the almost adult

moving...

2009-08-29T14:51:00.002-05:00

So lots has happened lately... I got a knew job, I got a cell phone, I've become a txtaholic and.... I'm MOVING OUT!! lol so my life and my room are both kind of in a disarray lol
Packing is ALOT of work and its just my stuff I can't even imagen moving a whole family!. I'm moving to Winkler with my friend we got a nice little appt thingy its got a washer and dryer and a dish washer oven stove and fridge they are newer apartments. I think its going to be LOTS of fun... I haven't typed in a while lol just txted... lol I forgot how fun typing is, but txting is awesome! Summers almost over and kids are going back to school and its kinda sinking in now that I wont be and its kind of sad actually but its a good thing I'm glad its over. I hope everyones summer was AMAZING mine was kinda cold and rainy but it was over all pretty good!

ITS SUMMER!!! ..... or is it?

2009-07-23T15:06:00.006-05:00

This weeks scavenger word is coming to you early due to that I'll be busy all weekend. The word is summer, easy right? WRONG! Summer is taking its slow time.
Summer is a time for:
Swimming and sandals

for soprts and ... other out door activities like sand and the beach!

but so far its just been windy cold and wet... lol well there have been quite a few cold days

some really hot ones but...... there you have it. this is what summer should be!

obsession

2009-07-18T13:18:00.007-05:00

so I haven't done this in a while.
Now I may have appeared to drop off the edge off the world for a while... I hadn't = (
lol I was busy! working babysitting working working no time for fun.
lol actually a little time for fun but not much.
AAAAAAAAAANYWHO, this looks very un-formal... kinda like my life right now. Grad was awesome now i need to work and do stuff lame i know but someone has to!
lol
Through my rollercoaster of obsessions there are 2 that are a constant... my music and my pictures... so here we go:

first my ipod

With 1763 songs
and 59 videos on it its a must have when going anywhere!
I have everything from Mozart to Madonna, Faith Hill to... i don't know
I have every kind of music on there though!

and I don't have a picture of my camera so I'll show you pictures that I've recently taken with it!

listening to my ipod lol you can see the haedphones

Grad

2009-06-23T10:43:00.006-05:00

So graduation is soon and guess who got the privilege of making the program cover... that's right yours truly(me)! I'll put a copy up here:

I can't wait until friday the closer it gets the more exciting it is! I got grad presents too!
From my parents I got : plates, cups, cutlery, and a microwave. Thank you for trying to tell me to move out nicely = P
From my aunts uncles and Grandma and Grandpa (the Weibe side) I got a 3 piece luggage set (its SUPER nice)and my grandma knit me a blanket too, I love you guys... I don't know if I'll get anything from the other side but we'll see... we haven't had a grad party for that side and I don't know if we will. They aren't into parties and presents and stuff. I love you too though! From Co-op I got $100 nice bonus Thanks. ( It pays my straightener lol) I still haven't decided what to get myself, I think a trip to Edmonton at Christmas would be a nice gift... but we'll see, don't give away the surprise though I want to be AMAZED! lol I love west Edmonton mall its awesome! Leticia, Ashley and I want to go there for a week over Christmas break and go swimming and to the theme park and stay at a hotel and since I'll be 18 I can get a hotel room with out my parents!! YAY! lol That's part of the reason we are waiting until Christmas! I can't wait! I hope we do actually go though and that this isn't just a dead plan to get us through half a year...= )

Quixotic

2009-06-22T10:28:00.004-05:00

Now for the explanation, I'm sorry if you don't get it, one of the definitions for quixotic was impulsive: tending to act on impulses, and who is more impulsive then children? (other then me) So I went out and got flowers and let Taran and Carlin play with them to see what they'd do... and then they ran into their moms garden and started picking flowers out of there and giving them to me... and blades of grass and sticks, lol they'll give me anything as long as I smile and say thank you to what ever they gave me last. SO CUTE! Then I set them up at the door and gave them to my mother because I love her. OOOOH and a warning, don't let your children run in stores, card racks lurk everywhere waiting to spring out at you at any given moment( that's why Carlin has a gash on his forehead, he was still my happiest child that day!) Anywho sorry its late.

WOW

2009-06-15T15:11:00.005-05:00

So once again the scavenger hunt has become a vocabulary challenge for me. Thia weeks word quixotic (that's a good speed scrabble word if I remember it!)chosen by NoRegrets. Thank you for once again expanding my views on words. AAAAAAAAAAny who I'm not going to lie when I saw that word I almost cried, what kind of crazy insane difficult word is that, who knows words like that. If I ever get to pick a word I'm going to randomly draw a card out of balderdash and put my finger on one of the words and as long as its not something boring meaning that's the word I'm going to pick! That's a fun game! So I went and consulted my handy dandy dictionary and here is what it told me " Quixotic means excessively romantic: tending to take a romanticized view of life, impractical: motivated by an idealism that overlooks practical considerations, impulsive: tending to act on impulses" and my other definition was, like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. I think I'm going to look for the novel that Don Quixote is in. I know EXACTLY what I want to do for this, if it turns out right this will be interesting if it doesn't work.... I don't know what I'll do. lol Do or die I guess!

Play

2009-06-12T11:55:00.006-05:00

My Family loves to play games!
Our favorite games are card or dice games that you can play quickly or with out taking turns. LOL. Leticia, Eric, and I like playing strategy games like clue, golf, and battleship. Our whole family likes to play speed scrabble, we also like games like Taboo and scatagories.

