Never underestimate the power of doing absolutely nothing. That was my Christmas and I couldn't have asked for more. Really... really wonderful. Usually, my life is all hustle and bustle these days with many annoying people (see: assholes) that I have to deal with. So... for them to all just -go away- and to have the place to just Ryan and myself was just thrilling. Sure... traveling to Europe or Asia would be great for the holidays, but when I get down to it, I don't want to stay there for only a week. And I certainly don't want to have to be busy and un-relaxed the whole time. :P We had a constant movie marathon playing in the background... Harry Potter 1-6, Bruno, 300, Seinfeld (so they're not movies...), etc etc. I've lost track of what we did and did not watch. holy wow bruno, much penis there.

I'm writing this at 4:45AM because apparently my body feels it doesn't need to sleep. Grrrreat. Although, for the record, this probably won't be posted till a normal time. For the past few days all I've been hearing are the sweet sweet sounds of TF2 because the soldier/demoman update is ROCKING. for anyone who is on my flist and does not have a steam account give me one good reason WHY NOT. >;|

Man... I don't want to have to go back to my dorm. Really. I do. not. want to be near my roommate. Unless she changes her attitude, shit will go down. ;/ It's not even that, you know, she can move her ass to the bedroom at the very end of the hallway - the one furthest from mine. She can be as selfish and pigheaded as she wants, as long as it's not near me. Bleh!! Honestly, some chicks, they get a dick in their vag and suddenly the world must bow to them. "Look at me~~!!! I can get laid! Now all you others can just deal with whatever I want however I want now!" No no no. That's not how it works and I will be the first to tell you that, ~*~sweets~*~. I'm sure all of you can relate somehow in someway to a person acting like this. Whatever. Tbh, I am glad my other roommate is about to kick her out, too... haha
I've gotten bitter in my old age. :P

ALSO: I hope everyone had a really wonderful New Years, too! :D

So, I definitely updated my user info into a nicer looking layout. Despite my earlier entry, I figured I'd pizazz it a little. Also shamelessly linking to it because I think it's pretty rad.

Anyway, I am so thrilled that my semester is over! My last final was Friday night, we were going to stay that night because of the weather. Unfortunately, over the past two weeks my roomie has done a complete 180 and turned into the Ultra Selfish Bitch. Ryan was like fuck it all, bad weather or not, we're leaving. I couldn't have agreed more. Hannah had already fled the apartment and Julie didn't hang out there at all.
Overall, though, my finals were not so bad. The one I was dreading the most turned out to be the best one. I think because it was really just a combination of all the tests into one, almost. Not so bad.

Anyway, Christmas is soon! Yay! We're going to have a movie night. So far we have the following movies planned: Any James Bond, Harry Potter, ... And that's all. Haha. So, any suggestions would be great!! TELL ME YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES. Do it. I am hoping to go to Roots, Futureshop, Lush, and Gamestop for Boxing Day. :) 50% off everything? Man, it makes the prices for Roots actually worth it!

Anyway, short post, I've been pretty blah this week. Go go Christmas Eve! :D

That makes it two down, six more to go for the meta. I don't know why I didn't do these last year. I am one achievement away from Salty (yay! I am -way- too excited for this one. Especially since I used to hate fishing...) and only a handful from Chef. After that I am thinking of working on the ever abominable pvp achievements. I get them so much easier on my paladin who is, idk, 40 levels lower and significantly lesser geared than my priest? ;(



I'm rather ecstatic about this song. It's great, I love the trumpet and the chorus. :) Catchy!

Tomorrow is my second to last final exam. Yes! Sweet freedom! It shall be mine. Christmas break, you cannot come sooner. I want long nights and able to sleep in till the afternoons. I also want the break from studying.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-alice-trailer.html
Scrolling to the bottom of the page gets you the trailer of the new Alice in Wonderland movie by Tim Burton. (It really makes me think of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movie, has that same sort of 'magic' and drama feeling to it.)

