eyes again

so on a previous post i posted a pic of my eyes and i said guess what this person is thinking well some people wanted me to do it again so here is another pic. (let me know if you want me to actually tell you what this person is thinking or if you like just to guess)

weird

so i was talking to a friend on msn this night. and we were talking and she bluntly commented "you are weird" and i was like ya you just notised . and she responded no its just that i thought i would point it out again. and then i did a big speal on how i am weird and how i am prowd to be. i think it went somethng like this.

I AM LAURA NICHOLE MATTHEWS I AM A PHANTOM LOVING, LED ZEPPELIN LISTENING, SCOTLAND WANNABE WEIRDO, WHO IS IS NOT AFRAID TO BE WEIRD. INFACT I EMBRACE IT WITH OPEN ARMS.

originaly i was just saying that to be funny and be well a smart @$$ but then affter reading it i realized it was true. i am kind of wird and i do not mind being weird the least bit. affter all what is the fun in being normal (then again there is that whole argument of what is normal but that is for another blog post) i love being who i am..that silly little christain girl who is a phantom loving, led zeppelin listeingng, scotland wannabe wirdo. why would i want to change. and affter all who would want me to change. i donno if this blog even has a point..maybe i just wanted to post my rant but whatever i like it.....

and to quote my younger cousin "its weird not to be weird"

-laura

Merry Christmas

wishing every one a merry christmas and a happy new yer
song: happy christmas
Artist: john lennon


So this is Christmas,
And what have you done
Another year over
A new one's just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
Chorus:A very merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good oneWithout any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight
Chorus (2x)
And, so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And, so happy Christmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
Chorus (4x)
Happy Christmas!Happy Christmas!Happy Christmas!

drifters

so unfortanitly i was unable to go to the movie last night. But i spent the night with my family instead and we celebrated my brothers birthday (3 days early). my grandma come over and we had cake and all that good stuff. then we drove my grandma home.

me and my dad had an intresting conversation on the ride home affter droping the grandma off. there was dead silence in the car. the radio was not on or anything, my dad asked me what i was thinking. i was actually thinking of people that i have only meet once or have not seen since camp or kindergarden. i was and i still sometimes find myself wondering what they are doing now, were they live, and how there life is going. it is kind of funny how many people just seem to drift in and out of our life. it is also sort of cool how we seem to remember thoes people and wonder how much of a difference or impact they might have made in our lives.

there is this one girl i remember from grade 3, unfortanitly i cannot remember her name right now. but i do remember that we used to hang out alot we would go running acrosse the feild, chassing affter our frinds and have them come chassing back after us, but then at the end of that year she moved and i did not really hear from her again.

then there are frinds that i remember vividly that whent down the wrong path, turned to drugs and then moved away and i wonder what they are up to know and if there was anything that i could do or that i could still do to get them out of that direction.

it just seems odd to me to think that at one point you can know a person who is a really close frind of yours, or you can have strong feelings for and then they can leave or somewere down the road you dont realy know or they arnt really your friend anymore.. and do they wonder about you.

ya well thoes are my thoughts for right now. hope every one is having a great day.

-laura

Gary jules lyrics- mad world

Artist: Gary Jules
LyricsSong: Mad World Lyrics

All around me are familiar facesWorn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow No tommorow, no tommorow
And I find it kind of funnyI find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've
ever hadI find it hard to tell you'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circlesIt's a very, veryMad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listenWent to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew meHello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

emotion by eyes

what do you think this person is thinking when you look at their eyes...........
i always thought it was interesting to try and guess that sort of stuff. so take a guess what emotion or thoughts are floation on in this persons mind

3 girls+ one camera+ lots of snow = chaos and lots of fun

snow

omgosh i love snow. i cannot belive how much we have. i do not remember having snow snow in november since ....well i cannot remember having snow in november.

i do not know about you but snow is another one of thoes things that really brings out the little kid in me. i love making snow men and snow angles and all that fun stuff. oh man yesterday i was such a goof i ran around in the snow like a flippen idot. the only thing that i think would make this winter alot better would be if a lake or something froze over enought so that we could go skating on it.

i do not think that i have ever been skating on a lake. i know i have skated on a feild that flooded and then froze over but i cannot recal a lake. so i would love it if that happend that way i could go and experience something new and fun. .

-laura

ps. sorry that i could not come to your movie night sarah..i really really really wanted to i was tempeted to call in at work and say that i could not go. but i have to go to work. hope its good.

SURPRISE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU


HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SARAH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU


yayay aayyayayayayyayaya happy birthday sarah
(yes i know this post is a bit late but i hope it still works)

-laura

phantom fan

Hey. I’m not obsessed with star wars, or Lord of the rings
And I don't root for r/c, or e/m, or e/o.
And I don't really care for charlotta, pangi or meg from the story, although I'm certain they're, really nice.

A cool weapon is a punjabb, not a gun

Erik is supposed to have a French accent, NOT American. and I call 'HIM ERIK', NOT THE PHANTOM

I can proudly play music of the night on the piano. I believe Christine should have been with Erik, NOT Raoul. Inner beauty, NOT apperance, AND THAT THE ORGAN IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE INSTRUMENT

CHRISTINE DOES LOVE ERIK, RAOUL IS A FOP, AND IT IS PRONOUCED ERIK NOT ERIC', ERIK!!!

PHANTOM IS A CLASSIC GASTON LEROUX NOVEL! THE LONGEST RUNING MUSICAL AND THE GREATIST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIME

MY NAME IS LAURA!! AND I AM A PHANTOM FAN!!!!!!!!

mental thoughts of an emotional teenager

wondering,waiting. no response. worrying, sweating. why why. Maybe my cell phone is not working? can parents cut you off is you send to many messages. Tap tap tap. should i call. I dont want to be pushy. send message to friend. testing, testing 1,2,3 is this working. oh why do i feel like this. ring phone ring. maybe i should go for a walk, thats it get fresh air. when i come back there might be a message for me..... grab dog leash put on shoes, head out door. wait! some things missing. dog inside me outside, go back in grab dog put leash on her and go for walk. come back. fresh air did not help. dry dog.

run up to room. cell phone new message. Heart stops could it be....opens phone. No, friend replied yes it works. close phone gahhhaaaefagoueersa. ok deep breath now. might be busy, thats it busy...more worry, worry worry WORRY WORRY!. ah wahts come over me. butterflys in tummy.. Boys are stupid they have cooties. go to bathroom. no no no screams. new pimple why?. back to bed room. erg homework. shuts off phone. Annoyed.. fine be that way.

