What is one of your addictions?
Submitted by Paperheart.
Now here's a question for me. I don't think I can just choose one addiction to write about, because I have a few and all of which are like crack to me.
1. Starbucks. I am all about the Peppermint Mocha. I am almost offended that it becomes such a trend at Christmas time, because I've been getting them to add two shots of peppermint to my mocha since I first discovered Starbucks. Its to the point where I walk into the Starbucks near campus and hand the girl $4.61. She knows what to do from there.
2. The Sims 2. I love this game. When I sit down to play it, I better have the day or evening clear because I can't stop. It's always "ok, ten more minutes", next thing you know its 2AM. I first had the game on xbox, but when I broke up with the owner of the xbox I had to give it back. Boo. I now have the game for pc and its a million times better.
3. Laguna Beach. I am a creepy Laguna Beach fan. I'm on team LC, not Kristin, and I'm all for Rocky and Tessa and would gladly strangle Kendra given the chance. If you understand what I am talking about, hit me up for some quality "for drama just add water' talk.
4. Vox. Even if I don't update for a couple of days, chances are I've still been here, read all of the stuff in my neighbourhood, possinly commented, and even contemplated writting something. I love Vox. I don't know what I ever did with myself before I found it.
Audio: Share one of your favorite songs from 2006.
Never Ending White Lights - The Grace. I think that this will be my favorite song forever. This song came out in February/March and I am probably just as much, if not more in love with it now as I was then. I can't explain how much this song touches me. It's just so beautiful.
At the time it had the most meaning because it was the end of a relationship with someone that just wasn't for me, but since I'd been with them for nearly two years, it was very difficult to let go. We broke up, got back together, went on a break, broke up, got back together. And the relationship with absolutely terrible at the best of times. I could relate the words to everything I was feeling, and it made things almost euphoric.
You can feel a sigh of relief fall over the world, the holiday season is pretty much finished, and a new year is just around the corner. Naturally I have made myself a few resolutions. I'm not going to disclose them though, if on the off chance I do not succeed no one will have ever known and I can re-try my goal at my own discretion.
Christmas was good, I made out rather nicely, I got a new DVD player, and sound system for my car among many other things that I didn't know I needed or wanted. A great portion of what I got was something car related because everyone seems to be rooting for me to get my baby healthy again. I'm rather excited, my boyfriend's dad is a mechanic, he's going to show me how to do an oil change, change my windshiled whippers and install a new hood latch (both of which my boyfriend ordered for me through the parts department at work.) It's kind of funny, I knew that since I work a GM dealership we'd have to order in my Honda part, but I didn't know the hood latch would have to come all the way from Japan! I got it today and I'm excited to learn how to put it in.
Now, I'm all familied, gifted, and partied out so I'm looking forward to just kicking my feet up untill the weekend. My boyfriend's parents are having a get together on Friday night, which me, my dad and step mom are going to, and then my boyfriend's having a new years party. After that I don't think I'll be up for another party for a while.
I'm getting ready to go back to school, I feel useless when I'm just working part time and doing nothing else with my days.
Christmas starts for me tomorrow night (tonight, technically).
My boyfriend and I are booked up completely for the next four days, friend and family Christmas parties straight through boxing day, and then its back to work on Wednesday.
Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have a safe, enjoyable holiday with those you love.
This is the first time I've been home long enough to actually get on the computer in about a week. I spent the last four nights at my boyfriends, worked nine hours on Saturday, went to my work Christmas party on Saturday night and had a blast. I worked five hours Monday, Tuesday, and tonight.
My car went into storage last night. I don't really want to talk about it, but I guess I'm going to anyways. I can't afford to insure it. My dad was paying it before, a grad present that came with the car, I got six months. The laws for new drivers in British Columbia are retarded, and most definitely do not work in my favor. Along with that, there are so many problems with it, it's leaking in the trunk and from the passenger window, it's moldy, the passenger seat belt is broken, it wont hold in power stearing fluid, the hoods broken, the spedomiter only works half the time, I could go on, but I'm getting more depressed. My boyfriend's dad is storing it in his shop for me for the next few months, the two of them are going to gix it up for me. The insurance expired yesterday, and you better believe I was bawling my eyes out so hard I could barley see the entire ride up there.
