The Life of Natalie

Anxiety

2009-08-23T09:06:00.000-07:00

So, tomorrow I am going to my new school to start setting up my classroom. Last year I was fortunate enough to have the previous teacher of the class come in and help me with the setup, and for that, I will always be grateful. This year, I will not be so lucky, I'll be all by myself.

I am so worried about tomorrow, and what I will see when I get to my room. I'm curious if things will be missing, if the furniture I wanted for my room will not have arrived. It's completely irrational, and I am a professional I should rely on my education and experience to help me with this situation. Yes, that is what I should do.... However, I'm just up late at night, my stomach is in a tight knot, and I'm finding that my eyes are tearing up for no reason. I keep thinking, "What have I gotten myself into?".

I'm hoping tomorrow, will go well, that by going into the school with a few boxes I'll be more comfortable and get over this feeling that time is running out.

YouTube

2009-08-22T07:24:00.000-07:00

So, I watch videos on YouTube that pertain to weightloss and the maintenance of African American hair ( do you see the link between them? lol ). Anyway, today I was watching a new video posted by Sushicatny ( I subscribe to her channel ), little did I know that she was going to be dancing in a dress ( it could have been lingerie ) and I was horrified. I immediately, unsubscribed from her channel.... I really don't want her dancing around like that.

Now... what was the point of this post? Oooh yeah. I just going to comment on how I love that YouTube has become a soapbox for so many people different people. Especially those who have a cause, and new types of crazy.

A Life Alone?

2009-08-21T07:48:00.001-07:00

I don't remeber if I've written about this before, but I think I may have like three years ago. Well I'm back on the subject. In recent weeks, I've seen three movies that have brought me back to wondering if I'll ever get married?

I'm thinking that my life looking more and more as if I'm going to be a permenant solo mission. The dating situation is grim. eHarmony has not been much of a confidence boost, because it's hard not to take it personal when you have 20 people a day "closing communication" ( a.k.a rejecting ) me everyday. I usually try to communicate with all my matches, but never get any responses. I'm completely fed up with the whole thing, I can live my life alone and be satisfied. I have to start re-orienting my life plan to that of a modern love life spinster.

Cooking update! So I baked a pumpkin pie, and decided that I was an all star! So, two weeks later I decided to bake another Pumpkin pie..... well..... this one did not go so well. I forgot to turn down the ovena and I burnt the top and bottom of the pie lol... Hoooraaayy!!! Maybe I won't be the next Martha Stewart either? hahaha

Natalie

Dating and Pounds

2009-07-31T08:13:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!

So, I'm sitting here at home watching Rachel Ray on TV and enjoying a well deserved break, after busting my butt for a whole month working on my Special Education Part II AQ ( Only another teacher, i.e. Meghan, would understand). Conveniently, Rachel's show today is about online dating! So this caused me to go check my Eharmony account to see if I had any messages. Surprise, I had no messages, despite having messaged every male match that I received. In fact, I had a lot of a closed matches instead :(. So, so far the online dating for me is not going very well at all. I'm thinking after I shed about 40 - 60lbs, my online dating experience will begin to increase.

Also today, I went to the gym to work out with my Personal Trainer ( aka Phil The Torturer ), and when I weighed myself before I went I was up 2lbs, which is not so good. I blame my weight increase on my 6 days in Jamaica. I'm hoping soon I will be back on track and slimmer than I currently am.

Natalie

Oh yeah, check out my new profile picture. I did on www.yearbookyourself.com

Sushi

2009-07-20T18:33:00.000-07:00

Konichiwa!

Today was great, I finished the second last assignment I had to do for my AQ and now I only have one assignment left! Woo Hoo... OCT certificate Spec Ed Part II here I come.

Also, this evening I went to do dinner with my friend Kim to 168 Sushi Buffet. It was awesome services as usual ( sarcasm ) but I like my sushi hole in the wall, plus I haven't had a bout of food poisoning from it yet.

Natalie
(Yay Me!)

Neglect

2009-07-19T16:16:00.000-07:00

Good lord, look how I have neglected this blog?

I can't even remeber what the topic was of my last post, it probably had something to do about complaining, about something or other. Well, let me bring you up to date!

I graduated from Teachers College :)
I took me 9 months after that to get on the Supply List for the Peel District School Board :(
I could never pull it togethor to myself a pastoral letter, I'm not really upset about this because I don't consider myself a very good catholic.
I supply taught for 6 months in both the elementary and secondary panel :)
The next school year I got hired into a 6 month LTO in a Developmentally Delayed Classroom, and it kept getting extended until it was a whole year LTO :)
For the coming school year ( 09/10) I GOT HIRED INTO MY FIRST PERMENANT POSITION!!!!! WOOO HOOOO.!!! :)

So, it took me three years to get a permenant position ( I am not complaining, this is pretty amazing for anyone trying to get into the teaching field in Ontario ). I've finally got my life on track. I am working out, and watching what I am eating and I am slowly losing a pounds.

The only thing that's left, is seeing Europe and China, Falling in Love, Buying a House.

We'll see how these go.

I Have No Sick Days

2008-04-07T16:12:00.000-07:00

As a supply teacher in my Board I have no sick days. What does that mean? Well for those of you out there with no deductive skills I will tell you. It means that if I am unable to work one day because I am not well I am not getting any money for that lost day. Terrible isn't it? The expectation is that all the teachers who are regular full-time teachers with their classrooms are able to be ill; but, Supply Teachers are not able to be ill so that they can fill for the regular teachers when they are. Does this make sense? The schoolboard would save all kinds of money if they could simply just employ all the supply teachers as regular teachers. Supply teachers are never sick and therefore are able to work every school day. Nice logic eh?

Ms. S
( I am a supply and therefore am unable to be ill)

I Am A Supply Teacher

2008-03-19T18:26:00.000-07:00

After months and months of applying to every job i qualify for in Peel, I finally got called for an interview in October of 2007 for a job I applied for i AUGUST! ( How do you like that for timely fashion? ha! ). The job i was called in for was for supply teaching on both the elementary and secondary panel ( hooray!) and I aced the interviews! ( I am not sure if that is something to be terribly proud of considering it was for supply teaching).

Anyway I have been supply teaching for a month now, and I hate every minute of it. The kids are so disrespectful to you and the regular teachers treat you like you have a communicable disease. I hope I get my own classroom ASAP!

Natalie
(I can't do this forever)

"When I see you cry, it makes me smile"

2007-08-11T14:43:00.001-07:00

It is obvious that recently I have been very unhappy, and I have been struggling with a variety of mental and emotional issues that at their core seem to revolve primarily around school, family and boys. I am sad to say that nothing has changed since my last post.

I graduated from teacher's college more than three months ago and I still have no teaching prospects available to myself. Everyone is telling me to pack my bags and go abroad; but, I just don't feel that the present global political climate is encouraging for that type of adventure, nor is my health and medical needs.

Also, my situation at home is more desperate now. I am use to at this time of year packing my things and going elsewhere. This will be the first time in half a decade that I have not packed my stuff to move to another city. The feeling is strange and I feel somewhat out of place. Hopefully it won't linger.

There is one little shining start approaching, and that will be my get togethor with my friends from Brock, where we will drink, share stories of teachers college and etc.

Natalie
(Crying, Smiling, Crying)

P.S. the title of this post is from Lily Allen's song "Smile". Wonderful song, Hilarious video.

Light my fire

2007-05-05T20:16:00.000-07:00

How do you know when you've lost the will to live? Can you feel anything physically different in yourself? Do you feel like a candle when the flame has been smothered and become dim? Who knows, only those that feel that.

Lately, I'm on a downward spiral again, it's hard to see the brighside in the darkside of things. Today I woke up and I just laid in bed for three more hours. It's like I could feel in myself that the spark of life in me, the spark that drives a person to go out into the world and explore, just isn't with me anymore. Every day I become more and more indifferent to everything and anything that is around me. Maybe tomorrow I regain a little of my spark.

Natalie
( "come on baby light my fire" <-- meant in a non-sexual way )

Carm's Birthday

2007-04-14T19:07:00.000-07:00

Tonight is my friend Carm's birthday! How exciting? For her birthday everyone is going to a club, there will be dancing and drinks, lots and lots of fun.... for everyone but me.

Well, orginally I was invited to Carms birthday. I had responded with I maybe attending. Then my other friend had called me to find out if I'm in or out, so I said a definite yes for I am coming, because they wanted to get a limo to go downton so no one would have to drive and to make carm feel special.

Then they changed their plans, they decided to not get a limo and instead another person was going to drive everyone downtown. But, they neglected to inform me of this information, thereby disinviting me to the event.

Natalie
(I hope they have a wonderful time....... bitches)

FYI, i will ensure my next note will be one about happines!

How Does She Do It?

2007-04-10T17:15:00.000-07:00

My mother hasn't even been back in Canada for a week and she's already back into her normal habits of criticizing me in the weight area.

Just a few minutes ago, I recieved a phone call from one those apply to teach in England agencies requesting an interview which I accepted. I came downstairs to share my excitement with my mother and what was her response?

"Before you go over there you need to take care of your health" or in normal translations "You need to loose weight, because you're fat". Some mother huh? Well that's her perfect timing to ruin any of my happy moods by opening her critical mouth. So much for being happy.

Natalie
(I love you too mother)

Fuck You eHarmony.com

2007-04-09T10:37:00.000-07:00

So, I'm sitting on my ass at home today doing the assigned readings that my associate said I had to do, when an eHarmony commercial comes on the televison. Seeing the commercial, I decide to take a break from my toiling and see what this personality profile is like and who I would match up with. The profile takes me approximately 40 minutes to complete and asks alot of personality probing questions, without asking you to directly describe yourself. and do you know what my matches were? well this what eHarmony has to say to me:

"eHarmony is based upon a complex matching system developed through extensive research with married couples. One of the requirements for successful matching is that participants fall within certain defined profiles. If we find that we will not be able to match a user using these profiles, we feel it is only fair to inform them early in the process.

We are so convinced of the importance of creating compatible matches to help people establish happy, lasting relationships that we sometimes choose not to provide service rather than risk an uncertain match.

Unfortunately, we are not able to make our profiles work for you. Our matching model could not accurately predict with whom you would be best matched. This occurs for about 20% of potential users, so 1 in 5 people simply will not benefit from our service. We hope that you understand, and we regret our inability to provide service for you at this time."

Isn't that wonderful for Natalie? I guess I'm destine to be alone.

Natalie(Apparently, I'm too complicated to match)

I Like To Sing

2007-04-07T11:53:00.000-07:00

A great stress reliever for myself, and an excellent life saver for others, is music!

When I'm feeling down, or generally annoyed by someone or something, I usually turn on my laptop plug in my earphones, open up iTunes listen to some songs and sing along with them. It's kind of like Kareoke on a budget--- Ghetto Kareoke if you will.

Unfortunately, me singing is not always well recieved by others. I'm not going to lie, I do not have a voice like Christina Aguilera but it's not going to make anyone deaf and I've got heart, and isn't that all a person needs? Heart? A Prayer? Fairy Godmother? And an excellent sound engineer who can make you sound like Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carrie and Celine Dion or better? lol.

Natalie
(I can feel the rythm inside of me Gloria Estavan, Watchout!)

Leave Me Alone!

2007-04-06T16:46:00.000-07:00

So, my mother, two weeks ago this Saturday, went to Jamaica to see my grandpa who is not feeling well, and has been complaining a lot lately. As a result, I have been alone with my dad for two weeks while working on my placement. Let me just say that things have not been very good.

