There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen.  Because something else great might happen in between.  - Lily, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Christmas

I have to admit, there is a disturbing lack of gifts under the Christmas tree. But that's not what matters, keep the CHRIST in Christmas!







(seriously, though)

Fact

If, somehow you had a security camera in my house, you would see this: me, dancing around the kitchen island, listening to Come So Far (Got So Far To Go) from the movie Hairspray. With a piece of roast beef alternating between my mouth and my hand.  But that's just me.

Fact

I LOVE nose studs. I HATE nose rings.

A Sticky Situation

I am in a bit of a sticky situation. My parents started writing Christmas cards today, and I offered to help.  The job I do is fold the letter, put the card and latter in the envelope and stick on the stamp and return address. I also have to lick all the envelopes closed.  It tastes disgusting.  But lots of glue and stickers and general stickiness.  My BFFLAAT had her birthday party last night, it was pretty awesome.  The theme was Tiffany & Co., so everything was light blue/teal.  It was very nice.  And a lot of fun, too.  On a more depressing note, I have to do an hour long seminar on Tuesday about the book 1984 by George Orwell.  Not looking forward to that. 

Anamorphic Illusions

I saw this on Daily Planet. It blew my MIND!

Fact

I think that ears are the weirdest part of the human body.

Fact

I still like the Twilight series. Maybe the movies not so much, but the books are good.

Fact

Right now I have two Webkinz on my bed. Snowball the bunny and Cappuccino the golden retriever.

Fact

I wish I could change my bedroom.

Are You Happy?

Thats a question I ask myself a lot. I am in the mood to say some really mean things right now. But I'm not going to. Because that's not the kind of person I am. My entire life, decisions and opinions have been made around the happiness of others. But believe me. I can be mean. Not out loud. Not to somebody's face. Im too nice for that. But in my head, I am the bitch you never thought I could be. That's all it is. Just me.

Time To Spare

I woke up at 6:55 today, just like I do every day.  And as per usual, I reached for my iPod.  I like to play a game or two to wake myself up. And then it happened. (see my reference to a great book series there?).  While I was waiting for the game to load, I fell asleep.  I woke up again at 7:53.  I did not believe it the first, second or third time I looked at the clock. There was a text waiting from a friend that if I wanted a ride she was leaving now.  It was then that I realized that needed to start getting ready, fast. (Needless to say, I turned down the ride).  It wasn't until later that I figured out what had happened.  I threw on some clothes, grabbed my lunch, my backpack and a croissant and was out the door.  Now usually I make it to school by 8:05. I sit in my math class for ten minutes before the bell rings and the day starts.  Today, I am proud to say that i was in my seat in math class at 8:12.  I was still waiting around for 3 minutes before the bell rang.  And so even though my entire day has been thrown off since, I have to say that I am AWESOME.  When I was telling some of my friends about this adventure, one said, "Wow. You look pretty good for 7:53!" meaning that for having virtually no time I looked good. Score! And to make it better, I'm going to Union Burger for dinner!

Youth Group

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the youth group retreat is cancelled. I was really excited about it. We haven't had on in a while so when I heard that we were having one this year I got really excited. But not enough people showed interest to make it financially possible.  So our youth leader said that we'll try again in the new year at a place that doesn't make you pay a minimum fee.  The good news is that instead of the retreat we are having a sleepover! Sleepovers at the church are always so much fun. And I'm going to wear my onesie. It's going to be awesome.  My BFFLAAT and I went to see Wreck-It Ralph.  It was really good. Very funny and surprisingly had some dark and violent parts. But overall very worth while seeing.  The power flickered half-way through the movie though.  The sound kept going but there was no image.  So for 5-10 minutes we were just listening to the movie. But eventually the image came back. They rewound it so it was no big deal.  And another funny thing is that my BFFLAAT's dad came and picked us up afterwards. The funny part about that is he put a sign in the car window that said "Movie Shuttle".  We both started laughing. Another woman that was standing outside of the theater said that her dad did the same thing to her when she was 16.  We left the sign up the whole way home.  My family hasn't eaten dinner yet and I'm really hungry.  We are having tuna melts, one of my favourites.  After dinner I'll probably do some more review for my English Midterm on Monday. I think it will go well.  The teacher has told us what we are doing, the exact questions, and also the essay that we are going to be doing those questions on.  We are allowed to bring our copy of the essay into the midterm and we can write all over it.  So it will be good.

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I sit here on this Halloween Eve in my one-si.  (I dunno how you're supposed to spell that...)  I watched DW this afternoon and then Canada's Worst Driver this evening. And then part of another DW episode that I had already seen.  :)  Don't worry, I also did some homework.  I was going to have two tests tomorrow but then my biology teacher decided to move the test till Thursday.  Yesterday I carved my pumpkin. On one side it is the DW logo. Didn't turn out too well.  On the other side it is the crack in time, also from DW.  I am really tired, I need to head to bed. I am in the process of redecorating my room.  I am finally getting rid of that light fixture (so if any of you are interested, lemme know) and (trying to decide where to) hang pictures. I'm not dressing up tomorrow.  I would like to, but I never think of an idea in time to execute it.  I must say that David Tennant is now my favourite Doctor. I can't remember if I've said that already.  I feel that my English class is too overwhelming right now. (I might have already mentioned this too).  We have the standard class work, then an ISP project where we have to read two books and do assignments on them for between middle on November to middle of December.  And now we've just started Literature Circles.  We have to read (yet another) book and do an assignment each week.  So much to do!  And there is always that overhanging dread of trying to decide what I'm going to do after high school. And also driver's ed.  My friend says that I need to call them to schedule in car driving time even though they said they would contact me.  I hate talking on the phone, especially to people I don't know.  Talking in general, really.  And to finish it off, the ball on my cartilage earring fell off. The ball fills in the hole in the hoop so it doesn't fall off. It shouldn't have come off and I don't know how it did. So I'm going to have to go back to Perfect Image and see what they'll do about it.  Afnivosanbhbi'naehb;hfdgipkmrawgjbf;dhbjp'otemshlstnth;luibrhesljz;pgfo/jvm;s/orlhmnajlegj.  Life. 

