Frost and Fall

I was a little late to school this morning because I was taking pictures...

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Haha I can't believe I went on RIGHT at the perfect time! At exactly 999 pageviews! WOOO! I remember back when I started this blog I was amazed when I would get one pageview in a week... now at around 15 a day? WOW. Thank you everyone so much. I know it's still no where close to a crazy successful blog, but it's a lot more than I ever thought it would be. So thank you, every single one of you.

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University... Love?

So far University has been crazy. I love it, but it sucks up my life at the same time. I always feel frantic, like something needs to be done that I'm forgetting, or that I should be home studying. But then I get home and start to study and I don't want to. It's quite the difference between University and High School, and I can honestly say the only thing I really miss is how much less homework we had. I still get to see my close friends on weekends, or in passing during my walk to other classes luckily, so that's not too bad.  But the amount of homework? Oh my goodness... I think I've managed to actually cross everything off my to do list once... on my first day haha. This weekend for example, I basically sat in my chair for a solid 14 hours working on a Bio Lab Report and starting to study for a calculus midterm in a week and a half. And I havn't even started on my Chem review yet. And this week coming up is insane; volleyball Monday and Wednesday, teaching swimming on Thursday and going out with friends on Friday. Homework... well I guess I'll be doing all of that on Tuesday...

On a lighter note.. I haven't uploaded any scrapbook pages lately. These were all done near the beginning of September since I don't really have time now to do any scrapbooking.

This one is kind of a joke page about this picture I found of me and my dad on my first day of school. My dad used to have a crazy beard, afro, always wore aviators, tasseled shoes and had a darned cool car, so I call him the original hipster since he was doing all those things before it was cool to be uncool. In this picture we look exactly like hipsters way back when so that was my inspiration for the page.

This page, I was kinda having a sad day, but I had this fabulous new stack of paper to work with and this happened. My favorite part is definitely the title.

Crazy parties and Tie Dye

So for the last little while I've been a little crazy about tie dye. This actually started when my best friend phoned me up and told me I had to come over and help her make 9 tie dye shirts and a pair of leggings. I wasn't really sure why she needed me, but I went anyways. Turned out that she had met a band at Sonic Boom, which is a big music festival put on in our city, and when they saw her tie dye shirt, they asked if she would make them some in return for 3 free tickets to their secret concert which would be held later in September. Since it was my birthday soon, and I was the only one other than her that would be 18, she invited me to come along. So we made a heck of a lot of tie dye...

 These are my tie dye nails. I did them using water marbling (just google it, there are tons of tutorials) Really easy, really quick and it looks so pretty. Make sure to use a base coat though. because the top swirly bit it quite a thin layer. This was my testing hand, I later took it all off and started again.

 This is what my nails look like now, the "finished product" I used a sparkly blue, a sparkly plum and a magenta.

Now on to the tie dye...

 Rachels Leggings :) They turned out really crazy because we hung them up and the colours all melded together. Still very cool though.

 The lovely Rachel with our tie dye

 All the crazy shirts we did. Thats 9 total!

 My shirt :) (which Rachel made for me)

 Rachels leggings, which we foolishly hung up...

 Rachels shirt (which I made )

 Rachels moms shirt

 Our state of the art Tie Dye drying rack.

Hollerado, the band that asked us to make the tie dye shirts. They gave us some band tshirts too which was super nice of them :)

 Wildlife and Young Rival, the two opening bands for Hollerado. I really liked them both tpoo, they all put on a fabulous show.

One thing I loved about that night was how small the venue was. It was about the size of my kitchen plus my living room and had a stage and a bar crammed into there. Made for a really squishy but totally fun night.

Pile of Puppies

Last weekend we went over to visit some family friends, whose dog just had 6 adorable puppies! Well she had them 9 weeks ago but this was the first time we got the chance to see them. So this will be a pretty picture heavy post, but I promise they're all super adorable!

 This one is blurry, but it's just so absurdly cute I couldn't not put it on.

Birthday.

In three days it's my 18th birthday. I'm honestly so excited, because here in Canada, (well depending on the province) 18 means the same as being 21 does in the States. So since my birthday falls on a Sunday, I'll hold off on the crazy partying till the next weekend. I'll just be going out to dinner with 9 of my closest friends and I'm sure it will be a heck of a lot of fun.

Being 18 is something that I'm really looking forward to, but kind of am apprehensive about at the same time. There are so many more responsibilities to consider and when I was young I always thought that I would feel older at this stage in my life. I still feel like a kid sometimes, almost too sheltered from the crazy world that's out there. So here's a list of things that I thought (as a kid) that I would have done by the time I was 18 (and please don't judge, no matter how ridiculous some of these things are)
1) Have my drivers license. I just never got around to it I suppose. I have my learners and I've driven a car before (with mixed results) but I'm completely comfortable with taking the bus. Although I suppose if my dream of owning a Dodge Challenger is ever going to come true I better learn how to drive it.

2) Get a job other than just a summer job. Now don't get me wrong here, a summer job is still a job, and it still brings in money, but I look at a bunch of the people around me and it seems as if they've passed some sort of right of passage by getting a job during school that I never got to. However now that I'm in University and have 4 labs this semester, I'm totally not going to be applying for any jobs soon.
3) Have a boyfriend. Yeah that one still hasn't happened, though so far it's been by choice and not due to an unfortunate lack of interest.
4) Become one of those incredibly old looking "university students" that they have on all the TV shows. Yup, I'm still awkward and clumsy occasionally and don't feel quite as graceful and beautiful as those actors look on all the shows. But then I remember they hire 25 years olds to play 16 year olds on TV and I don't feel so bad about it.

5) Get drunk. Yeah, I never had the interest really. I was usually the one beside my friend trying to sober her up before her mom came to pick us up. I would have been the DD if I actually drove... haha.

So those are my birthday thoughts of the year. I'm definitely excited, nervous, happy, apprehensive,  plain old scared and totally jacked about this all at the same time, but I'm sure it will be one heck of a ride.

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Stacked up

Photo was first painted white around the distracting background, then I thought it was too white... so I drew distracting flowers on it.

Somehow this ended up twisted?