... i mean, i didn't REALLY lie, just changed my statement.
um.
what i mean is, i switched one of my courses - now i only have to go back and forth to abbotsford once a week:
Mon - Web Publishing - 8.30-11.20 - Abbotsford
Tues - System Hardware Concepts - 10.45-2.25 - Abbotsford
Wed - Principles of Computing - 10.00-12.50 - Chilliwack; Intro to Programming - 2.30-6.10 - Chilliwack
same courses, different schedule - and my mom says i can sleep over on monday nights at their house.
yay!
i was very lucky, actually - there was one seat left in the tuesday class. i SO ninja'd my way in there. hah.
okay. back to bed for me. night all!
27.6.11
25.6.11
exciting times.
so. i have registered for classes.
oi.
i'm half really excited and half freaking out. kind of like when i got my tattoo, but less painful and more expensive.
my schedule is gonna look like so:
Mon - Web Publishing - 8.30-11.20 - Abbotsford
Wed - Principles of Computing - 10.00-12.50 - Chilliwack; Intro to Programming - 2.30-6.10 - Chilliwack
Thurs - System Hardware Concepts - 1.00-4.40 - Abbotsford
now i have to buy my textbooks, and make sure my student loans will go through, and apply for scholarships and bursaries, and stuff.
oh boy.
oi.
i'm half really excited and half freaking out. kind of like when i got my tattoo, but less painful and more expensive.
my schedule is gonna look like so:
Mon - Web Publishing - 8.30-11.20 - Abbotsford
Wed - Principles of Computing - 10.00-12.50 - Chilliwack; Intro to Programming - 2.30-6.10 - Chilliwack
Thurs - System Hardware Concepts - 1.00-4.40 - Abbotsford
now i have to buy my textbooks, and make sure my student loans will go through, and apply for scholarships and bursaries, and stuff.
oh boy.
22.6.11
never fear! i've returned!
so i got asked recently why i haven't blogged in a while. "had i run out of things to say?"
no, but i have a great excuse!
my lappy, my lovely christmas lappy that my dad put together for me, decided, suddenly, that life was not worth living any more, and shuffled off its mortal coil, ran down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! it became an ex-laptop! ... er. i mean ... the motherboard died.
so i purchased this:
it's a thinkpad t61p, and it's fantastic. yes, used. can't afford new. but it works great anyways.
unfortunately, ubuntu won'trecognise the built-in webcam, nor does it currently recognise the ever so cool fingerprint reader - though i think there may be some software for it; i'm looking into that as we speak. if it doesn't work, well, it's really kind of non-essential, but it would be neat if it did work.
ah well. the small things we sacrifice for a slice of natty narwhal awesome.
in other news, i'm starting school for reals in september - i'm taking the CIS (computer information systems) diploma. heh. computers.
anyhow. that's all i got for now - but i'll be back! and in larger numbers! ... never mind.
no, but i have a great excuse!
my lappy, my lovely christmas lappy that my dad put together for me, decided, suddenly, that life was not worth living any more, and shuffled off its mortal coil, ran down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! it became an ex-laptop! ... er. i mean ... the motherboard died.
so i purchased this:
it's a thinkpad t61p, and it's fantastic. yes, used. can't afford new. but it works great anyways.
unfortunately, ubuntu won't
ah well. the small things we sacrifice for a slice of natty narwhal awesome.
in other news, i'm starting school for reals in september - i'm taking the CIS (computer information systems) diploma. heh. computers.
anyhow. that's all i got for now - but i'll be back! and in larger numbers! ... never mind.
edit: my bad, thinkpads don't have built in webcams. whoops.
1.4.11
20.3.11
pretty pretty please....
so i'm going to do something i have never done on my blog before:
i'm going to post a youtube.
reason being, i saw this video when i was watching tv with my roomie. it's a music video by someone i've frequently heard of, but never really listened to. the first time i saw it, it made me cry. which is unusual, for me. i don't generally cry during music videos. movies, yes, absolutely. Passion of the Christ, anyone? actually bawled my eyes out during THAT one. but i'm digressing. i just love the message in this song. it's something more people need to hear. so. without further ado:
...
i cried at the end [not where i would have expected given the content of the rest of the video], at the very last chorus when you see her daughter in the bed.
anyways.
