Puddles on Desks

I'm really tired. Sorry for not updating alot. I got told tonight that it was ok though. I have nothing really good to say, merely a shout out saying that I am alive, though work may be trying to kill me.

Seriously.

I'm quiting my job in January. End of story. I can't take trying to do another forty hour week there. The employees are nice (except for the jerks that are every where), some of the customers make me laugh- actually some a quiet funny, but these memories are lost in a sea of repetiveness and brain killing boredom as the result of doing meanial tasks over and over and over again, till your quiet good at it while your brain vacates the premiss.

I got asked if I wanted to move out. At this point in time I don't really think that I want to. I mean, I kinda do, but mostly don't. I have reasons. Good reasons in fact.

I'm tired, today was day five of forty hours and third closing in a row. How's that for messing with your sleeping schedual?

Peace to everyone going back to school. Don't forget your anti-stress pills.

T'was a DARK and STORMY night...

Hey. So I just had this crazy random thought. What if the reason that people went around naming inanimate objects was because they were practicing for a time when they would possibly name someone else? So they go around and name all these things different names- just to see if they like the name. I mean it's not a big deal if your car or your guitar is named something that after a month you can't stand, but it would be huge if it was a child. So in order to not hate the child's name by misnaming it something that becomes annoying people try out names on other things first. Just think about it.

Sunshine, Lolipops, Rainbows

So last week I had just gotten off work. Silly people made me come in very early and I was tired. Mom was late picking me up and I was wearing nearly full black. This makes for a very hot, tired worker, who goes in front of Subway and sits on the chairs waiting for her ride, as they're the only chairs near. Head down, eyes closed, maybe catch fives minutes of sleep. Maybe. Could try anyway.

Almost there. Startlement. Head up. Boy near. "Here's some water". Heh, not dehydrated, has water in bag. Nice of boy though. Drinks some. Feels bit better.

Boy was kinda cute. Looks very embarrassed. Hmm, Dad waves and winks as they leave store. Dad's idea. Made boy do it. Hate it when parents do things like that. Why can't they do it themselves?

Welcome back

So sorry it's been a while. Honestly, lately I've been thinking really good blogs while working, or walking my dog, or in the middle of having some good conversations.

This post is not going to include talking about any of those from here on out. *GASP* No the dog doesn't get the spotlight right now. Maybe next time.

So I was thinking. I know alot of people who are good at writting. All after there own fashion of course. Like VCshorty would be very good at stream of consciousness (that's a hard word to spell... can't do it on first or second or third... tries again), and my boat loving friend has an extreme talent in poetry. Another who works more than is good for her, and is in the arts show this weekend... need to remember to try and go to that... is an avid reader who reflects what she reads in the way she writes. None to say she is definately not reading small children books. Another could gets his stuff published.

I got off point. I missed people. One's a cudely bear... and like I said most of my friends can write well. This idea came into my head from a conversation on the bus, and was more fully developed while during too much repetative labour at work. I have a writing challenge. There shall be two catagories, and anyone that is known well to the group may enter. I put that limitation on because if someone in the group writes in then as they are known, we would know what direction they are trying to take their writing, and how much is personality being reflected, and ya, anything else... I did have more to back that up... but I wrote this mentally at work and forgot parts. Right two catagories. One shall be 500 to 1000 words. Don't like it? Think it's too many words? Trying to convey more with less? Second catagory is Drabbles. Exactly 100 words. Not one more, not one less. Once you go over 100 you are no longer eligable for this catagory.

Right I knew I had something else to say. The reason for this all? I wanna try writing again. I haven't written a story since grade 12 english. I think it's time to get old skills out, non?

Anyway, you didn't think that that was all? Nope. Now that we have our catagories established, we shall have subjects. Well yes challenges shall come after, remind me about that please. Colors shall be our subjects. Here it goes.

Yellow- depression
Black- Hope, new life
White- Flith
Red- *chanllenge* may not be about anger, passion (love), or blood
Pink- serious

I had more... I had green and blue, but can no longer remember them. So the story or writing must be about whatever color you chose. The color must be mentioned and can be contected to the topic -Ah! Green's- death- Now to the challenge. Not to use the word that is your topic. So for yellow you can not use the word 'depressed','depression', or such like.

Still can't remember blue. Anyways, I thought it would be a good idea. Maybe make a face book group? Then everyone could see the stories and give feedback, which really is what all this is about.

