Posting

This is not going to be a long post - I just felt bad after only posting 18 times out of a possible 31.  So I figured I should post.  I bought Christina Perri's lovestrong album today, listening to it right now.  I should probably go to bed soon, I'm babysitting tomorrow and I'm sure it will be after midnight when the parents get back.  I'd better get a good pay.  My parents are having a few friends over to celebrate and I'm gonna miss all the food they are making right now.  :(  oh well.  The song of the day is Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift feat. The Civil Wars.  Its one of the first songs to be released that's going to be on the Hunger Games Soundtrack. So excited!
Tip for anybody writing an essay that has to be a certain length that you think will be hard to achieve if it needs to be double spaced: don't double space it at first, then double space it and bada-boom, bada-bing! You have a lot more than you thought you did! (this happened to me today).

 

This is a quote from DW, the red writing is the Doctor, and the blue writing is Idris, the "spirit" of the TARDIS in a human body.  It probably doesn't make sense to you, but I just love it!

Free Time

Wow, it's been a week since I've posted.  I guess my excuse was Christmas, which was totally awesome!!! We visited some family over the weekend, and then some more family came over yesterday.  Lots of presents!!! I haven't decided which one is my favourite yet.  One thing I did get was a half-pound Reese peanut butter cup.  That's right, half a pound.  It is HUGE!!! It is the size of my hand, and it is so beautiful.  I dunno if I want to eat it, just cause its so awesome.  I also got a bunch of regular sized peanut butter cups, which I have no problem eating! I was working on my essay that is due the second day back earlier today, didn't get very far considering how long I worked on it.  I have a feeling that writing this essay will be hard.  Not much else going on, I've been watching all the DW episodes I recorded on Christmas. Have I mentioned that I love DW? Cause I do.  It is so good! I keep freaking out at my friend who told me about DW as I find out what happens.  I think she thinks that I've lost it :)  I try and limit how many episodes I watch a day, but it's not working out well.  We had some friends over to scrapbook earlier this week, and so our scrapbooking stuff is still covering the dining room table.  I wish I had a picture inventory of all my scrapbook stuff so that I wouldn't forget about some of the stuff I have. Hope your holidays are going well (that is, if you have a holiday).  

:D

So I was looking up paintings cause for our final art project, we are to take a painting and alter it somehow.  It could be simply putting a fold in the painting, or you can actually change part of the painting.  So I was looking up some of Rene Magrritte's paintings, cause her paintings seem like they would be easy to change something of, and I came across this:

 

For those of you who don't understand French, its says "This is not a peep." It is a parody on this painting:

This is one of my favourite paintings.  (This one says, "This is not a pipe.")  You say, well of course it's a pipe.  Enh. (that's my wrong answer buzzer sound in words...) It is a painting of a pipe, but it is not simply a pipe.  It is for this reason that I like Magritte so much.

FREEDOM!!!

Relief

I am SO glad that today is over.  All those tests and assignments, finally finished! I honestly don't know what we are going to do tomorrow in class.  Oh well, I'm fine with doing nothing!  All day I have had Jar of Hearts - Christina Perri stuck in my head.  It was also stuck in my head when I was trying to fall asleep.  I hate it when you have a singe line of a song stuck in your head, but you can't remember any other part of the song.  That happened to me last night.  And I was not happy.  I was tired restless, I couldn't fall asleep and I was panicking about being really tired for my tests, then I started panicking that I would forget everything, then I was panicking about panicking so much...it wasn't good.  This is an ambigram from Angels and Demons.  It says "EARTH AIR FIRE WATER"  If you turn the entire picture upside down, it says the same thing.  Each word upside down individually also says another one of the words.  EARTH upside down is WATER, and FIRE is AIR.  Pretty cool, huh?

Crazy

Ugh, this has been such a hectic week.  I have a pyhsics AND chemistry test tomorrow, and I have a thesis statement for English due tomorrow.  There is a Macbeth culminating activity due on friday.  I am freaking out.  I am taking break from studying, I have headache.  The only class that has stopped for the year is art.  We started watching Angels and Demons today.  My teachers excuse for letting us watch it is that it (kind of) deals with art history.  So far, I've really like it.  It wasn't what I thought it would be, but mind you I had never heard of it before last week, so....  There is a slightly concerning lack of presents under our tree right now.  Some have been packed up because we are going to visit family, but still.  Usually we are shoving presents into corners because there is no more room under the tree.  Only 4 more days.  It seems a little slightly surreal, and unless a huge snow storm comes by, we will be having a green Christmas.  Have you seen this doll before? Probably not, because she was just released a few days ago in Europe.  She is the new girl Lego doll.  I don't think I like her.  That might just be because I grew up with the other minifigure.  I dunno, Lego has always been directed at boys, it seems kind of weird to me that now they are making girly Lego...

Par-tay

So the thing that I couldn't wait for was my BFFLAAT's sweet 16 par-tay!!! We went in a limo :O and drove around and had a progressive dinner.  So much FUN!!! Seriously though, major extreme funness going on all night.  I had never been inside a limo before (unless you count seeing the inside of one on tv...) and it was so cool! Pretty lights and music and comfy couches...the life of luxury.  I sat in different places each time to get the feel of every spot (some of my friends were mad at me for taking their spot!) and I have to say I think the best place is at the very front facing the back.  The only down side is that there is a speaker there, so if you have the music blasting (and we did) it's right in your ear.  Also, there's always the awkward corner spot where someone sits, but there really isn't room anywhere for them to put their feet.  But other than that, it was pretty awesome.  We got our limo driver (who was really nice) to drive around Victoria Park, and it was beautiful. We started taking pictures out of the window, and some people saw us and were confused, cause why would the person in the limo be taking pictures of them, right? Cause usually people are taking pictures of the limo.  Speaking of which, when we first got on the road, we liked it when the limo caught people's attention and were looking at us, but then some people started taking pictures of us. So we rolled down the window, and the people taking the pictures were doing a scavenger hunt and needed a picture of a limo.  So one of my friends yelled, "We have a limo!" It was pretty funny.  Later on we saw other people taking pictures of us with paper and pens so we assumed that they were part of the same scavenger hunt.  It was an overall great night.  Happy Sweet 16, BFFLAAT! (even though you won't read this...mwahahahaha!)
This song has been stuck in my head all day: I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles, except only the glee version.  I really like what they did with it.

