Stolen words

I joined this blog hop yesterday& was checking out the other people who had linked up when I stumbled on this particular post on My 3 Little Birds. I read it& instantly loved it. Why? I'm not sure. All I know is it probably isn't very often I'm going to quote other bloggers (I've had a blog 8 months& this is my first time ..) but this was just too wonderful not to repost.

Think about how you felt about each other when you first met. In difficult times, remember that feeling. Remember the excitement, the waiting by the phone, the anticipation of seeing one another again. Remember that that is the same person you’re upset with, the same person who you feel has let you down. Remember why you fell in love. Remember why that love is worth nurturing and fighting for and keeping alive. Remember who you were when you fell in love, and find a way to be that person again even in times of hardship. Because you’re still that person, too.

This is what she wrote to her future sister-in-law at her shower. Guests were asked to leave marital advice& I think this is just awesome. It seriously made me smile. I think because I can see how simple it is to do& how effective it would be in the moment. I am 99% sure I'm not going to be married anytime in the near future but I think this really applies to anybody in a relationship. So to everybody reading this who's in a relationship, remember it!

Dr. Phil approves this quote.

And HalfPastWonderful. Thanks, doc!

Dear boyfriend, if you're reading this? Remember it ..especially when I'm being difficult. Just think of how much you loved me before you knew I photoshopped your head onto a trout! Or, you know, when I do something else equally weird. Just think of what you thought of me that time we climbed the mountain ..because that was so much better*.

*Someday soon, I will blog about this story for you guys to laugh about. For now, only the boyfriend is laughing over the mint.

Sorry, Oprah.

Oprah was on TV for a long time. Everyone knows her story. She was a poor kid with no shoes on (is this true? Or did my subconscious make it up?) and then she was a multi-millionaire TV host. She basically is the ideal of the American dream. I understand this& I understand that she did a lot of good with her money. Not for me, personally, but I get the concept ;) She also had a lot of siblings, which strikes me as odd because she never mentions them in the 3 or 4 episodes I've ever seen.

She bought channel 99 to turn it into her own network. Seriously, Oprah?! That was Discovery Health& I LOVED it. So I lost an entire network I loved, but did I gain anything? You betcha! I gained Anderson Cooper. He's fabulous. Seriously. I am hooked on his show. Is anyone else watching him? The 'Coops& I frequently walk the streets of NY ..just chillin' like the BFFs we are.

Obviously Just Jared was intrigued by the new girl hangin' with the 'Coop. I was explaining to Anderson how much we have in common and how that basically made him a pretty awesome guy ..since I'm pretty awesome& he's just like me! I made a lovely chart in photoshop to more easily point out just how much we are soul mates.

It's okay, guys. You might not have as much in common with Anderson but if you're nice to him, maybe he'll like you too? I mean, obviously you'll never be his favorite (I am firmly in that position) but you might be a distant second. If I get eaten by wolves or badgers or something, he will need a replacement, after all!

PS Cooper I hope you stumble on this sometime and leave a comment. Seriously. That would make my life complete. Oh, if you do find this ..please ignore my previous love of Dr. Phil as you have fully replaced him now.

PS need a midweek pick me up?
Draw a Stickman then watch him come to life! So fun.

"Pray to God..

but row for the shore."
-Dr. Phil

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I love this man. Sometimes I get frustrated because he got stupid as he needed more& more material to keep his episodes going but I still love him. I don't know why but most people seem to either hate or love him. I'm curious where most of the people who stumble across this blog land. So are you with me or against me when it comes to Dr. Phil?!

Obviously, we are love.

Where are you at now, Robin?!

He usually has some pretty decent guests .. his advice is pretty straight forward and I enjoy his general attitude of 'get over it'. I agree. It's usually not that big of a deal and if it is then work towards getting over it.

There should be nothing in your life hindering you that you aren't actively attempting to move beyond! Seriously. Rock on, Dr. Phil :) Although I'll admit I'm over Alexandra and her 15 kids with all different men. I really had faith in that family about 5 years ago when she first got preggers and they asked him for help. Seems like it didn't work. Sucks to be them .. they are HIGHLY dysfunctional.

