24 June 2013
MAWWIAGE
WOOOOOOHOOOOOO MY BEAUTIFUL COUSIN MEL IS GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steve finally popped the question!!!!!! HAAAAPPPYYYYY!!!!
19 June 2013
101 Dalmatians
Remember the movie that starts off with the dog looking out at all the people walking their dogs, you notice how similar people look to their dogs?
In case not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv1FlfdJxho
I think of this every time I see a dog/human pair that look very alike.
Like 5 minutes ago, the lady in a white frilly outfit with small pink flowers on it and the tiny white dog with small pink bows on it. Sometimes it's hard not to laugh out loud.
In case not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv1FlfdJxho
I think of this every time I see a dog/human pair that look very alike.
Like 5 minutes ago, the lady in a white frilly outfit with small pink flowers on it and the tiny white dog with small pink bows on it. Sometimes it's hard not to laugh out loud.
Panic! (Tuesday Morning's Don Jitsu Lesson)
*Final Fantasy X music plays* ("I want to tell you everything")
Me: Isn't that nice.
*keeps playing.*
Me: hmm hm hmmmm. Oh shit that's my alarm now, isn't it? But I don't wanna wake upppppppp I'm not ready to face the day! Damn it, FFX wins again, I'm up, I'm up.
20 minutes later:
Nice Mexican Lady Who's Name I Forget: Good morning, Jackie!
Me: Oh hiiii! How are you this morning!
Lady: I'm well thank you! I was so tired though, I didn't feel like coming this morning!
Me: Me too, I knew I'd be okay once I got here, but I just didn't want to get up.
Sensei: Okay everyone line up!
10 minutes later:
Sensei: Okay good warm up, everyone. Let's get the white belts over here, please. Okay, Jackie you'll be practising your Form 1 on ------ (lady who's name I forget) (me, not the sensei) and ----- you can practise your Form 7 on Jackie.
Lady: Oh, Sensei, is that a good idea? I can't do that to Jackie!
Me: *impending feeling of doom*
Sensei: Oh yes, Jackie's going to have to learn to cope with pain, it's part of training!
Me: *doom* *doom* *doom* *doom*
Sensei: Okay, go ahead, start on Jackie; Jackie, lunge forward and grab -----'s wrist. Okay, hajime!"
Lady: (whispers) I think you had the right idea about not coming today! sorry!
Jackie: *doom* *doom* *doom*
Lady: (does something to my elbow and I'm on my knees. slight push followed by sharp pain.)
Me: (taps my leg to let her know i can feel it. a lot.)
Lady: (grabs my collar and throws me to the ground, swings her leg over my neck and bends my arm backwards)
Me: (tap! tap!)
Lady: (does 4 more variations of this move, then: ) okay now you need to punch me!
Me: Here? (punches at stomach )
Lady: yup. (bends my whole arm around again by barely touching me)
Me: owowowowow! that is so cool! ow!
Lady: I'm sorry I'm sorry! I hate doing this!
Me: (I still think it's cool)
aaand etcetera. and then I had to do somersaults for a half hour.
anyway I'M GONNA LEARN THAT ONE DAY! IT WAS SOO COOL SHE BARELY TOUCHED ME AND I WAS ON THE GROUND LIKE WOOAH!
the end
Me: Isn't that nice.
*keeps playing.*
Me: hmm hm hmmmm. Oh shit that's my alarm now, isn't it? But I don't wanna wake upppppppp I'm not ready to face the day! Damn it, FFX wins again, I'm up, I'm up.
20 minutes later:
Nice Mexican Lady Who's Name I Forget: Good morning, Jackie!
Me: Oh hiiii! How are you this morning!
Lady: I'm well thank you! I was so tired though, I didn't feel like coming this morning!
Me: Me too, I knew I'd be okay once I got here, but I just didn't want to get up.
Sensei: Okay everyone line up!
10 minutes later:
Sensei: Okay good warm up, everyone. Let's get the white belts over here, please. Okay, Jackie you'll be practising your Form 1 on ------ (lady who's name I forget) (me, not the sensei) and ----- you can practise your Form 7 on Jackie.
Lady: Oh, Sensei, is that a good idea? I can't do that to Jackie!
Me: *impending feeling of doom*
Sensei: Oh yes, Jackie's going to have to learn to cope with pain, it's part of training!
Me: *doom* *doom* *doom* *doom*
Sensei: Okay, go ahead, start on Jackie; Jackie, lunge forward and grab -----'s wrist. Okay, hajime!"
