Lemonade's Blog

2007-06-19T10:39:00.000-07:00

Well, it's the last day of school. I'm kind of excited, but not as hyper as I thought I would be. I guess I've just spent too much time thinking about it already and the thrill has worn off or something. On the other hand, maybe I'm just too tired and stressed out and just want to go home and sleep!

Throughout grade 12, the Writing class has excepted many challenges, the most rewarding of which was the newsletter. I can't wait to see what our yearbook turned out like. Also, since our creativity week, I've been writing poetry again to make sense of my feelings.

I'd just like to share something with everyone that popped into my head yesterday: When opportunity knocks, run to your door, swing it open, and yell at the top of your lungs with open arms "WELCOME TO MY HUMBLE HOME!"
Have an awesome grad, gr 12ers, and a great summer to all!

2007-06-15T12:08:00.000-07:00

ONLY TWO DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT! I'm going to be finished with Family Studies this weekend, and I only have one provincial, I have a full time job as of July 2nd, and I'm so excited to be going out in the "real world"! It will be EXTREMELY different and scary and riping-hair-out-ish until I get used to the whole new life style of working 5 days a week, no homework, paying bills, budgeting and if I don't I'll starve! That's conviction enough to save as much as possible. Plus I need to scrap enough together to go to Germany and live there for a while to see if I like it. I think I will. But don't worry, I'll visit often! :p
I just want to thank DSS for the best school year ever.

Oh, and I just want to make something clear. Although I live out at Little Bar, I moved there 2 years ago, and I'm not a hippie!

2007-06-15T11:57:00.000-07:00

Well, the Writing 11/12 class this week has sparked a lot of controversial thought and opinion, or just brought out what people think which they usually don't talk about. I think many people were surprised at their opinion because when do we ever talk about residential schools? Yeah, we've heard about them, but except for that one lesson in SS11, that's the only time we've heard about them or discussed the problems associated with them. I personally think it was horrible what happened in residential schools and how First Nations were treated, restricted, and shut out. I don't believe anyone.. any of the people who are not in government... really know what to think because they had nothing to do with it, only the government enforced it. So, how can we know how we feel about something when we weren't responsible for it and we've hardly been exposed to information about it?

2007-06-07T12:09:00.000-07:00

And.... today in Foods we started preparing our Greek dishes. Teri and Kaitlyn made the Greek salad, Ryan marinated the FLESH for the skewers (Eep, I just remembered we didn't save any sauce for the veggie skewers >.< ), and I made lemon cake. We were only allowed to make half the recipe, so the cake might have turned out kinda weird... I hope it doesn't taste as bad as it looks.
I can't wait until tomorrow. Everyone's meals sound so nummy. Well, except the fleshy stuff. >.> Anyway, that's all the exciting stuff that's happened so far today. After school the grads are going to make a movie for the grad video.. with a fog machine or with Sam falling off her chair. Poor Sam, I hope you at least get some kind of exercise mat to fall on to!

2007-06-05T11:53:00.000-07:00

We just made Cream Puffs in Foods. YUM! they were amazing. I'm glad I didn't put icing sugar on mine, or they would have been too sweet. We did put cinnamon powder on all of them, which turned out to compliment the eggy taste. I can't wait until Friday when we get to cook our Greek meal. Teri, Kaitlyn, Ryan, and I will be making kabobs (meat and vegetarian), Greek salad, taziki, buying flatbread, and banana chocolate chip pie and lemon cake for dessert. It should be great! I can't wait to taste all the foods everyone else will be creating. :)

2007-05-28T11:51:00.000-07:00

Well on Friday we had a "Fun Day" with baseball for the afternoon. I'm not really a fan of baseball, and as it turned out neither are Teri or Kaitlyn. So the three of us got to sit in the Foods room for 2 blocks and wait until the 3 o'clock bell rang. We weren't even allowed to sit outside and watch the teams play! I found that pretty ridiculous. We could have been cheering people on, but no.... At least we had a nice chit chat about all sorts of things. lol And the burnt popcorn was exciting. :p
Then Saturday was a big disappointment as well, because I couldn't get a ride into town for the parade and rodeo and everything. I wanted to come so bad, but nada. grrr If I'm still in BC next May, I'm definitely making the parade. ^_^ I want to see it!

