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.