One of my favouite things to do on a rainy day is to sift through my large digital collection of photographs and pick one or two to edit in Photoshop.

Photography in itself is a thrill but being able to transform pictures even further is what I enjoy most.

This photograph was taken in florida while I was walking along the beach. Unfortunately It was a somewhat miserable day for a nice sky to complement the beach and water. I took another picture of a sky and merged the two together to compose this shot. I rushed through it a bit too much and blurred sections a little too much but I hardly become fully satisfied with anything I do yet because my skills are lacking.

Deviant art is an amazing site for art of many kinds. Check it out! I often find myself browsing many hours without realizing it. This is where I upload any of my creations.

Well I spent the better part of the past couple of weeks away from home, school and work.

I was with my uncle and his boys for most of the time. I was helping the move of major furniture and appliances from Toronto to his newly acquired cottage. I must say that I have not been this tired in a while. Near the end everyone became a bit sick and run down. It was a good run and I have a lot of good memories.

I got some good life lessons from it too. I now know I can setup a BBQ, mount a TV on a wall (it takes 3 people, believe me) set-up a major surround sound, assemble a bed frame with missing pieces all while keeping two young lads busy (the hardest part).

I have fallen a week or so behind in my summer classes so I’ll have to dedicate some serious time to that this week.

I have some photographs to add as I said I would before, I look forward to sharing those with any readers.

My father and I are in the process of redesigning the backyard pond and waterfall so I shall share that with you all as well.

It is 1 in the morning and I have a lot of catching up to do on blogs, so I look forward to reading your posts

Cheers to a useless post lol

To keep my other blog clean and on topic, I’ll visit here to post some fun stuff and other off topic stuff.

PaperDreamer tagged me, looked like fun so here we go

1. Finishing up a basketball season most likely
2. Somewhere in elementary school… to tired to figure out what grade
3. Going to the park in the evening with friends listening to my casette player
4. Playing tag at school

4 Things I was doing 5 years ago …

1. Now in highschool, the park was replaced with MSN messenger
2. FInishing up another basketball season
3. On my third year of eating Cheerios everyday for breakfast
4. Just starting driving I think

4 Things I am doing this year …

1. Getting good marks in school
2. Ruining my summer with school
3. Beginning to blog for the first time much like PaperDreamer
4. FInally finding what I want to do in life

4 Things I did yesterday …

1. Cleaned the basement and rearranged furniture… and still tired from it
2. Stayed inside due to pouring rain
3. Editted photos for the remainder of the evening
4. Fell running up the stairs and realized I dont bounce back like I used to 10 years ago

4 Shows I like

1. Survivorman
2. Myth Busters
3. LOST
4. 2 and a Half Men

Unlike Paperdreamer, I watch a bit too much TV lol

4 Biggest joys of the moment…

1. Getting my first A+
2. Hanging out with my dog
3. Cooking a good dinner for the family
4. The sun is shining

Well I had some advice and thought about it myself as well, to create another blog again. However this one I will be posting on a regular basis because it deals a lot with school and my future and that is one of the most important things to me right now. So I dont know how much I will be posting here on top of the very few posts I had been making recently. Just thought I give a shout out to anyone who would like to follow my new addition.

The new blog is focused on Finance and Investing. I dont know how interested anyone will be in that type of stuff though. Anyways, if you see me commenting under that alias its just me.

The new blog can be found here: Canadian Investor Within

Now this really is not a study of any sort but merely an observation I have began to notice over the year.

Going to class makes a difference on the transcript. I have no doubt for myself this is working. Also I have had the opportunity to live with/ have lived with/ lived around a very wide variety of people. It does seem to be evident that the people who attend class on a regular basis do much better. In fact everyone that I know that has succeeded with great marks rarely miss a class. Those who never go, are at the back of the herd.

Unfortunately there are always exceptions, one being a girl I know who hardly misses classes and barely is getting the requirements to stay in the program. For her though, she hates school and really is not too efficient at doing work and studying. What I have learned from this situation is that less is more. There are way too many distractions going on for there, I wish the best for her though.

 For myself, I am rolling on 100% attendance. It is much easier to do now that science classes are not involved, 26 hours of class to a now 16, makes a world of difference. Plus I absolutely love what I am learning, so I hope I’m on a good course.

