I'm baaaaaaack!
And by back I mean back in school :( The sad face is to set the tone of this post because I do not like school that much. School means homework and group projects and living in the scary city and getting up early. School also means I have to leave the house and go out in the world. I hate this the most. I am an introvert, you see. If you don't know what an introvert is it's someone who avoids social activities and is stressed out by social interactions. It doesn't necessarily mean we like to be completely alone all the time but we would much rather hang out with one or two people rather than a whole group. We hate having to speak in front of people and get nervous when answering a question in class. Things like that make you an introvert.
If you like going out all the time and being social and having attention on you, you are most likely an extrovert. It would be so nice to be an extrovert. I believe it is an extroverted world. College is especially an extroverted world. You're supposed to go to a new place and actually talk to people or talk in front of the class and this is horrifying for introverts like me.
Tomorrow is looking like an especially bad day to be an introvert. In my project management class we have to not only stand in front of the class and do introductions which I despise (see post: This Blog is all I have in a Busy Cafeteria) but we also have to go around the room and decide who we want in our groups for a giant group project that pretty much happens for the entire class. Like the whole class is a giant group project. I wanna cry just thinking about it. It's not only that I'm shy but my whole body reacts to having to talk in front of new people. Like I will shake for about twenty minutes after standing up and saying a quick blurb like "Hi, I'm Ashlynn I love unicorns and sparkles and eating fast food." Okay I would never say that in front of my peers but you get the idea. Just a thirty second blurb will cause a half hour of distress in my body. Heart pounding, hand shaking, palm sweating distress. The only way to stop this distress is getting drunk. But I don't think the school will be too impressed with that. I wish I could drop project management but unfortunately I need it for my degree. I have presentations in other classes too so I might as well just get used to them. Presentations will likely be a big part of my profession too. I guess the only way to get out of them would be to shut myself indoors and become a professional blogger. I guess I'd actually have to write some blogs then hey? I've brainstormed a few ideas for posts so I'll get writing them right away. I promise this because I have no friends to hang out with so I need something to do anyway.
Keep checkin in!
May the Force be with you!
Ashlynn
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Exam Week
Hello, Hello!
Here I am sitting in my condo bedroom in the city and who am I thinking about? You, my lovely readers. AKA Mom and Grandma.
So there is only five days left of my first year of college! Tomorrow I have to attend one class where I will politely watch three marketing presentations and then I'm off to my hometown for Easter weekend. On Tuesday I start exam week! Where I have three 8 am exams :( 8 am exams suck because it means I have to get on the bus at 7 am! Getting on the bus at 7 am sucks because it means I have to get up by 6:15! Getting up at 6:15 sucks because it means that I have to be in bed by like 10 and normally I can't sleep that early. 8 am exams are kind of nice though because you're done them super early and then you can go home, have a nap, and have time to study for the next 8 am exam happening the next day. Exams that are at like 3:30 suck because then you spend all your time prior to the exam studying for that exam and then after you just wanna chill because it's 5:30 already and you don't get home to eat until 6:15 or so but oh wait you have to be up at 6:15 am the next day for your last 8 am class! And then after that exam you can go home, have a nap and then return to the school for 6 pm to write your online class' final exam and then by the time you finish that one it's 8 pm and you now have to drive an hour and a half to your hometown because YOU'RE FINALLY DONE COLLEGE YEAR 1. It's a bitter-sweet thing, exam week.
In the spirit of exam week I am going to write a list of all the things I won't miss about my first year and all the things that make me happy it is finally over!
1. No more school. No more listening to boring teachers, no more homework assignments, no more group projects, no more studying, no more essay-writing, no more citing the shit out of papers. No more!
2. No more bus riding. I'm getting real tired of standing on corners, or by poles without getting paid for it.
3. No more making my own dinner. Okay, I'm sure I'll still make dinners quite a bit but at least I won't be so dependant on myself. Putting pizza pops in the microwave can be so exhausting especially after a long day of bus riding.
4. No more having to listen to my roommate's music from his room. This morning he was listening to Avril Lavigne. Like, really?
5. I'll save tons of money on gas. I really don't consider myself a citizen of any town at this point because I just travel between home and the city so much. I'm a drifter.
6. My parents just bought a new house! I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share this information at this point but the only people who read this already know anyways! I'm super excited about it. I love new houses. This one is just like five minutes out of our town so we're not really moving away, just upgrading. And my parents want to get a swim spa and a fire pit and it will be so cool!
7. I'm working at the pool again this summer and am looking forward to it. I like teaching swimming lessons and hanging out in shorts all day. And I can make some money!!
8. The last day of exams is when I get my tax-return money and I'm going shopping!!
9. I won't be lonely as much. Living somewhere else from everyone sure takes it's toll on you.
10. I can finally watch Frozen. My mom bought it but I haven't been home long enough to watch it and everyone is talking about it so damn much.
So as you can tell, I'm pretty stoked to be done with college. And to think, I still have three more years
:( this shit better get me rich.
Good luck to any fellow students also entering exam week!
May the Force be with you!
Na na na na na na na na AshMan!
Here I am sitting in my condo bedroom in the city and who am I thinking about? You, my lovely readers. AKA Mom and Grandma.
