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Three friends decided to start a blog to keep in contact with their respective friends and each other. The blog is also used to vent and rant (as we often do) and also to share our accomplishments, and new projects.

I started this blog with Julia a few years back and we have added on Daniela onto our little blog party. I am a student and am hoping to purse a career within medicine.

5/15/09

Baby Rhubarb.

Hey,
Well as most of you know, I have to take a baby home (a robotic one, that is) for my parenting course at school. This weekend (the long weekend, aren't I lucky?) I took home a baby girl, who I named Rhubarb. I named her this not because I admire the legume (although it certainly may seem like it) but because I don't want to name this facsimile of a baby a real name just in case I want to name my future kids that. I want all names to be an option because I don't know I or my husband will like in the future.
So far, life has been simple.
I went and got a haircut (bonus: many weird stares for robotic baby sitting in car seat) and now have a fringe! I am sort of on the fence about the fringe business seeing as it makes me look 5 years younger and, it makes me look five years younger!! Other than that, I don't want people to think I'm copying Julia because it was only after that I realised that we now have the exact same haircut. Oh lawdy. Well so far things with the baby have gone pretty well. The baby has been 'abused' 3 times. As been recorded, and somebody (DEM KNEES) called me a 'horrible mother' but otherwise, things have been pretty good.
I'll write more later.
Love,
allie
xoxo

4/29/09

Washington Day 3 + 4

Day 3

Woke up. Went to air and space museum. When i came ther i was like OH COOL SPACE! AIR! AWESOME! But it was OK. Lots of planes everywhere... some were cool. But how cool can planes be? They all have wings and you fly in all of them, that's all really. Oh well there WERE a few hellicopters and a space shuttle and all the 'intereactive' things were closed (like put a space suit or go inside of a plane) so that was a bummer. We spent half the day there and then left ot go to some park god knows where. I was so into my The Thorn Birds book i didn't even care where we were going, as long as it had a place to sit and some light so i can READ MOTHFKN (looks like moth fkn :| :| you all know what i mean). To get there was had to ride one of those 'car boats' which my brother got the best fun out of and i just read. I've been on one before so it wan't that cool for me. There were cows there so i looked at those. The park was really nice looking. I took a few pictures and walked around with my mom and family friend. Photography= my vice. I love, LOVE it. I dont know why, but capturing a beautiful + perfect moment is like my goal when i have a camera in hand. 
That night we made shishkabob and it was very good indeed. BTW I bought my laptop on this day!! It is very ncie and silver. Toshiba. I'm on it right now, typing this, Wooh! 

Day 4

At round midday we left to Baltimore (capital of Washington) to visit some huga aquarium with many different fish. When we came there, it was AWESOME! I love looking at underwater life (Planet earth shallow seas, oceans deep and fresh water are my favorite ones along with jungles and caves.. forests is really interesting as well). Ther were so many fish your eyes never stopped moving. Turtles, sharks, swordfish, crocs, and birds were also partof the exhibit. it was a day well spent! 

4/16/09

Las Vegas

Hey; Alona here.
So this weekend I went to Las Vegas for the very first time. It was definitely an interesting experience. Me and my parents stayed at Mandalay Bay which was a really beautiful hotel (which I soon realized was the norm for Las Vegas). Our hotel room wasn't ready when we first arrived so we went out shopping in our newly rented red Toyota Camry. I bought a few things (including the two dresses I'm going to wear for my birthday party this year) but mostly, we just wandered. By the time our hotel room was ready, we were all so tired that we stayed in. Mandalay Bay didn't really have a theme; or at least, I didn't realise what it was. The coolest part of it was that it had a restaurant called "Krasniy Ploshad" (red square) that had a giant statue of Lenin with his head exploded off and inside the restaurant was another statue of the head of Lenin. After we re-energized a bit, me and my dad went to the Shark Reef Bay Aquarium located right inside our hotel. It was quite interesting but extremely crowded (which I also realized was the other norm for Las Vegas). The next day we went to Denny's for breakfast which was quite a story in itself. The whole place was full of southern hicks which was quite a feast for the eyes (mullets and mom jeans galore). The portions in America are the biggest I have ever seen. Favourite Part:
Waitress: Y'all wait; I'll bring y'all some jelly for the pancakes.
My whole family looks confused.
WAitress: Jelly??....JAM.
My whole family: OHHHH.
Second Favourite Part:
I asked for an english muffin. They bring me a giant donut filled with butter...that is their english muffin.
After our "appetizing" meal, we went back to the Sunset Strip to look at all the different hotels and their attractions. At night, we caught Treasure Island hotel (a hotel whose theme was pirates) show called "Sirens" where a ship sinks outside the hotel. All of the hotels on the Sunset Strip have a different theme. There was a hotel called Luxor that was shaped like a pyramid and it has a light that shines out of its tip (oo-er) at night. I didn't like it (I'm picky, I know). Next to it is a hotel called 'Excalibur' which is shaped like a giant medieval castle (more cartoon-ish than actually medieval) which we ran out of time so I can't really say whether I like it or not. All I know about it is that their buffet is "TVELVE NINDY NINE; VY VE NO GO ZERE FOR LUNCH INSTEAD OF YOUR EXPENSIVE STARBUCKS???" After Excalibur, there is a hotel (or should I say giant amusement park) named New York, New York which is (you guessed it) modeled after New York City. It comes complete with its own Brooklyn Bridge and even a built in roller coaster. Across from NY, NY, there are a bunch of interesting shops like the M&M store, and ADIDAS (which has a GIANT PSP hanging on it's wall). Next to the NY hotel was Bellagio (Italian Theme) and Monte Carlo (south of France theme) and next to them was Caesers Palace (Roman theme). I could go on and on about them but there's too much else to say. My absolute favourite hotel was the Paris hotel. It had its own Eiffel Tower and Arc du Triumphe. After that, my second favourite was the Venetian hotel, which mirrored Venice in Italy. It had its own little water canal with gondolas and opera singers. It was charming but no matter how hard Vegas tries, it will never match the charming aura of the European cities it tries to imitate.
The second day of my trip was spent sight-seeing and then watching two shows in a row. First, I watched Phantom Of The Opera at the Venetian Hotel (alone, sadly) and it was absolutely brilliant. My favourite part was when the chandelier dropped onto the audience and also the very first scene where the orchestra is loudly playing the beautiful theme and the chandelier is gathering all its pieces while mystically hovering over the audience. After that, me and my dad went to see Mystere by Cirque De Soleil which was different, but equally brilliant. Of course, by then I was so tired I didn't really get the gist of the show but in my own way, I think it was about a child's brain. The show started off with a crying baby and then it showed different everyday things such as nature and hands and poles but with all these different fantasy elements (such as a child who's mind is not yet developed might dream of). Ok; enough analyzing. The next day, we spent sight-seeing again. At the Bellagio hotel, there is a show using water fountains and the water dances to different songs. We watched it dance to "My Heart Will Go On" which was really beautiful. Then, we went to the Paris hotel to go to their boulangerie which actually pretty much was awful because a) it didn't smell how boulangeries should and b) the food there was pre-packaged and pretty crap. I was definitely not in Paris. Then, at LUXOR hotel, me and my mom went to an amazing exhbition called "BODIES" which featured real dead bodies which were dispersed by body group and what not. It was brilliant (and there a hottie doctor there too). That night, me and my dad went to see Elton John's Red Piano Concert which was fantastic and I absolutely loved it especially since I'm a big fan of Sir Elton. The only downside was that the show was produced by David LaChappelle who is known for his ..adult antics. The entire video show on the screen behind lovely Elton showed topless ladies and pole dancers (Pamela Anderson pole dancing, to be precise) the entire show through. Also, there were many inflatable objects on the stage (most appropriate) but the one that HAD to be closest to where me and my dad were sitting, just HAD to be the most innapropriate,right? We sat next to a pair of giant inflatable boobies. Lovely! So there you go; that's pretty much my trip to Las Vegas in a (pretty long) nutshell.
Love,
allie
xoxo
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4/9/09

Washinton Day 1+ Day 2

Oh man. I haven't written in AGES. Literally ages. What you missed since January:
Got a 91.5 avg. in first semester
2nd semester started, History Gym French Science. Like most of the subjects most of the time.
Went on a cruise with Alona (had awesome time). Ill ask her to write about it since she has the notes (yes we took notes on the cruise)
My birthday: got a necklace from my aunt, money from friends, watch from Alona, makeup and PLANET EARTH from my cousin (i love planet earth) and a laptop from my parents :):)
I also had a birthday party where my friends and i went to downtown and window shopped, and then ate at MoRoCo (delicious food and amazing fondue)
I finished To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and LOVED IT
And now I'm in Washington D.C.

I Arrived yesterday after driving for 10 hours. I came here and had nothing to do so i read for an hour or so, ate like a pig (3 slices of pizza) and then went on the computer for a while. This day passed by in a blur partly because when i got here i was still in my planet earth mode (from watching it in the car for 6 hours) and also i wasn't used to the place.

