when i first heard i was going to japan…

…i expanded my work availability so that i would receive more shifts and rake in more dough! but a few days later i changed it back. why?

well, who ever looks back in retrospect on their life and goes: oh geez, i wish i spent my youth working more.
or do they go: i wish i spent more time with my family and friends.

i don’t want to be homesick in japan and wish i spent more time with my family and friends. because i doubt i will be homesick in japan and wish i took more shifts. it’s a possibility…but i highly doubt it.

which is why i am so excited for this weekend!
i am going to go to paintballing…work (but with winnie there it will be a hoot)…go out for fondue…work on my essay (ugh) AND MAYBE perhaps go out on sunday night.

ooh tomorrow i start my first japanese lesson! it will be exciting!!!

but what i am most excited for is bowling night tomorrow. im setting lisa up with this guy…bwhahahha.

sidenote**
lisa watched oprah yesterday and apparently…there was this guy who broke their penis in half while engaged in intercourse.
lisa says: you know, you can break your penis in half if you do sex wrong.
justin goes: how do you do sex WRONG?
- if you miss and hit a wall
- how does it break in half? the law of physics say..well, for example if i stick this fork into a wall it will puncture the wall. the fork won’t break in half.
- well is your penis made out of steel?

so guys, be careful. sex is dangerous. not only can it expose you to stds or cause unwanted pregnancy but you can break your penis in half! so the lesson is: DONT HAVE SEX.

love ya later,
boots

 

major sleeping problems…like, what durrrr

i woke up at 5am this morning. that’s the fifth time this week!

so that’s what brought me here on the computer at 7.  well, it’s almost 8 now and i should get ready to go to school, so i will make this quick.

 last night nicholas cooked me alfredo pasta and stir-fry.

cutest thing ever. he had all the ingredients cut up into pieces in bowls beforehand. he was suppose to cook spaghetti buttttttttttt we all know there are meat in meatballs! and the shrimp shells were all peeled off, while the celery and carrot pieces were all diced up. quite an impressive presentation. and we watched dinner in front of the tv. ‘parental control’ was on on mtv and then we alternated between ‘family guy’ and ‘don’t forget the lyrics.’

next time, the pasta can use more sauce.

okay must get ready for school now!

xox

boots

 

‘only good boyfriends cook meals for their girlfriends’

well, i hope he lives up to expectation because tonight nicholas offered to cook me dinner. today is thursday…which means i cannot eat red meat. so i wonder what he will conjure up…

i hope i dont get food posioning.
let’s all pray for me.
tehhe joking…

xox
boots

 

i haven’t painted in my nails for so long…

…i totally surprised myself by doing such a kick grass job tonight!
i mentioned how work chips my nails and at one point, i even comtemplated whether or not i should quit because it was really ruining my cuticles. no jokes. and my hands would always get dry so i would have to continuously reapply hand cream.

anyway, i have really small hands. i think my youngest sister (12 yrs old) have the same size hands as mine, but my pinky is shorter. it’s kinda strange. i have really small hands and feet. anyway, sometimes my hands would be so soft i’d hold hands with myself (it’s basically clasping hands together). anyway, it feels empty when i hold hands with myself. like there’s no meat. no flesh. it’s all skin and bones. and i’m not even skinny! my hands are just anorexic. seriously, they feel so weird to hold. i guess i can’t have a monorelationship with myself!

2 more sleeps until thestylespy event!!!

xox
boots

 

i am really losing myself…

…i have practically lost myself i can’t control my eating habits!
everything is so yummy and so thereeeeeeee…

anyway!

there are a few things i am looking forward to:

monday the 10th: cuts for cancer, but mostly my mc-ing for the event. last year was such a blast i hope to have even more fun this year! but last year i did it by myself, this year i am being paired up with someone else…so we’ll see how it goes.

wednesday the 12th: chicken wings for 24cents each at oscar’s. if i am not too swamped with hwk and tired from work we are going to double date! it will be interesting to see how kale and nicholas interacts.

friday the 14th: FABULOUS NIGHT hosted by thestylespy.com!! since there inst really a dress code…i am going to dress up! bwhahaha because i haen’t really dressed up in awhile. we will all arrive in our timeless swagger. yay!

mmm that’s about all. the rest of this month will be boring.

xox

 

i went to visit my former high school today…

and for those that are unaware of the situation, my hs is going through a massive reconstruction to earthquake-proof itself.

everything just looks so different. walking through the halls did not give me the nostalgic feeling i had hoped for.

i am a very sentimental person. when i walked through the school i had to make certain detours because parts of the school was blocked for reconstruction. how could a former student of five years be lost in a school that was so near and dear to her? i was disappointed because the sentimental feelings i associate with my school only lies in my memories now. walking through the school is like walking through unknown territory. a stranger in a building with new students, new teachers, new classrooms and new hallways.

i miss you.

 

japan…and other things.

*plays bamboo music in the background*

–wait, is bamboo japanese-y at all? sounds more chinese to me. anyway…

so i am in the process of filling out my visa (or have i already mentioned this in my previous post?) i need a lot of stuff…letter of studentship, letter of recommendation, passport pictures, passport photocopies, health care photocopies, etc, etc, etc.!.!.!.

now i know where to book my flight it wont be too expensive. thank goodness i made friends with a japanese peer in english class last semester. and thank goodness the same friend is in my sociology class this year. thank goodness to making friends! anyway, she gave me this site where i can book fares for super cheap! im really excited.

i am going to leave in the first week of may.

and i don’t know when i will come back. maybe in late december? hopefully before christmas!

actually, i am kind of sick of talking about japan. shall we move on?

I KNOW!
yesterday my dearest winnie came over to my house and we cleaned up my room. SERIOUSLY, major transformation right there. maybe i will upload pictures…we’ll see. MY ROOM WAS SUCH A DISASTER. i am a tornado. tehhe.
we’ve went through 6 garbage bags and a box full of recycling material.
and four hours later…
my room isnt totally clean yet, we never got time to clean up my wardrobe. but my room is basically clean. it’s so clean it echoes… i forgot how much space i had in there.
it’s amazing. <3

okay. this is why i have winnie so much. my room wa spretty dusty, im not going to lie. we probably wiped out a whole civilization of dust bunnies. the job was not glamorous at all. but she’s a true trooper, no jokes. and she’s a great motiviator…at times, a tyrant. well, she got the job done. and she volutneered to come back again to clean my wardrobe because she knows i wont do it unless hse’s there. well, i will do it some time this weekend…i promise? well, don’t take my word for it because i may not do it after all. tehehhe.

yeah, so my room is SO clean right now it ECHOES (i can’t get over how it echoes, can you tell?). it’s kind of freaky. but i love it. my goal is to keep the cleansiness for the two months that i will be there. just so i can practice cleaning up after myself and keeping things tidy. after all, my home in japan will be the same size of my room, no doubt (small house, not big room).

anyway, im going to header now.

love ya later,
boots

 

“i went on your blog and you haven’t mentioned japan at all!”

says liss. my, my, i didn’t even know you read my blog!
anyway, yes dear reader, i will be leaving for japan around the 7th, 8th, or 9th of may. and i am not quite sure of my return date…probably some time in late december.
I AM SO FREAKIN’ EXCITED!!!!!

at first i was very, very, very nervous and apprehensive about this endeavor. going to japan for 8 months…to teach english…in a foreign country? holy cow.

goooooooood lord.

right now i am collecting documents, pictures, making photocopies to prepare for my visa application. i am totally doing this. i am even starting to look at flight rates.

today ittti japan sent me a comprehensive package about all the frequently asked questions and how i can prepare for japan. THIS IS SO OVERWHELMING.

anyway im going to head out now and develop photos! i haven’t developed any photos since…early october. i need to delete them off of my camera.

i’ll tell you more about japan very soon, dear reader!

love ya later,
boots

 

retail diaries of the minimally paid: would you like a bag?

my religious view: sustainability.

sometimes when i am at work and someone purchases a small necklace, i’d ask: would you like a bag?
if they say: yes, please.
i will give them a subtle evil glare. because OBVIOUSLY if i think you need a bag i wouldn’t ask. you do have a purse you know! why do you wanna use a plastic bag when you’re just going to end up sticking it back into your purse?

ugh.

since im so consumed in saving bags i’d always use a small bag and fold everything neatly (even jeans) into the small bag just so i dont have to give them a bigger bag. i just dont think it’s necessary…LET’S SAVE PLASTIC HERE, PEOPLE!!

i wanna make a difference, even if it is being stingy on shopping bags…

xox
boots

 

i am not an athlete.

two days ago when it was super sunny (like it is today) i went out for a jog around my neighbourhood. do not be surprised here, folks. back in the summer i used to jog around my neighbourhood often! well, i’ve basically been a retired jogger for about half a year and after running the other day my tighs hurt!

the muscles feel tangled. like it hurts when i go up stairs and it hurts even more when i go down stairs. when i woke up it hurt to walk out of my room. it just hurts! okay fine, it dones’t hurt that much, it is bareable, but it feels uncomfortable.

next time i will stretch. well i kind of stretched on tuesday but that didn’t help either.

anyway, i think i need to find a new form of exercise because people who run/jog get big calves and my calves are already unproportionately large already! i like hiking, but that will also work out my calves as well. and if i have big calves, i will find it hard to fit my legs into tall boots! which btw, i bought a new pair yesterday <3.

it hurts though. i went to the casino last night and it started to scrap against my ankle and it hurted. maybe i just need to break into them…they are a size and a half too big. but usually people wear boots that are a bit bigger than their normal shoe size so they can wear thick socks. maybe i should just wear two pairs of thick socks. tehehhe

i think i am going to take a nap…

good day!