Reciprocated Appreciation

It was my birthday a few days ago, and I don't usually do anything for my birthday except for small get-togethers with various groups of friends/family: I went to see Catching Fire on opening day with my girlfriends from high school, had a family dinner and cake on the actual day, and had lunch with an elementary school friend. But I have a philosophy...You should get treated on your birthday, by your friends and family. It's only logical, because then they get to show you appreciation for your life. At least, that's what I think.
I also think that, if your friends are getting you gifts and you are having a dinner party or something of the sort, you should pay for dinner. (This comes from years of going to other friends' "parties" and paying for my dinner as well as their gifts. I realized that, when we were all younger, we paid for the food and the entertainment, and the presents that your friends brought would somewhat offset the price of the entire affair. As we got older, however, this changed: the individual has to pay for everything.) 
The movie night was fantastic, my friends actually bought me gifts (which they didn't have to do, because I told them they didn't have to) and bought my dinner; I, therefore, didn't let my friends pay for the movie tickets, because I was showing them my appreciation for them. I find that's also fair.
My family is always good to me, and this year was no exception. Sushi for dinner, cream puffs and brownies for dessert, and presents (various items from the frozen yogourt chain, Menchie's, and a pair of [faux?] leather boots).
But then I went to lunch with my friend. And this is the part that irked me for a while yesterday (Friday): I had gone to her birthday earlier in September, and spent $100 dollars on dinner, gifts, and movies, but she didn't even offer to pay for my lunch, which only cost $15. I found this kind of ridiculous. Clearly, I value her more as a friend than she does me.
And this isn't the only time it's happened to me; this is only one of many occurrences. 

Have you had any problems like this? Let me know.

Music

Hey all,

Sorry about not writing regularly. I'd blame school, but I was just lazy, I think. I also haven't been keeping up with stickers system I outlined in a previous post.

Anyway, as you can see by the title, I'll be talking about music. Well, my taste in music.
Just this afternoon, I downloaded a bunch of songs I had kept in a playlist on YouTube (as a reminder to download them). It's interesting how my music varies. I'd say that I mostly have pop, hip hop on my iTunes, but even that doesn't really encompass everything I listen to: I listen to a lot of YouTube covers, which I believe are 1000x better than the originals. It's crazy, but I think that these covers make up most of my songs in my iTunes library. Even just looking at what I downloaded today, it varies from covers as well as mainstream music. And I love my covers so much. Now that I think about it, I probably talked about this before. I mean, telling you guys all about my favourite Tubers; many of those Tubers are musicians, like Kurt Hugo Schneider and Kina Grannis, and they're amazing. I'd recommend checking them out when you have time.

So, my question to you guys is what do you like to listen to/what's your favourite music genre? Let me know in the comments below :)

I missed last week -_-

And I apologize. I can't even remember what I did on Saturday...Hm, nevermind. Maybe it was my dad's friend's barbeque: we came home in the wee hours of the morning and I was *very* tired.

Anyway, right now I'm focused on readings for school...As well as social media as procrastination ;) I really enjoy social media, if I haven't already mentioned this. I love getting reply tweets and YouTube reply comments and, recently, spring.me/paulajaey questions (although I haven't gotten any, so you're welcome to ask me a question there :D I've just been answering "Icebreakers").
The only thing I can really say, which I could've said at the beginning of September, was that the bus loop parking lot where I park my car is charging money now. $2 a day, which isn't bad, but it's $2 more than I was paying before :P

I hope all of your Septembers are going well, let me know what's new in the comments!

First Week of School!

So, this past week was the first week of school. And it went alright. The first week is always the best because nothing happens: we don't get homework, all we have to do is listen and maybe read a little of the textbook. It's fantastic. What I can tell you is that I have a lot of reading to do this semester, but I'm already ahead. I'm clearly winning this school thing right now. But let's wait and see what happens.

What have you guys been up to this past week? School? Work? How did it go?

August 20, 2013

I got to hang out with a friend I hadn't seen in a while. We had dinner at Boston Pizza and saw a movie called 2 Guns. I liked the movie: a mindless action comedy starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. I laughed a lot, so I guess I enjoyed myself quite a bit.

Anyway, while my friend and I were saying goodbye, there was this lull in the goodbyes, or an awkwardness, I suppose. We're not that close, we weren't ever close. She makes me smile and she has a lot of stories, which is fine with me because I like to listen to them: they're usually very entertaining. But other than that, we don't connect on a deeper level. She's not the person I'd confide in with my deeper secrets because she's not that kind of person, to me anyway.

Do you have a friend like this? And do you have someone you can talk to about anything?

Hair

It's weird seeing myself with hair. At least, hair longer than my chin. I think having my hair short for a long period of time, bleaching and dying it, and then shaving my head last summer took a toll on how I see myself physically in the hair department. I tell people that I like my hair short more than long, but the benefits of having long hair (mostly in the styling area) is what draws me to growing it out. And then chopping it right off afterward.

My bangs are actually fairly long right now, so I'll be cutting them soon, probably straight bangs that eventually grow into side bangs.

So yeah, it's weird to me, having hair. It's everywhere.

I've also been experimenting with different partings. Like a deep left part, a deep right part, a part down the middle, zig-zag parts, no part. Ladies, you know what I'm talking about. And guys who part their hair ;) Again, it's weird.

Let me know what your thoughts on the stuff that grows from our head are, I'd like to hear them.

I'm the Worst

And you all hate me. But that's ok. Because I'm sure only a few of you, if any, check to see if there's anything new ;)

Recently, I went to VidCon, and it was a blast. I met 20+ YouTubers ("famous" Tubers, some of which I'm subscribed to, others I am not, but that's ok, because I love them anyway) and met a few other cool people as well ^^
I did have a few problems with things, but that's because I'm an introverted person and big crowds tend to get to me after a while. Also, YouTuber meet-ups weren't what I was expecting, so I was a bit disappointed in that area.
The highlight of the weekend was meeting Lee Newton, from SourceFed. She's a sweetheart and a doll, and she made the time to talk to my sister and I for a few minutes. She even gave my sister a bracelet off of her wrist, and I screamed when she told me. (On the last day, I started to break down: tired from not sleeping much/well and being around too many people for long periods of time, so I went back to the hotel to rest for about 5 hours. I missed a couple things, but I don't regret it. I know what I can handle, and the last day of VidCon was something I couldn't.)

This weekend, I'll be visiting my friend on the Sunshine Coast of Vancouver, and I'm excited. I get to go away again for a bit, and hang out with an old friend.

What have you guys been up to recently? Let me know in the comments :D
Love.