Winter

Well there goes my three day posting  streak. Oh well. Today I will talk about the season I like best.

I'd probably have to go with winter, honestly. It might not be the most common choice, and I do complain about it a lot, but it the end I really do love winter. I like all my childish memories of sledding, building forts, making snowmen, having snowball fights, even just making snow angels. I like how it covers everything in a huge fluffy white blanket. I like pretending to be a dragon when my breath makes little puff clouds. I like bundling up to go out and having hot chocolate when I return. I like the frost gardens that stretch across all the windows in my house. I like looking for the biggest icicle on my house and knocking it off with a snowball. I like wearing big sweaters and curling up with a book or something inside. I like the Christmas holidays. I like skating. I like looking at individual snowflakes.

There's a lot of things I like about winter, and that's why it's my favourite season.

Where in the World

Five places that I want to visit.

1) Ireland (and England since it's right next door)
I've wanted to go to Ireland for a while now, probably since I did a school project on it in like grade five or something. It just seems like such a pretty place. The fact that I like folklore and mythology may also play a part in my choice. Also the Irish accent is my favourite accent. I've been to London, England once before and I would love to go back and see more of England as well.

2) Japan
Call me a weeaboo if you like, but I would love to go to Japan some day. I'd love to see some cherry blossoms, a shinto temple, and yes... bask in the manga/anime glory that is Akihabara. After I learn some Japanese that is.

3) Australia and New Zealand
It's pretty expensive to fly half way around the world so unless I'm rich in the future I'd probably do these in one go like Ireland and England. I want to see kangaroos, hug one if possible. It would also be cool to go scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef. And go see visit the Sydney Opera House. Not exactly sure what to do in New Zealand because I haven't researched it as much as other places, but I know I want to go there, it seems really nice.

4) Finland
I'm part Finnish and I apparently have a lot of relatives in Finland so it would be nice to go there some day. It seems like a very pretty place, I'd like to have some traditional Finnish experiences there I think. If only I knew how to speak Finnish.... it'll go right after Japanese I suppose.

5) Egypt
Though I'm not necessarily one that enjoys scorching hot weather, this is a must see. To go and see the pyramids, to be somewhere so old, it would just be amazing. I'd also love to ride a camel.

Doctor, Doctor!

So, luckily, I remembered to do this today. Today's subject is a TV show that I have become addicted to. That would of course be Doctor Who. I actually started watching it back in maybe 2005 or something when it was the Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston. It was on cable during the Ninth and most (all?) of the Tenth Doctor's episodes and I thought it was really interesting. I had never seen a show like it before and was instantly hooked. However once they took it off cable I didn't see any more of it until this year. My best friend got hooked on the series and started watching all the episodes from Eccleston onwards so I did as well. I'm all caught up now and I can't wait for more.

First Doctor: Christopher Eccleston
Favourite Doctor: David Tennant
Favourite Companion: Rose Tyler
Other loved characters: K-9, Rory Williams, Jack Harkness, Dalek Sec, and of course Matt Smith

Yup, I love Tennant the most as the Doctor. Matt Smith is alright, I just prefer Tennant. I also prefer Rose over Amy because.... well Amy rubs me the wrong way sometimes, and she feels more needy in my opinion. I really love K-9. He's just the cutest, I'd love to have one for myself. And Rory. The last centurion. Amy is luck to have him, let me tell you that.

It would be amazing to be able to travel anywhere or anywhen that you wanted in an awesome blue police box. It's part of what makes me love the show so much.

30 Day Challenge

So it's been a long time again. I stumbled across an interesting idea while looking at some tumblrs and I decided that to try to get back on schedule with my blog I'm going to try it out. Also because I failed at keeping with NaNoWriMo this year again. I'm horrible at sticking with things like this so hopefully this will go well. So yeah I'll be posting everyday for thirty days and we'll see how it goes. If I like it maybe it will become something longer.

First of all I'll start with something that I've been meaning to address for a while (and I haven't already, hopefully.... I can't really remember....). The meaning behind my blog name. Lonely Daisy. As you might already know my name isn't Daisy, and I like to think that I'm not lonely.

The name actually comes from my pet cat. Her name is Daisy, she's really old, a little cranky and I absolutely adore her. She gets left alone at home all day while my family is at work/school so I feel bad for her. And yeah, that's basically it. My blog is named after my cat..... maybe I am a little more lonely than I thought, hahaha.

