This is the pen that Chris Martin touched. I will treasure it always.
Tuesday May 10, 2005 @ 12:10 AM
I heart Coldplay...
Yesterday was the first crazy celebrity thing I've ever done. And now there's the possibility that I'll do more, because this one went so damn well!! :)
Okay, so Carly and I left Scarborough Town at like 3 PM on our way to MuchMusic, where Coldplay is doing a MuchOnDemand interview thingy. As we're walking down Younge, we see that there's a HUGE lineup outside of Edge. So we ask someone and he tells us that everyone here is waiting for Coldplay and we're like, "Aren't they supposed to be at Mu-? ...uhhh nothing..." Then we figure out that Coldplay is playing at Edge at 6:30, which gives us time to make it down to Much for the show from 5-6 PM and then RUN back to edge for 6:30. :)
So when we get to Much, there is also a huge line-up, and Carly and I are basically at the end of it. Despite this, we ended up being pretty damn close to the front once everyone packed into that little fence-thing outside of Much. Actually, by the end of it all we'd squeezed up onto the platform right at the from, with only like three "rows" of people ahead of us.
And it was SO exciting!! Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland kept coming out and signing autographs. And now, I love Coldplay, but not like Carly LOVES Coldplay. I mean, I didn't actually know any of their names until Carly told me on the Subway ride. To be honest, I didn't even buy their CD (well you know what, I'll go to their concert and support them THAT way). So anyway, Carly had brought her CD jacket, and I'm REALLY tall with REALLY long arms, so when Chris and Johnny came out, I was leaning over and trying to get them to sign the jacket.
Anyway, they kept missing me everytime they came outside, until the very end of the show. Johnny Buckland was right in front of me, and even though Carly doesn't like him as much as Chris, I figured his autograph is better than no one's, so I reached out and sure enough I got his signature. But WAIT, in an amazing turn of events, Chris Martin moved over to our side and ALSO SIGNED THE JACKET!!! OH MY GOD, at this point we are FREAKING OUT and getting stepped on, so we decide to get out of there.
Alright, alright, so I know Carly got the autographs and all, but I ALSO got some good stuff (besides the pictures Carly took that I get doubles of :D):
This is the pen that Chris Martin touched. I will treasure it always.
This is the hand that Chris Martin touched. If I homeless man hadn't shaken it afterwards, I may not have washed it again.
This is my cat, Henry. He looked really cute while I was taking these pictures, so I had to take one of him.
Okay, so back to the story... As we stepped out of the crowd, I realized that I had been standing on my toes for, like, the last hour, and could now barely walk. Like, literally. That KILLED.
But my soreness wore off as we HAULED ASS back to Edge. The street meat and Coke helped (thanks Carly :D).
By the time we got to Edge, the line had gone from HUGE to REALLY REALLY HUGE. They ended up not letting that many people into Edge in the end also (Carly thinks only twenty, I say fifty max... either way, only a miniscule dent in the number of people who were there). So we walked across the street (the police had it blocked off from like Dundas to Queen) and stood listening to Coldplay play five lovely accousic songs. :)
But not EVERYONE there was happy. We overheard two REALLY pissed off people who had driven in from Thunderbay and waiting for eight hours and did NOT get in. Sucks to be them.
Anyway, yesterday was Coldplay day. I don't imagine that Carly will bring her autographs out to show anyone though... She was so paranoid that someone would steal it, she had it down her shirt. ;)
~Shayla
P.S. Keep an eye on my counter, will you? I'd love to know who my 1000th hit was. :)
Saturday May 7, 2005 @ 10:10 PM
HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY, MARY! :D
Firstly, let's all take a moment to say happy birthday to my dear cousin MARY. :) Watch out world, she's now legal EVERYWHERE. ;)
In other news, I'm officially sick. It might be allergies, but it's now giving me a headache, ear-plugging, dizziness and toothaches, as well as MAJOR sinus issues. I don't know, could that still be allergies? Well, I just took some Tylenol Cold, so let's see if that works any better than the allergy med. I took yesterday.
So it's mother's day tomorrow, and my mom wants like one of those outdoor lounge chairs, but a very specific one that I can't find... Damn, so I'm going to have to outright ask her where she saw this elusive chair so I can buy it for tomorrow. :P
And I had super fun last night with everyone at Jake's and DQ. It was a very special night, because it was Anne's first time at DQ and they scared her when they turned the cup upside down... Ahhhh good times. :) I must say, however, that one of my highlights was walking through the ugly sporting-goods store while waiting for our table at Jake's, and all of us making fun of everything... I'm surprised we didn't get kicked out. Man, that store had some UGLY stuff in it though... the ghetto snowpants, and the BRIGHT, BRIGHT sweater... man....
