Questions About Life
Posted on: June 14, 2010 at 6:32 pm. 9 comments
I came across a really cool site today: Questions About Life. It’s pretty much what the title says.. You can ask questions about life, and pretty much anything that you want. It’s a free site to sign up, with 7 professional life coaches to answer all of your questions, as well as the fact that other readers can answer the questions as well. It’s pretty new, but it’s totally free to use and easy to sign it (it took me all of like.. 30 seconds, haha.) You can ask questions about life in general, questions about jobs, health, finance, parenting, relationships, personal growth, ect. So pretty much anything you can think of to ask, go for it! It’s a lot like Yahoo answers.. though hopefully people won’t ask really dumb questions, lol. There’s not too many questions answered now because it’s new, but I’ll def. be keeping it in mind whenever I have some questions that I want answered 
You wouldn’t guess it, but I am actually really shy so getting to ask whatever questions I want without people knowing it’s me.. well, that’ll be a huge help in my life 
So be sure to check out the site & sign up 
I’ve been thinking about starting another blog, but one that would be totally different from this one. One that’s about a bit more.. personal/more mature topics that I don’t generally talk about on here because I’m not sure how old some visitors are, and I don’t want to offend anyone by talking about things like sex or anything, just in case.. haha. So I might start something like that, if I get around to it
I was going to include a photo in this, but my camera isn’t connecting to my computer :S It doesn’t even show up in the ‘My Computer’ window, so I can’t manually copy the pictures. My mom doesn’t know where her card reader is either, which sucks because I need the pictures off my camera for my photography summative! Oh well, I’ll figure it out eventually.. at least I hope. I need to get my summative (and like 50 other photography projects) done by the end of this week, because the last day of school is on monday.
I only have one exam after that, and then I’m free! Then prom the following monday, and then SUMMER! I finally have all my stuff for prom, I just need to figure out how I’m going to do my hair/if I’m going to do make up (I have none at all, because I never wear any). My friend offered to do it for me, so we’ll see how that goes. I kinda wanna do SOMETHING for makeup, but I’m not sure. If you have any suggestions for cute hairstyles to do, just let me know I was thinking curls and half up/half down, but I think a lot of people will be doing that. I don’t want to just straighten it, because it’ll be really hot and end up going wavy anyways :/ Oh well, I’ll figure something out.
Now I’m just waiting for David to text me because we’re supposed to be hanging out tonight.. He was SUPPOSED to be done work half an hour ago, but chances are he’s staying late.. again. And of course, he wouldn’t text me to let me know.. so I’m left waiting. Whatever, if he doesn’t leave work by 7:30, then he doesn’t get to hang out with me as I’ll be watching The Secret Life at 8, Bachelorette at 9 and True Beauty after that. I love my Summer Monday night TV 
He’s lucky I agreed to miss it for him at all. I said I would last week, and then he worked late again so I said don’t bother, since it would have already started by the time he got here. He got all pissy at me for that though, so let’s hope he texts soon..
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New Job?
Posted on: June 10, 2010 at 11:51 pm. 7 comments
So, after all the annoying-ness of people saying I’m not motivated and will go no where in life… I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU ALL.
I got a job, doing graphic design. In a tattoo parlour like two blocks away from my house. It seems kinda.. odd. Considering I thought I wouldn’t get one, with the lack of experience. And I almost didn’t, because of my age.. but I whipped out my super awesome skills and previous designs and he messaged me later, saying that while I can’t work in the shop because I’m too young (you have to be 18, which I won’t be for a few months), he still wants me to do some projects for him from home & get paid for it. I don’t mind doing it from home though, because I was a little sketched out, thinking I’d see a lot of creeps getting tattoos and what not. (Hey, maybe now I can get discounts tho!)
So tomorrow, I have to go in and get some projects to do for him. I’m excited, and I don’t care that David thinks I was ‘bullied into doing this’ so that people wouldn’t think I was motivated. I’m doing this for me, and if you don’t believe that you can go suck it because I got a job in my field for ME, not for you. I just hope he doesn’t make any comments, or complain about anything, because it would just piss me off and I’d rather not be pissed off when I’m excited about something like this.
At least it’s some form of income over the summer, and maybe when I’m 18 I’ll actually work in the shop, because when I turn 18 I’ll be back in higschool, doing co-op and finishing school early, with a semester off to work anyways. Idk, we’ll see where it goes.