I like taking the boys:

and we go to the park and play!

more beautiful

2009-06-11T13:31:00.003-05:00

This is a beautiful song... sometimes... I and I think most other women feel like if we just lost weight or got the right hair cut buy the latest trends, do our make up a certain way or just change somehow, that we'd be perfect some one will notice us. I cried when I watched this video. One because I'm a big cry baby two because ti really spoke to me and I'm sure it can and will speak to many other girl and women. So please take the time to listen to it or read the lyrics or.... just think about it. Your beautiful and though I probably haven't/ wont see everyone who reads this... I mean that! Your perfect the way you are and its taken me a while to figure that out and I'm still working on it but its coming. (lyrics at the bottom)

More Beautiful You by Jonny Diaz

Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine
Says she wants to look that way
But her hair isn’t straight her body isn’t fake
And she’s always felt overweight

Well little girl fourteen I wish that you could see
That beauty is within your heart
And you were made with such care your skin your body and your hair
Are perfect just the way they are

There could never be a more beautiful you
Don’t buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you

Little girl twenty-one the things that you’ve already done
Anything to get ahead
And you say you’ve got a man but he’s got another plan
Only wants what you will do instead

Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come
You starve yourself to play the part
But I can promise you there’s a man whose love is true
And he’ll treat you like the jewel you are

So turn around you’re not too far
To back away be who you are
To change your path go another way
It’s not too late you can be saved
If you feel depressed with past regrets
The shameful nights hope to forget
Can disappear they can all be washed away
By the one who’s strong can right your wrongs
Can rid your fears dry all your tears
And change the way you look at this big world
He will take your dark distorted view
And with His light He will show you truth
And again you’ll see through the eyes of a little girl

Sign (ok so they aren't so good but it was fun!)

2009-06-05T15:05:00.010-05:00

Signs are a very useful part of society.
They give directions,they tell you where you are and where your going, they advertise and give you messages (Like gas is 99.9/leader), they warn you, you sing in and sign out.

But all signs communicate something!

WAAAAAAHAHA

2009-06-04T11:27:00.003-05:00

I am planing something truly awesome for the scavenger hunt. Sign! hehehe! hahaha! lol! ummm yeah I'm laughing. (insert laugh here). Yesterday was Toms final day on earth. Poor kitty didn't even know what was coming. I wonder what went through his mind in the final seconds... was it OH MY GOSH there is a bullet flying at me! or Now I can finally get away from those pesky dogs I hate so much. Did he see Molly waiting for him? Did he feel any pain? That is the main thing... as long as it didn't hurt. I miss him but I know it was for the better. NOW Theo on the other hand... my parents gave him away when I was working and they didn't even let me say goodbye or see who they were giving him to! Those people! lol I miss him too but in a way I'm glad we no longer have cats. Though if we get mice I'm going to go buy another one! mice are worse then cats!

why do i need a title?

2009-06-02T13:37:00.004-05:00

I'm running out of Titles, if that is even possible. Its because I really have no topics to talk about... yesterday was my last youth ever. I still don't know how I feel. Right now everything is so.... surreal. Like this can't be happening, the world as I currently know it is coming to an end, soon I will be an adult. My parents aren't helping either, not telling me important things , and they keep stressing all the expenses that I will have when I turn 18! Rent, Groceries, Bills, Car payments, Gas, clothes(which I buy now anyway), put away money for school, buying my DSLR(which I desperately need so I can start a portfolio so I can go to school). So much stuff to think about, I'll be off my dads health plan... so I have to pay my own dentist and optometrist and meds.I'm really not looking forward to it! I can't wait to Graduate but right when I do the pressures of the world will crash onto me... I think I'm gonna cry at grad. DEFINITELY!

Last weeks word was rambunctious, and I had NO IDEA what/ who to feature. most of my family and pets are loud, annoying, and/or hard to control (including me). So I had a hard time, and in the end I decided I'll wait until next week. we'll see if I can do better. Though I am PRETTY sure I can do better then nothing so it shouldn't be to hard!

May 31 my aunt had a bouncing baby boy named Rustle Elijah, lol his next youngest sibling is... 11 I think, poor kid. She's planing on having another one though so he isn't lonely. I don't think he will be lonely anyway. He will be my cousin Tiffanys baby and she wont leave him alone for a second. She's 15(almost 16) and she's wanted 21 children since.... for as long as I can remember. She'd always list them names she wanted for them but I would zone out so... that never got very far. It wasn't my fault though! 21 Children with 3 names each!! That's 63 names to listen to!! (I didn't even use a calculator for that one! lol) CONGRATS AUNTY LISA, I love you, and am glad everything went smoothly.

I got my calculus mark today.... not the final mark, I hope its higher then that, but right now I'm at 89%. That's just because of the HORRIBLE mark I got on my last test. 34/48... =( stupid sandwich theorem! I got home and I was like OOOOO YEAH the sandwich theorem! Thats where the final number has to be between the 2 limits! like 1<5,>

Fire drill!

So I'm in school right now and we JUST had a fire drill! the whole school had to go out side and ... oooo its pointless. This was probably my last fire drill ever =( awe! lol and YES!!! MY LAST FIRE DRILL EVER!!lol Well thats it for today!

HAPPY TUESDAY EVERYBODY!!

Sabastian's Voodoo

2009-05-27T11:36:00.003-05:00

If you want to see a beautiful Video check this out:

Director: Joaquin Baldwin
Running Time: 4'06
Country: U.S.A.
Category: Drama

A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

Joaquin Baldwin is an Annie Award nominee director and animator from Paraguay. Living in Los Angeles, he is now finishing his MFA in animation at UCLA. He has received over 50 international awards for his animated films Sebastian's Voodoo and Papiroflexia, and also several grants including the Jack Kent Cooke full Graduate Scholarship in 2006.

