::Monday, April 23, 2007::
Number one asked question...
"So, do you miss Bethany?"
...hahaha
What do I miss about Bethany might be a better question.
-Brady Born (number one, obviously)
-Jerilee Wright
-piercing my conch
-piercing my bellybutton
-piercing my helix
-random Subway runs
-macaroni with Jerilee
-girl talks
-boy talks
-standing on people's stomaches
-sucking at fooseball and ping-pong
-piano rooms...to play piano in, seriously
-squishing into a van for 19 hours
-the haunting possibility of scabies
-lemonade
-profanity
-tentative crushes
-variety night
-Sabine's
-random photo shoots with my roomie
-singing
-watching movies in my room
-Minesweeper and Diner Dash
-dying my hair pink
-banquets
-hiding on the stairs ontop of the high school
-walking to the Dalmeny turn-off
-POI deputations
-swooning after concerts
-blowing my money on ridiculous things
-clicking
-telling secrets in the dish pit with Lacey
-the odd chick flick, when I could handle the estrogen levels
-skipping unit meetings and concert choir
-Flushed Away
-drive-in movies
-eating ice cream as much as humanly popssible
-cruising in the third nicest car in the school
-cuddling
-watching cartoons
-cookies on a stick
-dying Brady's hair with Jerilee in the guy's washroom
-hottubbing
-smoking my first cigar
-pre-dating
-laughing so hard that people think there's a crowd in my room
-etc
-etc
-etc
Well, that is a brief rundown of my year here and the things I enjoyed and will miss terribly. I will not miss the crappy internet connection or the plumbing in North Court. However, those are small and insignificant things that I'll probably forget the second I leave here. I am thankful for my year here. Praise the Lord. I love you.
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:: 3:20 PM::
::Saturday, April 21, 2007::
Grad banquet equals...its almost over!!!
Last night, we all dressed up and went to TCU Place for our graduation banquet. Brady and I followed Paul, Jerilee, and Denny who followed Al, Andrew, Drew, and Skylar...or something like that. Anyway, we had a good group. We parked in the Midtown Mall parking lot and went to the banquet. The banquet went fairly long and there seemed to be a food shortage. However, our table made up for it. Jerilee and I had a really rough table at the Christmas banquet, so I think someone had pity on us and put all of us at a table together. When the who schpiel was finally over we rushed out. I was a little ticked at how soon we left since, being a girl, I wanted to take pictures and memories. However, we left so I was a bit ticked. Tension rose when the car we needed to follow to Lakewood Aquatic Center drove off and we didn't have enough money for our parking stub. EIGHT BUCKS!!! Who would've thought? Well, we went and checked to see if the mall was open but it wasn't. By that point, I was frustrated and Brady was ticked off. Basically, we were both profain and not handling things well. I finally just sat down and cried. Brady hugged me and I tried to compose myself. We went back to his car and called Andrew's cell, We asked him to get Paul to come back and help us out. This pissed Paul off but he left to come back to help us. However, someone gave us a few bucks just as Paul left, so he came a long way for nothing. Basically, everything turned into a big gong show. At that point, neither Brady or I felt like swimming but there was food at the pool so we went. It turned out to be fun anyway. After swimming Brady changed back into his suit so I put my dress back on and we went to Saskatoon Inn and got the guy at the counter to take a few pictures of us. It was about 1:00am and the ony other place we could really think of that stayed open 24 hours a day was Tim Horton's so we went and Bethany people were there so Ian took some pictures of us and Brian and Steve, the guys working there. Good times. After that we didn't want to go back to school so we pulled off in the country and just watched the sky and talked about the evening. We were both way more calm so it went well. I got back to school around 4:00am. Now I am tired. The end. Much love.
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:: 3:10 PM::
::Monday, April 16, 2007::
It's almost over...and its about time! No offense to Bethany itself, but nerts to school/homework/too many girls, etc. To laugh in the faces of you still stuck in DHS, I write my very last final of the year tomorrow morning. Best of all, this final is only worth 15% of my overall mark. I'm even more excited for the afternoon. My mom is taking me out on a date to shop for things I'll need in the summer. What does summer hold for Hailey, you ask? Well, I'm working at a little resort outside of Waskesiu. (I'm too lazy to read back on my blog so this may be recycled information.) Anyway, I get my own cabin up there and will be along a lot of the time so I will need to make my own meals and put together my house. I'm so pumped! I get to be grown up and spend a summer living off macaroni and frozen juice! Just so you all know, if anyone comes to visit me, they can stay in my cabin for free! There's an incentive if I've ever sent one. PS: Does anyone have a good working bike they would feel like lending out for the summer? I am about seven miles away from Waskesiu and I would love to be able to go to the lake every now and then. If anyone knows of anyone who can help me out, that would be awesome. Thanks guys. Basically, this entry is short but I don't want to go on forever about nothing, so just know that I'm really excited for life and that I love you all.