But I’m excited.
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Fledgling
Posted on: June 7, 2010 at 5:28 pm. 4 comments
Do you wanna know what I hate? (You can say no, but I’m going to tell you anyways.)
When I add new songs to iTunes, plug in my iPod, and think/expect that they synced properly. Then, when I get to english class and my teacher tells us that once again, we have a work period and that we’re to spend the period reading ‘Of Mice and Men’ (which, I haven’t even started yet.. kinda failed the test we had on friday). So, I get out my iPod wanting to listen to my newly found love, Jesse Labelle (search him on youtube, he’s awesome).
I turn on my iPod, scroll to the J section.. but I couldn’t find him. Huh? Apparently, my iPod didn’t actually sync the many new songs that I added, and was looking forward to listening to. I was quite sad, because I really wanted to listen to them :( It’s what I spent all weekend listening to. Jesse Labelle, Making April & Marianas Trench. But, I didn’t get to. Instead, I listened to the playlist that I had on there consisting of all the music I downloaded a few weeks ago, including Wakey! Wakey!, who I absolutely loveee.
But I’m listening to Jesse Labelle’s ‘Australia’ right now, and I loveee this song It's cute. Hopefully it will sync properly this time, because I have yet another work period.
As for the drama in my life, it has pretty much simmered down. After me sending a massive text (and my massive, I mean it took up about 20 full length text messages of 140 characters) to David about how I felt when he constantly said I was unmotivated when I don't feel that I am, etc... that's kinda cleared up. And by cleared up I mean, it's a topic that we're going to have vastly different opinions on that is not going to get brought up for the sake of my sanity, because I may explode from anger if he/anyone else says that again. I know I shouldn't let it affect me if I know that I am getting to where I'm going, but it still hurts that my friends & David basically think that I'm going no where in life, or think I have no plan at all.
Some of my friends are still mad at each other though, but I'm not mad at anyone, and no one's mad at me so I'm thankful for that. Now I can sit and listen to Jesse Labelle in peace without it causing some massive cat fight. Not that me listening to music causes cat fights, but.. you know.
I want to write some new tutorials for this site, but I'm not really sure what for. Icon colouring? WordPress tutorials? Basic html? Idk.. I figure most of the people who come across my blog already know how to do all of that stuff amazingly, because I've seen there sites. I might do some WordPress codes and what not though, I'm not sure. Or make some new textures.. or brushes.. or something.
Saturday, there was a huge street festival like, 5 minutes from my house. It went all down Main Street, and there were apparently 5000 people there, but I find that hard to believe. Only because I live in what used to be a small town, so I'm used to small events, but my town is now apparently the fastest growing city in the world (yeah, the world.. not just Canada).
I was there in the morning with my parents to just look around. We went home after probably less than half an hour, and they left to the trailer for the weekend yet again (my sisters & I basically have to fend for ourselves most weekends in the summer). About two hours later though, I went to the mall with Saloni, and then to the street fair. It was kinda weird, because I NEVER hang out with just Saloni. In groups, yeah.. and the odd time, just the two of us at lunch where we're sitting inside doing nothing..but never actually outside of school.
We stayed for a bit, and got food, and then ended up going home. But then at around 6:30, I went back again with David and we met up with Taylor, Andrew, Melissa & her sister. We stayed there until around 11, because at 10ish We The Bravest played. No one who reads this has probably heard of them, because one of the guys is from my town, and the rest are from surrounding towns so it's pretty local. They're really good though, so youtube them.
On June 17th, they are playing about half an hour away. With Faber Drive, and Mariana's Trench. I want to go so badly because not only is it the band my site is named after, with two other bands I love.. It’s free! I have to figure out how I’d get there and such, because David said he’d go with me.. except he works until 6, and it starts at 7, so it’d be hard to get there on time. Plus, there will be massive amount of people there.. because come on, Faber Drive, Mariana’s Trench & We The Bravest.. FOR FREE! I’m determined to go though, or else I’ll be incredibly sad because it’s something that will never ever again happen in my lifetime, and I lovee the bands. So I’m hoping that I can go!
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Less than three..
Posted on: June 3, 2010 at 6:47 pm. 9 comments
There are less than three full weeks of school before prom. 11 days of actual school left, and then exams, and then prom, and then we’re done highschool.
