In My Life

2006-10-08T09:51:00.000-07:00

I've decided against the whole blog idea. So... yeah. If I ever decide to blog again, I'll let you know.
Most of you know where to find me.
-Ari

2006-10-03T15:44:00.000-07:00

Wow. I'm such a downer lately.
I came home to find my mom talking on the phone, crying (that doesn't happen much. The crying, I mean. Not the talking on the phone). I was mildly concerned since she's been having lots of health problems lately so I sat at the table awkwardly until she was done talking. Turns out Max, my dog, is in really rough shape and can barely walk. She's been completely blind for a while but instead of walking/bumping into things like she usually does, she now chooses to shiver for a while and collapses onto the floor. My mom was on the phone with the vet because we're going to have her put down tomorrow. I didn't cry and I don't think I will because.... Well, I dunno. My mom took this as an offensive act on my part and now seems to be rather pissed at me.
Um... I'm trying to think of what else is new. I'm reading the Wimbledon Poisoner right now. There's something entertaining about a guy trying to kill his wife. I love Nigel Williams. I read Fortysomething this summer because of the Hugh Laurie connection and thoroughly enjoyed it. School's the same. I have this growing resentment of it so I'm glad that I have a four day weekend coming up. Relatives are coming over on Sunday so that should be fun.
I haven't been sleeping very well lately and I feel like I'm going to collapse any minute but I have to go for a driving lesson soon. Hope I don't kill anyone.
So. Yeah. That's about it. Still searching for the silver lining in things lately -_-On a brighter note, Hugh is going to be hosting SNL on October 28! =D As said in the link:
"...on October 28th, the doctor is in as "House" star Hugh Laurie toplines SNL. Hailed as one of the best actors on television, Laurie stars in the hit medical drama..." etc
"One of the best actors on television" Damn straight. I'm gonna add a picture of Hugh to make myself feel better.

There. Happy happy.
-Ari

It's crazy, I'm thinking, Just knowing that the world is round

2006-09-28T20:28:00.001-07:00

Wow. This is not a good idea. I'm feeling somewhat depressed at the moment and I really should not be updating because I'm going to end up sounding like an angsty teenager. Instead I should be up in my room writing poetry, journal entries, or cutting myself.
...I don't actually cut myself. And I'm sorry if I've offended some emo person who does/has. I remember there was this one girl in grade 8 who cut herself... but that's another story for another day. This entry is dedicated to me bitching.
School is really pissing me off. Especially advanced. Hell, it's only September. Let's start with Chemistry. That class is such a joke. In fact, it's such a joke that I'm treating it like a regular class and making really stupid mistakes by not trying. Then there's math. I hate my teacher because he's condescending, can't teach, and is an overall asshole. Not to mention obese and creepy. Physics is... Well. Not bad. Neither is band. So I guess period three is okay.
Now onto english. I spent about 5 hours completing this stupid ven diagram assignment only to have the teacher say to the class that most of us failed because we don't have the ability to think at a "higher level." So let's just omit that assignment and act like it's okay that she assumed that we had this so-called "ability." I spent a lot of time on that stupid assignment. Way too much time, in fact. By the end of it I figured it'd be okay because at least I'd get a decent mark to make up for it. Then there's history. I did really bad on my last assignment even though, yet again, I put a lot of effort into it.
...
Melissa just called me and put me in a better mood. So in other words, she just saved you from another huge paragraph of me bitching. Instead I'm going to put it into one huge run-on sentence. Here we go: *deep breath*
There's also the fact that I feel like I don't have enough time to myself between work, school, and homework in general because I'm something of an introvert and introverts need time to themselves to watch Hugh Laurie movies, read Stephen Fry books about sex and poetry, and sit around on the computer doing close to nothing because I do like hanging out with myself ever since Nicole left and no one lives close enough for me to hang out with continuously, oh yeah, I also miss Nicole a lot because she's left me to fend for myself in this lame city and I've gone from spending close to every minute of the day with her to about an hour on the phone a week and whenever I would get into moods such as these she would tell me a story that would somehow include me and Hugh Laurie and some guy selling vacuums, making me feel 100 times better but now I don't even have someone to sit with on the bus and instead I have to stare at Keegan's fluffy hair and finish homework so I can go home, change into my work clothes, and leave to a place which has the goal of making Canada as obese as America only to arrive home 7 hours later to finish more bloody homework.
Hm. I like run-on sentences. That one was pretty extreme. I almost lost it in the middle there.
I'm going to stop now before this becomes the worst update ever.
On a brighter note, I go to the ballet tomorrow.
...
In all honesty I don't even want to go.
-Ari

It's all down to drugs, At least I remember taking them and not a lot else

2006-09-12T19:38:00.000-07:00

I'm feeling somewhat inspired to post. Hurray! Now it's just a matter of thinking of something to post about. Ho hum.
I watched House today. I liked this week's episode a lot better (loved the part with the big screen tv) than last week's and next week's episode looks even better. Some people were whining about how the show has turned to crap and I completely disagree. The show did seem a little bit lacking last week but I think that's because the season finale of season 2 was amazing and it's hard to live up to an episode like that.
School has been going fairly well. Me and Becky did this fairy tale project in english and got 94%. In chem we did this project where we had to look up a specified topic and debate about it. I have to admit that I have never participated or even seen a full debate in my life and, my group being the generous people that they are, made me the rebutter -_- Our topic was aluminum and when I went up to speak I pretty much put a bunch of crap together (along with this lame quote that this one kid in my group told me to say that went along the lines of "It seems that the other group is more concerned with the aluminum in their pockets." This was followed by a awkward silence where I gave said kid an odd look). But I think it went better than I remember.
Work has been considerably insane lately and I've been getting a lot of shifts. I'm getting to the point where I have the evening off and, not knowing what to do with my time, I find myself writing about the lame occurances of my life for about three people read. Not that I don't appreciate those of you who actually do read this blog =P You're all perfectly darling, I'm sure.
Now back to the lame occurances of my life. I watched Wilde on the weekend and it made me depressed. Stephen Fry was perfect for the part. Yeah, I've sort of branched off from Hugh Laurie and have gone into the direction of reading/watching Stephen Fry-related things at the moment since I've already seen everything with Hugh in it (as well as purchased). Ooh, speaking of which, Hugh was on The Ellen Degeneres Show this morning. I taped it and he was absolutely adorable, as usual. He was wearing a very House-ish outfit with the whole black suit jacket and white collared shirt. Yes, I take note of his wardrobe. I think it's best that I keep track of what he wears more so than someone else... (Yuki knows what I'm talking about)
Ahem. I just remembered that Kas is coming home tomorrow because she has a class on Thursday =O That's exciting. We went to see Little Miss Sunshine which is a great movie. I highly recommend seeing it especially since it's at the new Galaxy cinemas which is all pretty (you can buy frozen yogurt!)
Wow. This was a long update.

I feel like hell, You feel like dancing, You know this bar curtains a world

2006-08-30T15:32:00.000-07:00

Went back to school today. My schedule for this semester is as follows:
Chemistry20adv
MathA30
Band20/Physics20
English20adv
History20adv
Chemistry seems to be alright despite the fact that this is the first time it has ever been an advanced class. Not sure how that'll work out. Math will be fun since the teacher makes a lot of mistakes which I find funny because I'm a bad person. Band is... band and I'm sure Physics will be fine. English and History seem considerably evil since in the past they have been my lowest marks and the teachers scare me.
My mom's trying to force me to go to the lake this weekend and I really don't want to go. I have to work Friday, Saturday, and Monday and I am not in favour of spending my day off at the lake.
This was a pretty boring update but I'm rather uninspired '>.< I'll try to make a more interesting one later in the week.

2006-07-29T08:55:00.000-07:00

Oooooooooooooh I'm so excited!! On Monday, Hugh Laurie's going to be on Inside the Actor's Studio!!! I've known about this for quite a while but completely forgot about it until today when I was kindly reminded by house_notice. (Can't believe July's almost over. Wow.) The only problem is, I work on Monday night. Dammit. How am I supposed to concentrate on making ice cream when Hugh Laurie's on TV being awesome?! = ( Guess I'm gonna have to tape it. Sigh. And watch it twice in a row when I get home. Sigh.
I had work last night and it went fairly well. So far I haven't gone a shift without at least two people telling me how well I'm doing. I work from 11:30-5 today and then two night shifts in a row starting tomorrow. I actually like all the shifts that I'm getting because that means paying for House Season 2 and A Bit of Fry and Laurie won't kill me.
Anyway, that's about it. In celebration of Hugh being on the Actor's Studio on Monday, I leave you with my favorite interview of his when he was on Craig Ferguson (although the Jay Leno ones were also very good).
And I'd also like to say happy birthday to both Breanne and Jesse who have birthdays this weekend! ^-^ ♥♥
-Ari

And we will become silhouettes when our bodies finally go

2006-07-26T11:56:00.000-07:00

Soooo. Yesterday morning I woke up and my face kinda hurt in the right-side-of-my-nose-and-sort-of-under-the-eye-but-not-really area. I didn't really pay attention to it at the time but after I came home from shopping with Nicole, I discovered that area had become rather swollen. And I gotta say, having the right side of your nose swell up is not fun especially since it began to hurt. It wasn't too incredibly obvious but I started to get a little anxious about it since I had to work that night. So I took some benadryl, figuring it was probably some form of an allerigic reaction, and put an ice pack on my face. The benadryl did nothing (other than making me drowzy) and the ice just lessened the pain. How annoying. So I put some make up on it to make it less red and hoped that no one would stare at my face for more than 20 seconds at work.
Work was fun because I was trained on drive thru =O I did cash and even took some orders. I also got my first pay check ^-^ Afterwards, my face was the same and when I woke up this morning there was no difference so I told my mom to take me to the doctor. Turns out I have cellulitis so I have to take some antibiotics. How exciting.
On Monday I had Jessie over and we ended up going to Mcnally's for coffee and stuff with Nicole. We had to go to Centre to catch the bus and, convinently enough, it began to rain really hard. And it showed no signs of stopping. So we ended up running in the rain to Centre which, as wet and cold as we were afterwards, it was super fun. We then walked around Zellers for a while, attempting to dry off so we didn't look so hobo-like.
Anyway. I'm feeling somewhat angsty right now, being a teenager and all. So I'm going to go make myself some tea and brood about life in the corner until my hormone control system regulates. Blargh.
-Ari

You seem so so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex....

2006-07-17T20:39:00.000-07:00

I got tagged by Breanne to do this. The answers kinda suck since I didn't put much thought into it but that's your problem = P

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME:
1: The thought of not succeeding with my career.
2: Ending up in Saskatchewan for the rest of my life >.<
3: Getting old. Well, not so much getting old as much as losing my sense of… erm, everything.

THREE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME LAUGH:
1: Nicole. We have this really weird sense of humour when we hang out together.
2: My siblings. They’re awesome.
3: My mom. But I love at her more than I laugh with her.

THREE THINGS I LOVE:
1: Hugh Laurie. Whether he’s Bertie, House, or the incredibly feminine-looking Prince George, I love him to bits ^-^
2: Laughing until my stomach hurts =P
3: As dorky as this sounds, learning new things ‘-_-

THREE THINGS I HATE:
1: Not understanding how something works
2: People who are racist/homophobes/discriminative of others because of minor differences
3: Being bored. I start to go nuts (just ask Dom or my brother)

THREE THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND:
1: Religion
2: My mom
3: People who throw their lives away for such stupid reasons which could easily be avoided

THREE THINGS ON MY DESK:
1: Paper. Lots and lots of paper.
2: Old sketch books.
3: Lots of inkless pens. I think I should clean my desk…

THREE THINGS I'M DOING RIGHT NOW:
1: Filling this out
2: Listening to my mp3 player, Jimmy (yes, I named my mp3 player)
3: Thinking/contemplating about a bunch of things at once. I usually get like this when I’m walking or listening to music. Or staring at a ceiling =P

THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
1: Travel
2: Get married to someone that I love
3: Accomplish all the goals that I have set in my head.

THREE THINGS I CAN DO:
1: Touch my tongue to my nose =O
2: A wide variety of facial expressions. Hurrah.
3: Have absolutely no self-confidence one moment and be extremely egotistical the next. It’s amazing, really.

THREE WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY:
1: Sarcastic
2: Obsessive
3: Funny. Or at least I try to make people laugh.

THREE THINGS I CAN'T DO:
1: Keep my hands warm. Damn circulation.
2: Go a day without caffeine (I have done it but I got a headache and felt really grumpy)
3: Shut up.

THREE THINGS I THINK YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO:
1: Instincts. They’re usually right.
2: The Saskatoon Children’s Choir. They’re better than they seem.
3: Me. Because I’m awesome =P

THREE THINGS I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO EVER:
1: People who lie
2: Me when I'm babbling about god-only-knows what. You'll start to question my sanity.
3: James Blunt. He’s horribly addicting (I have this god-awful love/hate relationship with his music).

THREE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE FOODS:
1: Sushi (california rolls or anything with tempura in it)
2: Home-made pizza
3: Pitas

THREE THINGS I'D LIKE TO LEARN:
1: French
2: A different kind of painting. Maybe oil.
3: How to cook

THREE BEVERAGES I DRINK REGULARLY:
1: Water
2: Coffee
3: Iced Tea

THREE SHOWS I WATCHED WHEN I WAS A KID:
1: Bugs Bunny
2: Sailor Moon
3: 101 Dalmations (that horrible television series they had for it)

THREE PEOPLE WHO YOU TAGGED TO DO THIS:
1. Yuki (Does she even read my blog? I guess we'll see)
2. Jessie (When her computer is de-virused)
3. Dale

You're so cute when you're slurring your speech, But they're closing the bar and they want us to leave

2006-07-11T12:42:00.000-07:00

I had my first day of training at Dairy Queen yesterday. It was alright, all things considered. The person that I'm paired up for training is kinda slow which is good and bad. Good, since it makes me look awesome and bad since I have little patience for people who are slow (I'm evil that way). She never talks either and that sucks because I was hoping I could at least become somewhat acquainted with her so I have someone to hang out with while at work. But I did meet this other girl named Jessica who's my age and she seemed really nice.
As for what I did yesterday, I started off making ice cream sandwiches. You would not believe how specific they are when it comes to that kind of stuff. You have to make a base with the ice cream, then a second layer on top, and then you have to do the trademark "2-7-11" swirl or whatever. Then you have to weigh the sandwich and hope that it's between 2 1/2-3 ounces (preferably three) and if it isn't, you throw it out. As for dilly bars, which I also made, you have to use this weird metal clamp, fill it to the top with ice cream while making a small dent in the middle and then the twirly thing. That has to weigh about 2 1/2 ounces. Crazy.
I didn't do anything else worth mentioning other than cleaning and such. We ended up finishing all that was planned for the day an hour and a half early so it got kind of boring. I'm looking forward to being finished training because I don't like learning things at the rate that we're going which is really, really slow. If we went at a quicker pace I bet the training could be done in two days as opposed to four but what can you do. At least I'm getting paid =P
I'm feeling kinda gross today. Not sure why. Maybe it's because even though it's Houseday (aka Tuesday), there seems to be a lack of House in the TV guide. Not that I would've been able to watch it because of work but I would've taped it = ( Oh, sad. I guess I'll have to watch some of my season 1 DVDs to make up for it. I'm counting down until August 22 >_< Speaking of which, I got The Gun Seller yesterday =D Happy happy ^_^
Anyway, I'm off to make something caffeine-filled.
-Ari

'Cause we have spoken everything, Everything short of I love you

2006-07-06T18:18:00.000-07:00

So I got an interview at Dairy Queen =O Yay! Hopefully I get the job because I really don't want to finish filling out the Subway application because it's long and stupid. Yeah... that's all I have to say. I'm going shopping with Nicole tomorrow after my interview. Hurray.
I now leave you with a couple Fry and Laurie clips because I'm lame and spent an hour this morning watching a whole bunch.