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:: 10:28 PM::
::Monday, March 26, 2007::
Baaah! The Hepburn Boys Strike Twice in One Night
Wow, yesterday was eventful. I not only had three deputations with Point of Impact. As soon as we arrived back at school, I got my second wind. As usual, Brady rescued me and we went for a walk in the country. We were kind of out in the middle of nowhere and it was getting a little late to be walking super far so we were headed back when a truck full of some of the local notorious Hepburn Boys drove up and asked us if we wanted a ride. We declined and began walking again. We heard them yell some other things but they kept driving the opposite way. I was a little nervous but it helped that Brady wasn't really nervous at all. Anyway, we headed back into town but ended up going and sitting at the top of the stairs that lead to the roof of the high school. At one point, I thought some ice melted and fell down lightly in front of us. However, it kept happening. It turned out that three drunk guys were throwing things at us. Brady was relaxed an I was nervous, yet again. I had the poor guy in death grip and I wasn't letting go...so yeah, I was pretty scared, especially when they started talking to us. The guy that talked to us was just a high school kid talking in a deep voice but it wasn't really a relief. He was being a chotch and kept throwing things. The rocks were getting bigger but we were just going to wait them out. The only thing I really insisted on is that I didn't want them to come around the school to the side where they could come up the stairs. They came around, or at least one guy did. He whipped this really hard-packed snowball at the side of the school. That sort of did it for us so Brady walked down before me and we walked in the opposite direction. The snowball I expected to hit me in the back of the head never came and we just went around the long way back to the school. When we were just at the entrance to the shcool, we saw the guys still at the school. They followed us a bit but we went right up to the school. He was talking about how he wanted to go find them and just make fun of them. Suddenly we heard them pretty cose. He just hugged and sent me off to my dorm and booted off in the directoin of the voices. Are you suicidal?
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:: 4:26 PM::
::Thursday, March 15, 2007::
A classy day out.
Just the other day I was sitting in the pit with my friend, Brady, and I asked him to tell me a story. The story went like this:
There once was a girl named Hailey who write her Marriage and Famliy midterm, got a 89.5% on it, and her and her friend, Brady, went to see a movie to celebrate.
Sounds like a good story eh? Well, believe it or not, it came true! Well, I don't know if the mark is for real yet, but the celebration happened. We fleed Hepburn as soon as I was out of piano lessons. We entered the ciyt in the middle of rush hour. Praise the Lord for icy roads, spinning tired, slanted roads, and cars that snow on the inside. Also, praise the Lord for a heated car, safety, snow, and Chianti. That;s right. We went out for nice pasta and that great bread dipped in that vat of fabulous oil. Yum. After that, we were going to see Zodiac, but unfortunately, if started later and, as it was a wednesday night, we didn't want to stay out uber-late. We ended up seeing Children of Men. Originally, I was scared to soo this movie. However, it was so not what I expected. It was actually a really good movie with some comic relief throughout. Watch out for the Natoinal Geographic moments, though. Really good times. Then, we tried to find a Tim Horton's that we had never been to. This part of the story won't be funny to anyone but us but I've gotta try. We decided to go to one across the river. It took us a freaking long itme for us to figure out that we were already across the river. We laughed at ourselves and then just decided to fllow a street...the one that took us directly out of the city. Very quickly, too! We drove over train tracks and Saskatoon was gone. We alughed so hard, admitted defeat, and headed towards the familiar Timmy's on 51st. We found a new one on the way though, so we ended up going to that one instead. It was the definition of gong-show, but it was so much fun. I laughed...a lot.
So that was my latest fun day. Now I am sleepy and must go to sleep. I love you all.
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:: 10:19 PM::
::Tuesday, March 13, 2007::
Sometimes people don't understand me. Then again, sometimes they do.
So as a lot of people know, this year has been by far one of the most difficult so far. I was even at a point not that long ago when I was tempted to leave school and not finish the semester. Life has looked up. To be honest, I still lack any type of motivation I once had for school and classes. However, I go out a lot and have found more love in and for my friends than ever before. You know who you are. I love you. In the last three days, I have been to three movies, went on probably about six walks, ate out at Bonanza, wandered two hotels, was treated to milkshakes, hung out with my grandparents, and won best two out of three in Skip-bo. It has been immense.
