good days and bad days

this week has had its ups and downs. some days were craptastic...mostly because of lack of sleep, feeling sick and missing home....but some days were great.....meeting four members of the canada's women's hockey team, getting diploma marks back, and loving cosmo (as usual). i think everyone has days where they just absolutely hate the world, or maybe it's just me. some days i'm just so mad about one thing that i find a way to be mad about everything and feel sorry for myself and i personally think that's okay. it's okay to feel upset. it's okay to feel like everything is wrong. it's okay to want to sit in your bed and spend countless hours on pintrest and youtube ONLY IF you decide to make the next day better. you can't let the bad days out number the good days. so next time you decide to hate the world....go ahead...but make sure you don't stay in that funk forever.

the things i've learned...

the past eight months while living away from home i've learned some very important things...






1.) despite popular belief spiders are NOT more afraid of you than you are of them. if you try to stare down a spider i can almost guarantee that it will not scurry away....you either have to grow up and kill it or pray it doesn't kill you in your sleep






2.) sometimes siri isn't always your bestfriend....it may lead you onto deerfoot without you knowing or take you to the wrong address when picking up someone....those are just my guesses




3.) once you get into bigger towns that have more than one gas station you can actually pay at the pump...this means you get to avoid even more human contact




4.) two hours doesn't seem like very long when you're sitting around on you phone or watching TV but when you have to drive that far to come back from visiting home and forget your makeup AND phone charger...it's too long to re-drive




5.) wearing a coat is important. for years my mom has always told me to wear my coat or else i would get sick...well sorry mom i didn't for awhile which was probably why i had such a bad cold




6.) just because fast food is like two minutes away doesn't mean you can eat it all the time...i promise i don't eat mcdonalds everyday...i really don't




7.) seminary is worth getting up for. in magrath it's pretty lucky to have release time seminary. and even though i don't have to go to seminary i go to early morning anyways because my day will always start out great




8.) automatic car starters and heated blankets are the worlds greatest inventions


9.) sometimes if you just talk to the guinea pig it will like you..maybe


10.) comfort zones are meant to be broken


so there. learn from me.

valentines day

i'm not a fan of valentine's day. before you jump to conclusions of "oh she only hates it because she's single" you are....partially correct...but this post is not about the fact i'm single. valentines day is a day designated for love (no duh) but i feel like candy and card companies have TOTALLY commercialized the whole holiday. i mean i'm seriously considering going to work for a chocolate or flower company next february because they must make loads of money for just this one day. that leads to the next point...people feel that they HAVE to buy their significant other candy and jewelry, flowers..etc...to show how much they love them. i guess i don't know much about love...i mean i've watched disney movies...and i really love my family...and the internet....but i think that if you really love someone you should treat them the best and prove to them you love them EVERYDAY of the year..not just february the 14th. so whoever your valentine is this year....your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, mom, dad, gramm, grampa, dog, cat or laptop make sure you tell them how much you love and appreciate them everyday <3

the fault in our stars

i'm not very into reading..anymore i should say...i used to love reading when i was younger but as i've gotten older i just don't have time and my version of reading has ended up in reading tweets and the occasional facebook status. I've tried to love reading..i really have...however the last book i read all the way through was in english class (To Kill A Mockingbird) which was awhile ago, and i've been trying to read 'the great gatsby' since august......anywho last week i bought "The Fault In Our Stars" by john green. i had heard so many people rave about it on twitter and i watched the movie trailer and actually cried at how great it was so i decided i was going to push myself to read this book. i read the book in less than three days. i absolutely loved it. i actually had no problem getting into the book at all. after the first chapter i was hooked. i laughed and cried and aww'd at the perfectness of it. i really enjoyed the characters hazel and augustus. i didn't feel like i "related" to them in any way (i mean i've never had cancer or had anything that could kill me) but i imagined myself the best i could being in their positions which made my emotions ten times stronger. i'm not gonna lie....some parts and quotations went over my head but thanks to my best friend (google) i quickly understood more and more of the book. i can't tell you lots about the book without giving away the whole story (if you have read it then i could go on and on and on about it too you) but it wasn't a classic teen novel, there was no "bad boy falls in love with the good girl" or "childhood friends end up together" and it wasn't even quite like "romeo and juliet. the story line was not predictable and i thought it was unique. i think some people think the "cancer plot" is overdone (I've read my sisters keeper) but the fault in our stars was different. i can't even fully express my feelings about this book because they're just so strong! so if you're interested in a good..no..outrageously extrodinary book and don't mind crying and feeling emotionally exhausted for hours (maybe that was just me)...i highly recommend "the fault in our stars" :)

olympics

unless you've been living under a rock and have no access to social media or TV you must be aware that the 2014 olympics officially started today! i am actually obsessed with the olympics (more than i probably should be). yes i have downloaded three olympic apps, and yes my alarm is set for 5:55am so i can watch women's hockey tomorrow morning live, but i promise i'm not crazy. four years ago when the olympics were held in vancouver my parents surprised me and my siblings with tickets to a womens hockey game against switzerland and to a medal ceremony,at which we saw a female snowboarder get her gold medal, it was sooooo cool to sing O Canada that night! vancouver was surprisingly warm for it being february and the fact that EVERYONE was sporting canada's colors (or their own countries) made me feel less embarrassed about wearing my somewhat matching with my family hoodie and toque. i'd been to vancouver so many times but this was one of the coolest trips. everytime canada won a medal or even just at random times people would cheer and yell and laugh in the streets. i'd never felt/seen so much national pride! it gave me "warm fuzzies" inside. i guess i'm a sap. i'm not gonna lie, i definetly cried during the opening closing ceremonies for both vancouver AND london. i realize that even though the olympics cost A LOT of money and there are so many protesters and threats, they show that despite the fact that the world can be crazy people can still come together for a common purpose and get along (competitiveness aside) and i guess that seems sort of silly but i suppose i'm one of those "total world peace" dreamers. anyways i LOVE the olympics and i'm so excited to watch and cheer on the canadian athletes competing in sochi these next few weeks! i definetly have some of my favorite athletes that won gold in Vancouver and I'm excited to see how they do in sochi! so if you need me between now and feb. 23rd you know where to find me.....i'll be watching the olympics :) #GoCanadaGo #WeAreWinter

blogging world

so i guess if you're reading this you're interested in why i'm starting a blog...so here's an explanation...

i'm one of those people who every year makes a list of "New Year Resolutions" and like most people i somehow end up giving up halfway through the month. this year i didn't even bother writing a list. january was a crazy month...finishing up my first semester, studying, writing exams, I was sick (physically and very much homesick) and it took awhile to get over my post-christmas depression. i would have given up quite quickly on my goals if i had made them just because i was so stressed. i decided that since february is a new month and my crazy life has become not so crazy i'd make a list of goals...things that i hope  to accomplish not only for the next year but also monthly. one of my "goals" was to start something new...and since most of my life is spent on social media (i promise i'm not addicted) a blog seemed just perfect. 

now i'm not sure what all will end up on this blog...probably a little of everything. so if you feel like you need a little bit of randomness in your life...you've come to the right place :)