20 Years

Saturday night, my parents had a TON of people over to celebrate their wedding anniversary. They've been married for 20 years! It was a mix of family, friends, "long lost cousins" I've never heard of and co-workers to celebrate their anniversary, their (13 years late) housewarming and my aunt's birthday all at once! Here are a couple pictures to celebrate 20 years of marriage:

The Wedding Day

Wedding shoes, shirt and wedding picture

Congratulations Mom and Dad!

Ikea

Last night, instead of doing homework or anything productive for myself, I helped my sister build her new IKEA furniture. Fun!

She has always had a tiny little room (those two pieces fit on one wall with only about 6 inches between them) and always had the worst furniture to put her clothes in. I mean, a dress with no handles and drawers that are constantly stuck and won't open.... So she piles it on the floor instead. ...and hoards....

I'm gonna be watching her all weekend as she goes through and organizes her big piles of clothes (They're in FOUR huge garbage bags right now. FOUR!!!!). It'll be fun! For me, anyway. I love organizing and putting IKEA furniture together!

The furniture looks awesome and I'm super excited for her! (Hopefully now her room won't look like a tornado blew in....)

Happy Friday everyone!

Why YA?

Some of you may know, (if you've seen my Reads page) I read a lot of novels in the same genre, YA. This stands for Young Adult. I've always loved this category. But not just young adult: I love when it's a paranormal romance (yes, like Twilight, but not Twilight).

Some of my favourites

Harry Potter was probably the first series of "bigger" books that I read, that weren't exclusively for children. After that, I went almost straight to YA. I most have been around 12 or 13 when I moved to that genre, which is normal. At that age, you read these novels and hope to have an adventure like that when you turn 16. (At eleven, most of us were hoping for a letter from Hogwarts!) It's getting more difficult to find unique books with characters older than 16 but younger than 25 that are written this way, so in a way, I keep myself stuck in this teenage-mindset. (That's also the genre in which I'm writing my book)

More of my books; some I've read, some I haven't yet

But why? Why do I enjoy the clichés, the cheesy lines, the same characters, the same plots? Well because I like cheesy. I like the bad boy who always knows what to say. I like that he's almost always sarcastic and mocking. I like that the characters have these new worlds to discover, that we discover with them. In every genre, the plot is relatively the same:

• YA paranormal: girl meets boy, either one isn't "human," bad things happen, happy ending.
• Mysteries: person dies, they have an investigation, they catch the killer
• Romance: they fall in love, they can't be together, they find a way to be, happy ending
• Etc, etc.

See? It makes total sense right? I think so. I love reading. It gives me a break from life. It makes me happy. I grow with the characters, I live threw them, and it's an adventure! If I could read for a living, I would!

First Day!

First day back to school!

Photo Credit: winnipegculturalmap.ca

Today I only had one class: Filmmaking 1, and oh, my god and I am excited! My prof is a little crazy, but she's passionate and so interesting! I'm really looking forward to this year. I'll be studying Filmmaking, intro to theatre: performance, and a bunch of German lit classes.
Everything is working out so perfectly; I have this year and my next year all planned out. It's going to be a tough, and busy year, but in the end, it will all be worth it! On top of everything, my new job is working out really well and it's close to school, so I can get so much done in a day! For example, today I had school from 10:30-11:20, then headed to work from 11:30-3:30 and I have the rest of my evening for homework and relaxing!

I hope everyone had a great first day and that the first years (like my sister) aren't too discouraged...! It gets "easier," so to speak!

September Long!

This weekend was the last weekend of summer, the last weekend where I won't have to worry about homework, or work. Like almost every year, I went camping with my family at Black Lake.

This year, both of my dad's brothers were there with their family, Alex was there with me, except that my sister wasn't there (shocker). In total, we were 11 people in 3 campsites. We spent most of our time kayaking, fishing, going to the beach, drinking by the fire and relaxing.

My tent!

Beer and fire, that's what camping is all about!

"The Tree of Knowledge"...

I hope everyone had a great September long weekend!