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| | Just randomness | | | Thursday, May 15, 2008 (8:17 AM)
(I'm feeling cheerful) | | Good morning everyone,
I have had a busy morning so far. I decided that since I do not work till 12pm I would go an a little shopping adventure. It started off with me going to a upscale mini mall. I love the store Heel Boy and I am a frequent shopper. There is this pair of white Rocket Dog heels I wanted to buy. Unfortunate the store does not open till 12pm should have known lol. So instead I headed over to this new coffee bar that just opened this past winter. I have to admit I had the best and I mean best vanilla latte ever. I will definitely be going there again mmmm. So after that I went to buy a few things from Wal-Mart and I needed to get some plastic storage containers. My dad is an avid fisherman so I bought him some new hooks and jig heads for father's day. My dad also loves Rapala fishing hooks so I bought him one...hehehe I have lost my share of them in the rocks or weeds lol. I am also going to give him a booked called The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski. It was a required book for a course I took last term called Material Culture and Symbolic Ideologies. I found the book so fascinating that I decided to buy a copy for my dad.
It was a good thing I was going slow and paying attention this morning as a small child about two almost ran into my shopping cart. I think I actually jumped and almost had a mini heart attack. She came face to face with my cart and boy I am glad she actually did not run into it.
The last stop before I headed home was to the Salon I always go to. I wanted to get my eyebrows waxed. I thought what the heck I might not have the opportunity to go for a while and they need to be done. Plus it was close by so I headed over. I am friends with the owner and all the ladies that work there so we chatted for a bit. However, the aestition was not in till 12pm so I could not get them waxed lol. Oh right I had just gotten a manicure last week and Holly, the owner, said that I needed another one yikes I didn't realise my cuticles were in such bad shape lol. She was surprised that my nails and cuticles were so rough looking lol. Anyways I have to head to work in a few minutes. I was thinking of getting a new cell phone as my contract is ending soon and does anyone have any suggestions?
Until next time
xoxo
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| | Just me | | | Monday, May 12, 2008 (6:29 AM)
(I'm feeling contemplative) | | Hi everyone and all my LV friends,
So today I have the day off and what to do. It is cloudy and it is forecasted to rain so I am not sure. However, I have a long list of things to keep me busy I am as going to be working the next ten days straight ugh. I thought I might head over to the library, fill out my passport application since my passport expired and I will need one June, apply for a grant for the upcoming school term, do my laundry, clean my apartment, take a nap, work out, go to pole dancing class, maybe do some stuff on the ball, lets see what else, study, give my dogs a bath and haircut, call my mom, do yeah I have lots of stuff to keep me busy and occupied although I know my thoughts will be some where else all day and this is really to keep me busy. But I do need to rest up because my employer said he was going to work me to the bone yikes. So I am off to shower and start my day.
Lastly, if anyone dares start shit or drama with me I will come out fighting and I normally get what I want. I am tired of people sending me gross and disrespectful messages.
until next time...
xoxo
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| | Have you ever... | | | | Wednesday, May 7, 2008 (4:52 PM) | | Hi everyone,
I am sure everyone has a list of things they have thought of doing before they die. So here is my list. I think everyone should have a list as it reminds you of what you really want to do in life and are passionate about. Plus it is so much fun to think of cool things to do over the course of a lifetime.
