot instead of my left. I admit the injury serves me right lol :P.

I visited mum today, it's weird- i'm not sure how to describe our relationship right now lol. Not like we're having problems or anything at all, it's just,i'm not living under her any more. It's kind of funny- the world tells you how hard it's going to be without parents, but it's really not hard for me at all. I guess i was pretty ready for the step, but still- not to sound cold-blooded- but i don't miss much from home.I don't even really feel like going back to high school much. I guess i do sometimes, i definitely look back with laughter at last year, but i'm enjoying where i am so much that i honestly wouldn't trade it in.

Quite the beautiful surprise if you ask me :) <3

some ramblings from my crazy life

It's been a while since I've been on the blog, life has been crazy... But I'll try and give you a decent update now:)
At this exact moment, I'm avoiding studying for a math test, eating pizza in bed, writing here and listening to Bruno Mars (Just the way you are). Decent night if you ask me:P
School has been so busy lately... Physics test, C&C presentation, math tests, physics presentation, history club started, I went to my first Free the Children meeting... the list goes on and on. Fitting in homework and gym on top of that is almost impossible. Oh, and I signed up to be an achademic tudor for math. Just one more thing for lunchtime lol...
Despite the insaneness of life though, school is pretty good. History Club is gonna be EPIC :D We're looking at psychopaths and power, starting with corporations. So, if you took... lets say Coca Cola and sat them down for an interview as if they were a single being instead of a huge industry, would they qualify as a psychopath? How do they compare to someone like, lets say... Charles Manson? But you can't put a corporation in jail or a mental institution, because it ISN'T a person. Its THOUANDS of people. And did the individuals really do anything wrong?
Freaky stuff to think about... if you don't get what I've been rambling about, don't worry about it lol. Just drop in one Thursday, 11:00-11:50am. Mr. Mayot probably does a better job of explaining than I do.
Anyways, enough about that. How about... math class.
UGH, its driving me insane. Grade 12 math you'd expect to be hard, right? WRONG. So far, I'm bored out of my mind!! We're doing stuff from grade NINE. Slope. With more complicated numbers/equations. But still. I feel like that class is making me dumber, not smarter. And weirdly enough, I feel like I do better when math actually CHALLENGES me. Like I want to prove everyone wrong, and GET IT when no one else does. Which is not happening this year:S
Oh, on a completely different topic.. on Sunday Penny and I went to see the movie Easy A. It was sooooo funny! I would highly recommend it if you need a laugh, or just a cute, fun movie. Just don't try and explain what it's about to your parents. It won't work lol. The movie is completely innocent and actually has a good message, but somehow that doesn't come across just hearing about the plot haha. Like Juno. Sort of. Not really lol. ...Just watch it:)
Anyways, I gotta get ready for bed. So, btyl! (blog to you later)
<3 <3 <3

wallet adventure(squared)

This is crazy!
I lost my wallet yesterday too!
What are the odds that that would happen to both of us on the same day.

The difference between our misplaced money holders is that I didn't notice mine was gone, and it had money in it. Enough money to make me really nervous :S

I went to get my haircut and I guess my wallet just wanted to hang around a bit longer.
We stopped by a friends house and when we got home dad was like "did you go back to the hair place, you left your wallet there".
Then I got kind of worried, so we rushed back and they were ALL CLOSED UP!

Thankfully there was someone there waiting for a ride and she had a key.
She made me describe my wallet and I was like...
"Umm... blue... and it has a superman thing on it..."
and she was like, "Yup, I'll go get it."

lol. hooray for unique items.

Monika, I'll take you up on those man lessons :P
We're blocking my scene today, and working on some fight choreography, I'm pretty stoked about that!

lol. Maya and Savannah have dance choreography so they look elegant and graceful. I have fight choreo so that I look manly and don't die(looking awesome is also one of the goals... but not dying is a priority at the moment)


post.script.
My 'live meeting' got pretty dull, so I decided to double task and work on a post at the same time.

