Happy Birthday Jods!!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful sister!
I love you because...
You love movies just as much as me.
We share the same fascination with popping pimples (although I will argue that you enjoy it more).
You let me sleep in your comfy bed (I hesitate when making this statement, for fear I get ridiculed).
There is many more, but most of all...
Because I couldn't imagine life without you.

Hope you had a wonderful day. I was thinking about you all day!

Entertainment at its Best :)

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Can you say LAZY?! This is the routine that Daisy tends to execute everytime anyone takes a bath. Crazy fool of a cat.

In other non-cat related news, I'm sick. I'm not going to complain though, because this is the first time since long before September that I've been sick. I'm tough so I'm sure I'll survive. The doctor told me to expect to feel worse over the next few days, but I'm feeling better. I'm living on Cherry Halls, Extra Strength Cold Relief, soups and hot chocolates. Not to mention hot baths and showers. Right now I'm debating grabbing the Dean Koontz book I'm currently reading and crawling up in bed. Original plans were to go see a movie with Savanna tonight, and where I don't have classes tomorrow, I'm just so tired. Plus, tomorrow I want to sleep in, walk Cleo, and then I have to go to work, not leaving much time for school work. Oh well, we'll see what happens!

Fancy a Rant? I sure do!

I love how people (mostly men) claim that women are such horrible drivers. When on more than one occassion I've witnessed AWFUL driving, by whom? Men.
Take this afternoon for instance. I just got home from school, and the drive from the bus stop in Sackville took me considerably longer than usual. But first, on Sackville Drive this car appeared out of no where, cutting the bus off; it looked as though the car was coming down our side of the street before pulling into an entrance of some store. The bus driver had to slam on the brakes. The driver of the car, was a male.
And then, once I was in the car on my way home, I was waiting at the intersection to turn right onto Beaver Bank Road. The oncoming traffic were sitting at a red with an advanced green, there was no traffic coming from that direction, so CLEARLY the car in front of me was able to make a right on red. But he just SAT there waiting. Then we're driving and I'm following, but not too closely because he keeps putting on his breaks for some reason unknown to me. And he keeps looking at the guy beside him, and out his window, talking with his hands. I swear, I don't when he had time to look at the road. Then the light by May Garden/Petro Can was green, but what does he do? Let a HUGE Coke Truck out. Whatever right, I can deal with this. We pass the Millwood intersection, where the speed limit goes to 70. One would think he'd speed up. But nope, he's still yakking away and flailing his arms all while driving a CONSTANT 50!! FIFTY! And he did that the entire way! And! He maintained his speed going down the big hill! He kept his breaks on the entire way down!! I was super annoyed and I'm betting so was the lineup of cars behind me. Ah! It was so annoying.

Anyways, that's my rant.

Shopping, Movies...Could anything be better?
Last night I went out with Krystyna. We went to get her something to eat after her seminar class and then headed to Jacob. I knew it would be bad for me to go in there as I have two trips I need to save lots of money for so I vowed not to buy anything (even after seeing the huge sign in the window saying "We pay the tax"!!). However, I tried stuff on for fun, a pair of nice black casual pants, a pink v-neck t-shirt, and a v-neck knitted sweater. I passed on the sweater as it was $19.99. My total for the pants and the shirt?? $8.31. Less than ten bucks! I was satisfied. Krystyna ended up spending about $50, but she got like a sweater, pants, and two tops. We sure do love Jacob Connexion.
Then we headed over to Bayers Lake where I played two rounds of DDR and then we went to see Tristan & Isolde, which was incredible. I cannot wait to buy it. I was 100% satisfied with it. And who knew James Franco was so hot? I always knew he was cute, but wow!

The Upcoming Weekend
It's going to be a busy one! I'm working tonight, daycare and schoolwork tomorrow, and then working Sunday night. Maybe I'll get to go see Match Point sometime because it opens tonight and I'm very eager to see it (it was suppose to come out Christmas Day!). It was surpisingly nominated for quite a few Golden Globes. Should be interesting.

