I am so terribly exhausted. I stayed up late last night watching a movie and on Skype, and then I had to wake up at 8 to come into the city for a driving lesson. On top of that, I had the worse sleep ever. I woke up 4 or 5 times between 2:30am and 7:55am. And of course, there had to be a messed up dream thrown into the mix. I dreamt that I woke up, and had 30 minutes to pack my away bag (since I'm staying in Thunder Bay for a few days), get ready to go, and somehow take a shower. It was weird. And now I feel like I could pass out and be perfectly okay with that decision.
I can not, however, do this since I am staying with Kayla for two days, and that would be rude. And lame. We went and watch The Dark Knight Rises together, and it was a-fricken-mazing. No spoilers, but wow what a good film. I'm not even that big of a fan of the whole Batman thing, but I really enjoyed it. Also, it was awesome spotting some actors that I know from other places. Burn Gorman, who I know as Owen Harper from Torchwood. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, from Inception which I happened to watch last night. And Reggie Lee, who plays Sgt. Wu in Grimm. 10 points to me for recognizing people!
Not much to report. It's been kind of a boring week for me. I ended up getting a bit of a sunburn on my back and shoulders from laying out in the sun reading one day. I've spent a little bit of time working on my painting, which still isn't done. /sigh/ On the bright side, I only have two more driving lessons to do (tomorrow and next Tuesday) and then I am FREE. Oh how sweet my freedom will taste.
I just really don't feel like much today. Hopefully I won't feel as drained next week. Boring Deidra is boring. Well, tired Deidra is tired. Anywho, don't forget to be awesome, and have a good weekend, as per usual.
-Deidra
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7/26/2012
5/18/2012
Happy May Long Weekend
Hey guys, hope you're all fine and dandy. It's currently May long weekend since we get Monday off school for Victoria Day, but I also got today off because I had a dentist appointment in Thunder Bay. I hate going to the dentists, it's just not enjoyable at all to have people poking around inside my mouth. However the appointment was short and I got to do some shopping afterwards so I guess it was alright in the end.
Not much else has really been going on, just the usual business from school and preparing for prom and grad. I did have a bit of free time (I say that but I was really just procrastinating) one night so I drew a picture of a possessed Ood. It turned out really well I think, and it made me realize that I really enjoy using ink as a medium.
Adam, my summers go from the end of June to the beginning of September. And a valedictorian is the person that has to do the farewell speech during the graduation ceremony. Typically it's the person that has the best grades, but for some reason this year they decided to take the top two people and then have a vote among the grads on who should be valedictorian. I had the highest grades so I was one of the nominees, however I was not chosen to be valedictorian in the end. Which sucks and bothers me immensely, but whatever. I'm trying not to dwell on it.
Campion, those puppets look soooo cool! And I definitely think there is an improvement from the first to the second one. Seeing those pictures kind of makes me want to go try making one myself.
Also since I'm in Thunder Bay for the weekend I'm hoping to be able to go see the Avengers. It's either that or Dark Shadows which I am also anxious to see.
DFTBA
Kayla
5/11/2012
Meelo is One of My Fave Characters
I'm in a really good mood right now and there is one single reason for that. I stayed home from school today. Just because nothing important was happening and I didn't want to go, so I just stayed home. And let me tell you, that is majorly relaxing. I ended up cleaning my room a bit and suntanning since the weather was ridiculously good until about 3 o'clock (good thing I wasn't cooped up inside school or I would have missed it). I was lucky though because my mom was out of town for work today so I just asked my dad if I could stay home and he didn't have a problem with it. If my mom had been here she probably would have made me go because I didn't have any real excuse to stay home.
Since the weather has been so nice I've been getting into my spring cleaning mood again. I just finished sorting through my clothes and holy crap do I ever have a lot of clothes. It was getting pretty crazy so I decided to donate a bunch that I didn't really wear anymore.
Oh! And like Deidra mentioned we went prom dress shopping and I also got my dress. It's teal and I really like it. Only problem is it has sparkles on it so whenever I wear it or touch it or move it around to much they get EVERYWHERE. (lol I was in the middle of cleaning when I took this picture, so don't mind the piles of clothes scattered around)
I've also been rewatching some of the 10th Doctor episodes of Doctor Who recently. It's been nice since I found that I forgot some of the things that had happened. Plus David Tennant, so yeah, need I say more?
Kate I really really really really want to see The Avengers movie too. For these movies I usually find that you don't really have to know much background on the superheros to still enjoy the movie. You could always google it though if you really wanted. Or watch all the previous movies, haha. And you should definitely try making some fruit tarts! We found a really easy recipe, they're not hard to make at all and they tasted pretty great.