I...

CAN'T WAIT TILL TOMORROW

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Stress

I was moping around after school today.  Well, not really moping, but being quiet and emotionless enough that my family commented.  My mom asked whether it was because I was stressed about school.  I said yes, just to get her off my back, but then realized it was the truth.  I have got the first (of many) pages done for my English ISP project.  I think it needs to be at least 5 pages long, about a page a minute I guess.  I always tend to speak really fast when in front of an audience, so maybe 6 pages would be better.  My teacher said that she would ask us questions, so I'm hoping she asks lot of questions, to add to how long my presentation is.  My teacher hasn't yet told us what day we are presenting on, it could be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.  That is a big difference.  I just pray that I don't go on Monday.  I could have it all written by then, but I would not have it memorized.  Wednesday would be nice.  Not first, not last.  I have started reading this book called Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and so far it is really good.  My friend just lent me one of her books, Looking for Alaska, which is one I have wanted to read for a long time, but I probably won't start it until next week.  I have so much stuff going on: chemistry lab tomorrow and Monday, art history test tomorrow, ISP presentation on an unknown day, chemistry test Thursday, physics test Thursday (and you know how I love physics!) and an English Macbeth project due Thursday.  And I'm busy all weekend (celebrating a very important birthday girl), so I have to work my butt off some other time.  *sigh*

Stuff

Another day gone.  Another day closer to the Christmas break.  One less day for me to study/work on all the school work I have going on right now.  All the teachers are rushing to try and finish off the unit before the break so they can start fresh in the new year.  That means there will probably be a lot of tests and due dates.  I am most worried about my ISP project in English.  We have to identify three archetypal characters from the book we are reading and do a 5-10 min presentation for the teacher.  Not in front of the class, just in front of the teacher.  Some think this is better, some think it is worse.  I happen to think it might be a little better, but not by much.  I have never been really out-going, and I do not like talking in front of people formally.  If I'm with my friends, I can talk nonstop (depending on how hyper I am), but around everyone else I am very quiet.  Not as much as before when I was younger, but I'm still pretty quiet.  My family will beg to differ.  I like having a blog.  It makes me think about how my day was, really.  Often when I am asked how my day goes, I say it was good, sometimes just to get out of having to go into further detail.  More often my day was OK, there were some good moment, and some bad ones.  That makes me think of a quote, which will now be my picture.  The Doctor said this quote.  OMG, which makes me think about the fact that all day on Dec. 25 there is a DW marathon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  This is major news. Now I know what you're thinking: does she realize that is Christmas?  Not to fear, I have recorded the entire day, and I am so excited!!!

TV

Some days I just don't feel like talking.  Today is one of those days.  I've a watched a lot of tv this weekend.  I bought the movie Beastly yesterday, so I watched that.  It was pretty good, I hadn't read the book in awhile, so I don't have anything to complain about in terms of book-to-movie, mainly because I forget :$  After that, the Sherlock Holmes movie was on, so I watched most of that.  Then I watched a couple episodes of Glee.  Then today, I was watching more Glee.  That was my weekend, basically.  Song of the day is The One That Got Away - Katy Perry.  This is a picture of the "Beast" in Beastly.

Do I Know You...?

Who knew tuning forks could be so much fun? I didn't.  We did a lab in physics today with tuning forks, so we were all playing with them and putting them next to our ears.  Probably not a good idea.  I have a headache now.  Oh well.  I'd do it again :)  Rule number one when you are trying (but not really) to watch what you eat.  I just had a slice of cake and now I regret it.  My brother has a peanut allergy, so we often have to read the ingredients to make sure it's ok for him, but then you know how processed and "fake" some of the foods you eat really are.  It youth group night again, where did the week go? It is deal or no deal themed tonight, not really sure what that means.  I have learned not to get to excited about event based on their names, because the youth leaders often make up their own version or we only do it for a part of the evening.  But it's fun anyways.  I don't have much to say, I still have a bunch of shopping to do.  Oh, and Cinderella last night was really good.  Did you know that the actor playing prince charming was in the Hairspray movie?  Actually, so was the actor playing the stepmother.  but get this, they had never met before the show before. Apparently this is really common, if you are not in the same scene ever, you most likely won't meet other cast members.  Also, movie take so long, you could be filming the same movie months apart.  So it was pretty cool to see them find out they were in the same movie.  I'm gonna go watch Hairspray and find him. 

Christmas Time

I have no homework tonight!!!  Freedom is sweet.  I watched a couple episodes of Glee, we are working our way through season 1 (we are renting the DVDs).  I have to say, even though the way they make them singing the song seem natural and somewhat plausible is just plain sad, I enjoy watching it.  I am going to see Cinderella at the Grand tonight, the second show of the season.  Every year they pick a family appropriate play during Christmas, so as a family we always went to see the "Christmas special".  But now I see all of them through the student club.  I am really looking forward to seeing this one.  It sounds so magical.  Just another great Christmas feeling.  The week is almost over, I can't wait until the weekend!

Birthdays

Another day almost over.  Shout out to my mom, whose birthday is today.  Personally, I wouldn't want my birthday so close to Christmas.  I would like to have it half way, so sometime in July or August, but then you don't get to hear your name announced at school, so then I think sometime in June, but June is too hot and your birthday gets lost in all of the end-of-school commotion.  April would be nice, or May.  Not March, cause if its over March break then no one is around to celebrate.  February and January are sluggish months.  Its still snowy, but its all brown and yucky.  Then December is Christmas, so not then, November is still too close and October is Halloween and still kinda close to Christmas.  September's no good either cause everybody is starting school.  Really, there is no ideal month to have your birthday.  But if I could change mine, I wouldn't.  Just cause I would probably still say when my birthday is now.

