iPad Blog

Ok real fast, writing this on my iPad which has 17% battery left. I had an icky day today, headache all day so I spent it on the couch with my iPad. Yep super exciting I know.

Umm... It snowed today for the first time which is real exciting cause 1. The first snow is always exciting and 2. END OF WORST YEAR OF MY LIFE IS ALMOST DONE!!!!

Sari that poem was awesome! Lee I can understand the lost shirt ordeal. I lost a dress actually couldn't find it, I wore it to my grandmothers funeral and well I changed after at my aunts house so I even called asking if she'd seen the dress. Found it months later in the mess of my closet. yeah...

Anyways I miss all of you. And I hope we can all hang out soon.

Ok this is getting annoying to write, keeps freezing. I'm going to go back to watching the Graham Norton show. Currently Puff Daddy, a female comedien ( missed the intro and my box doesn't list info for the show) and Vince Vaughn are on and it's fantastic!

Miah

Ghosts doing the laundry

Hi all!

Sari, loved the poem! I totally want to do one too. (Haven't written creatively since maybe grade 12 English…) Your rhyming is pretty sweet; not terrible at all. :P

Miah, Mars, we gotta hang out!! And Sari of course, when you get back.

(I'm not including Evie, 'cause we're going to a concert on Thursday!!! Yay! Wanna know what makes it even cooler? It's Feist!!!)

Weirdest thing happened today. Here's the set-up:

Four years ago, I went to a Feist concert and bought a white Feist t-shirt. Subsequently, maybe only a few weeks later, I realized I had lost it. Like I put it in the wash, but it never reappeared in the clean laundry hamper.

Over the past few years, I have sometimes thought of that shirt. That missing shirt, the one thing whose absence I feel distinctly. Most things that I lose, I probably don't even realize I've lost.

But today… lo and behold. In the latest batch of clean clothes… the missing Feist shirt. Just in time for the concert on Thursday. Creepy? Absolutely! Amazing? Absolutely!!!

Ok I gotta sleep, but I wanted to fill you guys in on today's supernatural event.

<3

Lee

I'm ON TIME!!! :) Congratulations?

So this is going to be a stressful week

I’ll probably be studying like a freak

I’ve got so many tests

And I’ll surely be getting minimal rest

Today it is pouring rain

And that is such a pain

My hair is a mess

And so is my dress

Because everything is wet

And it’ll continue all day, I bet

Ok, so my rhyming skills are TERRIBLE!

So, I’m going to try an acrostic poem instead?
That’s kind of the easy way out, but I promise it'll be good!

E - extremely stressful week...i'm dreading it but i'm also super pumped for when it's over!

X - x-rays are currently what i'm studying, because i'm studying different waves in my astronomy class

A - apples are apparently really healthy and a good snack food during exams because they make you feel full so you don't eat a ton of junk food...too bad i just ate a banana. same idea though, right?

M - massive circles under my eyes, because clearly i don't get enough sleep

S - stressssss! x10000000 but i'm looking forward to the break!

ok, well i need to get back to homework and studying! good luck to everyone over the next few days! next time i blog, it'll be DECEMBER!!! :) byeeee

-Sari

Sunday

Sunday Sunday Sunday....last day off till the new week starts....I can't wait till winter break starts....=P

Well ladies and gentlemen I had a most eventful week, and it was so much fun! I have been getting marks back from all my mid-terms all week. At first I thought i had done really badly on all of them (I am not one to really study. And I didn't exactly study for any of them...:S) but when i got them all back I had done really well except on one which I did well on, but I would have liked to be a little higher.

Anyway, on Wednesday night my program leaders had organized a "Pub Crawl" night (ie. bar hopping). I didn't really want to go when i got home because I was tired, and cold. But I went anyway, and I am really glad I did. I met some new people in my program who I had never realized were in my program, and Drank and was merry with some of my friends that went as well. We went to a place called Toby's, played some pool for a bit, ate and watched the sports games that were going on, and then we walked over to a place called Sneaky Dee's. They have a special on, on Wednesday nights which was awesome and then we all danced the night away.

On Friday, my friends and I decided to go out to a Rocky Horror Picture movie thing that happens apparently every month which is kind of cool. People dress up and we watch the movie dance, and people actually act out the movie while it's going on. It was a lot of fun. And on saturday me and couple of friends from school went out a a bar called "The Hoxton" which was kind of cool. Its like a bar-ish club, they have a big bar, and a dance flood and a DJ booth kind of at the back. Its really neat.

