Lizard.Speak

This blog is officially closed...and new ones opened!

2008-08-12T10:35:00.004-04:00

This blog is officially closed but please check out these links and blogs that I manage:

Ottawa Dog Blog

My portfolio website

A Photoblog with my sister

Halftone Media

HalftoneDots: An Online Store

My store at Zazzle

My flickr page

another flash flickr gallery

2007-10-01T12:00:00.000-04:00

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2007-10-01T11:57:00.001-04:00

Lots of Newness

2006-06-12T08:14:00.000-04:00

So i haven't updated this in a while but i have good reason. since my computer dearly departed, I have had limited time to compute outside work (where i'd obviously get into trouble writing blogs!). But, i have ordered a new iMac (yay more debt!) and it SHOULD be arriving on Wednesday. we'll see how that goes but i'm still hopeful.

In other news, Thomas and I have moved, we now live in Ottawa in a lovely one bedroom apartment that we love. my dad came to visit this weekend and helped us fix it up a bit and put up pictures and such so it's even more cozy now. we're lacking in furniture a bit but that's ok - we have enough for now and hey, it makes the space look a lot bigger!

well i should get going, have to get to work.

i normally don't post links but...

2006-05-20T10:52:00.001-04:00

ok so i normally don't post links and make too much fun of the odd things out there in this world, but....you have to check this out because it's hillarous. as if they think not shaving is going to do anything.

my POV? give it up girls, and put your energy into a worth cause. Making men shave is NOT more important than Cancer or AIDS.

i will keep on shaving...i like smooth legs and non-hairy armpits!

bye bye baby, baby goodbye...

2006-05-19T14:07:00.000-04:00

My poor computer broke again and it's not worth fixing it because the part is too expensive, i might as well just buy a new computer. What i don't get is that they replaced the same part no less than 6 months ago.

Why do these things always happen at the worst times?
ah well. i guess i'll figure something out.

Web Manager/Graphic Designer

2006-05-13T07:11:00.000-04:00

Ok so let me say for the record "Holy sh$% that happened fast!"
let me outline my "week" for you.

Sunday: Thomas' grandmother tells me about an add in the Ottawa paper about how Beddingtons needs a Web Manager/Graphic Designer.
Monday: I finish updating my portfolio again and apply for the job by emailing the name on the site.
Tuesday: I get a call from Beddingtons and have a phone interview. goes really well, get a face to face interview for the next day at 9:30am.
Wednesday: I go in for my interview, end up having interviews with 5 people at the company - good sign, end up being 1.5 hrs late for babysitting because of it. While babysitting, I get a call from Beddingtons saying they really like me and they want me to come in for a "trial run" the next day.
Thursday: I arrive at 8:30 for my trial run and stay there getting "trained" on everything for the morning. They tell me they are still interviewing and they'll call me next week. About 30 minutes after I leave they call me and OFFER ME THE JOB!!! HOLY COW BATMAN.
Friday: I go in for a couple hours in the morning to get finished training and sign all the paperwork!

yayayayyay. so I am now officially the new Web Manager for Beddington's Bed and Bath at their head office in Ottawa. I have a full time contract for a year and then I might be able to stay on there full time if they like what I do this year.

So this is very exciting and happened so very quickly. Thomas is still looking but I'm confident he'll find something.

Also, there may be movement on the apartment front. a friend of ours from school is moving to Toronto and he's said we could take over his lease. I'll post when I have official news.

So here's the thing...

2006-05-08T10:55:00.000-04:00

Unfortunately, Survivor Network had to cancel camp this summer due to unforeseen circumstances. it makes me really sad, but it'll be ok. we're starting a major recruiting campaign so if any of my loverly readers knows anyone who might be interested in being involved with SN, tell them to head over to the brand new website, or if you'd like it, i have written a press release that i can get to you easily.

in other news, still searching for a job, today, the hardcore search is on seeing as our "in" at one job isn't making me feel like it's gonna happen.

time to get on with it!
Liz Out

Portfolio Done!

2006-04-29T11:11:00.000-04:00

so after a weekend/week of intense work and finishing of school, i've finally finished my portfolio, and hey, it only took 58 hours.

but every moment was worth it because i really like it and i've received some nice words about it from people who don't give compliments easily.

so the official launch is right now
lizkerrison.ca

that's right folks. i have my own domain name now too. i went all out.

check it out and let me know what you think!

i can draw!

2006-04-22T00:21:00.000-04:00

So after talking to the program co-ordinator for multimedia, i have decided that i hate my current portfolio and i'm completely doing it over. this time i decided to get a little "animatey" and i've drawn some little critters to adorn my new site.

i drew them on paper, scanned the paper and drew them again on the computer. this is a very proud moment for me. i can't really draw on the computer too well and it's been years since i doodled something that looked semi decent.

they all have names too.
the green one is called: Bicuspid
the pink one is called: Rocket
the blue one is called: Dripple
the orange on is called: T-Bone
and the person one is me!

hopefully they'll look good in my portfolio which will soon be online at a new domain...but you'll have to wait until i've finish and then i'll announce it to all of my 2 readers! yay!

ok back to work time.

Single White Female (SWF) Seeks Well Paying Career (WPC)

2006-04-18T00:15:00.000-04:00

We're getting down to the wire now. Only 2 weeks left of school and i needs to get me a job. the hunt is on...hopefully i'm "employable"

i've found some postings, but who knows if they'll even look at my resume. maybe i should print it on pink paper and have it scented...worked in Legally Blonde. haha.

Unproductive Day

2006-04-06T01:19:00.000-04:00

Nothing school related got done
did do: cooked lunch, nuked dinner, chatted, emailed, wasted time, watched the last 20 minutes of America's Next Top Model, we got out of school late again and missed the start. boo. but at least we got to see Jade screw up her Cover Girl commercial. please don't let that girl win.

in other news: Jenny's coming to Ottawa this weekend!!! and she's bringing Chester Weatherby. i want his last name.

schedule for this weekend:
thursday - chillax day. have a rest day. class 6-9
friday - homework in the am, meet Jenny in ottawa in afternoon, homework in evening
sat - homework day, rent Narnia?
sun - homework, break for Benchwarmers at 2pm, maybe make a fancy dinner, more homework

school is drawing to a close therefore i have to finish projects plus thomas and i gots ourselves a real live client and we need to do work on that project too.

good luck to everyone who still has stuff to finish!

Zzzzzap!

2006-04-03T16:24:00.000-04:00

There is a website online today that made a deal that if 259 people blogged about it, they will give a bunch of AppZappers away for free. sounds pretty cool - since i'm on board for free stuff, here's my post!

Check it out at:
macZOT

OMG I'm so Obsessed...

2006-04-03T16:16:00.000-04:00

I have found a way to occupy my time in class!
finally, a way to spend the hours. haha

yesterday, while reading Jane's LouLou magazine, i noticed that they had an online contest so i went online and entered. then i thought, what if there are more contests for canadians....and there are! so freaking many. so i've been entering a whole bunch. the best sites (so as to share the love) are:

http://www.contestworld.ca/
http://www.somewhereincanada.com/
http://www.contestcanada.com

yay. free stuff....maybe. it's worth a shot anyways right?

Recap: Trip to Edmonton

2006-03-10T12:09:00.000-05:00

I'm currently babysitting and seeing as the kiddies are actually being quiet (watching Toy Story 2), i thought i'd catch up on my blog about last week.

I left for Edmonton last wednesday and after a LONNNG day of travelling, i finally arrived. I stayed with Leon and his family that night and then we got up nice and early to go to the Greater Edmonton Teachers Convention that we were speaking at. Since it had snowed for the first time the day before i got there, the roads were backed up like crazy and we missed the free breakfast, but that was ok because we found some muffins and stuff on the way. The convention was HUGE but not many people showed up to ours. too bad. our presentation was called "Cancer in the Classroom" where Leon talked about what a teacher should do if one of their students was diagnosed with cancer and i talked about the Survivor Network. i thought it went well and they gave me a free yoga mat as a thank you for participating. pretty amazing.

we stayed at the conference for some free lunch and Leon went to a couple of other presentations as i wandered around looking at booths. when we got back to Leon's house i gave Pam and call and we ended up heading over there. Pam and i went out for dinner at Boston Pizza and spent the night watching CSI and chatting away. met her awesome boyfriend who very kindly drove me to the greyhound station the following morning.