Today was a different story. I awoke (or was rudely woken up) by my mom calling me to get my arse out of bed. I had pizza for breakfast (lol) and my family and i + our fam. friend that lives here went to go to best buy to pick out a laptop for me. Anyways, i won't explain what happened because that's not important. Afterwards we went to this place that was famous for its Cherry Blossom trees which are in full bloom at this time of the year. We went there and every street was lined with those cherry trees so everywhere you looked you saw bright pink. It was so beautiful! One if the most beautiful sights I've ever seen. The hundreds of trees hung over each street and the blossoms seemed to never end. kjfnkjfdsn I took many photos there so I'm satisfied. After that we headed to downtown Washington (today i was told that Washington wasn't a state but had state's rights, which i never knew before). We spent over an hour trying to find a parking place. Finally we found one and went to eat at some Union Station. After that my dad went back to the car to grab our coats and left my mom, my brother and myself waiting for him at the front of the subway. We waited for 15 minutes and finally he came in the car. I was thoroughly confused at this point. He called for us to get in and we ran to him and almost had to leap inside the car while it was moving. He tells us that he got a ticket for parking in the place he did since you can only park there until 4:00 (and it was already 5:00). Then he drives us up to a policeman and my mom and I are like WTF. He tells us he approached the police man and asked him where he could park and the police man told him he would help. So we were escorted to a parking spot by a police man : And we parked some place which was only for people who had a permit :: The police man tells us that since it's the holidays, no one's gonna give a rats arse because they're all on vacation as well (he was talking about the prime minister staff or w/e. I'm not sure who they were, but nvm). All the people that live in Washington have a light southern accent which i find amusing to listen to. Continuing on: We parked and walked around downtown going from the Senate house.. thing (forgot the name. The large building that has that cone shape at the top. very nice looking) The we went to the 'backyard' of the white house. I argued with my dad that we were at the WRONG SIDE of the white house. My dad insisted that that was the front and went to ask some guard that was guarding the white house. He approached him and the guard leaped out of his booth (he was young and pretty good looking which was a plus for me) but calmed down when my dad asked if there was another view of the house. My dad's like "SO this part is like the backyard of the white house right?" and the guy's like "Uhh, kind of like it" Damn tourists. Anyways, so we are walking around to the other side and we see this amazing building but we have no idea what it is. My dad decides to ask ANOTHER guard what it is. (My dad had a close relationship with guards today). The guard blabbed on about some thing i forgot and we left him to his guarding. after the front of the white house we went back to the car (approx. a 45 minute walk). While we were walking back, there was this theatre and it said that Demetri Martin was going to be performing at 8:00 Apr. 11 and i want to see it, but i don't want to go alone. I might ask my cousin to go with me when he comes. Anyways, i believe that's all that happened.
Btw. Washington roads are so confusing. The roads split into two directions all the time and it's hard to take directions even from the GPS. Lol but my dad kept saying how marvelous the GPS invention was and how we could never find our way home without it. He said it in such a content and matter-of-fact way it almost made me laugh.
Anyways,
I'll update every day (or whenever i have the time) about the rest of the trip

Later,

-Julia

P.S.
Those of you who haven't: watch I love You, Man. FUNNY SHIT
Also, read To Kill A Mockingbird !!!

1/23/09

Going to go insane from boredom; University Anxiety

Well, today was the first day I didn't have an exam. My next exam date is Wednesday, January 28th. So I do have a bit of time before then. Arghh; I don't know what to do with all this free time. I mean sure, I have ideas (clean room, read, exercise, watch t.v.) but it's so boring. I don't want to be even more bored than I was before. I've never actually spent this much time on the computer before...Wayy too scary. Anyways, I'm sort of getting anxious about university. I really want to go to Western but someone said it's a party school and I am not a partier. I don't go to parties; I don't drink and I definitely do not smoke. I like quietness. Everything I heard about university:
1) You never sleep
2) You have tons of homework
3) You can't afford ANYTHING
4) You live in a tiny cramped dorm room
5) There's parties every single night

I hate ALL OF THOSE THINGS. Arughuhg; I really hope it's not anything like what I've heard.
Love,
allie
xoxo

1/21/09

Well exam season officially started. I had my English exam today and it was pretty tough. The questions and essay itself weren't hard. The hardest part was finishing it on time and being alert at 8 in the morning!! Tomorrow I have a music exam which I barely studied for. I can't muster up the strength to study; I'm too..blah today. Anyways,
I'll write more later.
Love,
allie
xoxo

1/20/09

:)

Hey,
I am in a much better mood, thankfully. I don't think I can stay upset for that long anyways. I've decided to suck it up and continue with those lessons. I'd be letting my parents and myself down and I don't want to do that. Anyways, on a happier note, tommorow is my english exam and after that, I have a music exam (which I need to study for..) and a philsophy exam in a week and that's it! i don't ever have to see millloser ever again. (Ooh, intersting random thought. Religion is like music. Everyone likes/believes a different thing. WE don't have wars on what type of music we like, so why do we have wars on what our beliefs are?) I'm so excited for second semester. JAH JAH. :) i'm glad i'm back to normal. this feels more like the real me. anyways, here's a list me and Julia made a long time of our perfect man. it's safe to say henry fits a lot of these characteristics lol.
1) Strong
2) Defined Jaw
3) Taller than you
4) Honest (but lies when to make you feel good :D)
5) Sense of Humor
6) Romantic (IMPORTANT ;P)
7) Smart
8) Not Jelous (to a certain extent)
9) Talented at Something
10) Caring
11) Nice Eyes (VERY IMPORTANT!)
12) Responsible
13) Smile To Die For (oh yes)
14) Loyal
15) Good Kisser (ABSOLUTE MOST)
16) Great Laugh
17) Good Dancer
18) Appropriate Dirty (;P)
19) Protects You
20) Not Self-Absorbed
21) Loves you for who you are
22) Thinks You're Beautiful
23) Stallion In The Sack (LMFAO ALONA)
24) Kind And Sweet (Same Thing?)
25) Self- Control (Doesn't Pick Fights)
26) Friendly
27) Patient
28) Nice With Your Parents
29) Steady Job (Good Job!)
30) Family Oriented
31) Not a One-Night-Stand-Guy
32) Great With Kids
33) No Bad Addictions
34) Laid Back
35) Down-To-Earth
36) Hygenic (A Definite Plus)
37) Self Sufficient (Doesn't Rely on You Do Do Everything)
38) Loves To Cuddle
39) Can Make You Happy Whenever
40) Sexy (DAMN STRAIGHT!)
41) Luscious Lips (♥)
42) Not A Hairy Beast
43) No Back Hair/ Some Chest Hair
44) No Long Beard (!)
45) Can Cook
46) Hot Name :D
47) Has A Good Wardrobe (and knows when to wear what)
48) Can Be Forceful, But Knows That No Means No!

1/18/09

Ughhghh. I don't think I've been this disappointed in years. Today I was suppose to have a tennis lesson and over the past month, more and more, I've been hating the tennis coach and the girl I have the lesson and today; I just couldn't take it anymore. I was dreading the lesson all day long and that's not the way you are suppose to feel about an extra curricular activity. You should enjoy your free time and I don't want wasted money to occur because I go there. I don't want to go. My mom called them and said I'm not going but it's only for today and I can't stand them. ugh fricking coach+ girl.. they are so fucking pretentious. i hate them and i hate people like them. it's 35 dollars to waste to spend 45 minutes watching them joke around and ignore me and 15 minutes of running around being completely out of breath, feeling like I'm going to pass out. it's not wroth it and the worst this is how bad my parents made me feel for not going. i'm not quitting. i want to continue with tennis but I don't want to feel so horrible about this school and it's not like they are fucking made out of gold or something; i shouldn't be made to feel so guilty for quitting this particular school. ugh. i hate when people call me a quitter. i'm not a quitter. A quitter gives up when times are hard; I don't. I quit when it's not something I enjoy. I don't believe yoou should waste your time doing things you hate unless they are absolutely neccesary and to me, going to an expensive tennis lesson where I don't learn anything is unneccesary ; rather than going to a differnet tennis lesson where I actually learn and enjoy my time. That's the difference between going to school in your pajamas where your fucking cold and going to school dressed in a parka, where you areee nice and warm. What i mean is, I'm still going to play tennis, just in a different area but no; my parents make me feel like I just shot someone or something. I just want to switch schools but no..they have to bring up how like 8 years ago, I quit jazz dance lessons and now i quit dance again because the school I went to was easy and a different school i tried said i'm too fat and old to go.how the fuck does a rational person not leave places like that. I didn't want to quit all those places but I just hate suffering and i mean, who doesn't. I had to go through elementary school suffering every single fucking day and I don't want to take anymore. I don't want to go through it anymore. I just stay away from feeling bad and why shouldn't i. it's hard enough being a teenager, let alone, having additional things like me. I don't only havet he basic worry of getting out of high school alive, but I need all this extra added stuff because I want to be a doctor and I don't even know anymore. I don't know if i can even do it. I hate this. I just wish it was so much easier but it never will be and the more I try to suck it up and keep going, the faster I keep breaking down and each time it's worse and worse. I am just so sick of everyone around me. I don't want to be made to feel guilty for wanting to change something that I dislike. Julia once had a quote on her msn, that if you don't like something, change it and if you can't change it, change how you feel about it. well I can change the location and coach of my tennis lessons so why the fuck should i be made to feel like a really bad person for it.
I don't want to be the emotional one who rants about antyhing and everything but truly; I just don't want to cry anymore.

