Saturday, November 28, 2009

You're in Oil Country

Sooo I went to my 2nd Oilers game ever last night :) And I re-realized something that I remember from the last game and from the Oil Kings game...hockey, or any sport for that matter, is so so much better when you go to see a game and not just watch one on t.v. Like I just get so into it and pay attention and get emotional and feel dissapointed or happy with everyone. But if I watch a game at home...well let's face it, I barely ever do. At least not a full game...

SO yesterday's game was awesome! We lost :( but the game itself was so so good. It was tied 1-1 by the end of the first period, but all the action happened in the 3rd. By the end of the 3rd period it was 4-4! It was literally just goal after goal after goal. Obviously this lead to a shootout. And then I remembered that every game I'd been to (yeah yeah only the 3 haha) have all gone to shootouts. AND THEN I remembered that every game I had been to we had eventually won! Automatically I thought, we are def. no question gonna win this. I could feel it. And then, I think I jinxed it...

First shot we missed, but so did they! And then...we just kept missing. And they got one. It sucked so much, but the game was so so good. I just was UGH mad! Obviously!

Funny/Highlight moment of the night? We were on the jumbotron. So unexpected...and...weirdddd. I always think of the people than are on it..and I'm always like I would totally do something funny...but nope. Just waved. I felt like a foooool. LOL But it was all good.

OH and for the "smooch cam" where they randomly show different couples and the best kissers win...There was one couple that I think everyone could've done without. Let me paint a picture for you. Older. Open mouths. Tongues? His grabbing of her...chestal...area... SO disturbing. I mean there are little kids there...and me!

Sooo tonight, I shall be at Ashley's for her little housewarming. Not toooo late though, gotta be up bright and early tomorrow for the wee tots at work! (Even though I was freee as a bird today with NONE! :D)

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Chariot

This is a song that came upon me one night.
When the news it had been telling me
about one more war and one more fight
And 'aeh' I sighed, but then
I thought about my friends,
then I wrote this declaration
just in case the world end

Our guns, we shot them in the things we said.
Ah we didn't need no bullets, cause we rely on some words instead.
Kill someone in argument,Outwit them with our brains;
and we'd kill ourselves laughing at the funny things we'd say.

And bombs, we had them saved for special times;
when the crew would call a shakedown, we break down a party landmine.
Women that are so sexy they explode us with their looks.
Ah we blowing up some speakers, jumping round till the ground shook.

And missiles, they were the road trips that we launched; t-t-tripping across this island.
Starting missions at the break of dawn,
Yawn and smile say, "What direction shall we take?'

"Somewhere where it warm and wet"
This be the route we'd always take and...

Our weapons were our instruments, made from timber and steel.
We never yielded to conformity but stood like kings
In a chariot that's riding on a record wheel


And our air force flying, when the frisbee in the sky.
Have a session while we're smoking now we're feeling extra high
And we'd sneak into a car park with the skaties on our back
And we're flying down the levels howling
"on the attack now on the attack"

And battles, they happened in these dance halls.
See we'd rather fight with music, choosing one the rhythm war.
Battle at these shakedowns and we battle at these gigs;
We do battle in our bedrooms, made some sweet love to the beat

Then our allies grew; wherever we would roam
See whenever we're together any stranger feels at home
In a way we are an army, but this army not destruct
No instead we're doing simple things;
Good loving find it run amuck

This be a declaration,written about my friends
It's engraved into this song, so they know I'm not forgetting them.
See maybe if the world contained more people like these,
then the news would not be telling me about all that warfare endlessly and...

Our weapons were our instruments, made from timber and steel.
We never yielded to conformity but stood like kings
In a chariot that's riding on a record wheel


---The Cat Empire

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

C'est Fini

I don't know what else to say.

(U)

Monday, November 23, 2009

The post blog to the post script

In relation to the last ps/pps on the last post. Life = sucky. Even after all the good things, and the great weekend. I never really realized how much one person can affect your life so much, until now. And to be honest, I don't like that feeling..Yet can't help it.

Anyway. Sorry for being so depressioso. I feel bad for bring you down. Can I have a hug? (I know weird with my whole touch-me-not thing)
But really, can I?
No?
Alright, be-otch, you've just been added to "the list"....



I am off to catch up on last week's episode of The Office. Jealous? You should be. Unless you've already watched it...then...I guess not so much.

Bragging Rights

So you know how I've been slack with my posts as of late (excluding the weekend lol)? Well then you must also know that I haven't been writing as much as I'd like because of the horror that are final exams!
But finally the results are in and they are, if I do say so myself, quite extraordinary (I know I sound so pompous...but I think I deserve it...maybe you will too once you see the following...):
These are final marks
English 111: A-
OADM 101 (keyboarding and formatting): B
Travel 116, Destinations I: A+
Travel 115, Intro to the Travel Industry: B-
Travel 110, Airline Concepts: A-

Final GPA for Semester 1: 3.56

I think that's pretty darn good...no, no...GREAT!

