It's been awhile.

Well... here I am again... neglecting my blog. You shouldn't expect anything less from me. Seems as though life has taken away a lot of attention from living.

This isn't a complaint.

I feel so fufilled in everything I do. This past year has been more eye opening than I could have ever imagined. It's almost surreal that it's been almost a year since I got this job. It's been a whirlwind of networking, relationship and skill building , testing my strengths and strengthning my weaknesses.

It's so sad that it's almost over. I hope I get to stay for another year.

With so much going on I feel like i have neglected some of the things I really do like to do. I haven't been writing nearly as much as I used to. and not just on here. My personal journals, poetry and prose have been tossed aside to make room for meetings and assignments.

I'm ready to take on some new things and leave behind some old ones. This coming year calls for some change and a lot more personal growth.

Here's to life...

Haha Just because..

I love my friends.

Two years...

Who'd a thunk that I would be able to keep this blog going for two years? I didn't think I'd make it past two days. Yes, it's true that I have become horrible at updating - down to abuot one a month - but it's still just as comforting to have a place to vent every now and then.

Well, as for the updates, it's my birthday week. Yep. That's right. Come saturday I will be 21 years old. Ha! That's for those of you who bet I'd never make it past 18. Sometimes it's hard to believe how far I've come. Remember when you turned 16 and thought you were hot stuff. That you had reached the age of all out maturity. You had grown up and become the person you would be for the rest of your life. What a joke. Even I know at this age I have so much growing and learning left to do, and I welcome it with open arms. There is nothing more gratifying that expanding as a human being. Some people look at their birthday as another year of their life passing them by, but I tend to see it as another great year to look forward to.

This week also marks two other huge events in my life. I Love MUNdays and the opening of CLUE. I Love MUNdays promises to keep me on my toes all week at work with various events celebrating Memorial and our student faculty staff alumni and pensioners. and CLUE is well something that has been int he works for many months. You see I decided that I would take on a principle role with Deadpan just as I got a full time job. score. so now after months of rehearsal this thursday night we open for a four night run at the majestic in St. John's . Based on the popular board game this "whodunit" will feature yours truly as the lovely and "talented" Miss Scaret (read: Prosititute) . I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited, but I really think this show will be to die for (haha, lame I know)

With that in mind I also have some other things on my work plate, as well as my volunteer work and social life. Darcy and I celebrated out one year anniversary earlier this month. I never thought I was an capable of feeling the way i do about him. I know *some* people who read this blog don't like hearing about how I feel about my boyfriend. and I know you think writing these things will come back to bite me in the ass, however, you know what? Despite everything that has happened in my love life there are very few things I regret ever saying. Despite my piss poor and failed relationships when I say I love someone - I mean it. I know I've said I loved people in here before and although I may not feel that way about that person now, that doesn;t mean that at the time I honestly thought I was in love. and that's ok. Again, it's a part of leanring and growing and coming to be who we really are. So I have no problem in saying that I love Darcy with all of my heart. and if you do have issues with that it's ok, because last I checked, this was my life and not yours :) but I love you too and it's ok if we disagree.

so that's my update. A little long winded? maybe. But it's my birthday week and I'll cry if I want to . :P

Peace and Blessings!

Wow, what a busy summer! So busy in fact that I haven't written since July. My life is so crazy hectic right now that I barely have time to breathe. I just need to sit back and relax for a minute before I move onto my next task here in the office. I am in the process of hiring my MUCEP staff, and boy do I need them. Running one of the busiest student offices on campus is a lot of work for just one person. In the past week I've had almost 200 people through here. Thankfully I have the most amazing volunteer supports here. I love them dearly, they're all so unique and bring so much to this job. They honestly make it so amazing to be here. :)

So whats been up? My life this summer was completely consumed by the monstrocity/lover I call Orientation. Holy stress. I was here for almost a solid week from 7am to 12am making sure everything was perfect. Doing interviews on TV, making sure the POA's knew what they had to do and making sure my volunteers were prepped for the big event. Who knew that such a stressful situation could be so much fun. I was vomiting from Exhaustion for three days but I would do it all again in a heartbeat. I have made some of the best friends of my life as a result of this summer, and despite everything that went wrong things couldn't have been so right.

I also have booked tickets to go to Ontario for Christmas. I leave 1pm on Christmas day. First time not having dinner with the fam on ho-ho day, but you know what, I love Darcy's family so much it's like leaving one of my families to go with another. they are just such amazing people. I hope I can think of a nice present to bring to them for opening their door to me over the holidays.

Last night I also did my first rehearsal of Clue without a script. I was very proud of myself :) I am sooo excited about this show. I haven't been a principle in a long time. I haven't had the time, and frankly I don't have the time right now, but deadpan means so much to me that I just make time to do it. I wish I could be an actress for the rst of my life. I wish I had that luxury. After a rocky start and almost quitting I have regained my confidence. I love it.

Anyway thats my update in a nutshell. Classes have been great thur far and I'm hoping to know up my GPA a little this semester. Went up .4 last semester. I'd like to get it up another .3 . That would be sweet. Who knows?

Peace and Blessings.

Impact

Sometimes I wonder why I cose to put my life out here, and tell you, a relative stranger, my inner most thoughts and feelings. Sometimes I just vent, other times I want to just share my over whelming sense of happiness and satisfaction with life. But why? I'm not really sure.. but my job lead me to think of it

Sometimes I just feel like my life won't be complete if I don't somehow change someone or something. I don't want to be famous, I just want to be remembered for doing something good.

Which leads me to ask.. have I impacted you in any way?

Fly Paper

Why am I such fly paper for reatards? Honestly I cannot be alone in a public place for more than five minutes without being approached by somebody who thinks i may be their long lost daughter or someone who just has to touch my feet because they're soooo small. What is it about me that makes me so approachable? Why am I the target for the rejects of society. And even better why are most of them my Ex Boyfriends and people I have dated in the past?

Sometimes I question myself. All this weird crap happens to me. People say "Rhonda its not your fault" but when you look at all of the situations the only constant in all of them is me. Statistically speaking, then I must be the cause... right?

so why.. why am I the one who can't take the metrobus because an old man thinks i'm his grand daughter.. and why do the guys who work at places like buck or two and irving always have to hit on me? Am I wearing a sign that I'm oblivious to?

What sparked this in me today? Well I was riding the elevator this morning in the UC and this guy, I guess he would be in his 30's is in there with me. And i'm just standing there minding my own business waiting to get to the 4th floor and this guy starts getting closer to me And i can hear him counting quietly.. then he reaches out his arm and starts kinda of softly poking it in different spots.. and I pull away and he keeps going.. so finally after two or tree pokes, i say what are you doing... and he looks at me and smiles and says "counting your freckles"... How do i react to that? I have a look of shock and disbelief on my face.. I don't get a word out the door opens and I bolt onto the 3rd floor and walk the rest of the way. Creepiest thing ever.

The worst part is this story probably won't shock a lot of people reading. as something like this happens to me at least once a week. Why just me? haha.. I guess it makes life interesting.

Life is short.

Something I've heard a lot of over the past few weeks. Although it may be the longest thing any of us will ever know it still seems like we have so much to acomplish in so little time when you put it all into perspective.

That being said I've had a lot of commentary on my life over the past number of weeks as well. That I'm doing this wrong or that wrong or should pay more attention to this and less to that. I don't understand why people would want to say such things or take up such an interest in my life but hey, if you're interested I might as well take into consideration what you have to say. So I invite you to be 100% completely honest in my comments section and tell me how I can live my life to the fullest.. what do you think I could change to make my time on this earth amazing. I'm not saying I will do these things, but I'm always open to a little suggestion...What do you think?

Healing my Heart

Me In Renews at the Grotto today

It's been a rough week. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't. BUt today really helped. It's amazing what some salt air in your lungs can do for your soul. Darcy and I left early this afternoon and droveto Renews. It was amazing. We went to the Grotto and the Church, the Cemetary, the Mount, stopped into Jim and Ted's, went to Bear cove and met a lovely Irish couple and listened to the waves crashing on the beach.

I've been feeling absolutely miserable this week. I just feel like I've jumped back into my normally hectic life way to fast and I just haven't given myself time to let this all sink in. My family has dramatically changed. I don't have any grandparents left. I'll never get my pictures taken with my poppy in my wedding dress like all the rest of my cousins, things like that. But today, being in Renews, doing things I used to do when I was a child, really made me feel refreshed and renewed. There isn't anything like running through knee high dewy grass and letting your hair go curly because of the spume from the ocean and the fog in the air. Just standing there and watching giant waves pound against the shore.. hearing the rocks clack against each other as each wave goes in and out. It really healed my heart. I feel like I can go back to work now and put my head and my heart back into it.

At that I don't really have much else to say. Thank you for bringing me there today Darcy. You truly are the best

Here's to life that goes round on wheels

Death is a thing that every man feels

If life were a thing that money could buy

The rich would live, and the poor would die.