I'm feeling like a bit of a failure lately, I'm horrible with money, and my final grades were posted the other night, and they are nothing at all to be proud of, nor are they anywhere near what I am capable of achieving.
Unfortunatly, I've hit a bit of a ruff patch. I'm hoping with the new year, I can turn a new leaf and pull myself back together. Right now I just feel so defeated.
Thanks for all the wishes of good luck on my exams, I feel very confident that I did well on them both. I can't wait for the final grades to be posted at the end of the week, even though I'm pretty sure there will pretty much just be straight B's.
I was so excited to finally be free, and then I woke up this morning with a cold. I feel like hell, I brought a tissue box to work and basically used it all. By the end of the night I was using my jacket as a pillow as I slept on the desk. I sounded horrible paging on the intercom my voice was all nasally, you could barely understand what I was trying to say. I'm really hoping that this is just a 24 hour kind of thing.
Although school is finished, I'm not completely free to just laze around and relax. There are so many things I need to get done during the break. I finally did my laundry today, it had been like two weeks, I literally had nothing to wear. I also need to clean my room so we can start painting, all of my christmas presents are currently shoved in a big drawer, those need to be wrapped, I also need to get the last bit of my shopping done. I'm also going to head over to the public library and take out all the books from next semesters english classes so I can get a head start on the readings. On top of all of that my bathroom is a disaster zone, and there are lots of other things I need to do around the house.
That and my work Christmas party is this Saturday, we're all super excited. It's going to be a blast.
Speaking of work, on Monday I asked my boss for a raise, since I've been working there almost a year and still making $8 an hour, which is minimum wage here. My boss said she would talk it over with the general manager, and then when I got to work today she came and told me that they were giving me my raise! I now make $9 an hour! I couldn't believe I got a dollar, I really only thought I would get 50 cents.
Three exams down, one to go.
I have been stuck on campus since about 11:30 this morning. My history exam was at noon. I have no doubt in my mind that I did really well on it, but my hand still hurts from all of the writing I had to do. The first 30% of it was choosing five out of ten terms to write 5-6 sentences on, and the remaining 70% of the exam was an essay, you chose one topic to write about. It took me the whole two hours to do, and when I left my right middle finger had a dent in it from where I was resting my pen. In fact, it still hurts when I try to write.
My Anthropology final is 7PM, so I have been interchanging sitting around with killing time and studying since about 2PM. Oh boy. I'm not all that confident about this test, there is a lot of information to go over, and the material is pretty difficult, but at this point I just want to get it over and done with so I can go home and sleep for three days to catch up on all the sleep I've lost out on over the last couple of weeks.
Show us something seasonal.
The snow! These are pictures of my trip to Whistler for my birthday last month. The first is a river we crossed over on our walk through the woods, the second is me standing on top of a snow back, and the last is of the chairlifts going up the mountain.
Two Exams down, two to go.
After my exam today I sold back most of my textbooks and made about $90. I then went to the mall to do some Christmas shopping (these two sentences are not as closely related as one might assume). I am happy to say that I am almost finished. I have presents for my boyfriend, step mom, dad, grandma and mom. I just have to get something for the best friend, one more thing for my dad, and if there's some money left over I have a couple more things that I would like to get for my boyfriend and a couple random family members I'm not entirely close with on my mom's side.
I'm not usually much of a Christmas person, in fact I've never really like it. I don't usually like holidays period because they always end up being more of an upset than joyous occasion, for various reasons I'd perfer not to get into.This year I think I just might come around. My boyfriend is the epitome of Christmas spirit, so not only is he determined to get me into it, I just might come around myself. We'll see.
What are the things in life that you're truly passionate about?
Submitted by Jess.
I don't have many hobbies, I read if that is considered one, but it's mainly something I do to keep my brain active. If there is one thing I am really passionate about it would be knowledge. I have always been a perfectionist and an overachiever, school/learning has just come natural to me. I'm not much of a people person, I don't tend to hover around large groups of people and I've never been good with casual conversation. I have always however, been more than delighted to sit in the back of a classroom scribbling down notes and working on assignments. Call me crazy but unless I leave it to the last minute, I actually find school work to be relaxing. I find something soothing about writting notes from a textbook on a subject I'm genuinley interested.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I am a nerd. I am a nerd, and I am proud.
