My week was really busy so now I just want to relax.

Hey guys!

I'm back from Ottawa for the time being. I had a lot of fun there. Canada day was packed with people as usual. I saw one guy that was carrying a sign that said free hugs and brohoofs which I thought was funny. Also for some reason there were a bunch of furries walking around getting their pictures taken with people. It was pretty amusing. The fireworks were beautiful they had these really cute fizzing gold ones that I adored.

Also there happened to be a special Van Gogh exhibit in the Art Gallery when we were there so of course I went to check it out. I love his landscapes, the flow of his brushstrokes is really pretty. I ended up buying a print of Bedroom in Arles that I'm going to hang in my apartment somewhere, probably in my bedroom. 

Oh, and I went rock climbing with my sister for the first time. It was in one of those gyms with the fake rock climbing walls all over the place and it was really cool. We only went bouldering which is where you don't go as high and you don't need any ropes or anything. It was really fun, but really hard at the same time. I definitely want to keep going and try to get better at it. Lol, but let me tell you, was I ever sore afterwards. It wasn't that bad at first, but the next day my arms and shoulders were so sore that it hurt to move, push doors, or even lift my arms over my head.

I finished WGWG, and another book I bought called Awaken. The idea behind Awaken was really good in my opinion, very suiting for today's society. It takes place in the future when violence had escalated so much that people started isolating themselves in their homes and doing everything online instead. And it seemed relevant because even though it hasn't gone that far yet in reality, it doesn't seem like it's very far off from happening. I also ended up rereading The Darkest Powers series in one day, which was stupid because I stayed up really late to do it and now I'm done the story.... I should have spaced it out to enjoy it more...

Oh and I got all my marks back and my diploma for high school so that's cool. I'm very pleased with all my marks, all low 90s or high 80s.

Katie, that's cool you donated your hair. I did that once when I was younger. You liking your new hair or regretting it? Also I tend to just use the shift key for capital letters, unless its for like a whole sentence in capitals, but even then I forget the caps lock key half the time.

Adam, I liked your post idea. I'm not going to write a letter to myself, but I went back to look at my first couple posts. It's kind of strange reading them now. I feel like a different person now even though I haven't really changed all that much.

DFTBA

Kayla

The Move (part 1)

Greetings from Ottawa! I got here around 7ish (we left at like 5:30 in the morning) and unloaded the stuff we brought into my apartment. It's the first time I'm seeing my apartment in person so it's pretty cool. My room has a bunch of built in shelving which will be excellent since I will most likely end up with another collection here. I don't have a bed yet though so I'm sleeping with my sister tonight. Hopefully I'll get one tomorrow. 

There's a bunch of other stuff I wasn't able to bring down this trip so I'm going to have to get it later this summer when I come to stay for good. I'll only be here for about a week this trip, which means this will be the third Canada Day spent here in our nation's capital. I always like coming here for Canada Day because the celebrations are always way bigger than the ones back in my small town, it's much more fun. 

Tomorrow I'm going to be meeting my sister's boyfriend for the first time. I'm actually not very nervous or anything which is kind of surprising, but I know him a little and he seems pretty cool and everything. From what my sister said it seems like he's way more anxious about the whole thing than I am (he's also going to be meeting my parents for the first time, but not until Sunday).

I finished reading Looking for Alaska and I am like 3/4 through Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Both are excellent books. I'm really liking WGWG so far, it's super funny and full of all these ridiculous quotes that make me want to go buy my own copy (I'm currently borrowing Deidra's) and highlight/underline/dogear the whole thing. I am 100% sure Deidra would not appreciate me messing with her copy. What's your guy's opinions on putting marks in books?

Katie, religion has always been somewhat of a grey area for me as well. I go to church every Sunday and I guess technically I could say that I'm christian, but I don't even know what I believe. I'm just like christian by default because of my parents. I actually decided I want to read through the whole bible recently. I'm only in the first book (Genesis) and already there's been a lot of death/murder/incest/lying. I really don't know what to think so far, I guess I'll just keep reading.

Kira, I have to agree with Deidra on this one when I say burning a book (even a really bad one) is a super horrible thing to do. (I know it was your friend that did it, but I would totally wince if I saw someone doing that to a book.) For my art project this year I had to make a journal and I ripped all the pages of a book out so I could use the cover. All the pages stayed together so the book wasn't technically ruined, but I still had a hard time doing it. Felt like I was doing some really despicable act or something.

DFTBA

Kayla

PS- Can't believe it's already been a year of blogging, that's pretty darn amazing guys! Let's keep it up!

White Christmas

So school is finally out today, it was pretty pointless to even be there seeing as we didn't do any work really, but I guess the free pancake breakfast made up for it. A little bit anyway. But now that's done (even though technically I have two essays and some math to work on, but I'm not thinking about that right now lalalalalala) and I'm in Thunder Bay for the holidays as per usual. We still have to decorate and finish wrapping presents since we just got here, but we have time and it'll be fun. My sister is back from Ottawa so that's nice, too. We're planning on doing a lot of fun stuff while she's here like baking, skating, making a snowman, and maybe skiing.

Campion, I honestly can't even imagine Christmas without snow, it just seems so wrong to me. Christmas is the time of year when its cold out with tons of snow so you have hot chocolate and play outside while being bundled up so much it's hard to walk, and toboggan down huge hills. We already have maybe a foot and a half of snow here.

Adam, I consider myself Canadian first and I also consider myself an Ontarian, but more than that I consider myself a Northern Ontarian because our province is so big and southern Ontario isn't really the same as northern Ontario. If that makes any sense.

On a completely different note have you guys seen the trailer for The Hobbit? I was so excited when I saw it, it feels like I've been waiting forever for the movie to come out (because of all the stupid delays and setbacks) and I still have to wait one year to see the first part, but that's better than before.

So yeah, Merry Christmas! DFTBA! And I haven't really seen anyone say that they don't celebrate Christmas, but if you don't (and for our readers who don't) Happy Chrismukkwanzaadan!
Kayla