$10,000?? YES please!

So, c100 is giving away $1,000 everyday this week to the hundredth caller at 7:40am and 1:somethingpm. They kept announcing it, and seriously, I never listen to the radio.. ever. Why would you, when you could hand pick your favorite songs and have your own personal radio station (via mp3 player/ipod) ANYWAY, I randomly listened to the radio on my mp3 player, and I haven't stopped since. Literally- If I leave the apartment, I have my mp3 player, and here I'm listening to it streaming online. So, i've been listening to the contest stuff, and people win $1,000. I was like "hmm that'd be pretty sweet!" then they announced that THURSDAY is different. hey are giving away not just $ONE,ooo but $10,000!! haha so I was like "why not! there can't be that much competition. No one listens to the radio, and at 7:40 in the morning.. no one!"

SO i checked out the rules of the contest, made sure i just had to call, and not do anything silly.
Found out I just had to be caller #100.. (and you can only win once during the week) so I decided, I'd try first for the $10,000, and then try the day after for the $1,000. So I set my alarm for 7:30 am.

and here are some pictures of my morning:

this is c100 streaming. it had been on all night. I had to be listening.. that makes sense to everyone right? haha

Oh, and they said you had to correctly
answer a math skill testing question. Since I have NO mathematical skill to test... I looked up an online scientific calculator! It was ready to go!

BAM.. a not happy(makeup-less, barely awake) me at too early in the morning, having already lost! man that's a bad picture! (note to guys- makeup IS a good thing!)

so I called, and it rang once then a busy signal.. so i kept calling immediately after each busy signal.. FINALLY it rang more than once! Someone picked up and said "Hello, you are caller 67, try again" then she hung up. So I kept trying.. ring-busy, ring-busy
several times! Then they announce that they were on caller 89!! ahh!! so I kept going.. and then it stated ringing like before when they answered. I got really excited and nervous!.. nervous?....

they didn't answer!! so I kept trying.. until They announced their winner... :(
oh well.. :( I'll try for $1,000 later today, and tomorrow. I have to win. I was close! I was gonna also use our home phone, but what are the chances that Amber got a phone call literally 2 seconds before my 7:30 alarm went off!!? (that is perhaps the first time.. the first that I know of anyway)

Alright, time to get ready for school..

This is me, peacin out -still poor- Laura.

5 second later update- now they have the winner on the radio rubbing it in my face!! seriously, her voice just came out of no where said "I'm ______, and I just won $10,000 on C-100!!"

Creative Laura

SO, i LOVE the Dollarstore. ANY dollar store. Dollarama is my favorite but the other ones make me happy as well.. so i went today, and got these. I also got one that says "With God all things are possible" plus i had already gotten ones of the leaning tower of pisa and the eiffle tower

A Dream is a wish the heart makes

this one is a little crooked.. it came letter by letter rather than word.. and i just did it quickly, so it's blah.. oh well i'll be moving home in a few weeks, lol so it'll be coming off the wall shortly.

this is my favorite! and the actual creative part.. the other ones i just peeled it off and stuck it on the wall.. but not this one.. i love it! It makes me feel really happy. if you can't tell ( i'm not sure why you wouldn't be able to.?) it's partly on my door (to the right) and on to my wall, and around the corner. I love love love it!

well, that's it for now.. it's SPRING... so i'm going to eat a popsicle :)

SEEYA!!

God likes science!

So, I'm taking Mind and Brain (psych class).. it's by far my hardest class this semester.
We have "minute papers" every once in a while. So he(my prof) gives us a subject or question that we have to write about .. we have a couple minutes at the end of class to do it,and then pass it in.
Last week we had one about religion and brain activity.. some say that religious experiences are merely results of stimulation of a certain part of he brain..
So, i don't remember exactly what I said.. it was pretty scattered (I thought I wouldn't do very well on it, which was disappointing because I had a lot to say haha)

I said in my paper:

-It makes sense for religious experiences to stimulate your brain, as does all other experiences.
-I don't believe that science and religion need to be separated. They go together perfectly. and

-religious experiences are not dependent on the stimulation of the brain.
- "God likes science"
(and other things but I can't remember)

So, after we have minute papers, after hey are marked, the mark is posted online, and if he thinks you did an exceptional job, he'll give you a bonus point, and if he REALLY thinks it's noteworthy, he'll show it on the projector infront of the class and talk about it.

So, my professor started class with "the minute paper marks are online and everyone did really well!" he said it was hard to pick ones that got a bonus point and not..
haha so i'm thinking "mine was just so unorganized.. and just not very well written.." so i felt even worse because everyone else did so great.. like as if i was the only one that didn't do well.
So I looked online and I got 5 out of 4! I got the bonus point!

Then he's showing someone's paper on the projector.. and then he starts reading another one and it sounded familiar.. cause IT WAS MINE!! He liked it!!! and then he added the part that said "God likes science" and he laughed a little and said "that's interesting"

YEEEH!!!!! so apparently, I did a good job :D

haha sooo.. that just happened, and I'm still in that class, so I'm going to pay attention now.

ciao!!

mmm Wind!

I went to see Never Say Never last week with Laura, Vanessa, Karen, and Erinn. It was so so great! Justin Bieber is one awesome kid!! He has been crazy talented since he was really young ( I know he's still really young but I mean compared to how old he is now) It was actually a pretty inspiring movie. I admire him a lot more. I kind of assumed he was somewhat a punk since he's a young famous kid.. but he's humble, and kind. If he was older, I'd have he biggest crush on him!! haha.......................... we are going to see it again tonight. haha :S Don't judge! at least it's cheap night movie night.


So, I just adore spring time. I know it isn't technically spring yet, but it's GREAT out! yesterday it was like 10 degrees, and even though lack of sun is depressing, the temperature made up for it 100%! i even enjoyed the rain!! (except when i was walking back from sobeys last night and got back to my apartment more wet than if i'd just gotten out of a long shower with all my clothes on haha.. oh well.. it was fun)

Has anyone noticed how different my posts are now that it's getting nicer out?? It's amazing how different I feel when winter starts to go away, and spring starts to show itself. I feel just so happy inside, with so much energy, and excitement...

I am excited to go to school in Arizona and feel like this even in the winter!! YAY

This is going to be short, and probably without pictures.. sorry. I have 2 mid terms tomorrow, and one the next day. My anthropology mid term was supposed to be today, and thankfully it wasn't!! I discovered a leak in my heater that had spread on my floor almost the entire size of my bed, and it became moldy as well.. GROSS (probably why i've been sick non stop) so, I had to stay home from class today so that people could come look after it..

Weird fact about me: I love the wind (or hate it.. depending on the circumstance- i hate it when it's dark and scary outside and i'm walking alone and can't hear if someone is coming after me.. lol) I love being in the car with the windows down, or sitting in-front of a fan full blast. I honestly have a face that I make when I am experiencing the above situations.. haha it has been named my "wind face" haha wonder why..? Imagine a face of pure peace/happiness.. this is my wind face!
I mention this, because while i love the feel of it, I also love the sound. Fans, vacuums, hairdryer, microwaves.. they all give me goosebumps... and the people that fixed my floor/heater issue left a fan on in my room to dry the carpet quicker.. and I am sitting in the living room fighting back the urge to go in here and sit in-front of it with my wind face and just fall asleep. (the sound puts me almost instantly to sleep :) )

yep.. can't fight the urge anymore.. PEACE :)