School, Work, and Hobbies

Life has been rather slow as of recent sadly. It is only the beginning of the year too.
I have mostly worked on my school work, gone to school, and work, and gotten sick once.
Work has been really slow, and I am not even working the Buy One Get One this week at all, which means I have the weekend off. A rare, but lovely occasion though I would rather be working sadly.
I have been just chugging through my reading list, and I am now upon a book that around a year ago I ended up rage quitting because I could just not bring myself to finish the book because at the time I felt it was slow. I am going to finish it this time though.
I am just in love with the Hunger Game Trilogy. It was such a great series, and I am very excited for the movie in March.
I have begun to watch Lord of the Rings for the first time ever, and it is the super extended version I have been watching. I really want to read the books, and read The Hobbit before it comes out in December so I have plenty of time.
One of my roommates, and I traded bookshelves, and it is two of the ones I had, and I still need another bookcase! It is insane, but the other one will have less on it so it can be used for more than books after I purchase it.
I have also been watching TrueBlood, and I love the series. It just gets weirder, and weirder but I still love it. I just finished Season 2.

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Semester Two On a Roll

The first week of semester two has ended.
I only have two of the same teachers, and I am in a different group from my friends. That is kind of good for me because now I am more focused again. A teacher I had last semester pointed this out for me.
The Creative Process course is where we work on our portfolios in the end, and a course where we learn how our own creative processes work. I bought a new sketchbook for this course (I love buying new sketchbooks). I drew something cute, and stuck it on the front.

For drawing I do not know if I am going to miss my drawing teacher from last semester because this semester I have someone to make me better without being a jerk. We started off with gesture drawings, which I did in high school at some point. The teacher reminds me of my high school art teacher.
I am going to miss my 2D Design teacher but I do like the new teacher I have for 3D Design. She is very passionate about design, and is very experienced in the field. She likes to ramble off topic. I am her spell checker, and she also has a time keeper, and a person who keeps her on topic.
History is history, and it is still with the same teacher. Reading the textbook, and then going to class makes it so boring!
Jewelry, and Metal Art I have been scared for but I really think I am going to enjoy it... Everything but the torches. We cut copper in patterns, and I did really good, and I did not break the saw blade which is incredibly thin, and tiny.
Textiles is going to be so much fun. I am making a silk, and felted scarf, and did the felting process today from wool. I am super excited to make scarves.
Textiles I am somewhat excited for.
I am going to miss having Mondays off but I do have Thursdays off, so I guess it is a nice break in the middle of the week.

Halloween 2011

I was kept so busy this past week working on Halloween stuff. Halloween is a huge even for the school. Every year there is a haunted house competition for all the studios, and usually the foundation year joins a studio since they don't usually get a place. This year was different; the foundation year got the student lounge, and worked with another studio which have a room in the other building which is still under construction. We did an Insane Asylum, and I got to be a guide. It was great fun though with our practice run through one of our zombies grabbed me, and I screamed. I wore my purple plaid Lolita outfit too. I also wore my glasses which I normally don't do with my Lolita outfits.

All the studios but two did a haunted house, and I went to two out of three, or four. They were really good. There were some great scares. There were other haunted houses in the city, and there was one I went to last year that was amazing but I didn't get to go to any other haunted houses. The only one I went through was the studio to win, and it was amazing. They did Fiber Hell as a theme.

Friday was Costume Contest Day. I was rather excited for this. I did a coordination Lolita of "Candy Princess." I wore my Metamorphose Candy Land Popping Balloons dress with the alice bow, socks, pink mary-janes, my wig, and a few other accessories that matched the theme. I even hunted down a cupcake shaped lollipop. I won most creative, and my roommate also won a title as well. This isn't a very flattering photo but it was the only one taken.

I watched the Nightmare Before Christmas on Friday evening with my roommates since I have never seen it before. I have to say I liked it. There are so many movies I haven't seen, because I never got to see them as a kid.

We went to a costume contest Saturday night, and it was great fun. Before this happened we had an episode of the downstairs cat escaping so we ran around in the dark looking for the cat which we eventually caught. I wore a maid costume, and I realized that it left black dye all around my waist, and where it stopped on my arms.  

Did Trick-or-Eat Monday night on the official Halloween date. This was my first time attending the event. I only borrowed my roommate's cat ears. It was a lot of fun, and I was in an outside part of the city I have never been to before. Another group's route overlapped ours so we walked for a bit, and then got lost. We did make it back to the car, and dropped our food off, and then the bus came. I met some new people seeing as my roommate found us a group to join. 

