October 27, 2006 Okay, I'm frustrated. Today Mikey and I had a presentation in class, we had this awesome power point it was brilliant! I had all the information needed to hopefully get perfect. For some stupid reason the computer wouldn't read Mikey's cd so we had some computer problems. We eventually figured out a different way to work it out, but my teacher said we were gonna be docked some marks for it. And after talking to my friend Christine at school, it appears to me that the people at school have a much different view of me then what I actually am. I'm a little bit grade focused I won't deny that but this is my future career!! I'm not willing to slack off and do a half-ass job on things. But I feel like I'm a b*tch by the things that aren't being said. And I'm soo not!! I'm kinda different at school though, very hard core and hard nose. But this is something that I am totally driven towards and motivated to do. *sigh* I don't know what to do, I am being myself, it's just the more serious side of me. Oh well, in the long run does it really matter? If my grades speak for me in the end I guess that's all that matters. Oh that and my teacher gave me a glowing letter of recomendation for Brock next year. October 21, 2006 Tonight at my house we had a slew of pink balloons floating around. And whilst people were tossing them around one landed on top of one of my candles. It exploded. It was kinda funny. Especially when Grant and Zeal were analyzing it trying to figure out which side of it exploded first. It's been an interesting week. I didn't really have a lot of homework or anything but I was kinda busy. I found this week to be stressful. I don't like stress. I need to de-stress like now!! I've got a test on Monday. That should be interesting. I've made some new friends. One is a guy from my program. His name is Kirk, I've known him since last year but we haven't really talked or anything. Well he mentioned that another girl (who goes to my church) told him that I go to her church. In talking to him apparantly he's interested in coming. Which I think is awesome, he used to go to church back home (he lives two hours away and he's staying near the school in Welland) and he hasn't found a church in this area. So that's kinda neat! The other guy is Greg, he lives in Edmonton. He's coming to St. Catharines for a couple of months. He works with my mom's best friend Claudia and Claudia told him about me and gave him my e-mail. So he's also interested in meeting some new people in this area and coming to Harbour. And lastly, my dear friend Christine has shone some slight interest in coming to Harbour!! I know she would like it, and I know how stressed out she is so I think church would be a good thing for her. So some new people possibly coming to church in the next few months perhaps. Neato I say!!! October 10, 2006 I really should be doing homework right now... But I don't have the interest to write a report right now. I don't feel totally ready for it. *sigh* oh well. This week is much slower than the last week. But it's nice and relaxing nonetheless. My thanksgiving was pretty good. I only got one this year. I had potential to have three, but it just didn't work out. On Saturday when movie group was doing there's I was babysitting. And on Sunday when Grant's family was doing theirs I was working. But I did get to go go mine which was on Monday. Yummy! I played Settlers earlier in the day with Grant, April, and Mike. It was fun. Later in the evening I showed my cousins the "White and Nerdy" song by Weird Al. They thought it was quite funny. Grant says it's his theme song. Oy. Then later that night we watched "The Princess Bride" what a great movie!! I could watch that movie over and over again. All in all it was a pretty decent Thanksgiving weekend. I got to sleep in three days in a row, now that was nice! School is going well. I do enjoy school. But sometimes it get discouraging. Some teachers don't teach to the best of their ability, or to any ability for that matter. But for the most part I'm loving school!! The work is starting to pile up. As I was telling Shane today, it seems to me that College has much more assignments then University. But it's all good, when I apply to Brock (which will be this month probably) and if I get in, I'll get to see both sides of the coin. I'm slightly confused about Brock though. I really want to be a teacher and I'm pretty sure it's what God wants me to do. My only question is what should I major in? I would like to have a teachable to keep my option open, but I don't know what major's can be considered teachables and I don't know which programs I'm elligable for. (I didn't