What an Adventure-filled Day

Words cannot truly describe the events of this day. Well, maybe they can. Let's start around 12am...I decide to make my way to bed after gettin off the phone with my bff in Winnipeg. I made it to the bed, but the sleep just wouldn't come. And so it began, another insomnia filled night where every hour I found myself looking at the clock and wondering why i wasn't yet asleep. Grr. Finally, around 5:30 I was like "God, i need AT LEAST 2 hours of sleep to function so PLEASE let me get some sleep" and around 6ish I must have fallen asleep cuz at 8am the alarm woke me up. Ugh. So I force myself out of bed at about 8:15 cuz I had soo much to do and soo little time to do it.

Flash forward a bit, I met up with one of my DG girls and we had a great time together and then headed to our final DG of the semester *tear* where we ate lunch at Blueberry Hill and just chilled. It was a lot of fun.

Then it's about 1pm and I should have been goin to class but skipped it and met up with the fabulous Barb to go over the events of the evening (532 Christmas Extravaganza) and we have a splendid time digressing and all of the above.

Ok, now is where the day gets interesting. During my other DG of the day, what sounded like a fire alarm starts goin off in the Student Centre. So we all kinda look at each other and look at the people outside of the room and none seem to be panicking or moving so we just kinda continue doing what we're doing. About 5 mins later or so, this lady from the Student Centre office comes in telling us that it is NOT a drill and we have to exit immediately. So we get herded out of the Student Centre where everyone kinda has no clue what's goin on and we just wait patiently/impatiently for the ok to get back in. That comes about 10 mins later and life resumes somewhat normal.

Flash forward again and we've got our FABULOUS 532 Christmas Extravaganza (party) which was incredible. I must say that Barb, my co-emcee was AMAZING. She is such a blessing to work with and I am soo happy that I do. We had a blast emcee-ing and switching it up (pictures to come). The games were tons of fun and the acts for the talent show were also just amazing lol (as you can tell, i'm running out of great words that don't make me sound nerdy); we had some singing, some instrumentals, some rap, some sign language, some improv and the judges from American Idol were there to judge (Simon - Terra, Paula - Steve S, Randy - Janette). Such a blast. I'd also like to thank my partner Nakita for singing Now Behold the Lamb with me (I hope she reads this).

Anywayz, this is quite lengthy and if you've made it this far, give yourself a pat on the back or a gold start or whatever tickles your fancy. Pictures and maybe more stories to come. Congrats to all the acts!

You know you're a psychologist when...

Wow, I feel nerdy just typing this. However, last night it happened. The dreadful occurrence I've always feared (well i acutally don't think I've ever thought about it...but yeah) So yeah I was sleeping and started dreaming of....PSYCHOLOGY. My goodness lol. I had this dream that some person was telling another person about Skinner's theory on reinforcement and they were telling it wrong and I was freaking out saying "NO YOU"RE WRONG YOU"RE WRONG" lol Sooo bizarre. I didn't wake up in a cold sweat or anything but yeah I woke up thinking...weird! Just another day in the life of Me.

What can you get for $20

A lot apparently. I went to Urban Planet after work yesterday cuz they had a 50% off sale items sale and thought I'd just look around and see if anything nice was there. Well I found a couple really nice dresses, $5 each, a t-shirt for like $5 and the most adorable purse for $3. It was quite the rewarding shopping trip. Now I can safely put myself aside and buy for family lol jk. I've started buying for family...it's weird, I'm gettin an early start on the presents this year. Maybe it's because I'm gettin home so late (Dec 20th) and so I won't have time to shop once I get home. It's a good thing though, buying ahead...avoiding the RUSH!

In other news, this weekend was fabulous! Went bowling with C4C peeps and friends. Cosmic (Glow) Bowling! It was soo much fun. I haven't gone bowling in so long and it was great. Saturday I unfortunately had to work but afterwards came home and watched a few movies with my cousins and aunts. We saw The Breakup (second time for me) and Phat Girls; they were both pretty funny. Sunday I had a massive migraine in the morning which kept me in bed for a few hours, then had to drag myself to work and later on watched The Last King of Scotland with my cousins, aunt and uncle. It's a really really good movie. The acting is really great, the subject matter interesting (the rise of Idi Amin) and it wasn't soo "Hollywood" (possibly because it was an independent British film). But yeah, I'd definitely suggest it.

Countdown to home, 24 days!!! Can't wait to get back and see all my fantastic friends and family (and caught in the rut of missing people here). I just can't win lol.

What to say?

Well i don't really have a lot to say. Life's been goin pretty much normally for the past little while. The Henna party went GREAT but i guess i'll make that its own separate blog. However, I hadn't really written anything in a while so I thought it'd be best that I say something. Maybe I'll leave you all with a quote:

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. - St. Augstine -

Retail...can we ever be friends?

The answer is maybe...

