You know what you want, but how long can you wait?

I know this is a bit late but I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff, both good and bad. Let’s start with the good things. One of my sisters had a baby boy 2 days ago and he is beyond cute, but that has taken up some time.

(My nephew wearing the clothes I bought for him)

I’ve also just recently found out that I got a B on my last econ final that I didn’t even think I was gonna pass.

Moving on to the bad stuff, my phone has been at the store for service/reparations for the last month and a half. I’ve gotten it back three times but the problem has still been there so it’s now the fourth time it’s in (within this month and a half). So now I’ve gotten tired of it so I’ve enlisted the help of a person that helps consumers when they have problems with things they’ve bought. So now we’ve threatened the store to take this matter to the National Board for Consumer Complaints. Hopefully it will all be solved soon.

Moving on to the question;
Chris: I think charities are good and if I had more money I would support the ones that I believe in. But I would never give money to a charity just because you should if I don’t believe in what they are doing.

New question: Which one of your birthdays do you remember the most and why?

Decisions!

Tonight I was proposed with a very interesting financial offer from my parents. Essentially they would help fund my new car if I agreed to move back in with them for at least a year. I currently have an aging vehicle that is on its last leg. Don't get me wrong, I love my car, but realistically it is getting to the age that it could fail at any moment and is well past its prime.

From a financial perspective it makes logical sense to move back home since I would save a significant amount of money and actually be able to afford things. The other hope is that if I do move back, I would work a lot less during the school year and actually have adequate time for my studies.

This is all for the trade off of my freedom, and the hope that I would actually be able to stand living at home. I'm generally an independent person, and if things could stay that way while living there and they didn't get in my way to much it could be tolerable. But I will certainly need some time to think things over and make some sort of a decision.

I'll skip a question today since I asked the last one.

The condensed answer of my question is that yes I do support charities, but to an extent. I generally only donate or help out specific causes and efforts.

Wholly crap it's June!

I can't believe it's already June. As usual the summer is just flying by. I'll keep this short. My 3 summer jobs are in full swing, and so far I'm quite enjoying all of them. Minds in motion is lots of fun, but I'm having issues keeping up with my required project hours. Largely becuase I am a driver and am constantly out and about doing workshops and shopping for supplies. I have yet to be in the office all week, I've been busy running around town.

I've officially booked the hostel in San Francisco, so everything is going to plan so far! We are currently planning to stay 5 nights in SF. We are not sure of the details for after SF but at least we have that much figured out.

Questions:

I think our education system is rather slack and under funded, at least compared to European schools. We always seem to be a year behind european kids of the same grade level.

I think adam lambert will do well for himself even though he didn't win. He's popular and talented enough to go reasonably far with his singing career.

Chineses remedies are quite interesting and I think they can be very powerful if used properly and effectively. I haven't really subscribed to much of chinese remedies, but I think it's certianly something I would consider using in the future.

Chris is quite a common name so I've seen it on lots of random things. Nothing really major but there is always those keychains and such with my name on it.

New: what do you think of charities? do you think they are worth supporting, do you think we should bother helping out the less fortunate or should they have to fend for themselves?

”Enchantress Emma”

So I know I’ve been a bit distant the last couple of weeks but it’s been so much in school. Today I had my last final for this semester and on Wednesday I’ve got a presentation then I’m done… till Tuesday when I start my summer class. Since I’ve hardly slept anything the last 9 days due to studying I’m gonna go straight to the question.

Or wait, first I have to tell you guys about my visit to H&M. That is actually the reason for the title of this blog. I found a super cute bluish nail polish and when I saw the name of it I just had to buy it even though I almost have no money left, it was called “Enchantress Emma”. I mean seriously, what is the odds of finding a nail polish that has the same name as you do?

Well, on to the questions:

Mine: I LOVE Adam Lambert, he’s a great singer and an amazing artist/performer. I’ve got all of his songs and I actually don’t think it mattered to much that he didn’t win because he’ll have an amazing career anyway.

Sam: I have no real opinion on Chinese remedies, mainly because I’ve never tried it. But if it works for people why not use it?

New question: Have you ever found some sort of merchandise that has your name? In that case what.

Better 3 weeks late than never..

Ok, I don't think I'm gonna be writing much because I will have so many questions to answer, so I'll just get started on them:

Picture of favorite neighborhood place: I didn't take this one myself, but here is edgbaston resevoir. However, at this time of year it is a bit more full than it is in that picture.

Last movie I saw/ next film I might: The last film I saw at the cinema was 'fighting'. The reveiws said it was boring and had a terrible plot and that the fight scenes were rubbish/ not enough. But after watching it, I think it was actually quite good. I don't know if it's because I am too easily pleased, or that the people who said that went into the film expecting 2 hours of kick ass fight scenes. I think it's that, thinking about it the title is easy to be mis-understood, whilst at the same time, stil fits with the story. The mext film I might see, is that one that is supposed to be the scariest film of this decade. Something about dragging someone to hell or something. My favorite horror film this decade has to probably be 1408, I can't really think of any, so if you think there is one better than that, tell me.

Susan Boyle: To be honest I haven;t actually heard her sing. I know there has been loads of press about her, she's always in the newspapers and stuff. I was actually surprised that People from all round the world had heard of her, so considering that there are some quite good (and also quite bad) acts this year and they haven't been praised as much as her, she must be good. But I can't really give an opinion untill I've heard her. Although, I think it is slightly unfair ona all the other acts, who probably feel like crap when everyone is bascically telling them that they have no chance.

Favorite summer time activity: hmm.. Holidaying I suppose. I can't really think of one, I just like the whole summer break.

Education system: Well, Primary school seemed fine and secondary school has been.. somewhat disapointing. Apparently, I go to quite a good school, which means there are plenty of schools worse than mine. Although I am in the highest group, there is still a wide range of abilities, that might be a problem here, that we tend to water everything down so the slowest people can keep up, I know that when you go on expoditions e.t.c. you walk at the speed of the slowest walker, so I'm not saying we should cater only for the more able ones and leave the others struggling and ultimatley lost (as my maths teacher does), just adapt things to each individual better. Like in language classes. We don't learn enough grammar or vocabulary, we just get fed endless phrases, which we should be able to remeber somehow and then regurgitate when the situation arrises. They try and make us become walking phrasebooks, exept full of phrases like 'the dog sits on the mat' 'the cat sit near the mat' and 'I would like to borrow your jumper'. Not only are these sentences never going to turn up in a conversation (excluding mental hospitals) But no-one can rember phrases like that. This is the kind of stuff they test us on: 'Hello, my name is Sam, I have brown hair, green eyes and I have a dog who is called Bob. I have 23 brothers and a sister. Can I borrow your jumper?'. Quite honestly it's embarressing when we go anywhere else abroad and there are toddlers who have learned English better than you've learned their language.

Adam Lambert: Who? Sorry, I've heard of him, but I have no idea who he (he, right?) is. Sorry.

En fin, ma question- 'est-ce que je peux emprenter votre pull?'.. My question-

What do you think of chinese remedies, you know, acupunture, herbal medicines, pressure points to releive things?