The dull life and dragons?

It is official. I will be writing the OAT on August 28th! This, of course, is assuming that I won't chicken out and cancel, or nothing happens along the way that prevents me from writing it. Studying officially started... on Tuesday, so I have a little less than two months to prepare for it all, which is a little alarming. I would have liked to write it later, but a certain school *cough cough* wants OAT test marks from before August 31st, 2014, which prevents me from writing it any later.

I just have to remember that I spent a little less than two months to cram for the MCAT last year (even though our course was four months long, I procrastinated a bit too much) but I was still able to manage a less than shitty grade, so anything is possible!

Other than that, life has been dull. I mean, not literally, as summer officially began a few weeks ago and the sun has been out in full force since then (on most days).  But I haven't done anything too exciting.

Okay, there were three things, I guess:

1) My youngest sister graduated high school! This isn't really exciting until you hear how each student was given only two tickets because the graduating class was huge (the largest in York Region!); and so, my other siblings and I had to be smuggled into the venue. And we did just that by being in the band...

Yup, it's like I never left at all.

Unfortunately, I found out right after putting my oboe together and trying to play a few notes that my oboe was way out of commission (my brother probably did something to it... he's been trying to learn, but yeah, fragile things and twelve-year-old boys don't mix) and so I ended up having to fake everything (this isn't to say that I would have been able to play everything even if my oboe was working). And now I have to get it fixed...

2) Going to the movies is not my favourite thing to do because it's expensive, and sometimes it feels like a chore or work, since you have to commit two or three hours to it. But I make a few exceptions for movies that I genuinely want to see. For example, when The Incredibles 2 comes out, you know I'll be there opening night. In costume.

I watched two movies! First was the new X-Men movie, which I went to see my brother. It wasn't a movie I really wanted to watch in theatres, but since my brother wanted to see it, he needed adult supervision, and it was a Tuesday (half price admission!), I went.

I'm not too critical of it - it wasn't too boring, but it was that great either. It was entertaining seeing Peter Dinklage as Trask because, if you don't know, he's in Game of Thrones as Tyrion, and if you didn't know, I've been watching me some Game of Thrones and I always get excited when I see actors from shows I watch in other shows or movies.

The next movie I got to see was..... *drumroll* How to Train Your Dragon 2!

Yes, this was indeed a movie I had been waiting for ever since watching the first one about four years ago at a friend's house; and man, did it deliver. Everything was amazing, but the music is my absolute favourite part of the movie. The soundtrack for the first movie was beautiful; and despite re-using the main themes and melodies, the soundtrack for this movie was STILL epic and beautiful. Here's one of the songs off the soundtrack. I won't spoil it for you... but this was at a very sad part of the movie.

That transition from the sad music to the stoic (haha) main theme gets me every time (3:15). Damn it, that theme just gets me every time. Here, listen to this song and tell me that transition from the singing part to the instrumental main theme does not make you cry.

So... beautiful...

But if you ask me for my favourite part of the story, I'd have to say when ****SPOILER ALERT!**** Toothless breaks out of the ice and has essentially digivolved into ultimate-mega-cool-glowing Toothless.

3) My sister took me out to watch a musical that one of her teachers was in called MUTE. And it wasn't that bad. There were moments that were a bit cheesy, but the cast was very talented, and the story had a good message and moral too. After that, we all went out to watch HTTYD2. Again. But hey, if we didn't go, I wouldn't have ever won my first ever game of TimePlay.

Anyhow, writing this took longer than expected. Back to studying!

Hockey in May, what?

Mr. Johnny Bower dropping the puck.

Yes, it is a very strange thing for there to be hockey in May and June. Especially in Toronto. *ba dum tssss*
However, the Leafs aren't the only hockey team in Toronto!

Last Wednesday, I went to game 3 of the Western Conference Finals featuring the Texas Stars versus the beloved Toronto Marlies! We arrived right as the boys were heading out onto the ice despite being stuck in heavy traffic (there were two other big events happening that day - the Jays had a game and so did the TFC) and had pretty darn good seats. I brought my camera along to play with, and to keep me from getting too into the game (it didn't work - I ended up yelling a lot, and all you'll hear from the people I went with is "Henderson sucks! YOU ALL SUCK!").

Watching the puck drop.

Mmmm, smelling salts...

Opening face-off.

Uncle Drew!

Now you know Macaulay Culkin has a twin who plays hockey.

Fights aren't too common in playoff games, but man, did they hate each other.

Holland and Leivo discussing strategy.

Stu Percy!

Petey standing around like it's his job ft. some dudes who showed up to the wrong sporting event.

Yeah, I'm looking at you.

Carter flying through!

I kinda wish I had gone through the camera manual prior to the game... I mean, a lot of the pictures I took looked great in the thumbnails, but on my computer, they're all really blurry. Womp womp. I did a bit of editing on them. Still crappy. Whatever. It's a learning process...

But here are two of my favourite pictures! Korbinian Holzer's helmet got knocked off during play, and during the stoppage, someone (I didn't see) tossed it to the backup goaltender, Garret Sparks.

"Hey, throw it over here!"

"OOOMPH!"

In the end, the boys lost 3-2. They won game 4, but lost game 5 on Saturday and are currently trailing the series 3-2. They play game 6 today. Hopefully they force game 7!

Oh captain, my captain! I BELIEVE IN YOU TAKE OUR BOYS TO GAME 7 OKAY

June 1st

It's been a little more than a month since I came home from school. Aaaaand I haven't done much since then. Surprise, surprise.

Clarification: I haven't done much to be productive.