Dancercize

Censored

Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart

2006-07-04T21:18:00.000-07:00

I'm applying for a job tomorrow =O Three jobs, actually. I'm applying at Dairy Queen, Subway, and possibly Extra Foods. I'm really hoping for Dairy Queen (I wanna be a cake decorator =P) and Extra Foods was an idea from my dad who might be able to get me a job there if all else fails (not that it will because my resume is awesome and pretty). I'm actually quite excited for the job because... well, let's just be blunt. I love money. I'm part of that revolutionary next generation who spends money insanely (not that it's a bad thing, refer to Macleans magazine). I'm broke right now and I really want Jeeves and Wooster Dvds, girly books for some summer reading, and new Opi nailpolish. There's also the fact that I need cash experience so I can get a better job next summer. And me, being the anal plan-ahead type, refuses to wait until next summer to get cash experience. Must be done now.
So yeah... nothing's really happened since school ended. I went to the lake on the weekend which had its moments. Nicole came along so that was cool. This week I haven't really done much. Tried out the new bus routes yesterday with Nicole and went to Mcnally's where I discovered a book on sex positions. Very funny.
Today I haven't done too much. I went to Jessie's place and we watched a Korean movie and some House episodes. Then I went home and watched Jeeves and Wooster which is God. I really want the DVDs but they're expensive = ( Hopefully I'll get a job really quick and be able to buy them ^.^
I feel so weird, not having school/choir take up my life. Anyway, I'm gonna go watch Conan O'brien. Cross your fingers for me tomorrow! Let's hope Dairy Queen desperately needs a worker for some reason o_o'
-Arielle

Now we say goodnight from our own seperate sides, Like brothers on a hotel bed

2006-06-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

I had my first "final" today for gym. We were supposed to go swimming but it ended up being canceled because of the rain = ( Instead we went back to the school and most of the people did random sports while I sat in the corner with Yuki and some guys and played Life. It was fun. Me and Yuki were on a team so we decided to be a gay couple named Jacque and Erik. But then we ended up as artists with a $30 000 dollar salary and way too many kids.
After that I went to future shop and bought two new cds ^-^ I got the newest ones by Snow Patrol and Death Cab for Cutie . I love them both for being awesome and helping me put off studying. Yeah... I was going to study for bio today but I got distracted really easily. I was going to right after I got home from gym but instead I went to the library. Then I watched a movie called The Young Visitors which I thoroughly enjoyed because it was cute and british. Plus it had Hugh Laurie, which makes anything good. Then I stared aimlessly at my room's ceiling, went for a walk, went for starbucks, went on the computer... then finally I actually started studying only to find that I had nothing to study because Biology sucks. Actually, I love biology. It's just easy.
So yeah. Here I am ^.^ I think I'll print out some hawt guy pictures or something to pass the time.
-Ari

Please don't let this turn into something it's not... I still love you more than anyone else could

2006-06-16T17:52:00.000-07:00

Finals start on Tuesday. I'm weird and actually enjoy them to a certain extent because I like having my afternoons off to sit around and watch lame sitcom reruns on TV. Because I take online math, my first final is tomorrow morning. I'm actually excited for it because I finally get to meet the online math teacher. Me and the other advancies who also take online math continuesly make fun of her and question her gender. The test itself will most likely be horribly easy like everything is with online math so I'm not worried.
On Tuesday I have my gym final which consists of me going to George Ward. Then I have my bio final on Wednesday, nothing on Thursday (spares are amazing), history on Friday (ugh. I am not looking forward to that one), and english on Monday (I'm hoping we'll just end up eating cake or something).
Today was my last gym class. For the rest of my life. Words cannot describe how happy I am. Okay, gym isn't THAT bad. I guess it has its moments. For example, today was especially fun since we played jump rope most of the time and danced around for the rest.
Last weekend was my last choir trip. We went to Winnipeg and the International Peace gardens and, other than getting an average of 4 hours of sleep each night and being mean to undeserving people on the last day (though I must admit it was funny), it was really fun. I feel like I should be sad since I quit choir but... I dunno. I don't really care. Maybe I will in the fall.
I got my mark back for my MIRP (Mini-Independent Research Project for all you confused people) on Music Therapy and I got a 90 =D So far it's the highest mark in the class (yes, I'm bragging. But I have low self confidence issues when it comes to academics so I believe that I have the right to be proud for once =P)
Kas is coming home tonight and she'll be staying for most of the week ^_^ I guess that means I should go study for a bit before she gets home. Ugh. I'll probably just end up watching House or something.
-Ari

If I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?

2006-06-03T14:56:00.000-07:00

Oh wow, I spent way too much money today. And yesterday >_< At least I found everything that I was looking for (and some extra things that I really didn't need =P). Yesterday we got dismissed at 12:15 because of graduation so I went for lunch at Yohei with Yuki, Jessie, and Melissa. It was a lot of fun ^-^ After that Melissa had to go home and the rest of us went shopping at Centre, Amazing Stories, and Mcnally's. I ended up buying a couple of Elle magazines at Mcnally's for the bus ride home. Then me and Yuki went back to the bus mall and I bumped into Ruth and Nicole. I was gonna go home because it was getting kinda late but I ended up being convinced into going to La Senza with them '^-^ I was thinking of buying the new Snow Patrol CD but ended up spending my money on panties (they were 3 for $10 and had pretty designs so I had to buy them).
I went shopping again today with Kas because I wanted to buy a bathing suit. I found a pink bikini top at... well, Ardene's o_o' But it was super cheap so I learned to appreciate having the body of a 10 year old. Then we went for lunch at Mcnally's (I think I go there too often) and then to Market Mall for shoes. Well, we didn't find shoes but I found a nice necklace and Kas bought me coffee because I'm awesome. Then we ended up going to Wal-mart (ugh. I hate that place with every bone in my body) and I ended up buying shoes = ( I'm so disappointed in myself. I hate buying stuff from Wal-Mart. But they were so cheap! I got these weird flat shoes that are v. cute and some flip flops. Oh, and tictacs. I'm addicted to tictacs now instead of gum, it's exciting.
I leave on Thursday for Winnipeg with my choir. Tomorrow is our dress rehearsal and it's 5 hours long and I doubt that I'll make it. It's funny- we used to have super long rehearsals regularly last year and now I can barely stand it when we have one. Interesting.
Anyway, I'll stop writing before I bore you any longer =P
-Arielle

I know I just can’t make it good but if I could show you the world and the way I think it should turn...

2006-05-24T09:11:00.000-07:00

Ergh. So I woke up yesterday at 3am feeling horribly nautious. I was still in some sort of a half asleep state which resulted in a very odd dream that had Foreman, Cameron, and Chase from House trying to figure out what was wrong with me (you know you watch too much House when...). I eventually got up, asked my mom for a gravol, and ended up throwing up. What fun.
So. I didn't have to get up again for the rest of the night but I did wake up every hour because I was really uncomfortable. As you can tell from this delightful story, I have the flu. I felt horrible yesterday morning but by the afternoon my temperature had gone down and I felt pretty good. Then I fell asleep for a while in the evening and when I woke up to watch the House season finale (which was awesome), I felt like crap again and my fever had gone up. So here I am, missing a second day of school. Not that I'm missing much, now that I think about it. There's biology and that's about it and I can catch up tomorrow while we're dissecting a perch or whatever.
I've been reading a lot today- I have this book called Pandemic which is really well-written and realistic so I'm enjoying it a lot. It's pretty creepy because what's going on in the book is really horrible yet realistic. I'm also reading a Sherlock Holmes book that I got from the library because I randomly brought up how House is based on Sherlock Holmes to Rachel the other day and we decided we should read the books to compare =P I'm reading A Study in Scarlet at the moment and it's been really good so far.
And yes, House relates to Holmes' character a lot. Both of them are kinda weird in that obsessive sort of way, yet really intelligent in the areas of which they study (sort of like the whole genius thing). They're both sort of a loner type except for their one friend Watson/Wilson and supposedly Holmes is addicted to cocaine but I haven't gotten that far yet.
Anyway, I'm gonna go lay down for a bit and watch some daytime tv. Hurray.

And I could write a song a hundred miles long, Well that's where I belong, and you belong with me

2006-05-12T20:55:00.000-07:00

In light of the whole Mother's Day weekend, I present you with this enjoyable clip:

Hope you like it.
Yeah, so I'm going through an obsession with House right now. That show is God. And I don't care what Kas says about it being repetitive (I know it is), I still love it to bits. I also love Hugh Laurie to bits. I love how during every episode some stupid phrase will suddenly make him figure out the case and he gets that far off look on his face =P I've been watching the first season and I watch about two or three episodes a day because I have no life. I think the season finale is next week = ( All my shows are ending!! How sad.
Speaking of which, the season finale of The Office was last night. Wow. I mean... wow. I've watched the ending twice and I can't get over it. I don't know if I should put a spoiler warning on my next sentence since people who read my blog have either seen the episode or don't watch it at all so... Yeah. I cried when Jim got all teary when he was talking to Pam. And I freaked out for about 10 minutes after Jim and Pam kissed. Oooh they were so adorable when they were playing poker together!!! I'm so excited to what they're going to do with the storyline ^_^!!
So I got my Mp3 player =O I named him Jimmy and he's awesome. I don't think I've gone a day without listening to him for at least two hours. That picture on his name is pretty much what he looks like except without the lame butterfly pic ^.^
Ooh, my birthday's on Wednesday =D Too bad I have to go to a bloody choir rehearsal for most of the night *pouts* I'm really sick of choir. I mean, Brundibar just isn't as fun as it was last year. I'm glad it'll be over soon. I'm thinking of having some friends over for a lame get together type thing '^-^ Should be fun.
Have fun with the whole mother's day thing. Personally I think it's a stupid pointless holiday which gives the flower shops way more business than they deserve but whatever.
-Ari

They will see us waving from such great heights, "Come down now" they'll say, But everything looks so perfect from far away...

2006-05-04T14:25:00.000-07:00

Birthdays are fun ^.^ Mine's coming up pretty fast (it's on May 17) and I'm asking for an Mp3 player since I seem to be the only one still stuck with a cd player =P Not that I don't love my broken cd player but sometimes it gets clunky. I found this Creative Zen mp3 player which looks really good even though it's kind of old. I've heard better things about it than the samsung one I was considering.
Today in English me and Yuki did our volunteer-hours presentation and it was pretty sad. The other groups were doing a bunch of pro stuff like saving lives (well, not really but something close to that) and we said, "Well... we stamped receipts. And ate cookies." Then we pretty much made fun of ourselves, laughed too much, and sat down. After all the presentations Mr. Davis went to the front of the class and told us how it doesn't really matter how insignificant our jobs seemed and how all of our volunteering was helpful, etc. As lame as this sounds, it was actually really sweet and me and Yuki now love Mr. Davis =P Hm... Now that I think about it, all my teachers this semester are really good (other than that person who does online math. But she's good for a laugh). So... Lucky me '^^ Too bad the semester's almost over.
Tomorrow I'm going to Codette with Kas to help her move. I'm hoping to miss english tomorrow. Yeah... despite my newfound love of Mr. Davis, the class still sucks ass. Anyway, Kas found a place a little while back and I'm looking forward to seeing it and her ugly carpet =P It's too bad she's moving though. I'll miss her = ( But at least it'll give us a reason to talk on MSN and Justin won't yell at us because we're only a room apart ^-^'
So that's about it. Oh yeah, I have choir tonight which sucks. We're presenting at something at some point... Hm. Maybe I should go look into that.
-Ari

From the moment I wake, to the moment I sleep, I'll be there by your side, Just try and stop me

2006-04-20T22:21:00.000-07:00

I cut my hair =O It's above my shoulders now. I was going to get a trim but randomly decided to cut it really short. It's sorta layered so it kind of has that shag look but... yeah. I dunno. You have to see it =P I wanted to donate the hair that I cut off to Wigs for Kids (it's for cancer patients) but because I dyed it before I couldn't = ( That was disapointing because I really wanted too.
Wow this week is going by really fast. On Wednesday me and Nicole had a sleepover which was a lot of fun. We ate fruit-ice cubes and watched Office Space (please don't point out that we're dorks, I already know that). Then we watched it again today because Nicole has a crush on Milton. We went shopping yesterday but it didn't go over very well since neither of us have money = (
So I absolutely love House. That's an awesome show. Not as awesome as The Office or Scrubs but I love it all the same ^-^ Oooh! Speaking of Scrubs, there's a dramatic episode on Tuesday. Kas saw a preview and said that it looked really good. I realllly want to see the preview so I have resulted to watching NBC 24/7.
... Okay, I'm not that lame. But I really wanna see it >.<
Have a good weekend!
~Ari

Far above our heads are the icy heights that contain all reason

2006-04-12T15:51:00.000-07:00

Oh wow. I've been having a lame afternoon. In history, I found out that my average is 88 which made me sad. I was expecting at least a 90 = ( If I don't get on high honours I'll be depressed because I'm a perfectionist/nerd/loser. English class was so boring I nearly died. Then I missed my bus because buses are a creation made by god to piss me off and ended up at home half an hour later than I should have. So now I'm listening to The Shins and Coldplay while brooding in a dark room (heehee, I love House).
Anyway, on a brighter note, mom and Randy are leaving to Victoria tonight. They're gone until Sunday ^-^ Hopefully they'll bring me back an awesome present.
One more day of school before the break =O Exciting. I'm reallllly looking forward to the break and sleeping in ^.^
Me and Rachel are writing a soap opera because we're awesome. It's called... Actually, I don't remember. "Love Affairs of Our Lives" in French (it was more dramatic that way). It's so overly dramatic that it's awesome.
And that's about it that's new with me. This was a really boring update '^^
-Ari

We would be so happy, you and me, No one there to tell us what to do

2006-04-06T15:33:00.000-07:00

My last choir concert is tomorrow night. I'm trying to conjure up some sort of emotion considering choir has been one of those life-changing things that I've been through. I mean, It kind of depresses me but at the same time I don't care because I still have Brundibar in May/June. I'm going to be a wreck (I use that term loosely, I doubt that it'll be that bad) mid-June because schoolwork tends to build up then and I have to miss three days of school in a row for Brundibar touring (not to mention I'm a spaz).
Tonight I have dress rehearsal from 6-9 so I should be working on Math but I don't want to. Oh, I think I've decided on a topic for mini-IRP. I'm thinking something along the lines of how music effects a student's learning method/intelligence/something else. With the whole "let's get rid of the band programs in schools", I think I could get a lot of information and opinions/interviews from my band teachers and such.
Ooh, today me and Yuki brought this amazing book to school. It's called Miss Nelson is Back. It changed my life. Actually, it didn't. Me and Yuki are just losers and got in trouble along with Melissa because of it during english class = P
So that's about it.
Oh, happy 31st birthday Zach Braff ♥ ^-^
-Ari

Well the rain exploded with a mighty crash as we fell into the sun...

