4/30/09 - quote

Do you want to go to the seaside?
I’m not trying to say that everybody wants to go
I fell in love at the seaside
She handled her charm with time and slight of hand
But I’m just trying to love you
In any kind of way
But I find it hard to love you girl
When you’re far away

- The Kooks

what makes me sad?

(this makes me sad. i'm fully alienating people right now. God talk the other day & now this? My bad, I'm sorry.)

4/29/09 - quote

"you taste just like glitter mixed with rock’n’roll"
— Lady Gaga

hello, we are typical girls

noodelsy - also. he's out of my league. what the HELL

me - IT COULD WORK
me- HELLO I AM TRYING TO GET A BASKETBALL TEAM CAPTAIN HERE

noodelsy - HELLO YOU ARE THE MOST AMAZING PERSON EVER
noodelsy - so there.

me - YOU'RE AMAZING TOO.
me - possibly more amazing than i am

noodelsy - lies and slander

me - NOT AT ALL.
me - you have cool hair.
me - i don't.
me - done.

noodelsy - i've also got mondo cleavage.

i'm getting political now

4/28/09 - quote

"It’s amazing how much time we spend thinking about what other people are thinking about us. Especially since other people are only thinking about what we are thinking about them."
— Ellen Degeneres

ENFP

a friend made me do one of those personality type tests last night, and i was actually quite shocked that the results actually sounded like me. Apparently I'm an ENFP, which essentially means that i am an "inspirer". and that journalist is a good career option for me and that's what i want to do so that excited me.

if anyone's interested, the test i did was here
and the "portraits" (type descriptions) are here

so do it if you have the time. it's kinda fun & seems pretty accurate. and it's a good time-killer. =] if you do do it, comment with what you get. i'm curious.

4/27/09

"There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ‘If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles."
- Ray Charles

(bible-thumping, i'm sorry. only just this one time, i promise.)

best job in the world.

i miss doing this so much. i miss the kids. i miss the co-workers. i miss my crazy boss. i even miss getting up at six am saturday mornings.
lifeguarding's great and all, but getting down there with the kids? watching them make it down the hill for the first time? it pretty much beats any high i've ever experienced. i can't wait till next winter so i can start doing this again. working with kids is me at my best, and i say that whole-heartedly. i want to get back to it. right now.

i win.

4/26/09 - quote

"And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. Now, now… Here’s looking at you kid.”
- Casablanca

inappropriate?

i don't think this ad is in very good taste, personally. considering the amount of actual suicides on the TTC... thoughts?

4/25/09 - quote

“ You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be. ”
— Janet Fitch

4/24/09 - quote

a day late, my bad.

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it ”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

pokemon 1

(more pokemon related things to come. pokemon is like breathing for me.)

hope?

(so don't give up. one day all this will be worth it.)

4/23/09 - quote

"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
- Kurt Vonnegut

i like lists - 1 bands

i like lists.
so every week i will write out a list.
this week's list is the bands i have seen live, in order.
??? = an opener that wasn't good enough for me to remember the name of.
this is in order of oldest to newest.
(opener / main act)
~

simple plan / avril lavigne
??? / jimmy eat world / green day
hello operator / hilary duff
the pretenders / the who
??? / the hives
the hives / maroon 5
??? / danny michel
creature / mika
??? / bloc party
the hives (canadian music week 2008)
tokyo police club (earth hour? new years? some free event.)
the johnstones / streelight manifesto
the bicycles (for CBC's metro morning)
??? / rides again / the trews
streetlight manifesto / less than jake / reel big fish
??? / illscarlett
ketch harbour wolves (free show)
ryan cross / crash parallel
??? / matt costa
the maine / metro station / good charlotte / boys like girls
hello operator / manafest
the trews (at the EX)
the trews (jam street party?)
sam roberts (sonicboom free show)
tokyo police club / angels & airwaves / weezer
the bicycles (sonicbooom free show)
hayden / fiest (massey show, not ACC)
the hold steady / the drive-by truckers
everest / wilco / neil young
dala / danny michel
social code / the trews
??? / the airborne toxic event

~~

best show: four way tie between weezer-holdsteady-mattcosta-bicycles(second time)
worst show: the trews @ jam street party. couldn't hear for shit. also, hello operator / manafest. what a fucked up combination...
show i am ashamed to still love: green day. but hot damn it was awesome.
show i can't believe i went to: hilary duff. wtf.

i love concerts

silly texans...

4/22/09 - quote

• Seth: So, what's the GP, RA?"
• Ryan: I have no idea what you just said.
• Seth: "Game plan, Ryan Atwood
• Ryan: You're just using initials now?"
• Seth: Yeah, it saves time.
• Ryan: Well not if you have to translate.
• Seth: GP.
• Ryan: Game plan?
• Seth: Good point

- The OC (a show which I still actively mourn)

artica

hi, this is artica.
she's my best friend.
she's eight. and has had breast cancer twice.
guinea pigs are supposed to live to be three.
yea. =] <3

4/21/09 - quote

The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. ”
— Ernest Hemingway

4/20/09 - quote

“ Well, I know you find it hard to smile, to keep your happiness in style. You pass in silence in the morning, you know you shouldn't ever try to ignore me. ”
- The Wallflowers

music snobbery? or plain fact?

So, I will admit that at times (often times...) I am a huge music snob.
I can't help it, but my music tastes generally are just... better.