Eulogy for Poppy Pittman - August 29,1911 - May 30, 2006

One of my earliest childhood memories is waking up in Renews really early in the morning just to be able to raise the flags with poppy. Hoist away, hoist away he’d say, as I pulled with all of my might to get them all of the way to the top. I couldn’t tie the knot all by myself but I remember watching paying great attention to how he did it, in hopes that one day I’d do it all by myself. Well I’m all grown up now. I’m 20 years old; I haven’t raised a flag in ages. But I think its time I tie that knot for my grandfather. How can I put into just a few minutes words what a man had become and accomplished over 95 years of life? For most of us seeing that age is unfathomable. But if he felt his age he rarely showed it. No matter what the occasion optimism, health and humor was always retained by my grandfather. Not once did I ever hear him complain of aches or pain and he thanked god every time I saw him that he still had his health and strength, He realized, even up until last time we spoke that he was so lucky to have lived life the way he did. His life was so fulfilled; to have traveled the world, survived world wars and to have seen things change so drastically over the course of his lifetime. He lived a life many can only wish for and few are blessed with having; A huge loving and supportive family and an endless network of friends and loved ones. As one can imagine a lot of things have been said between these four walls over the past number of days about my Poppy Pittman, and one of those certainly cannot be denied. What a legacy for a man to leave behind; 11 children, 32 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and a great-great grand child. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it, and to live to see his family continued on for five generations is something spectacular. Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. His strong spirit, wisdom and most certainly his sense of humor is shown in each of his children and has been passed down into all of us, and I am so thankful to have had such a positive role model in my life for the past twenty years. What he left behind is not what will be engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Providing all of us not only with warm meals and a place to lay our heads whenever the need should arise but leaving this amazing circle of love and hope in our family, people who mirror his image, courage and adventuresome nature is something I will always be thankful for. I will never have to worry about forgetting the lessons and the memories because each of them is alive in all of us and they will never die as long as we keep them in our hearts. I would also like to take this opportunity extend my sincere gratitude to the staff of Kelly’s Personal Care home in the Goulds. I think I speak for all of us when I say Thank you for giving Poppy a HOME for six wonderful years in his life. I didn’t think it would ever be possible for him to call a place without my Grandmother home but through your love, care and attention he received that and you will always hold a special place in our hearts. My Grandfather was a very bright light in my life, someone I could look to for wisdom and strength. To quote a song written by Wayne Chaulk “He learned the lessons and took the pills that we find hard to swallow, and his memory now will guide me as I sail the stormy seas, no, I won’t forget my old granddad, he’s a part of me.” When I look for my wisdom now I’ll think of that light that my grandfather brought to my life, the way he cheered me up when everything seemed dark. He was always the lamp that lit the darkest of corners in life. With that being said I’ll finish by saying something only those who spent a good bit of time at the house in Renews would understand.. Duck your head mudder, the lamp is coming. Hoist away poppy, I love you.

I've been busy...

Yeah Yeah. I know you've heard it all before. I'm always busy. It's just who I am.

A lot of things have happened since my last entry. I've gotten a new job, been to Ontario and back and everywhere in between (literally).

First off I got offered the awesome new job of Student Volunteer Bureau Coordinator ( Zoiey's old job). It actually took a lot out of me to decide to take it. Taking this job meant that I would have to give up my job as day camp coordinator, a job that I loved dearly. However, I realized that I had been with the Goulds Rec for almost a quarter of my life (going on 5 years) and that I was limiting myself in the expericnes I was having. Also by taking this new job i signed a one year contract with the university. I have a full time job for at least the next year. That's a lot of cash for a full time student to have. Not to mention I am totally in love with the work and the people. Think about it.. coordination of events is my most favorite thing to do .. and now I am doing it with the worlds greatest volunteers (volunteering... another things very near and dear to my heart). I am really glad I made the choice that I did. This is going to be an awesome year. I am in the process now of planning for Orientation. CRAZY. Recruiting screening and training 150 volunteers. woot. sounds awesome to me. I really can't wait. so next time ya'll are on
campus stop by UC-4001 to pay me a visit in my OFFICE! (and it's not even a photocopy room!) haha.

After I founfd out I got that job Darcy and I headed to Ontario.. we drove. It was really awesome. My biggest fear was that we would get sick of eachother but it was anything but. It seemed like we had spent no time together when we pulled back into my driveway. I had a really hard time sleeping (and still do) without him. I really fell in love with his family and I miss them terribly now that we're gone. We had a great time though. we spent a week in Goderich (where Darcy is from) then we spent a night in Niagra Falls. That was amazing. We went to the worlds largest indoor Aviary. It was beautiful. it was like this door jungle with a huge waterfall and all of these beautiful tropical birds freeflying while we walked through. It was amazing. We also went on the maid of the mist. That was incredible. When you get that close to the falls it literally takes your breath away. Honestly, I could barely breath. It was just absolutely stunning. The next day we went to the Eaton Center for a little while, buty we were both so tired from the day before we drove to Scarborough and got a hotel for the night and slept. The next day we went to the Zoo with Darcy's friend Allison and her baby Ella. that was really fun. I was really looking forward to that the whole trip. We drove to kingston that night and stayed there and then started the drive back , went Kingston-Quebec City- Amherst-Ferry-Home. I miss Ontario something fierce though. I had an amazing time. Thank you so much Darcy :)

What I'm Thankful For...

Dear Friends,
Sometimes I feel like there are not enough hours in a day. I am on a mission to save the world, and I let that get the better of me sometimes. You are the loves of my life. You are the reason I get up in the morning. It's because of you I want to make the world a better place. I want the rest of the world to know the happiness and joy I feel when I'm with you (if I have ever called you friend, I mean you). You are such amazing people. I don't know what I'd be without you. Too often we take time to complain about the lives we live and we don't take the time to be grateful for the people and the experiences we have. These are the things in my life, right now, that I'm thankful for:

1. The ability to sit and listen to you tell me about your lives. You are all such interesting people with such interesting stories, and I am thankful I get to be witness to that experience for you.

2. Having someone understand. It seems no matter what I go through, because I have so many wonderful people I always have someone that can be there to support me , because they understand.

3. Forgiveness. I have done a lot of stupid things, and I know I am not always the best friend. But I am thankful you forgive me , because you know I have the best intentions, and that I have a tendancy to spread myself much too thin.

4. Humility. I am thankful I don't have to be perfect when I am with you. I can let my guard down and be silly sometimes.

5. Faith. You make me believe anything is possible if I put my mind to it. You are all capable of so much , and it is you who inspire me to push myself to go further every day, for that I am thankful.

6. Tolerence. We are all so different yet so much alike ,I am thankful that you teach me no matter how differnt we are, we share the common bond of the here and now.

7. Connection. Np matter how far apart , or how distant we may be, I know that should I ever need you, whether we are apart for 20 minutes or 20 years, I am thankful I can count on you at any time. Thats true friendship.

8. Opportuinty. I am thankful for all of the oppotunities that you have bestowed upon me for as long as I have known you.

9. Experience. ALmost anything I have learned in life, I have leanred through you or with you. You have always been with me, through everything and I am thankful I had you to laugh with, cry with, or survive with.

10. Love. I am thankful that for my 20 years of life I have had someone to love me and to show that love to in return.

You are my everything. You have been my sanity in my insane life. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.

Love,
Rhonda

Life Changes? Maybe.

So I've applied for a new job. A Job that will take me away from the Rec Centre. How do I feel about it? I'm not sure. I've put my blood sweat and tears into the Rec Centre for five years. Considering I'm only 20, that's a long time. I love the rec centre with all of my heart but I've climbed that ladder as far as I can go. Its no longer a challenge. I've gained so many wonderful skills and met so many wonderful people, but I think it may be time for me to move on. I want this job that I've applied for more than anything, but its new and scary. Like I sadi five years with one job makes me question how well I'd do in another one.
The job I've applied for is the Student Volunteer Bureau Coodinator. thirty hours a week on a one year contract. I'm currently the assistant coodinator there now. All the people I work with seem to think I'm capable of taking on this job , but the bar has been set so high by the current coordinator I'm afraid I could never do that well. I love the SVB. I never thought I would find a place that I loved and was willing to put so much wirk into as much as the Rec Centre. But I have. Its exactly what I want to do. A tight knit team, organizing awesome events, promoting volunteering and working with an amazing group of people. But can I do it? I usually don't question myself like this. I know what I'm capable of, but can I match up?
L:ike I said. I want this. I want this soo bad. someone.. help..?

Greetings from Your Friendly Neighbourhood Invalid

So. It's been a weird week. Benn really busy with work. Crazy. Volunteer Day on Tuesday. Epp. Nothing to wear. Arg.

So in most recent news. I got a hearing aid. I'm not sure about this. Has the world alway sbeen this freaking noisy? Jeepers! I'm really self concious about it. So Basically what I've been doing is poitning it out or making sure people see it so I don't have that awkward moment where I know they're looking, and they know they're looking but they don't ant me to know that they're lookng so they look away and continually glance back to see if what they're looking at is actually what it is... did that make sense? So this is a public service announcment... I'm really a secret agent and its not a hearing aid at all. Ugh. Why can't I just be normal for one day of my life? :P But it all honesty its pretty crazy what I've been missing out on. Like this noise at work that i hadn't heard before. frightened the crap out of me. but appearnatly its a normal sound for the office, I just hadn't heard it before, which completely baffled Zoiey. Weird I say. Anyway I'm tres tired.

Peace and Blessings.

"Rent".. why must you speak so true?

ROGER

But who Mark are you?

"Mark has got his work"

they say

"Mark lives for his work"

and

"Mark's in love with his work"

Mark hides in his work

MARK

From what?

ROGER

From facing your failure,

Facing your loneliness, facing the fact you live a lie

Yes, you live a lie tell you why

you're always preaching not to be numb

When that's how you thrive you pretend to create and observe

When you really detach from feeling alive

What did I think of the Paul/ Danny Debate?