TV Is Entertaining

My ear hurts. Where I got is pierced, that is.  I really hope its not infected.  I'm working on my sketchbook right now. Well, I'm blogging right now, but I was working on my sketchbook moments ago.  I watched two episodes of DW today. I'm on a new season, so that means a new companion. I like her. It's funny, I read somewhere about the companions of The Doctor: "Funny how he has all of time and space in his hands and everybody he meets is British."  I laughed at it, because its true.  And I think I like the Tenth Doctor more than the Eleventh. I thought Eleventh was my favourite, but that was just because he was the first one I'd seen but also that I hadn't seen the others.  I didn't like Nine, and I still like Eleven, but Ten is now my favourite.  I've been comparing them, and I realize now that Eleven is acting like a big baby.  Ten is more mature (but we are talking about The Doctor, you can only get so much maturity) and Ten has more feelings I think.  Have I mentioned before that I've been watching Elementary? I told myself that I was only watching it to see how it compared to Sherlock. But now I'm telling myself that I'm only watching it to fill the space between Sherlock seasons. I have a feeling though that I am going to be a true fan of Elementary.  Don't tell anybody though. I could be held to being a traitor.  Oh well. And I also must mention that after an oddly long time away from Discovery Channel, that CANADA'S WORST DRIVER IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How I've missed thee. It comes back next week.  I'm so excited :)

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Times

Wow. It has been a while. But we were having internet issues so that's my excuse. My art presentation went well, although it was during a lock down. The school was under lock down for 10 minutes because there was a man with a suspected weapon in the neighborhood. They ended up finding him. I got my cartilage pierced yesterday. It hurt, not going to lie (like I did to the guy who pierced it). And now I can't sleep on that side. But it's not so bad now. It kind of feels like a bruise when I accidentally bump into it.  I've also been doing drivers ed this weekend. 8:45-2 Saturday and Sunday for two weekends. It seems like a lot crammed really close together, but I would rather get it over with than drag it out. And I thought it would be boring, but it's not really. I mean, I'm not jumping up for joy, but the teacher is really nice and funny and keeps things interesting.  The only thing I don't like is that we have to do a presentation with 5 other people in the class. But we don't know each other so it's kind of awkward trying to work on it because we're not given hardly any time to do it and nobody wants to get together outside of the class so we'll see how it goes.  I got school marks on Friday, doing pretty well in all my classes.  Recently I've really wanted to play My Sims on the Wii. We don't own it, we had just rented it before. But since there's no more rental stores, what am I supposed to do? I think one of my friends might own it so I'm going to ask her if I can borrow it. 

Time

Last week our art teacher told us that instead of him teaching us art history, we would each choose a time frame and teach the class about that time.  And, being me, I choose the second earliest time slot. So that means I present second, which means this Friday. So I've been spending a lot of my time working on that. My friend is going first, tomorrow.  The only positive sides to this are that I get it over with and he said that he would mark us easier because we've had less time. Some people won't have to present until late December. How much you wanna bet that there will be some people who completely forget? Or the people who've had two months won't be any better than the people who've had two weeks? I'm looking forward to that. What I'm not looking forward to though is presenting. I do not like public speaking.  Thankfully the lesson doesn't have to last the entire period. That would be a nightmare.  I also have a sketchbook due tomorrow, a bio lab due on Friday and two tests next week. I'm really happy it's a long weekend.  I'm going to go watch DW.

Today it is Sunday

Today, my mother, my BFFLAAT, my BFFLAAT's mother and I went to the Ontario Universities' Fair.  It was in Toronto, and basically all the universities in Ontario set up a stand (or an entire building, more like it), send representatives and talk to the people who want to know more. I found about some programs, one in particular. It's called Global Business and Digital Art at Waterloo.  It has some business courses but also has arts, specifically digital art (if you couldn't guess by the name). But digital art is what I'm interested in, more so than "physical" art (as a career, that is). And the class is around 60 people, so not very big( well, it seems big to me but for a university it's puny). The thing I like is that the business classes are different from the business classes that a business major would be taking, and also with the same 60 people.  Basically you spend 4 years with the same people. The only thing is that course is double the tuition of the regular art degrees at Waterloo.  Queen's also had a Computing and Fine Arts degree that I'll have to look into more but sounds good. I'm glad I went. I was tired though, haven't been getting enough sleep lately.  I should be heading to bed soon. There are just too many things to do. I forgot to watch Elementary, which is the Canadian version of Sherlock. And although I'll always prefer Sherlock, I still want to see Elementary.  But on a bigger note, I forgot to watch the new episode of DW yesterday. It's funny, because at the time it was airing, I was watching an older episode of DW on DVD.  Anyways, in my panic, I was scrambling the internet to see if I could find out when it was playing again. I couldn't find it and figured I was doomed. But then today my dad found out that it was playing this evening, so all was good. But I think my dad may have stopped recording it a little early and so I think I missed the last few lines but I think I'll survive. One thing I'm not happy about is that they split the season up. They played 5 episodes, but now there won't be another one until Christmas. CHRISTMAS!!! And it's not even a "real" episode, it's the Christmas special. How I'll make it I don't know. Well, actually, I'll just watch DW DVD. :)  The season resumes in 2013. Speaking of 2013, that's when Sherlock starts again! But not until the fall, which I hate. Why does there have to be such big gaps in between seasons? BBC, (aka Steven Moffat), you own my heart, but continue to break it. This is definitely an unhealthy relationship, but how can I leave?

Happiness

So I got my birthday gift that I have been waiting for today. And it was...drum roll please...a GUITAR!!! I'm so excited. I've been wanting to take lessons ever since I took a guitar course at school in grade ten.  And not only was it a guitar, I also got some accessories to go with it.  My party went well. We did a picture scavenger hunt. But my parents (ie Dad) made it too easy.  I mean it was still fun but it would have been more fun if we didn't get the picture within an instant. Tomorrow is the Red Feather football game. I'm not going. My main reason for not going was that my math teacher said he was going to still teach a lesson tomorrow.  But then today he changed his mind so I won't be missing anything.  But by then I had already told everybody I wasn't going and I didn't want to rush to get a ticket. So I'll just hang out in class, finish yesterday's homework and read. It will be good.  I like when there are kids missing from class.

