In the ghetto with Ghetto Uno cards..oh yeah

Today was..I think the last time that I got to see most of my friends that was part of the old lunch/art crew. The people that came were Britany, Christina, Alandra, Tad, Angia, Ethan and I. I first got to Ethan's house then Alandra came after. It was so amaza to see Alandra since I did not see her all summer. She is going into University in the fall so I doubt that I will see her that much but still I miss her so much.

We went to meet up with Christina later at Winston since she had gotten a ride to the school. Alandra and I went to go meet her there, and we walked back to Ethan's house. Then later Angia and Tad came and we ate burgers and we made a few marshmallows. But they sucked because they tasted like soap over real marshmallows. 

and hes touching it too... 

 After we ate, we went inside and played Jenga after awhile. I literally haven't played Jenga since i was like 8. The game is more intense than you would think. It was like a few psych moments with playing the game. 

We played Uno after and man did I fail. But my friends got to see my true hardcore competitive Uno tactics. They thought it was intense and they suggested a few other card games that they thought would be awesome to see my competitive skills. 

Intense..intense..Jenga. 

We tried to watch Mean girls but it did not work at all, we just got bored and we were talking about Mean girls before but it didn't work. 

Ghetto Uno card..oh yeah 

extra ghetto uno card..oh yeah 

Later on, Christina was going to sleepover anyways so Britany slept over as well. Since she had school the next day at noon and I live close by the school. 

We went to 711 and bought some comfort food: namely Ice cream, pocky sticks and ichy band. 

We did not want to go back home yet so we went to the park and had some serious girl talk. We started to get cold so we went back and talked to my Black friend for awhile. My friend was scared of my friends but now it was fun. 

Britany and I talked for a long time after that, and here I am right now. 6:17 a.m. and still not asleep. 

Tootles from a sleep deprived teenager/adult 

Ethan's 18th Birthday

It was my friend Ethan's birthday and we went to the Firestone which is at the Coastal hotel, that used to be the hotel that had weight watchers in it. How I know this I do not know but I just do. 

Anyways, we met up there with his sister Erin and her room mate. It is funny because his sister's 

room mate is the brother of one of my friends (Kristina Hurkens.) 

We really only wanted to look at the drink list since it was his first time drinking. He wanted to drink a lot and get drunk but the booze did nothing to him. The drinks that he had was a Barcadi Limon, which was his first drink and it was just a shot. His second was a Tom collins, and let me tell you something about this drink...It was bitter as anything. It was like pure lemon juice plus vodka so you can only imagine how bitter this drink was. 

My drink a Pina Coloda

Ethan's first drink...A Barcardi Limon

Then he had a titanic tea which is just the long island iced tea, and that one was really good and then he had a Paralyzer since I was talking about the drink and the name just makes it sound horrifying. But it wasn't that horrifying anyways. 

Another thing to note is that when you go to the firestone on your birthday you get a free dessert. Just saying....

Beaning Anime-ted

So today I had the most chill day ever, I literally just stayed in bed all day. I finally realize how ridiculous and lame my life really is. Especially when I have no friends to hang out with. 

But mainly today I just tried to recreate this dish that Ethan's mom makes. She just uses onion powder and garlic powder onto beans. Anyways tried attempt turned into failure at food. The spices did not take to the beans like Ethan's mother makes it which is sad.

Later, I finally came out of my bed coma after my Ethan said he was at my door to come pick me up when I forgot that I had asked if I could go over to his house. So I got ready and went to his house. 

When I got to his house, his sister Erin was over for her visit at home since she no longer lives with Ethan and his mother. We had pizza and watched this movie called Princess Mononoke, it was directed by the same Director as spirited away.

 

My review of the movie is that I really actually liked it. When I saw the style of the movie which was anime I kind of moaned and groaned because I do not really like that type of genre. But I really did like the movie and the storyline to the movie was interesting. The illustrations and animation of the movie was really good and it was quite humorous.

