Just so many directions....

I'm home for reading week and having an AMAZING time. I've been able to spend some time relaxing, eating real food, visiting with my brothers, my sister, my parents and even my grandparents and other relatives. At the same time, I've seen some of my Oakville friends (loved the marathon Starbucks visit, Kate) and had plently of time for watching movies (Princess Diaries 2, Hotel Rwanda, Gattaca and Shall We Dance....I know, that's 4 movies in two days). But, and yes there's a but, I'm starting to realize that once you make it to university and meet an entire new group of friends, it becomes increasingly difficult to spend the amount of time you'd like to with each group of friends. Of course, I could never complain about a thing like this. After all, my friends from Western are my some of my most favourite people in the ENTIRE universe. It's just odd when for the first time in my life, I feel like I'm not spending as much time as I should with some of the people I love most....I'm sure a lot of you feel that way, a little torn between your life at school and the one back at home. It is indeed a strange balance.

Alright, this is a weak entry, I'll admit, but I can't think of anything else to write at the moment, and I don't want to erase this because then Andrea might get mad that I never post anything :) So that's the end of that. 4 days 'til I'm 19. HAPPY EARLY B-DAY MEL!!!

I'm so excited to visit all of you Whitby-ers on Wednesday, and of course, Friday's gonna be SLOPPY!

You guys make me smile....

So yesterday was Valentine's Day, and not to deliberately sound sappy....alright I'm deliberately trying to sound sappy, but my Valentine's "present" came VERY late in the night. Last night was Soph selection, and I just wanted to say how overwhelmed I was with everyone's amazing support.

First of all, Steph, Sarah and Lauren all offered to stay up with me until my phone call, which came at 4 AM (especially, ESPECIALLY Steph! Whos name I would NEVER not say, LOL). 4 AM!!! That's insanity! And that makes me love you guys (and of course Kristin and Piece, who are incredibly supportive) so much, and want to give you all big yummy kisses. I think I would've died if I had to try and sleep while waiting for the phone to ring. When it finally did, I was TERRIFIED, since about 20 people filed into my room to wait for me to go. I panicked! "What if I don't get it? What am I going to say to them." But Peache is amazing, and I'm sure you guys would've been just as sweet if I didn't get it!

So what I'm trying to say is, to all of you who were up last night, thank you SOOOO much for being so supportive of myself, Kell, Ash, Ty, Ringo, Olivia, Chico.....everyone!!! You guys made my day, month...maybe even year with your support. It even made me a little teary! I love you all!

Cupid has arrived....

Happy Valentine's Day all of you!

Love,

Carolyn Falls Balls

Bruce....my new hero!

The other day, after I made a quiz, several other people sent me their quizzes. I did really well on some (Andrea and Sarah's) and REALLY badly on others (I suck Steph....but your questions were HARD). But never have I been so surprised as when I got 7/10 on Bruce's quiz after only knowing him for a few weeks....a better score than two of his best friends [haha you SUCK Murphy and Kent!] So......just because I can't resist tormenting people, I RUBBED it in, showing off how I'm such a good friend and how, if he didn't get the same score on MY quiz, I'd disown him as a friend. And I pretended that I was serious. Very serious. But then, as I found out today, he got 9/10 on my quiz. Thus, he is my new hero.

Since he didn't get 10/10 he doesn't get a "ten point" tribute, but since he did SO well after only knowing me for a few weeks, and since he told Lo and Andrea that he was mad that I've never mentioned him on this website, I will give up:
"Five reasons why I love Bruce"
1. He acted as an "online guest speaker" for one of my lessons. Thanks Bruce, very helpful.
2. He knows EVERY word to "Blow my whistle, bitch" and "under pressure". Enough said.
3. He left a note on Lo's computer that said "Lauren is pretty" and that makes him the nicest guy around.
4. He kind of sort of has that "Harry Potter" look going on
5. He's from Whitby and as we all know, Whitby guys are pretty cool!

There you go, Bruce!

Fuck you Jay Vidiarthi....

So I said that I'd make a tribute page to ANYONE who gets 10/10 on my quiz....and clearly I should've made a clause that excludes Jay [not Moreau, other Jay] from this possibility. But, I didn't think I needed to since I didn't even SEND the quiz to him.

