Must love wine.

I think that's what Heather and Lindsey think... I really WANT to love wine, it's just not that easy to do!! It makes my face squish after each sip. I just can't help thinking about feet stomping in wine, and then drinking foot-juice. ew. That said, it's not as gross tasting as it has been, so maybe I AM making progress.

So tomorrow is our crazy ladies-night that i won at a wedding fair. Of all the things i could've possibly won at a wedding fair, I win the naked men. Should be interesting.

I love chick flicks. Nothing like that is realistic, (this is coming from the girl who's getting married in less than 6 months) but it sure is cute! Last night we watched In Her Shoes, and it really made me want to go buy new shoes... hmm... maybe for tomorrow night!!

I went to a rock and gem show on Sunday... oh wow I feel like a nerd just writing that... Haha, all I ever think about when I go to those shows is that little short segment/commercial from when I was little that had some guy singing "I collect rocks, I collect rocks, I put 'em in a bag, I put 'em in a box"... It's fun though, there's lots of cute old people whose hobby has something to do with rocks, either carving them, polishing them, or whatever. And they seem to love it when young people are interested! It's great. I got all motivated again after putting my jewellery off to the side for a while, and I even made most of a necklace today with some stuff I bought at the show. Ahh I love reading break.

my mum comes home tomorrow night! hoorayyy! I've missed her... I am actually very surprised though, my sister and I didn't get in any fights! no yelling matches, nothing. That's not to say things went totally smoothly, or that there were no reasons to fight, because there were plenty... It seemed to me like a bit of a patience test, and a 'biting of the tongue' test. I did have to hold back a few choice words every now and then... but I'm proud of myself, I did it!

My poor mum's gonna be in for a shock when she gets off the plane... it's supposed to be something like -15 windchill overnight, likely the same tomorrow... which will feel even colder after being in the tropics!

Tonight I went and played badminton at the church. It was pretty fun, there were only 6 of us there, but it was pretty hilarious, since we all are definitely NOT going to the olympics any time soon... but a good time nonetheless...

I'm not really sure what else to write... I just felt like updating something. It always happens that I'll be out and about and something cool will happen or a thought will cross my mind and I'll make a mental note that "I should write that in my blog!" ... why is it that I always remember that mental note, but not what I was thinking about? Drives me nuts.

I'm going to learn about food tomorrow... My nutritionist of an ECE instructor at school (she has a degree in nutrition) said that after I take that course I won't want to eat anything. I guess it's gross or something... It's the Foodsafe course, the preschool I'm doing my practicum at is paying for me to take that as well as the First Aid childsafe course, which is awesome since I need that to get fully certified! Plus those hours count toward my practicum! Hoorah!

Anyways I guess I'm going to go to bed, maybe I'll actually read or something! :) Goodnight all!

interesting...

I learned something today... I came online and a friend's msn name was "Remember... the bible was written by the same people who thought the world was flat" so I was like, wow I really should say something to him, but what? I needed to find something really smart-like that I could say that wouldn't be offensive, but informative. Unfortunately for me, I'm really uneducated when it comes to this stuff, although I'd love to have more knowledge on the bible, and biblical history, etc. Anyways, so I start looking up information on when it was discovered that the world was in fact round. And well, no one knows exactly when, but Aristotle who was around from 384-322 B.C. apparently wrote that it was common knowledge. So really, it was known before Jesus' time... Which means that the new testament was written with the knowledge of a spherical earth. Which therefore means that this name (which I also learned is a bumper sticker with that phrase on it) is false. Unfortunately by the time I learned this, that guy was offline. But regardless, it was interesting to learn...

Just for Lindsey

Yes this post is now officially dedicated to Lindsey because she says I don't update enough. So here I am, updating. About what you ask? Well I haven't quite gotten as far as figuring out a subject so I think I'll just ramble.
Did you know that planning a wedding is stressful? Now factor in the budgetsotighticanhardlybreathe and add school, work, and the remote possibility of a life and you have one very stressed out Manda. (which basically just shows up as tired Amanda... same thing though) Today I really wanted to work on lots of wedding stuff but time just got away from me so I crammed in a few things in the late afternoon, and hopefully tomorrow we can work on a bit more. Maybe the planning isn't stressful, maybe it's the "oh crap I have to remember...[insert random task/decoration/deadline here]" that's the stressful part. And knowing full well how much of a procrastinator I am isn't helping anything. Oh well, as long as I get married, that's the important thing.
It's funny, I thought that as I started planning I would become more aware of what I want, what flowers I want, what kind of cake I want, all those kinds of details. But it's been the opposite. I'm beginning to care less about the details... Which is good really, especially when you have a really tight budget. All I know is that I've seen so many wedding fairs with ladies who take the whole thing just way too seriously and get lost in the commercial affair. I've found the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, and honestly I don't care if my cake has detail, or if I have some rare breed of lilies in my centrepieces. Of course there are things I want, or would like a lot, but really, when it comes right down to it, it's a day about a promise. And it's the promise I'm looking forward to.

Ok, the promise AND the wedding night.

Wine.