2007-05-25T09:57:00.000-07:00

Have you ever noticed how most of the pictures of frogs are of them hanging over leaves? I dunno why I decided to start my blog off with that today, but I just thought of it.
And then there's Kermie; he's just plain cute in any pose. hehe

Anyway, today we have our two core courses before lunch because after lunch we get to go pick up garbage. yay. After that the whole school is playing baseball.. the one sport that I think is more stupid that lacrosse. I don't think I'm doing to last long out there anyway, since I only got three hours of sleep last night. That was due to staying up til 2 and then having my alarm clock decide to turn the time back two hours so it would ring at 5 am instead of 7! Yesss.. I set the time to 7 and NOT 5.. but somehow .. meh. All I have to say is that I'm looking forward to this weekend because I don't have to use my alarm clock!

Only 37 days until grad!!!! 15 weekdays of school left!!!!! :D

2007-05-24T08:55:00.000-07:00

Hello, I'm back. I know I haven't written for awhile, but I wasn't here most of last week. I was stuck in bed at home with one of the worst flus I've had in a long time. It took me five days to just get well enough to get out of my blankets. Anyhow, although I'm still a wee bit stuffed up, I feel much better. I was trying my hardest not to get sick all of our grad trip, while I watched one by one of all the other grads get sick the closer it got to going back home. Then the night before we came back up here, I ate a weird tasting fudge.. strawberry vanilla or something.. and it gave me a scratchy throat. The next morning I woke up with a sore throat and stuffed sinuses. Gah! If it weren't for the funny fudge! Oh well, lesson learned: never having fudge again. >.>
As for the grad trip in itself, it was awesome! We had so much fun, especially with the go-carting. The only down part about that was my cart didn't really go fast, so I had no choice but to chuck along. Later on I learned that by taking the corners wide and then doing a sharp turn, I cut off Kyle and Justin one time and they were sort of struggling to stay on the track, going into the grass at one point? Sorry guys. :p Plus the giraffes were pretty cool at the zoo. :)

2007-05-08T11:55:00.000-07:00

Who is excited about the grad trip???!!! I for one am VERY excited! I've already packed and am pretty much ready to go. Can't wait until 3pm tomorrow! All I have left to do is buy a whole bunch of granola bars from the concession for snacks. :p I've never been on a roller coaster before, but I'm sort of a fan of heights, so it should be fun! The hotel we're staying at also has a pool, so mwuahaha! We really should stop at the superstore in chiliwack to get wholesale strawberries, Remi! hehe
Just a few minutes ago in Foods we made potato pancakes. Mmmm, they were so good. My Mom makes potato pancakes as well, but her recipe doesn't taste the same as this one, so I'll be taking this home to tell her about.
Other than that, Max and Nena are getting huge! The salmon are starting to come up the creek on our place which is really neat to watch, and GRAD TRIP IN 15 HOURS!!!!!!!!! Woooo!!!
P.S. Wish me luck on finding a lime green zipper down there. ^_^ Can't wait!

2007-05-01T11:23:00.000-07:00

In Writing 11/12 class we're working on our yearbook again. One of my jobs is the grade 12 random pics page. The other day I spent a whole hour intently browsing thru all the different folders, without much success. So far I have 8 pics out of...... 400? You have no idea how boring the grade 12's are - especially on camera! It's pretty sad; we're supposed to be the happiest class in the school, since we're graduating and being set free in a few months and everything... Come to think of it, most of the grade 12's aren't a very happy looking bunch, especially lately. I know making sure you get good grades to guarantee that you're graduating is VERY stressful and we haven't been getting enough sleep either, but it's important to remember WHY you're doing all of this to yourself. Because if you don't remind yourself throughout high school and especially grade 12, then you might forget by the time you go out on your own, and then you'll just see your future as going nowhere and think you're stuck in a rut. That's why it's so vital to make goals and follow them through with a hungry passion, just like the one you have for graduating and getting out of here. (Not that it's a bad place or anything... too much ;)) Don't forget to be kind to yourself along the way.

2007-04-24T11:29:00.000-07:00

On the 25th and 26th, the students of DSS need to participate in school-wide Student Led Conferences. This is an opportunity for students to tell their parents about assignments from every class, how they're doing, and what their plan is to improve. We have to fill out three sheets for each class and choose three assignments to go with those sheets so we can have something to talk about during our conferences. I think these conferences should be taking place between teachers and students instead of parents and students because most parents could care less what their kids are doing in school, as long as they get good grades. Either way helps students make plans to improve, but I still think conferences with teachers would make a lot more sense.