Oh what a Wallet adventure

Rachel, ill help you with the man thing :P ahahahaha what a joke.
So, to explain the wallet dilemna- i lost my wallet yesterday in the downtown city core. i was so mad at myself lol. i was downtown buying commencement tickets from highschool and we went to the good old pupusa place for lunch and then walked around the neighbourhood where my wallet fell out of my bag. I didn't realize until we got back to the school. It was a horrible realization lol. Andy didn't believe me, i didn't even believe myself :p. I didnt have any money in there (obviously, i'm a student haha), just my whole damn identity was lost for two hours of my life aha.I was determined to not break down and panic but i just kept repeating, "ok, Andy, how do i fix this?howwwwww do i solve this problem?" We backtracked everywhere and no luck,so i called my mama to cancel credit card and all that goodness. THEN, an hour after i called my mom, she texted me that someone picked up my wallet and called the school because of my student card. I didnt even believe it lol. I literally got the message as i was in the parking lot to go to the mall with Amanda and Kim. so yeah, Andy and i went to the person's address after i called her and picked up my wallet :)

great day, seeing some familiar faces at the school,and enjoying an autumn afternoon house-gazing with Andy. Lol Rachel knows how much i love gazing at houses, finding weird features, especially in older downtown neighbourhoods :P i admit the lame interest that i have haha. Great day, that Lady found my wallet, oh man- what are the odds?
Also played a bit of one on one soccer lol, always enjoyable:P bet u didnt know im a left-footy. something that's "SO SICK!:D" apparently aha.
Went back to rez, and had volleyball tryouts, yes my arms are slightly bruised now. Soccer rules vball haha.
Went to sleep at 4:30 a.m. no im not joking or exaggerating.
3.5 hours of sleep doesnt feel too shabby....yet ;P
Oh and, My wallet smells like weed now ahahahahaha<3

Boot Camp

I enjoy how now that our schedules are all going at full tilt, our blog posts are getting consistently shorter.

At least we're still making an effort, and I love reading whatever you post. No matter how short or inconsequential it may be.


I had a R+J bootcamp this evening. It was quite different from boot camp that I had for As You Like It last year.
For that we basically just worked through the script and how we were going to say it, and learning what it all meant. Tonight was most physicality stuff. Apparently I'm not manly enough... I'll have to work on that.

I was told that "playing a male with add another ball to the mix... no pun intended".
And I was also told to go to the mall on Saturdays and watch teenage boys, but not be too creepy about it.
Yeah. Hooray for homework.

I'll just have to keep saying my mantra every time I go for rehearsal and when I get up on that stage.
man time.man time.man time.man time.man time.

Hopefully I'll be able to 'get my man on'. And it would be nice if it started to come a bit more naturally.

The basement reno is coming to an end! I'm at the stage where I have to start picking my wall colours so that we can get it all painted as soon as the flooring is all in place.
The funny thing is I've actually come to not mind sleeping in the living room. It might be kind of weird to be in the basement, away from everyone, and have a wall AND a door.

I don't know if I can handle all of this!
But I'll try my hardest ;)

gulp.

woot woooot! Penny has finally completed the fifth point of our blogging you-know-what :)
haha, I KNEW she'd join, it's just too contagious. But now there's the issue of actually blogging...PENNY, have you any scribbles to add to the blog????
tee hee, I just miss you, sorry about the randomness of this entry :P

happy brainwaves :)

Why hello there. I just wanted to let you know- i was thinking of you all and a great big dorky smile came across my face.
<3

the saturday of insanity

So yesterday was totally crazy.
I had glee rehearsal in the morning and then 3 things at the exact same time in the afternoon.
Somehow it worked out.
I was able to be at my opera rehearsal from 12-1pm then I booked it to the wedding for 1:30... but they weren't that organized so insted of starting at 2 as planned, they started after 2:20 and it was all over by 3:00.
Then I rushed back and went to a R+J sword debreifing until 6.

Crazy. But I survived.

I got paid for singing at the wedding! Like legit.
I sang 1 song and they gave me $50! Not bad it I do say so myself.
Yesterday will go down in history as the first time I got paid to sing. I'm actually really happy about that :)

Today I have another opera rehearsal, and I have to get there a bit earlier so I can do some catching up since I missed so much yesterday.