1. Go on to same sort of graduate program
2. Make a difference in people's lives every day
3. Teach English in Korea for a year
4. Go to the Arctic
5. Live on a reserve to see what it is really like to become more compassionate
6. Have two kids
7. Write a play
8. Write a book
8. Start my own business something very creative and me
8. Go to Ireland and make some new friends along the way
9. Decorate my apartment
10. Start a charity that helps to empower teenage girls and women
11. Publish five papers in an academic journal that actually makes a difference
12. Work in impoverished communities and develop after school programs for low income families...social work...possibly
13. Go to Costa Rica and go on a Zip Line adventure
14. Overcome my fear of skiing
15. Go on a bike tour in Europe along the Mediterranean
16. Spend a summer in BC hiking, kayaking, and chillin
17. Learn to speak German or Inukukuit (spelling)
18. Go to Russia/Finnmark/Swedden/Norway to learn about Reindeer Herding
19. Go to the Carribean
20. Are you my number 20
xoxo
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| | Veggie pasta | | | Wednesday, May 7, 2008 (4:26 PM)
(I'm feeling blah) | | Hi everyone,
When I was at the farmer's market a few weeks back there was a vender that was selling homemade gluten free pasta made from vegatables and not various kinds of flour. I was curious about what pasta made from vegatables would taste like. I have to admit that after having a few monthfuls I am not sure I am entirely won over on this one. I love trying new foods and new kinds of foods but this one is just not doing it for me. It is very dense and had an interesting texture. I guess this can be expected since the pasta is made from veggies after all lol. However, I do think it would be interesting to see how the pasta is made and the process involved.
For a while now I have been slowly choosing gluten free products and making a lot of my bread and baking. I can never seem to get the bread to turn out and I was wondering if any one had a good breadmaker recipie for gluten free bread. I have almost every flour you need to make gluten free bread. It smells just like normal bread when it is baking but for some reason it is denser, crumblier, and just weird. I know that this is to be expected because the gluten is the glue in bread. So please feel free to share any gluten free recipies you have.
xoxo
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| | Workout madness | | | Sunday, April 27, 2008 (5:00 PM)
(I'm feeling lazy) | | Good morning all my LV friends,
Normally I am your typical gym rat but since March I have not gone at all well ok maybe a little here and there. I cancelled all of my personal trainer sessions until May but I am not even sure if I am going to resume them then. Well to be honest I keep on getting ill towards the end of my sessions and now I am scared I am going to continue to get ill. My trainer is so sweet and not the drill sergeant type but I just hate throwing up at the gym. So let's just say it is not the most pleasant thing. I was thinking of building an at home gym or at least adding to what I already have but then I was thinking that I love going to cycle, rip zone, and step classes. However, I am thinking about starting to do cardio this week...my sister has been here for a few days and she is leaving tonight to go back to Whistler. Now that I'll have more time I was thinking of heading to the gym after work but just to do cardio. I do so much heavy lifting and upper body work throughout the day I don't want to get bulky...I like to look toned but not bulky. I love it when people's arms have a little definition...so sexy.
I have more to say but I guess I have to post it later so this one is to be continued...
Ok so back to where I was. I also like defined hamstrings and it is normally the last place to look toned and sexy. There is this one WWE diva Melina who has the best hamstrings...I have seen some pictures of her on the internet and they are awesome. I like to post pictures for people who inspire me so I have one of her on my bulletin board in my office plus what seems like a million sticky notes of my goals and dreams. I know nerdy! I find it helps me stay focused and motivated when I have moments of doubt. Plus who does not want to be able to cross off one of their goals or dreams. It feels so good to know that you are achieving the things in life that you want to and heading in the right direction.
Ok a little off topic...I seem to have a little case of ADD today...I am everywhere and so scatter brained lol hahaha.
I always find that I feel so good after working out and it is the secret to having confidence or at least for me. Even since I started working out in grade eight it has boosted my self esteem and confidence. I would say I have a healthy body imagine and I genuinely love myself.
I love it when I push through to 36 pushups because sometimes I don't want to or do squats on the basiball or when heather gets me to do sprinting...I'm still trying to beat 8.5 seconds and I know that I could do it if I was not afraid of running into the mirror lol. hahha lol is really is a funny site and then the stares from the other women working out (it is a women's only gym) and I know they are thinking that girl is crazy or the boot camps every second Friday of the month. I actually requested to do boot camps because I wanted to be challenged and pushed more. Heather gets me to do the most hardcore combos and just when I think she is going to be merciful she ups the intensity and I am like "oh God I asked for this! What was I thinking"? But at the end of the workout when I am all sweaty and red...I get so red...I can barely talk and hardly think because I am so tired...I think to myself that was worth the $65 per hour I pay her to kick my butt into gear and as I am leaving I wave and smile and tell her I'll see her next time...wow I just realised how much I miss her and personal training.