Tries to do homework but does not work. Replaying in mind last time we talked..could i have done something different.. should i ahve said something different. grades sliping. Parents lecturing. turns phone back on, check messages nothing....close, check again. nothing and one more time. nothing. throws cell phone in baskit of laundry.
why wont you call me?

creativity in boredom

so on tuesday i was compleatly bored out of my mind. so i decided i was going to do what i think almost any normal bored teenager would do. i signed on to msn. and i started talking to people.. one of thoes people was matt schmidt (sorry if you last name is spellt wrong. i will edit it if it is). and he was telling me how late some of his home work was because he was a big procrastinator. and i was like wow i thought i procrastinated alot but you are worse then me you should get some kind of award. and anyway the conversation continued on that topic and then i decided to make matt a "biggist procastinator award" which was hand drawn. so i did that. i drew a pretty cool award,i think. and i coloured it and i put it in an envolpe which i coloured red because hey all the cool awards are in red envelops.

i also filled up the envelpe with spakeling things. matt seemed to enjoy it and as far as i know he still has the "award" in his binder and has been taking it to his classes.. he he at least now he has the proffe that he is a procrastinator so that he can give all his teachers a fare warning.

well that is about all i have to talk about right now hope you all are well.

oh and a little up date on me..i got a job a tim hortons so yay. i finaly get to start earning money and not just getting it handed to me any more ( that is if you dont count baby sitting)

quote:a great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do- walter bagehot

-laura

message

watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q24TNmfN01o

thought..school..?

yay more random thoughts but this involves reader participation.. so if you can give me you thoughs

some people say that school is a good thing becasue it allows us to make friends, have many experiences and learn some things that we would not be able to learn or know otherwise. well others are on the side that argues that the world is a sad place if people are "fourced" to go to school just so that they will be able to support themselfs and live a normal life. what is your opinion on this statement.

there are deffinantly alot of experiences that we have had at school and the truth is that the hole time that we spent in school with our frinds and such has really shaped who we are.. so here is another question

were do you think you would be or what do you think you would be doing now if there was not school.. ? (if there was no such thing as school)

-laura

random

this is a random post just to show a friend how blogger works because she does not understand...

:)

-laura

The coat hanger

so i got sent this story in an e-mail and i liked it so i thought i would post it here..enjoy



A woman was at work when she received a phone call that her small daughter was very sick with a fever. She left her work and stopped by the pharmacy to get some medication. She got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys in the car.
She didn't know what to do, so she called home and told the baby sitter what had happened. The baby sitter told her that the fever was getting worse. She said, "You might find a coat hanger and use that to open the door." The woman looked around and found an old rusty coat hanger that had been left on the ground, possibly by someone else who at some time had locked their keys in their car. She looked at the hanger and said, "I don't know how to use this."
She bowed her head and asked God to send her help. Within five minutes a beat up old motorcycle pulled up, with a dirty, greasy, bearded man who was wearing an old biker skull rag on his head. The woman thought, "This is what you sent to help me?" But, she was desperate, so she was also very thankful.
The man got off his cycle and asked if he could help. She said, "Yes, my daughter is very sick. I stopped to get her some medication and I locked my keys in my car. I must get home to her. Please, can you use this hanger to unlock my car?" He said, "Sure."
He walked over to the car, and in less than a minute the car was opened. She hugged the man and through her tears she said,"Thank You So Much! You are a very nice man.
" The man replied, "Lady, I am not a nice man. I just got out of prison today. I was in prison for car theft and have only been out for about an hour." The woman hugged the man again and with sobbing tears cried out loud, "Oh, Thank you God! You even sent me a Professional!"

.........?

random title i know but i think this is mainly going to be a rant with a bit of confusion so i was unsure what to put for a title. so today for comparative civilizations we went on a feid trip which was lots of fun and we learnd some cool things. but i do not think it was thoes things that really stuck with me on the trip. on the bus ride back to the ferry i saw people listeng to their ipod's, girls playing hand games, friends talking, and other people sleeping and other people just being goofs singing to the johnny cash music that was blaring out the speakers.
and i think it is memories like that, that will still stick with me when i am older. ..liz wrote a blog earlyer asking why is it that we seem to remember the bad stuff more then the bad (sorry if i interprated that blog wrong) well i am one of thoes people who loves to people watch.. i love to see how others interact and intace thoes memories . memories of friends laughing on the bus,..being goofs singing to johnny cash, going and getting slurpies. or just sitting in a hot tub and having a good conversation. (hot tubs are excellent for that buy the way..have a friend who has a hot tub and you want to have a good conversation raid their house and do it)

wow i just lost my train of thought.......ummm like i commented on liz's blog lots of times we remember the bad stuff because it is more shoking to us..and it has been scientificly proven that, that stuff is just easier to remember. and sometimes all we can do is intake the good memories and drown out the bad... i am sure if every one who is reading this were to try right now to come up with ten good memories and then try to come up with ten bad memories it will be easier to come up with the bad memories.

when i am old and possible i have grandchildren i hope i can be one of thoes people who has cool stories to tell them. about the me and sarah went through the car wash, or the time i feel down a clif.. wow this blog is random.. i was thinking about this more in detail on the bus i wish that i had writien it down..but i did not have a pen. .... oh well maybe more of it will come back to me later and i can write more....

dont you find that anoying when their is something you want to say and you lose your train of thougt and forget what you wanna say. i need to start carrying a pen and note pad with me so that, that does not happen any more. any way hope you all have a great day or night
-laura

question

so werner was over infact he still is..(wow off topic already that has got to be a new record for me) and anyway he says that i should up date my blog. i do not really no what to say so i am going to ask a random question in hopes that people will respond and answere.


was music a human discovery or invention?

cliff

story time every one this one is the story of the day that i feel down a clif. it was painfull and my fault too, but hey it makes a good story.


ok it happend this month last year. my friend natasha was staying with me because her mom and her step dad were off on their honey moon. it was a sort of rany affternoon and my mom told me and natasha to go and walk the dog. so we put on her leash and headed off. i was telling her tthat their was a beach acesess around my neibourhood. but there is a clif that we would have to climb down to get to it. (can you see were this is going). but there used to be a rope and i thought it was still there and i thought that we could climb down .....with the dog...well wearing shoes with no grip...on a rainy day...well i forgot my cell phone at home (can you say dumb idea!!). any way natasha thought that we could give it a try.

so we walked down to the beach acess. and natasha looked down the clif and she was the smart one who told me that maybe if we are going to climb down the clif we should tie the dog to a tree and see if we can make it without her before we try well taking her down. (i have a small sketched out dog so we would of had to carry down because she would be to affraid to climb down by her self). just to give u guys an idea of the cliff that i fell down. you know when you go on the bc ferrys heading to vancouver and you look to your left as it is pulling out and you can see that big sign that says cable....ya that was the cliff that i fell down. anyway the rope was no longer there so natasha decided to go down first. she got down easy did not trip or stumple or slid at all. seeing her do this i thought well that looks easy i can do this.

so i started to climb down. i was sliding down the dirt a little bit, and then when i was about half way down a lost my grip and i started to fall. oh and to make things worse i was more on my stomach then anything and i could not see were i was going. and there was a board with a nail sticking out of it on the bottem. luckaly natasha was fast she managed to slow me down and prevent me from landing on the board with the nail in it. oh sounds like the story is over but nope its not. once i wiped off my hands and made sure i was ok. me and natasha realized two things one it was impossible to go back up the way we came and two the tide was comming in. we ended up walking along the beach untill we saw an easier way up but this way was coverd with bushes. we ended up bush wacking our way up but first we had to take off out shoes because they had no grip at all and we were passing them up to each other well we climbed. we finaly go up and got back to the dog and walked home.

we were both wet, tired and pretty dirty. and i learned something from that experience. never leave without a cell phone, were shoes that you can climb in, and just becasue your friend can do something that looks easy does not mean that you can. ok hope you enjoyed this
-laura

love

love...we all have experienced it in some form or another, well all would agree that love is a good thing.. but i was thinking what is love, what does love mean. that word seems to be thrown around too much and these days. its signifigance is starting to wear down and the true meaning of what love is seems to be forgoten.
i looked it up and according to the dictionary love is :

1 a (1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties
(2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers
(3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests b : an assurance of love 2 : warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion 3 a : the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration b (1) : a beloved person : DARLING -- often used as a term of endearment (2) British -- used as an informal term of address
(4) a : unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another: as (1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind (2) : brotherly concern for others b : a person's adoration of God
(5) : a god or personification of love


so my question is what does love mean to you?