what's YOUR reaction?
what did this make you think of?
i'm going to post a youtube.
reason being, i saw this video when i was watching tv with my roomie. it's a music video by someone i've frequently heard of, but never really listened to. the first time i saw it, it made me cry. which is unusual, for me. i don't generally cry during music videos. movies, yes, absolutely. Passion of the Christ, anyone? actually bawled my eyes out during THAT one. but i'm digressing. i just love the message in this song. it's something more people need to hear. so. without further ado:
...
i cried at the end [not where i would have expected given the content of the rest of the video], at the very last chorus when you see her daughter in the bed.
anyways.
what's YOUR reaction?
what did this make you think of?
14.3.11
3/14 ...
march 14th is Pi Day! go eat piiiiiiiie.
[i'm such a geek.]
so i did the thirty day challenge - successfully, i might add, all 30 in a row with only one or two late posts. but now i don't know what to do with myself.
i have no poems floating around in my head at the moment.
i have no awesome photos to share.
and nothing super-duper interesting has happened lately.
besides the two random customers (both guys - coincidence? mmm probably not.) that have given me their phone numbers. THAT'S slightly disturbing. particularly as one of them is - well - probably as old as my dad. and i likely WON'T be calling him. he's a customer. that alone makes it weird. ah well.
the thing is, most of my day is centered around SLEEP. i spend all day sleeping, and all night working. my evening is mostly cooking.
so there's not much to tell, mostly.
i have the odd moment - like the day my coworker went to the drivethru window and informed the waiting customer that he had just finished devouring a soul, and that it tasted like lemon - but mostly my life is sleep.
speaking of which - it's approximately bedtime.
also - i must go shopping soon. maybe tomorrow. the pantry's looking bare.
[i'm such a geek.]
so i did the thirty day challenge - successfully, i might add, all 30 in a row with only one or two late posts. but now i don't know what to do with myself.
i have no poems floating around in my head at the moment.
i have no awesome photos to share.
and nothing super-duper interesting has happened lately.
besides the two random customers (both guys - coincidence? mmm probably not.) that have given me their phone numbers. THAT'S slightly disturbing. particularly as one of them is - well - probably as old as my dad. and i likely WON'T be calling him. he's a customer. that alone makes it weird. ah well.
the thing is, most of my day is centered around SLEEP. i spend all day sleeping, and all night working. my evening is mostly cooking.
so there's not much to tell, mostly.
i have the odd moment - like the day my coworker went to the drivethru window and informed the waiting customer that he had just finished devouring a soul, and that it tasted like lemon - but mostly my life is sleep.
speaking of which - it's approximately bedtime.
also - i must go shopping soon. maybe tomorrow. the pantry's looking bare.
8.3.11
haHA. i laugh in your faces.
sillies!
... let me back up and explain.
my bike got a flat in the back tire. so today i had to fix it, otherwise i can't go to work. or - well - i can, but it'll either take me an hour's walk, or it'll cost me $15. since i'm cheap and i don't want to spend an hour on my feet, i'd rather fix my bike. so i went and bought a new inner tube, fetched the necessary tools, and removed to the parking area under our building where i keep my bike, whence i proceeded to remove the back wheel. you know. basic tire-changing stuff.
so i have the wheel and tire laid out and i'm just going through the tire with my fingers to find any puncturing culprits [which in this case was a blackberry thorn - gah. those things are murder!!], and along come two or three guys - in their mid? twenties? ish? - slightly older than me, anyways - and they're all giving me weird looks. one of them asks me if i need help. i'm all, "no thanks i got this :)" so they carry on heading for their car.
but it was so funny, i could see the phrase, "she's a girl! does she know what she's doing?" going through all of their heads.
but my tire is back on, the inner tube is properly filled, the chain is around the gear correctly, and i even straightened a wobble in the rim to top it off.
take that, male-gender-types who doubt the ability of female-gender-types to do dirty work. haHA. i laugh in your Hairy Faces.
[... please note that i do NOT laugh in the faces of the male-gender-types who Cheer For the female-gender-types who Do Stuff. you male-gender-cheering-types are okay. even if your faces DO grow hair.]
end of blog for today. must sleep.
