jum and tonic = gin, rum and tonic = breakfast liqueur

wow i haven't blogged in a long time.. lol.. i have a reason now tho. haha i want to share a preview for the new scrubs season starting tues WOOT GO JANITOR.

html won't let me embed the damn video... click link to seeee

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=49281688

i can't wait for it to start :)

alls well on hallow's eve

WHATCHAGUYS GOING TO BE FOR HALLOWEEN?/ IF YOU DON'T HAVE PLANS WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE??? lol.. i didn't have time to get a costume.. so i'm wearing my AA la sac dress and a gold tiara... what should i tell ppl when they ask me what im suppose to be? so far i've thought of princess, prom queen, fairy.. i need something witty...

FREE STUFF = GOOD STUFF:

lacoste is giving away free samples of their perfume only the 'lacoste pink' works tho... i wonder when i'll get those harajuku ones in the mail....

http://www.lacoste-essential.com/sample/sample.aspx

The Money Shot

you guys i totally gave my first needle to a kid yesterday... *feels accomplished*
and i found out that i got that weird textbook and technology grant the gov't hands out. WOOT FREE MONEY.

YAYYYY

I smell like old people

Say hallo to my little friend:

i'm going to puke my insides out

tomorrow i start my 2nd day at the hospital. except this time i'm not watching a nurse.. im doing things...im scared shitless because im afraid i duno what to do and my tutor will question me about what i'm doing and why aka justifying it scientifically on whim.. oh and doing 'procedures/skills' in front of her.. omg.. i wasn't kidding when i said i have mini anxiety attacks before each time i go... on top of this i have to write a reflection.. yes.. i have to reflect on my feelings and experiences each week.. why oh lord. why.

i'm such a drama queen...

O-M-G

yahh i told myself i would hold off all my tv shows this week until the end of the week because of my test tomrw... it didn't happen.. i watched both HIMYM and GG today.. and now i pay for it with studying. WHY CAN'T I SHOW MORE WILL POWER DAMN IT.. and pushing daisies apparently starts tomrw too.. oh dear. oh and i find time to update my blog.. figures what procrastination can bring out of you.


picks:
this made me laugh out loud in real life when i saw them... maybe because it was late at night...



that's beauty and the beast for you.

oh nothing.

i feel i need to update my blog more frequently... but i have nothing to update on.. nothing to say... this is pointless. my life right now is:

sipping my bacardi

i've been MIA for a while yes? ahhh thursday evening... I just finished my first 12 hour clinical shift in the pediatrics ward. Today I changed a diaper, cuddled a baby and had an enlightening conversation about dinosaurs and lions with a little boy. I'm happy now, but when I actually get the full load of work starting next week... I think I might cry. sigh


Pick of the post:
I just started watching this series. It's called 'Privileged.' Have you guys seen/heard of it? The promo doesn't really do it justice. But the pilot ep is pretty funny that and I like the soundtracks too =)

p.s. ignore the horrible acting on the part of that old lady in red. This is an older version of the promo and the producers replaced her for a better old lady when the show actually aired...

For your amusement.

WHAT IF JEAN WAS BLONDE?

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it ain't pretty... that's what.

ps. it's my sister's wig for manitou (she's on gold team). I ain't about to go to comic con or something... I swear

Like a mad woman

Just popping by to say hi to you guys. I haven't updated in a while, but really there isn't a lot to update you guys on. =( It's been less than a week but I've managed to fall behind about 5 chapters worth of reading. I think it's a new record... sigh and I have a medical quiz next Tuesday where I have to get 100% in order to pass... double sigh. How goes life for you guys? Hope everything's been swell if not at least tolerable =)

Pick of the day: More free goodness. I've brought this to 'The Bay' in Hamilton, but the Dior lady said she doesn't know if/when they'll come in (because it's a new product) and to call in to ask at a later date. I know that the U.S. has them available already, but looks like Canada's shipment is late. Well it has an expiry date on it... So asking anytime before it is all good. If they have them then good stuff you get some free $30 mascara. If not, no harm done.

Here. We. Go!

"Life is a series of images that change as they repeat themselves" so says my wall poster. Thank you Mr. Andy Warhol.

I've officially settled into my new room and classes start tomorrow, but I still don't feel like school's really starts. I don't know if I should be alarmed about that... In other news..I went to pick my hospital placements today =) I got what I wanted yay for pediatrics!!

