Today...

Today, I was in class and I glanced around the room before the teacher started to teach. To my suprise... there was no one with Tim Horton's Coffee Cups.

If you didn't know, it's roll up the rim to win time at Timmy's so it's super rare that no one in class has something from Timmy's.

Off I went to google for an image of a roll up the rim to win cup and I found this instead... apparently, some super smart person out there invented a rim roller upper. That's not it's correct name but that's what I'll call it. Here's a picture...

WTF? we really that lazy?

Random Useless Fact.

Welcome to my new segment called, Random Useless Fact.

Today's fact is:

"Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. "

Did you participate in Earth Hour?

We did. We sat in the living room with candles playing silly word games and pictionary for over 2 hours. Wasn't a bad waste of time. =P

Sydney, Australia, 2007

p.s. Pictionary in the dark is kind of hard. Especially when you aren't a great drawer...

Quotes of the day.

“I never thought it was worth it, you know waiting for your love, and then I felt your kiss, I could wait forever for this”

“Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”

Waiting...

I no longer want to wait for you, or do I?

It's been a while since I last heard from you. I thought that we had a connection. A part of me tells me to move on and stop waiting, because you are obviously not coming. That's also the part of me that carries logic and reason. But right now, right this moment, I don't want to listen to that.

Wishful thinking has me hoping and waiting for you. I tell myself that we had a "thing" going, that if we had the chance, maybe it could be something great.

I want something great, I'll even settle for something a bit better than good. Actually, I don't know what I want but I can say that this waiting isn't what I want, I don't want to wait for you anymore.

If I keep telling myself, maybe I will believe it enough to leave you in the past.

I don't want to wait anymore.

Out of the Closet, at Gunpoint

Coming out isn't easy... sometimes we need a gentle persuasion, sometimes we need a life changing event. Here is a story of a young Muslim man coming out to his parents under strained circumstances.

Out of the Closet, at Gunpoint

The best line in the whole article, and the one that can give us hope is... "Over time, my parents have come to accept my life." in the last paragraph. =)

Quote of the day.

When we tell our stories, a funny thing happens, stereotypes begins to shatter, barriers dissolve and our humanity begins to shine through.

Tell a story, change a life.

Growing up...

Today I was asked what I wanted to be when I was a kid. The fist thing that came to mind was a firefighter. When I was about 6 or 7, my school took me to the fire station and for the longest time I thought that being a firefighter would fulfill my life's dream. When I got to around 10, I probably watched a movie or cartoon of some sort and decided that I wanted to be a treasure hunter. I wanted a sidekick as well as a parrot, which made it very pirate-like.

And now, when I think about what I want to be, I realize that being a treasure hunter is pretty much out of the question.

Why is it that we make it so easy to for children to dream big and we even encourage it, but when the time comes we have so many restraints to what we can do and how we can do it? Doesn't that seem a little bit mean?

Now that I've renewed my desire to be a treasure hunter... I will go and study for my abnormal psychology midterm. =P

Best t-shirt ever!!!

I've found the best t-shirt on this earth... for me that is. I can't wait till my order comes in the mail. =D
I'm ecstatic over a t-shirt... yes, I'm pretty easy to please. ;)

The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

I recently read this book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. It's a easy and wonderful book and if you're looking for a new book to read, you should give this one a try.

The title pretty much explains what the book will be about, simply this man dies, and he goes to heaven, where he meets 5 people who will put his life into perspective for him.

Anyways, here were my favorite quotes from the book:

- "It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed."

- "Fairness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young."

- "Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else."

- "Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. "

Quote of the day.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!



Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Almost mid-march!

Today is Friday the 13...
it means that in about a week spring is officially suppose to arrive. Although it's hard to say if it will, regardless, I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. It seems like just yesterday was the 1st of the year.
Am I the only one to think that way?