Canada Day Thoughts

Being born and living in Canada all my life I realise that I take many things in life for granted. I have so much freedom here to do and say as I please that I find it really hard to imagine any other sort of way of life. But the reality is that there are many places in the world where people aren't as lucky as me. There are people who have to be in a certain religion, who have to cover their faces or dress a certain way, who cannot voice their opinions and who live in fear of harm or even death if they do not follow specific rules. Thinking about all that makes me sad. I wish that people everywhere could have the freedom that I do because I'm sure the world would be a much better place because of it.

Update

So school is over now, thankfully. The weather has been not bad so far, even though it did rain for a bit. I've just been relaxing here and lazing around with not much to do, but so I'll be off to Ottawa to see my sister and pick up our new car. And it's time to kick my butt into action so I don't waste this whole summer like I did the last two. The sad part is that I think I probably get more done during the school year when I'm putting off doing homework and stuff than when I have tons of free time in the summer.

My blog collaboration has started up this week. It's called A Week of Awesome. I'll be posting on Fridays and I'm sure there will be some awesome stuff on there so feel free to check it out.

Also only like 16 days until the last Harry Potter movie comes out.... I really need to buy my tickets for that before they're sold out or something. And on the note of buying things, my dad got me a Chapters card so even though I have like no spending money at the moment I can still buy books! *cheers!*

I started watching Doctor Who again, as well. I watched the new seasons with Matt Smith doctor and they were really good. I actually really like how Matt Smith portrays the doctor, but David Tennant will always have a bigger place in my heart. So apologies go out to Dee because I was teasing her earlier for watching that show. And actually make that extra apologies because I realized the usefulness of sticky tack and I was always telling her that it wasn't useful at all (this is not related to Doctor Who at all, btw).

P.S. Made a curry pork omlette this morning from leftovers and it was surprisingly good. Almost as good as that taco omlette I made sometime ago.

Creative Collab

School is almost over now (thank God), only exams left to do. And as school winds down I am progressively getting more and more lazy. Unlike last year though, I will not be sitting around all day doing nothing, I'm going to be in Ottawa for awhile visiting my sis. I'm also hoping to spend a good part of the summer swimming in my river and relaxing in the sun.

Another project I will be taking on is a collab blog with some fellow nerdfighters. That means that I will be sharing a blog with 6 other people. We're all going to post on one assigned day of the week and slowly get to know each other hopefully. And I linked above to the blog, but we aren't starting until July so it probably won't look very good right away. Bare with me on this one.

Writer's Block Sucks

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Boondock Saints and Birthday Mail

So I just got a letter from my mom without a return address and we were both wondering who it could've been from. So I tear it open and find this:

So I'm like "Oh how nice, someone sent me a birthday card!"

Then i flip it open to see who sent it and I see this:

And I'm like "Ooooookaaaaaaay, what the heck is Team LC and who are Rachel, Emily, Justin, and Diana?"

So I rack my brain for a bit to try and figure out who these people could possibly be, but I don't recall anyone that might send a card like this. I come up with the idea to flip it over to see if anything else is written:

This makes me literally facepalm. I mean seriously, a college that sends a birthday card. It's nice and all, but a tad corny and I'm not even considering going to college (university for me hopefully). And I don't even remember giving them my birthday, it must have been from one of their people visiting our school way back at the beginning of the year.

On the other hand my day was significally improved when I saw this following photo.

Boondock Saints FTW! Twilight/Edward FTL!

I adore this photo, it just makes my love for Sean Flanery (Conner MacManus) and Norman Reedus (Murphy MacManus) that much stronger. <3

I Just Lost a Part of Myself

But it was just my hair, and that grows back. :P Had you there for a moment didn't I. I bet you thought I was going all serious on you. However that is not to be. Anyways, just a quick update because I said I would post pictures of my new do.

So there's the before and after look. I cut it all off in my annual summer haircut frenzy, because my hair is waaaaaaaaay too hot in the summer if I leave it long. Plus this way I don't have to use as much shampoo. Also, in the after pic my hair looks more straight, but that's just because the hairdresser did it. If I leave my hair natural it looks more curly.

On a more unrelated note I have recently come to terms with the fact that I have a strange attraction to androgynous looking people. I just really like when a girl can pass for a guy and a guy can pass for a girl or when you see someone and you can't really tell if they're either one.

Pop quiz: Which of these are guys and which are girls?



It probably stems from my reading manga all the time and listening to visual kei jrock bands. It has corrupted my mind! >_< I mean, not that it's a bad thing to like androgynous people or anything.