I'm Glad you asked. You see, I said I wasn't going to blog about this. But it actually became unbareable and I had to share my opinion. I know most of you know me as an animal lover/ fake vegetarian, But even I, The great Rhonda, Can't argue with Danny on this one. Everything he said in this so called debate is completely justified and true. The McCartneys are being used and are very sadly misinformed. Poor Beatle. Your glory days are over and you must cuddle vicious seal pups in order to get your voice heard anymore. Actually, scratch that because not even your voice was heard on this one. It was your wifes excessive droning that was heard, over yours and Danny's voice for most of the night. The woman doesn't know the word respect. First rule in good debating is to listen to the other side. She couldn't do that she was too busy arguing points that made no sense. No we're not over fishing, europeans are. Yes, we eat seal meat, and Paul, no, you're not in Newfoundland. As I've said beforein comments on other peoples blog/journals even though I'm some what of an animals rights activist and am all for the humane treatment of animals I recognize that the worlds growing population needs meat to survive, and even though I don't eat it I believe that humans have a right to. Its called the food chain. If we can watch a snake eat a mouse its ok for humans to eat a cow. Its how the world works. We are a self sustaining system. If animals are being killed humanely as suffer the least amount possible thats all we can ask for in the fair treatment of animals that will die for food. (yes food) And frankly if the WWF and the UN says that this hunt is humane thats worth a lot more to me that the words of PETA and the Humane society, which are activist groups and whose facts are known for being less than crediable.
I'd also like to point out that the footage shown on CNN on friday night was horrible. In fact, what sthey were doing was illegal. Illegal, get it. The people in those videos were probably charged with cruelty to animals. thats why those videos were made public in the begining. Does anyone remember the big uproar over a video a few years back out of petty Harbour, where they were clubbing seals and they got in a huge amount of trouble over it. They were being inhumane and were brought to court over it. WE know what we're doing here Mr. and Mrs. McCartney. I appreciate you being so passionate about something like this, however please next time get your facts straight. We as Newfoundlanders work very hard to make a living. Do some research on our economy. The seal hunt is a vital part of many peoples lives and it has been deemed humane. Let it be.

A Letter to past friends.

Dear Former Friends.
I'm not really sure why we stopped talking, maybe you hurt me beyond belief. maybe I hurt you, or maybe we just grew apart as friends often do. But I want you to know you made an impact on my life like no other, and though we may never talk or see eachother or even think about each other very often anymore I want you to know I'm here for you. no matter what. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be the person I am today. I am a firm believer that we are all just a compilation of lessons that we learn from the relationships we form and the ones we leave behind. If I have ever called you friend you have helped shape who I have become. A person I love so dearly and am so proud of every day that I wake up. I am in such an amazing place in my life right now and I thank each and every one of you for influencing me to keep going and to improve myself. You have helped to make me a better person and for that I thank you. I am inviting each and every one of you that I have lost contact with , or I just don't talk to anymore - even if you think I don't want to talk to you - to message me, call me , something. Just touch base and let me know how you are.
Love,
Rhonda


Sometimes we forget that the people who influence us the most are the ones we give no credit to at all. Its a snow day and my mind is working over time again. I just realized that a lot of major changes I've made in my life in the past few years are due to people I don't talk to anymore for one reason or another. Not to downplay what my friends do for me. because honestly I have a hard time putting into words what they mean to me. But just a thought, that sometimes we owe a lot to people we have completely dismissed. I hope you understand why I wrote this. Have a good day. :)

Peace and Blessings!

Time is a funny thing.

Its amazing how just one year can change your perception of certain events in your life. If you're interested you can click back to a year ago and see what I'm talking about , but most of you know. It actually only hit me today that it was a year ago. Who would have thought that what tore me up for so long is actually something I consider, right now, to be one of the best things that ever happened to me.. just imagine where I would be now if things hadn't of changed. It's a scary thought. I'm so much better off than I was before. It truly was one of the best things, that I had no control over, to ever happen to me. And to the person responsible.. Thank You. Yeah. thats right I'm thanking you for causing me all that pain and heartbreak because if you hadn't.. I wouldn't be where I am today. It just goes to show that everything happens for a reason.

I was right when I said I wouldn't ever be back there again. At the time I said it with tears in my eyes.. but now.. You know that smile you said that you loved.. yeah I have that instead. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.

I love you Darcy.

I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you

Every long lost dream lead me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

I think about the years I spent just passing through
I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You've been there you understand
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true

Every long lost dream lead me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

Well Well Well..

Look who has become a little slack at blogging. Me. I know. I know. But I've been so busy lately that I have barely had time to sleep, let alone sit down and write something insightful. BUt right now I'm genuinely upset and I really just want to vent.

I'm really struggling with one of my courses. I'm trying so hard with French but its just so hard to understand anything. Most, if not all, of you reading this know that I'm hearing impaired. I get through most of my lectures by lip reading. I'm pretty good with it as my grades reflect in all the rest of my courses. However in french I can't lip read. Its a foregin language and it just doesn't make sense. I get bits and pieces but i'm honestly screwed up and my prof is doing nothing to help me. 2/3 of my evalution is listening conprhension or dictee, both of which require heaving listening, most of it done on tape, which I have no prayer in understanding in a class room in english, so for french i'm royally screwed. I don't know what i'm going to do. I'm hovering at like a 50 now solely because of my reading and oral skills (haha I know oral skills) but what happens come exam time when i get a 10% dictee and I have no idea whats going on? this is really upsetting me and I knwo there is shit all I can do about it. I'd drop the course but I need it as a second language requirement for my BA :(

Other than that I should say that the Full Monty has been postponed until Feb 23-25. Everyone should definatly go. There were some casting issues that caused the delay but we've got it all figured out and we're ready to go. goooo see it. doo it. work has been good. keeping busy at the SVB, wanting ot tear my hair out at the Rec Centre. Winter Carnival Started last night so I'll be busy there for the next week or so. Still have two papers to write this week. woop woop.

best get to the books. do it up.

Peace and blessings.

Its been awhile.

Hi everyone! long time no see! I'm sitting here in the field house now waiting to go to class so I thought I would update on whats been going on.
I've been dying. Yes thats right I'm sorry to inform you I'm pretty sure my death is upon me. I've had Effing bronchitis for almost four weeks now, i'm on antibiotics but I see no sign of improvment. So i've come to the very educated medical conclusion that my body is rotting from the inside out starting with my lungs and I will soon be dead. or at least thats how it feels. I actually took a day off on monday, despite having a million things to do this week I really felt the need to rest and get better. I killed superwoman. I realized a sick girl can't save the world if she can't save her self. But alas, my day off did me no good. So I took the night off from rehearsal last night too but I still feel no better. I feel so useless when I'm like this. I have so many things to do, and i really can't do them properly when I feel like this. Its horrible. anyone who knows anything about me knows I do everything. and by no strech of the imagination I mean everything. But for the past week I've gotten very little acomplished and that bothers me.
I can't really write a blog this week without making an honorable mention of the Federal Election. I have a feeling the new motto of Canada will soon be Hail Harper. haha ok maybe not that extreme. Luckily the conservatives have a small minority government, therefore no drastic changes can be made. Although I must voice my strong distaste for Mr. Harper. When i think of him I think about Bush sitting in the oval office controling him with a little race car controller. they even look alike. I'm pretty much sure Harper is a robot. I actually dislike him so much that I voted against my very own Loyola. Thats right. I got behind the little voter thingy and realized if I vote for Loyola I'll really have no right to complain about the PM. In that light I voted NDP. Be it a wasted ballot, as some people say, or a strategic vote, I don't care. Harper is not my fault now. but politics is boring to most people so i'll leave it there.
Work at the SVB is going super. Plans are underway for our VIP recognition ceremony and the 20th annual Volunteer day. Thats pretty exciting to me. I'm going to be recieving my bronze level VIP :) Do any of you care? Probably not! but I do :D I'm working on myu silver now. If you don't know what VIP is.. come visit me at UC 4001 and I'll let you know :) Or one of the friedly VA's will :)
Other than that school is going. I feel behind already but thats mostly due to my poor health since I started. Still not gtting to see a whole lot of Darcy but thats ok. He's busy and I'm busy. The tme we do get to spend together is just that much more special. and now time for my shameless plug

Help a cute girl out!

So I applied for this scholarship, I can't really account for its crediablity, but it doesn't take much for you to help me win it. Just click on the link below and click yes. Thats all you have to do.

http://www.helpastudent.com/Rhonda-Ru?56

So other than that I've been insanely busy. School, work, work, work, rehearsal, school, work again. Always fun. I'm enjoying my semester though. My Writing and Gender class is by far my favorite. I love the group discussion and debate. Its a lot of presentation and preparation. I love it. Haven't been seeing a whole lot of Darcy though and that makes me sad, But we both understand its an extremely busy semester for the both of us so we're making the best of the time we have. We're going to a basketball game on saturday. that should be fun... maybe take in munich tomorrow night? I dunno we'll see. He's doing so well at his internship, I'm so proud of him. He's amazing. and I love his mom. Best conversation ever with her last night
"I'm not allowed to swim"
" then do something else physical!!!! Pretend I didn't say that"
haha. I love her. Best.Thing.Ever.
Other than that life has been pretty boring. Back to the SVB is great. I'm here now. Talking to Jay. Being cool.
Thats all!
Peace and Blessings!

Back to School - 2006

So I'm back to School - 5 courses, 2 jobs and a pile of other stuff to go along with it. Its day three and I'm already exhausted. I sure hope all this work I have been putting in pays off. Wouldn't it suck if I became like a waitress for the rest of my life? ( not that being a waitress is a bad thing, its just not for me.)

Kayla left for St. Pierre today. I'm really going to miss her. I was talking to Murr about it last night. She was always the one who got all the girls together. Now that its just us gals with the boyfriends left I think its going to be a semester lacking dyke nights. Change isn't always a bad thing but I love my girls and I'm going to miss Kayla fiercely. The drives to school are so boring.

Courses seem to be going good. I'm Taking French 1501, Philosophy 1600, Shakespeare 3200, English 3217, and Sociology 3150. I'm so grown up. Three 3000 level courses. I'm hardcore. Its going to be a fun semester. I'm so glad to have my job back at the student volunteer bureau as well. Shaping up to be a busy semester there and I couldn't be more excited. I've said it once and i'll say it again, I can't believe I found a job I'm more in love with than the rec centre. Its pretty crazy. But its exactly what I love to do. and I love the people and the working enviroment. and just about everything! eee.

