Correction

I'd like to point out that when i say 'Venus d'Milo' i actaully mean 'Birth of Venus'. the Venus d'Milo is actaully in Paris and is the statue with now arms, the Birth of Venus, is the chick on the shell.
also gilato, is actually gelato.

yeah, thats it












come on, come on, what could go wrong?

Backfire

So my plan, as you can guess from the title, backfired. It was all going according to plan, oh but first. Ed came back today (yay people) with about 5 or 6 of his friends, and they are all staying in the center. so back to the plan, around 11 i was super tired and then i went to my room, but then i wanted some tea because it was so cold, so i went up to make myself some tea and one of Eds friends invited me to go to the games room and hang out with them, so then another of eds friends came in and told me to join them as well. i said i'd think about it because i was sooooooooo tired and then the friend from before found me after i made my tea and told me to join them again, and then Ed found us and told me to join them so i said sure and played foseball, and ping pong with them untill about 1am. So going back to my room, its freezing by teh way, the heat was on at one point in the day but by that time my room was cold again. Doesn't help that it has a draft and that it had snowed. Oh yeah, we got snow around 11pm last night but by the time i went to bed i heard rain and theres none today. so trying to sleep when its cold is no fun. couldn't get to sleep untill about 3 so guess what time i woke up today despite the fact i set my alarm clock for 10? you guessed it 3. so maybe tonight i'll just go to bed early and stay there untill i fall asleep and hope its warm. i wonder if theres any hotwater bottle around.










snow, snow snow, it wont be long untill we're there with snoooowwww

Blah cold blah

so its frickin freezing, in fact its so cold i can't sleep, well its half so cold i can't sleep half i want my mental clock to go back to normal and to stop staying up 'till 4am and waking up at 3pm so i figured staying up all night might be the way to do that..........uh i can see this plan backefireing any minut.
So i have been awake since 3pm yesturday afternoon. around 1am i went down to my room, around 2am i cleaned my room and then around 3 while writing in my journal i decided, 'lets stay up all night and go to bed early, and lets go to the chippy in betws and gain even more wieght'. around 4 i put on the sweater i bought off diego, soon after i put on gloves, then i put on a scarf, and my toque. i think i should have put my long johns on under my sweatpants. some of you may be reading this and thinking, 'laura turn on the heat' well i did, sort of, i turned the radiator up all the way in the office, if its cold in the office the heat turns on, the main heat controller thingy is in the office too and checked the light in the boiler room, which is still lit and so far no heat. all i have in my room for heat is the piddly little heater that heats up maybe an inch away from the heater all round.
Sooooooo cold. this is the warmest room, visiting staff lounge, my new hole. I may grab my pillows and a blanket and set up camp in here for tonight/tomorrow night, at least i'll be warm. soon the center will have staff in it again (yeah, like on the 3) and then the heat will hopefully be on, oh god let it be on.
so yeah, now 7:30am, on December the 29. i successfully finished up the yellow pages in my journal and now i can flip the journal and move on to the blue pages, my journal sounds like a phone book. i think i'll wait for new years to start on the blue pages.
I started to learn how to knit with pam and mel, and then i finished teaching myself over teh net yesturday but i don't think my ball of yarn is long enough, i have a head ache. i need food. food here i come.











come on, take me out

Hotmail

Do you have to have a hotmail acount to sign into/onto hotmail, i mean to access your e-mails? Or can you use gmail on the hotmail site? does that make anysence
anyway teh point is why when signing into your hotmail acount do you need to type out '@hotmail.com'? that should be a given shouldn't it? its so annoying when you forget to type in '@hotmail.com' there was going to be more to this post, but i can't think of anything now, maybe i'll add to it later, anyway its 2:40am here so i best be off to bed.......here being Wales