Favourite Movie Scenes Cont'd

Mr. Greenslade

While I was looking through the documents I have saved on the computer I came across this poem. It is from grade six, when my teacher was Mr. Greenslade. If I remember correctly, he died from cancer. It was within the first month of school. It was odd, I think, for us as students. I mean, nobody really loves their teacher, especially not within the first month when you don't really know them.  But from what I remember he was going to be a great teacher. He had these things called "GreenBucks".  You were awarded them if you did well on a test or helped someone out. Then you could trade them in for a prize. But that wasn't the reason he was going to be great (that was a bonus). He smiled a lot and cared for you and just seemed like a good person. I remember my one friend was the only one crying. The principal was the one who told us he had passed away. He pointed her out and said something along the lines of, "Some of you knew him better than others. Did you spend more time with him?" referring to my friend. She looked up and around at other people, confused, as if she wasn't sure he was talking to her. Nobody really had spent a lot of time with Mr. Greenslade. She was just the only one brave enough to cry for him. I remember that I didn't cry. I teared up a bit. But I just didn't know him well enough and honestly, I was just confused and lost and unsure of what to do.  Anyways, our replacement teacher (who has since stayed at Clara Brenton and taught my siblings) decided we should write a poem and give it to the Greenslade family. So we did, and this is it:

If We Could Bring You Back Again

Written by Fred Longley

In Honour of John Greenslade

If we could bring you back again,

For one more hour or a day

We’d tell you all our favourite thoughts,

We’d have many things to say.

If we could bring you back again,

We’d say we admired you,

 And that your time in our lives

 Meant more than we ever knew.

If we could bring you back again

To tell you what we should,

You’d know how much we missed you now,

And if we could, we would.

 

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

This is something I found online and thought it was pretty funny. 

1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn Right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5. When people say while watching a film, "did ya see that?" No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor!

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"... Didn't give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.

8. When people say "life is short". What the hell??? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!!! What can you do that's longer?

9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?" If the bus came, would I be standing here???

Ta-Da!

Do I need to put a copyright on these or something? oh well.
Copyright 2012, Heather W.

Favourite Movie Scenes

Slow Saturdays

I am waiting. Not sure what for, something to do, I guess.  Went to Kiwi Kraze today with my BFFLAAT. My mom and brother tagged along though so I don't think it went quite like she (and myself) envisioned.  Then she came over afterwords and we watched Iron Man 2. Good movie. She fell asleep though. When she woke up a few minutes later I had to fill her in. I think only in movie theatres have I seen her make it through a movie and not fall asleep. :)  I went to sewing thins morning, made a little baby quilt to be given to the London Pregnancy Center (I think its called).  Then I looked through some magazines for some ideas for my next quilt.  My sister has been at the Western Fair all day so it's been very quiet. (Not that my sister often engages with the family but annoys my brother).  I have a bit of a headache. I'm in one of those I'm-not-sure-what-to-do-with-myself kind of moods/states.  I have been doing some things in my sketchbook recently. Not really sketches, more of writing quotes out in different styles. Maybe this evening I'll take pictures of them and show you. Not much going on. Time to go eat dinner.

Pinterest

I love Pinterest. And maybe obsessed. You can now create an account without being a part of Facebook. Although the other day my dad said, (and I quote,) "Maybe we should create a family Facebook account." !!!!!!! Where did that come from?!? Anyway, I think my ear is infected, like around the piercing.  I want to buy a camera and a laptop. It's my birthday soon. Maybe I'll get a laptop or a camera for my birthday. That would be awesome.  Doctor Who started two weeks ago, so two episodes have aired. I have to say, I'm not too impressed so far. The first episode started out with Amy and Rory signing divorce papers. Where did that come from?!? There was no hint at the end of the last season that this would be happening. But then they were back together be the end of the episode. So I thought to myself, "If you're going to go so far as to break them up, at least go with it for a while, don't solve it within the episode. Drag it out a bit, build suspense." And other than that part of the storyline, just not very entertaining. I was never on the edge of my seat or smiling like an idiot or anything (like other episodes have done).  Hopefully they will get better. And did I mention I love Pinterest?

Still Here

I though you might be worried that I hadn't survived school, so I thought I'd post something just to reassure you. Over the course of the summer, I sang many songs in chapel and really enjoyed just jumping around and praising God. How He Loves became one of my favourite songs. And By Your Side joined the ranks as well later on. I think that I am not going to post as much as I used to. I think it will be hard to get back into the habit of doing it after I went the whole summer basically posting nothing.  But I will try.  If I do post, I am telling you now, they will not be as long as they were before. 

I'm Going To Keep This Short And Sweet...

I do NOT want to go back to school. I do NOT want the summer to end.

I Won't Give Up

I had an ok week. The campers were fine. The co counselor on the other hand could use some work. But it was an extremely difficult week emotionally. I just wanted to share a sort of devotion/testimony that one of the other counselors told me. It refers to the song I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz. Instead of think about the lyrics as in between a couple, they thought about it as between themselves and God.  One of the lines is (obviously)' I won't give up on us'. You can look at this from either God's perspective or your own. I like to think of it from God and His everlasting and unconditional love for us. Another line says, 'and when you're needing your space, to do some navigating, I'll be here patiently waiting to see what you find'. It's like God talking. So even if we fall away from God or just don't talk to Him for a while or anything like that, He'll still be there waiting for us to come back. Also, when it says, 'even if the skies get rough, I'm still looking up'. So when things don't go the way we wanted or planned, we can still rely on God to do what is right. 'I'm giving you all my love' is another line, pretty self explanatory. One line says, 'God knows we're worth it'. We have a purpose. Even if we don't know what it is or we aren't sure why things are happening to us, to remember God has a plan for us and we just have to trust Him on that. 'I don't want to be someone who walks away so easily, I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make' can be seen as we want to stick with God, never let go kind of thing. And also that we have a job to tell people about Him, make a difference in the world. 'Our differences they do a lot to teach us how to use the tools and gifts we got'. God gave us each a special talent / gift and we should use it for Him.  I just think its cool how they took a mainstream song that probably wasn't intended to religious and saw a deeper meaning in the words. Last week of camp is here, I can't believe it. I gt to counsel with my BFFLAAT week, should be tons of fun and a little crazy. :)