re post street cone

so umm i took this off because i was dumb and thought that i was introuble...jezz i really need to learn how to take a joke, silly me. no andrew you cannot have my street cone go and find your own. anyway here is the story once again.


it happend this month i think around the 14 or something, around the middle of the month. any way first off the reason why there were street cones there was becasue there had been a car accednet and a car took out some of the overpass. so untill there was a replace ment part there for the overpass the north saanich guys had put a bunch of street cones down to warn people. every day when i would walk home i would see the street cone and i would find my self having the hurge to take it, i wanted that street cone. so one day well walking home i decided i was going to do that. i picked it up as i walked passed it but then half way across the bridge i chickend out and was unable to do it.

for the next couple of weeks my mom drove me to and from school so i had no chance to try and take it. but then soon i was walking home again. on the weeks that i was getting rides i notised that my cone was gone i thought some one else must have taken it (luckaly there were two.). so as i was saying i was walking home again and i saw the one street cone that had not been taken so i decided today is the day i am going to take that street cone and i am not going to chicken out. so i walked to it and out of the corner of my eye i saw the orginal stree cone that i was going to tak thrown in the bushes by the overpass. so i ran and got it.

feeling proud of myself for having my original street cone i walked across the overpass with pride. but then well i was almost done crossing the overpass the north saanich guys were driving underneath me and they saw me caryying the cone. so i boked it up the road. it was quite a work out considering i had most of my books in my back back (stupid heavy biology text book). i did not stop running untill i was convinced that they were not following me. but the path up to my house is by a hight way so every one who was driving bye could see me (this 17 year old girl with a street cone in her hands).

i decided to cut through this smaller but longer path that goes through the woods to my house so that i would not be seen. that was long. finaly i got home and now the street cone is siting in my bed room. which makes me happy. i told my mom this whole story and she thought it was funny. she was just happy that i am not tall enought to steal a street sign or anything of greater value (which i do not think i would do.. street sighn maybe).



so ya i am sorry about being lame and deleting this..it is back up. so does any body have any original ideas about what i shoud do with the street cone. i know that i am going to get everyone to sighn it for grad but then i am not sure if i should keep it, or put it back were i found it or even if i should make a times capsule with it..if anyone has any cool ideas let me know.

-laura

imiturity act # 2 and 3

you know that your imiture when you plan you turn your inside car wash joke into a dance...
step one: BUBBLES
steptwo: WATERFALL
step three: HURRICANE

you also no your imiture when you plan on ginving a friend a piggy back and when you try and knock her off because she screamed in your ear coughtshannoncough you both end up falling into the mud.

step by step guid on how to make a pumpkin man

so fall has come and as the days go by it is getting closer and closer to halloween, and with halloween i have a tradition. every year i make a pumpkin man. i told a friend about this (sara) and she had never heard about making a pumpkin man before. so i made one today with shannon . so here for all of you to enjoy here is the step by stpep guid to making a pumpkin man:


step one: get all the stuff that you need. such as a t-shirt,old pants and other things






Step two: rake up the leaves that will be used to stuff the clothes


Step three: cram leaves in the wheel barrow







Step four: stuff the leaves in the clothes(he he my pumpkin man went to camp thunderbird)



Step five: collect chess nuts. these are placed in bucket head so that the wind will not blow it away




step six: set the pumpkin man up on a chair




then you are done if you want you can give him some company or do whatever to make your yard look even more halloweeny. . anyway it was lots of fun making this guy. hope you enjoyed this blog

-laura

free hugs

i saw this video on you tube and thought it was cool. i wish i had the courage to do this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

tough question

when your angry at someone , but you know that you should forgive them what do you do?

why buy something when you can make it

ok as some of you know last month i went to vancouver and i saw phantom of the opera live. (incase you do not know i am obsessed with that story). any way i was really hoping to be able to buy a phantom t-shirt that i could wear with pride and show off my obsession. but wouldent you know it the queen elizibeth theater was not selling any merchindise. i was dissapointed but then i found out that you could order a t-shirt over the internet. as soon as i got home i ran up to the computer and looked up the website hoping to be able to buy the t-shirt. but they were expensive..and i do not have that much skill when it comes to ordering things off of the internet. so a couple weeks passed and i was dissapointed because i did not have a phantom shirt.

But then i thought i could just make one... and i did. yesterday i made my very own phantom t-shirt. that i can wear with pride. i went to marks work wear house in sidney and bought a plain white long sleve t-shirt. for about 22 dollers. and my loving mom bought some transfer paper. well i spent yesterday affter school trying to think of something to put on this shirt to make it phantomish but not so i was copyrightin the shirts that normaly get sold at the performaces or over the internet. on the front of my shirt it says "the opera ghost really exsited"-gaston leroux (gaston leroux was the guy who wrote the original book). and on the back it says phantom fan. right now i am trying to figure out how to put a rose on it. which should be easy enough. considering i already have the rose pic that i want on.

i am actually kind of glad that they were not selling the "authantic" t-shirts at the show . because making this shirt was fun . also my mom and my dad helped me make it, and then my brother desided that since there was like 3 pages of transfer paper left he would make a t-shirt that said something to. so this was more like a family bonding activity. we all sort of got involved. just because silly me wanted a shirt. i liked it. if i just bought the shirt there never would have been this "family time" that happend well making the shirt . and the shirt would not be uniqe it would just be like every one elses who might have bought a phantom shirt.

-laura

thought

wow today was all of us grade 12th last first day of school!!!!

its weird

if you think about it

adventures on sidney spit

well summer is comming to an end and things are starting to slow down. which is sad for me because it means going back to school and in some ways having to grow up and act mature. but before all that happens me and my two friends decided to go have a fun time on sidney spit. just the 3 of us teenage girls. without any parent supervision. OH THE CAOS. ha ha just joking. it was a fun time. we did all the usual stuff at sidney spit (if you have been there) go swimming , hang out on the beach, tanning if your into that. but we also whent and checked out the bomb shelter on sidney spit. ok some times i am sooooo deprived i did not even know that sidney spit had a bomb shelter till this summer and i have been living in sidney for like my whole life. and been to sidney spit alot so that is just kind of sad.

natasha, fiona and I also decised to go and explore. we sort of when off of the main path and climed down the side of a clif to the beach. which was fun untill we could not get back up. somthing about me and climbing along clifs.we just do not go together. so we walked along the beach untill i saw this other sort of sandy clif that i thought i would try and climb up to see if it would be easier then the one that we came down. (keep in mind that if we just continued to walk around then i am sure that there would have been no need to climb up any clifs). natasha and fiona decided to send me as the scout. so i climbed up the hill along the way stiking my hand in prickel bushed and getting a pound full of sand in both my shoes. finaly all three of us got up. but we realized that the main path was no wear to be seen. so affter wondering around for about an hour we found it and started to walk back to our camp.

i think that one of the best things about going camping sometimes is not the swimming or the adventures i think sometimes the best part is the talks that you end up having. fiona, natasha and i talked alot. we ended up finding outselfs talking about life, our family. and some of the most random silly things that you can think off. there is this random dock on sidney spit that we went on and we just layed there looked up at the starts and talked non stop. it was great.


lots of other wacky stuff ended up happening on that island. i have some battle wounds from swimming into rocks. which is not a very smart thing to do i might add. swimming into rocks is painful. i am going to have to upload some pictures to put on once fiona gets them developed. because there are something that happen when you are camping that you cannot talk about you can only show...
it was fun.