can't think of random quote

Florence

So, Florence was BEAUTIFUL. The traveling to florence was a bit of a killer, we all stayed up all night in the airport so that we could catch our flight at 7am. Bob was still jetlegged because he'd only beening the country for about a day, i don't think Melissa had gotten any sleep in two days so she was grumpy and naturally i was grumpy, because, well, when am i not?
Anyway, we get there and promptly fall asleep around 1:00 Italy time and then go out for dinner around 4 or 5 and then come back to the Hostle and go back to bed.
Bob wanted to switch hostles and Melissa wanted to keep the group together if he did, i wasn't keen on the subject, i didn't want to use my parentals credit card if we didn't have to, and i didn't think anything was wrong with the hostle, Bob just felt uncomfortable in a room by him self with 3 or 4 other guys, understandable. Bob is Melissa's friend from Canada, btw.
So the first day of touring Florence we got up at 12, woot. we went to the Uffizi Gallaria and to the Duomo, we could have very easly have seen everything we wanted to in that one day, but becuase we had a week we decided to pace our selves. I think we were still all grumpy that day, i know i was. Melissa and Bob we constantly talking about what they had done back home and their friends back home and it made me feel more homesick than i've ever felt in my life, butt to be fare, if one of my friends came from Canada so see me, i'd be doing the same thing.
So that night we went through the guide book and decided what we wanted to see. Melissa and Bob went for a walk to talk about Bobs attitude, earlier Bob had left and gone for a walk with out tellign or inviting us and niether Melissa nor i apperciated that, and i felt he was doing things like that all day. so they get back and we talk about leaveing on the 26, fine by me, secerlt i was wanting to go home early. We had all decided that if we didn't leave early we'd kill each other. The weren't any flights on the 26th, which was too bad, but there were flights on the 24, it sad when you are excited to go back to the center 4 days early rather than stay in Florence. So anyway, we book that flight and then deicded what to do the next day.
The next day we went to the Gallaria d'Academia, that holds the 'David', i didn't notice it when we first entered the room, i was busy looking at 'The Prisoners', Statues that weren't finished and look like people inprisoned in stone, and David was at the end of the hall and as i look up there he was, almost scared me a little. He was amazing. My Comp Civ teacher told us that when she saw it she broke down in tears......uh ok. I did the same sort of thing when i saw the Venus de Milo, not break down in tears, but i didn't notice it right away and as i turned around in the room it was in there it was, it was like BAM famous painting. lol. i think the Venus was in the Uffizi, but i can't be sure. We also went to the Science Museum, um.....that was ok, not the best. apparently they have Galileo's Fingure in a jar, but we missed that, oh well. We also went to the court yard out side the Uffizi, that's where the David use to be, and where the replica is today. We wanted to go to a Leonardo De Vinci Museum where you get to play with the replicas of his machines, but we couldn't find it. we went up and down the street the book said it was on about 3 times and never saw it. We were going to go to the Percious stone Museum and a Pufermary (sp?) but we decided not to. We did climb the bell tower for the Duomo, its 414 steps, holy cow, if i didn't get a work out earlier, i deffinatly did then. We found the original Bore form butchart gardens out side a market, just be chance, that was cool. We all put coins in his mouth and if it falls into the grate it means you will come back to Flroence, i think Bob put his coin in the mouth about 5 times and each time it missed the grate, so he picked it up and left, lol.
We went to a resturant called Bibo (i think) i had some really good spaghetti, sooooo yummy. I think in a day and a half i tried 9 different gilato flavours: hazelnut, peanut butter, very berry, amiretto, nuttella, yogurt, teramisu, caramel and chocolate sooo good. Bob and Melissa ate more Kahbobs than Italian food, and I ate more Gilato than food in general, lol.
We were all so happy we were going home early. I think we were all grumpy on the trip home too, i know my mood swings would have sudjested menopause, i wasn't a happy camper that day. but i was happy to be going home
i had written a blog entry bascailly blaming Bob and Melissa for all my problems and for everythign else and not really saying anything good about the trip. the truth is i did actually have a really good time. I know it must have been hard for Melissa trynig to keep a balance between Bob and me, not fare to her. i aslo said i wish i never invited her and that i never want to travel with her again. Well, if i didn't invite her i'd probably not do anything for Christmas had have a horrible time of it. So i am very glad she came, becuase it's because of her that i actaully ended up going to Flroence. Her presence makes me do things i would be to scared or shy to do by myself.
When we came home i did cry for a very long time, around 30min to an hour on and off. Not because i was unhappy to be back at the center, just because i was missing home so much and becuase i wanted to be with my family for christmas. I did however have an OK christmas, i phoned all my friends and my family twice and talked to everyone for at least a half hour.


