Soccer, drawing class, the sorceress and catching fire

Well, it has been a while since I have written anything on here. I know I am bad, I cannot keep a daily blog. ;)

The only free nights I have during the week are thursdays and fridays, which will change around mid-october since I will have a photography class on thursdays. I know I might be nuts but I love to keep myself busy rather than work, go home and sit in front of the computer or tv.

On monday my soccer team won 18-2. I am goalie, ME, a girl who always has been afraid of the ball. I really didn't want to let any goals in though winning 18-0 would have been good. I might ask if sometimes I can play defense or offense sometimes though, I want to trya nd run a lot more and learn to play other positions.

I received the ball on my nose, from my own teammate of all people. By accident of course, I did not expert it. I am not certain to be human though since most people would have been bleeding, I did not. I don't think I have blood in my veins. lol

Yesterday was the drawing class I signed up for. I know what you will think, but you already can draw. True indeed but this class is different it teaches to draw from the right side of the brain, forget what you know and draw what you see, which sometimes I have trouble with especially when trying to draw hands. I can draw fantasy things because I can make them look any way I want, using my imagination, but when it comes to drawing something real I have always had some issues.

The class is quite interesting, it forces us to see the object as shapes, a bunch of shapes put together to create the said object. And it works! According to the teacher, anyone can draw and she tells us don't call it a hand, or eye or whatever the object is. Call it a shape.

Taking a drawing class also has gotten my creativity flowing once again, it has given me an idea for a painting, all I need to to find the time to paint. That is a whole other story.

Tonight I have volleyball. I quite loved the first game last week. The people are nice, and even though they are better than me and have been playing longer, they do not make me feel like I am not good. I still feel part of the team and allowed to try and if I miss it is ok. They gave me some good tips as well to improve. And I actually smashed the ball for the first time ever.

I am pretty good at serving I might say. Better even then the other time I played with the Alicats. I used to hit the ball over the net once and had trouble repeating that good move a second time, last week I was on fire! lol

I bought a wrist protector. It is just basically a cushioned wrist band that people can wear when they play sports, but I am hoping it will give me a little bit of protection until I learn to hit the ball properly. It is always the left wrist, the ball always ends up right on the bone on the side and it hurts. So I thought I would do something to protect my wrist.

I finished "the Sorceress". The third book of the serie by Michael Scott. One word comes to mind: AMAZING!

The story has everything, fantasy, based on historical landmarks and characters, adventure, magick, 21st century technology, etc. I love reading a novel and clearly seeing that the author spent a lot of time to do research and add some historical facts into his story.

I will review the book on my nerdfighter bookclub blog since this blog is just for quick updates on what I am doing or what excites me.

I just wanted to mention how amazing this book was. And that I suggest this serie to anyone who loves reading about magick, adventures, shadow realms, mixed with historical facts and characters and set in a 21st century environment.

And if you loved the Harry Potter serie, I do not doubt that you would get into this story as well. I am super excited to know that there is a fourth book being written. It is called the Necromancer. I can't wait.

In the meantime I have a lot of other great books to reads. I started Cathing Fire, the sequel to the Hunger Games. This two is an amazing storya nd the second novel is even better than the first. I have already read part one of this book. It is safe to say that I am devouring it, figuratively speakign of course. The story is quite different from Michael Scott novels but just as great. I highly recommend them.

I just picked up Dan's Brown new novel as well which came out mid September I believe. It is called The Lost Symbol. Ever since Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code I have been a fan of Dan Brown's novels. Well written, captivating to the end, for the first two uncovering some hidden truths about christianity and the church. The lost symbols has a picture of the white house on the cover, I am hoping it will have some truths and mystery abotu what goes on in the united states.

The book ended up costing me 14 cents. hehe. It was not really 14 cents, it is just that I had this chapters' gift card and the amount left on it since I bought catching fire with it, covered the price of the book minus 14 cents.

I can't wait to start reading it. I have way too many books to read and not enough hours in a day.
Ok well, that is about it for now.

