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i have some odd thoughts when i’m lying in bed trying to sleep.

for example, i was trying to think of a business name…like say, i wanted to start my own business. for the sake of this example, let’s call it a stationary business.
i was in Guyana thinking about it, and because i had nothing else to do in that country, i thought about it for a looong time.
i wanted something that didn’t quite make sense.
and i also wanted the word ‘kiwi’ in it, cuz that’s a fun word.

So i came up with “Kiwi Punch Designs”. but instead of the ‘punch’ meaning a drink, like you would expect, i would make the logo have a fist in it… i.e a physical punch.
it still makes me laugh, cuz it seemed like such a good idea when i was lying in bed, half asleep.

anyways, here’s a poem i wrote the other night, in bed:

Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue.
…Wait isn’t violet like purple?
oh nevermind.

:D

here’s my result:

What color is your soul painted? Blue Your soul is painted the color blue, which embodies the characteristics of peace, patience, understanding, health, tranquility, protection, spiritual awareness, unity, harmony, calmness, coolness, confidence, dependability, loyalty, idealism, tackiness, and wisdom. Blue is the color of the element Water, and is symbolic of the ocean, sleep, twilight, and the sky. Click Here to Take This Quiz

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i was pretty content with blue… until i discovered that brown was one of the options.
yellow would be a good result too…
or orange
or red…

i’m excited because i’m listening to “Find a Way” by Elliot Yamin and i really like the song.

it’s exciting and makes me want to dance in the street.

..not a West Side Story kinda dance, but more like a one person, spinning in circles dance…

watching CSI tonight and one of the characters got mad at a lawyer who was able to poke holes in their case, which resulted in a killer being found ‘not guilty’ of the crime.

i thought though, how much would it suck to be the lawyer?!!
i mean, imagine that your job is to do your best defending people who you know are guilty.
i mean, what’s the best case scenerio there?
you do your job well, which means that a killer goes free… or you do a bad job which results in the killer going to jail?

i don’t envy people with that job.

…maybe i’ll become a lawyer!

haha, my train of thought when like this:
i don’t envy people with that job. …but a lawyer who doesn’t defend guilty people would be fine…maybe a prosecutor…well, court sucks….maybe a lawyer who doesn’t go to court…does that exist? …yeah, that exists… can you get through law school and training and stuff without every going to court? …hmm… if so, maybe i’ll become a lawyer!

my problem with job hunting these days is that i feel like i should be at a certain standard, but i’m really not.
like i feel like i should be qualified for a certain ‘calibre’ of job, but the reality is that i’m not qualified.
and that just sucks.
big time.

so i feel like i should go back to school.
but school doesn’t really make you ‘qualified’, it just gives you proof that you should know something…

i see a lot of jobs where my degree matches what they’re looking for, except i’m not working towards getting an Accounting designation.
so maybe i should work on getting one of those.
i don’t want to be an accountant though.
i believe that i could do it…but it’s just not desireable to me.

then there’s the french thing.
oh french…will i ever learn you?
i could go to school for french. but learning french in school only works to a certain point.
so i should move out of southern/central ontario then…

and that brings about a whole other thing.
“moving”
i want to move somewhere exciting (in Canada) but how do you move without a job? …or money….
haha, i could get money if i tried…
but the idea of moving somewhere without a job already set up, boggles my mind!
i mean, if i can’t find a job here, in a city that i live in and know about and am comfortable in, how would i get a job in an unknown place?!

….i suppose it’s all about motivation though.
if i’m alone and poor in an unknown city i’d probably be motivated to find a job and meet some people…
“probably”

alright, that’s my ramble for this week.
stay tuned for next week when i question the meaning of life…

After lunch today i decided to go to an old school Tim Hortons and start reading a new book.
it wasn’t until i got to the ‘Tim Hortons’ that i realized it was actually a ‘Bakers Dozen’.
I didn’t even know those still existed!

So, i walk in and the place is completely empty…except for one man behind the counter packaging cookies.

Their ‘menu’ board said that they had cappucino, but when i asked for it, he showed me that it was actually the cold cappucino-in-a-can stuff that u can buy at the grocery store.

I really wanted a Tim’s French Vanilla, so i was excited when
i saw a machine behind the counter that said “french vanilla” on it, and i instinctively asked, “oh! does the French Vanilla machine work?!”
ugh, and then i cringed.
why did i ask that?!

it seemed so ’stuck up’ to me…like just because the place is empty doesn’t mean that none of the machines work!
anyways, the man didn’t seem to mind at all. actually he himself was like, ‘hmm, i don’t know if it works…’
and then he pressed the button and stuff started coming out, so we both figured it worked.

note to self: when the employee is not sure if a machine works, it’d probably be a good idea not to buy/consume whatever comes out of it.

so needlesstosay, the french vanilla was pretty gross.

the atmosphere was a little strange too, because the place was obviously struggling. I kinda felt bad/guilty about sitting there reading with only one drink. …like i should support them and order a whole meal if i was going to sit there and read. i can’t remember the last time i saw an empty Tim Hortons in the middle of the day.

