Remember back when you first got internet?

Remember back when you first got internet? The paranoia? "Don't ever put your real name online" and "be careful who you talk to" and also things like "never eat of drink by the computer"... well as I sit eatiing soup above my keyboard I got thinking, things have really changed, I now practically live online, there are all sorta of people i know online but not in the real world, my email has my full name in it, .... so why this change?,.... well I'm older for one, don't have to worry so much about crazy people stalking me I can better take care of myself as an adult, internet isn't such a new scarey thing, we're used to it, and of course technology is cheaper now so we can afford to buy a new keyboard if we spill soup on the keys

visiting people!

I'm excited, visiting pple i havn't seen in months for new years, and then the next weekend visiting some other friends... I'm excited, I love friends I should visit more people mor often... or maybe just actually hang out with my friends here more...hmmm that could work, lol.... peace

I love making stuff, anything, it feels so great, you start with nothing and end up with cool stuff... spent the morning making stuff (can't say what cuz they're gifts) and then did some writting later on... i'm not really a writer but it just happened and some cool poetic stuff resulted, anyways this is just random rambling so i'll leave you be

New Look

ok, so I'm trying to be a bit more my age as of late, still be the crazy hyper random me, and never actually grow up (I'm sorta like Petere Pan I guess) , actually all this means is that I am trying to make stuff look a bit less tacky (but not my clothing), but my blog has a nice new look, my email address is now just my name and is not longer at hotmail,... you know move away from all the remenants of pre-teen me... my words are being butchered, o well, its not like people expect me to be coherant all the time- if you do you don't rteally know me, lol.... anyways enjoy the new skin on the blog (note: if it looks like I copied the skin off your blog *cough*clambo*cough* I did, this template is nice)

I really should post about how christmas went, but I'm not

I really should post about how christmas went seeing as I went on and on about how graet it is..... but I'm not, it was great as always and I think pple are tired of christmas stuff by now and I wanna write on other stuff- Life is amazing, seriously look around you how amazing everything is designed, how water flows, and how air feels when it moves, its amazing, God created a cool world, I Love everything, I am happy

Santa wears a black suit and has a big grey beard today

Solomon, an older Amish neighbour of mine came by today bearing gifts. He's a cool guy, one of the nicest men you'll ever meet, anyways he brought two boxes full of baking! different things were labelled from different Amish families. (they're baking is sooooooo good), we get goodies from them every year, but this is alot more than usual. I love the Amish, they're all so nice and really great neighbours.

A "LIFE IS AMAZING!" and "I LOVE CHRISTMAS!" entry

(sorry Katy, but I'm too much of an optimist to not write about how much life rocks)

so today another cow was born in the barn, i didn't see this birth but i saw the baby right after the mom had licked it clean, Man, God is amazing, how he designed new life to grow in and eventually squeeze out of old life, and then when you see the baby it looks so frail, taking its first steps and falling flat on its face, and then the mother standing over it, a huge gigantic beast watching over it soo intently, and knowing that the baby will one day be as strong and powerful as the mother, its just so cool.

now an "I love christmas" post:

was listening to the radio (i only do this at christmas cuz usually i can't find much i like,.... plus i get headaches from radios)... anyways there was a song about how during the first world war they stoppeed fighting on christmas and played soccer between the two trenches, the song was going on about how christmas brings out the good in people and how it should continue to happen today.... well it does, we have all those sweet charities helping people out and more pple seem to give to them at thios time of year, I wish pple would act the same way they do at christmas all year... everyone is so nice at this time of year, and pple seem to care about the rest of humanity, i love it

its begginning to look alot like christmas

pics of christmas decorations, my favorites: (sorry bout the quality... forgot excellerator on

-stocking I painted when i was 3 (ok my mom dipped my figers in paint and drew the sceme with my little hands)

-our crazy nice nativity set

-the tree, i love real christmas trees

- mary, joseph and jesus flight to egypt figures, some cheesy european looking figures that used to be my Oma's, i like them cuz christmas decoratiojns normally quit at the stable, this one goes further

O Tannenbaum

we got our tree today, I love those cut yer own places.... its a blue spruce (so my mom is happy) and is an overall good tree.... I tried to talk my mom into buying more lights and covering the tree completely so that no green could be seen... we compromised on just using all the mini-lights we have... I'll take a pic of it when i'm done decorating it and post it.... merry almost christmas everyone

monster returns, stop why not I? It dies in a flood.

cape

i guess i should post a pic of the cape i sewed to be one of my winter coats... it took forever and the fabric costed me a bundle.... but it was worth it... sorry the pic is so washed out.... did the lightening really quick, ... oh, the mural behind me is one my mom and I did a few yaers back.... peace

End of Geekdom!

as i am cutting things down and out of my life i am realizing i ma losing touch with geek culture..... could an end of my geekyness be near?.... NEVER! but i'm on a bit of a vacation.... not gunna be so hardcore must knowing everything about every area of geekdom ... for that is really tough on the brain... no wonder so many geeks become socially inept.... anyways thats just a random thought for today

work

just to clarify about my job:

I milk cows, monday to firday in the evenings and saturday early in the morn

each shift is 2.5 hours, in that time I milk approx 75 cows... no i do not do it by hand... that would take forever, I use machines, that way i can milk 5 at once.... ya farming uses tecnology.... you'de be surprised at how many people think i do it all by hand into a bucket, lol.... anyways thought i'd clarify that all up

p.s. milking is one of the easiest jobs ever once you get the hang of it, requiress no brain activity... though you smell funky afterwards

still up

its 20 to 2 in the morn... mom don't kill me when you read this... my brain clicked into random information collection mode... did you know that pope john paul II is an honorary harlem globe trotter? and that girraffs can go longer without water than camels... oh man... i should go to bed.... but my brain is too active.... ahhhhhh

GREEK

so i should be in bed right now.... but i'm not

i was on msn, chatting as usual, and then a friend came on.... cramming for a greek exam tommorrow... well he started typing out what he was studying as a way to put it in his memory... i couldn't leave... this stuff is far too interesting, though i dun remember any of the greek words the kazzillion diff forms for everything is interesting.... oh great, now i wanna take a greek course (thanx alot clambo).... I'm tired, dunno why is only 12:15, and i shouldn't complain, my friend who is studying is 5 hours ahead so its its much later there... or earlier since its technically morning..... note to self- if you ever take a second language (which you most likely will) don't wait till the night b4 the exam to learn it

B-live done

so bethlehem live is done yet again.... this should be my last year playing joseph, yet if I come home from wherever i move to next year i will most likely get conned into it again, I don't really mind .... had a fun snowball fight with some of the other teens/ young adults and kids afterwards... much fun... but i did cut open a kids lip with a chunk of ice in one.... oops.... luckily his parents are cool with it (i wouldn't have had a snow ball fight with him if they weren't cool)... but ya i have "josephs song" stuck in my head now... twas my big dramatic scene in the play... really good song though, makes you think about josephs take on the nativity.... but its sooo slow and its driving me crazy! AHHHHHH!, lol not that crazy... anyways peace

6 weird things

I got tagged by my sister. So now I am supposed to post 6 weird things about myself..... Who am I gunna tag? anyone that reads this.... fwahahaha! now you have to post 6 weird things about yerself on yer blog!

Here are my six:

1. I have a huge fear of footballs... but not the actual ball... only its pattern of movement

2. I know more fake languages than real ones

3. my ear lobes are different shapes (on account of one being ripped off)

4. have you seen my hair?

5. I have had both scarlet fevor and whooping cough... yet I've never been to the tropics

6. there are too many to count, so i'm not gunna bother to list anymore... u all know them

I am becoming my mother, lol... last night before bethlehem live (the play i'm in) i was running around checking that everyone was ready and doing all this extra last minute stuff not expected of me.... then i realized, this is exactly what my mom always does.... not a bad thing, but it was funny that i just realized it

Schools closed

all schools in 4 counties are closed due to snow! police are telling pple not to use the streets unless its an emergency... this is crazy

Bethlehem live

whoah, last minute change with the christmas production our church is doing.... got bumped into being Joseph yet again, oh well i know the part this is my third year playing the part, its all good

oh by the way if you wanna come see me, its in dorchester on our church property between the 2 elementary schools (there are 3 in dorchester, its should be obvious which 2 i'm talking about though)... if you need directions email me.... its at 7pm, this friday, saturday, sunday (december 8,9,10) .... peace

Annoyed

so I found a school that has a program i'm really interested in in BC... prob is admission requirements are diff there than here... If your coming from Ontario you need to have graduated with at least 65%, no problem there... but they specify within your 6 4U or 4M courses that you should have 4 of them be from this list.... only 3 of mine are.... not totally my fault, of the 23 courses listed LDSS only offered 9, thats sad... i think i can still apply for the program and seeing as my marks are what they are i may be considered, i dunno... the whole university thing is just plain annoying, oh well, maybe i will be limited to schools in ontario in the end, whatever

Life is Good

hey everyone, just a reminder, Life is good, its all a matter of perspective, look past the not so good stuff and realize that yer life is actually quite great

Snow day

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
but the fight is so delightful,
and since theres no place to go,
let is snow, let it snow, let it snow

snow day! i love them... i wish i wasn't missing sculpture class but its alright, snow days are nice and relaxing... nice blanket of snow in time for christmas, finally winter, sigh.... not a fan of the cold... but if its gunna be cold might as well be white... christmas! i'm excited.... and then after that i guess i'll have to look forward to spring... life is good.... my hands are cold

How come all theological conversations seem to happen right as yer getting ready for bed?

A Phone Call?

so i come home from work and while my dad is driving me home says "some guy phoned for ya, sounded nice, prob in early twenties or something, maybe a friend from school"... in my head I'm like ????????? NO ONE has my number cuz i do everything online? whats going on?..... then i walk in the house and my brother tells me some guy phoned twice for me... then my mom tells me the same thing, and that he said hed call back in 10 min.... and i'm still thinking ????????????.... so anywasy it ended up being a guy from one of the schools i'm checking out for next year asking if i had any questions... really nice guy.... dun really think i'm gunna go to that school though, lol... anywasy having a phone call made my day.... even though i hate talking on the phone it was nice to get a call.... and funny to see how big a deal it was for my family as I never get calls....lol funny family

OCBD?