It was just an idea, and it's been bugging me, haunting me throughtout work if you will.

Shine

While cutting down trees

Today's moral of the story. Don't let coffee come up your nose.

See it all started with mere minutes to go on my shift today that someone called Rachel in produce. Problem: there are two Rachel's in produce. Both working today. I thought that it was the other Rachel and apparently she thought that it was for her too, but it was my little brother calling saying that once I got off to go to Smitty's.

So I did. Idiot was eating more barbacue sauce than chicken wings so I made a few bets with him, he went through with the first one, but not the second. Eh, then eventually we started taking about sanity, and how he did have some. He was impressed with how many syllabes it had, I told him how many letters and that he was sane. Then he pronouced sanity somewhat like sa-a-ni-nit-ty-ee. Apparently it was really funny, I don't think that's exactly how he said it, but close enough.

The reason that apparently it was really funny is that my mom, the one who we gang up on to see if we can make her spit out her drink so that it doesn't go up her nose, let coffee go up her nose. Now you see, we'd been trying for years, at least a decade, for that to happen. And it finally did happen. With warm coffee, while taking about sanity.

Bead of water

So I was in the process of realizing something recently. I'm really bad at holding conversations. Especially with new people. Reminds me of someone; namely a fictional character, but meh. So I decided that I wanted to do something about. Problem is I really don't fully know how.

Realized something else as well. I hate feeling vunerable. Stupid little things like the admission above make me feel like that. Which I believes contributes to a lack of conversation. I'm *this* close to taking that down. Gah...

Anyway, today was part one of two of a dog aggression seminar that me and Milly (I know it should be Milly and I, but really? it's a blog) are signed up for.

Today we did nothing that I didn't already know. Mostly we did alot of work with sideholds. A sidehold, is very much like it sounds like, you get your dog to lie down, flip them on their side and pin them there. Do not try that at home, without someone to show you how it's properly done, or fully explain the reasons why you might choose to do this. I'll tell you right now, never, EVER do that as a punishment. Sideholds require a great deal of trust, and using that as a punishment is like emotionally whipping your dog. Not something done in a productive relationship.

It took Milly a full 45 minutes to an hour to settle down. While in a sidehold. That kills legs I might add. When I was first teaching her to trust me while being pinned she headbutted me so hard she made me bite through my lip. That hurt. Alot.

Anyways, after the instructor did her speel (which is similar to Darcie's, just said different, with more emphasis on different things really) I came to a conclusion. I'm probably going to be amazing with dogs if I keep working at it. I don't think I'll ever be able to apply what I've learned with dogs to children. They're actually quiet similar.

I'm going to eat supper now. Drop me a line, and after exams we should get together.

In the Everyday

So tonight my Dad spent it proving he loved me. Nothing big or flashy, in fact we definately were in his dirty, dusty work van, the blue one that used to be my Mom's.

Maybe I should start at the beginning. Sound like a good idea? So my Dad was driving me to my biweekly apprenticship in Brentwood. Half way there he realizes that he forgot his cellphone, so he asks if he can borrow my watch. Of course I say yes. So before I get out I hand over my watch and go to apprenticing. Lotsa fun tonight, there was a black lab named Mischief that didn't like the sounds from upstairs. Which is understandable, considering that during classes there is Karote going on upstairs. Lotsa banging.

To put this more in perspective, normally on the way back from Brentwood, my Dad takes the only time that it's just the two of us to tease me the whole way back. You know, about silly things that really have no importance. I'm pretty sure that's were Matthew learnt to be so annoying.

Anyway, back to the point. So I was sweeping the floor after class, and my Dad walks in, apparently we've gone late again, but I wouldn't know 'cause I didn't have my watch. So I get in the van and the first thing he does is apologize for loosing my watch. First thought through my head *it's just a watch* closely followed by *how am I supposed to get to class on time now?* which is countered by *I'll just half to sit in the cafeteria and watch the other people in my program.*

So I've concluded that it's just a watch, a good watch, but just a watch. And thus not a big deal. Not at all what my Dad thinks if how he kept going on about being sorry, and how it wasn't alright that he'd lost it.