Anyway. I should let you all go and do you chores and such.=P And get ready for the new week. Haha, anyway I shall see all you ladies and gents next week. I swear I'll be on time this time.=P

Have a good week!
Cheers,

-Mars

Ps. This has sat on my computer for like 2 hours. I left it thinking I hit "Post" i didn't....Haha, my mind is else where.=P

Angry lady in the TTC

Okay guys, I'm going into HYPER speed for this blog. I have t-minus 7 minutes to write this thing!

So tonight I'm going to a kids show (yes a show for children in a theatre :P don't be jealous) with a friend and it's gonna be super fun!! I'm all dressed up and stuff and we're going out for dinner before hand. We also got the tickets for $5 cuz her dad works backstage I think, how sick is that? :D anyway that's why I'm rushing. Also I know this is a tad late, but hey, are you so surprised?

Okay so I have a super depressing story from last night. I actually had a really good time cuz i went out with some peeps and we danced it up at a bar but getting down there was the WORST. I got my metropass confiscated because I was trying to sneak more than one person into the automatic entrance and (I didn't know this till last night, or maybe I just didn't think about it) they have cameras so this woman came on the speaker thingy saying she'd called security and stuff so I went to the other entrance, not realizing that that was where the lady was - the ANGRY lady I should add - and so when we tried to go through she told us to stop and asked to see my metropass. I, being a goody-two shoes (usually anyway), handed it over immediately thinking she was just checking that it was legit or something but then she's all "I'm confiscating this because you tried to commit fraud" and you guys, she was SO.ANGRY. Like I was looking her in the face and you could just see the judgement and anger radiating off of her. It was pretty awful needless to say. So now my parents don't have a metropass till next month. Did I mention that before? It wasn't exactly my metropass, it was theirs :S I haven't talked to my mom yet but hopefully she won't freak out too badly!
Yikes! Am I right?

Alright guys - time's up! Till next week :)
Evie

Two Bonus Chemo's...

Uch, so I've had an emotional week. Anyone else?!?!

So here's the basic simple sitch, my mass decided to be too large for radiation to begin so tomorrow I'm going to my first of two bonus chemo's! Can you just feel my happiness and excitement bouncing off the page? Because of this, all of my cancer crap won't finish until late January/early-mid February.

So yeah, when I got the call that instead of starting radiation this Friday I'd be having chemo tomorrow. I got real depressed, angry, upset, disappointed, and pissed. It honestly felt that I got a call telling me I have cancer (which yes I know I already do), that's how scared and miserable I felt. I really just didn't want to talk to anyone, not even my parents and brother. There's times that I feel like I need to talk to a peer of mine, someone who gets exactly the hell I'm going through. But the thing is, I just need to remind myself why and what I'm living for. I need to laugh really hard and smile, and I eventually do pick myself up. Which I did by Sunday, though I am in a little bit of a funk, I do realize if I don't do these bonus two rounds I won't get better. I have this "just do it and get it over with" attitude to all of this, just crossing things off my list.

In similar news, my Dad bought me the Ella Enchanted soundtrack off iTunes, because its the only way I can own songs that Anne Hathaway songs (you can't buy singles with this album.) Which I am currently listening too. This inspired me to add Ella Enchanted to my digital collection of films which consists of Harry Potter's 1-6, Princess Diaries 1&2, and Little Manhattan ( a great movie that you should all see!) so my iTunes thinks I'm a 12 year old girl basically. I like to buy 1 movie or book onto my iPad before chemo, so Ella was the movie.

In other but more similar news, I had to do an assignment where I needed to make a video basically spreading awareness. So I slightly took the easy wrought and did Young Adult Cancer. This project was the final project of the class, and was meant to be done in groups. My teacher at the beginning of the year allowed me to choose between group or solo, and since groups would be too much pressure I went with solo. So here's all of the stories. 1. They were comical and EVERYONE was laughing. 2. My class usually ignores presentations, but everyone was paying attention to mine. The irony of this is my videos were about treating cancer patients the same way (with a little help,) and if it were a different situation I don't think they would have paid that much attention. (SIDE NOTE: Anne Hathaway's Somebody to Love just came on, this was how I was introduced to the song so I always think of her when I hear it. This is making me happy!) 3. I did three video's because 1 just didn't feel like enough since they were 2+ minuets each. Most groups did a video and a series of posters.The group right after me only did one 2+ minuet video. And well looked real bad going after me. Like really bad. Especially because (even though they said the video took 2 days to film) it could have been filmed in an hour and edited in 30 minuets. All they did was speed up some footage and add text and music. Needless to say I felt really good after this. Ma, S,L, E you guys can check them out on my Facebook page. Oh and 4. My teacher said I was a good actor for the content... I strong disagree.