I don't got Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, I got Obsessive Compulsive Blogging Disorder... that is i check everyones blog like 5 times a day... wow, there really is no need for that as no one posts that often... wow, i need a life, lol

Free At Last

Free! Free! I'm free at last!
Thank God almighty I'm free at last!
Free! Free! I'm free at last!
Thank God almighty I'm free!

cuz I'm Free!
Free at last!
Free!
From my past!
and I'm free!
Free from sin!
Free!
And I'll never go back again!



had this song by DC TALK stuck in my head alot lately, I love the lyrics... the repeating tune is driving me crazy but the words bring such peace.......

on a side not I just realized how much i've been posting this weekend... wow, thats alot

Advent Calendar!!!!

I BOUGHT ONE TODAY!!!!! its ninja turtles... i couldn't find the traditional christmasy ones in walmart... found them as i was leaving the store... but who cares, count down to christmas! and I got to eat 3 chocolates today! wahoo! I'm excited for christmas

I love my church

At times I wish I went to a different church, one where I was more anonymous, I have been going to my church for as long as I can remember, but my church has a special place in my heart.

I love my church, I love how everyone knows everyone, how we welcome everyone in, and how we don't seem to get caught up in tradition

now i won't lie and say its a perfect church, no church is, perfect church is an oxymorons as the church is people, and people sure aren't perfect, no one is... but I love my church

today our pastor randomly decided to serve cookies at the beggining of the service... as he got up to speak he produced a margaine container full of cookies (donated for the christmas production this coming weekend) and instructed everyone they could take one as he passed them around, it was cool, and was really different.... now this action combined with the conversing across the church during announcements that happens every week made me realize, we really are like a big group of friends, a family in christ... as the pastor makes announcements he frequently jokes with the congragation who joke back speaking back to him comfortably... this i suppose is a benefit of a small church... but it is cool.... during the message PJ (our pastor) randomly called a guy up to help with an object lesson (he had the guy demonstrate a golf swing that he produces from the pulpit, that he never stands behind, and comparred it to how the club was a totally different thing in the hands of the golfer vs. my pastor's hands)... it was cool, I love how loose our church is on stuff like that
some people wear suits to our church, others wear sweat-shirts, the people range from living in trailer parks to really fancy homes, and yet everyone is equal... during communion our pastor gets off the stage, kneels in a chair and prays, he is one of us, he is not above us... i've seen too many pastors put up a stiff image, not showing any sign of humanity, its nice to see that a pastor is just another member of the congregation

I could go on about this stuff for hours... but the house is cold, no fire was made while we were at church, my fingers are cold... and typing is being made harder... so I will end there, peace

language?

my mom did this sign language solo/dance thing at church today, a song played and she signed it, really cool... while this was going on I really realized how cool unconventional worship is... in this case sign language as a form of singing, it is singing, its an actual language, one my mom is fluent in, but since "music" is a concept for hearing people deaf "music" is more like dance... while this was going on I was listening to the music behind the singer on the track that was playing... there was some tabla drumming (i think, i could be wrong on this), the thing about tabla drumming is that it is almost a language, in certain areas of India kids begin tabla drumming before they really start speaking... it very much a musical language... anyways point is: we need to think beyond the spoken languages when it comes to worship, while not everyone is bilingual in spoken tongues, i think everyone deep down has another form of communication that to them is a language, to me it is shape and color, to others it can be music, others dance, and even others it can be something they see in science... I don't really know... I guess what I'm really trying to say is that anything doen to glorify God is worship, people often get caught up in what is worship, I think as long as your heart in in worship what you are doing becomes worship

(I don't know how well those thoughts all flow together but I think you'll get the gist of what I'm trying to say)

Carniferous Accordionist

We got meat today, 700lbs of beef (one cow), MMMMMMMM I've been missing steak we ran out a few months ago, and since our freezer is barely able to shut I'll be eating more meat than normal for a bit, YUM! I love meat, being around vegans alot (as a very high percentage of art pple are vegan) I havn't been able to express my love for meat... chomp! chomp! mmmmmm lol, I wouldn't be able to be a rabbit... I'm a good old sharp tooth, lol

Started messing around with my accordion, learning very basic christmas tunes... playing with alteration tabs... gives some funny noises, lol... i'm pretty bad right now, i need to practice more, i'll get around to it eventually, anyways thats all for now, peace

FLYING COWS!!!!

Ok, its not exactly a twister yet... no cows flying by my window, nor witches on bikes... but a cold wind is blowing... freezing rain supposed to be on its way... and the temp is supposed to drop... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! winter is moving its front towards us! quick sound the alarm, get out the blankets, pull out the thick coats, prepare the end is near!,of warmer weather that is, lol... I dun like winter but without it we wouldn't appreciate the warmness of summer so much... brrrrrrrrr... looking forward to spring

This is school?

sculpture class... its all fun and games, honestly i feel like all I do is play in that course, but making some cool stuff, we had a critique today, which basically means we sat around and talked about our art for over an hour while drinking hot chocolate... hmmm this part of the art world is ok... I might even miss it one day, lol

Bunch of stuff

today is november 30th... and i havn't bought my choc. advent calendar yet :( thats sad.... i guess i'll just need to eat lots of choc chips in the morn... then eat extra calendar squares when i get one to make up the days i miss.... hmmm december, its close enough to christmas now! I'm gunna try to learn some carols on my accordion... it'll be great.... well now off the topic of christmas

