Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Another Christmas survived

So you may all be wondering how come I have not posted anything on here for a while. Well the answer is simple. Lots of work, and my internet was down for almost a week. Yes, good ol' trusty Rogers internet, almost as trusty as its wireless............

In case you didn't know, I was lying lol.

So whats been going on, well I started to do some work in order to make up for the money I spend for Christmas presents. Also because my parents have been bugging me to help them out at the shop while I was on break. It hasn't really been too bad thus far. I had friday afternoon off, as well as monday, and I only have to work until Thursday at noon and then I am done until school starts back up again.

Christmas was alright; spent some time with the parental units and I got to see my brother. He's finally back from doing his co-op work in Nova Scotia. I've only seen him once since he left back in September, and that was during Thanksgiving. But eventhough I got to spend some time with family, eat some really good Turkey and Duck, there was still something missing out of my Christmas which didn't make things feel complete. Hopefully this will all change come New years.

It was also fun to get together with the Nobleton crew on boxing day to catch up on old times. Old times being, music, retarded movies that we all love, and lots of beer. Basically I purchased a 24 of Lakeport Honey for my "151" gathering, and perhaps 5 or 6 bottles had been consumed at that point. This beer was starting to clutter up my fridge space, so I decided to call up the chums from nobleton. The 4 of us sat around and played a few card games and the beer was finished off in notime. After that, nothing beats a good ol' bacon and egg breakfast when you wake up at noon the next day. My poor heart, someday I think its going to explode or something from all the bacon I consumed. I probably had a good 10 pieces of bacon, which still is not that much compared to my standards. After our breakfast we decided to head out and do a little post-boxing day shopping, which in the end we all basically got nothing except for a few belated Christmas presents and proceeded to go get some bubble tea. After that we decided that is was early, so lets go catch a movie. We ended up seeing "The life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" or something along those lines. Its the new movie by Bill Murray. It has been a long while since I have seen a movie in theatres. Probably the first time since school started this year.

Once the movie was done, I got dropped off at home so I could clean up and have a shower, only to head out and get Bubble Tea AGAIN. Heh, well doesn't bother me any, I could drink that stuff all day and all night.

I don't think I really have anything else to say. Im kinda in an indifferent mood right now and I'm not sure exactly what to feel right now. All I can say is that I am really looking forward to New Years, which is a change for me. Since holidays do not really mean too much to me. In my books it just seems like another day in the life. Anyway, peace out.

Sunday, December 19, 2004

Another Holiday over?

I know some of you have not even started your holidays yet. But I feel like after today, my holidays have come to an end. I completed all my school work on the 9th; 10 days ago already. Now I find myself sitting in front of my computer, wasting time before I am going to go to bed, only to wake up early in the morning to I can take a casual drive up to Nobleton and begin to work. Chances are I will be working all of this week and all of next week. The week after that school starts again. Which is ok with me. These holidays don't really seem like they are going to turn out the way I had originally hoped they would be, but I guess that is life as well. I'm sure that things will still turn out ok.

Well, last week was an alright time for me. Had a nice "151" gathering over at my place on Thursday, sadly to say though, only 2 people fell victim to the 151 and had to bow down to the porcelain gods. There was almost 3, but passing out on my bed seemed to be the saviour for that person, lol. A total of 4 people passed out on my bed at some point during the party, I say thats not a shabby number at all. I would post some of the pictures, but I don't think that too many people would appreciate that.

So on to Christmas. I did SOME Christmas shopping today, but I'm just not feeling the last minute panic yet. I mean, it IS only the 19th of December. I still have 5 whole days before I have to get my Christmas shopping done. That is a lot of time in terms of men. 5 minutes may be pushing it but 5 days is a really long time. Needless to say that I still have quite a lot of presents to purchase for people.

I am also sad to say that my days of being a vampire are now over. After successfully avoiding the sun altogether for about a straight week, I have to once again get back to some sort of sleeping pattern. In the past week, I basically went to bed no earlier than 6:30am and woke up no ealier than 4pm. My best day would have been yesterday, not getting up until 5:45pm. I still don't have the record for sleeping in the latest in this house yet; I still have another 45 minutes to go.

I guess thats about all there is for me to say right now, I was kinda in a shitty mood last night, but after attempting to sleep for three hours to no avail, I started to feel a lot better for some reason, and today I'm still feeling pretty good. Peace for now.

Monday, December 13, 2004

This is NOT cool

So after three long months of waiting to get a foosball table for my house. I finally go with my mom today to costco to pick one up. I finally get the thing home, and decide to set it up so I can have it ready for the party on Thursday. As soon as I get all the parts together I start to assemble. This process lasted a mere five minutes before I discovered that there were a few parts missing. Two bushings that are supposed to be on the rods, keeping the players from smashing against the sides of the table. PERFECT. This is just what I needed. I pop online to find out that I can order these parts under warranty off their Sportcraft website (which is the company of my foosball table) but the stupid parts will not arrive for five to seven business days. Well thats just swell. This doesn't help that it occurs during a time where I'm starting to get a little high-strung. Once I was done my exams, I thought that I would have a little bit of time to relax. Well since thursday, (which was when I finished all my school stuff for the semester) I feel like I have been stuck in my car the whole time, trying to get things accomplished. On top of that, my parents are bugging me because they want to know when I am going to start working doing bloody inventory and parts organization at the shop. The last thing that I wanted to do over this break was work at the shop. But alas I do need the money so I can continue to live away from home. The Christmas season is not really brightening my days up much either. If you ask me, I could certainly deal without Christmas. I do not believe that the stressful days leading up to it are really worth a day or two spent with loved ones and all that jazz. I think That I would prefer to sleep in and not have to wake up those days instead.......