OK gotta go to bed. Even though my drugs make me sleep all day so it really doesn't matter.

Miah

I'M HOMEEEEEEEEEEE! & late again...oops

Jeeez I'm late again...sorry! I seriously have issues with the days of the week! haha

I need to remember M O N D A Y that i MUST blog!! I just finished writing that in my planner so that I will not forget!!! Blogging is funnnn but I always get distracted with a billion other things and completely forget what day of the week it is!

Yesterday I had a test so I was totally distracted and I came home today :D AHHHHH I'M SO PUMPED TO BE HOME!!!!!! Don't get me wrong, school is a blast but I definitely missed being home :( It felt like I was gone for so long! (6 weeks!!)

Also, now that I'm home, I'll have time to catch-up on all of the work that i'm far behind in (and lets just say that is basically EVERY subject....procrastination is terrible terrible terrible). This means that I'm going to have time to write a poem for next week!!!! YAY! So, get excited for next week because: 1. I'm going to be ON TIME! Crazy right!? It's seriously going to be a miracle and 2. It's going to be a poem!! Don't get too excited because I'm not that creative..but I'll try :)

Anyways, now that I'm home, I've realized how much I missed being home...

I miss home-cooked meals (because regardless of how much the school says their food isn't THAT bad...it really is bad), I miss sleeping in my own bed (which is WAY comfier than my bed at school), I miss doing laundry at home (because the dryers at school shrink EVERYTHING and you always need to find quarters and wait in line when there are a lot of people using them), I miss seeing my friends from high school and skating, and I miss my familyyyy.

I know this probably sounds like I hate university..and that is NOT the case at all...it's just the fact that exam week is starting in 2 weeks, which is extremely stressful and I just can't wait for it to be over. When I'm home, I feel a lot less stressed, so I'm really happy to be home right now :)

I don't really have anything too excited planned for this week. Two things that I'm definitely going to do is read the Hunger Games and buy Adele's piano sheet music book! I've seen the trailer for the movie and now I'm even more pumped!! Also, I'm currently obsessed to the song "set fire to the rain" (or something like that...idk? haha)..It's overplayed but I still really like it and I also want to learn how to play "Someone Like You" on the piano...again overplayed..but I still like it :p hahah

Anyways, I have to unpack because my room is currently a MESS!!!! And I better get cracking on my homework so that I can start working on that amazing poem..jks!

Have a great week everyone and good luck with school :D Don't get stressed, just be happy that break is right around the corner!!!

-Sari

$105

Hi guys,

Hope all's well. I'm kinda tired so I'm not gonna do a humongous blog, especially since I also have some studying to do. I always have some studying to do, but exams are closing in, and it's about time I started studying for those.

Right now I'm just chilling, listening to some George Harrison. I cleaned off my desk so I can start seriously working again, which means I have access to my speakers again. (Which means George Harrison on full blast!)

Hmm I can't really think of what to write! Maybe this will have to be a super short blog.

Oh gosh. I just looked at my budget. This month alone, I've spend $105 on food. I've spent more otherwise, but just… omg. One hundred and five dollars on food. And I live at home, where my parents provide food. Gotta shape up! Gotta try not to spend it all on hot chocolates and lame sandwiches! But I guess it's kind of alright since I don't spend a tonne on other stuff, and since I'm working once or twice a week. But stillll!

K on that note I'm going to get to my studies. Hope to see you soon,

Lee

Sunday

Hello Ladies and Gents.

So I realize it's Sunday, sorry guys, but it's been a bit of a crazy week and I completely forgot.:S But this is going to be a quick post cause it's my turn to cook dinner for my whole family. (Holy crap, i'm going to die)

So I've had a most exciting week. I shot out two projects this week and presented them BOTH on the same day, first in the class. Talk about pressure.:S But I think they went well, both of them I was in a group so i think we all came together and really worked together well. 34 pages for a trip to Egypt, and a presentation later we all did it! Haha. And another 15 page essay on our restaurant for my other class (we were in a group for that as well), we did it! Woohoo, I have two more projects, but they are easier then the last two.

The next two I am with a partner and in a group. One is about wine, we have to pick a wine and research it, pair it with the right foods, and make a meal from them and present it to the class. And the other is about marketing a trip to the Mayan Riviera. We have come up with a brochure, a logo, and a presentation to sell it. Can anyone say Fiesta?! Lol, we'll be having Pinatas, food, and other cool things.