I then hopped on a bus for 2 hrs to Red Deer to meet up with Jeff who couldn't drive to see me in Edmonton because he'd put his snowboard through the back window of his car the day before. He met me at the station and we had a blast. we fixed his window with cardboard and duct tape and sat around watching hilarious SNL episodes he had on his computer.

Taryn also happened to be in town so we went out with her for dinner to celebrate her 5th year off treatment. after dinner we headed back to jeff's house where we watched a movie called Waiting with Ryan Reynolds and it was super funny.

I ended up going to Taryn's house that night and sleeping there because she decided she was going to drive back to Edmonton with me. Her mom made us yummy french toast in the morning and we headed back to Edmonton where we picked up Pam and went to West Edmonton Mall. The mall is really cool. we watched a seal show and saw flamingos and penguins. they also have a HUGE waterpark and a skating rink and rollercoasters. it's amazing.

We wandered around the mall until everyone else arrived for dinner. Mel, MaryBeth and Leon joined us and we all had a yummy dinner at Tony Romas. after dinner, Mary, Leon and Pam left and Taryn and Mel and I went out to meet Katie for dessert. we chatted for a couple of hours and then Taryn and I headed back to Mel's house with her.

Mel kept me up till about 3am (or 4, i can't remember!) chatting about so many things and then when i finally dozed off....it was time to get up for my flight. so, having roughly about 3 hrs of sleep, Mel and i set out for the airport....and she got lost. so lost in fact that i came THISCLOSE to missing my flight back. silly girl. when i finally got through security, i ran to my gate and got on the plane. close call.

after a 4 hour flight, we touched down back in Ottawa and it was time to go home...and sleep.

such a fun 5 days. glad i went...but now i have to deal with all the homework i avoided while i was there. aaahhhhhh.

Strike is ON

2006-03-07T00:04:00.000-05:00

at just past 10:30 tonight, we received word that the lovely college thomas, jason and i attend, is going on strike.

estimated min time out: 3 weeks
estimated max time out: august

this both sucks and rocks.

now we can dedicate tons of time to finish our client projects, and do as much as we can to finish the projects that we need to do to pass the course.

and another nice bit: my dad is leaving for Japan soon so i can go and visit a little before he leaves, and then keep my mom and sister company after he goes.

dans le Edmonton

2006-03-01T18:28:00.000-05:00

I've been traveling all day and i've made it in one piece. barely.

the first flight was 30minutes late and i almost missed my connecting flight from Calgary to Edmonton. But i'm here now and that's what matters.

tomorrow, Leon and i are making a presentation at some Teaching Conference about childhood cancer and the Survivor Network and hopefully i'll get to see some of my friends out here before i leave on sunday morning.

i've brough my computer because i have LOTS of work left to do that i'll attempt to do while i'm here.

now it's time to email my friends to see about them getting together

posting from a widget? no way!

2006-02-25T15:33:00.000-05:00

I must say that I love Google. Thomas found this awesome widget that lets me post a blog right from my computer, no logging in required. I think they might only be for Mac's but they're still worth checking out.
Well I'd better get back to doing my presentation for the conference next week. On Wednesday i'm off to Edmonton to speak at an educational conference about the Survivor Network.

ps. I want to give a shoutout to Melissa and Matthew W. who recently stumbled across my loverly blog. hi!

bad...so very bad...

2006-02-22T21:27:00.000-05:00

recently i've become interested in Palm Pilots. little teeny electronic organizers. sounds perfect for an organization freak like me.

so today, i was looking around and i found one i really want.

it's got a huge colour screen and has built in wireless internet receiver and you and write on it with the pen and draw as well.

this is bad because they're expensive.

so for now, i shall just dream....and hope to win the lottery

CONGRATULATIONS IS IN ORDER

2006-02-21T11:55:00.000-05:00

I want to say a big CONGRATULATIONS to Sawa for getting in at Western to do her Phd.
She will henceforth be known as Dr. Sawa

i feel so behind

2006-02-19T23:17:00.000-05:00

in EVERYTHING
even though i'm probably not...but i still feel like i am.

ice ice baby

2006-02-17T17:46:00.000-05:00

the weather this winter in Ottawa has been crazy. warm weather almost bringing Winterlude to a halt and the canal is never frozen enough...until today that is.

yesterday, as usual, Thomas and I headed to his parent's house in Arnprior so that he could get the car because I work on Fridays. It started snowing in the morning, which is good i might add because both of us really want to go skiing. anyways, long story short, there were reports of nasty freezing rain on its way, so Thomas came back in my car and decided to stay over at my place again and just wait while i babysat today.

well, as we exited school last night it was almost hailing, with the tiny pellets hitting our faces and hurting! we got home alright and went to bed. this morning was a whole different Ottawa. I left 45minutes early so that i'd make it on time or early. the journey usually takes about 10mins.

first, i went to go out the back through the fence to my car, but the fence was frozen shut in 10cms of ice. so i went around the front to find my car frozen shut. after 10minutes of trying, i finally got the door open and realized that there was over an inch thick layer of ice ALL OVER my car. i tried getting it off but got nowhere and went in to call babysitting, which they decided they didn't need me till later and i told them i'd try to get into my car.

it took 3 people and 1 hour to clear the car. we broke 2 ice scrapers and the wind was NUTS. i've never seen such ice.

I asked Thomas to drive me to babysitting because i get stressed driving in ice/snowy conditions and i've been here since 2.

so if we backtrack to last night, one of tara's friends, Janice (who used to live in my room), was over and she decided to stay over rather than risk the freezing rain. well after we helped her clear her car this morning, she returned to her house to find it without power so she came back. NUTSO.

what a day. that's all i have to say.

ps. i totally just accidentally posted this on my sister's blog by accident. oops!

Are those people dancing or.....

2006-02-07T10:53:00.000-05:00

This past Saturday was the Carleton University Charity Ball which 2 of my roomies helped to organize. Everyone got dressed all fancy-like and went to the Congress Centre in Ottawa and had a blast. There were tons of people there - i'm talking like 2000 people. it's too bad i didn't have such luck at my concert last year!

I wore my pink and black dress from Fairweather that i got a couple of years ago and Thomas was able to find an AMAZING tie that went very well and of which he received many compliments. He also was able to find a cufflink shirt and was able to wear his tie clip and matching cufflinks from Paris that he hadn't worn yet! Everyone looked stunning in their outfits and we all had fun dancing and making fun of the people who weren't dressed "appropriately" or who were doing suspicious things on the dance floor.

Earlier that day, Thomas and his little bro, Shawn, and I went to the Kanata Wave Pool which was tons of fun - and only $5 for students for 4 hours! Granted it was quite crowded with families, but we didn't mind. we went from the pool to the hot tub to the slide and back again. After swimming, Thomas and I went out to East Side Marios to celebrate our 1 year anniversary which was actually yesterday. It was great.

Speaking of yesterday, since it was our 1 year, we decided to forego school to do some more homework, then I kidnapped Thomas and took him mini-putting and then we topped it off with ice cream from McD's. it was a fun day, but alas, we're back to real life today. more homework and school tonight.

On another fabulous note: Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Ware-Rabbit comes out today so i'm stoked.

This coming weekend i'm going home for a visit which will be great. i'm very excited.

MISSING: my creativity

2006-01-30T21:10:00.000-05:00

My creativity seems to have vanished...it has vacated the premises of my brain.
I have been trying to design my client project for the past couple of days and I am royally sucking.

as Tara would say "I have barfed up things that look better". i know, it's a crude mental picture, but it rings true in this case.

So, i plead, if you find my creativity, please call.
there's a reward.

what? i'm being melodramatic?? no way. not me. i'm no drama queen.

snowbanks and nice people

2006-01-18T21:17:00.000-05:00

this is why i like Ottawa:

today, as Thomas and i were on our way to pick something up from his dad's work, we hit some ice and swerved into a snow bank, almost into the ditch. we were quite stuck there and i got out to get into the drivers seat (i made Thomas drive today cause i don't like driving in this weather), and the car behind us stopped and the man got out and came over to help Thomas push us out of the snowbank.

the two couldn't quite get the car out, and upon seeing this, another man stopped his car and helped push us out. we got out and said thank you and drove off.

very nice people. thanks for stopping to help us!

revelations

2006-01-11T16:14:00.000-05:00

every week that passes, i grow to hate our school schedule more and more. this year we have classes late in the evening from Monday - Thursday.

i have no life because of it. everyone is out in the day and home at night. i'm at school when everyone is chilling and watching tv and doing homework.

i guess the good thing is that i'm done in April. only 4 more months of this crazy schedule.

that is all.

back in the oDot

2006-01-07T09:44:00.000-05:00

Well i'm sure that Sawa and Justin are both mad at me because i haven't posted since last year. haha
so first things first

Happy New Year Everyone!