1/14/09

Just thought I'd share a hilarious video

(P.S. Watch at around 2:20 the funniest part!!)

1/9/09

Just a random update.

Hey,
School's back! It's a bittersweet feeling, to know that I can no longer wake up at 3PM and waste my time shopping or watching movies. I feel happy to get back to a schedule and to finally be able to ask all the questions I had built up over the break. I had two assignments to work on (Philosophy Project and English speech) and I had so many questions and it felt so unsatisfying to suppress them for so long. Now that I've asked my questions, I want second semester to start!! This semester I've had Careers, and now my schedule was (for the past 3 months) Philosophy, Civics, Music, English. Next semester I have Singing, Math, French, Science. Before I can pass onto better things; I must have the dreaded exams. Uerhueghheaogh, as if you couldn't tell, I'm not looking forward to them. I AM looking forward though, to my extra 4 days of rest.
Speaking of things to look forward to, I am so excited for mine and Julia's cruise this March break!! Just thinking about it makes me get that butterfly exciting feeling. Obviously I will make a post about it but unlike last time, I will actually periodically write down what's happening during the cruise since when I was writing what happened last time, it was all from memory and I'm sure that I had forgotten a few important things...like how our ship turned around because they thought they saw people swimming in the ocean after being thrown overboard.They didn't, but the point is that I had forgotten to even mention it.
Anyways, there's a really cute bloke at school. I don't know his name (but do I ever know my crushes' names??). He has the most amazing blue eyes. I'm bored until March Break so I'm going to try to at least catch his attention or do something at least. Life is so worthless without interesting events.
I can't wait until I'm finished school and I have my own adult life where I don't have to beg my parents for 2 weeks just to go out and buy me some yoghurt or popcorn or some minute mundane object. When I have my own house, I want 2 more animals, well three actually but I don't really count fish. I want a Scottish Fold cat (all the more to add to my scottish/british obsession!!) and a German Shepherd dog. I think they are both so cute! I love animals, but unlike my friend Biata, I do NOT love them more than humans. How can you?? Humans are so interesting; so complex. Animals are smart too but they are 2 Dimensional while human minds are infinite.
So that's it for my random update.
I'll write more later.
Love,
allie
xoxo

12/29/08

There once was a man from China who had a huge...

Yay, I'm so excited. There's only a couple days left until New Years! Since it's nearly 2009, I should make some resolutions.
1) Be Nicer to people ( especially Julia, since we always jokingly insult each other)
2) Be healthier ( stop eating so much damn chocolate)
3) Be braver, more confident, and more assured. The first two parts of this are easy, but by being more assuring I mean, stand up for myself and actually state my opinion even if it's controversial. Stand up for what I believe.

So I also made a list of things to do before I Turn 100:
1) Apply for MENSA
2) Hike up a Mountain/Volcano/Large Hill-Thing Area
3) Reach Nirvana (no, not that band)
4) Build a Sand Castle
5) Build a Snow Man
6) Go to A hockey Game
7) Go Skinny Dipping
8) Get Married
9) Have Children
10) Be Happy
11) Have successful career
12) Rock out onstage
13) Save a life
14) Donate time and money to a good cause
15) Tell someone you love them and mean it
16) Be interviewed on TV
17) Say what you truly really think
18) Wear the craziest most outrageous clothes
19) Tell your deepest secret
20) Be a role model to someone
21) Go to a riot/strike
22) Dye your hair a crazy colour
23) Be an actor for one acting thing
24) Milk A Cow
25) Ride a horse
26) Drive a car
27) Go to a music festival
28) Perform with a band
29) Travel alone
30) Go to a really expensive resteraunt
31) go to a really expensive hotel

I'll add more stuff as I'll think of it.
Love,
allie
xoxo

12/24/08

Hey (again)

Hola,
it's Christmas Eve and I'm a jew so...very bored. A lot of my friends are Christian so obviously they are not online right now. Ugh, I'm so bored. And even better; I'm babysitting....Whatever. Times like this, I want to celebrate christmas, just to get in on the fun lol. I have pretty much became an atheist. I'll post my atheist essay on why religion is wrong here--->





“Tonight, on our Christmas special...” “Ok, here’s your change. Have a good day! Merry Christmas” “On today’s show...Christmas Give-Away Time” Why is it that every time I turn on the TV I am reminded that it is “Christmas Season” It is also Chanukah and Kwanza season but I’d barely hear about it if it wasn’t for the mundane “Happy Holidays” I hear once in a while. Why is it that in a world that is supposed to be secular, society is swaying in a Christian direction?? It’s not fair. It has been a long time since this was a Pagan World. Christians have 2.1 billion followers, but if you combine all other religions, they over power the Christians. So since there are almost 4 billion non-Christians, this promotion of religious celebrations is discriminative to all those who don’t follow that certain religion. Canada is known worldwide for being a multicultural place and as a non-religious person, why should I turn on a Tax-paid channel such as CBC and view Christmas commercials? Okay, I understand that just because I feel it’s wrong, the CBC won’t just stop airing all Christmas-related commercials and programs. My problem is not the Christmas commercials themselves; it’s the fact that they promote religious celebrations at all. If we don’t promote any religion, people don’t abide themselves to faith and therefore live a scientifically based life. I think a life based on facts, instead of faith, is better because people use reason and logic to make decisions instead of using just emotions.
I believe that religion separates humans as a whole. It creates selective groupings that people fall into. Those groupings stand divided. We are all human; why should we divide ourselves? Well some people say, we group ourselves by our beliefs. Okay, but if there was no bibles or torahs, would those beliefs still stand? Surely, our beliefs come from our upbringing and environment so if someone is Catholic, goes to catholic school, and has all catholic friends; of course their beliefs will be derived from their influences. If no one is born into set beliefs, then over time, they can make their own decisions and therefore live according to their beliefs and not what they were taught. Wouldn’t this make people think more and be more conscious of their being? This would make them more intelligent. Wouldn’t we want a more intelligent world? I sure do.
Another thing that religion does is make people deny science. I respect religions but when certain followers deny very important things such as evolution and are very vocal about it, some schools agree not to teach it and that’s what disappoints me. I am being denied knowledge because of a belief I do not follow. Religion is discriminative, it divides people, it sets high standards no one except maybe Jesus, Moses or Mohammed can follow. Still don’t believe me? Well listen to these points.
Number 1: Religion is discriminative to women. For example, in the Christian bible, it says that a man who rapes a woman must pay her father money and then must marry her as a consequence. ..Wait, What? So not only does this woman have to marry the scheming rapist, but since the bible doesn’t believe in Abortions and Divorce, she’s stuck with him and their future babies. How lovely for this woman. In the Koran, it states and I quote “A woman is worth one-half a man, and males are to inherit twice that of females” So not only am I half as worthy as a man, but when someone dies, a man will inherit twice as much as I would. There’s no point for women to live like this. In the Jewish Torah, there is a part where it not only acknowledges selling women as slaves, but it also tells you exactly how it should be done. Okay, not enough proof? Also in the Christian Bible, it states to not let women talk in church. Why should men be able to express their thoughts and not women? What makes men so much more valuable than women? I think that since religion is such a tradition in our culture, our views have filtered down from bibles and that’s why women were suppressed for so long. That’s why, still today, a man’s dollar is the equivalent to the 77 cents a woman makes.
Number 2: Religion causes violence. In the Christian bible, in both the New Testament and the Old Testament; it says you stone people to death when they are rebellious. Ooh sounds fun! Too bad it’s breaking modern laws, and people who live in present times do not follow this rule (most of the time) so that makes them not a true Christian, since True Christians follow all bible rules. But still, they keep practicing the faith. It’s hypocritical; to follow one rule but not the other. Another way how religion confuses us. In the Koran, it states to “Fight those who believe not in Allah [their god] nor the last day” So this basically tells followers of the Koran, to fight anyone who is not Muslim. This does not sound very peaceful to me. In the Jewish torah, there is a lot of violence . If people think that video games influence children how about when their families provide them with books of faith that talk about stoning people to death, and killing just for doing such minute things that an atheist wouldn’t even notice.
Wait- I know what you’re thinking. “Oh but that’s just from the old bibles, it’s exaggerated so people understand the morals of the stories” Ok but what about how in today’s day and age, people are still using exaggerated tactics to push their beliefs on to others? For example, Jehovah’s Witnesses who come knocking on people’s doors, disregarding their privacy, and commencing to preach about how great their religion is while the disillusioned homeowner stands there, probably in their pyjamas and only a few minutes into an awakened state. Surely this crosses some boundaries. Ok, that seems a bit farfetched seeing as we live in a country that is supposedly scarce of people like that. Here’s an example that hits quite close to home. For 34 years, York University has been cancelling classes on the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Does this really seem fair considering only 5.8% of York`s population is Jewish? York didn’t cancel classes on other religious holidays, excluding the blatantly obvious Christian holidays. Why did Christians and Jews get special treatment over all other religions? It’s a big bully picking on a younger victim. Majority VS. Minority.
Number 3: A Jew cannot be a Christian who cannot be a Muslim who cannot be a Buddhist who cannot be a Hindu. Confused? Join a religion. What I’m saying is that religion is a set of rules. While most religions share a similar thought or two, you cannot belong to two religions. Therefore, if every person gathered up their belief system and fit it into one of these religions, our nation would stand, just as it does now, divided. In times of crisis, and there’s crisis’s everyday, is it really the best thing to have? A divided nation? No.
I think that if we didn’t have religion in this world, we would have fewer arguments and fewer wars. I think the problems in the Middle East would be much easier to solve if leaders of major parties used diplomacy and not their religion to make decisions. Also, things like the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened and the problem in Darfur, that’s happening this very minute, would be non-existent. This picture of a non-religious world that I’m painting to you right now sounds very good to me.
My opinion comes with controversy though. People say “you can’t just wipe out religion!” Well obviously you can’t just yank everybody’s religious book away and tell them “Right , you are an atheist now” but I think over time, if more people start actually looking at the facts and making their own decisions, more people will become atheist. And therefore, church will finally stop mixing with state. That is the world I want my children to grow up in. Not a world where they’ll feel excluded because they don’t celebrate Christmas, like how I grew up. I remember being 9, or 10 years old and all my friends were talking about what they got for Christmas and when they found out I didn’t celebrate it, I remember the awkward look they gave me. I don’t want my future children or anyone’s children for that matter, to go through something like that.
Even though many people disagree with me, there are a few whose voices are starting to ring in agreement with mine. One of my favourite organisations happened to be one of those voices. They are the Toronto Secular Alliance; a student organisation formed in The University of Toronto. They first formed to fight against the building of a multi faith centre in their university’s campus. The purpose of this faith centre was for Muslim students who needed to pray 5 times a day. The cost of this project was over 3 million dollars and that money was partly extracted from all of the students’ tuitions fees. The TSA, and I agree, thought it was wrong that their tuitions were going towards a faith centre when they were atheists. In fact, over 40% of U of T’s population are non religious. And out of those who WERE religious, only a small percentage was even Muslim. So the TSA fought, but it was too late to stop the building but that’s not all. The TSA continued fighting for many different projects that challenged secularism and won many of their greatest challenges.
So, after thousands of years, they’ve finally stopped killing atheists and agnostics for sharing their beliefs. Because of that, I believe that religion is on its way out, and good riddance.