I'll have a blue christmas with out you, decorations of red on a white christmas tree..........ah you get the point

Loonatics

'eeeeeeh whats up doc?' *crunch crunch crunch*
whats up indeed!! So i was just paroosing the net teh other night, looking for a display pic pour moi and i come across this:
http://www.azoidx.com/archives/2005/02/18/12.37.47/index.asp
and i'm thinking, WTF mate. fisr of all, what the crap is this shit, and second well there is no second, i've forgoten it. anywy the point is i wish people would stop messing with the classic cartoons and trying to make them better. everything has to be faster, stronger, meaner, tougher, sexier. What are we teaching our children? First the ruin the ninja turtles with the new one, and Beebop and rocksteady aren't even in that one, then they do different recreations of batman, first they make bruce this old decrepid guy and make batman this kid and the art is teh art i like, but the show is crap then they come up with 'The Batman' which i hate to admit, but i watch it, or tried to. mainly becuase i like batman and think he's cool, but i think the show sucks, adn they shoul dhave left it with the old cartoon. and just for the record, the old 60's TV show was slight crap, very funny, but crap. so now they are ruinning Bugs and Daffy to make them fit with today society. WHY CAN'T THEY LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE?!?!?!?! i know they aren't actaully getting rid of Bugs and his buds, they've been on forever. Its just sad to see that the classics are getting snubed out by the new better everything that teach out children that violence is the only way. yes i realize the Looney toons, and Animanicas and what not was violent, but it was also clever and violce was used slightly cleverly (if that makes sence) and yes i relaize that these shows (the new one i mean) show you that good will and always has triumphed over evil but thats not my point. my point is the classics rock and i hope the overcome the crap thats on TV now.
has anyone else noticed that the kids these days are meaner and use stronger language than we would even dream of when we were their age.......I wonder how that happened (looks at TV exceutives)







Holy Kleenex Batman! It was right under our nose's and we blew it!

The Zoo

So yesturday i went to the Chester Zoo with Eve and Melissa (Chester is in England) and over all it was ok. The 'habitats' for the animals was pathetic. The Elephants barely had any room and it was all mud and cement, very sad. Watching the monkeys was good becuase they were running around and having fun and what not, but the rest of the animals just looked depressed. if i had A LOT of money i'd buy an island and put a bunch of animals on it, make sure they could all survive in the wild and then make the island protected, like the Gilapigoes Islands, and let the animals thrive. The only Habitat that was actaully repsectable and really good was the Jaguar, want to know why? The car company sponsered it. how sad is that, the building before you got in to see the Jaguars was bigger than half the habbitats! if only there was a car company for every animal, but as AT pointed out no one would buy a car called 'The Sloth'.

So tomorrow we (Melissa, Rob and Me) leave for Liverpool and then wednesday morening we leave for Pisa and then are in Florence, YAY. i'm nervus and excited. i've never traveled by my self. I still owe money to Eirlys for London. Anyway, yeah, we're staying in the airport tomorrow night, that should be fun, i've laredy packed and am all ready to go, i just hope i get up early tomorrow, for the past few days i've been sleeping in untill 3pm, but then again i am going to bed at 3am. i'm almost on track with Canada's days.