Thats ok, call me Scrooge if you want, I would probably have to agree with you on that on.

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

I feel like a Vampire

So these past few days I have realized that I have not seen much of the sun. In fact on Sunday, I saw about 30 minutes of sunlight. On monday I saw about maybe 2-2.5 hours of sunlight. And today I seemed to have missed the sun completely. Jeez, no wonder I'm so white hehe. So I wrote my two tests on Monday, One seemed to go OK, and the other....... Lets just say that it is done and I don't have to worry about it anymore, unless I have to take the course again next year.........

So in these past few days, aside from sleeping at retarded hours of the day, I have also spent WAY too much money on Ebay. I now have to wait for 15 items to come since December 3rd. Some of them are for Christmas presents, some are for Donna, and the rest are for me lol. I'm not saying exactly what I got thus far, but all I can say is that I vow to not purchase anything off of ebay until 2005. Lets hope I can pass this test. Brian does not think that I can do it and frankly, I don't think that I can do it either. All I can do is hope right now.

And on another note, I FINALLY got "Encounters of the Spooky Kind". Its a Sammo Hung movie that I have been trying to find for at least 3 years now. After such a long wait, it is finally MINE!!!! I also got "A Kid From Tibet" that I have also been trying to find for about the same length of time. Its some crazy movie with Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah.

So yea, I should probably get some sleep or something. I have a take home test thats due on Thursday as well as a Jury for my Private lesson on the same day. After that, I am COMPLETE! No more School for until January. It will be nice to get that break because now I will finally have time to decorate my house, make it look half decent. I also need to rearrange my room in a different fashion than it is now.

Sunday, December 05, 2004

Quiet? A little too Quiet

So here I am in Nobleton right now. Had to come home for the weekend to take care of the cats and the dog. Man I almost forgot how much of a pain in the rear those things are, but I still love them. Anyway so my parents decided to take off to Phoenix to take a little break and to go and visit some family. Since this is basically exam time for me, I get to stay in North York and Nobleton to take care of the pets.
Spent a pretty quiet day here. Got up at about 1:50pm. Had a shower and headed out of the door to get Donna from work, then to head over to the other part of town to pick up Brian from the airport. After that I dropped Brian off at home and then came to Nobleton. Spent a rather nice time here, finished watching Rumble in the Bronx that we started watching during Thanksgiving but never had time to finish. We also had some Dim Sum for dinner, man I love that stuff. While Donna was steaming to soup filled dumplings and boiling the Pork and Chive Dumplings, I was making some "chewy" chocolate chip cookies. The recipe that I used was definately less than stellar. It did not really say anything other than "Mix ingredients and bake at 350 for 11 minutes". Thats about it. So anyway I guess I made the cookies too big and didn't really set them on the tray correctly, therefore it took a lot longer to bake than 11 minutes. Also the bottoms got a lot browner than the top of the cookies and they did not end up chewy all. All I can say is that the cookie dough was a lot tastier than the finished product. I could just sit there all day and eat cookie dough, until my bowels would burst of course. Anyway, maybe next time I'll make some better cookies. On top of that the soup filled dumplings stuck together so they all burst open when we tried to get them off of the steamer. No soup left, but they were still very tasty.
After all that excitement of cooking all that food, I find myself sitting at my computer at 3:08am, realizing that I have not really done much studying for my tests on Monday yet. Spent most of the time trying to think up what to get for people for Christmas and chatting on MSN.
It is really quiet in this house right now. Theres nothing other than me, my old dog and my three brain dead cats. Most of them seem to be sleeping right now so I am sitting here in silence. Its really nice to have things quiet for a change, but to me it seems like it is TOO quiet. I thought that it would result in me getting a little more school work done, but once again, I have been proven wrong.....

Saturday, December 04, 2004

Almost time for the Grind

Well, its almost time for me to have to do some serious school work. I've got a Test for my counterpoint class on monday morning, where I have to learn to sing 3 songs, and then also learn to sing 3 more songs but play another line on the keyboard that is different from what I have to sing. I haven't really started preparing for that yet. I also have a test for my NATS course on Monday evening. For that I have about 100 pages of the course pack to read, as well as my Lecture notes that I have to study from. About 3 days ago was the first day I OPENED my course pack and there was supposed to be readings for every week that I had that class. Once that is done, I have a take home test in Counterpoint which is due on thursday. I also have my "jury" for my private lesson on Thursday as well. I have a lot to learn for that. I am only playing two pieces for it, but one of the songs has a crazy rhythm that is hard to comprehend, and the other one I will have to play the bassline transposed into 3 different keys. After that, I will be a free man. Just one week shy of a full month off. Of course during that time, I may spending a lot of my free time at the shop, working for a few extra bucks. Some more money will be nice to have; living on your own is starting to get pretty expensive these days.