Anyway, tonight I get the pleasure or making dinner for not only my brother and my parents, but my aunt, my older brother, and my sister-in-law! Woohoo! I'm making beef wellington (if anyone knows what that is, it's the best thing ever, and really hard to make.) I've made it multiple times now, and hopefully it will turn out as great as the last times!:)

Anyway, that is it for now my friends. I shall see you all next week hopefully.:)

Cheers

-Mars.

Ps. I miss y'all as well.

My brain feels fuzzy and strange today

Awww Miah I miss you too!!
Well I'm a little late with the posting but hopefully this won't take too long so I won't delay Friday's post :P I'm feeling pretty tired today cuz I was hangin with friends last night and I didn't get to sleep till about 2:30am. Craziness! I had fun though, got a little tipsy on a Thursday haha so I too was feeling a little rebellious!

So my sister's home from Halifax. She's officially moved back in and although she's here for a little while I know it's only temporary so I'm just appreciating having an extra person in the house to talk to. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before but I intensely dislike being alone in the house for long periods of time. I like having people to talk to, otherwise I feel like I have so much to say but like no one to say it to. Drives me a little crazy, and I definitely start talking to myself...Anywho, I'm glad she's home. We've already gone for a couple bike/runs together where we get to talk and like bond and stuff - it's nice :) Oh, I should explain that it's a bike/run because my sister runs really far and so I bike beside her while she runs because not only can I not run very far (I think I only last about 10 or so minutes before I'm DONE) but I also can't talk very easily when I run cuz my cardio sucks. SO basically biking with her works out super well cuz she can talk while she runs and I can definitely talk while I bike. Yay for bike/runs :)

Let's see what else is new...well I'm officially dating someone, which I'm happy about! My mom even mentioned it the other night when she had a bunch of her girlfriends over and even though she sorta put me on the spot, I didn't even blush. Honest! I was pretty surprised myself :P Normally I blush about everything. Like I can remember blushing in the hallways when people would stop me to ask me something. I don't even know precisely why I was blushing, it was probably because I was worried about what everyone around me thought and I guess that's pretty embarrassing, thinking that everyone's watching you. Talk about pressure eh? Well, at least I survived right? Not unscathed but pretty much in one piece. And I got some awesome friends out of it ;P

Well, not too much else to report - oh I'm learning Blackbird in my guitar lessons, which I'm excited about. It's such a pretty song! In fact I think I'll go practice it right now.

Till next week guys
Evie :)

Tattoo's

Ooh the writing space is blue and different now. How fancy.

Anyways.

So today I spent doing homework, mainly filming a series of videos for a class. I seem a little bored and tired in them, but what can you do? Other then that nothing much happened today.

As for life, well yesterday I went for my radiation planning. In that I had to actually get radioactive, like I spent an hour ( I was told, I didn't have any sense of actual time when I can't see a clock) having... OK I don't actually remember what it was. This was at 8 in the morning, and I had woken up at 7 after two bad nights of sleep so I was really out of it. But it was some radioactive solution that was needed for the scans. Any who I then was sent over to the PET scan station and waited until they were ready. I was lined up using a laser and then sent back and forth through a machine. This whole thing was harmless, well except for two things. First you CAN NOT MOVE. And that's really hard to do for 30/45 minuets. Like so much harder then I thought, I now have so much new found respect for the nude models I have to draw at school. Second there was a student who was no joke like two years older then us, and well they needed to lower my hospital gown and my breast were exposed, since my cancer is in my chest. Now it has happened before, with males in the room, and yes its humiliating. But it didn't bother me as much as it did the other day, I think its cause he was so close to our age, were as other times the doctors were a lot older. Oh and another thing I now have tattoo's. They're used to line me up each time I get radiation. They look like two blue freckles. I feel so rebellious!

OK I think that's all I wanted to talk about.

Miss all of you guys so much!

Miah

Blog from the very near past!

Hey y'all. I'm writing this at 11:49pm on Monday. Crazy, no??

I had this essay weighing on me for the past week, which I finished today. It's about Baruch Spinoza, the 17th century philosopher, and kind of why he differs from French philosopher René Descartes. I'm pretty happy with it- fingers crossed that my TA is also happy with it!

When I was like 75% of the way through, and kind of stuck, I had my computer read out what I had written, in its mechanical robot-y voice. It was pretty cool! It helped me find 4 or 5 typos, and it kind of make me realize where points were missing, or which sentences were extraneous, etc. Definitely going to do that again sometime (much to my mom's chagrin, who seemed to hate the voice).

I also finished this assignment that has to be done by Friday, so… ahead of the game! (Except that I'm behind on all the readings. All of them.)

