* reason to be cheerful 13 *

my reason to be cheerful today is CUPCAKES!

after a talk with my good friend rola about cupcakes we decided that in a perfect world we would love to be the owners of a cupcake bakery/cafe....good idea right? well anyways being my procrastinating self i have been looking up recipies for cupcakes ever since and can't wait to try some! as of right now however i am a busy bee with my two 10 page papers that are due next week (eeeek!) i'm not so cheerful about them, but then i think of cupcakes and i smile!

i love these ones becaue they remind me of cath kidston a lot! and i love love love cath!

ta ta for now! xoxo

this is a picture i made on picnik today after i finished an assignment and wanted to be creative...nothing special but it makes me smile :)

currently listeing to --> MGMT - electric feel & time to pretend are my faves!

* reason to be cheerful 12 *

ok so i actually have FOUR reasons to be cheerful today! isn't that nice? haha!

number ONE -- on friday night i went to a pattern party/kegger with my roomates jenny and meredith and 2 of merediths very nice friends sarah and erin...so we dressed up in as many patters as we could find then went there and drank lots of beer! when we got there jenny and meredith played flip cup which was hilarious! and jenny and sarah were sneaking other booze haha so funny! afterwards we went downtown and managed to meet up with some of mine and jennys friends from first year who we hadn't seen in over 2 years so that was pretty wicked for me as they were some of my closest friends in first year! so i was verrrry happy that night! oh and we got cookies after haha! woot!

number TWO -- after getting home from being out on friday night i checked my email and saw that i won a contest for my photo editing of a picture for breast cancer awareness month! this was such an awesome surprise for me as sometimes i dont' think that i'm very good at anything at all haha so it was nice to get some recognition from that! so i won a years premium membership to picnik which is where i edit my photos so yay for that! heres the winning photo:

number THREE -- last night i worked until 9:15 then decided it would be a good idea to go the library for a bit to get some work done...whilst in the library my friend robin called and was asking me all kinds of questions and i was just answering but when she hung up i thought that something strage was going on with her, she was just asking what i was up to and made fun of me for being in the library...and then she just pretty much hung up on me...i sent her a text and then she texted me back asking what my favourite floor in the library is....i SHOULD have caught on butttt haha i'm not always the smartest person in the world so i just brushed it off and then all of a sudden i heard laughing behind me and three of my awesome friends from home were standing behind me! they drove all the way from london to surprise me! it was so nice to see them! so we left the library to go to my place and hang out for a bit! it was late so they didn't stay for very long but it was worth it for the surprise for me! haha! heres a photo of us in niagara falls (awesome trip!!) the arrows are pointing to the girls who surprised me! thanks robin, kara and whit!

ok so reason number FOUR -- the girls when they were over were poking fun at me for being the most indecisive person they know! and i'll admit i am -- i have no idea what i'm gonna do with my life and i change my mind every day (sometimes more than once a day actually)! i knew i was like that but it was a bit funny to have them point it out last night....but then after they left it got me thinking....how lucky am i that i have the option to change my mind every five mintues, that i have lots of different things that i can do! that i have the guts to move myself to a different country and try something new...that i can go to more school if i want to! its pretty great that i live in a country that allows me to do that...i guess i'm more appreciative than cheerful about this one! who knows what i'll decide to do but i know once i make a decision i'm gonna give it all i've got to make it happen cuz as my friends pointed out i'm also persistant when i know i want something haha...isn't it nice to have friends who know you better than yourself sometimes!? haha!

currently listening to katy perry -- hot n' cold (very ironic as its about someone who changes their mind constantly - maybe that why i like it so much :P)

* reason to be cheerful 11 *

helloooooooooooooooo!

my reason(s) to be cheerful is the crazy/busy/insane weekend i had! friday night i got together with some old friends whom i used to work with and we went to a hockey game, had some drinks and did end up dancing! heres a photo of the 'family unit' as we called ourselves:

on saturday i went to work and after work i got picked up to babysit my cousins kids joey and elizabeth! we had a lot of fun together, we went to the park, made crafts and watched the incredibles...they are 3 and 2 and they are so sweet! they stay up wayyyy too late in my opinion though...10 o'clock!!! i was about to drop dead by the time they finally got to bed!!

my reason to be cheerful was those 2 previous things but also my cousin had me look after her dog too! his name is max and he is the sweetest kindest dog ever! all he wanted to do is cuddle and everytime i sat down he would sit next to me to protect me...it made me want a dog SO badly! i haven't had a dog since i was in the fourth grade which let me tell you was a lonnnng time ago haha! so anyways i want a lot for my life and i imagine myself in a million different countries doing a million different things...but babysitting/dogsitting made me realize that even if i don't get to do all those things i can be happy (tired all the time but happy haha) with a family and dog...weird eh? i didn't even think i wanted kids, and i still don't know, but i guess i just realized that there are worse things in the life then settling down....i still want to travel and do all those crazy things, but maybe someday i'll be like my cousin - a great mom....hmmm

this is a cockapoo which is the type of dog max is...this one i just a puppy but its so adorable i had to put it up!!!