Imagine my surprise when I saw his sweet, thoughtful message to me before taking the quiz:
FUCK YOU FALLS. I OWN YOU. YOU ARE MINE AS WELL AS YOUR CLONE SIBLINGS.
See Jay has always had a bit of a frightening obsession with my family and how we look so much alike....which we DON'T. He started off being friends with my brother after his (way cooler) brother was friends with my sister. But then I got to know him a little and basically, he likes to make me cry with his moderately witty insults.

I am doing this out of duty. Alright:
Ten reasons why I don't entirely hate...fine...why I love Jay:
1. He did a pretty good job at MC-ing the Multicultural Night two years ago....until he introduced me as "the Falls clone". Thanks buddy, that was...horrifying. I'll also add that he didn't even attend the following year...that's okay, POSEN DID A BETTER JOB!
2. His mom calls him Jaihu....and his brother Neilah...and that just makes me chuckle
3. He forced me to take a 2 hour detour to Dairy Queen the night before my physics exam, an exam that I hadn't started studying AT ALL for up to that point, at 4:00 in the afternoon...I'll never ask for a ride home again. But I don't HATE you because....the ice cream was tasty.
4. He randomly knew the answers to my quiz even though I rarely talk to him--how did you know that cute = weird, Jay???
5. We have the same taste in music > except he doesn't like Death Cab, so that makes me hate him
6. He thinks that Captain Planet is racist, so that's randomly funny. Heart was NOT a sissy, token minority character!
7. He's in a band....and it's actually kind of good!
8. I thought he was a huge dick the first year I knew him...he still is, I'm not gonna lie, but I've grown to like him despite this.
9. He's a pretty smart guy, but he also is very aware of this so FUCK YOU JAY!
10. He makes fun of my family.....but that's because he LOVES us!

Alright, that's it for now....if I find out you cheated to get 10/10 Jay, YOU'LL PAY! LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY, OKAY??

soooo Jay Moreau [edit: NOT Morrow], you're my hero!

Wow. I'm SO excited. Those lucky people at Saugeen have a way better file sharing service than we do and it turns out that Jay, one of Lauren and Kristin's friends from Whitby, has ALL 14 episodes of Lost on his computer. DROOL. And he's burning them onto a CD for me. So I love him. And I'm going to fail ALL of my exams :)

Lost....you had me at scary random polar monster living in a tropical jungle....

Wow. So obsession with Lost is spreading around like that disease that's going to make everyone on the show crazy eventually...which is totally another story. And I LOVE this trend because nothing is more fun than watching shows with a big group of people. O.C. nights are NOT as fun without a bunch of fellow observers, I found that out when I went home last weekend...great episode, no one to discuss it with after stuff happened.

So why have I decided so suddenly that Lost is worthy of my time?
Well:
1) It has an incredible cast of familiar faces [see last Wednesday's post]
2) It is action packed and very well written
3) filled with fantastic acting performances
4) Finally, the show is subtly but COMPLETELY fucked up, we just don't know why yet, so we tune in to learn a little bit more about why people keep dying yet not dying, and being un-paralyzed and seeing polar bears.....it's just contagious!

Basically right now, all I want to do is watch all the episodes I missed in my days of Lost ignorance. I'm thinking ahead here, but what to you all say to having a big party on the season finale....we could dress up like we're stranded on the island and stuff.....just an idea. Wow that was a random tangent.

In other news, some of the McKers from down the hall are currently competing at the "Gong Show" at the Spoke, acting out their version of "Tetris"....good luck guys! I almost died when I saw it last time!

That's all for me!

EMERGENCY!!!

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!!! What do I do?
It's been an ENTIRE DAY and msn still isn't working. I'm freaking out, I actually don't know what to do with myself. I actually RELY on being able to have access to a social outlet and Sarah and Andrea are in class and everyone's door is closed and.....quite frankly I can't take it.

The weird thing is, I wasn't always like this. In high school, I probably logged on each year the number of times I now long in per day. I was just like, "I talk to these people all day and then often hang out with them after school. Why would I need anymore contact with them?"
>during the summer I started using it more often, and then once the realization set in that I was leaving my friends, I started to use it compulsively. Once I got here, msn became my crack. I need my fix each day. I talk to high school people, my siblings, hell even my roommate. Why do I love it so much? Well, perhaps my brain is too slow for this high paced world and I enjoy that little bit of extra time that is afforded by "instant" messaging.

