15 day Challenge, Day Six

Day 6 - A song that makes you cry

Well, since I forgot to do one yesterday, this one is catch up. Now.. Not a lot of songs make me cry, but the fact is it did happen. So, I'll list the typical one that usually will do it.

How Great thou Art.

This song has great, great meaning to me. It was the song played at my Grandfathers funeral, it was the song that brought on the spirit to me so strongly at that baptism, I can't help but cry when I hear a live performance.

15 day Challenge, Day five

Day 5 - Pictures of things that make you happy

Hmmmmm, lots of things make me happy so this might be a bit, big.

 Old Cars! They are just so much fun. Especially the little Nash Rambler. Beep beep! Pictures taken by me at a Utah Car show.

 

General Conference. I always feel happy during this time. Nothing like the feelings of the Spirit testifying to you the truth of what the Apostles and Prophet are saying. Pictures taken by me at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.

 The sky! Sunsets, Sun rises, Full moon, Stary nights, Cloudy days all of it! There is always something interesting in the sky, and I love well done photos of them too! Pictures taken by Me, One in Bountiful Utah, the other Calgary from my apartment.

 

The Temple! Well, more like Temples! Nothing beats the feeling of being inside the house of the lord. They are a marvel and a spectacular thing to look at, whether they are lit up at night or if's a wonderful sunny day. The following temples shown are Cardston Alberta ( Taken by Mitchell Dumke ), Bountiful Utah ( Taken by me ), Salt Lake City ( Taken by me, yet again )

 Artistic Photography, and Art in general. I enjoy cool photographs and art, what can I say. It's interesting and something I admire of other people who can do it well. It has a minor set back, after taking a few photography classes I'm highly critical of photographs. Oops. Art on the other hand I'm not, mainly because I have a hard time making. I am a fan of some bizarre art like the chandelier on the right. Photo's taken by me, jail is from a set built for Santa Baby 2, Chandelier in a hotel at Park City Utah.

Animals!!! Oh how I love thee. Even though you furry types stuff up my nose and sometimes make my skin itchy. I can't help myself. Just so love able. I always like to get as close as I can to wild animals too, like deer, Bunnies, Gophers, Snakes and I do draw the line at things like Bears, a long with other sharp toothed creatures (Snakes I'll try and make a judgment call) Photo's done by me yet again, Scamper, Columbus, and Gus.

Hmmmmm sushi.... The only kind I can have at the moment California rolls. I greatly enjoy many other types and I love going out with the girl friends to eat some up! Picture taken by me, from my phone. Woo.

Being married. I love Mike. He's an amazing man and I'm so glad we where sealed in the temple. It's been the best choice I've ever made, even if I wasn't sure about how he slowly kept on bumping up the date on me. I'm so thankful for everyone who came, and I was overwhelmed with all the support that was shown. My Favorite is of the one of Mike dipping me since he doesn't even remember doing it. Pictures by Andrea Barnes and her mother whose full name escapes me at the moment.

Mountains! I love mountains. I enjoy seeing them in the skyline. I enjoy hiking in them once in a while but at least once a summer otherwise I suffer a mountain withdrawal as I discovered from last summer. Where I was in Saskatoon and couldn't see them or go hiking in them. Had a little bit of a breakdown.. A little one. Picture of Chief Mountain by Mitchell Dumke.

It's Bubbles! This little (not so little when you look at my belly) human has provided an awful lot of fun for me. From the early weeks when he proceeded to make me rather gassy in turn causes me to burp a lot, this has continued through out my pregnancy, (Hence the name Bubbles,) to kicking Mike's butt, to the strange sensation of being Adjusted by my sister, and so much more. The Market Mall Lab did this one. Yay, Ultrasounds!

There is more, far more. I enjoy so much and so much makes me happy. You could say I'm fairly easy to please, but my mind is not that simple I swear.

15 day Challenge, Day four

Day 4 - Something you're looking forward to

I'm looking forward to mother hood.  Which is kinda funny considering, I never wanted to be a stay at home mother when I was younger. I connected stay at home mom with the classic woman slave stuck in the kitchen, trying to raise kids screaming about the house, while the husband went off to work clueless of all the things that went on in the home, and treated her with a lack of respect.

Now, I want nothing more to have a career of the life of a stay at home mom. I didn't realize how important it is to kids to have some one there for them. It really affects them and makes worlds of a difference. And not to just have a body just there, but some one who spends quality time with the kids. Connection is really important. I want to do that and be that person.