As of Friday it has officially been a year since I left university to follow something more my style, and that I got accepted to where I am currently going. I couldn't be happier. I have made some great new friends, and I am learning so much. 

I got a new brand of contact lenses, and they are a lot more comfortable. They are easier to insert, but I find them quite difficult to remove. I even have new cleaning solution with a contraption that scares me. It is mostly the solution, because I have seen, and heard the horror stories of the solution. I might be able to get coloured lenses, and my doctor will look into it. I am so happy, I may be limited to colour, but oh well. All the time my hopes go up, and down with this subject it gets really hard sometimes but I haven't given up yet.

Now it is time to let my body rest as I am beginning to get sick. I still have to focus on schoolwork though.

Back Into the Swing of Things

So I am back into full swing of school life, and I am loving it. We aren't going to have a lot of huge tests or anything, just smaller ones which is great. (I fail hardcore at tests) We also write essays occasionally which I may have gotten better at we just have to see what the teacher says. I could never write an essay, and it was never at, or pass the maximum word count, and now I can do it.

I plan on mastering Gouache, and painting more. We are also going to learn a bit of watercolour as well. I love paint, I just need to be re-taught. Getting the gouache opaque can be challenging because each colour mixes differently. We are only allowed to work with cyan, magenta, yellow, white, and black; any other colours that we want we have to mix to get them.

I had the last few Saturdays off which is unusual but now I am working them again because we lost an employee, but we do finally have an assistant manager. I love working Sunday's it is the best day of the week to work, and it is with the best people.

Crazy Good Week

I had a wonderful day at work Tuesday, I tacked ties at work for most of the day. The day before someone finally called from head office to talk to me about the email I sent through customer service. It was nice to talk about it to someone, and a lot of my fears about working there have been assuaged thankfully.

I have been playing the Sims 3. I absolutely love the game. My favourite experience so far was when the fireplace started a fire in the living room, and I tried to put it out, and now there is a large black spot on the floor from the fire. It is quite the entertaining game.

I started watching Mawaru-Penguindrum which is very odd, but I like it so far.

I did quite a bit of baking Thursday night, and it was great fun. After fighting with the squash for an hour I finally had it prepared. I also cooked chicken along with it, and cupcakes earlier in the day.

I tend to clean ambitiously when I do want to clean so one of my room mates, and I tackled cleaning the bathroom on Wednesday which wasn't that bad, and a lot of fun.

Now Orientation was today, and I have been excited about this for weeks! It was so much fun though I didn't make any friends. Nothing new there. I have ceramics this semester.

My blazer, and cutsew finally came in from Qutieland, and I love them both.

It has been quite the good week.

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Final Summer Trip Home

The complete date of my trip home was altered due to work, what else would cause it.

I went home Wednesday after the boss BlackBerry Messaged me to tell me it was dead, and he was cutting my shift. He said enjoy your day off. I was actually ready for work, just about ready to leave too. Of course I was scheduled to work Sunday, there usually isn't a week where I am not so I had to leave Saturday afternoon.

I just started throwing stuff in a bag to bring home, and then I had to stop myself, and re-pack everything. In my hurry I forgot the present for my friend's adorable little baby boy.

I traveled by bus of course. Acadian is the bus line that runs through the Maritimes; meaning New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Quebec has Orléans. The Quebec bus has Wi-Fi Internet, and leather seats, the leather seats I do not like. I like the Acadian bus line seats better though. Coming home I ended up on two different Orléans buses, and I do not like the leather seats. I had my fun with them again because my departure day I waited for the bus for an hour because it was late out of Montreal again. I wish I could take the train, I love the train, and miss it dearly.

It was rather nice compared to the last time I was home. Thursday was absolutely beautiful, and I had a nice walk around town, and found some people I was looking for. Visits to my favourite diner occurred almost every day but one. Most of the day was spent sitting on a picnic bench talking with friends. Friday I had another friend over, and we reminisced the past, and I dug out and old VHS of anime taped off YTV when I was 13. It wouldn't be a Friday night home if the Brat Pack didn't go out for Karaoke. ♥ Two of us spent the night before listing off songs. It was so much fun, and so many people were there. Saturday was very short lived. :( I went with a friend for a bit then went, and met up with my two friends. I met my friend's baby boy, and he is absolutely precious. One of them told me I would be next to have a kid, and I don't think so. I met up one more time with the Brat Pack, and we took pictures before I left.