Its beautiful and amazing! So sweet!

Grown

2009-05-26T11:23:00.005-05:00

I was thinking about the word grow for the scavenger hunt.
When I was pondering this word I thought of 2 things:
how nicely the flowers have grown through the frost and flooding
and how my cats have grown up and grown old.
So my pictures for May 23 are of:
the flowers beside my house
Theo on one of the first days we got him
and Tom and Theo last fall (before the never ending snow we were cursed with!)

They look so grown up and I can't believe flowers can grow in Manitoba this year... our rhubarb is also ginormous! I don't really like rhubarb though... its good in cake and jam but. yuck!

Tuesday

2009-05-19T11:18:00.005-05:00

Today is tuesday for all you who didn't know that. It feels like it should be friday, I wish it was. Maybe I don't lol I don't know, this week wont be a very hard/ busy week but still... This morning when I was eating breakfast my mom came to me and was like,
"Jess I will be at school at 3 o'clock so be ready!"
"Ready for what?" I replied, clearly confused, partly due to the fact that it was 8 in the morning and also because I had no idea what she was saying or why she wanted to pick me up. She just stared at me probably thinking LORD help this poor child, because clearly I was loosing it. lol Not my fault I don't look at the calender! Anywho, so she tells me I have an optometrist appointment so we are leaving at 3 SHARP. lol

I LOVE the optometrist they have such interesting things to read on their walls! They even have a slide show about your eyes and how they focus light inside for you to watch while you wait and its cool. They show you what happens in your eye if your far sited, if your near sited, if you have an astigmatism, which I do have so... INTERESTING! I think that would be an easy job and it would be super fun! I love looking at peoples eyes... so pretty.

That's the first thing I look at/ notice when I meet someone their eyes and their teeth! lol That sounds kind of weird but its true. Its probably because I make eye contact when I talk to people. I hate it when people don't look at you when they talk to you. Its very annoying!

Now on to a slightly more exciting topic, I know its hard to beat the optometrist, but here we go! ROBERT PATTINSON! Mmm... sigh... LOL ok. So hes hot, hes famous, he acts and get this, HE SINGS. lol He says he is book for like the next year because he is composing music for a movie and hes making New Moon ( the second movie in the twilight series). He has some other movies out too How to Be and Little Ashes.

How to be is an indie film made in the UK. Its comedy and looks like it would be a GREAT movie. Its about a guy (Robert) who wants to be a musician but it isn't working to well for him, so he hires an author of a self help book to come and help him get his life together. The previews look really good!
lol I think I'm in a quarter life crisis. Wait how long does that mean I'll live... 68... only... hum that's to short lol ok I'm having a pre-quarter life crisis lol. ( I don't know what to do with my life after I graduate). Then there is the movie Little Ashes. Here he is an artist, Salvador Dali, and there is something about a war and I don't quite know whats going on but I think he's gay and... I don't quite know. I showed my art teacher this preveiw and she was like "Salvador Dali!!" and so she wants to see it because he was like a famous artist or something, but I don't really know (the only reason I'd want to see this movie is because of Robert Pattinson). HAPPY TUESDAY!!

Fishy

2009-05-14T11:27:00.009-05:00

This weeks word is AWESOME... well its not AWESOME its fish but that is AWESOME!

Fish are beautiful things... that taste disgusting unlike last weeks word, anyway it is perfect! Nothing dead this week... my fish are full of life! I LOVE the Zoo, and these pictures are from last years annual fathers day trip to the zoo! We've gone every year on Fathers day since.. like 7 or 8 years ago. I ALWAYS push to go because I love the zoo. All the animals and family bonding and the animals and the.... i don't know lol I just love the zoo! If that makes me a loser or immature so be it lol because I all ready knew I was! Any way here are my fish pictures from the Winnipeg Zoo. Those are real turtles and I even got some of the cast of Finding Nemo Nemo is hiding behind some coral reef plant stuff... I think it the enneminy or the plant he lives in.

I looked through all my zoo pictures and I miss the Zoo. =(
Anywho Enjoy! (remember to go to the zoo its AMAZING)

Well....

2009-05-13T12:00:00.003-05:00

Yesterday was my first day working... yay = ( lol. It went great, I already have some of the pluc numbers memorized! ( the numbers for the fruits and vegetables that you can't scan) Bananas are 4011 Kiwis are 4033 or 4053 bulk carrots are 1112 cut celery stalks are 1111 and .... I know some more but thats not very intresting. I helped some customers yesterday too! There are SOOOO many things to remember lol and I have to pack the bags too, WHILE I'm trying to remember to smile and not press the button to more the belt thingy with my leg and not to double scan and.... ask for the Co-op number and ... its CRAZY intense! lol I have another training day today and then I have an eight hour day by my self ( with someone ALWAYS at my till) on Saturday. SCARRY lol not really I think I'll do just fine...

MY IPOD WORKS AGAIN!! lol that was the bright spot of my whole week! I don't know if its because I put it in the freezer but its on again! lol (make sure its off if you're going to put it in the freezer)

Well thats it I guess! People should comment telling me if they get their milk put in a bag, because we have to ask and .... I don't see why people would want their milk in a bag ... maybe it doesn't really matter though

Here is a GREAT song/ video from Taylor Swift

Chicken!