Of course, the REAL highlight was that I didn't have to hug Max, right? ;)
Alright, I'm gonna go stuff tissues in my nose and watch TV. PLEASE READ THE PREVIOUS ENTRY AND STILL POST YOUR FAKE NAMES!!!
~Shayla
Wednesday May 4, 2005 @ 11:13 PM
The fake name game...
Okay, so NEW GAME!! I was watching Friends and Phoebe and Joey both have fake names (Regina Filanji and Kenmore Adams) and I got bored and made my own fake name. And then I got Andrew and Katie to make their own. SUCH FUN!! Now please, for all of our amusement, everyone come up with their own fake name (funny, sexy, or otherwise) and post it in my comment box, and I'll add it to my list:
~Shayla
Wednesday May 4, 2005 @ 3:30 AM
Choosing what is right is easier than figuring out what is right in the first place.
Let's just take a moment and marvel at the sheer contradiction of our own human nature.
If I knew just one true thing in all the world to be absolutely certain, I think I would die in peace. Not a meaningless thing, like mathematic formulas or scientific facts or anything. Something actually meaningful, like what is life or how can we stop poverty and violence or why do some people have such hardships. Like what the perfect political/societal system is, since neither socialism or capitalism are REALLY fully working. Like if there's someone for everyone, then who out there will love the ugly, paraplegic hermaphrodite? Isn't that person as deserving of love as anyone else? And is there a God, and if there is then why does he let so many bad things happen to good people? And if there isn't, then why do I even bother living?
And why can't I make up my mind on certain things? Watch MTV and I'm really motivated to start working out and bleach my teeth and remove 95% of my body hair. Then something comes along every once and a while and makes me realize that I shouldn't fucking have to. It's ridiculous that we're all striving to look like somebody's twisted idea of a female body. And we're all striving for the unachievable too, because everyone in the media is photo-shopped and lipo-suctioned and breast-implanted anyway, and even if they weren't, people are built DIFFERENTLY and you can't expect them to fit into one increasingly-smaller ideal mould. And it's really just bullshit that I should have to deal with this kind of pressure. That I should be made to feel guilty for achieving a healthy body weight or for not dressing up when I leave the house or for not filling out an A-cup. It's really just a bullshit mechanism of patriarchal society and I shouldn't have to deal with it, but there it is. And despite all rational logic, I do care. So explain that to me.
And speaking of contradition, explain to me how someone's sex-drive can be wired to female submission and masochism when that's one of the things they fight against most in the world?
How does the world get so fucked up? God, it makes me so angry. Like, why can't we get ANYTHING to work? Let's all destroy the environment and exploit children in poor countries so we can increase our profits and keep the American dream going. Let's create a political system based on the idea that all people have an equal shot at life, even when they don't. Let's keep packing on the super-highways and give it up for urban sprawl and congestion and pollution and non-affordable housing and all the rest of that bullshit.
There should be some sort of limit on how many things can be fucked up and how many things you should be allowed to care about at one time. Because it's all fine when it's one at a time, but if you ever think about the big picture all at once, it's just EXHAUSTING.
When the sudden random unfairness of life in general hits you in the face, you should be allowed to be angry about it. Anger and money seem to be the only real motivators left in the world.
~Shayla
Tuesday May 3, 2005 @ 12:00 PM
My summer has officially begun...
Well, it's summer and so far things are much busier that I expected. It's not really actually busy in any sense of the word, but it's busy for ME. For ME, the perfect non-stress time is not having to do ANYTHING. And I actually have things to do, so that makes for some busy-ness.
Well my summer job curled up and died, so I may be taking an extra summer course instead... But still, this week is ALREADY starting to fill up.
~Shayla
Tuesday April 26, 2005 @ 1:00 PM
Y'know, I was born on a Tuesday...
Music: All my Life - Foo Fighters
So it's Tuesday morning -er, afternoon. I just got up anyway. Man, I should really save writing these things for later in the day, when I have more to talk about. Oh well, I'll tell you all about yesterday, and my plans for today.
