Hey all!!!
Wow... can you believe it's 2010??? There's so much happening this year and I can barely wait for it all to begin!!!
Where to start? No doubt something eventful will happen in January other than exams. (please?)
Then February, the World comes to Canada!!! It's Vancouver 2010. And I don't care how much freaking homework I have, I'll be watching that TV. I'm so pumped. The curling's going to be EPIC this year!!! We've got some new people going, especially for women's, not the same old people all the time. AND there's also Casa Loma in February. The official start of 100th anniversary of Guiding in Canada celebration! And I get to be there!!!!
Then March. March. I can't freaking wait. I'm going to ITALY!!!! I think the trip might just make the entire year. And, plus, I'm bunking with Karlene and Toria! Woot! We're going to have soooooooooooooo much fun. Although, the thought of flying is still scaring the crap out of me.
April. Well, April's my birthday. That's about it. I can't think of anything else eventful about April. Except maybe catching up on sleep lost in the previous two months.
May, June, agonizingly painful school as I wait to finally BREAK FREE!!!
JULY! The world is coming to Canada again! This time for GM 2010. Guiding Mosaic in Guelph. It. Is. The. Singular. Best. Camp. Ever. Not only do you get to crazy insane "red-camp" things you wouldn't be able to do anywhere else, but you get to do crazy insane "red-camp" things with people from all over the world. And they're all coming here to celebrate Guiding in Canada. Isn't that incredible? And I get to spend the entire 10 day experience for the second time in my life with JENNIFER!!!! Girl, we are going to have WAY too much fun. And even if you're not coming back for a victory lap, there is no better way to kick it off before you leave for Uni. :'(
And then August. The usual, cottaging by the beach... twice, Sauble and Grand Bend. Curling camp back in Guelph again. And maybe a short trip somewhere closer to home. August is my time to kick back, gather up everything I've done in the last school year, and centre myself again, find that path again that keeps me fired through life after I've gotten lost in my crazy year. God I love August.
Then back to school in September. Grade 12. Wow. But I'm not thinking about it. I'm not sure what the new school year will bring, since it's sort of our own personal new year in this house. But I know I can expect a lot of Guidance counsellor badgering. Mr. H does not like the fact I want to stay for a victory lap. Too bad.
So that's the outlook for 2010. Doesn't it sound exciting? I don't think I've ever done so much in my ENTIRE life.
But to keep myself in check, I've decided that for the first time ever, I'm going to make one of those New years resolution lists. But, being a Taurus (yes, I believe in all that horoscope stuff), I'll desperately need your guy's help to keep to that list. Do you think you can help me do that?
OK. Here we go.
1. I know since things have gotten busy and crazy for me, I haven't been updating this blog the way I should be, regularly, and with my outlook on what's happening around me. So my first New Year's resolution is to update this blog regularly, as it happens over the course of my crazy year. My goal is to update at least once a week. (with the exception of when I go to Italy because I might not have Internet access there)
2. Next semester I'll be taking photography, which should help this one a bit. My passion for photography has also kind of been lost recently, so my goal is to link one picture I've taken with every post I make.
3. Dream Catcher. Now I know not all of you read it, and that's ok, but I've been "writing" it for over a year now and I only have 12 chapters. Which is kind of sad. So, I resolve to reach chapter 30 of Dream Catcher before the end of 2010, with the only exception being completing the novel before I reach 30 chapters.
4. To watch how much I do and make sure there's "me" time in there to watch Doctor Who or Friends or whatever I feel like doing. Because lately, work's been getting pushed aside in favour of "me" time.
5. To run/plan/organize/do one big world changing thing before the end of the year. We were watching Doctor Who the other night, and I kept seeing the Free the Children commercial for the 10 by 10 challenge. And I feel guilty that I can't think of 10 things I can do.
So that's my list. It might get added to, we'll see. But there's one more thing I want to ask you.
I had an idea to start a blog JUST for Dream Catcher. Now you can put your say in on the poll to the left, or you can comment below. Now you can all read DC wherever online you please, it's posted in all the places I can think of, but what I want to know is if you would like it if I posted the story into a blog as I write it, or have it as a special site where I can post updates, ideas, character sketches, tid bits, and fun stuff... or not have a blog for DC at all.
Ultimately, it's you who read it, not me, so I wanted to know if that sounded like a cool idea to those of you who read it.