My dad, likes to irritate me on a regular basis and today, the last 24 hours in which I have to deal with him, is the perfect example of this:

My sister, Simone, invites my dad and myself over to her house for dinner which is very nice of her. So we get there and we eat dinner and have dessert and we are sitting around just chatting when my dad decides " I want to go home". For the first time in two weeks I am having a little fun, and he just has to kill it; his solution to the fact that I want to say is "You can drop me off at home and then drive back". Well, my dad has not considered that I do not have enough money to put more gas in the car so that I can do that; does he care? No.

So we go home, and because some dumbass has parked right in front of our house making it very difficult for us to turn into our driveway I had to go around our block and park the car, which made the way I parked on the driveway awkward. Because of this, I tried to fix my parking and my dad insisted on being a backseat driver for the whole thing. Anyone who knows me, knows that I do not like backseat drivers. If you are going to complain about how I am doing something and start making suggestions with out me asking you, then you need to get behind the steering wheel and PARK THE CAR YOUR FUCKING SELF! But, does he get this? No.... No he doesn't, because he is an idiot.

So I get frustrated and just park the damn car how I feel like parking it and come inside, go downstairs into our family room and just ignore the fact that he has ruined my evening, and irritated me. Unfortunately, I can't; so instead, I sit in the dark of our family room and cry softly to myself and ponder "Why can he just leave me alone?" and "I need to move out of here and put as much distance between me and my dad as humanly and financially possible".

Natalie
(Suffocating)

Sugar Daddy!

2007-03-09T12:36:00.000-08:00

So.... have you ever reached a point in your student career when you decided that you want a sugar daddy? I had that experience today:

So, i'm sitting in my dorm room, cleaning the damn thing up because it looks like my closet exploded all over the floor, when suddenly i feel the futility of having to deal with all this crap and begin to wish that I had the money to pay someone to clean and pack up my room and ship it all home.

Then I thought the only way i could accomplish this, between now and next friday when i'm suppose to be finished packing, sleeping and getting ready to fly out, would be to get myself a sugar daddy.

Natalie
(sugar daddy)

Stupid Ass Motherfuckers!

2007-03-01T07:28:00.000-08:00

So, as usual, whenever I write in this thing I am seriously procrastinging somewhere on the frigid Lakehead campus. So here's the whole rational behind the title of this posting:

So, I come into the library intent on taking out the final reading for my History Instruction class, reading it int he library and quickly typing up my response. However, to my unhappiness, I found that someone else had taken it out, so I assumed that it would take no more than hour for this person to read this SHORT ( did i emphasize that enough?) magazine article and return it. So, seeing as this is my train of thought I hop onto a computer, and decide to wait him out. Well, it's been over an hour, and what am I doing? I'm still waiting for this son-of-a-bitch to finish reading this shit. What the hell!?

Well, after an hour and half has passed, because he wasted more time just fiddling on the internet, despite the fact that someone is waiting to take out the magazine that he has and there is only ONE COPY!!! available, he starts to type up his response (Bravo dumbass). So, you would assume as a normal person, because there is someone waiting for this material that this bright shining start of a person ( <--- sarcasm) would finally return the damn magazine so I could take it out!..... oooohhhh no, apparently, he still needs those three pages of print to write his one page response, he cannot remeber what he read or he is being an asshole. (I'm going to give his intelligence a little credibility and just assume that he is an asshole)

We are almost about to hit the second hour and I'm still sitting here, waiting on this motherfucker.... I give up.

Natalie
(When will people learn not to fuck with me? WHEN!?)

Just an Ordinary Day...

2007-02-25T10:10:00.000-08:00

Have you ever woken up one day, and were just utterly disappointed with everything and anything around you? If you have then you can identify with me today, because I'm having one of those days. At first I assumed that it was just simply a case of the Sunday's ( I know a cliche saying... but, what can i say), but it wasn't; I am not simply down because the weekend is over and I have to go to school on monday, but I am just down in general.

Now, let me just say that, This whole "Down feeling" isn't something that is consistent in my life, it's just something of recent. The futility of teacher's college is settling inside of me as well as my placement which practically over and I still have to assign three assignments, as well as, special ed ( something that I have absolutely no training in).

I know it seems like alot right now, but I will find a way to make it through it all. Afterall, I don't have a choice it must be done because there is no way in hell I'm going to repeat any of this. Plus, I want a job.

Natalie
(Head, just above water)

Thank You Ugly People

2007-02-17T10:23:00.000-08:00

I would like to say Thank You, to all the ugly people who crawl over this mud ball racing around in a circle around the sun of our solar system. Why am I saying this? Well, without ugly people all of us average people would not look so hot.

So, the next time you see someone who is ugly, pugly, or plain fugly, give them a smile, and say thank you, make them feel good, after all, without them you may not be a 7 on a scale, you could be a 4 or a 5.

Natalie
(I love me the ugly peoples)

I'm Going to Work Out!..

2007-02-13T17:53:00.000-08:00

Now, don't start crying you lot, but i've decided over the course of a year, I'm going to loose.... 85-90lbs... Whoa. Seems like a lot doesn't it? But I weigh alot.

S0... 2008 will see a lighter Natalie.

Natalie
(On my way to becoming a health nut)

Questionable...

2007-02-12T19:08:00.000-08:00

Have you ever met one of those people who you become friends with, but they just seem unnecessarily mean in a not fun, not joking way?... Well I'm beginning to think that I have one.

If you didn't know, I have a bit of a digestion issue, my stomacha swells and unswells, and i have complications with everything that has to do with eating, breaking down food and the like. Well, due to that, my pants, and underpants don't always fit properly.. they slide down at times. Which means every now and then, they slide down enough that a little bum crack appears... it's embaressing, and i try to avoid is but it happens, and I laugh it off. I usually explain this issue to people who I hand out, because after the first few times of joking about it get's old.

Unfortunately, the situation arose again today, well more like a few minutes ago. I didn't notice, because i was feeling kinda warm and i was booting it down the hallway to get back to my room to watch "The Hills" new episode. So, when one of my friends ... was like "He bum crack is always showing", I turned around to see who it was, low and behold it was someone who I've explained what my issue is, and I really didn't need them annoucing things to the whole fucking universe or that side of the floor. This is also the same person who i told, I have certain tears in my intestinal lining that will bleed if i'm hit in the buttocks area, and therefore not to wack me on the butt, and still doesn't get it.

I am aware that my pants slide down, that's why i always wear longer undershirt tanktops that come over my pants, to avoid this from occuring. I have explained this people, and I'm getting tired of the fucking jokes.

What's the plan then? Well... i think I'll go by the arm's length rule from now on.

Natalie
( I'm Done With You )

FYI, those of you have my blog address, don't be talking about this to others. I just don't give my link out to anyone.

Who is making these images of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy?

2007-02-11T13:44:00.000-08:00

This post is just pictures... and to see if anyone knows who is making them.

Comments?

I Want A New Phone!!.......

2007-02-10T14:39:00.000-08:00

Am I acting a little immature? Maybe.... but only by a decade and half.

So here's the story, I have had the same cell phone for the past 5 years, the thing is outdated, has no colour screen, cannot take pictures, or blue tooth. What does that mean? The other phones are making fun of it, so it's time for something new!

What's that you say? "There are starving children in ethiopia who can barely afford a cellphone, let alone food to keep their bellies full". ummm... that's not my problem? (lol)... Honestly, i don't care.... i want a new phone.

So, here's the plan..

The Plan:

1) put phone underneath daddy's back tire*
2) wait for daddy to leave for work.
3) listen for crunch of cell phone
4) cry..
5) daddy feels guilty and i get a new phone of my choice

* This must be done after all phone numbers have been transfered to a secured location so that they can be inputed into the new cell phone when it is purchased. Muwahahaha

So what if it is a little manipulative... not my problem. well it is.... Oh shut up, i just want a new phone.

Natalie
( I Am Selfish.... For Today Only, I'll probably earn my own phone)

P.S. This is the phone I want, now do you understand? It's white... must be kept clean.

Holy Shit...

2007-02-10T14:32:00.000-08:00

So, after a bagillion years of not posting anything on this blog, Because i'm addicted to facebook, I've decided to come and post something. Well, As usual i type in my password and junk but i get promoted to switch to the new blogger, bull shit. So i do it and it took forever, I hate with when i have to switch and pick a goggle id.

Well, despite being annoyed by that, it has given me some motivation to write something in this long overdue post. Goggle.... has anyone noticed that it's taking over everything? Blogger, YouTube, it seems to want to control all the major methods of self expression on the internet. Perhaps, it's a means of "Big Brother" gaining access to all of us people. I only have one thing to say WATCH THE SKIES, and beware of you type, cause Google is watching!

Natalie
(I might be dead after this is posted, you know who did it,... Google)

The Taste of Freedom Is....

2007-01-20T10:20:00.000-08:00

A Wonderfully Pumpkin Taste!

Now here this, it's a "The Life of Natalie NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!"

As of 1:20pm Thunder Bay, Ontario[stop]
Natalie from The Life of Natalie[stop]
Has been liberated from her creatively stiffiling complicated relationship with one boy named Daniel [stop]
The "dating" was ended by the monolith herself, Natalie [stop]
and now places as her supreme Natalieness' 3rd quickest breakup [stop]
Ms. Natalie requests that all congratulatory email be sent to her hotmail account [stop]
That is all [End communication]

Sincerly,
Natalie
(Classy That All I Know How To Be)

So.....

2007-01-16T16:16:00.000-08:00

So, I've been thinking that maybe I'm gonna move up this date from February 21st to tomorrow. That bastard! hasn't messaged me or msn'd me.

Natalie
(BAGGARGG!)

February 1st 2007.....

2007-01-15T10:16:00.000-08:00

That's right people, the date has been set! ( No Not A Wedding Date) The end date. I am going to end things with this "Daniel" on that exact date!

Now, you're probably wondering "Why would Natalie want to pick such a cut and dry date and so close to valentines day to break up with this poor boy?". Well, you kow what? I don't have to justify what I do, this is my blog. I picked that date because I thought it sounded nice .... so there.

I am utterly annoyed with him at this point ( I'm being very girlie) and I've had it, this is it. I expect to see somekind of "I miss you... blah, blah, blah" crap with this time frame or I will end things by not talking to him anymore. Ha!

I am taking Mikey's advice ( That's Mikey from Mikey's Musings) and I am going to ignore him with all the power my chinegro body can muster ..... And!.... Maybe I will go out on a date with the 24 yearold (He's older than me) , Electrical Engineer Master's Student (Ha! Take that Lowly Undergrad Engineer), Who is 6' (He's My Height) Who asked me out this past sunday. Ha ha!

Natalie
(Trading Up In Every Sense Possible)

Boys

2007-01-05T18:44:00.000-08:00

I know an unusually uncreative title for me, but what can I say... my mind is kinda perplexed about a few things. Specifically, this boy.... Daniel... that I may or may not be having a thing with.

Usually, i don't give a shit about much, especially "boyfriends", I tend to pick my friends easily over them because i'm a proponent of the philosophy "Bro's before Hoes" ( not very eloquent). It's kinda disturbing to me that I at least once a day think to myself "I wonder what he's doing right now?", that stuff is sappy and not usually me. Could I be developing a heart?.... maybe that's what that pounding in my chest. Whatever seems to be going on here, I am not familiar with it in anyway, I am just confused.

To make things even worse, he doesn't even seem to display the slightest emotion or hint that he might miss me since I moved back to Thunder Bay to finish off the semester. What the hell is that? I sure don't know. A boy who has kinda ( I'm not really sure about this ladies and gents) pursued me for like two summers, and then I finally cave! and what do I get? A whole plate of nothing.... you'd think me and him were just friends. Well, let me tell you something, I centainly do not need and friends that I can kiss.

