My Birthday!

My birthday was on the 23rd. i can no longer say i am in my early 20s. i am now in my mid 20s. Man am i feeling old. the thing that keeps me from completely despising the day is presents. I do love presents. i guess that is one small consolation. We didn't really do much to celebrate this year, which is fine, it's the first bday i've been home for in a couple years, so mikey and dennis came over, and so did steve and my aunt and uncle. My wonderful, amazing boyrfriend is taking me to see stewart mclean in december, so that is exciting!

My graduation from brock was a few days before, I now officially have my Master's degree. It is hanging on the wall like a useless piece of paper, which at the moment it is really seeming that is what it is. They gave some boring lady who talked about quilts an honorary doctorate, which makes me question the people they are choosing to honour...her last name also happens to be walker...as in teh walker complex, the new athletic centre...so i am guessing that there is a bit of a correlation there. oh well, maybe i'll be next, haha!

Happy Thanksgiving

So it's thanksgiving here in Canada. I love thanksgiving for a couple reasons. One, i need a day off work in october. two, i love turkey dinners. three, i love a holiday where it is pretty much madatory that you get together with your family and celebrate without the added stress of having to buy presents for everyone. Not that I mind getting people presents, but i think that it is nice just to celebrate a holiday for what it is, a time to be thankful for what you have and to spend time with family. it is a wonder that such an ugly, stupid animal like the turkey (see picture below) can turn into such a scrumptious dinner,(see second picture below) any vegans/vegetarians reading this will probably want to lynch me, but I can't help it, I love turkey dinner.

Last night Aunt Tracy, Uncle Steve, and the boys all came over, minus chris and julie, and AUnt ruth and Uncle Pat brought Jade and Patrick down from st. catharines, so we had a pretty full house. it was nice that so many people coul dmake it, but there were some who didn't make it out that it would have been nice to have. Like Chris and Julie, but they'll be at aunt tracy's tonight, and Steve, but he had to work, that is something I am getting used to though; it's got to get done when it can get done.

My graduation is this saturday, the 18th, so that will be good, b/c i'll get to see a bunch of people then too. I wouldn't mind seeing everyone again who I went through this last year with, it was quite a ride, plus steve is coming and his parents too, so there'll be quite a few people there hopefully.

This thing still won't let me upload pictures from mikey's wedding, which is leading me to believe that perhaps the files are too large to be uploaded. which sucks, but oh well, c'est la vie. Here's one of me and steve then. I have others, perhaps better, but this is all i have time to throw in.

Anyways, Just wanted to Wish you all a Happy thanksgiving out there in blogland!

Stag & Does, Steve, Weddings, and Trips

Well, my last posting i said it would probably be my last, but since then i've tried posting a few times, and either run into technical difficulties or writers block. Either way, it's been seven months almost, and i figure that it is time to post again. It's been a pretty eventful summer. In may, Ashly and I took a trip to California, enjoyed a week in the sun and warmth, and then came back to cold but comfortingly familiar ontario. three days after our return was my sister's stag and doe. all i can say is let the chaos begin. haha, you want an eventful night, well this was eventful. I blame adam and wyatt because had i not been able to drink for the hour from nine to ten, i would not have become as drunk as i did. I was supposed to be selling bar tickets at that hour, but they didn't want to get up because they didn't want to socialize. so i spent that hour drinking.

Most of you know drunk Meghan...gets sort of loud and obnoxious, forgets she is shy, and pretty much lets go and has an awesome time. I remember showing a group of girls how to execute an incredibly high high kick...i totally had it nailed, til the landing, when i brought my foot down and kept going with it. yep, my ass landed on the floor, awesome. then there was me and kristal's boyfriend tom heckling the groom to be as they were doing draw prizes. and stretching out on top of one of the tables. and random dancing, picture taking, and who knows what else.

Enter Steve. I don't know exactly when he came in or how he ended up in the seat right beside mine, but at some point he did, and i slid gracefully from the table top to the chair beside his, took one look at him, and said "HI! What's your name?" That's how it all started. I don't remember exactly what we talked about, but i do know that we were comparing drivers licenses at one point...comparing heights is more like it, you know me, i love tall guys....then eventually, and again how we actually ended up where we did is a blur to me, but it involved me dragging him to the parking lot of the community centre and sort of making out with him. His friends thought he was going to die that night, b/c i dragged him past my mother who was manning the front door both times we went outside. well anywho, she broke up the good times right quick...hehe, they probably weren't all that good anyways, you'd have to ask steve, but i can't imagine a drunk girl falling all over him in the parking lot was especially hot. Anyways, two things came from that night...a broken nose, and a boyfriend. Don't ask about the broken nose, i don't have any idea, it must have happened while i was puking my guts out in the bathroom. the boyfriend thing evolved over a couple weeks....

