To do:

Life has become one big "to do" list. It mostly consists of errands and school work, but what about everything in-between? Shouldn't I have a to do list for those things, so that I don't forget all the amazing and wonderful things I need to do with this life!

So I am going to start out with 22 to do's, one for every year that I've been alive.

Ami's To Do:

1. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
2. Travel to Spain
3. Learn to snowboard
4. Learn to surf
5. Put my feet in the ocean
6. Swim with the dolphins
7. Rescue an animal
8. Explore Africa
9. Change someone's life
10. Be stylish
11. Collect 1000 shot glasses
12. Own a gold Jeep TJ
13. Give a speech to an audience of at least 500
14. Learn how to cook delicious meals
15. Pay my parents back
16. Experience a miracle
17. Relax
18. Learn and become fluent in a second language
19. Discover something
20. Win a contest
21. Walk a mile is some one else's shoes
22. Travel across Canada

-Experience something new.

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My own brand of crack

Once I get a taste of it I just can't stop!

As soon as those colourful little loops touch my tongue, I am bound to eat at least 2 or 3 more bowls!

Cereal, it's my own brand of crack!
I love all cereals, but Fruit Loops is one of my fave! When I go down to the states, the thing I bring home the most of is cereal!!

Everyone has something they love, and boy do I enjoy a good bowl of cereal! My first year of university, that's what I survived on because I can't cook! I had the worst nutrition, but man, I enjoyed every bowl.

Truthfully, I just enjoy breakfast! I could eat it all day long, and when sad, I could always cheer myself up with a great breakfast!

I love waffles, pancakes, Belgium waffles, french toast, omelets, hash browns, bacon, sausages, ham, scrambled eggs, soft boiled eggs, poached eggs, sunny side up eggs, toast, breakfast sandwiches, crepes and the list goes on!

Now excuse me, I am going to have a bowl of cereal!!

-enjoy the silly things in life!

B

Point Dexter Couture

Ladies and Gentlemen,

"I would like to present to you the newest fashion trend to hit mainstream style, Point Dexter Couture."

I wish this was the statement that was made as I walked the "runway" (really it was just a hallway) out of the orthodontist's office that June 3rd morning. But it wasn't, instead I just felt geeky!!!
At first, I felt silly, 22 years old and braces plus I wear glasses 24/7, so I just felt like one big DORK!!! Then I realized that braces among young adults wasn't so uncommon, so I tried very hard to em-BRACE them! (haha).

In July, I was going to visit my friend in Detroit, so for a whole month I tried to practice smiling! But it seemed like I had forgotten how to smile! I would give the biggest, craziest looking smile I could because I thought I had to make up what the braces took away from my smile. But looking back on pictures from Detroit, that was a mistake, my smile looked awful, fake and I don't like how I ended up smiling in the pics, it just didn't flatter me.

So instead of fighting this whole process, I started to make a lighter side to it, I now called my look Point Dexter Couture, and when people would say "oh Ami, your braces..." I would correct them and say, "oh you mean my grill?" Hahaha.

It was important for me to make myself feel as comfortable in them as much as possible, being a person who has low self-esteem, I had to prove to myself that the braces didn't make me look terrible, they just were changing the way I saw myself in the mirror temporally.

They have been excruciatingly painful, exponentially more annoying then imagined and have changed how I feel about bread! I have been unable to eat apples, popcorn, candy apples, and a multitude of other foods, either due to sensitivity or fear of harming a bracket!

But on April 26, 2010, I will dazzle the world with a brand new smile =)
And since I love smiling, and it's like my most favourite thing in the world, I cant' wait.
Oh and I have a date with a caramel apple!

-Love your situation because it could always be worse!

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