8 posts tagged “things on tuesday”

The bad:

• The boots I like in the colour I hate are down to $39 while the colours I do want stubbornly refuse to drop. OMG seriously Aldo? They've been around since JULY. Just let me buy them already!!!
• I'm so sleep deprived. I know it's stupid, but I just can't get used to sleeping without Paddy in my bed. Over the holidays I stayed up late enough that I generally dropped off to sleep without much trouble, but I can't keep doing that during the school year. Sigh.
• I'm sick of being COLD all the time. Unfortunately I'm looking at another two or three months of wintery temperatures. Lame!
• My parents saying things like, Emily, dont' you think you have enough boots? I have two pairs of (well-loved) rainboots, and a pair of purple suede boots that I got when I was fifteen and stupid. I think after four years, it's not unreasonable to want more practically coloured boots.
  

The good:

• I was in the Body Shop today, and I found out that they still had a little bit of the discontinued lip butter flavour that I love!!! It's guarana berry, it smells soooo good.
  
• I'm newly addicted to Gossip Girl. So embarrassing. But such good, trashy TV! So good for de-stressing!
• Since Paddy died, Charlie (one of my other cats) has taken to sleeping at my feet most nights. It's not the same as having Paddy in my arms, but it is nice.
  
• I saw Mamma Mia this week, and although it wasn't exactly a cinematic wonder, it did make me like ABBA again.
• OOH big news, I switched my presumptive major (haven't formally declared yet) from Classics to Religious Studies. My religious studies classes are SO interesting. 
• Superdickery! Hahahaha, it's a website devoted to what an asshole Superman can be. I can't remember who linked me to it originally, maybe lostdwarf? But the one I just linked is my favourite one.

Have a good week everyone!

The Good

• We got over a foot of snow on Friday night, and I'm not sick of it yet. Early snow and Christmas snow are the best kinds.
• Paddy's perked up a bit.
• I got to talk to my BFF today for the first time in nearly two months! YAY.
• Clean laundry.
• New journal soooooon!
• Tights. I love winter if for no other reason than I get to wear TIGHTS! I'm on the lookout for brightly coloured ones now. American Apparel has nice ones, but they are definitely overpriced.
  
• I have an A+ in Arabic at the moment. AN A+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  

• Those damn boots of mine finally went on sale.......in brown and taupe, not black. Gah!!! So annoying. I wanted them to wear to work for the holiday season.
• Exams. My first one is on Thursday, but then my next one isn't till Dec. 8, so it's not all bad. And one of them is take-home, so my load is pretty light this term.
• It snowed on FRIDAY, and our street still has only one lane plowed. Look, I know it's a double dead end, but people live here too, municipal government.
  
• Being the bigger person sucks sometimes.
• My inability to make eye contact is starting to irritate me.
  

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• SNOW! It snowed today. It didn't stick, and was more like sleet/slush, but it looked so pretty falling. Sure, in a few months I'll be sick of it (in Nova Scotia, we have snow from October/November to May), but right now, I like it.
• I got a beautiful winter coat. It cost more than I would have liked, but it's SO beautiful. I posted a picture below.
  
• Paddy is getting his energy back, bit by bit. He's acting more like a kitten and less like an old cat.
  
• I'm doing weirdly well in Arabic again. I got a 95 on my last test. I think it's going to be my highest mark this term, which is... surprising.
  
• We're decorating for the holidays at work tonight! Yayyy.
• Last week was my Hell Week (two essays, a term paper, a million pages of reading, an outline and a test), but now it's OVER.
  
• OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT. I'm a big Obama fan, and I'm Canadian, so it doesn't even matter.
  

• Exams start pretty soon. My first one is a week from Thursday. Eeeeeeeek!
• I'm still not getting enough sleep. I hate being tired.
  
• My sister is making decisions I think are dumb. I know she has to make her own mistakes and everything, but I still worry about her.
  
• One of my friends is being a drama queen.
  

what? that's not my coat.

oh, there it is

Sorry I've been so absent lately. School started again, and with it came my old friend stress. I've been keeping up with everyone for the most part, but mostly on the fly so I don't comment much.

Yuck:

• I have a pounding headache, and I'm considering skipping my last class to go home, take Advil, and get some homework done. The class today is on Gilgamesh, which I covered both last year, and in a different course last week.
  
• Stress!!! UGH. I feel like I'm so far behind in Arabic. I had to concentrate on other classes this weekend, so I didn't get any studying done between Thursday and today, and I feel like I forgot everything I learned. But I made flashcards, so hopefully things will get easier.
  
• The weather is so cold! I can't figure out why. It's usually ridiculously hot here in September, but it isn't nice at all this year. Edit: see, I said that, then I went outside and it was 25C.
  
• I still haven't talked to my best friend. I have so much to tell her. I wish I could call her.
  
• Balancing babysitting (I decided not to give it up), school and my "real job" is hard. It's annoying having to coordinate all the schedules.
  

Wheeeee:

• My family has temporary (possibly permanent) custody of a kitten!!!! She is so wonderful and adorable. I've never had a kitten before, as all of my other ones were more grown up when we got them. So it's a whole new experience. Her name is Patty. She belonged to the kid I babysit, but he was so scared of her that we offered to take her so they wouldn't send her to a shelter. She sleeps with me at night! She has more energy than anything I've ever seen! My older cats (both at least five times her size) are scared of her! Everything about her is a delight.
  
• My classes are all really fun. There's a lot of reading, and learning a new alphabet is challenging, but I like everything I'm in, which is a relief.
  
• People who love me. It is so nice to know that even when I have to neglect my friendships some for schoolwork, they will understand and like me anyway.
  