So he had a job in Brentwood that he had to go and look at, and that took a while. When he got back he asked how much the watch had been worth, and were I got it. I had happened to get it out in Langford on a fluke of a day. Then he promised to go out and get me a new one from where I'd gotten it. He also explained that he'd gone out for supper while waiting for me, and that's when he thinks that the watch had fallen out of his pocket. So I thought, no big deal, I'll phone the resturtaunt tomorrow, and see if they have it. Dad countered saying,"No, I'll go there myself." He then proceeded to say about how we'd get up early tomorrow before I needed to go to school, and go to that resturtaunt for breakfast.

It was all incredably sweet. I mean, I had decided that it was just a watch and that I could get a cheap one somewhere in Sidney till I had time to get a better one. The sweetest thing? He promised to charge the people whose place we were at more, that way they'd pay for the watch. He really didn't need to do that.

Moral of the story? Don't make salad before taking off fur covered clothing.

The concrete flower

So I was waiting until something epic happened to update this. Nothing that epic has really happened. I managed to finally give two people their Christmas presents though. I got to read a book in return. I've finished said book during the time that I should have been studying for a midterm.

Meh.

Right before my midterm in another class the teacher was all "we have to get through a whole class time of slides in half the time so we can have a disscussion!" Needless to say nobody really talked much, and many people were massaging hands. Made my brain overload so that I had trouble concentrating. I hate it when teachers do that.

Actually something epic did happen! Well, it might not seem epic to you, but that's ok. I was outside with my dog in the backyard this morning, and she was fetching the ball. Then she saw a dog. What normally happens at this juncture is that she goes running up and down the fence growling and sometimes barking. This is the epic part. She didn't. Well she did for all of ten seconds, until she saw her ball and picked it up from where she had dropped it. Then she came when I called her. Even though there was a dog there. And she knew I had no chance of catching her. Put me on top of the world that she finally thinks I'm more important than trying to run off another dog.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"Reality is just a big, ugly monster, and I don't believe in monsters."

So I was thinking, and that does happen alot for those of you thinking otherwise. Anyway. Maybe I kinda wanna start my spycell up again? What say you? All I need now is a day, a place, and oh all the time needed. I'm mostly worried about time.

In everything. Not just this, have you ever noticed, sometimes you're rushing through your day just to catch up on yesterday? I think I was doing that alot. I've decided that I don't care anymore. Yesterday can deal with it's self, I've got tomorrow to look at now.

So I'm pretty much on top of my school work. It feels great. I haven't been this on top of it in a few... many weeks. Meaning I should go to stay on top of it. I just finished this really big essay is what that means. And I don't wanna go through that stress again. Gah!

By the way, the reason that there is so many quotes on the last post is because I was looking for this one quote in paticular. And I couldn't find it. But looking for quotes for this one? I found it. How annoying. This is the quote that you can blame it all on.

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can't do." Walter Bagehot

Why this shouldn't be a post

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John Wooden

"There is no greater joy in this life than doing what you have been told you can not do."

So I went to my agility trial, and it was great. We never Q'd but that's ok, because it wasn't a real trial. Milly decided that Hoopers wasn't her thing and that horse excrement was that much more interesting. I can kinda see her point, I mean were's the fun of just running through a bunch of hoops? With the other classes there's jumps, or tunnels, or the contact equipement to some variation. But to just run through hoops? And the fact that we don't get to practice that at all...

Any way. I didn't get any pictures. I got two videos though. Out of four runs. Good times.

“The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed.” -Rick Castro

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this?” -Abraham Linclon

So there was a new X-man today finally. It's been so busy that until the flashback at the beginning I didn't remember what had just happened. I'm talking about the cartoon just to let you know... some good times. We had sasuages and crackers, and orange juice. I was hungry.

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Churchill

"There are three sides to every story, yours mine and the truth."

Anyway, hoped you enjoyed the quotes... it's really cold and I have to work on a project due tomorrow.

‘“But the plans were on display…”_“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”_“That’s the display department.”_“With a torch.”_“Ah, well the lights had probably gone.”_“So had the stairs.”_“But look, you found the notice didn’t you?”_“Yes…I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sigh on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.”’ - ‘Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy’ by Douglas Adams

“Some men are Baptists…others Catholics…My father was an Oldsmobile man.” -Ralphie, A Christmas Story

“Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short. But when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know... probably too many quotes... but I like them all. And there's more where that came from :)

So I still have my mass amounts of projects to complete, but I've come to a bit of a standstill considering my printer won't work... which means I should be figuring out a way to get it to work, but I don't really want to at the current moment.

