Fight to Entertain

good ol' pun to start us off

This is me eating my words and wishing I had brought my sewing stuff to Stratford. Only a week in and I'm rudely reminded of how boring it can get in Stratford. I have to make a real effort to entertain myself and not just waste my days away on social media. That being said, I did do lots of fun things this week. 
It was Marissa's birthday on Friday, so on Thursday we drove to Kitchener to go trampolining. Mara and I had been to this place before, where they have 6 olympic grade trampolines. It was great fun. I almost did a full front flip (I just can't quite stick the landing and end up on my butt). Michelle however did gymnastics when she was younger and so was doing front flips, back flips, you name it. Definitely got my exercise in that day and felt it for the following two days. I'd like to go back at some point and see if I can't finally land a front flip.
Later that day we had our first SSC event of the term at a local pub. Much to our enjoyment, Thursday is now 25cent wing night. I made a slight misjudgement in how hungry I was and ordered 5 wings and a burger. Way too much food. But the wings were great. And I couldn't get over that it cost $1.25 for 5 wings! I'm no wing fanatic but even I know that's got to be a great deal. I might start making regular trips to the pub for 5 wings every Thursday night.
Friday morning started off great listening to Ed Sheeran's two new singles. I've come to realize that I almost always don't like a song when I first hear it if it's a song I'm expecting to like (i.e. from an artist I'm familiar with). So I didn't form any opinions until later. And as expected, I really like both of them. I'm not sure which one I like better; it might have to be Castle On The Hill.

Last night I had some friends over to play Catan (I won). I also made my new meal of the week: spinach salad with dried cranberries, chicken, avocado, and poppyseed dressing. To be honest I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It might just make it on to my rotation of meals. I haven't decided what this week's recipe is going to be; it will depend on when I get to a grocery store next.

I also made rice krispie squares but they didn't turn out great. I think the marshmallows were past their prime.
Didn't do much today. Watched a sermon from The Meeting House online. I've started doing a daily doodle where I practice my lettering/doodling. It's not much but I'm trying out the concept that doing something everyday will help you get better at it. I'm patiently waiting for 9pm to roll around to watch the next Sherlock episode. I've had to stay off social media since this afternoon to avoid any spoilers, since Britain has already seen it and there are already things being posted about what happens.

This is the story of a bride in white...

title taken from Holy (Wedding Day) by The City Harmonic

I love this song. I want it played at my wedding at some point, perhaps as I walk down the aisle? Speaking of weddings, I want my first dance to be like this:

My fiancé and I will learn this dance and we will perform it at our wedding.

Ugh. Give me a boyfriend.

367. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
There isn't a specific time that immediately pops into my head, but I think it would be interesting to re-live a moment from a time I can't remember, but if I could have the consciousness that I have now. The first half-hour of my life, for example, to learn what that was like.

Let's Do The Time Warp Again

Last year, my New Year's Resolution was to floss my teeth each and every day. That didn't happen every day (but it definitely happened more often than it did previously). Luckily, I had a second resolution: take a picture myself every day. Unfortunately, that also didn't happen every day, but had a much higher success rate than the flossing did. I think I only missed a handful of days all year. And after taking a picture of yourself every day for a year it becomes a bit of a habit, so I continued into this year. I only stopped during the summer when my ipod broke and my phone at the time didn't have a front facing camera. My goal when making this resolution was always to put the pictures together in a slideshow to see them altogether in quick succession. And I've finally gotten around to making that video. So here is 457 pictures of me, taken between Jan 1st, 2014 and June 18th, 2015, in 40 seconds.

My New Year's Resolution this year is to write a letter every week, and it must be delivered through snail mail. So far I'm on track, although sometimes I have difficulty thinking of who to write a letter to. Hopefully I can make it all the way to the end, and I will have finally (100% successfully) completed a New Year's Resolution.

And She Lives!

33 hours in and...surprisingly, not as dead as I thought I would be. I went to campus at 6:30pm last night to work on my group's documentary which was due today. I did not leave campus until 7am, where my group member drove me home, I changed and grabbed a lunch, then raced to catch the city bus at 7:22, which then took me back to campus to get on the 8 o'clock bus to Stratford. The 3 of us just spent 12 hours together in a concrete-walled computer lab with no cell service. Ladies and gentlemen, my first all-nighter. Let it be made clear that editing with more than one person is hard. Especially when the files are on one device and you have to keep moving them around. This meant that I would do come editing, but then really just spent a lot of time sitting around. But I felt like I couldn't leave because...I don't know. I didn't want to abandon them. And the buses stopped at 12:30, so I was kind of stuck there anyways. I was there for moral support. And to keep them on track.  One of my group members lives fairly close to campus, so she went home around 6 to change and eat. We finished editing the video at 6am, which we then had to export. It took half an hour. We then realized that we hadn't saved some of the files, which meant there were big gaps in our video. So we had to re-save the files and export it again. It was saying it would take about an hour to export, which meant finishing at 7:30. So, cutting it pretty close. We couldn't leave the video, because the school computers log you off if it's inactive for awhile. My other group member and I were stuck waiting for our group member to return to finish up with the exporting. She came back at 7, and the two of us went home as well (albeit briefly).
All in all, a wild night. And when you're working wild hours like that, eventually the only way to get through it is to laugh. That point arrived at about 3am. There was a lot of swearing and laughing. This, however, is my favourite moment, partially simply because it was caught on camera:

We all died laughing when my group member revealed that he had caught it on camera. It was a great moment. And it accurately displays how most of the night went: serious hard work interspersed with yelling and dancing. Multiple snapchats were sent that night. When the one group member had gone home, the other group member asked me if I wanted to race him in the wheely chairs. I mentioned that there wasn't a lot of space. He looks as me and says, "No, I mean in the hallway." And I thought, yes. This is going to be so much fun. So we're bouncing off the walls scooting around and racing down the hallway. Then he says, "I wish it was connected, so we could do laps." Luckily, we were in PAS,  the most confusing building on campus, so I knew exactly where to go.