I'm not sure how it works for everyone else but our location had our clocks changed to daylight savings. I have no clue what this is truly about so I did some research. Here are some interesting facts about Daylight savings:
- it apparently saves energy. there are studies that prove that all the savings we do during the summer will be wasted when winter rolls around, because consumption of energy during the winter is high. What about AC machines? Won't ppl run them more because of the extra hour?
- changing time results in fewer auto accidents. I know that the first work day AFTER daylight savings is horrible for accidents, even the police say so.
- increases voter turnout. This one makes NO sense at all...
- makes better use of daylight. This one is at the top of my list... I like the long summer nights. =) Their good for stuff and stuffs.
- approximately 70 countries utilize Daylight Saving Time in at least a portion of the country. That seems like a very small number. I know Saskatchewan doesn't do it... but every other province does... I think.

I have to say that personally, daylight savings throws off my internal clock and makes me have a bad sleeping week all together. I'd like to live somewhere where they don't do daylight savings and see if it really makes that much of a difference.

Anyways, I really had nothing else to write about except that SPRING is coming. =)

Have a good weekend.

XO

Quote of the day.

This is a BAD quote... don't follow it, but it coincides with my previous post about procrastination... =P

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

A serious case of procrastination....

So I have a big paper due tomorrow and I haven't exactly started writing it yet. I've done all the research for it and I've collected quotes and done my APA reference list but the paper doesn't exist yet...
I've had pretty much all day to do it, it's about 5pm now, I went out for dim sum at 11ish and got home by 1pm, but I have yet to start writing it.
I spend an hour or 2 online, I went through my entire e-mail account "organizing" old e-mails, and now I'm updating my blog.
Why, you ask, haven't I started writing my paper, I'm obviously sitting in front of my computer and wasting time... but I'll do anything but write this paper. Maybe now that I've pretty much exhausted all the possibilities of time wasting, I'll finally get down to it...
I can try. =P
Later. XO

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

Quote of the day

25 things.

1) I love my family... though they don't always love me.

2) I'm excited to enter the real world (have a grown-up job) but I'm not quite ready yet and as much as it excites me, it scares me shit-less as well.

3) Most of my really really good friends don't live in the same city I do. =(

4) I'm 21 and am still not quite sure what I want out of life. I envy the people who know from a very young age exactly what they want and work their ass off to get it.

5) I went to 3 different elementary schools as a kid.

6) I love to send snail-mail.

7) I'm a bit of a germaphobe... maybe a bit more than a bit.

8) Secretely I want to be a race car driver, if you see someone going a bit too fast and weaving in and out of traffic... chances are it's me. =P

9) I'm a twinkie, banana... whatever else you want to call it. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.

10) I love to ski and snowboard, though I perfer to ski.

11) The only bone I've ever broken is my middle finger on the right hand. I had to wear a splint on that finger for a month.

12) I have a collection of shot glasses but have never actually used one from my collection.

13) I've kept a diary on and off since I was in gr.6.

14) My first cd was Britney Spears.

15) I'm a huge country fan. Terri Clark is my all-time favorite.

16) I spent 3 years in Nursing, only to realize that it really wasn't what I wanted.

17) I have a bamboo plant in my bedroom, her name is Sally.

18) I love chocolate, Cadbury is one of my favorite brands.

19) More times than not I speak before I think things through, it often gets me in trouble.

20) I have never completely read a Harry Potter book (started book 1, couldn't get past the 2nd chapter, tried to read the 5th or 6th one and got about 6 chapters in) and never heard of the Twilight series until the movie was about to come out. Please don't kill me.

21) I have some serious anger issues, I get angry very quickly but it often goes as quick as it comes. My family swears that I have some degree of bi-polar disorder.

22) I see a psychologist, and she disagrees with the statement above.

23) The only pets I had growing up were fish, someone was allergic to something or something another was always the reason.

24) I drink water, it's my favorite drink in the world. I'll choose water over juice, pop, alcohol, tea, and pretty much everything else that you can drink.

25) I like to take long walks by myself without my cellphone.