Art

So here I am counting down the days until Christmas.  Why does time always seem to slow down when something enjoyable is going to happen, but speed by when something unenjoyable is going to happen?  We decorated our tree over the weekend.  We have a fake tree.  Did you know that having a real tree is actually more environmentally friendly than having a fake tree unless you have the fake tree for over 20 years?  Cause that's how long (on average) it takes a fake tree to decompose, whereas a real tree will be gone within months.  This week for our sketchbook we got a freebie.  I don't hate freebies as much as I used to anymore.  I have decided to do the picture displayed above.  I wasn't sure at first I wanted to do this picture, because there are three faces, and I always screw faces up.  But so far it's not too bad.  Mind you, I've only done the Doctor's face (center) so far. And see where he's holding the sonic screwdriver (the thing with the green light on the end)?  See how it's really bright and awfully VAGUE around there? How am I supposed to draw that????? Amy and Rory are the other two faces.  This is a picture from DW series 6, and I really REALLY want to know why they are looking at a space helmet!

Talent

So I found this blog called Things We Forget and I must say it is one of my new favourite sites.  I love all the quotes and sayings used, and I love the idea that maybe somebody will read it and you might make their day better.  I just finished my physics lab.  I really enjoy doing labs, because they usually help me better understand whats going on, they are fun, and they are a nice break from the write-a-note-do-some-questions routine.  I decorated stockings after school at my BFFLAAT's house.  It has become a tradition.  We make them for families that aren't as fortunate as ours, to help them have a better Christmas.  Last year we decorated over 60 stockings, but this year there were only 20.  It was good, cause I guess that means that the other kids have better lives now (or not, I dunno) but it's sad cause it means there's not as many stockings to decorate.  I got volunteer hours for it, that was nice.  The song of the day is River Flows In You.  Another one of my BFFLAAT's friends came over to help us decorate stockings and she is very talented at art, and many other things.  Like playing the piano.  She asked if she could play, and we said sure.  She said she hadn't played in a while, so it might not be good.  So, off the top of her head, she starts playing this song, which happens to be a personal favorite of mine.  I was very impressed.  Mind you, it doesn't usually take much to impress me.  Needless to say, it was beautiful.  Hope you all had a good weekend!  Wow, I've never done that before, talked to you as if it were a personal letter or something.  Weird.

Going, Going, Going...

Yet another uneventful day in the life of Heather Woo.  I slept in till 10, a great accomplishment on my part.  Usually I wake up around eight without fail every morning (if my alarm doesn't go off first).  Just goes to show you how tired I am.  So that was nice.  Went to church this morning, not exactly a thrilling service.  Even when we sing songs that are more modern and not hymns, the worship band still manages to slow it down enough to make seem ancient.  I can't wait till Christmas.  It is only 3 weeks away.  My patience is slowly shrinking.  I just try not to think about it, because then it won't bother me.  Not thinking about it probably won't be too hard because school has been rather difficult so far.  Don't even mention exams to me.  I don't know how I'm going to make it.  Oh well.

Shoes

Today's been pretty good.  I went to sewing this morning and I made these little donuts.  They are supposed to be pin cushions, but I'm just gonna have them around.  I really like them.  I think I'm gonna make some more.  I went to White Oaks mall afterwards, and I got the dress that I'm gonna wear to my BFFLAAT's birthday party.  Now all I have to get are some shoes.  I really want to get some black strap heels.  I love heels, and I can actually walk in them too.  But the thing is, I'm already really tall.  I'm one of the tallest of my group of friends, so they all hate it when I wear heels.  They are just going to have to suck it up.  I'm buying 4 inch heels.  If my mom will let me :)  I also went to the gym this afternoon, my legs are sore now.  I thought I was going to have so much homework this weekend that I wouldn't have time to do anything, but I did a lot after school yesterday so I think I'll survive.  I am lost on what to get my friends/family for Christmas, and I'm running out of time.

Finally the Weekend

Ugh.  This has not been a good week.  I have been having trouble falling/staying asleep.  I have had a headache after school for the past few days.  Got my G1 last night! I'm worried about my picture though (the card comes in the mail in a few days) cause I was wearing my coat  and so my hair might look oddly shaped.  I have been working on my homework since I got home because I was panicking about how much I had to do this weekend.  But now that I look at it, I think it will be doable.  I ordered the first season of BBT on dvd and it arrived a few days ago.  But when I went to open the DVD case, my dad asked me what I was doing.  It was fairly obvious I think: opening my DVD.  But then he took it from me and said but what if it's a gift? So know I don't know what to do cause it wasn't clear who was paying for it, me or him, and if waiting means not having to pay for it, I'm fine with that.  As expected, my mom made a comment on when I was talking about my parents and their (lack of) rules around the house.  She wanted to know what other rules I wanted.  But the whole eating rule was really the only one I was complaining about...maybe they could follow through with punishments/deals better.  Like my sister was supposed to help around the house more often, but that hasn't happened yet (wink, wink, nudge, nudge mom).  I guess any rule applied to my sister or brother but not to me would be a rule my parents could implement :)

Vow Of Silence

Ugh, my back and my head hurt.  I hate how we have to sit on stools in chemistry, they kill my back.  Also my backpack has never had so many books in it before.  I dunno why my head hurts, just not a great day I guess.  But that's a lie, I had tons of fun in physics (remember this moment, I, Heather Woo, had FUN in PHYSICS).  We were doing a lab and we got to play with Slinkys!  Great fun, I wish I had one of the really big metal slinkies.  I might go write my G1 test today, not really nervous.  The Vow of Silence went well, I didn't speak a word all day (or text or email or anything).  I'm proud of myself.  I am usually very quiet, so I didn't think it would be too hard, but I talk a lot more than I thought I did.  My friend on the other hand came into class saying hi and everything, then my other friend (who wasn't doing it) said, "(insert friends name here)! Why are you talking?" My friend then proceeded to jump back and slap her hands over her mouth, she had completely forgotten.  She wanted us to pretend she hadn't said anything, but we weren't going to let her get away with it.  Another girl who eats lunch with us sometimes had a sticker on (we got stickers saying I am taking the Vow of Silence) but she was talking.  We were all rather confused.  She claimed she was taking a lunch break.  Yea right.  That isn't allowed, I don't think she really understand the whole point of the Vow of Silence.  We did it to support those who don't have a voice, not just a physical voice, but those who can't say what they want (eg vote).  Its not like these people have an hour to say everything they want, so she doesn't get a lunch break from silence.

