A New Day!

So.. Its a new year.. 2010! Amazing how fast time goes by! Along with this new year comes a lot of other new things.. Including a new semester in school.. And a few new classes :) Also.. This new year is going to bring new challenges.. like going to Poland on a missions trip (Although thats a good challenge). And.. Having Chris leave for school on the other side of the country.. Thats going to be the biggest challenge of all..

As for right now.. This is my new schedule for ACAP Blue:

Monday: Moving Images - 8:30 - 10:30

Photography - 10:30 - 12:30

Tuesday: Design - 9:30 - 11:30

Illustration - 1:30 - 3;30

Wednesday: No Classes

Thursday: Media Studies - 1:30 - 3:30

Friday: Photography - 8:30 - 10:30

Moving Images - 10:30 - 12:30

And thats my second semester classes.. To me it seems like a lot less than last semester.. But I'm not to sure thats so. I'm guessing we will get a lot of work for this half of the year.. But I'm excited!

All I want for Christmas!

So here's what received for Christmas of 2009! Not like anyone really cares about what i got.. but you never know.. I might want to remember in the future..

1. New camera lens! (Mine broke)

2. A bunch of new clothes! (I wont get into all of that)

3. A huge picture frame for my wall :)

4. New printer ink.

5. Scarf from Paris.

6. Journal from Italy.

7. Boots (I love them!)

8. Black coat (From H&M)

9. A million socks.

10. Really random picture frames.

11. Hair straightener

12. Mini hair straightener (Leopard print..)

13. Macbook sleeve (Blue)

14. P.S I love you (Movie)

15. Perfume

16. Slipper boots

17. Them Crooked Vultures (CD)

There's a lot of other little random things that i really can't remember.. But over all it was a great Christmas :) I love everything i received. I'm really sad it's over.. Thinking back to Christmas eve makes me realize how much i actually love it so much! And now.. It's a whole year away.. And.. Next Christmas will be a lot different.. As Chris will be on the other side of the country.. But i wont get into that today...

Anyway.. I hope your Christmas was full of happiness and laughter! There are still a few days left (Including New years eve) SO make it count! :)

tori..

Christmas Eve..

Its Christmas Eve.. Which means tomorrow is Christmas Day! Its so strange how time seems to go so quickly as you get older.. I don't understand it.. It feels just like yesterday when i was counting down to when Chris was going to get home from PEI at the end of the summer.

Now we are all together.. Evan in home from Norway, Annie is home from Atlanta.. And so many others from across the world have come home to celebrate Christmas with their families.

As you get older the excitement of Christmas morning seems to fade.. But for me.. I'm actually almost more excited than i was when i was young. Most of the surprises have been spoiled as i know a lot of what lays under the tree for me.. But I'm just as excited! I still get it either way! :)

But Christmas morning is still yet to come.. There are still some fun things in store for tonight.. I'm heading to Church in a couple of minutes to celebrate with my church family.. Then I'm going over to Chris' house to spend time with him and his family.. And then shortly after that.. Chris and i will come back to my home and spend time together and with my family. Maybe a classic Christmas movie with some sweets! Thats what I'm hoping for! :) And then it will time for bed.. Which is actually exciting! Because you know when you go to sleep.. The morning comes faster!

So this is Christmas 2009.. I'm listening to Mew : Vaccine.. Sitting in my bed.. For some reason i like to remember where i was and what i was doing in a special moment like this one..

Anyway.. I'll post sometime soon to let you know all the goodies i received from Santa tonight :) Have a very Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year!

Yule.

Night Shots..

SO.