I'm actually enjoying Jacob a lot more this year than last. The staff are still AMAZING and the customers suprisingly enough are NOT wretched. There's the few who try to spoil the day but on the whole...MUCH improved. Perhaps it's because I only work 15 hours a week as opposed to the 25-30 i did last year so i'm not there as often...not too sure.

There's been a few incidents but nothing extremely worth mentioning except fot this one today. Kinda funny, kinda frustrating. So basically we have to let customers into the washroom because we keep them locked. So I put the key in the handle to unlock the door and i get it unlocked but the key is still in the door as the customer YANKS the door open (WITH my arm) and i'm like..."one second" and she's like "it's ok! it's ok!" and im thinking "not it's NOT ok because my hand it attached to the door that you're yanking open; the proper response is "sorry" where I then reply "it's ok" lol. So anywayz, my friend Annie tells me that happens to her all the time too so it's not only me. That's about as harsh as it's been besides the constant returns and the talkin on the phones...

But that...my friends...is another issue....another blog...

Awesomeness

Today as I was driving home from work I was singing Obsession by Delirious? in my car (I always tend to sing while driving) Anyway, that is besides the point. Well, I don't know why but today it hit me just how amazing music really truly is. And i don't mean like garbage that anyone just throws instruments together, but like great music. I know my main mode of worship is through like music and songs but I was overwhelmed today by the awesomeness of God as I listened to Obsession basically because there's points in the song where the music just gets sooo intense and soo incredible and you can just feel God's presence from the music alone, even the quieter parts. And then I got to thinking, how awesome is my God that He's provided us with music to be able to express the things which our voices and words alone just could never express. Just to experience the sublime (impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe) in respect to music just completely took my breath away. Thank you God

Am I not in Third Year?

Ok, so i'm sitting in tutorial and we're going through this BRUTAL analysis of Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth and by brutal i mean brutal. The TA would get us to read some lines of the poem and then she'd read it over and over asking us the most obvious questions. For example, one part of the poem talks of something having "no trivial influence" and she proceeds to tell us that the words in the poem can be hard to understand (she meant the word trivial) and then asked someone to explaiin it to the class, which this guy did quickly cuz he hates when she asks us pointless questions. So he says trivial means in some sense small. And she's like "Correct! and so he's talking about small influences". Then she's like and the word "no" in front of it, means the opposite. (OH MY GOODNESS!) lol The guy just looks at me with the most annoyed and incredulous look on his face lol and we start laughing cuz come on! Obviously it means "no small influence", I don't know why she had to point that out.

Later on in the lecture someone left the room and the door is automatically locked and so when they tried to come back to the room he had to knock to get in. And she's like "Oh I guess he can't get in" and everyone just looks at each other with a look of "Is she serious". I mean, if he's knocking on the door, it clearly means he can't get in. Ugh, it was Monday morning and I was clearly just not in the mood for being treated like a third grade student...maybe she's confused third year university with third year in school...

Oh body, how I love thee

For those who don't know me, I tend to hurt myself quite a bit. And it's not normally severe or anything, I've never broken any bones (although in many cases I wish that was the case). No, in my situations, I always manage to hurt myself in ways that are not easily fixed/healed and that require immense pain on my end. For example, one Christmas, on my way to a potluck, I fell down the steps in my garage with all body weight on my elbow. Did my elbow break? No it did not, apparently i just "bruised" the bone...an injury which resulted in pain for 2 years because, nothing could be done except take some pain killers and ice it.

Well...I've done it again. And I'm not talking about falling down the steps and hurting my elbow. But I am talkin about hurting myself in a way that is not easily fixed/healed and which requires immense pain on my end. While in Motivation (psyc) class, I felt the urge to sneeze...apparently my body was not prepared for this urge (which i will explain later). Anywayz, I'm feelin this urge so I go ahead and sneeze but try to be somewhat discreet which I guess meant that I was tryin to hold it in (BAD MOVE). So after the sneeze, I feel this horrendous pain in my right ribcage/lower abdomin and i'm like...great...what did i do now. Thankfully there was a break just around that time (cuz i had difficulties holding the pen to write the pages of notes) and I decided to give good ol nurse Mom a call and see what she thought. She told me to go get it checked out (cuz I perhaps cracked a rib....it happens). So I went.

After waiting an hour in the clinic at school the doctor finally sees me and does some checking and then tells me that no i'm not 90 years old and did not crack a lung, however, when I sneezed, my body did not send signals to my muscles indicating to them that I was about to sneeze and so they should therefore relax and expand and when i sneezed, i ended up ripping most of the muscles apart. Hurrah! So he tells me that (suprise suprise) there's nothing I can do for it except take some pain killers and perhaps ice it and avoid any sudden movements that will rip the remaining muscles (which are hanging by a thread). By sudden movements he means laughing, deep breathing...anything really.

So here I go again....pain for weeks with no relief in sight. Smart going body...smart going...maybe next time we can all be on the same page when a sneeze or yawn or even a blink occurs to prevent further pain for us all!