. now that's out of the way. back to what i've been up to.

i arrived back in ottawa last friday (not yesterday).. and Thomas met me at my house, with a red rose. yay. then on Saturday we ran errands then went out for dinner at Boston Pizza and to see Memoirs of a Geisha and then home to watch the ball drop on the tube. New Years Day was skiing time which was so much fun and then school started.

on Thursday we got our client projects for school where we work on a realy project for a business or charity - i am the Project Manager for the Canadian Geographic, Historical Map project and Thomas got Project Manager for the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra Website project. both of us are really happy and it should be a good term.

Last night is worth of a mention. Erin, Tara, Kyle and two of their friends all played Erin's new Family Fued game on DVD and it was tons of fun. we yelled, we cheered and Erin and I got emo. haha.

today i'm going to see King Kong and tomorrow is more skiing.
that is all for now.

a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Boxing...3 days! haha

2005-12-29T09:24:00.000-05:00

Well Christmas of 2005 is officially over. there are now Valentine's Day things in the stores. wow

the Kerrison family Christmas was wonderful this year. we all went a little crazy at Dollarama and we all got some hillarious gifts from there. Jane woke everyone up at 8am and we opened our stockings. then it was a yummy breakfast then more pressies until i met Thomas online at 11:30. afternoon we went over to my cousin's house for Christmas dinner and then we finished opening pressies that night. all in all, great holiday.

Boxing day, i actually braved a mall. i went to Square One at 8am and there were TONS of people waiting outside of the stores, i was a little blown away actually. i was heading to H&M where i was wanting a blazer and a vest. found both and a sweater for $10. the next day, Tara, Sarah, Jane and I headed downtown to Queen St. i resisted buying a pair of Kangaroo Boots for $130 and instead bought an amazing skirt at H&M @ the Eaton Centre that i was eyeing last week. i LOVE it. i also got a pair of cord pants for $10. yesterday i brought tons of things back and went in search of a shirt i first tried on on boxing day but couldn't find it anywhere. had to settle for it in another coulour, which actually might be better on me. i got a cardigan ($10) 2 more sweaters like the one i got before (both for $10) and the shirt (also $10). i ended up spending less than the $130 boots and i got so much more! it's funny though, i usually never find anything i like at H&M other than blazers, and this year everything came from there!

well i have to get going now.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night

2005-12-25T00:51:00.000-05:00

it's 12:50am so i guess it's officially Christmas. i should be sleeping because Jane will be waking me up at 8am, but i can't.

seem to be missing Thomas quite a bit right now.
although i do get to see him over the webcam tomorrow so i'm looking forward to that

hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season.

i'll be home for Christmas

2005-12-20T10:10:00.000-05:00

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. from finishing school to traveling back and forth between Ottawa and Toronto.

I came home last week and worked on Thomas' Christmas gift almost all week, then it was Jane's Concert at Cawthra and then back to Ottawa on Thursday only to be snowed in on Friday and i missed my babysitting. I got in to the city in the afternoon and was able to babysit at night. Thomas over, watched Dukes of Hazzard, next morning, back to babysit for Rosie's 6th birthday party then to Thomas' house for the Bradley Family Christmas Dinner where we all ate too much turkey and fell asleep before 11:30. Shopping on Sunday and "Half Christmas" where we all exchanged gifts. Thomas gave me a beautiful jewelry box and of course, his effort and wonderful words brought tears to my eyes....literally. I made him a fleece blanket that had the Ghostbusters logo on it. Hopped in the car at 8:30am yesterday morning and drove all the way back to Toronto.

So i'm home now until January 1st when i make the trek back up.
I am determined to finish my scrapbook from Thomas and my trip to Europe but we'll see if that happens

now it's off to pick up Mellie and her cousin to have a fun girls day.
yay! it's good to be home.

getting fired by a 10 year old

2005-12-08T22:06:00.000-05:00

So it's a good thing that he wants me fired because i want to quit. i make it sound like it's a high paying job where i did something horribly wrong, but the reality of it is that he didn't want to do his homework.

he has high funcitoning autism and i thought we had gotten past the whole "i'm testing you to see how much i can get away with" phase, but i guess not. it is hard because with his syndrome, he is quite intelligent, but lacks emotional maturity so he does things like hit and kick me, which happened tonight, again.

i get shaken with every argument, with every punch and i have come to this point now where i must say, "your son wants me fired, and i do believe that i should respect his wishes." i just don't want to drive all the way from Toronto next Thursday to be faced with getting attacked again.

so that is where i stand. right now, he is downstairs waiting for his mother to come home because "if he stays up, it is more likey that you'll be fired". so i'm trying to kill an hour before his mom comes home and i can leave.

the worst part of it is not the fact that he attacked me again, it's the fact that he will feel very proud of himself when i never come back.

this one is for tara

2005-12-06T18:36:00.000-05:00

tara says i should post more often. i think it's because she's avoiding her homework...but that could just be me.

i want to comment on the article in the Ottawa Citizen today about some contraversial wrapping paper.

There's no picture online but there definitely is in the paper and it is quite funny. the whole thing was that they were handing these as gifts out to kiddies after the new Harry Potter movie and some dad got it and started to use it to wrap pressies and realized that the angels on it were groping each other. and they blatantly are! it's too funny. it's for Virgin Mobile and i can't find an image anywhere, but if you're around Ottawa today, pick up the Citizen and take a peek.

that is all. i'm getting hungry and break is drawing near.

It's Christmas Time in the City

2005-12-06T16:09:00.000-05:00

Yes. It's that time of year again. All the stores are extending their hours and no one seems to work anymore because they are all shopping. Oh and let's not forget the decorations, yummy meals and annoying singing teddy bears that sing about how they "wanna do something for Santa Clause, he's done so much for me"...oh dear, not that song is going to be in my head all night.

I have my list and i have checked it twice. I need to get on some shopping and creating and baking. i got some done today so i'm a little bit closer to being done. i'm coming home to Toronto on Saturday and my mom is going to help with the creation of some of the pressies :) i'll also be a baking away and relaxing then it's JaniePoo's Christmas concert at her school on Wednesday night and after that i'm back to Ottawa for a ton of babysitting and the Bradley Family Christmas Dinner! yumm.

Our house had it's Christmas dinner last friday night and it was yummy and tons of fun. Erin baked a cake which we named Snowbert - it was quite amazing, it was a snowman that stood up...well until Tara's crazy dancing knocked it over. We had a turkey that we named Buster with potatoes and stuffing and gravy and mmmmmm, i'm getting hungry just writing about it. There was even a small Christmas trees that our secret santa pressies went under and some holiday decorations...i just noticed today actually that we have a wreath! i'd say that was Erin's doing. she takes care of making sure we're all sufficiently festive.

After dinner, we setteled in to watch the old school version of Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer and had a very university like conversation around the topic of cultural representations and sexism in the film. You really should take another look at it, i think a university feminism class would go to town with it.

Sadly, one of our housemembers couldn't join us due to an illness in the family, but she was there in spirit.

one thing that i am none too pleased about is the fact that i start back to school on January 2nd. that's insane. it means i will have to get up and drive back to ottawa on New Year's Day. boo-urns (and i don't even really know what that means - not a Simpson watcher).

on an unrelated note, Thomas bought me an AMAZING Oriental serving plate. it's very classy, not unlike him. haha. Thanks babe!

sick sucks

2005-11-28T15:38:00.000-05:00

i hate being sick. i really do. it's such an annoyance. i must note though, that since moving to the grand ol Otown, i haven't been really really sick - just now i have a sore throat and i am lacking in sleep due to never ending projects and Mythbusters marathons on the Discovery Channel.

i'm sure the frigid temperature of our classroom doesn't help the matter. i'm almost wishing i had brought a blanket in with me today...and i've only been here about 1/2 hour and still have about 7 hours left. ugh.

i want to go back to bed.

project status:
1 down, 4 more to go.

i got my baby back baby back baby back....

