18 days

i always forget to update this blog. so summer is over in 18 days. i'll be 21 in 18 days. i'll be a college student in 18 days. i might even feel like a real adult in 18 days.

i got my class schedule yesterday, so it's starting to hit me that i'll have to grow up and go to school every day and really apply myself. i'm excited to go school shopping and get supplies and things for my room.

i recently bought a 17" Macbook Pro with my student line of credit. i also bought a cute backpack for it. hope my books and lunch fits in with my behemoth of a laptop.

on august 27th, i'll be going to both campuses for orientation. i'm going to get my student card and bus pass probably. i'll also get my book list i'm assuming so i can finally get those. i hope they're not too expensive.

the new sims expansion, Apartment Life or whatever, comes out in a few weeks. i hope i get it for my birthday. i also need to get an XP disc so i can dual-boot and play the sims on my mac. i'm so excited for that. my old computer was crazy slow and it wasn't even fun to play most of the time.

you know what if fun to play? wiifit. my aunt lent hers to me and it's such a great game. it's tiring, though, but it makes you feel good. my friends were playing it for the last few days and they were beating my records, so now there's competition to destroy :D i unlocked Free Step today. i walked 1800ish steps in 20 minutes while watching Bikini or Bust on TLC. good times.

so it's almost the middle of august. this summer has been really great. my friends are fun and my camera is nice. imovie 08 is a nice program. i finally figured out how to resize pictures using iphoto, so hopefully this will inspire me to update this blog more often :)

here are three videos of my friends and i having fun, lol:

shopping spree, sort of.

jake brought my sister and i to the mall in his new sky blue topaz. i returned my too small shoes and tried on a billion other ones. 7s are too small and 8s are too big. so i bought 3 pairs of ankle socks with my store credit. we went to mariposa after because they are closing and everything is 50-70% off. i am really going to miss this store, but by the time they close in september, i think i'll have probably bought half the store anyway, lol. i am no good at saving money. i bought a black argyle sweater (even though when i was picking out socks i told my sister i wanted to go a year without buying any argyle), a red raincoat thing, and a pink/black/white houndstooth light jacket/hoodie/scenester thing (even though i already have a pink and white one...). i know owe my sister $32. i feel bad for raiding my of montreal fund..it is now at $-4. eek. and here i didn't buy New Blood because i didn't want to spend my money. i am terrible, lol. i'm disappointed i didn't get new shoes, though.

Virgo

my horoscopes have been creepily accurate lately. i spent most of today going through things and organizing my room. i even put stuff i've been holding on to forever in the sale bag! then i read this:


7/18/2008- Go through your desk or your closet -- or, if you're feeling ambitious, your attic -- and reorganize. Better yet, you may want to clear out some of that clutter and get rid of it for good!


weirrrdd.

how to save a life

i saved it from drowning in my pool. my sister and i watched it for fifteen minutes as it recovered and dried off its wings.

replacements

i finally bought new flip flops. these ones actually flip and flop. i am worried about blisters, so i'll probably continue to wear my holey ones more until they completely fall apart.



i also bought a new bathing suit and some shorts and some other shoes and some mascara. woo.

today was really hot

today was the hottest day ever. i laid on the couch watching crappy tv with a fan pointed at me (everyone should know how much i hate fans) while either knitting or eating freezies for twelve hours straight. no loan or jobs were applied for today. perhaps wednesday.

i'm knitting a gigantic blanket, so i should probably buy some 4.5mm circ needles because i'm not too sure how my ol' straight ones are going to be able to handle getting 50000 stitches across. i think i probably knitted at least 1500 stitches today. i'm getting really quick. i could totally knit seventy fish in a day now, lol.

i cut my sister's hair and took pictures of her in her prom dress in the back yard. i really like how both turned out.

the other day, my mom mentioned that her charity organization, The Do-Good Divas, needed a logo and that they were interested in having me draw it. my mom said, "it has to be super super skinny and have purse for a head." i sort of argued that super super skinny isn't really a good image to promote these days, but apparently to be a diva, one must be a stick figure. so i quickly drew this girl with lines for arms and legs and my mom loves it. i'm going to email it to the director tomorrow and see what she thinks of the design before i make a completely polished version.

laura and i were talking about going to chicago to attend lollapalooza. that would be amazing and expensive, so maybe i should get a job soon. i was writing out a list of expenses for the summer last night (computer, tuition, concerts) and the total was almost $7000. jesus.

