why do people customize license plates?
do they not see how stupid and unnecessary it is?

Interesting Read:

Are Millenials the Screwed Generation?

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.

PEDE '12

Stampede is a great time of year.
Stampede is also a terrifying time of year.

Great time:

• Hot guys dressed in plaid. 
• Chocolate covered cheesecake. 
• Real cowboys. 
• Fireworks
• Rodeo/Chuckwagons for sports highlights every night.
• Country music EVERYWHERE.
• Everyone having a good time.
• Cowboy boots and cowboy hats. 
• WINE GARDEN. 

Terrifying time:

• Girls wearing clothes that do not fit them. 
• Thugs everywhere.
• Creepy guys EVERYWHERE. 
• Unwanted groping.
• Crowds.
• Smell of sweat and deep fryer. 
• 1,000,000 degrees outside. 
• Hundreds of "Punk"/"Emo" kids at Simple Plan concert.  
• Drunk teeny boppers everywhere. 
• Angry/Heat exhausted parents. 
• Crazy/weird people (especially after approx. 8pm)

The most beautiful thing is to see the person you love smiling and knowing that you are the reason behind it.

The Most Important Thing:

Laughter.

Protect her like a daughter, love her like a wife, and respect her like your mother.

People inevitably want you more when you find someone.
Don't sacrifice what you have - they missed their chance.

I had my interview with the school board yesterday. Totally aced it. Can't wait to hear back in the next few weeks!

And my boyfriend is absolutely amazing. Spending the entire day making sure that everything was perfect for me so that I could focus on my interview and nothing else. I hope every woman out there is as lucky as me. 

Guess What?!

No more long distance! <3

Mini Vacay

Last week I was able to travel to Saskatchewan to visit J's grandmother. What a great experience. I have only ever been out that way once before, for a soccer tournament when I was 16.

Here are some of the main points of the trip:

• Saskatchewan is seriously flat. 
• The drive is SO boring. And looong. 
• We stayed in an old folks home. I had no idea you could even do that! 
• J's grandmother is one of the most precious people I have ever met. She is in her 90s and still has a good head on her shoulders. I am so happy to have been given the opportunity to have met her. 
• I went out to J's farm - it was so beautiful. The house was built in 1905 and they had a bunch of old barns and tractors. 
• I got to shoot a gun for the first time! I shot a giant shot gun that had a bitch of a recoil. It slipped when I pulled the trigger and actually hit my bicep, not my shoulder. My arm instantly went numb and I had a giant bruise. 
• I then got to shoot a rifle which was soo easy in comparison. 
• I GOT TO DRIVE A TRACTOR! A FUCKING TRACTOR! 
• Some of the trees on J's farm were hit by lightening and we charred all the way up. So neat. 
• Small town people are SO friendly. 
• We rented a canoe and J took me around the lake in it.
• I am so country! 
• But not actually. My boyfriend is though. 
• I had such a great time <3
• Then we came back to Calgary to see all the fake cowboys and cowgirls that were out for Stampede. 

Welcome to Saskatchewan...

An intelligent person does not need the promise of heaven to see the merit in good deeds.

LOVE & REPEAT

staying the whole night through
feels so good to be with you.

Movie Review: Magic Mike

Too much plot line, not enough stripping.

I hate Matthew McConaughey but he does have a pretty nice body. 

Oh and Joe Manganiello definitely needed more onscreen stripping time. Without a doubt.

Love hard when there is love to be had.

I went to a junk yard yesterday. It was an absolutely terrifying place.
I was definitely the cleanest thing to ever walk in those doors.

Things To Do This Summer:

• Finish the basement renovation and move down there (next week!!!!)
• Go to the Glenbow Museum. 
• Spend time in Red Deer with J's family. 
• STAMPEDE
• Go to Edmonton to see the Sam Steele collection exhibit at Enterprise Square. 
• Get hired for a teaching job for September.
• Go to Edmonton to visit my brooo. 
• Go horseback riding with L. 
• Take my boyfriend riding (hehe)
• Spend a weekend in Banff.
• Go camping (at least two more times)
• Go white water rafting with V. 
• Go rafting down the Bow.
• Write more of my book.

And of course the typical shit. Actually go outside into the sun to get some vitamin d on my pasty skin and get into some serious shape. 

This list seems expensive. I should probably get a job soon to pay for all this shit. laaaame.

For the past two nights I have had dreams in which people I love have died.

I feel like I need a serious psychiatric evaluation.

love waking up with no commitments for the day and lounging in bed all morning.

Men think its a woman's dream to find the perfect man...
Every woman's dream is to eat anything without getting fat.

You

Its hard to me to comprehend that there is somebody out there that loves me as much as you do.
Its such a new feeling for me.
How did I get so lucky?

AMERICA FTL

Had the most amazing night last night with my bff

V, I'm so glad I found a best friend who is just as much of a dork as I am.
There is definitely a reason as to why we've been best friends since grade seven. 
Love you girl.

i got a voicemail message the other day that went something like this...

"I went to Sobeys the other day which made me think of you. I was shopping for melons which made me think of your melons. I miss you. Give me a call back sometime."

I don't even know what to make of this.

awkward dancing shirtless abercrombie models

definitely okay with me.

"We're Volatile"

vol·a·tile

Adjective:	(of a substance) Easily evaporated at normal temperatures.
Noun:	A volatile substance.
Synonyms:	changeable - fickle - inconstant Google dictionary

repeat.

