Maybe I'll be a pirate.

I don't have a proper Halloween costume, but I do have a hand-knit eyepatch that I made for a House Cup assignment. I think I'll wear it tomorrow.

I wore it for a bit when I went to see Grandma at the nursing home today. We went downstairs for their Halloween happy hour, and I drank 'Pumpkin Guts' (a non-alcoholic peach drink) and snacked on cheese puffs.

I went to the periodontist's yesterday, because he has me coming in to get my teeth cleaned between my usual cleanings at the family dentist's since my dead tooth was removed. The hygienist told me to remember to floss, and we had a small conversation about Lady Gaga's meat dress and George Michael. It was interesting. I couldn't really say much in reply, considering that I was having my teeth scraped with metal instruments, but it was still interesting.

So tomorrow I'm going to the local NaNoWriMo kick-off party, and I think I'll wear my eyepatch. It shall be rockin' :) I'll probably post some Halloween videos tomorrow.

A Touch of Narcolepsy

Okay, so technically I don't have narcolepsy, but I'm quite tired today. There are two possible reasons for this: 1) I took an Aleve last night to relieve a sore shoulder, or 2) the weather went from average October weather to crazy winds. I'm thinking it might be due to the wind, because I sometimes feel tired or get headaches from the weather changing.

I still managed to get things done despite my tiredness, though. I did a couple of exercises in my GED book, read a little bit of my library book, went over some stuff in my Japanese book to refresh my memory, and did some laundry.

That's all for now. I probably shouldn't blog when I'm this tired :p

Turkey and 'taters and books, oh my!

I guess I should recap a little...

Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving, that is) actually went well, despite the fact that Dad and I argued and Dad left a lot of the cleaning 'til the last minute. We went to pick up Nathan (my brother) and Steph (his fiancee), and I got to meet their new cat. He is adorable :)

I didn't get to watch any Thanksgiving movies, but I can save those for the American Thanksgiving next month - I imagine one of the networks will show Home for the Holidays, which is tied in first place with Pieces of April as Favourite Thanksgiving Movie. I got to watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles though, which is my second-favourite Thanksgiving movie.

I finally spent the Chapters Indigo gift card I got for my birthday from Grandma and Grandpa. I bought Leviathan by Scott Westerfield and Eon by Alison Goodman. Mom talked me into getting The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones as well, because a clerk gave us a 25% off coupon. I don't know if I'll read The Uninvited - it's a murder-mystery written for teens, but I don't know if it'll be too gory for me or not. But with the coupon, The Uninvited only put me $7 over my budget, and Dad paid the $7. So, even if I don't read it, the book wound up costing less than the regular price. And Mom will read it if I don't.

Yesterday we stopped at Len's, because I still had $5 of birthday money leftover (I used the other $5 from my birthday money to pay library fines :p). I found the Patons 'Monkey Business' booklet (which is a sock monkey booklet) there, and it only cost a little over $4 after taxes. I found it in the clearance shelf, but it turned out that the booklet was regular price and somebody had just dumped it there. But I'm not bothered, because it wasn't too bad a price, and the patterns look great :D

I just finished watching season two of Primeval, which is EPIC :) It ended with a total cliffhanger, too. Now I'm watching Survivors, which really intense. It's a series about a super-flu that wipes out 90% of the world's population and about the people who have survived it.

Late-night post

I figured that, since I'm already on the computer, I'd blog before I got distracted.

I had a good morning. I listened to the garbage truck roll down the street - trust me, it's a lot more peaceful than it sounds. It was kinda cool to listen to it come down the street from a room other than the living room. I started my library book, too: Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly. I think I'm gonna like it. Not sure if I can finish it in time for when it's due back to the library, but I'll try reading a bit of it every day.

After I got up and ate breakfast, I finished the essay chapter in my GED book (I start the social studies unit next) and re-read a chapter of my Japanese book. I should be back to where I was in no time (I took a break from the book and I'm out of practice).

