It’s been so long since I’ve written anything. I’ve been busy with school. Turns out my first semester, which was supposed to be easy breezy and full of party time / fun time / do nothing time… isn’t. The elective courses I took actually have work, and by that I mean those darn essays. I’ve already handed in two in exactly two weeks of school, and have another one due next week.

I’m moving to a new house this Friday, so my life has sort of been in a state of disarray. I’ve had to print assignments at the library (at $.10 a page!!) because my printer is packed in some cardboard box in the multitude of congruent cardboard boxes sitting in my living room. I’m not happy about moving, but I’m certainly excited. New neighbors, new paint colors, new surroundings… though I love my current neighbors, I couldn’t ask for better people.

Can’t wait for the Grey’s Anatomy and Criminal Minds season premieres this week!

Forget Octomom, Michelle Duggar is having her 19th kid. Yes, that’s right, 19th kid. I remember a few years back I heard the Duggar family had 15 kids and I thought to myself insane thoughts I won’t repeat here. Now, Michelle Duggar is pregnant with her 19th child.

But unlike Octomom, Michelle Duggar is married, and the Duggar family is debt free and lives in a big, approx 7000 sq ft home. My first instinct was that it’s a big house, but for 20 people, I don’t know how they make the bedrooms work. Anyway, like Octomom probably will soon, the Duggar family has a TV show on TLC.

I’m all for having kids if you can afford it, but 19 kids? Damn. The only thing I do have a problem is with … their ways? Taken from my favorite source Wikipedia,

“In addition, the Duggar parents have ultra-conservative and very traditional parenting ideas. None of the family’s daughters are permitted to do typically ‘male’ activities, such having short hair, wearing pants or attending college. The Duggars follow the teachings of Bill Gothard, which include that children not go to college, children should not leave the home until they are married, families do not use birth control and refuse many forms of pre-natal care, stringent social conservatism (including ideas such as young-earth creationism) is strictly enforced and taught at a young age, and gender roles are adhered to.”

The whole birth control ideology, whatever, but females can’t have short hair or wear pants (hello, practicality?) and no one goes to college? Then again, sending that many kids to college probably would take them out of their envious debt-free-ness. Oh, and I read more, and everyone is homeschooled. But I guess it’s not in the traditional sense, because with that many kids it’s more or less a classroom with many ages of students.

I won’t lie, I’ve always found ultra traditional and conservative Christians very fascinating. Like Indendent Fundamental Baptists, who don’t allow modern music and dancing among other things. I’m not trashing on anyone else’s religion, because if someone believes something and it doesn’t hurt anyone, I don’t really care. If someone believes something only because it’s the only thing they’ve ever known, I feel sorry for them. If someone is forced by their family to follow something they don’t want to follow, I hope they either change their familiy’s minds or find a way to run away.

A brilliant spoof on celebrity designers and the “eco-friendly” trend by Julia Stiles. Thank god that some celebrities like her and Emma Watson agree that just because you’re a celebrity, doesn’t mean you’re a celebrity-designer too (cough cough Ashlee Simpson, Avril Lavigne, and everyone from the Hills).

Julia Stiles Styles

I live a solid hour away from downtown by public trans, and I’m lazy, so I don’t go downtown often… but it’s summer and I’ve been to downtown three times in the past week. Going downtown, I think, makes me feel like I’m going out and exploring summer and taking advantage of the city and the weather and it makes me happy.

Trip #1 : Taste of the Danforth

This was last weekend, but I’ll still remember this… so much food! The weather wasn’t great (it was rainy) but the food was delicious. I would have liked a little more variety in the Greek food because it was basically souvlaki souvlaki souvlaki! Not that I don’t like souvlaki. I did see a booth selling kangaroo burgers though. Kind of freaked me out. I also met Jack Layton!

Trip #2：My friend dragged me to some sort of formal mixer near Harbourfront with a bunch of people adults. It was kind of awkward, especially considering most everybody was taking advantage of the free bar with over 60 brands/types of beer (or at least that’s what the host said) and you could see a red flush on a good number of people’s faces. We had to stick with gingerale. I also wore the wrong heels and walking to and from that place killed my feet. Aka BLISTERS.

Trip #3： Hello Yonge and Dundas! Two of my friends spent a day shopping there and the vicinity. We walked around the Eaton Centre, spending quite a bit of time at the beautiful (and massive) H&M there. I ate one of those vanilla glaze pretzels that are probably super duper unhealthy. And then we walked around on Yonge St, including splashing around in Dundas Square, trying to navigate through the frenzy at the messy and crowded Forever 21, and then walking down Queen Street East. We even scored a free shaken iced tea at Starbucks because the barista made a mistake on a previous order. Yipeeee.

The picture below, taken on Yonge St, is a sticker I saw on… I forget what that gray box was exactly. Downtown is the best place to find interesting things like this.

I love Downtown, and hope to go there at least two times more before summer ends. Maybe Yorkville, which is the closest substitute to walking down Fifth Avenue  before I move to NYC.  Designer stores like Chanel hate teenagers with no money right?

I realize I haven’t written anything for a while. I’ve been having a pretty good summer doing summer type things so I suppose that’s why.

Three days ago I went to my friend’s birthday party at her house, and around midnight I went upstairs to escape the music (which didn’t help much, it wasn’t a very soundproof house). I took a little nap, was awoken by music or screaming or something, and BAM I start noticing how itchy my eyes are.

I first think it’s the makeup, but then I remember, my friend has a cat and her cat hair is everywhere. Every time I go to my friend’s house, I come home to have eyes start itching like crazy, even if I’ve only just sat on her sofa. So this time, because I took a nap on her bed and sort of snuggled in her cat-hair infested blanket, oh god, my eyes were itching like hell.

And even worse, I planned on sort of just crashing on her couch over night, so it was bad. The reason I always forget about the cat is that I never see it. Apparently, she hides whenever guests come over. But her hair is everywhere. My other friend who crashed on the other couch awoke to have her black top… a fuzzy gray.

I’ve been suffering the past few days with itchy eyes and some cold symptoms. I spent most of Friday in bed sneezing with my eyes closed. My body really does not like cats. The interesting thing is that both my parents had cats when they were younger. So how come I end up with a severe cat allergy?