I should start getting good at updating again. I started this blog so I would have a daily diary when mine ran out of pages, and I'm doing AWFUL so far. Time to get started again. Every night before bed, I will update about my day. It's official. Let's do this. Right now I am waiting for my 6000 songs to transfer onto my laptop ... this may take a while, so I should paint my nails and/or colour my hair.

Looking right nasty after being outside in the sweaty heat ...

I have found it

EEEEEEEEEEE

I remember LOVING this when I was eight. It has everything - wizards, one-eyed cats, flying gnomes, and cows that are on fire. The best thing ever for an eight-year-old who loves horses ... especially horses with horns on their foreheads.

Also, I finished one dread fall at last, haha.

I made this hat for my friend:

Because she wanted to dress as the Madhatter for something. I don't really get what it was for really, but I told her to send me a picture of the whole ensemble. I wish she had given me a bit more notice though, because I could have done way better on the hat! I would have added some ribbon ... ah well, too late now, and she was quite happy with it.

Then today I went to the circus (I did research on this one, as far as I can tell there are no scandals involving animal abuse since 2003, so I think they're pretty good to their creatures and they did seem happy). And after the circus, Emilee, Jen, Chris and Jackson went for a drive through the countryside and watched two storms that were coming from either side of us. It was pretty epic and my sister got some pictures that I can hopefully steal from her and post on here. After the storms quieted down, it kept raining pretty hard so we came back down and I put my dirty muddy countryside legs in the puddles (which were surprisingly extremely warm).

Hahahaha my legs got so gross and muddy xD

DURP DURP DURP

Off to a good start...

I finally was able to go to the post office and pick up my hair (the postman is afraid of dogs and won't come to the door to deliver if my dog is outside, and I've been too busy with other things to go and get it). Here is the beginnings of a wicked new set of falls! I only have about 13 dreads made so far ... I like to have about 30-35 dreads on each of my falls, so there is still a lot of work to do. I don't really like fresh made dreads ... I can never make them smooth right off the bat ... luckily after a couple of wears they kind of loosen and smooth themselves out. But when they are brand new ... ugh, they feel so scratchy and hard and lumpy. At least these ones are going to look awesome and match my pretty new hair colour:

(please excuse the greasiness, we don't have AC at work)

This is the band that I can't get enough of this week:

One of the main things I look for in a favourite band is how danceable the music is. The lyrics also have a lot to do with it. Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to find dance music that has really good lyrics. Fortunately, the Knife has both good dance beats and really interesting lyrics. I'm not exactly sure what they mean a lot of the time, but they sure are some lyrics.

Also, my dread hair got here a while ago, but the postman didn't want to come up to our house to deliver it because of my dog, haha. So tomorrow I have to go and get it. And tonight I have to colour my hair a nice, violent purple colour. Yes, VIOLENT.

BLOG NUMBER 50!!!!!

Today I went to the river and found a frog!! He had a cool blue spot on his head. I caught it and showed it off to everyone. But since I hadn't brought my camera, I had to set it free. So no picture for you :(

Then tonight I went to see Avatar: The Last Airbender. I think I would reccomend it. It was pretty darn epic ... a little bit corny at some bits and I had to laugh during thsoe bits, but the rest of it was quite good. Nice and action packed and only one single five second scene of romance which makes at least 4/5 stars in my books. Romance is BORING.

Oh one more thing to document: I finally finished Heavy Rain. Now I can add it to the not so extensive list of video games I've completed.

Super Mario 64
Kirby 64
Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker
Yoshi's Story (haha)
HEAVY RAIN yayayayay.

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY WALK INTO MORDOR





(I made it through 9/12 hours of a LotR extended edition marathon.)


(That is an EXTREMELY long time for me to sit.)

(Stupid, fat Hobbit.)

Spontaneous piercings FTW

Before:

After:

I'm on my laptop so the photos aren't really cropped very well, but I got my forward helix done today. We were downtown for the Canada Day Parade and what not and that is where my favourite piercing/tattoo studio is and I decided to go on in and get a new piercing that I had been considering for a long time. I love it, I think it looks so pretty!

And the two best floats were ...

