On Your Mark, Get Set... Go!

Well I didn't go to school today!

Today was the Literacy Test for the grade 10 students and for any other students who did not pass it the first time. Luckily for me, I passed it the first time. English has always been one of my best subjects. Grade nine- 98% Grade ten- 77% Grade eleven- 87% and I am currently taking English this semester and am sitting at a 99%. I'm a very opinionated and descriptive person so it helps a lot when answering questions to stories or writing essays.

Anyways, I got to sleep in this morning! The Literacy Test was only occurring in the morning so I was supposed to attend my fourth and fifth period classes. However, as the time went on, I did not want to move from my bed. So I decided to stay home for the whole day. We weren't doing anything productive in my classes anyways seeing as half of the students wouldn't even be there due to the fact that their school buses come to pick them up in the morning.

So because I stayed home today, I missed Track practice as well. I don't think it would have made a difference if I was there anyways seeing as I can barely walk! My calfs and ankles are so sore, it makes it very difficult to walk properly. When coming to a standing position from sitting, I move so slowly it's ridiculous. I have never felt this way before after doing any sort of physical activity.

Even though I am unbelievably sore, Track is going good for me so far! I've been to two practices so far and I'm slowly getting back into shape! My first practice, we warmed up by running laps of the school. I ran the basement, then first floor, second floor, third floor, then back down to second floor, first floor and basement. Embarrassingly, I was the last one to finish my laps. However this did not bother me! I am in it to get back in shape and loose my tummy-chub. After running our laps, we did exercises that will help us improve on our events. Then to wrap up our practice, we ran the stairs. I do not like the stairs. The stairs are not my friend. My legs were so numb and weak by this point, that I thought I was going to fall down or up the stairs. It was brutal! But just what I needed to start me off!

My second practice involved a lot of running. We did our warm-up; a run of the school and then headed outside to the Track. Myself being opposed to cold weather, sadly had no say in this decision seeing as the whole Track team thought it was a good idea to run outside. I'm very sensitive to cold weather and can not stand it. Also my joints tend to act up in the cold weather causing myself to move slower than usual. Despite the coldness, I tried my hardest. We did our usual exercises and then began running. We ran three laps of the track and five 100 meter sprints. If this were me last year, I would have found a way to get out of it. However this year it's a different story. I must say I'm quite proud of myself for completing all of the required running. Even if it has caused me all of this pain!

Hopefully from here on, it will only get better! :)

TD Waterhouse.

This is where TVRAA is held. :)

In this meet, you must place top 8 to move on.

Early Birdie.

Another Friday.

Another weekend. A weekend of work obviously. Also a weekend of homework, but that's no surprise either. However I did give myself something to look forward to this weekend, SHOPPING!

Today, is a good Friday. Today is PAY DAY! Which means I get to go out and buy myself something! It was officially the first day of Spring this past Sunday and despite the fact that there is still snow in London, I'm going to buy myself something I need for summer. That would be a new pair of shorts.

All of my shorts from last Summer are too small for me now. So I am in desperate need of shorts so when the gorgeous weather decides to wake up from it's very long nap, I am ready for it! I had purchased a pair of denim jean shorts from American Eagle last year and they are by far my favourite pair of shorts. That is why I am going to purchase my new shorts from American Eagle as well! And I am in luck! They're having a buy one get one 50% off sale on shorts! So not only am I going to purchase a new pair of denim shorts, I think I might purchase some nice tan-brown shorts as well. Also to boot, I have about $35 left in American Eagle gift cards from Christmas! So I won't be spending all of my hard earned money.

However that is not the only reason for my trip to the mall. I am also browsing around for some heels to go with my prom dress. There are these pair of heels from Le Chateau that are perfect to me for my dress. The heel is short enough so I can easily walk in them, they look to be the same colour shade as my dress, they are peep-toe and they just look so fancy! I just love them! They are a bit pricey for me though, $80! So I am going to be smart about it. We are only in March and my prom isn't until June. They just have to go down in price by then! So that is why I will wait.

