This week in a nutshell...

Yesterdy I was helping Jules pack up her room and fit everything into our little car, there will be just enought room for the two of us and mom to drive her down to Philly tomorrow... I'm not looking forward to the 9 hour drive, or saying goodbye to my little sister. But it will be fun helping her set up her room, saying hi to friends and family, and meeting her new roommate...

Last year, I got into a routine where I didn't miss her when she was gone, but when she came home we fell right back into being best-friends... I LOVE my sister, and we do ALOT together, but I don't really notice when people are missing in my life. I feel like a huge bitch saying that, because I do love them, and it's not like I don't miss them, I just don't notice... Maybe it's because I don't mind being alone...

Ayway, yesterday the bookstore called and my copy of Mockingjay is FINALY in! And just in time too, I didn't want to go on the trip with out it! I've heard that it's really good, but that i's sad and a lot of people die... which is to be expected, but Suzanne Collins better not let me down, the first two books were AMAZING!!!

I literally did a happy dance a la John Green, and sang "My book is in! My book is in!" I am SUCH a nerd!

Today I'm going to pick it up from the store, as well as run some last minute errands with Dad. Including buying a new GPS so we don't get lost!

Our car has been a little unreliable of late so yesterday daddy showed me how to fix the battery (which has been the biggest trouble) and I feel like a proper Grease monkey! Let's just hope nothing else goes wrong, though because I'm a bit of a one-trick-pony... and I do NOT want to get stranded in the States... Mom's a Yank, so if anything goes wrong I'll defect to her, but like my dad I am a proud Canuk, so I'll just have to play the foriegner card!

Well, my keybord is acting bizzare,(and I've run out of things to say) so I think I shall wrap this post up!


"Jai Guru Deva, Om. Nothing's gonna change my world, nothing's gonna change my world."

*edit* I have corrected spelling mistakes and re-posted this twice allready, my keybord is most definately throwing a hissy fit, so I appologise if it's difficult to read.. but I am not going to correct anything else... I'm tired lol

Werewolf girl is bed-ridden... Write?

So, I have come to the conclusion-- after realising, on several occasions, that I get sick near a full moon-- that I must be a werewolf... This may seem bizarre, especially since I have no wolf-like symptoms, nor do I really enjoy werewolf lore. However, I have been told on atleast one ocasion that I resemble a werewolf, something about my eyes... I dunno. I have also taken a few of those oh-so-acurate Facebook quizzes in which I have been dubed the Werewolf personality. Add to that that last night (exactly one week before the Full Moon) I fell ill. And my imagination is kinda in hyperdrive.

I'm feeling pretty terrible today, and for the time-being I have put myslef on bed rest. While I am lying around doing nothing I have decided that I *might*, just might, try to get back to writing my novel... I miss my characters, I feel guilty about leaving them in limbo, and I feel like it's something I should realy try to get back to. I don't want to neglect it forever, until I am old and my biggest regret is that I never even finished my first novel.

Don't get me wrong, I have no desire to become an author, and I wouldn't mind if I never published... But I want to atleast have the satisfaction of finishing what I started. Plus, if I am ever going to have the bragging rights of 'writing a novel' I should atleast be able to say that I have a completed manuscript, not a partial draft...

That being said, I have only promised to try, not to do, and DEFINATELY not to finish, I am nowhere near that point.

Anyway...


"Do you believe in life after love?/ I can feel something inside me saying/ I really don't think you're strong enough/ No!"

If I could TURN back TIME...

That's right everybody!!! The Harry Potter Exhibit went smashingly! If I had a Time-Turner I'd relive it again, and again, and again! Thing is... I *DO* have a Time-Turner a brand-spanking new one purchased today by moi in the gift shop!!! I was reeeeeeaaaaaallllllllllllly tempted to buy the fancy proper gold-plated metal-alloy necklace but it was $60, so I got the $11 plastic one, complete with bonus sticker set! And of course, since we went to church before I *tried* to do my hair nice-ish, but for once in my life, I was completely fine with it frizzing out, in fact, while at the centre I actively encouraged it to bush up... I mean who WOULDN'T want to look like Hermione while at the HP exhibit? Especially while rockin' a knock-off Time-turner! XD