2005-11-22T17:17:00.000-05:00

yesterday, right before class, i went and picked up my dear computer
it is all mended and everything is right again.

and now i have piles of homework to do on it
this weekend shall be fun

Harry Madness and loud girls

2005-11-21T10:46:00.000-05:00

On Saturday night this weekend, back in the wonderful Mississauga, Thomas, Janie and I headed out to see the latest Harry Potter movie, the Goblet of Fire. We wanted to see it in IMAX so fortunately we had purchased the tickets online beforehand because every show that night was sold out. we got there over an hour early to wait in line for a seat and there were already around 50+ people there.

In front of us stood some really annoying and loud girls who kept screaming "Harry Potter rocks my socks". Behind us, were people dressed up in full Harry Potter gear, one Death Eater, one Dumbledore and two girls with capes, one bearing "Weasley" on the back of it.

When we finally did get in, we got some good seats and settled in to the 2 hour and 30 minute movie.
it was quite well done, except for the speedy intro and the missing out of TONS of stuff that was in the book, but really, they never fit everything in anyways.

as the movie ended, Janie exclaimed "let's go again!" haha.

all in all, it's worth seeing. Ralph Feines does an amazing job in the portrayal of Lord Voldemort and the Quiddich Cup at the beginning is quite outstanding as well.

but if you don't already have tickets, i wouldn't rush out to see it because i heard somewhere that almost every theatre sold out already. crazy.

Costco Crazyness

2005-11-16T11:41:00.000-05:00

This morning was the opening of a new Costco (formerly of Price Club fame) in Kanata, Ottawa. The opening was at 8am and Thomas and I, never having been to an opening of any sort of store before, decided to venture out and see what it was about.

Hoping for free stuff and not many people, we arrived at a little past 8am and were completely blown away. There was a line of cars going into the parking lot and thousands of people already there!!! there were police officers manning the doors and once inside you could hardly even move. it was insane.

we wandered for around an hour, gathered a little bit of free samples and a Kiss FM mug and then decided to head out. As we walked back to the car, with a van following us for our spot, we realized that the huge parking lot was actually full. amazing.

who knew that so many people would be there?
not me i tell you.
not me.

First Snowfall...

2005-11-15T16:07:00.000-05:00

it snowed last night
Thomas is very happy
i am not so much

it's getting colder...
and that's just in the computer lab! haha

Computers Behaving Badly

2005-11-09T16:17:00.000-05:00

So Tara has always complained that technology and her don't get along. Yesterday, i experienced this phenominon. My computer has been acting kinda sluggish for the last little while and i just chose to ignore it. then yesterday i turned on my computer in class to work on some projects and at first it wouldn't even turn on. not good. i figured it was because the battery wasn't charged. not so, it was fully charged.

so i finally got it to turn on and it kept freezing then.....horizontal white lines kept flashing across the screen. NOT GOOD. we kept doing so many things to try to fix it and it kept doing it.

my roomie Adam brought it to my attention that there were some iBooks that had faulty logicboards. and sure enough, mine was covered under it (meaning i don't have to pay for it!)

anyways, so i call Apple support this afternoon and what do you know....it starts working as if nothing is wrong.

i'm still very hesitant about using it because i KNOW it will happen again

so wish me luch that it'll hold out till the holidays so i can use it for the tons of projects that are due in the next couple of weeks.

well i gtg. class has started.

Frustrated and Angry

2005-11-05T00:47:00.000-05:00

i'm angry. very.
that's all you need to know.

New Side Pix

2005-11-03T00:33:00.000-05:00

well i finally finished compiling some new images for the pictures over there ->
now it makes my page really long with nothing to fill it.
but that's ok...because they are pretty to look at

ok time for bed. my eyes hurt
...well, maybe after i play in GarageBand a little

a penny for your thoughts...or how about 23?!!?

2005-11-01T20:04:00.000-05:00

ok. so today is officially the day of the penny finding.
while walking to class earlier, i stumbled upon 10 shiny pennies sitting on a table. then futher walking produced more forgotten pennies on the ground. and now, just at break, we found 4 more. another one was kindly donated by a classmate, Nick.

now we're up to 23 pennies.
two short of a local phone call.

so i'm hoping that i have a lot of good luck coming my way.
because 23 pennies in a couple hours is very odd.

Happy Halloween!

2005-10-31T16:57:00.000-05:00

Today is halloween as you may have noticed with all of the little people dressed up walking around as darth vader and such. today, i don the disguise of a black iPod nano. Thomas is a glow stick that doesn't glow...but he's not too happy about Halloween in the first place being one of the only people i know who doesn't like the holiday. no one else dressed up in class though and i'm a little sad about it to tell you the truth.

new paragraph, new topic. the birthday weekend was excellent. on Friday, i went over to Thomas' house and baked him a fabulous cake with his little bro. Then we made a ridiculously large banner out of a lot of 8x10 pieces of paper and hung it from the ceiling. all in all it was a great dinner. Thomas enjoyed his pressie and his grandparents even brought me some flowers for my bday!

on saturday night we went out for the most amazingly tasty meal i've ever had at an Italian restaurant called Vittoria Trattoria which is about 5 minutes from my house. i suggest that everyone who lives in and around the Ottawa area, go to this restaurant and manga manga manga. oh...my tummy is rumbling just from the thought of it now. after our meal, we went to see the new Zoro movie which was pretty good. the first one was better, but it was still worth a watch.

i think it's about time i changed some of the side pix over there -->. and maybe the banner too...so i'll just get on that and you get back to doing whatever it is you are supposed to be doing right now. haha. bye!

Blogger Assignment for Class? what?

2005-10-31T15:36:00.000-05:00

Well now it turns out that my next assignment for my Web Authoring and Design class involves writing a new blog in here every week. Justi, Sawa and Tara will be quite happy.

ok, i'll be back later. gots to listen.

Happy Birthday to Me

2005-10-25T22:18:00.000-04:00

It's that day again. i'm now 23 years old...and officially am a number older than Thomas...well for 2 more days that is!

Thanks to everyone who sent me amazing ecards (Katie -> BSI = AMAZING) and emails and cards and calls and everything. it was wonderful.

thanks to Tara and Thomas who came with me for a birthday breakfast at Denny's and to both of them for making the day amazing.

woohoo.

i find it quite ironic

2005-10-12T18:18:00.000-04:00

walking from my car to class today.
look to the left: there a sign that says "no smoking"
look to the right: there are about 20 people smoking
and this sign is attached to: the police building

seriously ppl
get a life

Sarah is mad at me, and i bet Justi is too...

2005-10-11T21:36:00.000-04:00

So i've been slacking. i have been neglecting my blog.
and so much has happened too...

let's have a quick recap:
1. I went to Europe with Thomas for 2 months and we travelled all around. (see above link to blog for explicit details)
2. I got back with a week to prepare and headed off to Survivor Network Muskoka 2005 retreat which was amazing (Thx guys for the great week!!!)
3. Got back with another week to get ready to MOVE TO OTTAWA
4. moved to Ottawa for school
5. painted Thomas' parent's house while listening to The Bear
6. started my post-grad studies at Algonquin College in Interactive Multimedia
8. went home for Thanksgiving and had tons of fun hanging with family and seeing Sawa, Jenn and Gilli for a little (and i mean little) bit.
9. converted Jenn to an Apple person -> i am happy to announce that she has now purchased an iPod. a minni nonetheless, but still an iPod.
10. woke up this morning at 6:30 to drive 5 hrs to Ottawa and now i'm at school and have been since 4pm (boo)

but alas, i am doing very well and most importantly...it's almost my bday!!!
yay

adieu for now
i should really get back to listening in class.

post for Justi

2005-09-27T11:29:00.000-04:00

i miss you text messaging me while i'm in class

ps. i now have class on monday 3-11pm and tues & wed from 4-11pm

post for Sawa

2005-09-07T23:53:00.000-04:00

this is a post for Sawa
my one devoted reader

miss you!
more to come
i've had a wild time this summer

travel blog link!

2005-06-03T10:43:00.000-04:00

hey all. if you don't already know, i am traveling europe as of now. i am currently in England and will be heading off around Europe as soon as Thomas arrives on June 16th.

so check out our travel blog as it will be where we will account for all of our travels. enjoy!

yay i have a place to live!

2005-05-25T15:01:00.000-04:00

i want to announce that i now have somewhere to live in ottawa next year!
wooohooo

Tara and I shall be housemates with the others that are living there next year too.
her housemates were ever so kind as to open up a room for lil ol me so i won't have to sleep on the street!

yayayayay!
t-5 days, 17hrs till EuropeBaby
t-2 days, 5 hrs till THOMAS IS HERE!!!

i killed Joey :( she was a good car and i will miss her

2005-05-20T01:08:00.000-04:00

as Sarah said tonight, RIP Joey.