... let me back up and explain.
my bike got a flat in the back tire. so today i had to fix it, otherwise i can't go to work. or - well - i can, but it'll either take me an hour's walk, or it'll cost me $15. since i'm cheap and i don't want to spend an hour on my feet, i'd rather fix my bike. so i went and bought a new inner tube, fetched the necessary tools, and removed to the parking area under our building where i keep my bike, whence i proceeded to remove the back wheel. you know. basic tire-changing stuff.
so i have the wheel and tire laid out and i'm just going through the tire with my fingers to find any puncturing culprits [which in this case was a blackberry thorn - gah. those things are murder!!], and along come two or three guys - in their mid? twenties? ish? - slightly older than me, anyways - and they're all giving me weird looks. one of them asks me if i need help. i'm all, "no thanks i got this :)" so they carry on heading for their car.
but it was so funny, i could see the phrase, "she's a girl! does she know what she's doing?" going through all of their heads.
but my tire is back on, the inner tube is properly filled, the chain is around the gear correctly, and i even straightened a wobble in the rim to top it off.
take that, male-gender-types who doubt the ability of female-gender-types to do dirty work. haHA. i laugh in your Hairy Faces.
[... please note that i do NOT laugh in the faces of the male-gender-types who Cheer For the female-gender-types who Do Stuff. you male-gender-cheering-types are okay. even if your faces DO grow hair.]
end of blog for today. must sleep.
6.3.11
some girly eyecandy
so i was watching tv yesterday...
and sort of accidentally caught the last half of a couple shows. one of which was hairspray, but that's not the eyecandy i'm talking about.
what i AM talking about was a movie called Life as a House, and a Doctor Who episode called Midnight.
hayden christensen. in Life as a House. with piercings. and black hair. oh my. so pretty. and then he took the piercings out in the movie. i was all, nooooo! put them back!! TT_TT but movie people like to pretend that people take out piercings when they get all happy and stuff. oh well. silly movie people.
and then...
colin morgan. in Midnight. with black nail polish. and skinny jeans. and leather cuffs. and a skull chain on his pants. mmmm. so beautiful. but then again, colin morgan is just beautiful in general. i mean, anyone seen him as Merlin? ogosh. and then there's the british accent. *sigh*
anyways. that's all i wanted to tell you. toodles. i'm off to drool some more.
and sort of accidentally caught the last half of a couple shows. one of which was hairspray, but that's not the eyecandy i'm talking about.
what i AM talking about was a movie called Life as a House, and a Doctor Who episode called Midnight.
and then...
colin morgan. in Midnight. with black nail polish. and skinny jeans. and leather cuffs. and a skull chain on his pants. mmmm. so beautiful. but then again, colin morgan is just beautiful in general. i mean, anyone seen him as Merlin? ogosh. and then there's the british accent. *sigh*
anyways. that's all i wanted to tell you. toodles. i'm off to drool some more.
26.2.11
day 30 - movies you can watch again and again
- Serenity
- Amelie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain)
- Pride & Prejudice
- Princess Bride
- X-Men (any of them)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Iron Monkey
- Pirates of the Caribbean (any of them)
- Lord of the Rings (any of them, as long as they're the Extended Edition)
- Tarzan (Disney version)
- Atlantis
- Prince of Egypt
- Lion King
- Star Trek (the new one)
- I'm Not There
- Beauty and the Beast
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Harry Potter (any of them, with the possible exception of Half-Blood Prince - that one sucked bad in some spots.)
- Sense & Sensibility
- Shrek
25.2.11
day 29 - favorite tv shows and why you like them
ooookay. this one's EASY.
1. Castle.
reasons i like it: a) nathan fillion. b) cop show. c) awesome characters and great tension between castle and beckett. love it. but i'm still anxiously waiting for castle to ask beckett out.
2. Eureka.
reasons i like it: a) sci-fi. b) general oddballness. c) awesome characters and some tension in this one too, between carter and allison. love this one as well.
3. Firefly.
does this one even need me to list the reasons i love it? really? any browncoat should know why firefly is lovable. so i'm not even going to go into it.
4. NCIS.
reasons i like it: a) abby sciuto. b) cop show. c) awesome characters. and really, tony, you're perfectly happy to hook mcgee up with some girl, but yet you haven't asked ziva out once. doesn't make sense.
24.2.11
day 28- cruise a thesaurus and pick out 10 words you like the sound of
mmmm - words! my favourite!