If each day was a pie, preferably a raspberry pie with chewy crust and the criss-crossed pastry on top, it would be split like this:
sleep and naps: 1/2 the pie
school work/class: 1/8 of the pie
talking to friends/entertainment: 1/8 of the pie
msn: 1/4 of the pie

*see now I'm getting frustrated with how to split up the pie without making really hard fractions like 19/231 so just imagine school work getting a little less of that pie and talking to friends and stuff getting more....just....IT'S A REALLY BIG FUCKING PIE OKAY?

What I'm trying to say is that each day I spend a lot of time on it, so now that's it's not working, I'm basically left twiddling my thumbs.

I also just did my soph interview today, so usually I'd be laughing with some of my friends on msn about some of my stupid answers, or making fun of the rubber boots I wore or SOMETHING. But alas, I'm left to entertain myself. Alright, I think I've rambled on way too much, it's just that as I've been writing this, I've been compulsively pressing the "retry" button to no avail. I must go now though. But guys, please let me know if it comes back on! Oh wait, [tear], you can't because there's no MSN!

The joy of online quizzes....

Well 17 people later and Lo is still leading on the Carolyn Quiz scoreboard, which is located here:
http://www03.quizyourfriends.com/scoreboard.php?quizname=050206181815-649308&c=0&a=18

that mysterious "Harry Potter" also aced it. Who could THAT be?

As of now, the following people are nolonger my friends: Caitlin, Kat, and ESPECIALLY Evanne....Michelle Nude-OH!!, Melissa from Mcker and KrisTEN....you guys are borderline!
[just kidding by the way]

Glad to see that two of my siblings passed with flying colours. Good try Sven! And no, Lauren is not a testicle, YOU are a testicle!

Now that the weekend is over.....

Well Sunday has been great so far, but since the weekend is over, I can officially get back to doing this instead of other stuff I aught to be doing.

First off:
Happy Birthday Ringo!! You [along with Spinlet] are the best soph ever! Thanks for all of your support and for making this year on Peache amazing!!
Love always, Carolyn Falls (Balls)

Secondly:
Today was soph carousels and I was terrified for them but I actually ended up having such a fun group and we just had great times!! I laughed so hard at Rich and Marty and it was great having you in my group, Kel! [O-week o-week oh. FROSH FROSH FROSH] I came back late last night to be here for them, which brings me to just how sketchy downtown London is. This old man came walking RIGHT UP to me, saying something along the lines of "hey there good-looking". Never been so scared in my life. Moral of the story: take cabs back to res.

Thirdly:
Today I wrote a quiz that I sent to people and when Lauren got it, I bet her 4 worther's originals that she couldn't ace it. Well she did, which makes Lauren my hero. But I wasn't betting on her actually getting 100% and I only had one worther's left. Therefore, for the remainder of the prize, and since she answered ten questions, I will write down ten reasons I love Lauren.

1. She's always there to say "hi" to when I'm on the way to the bathroom
2. She has the best laugh ever, hands down, kick his ass
3. She watched Napolean Dynamite with me....and Garden State
4. She prank called me that day....oh wait, that's a reason why I HATE her.
4. She let me prank call her that day
5. She loves Swiss Chalet more than anything and that makes her a passionate person
6. She's always there for me, fufilling many different roles: friend, confidante and perhaps most importantly, PROFESSOR!
7. She [and Kristin] has cool friends from Whitby
8. She can always make me smile no matter WHAT
9. She answered the Harry Potter question on the quiz
10. She has 80's hair. That's right, her hair was MADE for the 80's!!

I LOVE YOU LO!! [more tributes to other people, coming eventually]

I just wanted to send this picture to illustrate just how wrong of a time Lauren was born [clearly her hair CRAVES the 80s]. If she grew up in the 80's, she coul've teased that hair a bit and it would've been ALL OVER!
Millions of Peaches. Falls Balls.

Coming home tonight!

I'm sitting at home, a little sad because I'm leaving again after a way too short visit. But today was cool 'cause me and my brother Stephen went to look at a fish store and we found Nemo AND Dorie. In the same tank. It was fate.

