RIP Scholar

Scholar Sean Allain - February 11 2007-March 28 2007 (approximatly)
loving pet, and family member

Scholar was a good hamster, he always ate his pellets and drank from his waterbottle. Like a good little critter he slept during the day, and came out to play at night. He loved his wheel, he would run in one direction and then suddenly turn around and run the other way, just for fun. He may now have always been the cleanest one, since he seemed to enjoy peeing where he slept, but he was smart one, and there have been many well known geniuses who were not too keen on cleanliness, he was just another. Never one to bite, Scholar would take being handled like a pro, content to simply walk accross my hand. However a little bit of a rebel, he would take the opportunity to explore his surroundings more closly if given the chance. I will never forget the night i came downstairs and found him missing from his cage, only to hear him not too much later, scurrying around my room. He was a little pest to catch, but looking back on it now, he was simply being curious and would let nothing stand in his way. Oh Scholar, i hope you have fun in Hamster Heaven, where there are always warm fuzzy places to sleep, and the sun doesnt shine too bright, where the water is cool and fresh and seeds, fruits and veggies are never too far from reach. I wish you happiness, and although your body now resides at petcetera probably so that they can use it as inventory due to the refund i asked for, may your soul always rest in peace.

i'm trying not to say "i told you so"

so in my very bored state i have decided to research a topic that interests me. INJURIES IN KICKBOXING AND OTHER DANGEROUS MARTIAL ARTS!

"Other injuries associated with martial arts, boxing, judo, and similar sports are broken bones, tears of the knees, sprains of the shoulders and ankles, and assorted infections. True, such injuries in combative training situations, while elevated over non-contact training, are comparatively rare. But they do happen, and they are (or have the potential to become) very serious injuries."
"After all, Ultimate Fighting is probably no more dangerous than boxing, where known risks include subdural hematoma. A properly located strike to the head (or a series of less accurate blows) can cause tearing to the bridging veins that connect the brain and the sinuses that carry blood away from the brain. This condition is thought to be the most common cause of fatalities in competitive boxing (6) (7), and is a risk in other contact sports as well."
"Only one study of Muay Thai kickboxing, a sport and martial art centered on competitive fighting, was found. Muay Thai kickboxing has an injury rate of between 2 to 14 per 1,000 participants per year. (16) This is a rate is similar to injury rates in other striking arts such as taekwondo and karate. Although deaths occur in Muay Thai, as in boxing, sprained fingers and toes, cuts and bruises on the head, face, and neck, and bloody noses are the more typical injuries."
http://ejmas.com/jcs/2004jcs/jcsart_landa_0804.htm

"Injuries are quite common in Muay Thai fights. From cuts and lacerations to the face and head to broken bones and severe sprains of muscles and ligaments, Muay Thai fighters deal with injuries their entire career"
http://www.extremesportscafe.com/thai_box_overview.html

and after this i got bored, anyways, my point is that kickboxing is dangerous! the end
ps. i know i didnt cite the quotes properly, but if you are that interested in seeing where i got it from, the links are below the quote(s).
your safety concerned blogger
iara

vent session 3... maybe 4.. i have lost count

ok so i know i dont use this, and i dont intend to become a regular blogger again, but i just needed to vent and because i know NOBODY reads this, i figured it was a good place to vent. and if in the case that somebody does read this... i dont care... I DONT CARE ONE BIT! it feels good to yell...

what my vent session is about you may wonder... what could i possibly have to vent about.... yeah welll i have found something so there...

