I apologize for not writing for a few days, it was supposed to be my break week where M goes to her grandparents and I'm supposed to relax. Well that definitely didn't happen... I had an overwhelming amount of things to do. Tuesday night M left so I dropped C off at rehearsal and I think I went to Walmart if I remember correctly, although this week has sort of been a blur so I honestly couldn't tell you what I did on Tuesday night... Oh wait I remember now I didn't go to Walmart I went to Ikea! I picked up a few toy bins for M's shelf and sorted through all of her old toys. Then Wednesday I cleaned my entire apartment, I mean on my hand's and knee's scrubbed I even moved all of my furniture and scrubbed behind and around and through everything! Later that night I took J, (my "god sister" as it were) out for a McDonald's date and to Toys'r'us to make a birthday wish list, I even painted her nails for her. After that we took C to rehearsal and stopped at Goodwill on the way home to donate some of M's old toys. Then I picked C up later that night. Yesterday I went to Scarborough with C and dropped him off at work and went "window shopping". I like to put that in quotes because for me there's no such thing, I have a very hard time resisting the urge not to be a common consumer. I went to Value village and found a cute sweater and a gift for my mom. Then I went to Walmart and bought a few toys for M to come home to today (seeing as I just donated a bunch I felt bad and bought her two new ones). After this I went back to the west end picked J up from school, then back to the east end to pick C up from work, then we came back to the west end to have dinner. THEN I took C to rehearsal again and went to Chapters while he practiced.
While I was in Chapters I found quite a few things that caught my eye. Then I thought to myself "I want some classic literature"! So I found a great deal "buy 2 get the 3rd book free". So I purchased "Treasure Island", "Frankenstein", "Dubliners" and "The Art of Living" this last one is by the Dalai Lama and I'm very excited to see what he has to say about how we as humans could ultimately be happy and content with our lives. So you can see how it was not that relaxing of a week but none the less enjoyable.
The reason I bought the three classic literature books is because these are three very accomplished and well respected authors. If I want to get into some serious writing I thought bring it back to basics and read the books you were forced to read in high school! However now that I'm more mature I can really appreciate these novels, I can understand the way they were written and what makes these authors so amazing. Who better to learn from than some of the greatest writers of the past. The ones who laid the foundation for the future. I almost feel like I'm challenging myself to take high school English all over again. I must not leave out how disappointed I was that my favourite piece of grade eleven literature "The Wars" by Timothy Findley was no where to be found because it was not in stock!
What was truly upsetting about this was that I couldn't even remember the name of the book or author because of my grade eleven English teacher! Mrs Baboon as we used to call her! I wrote an essay on "The Wars" and she gave sixty five percent on it which was extremely upsetting as this essay was worth twenty five percent of my final grade. When I asked her why, she couldn't even answer me, I asked her to give me an explanation so I could fix it, (I was not looking to change my grade but I wanted to know what I was doing wrong and how to fix it), and she refused. I believe she actually said "I'm the teacher and I don't need to explain myself to you that's the grade you got because it was the grade you deserved"! I was so traumatized by this teacher I couldn't even remember my favourite book! Her nasty voice and face kept popping into my mind telling me I was a failure and that I would never get into university, while she sat with her feet on her desk eating the gummy bears a student had brought her to give to her daughters. The woman was a witch and a menace to the collective student body at my high school, minus the goody two shoe popular kids! Even the nerds got bad grades in her class, and they got good grades in everything!
With that being said I have decided to re-teach myself eleventh grade English. I'm sure I will be able to do a much better job of it than my teacher did, and I'm only twenty two and did one semester of university before deciding it wasn't for me! This will certainly be interesting but I'm very excited to conquer this task just so I can say I did and if I ever see her again I will tell her about my Chapters experience! Or even better maybe one day this blog will catch on and I will publish a book and the bitch can read about it! I'm signing off with this little far well "here's to you Mrs Baboon"!!!
While I was in Chapters I found quite a few things that caught my eye. Then I thought to myself "I want some classic literature"! So I found a great deal "buy 2 get the 3rd book free". So I purchased "Treasure Island", "Frankenstein", "Dubliners" and "The Art of Living" this last one is by the Dalai Lama and I'm very excited to see what he has to say about how we as humans could ultimately be happy and content with our lives. So you can see how it was not that relaxing of a week but none the less enjoyable.
The reason I bought the three classic literature books is because these are three very accomplished and well respected authors. If I want to get into some serious writing I thought bring it back to basics and read the books you were forced to read in high school! However now that I'm more mature I can really appreciate these novels, I can understand the way they were written and what makes these authors so amazing. Who better to learn from than some of the greatest writers of the past. The ones who laid the foundation for the future. I almost feel like I'm challenging myself to take high school English all over again. I must not leave out how disappointed I was that my favourite piece of grade eleven literature "The Wars" by Timothy Findley was no where to be found because it was not in stock!
What was truly upsetting about this was that I couldn't even remember the name of the book or author because of my grade eleven English teacher! Mrs Baboon as we used to call her! I wrote an essay on "The Wars" and she gave sixty five percent on it which was extremely upsetting as this essay was worth twenty five percent of my final grade. When I asked her why, she couldn't even answer me, I asked her to give me an explanation so I could fix it, (I was not looking to change my grade but I wanted to know what I was doing wrong and how to fix it), and she refused. I believe she actually said "I'm the teacher and I don't need to explain myself to you that's the grade you got because it was the grade you deserved"! I was so traumatized by this teacher I couldn't even remember my favourite book! Her nasty voice and face kept popping into my mind telling me I was a failure and that I would never get into university, while she sat with her feet on her desk eating the gummy bears a student had brought her to give to her daughters. The woman was a witch and a menace to the collective student body at my high school, minus the goody two shoe popular kids! Even the nerds got bad grades in her class, and they got good grades in everything!
With that being said I have decided to re-teach myself eleventh grade English. I'm sure I will be able to do a much better job of it than my teacher did, and I'm only twenty two and did one semester of university before deciding it wasn't for me! This will certainly be interesting but I'm very excited to conquer this task just so I can say I did and if I ever see her again I will tell her about my Chapters experience! Or even better maybe one day this blog will catch on and I will publish a book and the bitch can read about it! I'm signing off with this little far well "here's to you Mrs Baboon"!!!
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