Hiding Amaranth

jayd_aradia @ 2009-12-14T18:35:00

2009-12-14T23:35:18Z

I... I think they're serious...

*scarred for life*

jayd_aradia @ 2009-12-04T03:20:00

2009-12-04T08:20:12Z

You know what I REALLY hate? Those signs that say 'You've just proved that signs work.'

It makes me REALLY angry. I don't know why, I feel like by reading them I've been tricked somehow! I was walking to school today because the bus system is still on strike, and I must have passed at least two of three of these signs at the empty bus stops. It's like once you have read the sign, there is no turning back. They have tricked you into looking and have played a part in this little annoying game that you weren't even aware that you were playing to begin with! I mean, at first I thought they were clever. But many years have passed since I saw my first sign and each time I look at it, I feel like I want to be defiant. I want to say, "no. I did not just prove that signs work' - but I can't deny it. They rope you into their mind game and don't even give you the chance to prove them otherwise incorrect.

If you have been reading this journal for an extended period of time and have only just realized that I'm odd, then I just feel sorry for you. But in all honesty, do you understand what I mean?

Baseball!

2009-05-20T18:52:41Z

Oooh man do I hurt today. Once again my body has somehow found and used all of these new muscles that I never knew that I had before and it has made walking and moving a little difficult today. I had my first baseball game last night of the year and SHOCKINGLY I didn't suck. At least, I didn't suck half as bad as the rest of the people on my team. I managed to make a couple of good plays AND had a decent hit. I realized though that my first few times up to bad I developed this fear of the ball. Well, at least a fear of HITTING the ball. There were so many good pitches that came right across the plate that I just stood there and watched come in past me. It was sad and I was making myself angry so I was kicking up dirt at the plate. But I finally forced myself to swing at one and I ended up hitting it somewhere far out in rightfield. NOT TOO SHABBY! But yeah, right now walking around is giving me the painful reminder of how out of shape I am. I think I need to find a baseball icon... *goes off in search of one*

edit: Meh... this one is OKAY... It'll do!

House love!

2009-05-11T20:49:47Z

Heh... This made me smile.

The randomness of an insomniac

2009-02-12T08:06:23Z

Alright, ten to three and yes, I am still awake. I am tired though... I would like to sleep soon.

A lot on my mind lately... I'm so confused about everything right now. Lets just say that there are a LOT of things going on with me... physically and emotionally that I don't completely understand and I wish I did. Because frustrations are a bitch.

I do it every year and I know you must hate me for it by now, but yes, Saturday is that stupid stupid day and it really makes you feel like a pretty big reject. Thank you hallmark! You're SWELL. ;) I get to spend it completely alone this year as my roommates will be completely cleared out from the house. The quiet I will be looking forward too... no more Sue muttering things to me from her room like I have an idea of what she's saying to me. Anyways. Saturday will be a very quiet day. A line came to mind to me today that COULD have inspired a potential poem, but I'm not going to be that emo. .... BUT this was the line I came up with. "A day so warm and yet still cold" - see?? the START of something emo. But really... February is a stupid month to have this. It's in the middle of the winter. It's COLD.

....

I really need to sleep soon...

It's history in the making.

2009-01-22T03:19:09Z

It's history in the making.

And I'm fucking sick of it already.

I am personally disgusted with the response that America's new President Obama has received from Canadians.

A constant changing facebook status that I have been seeing this week from one person on my friends list has been of the following nature:

"Jeffrey it was nice to hear FORMER President Bush who is now out of The White House."
"Jeffrey is the phrase FORMER President Bush has a nice ring to it."
"Jeffrey wishes that Canada could have a leader like Barack Obama."

Seriously? Go live in the States. If you're going to be that fucking obsessed with it, get out. I was listening to the radio yesterday and there were reminders at every commercial break, "Obama was sworn in today. Inaugeration at the White House today. Obama. Obama. OBAMA." Even today there was a SONG. A SONG. Dedicated. To him. And they have taken this song and inserted clips from his speech into the song. You know. Like how they did with Titanic? And when they had sound clips from the movie inserted into 'My Heart Will Go On?' Do you remember that? I DO.

