100 Things

So I stole this idea from Nick who stole it from someone else....

Here are 100 things you may not have known about me:

• My middle name is Alanna
• I have an older brother and a younger sister
• All 3 of us have the same initials (K.H.)
• My birthday is April 19th, 1985
• My favourite colour is Green
• Purple is a close second
• I'm obsessed with bows at the moment (the pretty ribbon ones - not the ones with arrows)
• I've never been in love
• I used to have a cat, Fluffy, but she died last year (Abby has a story that goes along with that actually, haha)
• My parents names are Gerry and Pearl

• I'm 1/2 Chinese (Suprise Suprise)
• I've been to 22 countries - Canada, USA, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Thailand, Laos, England, Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, Morocco, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
• I hope to travel to all the other countires in the world before I die
• If I had one wish in the world, I would want to be fluent in every single language that ever has, or will exist.
• My favourite food is my mom's spaghetti
• I haven't eaten meat in 2 months
• I've worked as a receptionist, server, theatre instructor, engraver, and now I do collections (that's all I can think of right now, but I'm sure there's more)
• I tend to get along better with guys as friends, so all you girls out there reading this are amazing people!
• I've lived in the same house my entire life
• We have a cabin on the Sunshine Coast that I have also lived in my whole life - well until recently I guess because I haven't been there in ages

• I have been involved in many activities in my lifetime, including gymnastics, figure skating, t-ball, softball, roller hockey, dance, bowling, singing, theatre - one time I came late to a roller hockey game because I had a dance recital - I will still in my dance makeup and hair. Let me tell you that not many of the 10 year old male hockey players understood me much.
• My dad was the coach of above hockey team
• My dad used to race corvetts for a living
• I need to wear contacts
• I have a fear of things touching my eye
• I'm Claustrophobic
• I've always wanted to go skydiving
• I love doing adventurous things
• I believe that the harder something is for you to accomplish (fear wise) the better the reward when you complete it
• I believe in Karma

• I call myself a Christian
• I haven't been to church in a long time
• When I was young I had a problem with staying over at friend's houses
• I went to a child therapist for it, though It only made it worse
• I was the most highly sensitive child - I would cry over everthing
• I have a high stress personality
• I'm very empathetic of other people
• I love Gilmore Girls and Grey's Anatomy
• I'm in love with the really geeky character on Criminal Minds
• I'm also in love with Christian Bale

• My favourite movies are Newsies, Notebook, and Armageddon becuase I remember what I felt like the first time I watched them
• I LOVE to read
• As a child my punishment for misbehaving was that I couldn't read my book before I went to bed
• My favourite books are The Outsiders, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and Angels and Demons
• My favourite chocolate bar is Crunchy
• I'm not a huge sweet person - I don't crave it very often
• I HATE slurpees
• I love chai tea lattes
• I love tea in general
• I love just looking things up on the internet fo absolutly no reason at all

• I'm NOT a morning person
• In fact I would rather stay up all night and then sleep right through it
• I have a great family, seriously
• I've been told that my standards are too high
• I'm working on it
• I love anything with coconut in it
• My favourite number is 8
• I'm a messy person though I like things to be clean
• I'm grumpy when I have to wake up
• I love guys with accents, though I know that having an accent doesn't make you a loveable person

• In some parts of the world I have an accent
• I'm pretty good at directions and finding my way around
• I'm not very good at remembering street names
• Or peoples name
• Or lines
• Or anything for that matter
• I want to be married on a beach and honeymoon with a backpack in India... or Venice
• Everytime I see one of those World Vision commercials I want to cry
• I'm not big into drinking, but I have my moments
• I've never smoked pot

• I've had a barbed fish hook stuck in my hand before and my dad had to pull it out on the boat with a pair of rusty needle nose pliers while my mom kept me from watching him do it
• I've never broken a bone (knock on wood)
• I think my blood type is O+
• I have my Open Water Diving Certificate
• I was the top Automotive 11 student in my High School
• One of my high school friends that I met through Auto was killed in an accident in the Auto shop of my school in my grade 11 year.
• I went to Montgomery Elementary and Middle, and Centennial High
• I've always wanted to own a motorcycle
• I used to have a rock and shell collection that I refused to let my mom throw away
• I used to make my mom tuck me in for bed with all of my stuffed animals because I though they all had feelings and I couldn't show favouritism by sleeping with just one

• To fall asleep at night when I have too much on my mind, I try to block out everything and just concentrate on counting my inhales and exhales.... works everytime
• I love highlighting stuff to the extent where I would highlight so much of my notes that it would be pointless because everything was highlighted
• I love the sound of high heels clicking on hard floors
• I play with my hair alot, which makes me look dumb
• My first kiss was with a boy named Brock
• My first real kiss was when I was 16
• I love swimming
• I get motion sickness reallllly easily
• I love being a passanger in cars during thunder storms
• I love the snow, though I hate to drive in it

• I've rear-ended someone, been involved in a rear-ender, backed into a cement lamp post at Cap, backed into my dad's truck, was parked at work when someone hit my car and ran, and finally wrote my car off
• When I finally got out of my car and looked at it when I wrote it off, I threw-up all over the sidewalk
• My dad's best friend put my boyfriend at the time through a very funny fake lie detector test when they first met
• My dream job would involve performing, travelling, and dealing with people - so far I seem to be heading into a tourism career
• I hate flying
• I love seafood
• I hate fake people
• I love country music
• I love quotes
• I really want kids, but not for a while yet

Why can't I change?

Ok,

So I did end up getting a new phone plan, and it doesn't seem too bad. It's with Telus, so I kept my cell # and the phone my Dad gave me. I have unlimited incoming calls, unlimited evenings after 5pm and unlimited weekends. I only have 100 or 150 weekday minutes, but since I'm at work anyways, I figure it won't be a problem (I hope!) I also have 100 long distance minutes a month, so All of you long distance people better start calling me.