2006-03-27T14:45:00.000-08:00

Ah yes, I have a fairly busy week ahead of me. Lots of homework stuff. Sigh. Is it just me (and Yuki), or is this semester going by really fast? It's practically April already which is the first semester's equivalant of November. Insane.
Was a fairly lame Monday. Found out that Nicole is going to Toronto for the week for her grandpa's funeral. She's not too horribly torn apart about the death considering she's more concerned with what she's going to wear.
Had social dance this morning. It's pretty fun- A lot better than square dancing last year ^-^ We get to have this "dance" on Friday where they're going to decorate the gym or something (I wasn't really listening).
I went to the symphony with choir on Saturday night. That was a waste of time '-_- I tried to enjoy it, I really did. But it just wasn't all that fun. The intermission was kind of cool because I met up with Melissa and saw a whole bunch of people that I know ^.^
I have to figure out some subject for my mini IRP (independent research project). I was thinking of doing a psychological disease of some sort but I haven't really found any that look interesting enough to hold an audience's attention for 10-15 minutes. Anyway, I'm open to suggestions (though I doubt I'll get any '^^)
-Ari

2006-03-22T14:58:00.000-08:00

Yeah. New skin for the millionth time but I think this one'll hang around. I like it 'cause it's simple. ^-^

2006-03-16T20:45:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I should update. I don't really want to but it has been a while.
I had no school on Friday. In the morning I went to the Lung Association to volunteer for a couple hours (it's a volunteer project for school). They're really nice there. Me and Yuki were there on Wednesday afternoon too because we had spares pratically the whole day and the person who's in charge of the whole volunteer thing was so nice! She gave us hot chocolate and cookies =D She gave us more cookies on Friday ^.^
I have a cold = ( Except it's a secret. If my mom finds out then she's going to be all dramatic and force me to stay at least 500 feet away from her. Even if I stay inside a sealed container for the rest of the time that I'm sick, she'll still end up somehow getting the virus (it's all in her head, I swear). And then she'll walk around the house coughing, whining, and throwing things at me for getting her sick. Ugh. I hate being sick >.< This stupid video from bio keeps going through my mind too with this girl in the elavator and this dude sneezing... Yeah. Bio makes me a germaphobe = (
That's about it for updating.
Oh yeah, on Sunday I went on a band trip to Edmonton. It was a lot of fun ^_^ Lots of shopping and gossiping. Very girly =P And I finally saw Shopgirl which I've been meaning to see since November so that was good. I really enjoyed it ^.^
-Ari

2006-03-04T08:44:00.000-08:00

Today I'm getting a Japanese exchange student for a week. She arrives at 4:30 and I'm pretty excited. It kind of sucks because she's only staying until next Saturday so there's only a limited amount of things we can do before she leaves because of school. We've been sending each other e-mails for the past couple months and her English isn't very good. Hopefully she speaks better than she writes '^^
This week went by pretty fast. Nothing's really going on at school. English is horribly boring but the rest of my classes are alright.
Last night me and Kas went to Mcnally's for supper and it was really good (but we ate waaay too much '^^). Afterwards we went to Dale, Megan, and Johnny's to watch Kronk's New Groove or whatever the sequel to Emperor's New Groove is called. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and I have to admit it made me laugh a few times. Either way, we had a good time.
Anyway, I have to set up Rina's bed and stuff. Because of Dan I'm afraid she's going to turn out to be a cross-dressing men who's in love with herself and... yeah. 'o_o never mind.
Have a good weekend!
~Ari

2006-02-25T16:17:00.000-08:00

I had waaaaay too much trouble with this.

THIRTEEN random things I like:
13. Watching Canada kick ass at the olympics ^-^
12. watercolour painting
11. shows like Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy (but not ER)
10. The Beatles
09. sushi
08. being productive
07. baking/cooking
06. books/movies that make me think
05. expensive clothes
04. daydreaming
03. painting my nails
02. tea and coffee
01. Um... Jim from the Office because he's cool, Dr. Cox from Scrubs because he's awesome, and George from Grey's Anatomy because he's adorable =P

TWELVE movies that all my friends should watch at least twice:
12. Phantom of the Opera
11. Bridget Jones's Diary
10. Love Actually
09. Rent
08. Garden State
07. Dear Frankie
06. Spanglish
05. Just Like Heaven (I thought it was cute)
04. While You Were Sleeping
03. Pride and Prejudice (watch the mini-series too =P)
02. Brokeback Mountain (I want to see it again)
01. A Hard Day's Night

TEN random things about me:
10. I was somewhat addicted to gum a while ago
09. I am addicted to coffee
08. I play the piano, guitar, and flute
07. I hate slack classes (I really don't know why but they bother me)
06. I'm very protective over my books
05. I love horseback riding (but haven't done it for a couple years)
04. I'm overly sarcastic
03. I have bad circulation in my hands and feet
02. I like helping people because I don't like feeling useless
01. I haven't decided if I want kids or not (and if I do, I think I'll end up adopting)

NINE ways to win my heart:
09. have a good sense of humour
08. like me for who I am despite me being annoying, obsessive, and all my other flaws '^-^
07. people who are smart but not to the point of being annoying
06. actually listen to me ramble on about stuff
05. act mature but still silly when the time is right
04. be cute but not know it
03. compliment me (that sounds reallly egotistic >_<) when you actually mean it
02. have coffee with me ^-^
01. have a good singing voice =P

EIGHT things I want to do before I die:
08. become fluent in a language (and not lose it)
07. find a career that I really enjoy
06. get married
05. go to Paris, London, and Tokyo
04. become confident with myself
03. see a broadway musical
02. eat a chocolate croissant ^-^
01. Finish this. It's taking me longer than it should o.o

SEVEN ways to annoy me
07. overreact about your boy/girlfriend
06. people who don't try and then complain about how things never turn out the way they want.
05. when people act overly condescending towards me (like Yuki =P jk). I have nothing against teasing but there is a point where it becomes mean (I have self confidence issues '-_-)
04. when someone complain about other races, homosexuals... pretty much people who choose not to accept others who are different
03. when people hold their opinions waaay too high
02. people who are pessimistic
01. when people make stupid assumptions/generalizations about me or other people

SIX things I believe in:
06. Love
05. Equality
04. Karma
03. Um... peace? Alright, this is getting lame.
02. I seriously can't think of anything.
01. ...

FIVE things I'm afraid of:
05. outhouses (I used to be, anyway)
04. violent animals
03. becoming blind
02. becoming obese
01. epidemics (damn bio =P)

FOUR of my favorite items in my room:
04. my guitar
03. my cds and dvds
02. my possibly fake Louis Vuiton wallet
01. the skirt that i bought from frakkas which i reallly want to wear but can't because it's too cold out = (

THREE things I do everyday:
03. Check my email/read blogs.
02. Think about my future and where I'll end up. Ugh.
01. Eat.

TWO things I want to do right now:
02. Go shopping o_O' Too bad it's 7pm.
01. warm up my hands. they're cold.

ONE person I want to see right now:
01. Gerard Butler. Hawt.

2006-02-17T12:14:00.000-08:00

I cannot believe it's Saturday already. Where did my precious week off go?! >_<
My first week back is going to be really crappy. I have an essay due, a math test, a gym test, and sectionals (ugh). Then I have one week off before the Japanese exchange student comes to stay =O That'll be exciting. Too bad she can barely speak English. We'll probably end up attacking eachother by the end of the week out of language frustration.
So... I did close to nothing interesting on my week off. I sat around, went for lunch a couple of times, nearly got killed by the bus routes, and watched Scrubs waaaaay too much (and still am).
It's 2pm and I'm still in my jammies ^.^ I really can't decide if I like staying in my pajamas all day or not. It seems so unproductive and yet so comfy.
I've been watching a lot of the olympics today. I'm happy because I was able to watch the medal ceremony for Men's Skeleton and two Canadians had won gold and silver. Then they started playing the anthem and the guy with the gold got all teary and then I almost got all teary (but ended up just saying "Awww!") because when guys start to cry I usually follow suit.
I got Grey's Anatomy DVDs yesterday =D They came out on Tuesday but were sold out pretty much everywhere in the city. Randy ended up buying them in Prince Albert. It's a pretty good show. Better than ER (which I can't stand).
Have a good weekend!
~Ari

"Truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it."

2006-02-11T15:31:00.000-08:00

I went to see Brokeback Mountain today. It was so good- I cried twice >_< It was a little slow at the beginning and near the end but I would definitely recommend it. And it's not about the gay sex, all you people who think it is. As Yuki said on her blog, it's about love and it's really sweet (and depressing at the same time). But I can see why people wouldn't like it. I mean, it is a bit overrated. Sure it was good but it wasn't the best movie of the year. Also, if anyone is in the least bit homophobic or offended by homosexual material (there was a sex scene which was pretty awkward), they would not enjoy it; But I think that's a given.
I also watched the movie Garden State last night which was very good. It really made me think and, because I'm a loser, I started thinking about the symbolism in it. It's a good thing I have a week off from school, too much English class. Not that we do anything in English class. I've been hanging out in the projection room all afternoon this week because we've had presentations to watch. Bleh.
So mom's back in the hospital- she went back yesterday and will be there for a few days. Me and Kas went to visit her this morning and it's hard to say how things will turn out. She's looking alright which is a bit reassuring but... yeah. There are still some tests to be done so it's pretty much just a matter of waiting things out.
Anyway, I have to go make supper.
Have a good weekend!

2006-02-03T15:57:00.000-08:00

The week went by pretty fast... I'm shocked it's Friday already. Today I went to Melissa's house after second to work on a project because we had a pep rally in third and spares in fourth and fifth. It's a really lame project for combined English and History where we have to make up this civilization on this really crappy island with barely any vegetation. We're about half way done so that's good.
I'm taking online math which is so easy and just, well, I don't know. It's like a dumb pet: you have to take care of it and do some jobs for it which take some amount of work but in all reality, you just want to sit back and laugh at it. There are these lessons that you take and they have questions to make sure you understand the concepts. One of them showed an equation and it said "Click on the next step" with four to choose from. Well, considering the right answer is the only step you can actually click on, it was painfully simple. And at the end I received bright green letters saying "YOU DID IT!! GOOD JOB!!" I was ever so proud. I never got bright green letters in regular math 'o_O
Yeah... I shouldn't complain about math because something horrible will probably happen where I end up not understanding anything and I'll miss the green letters telling me I did a good job.
Tonight I'm having an Office marathon with Kas and Joe- we're going to watch about four episodes. After that I'm probably going to watch some Scrubs episodes from the DVDs I got for Christmas. I decided to start watching them a week ago and I'm addicted again '^^ I love that show, JD is adorable ^-^ So it's pretty much a night of TV ahead of me. And I'll probably end up reading this book I got from the library called Eleanor Rigby (All the lonely people, Where do they all come from?). It's good but rather depressing. I'd suggest giving it a try if you're into those books that really make you think.

2006-01-26T13:06:00.000-08:00

Finals are over! Yaaay! No school until tuesday and then next semester starts and that's always fun in a weird way. Except there's going to be no more Japanese = ( that sucks, it was my favorite class. And I'll miss Math too, as horrible as it was.
Had my science final today which was long and rather discouraging. The multiple choice killed me and I have this cold where my nose gets stuffed up when i sit down so halfway into it I turned into one of those people that everyone (including me) hates who sniff throughout tests... heehee '^^ And then I looked at the clock and saw that it was noon and was all shocked because I thought I had been writing for three hours but it turns out the clock was an hour late.
Afterwards me and Nicole went to Yohei and that was fun. Then we went to Mcnally's and wondered around for a while... i bought a book and a coffee in celebration of finals being over ^.^
So I get to baby sit tonight from 6 until about 11pm- I baby sit for this adorable kid named Conner who's about 3 years old and really smart (but spoiled =P). And tonight there's also going to be a 4 month old girl because the parents are having some relatives over =D
That's about all I can think of writing... Might be going for brunch tomorrow and then a little bit of shopping with nicole. Kind of want a new shirt of some sort, not sure what though. Maybe Tonic will have some nice stuff on sale ^_^
Have a nice long weekend (to all the high school students =P)

2006-01-25T11:07:00.000-08:00

Just a little fill out thingy I got from Brea's blog...

10 things I have done in the last 24 hours:
1) Went grocery shopping. Bleh.
2) Studied for math and science finals.
3) Sat around in my room reading a B magazine while my mom thought i was studying (I didn't want to help make supper)
4) Watched Scrubs.
5) Sat on my bed for two hours trying to sleep but couldn't because of a sore throat.
6) Wrote a math final.
7) Sang a million songs from Rent in my head while I wrote the final. Then I stopped writing for about 10 minutes 'cause I couldn't remember a line from La Vie Boheme =P
8) Went to student services and found out that the teachers in the advanced program observe us and how we work with people. Creeeeepy.
9) Had a Mocha Mudslide and an oatmeal cookie from AJ's ^_^
10) Had an odd discussion about Sri Lanka with Nicole.