In photo class we had an assignment this week to get a night shot.. We put our SLR's on manual.. Throw it on a tripod and shoot away.. The photo's i "did" get were pretty nice.. It was cool to just mess around a little bit and see what i could do.. BUT.. Near the beginning of when i was shooting.. I had a little accident... I got enough shots that i'll be able to get one for my assignment.. But.. My camera took some damage. The tripod i signed out from school was not fully healthy to say the least. :( One of the legs would not not tighten.. I wish i had of known, because when i set it up to take a picture of some trees, i turned the other way and down it went.. :'( LUCKILY my camera still works and takes pictures perfectly fine.. But part of me lens broke off.. And when i turn the lens to zoom its not smooth, it's choppy. So.. I will defiantly be needing a new Nikon 18-55 mm lens.. Which goes for about 175$..

At least the camera still works.. So i can wait a little longer before i get my new lens.. But.. Lets just say it OVERLY sucks.. And I'm not using used tripods from school anymore.. Thats for sure.

Once i get the night shots i 'did' get all edited.. Ill post to show what i got before the great fall.

Until then..

farewell..

Our Pumpkin Person!

Jethro! Our own pumpkin person! Who Chris and i made ourselves.. We carved the head earlier that Thanksgiving day.. Not thinking that we would eventually make a person out of it! Later on in the evening we headed to my home.. And saw how many leaves were around my yard.. And i remembered from the Thanksgiving the year before when i went to the Valley with Julia.. And there were fields FULL of all kinds of pumpkin people! So.. We got the clothes together.. Filled them with leaves.. Got him a hat and some mittens and there he was! Jethro! Our Pumpkin person! You could say we were pretty proud with the finished product :)

Empty Air..

Its beenEXTREMELY busy! I haven't had hardly any

time to blog anything lately! BUT just to fill the empty air I'm going to put a few photos I've taken recently.. Nothing special, just some randoms.

Enjoy (More to come) ..

NSCC Strike??

Community college workers have given the province the required 48 hours’ notice that they plan to strike.

The Nova Scotia Teachers Union, which represents the 900 faculty and staff in the provincewide college system, filed the notice Wednesday with the labour minister, as required under the Trade Union Act.

"We’re not settling on a date just yet," union president Alexis Allen said in an interview.

"It’s really in the government’s ballpark now."

In electronic balloting held across the province Tuesday, about 91 per cent of faculty members voted 93 per cent in favour of striking. Some 96 per cent of professional support employees voted 90 per cent in favour.

They will start receiving strike training next week while the union executive chooses a strike date, Ms. Allen said.

The two sides are at a stalemate and haven’t been at the negotiating table in months. The college workers accuse the Education Department of being unwilling to provide the same 2.9 per cent salary increase and improvements to medical benefits that it gave the province’s public school teachers last year.

Ms. Allen said she’s hoping more money will be made available in the provincial budget, being tabled today, to reach a settlement. She called for Premier Darrell Dexter to step in if nobody else from his government is willing to intervene.

"The silence is deafening in that there’s no response at all from the government," she said.

"It’s unfortunate that it’s gone this far."

My Eye's Burn..

I'm so tired.. I know i need more sleep than I'm getting. And i know tomorrow I'm going to be even more tired.. Tomorrow is my long day at school.. Today was nothing! All we did was shoot with film cameras for an hour and a half and then we left. It was a pretty good day because of that.. But of course the rest of my day was spent on Design homework.. That I'm not even happy with at all! And now it's late at night, I'm waiting for Chris' call.. And i so much want to go to sleep.. But then again i don't because i know i'll be waking up that much faster if i do.. (Although i just found out that I'm getting stood up with the phone call tonight.. How nice.) So i guess i will be going to sleep sooner than i thought i would..

Lets just say i wish it was tomorrow when I'm home.. So i could just go to sleep! For hours! I'll blog again when i actually have something blogable..

Farewell.

Changing Our Ways, Taking Different Roads..