Kira try not to wear yourself out too much with school. Campion congrats on your nerdfighterlike. That puppet you made sounds pretty cool too, you should show us a picture if you can.
DFTBA
Kayla
PS - Soooooo excited for prom now that I know for sure Deidra's coming. I can't even describe it so I'll let Meelo do the talking for me:
4/27/2012
Life Happens
So I'm a little disappointed right now. I was supposed to be going to Ottawa for this weekend and the beginning of next week. I was going to be moving some of my stuff into my apartment and visiting my sister, but a bunch of stuff came up and unfortunately I won't be able to go. On the bright side at least this way I won't be missing anything important at school. But I still wish I could have gone.
Like Deidra said, we went to the Envirothon on Friday and Saturday. I had more fun on it then I thought I would. Everyone there was really cool and just as unprepared as we were for the testing so that was a bit of a relief. It was a good ice breaker, talking about how we hadn't studied at all. The campfire was a lot of fun too. We just hung around talking and making smores for a while. After a while we then moved into the kitchen building instead and told each other really terrible jokes while drinking tea. The contest was also much easier than I had expected. Most of the stuff I already had a basic knowledge of from over the years. It's a shame I won't be able to do it again next year.
Katie, I forget if I mentioned this before, but every spring I do a major cleaning of my bedroom. I go through everything, get rid of a lot of stuff and reorganize everything. I also usually move my furniture around at this time too. I think I do it just to have a change of atmosphere in my room, it gets boring if it always looks the same.
I just watched this movie tonight called Ink (2009). One of my friends recommended it and he was right, it's really good. You guys should definitely check it out if you can, it has a great message and a very unique story about dreams and how people go through their lives. It was just fantastic.
Anyway it's getting late and I can't really think of anything else to say so DFTBA!
Kayla
3/16/2012
Hmmm, Honestly Can't Think of a Title Right Now...
Haha, didn't actually mean to leave my post so late this time, but then my parents convinced me to go watch a movie with them. So we ended up watching Little Women, which I have not read the novel to, but it was very good none the less.
My week has been going pretty great if I do say so myself. It's been really nice having this time off from school, even though I do still have some work to do for it. And the weather has been really nice so far, very sunny and warm. A lot of the snow is starting to melt off which is nice even if I have no doubt we'll be getting a huge snowstorm again around the end of the month.
I went to see this musical (my first musical!) on Wednesday called Fiddler on the Roof. It was really really awesome. I loved the music for it and the story line was really good, the main character had me laughing a lot. I can't get the very first song, Tradition, out of my head.
Oh, another good piece of news: I've got an apartment in Ottawa now. I am going to be roommates with my sister, which is nice. We found a pretty decent place that I think will be liveable. My sister will be moving in there at the end of April and some of my stuff will go in then too, but I don't expect to actually move in until August probably.
Katie, I've never read Catcher in the Rye, but it is definitely on my to read list. I've only been to two concerts in my life one for Metric and one for Marianas Trench. They were both during the same week so they're both pretty memorable, but since Marianas Trench was more my favourite band at the time I would have to say that it is the most memorable. The music was great, Josh was really funny, they came on the stage dressed as ninjas, it was Ian's birthday that day so they all wore shirts with his face on it, and one girl threw a bra at Josh and he wore it for a while. I've never really emailed my teachers even though I'm usually on good terms with them. It just really isn't something that happens a lot at our school I think.
Kira, I don't really get migraines at all, I don't even get headaches either unless I've been reading nonstop for too long. It must suck that you get them. Hopefully they don't bother you too badly.
Deidra, I have to say that "I work better under pressure" has got to be the motto of procrastinators. I have used it a couple times as well and really thinking about it I don't think its true. At least not for 100% of the people that say it. They just do because they want to justify leaving things to the last minute.
Anyway ta-ta for now,
DFTBA
Kayla
My week has been going pretty great if I do say so myself. It's been really nice having this time off from school, even though I do still have some work to do for it. And the weather has been really nice so far, very sunny and warm. A lot of the snow is starting to melt off which is nice even if I have no doubt we'll be getting a huge snowstorm again around the end of the month.
I went to see this musical (my first musical!) on Wednesday called Fiddler on the Roof. It was really really awesome. I loved the music for it and the story line was really good, the main character had me laughing a lot. I can't get the very first song, Tradition, out of my head.
Oh, another good piece of news: I've got an apartment in Ottawa now. I am going to be roommates with my sister, which is nice. We found a pretty decent place that I think will be liveable. My sister will be moving in there at the end of April and some of my stuff will go in then too, but I don't expect to actually move in until August probably.
