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amy_silver @ 2007-07-28T02:15:00

2007-07-28T05:19:29Z

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amy_silver @ 2007-07-27T23:13:00

2007-07-28T02:20:48Z

Holy cr*p!!!!

I can't belive it's been six months since I last posted..... soooo much has happened... I'm back in Antigonish at Festival Antigonish summer theatre agian, and this year we're doindg a musical called "Honk!" It's based on the ugly duckling story. It's so amazing to be back here in Antigonish again, and many of the people from last year are back too! Ya know, even though I wasn't born here and I only live here for 6 weeks a year, Antigonish always feels like, and therefore is, at least to my way of thinking, my true home.

aaaahh, there's so much I want to write, but it'll have to wait till later...

"Goodbye, toodle-pip, old chum!"

Amy

amy_silver @ 2007-01-26T12:00:00

2007-01-26T16:04:20Z

Ohhh, I almost had a heart attack this morning. I left all of my notebooks at school because I figured I'd pick them up after my exam today, but then they cancelled school. So I thought that I was going to have to take my math exam on Monday without studying for it *dies*. Fortunately, I emailed my english teacher, and she happened to be at the school getting some of her stuf, so she's going to get my books for me. Talk about relieved! I never thought I'd be excited to be able to study, but I am now.

Carpe Diem

2007-01-24T02:21:12Z

Just thought I'd share a response I just posted in advice4teens, becasue it really sums up what I've felt and been feeling and realized over the past few months.

I've felt the same way and wondered the same things sometimes. One of the reasons that I felt that way was because everyone is always saying you should, "Seize the day." I looked at what they meant by siezing the day (getting drunk, shopping till your credit cards are maxed out, skipping off school), and when I compared it to my life, I thought that I wasn't siezing the day, so I thought that I would have regrets later in life. What I finally realized, though, is that "Seize the day" simply means doing what YOU want to do and what makes you happy TODAY, and not worrying about what you'll think twenty, thirty, fourty years down the road. You will be totally different then, and who knows, you might look back and say, "I wish I had just relaxed and enjoyed every day and everything I did back then." So basically, just enjoy what you're doing. If theater makes you happy, what's wrong with that? If just sitting in your room reading a book makes you happy, then do it! Later in life, if you look back and think, "I wish I'd done this or that or whatever," then you can just remember that you did other things that made you hapy at the time.

haha.. seven months later... my quotes du jour accurately sums up my feelings on the matter, "Time you enjoy wasting is time not wasted," and "I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary." 'Nough said. :-)

So long..

2007-01-24T00:59:15Z

Ohmygosh!! It seems like it's been forever since I last posted! Actually, I think it has! LOL Ok, so i don't have time to write about everything that's happened, but it's been awesome!

And I won the science fair! ME! Me, who couldn't even think of a project for 4 months! Unbelievable!

anyhoo, shjould check my piczo (http://amysilv.piczo.com) and my space.. holy ****, I don't have time to keep all of my sites updated! Ah, the tragedies of life!

amy_silver @ 2006-08-05T13:05:00

2006-08-05T16:21:21Z

I just finished my second week of theatre camp. I'm having a blast!!!! We're doing the Hobbit. I actually got a speaking part!!!! (two actually). I play a goblin commander and a wood-elf (just like Legolas). I'm also a High Elf, but I don't speak. Jeremy Webb is directing and he is soooo funny!!! Michelle is assistant director. I love her, she is such a fun person to be around. She makes us do a warm-up every morning. We do lots of stretches, a few yoga moves, 50 sit-ups, and 20 push-ups. It's wonderful!!! Everyone else groans though, and teases her about being evil, and she just laufghs and says "oh yes, I'm very evil! I love the sound of cracking musculs first thing in the morning." (she's joking, of course). I'm having such an waesome time, definately great memories!! I've met some other kids my age; Ryan (a fun guy to hang around with), Jeanna (I'm usually always laughing around her), Aislin, Molly (really nice and a bit tomboy-ish, her dad is Ed Thomason, the artistic director), Lucia, Sam (he and I always sword fight backstage, and one day I WILL beat him!!! MAUAHAHA), Laura (frien-imy of Sam), and Jacob (who I discovered is distantly related to me, and he has the absolute PERFECT Gollum voice).