ALSO! Check out http://www.deadpanalley.ca

So thats about all I have to say here for now. Keep commenting and keep smiling!

Peace and Blessings!

New Years Eve

So I really wish I could tell you a lot about last night. But I can't. In all honesty, I can't remember most of it. I know I had fun though. I drank A LOT. Much too much in fact. So much that I woke up at 4am and vomitted all over my floor, attractive huh? So i've spent most of the day in bed, getting up only go to KFC and get a big crunch.. mmm big crunch.

So the purpose of this blog:

I've told ya'll what I learned last year and a little of what i forsee for myself in 2006 - what do you predict for me? should I make a resolution?

Please comment, leave me some food for thought.

Happy New Year!

The Year End Reveiw. ( I warn you I've been Watching a lot of Oprah)

I would be stupid to say its been a great year. Its had amazingly great moments, but its been rocky and hard. But I really believe I can say I learned more lessons this year than any other year. I feel this year I've really grown up, made a lot of tough desicions and become more independant that I ever thought I could be emotionally. I've strengthened some realtionships of my past, cut relationships that have been dragging me down, and made great new relationships too. This year has really opened my eyes to a lot of things in this life that I had never been exposed to before, a lot of things I had been to ignorant, I suppose, to realize before. I wanted to blind myself from some harsh realitys of "the grown up" world I had been avoiding. So here it is. my year end reveiw. I'm going to be brutally honest.

January started out amazing. I have previously described my new years eve as the single most happy moment of my life up to that point. And I won't deny that. AT the time I couldn't remember being happier. Surrounded by my friends and a boyfriend who I had believed that I loved at the time. I spent a lot of January wrapped up in a fantasy of lust. I went back to school after a semester off and was doing really well. I was really enjoying life and the year had a bright outlook.

However in February just after valentines day that al took a turn when Ricardo and I broke up. It was the first time someone had broken up with me and in reality, the first time i truly felt rejected by someone I cared about. My fantasy world came crashing down. I was nothing short of devestated. And i'm not shy in saying now I actually, for a very short time, reverted to my ways of thinking when i was 14 years old. I shortly relapsed and began not eating and making myself sick again, but realized also very quickly that I didn't want to be that way again. But i continued for a long time in a priod of dpression and self hatred and blamed myself for being rejected by him. I finished my semester with my worst marks yet and I cared very little about it.

June rolled around and I still felt miserable about everything that had happened. I really felt like something was wrong with me. Ricardo and I had been together less than three months and I was now mourning our relationship longer than I had actually been in it. HOwever in JUne I found out I recieved a promotion at work and became the Day Camp Coordinator. ANyone who knows me knows that I dearly love working at the rec centre so getting this postion was a dream come true. I put my heart and soul into my work there this summer. I dearly loved every day there, no matter how stressful it got sometimes. It was wonderful. I began thinking during my time this summer and in retrospect what I felt for Ricardo was not close to love. It was barely a relationship at all. It was phyical attraction in the raw. There was barely anything beneath the surface of what we had. We laughed a lot together but again, even that was rooted in the lust we had. I can't even carry a conversation with him anymore. Nor do I really want to. I have nothing to say to him, and I know he has very little to say to me. AT the time I saw how good looking he was (and I won't deny that he is a good looking guy) and I thought this is the best I'll ever do. He's a great looking guy and he's funny, but beyond that, there was very little. It was superficial relationship. Again in true Rhonda fashion, I'm really happy it happened. look at what I learned about relationships and myself. It was a hard long road to learn it, but I finally got it.

This summer also I got back into acting, after a three year retirment :P. I am soo thankful for Janet Graham and My Deadpan Family. I started as an understudy in "the Angry 12" then by some miracle they convinced me to sing for the birdcage and now I'm playing the girlfriend of the Main Character in "The Full Monty" will be at the LSPU hall in february. So keep in touch for tickets to that one. Deadpan Alley has been a God sent to me. You guys are a major part of my life and I couldn't be more blessed to have you in my life. I love you guys.

So when the Summer was over I felt ready to open up again and have a good time. Which turned out to be the turning point in my craptacular year. After a summer of emotional highs and lows, with my new job and a night in the cove being the high points and a night out that never should have happened being a low I decided to get back to the things I loved and Volunteered as an orientation leader for the fall semester at MUN. I met soo many amazing people there. and Had so much fun. Definatly the one of the higest points of my year were those three days I spent out there. Dancing the OV boogie, meeting Darcy, Chris, Dennis, Meghan, Richard.. all those amazing people was awesome. Acting like a fool in front of 1500 first year students ballroom dancing with sammy seahawk and being the BEST DAMN M ever! Most importantly though Orientation brought me to Darcy. This is the way a relationship is is supposed to be. I can talk to him for hours about nothing, I can be comfortable in silence with him. I know he's going to be there for me emotionally when I need him and it goes sooooo far beyond anything physical. When I'm with him I feel safe and I don't doubt at any time how he feels about me because when I hear him speak and see him look at me I know he loves me. However, nothing great comes without loss. Appearantly some people can't stand to see me with someone else ad since Darcy and I have been together some people have completely disregarded me from their lives, people who told me everyday they loved me this summer and claimed to be my true friends. They seemed to be ok with it at first, but when they figured out I was in ths relationship for the long run they have stopped talking to me all together. One particular friend, who I rarely got to see anyway because he lives 10 hours away hasn't talked to me in months, depite the fact he said we'd be friends no matter what. Another has countlessly disappointed me, saying he would show up to my play.. three times? and never bothered to show, said he'd visit me and never did and walked away from me in the feild house, after being "so close" this summer, which i now percieve to be a load of bull. and one friend just blatantly came out and said " we can't hang out while you're in a relationship" which in fact I'd much prefer, I like honesty, if you couldn't tell. the others - Clearly if you're going to treat me like that because I found happiness, I don't need you.

So this semester has been amazing. I did really awesome in school. Landed and amazing job at the Student Volunteer Bureau (SVB) which is my new love affair. I never thought I'd have a job I love so much as the rec centre but I found myself talking yesterday about how I couldn't wait to go back to school because I miss work and I miss my friends there. I worked at the Rec Centre still and rehearsed rougly 8 hours a week. Did an amazing production with rave reveiws of the birdcage, fell hopelessly in love and got to spend huge amounts of time with the girls who mean the most to me. Ashleigh Kayla and Murrdogg. I don't know how Id go on without you. You are the loves of my life. You mean everything from here to the moon and back to me. You are everything I want and need in this life and the next. Aaron Critch you are the best guy friend I could ever want. You should be the idol for all other males to worship and follow by example.

So Christmas Came and Darcy left. I've wrote about that. I don't need to repeat myself. I got great gifts for christmas, had a night downtown with my girls. been casually drinking a lot. went to church seen family i havent seen in ages and haven't shut up about how I turned my year around and am happier now and more focused on making a future for myself than ever. So I'll end this entry much like Aaron did On BK, by making a list of lessons I leanred this year. I've learned a lot so I'm going to limit myself to the top 10 .

1. Love is not physical. Lust is. love goes much farther beyond the physical and wraps your heart and soul in warmth. Love makes you feel safe, and harbours no doubt. Love is everything it is written to be and a hundred thousand words more that no great writer could ever capture.

2. Just because is the best reason to do something nice for someone else.

3. You can ALWAYS get more toast.

4. Never drink to the point that you allow yourself and your best friend to be videotaped in bed with a naked guy you've never met before.

5. The future doesn't become great without preparation and acceptance. Live for the moment but don't be afraid to put some thought into the moments to come.

6. Always remember your ID ;)

7. Kids can become deadly weapons when armed with thumbtacks and a phone

8. Friendship is not a conditonal thing. If you're my friend, be my friend, do not be my friend under certain circumstances. If you decide to do that, you were my never my friend to begin with and I do not need you in my life.

9. Everything happens for a reason. The glass is half full and there is a lesson to be learned from everything. If you can't find it, you haven't looked hard enough. I work hard to find the lesson and the positive to every bad thing that has ever happened to me. Thats why I am not bitter. If you don't believe me. Ask me and I will tell you everything I have leanred from everything. I am thankful and have no regrets toward every horrible to thing to have ever happened to me.

10. Last but certainly not least, Friendship is the most important thing in life. My friends have done more for me than I could ever express in words. Thank you from the bottom on of my heart to Ashleigh, Kayla, Murrdogg, and Aaron. I NEVER would have gotten through this year, especially the first half without you. I owe you everthing.

So I knpow I've left out a lot. But its been a year full of heartbreak, love and raw emotion and inner strength. Here's to the New year everybody.

Peace and Blessings.
Rhonda


Edit: So appearantly some of my thoughts have come out wrong. Someone commented that if they were darcy they'd feel like crap because of the way he was depicted. I think thats probably because of the way I depicted Ricardo and I want to set the record stright. Most of my year was spent dealing with the hatred that Ricardo made me feel for myself. That is why this blog is focused on that. I think Darcy is HANDSOME smart, sophisticated, funny, and in short the best thing to ever happen to me. I wanted to make the point that what I have with him goes so much deeper than that, but appearantly I need to state the fact that "HEY! GUESS WHAT EVERYONE! I'M REALLY FREAKING ATTRACTED TO MY BOYFRIEND AND I THINK HE'S EXTREMELY HANDSOME" so in case anyone had any doubt about how I feel about him, I love him. Real honest love. I shouldn't have to vaildate this, but here you go.

Holy Christmas Eve, Batman!

Well. Its here. Ready or not. ALl this preparation, stress, money time and effort all for something that will be mostly done with by 10:00 tomorrow morning. Its pretty silly when you put into perspecttive like that huh? But thats not what its all about. Its about spending time with the people you love ( no matter how far away they may be). Anyway there is Chrsitmas coming out of everybody's ears so thats not what I came here to write about. My day yesterday was definatly worth a blog so here it is.