Despite all this, when it was announced that "Tinted Windows" was going to be a band, I was semi-excited.
Why?
Because the four members of Tinted Windows are...
1) An Ex-Hanson
2) An Ex-Smashing Pumpkin
3) An Ex-Fountains of Wayne
4) An Ex-Cheap Trick.

And I LOVE The Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne (Guilty pleasure) & Cheap Trick (Another guilty pleasure). And I figured that maybe the Hanson brother's voice got decent since he hit puberty.
I had high hopes.

I was wrong.
The music is catchy, but my fourteen year old brother could write better hooks & lyrics.
I, for one, am severely disappointed.

But my question is: Am I being a music snob? Or do they actually suck?
Lemme know....
(LISTEN HERE! -YouTube-)

4/19/09

“ We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
– The Pigman

when I "grow up"...

when I "grow up"...

I want to go to every single concert I can afford with my husband, rocking a huge baby bump.
I want to have a beautiful son, who doesn't feel the same sort of pressure I did growing up
I want to write things that change people.
I want to drive my son to school and kiss my husband every morning.
I want to pack them both lunches with pre-peeled oranges.
I want to tuck my son in every night, and promise against monsters under the bed.
I want to make love (not have sex... make love) to my husband after our son's asleep.
I want to play with my son in the park every weekend, and buy ice cream from trucks, and run around.
I want to laugh with my family till it hurts.
I want to have a dog that'll grow up with my family.
I want to have a group of friends that lasts a lifetime
I want to be happy
I want to have good music to listen to, and good people to love.

Is that too much to ask?

4/18/09 - quote

""You can spend minutes, days, hours, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put pieces back together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened, or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on""
- Tupac

perks

- the perks of being a wallflower

overwhelmed?

school is insane.
i have a chemistry test monday that was assigned yesterday
i have a math assignment monday that was assigned yesterday
i have a history paper assigned tuesday due today
i have a french test assigned tuesday due today
i have a media assignment tuesday assigned today

it's too much. in addition to all this, i have work both days this weekend.
i also have to sleep and eat somewhere in there, and i'd kind of like to be social.
but i can't because of all this work. and it's going to kill me. very slowly.

on a slightly more positive note, my header is amazing. i think.
thoughts?

umm... what else. i am currently at lunch, but not eating because the line is too long. i will eat once there is no more line. line = bad. bad line.

i am overtired, yes i am. Survivor last night (my favourite show) was SO disappointing. my favourite guy, Brendan, was voted off because his alliance mates are backstabbing assholes, so fucking Coach, who i want to punch in the face every time he comes on, is still in the motherfucking game. what the hell?! cough...

but that is all. for now. imma gonna go eat.
peace holmes.

4/17/09 - quote

"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened."
- Douglas Coupland

friends part two

melissa - what makes it city based romance a city based romance ??

me - A City Based Romance is a Romance that takes place in the city. Cities are a lot more romantic than not cities. I think

megan - there is city
megan - and then there is not city
megan -THERE IS NOTHING ELSE

me - actually, i've heard that outside of the city, there's just this barren wasteland, with tumbleweeds flying all over the place... and nothing else. just death.

megan - death and amish people

melissa - true, cities are more romantic, i think. BUT he visited me in the vast and barren land of aurora and it defiantly didnt spoil the mood

me - really? you guys had fun without electricity? or running water?
well i guess how being dark and dirty would be fun.. or something.

david - whoahhhhhh cool the hatred on the amish people. i happen to be very close to some amish friends i have
david - and that's a complete lie
david - although i do often wonder how melissa gets by without electricity.
david - and how it feels to have six moths of day and six months of night

me - melsa, how's your pet polar bear doing?

melissa - i am like 45 min north of toronto, i don't live in nunavut ok! and we straighten our hair by llama

me - ...there's things north of toronto that aren't nunavut? i think you might be a bit confused melissa. and by a bit, i mean incredibly confused.

megan - llama?

melissa - as in we straighten our hair by llama. it chews, and we brush. it works incredibly well
melissa - and franco is fine, thank you cass.

david - whoahhhhhhhhh llama straightening hair?
david - i dont understand that
david - can you please draw a diagram for me?
david - and i am glad that franco is well. he was looking a little sickly last time i saw him

4/16/09 - quote

"If for one minute you think you’re better than a sixteen year old girl in a Greenday t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favourite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about."
- Gerard Way

minime.

give it away

4/15/09 - quote

"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."
- The Lion King

best thing ever?

- www.smbc-comics.com

i'm a genius.

carson - anyways, i know that you'd be there for me

me - of course i would be! don't you worry, you're stuck with me for life. I'm kinda like a STD... but a good one.
me - i should never be allowed to talk...

carson - yeah...
carson - don't use the STD reference again...

4/14/09 - quote

“Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.”
- augusten burroughs

my friends rock.

megan - oh btw, i got preggo in august, so the baby's due soon.

melissa - SHIT you dont how unbelievably hard it is to find maternity wedding dresses.

megan - pfft, weddings. i am my own baby mama.

me - CAN I THROW YOU A BABY SHOWER??
it'd be jammin'
me - who's the baby daddy though? better not be one of those jonas boys... i warned you about them...

megan - YES YOU CAN
megan - and the father is....
megan - ...not a jonas boy. but i am still ashamed of myself.

me - Oh God... It's David isn't it?
I always suspected, what with you two sneaking off at lunch and all....

melissa - SHIT
melissa - DAVID
melissa - SHIT

david - sweeeet i always wanted a kid

** SILENCE **

david - ...just thought i'd lend a stereotypical male view to the conversation...

a busted city