This past weekend has been an eventful one.. For the better.. But also for the worse. Starting on Saturday night my home church (Rock Church) began a 3 day celebration.. Celebrating the past, the present and the future! Our senior pastor of almost 40 years is passing along the torch to Pastor Russ.. Who is currently the senior pastor now.. Of course it is a little sad that Pastor Ted is stepping down.. But it's also so exciting because he is stepping into something new! And Pastor Russ will be leading our church family into something new and exciting as well! It was a great weekend filled with laughs and tears and of course Jesus! :)

But there was something else going on this weeken

d that made it more for the worse.. My best friend growing up and in the present day.. Annie Morton has moved away!! She left this morning for Atlanta, Georgia. She's going to be there for 9 months doing an internship with over 100 other interns with Master's Commission. So this past weekend along with all the celebration, we were all dreading to

day because she was leaving us! We h

ad a going away party for her on Saturda

y night after the church celebration that night so everyone could say there goodbyes. It was tearful all around! But more so on Annie's side, Haha.

Anyway.. So thats what happened on the weekend.. Annie's gone.. Pastor Russ is a senior.. It's all official. Ha. So I'm going to show a few of the photos i took over the weekend.. The last pictures of Annie and i together! We will miss you Braunwin!

My Life..

Here is my life for the next 8 months...

Monday: Photography 10 30 - 12 30

Tuesday: Design 8 30 - 12 30, Illustration 1 30 - 5 30

Wednesday: Communications 9 30 - 11 30, Computer Applications 1 30 - 5 30

Thursday: OFF / Work 9 00 - 5 00

Friday: Photography 8 30 - 10 30, Communications 10 30 - 12 30, Photography 1 30 - 5 30 (Optional)

Saturday: OFF / Work 10 - 6 / Homework

Sunday: Church / Cadre / Homework

Things are going to become very busy and hectic in the near future for me.. It's all very bitter sweet because I'm going to be doing things i love with school.. But it all takes a lot of time.. Which i don't have that much of when you throw work into the mix. So I'm anticipating some long nights and of course lots of early mornings. I know it will all be worth it when i see the outcome of all my work in the end.. I just can't wait until i get there. Before nscc my life was very slow pace.. All i did was work a couple days a week, sleep and hang out with friends. Now it's completely different and it's all happening at the same time. the one thing i don't want to happen is me having to schedule people in.. I never want to be so busy that my previous life just stops. Then it's not worth it at all.. But so far i don't think I'm going to have that problem.

So far I've only had Photography, Communications and Computer Applications.. And they are great! I'm so excited to get started in these classes along with all the others! The only thing i know for sure is that Communications may be the one course that i won't really like.. It's easy, but it's just not the course that will have the fun work.. But other than that I'm sure everything else is going to be awesome. I'm SO excited to Photography and using film for the first half of the semester, it will be interesting for sure.. But I'm excited for the challenge!

Anyway.. Chris is coming over for a late night movie.. Hopefully we both aren't to tired. It's just been one of those non stop weeks already. Luckily i have tomorrow off so I'm able to sleep in.. I'm praying i will be able to from all the getting up at 6 this week.

So, I'll be filling you in on everything from school as it happens and i will defiantly be posting as much of my work as i can :) This is life.. Hopefully i will get used to it faster than i think i will.

tori

First Day Of Collage..

Well, I'm here at school.. Nova Scotia Community Collage! I got here a lot earlier because of my drive.. My program starts at 10 30.. about an hour from now. So I'm sitting here in a little cubicle trying to kill some time. It was a little overwhelming trying to see where everything was.. and where to get everything done.. Like my student id card and photo.. and locker. Which i have received now. I'm actually fairly happy with my student id.. One of the best pictures i've taken for school for sure. Anyway.. So now all i have to do is go to my program and get all the information i need to get.. And I'm hoping.. and praying that it works out with the times.. My drive's program is done a little before mine is.. So we're hoping i get out early enough that she doesn't have to wait to long for me.. If it takes too long.. I might have to bus it home.. :( But i think everything will be fine. It turned out that i can get a ride TO school every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning.. but I have to bus it there every Tuesday and bus it home all of those days.. Unless i get picked up by some miracle.. But.. it's not so bad.. I'll make it.