Half Way Done

Hello again. It's been a while, I think.  All of the days and weeks are just blending together.  I can't believe there are only 4 weeks left of summer.  We had a midsummer core staff party this weekend where you could stay overnight and try out some of the different activities around camp.  We only ended up having time to do banana boating and canoeing and kayaking.  Hopefully we will find some time to do the other activities because I really want to shoot some arrows and rifels. I also think it would be interesting belaying some of the other staff instead of kids. But this means that my weekend is now only 24 hours long.  Oh well. I tried to get lots of sleep, slept in today until 10.  I'm still tired though.  My BFFLAAT and I are riding the bus up this week with the Project Camp kids. They are kids who can't afford to come to camp so someone has sponsored them to be there, and they don't have a ride up to camp. It should be interesting.  Last time (week 1) the Project Camp kids came, there were 50 of them and it was one of the worst weeks camp had ever seen. This week there are 90 of them coming up.  Like I said, should be interesting.  I'm in G5 this week, which is younger than last time there were Project Camp kids.  Another thing about riding the bus up is that it doesn't arrive at camp until around 4:45 or so. Regular campers start arriving at 3.  So it means that my CIT will be alone with some campers by herself until I arrive.  And I won't have anytime to talk to her before hand about what rules I usually follow and how I do things, kind of.  I hope she can handle it.  And I won't have any time to set up my stuff.  I saw one of my friends yesterday and it made me realize how much I missed all my friends.  It's hard, because I'm always so tired on the weekend and don't really feel like doing anything. Oh well, until next time.

People have a hindrance if they are extraordinarily beautiful.
It can be a problem. You are not given the challenges and then,
when you are, all eyes are on you to see if you can pull
anything off other than being beautiful to look at. 
 - Benedict Cumberbatch

...Need...More...Sleep...

Hello again. I'm really tired. I had a really good week this past week. I had two first-time-ever CIT's. They did fairly well, both had some things they could work on. Next week I have a CIT named Kirby. She was with my sister this week and my sister is saying that I won't like her.  From what I've seen of her around camp this past week, I believe her.  Apparently she doesn't have a filter and has trouble understanding her role as a CIT/counselor. I'm going to try and crack down on her.  But that will be difficult for me because I'm quiet and hesitate to say things that could possibly affect my relationship with somebody. I'll be praying about it.  I'm really tired. I know I said that already. As a core staff at camp we are doing 40 Days in the Word.  I'm really enjoying it although I struggle to do the devotions everyday.  It's hard at camp because the only free time you have is after the campers have gone to bed.  But then there are the CIT's and they like to talk so it's kind of distracting.  And you're always really tired by the end of the day. But I try. I've been wanting to do something like this for a while now.  I'm happy with the way that it is really helping me learn how to break down verses and understand and apply them to your life.

I'm Back!

Helllloooooooo!!!! How have you been? I'm doing good, but I'm exhausted.  I had another good cabin this week, the only issue was they took a long time to fall asleep.  Flounder, the head counselor, asked me where I wanted to be next week and so I chose G9 (I've been in G8 the past two weeks).  She kind of laughed at me because she knows I prefer older kids over younger kinds. I mean, don't get me wrong: the younger kids are awesome. They are so cute and love you so easily and say some pretty funny things.  But they also need you to tell them to change their underwear every morning and things like that.  So I prefer older kids. How  much do you want to bet that next week I'll be in a junior cabin? I got a "burn" on Monday.  I wore a tank-top and forgot to put on sunscreen. So I have two lines over my shoulder. (BTW, I also have a major sock tan because I have to wear running shoes for ropes).  It was red for the rest of the day but by Tuesday it was a tan. It never hurt or peeled or anything. So this is why I say I don't get burned. In reality, I probably do get burned, I just don't get the symptoms that everybody else gets.  Doing the high ropes is going well so far.  They have welcomed me in with open arms. Apparently last summer they were a sort of a clique.  The warm welcome may be in part to the reason that high ropes could really use 6 or more people and some people that had been there last year left so there were only three of them.  But I think that they genuinely am glad I'm there, which makes me happy. The only bad part about it is the sun/heat.  The sun because you have to watch your climber but if the sun is behind them, it is really difficult.  And the heat obviously just wipes you out and make you sweaty and other various things.  Another thing is that the rocketry craft is in the same field as the ropes course.  So on Friday when they are trying to launch rockets there can't be people in the air. So we have to alternate and it's really annoying. I don't understand why they can't launch them somewhere else. And ropes kind of took over the rocketry shed. So it's really crowded in there and rocketry really just needs to move.  I would say ropes could move because rocketry was there first, but ya know, it's only four 50ft poles 8ft in the ground. And don't forget the 10ft anchors for belaying. I have a feeling that you don't understand what I'm talking about. Oh well.

If you only got 44 hours off a week, would you spend an hour of that time blogging? I've been asking myself this question a lot.  But then suddenly 40 of those hours have already passed, so I think I'm going to say no this time around.

So Close

Only one more exam to go: functions.  This will be my hardest one.  This morning I had my computer science exam. It was only 4 pages, single-sided.  That is very short.  I think I did fairly well, except on one question where I drew a blank.  I dislike having a weekend in between exams because I think oh, I'm done exams, I don't have to do anything. WRONG!  And you really don't want to do any studying.  But now I am so close to saying done for real.  After my exam tomorrow, I'm going my BFFLAAT's house to tie dye some t-shirts.  Then I'm going up to camp for high ropes training.  I'm kind of worried about this.  Not about the actual training, but the time slots.  First of all, I don't know when the time slots are. Second of all, the assistant camp director was saying that she thinks that training won't go past 4pm. So what am I going to do? I know that the wranglers are up there, and I think that maybe one of the counselors is already up there, but I don't want to be bugging them all the time.  So I'm taking lots of stuff up to entertain me. It's starting to sink in now that this is it, literally.  I'm sure I've told you this before, but after I get back from training on Friday, I pack and then am back up at camp for the rest of the summer.  Adios, amigos!  I've started to gt stuff together that I need to take up.  Tomorrow is Amy and Rory's 2nd wedding anniversary, it says so on my Doctor Who calendar.  I'm really sad, because the writers of DW said that they're going to be killed off this season. I really like them.  This will be their third season, which I guess is the average span of time that someone spends with the Doctor.  Speaking of which, I've been watching series 1 of DW, my friend lent it to me.  I don't like this actor as much, thankfully he only did one season. I really hope I like the next actor, because he did 4 seasons!  

