tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36196391651902336472024-03-12T17:07:17.216-07:00Caro the IncorrigibleCarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-77085328336369295712012-08-02T23:55:00.001-07:002012-08-03T00:01:14.019-07:00Shut the door to the moon... and let the souls wander<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frank Sinatra - Moon River</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Radiohead – Sail to the Moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brett Dennen – Just Like the Moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Black Ghosts – Full Moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neko Case – I Wish I was the Moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bruno Mars – Talking to the Moon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chris Cornell – Moonchild</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also I just wanted to include a few pictures taken of the full moon all across Canada. I take no credit for these pics, although for some I wish I could since they are gorgeous!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-61923823504503415782012-06-22T15:42:00.000-07:002012-06-22T15:45:45.711-07:00Green makes me happy<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">I avoid this
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Short posts. I have been advised to stick to short,
FREQUENT posts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Let’s see if
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Look! Green!
Green makes me happy! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">I have been looking into dresses for an upcoming social event this summer. Honestly, green is in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Very MOD look. I like the cut of the top. If the dress were shorter I would probably wear it like a tunic, paired with leggings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I know this dress is kind of a hit-or-miss, but I like this pixie-look. I like the double-sheer layer on top. I think a pair of moto boots would really urbanize the look. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC';">Luckily, they all range under $50 which makes me (and my wallet very happy). Although I suppose I could make my wallet REALLY happy and just stick to the wardrobe I have, but what's the fun in that? The cheapest, "green" look I could go for is this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC';">And that look comes naturally! Although I would look much happier being that green. </span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-63962832792052422432012-04-23T21:16:00.002-07:002012-06-22T14:35:23.211-07:00Finished! Yay Summer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Don’t know what the Hunger Games is? Get out from under your rock you caveman! The countdown is officially on until I get to see it tomorrow!! Currently 5:10pm while I am writing this so that makes it a little less than 31 hours!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Food I’ve been craving a lot lately: breakfast food<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ok who doesn’t like breakfast food? Well it’s just I’ve been craving it all the time. Last really great breakfast meal I had was when I took my sister out for a birthday brunch over a week ago and the food – as simple as eggs, bacon and pancakes can be – was just soooooo good! Breakfast any time of the day is just awesome. And it doesn’t matter how many times I’ve had breakfast food in the past week because I just want it again the next day. In factI am kind of craving pancakes again right now…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Current app-craze: Draw Something<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s like Pictionary but easier and harder at the same time. Easy since they give you a set of letters with the answer scrambled in there; hard since I can’t draw for shit. But it’s crazy-addicting and has been taking up a lot of my attention in lectures. Plus it’s a free app so bonus! But exhibit A of my awesome drawing skills...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the n look at these total overachievers...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Album I’ve been listening to non-stop recently: Sucker Punch Soundtrack<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Surprisingly the movie was not too bad – well not too bad as a bunch of girls in skimpy school girl and or leather outfits in action scenes could be. As a person with no extensive knowledge on CG and special effects, as an avid-movie fan I can admit all of that looked really cool even from just a computer monitor. What really made the movie for me was the soundtrack: it had everything from Bjork to Silversun Pickups, with even a few tracks sung by the lead actress herself, Emily Browning. The soundtrack has that “heavy metal/rock meets electronica” sound to it topped off with some haunting female vocalists. Moreover there is a pretty wicked Queen mash-up on the soundtrack that brings “We Will Rock You” to another foot-stomping level for me. Yet I have to say that my favorite song by far is Emiliana Torrini’s cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”… it’s just one of those rare moments when you go from liking an already good original song to loving it even more after hearing the cover. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Something that totally impressed me recently: sister’s mad cooking skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ok so her cooking skills aren’t that much of a surprise since I’ve always known she was good at what she makes but she just recently tried something new and it was incredibly tasty! She found a recipe online to make dim sum and she totally aced it! Everything was homemade by her and they just look like the real deal you pay $5 for at a restaurant! Way to go sis! Now go make some more (please)!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Youtube history: The Graham Norton Show<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I discovered Graham Norton back shortly after the first Lord of the Rings movie came out. Orlando Bloom was the IT guy and I went on this huge rampage of being obsessed with him and subsequently looking up anything I could find about him or with him in it on the Internet, which led me to his Graham Norton interview. I didn’t look anything up Graham Norton-related for years until quite recently when I came across his interview with Adele and since then I’ve just been looking up ALL his interviews. He is quite hilarious and there is something about British shows where not only do they have a different, smugger sense of humor but they can pretty much get away with talking about anything on his talk show. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My “who knew cats could be so cute” epiphany: The Scottish Fold<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I mean, come on! Just look at this cat! Look how cute it is! That round head, its soft looking fur, its cute little poses!! I want one soooooooooooo bad!! I mean I’ve never really been a cat person but this is something I just want to have curled up on my bed with me! It is impossibly hard looking for a breeder in Vancouver and that aside these little furballs are hella expensive! But I am totally looking for one still. I am thinking my best bet is to look for a U.S. breeder since those seem more common, especially in the Washington or Oregon state. I mean this is the kind of pet that if I knew someone who had one, it would not be below me to steal it from their homes. Seriously! So cute!! You couldn’t blame me if I did! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/z_AbfPXTKms/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z_AbfPXTKms&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z_AbfPXTKms&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Hands down the CUTEST Scottish Fold out there, I mean come on! Look at that box sliding!)</span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-1550742413120162682012-02-07T23:59:00.000-08:002012-02-08T00:01:25.267-08:00Sing it 'til it hurts<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Current top ten songs that make the heart wrench just a little more. Some of which I found from our playlist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">10. </span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">If you ask me how I’m doing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I would say I’m doing just fine</span><br />
<pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I would lie and say that you’re not on my mind</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> But I go out and I sit down at a table set for two</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> And finally I’m forced to face the truth</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> No matter what they say, I’m not over you</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "Not Over You"</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Kristen ITC;"></span> </pre><pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">9. Where have you gone?</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> The beach is so cold in winter here</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> And where have I gone?</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I wake in Montauk with you near</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> Remember the day </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> ‘Cause this is what dreams should always be</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I just want to stay</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I just want to keep this dream in me</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "Losing Your Memory"</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">
