November dreams

This image is something I'll be referring back to constantly starting this coming Saturday. I registered at the National Novel Writing Month website last week in hopes that I will actually write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. With a TA strike looming, the possibility of reaching that goal is getting more and more real.
Nanowrimo is a fascination I've been courting since 2 years ago when a friend of mine tried it. He didn't succeed, but the idea of actually sitting down and writing in your spare time with the goal of 175 pages amazed me.
I don't have a plan yet; I figured this would be an exercise in using my imagination and letting go of my type-A tendencies to edit the living shit out of everything I write. Maybe I'll come up with something stunning and glorious as a result. Or maybe it will be absolute crap. All I know is that I want to do this and I want to succeed. This is important to me when a lot of things this year have suddenly become unimportant. I really want it to work out.
That means I need cheerleaders. Does anyone want to be my cheerleader?

-Laur

Sparkle: My champagne birthday

Saturday night was my Champagne birthday party. Select friends and I celebrated in style at my house, mostly in my kitchen and family room. Laura and Hank brought extra sparkling wine and cut strawberries and after that, everything got really pretty.

The theme of the party was Sparkle; for sparkling wine, for my favourite texture, and for the intense sequins of my shirt. I asked everyone to wear sparkly clothing or makeup, and just about everyone brought it :D

My girls came a little late, but made up for it with wild photo shoots and huge laughs.

My sparkle wall was a photographic hit, and I feel like it really captured the spirit of the party: sparkly, bright and larger than life! All in all a very excellent birthday.

-Laur

Happy Birthday!

That's it. I'm firmly entrenched in my 20s now. Today I turned 22 on this 22nd of October, my champagne birthday. I'm very excited. Party on Saturday night, and I'm going to sparkle the crap out of everyone!!!

-Laur

I'm sorry

I'm sorry, Susan Kadis, Simon Strelchik and Norbert Koehl. I went to the polls yesterday morning and did my civic duty. I did what I could, but it didn't stop the Conservatives from overturning my traditionally Liberal riding.
I'm sorry, Stephane Dion, Jack Layton and Elizabeth May, that Canada cannot seem to figure out that the United States is a bad role model.
I'm sorry that Canadians choose to do what's comfortable instead of what's right. I'm sorry that they didn't research the other parties and realize quickly that there are better choices for our country.
I'm sorry that more Canadians than ever before chose not to go to the polls at all, silencing themselves and the power their voices could have held.
I'm sorry that we seem to be getting stupid and dull, and I hope it changes independently before something truly terrible happens to bring about that change.

-Laur

Bonding in the sunshine

Tomorrow Mom and I are going downtown to explore Queen Street, Kensington Market and possibly St. Lawrence market. It should be so much fun! There will definitely be pictures to come :D

-Laur

Sunny autumn day

Can you believe how gorgeous these leaves are? I was walking home from Bathurst and Steeles on a beautiful sunny autumn day and thank goodness I had my camera with me because it was just beautiful everywhere. I took 60 pictures from the park at the synagogue to the house, just of pretty sunshine on golden foliage and fun ways the light was coming through the branches. It was great, really refeshing, and a real change from how I've been spending most of my days in the past week.
A week ago yesterday I woke up and felt like there was a plastic bag over my head. I couldn't hear, I couldn't swallow, even my eyes didn't work properly. The next day I went to the walk-in clinic my doctor's office offers because my GP is orthodox and was home celebrating Rosh Hashana. The doctor who saw me didn't listen to me, and as a result I went back to my doctor yesterday, far sicker than I was the week before. Now I'm on the superdrugs, the kind that they only prescribe when you're really sick, and I'm slowly beginning to feel human again.


I did a presentation today in the only English class I like this year, Inspiration. I had to present what inspired me, and I chose Halloween. I feel it went really well, though we did get slightly off topic once in a while. I put a lot of effort into it, and I was only the second person to present, so now it's out of the way and I can relax for a while. Or at least until my Renaissance Theatre essay is due next Wednesday.
So that's the end for now. I'll try to blog more regularly.

-Laur