WHAT has he fucking done? I think it is a great accomplishment that he was elected into office. I think that is fantastic and it shows the progress that America has made as a country in electing a Black president. I applaud him for that. But hey. HEY. HE'S THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT PEOPLE. I was watching the news and there were chiors gathering together in some town who were going to be singing hymns to celebrate him coming into office.

WHY.WHY.WHY.WHY.WHY.WHY.WHY??

I don't. Get it. Why?? He is NOT our President, NOR do we have a President. It's pretty sad that American politics have turned into some sort of show for Canadian's. Obama has fallen into a group that is like celebrities that we look to and admire. People on the news were worrying the NIGHT before the inaugeration and WONDERING what his wife was going to WEAR. WHY!? Why does it fucking matter? It has fallen in the same sort of class as the Hilton's or the monarchy.

I'm not against him or anything but really? We need to focus on our own government and the crap that's going on with them right now. Because that's exactly what it is. But I'm not really one to judge our own government.

When Obama actually STARTS to do things and change the country, then I will give a damn that's he's the American president. Lets focus on our own crumbling government please.

EDIT: Just in case I need my point reiterated? I type in 'Michelle Obama' and this was the first thing that I got up on a google search engine.
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/style/37874579.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UHDaaDyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Greys - cha.

2008-11-14T16:43:34Z

Callie and Sloan FTW! Mark needs someone instead of being a big slut all the time. ...Even though I love that he's a slut.

Punk'd!

2008-11-07T22:58:48Z

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest) - William Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

It's a BURNINATOR kind of day

2008-11-05T15:35:51Z

Happy Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire night to all!

I'm disappointed that I didn't get to set fire to any effigies this year but alas! There is always next year!

I THINK I was a little bit rude to Sue this morning and I don't even feel bad about it. I'm glad that I said something to her, finally. I think I scared her. She hid in her room from me all morning. *evil laughter*

Writer's Block: Six-Word Story

2008-08-16T02:47:11Z

Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” He is believed to have called it his greatest literary work ever. Can you write a story in six words?

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The heart tore open; Flat lined.

Dinner!

2008-05-10T01:47:24Z

I had an interesting night with mom tonight - interesting, but good! She was supposed to go out for dinner to celebrate my aunt's retirement, but of course it's for my crazy aunt who she doesn't really like so she didn't want to go alone. So she made up an excuse/lie that would pass for me being allowed to go with her so that she wouldn't be by herself at this thing. Which was ok by me because that meant that I got a free dinner out of the situation.

So my stupid aunt told us to meet them all at Jack Astor's for 7. So I drive my mom and I all the way out to Whitby, which is about a 15-20min drive on the 401. So we get into the restaurant and the place is packed. The Jack Astor's is right beside this huge complex centre where there is an AMC threatres. So around 7:00 the place is getting VERY packed with people doing various things at this place. So we get in there and ask if there has been a reservation for this thing. They say no. We were told that we could walk around the restaurant to see if we could see them - annnnd we didn't. So we called my dad a few times to make sure we were at the right place and we were... So mom and I took off and we drove out to a Kelseys and had dinner together. And it was really fun. She had two glasses of wine while we were waiting (on an empty stomach) so by the time our waiter came around to take our orders she was in a great mood. Our waiter was really nice - and VERY cute. We named him Derek. We have no idea what his actual name is, but we thought that he looked like a Derek. All in all? It was a good night. Mom and I didn't have to see the crazy aunt and had a good dinner. I don't think I've ever gone out for dinner with just me and my mom before - usually it's someone else with us too. But fun! :S

The Good and Bad

2008-04-04T17:47:13Z

Wow. So. I think I realized today that if I didn't post soon that by this weekend it will have been two weeks since I last posted on here - and for me? That's way too long. I've fallen behind on everyone's posts, so I'm sorry that I haven't been able to keep up.

Good news!

My last research paper is finished and handed in and the only thing that I have left to do now is my last paper for my Fantasy class, which is due on Tuesday and not that big, so I'm not that worried about it!

I've applied to a few jobs for this summer and I found some more on the internet last night, so I hope that I can hear from them soon!

I really want some mini eggs right now...