Since buying it this afternoon though, I've realised something... It's damn lucky I'm NOT Hermione, and I DON'T have magical gifts... because I just keep spinning, and spinning, and SPINNING it!! I mean think of the consequences if it had been real! Also my little brother only knows the Unforgivable spells and Expelliarmus... so if magic were real there would be quite the body count around that boy...
During the car-ride there I read some more from my copy of The Hunger Games, andI have to admit, I'm REALLY liking it!!! I think I mentioned in an earlier post, that I had heard it was good, and bought both it and it's sequel with only a cusory glance at the back of the book... So I wasn't entirely prepared for the FEEL of the book. I knew what it was going to be ABOUT, but I had no idea what it would be LIKE... Does that make any sense?

When I was reading the back of the book "North America" "Panem" and a few other words jumped out at me, and being a big Pre-historical Fiction dork I took it to mean it was going to be set in North America BEFORE it was known as North America, turns out it's AFTER what's left! o.0 You can imagine my surprize the first time I read the word "electricity"...

Now, normally I am not all that into distopian... anything, really. But hey, I had paid for the books, the cover was already starting to get all jacked-up... and I had promised myself I'd give it a shot. I mean, all those people I admire couldn't be wrong, could they? The writing style was easy, to follow, the charaters were both relateable and likeable... and I had already started.

And I am SO glad I did! I haven't even gotten to the Games part, but it is so good. I am really looking forward to finishing it! (and starting Catching Fire)

So if anybody is out there reading this and you aren't sure wether or not to read it. Read it. Even if you don't think you like distopian fantasy... It feels very much modern and in the now, while also being mysterious, and unbelievable... In other words, it's more interesting then fiction writin in our time, but it's not so different that the average schmuck, like me, can't get in to it.

Well, this post is getting rather long, so I guess I'll just end it right here. With my tradition of quoteing whatever song is stuck in my head.



"If I could turn back time/ If I could find a way./ I'd take back those words that would hurt you/ And You'd stay"

p.s. I also bought a Chocolate frog. It was crunchier than I expected. I got Quirrel

Toronto's on baby!

So we are FOR SURE going to the HP exhibit tomorrow afternoon! We are leaving early, going to church in Toronto, dropping my sister off at her friends house then mom the boys and I are going, while dad hits up a job-site... This is so exciting! It's actually happening!!!

Over the years I've gotten used to dissapointment as my family has a tendency to make grandiose plans that never end up happening for one reason or another... So the fact that it's the night before, and we are still going is, like, uber exciting...

Did I mention I'm excited?

I hope it lives up to my expectations, and doesn't dissapoint... I guess I will find out soon enough :/ I hope I get sorted into the right house! :P


"I'm a Hufflepuff/ And I'm super tough/ Gonna take all those death eaters down/ Guitar practicing/ Quidditch champion/ Even got a lightning bolt scar/ I might be a wizard rock star"

Take Me Away...

I'm stir crazy, and I need to get away... I think I just heard my parents have a money fight about how I don't have a job...
I'm going to see a movie with my friend Robin, and I can't wait to get out for a while...
Tomorrow we are hoping to go as a family to see the Harry Potter exhibit in Toronto while it's still here, so hopefully that goes well :)
I really want to get a DFTBA Mystery shirt but I can't seem to get PayPal to work... hopefully my dad and I can figure it out before they run out... I can always count on my dad.
Next friday is my best friends "19th" birthday party... In as much as she'll be at the other end of the province for her real one and she is celebrating here before she leaves.. Later that weekend the family is hoping to go to Tobermory, which is probably my favourite place I've ever been this side of the 'Pond'!
Then the week after that we take my sister back to school in Pennsylvania... I can't even imagine what it will be like with her gone. Even though we did this last year.

"Take me away,/Take me far away from here/ I will run with you/ Don't be afraid/ Navigate and I will steer/ Into the sun, we will run"

Today turned out nothing like I was expecting...

So the cat I'm sitting tried to kill mr, the camp I'm running had one kid, I didn't go to the movies with my bestfriend because my phone is dumb, and I didn't buy R2, or finish BTTF...