I often feel like kids don't get the attention they need from adults. Which can led to disruptive kids because they are trying to do simply grab the attention of their parents, even if that means getting negative attention. This is also not to say some kids are over demanding in their need for attention from their parents. Example. mom, mom, mom, mom, mommy, mommy, MOM! MOM! You get the idea.

15 day Challenge, Day three

Day 3 - Your siblings and parents

Hmmmm family family... Where to start.

This is my mom. A great woman. She's smart knows her way with nuclear physics and she helped pioneer women in the Engineering program at the U of A. She loves books. She loves books so much that it became to be expectant that we would receive them as gifts for any occasion. I, to this date, never have to go out and get a good book of information on whatever is going on in my life. I have the pile of cook books to prove it when I suspected she was trying to marry me off.

This is my Dad. I bet you can't guess what he likes to do. Where my mom dominates in academia, my dad makes up for his lack of education in life skills. I feel really lucky to have had such a difference in parents. It gave me a unique view early on as a kid. My dad raised us as Mr. Mom. while mom went to work. My dad really wanted some son's, but three tries landed him with 3 girls. So he made the best of it. We turned into Tomboys. I probably should slap one up with my dad at my wedding. That way it'd be themed, but my dad's first time in a tux just doesn't fit.

Snuggle, huggle! The love of a middle child. This happens anytime I get near her. Jackie has a very caring heart. Any time me and my youngest sister would fight she would get so upset. If she liked/s something, anything, good luck getting her out of it. Jackie when she discovers something she enjoys, she does it. A lot. If it's something she doesn't like, good luck trying to get her to do it.

The youngest! She's so gonna kill me too for using this photo, but it's my personal favorite. We never got along very well as kids. I'd try and tell her what to do, she wouldn't listen, I'd get mad, she'd get mad, I wouldn't back off, she wouldn't back off. You get the picture. However, the years turned on and eventually she ended up living with me in the apartment. That's when our relationship finally matured. This picture reminds me of that all the time. FISHY FACE!!!

15 day Challenge, Day two

Day 2 - Something that stresses you out.

Me? Stress? Whaaaaat?

This one is pretty darn hard for me, I tend to be pretty laid back and try not to get worked up about things. So if I'm stressed something really really is bugging me.

So after pondering about it for a bit, this is one thing I think stresses me out.

Moving.

I hate moving, the whole process. Finding a new place to stay, packing up, moving it, finding help move it, paying for the U-haul, fitting stuff in there, hoping stuff doesn't break, moving it in to the new place, making sure the new place is clean enough to place stuff, unpacking, organizing, and oh so much more.

I didn't move as a kid. In fact, my mom still lives in the very house that I grew up in. It was wonderful having a stable place to live, despite the many unstable things that happened in my life there. My parents split, my mom re married in that house, (to a major jerk might I add, very thankful he's not part of my life anymore), I had to try and take care of my sisters (one of which never, ever cooperated. You know who you are.) while my mom worked, it was just chaos. Oh, we can't forget the ever going renovations as well. In the end it was home, and it always was in the same spot, so no matter where we are we know where it is.

So needless to say, when I got married and found my self whisked to new place, only in a few months to be whisked away to another place, I didn't like it. I am so thankful that this summer we don't have to move. I don't think I would deal with it very nicely being pregnant which has thrown a lot of my thinking more emotional then logical.

Fun times.

15 day Challenge, Day one

Self portrait picture, and 15 interesting facts.

 I literally just took this, and this post is a day late already. I got a little caught up in my family history yesterday spending 6 hours fiddling around with the family search website. I decided I wanted to add one of the most important possessions I own. That old teddy bear I've had since I was 11 days old. He's been with me through some of my most important moments in my life, sad, happy, sick, healthy, kinda like an awesome husband only no one can replace Mike. He produces heat and is well, living. Having that teddy in this picture helps show how loyal I am. Sure I've lost him once in a while, but I always find him again. I treat my really good and close friends the same way. Even if we get lost, we'll find each other again.

On to the facts about me. So here we go.

Fact 1. I am Chinese. 

Well to be clear, I'm 1/8 Chinese. I may have to take a picture of the picture we have of my great, great, great grandfather and post it up here. I think it comes from my grandmothers family whose mother came from a Chinese mother. If this is wrong I'll totally correct when I start looking on her side of the family. Either way when I came into the world looking a bit yellow, I scared the doctors and they had me tested for Liver problems. Turns out, they didn't expect me to look a little Asian.

Fact 2. I write Fan Fiction.

