number thirty-six

i don't know if i have ever seen such a beautiful winter day! i woke up this morning and the sun was shining off all the snow and into my room, and i told myself i was going for a walk in the dam once i was up. i got up, eventually, and off i went, the rent soundtrack in my discman. the weather is so nice. a bit of snow, and then suddenly, blue sky, and a tiny bit of wind, so the powder on the trees is blown off and it looks like its snowing again, but you know it isn't, cause it's sunny and there aren't even any clouds! so i was walking through, and even went around to the second dam. onc ethere i ran into some creepy guy who passed me, and turned around after me and kinda made to follow me. i walked away very fast and went a different way. there are many stairs in the dam and i sweated. woooo i am sexy. and i went on a bit of a side trip, too, over to by where the parkway is and took pictures of some graffitti. made my way back around, and went home, dazzled by the sun. she never fails to amaze me, how she changes everything and makes it so bright and cheerful. and now i am just sitting at home, listening to the mad caddies, and loving it because it is one of the best songs in the world. and later, i am going to call nicole and we will have delicious adventures.
rollin' away with my good intentions, trying to go with my mind, said 'i'm walking the line.' flyin' away with my same desire, yeah, oh, i'm trying to get to the heart of what's bringing me down. movin' alone, i feed the fire, and with the temptation all around just laughing at me. so i try my hardest to keep my hands clean, and I stop from looking for the things that I can't find.. if i'm ever gonna walk the line.

mmmm, mad caddies! ok, i cant stop listening to that song.. :)

eee, pretty things!
-s.

number thirty-five

snow snow snowww! i hope it keeps on snowing untill spring and then just magically melts in one day and is sunny untill halfway through september. :)

number thirty-four

ahhh, the snow and ice are back. they disappeared for christmas (ironic?), but are back now. it snowed this evening (i actually did a jig in toys 'r' us), not much, but enough to make the roads terrifying, not that they weren't already! i nearly died the other night when the car i was in crashed into a ditch, narrowly missing a telephone pole. it was scary, and now i feel rather uncertain in cars. job hunting today, got a lovely picture of the back hallways of the mall, where it looks like an insane assylum. typical. the weather today was fuckin' weird, it was like pouring! sunny! foggy! hailing! snowing! make up your damn mind. and now i am listening to ben harper and being calm and at peace, it's pretty nice. ommmm.

number thirty-three

the beauty of nature. the danger of nature. frost, ice, darkness. deadly, when you combine them. i don't want to say anymore. i am just happy to be alive. and here, i have attempted to take some night-time photos. i really don't think most of them are that great.

sorry for the lack of writing today. alot has happened and i'm just not into it today.

<3.

-s.

-timeout-

link : to photography of people - http://modelins.blogspot.com/index.html

happy new years!

-timein-

number thirty-two

the other day i woke up, decided to go for a walk, and headed out with my camera, and my mp3 player, which, after if you want blood - ac/dc, i realized was still broken (stupid cowbells). i was broken-hearted, to say the least. i ran into ken and dee, that was random, very, very random, and i took some pictures. oh wow, i just sneezed. twice. heee! so i went up the road that goes nowhere and nobody is quite sure why it's there, seeing as the other end is blocked off. hmmm. oh well. then i ventured to the forest beyond the end of said road, and fell down a cliff or two, crossed the giant parkway, got lost in another forest, and found myself in suburbia, after almost drowning in a huge puddle. all in all, it was a good walk.

at least it wasn't fricken' pouring out, like it has been most days. but when the sun does poke her pretty little head out of the clouds, i try to get some pictures. like when i was at warricks the other day and we went for a walk. it was so windy that all the clouds blew away and the sun pointed her face towards us. thats why i have so many of the sun, lately. i never do this! ..except like lately. hmph. !anyways! we daren't go in the forest, though, the trees were all making strange creaky, cracking, popping noises that we decided meant we should just not go in there. we found a few fallen over trees. oh mr. wind, how you do blow. ok i am totally rambling. i haven't got anything substantial to say, not at alllll. silly me. except this: i can't stop listening to tegan and sara. they are so good!

and i hope i never figure out who broke your heart;
and if i do (if i do!)