This Sunday Milly and I are entered into a Fun Trial. For those who don't know what that is, it's an Agility Trial except when you successfully pass the course you don't get points to a title. To title you must move up through two or three ranks, and at each rank go through three courses successfully. For the type of course you're trying to rank in. Did I mention there's more than one type?...

Anyways, that's what's going on right now, and how I'm spending my Sunday, in a horse barn, surrounded by dogs.

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” -Henry Ford

“Do something everyday that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” -Mark Twain

Not that they're gonna have anything to do with the following post. Why would I do that?

Did you know that Mark Twain wasn't the authors real name? I don't know what it was, and I'm too lazy to look it up. Mostly cause I am waiting for other things to load. It's been a while now hasn't it? Sad thing is that I still don't have a spot for a title. Depressing, right? Just nod and smile at the retorical questions. There you go. Wait, you weren't smiling. That's better.

I has nothing better to do... or I have so many things that I am avoiding starting one because that means having to start on another, and then to another...

That means work. Which I have to go and do now. The whole point of this post was to say that I'm back. Did I make my point?

"When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy."

I love that quote. Go see if you can find who originally posted it. If you do know, then don't tell who it is, but you can tell that you know. Very much like bragging, but not. For those of you who are concered of that. Guess what that reminds me of? A few of you should be able to.

Now, one of the reasons that I put off getting a blog is that I was afraid that I would not update it regularly. Now that is coming true. All my fault I know. Except for that small part that is bloggers. I am attributing the lack of updates and lack of comments to the fact that blogger is making it 'you-must-be-a-genius-to-figure-this-out' sort of thing.

So, before you all ask, Christmas around was pretty good. I had some fun. I actually can relax for about the first week or so of this break, before I have the most dreaded thing of all to work on... yes! that would be homework! And this paticular project just happens to be 10% of my grade... ya, I like it even less than anyone out there reading it.

Currently, I just sat around all day and did nothing. Nothing at all. Well, I knitted and watched my sister. But that was it. And it was boring. Really, really boring. Thankfully I think that I have plans for the next few days. I desperately hope so. I would hate for a repeat of today.

I was reading a book, one of the three that I am reading (finally found some good books to read!) which happens to be The diary of Anne Frank. It's intresting. Especially since I don't have to analyze the whole thing bit by bit. I mean it is fun to be all analitical, but sometimes you just need a break.

Basically, that's been all that's gone on for the past little while. So wrapping this up with Happy New Year.

Stress among other things.

I was going around checking out everyone's blog's, and then the thought occured to me. Maybe, just maybe I need to update mine. Without adding a bunch of quotes to make it longer. I think I might have some stuff to talk about too. You know with my spy cell actually up and running. And this is how it goes...

I was thinking today, that, I just don't have enough time. Which really stinks. And by time, I truly mean, time in day light hours. Why would such a thing be important? Because if it is just me walking my dog I prefer to do it in daylight. And I've been busy alot of the time after school. In which case, she doesn't get walked. Bad, I know. I'm working on that. Homework, and making money usually take up my time right after school. I wanted to change that... so, I'm thinking I'll give up one of my paper routes. Which'll be hardish on me, but I'll live. There are better ways of making money. Actually, I'd like to go into resturant business. NOT cooking, as a waitress. See how that turns out. However, as of now, that is not possible. Dreaming I'm told though is a good thing.

Now, I'm sure you all so desperately want to hear about my spycell, nevermind that most of the people who will read this were there. It's somewhat of becoming a tradition to bake everytime before the cell starts. And eat. Laura's mom makes good lasanga. Yup, though the chocolate chip muffins didn't turn out so well... Matt still wants us to make blueberry ones. Can someone help drill it into his head, that THERE NOT IN SEASON. Meaning, I can't get them. On to the actual cell. I could find what I had previously meant to do, so I ran to Laura's computer grabbed and email that sounded good, and read it, then got everyone's opinion. Then told them about the whole option of having a book study thing. They seemed to like the idea. It's going to be very interesting though... depends where I decide to go on it. And which book I could do.

After that we went, and watched Over the Hedge, after missing the first ten minutes. Better than I thought it would be, but still not the greatest movie ever. Not something I'd want to watch again. However, at the end there was a good quote,

"You know we woulda given it all you, it's what families do.
Really, it woulda been nice to know that in the being.
That's bad communication, also runs in families."

