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[27 Mar 2007|10:42pm] |
So my dad's in the hospital. I just got off the phone with my mom, who's been at the hospital with him since 4pm. He went into liver failure.
He went to my sister this morning asking her to take him to the ER. His right elbow was hurting him, swelling, and was turning purple/blue. He was very cold, and started complaining he couldn't feel his legs.
She drove him to Sunnybrook, where all his doctors and medical history is. They got there around 10am, and he was immediately put under testing. They noticed how jaundiced he was, and how disoriented he was. The nurses didn't really believe his answers, so they asked my sister instead. After he was put in the first testings they took her aside and gave her an abuse examination.
After 6 hours of testings, my sister had to leave to pick my brother and me up. She called my mom and she came down to stay with him. The doctors wanted to admit him to the hospital, but he didn't want to stay. They had to forcibly admit him based on my mom's word that he was too drunk to make his own decisions.
I just recently got a call from my mom. My sister dropped me off from work, then went to pick her up from the hospital. He's staying there for at least 72 hours, under guard. The doctors noticed his jaundice and focused on his liver. It's failing, and his blood is unable to clot. His hemoglobin is so low they can't tell if he's bleeding internally or not. His elbow has a skin graft, so it started bleeding first. His alcohol level was 73%. A normal person would fall into a coma at 50%, but he's been a heavy drinker for almost 8 years, so his tolerance is high.
After 72 hours they'll see if there's internal bleeding and how bad his liver is. If it's very bad he'll need a liver transplant. Bleh.
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| weekend-shmeekend |
[13 Feb 2007|09:51am] |
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I've just spent the last four days of my life doing parkour. That's right, just parkour and nothing else.
Me and eight other people went out to Ottawa on Thursday night to do some parkour filming for James' documentary. We started shooting at 9am Friday morning, and didn't stop until 6pm that day. We went on like that all weekend, too.
We tried to invade Winterlude, but the security kept kicking us out. First it was for jumping over picnic tables (long-ways), then it was for diving through bushes and doing standing 6' jumps from one shakey log to another. We also got in trouble for running up and down the ice slides (I got stuck once), oh and climbing up their snow walls. We also ran through the ice maze on all fours, like in the army. Apparently that was too scary for kids, but they didn't like it any better when we ran the entire thing ontop of the walls.
It got to the point where we weren't allowed to run around Winterlude, cause they knew we'd do something stupid (aka awesome).
Outside of Winterlude, we did some shoots at the War Museum (running up their walls), and at random river-spots. I spent an entire afternoon slowly climbing up icy trees, vaulting over branches, diving through snow, swinging on bars, and jumping 5-7' gaps from stand. We also took some shots of people jumping off a bridge, landing on the frozen river, jumping over the cracked ice and running up the other wall. There were many run-off-into-the-sun-over-snow shots too.
We also spent an entire day at the canal. We had ice spikes in our shoes, so we could run right across the ice (faster than some people were skating). Some of our shots included us weaving through the people down the canal, or jumping down flights of stairs, run through the canal (like frogger), and up the other wall.
My favourite though, was the night shots. Sunday night we were getting pumped watching some parkour videos. So we all decided to go out in the middle of the night and do some shots. First we went out to some townhouse area. I spent some time learning how to vault over a shoulder-height railing (feet don't touch the rail), drop 10' and roll on the ground. First shot I did, I landed flat on my back on the ground >.< Haha, but the next ones were better.
We also snuck around at the casino in Hull. We did some cool shots of us sprinting through knee-deep snow in a brilliantly lit strip. There was also some underbars, dropping into the parking lots, then running full-tilt over huge snow-piles away from a car.
Anyway, I've got bruises all over from stupid wipe-outs (mostly from the night shots, and slipping on so much ice). I'm so used to wearing underarmor, two pairs of pants, four sweaters, wind breakers, four socks, three gloves, and two hats all the time, that I feel naked wearing just jeans and whatever.
Overall I'm not too happy with this weekend's shooting, just cause I didn't do as much as I thought possible. Hopefully they'll want me back to do some more, so I can try again. But it was super-fun regardless, and definately something I've never experienced before. Imagine spending an entire weekend with a group of people being ninjas!