2007-04-23T11:11:00.000-07:00

The grade elevens and twelves just had a cheese tasting lab in Foods. There were seven different cheeses, including smoked Gouda, goat cheese, blue cheese, and Le Petit St. Paul. My favourite one was the smoked Gouda. Mmm, so good. The goat cheese was yummy, too, but I think it needs to be spread thinly on toast. We had it in big chunks and it kinda just got more and more in your mouth - it's a very rich cheese. The blue cheese was extremely disgusting! I don't know why it's called blue cheese if it has green mold spotted throughout. Yuck! The taste was quite over-powering, and it smelled like a pile of manure. :S At least we had grape juice and crackers to wash the taste away!
I can't believe the grad trip is only a few weeks away. Grad is in abit more than two months. It's unreal. I really need to get my grad pictures done. My parents aren't very aware of that; they're just panicking that I'm graduating and moving out and stuff. I'm only graduating, I'm not going on a one-way trip to Mars! Geez.
Anyway, I got a part-time job at the Big Bar Guest Ranch until July, and full-time after grad. Which is great, because I have one less thing to worry about. It's a really friendly atmosphere and everything; I'm looking forward to starting full-time.

2007-04-19T11:37:00.000-07:00

It still doesn't seem to want to be Spring. I'm starting to think we're not getting a summer this year! I want to see the flowers blooming and the grass all green and everything, but so far all we've had is about a cm of new grass that got snowed on 2 inches yesterday. Blah! The sky's always gray and more and more trees are turning brown and the scenery is more than depressing when you look out of our living room window. We didn't get to sample cheese and wine (cranberry juice) in Foods either today; we had a test instead. Wow, what a sad blog. Well, I suppose I do have something positive to say: I finally got the fabric for my grad dress. It isn't exactly the colour I wanted, but it's pretty close. It's a lighter lime-green, but it's got a nice texture and looks like it'll be good to work with. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with the back yet.. zipper or lace-up. A zipper would probably be easier to sew in, but lace-up would look prettier. I dunno. I guess I need to sleep on it for a few more days. TGIT 'cause tomorrow's Friday and there's no school, so if I decide in my sleep tonight, I might start on it tomorrow. ^_^ Oh! Max and Nena are huge and fluffy and they're behaving better, too. Anyway, that's all that's new in my world. Exciting, huh? Have a good weekend end!

2007-04-13T12:07:00.000-07:00

It's supposed to be SPRING! But it snowed this morning, and it's getting colder again. grrr! I'm so glad it's the weekend though, sleeping in seems to make even a cold "Spring" seem unimportant. Oh well. My Friday was saved as soon as our Foods room was filled with the delicate aroma of cinnamon and apples and melting cheddar. Mmmmm! We made Apple Cheese Muffins. The way the dough looked before we put it in the oven, I thought they'd be hard and chewy, but they actually turned out extremely nummy. I'm going to think of them every now and then through-out the rest of the day to brighten it. ^_^ hehe Have a good weekend peeps!

2007-04-13T12:01:00.000-07:00

Here's my rule of thirds picture. There's horizontal, vertical, as well as diagonal sections (from bottom left to top right). I like the vertical thirds best.

2007-04-13T11:58:00.000-07:00

This is my zoom picture for Writing. It's of the Clipper mosaic by the front exit.

2007-04-12T16:45:00.000-07:00

Let's see... nothing much has been happening... except for tons and tons and tons.. and tons.. of homework. Woot! >.> I wish we still had PE, at least the gr 12's could get rid of a bit of stress and anxiety by kicking softballs.. and teammates. :o Grad is only two and a half months away! I'm so happy that all the homework will be no more. I know, I know, there will be other responsibilities and everything, but at least you only work 9 to 5 and come home and cook dinner, and then you can go to bed and SLEEP! Double woot! mwuahahaha zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

2007-04-03T12:08:00.000-07:00

Okay, I said I was going to write more on the environment, so here are some things to help you make this planet a better place to live.

Don't just recycle, reuse:
- water/juice bottles: buy one, refill it at home until it wears out
- plastic bags: don't throw them out, keep them and use for garbage bags or bring them back to the store next time you go grocery shopping
- cardboard boxes: use for your own crafts or donate to a kindergarten for theirs, organize your shelves, store your shoes, or make kitty a sleep dome

Using:
- Use reusable hard plastic containers instead of ziploc bags.
- Bring your drink in a water bottle or thermos and buy large juice containers instead of small ones with straws.
- Don't use plastic cutlery, bring your real stuff from home

To be continued....