I'm staying at Momma's, but mom is coming to pick me up in about.. oh, wait, about.. right now, and she and I are going to see a play Jeremy is in called 'Good Things' (it's gotten excellent reviews). We went to see the other play Jeremy is in ('The Woman In Black') last nigh. It is really good, but really scary. Well, I'd better go (even though that's not the half of it...) So til next time..

Keep on Rockin' in the Free World,
Amy
xoxoxoxo

amy_silver @ 2006-06-20T20:43:00

2006-06-21T00:13:41Z

Sorry, Igot interrupted the other night. Dad needed the computer, you know how it is. Anyhoo, where was I? Oh yes, May 29....

May 29: I came down with a terrible cold. It took me like three weeks to get fully over it.

May 31: Mom and I went to Halifax to drop dad off at the airport for his trip to Wisconson. Then we went to see The DaVinci Code. It was AWESOME!!!! Then we went shooping at Value Village (for once thouhg, i didn't get anything).

June 1: I went to the Nova Scotia Public Archives to try to research our family tree. Then we came home.

June7: We watched Flightplan. It was a good movie.

June 9: Ben, Mom, and I went to Halifax for the NSHEA Curriculm Fair (mom is the Vendor Coordinator). Ben and I helped the vendors bring all there books into the building. What was really cool though was that because we had to come from three hours away NSHEA piad for us to stay in one of the dormatories (they had the curriculm fair at Kings University). i'm thinking of going there, so it was really nice to see the campus.

oops, gotta go agian

amy_silver @ 2006-06-13T21:15:00

2006-06-14T00:28:32Z

Hey!!

Well, I've been pretty busy lately....

May 26: Ben had a HUGE birthay party. There were over 80 people here. We had music and dancing and booze. I had sooo much fun and I met alot of people from school, which was cool. Actually, I felt I did a really good job of mingling, especailly considering how shy I usually am. It didn't finally end until 4:00 AM. But man alive! it was AWESOME.

May 27: Presybytary meeting at 10:00 AM. Those things are boring as hell anyway, but the fact that I had like 4 hours of sleep the night before made me a total zombie. The point of the meeting was to get our new pastor (Mr. Welsh) approved by presybytary, and one of the presbytary memberrs *who shall remain nameless* kept making all these retarded comments over minuscular pionts. Talk about mountians out of molehills!! Thankfully, Mr. Davies was there to keep things moving along. Anyhoo, on the plus side, they did finally approve him, so we're going to get a pastor after like 5 years without one. Halleluia!!!! Halleluia!!!! Halleluia!!!! Halleluia!!!!
Moving on..... Mr. Welsh stayed at our place Saturday night because he was going to preach Sunday morning. It was kind of funny because he's our new pastor whom we've seen like once before, and when he arrived we were still like picking up all the empties off the lawn and scrubbing the floors from the party. He didn't mind too much though, but it was funny anyway.

May 28: Mr. Welsh preached at our church and as usual we had a fellowship luncheon after the service.

amy_silver @ 2006-05-19T23:17:00

2006-05-20T02:27:31Z

I just finished watching Close To Home, and the main character's husband died. it was so sad because they had just planned to go on a vacation together and it was going to be all romantic. Boo-hoo!!!!!

What is up with all the TV shows lately anyway? I mean like every show seems to have to kill off a mian character in the season finale. First it was the O.C. (Marissa), then Law & Order (Alexa, I think her name is, or was), and then Close to Home. Desperate Housewives is having its finale Sunday, and from the preview, it looks like Eva Longoria's husband is going to die. CSI's finale is on Teusday. I wonder who is going to die? I hope no one. :-(

Or maybe TV shows have been doing that for years and I didn't know (I hardly ever watch TV, except lately (because I've read all the interesting books in the house, and I don't get much computer time).

Anyhoo, I'm probably just tired and going way overboard (I mean like c'mon, getting depressed just because a bunch of TV shows you never watch are killing their characters?)

On a different TV note, I watched a Dr. phil Primetime Special (Escaping Danger) and it was really good and very grippping.

Amy
xoxoxoxo

amy_silver @ 2006-05-18T09:37:00

2006-05-18T12:43:57Z

Ha! I should be doing school now, but I'm not. Yay! Instead I'm sitting at the computer reading LJ. Ben's leaving for PEI today. His birthday is like Saturday or something (whenever the 22nd is, I'm not sure) so we'll have to celebrate when he gets back. uh.. I have nothing else to say right now (my brain's still foggy from waking up.....).....