I know I said before that I am not quick to label things that are developing from a friendship as a "relationship"; nor am I, particularly keen to automatically, as soon as possible, declare someone who I might be dating as my "boyfriend".

I don't think I'm really making alot of sense in this post. Maybe there could be something here between... Myself and Him... or maybe I'm just looking to deep into this, deeper than I really should be. After all, I have to remeber, that he is younger than me, and I am starting my career and the both of us are probably looking for different things. I have to remind myself that he is probably the type of guy who is just into dating; whereas I am not a person who likes to date people randomly. I think it's a waste of time to date people for the sake of dating people. Can you really get to know someone on just one date? I don't think so, most people are nervous. I think you can get a good idea if you like someone or not after a few dates, lets say... ( wait for the aribitrary number) 4-7 dates, because by that point the person isn't so nervous anymore. I should probably get to the point, I'm a relationship type of person, I like to be in an area of comfort, you know what I mean? ( please say you do).

Now back to my whole "does he like me delima", Everytime we talk on MSN I am the one who has to initiate the conversation. I feel like I am just some sort of random closet convience and that he wants to be "used" so to say, strange huh? Well, I'm getting pretty tired of it, and as much I would like to talk to him online when he is online I've started to cutback, using some personal restraint ( Is this playing hard to get?). I have decided that he needs to show some interest in me, and start talking to me more. I understand that he is busy with this school work, but don't let me remind you guys why Natalie and Brian dissolved.... ( Natalie and Brian ended because he ignored me for a few months, now, keep in mind that this was a guy who I had been dating for more than 5 years less than 10 but more than 7). If for some reason he ends up reading this, he needs to know that as much as I like my space, I still like to feel wanted.

Natalie
(I'm So Confused, and This Post Doesn't Make Any Sense)

Racing To The Best Days

2007-01-05T16:02:00.000-08:00

So,..... Today I was going to make another euphoric post about my love affair with pie, however, do to a massive stomach ache I have that has absolutely nothing to do with pie compustion, I have changed the topic of today's post. As a result of a trip to the Hoito, today's post will be my adventure to the Hoito with Rich and uh... Heather ( I think that's her name).

So, it's friday, nine am thunder bay time, I'd just woken up about an hour ago to shower and drag my ass across the campus to go to my morning class. What did I find when i got there? That class was cancled, of course I was like bullshit! However, my friend Heather (God I hope that's her name) was also lingering around to make sure that our group had put her name on the assignment that we had to hand in today.

After which we went to the Hoito, I ate alot of pancakes, and now my stomach hurts. I can't really remeber many details, because this was a week ago. but i know my stomach hurt, and i farted something awful.

Natalie
(Word... as Courtney would say, who happened not to be at the Hoito that day)

Musings on Rachel Ray......

2007-01-04T13:41:00.000-08:00

Rachel Ray....

Famous Food network chef/ talk show host; Writer of cookbooks, blah blah blah.

Let's get to the point, She annoys me, with he little catch phrases like "Yummo" and "E.V.O.O" (Extra Virgin Olive Oil).
Or is she all sweet and nice like she says she is?

Thats, all I have to say

Natalie
(Who does she think she is? Martha Stewart?)

"Boys..... Sometimes a girl just needs one"

2007-01-03T17:13:00.000-08:00

Famous words spoken by the one and only Britney Spears, "Boys, sometimes a girl just needs one", and I now have to say that I believe Britney's "insight" ( i'm laughing as I type that) to be somewhat true. So, what boy am I talking about? well, his name is Daniel and with him I am breaking all kinds of rules I usually follow when dating.

To begin with, I usually date men ( i.e. boys that are older than me ); however, in the case of Daniel I am seem to be breaking this rule by alot. Daniel is not even my age, yes ladies he is younger, by..... wait for it....... three years, ( I'm cringing now) It's embaressing but it doesn't really bother me that much.

More issues? Typically I date guys who are my height or taller than me. umm..... Daniel, is not taller than me, he is also not my height ( I know what you're thinking by this point, what in the world is she doing?)

However, those are the only minor little issues, which haven't caused me to become slightly psycho. As a result, I am inclined to believe that I will not be going nuts anytime soon over this or losing sleep.

Other than that, he is smart, funny, patient,... all the good crap us girls tend to look for.

Natalie
(Robbing the cradle)

New Discovery: "Facebook"

2006-12-31T01:22:00.000-08:00

I have recently discovered "Facebook" (I am referring to it in quotations because i am still unfamiliar with the whole thing and what exactly it's purpose is). As usual when I join something of this nature, I fill out almost every detail on the site so that my profile is entirely complete. Why do I do this? Because I like to be thorough when I join things of this nature. So now I am considering whether or not I want o link this blog, to my facebook???.... We'll see what happens, I may just end up posting little notes there, that will encourage others to come to the blog and get the full story.

So, if you have a "facebook", try and find me on it.

Natalie
( S'up G?)

I Like Pie.... How About You?

2006-12-26T11:23:00.000-08:00

When we were all young, I am sure that most of us when asked to choose wether or not we prefer Cake or Pie, we would pick Cake. Why would anyone pick something other than Cake? Cake is spongy, sweet and delightful. Well I'll tell you why!

Cake, while it is spongy, sweet, and delightful, is a dessert that cannot stand on it's own and has not healthy properties whatsoever. Cake, needs Icing or most people would be too impressed with it.

Now, PIE, pie is yummy, pie has sweet fruit and other fillings, requiring no icing, it can stand on it's own. It's warm, sweet, flaky, savoury, and the fruit in it could count as one of the daily servings of fruit and vegetables we are suppose to have.

Therefore I choose Pie!, as my favorite.

Natalie
(I like Pumpkin and Cherry Pie the most)

Thoughts On The Human Heart

2006-12-24T10:03:00.000-08:00

Lastnight, I was unfortunate enough to be a witness to one of my friends heart being broken by a guy who says they are just "friends"; I would say, that these two are actually dating because they spent alot of time togethor, and if one of them is with someone of the opposite sex they are concerned.

Now back to the story, well, we had spent the entire day shopping at Square One in Mississauga because my friend, lets call her K, was suppose to go shopping with the guy who broke her heart, lets call him D. While we were at the mall, all day she expressed to me that she felt as if D was just jerking her around because everytime they make plans to do something and his ex-girlfriend comes to town he ditches her for his ex. As her friend, I understood completely what she was going through, as I had been down the same road with my own ex-boyfriend.

Well, after we were finished at the mall, K and I headed towards another friend of hers' apartment where she was suppose to get her hair done for a discounted rate. When we got into the car K checked her cellphone for messages. To her surprise, there were a few from D, one of them was a pleasent message, and the second was an angry message ( These messages were responses to some voicemails that K had left him on his own cellphone. These phone messages left by K were of an emtional origin). She immediately called him back, and they discussed some of their issues and it seemed that they had work out their problems, because K had now changed her mind about attending D's soccer game. I was relieved to see that my friend was somewhat satiated.

When we arrived at the hairdressers apartment, I was not impressed, the place looked like a garbage can had exploded in it, and it smelt funny; then again, what can you possibly expect from an apartment where three boys live?... exactly, how stupid of me to expect the garbage to be in a trash receptical. Moving on-- While we were there this hairdresser friend made an attempt at K, but, true blue, typical of K, she refused his advances infavour of maintaining a more than platonic relationship with D. K's hair took forever to complete, mainly because the guy who was styling her hair is an idiot, and is in clear need of some ridlin. Despite that, his brothers are very attractive, I was very pleased with their physical attractiveness. Once K's hair was done we headed towards the indoor soccer arena where the game was to be played.

On the car ride there, everything seemed to be fine, K was calm, we were laughing, joking, pretending to be professional singers, blah, blah, blah. So we get to the arena, and D is there, the two of them do no exchange eye contact at all, but, finally D comes over to K to talk to her. I immediately, take out my cellphone, turn off the ringer and pretend to be a fictious phone call with some random person that does not exist. I assumed they worked out, because soon after D asked K to go outside, and they both did.

Everything was fine until the end of the game came around, D asked K and myself what we were up to not that the game was over. I said, "I don't know, I didn't drive, It is up to K", so he refered his questions to K. So K says she doesn't know and that we need to check with another friend. That friend ignored K, and she was upset again, so we ended up ditching everyone else and going to dinner at Tremendous. Yumo! and then to K's house where we watched part of a movie that we have been trying to watch for over a week ( LOL, sad... I know). That's when K's phone rang, it was D and he said some hurtful words, which resulted in K breaking in tears. It hurt me to see my friend crying. After that, K's brother came downstairs to check on the state of his sister and to banish D from the house. The fight had reached a climax on an emtional level. K dropped me off at my house, and raced off to mississauga to talk things out with D. After that, I don't know what happened, but I hope it was a mututal resolution.

What Does This Have To Do With Me?........

Well, it made me think of my own present relationship with a particular male, and I question, are he and I friends? are we more? where do we falls? I think these questions need to be answered because I don't want to end up in K's position again. I've been there before with my ex boyfriend and it was not fun. Therefore, the guy I am currently speaking too, I really want to talk to him, so we can clearly define what is going on with us. Then again, I don't want to define things so early on... What is a girl to do?

Natalie
(Damned if you do, Damned if you don't)

"T.N.T..... I'm Dynamite!"

2006-12-19T14:53:00.000-08:00

So, lastnight before I went to bed and had finished marking a series of poor history tests I listened to this song by AC-DC. Big mistake. Why? Because that night I dreamt I was trailer park trash, "Daisy Duke" kinda of trash.

Natalie's Trailer Park Trash Dream:

Well, I woke up and i was skinny ( bonus), my hair was in pig tails (bareable), and I was wearing a tied up checkered shirt and some cut off shorts that seemed more like panties (Uncomfortable).

To my horror, I was living in a trailer... an airstream trailer, and that song TNT by AC-DC was playing in the background. Lucky for me, there was no man in the trailer with me, so i felt somewhat comforted.

After getting up and realizing that there was no toliet in my trailer, I went outside to find an outhouse, what did I find? I found millions of other trailers in the trailer park with me, and the people that lived in them were waving to me and saying "Morning Nat-lee (pronouced as such), how ya'll (use of plural when i was clearly alone) doin' ( love those hick words)". I was horrified.

Luckly, a tornado came upon the trailer park and tore it to bits, that's when I woke up.

Natalie
(Great Story Huh? lol...)

Hey Mammy, You Sexy....

2006-12-17T08:50:00.000-08:00

Anyway, do you guys remeber those chevrolet commercials that had the character "Johnny" in it and you're suppose to fight peer pressure and do what's right? Well, the song in the commercial that is about the Cobalt where the singer is saying "Stupid boys all the time/ hey mammy, you sexy/ hey mammy, you sexy". Well that song just poped into my head when I was thinking about current events.

Now a question of morality, Is it wrong for someone to date or 'talk to' two people at the sametime? And you answered that question with a yes, let me pose this one to you. Is it wrong for ME, the Fräulein, to date or 'talk to' two people at the sametime? You better have answered no.

Stay posted for more additions to the developing story: Fräulein and the boys

Wizbang!

2006-12-02T17:18:00.000-08:00

Well, once again it has been a long streach of time since I last posted any information about my Teacher's College experiences and my life in General. Due to that, it's going to be another one of those wizbang blog posts that encompasses every major event of my life up until this point.