Mwahaha

This is a quote from DW that I have memorized:

The Doctor: Hello Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe!  But, bad news everyone, cause guess who!  Ha! Listen, you lot! You're all whizzing about.  It's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because I. AM. TALKING!!!  Now, the question of the hour is, Who's got the Pandorica? Answer: I do.  Next question: Who's coming to take it from me?  C'mon!  Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn!  Oh, and something else I don't have: Anything to lose!  So if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceships with all your silly little guns and you've got plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way!  Remember! Every black day I ever stopped you.  And then.  And THEN! Do the smart thing.  Let somebody else try first.
That should keep them squabbling for about half an hour.

Food

Ugh.  I hate this weather (raining and cold).  I hate it even more when it's windy, so you can't even use your umbrella.  I would have a cup of hot chocolate, but I already ate a cookie.  (This is my attempt at watching how much I eat.) My sister never stops eating, after school especially.  She's been home 15mins and she's already had a big bowl of cereal (cinnamon toast crunch, nonetheless), and a cookie.  Oh, she's having another cookie.  On the days that my parents are home when we get home from school, they always tell her not to eat so much, and tell her to have fruit, but on days like today when it's just her and  at homeI, she doesn't stop.  We have to put limits on food so she doesn't eat it all.  Do you ever have a food you really like, and you'll eat some, but then leave it for a day or two before you eat more, to make it last longer? My brother and I like this process. My sister doesn't understand that concept.  Its really annoying.  Sometimes we will buy these french toaster sticks and we all love them, but my brother and I would have them every other day, but by then they would be all gone because my sister has eaten them all.  We have been forced (yes, forced) to buy three bags at a time, one for each kid, just so we can all have some.  Man, who knew ranting about family could make you feel so good?  I tell my parents that they need to make a rule (my sister just grabbed a handful of crackers, snack #4) about how much my sister can eat.  But no, they just tell her to stop, they don't make it a rule.  Which made me think about how I would control my kids when I grow up.  Which then led me to think of other rules and limits I would set, leading me to believe that I will be a very strict parent.  I love it when you are having a conversation, and you think back about how you got to your current topic.  Speaking of food, I made chili last night for us to have for dinner tonight and I am loving this recipe so much!  Tomorrow at school I am doing a Vow of Silence (no talking, texting, email, etc.), so I don't know if posting on my blog counts? Just in case, I probably won't post tomorrow.  Not that I post everyday anyways.  This is a quote said by my beloved Doctor.  

Its Over?

This weekend went by way too fast.  Yesterday I went to see Arthur Christmas, and it was sooooo funny.  You should go see it, I couldn't stop laughing.  I think I was annoying everyone around me :)  I then slept over at my BFFLAAT's house.  Went to church this morning, ate lunch at Union Burger (love it!) and bought a couple picture frames for my room.  I spent the afternoon studying for my physics test.  I have understood this unit a lot more than I have the others.  But one thing I find is that the review questions are more difficult than the questions we do during the lessons.  So I dunno if we are expected to know how to do these more difficult questions... Ugh.  It's all just such a pain.  I still have chemistry homework to do, hopefully that won't take too long to do.  My friends and I are doing Secret Santa this year, and I got, well, one of my friends. (This is one of the times I wish my blog wasn't a secret, cause then I'd be able to tell you about my friends [cause I don't want to put their names online without their permission])  She is really funny and kind of weird, more out there than the rest of us.  I only really got to know her last year, so she still surprises me with things about her.  That make it even more difficult to buy her a present.  I was going to go shopping this weekend for Christmas gifts, but that didn't happen.  I went to the gym yesterday, and now my legs are sore.  On Wednesday I'm taking a Vow of Silence to raise money for our school to build a school in Kenya through Free the Children.  If you haven't heard of Free the Children, you should look it up cause the guy who started it is truly amazing. 

Epic

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Check it out! It's pretty self explanatory.

ok, if it's not, it's epic.  Get it? Cause its so cool it's epic, but it says epic......

No? Fine, be that way.

RENT

Just got back from Starbucks!  Tried their chai tea latte, it was fairly good.  We have a chai tea latte instant powder stuff, and personally I like it better.  I can't wait till the end of the week (which is tomorrow!).  Went to see the school production of Rent today, it was pretty good.  Unfortunately, one of the main character's mic wasn't working for the first two scenes, which meant you couldn't hear her unless you were in the front row.  I was disappointed because people had said that she was really good and I was looking forward to hearing her sing.  But it was still pretty good.  It was kind of funny, because I was sitting at the back, near the sound booth.  The sound is just done by students, so it was funny to watch them panic about fixing the mic.  There was a big sigh of relief from them once it was working again.   Today's song is When We Stand Together - Nickelback. 

Shopping

I'm about to go to Masonville to go shopping, mainly at Aeropostale.  Usually I don't shop there, but they're having a 50% off sale, so I'm gonna check it out.  I didn't do much this afternoon, just worked really hard on my homework so that I would have time to go shopping.  Tomorrow at school there's a buy-in to go see the school production of Rent.  Apparently it's causing quite a stir in the neighborhood, what with all the "touchy" subjects.  Oh, time to go.  Beaver dam, I thought I would have more time to blog (still can't believe I'm saying that!) before we were going to go.