Lady: (whispers) I think you had the right idea about not coming today! sorry!
Jackie: *doom* *doom* *doom*
Lady: (does something to my elbow and I'm on my knees. slight push followed by sharp pain.)
Me: (taps my leg to let her know i can feel it. a lot.)
Lady: (grabs my collar and throws me to the ground, swings her leg over my neck and bends my arm backwards)
Me: (tap! tap!)
Lady: (does 4 more variations of this move, then: ) okay now you need to punch me!
Me: Here? (punches at stomach )
Lady: yup. (bends my whole arm around again by barely touching me)
Me: owowowowow! that is so cool! ow!
Lady: I'm sorry I'm sorry! I hate doing this!
Me: (I still think it's cool)
aaand etcetera. and then I had to do somersaults for a half hour.
anyway I'M GONNA LEARN THAT ONE DAY! IT WAS SOO COOL SHE BARELY TOUCHED ME AND I WAS ON THE GROUND LIKE WOOAH!
the end
12 June 2013
Birthdays and Other Thoughts
My bro's bday reminded me how old I'm getting. How depressing. I probably wouldn't mind if I had something in life, like a job, or a house. But minimum wage doesn't count as a job I don't care how you look at it. And renting doesn't count as a house. Especially when shared with roommates. I guess I need to be thankful that I decided last year to start aging backwards and turn 25 instead of 26. That means I'll only be turning 24. So it's not so bad. I mean I still get IDed buying lotto tickets which you need to be 18 for, so, I think I can do 24.
Looking forward to visiting home. Well. Boston and then Oakville where I have no house. I miss my dog. And my parents too, of course. But they're not as likely to die soon. Macko's turning 15 in a couple of weeks. So she gets missed more by proxy. Plus she smells like corn chips which I find endearing in a weird way. And she cuddles better because she doesn't get annoyed when I throw myself on her. Well, she sighs a bit. And I miss her snore. It's cute. My dad's snore from the next room, not so cute. Anyway, it's sad wondering how many more times I can see my dog. She's getting slow and lost and just old. Anyway gotta stop talking about that coz I'm a cry baby and making myself teary.
But Boston will be fun. I have never been before, so lots and lots to see! It's still weird that my parents are living in the states now. My mom was finally going to get her Canadian citizenship, too! Maybe some day. I secretly think she's just holding out until she's a senior because you don't have to swear allegiance to the Queen then, and the American in her won't let herself do it.
Busy weeks coming up, looking for a serving job because it pays more and i don't have a real job yet. Hopefully I'll find one. Looking into going back to school but not sure what they'll say about getting in with my poopy marks and if I can afford it. Maybe with that serving job.
My boss gave me some movie tix. We get them at work sometimes for free. So next Wednesday is prescreening of Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Really close to my house! I didn't know there was a theatre there haha. Not sure what it is all about yet, but the maker of Firefly and Buffy hasn't let me down yet. Hopefully Chris can come with me! (Hurry to my house after work, ok? You can even use my shower to get the car grease off you!)Soo that's the Jackie update for now! Gotta get to bed (AKA make a hot chocolate, read, eat, pass out)
Looking forward to visiting home. Well. Boston and then Oakville where I have no house. I miss my dog. And my parents too, of course. But they're not as likely to die soon. Macko's turning 15 in a couple of weeks. So she gets missed more by proxy. Plus she smells like corn chips which I find endearing in a weird way. And she cuddles better because she doesn't get annoyed when I throw myself on her. Well, she sighs a bit. And I miss her snore. It's cute. My dad's snore from the next room, not so cute. Anyway, it's sad wondering how many more times I can see my dog. She's getting slow and lost and just old. Anyway gotta stop talking about that coz I'm a cry baby and making myself teary.
But Boston will be fun. I have never been before, so lots and lots to see! It's still weird that my parents are living in the states now. My mom was finally going to get her Canadian citizenship, too! Maybe some day. I secretly think she's just holding out until she's a senior because you don't have to swear allegiance to the Queen then, and the American in her won't let herself do it.
Busy weeks coming up, looking for a serving job because it pays more and i don't have a real job yet. Hopefully I'll find one. Looking into going back to school but not sure what they'll say about getting in with my poopy marks and if I can afford it. Maybe with that serving job.