Thank you, Tim Hortons!

Apparently, Timmy reads my blog! Today, I went to my last Occ. Hygiene lab (WOOHOO!) and then when I got home, Garret was here! So we hit up Wendys ..he is a BAD influence on me. I blame him for all my poor nutritional decisions. That is easier than owning up to it LOL! The point is, after that we went to Tim Hortons, where a magical transformation occured.

I WON A FREE COFFEE(Tea, in my situation)! Garret lost. Ner-ner-ner-ner-ner-ner .. sucks to be you, boyfriend ;)

How awesome is that?! I am considering framing this photo! Thanks, Timmy .. for both reading my blog& taking prompt action to correct the situation. I feel vindicated! Victory is mineeeeeee :)

Okay.. so aside from that, today is semi-nice out. It's sunny, there's minimal wind, there is still ice in the water though& it's still freezing. So, it's nice that I am not missing a beautiful day today by studying. Life, you could be good. Especially if you make my Friday warm and delightful, since I only have 1 class. I would like it to be warm enough for me to practice driving my motorcycle ..so please, keep your fingers crossed! Today would have been an ideal outdoor photography day, however it is still a little chilly& I am still lazy. So, instead I went to my trusty lightbox and got an indoor photo. What can I say, I'm so not a fan of being cold AT ALL.

So, overall, my day has been pretty non-exciting. I almost got hit by a red Civic in the CBU parking lot, which was fairly exhilarating. I would prefer to not have my car be in an accident, thanks a lot boy in the Civic. Then, I had to park incredibly far away from the school. That lead to walking for to get to my lab .. I ran into Barry& Marg .. I ended up being 5 minutes late for lab. Good start to the last lab ahahah after arriving, it was smooth sailing!

And now I'm home, I've eaten lunch and won a free tea .. Dr. Phil is teaching me how dysfunctional people can be (which is nice. Especially on days you're feeling particularly dysfunction yourself!) and also teaching me how excited I should be that I didn't have a baby as a teen& that I have parents who don't date 18yr olds. Thanks, Mom& Dad! You guys rock :) After my daily life lesson with the good doctor, I will be heading towards opening that file folder named 'Foodborne Test 2' and studying my evening away. I hope that it's not as painful as I am imagining it will be ..argh. Oh well, after all the sleep I got last night, I should be well rested enough for a full night of focusing& learning.

In fact, last night I got SO much sleep I missed 45 minutes of Intervention and ALL of Heavy :( What a disaster. I will be watching them as repeats sometime soon, thankfully! On that note, I'm going to devote my attention to the TV ..so I will leave you with my photo of the day. It's a shoe! A shoe for -scrubbing? Maybe .. it has very soft bristles. It's cute ..wasn't sure which photo to pick, I don't overly love the focus of it after uploading it but, lazy wins once again! I'm not re-taking it ahaha

Hope that you all have a lovely Tuesday afternoon& evening! I also hope that you are not studying for a hateful exam coming up in the near future .. and good luck if you are in the same boat as me!

Drift ice!

Ahh .. the further we get into spring, the more it seems like the world might actually warm up! Today was only slightly bitterly cold. So thumbs up for that. Why is it bitter cold? Because I live in a house surrounded by water 3 sides. The water is currently filled with the miraculous thing known as drift ice! I will include a photo perhaps ..depending on my energy level in the next 2hrs (which, yes, is how long it will take me to photoshop all my photos to include them here& publish them!). I'm hoping I'm energetic enough to at least try, because otherwise I am giving up on having energy!

So, today consisted of NOT writing foodborne ..so now I must tackle it on Wednesday morning instead. Ughh to this stupid midterm. Oh well. Hopefully tonight will have something fun occur, like curling up with the boyfriend to watch Heavy& Intervention perhaps?! My all time favorite way to spend a Monday evening!

