Merci Beaucoup!

Whoa, since I’ve been watching feeds of the Olympics in French and English, I’ve been polishing up my horrid French. Despite having to take the class from grades five to nine, I only remember the basics. It’s not pathetic though, I hated French, but French class was amazing. Everyone would just goof off, teachers would have break downs and yeah, students controlled the class and we learned … nothing. The even funnier thing is I was at a school that had french immersion, and still French really was not pushed.

So, I haven’t really been online that much lately. Yesterday I baked delicious vanilla cupcakes which surprisingly turned out better then expected. I normally make chocolate or weird mystery ingredient cupcakes but this time resorted to a plain old vanilla recipe. The icing however was way to sweet for me, and I had to water it down. I swear some people must love sugar, meanwhile I can have it in moderate amount, too much will give me a stomach ache.

And today I went to see Tropic Thunder with my brother. Haha, we were both super excited and went to the first showing at out theatre. Luckily, the theatre was empty and the film was amazing. I enjoyed it way more then I did Dark Knight and I honestly thought the fight scene in the film was way better. Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and whoever played Alpha Chino really made the film. In addition, I did not even mind Ben Stiller and I usually hate all of his movies since I find he tries way to hard to be funny (exception, I do think he’s hilarious in Dodgeball). But yeah, despite the crude humour, foul language and pointless dialect at times, I loved it. Heck, I laughed even before the film started and I remember so much of it and all the corny and hilarious one liners said throughout. If your thinking of seeing the film, I highly recommend it! It’s the best film I’ve seen this summer and I’ve seen a hell of a lot of films these past four months.

Now I shall leave you all, since I’m watching the boring Olympics. Can I say they are by far the best thing to watch at night. I swear since it started I don’t struggle falling asleep and yeah, they work better then counting sheep and day dreaming!

Posted by Andrea on August 14th, 2008
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Are You Ready to Rumble?

I find it odd, I’m able to watch hockey, soccer, swimming, etc. on a regular basis, but place all events together into one long week long event and I’m put to sleep. The Olympics bore me, and many of my favourite sports are featured like.. soccer yet, I cannot watch it. It’s just so boring and I feel that certain countries are dominating and others are not even present. Like their are three countries controlling all winnings and its only because they were able to send the most people to the Olympics. So yeah, I don’t support the Olympics and I believe the metals have no meaning.

In other news, today we picked up our concert tickets which certifies that we are going. Yippee! I cannot wait and well, I’m kind of disappointed that everything is happening while I’m in school. It sucks since I’ve been off from school for the past four months and absolutely nothing came through the province that was exciting. Okay, maybe Warped Tour was exciting, but each time it comes to Toronto, it rains and rains … and rains, and being at an outdoor festival is not fun when it’s raining. Also, today it was pouring rain for most of the day, which pretty much left me housebound. I swear it’s been a horrid summer, we’ve had more downpours and lightning/thunder storms then any other summer or year ever. And when I say storms, I mean it rains so hard that you have to run for cover since the rain is so heavy or it’s hail and lighting strikes at least three times every five minutes.

Boo. I wish I left the province this summer. I’m sick of Ontario and yeah, I have my sights set on any other location in the world.. well.. somewhere where it rains less and has fresh seafood. I still have three weeks left but my parents booked opposite vacations and it seems like I’m stuck with crappy day trips. I’m sorry but we always go to the same places that never change.. or they do change for the worse. Hopefully something changes though and we just leave on the fly. It would be a dream of mine………

Posted by Andrea on August 10th, 2008
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Can’t Hide a Lie

Finally, after a couple days of downtime due to my own stupidity, Mannequin Dance is back and better then ever. So what exactly happened? Well, when doing a routine installation of Wordpress, I accidentally deleted Mannequin Dance entirely. However, it was probably because I was watching Sunset Tan, and well, lets just say it lowered my IQ to levels never seen before. I swear, I do not understand how people can enjoy watching or watch the show on a routine basis. The individuals on the show are so annoying and lets admit it, airheads. So yeah, everything was deleted and I had to start from scratch, getting the site in order, although some content has now been lost forever. For instance, tutorials are now gone. But, I am accepting requests for what YOU want to see in the visitors section. I’m down for adding anything, icons, tutorials, codes, etc. I just want to know what people want to see and will find helpful. So go leave me a comment and tell me what you want me to add to the section.

In other news, as you can see, new layout is up as well. Hopefully you like it, since I know I love the orange and black combination. It’s so .. ghoulish, but then again I can also call it an autumn/fall related layout since summer is almost over. Wow, I cannot believe how fast it’s gone by.

So what’s new with my life? Well, here’s the run down…. nothing. Depressing, I wish I was going on vacation, or at least leaving Ontario in some way. I’m sick of being here, it always rains and it’s been so boring. But, I do have some excitement planned. Lets see.. Maroon 5 in about a weeks time! Then in September I’m seeing Avenged Sevenfold at a small venue and then in November I’m seeing Cobra Starship for the forth time in the past two years. Now that’s nuts, but I’m so excited!! In addition, Forever the Sickest Kids are opening for Cobra Starship and well.. I’m excited to see them since their actually really good and one of few bands I’ve actually began liking this year. This year has had some horrid artists come out and yeah, I haven’t bought many cds or downloaded many songs. Instead, I find myself resorting to the old.

Lastly, I got my school schedule today and I’m mad. I have one tutorial in the wierdest timeslot available that needs changing badly. I don’t understand how my school makes schedules, I have massive breaks and somehow always have a class at the very end of the day, with a big break before it. I’m going to try my best to change that. But on a good note, next semester … well, winter semester I have Tuesday’s off. Yippee!

Well thats it for now. I’ll post again tomorrow, if something interesting happens. Oh, and yesterday I went to the casino and won $100! It was awesome considering I made $10 into $100, but … in reality it was a $40 win since I brought and spent $60.

Posted by Andrea on August 8th, 2008
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