Katie, I've never read Catcher in the Rye, but it is definitely on my to read list. I've only been to two concerts in my life one for Metric and one for Marianas Trench. They were both during the same week so they're both pretty memorable, but since Marianas Trench was more my favourite band at the time I would have to say that it is the most memorable. The music was great, Josh was really funny, they came on the stage dressed as ninjas, it was Ian's birthday that day so they all wore shirts with his face on it, and one girl threw a bra at Josh and he wore it for a while. I've never really emailed my teachers even though I'm usually on good terms with them. It just really isn't something that happens a lot at our school I think.
Kira, I don't really get migraines at all, I don't even get headaches either unless I've been reading nonstop for too long. It must suck that you get them. Hopefully they don't bother you too badly.
Deidra, I have to say that "I work better under pressure" has got to be the motto of procrastinators. I have used it a couple times as well and really thinking about it I don't think its true. At least not for 100% of the people that say it. They just do because they want to justify leaving things to the last minute.
Anyway ta-ta for now,
DFTBA
Kayla
2/24/2012
I wonder if a tail would improve my balance
Hey everyone. Hope your weeks have been going well. Grad photos were this week, which I almost completely forgot. Besides our individual ones we were allowed to sign up for buddy pictures so Deidra and I got some done, we did the Nerdfighters hand sign in one picture.
I did manage to finally go see Chronicle last weekend. It was pretty good, not exactly what I was expecting to see, but good none the less. I think I liked it because if by some chance some teens got super powers in real life I could see them behaving the same way the guys in the movie did.
Our teachers just informed us today that there's going to be a field trip to Thunder Bay on March 2nd to go view a bunch of science and medical labs. I'm really excited about it because I'm going into biology for university so I think it will be cool to go see what everything is like. We're even going to be seeing a DNA lab so that's cool.
My sister just showed me this song and it's already stuck in my head. It's called Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) by Gotye. You guys should check it out. Oh, and I only just realized that Martin Freeman, the guy who plays Watson in Sherlock, is also playing Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. It's kind of strange I didn't realize it sooner I think, but I guess it makes sense because I only started watching Sherlock a while ago. Also just randomly wondering, do any of you guys watch the TV show The Walking Dead?
Adam, hope your tests went well. I've never even watched a rugby game on TV or in real life before (mostly because I'm not really into watching sports, but also because rugby isn't really as big here in Canada usually everything is about hockey) so it will be interesting to see those pictures if you post them.
Kate, I've often wondered what animals think when they see humans. I mean we stand upright, we have no tails, and we have no head-to-toe fur. Whereas we're completely fine with how we look it's very strange to think about it from an outside point of view.
I thought a bit about your question Deidra and I think I would choose a prehensile tail. It just seems like it would be useful to have an extra limb that can grab and hold stuff. Runners up: wings, gills, and a turtle shell.
DFTBA
Kayla
I did manage to finally go see Chronicle last weekend. It was pretty good, not exactly what I was expecting to see, but good none the less. I think I liked it because if by some chance some teens got super powers in real life I could see them behaving the same way the guys in the movie did.
Our teachers just informed us today that there's going to be a field trip to Thunder Bay on March 2nd to go view a bunch of science and medical labs. I'm really excited about it because I'm going into biology for university so I think it will be cool to go see what everything is like. We're even going to be seeing a DNA lab so that's cool.
My sister just showed me this song and it's already stuck in my head. It's called Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) by Gotye. You guys should check it out. Oh, and I only just realized that Martin Freeman, the guy who plays Watson in Sherlock, is also playing Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. It's kind of strange I didn't realize it sooner I think, but I guess it makes sense because I only started watching Sherlock a while ago. Also just randomly wondering, do any of you guys watch the TV show The Walking Dead?
Adam, hope your tests went well. I've never even watched a rugby game on TV or in real life before (mostly because I'm not really into watching sports, but also because rugby isn't really as big here in Canada usually everything is about hockey) so it will be interesting to see those pictures if you post them.
Kate, I've often wondered what animals think when they see humans. I mean we stand upright, we have no tails, and we have no head-to-toe fur. Whereas we're completely fine with how we look it's very strange to think about it from an outside point of view.
I thought a bit about your question Deidra and I think I would choose a prehensile tail. It just seems like it would be useful to have an extra limb that can grab and hold stuff. Runners up: wings, gills, and a turtle shell.