2007-04-03T11:50:00.000-07:00

There has been a lot of scary stories in the news lately (especially the last few weeks) about our environment. Some experts say we are heading towards a toasting, other's say Earth is going to be hit with the next ice age soon. Either way, if you just take a look outside and glance at the funny weather we've been having, you'll be able to tell that something is inching closer (either global warming or freezing), and it does not look pleasant. There are much more freak forecasts than ever around the world, and at home it's not so rosy either. I come on, -20C in April? Something's wrong here.
But I guess you only have to look around your immediate surroundings to see the problem. We put way too much stress on our poor little planet! I know it sounds corny, but Earth isn't as big as everyone thinks. And with 6 billion people now, as well as the rate of growth skyrocketing every year, there isn't enough room to pump all that CO2. then again, why would you want to pump it anywhere? How long do we think we're going to survive here if we keep this up? Statistics show that asthma and respiratory infections are increasing dramatically in and around all urban centres of ALL sizes. All it takes is a small amount of poison. Take the paper mill in Kamloops for example. Imagine 700, 000 of those mills on a river (the Yellow River in China to be exact, pumping ALL of their waste into the river. There is no way all of it will get filtered by the soil, so it goes into the ocean, ingested by fish and plants, which in turn get eaten by us... goes into the water cycle, rains back down on farmer's crops and cow's fields, which spreads the toxins to our produce, meat and dairy products. And that's just a SMIDGEN of the big picture. Yummy, eh?
So, I've decided I'm going to write about the health of our planet more often from now on. Maybe it will persuade all of us (including me) to take better care of the ONLY place we have to call home.

2007-03-26T12:11:00.000-07:00

Well my last blog was kinda short, so I'm going to try and make this a long one. ;)
This is the mini cooper...... again! Wooo!
It's the cutest car on the planet and I'm saving up for one.

Check out the dash.. the speedometer's in the middle and also contains all of the music equipment, break pad wear indicator, shows you the service intervals, and when you should change your oil next. Pretty cool, eh?

Facts about the Mini:

- only use 1.6 L

- have 118 hp

- Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS)

- Cornering Brake Control (CBC)

- Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD)

- Hill Assist

- Brake Assist

- Automatic Stability Control Traction (ASCT)

- Dynamic Stability Control (DSC)

- Turns into a moving van: when you fold the rear seats down, you get 680 L of

room, enough for a large washing machine and a bunch of boxes.

- It even has a cooled glovebox... for ice cream of course!

And best of all - it comes in .... RED! Wooo!

2007-03-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

Well, winter seems to have come back. It's gotten colder again, and the sun doesn't want to come out. It's kind of depressing.. actually, it's very depressing! Even though daylight stays longer now, if there isn't any sun visible, just a light coming from somewhere, it's .. saddening. One good thing about today though, is that we just made Thai Chicken in Foods. I didn't eat any chicken, but the peanut sauce was yummy. ;) It wasn't really filling, but I have cookies for lunch! xD I can't believe it's only 60 days 'til grad! 60 weekdays that is; 100 days in all (including spring break!) Wooo!

2007-03-09T11:27:00.000-08:00

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vvv I also want a pontiac solstice! ;)
drool!

2007-02-27T12:16:00.000-08:00

No doubt all grade 12ers are getting more excited - and nervous - about grad. I know i definitely am. There are only 4 months left! That's including spring break and weekends and everything. Scary, isn't it? It doesn't seem real.. and yet in 120 days, there's going to be no homework left to do, no assignments to stress over, no fieldtrips, no blogging. Well, that's not entirely true, I guess some of us are going on to college and will then get back into the whole homework and assignment thing, and if we want to go on a fieldtrip, we can drive ourselves (and don't have to take notes and be in bed by 10). I think I will continue to blog, and I hope everyone in Writing will do so, too. It woud be cool to stay in touch and see what's happening in everyone's life after school. Right now I'm not 100% sure where I'm going to be, or if I'll be going to college in the fall or wait a year or two. I do want to become a fashion designer sometime in the future, but I don't know if that's the first thing I want to do. The first thing I'm going to do when I grad, is.. you guessed it - sleep! Yay, freedom.... in an ironic sort of way. Anyway, what do you want to do when you graduate? What's the first thing you are going to do when you wake free?