The scenario here is that the world just ended (kind of) but the Doctor is on the wrong side of the "wall".  By being on the wrong side, everybody forgets him.  The lady who walks by the window is River Song, a friend of the Doctor's, and the blue book is River's.  Then Amy starts remembers, and well, you can see the rest. :)

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And for the record, I got 27 out of 26 on my Travel and Tourism test.  (the one where there was the bonus question about Mr. Darling's food opinions, see Good Day).

So Close...

It's been awhile.  Yesterday was the last day of classes.  But that means that it's exams.  I'm only worried about math really.  I didn't have an exam today, but I have two tomorrow.  I ended up going to school still though because Battleship is still not done.  It was originally due yesterday, but our teacher decided to give us until before our exam on Monday morning.  So me and my friend spent three hours this morning trying to get it to work.  Our problem right now is that we can attack the computer, but we can't get the computer to attack back.  There is serious reason for PANIC.  I really don't know where this is going to go.  Either we will find the problem and feel so stupid for missing it or we will never find out why it doesn't work.  I'm not at all worried about my exams tomorrow, travel and tourism and biology.  I have a lot going on in the next week.  Two exams tomorrow. I don't think I have anything Saturday, but I need to start getting stuff together for camp. I need to buy a storage unit for my clothes. I also need to buy more shorts.  Probably the same thing on Sunday.  And studying, obviously.  And trying to figure out Battleship.  Then Monday I have my computer science exam in the morning. I'll study for math in the afternoon.  Do more studying Tuesday morning, then write my math exam that afternoon.  On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I'm off to camp for training about high ropes.  Saturday I pack, then I'm off to camp on Sunday.  (this is the high ropes at camp that I'm going to be working on all summer[that's the climbing wall in the background]).

It's The Thought That Counts

So as I was walking home today I noticed some blue ribbons tied around people's trees, etc.  I was trying to think of what they were for. I know that when a soldier dies we tie yellow ribbons, but I couldn't think for the life of me what a blue ribbon meant.  Today my brother came home and he had one.  The school is sending them home with kids for them to show support for one of the teachers.  It was recently found out that her 4 year old son has leukemia (I think it's leukemia, but don't hold me to it).  I think that is such a nice thing to do for her and her family.  I really hope that this moves her family (not literally, but emotionally) because I'm feeling pretty moved and I'm not even involved.  I'm reading a book right now and in it it says, "Perhaps the Fates are people like us...ordinary souls who've found themselves caught up in the battle between good and evil, and have chosen to take a stand and help do what's right.  Small things that take just a moment to do, yes, but that could add up, in the end, to make an enormous difference to someone. " I think it is fitting for the situation.  On another note, we got our yearbooks today.  The theme was fairytales...I think? It's all about castles and dragons and kings and queens and stuff.  So far it seems good.  The one thing that drives me up the wall is when they give somebody the wrong name. It's like, is it impossible to get people's names right?  There are only 1080 people including staff in the school.  Is it really that hard? When I'm 90 (yes I will live that long) how am I supposed to be expected to remember everyone? I'll trust the yearbook, WHICH IS WRONG!!!  Ugh, that is my pet peeve of the month.  (I have so many pet peeves, I name one every month).

Sorry About That...

...I had a little bit of a breakdown last night.
Anywho, putting that behind us, have you ever tried not using your mouse?  How far can you go with just using the button on your keyboard? Can you check all your favourite websites? Can you send an email? Could you even play a game? I've gotten this far, from turning on the computer to opening firefox to getting to my blog and writing a post.  I think that's pretty impressive.  I even checked my email on the way in.  Email is hard though, lots of tabbing and going through and almost making it and then pressing the tab button one too many times and having to go through it all again.  You should try it out.  Who knew you would depend so much on a mouse?  Hehe, that was a funny sentence.  As a part of the core staff at FCC this summer, you are required to run a craft during the mornings and afternoons.  I wanted to do either high ropes or rock climbing.  I got high ropes and I'm really excited.  The only thing is is that you have to do some training in order to be certified to operate the ropes.  Last year when I was just a CIT and I helped out with high ropes I just got a quick lesson from one of the counselors on how to do it.  But I guess since I'll be doing it all summer I should be certified.  Speaking of certified, over the weekend we did first aid training, mainly CPR.  It is a 16-hour long course, but we did it in 2.  It was a really watered down version mainly focusing on CPR.  But we still get the full certification.  The ambulance driver/nurse who taught it to us was kind of funny. "The short and dirty reality is that if someone goes into cardiac arrest they have 10 minute.  From the station I'm positioned at, it takes me 15 minutes to get here." Ok then, great to know.  I hope no campers go into cardiac arrest.  We used a defibrillator on a dummy.   Ugh, a shut down to install updates window just popped up and I couldn't get out of it without using the mouse.  Guess that's as far as I got.

Under The Microscope

I just got my hair cut and I don't like it. I should have gotten layers like I have in the past. Over the weekend while at the core staff training weekend we talked about the things the devil might be trying to do in us and to drive us away from God. One of the thing we talked about was that we shouldn't try and impress other people and that's one of the ways the devil gets to us. I said I would try and not do that. I don't think I did that too much before, but them I remember all the time I say 'it doesn't matter' because I just want the person to be happy. I think that might be different though. But I know sometimes I would stand in front of the mirror in the morning for a while trying to think if my outfit worked. I'm not super fashionable, but I don't think I'm a bad dresser. But I would be trying to impress. I was looking in thee mirror at my hair and realized how ugly my knees are. And after I thought that I shouldn't be critizing myself because I am a beautiful young lady that has so much potential in life. I regret cutting my hair. I regret critizing myself because I know it is wrong. I was created in God's image. I'm sure at some point I'll regret telling you this but I'm trying to be more open and honest about things. I've just reread what I've written and it doesn't express what I'm feeling. I'm crying right now. I don't know what to do and I'm so confused. This is the first time ever my period has come early. I'm so stressed right now with school. I have a math test tomorrow which I think I should do good on. I'm just trying to think positive and work on praying everyday and trying to read the bible. We talked about summer goals at camp and two of them had to be spiritual. I'm happy they did that because I've never had a spiritual goal before and I think I will be good for me. Before when I tried reading the bible I just read it and thought that was good enough. Over the weekend I realized that wasn't enough and that I needed to actually absorb and think about what I was reading. I'd like to get a book about reading the bible and personal devotions. Over the weekend some of the people shares their testimonies. I have always loved hearing testimonies. Whenever I started to fall away from God I would think about their testimonies and remember just how amazing He is. They really help me better understand God. Although I think I've come to terms with the fact that I will never truely and fully understand Him. I need to go to bed now.