I will see you later. I will not say tomorrow since I am not sure if I can stick to blogging every day.

Final Destination, District 9, Fantastic Beasts, Day Off and long overdue blog post

Yes I know, I know, I am terrible at keeping a daily blog. Sigh. I had the same problem as a child trying to keep a journal and ended up with about 20-some journals half empty, I would go the positive route and say half full but really they were half-empty, I am not even kidding.

The truth of the matter is that I am not one who enjoys commitment that much. I mean don't get me wrong some commitments are good when it comes to love or employment but to HAVE to do something every day and force myself to do it is just not fun for me. I am a go with the flow or go with the wind kind of girl, I need to feel like blogging or feel like doing something.

So, on to my long overdue blog post. Last weekend I saw two movies. Final Destinations 3D and District 9.

Final Destinations was interesting. I must admit I am not the biggest fan of the series, at least not as much as Shawn (boyfriend), but I enjoyed it quite a bit. The fact that it was 3D was amazing, really well done as well. I am not a slasher or blood and gore film enthusiast but I like the concept behind this one. The killer is someone that you cannot see: the killer is "death". The introduction of someone having visions of future events taking place and using it to try and save people, though in the end "death" finds them and resets the order, I must admit is a brilliant idea. I did not particularly enjoy the 3D snake coming at me though, not a big fan of slithery creatures.

District 9 was a very different type of movies, about aliens and government experiments and cover ups and in the form of a documentary, I found that awesome. A very different way of telling the story but I think it works well in this case. They confined the extra-terrestrials to a district and you find out that the government performs experiments on them by killing innocent beings sometimes. I loved that they presented the extra-terrestrials as living like humans, families, addicted to a drug which in their case was cat food. :) Just basically living in a community as we do. They always portray, or most of the times at least, aliens attacking us rather than showing them simply as a different types of beings and also ready to help the person who used to not think much of them until he was beginning to transform into one of them.

Just before Final Destinations, I stopped by chapters and I found something that I had been lookign for... forever or at least it seemed as such. A copy of Fantastic beasts and where to find them by JK Rowling. When I finally held a copy in my hand, I was holding it with both hands going to the cash to pay for it, I was not planning on buying this but I just could not leave it there.

I absolutely devoured this book, figuratively speaking of course. The book as also sparked my creativity and gave me ideas for drawings as well.

And on September 1st, another book I have just been waiting for, for so long. The sequel of The Hunger Games called Catching Fire. I haven't begun reading it as of now since I am currently reading Michael Scott's The Sorceress, but I cannot wait to start Catching Fire. If you have not read The Hunger Games, I would highly recommend it.

I have a day off tomorrow, part of my vacation, I thought it is labour day weekend and a long weekend, why not make it a longer long weekend. I deserve it I think. Plus, it is also Gatineau Balloon Festival time with two amazing shows that I am planning to see. The first one being tomorrow in fact, the french canadian group called Mes Aieux will be performing of the opening day of the festival. I cannot miss this.

The music is folk music, they have taken of folkloric french canadian songs and gave it a more modern twist. They are entertaining and quite energetic.

The second show is Eric Lapointe. I have just been waiting a year, no kidding, to see a summer concert. Last summer he got sick and into rehab and had to cancel almost every single summer concerts resulting in a girl needing of eric lapointe music dose really badly. This will definitely be the highlight of this long weekend.

I am planning on going for a run tomorrow morning, possibly rollerblade as well, do some apartment tidying, get ready to get to the concert, will bring a book, drawing pad since I will be there when they open at 4pm insuring a spot in the front row. This is a must.

Saturday I might take a little road trip to merrickville, I love this small and quaint artistic town. I really miss it, I used to go at least once if not more in the summer and I have not lately. So this is also long overdue.

Times I have eaten corn on the cob: 4
Days left until the eric lapointe concert: 4
Book I am reading: The Sorceress by Michael Scott

I believe that is it for this long overdue blog post. I will not make any promises of a post tomorrow but I will try if I have something interesting to express.