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| life lessons |
[17 Jan 2007|10:58pm] |
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MRIs are very scary when you're claustrophobic, and loud noises make you jump. I told this to the technician this evening during my scheduled appointment, and she did the best thing she could: give me earplugs and strap me in really tight.
One knee down, other one due on Friday.
By the way, January 17th 2007 is for suckers, to the extreme. I said goodbye to the amazingly cute kitten I found last week. I wandered around Burlington and Hamilton trying desperately to find window paint, and found some four hours later than I wanted to. Painting on windows is a lot harder than you'd think it is.. man, I sucked. Somehow amongst training, working, school, and more MRIs.. I have to finish these window paintings.
I'd also like to mention that being out-and-about since 10am, and coming home at 9pm to a smelly kitchen is really gross. Apparently it's more important to my housemates to smoke twice every night than clean up their own dishes. Please don't leave food in the sink if you're not going to clean it.. food rots guys. Just in case you missed that important life lesson.
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| best surprise ever |
[11 Jan 2007|11:41pm] |
So the best surprise ever tonight, is a kitten showing up at my door. A completely adorable black and white kitten! With huge ears and huge white whiskers. Impossible to love ♥ I had some leftover litter and food, so we got her cleaned up and warmed up all nice. She's fallen asleep on my lap just now, purring. This makes my night amazing.
That, and someone way more awesome than me called me "kiddo" :)
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| crack! |
[07 Jan 2007|10:25pm] |
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So the doctor at McMaster's ER said the only reason I didn't break my ankle on Saturday was, "my ridiculously flexible and wiry ligaments." Sweet..? I've ended up with a 3rd degree sprain, and am gonna be on crutches for a bit :)
Let me illustrate my Saturday for you all..
I hardly slept at all Friday night, because of bar-buddies and just not sleeping. I woke up Saturday morning, at 9:30am, running on about 4 hours of sleep. SJ picked me up and we headed out to Toronto for some parkour stuff. The plan:
Girls orientation meeting and some training.
Out for dinner with James, Amber, myself, SJ, and Elitsa.
Head to Toronto gym for some awesome play-time and meeting more people involved in this parkour scene. I was super-excited to mess around with some stuff in the gym, and be challenged.
Went up to Toronto, met three of the other girls; Elitsa, Becca, and Olya. They were a pretty nice group. Our meeting lasted about three hours.. going over female parkour itself, some current "standards", and how we wished to make female parkour better. I thought that was pretty interesting, and we came up with a decent discussion. Next we went over all the possible scenes for the film and rated them. For some reason, I always invisioned a monster chasing someone in all the scenes.. I think that biased me >.>
Training was pretty good, too. I was so worried that seeing as I've been out three times, and started one month ago, I would suck. But I could keep up with the girls, and James even. I felt a lot better about this whole parkour thing. Seems like I might actually be able to do this, who knew!
Dinner was great, James treated us to an amazing Japanese sushi bar. Mmmm we talked Japan :)
Training was.. the part I looked forward to the most. I was so excited to try some new stuff, and keep up with guys. I totally took that "female standards of parkour" to heart and was so ready to keep up with all the guys. Alas.. I was warming up some vaults, did a double kong and landed on my left foot, with the ankle turned completely under. I heard a huge crack. Turned so much that my ankle bone slammed on the floor and bruised it.
I got off it, and sat down. I had a baseball-sized swelling on my ankle, and it was turning purple. I figured I sprained it or something, so I just chilled for the rest of the night. Of course my "chilled" I mean.. taped myself a solid ankle-brace/boot and showed off some trampoline flips and other acrobatic-nonesense. I was so determined to do something impressive, and not suck. Even though that's all I could do and very little gym-parkour, I liked meeting all the people. I'm looking forward to seeing them again and actually training.
Anyway, so I got home at 11:00pm-ish.. and decided that my ankle wasn't getting any better. I kept thinking about the "crack" sound, and my purple-ish baseball growing on the ankle bone.. And I decided then to head to the ER. I took a cab there, arrived at 12:01am, and was seen at 6:30am. I won't detail on all the stuff in the ER waiting room, but it was busy. A woman puking on the floor was neglected and I ended up caring for her. I also picked up a woman who had fainted from abdomen pain on the floor.. because her husband wasn't strong enough to carry her. Why was it that I was hopping on one foot, the other purple, and I was the one helping? Ah well.