More than just the looks though, it really interests me when people don't indentify themselves as a girl or a guy, that they could look either way and not care about it at all. That sort of mentality fascinates me. I wonder if in the future that's how everyone will be, sort of genderless beings or something. That could be interesting.



*Is a Ninja*

Yes, today I think I deserve to say that I'm a ninja, or I've at least gotten one step closer to being one. I took this course at my school called Instincts and it was all about how women can protect themselves and get away from assalt situations. It was pretty interesting for the most part (though I don't think some of the other girls were enjoying it as much as me). I learned a bunch of useful techniques to get out of an attacker's hold, both physical moves and vocal techniques. The best part by far though, would definitely be at the end when they all let us break a wood board in half with our fists! It was actually pretty easy to do, and I mean how many people can go around saying that they did something like that. :)



On a side note, my room is (finally) almost clean. I have a few drawers left to clean out and then I'll be done. Unfortunately it will have to wait until tuesday at least because I am in T Bay for the long weekend.


P.S. I booked a hair appointment for tomorrow so hopefully I'll have super short hair by this time tomorrow! If I feel like it I may post before an after pictures once I get it done.

P.P.S. The weather has been FANTASTIC lately soI hope it stays the same, but the forcast doesn't look all that good. I even heard my parents mention the "s" word...

Spring is in the air....

Spring is here again. The sun is shining bright, the temperatures seem almost too good to be true *knocks on wood* and the flowers are blooming. But spring isn't the only thing in the air, there's quite a bit of dust as well. Yes, I have started my annual spring cleaning of my room and I must say, I should probably do this more than once a year! There is so much dust it's crazy. But I'm making good progress, my room is about half done now so hopefully it wont take too much longer.

Happy spring cleaning everyone!

A List of Thoughts

     So I'm feeling pretty thoughtful today and I have other things that I should be doing at the moment. Naturally, that is why I'm blogging. These thoughts will most likely be completely unrelated, definitely in no particular order and hopefully thought provoking, but more likely just confusing.

1) Nobody is perfect, therefore nobody can make anything perfect, but it is the imperfections that are usually the most beautiful.

2) What should we believe in? In God? Human knowledge? Material items? Ourself? Others? The list could go on forever, but honestly I think the most important thing is that you believe in something even if in the end you chose wrong.

3) If you have to ask youself "Does this really matter in the big picture of things?" chances are the answer is no.

4) I honestly wouldn't be surprised if one day I just exploded from all the things I keep tucked inside myself.

5) Attractiveness is a matter of opinion, everyone's idea of it is a bit different. So screw modern society and just like yourself for who you are.
6) It's amazing how many times I find myself cussing people out in my head, it makes me thankful for the ability to censor what comes out of my mouth.

7) It's amazing how many times I find myself agreeing to something I don't want, it makes me spiteful of the ability to censor what comes out of my mouth.

8) My current life feels way to cluttered with useless material items. Sometimes I just want to throw it all out my window and not have to think about it.

9) It would be a lie if I said I've never thought about running away before, I think it would be wonderful to just head out on the road and go explore the world. Sadly I don't think I'll ever do it, and it will just end up on my steadily growing list of regrets.

10) I wonder what would happen if I started to get bad marks in all my classes. Would people be really surprised or would they not even care?

11) There's a very thin line between reality and illusion, you could cross it one day without even knowing.

12) Time, money, and power. The three main things that rule our lives and crush our dreams.

13) I think one of the most precious things in the world is child-like innocence and imagination, yet everyday we find new ways to beat it out of our kids.

14) Laughter can't help with everything, but it can help with most things.

15) It's hard to be true to yourself when you don't know who you are.

16) Music soothes the soul.

     And yeah, that seems to be it. Hopefully I'll write again soon, but who knows....

Happy Birthday!