You know what LJ community I've discovered that I really like? It's one_happiness (http://community.livejournal.com/one_happiness), where people describe what perfect happiness is to them in one sentence. And advice4teens(http://community.livejournal.com/advice4teens) is pretty cool too.

Amy
xoxoxoxo

amy_silver @ 2006-05-16T20:18:00

2006-05-16T23:26:52Z

Hey!!

Went to PEI this weekend to see Gramma Silver, good time. I got to ask her about the family tree (finally), which was great, but then I forgot the paper I wrote on at my aunt's. *oops!*

We got to see some great beaches (I love PEI's beaches, they are the best in the world). On one of them the sand was red, which was cool. Unfortunately, someone had carelessly smashed some old beer bottles on the beach, so there was broken glass. NOT cool.

It was funny because everyone else (Auntie Jane, Gramma Silver, Clinton, and dad) were having lobsters for supper Friday night, but I don't like lobster, so I got fried chicken instead. Clinton joked that I was eating "land lobster." LOL

well, beetter go for now,

Amy
xoxoxoxoxo

amy_silver @ 2006-04-23T20:02:00

2006-04-23T23:09:33Z

Oh, and I forgot to meantion, we rented "Walk The Line" on Friday night. I loved it!!!!! Mom read his autobiography, and she said that they did a really good job of sticking to the truth. One of my favorite scenes is when June Carter (Reese Withererspoon) yells at Johnny Cash, "I'm tired of being the little Dutch boy with his fimger in the damn. You can't walk no line, Johnny Cash!!" LOL

Anyway, good movie.

Amy
xoxoxoxoxo

amy_silver @ 2006-04-23T19:39:00

2006-04-23T23:01:01Z

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year... Wish you were here..."

I have that line going round and round and round in my head. Anyhoo....

I haven't updated in ages. *is sheepish*

The weather has been lovely yesterday and today. I finally got some gardening done. The garden need ed it soo badly. I basically neglected it all last year, so I have lots of work to do this year: re-cut the edge(actually, that's been needing to be done for several years now), loosen the soil, mix some peat moss in with it (other wise it just turns into one big clay-like lump), and, finally, plant some annuals in it.

Today after church we went for a drive through Cape Breton. It was gorgeous!! I took tons of pics with my digital camera, and I had dad's camera-phone too, so I had one in each hand, and I was madly snapping pictures right, left, and center as we drove long. The funny thing was, dad's phone makes a funny boing sound every time you snap a picture, so I was going along snapping pictures and it was going along going "boing, boing, boing, boing" and oh my gosh, I just got SOOOO hysterical. I mean I just couldn't stop laughing!!! And dad was just sitting there shaking his head at me, which of course just made me laugh even harder.

I had Jennifer and Holly (our neighbors) down here Friday night we played some games and had a good time. There great fun to be with. I actually feel kinda bad because I'm hardly seen them all winter, but that's because in the winter we usually go sledding or skating, and there was hardly any snow. We did go skating a few times around Christmas though, on our pond. Skating is fun. I never really liked it before because I couldn't do it, but this winter I got new skates, our pond froze perfectly, and i just thought to my self, "Okay, you S.O.B. ice, this year I WILL conquer you!!" and I just kept trying and trying, and eventually I did. Which just goes to show that persistence pays off. And that if you're stubborn enough, you can conquer just about anything. And I've got stubbornness in oodles. :-)

Well, I had better go,

Amy
xoxoxoxoxo

amy_silver @ 2006-02-03T11:48:00

2006-02-03T15:49:26Z

I just read the Inverse Law of Usenet Bandwith: "The more interesting your life becomes, the less you post, and vice versa." Jorn Barger said that. It's true too. (See my comment on my August 16, 2005 post (Yes, I know. Commenting on my own blog. Sad.... LOL). ;-)

amy_silver @ 2006-02-03T11:37:00

2006-02-03T15:42:29Z

Ugh. I have a cold. I hate colds. They are the worst thing in the world to have. I went skating on our pond with our neighbors yesterday though, and that was really fun. I even learned how to skate backwards!! YAY!!!! Now all I need to learn is how to stop (minor detail.... LOL). We are having pizza tonight! I love pizza. If I had my choice, I would eat pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, every day, seven days a week. :-)

Keep on Rockin' in the Free World....