As I told Ryan that I was sorted into a Hogwarts house, he immediately without a second thought says, "Slytherin?" If the person who knows me best says that this is the house, it might just be the right one! :P What a fun little two weeks. It was funny watching what people said. Ahahaha. I would have made mention of this community beforehand on my LJ for all of you, but alas, if I had been squibbed (ala, not able to enter because I'm not good enough)- well, I didn't want that. :P
It sucks, I don't have my Harry Potter books out here with me!! QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ. I gotta get a library account so that I can reread them and Ryan can read the 7th.

http://community.livejournal.com/wow_ladies/12035456.html
what the fuck. LOL. i can't really care for the book (although it's hilarious) - it's the thread. seriously that whole thread is ROFLMFAO. i just love the WoW community sometimes. :>

maybe i am just elitist, which is entirely possible i do get that mentality, but... i think that if a person ONLY plays like... WoW or something they are not really a gamer. how can you say you're a GAMER if all you do is play one game and that's it? That's not really gaming then, that's just a hobby of one thing. the gamer hobby, imho, is where you can pick up any game and just play it. you like gaming as a whole thing, not a game. also, that you like gaming simply for it and don't do it for ~*~teh boyz~*~ attention. "omg if i play halo, ben will JUST LOVE ME. tee hee. ♥ ♥ ♥" knock it off!!!

i took my archaeology exam yesterday. wtf hard. there was one question where i was so clueless i wrote "i've got nothing -4". MAYBE HE WILL GIVE ME POINTS FOR MARKING MYSELF WRONG. ??? actually, my roomate didn't know what it was either. fabulous.
i hate this weather. it's consistently like 35 below, i have to dress my absolute warmest to walk 10 minutes for an exam. lol.

Okay, I never make remarks on the quotes I pick for my subject titles, but that one's pretty good...


Best chocolate covered hedgehogs in the world.

Supposedly...
I need to update my info page because it says nothing about me. I don't even have my interests listed. Apparently, this is bad news. "Oh, Jess, all we know is that you play wow and listen to Bittersweet Symphony!" My dear dear people, little do you know: I really am a million different people from one day to the next. It's my catch phrase, maybe. Sometimes, I think I should make my journal friend's only. After all, everyone else is, yes? Then I remember, what is the point? I don't write anything personal or of importance, anyway. Lolz...

People are so funny. Everyone makes me lol for one reason or another. Maybe I think everything is ridiculous (because it is). Eh, what of it. Is the world really that non-serious? Guess so.

I was given, for Christmas, this wonderful warm blanket. When I got the box, I was so confused. It was from no one, it weighed six lb, and it was large. I hauled it through the cold and the snow, opened it, AND THE BEST BLANKET EVER. Nice dark red/brown. :)

Finally: my theory exam was a whore. It was fine, you know, whatever --- till the end. Three damn questions and the last one was just ridiculous. I believe I made myself look like a conspiracy theorist with it. Seriously. -_-

This is, possibly, the single best improvement to the game they've ever put in through a patch.
It makes heroics fast, efficient, and just pure business. None of this waiting around and "oh i need to drag my friend through here to get gear." No. You don't like the person, they're gone. Business. Queue, run it, bam, done. I love it.
I mean, of course, the other changes to the game are stellar too. Don't get me wrong, I love the new five mans, but they just don't compare!!

I have officially waged war with the leech of the house. It is subtle, it is mean, but my god will it be effective and very well dished. She deserves it. I suppose some of you may remember her from a post I made long ago (as in like, last month, SO LONG)... yep, still around. Still an awful person. I'm done with her. She's pushed the limits and now she gets her payback. Who is she to me? Why do I have to take responsibility for someone I do not even talk to. Well, I don't. REVENGE, JULIE.

Btw, I totally loved how like everyone jumped on my entry about Soukosa. Everyone had something to say. "Oh, let me tell YOU about Sou/Brian/Sophia." I just ♥ you all. Seriously. XD Haha

Anyway, yeah, lol, on to more serious things. *tries to think of more serious things...* I have my first final exam tomorrow, and seriously, I'm done with the class. Literary theory, great. Okay. I'm sick of it. I can only take so much Aristotle/Hegel/Wilde/*insertnameofsome"great"literarygeniushere* before I want to shoot people. It's all so boring. OH BOY. This author's theory is just like EVERYONE ELSE'S. At the core, well, they all are. Come on. :(

We had to get a new battery for the car because it will be approximately -30c on Sunday. That means the car will not start at all. -20c is pushing it, really. It needs to be turned on about 45 minutes before we even try to go anywhere. Not too mention that it must be driven everyday to keep it from freezing over too badly. QQ haha (But at least there's epically pretty snow all over the place!)

And it's a new season of Top Gear! Faaaaantastic. Okay, so it started about... 4 weeks ago, so I'm a little late, but we're watching it now. And it's as great as ever. Seriously, we were loling ever so hard at all of it.
If you have not watched this show or think "oh my god a show about cars how boring" stfu and go see it. It's brilliant.