Joey was my car.
My wonderful, beautiful amazing '95 Nissan Sentra.
She was with me through some amazing times.

So here's what happened. I pick up Matthew and Melissa on Thursdays and Fridays. today was a crazy day b/c they both had after school activities to get to. i had just dropped Matthew off and was on the way back to pick up Melissa and it happened.

I was going onto the highway, still on the onramp. It was 5:15, so rush hour traffic. i had looked to the traffic we were yielding to and as i turned back in a split second i realized the car in front had stopped short and i didn't have enough time to react to it. i ended up hitting the van in front and the airbags deployed and everything. so i stopped and we pulled the cars over to the shoulder. then the car wouldn't let me put it into park - i finally was able to and it was all smokey so i got out of there. (airbags smell gross, but it saved my face!)

The lady i hit was super super nice. I couldn't have asked for anyone nicer for me to hit. her van had a boat hitch thing on the back of it so she didn't sustain any damage. my poor car was not so lucky. the hitch caused it to be severly dented right into where the license plate is, both airbags deployed and the windshield cracked across the whole thing. the front of the car wouldn't even pop to open when we tried to see if the engine was hurt.

I ended up getting a ticket for $110 w/ 3 points for following too closely but no one got hurt. i'm ok, just a little shaken. The car sustained more damage than it was worth so she is dead. Everyone was really really nice, the lady i hit, the tow truck dude and the police man. all super super nice and i'm glad they were. i was pretty shaken and was close to tears the whole time.

I feel horribly for killing my car.
I have to go to the doctor's tomorrow to make sure i didn't hurt my neck - which i don't think i did, it's just a little stiff.

I will miss you Joey, i'm sorry i murdered you.

thank you to my Dad, who came right away, my Mom who was there for hugs and water and my sister who is just always there. Also, thanks to Thomas for being there for me whenever i get myself into these teary situations (wish you were here with me) and the Woroshyl's who were amazing about the whole situation. I'm lucky to have such amazing people in my life. love you all.

Eviction Notice

2005-05-10T08:56:00.000-04:00

To: Cold that has consumed me since Friday
Re: Evict Me

Body: I am writing you publicly to let you know that you need to be evacuated from my body by Wednesday May 11th.
I CANNOT BE SICK TO GO SEE THOMAS!!!!!!!!

Thank you and please leave me

Sincerely,

Your Host Body: SickLiz

Ottawa is the new Mississauga

2005-05-05T20:05:00.000-04:00

So today, after getting quite frusterdated with the stupid Irish Ferry insanely high cause they want all my money prices, I went to leave for Tara's house and I saw a large size package in the mailbox.

Now, as a side note, I know what size the Algonquin acceptance letter is b/c I looked at Thomas'. So anyways, I think to myself "now don't get excited Liz, it is probably something from the bank."

Then I saw a green "A" that looked a lot like the Algonquin A....and it was! Wooohooo! I have officially been accepted to the Interactive Multimedia Graduate Program at Algonquin College in Ottawa. So in August I shall be packing up my life and moving to the grand capital city.

this is very exciting and i'm super stoked.
Now i'll be going to school with Thomas in the same program and I'll also be at school with Jason too! and i'll be closer to Tara and Ehab as well!!

Can I get a WOOT WOOT!!

In other news: HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY TARA
Cinco De Mayo has come upon us once again
time to celebrate!!

Today has been an amazing day
and only t-7days till I see mi bambino again!!!! :D

i guess i should let everyone know

2005-04-26T22:31:00.000-04:00

i didn't get into grad school
but that's ok

i've applied (really late mind you!!) to some colleges
we'll see if anything comes of that. i'm not really banking on it cause i'm past the deadline for application by like 3 months. haha.

in other news....

I just got back from a wonderful weekend at the Bradley Family Residence in Arnprior, Ontario. you might ask yourself "Where the Hell is Arnprior?". well it is a quaint little town 20 mins outside of Ottawa with more churches than schools. But it contains one, Thomas Bradley, and therefore it is my new favourite place to be.

request

Whoever is working on the shrinking of space, or traveling like they do on Star Trek (meaning really fast), please hurry up. i'm selfish and wanna see my boi more.

me against the biggest spider in the world

2005-04-14T23:45:00.000-04:00

it's 11:30pm and everyone in the house is asleep but me
i'm organizing my iTunes collection to put on my fabulous new iPod and searching hostel info

when....
i see something move at the edge of the table
the biggest f-ing house spider i've ever seen is crawling in and around the mountains of stuff i have here

i grab my shoe
and crawl on around the table for the next 10 minutes
there's no way i'm sitting at the table working while the hugeness is creepy crawling around

i squished him
he made the mistake of running out onto the floor

sorry folks...i think that means i have now caused it to rain tomorrow

now my heart is still racing and i'm still shaking. jeebus - i'm like 50million times larger than a stupid spider and yet it transforms me into a trembling idiot.

it's....so....beautiful!

2005-04-14T13:01:00.000-04:00

Birth Announcement

I am proud and happy to announce the birth of my iPod Photo

born on April 13th at 11am
weight: 60GB

i have the best life (a lizard update)

2005-04-07T18:56:00.000-04:00

So obviously i've been absent from this thing for a little while - but it's not because i have a boring life. it's quite the opposite really. i've been so freaking busy that i haven't had time for anything! but now...it's time for a massive update.

get ready....

BOUNCE: a benefit concert.
March 31st, 2005 @ the Great Hall in Toronto. Bands: Walkers Line and The Smear Campaign. DJ: Dj Sugga Shayne

well. what a day that was. so many things going wrong all at the same time. janie got strep throat so she couldn't come. i got up really early and did concert stuff for 3 hrs and was running so late. when i was almost at the hall i get a call saying that the ppl who were loading the sound equipment broke a railing off the wall (which meant that we wouldn't get our $1000 damage deposit back - we ended up begging and did get it back. fewf!). so i get to the hall and it's pretty bad. we sent someone out to get stuff to fix it as quickly as possible, but who should come back to the hall but the person who runs the place. she walks up the stairs and gasps "what happened here!?". long story short, we fixed it and it looks like it was never broken but still!! i was pissed.

anyways. we set up the hall and everything and barely anyone from our group was there so i called Thomas to come and help. he came and helped out :) and then he and i went to feed the meter and my car was gone. turns out it had been towed (on the BEST POSSIBLE DAY!) so i had to get Bo's husband to drive me and Thomas to the towing place to get my car. we get there and they lose my car. so the ppl behind the counter are freaking out cause they lost my car - i knew they had it cause i had talked to the cops who had told me exactly what time it had been towed (which btw was only like 5 mins before we came out). they eventually found my car and it turned out to be a good thing cause that meant they couldn't charge me for holding it so i paid the lowest fee - which was still $126. PLUS i got a $60 ticket for parking on Queen St b/t 4-6. stupid road rules. so i missed the arrival of all the bands and missed all the sound checks so i felt really badly. when i got back everything was running smoothly though so that was good.

the concert was great. not many people came - like maybe only 50 TOTAL (including band members and volunteers) and we JUST broke even money wise (we made $4.95! woohoo!). but everyone who was there was so supportive. both bands and shayne were amazing and kept telling everyone to buy raffle tickets and such. and everyone who was there had a great time. the vibe was good even tho it was a small group. one great thing about the smallness of the group was that it meant everyone had really good chances for the raffle. i won tons of stuff and so did janie, lisa (from work), jason, kate, and thomas.

all in all, great night.
and it got me 100%!! (i used it for a project for Creative Psychology)

real live Gone in 60 Seconds!

When Thomas and i went to feed the meter and RIGHT before i realized my car was gone - we saw a real live car chase!!! it was with a while honda acura and some asian dude driving with at least three other ppl in the car. they were weaving in and out and cops wailing their sirens behind them. we had cops who volunteered their time for the concert so i asked them about it and they said the guy ended up crashing into a building around the corner! what an idiot!!!

lizard got bangs

one night i decided it was time for a change. my mom cut bangs. i like em.

That's me, rocking out at the concert. with bangs.

so i'm not traveling alone anymore...