may has been a really long month, but i can't believe it's already almost june. i'm excited to make my monthly photo post. it seems like it's been forever since the last one. here's a sneak peek:







that was fun. what do you think of the Diva "logo" (lady with no head, on the left)? i clearly don't know what purses look like. wow, it's so messy. maybe i will redo it before sending it off after all.


oh wow, death cab is already in one week and one day! maybe i should get more acquainted with the new music right now. good night.

hair cut and stuff

i cut my hair last night at 2am. i liked it a lot, even if i do look like Selphie from ffviii.

when i was waiting for my bus, a car of white boi gangstas honked and waved. i thought that was funny.

i'm doing well in this volunteer thing i'm doing. it's all confidential, so i cannot say much (like anyone even reads this...lol). we do role plays in training and today i thought i did poorly, but the trainers said i did well, so i am proud. basically, i'm volunteering to learn how to communicate empathetically/effectively and i can see it working already. i went to bk afterwards and ordered food and it wasn't even stressful. i think, in a way, i adapt to my surroundings and who i'm with for periods of time and adopt their characteristics. the other volunteers are all really nice and focused on doing well in school and in life and i can feel that affecting me in a good way.

i'm really excited to start school in september and maybe get my g2 in the summer and maybe get a job in the next few weeks.

laura, britt, shawn, ashley and i are seeing death cab for cutie in less than two weeks!

today was a really nice day

(click the pictures to see MASSIVE versions.)

today was a really nice day considering nothing really happened.

last night i went to an orientation for a volunteer position i am interested in. i'm really excited to start. after i got home, i took a bath, read a little and went to bed with wet hair around midnight.

this morning i was woken up by the phone. my hair was gigantic, so it's a good thing it was just the phone and not someone at the door. phone lady said that my references haven't emailed her yet and to please get on that. so i called my aunt at work and she was like omgiamsobusygoingtocourtbye. i emailed my other reference and she faxed it in asap. she's so nice.

i cleaned my kitchen sort of and made embarrassingly empty soy tacos. i haven't been grocery shopping in like a week and a half, and i decided to make a diet change in the middle of that somewhere, so it's a good thing my aunt sent home a thousand pounds of veg penne with me from that baby shower on sunday. the bowl finally emptied today. it's also a good thing i bought organic peanut butter when i went shopping with her on saturday because i ran out of my old pb a few days ago. i think i need my own car so i can easily go shopping any time i want. i can be shopping right now. how amazing. i think i'm going to make and try pasta salad for the first time tomorrow. i bought some frozen diced vegetables the other day and this vegan book i was reading has a nice recipe in it that seems simple enough. this will be a year of trying new things. i've been stuck in a lettuce-tomato-cucumber rut for too many years.

after lunch, i cleaned up my room a bit, but books are still all over the place. the other day i took everything out of my book shelf and put it into specific piles on the floor all over my room. it's been like that for maybe two weeks now? i suck. i took pictures of my room for this lj community and i took pictures of my chloe cat because she is cute.

after that, i went to the library to return House of Leaves. i didn't get very far in that book because the His Dark Materials series took over my life. i started the third book on the bus going downtown yesterday. it's such a good series. anyway, i also went to the library to pick up the two vegan cookbooks i had put a hold on the other day. they're called How It All Vegan and The Garden of Vegan: How It All Vegan Again. the writers are young, hip, open minded girls who remind me of Tegan and Sara (one is actually named Sarah and the other's name starts with a T, so it makes sense, lol.) i also took out You Are Your Choices and Th!nk, which is a rebuttal to Bl!nk, which i haven't read because it sounds kind of dumb anyway. the weather was really nice and the sky was blue, so i sat under this tree and read the first few pages of the first vegan book. it was nice, but ants are annoying.

i walked home while reading more of the first book and waved to my neighbours. andrew, whom i've haven't seen in a year or two, called me and i thought he was dan at first. he told me about this eight person play at riverside in a few weeks. i am excited for it. it's nice that he called.

my aunt finally called me around 9:30 to tell me that she didn't get any emails from me. i asked her a million times if she checked her spam or junk folders. she was like, "what does that even mean?!?" and then she went on about how it says Spam and not Sam or Spamantha. needless to say, by the end of it all, she had four copies of my email, from two different accounts and in two or three different folders. (my aunt decided at 50 to go to a business college and become a legal assistant =|)

all in all, i had a really nice day.

ps. did anyone watch 20/20 tonight? it just showed a couple in bed with their macbooks' apple logos lighting up the room as they bid on weird politic stocks at intrade.com. it was sort of cute, lol.