I DID however have a danceparty with my brother, write a goofy story, vacume and do laudry. But most importantly, I went to Chapters and bought some books. I ALMOST bought R2 but when I got there they also had Chewy and I couldn't decide. That and my mother asked me to buy a book for Grandma's birthday because she didn't have any money on her. But I'll definately go back sometime soon and get BOTH! ;D

I ended up buying The Hunger Games, and Catching Fire because I've heard good things about them and wanted to give it a try. They sound interesting, and worst comes to worst I only read them once...

Anyway.

"He's climbing in your window, snatching your people up/ tryin to rape 'em/ so y'all better hide your kids, hide your wife/ (hide your kids, hide your wife)/ hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husbands, cuz they rapin errybody out here!"

I seriously want to kill my stupid phone...

and I can't even afford a new one!

"We could use a good pilot/ A pilot like you/ Don’t turn your back on your friends now/ We’re taking heavy fire"

I EFFING HATE MY PHONE!!!!!!!!

It doesn't work, and ruins EVERYTHING! I missed an opertunity to go out with my best friend! It NEVER works when I need it!!!!! I'm so mad I just want to cry!!!! FML seriously! FML

Crazy story I wrote with my brother...

Here is a lovely story my brother and I wrote by cutting up stories and putting them together in a new way... It gets sillier towards the end with the adition of Superheroes, the Star Wars (acapella) song [from Youtube] and Harry Potter (with a pinch of AVPM... Enjoy!


Jack fell down and Jill came and broke his crown.
Tumbling after.
Went up the hill, Jack and Jill, to fetch a pail of water.
Mary went to catch the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed a horse.
The Otter thought it was all in fun, round and round the mullberry bush.
And everywhere that mary went, there was an old Lady who swallowed a fly.
Perhaps she'll die.
Along came a spider to school one day --All the kings horses, and all the kings men frightened Miss Muffett away.
Little Miss Muffett laughed and played, which was against the rules.
Pop! Goes the weasle.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. And everywhere that Mary went, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!
It made the children laugh and play. And everywhere that Mary went it followed her to school, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
Perhaps she'll die.
Mary had a litle lamb, which was against the rules. Little lamb, I don't know why she swallowed a fly.
Perhaps she'll die.
And everywhere that Mary went she swallowed a dog to catch the cat, who sat down beside her. (On her tuffett)
The Lamb was sure to go, eating her curds and whey.
Hagrid had a pet Spiderman, and everywhere that Mary went... Voldemort killed him.
Kiss a wookie, spins a web... Look in the sky!
Is it a bird, Rumbleroar?
Three unforgivable curses, Mary went, one way ticket to Azkaban!
Mad-eye Moody kicked a droid. Severus Snape flew off through an astoroid.
Dumbledore climbs up walls. He survived Harry Potter. He can fly.
It's Superman!
(to catch the spider)
Crucio! Spiderman... We love it!
Mary went Avada Kedavra!
She died of course.

Charlie St. Cloud, R2D2, BTTF3, and the cat that tried to kill me

So I'm going to see Charlie St. Cloud tonight with my bestfriend, AND since it's cheap tuesday, I might splurge and buy the R2D2 doll at the bookstore across the street from the theatre! I am more excited about this then I probaby should be... especially since the bulk of the excitement comes from R2.

Sometime later this week I need to finish my Back To The Future marathon with my sister, I finished part II but she gave up and went to bed about half-way through... She missed the alternative reality in which Biff is all-powerfull!! But there is noway I am letting her miss part III it is my absolute FAV!

Finally the cat that tried to kill me... first let me shower up while the bathroom is free... Mmmn, that's better. it's freaking hot outside, and even though the shower barely works it was just what I needed.

Anyway, killer cat... So one thing you should probably know about me, I am DEATHLY afraid of falling. Like, heights don't bother me, it's the idea I could fall that does the trick. For instance I was more afraid the last time I got on and off an escalator then the time I climbed to the top of the Eiffle Tower, or walked accross the bridge overlooking Montmerency Falls. This is also why I cried like a baby when I rode a big Ferris Wheel, but airplanes are no problem.