Well back in late October I had the misfortune of experiencing a major anxiey attack that resulted in me ending up in the hospital. I spent the night in the hospital under supervision and sedated so i would hyperventilate myself into passing out again. I spent 5 days on bed rest and missed some of my classes. If you thought it was over then you were wrong, it took me forever to pull it togethor again and bring myself back to school and hand in all of my assignments. So, you're pobably wondering what exactly the trigger point was for this major breakdown? Well, it all revolved around the fact that I had to write a unit plan for one of my classes, and because I had never written before and didn't know what I was doing I panicked myself to the point of an anxiety attack. Irrational, immature behaviour? Yes, but I have an anxiety disorder and sometimes I can't help it, it just happens.

More recent events reolve around the fact that I am currently 3 weeks into my first placements (Hooray!?), and it went well the first week ( that probably has to do with the fact that I didn't do anything that first week, all I did was sit at the front of the class and observe the children and My associates teaching style), the second week I taught my first lesson, and it wasn't a complete disaster, I did have some issues and I accepted it. However, by the third week I had now begun to teach the entire economics class, plus a grade 10 applied history class becaues the teacher that typically did that class was unable to teach for the next couple of weeks because he wasn't feeling well. So, this week will be week four. I'll be exactly four weeks into my placement and I will have one week left. I'm hoping that I will survive and that my summative evaluation will go well. My associate tells me that I am well on my way to becoming a good teacher, comforting words for a student teacher who worries so much about everything.

Natalie
( hehehehe, me a teacher? in charge of peoples children? hehehe.... umm ok?)

P.S. That puppy is my sister's new dog Bailey.

The Master of Kissing

2006-09-23T15:55:00.000-07:00

Now look, I haven't suddenly turned into some massive whore since the last time I posted.... Not in anyway possible. Today's post is about meeting the "Master of Kissing" (aka Mike) and the conversation we had over dinner.

So, we were having dinner in our own personal cafeteria (Yeah, my residence is just that anti-social) when Mike, one of the 40 boys who live in my house, sat down at my table. Mike was eating and so was I, happily enjoying my delicious baked potato when the topic came up about relationship stuff.

So we're talking in the house about whose a virgin ( no surprise I'm a member of the V-squad) when certain people had lost their virginity, and when we had our first kiss.

Now, Mike... says he had his first kiss when he was five, and because he had been kissing since then, he is an amazing kisser and he has never had any compliants.... blah, blah, blah. So, he then proceeded to say how over the years he had to teach some of his girlfriends how to kiss, because they were such bad kissers and all this jazz. I.E. making himself out to be somekid of guru of kissing.

Let me tell you ladies, I would have no desire to kiss this boy... teeth (eek), lips ( purple.. eeeww). Lets just leave at that.

Natalie
(Guru of kissing..... my ass he is)

Where The Hell Have I Been?..........

2006-09-16T11:42:00.000-07:00

Indeed, where have I been for the past ( lemme check my calender) 11 days? Well, I've been out and about going to class:

When I'm not in class, I've also been working on making friends and finding suitable standins for Meghan and Kristina, and everyone who I valued most during my interment at Brock:

When I'm not going to class and making new friends I am using going out on various social activities like house events that involve painting my face;

and, going out with my new friends to..... Oooh, lets say like on pub crawls. Hey, that's what I did yesterday, my first pub crawl ever! (I know people, I lived a sheltered life):

Evidence of my participation on the pub crawl, cutely named "The Thunder Tour" lol can be seen from the drunken written stuff on my official pub crawl t-shirt. Anyway, I going to tell you all what happen in the following:

Thunder Tour 2006

The Thunder Tour 2006 officially kicked off yesterday at 7pm when everyone who had paid for a ticket for the Thunder Tour congregated at the on campus pub, The Outpost; however, me and my residence friends unofficially started our Thunder Tour immediately after we finished dinner and that was..... about..... 5:30pm..... Ok, lets not look like a total alcohol and say 6:00pm ehehehehe.

When we arrived at the outpost, the place was jammed packed with tons of guys ( remeber the ration from a previous post? 1 to 5 ... in the heterosexual females favour). The best part? All the men were technically intelligent because they are all ENGINEERS!!.... that's right people, boys who can count. So, I'm assuming that most of you by this point are curious as to why there were so many engineering boys at this pub crawl.... well, the answer is simple. THere were so many boys of the engineering persuasion because the Thunder Tour is put on by the Engineering Students Association!!!

So, the buses arrived at about 8pm ( I think, by that point I had been drinking alot so... someone told me we left at 8pm, and based on how dark it was, I believe that their numbers are correct). We went to One divey bar called the royalton, which was also connected to a the ghettoest motel ever and rented rooms by the hour.

Then we were off to "Players", this bar was hilarious, it was chock full of middle aged divorcee men lol.... male cougars everywhere (aka dirty old men). At that bar, I really needed to pee, so i waited in line forever and went tinkle. But when I had finished going to the bathroom I rushed to the bar and got myself two drinks and somemore cigaretts. THen, I wrote a series of lude things all over fellow Thunder Tourer's shirts, drank somoremore and ran off to the bus for our final stop.

The last stop, Roxy's!.... but before we went in there I rant over to the tim hortons so that I could pee, and it was good. Then I budded in line and walked right in roxy's. I went immediately to the bar, and got myself a drink, then ran to the dance floor and shook my chinegro ass, then back to the bar for a drink. Then I wrote on some guy's pub crawl shirt and he flashed me his thingy (eeewwwww, and no people I didn't ask him to do that, he felt the need to do it on his own.... how lucky for me).

Then Sarah, Sandra, Alex and Myself decided to leave to go to MacDonald's instead of taking the bus back to school. Along the way, we meet various interesting intoxicated people who were wondering around and waved to lots of cars (P.S. we walked to MacDonald's..... I Don't Drink And Drive). When we arrived at MacDonalds we walked through the drivethrew and ordered some yummies, then sat on the curb and ate our food. While we were there, we encountered a cute couple who was in love ( aawww..... I think I'm gonna throw up); two guys who were complete assholes, who lived on a campus and didn't want to walk with us back to campus to make sure that nothing happened to us (phhhtt). two other guys, who were sweet as pie, one of which climbed a lamp post (it was amazing), and then they walked us back to Campus I think their names were Nick and Patrick..... but they could have been lying lol.

Then I got back into my residence and went to it's lounge with my residence mates, in which I fell asleep on the sofa, and my friend Sarah ( also the RA of our floor), walked me back to my room and I went to sleep, with my television on and my computer ( Good Job!).

Then I woke up, showered and wrote this pour vous.

Natalie
(Holllaa!!!!!!!)

Hot Guys...

2006-09-05T12:20:00.000-07:00

Did you know at Lakehead University the Guy to Girl ratio is like 5 to 1? What does that mean for me? Lots, and lots of guys to stare at and pick from LOL.

There are three particularly tasty males who live in my dorm their names are Tom, Thomas ( pronounce Toe-mas), and Uhhh... some guy who was a lifeguard this summer at a summer camp ( i.e. I can't remeber his name).

Detail descriptions:

1) Tom

Tom is about 6'1, he has dark hair, kinda tanned, European (mediterrainian), has silver rimmed glasses, athletic

2) Thomas

Thomas is uh.... 6' maybe 5'11, has dark hair, tanned, American, has a southern accent, no glasses, and is average build wise.

3) Unknown summer camp lifeguard

He is maybe 5'11, tanned, Canadian, no accent, dark hair, no glasses ( that I know off), has a nice athletic body.

Natalie
(Not so much a post as a hot guys list)

Hanging On....

2006-09-04T11:13:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard that Cheyenne Kimball song "Hanging On" ? That song lately has become my theme song when I'm feeling a little home sick and lonely.

"Hanging On"
By Cheyenne Kimball:

I've had a bad day
And nothing ever seems to go my way
I've got a heartache
Don't wanna think about it
And everytime I try to smile, I cry, soI'll just hide my face
Get out of my way
Don't wanna talk about it

And I'll be fine
I just need some time

I'm hanging on today
And nothing's gonna stop me, anyway
I'm holding on, I'm strong
I'm the only one who can make it change
I don't want advice
Gotta live my life
I'm gonna make it alright
I'm hanging on and nothing's gonna stop me, anyway

I went the wrong way
But I'm not lost, it's a good mistake
I saw the day break
I'm gonna shout about it

Oh, and everytime I turn around
I find that, I'm alone again
I've had a bad day
I'm gonna laugh about it

And I'll be fine
I'm gonna be alright

I'm hanging on today (today, yeah)
And nothing's gonna stop me, anyway
I'm holding on, I'm strong (I'm strong)
I'm the only one who can make it change
I don't wanna cry
Gotta live my life
I'm gonna make it alright
I'm hanging on and nothing's gonna stop me,
Nothing's gonna stop me

When I feel lonelyI feel like I'm floating
Nothing is real
I'm above it all
I'm above it
I'm above it all

I'm hanging on today
And nothing's gonna stop me, anyway
I'm holding on, I'm strong
I'm the only one who can make it change
I don't wanna cry
Gotta live my life
I'm gonna make it alright
I'm hanging on and nothing's gonna stop me, anyway

See what I mean?

Natalie
(I'm hanging on and nothing is going to stop me)

Booo....

2006-09-02T14:56:00.000-07:00

Woohoo, double post in one day that means two things, one i'm having so much fun every second of every day that I cannot post just once but, must post several times a day so that all the super fantasticness doesn't just blend into one happy memory; or, i'm feeling lonely.

Well people, I ain't having that much fun I'm just feeling lonely. Everyone in the house got togethor in the lounge to go have dinner and no one wanted to invite me. It's ok, I'm just going to have to learn to eat alone but I'm super hungry right now and I want something to munch on. The one thing that really gets me about it is that, the person who lives in the room next to me, I always get him for events or ask him if he's going or not, and he just walked out of his room ... saw my room door open, and didn't even think to knock on the door and ask me if I'm coming or not.... well, I won't be getting him or helping him with anything anymore.

Well I better suck it up and make my over to the cafe get myself some dinner if they are still open. However, I probably won't. I'll make a fresh start tomorrow....

Natalie
( Oh I'm also trying to kill a bee that is threatening my life.)

State Of Emergency....

2006-09-02T12:32:00.000-07:00

Hey people, I've finally arrived in Thunder Bay and it's not as a bad as I thought it would be. The city is exactly what I assumed it would be sparse and cold with no mall, but the people are really nice so I am happy.

The move in went smoothly, I brought my all my luggage over first that I flew up with and then I headed over to the local Thunder Bay branch of the company that I worked for in the summer and picked up my skid of stuff. That skid ( for those who are not in the know, it is a square wooden thing that warehouses stack stuff on to ship out because you can use machines like forklifts to move the skid with the material around ) weighed 282lbs!, that's like 82lbs less than what I weigh, ..... ( hehehehe, I'm festively plump). Anyway, we threw all the stuff in the minivan and the guy who works at the branch helped us.... he was hot, wish I got a photo for you guys to see and for me to drool over.

Presently I am unpacking my stuff and putting posters on the wall to help make this room more "Natalie", it's going well. my room kinda looks like a mini Katrina went through it with all the boxes on the floor but I'm gonna clean up the mess faster than the Americans have restored the south.

So, what have I learned from all of this? That Meghan and Mikey were right, everything is fine and I have nothing to be afraid of.

Natalie
( The Fräulein Has Learned Her Lesson )

It's Hard To Say Goodbye...

