fail blog

Today was such a big fail that it was comical

Monica and I have three big projects due and essays and a portfolio.... all due - yesterday.
After having slept for ohhh maybe 4 hours on saturday night we met on sunday at 830am and began working until ohh well i didn't get home until about 7pm... and then stayed up half the night writting an essay.
So today Monica and I met at 7:45am to go to school to hand in said (late) essay.

After we handed in the essay we had to run around campus trying to track down people involved in health promotion programs to get some insight in a program we are starting up..... well a little (un)known fact about Ryerson University.... their health promotion office is manned by...uhhh no one. The main office has been taken over my the aboriginal studies office, and one room in the back remained locked all day - and the only advice we were given .... come back in an hour.
Did i mention it is about 1000 stairs straight up?

While we were running around, we had to pop into one of monica's classes she was skipping in order to figure out if her deadline was today or wednesday.... on the way to the class we bumped into my teacher (of the class i was skipping) and then her teacher.... we decided we needed to go eat some lunch, and on the way to the AMC caf we see our prof of the class that we had skipped that morning.
oh ya
thats the prof for those late essays too

epic day fail

at it was all before noon

ugh

fin

blows bubbles with their gum, take photographs, have fun.... have fun

As i end my third year of my second undergraduate degree a lot of things are going through my head - one that i am not most proud of is the fact that I will be making a pretty big salary this time next year.
Well let me rephrase that - i am not proud that the money is appealing - i am proud that I have worked hard enough to earn that money. Either way - recession or not - i will finally be able to be extremely reckless instead of the moderately reckless life I seem to lead now. I have decided that for one year, I am going to do whatever I want to do. Pay my bills and then do whatever I want with the rest of the money.... entirely irresponsible, but like EIGHT FUCKING YEARS OF POST SECONDARY SCHOOL.... i deserve to blow that much money on things like:

1) South By South West .... I will go, I will have a lot of fun
2) Cochella - I will go, I will have a lot of fun - preferably with busy P
3) Guitar - I am going to buy whatever guitar I like the most, and then I am going to take lessons
4) I am going to buy all new furniture for my living room
5) I am going to take my mother somewhere she really wants to go
6) See heather as much as possible, regardless of where she lives
7) I am going to buy a pair (or two) of christian louboutin shoes

by the end of this year I plan to have $1.20 to my name
and then it will be time to save and shit

fin

inside all of us is a wild thing

OH EM GEE

My FAVOURITE book as a child:



i seriously have not been so excited!
arcade fire! wild things!
i teared up

fin
!!!!!!!

to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

Do you ever notice that women who work at hair salons, and spas are brutally honest. I think it is a symptom of being around only women for the majority of the time. I went to get my eyebrows waxed today. Granted it had been too long, and I was beginning to resemble the 13 year old version of my ungroomed face - but that is neither here nor there. I sort of poke light at the fact that I waited too long, and the woman looks at me and says 'oh yes, way too long'
ha ha no need for niceties.
In any case, I have two separate eyebrows now, that are shaped and groomed - hozzah!

So today Heather and I were talking, and she makes reference to a movie I have never heard of. She tells me to go watch the trailer - and so I did - and she was right .... my heart exploded!! it was as if someone made a movie just for me... swoooon

500 Days of Summer


who's coming with me on July 17??

fin

lying in my bed, the blanket is warm, this body will never be safe from harm

I love you
but i am not IN love with you

there is a clear and huge distinction there

fin

i wear my sunglasses at night

I think i go through sunglasses at an unreasonable rate. I used to pride myself in getting years out of 10 dollar shades - but these days I seem to have a monthly habit.

I have been watching the Wonder Years lately online..... and it makes me nostalgic for my youth. I cannot believe I am turning 25 this year. Luckily Brennan is half a year older, and I get to come to terms with our advanced age vicariously through him - before the blow actually hits me.