So there is only five days left of my first year of college! Tomorrow I have to attend one class where I will politely watch three marketing presentations and then I'm off to my hometown for Easter weekend. On Tuesday I start exam week! Where I have three 8 am exams :( 8 am exams suck because it means I have to get on the bus at 7 am! Getting on the bus at 7 am sucks because it means I have to get up by 6:15! Getting up at 6:15 sucks because it means that I have to be in bed by like 10 and normally I can't sleep that early. 8 am exams are kind of nice though because you're done them super early and then you can go home, have a nap, and have time to study for the next 8 am exam happening the next day. Exams that are at like 3:30 suck because then you spend all your time prior to the exam studying for that exam and then after you just wanna chill because it's 5:30 already and you don't get home to eat until 6:15 or so but oh wait you have to be up at 6:15 am the next day for your last 8 am class! And then after that exam you can go home, have a nap and then return to the school for 6 pm to write your online class' final exam and then by the time you finish that one it's 8 pm and you now have to drive an hour and a half to your hometown because YOU'RE FINALLY DONE COLLEGE YEAR 1. It's a bitter-sweet thing, exam week.
In the spirit of exam week I am going to write a list of all the things I won't miss about my first year and all the things that make me happy it is finally over!
1. No more school. No more listening to boring teachers, no more homework assignments, no more group projects, no more studying, no more essay-writing, no more citing the shit out of papers. No more!
2. No more bus riding. I'm getting real tired of standing on corners, or by poles without getting paid for it.
3. No more making my own dinner. Okay, I'm sure I'll still make dinners quite a bit but at least I won't be so dependant on myself. Putting pizza pops in the microwave can be so exhausting especially after a long day of bus riding.
4. No more having to listen to my roommate's music from his room. This morning he was listening to Avril Lavigne. Like, really?
5. I'll save tons of money on gas. I really don't consider myself a citizen of any town at this point because I just travel between home and the city so much. I'm a drifter.
6. My parents just bought a new house! I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share this information at this point but the only people who read this already know anyways! I'm super excited about it. I love new houses. This one is just like five minutes out of our town so we're not really moving away, just upgrading. And my parents want to get a swim spa and a fire pit and it will be so cool!
7. I'm working at the pool again this summer and am looking forward to it. I like teaching swimming lessons and hanging out in shorts all day. And I can make some money!!
8. The last day of exams is when I get my tax-return money and I'm going shopping!!
9. I won't be lonely as much. Living somewhere else from everyone sure takes it's toll on you.
10. I can finally watch Frozen. My mom bought it but I haven't been home long enough to watch it and everyone is talking about it so damn much.
So as you can tell, I'm pretty stoked to be done with college. And to think, I still have three more years
:( this shit better get me rich.
Good luck to any fellow students also entering exam week!
May the Force be with you!
Na na na na na na na na AshMan!
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Small Town, Small Knowledge
Hey Mom! (C'mon, let's be honest we all know it's just you)
The weirdest thing just happened to me. I was thinking of that song New York Groove and then I clicked the play button on my keyboard and that song came on. Freaky! And it's really funny because I was planning on writing about living in the big city in this post.
So, I (Blurred Lines just came on, dance interlude) have been living in the city since September and it is now February so that's…uh…carry the one…5 months and I have to say…I STILL HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I'M DOING. I mean I normally just go to school on the bus and then bus back home and then travel back to my cozy small town on weekends to visit PattyCake so I have my routine I like to stick to and I have mastered it. But lately I've been expanding my horizons a bit and have found that growing up in a small town has given me a sort of handicap. For instance, last week after school a friend from class and I caught the bus together (that's right! A friend!) and then went into the downtown mall, which I have been too scared to go into, to walk through to the LRT station I didn't know existed. And this adventure was enough to blow my mind so just imagine how much I freaked out when I saw that this mall has FLOATING ESCALATORS! Yeah, you read that right. FLOATING. Like the staircases in Harry Potter. Like I was actually waiting for one of them to whip itself around and attach to a different wall. I guess people don't understand what I'm talking about when I say floating escalators and what I mean is this; escalators that are floating! Okay, no for real they are escalators that are only supported by the top and bottom so there's nothing beside them. I know that you probably don't see what the big deal is but I have only ever been on escalators that have like a staircase beside them (like in the LRT stations where I run up the staircase to race the people on the escalator because I'm in suuuuuuch good shape) or benches all around the bottom and walls built up so that you can't walk underneath. Does that make sense? I asked my friend to take a picture of me on it but he thought I was joking :( Oh yeah! And there's like escalators above other escalators and even that is like too much for me.
