Friday, March 10, 2006

Walking On Sunshine

Jump 5

I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure
And I just can’t wait ‘till the day when you knock on my door
Now everytime I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
‘Cause I just can't wait ‘till you write me you're coming around

I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
And don’t it feel good!!

Hey, alright now
And don’t it feel good!!

I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that it’s true
And I just can't spend my whole life just a waiting for you
I don’t want you back for the weekend
Not back for a day
'Cause baby I just want you back and I want you to stay

I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
And don’t it feel good!!

Hey, alright now
And don’t it feel good!!
wooo,
And don’t it feel good!!
(And don't it feel good!!)

I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine

I feel alive, I feel the love, do wop, do wop
I feel alive, I feel the love, do wop, do wop

I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah wooah
And don’t it feel good!!
And don’t it feel good!!
And don't it feel good!!
And don't it feel good!!

Living life with arms wide open

NATASHA BEDINGFIELD

"Unwritten"

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Exciting week

it has been a very fun week - lots of playing, not a lot of sleeping and lots of good times. I've had the opportunity to work out at Allen all week, and its been a blast! I'm really going to miss them next week. Who knew that i'd actually like grade 2/3?? The last time i taught that age group was when i was 13. I also got my new glasses today... they're a very weird choice for me - way more funky than i was planning, but i really like them :) Not that i figure i'll be wearing them too much in public, you'll have to be extra special to see them for real. (no prob there - mel already is!)
BUT its going to be a SUPER long week - i finish off here on friday, then i have first aid/ CPR C all day sat and sunday, and a crap load of homework to catch up on for monday. EEK. guess i should stop blogging and start doing homework huh?

anyway -
lovies.
C

PS: the sheaf issue is going to the human rights commission - a little overboard?? I think so. I mean, ok - offended... but really?

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??

This is one of those "get to know me" forwards which are actually quite fun to do, but i'm too lazy to send out to everybody. So if you want to play along: Place an X by all the things you've done, or remove the x from The ones you have not, and send it to all of your friends (including me). WOW.... Just getting to know yourself. Pass this on to all Your friends and back to me, also.
This is for your entire life:

( ) Smoked a cigarette
( ) Crashed a friend's car
( ) Stolen a car
(x) Been in love
( ) Been dumped
( ) Shoplifted
(X) Been fired
( ) Been in a fist fight
(X) Snuck out of your parent's house
(x) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) Been arrested
( ) Gone on a blind date
(x) Lied to a friend
(x) Skipped school
( ) Seen someone die
(x) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
(x) Been on a plane
(X) Purposely set a part of yourself on fire?
(x) Eaten sushi
( ) Been skiing
( ) Met someone from the Internet
(x) Been at a concert
(x) Taken painkillers
(x) Love someone right now
(x) Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by
(x) Made a snow angel
(x) Had a tea party
(x) Flown a kite
(x) Built a sand castle
(x) Gone puddle jumping
(x) Jumped into a pile of leaves
(x) Gone sledding
(x) Cheated while playing a game.
(x) Been lonely
(x) Fallen asleep at work/school
( )Used a fake ID
(x) Watched the sun set
(X) Felt an earthquake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
(x) Been tickled
(x) Been robbed
(x) Been misunderstood
(x) Petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo OR jackalope
( ) Won a contest
(x) Run a red light/stop sign
( ) Been suspended from school
(X) Been in a car crash (minor)
( ) Had braces
(x) Felt like an outcast/third person
( ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) Had deja vu
(x) Danced in the moonlight
(x) Liked the way you looked
(X) Witnessed a crime
(X) Questioned your heart
(X) Been obsessed with post-it notes
(X) Squished mud through your bare feet
(x) Been lost
(X) Been on the opposite side of the country
(x) Swam in the ocean
(x) Felt like dying
(x) Cried yourself to sleep
(x) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
(x) Sang karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't-
(x) Made prank phone calls
(x) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) Danced in the rain
(x) Written a letter to Santa Claus
( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(x) Blown bubbles
(X) Made a bonfire on the beach
(x) Crashed a party
(x) Gone roller-skating
(x) Had a wish come true
(x) jumped off a bridge

