Just a Day That Went "Bye"
12/02/12
Hi everyone! Here's the update on the past oh.. month!
This is going to be short since it just struck midnight here and I'm tired... church in the morning! Ok, so, looking over last month's post, I can update two things: 1 - my gym activity and 2 - my hair modeling career.
1 - my gym activity (or lack there of):
No, I didn't go to the gym. Ok, I went twice! And I want to keep going. But I'm really good at coming up with the necessary excuses to get out of it. My gym clothes are at school at my friend's rez and I should take them home to wash them, but maybe with them locked away up there (I need her to let me into the building and we don't always have a break from classes at the same time) I can have one pathetic excuse for why I'm not going. Anywho, the days that I did go, I felt great after! I also discovered that when I walk in and see all these super athletic people - especially other girls - I get extremely self conscious and having someone with me definitely helps (which gives me another excuse: I don't have anyone to go with!) I can't give up though.. these little rolls my jeans are pushing up are really uncomfortable right now :P
2 - my hair modeling career (or lack there of):
I swear to you I am not a failure. I just didn't have the right hair he wanted I guess. On the bright side, the person who brought this fantastic opportunity to my attention said that this is always open as he does photo shoots year round. COUNT ME IN! So, after trying to keep growing my hair in hopes of that wonderful call I might get, I went to my usual hair dressers' (they are seriously amazing people!) and got my hair cut. I went from shoulder length, thick hair to a short asymmetrical. And by short, I mean I have never had my hair this short before (my poor boyfriend didn't know what to think!). One side goes down and frames my face, stopping at my jaw line and the other side is like boys' hair... it only comes down just to my earlobe if I straighten it (which I have to because it curls and looks really silly).
So besides that, nothing's really new or exciting. Classes are normal as ever, boyfriend is still as amazing as ever (or more amazing I think!) and my little tutoring job is going along quite well.
Bed time. Lesson of the week (by the way): Be yourself and make your own decisions. That haircut will look good on you and people will agree :P
This is just a little side project I started - and don't frequently update - for my friend who spent 4 months of her life in Thailand. She wasn't able to post on her blog very often and we didn't always have the time to catch up on Facebook chat. I made this so that she could read anything I didn't get the chance to say... There's a lot of details I left out that she'd be able to fill in, but I tried to keep it to things that I'd be able to share with someone who I didn't know very well or who I was just catching up on things with. Go ahead and take a look. I hope by reading about my days, you'll realize there are other people just like you in the world - that's something I find reassuring about others' blogs anyway - enjoy!
12/02/12
Hi everyone! Here's the update on the past oh.. month!
This is going to be short since it just struck midnight here and I'm tired... church in the morning! Ok, so, looking over last month's post, I can update two things: 1 - my gym activity and 2 - my hair modeling career.
1 - my gym activity (or lack there of):
No, I didn't go to the gym. Ok, I went twice! And I want to keep going. But I'm really good at coming up with the necessary excuses to get out of it. My gym clothes are at school at my friend's rez and I should take them home to wash them, but maybe with them locked away up there (I need her to let me into the building and we don't always have a break from classes at the same time) I can have one pathetic excuse for why I'm not going. Anywho, the days that I did go, I felt great after! I also discovered that when I walk in and see all these super athletic people - especially other girls - I get extremely self conscious and having someone with me definitely helps (which gives me another excuse: I don't have anyone to go with!) I can't give up though.. these little rolls my jeans are pushing up are really uncomfortable right now :P
2 - my hair modeling career (or lack there of):
I swear to you I am not a failure. I just didn't have the right hair he wanted I guess. On the bright side, the person who brought this fantastic opportunity to my attention said that this is always open as he does photo shoots year round. COUNT ME IN! So, after trying to keep growing my hair in hopes of that wonderful call I might get, I went to my usual hair dressers' (they are seriously amazing people!) and got my hair cut. I went from shoulder length, thick hair to a short asymmetrical. And by short, I mean I have never had my hair this short before (my poor boyfriend didn't know what to think!). One side goes down and frames my face, stopping at my jaw line and the other side is like boys' hair... it only comes down just to my earlobe if I straighten it (which I have to because it curls and looks really silly).