Another incident I encountered just yesterday included Safeway, a cart and $100 of groceries. So I hadn't gone grocery shopping really since this term started. I was just eating like soup and cereal for a month. Well I did stop in at the grocery store once after school but I couldn't buy much since I was taking it on the bus. So this was my first real time grocery shopping this term. The last time I did a large grocery shopping trip I just used a basket which was a mistake since I then had to carry a heavy, overflowing basket around the entire store. And of course I can never find anything so I walk through the Safeway like a dozen times. But anyways I have never gotten a cart at Safeway before. The grocery store I go to at home just has normal carts. Like you just grab one and put your groceries in it. Not these carts. You have to put money in these carts (and they don't even push themselves which is totally bogus! Like if I gotta pay for you, you could help push yourself at least). So I go to the carts and I'm like alright I choose you to carry my food, let's go. I tug on the cart and it doesn't budge. It is attached by a chain to all of the over carts! So then I try pulling the chain out like okay I only need one, thanks. Doesn't budge. A middle-aged woman comes in then and I see she puts a coin into a slot in the cart handle. Of course she does this after giving me a sort of weird look. A look that read "jeez, this girl doesn't know how to get a cart, good thing she has cute hair (I just got a haircut, thanks for noticing)." So then I'm like what the fuck kind of grocery store is this that I have to pay to carry my groceries in a wheeled basket? But I got a gift card for my birthday so I wasn't about to go anywhere else. Plus I was starving, like I had barely eaten in three weeks. So I grab my wallet out of my purse (it's a new wallet. It's pink.) and open the change pocket and I'm like alright you stupid cart, how much you charge? Deciding that I'm going start low and go higher like in a bidding war, I pull out a quarter. Lucky guess! Goes in like magic. Actually, goes in like a quarter in a quarter-sized slot. So then I can pull the chain out and I then I have a cart! And then I bought a cart-full of groceries which cost $100! But it was discount day, which was a nice surprise, and I had a $50 gift card from Grandma and Grandpa (thanks guys!). So then I take my groceries out to Petey and load em up in the backseat and then had to take my cart to the cart area in the parking lot. I absolutely hate it when people leave carts lying around in the parking lot. Like seriously, be a good person. I normally grab all the carts I come across and put them in the cart area. Because I am a really good person. So then I put this cart back and I'm like hey I'm gonna chain it to this other one so that they are neat and organized. Pushing this chain into place, something magical happens. My quarter pops out. I get my money back when I put my cart back. How genius is that? Safeway! Your genius is showing!
After grabbing groceries I saw that my gas tank only had a quarter in it so I was like whoa it's discount day so I can get gas right here at the Safeway gas station! So I pull up to the pump and it says that I can either pay at the pump or prepay inside. And I'm like well I don't know how much I need and PattyCake always pays at the pump so I'm sure I can figure it out. Yes, that's right, I've never paid at the gas pump before. I always gas up and then go into the convenience store and pay after. So at first I'm sticking my Safeway card in the wrong slot haha this machine had almost no instructions and it just kept saying "Please Re-Insert Card" and I'd put it in and then it would go "Quickly Remove Card" so then I'm doing this over and over again and thinking wow like how fast do I have to remove it? I don't think I can go any faster. And then I see the little scanner thing where you scan the barcode on your Safeway card. Then I'm laughing at myself for how retarded I am. As I'm sure they will be when they watch their security footage. I can just see it, couple of middle-aged men sitting around eating doughnuts "Paul! Come look at this blonde trying to put her Safeway card in the credit card slot! She does have a real cute haircut though.." Then it tells me to select which gas I want and I'm like just regular is fine. Then I start pumping until it's full. I go to pay and it asks me how much fuel I would like. And my total was something like $45 so I'm like uhh I think I'll take $45. I press the 4 and then it tells me to insert my card so I put my debit card in, enter my pin and then it tells me to start fuelling my car. So then I'm like uhh he's full of fuel, he can't fit anymore. I then decided to just go into the office and try to pay. I had to hand in a Visa card I found on the cement at the pump anyways so it wasn't a big deal. I just pretended that the pump was confused and that I knew what I was doing. The man was very proud of me for handing in this Visa card and I just wanted to be like well did you see me organize the carts earlier? So I then paid for my gas inside and went home to check my online banking app and saw that it didn't charge me twice so that's good.
So those are my examples of why I'm not ready for city living. It's just too complicated. Escalators all over the place, security deposit carts, confusing gas pumps. I can't handle all that shit. And the other day an older man was making cat noises at me on the LRT. I just reread that sentence and it totally sounds like there was an old man meowing at me. No. He was making these noises like when you're calling a cat like you kind of click your tongue or whatever. I can't explain it. Anyways, I heard someone making this noise and I thought oh my gosh! Someone has kitties on the train! I wanna pet the kitties! Cause like I love little kitties. When I first met PattyCake, his roommate had baby kitties and I named them Beyonce and Nicki Minaj. Anywheres, oh shit I just typed "anywheres" instead of anyways. Haha it's 2 AM, give me a break. Anyways* I'm sitting on the LRT with my cute haircut and looking around for kitties when I see this man is looking at me while making these noises. Holy shit, I'm the kitty. Let's just say when it came to my stop, I ran off that crazy train.
I would like to end this post by just stating again that I am just a small town girl, living in a lonely world. I took the LRT going anywhere..
Haha Journey reference in case you don't get it. If you didn't get that…kill yourself.
Just kitten! I love you no matter what references you may or may not get.
May the Force be with you!
Ashlynn
The weirdest thing just happened to me. I was thinking of that song New York Groove and then I clicked the play button on my keyboard and that song came on. Freaky! And it's really funny because I was planning on writing about living in the big city in this post.