10 things I will do in the next 24 hours:
1) Study for science (last final, thank god)
2) Go to choir even though I reallllllyyyyy don't want to but I have to since I didn't go on Sunday >_<
3) Hopefully get a good night's sleep because I didn't yesterday and now I'm exhausted = ( Having a cold sucks.
4) Write my science final.
5) Possibly find out my math mark. Unless I'm too lazy to walk to the second floor.
6) Go to Quizno's for lunch. Or possibly Yohei if I can convince Nicole.
7) Think about how much money I'm going to make after I baby sit on Thursday night ^_^
8) Plan a shopping trip for friday in celebration of finals being over ^.^ (will probably end up blowing all the money I made on thursday '-_-)
9) Attempt to finish one of my many procrastinated school art projects
10) Go to frakkas and look at clothes

Well that was pretty lame '^^

2006-01-18T14:36:00.000-08:00

So finals are arriving quickly. This is what my schedule's like ('cause I'm sure you're all dying to know 'o_O):
Friday: Gym/Band- Yeah... I go to some arena place for 10 minutes and then go to Murray and play a band test. Lame, but it's better than having a big test on the first day.
Monday: English... ugh. Not look forward to this one. I think this is my most dreaded one actually. Multiple Choice (50 mrks), Essay (25), and Sight Piece (30). My best hope is the essay ;_;
Tuesday: Japanese- should be easy enough. I just need to learn a little bit of vocab and I'll be fine.
Wednesday: Math- what a joke. I think I'll only study the day before.
Thursday: Science- Hm... 100 multiple choice and 50 short answer. That's the only outline we got. Not looking forward to this one either but I think I could pull it off better than English.
And then I'll be finished. I'll make a ton of money baby sitting on Thursday night and then go shopping the next day to make myself feel better after all that work ^.^ I had three tests this week and a couple projects but now it's all finished. Tonight is my last night off before finals so... yeah. I'll try to enjoy it even though I have to go to choir (bleh). I kind of like finals actually. Not the testing part of it, that'd just be weird o.o I like being able to sleep in a bit more and watching more than just 10 minutes of dawson's creek or regis and kelly in the morning =P I think school should always start at 9am. Oh, and it's nice having the afternoon off even though I'll be spending it dying in my room ;_;
So I might update over the next week but I'm not sure. If I get in my serious "I should study because I want good marks" mood then I won't. But if I get in my "marks don't matter even if I failed these exams I'd pass the class" mood then I'll just be lounging around the house and end up updating =P
Good luck to everyone who'll be writing finals ^-^

2006-01-07T16:02:00.000-08:00

Did a lot today. Went grocery shopping with my dad and Kas. We went for lunch at Moxie's and went to mcnally's after that. Me and Kas were talking about books and then found out that we almost got the same book for eachother on Christmas- that would've been interesting =P It's called Something Borrowed. We bought it and I'm planning on reading it eventually... I still have to finish Anna Karenina which i got from Kas for Christmas and English as a Second Language.
Actually, I bought the Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret? the other day 'cause it was 25% off at Mcnally's. It was sooo good! If you're into those lame girly books (well, this one wasn't too lame I have to admit) or liked the Shopaholic series, I fully recomend this book. It took me two days to read because I couldn't stop reading it '^-^
I've had a lot of homework lately... My first two days back weren't the best. We have this Greatness Equation project in English (you have to make a mathematical equation for all the traits a 'great' person has... very abstract) and I had a really crappy group. Hopefully the teacher won't butcher us. Then there's chemistry which is just... ugh. And science fair.
Anyway, I have to go find supper o_o

2006-01-02T19:05:00.000-08:00

Yeah. I'm lame. And I was bored and should've been working on science fair that I'm three weeks behind on...

You scored as Elizabeth Bennet. You are the witty Elizabeth Bennet. You posses fine eyes which must be why you can perceive true character so accuratly. You have a smart sense of humor and enjoy people in their place when they need it. You need a Mr. Darcy to pick on...after all, he does like it.

Elizabeth Bennet

67%

Kitty Bennet

50%

Georgianna Darcy

50%

Mary Bennet

42%

Mrs. Bennet

33%

Jane Bennet

33%

Charlotte Lucas

17%

Lydia Bennet

17%

Miss Bingley

17%

Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Which female character from Pride and Prejudice are you?
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Ahem... Yeah. I took more than one.

You are Mr. Bingly. Immediately likeable,
handsome, and rich. You are humble and cute in
a boyish way. All women want you--if Mr. Darcy
isn't taken, that is.

Which Pride and Prejudice Character Are You?
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I took three. I WAS BORED.

You scored as Elizabeth Bennet. YOU ARE ELIZABETH! You cheated didn't you???...if you didnt, then you are witty, clever, fun to be with and enjoy studying people's characters.

Elizabeth Bennet

83%

Charles Bingley

75%

Mary Bennet

67%

Caroline Bingley

42%

Fitzwilliam Darcy

33%

Jane Bennet

33%

William Collins

17%

Which Pride and Prejudice character are you?
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Survey

2005-12-30T14:52:00.000-08:00

Some of the typing is screwed up but i'm too lazy to fix it. It's legible '^^
1. What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before? Went to Hong Kong/China
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Somewhat and yes
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? nope
4. Did anyone close to you die? My cousin Stefan.
5. What countries did you visit? China
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005? Money. =P Joking… Kinda.
7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Our closing choir performance in Hong Kong. It was awesome.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Got my learners license!
9. What was your biggest failure? Er. Failure’s too serious of a word for anything that happened to me o_O
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nope. I don’t even remember being too seriously sick except for that one time in May when I had a horrible cold.
11. What was the best thing you bought? Haha. I buy way too much stuff to actually identify what the best thing was. Though I did buy this cute skirt from Frakas yesterday =D Not the best thing I bought but thought you ought to know ^.^
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Mine. I’m awesome. Jk…
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Mine. I piss myself off a lot =P and my mother’s.
14. Where did most of your money go? To the many stores at centre, midtown, and on broadway ;_;
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Hong Kong. And going back to Hong Kong after China.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005? Anything by Green Day (ew) and the Killers
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier.
b) thinner or fatter? Same?
c) richer or poorer? poorer.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Being happy for no reason. That’s always fun ^.^
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Sitting around on the computer. Bleh.
20. How did you spend Christmas? Um… It wasn’t all that special. ‘o_o
21. Did you fall in love in 2005? Nope
22. How many one-night stands? Ahaha.
23. What was your favorite TV program? The Office and Law and Order SVU. Oh!! And Prison Break! (how could I almost forget prison break =O)
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Hate’s such a harsh word… But I have to say it’s vice versa. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I “hated” them, lots of them I just didn’t know.
25. What was the best book you read? Pride and Prejudice =D And… as much as it pains me to say this, Lord of the Flies.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery? The Beatles (thanks to Yuki =P). I also saw a lot of musicals this year… Loved Phantom of the Opera and Rent.
27. What did you want and get? Good friends, a good school, and a trip out of the country.
28. What did you want and not get? Um… Gah. I dunno.
29. What was your favorite film of this year? Phantom of the Opera and Love Actually.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 15 and I went to school. Then Boston Pizza for supper. Spent the rest of the night working on an English project, listening to my new Bon Jovi CD, and trying to watch a Hard Day’s Night = ( Stupid school.
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Not to spend my money so cautiously at Stanley Park ;_; I should’ve splurged.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005? It’s changing at the moment. I dunno.
33. What kept you sane? My friends and siblings
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Gerard Butler. Damn, can he sing…
35. What political issue stirred you the most? The whole gay marriage thing (I’m for it)
36. Who did you miss? Christine from choir. We didn’t hang out much until the end of the trip and it was a lot of fun. Then she moved to Edmonton = (
37. Who was the best new person you met? My friends at Murray. I know that goes a little before 2005 but whatever.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005: To enjoy what you have at the moment or you’ll just regret it later. Don’t get stuck on What if’s =P (haha, Lord of the Flies…)
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: “There’s only now, There’s only here. Give in to love or live in fear, no other path no other way, No day but today.” Heehee, my year wasn’t that dramatic. I just wanted to use Rent lyrics ^_^ (I saw it again today =P)

2005-12-27T19:45:00.000-08:00

New Skin!! Love it. It's better than the other Phantom one I had.
So I went shopping with Jessie today which was a lot of fun. Bought some manga, jewelery, and a shirt. All of it was cheap because of boxing day sales =D Hurray!
Saw Rent yesterday so now I'm all depressed = ( It's about these people trying to get through life in New York and all their problems including AIDS and stuff like that. Music was excellent and I really liked it even though it was sad. Bought the soundtrack today and I'm obsessed with the songs La Vie Boheme and I'll Cover You.
Thinking of watching either my Hard Day's Night movie or the Pride and Prejudice mini series tonight. P and P is so good!! All the characters are awesome and they haven't left out anything yet ^_^
I go back to school next week. How depressing. These winter breaks are way too short >_

2005-12-24T17:46:00.000-08:00

Quick update- Yesterday I went to my dad's and celebrated Christmas there. Got some awesome presents including the Pride and Prejudice mini-series DVDs (Colin Firth is hawt =P), Beatles Anthology, and Body Shop stuff.
Today consisted of me sitting around and getting fat from eating waaaaay to much chocolate. Nicole came over and we exchanged presents. Then we got kind of hyper and drank eggnog which was gross.

Anyway...
Just want to wish everyone a Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa... Whatever you celebrate =D I'd also like to thank all my friends for their awesome presents ^_^
Happy Holidays, everyone.

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2005-12-19T19:52:00.000-08:00

So Christmas is just around the corner =O Too bad I don't get out of school until Thursday. I'm thinking of skipping the afternoon that day becuase of a pep rally but I just found out that the bands might be doing something with the choir so that would ruin my plans. How dissapointing.
I was hoping this week would be slack because of the holidays coming up but I guess not. We had a science quiz today and we're having another one on Wednesday. I also have a math test on Wednesday but what makes it even worse is we're two classes behind. My math teacher's father-in-law was in the hospital this past week so we had a spare on Friday and then a sub today. Also, we went to this play thing last week which made us even more behind. That means we have to learn four classes worth of stuff and then have a test >_< And it's on geometry which sucks even more. Geometry is my worst math unit. Except I like constructing things, it's like drawing a picture ^-^
I finished my X-mas shopping over the weekend which is good. I just have to do a couple more things for my homemade presents and I'll be done =D
Well, this was a pretty lame update. If I feel more inspired i'll try again later in the week.
~Ari

Lame Post '^^

2005-12-17T20:07:00.000-08:00

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2005-12-02T20:52:00.000-08:00

It's been a choir-filled week. I had dress rehearsals on wednesday and thursday and we had our first concert tonight (followed by another tomorrow). Our Christmas concerts are always better in my opinion. Even though we usually have better songs and stuff by April, it's just not the same without the carols and brass =P Well, I guess I'll be a good little choristor and do some advertising. So come see a concert that took six hours to put together and watch my funny facial expressions (I look really dumb when I sing o_o'). Also, after the concert we have a reception where you can go get fat by eating millions of treats (like me)! Tickets are a (bombing) $15 but, I have to add, even though people complain about buying the ticket before the concert I have never heard anyone complain afterwards. My dad, my aunt, and my cousin Breanne were all at the concert tonight so that was good. Then my dad *...ahem* bought me a present afterwards which made me feel special ^_^ It was these three little angels from Ten Thousand Villages which were adorable.
Anywho, I'm going to go shower. But before I go, let's play a little game...

Go to Google. In quotes type "your name needs". Hit search, blog what comes up:

Arielle needs a new bed.
Arielle needs to be restrained sometimes.
It doesn't look like Arielle needs the whistle anymore!!
Arielle needs to learn how to drive a stick.
Arielle needs a good man/woman.
I think Arielle needs a big ole Texas steak and a glass of milk.
Arielle needs to diet but has a really fun fake tattoo on her stomach picture.

Yeah. That last one creeps me out =P
Have a good weekend!

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2005-11-26T19:41:00.000-08:00

Sweet understanding, Seymour's your friend...
Heehee, I love Little Shop of Horrors. It was showing at St. Joe's so me, Joe, Kass, and my dad went to see it. It was pretty good but not as good as Feehan's production of it a few years ago. That one was the best- I went to see it twice it was so good. The singing was alright at Joe's. 'Audrey' was awesome but 'Seymour' was so-so. His voice kept cracking and during my favorite song, Suddenly Seymour, they had to bring out the chorus to sing with him because he couldn't match Audrey's voice =P But his acting during that song made up for it. Yeah, I'd have to say Little Shop of Horrors is one of my favorite musicals, along with Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Chicago, but only when it's live. The movie was just... odd. I dunno, it's not the same. It's fun to see how they do certain scenes in the live versions and Audrey's voice kills me slowly in the movie.
Last night I also went to Once Upon a Mattress at Holy Cross (it was another version of The Princess and the Pea). That one was pretty funny and Danika, who used to be in my choir and played the princess, did an awesome job. I think I enjoyed LSOH better. I thought Cross's got kind of dull near the end. Then again it was an hour longer so... yeah.
I'm really sick right now. I had a bit of a sore throat earlier in the week but it went away by Friday. Then suddenly, last night, I got a stuffy nose and now I have no voice. Hurray -_- I'm pretty sure I'll be better by next week (I have choir concerts on Friday and Saturday) but I hate it when I lose my voice. I talk too much so having no voice is pretty annoying =P
I'm gonna go lay down and hopefully get better '^-^
~Ari

Ew. Half melted ice cream.

2005-11-20T19:32:00.000-08:00

Justin went for ice cream and decided to only get stuff for him and Kas so now I'm stuck with Kas's half melted leftovers >.< Oh well. At least she was thoughtful enough to give me some unlike GREEDY JUSTIN!!!!! There. I'm over it ^-^
I've been feeling Christmassy this weekend- I watched some movies yesterday which put me in the holiday mood. I watched most of Home Alone yesterday morning and then in the evening Kas found our old X-mas tapes from when we were kids and I watched Teddy Bear's Christmas and Nile the Sandman. It was awesome. I felt like I was a kid again with a really lame sense of humour.
I have a whole bunch of movies that I watch this time of year. There's Olive the Other Reindeer, While You Were Sleeping, Elf, The Nutcracker, Muppet's Christmas... stuff that I've been watching for so long that I could probably recite most of them '^^
Oooh, I have a good idea. I'm gonna get a question type thing going so I get more comments on my blog. I got three last time and that made me feel special ^_^ So here it is: What's your favorite Christmas movie/s? I'd have to say mine are The Santa Clause and Home Alone 1&2. I remember watching The Santa Clause when I was about 5 years old and I've watched it every year since. I remember thinking that Tim Allen was so cool and I used to wish that my dad was Santa =P I looove the Home Alone movies (except for the third one which was godawful). I can't decide which one I like better. I like the first one because of the scene when Kevin goes in the church and the choir's singing O Holy Night (even though it's really fake because a church choir would never sing that good =P). But I like the second one because he's in New York and it seems so Christmassy there. I like the part when he goes into the toy shop, that place was awesome.
Anyway, leave a comment with your favorite holiday movie so I can feel special =D
~Ari

Christmaaaaaaaaas ^_^

2005-11-18T20:54:00.000-08:00

Yeah. It's awesome =P And you better appreciate it because I suck with templates so getting a new skin isn't easy. I still haven't figured out why there's lines through random words but whatever. It took me long enough to figure out how to put comments in, I'm not going to do anything else.
I got a new cell phone =D Actually it's my mom's old one (long story). But now I have a new ringtone and picture ^-^ I chose Day Tripper for my ringtone 'cause I'm awesome. It was either that or Eight Days a Week and that song reminds me of my band teacher so... yeah.
Went to the movie The Fog with my cousin and siblings tonight. It was pretty horrible. But it made me laugh at its lameness so that's good.
I'll update again tomorrow and I'll try to be more interesting '^^

Oww...

