Adele for life!! Personal Post 8

I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, "
Yeah

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
We were born and raised
In a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."
Yeah

Nothing compares
No worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes
They are memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."
Yeah




This is one of my all time favourite songs. Adele is amazing, she's definitely got talent. This song really speaks to me, it's just so relatable, because in reality sometimes it last in love but sometimes it hurts instead! I'm trying to be more optimistic with situations because happiness is really the most important thing in life. If you can't enjoy life, what's even the point? I mean, of course every day can't be full of smiles but why not try to get as close to that as possible. I'm the kind of person that takes things way too personally. Everything hurts my feelings, it's time to toughen up a bit for sure, especially now that i'm going in the real world. Life's all about taking paths with an unknown destination. Even if the outcome isn't necessarily positive, you'll get stronger. When one door closes, another one opens. Soooo true! You can't dwell on the hurt in the past, you've got to move on in order to find happiness. Sometimes you just need a day or so to just feel bad for yourself, but when it becomes a life style it will get harder to enjoy yourself. Live for today, not for yesterday.

Stressed. Personal Post 7

My head's about to explode any second. I need a break from reality ASAP. I feel so overwhelmed with life and I feel like i just can't catch a break. With school, relationships, family, emotions etc. life is just getting me down lately. Exams are freaking me out like they always do and of course there's a huge year end project for every class which isn't helping anything either. I just want to curl up in a ball and hibernate  until everything's good again. There's just too much on my mind that I can't even deal with it anymore. That procrastination is really creeping up on me! When things just keep building up and building up it just gets to the point where you feel unable to do anything about it. Ughhhhhh I just want this year to be over!

Reading Reflection 5

Book : The Help

This book continues to get better as I keep going! So far i've read about all the characters but now i'm getting in to the part where Ms. Hilly is trying to get Ms. Skeeter to post an article about a sanitation system  (i.e - Get "the help"their proper bathrooms) for "safety purposes. According to Hilly, black people carry diseases is their urine that white people don't have the immune systems to battle. Ugh! I felt mad when I read that. I know it's just a book but I know stupid things like that were presented when the world was full of racism. I just hate Ms. Hilly. Anyways, Skeeter got a job to work for the local paper on giving advice for  a housekeeping column.  She took this job because in order to get anywhere a publisher from New York, Elaine Stein, told Skeeter she had to have experience. Well, Ms. Skeeter doesn't know a whole lot about cleaning and cooking! So she asked Elizabeth if she could go to Aibileen for help. Elizabeth wasn't exactly keen on this but let her anyways. Ms. Skeeter's personality is so kind and different. It makes me glad that back in the day there were some white people who realized skin colour means nothing. I'm grateful that Ms. Skeeter isn't afraid of Ms. Hilly too. Skeeter's interested in writing a book about the perspective from the help. She wants the world to see what it's like to be them. She's trying to get an interview with Aibileen, but Aibileen is hesitant. I don't feel like if I lived in those days that I would be racist, but I guess I couldn't say that, seeing as kids grew up doing what they were told. Which was that white people were smarter, cleaner, healthier and just better than black people. I don't even comprehend this. If you encounter a homeless black person what's the difference than encountering a homeless white person? There is none! And for Ms. Hilly to say black people carry diseases that white people can't fight? No... that's not how it works. This book really gets me thinking about how it would have been growing up in a society full of discrimination.

Reading Reflection 4

Book : The Help

Okay so I still have to finally get caught up on all these assignments... only like 16 days left of school or something like that. So, not too long ago I started reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett who is so far a great writer in my opinion. I saw the movie "The Help" months ago and loved it! So my mom got me the book for christmas and i finally decided to read it. In the beginning it talks about a black maid (the setting is in the 1960's) by the name of Aibileen who has cleaned, cooked and raised children for a majority of her life. Evidently coloured people didn't have the same rights as Caucasians until the late 1900's. It just makes me mad knowing people were treated according to skin colour. How pathetic. I just hate that history was like that, I mean I guess i'm glad it's changed since then but we still have racism around us. Anyways, Aibileen is the maid for a woman named Elizabeth Leefolt. "Ms. Leefolt" (what Aibileen calls her) is married with one daughter name Mae Mobley. Elizabeth is always trying to be good enough for everyone, especially her best friend, Ms. Hilly Holbrook. Let me tell you already, I hate Hilly. She's a straight up bitch. Hilly is Ms. Perfect and has no hesitation letting people know it either. Ms. Hilly's mother, Ms. Walters is kind of a nut job. Ms. Walter's maid is Minny Jackson, Aibileen's best friend. I love Minny's character, she's opinionated and has an attitude but underneath it all she's got a good heart. Elizabeth's and Hilly's best friend from high school, Ms. Skeeter, is looking to be a writer. She's insulted by the way black people are treated and wants to write a book about it. Only one problem, it's highly illegal. And what maid is gonna risk their lives to help out a selfish little white girl? This book is so great and it's written in a way that the characters voices are imagined. I can't stop reading.

