I Love America
Posted on: January 9, 2012 at 2:44 pm. 0 comments
Don’t get me wrong, I love Canada too. I’m proud to be Canadian where we have our healthcare and everything else that we have, but I really love the states. For my dad’s birthday yesterday we went over to Niagara Falls, NY to go to Wal-Mart and Target, as well as a mall that was right beside Wal-Mart. Everything is SO MUCH cheaper over the border, from milk to clothing and just everything. Milk here is around $5, while it was $1.88 for the same amount at Wal-Mart in the states. McDonalds is way cheaper, as is Subway. And don’t even get me started on how much I just LOVED Georgia when we passed through last year while going to Florida.
At the end of February (during my reading week), my parents and I are driving down to Nashville, TN. Of course I’m excited about this seeing as it’s basically the country music capitol and because I’ll be able to shop at multiple Wet Seal locations (my FAVOURITE store, sadly it’s only in the states). I know that I’m going to love it there, and depending on how much… I seriously want to move there one day.
Maybe not Nashville, perhaps Georgia or another southern state- but I DO want to move to the states. Probably not permanently, as the process will probably be rather difficult, but I want to spend some of my life living there. I’ve been thinking a lot bout it lately, and my plan at the moment is to keep saving up until after school is finished (and probably until after I’m 21). Once I have (quite) a few thousand dollars, I’ll look into some places to stay for 4-6 months, since as a Canadian I can stay there for 6 months and just not work. So I’ll take those six months off using the money I saved up, though I’ll probably go insane without having anything to do. Or I’ll look into getting a work Visa, I’m not sure yet. But I do want to move SOMEWHERE in the states at some point, and I’m pretty excited about it.
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Ack.
Posted on: July 18, 2011 at 12:06 am. 2 comments
Ack is probably my most commonly used word from the past few days. And not in a bad way. In a freaking AMAZING WAY. In an ‘oh-my-god-how-is-my-life-so-freaking-amazing’ way.
To start with Friday, words can not describe how amazing the concert was. Neither can the 1985 pictures that I took of it. I could explain it in detail, but I am still too sdfoihsfdsoihfa bout it all. It was amazing, the entire day. I was dancing at work (especially when the commercial for it came on/they played You Belong With Me) and when I was actually there… it was just amazing. I was going to wait to post this until I had some pictures resized, but I wanted to post it now. There are some pictures edited for my designs of the day so if you check those out, you can see a few. She put on a PHENOMENAL show though, filled with fireworks and acrobatics and sparks flying and flying balconies and rotating trees. It is something I will NEVER forget, and when I listen to songs on iTunes now that I heard live, it is that entire experience all over again. I have a video of some songs (including all of Long Live) and tons of pictures and memories. As well as two shirts, a glow stick, three bracelets & a bag. It was 100% worth every penny spent. It was super awesome because despite the ACC saying no camera lenses past 70mm (I have one that is 70-300mm), no one cared at all that I was using mine (because it was dark and really, they can’t watch everyone at the same time) so I got some pretty close and AMAZING pictures. Well, amazing to me. Because they’re pictures of Taylor Swift THAT I TOOK MYSELF while SEEING HER LIVE. If I ever have the chance to go again, I will go in a heartbeat. And everyone else should too.
I am honestly SO thankful that I got to see it. I still can’t believe that it happened (and I may have pinched myself in the middle of the concert just to make sure it really wasn’t a dream…) and it was just purely amazing. Taylor Swift is the closest thing I have to an idol/hero or whatever, and so seeing her live was… really something.
Saturday was a pretty regular day at first. I went to see Harry Potter in the morning, and so I was SUPER tired after not getting home until 1am, and sleeping at around 2. I almost took a nap later in the day, but decided to just stay up and then I’d go to bed early- didn’t happen. I ended up in a skype (video!!!!!!) call with N, which was a surprise as we’re hardly EVER on skype at the same time, and when we are it’s usually just typing, not actual talking (like we are doing now, as we’re both on again). So I freaked out a bit. I wasn’t expecting it, and I was just super smiley and probably sounded like a complete turd bucket. But he is so damn cute, and was telling me it was good to *actually* see me again and just. ACK. He is just.. amazing.
And it will be even more amazing when in less than two weeks, I get to see him. That trip that wasn’t going to happen.. 98% chance it is. Just with my best friend (who got the tickets for Taylor Swift, clearly she’s just awesome) instead of my sister. Taylor wants to take a trip somewhere, as she has all weekends off. So we’re going to go. N is excited for it, though we’re talking about it as a somewhat hypothetical thing right now so that it doesn’t end up NOT happening and sadness. But.. I think it’s happening. And I will die once again. TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT FOR TWO WEEKS. Too much excitement for the whole month. The plan now is to get on a 1am bus from Toronto, then arrive there at 11:45 am. Stay somewhere saturday night, and catch another bus home Sunday night at 7:10 and get back to Toronto at 5:50am, with no transfers for either bus. And we can just sleep on the busses, so it makes things SO MUCH EASIER. And actually possible. We COULD stay until Monday night, but then we’d get home about an hour before my friend has to be at work and I’m not sure she’d want to do that so for now, two days & one night seems like it would be good enough.
AND he said I could possibly hear his quartet sing that weekend, and I will literally just.. keel over and die if that happens. Honestly. I really, really hope it can happen. Somehow.
Ack. I just really, really like love my life these days.