Time

I was going to blog yesterday after school. but I didn't have anything to say so I figured I would do it later.  Clearly that didn't happen.  The new CWD episode was on last night, I almost forgot to record it, that would have been tragic.  The DW Complete Sixth Series comes out today!!! I don't know why I'm so excited, it's not like I'm going to buy it or anything, they are way too expensive to just be buying every time it comes out.  Oh well, it's on my wish list for Christmas.  I have a chemistry test tomorrow.  I think I know everything, but it's probably one of those situations where you think you know everything, but once you sit down and actually try it, you find you don't know what you're doing.  Lots of studying to do!  I told myself I wouldn't go see Breaking Dawn in the theaters, but I have to admit I am wishing I hadn't made that rule more than I thought I would.  My BFFLAAT went to see In Time with out me (insert gasp here) but I don't mind cause she said she would go see it again with me, so we're gonna go this weekend to see it.  I'm also gonna do lots of shopping this weekend, I have to buy Christmas gifts for everybody, and I have to buy my BFFLAAT's birthday present.  I hate not being prepared (ok, I know this is being hypocritical to what I said earlier, but it only bugs me for certain things). 

Isn't it beautiful?!?

Over

Today I (and my dad) finally got around to hanging stuff up on my walls.  It is looking pretty good.   I want to put a quote about beauty around my mirror, but I can't find any that I like.  As I always feel after a long weekend, I am wishing it was longer.  I can't wait till Christmas.  We were in WalMart this afternoon and my dad asked my mom if she wanted to buy something that she had mentioned earlier.  My mom then proceeded to stare at my dad in panic, as I am guessing the gift is for me :)  I left, and then my mom gave my dad a stern talking to.  Somebody can't keep a secret!  We went to A&W for dinner last night, a new one just opened up a few minutes away from us.  It was pretty good, I love their fries!  This is the TARDIS (Time and relative dimension in space) from Doctor Who.  Did you know that the title Doctor who is actually a question, Doctor Who?  Apparently in one episode you find out that his real name is dangerous and cannot be said or something like that.  The Complete Sixth Series comes out on Tuesday, I can't wait!!!

Long Weekend

My, I need to remember to blog more often.  Yesterday was a PA Day, so that made the day good to start with.  I did some homework, watched some TV.  I went to youth group in the evening, It was the Bethlehem Walk at a church in Ingersoll.  It was really cool, you go for a walk though the woods as if you were a tax payer traveling from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.  The only down side was that it was freezing cold.  This morning I went to sewing for the first time in a few weeks, I am getting far along on my quilt, maybe I'll have it done by Christmas!  I am trying to think of what to get everybody for Christmas.  I know this might seem a little early, but Christmas is coming up fast.  I also have to come up with my own wish list.  This year for my wish list, I am making a list of links to the things I want.  That way, everybody knows exactly what I want.  I hate it when somebody tries to get you what you want, but then gets you the wrong thing.  I hate it when my nail polish stains my nails.  Just putting that out there. (this is the doctor, who I have been slightly obsessing about).

Where Does the Time Go?

I used to hardly ever listen to the radio, but I am starting to like it.  The ads used to annoy me, but hearing popular songs is worth it.  I am not one to really follow trends.  I never know the latest YouTube hits or the most popular songs.  I don't have the latest fashion clothes, I don't think I dress badly.  Sometimes I wish there was a machine that would take your clothes and pick out the best combination based on the latest trends.  Yea, that would be cool.  I wonder whether anybody actually listens to my song of the day.  If I were you, I would click on the video first thing then listen to it while I am reading the post.  Today's song is Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae.  This is one of the "in" songs right now.  I was looking on the site Etsy a lot this evening, I think its a cool idea.  I was originally looking for colourful picture frames to hang in my room, but ended up in the geekery section :)  Needless to say, I was adding a lot of things to my Christmas wish list (only 37 more days!) This year has gone by really fast, especially this fall.  I need to start my Christmas shopping.  This year, Christmas is at the very beginning of the school break, which means we don't go back to school until Jan 9th, 2012.  This is a quote that The Doctor often says to answer a question, leaving the questioner doubtful.  I was going to say something else, but I just lost my train of thought due to the sight on my sister in legwarmers.  Oh right, another quote the doctor say is "I wear a ____ now.  ____ are cool."  The most common variation is with the word bow-tie.  He also has said: "It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool." which is my personal favourite. 

Waiting

Just finished the most recent CWD episode, it was one of my favourite annual challenges, the one with the water tub on top.  I raked the leaves in our yard after school today, and as a thank you my dad took me to Starbucks and bought me sushi for lunch tomorrow.  Its these thank you gifts that make slaving away for an hour and a half almost all worth it.  I watched a few more episodes of BBT this evening, I am loving Sheldon so much!  I have almost got the tittle song memorized, I think by this time tomorrow I will have got it down pat.  This morning during/after breakfast I memorized The Eleventh Doctor's Stonehenge speech.  Clearly I have too much time on my hands.  But I like knowing it.  I can so easily annoy my father with it.  My dad's watching poker on TV right now, this one guy keeps betting money with a 6 and a 3.  Now, I don't have much poker experience, but even I know that doesn't seem like a very smart move.  The next season of DW comes out on November 22, and I can't wait. I'm also pretty excited fot the Breaking Dawn movie, coming out this Friday.  Have I mentioned In Time? I have, I'm pretty sure, I really want to see that movie.  So many things I want to see, so little time.  Well, I'm off to bed, too many late nights recently. 

Eleven

Creepy! So as you probably know, on Friday it was 11/11/11, and then the time was 11:11, and I'm in grade 11.  Pretty cool right? It gets better.  My BFFLAAT and I went to SDM to buy snacks and our total was....wait for it....$11.11.  It was meant to be!!!  We were pretty hyped up.  We watched a movie (Shark Tale) and I almost fell asleep.  Now, to those of you who don't know me, that doesn't seem like a big deal.  But if there is something going on, I can not fall asleep.  Whether it's music, a movie or people talking, I don't fall asleep.  Just goes to tell you how tired I was.  Didn't do much this weekend, watched some DW, did some homework, nothing special.  My English photo essay is due on tuesday, but I (and the rest of the class) know that isn't going to happen.  At the beginning of the year, our English teacher gave us the chance to have two extensions on a project due date, one per term.  Most of the class used their extension on another project, but some still haven't used it.  The student teacher told us the term ends on tuesday, so there was a debate as to whether it would count as a first or second term extension.  But the actual teacher said the term technically doesn't end until Thursday, so it counts as a first term extension.  So now I don't have to panic (as much)! 