Heather's How To Determine If Your Short Shorts Are Too Short

 First of all, if you have to question it, they are too short. But here we go:
1. If they do not cover your bum, they are too short. 
2. If you can see your underwear, they are too short.
3. If the overall length of the fabric is shorter than your hand, they are too short. 
4. If the pockets stick out the bottom, they are too short.
5. If you have to keep pulling them down in fear of exposure, they are too short.

Pet Peeve: Some clothing companies know that their shorts are ridiculously short so they use patterned fabric for the pocket so that it's 'pretty'.  Disgusting.

Pressure

Earlier I thought of somebody else to add to my list but now that I've come around to actually posting, I can't remember.  Geez, I think there is something wrong with the 'b' button on our keyboard.  How annoying.  I'm kind of stressed out right now about exams and camp.  I don't know why I'm stressed about camp, it should be something to be excited about.  But exams are only 18 days away.  I don't have any exams on the first day of exams but then I have two on the second day, Travel and Tourism and Biology. Speaking of biology, we start a rat dissection tomorrow.  Great fun. I don't think I'll have to do any cutting though because my friends in my group are pretty excited about it.  I have my computer science exam on the third day which happens to be a Monday.  We just started working on our final project, my friend and I decided to do Battleship.  I hope we can get it done.  My friend wants to add all these features because the more features, the more marks, but I have to keep telling her, lets get the basic game going and then if we have time we can add more on.  It's going to be difficult.  And then last but not least (unfortunately) I have math on the last afternoon of exams.  Then 5 days later I'm off to camp.  Everything is coming up so fast.  I have a lot of stuff to get for camp that I still need.  Not to mention that there is a camp training weekend this weekend so I won't be able to study then. And I'm going to Canada's Wonderland the next Saturday with my youth group.  That will probably be the last outing I have in a long time.  The weeks of camp go from Sunday afternoon till Friday night, every week of summer.  So we have Saturdays off, and those will most likely be spent catching up on sleep.  I might not post for a while because I'm studying and then you will be lucky if I post over the summer. So maybe goodbye. Actually, I have those 5 days after exams and before camp, I'll probably be back.

6. Josh Hutcherson
This isn't who I was thinking of, but I'm going to add him.  He was in THE HUNGER GAMES, what more do you want out of a guy? :D  Seriously though. He's cute, too.

My Top 5 Men

So I decided that I would show you my top 5 men in the world. (these are in no particular order).

1. Benedict Cumberbatch
He plays Sherlock on BBC, and is down right awesome.  It's really easy to make fun of him with his fashion choices but he has these really awesome sparkly shoes.  And he's a natural ginger.  Enough said.  (I'm going to keep talking anyways). I'm not sure what he's doing in the middle picture, it kind of looks like he is giving you the middle finger. But I like the jacket.  Too bad a photo shoot stylist probably picked it out for him.  And would you look at him at the BAFTA's. :) (love the carpet by the way)

2. Robert Downey Jr.
Iron Man and Sherlock at the same time. And might I say mighty fine even though he's 47. Is that kind of sad? At least I'm not the only one, my friend likes him too.  I like him with longer hair and with his awesome Iron Man beard. And no glasses.  Do you like him as a blond? I'm not sure which I like better. At first I was like, no way man. But it's kind of growing on me. Really growing on me. 

 3. Shiloh Fernandez
I think he was in a movie based Robin Hood or something that we watched in English once. He's a lot hotter in this picture than he ever was in the movie but I was looking to see who the director of the movie was and saw another picture of him and was like, whoa, that movie does not do him justice.  Also very mighty fine.

 4. Zac Efron
I didn't really like him in HSM (1, 2, or 3) but now that he's in other movies (he is actually done so many now it's kind of scary) he's pretty awesome.  As one a certain someone (who is a fully grown woman) once said, "He has grown up in a nice way." I couldn't agree more.  I only like this hair style though. 

5. Matt Smith
I would never want to be with him, he's a little awkward and maybe a bit too gangly but I had to add him because he plays Doctor Who.  He kind of has that boy-next-door kind of look to him.

I would add my father, but this is more of a crush-never-going-to-meet-and-no-chance-of-actually-being-with-them kind of list, so yeah. :)

Good Day

Do you have a lot of pimples/mini bumps on your back where your hair hangs? I do, and I think it's getting worse :(  At least I'm noticing it more.  I am listening to the radio right now and have been most of the evening.  I hardly ever listen to the radio, mainly because my mom thinks there's too much talking.  I don't know what she's talking about. I mean, I know that there ads every once and a while, and the host will talk every so often but other than that, I think it's pretty good considering it's free music and it's popular music at the same time.  You know, I just realized that 95% of the readers of this blog have short hair, so you can't relate to my first question. Oh well. Try and think back to those days when you had long hair and ask yourself, did I have a lot of pimples/mini bumps on my back where my hair hung?  Today is prom, so none of the grade 12/13's were gone today (getting ready) and will be gone tomorrow (hungover).  So today in T and T we watched a movie and Mr. Darling said that there would be a question on our test about something in the movie just to 'get back' at the people who were gone.  While he was (trying to) set up the movie he was talking about his food preferences.  So now the question the test is going to be as follows: What did Mr. Darling rant about while trying to set up the movie? The answers are: he likes sweet and salty popcorn from PC, he hates V8 juice because all he can taste in carrots, he doesn't like his hot drinks cold or his cold drinks hot (worth two marks) and OMG I FORGET WHAT THE LAST ONE IS!!! How am I ever going to get perfect on my test now?

Random Tought Processes

You know, if I had enough Lego bricks, I would do this.