Thomas has decided to come with me to Europe. crazy eh? i was jokingly inviting everyone and didn't think that anyone would actually come. But he's always wanted to travel and decided he wants to come. i'm really excited! it's crazy. but it'll be good. i'm still going over on Mary 31st and hanging out with my family in England and then he's coming over on June 16th. we've bought Eurorail passes. we're first going to go around London and hopefully stay with my aunt and uncle. then off to Paris, then the south of France and Milan and Nice and then into Italy (Rome, Venice, Pompeii, Florence) then over to Switzerland where his uncle lives and we're going to stay there for a couple of days and he'll take us all around. he lives in Geneva. how cool is that?? then we're off to Belgium, Luxembourg and Amsterdam, then back to Paris to get a ferry to Ireland, then up through Scotland and back down through England. it's nuts. but i'm stoked. we're going to make our own little guidebook before we go with all the info we'll need. we're such nerds.

and ps. my family loves Thomas. my grandparents asked where he was when i went over there today! haha

Formal. Bad Food. Good Times

you know i've never had a good meal at a formal or semi formal? haha. i think it's part of the fun of it! on Sunday Xtina, Shauuuuuuuunnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy, Thomas, Me and Mattie went to the Winter's College Formal at school. as i said, food sucked, but we had a blast! we hung out and looked fabulous and then we danced like fools.

To the left is a picture of Thomas' hot tie.

Me and Thomas

Xtina, Thomas, Me and Mattie: the Nerds

iPod iPod here i come!

so seeing as i'm going to be travelling in a little while (less that 2 months!!! yay!) and will need to transfer my pix off my camera (we all know how many pix i take!), i have decided that i desperately am in need of a 60GB iPod Photo. I have been really lucky to get some $$$ from my Grandparents and will be ordering the iPod on Sat!!! OMG!!! I'M SOOOOO EXCITED.

now i just need to figure out what i want engraved on the back.
Thomas is getting a 30GB. Together we'll have 90GB of songs and pix
again....we're nerds and this excites us.

Liz Kerrison, the university graduate

I handed in my LAST EVER university paper yesterday and now i'm DONE DONE DONE!!
Hi i'm Liz Kerrison, and i have a degree. haha.

now if i get into grad school, that'd be too perfect!

yesterday was the most stressful day of my life

2005-03-24T11:14:00.000-05:00

but it's ok cause you+me made it better

ps. stop f-ing snowing it's march already!!!!!!

i am graduating in two weeks

2005-03-19T00:26:00.000-05:00

yes. two weeks. two weeks to this day i will be a university graduate and the BOUNCE concert will have happened.

this is scary stuff
this means that everything is due in the next two weeks
i'm sure i'll be able to handle it, it just means that i will be a big ball of stress and i won't be able to goof off as much. boo.

in other news, i'd like to say that i have been quite happy recently due to a combination of school being so much fun, the BOUNCE concert going ahead extremely well and a certain special someone who i enjoy wasting a lot of time with.

just thought i'd add that in there
time for sleep. long day of homework awaits me tomorrow.

ps. Justin Matthews, Long Le, Mattie Valiquette, Vanessa Chibba, Vittoria LaNeve and Niel Hinchley are required to purchase Winters College Formal Tickets from the Winters Council office ASAP so we can make a table list. we're going to rock it.

this one is for justi

2005-03-08T10:48:00.000-05:00

my fabulous friend Justi told me yesterday that he was lacking in liz blogs so i promised to write one for him.

so here it is. a post for justi
i really have nothing interesting to say except
COME TO THE WINTERS FORMAL AND WE WILL MAKE IT THE HOTTEST NIGHT EVER

that is all.

scrapping it all and starting over

2005-03-03T19:26:00.000-05:00

after spending hours on the Bounce site, i came to the conclusion that it SUCKS and i've started over.

and i just realized this morning how much stuff i have to do. panic mode starts....now.

astrology

2005-03-03T17:06:00.000-05:00

i've recently become intrigued by this.
although all this "moon in fifth house" is kinda out there for me.

May 31st - July 29th = EUROPE BABY!!!!

2005-02-14T01:07:00.000-05:00

omg. omg. omg. omg.
i'm sooooo excited

the tickets have been purchased. i am oficially going to Europe for 2 months this summer
how cool is my life so far in 2005????

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYA
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

i'm going to miss my convocation but cmon!!! it's Europe!!!!!
(i'll be there in spirit Xtina...in spirit)

Summer will =
May 31st - Leave for London, England
go around England, France and Ireland maybe???
July 29th - come back to Toronto
August 3rd (ish) - exec of SN arrives
August 6th - campers for the 2005 Summer Muskoka Retreat arrive
August 7th - go to camp!
August 14th - come back from camp

woweeeeeeeeee
amazing. simply amazing.
maybe if i'm not all travelled out, we could do another Ottawa trip too?? wow.

I LOVE YOU MOM AND DAD!!!! you ROCK!!!!
xtina - i'll keep my parents now i think hahaah

craving for sour keys

2005-02-11T14:17:00.000-05:00

so yesterday i had the biggest craving for sour keys. i ended up getting some from bulk barn with lisa. but they're stale.

there's nothing more annoying than getting stale sour keys stuck in your teeth.
i should have bought the big ones.

ah well. they're still delicious.

The Original, Updated

2005-02-08T01:58:00.000-05:00

This is too cool. Everyone needs to check it out.

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30 random questions

2005-01-29T15:38:00.000-05:00

Bath or Shower: Shower...a long one
Soap: Biore Facial Cloths
Perfume: RALPH by Ralph Lauren or Satsuma from the Body Shop
Lipstick: Cranberry Lip Balm from the Body Shop
Mascara: Loreal
Hair Products: Fructus
Favourite Beauty Product: Revlon Skinlights Bronzing Powder
Your best beauty secret: Vaseline
Prada or Zara: Zara
Jeans: Guido and Mary
Designer: 555 Soul (that's designer to me!)
Your worst purchase: $5 skirt from Costa Blanca that was 10x too small (boxing day, they never let u try anything on!!)
You spend too much on...: i'd say just clothes in general
How many pairs of shoes are in your closet: too many
In your handbag, you always carry...: wallet, phone, lip balm
The sexiest thing in your bedroom is...: my new digital camera
Your biggest extravagance: probably my 555 soul sweatshirt, even tho i got it on sale
email or postcard: email
You would not be caught dead wearing: Ugg Boots. ick
Nightclubs or Starbucks: Tim Hortons
iPod or BlackBerry: iPod. go apple go!
Antiques or ultra-slick: ultra-slick
Fave Restaurant: Thyme 4
What's your guilty pleasure: Hillary Duff songs
Your best snak indulgence: CHOCOLATE...hmmm, now i want some
Country Cottage or Industrial Loft: industrial loft
Which diet are you on: the one where i eat whatever i want whenever i want. why is everyone so obsessed with diets these days??
Your ideal of feminine beauty: January Jones (Cadence Flaherty from American Wedding)
Your ideal of masculine beauty: Charlie Hunnam (Emberly from Abandon)

i love school...i really do!

2005-01-27T23:51:00.000-05:00

I must say that this year has ROCKED with the courses that i'm taking. Last term was wicked and this term is proving even more fun.

FACS 4932: Interactive Dance Studio
(our first project that was presented yesterday. the dancers are manipulating triggers containing sound - too cool stuff)

FACS 4935: Virtual Communities
(this class is too much fun. scroll down to the bottom and check out the gossip column Say Cheeze)

Words of Wisdom

2005-01-26T23:27:00.000-05:00

"Just say 'fuck it' and front your balls, and you are good to go."
Phil Stirling, on facing your fears

funny msn name

2005-01-24T15:55:00.000-05:00

my sister's msn name right now:
going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

love it

that's just me baby

2005-01-21T23:21:00.000-05:00

friday night
hair: a mess
no makeup
dancing around the kitchen with no lights on
humming Frank Sinatra songs

that's just me baby
that's just me...

same shit, different day

2005-01-18T20:01:00.000-05:00

ok so i dropped my application off for grad school yesterday
and i assume that all this crap i've been stressing about is over

then York U once again hits me with their best shot

January 14th, 2005
Ms. Elizabeth Kerrison
Street Avenue
City, Province
Postal Code

Dear Ms Kerrison:

Thank you for your application to graduate. A review of your academic record today indicates that you are currently ineligible to graduate from the Faculty of Fine Arts.

blah blah. you don't have this course or that course or this course yada yada yada

blah yada blah. Please make note of further application deadlines and apply to graduate for a later Convocation.