Yup, I started about 3 years ago. I can't express how much my overall writing has progressed, let alone my story plotting. I created most of my characters based on a game I play called City of Hero's. Only recently have I begun to create characters that are able to stand outside of the City of Hero's world. Maybe one day I'll write a book, in the mean time practice is fun. I'll even share a post I made to a forum. The piece is titled "Dream Safe." for my favorite character Ashlyn.

'I do this all the time. It's important. The guiding of the pencil upon the pad of paper, the soft scratching noise as the lead adds shades of gray to bring about an image. I've been doing this for a while. Feeling the smile upon my face as I completed the drawing. This one I found to be really interesting. I think I will find very interesting things in this school.

I had to record this, he was doing it before I even started to do anything, but I watched anyways. Sometimes its just nice to watch and be unnoticed. I won't lie, it was kinda gross but sometimes, that how they are. Rummaging in and organ fridge replacing his parts. It was interesting, because he looked normal but he really wasn't.

My finger tips trace the edge of the paper as I inspect the art work. Blood, metal, organs and he was in action of replacing it. It worked enough for me. So I couldn't forget and now I could recreate it for him. If I wanted to. Maybe I will. See what he does when he finishes instead of getting knocked out by me.

Upon knee I lean over to peer under the desk I am at. There it is. My little safe. Holding two pieces of art work I put them upon the safe. Pulling on the sides I pull it out. It's beige sides greet me as the lights in the room meet it. I pull out the key from a drawer and open the safe. I pull out the two other papers and place them all side by side.

The first is my favorite. It is long and really tells the story well. A small chest, with strange markings on it opened. I used red for that one, for the orb that was found was glowing red. The walls were neat as well, Old hooded mages carved into it. I helped her sleep. She wasn't sleeping well. I put the Art back into the safe.

The second, an open field. With long prairie grass and floating fuzzy seeds all about. In the center and man dressed in white, in the lotus position taking the beautiful view in. He knew. He knew right away it was me. I don't fully trust him. No nobody just knows. That's not how it works. I think now there is more to him then he realizes. He thought it was another world. I'll let him think that. I'm not ready to tell everyone.

The third, was really simple. A hand holding a chain that was coming out of a chest. Switching places with the organ art, now they were in order. I pile them and put them into the safe. Closing it and locking it I slide it back under the desk. I return the key to the drawer.

I'm tired, I need some sleep. I can't sleep alone.. So I get up and start to look for someone who is sleeping.'

Fact 3. I like Old Things

From old cartoons, like Transformers and She-ra, to Old appliances, like the 1950's GE Toaster I'm trying to fix or the 3 1970's or older sewing machines I have, I just cannot get enough of them. Nothing thrills me more then to walk into some grandparents house and see all the little antique's decorating the place. Porcelain dolls, old tools, old toys and all sorts. It's what made Santa Baby such fun to work on, they had some REALLY old stuff there and it was amazing. I think the oldest thing I own was given to me from my dad, it's an old hymn book in French published in 1918 (I think). From what I can tell it belonged to a Albert Bascher, and my dad found it somewhere. You can't read the front but the inside pages are just fine. 

Or the oldest thing I have is this hat, made when you had to go to a hat store and they made you a hat just for your head, no tags at all on the inside. If I remember right this one was ordered and made in Edmonton? Still has it's personal Hat box too! Made from mink, and it has this lovely place for your hair bun so it wouldn't ruin it.

Fact 4. I'm in the Movies!


Not that it's really a big deal, I'm not with any actual lines or anything. Just a happy background grunt to help fill the scene for the Director so things look busy. I have however gotten the great chance to meet some pretty famous people, in which I'm thankful I'm not someone who really cares about Celebrity Gossip, otherwise I think I would have been far more starstruck. Which would have led to a far more embrasing moment, in stead I watched this one background extra force herself to squeeze behind Tori Spelling, her two kids and Dean McDermott watched as this girl almost spilled her lunch all over the three, just so she could sit beside them.



Here's the list of some the Flicks I've been an Extra for, since I don't remember them all.
Touch the Top of the World
Resurrecting the Champ
Santa Baby
Santa Baby 2

Fact 5. I Game.

That's right, Game on! I'm a PC gamer, I do play Xbox some times. This apparently was one of the deciding factors of why Mike decided to marry me. Which helps because he games too, only he games everything. Including board games. Which I find neat, but not really my thing, but I'm happily able to go let him play games til the late hours of the night. I understand the Gaming mind.

Fact 6. I'm a Hunters Daughter.