EXTRAS:


Although every religion has their naive statements, I focused more on Christianity because it’s the biggest religion in our world, with 2.1 billion followers.

Religion divides people more than just through beliefs. Religion creates unbelievably high standards for its followers to live by. For example, in the Christian Bible it first says that it’s a sin for men to have long hair and then a few verses later, it says for men to let their hair grow long. So which one is right?



love,
allie
xoxo

Names I Like:)

This is totally lame of me
but i made a list of baby names I like:)
It's a pretty long list, it's not even baby names I like; it's just names i like in general.
NAMES:

Female:
Jane
Charlotte
Sadie
Scarlett
Jane Meadow
Tiffany
Annabelle Audrey
Scarlett Jane
Vanessa
Jane Roselyn
Monica
Annabelle Jane
Olivia Jane
Sadie Jane
Sarah Jane
Evangeline
Lily Jane
Annabelle Daisy
Annabelle Dorothy
Autumn
Augustine
Evening
Bridgette
Annabelle
Elle
Eloise
Fiona
Angelina
Cashmere
Rosamund
Holly
Adelaide
Cecilia
Valley
Esme



Male:

Charles
Loire
Edward
Henry
Tristan
Stellan
Jagger
William
Loire Charles
Barney
Loire James
Irving
Mathias Jagger
Jack Tristan
Leonard
Xavier
Mikolas
James
Ian
Cohen
Bennett
Edmund
Harrison
Oliver
Winston
Claude
Emerson
Piers
Watson
Colin
Miles


Love,
allie
xoxo

12/22/08

What is?

What is love?

Love is all around us.
No matter how hard you try, you will never get rid of it.
It is with us in the harshest circumstances, in the darkest wars.
It exists even when we are not looking.
Even if you may not feel it, it affects you.
Some people try to build a wall around them from receiving love; thinking they will not get hurt.
Instead, they should embrace love.
If love is not given, give love yourself.
Love keeps us going.
Love makes us choose to do the right thing.
It’s true, sometimes love is not given back to us by a person when we want it, but that is just one person.
There are six billion of us on this earth; there is plenty of love to be given around.
Don’t think that love is only given from person to person.
Animals give and receive love.
Some people love inanimate objects.
Whomever, whatever you love, it does not matter.
As long as the feeling exists in this world (and trust me it will), there is a chance of happiness for us.

But, what is happiness?

Don’t believe people that say true happiness comes from having a rich husband or wife.
Money can not buy happiness.
No one can ever give you happiness.
You must find the happiness in a situation and take it yourself.
Even the worst situations have some optimism in them which people tend to miss.
Finding this happiness and using it to our advantage will make us look at the world in a brighter light.
Happiness can be still and it can be lively.
Happiness can be found everywhere: in nature, with friends, with family and even by yourself.
Never judge someone’s happiness, embrace it.
What some people do to feel happy may not be something you enjoy, but don’t think about that.
Find something in that situation which will make YOU happy.
Happiness is that warm contented feeling you get inside of yourself, similar to love.
Contentment never comes from hatred.
Although justice or revenge may bring some contentment, happiness only blooms with love and peace.

That's all that comes to mind at the moment,

-Julia

P.S.
You can add to this if you'd like :)

12/21/08

Julia's First Birthday

Yes. There is a DVD lying in front of me with a title just like the one above. I've watched it before, and it's so cute. I was such a tall baby and i was always frowning. It's so adorable to watch.
Also, it's Christmas eve in 3 days!! I bought my parents a picture frame which i engraved with their names and i will put a photo of my family into it! yay me. I hope they like it. I wonder if they got anything for me. I mean, they got a Wii for my brother and me, but i wonder if i go to clothes or something as well.
Interesting. Also, tomorrow is Monday.. and NO SCHOOL!
Good riddance. Two weeks off, and i am content.
Also, Emma calls me today while i am watching David Copperfield (on YouTube, just search David Copperfield Part 1, and you will get it. bloody good movie) and she's like:
"Julia hey, do you know how to skate?"
"yeah"
"well my neighbour has a granddaughter and she wants you to teach her how to skate"
"but i don't know it that well to TEACH"
"No jut hold her hand, simple stuff"
"ah ok"
"she'll call you tomorrow"
"sure"

...a few hours later:

"hello"
Its the lady: "Hello, can i speak to yulya please"
"speaking"
"(Explains info and stuff)"
"why don't you speak to my mom"
"sure"
And now it is settled; tomorrow, i am going at 4:30 to teach her.
The good thing is I'm getting payed, 10 dollars an hour. Pretty good if i do say so myself.

You know what i want to do more than anything? Write a book. But a really good book. Maybe about my life. My life is pretty interesting. Is it? I had many internal conflicts and questions. Most of these questions my friends already know. Seeing as i have expressed them more than once.
But English is... not my best topic.
Damn. People born with writing talent are damn lucky. i hate writing something and putting all my thought into it, and reading it back a few days later and thinking
WHOA WHAT BOLLOCKS

OH!OH!
I forgot to mention!
I had my dance recital today. It went pretty well, but my friends didn't show up as promised(piercing glare).
Well, your loss, it was awesome. My mom recorded me dancing and i must say i did look pretty good. My dad just said that i have to put in more energy, like i did on the last dance and I'm like "Dad, this is the time when you say: 'Wow Julia! You danced great.' And then watch it a second time and comment on it" but i didn't say it. I try to take constructive criticism well. Sometimes when I'm mad at the world and the world is telling me how to improve i just think 'WELL FECK YEH" and be grumpy. This happens in tennis sometimes.

Speaking of tennis! Tennis boy's dad is so awesome. I i could be his adopted granddaughter i would be happy. I would have an extra grandpa, but that's ok. He's so kind and funny and.. i don't know! Lovable.
You know who's lovable? Vinni Puh.
This man in the David Copperfield movie looks like him (Mr. Dick. That's his name! Honest!)
I loved the end of that movie. Oh, don't go down that road again.

Anyays, I'm going to go to bed now

Toodle-oo

-Julia

P.S.
Ever notice how my Title sentence is only talked about for 1/16th of the blog, or sometimes not at all? It's an attention grabber. My blogs aren't as interesting as they seem

12/18/08

Almost holiday break!!!