I lost my fur... I finally gave in and let mom cut off my shag, and then I actually shaved my face... gunna have to do that more now cuz it looks bad to have the scruff going with shorter hair... trimmed down my sideburns now, I no longer resemble mr.Tumness in that respect... if I grow goat legs that'll be scarey....

wow I am rambling... it is after 12am, but i had lights out by 12 yesterday and slept in an extra 15min so I'm wired! still I should log off and go to bed, moms getting a bit ticked at my not really sleeping (shes afraid i'll fall asleep in 3D and lose a limb... yeah right, like they'de trust ME with power tools, lol, actually none of my current projects require such heavy machinery so I'm safe) anyways i think i'll log off now ... but first I'm gunna add color to this post to brighten everyones day, Peace

Christmas

i was just listening to my favorite christmas song... its a recording of Carol of the Bells but done by chickens and other farm animals, quite an interesting track... it breaks part way for a baby cry... its really cool, we use it for the birthing scene in our church christmas production.. I love it... speaking of church christmas production (Bethlehem Live) I managed to remove myself from th role of joseph this year... first year there was costuming problems and i sorta fell into the role.. second year they said I wasn't allowed to do another position cuz i did it too well... well this year they're using a real baby so they got the kids dad... and so I am Gabriel... a nice smaller part for a change.. lol nayways g2g peace

boring history class

My art history teachers switched a few weeks ago... I now have my home room and future textiles teacher for art history... SHE HAS NO IDEA WHATY SHES TALKING ABOUT!!! the other day she was showing us a slide of a Gothic church and telling us how its Romanesque... to top it off shes boring... anyways cuz of this i was sorta draeding art history today... it turned out to be alright... my old history teacher came in with a bunch of prints from the Northern renaissance... they were cool, then i just a read a book and pretendied i was taking notes... then the fire alarm went off and i just got to chill outside... apparently the sprinklers went off in the ceramics hall and it got flooded and sprayed with charcoal... luckily i wasn't there... they got wet... and ya that was my afternoon... pretty sweet actually

twisted thought patterns

i have a twisted mind, you all know that, I come up with weird situations and ask myself questions about them in my head... tis a strange habit... anyways i thought I'd share the twistedness

so being an online person I have many friend I only talk to online, I meet them in mosh pits, and in crowds and also through friends on online forums and msn... well i got thinking... I don't know where they live, and i don't know most of their full names, so... what if something happened- say one of them came online and said they were bleeding to death, what could i do? a very unlikely situation i know... but thats just what my mind does... anyways i found this a funny concept- how i can know pple so well yet not have any actual connection to their lives... funny how that works

The Role Of Art

lol, so art, yeah... good stuff, I love it... been making it as long as i can remember, going to school for it at the moment, really fun stuff... What I had planned to do with my life.... but the role of art has changing in my life.... let me explain... but to do so we have to go back in time a bit... to the end of last year:

I wanted to study art at university, but also had intertests in anthropology, not wanting to be one of those students that pays first year tuition and then switches programs to repay first year tuition I applied to a specialized art program through a highschool in London. Well I got in, and thats where I am... I had also gotten accepted at all the Universities I applied to, Windsor (my first choice) even offered me a pretty sweet entrance scholarship... but I decided to do this free art program for a year first... to get some practical skills and to make sure that this is what I wanted to do.... Good thing I did:

I do not want to make art my career

I never really did
but I wanted to do something art related- teach art at a highschool level- which would be a cool job... but things have changed as of late... starting with this summer

towards the end of the summer I began feeling called to do a missions trip
within the first 2 weeks of attending my current art school I was saying "This school is awesome, but its not where I am supposed to be"
being 2 and a half months into this school I am now saying "I do not want to continue studying art after this year"

I am not liking the art world: They are sex obsessed and have a twisted sense of reality... and they are far to liberal for my tastes... I already knew this of course... but has hit me alot harder with being in art school- also I want to do something useful with my life... making things for aesthetics is probably one of the most useless things you can do... I want to help people

and so I have decided not to study art any further, I will always do art, but this is my last time taking it as my full time studies... I am thinking of applying to some sort of cross cultural studies in the coming year, after of course dropping out of thsi school after 3rd quarter to do a missions trip (still waiting on acceptance of my application).. and ya that is basically whats been going on... I was still playing with persuing art next year until recently... but no, i am done with formalized full time art schooling, I want to do art as a side part of whatever else I do- I do not want it to be the major part of what I do... basically that is what has been going on in my head as of late

peace, life is tubular: no matter what is going on

so i'm taking this survey thingy off my sisiters blog... figured it could be interesting with my collection of music

It's a muscial life story survey. Here's the soundtrack of my life, based on the following rules: 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button 6. Don't lie ---
Opening Credits: supermario theme song
Waking Up: some classical oboe piece
First Day At School: helpless automation- men at work
Falling In Love: yoshi story theme song
Fight Song: kuma etcha (some israeli piece- really happy sounding)
Breaking Up: Shut me out- Kutless
Prom: horse race - surprises on a chinese violin
Life: phantom of the opera- surprises on a chinese violin (funny cuz it has synthesizers going at the same time aas a chinese violin)
Mental Breakdown: Jesus- Jason upton
Flashback: Nap pulls kip -napoleon dynamite soundtrack
Getting Back Together: another classical oboe piece
Wedding: Yoshi beatbox (a techno remix of yoshi's theme)
Birth of Child: Can you hear me- Raze
Final Battle: Coulda,shoulda, woulda- petra
Death Scene: What God says- The Kry
Funeral Song: Visions reprise [doxology]- petra
End Credits: Granny ATV- Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack

Haha, wow some of those are random and totally unfitting, especially that Israeli song for the fight... its a very very happy sounding song, lol... wow glancing up at the list i realize how random my music is (almost anything that would be classified as normal is on my comp cuz I stole it off a friends comp... my Cds are pretty random)

balance

balance... hmmmm... ya.... not really a word to describe me.... i go from obsession to obsession, I've decided to try to create balance.... cut out all my obsessions... and now am slowly reintroducing them... starting to play nintendo abit more again- but not too much, started reading agian-but not too much, and am slowly cutting down on my internet time

crowd surfing!

i went to see audio adrenelin last night in TO, they were amazing, one of the best concerts i've ever been to--- had met my friend chris is TO earlier that day, he picked me up during the concert and sent me surfing- SO MUCH FUN! i wasn't up for that long and then got dropped... my shoulder hurts now- neck too headbanging does that i guess- still it is soooo worth it... man i had the most amazing weekend

i am soooooo excited

haha! i'm going to TO this weekend, and i get to see Chris! haha this will be a rockin saturday, seriously... i am going to see audio adrenelin too! wow i am sooooo excited....lol, well better go to school now

Apparently I cursed myself

so according to my sculpture teacher i am being cursed by a stone.... i spent the afternoon sawing through this amazingly beautiful piece of alabastor... ya apparently your never supposed to saw such a nice piece in two.... he says i've brough an artists curse to myself... that the stone won't work out for me... hog wash, first peice that broke off broke perfectly into the shape of what i was carving.... thus proving that curses and superstitions are crap

life is good

life is good, school is fun, work is easy, and to top it off people are great... I have some of the strngest yet coolest friends ever... lol... but yes life is amazing, and to top it off I'm going to an audio adrenelin concert on saturday with my friend chris who i havn't seen in a while.... man life is swell

God is good

man, it became clear to me today how many blessings we overlook.. for example: It rained all morning... except that there was a break right at the same time I had to leave for work, the rain ceased right before i finished my shift... hence i did not have to ride in the rain... people get too caught in looking for big things that they overlook the simple daily things like this... sure you can call it a coincidence, but i don't think life really has randomness to it... even the most random of events fits into a plan... but ya, God is great

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so, the evil cow has been sent to become burgers... and i learned why you wait before removing the filter from the milk pipeline... if you open the seal too early.. a few liters of milk comes hurling in your direction (luckily i hadn't completely pulled out the seal yet... so the milk hit the handle and went spraying 2meters in either direction)

secondly, sculpture class is amazing... soo much fun... basically all the techniques we use are sorta like what kids do when they play, put yer hands in goop, build stuff with plasticine, etc... only of course... you don't give this stuff to kids cuz they would be likely to cut their arm off or something.... but ya it is very very fun

evil cow and my school is trying to kill me

so... apparently the evil cow at work (not the one that used to kick me... think of it when yer at McDonalds) but the new, bigger one doesn't just hate me... it kicks the other part time too... so it may sent to the chop shop one day too... unless it smartens up

so i started sculpture class today... i can basically work with any medium i choose... but all include risk of: burns, cuts, getting caught in rotating blades, getting hit by ricochet, etc. etc. they secretly wanna kill us off, but thats ok... i seem to escape any serious injuries... and then injure myself doing mundane things like opening jars.. lol.... well thats all for now

ah, yes the return of dead lines

so after the crazy busy end of school last year i though I would never want to see another due date.... turns out you miss them after a while... first term drove me crazy cuz my program is soooooo relaxed.... but i'm in commercial art now, which has due dates, and keeps you busy and constantly at work.... ah its good to feel like i'm at school again

I love socially awkward people

so me and my family went roller skating tonight, it was great, unfortunatley the rink is being closed for 9 months now due to renovations :( , but thats ok we always only end up going once a year anyways, but ya funny story with tonight:
so they have this speed meeting stupid thing where pple are supposed to get in partners with someone of the opposite gender, then when they blow the whistle the guys switch to the next girls skating (sorta like a spoof on speed dating, really stupid), but anyways as i was getting off the rink I this random girl grabbs my arm, pulls me over to the thing.... i'm thinking "ok, cool random person metting"... ya well she doesn't say anything... i evenetually get her name (which i forget of course), then right b4 it is about to start she runs away, ya sorta strange.... well later on, I'm skating with my mom and she comes along side me, doesn't say anything, but loops a finger on my pocket, and I'm thinking "ok this is kinda strange and unnormal, but who am i to speak of normality, actually this girl is kinda interesting" well when i processed this and turned to say something she ran away again (back to her group of friends).... now I love these kinds of pple, those who don't communicate in normal ways (such as talking), i get intrigued by them (which is probably due to my own urges to communicate in non-linguistic manners).... but ya my mom thinks she had a crush on me, as if this was a form of flirting or hitting on me, or whatever.... I didn't get this vibe, I think it was more a case of interest, of wanting to be near a person to observe them and make a sorta "friendship connection" by proximity.... yes it is strange, but I find this kinda thing totally cool, and I can see where these urges come from.... I'd like to hear peoples opinions on this and whether they meet people who are socially abnormal or whether i just attract them