ok thats it from me! i'll be out of action for a bit cuz i have a million school things to do - midterms and papers galore! sorry in advance for not writing! xoxo

* reason to be cheerful 10 *

ok ok ok i know i've been seriously slacking on my posts so my apologies for those who actually take the time to see what i'm cheerful about! but i will try harder, maybe not a post every day but maybe every other and at the LEAST once a week! school just got so darn busy all of a sudden and i'm working quite a bit as well!

annnnnnyways! my reason to be cheerful today is a lovely bunch of cupcakes that i baked for my 2 friends who are coming to town to hang out with me tonight! they're friends from when i used to work for the Guelph Storm hockey team and we're getting together to go see a game, drink some beers, catch up and then perhaps dance a litte! i'm pretty stoked about it and i can't wait to see them since its been a while since all 3 of us have been together! we used to call ourselves the family unit and its been far too long since we've been united so tonight is the night!

oh reason to be cheerful #2 for the day is my new sweater that i got! for those of your outside of canada it gets darn cold here so this is going to help keep my toasty warm on the trek to school! ok ok i don't trek - i take the bus, but its COLD standing out there!

ok side funny note here: i was just laying out the sweater to take a photo of it and realized that i still had the size sticker on it and i definitley wore that sweater all day yesterday! haha!

*if you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at!?

p.s. thats my pretty thrift store mirror! it used to be gold but i painted it white! i LOVE it!

* reason to be cheerful # 9 *

so i've had a few good/bad days since my last post, i found out that i'm not going to go to korea when i had originally planned for it - i was upset at first but now i'm actually ok with it! i'm now planning on applying to teachers colleges and seeing about doing that next year and then going to korea the year after! so thats one reason to be cheerful! i have my heart set on austrailia for college but i'm not sure where i'll get in with my marks being what they are! (i'm hoping to bring them up though so fingers crossed!)

my second reason to be cheerful is that tomorrow is FRIDAY which means i'm going to be heading to Waterloo to partake in the second biggest Oktoberfest (next to the german one of course) in the world! My cousins and I are having a girls night and going to an event hosted by a local radio station (I guess its the most popular one! which means it will be busy i hope!) to dance our little hearts out! I'm very excited for that and also the next -day I'll be heading back home to see my family who I haven't seen for a while so thats going to be fantastic!

my third reason to be cheerful is the sweet cupcake that Rola made for me...even tho we're too far away for me to eat it - it made me smile that she made one for me!

ok folks thats it for now! xoxoxoxo!

* reason to be cheerful # 8 *

so i've been having a fantastic lazy weekend complete with some school work, and vegging out in front of the tv! but i also managed to make myself cheerful with a video i created of one of my favourite poems by E. E. Cummings called 'i carry your heart with me'....it took a long time to find all the photos and edit them but i'm pretty happy with the results!

so anywho thats what i've been up to! a pretty low key week is ahead of me school wise but i am working quite a bit - and next weekend is thanksgiving! i'm so excited to go home and i was pleasently surprised with the news that my friend Jen is coming home from Edmonton for the weekend! So hopefully she'll make some time to see us but I do understand that shes only home for 3 days so we'll see what happens! xoxo!

* reason to be cheerful # 7 *

sorry it has been so long so i posted a reason to be cheerful! it has been a little bit hectic these last few days! i finally have a weekend off and that is a HUGE reason for me to be cheerful! i have two days off (no work or anything!) to catch up on school work and just relax and i'm very excited about that as next weekend is thanksgiving weekend and i want to have as little school work as possible to have to when i'm at home! its going to be a busy weekend next weekend but i will write about that later!

anywho i am also cheerful because i got to go out to the ranch (its a country bar and its so much fun!) with my friends! it had been a while since we had gone out together so it was nice to do that! ok well thats it from me today! xoxo!

* reason to be cheerful # 6 *

day # 4...she noticed!! but heres the thing - she noticed the first night (so she says haha!) but she was in such a bad mood she didn't find it funny, and then she didn't say anything cuz she forgot about it...well i guess thats ok since i think i found it funny enough for the both of us! so this conversation started when i asked 'hey jen is that a photo of your grandpa?' -- i know! i know i said i wouldn't say anything but we were sitting in her room chatting and i looked over at that old man smiling at me from the frame and i HAD to say something (those who know me well will know that i did quite well with waiting 3 days!) and she saw right through me and asked if i had been waiting for her to say something and then told me how she noticed since sunday night but was too grouchy to say anything...so anyways my attempt at being a prankster was a success and a failure i was expecting a much bigger reaction from her but we did manage to have a good laugh about it last night which was worth it!

and my reason to be cheerful today is i had greek pita for dinner (its a bit of a strech - but i honestly had the most boring day! other than talking to carola online (for like 3 hours!) all i did was study) tomorrow/friday i'll have more to write about as i'm going out tomorrow night will allison and jenny! woot!