Thanks guys for reading so much! Best of luck in 2010!
Read on, write on,
Amanda Out.
January 3, 2010
December 6, 2009
Dream Catcher
Hey all.
This is just a quick post to tell you all that DC Chapter 12 - Blood to Spill, Souls to Save is up. The death scene for all you who are waiting for it.
Links to all the sites are on the side at the top, you know which you like to read. Chapter 12 is up on both Fictionpress and Mibba.
The death scene didn't go as nicely as I would have liked, and there was not enough screaming or pain I thought. It felt a little weak, a little fake. Eli reacted a lot differently than she did with Nightmare. But I hope it was graphic enough. The person I got to read the death spcifically over told me to take out a whole bunch of adjectives because I was milking it WAY too much.
Either way, enjoy! And let me know what you think.
Read on Write on!
Amanda Out.
This is just a quick post to tell you all that DC Chapter 12 - Blood to Spill, Souls to Save is up. The death scene for all you who are waiting for it.
Links to all the sites are on the side at the top, you know which you like to read. Chapter 12 is up on both Fictionpress and Mibba.
The death scene didn't go as nicely as I would have liked, and there was not enough screaming or pain I thought. It felt a little weak, a little fake. Eli reacted a lot differently than she did with Nightmare. But I hope it was graphic enough. The person I got to read the death spcifically over told me to take out a whole bunch of adjectives because I was milking it WAY too much.
Either way, enjoy! And let me know what you think.
Read on Write on!
Amanda Out.
November 30, 2009
I'm surprised the world didn't implode
Hey all.
So normally for something like this, it just gets mentioned on the side under Epic Fail of the Day, but this was so monumental and so EPIC, it deserved its own post.
So basically, Saturaday night after the play, Karlene, Korky, Ania and I went to East Side Marios for the cast party. But all that us four could afford was one meal and water, but it worked nicely. Except for the epic fail part.
We all know Karlene, and we all know that when she talks about something with enthusiasm, she likes to use her hands to speak. And thus a glass of water was spilt all over the table and onto me.
So if this isn't enough of a fail, less than a half hour later, Ania proceeds to pose for a picture and spills a glass of water all over the table and all over Korky.
This is the ultimate example of an Epic fail that I have ever personally seen.
And thus, as you can no doubt assume, this fail deserves its own post.
Read on, Write on ladies and gentlemen.
Amanda Out.
So normally for something like this, it just gets mentioned on the side under Epic Fail of the Day, but this was so monumental and so EPIC, it deserved its own post.
So basically, Saturaday night after the play, Karlene, Korky, Ania and I went to East Side Marios for the cast party. But all that us four could afford was one meal and water, but it worked nicely. Except for the epic fail part.
We all know Karlene, and we all know that when she talks about something with enthusiasm, she likes to use her hands to speak. And thus a glass of water was spilt all over the table and onto me.
So if this isn't enough of a fail, less than a half hour later, Ania proceeds to pose for a picture and spills a glass of water all over the table and all over Korky.
This is the ultimate example of an Epic fail that I have ever personally seen.
And thus, as you can no doubt assume, this fail deserves its own post.
Read on, Write on ladies and gentlemen.
Amanda Out.
November 11, 2009
30 Random things from Niagara Falls conference
Hey all. So as you may have already heard, some interesting things happened whilst your SAC was visiting that natural wonder. So I thought I'd post a "30 things" list like I did for when I went to Ottawa. NOTE: Because I value my life, and I'm sure you do too, I cannot post some of the better things.
THE LIST.
1. Ian actually smiling. Enough Said.
2. Learning how to crawl out of a straight jacket. I wrote down the steps. See Below
3. Eating sushi, some of which looked questionable.
4. Then watching Becca, Andi and Ian dive into their Second squid. I ate a piece of the second one. It was better than the questionable stuff in my plate.
5. Walking from table to table of exhibitors and seeing that Me to We was selling t-shirts. Then getting a little too excited when I noticed they were selling the one I really wanted.
6. Singing and dancing to "Hey Baby," "Sweet Caroline," and "Walking on Sunshine"
7. Meeting a black motivational speaker that was actually like the "black person stereotype"
8. Craig Kielburger talking. Enough said. Actually, now that I think of it, just breathing and still running Free the Children and Me to We would be enough for me.