2009-05-12T11:13:00.009-05:00

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
CHICKEN
lol
ok so here are my chicken pictures....

These two are from the Hutterites (its the same chicken) mmmmmmmmmmm

Then there are yummy chicken breasts, good for stir-fry!!!

and then chicken strips!

I was going to take a picture of real chickens, but I was to afraid of getting wood ticks. I know their out and their saliva has all sorts of diseases. Like lime disease and so I decided against it, but I do know people who have chickens... they are cool yet VERY evil creatures! Waaaahahahaha. That is why all my chicken is dead.

the definition of love

2009-05-07T09:55:00.003-05:00

This is a poem by Andrew Landon. It is kind of wordy and I think I could re wright it and make it better but then it wouldn't be mine and it wouldn't be his ... so it would be nothing I guess. It is really sweet and I hope my husband to be will some day read this ( if I get married) because its true. Even if you think this poem is written bad ( I don't but I know people who do) read it, please. There are some REALLY good lines and phrases it there!

THE DEFINITION OF LOVE
Love is a funny thing.
You expect it to be easy.
You expect it to be a world of roses
and laughs and perfect moments
that you find only in movies.

You expect her to
always say the right thing, and
always know exactly how you feel,
or exactly how to react to it.
You expect her to calm you down when you're yelling
or to chase you when you run away.

You expect so much
that you feel entirely, and utterly defeated
when something doesn't exactly match up to all your plans.

But that's the thing.
Love isn't a plan.
It doesn't have a certain beginning
and it certainly has no end,
or a visible finish line to those deeply in it.

Love happens;
it is so incredibly messy.
People around you can't comprehend
why you do the things you do,
or why you fight so hard
for something that seems to cause you so much pain.

Because simply, they can't see.
They can't see the invisible ring of insanity
that surrounds you when you're in love.
It's inconvenient
and painful
and devastating at times,
but we can't live without it.

What you don't learn is how hard love is.
How much work it takes.
How much of ourselves we have to put into it.
How it isn't worth it until we are complete and utter idiots about it.

Love isn't her calming you down when you yell.
It's her yelling, just as loud, just as hard,
right back at you, right in your face
to wake you up and to keep you grounded.

It isn't her or him bringing you roses everyday
or cute things that make your relationship appear more presentable.
It's right after a long fight,
that drains the life and bones right out of both of you,
and yet her or him showing up at your door the next morning anyway.

It's not her saying all the right things
or knowing exactly how to handle you.
So no, it's not her caressing your hair
and telling you everything is going to be okay.
It's her standing there,
admitting she's just as scared as you are.

You have to remember that with love,
you're not the only one involved.
You've unknowingly put your life, your heart
into the palm of an others hand and saying,
Here.
Do what you will.
Mash it into a million pieces, mash it into meat.
Or forget I ever handed it to you in the first place.
Just as long as you have it.

It makes reality invisible
and it erases all the lines
that we shouldn't cross.
Because love isn't about fencing ourselves in;
feeling safe,
feeling sure about the future.

It's about scaring the shit
out of every nerve in our body,
but pushing forward anyway.

Because all the fighting
and all the tears
and all the uncertainty
is worth it.
And it's a hell of a lot better,
than being 100% happy without someone to show us that
there is a world of a difference
between feeling 'happy'
and feeling whole.

SORRY

2009-05-07T09:41:00.004-05:00

So I haven't blogged in a while. I guess I've been a little busy, but nothing has happened. Lets see, I got a job at Co-Op as a cashier YAY! now my mom will stop bugging me lol and I'll get more then $5 an hour like i did for babysitting. Actually most times she gave me more any way... My beloved iPod drowned and so now its not working and that makes me want to cry... I always listen to my iPod... if you look at all the pictures I take of my self I'll be listening to my iPod probably 70% of the time. So this loss hit hard... I'm hoping it works when it drys out... you never know... I guess I'll keep you posted... I didn't do the scavenger hunt word UP. I did think about it though. There are SO many ways to use the word UP I didn't know how to choose what angle to go from. This weeks word is Chicken lol I wish I would have known that one day sooner... I would have taken a picture of supper yesterday... mmmmmmmmmmmm Chicken!! lol We buy Hutterite chicken its the best... lol they make good cheese too Mmm ;) lol Anyway that's it for now!

I got a job
I broke my iPod
I need to take a picture of chicken
lol
I summed my whole blog today into 3 lines!
(They probably would have fit on one though)

Expression

2009-04-27T11:52:00.012-05:00

First I'll write my rant then I'll put the pics in kind of in the order I mention them.

People express themselves in many way (Leticia said your eyebrows are an important part of your expressions) I personally you my BIG mouth to express myself... not always a good thing but that's what I do... but you can use almost anything music, dance, art, notes and even your clothing to express the way you think or feel.

my big mouth

My brother Eric doing a little jig before the bus comes (joyful probably)

(I didn't take this picture or make this but I like it and 3/4 isn't bad)

And this is Leticia, my "model" sister. lol showing off her fashion styling, thats how she expresses herself, with her clothes. ( Ashley doesn't really express herself so she is not featured in this blog)

The saturday scavenger hunt

2009-04-20T14:33:00.004-05:00

So thanks to Laura B. I get to pick the word for Saturday!! Since I love expressing my self and I'd love to see how others express themselves I've picked the word expression.