I thought I'd leave you with my favourite quote ever. It's a Deep Thought by Jack Handley:

Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies? One eats leaves, and the other eats caterpillars. Oh, I see now.

[Note: I was perhaps exaggerating a little when I said "favourite quote ever." But I definately laughed my ass of for ten minutes when my cousin Scott put it as his msn name]

I just noticed.....

That the in the very first picture I posted [under the date "January 31"] of me and Kristin, if you kind of look at it from far away, it looks like Kristin only has one arm. It kind of freaked me out just now!

I'm going home tomorrow morning until Saturday night [in time for Sunday's Soph Carousels!] Have a wicked weekend, everyone. Especially those ones going on a certain road trip, and even more so to the unfortunate souls who have midterms [poor Andrea]. BYE!!

The Pen is Mightier....

Alright....so first I just want to say that I LOVE the people on my floor. You guys are amazing!! I can't imagine having such an awesome group of people to be around all year. Sarah, Steph, Andrea, Kristin and Lauren....I can't believe how lucky I am to be around you guys all the time! Every weekend here lately has been even more fun than the one before. [edit: that was overly corny, I apologize] You are some of the most amazing, talented, creative, funny, supportive and caring people I've ever met and I don't think I'll ever have a year even close to as good as this one!

By the way, a fellow Peache, [Stephanie] has created an AMAZING blog site that is so entertaining to look at and then today, she (being her sweet self) said some very nice things about this site. Well I love you Steph and I could never, in 100 years be as close to as witty as you, missy. So anyone who has Steph on their msn, stop wasting your time here and check it out....or I guess you could check out both.

Tonight was another unproductive one.....I think I've just been pretty lazy since Christmas break. And I like writing down stuff here because I really miss all the writing I did in high school. Us science students need a creative outlet too! I also watched the last bit of Lost and chastised Jamie in the cafe for not coming to visit us on Monday Fun Day. Ohhhh and I bought a popsicle and forgot about it and it melted......and I wonder why my meal card is almost gone....

Then in walked Nick and Lee, which was great, because Nick had the nerve to challenge me on my love for Harry Potter and proceeded to ask me lots of questions. Well I don't visit Harry Potter websites everyday for nothin' and proceeded to answer all of his stupid little questions correctly: 1. Who was the best cast person of the 3rd movie? (Gary Oldman). 2. Who's playing Voldemort in the next movie (Ray Fiennes). 3. Who is playing Mad-eye Moody? (Brendan Gleesan, who played the king in Troy). Oh it was sweet, sweet satisfaction.
He ended up sulking away like a little girl who's mother won't let her buy ice cream.
So I challenged him to a Harry Potter trivia duel. It's ONNN! I can't even wait. Although he seems really knowledgeable so I'm a little scared now after talking so much trash.

am I lost??

So Lost is on tonight at 8:00 which is very exciting. Andrea cooerced me into watching it once, starting at about episode 12 and I was HOOKED. So I spent an entire evening one night reading detailed episode guides for every previous episode so that I now know exactly what's going on [note: there's no need for you to tell me that I have too much time on my hands. I already know.] I don't know what it is about the show that is so compelling. Maybe it's that the guy who plays Merry in the Lord of the Rings movies, who I love so much, is a key character. So is Matthew Fox from Party of Five and that guy who did such a great job playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet ["A plague on both your houses!] Regardless of why, I have found myself in love with YET ANOTHER T.V. show.

But herein lies the problem. A mere two weeks after I became hooked, the stupid people from ABC started to do something horrible....RUNNING RERUNS. Now it's not as if I don't want to go back and see the episodes I missed before, because I do. But I can do that when the episodes come out on DVD or when the season is over for the year. I just hate when networks play with your mind by leaving you with a cliffhanger and then stopping the show for weeks at a time....it messes with our emotions, dammit! Honestly, they did it with the O.C. last year after Marissa overdosed in Tiajuana and I was a wreck. Well maybe not a wreck, but I was DEFINATELY a little sad. They need to stop this. It completely ruins the momentum that builds with each episode.

So I'm left thinking I'll take a stand tonight and NOT watch their stupid re-runs. THEN they might get the message that no one wants to watch them.
>ahhh who am I kidding....I can't NOT watch it. Actually it's starting soon! I have to go.