In other news, I have a date on Friday. Like 99% sure it's a date. Dinner and drinks? Sounds like a date, right? It feels so grown-up, going on a date with a guy I don't even know that well. My dad said watch out for the date-rape drug so… I guess… uh I guess I will, but the guy seems nice. I guess it's always a good idea to be on the look-out for shady behaviour.

As most of you know (but Mars, I don't know if I told you this), I'm pretty committed to being single for second year. ("Single for Second Year" - it sounds nice. I should make buttons.) So as interested as I am in having this grown-up experience of going on a real date (like I said, 99% sure it's a date), I'm a little worried about how that will fit into my whole single thing, down the road. Not that I think I'm going to end up "going steady" (as they say in Archie comics) with this guy, but rather I worry about the precedent I'm setting for myself by agreeing to one date. Worries!

Worries shworries. I think I'll just try to enjoy it. :P

Miss you guys, hope to see you soon. Sari, you're back this weekend?? We gotsta hang out!

-Lee

SORRRYYYYYY & International Dinner!

1. So, I completely missed blogging last week...and didn't even realize until Thursday! That just explains how hectic last week was :(

I'm so sorry for missing my blogging time! This week, I'm writing my blog in the morning so that there is no possible chance for me to be too busy and not have time to blog!

2. I'm still working on that poem that I promised...GET EXCITED :D

3. Last week on Friday, my school hosted the "International Dinner". This is an event that has been going on since 1990, and basically it represents all of the International students at my school. Although I'm only 6 hours away...I'm still considered International :p There are some students at my school who are from California, Colorado, Oklahoma, etc. and they are soooo much further away from school than I am, and I'm still considered International hahah.

There are students from over 20 countries attending my school: Canada (obviously the coolest :p), Argentina, Bolivia, Nicuragua, Australia, England, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Wales, China, Italy, Germany, Mongolia, Sweden, etc. (That's all that I can think of right now!)

Anyways, so for the International Dinner, there is a ton of International food, entertainment, and a fashion show. Every student is required to make a dish from their home country. There are three Canadians at my school this year so we all decided to make poutine. Let's just say, cooking in quantity to serve 250 people is VERY difficult...our poutine was good, but not as good as it could've been!

As for the entertainment, there were salsa dancers, violinists, and pianists. The performances were amazing!

And for the fashion show, everyone is supposed to wear something that represents their home country. I ended up getting my mom to mail me a hockey jersey to wear :P This was a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey jersey and was wayyyyy tooooo big for me. I was literally like a dress haha. Nonetheless, it was so interesting to see what everyone had to wear. The traditional dress in Bolivia was soo pretty. Sometimes I wish I grew up in a different time period or in a different country just because their cultures seem so different? But I'm sure if I did that, then I would want to be Canadian. Grass is always greener on the other side? Haha the nice thing with Canada is that we're so diverse as it is, so we represent so many cultures :)

Oh ps. on Friday, it was 11/11/11...I really hope everyone made an epic wish, because I know that I sure did! hahah :)

Ladies and Gentemen

Good afternoon Ladies and gentlemen!

Well this week has been....interesting to say the least. Now, to my post from last week. Well I can safely say that I have been put off drinking a whole 2-6er BY MYSELF in under an hour and a half. I was 3 sheets to the wind, by 1030pm. Why I did it? Well I have been really stressed the past little while, and I just kind of wanted to let loose. I totally don't remember a thing, and I feel like in a way I think I should be glad that I can't remember anything. So I mean I'm not feeling great about loosing control, but I think I had to do it to just get it out of my system. And I feel bad for my friends that tried to help but I just totally rejected their help. But I know that I have done something wrong, and will admit to that.

Anyway, on another note I went to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair this week on Wednesday with my mother. I had a lot of fun as I always do with my mum and I totally emptied my bank account. Ha-ha. I bought so much stuff for my non-existent horse....LOL. I bought a halter, a beautiful figure 8 bridle nose band, ANOTHER saddle pad, polo wraps....lord help me. My mum just shook her head every time I bought something else. Haha. Oh well...At least I'll be ready when I get my own horse!!
Anyway, We also went to the horse show which was also so cool as always. This year there as dressage in the dark. (For the people who might not know what dressage it's like making the horse look like it's dancing. They look all pretty with their heads down, the their dancing in a graceful and beautiful way.) Dressage in the dark meant that the whole arena was in darkness, and the horses were all decked out in LED lights. The riders weren't, but it was so cool. It looked like there was no one on the horse, and they were just doing the movements all on their own, not to mention with the lights they were wearing, it looked like they were floating around the arena, without touching the ground.

After seeing that, awards were giving out to jumpers, and 6 and 4 horse hitches which were really cool to see. There was also a retirement ceremony for Jill Henselwoods horse "Special Ed", who is being retired after almost 10 years of show jumping.

