some secrets about my life

here is a little christmas treat for you

some secrets, not really secrets because I don't care...maybe more some interesting facts

1. I am the worlds most sound sleeper. I am reminiscent on this because it is christmas tomorrow. When I was just a wee child, young and impressionable I never really bought the whole santa claus thing, but not only did I just not believe it, I also wanted to catch my parents in the act. There were quite a few years, probably starting at about age 5 where I slept under the christmas tree just waiting to catch them. The thing is I am much to good of a sleeper. This year in fact, becky and sylvia were cooking, set off the fire alarm and I had no idea. The only way to wake me up is to say my name. My favourite wake up is "Danielle, it's (insert time)". Very simple and to the point. That way I can judge how much longer I can lay in bed. I will even accept a graze of the calf. My oma is AMAZING. I loved her wake up this year. So moral of the story. I never caught my parents.

2. christmas music drives me crazy. I am a bit of a grinch. I do however like orchestral christmas music. Working in retail I get to hear a lot of it. The absolute worst is the long dragged out songs where some artist tries to put their spin on things. Please just STOP!!!

3. I have way to many books. I am moving to winnipeg at the end of this semester and so I sent a whole whack of books home and my room is full of piles. There are a lot of magazines too. I have to start collecting now so that my library can be extensive. I want to be able to have people over and say, oh I have just the book for you! I do also want to have read most of the books in my library and I find the classics are really hard to get into. I have only two books on the main go right now. I also always have a book in my bed. It needs to happen!

I have still had little motivation to write. There has been lots of great stuff happening but I just don't feel like sitting and writing it down so I'll see how far I get today.

I was thinking at work about Karma yesterday. People do good things in order to have good things happen to them, or to prevent bad things from happening. Isn't that pretty self-serving? At the same time I don't believe in not being nice to people, but I just like to be nice every once in a while.

Also, I had a neet moment sunday at church. There is a blog I follow and If I knew how to put links into my blog I'd do that right here. Her name is Jill. It was a little weird (also because I know she'll read this), because I know her pretty well from reading her blog, but this was only the second time we've ever met. We have now taken our relationship to the facebook level. It's weird how you befriend people. Can this be classified as meeting online although we have other mutual friends?

the winnipeg

On the blogging front I've been a little lazy, but on the living not so much. Today is the first day since arriving home tuesday. I worked 5 hours each of those days. Yesterday I went out for lunch with my cousin to the restaurant in mcnally robinson, and that soup was unREAL!!! I will go again any day just for that soup!

On the airplane ride home I was thinking about myself. The thought came talking to an asian guy beside me whom I simply had no understanding of the words he was saying. Also, I had to restructure some sentences to be less confusing. Maybe that's why people think I'm a little odd. I do admit I have a particular way of expressing words that is unique from other people. I like it though but I feel that it is a bit of a liability when seeking job interviews.

There's so much going on right now, but I have just had no motivation to express myself through the art of blog. I have also had no motivation to read all my other blogs. Maybe it's because I don't have to study. That's probably exactly it!

blog from the airport

I must say, it's real great that the airport offers free wifi. I'm having a heck of a time. I get to update you all on my life, drink a cesear and watch some footie highlights. Overall it's been a great day. When I awoke up this morning I had a wee bit of panic because I wasn't sure my flight would be leaving on time. In Sarnia they had people getting stranded on the highways.

It's sad. I just left becky and I'm texting her already.

Also, I just went to buy the customary magazine and pack of gum. They also had some essentials including condoms. I do not understand why on earth one would need condoms. Maybe joining the mile high club. I feel someone that would be that reckless is not someone that would wear a condom. No airport public liaison is a situation in which people would be responsible enough to wear a condom.

The drive here also wasn't so bad. It's great to have a friend actually drive you.

I think I'd like to just start hanging out in an airport for fun and meet strangers. It's to bad that parking is so damn expensive. (I'd do it in winnipeg, not here...certainly not)

I really don't have much to say. I have just always wanted to blog from an airport. Mission accomplished. I feel like a bit of a hipster/totally lame for being on my laptop in public....blogging. I feel to ostentatious using a laptop in public. I don't think I judge others for doing it though. I just want to look like I'm doing important work.

I could spit on a stranger

I'm nearly done exams. I wrote my business law this mrning and I realized that I really do hate that class. I just can't write it well. It also sucked because yesterday in preparing my egg sandwich I tore a significant amount of skin from the thumb of my finger resulting in a sore thumb. Right before writing I brought a band-aid in and taped it up so that my thumb wouldn't get to sore as I was writing. I felt like an athlete taping up before a big game or something.

I'm really excited to come home but man it's going to be busy. Tonight I'm exciting to go out with becky for her birthday. I also gotta pack.

Today was also significant in that it's the first time I've worn makeup in what I think is about 10 days...maybe more.

It will also be the first time I try and clean my room and probably start packing...see you soon

exams really suck

So You've noticed that after my pretty steady rate of blogging, I've dipped off a little. Well, there's an answer for this an it's name is Geoff Hoover aka my finance prof. He decided an exam would be a great idea for the end of year and make it worth 50% of my grade. Neadless to say I've spent a lot of time procrastinating, but little time coming up with great blog ideas.