Oh Hey.
I didn't realise anyone still reads this ( *glares*) lol
How are you guys?!?!?! (Daniela and Julia)
lol
I just wanted to write a random funny story.
I remember in the fourth grade we did a Pulleys and Gears Science Unit. Basically, this unit was all about how levers and pullies work. SO in a pulley there is a gear called Spur. I never listened in class because this was a bloody boring unit so when we had a unit test and we had to label all the gears of a pulley, I totally blanked out. My mind works in the way that to remember a word, I remember similar sounding words. So when I was trying to think of SPUR, I wrote Sperm on my test. I was in the fourth grade but I had NO IDEA what SPERM even meant, I just subconciously heard it before on places like tv and from adults nearby so it was in my mind. I remeber getting the test back , failing, and then a few years later, finding the test again and realising I wrote SPERM on my test.
and the best part was that the teacher circled it and wrote "? Please See Me"
hahahaha
that reminds me of the time I set up a parent-teacher interview for my dad and my teacher for 6 PM and I forgot to tell my dad so my teacher ended up waiting from 3 (when the school finished) to 6 for my dad and he didn't even show up lmao.
:)
AND another story, which most of you probably already know.
In Grade 8, we were doing a Chemistry Science unit and on a test we had to write 3 substances similar to salt. i wrote Sugar, Flour and for my third one I couldn't think of anything so I wrote down Cocaine
hahah
and then my friend irena wrote the sam ething and then we got in troube for writing an inappropriate answer, and cheating (we both had the same answer)
but hilarious part = when i showed me mom (after cyring for liek4 hours of feeling guilty that i had failed), she started laughing and then wrote a whole like 2 page note to the teacher explaining that even though my answer wasn't appropriate, it wasnt wrong, and demanding the mark.
lmao
Love,
allie
xoxo

12/14/08

What have I become?

Yesterday, me and Julia were looking through my old family photos and home videos and I realised how much I had changed over the past few years. I used to be so outgoing, never emberassed and always being my true self. Now I am all about conformity and being a subdued version of myself. I've pushed myself into a corner and I never come out anymore. How did I go from being crazy and fun to being shy and timid? Well, I mean, I have my own guesses on why. I never cared about being made fun of until around the 7th grade, which is when I became really shy. In the 7th grade was when bullying was really hard on me up until now, even. I think from all the bullying, I didn't want to show my true self anymore because I always ended up getting hurt so I built a fence around myself so no one gets in. Ugh I hate this. Becasue of those stupid arseholes who had nothing to do but make fun of me, I scarred my entire social existance. It's hard to make friends, it's hard to work in groups, and I've built up this mentality of guarding myself from anyone and everything but worst of all, I don't trust anyone anymore.
I want to get back the person I used to be. I had no cares in the world, I just did what I wanted to do and I was so happy. It almost makes me wanna cry, looking at whom I've become. I never stand up for myself anymore, nor do I fight back for things I believe in. I just gave up believing in myself. The one thing I was ever so certain of in my life, music, is the one thing I've pushed out of my life. Ugh, it makes me sick. I don't know what do about it either. I can't just become who I used to be before; it's not that easy. I still have this huge guard up and I don't know how to get it down. Fucking awkwardness. Ugh. I can't even force myself to try because of fear. Fear of rejection, fear of bullying happening again. Sticks and stones may break your bones; scars heal but hateful words last forever.

12/13/08

Heyy!

Hey,
Ally and Julia here. We just came from tennis. Ha. I got the weirdest text message. Someone texted me, mistaking me for someone else. So here is what my text message said:

larson2004@hotmail.com (Richard) says: hey,u free monday night? ;) sorry, been super busy lately...
I reply saying: Who is this? I think you have the wrong number.
larson 2004@hotmail.com (Richard) says: lol...no...it's me, rich, we've been trying to hook up for a few months now, live in hamilton...remember?
I reply again, saying: Yeah.. you got the wrong number.
larson2004@hotmail.com (Richard) says: nope, sorry man, I don't....but hey, to each his own....good luck, don't bother contacting me then in the future....

LMAO.
I honestly had NOO IDEA who that was:| HAHA. I probably just ruined a relationship there but lmao so worth it.

Love,
allie
xooxo

12/10/08

Umbrellas aren't suppose to be used for that!

Hey,
ERm..nothing new really; just wanted to update. Winter break is in about a week and a half so claps for that. Tonight, Julia and I are going to watch a theatre production of "It's a Wonderful Life". I had never seen the movie before but I just watched about 30 minutes of it. It seems great; I now know why so many people love it. Anwayys,
yeahjust updating. LOL. THis is a realy boring update but whatever. I'll update more thoroughly on the break and stuff.
Bye!!

12/7/08

Interpretations Cont. Some More

Songs
To hear or write songs in your dream, indicates that you are looking at things from a spiritual viewpoint. Your future path is a happy one with good health and much wealth. Consider the words to the song that you are dreaming about for additional messages <------ a song about crack. interesting.
Anger
To dream that you are holding or expressing anger, symbolizes frustrations and disappointments in your Self. You tend to repress your negative emotions or project your anger� onto others. You need to look within yourself.
Being angry in your dream may have been carried over from your waking life. Dreams can function as a safe outlet where you can express your strong and/or negative emotions. You have some suppressed anger and aggression that you have not consciously acknowledged <-----oh, i've acknowledged them
Money
Money may represent confidence, self-worth, success, or values. You have much belief in yourself.Alternatively, dreaming about money, refers to your attitudes about love and matters of the heart. To dream about giving money away, is analogous to giving love. You are looking for love. <------- WTF!!!! This is sad.

SO this gives me a clearer insight. It shows me that i like tennis boy.
WELL THANKS DREAM. Why did you have to make ti so bloody confusing though?!
Anyways,

Adios,

-Julia

P.S.
:)

Interpretations Cont.

Computer
To see a computer in your dream, symbolizes technology, information, and modern life. New areas of opportunities are being opened to you. Alternatively, computers also represent a lack of individuality and non expression of emotions and feelings. Too often you are just going along with the flow, without voicing your own opinions and views. You may also feel a depreciated sense of superiority. <------------- once again, my not expressing my emotions to tennis boy.
Darkness
To dream that darkness comes upon you, signifies failure in some work that you are attempting. Darkness is synonymous with ignorance, the unconscious, evil, death, and fear of the unknown. If the sun breaks through the darkness, then you will overcome your failures. <--- my whole dream felt dark. except what that girl was leaving the house, it was sunny outside
Baby
To see a baby in your dream, signifies innocence, warmth and new beginnings. Babies symbolize something in your own inner nature that is pure, vulnerable, helpless and/or uncorrupted. If you find a baby in your dream, then it suggests that you have acknowledged your hidden potential. If you dream that a baby is neglected, then it suggests that you are not paying enough attention to yourself. You are not utilizing your full potential. <------interesting. I DID neglect that baby, but it was happy and when it stepped outside, only the dog was worried.
Snow
To see snow in your dream, signifies your inhibitions, repressed/unexpressed emotions and feelings of frigidity. You need to release and express these emotions and inhibitions. You may also be feeling indifferent, alone and neglected <------- but it looked so pretty, i can't believe it represents somethign to negative. so.. i need to EXPRESS these emotions : NON ALORS.
Attic
To see an attic in your dream, represents hidden memories or repressed thoughts that is being revealed. It also symbolize your mind, spirituality, and your connection to the higher Self. Alternatively, it signifies difficulties in your life that will hinder you from attaining your goals and aspirations. However, in the end, after a long period of struggle, you will overcome them.
Door
To dream that you are entering through a door, signifies new opportunities that will be presented before you. You are entering into a new stage in your life and moving from one level of consciousness to another. In particular, a door that opens to the outside, signifies your need to be more accessible to others. To see a light behind it suggests that you are moving toward greater enlightenment/spirituality. To dream that you are locking doors, suggests that you are closing yourself off from others. You are hesitant in letting others in and revealing your feelings. It is indicative of some fear and low self-worth. <-------locking door/ locking gate= same thing? eh? well this does describe my feelings sort of.
Street
To see a street in your dream, symbolizes your life's path. The condition of the street reflects how much control you have over the direction of your life. Is there a name on the street which can offer some significance or hints to the meaning of the dream<----- the street i saw was Alona's. It was straight and had houses on either side. Meaning my goals are being reached as planned i guess. Maybe it's about my marks in school?
Boy/Man
If you are female and dream that you see or are a boy, then it indicates that you are developing the masculine aspects of character. Alternatively, it may represent your feelings about a real-life boy who is important and significant to you. You may have a crush on this boy and your waking thoughts of him has carried over into the dream world. Your motherly instincts may be taking over. If you are a woman and dream that you are in the arms of a man, suggests that you are accepting and welcoming your stronger assertive personality . It may also highlight your desires to be in a relationship and your image of the ideal man. <------- dude
Drugs
To dream that you are in possession of or taking drugs, signifies your need for a "quick fix". You may be turning to a potentially harmful alternative as an instant escape from your problems. Ask yourself why you need the drugs. What do you hope the drugs will achieve for you? <---- i didn't want them. so i guess the 'potentially harmful alternative' is not needed. But they were there, and a girl took them, and for me, they were poured into my bag. dont know what that means.