2005-11-08T17:10:00.000-08:00

My stomach hurts. I was upstairs and I poured myself a glass of wine and ended up getting too much. I had to chug some of it before my mom saw because she thinks I'm a developing alcoholic. I was really full too so it didn't make my stomach feel very well.
Supper was interesting. Randy's here and my mom is really fake around him so we all just sort of sat there while she made stupid jokes. Gah.
Not in the best mood right now... I feel sick and I'm not looking forward to tomorrow = ( After school I have this stupid drivers ed eye test and then I go home for an hour and leave again for choir. We get to sing at this orchestra thing... I'm really not sure how to explain it.
We're doing this 10 Minute Macbeth assignment at school. My group is basing it on a Sci-Fi convention. It should be pretty interesting... Duncan's the leader of the Star Trek fanclub =P We actually had some pretty good ideas going but my group wants to film it instead of performing it live. That means I have to get together with Ben, Joel, Brian, and Ella at some point. Not exactly something I prefer to do with my spare time but what can you do. I have to admit that filming it will make it a lot cooler but it'll take a long time.
On Thursday I have a sim for drivers ed after school >_< That really sucks since there's a long weekend and the first thing on my mind is to get out of there = (
Oh, we got report cards today. My average is 94.2 but I'm thinking it's going to go down pretty soon.
The Office and Law and Order SVU are on tonight =D I like TV nights. And I still have to watch that Prison Break episode from yesterday. I think I might try working on my take home exam for english tonight because I don't really want to work on anything this weekend. Four days doing nothing will be nice and I get to sleep in each day too. Usually I only get to sleep in once a week so that'll be nice. On Friday me and Nicole are thinking of having sushi for supper and maybe having a sleepover. Then on Saturday me and Kas are going to do something. Oooh Pride and Prejudice is supposed to come out on Friday =O!! Hopefully it'll be showing here and I'll be able to go see it. I also wanna see Shopgirl... Hmm. I hope at least one of them comes out here by the weekend.
Well, I should go work on English for a bit before The Office is on.

I'll be driving in a week ^-^

2005-11-03T14:34:00.000-08:00

Legally, anyway. I've already driven a couple times but not too much.
Today was my written test and I passed it with two wrong on each section. On Wednesday I have my eye test and then i get my learners =D But that doesn't get me out of those godawful Drivers Ed classes ;_;
This past week has been full of Macbeth assignments, catching up on math, and doing last minute science. Grr.
Oooh I have a baby sitting job on Friday =D Hurray for money! Now I'll be able to start decorating my room with Christmas stuff from Ten Thousand Villages and buying Christmas presents. I still have no idea what to buy Kas though. *shakes fist at her*
Hmm. I was really inspired to write an entry a half hour ago but right now I don't really care.
~Ari

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."

2005-10-30T10:28:00.000-08:00

So Dracula was pretty awesome. The effects were really well done and so was the dancing. I liked the very end best. Dracula ripped open his shirt and "cut" his chest and then forced the girl, Mina, to drink his blood. Then she kinda went insane and... yeah. Dracula ended up getting stabbed by a bunch of guys and the effects for that was really awesome. They actually made it look like the stake went right through him. It's kind of hard to say what they did right before the curtain fell but it was cool.
I can't decide if I liked this ballet or Swan Lake better. This one had more humour but Swan Lake had more dancing- In this one it was kind of cool to see a person walk on stage in a suit and then start randomly doing jetes but the costumes were really pretty in Swan Lake. Oh, and Dracula didn't have an orchestra which kind of sucked. But at the beginning of the second act they had this really funny 5 minute pantomime of the book by Bram Stoker (which I'm reading at the moment...) So it all evens out I guess. I'm really glad I went to both ^_^
Tomorrow's Hallowe'en =D I'm really excited. Hallowe'en is my favorite holiday after Christmas. Actually, it's my favorite holiday because I don't really like Christmas all that much; I just like the season. Everyone's happy and all the stores are Christmassy and I get to sit around watching lame movies like the Santa Clause and Muppet's Christmas. I'm getting off topic now.
Tomorrow I'm going trick or treating with Nicole and Yuki so that should be fun (yes, we're too old to be going but... yeah. We're going anyway). The weather is supposed to be decent and I'm really glad it didn't snow (hope I didn't jinx it). I'm going as a vampire and I'm really happy we get to dress up for school. I remember we weren't allowed to dress up in elementary school because some parents thought that we were worshipping satan. Ugh. I hate people like that. All the kids want to do is have a little fun and instead they choose to complain about something they know nothing about -_- Anyway. I'm done complaining.
Oh yeah. It's the tragically hip weekend on rock 102. Go listen.
~Ari

Ah, what a week.

2005-10-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

I had a test in english, math, and science and also a whole bunch of assignments going on all week. I've been super busy but i know i shouldn't complain since my siblings have it worse due to midterms but whatever. It sucked.
We finished mice and men in english and watched the movie. I thought it was awesome just 'cause Lennie's hilarious. Until the end of course o_o Now we've started macbeth... it's kinda interesting. I kind of like shakespeare. not that i'm a huge fan of it but it's not bad.
Yeah... this is a really lame and uninspired update. Look for a better one tomorrow or Sunday after I go see the ballet Dracula =O I'll write a review about it or something.
~Ari

New skin ^_^

2005-10-10T20:11:00.000-07:00

Hope you like it. It promotes my never ending love for phantom =P Thanks Meg for helping me with it ^-^
I'm sitting here enjoying the last few hours of the long weekend. Of course there's another long weekend again starting Friday so I'm not too dissapointed. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving- mine was pretty fun. Megan and Jon came up along with my aunt Diane and uncle Glen so that was fun. And we had plenty to eat... There'll be leftovers for a while = (
On Friday Melissa celebrated her birthday. A bunch of us went to see Just Like Heaven at Rainbow- This was my second time seeing it and I must say I enjoyed it a lot more this time. Afterwards, me, Yuki, and Nicole went to Starbucks to get coffee. Then we missed the 18 and had to walk back. That sucked. Especially when Yuki tripped and fell. (I felt so bad!! I hope she's not emotionally scarred or anything =P) Nicole came over to my house after that and we had a sleepover. We had a bunch of appetizers for supper (courtesy of my family) and then watched Centre Stage. I hate that movie, it makes me wish I never quit ballet =P Then we watched What Not to Wear and this creepy food reality tv show.
Oooh! I got the cds A Hard Day's Night and Rubber Soul =D Happiness. They were really cheap at Future Shop. Me and my dad went on a weird Beatles cd splurge while we were there. And then I got Bridget Jones 2 =D!!! Yaaaaaaaaaay Colin Firth ^_^ I've decided that I'm going to marry a british human rights lawyer.
I really want to see the movie Pride and Prejudice. Ugh, all the movies I want to see come out in November. How evil.
Anywho... I'm gonna stop before this entry gets to long. Enjoy the new skin and all the links that I took the time to put into this post =P
~Ari

Been a while.

2005-09-29T15:32:00.000-07:00

So... yeah. Little bit of an update needed I guess '^^
Hmm. Well, school's been going pretty good. I've been keeping uptodate with band stuff and have a high mark but can also proudly say that I've never taken my flute home =D Hurray for sight reading skills. I'm starting to actually find english interesting. We were talking about heroic idols the other day and that was pretty cool. Then we had to write an essay over the weekend which took me forever = ( but I got a 92 ^_^ I'm proud. makes up for my 60 on that 55 word story I wrote... =P Japanese is fun. I still do nothing. Mrs. Itoh gave me a kanji sheet to help me do extra stuff but I'm still not learning anything since I've learned all the characters two years ago. Woo. Math sucks. Science is decent.
I saw the movie Love Actually over the weekend and LOVED IT! =D I heart Colin Firth. He's adorable. I wish he'd gather half the city and profess his love for me.
I'm gonna start reading about feng shui. Nicole has a book and it seems interesting. Not sure if i'll follow through with anything that it says but who knows. Yuki enjoys the poison arrows... =P
I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now. After that I'm gonna give Life of Pi another go. I've tried to read it twice now. The first time I got half way through it and then ended up reading a really disgusting part and almost throwing up (I was on a bus at the time) and the second time I just forgot about it '^^
Have a good weekend.
~Ari

Pretty interesting stuff.

2005-09-03T18:11:00.000-07:00

I found this article on another blog and I found it really interesting so I decided to post it. Personally, I think rape is one of the worst crimes and is right up there with murder. I've also watched Oprah enough to hear about the situation in Africa and I think it is absolutely disgusting beyond words. Anyway, give it a read and tell me what you think.
Oh, and sorry for being bitchy in the last post '^^

I'm already sick of school o_o

2005-09-02T20:24:00.000-07:00

So I've been back to school for two days. It's been going well but classes are already starting to make me bored. Here's my schedule:
P1- Gym/Band(Yeah, I'm in band... I'm only in it 'cause my friends are. Seriously.)
P2- English
P3- Japanese
P4- Math
P5- Science

English (homeroom) is on the third floor so I got a locker on the third floor -_- dammit. So I just use Yuki's, on the first floor, along with Melissa. It's a tad stuffy but we'll be fine =P
Oh, so they closed off one of the stairways to the third floor (there's only two). So now whenever I try getting up to the third floor/down from the third floor it's stuffier than hell. Oh, and we won't be getting the other staircase back since they're turning it into a elevator. I'd like to know who's intelligent idea THAT was.
Japanese is the best class. Mainly 'cause I sit there doing nothing and bothering Nicole. The teacher did end up figuring out that I know most of the stuff we're doing and offered to let me learn a little kanji. That's good and bad since she'll probably ask me all the questions in class but then again I've fallen behind in learning kanji so... yeah. It'll help with my Sunday morning class.
Math is a bitch. The teacher has a really deep voice and talks really slow. Today we had a review and I almost fell asleep. Then it turned out the bastard marked me absent >= ( so now I have to go talk to him at some point and tell him that he's stupid. At least Yuki's in that class so I don't have to make her a shrine (it was Melissa's idea in English...)
Science is okay. The teacher is trying to be cool. But she's not. So it's kind of sad in a pathetic 'you're trying and it's not working so I feel bad for you even though you look like a total jackass' way. We're starting off with physics and it's not as hard as I thought it would be (so far).
Sorry I sound kind of grouchy. I'm having a little trouble with my art assignment (I take art at lunch... yeah, yeah I'm an art geek >.<). Pencil Crayons are a bitch.
On a brighter note, I'm reading a REALLY good book called Memoirs of a Geisha. Take a look at it, it's a really good book. The reason I'm reading it is because they're making it into a movie. I watched the trailer and it looks pretty good except the Japanese accents make it a little odd. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
That's enough for now
~Ari

Going to the lake.

2005-08-28T14:52:00.000-07:00

I'm going with Kas, Joe, and Justin. We're going to be back on Tuesday night 'cause I have an eye appointment on Wednesday (if I need glasses I'll kill something).
Anyway... There's really nothing to update about. I went to Jardena's (a friend from choir) Bar Mitzvah yesterday and that was pretty fun. I had to baby sit after that and made about 30 dollars... hurray.
Anywho, I'll leave you with this link:
"Awesome Starbucks Commercial"
If you've been to Kas's blog then you'll have seen it but if you only go to mine, enjoy ^-^
~Ari

I guess I should update.

2005-08-23T20:42:00.000-07:00

Yeah... I've put off updating for a while. Mainly because I don't get many comments and then I'm sad =( (HINT HINT)
Nicole just went home a little while ago. She came over to try this Chinese food I had made. I made this chicken and vegetable rice (was really yummy), some chicken buns (were so-so), and this lychee fruit dessert (was also yummy).
Hmm... I just had deja vu. How weird. I never knew you could get deja vu from updating your blog. That's actually the second time today >_< Wonder what that means.
So me and Kas are going through a Tommy Lee obsession (Kas more-so than me). I watch his reality TV show every now and then (Tommy Lee Goes to college) and it's pretty funny. Kas also got his new cd that I burned and it's actually really good. But there's too many slow songs =( So far I like Sister Mary and Makin' Me Crazy best (I have a thing for girl-guy duets =P )
Me and Nicole were watching Conan O'Brien episodes and couldn't stop talking about how ugly he is (even though his hair is awesome). So we printed out pictures of him for each of us and cut them into the shape of a heart 'cause we're insane. Yay.
The other day I went to folkfest with Yuki. We went to the Chinese place first (which was one of the best along with the German) and watched Melissa dance which was awesome. I also got my fortune told. Oh, and me and Yuki decided we're going to become a German singing duo and go around the world. It's gonna be awesome.
That's all for now
~Ari

Random stuff.

2005-08-21T20:54:00.000-07:00

You Should Learn French

C'est super! You appreciate the finer things in life... wine, art, cheese, love affairs.
You are definitely a Parisian at heart. You just need your tongue to catch up...

What Language Should You Learn?

Your Career Type: Artistic

You are expressive, original, and independent.
Your talents lie in your artistic abilities: creative writing, drama, crafts, music, or art.

You would make an excellent:

Actor - Art Teacher - Book Editor
Clothes Designer - Comedian - Composer
Dancer - DJ - Graphic Designer
Illustrator - Musician - Sculptor

The worst career options for your are conventional careers, like bank teller or secretary.

What's Your Ideal Career?

Your Slanguage Profile

Canadian Slang: 75%

Aussie Slang: 25%

Prison Slang: 25%

Southern Slang: 25%

Victorian Slang: 25%

British Slang: 0%

New England Slang: 0%

What Slanguage Do You Speak?

You Are an Indie Rocker!

You are in it for the love of the music...
And you couldn't care less about being signed by a big label.
You're all about loving and supporting music - not commercial success.
You may not have the fame and glory, but you have complete control of your career.

What Kind of Rocker Are You?

You Are a Boston Terrier Puppy

Aggressive, wild, and rambunctious.
Deep down, you're just a cuddle monster.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

You Are 25% Left Brained, 75% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.

Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others.

If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic.

Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet.

The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility.

Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way.

If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art.

Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

Are You Right or Left Brained?

You Are an Iced Coffee

At your best, you are: hyper, modern, and athletic

At your worst, you are: cheap and angsty

You drink coffee when: you're out with friends

Your caffeine addiction level: medium

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

In a Past Life...

You Were: An Arrogant Chief.

Where You Lived: New Zealand.

How You Died: Natural causes.

Who Were You In a Past Life?

In Tisdale

2005-08-10T15:46:00.000-07:00

Yep, staying with Kas in Tisdale this week. Actually, only Wednesday-Friday since she had Monday and Tuesday off.
I'm shocked I actually kept myself out of boredom today. This morning I woke up and watched Dawson's Creek for a while and then went for breakfast at co-op with Kas who was on her break. After that I walked home and watched tv and went on the laptop. I did some yoga (which I've been doing a lot lately since it's the only form of exercise that doesn't make me feel grossly out of shape).
By then Kas was back for her lunch break so I hung around for another hour. Then I got a ride with Kas to the co-op and went downtown from there (if you consider one street with about 5 stores "downtown"). I actually found some stuff that I liked- there was this home decor store that I loved and I'm gonna go back there tomorrow to spend money on pointless items. Hurray. I'm only dissapointed in the clothing stores. It's either REALLY expensive or ugly. But then again what do you expect in Tisdale? =P
After I went shopping I came home and here I am.
This weekend was pretty crappy. On Saturday was my cousin Stephan's funeral. That was REALLY sad (of course). Afterwards there was a lunch thing which was kind of nice because I saw some relatives I never get to see.
Then my mom's new boyfriend came over whom I find very awkward to have over. So that sucked.
Anyway, I'm getting bored of typing. Oh, and happy birthday kas =P
~Ari

2005-08-04T19:39:00.000-07:00

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I hate pens.