1. What time is it? 8:26pm
2. What is your name? carie diane
3. Any nicknames? Care-bear or hugbug once upon a time
4. Mothers name? Diane
5. What is your favorite drink? Tea or smirnoff raspberry
6. Tattoos? none as yet
7. Body piercing? 5
8. How much do you love your job? (on a scale of 1-19) Um...about 17... i love the work... not a big fan of the pay scale...
9. Birthplace? Pietermaritzburg
10. Favorite vacation spot? BC - Sunshine Coast :) :)
11. Ever been to Africa? ummm. yes.
12. Ever steal any traffic signs? me? NO! I'm an angel!
13. A, B, C, D, DD cup size? haha... if i told you...
14. 2 Door or 4 Door? 2 - i love my Jamima... but 4 doors would def help
15. Salad dressing? Swings between 1000 island and raspberry vinegarette
16. Favorite pie? apple
17. Favorite number? 2
18. Favorite movie? wow... tough one. 10 things i hate about you? Moulin Rouge? i don't know!!!
19. Favorite holiday? may long
20. Favorite food? Cheesecake and chinese (not together)
21. Favorite day of the week? Friday
22. Favorite brand of body soap? ummm... whatever? I like the fruity smelling ones?
23. Favorite TV show? prob simpsons and CSI - i don't really watch TV much.
24. Favorite smell? rain
25. What do you do to relax? read and Sleep
26. How do you see yourself in 10 years? hopefully married with some sort of career, having traveled the world and done wildly exciting things!
27. What do you do when you are bored? surf the net, blog
28. What do you enjoy receiving? post! and surprise visits (yes- the bonfire was fun! i'll admit)
29. Furthest place you will send this message: from here? its between SA and Aus, mostly i'm just blogging it, so whoever reads it i guess.
30. Who will respond the fastest? nobody! only geeks respond! :)
31. Least likely to respond? well... as i said...
32. What time is it now? 8:36 pm

Monday, February 27, 2006

Distracted from distraction by distraction, Filled with fancies and empty of meaning

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.

...

Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.

BUIRNT NORTON
(No. 1 of 'Four Quartets')
T.S. Eliot

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Quotes of life

urg! I'm so distracted. i can't concentrate, and i'm having a hard time doing the 4 very big assignments i've put off this whole weekend, and that are due in the next 3 days.
so, i'm going to write down all the funny quotes on my whiteboard instead. They're all little snippets of the maddness that is my house!

"Tee hee"
"Andrea is GORGEOUS!"
"Tw'ass!"
"It's a perfect little triangle we have"
"karla is a killer of babies"
"indy is HUGE"
"That was VERY accidental"
"if i turn South African from this..."

later
C

"that's it... being alive. Living every moment. That's the real treasure." Philosophy from "Without a paddle"

Monday, February 20, 2006

AN AWESOME WEEK

its about time i got around to blogging! I've really had some good intentions, but i couldn't get photobucket to co-operate for the last couple of days, so short of throwing things around, i decided simply to walk away. that's right. be the bigger (wo)man.
ANYWAY - i promised a play by play with pics of my trip. This is why i love blogging. Nobody else really cares except me, and maybe you if you're reading this :) The biggest dilema for me is going to be figuring out which of my millions of pics to post here!

Tuesday was Valentines day, and being a group of single girls, we decided to celebrate in the most girly way possible - snowboarding followed by an evening of action movies with pizza and beer. I was too scared to take my daddy's camera up on the hill (good thing too... i did 2 really impressive and highly impactful (is that a word?) cartwheels (accidently) on the hill. The crazy thing is that it was like 2 degrees up in the mountains and there was not the tiniest sign of snow at Marlene's house, 5 minutes away. needless to say, there wasn't much powder, but it was AWESOME!! We even ran into Nate up on the hill - small world AGAIN! Unfortunately, we missed him somehow, so i'm just going to go back to NVan sometime i guess. Ahh, the sacrifices i'm willing to make :) This is my lift ticket - just to prove i was really there - i REALY wish i had the skill to get that sort of air, let alone co-ordinate 2 pieces of wood stuck to my feet ;) It was so weird to be going all afternoon in my shirt and spring coat - i think we should have winters like that in SK!