Interpretations

Excuse my poor spelling in the other post, but i was typing quickly and.. anyways, here are the interpretations:
Dog
To see a dog in your dream, symbolizes intuition, loyalty, generosity, protection, and fidelity. The dream suggests that your strong values and good intentions will enable you to go forward in the world and bring you success. Alternatively, it indicates a skill that you have ignored or forgotten. If the dog is vicious and/or growling, then it signifies some inner conflict within yourself. It may indicate betrayal and untrustworthiness. If the dog is barking ferociously, then it represents your habit of unnecessary barking at people and the situations around you. It could also mean unfriendly companions. <------- what?! I'm unfriendly?!
Staples
To see staples in your dream, indicates that you need to organize your life and keep things in order. Learn to sort our your feelings and express them. The dream may also be pun on the essentials and regular aspects of your life <----- the papers were helt together by a staple
Beard
To see a long beard in your dream, is representative of old age and insight, and wisdom.
Kiss
To dream of a kiss, denotes love, affection, tranquility, harmony, and contentment. If the dream ends just about you are about to kiss someone, indicates that you are unsure of how he or she really feels about you. You are looking for some sort of relationship with this person but you are not sure about how to go about achieving it. <-------- mie doesn't end but i almost kiss him so it's almost the same thing i guess. And this interpretation is true.
My own Inference:
I think the reason i resist, is because i don't want him to know i like him. If i was like (makes out), then it would show him that i really like him, but since i was resisting, it must mean that i don't want him to know
Betrayal
To dream that you have been betrayed, represents your suspicions about a particular person, relationship or situation.
To dream that someone has betrayed you, indicates self-pity. You are feeling sorry for yourself. <---i am quite suspicious
Camera
To see a camera in your dream, signifies your desires to cling on and/or live in the past. Alternatively, it may represent you need to focus on a particular situation. Perhaps you need to get a clearer picture or idea. <----------i DO need to get a clearer picture. wow these interpretations explain my life.
Gate
To see or pass through a gate in your dream, suggests that you are walking through a new phase of life. It also represents new opportunities and possibilities.
To see a closed gate in your dream, signifies your inability to overcome current difficulties. If you are unable to open the gate, then it indicates that your hard work will be seen as unsatisfactory. It may also mean that you are not ready or not prepared to move on to the next step <-------- i saw OTHERS walk through a gate, what does that mean?! and i closed the gate myself... and when it was closing and that little kid was on it, i was able to slow it down from closing by holding it back until the kid left, so what does THAT mean? Sigh.

The Strangest Dream I Have Ever Had

first of all, my dream starts with some school kids which everyone hates because they do all these bad thing sand shtuffs.... and i dont really remember what happens, but i rememebr that, to prove to everyone that they are good kids, they draw with WASHABLE (lol) chalk on the school signifying where each entrance leads and stuff. on 1 wall, this little kid artist draws this really beautiful mural and underneath he draws some kids ona a rollercoaster. i look up at that and im like mesmarized by it all and all of a sudden the drawn roller coaster with the kids rides off into the sky and im like >: O and then some guys behind me are like "why are you moving your head so weird? (cuz i was following the seats with my head and no one else saw the seats move except me)
then all of a sudden
I'm in my house, sitting behind my bar beside Igor (which looked a lot like ryan gosling) and he's looking through some of my paperwork and then he notes "why didn't you write that Alona and daniela are your best friends on here?" and I'm like "woah, i didn't?" and i get all puzzled because i REMEMBERED writing it there and stuff. Then he's leaving to go somewhere and he says something to me (forgot what ti was) and i say something back (like a joke kind of.. i don't remember) and he's turns around and grabs me and puts me onto the floor and i didn't expect that and i don't know what to do.. so I'm like 'woah your arms are so (forgot what i said) and he ignores that (and he has a beard for some reason) and I'm like holding onto his bear/ face from both sides and I'm like "your beard is so long" and then he says something and he tries to kiss me or.. i don't know what he was trying to do, but i resist him and try too push him back and i feel his beard on my lips and nothing else. then he leaves in a huff and he's like "I'm going to do that for 3 more days, and you better not resist"
something of that sort
and I'm like ::::
and then i get all mad at myself cuz I'm like WTF HE WAS TRYING TO KISS ME AND I WAS COMMENTING ON HIS BEARD?!?!?
and then my family is leaving to go to some restaurant (and all of a sudden my house is a mansion) and my mom's like "you have to watch your brother and these other little kids" and I'm like 'ugh fine' but then i think 'nows my chance! my parents are leaving and i can be alone with igor (and i picture him beside his computer and me asking him all these questions and talking to him) and then I'm waiting for everyone to leave the house so i can lock our gate (lol) and igor's leaving too, and he has a camera in his hands so I'm like "WTF! he's their camera man? what shit luck" and so everyone leave, and I'm closing the gate and some kid's playing on it and I'm like "GET OFF" not because I'm angry, but because the gate is automatic and i don't want the kid to get smushed
and then i got back inside and i got to my attic and I'm all pissed and shtuff. then it shows the bottom floor and, some little girl (around 1 years old) opens the door and leaves with some little boy out into the snow and some dog that was in my house is all barking to try to warn me that they left, but i don't hear it, so the dog just goes after them.
so yeah, I'm in the attic
and i look to my left and there's this street and that guy that was sitting beside me in Russian last week is walking towards me and these other girls that were in my attic
so he's walking around with a backpack and this girls like I KNOW WHATS IN THAT BACKPACK! and he opens it and there's like 10 pounds of crack in there and he's like who wants it! and everyone except this girl's like "ew no" so he gives it to that girl and he goes over to me and pours some crack into this plastic bag that i was holding and I'm like WTF NO STOP. he only poured the crack for like a seconds, but i had like 3 pounds of crack already. so I'm like 'wtf do i do with it' and he's explaining to that girl that wanted the crack how to sniff it lmaoo and then this one girls like 'do you love anybody?" and hes like 'yeah i even made a song about them " (lmaoo) and she's like "sing it" and he hesitates for a while and then he sings some song about crack and leaves
and i roll my eyes and I'm like 'he doesn't love crack, i know who he loves" and i means that is in 'he loves me, I'm 100% sure of it' even though that dude doesn't even like me in real life.. we hardly spoke.. ANYWAYS and then this girl comes up to me and I'm like 'can you babysit those kids for me that are downstairs?" and shes like "only if you give me half your earnings " and I'm like 'sure w/e' and she gets all happy and goes to babysit

and that's it.

Pip pip,

-Julia

P.S.
Damn tennis boy and his face.

12/5/08

You know what I want to do?

I want to wear the funkiest, craziest clothes (think David Bowie, during the Stardust period) out in public. Just to see what would happen. I always wear normal classic clothes and people like David Bowie and Marilyn Manson amaze me at how they just went out wearing the craziest things everyday. I doubt I could keep it up everyday; but just one day.. it would be quite an experience.
Love,
allie
xoxo

12/2/08

Holiday- Ho! (The good kind)

It's the holiday month and im in the mood for some presents!
Damn 23-day wait!
Why can't time pass by quickly when we want it to, and then pass by slowly when we dont?
Bu you know what i've noticed? Bfore the holidays, i'm all excited and whatnot, but after Christmas and New Years have passed, i get sick of the 'holiday cheer'.
The damn christmas songs they play over and over and over and over again in the stores really get to me at the end of the month.
SPEAKING OF NEW YEARS:
Wait, what was it?
oh yes, My new year's resolution (which i have started doing early... i.e i started it already this month) is to be more outgoing/ less shy! It has bothered me for over 7/8 years how shy i was. Now Alona and I are trying to be more outgoing and AWESOME (which we don't have to try hard to be, seeing as we are really really cool already ;) )
Yeah. Also, i want to buy my parents some sort of gift and give it to them and they'll be super duper happy! W00t.
I want to get them some sort of pretty... thing and engrave their names into it, and get my brother some sort of toy car or something.
By the WAY!
I was bloody pissed yesterday because i got an 83 % on my english essay. Ughle. And that's supposed ot be a "Good Mark" for my class.
Well tough tittes, class! I want a 90 and that's what i'll get.
I don't know what the teacher wants? does she want simplicity? Does she want detail?? She wants both mixed into a very nice english word soup.
This conversation is makig me hungry.
AND to top it all off, that essay took me approx. 5 days to write.. In class. So about 6.5 hours to write...
So guess what. We got another assignment to do an essay, and this one i finished in an hour and edited for another hour or so.
How ironic is that? yeah... not really. I agree.
Anyhow, this might sound random (but this is a blog of random stuff after all), but there is something missing from my house. That thing is: SUPER SOFT QUILTED TOILET PAPER!!!
I mean, my uilted toilet paper is FINE, but who could resist the plushy feeling of charmin ultra soft? mmmmmm. Seriously, that stuff is awesome.
Yes, anyways, it is about time i went to bed, so i hope yous here have enjoyed my post :)

Bon nuit,

-Julia

P.S.
Charmin ultra, less is more ☻

Peeing in fancy places and cart stealing.