Confution

2009-04-20T13:17:00.003-05:00

SO today is Monday and I need to figure out what I'm going to do today. There is youth and Special Olympics. Now my friend has been asking me to come volunteer at Special O for ... 2 maybe 3 weeks and I haven't gone to Youth since... December, that is 3 and a half months (I think)but that doesn't matter. I really love Special O and I really miss youth. So what should I pick, now that dramas gone I got issues... lol so much free time so little to do. I think I need another new hobby or two... but I don't know what to do... what I could do... Maybe I'll take up running. lol "Fun" and "useful" lol I know my dog would LOVE it... I don't think I would, though I should. lol. I all ready read... maybe I should just read... that gets not fun fast though. I read a couple books super fast then can't read for a while. I need something that wont bore me after a month of doing it. I should REALLY try to learn a new language I've tried it before and I was doing good, then I just stopped trying and... well I think most people know how that ends. lol No new language for me. =( Its so hard if you don't have someone to speak it with or to encourage you to use your new found skill. I love Spanish, the language of LoooooVE. lol Well, what other hobbies could I have... maybe I'll start with the language and then add on as I get good, but I really should get a job... I have an interview... that's kind of exciting lets just hope I get it! Then I'd be a cashier... yay! Then me and Ashley can be rivals! lol Anyway... I need to make up my mind and decide what I'm going to do! =) Buenos nochos ... lol dias that means day right?? lol good night and day?? lol I did say I needed to brush up on my Spanish... lol or relearn it.

Fresh

2009-04-18T17:45:00.003-05:00

I'm going to keep this short and sweet.
I miss my FRESH fruit off my trees! ( and I can't wait until they grow again!)

Anywho.. I know the second picture of the choke cherries is blurry... sorry
I got to go act in the play now though so I am in a hurry...
I can't even remember if the word is FRESH but I think it is...

Tired

2009-04-17T08:45:00.004-05:00

I AM SOOOOOO TIRED! This week is the play week... lol so we're up late every night and that awful stage makeup!! ewww. lol I'm going to be one HUGE pimple face by the time this is over! Plays are so much fun! This year we are doing the play Charlotte's Web and even though it sounds childish its actually really funny and amusing to the adults to. We've heard nothing but good reports! I'm Mrs. Arable aka Ferns mom. So I have a pretty good sized part. I have the worst stage fright ever and feel really awkward when I'm on stage (It was worse last year)but people say they couldn't tell at all. lol So that is a good thing I guess, now that the plays almost done and we've done four shows, its getting easier to do. I have LOTS of pictures to put up so... look for those behind the scene photos!! lol Coming to a blog near you. More Later!

Ryan Leslie

2009-04-07T13:52:00.004-05:00

Today I was looking at videos on youtube. I saw a video to congratulate fred on 1,000,000 subscribers to his channel and so I looked to see if Fred actually had 1,000,000 subscribers... he doesn't... and so i looked at people who had subscribed to him, and saw this hotish guy so I went to see if he had any videos, and he only had on and it had no noise because he couldn't find his camera then I saw RyanLeslieTV and so I went to his channel and I was listening to his videos and I saw this one:

and I love the song lollipop so I listened and I think its AWESOME and he made it up on the spot and I think I'm going to have to see if I can listen to this DJ on line some where; DJ Green Lantern and the show is called The Invasion
and remember Ryan Leslie says:

"Keep in mind, I take my hat off to the true improvisational players out there. I've been around the world and seen some amazing piano/keyboard players. In fact - I've even hired a few of them to play with me at live shows or in sessions.

I taught myself to play by ear, and I was thankful I figured out the chords in time to get an arpeggio going. I posted this video to show that no matter your talent level - it's always important to give your all. People will respond as long as it's sincere."

lol
I like him!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEASY

2009-04-06T12:47:00.005-05:00

Well unlike past weeks I didn't need a dictionary for this weeks Scavenger hunt word! I didn't even have to look far for my inspiration. lol I love my cats... one day my family was going to go to a family get together at my aunts house so I went to check on my cats and when I go to the back I see this:

lol
This is my kitten. lol He is almost one and allreay picking up bad habits! So this made me realize my cats have an easy life. they get fed in bed and can sleep as much as they want... oo the life of a cat. I have some funny pictures of Theo for you.

lol like I said, he has got some bad habits but I love him any way. ( this was set up but he attacked me when I tried to take it away. lol it wasn't even open... my dad's had that beer for a while though, so I'm not sure if its even good.)

Spring break

2009-04-06T08:51:00.006-05:00

Hello all!
So I know I haven't written for a while..... and I have an excuse... it was spring break. I know "but Jessica that means you had more time to write and upload all sorts of interesting stuff!" lol well for those of you who still have not caught on I have a boring life and so that creates nothing interesting to write about. lol
I'll tell you about my spring break ... make sure your comfortable, because you may fall asleep... now where shall I start? I guess I'll start on Monday because thats when something sort of interesting happened. OK...

ON Monday:
I went to Grand Forks and I bought lots of clothes and i got the Twilight movie and I got the third book, Eclipse, it was LOTS of fun. I realized one thing though.... US money sucks. I hate all those 1 dollar bills... SOOOOOOOOOO annoying, but we had fun. the day after the road to and from Grand Forks from Canada was closed due to flooding... so thankfully we made it!

Tuesday:
On Tuseday I worked in the morning and I..... don't know what I did in the afternoon. Probably just watched TV ... It was snowing... yay! NOT! I'm so sick of the snow and slush and puddles and mud.

Wednesday:
I worked from 8 am - 5pm we set up a gazebo in Co-op and I learned how to use a talxon it was fun. Samantha and I also made a house plan if we would ever buy that building... it was interesting and fun. In the evening I babysat for Lisa... the kids are all sick YAY!!