Katy Black is coming over tomorrow and we're going to bake some cookies and drink tea! Because we're cool old ladies like that! And I've rented Becoming Jane and we're going to watch that and enjoy the loveliness that is James McAvoy! (Or Mr. Tumnus!)

This school year is almost finished and then it's summer time! :D

Bad News!

I have realized that I have to be the most gullable person IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

OK. So I totally fell for an April fools day Joke by Mugglenet - I hadn't realized that this was still part of their numerous fake posts that they had made for the day just for fun. You can see it here: http://mugglenet.com/app/news/show/1545
Basically it says that WB announced a three season cartoon Harry Potter that they were making to come out after DH. My sister and her friends have a group on facebook where they discuss movies and such, so I decided that I was going to make a post and rant about this. It said:

POTTER RANT!
Yet again...

So. Apparently WB has announced the release of a POTTER TV SHOW. Yes. Three seasons have been planned so far because they figure that after the ALREADY TWO PART DH MOVIE in 2010, people still will want their fill for Potter. Seriously? I had this idea YEARS ago. lol! But still...
In this three season thing they better be sticking close to the books and covering it that way, instead of creating their own stuff... Any thoughts? Or am I the only Potter nut?

Yeah. Then I realized it was fake. So then I posted:
uhm... I'd like to retract my last rant. So apparently it was an April fools joke by mugglenet...
>_< ARGH.
I fell for it!!

So. I kind of embaressed myself just a little bit with that one. Well my friend Steve then posted and told me that they are releasing a Zelda movie and it was available on youtube to watch and that I should check it out.
Me: ...they're making a Zelda movie?? Thanks Steve! I'll check that out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jB89-9X6YS0
That's the preview. I told him I hated him.

Easter!

2008-03-23T22:55:45Z

My parents came up today, which was really great that I got to see them! They came with a bag of goodies for me, including some delicious Easter chocolate and left-over food/cake from last night's Easter at my grandmother's. I've already devoured the pastizi's that my aunt left for me! They didn't stay very long, but I'm still really happy that I got to see them today! I'll be home for the weekend in just a matter of a few days so I'm very excited for that as well.
I've been writing my essay today and I'm at 2000/3000 words and I really hope that I haven't run out of things to talk about and I hope that what I have written is making sense. It's this feeling that I've been getting with most of my essay's lately, that I'm just not making sense with anything that I'm doing or writing. I feel so scattered sometimes. I just remember a different feeling with papers last year - they felt so much tighter and put together, whereas these just feel so loose... I don't get it. Maybe I'm still doing fine. Time will tell when I hand it in and get it back. I kind of wanted to finish this essay today, so I'm leaving this as a short post. But I really just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter and that I hope the bunny was good to you all!
My bunny brought me Scrabble! ;) lol!

This is my bunny, Cadbury! (Real original, right?) He was all Eastery a few years ago and we took this - so now he's the Easter Bunny.

Meme...

2008-03-20T19:58:43Z

I gave in! I got bored enough to do it - mostly because I'm in class too! ;)
And it's in pretty easter colours - so you better like it. Or else.

The rules are: The people who have been tagged should post their answers and replace any question they dislike with another question they make up. Change the role question to a fandom of your choice. Tag people!

You just died. What happened?
Someone came into my class room with a handgun and shot me and saved me from my hell that is this class. Either that or I just died of boredom and lost the will to live.

What is your most guilty pleasure?
Probably RPGing on Harry Potter communities...

What was your favourite childhood cartoon?
Hmmm... I really liked Pokemon in grade 8 and 9 - but some old school one's were under the umbrella tree, Fred Penner, Mr. Dressup.

What goes on your hotdog?
Ketchup, mustard and maybe a pickle ;)

What was the last movie you saw for pleasure and would you recommend it?
The Other Boleyn Girl - I would reccomend it! It actually gives a fairly decent account of what happened and it ALMOST historically accurate - Even though I don't even know if Anne had a sister or not, but hey...

On balance, are you happy with your life as it is, would you change it a little, or would you change it a lot?
I would like to make it so that I had less essays to write for next week and I would like to go home for easter but c'est la vie.

What do you miss most right now?
My Mom.