Work is going well - the people there are all really nice. I'm also supposed to be picking up some shifts back at Alekos on Friday nights, so hopefully I will have a little extra money as well. I worked last night as well, which was actually good as I am a little rusty and I'm working Friday, which hopefully will be nice and busy, so it was good to get up to speed.


I'm actually sitting at work right now writing this. I have an hour for lunch, and today I had to cover reception while Carlie takes her lunch, and since I usually hang out with Carlie or Sarah, I have some free time. I normally run errands as I'm so close to Coquitlam Centre, but I didn't really feel like it today.

Now for the good stuff.


So, this morning while waiting for a customer to answer the phone, I was watching the seconds tick by on the clock on my phone. It got me to thinking how short life is and how we will never get the time back that we waste. I know, I know, that's a pretty big thought while listening to the phone ring, but it came about because I was thinking about how I am just sitting here calling people trying to collect money, and I just really want to be doing anything else. Now, don't get me wrong. I actually enjoy my job and the people I work with and I totally understand that in order to do the things we want, we need to work for it, but I feel like I'm spending so much time just waiting for the "next big thing."

I know I've posted on this before on the other blog, but I am still dealing with this problem. I can't seem to just enjoy life where I'm at in the present time. I mean, I can enjoy it, but I'm never happy. The grass is ALWAYS greener for me. I feel like I waste so much just biding my time and then it's done and gone. I worked my bum off all year last year and the result let me spend 4 glorious months in Europe doing whatever the heck I wanted. I promised myself that this year I wouldn't do that, that it wasn't worth it, but I'm backsliding into the same habits.

I was talking to Larry, the owner of Alekos, last night about my schedule. I had requested to work only Friday nights as I didn't want to take on too much and have no social life again. Then I got to thinking that well, if I'm working 1 shift, it's not really that much of a difference, but if I work 2.... I settled on every Friday night, plus a Saturday or Sunday shift every other week. I also picked up a shift for someone else for next Monday. Why do I do this??!!! It's not that I desperatley need the money (I should have my debt paid off by the end of this month) but I just can't seem to say no to something if it means it may bring about my goal a little faster.

Why why why why why???? I keep asking myself that.

On a completely different note, If anyone comes to visit our new place starting Dec. 1st, you MUST bring a Christmas tree ornament with you, preferably hand made. I would love to have beautiful, or not so beautiful depending on your crafting degree, ornaments for the rest of my life made by people I love!

I'm going to get back to work now,

Kim

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*Sigh*

So I'm in the midst of searching for a new phone plan and it's feels like such a huge job! Kaylee and I aren't planning on getting a house phone, so I need a plan with lots of minutes. Daytime isn't that big of a deal, but I would like at least 100. I'm looking at a couple Telus plans and a Fido plan, but I still don't know. If anyone is on a good plan or with a good carrier, please let me know. I'm on Telus right now, and besides the bad reception in some areas, it's been pretty good actually. Is anyone on Fido? How is it for reception? We're in the basement so the signal needs to be fairly strong.

Sorry this is such a boring entry. My life is pretty bland right now. All I seem to be doing is work and then come home. I'm going to bed now though, so I will continue this later.

Night!

K.A.H.

Sorry it's been a while. So... what's new? Well I got a job doing collections at an Auto Leasing company, and it's actually not as bad as I thought it was going to be. The people are really nice and so far I haven't had any customers that are too bad. There are still the people who blame you for the fact that they couldn't pay their lease, and the people who hang up on you, but I don't mind it actually.

Wow, a lot has happened actually I don't know where to begin. Oh! Kaylee's moving in!!! I now have a roommate and a hot one at that! Now we will just have to spend our evenings having pillow fights and doing our laundry in our underwear, haha. As soon as we are settled we will have everyone over. We are going to have a Christmas tree this year and since neither of us are going to have much money for decorations, I was thinking we should have a popcorn-stringing and paper chain-making party. That would be fun, right? Right?

I watched a show on tv today called "The Long Way Round" with Ewan McGregor which made me miss travelling so much. I always knew that I loved to travel but I feel like that's what I should be doing. I know it sounds totally cliche but I really feel that I need to spend a significant time living abroad. I'm not sure where I want to go, but I know that I probably won't end up stating there too long anyway. I just want to be able to take off again and not really know where I'm going to go and what I'm going to do there. With my personality though I don't know if I will be able to just take off. I tend to freak out a little bit when I don't know what I'm doing and am HORRIBLE at leaving. I get so stressed out and start getting anxious about the fact that I may get anxious. I know it sounds crazy, but I'm just a stressed person naturally.

I know for a fact that there is no way I will be able to go in the next year as I don't have the funds, but if anyone is looking to take off and wander around the world for a year, let me know. I would much rather go with someone. The most common thing I hear about travelling is that you should go on your own, but one of the things that I loved the most was being able to share the experience with someone else. Most of the people we met that were travelling solo were actually pretty lonely. I mean they weren't lonely all the time, but the thing I heard the most was that they wished they had someone else that they could reflect with and experience everything with. My point is that I will be going and would love someone to travel with.

I actually just got totally distracted, haha. I don't remember where I was going, so I'm going to change the subject. I've decided that I need to get more active. Now that I'm sitting at a desk all day I feel that all I do is sit around. I really want to get out there and actually be doing something. I'll let you know how this goes, but I HOPE that this feeling of blahness gets me motivated enough to do something about it.

Love you all!!!!

Kim

PS. Kaylee, Have fun at WICKED and do some serious shopping!