 One thing that really has amazed me this year is the amount of hints teachers will give out in the middle of lecture. Some more evident than others of course but none the less small keys to success.

I have had quite a bit of support on here even though it was not the goal but a real benefit to have so thank you. I am on the home stretch with finals in sight with all my term work complete. It is nice to have a breath of fresh air before taking a dive back into the books.

Moral of the story: GO TO CLASS

Job!

yeah I have been singing that tune all day. I thought it was relevant to the task at hand for myself lately: that being finding a job of any financial nature preferably.

Taking the excellent advise of Georgie T. of being like his big brother Bob, I got a haircut. I had grown quite the mop over the winter. Now after paying the most I have ever paid for a hair cut (30 dollars Canadian) the hair is short and neat again. Now I have to put on my good shoes and hopefully I can work my charm to land myself a job in the next few weeks while school settles down.

I just completed a few midterms and did well so I’m feeling good

Oh and what is the rush with everyone these days? I have seen quite a few accidents just in my 5 minute walk to campus in the past few days along with a crazy person driving through a red today. Not a fresh red either, a good minute of red, I’m completely boggled?
I guess I missed the memo…

goodnight peeps!

Yes that is the question I had to ask myself after a spur of daily in-takings of coffee. Before you could call myself the “I need a boost” drinker of coffee. Now is “I wake up and turn on the coffee maker for breakfast” consumption of Mississippi mud.

Today I am lab rat where I will be testing to see if I can function properly without the caffeine, and so far its all good. That’s reassuring so I can drink it tomorrow morning!

On a side note…

Today’s Objectives: beef up the resume, create a cover letter, study for friday’s middy, go to classes, squeeze in some cardiovascular exercise, don’t drink coffee

Am I addicted?

Apparently wearing glasses, walking home after studying at school on a Friday night attracts flying eggs! I guess in my quest of being a nerd this semester in order to improve my grades has finally come true. The “cool” kids got to have some fun and complete a successful drive-by egging.

Funny enough though the lucky egg or shall I say lucky me, it bounced off my leg and smashed all over the sidewalk.

I have been gone a while, busy with school and other aspects of life. Thought I would share a little of life’s crazy events with anyone who reads this

I think I’m going to make an omelet for breakfast

Well it is that time of the year again for a student looking for summer employment. All the companies start looking to fill in the temp positions during the warmer months here in the northern hemisphere. Warm weather would be nice considering its been a blizzard all night already and a possible snow day/no school tomorrow is on the minds of many.

Today I ventured to a career fair type deal where 200+ companies come and set up shop looking for some students but mostly for soon to be graduates. Unfortunately for myself I will not be graduating so the job opportunities were slightly slimmer. However I got a few resumes out there, and talked for what seemed like 10 hours (2 hours in reality). I cant remember doing something that was so simple as talking to people being so tiresome.

Some of you may have read about my fear of public speaking. Well thanks to your help I had my nerves under control and I really felt good about everything. So much for being shy.

I hope to find something in the financial industry for now and then start to work out from there.

Lots of online applications to come!

But now time for some sleep, goodnight.

It all started last night on the last day of the month. A macroeconomic exam was scheduled to be written the following day (today). Well I spent a good 3-4 hours drawing out graph after graph to study all the different types and effects in each. Needless to say I have to go purchase some more paper and well plant a tree too.

So anyways I spent all that time going over and over everything to make sure I could receive a good mark on my first midterm exam of the semester. Went to bed at 2am, woke up at 7am. Five hours of sleep is plenty! I began studying more this morning. Well actually by the time I finish this it will most likely be tomorrow, and for simplicity’s sake, Saturday. Back to what I was talking about, graphs, right. I woke up and did even more graphs! Good thing that is what I was supposed to be studying. Notice the emphasis on “was” because Old Man Winter gave us a wondrous surprise, a gracious dropping of snow with plenty more to come. Yup, you guessed it, school was cancelled and thus my exam postponed. I am actually indifferent to when I write the exam, but I had already downed a large coffee by 9am. I now have the energy supply of a 8 year old and nothing really to do except surf the web quietly while the rest of the city sleeps.

What did I learn? When you can barely cross the road to get a coffee, check to see if school is cancelled before consumption of coffee begins.

Oh, I am sure you would love to see my graphs too! along with my chicken scratch writing

Want more? got 20 more pages

(signed)-Master of Graphs