On a sadder note, last weekend the equestrian community lost a hero. Eric Lamaze's horse, Hickstead, collapsed and died over the weekend from a ruptured valve in his heart after completing a 13 jumping course in Verona Italy. Hickstead was a beautiful horse, such a joy to watch. He was only 15 when he died. Hickstead came to Eric in a time of need, and helped him overcome many different difficult obstacles. Hickstead helped Eric Lame win a silver medal in team show jumping in the 2008 summer Olympics, and also won the first ever gold medal in individual show jumping for Canada. At the Royal on Wednesday night, they had a tribute to Hickstead, and Eric Lamaze revived a standing ovation when he rode out on Herald 3. This was his second ride since the horrible event on Saturday. It was so heart warming, and you could tell that people were really moved by both the tribute, and the performance with his ride.

Although he didn't win, Scotland's Scott Brash with his horse Bon Ami won in the jumpoff with 0 faults. All in all I thought it was a great show. The Royal's own jumper set-up crew made arm-bands for them and the other riders to wear in honor of Hickstead's Memory, which were made public a day after they first appeared in the ring. I was lucky enough to snag one of them, and will proudly wear it whenever I get the chance too.

Anyway, Ladies and gentlemen I shall let you all get back to whatever you were doing before you started reading my rambles and babbles. And I should get back to my class....

Haha, this whole time I've been sitting in class writing, and babbling on while my teacher is talking about Guest Services. Anyway I shall hopefully see you all next for another episode of "Mars's Exciting Life". Haha.

Anyway see y'all next week!!

-Cheers!

Mars.

Visiting the old high school still feels weird...

Whew! I almost forgot to blog :P And look at that it's only 10:30pm I still got like and hour and a half.

Alrighty well this week has been just okay, not feeling super awesome though I actually have been having fun hanging out with my friends, I've just been struggling with some personal stuff :( which always sucks, am I right?

Anywho, something exciting that happened earlier this week was visiting Northern with Lee and another friend. It was waaaaaay weird to go back - so many memories. Like SO many memories. It's hard to wrap my head around the whole "I spent four years of my life there" its craziness! I was totally freaking out while I was there, Lee can back me up on that. We walked past a couple of my old lockers and our old lunch spot and our old hangout spot for spare. We even got to visit with our old music teacher (we all took music), which was super nice because everyone loves her! She caught us up on some of the school gossip and she had her grade nine strings class perform some of the songs they're working on for the concert for us, which was actually super fun. You know, I kinda miss music. It was an awesome class, so much energy and fun! Even if I was super awks socially :S It was a pretty good visit all in all. Oh yea, I also met this teacher who a bunch of people told me had some of the same mannerisms as me. And OMG they were totally right :O it was so bizarre. She kept doing things or saying things (within the span of like 3 minutes, we only talked to her for a second in the front hall) that I TOTALLY do or say. Like I said, it was bizarre :P Lee can back me up on that one too.

Oh! Also in guitar lessons I'm just starting to learn "Finger plucking blues". Which I think is hilarious - can you guys picture me pluckin out some 'ole blues tunes? Haahha its gonna be epic when I actually learn a song. For now we're just starting to learn how to pluck the base with our thumb and the melody with our other fingers. Fairly difficult, not surprisingly. S'gonna take some practicing that's for sure!!

Till next time guys :)
Evie

Hello?

Hello?

Sari? Lee?( OK Lee, for the record when I started you hadn't posted yet...)

Anyways.

Hey Guys!

I've been feeling awesome as of late. Well kinda still in a bit of a funk but hopefully I'll be able to vent to some peeps soon about said funk. But I mean I do feel better since our Halloween party last Friday. I really did miss hanging out with friends. Oh and I dressed up as Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, everyone but one person thought it was funny so I say-- costume success!

So this week I finally went back to school after missing two weeks straight (keep in mind my classes are only Monday and Tuesday) and I must admit i felt really anxious ahead of time. Not because I was worried about what my teachers would say but because I was so behind, even though for a good reason. Side note. OMG really raining and heads starting to really hurt. OK side note over. What I struggle with the most about having cancer is dealing with body and mind coordination. What I mean by that can be seen in my falling 2 weeks behind in school, mentally I'm there and ready to do all of my homework on time. But physically, I just can't do that. I've spent a lot of my time on the couch, not because I'm lazy but because physically its even hard to sit at my computer and go on Facebook or something. But with the passing of chemo brings energy increase!!!