Something to that effect any way. After that, while we were waiting for rides, we listened to a song called 'Alice's Resteraunt'. Except that it barely had anything to do with Alice. Apparently it was used as a protest agaisnt the Vietnam war.

On other things, in English today we started Macbeth. Sounds... intresting. Lindoff gave us about a twenty minute lecture on the book, explaining things, making us take notes. And we started to watch the movie. He's not wasting anytime. Another thing, I would hate to have to play a role as one of the witches. I really, really don't like them.

I've run out of things to say, so goodnight.

Churchill

A good while ago Werner said to go and look for quotes from Churchill. Nothing, absoultely nothing was happening. So I did. And this is what I found.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

There are quiet a few very good quotes in there, or so I thought. On other things, mircophones are fun to play with and headaches don't like car rides much.

An update

Wow. I have really unimaginative titles... meh. Guess what? I nearly forgot about my cell. Yes, it hasn't even been launched yet, and yes I was pretty passionate for it before. And most of those ideas are still around. But they're not fresh anymore. They've gone slightly stale in the month's wait for my Monday to clear up. And the fact that November is NOT a happy month. Couple of people died, couple murdered, bunch o' people depressed, two of those suicidal, Sarah in a car accident... Not a happy month. You could look on the bright side, and after a year of work, dog training is starting to pay off... but that's all that comes to mind at the present moment.

On a lighter note, today was my little sister's birthday. You all have to say 'Happy Birthday' to her now when you see her. She has turned... should I tell you...? I could be that mean. But I won't. Nine is the number that you are looking for. We actually did a very good job. I personally don't put much stock in Birthday's. I guess that's just me though. Now I shall list what she has gotten. I gave her two books, and a Barbie/dog set thing, now she can leave my dog alone. She actually really likes it. Matthew went all out and got her (drum roll) some fish. And a 50 dollar tank. Nice gift. Werner went for small, but really neat. He got her this shell thing, that you can hear stuff in. You can hear different things depending on how close you hold your ear to it. Mom and Dad got her a replacement po-go stick, the last one she had broke, as it was from a garage sale. Fun things. My Aunt also sent her a gift. THAT'S the part that shocked me to an extent. You know those things that come with the pencil crayons, and paints, and markers and everything? She sent one 250 piece one down for Hope. Pretty sweet Birthday deal if you ask me.

Random things, Addy, get Ed and go into business... I had thought I had commented on that but... Laura I need to talk with you before Monday. No I will NOT be there Friday. Didn't get a ticket. And stop worrying, I've only missed all this week so far with a headache that earlier, made thinking hurt. It's receded for the moment though.

Anything else... Why yes! Sarah's Birthday is tomorrow, so go wish the lucky girl Happy Birthday, from what I know, she's out of the hospital. I also have a get out of work free card, so that means, I am not working tomorrow night! So if you want to chill, and my head isn't throwing a tantrum...

And yes still about the quotes. A generous thank you to all who have spared their time and energy to post their contributions. Oh... I also need to talk to Liz. So if you see that girl send her my way. That's all I have to say. Not alot at all in truth...

More Quotes

"Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now?"
-Neil Gaiman, "Sandman: Dream Country"

An Oreo cookie is only as good as it's filling.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat

'I will never let schooling interfere with my education'
-Mark Twain

(On genius and madness...)
'Remarkable how often those two coincide'
Jack Sparrow

"A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
- Emily Dickinson

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
- James Joyce

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth."
- Diane Ackerman

Minds are like parachutes, they only work when their open

Never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake
I haven't failed I have just found 10'000 ways that won't work

"the future is ment for thoes who follow their dreams"

Angels exist, only sometimes they haven't got wings and we call them friends

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cant do." Walter bagehot

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear" florence nightengale

I have more quotes, I just need to type them up...

As you can see I have been digging at quotes again. An update on my life, so far it looks like I have A's in nearly all my classes, which for me is a first. Hard work finally paying off. Further more, I have been trying to put more effort toward my dog, who sadly gets neglected every so once in a while when I have too much homework.

Guess what? It's my little sisters birthday next week! When next week? Exactly a week from today. From me she gets books and a toy. A good combination, don't you think? Mom says that it might snow tonight. You have no idea how much I want it to snow. Lots of snow, two feet of snow, or one foot of snow and a continuous blizzard. That's what I'd like. Seems alittle mean, but I don't want to go to school.