2007-02-23T12:03:00.000-08:00

JELLY ROLLS!!! Mmmmm! Today in foods we made one big, jam-packed (raspberry), spongy, delicious jam roll! And Kait even shared her left-over lemon meringue pie as well. :P That, and the fact that it's Friday, has put me in a very happy mood today. :) I can't wait until I get to go home and sleep (yes, I know I talk a lot about sleep, but it's my favourite hobby ;) ) I hope I don't get too much homework, I really need some time to work on my Family Studies and Portfolio. Puppy Update: Max's face completely changed overnight yesterday; he looks totally different.. elongated! Him and Nena both grew.. probably 3 inches in height this week. They follow me everywhere and they're increasing their extremely-good-lil-angel-ness. ^_^ Anyhow, that's all I can think of right now. Have a good weekend peeps!

2007-02-22T11:31:00.000-08:00

This week has been going by fairly slowly. But on the other hand, it's already Thursday, so the weekend looms! In Chem12 we've been shooting a video on workplace safety, which has been a little fun... The last two days there have been professors and academic advisers visiting for lectures from TRU and Selkirk. The slide shows were kind of interesting - I liked the one on Indonesia (monkeys!) - but none of the colleges really offer anything I would want to take. I can't wait until Foods next Monday, I think that's when we get to bake our cake! :D

2007-02-14T11:54:00.000-08:00

Shock alert! The people we got our puppies from told us they were both boys. We found out a few days ago that.... they're not. hehe One is a girl! :D So I named her Nena. Now it's Nena and Max. They're growing really rapidly and liking their new home more everyday. Nena listens to 'sit' and her and Max both respond to 'down' already! And they're only 3 months! And they sleep on top of each other, and chew on the same stick at the same time, and wag their tails in circles, and Max has a poof on his head, and Nena has the cutest lil' ears! hehe Okay, that's it for today. :) Happy Valentine's Day people!

2007-02-09T11:02:00.000-08:00

Guess what!!!! We got two puppies! Two adorable, fluffy, cutie pies! You can only think of one thing when you look at them - AWWWWW!!!! They're cousins and both maremmas, about three months old, and awfully good lil' angels!
These pics are not of Max and Moritz, but they're also maremmas

2007-02-05T11:27:00.000-08:00

I have absolutely no - NO - idea.. what.. I'm.. doing. I told myself that my last semester of highschool would not contain any courses to make it ify whether I'd graduate or not (since my credits are already just the minimum). And guess what I ended up with? English 12, Math 11P, Chemistry 12, Foods 12, Writing 12, and I'm taking Family Management 11 by correspondence. The distance ed. school I was with before never sent me a Grad Portfolio package thingy, so I still have all of my Portfolio to do before the end of June. I am so scared of the load of homework I'm going to have! I'm not even here today.. I'm totally on another planet... I'm so freaked out I'm in a trance.. I'm.. AHHHH!!! Tell me something other than staying up until 2 every night is going to come of this... something good. Please! >.> *drifts off into a nightmare*

2007-01-31T09:32:00.000-08:00

I just found a great website and thought I'd share it with everyone. It's called answers.com and it has so much stuff on there you wouldn't believe me if I told you, so check it out yourself - you'll be amazed. It's like a collection of EVERYTHING individual-topic reference websites are made of (dictionary.com, wiki..), but it's not only got a bit of info for everything.. for example, say you went to the "dictionary" tab and typed in "winter".. you get all the definitions (even from old/middle english!), you can listen to the word on a sound file or in various author's passages; its different uses; there's a detailed animated picture of the earth with winter coming and going; a lengthy definition of how different cultures (past and present) saw winter and made it a part of their calendars etc; what causes winter; migrating animals; winter sports; its symbolism and mythology; winter paintings by famous artists, poems; it immediatly translates the word into 16 different languages for your reference . . . it even shows you what it looks like in sign language! And best of all, all these things have links so if you want something elaborated, it's just a click away. On the main page, there are even resources for webmasters, bloggers, teachers, librarians, journalists, small businesses and advertisers. You can browse the news, images, the web, go shopping online, yada yada yada. Plus.. it's 100% free. . . I thought wikipedia was good, but wow, now I don't need to go through all the reference sites to find something; it's all in one place.