</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: medium;">8. And I'd give up forever to touch you</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: medium;"> 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: medium;"> You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: medium;"> And I don't want to go home right now</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: medium;"> - "Iris"</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">7. You never get to choose</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> You live on what they sent you</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> And you know they’re gonna use</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> The things you love against you</span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "Falling Awake"</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">6. Oh lover I’m old</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> You’ll be out there and be thinking just of me</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> And I will find you down the road</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> We’ll return back home to where we’re meant to be</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "Duet"</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">5. I’d like to linger with you til the morning</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> And pretend the winter has given to spring</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> Conjure up guilty reminders together</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> Fade into this like we both used to be To carry you on</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "Tied to Me"</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Kristen ITC;"></span> </pre></pre><pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">4. Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> And feather canyons everywhere, looked at clouds that way</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> But now they only block the sun, they rain and they snow on everyone</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">
</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I've looked at clouds from both sides now</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> From up and down, still somehow</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> It's cloud illusions I recall</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I really don't know clouds at all</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "Both Sides Now"</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Kristen ITC;"></span> </pre></pre><pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">3. You can’t play on broken strings</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> You can’t feel anything that your heart don’t want to feel</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I can’t tell something that ain’t real</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "Broken Strings"</span></pre><pre> </pre></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">2. Are you really here or am I dreaming?</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I can’t tell dreams from truth</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> For it’s been so long since I have seen you</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I can hardly remember your face anymore</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> When I get really lonely
When the distance causes only silence</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> I think of you smiling
With pride in your eyes, a lover that sighs</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> - "If You Want Me"</span></pre><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">1. Et nous aurons pour nous l'éternité<br />
Dans le bleu de toute l'immensité<br />
Dans le ciel plus de problèmes<br />
Mon amour crois-tu qu'on s'aime<br />
Dieu reunit ceux qui s'aiment</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> (We would have eternity for ourselves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> In the blue of all the immensity</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> In heaven, no more problems</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> My love, do you believe that we love each other?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> God reunites those who love each other)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">- "</span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Hymne à L’amour"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span id="goog_1660856744"></span><span id="goog_1660856745"></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whatever I am feeling... I am blaming it on having an extended case of the Mondays (more of a month-long thing), lack of vitamin D (yes, it has been sunny but I am always inside in class or at the Centre), and topped off with school.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> School is usually the root of the problem to many things. But I think that’s what happens when you take 5 courses without an elective. Why oh why am I taking so many? *shouting out to the “heavens”* Oh right, it’s because I prefer to finish my undergrad before my ten-year high school reunion. That doesn’t seem likely. I am probably more likely to change my major again right before I am supposed to graduate. It’s kind of my thing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">I don’t really know what to write about. Sadly I have been able to keep up with all my 2012 resolutions except for keeping up maintenance on here. So what random thought can I share?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">*thinking* ...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">I am missing California. I really want to go there during spring break. I think it would be good for my mental and emotional health. Also just so I could get my Polaroid-photography on. Plus my shorts are collecting dust...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfiFw134mDXhmcOnt1BDt6I9xbwORREI3HtQlZHDZS8lNLkVIWlHJGj_g-HAjQ7jOpNnqyARzWBtNuZHIgxpWREeDm1LYeogEyJ1Ai2P3IutzmL9MGP5OK_rsyg_abSPqpkzGl-Sqyy0/s1600/santa-monica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirfiFw134mDXhmcOnt1BDt6I9xbwORREI3HtQlZHDZS8lNLkVIWlHJGj_g-HAjQ7jOpNnqyARzWBtNuZHIgxpWREeDm1LYeogEyJ1Ai2P3IutzmL9MGP5OK_rsyg_abSPqpkzGl-Sqyy0/s320/santa-monica.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">(Pacific Coast Highway) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Ever since I first went there, it just feels like a part of me stayed there. It’s found its niche there. Maybe it’s not that I miss California then; maybe it’s just me missing the part of me that’s back there. Or maybe I just miss the person I am while I’m there. There’s a lot of sentimental ties between me and that place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCSFE2jKDGt88Zlc9RV1qRhEIGe4feAmf1W_Fopadvnp42BbvsDuujkEUiFDVsoexZvzDFJMmPtEqsvcDoN93TBjNWitwuHBcTTpt2NpogTTJWqfqWHa00l45Byy0Kw0bhI4KtJUGiNs/s1600/santa-monica-pier-and-walk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCSFE2jKDGt88Zlc9RV1qRhEIGe4feAmf1W_Fopadvnp42BbvsDuujkEUiFDVsoexZvzDFJMmPtEqsvcDoN93TBjNWitwuHBcTTpt2NpogTTJWqfqWHa00l45Byy0Kw0bhI4KtJUGiNs/s320/santa-monica-pier-and-walk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">(Santa Monica walk post-sunset)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So to help me quell my longing for the Golden coast, I have a playlist to help me whenever I fall into this mood. Here are just a few of the songs in an increasingly-growing playlist:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/7hbC-_79p7I/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7hbC-_79p7I&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7hbC-_79p7I&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">San Diego Serenade – Tom Waits</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/zJXQSBWO5Qc?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">O Valencia – The Decemberists</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qqygb8yAfmE?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">California Love – 2Pac ft. Dre (Yeah, how could I not add this song?)</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/BMt1Xbofi4M?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">California Waiting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Kings of Leon</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/XoeqDcwe98M?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">California – The Kooks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">California English – Vampire Weekend</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/PikvvTYnsDw?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> California Queen – Wolfmother</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/cjCa8i5JDF4?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"> California Sun – Ramones</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/cY6bvUfe3Jw?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In California – Neko Case</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe if I do enough penny-saving I can do a quick trip up and down. Granted I survive midterms... fingers crossed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Until next time...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">-Caro-</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Despite the rain that seems to be plaguing Vancouver, there is an undeniable feeling of winter in my bones that makes me feel equally excited and calm. The excited part may have something to do with the fact that there’s exactly a month left until Christmas Eve. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Personally, I can’t wait for the snow. Granted, I should clarify that I am only a fan of it when I am either inside watching it fall down gracefully, or I am outside the next day and everything is covered in white and the sun is out. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">What I am not a fan of is watching Vancouverites assuming they can resume with their regular 80 km/hour speed on roads and be utterly surprised when one minute they are driving down a street and the next, their car is teetering on the edge of a ditch. ROAD SENSE PEOPLE, ROAD SENSE!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">But seriously, all those non-winter fans! What's not to enjoy about this season! Hot chocolate (or vanilla lattes, white chocolate mochas, spiked egg nog [really the list goes on and on here]), snowboarding (or whatever other snow activity that you prefer), fireplaces, the Christmas buzz (even if you're not a fan of the shopping-for-gifts aspect, there is a sense of community comradery that exists this time of year - and if you don't feel it then you are hanging out with the wrong crowd), and not to mention bundling up in all those layers of clothes (yes, you can be fashion-forward and still look good when you're wrapped up in layers upon layers to the point you can't see your toes anymore). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">And don't get me started on the view...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">That's a view up on cypress. Looks amazing, doesn't it? Or what about...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"> Up in the Okanagan. Views like this are gorgeous and are worth waking up early in the morning to see or to take a moment for yourself in the evening.