eleven

monday evening i lay down on my bed at around six. i later woke up confused realising that it was now eleven. realising that it was almost time for bed i worried my self because i knew that i would not be able to fall asleep anytime soon after my five hour nap. but being hopeful i thought that if i just stayed in bed and read then i could fall asleep again. so i went to the bathroom got my p.j.'s on and hopped in to bed (i don't actually wear p.j.'s). then i continued reading my book. at around one i thought i would try and fall asleep, so i put my book away, turned out the light and tried to fall asleep. i couldn't sleep at all i layed in bed wide awake till four in the morning but i thought i would record of all that happend. first i must note that all times are 14 minutes earlier then actual time because my clock is set fast. 1:37 i think about maybe reading more of my book but don't want to turn my light on and wake up tim. 2:09 tim starts snoring, i feel around on my bed side desk for my ear plugs but can't find them. 2:48 i think of a solution for world peace but do not write it down, i have no idea what it was but was convinced at the time that it would work. 3:05 realise that i've been awake for a really long time and wish that i had sleeping drugs. 3:06 get frustrated because it has only been one minute since i last looked at the clock. 3:09 get out of bed and go to the bathroom. 3:11 get back into bed. 3:24 get out of bed and go into the kitchen and write a poem. 3:31 i go back to my room and finally fall asleep.

decade

ten. yes. ten. i have reached the decade mark. when i started my blog i never thought i would hit the big one-zero, but here i am, in celebrationof this historic event i would like to take this time to thank the people and places responsible for making this blog possible. 1. no frills, no frills thankyou for your lack of frills which make things cheeper, p.c. macaroni and cheese, your dollar-days and your five cent bags, you make every poor hugry student feel rich and full. 2. my oldest sister miriam, for believing in me and advertising my blog almost as shamelessly as me. 3. the mean anonymous person, for reminding me what it feels like to cry. 4. my friends who stood up for me when the mean anonymous person was trying to take me down, fortier, the bruce thankyou. 5. my mom, for reading my blog and leaving a poem. 6. my school for giving me homework, making it possible for me to have the desire to do other things instead of homework such as write this blog, play worms and watch baseballchannel.tv. 7. my hygene products for taking me on adventures everyday. 8. angie, for being a regular reader and giving me perfect on room check this morning. 9. led zepplin, james blunt, dctalk and kj-52 for your musical inspiration.10. finally but not least, all those of you who read my blog, whether i know you or not, whether we are friends from long ago or i just met you this year, whether we are distant friends or best friends, if at all i have made you laugh, cry, pee your pants, want to go to no frills or macdonalds, buy a rainbow pack, make you question the reason for life, then i have achieved what i set out to do. thankyou one thanyou all.

front nine

today i wrote two midterms, i ate chunky for lunch and am currently eating hotdogs for my after school snack.mmm, after school snacks, they are quite possibly the greatest invention next to two ply toilet paper. but why are after school snacks such a great invention? because when you eat an after school snack your about to go watch an after school special. now i do not know what the television has now for after school specials but when i was younger the after school specials were just that, special. saved by the bell, by far the best after school special ever aired after school, with out a shadow of a doubt. the show was so great because it delt with issues that were important to everyone's everyday life. it had real life like characters that you could point out in any highschool. thankyou zack, a.c., screech, lisa, jessie, kelly and mr. belding for showing me what highschool is all about. the next is student bodies, this show although no where near the genius of saved by the bell, it still holds a special place in my heart. a place that i am reminded of every once in a while when i see one of the acters on a cheesy canadian commersial. next is family matters, what a show, always teaching a valuble life lesson, but family matters is great because they had the best character ever thought up and some would think i'm talking of steve urkle, but no, waldow, waldow was the man, always "koo". and least but no where near last, infact almost close to first was fresh prince of bell air. the young will smith as will smith was always a treat, the show that taught the importance of family values. the episode where will gets shot, almost brought me to tears. the only thing against the show was that it ended poorly, will was sorta left with nothing, his fiance left him, his cousins moved and he was left alone to finish school in bell air, but i guess since he's will smith he can do anything. but i am a child of the nineties so my after school specials might be different from yours, if i've missed one you think should be on the list of greats, let me know.