What’s the one possession you used to have, but don’t any more and wish you did? What happened to it?
My dad's full Phantom of the Opera CD - it was the entire musical on two discs. Out car got broken into and I had that CD in the car at the time and it went missing along with all of my CD's. I never got it back :(

You (as you are now, not a fictionalized you) are a guest character in an episode of Dragonball (ah! copied Torri!). What’s your role?
I am a female half-saiyan that's been living and training secretly on earth, being hidden by Dende at Kame's lookout. A seriously bad monster comes and my strength is needed to help to get rid of him and fight with the boys! On the side I become the love interest of Trunks and piss Pan off for a while. ;)

Name one person for whom you’d definitely take a bullet, and one for whom you definitely wouldn’t.
Would- Anyone in my family - even my extended family. Wouldn't - Hitler.

You can take three books with you to a deserted island. Which would it be?
I would find a way to melt all seven harry potter books into one Omnibus... dude... JKR needs to release that....
but if I had to choose? Deathly Hallows, Goblet of Fire and Prisoner of Azkaban

What do you consider your greatest accomplishment?
Um, wow... I haven't really thought of a Greatest Accomplishment - it sort of changes day to day. One day I'm proud that I caught all 150 pokemon in my red game and the next I'm proud that I'm graduating high school. As of recently? It's my 20 page paper that I managed to get a 74% on.

What did you do so far in 2008 that you are most proud of?
Aww, well that sucks - it's the same thing as before! Well... I'll change it up for you. Not being home for as long as I have and not really breaking down that much.

What’s your greatest frustration?
Sue.
Also not knowing things - I'm weird and have to know everything.

For you only, not as a broad political statement: life imprisonment or death sentence?
It's sort of the same thing really... a life imprisonment might as well be a death sentence.

Jury duty. Ever done it? What was it like? Wanna do it? Thoughts at all?
I got a letter in my first year of university from home saying that I was going to be considered and might be called for Jury duty during that year, but I was able to get a letter from the school and I mailed it back to them telling them I was out of the town and school gave me an exemption. So no.

You've discovered you've been drafted into military service (to a country to which you hold a citizenship).
YES!!! YOU KNOW - the voices in my head were telling me that I was going to get drafted, but then I told them that they were crazy! They were the same voices that told me to shoot up some crackers! *eye twitch*
OR: "I'm a cross-dressing homosexual pacifist with a spot on my lung." - Max, Across the Universe

Which fictional character would you marry?
That's a good question... Christian from Moulin Rouge. That song was really MY song.

Describe the flag of your personal utopia.
Deep red with a lightning slash of cyan blue in the centre.

Do you have a motto? If yes which one?
I sort of steal it from my friend Sarah, but I sort of believe it... Everything happens for a reason.

What's in your pocket right now? Conversely, if you have no pocket, what are the three items closest to your right hand, excluding computer hardware?
My watch is in my pocket because I can't type on a computer with it - it annoys me.

What place(s) most speaks to you?
Peggy's Cove really got me when I was there... I don't know why but it was this weird feeling like I had been there before...

World Shock Count Today: 2

2008-03-19T02:31:20Z

Everybody did that really cool meme - but I really just don't have the patience for it right now, but it looked like a lot of fun!

I have proved to myself once again that the world shocks the hell out of me some days. I was coming home from class and I went to sit down on a seat in the shuttle bus, but when I got onto the bus I was behind the driver who was walking towards the back of the bus to throw something out in the garbage. I'm a cool kid. I usually like to take the back of the bus - I can't explain it, it's the same reason why I always prefer the back seats of the classroom. So yes, I was going to go to the back, but realized that the bus driver was blocking my way to get to the back. He was a very large driver and I didn't really know which way to turn because either way it didn't look like we were going to be getting in either direction and the guy behind me had taken the seat that I had my eye on... So I had an awkward moment where I didn't really know which way to turn and I took a seat just off to the side so that I was out of the way and also had a seat.

The next thing I know the bus driver is sitting in the seat next to me. Not saying anything. Just sitting there. I was like "... ... ...uhm.... So hey, if you want I could drive the bus for ya! ....*awkward pause*" He told me I couldn't drive the bus because he was sitting next to me and then he got up and sat in the drivers seat again. I just... didn't know what I was supposed to do, what I was supposed to say. It was just one of those really awkward moments for me.