I GOT PAID TO SING!

just a random ol' day.

yup. It's October 1st, just in case you hadn't noticed. ;) I'm trying to be helpful, really I am.
Well, apart from the hiccup into the tenth month of 2010, not much is up. Actually, I blooped, everything is up. Except me right now, I'm pretty zonked. But homework is crazy right now, student council activities are even more frazzled, and life is pretty exhausting at ze moment.
I'm working on a project for history of art right now, it's a collage depicting the style of an environment we'd like to live in. Oh, and I realized I prefer the spelling "styll" to "style." It's much more expressive, and, well, I like it's style. ;)
I dunno about you, but my brain blew with that sentence. So, tomorow is Nuit Blanche!!!!! SOOOO COOOOL :D
It's basically a 12hour, Toronto-wide arts fest. 130+ exhibitions I believe, and a whole bunch of dance ones included in there!! I am really pumped to see it...I wish you girls could be here, it would be epic beyond belief to see it with you. We NEEEEED to get together soon...I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm dying to see you.
I hope you're having a good first day of October...it really feels like fall all of a sudden. And the air had a certain hint of suspicion about it today...brrrrrr. RAWR

Shutterbug

I've become a little shutterbug recently, in more ways than one.
I love having my camera on hand and being able to capture which ever moment catches my fancy.
And BUGS happen to be the thing I seem to be focusing on most often.

Here's a link to my other blog where I put up some of my favourite photos that I've taken on recent outings..
http://homeschooledandlovingit.blogspot.com/

I try to update it regularly... but you know how it is.
It's SO much fun putting up pictures and writing for them.

Let me know what you think of my photo's.
I know my blog has some typos, I know they're there, and I'm working through fixing them.
So yeah.

Mostly I just want to share my photos with you :)

Grapes and Pecans.

So I'm eating grapes and pecans. They're doing a relatively good job of consoling me, for edibles anyways. Today started out quite nicely with beaded models of DNA in bio (woot woot! klutz deja vue) and things were just so happy, and then it spiralled into a bum of a day...shucksos.
Sometimes I think my family disappears off the face of the earth for days on end...I haven't talked to any of them in four days, one email only, and I can't reach them :S
just a bit disappointing.
We had modern today though :) it makes me feel so great inside, truly free...man, I'd been craving one of those classes.
But now I'm really....deflated. So I'd better eat some more grapes. And then sleep...I'm ZONKED.
night all

bonding on a rainy day :)

Rez life this week has been great so far :)

Today we took pictures of the girls on my floor frolicking in the rain on campus. it was entertaining to say the least xD.

Today indoor soccer starts :o

I don't really know what to expect... i hope it's enjoyableee.

The rest of this week is pretty packed- which i like for the most part. Apparently i have some meeting tomorrow for recreational-something-or-other and am baking cookies thursday night for all of campus??? haha ohhhh my.

I am finally starting to get that familial feeling with the girls on my floor :)

they're throwing a party for my birthday! :D

It's really eye-opening to live with so many different people. I don't regret coming here at all :)

And i do think it's about time for the 5 of us to enjoy eachother's company <3

closed lids.

ahhhhh, my eyelids are clllooooosssssiiinnnnnngggggg...
I am determined to creat a post though. And it's taking all my last reserves of will power to do it, so just keep that in mind in the moments where I make no sense at all. I actually probably do make sense, but only to the readers who are in the same state of brain whallup as I am. It's a pretty zonky dimension, I must say, full of sleepy heads and stars and boggle-your-mind sturf...nice break from regular daytime brainspace.
Anyways. It has been a heck of a busy week, I've been running on pure adrenaline since Tuesday and I'm actually looking forward to Monday's regular schedule as a 'break'...well maybe not entirely. But we are so, so, busy preparing for tomorrow's School Picnic which has demolished the meaning of time and energy. I've actually had zero time to accomplish homework, general daily processes, or anything remotely unmandatory. Today we had ballet class in the morning, which was 'observed' by some peeps as part of a "Culture Day" or something...about 3/4 of the class ended up sitting out on the side for various reasons...and the pianist managed to get slower, and slower and slower with each jump exercise, so my body is in paaaiiiiiinnnnnnn now. Ach. Then we had a quick lunch before our class got together for 4 hours to rehearse our dance for the picnic, go over the schedule, inform our classmates of the activities, try out the activities and organize personnel. Our class can be so dysfunctional, now I'm totally bummed out at anything social - posting stuff on the internet is as far as I'm willing to go for the rest of the evening...I've lost all the patience I'd worked up for it and more. Then I went shopping for little gifts for my 'little buddies,' they're both so sweet :), and came back to res....yay, homework time. Major chem presentation, a powerpoint that's taken me 7 hours to put together, and way to much rehearsing...and MLA formatting is now on my list of 'worst enemies' along with 'snail-paced pianists' and 'dysfunctional groups.' I'm sharpening my blades...
I have a million other assignments to work on now...so I'd better get onto it.
Tomorrow we have to get an early start to finish organizing and setting up for the picnic...then a full day of entertaining, then major rehab. This just shows me how bad I truly am at maintaining a social presence. No koodos for me...

annoyances and what not

My math course is less than interesting.