In the end though I didn't get to see everyone I wanted to see, including another family member.

My plan is to not go home again until Christmas.

I am going to miss my dear friend who will be leaving for school far away. Hopefully we will see each other at Christmas time.

The college school year starts in a week, and orientation is Friday. I am so excited, and nervous.

No Internet But Enjoying It

Two days after my last post our internet provider disconnected us due to a billing issue, and since our landlord deals with the bill we can't do anything about it, and we still don't have internet. I am being classy, and using McDonald's internet as we speak. I am enjoying no internet but it drives me crazy at the same time.

Might I also add I feel very insulted by my old workplace McDonald's because they slipped me a piece of paper saying hiring full time for September. First of a ll I have a job already, and second of all I am going back to school in September, actually in August. I found it very rude, but apparently they miss me, I don't know why though I sucked at the job.

I am still diligently reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What a horrible time to lose internet I might add I wanted to try, and get into Pottermore early. ;_;

I went to go get my tattoo done on Tuesday, and my artist went on vacation that day, and never called me. I thankfully got the appointment rescheduled a week from then. It was very upsetting, and I was really excited. I have had this appointment booked since my birthday.

I've mostly been cleaning, and such on my days off.

I have fallen back into gaming, and I am currently laying Paper Mario. I forgot how much I loved that game!

I also have gotten all my mail from the school about the school year, and I am very excited to start at the end of the month. I am also looking forward to my trip home later in the month.

Days Off~

I have three consecutive days off in a row... I am back to work tomorrow. Would have been nice to have these days off the weekend I went home. I did run into my boss, his boss, and his boss's boss at the mall, and I found it quite amusing.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was amazing in my mind, that will be probably until I read the book. I still feel bad because I have to read the last two books. I want to re-read the entire series, and purchase the adult books. I think it would be great to re-read the series. I did purchase the two books I didn't read; The Half-Blood Prince, and the The Deathly Hallows. I read three chapters of the Half-Blood Prince, and I am not really impressed with the movie. I have always chosen books over movies because they are more descriptive, and allow for imagination.

I have been working on art here, and there but nothing really major.

I have mostly been gaming though. I do own my own Wii now but I can't get the channels from my SD card to work, and I am not paying for them again. It is quite frustrating, and apparently I forgot the data for how far I am in Trauma Center: New Blood, and it was difficult to get up to that point so I have to try, and get that while I am home. I have been playing random games, here, and there, not really sticking to any one game.

I finally went, and got my necklace from Purolator. I have the worst luck with them because they always come when I am at work. I love the necklace I got from Sanrio but I have never owned a wrap necklace before so I might buy a new chain, and modify it but taking the charms off, and adding it to the new chain.

I got to stop buy the asian grocery store again. ♥ I got some Chicken buns, and Pearl Milk Tea in a can. I have been looking for Pearl Milk Tea everywhere. You can get it in a mall downtown but I wouldn't call it real Pearl Milk Tea. I wish I could go to Halifax. ; 3;

I also bought groceries, and it's a proven fact that if there is someone with me I will purchase actual groceries. I also stopped by Value Village with a roommate, and now I have some blazers for work. We all went to Dairy Queen one night, and it was a lot of fun.

Tattoo in less than two weeks. :o I am excited, and scared all at the same time. It is going to be awesome. ♥♥♥ School in a month, and a week. So many exciting things coming up.

Night Classes :D

So by an amazing chance I am taking my night class, and I am super excited. It's a little boost for first year fashion design. I really need to learn how to sew again. We started making little purses tonight, and it was quite enjoyable. I am terrified using a sewing machine again, because when I was younger I broke them all. Hehehe. Not good. I also use to floor the machine, and I am terrified of doing that because slow, and steady helps do it better.
Work was well work, and I feel like a tool for sending that message, said person was at work today, and I don't know if they have been on Facebook. Haha, I am so horrible.
I was scared today by two different things: a squirrel, and a car. The car was worse because I was walking through an alley to get to the bus stop. I also found a dead bird on the step of the college leading to the gallery, very sad.
I went to Second Cup after my class to wait for the bus, and I was hungry. They have amazing cheesecake, and Matcha Green tea, love, love, absolutely love those things.
So a friend begged me to join Cityville on Facebook, which I had blocked like every other stupid thing like that. I caved, and joined. I'm so weak. Haha. It is actually quite fun.