The rest of the day wasn't as nice, as some family drama decided to invade. Lovely. I re-read a bit of The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, though, which took my mind off the drama, but now I'm back to being stressed. I'll probably have to practice my martial arts later so that I can get my frustration out. I find that katas - patterns of stances, strikes, blocks, etc.; which are designed to be an 'imaginary battle' - are good for relieving stress. I can't remember my red-belt kata, which is annoying, but it doesn't bother me too much. I always hated that kata.

I do have something to look forward to, though. My grandparents gave me a $25 Chapters Indigo gift card for my birthday, so I'll probably be going to Indigo soon to buy a book :) I might buy Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce, but I'll browse the shelves at Indigo in case something else strikes my fancy.

I have to go to the library tomorrow, because I have an overdue DVD; and I have four things to pick up: the 2010 Griffin Prize Poetry Anthology, Canadian GED for Dummies, season two of Primeval, and a DVD called Monty Python: Almost the Truth. That makes me excited, too :)

Went to Michaels today...

...But I didn't buy anything.

It was kind of disappointing. I had $10 to spend, and nothing really jumped out at me and screamed "BUY ME!" Maybe I'll try the other Michaels.

We went to the British imports shop, too, and bought some more kebab-flavoured Pot Noodle cups. They're highly addictive :) Mom and Dad bought some chocolate for me (I can't remember what they're called, but they're chocolate-mint balls, like the Aero Bubbles), Dad got some Walkers crisps and biscuits, and Mom picked up some tea (we were running out) and Custard Cream biscuits (which I love :D).

I watched the pilot of The Big C, which I had missed when Super Channel first ran it - fortunately, they were having a marathon; so I wound up watching the first three episodes before the soccer game came on.

The soccer game was a shambles... Toronto lost to Seattle. It was a 3-2 win, which isn't too horrible, but Toronto won't make the playoffs now.

I can't remember if I already mentioned this, but I finished my Calorimetry. Now I'm focusing on my Ravenclaw scarf.

A quick post, before Coronation Street comes on...

So I'm kind of mad at my uncle...

I might have said in an earlier post that my uncle and his fiancee were planning to get married abroad, despite that it's their second marriage for both of them. Well, it's official: they're getting married abroad. And of course, we can't go because boarding the dogs is very expensive. And Grandma can't go because she's in a wheelchair. And... well, you get the idea.

Otherwise, I'm okay, but I really hate my uncle right now. He's an insensitive jerk.

Hopefully, I'll post something happier soon. I just wanted to get that out of my system. It's raining today, which is pleasant, and I just finished watching season four of Doc Martin :)

Blaaarrrgggh

I couldn't come up with a clever title, so there you go.

My teeth on my right side are hurting a bit. I think it's from chewing a very tough candy, or from brushing too hard. Or maybe both. I'm trying not to poke at my teeth too much, but I'm like a little kid picking at a scab :p

I think I might refine a short story I started a while ago and try sending it in to a magazine. I sent a short story to a magazine for a theme contest, but it didn't get accepted. I still want to put my writing out there, though. It can't hurt to try, right?

Actually, I managed to remember to work from a writing prompt in the special issue of Writer's Digest that I got from Indigo. One of the articles is a year's worth of writing prompts, and the idea is to do one prompt a week. I got kinda lazy and only did a handful (some of the prompts just didn't spark anything), but a few days ago I wrote a few paragraphs. Pretty awesome, I think.

I did some GED work today. Actually, I think I got a fair bit done in the essays chapter. I'm doing exercises on paragraphs, and I wrote two practice paragraphs, did a quiz on which sentences in the example paragraphs were unnecessary, and an exercise on finding main ideas in paragraphs. The only one I'm unsure of is the main ideas practice, because there weren't any answers so I was like, "Wait, did I get that right?"

I watched the first two episodes of season four of Doc Martin and worked on my Ravenclaw scarf this afternoon. I probably should finish the Calorimetry though :p