Ha,
I just thought of really random funny stories of things that have happened to me so I thought I'd share them, since everyone deserves a good laugh sometimes (even if it is at my expense)...unless your a short-arse. Anyways, first story. I just noticed that I've been to a lot of realy memorable places; The Beverly Wilshire Hotel in L.A, Atlantis, and Holt Renfrew (not so much memorable, but fucking expensive shop!) and the one thing that all these places have in common is not that I've shopped or stayed there, but that I had pissed there. lmao. I just thought that's so weird. Of course, not all pissing experiences were pleasant, when I was in Atlantis, I had dropped my sunglasses into the loo; which was definetly a bummer. It was twice as bum-ness after I found out I had to keep wearing them for the rest of the day since we couldn't board the cruiseship again until later. Ha Okay. Now time for an actually funny story. I was shopping with me mum at Winners (shut up; I am a cheap-arse and so is my mum lol) and we just stepped into the store and we were looking for a shopping trolley but we couldn't find any; it appeared that all of them were taken so we just held things in our hands. After holding like 40 items for about half an hour, our arms obviously got tired; so I started looking vigourously for a trolley! On my Indiana Jones-esque search, I spotted a trolley!!! Hurrah!! Success! Uh-uh-uh! Not so fast! There were things in there; so I had waited around a bit and no one was coming back for the trolley. So with my arms aching, and a trolley RIGHT THERE, I quickly put my stuff inside and threw the trolley clothes away underneath a kiosk. I swiftly walked away, making my 'I'm innocent!' face as distinct as possible. Right before I made a get-away, two women walk behind me. :| Suspense!! I start thinking, Holy arse, what if they know I took their cart?? And then one of them says "Where is our cart?!" and I'm standing there, not facing them, face frozen, just totally petrified. They looked quite tough and mean!! The other woman replies " I don't know! But look, all our stuff is here!" and now they both totally sound angry. I thought they'd figure out it was me; but they were quite thick. I mean, the clues are all there. I had a cart; which I previously did not. All their clothes were on the floor, and I just happened to be leaving that area. BUT. luck was on my side and they didn't notice but my mum did and the minute they left I started laughing so hard, first out of the irony of the whole situation and secondly because I didn't want to start crying from being so freaked out! I thought they'd kick my arse or something. LOL.
Hokay,
so that's my stories.
More later
Love,
allie
xoxoxo

12/1/08

Ho-Ho-Ho!:)

Happy holidays (okay, so not yet...but we're getting close!)
I guess I'm just getting excited. I love the holiday season; it's what makes winter actually bearable in this part of the country. Apart from all the snow, I have winter break in precisely 3 weeks which means all the more reason to spike the eggnog early. Luckily, the school load has lightened up a bit and I am smoothly cruising through the homework. Unfortunatley, I have exams just as soon as i come back. Right now, I'm just enjoying this little break. I'm listening to The Puppini Sisters right now. This type of music is so enjoyable, it reminds me of the 40's and the Andrew Sisters, which reminds me of my grandpa because he loves them. Also, this music is great for the holidays and for just easy listening.
aNwyays,
enough advertising for them lol.
time to go to bed!
Love,
allie
xoxooxoxoxoxox
MWA <3

11/24/08

Confused and Disoriented

Fellow humans,
i am finally blogging here again (after a long, lazy hiatus), and i must say, i do miss writing about my life.
Anyhow, like the title says, I'm confused. Tennis boy (this guy who's my tennis instructor's son.. who shall be unnamed) is a cute guy... he's funny (i guess, maybe I'm just infatuated) and he's easy to talk to. Seems like an easy target (especially if you're someone like me) right? right?
Wrong.
He's intimidating (even ask Alona) and when i tried to say something that was on my mind, he seemed so uninterested that i felt this great shame and depression all over me. Faggot. Thinks he's better than me because he's older? Well i think NOT!
(even though i say these things, in his presence i become all jelloid)
Also, just to comment on a blog Alona wrote a few blogs down... that blog has this one sentence: "To be mature, you need to really grow a pair; learn how to forget and forgive, hold your emotions in a bit. "
Grow a pair of what? Breasts?! Is this an indirect insult about my breasts? (they aren't that big, one might say)
ANYWAYS. Back to ranting about the unnamed tennis boy (he sounds like a mystical creature heehee).
So now I'm confused about what to do. Do i like him and have my confidence crushed with his cold shoulder-ness? Or do i give up and still secretly like him but never admit to it and hate his guts?
If i do hate his guts, what will that change? i still won't be able to talk to him and i might come across as bitchy.
Sigh.
What a tough thing life/love is.

On a totally different note,
THE BREAKFAST CLUB RULES!
Gasp. I watched that movie last Friday in school and we only watched half. I didn't want to wait until Monday to finish watching so i watched the rest at home and i was all love sick the rest of the day. I ♥ John bender. He's so fug but his character has something about him that makes him so irresistible (and Judd Nelson, who plays him, is SUCH an incredible actor).
I can't figure it out. John is a druggie kind of.. he isn't smart, he acts like a tough guy... but what he says is so witty and smart in itself, and he's actually a really nice guy deep inside that it's awesome.
:):):)
mmmmmmmm.
men.
I ♥ Paul Walker. I only found out about him from Pleasantville (which i watched with Alona recently.. damn good movie). MM. Blue eyes, prominent jaw.. all he needs is an English accent and we're all set!
If you go on to my facebook, you'll see that 90% of my groups are about, or have something to do with men.
Well at least my parents will never have to wonder is I'm a lesbian or not :)

Also, commenting on Alona's Sophisticated Black Men post. Mm. Black men with blue eyes and British accents and great style = thumbs up!
On another note:
Chef is creepy shit.
Hospitality class= dreaded class because chef's a creeper.
I was avoiding chef one time and he's like to Anastassia "I think she's in a bad mood" and when he leaves I'm like to these girls and Anastassia "I'm not, he just creeps me out"
&c.
but then Anastassia announces that she thinks he might have heard me because she saw him and the other (woman) chef talking and looking at me funny.
So i felt kind of guilty but it still didn't chase away my great fear of him.
Then today, we were watching some documentary about salads (don't ask) and he sits right beside Anastassia and myself (and i was planning to talk to her while he wasn't looking too, but that wasn't possible because he was RIGHT THERE!!).
So guess what? he looked over at Anastassia and me 7 TIMES! 7!!!
:
I need to switch classes.
And when you want to ask him a question he stands so close to you that you can feel his breath on your breasts (he's short lol)
ANYWAYS!
Something happy, something happy....
I have a dance recital some time in December (close to Christmas).
And also: CHRISTMAS!
CAN'T WAIT! Same with new year! Me and my brother are getting a Wii (yeah betch). I'm so happy, and my brother has been wishing for a year from Santa clause all year so he will be bloody ecstatic :)
I can't wait to see his reaction!

Anyways, i have to go to bed now... school tomorrow.

Adios,

Julia

P.S.
Don't you, forget about me (8) Don't Don't Don't Don't!

11/23/08

Quick Update:)

Hola,
sorry for the urgency in my "typing voice" lol. Life has been so hectic right now. I have 3 tests, just tomorrow and a huge assignment due Tuesday and I also have to present a monologue tomorow in shakespearean language to a class full of guys who really don't want to be there. phew. At least after this week will be over, maybe things will ease up... NOT. I have ANOTHER huge civics assignment due Dec 8th that's worth 15% of my mark. Lovely days. I just hope the weather gets nice soon; good holiday cheer will keep me going until I crash and burn before winter break lol. Can't wait for winter break.
Alright,
break over; gotta get back to work lol
Love,
allie
xoxo

11/19/08

I LOVE BLACK SOPHISTICATED MEN

lmao Sorry for the random title; but I just had to say this. Lol. Ever since my mom and I (i was 11) were watching t.v. and Taye Diggs was on it and she had just randomly commented how cute he was, I started a whole new type of men I liked that I never liked before. Denzel Washington, Jesse Williams and a really hot guy I saw @ the airport was just the begginging. Then there was Matt <3<3>
Lol.
This sounds strange now,
But whatever; I just had to say it.
Love,
allie
xoxo

HOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hey,
new blog; new feeling.
It seems like everytime I write a new blog, I feel a different way. I suppose that's good,, it means these blogs act as a cathartic psychiatrist who's time never runs out. Anyhoodilahoo, unto this new emotion. I believe it's called...contentness. Yes! Me? The one who always finds SOMETHING to complain about?? Content??? Why, yes sir, I do believe so. Trust me, I will never stop being a perfectionist but I'm happy with myself now. Of course, there are a lot of things I'd change; my teachers, stuff about my body, my age, and so on and so on. But generally,
I'm good. I'm over my stupid Fanny crush (as hot as he is, he's an absolute weirdo) and I'm happy with school. I'm making an effort and even though some days it's hard to get out of bed, I'm trying my best. I think I've really grown up. I thought I was mature before but I really wasn't. To be mature, you need to really grow a pair; learn how to forget and forgive, hold your emotions in a bit. Control is key. Ok, I'm done preaching. I feel that now I can do so much more because I see the bigger picture; and it's a giant portrait of opportunity. I never thought five years ago that medicine would be the direction that I would pursue. I always thought music and acting and all that stuff but the older I grow, the more superficiality I observe in those areas. If music was the same as how it was 30 years ago, without a doubt, that would be the way I'd go but thanks to the poison of untalented "celebrities"; I've dutifully changed my mind. I only now wonder how much more change and growth will occur in the next 5 years of my life.
School has been keeping me busy quite a lot. I definetly think I have a hard semester. Philosophy, Civics, Music, and English are not easy subjects (well music is but when your teacher is an arse-face, it's not exactly a walk in the park and I have to fight for even the most mediocre grade). The rest of the subjects have a lot of THOUGHT that need to be put into the work. It's not like Science and Math (which are both my favourite subjects) where you need to memorise things and practice them. I'm a very logical person and I do not learn through thinking, I learn through memorisation and practice. This is why I'm very excited for next semester. I have Singing (hoping to change it though), Math, French (a big french party with all my friends in that class), and Science.
Well,  I got to go,
post more soon.
Love,
allie
xoxoxo

11/4/08

Life...

