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July 3rd, 2009
Clayton and I booked our trip to Harrison Hot Springs today. Much to my surprise, as we were in the process of making the reservations online, he reveals to me that he’s going to pay for the whole thing. I was like, “WHAT?! Are you aware of how much it costs?!”
We were purchasing the Summer Getaway Package (I think that’s what it’s called), and for two people (obviously). It costs $428, plus tax, $448. That’s before gratitudes (also known as the big fat tip). And he’s paying for the WHOLE THING. I offered to pay for half, but he won’t let me at all because he says my money is to be used for school only. I feel kind of guilty, but at the same time, I feel really loved, and lucky to have a boyfriend like him. We’ve been wanting to take a trip for a long time, and though we’re not going anywhere far (Harrison is a resort town that’s 1 or 2 hours away), it’s going to be our first trip.
We’re going for three days, two nights, so basically over the entire weekend. We’re staying at the main hotel at the Harrison Resort Hotel — we looked on another website of a different hotel that was an Executive Plaza Inn (is that what it’s called?) that had cheaper prices for their packages (about $150-$200 less) but their packages were kind of skimpy (sorry, we do not need a complimentary basket of fruit and wine in our hotel room, thanks) so we decided to go stay at the Harrison Hot Springs Resort and Spa (no spa for us though, we’re not really spa people).
Anyway, we’ll get access to all the hot springs and a fitness room. We get a buffet breakfast every morning, and we’ll get a 4-course dinner (and dancing, but I think we’ll skip the dancing part) at The Copper Room restaurant on whichever evening we want. The Copper Room is an upscale, fancy restaurant with a strict dress code, so I got to pack some heels and a dress. And of course, besides the hot springs, we can spend our days doing whatever. So far, we planned to visit Harrison Lake and go for a hike as well.
And of course, Clayton being Clayton, lazily makes the reservations while I sit beside him exclaiming, “YOU HAVE TO READ THE FINE PRINT BEFORE YOU CLICK ACCEPT! Sneaky people always put evil things in the fine print!”
I’m SUPER EXCITED. I can’t wait to spend an entire weekend with my sweetheart. Before when we looked into how much a weekend at Harrison will cost, we were turned off by the prices, so we decided that we can just go camping instead (camping is like, $10 to rent the campsite so it’s MUCH cheaper). Then the next day, he tells me, “Fuck it, let’s go to Harrison.” I asked him why and he said something about how you’re only young once (things just seem more fun when you’re young) and “besides, I think you really want to go.” <3 I did really want to go too! :3
Anyway, I’m really looking forward to it! I’m already starting a mental list of what to bring and browsing the ‘Activities’ part of the site for ideas on what we can do when we’re there. It’s gonna be fuuuun~~~~
Tags: boyfriend, summer 09, vacation
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July 1st, 2009
Anybody who knows me knows:
1. I hate the complexity of post-secondary education with a passion and
2. I want to get over post-secondary as soon as possible
I’m not kidding, just thinking about school gets so depressed. I don’t want to think about it at all. One time I couldn’t get school out of my head because I had so many worries — my grades aren’t good enough, I won’t be accepted in the program I’m aiming for, I’ll end up with huge debts for the rest of my life, things like that (argh, just thinking about it now is making me depressed) — that I started crying uncontrollably. I kid you not. Luckily my boyfriend was there to cheer me up.
So I’m trying something new. I’m trying to be excited about school. I’m trying to *gasp* look forward to the next year. Because it’s the last year before I get into a nursing program — and I WILL get in a nursing program even if it costs me an arm and a leg, because I have no intention of going through with my pseudo-English degree. *Deep breath* Here’s my tentative timetable for next year that I am trying to look forward towards:
Term 1:
ENGL 229 (Topics In The Study of Language & Rhetoric)
SOCI 100 (Introduction to Sociology)
PSYC 302 (Infancy)
FMST 312 (Parent-Child Relationships)
PSYC 208 (Contemporary Topics in Social, Developmental, Clinical and Personality Psychology)
Term 2:
ENGL 222 (Literature in Canada)
ENGL 224 (World Literature in English)
SOCI 100 (yep, same as above, it’s a full year course).
I’m most likely going to have to replace SOCI 100 as it is filling up at an incredible rate, and all the good discussion group times are being taken up. I’m thinking of replacing PSYC 208 too, since it doesn’t exactly sound like an exciting/interesting course to me, but I don’t know what to replace it with (Michelle, got any interesting courses to recommend? You let me know about the Infancy course, after all, heh).