i'd spend all night, losing sleep,
i'd spend the night and i'd lose my mind.

number thirty-one b

...stupid bunny. (awwwww, it is so cuuuuuute!)

number thirty-one

god, today was beautiful. i was woken up early to go to the doctor, so i was up with the frost and fog. i love my neighborhood. i woke up and stumbled around my house, too lazy to even take a shower, and saw what it looked like outside, so i grabbed my camera and started taking pictures of everything. it was so nice, i think the sun was even peeking out of the clouds for a bit in the morning. it was suprisingly not raining, but i tihnk it is now. one day of no rain. whew. once i'd set out on my way i was still snapping pictures of things, i'm sure i must have gotten some weird looks. especially while taking pictures of .. pine needles.. at the bus stop.. shh! and then i went to the doctors with ian, then to wood-grove (fuck i hate woodgrove this time of year.), then home again, saw bunnies, and went home and danced by the fire and drank delicious hot chocolate. mmmm. later i would go to the pub with mum, jen, and jon, only to stuff myself with the best burger ever (besides mrs. riches, obv.), onion rings, fries, rum and eggnog. mm soni. mm. mum later bought me a crunchie bar.. which, the second i wrote that, i realized i have NOT EATED!! ooooh. (ok, stupid bunny picture is NOT showing up. i will post it in a different post. hmph. *mumbles about how bunnies are stupid and not cute at all*)

and, g'night.
-soni.

number thirty

so much god damned rain.. i'm sick of it. today it was raining harder than ever and i went outside to try to take a picture of it and that's the best i could come up with.. fuckin' rain. and then all of a sudden it slows up and the sun starts to come out. barely. and then it started raining again, but fuck! i want the damn sun to come back. i miss it so fuckin' muchhh. damn damn damn. *sigh* okay, swearing is up on a higher key, i'm in a bad mood, people are stupid and i've had to hang around my sisters' place, and it was a hellhole, i get ignored and get to watch everyone yell at everyone else and be an asshole to me. yep. my idea of a great time. gah, and darren matt is being a jerk. ohh well.

and this beautiful thing is westwood lake. never thought such a dump would ever look so pretty, but i captured it, like the fotographical genius i am. hoorah.
off to be a pms-y bitch to more people. god i hate being a girl.

you've got to hide your love away. - los beatles

number twenty-nine

so i was in the dam the other day, right, and i had my camera, ehhh? and i took some pictures, ya know, ya knoww? ugh i don't feel like typing a huge story, plus i wanna have a bath and bean dip is cooking/ enticing me, so here are the pictures and that is that.

the malaspina parking lot, out into the sunset. who woulda thought it could look pretty?

number twenty-eight

so it snowed alot, rained alot and melted the snow, and today it snowed an inch or two before going back to rain and leaving the world in a huge puddle. i'm not looking forward to this huge storm we're supposed to be getting this weekend. worst ever, my mum says. ugh! so anyways, maybe some winter pictures? yes. yes soni, some winter pictures please!
here on the left is a staircase in the dam, have never figured out why it's there, but there it is, it leads down to a rock which one may very easily fall off of and into the icy water. hm.. how practical. *scoffs* and mum made me go walking in the knee deep snow for so so sooo long with her and jen and i was bitching the whole time. i am a cheerful one, yes, yes i am.
and this lovely thing to the right is from the day before, when it had just started snowing, and mum, jen, and i went to qualicum to visit a craft fair or two (shut up. yea, i knowww), and it started lightly snowing. then we walked to englishman and the snow came down more and more viciously, and here, a bridge over the falls, it looked beautiful. the falls themselves were torrential. terrifying, really, especially since when i walked out onto the bridge i was slipping and skidding all over the place. and then, one more, a picture of beautiful jennyface, trying to eat up all the snowflakes as they cascade upon her face. <3>

number twenty-seven

hooray! be happy, people, snoi toons are officially back in business! this particular one is depicting me (well obviously), after i decide to finally get my ass into gear and start jogging. it's the third in a series. i tell you, i have a hard time with just.. jogging.
i am so out of shaaaape!