2005-08-02T20:04:00.000-07:00

I just decided that after getting yelled at for ten minutes by my mom because she can't find her stupid pen that she uses for her crossword puzzles. Ugh.
Yesterday was Saskatchewan Day (haha) so Kas was home an extra day. We went to the river with joe and got frozen yogurt which were good.
So I got tickets to the ballets Swan Lake and Dracula in Sep. and Oct. I'm really looking forward to Swan Lake. I predict that when I see them I'll start whining about how i gave up dancing (even though I wasn't that good).
Christine's coming over tomorrow night and we're going to watch this lame Chinese movie that she has. I don't think it'll be as good as the one on the plane (which I actually liked =P) but it'll be fun.
I've decided that I wanna see the movie Rent. I saw the preview when I went to see Must Love Dogs with Kas and she started going insane when it came on. It looks really good and there's a hot guy (who can sing =P) that should make it all worth it if the movie sucks.
I'll leave it at that.
~Ari

Back from Hong Kong!

2005-07-22T07:46:00.000-07:00

I got back on Wednesday afternoon around 4pm. I wasn't as tired as I thought I'd be even though I had not slept for about 30 hours (the plane was VERY uncomfortable).
The trip was, without a doubt, one of the best experiences of my life. Hong Kong was absolutely amazing and I highly suggest visiting there at least once in your life. China was... different. I definitely did not enjoy it as much as Hong Kong even though there was a lot more culture to it. The choir aspect of the trip was also really fun- the other Songbridge choirs were from China/Hong Kong, Finland, and South Africa. It was really interesting to talk to them. And performances went really well too- our closing performance in HK was probably one of the best performances the choir's ever had.
I'd love to go through my whole trip and tell you about it but that would take REALLY long... if you're that desperate to know about it (which I doubt you are) you can e-mail me and I'll tell you some good stories. But considering pretty much all the people who read this blog are people i know in real life, I doubt that'll happen.
Jet lag has been really evil ever since I got back. I went to sleep at 6pm on Wednesday and woke up at 6am. Yesterday I had a nap in the evening but had to get up for supper... I then went to sleep at 11pm (I know, that wasn't very smart considering how tired I was but I couldn't stop reading Harry Potter). I woke up at 5am this morning and finished Harry Potter. Was it ever sad/good!!! I'm not going to give anything away just in case.
Anyway, I'll be update another time when I can actually think of interesting stuff to write.
~Ari

Happy Canada Day

2005-07-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

Ah yes. What a pointless day, it just gives people an excuse to get drunk and not go to work.
So far I've been really fucking bored today and it's only 11am. I'm too used to having choir/school/stuff to do and now I don't. There's no more rehearsals for Hong Kong... That means the next time I see people from choir, it'll be at the airport. Scary >.<
I've been getting kind of obsessive about Hong Kong- I'm checking the weather there every day to see how hot it is. I am going to DIE!! It's almost 40 degrees with the humidity every day and I like weather around the 20 degree mark ;_;
I'm really going to miss my friends = ( Yesterday I talked to Melissa for the last time until I get back- her family's going camping until Sunday. I also talked to Yuki on msn but I'll probably call her at some point today or tomorrow.
Me and Nicole might go see a movie today or something. Oh yeah- Nicole's basement flooded. A lot of basements have been flooding here 'cause of all the rain. It rained all day on Wednesday and the church roof was leaking at choir.
I called London Drugs yesterday to ask about digital cameras loosing memory through the x-ray thingy at the airport- Some foreign guy answered and he was AWESOME. He was asking me where i was going and telling me not to tell the people that my camera held a bomb or they'd put me in jail and stuff... It was hilarious 'cause his accent was priceless. Anyway.
...Kass is listening to Kelly Clarkson 'cause she's dumb.
Two more days!!
~Ari

Um... yeah. A title... 'o_o

2005-06-28T10:48:00.000-07:00

I got my report card today- 92.4. I think. Or something like that... All my marks went down since midterm except for english, choir, and art which all stayed the same '^^ Oh well, I'm happy with my mark.
I've watched a whole bunch of movies these past few days so I'll list them and give my opinions- I saw Batman Begins on Saturday. AWESOME movie. Go see it even if you aren't a big fan of batman; I wasn't and now I love it. It was so much better than the old movies which weren't very realistic.
I watched Lara Croft- "the cradle of life" on Sunday night with Kas and Joe. I really liked it considering I thought it was going to be pretty crappy. Gerard Butler made it awesome. I would recommend it to all the gerard butler fans just for the part where he does push ups on the ceiling =P
I watched The Day after Tomorrow yesterday (finally). That was a really good movie and worth seeing. I found it really scary considering all that could actually happen. It made me cry at least twice '^^ but hey, at least I didn't cry during the baby sitter's club, right Yuki? =P
Tomorrow's this choir potluck thingy and I think Melissa and Yuki are coming so that's pretty cool. We practiced our commision yesterday with these other singers to see what it would sound like with the other choirs and it was pretty awesome. Today we'll hopefully have percussion so it'll sound even better ^-^
5 more days until I leave for hong kong! (or 6, mattering how you look at it)
TTYL!
~Ari

Second Day of Summer

2005-06-24T08:52:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was an interesting way to spend my first day of summer- I went shopping with my mom for clothes for Hong Kong (we need plain black/denim/stone coloured pants that are at least finger-tip length. They're harder to find then you think, everything has to have a stupid imbroidory thingy on it.) My mom wasn't in the greatest of moods and enjoyed yelling at me and swearing loudly while we were in wal-mart. She got a little better after we went to Old Navy and Mcnally's- she was in a good enough mood to buy me a book on Da Vinci so that was good. Then we went home and she got pissy again once she remembered she had to hem my skirt for choir. Then that night she spazzed at me because she thinks i'm destroying her sewing maching and started blaming me for throwing things out that I've never seen in my life. So I hid out in Kas's room.
So I started packing and I really don't think I'm going to be able to fit everything in one suitcase >.< There's so much stuff to bring!!
Oh, on the topic of choir- On Wednesday me and Rachel went to the Mac's store and bought cookies from the subway. It was great- the guy (who we named Derick) gave them to us for free!! and they taste better when they're free ^_^
Wednesday was my last final (math) and it went really good. Me, Melissa, and Yuki went to melissa's house afterwards and watched the baby-sitter's club movie (don't ask) and the best parts of Phantom of the Opera/Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yuki said Phantom was creepy so now I hate her =P Well... she said the movie overall wasn't too bad so I can't hate her ^.^
Last night me and Kas were calling all the movie stores in the city and asking if they had the movie Mrs. Brown (another gerard butler movie of course). None of them had it so now I'm sad/pissed =(
Oh, check out my new profile picture =O it's awesome ^_^
~Ari

Finals make me sad >_<

2005-06-20T10:05:00.000-07:00

I have my english one tomorrow and my math one on wednesday (in other words, all that's left are the one's that count =P) I'm gonna study at some point but right now I'd rather just sit around and think about how I should be studying.
Today I had my home ec. final which included me sewing on a button. Woo hoo. Oh yeah, Yuki cut her hair- how evil. But her bangs are nice ^_^
Yesterday I went to Marysburg with the SCC. It was pretty fun, considering. Me and Rachel made up this choir soap opera that we're going to write out on the plane ride to hong kong. It's hilarious ^_^
I watched Dracula and White Noise this weekend. Dracula was awesome!! White Noise was so-so. It could've been a lot better. But it did make me jump a few times.
Only two more days of school...
~Ari

MSN isn't working =(

2005-06-16T18:25:00.000-07:00

So there goes my social life... Actually, that's a lie. I'm not THAT big of a loner. But I'm now bored =(
Ugh. I'm such a nerd. I started studying for my english/social final today even though it's on Tuesday. Actually, it's good that i'm starting today because I won't have time this weekend- On Saturday I have a wedding to go to- Her name's Lisa and she used to be my baby sitter/neighbour. I'm only going so I can curl my hair and look like Christine from Phantom of the Opera =P And then on Sunday I'm going to Marysburg with choir. It's a day trip and we're going to be performing for a bunch of people. The highlight of the trip is getting lunch from a stranger. Woo.
I've been attempting to tan so I don't die of sunburn when I go to Hong Kong but it's not working out very well. And on a completely unrelated note, I heard sweet child of mine twice today so now it's stuck in my head.
I had my gym/band final today (if you consider sorting music and going swimming a final...) And tomorrow I have my art final. I need help. Pleasssee leave a comment if you have any ideas- I'm supposed to draw my version of 'paradise' (yeah, yeah, haha sex -_- you immature freaks =P) and I have no clue what to do. I know you people can't really help since no one really knows what a like and stuff but I don't even know where to start.
Gonna go study for a bit.
~Ari

Only three more days of school

2005-06-10T16:20:00.000-07:00

And I'll no longer be a freshman ^_^ (not taking finals into consideration...)
Kass is coming home today. Hurray. She's bringing her Phantom dvd (I've yet to get mine >.<) and I'm planning on watching it (the whole thing this time) since I'm not too overly busy this weekend. I still have my art project to work on and my English portfolio but Phantom's more important ^-^
This week was decent. Yuki's overly obsessed with Star Wars at the moment and enjoys quoting it/buying Star Wars toys from burger king/telling me to make a light saber for my art project and so on. It's funny and painful at the same time =P
Art class last night was pretty fun. Blow at High Dough was on the radio so me and Nicole were happy. I also made a really dirty yet funny joke at one point which I'm very proud of ^_^
Tuesday night was improv night- me, joe, mom, and dad went. We had front row seats so that was pretty awesome (I could've reached out and touched their feet when they were at the front of the stage =O) It was really funny but it seemed short. I think I like Just for Laughs more but it was still good. Jeff gave some people in the front row high fives and I was one of them so I felt special =P
Oh yeah... Can't believe I almost forgot. Dear Frankie= Awesome movie. Go see it now. I would've cried a couple times if Kas wasn't beside me ruining the moment by saying "Damn, Gerard Butler's sexy" every five minutes. But I can't blame her 'cause he was =P
Have a good weekend!
~Ari

"There's no escaping this dream, We're dancing with no distractions"

It's been a while '^^

2005-06-05T08:59:00.000-07:00

I've been pretty busy this last week. me, yuki, and melissa's math project was due on wednesday. We went to Yuki's house on tuesday to finish it and found out that we had a lot left to do. We ended up completely finishing the project about 5 minutes before class started =P I'm glad that project's over but I miss George (even though his face is slanted >.<).
Yesterday I baby sat for 12 hours and made $55. The kid was really good but I got kinda bitchy around 6ish and made the kid watch cailou while I read '^^
Last weekend I went to Regina with my choir. That was a lot of fun but now brundibar's over so I'm kinda sad. One girl on the trip said something worth quoting- Someone asked her if she had a boyfriend and she said "Choir's my boyfriend" =P I'm guessing only rachel will find that funny... '^^
Today I get to go see the movie Dear Frankie =D I'm so happy!!! I love Gerard Butler so much ^-^
I was supposed to go on this camping trip on Thursday-Friday with the advancies but it ended up getting canceled 'cause of weather warnings. I actually wasn't too dissapointed but we had to do our civilization thing in the classroom which sucked ass. But I got to wear Yuki's hat. And I looked amish. So it was all worth it.
Anyway, I should go- me, kas, and dad are going to Denny's for breakfast for no specific reason other than the fact that both dad and joe go for breakfast every sunday morning and will go insane if they don't. Oh, and kas is having a love affair with Denny's (she wouldn't shut up last night about how excited she was to be going there.)
~Ari

"The river takes and takes, takes and takes, It doesn’t change and only changes... If New Orleans is beat Where's that leave you and me?"

I predict a really shitty day.

2005-05-22T08:36:00.000-07:00

Because it's my mom's birthday we all have to go on a bloody picnic at the forestry farm. Maybe going would be okay if I didn't hate hanging out with my family or if I hadn't been to the forestry farm already not that long ago (okay- it was about a year ago but trust me, they aren't getting any new animals anytime soon) or if I wasn't sick with another freakin cold. I reaaaaaaallly don't want to go... All I want to do is go hideout at nicole's house and drink strawberry daquiris =(
On a brighter topic- Yesterday was really fun. I went to Yuki's house with Melissa to work on our math project. We started making this really lame/awesome 'how-to' video and that took a while but it was worth it =P Then at one point we took a break and walked by David's house which wasn't actually David's house but we thought it was. And we ate strawberries and popcorn. Then Yuki's mom made us dinner and she was sooooooo nice that I wanted to take her home with me and trade with the one I got stuck with =P
So I woke up this morning, stepped out of my room and my mom automatically forced me to clean my bathroom. And then she yelled at me for doing a half ass job. I'd like to explain to her that no one's going to care if I do a half ass job since I'm the only one who uses my bathroom because we don't have company over. Ever.
I might have to go to Melissa's tomorrow (we have no school) because we still have to make clothes for our dolls.
Now that I think of it, I only have school twice this week because I'm going to Regina on Thursday. Yay.
~Ari

"When I sleep in the rain, In straight lines through shadows You're there.... Where the future lies, under no moon at night, At the ballroom hanging You're there, You're everywhere."

Happy Birthday to meeee

2005-05-17T19:33:00.000-07:00

Yay... it's my birthday. But I'm exhausted due to a huge amount of homework/studying. See, we have this big english project due on Thursday and I worked on it for five hours last night so I wouldn't have to work on it today but that didn't go well. I had to put everything on the presentation board this evening and that took longer than I thought. And I also have a math test tomorrow on factoring which is a bitch and a half so I should really be studying.
School was pretty awesome. Yuki is my new bestestest friend because she bought me a new Bon Jovi CD, lent me A Hard Day's Night, AND made me 'cake.' Oh, and gave me a letter =P And Melissa came to choir this morning and that's a good enough birthday present for me because choir sucks ass when she's not there. I also found out Mr Bob's son has the same birthday as me after Melissa yelled out that it was my birthday in the hall o.O So much for Mr. Bob not talking to me ever again. Now I'm sad.
I went to Boston Pizza with my family for supper... it was good. Nicole came with us and we had a good time saying the word "Pasta Tuesday" a million times in every sentance we said. And then, of course, my mom had to tell the waitress it was my birthday. A bunch of workers came out and announced it to the freakin world and sang me a song. I guess it's better than making me walk around Moxie's with a hat on (haha Kas =P)
For presents I got Scrubs season 1 from Joe (awesome present joe, I'm proud of you =P), the book Brundibar from McNally's and a book of poems that were written by children in Terezin (also a great present Kas, though it's rather depressing '^^), a bunch of CDs, the movie Spanglish, A CD/DVD holder, and a bike =O The bike is pretty, it's blue and silver. I have to thank my whole family for thinking of that one even though SOMEONE gave away the surprise *coughKAScough* And I suck at acting. So when I saw the bike I just sort of said "Oh. A bike" and raised my eyebrows. That's me being 'surprised.'
Anywho, I have to go study and watch an episode of Scrubs.
TTYL!
~Ari

Brundibar= Fun...?!