For anyone who wants to check out my new cell, it will be held at Laura's at seven starting on the last Monday in November, because that is when the rest of the Trick's training will be done, and I'll still get my one night off in the week. It is good to take breaks. Even when homework doesn't quiet co operate. Seems it never went to kindergarden. Never learned manners.

Is anyone going this week to go see Sarah? I think I'll aim for going up about once a week... if you are going up this week let me know and I'll catch a ride if it's alright. Ya, outside of school my life doesn't have a lot to it, besides going to see Cars after youth and Flushed Away both surprisingly good movies by the way.

You know this by rote now, I am still collecting quotes, oh, and if you ever want to hang out before about seven in the evening on most nights I am free. Yup, that's all for now.

Business...

I shall take refuge behind business. And the lack of homework that is circulating between classes right now. That would be why I am writing this, not what I am taking refuge behind, for those who caught that.

That would be the explination to why this blog has remained uninhabitated by me. Just a little stress... you don't exactly jump for joy when your Honors teacher says, write me an essay on why this book is a best seller, use quotes, and don't go over six pages. The six pages may seem like relif for most, but by that he means, be close to six pages, four and half, five, six. No small feat. At the same time your trying to figure out WHAT the intern in the other class is trying to tell you... after he gives you a universty workload... true its due in about a month, but there's still stress. However, you are currently pleasantly surprised by how well you are doing in a class that in not your forte.

Back to what I decided was blog worthy. I may be starting a SPY cell. Yup. I still am waiting to hear back on the places that I might be able to hold it at. I kinda explained to Liz what I want it to look like. She said that is mostly modeled off the SPY cells of old. The ones that are now and forever gone as the leaders got busy or went to college. That surprised me. The basics of what I want it to look like? A small accountibilty group. Max number seven. Limited visitation. To and from. Eventually getting to know each other so well... That sums up my dream right now. I have to go check on the dog. If you find any good quotes I am still collecting. Bye for now.

Quotes

So I went poking around for some quotes on some peoples profiles, this is what I came up with:

"The drive for survival taught him everything else: Strike first, or be struck. Become the hunter, not the hunted. Hide your weaknesses, so others cannot destroy you."

"Love is not just a feeling, it's a commitment to work for the good of that other person." - Unknown

"Real Life is a nasty, nasty dragon with a migraine and a vendetta against me."

"Reality is a conspiracy against us. I reject your reality and substitute my own.

"Reality is just a big, ugly monster, and I don't believe in monsters."

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons... for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup!"

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that provides the difficulties." --Douglas Adams; Life, the Universe, and Everything

"Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate!" --Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"It's not pinin', it's passed on! This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace, if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot!" --Monty Python's Flying Circus; Dead Parrot Sketch

"Shall I describe it to you, or would you like me to find you a box?" --Legolas, The Two Towers

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." --Sarah Williams, An Old Astronomer to His Pupil

"Without him, the world around me changes; the trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers..." --Eponine, Les Miz

"Who is the monster and who is the man? Sing the bells of Notre Dame!" --Clopin, Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

"Then it appears we've crowned the wrong fool. The only fool I see is you!" --Esmeralda

"As my life has been altered once, it can change again. Build higher walls around me, change ev'ry lock and key. Nothing lasts, nothing holds all of me..." --Belle, Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Broadway)

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." --William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"If life were easy and without challenge, there would be nothing to live for"

"Well! I’m actually feeling rather good about this. I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually…Ecumenically…Grammatically?" ---Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean

"Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly! It's the honest ones you have to watch out for 'cause you can never predict when they're going to something incredibly...stupid." ---Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean

"The law is reason free from passion" ---Aristotle

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." ---Leonardo da Vinci

"It is easier to stay out than get out." ---Mark Twain

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." --Berthold Auerbach

"There are many things in this world that you can count on, but many more you cannot." --Lemony Snicket

"Fear is not weakness. Giving in to that fear is what makes you weak."

"In books, the main characters can always bite their lips bloody. I can't do that. So I can never be a character in a book, because I can't bite my lips until they bleed."

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nobody knows what kind of parent they'll make until it's too late." --Garrett Macy, Crossing Jordan

"Burying yourself before you're dead kills you."