So, I (Blurred Lines just came on, dance interlude) have been living in the city since September and it is now February so that's…uh…carry the one…5 months and I have to say…I STILL HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I'M DOING. I mean I normally just go to school on the bus and then bus back home and then travel back to my cozy small town on weekends to visit PattyCake so I have my routine I like to stick to and I have mastered it. But lately I've been expanding my horizons a bit and have found that growing up in a small town has given me a sort of handicap. For instance, last week after school a friend from class and I caught the bus together (that's right! A friend!) and then went into the downtown mall, which I have been too scared to go into, to walk through to the LRT station I didn't know existed. And this adventure was enough to blow my mind so just imagine how much I freaked out when I saw that this mall has FLOATING ESCALATORS! Yeah, you read that right. FLOATING. Like the staircases in Harry Potter. Like I was actually waiting for one of them to whip itself around and attach to a different wall. I guess people don't understand what I'm talking about when I say floating escalators and what I mean is this; escalators that are floating! Okay, no for real they are escalators that are only supported by the top and bottom so there's nothing beside them. I know that you probably don't see what the big deal is but I have only ever been on escalators that have like a staircase beside them (like in the LRT stations where I run up the staircase to race the people on the escalator because I'm in suuuuuuch good shape) or benches all around the bottom and walls built up so that you can't walk underneath. Does that make sense? I asked my friend to take a picture of me on it but he thought I was joking :( Oh yeah! And there's like escalators above other escalators and even that is like too much for me.
Another incident I encountered just yesterday included Safeway, a cart and $100 of groceries. So I hadn't gone grocery shopping really since this term started. I was just eating like soup and cereal for a month. Well I did stop in at the grocery store once after school but I couldn't buy much since I was taking it on the bus. So this was my first real time grocery shopping this term. The last time I did a large grocery shopping trip I just used a basket which was a mistake since I then had to carry a heavy, overflowing basket around the entire store. And of course I can never find anything so I walk through the Safeway like a dozen times. But anyways I have never gotten a cart at Safeway before. The grocery store I go to at home just has normal carts. Like you just grab one and put your groceries in it. Not these carts. You have to put money in these carts (and they don't even push themselves which is totally bogus! Like if I gotta pay for you, you could help push yourself at least). So I go to the carts and I'm like alright I choose you to carry my food, let's go. I tug on the cart and it doesn't budge. It is attached by a chain to all of the over carts! So then I try pulling the chain out like okay I only need one, thanks. Doesn't budge. A middle-aged woman comes in then and I see she puts a coin into a slot in the cart handle. Of course she does this after giving me a sort of weird look. A look that read "jeez, this girl doesn't know how to get a cart, good thing she has cute hair (I just got a haircut, thanks for noticing)." So then I'm like what the fuck kind of grocery store is this that I have to pay to carry my groceries in a wheeled basket? But I got a gift card for my birthday so I wasn't about to go anywhere else. Plus I was starving, like I had barely eaten in three weeks. So I grab my wallet out of my purse (it's a new wallet. It's pink.) and open the change pocket and I'm like alright you stupid cart, how much you charge? Deciding that I'm going start low and go higher like in a bidding war, I pull out a quarter. Lucky guess! Goes in like magic. Actually, goes in like a quarter in a quarter-sized slot. So then I can pull the chain out and I then I have a cart! And then I bought a cart-full of groceries which cost $100! But it was discount day, which was a nice surprise, and I had a $50 gift card from Grandma and Grandpa (thanks guys!). So then I take my groceries out to Petey and load em up in the backseat and then had to take my cart to the cart area in the parking lot. I absolutely hate it when people leave carts lying around in the parking lot. Like seriously, be a good person. I normally grab all the carts I come across and put them in the cart area. Because I am a really good person. So then I put this cart back and I'm like hey I'm gonna chain it to this other one so that they are neat and organized. Pushing this chain into place, something magical happens. My quarter pops out. I get my money back when I put my cart back. How genius is that? Safeway! Your genius is showing!
After grabbing groceries I saw that my gas tank only had a quarter in it so I was like whoa it's discount day so I can get gas right here at the Safeway gas station! So I pull up to the pump and it says that I can either pay at the pump or prepay inside. And I'm like well I don't know how much I need and PattyCake always pays at the pump so I'm sure I can figure it out. Yes, that's right, I've never paid at the gas pump before. I always gas up and then go into the convenience store and pay after. So at first I'm sticking my Safeway card in the wrong slot haha this machine had almost no instructions and it just kept saying "Please Re-Insert Card" and I'd put it in and then it would go "Quickly Remove Card" so then I'm doing this over and over again and thinking wow like how fast do I have to remove it? I don't think I can go any faster. And then I see the little scanner thing where you scan the barcode on your Safeway card. Then I'm laughing at myself for how retarded I am. As I'm sure they will be when they watch their security footage. I can just see it, couple of middle-aged men sitting around eating doughnuts "Paul! Come look at this blonde trying to put her Safeway card in the credit card slot! She does have a real cute haircut though.." Then it tells me to select which gas I want and I'm like just regular is fine. Then I start pumping until it's full. I go to pay and it asks me how much fuel I would like. And my total was something like $45 so I'm like uhh I think I'll take $45. I press the 4 and then it tells me to insert my card so I put my debit card in, enter my pin and then it tells me to start fuelling my car. So then I'm like uhh he's full of fuel, he can't fit anymore. I then decided to just go into the office and try to pay. I had to hand in a Visa card I found on the cement at the pump anyways so it wasn't a big deal. I just pretended that the pump was confused and that I knew what I was doing. The man was very proud of me for handing in this Visa card and I just wanted to be like well did you see me organize the carts earlier? So I then paid for my gas inside and went home to check my online banking app and saw that it didn't charge me twice so that's good.