Anyway, 3rd degree sprain. Crutches. Not training for a week. It's still swollen. Went to sleep at 7:00am, went to work at 11:00am. My mom was fuckin pissed.
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| i pretend to know how to play instruments |
[31 Dec 2006|09:24pm] |
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My friend just told me he's wearing a miniskirt. Sounds like he's going to a good party.
I friggin love this game! It's Guitar Hero. My friend SJ came over yesterday and we played it all day. I'm so cool now, if someone put a real guitar in my hands I could totally try and press coloured buttons... instead of actual chords.
Anyway, wherever everyone is going, have a good New Years. I have no resolutions, just things to do. Like buy Guitar Hero.
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| webcam |
[27 Dec 2006|07:56pm] |
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Ween - Voodoo Lady |
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The other day I was sitting on my computer, doing nothing as usual. A person had recently added me on MSN, but I didn't have any idea who they were. Their status had always been "Away", so I wasn't sure if I could talk to them. All of a sudden, she started talking to me.
Her message went something along the lines of, "Hey! How are you? I want to show you something!" And she proceeds to turn on her webcam. She steps back from the computer, so I can see her torso and hips. She starts to take off her shirt. I kinda recoil a bit from the computer, wondering WTF+113. She pauses, comes back to the computer and tells me, "It's not a strip! lol" So now I'm confused, cause that's what it was really looking like.
After she lifts her shirt just above her tummy, I see what she was talking about. I almost fell off my chair I was so surprised! She took a tattoo design I had posted on Deviantart, and actually turned it into a real tattoo!
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| what the hell are you waiting for? |
[18 Dec 2006|07:30pm] |
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I did a lot last night, most of it involved dieing in some way/shape/form.
1 - On the trampoline:
I've recently learned double layouts (double backflip in a straight position) on the trampoline. I wanted to try it in sequence, doing a half-out before it. It looks like this. My last one I bailed (didn't go), and tried to stop myself from doing the double layout.. but I had waaay too much flip. I did one back layout, and kept going to my back, but I went crooked. I landed on my back off the trampoline. My elbow hit first with such force that it dislocated my shoulder (popped it up and out) and shot my whole upper arm up, and my dislocated shoulder slammed into the side of my head. The recoil off my head popped my shoulder back into place, and then I slammed the back of my head on the ground, and landed on my back. It was like a wham! 1-2-3-4! impact T_T
2 - Learning more parkour:
During this parkour class, I learned some more stuff. First off, SJ broke his nose >.< It was all bloody and gross, and I had to clean up a blood trail. Then he couldn't decide what to do with it: let me set it, go to the hospital, or what. He finally decided to call his entire extended family and find his nurse-aunt, go home to Hamilton, and get her to deal with it. It was broken in two places, and he had to go to the hospital this morning so they could re-break it and set it.
I tried climbing up a wall and jumping off onto a bitty block (precision), but when I jumped the bitty block slid out under me and I landed flat on my head. Then I tried a tac-to-precision thingie off the vault, onto another bitty block. My foot slipped off the vault and I slammed my knee into the vault, slid under it, and slammed my other leg into the metal legs of the vault. T_T
On a side note, I'm becoming involved in this parkour video project, because I'm a girl. The director from Toronto, James, came down last night and video taped my learning/training. He also taught me some tricks. Apparently I have "potential", even though I'm so clumsy T_T No harm in getting involved though! I'm flattered that someone would even approach me about it, considering I've been "training" parkour for like 2 days now.
3 - FFXI:
We were fighting Sieryu, and my group just wiped.. all 18 of us. Seiryu was totally haxxing, jerk.
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| oh bugger |
[15 Dec 2006|11:57pm] |
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I had plans tonight for Mike's Christmakkuh, but now that's cancelled due to "extreme sickness" in the house. Now I'm bored. So I'm over at SJ's house, playing Guitar Hero and FFXI.