Until then, my eyes will still be open. :)

I want it!

To see the image better, view their website. :)

http://www.lechateau.com/style/browse/productDetailWithPicker_accessories.jsp?productId=270786&navAction=push&navCount=0&categoryNav=false

Going The Distance.

Here we go again, it starts on Monday!


Track and Field is what I am talking about. I've been doing Track and Field since I was in grade four. I continued it all the way to grade eight winning multiple ribbons. I have four first place, seven second place, three third place, two fourth place, one fifth place and four sixth place. I also have a bronze medal from our girls relay team. My best events that I went to regionals for every year were the 80/100 meter sprint and long jump. Those were the easy days though.


High school is much more competitive. There are people that you compete with that are the best in the province beating records every year. You're competing against the best, you're competing against athletes with personal trainers, you're competing with athletes that put most of their time training for these events. Myself however, do not have the time.


This year I have decided to join the track team to get back into shape. I feel as if I have lost most of my energy and have turned into a couch potato. My stomach is not the size it used to be, whenever I sit down my "chub" hangs over my pants and I just don't feel comfortable with myself. It's time for me to get up off of my ass and get back into shape! Of course I have tried doing daily sit-ups, but they did not turn into a daily thing. With Track and Field, I HAVE to go to practice, I HAVE to run the track, I HAVE to do circuits and this is the push I need to make myself feel comfortable about my body again.


This year I think I'm going to stay away from the running events. The last couple years my anxiety got the best of me and I would do poorly in my heat. I would get nervous about running against other athletes, my heart would be pounding out of my chest, and it was not a good feeling for me.  Also the sprints would usually take place in the morning when the coldness was unbearable! It wasn't the best thing in the world to have to strip down to a tank top and shorts in weather that was roughly two degrees. So that is why I'm going to stick with Long Jump.


However there is a negative side to this event as well. My right knee, is not in the best condition and that is my jumping leg. I've been to my doctor multiple times seeking answers as to what is wrong with it. I've gone for x-rays that show nothing and all my doctor tells me is that I should do physiotherapy. To begin with, my knee cap is swollen from an incident that I'm assuming happened in gym class. The left corner of it sticks out more than my other knee cap and my doctor told me that it will never be the same as it was. Also I have a feeling that the cartilage between my knee cap and Fibula has been worn down causing them to rub together. The medical term called Chondromalacia also known as Runner's knee. I wouldn't say that's exactly what is wrong, but it feels like it. The pain that I experience in my knee almost on a daily basis now is just aches. More or less joint aches I think. It acts up in cold weather, when it's raining and when I've been standing or walking for long periods of time. I wear a knee supporter that helps a little bit and apply a heating pad to it when I am at home, but it's just an irritating pain that I wish I could get rid of for good.


Despite my bad knee and lack of energy, I'm looking forward to getting back in shape and enduring Track and Field season 2011! :)

Everybody runs in their spikes, I run in my Pumas! :)

Breathe.

Well, Glee wasn't on tonight.


I was looking forward to watching it. It's an interesting television show to me because I'd say it has a very good story line. It always keeps me on the edge of my seat. What crazy thing will Coach Sylvester do next? How are things with Kurt and Blaine? What is going on with Rachel, Quinn and Finn? So many things I want to know! But will unfortunately not find out tonight.


On another negative side I am sick with a cold and have been for the past few days. I must say one of the worst effects from a cold is a stuffed up nose! The constant sniffling, the changing of your voice, the tingly sensitive feeling. But the worst of it I would say happens at night. The past couple nights I have been having troubles falling asleep because of this stuffed up nose. When I lie on my right side, my right nostril is stuffed and I can not breathe at all out of it. When I lie on my left side, my left nostril is stuffed and I can not breathe at all out of it. It's one of the worst feelings in my opinion, not being able to breathe. However when I lie on my back, I seem to be fine. Not the best, but at least I can still breathe out of each nostril.