So after I wrote that last quiz, I went and did two of the things I "wanted to do really badly right now": watch TV and eat breakfast. I was watching "Brother Bear" and MAN, that movie gets me EVERY TIME! It's so sad at the end when the little bear is hugging his ghost-mother, and then she has to go back to the spirit world and I'm like... WAHHHHH!!! Poor little bear. Good movie though.
And then later on Sarah wanted to watch a movie, so we watched "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton", which is like... well, it makes top 10 chick flicks... maybe even top 5. Gahhh I love Topher Grace, ESPECIALLY in that movie when he sings Barry White as he makes a sandwich...
In fact, I think he ties for "All-time chick flick male character favourite" with Matthew Perry in "Three to Tango." And that's saying a lot.
Then Andrew came over and THAT was fun too. ;)
So if it wasn't so miserable today, I'd want to head out to the library... There are a couple of books I'm interested in, especially since I FINALLY have time to read them.
I actually still do have a lot of stuff I could be doing, but it will have to wait until Scott leaves of Wednesday, because I need my room. I'm doing the major, MAJOR decluttering thing. Like, get in my closet and just THROW things out. And I'm getting rid of my desk, probably, because I never use it and it takes up space. We'll see.
Anyway, sorry these posts have been pretty boring lately... There's really just not that much going on in my life at the moment (which is a blessing after exam week!) and really not all that much going on in my head (and I guess that's a blessing too).
It just kind of sucks because I'm finally basically off school, and everyone's busy. My sister's starting to really stress about the approaching June Rush, Andrew's finishing up his last week of co-op, I don't think most of my friends are finished Uni. yet... I mean, I'm not complaining because I can totally use a week to do NOTHING, but it just doesn't make for very interesting updates. :P
Anyway, I update more to amuse myself than you guys anyway, so it all works out. ;)
~Shayla
P.S. I forgot to mention, Topher Grace was also in this unpopular film fest movie called, ironically, "P.S." I swear I didn't put this in the P.S. on purpose, that's why it's funny. But yeah, very weird, very cool movie, and Topher Grace's sexiest, by far. :)
Monday April 25, 2005 @ 11:44 AM
Three things quiz...
Three Things You Must Know About Me:
- My younger sister is my best friend
- I'm a low-maintainance friend/girlfriend/person
- I don't worry about the things I can't change
Three Names People Randomly Call Me:
- Magoo (my dad)
- Sheila (the people at work)
- Shay or Shayl
Three Ways To Make Me Smile:
- quote lines from Clone High, Zoolander, Family Guy, etc.
- be goofy/silly/crazy/stupid with me
- YOU smile first (hey, I'm easy)
Three Reasons Why I'm Happy:
- My last exam is philosophy, which is total bullshit :)
- EVERYONE'S COMING HOME FOR THE SUMMER!!
- Andrew's work term is ending so he can hang out with me in the summer
Three Favourite Things In The World:
- sleep
- laughing
- sex
Three Places I Would Rather Be In:
- The library, checking out "A Clockwork Orange"
- Hamilton, if that's where you guys still are
- Andrew's pants
Three Things I Absolutely Can't Stand:
- Mean people
- Mushrooms (the eating kind)
- Being forced to follow someone else's routine
Three Things I Fear The Most:
- Looking back on my life and realizing it was worthless
- Things in water (especially sharks)
- Having my books end up in the give-away pile
Three Things I Wear Everyday:
- Andrew's ring
- a hair clip
- a smile ;)
Three Things I Like About Myself:
- I don't sweat the small stuff, like, ever
- My mind processes lies/answers/come-backs before I can even consciously think of them
- I can honestly say I believe in myself in most instances
Three Things I Don't Like About Myself:
- I'm lazy ("If I ever get off this couch I'll be unstoppable" - Zoe Whitall)
- I'm bad at making new friends, and probably worse at keeping up with old ones
- I rarely finish what I start
Three Things In My Closet I Could Never Give Away:
- My memory box
- The first "books" I ever wrote
- My "Andrew" memory box
Three Of My Everyday Essentials:
- sleep
- Katie
- Andrew
Three Things I Am Wearing Right Now
- Andrew's ring
- Black-and-pink cowboy underwear
- a shirt with only one sleeve (I use it for sleeping)
Three Things On My Desk:
(I don't have a desk anymore, so I'm going to say "shelf" instead)
- books (school texts and personal choice)
- my fish
- my electric pencil sharpener
Three Things I Spend Money On:
- food
- clothes
- Katie (somehow I ALWAYS end up having to pay for her)
Three Things That Intrigue Me:
- a sense of humour
- an interest in politics