I felt better about my ‘does the machine work’ comment after a couple guys came in to buy coffee and one of the guys was like, “do you have coffee?”
yikes.

anyways, i just watched a few episodes of Scrubs: Season Two and they played the song ‘Tell Her This” by Del Amitri and i downloaded it a few minutes later.
it’s mello and acoustic-y.

Here’s a music quiz i took from the Tomato Diaries blog:

If your life were a soundtrack, what would the music be?

(Instructions:
1. open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod)
2. put it on shuffle
3. press play
4. for every question, type the song that’s playing
5. new question– press the next button
6. don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool)
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Opening Credits:
Everything’ll Be Alright: Joshua Radin
that’s a great way to start!

Waking Up:
The Heart of Life: John Mayer
yes! i’m doing so well! “i know it won’t all turn out the way it should, but i know the heart of life is good.”

First Day At School:
We Are Forgiven: NewWorldSon
nice groovy song.

[Aside: this ‘quiz’ is going to take me forever, cuz i’m enjoying the songs so much that i’m listening to them in their entirety instead of skipping to the next song!!!]

Falling in Love:
Make up your mind: Theory of a Deadman
I haven’t heard this song in forever! …does it fit? “i which i never met you at all”
that’s a ‘no’.

Breaking Up:
Silence Me: Jeremy Camp
Wow, i don’t even know this song.
…it doesn’t fit either.

Prom:
Just a Thought: Gnarls Barkley
I didn’t go to prom, but i’m 100% sure they didn’t play Gnarls Barkley.

Life’s Okay:
Can’t Take my Eyes off of you: Lauryn Hill
Another song to listen to in its entirety!
I suppose this fits! …whatever happened to Lauryn Hill? she’s great.

Mental Breakdown:
Naive: The Kooks
ehehe, i could totally have a mental breakdown to this song!! WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?!!

Driving:
Criminal: Fiona Apple
oh man! i’m so disappointed!!! i have so many great driving songs! why’d this one come up?!
i don’t even know this song!! …and i’m not a huge fan…

Flashback:
Who is like the Lord: Isreal and New Breed
ahahahahahaha, totally doesn’t work!

Getting Back Together:
Good Vibrations: Marky Mark
hehe, great song! i suppose it applies… it’s fun and exciting…

Wedding:
There’s Hope: India Arie
i love this song! …but not for a wedding. it’s kinda like, ‘things might be bad now, but there’s hope’ …and things are usually going well when you’re getting married…

Birth of a Child:
Shine on Us: Michael W. Smith
okay sure.

Final Battle:
Coming Home: John Legend
booo, i wanted some big epic song… full of sound…a big orchestra…
this song fits though…assuming that i loose the battle.

Death Scene:
Pastoral Sympthony, Messiah oratorio: Handel
yeah okay…a peaceful death.

Funeral Song:
I Heard it Through the Grapevine: Marvin Gaye
HAH! i like this one! great song… i could handle this at my funeral… it makes no sense, but it’s a fun song and will stop people from getting delirious with grief. haha, dancing in the aisles…

End Credits:
Gravity: John Mayer
yup, i can see the credits rolling…

mmmMMM!
two of my favourite things!!

so yes, i ended up making more of those tulip cards.
i’ve decided that i like them.

mmmm especially in brown!

i surfed a bit to check out what tulips mean and of course, they mean ‘love’, but one site said that yellow tulips mean:

“There’s sunshine in your smile”

now THAT is a nice thing to say!

Alright, so i couldn’t think of a song with ‘Tuesday’ in it.
I was going to google it, but i figured that’d be cheating.
Everytime i thought about it (and i actually thought about it a lot) that Brian McKnight song came to mind.
i’m not a fan of songs that involve counting.
…bad memories…

lol, just joking.

so today involved a lot of walking. and reading.
this morning i got breakfast at Tim Hortons and hung out there for a few hours.
when i got sick of those surroundings i went to Second Cup for another hour or so.
ahh the life of the unemployed…

i finished the book i was reading.
it’s a good book.
so good, that i’m going to write about it now.

i randomly picked it up at Goodwill a few weeks ago b/c it was in good condition and had some spectacular reviews. (Why do i pay attention to reviews? …obviously there aren’t going to be any bad ones printed on the cover!!)
One said that it was a knockout novel and Canada’s next classic.
now doesn’t that sound great?!
it has a softcover with those ‘flaps’ that you can use as bookmarks.
And the pages are different widths, which i like.
but, in less superficial terms, I really liked the writing.
it’s about a girl who lives in a Mennonite community and it’s so real and vivid that i can’t imagine that the author herself wasn’t raised a Mennonite.
it was also very smart and wity and hilariously random..and sad.

anyways, here are a couple quotes:

“It bothered me in a Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.”

“After school I went home and had a nap. When I woke up I discovered bite marks on my arm. I bit my arm, experimentally, and the patterns matched. I wondered if this was the beginning of insanity.”

“I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. He told me he could not afford one more felony. I said man, tell me about it, although I was only ten and had never heard the word felony before. It sounded like a pretty girl’s name to me.”