stress, pressure, letdown GAHHHH

wow i am under so much stress right now.. ok i signed up for wsi which is the sceond part to awsi. basically these courses are at the panorama and they are so that you have all the prober tryining to be a swimming instructor. well i am really stressed out in wsi right now because there is so much work that i have to get done . i have to write up lesson plans , long term and short term. and i was supposed to have all this done by today but i was to stressed out by it last night so i thought the best thing for me to do would be go to bed. and relax and then i could work some more on it today. well i am no good at this and i am just not having the fun or learning like i should be when i signed up for this course. my mom is saying that i could drop the course and take it later in the year when i feel more prepared. in my mind i am thinking ya i would love to do that but i am also thinking if i do that then i will feel like a quiter. and i really do not wanna be known as the girl who quit. also if i drop then my parents will be out 200 bucks for the course. the panorama can hold the money for if i sign up for something else. still my parents will have lost that money because i am stressed and ya. which makes me feel bad . also there is a feeling of let down inside of me. there are actually kids that i am supposed to teach. which is why we had to make up the lesson plans. (these kids signed up for a free class for excperience before entering the real calss) so i i drop i will feel like i have let thoes kids down and i will have let my parents partly down for not going through with this.


i am also worried that i did not even pass awsi. because every one else in my class got a card sent to them in the mail saying that they passed...i did not recive this card. and if you did not pass awsi then there is no way that you are going to be able to pass wsi. so you know what this is just a lot for me to handle. yes i feel like a quiter and a letdown if i drop out...... but then if i do drop out now before i am stuck too deep into it then i can just sign up to do volounteer work at the panorama so i get more experience make sure that i passed awsi and if i did not get the volounteer work done to pass awsi. and sign up for the next wsi course feeling confedent and more prepared to do what i need to do. i just hope not to many people are disapointed by me droping out that is my majour concern. it is not about me it is about the kids that will no longer be reciving free swimming lessons.

hopefully they can be moved into someone elses class

question

is a lie still a lie if the person who says it belives what they are saying ?

random question

ok random question. if you could have any super power what would it be (use your imagination). ?


-i would want to have the power to turn anything into anything else.

simple pleasures

life seems to be so rushed with lots of people. sometimes it is good to just slow down, relax and enjoy some of the simple pleasures in life. like:

-sunday morning cartoons
-sunsets
-slurpies
-flowers
-friends
-swings
-music
and so much more. so take time out of your busy life for you and go relax , have fun and act like a little kid again (if you do not do that already) .

home sweet home

well i am back from camp. i had a great time there . i did many things and made many new friends and got to see lots of old ones from last year. it was fun and something i will never forget but man it feels good to be home.at camp we did lots of stuff. i got went on a four day kayaking trip which was lots of fun

. i also got put on placements. placements is when you get put into cabins and you are sort of like a third counsiler for the campers. that was lots of fun for me i love working with little kids although when i was put with the younger kids they did sort of wear me out and by the time that the placement was over i am pretty sure i just crashed at my cabin and sleeped for a whole day. lots of the time at camp there .

There was also lots of times that we would just all chill and hang out that was good fun times . it is sort of weird now affter being away for a month to be back on a computer and back to civilication and tecnology affter beging in the woods for a month. and being able to sleep on a bed instead of a bunck or the ground on outtrip. and to be in a house instead of a cabin.

It was also sort of sad leaving camp this year because it was my last year as a camper and the next time i go back to camp i will be staff. i will be a counsler it will not longer be all about my experience it will be about younger people that i am leading. which sounds exciting and sort of depressing for me. ....


anyway i am glad to be home and be so welcomed back. getting compleatly tackled with hugs literaly. ^___^

off to camp

wooooot i am off to camp . it is 11:37 now and i have to be up there by 3:30 so it is very very close and i am real excited. i get to go there for around a month which should be good fun. i know last year i had lost of fun and i still find myself telling stories . oh and what makes this even better is that some of the people i went to camp with last year are going to be going again so i get to see them again which should be awsome. well that is all i can really say because i am very excited and not really thinking strait he he he he.. see you all in augest

good laugh, "the good word"

ok so i was surching you tube and i found this funny video. when i saw it i almost literaly fell out of my chair laughing. i thought it was funny because it seems to depict the stereotypical christins who do not give up. but it was pretty funny. so i hope that you enjoy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gsccgEjLqMc

woot

ok so this is what is new with me. my brother came home on sunday and that was great. he is different but in a good way. before my brother left he was one of thoes guys were if you talked to them they were really quiet and would just mumble or grunt in response. now my brother will actually have a full conversation with you. it is weird. you still have to initiate the conversation but my brother is not keeping me copleatly shut out of his life anymore. i am glad to have him back althoe i do have to share the computer again and i will occasionlay find and empty boz off food back in the cubord but thoes are just little annoyances that i am used to living with. it is good to have him home. like i said in my last post you never really appretiate your sibling untill they are gone for a while. well this is mostly me just rambling so i am done. oh and have a good summer every one and good luck with exams!

update

i have not posted on my blog for a while so i thought now was time for an update on how i am. lets see first thing in the news of laura is that i turned 17 yay. some of my younger friends are joking and saying that i am sooooo old but i know that is not true. i am so young it is not even funny. i swear i must have the maturity level of a 13 year old (no offence to any 13 year olds who are reading this). but it was a good birthday. i am so blessed to have such a great family and to have a family that can afford to go and spend a bunch of money on me. i got compleatly spoiled this year for my birthday. oh also in my life.... my brother is comming home on sunday i am excited. for all of thoes who do not know i have an older brother named mark who is 18. he is in australia right now working with the gap program. he has been working in a bording school i belive working in the art and the gym department. any way he has been gone for six months and he is finally comming home this sunday the 18th of june. you never really apreciate having an older sibling untill they are gone for a while (good thing mark does not read my blog). ok well it seems that july is comming closer and closer and for me july means one thing CAMP THUNDERBIRD that is right i am going to camp. and this year i get to work with the kids who go there to. be afraid be very afraid me working with kids. lol i remember last year when i was at camp the ld2's (leadership level 2, i was a ld1) when they were working with the kids. The kids looked right up to them and compleatly admired them and would do almost anything they said. you make a strong impresion on kids at that age so i am planning on having fun and i hope i do a good job leading them.

school is almost over for the year. Next year i will be in grade 12 which is a scary thought for me Because it means graduation and moving on. i already displayed my thoughts on moving on in a previous blog but to sum it up it scares me. anyway this is all that is new with me and this is all that i have to write. i cannot wait for the summer to come. because the summer always brings new experiences and adventures, also sarah is comming back in july or should i say 2-delta. yes well that is my update so hope every ones life is going well and that your having fun.
-laura

obsession

ok as i am sure all of you know i have 3 major obsessions

1. the phantom of the opera
2. scotland
3. Led Zeppelin

lots of people have told me that i am way to obsessed which i can belive. mianly with the phantom of the opera. so i am making this post for threereasons . number one to tell all of you who think that my obsession with phantom has gone to far that i am going to give up phantom for a month. i am not compleatly sure what month i am thinking july though because that is going to be easyest because i will be at camp and away from tecnology so i will not be able to surch it on a computer or anything. the second reason i am posting is because i think i have not posted in quite some time and it is time for a post no matter how random or pointless it is. and my third reason for posting this is because i whant to know what your obsessions are be it a movie or a sport or even if it is a celebrity. ok well thanks for listing to me