• My familial relations have improved greatly in the past year. I get along with my parents now, and my sister at least half of the time. It makes everything else seem less stressful.
• House starts tonight! And I get to watch it with the boy I like.
  
• Cooler weather means clothes I had to put away for the summer! Things like boots, fuzzy sweaters, leotards, turtlenecks, legwarmers and wool socks.
  
• My mom made granola, and it is sooo good. She's been making it since I was little, and it's so delicious.
• I'm actually working. I barely got any shifts during the summer, and even though sometimes it takes me away from time when I should be doing homework, working is a nice distraction, because it's generally mindless (I'm an usher/coat check/bus girl at a theatre) and my coworkers are lovely people.
  

Here's a kitten picture:

Patty

Things that make me happy:

• The boy in my life.
• End of season sales. I bought five shirts today for a total of $28. I also got a $10 dress (reduced from $36), two pairs of feathered earrings, and a scarf that I have been coveting since May. I didn't buy the canvas Keds that I wanted (even though they were only $20!), because I don't really need another pair of shoes. Hmm.
• Seeing my great-great Aunt today! She is 91 and still nearly completely independent and mobile. The woman is a force of nature. She's so happy and wonderful to be around.
• I unexpectedly got called beautiful last night, and it made me feel so all day today. It was nice.
• The end of summer means the beginning of a new journal, which I like. It's a clean, fresh start.
• I reread the fourth Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book (Forever in Blue), which I hadn't liked the first time, only to discover that it's actually a good book. I think I just wasn't old enough to relate to it properly before. 
• Being trusted.
  

Things that make me sad:

• I haven't talked to my best friend in over two weeks. I miss her desperately.
• I'm a big chicken and won't tell my friend that I return his more-than-friends feelings. ::rolls eyes::
• Bad weather for the end of summer. Lame!
• I have to clean my room. I swear, the entire mess is books and clothes, but I don't have adequate storage space for the books, so I have to put them in stacks around my room, which inevitably fall over. As for the clothes....I'm just lazy and dont' clean up after myself properly.
  

Loathe

• My best friend went away again a week ago tomorrow. She's doing a missionary program, and has no computer access, and only gets to call me once a week for 10 minutes, if that. I miss her greatly.
  
• Taking flak about my course choices for next year. Yes, I'm taking two Gender & Women's Studies courses. No, that does not mean I am a lesbian, nor do I believe that I will "become" one because I have studied feminism. A bunch of my close friends who are devout Catholics believe that "feminism breeds lesbians". Whatever. I am of the belief that all people should be feminists to some degree, since all it really means is that men and women are EQUAL. Not the same, just equal. It's a bit of a touchy subject with me... haha. [/rant]
• I've been babysitting the same little boy for over three and a half years, and I'm probably going to have to stop. He is such a big part of my life, I will miss him so much.
  

Love

• Blueberries!!! I am sooo happy that it is blueberry season at last. 
• I'm going to see The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 tonight. I don't have high hopes for it, but I'm sure I will enjoy it just the same.
  
• Music. I bought a bunch of Disney music off iTunes this week, and it's so fun to listen to. Music from Mary Poppins, Beauty & the Beast, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid, and the like. 
• School! I feel like such a keener, but I really am anxious to get back. I have so many great classes, and it'll be nice to feel like I have a purpose again.
  
• The kid I babysit turned six a couple weeks ago, and I got to give him his present on Sunday--LEGO! And he loved it. I felt like the best babysitter ever. He played with it for two hours straight, and only packed it up with the utmost reluctance. I've never seen him sit still for so long.
  

Loathe:

• Having nothing to say! I never Vox anymore, and I barely write in my real journal either. I don't know where my creativity's got to, but I'm not particularly pleased with it.
• This heat. Today was 33 C with a humidex of 38, and humidity was about 600%. Not only is it stifling and miserable to breathe in, it wreaks havoc with my hair. How am I supposed to be vain if I look like crap?!
• My best friend is working 12 hour days, 6 days a week for the next three weeks.
• How hard it is to coordinate three different work schedules so a couple friends and I can go see Wall-E.
• My birthday is in a couple of days. I don't like birthdays. I'm not sure why.
  

Love:

• My best friend is home!!!
  
• The boy I like (who likes me back, but he doesn't know how I feel because I'm acting like a stupid teenage girl) called me pretty twice in two days. I am annoyed that this makes me happy.
  
• I babysat today, and the kid and I had a water fight with the hose. It was very refreshing.
  
• There was some confusion about which university I technically attend. The small, 1100 student one, or the big, 13 000 student one. The small one is kind of a part of the big one. Happily, even though almost all my classes are at the big one, I still attend the small one! Yay!
• My imminent birthday means I survived another year! I even learned some things.
• FANS. It turns out that they make even the hottest days a little more bearable.
  

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Unfortunate:

• I was supposed to go to the beach with the boy who was my best friend last summer, but he canceled.
• TEXTBOOKS! They are expensive, and the university has hardly listed any of the course requirements online yet, presumably so I have to buy them from their bookstore, and not online or secondhand.
  
• I'm going to have to get another job. The one I have plus babysitting? Not enough. Plus I'm just really bored, since my shifts seem to come in a feast-or-famine sort of way.
  
• We're renovating the bathroom, and my parents fight multiple times a day.

• I have sweatshirts I need to alter today! I like sewing. It relaxes me.
  
• I'm home alone. No family arguments!
  
• I had a good conversation about God with one of my friends last night, and it has given me a lot to think about.
  
• It's sunny and warm, but not ridiculously hot.
• I woke up this morning with a large ball of cat on my legs. He never sleeps with me, it was cute.
  

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