So besides that, nothing's really new or exciting. Classes are normal as ever, boyfriend is still as amazing as ever (or more amazing I think!) and my little tutoring job is going along quite well.
Bed time. Lesson of the week (by the way): Be yourself and make your own decisions. That haircut will look good on you and people will agree :P
13/01/12
Hello out there!
What's new? I don't know, not too much. Life has been pretty normal since the new year. But, speaking of the new year, I do have a couple stories.
I went to a party to ring in 2012 and although it was not my first time at a party, but it was my first time drinking. Don't worry, I didn't drink anywhere near enough to get drunk, just enough to get barely tipsy. I wasn't hung over in the morning and I could still walk and think straight. I was more open with people, which was a good thing, since in the past, I wouldn't talk to anyone except my boyfriend at the time (who I went with, I've never ever ever been to a party alone.) The worst thing that happened was that my boyfriend's best friend, who is also a good friend of mine, decided to flirt with me, and I flirted back with him. Anyway, that's all been sorted out and there's no hard feelings :)
I don't think I'm quite ready to get full out drunk yet... at all. It just doesn't appeal to me.
Since the new year's started, I've gone back to school. I have one less class so I take that time to work out. I've only hit the gym twice with my friend and I must say, I NEED it. Not that I think I'm fat - I'm 5'5" and weigh usually 130lbs and wear size 4/6 dress - but my cardio is horrible! I've known this since I wrestled a couple years ago, and if anything, it's only gotten worse.
The other day I went in to apply to be a model for a high end hair salon. (We're talking $40.00 to $70.00 for a simple hair cut, depending on if an employee or the owner does the cut.) I need to be willing to have it cut, dyed and styled. I'm really nervous about having it coloured since I have NEVER coloured my hair, and the most colour I've wanted in it was a couple of non natural colours streaked in it - which I never got. I love my natural hair colour so if I do get it coloured, I'm growing it out, no matter how bad it looks! Also I don't have very long hair so I have a feeling it will get cut and won't take that long to grow it out and cut off the colour. I love my hair, but this opportunity is too good to pass up.
Anyhow, I can't wait for tomorrow because my best friend is coming back from a missions trip in Thailand. She's been gone for the past 4 months... which means everything I've done - started university, starting to date my boyfriend and other new things in my life - I haven't been able to share with her face to face, thank goodness for the Internet!! I can't wait to hear her stories, I have a feeling there will be a life time of them to share, and I already know that she has 1000++ pictures too. But she's going to be exhausted: she's going from +30 degrees (Celsius) to -20 degrees, plus wind chill. We also just had a snow day today so she's going to be coming home to a winter wonderland!
Life's good :)
11/12/11
Hello out there!
What's new? I don't know, not too much. Life has been pretty normal since the new year. But, speaking of the new year, I do have a couple stories.
I went to a party to ring in 2012 and although it was not my first time at a party, but it was my first time drinking. Don't worry, I didn't drink anywhere near enough to get drunk, just enough to get barely tipsy. I wasn't hung over in the morning and I could still walk and think straight. I was more open with people, which was a good thing, since in the past, I wouldn't talk to anyone except my boyfriend at the time (who I went with, I've never ever ever been to a party alone.) The worst thing that happened was that my boyfriend's best friend, who is also a good friend of mine, decided to flirt with me, and I flirted back with him. Anyway, that's all been sorted out and there's no hard feelings :)
I don't think I'm quite ready to get full out drunk yet... at all. It just doesn't appeal to me.
Since the new year's started, I've gone back to school. I have one less class so I take that time to work out. I've only hit the gym twice with my friend and I must say, I NEED it. Not that I think I'm fat - I'm 5'5" and weigh usually 130lbs and wear size 4/6 dress - but my cardio is horrible! I've known this since I wrestled a couple years ago, and if anything, it's only gotten worse.