So those are my examples of why I'm not ready for city living. It's just too complicated. Escalators all over the place, security deposit carts, confusing gas pumps. I can't handle all that shit. And the other day an older man was making cat noises at me on the LRT. I just reread that sentence and it totally sounds like there was an old man meowing at me. No. He was making these noises like when you're calling a cat like you kind of click your tongue or whatever. I can't explain it. Anyways, I heard someone making this noise and I thought oh my gosh! Someone has kitties on the train! I wanna pet the kitties! Cause like I love little kitties. When I first met PattyCake, his roommate had baby kitties and I named them Beyonce and Nicki Minaj. Anywheres, oh shit I just typed "anywheres" instead of anyways. Haha it's 2 AM, give me a break. Anyways* I'm sitting on the LRT with my cute haircut and looking around for kitties when I see this man is looking at me while making these noises. Holy shit, I'm the kitty. Let's just say when it came to my stop, I ran off that crazy train.
I would like to end this post by just stating again that I am just a small town girl, living in a lonely world. I took the LRT going anywhere..
Haha Journey reference in case you don't get it. If you didn't get that…kill yourself.
Just kitten! I love you no matter what references you may or may not get.
May the Force be with you!
Ashlynn
Thursday, 9 January 2014
Resolutions
Hey homies,
So it's 2014 now as I'm sure you know. How was your New Year's Eve? Mine consisted of playing Mario Kart with the bf and him falling asleep at 11:30 haha that's fine with me. I'm over the whole party thing I think. Every time I go to the bar now I feel like my mom. For instance, I start saying things like "why's it so hot in here?" or "it's so crowded, I need some space!" So I skipped that New Year's Eve tradition I guess. Another one I skipped was making a New Year's resolution. Well I told PattyCake that I wanted to drink more water but I didn't really make a life changing, hopeful promise to myself that I would do better this year. I'm starting to think that I'm really the best I can be. I mean if something is perfect you don't go changing anything right?
So for this post I started to think of all the things I really could've made my resolution. Even though I say I'm all that and a bag of potato chips I don't really mean it (I try not to eat potato chips; they make me break out). So this is a list of all the things I should probably start doing but am 99.99% likely not to:
1. Stop eating Wendy's. Nope. Not happening. I'd marry Wendy if I met her. And I am not keen on gingers. I just love my JBCs.
2. Play my guitar more often. I went to this job fair in grade 10 or 11 and told everyone there I was being a rockstar when I grew up. I should get that attitude back.
3. Use the lotion I bought in October. You walk into Bath and Body Works once and come out with ten years worth of body lotion and I have only used like 20mls. What a waste.
4. Smile more often. I feel like I look like a dweeb when I smile. You know those girls who just have a beautiful smile and it like lights up the room? Yeah, I don't have one of those. I just have a weird smile. No one has ever complimented my smile :( I wonder if there's somewhere where they teach you how to smile nicely.
5. Make friends. I still haven't really made any friends at college. I got along really well with the people in one of my group projects but we have no classes together now and I don't want to be that one that's in a group once and can't let go.
6. Stop being obsessed with The Little Mermaid. I say this because I just went to Walmart for a binder, razors and a new pillow and came home with Little Mermaid sheets and no binder. But I am so excited to put them on my bed. Like this is the best part of my week.
7. Blog more often. I really have no excuse. I can't even say I have no material because really the voices in my head make everyday entertaining. It's really just pure laziness.
8. Actually write the posts I promise to write. I keep doing this to you guys where I'm like 'yeah next post will include this' or something along those lines and I never follow through. Sorry, I'm human and I'm 97% sure only my mom reads this blog and I tell her all those stories anyways.
9. Drink more water. I seriously go like all day without drinking anything. And then when I get home I have maybe two drinks which isn't close to enough. Especially considering it's usually a coke and a glass of milk.
10. Stop thinking of sharks while swimming. Me and the roomie watched Soul Surfer like two months ago and the last time I went for a swim in our condo's pool I, of course, started to think of it. That was a quick dip for sure.
11. Stop imagining I'm in The Shining while walking to the condo's pool. Okay I have to explain this one a bit. Our condo is made up of multiple hallways with doors at each end and the pool is on the other side of the building from our apartment so I have to walk through almost like a hamster maze to get there. And it's always creepily quiet and then when you do get to the pool it is also quiet as fuck and all you can hear are the pipes in the mechanical room. At least that's what I tell myself the noises are. Maybe it's the shark sleeping.