I still have it in me

so having not written any essays this year, and taking a break from reading all that classic literature, I feared I had lost the ability to write... Especially since I was off by a week and had to write a 3 page essay on surrealism in one night (which started at 9 cuz i was tutoring after school and then off to milking) anyways, i wasted alot of time on msn while writting it, went to bed at like 1 or 1:30 (as I had other stuff to do as well), and get it back today 92%... well thats easier marking then in a 4U history or english class... but still good considering I haven't wrote anything for a very looooong time... apparently I still have that academic side in me.... somewhere... lol

I guess I do work for my money

i got kicked in the knee by a cow again today... I seem to have a resilliance to cow kicks... its was really painful but the limp only lasted 5-10 min... anyways thats all for now

life is great

man life is awesome, and I have God to thank for that, I mean I'm applying to an amazing program, but its gunna cost $$$, which is ok, just means i can't afford to take time off work, but i do need a day for wsomething here and there, as of late everytime i need a day off I get offered an extra shift right after, plus i got $200 with an awrd at commencement (didn't know bout the money) which can definetly be used for this... and then when i got home there was a card on the table with $100 from my parents, this is so sweet, i mean what can even try to stop us from doing Gods will when he provides so well for us... hahahaha I am soooooo happy, God rocks.

Update on my life

so in case i havn't told you my plans for the near future, I'm applying to do a DTS with YWAM (thats a discipleship training school with Youth With A Mission)... basically I would start in March and spend a couple moths in training and a couple doing outreach, no idea where I'd be going, but its an art focused one so it will have a fair bit to do with art being used for ministry... tis really sweet... want more info? check out this link (or just email me) http://uofngta.ca/dtsjam.asp

animation

animation kills the hands, seriously after about 100 drawingings in a day you can no longer hold a pencil, my final film project is now at like 380 pics... ouch!

IS THAT A SWORD!!!

amusing story from a few weeks ago, I'm sitting and class and what do I see sticking out of my friend Kevin's backpack, but a sword! it was hilarious, I laughed all day, why he decided to carry it with him all day... No idea but it was very cool

MSN, Forums and Email

I love these things they keep me in touch with all my friends.... actually i may be socializing too much as of late... but that makes up for my solitary spells

So I'm dropping out of School,

don't panic yet, its cuz i'm doing something cooler, Bealart is fun and good but I'll be dropping out in March, not gunna post why yet though cuz i'm not telling all my LDSS peeps till commencement (sorry Tyler, its still secret)

American Beauty

I was forced to watch this movie in film class- IT WAS HORRIBLE! don't watch it cuz it is disgusting and very much lacking in morals

Ocarina

I bought an Ocarina the other day at ten thousand villages (one of the coolest stores ever-check them out), tis pretty sweet

i saw a cool quote today

so i saw this mug with the coolest saying, though i didn't buy cuz i don't need a massive coffee mug, anyways it said:
"organized people are just too lazy to look for things"
I like it cuz i'm very much an order out of chaos personality

an amusing story from last year

so i remembered this story from last year today... i meant to blog it then but didn't... so i'll write it now:

It takes place on a sunny day outside of LDSS (my old highschool) at lunch... we're sitting under a tree, eating, someone was playing a guitar, and generally just killing time... all of a sudden I was like "WHOAH... whats that smell"... and everyone was like "huh?"... and i'm like "that smell I like it"... them: "what are you talking about?"... me: "
theres a sweet smell... sorta floral... wheres it coming from?"... them: "ummm Jordan look up... we're under a flowering tree... its the same smell thats here everyday at lunch."... me: "oh,... I've never smelled it before"... I got made fun of a fair bit for that... mind u this kind of this is quite common as I am unable to smell certain smells... over the years my nose has partially fixed itself so all of a sudden I'll be able to smell something i couldn't before

anyways theres my somewhat amusing story... sorta random, anyways have a great thanksgiving weekend, peace

hug policy

k, i really want to start hugging pple more... but obviously i can't hug everyone on the street... well i could but i'd prob get charged or knifed.... so heres the policy: If i know you, you get hugged, unless it is in an environment where it would seem weird (ie. school), or you ask me not to (with the exception of people I declare in hug therapy) some people are also exempt from this policy as it would be awkward.... now regarding hug therapy... don't worry about it: if I declare it against you you will know (your best protection is just to take hugs and not make a fuss) and ya thats it i guess... lol this should be fun

boredom

boredom is a new experience for me. in the past i've been so introverted that i never really got bored... working at braeside all summer changed me... i got used to pple, developed a social life... its weird.... now i miss pple and feel the need to be more social... anyways part of the boredom 2day is that i stayed home sick.... thats all for now... peace out

email

just in case people are still sending mail to padawan@openweb.ca that is not my email anymore.... that account stinks and I no longer use it.