Okay. I CAN DO THIS! I just have to stop being so impatient. Like Marjorie and Janice have told me, it’s okay to take things slow, because we’re young. It just means more time to have fun before entering “the real world”. Must stop being frustrated by the snail speed I am going through school …
Tags: depressed, School, timetable
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June 29th, 2009
A friend linked to this news article on his website and it’s very baffling and strange! It’s about a girl who’s been alive for 16 years, but hasn’t aged! She looks like a baby!
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/Story?id=7880954&page=1
Tags: strange news
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June 27th, 2009
I am depressed at how long it is taking me to just get INTO a nursing program. I should have switched schools when I had the chance rather than let everyone talk me into staying at the one I am at now because it is “better” and “looks better on a resume” and is “prestigious”. Sorry, but I don’t want to spend 7+ years on post-secondary, I want to move on with my life.
Tags: depressed, School
Posted in RL Stuff, School | 2 Comments »
June 22nd, 2009
Michelle has tagged me with the HonestScrap Award:
The HonestScrap award comes with a caveat or two. Firstly, you have to tell your readers ten things about you they may not know, but that are true. Secondly, you have to tag 10 people with the award.
There was a fancy picture that went along but I’m too lazy to post it here too, hehe. I’m kind of bad of thinking up of stuff people might not know about me, hmmm. So here we go:
1. I’m a very light sleeper. It’s why I sleep so much ><"
2. I did not apply for a credit card, but I still have one ... my bank offered it to me O.o I also was unemployed at the time when they offered it to me, and they knew I was unemployed too. Strange things happen in this world ....
3. I'm an avid fan of Britney Spears. Really. Most people think I'm joking, but I'm not!
4. If I have a girl, I want to name to her Audrey. If I have a boy, I want to name him Ethan.
5. I think I own 30 something PS2 games -- of those, only 3 have been COMPLETED. I'm very bad at completing games -- "Ahh, I know how the rest of the story goes."
6. I will NOT eat spicy food, even if only "mildly spicy", unless I have a big JUG of water next to me. I do, however, like wasabi. I drown that stuff in my soy sauce.
7. I took piano lessons for a year when I was 12. I didn't like it. However, if I have a kid, I want him/her to learn piano. Lol.
8. My LIFETIME WISH (haha, Sims ...) is to visit all the Disneylands in the world. So far, I've been to HK and California. 3 more to go -- Paris, Tokyo, and Florida.
9. When I was little, I wanted to be a teacher. I held that dream up until ninth grade ... hmmm, what happened?
10. I've been mistaken as half-white/half-Chinese; half-white/half-Japanese; half-Chinese/half-Japanese. I don't ... know.
EDIT: Oops, realized I didn't tag anyone. Well, I don't even have 10 friends-with-blogs to tag ... 
In other news, Pinstar has posted the Sims 3 Legacy Challenge rules here, so I’m going to be starting on that!
Tags: meme, sims
Posted in RL Stuff, Video Games | 1 Comment »
June 19th, 2009
Goal: To blog in THIS blog more than my Sims blog. Or at the very least, equal amounts.
But I think I’ve become wary of blogging about anything and everything ever since I revealed to my boyfriend and a few real life friends the URL to this blog. Started to get paranoid that they’re reading it … In all my years of running websites, I’ve never, ever revealed the URL to anyone I knew in real life, so it’s kind of big for me … ish. But I’m going to try to get over this feeling. I’ll just try to blog about what I did during the day and things like that. Nothing terribly blasphemous, heh.
But today wasn’t very interesting. Actually, my whole week hasn’t been very interesting, I’ve just been so consumed by The Sims. I finally finished the Sims 2 Legacy Challenge with a score of 45 or 60%. Which isn’t too bad for my first time through with the legacy. I’ve been feverishly blogging it all at my other blog (you can find the link to the other blog under Blogroll on the right now). It’s kind of fun, to sort of describe everything that happened to my Sims family over the ten generations. I’ve also been obsessed with The Sims 3, which recently came out. I haven’t played very much of it as I was busy finishing up the Legacy Challenge in Sims 2 (I didn’t want to leave it unfinished) but now that I’m done it, I’m ready to tackle the new game. And even more exciting, the guy who created the Sims 2 Legacy Challenge is releasing the rules for the Sims 3 Legacy Challenge. I love the Legacy Challenge, so this is great news for me. Rules are supposedly being announced this Sunday, I’m eagerly waiting for it!
On the topic of video games, Clayton and Shawn have been asking me to rejoin them in playing World of Warcraft. I joked and said, “Only if you pay for my subscription” but uh, I realized they were so serious, they really will pay for my subscription. I disappointed them by saying I won’t play regardless. I mean … it was a great fun year but honestly, the game is full of jerks and stuck up guys who think that just because they’re a little bit good at a video game, they’re king of the world. And it’s full of jerks, did I mention that? And some people were just downright ANNOYING. I mean, I had a lot of fun playing with my friends, but these other people have completely ruined the experience of the game for me, I no longer want to return. Anyway, Clayton and Shawn are so on-again, off-again with the game, which is another reason I don’t want to play. Sometimes they’re utterly obsessed, then they’re utterly bored with it. So I don’t take them very seriously when they ask me to play with them.