9. Falling asleep during the War Child speaker.
10. Ordering pizza to the hotel room with Ian, Jeff and Kim.
11. The fact that the delivery pizza guy looked like Jesus, except still living with his mum and playing too many video games.
12. Singing Girl Guide songs with Jennifer on the way back.
13. Eating those "Dippin' Dots" things for the first time. It really is the ice cream of the future.
14. Offering to write on the chart paper for a presenter who was presenting on memorization, then getting chided by him for writing too much stuff down instead of just remembering it.
15. Skipping along the falls walkway and taking pictures of it at midnight with Kim and Jenn, and singing and generally acting like a six year old. What? It was late. I was tired. Did I want to sleep? No.
16. FREE STUFF!
17. Talking about defibrillators with one of the exhibitors and how much school boards around us suck.
18. Taking the elevator, realizing it doesn't go up to the 22nd floor, and having to transfer. Transfer elevators.
19. NO PURPLE! Enough said.
20. High fives are banned, so we'll do ELBOWS!
21. Not being able to text in some places because the American towers were interfering.
22. Getting a button that said "Get a life" on it.
23. Aquiring an arcade token with Wolverine's face on it.
24. Watching a media presentation by much music, and laughing when a whole bunch of girls started to scream when new moon clips were being played.
25. Being really tempted to jump up and scream all on my lonesome when Spock, the New Captain Kirk, or Star Trek clips in general were played.
26. When the last Keynote speaker got some kid to get up on stage and call his mom on speakerphone.
27. Just shaking my head when looking at one of the girls' notes for the Free the Children presentation, and seeing the sides covered with "I Love Kielburger."
28. Still having no idea what I want to do to change the world.
29. Buying socks that say LEAD on the sides.
30. Best quotes:
"Reality is what we believe it to be"
"We are not born questioning our greatness"
"Where is the love?"
"Anyone can start a marathon. Only few can finish."
"People change people"
"You can't fly like an eagle if you hang around turkeys"
"Chase the dream, not the competition"
"If you really want something crazy enough, you'll do anything to make it work."
"Get paid to breathe"
"Don't stop just because people tell you it's impossible. The straight jacket was designed to be inescapable. Look what I just showed you how to do!"
"This is the power of We"
"Who's going to change the world? We are."
"We have the influence"
"Sometimes it's good to wear your heart on your sleeve."
And because I promised.
How to escape from a straight jacket
By: Scott Hammell, escape artist.
1. Dislocate both your shoulders.
2. Get your right hand on your left elbow.
3. Then get your right hand on your left shoulder.
4. Crawl your head under your right arm.
5. Now with loose hands, undo the croch strap.
6. Peel jacket up and over your head.
7. YOU HAVE ESCAPED.
Enjoy guys!
Read on! Write on!
Amanda Out.
THE LIST.
1. Ian actually smiling. Enough Said.
2. Learning how to crawl out of a straight jacket. I wrote down the steps. See Below
3. Eating sushi, some of which looked questionable.
4. Then watching Becca, Andi and Ian dive into their Second squid. I ate a piece of the second one. It was better than the questionable stuff in my plate.
5. Walking from table to table of exhibitors and seeing that Me to We was selling t-shirts. Then getting a little too excited when I noticed they were selling the one I really wanted.
6. Singing and dancing to "Hey Baby," "Sweet Caroline," and "Walking on Sunshine"
7. Meeting a black motivational speaker that was actually like the "black person stereotype"
8. Craig Kielburger talking. Enough said. Actually, now that I think of it, just breathing and still running Free the Children and Me to We would be enough for me.
9. Falling asleep during the War Child speaker.
10. Ordering pizza to the hotel room with Ian, Jeff and Kim.
11. The fact that the delivery pizza guy looked like Jesus, except still living with his mum and playing too many video games.
12. Singing Girl Guide songs with Jennifer on the way back.
13. Eating those "Dippin' Dots" things for the first time. It really is the ice cream of the future.
14. Offering to write on the chart paper for a presenter who was presenting on memorization, then getting chided by him for writing too much stuff down instead of just remembering it.
15. Skipping along the falls walkway and taking pictures of it at midnight with Kim and Jenn, and singing and generally acting like a six year old. What? It was late. I was tired. Did I want to sleep? No.