Thankfully I do not have a sore throat. That would just top it all off! I haven't been getting headaches which is a bonus as well. However I did notice today while in my Entrepreneurial Studies class that when I was talking to my friend, my throat felt really dry and I got that irritating tickle that caused me to cough. It's a scary feeling for me. Sometimes when that happens I will cough and cough and cough almost having the feeling of gagging. Another feeling that is just terrifying to me. So by the looks of it I'm going to have to limit my words for the next couple of days!


Hopefully this cold will be gone very very soon so I can feel my normal self again. :)

Glee- Kurt & Blaine.

Thankfully on the last episode, Blaine sealed the deal with a kiss!

I've been wanting these two to get together for a while now. :)

Blind.

How irritating!


Well, I had to stay home from school today. First day back to school from March Break and I am at home. The positive side of this situation, I got a bonus add-on to my March Break and got to sleep in. I slept in till 11 this morning, it was quite nice I must say. The negative side of this situation, I was all caught up on my school work, and now I am behind again. Hopefully I won't be behind too much and can get caught up easily, but it's not something I look forward too.


Why did I stay home from school today? Well, last night while I was sleeping, if that's what you want to call it. To be honest, I was more or less tossing and turning every hour and could not exactly fall asleep. My left eye was burning and watering like crazy! I don't know if something was inside of it and I could not see it to get it out, or maybe it was just dry and lacking natural tears. Whatever it was it was very uncomfortable. When I would try to open my eyes, I couldn't because my left eye was so irritated that whenever I tried to open it, water would just pour out the side. This has never happened to me before and I did not know what to do.


Getting annoyed with myself, I asked my boyfriend Alex to take a look at it. He told me that it looked somewhat swollen and bloodshot. Probably from the tears pouring out and from me rubbing them away with my hand. He suggested that maybe it was an infection. But I thought it was highly doubtful. So I thought I would ask his mom if she could look at it. She thought that it could possibly be a stye, but that was not it. After taking a look, she suggested I put some eye-drop gel in it. I had never used an eye-dropper before so I did not know what it was going to feel like. I got her to drop it into my eye and it felt kind of cool. However I don't think I could have done it myself!


After getting the gel into my eye, I went back to bed. Thankfully it did help to sooth it. When going back to bed, it was 5:30 in the morning and I had to get up in the next hour for school. When my alarm went off, my eye was still slightly burning. I decided to not go to school because I did not want to sit in class with a swollen bloodshot eye that dripped water. Also I thought it would be best not to apply make-up to my eye either, which was another reason as to why I did not go. However one more dosage of the eye-dropper gel did the trick!


My eye is back to the way it's supposed to be, and I am happy for that! :)

Give Me A Break!

MARCH BREAK!


Boy was this well needed! Being about a month and a half into second semester I'm already behind on homework! So I'd say this is the perfect time to get all caught up and kick back and relax a bit.


My March Break started off at work. Saturday and Sunday both 8-3 shifts. After work on Saturday, I decided to complete my art assignment. I had been working on it for two and a half weeks and thought it was time for it to be done! After working on it for so long, I started getting bored of drawing/colouring it. Thankfully I completed it that night!

Mutation Art- Peas & Corn.

On Sunday after work, my aunt dropped off her puppy for my mom and I to babysit. Just over a week ago my aunt added a new addition to her family. A Shih-Tzu named Tucker. Seeing as he is not even one year old yet, he needed to be watched while my aunt, uncle and cousin went away for a hockey tournament. He is just the cutest little thing! We watched him Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and I didn't want to give him back!


Even after the weekend my March Break still didn't exactly start seeing as I had to work Monday and Tuesday night as well! However I was definitely kept busy during the morning! Monday morning I was out and about with my mom gathering materials for Alex's birthday. His birthday was on Wednesday and I wanted to make him a big birthday card and cupcakes.


So first my mom and I headed to Dollarama. There were SO many different scrapbook stickers, I wanted to buy them all! But I had to choose the ones that fit best with the birthday card. After Dollarama, we headed to Shoppers Drugmart so I could print off some photos.