The book is a complicated kindness by Miriam Toews.

anyways,
with July 1st just around the corner, here’s a little card i made for a freshly American friend. (previously Canadian)

and look what i found today!

my old needle!
it’s a huge needle that works well with embroidery thread, but i lost it a few weeks ago and had switch to the smaller needle….which is why i haven’t been ’sewing’ any cards lately.
the needle miraculously appeared in my thread container this afternoon, which was a huge sigh of relief, because i totally thought that it would get stuck in someone’s foot or something.

heh, when i’m sewing i tend to stick needles all over the place.
the last card i did, i stuck the needle in my pants and then completely forgot about it for a couple hours until i accidentally pricked myself with it.
after years of ‘resting’ needles in clothes and blankets and couches, maybe this is the experience that gets me to stop doing that!
…maybe.
we’ll see.

I love this notepad:

when i get a job, i’m going to buy it. it cracks me up.
it’s available [here].

so i was watching a tv station from vancouver and this commercial played that had me rolling on the floor.
i laughed so hard i cried.

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this is what i get for taking a super long nap today.
i finally gave up, after 2 hours of trying to fall asleep, and decided that as long as i’m awake, i might as well do something productive and aimlessly surf the net.
it’s 2:45am.

…it’s a good thing i don’t have a job or anything to go to tomorrow.

i made myself a cup of Chamomile Tea, so i’m hoping i’ll get tired within the hour.

right now, i’m listening to “The Luckiest” by Ben Folds.
it’s a nice relaxing piano song.

“Next door there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep.
And his wife she stayed for a couple of days and passed away.
I’m sorry i know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
And I know that I am the luckiest.”

hey, wouldn’t it be fun to have each day’s blog title correspond with a music lyric about the day on which the blog is written?!!

i think i’d be fine with monday, friday and perhaps saturday… i dunno about the rest.
anyways, we’ll see if i think of something when those days roll around.

today was a ‘classic’ sunday.
church in the morning, then came home and took a looooong nap, then got up and bummed around the house. (read a few chapters of the book i’m currently working through, made some cards (more about that below), and surfed the net.
it feels like a sunday.

i hadn’t taken a nap in SUCH a long time! like 3 months! … it’s think because i wake up so late that i’d feel guilty about taking a nap later in the day.

i think its getting to be that time of the summer…
the time when the end of the summer is within view.
ie, the time when us jobless people become severly less ‘picky’ when it comes to potential jobs.

anyways, i decided to take a nap today to help ‘recouperate’ from our super long day at Wonderland yesterday.
10am to 10pm.
it was fun though.
i didn’t take any pictures…although there were definitely some good photo ops…
a couple weeks ago i read the book ‘The five people you meet in heaven’ in which someone dies at an amusement park. so with that story still in my mind and a horrible Drop Zone accident being repeated on the news, it was a little weird to be going on these crazy rides.
but what else is there to do at Canada’s Wonderland?
speaking of which, i thought, why isn’t there a casino at CW? (hey cool!! my initials!!)
i mean, wouldn’t that be a great way for them to rake in the money?
and i’m sure adults would hang out there while their kids galavant around the park all day…
just a thought.

anyways, i realized that i get this feeling in my stomach whenever i board one of the rides.
or, more specifically, after i board the ride and we’re slowing moving up an incline.
that’s when i start to have second thoughts like, “wait a second…this is a pretty steep incline… we’re going to have to go down… maybe i don’t want to do this..”
and of course by then it’s too late to get off or change my mind.
and then the ride ends in like 2 minutes and i forget about my doubts while we spend an hour waiting in line for the next ride.

anyways, today, after my nap i spent a few hours listening to music and making cards.

i took the tablecloth off the end of the table and set up show.
i usually watch tv while i make cards, so it was fun to just sit and listen to music. there are so many great songs i haven’t heard in a long time!
this is one of the cards from this evening:

it reminds me of something, but i can’t quite put my finger on it…
something to do with music maybe? …a radio station’s logo?

on friday i made a few cards using the pattern for the word ‘hello’ in braille:

i like that idea.
maybe i’ll do more of it.
sometime.

anyways, i’m off to return my dad’s dvds to blockbuster!

heh, just did a Hello Kitty test about how much i care about people and things around me.. my result sucks!

“About 40 percent.
Basically you don’t really like the act of caring. You must have some intention when you show your care. For example, you want others to notice you, want to get a better position at work, etc. You only care for these reason. However since your ‘care’ is usually very different from how you act normally, others can easily tell that you want something else. If you really want to achieve a better result, its best to try it on someone that you’ve just met.”

and yeah, there are some translation issues…

i went to the post office yesterday for some ’special stamps’ and they didn’t really have anything interesting… just regular flowers and stuff.
so i ‘hemmed and hawed’ about them, and eventually they opened up their ‘real’ stash, and i came out of the place with these:
Jam stamps:

and Cdn Movie Stars:

i’m tired, so instead of writing, here are some pics of some dot cards i did recently: