love

Dang, I blog almost every day now. So just now I was listening to one of my all time favourite songs ever. I'll give you the lyrics, then I'll tell you why. Love, by Sugarland Is it the face of a child Is it the thrill of danger Is it the kindness we see in the eyes of a stranger Is it more than faith Is it more than hope Is it waiting for us at the end of our rope I say it's love I say it's love Is it the one you call home Is it the Holy Land Is it standing right here holding your hand Is it just like the movies Is it rice and white lace Is it the feeling I get when I wake to your face I say it’s love I say it’s love Is it the first summer storm Is it the colors of fall Is it having so little And yet having it all Is it one in a million Is it a chance to belong Is it standing right here singing this song I say it’s love I say it’s love (I say it’s love) Is it a veil or a cross Is it the poet's gift (I say it’s love) Is it the face that has launched over thousands of ships (I say it’s love) Is it making you laugh Is it letting you cry (I say it’s love) Is it where we believe that we go when we die (I say it’s love) Is it how you were made Is it your mother's ghost (I say it’s love) Is it the wish that I'm wishing for your life, for your life, for your life the most For starters, I have the studio version on my ipod. Downloaded, of course. And that version is fine. But if you listen to the live version and watch the video, it's so much more intense! So much more passionate! Uncontained. And I just love the lyrics. One thing I've always really liked about country music is how it tells a story. One thing I LOVE about this song is how it doesn't. But it's not like tons of popular music lately, that's basically got a good beat so you can dance to it and little else...it's got real meaning. No story, but meaning. My two favourite parts of the song are the first verse and the end. Is it the face of a child...I read something similar in my book today: "Something so divine that no one up in heaven could have made it up; the care a child took with an adult." I love that idea. Yeah, kids can be bratty. They can have tantrums and be impossible. But kids seem to have a bigger capacity than us to love. Not that we can't...but they just have this innocent love. To quote Bekah (kinda), their love isn't, "I like you till you hurt me." And is the the kindness we see in the eyes of a stranger...I want to be that stranger. Like our "service project" last semester. We just headed out onto 50th at rush hour in the snow and waited for the light to turn red. Then we went up to cars and just gave them candy canes. Yeah, we did it cause we had to do SOMETHING. But it was so much fun, and people loved it. This time around we're going to the Mustard Seed. I haven't been...I can't wait. It's a shame how psycho our society is. These days people who go around talking to everybody and being really friendly are seen as weird or creepy, cause it's better to be safe than sorry. Who knows, maybe Rekiana's creepy 42-year-old stalker is really just a nice guy. On the other hand, maybe not. Is it making you laugh...is it letting you cry. You need a bit of both. Enough said. Man I can't get over this song sometimes. Sometimes, when I go to bed super late and i should really just sleep, I pull out my ipod and watch the video. Thanks to Curtis, I got it from youtube onto my computer and then my ipod (I don't know how the heck that works, but it did!). I just love the passion. I LOVE the whole end. Kristian Bush just goes all out. Not that the studio version is like, "we don't care"...but when you slap them up against each other and just listen, it's so obvious. Maybe the whole concert atmosphere just changes it all. I mean, you've got the fans and the lights to add to it. I don't know. Whatever it is, I LOVE it. Sugarland's got some other quality songs. Life In A Northern Town (with Little Big Town and Jake Owen...SO GOOD), Already Gone, and Stay. I'm really depressed right now cause I can't find the old video for Life In A Northern Town. Anyway, some musical thoughts for you folks. love!

i love you

have a good trip.

facebook

I know Abby already blogged about this. But I'm kinda hating facebook. It's unreliable and glitchy. It has way too many stupid applications. People make the most pointless groups, pages, events, and so on. And it eats up too much of my time. Bored in class? Check facebook. Friends all busy? Check facebook. Anxiously waiting for a message? Check facebook REPEATEDLY. Nothing to do in general? Log on MINDLESSLY. Over the last little while I've been spending more and more time on my computer. WHY? I probably have homework to be doing, like writing letters for poli sci and papers for English and IS, plus random assignments. Even if I feel like procrastinating more, I could easily pick up one of the many books I bought or borrowed and read all day. I could crank my music and put up pictures, or clean my room and vacuum, or write letters. I could pick up my trumpet for the first time in ages and play some pretty hymns from the pocket hymnal I thought to take along. I could go down to the practice rooms or the Atrium and play some piano. I could do laundry (well, I just did that). I could sleep. I could go for a walk. I could play games with people. There's this endless list of other stuff I could be doing. I just don't want to miss anything. I don't want to miss a chance to talk to Emily, for example. So I just leave my facebook open in case she happens to come online. Same goes for msn. it's not even just facebook that's so bad (although it's an issue...I could have changed my status like 5 times today). It's my computer in general. Facebook, Mario, Sims, msn, youtube, movies, even blogging! So, I'm gonna shut down my computer tonight and see how long I can go computer free. Probably won't last longer than tomorrow, but we'll see how it goes (except for class). I don't really need it for any homework QUITE yet so that's fine. Later!

guys?

Nicole posted to her blog and I wanted to respond to it. She talked about guys and how she (and lots of girls) are searching for that guy and can't wait for that part of their lives to start. She said that she needs to learn to wait, because it's all in God's timing, not hers. I'm figuring, it's pointless to worry about guys right now anyway. I mean, I know people my sister's age are getting married, but they're also moving away. This is a time when everybody is moving around and only some of us are sure about our plans. That's something I think about a lot here. I mean, people date so easily within the rez and the school, but don't they realize these people are FROM far away? Yeah, we're all here for now, but we won't be forever. Plus summer and everything. Being from BC, I know how few people (relative to the population of the school) are from there. I know that for myself, it would be very difficult for me to date somebody from far away. Even living in Edmonton for as long as I have is hard for me. I don't know exactly where I meant this to go. I changed my way of thinking halfway through writing this anyway. It's hard to know. I think I'd prefer to stay on the coast though, providing everybody I know doesn't move away. I love how this moved from guys to where I want to live. One more reason I don't worry about them right now. I'm young. I have so much more to come in my life than a man. I want to go on missions, be an English teacher, become a good musician, get a job I love...a man will fit nicely, but he'll come when he comes.

To Emily, Who I Haven't Talked To In Over Two Weeks

Dear Emily, I miss you. Apparently I don't have a brain, because I haven't thought to call you. There are some events of interest I would like to tell you about, and I am certain that you have stories of your own. Please, let's talk soon. Your friend, Allison

3:13 AM

I should go to bed earlier. In my defense, I did watch AVATAR IN IMAX 3D TONIGHT. Which was at West Ed. At 10:30. Almost 3 hour long movie, equals long night. We got there 9:15ish, hung around for an hour, entered the theatre, watched the preshow (which advertised an "exclusive" clip for a movie that's coming out soon...I mean on January 8...), watched the movie, got out at like, 1:30 or something, drove back (ran out of gas literally as we stopped at a pump) and arrived back at 1:50-2ish? Makes sense. So where'd the last hour go? Oh well. Decent memories/tidbits of information from this experience: -Imax has a deal on Tuesdays. Movie, popcorn, drink for $16.45. It's like free food! You don't even have to click a button saying "I want a voucher for the concession". It's Heather and Allison proof! -Avatar was directed by James Cameron. Guess what else he directed? Titanic. And The Abyss. Guess when he came up with Avatar? Before Titanic was released. Yeah. Amazing director, way ahead of his time. -When the left turn light is red, you might as well go anyway -If Anthony had been pulled over for running said red light, Heather might have had a drink. Nobody felt like holding their drinks so we all put them on the floor since we weren't moving in the line anyway. Took me about half an hour to do so and two minutes after I did, Anthony did a pirouette and kicked Heather's drink past all our group and into the people behind us. Her drink was right next to mine. It could have been me. I didn't leave it there for long. -Getting to the theatre an hour early was perfect. See, we didn't get first choice of seats, but we definitely got the best ones. -Don't drink the whole drink. You'll have to pee right in the middle of the movie or hold it for the next hour and a half. -DON'T pass the Petro Canada to find a Shell. BAD IDEA. I think we were the only 6 or 7 people in all of Edmonton that hadn't seen that movie. I see why everyone did, now. I LOVED it, but I don't know if I should get it on DVD when it comes out. Downgrading from IMAX 3D (SO worth it!) to the 52-inch in the lounge? Or the 48-inch in my living room in BC? Much less the TV in our room or my laptop. HOLY CRAP. I just looked it up (by the way, does anybody know what's the biggest Imax in Canada??) and in my search I learned that the Imax in Vancouver (Canada Place) closed on this past October! WHAT?!?! How did I miss this?! Unless I knew and forgot...WHY?! Bedtime. I'm going to be exhausted tomorrow. How do I let myself get so caught up in distractions like this? Night!