I wrote one of my psych exams this morning. Now we all know I'm horribly addicted to Diet Coke. Really, it's all I drink throughout the day and I dream about it. We're also not allowed unsealable drinking containers in the exam room. But since I'm addicted, and I was so worried about this exam, I brought a "comfort can" of diet coke in my purse.
As soon as I sat down, I whipped out this comfort can and grinned. Oh it made me feel so much better about this exam. The announcer said, "you may now begin." And the entire room went silent... except for a huge echoing crack as I opened my pop can. :D
One more exam, and I have to memorize the entire plant universe for it. Maybe I should get started----nah, tomorrow.
( Oh, more boredom.. 100 questions of boredom! )
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| i'm cool, i'm on Youtube bitches |
[12 Dec 2006|07:13pm] |
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Hey look at this video :D !
I think I've mentioned that I coach a freerunning/PK class on Sunday nights. I've also gone out with them to downtown Hamilton and seen the tricks they do on concrete. Anywho, SJ (who also made the video) yelled at me and got me to actually try some of the stuff. I learned everything I know now, in 20 minutes :) It was actually pretty fun! He filmed me playing a bit on the trampoline too.
My noodle-arms got a work-out and are sore now.
Carry on with exam-studying and whatnot!
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| ♥ Mike |
[06 Dec 2006|05:59am] |
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Received.. some time last night:
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
PENISFACE
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
'0eh8s
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
face
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
PENISCACE
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
GWEN STEFANI
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
provides more
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
enteraintmin em
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
tntha
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
cpmnvwersation
mike² is DRUNKZ!!1! says:
wiktho uyever gvopoiuld!
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[03 Dec 2006|07:56am] |
Guess who's the best Saturday night date ever: ME!
Plan: visit Sean for a few hours, then go back to my place and chill with Reece and Dan. I'm gonna call them around 9ish to confirm plans, and let them into my house.
Visiting Sean commences, popped in Princess Mononoke, turned my cell off to be courteous, and promptly fall asleep.
I didn't wake up until like 2am. With about 10 missed calls on my cell phone, and most likely an annoyed Reece and/or Dan. Bugger.
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| done and more done |
[30 Nov 2006|06:01pm] |
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Whooaaa, my friend Phing in California sent me a webcam! It's a belated birthday gift, but how awesome is that!? I've never had one before :) Time for sexy parties! lol.
Finally being done all my projects is so sweet. I hope you all saw the Origins/Big Questions posters in the Student Centre... the mad sparkly one with the rocket-ship was mine :) Free time feels awesome. What am I gonna do with all of this time? Who knows. Get more addicted to my video-game crack, of course.
On that note, this is my Christmas wishlist:
1. A PS2. No not a Wii, or a PS3.. a PS2. I've got so many awesome games that I haven't played in forever cause my brother's got the only PS2.
2. A shopping cart. I'll decorate it "The Shopping Cart of Impending DOOM!" And go grocery shopping in it. Then I won't have to carry anything home :)
Would anyone like to hear about the trampoline competition that was held last weekend? I'm sure you do, cause that's why I missed Mike's birthday thing. Dear Mike: You have a present from Jess, and she will give it to you when she can.
Anyway, all of my kids did really well. I'm so incredibly proud of all of them. We got top 5 in every category we were in. Aka: we cleaned up and owned the competition :) And I think the head coach, my coach, Gen is really happy too. Woot! Gogo BGs! ^_^
Also, I'm distancing myself from all boys. I've run into way to much drama with some people, and I really don't like it. So I'm going to shut the hell up and distance myself from them! That's a good idea, cause I still have to coach them every week. In my opinion, blatently flirting with me while I'm trying to coach a class is very unprofessional and makes me very uncomfortable. It also compromises the rest of the class. It's not good when you tackle me into the foam pit and tickle me. That's just.. please don't forget I'm working. Then again, totally my fault for not telling them off sooner. I'm sure I made some people grumpy.
Bleh, it's like a triangle-plane being intersected by a ray.