DFTBA
Kayla
2/17/2012
Super Powers For the Win
So I finished watching Sherlock this week, it was pretty darn amazing. I can't wait for more. I've also been reading a bit this week. I found this lovely book in our school library called A Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell. It was very touching and had a lot of good meaning in it. Be warned though it is quite a tear jerker, or at least it was for me.
I've also been really enjoying my art class so far, I'm glad I decided to take it. Especially because I already know that calculus is going to be difficult for me. I just wish my schedule would have allowed me to take art all through high school. Darn math or science always got in the way.
Since it's a long weekend for us my family is going to Thunder Bay and I'm hoping to go to the theatres to see Chronicle. I've been wanting to go see it for a while now. Campion I really liked your review; I also really enjoy super hero movies (and books) so that was part of the reason why I've been eager to see it.
I'd never really thought too much about the fact that there are different types of Irish accents, but it makes sense seeing as there are also different Canadian accents. I'm pretty sure I have a sort of more rural Canadian accent since I've lived in a small town my whole life, but honestly I can't really tell. Actually now that I think about it I think I have a blend of Canadian and American (I probably picked it up from the TV). In terms of the most stereotypical Canadian things to say: I do say "eh," I say "zee" not "zed," and I say "about" not "aboot" ("aboot" is really more of a Maritime thing).
I've seen Captain America a couple of times so I'm not sure what you don't understand about the ending, but I can explain it a bit. Spoilers ahead for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet. Basically Steve Rogers (Captain America) crashed a plane in the Arctic to stop the bombs on board from causing any damage to America. He ended up frozen there for like 70 years before the military finds him again. They set up this whole thing to make it seem as though it's still back in the 1940s so that it's not a huge shock for him, but he finds out it isn't, freaks out, and runs outside into the modern world. And that's basically it. Oh, and obviously he didn't age or die or whatever because he's Captain America so he can do that I guess.
Oh my gosh Kira, I haven't heard anyone mention Animorphs for years. I didn't ever read all that many of them, just a couple, but my sister was really into them so she would always tell me about them. I always liked the covers though. And I think I remember seeing a few episodes from the TV show. The animorph power is really cool in my opinion.
DFTBA
Kayla
I've also been really enjoying my art class so far, I'm glad I decided to take it. Especially because I already know that calculus is going to be difficult for me. I just wish my schedule would have allowed me to take art all through high school. Darn math or science always got in the way.
Since it's a long weekend for us my family is going to Thunder Bay and I'm hoping to go to the theatres to see Chronicle. I've been wanting to go see it for a while now. Campion I really liked your review; I also really enjoy super hero movies (and books) so that was part of the reason why I've been eager to see it.
I'd never really thought too much about the fact that there are different types of Irish accents, but it makes sense seeing as there are also different Canadian accents. I'm pretty sure I have a sort of more rural Canadian accent since I've lived in a small town my whole life, but honestly I can't really tell. Actually now that I think about it I think I have a blend of Canadian and American (I probably picked it up from the TV). In terms of the most stereotypical Canadian things to say: I do say "eh," I say "zee" not "zed," and I say "about" not "aboot" ("aboot" is really more of a Maritime thing).
I've seen Captain America a couple of times so I'm not sure what you don't understand about the ending, but I can explain it a bit. Spoilers ahead for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet. Basically Steve Rogers (Captain America) crashed a plane in the Arctic to stop the bombs on board from causing any damage to America. He ended up frozen there for like 70 years before the military finds him again. They set up this whole thing to make it seem as though it's still back in the 1940s so that it's not a huge shock for him, but he finds out it isn't, freaks out, and runs outside into the modern world. And that's basically it. Oh, and obviously he didn't age or die or whatever because he's Captain America so he can do that I guess.
Oh my gosh Kira, I haven't heard anyone mention Animorphs for years. I didn't ever read all that many of them, just a couple, but my sister was really into them so she would always tell me about them. I always liked the covers though. And I think I remember seeing a few episodes from the TV show. The animorph power is really cool in my opinion.
DFTBA
Kayla
2/10/2012
My Life Seems to Revolve Around Movies
Oh my gosh, was my week ever boring. Two of my second semester classes don't start until next week so I've had these spares that I have nothing to do in. I can't even work on stuff from my other classes because it's the beginning of the semester and we haven't really had any homework assignments yet, besides a bit of reading.
Hmmm don't really have much to talk about since not much has been happening lately. Oh yeah, I got accepted to Guelph university so that means I got accepted to all three of my choices. Now I'm just going to have to figure out where I actually want to end up going.
I really want to see that Kung Fu Cyborg movie now, just to see how ridiculous it really is. I like watching random super corny looking movies. I tend to lean more towards the horror genre, but this just seems like one I'm going to have to watch. Maybe this weekend if I can find it online.