Again. When I was walking home after switching buses and on the last leg of my trek home there was a car that I could see was wanting to turn into the road that I was about to cross and probably into the McDonalds that I was walking by. So I stopped walking and let him go because I didn't want to get in the way or block any other traffic while he waited for me to cross (not that I'm a slow walker or anything). As the car is going by me I see them rolling down their window and I start thinking, "Oh god... what now?"
He rolled down the window on the passenger side and called out thank you to me and then kept on driving.
I thought that was pretty decent of them and it really sort of surprised me. Not many people would do much more than perhaps wave as they go around the corner.

So one random and one pleasant surprise. The random shouldn't surprise me that much, because they're more common than the pleasant kinds of surprise.

jayd_aradia @ 2008-03-15T14:09:00

2008-03-15T18:23:50Z

I stole this from wickedgarden_ facebook! It looked like fun and I wanted to do it.

1. What do you think would be the best part of being a leprachaun?
Hmm... Probably being able to have all that gold and having fun tricking people

2. What's your fave green food?
At the moment? Cucumbers!

3. What would you ask a leprachaun?
Do you live on rainbows?

4. What would you like to do in Ireland?
Drink green beer. Eat potatoes. Find guys with Irish accents!

5. Kiss me , I'm _____.
Katie? YEAH!

6. What is the craziest thing you have done on St.Patty's Day?
Huh. I'm going to have to say it was at high school and I organized a donut eating contest for Student Council. Green donuts were being hung by a string and you came up on the stage with a partner and one person would hold it and the other was on their knees and had to eat the donut without using their hands. The prize was a St. Patty's day tee-shirt from Old Navy. One guy cheated and tried to steal a shirt but I called him back up on the stage and made him give it back. I was so cool...

7. What comes to mind when I say green?
Sometimes Torri. She's green. Annnnd Irish stuff.

8. What's your fave Irish liquor?
I don't really like much Irish Liquor...beer?

9. What would be the first thing you'd do if you were a leprachaun?
I would find a rainbow and slide down it! :D

10. Describe YOUR *lucky charms*:
Well... they have marshmallows in them and they are different shapes and colours... what are yours like?

11. Have you ever followed a rainbow ?
I once looked at a rainbow and tried to decide if I could actually see where it ended and if it was worth it to try and follow it, but then I decided that it seemed too much like hard work.

12. What did you find?
...

13. What would you do with a pot of gold?
The chocolate or the REAL pot of gold? Chocolate I'd eat. Real stuff I'd probably show everyone, take pictures, put them up on facebook as proof, then I'd probably sell it and get money!

14. Do you drink green beer on St.Patrick's day?
I have never drank green beer on St. Patty's day. How sad is that?

15. What would your name be if you were a leprachaun?
Sham the Rock.

Don't judge me...

2008-03-10T18:24:55Z

Alright. You KNOW that I'm bored and procrastinating when I start to document my day... I was alone. I had fun.

There once was a girl named Katherine who thought she was pretty cool...
She had short hair and blue blue eyes. Yup. So cool. One day she decided that she was going to curl her hair...

However, due to some technical difficulties with her lack of hair product, Katherine's hair looked like it had been eaten through by a horrible fire-breathing monster!!
Katherine: "It's frizz-tastic"

In her delicate predicament, she didn't know quite what to do. She was scared and ever so worried. Her kingdom was going to fall into ruins if she did not do something about her hair quickly! Then she remembered something. Her fashion magazines, which she had only maybe one, told her of this wonderous object. The story goes that she would have to find this object in the mysterious world of Bath and she could get there through the bath 'oom. But she didn't know how to get to this bath 'oom. So she waited and pondered where this magical weapon could be and how it could help her.

Meanwhile in Bath...
The hair straightener lay quietly on its marble surface awaiting for Katherine, knowing she was coming to seek its magical powers and to fix the problems in her kingdom surrounding the issues with her hair.
Katherine decided to go on a quest in search of this...thing. Object. Whatever it was. No one really knew. But she was going to find it and would go in alone to try to save her hair.

