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Guys, its a Dog

My family takes care of the gentle-spirited Milo, quite often. On a rainy after noon after school, he waddled up to my room and quietly lay down on my floor. I looked from him, to my camera bag and then back to him... I know he hates the sound of the shutter and the flash but... C'mon he was in a perfect position! So I got a few pictures before he got irritated with me and walked out of my room. It was rainy and dark so I had no pictures to take! If you go to Paramount, my photo blog, You can see the wonders that the rain left for me to take pictures of. :) Cya soon!

Mental Break-down

Hi it's me, Alyssa. Just wanted to say... Nothing is happening in my town!! No pictures! HELPPPPP!!!!!!!!!! Don't leave me for I will have SOMETHING on Remembrance Day for sure...




I have random wordsaphobia.

Note: This person is having unqualified monotony. She may get back to normal. That is a MAYYYY.
Note: This happens to this girl only when:
-not enough sleep
-just chugged two cups o coffee (I didnt btw)
-when I feel HAPPY
-when i dont have a soccer ball at my feet
-when its a gloomy, dark, rainy day
-i haven't played soccer for over three  months
-i stay up ALL night (haha thats so fun to do)
-when someone insults me
-when someone takes Jeremy from my hands...
-I think you get the point

Guys, I am bored/tired/need snow

Its like 2 degrees. Wheres the snow?! Its November!

I think the sky.... is.... gray...?

Well good bye since I am now utter bored and have no words left to say.

New Camera!!

The other day, my Canon PowerShot A4 decided to quit on me and I understood that it was time to get a new camera. Bigger, faster, better, and way more advanced. And boy oh boy did I hit the jackpot. I end up receiving the Canon Rebel T5. Its the most brilliant camera I have been able to take a picture with. It has an unbelievable sports mode, which I will be using a lot when soccer season come around. I did take a few pictures to share but they don’t really show this camera fascination. If you held it and experienced take the picture yourself, I can guarantee you, you would enjoy it a whole lot. Enjoy!

The macro setting is AMAZING and hopefully saving up for a macro lens is a good idea. ;)

Fall Fair Photos

Every year, I send in pictures to fall fairs around my county. I did great last year, hopping to do better this year, knowing what to expect. Unfortunately, I didn't do so well. I mean I could have done better. Always time for improvement. I have the pics that I sent in this year for you to see! Enjoy! Look at the captions to see their placings.

Category: B and W any subject. Placed: Not placed.

Category: Canada Day. Placed: 4th

Category: Family Pet. Placed: Not placed

Category: Sunset. Placed: 2nd

Category: Spider's Web. Placed: Not placed. (I personally didn't like this pic anyway)

Category: Best Friend. Placed: 1st

Category: Dramatic Sky. Placed: Not placed. :'(

Category: Water Magic. Placed: 1st

Category: Old Farm Equipment. Placed: 2nd

Category: Close Up. Placed: Not placed.

 (Four above) Category: Start to Finish 4 prints. Placed: Not placed.
I really had hope for this one. Aw well, there's always next year.

I placed third over-all as well. That's better than last year with 5th! Anyway, see ya around!

Trying to Survive...

Well. Where do I start? Ah yes, back at the first soccer tournament for my one (out of two) team. Way back in July. (mind you this team is in a provincial competitive league). I was sprinting down the grassy pitch with the ball and one of the opponents came and charged at me. Of course I was pushed and of course she was pushed. It was all legal. UNTIL, maybe I got a little too aggressive..? She fell to the ground and the ref blew his whistle. Uh oh, I'm gonna get it for sure... And oh did I ever. He warned me if I did it again he would show his yellow card. Half of that was totally acting on her part, for sure. I was kinda upset at this and so was my coach. He told me to chill and don't be as pushy. I understood and slowed it down a bit. About ten minutes later, I'm running down the wing with ball again, and the same girl charges at me. I wasn't being pushy at all this time, just holding myself up with my shoulder against her's. She 'falls' and the ref blows his whistle again. He says the same thing but no more 'second chances' for me this time. The first half ended and the next one started. I was on again playing my usual, left winger. And what do you know! I have the ball and am running down the side again. The same girl charges but this time she's MAD. She really wanted that soccer ball like it was a million bucks. I say 'Nuh uh!' (in my head) and keep running as far as my legs would take me. Suddenly and ever viciously she whips her leg under my right foot and trips me. I landed on my left hip twisting it and smashing my right knee on my left knee. No whistle. and then what does the ref say?! 'Play advantage!' I just gasped at him. I try to get up but realize, somethings wrong with my knee... I just shook it off and went for the girl and the soccer ball.