Sincerely

Registrar F*&%head

So i open this and FREAK THE F OUT. i KNOW i have everything i need to graduate, i was so meticulous about it it's not even funny. so now, if the graduate office gets wind of this, i can kiss any chance i had at grad school goodbye

i hate this process
the aspiration to become a bum is sounding more and more appealing

and of course, NO ONE HAS ANSWERED MY MILLION EMAILS ABOUT IT YET

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

what i feel like doing right now

2005-01-16T11:26:00.000-05:00

i wonder if i'll ever get dumped in person?

2005-01-15T21:16:00.000-05:00

just a thought...

this stuff is way too stressfull...i think i'll become a bum

2005-01-14T10:18:00.000-05:00

it is quite possible that my head was thisclose to exploding for real from 9:45-10:05am today

one prof mixed up the due dates for my grad application and hasn't done my reference letter - yea they're due tomorrow and there was a conflict with me working and the office closing so i couldn't pick it up.

but it's ok, i talked to the office of admissions who said i can drop it on monday

and now i'm still shaking
oh man, as my subject says, this stuff is way too stressful.

clearly, i'm famous

2005-01-11T19:31:00.000-05:00

One of my blogs for my Cultural Theory Through New Media class was quoted in a press release that is on the front page of the York website. oh yea

"York U students blogging their way to way to better grades" Press Release January 11th, 2005

dammit, i've screwed up my sleeping patterns again

2005-01-07T03:26:00.000-05:00

so it's 4am now. and i'm still awake. after working on a website from midnight till now.
coming back to school, everything got so busy so fast - but i like it better than last week.

so i took some pictures. i'll use them for my digital photography class.

resolutions?

2005-01-02T03:03:00.000-05:00

don't get me wrong, i hate self-help books or any book that comes anywhere near the vicinity of this genre. and i would not have even dared to read this book if Long hadn't forced it into my hand and made me. i even let it sit on my desk for a couple of days just out of spite really - thinking "i don't need another person to tell me how i need to feel".

but Long swore by it, and again reminded me of this fact today when he came over.
so i read it tonight. cover to cover. in one sitting. and Long was right (damn you!), this book is great. the sad thing is, my friends have been trying to tell me these things all along and i have to finally listen to a book. sorry guys.

the book is called He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
yes i know, it's THAT book. the Sex and the City book. the one that was on Oprah.
but i looked past that and now it's time for you to do the same.
because this book has now given women the power to see through the excuses. because that's really what they are. and men will have to realize that we are now wise to this. wise to your lies (pardon the rhyme).

Lesson #1 Learnt: an excuse is a polite rejection
i realized that i am the queen of excuses - not for myself, but for other people. for some reason i find tens of thousands of excuses for why other people "forget" to call me or are not around when they said they would be or are late for an outing. i don't think i realized how much i do it but i do. and that ends now. all this does for me is allow myself to settle and to live in some dream world where people can walk all over me. now i understand this sounds harsh, but the only way i'm going to be able to quit this bad habit is to go cold turkey.

Lesson #2 Learnt: you deserve a fucking phone call
these words are printed in the book. these exact words. they spoke to me. they leapt off the page and right into every relationship i've ever had. "the word 'busy' is the relationship weapon of mass destruction." it seems like a good excuse, but when you get to the bottom of it, it's just that, an excuse. and we now all know where i stand on making those. no one is ever too busy to call someone they are really into.

Lesson #3 Learnt: never settle, even when you might want to
it is tempting when you really like someone, to settle for less, to try to pretend to ignore all these excuses and signs that he's really just not that into you. but from now on, i promise to never lower my standards. i deserve to be liked. and so do they, but things have to be equal.

Lesson #4 Learnt: "I don't want to go out with you" means just that
the person you miss is also the person who just broke up with you. cut him off. someone who doesn't want to be with you anymore isn't worth the time spent worrying about. be around people who want to be with you.

Lesson #5 Learnt: don't confuse being classy with being a doormat.
class is walking away. always be classy, not crazy.

Lesson #6 Learnt: take what you want from the book
not everything is spot on. and as always, you need to have your own opinions and views about things. but i think that, well for me at least, it made all those nagging breakup questions that run through your head at 2am seem not so important anymore. and it made me feel like it's ok to ask for what i want in a relationship.

in saying all of this, i understand that not everyone might feel they could benefit from this book. i feel i did because it restored some objectivity into my brain, and my heart. and for that, i am grateful.

and also in saying this, not all guys are bad. and not all guys who break up with me are bad.
shoutouts to two who have been good to me in recent happenings. i appreciate it.

ok. enough philosophical stuff for tonight. it's bed time.

the end of another year...

2004-12-31T14:40:00.000-05:00

I took everything back today - the stuff that didn't fit and people didn't want and whatnot. and while listening to the radio, this one station kept asking people who called in: "What is your favourite memory from 2004?"

and then i got to thinking, what is my favourite memory of 2004? and i couldn't think of one.
why is it that the bad events always embed themselves in your memory more strongly than the good ones?
and i didn't have it bad this year, i really didn't. i have some really good times. maybe it's just because this past month has not been enjoyable. i don't know.

or maybe i'm just a whiner.

the following song is for Mr Gaskin

thank you for seating me with your family, because you were family to me.
your funeral was beautiful yesterday and i am glad that you are no longer in pain.
so many people came, the church was overfilled. everyone had the best things to say, except me because i couldn't say anything at all without breaking down and crying.
i was so glad i could find the songs that you requested. it was one last thing i could do for you and i was so happy to do it.
so goodbye Mr. Gaskin. you were, and are my hero.

i have no shoes that go with sad

2004-12-29T17:59:00.000-05:00

how do you dress for a funeral? or a visitation?
i know that anything i wear will from now on remind me that he has died
but i have no dark clothes really
i want to look nice for him, he was, as Daphne put it, "One of the last gentlemen".
he was my favourite

but it's better this way, he was sick for a long time

i'm wearing the same thing to the funeral tomorrow as i am to the visitation tonight.
i can't do two outfits. i just can't.

good bye Mr Gaskin. i will love you and miss you every day.
you were more of a grandfather to me than mine ever was
you are an amazing man, and i will forever aim to be even a little bit like you.

i should have played more chess with you.
i really should have.

in the last 20 hours...

2004-12-28T22:17:00.000-05:00

i am girlfriend no more...
i have had things said about me...and about him...
i have been lied to...
...and Mr. Gaskin died - he was more of a grandfather to me than my own

i really hate today

Stats:

2004-12-24T13:29:00.000-05:00

current mood: content
listening to: ATB, The Smear Campaign
reading: Captain Underpants with Taylor
watching: currently -> Little Bear, last night -> CSI and Without a Trace
msn name: "step carefully or she'll bite your head off!"

and then...

2004-12-23T17:16:00.000-05:00

my door froze shut
took me 30 mins just to scrape off all the ice

oh dear

and also: i now remember why xmas is stressfull.
watch where you step or my mother will bite your head off
apparently there are NO JEANS ALLOWED for xmas dinner.
and romaine lettuce is a pain and that's why i'm difficult (yea i know...don't try to figure it out)

snow snow and more snow!

2004-12-23T14:32:00.000-05:00

it snowed at least 25cms of snow last night
drove to Taylor's this morning and got stuck about 10 ft from her driveway. i had to dig myself out

haha

the weirdest thing happened...

2004-12-22T22:22:00.000-05:00

on the way to the Spongebob Squarepants Movie today.

Setting: driving on the QEW highway in the slow lane (for no particular reason) with three kiddies in the car aged, 5, 9, & 13.
Time: 2:50pm
In: my car, Joey

Details: so we're driving along grooving along to the sound of my latest Garage Band musical creation when suddenly i realize that as i am still pressing on the gas pedal, it is not accelorating the engine. not good. so i pull over...wait no i glide over to the side of the highway and test it again, still nothing. sound coming out, but no movement. so i call my dad, he's on the phone. call my mom, she's all freaking out. meanwhile i'm laughing cause i'm like, oh dear - what a time for this to happen. i knew i couldn't be out of gas cause i had a quarter of a tank still so i had no clue. anyways, long story short, i started the car again and tried it and it worked fine. so weird. so we drove to a gas station, got gas, drove to the movie theatre and got there even before the previews/millions-of-commercials started.

Final Thoughts: so odd.
Movie: it was enjoyable.

places i think the best

2004-12-16T23:23:00.000-05:00

1. in the shower
2. driving, while listening to rap music

KISS THIS SHOW CANCELLED

2004-12-14T20:44:00.000-05:00

I am so sorry to everyone who has shown support for this concert from the beginning. First we were kicked out of the 360 and now Moe's Tavern has been shut down by the government. so obviously the show is cancelled.