For now, I'll content myself with watching Dr. Phil (brat-proofing your child ..my future child is going to be so perfect!) and drinking water. I might even indulge in a chocolate chip cookie! So much for the health train, although after Dr. Phil I am actually going to go do Insanity. It's just the fit test, which is nice but still killer. Hoping restarting exercise will restart my energy levels ..can't survive this drained much longer! Keep your fingers crossed, eh? Until then I'm just going to lay uselessly on the couch and think about exercise. That's close to actually doing it, right?

Okay so now it's 5.20PM. Cookies have been enjoyed, photos have NOT been taken and exercise has been done! Call me almost completely productive ..so close. If I could just get some energy to take photos, life would be so much better! Although currently I'm here in pj pants, an LA Lakers shirt and a big bottle of water that is almost empty! None of this is conducive to going for a photo. So many photos need uploading, photoshopping and posting. Blargh ..this project 365 thing is way harder than I imagined! It's also funny how I'm just leaving this unpublished and randomly updating it with how unproductive I've been. Okay, next section will include photos& also be the last!

Alright, now! Photos for today+ 2 days ago:
Starting with Saturday's photo, which is a photo of gum from work. It looks, oddly, like a photo I took a long time ago when I first got my camera. This is unique for 2 reasons:
1. I have, clearly, not improved at all ahahah
2. I rock at being productive at work!

Most excellent ..now onto yesterday. Yesterday was a photo of the flower my boyfriend got me for Valentine's Day. No, it isn't still alive .. yes, I should probably throw it away. I had, up to this point, yet to take a photo of it though. I figured I'd snap one while it was withering away slowly on top of our water cooler!

Now, onto my photo for today! My intention was to go outside and get a photo that represents spring. That, however, did not occur. Instead, I opted to just take a photo in the bathroom. Luckily for you, it's not of anyone peeing! It's of Benefit makeup ..but it's sort of pretty! I think so, at least :)

Okay, now I'm done for the day. This was perhaps the longest, most procrastinating blog post in all of history! Hope it was worth the time it took me to write it ..enjoy ladies& gentlemen :) Oh, by the way ..I'm leaving you with a post from someecards that I feel is relevant to my life at this moment:

*Taken from here

Weekend!

You know I'm on top of things when my new post for the day is coming to you before Dr. Phil has even aired!! It was a good day, especially when you consider I've only slept about 3hrs.

I spent the evening curled up with A&P .. then I went to my tutorial for air quality, where we talked about engines on drag cars and how to become millionaires. We also talked about Lake Superior. I'll be honest, I left to pee at around this point so I have no idea why, when I came back, we were on google maps looking at it. So then when that class ended, I decided to pretend I didn't have to go to classes named foodborne or occ. hygiene so that I could sit in the library and study. I did .. and boy! Did I learn a lot. Like, for instance, there are way more people at my university that speak Chinese / Mandarin / Japanese than Canadian. I also learned some more applicable things in regards to my midterm, so it was not a complete loss!

I had to write my midterm in a lab, in a little backroom. It was quaint and I would love to write all my tests like that! It actually made me happier for some reason. So then I left my test and headed out into the real world. Can I just say the real is world is COLD!! It was about -20C out there and I totally wasn't expecting it. Much colder than when I headed in to the university 5hrs earlier.

Oh hey, you'll be proud to know that I did actually go to the grocery store! I did not, however, make it to the gym due to the freezing cold upon going outside. I was intending to do p90x core workout, but now Garret is coming over with my light box :) So until then I'll be watching Toddlers& Tiaras parents on Dr. Phil and uploading my photo of the day!

That's right folks. I am SO ahead of the game today that I have already even taken my photo. It is basically like a Productivity Fairy has taken over my body and I sort of like the results! So, here is my photo. Some Russian nesting dolls that mean sooo much to my family. Jk. My brother bought them for Mom one year because he wanted them for himself. They are cute though ..I especially like the tiny little one who looks so angry she's blurry!
PS we're on day 8 folks!