- proleptical
- maverick
- concordance
- bisulcated
- protuberance
- acrimony
- occlude
- adumbrate
- malkin
- recondite
23.2.11
day 27- my day job versus my passion
day job: graveyard storefront & production at Tim Horton's. so technically not a "day" job :P
passion: music, painting, drawing, sewing, designing, knitting, researching, finding out geeky details.
gee. not very similar, are they.
passion: music, painting, drawing, sewing, designing, knitting, researching, finding out geeky details.
gee. not very similar, are they.
22.2.11
day 26- list 10 things that you are thankful for
- vitamin C & handkerchiefs (why yes, i do have a cold, how ever did you guess?)
- night off work on friday, so i get to go see my mama in her play
- turkish delight is going to be sold at the play's concession (why yes, mama's play is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, how ever did you guess?)
- own apartment, own kitchen, own kitchen sink to keep shiny (thank you FLYlady for that one)
- the clouds that enabled me to get some sleep today
- my grandma, who decided that i needed a ride to work last night and then a ride home from work this morning.
- payday is this week
- my guitar
- the snow is nearly non-existent, so i can actually ride my bike to work
- my friends and my family
21.2.11
day 25- what I would find in your bag
this depends on which bag.
if by bag, you mean the backpack i take to work every night, then you would find:
if by bag, you mean the backpack i take to work every night, then you would find:
- uniform, consisting of
- pants
- belt
- visor
- shirt
- apron
- non-slip shoes
- wallet
- phone
- knitting
- hairbands
- change from tips
- notepad and pen.
- deodorant
- guitar picks
- wallet
- phone
- keys
- miscellaneous junk, including, but not limited to:
- safety pins
- erasers
- tampons
- bullet (yes, i have one real actual bullet and somehow it ended up in my purse.)
- button
- focus on the family fridge magnet
- squashed jones soda lid
- ticket to a bruins game from last sunday that i didn't need because i was part of a booth
- sharpie
- tiny picture of me that ellie drew
- dog collar
- eyeliner
- mascara
- eyeshadow
- burt's bees lip balm
20.2.11
day 24- post your favorite quote or verse of scripture and why
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
and why do i like this quote?
i'm not sure. i think it may be the invitation to experience reality. to leave the world you thought you knew but were starting to doubt, and find out the truth. plus i like the reference to alice in wonderland. heh.
You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
and why do i like this quote?
i'm not sure. i think it may be the invitation to experience reality. to leave the world you thought you knew but were starting to doubt, and find out the truth. plus i like the reference to alice in wonderland. heh.
18.2.11
day 22- what makes you different from everyone else
oh my.
different.
well.
oh well.
this will do.
different.
well.
- i sing random songs at random times at work
- i knit (which for my age group is not too common - i actually had some friends laugh at me because they brought me along to a bar, and i brought my knitting along to the bar too)
- i like to make bread from scratch - i made another batch this morning at about 3am, and it's turned out better than the first batch did, so i'm reasonably happy about that.
- i live at night and sleep during the day - that's different from most people :P
- i remember stuff. really well.
oh well.
this will do.
17.2.11
day 21-a picture of something that makes you happy
the things in this picture that make me happy:
my camera
and photo editing.
16.2.11
day 20- write a letter to someone
[please nobody get offended at the beginning, kay? keep reading to the end before you judge me.]
dear beloved tim hortons customers:
i would like to say thank you for contributing towards my paycheque. it's much appreciated. because of you, i can pay rent and eat food.
however. i would like to make note of a few things.
first of all, it's an everything bagel. herb & garlic is a cream cheese. let's not get them mixed up, okay? because when you ask for a herb & garlic bagel, we kind of get confused, since you can put herb & garlic on pretty much any kind of bagel you want.
speaking of which: i do not understand cinnamon raisin bagels with herb & garlic on them.
secondly, you can ask for a double double all you want, but we still need to know what size it is.
third: no, we can't take your [insert name of disposable item here] through the drive-thru window. there's a garbage can just before the speaker box for a reason.
also, if you're in the drive-thru and we ask you to wait a moment at the speaker box til we can take your order, that is not the cue to tell us you want an extra-large french vanilla and a regular ham-and-swiss on white, toasted, extra ranch, no tomato, and a box of twenty timbits, half sour cream glazed, half honey cruller. because we can't take that order.
and if we ask you to speak up when you're in the drive-thru lane, it's because we can't hear you, not because we're stupid.
lastly, the vanilla dip has a name.