"Love is a fire...whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell." --Joan Crawford

"If you make money from war, you're scum. If you can't make money from bounty hunting, you're an idiot." --weapons dealer, Porco Rosso

"Don't think outside the box...never get in the stupid box to begin with. Unless you're a cat."

"Why do people like kissing so much? It's just sharing germs!"

"The moral of this story is, never make a deal with an interdimensional demon without a little protection." --Slade, Teen Titans

"Well, not all of us can get around by BUBBLE!" --Elphaba, Wicked (the musical)

"Do Earth boys come with some sort of manual, then?" --Starfire, Teen Titans

"What better way to get to know someone than through matrimony?" --Nigel, Crossing Jordan

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." --Henry David Thoreau

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species." --W. Somerset Morgan

"Attack when your enemy is at his weakest, when he is mired in self-doubt...your victory will be assured." --Sun Tzu

"That's the point of being a hopeless romantic. You're hopeless."

"I am...your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate." --Dark Helmet, Spaceballs

"You like pain? Try wearing a corset." --Elizabeth, Pirates of the Caribbean

"(This is) something you wouldn't recognize. It's called love." --Kamajii, Spirited Away

"Sometimes I think being a girl really stinks. Then again, I don't like my options."

"Tasting chemical substances is not a good practice."

"It's hard to be authoritative while wearing flip-flops."

"Love stinks." --J. Geils Band

Random Person: What's the answer?
Cynic: What's the question? -dies-

"There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved." --George Sands

"I work two jobs for you. You'll be worth it when you win." --ice skater's dad, Ice Princess

"In my heart, I still believe in miracles. God is the greatest magician of them all."
Erik, from "Phantom" by Susan Kay

Such a little thing really, a kiss...most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right.
Susan Kay

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

"It's not how many breaths you take in your life, it's the moments that take your breath away that count."

"None of us can choose where we will love..."
-Erik

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind

"Come to the dark side. They have Medicare, paid holidays, and cookies every Friday!"

"Nothing makes me feel useless like seeing someone younger than me work technology that I can't. Well, that and the government."

"So, hear my latest idea for world domination? I was thinking perhaps a coffee shop that sells Starbucks quality coffee at half the price... still making profit and run Starbucks out of business and then raise the prices back up to create a worldwide monopoly on coffee.(I thought Timmies already covered that...)

"The muffin isn't picky, Timmy, nor is it tastey. But it is powerfull. ALL HAIL THE MUFFIN!" Cosmo, Fairly odd parents

"You'll find more cheer in a graveyard."-Gimi in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

"Veni, veti, veci"(I Came, I saw, I concqured)- Julius Ceasar

"But when things are over and done and Fate has moved on, one should not look back and second guess."

Read as much as you can. Keep writing and then throwing it away until one day you do something that you don't think belongs in the bin.

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return." -Moulin Rouge

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet." -Rodney Dangerfield

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein

"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you." -Anonymous

"Death is hereditary." -Anonymous

Agent Smith: "You can’t win, it’s pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you persist?"
Neo: "Because I choose to."

"He's having a stroke-"
"What?"
"-of genius!"

"You know I never keep my oaths...Oaths are made for catching fools!"
--Erik, The Phantom of the Opera

"Who's the more foolish--the fool, or the fool who follows him?"

"You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
--Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master

"There is beauty in sadness." ~ Sarah McLachlan

"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have." ~ Hermione Granger

"Nothing is absolute in this world except death and taxes." ~ Mrs. Shackelford

"Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment." ~ Sarah Brightman

"And look! (shoots monkey) An undead monkey! Top that!"
Capt. Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Carribean 2

"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward."
Charles Xavier, X-men

"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightening? ...Same thing as everything else."
Storm, X-men

"You want to shootme, shoot me!"
Logan, X2

"...Why not stay in disguise all the time? You know, look like everyone else?"
"Because we shouldn't have too."
Kurt and Mystique, X2

"Put the knives down!"
"I can't."
Policeman and Logan, X2

"My boy, I have been fighting for mutant rights since before you had claws."
"Did he just call me boy?"
Hank and Logan, X3

"Who's the furball?"
"Hank McCoy, Secretary of Mutant Affairs."
"Right, right. Secretary. Nice suit."
"Henry, this is Logan. He's, uh..."
"Wolverine. I hear you're quite the animal."
"Look who's talking."
Logan, Hank, and Xavier

"Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her."