It's been about 2ish months. My knee still cramps up. With soccer finishing in the middle of September and now track and field, I hope that my knee might take a break (NOT LITERALLY) before I start indoor soccer again in January. I have a knee brace I wear when I run now too. Its a pain (no pun intended)! Besides that, allergies are in season and I have a cold. GREAT! School was going good, until this weekend. Long story short, I happened to be running around and I slipped. I braced myself by putting my hand down on the grass to hold me up. My thumb snapped and bent to touch my wrist! OW! Tip: don't try that ...like EVER. It is taking me forever to type, and even longer to write with a pencil. School's never been harder! The swelling has gone a bit down, and I had it tapped as well. Here's what it looks like at the moment:

Not too bad eh? It's a little crooked but I should survive this one. Do not ask my how I manage to take pictures!! Heehee! Cya around!

My New Friends!

Have you ever watch a spider create one quarter of his web for 45 minutes? Ever planning to? I didn't until yesterday when I went out with my camera and took a few pics. (THIS BLOG POST IS NOT FOR YOU IF YOU DISLIKE SPIDERS!) And I am willing to share some that I took. If you don't like the thought of spiders just skip to the end when I met another fuzzy insect today!

So today I went out and met a new friend. A little 1/2 inch yellow caterpillar. I ran back into my house to grab my camera and met him a few feet away! I find it very cool and interesting how the spider knew how and when to build his web. Yea I know that he's probably done it before but it took him quite a long time to get it finished. And the caterpillar. Where was he going? Hm .. mysteries. such tiny creatures but amazing things they do. Sure makes someone smile and think. Enjoy!

Fall

I know its still August but with the cold weather Ontario is getting... it hard to decide if its summer or fall! The leaves have fallen and others are turning red. A blueberry was tossed into the oven. 18 Celsius weather has been hanging around for a week now. I would consider it fall. I love going for Autumn walks when the sun sets. So nice and peaceful. Jeans and fashion boots have come out. Yes, the rakes are still in the shed, but any day now! School is just around the corner which means my birthday too! I love this weather! Anyway I'm gonna go enjoy a nice warm blueberry pie. :)

Summer Fun

Just the other day, we decided a BBQ would be great for such a day. It was sunny, not too hot but just right, and everyone just wanted to be outside. This summer has been GREAT. Soccer like 4 times a week, not too hot weather, and BBQs! Now who doesn’t like BBQs? The grass was smelling like t had been freshly cut. Great signs of summer. :)

I brought my rabbit outside to enjoy it as well. Then me and my sisters set up the croquet. I won first proudly with the colour red. :) We were going to play another game but then we were called for dinner. But before dinner, I was hopping to take some pictures... Oops. I have some of Rose though, so, enjoy (Like she did with this great weather)!

Sheesh its Been Long

I know, I know, I have been gone. I have a reason for not writing on Younique. First off, two weeks in a row I was volunteering at a VBS program. The week after that, I went to my cousins' house which was SUPER fun. The weekend that I came back, I had to rush off to a three-hour drive out to a small town where I would spend two days have a soccer tournament. Which we placed 4th. We played good against the big-city teams so 4th isn't bad ;). The week after that, my grandparents took me and my cousin (the same one I spent a week with) on a vacation. Like my cousin said to me: Anytime we spend a week together, we are always sad at the end of the week to leave back home. But this time we will just see each other again! I totally agree with her. We went on a small cruise down the Saint Lawrence River which was awesome! I am so sorry I have no pictures because they are all on my Ipod. Once I upload them onto my computer I will more than happy to show you some. :) And then this passed weekend we went camping. I do have good reasons! :) See you soon! Toodles!

Fail for Spain

As many of you know, my favourite soccer player is Fernando Torres who plays presently for Spain. He has a contract with Chelsea FC and has been with the club for many years. Ever since his injury near January, he hasn't been playing as well. At the last game of the season of the EPL, Torres scored a goal with a victory for them vs Cardiff City. Unfortunately they did not win the cup in the EPL and came close to the finals  in the Champions League. I bet Torres feels really disappointed with having a 5-1 lose vs the Netherlands in the FIFA World Cup. Spain knew they would do good since they have won FIFA in the past. But maybe they looked at themselves to highly...? The Dutch played an amazing game. I have some dutch relatives and when they saw the Netherlands beat Spain 5-1, they just kept on saying, "Our team beat your team!! Our team beat your team!!" Yea yea yea... I'm hopping that Spain will pick up their act and play a good game tomorrow vs Chile.

Neymar's Perfect Kick for Brazil

    



As many of you know; I am a HUGE soccer fan. Also as many of you
probably know; FIFA 14 started today!! An awesome game with Brazil vs
Croatia.  With Neymar Jr.  scoring two goals and Oscar (from Chelsea FC!!) with one. The game finished with a 3-1 victory for Brazil. And I meant to put the video after this but i couldn't figure it out. Oh well. Enjoy!

My Collection

For the past months, I have collecting toilet paper rolls. Weird, eh? Yeah it is. But now I have 431 of them. I went up to my room the other day and started stacking. Up, up, up. My sister and I built a huge tower and I just had to show you some of my other creations as well. Also when we finished the tower was over 5 feet tall. Enjoy!