eight

no frills. it has been over two weeks now since i have been to no frills. i don't know how i have let this happen but it has. last week i went to sobeys. making the transition from a grocery store with no-frills, to we-have-so-many-frills-that-you-don't-even-notice-them-all was a very stretching experience. it was like climbing mount vazuvious after having lived your whole life hiking in the gatineaux hills. it was like sitting in a cadilac when your used to a toyota echo, it was like eating p.c. white macaroni and cheese after eating mr. noodle. but i didn't know if i liked the we-have-so-many-frills-that-you-don't-even-notice-them-all store, i know that frills are meant to make people feel better when they shop, but it almost felt to crowded. there was more colours then in the rainbow pack, the staff actually looked somewhat professional and the bags were free. yes free bags. but the free bags brought up the questionin my mind," if you don't pay five cents for your bag, are you more likely to be less angry when it tears and you spill your groceries all over the floor at the front of the grocery store, causing a big mess?" i think the answer to that question depends on the variables, was the cashier nice to you? was it you or her that packed the bags, and most importantly was she cute? or for my female readers, was he cute? also, are you in a rush? do you get embarressed easy? are you short or tall, this is very important because if you are short the bag has less distance to gain vilocity and will likely cause less of a mess. these are all things to consider when trying to ask the question. but back to school work i don't think that question has anything to do with what i'm studying.

seventh heaven

for those of you who aren't going on vacation this march break don't worry, i have found a way to have a vacation adventure every day all within the confines of my residence. yes in my residence. "but matt," you are all asking, "how could you have such a wonderful adventure without spending thousands of dollars and taking up precious vacation time? can i have these types of adventures as well?" the anwser is most definitely and it is found in hygiene products. yes. hygiene products. every day you can have a tropical island adventure in the bathroom, or experience the rockies in your laundry room, all with hygiene products. not even special ones. in fact, i bought most of my hygiene products that take me on these adventures at shoppers drug mart and no frills. every morning zest takes me to the ocean with its ocean energy bodywash. old spice takes me snowboarding with its mountain rush deoderant. being tired out from swimming in the ocean and carving down the mountain i relax in paradise with colgate luminus paradise fresh tooth paste. once a week purex helps me escape by the seaside with their seaside escape laundry detergent and after the washing machine has done its work, i park my self on top of mont blanc to take in the fresh air with my no name mountain fresh fabric softener sheets.

hexad

the rainbow-pack. do you know what i am talking about? yesterday i had a problem, and it had everything to do with the rainbow- pack. for those of you who did not have a complete childhood and never experienced the rainbow-pack let me fill you in on it. it is a combination of: cream-soda, grape crush, orange crush and mug rootbeer. first a little history on the rainbow-pack, mug rootbeer was not always affiliated with the rainbow-pack infact the origional rootbeer of the rainbowpack was hires rootbeer. what has happend to hires i do not know, if anyone knows please tell me. the rainbow pack is six cans of each flavor sitting on a cardboard tray covered in plastic. last night me and the rainbow pack were reunited as my roomate walked in after his trip to no frills. my problem was i didn't know which flavour to have, i would pick up a grape crush, look at it but then think, oh i want cream-soda it has been so long since i enjoyed that unique taste, but then i would look at the orange and think of how the orange is always a good choice, and then the rootbeer would yell to me,"don't waste your time with those flavours, i've been your favorite pop since you were two years old" this is true ask my mother. this made me think of other aspects of life, have you noticed that we are always faced with these types life changing decisions everyday; swiss army or hummer eau de toilet, brown or burgondy belt, converse weapons or nike acg shoes, cereal or tumms, grey bluejays hat or black bluejays hat, led zepplin or dctalk. when making decisions of this importance i like to flip a coin, the only problem was my four sided coin is in ottawa, so then flashing back to senior kindergarden i remembered how we solved these critical problems on the playground and i resorted to the tried and true eeny-meeny-miney-mo method, and the tiger i cought by the toe was my childhood favorite rootbeer. cheers.

