Crunch Time

It's down to that time of year again, classes are over in five weeks, you've got assignments coming out of who knows what, and your down to your last $100 for the year. What is a girl to do? Here is a break down, 

Groceries $40 every two weeks

Cell phone bill $50 a month

Gas $30 every 20 days

Now how is a girl going to survive on $100 for the rest of the year when the expenses are clearly more than the money I have? 

My solution may be a little easier than most but this is what happened. I called my mom and asked for a loan, and as soon as I make the money back this summer, it goes straight to the parental-units! 

Heres to the parents who bail you out...

THANKS MOM AND DAD! 

Anyone else feeling the crunch time?

Rain...

Do you ever find yourself having a mellow day? 

Mellow as in, listening to really chilled out music, with your bedroom window open, having your music and the rain falling become synced? 

I find there is something relaxing about the rain, it has an effect on me that I didn't know rain could. Rain makes me feel peaceful, and calm. I remember when I was younger, and I would be at the lake with my parents I loved the rain and watching it fall on the lake, I still think its one of my favorite things to do. 

I believe that the weather has a very large effect on the way I feel, and what mood I am in. If it's sunny I am usually energetic and up for anything, the rain, make me want to sit and watch it fall, preferably at the lake with my feet in the water getting soaked! Cloudy with no rain make me feel like a hermit, just staying inside and doing nothing but napping and watching movies.

While in my mood of peacefulness I found some great music, Joshua Radin happens to be the artist of all things good. I also like, Kate Voegele, Lisa Hannigan, and Emmy Rossum, but just for the rainy days! 

Here is one of Joshua Radin's songs called Today, hope it makes your rainy day better! 

What is your rain mood?

ALERT: Facebook Poke

Have you ever signed onto your facebook and noticed some random person has poked you? Here is the scoop on that... my housemate brought it to my attention that instead of paying these dating sites to find your perfect match, you can search him out of facebook. 

Attention ladies, to find your perfect man simply go into profile searches on facebook, type into the categories specific things you want in a guy. Say you want a man who likes volleyball, attends Western, is in third year, single, and they are liberal. You can simply type in all these things, and your perfect man will appear.  

From this point all you have to do is poke him (if he is what your looking for),  which allows him to see your profile, if he likes what he sees than he has the option to either poke you back, or just ignore. 

My housemate did this and found a wonderful guy and they hang out all the time. I thought this was brilliant. One thing to make sure of is that you don't have any friends in common, as well as not having friends of yours poke the same guy as you. 

Guys, if a girl pokes you, and you don't know her, now you will know why ;) This also works for guys, feel free to poke the ladies you find suitable, you never know what could happen. 

Happy poking ladies and gents!

Butterfly Conservatory

Over reading week I got the chance, with my parents to go to the butterfly conservatory in Niagara Falls Canada. Since, I love making cupcakes, I felt it necessary to go to the conservatory to find new butterflies for inspiration. This post is mainly to show the amazing photos I got to take. Enjoy!

 

My Top 6 Favorite Movies of ALL TIME

Have you ever sat down and tried to figure out your favorite movies? After reading Man on the Moon's top five favorite movies of 2008, I decided to tell you my six most favorite movies of ALL time (because I couldn't decide on five). 

1. Back To The Future 

Back to the future 1, 2, and 3 (I count them all as one since it’s crucial they be watch in sequence.) So much adventure mixed with a little bit of nerd + a whole lot of made up words= great times. 

2. JAWS

 
Not only is this movie a classic, but it's hilarious in parts, for the time it was made it was brilliant. However, the reality is today our graphics have improved so it can be funny to watch the graphics. 

3.  Girls just want to have fun

As in my previous post Dancing From The 80's you know that I love the dance movie of the 80's which is why this movie is amazing. 

4. Under the Tuscan sun

I'm a girl get over it, this is the best chick flick ever, not only do they have a trip with 'Gay and Away' which I think is hilarious, but she does something she would never have done when she was married. Now I've never been married but since being single I have done so many more things that I thought I wouldn't do. 

5. Indiana Jones 

The first three only, the fourth one sucked. I love these movies because I love adventure, I wish I could be Indiana Jones, without the snakes. 

6.  Sister Act, and the second one Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 

The singing is fantastic, Whoopi is HILARIOUS, and she has to be a nun, I mean what's better?

Youtube Intro

For today's post I have to do a response to "An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube". This is a 55 minute video introducing YouTube from, you guess it, an anthropological perspective. I found this video to be rather exciting and interesting. This video is a focus on YouTube as a community - and it's true, YouTube is the largest community on the internet. It's comprised of videos posted by people just like you and I. This video is a conference held by a university professor and his students. 

This video shares the ups and downs of YouTube, the romances, the fakes, the fun, the celebrity, and the illegal. 

I believe YouTube to be a great place for social networking, a great social journal, and an even better community. There have been love stories emerging from YouTubers, people expressing who they really are, and even some wonderfully wacky people trying to convey how they feel towards the world. 

This video is a great tool in showing how YouTube works, the people behind it, and the way that it's fueled by user generated content. 

The reason I enjoyed this video so much was because it wasn't just some guy standing up in front of people telling them why he likes YouTube but also, the advantages of YouTube. My favorite line was when he was talking about the online community was, once people become individual they need the community to reinforce who they are and what they are doing. It's brilliant the way that it's 100% true, no matter how many people say that they don't care what anyone else thinks, in a way we all need validation. YouTube is a great way to make or break who you are, if you present your self in a certain way and no one likes it then you have the chance to change into someone new. In a way your not really presenting who you are but who the person you want people to think you are. 

The video I analyzed:

Wise Words - Date a Lifeguard

Have you ever done something you thought you wouldn't ever do? 

This weekend I was the victim in the Ontario University Lifeguarding Championships - it was pretty awesome. I was a volunteer for Saturday from 2:30PM-9PM. For the first few hours I was a minor head injury, a lot of teams missed seeing me, and for the second half I was a distressed non-swimmer so I pretty much just had to pretend drown. I volunteered again today (Sunday) from 9:30AM-2:30PM and was again a distressed non-swimmer, this was some pretty exciting stuff. I am not sure who won because I couldn't stay until the end. More to the point of my story I was told about a shirt that I thought was pretty amazing considering I am a lifeguard. The shirt says: 

If your not dating 

a lifeguard raise 

your standards

I just thought I would share these wise words.