Last time I blogged, I wrote about how life is going great and all. Wwell it's a bit different now. I'm probably either just PMS'ing or just pissed off but it seems like everything that I had under control has changed. I've become so used to the mentality of being perfect at everything. I am getting good marks but in classes that don't really matter. The real class that matters is my Grade 11 Philosophy class and I just got my essay back from that class and i got a 73%. That really upset me. This counts towards university since university will see these marks. UGhh. I was so scared that I would regret my courses and I regret every single one now. Honestly, I just feel like I messed up a really important thing and it's really upsetting to me.  I hate Philosophy. I am a logical person and I can't explain to a fucking teacher why animals don't think or talk. IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN. YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH SCIENCE. Ugh. I wish I just had science and math all year long. Other than my philosophy problem, I have civics starting Thursday with the exact same dumbarse teacher. I hate this semester so much; I can't wait until it's over. I'm scared of making the same mistakes next semester though.
Anyways,
I also feel really bad because I skipped class today which was a really stupid thing to do and now I feel guilty. I hate feeling like I've desrespected or let people down. Ughh. I don't want to be a perfectionist anymore. You can't be happy when you're a perfectionist because nothing is ever perfect! I'm so sick of guys. Ughhh. lol. I know I always used to be boy crazy but honestly, I just need a break now. I don't want to fight with friends over stupid things like guys and I don't want to waste my time. I'm too young to waste my time on it anyways.
I just want to feel better; this hasn't been the best week for me. 
I also have a ton of work and I feel like there isn't enough time in the day for me to get stuff done.
Well, I'm going to go and try to get through the pile of stuff I need to do.
Hopefully I'll feel better next time I blog
Love,
allie
xoxo

10/15/08

Heylo

Hi everybody.
I am sitting at the computer (almost wrote ON the computer) and watching TV.
Hah "Whats on your shirt?'
"coffee and breast milk"
"did starbucks merge with hooters? hoorbucks?"
HAH hoorbucks.
BTW. Matt rocks. You know who else rocks? Clive Owen and Henry Cavill & David Gandy.
AND
Henry and Matt are both under the age of 30, so that's a big change for me!
I am really lazy now and i don't even want to write a blog, but alona says that if i don't she'll rape me or something like that.
I recently watched Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and it it VAIR bien! Very interesting. Desperate House Wives was showing on TV, and i even missed a part because i was watching the movie. I NEVER miss DHW.
OH! OH!
I can't wait for Halloween! I'm going to go trick or treating as Noel Fielding (http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i130/animatedpixie/russel_brand_and_noel_fielding.jpg) (the guy on the right). Alona will be the guy on the left. Surprisingly enough, neither of them is gay.
There is a bit of a dilemma because we don't know whose house the Halloween party should be at. Alona was going to make it at her house and all of a sudden Emma makes one at her house too and now we are all confused and disoriented.
Now, you might be wondering what I'm doing (i doubt you are). I am listening to Freddie Mercury. I'm listening to money can't buy happiness. It's quite good. I've never heard it before. I also like England by Justin Hawkins & The sophisticated song by Hugh Laurie. FUNNY STUFF

ANYWAYS I'm off (my head! Whatever that means)

Adieu,

-Julia

P.S.
When you look at me and you start to flirt, i have to wipe the dribble off my shirt (8)
When you ask me what's on my mind all i can say is phhlehhhh :)

9/25/08

bonjourno.

Hullo!!
It is I, Alona! The one and only (well there IS other people named Alona on earth but they're obviously not as awesome). I am luurving life ( and someone, well actually sometwo..) and I really couldn't be happier (well I could). School is awesome and I actually like coming everyday and learning and being with my friends. I've pretty much forgotten what it was like to enjoy school and it feels great to be able to experience that now. HA! Ok. New Crush..New name!! FANNY!!! Why do we always give our crushes names? IT all started with..Bob Jr. I liked a different guy and so we called him BOB (thats the original crush name!) and then came a new guy and then he became bob jr! AH. lol. it's weird seeing bob jr. at school. It is hilarious though because he has no idea that for like 4 years, random girls he doesn't know called him Bob Jr. ANYWAYS, so, new crush. His name is FANNY. Derived, not from the female body part, but from FAN FAWKINS. because he reminds me of  my first love, Dan Hawkins, thus he is FAKE DAN HAWKINS. If that is abbreviated, it becomes FAN FAWKINS, FAN= FANNY. Anwyays, so today during last period, sophie and Julia saw him in the library so they thought it would be a genius idea to take pictures of him.
lmaol.
STALKERS (for me).
lmao
i can't say i didn't appreciate their braviousity but even I would do such a thing. (yes, i would). lmao
makes no sense but WHATEVA. its not as though i ever make sense.
I am in LURRVEE.
and 
i am also getting a cold.
which sucks ARSE!!!!
well not realy, because that would smell gross.
So. i am feverish with love and germs and so this is the result.
SO
TOODLE-OO
BTW,
julia,
the new episode of PROJECT RUNWAY is on youtube and i think you'll be particularly happy with who got auf wiedhersein'ed.!!!
lurveee,
allie
xoxoxooxoxoxoox

9/21/08

Time To Get Frikskay!

The title seems like i'm having (or going to have) so much fun, but i am not. I am talking to Daniela and Schafag on msn and doing absolutely NOTHINGGGGG! I updated my iPod and now have 204 songs (yeah baby!)(It's sad and very little, but i don't have any songs to download just yet anyways). I was trying to convert the videos with Matt in them to put them on to my iPod, but every program i downloaded either cut the video in half or put this tag over-top of it saying www.________.com or w/e. It sucked arse, so i gave up. And then i went to eat ice cream. FECK MAN. I ate so much junk crap today. Pop Tart, Chocolate, Ice Cream. I need to have tennis every day of the week in order to stay the same weight.
GASPĂ©! I watched Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day yesterday, and, Best Movie Ever! One of my favorites, along with Atonement and Birdcage ♥ I also really like Titanic but, the main actors in it were too cheesy so i don't put that on my list.
I actually used to really ♥ Leonardo DiCaprio, but now his face got all.. bigger and he bacame uglier. Oh Oh! Him and Kate Winslet are starring in a new movie together! Blooming Hell! It's called Revolutionary Road (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959337/). I would like to see it, just to see if they will get more famous because of it, or if everyone will say "They should have stopped at Titanic" as they exit the theatre.
Speaking of movies, I really want to see The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. It's coming out Dec. 25 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421715/). Seriously, the plot is so damn good and i want to read the book too. I always say the best movies are based on books (i also say the best dresses are made with pockets. This is true, i have witnessed it many-a times).
Bloody hell, it's still only 9:00?! It seems like it's 11 (probably because i'm bored and time passes slower when you're bored.)
Oh, nevermind, i just remembered i have to go wash my hair, so i must go now!

Pip, pip,

-Julia

P.S.
If you have time (find some!) watch Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day (Amy Adams is adorable in it!)

9/20/08

HOMGSH. ITS... DANIELA. yes that's right, not alona, not julia, its daniela, for once. But u probably would've guessed that it was me when you saw the first word of the blog because it's PURPLE and because.. you never really see alona or julia writing HOMGSH. Anyways, time to update whoever reads this about my life. Nothing that different , I think. Still the same stuffs with Andrew I guess you could say, we still talk and were still in lurve. Ummm, school sucks, as always. I have 1) English, 2) Math, 3) Music, 4) Cosmetology&Aesthetics . I have a really easy semester, but thats the thing, its so easy that it's boring. In english we do like absolutely nothing, so i prettymuch fall asleep every english class, partly because i'm already have asleep in the morning, partly because its extremely boring. Math is hell, because i hate math and i don't get it and its stupid and yea.. im probably getting a math tutor very soon. Music is retarded because the teacher sucks, but i least i have alona and biat in the class to get hyper with me, so thats fun. Cosmo is just dreadful prettymuch.. It's very boring, but who knows, it might get funner once we start learning about makeup and nails and stuff. Right now we're just learning about shampooing and conditioning hair.. that's why its so boring. So, life is quite facking boring at the moment.. not much excitement. I bought a really purty trenchcoat at the mall today, anddd yeah lol. I'll post a blog again soon when i actually have something interesting to say. Tooodles. xo Daniela