16. FREE STUFF!
17. Talking about defibrillators with one of the exhibitors and how much school boards around us suck.
18. Taking the elevator, realizing it doesn't go up to the 22nd floor, and having to transfer. Transfer elevators.
19. NO PURPLE! Enough said.
20. High fives are banned, so we'll do ELBOWS!
21. Not being able to text in some places because the American towers were interfering.
22. Getting a button that said "Get a life" on it.
23. Aquiring an arcade token with Wolverine's face on it.
24. Watching a media presentation by much music, and laughing when a whole bunch of girls started to scream when new moon clips were being played.
25. Being really tempted to jump up and scream all on my lonesome when Spock, the New Captain Kirk, or Star Trek clips in general were played.
26. When the last Keynote speaker got some kid to get up on stage and call his mom on speakerphone.
27. Just shaking my head when looking at one of the girls' notes for the Free the Children presentation, and seeing the sides covered with "I Love Kielburger."
28. Still having no idea what I want to do to change the world.
29. Buying socks that say LEAD on the sides.
30. Best quotes:
"Reality is what we believe it to be"
"We are not born questioning our greatness"
"Where is the love?"
"Anyone can start a marathon. Only few can finish."
"People change people"
"You can't fly like an eagle if you hang around turkeys"
"Chase the dream, not the competition"
"If you really want something crazy enough, you'll do anything to make it work."
"Get paid to breathe"
"Don't stop just because people tell you it's impossible. The straight jacket was designed to be inescapable. Look what I just showed you how to do!"
"This is the power of We"
"Who's going to change the world? We are."
"We have the influence"
"Sometimes it's good to wear your heart on your sleeve."
And because I promised.
How to escape from a straight jacket
By: Scott Hammell, escape artist.
1. Dislocate both your shoulders.
2. Get your right hand on your left elbow.
3. Then get your right hand on your left shoulder.
4. Crawl your head under your right arm.
5. Now with loose hands, undo the croch strap.
6. Peel jacket up and over your head.
7. YOU HAVE ESCAPED.
Enjoy guys!
Read on! Write on!
Amanda Out.
November 1, 2009
NaNo has Begun!!!
Hey all.
So... how was your guys' halloweens? I was stuck here... my mum had to drive my sis to Ingersoll, and I wasn't allowed to leave... Plus I wasn't feeling so great... I think I have the flu already.
Anyways, in case you haven't noticed yet, it's November the 1st. And that means...
NaNoWriMo HAS BEGUN!!!!! Welcome to insanity all who decided to join me. Anyways... I still don't really know what I'm going to write about, which probably isn't the greatest idea. I need to get out 1, 667 words today. I need a topic.
Plus um... I found out TODAY that throughout the month of November, our main floor is pretty much off limits because the kitchen is getting ripped out over the entire month...
We're living off of canned food and eggs the next month...
SOMEONE PLEASE... I am begging you... GET ME OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!!
I'm not sure how I'm gonna write under those conditions, but we'll see. I hope the renovators will enjoy my Beowulf reading out loud. I like reading poetry outloud. I do it wiht Shakespeare too... I think my parents might know Othello inside out and backwards now... haha.
OH! and to all my lovely Dream Catcher followers... If I do happen to get ahead, I may write the Trevor death chapter. But I have to get ahead first... Which means I need an idea...
Ideas guys???
Read on, write on, ladies and gentlemen.
Amanda Out.
So... how was your guys' halloweens? I was stuck here... my mum had to drive my sis to Ingersoll, and I wasn't allowed to leave... Plus I wasn't feeling so great... I think I have the flu already.
Anyways, in case you haven't noticed yet, it's November the 1st. And that means...
NaNoWriMo HAS BEGUN!!!!! Welcome to insanity all who decided to join me. Anyways... I still don't really know what I'm going to write about, which probably isn't the greatest idea. I need to get out 1, 667 words today. I need a topic.
Plus um... I found out TODAY that throughout the month of November, our main floor is pretty much off limits because the kitchen is getting ripped out over the entire month...
We're living off of canned food and eggs the next month...
SOMEONE PLEASE... I am begging you... GET ME OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!!
I'm not sure how I'm gonna write under those conditions, but we'll see. I hope the renovators will enjoy my Beowulf reading out loud. I like reading poetry outloud. I do it wiht Shakespeare too... I think my parents might know Othello inside out and backwards now... haha.