I had ten photos that I wanted to print off for the birthday card and I had never used the machine before so I carefully read through the instructions to make sure the pictures would be perfect. As I was editing my photos on the machine, a lady walks over to me and asks me how many photos I was printing. I told her ten. She asked me how long I was going to be because she had a couple photos she wanted to print off. Basically breathing over my shoulder, she stood there and waited for me. Honestly, some people have nerve! I was there before she was, so she just has to wait her turn! I thought it was quite rude. So when I was finished with my photos, she went right to the machine. After receiving my photos and shopping around a bit, before we left the store, she wasn't even finished at the machine yet. A couple of photos? Yeah right.


After Shoppers Drugmart, we headed to No Frills so I could grab my ingredients to make the cupcakes! I was getting super excited for my creations! I love baking, and I love scrapbooking. The scrapbook birthday card turned out really good and Alex loved it. The cupcakes also turned out amazingly and looked so colourful! I made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing dipped into rainbow sprinkles with a single gummy bear in the center. Alex turned nineteen so I gave him nineteen cupcakes with nineteen candles, one in each cupcake. They couldn't have been better. I think there are four left? We basically inhaled them!

Nineteen cupcakes for nineteen years! :)

So yesterday was Alex's birthday and he said it was the best birthday yet! After waking up we decided to go to the mall. It was his birthday, yet he let me do my shopping, best boyfriend ever? I think so! So while we were at the mall, I figured I would do some prom dress browsing. I wasn't planning on buying a dress, just looking around to see what's out there. But, I ended up buying a dress! I had a dress in mind that I wanted, and this dress was similar to what I wanted, but better! It's a beige/cream coloured strapless dress just above the knees and has a design embedded into it. FOR $60! I highly doubt I would have gotten anything cheaper seeing as my price limit was $200. What a great deal!

Ignore my face, this is my prom dress! :)

So today, is our one year one month! We were supposed to go out for dinner at Pizza Hut, but we are both still so exhausted from shopping around at the mall yesterday, that we don't want to go anymore! So I don't know what we're going to do today, but even if we just relax, it's still a special day. :)


As for the rest of my March Break... Relax, Homework, Work. :)

Wake Up Spring!

It is now the second day of March!


And I want Spring NOW! Waking up to snow falling from the sky, was not exactly what I would have liked to see. I am definitely ready for Spring! I'm tired of walking in the cold. I'm tired of waiting for the bus in the cold. I'm tired of just being cold in general! I want to be able to step out the door wearing nothing but the shoes (not boots!) on my feet and a sweater to keep me content. The first day of Spring is in eighteen days, and by the time that day rolls around, Spring better be here!


I have not blogged for a while seeing as I have been doing homework, working etc etc. Like always, no time or energy. So today I finished my homework early! So why not!


I am so glad that I decided to take an art class this year. Art is one of my passions and I found that I couldn't find the time to sit down and draw to my liking. Seeing as I now have an art class, I have to do art everyday and it is a part of my homework which is awesome! So I thought I would share a couple drawings that I have created in my art class as a test and assignment.

This was my first art test. I was given a drawing to complete of two glasses, a tea cup, a kettle and some plates. Mind you it wasn't exactly a drawing to my liking but it had to be done. Four hours later and it didn't turn out too bad! I especially like the kettle and tea cup. :)

This is my cubism assignment. The photo is of three cameras, two in the front and then the back of a camera behind the two front ones. I used Pencil, Pencil Crayons, Black Sharpie, Pastels and Black Pen to create this drawing. :)

I have another drawing in process as well. The assignment was to create five examples of fruits and vegetables combined into one. For my examples I did a Strawberry and Kiwi, Watermelon and Orange, Corn and Peas, Pepper and Cucumber, Peach and Apple. Then once I created my five examples, I had to choose one and draw a photo of it growing. So I chose Peas and Corn. Basically it looks like corn on the cob, but instead of corn, peas! For my drawing I am not drawing how it is grown. Instead I have decided to make a collage of it as if you were looking into a basket of it. I'm excited to see what it's going to look like once it's complete! However I hope I don't run out of green pencil crayons!