Mario!

I'm going through this awful Mario phase. Not Mario like Mario Party or Mario Kart or whatever other new versions they've got now. Mario like Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3. I've been playing the same game of SMB3 for like, five days. I made it to world 7 without using my warp whistle (except once when I had like, one level and the ship left, and that was by accident and I was SO mad cause I actually WANTED to play those two). Anyway, I looked some stuff up and it's so funny how the game has changed SO much. I'm the last person to claim I'm an expert on Mario, but I did find out a couple things. Like, Princess Peach used to be Princess Toadstool. For anybody who played the oldest Mario games, that seems so weird (she looks more like a short Daisy with her red hair than Peach). I'm guessing they started Peach when they changed Super Mario 3 for SNES (they changed her hair to blonde, which is probably the end of Princess Toadstool and the beginning of Peach). Just now I tried image searching "Princess Toadstool" and all I got was pictures of newer Peaches like Mario Party, etc, until I got to page three or four. So weird how it evolved like that. I didn't even realize they were the same character, I just wondered what the heck happened to Princess Toadstool. And yesterday I tried playing SMB and SMB2 again, and even between 1 and 2, Mario changed a LOT. Plus Luigi looks really strange in 2. And then when you get to 3, they look pretty awesome cause technology's getting better. I don't know what comes between side scrolling games like that and Mario Party and Mario Kart and so on, but now they're 3D. I loved playing Mario on my oma's NES when I was younger and now that I figured out I can play it on my computer, I'm pretty stoked. Everybody has sweet systems now like Playstations, Wiis, Gamecubes, Xboxes and so on, but I love going back to the old classic games. Hey I just found five bucks in my pocket. Sweet. AND I'm going to see Avatar tonight in Imax 3D. AND the guys are practicing for Battle of the Bands across the hall again. AND my room is clean. Mostly. And the cupboard is cleaned out and organized, and dishes are done. Such a good feeling. AND I have no class tomorrow (just IS). So. Stoked.

music ♥

Ha! Poli sci is gonna rock. Sit in the back with my computer/bubble games, Elyse, and Eric, and it's gonna be awesome =) And more interesting than history. Also probably more difficult...sigh. AND Eric has two CDs to give me! Hideaway and Say I Am You (the Weepies). Looking forward to English tomorrow =)

back in e-town

So it's Sunday and I'm about to start my second week back at school. Well...I only went to two days of class so far so I guess last week doesn't count, but whatever. So far this semester has been so much better than last (yes, I know it hasn't even been four days). I'm hanging out with better people and i'm pretty sure I'm going to LOVE English and music theory, since music is gonna be a pretty easy course. Sociology, we'll see, and poli sci I'm expecting to be like my history class. I'll just have to bring my computer, take typed notes and play bubble games, and be sure not to miss the four classes right before the midterm. I'm a little disappointed considering the internet lied to me and the prof changed, but I'm sure it'll turn out alright. Overall, life's looking good. My only issue is that if this semester goes amazingly, how am I supposed to choose between Vancouver and Edmonton next year? Or rather, between family and old core friends at home, and new good friends here?

what a Sunday

Today I: -got up at 6:30 to drive Lauren to the airport. Prayers for her safe trip to Ghana! I'll miss you like crazy! Stay safe =) -went for breakfast in New West with my family on the way from the airport -went from breakfast to church -slept/almost slept through the sermon and any other part of the service where I wasn't standing up -talked with Robbie after church while I waited for Dave...and Dave didn't even go by me -went to Oma's after church -came back from there and then went to the Harrison to visit other oma -came home and had dinner -heard my siblings fighting...big surprise now in about an hour I'm heading out to Burnaby again to go to Dave and Brittany's. I'm not planning on staying there more than maybe an hour and a half to two hours, or I'll die. After that I'm going to unwind from this stressful day by watching an episode of BBT with my dad. Tomorrow I have to pick up my sister from the ferry at 10:45, so I have to leave by 10. Only two more days here.