i found something online that i am going to send to a friend. i dont know if it is the age that we are at or what, but it seems that a whole lot of people are going through some unhappy/uncertain phase right now. i tried to copy and paste it from the website, but it wont allow me to....so because i had to type it out already, i'll just paste it on here.

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are furstrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.

We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation and when we retire.

The truth is is there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Life will always be filled with challenges. It's the best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.

One of my favourite qutoes come from Alfed D. Souza. He said, "For a long time, it had seemed to me that life was about in the way, something to be gotten through first, something to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle, some unfisnished business, some time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last, it dawned on me that these obstabcles were my life".

This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness.

Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment that you have and treasure it because you shared it with someone special; special enough to spend your time and remember that, time waits for no one.

So stop waiting until you finish chool, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until summer, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobbered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is not better time than right now to be happy. Happy is a journey, not a destination.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people become friends and stay a while..leaving beautiful footprings on our hearts and we are never quite the same because we have made a good friend.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift - that's why it's called the present.

Live and savour each moment..this is not a dress rehearsal.

I thought this may be useful to some people. Enjoy!

i haven't blogged in a while. been a little lazy. since i am blogging right now, i'll take this change to b!tch (because, what else do i do?) i hate being a girl. for the male reader(s) out there, you may want to tune out of this one. i have the worse cramps right now..yes menstrual cramps! i had it relatively easy last month so of course, i get paid back this time around! i woke up this morning with a very bad headache and as my day went on, the cramps got really bad. at one point, i thought i was going to pass out because i was so dizzy from the pain. i envy girls who don't go through any sort of pain during their cycle. i'm so bloated...my boobs feel so heavy and everything just hurts! argh.....! a few months ago, i started taking the pink pill (aka tylenol menstrual). i never wanted to rely on this, but pop one of these babies and the pain goes away a little for a few hours. it's better than nothing! i'm convinced that all that herbal stuff my mom makes for me doesnt work. it tastes like sh!t and its damn expensive. i've read about the injection that allows you to just skip your period every month, but i hesitate when it comes to things like that. it's not very natural...and i don't want any freaky side effects! ok, enough bitching..i hate being a girl....

had an adventure by myself tonight. after having a therapy session and grabbing drinks with vapo, i drove her home to the boonies. coming home, the fog was so bad that i accidentally went east on the highway. the last sign i saw was MEADOWVALE and i should have realized at that point that i was heading in the wrong direction, but it didnt occur to me. the fog was so bad that everyone was driving with hazards on and you couldnt see the signs on highway. i was almost in ajax when i realized that i was going the wrong direction. i got off and headed back the right way only to exit at whites road. i was driving so slow that i decided it would be safer to get in the right lane and never realized that eventually, i would be lead off the highway. thinking i was so smart, i thought that i should just go home from whites. tsk tsk...i got lost even more and couldnt see anything at this point. i saw some donut shop but i was too scared to get out. i made some phone calls, but no one seemed to know where i was....i finally got back on the 401 west and headed home. the strange thing was that right after i passed markham raod, the fog cleared up. strange...those boonie people i tell ya.

i saw legally blonde 2 tonight. definately a tuesday movie to see. i'm not disappointed because i wasn't expecting anything spectacular, but it was nice to laugh with the girls. c'est moi, we missed you and don't worry...you didnt miss much as far as the movie was concerned.

vapo left a comment for me on my last blog to discuss the whole "kenny's noodles" incident and since randomthoughts wants to know what she was talking about...i'll blog about that tonight. i have nothing better to do and i can't sleep yet.

i saw s and c for lunch sometime last week and s requested chinese food. actually, to be more exact, she requested "fried fat white noodles and chinese brocoli". since kenny's noodles is close, i took them there to have both of the requested dishes. i was a bit confused as to what chinese brocoli was, but s found a picture on the menu and i realized that it was "guy lan". i didnt know that they were called chinese brocoli (they don't resemble regular brocoli in any way!) ok, so we sit down and immediately, we smell something funky. i dont usually sit in that section of the restaurant and wouldn't have known that it would smell so bad, but i'm used to it...what else do you want from a chinese restaurant? these are the places that probably pay to pass their permits on the overall cleanliness of the restaurant. c orders a coconut drink with NO tapioca and this pink drink arrives at the table. we tell the waitress that she ordered coconut and she mumbled something that we didnt understand. a few minutes later, a white drink arrives with tapioca! oh well...

we eat the fried noodles and vegetables, have girl talk and then head home. i met up with s and c for coffee yesterday and i find out that after c left kenny's, her stomach was not feeling too well. when she got home, she was on the toilet. she described "it" as being vicious! now that's a little more than i would like to know about my friends. lesson learned: i wont take c out for chinese anymore. i guess her stomach just can't take the greasiness of the food. i wouldnt want her to have another vicious experience on the can.

i realized that the group of girls aren't very girly. by that i mean, we burp and say things like vicious when referring to our private moments. this also reminds me of something that slipped out of my mouth a while ago that stunned my bf. i believe i got the phrase from randomthoughts, but i'm not too sure. d and i were probably just hanging out one day when i had to use the lady's room. i dont know what i was thinking, but i told him that i needed to go because it was "touching cloth". needless to say, he was stunned that his gf would say something like that and probably disgusted by it. hehe...what can i say? when you gotta go...you just gotta go.  

ugh. i dont know what to blog about tonight, but i told randomthoughts that i was going to blog so he is going to wake up in the morning expecting something. see how nice i am? =) i am doing a special blog just for you to read.