Lest We Forget

My day was made today when I got my physics test back.  I improved my mark by a lot.  I'm so happy!  Brenden in my class also got a higher mark than last time and we were victory dancing together :)  I;m going to youth group tonight, it's Extreme Makeover, but nobody knows what that means.  The youth leader, Jon, only said "You'll have to come and find out." How annoying is that?  Afterwords I'm going over to my BFFLAAT's house for a sleepover, we are going to celebrate 11:11pm on 11/11/11.  How cool is this?  Some girls in my class screamed when 11:11am rolled around this morning.  I think Glee actors are really talented in that they can do those song mash-ups.  I watched their version of Someone Like You/ Rumor Has It.  I was singing along and I found it really hard to follow along with the changing songs. 

Amazon

So I think I did fairly well on my physics test today, although I've thought that before and such has not been true.  I watched the last DW episode from series 5 this afternoon (after watching the previous two episodes again so that my dad would understand what's going on) and OMG I think I will die if I don't get my hands on another series DVD set soon.  I loved it so much, it was definitely the best episode I've seen.  I was on the DW website afterwords, and I might have accidentally ruined some sort of secret as to the Doctor's and River's relationship that came out in a later episode.  I was looking into buying myself the DVD set, and I was on Amazon and it was only $12 for the Complete First Series and I was like, "What?!?!? That's too good to be true."  Alas, it was.  I was on amazon.co.uk.  Of course on amazon.ca it costs $65.  I hate amazon for that.  But I also love it because of the kindle.  Sigh, my beloved kindle.  It's kind of dangerous, there's no stopping you from buying every book you want.  It tends to get expensive fast.  I try and see if the library has a book before I buy it.  I can't wait until libraries have e-books.  Today's song is Because of You - Kelly Clarkson. 

Physics

I am doomed.  I have been working on review for my physics test, and it is not making sense.  I gave up on understanding physics a long time ago.  Hopefully, whatever I go into, I don't need physics.  Today during third period (when I have physics) there was a buy-in to go see The Oax Factor (a parody on The X Factor), and going is the biggest regret of my life.  It wasn't that great, and I should have been studying.  I really hope I can figure this out.  I'm not doing too bad in the course considering the marks I've gotten so far.  There's just so much going on at school these days, it's starting to wear me down.  Today's song is Jar of Hearts - Christina Perri.  One of the girls in The Oax Factor sang this today.  Not my favourite song, but I like the message.  This Christina Perri, I think she's pretty.  I desperately want to watch the last DW episode, the previous episode left him trapped in a box!!!!!! Pure torture. But as a punishment for not understanding physics, I am not letting myself watch this all-important episode tonight.  What a test for my self-control. 

Nothing Much

Here I am again.  I don't know what to say, nothing much going on right now.  My physics test was supposed to tomorrow, but it got bumped to Thursday, to which I will be eternally grateful for.  This week's sketchbook assignment is another freebie, so I've decided to do THG logo/mockingbird.  You know, since I have so many short forms, I think maybe I'll put them on the side bar to help you out.  I watched a couple episodes of Doctor Who after school today, and I am loving it!!! But to display my self control and to prove that there is method to my madness, I am only letting myself watch two episodes a day.  This way it will last longer, and I won't go on withdraw so soon.  My friend lent me her copy of BBT season three today, I really want to watch it, but I want to finish Doctor Who first.  Oh, the complicated life of watching TV :)  See, I like having seasons on DVD, because then I don't have to wait a week before it comes out.  But that also means that there is nothing stopping me from watching all the episodes in one day.  BTW, I have listened to It Will Rain 201 times, making it the number 15 on the list.  I think I might give up.  My parents were commenting on my mood, I haven't been Miss Sunshine lately, I guess.  I dunno what's up, just not into it I guess.  Oh, I forgot to mention awhile ago, the teachers at school (where else?) dressed up as pirates, there was one teacher who looked like Jack Sparrow :)

Weirdness

I have to go to the bathroom.  Not probably something that you would think someone would announce.  Especially on a blog.  But in my group of friends, we don't think too much of it.  The conversation usually proceeds as follows: "I have to go pee." "Then go." "I don't wanna." "Why not?" "I'm too lazy" "Then don't complain."  Such is the life of the average teenage girl.  Ha, yea right.  But seriously, we do have conversations like this.  We all understand that we're just being silly.  I love my group of friends, they mean a lot to me.  I would tell you all about them, but I would have to ask if I could talk about them online, but that would mean revealing my blog, so until they find out (which I'm sure when one finds out, the rest will not be far behind), you will just have to wait.  Today's song is Mr. Know It All - Kelly Clarkson.  I don't have much to say, other than this is probably the weirdest music video I have ever seen.

Love It or Hate It

That's it.  We need to get a faster computer.  And internet.  It has taken me five minutes just to get to my blog.  A girl should not have to deal with this.  As predicted, my mom was slightly shocked at the pic of Shiloh on my blog.  But I didn't have to talk to her about it cause I was in the middle of watching Doctor Who, my new favourite TV show!!!!!!!!  Honestly, he reminds me of Sherlock, kind of out there and crazy, just the way I like it :)  They might be so similar because they are both produced by BBC...and written by the same person.  But I love it.  My friend asked me to watch it and gave me her copy of the fifth season (so that's the doctor I'm on in case you were wondering) and at first I wasn't so sure I would like it, but I have never been so wrong in my life!  I think everybody should watch it at least once in their lives.  The song I am listening to right now is A Thousand Years - Christina Perri.  I heard it this morning on MuchMore, and I admit that the only reason it caught my eye is because its going to be in the Breaking Dawn Part 1 movie.  Everybody is now either an obsessed fan, or hates Twilight.  I still like it, I think its a good series, and I want to go see the movie when it comes out.  I've got to go do some cleaning, we have guests coming over for dinner.  Whenever Google has a special logo, I like to save the picture, but then I found this site, where you can see all of them, even the ones that don't show up in Canada. 