Thursday:
On Thursday I working in the morning again and then Jessica came over and we played Balderdash, thats a super fun game. Its basically a whole bunch of weird NEVER used english words that you write definitions for. LOTS of fun. lol I learn lots of interesting things from that game.

Friday:
Well on Friday I didn't really do anything... I started reading Eclipse by Stephinie Meyers.... SOOOO GOOD!! lol I love Jacob... Edwards awesome too lol but Jake makes me smile... like REALLY smile lol WAY more then Edward dose... its SOOO GOOD! a MUST READ for all book lovers...lol maybe not all some people would find it VERY weird due to the fact that there are Vampires and Werewolves so.... lol if you not into that.. give it a try, keep an open mind, and remember most books start slow.. it might pick up and you'll love it!

Saturday:
I went bowling for my cousin Jessica's sweet 16. lol Lots of fun. we did theme bowling. For those of you that don't know what that is, you pick a style/ way of bowling and then everyone does it that way for a round. like granny bowling or backwards..... or bumper bowling or lying down.... lol and yes we had bumpers. our second game was seriouse but we still had the lowest scores of all the lanes. lol It was A LOT of fun though!

Sunday:
Church and.... nothing else... oooo I had drama practice. That was fun.. ish. I love drama but I can't wait until it is over! lol we all still had our lines memorized after 8 days of no practice so I think we'll do great. I can't wait!

That is pretty much my spring break. I was banned from the computer so I could do fun family activities. Once again I'm sorry for not writing ... lol no one missed it but still..... lol

Shenanigans

2009-03-23T11:58:00.010-05:00

The word of .... well last week now I guess... was shenanigans.
I had some trouble thinking of something to do for this one, but settled for a story...
well.... a story in pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words after all. lol
and I'm not vein taking pictures of my self... no one wanted to help me so ...
I guess I'll give you the definition of Shenanigans.

Websters
Main Entry:
she·nan·i·gan
Pronunciation:
\shə-ˈna-ni-gən\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
origin unknown
Date:
1855

1: a devious trick used especially for an underhand purpose

and dictionary.com
1. Usually, shenanigans.
a. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans.
b. deceit; trickery.
2. a mischievous or deceitful trick, practice, etc.

like I said I was having a hard time finding motovation with this one... when i got into it it was fun
but... I hope everyone else likes it... and if you don't get it ... its ok
lol
I don't think i quite get it any more.... my dictionary said treachery and treachery is a willing betrayal
so enough talking... here you go!!

THE END

(P.S. I'm alive and well, this was a staged Shenanigan)
Thank you for viewing and possibly reading my ramblings!!
ooo and I want to make a video with those pictures in it (and others I took that day) So keep your eyes out for that!!
and yes this is what I do in my spare time... its super fun!!

happy belated St Patty's day!!

2009-03-18T13:34:00.004-05:00

Yesterday was St. Patric's day. Sorry I missed it. I was going to wright an entry but I got to busy. I'm working on LOTS of things for school... Yesterday we got our grad hoodies and mine fit!! lol I just guessed on the size so I guess the luck of the Irish was with me! I hope everyone else had a good day!I got the cover for the yearbook done... I'll see if it fits in here and people can tell me what they think... if anybody reads this. LOL
It doesn't work......... its an InDesign file....so I don't know, maybe if i formatted it into a picture you can't! It looks pretty cool though anyway!
lol
Now I'm working on the Charlotte's Web poster for the upcoming Drama.
Drama practice is LOTS of fun... last time we practiced... I think it was on sunday... ALL the lights went out in EVERYWHERE all of Altona, Gretna, Horndeen EVERYWHERE!! lol
We were in the middle of practice and we were like OH NO whats going on. Then we saw that all of Altona was dark, and there were lots of cars leaving then we were like, this is like a horror film. So it was funny we were going over a whole bunch of horror film scenarios it was TONS of fun!! I still don't know why the power went out but we'll prolly find out in the Echo lol they have nothing better to write about!

Treats!

2009-03-14T15:50:00.004-05:00

This weeks Scavenger hunt word was treats... since I have a dog and 2 cats we've got treats to spare! lol My dog thinks everything is her treats though... even her own food, but thats a Lab for you! I was trying to get my siblings to bow to me to show how they treat me with respect but it wasn't working. My mom also treated me to Jello... lol Jello YUM! so heres this weeks pics! We're being treated to REALLY nice weather!!

lol
well thats one more week...
I think I'll try to wright this week for all my devoted readers..lol
NONE
lol
oooooooooo well!

CHANGE

2009-03-09T11:37:00.013-05:00

The Saturday word of the week for march 7th was change. I think that was a good word choice for the time of year as winter changes into summer we are caught in the beginning of spring. so on Saturday I took note of all the change going on around me.

Snow changes to water, which changes to ice in the night... ice sucks, but that's besides the point! so that is a puddle in ice that has snow around it!

People changed the way they think about me... ( I know I would have if I saw me taking pics of myself while walking down the street. lol It was SUPER fun though!)

Day

Changed

To night!

I found some change in my room.

Some things hardly change at all.

Change is all around us... we can't stop it... for better or worse it has to come. We just take it one day at a time and we'll be fine... I hope you enjoyed the pics and my views on/of change.