So.. This is my first few moment of collage.. I meant to document it with photos as well.. But i didn't bring my camera as i thought i was going to have to bus it home.. But thats ok.. I'll be bringing it on Friday.. So maybe you'll see some photos then. :)

So.. as i sit here listening to Broken Social Scene.. Waiting for my program.. Feeling hunger pains.. I will say so long until my next addition..

tori.

Closer..

Hello,

So today has been a more eventful day for me.. More than usual for sure. I woke to my alarm clock.. Looking back i seem to remember me not liking my alarm clock a little more than normal this morning.. I slept in a little.. But then i had to get up because i knew that today i was going to be getting my ACAP Art kit from DeSerres, which i did get and i am very happy with. But.. There is something else i ended up getting that brings me a lot closer to school than i was yesterday. I also got my Nikon Dx60 Digital SLR! And I'm in love with it already..

As of right now i have all my needed supplies for ACAP. I have the art kit, the camera, the macbook, and all the other little things. I believe the only things i need to get now.. Are the books.. my mighty mouse for the mac and all the Macromedia Programs which i will buy from the school i believe. Other than that i think all the big things are taken care of. And I am so happy they are! Now i can actually mentally prepare for the new school year without having to worry about getting everything i need.

The only other thing i was going to do today.. But doesn't look like it's going to happen is go to H&M to find a jacket for fall.. Which i was very excited about.. But i don't think i can complain as i've had a really good shopping day already. :)

AND thats not even the only thing I'm happy about.. Chris gets home tomorrow! Later in the afternoon.. I'm praying that this storm "Danny" goes by quickly so he doesn't get caught in it on his bike.. That would make me extremely uneasy! But.. he will be here tomorrow! And i can't wait at all!

So as you can see today has been a fairly good day so far.. And I'm anticipating that tomorrow will be as well. So.. I hope your as excited as i am for all the photos i am going to post in the future from school and from my own personal days.

Until the day.

tori.

Sprint..

It's Friday, August 28th.. 7:30 A.M.

There is officially 2 days left until Chris gets home for good.. Thats really amazing.. I've been waiting all summer for this time to come, and now it's finally here.. Also there is now 11 days until i start secondary school.. I don't even want to think about that yet, there's still so much to do. I guess now I'm just waiting.. I know it will be Christmas before i know it.. So I'm going to try and enjoy this time i have left. But it does seem that i've come to the end of another race in life.. And I'm almost at the finish line.. Once these 2 days are over.. I'll be happy to say that i survived it. Although i wont have much time to enjoy my victory.. As I'll be starting another long journey. but I'm not sad at all that it will be over soon.. Because just as I'm starting this new journey in few short days.. I'll also be bringing him with me, and we will have our own journeys throughout it all. Thats what makes me the most happy and excited.. Because nothing is ending really.. It's only beginning. I guess when you think about it.. Whenever something ends.. Something begins as well. Always.

So long for now.

tori.

Getting There..

Hey,

So the youth festival is over, it was a great time! I really do wish it didn't have to have ended so soon. Chris cam and went, he's home this Sunday (6 days). So basically it's another week to go until he's home for good.. And I'm a little scared.. I'm so used to him not being here, it might be a little weird going back to normal. But of course i can't wait until Sunday comes. I don't care how weird it may be.. I just want him home.

School starts very soon! Less than 2 weeks i believe.. I'm very nervous for it to get here.. I still need to get a lot of things done before i go.. And I'm sure it will all be last minute. But.. there's no stopping it.. it's coming very fast. I just have to somehow prepare myself. Also.. Chris and i wont be going to the same school.. That also will be a big change that will take some getting used to.. I guess this September will be the most crazy start off to a year ever. A lot of new things.. some scary, maybe stressful at times.. But i will eventually have to get used to it..