Many people ask me why working out and being active it so important to me and simply is it a lifestyle plain and simple. I am a firm believer in taking care of myself and living a HEALTHY lifestyle. I also love celebrating with fellow members and hearing about their success stories. It is very motivating and I always get very excited for them because I know their standard of living is going to be changing along with their self imagine. It does not matter if it is a 205lb woman who is able to go for bike rides with her children or someone who is underweight building muscle to look healthy or someone who realized that constant dieting is not going to help but the key is changing their lifestyle. All these victories improve one’s standard of living and how they view themselves and if you disagree well maybe you have not done enough to be healthy or to live a healthy lifestyle because it truly becomes something that most people come to love. The key however, is constancy and not getting discouraged if you do not lose a large amount of weight at the beginning. To be honest I never go by weight but inches because I would rather gain 3lbs in muscle which is going to burn more calories then trying to reach an unrealistic weight goal. I have never bought into Hollywood’s idea of being “thin” and I never will.
Lastly, I was going to make a video about my five favourite ball exercises but then I thought too many guys would get the wrong idea since most of them involve provocative positions and to keep this PG rated I would ask you all my faithful blog readers what your favourite ball exercise is? It is sounds like something I can incorporate into my workout I might just try it next time.
Five songs of the week to keep to pumped up and motivated.
1. Impossible- Bayje
2. 4 minutes- Madonna
3. Like me- Girlicious
4. Grace Kelly- Mika
5. Move Along- The All American Rejects
These songs are on my ipod are they on your’s
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| | Cuteness | | | Saturday, April 26, 2008 (3:43 PM)
(I'm feeling cheerful) | | Hi everyone,
I hope all is well with you. My life has suddenly become crazier and faster paced since this term has been out. I get to play with plants all day and make them look pretty...very creative, help teach a horse how to trust humans again, travel, weddings, and of course school. I am taking an Human geography, ecotourism, and social theory course which I need to take over the summer because they are needed to take an Indiginous and epidemic course, sociology of human rights, women and development, and I am just interested in ecotourism and how it is changind spaces within society. Hopefully it will not be too much but I have to admit the 10 hr days leave me exhuasted by
8:30pm...sometimes I just crash on my bed reading emails but can you imagine the nice tan I am going to get :).
OK now to the reason I wrote this blog. I love anything that has to do with tinkerbelle. She is by far my favorite disney princess. So this blog is dedicated to her and all other fans.
glitter-graphics.com
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glitter-graphics.com
I hope you enjoy these
xoxo
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| | Something I wrote recently for a class I took this past term on kinship and gender | | | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 (8:26 PM)
(I'm feeling productive) | | This was one of my recent assignments I had to submit. Believe it or not we have to submit commentaries every two weeks. I hope it does not offend anyone as it is a highly sensitive topic and may cause some people to become defensive. I am not being judgement as this was based on six reading for my course which were mandatory.
It was assumed that modernization (‘westernization’) promoted more equalitarian gender relations, and greater rights and freedom for all women.
Victoria S. Lockwood
Employment within the labour market offers both advantages and disadvantages to women who choose to work outside of the domestic sphere and enter into the public sphere. These advantages and disadvantaged are interconnected with female empowerment. However, before one can evaluate how females are empowered or disempowered within the labour market, there needs to be a short discussion of the impact of capitalism within non-western states and how it is affecting women.
During Imperial expansion and colonization, capitalism was introduced to non-western states. Since colonization had proven to be versatile and dynamic, it was only natural that colonial officials would want to encourage an economic system which stresses male importance within the labour market and female importance within the household. There are several important themes which are often seen within non-western states which have integrated to a capitalist economy.
The first theme seen within non-western states is that men and women rarely participate in development the same way and women do not have access to the same kind of development-generated opportunities and choices as men do (Lockwood 2005 :501). This is seen within labour market by the percentages of man and women within certain positions. For example it is very rare that a woman is going to operate and own a Moroccan garment factory as it is unheard of for the Moroccan elites to work on the sewing lines.