My boss gave me some movie tix. We get them at work sometimes for free. So next Wednesday is prescreening of Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Really close to my house! I didn't know there was a theatre there haha. Not sure what it is all about yet, but the maker of Firefly and Buffy hasn't let me down yet. Hopefully Chris can come with me! (Hurry to my house after work, ok? You can even use my shower to get the car grease off you!)Soo that's the Jackie update for now! Gotta get to bed (AKA make a hot chocolate, read, eat, pass out)
05 June 2013
Note to Self
Next time I want something with chocolate chips in it, I must remember not to make it whilst hungry. The result is that I don't wait for it to cool before putting in the chips, making them melt and everything chocolatey. Not too bad, because of how much I like chocolate, but really not what I was going for.
Karate stuff
So, two months in, and I'm getting better! I know two ways to knock somebody to the ground; a couple combo moves for defensive attacks; a bit of rolling; I can do 40 pushups before I have to stop, breathe a bit, and do 20 more; and she only corrects me half the time now! The hardest part is putting things together smoothly. I know, for example, how side kick and how to forward punch, but landing the sidekick into the forward stance while punching and keeping my guard up at the same time is a lot harder than it looks when I don't have time to pause and think it through in the middle! Of course just as I learn something well enough to start forming muscle memory for it, we move on to something completely different (thanks, Monty Python) and I don't have time to really start getting good at anything. I just need to keep working hard and practise a lot.
The more I do things, the more confident I get though. I think my punches are less wimpy than they were.
I always struggle with the yelling thing. You need to yell "kya!" or make some "hyuh!" kind of noise every time you kick or punch, and by the time I've remembered all the moves properly I've forgotten to yell anything. Plus, I keep imagining my kindergarden teacher yelling "USE YOUR INDOOR VOICES!" so I'm not very good at being loud when I'm actually not confident in what I'm doing.
I'm starting to get a little muscle showing in my arms again, though, which is nice. I think it's all the pushups.
They use torture tactics at my dojo. Warm-ups consist of fooling you into thinking "I can do this, it's not too bad!" and quickly changing your mind to thinking "holy crap I'm going to fall over and pass out in a second!" For example, there are often sequences of walking from one end of the room to the other on your feet and hands with your bum straight up in the air, dropping into a pushup and walking backwards in the same fashion to the end of the room you started from. Then they're like "now come back and do two pushups! and then three!" and I want to cry a little. By the time they get to 10 I can hardly manage to walk back with my hands on the ground. Then it's reverse sit ups (lifting your legs) and jumping over ropes. As soon as you can't move anymore the actual training part starts. But I really feel so good after, and need someone kicking my butt because I don't motivate myself to exercise. And you can bet I sleep well that night.
In fact, I never have insomnia nights anymore. I think i've had two or three nights that I couldn't sleep in the last three months whereas it used to be every night or every other night.
ANyway, making some snack bars now, with hemp seeds, almonds, dates, honey and butter. nom nom! Maybe some chocolate chips since Chris suggested I melt chocolate on top but I'm too lazy :p
The more I do things, the more confident I get though. I think my punches are less wimpy than they were.
I always struggle with the yelling thing. You need to yell "kya!" or make some "hyuh!" kind of noise every time you kick or punch, and by the time I've remembered all the moves properly I've forgotten to yell anything. Plus, I keep imagining my kindergarden teacher yelling "USE YOUR INDOOR VOICES!" so I'm not very good at being loud when I'm actually not confident in what I'm doing.
I'm starting to get a little muscle showing in my arms again, though, which is nice. I think it's all the pushups.
They use torture tactics at my dojo. Warm-ups consist of fooling you into thinking "I can do this, it's not too bad!" and quickly changing your mind to thinking "holy crap I'm going to fall over and pass out in a second!" For example, there are often sequences of walking from one end of the room to the other on your feet and hands with your bum straight up in the air, dropping into a pushup and walking backwards in the same fashion to the end of the room you started from. Then they're like "now come back and do two pushups! and then three!" and I want to cry a little. By the time they get to 10 I can hardly manage to walk back with my hands on the ground. Then it's reverse sit ups (lifting your legs) and jumping over ropes. As soon as you can't move anymore the actual training part starts. But I really feel so good after, and need someone kicking my butt because I don't motivate myself to exercise. And you can bet I sleep well that night.
In fact, I never have insomnia nights anymore. I think i've had two or three nights that I couldn't sleep in the last three months whereas it used to be every night or every other night.
ANyway, making some snack bars now, with hemp seeds, almonds, dates, honey and butter. nom nom! Maybe some chocolate chips since Chris suggested I melt chocolate on top but I'm too lazy :p
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