Today May 20th is the 1 year anniversary of my Grandpa's death. Duncan Alan McGugan was his name and he was the funniest man I have ever known! I miss him terribly and love him dearly and I'm glad knowing that one day I will see him again.
The morning my Grandpa died, his little dog Sadie got sick and then passed away during his funeral. I know he took her with him and I am glad he had a friend to go with. She was the sweetest little sheltie dog and I know she missed him while he was in the hospital. It was weird but also kind of comforting because we know that they went together.
Dunc, as he was called by almost everyone, always knew how to make me laugh and was always a crowd pleaser, especially with his nurses. He used to do Donald Duck impressions and threaten to steal my dolls because he didn't have one to sleep with at night. He made funny faces and I even have a physio therapy work out video of him recorded on my old cell phone from when he was in the hospital. The last words we ever said to each other were in joking.
I will never forget my Grandpa and I will always be sad that the important people who enter my life from now on wont be able to meet him. But I have endless funny stories for those people and it is safe to say that they will know the joy that he brought to my family.
I love you Grandpa and I hope they are treating you well in heaven.
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing." -2 Timothy 4:7-8
Duncan Alan McGugan
May 20th 2007
So I just bought like $70 worth of paper....the buyers remorse has yet to kick in.
In my effort to start a journal and read more I purchased 2 pretty notebooks and this really awesome half notebook half book.
The 1/2 notebook book is called Listography: Your Life in Lists by Lisa Nola.
Listography, the book, is designed to help you create your autobiography through list making. I created listography because I am nostalgic. I love the little details of life, from the experiences to favorites...I believe everyone should have an autobiography, if only for their loved ones to read and even in the simplest form: a list.
I am a huge list maker, and the book comes with great ideas and fun illustrations for each list.
Some of the lists are:
-List the places you've lived
-List your favourite TV shows of all time
-List the ways you have changed since your teens
-List professions you'd like to try
-List the best things about you
-List famous people you have encountered
-List things you love and dispise
-List things you'd like to do before you die
-List your hang outs past and present
-List your drunkenest momentsI think this book would make a great gift...if only just for yourself. There is also a website for the same purpose
Listography.com
I have never been big on the new years resolutions....maybe because January 1st does not signal a new year in my mind. What really is new and refreshing and rejuvenating about January? Nothing except the number at the end of the 2000 increases by one. One tiny number that, if you are like me, doesn't work its way into your head or on to your paper for about a month anyway. After January 1st you have a few more days off school but then everything resumes right back to the way it has been since September.
I think spring is better suited to bring in the start of a new year. School ends (at least for university students), snow melts and the weather gets nice, and everything just relaxes a little bit.
So I am going to make my new years resolutions right now.
Read more.
-I am America and So Can You by Stephen Colbert
-The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (been on my shelf for years)
-We are also hoping to read a book each month to our LITs
Any suggestions??
Start a journal. I'm just waiting to find a really pretty one
Get lots of daily exercise. Never a problem at camp but hopefully it will carry over.
Find more time to just be!!! I seriously need to just simmer down and relax. I also want to find more time to spend with all the girls together.
We have reached the time of year where the promos for my favorite shows include the sad words "season finale". On the bright side they often come with the glorius words "1 hour special", but this year it really should be 2hour special because of the writers strike that robbed me of my Mondays and Thursdays for months, forcing me (much against my will) to find less pathetic things to occupy my time.
Even though I will be tv-less at camp for the entire summer I still get sad that my favourite shows are ending. And to those of you who think that my tv driven life is sad a) it is a little and b) I don't care. I love tv, I love it.
So in honor of my life ending for the season, I am making some predictions about how the seasons will end...
The comeback started off strong with crazy Jan, the Jim/Pam engagement, Kevin's hilarity and Toby's AWESOME move on Pam, but its slowly been declining. I wont act like I didn't call Amanda screaming that Jim bought Pam a ring, but the fast moves concern me. On the weekend Taps said he thinks they are headed for a breakup, but if that happens I will just lose all faith in humanity, so I am saying they will hopefully just leave Jim and Pam where they are. I predict Michael will find a new woman and maybe Kelly will do something funny because she hasn't been around lately (except for when she said to Ryan "yes I have lots of questions: first, how dare you?" and I shot milk out my nose). I also feel like Angela will dump Andy and her and Dwight will reunite. All I have to say is it better be good.