2007-01-29T16:07:00.000-08:00

Okay.. I have no idea what I'm going to write about. *thinks* Nothing eventful has happened the last few days, except that they were extremely exhausting with homework and finishing up my correspondence. I can't wait to get home and watch a movie and maybe snack on some cookies :p Mmmm cookies.. sugar. ^_^ I was going to study some more tonight, but I don't think I'll be awake enough by the time I get home. Hmmm........ oh, the Drama 10/12 class got the smoking video done on time - thanks to Chrissy. ;) The only sad thing is my parents didn't want to sign the form thingy that allowed me to be in it, so I had to *sniff* be *sniff* cut out.... waaaaa. *sigh* Oh well... I was gonna say maybe next year, but I guess I'm not going to be in school anymore then! hehe I suppose it's a final "oh well". *ponders* I'm starting to get excited about my birthday. Woo! 18! *yawn* Well, my brain's dead for tonight. Toodles.

2007-01-25T12:12:00.000-08:00

Wow.. we got one foot of snow over the past two weeks and yesterday most of it just melted away. I love winter.. well, actually just the snow.. but I'm excited about spring. I hope it comes early this year so Big Bar lake warms up quicker and I can go swimming sooner! I haven't gotten to making an igloo yet this winter, and I don't think it would last long even if I found the time to do so. Ever winter it melted before I could finish it.. I'm thinking maybe it's time to give it up..... until I go to Iceland where I can take as long as I want and don't have to worry about it melting!

2007-01-18T11:07:00.000-08:00

*YAWN!* I am so sleep deprived! I spent more hours sleeping during two nights last week than I have all this week. Last night - well, actually this morning - I had to stay up until 2:30 am to finish a project for Chemistry, and I only got 4 hours of Zzz's. *yawn* The night before, I had to stay up late to work on the project as well. Tuesday was the same, Monday too with tons of catching up to do because I missed a few days of school..... *yawn* I'm so glad Chem homework doesn't have to be handed in until Monday, that way I can go to sleep as soon as I get home from school tomorrow and sleep in until late afternoon on Saturday. :p Ahhhh, sleep. neeeed sleep! SLEEP! *cough* Yes.... well, at least I got something out of it: I got my project all done. Thank goodness I didn't hear what Alex thought he heard Mrs. Mertens say about handing it in on Tuesday. hehe ;)

2007-01-16T11:51:00.000-08:00

Today in Foods 11/12 we had a debate on whether Canada should ban animal products - completely. In other words, whether or not ALL Canadians should become vegans! There were four groups and each had some pretty good points - especially the one I was in. :p Basically, the main concerns were that a lot of jobs would be lost, the meat/dairy industry would crash (yeah..), and people would have a hard time getting the protein they need. But let's face it, meateaters.. you just can't imagine saying bye-bye to your beloved FLESH!!!
If Canada did make it illegal to grow animals for food, the government would put programs in place to help people get into the vegan lifestyle. Yet, realistically, of course, this new way of nourishing ourselves would take years to make happen: the number of crop farms and orchards would need to be built up first, alternatives for animal by-products would need to be produced on a much larger scale (like glue from plants, pleather etc.), and a whole new system of production and transportation would have to be put in place. BUT in the end, no more animal cruelty, no more methane farts causing global warming, and a MUCH healthier society. Wooo! Go Veggies!

Love,
A Proud Vegetarian.

2006-12-20T10:45:00.000-08:00

I can't wait until Christmas Eve! Well, actually, Saturday, 'cause that's when Xmas holidays start. Yay! Anyway, my family celebrates on Christmas Eve.. we have dinner and then we open presents and stay up til the wee hours watching Xmas movies and sharing stories.
I can't wait until Xmas dinner. Mmmmmm pumpkin pie! ^_^ I have no clue what I'm getting for presents, but I hope I get another load of books. As for where to put all the gifts.. we don't have our tree up yet. It's pretty pathetic. I think I'll just have to go out after school today and get one myself. Since, if you want something done you have to do it yourself... I swear my family's getting lazier with decorating every year. heehee

2006-11-23T12:07:00.000-08:00

What I want to know is, what does everyone have against Nickelback?! They have such awesome songs.. their lyrics actually rhyme, every song has a different theme, unlike most other "hip" groups' songs. I've heard that some older people don't like the music because they've been playing it in the bars every since it came out so they're pretty tired of hearing it now. But what about those that haven't been old enough to get in the bar long enough to have heard Nickelback when they first came out. Even those that use(d) a fake ID aren't/weren't old enough. What is so revolting about this band? Every band has done some things that were mistakes, if Nickelback is the only band people hold a grudge against for THEIr mistakes, it's not really fair. What else could there be?