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Now this song isn't winter/Christmas related to the average listener, but the piano in it gives me this majestic feeling where I imagine myself walking in the woods as the snow falls around all around me just as the sun is setting... maybe right during twilight (yes, those that know me well can laugh at me for that). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">The song is called "Let Me Fall in Love" and is written and performed by Marketa Irglova. For anyone who is having one of those "she sounds so familiar" moments, she is one half of the Swell Season and starred in the indie film Once alongside Glenn Hansard. They won an Oscar for their song, "Falling Slowly" in the film. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Reminder of that one: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mtXwtapX4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mtXwtapX4<span style="color: black;"> </span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"> I got to see her perform this past September when she opened up for Iron & Wine. She was a perfect fit for him as the opening act since she has that soft, lullaby voice as well. Best way to describe her performance was that she had the whole audience captivated.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Hope you enjoy the song too! </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">-Caro- </span>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-1552526281745998692011-10-12T18:21:00.000-07:002011-10-12T21:29:19.327-07:00Only comes once a year...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho32b9E30uyB0EG72dJOR0Qe2QOQz59TsRt0FcD3qyQz4QbFTNGO6kWm5wSRe5k8pU1xE9qxNYGrcKrp4j146tjb6Qps54cVGI_3JupkWx5hYzan5P665VJViDcI8leX71TjOCClXZZxU/s1600/happy-anniversary-ggtg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho32b9E30uyB0EG72dJOR0Qe2QOQz59TsRt0FcD3qyQz4QbFTNGO6kWm5wSRe5k8pU1xE9qxNYGrcKrp4j146tjb6Qps54cVGI_3JupkWx5hYzan5P665VJViDcI8leX71TjOCClXZZxU/s320/happy-anniversary-ggtg.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">I take a day to tell myself</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">It’s gonna end up fine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">It’s all part of some master plan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">We’re all a little lost inside</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Even if I run right now</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Swore you off</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">I’d still come back somehow…</span></div></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">2 years ago today and it still feels like the first day… I love you...</span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-82408074602126354542011-10-11T14:03:00.000-07:002011-10-11T14:03:27.975-07:00Word Vomit<!--[if !mso]> <style>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">I’m slowly starting to compile my files together... all 28 of them. Who knows what the word count will be at that point! </span><img alt="http://facebokemoticons.com/files/tongue.png" height="20" src="http://facebokemoticons.com/files/tongue.png" width="20" /></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">I’ve only combined 3 files and that’s my word count so far. Granted there will be TONS of chopping and slicing when I manage to get to the self-editing process but I’m light-years away from that stage still. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Finding time to write is still my biggest problem. On top of being sick and everything else, I’m starting a part-time job and then a practicum position so there will be a lot of task-juggling and late-night writing/reading/studying binges but, I figure now that I’ve managed to pick up some momentum it’d be a shame to ignore it and stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">I find that I feel the most motivated to write during my forensic psychology class where we discuss about psychopath profiling, mass homicide cases, gang crimes, etc. ... I don’t know what that says about me... Like I said, I'm just going to go with the momentum and just keep spewing these words out... like word vomit tee hee hee</span>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-21101953593976163862011-09-18T00:50:00.000-07:002011-09-19T08:36:21.198-07:00♫ Summer Jukebox ♫<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Oh September… why did you arrive so quickly?</span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Oh summer… where the hell were you these past couple months?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">The summer weather may have failed us this year (although we did have that redeeming first week of September) but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t things to enjoy… particularly the music.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Now anyone who knows me knows that I’m a tad on the obsessive side with music. Never without music on, I’m a bit of an avid concert-goer and am constantly looking to expand my library list with anything. Granted, I admit I wasn’t always so open-minded with my interests in music genres and enclosed myself in mostly what was mainstream pop or hip-hop and RNB back in my high school years; however, I’d like to say my musical tastes have matured quite significantly and am not likely to turn down anything anymore – even country. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">So enough with the narrative babble and now on with the music! Here is a compiled list of my favorite songs for the summer of 2011 – a mix of new and old. It was quite hard to narrow down this list but here are my favourite of what’s been playing off my player on repeat to help make up for the lack of summer heat! Enjoy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Summer Pool Party/BBQ Song:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"> Dudes –“Dropkick Queen of the Weekend”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">What better way to start off the list than with a Canadian band! This band’s been around since the mid 90s but this track in particular is a couple years old as well. It has an upbeat tempo that gets stuck in my head for hours. Also the fact that fist pumping is mentioned earns the song major cool points.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: And when she falls right off the deep end/Don’t bother throwing a line; you’d be wasting your time/She’s learned how to survive breathing rock and roll/Pumping her fist and she’s shaking her butt/When she comes to the show she don’t take shit from no man</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">The Underdog’s Song: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Brett Dennen – “Comeback Kid (That’s My Dog)”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Granted it helps to title this when the Brett talks about underdogs in the song, but I just imagine this playing in a movie when the “loser”/underdog triumphs over the egotistical jock: he wins the girl, takes home the trophy, people rush up to him and hoist him up on their shoulders as they parade down the streets as the song plays in the background. Surely I just described some movie-in-the-making, haven’t I?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: Well, here comes a comeback/The kid is back, is back on track/And there goes my hero/He’s an underdog, he’s coming out on top/And come on, come on back, that’s my dog</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Heartbreak Song of the Summer: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Adele – “Someone Like You”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">I’m pretty sure this song has been well played by now on the radio and some are probably already sick of it, but I honestly can’t get enough of it. The lyrics themselves are gut-wrenching, but beautiful and every time I hear Adele choke up in the chorus, I get all teary too. Sure women can joke about spinsterhood and embracing becoming the cat-lady of her neighbourhood, but the scenario that Adele describes for us in this ballad would scar and scare any woman. So single, scorned women: turn up the volume for this track, screw the glass and just grab that bottle of wine and let yourself get lost in Adele’s voice!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: Don’t forget me, I begged/I remember, you said/Sometimes it last in love/But sometimes it hurts instead</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">‘Parade Down the Street’ Song: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Foster the People – “Helena Beat”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Listening to this song, (and I realize this has nothing to do with the lyrics and this is totally just based on the instrumentals) I always have the urge to start this procession down a really busy street and imagine all these random people first watching me with these bewildered expressions but then one by one, they’d join me and we’d just dance on and on until there’s no more road as we jumped, fist pumped and twirled like there was no tomorrow. *sigh* If only…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: Sometimes life it takes you by the hair/Pulls you down before you know it, it’s gone/And you’re dead again/I’ve been places and I won’t pretend/Yeah I’d make it out just to fall on my head</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Alright I am just as confused as the next person in terms of what this music video is really about. It’s like a mix of all these different things that don’t really go together but the video has over 4 million hits on youtube so what the hell do I know. Ok but imagine this: you’re in like a Western movie setting… you just robbed a bank or a cargo train and you hop on your horse and go riding off with the cash tied to the saddle with your other bandits with you and the sheriff and other law enforcements are gunning after you… *queue this song in the background*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC;">Fave lyrics: I am leaving, this is starting/To feel like it's right before my eyes/And I can taste it/It's my sweet beginning</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">The song gives me the vibe of that whole morning after – of waking up next to someone you love with this playing in the background. The sun peaking through curtained windows and the way you admire all the little details about that person as (s)he sleeps: the tousled bed hair; the slow rhythm of their breathing, the sheets tangled between limbs… ahhh… but that’s probably just me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: I’d like to linger with you till the morning/And pretend the winter has given to spring/Conjure up guilty reminders together/And fade into this like we both used to be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Ahh Amos Lee… I could listen to you all day while I drive my oh so cool, man-purple Corolla. Just give me your album, clear bright skies, endless open highway through flat wheat fields and I think I got a road trip to Saskatchewan in the works.