The other day I went in to apply to be a model for a high end hair salon. (We're talking $40.00 to $70.00 for a simple hair cut, depending on if an employee or the owner does the cut.) I need to be willing to have it cut, dyed and styled. I'm really nervous about having it coloured since I have NEVER coloured my hair, and the most colour I've wanted in it was a couple of non natural colours streaked in it - which I never got. I love my natural hair colour so if I do get it coloured, I'm growing it out, no matter how bad it looks! Also I don't have very long hair so I have a feeling it will get cut and won't take that long to grow it out and cut off the colour. I love my hair, but this opportunity is too good to pass up.
Anyhow, I can't wait for tomorrow because my best friend is coming back from a missions trip in Thailand. She's been gone for the past 4 months... which means everything I've done - started university, starting to date my boyfriend and other new things in my life - I haven't been able to share with her face to face, thank goodness for the Internet!! I can't wait to hear her stories, I have a feeling there will be a life time of them to share, and I already know that she has 1000++ pictures too. But she's going to be exhausted: she's going from +30 degrees (Celsius) to -20 degrees, plus wind chill. We also just had a snow day today so she's going to be coming home to a winter wonderland!
Life's good :)
11/12/11
Wow, has it really been 6 days? Actually, I'm not surprised, I do believe my own paper and pen journal hasn't been updated with my personal private details since August sometime.
So, what happened today? Church! It was the end to a 3 part series on the birth of Christ and what it means for us... beyond the traditional "here's what happened on Christmas" story. About how God sent his Son, his *SON* to die for our salvation. And that being bad enough, he didn't come to us as a huge, strong and powerful man, he was born in a crap filled stable - basically a barn - wrapped in what were probably Joseph's burial clothes (because that's what they carried with them when they traveled really far) and his first cradle was a feeding trough. (Manger, stable, swaddling clothes... right? we're all used to those terms!)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that anyone who's ever darkened the door of a church at Christmas time would know that Emanuel means "God with us." Out pastor pointed out that he didn't just live among human beings, if we accept his gift of salvation (y'know, get saved, find Jesus... whatever term you want to use) He wasn't just once upon a time with us in flesh and blood, but he's also on our side and he's within us. Cool, eh?
Today he wrapped up the series with this: His (God's) gift to us, thanks to that gift on Christmas was Assurance that He is with us and that He loves us and that He will guide us; Salvation, that we might be forgiven our sins, even you who think yourself the worst of the worst sinners can find this salvation in accepting that Jesus came and died as the ultimate sacrifice; And Hope. Hope in God when there is no hope to be found elsewhere. Hope that can be renewed.
Pastor had us write down what we need assurance for, who we wanted to become a Christian (even if it was our own names we wrote) and something we need hope renewed in. We put it in a gift box and had three people from the congregation all come up and pray over each part, assurance, salvation and hope... and then Pastor shredded it all symbolically as we have left each item in God's most capable hands.
Church happened after the 7:30 AM call from my poor, exhausted boyfriend saying he'd spent the whole night around and about the city since his roommate accidentally locked him out after his midnight shift... apologies have since been made and all is well.
And now, as I am about to wrap a couple more presents and tuck into bed, I must say that I felt incredible relief after finishing the last 80 pages of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen which I'd been working at pretty much all afternoon. This is a matter of personal opinion (which might also be skewed by the fact that I have to have had it read for tomorrow's 7:00 PM English midterm) but don't read it. It's satire on the Gothic style of writing and it is saturated with sarcasm. The sad thing is, I started Dracula in August and have about 80 pages of it left to go in it, but haven't had the chance to enjoy it since September. Now there is a good book!
As a final word, I need to put this out there: Reading makes you a better writer by far. I've definitely experienced this! It isn't just some hype that is shared in Writer's Craft classes. Enjoy the art of words as much as you possible can!