-laura

growing up

ok i do not know about you guys but the thought of growing up scares me. yes there will be the gloryus stuff like owning a house and having a cool job and all the other bounces that come with growing up. but it seems so scary for me. i am realizing i am in grade 11 that means next year i am grading. no more high school. no more just lazing around in the summer. this is going to be tecniqly my last summer to be a kid. next summer i will have to have a job if i do not have one already. The main idea of growing up that scares me is the thought of leaving the nice little nest that all my teachers , family members and any other adult role modles have built for me. i know i will not be moving out as soon as a graduate i am most likely going to be the kid that stays home well she goes to collage or universaty. but once that stage is over i am going to have to wory about bill payments and gar insurance and home things all the stuff that adults worry about. maybe i am still to young to be thinking about this but to be honest it worries me.

it is kind of funny when your a little kid all you thinnk is i wanna grow up and change the world but then as you get older (or at least as i get older) you start to think i wanna go back to being that little kid who spent there days running around with the neibours and comming home compleatly dirty and not caring what my parents thought. i dont wanna grow up. i guess grwing up is all part of life but still it seems like time is going by to fast. there are going to be people who read this and are like "quit complaining your still young" that is true but the thought of growing up still scares me.

one big holla

ok this is one big holla for sarah/ 2-delta who is going to kenya. hope you have a great trip and an awsome experince.


HOLLLA

somthing you should never say to a parent when your angry because it only makes it worse.

we all have thoes days when we are angry with our parents and we yell at them. and i am sure we have all had an experience when we yelled or told them some thing that did not really help our situation. well i think this is the perfict spot to talk about it and get a good laugh. so please tell me something that you said to you parents when you were angry that REALLY did not help.

for me my mom was getting angre with me and she was making thoes ugly faces that parents make when they are angry. so i looked at her and said "mom you should not make that face it makes you look like a grumpy old lady, you look like granny"

BAD IDEA. lets just say my mom was not so happy about that comment.

your turn!

Random story

ok on my last post i was talking about how i was bored and yadda yadda yadda. so werner told me to write a story about : wheeel barrows with sqare wheels, a mand made of paper and and evil twin. well i have writen it. it is not done. and i am sure this story is going to be continued with many posts to come. so werner i hope you enjoy this because you were the one who started it.

All was well in paper land. Paper land was of course the lands were everything was made out of paper. The trees. The houses, the pets. The cars and even the people were made out of paper. One day Raoul the little annoying paper man was pushing his wheel barrow with square wheels to town. His wheel barrow was the only one with square wheels and because of this it went really slow and was a lot of work to push. Thump, thump, thump went his wheel barrow as he pushed it down the road. Then all of a sudden another paper man jumped out of the bushes that looked exactly like raoul.

“Who is this odd character” thought raoul. The other paper man just stared at him not even making a move. “Who are you” raoul asked the random paper man who jumped out of the bushes.

“I am……. raoul” said the other paper man.

“But you cannot be raoul because I am raoul”.

“no your not I am” they argued for hours and hours soon the sun was starting to set and raoul was getting tired of arguing with this alleged other raoul.then it hit him that this guy must be his evil twin. He had heard that there were people out in paper land that looked exactly like you and that they were your evil twins. And that you should watch out for them because there goal was to make a random rain cloud appear just above you. And because you are paper then you would get all soggy and die.

“Stay back evil twin” yelled raoul jumping back from his square wheeled wheelbarrow.

“I am not your evil twin. You stupid fop”. Raoul looked confused the only person who had ever called him a fop was his enemy paper Erik.

“Well if you’re not an evil twin then you have to be paper Erik my enemy but then why do you look exactly like me”.

“It is called a mask dummy” said paper Erik with a laugh. “There is a paper joke shop down the road and they have lots of masks. Funny that they had a fop mask”.

“I am not a fop quit calling me that”. Said paper raoul starting to cry.

“Oh quit being such a baby” said paper Erik with a sigh. “I know that you cannot help being a fop it is just the way that you are”. Paper raoul wiped his nose on his sleeve.

“Well why are you here” he asked.

“To find paper Christine of course” said paper Erik with a smug look on his face.
“Never, you can never have her she loves me not you”. “That is what you think “said paper Erik. He pulled out his paper Punjab lasso. “Prepare to fight”. “You got it”. Paper Erik went running at paper raou

every thing causes death

ok that is it. i think that scintests need to stop reserching what can kill us and start searching what can stop us from dieing.

we all now that we can get cancer from lying in the sun to much or get obesse from eating to much so that makes it so food and the sun can kill us. but now i just read some thing on a actual not made up web site that we can die from boredom. that acctually makes me laugh because the first thing that come to my mind is well i am screwed. because i have spent so many days in my life just sitting around bored that it is not even funny





. apperently if you have sat around for two days strait doing nothing then you have lost alot of brian cells doing that. because your brian is not getting enough oxygen and you are not really thinking your just sitting saying over and over in your head "i am bored, i am bored , i am bored". weird all the things that can kill you now a days it is bad enough just being bored but now i find out that it can kill. The upside to this i guess is the next time that someone askes you to go do something boring with them like watch a play you do not like or go watch a sporting event that you find boring you can say no. and tell them that it could kill you. i wonder if that would work on parents. somehow i highly dout it. i just have one last thing to say then i will be done. good thing that there are blogs. it has gotten rid of boredm lots of times. so thankyou blog for saving my life i am no longer bored. if any one wants to go to the web site i was talking about it is http://lethaldose.org/boredom.html.

-laura

good times with good friends

me and katelin pretending to be spys

here we are again. i could never be a spy in real life. i am far to clumbsy and loud. surprise sarah. he he bolloon dart paint was lots of fun
but some of us did get quite messy filling up the bollons. katelin
the begginging of our master piece
he he he pain fights our fun. but dont get any in alyssa's hair or she will kill you.
ahhh good times.that was sooooo much fun
the finished product. it is cool. we are so going to have to do that again

positive thoughs

ok i was re-reading my previous blog entrie and it was kind of on the negative side. so i thought i should just write something positive so that i can drown out the negitive. at camp if you say one thing mean to someone then affter you have to tell them tree things that you like about them. so scence i had one negitive post i am going to say three positive things here to correct it.

1. it is a beautiful sunny day today i love it the birds are wonderful there are flowers. and we get to do bollon dart paint tonight yay.

2. i managed to get two people in my biology class to sing phantom music. i think it annoyed the teacher but we still had fun.