"No. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
Yoda, Star Wars

"You know,everyone thinks that we found this broken down horse and fixed him. But we didn't. He fixed us. Everyone of us. And I guess in a way, we kinda fixed each other too."
Red Pollerd, Seabiscuit

"Even with the brace, It'll barely hold him. If he gets bumped, or jostled-"
"You want to know what I think?"
"'Course."
"I think that it's better to break a man's leg than his heart."
Howard and Woolf, Seabiscuit

"There's no reason to destroy a life, just 'cause it's banged up a little."
Tom Smith, Seabiscuit

"So, now that my horrific event of terror is over, how about some breakfast?"

"Rule 1 of war is that young men die. Rule 2 is that doctors can't change rule 1"

"TO DANCE"
"No way to make a living, masochism, pain, perfection, muscle spasm, chiropractor, short careers, eating disorder!"
"FILM!"
"Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations, dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money, hollywood and sleaze."
"MUSIC!"
"Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation, rythm, power, feeling, harmony, and heavy competition."
"ANARCHY!"
"Evolution, Justice screaming for solution, forcing changes, risks and danger, your making noise, your making pleas!"
The cast of Rent, Rent

"A poor fool indeed is he who adapts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so." ~ Marquis de Sade, 1783

Writing comes easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds. -Douglas Adams

"What is it in a man's soul that makes him believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel? That the sun will rise upon another day? Even when all signs indicate that the darkness will never end? That the finish line is farther away than we think? That we're simply not strong enough? Fast enough? Pure enough? Is it foolish pride? Naivete? Or is it the human spirit simply powerful enough to make the sun rise by sheer will alone?"

Like them? Some are happy, mean, silly, or just plain out make you think. Of course this list has been edited to what I liked. Shifting through profiles takes along time...

News... of some sort

People said that they wanted to know about my Saturday!! Wow didn't think people really wanted to know... but it's really nice to know.

'Kay, we'll do a quick rundown then. In the morning I got up about tenish, and did homework. My little brother thinks I am a nerd for trying to get it done... but I had alot to do, did that till about elevenish, had lunch, let my dog out to run and helped my dad pick apples.

Anyone want apples? That one tree gave us a little more than a garbage bucket (one of the big ones you take to the curb). I realized once again that I am afraid of hights. Who likes going up a ladder only braced agaisnt some branches that very well might give under your weight? I admire my dad so much for going up there as if he didn't care. Heights and Pony don't mix that well. So after my dad got down the ladder, I went to go and chill with a Sarah. We went and got some slushies... Sarah was surprised that I can't have gum in my mouth and drink a slushy at the same time.

So we got to her house, and like most girls, decided to do our nails. She had a pretty sweet idea, with just putting black nail polish on the very outer part of her nail and calling it a English manicure... opposed to a French manicure. During this we were having a pretty good talk and catching up with each others lives.

So then we realize that if we don't make food soon, we're going to be late... and that we were, by five or ten minutes... didn't matter as no one else was ready to leave yet anyway. So we get up there, and there were some pretty cool bands playing. My favorite one of course was from HistoryMaker. Salvador was intresting, but played much too loud for anyone to really hear you could listen, but you couldn't hear. Then came on Joy Willams. I am pretty close to netural on her... she's alright to listen to. She has a bit of developing to do. She did have this incredably cute accent while singing...

And I already made my comment on the last band. In the middle A Guy came on to give a talk. Pretty much to call unbelivers to become belivers. I felt pretty akward at this point in time. I mean, what are you supposed to do? Go up again? Or stay back and support the ones that decide not to go up. Even if it is the first time? In the end I just stayed in my set. I didn't like the speaker. Truthfully, I zoned out much of what he was saying. Opps...

Then on the ride back we tried to get Addy to dance, but she wouldn't. Don't know why... speaking of Addy, you're in trouble. And as a side note, how'd your soccer game go? If you answer your still in trouble, if you don't your in more trouble.

Then I've had a pretty busy week with stuff... like a yesterday. School, lots of homework, help out at Netural Zone, dog training pretty much right after, and then I got to go babysitting, and I had to do some of my work over there. It was alright, we watched the movie Eight Below. My mom got it.... I love that movie... mainly because it is not cheesy at all.

By the way, I is collecting quotes. So if you have any really cool quotes leave them by or post them on your own blog and let me know to take a look.