The parade was long and kind of lame and boring after a short while, but I had nothing else to do today and they gave us candy even though we're "way too old." Pff, too old for candy, what a load of bull ...

BABY GOAT

And the duck that was bigger than him!

And the inchworm I found when we went back home and had a campfire!

Ahahaha, it turned out to be a pretty fun day. It has been SO WINDY these days though. I HATE wind and I wish it weren't windy so it would be just HOT, BEAUTIFUL weather like it's SUPPOSED to be this time of year.

Yesterday was pretty rad too, I went over to my friend Cassie's house and had a couple drinks before we went out to watch the Canada Day fireworks (which were extremely lame this year, or maybe I just missed all the good parts because Cassie had had a couple of drinks extra before I came and didn't quite have her head and I had to keep her out of trouble ...). Haha, oh boy drunk people. A kid came up to me asking for a hug and I was like, "Whoa ... what grade are you in?" Turns out he was in grade ten and he thought it was SO BADASS that he had a tattoo of some girly Chinese lettering on his arm. Well, whatever floats your boat little one.

Well, camping turned out to be a no go ... I wasn't really wanting to go in the first place but didn't feel like fussing about it in my blog because that would be lame, but I have my reasons for deciding in the end to just stay home.

Anyway, I went to my friend Sarah's eighteenth birthday tonight (happy birthday chikie chick!). I met some cool people while eating supper there, fun time. I love meeting people hehe. And I got to ride home in a convertible with one of the new friends I made named Ryan. He has the same last name as me, little weird, but not surprising since my last name is so ridiculously common. He was a pretty cool guy.

The reason I came home so ridiculously early is because they were all going bar-hopping and I'm still the youngin in the group. Sigh ... one more month and then I can finally join them! Sheesh ... Being the last person to reach drinking age is pretty lame ...

So yeah, came home early and ordered some new hair for dread falls since I changed the colour of my hair from pink now. I just got some platinum blonde and then a bunch of different colours to mix in with it. I think the plan for my hair, since I probably need to get a slightly more "normal" hairstyle for working in a salon, is to let it go back to light blonde and just change sections of it crazy colours. Then I will have my blonde falls and I can mix in whatever colour my hair is at the time in with them! I know, I know, I'm so clever, right? So next week I hope it's rainy, so I have an excuse to be inside backcombing and steaming my new hair into dreads.

Also while being bored early in the evening, I did the Wikipedia Hitler Hunt. I think my friend Lincoln made this up, where you start on any page and keep clicking links until you wind up with Hitler. So this is for you, Lincoln, but you probably will never see it. I started with "Tecktonik", then clicked glowsticking > rave > fog machine > glycerol > lipid > lipid signaling > biosynthesis > antibiotic > Ancient Greek > Hellenistic Civilization > Alexander the Great > Polis > Archaic Greece > political philosophy > capital (economics) > leadership > violence > genocide > the Holocaust > Nazi Germany > Adolph Hitler.

And that is what I do when there is nothing to do. Haha, if you have nothing to do, you should do the Wikipedia Hitler Hunt and let's see what you can come up with and how many clicks it takes you to make it to Hitler. :P

Okay, okay, THIS will probably be my last post before going camping. I just had to document this.

Yes ... I do, in fact, follow Canada's Next Top Model ... and today at work, guess who came in?

Last season's runner up, Linsay Willier! I was working fitting rooms, and she came in with a few dresses to try on. I thought she looked familiar, but couldn't figure out where I knew her from ... I assumed I had maybe just seen her in a hair salon or something, because her hair was well styled and her make-up looked exspensive. Then a little girl came out of the fitting rooms and was like, "Mom, do you think that's actually Linsay?" and her mom was like, "Linsay who?" and the little girl was like, "From Canada's Next Top Model?" and I was like "OMGEE I knew she looked familiar!" Anyway the little girl got a hug from Linsay and it was just pretty cool.

But what is a professional model doing in a wee little redneck town? I suppose we'll never know ...

I found this picture today and I really like it. It was taken after grad I think, by my friend Callista. It looks really pretty I think.