3. there is excatctley 2 months 1 week and 1 day untill i get to go back to camp and have fun and see all my old camp friends. ah good times.


so there you go three positive thoughts to drown out my last not so positive post

annoying parents

ok my parents are very annoying, yes i admit i do have it pretty lucky and i have a great family but some times they can drive me compleatly crazy. ok this is what happend. i whent to the becah with evey one and we were having a great time lots of fun nothing to worry about. in the middle of it my mom phones me on my cell and tells me that they are going to go out for dinner. and that i can call them when i need a ride home. soon it it only me shannon and john left on the beach. shannon is waiting for her ride so i decide to call my parents for a ride home. They just left the house and my mom says that they are going to go eat first and then come and pick me up. i am fine with that i can hang out at the beach some more or i can go wonder in sidney if i need to. ten minutes later my mom phones back she askes me if i have my house key and an enought money for the bus. i tell her that i have enough money for the bus but i forgot my house key. she says ok and that is the end of the conversation. so i am still chilling with people on the beach. then my mom calls back for a third time and i can hear my dad sort of yelling at the other end. we have a spare key that a used and forgote to put back one time. my mom is asking me if the spare key is out so they can drop me off home and then i can go in. i say no. i forgote to but it back. my dad is getting even more angry. i tell my mom to go out for dinner and have fun and i can just chill . affter that i realise that when i do get picked up i am going to be getting a lecture when they decide to pick me up. i sort of laught about it with shannan and john who are there. then i swear two minutes later my mom phones again and says that they are at the playground by talista park and they are waiting for me. great i get to have the lecture early. i say good by to shannan and john and i go meet my parents and get in the car. The whole way back home i am getting lectured.

but it was really annoying because my dad did not just come out and say what he was mad about like most normal sain people do. instead he was asking me questions like what i ate for lunch i tell him that i had cupcakes and chips and some grapes. apperently he did not hear the grape part. he was telling me that i should have eaten more then just junk food. then when he was done with that he was asking me why i stoped taking key bord lessons. The sad thing is that we have had this conversation before. and this gets into one of thoes conversations when the parent is not really listening to what you have to say and are only hearing what they whant to hear. Well then fianaly we get home. and my dad unlocks the door. i go grabe the spare key and put it back out were it is supposed to be. i just want to get up to the computer and hide but my mom stopes me on the way by. she tells me that i am not allowed to leave the house again without a key . then she tells me that the whole time on the drive to the beach my dad was getting angry with her about me. and that they did not even get to go out for dinner because i was being irrisponsible. i yell at her and say that i do not need to hear another lecture. so now my mom and my dad are mad at me. At least when my mom is mad she will still talk to me normaly. when my dad gets mad he will eather not talk to me which can be very annoying or he will bring up something else to lecture me about like i should clean my room or i do not walk the dog enough ger parents can be annoying. yes i know that i should have taken a key but is it just me or were my parents over reacting.

quotes and thoughts

on wednesday Sarah and katlin came over to my house. We had a great time. i showed them the ponds by my house and then we went for a hike.whent in the hottub. also i have this white board down stairs in my house. we compleatly cleaned it off and then started writing quotes and thoughts all over it. i have added a couple more. one of the quotes that i put on there was: the future is ment for thoes who follow there dreams. i thought it was interesting. i love having a white bord just right randome stuff wether your being silly or it is a serious thought. not every one has a white bord or something to write on or in. so i would like for every one who reads this to post a commoent that can be a qute or a thought or whatever. it can be something really random and silly if you want like : i like cheses.

so write away.

sounds like me

i saw this list and it was titled you know your obsessed with the phantom of the opera when. i laught because some of this sounded like things that i do. and i know some of you will get a laugh out of this and be like yep that sounds like laura all right. so enjoy

1. Going downstairs, you sing "Down once more to the dungeons of my black despair...!"
2. You really believe in Angel of Music
3. You know all musical songs (especially E/C duets) by heart
4. When you come back from the cellar you hum "I remember there was mist... swirling mist upon a vast, glassy lake..."
5. When in conversation, you can't help but echo "darkness" "silent" and "decided" after someone says it
6. You squeal to no end when you meet someone with the initials "E.C."
7. You think Gerard Butler is hotter with the deformity than without
8. Whenever you see a mirror, ANY mirror, you smile and hum "Angel of Music", hoping Erik is behind it, watching for you
9. When-ever something bad happens, (stubbing toe, getting bills in the mail) you cry "It's him! The Phantom of the Opera!"
10. You force your boyfriend to dress up as Erik (including mask, cloak, and fedora)
11. When you catch your sister reading your diary, you scream, "Damn you! You little prying Pandora!"
12. You argue for hours on end with anyone who tries to tell you that Raoul is Christine's true love and she only felt pity for Erik
13. You've sent threatening notes (signed "O.G.", of course) to Andrew Lloyd Webber, demanding that he rewrite his musical to have Erik and Christine together at the end. You'd send them to Gaston Leroux, too, if he was still alive.
14. you have wrote your friends letters sighned o.g
15. You're convinced that you were Christine in a past life, and you were brought back so you could find the reincarnation of Erik and correct your past mistake of choosing Raoul
16. When you catch your sister reading your diary, you scream, "Damn you! You little prying Pandora!"
17. If you're seen smiling in the hallways, everyone knows it's because you're singing Phantom songs
18. You save all the Erik & Christine icons that you can find and end up having to burn a whole CD of them or have a huge file filled with them
19. You watch the Phantom and Christine parts over and over again and never get tired of it
20. You no longer use the word "Raoul", merely "that fop"
21. You scream at anyone who refers to Erik as "the Phantom" and Christine as "Christina". We don't care about how Raoul is pronounced.
22. You refer to school subjects you dislike as "repulsive" or "loathsome" (and also the teachers).
23. When you're absentminded, everyone knows that you hear the angel of music singing songs in your head.
24. Everytime you hear a name from the Phantom, you jump in surprise.
25. Everytime you hear a loud sound from an organ, you jump in surprise.
26. When you're listening to your Phantom of the Opera soundtrack, you sing Christine's part and act everything out
27. You've realized you have harbored bitter feelings towards Christine in wishing the Phantom was yours. *and may or may not have felt guilty afterwards*
28. When asked to name elements of a perfect guy, the first thing that comes out of your mouth is he has to sing
29. When you would go with every single kind of Phantom, even the Lon Chaney version from 1925.
30. You always MUST do the extra credit for a test or any other school assignment, just for the sake of writing 'EC' on your paper.
31. When your friends see you staring off into space with a ridiculous grin on your face they know it\'s because the Phantom of the Opera is there, inside your mind.
32. You plan on naming your kids Erik and Christine. And also you cry/kick/scream/shout/get depressed when your schools prom theme is masquerade and you cant go : /
33. You've watched the movie enough times that you know what people are going to say ten to twenty minutes before they say it.

random update

ok so i realized that i have writien a blog entry in some time so this is just going to be a random update on what i am doing. lets see first off school is ok i had a test in social studies on goverment which i thought i was going to bomb but hey turns out that i got a b on it so that is good. in english i am reading lord of the flies . i know that it is an important book to read but i really do not like the story it is so depressing. biology is interesting but also boring because i have to take a bunch of notes which is never fun so blah.

out side of school my life is good i am still taking piano lessons, and as i am sure all my friends know i am obsessed with phantom of the opera so i have been learning how to play some of the songs on the piano. right now i am learning the music of the night. i can play the whole song fine with my right hand but on the last page i still need to learn how to do it hands together. on wednesdays i have been volenteering at the panorama so that i can work there (you can find out more about that in an entry bellow) its lots of fun. but last week i had to take the bus there which was fine. but it was annoying because when i got there the pool was closed. turns out a light feel and glass ended up breaking in the pool so they had to drain the pool and clean it so i did not get to teach that day. instead i went home ate chips and talked to friends on msn.

oh and today i was wearing my led zeppelin shirt and this kid came up to me and was like "as if you listen to led zeppelin name one song". and i was like ok "ramble on, whole lotta love, scince i have been loving you, bron-yur, bron-yur-stomp, the ocean, immigrant song," and i named a whole lot more. it is always fun when someone thinks that your a poser for wearing something and then you get to prove them wrong .

that is all that i can think of that has been happening with me . i am sure that there will be more random up dates to come.
-laura

busy

ok it seems that more and more of my friends are getting jobs and getting to busy to hang out. it seems that making money seems to be really important.ha ha who knew. i was talking with my friend natasha who recently got a job at west marine and she seems to really love it. she will always show up at school affter the weekend talking about how much fun she had working and yadda, yadda , yadda. so i was talking to some of my friends saying that maybe i should get a job. that way i can have some extra money and so on and so forth.

but they seem to be saying no dont do it. to quote natasha "we may be making money but we have sacrificed our freedom to do so". so in other words they dont get to hang out with friends or go to town on the weekend anymore. but the thing is for me well all my friends have jobs that means that i am not hanging out with friends as offten any more because they seem to busy working. it is freken annoying.