Still in other news I've been having these odd/bad/creepy dreams.. not straight out nightmares but whacked out dreams... I wonder what they're trying to tell me. Last night I woke up at 4:20am from one of them. I was freaking a little inside my head and didn't go back to sleep until I let my music take me away. I don't think I've woken up from a dream in the middle of the night for a couple years now... something's up.. I just don't know what... WEIRD. Well I'm off to some pub thing.. ttyl later loves.

Pick of the Day: The craptacular camera shot of the 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' movie trailer: Scroll pass the words for the video I was hoping the books would cross over nicely into a movie, but my first impressions of it = meh... maybe it's because she's missing the accent, but the movie still has her made to be from London... What are your thoughts?

New (School) Years Resolutions

Hmm school starts in a couple of days =(. Must make up resolutions! Aside from you know... the obvious.. studying harder (yah right...) not do things last minute (ok there...). Here is my list:

1) Break free of my hermit ways by
Meeting new people/ spending time with these new people.

Staying at school more often instead of going home directly after classes.

2) Since I'll hopefully be staying at school more often...run the free track twice a week or do some form of exercise in my room

3) Eat healthier

4) Don't buy textbooks I'll never use

5) Don't go into panic/stress modes every time I start a hospital shift...

ah.. resolutions.. I wonder how many I'll keep...

Pick of the Day: I don't know if you guys (Veronica and Jenicka) remember that day we were in Sephora at Square One and I was talking about the free 10 day sample of Bare Escentuals. I wasn't sure if it was for Canada too, but I went today and asked and it is... SO when you get a chance go ask for it! It comes with a baby buki brush which is soooo cute =) You don't have to buy anything, just ask the person at the cash.

August is Over

As we count down August, days get colder and nights get darker earlier. Tall tale signs that summer is almost over =(

Yesterday I attempted the Le Sac Dress with the rando fabric I bought from the bargain bin at Walmart. I didn't have any extra string so excuse the stupid beige mess. I've worked out the pattern (which wasn't too hard to begin with) from looking at the actual dress and really it was 2 pieces of rectangular shaped fabric sewn together at the sides. The owner of AA must be ecstatic for getting away with selling 2 rectangles and a piece of string for 40 dollars. Lesson learned from this? 1) I need softer fabric like cotton to make this. The fabric from the bargain bin was stiffer and really if I didn't tie that black belt around my waist I might as well be wearing a potato sac. 2) Gotta make it longer as the hem just hovers around my cooch.. ahem... I'll pick this up again when I decide to buy more useful fabric.

Today I woke up to find myself home alone. My sister went to school registration (ew) and my parents went to work. What did I decide to do you may ask. No... I didn't blast my music and prance around in my underwear (I would have any other day really). But today I decided to bake... well.. steam... I made steamed banana cupcakes. My arm hurts from whisking because I had to whisk the eggs and sugar to a certain stage of consistency. But it's all good.

Now that my summer is dwindling down I feel I need to do things to catch up on all those lazy days I spent doing nothing all summer.


Pick of the day: I saw this a while ago, but wanted to share. This is a concept trailer called The Sleep Shift from Wong Fu Productions (Yes those guys that brought you 'Yellow Fever' except this is more serious.) The plot follows a guy who has to work the graveyard shift of his family run store and because of this he starts to feel like he's missing out on life because he sleeps during the day when everyone's active and wakes up at night when everyone else is asleep. If you look past the cheese factor, I think the concept is quite good. I like this genre of movies =) I do hope they make it.

The doctor will see you.... later

Short and sweet, because I don't want to be repetitive. --> this weekend was sweet times!!!!!

Onward to blog:

Today I went to my family physician to get my annual TB shot (so my school doesn't kick me out of the hospital). I didn't have an appointment and didn't really mind waiting as a walk-in patient. So me mum and I set out at 3:30 in the afternoon. We sat there and waited for at least 2 hrs. I'm sure it was more though because I finished watching all of 'Ever After' on my ipod. Now, the office is suppose to close at 5 but for some reason she (the doctor) kept accepting people into the waiting area. I thought it was pretty nice to allow a few extra people in especially when all the other doctor offices on the floor promptly closed their doors at 5. Well... apparently doing so caused a huge snowball-effect delay for everyone and some guy with 2 kids was actually waiting there for 7 hrs (7 HOURS.. GEEZ). Can you imagine? 2 fickle toddlers, having to (probably) take the day off work and waiting 7 hrs all for a 15 minute slot with the doctor who'd probably say something along the lines of 'Uh Huh, let me right you a prescription for that'. Well of course, he was all annoyed and kinda lashed out that the (snooty) receptionist after he saw the doc. I wouldn't blame him... poor man =(. Must have sucked. That's free health care for you... =/ sigh