Like today, I went shopping at a fairly large mall. In the past I would need to sit down every few sections or so, sometimes I and a family member would just sit in a central location while others ran errands. But today I did the whole thing only to sit down to try on shoes, which after about 5 pairs I didn't purchase any though I have decided on which to buy. But I am really proud of my self for well shopping today, because I've had some really scary moments but today reminded me that I am getting better.

OK so I don't know how to segway into this, but I'm going to write it anyway. On Monday I am two weeks behind my classmates, though like I said for good reason. Now in this class each week we present our work and get critiqued. And well I had nothing to show other then sketches which I didn't put up because well you only put up finished pieces (though for this project its two weeks of roughs.) Anyway my teacher did a one on one session and started with me because frankly I need it most at the moment. Then after we talk, my teacher moves around the room and I begin the work, a guy gets up and obviously ( though attempting to be subtle about it-- OK maybe obvious to me) tries to see what I'm doing. And well its none of his business why I'm two weeks behind! Also I handed in an assignment on Monday that was due three weeks ago, but since I was meant to work on it during a chemo week I got an extension. Anyway the guy as I was talking to my teacher after class picked up my assignment to look at it!!! I dunno, it bothers me but not too much.

Final thing, yesterday I realized that I have no crushes. Like I normally seem to be crushing on someone, but for the first time in a long time I'm actually crushless. Which to be honest feels really good, and I guess part of why I've been feeling so great lately. In a weird way not crushing on anyone makes me feel somewhat stronger. I dunno.

OK off to do a bit more homework before bed.

Miah

Adventure is out there!

Oh my goodness, we are kind of slacking on this blog thang. Except you Miah. :P

Today was a pretty sweet day. I switched my work schedule so instead of going in at 9 today (as I have to do every Wednesday), I only had to go in at 2pm. So I slept in, had a big breakfast, watched Glee and New Girl… leisurely stuff. I left around 1pm, did my one hour of class, and then chilled with my friend for the rest of the afternoon/night, because I had to stay on campus for Taekwondo which was at 9.

Chilling with my friend was a lot of fun. I've steered pretty clear of guys for the past few months, determined to have an uneventful second year. But just in the past couple of weeks they've started closing in on me :P (Yes, THEY. As in multiple people. Oh my goodness.) So chilling with my (guy) friend was like… the first time I let myself do anything overtly flirtatious and fun in a long time. Needless to say, it was great to just chill and laugh, in a kind of I-know-that-you-know-that-I-know-that-you-like-me way. If that makes sense.

Then taekwondo was good. Not too vigorous, which was good since I'm just getting over a gum infection now. Lots of technique practicing today. Then I got a drive home- WOOOOO!!!

See you guys,

Lee

Oh god....

Good morning ladies and gentalmen,

I have three very big words you all. Never Drinking again.

I will elaborate more next week. But right now, I have to go and figure out what happened to me, and get a lot of extra strength asprin.

Cheers

- Mars.

A weekend full of laughing, dancing and SPARKLES

Woo Hoo Halloween Weekend!!
Mars pretty much mentioned everything that happened already cuz I'm preeeetty sure I spent the whole weekend plus thursday night with her :P It was SICK. And yes we were temporarily party animals, dancing the night away in a bar is definitely the best!
I didn't dress up Thursday night but there were actually a lot of people dressed up in crazy costumes and technically it was "pajama night" at the bar we were at but we didn't know, which I told the bartender loudly when we got heckled for it :P I have to say though I reaaally like the music they played there, it was such an awesome mix of great rock songs and some sweet dance music like top hits and stuff. I was havin a blast dancing all night with Mars :)

Then Friday like she said there was a guy dressing up as the Dr. from Rocky Horror and it was quite entertaining to help him get on the corset and then see the final product with his little skirt and fishnets haha. I thought it was pretty ballsy of him to go all the way downtown but I guess there would probs be a lot of peeps dressed up all crazy for a movie like that - I mean, it is a cult classic!

So it wasn't till Saturday night that I dressed up for Halloween and it was SUCH a fun night :D I wore a purple sparkly top, sparkly tights and I got a friend to spray sparkles in my hair and put sparkles around my eyes (before the eyeliner went on I couldn't even see my eyelashes it made my eyes look so round and foreign - can you relate Miah?) it was awesome!! It was actually pretty funny because all night I kept getting sparkles on everyone, like when I was dancing and the lights swept past I could see this cloud of sparkly dust all around me :P Epic, am I right? Also the guy I'm seeing (who's name I won't be posting :P) at one point I had my head on his shoulder and then afterwards I turned to say something and saw that there were sparkles literally ALL over his coat - whoops! :P There's still sparkles all over the back and hood of my jacket, I'm thinking they're gonna be there for a while.