To be honest the money would be good but i do not really want a job. they way i see it is your only young once. why should i worry about getting a job. but hey all my friends are doing it. so ya every one seems busy so it is sort of frustrating and irritating and any other good words that you can think of to discribe it.


but as i said in another post. i am working at the panorma to get a job so right now i think i have gotten my self confused. well some people are saying get a job because that way you get money (yay money) but others are saying don't do it because you will be sacrificing your freedom. but like i said before it does not make sience haveing that freedom when every one else is working.

what is the point in having freedom when there is no one t0 share it with?

wesnesday's

wednesdays always seem to be the longest day in the week (affter monday) . they are the day that is in the middle the day that you start to get excited because it means that there are only two more days of school left. this wednesday for me was quit intersting. here is what i did.

1. whent to school. ug school is school nothing really exciting to report.

2. cought the bus to the panorama so i could do my second day of trining and teaching little kids to swim.

3. got to the panorama (did not notise sighn on the door that said the pool was closed)

4. got changed and was ready to go but then realized the pool was closed.

5. walked to family friends house and got a ride home.

7. ate dinner and talked with friends on msn.


- ok pretty boring i amit but dont worry it gets better.

8. sarah came over whent and got a slupie with her (only told parents we were going to get a slurpie)

9. whent to thrifties and droped off bottles and said hi to friends that worked there.

10. randomly picked out flowers for friend.(they had a black ribion tied around them)

12. started driving to katline's house so we could give her flowers

13. got to her house realized she was working turned around and went to her work.

14. gave her flowers. got french fries( ummm french fries)

15. walked randomly around sidney.

16. got bottle disided to do something on my list of things to do befor i die.

17. whent back to car.

18. found paper. and wrote a note.

19. drove to the peir. stuck note in bottle

20. raced sarah down the peir (she won)

21. droped bottle in water.

22. raced sarah back. (i won. but just because i cut her off she clames i cheated. thats not cheating its just part of the game)

23. whent back to my house and sat in hot tub.

24. played air hockey (sarah won).

that is pretty much my day.

it was fun. well sorry if theis entry was boring but whatever i write what i write so blah.

work at the panorama

so today affter school was my first day of volentering at the panorama recreation center. it was so much fun. i am training to be a swimming instructer. i think it would be an awsome job for me because i love swimming and i love little kids. so anyway today was pretty cool. i helped teach three classes. the frist class was great i was teaching kids how to do front glide and back glide it was lots fun and we played some games that i remember playing when i was learning how to swim at panorma oh.. memorys.

the last two clasess were in the little pool and i was mostly playing games with the kids that tought them how to swim insted of just directly teaching them. we plyed motoerboat, klunk goes kurmit the frog, fishy in the middle and purple stew. it was awsomet. i also tought them how to do back float and front float. its funny some of the things like that, that seem so simple to us is something that you acctually have to teach but it was fun.

there was this one kid thoe who did not speak english and it was kind of hard to get him to do anything because i would tell him to go agenst the wall and he would just stare at me with a blank look so i would have to try and motion to him or show him. i am pumped right now i love working with little kids and i cannot wait untill next wednesday when i get to do it again.

it will be great if once i have all my volunteer work and training done if i could get a job teaching kids how to swim.
-laura

cool e-mail

i got this sent to me as an e-mail and it gives me alot to think about. i thought you might enjoy it

This is and interesting portrayal of space.
>>When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the
>>2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and
>>had some items in front of him. When the class began, he
>>wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and
>>proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students
>>if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
>>The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into
>>the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the
>>open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students
>>again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. >>
>>The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the
>>jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once
>>more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous
>>"Yes!"
>>The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table
>>and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the
>>empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said
>>the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize
>>that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the
>>important things.God, your family, your children, your health,
>>your friends and your favorite passions; and if everything else
>>was lost and only they remained, your life would still be
>>full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job,
>>your house and your car. The sand is everything else....the small stuff."
>> >>"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is
>>no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.
>> If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you
>>will never have room for the things that are important to you."
>>"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
>>Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take
>>your spouse out to dinner. There will always be time to clean the
>>house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls
>>first.....the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The
>>rest is just sand." One of the students raised her hand and
>>inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "
I'm >>glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full
>>your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of
>>coffee with a friend."

friendship

Did you ever find that sometimes you will have the dumbest arguments with your friends. It is not normaly friends that you just meet it will be your closest friends that you have known for a long time. Me and my friend Natasha have gotten into some of the dumbest arguments you can imagine. Like how to pronounce stuff. And why people act the way that they do.

There are always the friends that come and go. The ones that your not that close to. The type that will just give up on your friend ship way to easily . And then there are the friends were you might litterlay have a screaming match with and then you can come back the next day and just laught and say sorry I was an idiot. And go about your day. Thoes are the true friends that you can never let go of.

The friends wear if your having trouble they will be over as soon as they can. Or they will let you sleep over at there house. Friendship is a wonderful thing and I think that some people just give up to easily.

If you see a friend that is in trouble go and comfort him/her have a talk. I have so many great friends who I love so much and am so happy that I have them. I feel sorry for people out there who have never known what a true friend was.


One of my favorite quotes "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.Walk beside me and be my friend.".

Think about it
-laura

women vs crows

ok i have come to the conclusions that women are alot like crows. and this is how

1. you attack one of us and the rest will come affter you ( in other words do not mess with us or you might get a killer weggie. i belive my friends jesse and matt found that out)

2. we are scavangers we can find food anywere( alyssa would definatley find food. she is the best scavanger i know)

3. we like shinny things( for all you guys out there. we will like you more if you give us something shiny. like a braclet or a ring or a necklace)

4. if you touch our chicks we will rip you eyes out with are claws ( me my self not being a mother have never had that experience but i think it works for friends also. mess with one of my friends and trust me you will be sorry)

that is why us women or like crows.

have a nice day .( caaaw caaw)

camp

the story behind my title

hey
i got an a person who asked what the deal was with my title and why i want to watch a brige burn. ok to answere that question first i have to let every know that i am a fan of phantom of the opera. i mean huge i think i am obsessed. so anyway in the movie there is a song called point of no return. and in that song there is a part were the phantom sings the bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn. and i really liked that line so i decided to use it as my title. so i thought that a clever link title would be cross the bridge. so ya that is the story behind my name. it is not that i want to watch a bridge burn it is just that i am obsessed with a movie that has that as line in it.
keep asking me questions its fun to answere them

phobias

so i am sure that every one has a fear of some thing if not well then you deserve a pat on the back.