~Amy~

amy_silver @ 2006-01-04T11:13:00

2006-01-04T15:15:53Z

Anyway, so mom and I ar4e going to the nursing home agian this afternoon. I hope that I get to help give the senoirs thier tea and snack agian. That was fun. Well, fun's not the exactly right word. "It was nice to help the senoirs and doing good made me feel good" would be more like it. Anyhoo, I'll probably get to the mall while we're in town. Not a lot to do there either though. Walmart, CD Plus, Dollarama, and the Volume I bookstore are about the only interesting stores. oh, well.....

amy_silver @ 2006-01-04T11:11:00

2006-01-04T15:10:27Z

Yeah. You know what? I'm sooo bored, I'm just going to keep on posting. ha-ha!!!

amy_silver @ 2006-01-04T11:06:00

2006-01-04T15:05:22Z

Oh. And I forgot to say "Happy New Year"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!

amy_silver @ 2006-01-04T11:00:00

2006-01-04T15:02:20Z

haha... nothing to say. I should be doing school, but I'm bored. Screw school!!! I think the computer is the best device EVER for wasting colossal amounts of time on. Actually, no. It's second. The first place distinction goes to the TV. ha-ha!! Oh, well.

Yeah. So I'm just really bored........

Merry Christmas to everyone in the whole world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-12-24T19:53:44Z

I LOVE Christmas!!!!!!!!! "It's the most wonderful time of the year!!"(and it's not X-mas either, grrrr)

We're leaving for Halifax early tomorrow so we got to open our presents today!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got 'Ned Kelly' on DVD!!!!!!!! and a 'pirates of the caribbean' calender (featuring my fav actor and actress: Johnny Depp and Kiera Knightley. and of course the sexiest man alive, orlando Bloom. LOL)!!!!!!
I also got a book of Victorian era poetry (which I love), lots of candy (in my stocking), and Barbie doll dressed as a 17th century Russian princess, and a bunch of other stuff i won't bother to mention. And i really surprised my mom this year: i got her a cd of the best of the Mamas and the Papas.

I am so tired i'm alternating between exhaustion and being totally hyper. it probably is 'cause i've been up till 2am every night for the past two weeks, and last night i was up till 3 wrapping presents. i love doing that too. i love anything artsy: painting, drawing, writing (esp. poetry), sewing (i'm not every good at that one though), photography, music, and movies. hmmmmmm...... i wonder if there's a job out there that allows you to do all of them. probably not. oh well. i'll settle for being a photojournalist and doing everything else on the side..... i'm rambling like an idiot, aren't i? *is too exhausted too care*

Amy
"Hearts are for breaking, dreams are for chasing, and life is for living - with no regrets, limits, or fear of what other people say!!!"

Hey!! It's me, the most faithful blogger in the world!!!!!!!! LOL

2005-11-10T14:31:35Z

OK, well so much has happened I don't know where to start.....

Ben is still having a blast at school.

I'm still taking piano lessons, but I'm starting to find the Royal Conservatory boring. All its songs are stuffy old classical pieces or weird modern ones. :-(

I'm also still in horseback riding lessons. I love horses!!!! I've started riding this really beautiful horse called Tex (short for Texas). He is soooooo good. He's the best EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished writing to two of my friends, Samantha in England and Olivia in New Brunswick. I'm afraid I'm not a very faithful writer either, but it is nice to write and to hear from people. I love getting letters and emails!!!!!!

On the 4th, I went to a dance at my brother's high school. I even managed to get up my nerve to ask a guy to dance (actually, I'd met him before. He's one of my neighbor's best friends, a really nice guy). It was awesome!!!!! (or at leats I thought so, but I've never been to a dance before. Most of the people who have been to other dances say the ones at that school really suck, and I will admit that there weren't a lot of people there, maybe 50) It was a Halloween dance, so some people came in costumes. One guy came dressed up as the principle, and another guy came as roadkill. He was wearing a piece of black bristol board with yellow and white lines (like the road) and he had a picture of a deer taped on with some red stuff. It was sooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And at least the police didn't have to get called in. My mother's cousin is the principle of a school in the city and she says that lots of times they have to get the police to come to their dances. :-(

