The things I do when I'm bored....

From time to time I find myself with a little more time on my hands than I know what to do with. So while waiting for my class to start last night I took a Personality Test and apparently I'm an ISFP (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling Perceiving) person.

If you want to read more about my personality or take your own Personality Test visit: www.MyPersonality.info

Flash back

So I just heard the Goo Goo Dolls' Iris on the radio and it totally took me back to my grade 10 dance.

A nice romantic dinner...

....with my laptop!

I suppose this is what happens when you try to juggle work and school as much as I do. I'm rethinking the 7 courses that I am enrolled in this fall....what on earth was going through my head?? I have a full time job for crying out loud!!

Work is super hectic for me at the moment, so much so that I am currently taking a break from the work that I brought home with me. What really sucks the most about this is that I've been sacrificing a social life for work and school. Worse yet is that my friends don't understand my desire to continue in school. We all completed our degrees at essentially the same time but I'm the only one who's gone back to do more. I'm not content to just stick it out at my current job and party it up on the weekend, I want more.

I also think that being the first of my friends to have bought a house is also a pretty big difference too. Most of my friends are primarily focused on their boyfriends/girlfriends, parties, pets and work (in that order too). Which can also be a little hard to deal with sometimes being the only singleton in the group. Being single, 27 and owning my own car and home seems to be pretty intimidating to men. I just don't get it. Most of my guy friends say that chicks that are clingy, needy or flighty are such a waste of time and energy but on the other end of the spectrum independence, self-sufficiency and the ability to think also seems to be difficult to live with.

In a perfect world, if I could custom order a man, here are some of the things that I would want built in:

- taller than me (5'8 or more because I'm 5'7)
- dark hair
- great smile/eyes (a nice butt wouldn't hurt either lmao)
- post secondary education (college or university, something!)
- has some personal goals and is driven to acheive them but is not arrogant
- has an adventurous streak (willing to consider nutty things I want to do, like bungee jump)
- is good with kids and wants some of his own
- can cook so that I don't always have to
- likes all kinds of music, movies and books
- has to enjoy reading because I have sooo many books and I love talking about them and sharing them with people
- has a strong sense of family
- great sense of humour and laughs as much as I do (I often crack myself up)
- doesn't mind going to church especially on the special occasions (Christmas, Easter, etc.)
- is patient (especially with me when I'm frustrated about something)
- gives good hugs because a crappy day can sometimes be fixed with a really good bear hug
- has some interests different than my own so that we can teach each other things
- dependable but also independent

And probably the most important thing is he has to love me BECAUSE OF my faults and not IN SPITE of them. But all this is of course in an ideal world.

Maybe if I'm lucky writing this all down and sending it across the internet will work like it did in Mary Poppins where the kids wrote down what they wanted in a nanny and she appeared. *sigh* what a nice thought.

Well, it would seem that since I've finished my dinner and have rambled for long enough that it is now time to return to the moutain of work that towers before me.

C'ya.

Fun with Adobe Illustrator

Lookie what I can do!!

My teacher says that occasionally we should take an object (anything) and draw it just to keep up with our skills using all the different tools.

What do you think??

(Actual package)
(What I drew)

I think I'm getting pretty good at this! lol

Nifty stuff

So I spent this passed weekend at school learning how to (properly) use Adobe Illustrator...and I must say that I didn't care too much that I sacrificed my weekend because I had a lot of fun.

Our final assignment on Sunday was to bring in an object that we were going to recreate in Illustrator. Well, absentminded as I am sometimes I forgot so after rummaging around in my purse I found a packet of gum. Thank goodness for big purses! lol

Below is the actual gum package that you'd see in the store and below that is what I managed to crank out of Illustrator. I think it's pretty good...even my teacher liked it! Thoughts?


Original / Actual Gum Package

What I came up with using Adobe Illustrator...


Pretty close huh? :)

Skydiving...Good to the last drop

So as I was preparing to book my sky diving adventure for next weekend I came across this article on SNAFU-ed - both people had over 4,000 jumps under their belts.

I think that I may reconsider this exercise for the time being and instead tether myself to a giant steel walkway in Wakefield. Bungee will have to be the source for my adrenaline fix.


