On Christmas

I'm currently addicted to Bejeweled right now, it's a problem.
Hedley's on the radio right now, I quite like Hedley, I also enjoy how Much Music blurs Jacob practically from head-to-toe when they have him around.
I put the Christmas tree up last Wednesday. I've been fidgeting with it since then, I'm a bit anal about the Christmas tree. I love Christmas, it's my favorite holiday, I don't do Halloween, Easter's surrounded by church, which is cool, and well Canada has no other holiday's that are super important( we could basically care less about Thanksgiving, no Black Friday for us) I love the perfect balance of God and family at Christmas. We don't do Santa, never have, never will(I personally think that it's the stupidest thing ever, lying to your children, seriously? I was one of those mean kids who told people Santa wasn't real) We affectionately call him Pagan-Clause around here. My family has an intense amount of traditions. ( is it too early for me to be writing a Christmas post?)
December 23rd is Grandpa's birthday so our family gathers at their apartment for cake and pre-Christmas excitement.( Miracle on 34th street is always on that night and I almost always miss it, It's one of my absolute favorites, I don't know why..I hate Santa)
Christmas Eve we go to my Nannies and Papa's for Santa bags( stockings basically, but in a bag.... full of socks, pens, lip gloss, useless cool junk) followed by opening our big presents and the boys building things out of Lego while us girls, there's only 3 of us, usually play a game or something/ Then we eat, lobster rolls and chicken nuggets and fries to be exact( maybe the best part of Christmas.) My family either goes to church before or after this.
Christmas day goes as follows, us children wake up, stay restlessly in bed until seven thirty then go wake mum and dad up, our chatters usually already woken them up. We sit even more restlessly by the tree waiting to open our stockings, we open them, bursting with energy. Screaming :look what I GOT!!!!" THANK YOU MUM, THANK YOU DAD!!!!" it goes like that. then we one by one open our presents(I go very slowly as to savour the moments) more thanking. We don't write lists, we suggest but Mom and Dad always surprise us with our presents, we never get what we ask for, We never have, but we always love what we get. I've never felt greedy or demanding around Christmas, I don't have a mile long list that needs to be filled. We've never gotten, Wii's PlayStation's, computers, or cameras, I like it this way, It makes me feel special.
Then we clean up and Grandma and Grandpa come over( dad's parents) we open presents, then we have a massive breakfast, with chocolate milk.
Later that day, at fluctuating times( depends on the year) we go back to Nannies and Papa's for Christmas dinner, followed by chocolate, cherry cheesecake, peanut butter balls, shortbread cookies.
Christmas night is movie night, we watch a Christmas movie or a new movie we got.
Boxing Day is Dad's family day. We gather eat, laugh, laugh, laugh. I love it,
Since we moved our schedule is a little out of whack. We have our Christmas morning a couple day's earlier. We spend time with the Carter's. It's still Christmas though. I'm smiling writing this :)
I'm going to write a run through of our favorite Christmas movies soon.

Extreme Blog Makeover

I have a new layout...if you didn't notice. It's from Hot Bloggity Blog. I love it. I need a new header now. I'm really sorry for not blogging for so long but I'm stupid okay....?
I just searched Bruce Springsteen on Mystery Google and got Chemistry...I love chemistry and Bruce Springsteen, I'm amused.
I shall post soon, and if I don't you can beat me up.

60ish things about me

1. I do this thing were I rub my index and middle finger together kind of like I'm playing an invisible piano. I do this when I'm walking.
2. John and Joan Cuzack are probably my favorite actors..I do love Johnny Depp and Ioan Gruffard and Morgan Freeman
3. I read about a book a week
4. I listen to an insane mix of music
5. my favorite musicians/bands are:Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton,Family Force 5,The White Stripes,REZ and Third Day6. I like to bake
7. I read EVERYTHING, I read for fun, if something with words is set before me I read it.
8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is my most favorite book in the whole world
9. when I see a movie I immediately IMDB it. then read every possible thing about it.
10. I love my hair
11. I love antiques, I own a 50's tin picnic hamper and an old secretaries desk. Also old houses I own none of those though...yet
12. I listen to old music, not because it makes me look retro, no because i love it.
13. I have a hard time sleeping with out music or Funny Bunny.
14. I love lists, top ten lists, countdowns etc.
15. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is my favorite movie of all time
16. I hated Transformers its one of the boringest movies I have ever seen
17. I think Juno's dad should have( proper English people) punched Paulie Bleeker at the end of the movie
18. The thought of Rome, King Arthur, goats or Clive Owens make me laugh
19. Leonard Cohen=Cutest old man ever
20.I have huge fear of rusty things, maybe because tetanus shots co-inside with rust. also getting poked with wires, broken light bulbs, and base boards
21. I'm obsessed with Weddings, everything to do with weddings. I read Weddingbee like crazy
22. I like the terms "beautiful insanity" " a perfect craziness" things of the like
23. Get Smart , Spinal Tapp, and Napoleon Dynamite, as does Elf make me laugh quiet a lot.
24. My favorite show is Criminal Minds...what?
25. I love science I love it.
26.Big beautiful trees are my favorite thing in the world, I love them more than chocolate
27.I have this unexplainable crush on Chris Farley..even though he's dead
29.I hate open floor plan houses, I think that the kitchen,dining room and living room should be separate.
30. People named Mitchell freak me out because I always think they're going to be like my Friend Mitchell but aren't
31. I love apple crates.
32. Delaney is one of the coolest people I know.
33. I believe in the magic of Uncle Terry
34. Lindsey, Jeremy and I once planned a double wedding for Mitchell and I and Jeremy and Lindsey
35. I hate Mexican and Chinese food.
36. I really really really times 4521906 hate soup.
37. I lost a friend once, but know through some kind of beautiful hope we found each other again
38. I'm probably going to have a Bon Jovi/ Springsteen wedding like people used to have Elvis weddings
39. I watch one TV show now, that's it, then I watch Fringe online but that doesn't count
40. my family watches Elf monthly, and then like 30 times at Christmas
41. I want a max of 5 kids
42. I wanna grow up and be a pharmacist
43.I think Home Schooling is a complete waste of time and stupid, I don't believe in it at all. We have public schooling for a reason.
44. Hymn books were invented so your hands don't fly around.
45. I hate writing essays
46. I think obsessing over stuff is retarded (ex. Twilight)
47.I love going to God Camp
48. Apples to Apples and I Got it are 2 of my favorite games, mainly because there are no rules.
49. Fair Trade is awesome
50. I have no clue when or where to use a comma,
51. I go to church every Sunday
52. My family can quote the movies we love for a long time
53. Remember the Titans is my 2nd favorite movie, but I don't like football.
54. When this guy at camp roasted a marshmallow for a counselor with standing smoke and crying I nearly cried too.
55. I really have no want to drive
56. Canada= pretty awesome
57. I make a mean brownie
58. I have 19 kids names I love
59. My iPods name is Janey, like " Crazy Janey and the Mission man were back in the alley trading hands" From Spirit in the Night by Bruce Springsteen
60. I want Morgan Freeman to narrate my life
61. I could go forever, but then what's the point of this blog?