2006-11-20T12:17:00.000-08:00

Mwuhahahaha! Guess who got 90% of her Christmas shopping done already? I usually get it done in September-ish, but this year I seem to be a little slower. I'm making a lot of my gifts myself, like paintings, books.. mini-gift baskets.
I can't wait to decorate our tree. It's been so long since last Christmas. :p
In Foods today we made sugar cookies to give as gifts at the seniors' banquet. They smelled delicious, but we weren't allowed to eat any. :( It's not fair, we should have at least gotten a crumb each! We're gonna be baking more Christmas goodies the week after next. I think everyone in Foods should revolt; unless we get to taste our creations, we won't make them!

2006-11-16T11:22:00.000-08:00

Rain in November seems to pose nothing but problems. The first one this morning was that the car's doors were frozen shut! There was ice on the inside of the windshield for some reason. Then our driveway (mud drag heaven), with all the deep ruts, froze.. with all the deep ruts. Eep! The next dilemma was my bus' doors wouldn't shut properly because of guess what - ice. So the whole way into town, snow was blowing in through them and turned the seat beside them into a kiddie pool. The whole inside of the bus looked like one of those plastic bubbles you place on your lawn at Xmas with a fan in it that blows artificial snow around Santa and his reindeer.
I never knew it could snow real snow indoors.

2006-11-16T11:20:00.000-08:00

The gr 12ers just put together our cookbooks - well, organized the pages. I was surprised at how big they're going to be - letter size. But I guess with so many recipes, they need to go somewhere. Saturday's craft sale should be interesting, when we get to sell our hard work to the Clinton public.
Poor Graig is stuck in Mrs. Mann's office, punching holes in all the pages.

2006-11-14T12:24:00.000-08:00

Well, Christmas is inching closer! Almost only one month left! =D I have no plans yet, but I think I'm just going to wrap myself up in a blanket and sip hot drinks and munch on Xmas cookies 90% of the time. The other 10%, I hope to go sledding, attempt to build another igloo (the last years it's always melted before I could get the roof on), and throw plenty of snowballs at everyone. ^_^ Oh yea, and bake! Mmmm I love to bake at Christmas.. the smells of cinnamon and clove and brown sugar that fill the whole house. And then there's Xmas holidays! Which are extra long this year - we only come back on the 8th! Yippy! With all that free time, maybe I should fill another sketch book.

Mmmmm... cookies. :P

2006-11-02T11:47:00.000-08:00

It's a long weekend! I know everyone else is probably happy as a 5 year old at Christmas, but, being once again the weird one, I'm not. This is mostly because I get to stay at home the entire weekend and do homework or whatever else there is to do at home. I won't be able to get a ride to anywhere, again, either.. most likely... and seeing that I live 50 minutes out of town, I don't expect to be walking.
The whole family "mood" has been quite depressing as well, which means I'll probably be hermitting in my room with a bag of cookies and waiting for Tuesday. Yes, Friday isn't only a no-school day, but Monday, too!
Save me!!!

2006-10-30T12:12:00.000-08:00

Well, this weekend was pretty exciting... boring .... except for one incident on Saturday. We were invited to dinner at our neighbours, which was a yummy Korean dish... with lots of veggies. :p Anyway, it got dark, it started to rain, then it started to snow, and then it really started to snow. Not normally really an issue, except our neighbour's driveway is like 2 miles long and a freshly put in logging road. The last bit going down to their house is very steep and winding. Our truck didn't have winter tires on yet, so by the time we realized we should probably hit the road if we ever want to make it out, it was one big mud puddle topped with fluffy white stuff.
Our neighbour luckily has a winch on his truck, so he drove ahead and winched us up his hill and then left us to fight the rest of the 1.9 miles on our own. Well, not really.. he said he would follow us out to the road to see if we made it, but I never saw him following us. He probably got stuck and turned around. :p When we got on the road (an old logging road), we barely made it along that one as well. Then, when we got onto the main road (Big Bar Rd) a gravel road itself, we thought we might get into our beds that night after all.
Once we got into our driveway... we found out it was one mud puddle with fluffy white stuff.... with half-frozen ruts! I'll let you imagine the rest.
Cheerio.