2006-08-30T12:12:00.000-07:00

It's the day before I ship out to Thunder Bay, and man do I feel it. This morning while I was laying in my bed, I struggled to keep my eyes closed even though I knew I was awake and I could see th'e sunlight pushing through my eyelids. A last desperate attempt to postpone the morning arrival and hold on to being at home. However, I couldn't pretend that today wasn't here, eventually I had to face up to the fact that it is August 30th and in less than 24 hours i will be on a plane to Thunder Bay.

It's so difficult to look outside and know that this is going to be of the last times i'll see my neighbourhood, the last time I'll be in my room in my bed, the last time I'll see my friends for a long time.

I can't finish this post. I don't want to think about leaving.

Natalie
( Why can't I be grown up like Meghan )

Gutentag!

2006-08-29T08:44:00.000-07:00

Goodmorning everyone in German!

Today things are as I expected them to be. I've been getting alot of reports from my friends of their initial experiences of Teacher's College and, some of them are good and some of them are indifferent but none of them are too alarming. This, to me, is reassuring it makes me think that things will be ok when I arrive in Thunder Bay.

I'm still worried that i might be showing up late for teacher's college, because most of the people I know who are starting teacher's college in Ontario and in the USA all started on monday. As a result of my obessiveness, I keep checking the website to verify that my orientation is on the 5th of Septemeber and my first day of classes is the 6th of the September, which they still are.

Today I am doing my final load of laundry at home, and it's making me sad to know that I will not be in our laundry room till my birthday ( October 8th ), and I won't be able to see my family or spend time with my friends till then either. No more coming home for random weekends, because it's just too expensive to fly down. It's going to be hard, but I hope..... no, know.... I can make it through it. After all, I sitll have MSN and I can talk to all my other friends who are going through the same of similar experience... so, it'll be alright? ( I really shouldn't be asking that as a question as much as I should be making a clear state ment to show my self-confidence.... I'm side tracking again)

On another note, I'm feeling really good about my flight considering the most recent news regarding that plan that crashed on it's way to or from Calgary, Alberta because it was on the wrong runway? I hope my pilot is a little smarter.

More strange news, the city that is next to Brampton, Mississauga, had a house that exploded. What the hell is that? LOL. It was all over the news, and the only reason I'm laughing is because the house exploded and no one was hurt and it's really, really odd that a house exploded.

Natalie
(a Fräulein trying to change the topic)

Possibly Maybe

2006-08-28T08:10:00.000-07:00

The relevance of today's title? It's the song I'm currently listening to and my motivation for this Post ( If anyone is aware of who sings Possibly Maybe... Bjork... you would find the last word of the preceeding sentence "Post" hilarious because it's the name of the album that the song Possibly Maybe comes from..... but i'm assuming that you don't care.... that's ok).

Well yesterday when i was in the shower i decided to shave my legs, so I hoped out of the shower to grab my shaving gel to discover that someone ( i.e. Mother ) had used up the last of my shimmering pear shaving gel. Desperate to shave my legs, as they were not fabulously smooth and irritating me i rummaged around the bathroom cupboards to find my dad's Barbasol. I thought to myself "Barbasol.... it's shaving cream.... hey, it'll work, as long as it's for shaving", how nieve I was...... oh how nieve.

So, I hopped back in the shower... Jack Bower style... and released some of the shaving cream int my hand. I smelt it... and it's smelt like an old man, but I assumed I would be able to fix the scent with some of my patented girlie smelling lotions and poitions. So I lathered up my legs, busted out the trusty disposable no name brand razor, and shaved my legs.

Oooh, how difficult it was to shave my legs with this frikkin Barbasol. I should have just used plain soap or bodywash. The shaving cream didn't do anything! Didn't make shaving easier just more difficult. I wondered to myself, how the hell does my dad shave his face with this crap?

It took my what seemed like 20 minutes to shave my legs, 15 more minutes then it usually does (Yes people, I time these things... I'm obsessive like that, don't like to waste time). Ontop of that, when i had finished showering, toweled off and got int my room, my legs were super dry, it was like looking at waxed paper that had been slightly crumpled up. I had to slather my legs in body butter to bring them back to their wonderful legness.

Natalie
(Beware The Barbasol)

Jackchingbadabing

2006-08-26T18:13:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure if I've used that word as a title for a post before. If I did, I hope none of you remeber LOL, but you would remeber now because I've reminded you. Oh.... I'm not winning any points in this post.

Well people, Augst 25th 2006 was officially my last day of work (WooHoo) and now I am playing the waiting game. It's the 26th of August right now so that means I have 5 days till I ship out to Thunder Bay. Someone help me.

I'm hoping that i'll make some friends so i'll have someone to take my meals with in the cafeteria during meals lol and that meghan is online alot so we can talk to eachother on msn and talk about our various experiences.

Natalie
( I gotta pack )

Ipod..... more like Icrap

2006-08-22T08:14:00.000-07:00

So, recently... and by recently i mean a few months ago, I received an Ipod Shuffle from my dad who had acquired it at work when they decided to give them away to their employees. At the time I was very, very happy to receive this Ipod because I had always wanted one but could justify purchasing myself one due to the extraordinary cost for a small piece of technology which probably took no more than 2 dollars to make.

So, why does this all matter? It matters because my precious Ishuffle, which I have become attached with and purchased two acessories for ( FM transmitter and Charger that doesn't require a computer's USB port) had suddenly crapped out.

What happened? I was using the Ipod in the car, running my own mini raido station and enjoying the music when it studdenly stopped, I was like "What the Deuce?". I assumed that the battery had died, but that was not case; in fact some odd reason my little ipod had an error... and undescribeable error which makes it flash green-amber lights whenever I try to use it.

I was horrified, and as a result i raced to my precious laptop to get on the internet and log on the Ipod website to get some immidiate gratification. The website advised me that I should try to the 5 R's, which attempted to do but the Ipod would not co-operate with me on all of them. Then I tried to get some phone/chat support but I discovered that, according to apple's records, I am not elegible for any support or even free repair service; and that, those services were only available to me within the first 90 days of registration. Now, if i want help I have to purchase a protection plan which is almost 40 dollars, and If i want my Ishuffle repaired, which means that are just going to mail me a new one, I have to pay forty dollars.

What horrible customer service. Most suppliers will allow those who have purchased their products to contact their customer service centre at anytime should they experience any difficulty with they items. Well, due to the situation I have now decided to bad mouth Apple, Apple's Customer service, and all Apple products. I highly reccommend that you do not purchase one

My Kryptonite

2006-08-13T16:07:00.000-07:00

Ever heard the saying "Respect your elders" well.... sometimes it really hard to follow through wth those instructions. Like in this situation.

An older person that I work with recently acquired a cell phone from their family as a present. Unfortunately, they were not able to "work it" so they asked for my help. I showed them how to turn the thing on and off, how to store numbers in the hone book, etc. However, this person along the whole way of me explaining how to use this thing argued with me about everything. " Are you sure that's how you dial a phone call?"; " Does that button turn it back on again?"; "Where did those ringtones come from?". I had to struggle with myself to prevent me having any little upbursts.

So, this experience of mine has led to me to ponder a few things: Keeping the above rule in mind "Respect your elders" Do you think old people intentionally anoying younger people to see how much they can get away with? I think they do, and I think that is exactly what that man was doing to me.

Oye, old people.

Natalie
( Forever Young As Long As There Is Someone Older Than Me)

26 Days....

2006-08-06T19:04:00.000-07:00

Thats how many days are left until I am in Thunder Bay.... SOS.

And I'm begining to think about how bored I'm going to be because I won't have cable in my dorm room. I've had cable in my dorm room for four years! and now for some odd reason this strange residence ( The only one out of all of Lakehead's Residences) Doesn't have cable. What the hell is that?

Oh well, hopefully my imagination isn't completely broken and I'll be able to entertain myself. Oh well, and if I can't, I'll just keep hope that there will be cable in my room when I get there, or they will place me in a different residence that has cable.

The chances of that happening?.... not very high.

Anyway, soon I will have my digital camera and I will be able to put up photos of my thunder bay life.

Natalie

Rihanna

2006-07-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

1st question: How many of you have seen and/or heard Rihanna's song "Unfaithful"? I'm hoping most of you have.

2nd question: How many of you find the song annoying?

Well, I find that song very annoying. I don't get it. Rihanna, if you don't like cheating on your boyfriend because you can see that it is "killing him"... and you "don't wanna be a murderer", than break up with your boyfriend or stop cheating on him? This seems to me to be a very simple answer to me. However, I can understand how Rihanna would not be able to see this solution because..... she's a whore lol.

Well Rihanna, seeing as you like to cheat ( just like Usher ) and write songs about it ( just like Usher ) maybe you and Usher should date? Who knows, maybe.... just maybe.... you both could have an open relationship... or a new STD named after yourself and Usher.

So, let this be a warning.... if you have slept with Usher or Rihanna, because they are so permiscous, and it burns when you pee... you might have UshRihannaism lol...

Natalie
(SOS, Someone Help Me)

Smittened In Kitten Mittens

2006-07-27T17:46:00.000-07:00

Who is watching Big Brother All Stars? ( I know Mikey and Meghan are ). Well, I know this is going to sound wrong but I have a crush on the evil doctor.

Look at him, those eyes, that hair... the evilness and he is practically invincible. He's been up for nomination so many times in Big Brother History and no one ever seems to evict him.

I'm In Love...

Natalie
(Smittened in Kitten Mittens)

Tran

2006-07-25T17:02:00.000-07:00

So, I use to complain about how embaressing it was to have a nanny with me at every moment while I was in Korea, but... now I'm really starting to miss him. I miss especially in the mornings because now it means I have to pour my own cereal and milk.... Lazy, huh? LOL.

Anyway, I'm sure some other crazy voice actor in Korea now has Tran, and is loving every moment of it. probably has him bending over and picking stuff up with his muscley... muscley tanned body.... (drool)

And i've also let you guys down by not getting a picture of him :(, but i gave him my address to hopefully he will mail me a photo and I can scan it, and we can all hoot and holler at it like animals.

Other news, I work with this guy Justin who looks like Justin Timberlake except he's kinda going bald, but..... the looks are there, he just needs to shave his head low like Justin and he'll be cute and not a balding man. lol.... mmmmm, Justin. Ooooh, Also he is from Texas and has a texan accent like a cowboy... ehehehehe.

Ok, enough boy crazyness.

Nat
(Word to your mother) lol

Toot!

2006-07-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

Well, I know I haven't posted anything in awhile and that is with good reason because I've been packing my stuff in Korea to get on an air plane back to Canada. Why? Because, North Korea fired that rocket... and I'm afraid I'm going to be blown to bits. So, what does this mean for my "Career" ( honestly, I'm usuing this term very loosely) nothing because I had an anti-blow up clause.... so the work is being moved back to Canada, because other people who are working on the series and the movies also had the same clause. So, that explains why I am back in Canada. Now for the story entitled Toot:

So, yesterday, my sister, her husband, and myself were watching the movie Grandma's Boy ( Which was hilarious by the way ). Anyway, my brother in-law goes upstairs because he had to use the bathroom and we paused the movie so he could without missing anything. Anyway, my sister runs up the stairs when she hears him open the bathroom door and the faucet being turned on and scared him. He was so scared that he farted! LOL, I never laughed so hard this summer.... Now we call him tootie lol.

Natalie
(My brother-in law farts when he's scared)

"They say that I'm This.... They say that I'm That..."

2006-07-09T12:59:00.000-07:00

Tic Tac Toe. Odd way to start a post but it just popped into my head. Well lovelys I had an interesting Saturday night, ending up with me kissing a boy.... uhh... a boy kissing me? (Cooties). Anyway, let me recount my tale of "romance" but it could also be considered "robbery". Anyway:

So, it was about 7pm at night and my friend Ketti (female) invited me over to her house for dinner, so I was like... "free food.... yummy". I hauled my fat ass out of the house and into a car, escaping the ever watching eye of Tran, as he was asleep on the sofa. I drove myself to ketti's apartment and climb the stairs and knocked on the door after, which, she let me in.