[Photo from: Flickr]

[Photo from: Flickr]







Originally posted on: Occasionally Stumped

Seen this a few times now

So I've seen this a couple times and every time I do it makes me want to get up and dance too!

It's awlays gotta be something...

The stories that I hear about my relatives never cease to amaze me. Whether it's my dad's side of the family or my mom's there is always something.

DAD'S SIDE
My cousins (George, Christine and Mark - who are siblings) seem to have some kind of crazy baby race going and they (or their wives) are cranking out kids like they are going out of style!

With four boys under the age of 12, Christine is in the lead and might I add extremely out numbered. Following right behind her is George, with a girl and two boys - the most recent one making his grand entrance last Saturday (September 5, 2009). Finally, playing catch up is Mark who has one son and in two weeks time will have another baby (gender unknown at the moment). Sure it doesn't look like much of a race but if you consider that Mark & Laura have been married a little over two years and that George and Karen have been married only a while long than that.......... it's a regular little baby-pa-loo-ZA!

MOM'S SIDE

So as far as anyone knows none of the cousins on my mom's side have had any kids but they are getting married....or on their way to it.

My cousin Adam recently got married but didn't bother to invite any family except his mom, brother and sister...WTF! Not even our grandmother was invited or even notified for that matter that he was getting married, I told her when I accidentally came across it on Facebook.

Then there's Kevin. We essentially grew up more like brother and sister because we spent so much time together but that can also lead to a fair number of problems too. Anyway...he just recently bought a house with his girlfriend and we're all pretty certain that they are headed for that aisle in the not too distant futur.

And then there's ME. I'm nowhere near getting married and having children (not that I wouldn't love to - 'tis the curse of singledom); instead I'm doing things a little differently.

1. I've completed my university degree.
2. Spent a year working full-time, part-time and went back to school part-time.
3. Bought a house all buy myself. It's not a huge place but it suits me just fine.
4. And this term on top of FT work I've taken on a full time course load (7 classes) on a part-time schedule.

To put this last point in perspective, I'm enrolled in three different college programs at the same time. By 2012 I will have completed all three programs and on top of my degree in Sociology/Anthropology I will have the following certificates: Media Communications, Public Relations, and Graphic Design - Print. Ok so I may sound like a bit of over achiever or something like that but I'm really not I just don't have any idea what it is that I want to do in terms of work/career.

I wish that these things were easeir to figure out *sigh*

Trouble is a brewin'

Got an email from my ex boyfriends wife this morning, not cool.

Apparently she's tired of trying to work it out and she's done with him and says I can have him, uh what?

It would seem that living four hours away and having the occasional conversation suddenly means I want his dumb ass back. As a friend he's fine but he is a terrible boyfriend and it would seem he's also a terrible husband.

How do you convince a suspicious woman that despite what she may think, you want less to do with her husband than she does?

I'm really a sweet person, why do women think I want their boyfriends/husbands?

Back to School

Ok so classes started again and I think this term will be pretty manageable. So much so that I have decided to add a 3rd certificate program into the mix. Oh yes that's right, on top of working Monday to Friday 7am to 4pm, classes already scheduled for Monday and Tuesday nights, hitting the gym and maintaining a social life and going out with my lovely girls...I'm adding three more courses!

Because I am glutton for punishment I'm now enrolled in three certificate progams:

• Media Communications
• Public Relations Practitioner
• Graphic Design - Print

Yay, go me!

So over the next 28 months (5 semesters) I have to complete 19 courses...hmmm I'm pretty sure that I can pull this off, it may mean a few less nights out during the week and a few more headaches but worth it in the long run.

Now all I really seem to need is the funds. School is unbelievably expensive, luckily my work is helping to cover some of the courses. Thank goodness for Continuing Professional Development budgets!

This isn't right

Every morning this week when I've woken up it's felt like Friday. This is killing me because it's making the week feel extraordinarily long.

In fact it's only 1:13pm right now and I'm about ready to take a nap! My life would be so much easier if I drank coffee.

The downside is that it's only going to get worse as the fall wears on. It'll start getting darker even sooner, the sun will come up even later and the temperature will becoming increasingly frigid as winter looms.

I'm definitely not ready for winter, we've barely had a summer.