This just goes out to my best friend in the world, D for her 17th birthday!!! I hope you had a good year and that this following one will be just as good or way, way better. : )

I Hate Mondays

     I'll just come out and say it right now, this is a rant, leave if you wish, but I need to get this all out.
     I have had a horrible day today and that just reinforces that old cliche that Mondays are a drag and nobody likes them. I was so tired this morning I didn't want to get up at all and I ended up sleeping in too late so I couldn't have my shower, now I have to take one this evening instead. Granted this next one was my fault for being lazy earlier, but I still want to put it out there. I didn't have my usual good clothes to wear because I forgot to do laundry this weekend so this morning I just threw on whatever I could find that was still clean.
     At school we had to do reading out loud in my parenting class (I hate reading out loud or doing anything infront of other people for that matter). My math class is being a bitch, we keep getting more and more work everyday so you can't relax at all or you'll fall behind. Then at lunch we had a yearbook committee meeting in which the teacher in charge spazzed out at us because the deadline is coming up soon and we're not done the required amount of pages yet. It's not our fault that there's only 3 fucking people on the committee, give us a break will you?
     For third period I had to be in the library so I could use the computer because the school board is technologically challenged so they haven't given us wireless internet yet. Anyways some stupid grade 9 or 10 class was in the library that period and they wouldn't shut up the entire time! I mean, hello, this is a library! The only thing that got me through the whole ordeal was my ipod. Thank god for ipods. Fourth period wasn't bad, we just had to watch a stupid safety video and write some notes.
     So here I am now sitting at home writing this. I just finished eating a rather large brownie, don't judge, I like chocolate and it makes me feel better when I'm in a nastier sort of mood like I am now. I'm not looking tonight or tomorrow, I have a very long to-do list and to top it off tomorrow I have to sell candy-o-grams at school and help out with the elementary school snack program (probably alone because the stupid adult I'm supposed to be working with never shows up so I usually spend twice the amount of time doing it then what it normally takes when you have a partner).
     So yeah, not one of the best days in my life... maybe my crabbiness has something to do with Valentine's Day. I kind of doubt it though because for the most part I don't mind the holiday, I think it's cute and romantic. A better guess would probably be that I just need more sleep, I hate it when I miss sleep. Hopefully the next time I post I'll be in a better mood.

Update

     Well exams for first semester are finally over, thank god. Second semester starts tomorrow because they only gave us one day off to relax. It shouldn't be all that bad though, my classes are not bad: parenting, math, introduction to anthropology, psychology, and sociology, and biology. I'm pretty psyched for my third period class because it's an independant learning course that I otherwise wouldn't have been able to get at my high school. I didn't really want to take parenting, but there was nothing else available for first period that I wanted so I thought it would just be an easy credit. My mom is the teacher for biology so I'm not sure how that will go, I've never been taught by her so far. It'll probably be fine.
     Anyways, I don't think I have anything else to say for now. Bye!

Listening to: Collect Call -Metric
Currently reading: The Secret of Dragonhome by John Peel (for the 4th time)

I Can Dream

     Okay, so it's nothing official yet, seeing as I only found out about it a couple days ago, but I may have found the adventure I've been looking for. My mom is the guidance counsellor at my high school so she gets a lot of brochures and things promoting different schools or activities students can go to. Recently she got one about volunteering internationally during the summer. It's called Projects Abroad and I recommend checking out the site. There are a wide variety of things you could get into such as child care, community building, medical studies, archeology, journalism and my favourite: animal conservation! I looked through all the options and right now I'm deciding between going to Mexico for 2 weeks to help turtles hatch and make it into the sea, all the while getting daily spanish lessons or going for 2 weeks in Thailand to go diving and help with marine conservation. Both seem really really fun and exciting. I told my parents I wanted to go so they're considering it. It is quite a bit of money so I'll definitely have to chip in, but I think it would be worth it. I really want to do this, not just to go see an awesome new country, but to help out the animals as well. If you're interesting in helping out they're always looking for more volunteers and you can go any time you want, you just have to plan the date and location!

Adios amigos!

P.S. I've been having a really awesome day, so I decided to pass it along: DFTBA!!!

Guess Who's Back

     So, haven't been on here in a while.... my apologies. I'd like to say I have some excuse for my disappearance, but other than me being lazy I have nothing. I don't really have all that much to talk about. Exams are coming up and I have 4 fairly difficult classes to study for so that'll keep me busy for most of next week.
     I think I've developed a new addiction to horror/thriller movies because over the past 3 months I've watched.... a lot. I'm not quite sure where this came from, most of the time I hate horror movies because they scare me and gross me out. Maybe I desensitized myself to them... or something.
     On a completely different note the weather here has been pretty freezing cold. Theres at least a couple feet of snow on the ground and temperatures around -30 degrees celcius or colder. I like it mostly because it means my parents can't complain to me about not being outside. And I sounded like such a hermit there didn't I. Well, there really isn't all that much to do where I live anyways so I guess it wasn't extremely bad, from my perspective anyway.
     But anywho I have studying and stuff to do so hopefully I'll be back soon!