Cute equals weird....

Over the years, when compliments fly my way, I often get the following:

"Carolyn.....you're cute."

And until recently it was a pretty nice thing to receive. I mean, I figured it kind of fits given that I'm only about five apples tall [yes that was a reference to the smurfs] and have a pretty innocent-looking face.

But then a strange thing happend. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a very quirky person and just do random shit and make random comments all the time. But suddenly, I was getting that "compliment" whenever I did weird stuff.

But slow I am not...I realized what was going on. And just like how I formulated the "tappin' dat ass does not equate to jumpin' da bones" theorum of late (that's a total other story, not going there), I came up with another kicker: CUTE = WEIRD. But not always. Only when a person does something that is amusing enough that no one wants to call them weird, because then it wouldn't be a compliment. I've talked a lot about this to Sarah....Kristin...Lauren....and I'll I get is DENY, DENY DENY. But that's my "theorum" and I'm sticking to it.

Alright, I think I've gone on about this quite enough. Before long, you guys might start thinking I'm REALLY weird.

>Ohh sorry, I mean cute.

Recent song obsessions....

I have very diverse listening tendancies with music. I have been known to listen to pretty much anything, from cool bands (the Shins), to "kareoke singers who aren't really artists" (AKA past winners of American Idol), to unknowns (Feist) to classical and instrumental music.

My roommate, Sarah, listens to a lot of music that I normally wouldn't listen too....but with the exception of the country music and that fucking song by Edwin McCain [I'll be your crying soldier, blah blah blah....hahaha Sarah you love to see me cring when you play it :) ], I really like the music she/we listen to.

Here are a few songs we've been listening to lately that I'm addicted to:
1. That Gwen Stefani song....you know the one that says "TICK TOCK" a lot and at one point tells you to "take a chance you stupid ho"....yah, it's addictive. [note: this song is apparently called "what you waiting for"]

2. Old School Michael Jackson. That's right. i'm talking about that "Free Willy Song", Thriller [oooh also the Ben Gibbard cover of this song], and some "The Way You Make Me Feel"..... there are others too that I can't think of.

3. The "Dance" song by Jamiroquai. I love this song. It's from "Centre Stage". It makes me happy.

4. Reflection by Christina Aguilera. Back before she became all gross and dirty and then tried to make herself into a really skeletal-look Marilyn Monroe, this girl was my favourite singer....this song brings back memories and I hadn't heard it in a while.

5. Disney Songs. I'm talking about amazing songs like "I just can't wait to be king" and many others....pretty much anything from "Aladdin", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Mermaid" is fair game...these songs are so nostalgic and make me remember so many good times from when I was a child, or from when I was stranded at a bus stop in the armpit of London in the dark with Leslie for two hours after buying the Irish hat from Value Village. Either way it works.

6. Finally, the Presidents of the United States of America..."She's Lump" and their only other hit "Millions of Peaches". The "peaches" song reminds me of my amazing floor...and it cracks me up that Sarah had never heard of it until last week. Where were you in 1995?? Didn't you know that "Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown"??

That's enough for now. BYE BYE.

before I sleep....

Alright, I need to do some readings and then go to bed. Now that Sarah's done making fun of my Harry Potter obsession after I admitted knowing the name of her new baby (Mackenzie).

But tonight was fun because:

1. I talked on the phone with my sister and my mom
2. I prank called Lauren with the Napolean Dynamite soundboard from eBAUMS World (see previous post)...CLASSIC. I actually love that movie even though others think it's weird. Seriously, when he tries to pick up that girl by saying "you know, you don't have to drink 1% milk...you're NOT fat...you could get away with drinking whole milk"....it just made me laugh so much. That was the only part that Lauren laughed at. Sorry our movie date was a bust, Lo.
3. A lot of people were on MSN
4. I got to impress Sarah with my fun facts on the upcoming Harry Potter movie
5. I'm going home on Thursday morning which is now TOMORROW

So you've come looking for pictures...

Guys, if you don't want to read the most profound thoughts ever made AKA the written part of my blog, and instead just want to look at all of my pictures, scroll down the left sidebar and click on "January 2005" under "archives". That should do the trick.