Steve added me to facebook the next day, then he made plans to come to cowboys on the following friday, which he did, where he bought me a rose, said some incredibly sweet things, and made me fall fast. I am leaving out some things in this story, btw, for the sake of weary eyes reading my seemingly never ending text. on the saturday, a week after the stag, he asked if i wanted to go out the next friday, which of course i did. but friday wasn't coming fast enough for either of us, and i took a work road trip with him to bradford on the tuesday. that was an amazing day, unforgettable. Anyways, June 2 we changed our facebook status and the rest is history. He is amazing, the best thing that's happened to me for sure.

We've been to a handful of weddings this summer...My sister's, my cousin chris', Brandon and Angela's, his brother's girlfriend's sister's wedding (did you follow that), and one more just a couple weeks ago. it's been a very wedding summer. Mikey's went really well, it was beautiful, and i did an amazing job as teh maid of honour. I have to give myself props because no one else really does, but i have to say, i did deliver the best speech of the night, if i do say so myself. I will try to add a picture when i am done typing. Chris' wedding was also great, it was vegan, so it was interesting to see the food they served...carrot soup, a salad with edible flowers, fettucinni with pesto and sundried tomatoes and olives, and pie. It was really nice. The other weddings we were just invited to the dance after, so there was no meal and speeches to sit through, just drinking and dancing to be done.

In august steve and i went up north for a few days during his vacation time. we had a great time, but how could we not, we were at the cottage. I love it up there so much, i used to think i wanted to move there, but i don't think i could handle black fly season. besides, there are some pretty good reasons for staying around here now.

no teaching job yet, but i'm still looking. Til then i am working at the Green Earth warehouse in London. the pay is shit and the work is tiring, but at least it is a job, i can at least be thankful for that i think. Oh! and i graduate on oct. 18 from brock! That's right, the school was stupid enough to give me a second degree. what were they thinking??? hahaha, woohoo!

ok, it would only upload one picture...it is of steve and me though, so that is good, i will try to put up wedding pics another time

The Final Post

Like teacher's college, i haven't been taking this whole master's thing seriously. I am getting through the year, but my procrastination skills are sharp as ever. I still hate brock, but i do love having letters after my name, i've got a nice little collection going, but i'm stopping after this degree, i can't take school anymore. THe people here are nice, the other seven in the program seem so super smart that it makes me wonder how i got accepted into the program, i cannot be the eighth best person who applied, especially when you consider the first seven. My advisor and I are getting along fine, he seems pretty laid back about this whole program too, he's pretty content to let me do my own thing and rush at the end. I think he remembers me from undergrad classes and understands how i roll.

I'm sick of talking about the master's program. Just a heads up, this isprobably the last post i will write, clearly my blogging days died out sometime duringmy teachers college year. It's kind of sad, it took me two years creating this. Mostly i think i sound like a boy crazy airhead though, so i'm not too concerned about you all forgetting about this blog. Speaking of boys though, hehe, last time i'll mention them, i know some of you who read like to know what's going on, i met a really great one :D I'm really excited about the possibilities of what can happen there, it's sad though because he lives really far away. I think that something really good could come out of this though, i'm crossing my fingers!

That is my last year in a nutshell, masters, procrastination, and this new person. Short and sweet and to the point. It is kind of sad to think that this is my last post, but seeing as almost a whole year has gone by since my last real post, i think we all knew this was coming. Who Knows, maybe it won't be the last, but i think it might be. THank you loyal readers, it's been a great couple years complaining about the same old things over and over and over and over.

It's Been a Long Long Time

Well, it's been quite a while eh? surprisingly enough, i haven't really got anything new to offer my loyal readers. my life, as always, is boring. I have returned for more torture to the Aylmer Museum where i am putting together an exhibit on the history of Springfield. My cousin ryan is working with me, doing the job i wanted to do. I hate what the boss has me working on, it is so uninteresting and lame, who cares comes to mind when i think about it.

I registered for my fall semester courses at Brock yesterday, so i am officially a registered student now, guess there's no turning back, i'll be doing a masters degree starting in the fall. Graduation from Nipissing was the beginning of june, I had an awesome dress and it was pretty good times, of course i wasn't staying in town, so i didnt' get to celebrate like the others, seeing as i had to drive out to the cottage at three in the morning.