I'll keep you posted!

Writing Reflection 6

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Writing Reflection 5

After we had completed writing about our moment, we were taught how to colour code it. I though this assignment was handy and useful because it showed me how detailed my story really was. We had to coulor code for every different kind of sense, ie, taste, touch, smell, see and hear. Colour coding made me recognize that I was lacking in several areas, and I should add some more detail in different categories in order to make my moment more interesting.

Writing Reflection 4

It's definitely time to catch up on these... so here we go. A couple weeks ago we had to write about a significant moment in our life. I chose to write about when I was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which was when I was 11. Writing about the moment brought back the memory of being diagnosed and all the little details about it. It reminded me of how scared I felt when the doctor told me I was going to have to deal with a non-functioning pancreas. Wait what?! What was he talking about? One of my organs that i wasn't specifically educated about, was no longer in service? No, no. I don't think so. I denied it for about 25 minutes, until I reached the Children's Hospital and the nurse on duty had no hesitation shoving a syringe into my body. Ouch, that was unexpected. It was hard coping with the shock, but I didn't mind being 100% catered to while laying in a hospital bed for four days. I enjoyed this assignment because it brought to my attention one of the largest struggles in my life that I was able to overcome. This assignment made me remember the details vividly.

MOTHERS DAY! Personal Post 6

I love my mom, and on May 13th I can let her know without the usual awkwardness. Me and my mom are a lot alike. Except i'm normal. I'm just kidding! But she can be a handfull. She's alot more opinionated than myself, which sometimes leads to confrontation, but oh well I love her for who she is. We both go through phases of being dramatic to being completely mellow. Maybe we're so much a like because i've inherited a personality disorder? I hope not. I was looking for a Coach bag to get my mom at the mall for her mother's day gift, but they were on average about 500-600$. Whoever's idea it was to open a Coach store at Polo Park clearly thought Winnipeg only consisted of brain surgeons and Paris Hilton. So I settled for a Guess purse, and she better like it!

10 ways to deal with stress Personal Post 5

10 7 WAYS TO DEAL WITH STRESS


Unless you're one of the few people able to go with the flow and always have an optemistic attitude towards all scenarios, it's likely you've encountered dealing with stress before. I'm a major procrastinator which always results with me being stressed so i'm going to share some of the ways I calm myself down when I feel like ripping my hair out.

1) Sleep! Obviously. Sleeping allows you to go to a place where you can put your problems on the back burner. No, I'm not a procrastonator.. I'm not..

2) Have a bubble bath. You can not go wrong with laying in a hot, bubbly tub, or jacuzzi preferably, and letting all the negative energy in your mind melt away.

3) Make a list. Okay, after you've figured out that the stress relief of the first two tips is only temporary due to the procrastination, a good idea is to write out what you're stressed about whether it's school, financial issues, they're out of cheese croissants at Tim Horton's, etc., and decide how you're going to solve the problem. Once it's been dealt with, cross it off.

4) Hang out with your family. Sometimes we get too caught up in our personal lives that we make no time for family. That shouldn't be the case! Your family are the only people that have no choice but to love you for the rest of your life. Appreciate them! They'll enjoy your company and you'll forget about the obstacles you'll at some point have to face.

5) Have a glass of wine, or two. Or three. Depending on the situation. If wine's not your thing feel free to substitute it for beer. Or rum and Coke. Or just rum.

6) Watch Ellen. When your brain is throbbing what's better than a few easy laughs? And who better to give you those laughs than Ellen Degeneres.

7) Talk about it. Get it out of your system! Just vent to the first person that will listen. It's okay if you start to stress out the other person, as long as you feel better.