Much less than interesting.


Oh well. I'll survive. I just hope I'm able to learn something, and that my brain doesn't sut down in the process.

We went to the natural area(the same one Monika went frog catching at) today. We took a picnic lunch and hung out for a bit.
Micah is so hard core about all things creepy crawly. He found a praying mantis within the first 3 minutes of our walk. And he can catch frogs with one giant swoop. It's very disconcerting most of the time.
It's like he really IS a superhero.
It was pretty fun. At the end Taja and I cartwheeled across the field. It was funny.
Taja decided we shoould so 10 in a row, together, at the same time. Luckily we didn't crash(I would have crushed that poor child). But I didn;t make it to 10, I fell over at 9. The world was a little to spinny for my taste.

Tonight is the first night of Romeo and Juliet rehearsals. We're having a read through and I'm excited to see how that goes.

I just finished reading Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel. I really liked it. I totally cried, but that's beside the point.
I loved the characters and completely feel in love with Zan.
It's a pretty quick read, so when you have some time to spare(who am I kidding, that will never happen!) I reccomend you take the time to read this book.

I'm still sleeping in the living room... that's been pretty interesting. I'm not getting as much sleep as I would like, and I REALLY need to get a clock in there so I can know what time it is when I'm getting ready for bed, and when I wake up in the morning.
Sleepin in a room with out a door when there are 3 little people in the house is proving rather difficult. Luckily I usually wake up before Jadon(the little sleepy head doesn't get up until after 9). At least that means one less noisy person to ignor.

I really need to practice my flute, so I should probably go do that.
The stuff I'm working on is so much hard than before... I can do it. It's just taking lots of brain power

my very first field trip...officially

yup. So today I went with my art class to the AGO ;) very cool.
I am now officially experienced in the realm of field trips, and I just realised I'm gonna be late for class. So I'll hopefully blog later.
dong flarb the lack of time!

Granny outing, and school

One hour left of this lecture- seems like enough time for a quick post ;P

Yesterday, was hilarious. I had no classes so Pingping and I went out with my Grams. We took her to the mall :D. She's so funny and chatty- which i love :)

The second thing she said to Andy was "You're beautiful" hahaha his response- "uhhm, thank you.."

It was really nice taking her out, it's funny how doing something so simple makes her so..full of joy. It's weird and sad to think that she's leaving so soon. It was kind of nice having a grandparent in the same country as me.

Now for school.....

Sometimes i feel like such a stereotype running off to a coffee shop during break haha, i love it :P

The upper-year students have influenced me to be a slacker lol. I thought it was weird when they said " wow, you do your textbook reading?" and i realized.... i don't really have to read most of that stuff. A liberating realization :P

Time is going by pretty quickly and it's WICKED haha xP

I'll give my prof my full attention for the last 30 minutes of this lecture xD one down, one more to go for today!

I better see you all soon, expect me at your doorstep xD

just me, not doing homework.

Well hello blog, its been a while...
My life is a huge crazy explosion of business right now. School, gym, coaching, gym, homework, more gym. It's insane!
School is decent, with good and bad. I LOVE two teachers, dislike the other two. Math seems pretty easy, and I'm hoping for a good mark on my test that I wrote Friday. Challenge and Change is still cool, and history is awesome as always. We're looking at the Military Industrial Complex, and all the economy/politics/greedy rich guys behind war. Confusing, but still awesome.
Coaching started on Wednesday. I've got 6 and 7 year olds, so it'll be tougher than last year:( But they seem pretty cute, and most of them aren't totally new. So we'll see. It might be fun in its craziness. Then today I subbed for Ali's class (she was sick), and was SOO grateful that I coach when I do. For some reason, the kids on the weekends are INSANE. Its like all the "normal" kids come on school nights, and the ones on Sunday are only there because the parents need them out of the house. Which makes for a difficult class. I managed though, they seemed to like me:)
Anyways, I really need to stop procrastinating and do my physics homework.
But I don't want to.
Okay I'm going now.
...
Bye.

another whoops

once again I failed at describing my title. We have many more boys in our school this year, very commendable, seeing as ballet is far too often scorned at by thick-headed, bulbous males in our society. I'm not opinionated at all, and I'm really a much nicer person than this post suggests, I just don't remember exactly how to go about it at this point...I'm all 'niced out.'
So I'll stop talking now.
bye

and an Abundance of Dancing Males...sadly not in our Grade

Heyyyyyyy,

So. Things have been monstrously busy (I know the adjective doesn't really fit with 'busy' but I don't have time to change it, so you'll just have to live with it :P) so far this year and I have NO, absolutely NO idea how I'm going to survive the year. There, I said it, and now I'm gonna hide in a corner until I go 'poof' into a thousand bits - each of them can do one thing for me and then maybe I'll get everything done for the day...sheesh.
So that's why I picked now to write, cause although I have a pretty good idea of how to split into those pieces, I don't really know how to piece myselves back together...sooooo, I figured writing to you was the best solution/distraction.
This year I have two spares in an entire week of classes - two hours a week to get everything done...cause we finish our school day at 6:45pm, have to change, get back to res, eat dinner, unpack our day's accumulations, do homework, shower, phone home, and I think I'm forgetting something...oh yeah, sleep. My brain is on megafast gear, and my eyes are on 'closing' gear, so most of my brain energy is going towards keeping them open - I think I should try going through a day blind. That would be quite an experience.
I'm sorry this post is so random and 'ranty' - pretty much describes my state at this point.
Anyways, I have to call Pizza Pizza to arrange food for our Annual School Picnic (I've already called them 3 times, and each time they need different info that I have to go get, hanging up in the process). Plus make posters, email a proposal to the authorities at this school, print things off in the library, do my homework, write a speech, organize photos, come up with dance poses, write a formal letter, read two books, wash my laundry, and find time to take a cold bath to relieve my aching muscles...
I'm zonked...and it's only the first week.
I would love to tell you about everything, but I'm afraid I'm being beckoned by the list, and so I'll just let you know that I really want to see you and I send my best to all of you.
...eyes are officially closed.

an abundance of singing males

This year that become the year of the singing guys.

Last night was the first night of choir, and we had 10 guys. That's totally crazy. Last year, at one point, we had 3.
I don't know if we'll be able to keep all these guys, but it would be great. It'll happen, somehow we'll make it happen.

Choral sound is just that much better with mens' voices on the bottom.
The local Glee club I'm in has 13 boys this season. Last year there was, what, five? I mean, seriously, where are all these singing men coming from?

I don't know what it is, but there is some sort of musical movement going on. The boys of the world are embracing their voices, and the vocal emsembles of my life are benifiting.

I mean, who doesn't love a bass line that can drown out all the ladies without even trying?

market, fishing and forwardness

On Saturday I went to the market with my dad and the kids.
We went to get some yummy apples so I wouldn't have to keep stealing them from Katlin's fridge.

After the market Katlin came fishing with me, the kids and my dad. That was an eventful trip... well more like, long, gross, and fishless.
My dad and Taja both caught a fish, but that was it. We kind of lost track of the time and we had to rush back so I would be able to get back in time for my audition.

Then yesterday I just invited myself over to Katlin's. Yeah, No need to invite me anymore. I'll just show up. No big deal. Oh well. It worked out.
I got to visit with Katlin, and she had an excuse to not do math homework.
See, I'm useful.

Today my on-line course started.
But my internet has been pretty inconsistant lately, so I wasn't really able to enjoy the live chat because I kept loosing connection.
Luckily I was able to listen to the recorded version for it later. Just the parts I need though, because most of it was pretty boring.
The teacher most explained how to install the programs and tools we needed, which was pretty straight forward.

I did my first assignment. Which was basically just figuring out how some of the tools we will be using work.
But as soon as I was going to send it in this evening, my Internet crashed again!
And then when I was back up I e-mailed to ask if the teacher had gotten it. And then it crashed once more before I even got a chance to send it.

Oh well.
I figured it out. It's all sent and now I know how to work most of the stuff.
The assignment was funny because she totally showed us how to do everything over the live chat. Like we didn't even have to figure out anything for ourselves. It was just, watch the chat, and copy exactly.


