Friday, 13 May 2011

One of my other time wasters....

ENGRISH.COM!
Here are just a few reasons why I love it:




And if you couldn't gather from the above, engrish.com shows hilarious photos from japan/china of things that clearly did not go through a professional translator. I love this site because it definitely makes me laugh after a stressful day and as I mentioned, is a good time waster!

Just what I needed --Bree

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Please don't laugh at me...I have crazy dreams.

Okay so pretty much all the time every once in a while I have really strange dreams, like really strange.

Last night I was dreaming that I was flying on an airplane with a bunch of people I didn't know. One was some older guy, kind of looked like Steve from survivor , and then there was two other guys, and two others girls. Anyways apparently the pilot was working with the 'bad guys' so instead of taking us where we wanted to go, he flew us into the desert. In the middle of the desert there was one building, just one, and it was a huge concrete compound with really tall walls. So we landed there, got out, and huddled all in the middle of this compound.

Now before I go any further, inside the compound there was concrete, an area where there was sand, and a mini-golf course. Yep, mini golf.

But anyways......all these bad guys came out and started talking in their native tongue, which I could actually understand half of it oddly enough. They said that one of us had the information or token that they needed to power something that would help them reign and take over the world (original right?).

Well we all played dumb. I actually had no idea about any of this so it wasn't me who had this important item. After a while of just talking to us, yelling, sometimes pointing guns at us, they started to laugh and said that they would keep us in confinement, with no food or water, until one of us told them the truth. Then they walked off and threw golf clubs at us and a golf ball and told us we better make use of it because that is the only fun we will be getting. (I am still so confused about the golf part haha).

Well Steve (that is what I am just going to call him now), picked up the golf club, and took some strange, glowing sphere out of his pocket. He then put it on the ground and hit it all the way over a huge sand dune. I thought only I noticed this, but one of the guards did too. So they all came out and were running towards us, furious, but before they could reach us and do anything, the ground started to shake.

Then over the top of the dunes was the craziest thing I had ever seen, transformers! (yes, transformers). I had no idea that was what they were called but they were huge, and seemed to be on our side. They had sent in a vehicle as well for all of us to get away in but it was down in a 'canyon' just off the left side of the building. The wall had been smashed down on that side so everyone else had jumped off. I was the last one and came to the edge and let me tell you, heights still scare me in my dreams. But knowing that it was my only option I jumped out. The driver of the vehicle told us that we were headed for Montreal. Montreal?! You go from a desert to driving to Montreal. hah But that is where we were headed I guess!

I looked back to see the transformers completely destroying the building and anything that was inside. While I was happy that I was going away, I also wanted to go back and watch. Along the way I finally decided to ask Steve about the sphere and what happened back there, and that was when the dream switched to a flashback to go along with Steve's story.

Steve had grown up on a remote island somewhere in the middle of the ocean. Not many people knew about it for a while, but then it became more popular as more people came across it on their travels. It became inhabited by some of the strangest people from all around the world. One was a scientist, a genius, but also a madman. He wanted to own this island, and basically run it like a lab of mice. He wanted to conduct experiments on the people and see their responses. So the first thing for him was to cut off the island from the rest of the world so no one could go out, or come in (except himself). To do this, he worked every day for ten years to create a machine that was able to lift the island out of the water and into the sky. He made sure in his plans to include something that would make the change unnoticeable to the people who inhabited the island. It was a silent machine that made no shifts as it was moving, so the upward movement was undetectable.

Anyways, this was the first step in his plan. By this point Steve was grown up and was married and things seemed fine. They had all forgotten that there was anything outside their island so nobody questioned it, grew angry, or even curious of what was beyond--because as far as they were concerned, they were the only things that existed. For a while all this scientist was doing was basically orchestrating the deaths of people in order to gauge their reactions (brutal I know..I was shocked too). In doing this he found one thing: some people would retreat and become depressed, while some wanted revenge. These were the only two outcomes that he witnessed for the people on this island.