So I woke up at 5am. Yes 5am during my holidays. Got showered and all dressed up and by 7am was out the door to go to the Ft. William Building ( the Aliant Building for those of you who didn't know) as there was a beautiful morning set up for employees and their families, with a very pretty breakfast on the 4th floor with a gorgeous veiw of the harbour and the sunrise-ishness. in the background you could hear the Newfoundland Symphony Youth choir preforming ont he main level if the foyer in the building (which goes 6 floors up, the enitre height of the buliding) Singing the most beautifully harmonized christmas songs. It was absolutely wonderful. Its one of the parts of Christmas I still really look forward to. It usually happens on Christmas eve but due to the position of the holiday this year they had it yesterday.

We then left there to go see my grampy at the Vet Pavillion ( his new home). He was out sitting in the hallway in his wheelchair when we got there. Wearing his santa claus hat and his christmas tie. Thats one thing I have to say about Grampy, no matter where he was or what he was doing or even how old and confused he is, he is ALWAYS dressed emaculatly. However, I'm not liking this new place he's in. When we got there his glasses weren't on his face - we couldn't find them anywhere. We asked the nurse who nonchalantly mentioned that they had been missing since yesterday. My 94 year old grandfather who can see better than I can when he wears his glasses has been going around near blind for the past few days because the nurses haven't bothered to put his backup glasses on him. I guess I'm just not used to seeing him like this. Up until 5 years ago my poppy was living on his own cooking huge feeds every other day (he is a chef) and now he's reduced to this. Its hard for me. We sat down to talk to him in the common room there and told us he'd ben in renews this week to see his father. just in case any of you don't get this, he's 94. His father has loooong past. He also talked about getting a car again. My poppy has never sat behind the wheel of a car. Makes me really sad to hear him so confused, but like i said, he's 94, he has a lot of things to remember. He's doing well though. I just wish he was still back at Kelly's Care Home. That place is amazing.

So we left there and I came home and got ready to go shopping with Christopher Downey. No, we didnt go Christmas shopping. He had to buy thongs. thats right. and when we found the appropriate ones he then had to buy some tnght leather pants and a mesh shirt. I've never laughed so hard before in my whole life. people were watching him in the dressing room at value village. One guy called him a fucking pimp. not in a cool way either. I thought he was going to go punch the face off of Chris. It was hilarity at its finest. I also got a moose for David while we were at the mall. I seen him working at bootlegger, and I figured its christmas and this poor sweet boy has been working like crazy because retail is nuts, so i went o sears and got hm a stuffed moose and brought it to him for christmas. I tried to just drop it and leave but he'd have none of it. David is such a sweet boy. Wish I knew him a lil better but he doesn't seem to be too interested in being my friend much, but thats ok, he's super.

Then I came home and had a glass of milk (haha) and started in on a book I wanted to start reading. Its called "A Million Little Pieces" If you haven't read it. do it. You won't regret it. Especially if you know anyone who struggles with addiction. Its hard for me to read. I winced. I wanted to vomit, but i read. It made me think of Charlie, and hope he's ok. but its amazingly written and 100% ture. Its an oprahs book club book. You should really read it. its worth it.

Then it was wrapping time. I hadn't wrapped any of my presents yet because I couldn't get any alone time in my house. no one listens to the "don't come in" rule in my house so its wrap when you can and wrap fast. so i got that done and talked to Darcy for a bit on the phone then hit they hay.

Christmas holidays are going well. not going by fast enough for my liking but its bearable. I miss Darcy horribly. But i've been keeping busy and I've talked to him almost everyday. and I have my friends and my CD's to keep me company. I'm finished work until the new yearso thats pretty awesome too. I needed a vacation, but I REALLY can't wait to get back yto the Student Volunteer Bureau. Who would have guessed I'd fall in love with a job as much as I had with the Rec Centre, I absolutely freaking love the SVB and I'm so excited to start my work there next semester. SO much event planning and organizing,, and maybe even some alphabetizing.. eeeeee

SO this isn't my year in review like I has predeicted., but I need to wait until after tomorrow for that, so when I get time next week it will come. Merry Christmas everyone. May the season of love and giving over take you and may you forget anything bad that has happened this year and embrace all the goodness in your life and thank god for this wonderful time of the year. Have a joyous New Year. :)

12 Cd's left :)

Peace and Blessings

School's Out!

So this week has been pretty eventful. Sunday Night Darcy and I celebrated Christmas. He gave me the MUN sweater I really wanted and a Belle stocking with choclates in it :) and a santa/princess hat. It's pink and has Princess written on it. Monday started out with my second last exam! Grammar.. yuk! As much of grammar nazi as I am , I really disliked that course. However, the exam was a breeze and I'm pretty confident that I aced it.
Tuesday was the day I had been dreading, Darcy left :( . I was really sad about it but I know he'll have an awesome time while he's home. Doesn't make it any easier on me but at least I know he's coming back. He gave me the most awesome present ever at the airport. And I mean EVER. He's gone for 24 days. Thats a long time. But he gave me 24 cd's and a cd with a video on it with instructions. On the video he was wearing a suit and tie ( he looked so cute!) and he told me that I had a CD for everyday he was gone and every CD had a theme. I was only allowed to listen to one CD a day so I'd have something new everyday until he came back. Then after that video was over there was a picture slide show of pictures of him and I together with "When You Say Nothing At All" playing in the background. It was by far the most sentimental and romantic gift I have ever gotten. I absolutely bawled when I opened it. Only 18 CD's left until he comes back.
Wednesday and Thursday were spent with my nose in the books again. I had my last exam on thursday night. War and Aggression. I thought it was the most amazing exam I have ever written. I seriously kicked that exams butt. I wrote about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. It was a very powerful book that I read. I would recomend it to anyone, whether they were taking the course or not. Its called "We Wish to Inform You Tomorrow We Will be Killed Along With Our Famillies" by Philip Gourevitch. If you have any desire to read Non-Fiction pick this book up or ask me for a loan of it.
Friday Was awesomely sweet. I got up super early and went shopping with Raylene ( my sister) then i got home and went to work until 5:30. Then i came home got ready in mad rush and then took off to a fogdevils game with my girls. We all sat together and watched the hockey game. Then we got a cab to Matts house where we primed up to go downtown. Ashleigh got really loaded and it was pretty awesome. Then we headed downtown, went to 180 for a few minutes however that didn't last long due to the creeps that inhabit that place. So we headed to the faithful Peddlers and boogied the night away. It was so awsome to get out with the girls for an amazing night like that.
Last night I was pretty much in the mood to chill after such a busy week, so Ches came up and we watched Christmas with the Kranks. What a corny movie. Haha Told you he was Santa! Then we chatted it up for a few hours. It was nice to get to talk to Ches like that, haven't done so in a long time. I miss the old days when we all used to hang out sometimes. BUt we all know that situation just wasn't always good. I miss you guys though. You were my life for a long time. Stefan, Colin, Hayden, Adam and Ches we all have to hang out over christmas.. if you're up for it?
Anyway thats my week. I really miss Darcy but I'm doing fine, I have the most amazing friends I could ever ask for. I know I say that every entry but I really do.

I guess my next entry will probably be my year in reveiw. Stay tuned!

Peace and Blessings!

This kept me awake last night.

I really thought I had a ton of great people in my life, however, thinking about it lately I have 5 people who I can really trust whole heartedly. Those five people know who they are. I have a lot of good people in my life, but since September I've lost a lot of people that I considered to be some of my closest friends. It seems as though those people had intention with me that if they weren't able to persue, I was of no use to them. You know how you are and what I mean. I've addressed the issue with some of you in an attempt to make it better, but as you can see this is still getting to me, and the fact that you have still isolated me just validates everything I said. I'm disappointed that our friendship had to be reduced to this. But I guess its better this way because I can see our relationship for what it was really worth to some of you.

Now by the tone of this entry you'd probably think I was bitter, but let me falsify that right now. I couldn't be happier. In true Rhonda fashion I'm taking the best from this, not the worst. I know who my true friends are. I know who really cares about me and who doesn't. Friendship is not a conditional thing and if you're going to exile me from your life just because I changed one simple aspect, then you're really not the person I thought you were. I couldn't be happier with my life right now. I'm happy and I have the best friends in the world that I could ever ask for. Ashleigh, Kayla, Murrdogg and Aaron I love you to death. I don't know what I'd do without you. Darcy, you're amazing and I love you to no end. Everyone else in my life that I love, I wouldn't be the same without you. But those of you who think this entry is aimed at you - it probably is. Try to fix it if you want. I don't care. Really I think I'm probably better off without you if you made me feel this way anyway!

:)

Peace and Blessings!

Thank You

What does love feel like? It feels like every ounce of your being is focused on one person. That no matter what happens in life all will be ok because you always have someone to support you. It feels as if with every laugh that person shares, a new world is born and with every tear they shed, a world is destroyed. Every time you’re with him time stops and everything else loses all meaning there is no doubt no fear just him. You see him sitting there, looking at you so strong yet so gentle and everything in life is complete. You struggle no more, you stress no more. Everything else may come or go but you have all you need right here, as the other half of your soul stares back at you.

With a simple glace into your eyes you make me forget everything bad that has ever happened to me. I had the most horrible day today that I’ve had in along time, and when I seen you it’s like it was like it never happened. There was nothing else on the earth that mattered. There was me, there was you, and there was our love. Thank you for being the supportive boyfriend I’ve never had. Thank you for understanding me and making me feel like I’m sane in this insane world in which we live. Thank you for making me laugh when all I want to do is cry and thank you for helping me to catch my breath when I feel like I don’t have time to breath. Thank you for the kisses, the hugs, the flowers, the words of encouragement and the hours of silence spent in your arms. Thank you for being everything I ever hoped for.