Any of you guys see the Fright Night remake that came out in August 2011? I just saw it by chance this week and it was pretty good. David Tennant is in it, I didn't even realize it at first. Also the main character is played by Anton Yelchin, the guy who played Chekov in the latest Star Trek movie. And it was nice to see the whole classic vampire thing it had going on, much better than the Twilight vamps in my opinion.
Ciao,
Kayla
Hmmm don't really have much to talk about since not much has been happening lately. Oh yeah, I got accepted to Guelph university so that means I got accepted to all three of my choices. Now I'm just going to have to figure out where I actually want to end up going.
I really want to see that Kung Fu Cyborg movie now, just to see how ridiculous it really is. I like watching random super corny looking movies. I tend to lean more towards the horror genre, but this just seems like one I'm going to have to watch. Maybe this weekend if I can find it online.
Any of you guys see the Fright Night remake that came out in August 2011? I just saw it by chance this week and it was pretty good. David Tennant is in it, I didn't even realize it at first. Also the main character is played by Anton Yelchin, the guy who played Chekov in the latest Star Trek movie. And it was nice to see the whole classic vampire thing it had going on, much better than the Twilight vamps in my opinion.
Ciao,
Kayla
12/02/2011
Talk about ALL the things!
Today was pretty awesome. Two of my three teachers were away so we had supplies in for them. In biology class we ended up having a big discussion about pokemon and then a debate over what the plural of platypus is. Then in english we were reading the final act of Othello as a class and things just got really out of hand we ended up laughing so much and just having a bunch of fun. And it's the weekend now!
I'm hanging out with Deidra right now, sleeping over at her place to be more exact and we just spent the evening playing Twilight Princess and then we watched Super 8. Let me tell you Super 8 was a fantastic movie in my opinion. There was action, a little romance, aliens, mystery. The best part of all though was that it wasn't just another movie with the same old Hollywood actors. It was just a bunch of like teens that I hadn't really seen in any movies before (though they have been in a few, I looked them up).
Adam, your Swindon Town fanfic is going really well so far, I'll be sure to check in on it from time to time. I hope you keep it up because it's definitely better than a lot of the fanfiction that I've read on other things.
For Christmas my family has a sort of double celebration I guess you could say. On Christmas Eve we spend the evening at my Grandparents house for an awesome dinner (with ham not turkey) and then presents. Then on Christmas Day we open the family presents and have my uncle over for a second christmas dinner. We always get a real tree for our house and it's usually pretty tall so we have to use a ladder to decorate the top. My mom does a bunch of baking and we all pitch in to help. My favourite things we make are gingerbread cookies, shortbread cookies, and meat perogies. The food is definitely my favourite part of the holiday, but watching all the christmas tv specials comes at a close second.
Happy Birthday Kira! I hope you have an awesome weekend and an awesome birthday. And don't stress too much about school or anything just try your hardest and work your way through whatever they send your way and you'll be fine. I honestly believe that worrying about it will just make it worse than whatever it would have been.
Campion, it sucks you're limited in your bandwidth use. I don't know how it is with everyone else, but where I live, or I guess with the plan my family has, there isn't really a limit to how much bandwidth we use. I honestly never even knew what bandwidth was until like a couple years ago when someone was talking about it on a youtube video.
As for something that I watched before and got back into, all I can really think of off the top of my head would be Doctor Who. It played on cable for the Eccleston and like one of the Tennant seasons when I was younger and all I can remember thinking was that it was a really cool show. Then it stopped for some reason and I kind of forgot about it until I got into Nerdfighting. So I went back and watched all the episodes from Eccleston and onwards, and it's still as good as I remember.
DFTBA
Kayla
Oh and I almost forgot, this week my school started a gardening club so I joined it. It seems like it'll be a lot of fun so I can't wait till we start growing things.
I'm hanging out with Deidra right now, sleeping over at her place to be more exact and we just spent the evening playing Twilight Princess and then we watched Super 8. Let me tell you Super 8 was a fantastic movie in my opinion. There was action, a little romance, aliens, mystery. The best part of all though was that it wasn't just another movie with the same old Hollywood actors. It was just a bunch of like teens that I hadn't really seen in any movies before (though they have been in a few, I looked them up).
Adam, your Swindon Town fanfic is going really well so far, I'll be sure to check in on it from time to time. I hope you keep it up because it's definitely better than a lot of the fanfiction that I've read on other things.