So back to the topic of my title. Today, I was read. I know I am a fairly open person and a lot of the time, people can figure out what I am thinking, but it was different today. People ten to look at people like me and think that we have it all together. They think that because we always have people around us that we must be alright and cared for by all these people. False. Today, I went over the edge. No, I didn't explode or anything. I didn't even cry openly for a while. However, I was put in a situation and it scared me. My bud, Brady, came up to me after this went down and I asked him how he was and what he wanted to do. He just saw into me and said that he wanted to go a walk. What a life saver. We walked far into the country. It is so nice out. Unfortunately for him, I waited until we were about two miles out of town before I started crying. I sat in a hug and cried for a few minutes. Then we turned around and walked back. It was just what I needed. A few words of wisdom and a hug. Anyone who knows me knows that hugs always work. However, only those who really know me will hug me when I'm in that particular state of mind. It was kind of an ironic evening, as I am usually the one who claims I can read Brady like a book. Like I said earlier, today I was read - and understood.
The end. Currently, after a evening of crying and comfort, life is grand.
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:: 8:36 PM::
::Wednesday, February 28, 2007::
Wow, the funny stories just keep rolling in.
On Monday, I was bored. Hard to believe, I know. Anyway, so was one of my friends, Brady. I asked him, hypothetically of course, what he would do if he were bored in Hepburn. He just made fun of me as usual and said he would probably leave. So we left. We were planning on driving aimlessly as he had done earlier in the day. In his afternoon excursion he had found a bridge. When he told me about this, I remembered that writing my name on the Borden Bridge was on my life list. Therefore, our trip was not so aimless anymre. We drove to my parents house, picked up a marker and a flashlight and headed out. We got to the bridge, waded through knee-deep snow, walked halfway across and wrote my name on a tall column in the middle of the middle arch. It was thrilling. Then we waded back through the nasty deep snow, I dumped the snow out of my shoes, and we headed back towards home. I was so cold. You know when you hottub in winter and you wear shoes outside and leave thembeside the hottub? You know when like seventeen people pile into the hottub and it overflows into your shoes which results in really crusty cold shoes? Yeah, that was monday. We decided to head back to Dalmeny and warm up...actually, for me to warm up. I threw my shoes on the heater and my socks in the dryer, and went to watch the end of the "The Amazing Race" and the beginning of "CSI Miami". When we left, Brady offered me thekeys. Heck yes. It was so fun to drive that car. I had the seat cranked as far as it could go and i was still stretched out all the way, but I was all leaned back and relaxed, listening to "Mae". It was awesome. It was freeing in a way as well. For instance, the lights on the dash don't work so you can't see the spedometer. I really shouldnt write this because sometimes my parents read this blog, but I want to anyway. I love you Mom and Dad. Brady just said for me to go as fast as I feel comfortable. He later estimated that I was going about 120 which is a tad faster than I usually go. When we got back to Hepburn, we had a few minutes to kill so Brady taght me how to do donuts in the arena parking lot. Okay, I know that sounds dumb and that it is common sense but it is just something I have never done. Plus, Brady's car is rear-wheel drive so it's easier. I would never do donuts in our Ford at home...
So the other story I have is about yesterday. I have gone out a lot lately, probably everyday for the past four or five days. It has been a blast, but yesterday was really funny. I skipped concert choir (I love you Mom and Dad) to go the the city with Brady and Danny. We wanted to see a movie. They suggested "Borat" and I was okay with that but once we got there it looked kind of sick so I told them they could go to it and I would just hang out at Jimmy Java for a bit. I would have genuinely been okay with that but instead, we went to "Flushed Away". Dang, if I would have missed that movie, I would have quite possibly bit someones legs off. I used to have a bad perceptoin of this movie. Who wants to see a movie about cartoons in a sewer. You do. Trust me. I can honestly tell you that the plot isn't the best and it is kind of slow and short, but it was random to a hilarious point of convulsion. I can't even quote a part or say anything in particular that sticks out, but I just remember laughing til I cried, Brady laughing so I hard that my seat was shaking, and actually hearing Danny laugh, which was huge since I have basicaly never heard this guysvoice...ever. Such a funny movie. I recommend it to all. After the movie, we still had like an hour and a half to kill before we had to be back for unit meetings so. You know that other people know you too well when they know exactly what you want to do even when you insist that you have no opinion. We went out for ice cream. I gat a Smarties McFlurry and I don't care what you all say. The ice cream at McDonalds is REAL! Hahaha, anyway, it was really fun and so nice to just get away...again...and hang out and find joy. Good times.
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:: 10:26 AM::
::Hailey Jeanne::
girl| OXOXOXOXOXOX | femme | loves | piano | guitar | long romantic walks on the beach |
writing| singing | pineapple | the color orange | white chocolate | family | my roomie | laughing out loud | blowing bubbles | smiling | Softsoap Milk & Honey body wash | making up my own words |