This year I got to do something I don't normally have the chance to do; I got to dress up twice with TWO different costumes! So Saturday night I was a sparkle girl and then Monday night I was a mobster, complete with the bowler hat and tommy gun (made out of cardboard :P). I really liked being able to dress up in two different costumes, especially because it would have been a lot to do the sparkle costume twice haha. And I'm not sure Mars would have appreciated me getting sparkles all over her living room. We spent Monday night watching Amityville Horror at her place and let me just say it is pretty freakin scary! I was hiding behind my little cardboard gun for most of the movie...BUT I made it through, I survived another horror film! Plus it was the new one so it's supposedly scarier right? Aren't the new ones like more intense and stuff? Watevs I'm proud for not dying of fright :P

But I have to say the best part about this week is gonna be dressing up AGAIN tmr night and getting to see most of you guys to celebrate Halloween together! You'll get to see my mobster costume! :)

So that was my weekend, super fun and filled with laughing and dancing and SPARKLES :P

Unfortunately today I haven't actually been feeling all that great :( not entirely sure why but I have some theories one of them has to do with it being that time of the month :P But you know, thinking about my weekend and realizing that in 24 hrs I'll be dressing up again feels pretty good :)
Boooo for all that studying you have to do Sari, it sounds stressful! Yay for no more midterms Lee, and looking forward to seeing most of you tmr night! I'll be sad you aren't here Sari :( But hoping you're having a good weekend in Ohio

Till next week guys!
Evie <3

An Unforgetable Halloween

So this time round I actually have something to blog about!
Ok first lets start of with my day. Today my big cousin came over to hang out with me and its a lot of fun when she does. She's more like a sister then a cousin to me really, cause I tell her a lot and she tells me a lot. It's weird though cause we're so close but we're 10 years apart while my other girl cousins are only 9 months,a year, and 4 years younger yet I couldn't be more distant from them. I mean she and I are a lot alike its creepy sometimes. Anyway I could go on but I won't. Oh but I do want to mention something. So over the past few years I've been becoming very skeptical and annoyed by my extended family. While it's something that I know is normal I've chosen to let those feelings slide and just enjoy my time with them because I really don't see them often.
Anyway my Halloween will be one I will never forget. Its started Thursday (well technically Monday... but Thursday is more significant) when I woke up with an armpit bruise. Bet you didn't see that coming! Yeah, I spent Halloween weekend in the hospital, can you say partay? Anyway long story short got admitted Saturday night and forty something minuets from Halloween I received my second blood transfusion, the first one I got was in September when I was in the hospital last time. The transfusion went well, it even ended at 2:20 am! Since 2 and 20 are my lucky numbers I was pleased with this. So it turned out that my bruised armpit is a sign of the infection I have (not contagious... I don't think, well I'm on meds so it should be fine, and when you guys see me Friday just don't touch my pit.) The doctors even said getting a bruise in my pit is uncommon. So yeah that was my Halloween. I did go home Monday but didn't do anything to celebrate. We only had 2 kids show up and a douche bag of a woman (she was 20+ banking on the fact that people are too nice to not give her candy, but my mom slammed the door in her face.) But I'm excited for Friday since it'll be the only way for me to celebrate one of my favourite holidays of the year!
Next thing, I'm registered to do NaNoWriMo this year, but I am so far failing since I have yet to write a single word. What sucks is that I don't know that I'll be able to write at all this month just because I am really far behind in school now and my energy level is so low that writing 1000+ words a day seems to hard. But I'll try when I can and when I feel like it.
Sari good luck reading the Odyssey, its a book I know I've heard of... but nothing more then that registers in my mind.
Lee I'm glad your mid-terms are done and now you can partay with me!
Evie and Mars can't wait to hear your Halloween adventures!
Ok, hurts to type.
Miah

YEEE midterms done!!!

Finished my last midterm today. YUSS. It didn't go great but it didn't go terribly.

Watching Glee while blogging; gotta cram in the non-school stuff while I can.

Halloween was not bad; dressed up to give pop away to kids. And studied. Recycled a costume from 2006.

Ok haha I can't focus. Multitasking never works! Liking the accent on Glee. But i dunno the dialogue is weird as always. After this maybe I'll watch Merlin and how I met Your Mother. Like I said, gotta cram in the fun stuff.

I'm excited for the Halloween thing on Friday; it will be good to finally celebrate! Oh wow a voice-over by Puck. It's been a while since we've had voice overs.

Ok that's enough of the multitasking. Sari, do a poem!! Yeah! And good luck finishing Odyssey :)

-Lee