Today in biology while we were taking our note for some reason I thought of when I had lost my camera when my friend took me to Hershey, PA.  (I was going to say, "So today in..." but then I realized that that's how I usually start my posts so I decided to shake things up a bit by eliminating the 'so').  We had spent the previous day in the amusement park and were going back for a second day (I think).  I was going to bring my camera so I could take pictures but realized I couldn't find it.  I started panicking more than normal because when something bad happens it's always worse if it's not with your own family.  You get what I'm trying to say, right?  Anyways, my friend's mom suggested we go to the amusement park office and ask about the lost and found. Well actually they said we would have to look for it later (which cause more panic) and only when we got to the park and passed the office did she suggest that.  I remember thinking to myself, it's not going to be there, I never lose things THAT way (as apposed to having forgotten where I put it last). Only now am I realizing how...vain? Is that the word I'm looking for?...thinking that was.  The point is...well, there really is no point now that I think about it. Don't be vain, I guess? (BTW, my camera had been put in the lost and found.  I had to describe it to the lady before she gave it to me to prove that it was mine.  I remember shaking because I had never really looked to closely at it. I'm lucky I remembered that it was a Canon.)  I just made lemon poppy seed muffins. From a mix. Did you just feel a little disappointment inside?  I didn't slave over ingredients for who knows how long, I just dumped a bag of mix in and bada-boom, badda-bing. MUFFINS!!!! Mighty delicious muffins all the same though.  For some reason there were only 10 paper muffin cups left. What kind of paper-muffin-cup-making-company would do that? I think it is safe to assume that people will use paper muffin cups in multiples of 12.  So I had to go digging for more. Only to realize that the extra cups I had just found were a different size than the other ones.  So I kind of folded two together to make one bigger one.  I guess the count on those cups will be six off now, instead of just 2.  A packet of glaze came along with the mix so I spread that on the muffins.  It started dripping off onto the counter so I had to clean it up. And when I say clean it up I mean scoop it up with my finger and lick it. But then of course clean off the counter. But this way there was no waste. (the glaze was really good).  My school is having an art show this evening.  I was going to go with a friend of mine but now she's not going. I think I'll still go but it won't be as much fun without her.  Hopefully my other friend is still going. 

Sherlock

So I just finished watching Sherlock episode 3. And might I say it was SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I think almost better than the first time because since I knew the general story line I could focus more on the little details and things I didn't catch the first time around (that's where subtitles really come in handy).  I really like the theme song so I decided to record it on my iPod so that I would have it.  But you wouldn't believe the sound it picks up.  My mom turns on a light switch two rooms over and you can hear it on the recording.  So I had to wait until everybody left and then blasted the theme song and recorded it.  :D  Now I will have it forever!  I think I might have to buy the sound track, if that exists.  I also watched the bonus features.  A little short if you ask me but very good nonetheless.  Congratulations to a close friend on her good news.  My mom asked if I had heard and I was like, "Do I know? You are the last one to know.  It almost seems like old news." Teehee.  But now everybody knows.  No more secrets! (That was the secret that I was complaining about, btw).  We are getting close to the end of the year and that means that I will have to decide what game I want to do for my final project in computer science.  Any suggestions? (I've already done tic-tac-toe and magic square btw).  Mmmmm my mom just brought up Crunch 'n' Munch, gotta go eat some! :)

Night Fury

OMG I LOVE SHERLOCK SO MUCH.  As far as I can tell (I say as far as I can tell because their website is slightly confusing), it only won one BAFTA for Andrew Scott as best supporting actor.  Very disappointing. But I don't really care about that.  It's still awesome.  I've watched two episodes so far on DVD. I'm going to try and hold out and save the last one for tomorrow. But I don't know, it's only 4:30 and I have nothing to do.  I was at a friend's house last night for a sleepover to celebrate her 17th birthday. Wow, I can't believe my friends are turning 17.  It was really fun. We made pizza, opened presents, had a very diverse cake (inside joke) and watched movies. We watched How to Train Your Dragon, which I had never seen before. And might have never seen because it's the birthday girl's favourite movie and she looked about ready to kill me when she found out I hadn't seen it.  But I'm glad I survived, because it was a very good movie.  Night Fury is so cute! I love his eyes. The close up was amazing.  I actually love this movie so much.  I can't believe I had never seen it before.  Then we wanted to watch Prom, but that wasn't available on Rogers so we watched This Means War, which was pretty funny.  Then in the morning she made us a very impressive brunch: homemade buiscuits, toast, jam, nutella, butter, hash brown, eggs, fruit, all very nice!

Friday

So since I haven't posted in a few days and I'm busy all weekend I figured I would post now evenness though I should be going to sleep. First of all, SHERLOCK FINALLY ARRIVED!!! I am so excited. I almost didn't go to youth group because I wanted to watch it. But then I thought that youth group would be really fun. We did a car rally where we were given a sheet with a bunch of clues on it and we had to drive around to a bunch of stuff to find the answers. My team came in second. Another thing is that I am freaking out now when I see emergency vehicles. The morning after my friend's sister got hit by a car there was an ambulance outside our school. Apparently somebody got hit by a car while riding their bike. Btw, the drivers were from STA again...just saying. And now I've been seeing one everywhere I go. I don't like it. I hate having secrets. Because the blog is where I tell people things that I wouldn't tell people normally. But now I have a secret that is being kept from people who read this blog and it is killing me! But I have to survive because Sherlock is waiting for me tomorrow morning. Just a question, would it be weird to get my friend a rose for her 17th birthday? She has a boyfriend, does that change anything? Too romantic from a friend? Ugh, I hate gift shopping when they say they don't know what they want.

What...?

OMG Sherlock still hasn't shown up yet and I really need something to do with my life. I started studying today for exams, there's only like four weeks left or something.  It's been a weird day.  First off, it feels like it should be Friday.  Sometimes this happens and it's OK, but today of all days when Monday was a holiday and then I was at the zoo yesterday so it didn't really count so today should feel like a Monday, but it's Wednesday and it feels like Friday.  That was a really long sentence.  Then secondly my friend's sister got hit by a car.  A couple friends and I were standing at the intersection where we split ways because we live in different directions.  Then my one friend gets a text from our other friend saying that her sister has been in a car accident.  Seconds later an ambulance, police car and fire truck come racing around the corner (a little fast, might I say).  It didn't really connect until they suddenly stopped a few meters down the road and we realized it was our friend's sister sitting on the curb.  We walked a little closer but not too close because we didn't want to be told to leave by the police.  The fire truck left obviously because they weren't needed.  The police officers stuck around and talked to people who had seen it happen and to the people who hit her.  (They were from STA, doesn't surprise me. Sorry to stereotype and be mean, but it's all part of the high school up-bringing.  You are raised to hate every other high school, some more than others.)  We talked to one girl who goes to our school and we kind of know who had seen it happen.  I'm pretty sure that my friend's sister is OK, they took her to a hospital to check for concussion and take x-rays. My friend said that she wasn't talking probably because of shock (that was right after it happened, I don't know how she is now).  I really hope she is okay.  It's one of those things that always seems to happen to someone else.  And I don't think that it helped that we were right there when it happened and weren't paying attention.  Anyways. I think this post is kind of all over the place and full of run-on sentences and probably some grammar errors and I'm sorry and I'm tired (I had two tests today) and I just want to go to bed but not at the same time. Sorry, another run-on sentence.  Ok, I'm just going to stop now. Good bye. 