2005-05-13T13:42:00.000-07:00

Yes, that's right. I'm actually enjoying Brundibar and I think I'm going to miss it when it's over. How... pathetic. Maybe it's because I'm actually making an attempt to not be a loner. Yes, that's probably it.
Tonight's our opening night. Wednesday afternoon, Thurs. morning/afternoon, and Friday morning (today) have all been performances for schools. In other words, they barely mattered =P The audiences have been.. okay. Most of the kids don't care/understand what we're doing and lots of them were laughing and talking at some points which kind of pissed me off. But what can you do. Tonight the Leuitenant Governer is coming so that's pretty cool.
Last night I went to art class which was kinda fun. I was in a weird mood during the first bit so that was interesting.
My Birthday's on Tuesday. But I'm sure you know that since I've brought it up in every post ^.^
~Ari

"He said 'fuck this' and 'fuck that', and this guy's the diplomat..."

This post will be better than the last.

2005-05-08T19:58:00.000-07:00

That one was shit, the song-quote at the bottom was almost longer than the post itself. I think I'll just delete it.
So today I had Japanese class in the morning. That was pretty amusing- we made mother's day cards and I didn't really know what to put on mine so i just took my friend's Hello Kitty pencil holder and copied a picture from there (even though I hate Hello Kitty). Then I made it so the cats were saying stuff- I wasn't sure what to put so I took my Japanese phrasebook and put random shit from there. The first cat is saying "Is the service included in the bill?" and the other cat is saying "What the hell are you talking about?" (curtousy of Jen =P). Then on the back I put "My room is took dark and I can't get the window open." But it was all in Japanese so my mom didn't know any better (yeah, yeah I'm a weird kid get over it)
I had choir from 1-6pm today but I started getting a god-awful headache around 3pm and asked to lay down. Ms. Voigts ended up sending me home even though it really wasn't TOO bad. Oh well, I went home and watched tv ^_^
Last night me, kas, and joe watched Phantom of the Opera. I loooooove that movie but me and kas kept making stupid comments =P next time we have to watch it when we're a little less hyper. Actually, we weren't hyper. I don't know what our problem was '^^
I should go do some homework =(
~Ari

"I’m going down to see my highway girl, She just back from around the world
I’m gonna get me a gun, I’m gonna stand on guard in a little white booth in her front yard..."

Ugh...

2005-05-01T17:12:00.000-07:00

Just got back from a 4 hour brundibar rehersal and i'm really tired. Oh, but it doesn't stop there. Every day next week I have rehersals from 4-8pm right after school >_< I guess I'll live =P
Went to the theory of a deadman concert on friday. was a lot of fun. Specially when this guy tried picking me up. And when nicole got a guitar pick from dean who was throwing them into the crowd. Oh, and when Justin complained about how loud it was... he's getting a little old =P
I went to Tisdale yesterday to help Kas move. The ride there wasn't too bad but the ride back seemed a lot longer. I miss Kas a bit but not as much as I should '^^ Maybe it's because I don't see her much on Sundays. I know mom misses her. Kas- If you're reading this, ask mom now if you need anything. She'll get you anything =P Actually, she was saying what would happen if kas ended up staying in tisdale and how she would get a cabin at greenwater... haha.
New Family Guy episode on tonight :O that'll be nice to see.
Anyway... I'm pretty tired and I'm not in the mood to update but I figured I had to since it's been a while =P
And on a completely unrelated topic, my birthday's in 17 days. Mark your calendars.
~Ari

"You talk and you talk like some weird saint... When you’re nothing I am and I’m something you ain’t"

Broadway March+Taste of Blood= Ari gets a stomach ache from hell

2005-04-26T16:29:00.000-07:00

You're probably kind of confused by the title- Today during Band we were playing this song from the music man and my lip started bleeding. I figured "It's got to stop eventually, i'll just try to stop the blood with my tongue." No such luck. I think it bled for about 15 minutes and the whole time i was swallowing the blood (I went to the bathroom at one point to blot it with a kleenex but that didn't work) and by the end of band I had a really bad stomach ache.
This afternoon was supposed to be nice and lazy where I pretty much just sit around playing guitar and waiting for This is Wonderland to come on TV but the teacher decided to change this math test, meant for next week, to tomorrow ;_; Yeah... I should be studying but instead I'm updating my blog and listening to Let it Be. Woo.
I bought Theresa Sokyrka's CD today. So far I like it- I was going to get it signed at Future Shop but there was a line up from hell and math was calling so... yeah.
Oh yeah, report cards. I'll copy down my marks like I promised o_o
Art-93
Band-97
Choir-96
Eng/Social- 88 (If English and Social weren't combined, my english mark would be a lot higher =( but then again, my social mark would be shit so I guess it all evens out)
Home ec- 97
Math- 96
Overall Av.- 94.5
Shocking. I really don't feel proud over the mark and deep down, I really don't care '^^ All I care about is my art and choir mark (I actually care about art and I'm hoping to get the choir award... =P)
Anyway, I must get back to Polynomials =(!!
~Ari

"Memory’s never gonna set you free, go out and see that world and bring it home to me, Oh my little highway girl..."

Weekend... woo.

2005-04-23T19:17:00.000-07:00

Me, Kas, and Justin were playing rummoli when Kas's friend Melissa called and she was invited over to play. So the other two went to Mac's for snacks and I figured this was a good time to go on the computer, update my blog, and rock out to Grace, Too.
Today was fairly unproductive other than the point where I went to Nicole's house to film a bit of our newest movie. She came over here last night to film too and it's going pretty good if you don't take into consideration that half of it is insiders. Oh well.
My ribs hurt like hell from coughing so much. I discovered that I probably won't have a voice tomorrow for Brundibar practice and that sucks a lot since firstly it gets really boring when all you do it mouth along and secondly, as shocking as this sounds, I really like singing. Even choir singing. But most of all I miss singing along to my music because earlier today I was listening to tea party and started singing along out of habit. My voice cracked after about two notes =( I was very sad.
Wow... I've watched a total of 6 Dawson's Creek episodes so far this weekend (my sister has the dvds). I watched two last night from around 11pm-1am 'cause I was keeping Kas company as she did some last minute studying. Then I watched 4 more today and you'd think I would be insane by now but I'm not. I actually love the show despite its lame teenagerness. Oooh! I also ordered in Made in Canada dvds from amazon today. Hmmm... Dawson's Creek and Made in Canada. I have a very interesting taste in TV shows =P
Anyway, Kas and Justin will be back any minute and I have to put on a better shirt (I'm wearing my pajamas)
~Ari

"Lining up, waiting on the trickle down, something’s up, taking time to get around..."

Being sick sucks

2005-04-22T14:56:00.000-07:00

But you all know that already.
I woke up on Wednesday at 2:30 am with a horrible godawful sore throat and had to go downstairs and scrounge around for advil. My mom, who wakes up at the slightist noise, woke up and asked me what was wrong so I told her. She found some Recola cough candy thingys and I had one and fell back asleep around 3am. When I woke up my throat wasn't much better and it kind of sucked because that's the day I got my braces off. Longest day of my life, I swear. I had to go to the orthodontist, to the dentist (across town), back to the orthodontist, back to school, and back to the orthodontist once more (all for retainer/mishapen teeth reasons). And then I had choir for three hours that night >_<
So I'm still sick. The sore throat turned into a cold which turned into a cough. I'm now in my basement dying slowly.
Today I added Rachel's blog to my links. Go read about her life =O She's in my choir and now she goes to Murray too. Hurray!
I have no school on Monday but then I get report cards on Tuesday... that sucks. I'll tell you how my average turns out because I'm sure you are all dying to know =P
~Ari

"Sorry to interrupt you caller, but that's a physical impossibility..."

Writing poetry sucks (unless you're inspired, I guess)

2005-04-18T19:59:00.000-07:00

I learned that yesterday around 9pm when I was trying to finish my poetry assignment. It was a bitch. But I ended up finishing it somehow (thank you rhymezone.com!!)
Today was okay. But it's that time of month when I'm irritable and moody (Simply put: I'm getting my period) and during third I was kind of mood swingish. At first I was kind of hyper and bouncing up and down and being bored (home ec. sucks) and then as soon as it finished I got kind of evil- I was leaning beside Yuki's locker Landon came and asked me to move so he could get to his locker. I got kind of pissed (not sure why, I guess getting stuff from one's locker is a horrible thing in my world) and it turns out I showed it on my face... heh. Melissa was walking by when this happened and she actually thought I was mad at her because I guess I looked really pissed =P
Got my english test back today and I didn't do so well (shh! you don't know that =P). A certain person (I won't mention names) started crying during math because they didn't get a question- me and Yuki were laughing. We're so heartless =P But come on! Crying because you don't get a freakin question. I hate people like that. I'm sorry, but they overreact over stupid shit and it's annoying.
My choir concert went pretty good. According to the director we got "rave reviews" so I guess we did better than I thought '^-^
Anywho... According to Kat May 23-29 is vegetarian week. I thing I won't eat meat that week to see what it's like. I might become a vegetarian when I get older but first I have to see what it's like =P
~Ari

"If I die of vanity promise me, promise me they bury me someplace I don't wanna be, you'll dig me up and transport me unceremoniously away from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees, whispers of disease, acts of enormity; lower me slowly, sadly and properly, get Ry Cooder to sing my Eulogy..."

Rain, please. Snow, no thanks.

2005-04-14T14:53:00.000-07:00

If it snows tonight I think I'll destroy something. Like Mr. Pittman's CD collection. Argh.
I'm using my sister's headphones... how odd. They're those ones that you put in your ear- usually I use the bulky ones that go around the back of your head. These ones are better but they fall out of my ears all the time. How evil.
So I'm almost done my paper mache thingy for art. I thought I'd never finish and it's due tomorrow >_< I had to work on it during lunch. That sucked.
Last night's dress rehersal went pretty good except for the last half hour- it went reaaaal slow. Tonight should be okay too since we went over the second half which is worse than the first half of the concert.
Anyway, that's all I can think of saying. Sorry for the lame update.
~Ari

Being drawn along by it, Carried under carried away, By its long-term membership..."

Owie, my arm.

2005-04-12T19:29:00.000-07:00

I got my vaccinations for Hong Kong yesterday and my left arm hurts a lot >.< It didn't hurt at all when I got them but now it does. How cheap.
Nothing really interesting happened today. Hmm... Me and Yuki got stalked by our band teacher again and we spent half the lunch hour outside of the guitar room door trying to get Melissa's attention (she was inside with this french horn group thingy). It was pretty amusing. Then we decided to call the office and page her just to get her out of the room and so we used the pay phone by the door but it didn't work- the office lady told me that they didn't page people until 1pm and only parents were allowed to leave messages. Then I started thinking that she actually saw me using the pay phone and knew it was me because... well... I don't know. But it was funny.
English was really boring and I spent half the time writing out Tragically Hip lyrics on a piece of paper. And Mr. S was wearing a purple shirt (he tucked it in of course) and it made me want to cry.
Tonight's my last night off this week. How crappy. Tomorrow and Thursday I have choir dress rehersals and on Friday I have a concert.
Er. You should come. I'm sure you'd enjoy it o.o'' There, that's my advertisement. We've been told to try and get people to come because the turnout at our spring concerts are never as good as the huge ass crowds that we get at our Christmas concerts (it's weird, I'd rather go to a spring concert if I had to choose. Actually, I wouldn't go at all because of the expensive tickets >.< But it's supposedly worth it. I wouldn't know, I've never actually seen a concert but according to what people say... *ahem* I'll shut up, I'm babbling. And I want to get out of these brackets.) There, that's better.
Anywho, that's my pointless post of the day. I probably won't post until this weekend.
~Ari

"Oh for a good life, we just might have to weaken, And find somewhere to go, Go somewhere we're needed..."

"He honked at us because he thinks we're Bono."

2005-04-09T19:24:00.000-07:00

I had a pretty good day. Me and Nicole went to subway for lunch and it was yummy. We also went to the dollar store and bought sunglasses to make us look like Bono (from U2, just in case you don't know. I hope you do o_o). As we were leaving this guy honked at us in the parking lot (bastard) and Nicole said "He honked at us because he thinks we're Bono." It was funny. Which is why it's the title of my blog. That, and I can't think of anything else. But I'm also kinda weirded out because when I put on the glasses Nicole said that I actually look like Bono. In other words I resemble an old irish dude when I wear overly large sunglasses... But it's cool at the same time =D
This morning I had that Brundibar fitting thing. I like my dress but I hate the colour. It's an ugly faded yellow >.<
I got the cd Phantom Power today. My dad bought it for me and I told him it was for my birthday but he just gave it to me. So far it's pretty good but I've only listened to it once '^^
So I wrote another poem last night and I really like it but it's overly dramatic and more songish than it is poemish. I don't really want to hand it in because I think the teacher will just bitch about it and make me not like it and/or think that I'm an oddly depressed teenager because of some of the stuff it says (and I hate people like that) but actually it was just inspired by a tea party song. So... I dunno.
Oh crap, I should go practice for choir. I just remembered that I have to finish my practice record for tomorrow.
~Ari

"Black out to phantom power and there's nothing on, hammering the tower, And now there's nothing on..."

Not a bad week, I must say...

2005-04-08T14:41:00.000-07:00

... and I'm really glad it's the weekend (who isn't?!) even though I have to get up early tomorrow to get fitted for my Brundibar costume because my mom thought it was convinent to sign me up at 9:30am. Argh.
The weather is soooo nice right now. I'm waiting for nicole to sign on msn so we can go to mac's and I can get my first slurpee of spring ^-^
I had an English test today and it went ok I guess. I was just checking some of my answers on yahoo and I just found out I got a few wrong and that's from just one section >_< Oh well.
Today I ate lunch in home ec and it was really gross. We had Caesar salad (it had so much dressing we should've had heart attacks), Bruschetta bread (it had WAY too many onions. But it was great because when Yuki was eating hers it exploded in her face and I couldn't stop laughing), and mini-cheesecakes. The cheesecake was the only thing that tasted good/normal.
Ooh for math we're doing this weird project which pretty much consists of us doing close to anything that has at least one small thing to do with math- me, yuki, and melissa are making little actionfigure-size dolls of The Beatles. I get to make George ^-^And then we're going to give them instruments. yay ^_^
~Ari

"When the colour of the night and all the smoke for one life gives way to shaky movements...we will get with the times..."

~He said I'm tragically hip, C'mon just let's go...~

2005-04-05T19:01:00.000-07:00

I watched the Juno's on Sunday. It was great- The Tragically Hip performed (they got into the Canadian music hall of fame) and I was killing myself laughing half the time. They sang Fully Completely and Grace, Too (good choice of songs, my favorite part was the beginning of grace, too when gordie changed the words- see my post title- very tricky) but half the time Gordie was just randomly talking, it was hilarious. He talked to Paul twice but Paul just ignored him =P and then he started talking to his microphone... yeah, it was priceless. Brent Butt was a really good host too. He actually made me laugh quite a few times when usually most hosts just make you want to stab things because of their pathetic attempts at being funny.
Yesterday was the first day back and it wasn't too bad, I guess. I can't really remember anything that happened actually... Oh yeah, we started this clay thing in art.
Today wasn't too bad but it got off to a shitty start because of something my mom said this morning. Then Melissa put me in a better mood during choir.
I wrote a poem during English- We have to do this stupid poetry portfolio. Turns out it's due next Friday which kind of sucks since I've barely done anything. And it takes me a long time to write poems (mainly because I suck but I'm also a perfectionist. Not a good combination)
Anyway, Kas is being mean and telling me to get off the computer; Justin needs it for homework.
~Ari

"He said I'm fabulously rich, C'mon just let's go, She kinda bit her lip, Gee I don't know... But I can gurantee there'll be no knock on the door, a total pro: That's what I'm here for..."