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: Is it what you dreamed it’d be/Are you locked up in this fantasy/Oh this miles that have torn us apart/My new found faith/And my broken heart</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Ok, yes I do realize Keith Urban is country and I proudly admit that I tune into the country radio station constantly with the hopes of hearing this song play. Seriously! Just think of summer love flings, beaches, moonlit walks hand-in-hand with that special someone! And if you can’t imagine it then just watch the damn music video! (The guy in it is hella cute and I’m also facebook friends with him and yes I do feel the need to share that detail!) This song alone is enough of a temptation for me to buy Keith’s concert tickets! And yes… the rest of his CD is just as amazingly cheesy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: It’s gonna be a long hot summer, we should be together/With your feet up on the dashboard now/Singing along with the radio, it’s such a beautiful sound/And when you say my name in the middle of the day/I swear I see the stars come out/When you hold my hand in the back of my mind/Just waiting on the sun to go down, the sun to go down</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Supposedly this band has been rumored to be the next big U2… honestly, I like U2 and obviously they are one hell of a successful band but I have to admit that I love Danny’s vocals way better than Bono’s. Props have to be given to my sister for introducing the band to me – unlike her I give credit where it’s due *cough, cough BLACK KEYS cough* Obviously, this isn’t a very happy ballad but I think the lyrics are truly beautiful and the piano really adds a great element to the song.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: And I’m sorry but now I have to go/You know we got too close, I hope you understand/That I can’t give you all the things you want/You know my heart belongs in someone else’s hands</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: It was a thousand to one and a million to two/Time to go down in flames and I’m taking you/Closer to the edge</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Such a sweet little song that I can’t help but smile with every listen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: We laugh until we think we’ll die/Barefoot on a summer night/Nothin’ new is sweeter than with you/And in the sticks we’re running free like’s it only you and me/Geez, you’re something to see</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">I feel no real need to put up “fave lyrics” for this track since, who are we kidding, it’s Pitbull so you know there’s going to be some lame Spanish words mixed in with stuff about liking this girl and that girl but really he’s going to get it on with the third girl… yadda yadda… one thing leads to another… and what do you have? A track to bounce your booty to in the club ladies! Work it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">There’s just something about me singing this song that gets my sister crackin’ up. Oh T-Swizzle, I wish you would write a song about me and how I either:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: She’s not a saint/ And she’s not what you think/She’s an actress, whoa!/She’s better known/For the things that she does/On the mattress, whoa!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">You know that old school cartoon “Log Driver’s Waltz” cartoon? (If not then click on this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8 and maybe you’ll remember) Total Canadian thing, eh but doesn’t it bring back memories?! Ok, well were I to have to make my own version of that video and dance in real life, this song would be playing in the background despite it has nothing to do with log driving but totally has that outdoor-sy, woodsmen feel. Like how the parts where the instrumental accelerates would be when I would be going down crashing ravines and treacherous rivers and at the end of the day everyone would convene in the barn for a big cookout and dance - foot stomping, banjo, and all. (Side note: I totally want these first two lines for a tattoo and oh yes, props to my sis for introducing this band to me).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: Stars hide your fires/For these here are my desires/And I won’t give them up to you this time around</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Sam just has one of those voices where he can just lull you right to sleep with his poetic lyrics. Five dollars to anyone that can decipher the meaning to any of his songs after only ONE listen. This song just has that sweet instrumental that leaves you on the cusp of waking and falling asleep.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: And you can hear them on the hilltop laughing/Cursing every bird in the air/Telling her what fun they're having/Driving eyes closed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fave lyrics: Won't you tell me my brother/'Cause there are stars up above/We can start moving forward</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">As for the list I am going to leave it there, but not without mentioning a few more note-worthy songs and artists that I am really into as well:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Mat Kearney - "Hey Mama" <--- just a total feel good song</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Aiden Knight - "Jasper"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Dan Mangan - "Oh Fortune"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Sydney York - "Dick and Jane"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Florence and the Machine - "What the Water Gave Me"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Rise Against - "Make It Stop"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">LMFAO - "Hot Dog" <-- laugh my ass off listening to it everytime</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">So I hope you enjoyed this long, OVERDUE post and maybe got introduced to a couple new artists that you might potentially fall in love with. <3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Until next time,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-86611044123244983552011-06-09T18:31:00.000-07:002011-06-20T20:09:56.798-07:00~Birthday Wishes~<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>When we were in our youth</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>We had dreams that we could fly</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>We had friends that weren't visible</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>And love that never died</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>And as we grow old and felt the pain</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>That we always knew the truth</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>That love would heal if we stayed true</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>To the dreams of our youth</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Today would have marked the 30<sup>th</sup> birthday for our friend. Every day it is always with great sorrow that we are reminded that he is no longer with us, but he would know that his friends and family continue to honour his memory by trying to live our lives to the fullest: supporting one another, loving each other, and chasing those aspirations – that even though we think are unattainable and “out there” – he supported fully. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">To mark this special day here are thirty of my most treasured memories of him.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">The critique of my bright pink lego-hoodie that supposedly “did nothing for my figure”. I don’t care what you say, that hoodie is freaking comfortable and a perfect addition to my slob-wardrobe.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Screwing up that annotated bibliography, which forced us to have to put in a couple extra days to re-do and fix it. (I can hear your sinister laugh over it still)</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Aquarius vs. Gemini </span></span><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Aquarius</span></span></b></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Gemini</span></span></b></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Symbol:</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The Water Bearer</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The Twins</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Element:</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Air</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Air</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Favourite Colour:</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Turquoise</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Green</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Key Body Parts: </span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Ankles, Circulatory System</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Arms, shoulders, lungs</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Ruling Planet:</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Uranus</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Mercury</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Strengths:</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Progressive, original humanitarian, independent</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Curiousity, ability to share ideas, adaptable, affectionate, kind</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 169.1pt;" valign="top" width="225"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Weaknesses:</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 150.4pt;" valign="top" width="201"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Runs from emotional expression, uncompromising, temperamental, aloof</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 146.8pt;" valign="top" width="196"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Scattering energy in too many places at once, fickle in love, nervous, short attention span</span></span></div></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I think the evidence I provided speaks for itself since circulatory system trumps everything but we probably should have done this research together. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The non-Asian style karaoke night in a very busy pub with a lot of strangers and you singing way too many Taylor Swift songs.</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The perfect rainy days: writing, Adele, tea (with cream and sugar though – yuck!)</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">How weird it was that whenever you called I was always in the middle of eating something and then you constantly demanding I send some of it over to you. (I swear those courier pigeons must have eaten it all)</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The day I learned that you were a hockey-freak. It was incredibly frightening. I still have nightmares about it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The day you learned I like rap and hip-hop. Especially Kanye West. I think you were incredibly frightened and probably had nightmares over it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Bets during the Olympics; our best one being for the men’s hockey gold medal game. I’m just really happy I won because I would not have been too pleased keeping my end of that bargain. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The endless ridicule I heard from you over my French-speaking abilities. You = douche.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Receiving parcels in the mail.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Going out for Korean food the first time together where you ate enough for three people and walked out with red-chilli peppers in your teeth. Oh, glorious day.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Two words: THUNDER THIGHS! (And you thought you were too old to learn anything new)</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Pirate wenches and Fabio. That’s all I’m going to say.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The day I came into class with my disastrously, short haircut only to have you point out that our hair pretty much looked the exact same (chin-length and wavy). It only got worse when I came in the next day wearing a grey beanie-cap to cover my head and you wore a similar beanie the exact same colour on the same day. Dear God I never heard the end of it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Our tagline: “... and all that other optimistic shit you love.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">All that time I put in over the phone, explaining how to set up skype step-by-step only to realize once we were done that your laptop did not have a built in webcam.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">J: I don’t know about med school but I do know I want to contribute to society. I don’t know like stopping forest fires, taming wild horses, rescuing seals, or maybe learning sign.”<br />
C: Stop talking.<br />
J: Wha-?<br />
C: That how you can contribute to society. Stop talking.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Drunk-dialing looking for the red underwear. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Clubbing in downtown Seattle. Actually just that whole night was one weird event after another.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Peanut butter and relish burritos. Fucking nasty. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">22.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Sitting through a Sex and the City episode and thinking once these 44-whatever-minutes are up I’m going to kill you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">23.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">All those hours (and huge phone bills) spent talking long distance on the phone. It was hard though because we were constantly out of synch though. Exactly one year ago we were talking for so long that I made you late for your own birthday dinner. My bad.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">24.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Walking around Stanley Park, trying to think of something to do. We did come up with some creative ideas; one which involved jumping off logs and me face-planting into the sand.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">25.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">*queue in fight music* vs. *insert kiss here*</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">26.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">All those times I sang “Teenage Dream” to you and you said you were going to go crazy when secretly you actually kind of liked it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">27.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">When you told me something you were happy about and then followed it by saying “fist pump” for the first time.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">28.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Stealing your Members Only jacket out of your suitcase. Its absence was supposedly the first thing you noticed when you started unpacking and you called me right away knowing I was the culprit. Probably helped that I confessed right away but there wasn’t much you could do about it over on the other side of the world. You even bought a smaller jacket that would fit me better hoping I would mail back yours but in the end I just wound up with two jackets. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Kristen ITC';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">29.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Swapping ipods and messing with and creating playlists. Yes, yes you get credit for 30% of the artists I like now.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">30. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">à toi, pour toujours</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Happy birthday Jesse. We all miss you terribly and wish for nothing but the opportunity to create new, lasting memories with you, but we know you’re watching over us. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">-Caro-</span></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></div></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-20328269653794897082011-05-16T19:56:00.000-07:002011-05-16T19:56:13.229-07:00Scrambling to catch up<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Eeeek! Over a month since my last post? Unacceptable! Ever since then, I have been scrambling between studying for finals, cramming for finals, and then writing those finals. Once those were out of the way it was pretty much packing for my little road trip and setting off for that. I’ve been back for a bit but I’ve still been a bit too busy to actually catch up on posting any blog updates but I promise I will soon. Once I get my first exam for summer school out of the way I will devote one day to bring my sorry ass up to speed. For the future, you can look forward to me talking about:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">My road trip</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Book signings</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Bonnie Dune concert</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Other music updates</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Fashion faux-pas post</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">And much, much more! I managed to update my “Eye Candy of the Week” and my widget boxes but until I can sit down and write a lengthier post, just be patient with me. I’ll be back soon enough!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">-Caro-</span></span></div><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"></span>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-30763422235507688342011-04-11T16:09:00.000-07:002011-04-11T16:15:55.437-07:00Got Ink?<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A couple days ago (specifically on April 7<sup>th</sup>) I was being a little vague or “mysterious” (as some people wanted to point out to me) with my tweets and facebook statuses. If anyone felt that way it’s probably because you didn’t catch any of the earlier things that I had posted the days leading up to it. Well now I’m here to clear it all up: I got a tattoo. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">On April 7<sup>th</sup> at 1:15 I walked in for my tattoo appointment at Funhouse Tattoo (located right on the corner of Cambie and 14<sup>th</sup>). I’m mostly here to chronicle that experience and a little of the back story as to what/why I got it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Now I’ve always wanted to get a tattoo – starting way, way back. Sure maybe when I was younger it was about being rebellious, but if you know me, I’m about as rebellious as a pinecone. It wasn’t too hard for me to work out the pros and cons of getting a tattoo. Yes, I do realize it is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">permanent</b> and that in like 40 years it’s going to look all saggy with my old age, but I’m not one to do/not do something just because of appearances sake. As tempting as a dragon across the cleavage or wild roses up my arm was, I always knew I wanted to get something that would mean something important to me. For the longest time I was juggling between whether I wanted this particular picture or a quote for my first ink job, but it wasn't until recently I had found my reason for getting one and the image I wanted, which in the end was something different from what I had initially narrowed it down to.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">With the recent events that had happened in the world, and more especially the loss of someone important in my life, I chose something that would honor his memory and keep him with me forever: a rune. "What is a rune?" people ask. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Rune: a form of letters from an alphabet used by Germanic/Northern Europeans in olden days before Latin became the standard. They almost look like images - think of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but more letter-like.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">And no, I did not get his initials tattooed into my skin with it. To shorten what always seems to be a long story, this is the story behind my choice:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The rune stands for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">heal/hurt not </i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>comes from a book series (The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, which if you haven’t read go pick it up and if you have read it, well you’ll know it’s awesome) that I had gotten him to read after a bit of nagging, a little reading aloud to him, and mostly him actually enjoying what he heard and then going out to buy the first book for himself. He liked the book so much he bought the second one. And then the third. He liked it so much he actually wanted to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">talk </i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about it with me afterwards. That alone felt like a huge feat since I never thought books would be a common interest we’d share, let alone be something we talked about together. This series is probably only one of sixty book suggestions that he ever followed through with. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">So really when it came to deciding on my first tattoo, this rune just felt perfect: its meaning and the ties and memories it shared with this person and me. Even when I went in to make my appointment, the fact that the tattoo artist had the time on that exact date (the 7<sup>th</sup>)… it sincerely felt meant to be.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">With my image for my first tattoo chosen, I ran it by with the parental. Now there is something that you have to understand in Asian cultures. Regardless of your age, something like this you run it by your parents. It doesn’t mean you’re necessarily asking for their permission, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have the power to prevent you from doing it. I realize I am a special breed of Asian-offspring where despite any protests from parents, I’ll argue my way right out of the situation to more or less do what I want to do in the end. My telling my parents was mostly out of courtesy to let them know what I was planning on doing. After lengthy discussions with fellow Asian friends, I realize they’re not as fortunate as me to get away with what they want in the end or live to talk about it for very long afterwards. That is to say my dad was actually rather indifferent about my decision, whereas with my mom, had I not had the reason to get one as I do now, she probably would have dragged me out of the tattoo place by my hair ends. I’ll probably be keeping any future ink-jobs to myself now though. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Picking where to get my tattoo took a bit of research. And like the image that I settled on getting, the place that I actually went to wasn’t one of my initial two final choices. It wasn’t until I went on to yelp.ca that I read about Funhouse tattoo. It had some of the best reviews, and in particular a lot of previous clients were talking about Sasha and how great she was. That was pretty much the reason why I decided on her and that location. The place is great: hair-salon type furniture, clean, great interior feel and art with sweet pictures of past tattoo jobs done by the artists. Everyone there was really nice and Sasha definitely did not disappoint. She cracked some jokes, put on some sweet music in the store (which I regret not asking who the artist was, but do know it had a Mexican-feel to), and conversed while she was tattooing me. She and the store is definitely something I’ll be recommending to friends who are interested in getting some work done and will be returning myself for any future tattoos I’ll be getting. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The process of getting the actual tattoo was just as it was expected: nerve-racking at first but in the end, not as bad as what was expected. I chose my back, over the left shoulder. At first I wanted to get it as close to my heart as possible but didn’t like the idea of getting it done near/on my boob. I know in its location on my back, it is less likely to be seen but that’s what later tattoos are for. This one is really just for me and him. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">What does getting a tattoo feel like? Well, my friend really said it best when she described it as getting “a freakin’ needle stabbing you over and over again really fast.” (In all fairness, she did warn me properly, so thanks Jess.) In some areas the skin was numb and didn’t really register any real sort of pain, but there were definitely areas where I was thinking HOLY FUCK I FEEL THAT! I FEEL IT! IT FUCKING HURTS! But that feeling was really fleeting and it mostly just required me to breathe through it. FYI: Holding your breath does not mean you won’t feel it. I just kept repeating to myself: Nothing can hurt as much as finding out that day. This will probably be my mantra for the rest of my days.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The entire thing took an hour, which went by quickly thanks to my sister who cancelled volunteer that day to be there with me for moral support. Before getting the tattoo, we went for a sushi lunch on Broadway. I was told by the guy who made my appointment and by several other people to make sure I eat something before getting the tattoo because it would keep me from fainting and focus my body on digesting the food rather than registering any pain. We walked to Funhouse rather than taking the bus just because the weather was gorgeous outside (I take as another sign that everything lined up perfectly). My sister was just as surprised as I was that I actually went through with it since we both know how I.Seriously.Fucking.Hate.Needles. For that reason and also because of my extremely low pain-tolerance, it’s no reason why she calls me the Cowardly Lion. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Sasha did a great job of prepping me beforehand, giving me time to ask questions and then going over aftercare instructions. It’s been a couple days and the skin over the tattoo is starting to peel, which I was told is normal. It doesn’t hurt or anything, but feels more like a sunburn just on that area of my body. My sister was there, not only to hold my hand, but take plenty of pictures. Unfortunately the blog won't let me upload any of my polaroid images but here's some she got on her phone. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Kristen ITC;">Here are some pictures we took a couple days after. You can definitely tell the swelling has gone down quite a bit, yet the skin-peeling has yet to take place. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Overall, I definitely recommend Funhouse tattoo as the place to go. The price was incredibly reasonable and the staff are all really nice and professional. I know my sister and I plan on returning again when we finally decide to get ours done. It’s a modest first tattoo but I am extremely pleased with how it turned out. It’s something I'll wear fondly for however many years of my life to come to help remember the good times we had together.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Wake up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Look me in the eyes again</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I need to feel your hands</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Upon my face</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Words can be like knives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">They can cut you open</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">And the silence surrounds you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">And holds you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Words can be like knives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">They can cut you open</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">And the silence surrounds you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">And holds you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I think I might’ve inhaled you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I can feel you behind my eyes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">You’ve gotten into my bloodstream</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I can feel you flowing in me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I think I might’ve inhaled you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I can feel you behind my eyes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">You’ve gotten into my bloodstream</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I can feel you flowing in me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I think I might’ve inhaled you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I can feel you behind my eyes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">You’ve gotten into my bloodstream</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tw Cen MT Condensed", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I can feel you flowing in me</span></div></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-29555181576269400912011-04-03T19:47:00.000-07:002011-04-03T20:02:19.620-07:00Sports Week<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">*cue in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hockey Night in Canada</i> song* Da-da-da-da-da! DA-DA-DA-DA-DA! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">This week is really about experiencing a lot of firsts for my world in sports: I got to go to my first hockey and soccer game. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">On Thursday I watched the Canucks take on the L.A. Kings. These were tickets that I bought way back last fall when season tickets first went on sale. This was all planned to be part of my sister’s birthday present so the long wait was well worth it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Our seats were awesome, second row in the lower plaza almost in the corner and in perfect view of the goalie and where they do the corner face-offs. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 150.75pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Canucks won the game (3-1) and the President’s Trophy!</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 150.75pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Hearing Jenn cry out “Leave him alone!” when Daniel was getting rough-handled by the Kings.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 150.75pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Flinching whenever the players got slammed up against the glass right in front of us (seriously, it happened about six times and I’m pretty sure 4 out of the 6 was Lapierre).</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 150.75pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Beer and churros although they no longer have sippy-cup lids which was kind of disappointing.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 150.75pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Watching the 2-man advantage power play during third period. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">If money weren’t an issue I would definitely see myself getting a season’s pass but it looks like I’ll be settling for a one-game-a-year instead which I’m still excited about. Here a couple pictures I took throughout the game:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tiOCMq25cNA5JPfcUL1pvCXSqsx6QBLdfkEvwfEYv21BB1r8hfKrl2Ldu1Ogz8LrpFCYkGbtNaCntdY2Gn8oQ9h8uIGXjW5vG3Xpoy-qSxUiU9oO3d-E-yS-vbBuigTvTxZ0qR7CpK4/s320/IMAG0075.jpg" width="320" /> </div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">We actually had some Kings fans sitting right behind us but they left right after Kesler scored the third goal. Sore losers really, since considering ticket costs I would have stayed ‘til the end whether we won or lost... but we won (muhahaha)</span><br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 150.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">At the time of deciding which game tickets to purchase it was a hard decision since I wanted to be sure that we would see a good game. Originally I wanted to buy tickets for when they played against Calgary Flames but tickets for those were insanely more expensive than the ones I settled with. L.A. Kings came as a recommendation from a beloved hockey buff. He’s really the one who got me even more into hockey and we even had bets during last year’s playoffs and the winter Olympics (which I happily won each time). I wish he was still here so that I could have talked about my first experience at a game; so that we could have gone to a game together. He was so excited for me – I still miss you.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 150.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">On Saturday my friend took me to the Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Sporting Kansas City game. It was a chance for us to hang out together even in the midst of end-of-term-craze and get me out of the house (Thank you Jess). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"> This is us soaking in some sun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"></span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-341960395701652052011-03-06T20:18:00.001-08:002011-03-06T20:22:15.037-08:00The Charlie Sheen Soundboard<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">If anybody knows me, then they know that I have been keeping a special interest in all the great things of Charlie Sheen these days. It’s not that I was a fan of his before a couple weeks ago it’s just that the things he is saying is just too sensational to ignore. (TIGER BLOOD!) I was never a Two and a Half Men fan or anything, and really the only memorable thing I have of him is his small role as the bad boy in Ferris Bueller. I mean you have to give the man some props, he has tested clean for numerous drugs test over the course of the past couple days but he is STILL going on strong with some of the most bat-shit crazy, but also “inspiring” rants ever! For example, who can deny “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">CAN'T is the cancer of HAPPEN</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">” is not motivating? I haven’t blogged in a while so I thought what better way to get back to it than by sharing this awesome soundboard some genius put together. Seriously, take a listen; be moved; become motivated and start WINNING!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">My usual partner in crime for most of these events is my sister. I usually have the easiest time convincing her (okay… maybe sometimes it’s coercion) to come to all these shows with me, but also because she just happens to have the same awesome taste in music as I do (of course that reason changes depending which sibling you're talking to). <span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">*I’d like to take this moment to thank Jennifer for always willing to go bankrupt with me to go to all these events over the past years* </span>But I do love going to concerts with anyone who's willing to go with me. Here are a few of my favourites...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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March 4th @ 7:30pm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Bonnie Dune @ Commodore</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">May 14th @ 8:00pm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Katy Perry @ Rogers Arena</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">July 19th @ 7:30pm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">These are just a few shows that I would gladly sell a vital organ for in order to go:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Adele @ Commodore</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">May 30th @ 7:00pm</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Bonnaroo @ Manchester, TN</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">June 9 - 12</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Granted Bonnaroo may be a far stretch, but the line-up looks amazing and I can only imagine how awesome it'd be. That and Coachella but due to how exam schedules pan out every April</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> the latter is never an option.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Since it is only late-February, I'm sure more shows will be announced for later in the year that I'll probably want to/end up going to as well. Looking forward to what's ahead so far though.</span></span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-63510853331195026572011-02-18T21:56:00.000-08:002011-02-18T22:11:54.001-08:00Clothing Extravaganza Week<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">This is really a blog covering a jumble of sorts. I’m almost at the end of my reading break and most of it has been spent working at my new tutoring job or shopping. The job has been… painful to put it mildly. I rather not taint my blog by going too deep into details (i.e. bitching) about it, but my more notable occurrences on the job will be duly noted here. So far it’s mostly been about just getting comfortable with everyone and trying to get a rhythm going between all of us.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Last Saturday I had a belated-birthday meal with family at a place called Fet’s on Commercial Drive. It was suggested by my uncle who always has the best recommendations for restaurants all over the lower mainland, and like always he didn’t disappoint with this place. The place has a wicked interior which I wish I took pictures of but being me, of course I was too engrossed in the food. I went with a brunch selection which featured everything.</span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiWOkCgfYcFx5vgLXDOKkdCd8cbGpIQcYrePopz4Bc8CoZf6Atcg4Eogyvr37N9MKaI-uQfkSLQ-hbWY753vrzLlViDRRzz9GpZCa4iSFltrfqFdNfcml7Zlt6fMWuUOBSkwajtSFiltE/s320/182645_1827100046152_1499822516_1965204_7485234_n.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">I was unable to finish my plate even after sharing my pancakes with my uncle. They were these gigantic blackberry pancakes which tasted amazing (definitely recommend them over the blueberry ones). Some of the other ordered meals were burgers, quesadillas, and omelets which all looked delicious. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvsDE7VrxbhKFnmQbAKjTI0F73a8OjwLxSb6FecucGPavmWGOt6Kv207ipE-hA92vEHePnLYyeOEwCIpTpbS3zAZmUOS40Rcgx2qDAHyUj0_tTdzijqAEADobN8o0qqLIBA30guZhzibU/s320/180758_1827104086253_1499822516_1965223_3810830_n.jpg" width="240" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">That’s me and my cousin, Sarah, goofing around as we waited for our order. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">On Tuesday I got to go shopping with some friends. We went south of the border down to Lynnwood for a day-trip, making it a nearly two hour drive there and another two hours coming back. The company was great though and we had so much fun singing (awfully off-key) a lot of pop songs, bhangra-dancing and just joking around. We went to Alderwood Mall which includes an outside and inside shopping area. The place is awesome and has practically everything, but the stores we bought stuff were American Apparel, Forever 21, Urban Outfitters, and Borders. My main purchase of the day was a ‘vicose shawl cardigan’.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8HchQSOfmTOJEEEeBhyq7-NvstYTZ8g0rLioJ-FCK0IPnUpUjsKUCMmvjxnceLVNbjlu25xVV6deHEGp_090QQ_sYtFA3W_RRNlEs2C2lcWzexDcnmTENvPPctCZYcLVV4DRyoBRUVg/s320/CIMG7319.JPG" width="240" /> <img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNyljVWey5ovaxTdTre0PCJn8aeQk9ZkLdeinZWWr94HwSYjlFpLKl5W0QtMR6Seq89V12gmNwIJySFPDL7VdOwz7tKp6yllYGsL9zRqpjJK1xymgkYvp24dMJf_CjFw3B2eSWo2IkWf8/s320/CIMG7315.JPG" width="240" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">It looks better on the mannequin but it’s wonderfully comfy and will fit well into my spring wardrobe as the weather gets slightly warmer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">My shopping continued the following day when I made purchases at Urban Outfitters, Aritzia and American Eagle Outfitters. I don’t have any pictures of those items but I will add some if I remember to take pictures when I’m actually wearing them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">I couldn’t really seem to get away from my birthday even after a week because my sister gave me the last part of my present on Wednesday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">And that 'C' is not for 'CARO' apparently, according to my sister (kidding of course, I know what it stands for).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Isn’t it beautiful?! We’re going to our first hockey game March 30<sup>th</sup> when the Canucks takes on the L.A. Kings. We’re so pumped and now all my sister needs is her own jersey. It’ll be one game where we won’t have to listen to the radio, watch over the internet or at a bar. We’ll be there that night in person in row 4! I’m also partly excited to get a sippy cup-of-beer that night.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Today I also received a package in the mail.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">It was my dress order from Le Muse. I’ve tried it on and it may not look all that flattering but as I thought, the fabric literally feels like the softest thing ever and I don’t care if I look like a huge ivory pillowcase because I am so excited to wear it!</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 290.8pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Also this afternoon my friend and I went to go see I Am Number 4. I must say that the movie picked up in the last half hour when all the action finally started getting going. Overall it was just alright, nothing profoundly great. It did have its cheesy moments but at least Alex was shirtless in several scenes. I was mostly rooting for the dog, Bernie Kosar throughout. Despite that it’s not supposed to be a horror/scary flick, the movie had both of us jumping in our seats though. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