12. Stop breaking stuff in my car. I now have broken remote start, only defrost setting and a broken headlight. I have no idea why the remote start isn't working. I broke the vent setting thing. It was frozen but I thought it was just being stubborn so I twisted it really hard and snapped something inside. I think my dad broke my headlight. I thought it was just burnt out so I bought new bulbs and he was changing it for me and broke off some piece and it's still not working so he says its probably a connection problem that is not his fault. Thanks a lot, Dad.
Well I think that should be good for this year. I'm not even gonna waste time writing that I'll be working out because we all know that ain't gonna happen. I am still taking the stairs everyday and have one class two buildings away from all my other classes so all that hiking is my workout.
I hope you guys have a great year and haven't given up on your resolutions already!
And look at me, I'm not even gonna tell you what I'll write about next time. One thing down!
May the Force be with you,
RockAwesome
So it's 2014 now as I'm sure you know. How was your New Year's Eve? Mine consisted of playing Mario Kart with the bf and him falling asleep at 11:30 haha that's fine with me. I'm over the whole party thing I think. Every time I go to the bar now I feel like my mom. For instance, I start saying things like "why's it so hot in here?" or "it's so crowded, I need some space!" So I skipped that New Year's Eve tradition I guess. Another one I skipped was making a New Year's resolution. Well I told PattyCake that I wanted to drink more water but I didn't really make a life changing, hopeful promise to myself that I would do better this year. I'm starting to think that I'm really the best I can be. I mean if something is perfect you don't go changing anything right?
So for this post I started to think of all the things I really could've made my resolution. Even though I say I'm all that and a bag of potato chips I don't really mean it (I try not to eat potato chips; they make me break out). So this is a list of all the things I should probably start doing but am 99.99% likely not to:
1. Stop eating Wendy's. Nope. Not happening. I'd marry Wendy if I met her. And I am not keen on gingers. I just love my JBCs.
2. Play my guitar more often. I went to this job fair in grade 10 or 11 and told everyone there I was being a rockstar when I grew up. I should get that attitude back.
3. Use the lotion I bought in October. You walk into Bath and Body Works once and come out with ten years worth of body lotion and I have only used like 20mls. What a waste.
4. Smile more often. I feel like I look like a dweeb when I smile. You know those girls who just have a beautiful smile and it like lights up the room? Yeah, I don't have one of those. I just have a weird smile. No one has ever complimented my smile :( I wonder if there's somewhere where they teach you how to smile nicely.
5. Make friends. I still haven't really made any friends at college. I got along really well with the people in one of my group projects but we have no classes together now and I don't want to be that one that's in a group once and can't let go.
6. Stop being obsessed with The Little Mermaid. I say this because I just went to Walmart for a binder, razors and a new pillow and came home with Little Mermaid sheets and no binder. But I am so excited to put them on my bed. Like this is the best part of my week.
7. Blog more often. I really have no excuse. I can't even say I have no material because really the voices in my head make everyday entertaining. It's really just pure laziness.
8. Actually write the posts I promise to write. I keep doing this to you guys where I'm like 'yeah next post will include this' or something along those lines and I never follow through. Sorry, I'm human and I'm 97% sure only my mom reads this blog and I tell her all those stories anyways.
9. Drink more water. I seriously go like all day without drinking anything. And then when I get home I have maybe two drinks which isn't close to enough. Especially considering it's usually a coke and a glass of milk.
10. Stop thinking of sharks while swimming. Me and the roomie watched Soul Surfer like two months ago and the last time I went for a swim in our condo's pool I, of course, started to think of it. That was a quick dip for sure.
11. Stop imagining I'm in The Shining while walking to the condo's pool. Okay I have to explain this one a bit. Our condo is made up of multiple hallways with doors at each end and the pool is on the other side of the building from our apartment so I have to walk through almost like a hamster maze to get there. And it's always creepily quiet and then when you do get to the pool it is also quiet as fuck and all you can hear are the pipes in the mechanical room. At least that's what I tell myself the noises are. Maybe it's the shark sleeping.
12. Stop breaking stuff in my car. I now have broken remote start, only defrost setting and a broken headlight. I have no idea why the remote start isn't working. I broke the vent setting thing. It was frozen but I thought it was just being stubborn so I twisted it really hard and snapped something inside. I think my dad broke my headlight. I thought it was just burnt out so I bought new bulbs and he was changing it for me and broke off some piece and it's still not working so he says its probably a connection problem that is not his fault. Thanks a lot, Dad.
Well I think that should be good for this year. I'm not even gonna waste time writing that I'll be working out because we all know that ain't gonna happen. I am still taking the stairs everyday and have one class two buildings away from all my other classes so all that hiking is my workout.
I hope you guys have a great year and haven't given up on your resolutions already!
And look at me, I'm not even gonna tell you what I'll write about next time. One thing down!
May the Force be with you,
RockAwesome
Monday, 11 November 2013
You Want It, You Got It
BUST IT!
I am currently listening to Bust A Move on repeat in order to get in the zone. I recently created a pageviews contest/ strike. I simply went on Facebook and Instagram and stated that I refuse to write a new post until I had so many pageviews. I have finally checked how many pageviews I have and it is over the amount I requested! So thanks for sitting at home and hitting the refresh button, Mom!