So, as you may or may not know from yesterday's post, one of the things I have going on this week (that will hopefully keep my mom content) is cat-sitting for my neighbour... Well, this cat is one of the fattest, nicest cats I've ever known. Normally. However today, when I went to give him his breakfast, he thought it would be a good idea to be waiting for me on the top of the reading loft... The loft is basically a second floor, except it's only above the living room, and you need to climb a ladder to get there. And I HATE ladders. So Oreo was just chillin up there, and wouldn't come down, meowing pitifully all the while. So I decide to climb to the top of the ladder and see if he'll come over to me...

He didn't. So I plucked up all the courage I could muster and climbed all the way up, and on to the loft.

Now he comes over to me, once I'm allready up there and terrified! Grrreaatt..

(On a side note Kid #2's mom just called. He isn't coming today or Friday anymore... But she's still going to pay me. Weird, but I'm not complaining)

So anyway, Oreo comes over to me, and starts rubbing up against me, normally this behaviour would be rewarded... but I was sitting at the precipice of an ominous ledge, or at least that's how I saw it... I swear I thought he was trying to push me off, and I was getting ready to kill him. Instead I just pushed him away and started to freak out saying things like, "If you push me, and I fall and die, I SWEAR I am going to hurt you!" Civil I know.

So there I was, stuck (and yes I was stuck, my biggest problem is getting back on the ladder once I am up. If I go face first I will most definately fall, if I crawl backwards I fear I will miss the steps completely and plummet to my death --Off a 8 foot ledge-- but to my death none the less!) and Oreo the murderer was trying to PUSH me off while I was trying to get myself safely on the ladder. I Literally contemplated calling my sister to come rescue me, only the front door was locked... and she is a whole lot braver than I and would probably have laughed at me.

After a few minutes I FINALLY got to the ladder without dieing, and slowly go down one rung at a time, calling Oreo as I went down, I got about halfwaly down, the perfect distance to reach up and grab the cat, without falling, but not being so far down that he would fall on me... When the damn cat climbs down the ladder all by himself!!!

Tomorrow i am going TO KILL HIM!!! Only, not because he needs to be healthy and alive if I want to get paid. But the temptation is definately there.

"Just like Beggar’s Canyon back home/ Shooting womp rats in my T-16/ It’s not over yet, this is it boys/ Ready for anything"

I've got camp all week... HELP?!

So this week I'm babysitting my brother and one of his friends for four hours every afternoon. And I can't just let them play on their own, because I marketed it as a camp... I jus didn't get as many kids as I was hoping... I've got some fun ideas, but I don't know how well they will work until I try them. (Not to mention how long they will last!) At least they are sweet kids and I am getting paid!!

I don't know when where or how...

but someday I am going to marry Jason Munday...

I feel better already!

I have cat-sitting, camp, and girls night out with one of my best friends to look forward to tomorrow. Not to mention, the mural I've been planning all summer is finally done. I feel acomplished, and I hope my mother does too. I feel like she is at the root of but also the solution to the angst I've been feeling recently. She means well, and is just trying to light a fire under my lazy ass. She wants me to live up to my potential, and I guess it's flattering --in a way--, but the way she does it makes me feel like she's judging me, and I'm not living up to her expectaions.

"Someday I'll fly away, leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends?"

Watching Back To The Future to get me out of this funk...

I am also sad because I missed BOTH of Sir Paul McCartney's Toronto shows...

Sometimes I just want to cry. I'm trapped

These four walls can be so sufficating sometimes. I can't stand it in this house. Not because I have a shitty family life, because I don't. My parents are still married and more impressively still love each other. I get along just fine with my siblings. We don't have much money, but generally we live a happy, comfortable life. But sometimes my mother drives me crazy. Her mood swings give me whiplash, and she does these little things that just get under my skin. Like chooseing a family photo for her Facebook DP, that just so happens to be not only VERY unflattering to me, but the thumbnail is literally ONLY of me! What makes a picture of your daughter, at one of her heaviest points (when she has allready told you not to post pictures of her) a good choice for your profile?

Steam and Creativity

I created this blog so I could release some steam, and occasionally post something creative and/or productive that isn't relevent to my other blog.