I just want to say one thing: Man I hate when people give me excuses.


Anyway, ( if you want to sift through this, it's a nice recipe for two for less than 20$ )

Also, also, also...
BIG BANG THEORY! WOOHOO!!!
Season 3. I haven't watched any of it yet buuttt... I have them. :)

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=16032&count=0

Yes. YES. Less than a year from now! Harry Potter DH Part 1! I cannot wait! It looks so eerie. :3

I don't think I can take the scene where he's wandering through the forest to his death though... Oh god. I sobbed like a babe at that part. (I'm cheese, I know, loool).

PLEASE. Do not fail me, oh directors! I've been disappointed for a while (sans the 6th, which was pretty good...) :D Woohoo!

Typical, you know you're a nerd when...

Ahhh, the semester is coming to a close. It feels like it only just started. To be fair... it kinda did. :P
It snows a damn good amount here. At my univ, we get possibly... 1ft of snow consistently. If it is ever below that, be sure to see more snow fall. Snows just about everyday, actually...

Lately, my roomies, Ryan, and myself have taken to playing board games every Weds. Anyone that thinks that board games are childish or boring knows nothing! So far we've taken over Europe via trains, which was fun but the real fun game was The Settlers of Katan. Ryan and myself were a team and when everyone said we had no chance, we went extreme mode. Kicked all their asses and then some. Monopolized the game just because we could. Take that, suckers.

Recently, I sat Ryan down and made him play TF2 and HL2. The screams, the lols, the anger. It's all good. TF2 gets better every day. Speaking of games, totally looking forward to Cataclysm. :D


I have no idea what I am going to do for Christmas. :( Probably sit around and watch James Bond.

life is really great these days!!
I am where i want to be, i have a great relationship with a great man. I get to spend weekends at, i suppose it's our house now since i've lived there with him the past 2.5 months, there with him. 
life is just where i want it to be.
in fact the only thing i could really use right now is a job. my money reserves are running a bit low, so it would be nice to get something going. but, i am not allowed by the government for another 5 months. 
ryan keeps offering to give me money but like i could take that. i am far too stubborn for that. :)

we went to the ancient forest last weekend. It's a 2k+ year old forest up on a mountain. there was a waterfall there so i got some of the water in my bottle for delicious drinking, and let me tell you, it was more than delicious. 
i as given a bag of fresh home grown plums. it's like eating candy. nom nom nom. :9 

This will never get old...!

I seriously have not been able to get this song out of my head. I don't know what it is but Bob Dylan is just such an earworm for me.

I've been looking at those Kanye West memes now. Wow, they're effing hilarious.

I am thinking about joining a club. Probably the anthropology club. Theres a number of opportunities out here for Archaeology. So, if all goes according to plan, I am aiming for to be able to finish my schooling, get a job out here, and just live here. There's a nice field school I am going to look into, and I also think that the club will help out as well. 

I found out that one of my other roomies is a huge Harry Potter dork like me. That's pretty sweet imho. She has autographed photos of Dan Radcliffe, one for every year as a Hogwarts student. I think that's pretty neat. I liked seeing how is handwriting progressively had gotten better from when he was 10/11 till now. :)

I had a super quiet and relaxed 21st birthday. This does not bother me. (Plus, I've been legal to drink here for a while now, with the age being 19 and all...) In fact, the only real celebrating I'll be doing is tomorrow night. Ryan is taking me out to dinner at this nice fancy place. :) It was hard getting reservations but we got them! I'm so excited. 
I bought myself for my birthday a new pair of shoes. Exciting, huh? :p I knew it was coming. I loved my sort of khaki colored vans with a passion. They were easy to wear, just slide on and slide off. But, after years and years of wear and use, they were beginning to turn against me. Ohhh, the foot and leg pain. It was awful. So, I invested in a pair of shoes that are grippy, waterproof, and all around very good. None too flashy, just like my others, but still stylish just the same. Merrels. If you need shoes, get them!

I have plenty of pictures to post into my facebook. Kind of makes me sad that people are beginning to ignore their ljournals for facebook. I am going to keep on posting here. Maybe just pictures and mindless banter to fbook and normal entries here. Seems like a good system to me.  Too bad I never really have any pictures to post. 

School's started.
Zomfg. Classes technically started yesterday, but, well, you know. I have three other roommates. One of them actually plays WoW and is geeky like me. Haha! Another is from Norway. :D Yay!
I like this campus. While I am in the minority, as an international student, theres still so many of us from all over the place. It makes it better, you know? :) Thankfully, since the school is on the top of a mountain, I get an epic view of the city and the surrounding area. I also get all of my bus trips paid for. nice. So, of course, myself and Jen went shopping. Till we got rained on.
The fire ban has finally been lifted from the area so we can have a campfire! There's been so many forest fires and 0 rain that we couldn't go before. But now... wilderness! Here I come!!

Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there

That was my summer. Bye, summer, I'll miss you. :(

 lol, really, does anyone here even use lj anymore? or is everyone on facebook these days? :p

ryan and myself... back into the groove of wow. ehhehehe. it was a nice break we took. 

canada is amazing. AMAZINGLY EXPENSIVE. i hope to remedy this. mcdonalds has pretty good coffee and salads. seriously. i think i use my lj mostly to watch communities now, or something. 

ps. people who talk just to hear their own voice, like, they canNOT stop the chatter, are one of my pet peeves. AND THEY RUIN MY CONCENTRATION WHEN I AM HEALING PEOPLE. I am fully aware people are dying, because you're BOTHERING ME and i am looking at their health, what do you THINK i am looking at??? my dps?!
:P

( i did it for the lolz i did )

 

life is gud. i went a WHOLE WEEK without internet. it was ruff! how i survived? baths with lush and civilization 4. oh yes. i was theee most amazing emperor in all the world! and Genghis khan was my pal. oh yes. 

finally i can stop waking up at 5 am ~___~ helping ryan at his job. at the mill by 5:30 am, freezing cold outside and cooking hot inside. and one step into one of those bathrooms makes a person REALLY APPRECIATE fresh air. (zomfg you have no idea how grimy people can be, ick.)

So, I have been asked numerous times to keep tabs on my facebook. I can't help it though when i fall out of doing this because FACEBOOK BOTHERS ME. heh
but i try. :P


i finally got to see the northern lights the other night. my oh my how lovely they were. we were driving back from hp:6 (oh yeah lolz i guess i saw that too) and ryan is like "?? THE NORTHERN LIGHTS" and the next thing i know he detours to like ... the middle of nowhere.
so, we're driving top speed on an abandoned road to look for a place where theres no lights. and we find it. smack in the middle of dark, completely silent, cool woods. very scary, haha. e-e
but the sight we saw was just amazing. not only could you see the aurora perfectly (bright green) but it was so dark you could see every star in the sky. and since we were out in nowhere, everything was quiet and still. it's too bad we didn't have his camera with us at the time. can you imagine those shots!?!? wow!

i'll try and post pictures up sometime. they're on his laptop, nothing is on  mine. like, nothing.

:D

managed to get to canada alright. no troubles or anything at all really thrilling this time. which is perfectly fine to me. :)
i ended up sleeping so much on my flights that in the end, 0 jet lag. I adjusted 100% to pst. not bad not bad.
it's been majorly fun so far ! unfortunately i get terrible service out here so i am going to need to speed up the whole getting a cellphone thing out here soon. all the roaming...
i never knew that the bank that took over all the commerce banks back home was a canadian bank, which is actually good news. now i can open an account over here much easier.
i got my student visa, it looks so official. the immigration officer told me i wasn't allowed to work at tim hortons though. QQ. stapled it into my passport though, it's pretty awesome. i only need to leave canada once within the next 3 years. then i have to get my visa extended. i'll be a student forever and never go back. :P
the festival started today and we went to this thing called crash to pass. oh was it ever neat. basically, a lot of cars going boom boom. i ended up calling both victors i was so proud. :D must post pictures of that later. we got a video of the last bit so maybe even that too. XD

my macbook bugged out. already. lol. it was used extensively for like 3 days. again, the screen just goes black (different from my other laptop problem :X).
SO NOW I AM ON A MACBOOK PRO AND ZOMFG THEY ARE SO COOL.
I think i'll run away to canada with it and we'll get married.

I also have untold amounts of strength (or maybe built up force) in me. XD in my adventures of cleaning out everything i managed to slam a rather decent hole into the wall. i am strong like bull! /flex bb.

i only have 20 TWENTY days left before i leave. wahoo!

pour mel: zomfg mellie beans i went to mac the other day (to return something i know for shame), they have so many lovely colors for eye shadows. XD I HAVE A WHOLE SET NOW. !!! :D

and i officially have 4 level 80s on WoW. ._.

• 80 human priest
• 80 human warlock
• 80 night elf hunter
• 80 night elf druid

(i have no idea where my catch phrase "variety is the spice of life" went to.)