So I get inside and there is no food, so me and Ket end up walking the streets looking for some munchies, and along the way we run into one of her friends named Mike. I had no idea who this guy was, and how they knew eachother, but he is Ketti's friend therefore he must be a somewhat normal human being. I find out that he works for some company unloading rims ( Maybe he's a criminal?...... more likely legit, and I am just imaginative), it sound interesting to me, as I like shiny things... the bigger the shiny thing the happier I am usually lol.

So, we eat the food we got ( I treated everyone... so the food wasn't free in the end) and ended up watching Team America: World Police ( Best movie this month on DVD that was released almost a year ago lol). Anyway, Ket ended up disappearing in her apartment and it was just me and mike sitting on the sofa. We started fighting for the remote control, which wounded up with him tickling me to gain control, but he stopped when I told him I was gonna pee my pants and I assumed dominance, then he pulled me towards him and kissed me. ( eeww )... I know, I was horrified, I'm a lovely dovey person, I'm the kinda person who punches a guy in the face to let him know I care lol. Anyway, he ended up getting my number from Ketti ( Grrr) and now calls me on a regular basis. I think I may have to get Tran to beat him up or something or claim Tran as my husband.

Natalie
(Cootie infected)

Demon Squirrel

2006-07-07T17:20:00.000-07:00

What is God's name is this?

Science says that this is an albino squirrel, I say it's somekind of evil squirrel.

Today, I was watching Korean television, and they were showing a documentary on squirrels ( exciting ), and this image popped up on the screen. I was like " Who is evil enough to bleach a squirrel?" ..... well no one. This is all natural people and apparently we have these things in Canada in a town called Exeter.

I know the squirrel probably isn't evil but I say it is. Look at it's beady red eyes.... evil... Looks like it's ready to attack.

Beware the squirrel

Natalie
(Worst Post Ever)

2006-07-06T17:03:00.000-07:00

Today was a very good day at work for various reasons. One.... Monsieur no shirt was there. If you don't remeber him... here is a photo.

But that wasn't enough to make this day supercalfragalistic... because it also rained and Tran was wearing a t-shirt. Ladies... let me tell you, he is a muscular man.... very, very muscular.

Now that our minds have gone to the gutter it is time for an update, I am working on getting a picture of Tran, yes Meghan... you can have him for your birthday lol.

Work.... uhh, i had to record a song for one of the straight to video movies, lets just say I won't be winning any Korean Idol contest, and the backup singers seem to be alot louder than me. I guess that means I do not have as great a singing voice as Mikey :(.

I don't have anything else to say. So i'll talk to you guys later

Natalie
(Superhero Identity: Super N.... shhhh)

Ashley and Bill's Adventures

2006-07-02T11:33:00.000-07:00

Recently, through my friend Meghan and fellow blogger, I have become addicted to another blog entitled "Ashley and Bill's Adventures". Unfortunately, Ashley ( This is who I assume is writing that blog), has not posted any new adventures and I'm experiencing withdrawal. As a result of this I have begun to imagine what could have happened in Ashley and Bill's apartment. So, I have decided to post what I think could have happened since Ashley sneaked a peek at Bill's room:

a) What Ashley feared what could happen... That Bill came back unexpectedly and caught Ashley taking the photos of his room and they had a disagreement which also brought up the issue that Bill had stolen some of her Cheese slices, and promptly led Bill to shut up, and go into his room like the criminal that he is.

b) Ashley went home because she was done her courses and did not need to be around the apartment or Bill's leering eyes. Thus, she must be currently enjoying the company of her friends and family

c) Ashley won the lottery and no longer needs to tolerate living with Bill and because now that she is Oprah Rich she has forgotten about her two loyal blog readers ( Myself and Meghan).

d) or something else that I couldn't possibly imagine.

Natalie
( Proud Chinegro Canadian... Eh!)

Canada Day: Christopher

2006-07-01T19:46:00.000-07:00

Happy Canada to all my fellow Canadians

I celebrated this important holiday to Canadians at Canada's Wonderland, with one of my friends from school (Kristina), her boyfriend (Evan aka ginga), and her brother (Christopher).

We had a wonderful, amusement day at Wonderland, and I was very happy to see Kristina and get caught up on all the things that were happening to us since we last saw each other, which was at Graduation. Sadly, I was distracted from my bestfriend by her brother Chris ( Mmmm ).

Christopher is 6'0-6'2, dark brown hair, cute glasses, brown eyes... The whole package people (well at least for me).

I have a huge crush on him, all day we spent poking at each other attempting to tickle each other, riding some of the roller coasters. It was magical.

Christopher.... I wish he was here now.

Natalie
(Smittened/Sleepy)

Larry King Live: Starr Jones

2006-06-29T19:19:00.000-07:00

Presently, I am watching larry King's interview with Starr Jones, and frankly I am appaled by how Larry King is treating Starr.

Obviously, based on Larry King's behaviour, and his constant mentioning that " I spoke with Barbara earlier today", That he and Barbara Walters are good friends. Therefore, he clearly is bias towards Starr's viewpoint and her experiences. He is obviously on the side of ABC and Barbara walters.

I am disgusted with his level of hournalism, but then again, what should I expect from a man who is married to a woman who is more than half his age.

Futhermore, he keeps on grilling her on the same question, I know he is trying to make he trip up to ruin her reputation, but now I'm just assuming that he might be losing his mind in his old age; that and he is also very unprofessional.

I mean, he keeps reading from this damn letter he recieved from ABC. If he really wanted ABC's perspective on the matter he would have had a member of the network who was linked to the show on in this interview so that they could provide their own perspective.

ABC, and The View are a bunch of bastards. I know, within two season The View, with Roside O'Donell as their co-host will be canceled withing two seaons. The view use to be an intelligent show to watch, then one of the original co-hosts left to go back to national geographic. When that happened we all should have realized that the show was taking an intellectual downturn. The View is just a gossipy, twittering show now, with no realy diverese representation of the American Population

Monolith, Titan,..... Natalie

2006-06-29T15:35:00.000-07:00

Today I discovered that I am a force of nature to be reckoned with and that I am very good at what I do. So for your reading pleasure, I have a random assortment of words that in some strange way could be a poem, but if it is.... It is an awful. So, enjoy, laugh... Scrutinize, whatever.

Very few people can out voice act me
Very few people can out Natalie me

I am irreplaceable
unforgettable,

I am just me
A monolith,
A Titan,

Superhuman.
Not Godlike.
Just Natalie

Mother

2006-06-25T13:52:00.000-07:00

Mothers, everyone has one. Some people (the lucky ones) have mothers who are as they should be, supportive, loving, etc.,. Others.... aren't so lucky, they have mothers that criticise everything that do and wear, and call their children fat. So people, question time, guess which category my mother falls into. Give up? That's right.... my mother is the critical one who would call you fat, and finds at least one thing a day to critcise you about. How lucky am I.

So... what was the criticism today? Well i was just loafing around the house so i threw on whatever ( tank top and a skirt ). Because I kept moving around the place my skirt rode up a little and there is a split in the back so you could see my underware, but what did I care right? I was in my house and I am not going anywhere so I decided to just leave it, because if I fixed it now, then sat down, and got up again few more times it would just ride up. Well, mother clearly saw this her daily opportunity to criticise me and do somemore emotional damage and make me hate her just that little bit more and decides to do her classical critical mom phrase "Blah, blah frikkin blah....It doesn't look good".

She enjoys insulting me, and picking on me everyday. I don't know what she hates me... she's the one who had me, I didn't ask her too. Jesus.... as a Catholic ( and I enjoy this so much.... ) I'm obligated to be nice to her.

God... whoever is on duty, Help Me not to kill her.
Natalie

Fear

2006-06-24T19:43:00.000-07:00

It's pretty late at night in Seoul and I can't sleep. Tran is snoozing away in his room.... I can hear him snoring. Why can't I sleep? I can't sleep because I am thinking about Lakehead again. I know we've already been through this, I post earlier on that I was feeling apprehensive about going away to Lakehead for a year, but I can't seem to shake this feeling all. I can feel it building in me, the fear, the worry, the anxiety. I keeping wondering if other people who also in the same shoes as me are going through the samething? It sounds horrible to say, but I hope someone is, just so I don't feel like a baby everytime I feel tears welling up in my eyes when I remember that I have to go to Thunder Bay, and be away from my friends and family for months at a time.

I hope everything will be alright at Lakehead and in Thunder Bay. But, I can't help but remember my experience at Brock ( For those who don't know it was very, very painful ) I don't want a repeat of it. As a result of that experience, I can't shake negative feelings about Lakehead. I know on a logical level that everything should be fine there, I've spoken with people who have attended the University and they have assured me that it is wonderful there, and that they loved the school and the experience.

I'm going to try to keep and open mind. I just don't want to leave Lakehead more bitter and angry than I already am.

Natalie
( All I can be is Human )

More Complaining

2006-06-22T15:54:00.000-07:00

It seems to me that lately I have been doing alot of complaing ( If you think this self recognition of how I complain means that the following post isn't going to be a complaining rant, you're mistaken). Today I will also be complainging.

I took my Graduation photo sometime earlier in 2006; anywho, the photos arrived at my house sometime in March or February and I told my mother to pick whatever photos she likes and mail it in. Well people, It's June now.... and my mother has yet to do it. Is she stupid or something?..... I don't know. Is it because I'm not her favorite child?..... I think so. Well, it's nice to know that me graduating from University ( *cough* unlike my sister's graduation, which took her 7-9 years to get to!!! ) is not a significant event. Apparently, purchasing items like graduation photos, a frame for the degree, .... you know the little things aren't worth doing for me. I feel special.

To make matters worse, my mom can't even find where the proofs of my graduation photos are ( another sign of how important my graduation was to her) so it's not like we can order them now.

Being this special hurts, and I'm pretty certain I'm gonna cry. However, two things are now certain. I'm either not going to my lakehead graduation or I'm going alone, and I am a backup kid.

Natalie

Celebrity

2006-06-21T20:14:00.000-07:00

So, ever since that crazed fan broke into my hotel room the studio has begun to care about my whereabouts. As a result, I now have a nanny of sorts that they have tried to pawn off as being a "bodyguard" (lol); Right...., So my nanny's name is Tran, he is 26 6'0 tall and Korean ( At least I think ). Anywho, he lives in the room next to mine (there are ajoining doors) and he and I are joint by the hip... where I go he goes and he drives me there like i'm miss daisy.

Anywho, so me and Tran arrive at the studio that I record the soundtrack for the television show, as well as the two straight the video films ( that's why i'm in Korea all summer people... I'm recording two seaons of television on two full length straight to video films where I am a main character). I haul my chunky butt into the chair and get ready to start making crazy sounds with my voice for the entertainment pleasure of creepy unmarried overweight 35+ yearold men. While i'm waiting for the sound engineer to do this thing i decide to check my lakehead email ( I do this like 80 times a day because i'm paranoid). Anywho, my paranoia paid off because there was an email from the registrar saying that i have registered incorrectly. Of course anyone who knows me, knows how i reacted.... I immediately when into a panic, that panic increased into a anxiety attack ( those who know me, know i suffer severly from those panic attacks). If that wasn't bad enough, my irregular breathing triggered an asthma attack, which led me to pass out, follow out of the chair.