OH! and to all my lovely Dream Catcher followers... If I do happen to get ahead, I may write the Trevor death chapter. But I have to get ahead first... Which means I need an idea...
Ideas guys???
Read on, write on, ladies and gentlemen.
Amanda Out.
October 26, 2009
I need to know ASAP
Hey all.
So things/dates/times are rushing up fast and I need to know a few ASAP things from you guys.
Halloween for Hunger
The first is something I haven't even told you about yet, but still need to know ASAP if you want to come. After the FAITH conference, Alex mentioned wanting to do the Halloween for Hunger campaign, and I was like TOTALLY!!!!
So what Halloween for Hunger is is where, when you go out trick or treating, you collect cans instead of candy, and then donate the cans to a local food bank. Because we didn't plan this exremely in advance, we might not get cans from everyone, but that's ok. Oh and there's still the chance you might still get candy yourself. ;)
Now that that's clear, I would like to know who wants to come with us. The more hands we have, the easier it will be. Currently we have me, Jenn, Alex, and possibly Kayla and Jacquie (you don't know these people... well, Jenn does... don't worry! They're Guiding peoples so they're nice. XD) So... do you want to come help?
We haven't decided who's house/neighbourhood we're going to nail yet, but I think it's between my house and Jenn's... possibly Alex's (but she's close to Jenn). OH! and we're going to need a wagon or something to carry/pull the food. Personally, I think we should do my neighbourhood because I have lots of Old peoples near me and they are more inclined to give us food. haha.
JENN AND/OR ALEX: We need to decide who's house we're starting at and when, Kayla needs to know soon so she can tell Jacquie.
NaNoWriMo
So the other thing I need to know ASAP is who wants to do NaNoWriMo with me? I've decided that I'm going to sign up, even if I don't make the 50, 000 words. I plan on signing up either tomorrow or Wednesday after school. I know Jenn and Karlene said they'd do it with me... Anyone else want in? The reason I ask ASAP is because we need to sign up before Friday.
I think that's all I needed to know for now... I'll post something else if I remember... Check up regularly, especially those of you I don't see daily. BE IN THE KNOW! XD Like I have much facinating to say most days. But still, things like this may show up!
Read on write on, ladies and gentlemen.
Amanda Out.
So things/dates/times are rushing up fast and I need to know a few ASAP things from you guys.
Halloween for Hunger
The first is something I haven't even told you about yet, but still need to know ASAP if you want to come. After the FAITH conference, Alex mentioned wanting to do the Halloween for Hunger campaign, and I was like TOTALLY!!!!
So what Halloween for Hunger is is where, when you go out trick or treating, you collect cans instead of candy, and then donate the cans to a local food bank. Because we didn't plan this exremely in advance, we might not get cans from everyone, but that's ok. Oh and there's still the chance you might still get candy yourself. ;)
Now that that's clear, I would like to know who wants to come with us. The more hands we have, the easier it will be. Currently we have me, Jenn, Alex, and possibly Kayla and Jacquie (you don't know these people... well, Jenn does... don't worry! They're Guiding peoples so they're nice. XD) So... do you want to come help?
We haven't decided who's house/neighbourhood we're going to nail yet, but I think it's between my house and Jenn's... possibly Alex's (but she's close to Jenn). OH! and we're going to need a wagon or something to carry/pull the food. Personally, I think we should do my neighbourhood because I have lots of Old peoples near me and they are more inclined to give us food. haha.
JENN AND/OR ALEX: We need to decide who's house we're starting at and when, Kayla needs to know soon so she can tell Jacquie.
NaNoWriMo
So the other thing I need to know ASAP is who wants to do NaNoWriMo with me? I've decided that I'm going to sign up, even if I don't make the 50, 000 words. I plan on signing up either tomorrow or Wednesday after school. I know Jenn and Karlene said they'd do it with me... Anyone else want in? The reason I ask ASAP is because we need to sign up before Friday.
I think that's all I needed to know for now... I'll post something else if I remember... Check up regularly, especially those of you I don't see daily. BE IN THE KNOW! XD Like I have much facinating to say most days. But still, things like this may show up!
Read on write on, ladies and gentlemen.
Amanda Out.
October 25, 2009
I'm sorry... just too good...
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