I’ve had the same group of friends since grade nine basically. We haven’t all always been as close, but for the last two years, the 9 of us that there are, have all been really close. We’ve went through everything together and now, the last semester of highschool, people (well, one in particular) has started hating everyone it seems. Saloni has been talking shit about Serena all semester, saying it’s not talking shit because she doesn’t like her and doesn’t consider her one of her friends. Yet, to Serena.. Saloni acts fine. Inayat complains about Serena too, but only when Saloni does.
Recently, a whole bunch of drama started with Nicole, Saloni and Inayat. I’m not going to explain it because you’d have to know all of the entire long stories and that would take too much time. Nicole was mad at Saloni and Inayat for being such bitches all the time, because apparently it WASN’T just about Serena, it was also about me, and my best friend Taylor.
Apparently, after highschool no one is going to want to talk to me. And I’m going to amount to nothing.
So we tried to get this all cleared up, so we all had a big msn conversation about it. I asked about the stuff about me, and they said they would never say that, but that Saloni DID say she said that I wasn’t motivated enough about my career, and said that she said that because she’s worried about my future.
Okay, she admitted to saying that, and said she didn’t say the others. I’ll believe you, because you’re my friend. But don’t say I’m unmotivated, when you know nothing about my future. You don’t know that I want to go into Graphic Design, or that I’ve been doing it since I was 12. You don’t know that the hours I’m on the computer isn’t spent wasting away on Facebook, it’s me making layouts and graphics and websites, things that you wouldn’t have the first clue how to do. I’m sorry if I’m not going to college straight after highschool. I’m going back for a semester to do co-op in that field, and then use the semester after that to work so I can afford college, because I have to pay for it on my own, without any help from my parents. And I would like to do so without getting loans and going into debt right out of school.
But back to the drama. Inayat was really upset that we (Me, Taylor and Fatima) thought that she would say something like that about me, and the stuff about Taylor. We DIDN’T think she would ever say something like that, which is why when I found out, I was really upset. So we tried to explain it all, but they just kept getting mad at us for ‘believing that they would say it’. If you can act like Serena’s friend to her face, and bitch about her behind her back, why couldn’t you do the same about us? Clearly you don’t tell her about the problems you have with her, so why would you tell us about your problems with us?
But they’re my friends, so I’m going to believe that they didn’t actually say it, other than the things that Saloni admitted to saying about me not being motivated.
Which brings me to the many times David has told me that he thinks I’m not motivated about my career, and how much it bugs him? Well, it bugs ME for you to say that. I spend hours a day on the computer, building my skills as a graphic/web designer, so that when I do go to college after next year, I’m prepared. I want to know the basics of all the programs we’ll be learning so that I don’t fail behind.
Apparently though, that’s not enough. I should have a job as a graphic designer NOW. I should be asking people if they need their websites done, and I should push to do his mom’s work’s website because it needs to be done. My teacher has told me that the majority of people AREN’T going to hire you without a college credit. They want someone with the experience and the correct learning so that everything will work properly and they aren’t wasting time and money when they could have got it done by someone who has the credentials and portfolio to do it 100% the right way.
I’m not going to go asking around to see if companies want to hire someone who really has no REAL experience and who doesn’t know everything. I haven’t taken the right courses, nor do I know all of the programs and materials needed. I’d say I know quite a bit about key programs, but not everything. I know nothing about a lot of programs, and I want that experience before I go out and start my career and get asked to do something I know nothing about, wasting a companies time.
I do care about my career, and I’m not just sitting around doing nothing. I ace all of the classes and projects I take, and I get the highest fucking marks in the classes that I take. Don’t tell me that I’m not unmotivated just because I don’t have an actual paying job as a graphic designer at 17.
Don’t tell me that I’m not motivated, or not motivated enough. Don’t give me shit for not starting my career AT SEVENTEEN. I’m still young, I have time. There’s still a lot I need to know and I’m sorry that there’s not an OYAP program for what I want to do.
He’s said it so many times, but I never said anything until today because I was already pissed off at Saloni saying it. Don’t say I’m unmotivated when you know shit all about what I do to try to better my experience NOW.
One thing I do want to learn about soon is seo (search engine optimization). To promote Quotetastic mostly (even though the hits have been rather awesome lately), but also just in general so that I have the knowledge about it and what not. Maybe I’ll make another super awesome flash project on that: a list of things that I want to learn to help my career.