Again my sincerest apologies to the bands and everyone who was involved. i can't tell you how upset i am about this right now.
We'll try for another one in the new year.

Just Bounce right?

Liz
(who is very sad right now)

now how do you answer this question??

2004-12-10T00:20:00.000-05:00

Since quitting Sunrise, i got a job for December looking after Taylor, a 5 yr old little girl
she has TaeKwando on Tuesdays and Thursdays. her TaeKwando place just happens to be RIGHT next to the Pure Gold strip club on Lakeshore.

so today she points at the strip club sign and asks me:
"What do they do in there Lizzy?"
so i'm thining, oh man....so i tell her:
"it's a place for mommies and daddies" then think, crap i can't tell her that, she's going to think her parents go there!
so then i correct myself and say "it's for grownups"

she then asks me:
"what do they do in there?"
so i told her i didn't know and we did silly walks inside the TaeKwando building

haha
it was quite funny.
try explaining a strip club to a five year old

alarms and fire trucks oh my

2004-12-09T01:35:00.000-05:00

as i was saying to some of my friends recently -> my jobs after sunrise involve much less stress
well not tonight! haha

setting: babysitting. two kiddies asleep. one girl one boy ages 11 and 13. 10:45pm. doing homework and talking on MSN.

long story short: the house alarm goes off telling me there is a fire somewhere in the house. the loudest most piercing sound you'll ever hear. can't turn it off. look everywhere and there's no fire. the alarm company calls - i don't have any of the security codes so they call the fire dept. can't reach the parents. THREE (3) fire trucks arrive at the house just as i get a call back from the mother with the number to deactivate the alarm. the firemen look all over the house, can't find anything, same as me. grandfather shows up cause the alarm company called their "in case of emergency" person and that's him.

everything was fine. there was no fire. no one knows why it went off.
kids didn't even wake up
it was kinda funny
never had the fire dept come to a house i was babysitting at before!

k. sleep time.

i have figured it out

2004-12-06T13:00:00.000-05:00

i'm not busy enough and it's causing me to stress

i'm not nearly as stressed out as i should be
i'm not used to this relaxed shit
i need to busy myself up quick.
i'm lacking stress and therefore creating stress around other things that really don't need it!

please leave suggestions of things for me to do that involve activity and appointments and schedules and busyness!
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i can't seem to catch my breath

2004-12-06T01:08:00.000-05:00

Current mood: distressed

it's escaped me

and i don't feel right

it's been a while hasn't it?

2004-12-03T00:35:00.000-05:00

my dearest readers. i am sorry for leaving for a while.

so here's the deal. in the time of my absence, i have discovered:
1. a new love for myspace
2. that being sick is not fun at all and is not a good idea in the middle of "everything is due" week
3. carbonated drinks will cause bottles to explode/leak all over your bag if you pour it in and close them
4. i am smiling a lot and i like it :)
5. cats might not be all that bad......i said might
6. they make fuzzy boobs that hang on the rearview mirror in the car - who knew?
7. "certain" downtown toronto clubs suck because they kick charity shows out for paying ones even when they have confirmed the charity show. assish.
8. i quite enjoy the mohawk (and do not know how it's spelt!)
9. i do NOT want it to snow. ETA w/o snow: 30-40mins. ETA w/ snow: 1.5hrs - never.
10. nothing good can come from worrying about what might happen. i will not change the world or someone's mind by worrying. i will only cause myself to stress. and stress is currently not an item on my menu.

a list

2004-12-01T18:23:00.000-05:00

ppl who still owe me HBL cake:

Justi
Xtina
Cheebs

yes....yes you may have my autograph

2004-11-20T21:49:00.000-05:00

i'm on the Sarah McLachlan DVD from the concert in the summer!!!!
this makes me happy.
i haven't seen it, but john watched it and told theresa.
it comes out tuesday.
i'm stoked...and obviously famous

i hate this

2004-11-19T02:03:00.000-05:00

i feel like i am 16...

Cancer: KISS THIS a benefit concert

2004-11-15T01:20:00.000-05:00

it's really happening!!!

from janie- literacy test!

2004-11-13T14:46:00.000-05:00

from janie's site to you! enjoy! this is for my sister lizibeth cuase she asked for it!

so its been...a month...whatever
ok so apparently i'm not very good at updating this thing.. but i'm here now and thats all that matters! going to Finding Neverland previewing tonight! yay! it will be muchos fun fun fun!!!! as long as we get seats..you know...those things. anyways, what have i done this month..THE LITERACY TEST! or the WE WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN TRICK YOU AND WASTE YOUR TIME ALL AT THE SAME TIME TEST! ok you have noooo idea how stupidly crap this thing is... its like..

Cathy took her dog for a walk
1. what pet does Cathy have
a. cat
b. dog
c. parakeet
d. Cathy is the pet, and her gorrilla is taking her for a bath

honestly..but then they'll try and trick you by saying...

Write an essay on the subject of pencils. (so your like ahhhh an essay!this will be hard)
Make sure that it talks about 12 different things, and has a body, intro and conclusion, and that the word pencil is always written in red, and the word poo is written in blue. it cannot exceed 2 sentences.

ok so now you have to figure out how to write a 2 sentence essay with all the componants and if you really are supposed to use the word poo and make it blue or if thats these ppls idea of a joke.
so you waste a bunch of time and end up freaking out cuase you might run out of time...and then you remember that is supposed to be 2 sentences long.
the best part was the confidential stickers...they were neon green!
lol. byebye...be literate!

i'm cursed with bad luck for 7 years now is it?

2004-11-11T11:46:00.000-05:00

so the other day i decided i wanted to try to die my hair two colours - blue/black underneath and red on top. so, seeing as i'm broke and cannot afford the time or money to get it professionally done, i decided (as i always do with dying my hair) to do it myself.

this morning i got up and got everything ready - including mirrors because i didn't have anyone to help me, i needed to see the back of my head. so anyways, i ended up accidentally dropping the mirror on the floor and breaking it. it kinda looked cool - maybe one day i'll break mirrors for an art piece. haha

anyways, the hair took a little longer than using one colour, but it ended up looking really cool.
i LOVE it!

and i am going to paste in an article from our latest issue of Excalubur at York because my friend, Long Le, has an artice in there that is very beautiful. You write beautifully hon!!

Oh baby, I’ll Cherish the Day

(10 November 2004 16:04) Written by Long Le - Contributor
A window into my perfect life

Call me naïve, call me a dreamer or call me a fool, but I’m saving my heart for love. I am excited to have my soul partner to wake up to every morning. Watch the moment his eyes open to the world and tell him how much I love him. Lying in bed conversing and setting our goals for the day. Being with each other and celebrating the morning we have together and how the world is full of beauty.

I will marry him and breathe him inside of me. Dream about him every night and cherish his warmth beside me. My evenings will be on the sofa as we talk about everything from art to politics, Star Trek to music, to baking cookies while he strokes my knees and I play with his toes.

We will have kids and raise them on music. After dinner, my son will rinse and wash the dishes while my daughter dries. I will clean the dinner table and we will all sing songs from the Motown era. After the clean up, I will kiss them with the same warmth I give my partner and tuck them away for bedtime where fantasy whisks them off to develop their creative foundations.

They will understand there is no mom but two dads that love them endlessly. Our kids will be madly in love with science and we, as a whole family, will experiment with baking soda, mirrors, lights, and household chemicals found around our home. We will make volcanoes, periscopes, bubbles and wacky experiments. We will sit by the piano and play chop sticks and other songs that make us feel alive.

We will grow old and the activities that took us seconds to do will require more time and effort. It will be harder to walk and do daily tasks. The life lesson I will have learned will be that there is one thing that becomes easier with age; your love grows stronger.

I love him more now than I ever did.

I want to be remembered by those that loved me as I walked the Earth. I may not be remembered in history, my face may not appear a textbook and I may not receive accolades like a celebrity, but all that means nothing because my kids and my soul partner will remember me.

birthday flowers

2004-11-04T13:54:00.000-05:00

click here to see!
My awesome bday gift from Jay :)

Dj Lizard is in the Hizzouse

2004-11-01T10:36:00.000-05:00

I love Garage Band*

Look at what i made! well listen actually

listen here!

or here if the one above doesn't work!

*mac music program with loops that lets me be a DJ!