For Christmas my family has a sort of double celebration I guess you could say. On Christmas Eve we spend the evening at my Grandparents house for an awesome dinner (with ham not turkey) and then presents. Then on Christmas Day we open the family presents and have my uncle over for a second christmas dinner. We always get a real tree for our house and it's usually pretty tall so we have to use a ladder to decorate the top. My mom does a bunch of baking and we all pitch in to help. My favourite things we make are gingerbread cookies, shortbread cookies, and meat perogies. The food is definitely my favourite part of the holiday, but watching all the christmas tv specials comes at a close second.
Happy Birthday Kira! I hope you have an awesome weekend and an awesome birthday. And don't stress too much about school or anything just try your hardest and work your way through whatever they send your way and you'll be fine. I honestly believe that worrying about it will just make it worse than whatever it would have been.
Campion, it sucks you're limited in your bandwidth use. I don't know how it is with everyone else, but where I live, or I guess with the plan my family has, there isn't really a limit to how much bandwidth we use. I honestly never even knew what bandwidth was until like a couple years ago when someone was talking about it on a youtube video.
As for something that I watched before and got back into, all I can really think of off the top of my head would be Doctor Who. It played on cable for the Eccleston and like one of the Tennant seasons when I was younger and all I can remember thinking was that it was a really cool show. Then it stopped for some reason and I kind of forgot about it until I got into Nerdfighting. So I went back and watched all the episodes from Eccleston and onwards, and it's still as good as I remember.
DFTBA
Kayla
Oh and I almost forgot, this week my school started a gardening club so I joined it. It seems like it'll be a lot of fun so I can't wait till we start growing things.
11/18/2011
I Can't Think of Titles
I'm not really in the mood to write today so I think this will be shorter than usual. I've been losing precious hours of sleep this week to the horrible monster that is homework. Hopefully I'll catch up on some this weekend, but then again, I say that every week.
Like Deidra I did my university application this week. I applied for a biology major and hopefully I'll be heading into zoology, but who knows, I change my mind so often.
This weekend Deidra's going to be coming over for a sleepover so she can help sell poinsettias as a grad fundraiser the next day. We're going to be watching a movie of some sort as well, but we're not sure what yet. I've been trying to get her to watch The Lord of the Rings for a while now, but that's a long trilogy so we might not have time for it. Maybe just the first one. Or Edward Scissorhands, I'm supposed to get her to see that as well.
Hope your guys' weeks went well and you aren't as busy as I am.
DFTBA
Kayla
Like Deidra I did my university application this week. I applied for a biology major and hopefully I'll be heading into zoology, but who knows, I change my mind so often.
This weekend Deidra's going to be coming over for a sleepover so she can help sell poinsettias as a grad fundraiser the next day. We're going to be watching a movie of some sort as well, but we're not sure what yet. I've been trying to get her to watch The Lord of the Rings for a while now, but that's a long trilogy so we might not have time for it. Maybe just the first one. Or Edward Scissorhands, I'm supposed to get her to see that as well.
Hope your guys' weeks went well and you aren't as busy as I am.
DFTBA
Kayla
11/11/2011
11:11 11/11/11 Make A Wish
Well the snow is finally here, and I think it's going to stay, but I guess we'll just have to see. It was pretty warm out and I was in a good mood so I ended up shoveling our deck off. I tried to make a snowman afterwards, but it wasn't sticky enough so I'll have to try again some other day.
Today also happens to be Remembrance Day here so we had our usual ceremony at school. This year the students from the elementary school came to our ceremony as well. One class read In Flanders Fields and another sang a song. They were so cute and little. And for once my poppy didn't fall off in the middle of the day.
Movie suggestion: The Eagle. I probably wouldn't have seen this movie if my dad hadn't pointed it out in the store, but it was surprisingly good in my opinion. It's set in Roman times where a man tries to restore his family's honour. The main character is Channing Tatum so that was a bit of a plus.
Katie, I hope your lower back is feeling better. Adam, I cannot think of a more perfect name for a Doctor Who song than Tardis Blues, I'm glad your music making is going well. Kate, Happy Birthday! Hope you have/had an awesome day! Also congrats about sticking with nano until this point, I don't seem to have that sort of capability.
Power, that's a toughy. I think I'll have to agree with you Kira. Knowledge is power. And congrats on your awesome mark. Hope exams are going well for you Campion, hang in there.
Anyway I'm getting tired so I'll be heading off to bed now.
DFTBA
Kayla
Today also happens to be Remembrance Day here so we had our usual ceremony at school. This year the students from the elementary school came to our ceremony as well. One class read In Flanders Fields and another sang a song. They were so cute and little. And for once my poppy didn't fall off in the middle of the day.