I feel like 115 should've been higher...and that OADM was better than expected since I went on facebook most of the time...lol But all in all a great term. I just hope that I can keep up my GPA, cause that would be aweeesome. Moral of the story, kids? I'm a genius and I should be your role model from here on out.


LOL! JK! I'm not that much of a jerk. I think. But I heart you all anyway and thanks for listening.


PS. Some people are really rude and ignorant and disrespectful and inconsiderate of other people. After 2 years of not doing it...It is the first that that doing something like this has actually hurt me deep down. I don't know how I'm supposed to trust said person again. Obviously I want to, but I don't know how. Things are so different from before, and from the last time said person did this. That's what I just don't understand...Sometimes it feels like I'm the common factor in all of this, but still I can't figure out what it is I could've done. I know I'm being super cryptic; sometimes life calls for it. Sorry I can't tell you all the deets. I bet you're dying to know. Sorro.

PPS. I know that it got suuupa emo there for a sec. What can I say? I can't be Mary Poppins all the time. If that was the correct metaphor to use....

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Days Like These

Oh...so when I said "tonight" you thought I meant last night?
Alright so I guess there's no real way out of this one. I'm just a douche. And I "bibled" and everything. Sorrrro:( I have to revise this research essay, because my now former teacher wants me to hand it in for an essay contest! Exciting right? Yeah, I'm trying to make you have at least some sympathy for me...Is it working? Great!

So back to the delightful Friday night I had.

After the concert was over Ashley and I decided to try and get autographs/pictures with the fellas. I thought "yeah right! they'll never be outside and if they are it will be next to impossible to actually be even near them!" So I forgot to tell you that when we got to the Starlite Room that their HUGE tour bus was parked out front...Back to present time...Ashley and I went outside, through the alley, and found the rest of the concert goers waiting for the same thing as us. And it didn't take long (literally like 2 minutes) until I heard Ashley say "Do you want to get a picture now?" And I thought she meant just a memento of the two of us...and I turn around and the lead singer was standing right by the bus talking to a few people! I couldn't believe that he was already out, because last time I went to Hellogoodbye it took almost an hour standing outside in the freezing cold to get one autograph...

We walked up to him and asked for a picture and sigh...he stood with his arms around us and we got the money shot. It's actually my picture on the popular social networking site, "Bookface", right now. LOL
And of course I had to get his autograph, on the only piece of paper I had, my ticket. And to make things better he wasn't pretencious, like when we met the guys from Boys Like Girls. He was so soft-spoken and ...oh that Aussie accent. Heart.
And then came the other half of the lead-singing duo, who is also the main trumpet player. AND we got a picture with him too, as well as the back-up trumpet player. Who by the way is a fox. :D:D

I totally feel like I should've gotten the other guys to sign something as well but I couldn't find anything short of my skin...and the temps were in the minuses that night (Can you believe that was our first real aka not melted yet, snow of the season? I have a feeling they brought it with them lol)

But Ashley and I hung around for 30-45 minutes after those amazzzing few moments, wondering if they could see us through their bus windows and making faces if they could. LOL. While we were sitting and people watching at about 2.30 in the morning, we noticed something...Ashley wanted a picture with the trombone player and was ready to ask him, but for the whole time we sat there he seemed "deeply engrosed" in a conversation with an "interesting" young lady. We were trying to judge whether she knew him or was just random. We decided that if he did in fact know him that they would talk inside the bus rather than standing outside...Plus I seem to remember her from inside. So eventually she follows him into the bus (where the other members are already remember) and doesn't close the door....This againn leads me to think that if she was with them that she would know enough of the routine to close the door behind her...So to sum it up...groupie. See you could've just read that instead of the long version, but by now you probably realized that....muahaha.

In the end I didn't get home till about 4 since Ashley and I went to her house for tea and grilled cheese. Best night ever in forreveerrr. Second best concert I've ever been to. It would be hard to ever top OkGo/SnowPatrol. Sorry CE. I still love you. Especially...you...know what i sayin? No? It's ok. I rarely ever do either.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Rhyme and Reason

Ok, you can bang my head against the wall if you like; I haven't written in what feels like fo-eva, but I have a good reason, I swear! See I've had finals all this last week. No lie. BS right!? Cause I'm done my program in 14 months everything is smushed together, aka everything is quick-timed. I had one on Monday, and Wednesday and then two on Thursday and Friday. AND to round house kick finals in the face, The Cat Empire just so happened to fall on the Friday (last night). Perfect way to end hell week :) I knew that they were coming since September but it just made the night taht much better to not have to think about homework/studying!

Sidenote: This was my first "real" concert in almost a year (Since Kanye/Rihanna) and my first general admission concert in TWO YEARS. Wtf right?