So I give the movie 5 stars

*****

The cute tree spirits..they are like bobble heads :)

 

A burst of sunRay-Bans

Yo girl has gotten some new glasses..because thats right yo girl gotta see! After 6 long months of not seeing the sunlight, I can finally see now that the rain is gone! (Sure was a long rain shower wasn't it?) 

I went to lenscrafters and I wanted to just get new lenses put into my old D&G glasses, which took me forever to find the perfect pair of glasses. It was just cheaper to get new glasses altogether with this 50% off lenses with a new pair of frames. So sadly I needed to get new glasses...sad friggin face... 

So finding new glasses I knew was going to be hard to find again since it took me years to find the perfect glasses for my face. The glasses lady pointed out lots of pairs of glasses for me but I just shot them down no matter what because who knows what looks best on my face rather than me? When finding glasses you have to be very particular anyways. 

Anyways, I got a few pairs to try on...but the cool thing is that they this virtual mirror thingy where you can compare the different styles of glasses. Eventually it came down to a few pairs and I loved these pinkish burgundy ray bans. Yes people...ray bans. The craze for right now. Who would have known that I would follow into a trend? 

So after I chose my coolio new ray bans I had to wait an hour for them to get ready. I handed out a few resumes at the mall and chilled for awhile until I was able to go and get them. I talked to my friend Bennett that worked at Taco Time for awhile too, it was nice seeing her. 

In my hunger games shirt..

Then we walked around downtown, and I found these strange graffiti type things around the city. The first was at the Wilson middle school where they have this painted "I'm proud of you" thing on the pavement, anyways I saw another one on one of the buildings downtown. I wonder what it means hmmm? If anyone knows just tell me what it means pleaseee. 

My favourite pink sandals. They sparkle! 

Paint a pot

(Ethan trying to screw up the picture I took of myself for my sister since my sister wanted a picture of me)

But after the interview I called up Ethan to paint some pots again. This time I painted a pot in one sitting. With this pot I wanted to try out how well putting details into a pot would work. I wonder how much the glazes will bleed when fired in the kiln. I hope not though. But it is always relaxing doing that..you know painting and listening to music.

I just have a few more pots to paint..then I have no clue what I am going to do. Anyways stayed tuned for what I may do tomorrow. Hopefully I will finish cleaning my room and taking out all my garbage.

"Glazing" in the grass

Since I did not have work today, I decided to finish painting the pots that I had been talking about in previous posts. The colour of the pots will not be the same pastel colour that they are now, the paint that we used is a glaze, which is composed of silica. 

 Basically, the silica is just sand that has different oxides to make different colours. With glazes, when you fire them in a kiln, it will bring out the vibrancy of the colours. But why they use this kind of paint is because then you can be able to put water inside of the pot or possibly drink out of it without getting sick.

The paint also has interesting names as well. One of the names of the colours was Taber corn, which I thought was funny since the corn is so famous it got its own name ha ha. There are also other names too like saskatoon berry.

After we finished painting the pots, we decided to go look at a few of the galleries in the Bowman Art Centre. I mainly was interested in the gallery that had more sculptures since I had not been into 2d art ever since working on this sketch that I did of my sister and I.

"You get more interesting when you get older"

(My favourite)

rated R: Rest and Relaxation

After a days long work of really doing....nothing. It is nice to just kick back and relax. The most relaxing thing that I like to do is hang out with Ethan since he is so chill about everything. At his house recently, we had a bonfire and we roasted marshmallows. I just set mine on fire to see what would happen if you would not blow it out, and I learnt about different types of ways to build a fire. 

There is the pyramid way (most popular way) or the cabin house way. The cabin house way of making the fire made the fire a lot bigger and made it hotter as opposed to the pyramid way. But the pyramid way uses less firewood which is good too if you do not have a lot of fire wood. 

After that we went to the park like usual. But this time we went exploring for other parks. There are so many different parks on the North side though and I think it is crazy! No favourites yet, but I will stay tuned..maybe do a review of the parks that are around here, if ANYONE reads this blog at least! 

But try to stay tuned..anyone that is out there that is reading this blog at this exact moment...