I love Daisy :)

Isn't she cute??

The wonderful variety that is emotions.

I admit that I get worked up easy.
That I get frustrated easy.
That I like things my own way.
I'll even admit that I'm spoiled.
All these things, I can deal with.

But I'm struggling with a lot of anger these days.
And I'm absolutely cluesless as to what to do about it.

So I could use a little help (or a lot...)

As some of you may know, I'm enrolled in an English course at school. As you may also know, I tried two English courses in my first year and failed one. I still need half a credit of English and I thought rather than take a difficult english course that I don't know why I took in the first place, I will take the Writing and Theory. On the first day we were given an writing assignment and marked on a pass or fail basis, to determine where we stand and if we would be able to succeed in that course. It would appear as I might not, as I failed the initial assignment. The professor however, claimed that she's had students who've failed the first assignment and done exceptionally well in the course. She told me that I didn't understand the passage that we read, and looking back now, I can see that I totally missed the concept. But I get it now. Obviously I chose to stay in the course, because my only other option would be to pay for an easier course which I would not receive credit for, and honestly, where's the point in that? I'm not looking forward to the course, with an online journal due every week among other silly little assignments, but I am determined to do exceptionally well, and prove that initial assignment wrong. We work in groups (its a workshop course) and although I was aprehensive about it at first, my group members are people I could see myself hanging out with, none of those snotty girls I've hated for as long as I can remember. Anyways. The point of my post.
Our first assignment has two parts. One to write an essay about myself (not necessarily formal or informal). Two, to write an imaginary letter applying for a position at an imaginary business. I think I'll be fine with the second part (if I can think of an imaginary business), but I'm stuck on the first part. We need a rough draft for Tuesday and I'm determined to have a good piece by then (for peer editing). There is just one thing. My professor says it doesn't necessarily have to be "My name is _________, and I'm _________. I was born ___________ on _________". She said that describing an event or something we'd experienced in the past is another way of letting her know who we are. And I'd much rather do that than the typical who I am essay. One would think I'd be good at talking about myself, but it's quite the opposite. What I'm asking is that if any of you have any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it (on either part of the assignment).

In Other News...
I went to the gym today in what seemed like the first time in forever. Parts of it was difficult, others not so much. It was good to go out and feel like I was actually doing something productive. I'm going back tomorrow too when I get out of class at 11.

Work is okay. Keeping me busy.

I went to see Casanova on Monday night and I must say that I was terribly pleased with it. It was silly and exaggerated I'm sure, but entertaining nonetheless. Heath Ledger was really cute, I never knew lace could look that good :).

On Monday morning I started reading Lost by Joy Fielding and I was done it by Wednesday afternoon. I just could not put that book down, so much that I fell asleep reading for the first time on Tuesday night.

And that's it for now! Ciao!

Where to Start??

Christmas was absolutely wonderful. I don't think I could even begin to remember everything I possibly wanted to blog about. So I'm not even going to try. Now that things have somewhat died down, I'm trying to resume normality, but I'm failing miserably. Jody flew back to the UK on Friday and I worked all day Saturday and Sunday to occupy myself. I'm still not into the full swing of things at school, and it's already causing me more grief than I could ever imagine. Here's hoping that this semester will fly by as fast as last.
So I had all these intentions to write this big long post, but I find myself without anything really to write about.

Oh! I'll recap on 2005:

• experienced England and Scotland.
• Downtown adventures with Kat
• Went to Toronto (again :))
• Learned to play poker (not well)
• Got my first A as a final grade in three years.
• Got an A and an A- on Chemistry midterms.

And that's all I can think of at the moment.

What I hope 2006 brings:

• Another trip to the UK (and hopefully Paris!)
• Considerable weight loss.
• Clear up some of my debt.
• Work enough to pay for most of my 4th year.
• Healthy eating.
• House sitting for Taylor's Aunt and Jody's old boss,
• Getting my graduated license.
• Anual trip to Toronto!

And with that, I bid thee goodnight.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!