Happy Birthday

Yesterday was Lindsey's 16th birthday, I meant to blog but it was my first day of school and I wasn't really feeling it(sorry)
Okay so I've known Lindsey since the exact same day I met Amy, that being the March of grade 5 sooo...2004? I'm pretty sure she hated me at the beginning( she gave me some pretty good stink eye) But know we're best friends. Lindsey's guided me through many a tough time, she's helped me soooo much. I can't ever thank her. We've had our share of fights but some how we stayed relatively close, which I'm glad for.
Lindsey is a grammar and book nerd. She's corrected a butt load of my English projects( which my mom has to correct now). She got me reading Twilight( By the way she's team Jacob). We have a book club, it's dissipated now.
I love her laugh, It makes me feel amazing. Her smile is like a super power.
Lindsey has a love of Hello Kitty, animal rights, the color green, the environment, and Keanu Reeves,that's just a few.
She writes, and pretty good too.
I'm using fragments.
She hates Star Trek.
she has a cat his name is Donovan, he's orange.
Her mom knits.
I'm the only one who will go to Homesense with her. She excepts my buying of giant sheep in a box.
when we go shopping she gives people dirty look when they ask her if she wants a bag.
Lindsey's a vegetarian, a VERY passionate one indeed.
We were bus buddies, it was fun, we were going to have a dance party but never did :(
We're pen pals
I could write forever about her but I shan't. This is one big HAPPY HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY to my one and only loyal reader.

Gone

I'm leaving for camp tomorrow9at 5:30 a.m.!!!!) so don't expect any posts, I'm in the middle of the woods, okay not really but there's trees without Internet or TV just old fashioned fun(whooooo) I will post about it when I get back.
Bye

A Thank You

A tiny bit of my childhood is tucked between these pages. The pages of Little House in the Big Woods. I can feel the covers tucked around me or the cool worn fabric of the couch I grew up on. I hear my moms reading voice. Even though I was only three or four she believed I would understand this book vastly above my level. And I did. I grew up being read to, being taught.
I'm a reader now. From the long hours of having the Little House and every picture book imaginably read to me. Teaching me to respect what is the past, to respect books, to love books. To find out what they hold. Thank You Laura Ingalls Wilder for shaping my life.

now this is cool

Probably the most amazing shirt ever, you should buy it for me from Busted Tees.

That is all.

Jem and the Holograms

Jem is my 80's cartoon obsession, thanks to Lindsey who got me hooked. I'm half way through the first season out of 4. Man I love it, even though it's completely stupid, and has crazy drama and Rios hair is purple? What? Still haven't figured that one out. Its truly truly outrageous. My mom can't stand it, my dad just hates all 80's pop music. After watching the first episode, which I admit is a bit um... over drawn mom said " that was the most painful 20 minutes of my life. Still it's really fun. I want all of their awesome 80's clothes, and to do my make-up like them.

Okay so the show focuses around a band called, you guessed it Jem and the Holograms. Jem is really Jerrica Benton owner of starlight house and starlight music who has a hologram cast over her to become Jem. Oh ya, and her boyfriend Rio( purple hair) loves her and Jem. Then theres a rival band who wants nothing better tan to finish off Jem and the Holograms called the Misfits( ya, even though there was already The Misfits were around when the show was created)

Jem and the Holograms=

Jem lead vocals

Shana Elmsford drums

Kimber Benton piano

Aja Leith either guitar or bass

I guess Carmen "Raya" Alonso is added later

I'm a Jem and girl and I've never been the same