Learn to work, to pay, then pass.

So, while things are randomly sitting here on my mind, I thought I'd jot them down.

Let me get this right... We spend the first few years of our lives learning basic shit. After this, we eventually enter Kindergarten where you learn the required skills for grade 1, where you learn the required skills for grade 2, where you learn the required skills for grade 3... You see where I'm going with this. By the time half of us graduate from high school, we have NO clue what we would like to do. Some of us think we have it figured out by grade 10, but then you lose that by the time you grad (usually). Anyways, what I'm getting at here, is you learn, to work, to pay, then pass on.

I kind of hate the fact that I was so excited to be done with high school, then went off to college (after my vacation, of course). I graduated and what do I do? Move home and start another college. I'm glad I'm making progress, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I just want to wake up and have NOTHING to worry about. No stress. How beautiful would that be? I totally regret taking this for granted in grade 9... my biggest God damn fricken problem at the time was my mom or dad asking me to do the dishes. At the time, felt like nothing was going my way and I had sooo much to worry about. When really, I didn't. How selfish of me. *shakes head* My ONLY thing to worry about in grade 9 was going to my classes and passing them. Which was not hard to do. I didn't even have to worry about waking up every morning from my alarm clock, because my mom would call to wake me! We take sooo much for granted EVERY year of our lives and don't realize it. In grade 9, I didn't have to worry about groceries, bills, nothing. I feel like I'm getting to the point in my life now where I will eventually own a home (and a vehicle), then work the rest of my life away. Not only will I be working, but I'll be paying off bills. For another 60+ years. How exciting. We are born to learn as we grow older, incorporate the knowledge gained, towards our career. With this career, we make money, to pay bills. Ughh. I just want to work forever and not pay for anything and be able to say I'm a millionaire by the time I'm 50. Wishful thinking and my point is going nowhere. Basically, I don't want to buy a home in 10+ years, then pay it off until I'm 60!

Okay. Breathe.

Theennnnn agggaaainn, what kind of life would you be living if you sat on the couch every day or didn't learn anything new? ...Life. *sigh*

Money. Wealth. Richasspeople.

Okay. Can you imagine making $73,000,000,000 a year? That's 73 billion, for those of you who are getting googley-eyed, thanks to all the zero's. Like, it's crazy to even think that you can physically have that much money... imagine all those fresh printed bills every year. Wow. If you do the math, that means you would be getting $6,083,333,333 every MONTH! And a little more math, if you don't mind, works out to say that you would be making TWO HUNDRED AND TWO MILLION DOLLARS A DAY!!

Seems very unrealistic for somebody like me, but not for Carlos Slim. Carlos is a Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist. I read up a bit on what he does, but to be honest, it's too much for me to get completely. He seems to do a LOT.

I don't know why I decided to find out who the "20 Richest People in the World" were, but in case you were wondering, Oprah did not even make the list. To show you how filled with money some people are, the 20th richest man, is Larry Page. (Don't know who he is? Do you use Google? Okay, you can thank him for that). He makes 23 BILLION, a year.

Do you understand what I'm getting at? You can literally buy a fancy ass house and a brand new vehicle (Toyota i-ROAD, anyone?) for all your relatives and still have a LOT left over for the next generation aaand even the generation after that! It is all about how you spend your money though, of course. But still. I just want a billion. ONE billion. Anybody?

Carlos should just send one million $1,000,000 cheques in the mail. That wouldn't even put a dent in his bank account. Carlos, or anybody from his business, if you're reading this and need my address, I will gladly send it to you as soon as possible. :) I can't even get this out of my head. Once again, he makes 202 MILLION DOLLARS a DAY... Damn.

New blog title!

This post is just for myself, basically. (To remember the date). I've changed my blog from jenniferbolton.blogspot.com to jmarielake.blogspot.com. I hope whoever had my blog saved, changes the name!

Also, I use to post the name of my blog over photos. Old photos will STILL have "jenniferbolton.blogspot.com" written on them, but oh well! There is no way I'm going to fix all of the photos, lol. What's the point?!

Busting My Balls

I AM BUSTING MY BALLS TO GET WHAT I WANT AND I WILL GET IT. All these damn barriers and walls standing up in my way, but it's worth the work to get 'er done! I cannot wait until I complete this goal of mine. Urghh, it's killing me, but it will be worth it and it is definitely needed! *sigh* Vent of the day.

Mothers Day / Right By My Side

I CANNOT believe how easy it is for me to abandon this blog! I use to love coming on here every single day and I'm pretty upset that I don't anymore. I always think about it and feel like I have nothing to blog about, but nooow, I feel like I haven't blogged in so long that there is too much to write!

First of all, Happy (belated) Mothers Day to all those mothers (and single fathers) out there. I gave my momma a pride necklace. :) It included my dads name, brothers name, my own name, Akim's name, Gizmo's name aaand of course Chaplynn! She loved it. It's silver and beside each of our names, it's got our birth stone next to it. Very pretty. My dad got up SUPER early to cook for her, then we attended my Granny Georgina's headstone placing and later we had THEE BEST barbecue. I think I may still be drooling over that.

I know how much everybody loves how much I talk about Nicki Minaj on my blog *waits for people to roll eyes* She is suppose to be coming out with her new music video this week. YEP! Already! She juuust came out with the "Starships" video on April 27th -- it's only 17 days since then and she'll be releasing "Right By My Side" with Chris Brown. It's suppose to make it's world premiere today, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't actually until Wednesday or so. She says this is her favourite video yet, I can't wait!

Also! Since I'm talking about her... Her PEPSI commercial has been released since I last blogged and besides her two books and North American tour which are in the works, she's working on a fragrance (out in a month) and a clothing line! She sounds busy, busy, busy.

Classes are going great! Only three weeks left then I have a few weeks off before starting my third trimester. STOKED. It's all going so fast, yet so good.

I will blog more later or tomorrow for SURE. I just felt I needed to stop by or I would have never posted again!

STARSHIPS, CANADA?, BOOKS, TEASER

Helloooo. SO. Holy eff. Just found out today that Nicki has been working on 2 new books. I'm pretty excited to buy these and read them! Of course we all know that her album is out in a few more weeks -- April 3rd. She'll be having a signing on the same day in LA and the next day in New York. If you wish to buy me a plane ticket to New York so I can have a meet & greet and signing, feel free. Nah, let's get serious. Apparently she's going to a few other places, so I can't wait to hear where those will be. NONE will be in Canada, I know this for sure. Apparently though, she was not going to tour anywhere in Canada with her 2nd CD, which almost had me falling into a depression, haha. BUT I did find out that the places may change and she MAY come to Canada. I would be the first to buy a ticket, I'm dead serious!!

But aside from her 2 new books which are in the works, she also finished up shooting her music video for "Starships." I told you guys this song would blow up and with a music video coming -- it's guaranteed to happen x2 now. Here is a photo teaser from her on-set!

 And the last two things today will beeee that she's got another song with Madonna and it's titled, "I Don't Give A." And 2 other songs from her new album will be leaked sometime this week! I will post as soon as I know. Though, I am starting to think I should post less about Nicki on my blog. Anyways. The sneak preview of the song with Madonna came out today, so listen to it if you'd like!! :) If not, thanks for coming to read anyways! Later.

STOP KONY (2012)

IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THIS YET, I HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU WATCH! THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION AND TO STOP IT WOULD BE IDEAL. LEARN ABOUT KONY 2012!!