so i was board and i found this web site that tells you the name of phobias. there are some really funny ones like the fear of left handed people. i am left handed muahahahahaha lol. any way my friend rachel said that she would like to see this web site when i was talking to her about it and i thought maybe other people would to so here is the link to the website
http://www.phobialist.com/reverse.html

well enjoy i just hope that non of you suffer from Cyberphobia or else you will most likley not be reading this
have fun

led zeppelin

You need coolin’, baby, I’m not foolin’,I’m gonna send you back to schoolin’,Way down inside honey, you need it,I’m gonna give you my love,I’m gonna give you my love.Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? You’ve been learnin’, baby, I bean learnin’,All them good times, baby, baby, I’ve been yearnin’,Way, way down inside honey, you need it,I’m gonna give you my love,I’m gonna give you my love.Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? (various mumblings and screechings with cool effects)You’ve been coolin’, baby, I’ve been droolin’,All the good times I’ve been misusin’,Way, way down inside, I’m gonna give you my love,I’m gonna give you every inch of my love,Gonna give you my love.Yeah! all right! let’s go!Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? Wanna whole lotta love? Way down inside, woman,You need love.Shake for me, girlI wanna be your backdoor man.Hey, oh, hey, ohOh, oh, ohKeep a-coolin’, baby,Keep a-coolin’, baby.

whole lotta love one of my favorit led zeppelin songs.

ok as most of my friends know i am a huge led zeppelin fan and they have a tendency to bug me about it. there are also many friends who do not even know who led zeppelin is. so right now i feel it my duty to place in this spot a led zeppelin bio. so that you all can get knowlage on one of the greatest bands ever.
unfortanitly it would take me forever to type it up so here is a link that you all can go to

http://www.keno.org/classic_rock/led_zeppelin_bio.htm


enjoy
and rock on

what do you want to do

so i was re-reading my list of things that i want to do and i got thinking

there are lots of things to do in this world and i am sure that i am not the only one who has a list. i know that sarah has a list which i think is cool. i was wondering for all the people who are reading this. what are some of the things that you really want to do through out your life. even if it is something that is most likley never going to happen. like and for me i put meet all the living members of led zeppelin(i am a huge led zeppelin fan for anyone who did not know. i blame my dad he was the one who introduced them to me. but that can be a different blog entrie). i truly belive that it is good to have a list of things that you want to do because even if you do not compleate it. your still seeting goals for your self. and if school has tought me anything it is that it is good to have goals in your life.

so share your list or if you do not have a list just let me know some of the cool or random things that you want to do.

random facts

here are some random facts that i found that i thought people might find interesting

- The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

-The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

-If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

-The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.


-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit


-Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

-A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

-Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living

-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

- Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" andused a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places - refers to "40 days," they meant many days.

-Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

lol i find some of these funny hope you enjoyed them

worn out

saturday and sunday i have been taking training at the panorama recreation center. so that i can be a swimming instructor. i was there for eight hours both days from nine to five. i am very worn out. some people reading this might be thinking oh how worn out can training make you. well i will tell you it made be really worn out. ok this is what we have done in the class room.
-make posters
-go over the history of the red crose
-go over the different typis of swimming stroks you can do
-go over the different types of learning
and more

that was not the tiering part. the part that has worn me out this weekend and soon to have me out next weekend is the swiming. i am normaly a strong swimmer but hey i still get tired this is what we did:
-20 laps of the pool non stop
-two laps of front crawl
-two laps of back crawl
-two laps of side stroke
-two lapes of brest stroke
-one lape of egg beter(that is when you tread water but without your hands so you end up going back wards)
-tread water for 3 minutes
-all the different steps for teaching each one of thoes stroks
- act like we were little kids and the instructors showed us how to teach little kids.
-and much more that would take me for ever to list.

any way i am pooped and all that i can say right now is thank god that i get to rest and hoory for my dad buying a hot tube because it is the best thing ever right now.

lights go out

ok last night around nine the power went out at my house. it was very crepy for me becuse i live in a area were there are no street lights and it goes compleatly dark. keep in mind that i am also a chicken and get scard very easaly. normaly when i get scared i will turn to my older brother we do not even have to be talking we can just sit in the same room and i feel better. but hey guess what older brother was not home. infact he is all the way in ausralia and will not be back for six months. so the thought that came to me.

i could just watch movies and tv shows on my ipod up in my room so i am destracted and not getting scard or being a chicken. but guess what the battery is low and does not have enought power to let me do that. so i am sitting in my room sort of creped out then i look over and i see that my bible is sitting on my night stand. i pick it up and start to read it. it is great my fear was gone. and i felt like i was back in old times reading the bible by candle light. it was really cool. i managed to fall asleep no longer being creeped out.

childhood

wow does anybody else just find them selfs thinking about there childhood. it seems just like yesterday. yes i know i am only 16 and according to the goverment or whatever i am still a child but it is great to look back on thoes days when i did not have as much resposability as i do know in high school. so i was wondering(please comment) what games did other people do as children. off the top of my head some things that i remember doing are.
-sliding down the stairs in my house on one of thoes giant books. that was fun so much for reading
-does annybody else remember pog. i used to play that so much
- ha me and my naiboours would louge down my road on skate board when we were little .that really was not safe
- my naibours and i were also the sterotypical canadians we would play road hockey all the time. we would even hold our own tournament, the trophy was a juice bottle filled with cessnuts
ahh so many good memorys. anyway for anybody who is reading this i whant to know whatcrazy,cute or just plain funny things you did. so please comment

list of things to do before i die

ok i was very very...... board one day so i decided that i would make a list of all the things that i want to do before i die. so here is the list for your humor and mine. oh also if you have any creative or original ideas that i could add onto this list please let me now/Things to do before I die
1) graduate
2) go to Scotland
3) travel across Canada
4) see phantom of the opera live
5) meet all the living members from led zeppelin
6) send a message in a bottle
7) go to the opera house in Paris France
8) give birth
9) donate blood
10) go streaking
11) write a book and get it published
12) go scuba diving
13) eat haggis
14) see how many marshmallows I can fit in my mouth
15) read war and peace
16) be on every continent
17) join a protest(that I believe in)
18) write a letter to five famous people and see who responds first
19) get my portrait done
20) milk a cow
21) ride a llama
22) fall madly in love
23) drop a penny of the empire state building
24) send Alyssa a hot Scottish guy
25) pet a sheep in ten different countries
26) find out what McDonalds burgers are really made up
27) swim in a pool filled with ice tea
28) go in a hot air balloon
29) start a food fight
30) kiss in the rain
31) go Han gliding
32) moon George bush
33) watch Natasha merry Danny (yes Vegas counts)
34) hug a tree
35) make the word koob popular
36) dance in the rain
37) make balloon dart paint
38) make a giant finger painting
39) make a sea shell necklace
40) read the bible from cover to cover
41) wear an avocado face mask and convince three other people to do it with me
42) go to youth convention
43) ride in a limo
44) dress as a clown
45) create a time capsule with a group of my friends
46) yell drecola on the top of my lungs on a cliff
47) pet a dolphin
48) touch the worlds largest coffee po
t49) dress as the phantom one Halloween
50) adopted a chilled in need
51) kiss a Scottish guy
52) take keyboard lessons
53) touch a shark
54) go to a jimmy page concert
55) see green day in concert(again)
56) watch the movie Casanova
57) have a giant water balloon fight
58) trough a pie in someone’s face
59) get my full drivers license
60) be a audience member in the tonight show
61) be a audience member in the Ellen degenerous show
62) attempt to learn Gaelic
63) pull a all nighter(watch the sun set and rise)
64) witness an eclipse
65) witness a meteor shower
66) find a job I love
67) overcome my fear of clowns
68) buy a Laura Lilly and grow it
69) create my own family tradition
70) do the terry fox run
71) go to bible collage
72) send some one a dozen red roses
73) receive a dozen read roses
74) fly in a helicopter
75) work with kids
76) wear a skirt with my family tartan on it
77) get married
78) run through a field of sunflowers
79) see the ancient ruins of Pompeii
80) take lots of pictures
81) live life to the fullest