TFK vs FM Static

2009-03-04T11:15:00.012-06:00

SO Yesterday I was listening to FM static.(FM Static is a Toronto-based pop punk band currently signed to Tooth & Nail Records. The band was started as a side project by Thousand Foot Krutch frontman, Trevor McNevan and drummer Steve Augustine.) THEY'RE AWESOME, but that's beside the point.
The other band Thousand Foot Krutch sings screamo (for those who don't know what I mean when I say screamo its exactly how the sounds the artists basically just scream) and I don't really like them. So I was wondering why they started FM Static. I LOVE FM Static but not TFK they're OK but I just can't really listen to their music for long periods of time... and I defiantly can't listen to them in concert. Is that weird??
I know that they are basically the same people but the type of music is SOO different. Tell me what you think FM Static or TFK??

FM Static

VS

TFK

VS

lol
ok so now that I'm listening to them I relize I do like TFK but they don't sound this tame in concert... lol good times at soul'd we had fun but it was super loud and WAY more screaming. I still want to know what you guys think! FM Static is still better to me but listen to both of them!!

Here are their official sites:

http://www.fmstatic.com/
VS
http://www.thousandfootkrutch.com/

HAPPY LISTENING! I'll make a poll!

Good Happy Tuseday Morning

2009-03-03T09:44:00.004-06:00

SOOOOO this morning I was VEEEEEEEEEEEERY BORED! YAY me!! So I Joined the Saturday scavenger hunt club thingy....... that should be fun.... well see... i prolly wont always post it on Saturday but its going to be super fun anyway.
I haven't blogged in a long time and I have NO PICTURES on here lol but we'll do it!! Here are some pictures... I took this picture in my backyard.... i really like the coloring in the sky and the shape of the tree. I love that there is a feild right behind our house. It gives me an amazing veiw of the sun set, I have a pretty good view of sun rises to but we have houses in front of us so it would be weird, the people would think that I was stalking their house. LOL or profiling their house or something. That would be great! I can hear them now... they'd probably be talking in German but it would probably go something like...
"You know that crazy neighbor girl?"
"yeah Dave and Lisa's daughter"
"yeah, she was taking pictures of me eating breakfast again"
"I'll call the police next time"
lol
maybe..... so I can't take pictures of the sunrise but I love the sunset its more romantic anywho!! Isn't that beautiful?? lol
I LOVE IT!! So pretty and romantic!lol For Manitoba in the middle of winter anyway! lol SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COLD, but it was worth it in the end, I think....
This is a picture (the one on the right) I took at a house down my street I really like the line of the fence and the shadow of the fence on the snow... its a cute fence.... I want a cute fence... we don't have a fence.... Well we have an underground fence that keeps my dog on the yard, only when she's wearing the shock caller, witch is broken right now... lol she doesn't know that.... she stays on the yard pretty well now though. I love my dog, Hannah, she's a black lab and she's SUPER cute.

Acquire the Fire

2009-02-23T09:30:00.005-06:00

HELLO READERS!!
So on the weekend.... not this weekend last weekend..... like Valentines weekend I went to ACQUIRE THE FIRE. It was amazing! Just like last year. I loved the drama, the videos, the praise and worship, the concert, it was AMAZING!! I thought the skit was better last year but this years skit was AMAZING....they even sang a Hanna Montana song in it. lol It was her song "i miss you" or something like that. Its a really good song. The theme this year was "Make some Trouble". It was really good. It was at the Minneapolis Convention center, that place is awesome. the sessions were: The trouble with Parents, The Trouble with Living the Letter (or the bible), and trouble with the opposite Sex. It was SOOOOOOO GOOD.

We got up at 4:30 we got to the church at 5:30and left at 6...... we drove to the Emerson border and waited there for 40 min and then sat in the bus with a short break in there for lunch.... it took us 8 hours to get there tons of fun... lol 100 and some teenagers came from our group so it was CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY i loved it though... it took me FOREVERE to post this!!! SORRY! If anyone wants to hear more about it... just ask lol.

Tee Shirts

2009-02-04T09:18:00.004-06:00

OK
So Mandy Sent me the picture of our club.... The stress club... aka TEAM STRESS BALLS.

So now I just need to find a way to put it on here! She made it look all awesome and everything! I think we should put it on a tee-shirt. Then we'd feel like a real club!! lol
We'll see...... if any one else is super stressed and wants to join our club you can...

HEY!! I figured it out! it was easy all you needed to do was press the pic button beside the spell check!! Now I feel stupid!oooooo well.
so thats us, me, then Mandy, then Drew.
see the anger in us.... lol
I mean stress......
We look AWESOME
lol
thats right... and everyone can join!!
Just leave a comment and if you know why your stressed you can write that too.
I know not many people actually read my blog but what ever its fun anywho!

Second Semester

2009-02-02T13:08:00.004-06:00

So today second semester starts! Yay!
I went through all of last year saying that that was my hard semester but now that its second semester I've realized that this semester is just as hard as last. = ( Last Semester I had: English Comp, Pre Calculus, and Biology then I had the afternoon off. This semester I have consumer, Calculus, health(and when its done my consumer will move to this period and I'll have a spare first thing), lunch, spare, and Yearbook. Yearbook will be my only fun class and most of the time its lots of work... maybe thats because last year almost all I did was play games and listen to music and check my email but still.... this year it might be less work. Consumer should be easy because I'm good at math (I got 92% on my provincial standard pre cal exam), and suposedly he doesn't teach much lol. I should get a high mark in that class... basicly I only have math this semester. So it sucks but it will be easy.
Its starting to sink in that this is my last semester of school and then I have to go work and stuff now. Its scary, everyones like what are you going to do when your done?, what do you want to be? what school are you going to? I have no idea so its kind of intimadating. I think I'm just going to work a year then go to school for photography and graphic design. We'll see I guess but i think that would be a fun and sutable career for me =D I love people and I love pictures, I'm good with cameras and computers and I think it would be AWESOME. Soon I'll put pictures on here so you can judge my abilities for yourself but most people think that they are really nice pictures.