I just hope that the Internet doesn't give me grief tomorrow during the live chat again... I don't know how much more of this I can take.

(My Internet cut off again last night before I got to actually post this, so here it is now + some more to make my waiting worth while).

Yesterday I had my first lesson with my new piano teacher. I really liked it. It'll take a little while to get to know how we both work, but I think once we do it'll be great.
She has me working on all the Cmajor scales for grade 7 right now. Just the scales, not all the other triads, arpeggios and the like. Not yet any way. I'm also working on polishing a song I already know, and learning a new one too.
We'll see how that goes, if it's enough work, or too much, for a week.
I'm thinking I might be able to take on a bit more, but this is a comfortable start.

I also had my first flute lesson since my exam. That went pretty well. I have a lot of work to do it I want to get my grade 8 within the year.
I have some new scales to work on, and the pieces will be getting harder.
I'm working on a sonata and a study for next week. As well as all the crazy scales that I have to learn.
Wendy already knows how much I can work on, and she's not afraid to pile on more if she needs too.

I know the Glee secret my mom was hiding from me! I don't know if I should put it on-line before they announce the songs on Saturday.
But it involves me, and a song that we will be doing...
It's not nearly as thrilling as I expected.
We're not going to be on the actual show or anything ridiculous.
I wasn't even impressed when I found out, but it's growing one me...

I'll be sure to post it for you girls as soon as I can get my hands on a computer after the first rehearsal when they are going to announce all the songs.

My first bruised lip.And too many Changes.

Where to start..... blah i dunno. My roomate and I are getting along really well so far! Our room looks....pretty kickass if i do say so myself. I won a soccer award on Saturday at this massive soccer game lol. Yeah...thats where my bruised lip happened. It's mostly gone now...Rachel told me how attractive it was yesterday lol.

Do i miss home?no, but i miss summer :( And i miss familiarity.

I mean... this place is enjoyable and all...but frankly i don't trust people here the way i trust people...elsewhere.

I saw Rachel yesterday-but only for a bit which blows.

I had the most dissatisfying outing with Andy today. Dissatisfying because of time.More like-the lack of time.

And i haven't seen the rest of my lovely's for too long.

I dunno, In general i don't feel like my heart is here-- it's stuck with the people i love, who are obnoxiously in a bunch of places.

whoops

and I just realised I forgot to mention that the garbage can is predominantly green-filled, due to a nice sampling of sweet peas... :) yummmm