Once i get everything i need for school.. know the route for getting there and getting home.. then i should be fine. I'm just the kind of person that needs to have everything ready before hand and to really know how everything is going happen.. and right now i have no clue! That makes me uneasy..

Anyway.. For right now I'm just waiting for this week to be over and for Chris to get home. Then i will really start thinking about school..

It's very true that as you get older.. things don't get easier.. They most certainly get harder.. But at the same time.. They get so much better. It's all so worth it when you think about it.

I'm actually very happy with the way my life is going right now.. I'm going to school for something i love! It's all paid for. I have the most amazing person in my life that helps me and makes me more happy than i ever could be! I have a job.. I have so much to be thankful for! So i guess I'm glad that i have the challenges that i do.. They will always make me stronger.

Until Next.

tori

Middle Man.

Its Wednesday! 7:32 p.m. Today is a very bitter sweet day in general, It's so close to the weekend.. But yet, still so far from it.. So much still has to be done before you reach the peaceful bliss of Saturday.

Today was a bad to start off, I'll say that much. I didn't sleep a wink last night, Could barely fall asleep to begin with, so when i actually drifted off i get a "loud" text message from my friend Annie saying, "Tori! Are you still awake? It's an emergency!" It was 1 30 a.m.. Of course i didn't respond and rolled over hoping to fall back to sleep.. But that didn't happen for a long time. I tossed and turned for at least an hour.. And the heat wasn't helping either. Then, at around 2 30 a.m i hear that my mom has turned on her t.v across the hall and opened my door for some strange reason.. I was up until 3 20 a.m, that's the last time i looked at the clock anyway. So then.. about 4 hours later, i hear my alarm going off, It was time to get up and catch the bus to work.. All day.. So i think you can guess how my day went! Wrong!! My day went by actually very well considering my lack of sleep and enthusiasm for living. I was very surprised at that.

Anyway.. I'm happy to say that I'm laying in my bed comfortably waiting for Yes Man to finish downloading. (Yes, I'm going to watch it alone in my bed with, you guessed it! Popcorn! mm)

So, as of right now there is 1 1/2 days until the Youth Festival on Friday.. And also until Chris gets here! It's so much closer now that today is finally over. I just have to get through tomorrow night's shift, which wont be that hard. Then! It will be here! I'm thinking i wont be able to sleep Thursday night, only because I'll be so excited!! :)

So.. Now i guess it's goodbye until tomorrow.

Night :)

Tori

How Slowly Can Time Go?

Its Tuesday, 11:47 a.m. There is 4 days until Friday, which means there is 4 days until Chris gets home.. And even if it's only 3 days he will be here until he leaves again.. I don't care! Those 3 days will be worth it! Just seeing him will be all i need. But, I have hope because a week after he leaves, he will be coming home for good! That is what I'm really counting down to, 11 days now. It's been a long, lonely, summer without him. Everyone said it will go by so quickly, it will be good for you guys.. They were right, but i will also say that i am never going through this again! It was the most bittersweet summer i've ever had. And I'm happy to say that I'm looking forward to September and beyond, because i know i will be by his side, and him by mine.

Today is going to be another day of nothing. Lately i haven't been sleeping very well, i think it has something to do with the intense heat at night.. I just keep tossing and turning and get no sleep at all. And if i do, i just keep on waking up throughout the night. Some people have said it might be because of my diet, more people have said its because I'm in love or that i miss Chris to much, Haha. I guess i will never know..

Tonight i have a "pointless" work meeting to go to.. Which really does mess up the whole day that i've dedicated to being lazy. I'm praying it will be short.. But that probably wont be the case. And i have to work 10 - 6 tomorrow.. That, I'm sure, will put into the hating life category! But! Once tomorrow is done and over with.. i will know that there will only be 2 days left until Friday! And i know it will go by quickly then. I just have to make it that far.

Well there's the brief summery of my week.. I'm sure there will be more to report in the upcoming days.

tori.