Baths

2009-01-28T14:12:00.003-06:00

This morning I was the only one at home so i decided to take a bath! It was AMAZING!! I had forgotten how good they felt. lol It was soo relaxing! I felt like a little girl again lol playing mermaid in the tub. though this time i didn't pretend i was a mermaid. I did try and see who long I could hold my breath. I made it to 20 seconds. I was in there for an hour and i kept hearing noises out side the bathroom. I thought my Dog would have eaten all the muffins my mom made but when i got out everything was fine. I'm convinced my house is haunted!

I don't think I believe in ghosts though. When I watch those ghost shows sometimes I'm like "that HAS to be a ghost, theres no other way!" but I don't realy think ghosts exist. lol Sometimes though I think i see ghosts, maybe its because I'm stressed... I don't know but when it happens I just close my eyes REALLY tight. lol SO I guess I do , deep inside me, believe in ghosts.... Thats weird... I don't think I should publish this one.....

OOOOOOOOOOOO well!!

Winter Boots

2009-01-27T09:07:00.004-06:00

So yesterday I was at drama practice, we're doing the play Charlotte's Web this year, and one of the girls there was wearing winter boots. That is my new pet peeve, there is NO snow inside so why wear big winter boots?? They are so LOUD and clunk all over the place.... its embarrassing even if I'm not the one wearing the boots! It drives me insane!! I wanted to yell at her! and we were on stage yet to so it was EVEN louder!
This person is an adult yet too shes 18 or 19. You'd think she would feel embarrassed if all you could hear was her boots, I know I would try to do as little walking as possible. I don't understand why she needed boots in the first place, she got a ride right to the door of the school. I can see if she had to walk to school why she'd wear boots because it was -40 with the wind chill, REALLY cold, but if your getting a ride?!?! Even if I had worn boots I would have brought a back-up pair of shoes!! I wore thin cloth ballet flats and my feet weren't even cold and I had to drive in my freezing cold van!
Then this morning when I got to school she was wearing them AGAIN!! I was like do you own ANY shoes. Sorry for my rantings but her boots were driving me crazy, especially when they were clomping around on stage! That's when I really noticed them.....

My first entry!!

2009-01-26T15:01:00.000-06:00

Hello to everyone who will read this..... and to everyone that doesn't... your probably not missing much.
I guess I'll just start by introducing myself:
Hi my name is Jessica
(hello Jessica)
and I'm not an alcoholic
(DENIAL)
sorry I truly am not an alcoholic.
I decided to start this blog after i saw the best job in the world and you had to be a blogger so I decided I wouldn't get it this round but maybe next time! So now I'm blogging. My teacher also suggested it. i don't know how good i'm going to be at this, i tend to run out of things to say after a while.... I like to laugh, I enjoy photography, I love animals and people. I named my blog the almost adult because thats what I am, almost an adult. I wonder if I can change it when I am an adult. My mom says that will never happen though. We'll see though, maybe I'll prove her wrong.
I like being original but am often lost in the crowd. I don't think I'm very exciting so I hope I don't bore you with my ramblings, but I guess if you don't like it you probably wont read it. I love laughing so I'm going to say lol ALOT. so sorry if that annoys you. I don't mean to. People say I'm funny and interesting but I don't usually mean to be, and then when I do mean to be no one laughs. but isn't that how it always works?!?!
I love music and i am random.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!
Its the year of the ox!!( for everyone who didn't know)
I was born in the year of the goat! (do with that what you will)

Thank you for reading my FIRST EVER BLOG!!
luv ya!!

My second first entry!

2009-01-26T13:32:00.003-06:00

Well apparently my first first entry didn't publish... I can't figure it out. lol
Maybe I will someday but for now, what ever!
Yesterday I went to Siloam Mission in Winnipeg, its always A LOT of fun, but yesterday it was extra fun!
Yesterday Mandi came with and we laughed a lot. lol Especially on the way home.
We were with Shawn, Viktor (I think it was with a K, sorry if it isn't) and Cornie. Shawn was driving 120 the whole way home Cornie was being random and we were talking about the randomest stuff ever. We were talking about the word caressing and decided it sounded pretty so form now on instead of rub we're going to say caress. lol Shawn's example "I'm going to caress myself."
Mandi and I also started a club. We're the stress club, AKA team stress balls!! I think we're gonna have to work on that but for now it will do. Drew is also a part of our club! We have pictures.. I'll have to see if i can get Mandi to email them to me. Over all it was a good day yesterday. My favorite part of going to Siloam Mission is that EVERYONE, well almost everyone, says HI to you and asks you how your doing. Yesterday there was this guy standing beside me and Mandi and she was like
"Hello"
The man kept drinking his coffee.
So I said "hello" louder.
He still kept drinking.
So we laughed because he was standing right beside us and not paying any attention.
Me : " I know that is a really good cup of coffee"
and he said nothing, then some people came to put some plates in the garbage and he disappeared.
You meet A LOT of interesting people at Siloam and hear a lot of sad and interesting stories, and some that you could have done with out hearing. One time Verna and I listened to this guy telling us about when he got each bone in his body broken (not at the same time) when he was a carny, and he's still a carny. It was awkward and funny at the same time.