Life, Or something like it..

So life has been pretty crazy. I love it. working two jobs, rehearsing pretty close to 8 hours a wee, 5 courses, friends, boyfriend, family christmas shopping, yep its that time of the year again folks! we had our annual family Christmas party last night. It was great. I had an awesome time and my family really seemed to get a long with Darcy well. They all really liked him :) That makes me really happy.

ANother exciting event of the recent has been that Kayla got accepted to Frecker! I'm sooo excited for her! I love to see my friends achieve what they strive for! I'm going to miss her tons in the three months she's gone but i'm soo happy for her at the same time. Its bittersweet really. Its just so crazy that everyone's lives are moving so fast all of a sudden. We're all grown up. Murrdogg and I are slated for graduation next april! we're gonna convocate together! Thats really super awesome! Then what am I gonna do? Only time will tell I suppose. I'd like to think I'd go to Humber, Get that post Grad certificate and maybe make a life for myself. who knows.. maybe i'll be a bum.

Have you noticed my blogs have been focused on my future lately? I'm not really sure thats a good thing.. I like to live for the moment and I've become such a planner.. its odd. I'm thinking months in advance and its only since i started this semester that i've been like that. I guess its really hitting me now that I'm all grown up. I don't have the right to be a kid anymore and worry about partying every weekend and chasing useless dreams. Now if only some people I knew could get the same mentality. Life is not about living from party to party. Its about making your life count, making the the world a better plae because of yourself not in spite of yourself.

Anyhoo thats all I have to say. Pics from last night.. yes.

You know what pisses me off?

Nothing! Yeah thats right nothing!

I've been reading some of my friends blogs lately and it has come to my attention, you people hate a lot of things., Its rant after Rant about the useless crap that makes your life so dreadful. Wake up people! Life is a beautiful miraculous thing and you should thank your lucky stars every day you get to take another breath and witness another day on God's beautiful earth. I know I used to be equally as guilty as some of you, ranting and raving about how horrible life was, but you know what - that was crap. I have an amazing life filled with amazing people and amazing experiences. There are so many wonderful things on this earth, who cares if someone doesn't like the way I dress, or the cashiers at wal mart are too slow.. right now at this very moment someone loves you and wishes nothing but the best for you! How can you not greet the world with open arms, put aside the few negative aspects of your life and embrace all the good that you have? You people are way to cranky when you write and you're very seldom show appreciation of all the good that you have. You woke up this morning thats all the reason in the world to fall on your knees and thank God ( Or science - whatever it is you believe) that you have what you do. So here's a list of some of the things i'm thankful for..

1. My health
2. My family
3. My friends
4. My boyfriend
5. A roof over my head
6. The oppertunity to get a good education
7. The extra weight I carry around ( that means I have enough to eat)
8. Music
9. Laughter
10. Cuddles
11. Smiles from strangers
12. The parking guy who says good morning
13. Clocktower password
14. The faith that I have
15. Good books
16. Love
17. being loved
18. Living where I do
19. having a warm bed to sleep in
20. A pink unicorn
21. dancing
22. singing
23. rent
24. dreams
25. fantasies

And I made that list in under a minute. Come on guys.. show me that you're optimistic too.. what makes your life so fantastic?

English 2002

I'm sitting here in English 2002 - Drama. I dont know why I bother coming here. I never pay attention. I should. I had a paper due last friday I haven't started yet. However the Prof said we don't actually have to hand it in on time because he hasn't finished our last papers yet. Glad to see he's on the ball with things. Funny part is i'm acually doing a class with him next semster. Oh well. At least I know he's an easy marker.

So onto my updates. What did I do this weekend you ask? well Friday I went to see harry Potter. First showing of the day and only 15 people in the theatre. People really need to learn the secrets of Mt Pearl Square. It was a really good movie. I enjoyed it. Me and Darcy then hung out for the remainder of the night. went on a quest for chocolate cake and then I fell asleep before I could eat it.. come to think of it I still haven't. Dammit, now I want my chocolate cake. Yesterday I went to see my Grandpa. I really need to start visiting him more. He's getting old, and confused, his health isn't what it used to be and he lives farther from me now. I miss my poppy. I miss the days from back home, waking up at 6am raising the flag and fishing in the river with him *sigh* Its sad to watch the health of someone you love so dearly slip away. He's 94 though, i can't expect much more.

So I posted some song lyrics a few posts ago, "You" by Amy Lee. Its a really pretty song and I think everyone should listen to it. I have - 271 times since saturday. hehe.

So heres what I gather, after thinking things through today and yesterday. After next semester I will have all of my arts requirements done. I'll have 4 sociology courses done and 6 english courses done. that means I have 8 courses left to do 6 english and 2 sociology so i think its a pretty reasonable goal to set for myself to graduate next april. Can you believe it? Little Rhonda Pittman with a university degree and all grown up. After i get that done its my next goal to move out on my own. Partially because I want to go work on my PR program, quite possibly in Ontario, and partially because I'm begining to be sufficated in my house. My God, Cut the cord parents. Its getting a bit ridiculous that i'm 20 years old, they know where I am and how to get a hold of me and they want me home by 1am on a saturday night. I need my independence. I work a lot better when I'm given that and its hard for me to function properly with thtem breathing down my neck all of the time. Oh well. all in due time I suppose.

Well I think I'll pay a bit of attention now. Comments?

Just a thought before bed.

After 20 years I still have the same friends. I still have the same values and I still want the same things out of life. Is it determination or conformity? I like to think determination. I'm so happy with my life again. I didn't think I could find this happiness. I didn't think I could be so content. Things are falling into place. I'm looking at Graduating in April 2007. Getting my life started, seriously. I'm ready to be an adult and I'm ready to start with a real life. And I think I can finally do it.

Any thoughts?

You

The words have been drained from this pencil
Sweet words that I want to give you
And I can't sleep I need to tell you Goodnight
When we're together, I feel perfect
When I'm pulled away from you, I fall apart
All you say is sacred to me
Your eyes are so blue I can't look away
As we lay in the stillness
You whisper to me Amy, marry me
Promise you'll stay with me
Oh you don't have to ask me
You know you're all that I live for
You know I'd die just to hold you
Stay with you Somehow
I'll show you That you are my night sky
I've always been right behind you
Now I'll always be right beside you
So many nights I cried myself to sleep
Now that you love me, I love myself
I never thought I would say this
I never thought there'd be You

Please?

I'm being a sook and I had surgery today.. please do this and cheer me up.

Tell me one nice thing about me:
Who I remind you of:
The first thing that come to mind when you hear my name:
My best physical feature:
My worst physical feature:
The fondest memory you have of me:
A song that reminds you of me:
When did you meet me:
What was your first impression of me:
Have I changed your life:

My attempt at a real Blog

So here I am sitting in s study room with the Love of my life Aaron Critch and my lesbian Kayla kinda bored. Wasting time as I have to be here until sometime after 7 tonight. Damn work commitments. This semester has been insanely busy. 5 courses. 2 jobs. social life. volunteer work. deadpan. Craziness I say.

So what did this long weekend hold for me? Not a whole lot really. I seen Get Rich or Die trying on friday. That was a pretty hardcore movie. A lot better that I had expected it to be. Saturday I went shopping with my mother and father. Dear God I wanted to poke my eyes out with a pointy stick. Just because I stop to glace at the engament rings DOES NOT MEAN I'M GETTING MARRIED ANYTIME SOON.

Saturday night was Ashleighs party. I got stoned. Not on purpose, however, yeah i'll never mix cold medication and alcohol again. Good thing I have a super boyfriend to bring me home and put me to bed.

So lets have a little talk about the flu. which i am currently suffering massively from. This is how i figure it. I caught it from Aaron, who suffered mildly from a runny nose and what he liked to call that rudolph glow. then I, in turn suffered like a sonovabitch since friday. fever cough, runny nose, chills, mild nausea. NOw Darcy is vomiting plus all of my symtomns as well. this Flu virus is mutating wildly and it eventually going to wip out the human race as we know it.. and all i have to say about that is DAMN YOU AARON CRITCH!!!!!

On another note.. Scheduled for surgery at 12:00 tomorrow. Thank God. I'm not sure how much more of this incessant pain I can take. Three full days off! hot stuff. Movies and cuddles with my super duper boyfriend :) (Sorry Kurtis, I know another entry about my boyfriend.. what are you gonna do)

Smirnoff + Advil cold and sinus = Sudden Death

So.. new discovery. Advil and smirnoff do not mix. they knock you out and make you sicker than before. Last night was awesome though, I'm quite sad that i was in no physical state to enjoy it. sorry that i may have put a damper on the mood guys. You're all awesome. Thanks for being worried about my drunk/stoned ass.

So the last of the fab four are 20. What will this 20th year hold for all of us? Who knows! 19 was awesome.. lets see if we can top it! Love you girls!!!

I love Darcy

I have the bets boyufrifne d itn the whole world bevacie he loves me and takes care o me ahwne i'm sick and doesn't let me etthe etorbus after surgueys. He's so sweet and kind and caring adn he makes me feel slike i shoudl ebe loved, cos eveyoe else amd eme feel lieka buren to the, because i'm stiupd somthing and i dostudpi thisng. but he loevs me and i love him and that makes e happy cos he dint' break my haear and he posised that he would not leave me.


HAPY BITEHDAY ASHHHHHHHHHHH 2000000000 WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEARTTTTTTTTT YAAAAAAAAAAAY BONEE FETE

Happy (belated) Birthday to me!

So its Monday morning. I had the most amazing weekend ever. Ever! Best birthday i could possibly imagine. actually, no, I don't think i could have imagined a birthday that great.

I stayed up on thusday night so I wouldn't miss my birthday and got like 12 messages from people at exactly midnight wishing me happy birthday along with a chat on the phone with darcy and and a song from Kayla.

