Procrastination

So it is 2:26am as I sit here writing this blog post for you all. Just another way of me procrastinating. So far I have completed two exams last week, one which I am very disappointed in and the other was okay. Then today, or technically yesterday I completed two more exams, one at 4:00pm and one at 6:30pm. And guess what! I have another exam at 9:45am! So what am I still doing up? I am studying...or pretending to at least.

After my last exam of the day I took a break and chilled, meaning eating a toasted bagel with cream cheese and strawberry jam and cuddling with my boyfriend. And then I pretended to study while surfing the net until floor meeting. After floor meeting there was 15 more minutes of cuddle time before curfew where I did some more internet stuff, saved all the documents I wanted to read for my history exam tomorrow. I then set about trying on my Halloween costume, after roping my roommate into doing the same, I finished up an energy drink as I tidied up a bit and then once again attempting to study I showed my wonderful roommate, Kathryn a bunch of videos from my first year at University. And so I have wound up here.....but honestly....how am I supposed to study?! I have already studied so much my head may explode....actually I think it may already have and now it is like a deflated balloon.....I can't fill it again. Yay for History that requires a lot of memorization. Oh well, I'm not tired so I will still get a good amount of studying in (too bad I'm a bit sick....thanks roommate...I had given it to you for a reason!). Actually I doubt I will sleep tonight, I may have to drink some Orange Pekoe tea (my favorite) or maybe another energy drink (my second full one in my life! within 5hours!) but at least my head will contain some knowledge that will be gone by 11am tomorrow!

So how are your exams going? How do you study?

Stable Unstability

Due to the lack of internet connection and time I have not been able to keep up-to-date on my lovely blog here even though I have had many that I would have loved to write. But finally I am in the midst of unpacking my room in residence, preparing for my second year of University and finally adding some stability to my life.

Over this summer I have done a fair amount of traveling, spent multiple nights in several different places, even settle down in several places for a while...only to have to get up, move and have to settle down again. And over the course of this summer I have finally discovered that I actually NEED some source of stability in order to survive.

I made many good memories and had a lot of fun throughout the summer but for some reason....as I lay on my bed writing this post....all I can really think about was how stressful and tiring this summer was.

Now time to start school...and for some reason I feel that it might be more relaxing then the summer even though I am taking 5 courses, 1 lab and choir each semester.

When I Was a Kid...

Pluto was actually a planet

Oreo's only had one flavour (what's with the vanilla?)

All meals were bought and made by mom

Popcorn came only two ways, salted or plain, no fancy flavourings

My hardest decision was which friend was going to come over for a sleepover

$20 as a birthday or Christmas present made me the richest person in the world

We played cassette tapes and had tape recorders, none of these cds, mp3 players or ipods

There was no such thing as blue-ray or dvd’s, just video tapes

We played hopscotch, hula-hoop, jump-rope and actually played baseball instead of using a Wii, playstation, gamecube etc.

We used film in our cameras instead of digital...one chance was all you got and then you’d have to hope you got a good shot

No one worried weather Ernie and Bert were gay...they were brothers or close friends on a permanent sleepover

When I was a kid the world was simple and innocent, much like my life.....so can you remember some of what life was like when you were a kid? How has it changed?

Ways to Amuse Yourself While Working at a Blueberry Stand

#1 Count cars........one car...........(three hours later) two cars

#2 Read a book (yes I am getting paid $10 an hour to handle money, blueberries but mostly to read)

#3 Count people.....but silently....they don’t always like being counted

#4 Lure Yoda to the fruit stand and pick the burs off him

#5 Play “I Spy” with yourself...I’m never gunna guess what I’m looking at!

#6 Make up excuses to have to go and drive the Gator (the golf cart type vehicle)

#7 Write a blog post on how to amuse yourself while working at a blueberry stand

Yep.....Thats what I've been doing for most of the summer! And did your summer go? Or how is it still going?

Ways to Amuse Yourself While Working On a Blueberry Packing Line

#1 Count the Berries......hmmm....there MAY be too many to that up for long...

#2 Count how many stems and bad berries the person beside you missed! Haha...ha...oh...its not that funny when they do it to you too....

#3 Make shapes and designs out of the blueberries...preferable if the next person in line is your friend

#4 Make hearts and x’s and o’s for the next person in line....generally only good if it’s your boyfriend or girlfriend...otherwise refer to #3 otherwise it could be awkward.....

#5 Find a bunch of berries with stems and put them in a row for your friend down the line and watch as the rush to try to get them all! (I’m so nice ;P)

#6 Sing or hum Phantom of the Opera quietly...who cares if you forget part or awful at it,no one can really hear you over the hum of all the machines anyways

#7 Replay cartoons, movies or TV shows in your head....just remember to stay focused as well

And thats what I have been doing for part of the summer, what about you?

Quickie

Okay so this blog post will have to be a quickie as I quickly finish up all my online business in the Starbucks of Safeway. I really should write my blogs beforehand so that when I get a chance like this I can actually post them all online.

I have now been on Vancouver Island for one week to the day and have had a cold/flu a week from tomorrow. Yet I haven't let me get that down! I have walked down to the beach on four days and have the sun burns to prove it, but the sun tan as well! I am going to have such a dark tan by the end of this summer.... :D I have also walked to church...a very long walk but that is a story for another time.

Of course what I am really looking forward to is Monday and Tuesday. On Monday my boyfriend is finally going to becoming to BC and I am going to see him and be spending the rest of the summer (and someday the rest of my life? :P) with him. I also will be heading to my future roommates place for a birthday party as well as spending the next day watching cartoons with my boyfriend and just hanging out and catching up.

So many things have happened this summer that have gone astray from how I wanted them to got. but in the end everything has worked out! Yay!!

So how is your summer going?

Quirky

I am quirky...or at least thats what I like to call my self. I am not weird or crazy, I'm just quirky. Random little things make me ridiculously happy, like blowing bubbles, biking through puddles and guess what? Scrubbing floors. I love to scrub, not mop, scrub, floors. I don't know what is so thrilling and exciting about getting down on my knees with a rag and a bucket of warm soapy water but I just love it.

Another quirk, there are certain times of night where I can't control my tongue. For example my boyfriend Jesse often phones me early in the morning as he walks to work and usually I am able to form coherent sentences and have an actual conversation....but sometimes I am not. Take last night for instance. I wasn't able to sleep so I watched Mamma Mia (which I loved by the way!) for the second time in the past couple days, on my laptop, talked to Jesse for the first time and then went to bed.....the second and third times he called I was so tired that I lost control of my tongue and started talking about random things from the movie that I had watched, the second time realizing part way through what was going on and spent about 3 minutes trying to shut myself up before I embarrassed myself further.

I also have this bad habit of not being able to remember sayings and metaphors once telling my sister that she was "off her cracker" instead of off her rocker and that she'd be the life of me instead of the death of me.

I have many other little quirks that just add to who I am. Yes, perhaps I am a crazy but you know what, I am unique and I'd like to see you try to make a copy of me...actually no I wouldn't, that might be a bit scary......

So what are some quirks that you have? What makes you unique?