garbage full of sweet pea pods

back in the country girls! It is really, well, neat coming back to a country where you can read all the street signs and the clocks are the good ol' 12hour clocks with 'am' and 'pm.' Not that I have ANYTHING against 24hour clocks...they just seem so 'no-nonsense,' no wiggle room if you know what I mean. 'Kay, enough of that...
Wednesday I left Munchen with my Mom in the morning, luggage checked in fairly smoothly (one bulky item, two neat umbrellas from my beloved aunt :) ) and I didn't get labelled as 'terrorist suspect' or anything...although I lost my best scissors which I'd forgotten to shift to my check-in luggage :( ah well, if that's the only thing to complain about I'll count myself extremely lucky. Plane ride was long...but it was nice to fly during the daytime - it's pretty difficult to sleep on the plane, cramped seating, lights on, noise etc...but it's a small price to pay for a trip for sure. Plus, I got to update my 'movies watched' list - they showed three movies and I'm proud to say I watched all of them :P. "Marmaduke," "The Backup Plan," and "Prince of Persia." They could never compare to Fred Astaire or Doris Day in my opinion, but they were welcome entertainment. I'm pretty sure the plane we travelled on was fairly aged, it tended to creak and shudder a fair bit...and we passed through areas of turbulence frequently. Won't need a roller coaster ride anytime soon. Descending to the runway was the only worrisome part, the plane seemed to roll from side to side, due to the wind I think, and it must have taken some skill on the pilot's part to make sure we came down flat on the wheels...I've always marveled at the miniscule size of the plane wheels in proportion to its body. I figure it'd be like a pelican on toothpicks...sorry about the visual.
Our luggage took its time to arrive, but I managed to locate all of it and stack it onto the cart solo while my Mom figured out the next stage of transportation. We waited quite a while longer for the umbrellas, and then were redirected to another 'bulky luggage' area where they were waiting for us. No trouble in the customs section, and soon I was on a bus to downtown, where I got on the subway that brought me nearer to school. A bit of an interesting time walking my things to school, but all was well.
Internet is working, major plus, and I'm actually so relieved to be back in a completely familiar zone with people I know. Really, this past week it's just gotten more and more comfortable: from res on exchange I went to my uncle's house, then to school where I can now truly appreciate laundry and food being done for us and the security and direction that is provided. Wow, are we ever priviledged.
Yesterday we had a nice surprise, we got to go see the ballet company's version of the choreographic workshop :D. It was majorly neat to see the creative side of members we'd only ever seen performing other peoples' movements. It was quite the audience too, very small (the showing was in a large studio) but oh, how distinguished. And how amazing to see the company dancers only a few feet away! Wow, their good training, natural talent and professional know-how really stand out. Again, what a treat.
Today we had an 'academic Saturday,' which we'll have three more times this year in order to fulfill the ministry's requirements for the year. Four hours, four tasks. In short, our raw egg didn't break, our parachute floated lives to safety, our bridge defied all odds of flexibility and our straw-paperclip-rubberband contraption was closer to success than failure.
A quick lunchbreak, and then our art class got to go to our art teacher's house! She's so generous, we got to see her artwork, meet her daughter and exchange student, and then we had tea and homemade cake out in her garden, wowee! I'm SO excited for the art course, I've missed a consistent artsy escape this past year, and I just love being in the studio again.
I must head down for dinner before it closes...I hope you are all having a great weekend, busy I'm guessing by the lack of blogging (:P). I didn't have a chance to wish you all good luck on your first day of school (especially to you Rachel ;) ), but I was thinking of you and I can't wait to hear from you!
P.S. Rachel, Savannah says she needs you to send her the email with the link to allow her to start blogging...not sure about the details. Dunno if it's possible...hope the auditions went well :)

10 Buses and one Full Suitcase Later...

MOVING ON OUT TOMORROWWWWWWW. Woooo.AAAAH. Uh OHH.

Today i shoved random things in boxes while singing like a crazy person haha. Then i gave up and went to Staples with Amanda.Then to Shelby's to get jumped on by this wacked out dog and to play Wii. Hahahahaha i totally beat them lol. They weren't too happy with me after i knocked them off platforms for the 70th time :D

That's the whole fun of those Mario games lol.

Yesterday---- i took a total of 10 city buses. And now... i cringe just seeing one pass by haha. I'm kind of on a Mr.Roboto mode right now so i wont explain everything.

All i'll say is, My Grams is the funniest shopper ever. Her and her age defying lotions. For some reason that last sentence sounds weird to me.... ANYWAYS, time to hop around like a wackjob trying to pack her life into bags and boxes.

first week back(or not)

I hope you all are enjoying your first week back at, whatever it happens to be you're doing this year.

I've actually been enjoying it quite a bit myself. I spent 5 hours at the park yesterday with the 'not back to school picnic', and I got to go out for sushi with my dad today.

I've been productive too... my room no longer exists, that's a start. My dad is currently ripping out the carpet and all the paneling on the walls. So right now my basement is a big hot mess.
All my worldly possessions are split between the play room and my parents room. It is physically impossible to see the back wall of the play room. You can barely take 3 steps in before being confronted by a wall of stuff (that's a good title for a novel... the wall of stuff).

I'll be sleeping in my parents room for the next month is a bit while we work on the basement. It's real cosy. All six of us a basically living upstairs for the next little while. I just hope we can all stay on eachothers' good sides.

I've read some science, and I'm on the prowl for a good Shakespeare monologue for my audition...

I'm  all signed up for my on-line course. We sent in my birth certificate in today, and sending a check soon.

I had a great time hanging with you girls at our indoor bon-fire(we missed you Maya, but I'm glad you're back in the country! or will be soon...). We have to hang out again soon, with ALL of us this time. I think we are over-due for some epic sistar sleepoverness. We have to make that happen.

I wish it wasn't so cold already! I want there to be a bit of summer left to enjoy....