It's not clear in this picture, but this staircase is circular. There are staircases heading in every direction. And they're all connected by a hallway at the bottom. And so we started whipping around these stairs in our wheely chairs like there was no tomorrow (which there quite possibly might not have been if we didn't get the doc done). It was a blast. I don't think I've ever had so much fun at 6 in the morning before.
Now while I don't suggest all-nighters, I have to admit that this today was not as bad as I thought it would be. Although I was shaky all day from my food consumption being purely sugar. I got myself an iced capp from Timmies before heading off to Stratford. I got it for the caffeine, but I think it was the sugar more so that got me. I also had a red velvet muffin (which was delicious). I had a sandwich and pudding for lunch. The Stratford campus had gingerbread cookies for us to decorate, so I also ate a cookie. We played a bit of Wii during lunch too, since they had one set up. In reality, not a bad day, given the circumstances. Although I got a headache in the afternoon. Could have been worse, though.

As requested, a blog post. The time is 3:25am and I am currently on campus working on a documentary that is due in 6hrs. I am going to have to wake up 3hrs. I debated not going to bed, but I think I'll take a nap. And I'm going to buy myself a large iced cap before I get on the bus in 4hrs. One of my group members filmed us working and it may just be my favourite video clip. More later.
Also, the PC frozen lasagna is notably better than the PC frozen indian butter chicken.

McDonalds is Organic

Where McDonalds is pulled off as organic food: here. (click the little cc button at the bottom to get subtitles.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

If you hadn't heard, the new Avengers: Age of Ultron teaser trailer came out yesterday. Originally, it was supposed to come out on Tuesday next week but when a crappy version got leaked on the internet last night, this is how Marvel responded (the bottom tweet came first):

(Hydra is was the bad guys in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.)
But this just shows how the internet has changed the entertainment industry. Marvel knows that once a leaked version is out there, people will hunt it down until they have seen it. So rather than have fans watch an illegally downloaded version, Marvel just decided to release it.
This trailer is just the teaser trailer, which often doesn't reveal much of the storyline and is mainly action scenes, but this one is over two minutes long. This is giving me very high expectations for the real trailer.

Food Preparations

I've decided that timing the preparations of all parts of a meal to be ready at the same time is a skill that cannot be learned. Also, don't eat spaghetti with your laptop in front of you.

267. Favourite Song Ever.
"Ever" is a very strong term. It's probably Ordinary Miracle by Sarah McLachlan from Charlotte's Web.

Emma Watson speaks at UN Women He for She Launch

y'all need to listen to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6XTx2Rg04g

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

This is my favourite thing.

Ehehehehehe

I frickin love Martin Freeman.

(In case any of you were wondering, (cleaning lady's name) came on Friday, a day after I was told she was coming :/ )

Also, only nine (?!) days till I go to camp!

152. Are you hungry right now?
Surprisingly, no.

153. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends?
No (I don't really have any tumblr friends?).

154. Facebook or Twitter?
Ummmmmm....twitter?

155. Twitter or tumblr?
tumblr all the way.

Jumping High in the Sky

I went trampolining! Trampoline-ing? Jumping. I went jumping. But it was so much fun! My friend Mara invited me to go with her, she's done it a couple times before. It was really fun. They have 6 olympic-standard trampolines and we had the entire facility to ourselves. I even worked up the courage to try a front flip and (after multiple attempts) completely nailed it. It was so awesome. I've always been so scared of doing flips and such but once you've done it, it's not even that bad. And it was only $9 for an hour of jumping, which is awesome. We "studied" while jumping. And by studying I really mean asked each other a couple questions and then gave up and just jumped. But really, it was studying, exercise and a stress relief all in one. So I'm not even feeling guilty about going out the day before my exam when clearly I have studying to do. We got slushies afterwards. Really, it was all quite ideal.
And this is just something worth watching. The look on the kid's face! Oh my gosh. It had me laughing.

If Google Was a Guy

This is my favourite thing.

thERE'S A VIDEO.

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.

My Favourite PSA Ever

damn right I support it

OMG I AM FLIPPING S*** RIGHT NOW

SOMEBODY MADE A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 "BET ON IT" PARODY WITH "LET IT GO" AND IT FRICKING WORKS

watch the entire thing. i can't even get over this. i'm freaking out. the fricking timing throughout the entire thing. omg. not even

QOTD #68

68. Favourite Taylor Swift song?
The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody)

Okay so I rewatched the first Sherlock episode and I like it better now. But there is something that is making me absolutely lose it.

This. GIF. Is. Ruining. My. Life. Ohmifrickingosh I can't handle it. I have it open on my dash and it just keeps looping over and over and over and over and over. I'm breaking down. Because even if you don't watch Sherlock, you have to admit that this is the sexiest thing ever. The coat. The collar flip. The fricking hair ruffle. Those hands. I'm done. There's no hope for me. The worst is I'll go do something else and then I'll go back to my laptop and it will still be there playing over and over and it is ruining me. I've given up rejecting it. I have chosen to embrace it. And I'm still not handling it. 

Let me make it worse for you/me by adding some context: