Hey there :D

Sabrina here~! Today I've chosen a topic, and plan to stick with it and not wander off into the depths of Sabrina Nonsense. My topic today is trains. Yeah, pretty lame topic, but I happen to be on one right now, so it's not terribly random.

Trains. Whenever I used to hear it, I would imagine Harry Potter with his little friends on their way to Hogwarts :) So it makes sense that that's what I expected when I went on my very first train ride. I expected individual cubbies (or whatever they're called), a grandma-like lady pushing a trolley full of candy, and scenic rides through the countryside.

Well.

For those who have ever been on an airplane before, Via Rail trains are more like airplanes than Harry Potter trains. There are plastic compartments above your head, the seats are organized into rows with an aisle down the middle (kiss your privacy goodbye), and the grandma-lady with the candy DOES NOT EXIST.

They do serve snacks, but it's usually a forty year-old man pushing a metal cart full of overpriced snacks (two bucks for a small container of orange juice :/). The snacks are delicious, I'm not going to lie, but they're just. SO. Expensive. Oh, and there is a menu in the magazine in front of your seat, somewhere in the back of it.

And just a tip for anyone who plans to buy a train ticket anytime in the future: always, always, ALWAYS get a window seat. The aisle seats SUCK! If you sit in the aisle seat, you have to get up every time the person beside you wants to get up, you have to ask to plug in your flipping cord, and you might get whacked by some clueless passenger's bag. Window seats are just better.

Also, this took me a couple tries to figure out, but when you want to connect to the internet, you must:

-connect to the Wi-Fi as you normally would

-open up a browser. Even if you're only using Skype, or the iTunes store, you need to open up your browser.

-if you aren't directed to the Via Rail website immediately, you need to try a website (example: try to open FaceBook or YouTube)

-if you get a pop-up asking whether or not you'd like to connect to the website (even if it suggests it has questionable security), click agree. It's asking because the Wi-Fi only works if you accept the User Agreement, which the webpage is trying to direct you to.

-Click on English, then Accept

-ENJOY YOUR INTERNET

This took me so many tries to get right... BE THANKFUL somebody told you!

Also, it's a great idea to slide your bag under the seat. There is nothing more annoying than tripping over your bags as you try to get out of your seat. Another thing to remember is that you have a little table in your armrest. Pull up the leather part, and underneath are two panels. The panel closest to you folds out into a little table :) Cute, right?

One more thing: the electrical outputs will either be by the window, or between and underneath both of the seats.

Hope you learned a lot about trains, hahaa ;P This LEGIT took me forever to figure out... -.- I wish somebody had told me these things... I looked like a total and utter idiot for the first couple times I took the train XP

Screw that.

Hey there ;D

I'm baaaaack :3 Inspired by Chiaki to arise from the dead and finally get another post done.

Sooooooooo. Wow, this actually feels great to be blogging again! I can just let all my feelings gooooooooooo~

Wow. Okay. Anywhoo. Today was the last day of exams! I'm so happy :3 My french exam absolutely sucked, though. It's not that I didn't study, it's just that what I needed to study for... If you get what I mean.

There are some girls in my French class that, don't get me wrong, are really nice and stuff, but all they do is giggle all throughout the class. I honestly don't mind French, but having somebody giggle in a super high-pitched voice for an hour and ten minutes, regardless of how ticked my teacher is, just makes for a bad experience. Because of their incessant giggling, my teacher hardly taught anything... For example, those COI and COD things? We learned what they are about a week before the exam, but we weren't taught how to apply them in a sentence, or how to tell which one is used when, or how to use them versus using le, la, l' or les. This is a completely different language, it would be kind of nice to know what important crap like that means.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaand I'm ranting again.

I find myself being really mean lately. Today I insulted a guy I barely knew... Behind his back, but still... Even Flavia commented on my nasty remark. To be honest, it's kind of scary. I hate being mean, but sometimes it just comes out like that when I'm frustrated with my life.

Just on Friday, my dad told me something that absolutely broke my heart, and it's all I can think about now, which is probably why I've been a total b**** lately.

*This is getting a bit too personal for a blog, but whatevs. I really need to get it out somehow.*

Exams, what my dad told me, homesickness, friend issues... It's really starting to take a toll on me. The other day, when I was taking the train home, I caught myself about to cry. In public. For those of you who know me well, this almost never happens to me unless I break a bone or something. Crying is not my thing.

Dang it, I'm even starting to write poetry again.

This is random, and not as depressing (thankfully), but I've recently realized that materials no longer make me happy. At Christmas, I got a ton of stuff; lots of money, art supplies, hair accessories, jewelry, perfume... And yet, I wasn't happy. It sure wasn't that I was ungrateful (kay, I was overwhelmed at everybody's kindness and generosity), it's just that I felt that I would trade all of my presents for just a month to spend with my family and friends.

I haven't seen the vast majority of my friends back home for over seven months now... A lot of them have changed, some of them going through depression or becoming extremely arrogant. Apparently one of my close friends is on the verge of becoming a wannabe hooker, and my other friends are drifting apart from each other. It sucks how some people change for the worse when they hit High School.

I've changed alot too, but I *think* it's a good change. I'm not a pushover anymore, I don't retaliate the way I used to, I'm better with school... Stuff like that.

Shucks. This blog is the opposite of what I wanted it to be. It's all dark and depressing... *Puts on some happy japanese music and continues*

There we goooooo <3 ^_^

Happiness!

I love you guys. I really do.

Like, I just wanna hug all everybody that's read my blog before. Even if they hated it.

I just wanna go outside and dance!

Wait. No, Sabrina. Not at 11:15 at night.

Bad Idea.

Okee. Dancing in my room will suffice :3

...

I have been fulfilled.

I love makeup, butterflies, cherries, pink, polka dots, Studio Ghibli, Rapunzel, TV, frilly stuff, dresses, nail polish, tea, cake, cookies, cinnamon rolls (<3), toaster waffles, cream puffs, caramel, ink bottles, paper that doesn't buckle, bristol board, lotion, sugar plums, vitamins, rhinestones, earrings, jewelry organizers, jeans, boots, my friends, my family, *coughthatsupercuteguythatIseealotcough*, straightening irons, shampoo, conditioner, peach-scented soap, rainbow brushes, and tweezers.

Oh gosh. I think I'd better stop before I start puking up rainbows.

Looooove youuuuuuuuuuuuu <3

Day Four, and Sabrina's Guide to Life

Hey there :D

Tomorrow's a MoNdAy, and I don't have to get up early! Woooooo! You see, I attend seminary, which is basically an early-morning religion study for Mormons (that starts at 6:30 AM, waaaahhh!). That's a huuuuge understatement, but I don't really wanna explain it to you guys right now. Anywhoo.
Tomorrow it's cancelled because my teacher can't make it! :D No, I'm not happy that she can't make it, but I am happy that I won't have to get up early. My teacher is going to be performing in a choir at around 7, (middle of seminary) so she won't be able to make it. I hope she has an awesome time.

For the Thirty Day Challenge, I won't be doing Day Three because a) I don't want to give away the information that it asks for, and b) I don't have any pictures of what it asks for either. So it will actually be a twenty-nine day challenge, lawls! Here goes...

~Thirty Day Challenge~

Day Four

"A Habit That You Wish You Didn't Have"

I actually have two habits that I wish I didn't have: biting my nails (ew) and altering my clothes. The first habit is pretty straightforward, I bite my nails when I'm nervous. Which is actually pretty often! Iiiiiiit's weird. But true.

Last year, I watched some stupid Oprah episode about how biting your nails can give you worms, and I was soooooo grossed out that I stopped for a year. Unfortch, when I started preparing my portfolio for my audition for my school, I started staying up late, getting up early, overworking, becoming antisocial, not eating, and a whole bunch of other stuff that really was unpleasant. Because of all the stress, my old instincts of nail-biting kicked in once again and ever since I haven't been able to stop. Yech.

The second habit is yeah, altering my clothes. When I've had clothes for a while, I often get bored of them and start to ruin them. Well, maybe not completely ruin them, but I will def alter them beyond recognition. I will rip them, put paint splatters on them, cut part of the sleeve off, bleach or distress them, etc. They look awesome when I'm done, but my mom hates it.

When she finds out.

I just can't stop, though! I can't sew my own clothes (yet) so instead I make my old clothes look better. In fact, just minutes before I wrote this post, I was ripping up my old jeans with an

X-acto knife. I mean, they look great, but sometimes I wish that I would be able to just buy clothes and be happy with them.

Anywhoo~

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Onto the second part of my blog!

I would like to start "Sabrina's Guide to Life." It'll be a section at the end of the blog with some advice from me. It can be about absolutely anything, and it might not be on all of my blogs, but it's on my bucket list, so.... Yeah...

*Sabrina's Guide to Life* ;3

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Since I was just talking about how I love to alter my clothing, here are some tips for distressing jeans!

To rip your jeans (the easy and cheap way):

-take an old pair of jeans or jeans with a stain on it and mark where you want the rips to be

-taking an X-Acto knife or any other sharp object, make horizontal cuts across the area

-try to keep a cm between rips to make the next step a little easier

-using a scratchy brush, brush the rips slowly and firmly going in vertical strokes, this will help to loosen up the threads.

-Enjoy your new smexehhh jeans!

To bleach your jeans the easy way:

-Take an empty perfume spray bottle and fill it up about a quarter full of water (ONLY USE WATER FOR THIS!)

-Fill up the rest with bleach, but don't add too much, kay?

-Spray down the centre of your pant legs.

-Let the bleach sink into the fabric for about five minutes.

-Rinse your jeans in a sink of somethink until the water running off of it is clear.

-Let it dry....

-Then dazzle all your friends with your ah-mazing pants!

Another cool idea is to write a message on a shirt using bleach. Take some kind of letter (fridge letter magnets work well) and spell out something onto your shirt, and then follow the above steps. Awesome, right? Just make sure not to smudge the bleach when you take off the letters.

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Have an awesome monday!

-Sabre

Day Two, and other stuff

Hey there :D

Soooooooooo. Today Imma try something new and exciting! I'm going to try to fit both my thirty day challenge and some kinda neat stuff into my blog today. I've always wanted to make one of these... Thingies... So my dreams are finally coming true :'D Onwards!

~Thirty Day Challenge~

Day Two: The meaning behind your Facebook status.

"it's official. I have ten friends on Facebook. *dies*"

Uhm.... My status is pretty straightforward. My parents will only let me add one friend (that isn't a relative or High School Club-thing) on Facebook... So this was my sarcastic reply. Or is it sarcastic..? I dunno. I'm bad with this stuff.... D: Meh.

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Now onto the other neat stuff! This is going to be my dump for all the things that Sabrina Harvey (that's me :P) finds somewhat interesting that she hopes you will find interesting as well. Ta-daaaa!

-Ever wonder why doctors call their profession "practice?"

-November 29 is "Sinkie Day." That's tomorrow~! X)

-A "sinkie" is "anyone who grabs a food item and then eats it over the sink." Isn't that cool? We have a name for people like this!

-Apparently Facebook plays a key part in 1 out of every 4 divorces. Huh.

-AMERICANS DON'T HAVE ALLEN'S APPLE JUICE! HOW DO THEY LIVE?! (haha, I don't like apple juice, though. It has a nasty after-taste.)

-A single lemon contains more sugar than a handful of strawberries.

-My friends used to think I had a piece of metal stuck in my brain so that I could pick up radio signals and spout out random facts.

-4 cups of Bak Choy or whatever has the same amount of Calcium as a cup of Milk.

-Antibiotics in milk is prohibited in Canada.

-Campbell's Alphabet soup only comes in the Roman alphabet.

-"...After doing a wide survey, we have concluded that these are the worst girl's names: Bimberly, Brunhilda, Chinchilla, Crayola... Hortense, Latrina, Michelina... Pepsi, Prunella, Rotunda, Salmonalla, Tamale, Velveeta, Yeti, Zona." Yeah, no kidding.

-"Hi! I'm guessing you're from Tennessee, because you're the only 'ten' I see! I know you're good at science. Are you going to be a female astronaut? Because you are really out of this world! If I could rewrite the alphabet, I would put U and I together! What do you say?"
How about no?

-Score bars are delicious.

-I seriously think I might have ADHD. :/

Aaaaand that's all for now, folks! Have an awesome Sinkie day! :)

-Sabre

Thirty Day Challenge

Hey there :D

So. I've officially decided to take a thirty-day challenge thingy. Was I tagged? Nope. Do I even care? Nope. Oh, the things that happen when you're bored... XD Well, it sounds fun, too, I guess. But I'm not gonna do it for thirty days straight, Imma do it on thirty random days that are (hopefully) close together. If this was supposed to have any tags attached, I tag everybody who is reading this that has a blog (and if you don`t have a blog, go get one. please.). Anywhoo,, here goes day one!

A recent picture of you and fifteen interesting facts about yourself

Kay, there's the recent picture of me <--

I'm Sabrina, and I was born on April 15. My favourite number is seven, my fave colour is pink, my fave candy is Bridge Mixture (which is just an assortment of chocolate-covered nuts, caramels and creams) and my favourite food (that ISN`T a dessert-type food) is scalloped potatoes :P

Art is my passion and my favourite medium is digital art (cuz it doesn`t make a mess, lawls :P).

I have really dark brown eyes, brown hair with deep bronze highlights, and I`m only about 5`4. I`m half filipino, but I was born in, and still live in, Canada. I play the recorder, the piano, the kazoo (lawls) and I love to sing, though I`m not very good at it X).

My all-time favourite flower is the Forget-Me-Not, and my favourite book is The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers. Awesome book, you might wanna check it out some day! Also, I spend wayyy too much time on dA (deviantart.com) and my username on there is MarshmallowFluffies. (all one word)

Oops, that`s prolly way more than fifteen XD Oh well. It`s not like anyone`s counting... Right? *Stares at Chiaki and Flavia*

Hahaa, just kidding, just kidding :)

Pie, Commisions and Mormonism

Hey there :D

Today the entire world experienced a bizarre phenomenon called a "good Monday." Well, my world, anyways. :) How was your monday? I hope it was awesome, too.
I think the reason why my Monday was actually good is because of these reasons:
-I finally discovered the name of this one song that I really like but I didn't know the name of XD It's 'Blackout' by Breathe Carolina... You can barely understand what they're saying because it's so autotuned and stuff, but I swear the chorus was "I'm only getting sorted" instead of "I'm only getting started." Listen to the song! You can't hear him say the t at the beginning of the word! X(
-I was listening to 'When Did Your Heart Go Missing' by Rooney while I was waiting for the bus
-Kai (lawls, cant think of any other name for him), Israel* and Jane* were actually on the bus today! Totally made my day!
-I was not harassed for forgetting my overdue art homework. Uhm. That shouldn't be a high point.
-I saw Richie* like five times today! :D :D :D Sorry, Chi... But he's just. SO. Cute.
-Finally found out who my model for the fashion show was...
And other stuff. Anywhoo~

At DeviantArt (http://www.deviantart.com) I'm getting quite a few commisons, and I'm really happy! The only problem is that I'm getting kind of behind with it. For those who don't know, a commision is basically a "paid mission." So an art commision would be someone paying somebody else to draw them something. Apparently you can do this on Kijiji... Idk. It'd be pretty cool if you could. If you know, please comment below!

I know this is wayyyy off topic, but I don't get it. I told my friends that I was a Mormon (a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly called Mormons for short) and they took a flip. They were all like "omigosh, you're a mormon?! They're evil and they brainwash you and and and..." You know what? I honestly don't care. What I think is funny is how Muslims (I think..? Can't remember the name) are able to not eat the meat of any hooved animal and nobody complains. Muslims are Muslims, that's what they beleive in and there is no question about it. But Mormons can't have caffeine or any other addictive substances and some (but not everybody) people freak out. Here's an amazing quote from a Mormon (Foxycheese202) on DeviantArt:

"What does a Christian belief in general do for a person? Hmm. No sex before mairrage. (No chance of AIDS.) No drinking (You don't do stupid crap.) No smoking (stay healthy.)... Don't show too much skin (people look down on you... People shouldn't, but they do.)"

Yeah, so these are some of the foundations on which an "evil cult" is built. I hate it when people call my religion evil! You can have your religion, I can have mine, but don't call my beleifs and lifestyle evil. You know? In fact, to support my point, the Church has created 13 Articles of Faith, which is basically just an outline of what we beleive in. The one that supports my argument is the eleventh one:

"We claim the privelege of worshipping the Almighty God according to the own dictates of our consience, and allow all men the same privelege, let them worhip how, where or what they
may." (http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,106-1-2-1,FF.html)

That basically means that we claim the right to worhip our God if we see fit, and let everybody else beleive whatever they want where ever they want as well. Caspice?

And, I know that this is turning into an endless rant on a touchy subject, but I really have to get this out of my system.

I'm also really put off by how people think that Joseph Smith lied. If Joseph lied, he would not have willing put up with all of that pressure just for a lie. He was tortured, tarred, feathered, shot and imprisoned for his beleifs, so I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a lie. If you were a liar who just wanted attention, you sure as heck wouldn't put up with all of that! And it's not just Joseph who went through extreme persecutement for his beleifs: it was many other pioneers who had their families killed, tortured and shunned. While Mormons today don't go through the same kind of persecutement, we are still... Uhm... Bullied. (Sorry, can't find the right word X)

All righty, then! I think I'm done ranting. Hope I didn't bore you too much with my religion talk! I also apologize that it's not overly reverent, I'm definitely not the best example of a 'good Mormon,' but I do try very hard to keep my standards high.
-Breenie :)

Sleep, Anger Management and Quotes

Hey there :D

It's Daylight savings tiiiiimeee! Ah! I'm so excited :3 An extra hour of sleep? Really? My whole view of winter has just improved. But I guess after a while you get used to it, and you can't tell the difference, but WHATEVER! I can still enjoy it.
Have you finished your Hallowe'en candy yet? Some of my friends finished all their candy on Hallowe'en (yeah man, they rock dat metabolism), but I'm pretty sure the average person can't eat THAT much candy. I forced myself to finish it all today so I won't be tempted for the rest of the week, but I don't think that that was the best idea. Why? Because I am currently experiencing WITHDRAWL symptoms. JGSDIULYERLIU DNJUHYERK,ISEPDEKJOFHUJGTFVJ. <--- me randomly slapping the keyboard with an angry face.
That probably wasn't very good for my laptop. It was kind of expensive and I'm pretty sure my parents would'nt buy me a new one just because I was angry at this one.
Anywhoo~
Yesterday, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 2 Episode 5: Sisterhooves Social came out! BWAHHHHHH! I was sooooooo happy. ^-^ And it was all about my favourite pony, Rarity! But it also had one of my least favourite fillies, Sweetie Belle. The Cutie Mark Crusaders tick me off D:< I don't know why. I also don't know why Rarity is my favourite. My friends say that I'm just like her (or she's just like me, whatever) but I don't really see it. They say it's just because we're both so prissy and concerned with looking good D:< But we're also both artistic, so I guess it all works out. I think I've changed, though! I don't make a big deal about my mascara or whatever anymore.
I'm also super obsessed with the Phantom of the Opera right now! I'm actually listening to it as I write this X) My fave song from the musical is prolly either All I Ask of You or The Phantom of the Opera. I sing them as I paint in class XD Anjie would know, she sits right beside me. And I also sing it when I'm by myself. I'll be doing homework when no-one's home, and then I'll just burst out "SAY YOU'LL LOVE ME EVERY WAKING MOMENT, TURN MY HEAD WITH TALK OF SUMMERTIME!!!!!!!!" or something. I think if I wasn't me, it would be pretty funny to watch.
I used to like Annie, and sing Ms. Hannigan's songs (especially Little Girls) because I could sing it really loudly. And because Ms. Hannigan is the freaking BEST CHARACTER in the entire musical.
Here's the song of hers that I adore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDkEXszYtdo&feature=related
She's just so funneh! One of her best lines is this:
Ms. H-- "oh, and good news. Today we're not having hot mush."
Kids--"Yay!"
Ms. H--*blows whistle* "Today... We're having COLD mush."
Tee hee! She's great.
Oh! Oh! Hey! I just realized! There's only like seven weeks until Christmas! XD Sooooo pumped. Not sure what I want, though. Meh.
I'm finished with exciting things, so here's some of my favourite quotes! *Randommm*

"Don't trust him. He would sell his own mother for a grape!"
"You making an offer? I mean, no I would not!"

"Fat? He's got more pounds than the London mint!"

"You laugh, I laugh. You cry, I cry. You jump off a bridge, I'm gonna miss your e-mails.

"Attention everybody! We have an announcement! Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are merging to become one giant site called... YouTwitFace!"

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everybody equally."

"I made you a pie!"
"Oh! What flavour?"
"PIE FLAVOUR."
*epic guitar solo*

"Fat? When she gets upset, they call it "mass hysteria."

Student+Dying=Studying

"You know you're too fat when the floors buckle but your belts won't."

Ohh noooo! We have to stick a blonde joke somewhere on this blog! Sorry to all you blondes out there!

A blonde was withdrawing money from an ATM machine.
The blonde behind her: "Ha! I saw your pin number, it's four stars!"
First Blonde: "Haha, you're wrong! It's 1566!"

Aaand I'm done. Hope you thought at least one of those were as funny as I think they are!
Until next time!
-Beenz