YES PLEASE

I don't know what I did to earn a love like this, 

but baby I must be doin' something right

Making our little getaway

currently renovating the basement and FML.

I am literally washing the walls. with a sponge. and a bucket.
Not the floor... THE WALLS.

This is after I spent the entire day cooking meals and cleaning. 
I feel like Cinderella.
But before she met Prince Charming. Y'know, when she was like a servant.

Can't wait for how great it is going to look once its done!

family > money

The most random interview ever.

I feel like I need to go to an interview wearing a shirt like this. Or something similar.

I mentioned yesterday that I had a group interview today.
It was the most random two hours of my life.

A girl's boob popped out mid-interview, during one of our group discussions. Like, I saw her nipple.
I think its fair to suggest that it was a little inappropriate. There is a good chance she won't be getting the position.

In one part I had to go out to the learning floor and facilitate with kids.
One of the dads hit on me. He was wearing a wedding ring and was with his two daughters. Douche.
One of the interviewer observers (who was assessing me at the time) just stood there, shook her head, and walked away. 

Finally, if you ever feel bad about an interview that didn't go well, at least you didn't answer a question saying that you would go to the morgue. THE MORGUE. I told her that if I could go anywhere to learn more about the human body then I would go to the MORGUE. Holy fuck. The lady probably thinks I'm a fucking psychopath.  FML.

How is this my life right now?

I have a group interview tomorrow for my summer job.

Group interview? WTF does that even mean?

Why is it necessary!?

I also have to bring in an item that represents my personality.
I sincerely hope that everyone else's objects suck as much as mine does.

Went to the zoo yesterday

• Penguins are the most amazing animals ever. 
• I sort've want one as a pet. 
• Except for their poop. That was disgusting. 
• They sort've smell too. 
• They are fricken cute though. 
• I saw a spider monkey swinging around with his wiener out. It was traumatizing. 
• I also saw a gorilla running around with a potato sack on its head. 
• Besides the penguins, the butterfly conservatory was my absolute favourite. So beautiful. 
• Overall a perfect day with the man I love.

I love you, dad.

A father is his daughter's first love and his son's first hero.

OMG HUGH JACKMAN

That is all.

the completely mature way to deal with a long distance relationship.

• a day full of tears
• a giant bowl of ice cream
• a bottle of wine

I know that every time that you leave its only a "see you soon"
but I still hate saying goodbye.

I missed my dad before his surgery by TWO minutes. The lady at the desk said he must've been taken down as I was taking the elevator. :( FML

Happy thoughts for my dad for yet another surgery.

Happy Birthday to my big brother! <3

Happy thoughts for my daddy who's in hospital recovering after his surgery.
Love you papa, can't wait till you get outta there.

Why I Hate Calgary Sometimes

Hundreds of Greenview residents irate over hotel conversion to low income housing

This infuriates me. I am so sick of people making ignorant and discriminatory statements with little education regarding the issue. I'm sorry, but this is fucking ridiculous.

In case you don't want to read the entire article... essentially it is saying that community members are not happy with a proposal to turn a deserted hotel into a low-income housing development. Here are some of their statements regarding the issue:

 "How can I guarantee I am not going to find crack pipes in the park?"
"Can you guarantee my children are not going to see someone sucking on their pipe? These people will kill you for 40 dollars."
"We are going to have people peeing on our lawns"
People are also concerned about "property values, crime rates, drug and alcohol abuse and the screening process for potential renters".

People CLAPPED after these statements. 

Okay seriously... how the fuck can you even respond to something like this? These statements are ill-informed and utterly ridiculous. I'm so shocked that I can barely articulate a response.

K first off, low income housing is not a half-way house!
Low income housing is for the working-poor AKA people who can't afford the ridiculous amount of money it costs to rent in today's economy. A lot of the people are EDUCATED (something these residents don't appear to be) and are just having trouble finding employment. Many of these people have been laid off of high-paying jobs. They are average, hard-working people who have fallen on tough times and need a little help to get their foot back in the door.

Essentially, as of right now, it could be someone just like ME living there. Currently, as a recent graduate with debt, I could be living into one of these housing developments and I promise I would not be "smoking my pipe", killing your children for "40 dollars" or "peeing on your lawn". If someone has a PLACE TO LIVE they will be using the toilets in their HOME. This could be these people if they ever find themselves on tough times. What happens if spouses get laid off and they have to settle for a low-paying job? Try making 9 dollars an hour and living on that. They are working jobs that only offer minimum wage and therefore have difficulty in a city that has such a high cost of living.

I'm not even going to get into the "property values" argument. Fuck their property values, you're helping people find a place to live. You're helping people live better lives. The article states that there is a waiting list of 4,000 people who are waiting for affordable housing in Calgary. That's ridiculously high. These are just the people who have applied! Who know that it is even an option!

However, with ill-informed residents like these people, it sadly wouldn't be an option. Shit like this drives me up the wall. Please, for the love of God, educate yourself before you make yourself look like a total idiot.

not typically my jam

but today, i needed a song like this. 

We start with an hour and we find we waste the day
kicking back with the love we found.

the vow ftw

reference letter... y u no come in mail yet?!

At least this made my day a little bit better.

omg so SO cranky today.
I want to punch something.

I hate myself for having so much stuff.
My mom puts it nicely by saying that I `really like my things.`
In other words, I`m a hoarder.

My room needs serious decluttering. All my stuff from my apartment in Edmonton is stacked up in an entire room in the basement. No joke, the room is completely full of crap.

I need to seriously reorganize my life.