After several near death battles - which I won't get into because they are SO horrendous it would give you nightmares - Katherine FINALLY found her way into the secret bath 'oom door and into the world of Bath! There she found the magical weapon, who convienetly told her he was a hair straightener. Her hair was back to normal, lying flat against her face! Together, her and that straightener could conquer anything!

Katherine was happy and she eventually returned to her kingdom to spread the joyous news that her hair was fixed and no longer the fire-breathing rats nest it had been before!
Katherine: "It's straight-tastic!!"

Together, her and that straightener saved the kingdom that day. And they were always the best of friends.

THE END!! :D

Disturbingness...

2008-03-09T23:21:28Z

I find I've been keeping up more with facebook that I have been with livejournal lately. So that either means that this place just isn't on my mind or that I have found a better way to procrastinate and I am slowly turning into a creeper. Yes? Maybe? You can decide.

I just got back from seeing The Other Boleyn Girl and I have to say that I have been left feeling particularily odd and freaked out by that movie. Disturbed. That's the better word. I knew what was going to happen prior to seeing the movie, but actually seeing it? Made me feel a little sick to my stomach and I think I've found a new fear. Dying of beheading. That has to be one of the worst ways to go... Do you ever have that feeling like you know what's going to come next and just because of that you don't want to do what you know will lead to that moment? That's how I feel beheading will be like. You're standing on the top of a bridge, staring down at the water below and you're supposed to jump in. It's that momentary fear of "Oh God, what if I don't actually make this?" - it's like that. But it's not momentary. You wait for death. For the ax to cut off your head.
Ugh, it makes me shiver.
But yeah. Not a bad movie. Fairly historically accurate, despite the sympathies twisted with which character you're supposed to feel sorry for. And I think that's the first movie I've seen with Scarlett Johansson in it - so she's not bad for acting either. I feel like I need to watch a positive movie now though to get over that... It's not bad, it just really kind of affected me more than it probably should have.

This time change nearly killed me today. I hate the farmers. The spring one has to be the worst idea ever. Loosing an hour of sleep? Some people value that!

Procrastination!

2008-03-04T19:50:52Z

I really love how I can sit down at my computer with the full intention on doing my homework and researching for my paper when the thought comes to my mind that I should check my facebook, update my many games that I have going on scrabblous. Then I open up my word document so that I can write down any quotes that I might want to use or points that I want to keep in mind for when I got to write my essay - then I think that I haven't checked my livejournal in a while, so I signed on, checked friends pages and now have decided that it's been a while since I've posted and that I should give an update.
That's just about a half an hour in my mind. Don't ever wish to spend any longer than that in here, it's gets pretty crazy at times...

First day back to classes today after what seemed like a VERY short reading break. That was not a week. I think the only thing I'm going to miss was sleeping in... I really start to value that after a while. I think my professor had missed us over the break because he was in fine form today with his jokes - there were seriously tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard at him. It's one of those you have to be there type things because if I type it down it really wouldn't sound as funny as it was being there in class.

I just got an e-mail from the library telling me I have books to pick up... so I suppose that is a sign that I should get back to my essay note making, no? Sigh.

If only for a moment.

2008-02-29T00:54:31Z

It has been a long past couple of days, but still a lot of fun!

I got to see my mum for the first time since Christmas, which was so awesome. I surprised her at her work in Toronto with a coffee and a really good cookie from Timmothy's (the good one's that have the piece of a toblerone bar in the middle!). She was floored when I walked into the office, just staring at me before she literally jumped up from her desk and nearly knocked me over with the huge hug that she gave me. And once she let go of me she hugged me a second time and she looked like she was going to cry. We talked for a bit and I lucked out that her boss was going out of the office for lunch that day so my mum also got to go out for lunch with me, which was nice because I wasn't expecting to be able to spend as much time with her as I did. I thought I'd might have twenty minutes or so before I had to leave, but I spent about two hours with her. When I left her I was fine and I got on the subway, went shopping for a while - but it didn't really hit me until the car ride home. We were driving over a bridge and I looked out across the lake. I knew that just across the lake was home. That was it. I was so close. But I'm still so far away from it. Just looking at the water and knowing that made me so upset. Thinking about it still makes me upset. I just need a good solid week at home. The next time I'm going is the weekend after Easter and I think I'm going to go home on Thursday night right after my last class, forget about my Friday classes and not come home until the next Monday night. 4 more weeks to go.