On wednesday i bribed Vangie to come with me to Gibsons - one of the most beautiful places in the entire world! These pics are from the ferry from Horseshoe bay. Man i could live my whole life there and be entirely happy! Isn't the snow-cover mountain touching ocean thing incredible!(yes, that's a happy expression. contrary to all popular oppinion, i am NOT stoned every time somebody takes a pic of me. that expression just happens!)
I went rather snappy happy at this point, but maybe i'll move on! These pics are of us looking over at Keats - you can see the long dock leading up the island - uggg, try running up that and then some very big hills to get to the main part of camp - makes me tired thinking about it. BEST place in the world for dock jumping at the right tide... my poor jeans went in there about 3 times! lol.
The expanse of water between where i am standing and keats is the closest place for us to come pick up groceries, etc - so we buy everything in Vancouver or Gibsons and boat it over to the island on a big barge or the "speed" boats... actually - not that speedy ;) Marlene and Corlea were nice enough to come pick us up in Horseshoe bay after Vangie and i wandered around the coastline all afternoon. They took us for supper at a sushi place - YUMMY!!!!!!!!! it was really good, but we were all feeling pretty sick. SOMEBODY neglected to tell us that we had to pay for the food that we didn't eat, adn we had a little ordering issue - ie: too much food, not enough space! But it was a really fun mean. we even had private entertainment by our own personal walruses. Very nice ones. but slightly crazy! How i miss them!!

Thursday was a nice quiet day. we hiked up to Cleaver dam, and stopped to look at the Salmon hatchery - pretty cool. Just gorgeous hiking thru the forrest. Another "i wish i had my camera here" moment. But never the less. i took mental pics. (as if that makes up for it!) The rest of the day i mostly hung out and msn'd.. Met Bradly Steyn for supper at Whitespot - ok, i take back "SMALL WORLD" - insert "TINY WORLD". its insane. We had a great time together, and i'm fully convinced that i REALLY REALLY REALLY want to go back to Keats this summer. i HAVE to figure out a way to make it work. Ugg. i wish life weren't so complicated! Marlene and i went out for coffee- which was fantastic - had a chance to catch up a little, and then hung out and chatted/watched tv/finished off Vangie's raspberry "juice". mmmm. prob explained why we both looked a little like this at 7 when we got up to catch the sea bus to surrey...
The trip home was pretty unevenful, albeit VERY long and gorgeous- like this place in Hell's Canyon. we left langley at about 10, hit Hindley at about 9:30 and stopped. It was a little bit of a sketchy motel, but at least it wasn't the saloon place next door. We ended up leaving the next morning (saturday)at about 8, to get to Ed in time for a little shopping and lunch. We were hoping ot catch up with friends, but it just didn't work out. we continued on our merry way, hitting edam at 6:15 for supper at Cindy's house. Finally home sweet home at 10.
Naturally, i wasn't home for long - went over to Indy's to watch "muskateer" with him and J. They took mean pics, but i could tell that they were happy to see me (even if it was just to torment me!) It was good to be home, even though i'd rather have stayed in Vancouver - maybe just transport people THERE... seems reasonable to me! YUCK! i hate goodbyes. but thank goodness for the ease of traveling 2000 miles in 1 day. pretty mindblowing when you compare it to the 3 yr treks of our ancestors.

Anyway - didn't get too much sleep this weekend, and i have to go to Allen early tomorrow morning so i should go get into my nice bed!

Thursday, February 16, 2006

so much for ice-skating huh?

REGINA:
-30°C
Partly cloudy. Ice crystals.
FEELS LIKE -46°C
WIND NW 30 km/h
GUSTS
RELATIVE HUMIDITY 61%
DEWPOINT -35°C
PRESSURE 104.58 kPa
VISIBILITY 8.0 km
CEILING 25000 ft


i'm sorry 'Tooners... its REALLY nice here... went for a little hike today... :)

VANCOUVER:

7°C
A few clouds
WIND W 4 km/h
GUSTS
RELATIVE HUMIDITY 22%
DEWPOINT -13°C
PRESSURE 102.67 kPa
VISIBILITY 48 km
CEILING unlimited

COOOOLD

baha... its FREEZING in Saskatoon, and only 2 here... hehe!!!!!!!! I'm loving this place. (not looking forward to rejoining the frozen waste land...)Went to the Sunshine coast today with Vangie -we had a really good day, checked out the sights and took lots of pics... i'll put them all up soon, along with the snowboarding pics from yesterday.