I should really be in bed so I'm gonna make this a simple update post to just let y'all know what's up.
1. Rocking it at school, but we all knew I was a genius
2. Still have made no friends but really, no one is good enough
3. Bonsai tree is still alive but I have stopped watering it everyday because my Grandma told me it might be too much love (who knew there was such a thing?)
4. Hogwarts is still playing hard to get
5. Man fell asleep on me on the bus
6. Well he was sick and dozed off and started to lean into me but woke up when I shifted my arm
7. Sorry, sir, I'm taken
8. I've had to take the elevators a few times when I was sick or late
9. I missed a week of school because I had mono :( which I hate telling people because it makes me sound like a slut
10. I was almost a unicorn for Halloween
11. Long story short: I got dressed up in my unicorn costume, got tired, took off costume, went to bed
12. My parents bought a robotic garbage can
13. Ummmmm...
14. That's all I got
15. Good night! More detailed post will come soon!
May the Force be with you!
AshMan
I am currently listening to Bust A Move on repeat in order to get in the zone. I recently created a pageviews contest/ strike. I simply went on Facebook and Instagram and stated that I refuse to write a new post until I had so many pageviews. I have finally checked how many pageviews I have and it is over the amount I requested! So thanks for sitting at home and hitting the refresh button, Mom!
I should really be in bed so I'm gonna make this a simple update post to just let y'all know what's up.
1. Rocking it at school, but we all knew I was a genius
2. Still have made no friends but really, no one is good enough
3. Bonsai tree is still alive but I have stopped watering it everyday because my Grandma told me it might be too much love (who knew there was such a thing?)
4. Hogwarts is still playing hard to get
5. Man fell asleep on me on the bus
6. Well he was sick and dozed off and started to lean into me but woke up when I shifted my arm
7. Sorry, sir, I'm taken
8. I've had to take the elevators a few times when I was sick or late
9. I missed a week of school because I had mono :( which I hate telling people because it makes me sound like a slut
10. I was almost a unicorn for Halloween
11. Long story short: I got dressed up in my unicorn costume, got tired, took off costume, went to bed
12. My parents bought a robotic garbage can
13. Ummmmm...
14. That's all I got
15. Good night! More detailed post will come soon!
May the Force be with you!
AshMan
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
This Blog is all I have in a Busy Cafeteria
Hello! Hello! Off to school we go!
I am currently sitting in the cafeteria at my new college trying to look too cool for friends by typing away on my phone. Hogwarts still hasn't gotten ahold of me and isn't returning my calls or emails so I decided I would make it jealous by coming to E-town. What am I majoring in? Badassness.
So I have now quit my jobs and am living in the city. It's alright so far. I'm going to visit home this weekend to see Mr. Gnarles and take Petey back to the mechanic's again since he's being a bitch and blasting unconditioned air.
I have to take an hour bus ride to school every morning and so far it hasn't been too bad. It's kind of weird though like I feel like I'm late when I'm on it because of all the stopping. I'm sure it would be faster to drive myself but I don't wanna pay for parking or deal with crazy drivers. And I really don't know my way around that well. Last night I went to Wendy's and then did about three circles trying to go home. First I accidentally turned into a parking lot that had its own turning lane. I'm not even embarrassed to admit that, I mean I'm from a small town, I've never seen that shit. Then when I got back on the right track I put myself in the left turning lane instead of just keeping left. I swear my GPS hates me. I'm waiting for it to just start swearing at me for being an idiot. So far no one creepy has sat beside me on the bus. Yesterday there was a lady with a moustache on the bus. Not like a super full grown 'stache but just like a woman with excessive upper lip hair who should probably do something about it. Or maybe share her secret with me so that I can finally become a part of Beardy and Seannanigans' Team Beard. This lady had two little boys with her and they were on their way to daycare. Every time the LRT would go by they would say "bye choo-choo!" which I found rather adorable. But then we were on the next bus waiting for it to leave the station and the LRT was loading people at their station across the street and I had to listen to "bye choo-choo" repeatedly for five minutes. Mustache tried to tell them that was enough but I guess they didn't agree. Pretty risky, whenever a mustache tells me to do something I do it. If the bus had left a minute later I would've been yelling "LEAVE CHOO-CHOO, LEAVE!!"
While here at college I'm really hoping to find myself. I've always thought it would be impossible since I think I've already lost a great portion of my mind. Not The Great Portion but a rather large portion. I did, however, manage to find out something about myself; I hate elevators. Living in a population of 7000 the only real elevators we have are in hotels or the hospital and since I rarely enter either I don't ride them very often. I've gone on the ones in west Ed but its only one floor difference. The ones in my college go up to the 7th floor of my program building and scare the shit out of me. I have gone in them I think three times and every time I have to hold onto the rail at the back and I sort of run through the doors. I don't like the dropping feeling whenever it starts or stops and I also have an image in my head of the doors closing while I'm going through them. This is why I took the stairs this morning all the way up to my 7th floor class. There's two flights of stairs per floor so after 14 I'm pretty sure the entire building could hear my heartbeat. But I mean exercise is good. I'm really determined to not gain 'The Freshman Fifteen' and have only been to Wendy's once...since yesterday :p
In my classes yesterday we had to do that thing where you say your name and something interesting about yourself. I fucking hate that. Like honestly I don't give a shit what you did this summer, I don't even know you. And everything someone says to try to be interesting isn't. Like even I forget all the interesting things about myself when put on the spot. Like my best friend is a 3 foot gnome, my favourite animal is the unicorn, my favourite color is sparkles, I'm a wizard, I love Wendy's, I drive a lemon car, I'm a lifeguard therefore mermaid and I bought a bonsai tree and its super badass and hasn't died yet, Dad, even though you said it would. Like if I said all that everyone would scooch their chairs to the opposite side of the classroom. Because that much awesomeness is really hard for most people to handle.