pentagon

last night on the way back from my school's performing arts group performance we stopped at a coffee time. i was kind of excited about the prospect of going to a coffee time. i was excited because it is not everyday that you get to have coffee at what i would call the last resort coffee shop, it is the type of place that you only go to when tim hortons is no where to be found and after you have looked for a country style and discover there isn't one you go to coffee time. but this particular trip to coffee time was different because coffee time was having their flip-to-win event. flip-to-win. it was like nothing i had ever seen. for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of experiencing the flip-to-win, i'll explain it. what they do is write a prize under the rolled part of the rim and all over the cup they have different prizes you can win, trip for two to cuba is one example of a prize. so after you have finished drinking the coffee you are supposed to flip up the rim and see what you win. you can all imagine the excitement as i flip up the rim, but of course i didn't win anything. it is really too bad i know, but the worst part is that i don't know where i can ever play this type of game again, because you can only find coffee time in the middle of nowhere. i was so thrilled at this new experience of flipping a rim for a prize i really think that this is going to be a break through in the resurant gaming industry. if they keep up games of this caliber in their resturants they will no longer be the coffee shop of last resort but the place of first choice, where people will get up a half hour early just so that they can have the excitement of playing flip-to-win. watch out tim hortons, coffee time is going to sweep the world with their new and creative ways of attracting people with with original games like flip-to-win. i think that in the summer they should do some kind of doughnut monopoly.

four

i sit at my desk wondering how this could happen, my blog has become a message board for donnald miller fans. i guess i'll live, val i know you wanted to know, i'm curently eating the p.c. white macaroni and cheese that i bought at no frills. no frills is a fantastic place, what i love about no frills is that people chose not to buy the bags, the bags are five cents and yet people think they are saving so much money when really they are saving no more then a dollar and if you need twenty bags then you are probably spending over three hundred dollars on groceries and in which case, is struggling to find boxes really worth it? but then the best part is that since they don't buy bags they don't have bags for the garbage so then they will buy those expensive white glad gargage bags. no frills is also great because they have dollar-days, dollar-days should be called grocery-store-full-of-student-days. living away from home i have learned that grocery shopping is no fun at all, but i have done pretty good and in living cheap on the groceries, there are four secrets about grocery shopping that all students should know: 1. buy at least 5-10 michelina meals when they are on sale for a dollar not all of them smell like poo, you never know when the next sale will be. 2. get the no name mr. noodles they cost 5 cents cheaper but taste just as good if not better. 3. don't buy anything that can go bad unless your are a cereal eater, in which case buy milk, but that is the only exception. 4. instead of buying breakfeast food just get some tumms, tumms will take away the hunger pain and will hold you over till lunch. take heed to these grocery tips, they can save you lots of money. today i am listening to kj-52 for those of you who are keep track. thankyou. have a nice day.

trilogy

everyone seems to want to know how my pickle on the can ended yesterday but i chose not to end that story. so many questions to answer from the comments which i do appreciate, but i would rather not answer all of them, although fortier i will let you know, only i read these posts before i post them. all of my roomates were hesitant to read my posts because they said it was to long, but how am i suppost to go deep into the issues i explore with out being longwinded. hold on. wait. yes. sorry. common sense has reminded me that my blog says nothing of any deep value except for maybe the odd thought. but i like to think of my blog like mcdonalds fries, they taste so good and fill you up but really they have no substance in them, and in an hour, after the mctummy ache has warn off and you have been to the bathroom you are hugry again. but mcdonalds is a great place, i think it is in the top three fast food chains; mcdonalds, wendies, harveys. mcdonalds is the greatest because you can empty your fries into the burger box to create a tray which makes mcdonalds ideal for traveling. i truely think that mcdonalds funded supersize me, after watching that documentry i made three conclusion; the main character looks like keith dow. if you eat at mcdonalds every day for a month with out eating anything else you will get sick. and i desperately want a big mac meal. but i think supersize me should make a sequel but this time it will be called, deli sandwich me then they could tell everyone why they think burger places need to have deli sandwiches. the only problem is that since it is a sequal it will be awful, can you actually think of a sequel that was better than the origional. here's a question to the philosopher, "is a good sequal more of an accomplishment then a great origional?" then after the terrible sequel they can make a third documentry all about ronald mcdonald called afro me red, and everyone will go and see it even though the sequel was terible, because they will say to themselves "there's no way its going to be as bad as the sequal, it'll be like the first again", but of course its going to be worse then even the sequel, and yet people will be surprised. but then the mcdonalds trilogy will be out and then they could have happy meal toys for it. but sense i am a bible college student i should not worry about things like that and study for my midterm tomorrow. would you believe that i'm listen to dctalk again. oh. the song has changed to r.e.m. did you know that if you believe they put a man on the moon.