The second theme is that men and women rarely share equally in the various “costs and benefits” of development and this is observed through social, economic, and political positions relative to men which deteriorates with capitalist development (Lockwood 2005: 501). This can be observed when a woman owns a small company, such as a lace making company. This can be seen in societies which fail to acknowledge the work that women do within the public and domestic sphere. Women’s work often becomes invisible because the capitalist model enforces the structural separation of these domains, leaving women without compensation for work completed. It is important to note, however, that capitalism is not a homogenic category and one cannot make generalizations about non-western women and how capitalism affects them. Although, capitalism within some societies devalues and ignores women’s productive contributions within the public and domestic domain, in other countries it empowers women. For instance, within Rurutu women earn more than 50 percent of all income in almost half of all families and are able to retain control over their earnings (Lockwood 2005:510). This allows Rurutu women to be given credit for their productive contribution to the household and allows them to be seen as providers within their respective communities. Just as capitalism and the labour market empowers Rurutu women, we also see this within Moroccan and Tibetan women.
When one is analysing women’s role within the Moroccan garment production it is difficult to see how women can be empowered. The women who choose to work within these factories often are unpaid, overworked, work in a very controlled atmosphere, and have awful working conditions. Women are empowered by being given a space that they can work within without worrying about maintaining their honour and dignity. To many a very gender-controlled work environment would seem sexist and overbearing, but to these women it follows cultural expectations within their community and culture. They do not have to worry about fellow workers gossiping and tainting their reputations, as their work within the factory is a transitional period before marriage and becoming a mother. If someone had suggested that they were being promiscuous this could possibly bring shame to their families and decrease their chances of finding a suitable marriage match. Cairoli (2005) states that factory owners take their roles as symbolic fathers very seriously and through applying gender segregation, such as female and male spaces within the factory, transportation to and from work for female employees, and security personnel, it allows the factory owners to maintain a sense of protecting their female workers honour, chastity, and virtue. Another way in which female factory workers are empowered within the public sphere is through the use of family idiom. This is contradictory because it empowers women but at the same time allows women within the factory to becomes subordinated and controlled.
Factory work within Moroccan communities is viewed as inferior work and work that is conducted by women. As mentioned before, female employees are often underpaid, overworked, undervalued, and exploited which causes them to confront the factory with a set of cultural values that are normally associated with their social world. Despite these awful working conditions, women continue to associate themselves as daughters, sisters, and wives within the garment factories, which enables a hierarchical and patriarchal family system to exist. Women within these factories are not seen as subservient and dutiful just as they would be seen within the household. Ironically, it is through maintaining a subordinate position within the factory that is a modelled after domestic ideologies that women find self-worth and power. These ideologies are very disempowering towards women because within a capitalist model and market it allows their employers to become wealthier by exploiting and devaluing their labour. Through applying the family model to the factories it allows supervisors and owners to “guilt” women into working longer hours until the owner’s quotas have been met without paying the female workers overtime. Therefore, it allows male or female authority figures to have power over the factory employees through maintaining the family idioms observed at play within the factories.
This is also seen within Thailand, but in a different way. Instead of females working at factories that support a family-oriented environment, women in Thialand move to larger centres to find employment that will allow them to send money home and attain a modern, westernized image through commercial goods. However, young Tibetan women who work within these factories are empowered because it allows them to maintain an image of the good and dutiful daughter while acquiring commodities and foreign goods such as makeup, glamorous clothing, and enjoy living outside of a rural environment. Thansamay is the term used for modernity which is based on the western ideals of beauty, success, and womanhood and many rural young women migrate to the larger cities so that they are able to achieve this image. Unfortunately, ideas of Thansamay contrast shapely with household-based ideas of maidenly makeup, virginal makeup, and constrains family spatial mobility. Working within factories makes it difficult for these women to maintain the ideals of Thansamay, because of poor wages and constant demands by friends to socialize. Though there are many disadvanges and ways a woman’s worth is disempowered within factory work it allows young women to have a constant flow of cash that is accessible to them to spend as they wish and to save or pool their resources to purchase homes for family, electronics, or even start a small business of their own.