Woke up on friday morning and had breakfast with my daddy then went to school where at 12:00 Darcy surprised me when i was supposed to go to work. He told Zoiey to tell me i had to go to work so he could give me my present there. I got a pink unicorn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The one i was in love with from bears and cheers that i used to visit at the mall!! and he had it in a disney princess bag with a disney princess balloon! it was awesome i was soo excited! then we headed down to the breezeway and started drinking with Kayla, Murrdogg, Matt, Aaron, Beet, Chris M and Brian! I had two beer there and had a great laugh.. beer flavoured! haha so then we all decided we were going to go to Jungle Jims for lunch wheer I had another drink ( i was pretty tipsy before 3 o'clock pretty sad hehe) then we brough those crazy folks back to the Goulds and me and Darcy went to his place for a bit. Thats not for blog so we'll skip that part ;) Then we went to my house and had birthday cake with my parents and my sister gave me a pair of boots that light up!! they're awesome!

Around 8 o'clock people started to arrive for the prime at my house. My girls showed up and gave me awesome presents. Kayla gave me the most comfy Pj's ever. Murrdogg gave me a really pretty bangle that i have yet to take off lol Ash gave me an awesome shirt with a half zip up hoodie to go over it. and Darcy gave me the "what happens on george st stays on george st" tee shirt that i was in love with! Then the drinking began and everything gets a lil sketchy.. heres a point form of what i remember

• Help Me Rhonda
• Grabbing everyones boobs and getting pictures of it
• Dancing with kayla to the NKOTB birthday song and Darcy cutting in
• "Did you have sex with my friend?"
• Vaguely the van ride
• Losing Darcy
• Tequila friend!
• Rhonda:"excuse me Mr. Hot dog Man, I would like a hot dog please"

Hot Dog Man: Regular Jumbo or saussage

Kayla: Regular! Jesus she's a vegetarian!!

• Subway lady and my birthday
• 3 phone calls to Darcy, same conversation

On another note about the subway.. i put on my jacket this morning and found part of my sub wrapped up in one pocket and a cookie in the other. Kind of gross. haha Nice. anyway in short I had the most awesome birthday ever. I love my friends and I love my boyfriend! Awesome Awesome Awesome weekend!! <3

COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!

My most awesome boyfriend/ 4 sleeps!

Me and Boyfriend
He's being Cute
I'm being.. me. :P



4 more sleeps until I leave my teen years behind me. Wow. I never thought of it that way. Damn. Way to start of this entry on a high note Rhonda. Anyway as the plan stands right now we'll be priming at my house, hopefully, then heading downtown, unless someone has a better idea on where to prime. We'll also be heading to the breezeway at 12:00 on friday for le beer pour ma fete. All are welcome to join me, as Im super cool . I dunno I have a feeling this birthday isn't going to be as great as last year. Rather anti climatic, I hope i'm wrong.

Anyway as for the real reason why I wrote this entry I wanted to brag about how awesome my boyfriend is. He did the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me tonight. The story actually starts a little before hand when I came home from school in a horrible mood due to my horrible day. Anyhoo so i come home and decide I'm gonna call Darcy to see if he can cheer me up, which he does because he's awesome. And he lets me go so I can go to work. Half way through worl Darcy walks into my drama class gives me a rose and a chocolate bar kisses me and leaves. And i have to chase him up the stairs when i finally comprehend what just happend and he tells me he couldn't have my birthday week start off bad and he had to cheer me up! is that not thesweetest thing you've ever heard? <3 align="center">

Anyway As for the rest of my weekend in reveiw..

- Friday I spent the day with Darcy. He took me to the doctor and we went to walmart

we watched Batman. Not a bad movie.

- Saturday was leader forum

- I planted trees... IN THE DIRT (stay tuned for pics)

- Went to fog City for supper

- Seen a movie that was just a headache on screen (Stay)

- Tims with Girls+Aaron Last nigth

Anyhoo thats all for now

Peace and Blessings!

9 Days to my Birthday! ( Just in case you forgot)

Today is wednesday.. did I ever mention how much I hate wednesdays? I thought so.

Today was a comme ci comme ca day. I killed all the tests I got back. I kicked schools butt for sure. I'm not really sure how it is I'm pulling off the marks I've gotten this semester, as I've done less work this semester than any other. However I hope I keep this up. Three tests back today, yep, hot stuff.

I went to see Dr. Batten today. Surgery again. You know what that means right!? TWO DAYS OFF!!! WOOOOO!! *happy dance* however the fact that I can't hear and am in pain, sucks moose testicle.

Going to see Dr. Wang on friday too. Love that woman she's so cute. she's gotta get over her obession with setting me up with her son though. I have a superdupertremendoussplendiferous boyfriend who GOT BILL GREGORY'S AUTOGRAPH for me *heart* :-)

In other news... I don't really have any. haha Laters!

Peace and Blessings!

Sitting here in the UC

Kinda bored. Everyone left me so I'm just chilling out here alone. I have to work today from 10-2. Kinda sucks seeing as how I don't have class today and I was out super late last night. I'm really tired and I have the first rehersal for the Full Monty tonight. I sure would like ot have a nap. I slept the whole way here ( Raylene drove). I have to get the bus home today too. That really sucks. I got the bus home yesterday. I'm not so impressed with that. Hopefully there will be someone on the quarantine bus with me.

So in the News.. hmm .. what has happened since my last entry.. I don't even remember. ohh. Tuesday Darcy took me to DQ. I Sure do love DQ. It made me really happy. and Last night we went to cape spear until after 12. tis the reason I'm so super tired. I'm sure this will be one heck of a productive day today at work. Ugh. anyone wanna set up a booth at the volunteer fair? lol there .. see I work!

So the plans for this weekend are as follows.. Tomorrow night Masterless Men.. Saturday night.. ugghh... ummm.. nothing. Sunday.. nothing. Yep. Exciting weekend coming up indeed.

anyhoo I really have nothing too interesting to write. So..

Peace and Blessings!

This week

So its been an eventful week. Last two shows of the birdcage, Thank God thats over. Loved it but i was sick of it. readyto move onto something new and exciting. so after Friday nights show we all headed to Janets for a lovely social gathering.. and by social gathering i mean drinkfest. I had an awesome time there. Darcy and I aimed to corupt the minds of the younger generation, it was awesome. Left Janets around 2 and went for a drive with Darcy :) where he asked me to be his girlfriend :) of course I said yes. He's awesome! we have so much in common and I feel like i could talk to him for hours about everything and anything. he's so interesting.

So on saturday afternoon I got to see Beauty and the Beast. So i maintained my excitment in the theatre.. however inside i was screaming a jumping up and down and going insane. i mean it was Beauty and the Beast! ahh. Belle's pretty yellow dress looked exactly like the one from the disney movie.. i want it. and the music was just fabulous. Gaston couldn't carry a note in a bucket but the rest of the cast were awesome. *sigh* i sure do love Beauty and the Beast.

Today i went shopping for something for murrdogg then we ( Murr, Kayla, Ashleigh, myself steven and Darcy) went out to jungle jims for supper. it was awesome. went to Adam boyles house after for a bit then i went to Darcy's and hung out for a bit before coming home.

So, so far this has been an awesome midterm break. two days left and I'm sure they'll be just as great. Its so awesome to feel wanted again and be happy with where I am :)

This week

So its been an eventful week. Last two shows of the birdcage, Thank God thats over. Loved it but i was sick of it. readyto move onto something new and exciting. so after Friday nights show we all headed to Janets for a lovely social gathering.. and by social gathering i mean drinkfest. I had an awesome time there. Darcy and I aimed to corupt the minds of the younger generation, it was awesome. Left Janets around 2 and went for a drive with Darcy :) where he asked me to be his girlfriend :) of course I said yes. He's awesome! we have so much in common and I feel like i could talk to him for hours about everything and anything. he's so interesting.

So on saturday afternoon I got to see Beauty and the Beast. So i maintained my excitment in the theatre.. however inside i was screaming a jumping up and down and going insane. i mean it was Beauty and the Beast! ahh. Belle's pretty yellow dress looked exactly like the one from the disney movie.. i want it. and the music was just fabulous. Gaston couldn't carry a note in a bucket but the rest of the cast were awesome. *sigh* i sure do love Beauty and the Beast.

Today i went shopping for something for murrdogg then we ( Murr, Kayla, Ashleigh, myself steven and Darcy) went out to jungle jims for supper. it was awesome. went to Adam boyles house after for a bit then i went to Darcy's and hung out for a bit before coming home.

So, so far this has been an awesome midterm break. two days left and I'm sure they'll be just as great. Its so awesome to feel wanted again and be happy with where I am :)

In avoidence of study..

I decided I should update my much neglected blog. Things have been going amazingly well with me. School has been super crazy, i've had 4 midterms in the past week. Been studying hard, keeping up with it though, its lucky thing I'm a smart girl. I've been working a bit too. Really liking my job at the SVB despite the fact I've only worked 2 shifts so far. Seems to be fun and i love the type of work i'm doing there so I think its going to be an awesome semester with an awesome group of people

So major event of the week: Kaylas Party. I wish I could tell you more of what happened there but honestly I was much to drunk to remember most of it. I know i had a great time though, i took my camera and got over 90 pictures so I have a good idea of how my night went. Darcy came with me and he got to meet all my friends, which is excellent. I think they really like him. I know my parents sure did. They haven't stopped asking about him since. I'm really glad as I was pretty worried about what they'd think. SO i may have stretched the truth about him just a lil bit.. is that such a bad thing if my happiness is at stake? ;)

In other news I discovered today that the Birdcage has sold out BOTH of its encore nights at the LSPU two days before the show! Thats amazing! I am soo proud of Deadpan Alley and all that it has acomplished this year. I am soo glad I'm a part of such a great group of people. Especially when these people will have a Deanpan Chant in the middle of Kaylas living room when Don O'Keefe shows up.. ahh fun times.