BUT.
if i didn't enjoy serving you your four-by-fours and boston creams, your sausage breakfast sandwiches and your ice capps, i wouldn't still be doing it. yes, sometimes you frustrate me. yes, sometimes you irritate me. but sometimes you bring a smile to my face.
and i honestly enjoy hearing the order "two large double doubles, extra-large triple triple, extra-large double double, and a sesame bagel toasted with herb & garlic," every morning at 2.30-3ish, and being able to say, "you know your total, please pull up to the window!"
some of you only turn up once in a while, some of you are regulars. some of you order exactly the same thing every time, some of you like to switch it up. it doesn't matter. i still like you. you're all awesome people.
so thank you, tim hortons customers.
please keep coming back.
just get your order right, kay?
dear beloved tim hortons customers:
i would like to say thank you for contributing towards my paycheque. it's much appreciated. because of you, i can pay rent and eat food.
however. i would like to make note of a few things.
first of all, it's an everything bagel. herb & garlic is a cream cheese. let's not get them mixed up, okay? because when you ask for a herb & garlic bagel, we kind of get confused, since you can put herb & garlic on pretty much any kind of bagel you want.
speaking of which: i do not understand cinnamon raisin bagels with herb & garlic on them.
secondly, you can ask for a double double all you want, but we still need to know what size it is.
third: no, we can't take your [insert name of disposable item here] through the drive-thru window. there's a garbage can just before the speaker box for a reason.
also, if you're in the drive-thru and we ask you to wait a moment at the speaker box til we can take your order, that is not the cue to tell us you want an extra-large french vanilla and a regular ham-and-swiss on white, toasted, extra ranch, no tomato, and a box of twenty timbits, half sour cream glazed, half honey cruller. because we can't take that order.
and if we ask you to speak up when you're in the drive-thru lane, it's because we can't hear you, not because we're stupid.
lastly, the vanilla dip has a name.
BUT.
if i didn't enjoy serving you your four-by-fours and boston creams, your sausage breakfast sandwiches and your ice capps, i wouldn't still be doing it. yes, sometimes you frustrate me. yes, sometimes you irritate me. but sometimes you bring a smile to my face.
and i honestly enjoy hearing the order "two large double doubles, extra-large triple triple, extra-large double double, and a sesame bagel toasted with herb & garlic," every morning at 2.30-3ish, and being able to say, "you know your total, please pull up to the window!"
some of you only turn up once in a while, some of you are regulars. some of you order exactly the same thing every time, some of you like to switch it up. it doesn't matter. i still like you. you're all awesome people.
so thank you, tim hortons customers.
please keep coming back.
just get your order right, kay?
15.2.11
day 19- write about a sweet memory from your past
so i was racking my brains and couldn't think of anything. but then i was snacking this afternoon and thought, hang on! how about a literally "sweet" memory?
it was when i was in maputo, mozambique.
we were at the iris ministries orphanage.
and one night we all gathered in this covered area, i don't even remember if there was a name for this place, or where it was in the layout of the orphanage, but there we were, a handful of white people in amongst a ton of african kids, watching The Lion King. and the kids were handing us pieces of sugarcane to chew while we watched the movie in the dark.
and the reason this memory came to mind? stupidstore - er, superstore - was selling pieces of sugarcane about 3ft long the last time i went grocery shopping. so naturally i grabbed a piece, and that's what i was snacking on this afternoon.
i know, it doesn't look like much. but believe me. it's tasty. and it's raw. hah.
it was when i was in maputo, mozambique.
we were at the iris ministries orphanage.
and one night we all gathered in this covered area, i don't even remember if there was a name for this place, or where it was in the layout of the orphanage, but there we were, a handful of white people in amongst a ton of african kids, watching The Lion King. and the kids were handing us pieces of sugarcane to chew while we watched the movie in the dark.
and the reason this memory came to mind? stupidstore - er, superstore - was selling pieces of sugarcane about 3ft long the last time i went grocery shopping. so naturally i grabbed a piece, and that's what i was snacking on this afternoon.
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