Did I do anything other than play Sims this summer so far? Well yeah! Besides the standard going to parties (theme parties are the most fun!), hanging out with friends, shopping, and dancing at bars/clubs, I’ve also:
1) Went to the zoo. It was my first time visiting the zoo in my own city, I’ve only ever been to the zoo at Seattle, and it was lots of fun! If you have me on Facebook, I posted up lots of pictures.
2) Went to the aquarium! We went very early so we were able to catch the beluga show, dolphin show and birds of prey show.
And we actually have a long list of other stuff we want to do. Some of them I’m sure we’ll get around to eventually, but others maybe not because we keep canceling plans! The list includes camping, going to Harrison hot springs, going to the beach, watching the summer fireworks, etc. I’ve also been trying to pester Clayton into taking a road trip with me to Edmonton (so we can go to Edmonton Mall, heh) and Calgary to visit some friends. he said maybe but I think he’s just saying that to be nice, I don’t think he really intends to go at all. Well, I can’t blame him, it’d be a long trip and it’d cost quite a bit of money
So it’s not like I’ve been sitting on my bum all summer long, but my parents have been pestering me to get a job. And it’s like … who’s going to hire me for 2 months in the summer? A lot of my friends have been fired during this economic time, rather than finding new jobs. I’ve worked all the previous summers when I became the legal age to start working part time jobs; is it really so wrong that I want one summer to myself?
Tags: sims, summer 09, World of Warcraft
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June 2nd, 2009
Sims 3 comes out tomorrow and I’m going to wake up early to go to Wal-Mart (or EB if Wal-Mart runs out of copies) to go buy it. Okay, not *that* early … early for me is like 11:00 AM. Ha. Then play it all day. Probably going to spend hours exploring all the customization options. I have a few fun trait combinations I want to try out in some Sims. I think I’ll start off with a house of three roomies to test everything with these traits:
Sim 1 ) Hopeless Romantic, Insane, Lucky, Childish, Natural Cook
Sim 2 ) Absent Minded, Commitment Issues, Bookworm, Hates The Outdoors, Genius
Sim 3 ) Daredevil, Excitable, Brave, Perfectionist, Workaholic
Wonder how they’ll turn out!
Tags: sims
Posted in Video Games | 2 Comments »
May 27th, 2009
What have I been up to lately? Hmm … you mean besides anticipating Sims 3? (Which, by the way, I am a little worried about. The new features sound really cool, but apparently pirated versions have appeared on the Internet for download, and people who have downloaded the pirated version have been saying the game’s not that great. Eep?! But for now, I am very happily playing Sims 2.)
Well, I’ve been jogging. Not every day, mind you, I don’t think I have that much willpower (you know those days when you just want to … lie around the house. And do nothing?) But it’s often enough, I think. I’ve went every weekday so far, and only skipped the weekend because I went to the zoo (!!!) on Saturday and was, heh, lazy on Sunday. Jogging is especially great in the morning because it really wakes you up, but I’ve started jogging in the evening/afternoons instead now because my younger sister wants to jog with me, so I wait for her to come home from school. I think she prefers evenings rather than mornings, so when her summer vacation starts, I’ll most likely continue jogging in the evenings.
I’ve also been re-reading Death Note the manga series. I finished re-reading Lovely Complex, and so I decided to pick up some other manga series I have laying around the house. Death Note is especially awesome because of all the “Omg! I never thought of that!” and “That way of thinking is SO smart!” I started re-reading it because I saw the Death Note movies for sale at Wal-Mart and HMV. I was really surprised that the Japanese movie was localized (English subtitles). I already have the movies though, I bought them a long time ago from an Asian movie shop, but anyway, that’s what sparked my interest into re-reading the series. I even sort of got my boyfriend interested in it; well, he watched the last half of the first movie with me (first half he spent raiding in WoW, heh).
That’s what I’ve been doing on a sort of regular basis. Of course, my summer is not going to be JUST that. My friends and I have a lot of stuff planned, we actually made a list of things we want to do this summer. One of the things on the list was go to the zoo, which we did last week. Next week we want to go to the aquarium. Other things on the list include camping, a hike, go to the beach, drive to the States, dine out at a fancy restaurant (they wanted to go to the revolving restaurant in downtown, but I think that place is super expensive, no? I’ll have to ask my sister, she’s been there before), etc. Hopefully we’ll get a lot of the list done!
Tags: Death Note, jogging, RL plans, sims
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