Gossip Girl:
My guilty guilty passion. To be honest, I don't really care what happens, I just eat this crap up.
haha NOT!
(sorry, I know there are alot of BSG fans, but I don't understand. It took me months to even figure out what BSG meant)
Okay I don't think anyone really cares enough anymore to make predictions. Last season I was all over that, this year, not so much. But I still like the show and I feel like they are slowly redeeming themselves so I will throw a few guesses out there. Callie and Hahn will probably hook up, Karev will find out his baby mamma is a huge liar and then he will get mad at Issie for not telling him and Issie will continue to live in self loathing blah blah blah. I can hope for Derek and Meredith to get back together but thats how the last season ended so I doubt it...maybe we will get more delicious tension though. My biggest hope is that they will make Yang suck it up!!! She has become so soft and so totally lame. Maybe they will all get a big smack and stop being so whiney!
Subtlevox Stumps the Swarm Question #3 is available on my main blog [click here].
Clearly the point of moving is to start fresh and have a new beginning. New town, new job, new experiences ~ all generating new memories... Such an important thing to do in life...
However...its getting there that is the issue. There is too much to do, tempers that rise over the least important of issues, and you are stressed to the max. While moving is supposed to bring on this feeling of rejuvenation...all it seems to be bringing out of me is frustration, annoyance, anger, and a ranting temper!...GOOD WORD!
Anywho....the end is near and i am almost done!
Tonight I bid a fond farewell to Learning 2.0 and big HEYA to Princeton! I'm heading there tomorrow with Heather and Reuben for the Capstone Retreat. This weekend event happens before the Forums on Youth Ministry to allow those who have completed three (or are attending their third) forums to receive their Certificate of Youth & Theology. I'm not gonna lie here, I'm not bragging or boasting...I'm just really proud of myself. Who would have thought that little ol' me would receive anything from Princeton's Theological Seminary? Certainty not I. I thought Waterloo was grand, but now that I'm ivy league who knows what I'll do next ;)
See you in a week!! I'll have some pictures to add from my new camera ( I saved like a good girl and did get the camera I mentioned a couple months ago). If I get a handle on how to use it that is. I never knew how interesting manuels were until this very moment.
Josh just showed me possibly the coolest thing ever!!!!
you HAVE to check it out.
He added this application to Firefox called StumbleUpon which lets you pick out a bunch of your interests and then adds a button to your toolbar that lets you "stumble upon" random websites that meet your interests.
Anyways, he found the most amazing website called Musicovery that has a scale for mood. You click on an area that best describes your mood and then it brings up a map of all of this music that would fit your current mood. If you click on one song it opens up even more.
Now I am not the biggest music buff but I do like finding new artists to listen to and I do enjoy my mood music, so for me this is the coolest thing ever!
Go and see!!!
This week we were instructed to explore the world of online gaming; whether it be virtual worlds like Second Life (my first life is confusing enough, so I skipped the chance to create another one) or checking out some of the various sites online. At every branch I've worked, there are always hoards of children coming in after school to play games for as long as they can. Sometimes I would see it as a waste of time, but as soon as I got onto www.popcap.com I was hooked and felt like a child myself, full of wonder and awe. Over my break I played games like Zuma, Bookworm (which is fitting if you ask me) and Bejeweled. They suck you in and you just can't stop yourself from going level to level. It was as if time stood still and nothing existed beyond the games. The fifteen minutes just wasn't enough and I wanted to sit there and play for hours. I haven't played any games since I experimented with them last Thursday, but I can now see how the kids are fighting for computer time. If I end up missing at some point I'm most likely holed up in my apartment trying to beat my last score...this could be dangerous, fun but dangerous nonetheless.
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