Long Day (18 hours, 50 minutes and 7 seconds to be exact)

Today has been a long day. Starting at precisely 4:36:17AM I woke up (I'm not actually sure about the seconds). I lay awake trying to convince myself to fall asleep again. Then I dozed off a bit. Key word there is dozed: I never did fall back to sleep.  At 5:30:46AM (again, not sure about the seconds) I was laying awake waiting for my alarm to go off (which was set for 6:10AM. Usually I get up at 7:00:00AM [positive about the seconds this time] but I had the zoo trip today and had to be at the school for 6:45:00AM [I'm getting better at this seconds thing :)].)  I find that whenever I change my alarm I have this fear that it won't go off and I'll miss whatever it is that I'm waking up early for.  Because of this panic that rests inside of me, I was unable to fall asleep again.  So I decided to just get up.  Or at least stop trying to fall asleep.  Then at 6:51:39AM (maybe I'm not as good as I thought...) I arrived at school.  We boarded the coach buses. Unfortunately our one friend is in a different Grade 11 Biology class and so she had to be on the other bus.  But I still had two friends with me.  And as the clock on the bus ticked on by (which was showing 12:14AM (no seconds :() we waited for the late people to show up.  Finally after deciding that the other people weren't going to show up (or got on the other bus, I'll never know) at 12:34AM (according to the bus, we didn't actually wait 5 hours for them) we set off.  After a painful 3 hours on the bus we arrived at the Toronto Zoo (I'm not sure what time...)  and were told that there would be two (TWO) assignments that had to be completed, one in the morning, one in the afternoon.  The first one we had to fill out a chart about two animals of our choice (ie. how do they move? {with legs???} where are their eyes {on their head???}  etc, etc, etc.). The afternoon assignment was to watch an animal for half an hour and record what it did every minute (you chose ten actions and then marked down which of those actions it did in the minute).  We (the four of us were quickly reunited after getting of the buses) thought this would be boring and a waste of time. Anyways, we found an animal that was inside so we didn't have to sit in the sun. We chose the tree kangaroo. Honestly the cutest thing I have ever seen (overdramatication, but not by much). We named it Claude.  By the end of the half hour we were glad we had been given the assignment.  Although without it we could have seen the penguins (we ran out of time before we got to them) it really made us slow down and appreciate the animal.  Before we would have stopped for 30 seconds (approximately), said it was cute and then moved onto the komodo dragon.  There was a sign in the exhibit to please be quiet. The only problem was that it was around the corner from the door. So people came charging in and yelling. We would shhhh them and then they would look at us like, "what authority do you have over me?" And then they would turn the corner and realize that they needed to shut up or leave.  We started feeling very protective of Claude (did I mention Claude has to be read with a French accent?). We were sad that there was only one tree kangaroo. I don't know if the other one was inside its little house thingy (you know how zoo inclosures work, there's a viewing area and then an area where they go at night kind of thing) but it seemed lonely.  We were also sad to leave but we also really wanted to see the other kangaroos.  Eventually (after waiting 15minutes for people who didn't realize the bus was leaving at 2:30:00PM (supposed to leave, that is)) we set off for home.  We got back around 5PM, just like they said they would.  I was really tired after walking all day and really wanted to have a shower and then go to bed (you know, since I was up at 4:36:17AM (again, not sure about the seconds)). But then reality set in and I realized that I have two tests tomorrow and a bunch of math homework that I haven't even heard the lesson on. So after struggling through studying (not really) and figuring out my math homework (my math teacher posts all her lessons online, makes my life so much easier) and having a shower, I decided to come blog about it all. And it's taken me much longer than I expected it to.  Today was definitely one of those days where I kept thinking about something and then thought that I should blog about it.  But since it is now 10:26:09PM (according to the computer), I should go to bed. Good night to you all!

(he looks kind of mad in this picture, but he's actually really cute)

...what?

                                                 I've decided to change my reading goal for this year from 50 books to 52 books; one for each week of the year.  I've always thought it was funny that there are 52 weeks in a year and 12 months in a year, and 4 weeks in a month. But if you do the math, it doesn't add up.  Our new neighbours have been outside in their backyard all morning. I can't blame them, it's a beautiful day. But I can blame them for making an obscene amount of noise.  Their kids have been yelling and screaming and barking (well, that was more of the dog...) around in their blow-up kiddie pool all morning.  I wouldn't be surprised if my brother exploded from annoyance in the near future.  Oh wait, it just stopped.  Maybe one of them got hurt so now they have to go inside. Not that I would wish injury upon anyone....  Nope, there they go again. I knew it was too good to be true.  I pre-ordered Sherlock Season 2 on DVD and just found out that it has shipped!!!!!!!!! This is serious cause for celebration.  Although I'm slightly confused because it doesn't come out till the 22nd.  Not that I'm complaining.  So I don't know if they have it ahead of time and then ship it so that you have it by the 22nd...?  On Amazon.ca's website it has been in the top 100 DVD Bestsellers for 53 days.  (It's currently second to Lord of the Rings, which has been there for 430 days...more than a year).  Which is pretty good considering it only came out in January.  But if you're shocked that Lord of the Rings has been there so long, The Big Bang Theory Season 3 has been there for 649 days, almost two years?!?  Wait, that doesn't make sense. How long has season 3 been out for...? I think they're on season 4 right now....  Hahaha. I just realized something.  I was on Amazon.ca's site because I thought I ordered it from there, and I was really confused because when I had pre-ordered something before it didn't ship until the day of. So I was looking on my account for the shipping tracker thingy.  But the order wasn't there. But I just realized I ordered it from BBC Canada instead.  Brief panic attack there.  That's probably why it's been shipped already, so that I have it on the day of.  I guess...?