Grudges

I suck at holding grudges.  I'm just to forgiving.  I'll storm around for awhile, but after about an hour, I'm over it.  Some people hold grudges forever, I just don't know how they do it!  I have yet to still watch this weeks CWD episode, I have just had so much going on.  I'm trying to get my room back together so that I can sleep in my own bed and I have a lot of school work.  And I think its legal to have to enjoy some of my day.  I have taken up crocheting.  I can't remember how, but a few years ago I expressed an interest in it, so my dad bought me a teach-yourself-to-crochet book, then it sat in my closet for years.  But I have decided to actually learn it this time.  I think I'm doing pretty good, something to keep my hands busy while watching TV or listening to music.  I guess I'm kind of into stuff that's fading away: I sew (and who does that anymore, really?) and now I crochet (I bet you a lot of people don't even know what that is).  Its sad to think of people who get up, go to work, eat, and sleep, then repeat.  They live to make money, but then they run out of time to spend it.  I'm not saying that people shouldn't try and make money, but don't get stuck in a boring old routine.  I am super tired, and I swear I will actually go to bed earlier today.  Its almost the weekend!  Today's song is Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Bublé.  This is Shiloh Fernandez.  I was going to put this pic up earlier, but I wasn't sure what my parents would think of a pic of a guy on my blog.  But I got over it.  I think he's kind of sexy, don't you?

In Time

So, my parents, or at least my mom, looks at my BFFLAAT's blog almost daily.  And lately, my BFFLAAT has not posted anything.  Since Oct. 12th.  That is a long time.  TOO long.  See, they had this deal at the beginning of the year that if they posted a picture everyday for the first six months, they would get new cameras.  And they succeded.  But now it seems that since my BFFLAAT has her camera, she's slacking off.  Maybe she should lose her camera if she doesn't start posting soon (just an idea).  And no longer will I accept the excuse that the camera is at the wrong house or that there isn't enough time.  There is always time for a blog! :)  I went to Anti-Gravity Yoga (which from now on I will refer to as AGY) again tonight.  I don't have as a big a head ache as I did last week, which is good.  I'm going off now to do my chemistry homework/watch CWD.  My friend has lent me her Doctor Who series 5 disc set, she desperately wants me to watch it.  There seems to be a lot of show I want to watch: New Girl (haven't seen it yet but it looks interesting), Doctor Who. Once Upon A Time (which I STILL haven't seen), Revenge (a friend wants me to watch this one), and ooooooohhhh have you heard of the movie In Time?  I want to see it sooooooo bad!!!!!!!!  I hope its good, I think its a really interesting idea and I don't want it to be ruined.  Today's song is Don't You Wanna Stay - Jason Aldean ft. Kelly Clarkson.

Movember

You might be thinking to yourself, she spelled November wrong.  Well, let me assure you that I meant to.  Movember is a fundraiser for prostate cancer, and to raise money people (more likely men, but I didn't want to be sexist) grow beards and collect pledges.  Its funny to see what some people come up with.  Halloween went well, we got 74 kids.  Some memorable costumes are: angry birds, ipod touch - sandwich board style, and a morph suit.  I did an angry birds pumpkin.  So did my BFFLAAT, we had the exact same template, but I think my execution was better (don't tell her that).  My BFFLAAT came over to help with handing out candy.  We watched Big Bang Theory, which I had never seen before, but I thought it was pretty funny.  I plan on watching the next episode of CWD later on (I PVR it and watch it later).  Since I had to move a bunch of stuff out of my room in order to paint it, I figured it would be a good time to sort through it before I put it back.  Needless to say, a much bigger task than originally thought.  My bed is covered with stuff, so I'm sleeping on the futon.  I am trying to think of an idea of what to do for my sketchbook, we got a freebie this week (we can do whatever we want), which I hate.  I can never think of what to draw.  For the It Will Rain update, I have listened to it 151 times.  But the song above it, Clair de Lune, has been played 187 times, so it will take a long time just to overtake that song.  I don't know if I'll be able to make it.  Oh well.  I guess I have better things to be doing in life :)

Halloween (almost)

Even though I was stuffed beyond belief, Wonder Sushi was awesome!  I started painting my room today, I've done three walls white, and I haven't decided what colour to do the last wall.  I am going to choose some quotes and cut them out of vinyl with our Cricut, and put them on my walls.  I bought a bunch of cool picture frames to cover my walls with.  That's why I went with white, a plain background with lots of accents.   I am really excited.  Tomorrow I am going to carve my pumpkin, I still don't know what I am going to do.  And I'm not sure what I'm going to dress up as, either.  Don't worry, I'm not going trick or treating, but everybody dresses up for school.  I might be Sherlock, or I might put a wind up key on my back, and be, well, a wind up toy, I guess.  Last year, all the teachers dressed up as Waldo, and one teacher was the "real" Waldo.  You had to try and guess which teacher was the real Waldo, apparently they looked like Waldo.  Some teachers played their costume up a bit, and made themselves different.  Some were Wenda, Wilma, Odlaw, and one teacher was even Wizard Whitebeard.  I'm excited to know what they are going to do this year.  I am going to give out the candy this year, I want to see what costumes kids are coming up with these days.  Did you know that Some of the top Halloween costumes this year are Angry Birds, Rebecca Black, Lady Gaga, Charlie Sheen and Will and Kate? Kind of interesting to see how costumes have changed over the years.  Isn't the penguin just so cute?

I Heart Sushi

So the CWD (Canada's Worst Driver) episode was awesome, as usual.  I really like Aaron.  He was a great driver, but then was in an accident and was in a coma for 2 months and forgot everything.  And I mean EVERYTHING.  He didn't even know who his dad was.  You really feel bad for him.  Plus he's cute :)  We're going to Wonder Sushi for dinner tonight, I'm so excited! I've never been, but i) its sushi, ii) its all you can eat and iii) everybody says its great, so its gotta be good, right?  I think I've mentioned this before, but I am interested in seeing Once Upon A Time, a show coming out.  But to my utter disbelief, I screwed up the premier date, so now I have to watch it online or something.  I have a ton of chemistry homework this weekend and there is a English test on Monday.  This pic is a parody on the Keep Calm, Carry On posters.  It a joke from Sherlock.  Today's song is Don't Stop Believing, done by my high school staff at the end of last school year as a good-bye gift. 