Hmmmmm deer meat... I also can skin a deer, I've taught boyfriends of my past how to do this, I help my dad butcher his animals and I love it. I've never actually killed anything but I've gone out with my dad and they are some of my favorite memories of all time. One of my best birthdays I spent out at my dad's house cutting up a deer. 

Fact 7. I love Costumes, Especially Making Them.

Cosplay is something I would totally get into if I had more friends into, so I settle for Halloween. I will admit I'm a bit selfish and I typically only make costumes for myself. Mainly because I'm not that awesome at making something that would last (mainly because I don't own a machine that works properly right now), but it certainly looks cool!

Fact 8. Animals are awesome, All of them.

Despite my Allergy to the fuzzy ones, I love them. This is part of the reason I use to own two cat's (which I'm slightly more allergic to then dogs). I've always wanted to learn out to ride Horses, or to be a Vet. So when I discovered that hey, these things make me sick I was heart broke. 

I could animal watch all day. Which means, trips to the zoo are definitely all day ones for me. One of my most desirable places to go are on the sole purpose of the animal life I would see.

Fact 9. Blessed with Kid Magnetism.

This one is pretty self explanatory. All my life, little kids seem to eventually flock towards me (even if they are a little shy at first). I like it, it's fun. Nothing like running around with a bunch of kids playing. Seeing them smile, it's good times. As a result I often spent more of my time with kids then socializing with the adults, even as an adult. I'm trying to work it so I actually spend some time getting to know the parents, instead of focusing on the kids. I'm going to have my own to give all my attention to soon, looking very forward to it.

Fact 10. I'm a Convert!

This one is interesting mainly because of my Pagan history. Plus if I didn't find it interesting I'd never talk about the fact that I'm a convert to the LDS Church. If I didn't do that, I know of two people who wouldn't have join at the time they did. That makes me warm and fuzzy on the inside.

Fact 11. I like Shoes....

Not that this is a surprise, I am a girl after all. However this is one of those things that's happened to me in the past 2 or 3 years. Before I got married I had 120 pairs of shoes, I thought I had 50 until I counted and made that discovery. (I have since then cut back my shoe collection, I should probably count to see what the number is now) I blame the Shoe Calendar my mom started to get me. 

Fact 12. I play the Flute.

This one time at band camp.... Well not like that. I spent 7 years in band. Four of which spent in the Cochrane High School Concert band. Which I wanted to be part of the moment I saw them play at my elementary school. I miss playing in a band, and playing solo is a little scary for me. I am a group player.

I wanted to play the flute since I was very little. I even asked for one for Christmas, which ended up with me getting a recorder. Once I made that discovery I was a little urked. I even have a small collection of Wooden flutes that I play randomly for fun. Don't ask me to actually play something on them, I just move my fingers and enjoy the sounds that come out as a result.

Fact 13. Fresh Fruit only!

Yes that's right. I don't eat cooked fruits, dried fruits, canned fruits, frozen fruits. It's something that started when I was little and still sticks with me to this day. It makes me gag, so I'm weird. Oh well. I'll occansionly do some jam, but very.. very thin on toast. Give it to me raw, untainted and yummy! It's the best way anyways.

Fact 14. Melt my Heart with Big Sad Eyes.

Weakness number one. If it has big sad eyes on it I feel very sad for it. They are just so BIG and SAD! Like that Ikea mocha creamer commercial? Like this one?

I felt SOOO bad for the creamer, and then the Ikea guy came out and I wanted to hurt him, badly.

Fact 15. This was really freaking hard.

Nuff said.

Sorry it was so big >.> largest blog post ever!

Stolen!

15 Day Challenge

It's such a good idea! I've been watching a blog that's doing this (You know who you are!), she's influenced me with Root beer floats so it's sure to be a good thing! I've had a lot on my mind and I haven't really been able to sort out the mess that's up there. Hopefully this helps. Might mean I'll blog more then once a day.

Be prepared to learn things about me!

 
15 day challenge

Day 1 - Self portrait picture, and 15 interesting facts

Day 2 - Something that stresses you out

Day 3 - Your siblings and parents

Day 4 - Something you're looking forward to

Day 5- pictures of things that make you happy

Day 6 - A song that make you cry

Day 7 - Favorite movies

Day 8 - A place you're traveled to

Day 9 - Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs

Day 10 - Something you're afraid of

Day 11 - Favorite tv shows

Day 12 - What you believe

Day 13 - Goals

Day 14 - Some pictures you love

Day 15 - pictures of your dream house