dont mess it up.. its KE$HA

im seeing kesha tonight at the molson amp.. im slightly excited to see the crazed kesha look-alikes. oh and all the glitter. dont forget the glitter. james and i are going to go downtown a bit early to hit up some shops and possibly get some food.

my going to see ke$ha attire..

the problem is i dont own glitter

just another friday

tgif means nothing to me currently.. a) because its the summer so im not in school and b) because i work in retail meaning i dont necessarily get weekends off. (technically im only part time and often get way more than 2 days off a week, but not in the summer). so yup its friday and i work 9.5 hours today. 9.5 hours i need to leave the pup and im also missing the james street north art crawl, which i have grown to absolutely love this summer.. i have to work saturday too.. 

im hoping for some nice weather.. i want to use my new camera and take some photos!

i get to pick my classes for school tonight too! im excited about that. i've decided to do a post grad program at college, human resource management something entirely different than my kinesiology/science degree. 

have a good weekend :)

oh and recently ive been pinning everything on pinterest.. im obsessed. (check it out)

lets just not tell everyone i know please

this text box started out blank and is by the second being filled with purple letters, which form words, then sentences and eventually these sentences will reveal thoughts. thats the way it always happens for me. thoughts are laid out in words sometimes pictures. i like it. in fact i love it. i take my camera with me to capture moments from my day and i dont intend to blog about each day i live. this blog is like my journal and that is a reason i have told about 5 people about it. its not something i want all my friends to read and in someways i regret telling the people i told. its entirely awkward for a friend to bring up something i wrote about, or make jokes that i better not post a bad picture of them on my blog. i decided to start a blog because i wanted to. i love reading blogs, i love reading peoples thoughts and inspirations and yes i do have some blogs that i particularly like and read fairly often. some of these girls and guys (mostly girls) in blogland are amazing and have a lot in common with me. sometimes more in common with me than my closest friends. their words inspire, they introduce me to new books/authors/artists, they can cheer me up. this blog is meant to be read, whether it be by me at a later date or other bloggers and/or friends but id rather it not be awkwardly talked about in a group setting. most family and friends do not know about sometimesgirlsgossip and id like to keep it that way, its less awkward. thats my confession.   

who would have known how bittersweet this would taste

i dont feel any older, not really. the number of my age increased by a full year but im only a day older than i was yesterday. isn't it funny how that works, one day to celebrate your year.. i like it that way though. i love how the celebration is at the beginning of your year, not the end.. its celebrating the year to come. im excited for my 24th year i really think im going to like being 24. it started out pretty good.. i had the whole weekend off work. 

saturday was my actual birthday. it rained all day but it was relaxing and i loved it. my sister made some oatmeal chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast... they are the most amazing pancakes i have ever had, most people dont think about oatmeal when it comes to making pancakes but i highly advise it they are perfect. i read and watched a movie while my dad set up my new bookshelf and dresser (you know those build it yourself ones from ikea - i love ikea) and my mom made me a blue velvet cake.. 

i requested blue velvet. something a little different than my red velvet usual (my favourite food of life possibly) but just as amazing tasting
around 7:30 we went out for dinner to a place in burlington called the stone house. it is fancy and i kind of loved it! i had whole wheat linguine primavera.. delish.. after dinner we can back home and ate some birthday cake and i opened presents! i got the nikon d3000 ive wanted since last christmas! i cant wait too use it! after i went out with some friends and played apples to apples.. that is one interesting game 

sunday i decided to have a barbecue. my parents were away for the day and my sisters both worked. meagan came down early, we went to the grocery store, lcbo and all that. we made our own burgers, beef burgers and veggie burgers (well techically meg made the beef burgers and diana made the veggie burgers) and we made some nacho dip.. it was fun! just a small barbecue! tia and brandon brought salad, james brought delicious corn on the cob and jamie brought me wine! the weather cleared up by about dinner which worked out perfectly since it was raining all morning. we all ended up watching big brother. andrew came late and brought me a rather unthoughtful gift lol.. a giant four foot stuffed monkey in a banana.. its weird and i dont know what to do with it..

i love the people in my life currently

organizing my new bookshelf i realized how much room i have for more books!

all shelves can be full

and my new dresser is all clear.. ill try and keep it that way

guinness had an exciting day with all the visitors

ohh only the black blob is real.. the rest are stuffed.

its my birthday!

im 24 today!

do i look any older?

i think im going to like this age.. 