send any email to be at blizzerd@hotmail.com

thanx

abstract expressionism

i've decided i have a thing against this specific style.... this realization came after watching slides of my painting teachers art for oh.... about and hour and a half.... some of the stuff was pretty cool but most of it... blah.... i like them when they are bright and have some sort of order.... random scribbles don't impress me

i love everyone

I no longer despise the human race.... I Love Everyone! and everything is excellent

i love hugs

I love hugs... at braeside everyone hugged all the time (especially guys) and it was great... us guys got too close at times and in the outside world everyone would think we were gay but braeside is nice that way cuz everyone knows yer not

i'm back for the year

i'm back now and its been fairly hecktic.... worked till 10:30 pm yesterday.... moved home 2day... moved into my sisieters' room as its empty and i was sharing a room, start beal art 2 morrow bus cvomes at 6:45 am.... start milking cows again on thurs.

internet is nice

internet is nice... not having been on it in a month was brutal... especially since i just started accordion.... getting tutorials online is great.... but alas, it can't remain this way i leave tonight for braeside again

I'm Back.... welll.... not really

i'm back for a day (ish), been hard at work at braeside... but making money is a good thing (even if it means yer a slave) kitchen beats maintenence though.... lifting pots is sooo much better than garbage in mid august... and of course i've been slipping into crazy summer mode.... basically I just let myself act how i want to.... not the way I do at school.... but i'm trying to tone in down a little so i don't injure myself again (one year my one foot swelled up cuz a church pew broke as I jumped onto it and slammed my foot but thats beside the point) the fact is i love braeside and i'm still alive (incase you thought otherwise).... now for a run down of summer news and current thoughts

-i now play accordian
-i am covered in mosquito bites and am itching badly
-I had an awsome seafood dinner the otherday
-my tv broke
-i'm getting better at dance dance revolution
-i got a bunch of the staff hooked on ddr
- I need to eat more veggies
- my knees are shot
-my lungs keep spasming
- I still have a persistant cough
-i have been wearing capes regularily
-i ripped the rubber off the bottoms of my shoes and now they are much more comfortable

c yall whenever i c yall

have a tubular summer

MSN

i was on messenger for hours today, that hasn't happened in along long time... this means i'm becoming social again... hurray!!! and to top it off i got to talk to a bunch of people on my list of pple i want to talk to more

chord organ

i meant to post about this a while ago.... i bought a chord organ at our church garage sale a few weeks ago (a chord organ is basically a keyboard for lazy people... you play the melody with the right hand and you press in these other buttons with your left that are labelled with chord names)... its pretty great... I took off the legs so it sits directly on the floor... It was an electric air pump in it that pumped air across reeds... sound a bit like accordian... but there is no volume adjustor so i set it onton of a coat the block the airvent and muffle the sound... looks kinda funny , especially since it has no legs

DS

I bought a nintendo DS.... got it used for cheap... need to buy a cable to recharge the abettery though (i used up the last of its charge) and i'll buy some games while i'm at it

art

i need to do more art
-new goal: use up my canvass stockpile this summer!

stress

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
last week b4 exams is always worse than exams.... crammed lessons, tigh due dates, multiple assignments; wasted class time by movies!!! I HATE THIS!!! but on the positive side i do get a break soon

I miss people

lately i've been feeling that i don't know some people as well as i should and that there are people i want to talk to/hang out with more. Here are just a few people i want to spend more time with:
B-rad
Yoda/Jordan/Clambo
The Tree crabs (all of ya)
Other Lucan People
Johnathan from Braeside
and the list goes on.... good news though... i get to see a bunch of you at braeside next week! that'll be nice... anyways thats all for now

Rab-oodle

I came home from work today and I noticed something funny.... on the blanket on the bathroom where our poodle is keeping its puppy, there is 3 animal..... the poodle, the puppy and the rabbit... (the rabbit?), apparently my dad found a baby rabbit stranded on the lawn and gave it to the poodle to nurse (seeing as the puppy is getting extremely fat, benefits of being an only child I guess), so far the poodle is letting it nurse.... but it is a pretty funny sight

top hat and overflow

i finally found a top hat.... i got it used from a tux rental place ($80 with tax).... i wore it today to school.... i love it ...( and i have no idea why the pic turned side ways)



anyways, last week end i was at overflow ( a christian youth convention) it was fun... my youth group didn't go so i went with some friends of mine youth group.... my fav. moments of the weekend.... being front row centre at the sanctus real concert mosh pit, rearranging the furniture in the hotel room, and having 7 people in one van playing along to the whistling song on the pepsi commercial, on kazoos

moped

stupid government changed some laws... now i need a motorcycle licence to drive my moped.... i just wrote my begginers so now i can drive same as b4 for up to 90 days.... and then i got to do a driven test

kiwanis- woodwind

we got a bronze.... pretty good for 2 flutes, an oboe, and aclinet from a hick school..... but still not that great

kiwanis

School band rocks!.... or, er.... plays classical.., and jazz,.... and concert music..... anyways that not the point, the point is it is great! We were awarded a gold at the kiwanis music festival and won the trophy for our class! I love band. our band was the only band to have oboes... one of the judges even commented on that we had two guys on oboes... i guess thats rare... Anyways, i play in another class on tues, as part of our woodwind ensemble... hopefully we do ok, but i'm not holding out for agold anytime soon