Luckly for me, Tran was able to revive me as i woke up with his lips on mine he was giving me mouth to mouth ( the horror ). You'd think i would have taken it easy at this point, but instead i reached for my laptop and immediately began to work and solving the problem. This angered Tran but he let me finish re-registering because it was calming me down. Anywho, I solved the problem.. did the changes that they told me to do in the email and felt relieved.

Now that i was done fixing the problem, Tran scooped me up bodyguard style and drove me to the hospital. The Dr checked me out, gave me some oxygen and anxiety medication.

Natalie
(Goofballs and Drama..... Oye)

The Graduation Thing.... Again

2006-06-20T14:48:00.000-07:00

So, I know only within the last couple of posts I complained about my graduation but I think that it is worth mentioning ( at least just for mental health sakes ) that I graduated almost a week ago, and my dad is out of the hospital and functioning well enough to cut the grass, and I still have yet to recieve a graduation present or dinner. What the hell is that? My sister who took some six or seven years to graduate from university with a pass degree got a present and a dinner; she even got another dinner when she graduated from Medaille with her "Masters" ( masters is in quotations because an american masters in education is not equivalent to a Canadian masters in education, as a matter of fact is closer to having an honours degree ) in education.

The only was i can rantionalize this behaviour on the part of my parents is that they like Simone more than me. and the only differences that exist between the two of us are that my sister is skinny and has to work harder to get good marks, and I am the genius festively plump one.

All I want for my graduation is a digital camera. and really, the camera isn't for me. It's more of a tool I'm going to use to add pictures to my blog and chronicle my adventures in Thunder Bay.

Natalie
( The Gods Must Hate Me)

Odd Day

2006-06-18T09:47:00.000-07:00

So today I was so bored, as it is the weekend and I had nothing to do. I was dragging my sorry self around the streets of seoul eating all kinds of street food, ( the trick to it, is to not think about what exactly your eating), picturing all the kinds of parasites that would be growing in my digestive system. Suddenly, I realized that I had been walking around seoul for like 5 hours and I had no idea where the hell I was, but there was an unusual amount of American G.Is where I was.

Enter Bill. Bill is an American Solider who "hails from" (lol) Texas. Apparently, due to his origin I was expected to be smittened by him.... I was not. Honestly, he smelled funny.... like cows and leather. That's when I decided that I was going home, so i hopped into a taxi... and uttered in horrible korean the name of hotel I was staying at and began my scary adventure back to the hotel.

I arrived at the hotel, where I live like somekind of D class rock star (lol), dragged myself across the foyer to the elevator, into the elevator, out of the elevator towards my room, slipped my keycard into the slot and opened the door. There was my room with everything exactly where i left it... except for one thing, the small korean man crawling out of my window on the balcony!

I ran towards the phone called security, who immediately rushed up the elevator arrested the strange man, and find that he had stolen.... and get this people.... one sock, one bra, and one t-shirt. His reasoning? Apparently he is my biggest fan. I have fans??? God Help Them.... God, Allah, Buddah, Vishnu... help me.

I now live in a nicer posher hotel, with a security guard at the elevator. Penthous people.

Natalie ( supposed korean celeb, lol..... wish they'd pay me more)

Curtis Stone

2006-06-15T14:28:00.000-07:00

Curtis stone is a sexy, sexy man. If he ever came up to me in a grocery store to cook me dinner... I'd never let him leave.

Take Home Chef. I highly recommend all straight women and gaymen watch this show.

Natalie Out! lol ( just like Ryan seacrest, except asian)

Bacon

2006-06-12T15:41:00.000-07:00

I like Bacon,

I like at breakfast
I live it in BLTs ( no tomato )

So Bacon is very good,
Salty
Crispy
Smokey.

However,
I do not think Bacon should be wrapped around anything!
Not Chicken
Not Filet Mignon
Not bits of liver (eeewww)
Not around shrimp (sacrilege!)
Not around Fish of any type!
Not Scallops.... (Tho shall not!)

Now, you're probably wondering what borought this on, well lets say someone I know ruined a perfectly delicious dinner by wrapping something in Bacon!... Twit.

Bullshit!

2006-06-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

Longtime no write,

So, if anyone reads Meghan's blog you know pefectly well that this past Wednesday ( June 7th 2006 ) herself and I graduated from Brock... WooHoo (Sarcasm). I agree with Meghan, all the speeches were boring as hell, and I just wanted to ceremony to be over with.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to take alot of photos with all my friends like Meghan did, on the account that my father had a stroke and we had to leave the ceremony immediately so we could go sit in his hospital room with him. If that wasn't bad enough, that I didn't get to spend time with my friends most of which who I probably wouldn't ever see again, My dinner party to celebrate my sucess was also canceled and is to be rescheduled ( i can tell you that this dinner party celebration will never occur, because my parents are full of shit ).

So you're all probably think that after that complaining that I'm a pretty ungrateful little bastard of a child. Considering that my dad had a stroke and I was mad that i didn't get to take more pictures with my friends. But, I think i deserved to take a few pictures with my friends, which i probably won't see again instead of be rushed immediately off campus after the ceremony. Also, i should be allowed to complain about not having a dinner party because I know my parents won't reschedule it, they'll just invent a memory that never happened.

On top of that, everyone in the damn universe is calling my house enquiring about my dad. How many times do i have to repeat the same crap everyday? And my mom is completely useless.. (surprise!)... she doesn't call any of these people back at all.

Anyway, I'm pretty bitter and pissed off right now, and I gotta plan a little my own grad celebration involving an ice cream cake.

Μισώ ο καθένας
Natalie

Movie Review: X-Men III

2006-06-03T14:55:00.000-07:00

Hello puppets,

So I know I've never done a movie review on my blog before, but it's also been a couple of days since I posted something on this. Keeping that in mind, this won't just be a movie review but also a update of the sequence of events that occured revolving around seeing the movie.

So, I wanted to see X-Men III but no one I know wanted to see it with me. Then my friend Dan at work was harshing on me because I always backout of recreational activities with him outside of work [ I'm a Bastard LOL }:-) ] so I asked him if he wanted to do something on friday, he suggested pool, and I reworked the plans into seeing X-Men III.

So, Leading up to this past Friday to pick him up I had to get his address, mapquest it, and then consult with some more experienced drivers to determine the direction that I was going in. Then D-Day, Dan told me to pick him up at 8pm (lol, I know.... usually the drivers tells the passenger when they'll pick the passenger up.... but, he's a male and we all know how they are ladies). So, I leave my house at like 7:20ish, get gas, hit the highway and make movements to pick him up. Needless to say, I got a little disoriented and had to turn around. I made it to his street but passed his house and he had to come outside to flag me down to his house ( lol I'm stupid).

Now I had Dan in the car, with no damage to the vehicle, myself or him. So we proceeded towards the AMC at Courtneypark VIA Hurontario aka Hwy 10. Enroute Dan say's "Have you eaten already?", I was like " Yeah, I ate when I got home, my parents are like 60 yearsold so i eat early". But he was hungry, so we went to get movie tickets, park the car, and hoofed it over to Boston Pizza ( I'd never been there before in my life ). We ordered a pizza, he ate most of it cause i wasn't hungry, and he picked up the Check ( aawww cute ).

Dinner is over, and we hoofed it back over to the theater to get seats and see the show when i started to have a mild Asthma attack ( real smooth lol ). So i took my puffers when we got out seats, then he went to the bathroom before the movie started and we watched X-Men III in silence side by side.

If you thought the night was over, your wrong! Cause we went to play pool afterwards, and I sucked out at it, but it was fun, Dan gave me some directions on how to improve my game, but my lack of co-ordination made his advice non-applicable. But i had fun, learned some new things.

Then, went drove around. He gave me to tour of his educational career, his neighbourhood, saw his grandparents house. After that, I dropped him off at home, and drove home, woke up my parents by accident and went to bed.

MOVIE REVIEW:

X-Men III is too hyped up, it was not as spectacular as I thought it was suppose to be so I would recommend seeing it, but only seeing once. All you people you are into Deuce are..... stupid. The good thing about the movie were the people who died :). Out of 5 Stars, I give X-Men III.... Two and a half.

Natalie
(Future Graduate/Asthmatic)

Jackchingbadabing

2006-05-30T18:17:00.000-07:00

So, it has obviously been awhile since I committed my personal experiences and thoughts to this blog. What can I say? I don't have a good excuse like Meghan does at all.... I'm just, lazy because I work all day with people who barely speak Canadian English. Oh well I will survive.

Other updates: Where as Meghan totally kicked ass in the marks for this final semester my marks were modest enough to secure me my Honours Ba... soo enough said.

More updates: I went looking for a dress to wear to graduation, and I saw one with kimono sleeves that I am determined to buy.... tho shal be mine!.

So I've got nothing else to talk about, so I'll talk to you guys later.

Natalie (Animation Diva/Future Underpaid Teacher)

Needle In The Hay

2006-05-16T17:11:00.000-07:00

So, I know it's been awhile since I updated this thing, but what can I say? I've been really busy, trying to make my schedule for teacher's college, working, being poor.... all that crap. As a result of my neglect you, loyal readers, will be treated to a condensed version of everything that has recently happened to me:

1) I was invited to my friend Tania's Birthday Shindig at a Club, which I could not attend because I don't have any money, and the money that I did have I had to use to purchase my mother something for mother's day.

2) I went shopping with my mother on Saturday so she could pick out what she wanted for mother's day, and that was a trial on its own. Lets just say we looked long and hard, and my mother wasn't getting the concept that it was a gift so she should nickel and dime the stuff that she was picking up. But it's over with ...... (there is a God)

3) Sunday I went with my family, and my sister and her husband over to my mother's sisters' house ( aka the aunties) where we had.... well a disappointing lunch/brunch. Also while I was, my aunt finally made my quilt which was way overdue.

4) Also on Sunday, before we went over to my aunts house, I was dressing myself so I picked out my outfit and I thought I looked great. However, my dad thought otherwise and remarked "don't you look at yourself before you go out?... Jesus". What can I say? My dad is an Asshole and I hate him. Bastard. I'm gonna put him in a home.... a government home with no television, no radio, no private room, no wheel chair where he can be alone for the rest of his old age. Bastard. (I'm just a little angry)

5) Monday, I struggled to make my schedule for teacher's college but I'm unable to register because "I'm not in an active program", reason being because Lakehead hasn't received my final transcript from Brock as well as proof of my degree.

6) Also on Monday I got paid, however, I was suppose to be making like 12 something, instead I got 11. So.... that needs to be resolved as I want my damn money.

7) I hate old navy, the commercials make me angry.

8) Now I am writing an update to my blog. while the inner part of my ear itches because I ate almonds and I think I'm allergic to them.

I'm the fat smart one.

2006-05-09T20:31:00.000-07:00

There are somethings that a friend should never, ever say to another friend. One particularly of concern with females is telling your friend that they are ugly, or making any statement which infers that you are better looking than them.
Now, I do not proclaim to be one of the deepest people on the face of the earth; no, I am just as shallow as most 22 yearolds who are wandering around in Ontario, Canada. But, I will say one thing, I would not say something to someone's face that would make them feel bad about themselves. Everyone is pretty to someone, that's another motto that I've adopted. All kinds of ugly people find love... look at tom green.
Another thing, under no circumstances should a parent ever say to their child that "they don't look good" in a superficial manner. By that mean in just on an appearance level that has no relation to do with the child's health. Things like that make teenages, proto-adults, and children feel bad about themselves and want to crawl under a rock as well as create all kinds of image problems. Not to mention, at least rarely, somekind of dysfunctional person who later becomes a serial killer.