anyways onto the problem. so these unbearably hideous, large and unnatractive gross things have decided to grow off of my midsection... same may call them lovehandles.. but i perfer to jsut call them what they are... FAT.. yes fat.. that gross buildup of what biologists would call triglycerides and plaque and gross names like that, some molecule with 3 fatty acid chains hanging off of it(yeah even in the molecule they hang!) ... yeah i cant stand it.... and sure there are some who may be like. omg why do you think you are fat, you arnt fat. but the point of the matter is that I think i'm fat and i hate it and thats all that matters. and sure you can be like so for the love of god.. just excercise and eat better and such... and sure thats what I"M TRYING TO DO!... but that brings me to my next point.. if i excercise i put on muscle mass and because i swear i'm part man! i build muscle mass in exponential ammounts! i swear i have the back of a male swimmer.. and what have i done to deserve the body of a man with lovehandles.. I DONT KNOW! but i dont like it.... gosh.....and just to point out a fact... muscle weighs more than fat... so even if i do loose the fat.. i will inevitably gain muscle cause i just have that much testosterone in me, and therefore will become heavier... and sure you can say that weight is just a number and it doesnt measure your muscle mass and water weight and such... and you can take that and run with it,.... but seriously... when it comes down to it...IT STILL MEANS SOMETHING, and so much in society is driven by how much you weigh and dropping the pounds...i have never seen a headline on a magazine say "drop the fat, but gain more weight in muscle mass while at it so that you are heavier than you were yo begin with! yay!" ..... have you? cause if you have please send it to me. so yeah.. the main point of the message is that i hate my body, and if i had the money i would change it but for now i dont so i have to live with it like this, however if there is anybody who would like to switch, i'm game for that..... i hope oneday somebody discovers a way to just attach your head to a machine and live that way....anyways.. thats all i have to say... thank you for listening... i feel better....

Appology, life update, 8 months anniversary

Yeah I know I’m a horrible human being for not updating in over like 2 months and I’m very very sorry and I hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me. But look on the bright side!

1.I’m updating now
2. you really didn’t miss anything
3.I will tell you all about the last 2 months now

Well I guess I will need subtitles or something like that... hmmm... ok well today we shall talk about:
1.august and the end of summer (if I can remember what happened)
2.the beginning of school
3.new developments on the sperm donor frontier
4.work
5.the biology test that I failed
6.my 8th month anniversary

1. August and the End of Summer!
Well I must say that summer this year was very uneventful. I mean I didn’t do anything at all. I promise myself that next year I will do so much during the summer ill die of overexertion. lol well august was pretty good. I got a job at Jacob Connexion in the mall, and George came down to visit :D:D:D:D that was great. Probably like the best week of my summer. yay. I’m pretty sure I got my report card somewhere in august... or I might be lying. Anyways I got it in the summer and it was much like I expected it to be. I passed everything, just barely for some courses... but I know exactly why. Take math for example I tried to study for the exam I really did! I sat down a couple times and took out my books and started looking at it... and then I would start crying or something like that cause I was such an emotional wreck at the end of the year cause George had just left and such. I’m really glad that my bio mark didn’t go down considering I studied my whole entire years worth of notes in the 3 hours before my exam lol and I still got an 85% in the course... so I’m guessing that I got that or something like it on the exam. .. Anyway yeah august was pretty much work and being a loner at home and the week of georg-ing (which was very very fun), we hung out and watched movies and vegged and yeah and pulled an all-nighter which was fun. lol and yeah overall it was a very good visit.

2. The Beginning of School
BLECK! The dreaded school returned and with it homework... the good thing is that I have good courses and good teachers and I’m only taking 6 courses. I’m not graduating this year tho so I can take only 6 courses. Yes I’m doing a victory lap lol. I have actually decided that I want to go to Western university for either Health sciences or Biological and medical sciences I think it would be so cool! I’m so excited to go to university. To finally leave home and start a whole new chapter of life! Its soo thrilling. The parties the freedom.... of course the homework ... but ill be ever closer to becoming what I want to become... an OBGYN! woot lol.
OBGYN! woot lol.

3.New Developments on the Sperm Donor Frontier
ok for all of you who are wondering, no I was not a sperm donor child. I just call my father that cause thats all he has ever done for me lol. BUT! this summer I started looking around for his number cause its my mission for this year to get to know him.. anyways long story short (call me for the long story) I got a hold of is his number and I called about a month and a week ago and I talked to him for the first time in my life. it wasnt awkward or anything. it was like when your introduced to a new relative and you basically ask all the general questions like so what do you like whats your school/job like and stuff like that. so I found out that I have 2 brothers one is like 7 and the other like 3 months old by now ( ill tell you their names later cause I dont remember them now) and he is married and he is a pilot ( tho I knew that already) and lives in St. Lucia about 10 mins away from the beach, he likes to fish. lol yup. and then I didn’t talk to him for like a month.. but then he called like last weekend but I was at work. but anyways yeah he called courtney ( cause her and I have the same father) and she talked to him and yeah... oh yeah his name is Matthew Phillips.