trip to ottawa

so i've taken a trip to visit my sister.... and have done alot of "firsts" along the way:
-first time i've taken a greyhound bus (other than with school)
-first time taking a bus transfer
-first time to toronto on my own
-first time using 411 (i lost my sisters phone number)
-first time to ottawa

there'll be more first over the next few days.... and ottawa is great

musicfest

today was musicfest (the competition our school band spend all year preparing for) and we won Gold! , mind you that doesn't neccessarily mean we were best, just that we ranked gold on the judging scale.... sorta confuzzling how that thing works.... but still gold! that means that we played all three songs almost flawless! so i'm happy... and thats all for now

paper mario

sorry i havn't been posting much... between school, work, and numerouse hours of paper mario there hasn't been much time

some survey thingy

I took this from my sisiter's blog

Four jobs you have had in your life:1. doing lawn work for my uncle. 2. working on a powder coating assembly line. 3. working maintenance at a summer camp.4. milking cows
Four movies you could watch over and over: star wars, X-men (I can quote this one from begginning to end), monty python and the holy grail, Monsters inc
Four places you have lived: my farm in the middle of no-where, Braeside camp, (and for very short periods of time) my friends' house in another section of the middle of nowhere
Four TV shows you love to watch: Lost, ER, Survivor, i dunno what else... i don't watch alot of tv
Four places you have been on vacation:1. Disney World2. Chicago3. Kenora4. Alberta
Four websites you visit daily: www.marioportal.com, www.craftster.com, email accounts and blogs mostly for the rest of it
Four places you'd rather be right now:someplace warm... possibly africa or indonesia.... but i'll take anyplace tropical

mush

wisdom teeth out... and now MUSH! thats all i can eat, luke warm mush! mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs and milkshakes.... no texture at all!!!! I'm tempted to stick a steak in a blender (i'm a bit meat deprived).... but i just bought some raviolli so i should be able to survive a bit longer

my no good, terrible day

not actually that bad but whatever.....

-first i go to school, find out my english exam was yesterday afternoon, NOT today

-I frantically run around the school till i find the english teacher

-after a few minor changes to the exam, i get to write it in a room just off the library

-at the end of the day i get on the bus and.... its the wrong one (another stupid bus took our usual spot)

- i get on the right bus

-i go home

-i go to work

-the doors are open to the barn and my fingers freeze, my arthritus starts acting up and ,my work is muck more painful

-a trainer (a spikey metal thing) gets stuch on one of the milkers and swings down into my hand

-it stapped into my finger and my hand is now bleeding

-a cow kicks me in the knee

- I step in and slip on crap and wack my ankle on the edge of the manure track

-i come home and have to rinse my mouth with this sanitizer because i'm getting my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow.... it burns

..... lets hope tomorrow goes better, although it will probably be painful due to the removal of my smartness from my mouth

late 1800s

those of you who know me, know that i get fixated on specific things.... ok, i obsess over them. I get into phases where i am absolutely intriged with a particular subject. Right now i'm entering a turn of the century phase. I've always liked the non-frilly victorian stuff, but now more than ever, my sketch book is filled withpictures of tophats, lamp posts, and capes... I've taken to looking online for the style of cape i want to sew (i've been talking about that forever) and i think i may try to make a top hat..... more to follow on this subject

life is swell

i had a good day on friday, i wrote my art test... easy...... and i got money.... $5 for marking the fill in the blanks on the art exam during lunch.... and then i got my first milking pay check that night... and then Gattaca was on TV so i saved myself the money i would have spent renting it (good movie by the way).... anyways if next week goes this smooth i'll be happy ( I have history and English exams and then am getting my wisdom teeth out on thursday)

cows= $

so yeah, i did my first solo shift milking cows so now I'm going to get full pay (san't remember how much that is), therefore i am no longer a trainee but an actual milker... man is that a hick job or what?

MOO

whoa! i havn't mentioned my job yet! I've been working at a dairy farm down the road for a week already.... its nice, fairly easy work.... the only downfall is that afterwards you smell of iodine and occasionally, sour milk. I like it though and it beats working with stinky pigs ( these cows don't smell bad at all), or moving chickens with "Large Talons". I've been learning alot about cows though.... like 5 nipples cows aren't uncommon, but as far as i know you only milk the 4 regular nipples... Oh! and sometimes you only can milk three (we have one cow where this is the case)... but yeah...... MOO!

re: isp(s)

by the way i got 87% on both the isp projects i was freaking about.... now i just got to finish my art canvass over the next week.... should be easy ( I'll post a pic when its done)

dressed up

here are some pics of me in suits:
to the left: this year's semi outfit,
to the right: me being hyper and squeezing into my bright blue grade eight grad suit, Tubular!

metro

well, i guess i can be called a bit metro now, u c this started a while ago.... being an art person i wanted to carry a sketch book, unfortuatly guys don't carry bags (save for bulky backpacks) and this is unideal for carrying a big sketch book and pencils, pens etc... so i decided that i needed a bag to carry.... the most convenient and masculin one i could think of was a labtop case. This i got from a guy who gives us random stuff from garage sales. I then needed to make it cool (it had a logo for our local teachers union on it, not a cool thing in a high school), so i nintendo-ized it. I covered this logo with a triforce (from Zelda), and learned embroidery to make a super mario patch for an inside pocket. I now have an amazing bag perfect for books and my sketch book.
(here are some pics of it)