I haven't posted in three days :p

I went to Winners with my parents. I got my sister's Christmas present and my brother's Christmas present :) I think I've decided what I'll make for Breanne - a dropped-stitch scarf. I think she'll like it if it's in a colour she likes. I might have to either look through Mom's stash for yarn or go to Michaels, though. Or Len's. I heard Talk by Coldplay at Winners, too, which was pretty cool.

So, NaNoWriMo is going good. Just look at the widget! I'm not doing too bad! :D

Breanne, my cousin, was supposed to come over today, but it didn't happen :(

BUT, we have more chocolate in the house! :D

ETA: Hey, guys! I just put a Coldplay widget at the bottom of the page! What you do is click 'start', then rub the glass with your mouse. Don't click on it, just run your mouse across it back and forth. If you're lucky, you'll hear a portion of a song from their upcoming EP! I would have left it at the side of the posts, but it got chopped off when I put it there.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama has been elected. Even though I'm Canadian, I'm still pretty happy.

The world is still not perfect. While you watch this video, think about one thing: if John Lennon were still alive, what would it be like? How would he react to the violence in Iraq and Afghanistan? And if Lennon was still alive, would Aung San Suu Kyi still be under house arrest?

The following video does have some violence.




Give peace a chance - every one of us.

RIP John Lennon, 1940 - 1980.

i can haz chocolate!

I scarfed some Bridge Mixture while I wrote today.

We didn't go to church today. Good thing, 'cause I didn't really want to go. I got up this morning, went upstairs, looked at the clock and thought, why aren't we watching Sunday Morning? Turns out it was too early for Sunday Morning and Q107's Psychedelic Psunday program. And I thought that the time change wouldn't affect me. Hehe.

So lately I've been listening to Cheap Trick. Here's 'I Want You to Want Me'...

NaNo

So, have you noticed that my NaNo meter on the left-hand side of this blog has updated?

That's right, I started writing yesterday. I updated my wordcount today. Pretty cool :)

We bought more NaNo snacks, this time at the British imports shop. I got a raisin and biscuit Yorkie bar (it's chocolate with raisin and biscuit), some Munchies (chocolate, caramel and cookie squares) and a small bag of Dolly Mix, which is a candy mix. Plus, we have leftover Halloween candy.

Because I'm in the Halloween spirit...

The Time Warp




The Monster Mash




I would have put Thriller in here, but the embedding is disabled. Instead, I'll provide a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xs9OQHpwDE

We didn't have that many kids coming to our street this year. Oh well, more fruit candies for us! :)

Happy Halloween :)

I think I'm getting sick.

I've been drinking a lot of water today - at first I thought it was because I've been eating a lot of salt lately, but I feel tired too, and, well, let's just say that my nose is full of pretty colours. If this continues, I'm not going to youth group tonight, because not only will I get other people sick, I might fall asleep partway through the meeting.

I read my library book for a bit, then I knit, then I tried to sleep but couldn't so I came up here and fired up my computer. I watched InuYasha on Youtube, checked my e-mail, went on Ravelry, and now I'm writing this and I'm still on Ravelry. But I'm exhausted. Then again, I am a bit warm wearing this bathrobe...

I did do some schoolwork, but not much.

Here's one of the songs I listened to via YouTube today. Because my music collection is lacking, I've been listening to my favourite songs through YouTube.

A bit of a recap.

First, Saturday.

I didn't do much on Saturday, actually, but I did watch Saturday Night Live because Coldplay was on. I wasn't going to watch it at first, but then I decided to bring the yellow scarf I was working on upstairs and knit while watching it. Good thing I came up, or I might have missed Coldplay. They sang 'Viva la Vida', 'Lost!', and 'Yellow', and they started another song as they were gonna roll the credits, but it got cut off. Dammit.

So anyway, I sat through the sketches and stuff because I only really wanted to see Coldplay. They were awesome. I had never seen Chris Martin play a guitar until that night, come to think of it. I watched a Coldplay concert (the concert had been from a few months previous, I think) on Bell's pay-per-view FreeVu! thing. A FreeVu! pretty much explains itself. It's free. It's awesome. But during that concert, I don't think Chris Martin ever played a guitar. Also, Amy Poehler gave birth that night! Congratulations, Amy! :)

On Sunday, we went to another NaNoWriMo meetup. This one was downtown, and it was the kick-off party. We each got a goody bag - mine was missing the notes/novel pocketguide, but Mom kindly gave me hers. Thanks, Mom :) The bags also contained some stationary, chocolate (!!!) and an 'affidavit'.

Today I went to a local mall with my parents. There was construction going on, so a lot of people were slowing down to look at the pretty orange signs :p Dad was driving like a jerk, but what else is new? Mom actually threatened to get out of the car. And then, when we got in the mall, Mom turned around with her envelope in her hand - she had to mail something via the Canada Post counter at the Shopper's Drug Mart - to ask Dad something, and he just took the envelope and went into Shopper's. Mom was angry about that, because all she wanted to do was to ask him if he wanted to go do the banking while she mailed her stuff. So Dad came back and Mom made it clear that she was ticked with him. He went to do the banking, and Mom and I looked at some stuff in a nearby store. There's quite a few small businesses in this mall, and they have some interesting merchandise, so we sometimes look at what they have.

Next, we went to the Wal-Mart in this mall, because I needed socks (I know I should knit some, but I have to finish Justin's scarf). I wound up getting 20 pairs of socks - 10 white, 10 black. So Mom thinks I should keep five of each colour in my dresser and put the rest in my wardrobe, so that I have backup socks after I wear out the first 10. We also got some chocolate for when we start writing our NaNo novels. I wanted to look at yarn while we were there, but it was busy so I didn't bother asking Mom if we could look at yarn. I really don't like how that Wal-Mart is organised. Plus, people can be rather pushy - someone with earbuds in their ears decided to push past me in one of the aisles.

Our next stop was No Frills, which is a grocery store chain for anyone who doesn't know. Mom wanted to get stuff like baking powder and refried beans, and we wound up getting other stuff like tinned flakes of chicken.

The last stop in our shopping adventure was Value Village. I found three pairs of jeans that fit me, a pair of orange flowery lounge pants, a pair of purple pants with white flowers on them (they remind me of those pants that the Japanese wear for working in the garden), a pair of maroon pants and a pair of white pants with buttons on the cuffs! How awesome is that? So now I have jeans. Now I just need to get rid of my ugly track pants...