So it was at the Starlite Room, which I had never been to before. WAIT, rewiiiindd. Ashley picked me up and we got there around 8, to hopefully avoid the long-(expletive) line. Unfortunately we didnt. So, the SL-room entrance is in a half-arm span wide alley, which just adds to it's indie cool facter. And then it leads up to these stairs (all of this is outside still though). So, flashback a bit, to get into the Starlite Room at any time you need a membership, which is $5 and good for the yr. So all these people, while we were in line, kept "forgetting" to get their membership (and I don't see how since the girl stands at the entrance to the alley saying "MEMBERSHIPS!". Anyway these ignorant peeps would go get their membership, saying "excuse me, pardon me" all the while. AND then what was really rude and annoying, was that after getting the membership these same people would come BACK through the line to get to the front. AS if somehow their entitled to go back to the front of the line, because they are forgetful/don't pay attention. And there were these awesome people behind us in life who were so hilarious and well let's face it pure be-otches. Even though one was a guy, they were just funny.

SO we finally get it, go to coat check and then the bathroom (which was down a big set of stairs and pretty grungy). Then we went to sit down near the back of the place, which had all the booths and the bar. But no booths were available, so we sat on bar stools near coat check, and a pool table. We sat there for like a few hrs even through the opening act. But it was just so chill and awesome. And more and more people just kept piling in the place. It was an 18+ show, and it was nice to finally not have a bunch on pre-teen or 14 yr old girls ruining the mood. But I do think we were some of the youngest people there...We were the 14 yr olds to everyone's us...LOL

So once Cat Empire was about to start Ashley and I got off our high stools, and walked down to the main "music" area. It was like 10 steps down from the bar and whatnot. It was packed! The only good thing about being small is being able to get through tiny spaces between people haha. We eventually got down pretty far, about halfway between the back and front of the "pit", as I like to call it. But somehow no matter which side, or where we went, the tallest guys in the place always seemed to push their way ahead of us. Ugh. I hate that about being small! For for the first half of the show we were about 1/4 of a ways back from the stage, and it was pretty ok. Don't get me wrong, the band was amazing just as I thought but I just wasn't feelin "it". So as people started jumping up and down during a song we saw our chance! With Ashley leading the way we "jumped" our way to the front, about 3 people from the front. And let me tell you, it became *itch city! It seems like the chill indie peeps were back where we had been...and the arrogant, pompous, obnoxious ones were up at the front. There was the typical "girl-who's-boyfriend-has-to-step-in-and-give-her-'personal space'-even-though-she's-at-a-concert", and the token "girl-who's-super-tall-but-separated-from-her-friends-even-though-she-still-has-more-but-finds-the-need-to-shove-and-stare-down-Ashley-anyway". BUT very surprisingly there was also many of the "older" (30-50) generation there. And one lady actually allowed me to go in front of her which was so so nice. And two other ladies (mid-40's?) were totally rocking our and screaming the lead singer's name like they were teenagers! It was awesome!

Eventually we got the the very very front, and bliss. This is gonna sound so lame, and don't worry I so know it. But I swear the lead singer looked right at me at times <3 style="font-weight: bold;">Part 2: The most exciting part of the rendezvous

(that rhymed!!!)

I promise fo realsies that I will do it tonight too :0 Swear. Bible.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Will You Be There?

But they told me
A man should be faithful
And walk when not able
And fight till the end
But I'm only human


Everyone's Taking Control Of Me
Seems that the world's got a role for me
I'm so confused,
Will you show to me,you'll be there for me,
and care enough to bear me?


In Our Darkest Hour
In My Deepest Despair
Will You Still Care?
Will You Be There?
In My Trials
And My Tribulations
Through Our Doubts
And Frustrations
In My Violence
In My Turbulence
Through My Fear
And My Confessions
In My Anguish And My Pain
Through My Joy And My Sorrow
In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow

I'll Never Let You Part

For You're Always In My Heart.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Who's Bad

PLEASE don't send the villagers with their pitchforks and torches after me. I'm sorry, I completely lied. I didn't write the next day (last Saturday) like I promised :( I meant to really! I had a draft and everything done. I was almost done and then just got waaaay too busy. I'm sure you'll forgive me if for nothing else than my good looks :)

Anyway I guess I've decided that (for now) I will let the MJ movie be left to your imagination if you haven't already had the good sense to go and watch it!!!

I gotta feeling that tonight...no I mean this week is gonna be [busy]....! Wait that made no sense. Well it did, but had nothing to do with the song...just thought I'd add it in. Anyway I work everynight this week except Wednesday, which is good for my bank account (It hasn't been fed in a long time) but blech for me...Something to look forward to though is that by next week I'll only be working weekends! YAYY!
Oh and speaking of bank accounts being starved...a certain former employer... :l STILL HAS NOT PAID ME SINCE I QUIT OVER THREE WEEKS AGO! Seriously get your act together and just give me my money so I can forget about you and pretend like that whole messy "era" (one month) never happened!

I've decided to try working out after work tomorrow...We'll see how that goes LOL. I've never worked out alone; it should be...weird. And sad.


I love MJ. More every day. I've realized that I don't get sad randomly when I see him, only when I see things that have been made after he left us. That's what tears me up. I love seeing his old vids, and home movies, and everything...I just can't handle the whole "Let's take a look back at..." That...is....just bad (to quote him in a COMPLETELY different context...lol)