Today's Picks: I came across Fall Out Boy's mixedtape (a compilation of some FBR/DD bands' songs remixed). Hope there's something for everyone to download and test =)

Cobra Starship (Gabe)- I Kissed a Boy. It's Gabe's take on Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl. Just like he did with hollaback girl except this time he probably won't get a cease and desist for it. Actually the song lyrics is quite amusing:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8dxfn0nri3x

The Academy is- Automatic Eyes (Suave Suarez Remix). Yes Suarez as in Alex Suarez haha:
http://www.mediafire.com/?o723kjzg2ml

The Cab- Take My Hand Machine Shop Production (featuring Cassadee from Hey Monday). This one is a personal favourite aside from the stupid ending...:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjnu9ybgrme

Tales from Jean

So today marked the last day of my work. I'm glad I don't have to be waking up at 6:15 every morning anymore =D. To celebrate I bring you 3 stories of events which have happened this past week for your enjoyment/amusement.


#1: The Slaying of Mr. Mosquito
So the other day I was off in my backyard picking cherry tomatoes to eat, unaware of a mosquito following me inside. I felt a tickle near my knee and scratched it while looking down and there was the culprit. Here's what went down:

Me to mosquito: OH YOU LITTLE... *SWAT-miss* OH BITCH IT'S ON..
I missed and spent the next 30 seconds swearing and swatting at it, hitting my cupboards and clapping my hands together like I'm giving a standing ovation. Finally I managed to swipe at it enough to daze it and i squished it with a paper napkin I had handy.
Me to dead mosquito: AH HA! THAT'S RIGHT BIOTCH GOTCHA NOW.

Unbeknownst to me, my situation was right in view of my mama who thought I'd gone crazy. If that wasn't enough, the dead mosquito had the last laugh when 15 minutes later I was itching at 2 newly formed bumps on my knee. BASTARD. fin.


#2: Smooth but Hard Road
I love rollerblading as exercise. I love that all the streets surrounding my house have been newly paved with smooth asphalt. (Rollerblading + smooth asphalt = Fast Times.) What I don't like is falling on my face, which is what I did in front of Alex's house. Here's a breakdown:

*trips on pebble*
*tries to regain balance*
*wobbles*
*trips on pot hole*
'ah shit, I give up'
*fall*

yup so now I have surface scrapes on one side of my body on my elbow and near my knee (incidentally it's the same knee the damn mosquito would bite a day later). I'm going to look like a wounded solider out on the dance floor. Le Fin.


#3: Buzzed.
Being at home has it's perks. I've got food and laundry done for me courtesy of me mum. Usually, laundry at my house is hung dried outside, then my pile is placed on my bed where it is subsequently left there and pushed to the side of my bed for weeks until I feel like putting it away in my closet. On one fine day, I decided to put my heap back in my closet right away like a good girl I am. All of a sudden vibrations and buzzing came from my sock so I poked it a couple more times to confirm my suspicions. After figuring out that there was probably a bee in my sock I took the whole pile of clothes, walked swiftly out of my room and down my stairs all the while saying/screaming open the door... OPEN THE DOOR.. OPEN THE FRIGGIN DOOR (referring to my front door). I set the insect free and my dad comes down from his room asking about the yelling. I told him my situation and his reply was: JEEZ JEAN, you're in nursing, you look at people being cut up, blood and dead things but you act like that bee was a bomb *shakes his head and goes back upstairs*. The End



Well those were my stories. I'm not doing a Jean's Pick today because this entry is quite long already. =D Oh well hope I didn't bore you.

Oh Hi There. Intro Blog

So in light of you guys getting blogs I jumped the bandwagon. It seems like it's going to be a fun adventure in the cyberworld... WOO. YAH.

I haven't blogged since the days of xanga (and by blogging i mean to say that it was really just a recorded of my daily happenings wherein i TYpED LiKe tHIs**~~~~ to be cool) oh the old days. Summer always makes me nostalgic. duno what it is... probably a combination of the weather, the sense of relative freedom from school and the feeling of just being able to laze about replaying those fun times in your head.

Gotta breathe, relax and enjoy. ahhhhh.

Jean's Picks of the Day:
This little diddy here is where I'll be posting random stuff I feel like sharing with you guys. It may be a song I'm into, some video, some interesting piece of news or just what i'm into at the moment. I'll try to include one every post =)

On my current want list: Le Sac Dress from AA. It's so versatile =D