Anyway this has been my break from the depressing book "the killing of Bonnie Garland" and now I must get back to explaining why such a sick psychopathic killer got away with Manslaughter for bashing his sleeping girlfriends head in with a claw hammer. Have a wonderful day all .. *muuuah*

Peace and Blessings

Edit: So appearantly our shows are not COMPLETELY sold out but pretty close so you guys should get your tickets now! Don't miss out!!

Article from the MUSE

The Birdcage returns after sellout shows
----------------------------------------
The Birdcage
Starring Chris Downey, Chris Mercer, and Jeremy Viera
Deadpan Alley
----------------------------------------
It's a testament to the quality of local theatre when hopeful patrons are turned down at the door. A St. John's socialite couple were sent away from the LSPU Hall after waiting in line for tickets to Deadpan Alley's latest - a roaring, sensational production of The Birdcage, directed by Janet K. Graham. I couldn't blame the couple for arriving 15 minutes before the curtain lifted: Who knew a show with more drag than the Clarenville Strip could sell out - twice?

A revision of the hilarious 1996 movie starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane (itself a remake of the French film and play La Cage Aux Folles), The Birdcage is a raucous tale of gay couple Armand (Chris Downey) and Albert (Chris Mercer) - one a club owner, the other it's sensational star. Throughout the play, they go to great lengths to help their straight son Val marry the girl of his dreams, Barbara, whose father is the candy-loving, God-fearing Senator Keeley (a man so conservative he probably wears everything to the right).

Spilt into two chapters, the play explodes in a series of hilarious set pieces detailing every step of Albert's and Armand's charade to convince the senator and his wife that Val is worthy of marriage by pulling the ultimate con - going straight. Cue the hijinx as Armand and Albert stumble towards a resolution that will have you laughing, even if you've seen the movie before.

If a good play rests on the strength of its actors, The Birdcage deserves to be sold out repeatedly. Comic timing, sudden pratfalls, and coy self-reference are just the beginning here; special mention goes to the actors playing the over-the-top but lovable Albert and the faithful manservant Agador (Jeremy Viera).Mercer's Albert is the catalyst for most of the play's humour, as he hams up the effeminate starlet to great effect. Swooning along to every new plot twist, Albert is more drama than drag queen, but the audience wouldn't want it any other way. As the bouncy butler of the couple, Viera comes dangerously close to stealing the show from the talented cast.

The end left me with only one complaint: It was over too quickly. The charaters had endeared themselves into the audience's hearts, and it was a disappointment to see a close to the fancy song numbers and the creatively fab costumes. This was a shared feeling, as Deadpan Alley are now putting off two additional shows in response to the fantastic ticket sales. If you missed the show the first time, here's your chance to catch it again.Deadpan Alley's production of The Birdcage at the LSPU Hall returns Oct. 6 and 7. Showtime is 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $12 at the door, and are also available in advance at the LSPU box office.

Amazing weekend.

So I had.. well as the title says.. an Amazing weekend. Wonder why? You should know! .. hmm so this is what it feels like to be happy again.. *smile*.. *looks around*.. *huge smile*

That is all...






*big smile*

This week in the life of Ru..

So who remembers Zoiey Cobb? Turns out I'm going to be working with her! I got offered, and accepted, the MUCEP position as Program Assistant at the SVB ( Student Volunteer Bureau) yesterday and I must say I'm pretty damn excited about it. This is an amazing oppertunity for me and I'm really excited to get started, meet new people and be excited about work again. I love working.

In other news, the held over show went amazingly well and Janet decided that we will come back in two or three weeks time and do another multi-night run of either 2 or 3 nights. This is sooo amazing. I love Deadpan! hehe

So other than the new job, deadpan on its way to broadway.. or Gander (haha) and my amazing sleep deprivation there isn't really much more for me to say. My life since school started has been Class, Deadpan, sleep, and really not too much of the latter. Been getting to hang out with my friends at school a lil bit but other than that I haven't seen most people in ages. I'm begining to forget what Ashleigh looks like and that makes me sad :( . But all is good, Huge party next weekend. I shant know my name by the end of the night, it will be fun times. 98 3/4 percent guaranteed!

Peace and Blessings!

I cannot express in words..

..how proud I am of Deadpan Alley right now. This weekend has been amazing for all of us. Friday nights show was amazing. We did awesome. However none of us expected what happened last night. Not only are we the first new group to sell out, we're the first group ever to sell out before the box office even opened! It may not sound like a big deal to everyone else but to us at Deadpan .. ITS HUGE!! And the show was an amazing success. I mean the reveiws aren't out yet, but even if they aren't great, who cares?! its one persons opinion on paper, The audience last night LOVED the show. Everybody had nothing but good things to say to us :)
Kayla, Murrdogg and Darcy got to go! as well as my sister and my dad. My daddy was so proud of me! And yes.. I am a daddy's girl.
After the show last night we went to Tim Hortons and Darcy came along. That made me really happy. He's my favorite. I've never met someone who makes me laugh so hard!
So what am I doing tonight you ask.,? why OUR SHOW GOT HELD OVER! We're doing another show tonight with the possibility of another three night run in three weeks time! This is soo amazing! I could have never asked to be involved with a greater group of people for this. people who deserve it soo soo much! So .. EVERYONE GO TO THE SHOW TONIGHT 8PM CURTAIN AT THE LSPU HALL!!!!!!!!

PEACE AND BLESSINGS!

New title!

So I've decided to Change the title of my blog to something a little more fitting than what it had been. Although I liked the title "Some Kind of Miracle" It just hadn't been right. So now I'm titled "Story About a Girl" as this blog as somewhat become the Story of me, who just happens to have a vagina. Imagine the possibilites ;)

Anyway, so I had a pretty boring weekend. Was at the Breezeway on friday with Janine and two new friends of ours, Chris and Dennis. It was really fun. However it was really loud there and I'm sad to say I missed most of the nights conversation. Its getting really frustrating to me how bad my hearing has gotten just over the past year. I think its time I stop cheating on my hearing tests and owning up to the fact that I need help.

Saturday.. hmm what did I do saturday.. RIGHT! I went to see the Exorcism of Emily Rose with Darcy. It was a good movie but nothing at all like what I had expected. Well at least I didn't cry! Then I finally got to get DQ after a week of waiting for it I got my DQ! It was awesome! I ate like half ofa sundae! I'm an animal! Then saturday night I was forced into going to my aunts birthday party / going away party for my cousin. Ive decided I either need to start going to family functions or stop all together. Two of my first cousins tried to pick me up, not recognizing who I was. Then I had half of the family tell me how fat I was, the other half telling me i was too skinny and all of them picking on me for being single, and asking where stefan was. WE BROKE UP OVER A YEAR AGO!!!! GET OVER IT!! *hehe*

Yesterday did a lil family trip out to town and then worked Bingo last night. Nothing overly exciting. So all in all it was a pretty boring weekend. Hopefully this weekend coming will be much more exciting What with The Birdcage that everyone is going to attend either friday night at the parish hall at 8:00 for $8 admission or Monday night at the LSPU hall for $12 admission It should be fun times :) Anyway I'm off to nap or something before I have to reherse or something again.

Peace and Blessings

Back to school - Back to life.

So here I am. Laying on my bed. Yesterday was my first day back to MUN. I love MUN. I really do. There are so many nice people to meet out there. I spent all of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday at orientation. Let me tell you being an orientation leader is MUCH more fun than being a first year. Holy poo.

Sunday was training. Me and Janine headed out there around 9ish. realized we knew next to nobody. That was fine we had eachother. We quickly learned that we had to dance. Thats right. I had to dance. The OV (orientation Volunteer) Boogie. Needless to say I was a lil scary. So we all lined up so that we spelled out MUN. And in this formation we met the man who became known as M, as we met him in the M. he was a really nice guy so he became our friend. Then M introduced us to Chris. Chris was a cool fellow indeed. So we finish training go home fine and dandy.
Monday I got to know a guy named Darcy. He was one of the POA's and reminded me a lot of my friend terry ( I know you don't like that but too bad he did! its not a bad thing) so we hung out most of Monday night at the breezeway. On Monday I also got the pleasure of getting to dance the OV boogie on the News. Right in front of the camera the whole time. dancing right next to the dean. I had to catch her when she fell. It was awesome. I also danced ballroom style in front of 2000 people. Just me and Sammy Seahawk. Its a really good thing i'm not shy. Haha

Tuesday was more fun times. Campus tour. Luncheon and again some more OV boogie. Got some people to sign my shirt. haha I never thought I could find someone with a dirtier mind than myself, Then I found Darcy. He's my hero lol and said goodbye to the first years

Yesterday was my first day of class. I had English 2390 first. My prof is frigging crazy. she seems like a bit of a bitch to me. My English 2000 prof was Michael Nolan. I had him for 1101 and I really liked him. So I was Pleased. My 2002 prof seems a lil off the wall but I think the course should be a breeze. Religous institutions I'm not so sure about. The prof seems nice enough but I hink its gonna be a lil boring. War And Aggression I had last night. the Prof is nuts. but in a good way. He is the world leader in his feild and had no issues with bragging that to us. He studies murders and serial killers for a living, you have to expect him to be a lil crazy. I only had one class with people I knew in it. Kim and Tabitha are in 2002 with me so it should be fun times.

I don't have classes on tuesday or thursday so thats pretty awesome. I have rehersal tonight at 6 and i'm pretty sure every night next week . We have reporters coming in to the rehersals from the Telegram. the Muse. Coast 101.1 and CBC. Looks like this producion is going to be a hit.. and I FINALLY GOT TO REHERSE! woo! Anyway I'm out to rest up a bit before I have to go!



Peace and Blessings!