I'm so happy to be done. This exam season is pretty crazy but pretty exciting. I am however writing 4 exams in 6 days. I'm so happy finance came first because I had to do the majority of my studying for that class and by the end of exams you get so exhausted. Can you imagine studying crazy crazy for two weeks straight. I couldn't. I probably clocked in about 40-46 hours of studying which is significantly more than I usually do.

For my exam tomorrow, the total is closer to about 7 hours. I think I'll do better, it's a pretty easy class. I'll wake up early tomorrow anyways.

It's weird though. I could definitely feel the stress of exams and I realized for the past days I've been eating about 1.85 meals a day. Partialy because I'm to tuckered out to cook, and partially because I'm just not thinking about food. It's moments like this it would probably be beneficial to live at home where someone could make food for me. Oh well.

Today's supper just happened at the ripe ole time of 10:28 and I ate a can of mandarines. Yum.

Maybe a little bit more review before sleeping, but gosh darn it when I get home I'm sleeping in until noon!

follow the yellow brick road

We opened some christmas presents today.

Three of us now have matching nails

number of hits!

Well guys, I'd really think it would be cool if I can get over 500 page hits next month, and with your help it can be done!

I feel this would be a great sense of accomplishment. In the last month I have gotten about 350. Let's boost this up!!!

Tell your friends.

Tell strangers on the street.

Tell your pastors.

Tell your little brothers and sisters

Tell your financial advisor

Tell your garbage man

Tell everyone

so sad...

Watch the following commercial

So you may have seen this commercial on TV for the new windows 7. This commercial begins to epitomize how we are all screwed as people. How sad is it that we have to spend this much time on our phones. This shows that people are more interested in virtual lives than their actual lives. Is this not the sadest thing that you have ever seen. There is also one with a father at a soccer game and he indicates that it's a good thing he has this phone implying that without this phone he'd miss his kids soccer game. Are you serious...you are going to miss your kids soccer game in order to check your facebook/twitter, whatever lame crap you have going on in 'not-real-life'!. The phone at the end says designed to get you in and out and back to life. Why not just call. It's true however, I have spent hours on facebook just seeing what people are up to. However with my closer friends, I'm not going to creep them. I just realized that I never creep my closest friends profiles, unless they are winnipeggers and I haven't seen them for a while.

I was also thinking about texting in the shower...you know when you can have a really long text-versation with someone. Does this contribute towards building the relationship. I feel in terms of building blocks (these are all just models that I'm hoping convey my point), you can build more with actual face time than through a phone. Obviously geographic reasons do sometimes make that difficult, but you can still just phone. Texting means that you don't have to give that person the time of day. You can do whatever you want to do, but you just have a minor interruption every few minutes. Furthermore, phones allow you that chance to think about what you're going to say long before you have to type it, but also gives you that option of not even texting back. I don't know how I feel about text relationships. If I generally have something quick to say or if I'm bored I'll text people. But I do find it tedious to have a long drawn-out conversation. Eventually I get tired of waiting for my phone to go off. Then I feel like I'm wasting time waiting for it to go, when I could be doing something.

Another thing that bothers me is, if I'm going to take time out of my day to hang out with someone, you better not be on your damn phone texting other people. I remember in high school actually being out for lunch with people and telling them to put their phones away. i find that so offensive. It clearly states to me that someone cannot even dedicate a complete hour of their time.

I think that technology has started to drive us away from being able to build proper relationships. People these days also generally have shorter attention spans and I wonder if this is changing the way that people relate to each other as well.

Any thoughts?

americas next top model

So I was watching the ANTM finale, and of course I got to thinking.

Being a professional model is crazy and so shallow and so lucrative, but I find it so fascinating. It's just such a completely different world, and these people have such a strange culture. It's selling clothes to the richest of the rich and I couldn't even imagine the lives that these people lead. I think it must be so tough because I feel there's a lot of people that just talk shit about people the entire time. It's the same with hollywood, there is always someone trying to make a story or trying to hide some shady aspect of everything. There seems to be a lot that's under the surface that normal people like you and I just don't get. Just imagine that tonight you we're going to go walk in some new clothes that people have never been soon, or imagine that you're going to walk on stage on an arena filled with 100000 people, and sing for an hour and a half. That's what some people do for a living. Just think about that? And then think about how few people are privilege to this, and the rest of us are just waiting to get inside.

Then thinking about how there are so many people that are starving, they wouldn't even believe some of the people tht live like this. But I'm also not trying to say this upper elite group of people is perfect. I feel as though a lot of movies or shows try to demonstrate that people are trying to be poor little rich kids and they have no entitlement to feel bad because they have so much money. They just have so many other issues to deal with because there is so much greed and neglect.

in december drinking horchata....Look down your glasses at that aranciata

It's an awfully poetic december first. I woke up and got to see my first glimpse of snow today. I was slightly worried that my first glimpse of snow wasn't going to be until I returned to winnipeg, although that hasn't happened yet it's still a worry. So I woke up and saw a dusty of glorious white on everything. It's really wet snow. It's mostly all gone now, but there are still a few flakes swirling up here, that I can see in the tower, although they will probably melt by the time they reach the ground!

Instead of enjoying the weather however I am memorizing this!

I know it's all backwards, but yikes.... Those are some equations to boot!!!

I want coffee!!