2006-10-27T12:17:00.000-07:00

Snow!!!!!!! It's here! Run! Time to migrate to Mexico!
Okay, okay.. it's not really that much yet, and it's only out at Big Bar, but that's where I live, so at least I'm against it.. sorta. Did that make any sense? bleh I didn't get much sleep the last few days so I'm kind of not all there.. or here. >.> I can't wait to get to PE in... two minutes... to get warm - I'm freezing!
I want my bed..... zzzzzzzzzzzzz -_-

2006-10-25T11:27:00.000-07:00

As if it's not enough that it's close to snowing outside, but no, the air conditioning has to be on in the computer lab non-stop as well. What's worse, the best computers are right in front of the vent. So it's either risk slow comp madness or freeze. Nice line-up of choices, eh?
I'm on the Layout team for this month's Newsletter, so hand me a parka, please.... and maybe that skidoo mask, too!

2006-10-23T11:47:00.000-07:00

Yay!!!!! The Canoe Creek bus is going to keep running for November! The Board is also going to keep sending funding for the rest of the school year if the reserve can find a smaller bus to run instead of the one they have right now. I didn't think a smaller bus size than our current one existed. :O That might get kind of scary. >.>
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that somewhere there's a bus out there that no one else needs and CC can buy..... That would be so very very awesome ^_^

2006-10-23T11:25:00.000-07:00

Somebody brew me a pot of gingko tea 'cause i seem to have forgotten to do just about everything on my to do list this weekend. (Gingko's supposed to be good for memory loss.) I forgot that my room was a pig staigh and i've been meaning to clean it for a while, but it keeps slipping my mind .... I forgot to remind my mom (for the 5th time may i add) to write down her recipe for potato salad for the grad cookbook.. and pecan cake and... what was the other one? grr I forgot to write a pen pal. I forgot to do my laundry. Oh yea! I just remembered that i forgot to remind myself to finish writing out my recipe for veggie chili! >.<

2006-10-18T11:33:00.000-07:00

Wildlife around Big Bar seems to have been diversified over night. Yesterday, a white ferret ran across my path. Last night a moose hurried off the road when we were coming back from town. This morning two more moose, a mother and her little one, jumped from one ditch to the other in front of the school bus, a Fisher was sitting in a leafless aspen close to Haller's place, and just before the bus went by the Tower Ranch, a badger shot into the bushes at the side of the road. You could just identify it as a badger - it was extremely fast and the black and white were blurring. My bus ride apparently has turned into a wildlife park tour!

2006-10-12T11:13:00.000-07:00

On the bus after school yesterday, the driver handed out copies of a letter that contained some scary news. Canoe Creek isn't getting enough funding from the Ministry of Education to keep on running the bus on the CC to Clinton route. I live 50 minutes out of town, on this route, and the bus is my only way of getting to school. The last day the bus will run is Oct 27th. I have no idea yet how I'm going to get to school and back everyday after that date.
I've homeschooled since grade 1 and am now in public school for grade 12. I really want to complete my last year of highschool in public school and graduate at DSS. Since the bus driver wasn't told about what will happen after the 27th, I'm going to try and get more info by myself. I'm very anxious to find out whether or not the bus will be replaced by Canoe Creek's school van, which they upgraded from to the bus in the first place.

2006-10-10T12:06:00.000-07:00

Usually Thanksgiving is warm and all about the family getting together. This year's Thanksgiving was far from anything used to describe the average harvest celebration.
First, my sister couldn't visit this year. Even though my parents, brother and I are all family, my sis is the one who makes us.. come together, and makes the whole occasion a lot more fun.
This year, we didn't have a traditional turkey dinner because we recently moved and are just building, and everything's not really set up for having a "normal" celebration.
Due to several recent events, my parents, bro and I were also not in such a great mood. Our family hasn't been as close lately as it used to be. My parents were picking at eachother for all of the long weekend, my brother was quite grumpy, and I pretty much kept to my disgruntled self and ate a lot of cookies, waiting for Tuesday and school to start again.

2006-09-29T11:37:00.000-07:00

There are quite a lot of annoying people in my life.. for what reason i don't really know - whether it is to punish me, or to simply make my days more miserable - but anyway, they're always there.. waiting for me around a corner, to pounce.
One especially annoying person in my life goes by the name of Alex. I think he annoys just about anyone. Which means he gets plenty of practice everyday... and gets more experienced at what he does as well, everyday. sigh