:$

This is not turning out to be a good week.  I'm just so worn out, emotionally and physically.  I need to go bed earlier.  I have a lot going on at school, its hard to keep track of.  I went to Anti-Gravity Yoga at the gym this evening with my friend Shannon.  It was good/interesting, seems like one of the things that will be more productive the more you do of it.  Basically,  there's a silk hammock hanging from the ceiling and you do yoga in it.  I know silk is really strong and all that, so it won't break, but I couldn't help feeling a little nervous about the whole idea.  The silk looks so fraile and delicate, like it will easily rip.  There was a lot of hanging upside down and now I have a headache.  My friend, who has been before, says you get used to it.  Likely story.  I'm about to watch Canada's Worst Driver, cause I forgot last night :$  I find it weird when that happens, you are so excited for something, then it just totally slips your mind.  After that, I need to study for chemistry.  Everybody always likes when tests are bumped back, but then you just forget everything.  We were supposed to have this test on Monday, but now its tomorrow.  Talk about bumping it back a little bit.  I'll try to go to bed earlier, but I also just borrowed this book from my BFFBAMLY (not to be confused with BFFLAAT) and its really good.  I've read it before, but a long time ago and I forgot a lot of it.  Its really hard to put it down, there's just so many cliff hangers!  Today's song it Imagine - John Lennon.  This version is by Glee season one. I know its a bit fuzzy, but I think it's really touching how they join in together.  Well, I'm off to CWD!!!!

Mojo

Today was not a great day, but not really bad.  Just not into doing anything today.  I will have to force myself to do my homework.  I am so excited for the premiere of Canada's Worst Driver tonight!  This is the only show that I have ever followed, as in watch it every week as it comes out.  Although, there is a show coming out on abc called Once Upon A Time, which looks interesting.  I saw an ad for it and the song at the end sounded good, but I'm kind of confused as to when its coming out.  I really hope I figure it out because I don't want to miss it.  My new year's resolution this year was not to gain any weight.  But I kind of forgot to weigh myself so that I knew what I had to weigh at the end of the year.  So I'm just kind of guessing where I want to be with my weight.  I need to give myself a strict talking to about my after school snack :)  It is so tempting to eat after school with all the baked goods around. And also keeping up with the gym.  Today's song is Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback.  This is kind of an old song, and for the longest time I didn't know what it was called but it would be stuck in my head for days.  Finally, I figured it out :)

Just Another Day

So my mom and I have been talking lately about watching Glee, so we rented the first season on DVD.  And I am reluctant to say that I am a Gleek.  But not as much as my sister is, she is positively obsessed.  I do really enjoy the show though.  I'm glad I only started watching it now, because since its all on the DVD I don't have to wait a week until I can see the next episode :)  But soon enough I'll catch up to season 3 and then I'll have to wait.  We went for a walk this afternoon with some family friends in a place that we often went walking with FIH, kind of in honor of him.  A little muddy, and of course my sister decided it would be a good idea to wear her new $200 Ugg boots (fyi, I think Ugg boots are a total waste of money and really ugh [see the pun there?] when you get them wet).  Sometimes I wonder about her...  It was nice, the sky really cleared up and turned out to be a really nice day.  I went to sewing this morning, we are working on little baggies to sell to raise money for our missions fund.  Afterwards, we went to Michael's (I hate how the 'a' comes before the 'e', it doesn't make sense) and I bought a Value Pack of scrapbooking supplies.  Its a bag filled with a bunch of stickers and embellishments, but only half the bag is see-through, so you only kind of know what you are getting.  I think its a pretty good deal, with a nice element of surprise.  Today's song is Canadian Please.  These two people made it for a school project or something, and it was a huge YouTube hit.

Bad Week

This was not a good week for me, and I'm sure for my family and close friends as well.  At the beginning of the week we didn't know if our FIH was going to make it.  Then there was all this crappy weather.  And on Wednesday, our FIH passed away.  This was very hard on all of us, and honestly harder on me that I once thought it might be.  I don't want to talk about it too much for respects sake, I guess, and I don't want to start crying again.  FIH's wife has asked me to decorate a box for at the funeral that people can write memories that they had of FIH, in.  This song, O Lord, You are Beautiful, we sang in church last week, and it is one of my mom's favourtie songs.  But it also reminds you that God has a reason for everything, and that is something I have needed to think about re FIH's passing.  Please pray for FIH's family.  One of my teachers from elementary school showed me this video, very cool.

Busted

Today when I got home from school, my mom is asking me how my day went etc., then out of the blue, she says, "BTW (OK, so she didn't actually sat BTW, [she's not into that kind of stuff] but it was along those lines...) you're busted."  WHAT?!?!?!? I was confused.  She then goes on to tell me that she found out about my blog.  So, busted.  I went three weeks before she found out, not bad.  She found out because a certain somebody (I'm not naming names...I don't want to be mean [and by all means I don't want to sound mean{even though I am sad she found out}cause its nothing serious]) might have mentioned it while talking about our friend in the hospital, because I had mentioned in a previous post that my parents were visiting him.  The person then said that I had mentioned something about that on my blog.  My mom was confused, because our friend (who from now on I am going to call FIH, Friend In Hospital) has a sister with the same name as me, thinking maybe it was FIH's sister's blog, the thought of me having a blog never crossing her mind.  But then today she was looking at the history on the PC and tada, there was my blog.  So, I guess I have to filter my thoughts now since my mom will most definitely be reading this blog.  I'm jk, there is nothing on my blog that I would not say straight to my mother's face.  The song of the day today is Over You - Daughtry.  I really like Daughtry, you should check out some of their other songs.  About the picture...my friends and I can be a tad weird sometimes, especially my friend Kris-Ann.  She is out there, but we are always quick to join her in her ways, but I am only like that with her, and maybe my BFFLAAT, seeing my weirdness is reserved for VIPs.  Anyways, she like to Photoshop a lot of weird pictures.  She didn't do this one, but this is a good comparison :)