4. Work
work is good I cant complain. I get 50% discount and just both a whole bunch of new clothes today but yeah ... work is very good. tho I want to physically harm ppl who mess of perfectly folded piles of clothing. or when you ask them if you can help get them a size in something and they say no and then procede to dig through the whole pile to find the size that I could have gotten for them in like a second but they refused.. and then they walk away leaving a HUGE mess behind them.. I had some lady go through like 6 piles of shirts and mess each one up... I could have smacked her. *eye twitch*

5. Biology test that I likely failed
ok well while I love bio. my my class is soo hard! my teacher expects us to do like so much work and still keep up with our other classes. its insane. this first unit was like biochemistry... which I know nothing about cause I didn’t take gr 11 chemistry last year im taking it this year so I knew like nothing of what he spoke of sigh..... and yeah so I stayed up till like 4 last night trying to finish all my activities ( which I didn’t do) and study... I literally like ate dinner over again to keep me awake. lol.. yup oh well the good news is that that unit is over for good now and I can be great at the other units now cause I can understand those.

6. 8 month anniversary.
ok so yes George and I are still dating even tho its long distance. it sucks shit at times but what can we do. we get through it. and I guess our relationship will be better for it at the end of this experience. in the mean time tho I wont lie, it sucks being apart. anyways yesterday was our 8 month anniversary, and I would like to say that I have the BEST BF EVER! lol. I came home from a long day of school and shopping with my mother and found a beautiful bouquet of flowers on my kitchen table. he ordered them from Zehrs and had them delivered to my house.... it made my heart melt. :D now they are in a vase in my hallway and are gorgeous! and smell great. they are yellow and orange and pink and red and I love it. yes I do.

and that concludes my update. I hope you liked it.
- iara


*i love you, i loved you all along*

everybody hates me, nobody likes me, i'm going to the garden to eat worms....

as my title states... i'm going to eat worms... indeed i have nothing to do and nobody to hang out with... everybody is off galavanting and doind their own thing... and i am here left behind to eat worms.....i have actually sat and thought about who i could call.. i have checked msn... and have come up with nobody... absolutly nobody....today is like my last day of complet freedom... before i start my 3day in a row festival of work... where i will have to do everything in the day cause i work in the evenings....then i really will have no life...i am bored... very very bored... and slightly angry....i wanted to go look at tattoo places today just cause it would be fun... but nobody is around to come with me....sigh... whatever.. i end my ranting vent session here.

3 days

ok well because George really wants me to update... and keeps reminding me that i havent lol i shall update. tho i dont have much to say

Today we can talk about

• my new job
• summer life
• cool up coming things
• my room and my plans for it

okie dokie... so i got a new job... yup i am now an employee at Jacob Connexion in the mall... its pretty cool i like it. its not half as bad as Zellers and the ppl are friendly.. i dont have to force ppl to get an HBC credit card and stuff and i get to wear actual clothes. Not to mention my 50% discount lol MUAHAHAHAHAH yes... and did i mention that jacob is like one of my favourite stores lol yes i hit the jackpot. now i have an excuse to shop! woot. lol but yeah work is good. i pretty much stand in the front of the store and say hi to people and tell them about the sale or w/e and help them find their sizes in the piles or try and help them before they screw up the piles completly... yup

summer life is pretty bland... i must say that this is not one of my best summers... i barely hang out with ppl.. i can actually probably cound on 1 and 1/2 hands the amount of times i have hung out with ppl... aside from sleeping, reading, and working, i do nothing... to prove how much time i have, i went to the library on saturday.... and got books... and in one week i have read 3 and a half novels... yeah.... thats right. my life is boring.