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| Tigger, aka Low-Rider |
[24 Nov 2006|02:20am] |
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This is my kitty, Tigger. He's so fat we call him Low-Rider, cause his belly is about 2" off the ground. Last week my room was an absolute mess; clothes strewn all over the place, and a brand new poster lying somewhere between the floor and the laundry. I'm not entirely sure why, maybe it was the noise when he walked on it, but Tigger took a liking to stretching out on Gwen's face.
So when I cleaned up my room, instead of taping the poster on the wall or even throwing it out, I taped it to the floor. A special present, just for Tigger to lay on.
 He's so cute and lazy. ♥  |
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[20 Nov 2006|08:50pm] |
Oh shit, looks like I'm 20.
When did this happen, and where are my pants?
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| freerunning |
[16 Nov 2006|04:17pm] |
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♥ ♥ ♥ Comments pweeese :O
Last night I did some freerunning, or parkour (PK) with some people in Hamilton. I think everyone knows that PK from this Rogers commercial. Anywho, that's what we did last night. There's a group of people in Hamiton that I know now, who train this all the time. They also come to my gym Sunday nights and train there too. I teach them flips and fun stuff.
Man, I sucked so much at this PK! I learned a few things I think (kong vaults, side vaults, overbars, underbars, catwalks up handrails).. but I was impressed at how hard it is. I mean, the skills themselves aren't difficult, and once you get over the intimidation factor it's alright. It's hard because it's on concrete. I tried vaults, and normally vaults are pretty easy. But there was no spring that I'm used to in a gymnastics gym. Bugger.
Anyway, I'm actually excited to learn more stuff. I really like the stuff they do on bars and handrails. I think I'll try go out every week with them.
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| remember that time... |
[10 Nov 2006|02:46am] |
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Remember that day, not so long ago, where I was all upset? There was a trampoline involved, some people, something like that.
Well I remember kicking it's butt today. When I don't care about anything, everything falls into place.
I feel better. Now I'm off to the bar to dance!
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| pure ranting |
[08 Nov 2006|04:23am] |
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( More like venting. )And we'll leave it at that.
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| who the hell is this? |
[06 Nov 2006|06:30pm] |
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Wow, I haven't updated in a while. Maybe cause I haven't done anything too interesting lately.. This weekend I went out with some people and we all saw the Borat movie. It was soo fucking hillarious! I loved every second, except that naked wrestling thing.. no one should ever have to see that in their lives. I feel sorry for the wives of very fat people. The movie was so funny, I was bubbling with pre-laughter just anticipating another something funny. Seriously, he cracked a joke then started walking down the street and I was sitting there giggling, cause I knew something else was gonna happen.
"... like a wizard's sleeve.."
"Gypsy, give me your tears. Or I will take them."
"Jagshemash! My name Borat. I like you. I like sex. Is nice!"
Lee mentioned that I'm never around anymore, and I replied that I just don't exist.. you're all fucking imagining me. And you're all fucking crazy for doing so. But really, here's my schedule so you can see why I don't exist/go out often anymore:
[All my classes end by 2:30pm]
Monday: training 6:30-8:30pm
Tuesday: coach 4:00-7:00pm, train 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday: PK 5:30-???
Thursday: coach 4:00-7:00pm, train 6:30-8:30pm
Friday: train 5:00-7:00pm
Sunday: coach 10:30am-4:00pm, train 4:00-6:00pm, coach again 6:00-8:00pm, physiotherapy 8:30-10:00pm.
And that is why you hardly ever see me.
On an awesome sidenote, I taught myself an aerial yesterday! I was teaching someone else last night (coaching 6:00-8:00pm), and I decided to just try it. I've never been able to do one before, so it's cool. I was the un-cool kid who couldn't do an aerial, but now I am cool!
      
That's obviously not me.. or is it? I do have rippling muscular abs...
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| ipod goodness? |
[29 Oct 2006|08:15pm] |
So I bought an ipod this afternoon, making me feel totally rich. Anywho, I've managed to set it all up and synch it whatnot. If I couldn't, I'd be a big idiot cause you literally just plug it in.
Now what I'm really wondering is, can I store music on the ipod that is not on my computer? Can I essentially use the ipod as a storage device, and play music through that on my computer? Or do I really need to keep all the songs on my computer and the ipod.
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