and then there are the pictures i took while jogging. yes, i took my camera. yes, i know that is ridiculous! how do i run with a camera on hand?! i don't know! the pictures, i believe, are in the previous entry. but it is so sad and rainy and all lately, that i want a change: i am going to post sunny and happy pictures. so here goes.

this particular one is from when i went to italy last year. it is on the amalfi coast, which is just along the west coast of italy. mum and i took a bus ride along it, and it is supposedly the scariest bus ride in the world, the roads are one lane, and the cliffs are hundreds of feet high, maybe higher. i chose a window seat and it was amazing.


this picture is from the chinese gardens in the middle of vancouver. the structures are supposedly made of actualy chinese ones, shipped in and made by chinese all-knowers. err, my english sucks today.. shut up.gah there are so many pictures i could put up! so pretty. but i will just leave you with this beautiful gem: pipers lagoon at sunset. nicole and i went there one day and took some beautiful pictures on the rocks and in the water and all around. it was quite fun.
ta <3

number twenty-six

soni spitting water across the way. i captured it in the nick of time, and it took a few tries.. and a few near-soakings of the camera! but in the end it was all good. it turned out nicely.


and soni, looking pretty as a picture, peeking up at me! i did her makeup to be all savage, although you can't tell here. but it did look nice. more pictures here: flickr

number twenty-five

yesterday i was so wanting to take pictures, after i was sick all day, but the weather these days is so gloomy, and false lighting is so bad, so it's hard to take good pictures in the winter months of the year, but i've been trying new things. i grabbed some chili peppers and my lamp and tried to take pictures of the chili's, but then i realized after i had played around and took pictures of the earrings hanging from the lampshade that they were actually pretty dang cool! the chili pictures were alright, nothin' special. but i have grown to love the 'flower' setting on my camera, it makes it so that you can take excellent pictures of whatever very close up. unfortunately, i still can't take pictures of things far away, but i'll settle for super close.

today i went for a walk/ pathetic jog in the dam and took my camera and mp3 player full of scissor sisters, and took a few nice pictures. like the following one:

turned out alright, i suppose, woulda been better if it hadn'ta started pouring out! *shakes fist* i tihnk i have to go back when it's sunny, because there were quite a few really neat twisy gnarly trees right there.

a bottle of fiji water that i found nestled on the side of the road that someone *cough* duff! *cough* threw there. but i took it home and put it in the recycling.

number twenty-four

ohh, magnetart. i love thee. my magnet art goes crazy on my fridge, but i love my sisters, i always try to make pretty little feel-good kind of things on her metal door. like this one. i believe in compassion. so.. here's to it! not only that, but i also believe in the innocence of the world. i think that desensitizing ourselves to everything might not be such a good idea. i think we should open our eyes, realize what we're doing to ourselves. doesn't anybody realize that our lifestyles just spell out d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r? we're prepping ourselves for the end. maybe if we got back in touch with nature, stopped living in mechanization, stopped destroying.. ugh. i can't go on. i'm a hypocrite, here, but i'm just saying. life is to be lived, not destroyed. now open your eyes and develop your own god-damn mind. live like you mean it!

i have my dad's eyes. they go green when i cry.

number twenty-three

what a bleary day. so depressing, all this raaaain. i need some sun and a huge hug! ..er.. anyways. we need some pictures from sunny days, and happy times, to make us all feel a little better. this one, i love, it's so weird, i took it at my sisters house, it's a windchime, made of bamboo. (shit, for a second there i forgot the word bamboo.. haah.) i remember this day.. it was sunny, children (which i normally hate, but in this case it was nice.) were running around and having fun.. just the type of day that is nice to remember. anddd this is the beloved lipton green tea, my savior, i'm pretty sure that if it wasn't inanimate, i'd marry it. it makes the hot summer days bearable and my throat stops rasping and i sound normal again. ..go damn do i want it to be sunny! grr!!

my sister, ever artistic and bored, made a bunch of windchimes out or mutilated silverware. we'd take hammers to the spoons and knives, and twist up the forks and knives with pliers untill they barely resembled the silverware one might see on their kitchen table at all. i loved them. it looks like a possessed fork!
anyways, rip hot and sunny days, untill next year, anyways.
-soni