- speaking openly, with one's guard completely down
Three Things I Can't Do:
- touch my toes
- win a thumb war
- speak another language
Three Of My Favorite Past Times:
- hanging out with people
- singing
- writing/daydreaming
Three Things I Want To Do Really Bad Right Now:
- Go back to bed
- watch GOOD TV
- eat breakfast
Two Truths And A Lie:
- Sometimes I still fear that I'm the little geek I was back in grade 8, and everyone knows it
- I don't believe in good and evil
- The media never affects the way I feel about my self or body
Three Careers I'd Love To Have:
- Author
- Journalist
- Sunday Night Sex Show hostess
Three Stores I Always go to:
- H&M
- Bluenotes
- Fairweathers
Three Things I've Always Wanted To Do
- write a book
- create a comic book (I know I'm a geek)
- be part of a protest/activist movement
~Shayla
Sunday April 24, 2005 @ 12:13 PM
I heart "Blood" by the Abandoned Pools
So my family and Sarah are out for Sunday breakfast at the restaurant. I rarely go with my family when they go, usually because I'm still asleep, but also because all the restaurant serves is eggs/bacon/pancakes, that sort of stuff... If I eat that sort of thing for breakfast it makes me feel super sick the whole day (for some reason, however, the waffles with chocolate/whipped cream/fruit at McMaster sits well with me though ;) I think it's the fruit).
So cousin Sarah is staying with us until Friday. Today we're going to see her boyfriend, Scott, play Rugby out in Oakville... Andrew told me last night that Oakville area may be expecting a few centimetres of snow today, so SUCKS TO BE ME. Think of me as you read this from your nice, warm house.
So I've been doing laundry today and yesterday for the first time in like three weeks... MAN, I was just about run out of cloths (I friend of mine once taught me how to re-use underwear three extra times before washing it, but I REALLY didn't want to resort to that!).
So my hard exams are OVER!! All I have left is one philosophy exam on Thursday. And, as we all know, philosophy is kind of a bullshit course, so I'm really not worried about that.
I'm going to start painting my room soon... Maybe this week (then I can enlist Sarah's help... mwhahahah... :D). YAY, I'm so EXCITED about that!! I LOVE re-doing rooms (well, not the painting part so much as the planning and post-paint enjoyment, but you get the idea). I can't wait to have my own house and design all the rooms. I'd like to do different rooms in different art styles. The basement is TOTALLY going to be pop art, with like black-and-whites pictures of Marilyn Monroe, and hopefully some Lichtenstein or Warhol work. And I SO am going to have a 40's looking art deco kitchen! :D And probably the rest of the house will be a little art deco too... What can I say, it's my favourite... :)
Anyway, I sound like a pompous art critic, so I'm going to go... We leave for the game at one, so I should go and start putting on layers NOW. :P
~Shayla
Thursday April 21 @ 11:54 AM
Happy Anniversary - FOUR YEARS, BABY!
In all honesty, I wasn't as excited for this anniversary as with all the other ones. Maybe it's that I'm stressed with exams, maybe it's that we've done this three times already, maybe it's that the year went really fast. I don't know.
I've been saying that I'll probably be more excited next year, because it will be five years, and then I thought about how much I love just that feeling of comfort and stability. Like, how many other couples can miss holidays and events, and turn to each other and say, "Oh well, there's always next year," like we so often do, and really believe without a doubt that they'll be there together next year?
So this year, we're doing the small-scale anniversary thing. Because when you've been together long enough that you can't possibly contemplate being without one another, you realize that there is always next year. And the year after that. And the year after that.
And that's all that really matters.
~Shayla
Wednesday April 20, 2005 @ 1:10 AM
She ain't no Hollaback Girl... but she is a sellout
Okay, I might be a little slow in realizing this (maybe I'm just in denial) but like... When did Gwen Stefani become a total sellout? I mean, I must admit that "What You Waiting For?" is a guilty pleasure of mine, and even "Rich Girl" is okay, but "Hollaback Girl"? I have honestly tried to get into it, but no... It's just too bad. And the rest of the CD? Ugh, don't even ask... I sold it to Deja Vu discs two days after I bought it.
Oh Gwen, where did you go bad? I mean, you made it on your own technically (I mean the CD did sell REALLY well), but the quality just isn't half what it was in No Doubt. Sigh...
And seriously, is it just me or is she getting really cocky in this latest CD? Let's review some lyrics...
~Shayla