cool up coming things is pretty much the long awated visit from GEORGE! WOOT! who all of you know moved to the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere province of manitoba... ok no he lives in some town of 17 000 where there are menonites everywhere and like a church on every corner..... so basically his churches are like our tim hortons yup.. but anyways he is coming in 3 DAYS!!! (hence the title) yup i'm excited... while he is here we will celebrate our 6 months.. woot. and hopefully go on a picnic.....yay lol.

my room and my plans for it consists of me wanting to redecorate my room.... but not knowing exactly what to do with it... ok well i want a theme... but then i have to think of like what do i like.. and thats a hard question! cause i dont know.. so i like th colour orange.. and stuff.. and i have a very creative mind... and enjoy coming up with like whole worlds in my head.. ( yeah i know i'm the biggest nerd ever) anyways most of you will know that a couple of years ago i came up with a game to play with my sisters... ok its pretty much us pretending to be fairies.. anyways its a way cool game.. and even cass is in on it.. nowthat ithink of it... i think it all began when i was in like grade 6 and i was at sams house and it was winter.. i think sam was a winter fairy... lol ok anyways i am/have always been a fire fairy.. mainly cause i like fire and i think orange is the best colour.. ok back to the point.. so all in all i want to have a fairy themed room.. but not like with little pictures or fairies all over... it gonna be a mature fairy room.. so basically like if i was a fairy.. what would my room look like.. yeah.. so i have lots of orange furniture.. and i can easily get more and i want to paint my walls purple cause that will go nicely withe the orange.. and yeah.. so so far i have these ideas... a hanging bookshelf... sofia wants me to have wings somewhere.. so i told her i would manage to put wings on the door or something lol. and i want to have a cool sitting area lol well i mean i have one now.. but i have a cool table thingy to put in once i sand it down and get it painted.. i want to make a headboard thingy for my bed or just make my bed cooler.. and yeah.. ok if you have any ideas just leave a comment... ok?

so this was my update George.. i hope your satisfied... lol .. i hope your all having an awsome summer and somebody please call me to hang out! ok i need company from other humans who arnt my family and soon before i kill a sibling! lol ok bye!

the job hunt.... and other things

ok so you wanted an update.... so here is one

on the topic of jobs... cassandra came with me not too long ago to help me put out resumes ... i put out a couple... and managed to get an interview with jacob connexion which went well. i recently got a call from jacob saying something about them not being able to get a hold of one of my refrences so i just have to call her and yeah or find a new one.... and yeah... no calls from anywhere else.... the problem is that i desperatly need money like i'm desperate...and its sad i know... sigh... i just need like 300 at least so that i can go to visit george oh man i hate money.though i already have 100 of it so i have a start...

Movies: i saw Pirates of the carribean this week and OMG it was soooo SOOO good.. like really.. at the end of the movie my emotions were so scattered... i didnt know wheather to laugh or cry i ended up laughing while my eyes slowly leaked small tears.. but yeah it was excellent i cant wait for the 3rd one. my favourite movies of the summer have been Superman and Pirates of the carribean i cant wait to own them =D

life in general: life is decent. i wish i did more stuff with ppl but everybody seems to be busy with their own stuff. cass always has somebody to hang out with, i havent really seen natalie at all this summer....i think i have seen her 2 times, i saw jessica once..... and thats pretty much all... i spend my days at home sleeping and reading... i need to get busy... oh man its so hot here i want to go swimming actually i want to go skinny dipping but w/e thats on my list of things to do before i'm 20.. if anybody wants to come with me just say so in your comment.

new and cool things: on saturday i hung out with courtney (she was visiting) and her friends bethany and sam and we went to world domination (the sketchy tattoo place accross form the bus terminal) lol and it turns out its not all thats sketchy i mean yeah the way its decorated is sketchy cause its like war themed so there are like fences and barbed wire and a camoflage like curtain thingy but and the lady at the front is kinda weird but it was a decent place. anyways while we were there bethany and sam got their tragus pierced on their ears and courtney got a tatoo on her foot its like a turtle but like tribal like its pretty cool and i'm jealous and i want a tattoo really bad now... like i want to get it at the end of summer first i just have to find a pic of the dragonfly i want or nat could draw it for me.... w/e really.. ok well this was the update i hope you enjoyed it.
hope all of your summers are going well
~iara