.be happy for this moment.this moment is your life.

i just spent almost 1/2 hr writting about reading week, and somehow it managed to delete itself - so you will get an update later when i'm not so pissed off!!!!

gahhh!!!

Sam, Marnie and Kari came up to visit this weekend which was super awesome!! (especially considering I had just written a psych midterm) They didn't get here till around 730, and then we kinda sat around for a while. We went to west ed, to Moxie's for dinner...which was delectable (cuz by 9pm i was starving), but filling...mmm salmon. The girls treated me and lauren, which was soo sweet (though completely unneccesary) - thanks girls!!! Then we just came back here and hung out, got caught up on each others lives...lots of boy stories (not all good) to get filled in on. It was so nice for it to be just us again...and how we can just pick up where we left of, even if we hadn't talked since christmas. (though we missed having ratna, but working at a flower shop right before valentines day causes some problems). Anyway they all crashed in the living room, lucky bums, i was stuck getting woken up by the freaking plows at 8 am!!! But that was probably for the best, cuz i got some studying in for my bio midterm b4 we went to west ed. West ed was a blast...random pictures with the flamingos, in hot hats and many other wonderful things... I got the new jimmy eat world cd, which i love, a new belt and a sweater. And can't forget the blizzard that i've had a craving for, for who knows how long! so most definetly a wonderful weekend.

I love my friends to pieces, and we don't get to see enough of each other anymore. I miss just talking, singing in the car, shopping with them...I'm so thankful that we are still friends i don't know what i would do without you guys!!! and that will be all, b4 this gets any sappier, cuz i'm going to get too much of that tomorrow...freaking valentines day ~

I want to start by saying that i don't hate valentines day because i don't have anyone special to share it with. I mean, i'm sure thats part of it, but its not the whole story, and eventually when a special someone comes along, i may dislike it less, but i think my opinion will still hold (and it is just my opinion, you don't have to agree).

I think back in jr high, and even high school, i had a great dislike for the holiday, b/c i never had a boyfriend. The only person I got anything from on valentines day was my dad (and still do to this day), but i remeber in gr 7 or 8, student council was selling carnations, and they happened to be selling them during parent teacher interviews. My mom talked my dad into buying one for me (to be delivered later in the week). So the day came (it was most likely actually valentines day, but i'm not sure), and i got the carnation, along with some candy of some kinda delivered in homeroom. For the 1st 5 seconds everyone was all excited for me, b/c i had gotten something, and they wanted to know who from. As soon as i said "my dad", the guys started making fun (and likely some of the girls too). Its not that big of deal, but at the time, it kinda hurt (though i was the only one in the class that got anything, so that was a bonus). Anyway, thats not the point of this post. What i'm saying is back then valentines day was a big deal.

But now, i have formed more of an opinion i guess.

first of all, why do you need a specific day to show someone how much you care about them?? honestly, i would probably be happier (if i had a boyfriend), that they suprise me with something on any day of the year. The element of suprise is an amazing thing. Why do we need a halmark directed holiday to show that we love/care about someone?? It seems pretty dumb to me.

secondly, (and i'm kinda sticking up for the guys here) guys have enough trouble remembering birthdays and anniversaries (let alone how many years they are) as it is, why burden them with another holiday to remember to get something for us? Why not just let them suprise us some random day, when they remember (and don't say they never will, lets give them some credit here) or actually feel like it, rather than forcing it on them.

and lastly...society keeps bringing up the issue of obesity - valentines day is just an excuse for us single girls to eat ice cream and chocolate that we bought for ourselves for the occasion (not that we need a special day to do that!)

Why do we need a specific day to show the people in our lives that we love them? there is enoug sh*t in the world already, we should be telling people everyday how much they mean to us...who knows when that will all be taken away from us.

...girls rock your boys/get wild wild wild/excellerate your breath...

haha, what i great commercial. i love it. but this isn't about the commercial, I was paying for my booster juice (mmmm) today and i bought some gum also (it actually wasn't extra, but the story is still fun), and then this guy 2 people behind me got the same kind of gum. I'm sure this was purely coincidental, but it made me smile.

not all that exciting, but tough luck.

and the worst holiday ever is less than a week away...people are pissing me off

GAH!!!

really pissed off right now. We had a canvasser type guy come to our apartment to see if we wanted to get the journal (this promotional offer type thing - we had it last term with no trouble), and so we agreed to it. We got our paper 1st for about 3 weeks, and then last monday i got this letter saying that we hadn't paid, and so we had 8 days, or they would stop delivering the paper. So i called to complain, b/c we paid the canvasser dude we he came to our door.(Though in cash mind you, so maybe he pocketed it or something - who knows - but he gave me a reciept saying i had paid, so i figured we'd have no trouble). They said that they may not have received the payment yet, and that they would check on it for me and get back to me. I didn't get a call back, so I phoned again today, and the guy that i talked to basically implied that we may have been scammed, which pisses the hell out of me. He suggested i fax them in the reciept that i have...but thats kinda difficult if i have no access to a fax machine.

What i can't figure out is how they know to deliver the paper to us, if they haven't received any record of us paying, and i'm assuming they didn't get any kind of reciept at all either. The whole situation is driving me nuts...on top of all my other stress i have to deal with this too which sucks bum. Why did it all have to come down when midterms are starting, and I have a lab report due?

grrrr

on a happier note the girls are coming to visit this weekend!!! I'm soo stoked, and its marnie's bday too --->20...yikes thats old j/j...we will all be there soon!

last one...you can go to the site to check out the rest...AMAZING 

another of ryan's pics 

one of Ryan's pics - check out some more at http://pcxrs.deviantart.com/ 

WOW...

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sorry for the lack of meaningful updates, but life is boring right now.

I went out friday night to BPs with some ppl from my floor last year. Thai chicken pizza = soo good, as was the chocolate explosion - which borders on death by chocolate goodness mmmm. Then I watched, oh about 3 hours of Sex and the city (lauren brought up season 1 and 2 on DVD)...yes its an addiction-i know.


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Saturday I went out for a friends bf's bday. The guys played pool 1st and we just chatted, and then we went to the standard, where she had booked a birthday package for him (which was supposed to mean no line, no cover for all of us). We left our coats in his car (the poor birthday boy drove), and then went to go in, and the bouncer was like, oh thats the birthday line over there. Umm EXCUSE ME?? We were super pissed off, and freezing by this time . So we finally get let in over 1/2 hr later, and one of his friends (there were 4 of them), who was driving might i mention, forgot his id at home. So, ALL OF THEM LEFT. We couldn't believe it - we had 3 cars b/w the 8 of us...they didn't all have to leave. I mean, I could understand it slightly if it wasn't their friends bday, but come on...I was definetly not impressed. And we could tell neither was he. We ended up leaving pretty early cuz of it, but i guess it meant I got to go to bed early - which might i mention i've been doing a little to much of lately (i don't think its the best thing either, b/c i'm feeling MORE tired)

So sunday i was doing a whole lot of not studying, and writing a letter instead, and my cell rings completely out of the blue. I was like who the heck is calling me?? Turns out it was chris. I knew he was planning on going to jasper mon/tues this week, but he actually came to deadmonton 1st. So he ended up taking me out for lunch (ie paying) to the mongoli express (which is like a cheaper mongoli grill)...mmm soo good. And we must have talked for almost 2 hours. Long enough for a lot of people to come and go around us anyway. It was fun for sure, and the fact that he called means something (even if its just a friendship).

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Marnie!!! I hope you are ok after the rearendage and the end of the Buick!!! that is sad. I also had no idea you had never been to sunshine - we should definetly go over reading week!!



Thats all for now! BYE!!!