In the next week and a bit I have choir to look forward too, 2 auditions,starting my on-line course, my first piano lesson with my new teacher, my first flute lesson back after my flute exam, the possibility of a new voice teacher(?),  and of course patiently awaiting a post from one of you.

dance parties and lace cookies

Yesterday I had the honour of being a guest at a wedding with Rachel. The people getting married were somehow related to Dawna (I'm not quite sure exactly how:P) and her dad did the ceremony. I was the babysitter. But that was for about ten minutes with just Jadon. So mostly I was just a guest:)
At the reception, after dinner, they had dancing for the kids. Well, for everyone. But mostly it was just the kids up on the dance floor. And yes, we're kids;) It was so cute, Taja and Micah LOVED the chicken dance. And I got to dance with the cutest little girl ever (besides Taja)! We tried to convince the 10/11 year old boys to slow dance with us, but apparently they were too cool. Their loss.
Apart from Micah lifting up my dress and Jadon looking down the front, we had no wardrobe malfunctions. It was pretty casual. I felt super dressed up lol.
Then on the way home we had the awesome idea of a homeschooler dance party!! Woo!
We wanted to have a sleepover after the wedding, but it was kinda late so we're having one today!:D
Earlier I went to Rachel's house, and we baked a ton of cookies, some pretty and some...kinda not so much:P Basically I'd say our lace cookies were an epic fail. A tasty, sugary, fun to make fail, but still epic. Then we biked back here and Rachel's staying over:)

screw raincoats

Since Savannah hasn't joined us yet, I'll fill you in on what she's been up to:)
So, Rosemarie took Savannah, Kaya and I to Wonderland yesterday!! Woo! My dad managed to get us tickets for a pretty reasonable price, and we packed lunches to save money there too.
We left at about 9ish am, sooo excited for the whole day, and hoping the rain showers would go long enough to scare off a lot of other people from going, leaving the park pretty empty for us. Little did we know that a HUGE rainstorm was headed our way. After going on just ONE ride, we were informed that rides were being temporarily shut down due to weather. And just after this announcement, it started POURING on us. I changed into a bathingsuit because I knew anthing else I tried would be useless, so I might as well embrace being wet:P
I was not in a good mood though as we got our ice cream to pass some time. Seriously, no matter how cheap the tickets were, one ride was not worth it. We got SO ripped off.
However, after about an hour, the rain started to clear up... And guess what, it did it's job for us! Tons of people either went home or didn't end up coming to Wonderland that day, so the lines were awesome! The longest we waited was a half hour, and most of the time only about ten minutes. We went on pretty much every single roller coaster there, and on Behemoth 5 times (twice in the dark)! It was so pretty to be up that high, looking down on the city all lit up:)
While we were there, Savannah ate a lot of yummy (but bad for you:P) food too. She got funnel cake with ice cream, this cookie sandwich thing, sprite, a jawbreaker, a chocolate diped ice cream cone and hot chocolate from Starbucks. Yum.
Altogether, it was a really fun day!

small victories

Exciting news!

I got my mark from my flute exam a few weeks ago. My teacher called to tell me that the results were posted. I was so disappointed with what I got.
 In my 'mock exam' I did with my teacher she gave me a 76%, and she told me that was with her deducting for every possible thing she could. I wasn't devastated, and I knew that I'd come out of the actual event with better.
But I only got a 71% in my real exam. And I was not impressed. Maybe I even cried, but we don't have to talk about that.
This week my teacher e-mailed me to say that she was going to appeal to get my mark changed. She was sure that the examiner had marked my pieces wrong. It seemed like she marked it out of 20 instead of 25, and that brought my mark down quite a bit.
I was talking to my teacher today and she said that out of all the years she has had students in the RCM exams she has never made an appeal. She can stand low marks, but the comments I got on my pieces didn't correspond with the 16 and 17.5 out of 25 she gave me.
This afternoon I got a call from my teacher.
The appeal was granted!
The examiner admitted that she was incorrect, and my mark has been changed!
It'll take them a while to change it on-line but it has been changed. And I am so thankful for that.

Now I can happily say that I came out of my Grade 6 Practical Flute Exam with 80%.


Here is a brief list of some of the other smallish victories of the moment:
The house is almost void of those pesky little fruit flies that have been plaguing us for the past month.
I made my transcript a couple weeks ago, and I'm not worried in the least for these last 2 years of high school.
Katlin is coming to a wedding with me tomorrow so I won't have to party all on my lonesome.
I have my piano and flute lesson times set for this season.
This blog is doing great so far (we just need to get Savannah connected and then we complete).