Movie suggestion: The Eagle. I probably wouldn't have seen this movie if my dad hadn't pointed it out in the store, but it was surprisingly good in my opinion. It's set in Roman times where a man tries to restore his family's honour. The main character is Channing Tatum so that was a bit of a plus.
Katie, I hope your lower back is feeling better. Adam, I cannot think of a more perfect name for a Doctor Who song than Tardis Blues, I'm glad your music making is going well. Kate, Happy Birthday! Hope you have/had an awesome day! Also congrats about sticking with nano until this point, I don't seem to have that sort of capability.
Power, that's a toughy. I think I'll have to agree with you Kira. Knowledge is power. And congrats on your awesome mark. Hope exams are going well for you Campion, hang in there.
Anyway I'm getting tired so I'll be heading off to bed now.
DFTBA
Kayla
10/10/2011
103 Reasons to love the classics
I'm sitting in the dark!
Or at least I was at seven o'clock when I started writing this! Aw this weekend has been very close to perfect it has. I didn't have to ride the bus with the annoying kids on Friday. Instead I was picked up by my friends mom and we drove to her house. Our friend who goes to a different school arrived later in the evening and we stayed up playing cards, eating popcorn, and having an all-round nerdy time.
We talked about news, school, and things we liked/disliked. I really missed my friend. Whilst having such an awesome time, we planned for us to all go see a movie this afternoon. We ending up seeing Dream House, which wasn't all as 'scary' as the previews lead it to be. Now I'm not one for scaring myself with films, but this couldn't scare an eight year old. It was mostly really confusing, at parts. I guess the reason it wasn't so frightening was because we made it a laugh.
Adam, Thanksgiving is holiday, in which we give thanks to god or something. At least, that's how my family views it. The whole turkey feast between the Europeans and Native Americans is crap. Not sure what it means in Canada. I explained that really poorly, sorry. I'm not a big fan of the tradition, so I'm a bit bitter toward it. Oh well. I'm glad your song Bad Wolf is completed!:)
Deidra thank you for the feed back on my poem-ish thing. Glad you enjoyed it. I quite liked it myself. The RH Experience were one of my favorites from Stickaid as well. I'm personally not a big fan of granola bars myself. The texture is weird. Thank you again, for your lovely responses to the quote! I had pretty much the same feelings toward it. My next question thing is 'what makes a genius?' I actually thought of it earlier tonight while watching a John Lennon special. My mom said she thought John had gotten weird over the years, and it made me think he was a genius. Therefore geniuses are weird.
Speaking of which, Its John and Sean Lennon's birthdays today, as well as John Entwistles birthday. I thought that was very interesting. Them all having the same birthday, years apart. So I watched like three John Lennon specials in a row and it really disturbed me how Chapman thinks of himself as Holden from 'The Catcher in the Rye'. Something my mom and sister said was that many murders make references to the book, and I can't understand why.
Speaking of old literature, do you guys read classics? Like Oliver Twist or Scarlet Letter? Just curious because my class is reading 'The Odyssey'. The non-honor kids in the class [small school, so we're mixed] read from book five and on, but because I'm honors I get to read the first book and on. What fun!! Though, I am looking forward to it! That's all for now.
Bye!♥
9/16/2011
Mutant and Proud
Well today was very busy for me, but in a good way. Student Council held a Welcome Back to School BBQ and activity thing today. We got our afternoon classes off so we could have free food, compete in activities to win prizes or just hang out with friends outside. Have you ever seen one person try to feed another pudding while they're both blindfolded? It's quite hilarious to watch. But the best part was that the weather was really good compared to how rainy and freezing cold it was the whole week before.
Also I'm sleeping over at Deidra's house tonight and we just finished watching X-men: First Class. I have already seen the movie twice before, but Deidra hadn't and I really wanted her to watch it with me because she's not usually into those movies. I really like movies where people have superpowers, by the way. They're so exciting and imaginative.
Also I just noticed that I like to mention a movie in my posts so maybe I'll make it a thing. A weekly movie recommendation or something.
Question: are we still planning on doing themes or something... because we never really ended up doing them even though we all said it was a good idea. If we do still want them we should figure out how we're going to go about using them.
Anyway, hope everyone is doing well
DFTBA
Kayla
Also I'm sleeping over at Deidra's house tonight and we just finished watching X-men: First Class. I have already seen the movie twice before, but Deidra hadn't and I really wanted her to watch it with me because she's not usually into those movies. I really like movies where people have superpowers, by the way. They're so exciting and imaginative.
Also I just noticed that I like to mention a movie in my posts so maybe I'll make it a thing. A weekly movie recommendation or something.