I actually am taking really good care of my bonsai tree. I water it every morning and put it out on the patio for sunlight and then bring it in at night. It's even growing new leaves because it just loves me so much.
Not sure if you guys have noticed this about me but I love things that are either miniature or gigantic (she said half of that ;) ) and I give inanimate objects personalities (watched Toy Story one too many times). See, not only am I finding myself but I'm also helping you find me.
I better get going though. I have my last class in half an hour and have to climb the stairs.
Have fun at school, nerds!
May the Force be with you!
-Rock Mutha Fuckin Awesome
(Feeling confident today, I am)
Sunday, 28 July 2013
My Ex Got SnapChat
Hello all my magical people!!!
I firstly need to apologize for how long it's been. I have been going through a lot in my personal life including getting ready for college and working my butt off to afford to not work my butt off while at college. I have also been dealing with a pretty dramatic breakup that my friends are all tired of hearing about. So I'm going to tell my readers about it.
Actually I'm not going to open up to all the things that happened because honestly it's none of your beeswax. But I am going to say that we ended things because I'm just too awesome to handle ;)
Actually he was kind of an asshole.
Anyways, I just found out that he now has SnapChat. "What is SnapChat?" some of you old farts might ask. Well it is an app you can download on your smartphone to send pictures to your friends. I actually went to the app store to find how they define SnapChat to explain it to you;
"Snap a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend (or maybe a few). They'll view it, laugh, and then the snap disappears from the screen-unless your friend takes a screenshot!"
So it's pretty much my Me-Memes but they made it into an app. My friends and I use it all the time. PattyStabs is like the queen of SnapChat. We don't even text anymore, we just SnapChat. I wanted to add some examples so that you can really get the idea of it.
These are just a couple random ones that I saved onto my phone. They only give you one line for a caption so sometimes you have to get creative and send a series of photos so that you can fit your whole sentence in.
So when I saw that Asshead now has SnapChat I started to think of all the Snaps I could send him. Now I'm not gonna be that psycho ex-girlfriend and actually send them to him but I thought that they were pretty blog-worthy, especially since he doesn't know of this little ol' blog.
I took the photos on my laptop so I'll just write the captions underneath.
I firstly need to apologize for how long it's been. I have been going through a lot in my personal life including getting ready for college and working my butt off to afford to not work my butt off while at college. I have also been dealing with a pretty dramatic breakup that my friends are all tired of hearing about. So I'm going to tell my readers about it.
Actually I'm not going to open up to all the things that happened because honestly it's none of your beeswax. But I am going to say that we ended things because I'm just too awesome to handle ;)
Actually he was kind of an asshole.
Anyways, I just found out that he now has SnapChat. "What is SnapChat?" some of you old farts might ask. Well it is an app you can download on your smartphone to send pictures to your friends. I actually went to the app store to find how they define SnapChat to explain it to you;
"Snap a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend (or maybe a few). They'll view it, laugh, and then the snap disappears from the screen-unless your friend takes a screenshot!"
So it's pretty much my Me-Memes but they made it into an app. My friends and I use it all the time. PattyStabs is like the queen of SnapChat. We don't even text anymore, we just SnapChat. I wanted to add some examples so that you can really get the idea of it.
These are just a couple random ones that I saved onto my phone. They only give you one line for a caption so sometimes you have to get creative and send a series of photos so that you can fit your whole sentence in.
So when I saw that Asshead now has SnapChat I started to think of all the Snaps I could send him. Now I'm not gonna be that psycho ex-girlfriend and actually send them to him but I thought that they were pretty blog-worthy, especially since he doesn't know of this little ol' blog.
"Writing songs about how much I hate you!"
"Hanging out with my new bf!"
"Think I left my hairbrush at your house..."
"I WANT MY HAIRBRUSH BACK!"
"Wish you were here!"
"Oops, wrong person!"
"Wish you were dead."
"GUESS WHAT!?!"
"You Suck."
"Miss me yet?"
"Yeah you do!"
Haha, I just love em. I was having so much fun taking pictures with Gnarles Barkley that I wanted to upload some extras for you guys. We just look so cute together! <3
Best Friends!
Rock on, rockers.
Gonna be the best post EVER!!
Suck on that, suckers.
I think that pretty much wraps up this post. And just be warned, you mess with me and I'll mess you up and write mean blogs about you. I'm pretty much Taylor Swift.
May the Force be with you!
But not you, Asshead, you wish the Force was with you.
-Ashlynn and Gnarly
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