RIP John Paul II

2005-04-02T19:30:00.000-08:00

Yeah... I'm not Catholic but I think the Pope deserves credit for all that he's done. At least we know he's not suffering anymore.
Today I went with Kas to kal tire to keep her company while she got her tires changed (it took two hours =S). We went to Kelsey's and I tried kas's Blue Hawaiian drink- it was really good.
I've been downloading theory of a deadman music a lot today- I'll probably end up buying one or both of their cds. I'm also going to start memorizing the words to their songs so I don't look dumb at the concert.
Really screwy thing happened with choir today since dad's in Mexico. I'd rather not get into details until it all clears up '-_- I'm pretty sure it'll all turn out fine but it's still a pain in the ass.
Hmm... now that I think about it, my blog entries will probably start getting a lot more spread out as time goes by. The only reason I've been writing an entry every day is because I had the week off so I got pretty bored. But next week school starts again (dammit! I really don't want to go back >.<) and choir's back on so I'm going to be more busy. But I'll probably find time to keep all you random people uptodate =P
~Ari

"...So consumed with the shape I'm in, Can't enjoy the luxury..."

I really can't think of a title

2005-04-01T21:50:00.000-08:00

Today was... um.... "inadmissable" (courtesy of the online thesaurus, my vocabulary only spans so far.) In other words it was pretty crappy '^^ Actually, it wasn't THAT bad. I just like to exagerate. Makes me feel special. Anyway, it was long and odd stuff happened. I wasn't really the one in the bad mood but everyone else was so it just sort of rubs off onto you until you find yourself in the basement listening to Vaccination Scar repeatedly.
On the topic of music, I'm going to the Theory of a Deadman concert. yay! Bought my tickets today. Also bought tickets to the improve night- Front and Centre O_O Yeah, it's going to be amusing. I'm going to bring my camera so I can take pictures of Chip and then send them to my poor lonely sister in the land of Rape and Honey (I'm sorry, I can't get over that XD)
Nicole went to Regina for the weekend. How evil. Without her to keep up my social life, I'm going to result to watching the Poets music video over and over until I figure out what Gordie was trying to accomplish during it. Something about the random arm gestures confuses me. Hm... screw waiting until this weekend, I'm watching it right now....
Well wasn't that fun? Oh, you know it was. It really makes me wonder how they planned out that video. I can just see Gordie saying "And right here I'm going to do this weird elbow thing while walking towards the camera man. And there's going to be cats in the background."
Anyway, this is getting long. So I'm ditching you. Bye.
~Ari

"Don't tell me what the poets are doing, don't tell me that they're talking tough, Don't tell me that they're antisocial; sometimes not antisocial enough..."

Crossing my fingers

2005-03-31T10:01:00.000-08:00

Hmph. I want to go to the Theory of a Deadman concert in April and I brought it up to my mom but she said no. I was hoping me and Nicole could go but she thinks that two girls at a concert could get killed or something. So I'm thinking maybe Justin or Kas will take me- I'm going to pay for their ticket if they agree to. I reaaaalllyyy hope at least one of them do (Hinthint kas if you're reading this =P). I'm not a huge fan of Theory of a Deadman but I've heard a lot of their music and it would be fun.
I got my braces changed for the last time today (all of those people who know me and are saying "Ari has braces?!" to themselves, curse you!!! I've heard that so many times from people that I've known for at least two years- it's not my fault my mouth doesn't open a huge amount when I talk/mumble >_<) I get them off on April 21. Or 20th. I can't remember. Either way, I'm happy.
So my dad's in Mexico. Found out he was leaving yesterday =S It's for some sort of meeting conference thingy, and he's gone for a week (and now I have no one to drive me to choir on Sunday. Convenient). Hm... I wonder if he has a passport o.O
~Ari

"Bringing me down, its too quiet to breathe, Who wants to hear their heart beat?"

~Do I want to, with all that charm? Do I want you? Twist my arm~

2005-03-30T19:00:00.001-08:00

Ah yes, the joys of Road Apples. Finally bought the cd ^-^ I also bought a Beatles cd (it's the one with the 1 on it) and another hip cd- my mom won't give them to me until my birthday though... :(
Today was fun- me and nicole went to dairy queen and bought sundaes. Then we sat in a huge booth that could fit about 10 people (it made us feel special). Now, I don't want to sound like an overly hormonal girl, but a really hot guy walked in. he was wearing a leather jacket and I love him. We named him Johnny and he ate a double cheeseburger. I'm going to write a poem about him for english (we have to write a poem that describes a person... not sure why.)
Kas is going to move to Tisdale for the summer for her job. Ah, Tisdale, the Land of Rape and Honey (I'm serious. Look it up.) I guess that's what she gets for forcing me to watch Legends of the Fall with her. I have to go soon and watch it... ugh.
Here's a link to me and nicole's site: http://www.anothermidnight.9k.com/
It's a site for our movies... enjoy and be afraid. Be very afraid. I'm warning you now that some of that stuff is REALLY odd. And what's more pathetic is that we actually made/are making the movies that are mentioned =P
Anywho, I have to go watch that movie. Bye.
~Ari

"2.50 for a decade, And a buck and a half for a year... Happy hour is here..."

My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in...

2005-03-29T12:02:00.000-08:00

...New Orleans is sinking man, and I don't wanna swim
Yes, I'm listening to Up to Here. I'm really bored... =( Kas just called a little while ago, she's going to some interview downtown. She explained it a little more but I wasn't really listening '^^ My mom's supposed to be coming back from the lake today -_- She was supposed to stay until tomorrow but the heater isn't working (heheheh...) I dunno, she hasn't called; maybe she's decided to stay another night. It's not that cold so I guess there's a possibility.
Oooh 38 Years Old, what a depressing song. I think it's time for a quick Hip fact =O Did you know that whenever The Tragically Hip performed the song '38 years old' many people actually apologized to Mr. Downie about what happened to his brother (read the lyrics to the song, you'll understand). It was too bad only the first two lines of the song were true and the rest was made up =P There. Now you learned something today.
Justin's sick, he has a really bad cough/cold. I'm supposed to tell him to go to the doctor if he feels worse. Pretty much everyone's been sick this last while (I think I started it actually '^^)
Nicole just called, she's going to come over. Hurray. My social life these last couple days have consisted of this computer and my guitar ;_; Oh, and my family of course. But they don't count =P
I finished the book Jane Eyre. Veeeeeeeerry good book. I'd read it again if it wasn't 500 freakin pages long.... This iced tea that I'm drinking right now is pretty disgusting. It has so much sugar in it, my taste buds are dying and I now have diabeties.
Last night I felt kind of bad, Joe wanted to go to bed around 10:30 because he had school today and he had a bit of a headache. But I told him to watch a bit of Jay Leno with me and he ended up staying up until midnight. We watched a mix of Leno, Conan O'Brien, South Park, and Iron Chef. Iron Chef is the best show EVER. It's originally a japanese show and it's hilarious. Even Joe liked it and he hates cooking shows.
Well, I should go upstairs to wait for Nicole.
~Ari

"Sometimes I fell so good I gotta scream, She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean, She said, she said, I swear to god she said..."

Happy Easter

2005-03-27T12:31:00.000-08:00

I slept in this morning until 10:30. I'm very proud and a little shocked- I didn't stay up late last night at all. I was in bed by about midnight after drawing for an hour and a half. I tend to get inspired around 11ish, not sure why.
This morning my parents hid a bunch of chocolate for us to find. As kidish as that sounds, it was really hard to find- took us about a half hour (or longer) to find everything. My dad kept on giving us hints as of where to look and my mom kept getting really pissed... it was funny.
Last night me and kas rented Finding Neverland (damn we've been watching too many movies lately). Me, her, and Joe watched it and it was really good. But you know what's even better?! Gerard Butler's in a new movie!!!!!!!!! Yay!!! It's called Dear Frankie and I want to watch it so bad!! It was great- we were watching the preview last night and then suddenly my sister started said "It's Phantom!!" and then we started screaming like a couple of seventh graders who a hot guy had happened to said hi to. Joe thought we were being murdered. We watched the preview four times. But there's bad news- Dear Frankie's a foreign movie so it's not coming to theatres here, only in bigger cities =( But that's not going to stop us!! Me and Kas are going to Montreal to see it =P yeah, I wish...
Wow. I just noticed how off this clock is. And how boring this post is. Blah.
Well, Happy Easter to all who celebrate it and Happy Day Off to all who don't.
~Ari

"Open up your mind, Let your fantasies unwind, In this darkness which you know you cannot fight: The darkness of the Music of the Night..."

It's a lazy/boring day

2005-03-26T11:20:00.000-08:00

I've done close to nothing today. So far. And I'm not exactly planning on doing much. My friend Lee-Anne called me earlier, and we had a 36 minute conversation (my phone has a timer =P). She told me that she bought the Hip cd 'Road Apples'. I've been meaning to buy that cd for the past month but have never really gotten to it... maybe I'll buy it this week if I don't spend my money on anything else.
Me and Kas didn't go to a movie last night- we rented First Daughter instead. It was okay, I've seen better. The ending was pretty lame but I liked the surprise in the middle (which I had actually read about at some point but completely forgot about).
I've been reading a lot lately (which is a real shock). I finished Phantom of the Opera a little while ago (great book! Not as good as the musical but the ending still made me cry). Right now I'm reading Jane Eyre since I've decided to start reading classic literature books (PotO started it). I like it a lot but sometimes I don't know what's going on because the big words are confusing (I'm kind of stupid =P). And the English lingo doesn't help. And Mr. Rochester kind of scares me. But other than that it's a good book ^-^
I'm going to keep this short, I've noticed that my past two entries are too long due to my lack of having a life. btw- I also added a link to Breanne's log (she's my cousin) and Allison's log (my choir friend=P). Go take a look ^_^
~Ari

"The mystery's met, the sky looks threatened heading home in the dusk..."

Sure as hell hope I'm doing this right

2005-03-25T13:19:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I don't really know what's going on right now, I'm kind of tired. I went to Nicole's last night for a sleepover- lots of fun. We got pretty hyper and ended up making rice and toast at 1am since all we had for supper was strawberry daiquiris and puff wheat cake. The rice was good. ^-^ We watched the movies Bridget Jones 2 and Men with Brooms. Bridget Jones2 is a great movie, I think I like it more than the first. Men with Brooms was... interesting. It had the Tragically Hip on it so that made me happy (even though their cameo lasted for only 3 seconds =P).
Not sure why I like the Hip so much. They're really old and... well, old. Me and Nicole are currently going through an obsession with them. I think their music is really good, it's abnormal rock... Too bad my obsession started about 2 months after they had a concert here *kicks self repeatedly*
My sister picked me up from N's house a little while ago and took me to Centre mall for a bit. Justin had to go there for some reason... I need new clothes but I didn't find anything. Maybe it's because the stores at Centre suck ass or maybe I'm just picky. We went to Werehouse 1 after that and I happened to find a shirt that I like =O!! Real shocker. The only problem is it's one of those stupid ad shirts... oh well, what can you do. I'll just go around advertising for a non existent rock concert (I know Yuki'll love that =P)
Oooh I forgot to mention the incredible omelette that me and N cooked this morning (yes, I'm going to start calling Nicole N because I'm too fucking lazy to write out her whole name...) Actually we made 2. The first one didn't turn out and we ended up throwing it out. The next one turned out really good (after about 5 minutes of trying to figure out how to flip it) but I think we should've used a bigger pan. In the end the omelette turned out more like a sandwich and we called it Mr. Omelette because we enjoy randomly naming things. I think we should have our own cooking show. No... Richard and Victor should have their own cooking show (maybe I should explain that Richard and Victor are the two characters from our movies. I'm Richard and N's Victor).
Wow. I can't believe I wrote a whole fucking paragraph on a freakin omelette. How sad.
Me and Kass are planning on going to see a movie tonight, we're thinking of going to In Good Company (at least I think that's what it's called...)
~Ari

"The night's so long it hurts, my music at work, my music at work..."

Hello my darlings

2005-03-23T19:27:00.000-08:00

Well. Don't expect this to last long. ... That wasn't a very nice note to start on, was it? =( I'm sorry, I'm kind of in a bad mood. I just got back from choir where we sang 'We Rise Again' for a whole hour. Well, I guess that's better than Holy City where the director expects us to use our "personality" as we walk on stage... I have no personality and yet she doesn't seem to understand that. In case you're wondering I'm in the Saskatoon Children's Choir, a very demanding choir that expects 90% of my life to revolve around it. But I still love it ^-^ They're taking me to Hong Kong this summer to for Songbridge =O Don't we feel special.
Anywho, off the wonderfully interesting topic of choir which I'm sure you love. But we have to change the topic at some point. (sarcasm, must hold back on the sarcasm >_<) Whoa. I told my sister that I was making a blog and suddenly dan knows and two seconds later Axem knows. Word gets around fast on msn =S
... We rise agaaaiin! In the voices of our chiiildreen!! Goddamn choir.
Tomorrow night me and Nicole are going to have a movie night/margarita night where we get super hyper and write scripts to our movies. We're going to rent Men with Brooms. Not sure why, but hopefully it'll be funny. When I get hyper I usually find unfunny things funny like basketballs on TD Waterhouse commercials.... Hee hee... It never stopped bouncing. You know what's a great commercial?! The one with the half naked british guys running down the streets to the airport because we stole their clothes. Of course it would be better if it showed people actually jumping the guys and taking off their clothes but one can't have everything in life, can they?
Hm. I got kind of off topic, I was going to mention that me and Nicole are great movie producers. Actually we don't make movies. The things we make are more like TV shows. But they're great, with all the cross dressers, Tragically Hipness, and what not.
School was crappy today. Reeeeeal crappy. Actually, it wasn't that crappy. I just like to exagerate. Like Yuki. She cried about her burn for five years. The band teacher's in love with her and he also enjoys stalking me. He enjoys telling us band jokes by the light of the coke machine.
Oh no... I'm using too many insiders. That just gets annoying for the people reading who don't get them. Or maybe they enjoy it, hell if I know.
I love Phantom. He loves me. He lives in my pantry and one day we'll run off and get married and he'll sing to me every night. It'll be great.
Phantom of the Opera's a great movie, everyone should see it. That means you >_> Go see it now. Oh wait, it left Rainbow Cinemas to be replaced by Are we There Yet! Gah!! The world is really a horrible place when Phantom of the Opera is replaced with a movie like THAT ;_; I'm going to go make out with Phantom so I can feel better.
I should actually go... I've been ranting for a long time and I'm getting bored with myself. Me and Kass are going to try and make fruit spritzers =O aren't we cool.
~Ari

"I drove down your road to Hazeldean where I tasted your funeral home sandwhiches...AND COFFEE! I watched your hands melt into one another, watched you greive and grow, CARE A LOT ABOUT ONE ANOTHER!" <--- Just a little quote for you to live by =P