Through both of these case studies one could argue that labour becomes a commodity which supports a capitalist market. Females need to remain in a position of disempowerment for capitalism to function successfully and for the wealthy to continue to build more capital. However, this is not always the case within every state as cultural ideologies and idioms are often motivating factors for why women accept and seek certain employment. Just as devaluing certain positions can occur within male-dominated states it can also allow women to experience a form of freedom and success. Until then employers will continue to hire females based on the gender stereotypes that they resist joining unions, have patience for tedious jobs, nimbler then man, and willing be to subservient.
References
Brettell, B Caroline and sergeant F Carolyn
2005 Gender in Cross-cultural Perspectives
New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.
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| | Finally... | | | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 (12:36 PM)
(I'm feeling anxious) | | So today is the day. The last final I have to write for this term. I happy, excited, anxious, and exhausted all mixed in together. I should be studying but I can't...I cannot even focus today. I'm kind of worried but I always do just fine.
Tomorrow I start my summer job bringht and early. I cannot wait but I was told to be ready cause it is going to be a busy, busy, busy day. With gardening season just weeks or maybe days away the greenhouse I am working for during the peak season has more then enough work for me to. I think I must have been dusted with green fairy dusting when I was just a wee little girl because I love anything that has to do with gardening, lanscaping, and dirt. I love the smell of rain right before a thunder shower and how it leaves everything misty. Or waking up to dew on the grass you might think I am crazy but it really does have a nice smell.
Then in July I am going to SK for two months to spend time with family. It is my break before I go back to the grind as most university students call it. I am excited as there are a few wedding, reunion, and I am going to spend lots of time at my dad's log home in the bush. They have a kayake and leasure boat so I am looking forward to going and seeing the new cabin that were buildt after a forest fire went through. The funny thing about my dad's cabin is that it has blue tin on top incase of forest fires and you can see it from the gravel road leading up to the hamlet. It kind of reminds me of a church's roof because it has such a sharp angle. I remember when they were putting the tin on and the workers had to be hooked up to something because they could not stay on the roof without falling off. I used to cook lunch for them and bring them energy drinks because I felt so bad for them working in such hot weather. Now it has been five years since my father started building it mostly by himself and I am excited to see all the progress. I was awed last year when I saw the interior with all the small details as he actually used real logs. It is the neatest thing. Anyways I am rambling and I need to have some lunch before I go and write my exam...an anthropological theory class yuck...not as interesting as studying India or animism and Amazonian cosmologies.
xoxo
Until next time
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| | A day in the life of Daisy | | | Saturday, April 12, 2008 (11:45 AM)
(I'm feeling amused) | | Hi everyone. I am going to be starting a video series all about me hehehe instead of doing your typical rants, pets, hater, music, and whatever else is popular here. You will get to find out all about me and everything that is important to me from school to fashion to friends to just me. It'll be a candid look at your American Sweetheart but I am not American so how about Canadian Sweetheart. I am not the best at making videos and haven't even made home videos so bare with me. So come join my crazy, nerdy, and often times adventurous life. I am really just the girl next door with a few extras thrown in.
xoxo
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| | Bad hair cut | | | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 (8:07 AM)
(I'm feeling aggravated) | | Hi everyone,
So this past weekend I was suppose to get my hair trimmed and instead I received a shorter haircut which I hate. I don't like overly short hair to begin with but this is driving me CRAZY...not only do I look horrible but it is something a 40 yr would get. GRRRRR.
I orginally donated my hair to make into a wig for a boy who has cancer and I almost cried throughout the whole hair cutting session but this is worst because at least with my long and lustous hair I looked hot.
Now I have to spend the next who knows how many months growing it out. She should have asked me first...I have thick volumous hair and a short bob just does not work with my hair. I am normally a very confident person but this haircut does nothing for me in that department. Maybe I'll post a picture so you all can see my haircut.
Does anyone have any stories they would like to share about bad haircuts.
xoxo
Daisy
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