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</span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-23791464634673178612011-02-16T10:56:00.000-08:002011-02-18T20:19:37.886-08:00Across the Universe by Beth Revis: Book Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEism0tskBOvmz4Yp5TiAj3EE4f78yNm-vnv1QQ6YsD_cOd424k80C4Sl-EXC8JaVy1Ud2edfR7kA_-PY089TbfyVtpcPwm4PS2VihO6TnuLoz7dOMxZeyWG8JrWOB7cndE9qu3o9T_3XD4/s1600/across+the+universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEism0tskBOvmz4Yp5TiAj3EE4f78yNm-vnv1QQ6YsD_cOd424k80C4Sl-EXC8JaVy1Ud2edfR7kA_-PY089TbfyVtpcPwm4PS2VihO6TnuLoz7dOMxZeyWG8JrWOB7cndE9qu3o9T_3XD4/s320/across+the+universe.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Summary: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span class="readmoretext"><span lang="EN" style="color: #393939; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #393939; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span class="readmoretext"><span lang="EN" style="color: #393939; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next. </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #393939; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><br />
<span class="readmoretext">Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeeds hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there’s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Review: I had this book on my shelf and once my friend started telling me how much she was enjoying it I had to move it to the top of my pile and read it immediately after midterms. And I’m so glad I did! The book was fantastic and had so many different elements but written to the power of ten – drama, thriller, suspense, romance, dystopia. I was worried about all the attention this book was getting prior to my reading it, but all the praise is well due to Beth. The book raises a lot of questions and, for me, a lot of fears that I have about the nature of man and society: the corruptibility, the structure, the liabilities, etc. The re-organization of society on Godspeed reminds me of the same feelings I had reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hungers Games</i> and makes me ask the same question: How did it get this way? I honestly cannot say enough great things about this book without sounding entirely cheesy (which the book is absolutely NOT) or without completely giving away spoilers, but I will say... READ IT! I would definitely recommend this book doesn’t matter whether you are a science fiction fan or not. I definitely cannot wait for the sequel to this because Amy and Elder’s story has really only begun now. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Beth does include a couple lyrics from the song "Across the Universe" right in the beginning which fit perfectly into her story. I thought I would include the song just because it does have incredibly beautiful lyrics. Granted, it's not the Beatles version but Rufus Wainwright does the song great justice (and Dakota Fanning was adorable back at that age). Enjoy!</span></span></div>Carohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09709241270611646534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619639165190233647.post-38082782235664514892011-02-07T01:34:00.000-08:002011-02-07T01:48:23.778-08:00Raise Your Glass<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">It’s funny how whenever I should be doing homework I always opt to blogging instead. Coincidence? Probably not. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">On Friday night some friends and I hit downtown for dinner at the Earl’s on Robson. My friend Jennifer (pictured below) let me get ready at her place and did my hair for me that night so special thanks to her for that. Although you can't really tell in the picture she actually achieved the impossible - making me look semi-pretty and now I am considering harrassing her weekly to do my hair.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately my usual eye-candy there was M.I.A. which was disappointing at first but by the time we were all together it hardly mattered. Drinks were flowing and we were all chatting for nearly two hours by the time the last person arrived and we finally got around to ordering. Food was great and the staff was extra nice to us. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Although I deemed the occasion was to celebrate a belated-Groundhog Day, it turned more into a birthday shindig what with people giving me gifts and there being a cake and all. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Isn’t that cake gorgeous? My lovely sister got it for me from a small place in Yaletown called “Ganache”. There is kind of an embarrassing story that goes with the cake ordering which involved someone thinking how pathetic I was for ordering my own cake and wanting to sell me a single slice instead, etc. etc. I am not up for re-hashing details so you’ll have to harass one of my friends for the full story. Regardless, it was a beautiful red velvet cake which I managed to take 3 bites of before I decided it was too sweet and I was just too full.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Throughout dinner we were taking tons of polaroids since I had so much film that was bordering its expiry date. Here are some of my favourite: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">It was all fun until they started taking pictures of me doing shooters and those were not attractive. At all. These things were little mini-sized devils. They were called “Heat Wave” and the ingredients were: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">cuervo tequila, agave nectar, lime juice and serrano chillies. Sounds pleasant but the reality was quite different. Nonetheless I gotta give my friend Cecil (pictured below) props for buying them and doing them with me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Yeah, don’t I look so excited about having them? >_<</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">After dinner, most of us made a last-minute decision to go dancing so we packed it up and made our way to the Roxy. We waited in a line for a little bit which wasn’t too bad once we made it to the part underneath the heat lamps. The bouncer, Huggy, wished me a Happy Birthday, which was really sweet of him. The live band was pretty decent and the rest of the music mostly consisted of old-school rock with an occasional modern song in between. I was extra-excited once P!nk’s “Raise Your Glass” came on, just for the fact it was a song post-2005. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">But what would a clubbing experience be without one’s share of STRANGER-DANGER stories. I guess I should be flattered that a guy, let alone 3 in that night’s case, would take an interest in me and attempt something considering there were hotter, thinner (and drunker) women there but, seriously, these guys were just creepy. I think I know the reason behind it though. See the girl in the picture with me below?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Now she is a gorgeous girl and for whatever reason unknown to her or me she just attracts the weirdest guys. Ever. And of course these weirdos she attracts brings their weirdo friends to me. And then she and I are suddenly dancing a lot closer to each other and further away from them, giving out false names or just ducking behind huge, beefy guys. That was just one scenario. Another scenario had me totally freaking out because some guy decided that it was ok to stick his hands into my shirt from behind (it was partly backless) and sliding his freakin’ cold hands around my waist (God knows why because seriously, there were guys there with hotter waists than mine) and then I just hightailed it out of there. Anyways, here's a picture of my top (from Urban Outfitters):</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Ugh. Trying to feel flattered but failing miserably. I will make this disclaimer though that if Kellan Lutz/Hugh Jackman/Ian Somerhalder/Common wants to try this move on me, ONE (or all of you at the same time) are more than welcome to anytime.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">I figure rather than online-shopping during my break I would take the opportunity to go strong on my blogging (huzzah)! I’ll just be glad once I make it to 12:55pm tomorrow because I will be officially finished for the week. From that point is for some good ol’ downtime with friends in downtown. There’ll be eating, drinking, chatting, some hockey spectating (FYI Blackhawks are going DOWN), polaroid-taking, and even a cake. Guess which one I’m least excited for? (Hint: rhymes with flake.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">And low-behold they are STILL making music. Good music actually. Their newest-ish song is called ‘Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’’ and if you don’t feel like jumping up and doing some form of the twist then... well clearly I’ll be the only one that does then. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt;">Check the video out although just listening to the song is stellar too. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">What better way to start than sharing the amazing new dress that I purchased earlier this week. I honestly fell in love with it the moment I came across the picture. It pretty much looks like the most comfortable piece of clothing; as if a cloud manifested itself into fabric and was wrapped around you. I found it from this amazing designer off etsy (which by the way if you haven’t checked out before, GO DO IT NOW! They carry everything and 99% are hand-made by the artists and designers). This particular purchase, called the Milk and Honey Muse Dress is by Le Muse who is based out of Europe. I love the dolman-sweater look on the front, but that plunging open-back simplified with a single black bow. If you are into the bohemian, slouchy, layered look, Le Muse is perfect for you. Each item looks gorgeously comfortable and if money weren’t an issue, one of each of her creations would be in my shopping cart. What I particularly like about Le Muse’s clothes is that she seems to tailor for women of all sizes, even providing a plus-size/custom-size option so long as you provide measurements. I’m so excited to receive this item and will definitely post pictures when I do.</span></span></div><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span><br />
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