Then he met Steve. Newly married, happy, fun-loving, just overall a genuine and caring person. But he also noticed an intelligence in Steve that he had no seen from his other test subjects. So he started to talk to Steve and explain his plans and teach him everything he knew. Because of his experiments and the weakness he saw in people, the scientist decided to start creating robots that would serve multiple functions and who would eventually replace all the people. He was secretly building an army, but he convinced Steve it was to help the people. After years of working on these, his fleet was finally finished. It was the transformers. But by this point Steve knew what the scientists intentions were. This was because as he was leaving the grocery store with his wife they went to go and cross the road. While the were in the middle of the crosswalk something knocked Steve backwards, and his wife was hit by a car. Knowing that there are two outcomes, Steve was furious and looked to avenge his wife. But he didn't seek out other people on the island, he knew who it was. Because as he glanced over he saw the robot turn into a limo, and the scientist get in a drive away.

So---In the main chamber of the building there was a small, glowing sphere that held negative energy. It was being pulsed into every robot in there. This is where Steve got the sphere, and he then replaced it with one that held positive energy. This reversed all the effects of the negative one.

When released, the transformers were set on saving the world from all evil, beginning with the scientist. Which is exactly what happened. Little did everyone know that this scientist had made connections with people all over the world that wanted the same thing he did, and usually supplied all of the tools that he needed to complete his project (he never told them what it was, just that it was a guarantee).

So then my dream returns to being in the car--and we all understand how we had landed in the hands of these other people. Unfortunately for us it was because we were on the same flight as Steve, but I found it interesting anyway.
Either way once the scientist was destroyed, the island returned and the people were able to leave and realized there was more out there. Of course, somehow all of the connections found out who was responsible for ruining their one chance at world domination, and that is why they took down our plane. Anyways this is where everything ended as we arrived in Montreal after dark and headed to a safe zone.

And that is the end of that!  & I literally just woke up so I actually remembered it all. It all happened super fast but it seems so long when I write it out haha. Either way it was strange! And there are a few bits here and there missing now which is why it's written so poorly.

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

I went to a goat farm today!

And I loved it ! I love goats.
The only thing that wasn't so awesome was we couldn't actually go in and pet them. But they did have places where you could reach in--and I got one to come over to me ;) I think they are so adorable--which I'm sure a lot of people think I'm crazy, but they are so sweet :)

How could you not love them?

And speaking of sweet, I got ice-cream afterwards and went for a walk down at the lake! It was awesome. Great weather and doing something fun puts me in a fantastic mood (if you couldn't tell by all my exclamation marks....ha). 
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

-Oscar Wilde

Sunday, 8 May 2011

Happy Mothers Day

Cute video--and it says it all.

So why do I love my mom?
I love my mom because more than anything, she is my best friend. Even though sometimes we argue,(I get frustrated with her, and no doubt she gets frustrated with me) I know in the end she will always be there to love and support me. We always resolve everything because we are too important to each other to have it be ruined by something so small. She has a good sense of humour, even though her crazy side only comes out once in a while. She loves her family with everything that she has and she puts everything into making sure we are looked after. My mom is a busy lady, and yet she still makes time for those who matter most, and will always get us to where we need to be. I remember her driving me into school every day after we moved because I wanted to finish out my year there and it took almost an hour each way. She would walk me over to my piano lessons when I was younger because I was too scared to go alone and it was only a block away. Then she would sit outside of the room and listen to me play for an hour. She tells me she is proud of me all the time, and that to me means more than anything. She cries when I come home for the holidays, and cries again when I go to leave--and I always make fun of her for it but I love that she does it. She pushes me to succeed and do more, but she also brings me back and tells me when I need to take breaks. She is genuinely excited about the same things I get excited about, which makes me feel extremely happy. She has taught me how to be a respectful woman who never takes anything for granted. She showed me that whatever you put into the world you get in return. She is an example for me because she has made a lot of mistakes, is always honest about them, and tries to improve upon those mistakes--that to me is perfection.

All in all, and I know everyone feels this way about their moms, but I truly do have a fantastic mom. I couldn't ask for anyone better to bring me into this world, and no one else could have raised me the way my mom did.

I love you mom <3 --Bree

Saturday, 7 May 2011