Last week we went to see a romantic comedy called "Elizabethtown". It was awesome!!! :-) It had a great storyline and a reall feel to it. Not like most over-polished-and-way-too-perfect romantic comedies. Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom make such a great pair!!! I am really starting to like Kirsten Dunst. I was ok with her when I saw her in "Spiderman", but I didn't think she was any different then the 1 million other blonde starlets out there. My opinion of her improved some with "Spiderman 2", and even more with "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", but now that I've seen her in "Elizabethtown", I think she's a great actress!!!!! I also like the fact that see does some films that are quirky and off the beaten path (like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Elizabethtown"), instead of falling into the teeny-bopper trap (Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Kate Bosworth, I'm talking about you). And of course, there was Orlando Bloom. If People magazine doesn't name him sexiest man alive this year, then they have noooo common sense whatsoever!!!!! My mom went to see "Elizabethtown" with me, but Ben and dad went to see a movie called "Doom" that had lots of shooting and explosions. They couldn't stand the thought of going to see a romantic comedy! LOL

Well, better go for now....

Keep on rockin' in the free world...

Amy
xoxox

School

2005-10-03T21:23:00Z

Well, school has started. I'm homeschooled and in grade 9, but next year I am going to go to public school. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will be the first time that I've actually gone to a real school. Ben is in the public school this year (grade 11 for him) and it's his first year. He loves it!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone is sooooo friendly (probably because we're in the country, where everyone is related to everyone by birth, marriage, or 40 years of friendship)!!

anyway, it will be interesting next year....

amy_silver @ 2005-10-03T16:01:00

2005-10-03T19:06:49Z

Okay. Everyone has gotten those forwards that you have to fill out, right? Well, this one is a little different. You send it to your friends, and they fill it in about you. Kinda scary sometimes, but very interesting. This is the reply that I got from my neighbor... and everything she says about me is true!! On the other hand, most of the stuff that I said about her was true too, so I guess we know each other pretty well!!!! LOL

2.Where did we meet: I think it was infront of your garage, but you think it was infront of my house. WHO KNOWS!
3.Take a stab at my middle name: Colleen
4. Do I believe in God: you bet!
5.How long have you known me: about 8 years
6.Do I smoke: nope...YOU BETTER NOT
7.What was your first impression of me upon meeting: I can't remember...prolly...cool..I love new neighbors!
8.Color of my eyes: blue
9.Do I have any siblings (names): Ben
10.What's one of my favorite things to do: read, collect "things" and talk about public school
11. Do you remember one of the first things I said to you: nope.
12. What's my favorite type of music: pop, and punk rock
13. What is the best feature about me: that you can play the piano well
14. what is the worst feature about me: I don't know...that you can get hyper, but that isn't that bad
15.Am I shy or outgoing: a bit of both
16. Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules: follow the rules
17. What's your favorite memory of me: I don't know, the Trews concert
18.Any special talents: playing piano, and I don't know what else

Threatre camp was sooooo much fun!!!!

2005-08-23T14:07:33Z

The best part was we got to do a skit at the end. We were divided into groups and each group was given a starting line and an ending line and we had to come up with a story that would fit our lines. It was so cool! Our group came up with the idea for a bank robbery and that evening I wrote up a basic script and character sketches, because I thought everyone else in our group would do the same thing or at least be thinking about it, and when I got back to camp the next day I couldn't believe it: I was the only one in the whole camp who had even thought about characters or plot or anything!!!

One of the other groups came up with a hilarious skit about two old ladies tlaking and one of them keeps forgeting everything. They had really good costumes too. One of the girls put baby powder in her hair so that it would look gray.

Anyhoo, I had a blast!!

Amy

Royal Conservatory of Music piano exam

2005-08-17T12:25:29Z

Well, sometime way back in June I mentioned that I was going for my Royal Conservatory of Music(RCM) piano exam. The results finally came back last week. It was my first exam, even though I'm in RCM grade 3. My final score was 72, which isn't what I'd like, but it still qualifies as honors. My friend (also in RCM grade 3) made 75, and both of us agree that you'd have to be mystro to make anything in the 90's. Not that either of us can't play the pieces well enough to get 90's, but you'd need nerves of steel to play your best in front of a robotic-sounding lady whom you've never seen before on a piano you'd never played before. But at least I passed, so I'm happy!! LOL