Welllll tonight I had wine. I don't like wine. But Heather and Lindsey thought I should try to like wine, I think Lindsey a bit moreso than Heather, as she kept telling me to hurry up and finish my drink so she could pour me some more. Needless to say I was a little buzzed. But I did learn that I can drink wine if it has 7-up in it. Not too bad. I'll learn, I'm determined that within the next 6 months I will learn to like wine so that I won't have to drink sparkling apple juice at my own wedding. That would not be hot. At least if I only get to the point where I can have wine with 7-up it will still be wine and it will still look like wine! hoorayyy

So I didn't really need another television show to get addicted to (I have enough.... I don't want my schedule to be ruled by television programming...) However as it stands with my two main shows - Gilmore girls on tuesdays at 5, 8, or 10, and Survivor on thursdays at 8 I have room for one more on thursday and apparently that will be filled with the OC. I had never watched a full episode until tonight, and that's mostly because it is difficult to follow the storyline of characters you don't know. Fortunately for me, I have friends who will go to great lengths for someone to understand the OC. So far in fact that I have in my possession a FLOW CHART of marriages (the double lines connecting people), relationships (both kosher - for that nice jewish hottie - and totally illigitimate - as noted by the dotted lines). So now I'm pretty much in the know. And I think I'm going to have to start watching it now.

Anyways, tonight was super fun, I laughed a lot (which I always enjoy)... and I'm one step closer to liking wine. I'm hoping that I can spend LONGER times with those two and have BIGGER glasses of wine...hahahaha yay for hilarious conversations.

Wooohoo!!! My picture is showing up now!! hoorayyy I'm a genius!

I can't figure this out...

I'm having a hard time getting used to this Blogger thing. I am used to livejournal, so making a transition is kinda hard. I prefer the look of Blogger, but livejournal seems to be easier to use. Oh well, I'll figure it out. I just can't seem to get my profile picture to show up on my main page, nor can I download it other than at a tiny tiny size. bahhh

ummm happy birthday Jocelyn yesterday. My little sister is 20. My little sister is no longer a teenager. She said she isn't doing 20 well... well I'm not sure I am either. Where did the time go??? I remember when she couldn't write... I was so proud that I could and she couldn't. (I was a brat ... no smart comments on the 'was' please) She's all grown up. Piercings and all. haha

Anyways, I'm off for coffee with Heather! (Finally! sheesh that girl is busy)

skipping school...

well, ok I'm only kind of skipping school. Just one class. And it's because I woke up with a super crazy headache and decided I would much rather sleep through it than try to drive to abbotsford and sit through my class with it. So I took a couple tylenol and slept for another 3 hours. I still have a little headache but it is much better than it was at 6:30... I'll still go to my other class this afternoon, we're going to be making math toys!! hooray!

So I think my headache might've been due to the election coverage last night (who wouldn't get a headache from all that) ... We now have a conservative minority government. I wonder what's in store for us now...

Right now I am staying in an extremely nice house. I'm house sitting for a few days, taking care of 2 cats. They are super cute, one of them is the fattest cat I've ever seen, named Gus. The other isn't really friendly, although she has her moments. This house is amazing though, it's on the river, with an amazing river view. It has an inground heated pool in the backyard (which is nice because the lady said she needs a housesitter in the summertime too!) The kitchen and living room are beautiful, it really reminds me of "Extreme makeover - home edition" after they're finished with the house. Tonight is my last night, but I hope I get to come back!

Anyways I should get ready for school, in my fancy bathroom :)

Hooray for January

Well I had my birthday the other day so I am officially 23. The age at which I will be married. That is the weirdest thing ever, I never, ever thought I'd be married at 23. Craaaazy.

Which got me to thinking about ages... when I was really little I remember thinking about being older, and how far away it felt. When I think about how I felt back then, I didn't feel little, obviously since I was the biggest I'd ever been! I feel the same now as when I was 6, only with a lot more experiences... I remember vividly thinking "WOW I'm going to be 16 when it's the year 2000!!!!" and how amazingly old that seemed. Now the year 2000 is 6 years ago and I'm getting married, something I used to pretend to do... Gahhh so weird.

Anyways, so yeah apparently I'm updating on blogger right now... I might drift back and forth between the two (this and livejournal) since I now found some good pals who use Blogger!! I just need to figure out how to use this thing.... For example, how do I post pictures? I can't even figure out how to put a picture in my profile, it just says something about a URL, which I don't have for pictures... what is there to use? any ideas?

I'm going to go try and put my lovely friends Heather and Lindsey onto my links page or section or whatever. I need to become more computer literate I think!

Wow...

Ok so it's been a while since I posted... like... almost a year. I've updated more on my livejournal one ... but whatever. Sooo... that list I had there of things I wanted to do during the Christmas season ... well that silly one of going to see Santa... only the best flippin' day of my life! Jason proposed. I'm getting married next August. (20 month engagements suck... way too long)

Anyways, that's the major event to note, anything else you can read on my livejournal since I update that one every now and then. (Although I kinda like the Blogger system better... go figure.)

I just am writing cuz I have some friends on here now who are at YWAM (Youth With A Mission) in Kona, Hawaii. (Lucky bums!!) They are very inspirational people. So yeah. That's why I'm writing again. Not even sure if anyone will read this .... OH WELL!!! :D