take a lot of OAC's or grade 12 coureses) Like I'm thinking I'd like to major in Geography, but my last Geography class I took was in grade 9. And I definitely don't want to do Math or English. But I'm slightly confused and the whole process of appling to Brock seems so confusing and complicated. Which is why I'm gonna make an appointment at the guidance counsellor at Niagara to get some help with these questions. But right now I have so many questions and no answers, well that and different answers. So hopefully I will get accepted into Brock and hopefully I'll get accepted into the Concurrent Ed program. (apparantly it's really hard to get into, but I'm not worried b/c whatever God wants me to do, He will open the doors!) October 4, 2006 So, this week I kinda overextended myself. Weird. It kinda started on Friday of last week. I crammed studying in whenever I could b/c I had a test on Monday. Well I crammed before Grant picked me up for our anniversary date. I crammed while he was making us dinner. (I asked, he didn't want my help) Had an awesome time with Grant! It was soo good to finally hang out with him when it was just the two of us. Then came Saturday, crammed a little on the drive to paint balling, (Shane quizzed me lol) Paint balling was awesome, fun etc. Came home, dirty, tired and sore, had a shower. Guess what I did, more studying! Had a birthday party to go to, had an awesome time! We went to Boston Pizza, then afterwards I got to play pool! Hadn't played in a while. Then I went home, it was like around 10ish. So I figured I would relax and get to bed early. Then Beth is online and tells me that there watching "The Family Stone" and I really wanted to see it, so I went over to Marjorie and Jamies house to watch it with the girls. Gosh by the time that was over and everybody was finally ready to leave it was like 1:30, I was soo sore and tired! I just wanted to sleep. But I couldn't, I laid in bed listening to the washing machine run it's whole cycle before I fell asleep! Grr. Then Sunday was church, then I briefly went out afterwards and then I went back home and studied. Then I worked till 11, and went out with Erin and Cassie for Bubble Tea. (soo good!!) Monday I had the test (I think I got perfect, or pretty close to that) I hung out with Cody at Seaway mall, had a good talk. (she's reading Captivating!! I love that book and think all girls should read it!) Then I came home and had all night to do homework. And this week I had said I was going to do the teaching at youth, I'd never really done it before so I was kinda nervous. I spend a lot of time preparing on Monday for it which was good that my game night got cancelled. Then I also had to prepare assessments for co-op on Tuesday so I did that Monday night as well. Studied a bit more for a different test (on Wednesday). Tuesday, had a great day at co-op, got all my assessments done, found out that from now on I'll be swimming on Thursday nights with the house (kinda excited about that!) It was a really good day. Youth, I did my talk, went really well. Lucky me, the going out that we normally do got cancelled b/c people couldn't make it (I love how God looks out for me in the little ways!) So I got to study for Wednesday's test. Mom helped me think of little tricks to remember. I wrote the test today. (I think I got perfect) Tomorrow I want to volunteer in the morning at Connaught. I have to do my first swimming time this week, and I need to do my first session plan this Thursday. I haven't written it yet, maybe I'll do it now before work. Then after co-op on Thursday I'm going over to Rod and Denise's house b/c I haven't seen them in almost two months!! My gosh, I can't believe I haven't seen my boyfriends parents in that long! I have been soo busy! Then it's Friday, I have school, I have two projects due, I'm doing my seminar first period, I have the session plan due (the one I'm doing for Thursday oy) and we have an in class activity. Then I'm meeting my cousin Aaron for drinks at The Feathery pub. (well for drinks and deep fried dill pickles, sooo yummy!!) Then I will be hanging out with Grant b/c I haven't seen the boy since the last weekend. Then comes Saturday. I don't think I have any plans. But I know I want to spend time with Grant, I'm hoping to be able to do a picnic with him and The Morning Star Mill. (the one I wanted to do way back in September!) Then Sunday is work and church. Then Monday I have off!! And were doing Thanksgiving at my house this year (which means at some point this week I have to clean the basement *gasp*) Phew. Next week all I have booked is that I have one project due. Grr!! Talk about unbalanced weeks lol!