I am pissed at my second associate teacher b/c he won't write me a letter of reference, but will act as a telephone reference, which bothers me, b/c that means i have just one letter, but three telephone people. I still maintain that if you are a faculty advisor you should be obligated to write us a letter if we ask for it and if you didn't think we were terrible, my FA emailed me back and was like, i don't write letters, but i'll be a reference for you. well fuck you, that's what i have to say about that. now i have to figure out where to get a couple more reference letters that can be related to my teaching abilities. Luckily my first AT wrote me an awesome letter, which consequently makes him the best AT i had.

My sister and me are planning a wedding shower for our friend jess who's getting married in October. It's the end of the month so i'll be busy with that for a while. In addition to attending like, three or four showers, i also have to find a date for this thing. Z from previous posts is out, i am irritated with him and have given up the idea of dating him. then there was a guy here at home who i thought i might be able to take, but now there are problems with that b/c he is friends with someone i know, and they are not speaking now, and i know him through that person, so we'll have to wait and see if that blows over by october, b/c i am realizing that i have no guy friends to speak of who i can use to take to a wedding, so z or this other guy are really my only options...maybe i'll go to st. catharines and find someone amazing to bring, but i'm not holding my breath on that one.

anyways, i could make this longer just filling you in on the mundane details of my life and what has been going on, but honestly it's the same old same old, so i'll end it here

Poor Neglected Blog

Ok, so i admit, i've been neglecting the blog a bit lately. I have been feeling bad about it, but really, i had my last few days in North Bay, then my last four weeks of practice teaching, and now a crappy dial up connection to deal with. But here is the latest in the life of Meghan, it isn't much really.

So I left North Bay. It was actually very sad. When i left brock i didn't feel sad at all, i was happy to be finished there, but i made so many great friends up north this year who all live sooooo far away from me that it is hard to think that we aren't going back there again. Some of them are there right now doing some additional qualifications for their teaching certificates, so i'm giong to visit on the may long weekend...six days til i go, i'm super excited!

My last four weeks of practice teaching were fairly uneventful. I think i've decided that grade five is a pretty good grade to teach. I still see some of the kids giving attitude, but there is still a healthy fear of authority in them that i find endearing. Not like those damn grade tens who don't give a damn about anything. So yea, again though, i left my placement and got nothing in the way of a goodbye speech, or cards from the kids, or presents. WTF, everyone else gets presents. In all fairness, my AT did get me a small present, but it was this bath stuff, like salts and shower gel and stuff...which i do not use, lol, so i'll be regifting it, but the thought was there.

I've been finished for a week now, in which time i've done pretty much nothing. Still going to cowboys on fridays for line dancing. But I have also started taking real lessons with the teacher in Lambeth on Monday nights, so that is fun, and there is a teacher who does lessons on tuesday who sometimes i go to,but not often, b/c i really cannot stand her teaching style. I pay 8 bucks to learn nothing and fumble my way around the floor, so that is not conducive to learning this shit, lol.

Umm...that's about it, i think i'm going back to my crappy museum job this summer, so things should get interesting in a couple weeks, especially if the person i'm working with for thesummer is any fun...i just hope its not some 17 y/o idiot...wait...i was a 17 y/o idiot when is tarted there...well anyways, i'm not anymore, and i don't want to work with one, i want to work with another person who lacks work ethic like myself, but who likes to deal with the public and so will give tours when people come in. that would be perfect. haha.

300

Last night ziggi and me went to see 300 here in North Bay. I have heard some great things about it, and he really wanted to see it, so i was like, sure, how bad can it be? Ummm...it can be bad...very bad. The whole thing was just comedic to me as i sat there thinking, "I am supposed to be taking this seriously, don't laugh!" but please, it was all so fake, I couldn't take it! The only good thing about the movie was the chiseled abs and the ending. The company was pretty good too. I think at one point I fell asleep, b/c I was so confused about what was going on I had to ask, b/c i just could not figure it out, and I had been with it til that point. Anyways, I was just thankful I didn't pay real money to see it, b/c i would have been sad, I used a gift certificate that i got for christmas! So anyways, ya, I can't give an enthusiastic recommendation for 300 like I got from people...actually I will now have to seriously consider any recommendation from those people before I go see a movie they liked again! :p
That's it for now.