I know I have talked in great lengths about getting older lately. How sometimes I look back at the last 5 years and think : oh my god, where did the time go. I think how much time I spent worrying about the small stuff - and how I have learned that you can't sweat the small stuff - and even more importantly I have learned that it is all small stuff.
I feel like a lot of this reminiscing is rooted in my parents renovating my childhood bedroom. As of sunday there is no longer a bed in that room. It is like I am officially out for good - which is realistic since you know, I am entering my late 20s. Just something about those orange walls being covered in some 'mature' colour, and new furniture, replacing my childhood belongings is a little sad. I spent so much time in that room - loving, and losing, and crying, and laughing .... and now it is covered up in taupe, and modern fixtures. I think a lot about my parents. How me getting older - means them getting older. You never worry realistically about your parents not being there anymore - but it could happen. I mean the likelihood of my father dropping dead from a heart attack is slim - but not unquestionable ... I just remember them being younger. Sometimes I will come home for the day and see them. And once you have been away for a while you start to notice things .... their hair is a little greyer... they seem a bit slower...I guess that is realistic for someone entering their 60s. I mean don't get me wrong - they aren't on deaths door or anything - its just that they aren't 35 anymore. Maybe that is the disadvantage of my mother having me at 20. I have vivid memories of her at my age. I know what she was like when she was 25. So seeing her at 45 is just weird I guess. I just cannot even vocalize it. My father is more than 10 years older than my mother - and with him I see it the most. The scary part must be watching a child - a baby you made, grow up. I know from some secondary experience. My good friend, and aunt have had babies in the last five years - and it is unusual to have a physical representation of time. To see a baby become a little person, with feelings, and opinions, and their own secrets and friends.
Time is a funny thing
it always marches on

fin

goooooood morning mister stevenson

one of my favourite movies growing up was Little Monters
so i decided to see if they had a trailer for it... it turns out there is one... BUT it so misrepresents the movie! the movie is way more scary, and way more suspenseful ..... this clip makes it seem like prost-a-tot delight





its amazing !! try to find it on vhs / dvd if you can

fin

merry spring time

So yesterday Monica and I walked to school. At about spadina and queen my flats began to give me a wicked bad blister. SO at the ardenes right there i bought a pair of flip flops for $1.99! Except it was a bit too cold for sandals and people gave me dirty looks.

i always walk to school, but we compiled a list of street walkers we hate:

5) Slow walkers
4) People that walk 3 or more in a row... there is NO ROOM ... that and you walk too slow and block the pass by
3) People (presumably tourists) that walk around looking up all the time and then bump into people/things
2) Stop walkers.... if you meet a friend in the street move over to the side... do not stop abruptly in the middle of the sidewalk
1) I'm not walking with you walkers.... the people that you dont know that walk at the same pace as you and you sort of look like you are walking together and it gets uncomfortable
ugh
i hate that


Also the best part of the day is when oprah surprised ellen on the ellen show
it was amazing

Oh also a little treat for you all.... a video - i just preface this with, when i make a little cutting motion brennan goes crazy because he thinks i am going to pinch him - but i don't! anyways i wasn't doing anything and he attacked me to 'send me a message'.... I know ... I KNOW how chris brown of him
anyways, i started making the cutting motion to bring on the attacks to share with you all
enjoy

fin

tweet tweet

you know what might be as horrific as retail during christmas break?
retail during march break.

awwwwfuuullllll

So spring is here.... i can feel that it is not going away this time.... I am super stoked to be able to walk everywhere again

also i am excited for heather's tour of canada this summer
i miss that girl

fin

ps- welcome to my world johno

lest we forget

So do we all remember my Sabrina?

as a 14 year old girl, she is obviously in love with Twilight

I made her watch Interview with the Vampire to show her that her generation is trying to be mine
notice the same music.. hilarious



vs



fin

all the words in my mouth

are anyone else' tits moving farther down and farther apart

one thing is forsure

i am not 21 anymore

hot

fin

you'll never be a better kind, if you don't leave the world behind

what is with multiple blogs a day?
i have so much to write, but it is so disjointed

I stumbled on this girl that covers songs.... and has her own original songs too
but in her songs she sort of talks a bit, and you get to know a little about her
Ben Folds actually saw a video of her covering Gone, and got her to open up some shows for him, and sing gone with him on stage... i thought it was pretty impressive for a freshman in college making youtube videos

its super cute
and she plays ukulele
guh i love it
i feel like if i were 19 we would be friends ha ha

Green Gentleman - PATD


Woe- Say Anything


Gone - Ben Folds


Keep Fishin - Weezer


these are some of my favourites!
love it

fin

everybody gets there, everybody gets there

Do you ever think about someone, and then they call you?

I was walking to work yesterday, and I saw all the stuff being set up for CMW, and I was thinking about Nathan... how he was probably super busy this week
and then like 4 blocks later I run into him

i have espn

what a rad dude... he brings a smile to my face

fin

chuck norris lost his virginity before his father did

Happy 69th birthday big guy!


don't bother google-ing chuck norris


fin

love love love

i want to take voice lessons
i want to take guitar lessons
i want to take yogalates lessons

fin

You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

this is an embarrassing but true memory

before i had my first kiss, i knew it was coming... like i knew this boy was going to kiss me and i knew how unprepared i was for this ...
so in anticipation of my inexperience i did 2 things

1) i called heather to ask her to walk me through 'how to kiss someone' .... which now since I have been kissing for some years is such an impossible thing to ask of someone....