Question: are we still planning on doing themes or something... because we never really ended up doing them even though we all said it was a good idea. If we do still want them we should figure out how we're going to go about using them.
Anyway, hope everyone is doing well
DFTBA
Kayla
7/22/2011
Procrastination is one of my biggest motivators.
Campion brought up a very good point in his post on wednesday. Summer break for me is probably the time of the year when I get the least amount of things done despite all the free time to do it. During the school year I'm constantly putting off doing homework to do other things, but as soon as summer comes it's like I can't think of anything I want to do besides lay around or go swimming. Maybe it's the heat, I don't know.
I did get to go strawberry picking with my family a couple days ago, though, so now we have lots of fresh berries to eat. I planted some dwarf sunflowers a while ago and they are finally starting to sprout. I'm not very good at taking care of plants (I usually end up killing them by over or underwatering them) so I hope that these will survive. I also ended up reading Zombies vs. Unicorns, Divergent, one smaller book and four volumes of manga in the past week. Z vs. U was a really good book, I like how it was a bunch of separate short stories and you should check it out if you haven't already. Also looking back I realize in my first post I said team unicorn, but I think I've converted.
Katie: I am a huge animal fan so I'm not sure I have a favourite, but I do really like polar bears (is that cliche for a Canadian?). The only time I've seen them in a zoo was a long time ago in Winnipeg and it was so hot that summer that I felt really bad for it. Zoos in general kind of make me sad.
Kira: I got into Harry Potter first through the movies when I was little. I ended up reading the fourth novel first because I was little and I wanted to read the biggest book that I could find that still looked interesting and that was it. After that I went back and reread the whole series start to finish. That was when all the books had already been released so I didn't care when the last book came out. My sister did though and when she bought it and finished reading it I immediately went and read the "19 years later" section at the end because I figured I would never read the books anyways. Oh how wrong I was.
*minor movie spoilers ahead*
As predicted I did cry lots during the movie. It was really good though, I really have no complaints except for them not actually showing Fred's death scene. My favourite part was when McGonagall called the statues to arms, I was probably as excited as her when she did that. Snape's story affected me more from the movie than when I read it in the book I have to admit and his death made me cringe and cry. Neville made me smile whenever I saw him because I was thinking about how much he'd changed, especially when he was facing the werewolves. And at the very end of the movie I couldn't help but think, "Oh my god, Harry's son has Justin Bieber hair..." It made me shake my head and sigh.
DFTBA
Kayla
P.S. Thumbs up for Green Day, they rock!
P.P.S. Do you guys think I write too much? I feel like I write too much, but I'm not sure if I can help it...
I did get to go strawberry picking with my family a couple days ago, though, so now we have lots of fresh berries to eat. I planted some dwarf sunflowers a while ago and they are finally starting to sprout. I'm not very good at taking care of plants (I usually end up killing them by over or underwatering them) so I hope that these will survive. I also ended up reading Zombies vs. Unicorns, Divergent, one smaller book and four volumes of manga in the past week. Z vs. U was a really good book, I like how it was a bunch of separate short stories and you should check it out if you haven't already. Also looking back I realize in my first post I said team unicorn, but I think I've converted.
Katie: I am a huge animal fan so I'm not sure I have a favourite, but I do really like polar bears (is that cliche for a Canadian?). The only time I've seen them in a zoo was a long time ago in Winnipeg and it was so hot that summer that I felt really bad for it. Zoos in general kind of make me sad.
Kira: I got into Harry Potter first through the movies when I was little. I ended up reading the fourth novel first because I was little and I wanted to read the biggest book that I could find that still looked interesting and that was it. After that I went back and reread the whole series start to finish. That was when all the books had already been released so I didn't care when the last book came out. My sister did though and when she bought it and finished reading it I immediately went and read the "19 years later" section at the end because I figured I would never read the books anyways. Oh how wrong I was.
*minor movie spoilers ahead*
As predicted I did cry lots during the movie. It was really good though, I really have no complaints except for them not actually showing Fred's death scene. My favourite part was when McGonagall called the statues to arms, I was probably as excited as her when she did that. Snape's story affected me more from the movie than when I read it in the book I have to admit and his death made me cringe and cry. Neville made me smile whenever I saw him because I was thinking about how much he'd changed, especially when he was facing the werewolves. And at the very end of the movie I couldn't help but think, "Oh my god, Harry's son has Justin Bieber hair..." It made me shake my head and sigh.
DFTBA
Kayla
P.S. Thumbs up for Green Day, they rock!
P.P.S. Do you guys think I write too much? I feel like I write too much, but I'm not sure if I can help it...
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