Today I found out....

...that the world is small. A little TOO small sometimes. When you find out random connections between people, I find myself being like, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

>Weird...

edit: I've now realized that this post came across as if I was trying to be profound or something.....I wasn't. hahaha today I just found out that my brother's girlfriend, who he met at his university knows Steph, who I met at MY university. That sort of thing is just amazing to me!

Some of my favourite websites...

I thought I'd make a list of some of the websites, most of which I visit on a daily basis. Here we go:

Internet Movie Database> http://www.imdb.com
This site is so addictive. You can search for information on upcoming movies, your favourite actors and everything in between. If you're like me and have those "where have I seen that person" moments, you can look up the movie and they have the cast and pictures of each person. You can also look up "memorable quotes" from your favourite movies, which partially accounts for why my msn names are so witty.

The Leaky Cauldron> http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org
An amazing Harry Potter site that pretty much links you to any snippet of news/info that ever happens in the Harry Potter world!

Drew Curtis' Fark> http://www.fark.com
The funniest headlines in current news.....always hilarious and informative.

Entertainment Weekly> http://www.ew.com
For a while, the jerks at EW made you pay for all of the articles but now most of them are free.

Med-Syd Online> http://www.medsyd.ca
This is the website of the great building that I live in at Western. FIRE IT UP!! oh and "Turn down the suck."

O.C Online> http://www.fox.com/oc
This is just one of the good O.C. websites, this one being official. Lot's of good interview, quotes, etc.

The Hungersite> http://www.thehungersite.com
This is my do-good site...it sends a small amount of money when you click the button each day to starving people. It's completely legitimate and it only takes a second.

Death Cab for Cutie> http://www.deathcab.com
Along with the Shins, this is my favourite band. Usually I just go on in vain, hoping they'll annouce more tour dates since I've never seen them in concert.

I've just realized I spend too much time on the internet.....

eBaum's World> http://www.ebaumsworld.com/
Just so entertaining....they post funny videos of people making an ass of themselves or doing really cool stuff. That Super Mario Brother's guitar player is REDICULOUS!!

Bejewelled 2> http://www.msngames.com
I'm not sure if that is the right URL but this is a more recent obsession. Just a really addictive game that I play when I'm bored.

That's all for now!!

Crap...I forgot to list one of my FAVOURITE books

So last night I typed up my profile really quickly and I'm really bothered that I forgot to list one of my favourite ever books....EVER!

So here it is and you all better read it:
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" my Mark Haddon. It's being made into a movie soon actually. Ohhhh it's so good. I think I recommended 1000 times when I worked at Chapters.

Speaking of book adaptations, what do you all think about Tom Hanks playing Robert Langdon in "The DaVinci Code"?? I'm one of the few who's actually happy about this but I just love Tom Hanks. CORRECTION: ANDREA IS ALSO HAPPY ABOUT THIS.

Ahhh falling behind in my notes. Later.

Ohhhh Psych class...

So I'm sitting in psych, waiting for class to start and thinking about last night. Which was fun to be sure. Nothing special I guess, except when Nick stole the door for my underwear drawer, distributed the entire drawer in the hallwall and then took off his boxers to flash us all. Frightening.

But now it's Tuesday, which is always just so much better than Monday. Why? Well...
1. I don't have class until 1:15 PM (nice!)
2. Lost is on the next day
3. O.C. is on the day after
4. and most of all: I get to spend an hour next to Steph and Andrea during psych class....make that two hours
5. they both just told me to write that

Until next time...I have to learn about Social development and stare at the cute old man who sits at the back.

Nick.....

is a drunken scene.

Alright, so here's the deal....

Ahhhhh I'm FINALLY finished posting all of my favourite pictures for your viewing pleasure. You can all scroll through them and if you see ones you want, click on them for a larger, betty quality version. In general, the pics go from most recent (Saturday night) all the way back to O-week but they get out of order in lots of places (namely the 3 or 4 pictures I put in of my Japan trip in grade 11). Hope you all enjoy. I'm going to continue posting pictures on a weekly basis or as I get them so that I don't have to send them separately to everyone over MSN. Time to go though....I have lots of psych to do now.164 days left until the next Harry Potter book comes out...in case you were counting.