2) i tried to look it up online... which just seemed to scare me more

all in all, he just did it, and i sort of just stood there and knew what to do

ipso facto

research isn't always the answer ... which has been proven by me successfully completing 7 years of university.... and that kissing thing

fin

make love to the camera

I LOVE America's next top model
we are in season 12!
twelve!

yo girls, do me a favour, think of 5 top models, and 5 designers before you meet Tyra

I don't go to my job interviews without my resume, don't step to that woman without 10 names in your pretty little head

fin

if you can't beat them, join them?

remember my twitter blog down there...?
after getting several responses about HOW misinformed i am/was - and encouragement to try it out - i have broken down....

my rules about twitter club:
1) i will not post about my day to day activities - such as dinner, showering, etc.
2) i will not use it as i use this blog - this blog is personal insight ... twitter will be used as a facebook type of deal - i don't air my laundry on such forums
3) if i become an obnoxious user as i outlined a few blogs ago - please make me aware so that i can delete that bad boy

ugh god
here we go

michelle's twitter

fin

black wednesday

three posts in one day :|

sad day for beautiful hamilton, ontario

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/523647

over 2000 people left jobless this week - it is not a good scene for our city

fin

oh em gee

how could i forget to post this?

happy 24.5 birthday michelle!

fin

you might win some, but you just lost one

boooooobooobooo

last night i felt like i had 100 things about to blog about.... and now i can't remember any of them.

(+) i am addicted to pudding cups that are in the fridge
(-) my furniture in my room is all pushed against walls because i got a new bed, and haven't rearranged
(+) i got a new bed
(-) half the people that view my blog are just googling abba lyrics, or aldo shoes
(+) people actually view my blog
(+) I smell really good from using all the Lush stuff heather sent me
(+) the semester is half over
(-) no summer job

You know what is too much to handle? Regis Philbin saying "I Love Lil Kim" .... at 9 am
he is too much
its like your parents saying something wrong - like "hey michelle, have your heard of that artist fifty cents"

did i mention (+) i got a new bed?

glory

fin

thoughts on the interwebz

wired magazine said twitter is the new blog

you know what i think?
i don't need a play to play of your lives
it is by far the most narcissistic thing i have ever come across

at least blogs serve as a sort of 'diary' - keeps people up to date on your feelings, and likes, and troubles

Let me make an analogy. Twitter is the msn names of those guys you used to hang out with - the ones that give you a play by play of their lame lives ....
like do i give a fuck that you are going to dinner at 4:19pm?
But i guess the obvious answer is - if you don't like it, don't read it... right?
oh god
so little faith in my age bracket.

fin

ps- a post script while i am on a rant. I wonder if people ever think that they are the problem - that they are the undesirable one? As in, if unconnected individuals who are outside your family and friends continually feel that you are unsatisfactory, perhaps you need to reassess what type of person are are presenting to the outside world. If they are all wrong, maybe you are the problem. Elitist attitudes, that are not backed with any sort of credential, or experience, coupled with a manipulative demeanor that is apparent within 5 minutes of contact will continually result in failure. But again - maybe it is just karma.

hope to die? oui

SO
i have a guilty pleasure confession
at the gym, I always listen to really really REALLY ridiculous music - which makes sense i guess
i just need some upbeat tunes to keep me going. The problem is, that sometimes I find myself really liking these songs outside of the gym,
which leads me to this :



Anyways, on friday it is pretty cold and SUPER windy. But I decide to walk to work, because it isn't -100, and who doesn't want to save 2.75? WHO?
Anyways, I walk past the Tattoo Rock Parlour, and some dude somes barrelling out of the ally beside it. so obviously, I glance down the ally and there is a band unloading, and this dude who ran out and almost fucking runs into me gives me a DIRTY LOOK. Anyways, I look back because he was a jerk and he points me out to someone in the band. I was super fucking pissed.... like do you think I am seriously looking back because i am intrigued who is playing the rock parlour?
fuck off right?
anyways I look it up today - and guess who they were
Mariannas Fucking Trench..... that little gym obssession is over
like word up dudes.... you are new found glory wannabes
you will never make it big inside or outside of canada
go home

fin