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that anyone who's ever darkened the door of a church at Christmas time would know that Emanuel means "God with us." Out pastor pointed out that he didn't just live among human beings, if we accept his gift of salvation (y'know, get saved, find Jesus... whatever term you want to use) He wasn't just once upon a time with us in flesh and blood, but he's also on our side and he's within us. Cool, eh?
Today he wrapped up the series with this: His (God's) gift to us, thanks to that gift on Christmas was Assurance that He is with us and that He loves us and that He will guide us; Salvation, that we might be forgiven our sins, even you who think yourself the worst of the worst sinners can find this salvation in accepting that Jesus came and died as the ultimate sacrifice; And Hope. Hope in God when there is no hope to be found elsewhere. Hope that can be renewed.
Pastor had us write down what we need assurance for, who we wanted to become a Christian (even if it was our own names we wrote) and something we need hope renewed in. We put it in a gift box and had three people from the congregation all come up and pray over each part, assurance, salvation and hope... and then Pastor shredded it all symbolically as we have left each item in God's most capable hands.
Church happened after the 7:30 AM call from my poor, exhausted boyfriend saying he'd spent the whole night around and about the city since his roommate accidentally locked him out after his midnight shift... apologies have since been made and all is well.
And now, as I am about to wrap a couple more presents and tuck into bed, I must say that I felt incredible relief after finishing the last 80 pages of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen which I'd been working at pretty much all afternoon. This is a matter of personal opinion (which might also be skewed by the fact that I have to have had it read for tomorrow's 7:00 PM English midterm) but don't read it. It's satire on the Gothic style of writing and it is saturated with sarcasm. The sad thing is, I started Dracula in August and have about 80 pages of it left to go in it, but haven't had the chance to enjoy it since September. Now there is a good book!
As a final word, I need to put this out there: Reading makes you a better writer by far. I've definitely experienced this! It isn't just some hype that is shared in Writer's Craft classes. Enjoy the art of words as much as you possible can!
05/12/11
So, today I wrote my second university midterm. No biggie, just 200 multiple choice questions that I had to fill in a scanron sheet for. Those are those little sheets with the bubbles you have to pencil in. Annoying, right? Yeah, my neck was killing me and it was a waste of an hour and a half. I definitely had to laugh when one question asked for the definition of a blog. Really? Whatever, this was a bird course anyway.
But... that was just the middle of my day. It was interesting from the start. I jumped out of bed at 9:15 this morning after staying up much to late with a friend from out of town. I had to shower dress and pack my purse for the exam and then catch the 10:00 AM bus. And maybe fit breakfast in. An English muffin definitely does not hold you over all day, and while "studying" for the exam I snarfed a croissant and a bag of chips and some candies and a chicken wrap. YUM! So anyway, as I'm waiting for the bus, the snow that has been snowing so peacefully just starts blowing hard and heavy (and cold and wet, thanks) so that by the time the bus arrived, it was white out conditions. So all the way in to downtown bus terminal, we fishtailed and skidded around corners and past stops.
By the time we arrived downtown it was sunny and pretty again. I hop on the bus that will take me to campus. No problemo. But, we get there and round a tight corner and sideswiped a car that lost control. Well, the car sideswiped us.. the bus driver was not at fault at all. So we all had to get off after leaving our names and phone numbers. thankfully, I was not far from my stop anyway.
So then I study, eat and write the exam as have all been previously mentioned.
I met my wonderful boyfriend of just a few months on the bus on the way to the mall. I did my shopping and caught yet another bus to go home. This time, we had to detour around a collision at one of the major intersections in the city. Thankfully I wasn't late for the final bus of the day that would take me home. This bus left the station at 7:30 and I got home at 8:30ish.
Not done yet. I have since baked a cake and wrapped my some of my girlfriends' presents. Long day. Tomorrow will be as well! I wake up for work at 5:30 AM and wont get home til 4:00PM. Yay Friday! :)
Night!