"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table, no one can find the rewind button now so cradle your head in your hands. Breathe. Just - Breathe."

Non-intentional Disney memories...

2008-02-26T06:56:18Z

It's been a couple days since I last posted, so I figured that I'm due.

My reading week has officially started and I took a bit of a relaxing evening tonight. For some reason I randomly got 'Part of your World' stuck in my head and decided that I wanted to watch The Little Mermaid. I love that movie. It's so cute and it's such a classic. Old time Disney animation, that's where it's at! I've been also playing a bit of Kingdom Hearts with Torri and I've just finished in the Agrabah level and now I desperately want to watch Aladdin! It's funny because you can kind of anticipate what is going to happen in the games if you are familiar with the movies. Like at the end when you have to fight Jafar, he's captured Jasmine and he's got the Genie on his side. So you defeat him once and you start thinking, "OK... it is SO not this easy... he's going to wish to be a genie..." And then guess what? He wished to be a genie! I still love it though.

I get to see my mum this week and I am so excited about that! I don't know how much time I'm going to have to see her, but it's better than going until after Easter.

But I'm getting tired and I'm going to go sleep - I might post again with more exciting stuff tomorrow. Or... later today... riiiiight....

My eyes are itchy!

2008-02-21T00:25:20Z

Ugh, I am dying. Something in this house is killing me slowly. My eyes have been watering most of the day and I keep sneezing - but here's the kicker. I have NO idea what is doing this to me. Sitting in the living room was fine because it wasn't bothering me then, but once I leave there and come into my room it starts all over again. I have a feeling that it might be from something coming from the basement. Something smelled really bad from there the other night and I could smell something coming from there again today... :P

I finished my beast of an essay and handed it in today. But I didn't get that feeling like I usually do when I hand in something that I've been working on for a while. That "Oh, thank God it's done" feeling. I just feel like I can take a couple of days to relax right now and not have to do much work until the weekend.
READING BREAK STARTS SOON! Sleeping in for a week? Hells yes.

I hear Death is but the next great adventure

2008-02-19T15:14:13Z

Holy crap.
I'm so tired.
I want to lay down and die for a few hours.
But it's essay time.
So I'm going to die anyways.
Ugh.

Just blah

2008-02-17T17:46:27Z

So I completely embarassed myself last night... For the first time in four years I threw up from drinking. And I blame the twisted shots. They were these strawberry twisted something and I had two of them back to back... And yeah. So embarassing. I told my mom and she laughed at me.

But all in all it was a good night! I got to play rock band for x-box and that was a lot of fun! I didn't know half the people at the party but it was still really fun because they were all so nice and open.

More essay time today! I've got about 9 pages out of 15-20! But that's also including my title page, so really it's eight... But I figure I've only got about six pages to go before I've reached the minimum, so I'm feeling good about it! My goal is to have it finished for tomorrow so that I can look it over on Tuesday and have time to revise if I think it is a complete mess.

Whether tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows...

2008-02-14T19:35:19Z

Ok. So here is my theory that I developed this morning in Shakespeare class. We're studying Hamlet and we were looking at his "To be or not to be..." speech. And if you look right after that speech is his confrontation with Ophelia and how he freaks says "Get thee to a nunery!"
Right? You all with me so far?
So, this all happened right after his confrontation with the ghost who looks like his father and tells him that his father was murdered by Claudius. Hamlet is thinking that he has to avenge his father's death and he has to focus on 'AVENGING' his death.
My theory is that Hamlet secretly really loved Ophelia, despite the fact that he told her he had never loved her. Because I think he was trying to protect her and not get her involved in what he had to do (the whole death avenging thing).
Buuut it sort of worked in reverse and Ophelia ended up dying/killing herself anyways.
I think that the whole thing was just a lie and to make her believe that he didn't love her, so that she wouldn't get involved in what was going on with him. I don't often have theories for class...

Happy Heart Day :P
(It's better than my little rant I went on last year about this day!)