Anyway, directionless rant coming to a close. Words hurt, becareful what you say and who you say it too. "... and if I'm ugly than so are you ,'because people are all the same...."

Another Illness

2006-05-04T06:10:00.000-07:00

So, yesterday was happily toiling away at work, when I noticed that I started wheezing. Seeing as I am allergic to everything or posses a low tolerance to many things, I naturally assumed that my allergy medication wasn't working. So, I leave work early and head over to a walk-in-clinic to see medical attention, again assuming what was happening was nothing too serious.
I arrive at the walk-in-clinic and no one is really there, so I expect to have a short wait.... How foolish I was, because I waited three hours to see a doctor, then was told I was having an allergy related asthma attack and must immediately go to a hospital to see emergency attention involving a face mask and oral steroids.
I race off to the hospital, get there... Wait for hours and finally get medical attention after my lips start turning blue. I get the face mask, the oral steroid, get sent home with prescriptions for two puffers, and an oral steroid.
I ask you people. What is next?

%$#@!

2006-05-01T19:22:00.000-07:00

What the fuck? I ask the world and the universe this question. It's like somekind of cosmic force enjoys seeing my frustrated, I'm twenty-two yearsold and I swear I'm going to have a heart attack anyday now, or a stroke. Let me tell you why.
Well, last week on friday, I decided to be proactive in my adventure to becoming a teacher and get my background check done and over with. So, I filled out the form for the Ontario Education Services Corporation and promptly mailed it, checking the address to make sure it was going to go to the right place. Well, guess what? I guess priority post is not very fast or efficient because I think they may have delievered the damn thing to the wrong fucking place. Why? Because I just decided to (within in the last 10 minutes) to the check the online tracking for this package to see if it was delivered today, and you know what kind of information I got? that "an attempt to deliever it was made, but no one was there to sign for it, so they left a delievery notification card for them to pickup". What the hell is that? They were delivering to a P.O. BOX!!!! at 9am!!! There should have been someone there to sign for the damning thing, and it should have been in the fucking P.O. Box for those people to get my information and payment information so they could start my police background check and I could get my life in order. FUCK!
Now, I have to get my mother to call the damn post people tomorrow to find out just what exactly happened and why it wasn't delievered to the P.O. Box and why no one signed for it, and to ensure that they even went to the proper address. Can I get a break? For the love of God, please just make this thing get to the right place.

Natalie

My long weekend.

2006-04-30T16:01:00.000-07:00

Well, after having to work last week on a Saturday, I was determined to have this Saturday to myself so that I could sleep in and watch television, and eat lucky charms. Well, that's not how to this weekend turned out, because I had to work this Saturday (surprise!), and as a result of this I did not get to sleep in and watch television, and could not even eat lucky charms because we didn't have any milk. So, I go into work on Saturday, and I work for four hours and I get a lot done, then I'm ready to go home at 12pm, but I'm having trouble getting out of the building because all the doors are locked so I'm running around all over the place like a chicken with it's head cut off.
So finally, I get home and I'm lounging around doing nothing when my friend calls me at about 7pm and wants to go get ice cream, so I say ok. I get my ass up, shower, get dressed, and drive off to a neighbouring "city" ( I'm not sure I could classify it as a city) to get ice cream, and it was good, then my friend decides that we should go to a club, and then we do another costume change and we're off to a club.
The club was alright, the music wasn't that great but we still had a good time. Then it was 3am, and I was tired, and my shoes were killing me, but I perservered and hobbled back to car and we were off to get food. at about 4am I finally make my way back home, and get to bed. so.... my whole day lasted from 6:3am-4:00am the next day. Oye, I need to sleep.

Alligators lay eggs, but, they aren't birds.

2006-04-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

So, I noticed in my last post that my buddy from school, Meghan, had posted a comment about the photo I had up ( you can't see me, but I'm grinning) that tends to be the general consensus about the photo of the guy lifting his shirt up, and yes readers I know him personally, we work together ( Jealous yet? lol ). Alright, now lets get down to the latest bullshit that has been happening in my life, and if I repeat something, because I can't remember if I already posted it don't get all worked up people, I do have a life outside of this Blog. So, recently, I was attempting to makeup my teachers' college schedule for Lakehead, when I realized that two courses that I am obligated to take conflicted with each other. Needless to say, I had to contact Lakehead and tell them about it so the problem can be remedied. I'm beginning to wonder if Lakehead is going to be Brock Part II? I better not be, cause I'll snap.

Other nuggets..... hummm, well recently I heard this proverb on the radio, "The early bird gets the worm, but, the second mouse gets the cheese", it made me think ( I know the horror of thinking, lol ) which mouse am I? Well, I concluded that I am the first mouse.... and if you've been reading my blog you'll uderstand exactly why I feel this way. Which mouse are you?

Currently, I am soaking my feet in a tub of hot water and lavender scented bath salts while I watch Korean television. I'm not sure what I'm watching, it might be either A) Korea's version of America's Next Top Model or B) a beauty pageant C) an infomercial for some 1-800 number. Anyway, I apologize for being all over the place but that's how I think so..... deal with it! I'm going to bed.... Zzzz

This is a post now? Oye.

2006-04-27T16:48:00.000-07:00

Well, seeing as I seem like an Angel of woe, I'm gonna post a list of things that I like so that my readers know that I do find somethings enjoyable:

Things I Like
By Natalie

1) Dairy Queen or Carvel Icecream Cake (mmmmm........)
2) a warm brownie cut up into bite size pieces with two scoops of chocolate icecream ontop with whipped cream and hot fudge.
3) Peanut Buster Parfait (Dairy Queen)
4) Kentucky Fried Chicken
5) Wendy's Burgers
5) prosciutto (spelt wrong)
6) Sleeping in late (see a non-food like, I don't have an eating disorder)
7) Ace Von Cook Instant Noodles Kim Chi Flavour or Spicy Shrimp
8) Shopping
9) Animated shows (except family guy and American dad)
10) Brampton..... ummm, yea
11) Movies
12) A good amount of friends.
13) The guy in the picture,
14) Can't think of anything else, so I guess not having to justify anything I do lol

I'll add more to this list, as time goes on.

Living Tragedy

2006-04-24T18:39:00.000-07:00

How am I a living tragedy? Well, anything that could possibly go wrong with my life has in some way happened. The latest in my list of unfortunate events has been my attempt to fill out my Lakehead University "Professional Year Teacher Candidate Placement Form" that is due today. Well, I can't fill out the form because the website won't let me login, and I work from 7am-5pm or 6pm every weekday. So I was unable to try to fill out the form during the day so that if I encountered problems I could call someone at the school while they were there. Now i'm freaking out, I called every number at Lakehead in a panic.(I hope they call me back tomorrow). I don't want to end up having to do my placement up there, because I can't afford the traveling expenses. What am I going to do? You know, it things like this, that happen to me on a regular basis, that make me depressed when I wake up in morning because I think "Oh God, what is going to happen to me today?". If I wasn't Catholic, I would have already given up-- But, it's a mortal sin, and as close as my life is to a living emotional and psychological hell, I think real hell might be worse..... at least I think it might be.

Delays or Procrastination..... Maybe Poor Spelling.

2006-04-22T11:29:00.000-07:00

Wow, it has been almost a week since I last posted, that entitles my non-existant readers ( I'm assuming no one reads this) to an update in my life. Well, on the 17th I went back to work, and I'll be doing that for the whole summer. Also, it has been confirmed I am going to Lakehead University to teacher's college, I just have to graduate from Brock University and get my degree conferred. Today, I am going over to my sisters house ( scary huh? lol ) for Easter dinner-- I am aware that this is a week late, but I had to move out of my dorm room on Easter Sunday, so I missed the original date. I Still have no car, the Boy situation?...... Just don't ask, Friends? Tania is still Tania, Carol is still Carol... everyone is still the same. Anyway, I keep saying this blog postings will get better and hopefully they will, because this one really sucks.

What am I to do?

2006-04-15T15:34:00.000-07:00

Well, a few hours ago I finished writing my last exam on my undergraduate career (whoopie), and now that I'm back in my tiny box of room, all I want to do is watch television and work on my religion paper. Unfortunately, my television has decided that it does not want to turn on-- it is dead. On top of that, my mom, dad, and brother in-law (sister is too busy), came up today to pack me up and move me out, so all of my other sources of entertainment, DVD's and literature, have been taken away, and my stereo. There is this deafening silence in my room, I keep hoping that my television will turn on and I will be able to watch something or have some background noise, but I know deep down that it will not. It's lonely, and quiet in this room.

Can you keep up?

2006-04-14T11:25:00.000-07:00

Well I've been a little lazy this past couple of days, but I needed to recuperate and rest for bit. Anyway, today I had my "exit interview" I, in a starry eyed fashion, requested an 80% but It was too high was promptly told that I deserved a more B grade. Oh well, I tried right? Now I'm waiting for some other marks to come back from my two fourth year seminars, and I still need to write my religion paper and email it to my professor and hope the best. Tomorrow I have my last exam, probably for the rest of my life, and I'm strangely looking forward to it. Nothing else of interest has happened to my lately, I went out with my friend on Wednesday night, we had dinner, played bingo, starbucks, etc., it was a goodtime. Oh yeah, I forgot, York finally sent me a letter and it was an outright rejection. Bastards! I know this post is a little disjointed in comparison to the ones I've already done, but I promise they will get better.

Down to the Wire

2006-04-11T18:59:00.000-07:00

Well readers, It's down the wire. I handed in my last fourth year university paper ( A day late with no penalties), and now I only have two papers left, one exam, and one exit interview-- don't ask me what it is, because I'm not even sure, just that I have to do it.
I feel like things may just go my way, that I'll graduate with my honours degree and be on my way to Thunder Bay to go to Teacher's College, and that I will get a bed in residence despite filling in my application late. I don't want to get too comfortable, because if I do I know Karma will come out of nowhere and slap me.
I just need to relax, breathe, and trust in myself that I've done well.

Super power? Handing Things In Late

2006-04-10T10:04:00.000-07:00

Well, lastnight I was working on a paper that is due for my fourth year history seminar tonight, however, it's 1:03pm (St.Catharines, Ontario Time) and I'm no where near to being done. I'm worried that I won't have this paper done by 7pm, and if I don't I'm skeptical about whether or not the professor will give me a day extension to finish this sucker and hand it it. I really don't want to take the 3% late penalty, and I understand that it's not a lot.... But; in your fourth, and last year of university, every percentage counts towards getting that necessary 70% average to graduate with Honours so I can continue to teacher's college in Thunder Bay. Oh God, please help me.... or send some paper writing elves to help me finish this on time so I can secure a nice B or higher grade on this paper. My life, my future, my hopes, my dreams all depend on it..... no pressure or anything.

Then There Was Me

2006-04-09T18:53:00.000-07:00

This post, is probably going to be the first of many in the next couple of months. Like many people in Ontario who are on the verge of graduating from university with a pass or honours bachelor of whatever degree I decided to apply to teacher's college. Last week, April 2nd to the 8th, We received our responses from those schools and mine turned out this way, Lakehead= Yes, Brock= Waitlist ( Which sucks because I'm currently an undergrad at Brock.... Grrr, Don't Ever Ask Me For Money!), Trent= No ( Damn hippies), Western= No (Spoiled WASPs and Yuppies), and York=? (Bastards haven't sent me a letter). Anyway, long story short, it looks like I'm going to Lakehead, I am happy I got in somewhere, but I am a little apprehensive about having to go to a university way up north (Were talking 24hr drive from the GTA people), but if I must I will, Because I want to be a highschool teacher.