ohh and guinness is 3 months today

awkward and awesome

awkward:
-walking around the grocery store with fresh italian parsley because my mom sent me to get some and when i get to the cash the lady asks me if i wanted to put it in a plastic bag located near the produce.. ohh was i supposed to put it in a bag?
- my dog has started humping his toys (extremely awkward especially around people).. he needs to get fixed
- sandal tans so bad that it still looks like you are wearing sandals when you have bare feet (not me.. im not tanned in anyway.. but its still awkward)
- asking the lcbo sales lady to get me some boones or real sangria because there is none on the floor.. then she asks if im making a punch out of it.. "no? am i supposed too? i just drink it"
- a friend asking their boyfriend to drive you home when a) you have never met them and b) your friend isn't even going to be in the car


awesome:
- getting two government cheques in the mail, one hst return and one for some property and energy tax credit.. i dont even think i pay any taxes toward energy and property
- winning a contest at work.. meaning i get to go cave exploring and kayaking for a day with teva in september
- getting a comforter for $36 when its regularly $100
- rachel and brendon going up on the block on big brother
- morning shifts! (i hate working at night)
- making birthday lists

you never get me.. thats the whole point

i started reading looking for alaska by john green a few days ago. its an easy read i got it from the teen novel section at indigo but i had heard it was good. it was on the top 20 books to read summer 2011 list from goodreads. i was just reading and i found a paragraph i actually love and it actually answers some of my life lol. one of the characters in the book, miles halter really likes this girl named alaska and when he visits her room once he notices the bookshelf full of novels. at one point he asks her "have you really read all those books in your room".. and her response..

the reason i love her answer so much is because its true.

there is so much in life to do that i cant just read and i absolutely loves that she includes something as seemingly insignificant as "swings to swing on" in her reasoning..

i collect books, i love books. reading takes me to places i cant go, teaches life lessons about different people and characters. books educate, create imagination and curiosity, inspire and bring about emotion.

i buy so many books and read them at 1/5 the rate i buy them. im almost 24, i have work and school to worry about. i have friends to be there for.

when im old (and boring as alaska puts it) i will have more time. if i have saved money from working hard throughout my young adulthood, and good health from taking care of myself, and a self-sufficient and appropriately independent family from raising them properly.. i will have all the time in the world to sit down with a good book! and as much as i dont want to be old now, sometimes i can't wait.

but currently im liking being almost 24.

i thought this was cute

i dont recall a single care

wow i can't believe it is already august, and august 3rd at that. my week has been as eventful as it can be while raising a puppy. guinness is a real handful, if you have never raised a pup you have no idea! well unless you have raised a child since i imagine that is much more challenging/frustrating/demanding than having a puppy. the pup chews everything, doesn't sleep as often as i was promised puppies do, he is learning to bark and its still the annoying high-pitched puppy bark rather than a dog bark. i owe my parents and sisters soo much for helping all that they do with guinness.. i dont think i could have a life and/or work if i didn't have them right now.. so monday i went on a hike with andrew to borer falls. it was fun, extremely hot and i forgot my camera (which i was extremely upset about). but i came back to sangria (and beer for him) at my house after. tuesday i went to toronto for the day and went rollerblading with meagan along the bay front. it took about an hour and then we went to the lcbo got some coolers (her idea) and some sangria (my idea) and we went swimming at her sisters house. 

i worked today from 12-9:30 and i work tomorrow and friday but im not complaining really.. i need the money and plus its supposed to rain..

if the silence takes you i hope it takes me too

wow.. isn't she huge.

this is my aunts and uncles dog dakota

she is part st bernard, part german shepard and part something else

my cousin said she is part scooby doo, assuming she means great dane.. but she is wrong lol

she rolled off the couch after this 

the poor puppy (i think she is about a year)

i babysat my little cousins last night, four children and a massive dog lol. but i love them

my aunt said i have full access to her book shelf when i want

yes!!

paper backs for free babysitting.. deal :)

i need you so much closer..

death cab of course. death cab for cutie played an absolutely phenomenal concert last night at the molson amp. the night could not have been more perfect, outdoor venue, gorgeous weather, perfect sound and oh yes a four song encore. at first they left us without playing home is a fire and transatlanticism but they played them in the encore. perfect <3. they are amazing live! ahh summer skin, soul meets body, title and registration, you are a tourist! i love them all.

the photo quality is poor because of my camera

i swear my blackberry camera took better pictures
but i absolutely love them

 james and i. wow i need a tan!

go train ride from exhibition back to burlington

and we had my just baked red velvet cupcakes waiting for us..

oh and did i mention while we were there we bought tickets to see ke$ha on august 14th. they were $20 which for a concert is fairly cheap but what a show that is going to be! lol imagine the intense kesha fans.. i guess im a bit lucky the seats available for kesha were not the closest to stage!

death cab for cutie <3 i will definately be at your next show near me! AAAAAAMazing!

happy saturday