A Two Days Off, and Out

I have had an amazing two days off. I took a leap, and landed on my feet for once. :)
I was originally going to cancel my plans on Friday because I did not want to drag myself out of bed, haha. After I did though I was ready in no time.
The city's transit was my mode of transportation, and while waited I dropped my phone, and it almost bounced onto the road. I decided part of my plan was to travel to the north side across the bridge later so I gave myself some time. I managed to stop at the art shop, and I found a non-photo blue pencil for myself, and a black paged sketchbook for one of my friends. Ventured for Bubble Tea. ♥ It has been too freaking long for that stuff, though I do miss the variety of flavours that can be purchased in Halifax
I got on the bus, and good thing although the wrong bus; good thing I did because it poured rain! I didn't have an umbrella, or my raincoat. When I got back to the normal bus stop I had to wait for the right bus. I did eventually make it to the other side of the city. I got to my friend's work just as she left. Really sad luck correct? She called me, and kidnapped me for the night. We had barbeque, and ate by the river. It was lovely outside. It was just like old times, though my memories were specifically floating to last summer around my nineteenth birthday. *sigh*
We got up the next day to go to the market but we didn't quite make it, and that is perfectly okay with me. They had a flat tire in the truck. We did make it to town, and went out for lunch.
I then ventured to the college I will be attending in the fall. Might I add that I am super excited for school. I have seen all of the school, and I am possibly going to take a night class for the summer, I just have to decide. I hate making important decisions like that but it must be done!

More Boringness

Applied for student loans, and what a pain in the butt process it is. Especially since I did not remember the password, and I had to call my father for his income tax information. You have to do things certain ways, and it is just plain frustrating.
I did go to work today. I am not as sick as I was, thankfully. They had me all over the store between drive-thru, and counter, and it was so confusing. I hate confusing days at work!
Going to leave the house this weekend for other than work, or groceries. Going to an open house, and the Saturday market. I also have to go to the art supply store because COPICS are on sale. Kind of a happier note.
I hate being so fake happy at work it is sickening, but I have to be...
Neighbour still is being difficult, and isn't moving out.... BLAH!
Had an entire French Class come in today, and order in French, and their French was atrocious! I felt the teacher was looking down on me, I don't remember much French. I did remember more as I went though. I will learn that language I promise.
Yea, still frustrated, and upset. One thing, one stupid thing would make me so happy, and it sucks that it will never happen.

A Little Bit of Everything

The fact that I am moving has snuck up on me, I move in two days.
Life has fell into place. I have an apartment, and a job set up. I feel like this is going to work.
I am dating again, which is unexpected because I have to leave him behind. Good thing we are both nerds, and we can keep in touch through WoW, and such.
I went to church for the first time in a long time, I don't even remember the last time I went. Due to work, and school in my first year I had to stop going I was so busy, but I stayed busy after I quit school. I feel so bad I was involved, and so faithful, and I know I strayed.
I have spent the last few weekends making cupcakes. I have made Rainbow Bits, Butter Pecan, and today I am making chocolate.
I have been playing some video games lately too. I was playing Mario Kart Wii with the Gamecube controllers, and I jerked the controller up, and ripped it out of the system. I was also very competitive.
I went with a friend to McDonald's last night, and we had some good laughs with the staff.moving, job, apartment

No Life with Bad Days

So I have no life outside of work.
I went all the way to surprise visit my friend, I was looking forward to just seeing her... I got to her workplace, and she teaches at the college that I will be attending in the fall, and I didn't know she did this on this day. I didn't get to see her. I was very upset. The bus was late arriving, and leaving. I had a very rude bus driver when I transferred on my way home. Why must everything backfire in my face.
I have had a very long, tiring week, and will be secluding myself until I go back to work on Tuesday.
I am having trust, and emotion issues at the moment.
It is only seven days into the new year, and it feels like it has been longer, I freaking wish.....

Moving Into The New Year

So apparently my plans fell apart in my hands, once again I should mention. Somehow this tends to happen a lot but this time I need to fix it myself.
My friend is not moving with me which is kind of a relief to me. I was pretty surprised when he applied to a school in the city where I applied. After the flood at his sister's place he finds that was something telling him that this isn't his thing to do.
I am not afraid to go look on my own, I don't want to bother my friend.
Still terrified, I am but this is something I have to do. I feel like a change will be nice. Still moving in with a bunch of people you don't know is difficult.
I will hopefully have this planned out soon. *crosses fingers*