So anyway, I have been pretty much working this whole time. Not really my favourite way to spend my time, especially since the Panty Pervert stopped coming (our manager had to contact the police about him leaving those dirty sheets, I'm not sure what happened after that). But hey, I'm getting money for it!

This also may be my last entry before I got camping next week, sinc I work all day tomorrow as well. I leave on Monday so ... bye everyone!

Today.

Oops ... I accidentally turned my hair blue! I was too lazy to take any pictures though ... I guess it looks okay, but I don't really like the colour blue ... I can live with it for now I guess. My hair gets messed up all the time, because I mix my own colours and it's all a trial and error thing. I have yet to come up with the perfect purple colour. The last one was too pink so I added more blue, and now I've added too much blue! Sigh ... I'll try again in a couple weeks I guess.

Today was a much better day than yesterday. I wrote my very last exam EVER this morning, and it was English so it was super easy. Now I have no more school to worry about ever again! Well, except college, but that's different because I'll actually be taking classes I WANT to take.

Then I went for a long roller blade with my brother and sister and got really really really hot and sweaty and that was just GROSS. So me and Emilee and Jackson got out our slip n slide, which seemed to be slippier today than usual, and that cooled us off nicely and was very much fun.

Oh, look at this spider bite I got - it so swollen, in circumfrence it is about the size of a pop can. HUGE, and ITCHY, and PAINFUL! ... but kind of cool, because you can see the two holes where he bit me and I love the way that looks ... like a vampire, heheh.

Unfortunatly it was very hard to get a good picture ... this is the best I got, and you can kind of see the red outline of the swelling and the holes where the little bastard got me. This is what I get for taking the basement bedroom, spiders for friends. But that's okay, because since I was little I have always LOVED bugs of all kinds, and they don't creep me out at all. I don't mind sharing a room with them. :)

The last day of classes ... EVER :D

So, I should have posted this on Thursday but I was lazy so it is a week late. Heheheh.

Here are the sheep that I mentioned!

It's weird, but for some reason there were sheep in out courtyard. We also had goats, miniature horses, and in the office there were baby chickens. None of the students knew why there were animals all over the school, and none of the teachers would tell us either. They weren't there last year, they just showed up this year after Christmas. We are all so confused. But that's not important, because goats and miniature horses are pretty darn cute.

So I didn't go to any classes, but I went to school anyway. Why?

GIANT SLIP N SLIDE, THAT'S WHY!

Note: the picture only shows HALF of the slip n slide. So can you blame me for going to school anyway? I had actually totally forgotten about the year end slip n slide that they always did, and was actually at school just to say one last goodbye to everyone, so I was unprepared. But I went down in my clothes anyway, it looked like so much fun and I just couldn't resist. I kind of slid off to the side and fell off though and scraped up my legs to oblivion. Blood everywhere, haha! I forgot to take a picture of that mess though ... oh well, I guarantee you, these battle wounds are wicked. Also, Bryan dumped a water bottle right on top of my head because he's kind of a dink that way :P Remarkably, my hair stayed straight! (Well, there was a teeny bump in the back, but for the most part it was straight!)

After the waterslide me and Joelle went to the mall and hung out, and I FINALLY found a crimping iron which I have been looking for for FOREVER but since crimped hair is 'out' right now, they are impossible to find. I'm so glad I got one now though! :D

Then I went to work. And that was pretty much the end of my amazing day. I love no more school!

Today I wrote my biology exam and then went to work and overall it has been a pretty bad day. The exam was very easy though ... TOO easy ... suspiciously easy ... well, we'll see how it ends up.

Anyway, it's been lame but I need to remember to make a post about my last day of school, which was AMAZING (this is long overdue because the last day of classes was Thursday ...). I went to school but didn't go to class and it was a gorgeous hot day and I got to pet the sheep (yes, there were sheep at our school, as well as goats and miniature horses, and baby chickens in the office; none of the students know why they suddenly started bringing in all these animals but it's pretty cool I guess).

Tomorrow is going to be awesome though I hope, much better than today. I have the day off of work and my very last exam in the morning (English, which is super easy). After my exam I'm going to see if I can convince my family to go to the lake, or I'll just find some friends and go to the river. I also think I should dye my hair tomorrow ... it's turning blonde again! Ahh!