So this month is almost over, it went by fast with out me even noticing. it felt like it was going by super slow and then i realized, (w)holey crap the month is already more than half way over. so hopefully January and Febuary go by really fast too. i can't wait to go home. it seems like it'll never come. Thinking of home and what i want to do and what i am going to do gets me through the day, not becuase i'm constantly homesick, don't worry, i'm haveing an awesome time.

on friday was the Staff Christmas party, i got a ring. its really cool, the only problem is it only fits on my ring figures and i'm not use to haveing a ring on there so i haven't taken it off since i got it, and its slowly getting more and more comfortable. On Wednesday Melissa and i left for Manchester to see Ben Folds, on the way to her friends house from the train station the car broke down on one of the busiest streets and we were there for about a half hour. That night she and her friend Tyler got smashed. 'Laura, you are AMAZING!!! If you take the most amazing person and the second most amazing person and you put them together thats fucking you!' 'wait, thats me? or thats doing me?' 'both!!! with out you i would have killed my self with a ball point pen' and that was basically the conversation all night, everyone and everything was amazing and with out me she would have killed herself with a ball point pen, lol. Oh Melissa. On thursday we went to Affleks Palace, a store a billion times better than Hot Topic. it was amazing. I bought a bag that was made of an old superman douvet, and Melissa got a vespa bag, damn her for seeing it first!!!! oh well. Ben Folds was awesome, it was super amazing! i loved it!!! some idiots started to mosh to it though, WTF?! Melissa and i got squished against the barrier because of them, oh well, no biggy, we're still alive and breathing. we called for a taxi because we missed our second bus, and the taxi adn us could never find each other so we went to the train station and called again and they never came so we got a different Taxi and the driver was super nice. He asked us what part of Scotland we were from (he was just winding us up) and we said Canada, and he said what part of scotland is that from, and we said we're from north america, and he said your from america? and we said CANADA and then he laughed adn then we laughed. he was relly nice, very friendly and talked to us the whole way home, he knows Betws, which was really cool. when i say home i mean Melissa's friends house in Middleton which is just out side Manchester.
and thats about it.







i've been looking for something, something to be!

Londinium

I just got back form London, my friend Eirlys and I went for the weekend to see our friend Jo. We went on the London Millennium Eye, that was really cool. The queue to get the tickets is inside a building but the queue to get on the pod for the Millennium Eye is out side, and as we go into the building the sky is clear and its fine but when we leave to join the queue outside it's pouring rain! Neither Eirlys nor I had an umbrella or water proofs so we both got soaked. Ironically, but typically as we get on the pod it stops raining. Still so much fun. Before that we tried to get into West Minster Abby but the queue was so long that by the time we got inside the gate it would have been closed. We also walked around the parliament buildings and saw Big Bens home. Eirlys asked me what time it was and I looked at my watch and after I told her and looked ahead of me there was Big Ben, we almost collapsed in a heap of giggles. That night we went to see The Lion King on stage, it was so amazing. The intro made me cry. There was this almost full sized elephant, one person was inside each foot, it was so cool. And there were giraffes that were people on stilts, there hands and feet were strapped to stilts, they were really cool. The whole performance was amazing. Today we took a short boat ride up the themes to West Minster, that only took about 30min and then we went window shopping. The whole weekend went by so fast but it was so much fun.
Tomorrow we will be painting. These past weeks and until students start coming back we will be painting. Last week was touch ups and the common room. The common room use to be yellow and peach (ick) and now it’s a pale almost white pink and really deep dark purple. The games room is red and white and is getting painted lime green and purple, should be interesting. The Bathrooms were yellow and are now being painting a really nice blue and the dinning room is yellow orange and blue and is being painted varying shades of coffee. Most of the rooms are changing into better colours but I’m not so sure about the green and purple, we shall see.
On The 14-16 Melissa and I are going to Manchester to see a concert. The concert is on the 15 so we are leaving on the 14 and arriving bright and early 'home' on the 16 just in time for the Christmas party.
That’s about all that’s and has happened with me. You obviously know about Florence, I'm getting really excited for that.








Hakuna Mattata, what a wonderful phrase