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.
2 comments Tags: Best Friends, Friends, Happy, I love life, Life, N, Plans, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Concert, Vacation.
Beside You
Posted on: July 12, 2011 at 11:18 am. 1 comment
If there’s one thing I hate more than almost anything else in the world (well, other than like.. poverty, abuse and all that fun stuff), it’s getting excited for the possibility of something when you know there’s a slim chance it will happen.
Since the end of April, I’ve been brainstorming ways that I could somehow convince my parents/sister to drive 8 and a half hours up North. For most people my reasoning is quite clear: That’s where N lives. But I couldn’t simply just say ‘Hey Mom, wanna drive me eight and a half hours to visit a boy?’ because she wouldn’t go for that. So I would try to brainstorm things we could go there, but I really didn’t know what would interest my family there. And plus, I wanted to ACTUALLY have a reason other than to just go see him, because I feel like that’s a little.. too much for not even dating (though by the sounds of it, he would be all for it…)
And then last night, my sister herself suggested it. She had this idea in her head that during our week off, she wants to visit all five great lakes and take a picture of her standing in each one. Which, is actually a cool idea and I would love to be able to say I’ve been to all five great lakes, no matter where they are. It JUST SO HAPPENS that one is located relatively close to N. As in, his city is right next to it. The river his high school was named after is connected to Lake Superior. So I was all for this plan. They were all for it too, until I ever so gently pointed out that it’s actually eight and a half hours away, not four hours like my mom thought. So that changed their mind (really, I had to point it out because they’d figure it out eventually) all while still getting my hopes up. I spent last night trying to convince my sister we should still go. Since it’s so long, we COULD take an overnight bus, be there at 11:45 in the morning, then leave that night at 7:15 and be home the next morning. We won’t need a hotel (or, as he kind of offered.. a place to stay) because we can sleep on the overnight busses. But then she said we wouldn’t have a way to the lake. Busses, walking, taxi’s, etc… (N said he could be our tour guide).
But I know the chances of it actually happening are slim. I didn’t really get my hopes up for it, and instead I just have the mindset that I know it’s not going to actually happen so if it does, it will be a surprise rather than a disappointment if/when it doesn’t. I still texted N about it, and said that my sister has a plan that she wants a picture in all five great lakes. And about how she then wanted to go. He was all for this plan, as long as she brought me with her, ha. And then he just continued to attempt to give me ways to make it work. So I’d say he’s all for it. My friend said she would go with me, but then I’m going JUST to visit him and I wanted to actually have another reason…
She did say maybe we could just go to the other lakes on the week off, and then attempt to go to Lake Superior later on in the summer. But really, there’s only a month and a half left and then he’ll be back to being a short drive away. How did the summer go by so fast? It seems like just yesterday I was dreading these four long months…
1 comment Tags: Boys, Family, N, Offline, Sister, Vacation.
Will you take a moment…
Posted on: June 27, 2011 at 10:19 pm. 2 comments
Day 27 – What’s the best thing going for you right now?
I would have to say the fact that I am actually working and saving up and planning on going to school this fall. I just need to really get my butt in gear on the license part of it all (kind of necessary to go to school) but other than that, I’m on a good track. I found out yesterday how much I’ll be getting from Financial Aid, which will be enough of a loan for both semesters PLUS a lot in grant money which I WON’T have to pay back. But it will be enough to buy my Macbook. I’ll get part of the money at the end of August, and then the rest at the start of second semester. I’m probably going to buy my Macbook soon though, because at this point it doesn’t look like we’ll be going to P.E.I afterall.
I REALLY want to go, but my dad got switched shifts AGAIN and so we are apparently ‘going somewhere’, but it will only be for a few days and not to P.E.I. I tried to get my sister to go just us, but she doesn’t want to. There was talk of going to North Carolina for a few days, which wouldn’t be BAD but we were just there in march when we went to Florida. I’d rather go somewhere else. But there’s not much I can do about it, other than hope that SOMETHING ends up happening because I want/need a vacation at this point. And it’s about a month away, so we need to figure it out soon…
But, maybe it would be better to save money instead and work that week instead. I do need to go to school, afterall…
2 comments Tags: 30 Day Truth Challenge, College, Family, Future, Life, Macbook, School, Vacation, Work.
I’m home!
Posted on: March 10, 2011 at 7:04 pm. 4 comments
Wow, it has been quite awhile since I’ve posted. I just got back from Florida at 2am this morning, and I have to say it was an amazing trip. We were always doing something and barely spent any time in the hotels, and it was just a really good trip filled with sun, beaches, laughs, food and just.. awesomeness. I felt so much better on the trip that I have felt lately, and it was good to just get away. I’m so sad I had to come home though, because we came home to snow and ice and colder weather. We plan on going back next year, and my parents might come as well. There’s so many things I could tell about the trip, and so many pictures to show.. I took over 3000 pictures. I took part of the looooong drive home to sort through the pictures, and I did manage to pick a little over 200 of the best to put on facebook. I still haven’t even put up prom pictures on here SOOO I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it. But soon, hopefully!
Sadly though, tomorrow I have to go back to work & then I work all weekend. I’ve also crossed a few things of my list of 21 things to do before I turn 21. One being a road trip with a friend, since technically my sister counts as it says ‘someone I care about’, and I’m also a lot more comfortable with my body now, which was one of the things on the list. I’m not 100% there yet, but I’m getting really close to that & quite honestly, I love it.
This was a short post for nothing in two weeks, but I need to shower and unpack and do some other things before the Big Bang Theory is on in an hour, so hopefully I’ll get back into posting more often/frequently. 
