Liebster Award

What in the world?! A post not on Friday? Well that's new. You're Welcome. Just Kidding. Wow. That's a lot of really short sentences...

Anyway if you read the title and are confused let my try and explain what this post is about. I was nominated for the Liebster Award by Riley at Smiles No Matter :) (<-- click me!!!). So thanks for that Riley! You should check out her blog where she writes all sorts of inspirational stuff! It will make you smile...just like the title says.

*Warning! This is will be extremely long! Leave now if you don't want to read for a long time!*

What is the Liebster Award? Honestly I'm not entirely sure. All I really know is the rules and I will share those with you in a moment. However, I'm pretty sure that it is pretty much this fun little survey thing that also gives us a chance to explore the world of blogs! Hooray for exploring!

Okay enough of my random ramblings about pretty much nothing. Here are the rules:

1. Tell your readers 11 facts about yourself.
2. Answer 11 questions asked by your nominator. 
3. Nominate other bloggers (with less than 200 followers) to receive this award and make 11 questions that they have to answer.
4. Tell them that would have nominated them! 

Sound good? Okay well lets get started with 11 facts about me you may or may not know.

1. My favorite musical group is a five person acapella group called Pentatonix. I don't think I have every been more excited or obsessed about a musical group. Ever.
2. I have two cats!
3. I used to play the piano. 
4. I used to play tee ball. I was extremely little. The first year I was one of two girls on the team. The next year I was the only girl on the team. Then I moved on to softball. 
5. All of my serious injuries have happened on a playground. Playground are dangerous!
6. I want to be a nerd. Maybe not so much of a nerd that I know whether or not Luke Skywalker is left handed or not, but enough of a nerd that I had played all the Mario, Zelda, and such games. Is that weird?
7. I have never finished watching a whole hockey game even though I have been to two of them and found them somewhat interesting. I just had to leave for various reasons. 
8. Pretty much all of my favorite characters in anything either die, are evil, turn evil, or in the most extreme case "dies", turns evil, and then dies again. Actually I think another one of my favorites might have "died" three times and is still around. Man, my favorite characters go through a lot.
9. Speaking of favorite characters, I have a rule that my favorite character can't be a main character. That's probably why they all die.
10. My favorite colors are neon orange and neon green. No...they don't go together very well. It's kind of sad. 
11. I am obsessed with erasers. I have at least a hundred if not more. 

And now it's time for the question Riley has asked:

What is a topic that you can talk about for hours?

For hours?! Oh gosh that's a long time. I don't really talk about anything for hours that often because I say what I want to say and then I'm done with it. If I had to choose though it would probably be anything video related (like a movie, TV show, anime, etc.) just because you can keep watching it and having new things to talk about after watching a new episode or movie from the series. Plus if you have already seen it and you watch it again you can express your excitement or astonishment when you discover something you never noticed before. 

What is your favorite movie?

Gosh that's hard too. I have this idea in my mind that each movie has their own aspect that make them unique which makes it kinda hard for me to pick a favorite. If I had to choose it would either be Tangled or How to Train Your Dragon. 

If you could go anywhere in the world and with anyone, where would you go and with whom?

If I could go anywhere in the world I would go to the eastern hemisphere and I would go with my friends. Did I cheat the question by saying a hemisphere? Oh well. ...Oh alright. If I have to choose one specific place it would probably Australia or New Zealand and yes still with my friends. I don't think I am capable of picking one person to go with me. 

Why do you blog?

Well I started blogging because I knew I was going to need to rant to someone/something and actually feel like I was being heard. I was in a rough patch because I had a question in my head that expressed my annoyance with the world. It was "Who do you complain to when you want to complain about everyone?" Yeah. I was really annoyed. So I made a blog. Why do I blog now? Well it keeps me sane and its not like I have anything better to do some days right?

If you only had five sentences left to say before losing the ability to speak, what would you say?

"I only have five sentences left in my entire life?! How is that even possible what kind of disease or malfunction am I experiencing? Wait! Could I just never end my sentences and always be able to speak? That would be nice." 

*in my mind*

Sounds goo--wait! Why isn't any noise coming out of my mouth? Crap! I already used my five sentences! Gosh dang it! 

If you wanted some really deep answer I'm sorry. I don't think I'm capable of providing one for you. 

Who is your favorite character in fiction?

Um...probably Scooby Doo. If you couldn't tell by my alias. However, I have many many many many favorite characters many of which die. A lot of them also come from mystery related shows because they are just so awesome.

What is a song you could listen to on replay for hours?

Again. Hours is an extremely long time. That's like listening to a normal length song more than 30 times. I would probably get sick of the song after that long. But since I have to choose it would be Running Just to Catch Myself by Mark Schultz. It doesn't have an official music video but this is better than a lyrics video right? So the guy in the video isn't Mark Schultz. 

I like this song just because its so much fun and the lyrics are actually rather funny. Not to mention its over 5 minutes so I wouldn't hear it as many times in one hour. 

Describe yourself in 3 words!

I am weird. Oh wait did you want three adjectives? I don't do well with describing myself.

There is a snow day and school was cancelled--what do you do?

Realistically or what I wish happened? Realistically sit at home watching a movie, play a video game, maybe read, and of course sleep. What I wished happened is I would go sledding and build a snow fortress with my friends. Then go inside have delicious hot cocoa and apple cider. Maybe watch a movie or something. I don't know, the point is I would be with my friends. However, since it's a snow day I can't exactly drive anywhere which means I'm stuck in my neighborhood where I don't really know people. 

What is your favorite book, and why?

Favorite book? Oh goodness. I really don't know. Maybe Harry Potter because I think that was really when I got more into actually reading. Either that or the Pendragon series. That was a really fun series that I feel like not very many people actually know about. However, I really don't think I have a book that I've read multiple times.

What is your favorite quotation?

I don't really have a favorite quote that is inspirational if that's what you're looking for. Otherwise it would either have to be "They popped out of the snow! Like daisies!" by Mushu in Mulan just because its amazing how he says that. The other quote needs the previous remarks to actually make sense. So here we go:

"Zoinks!" -Shaggy

"Rikes!" - Scooby

"Jeepers!" - Daphne

"Jinkies!" -Velma 

"... Dang! I still don't have a catch phrase!" - Fred 

Poor Fred. I don't know why but that's the quote that always pops into my head because it's rather ironic. A quote about not having a catch phrase (or quote). ...Well I think it's funny. That's from Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword if you were interested. I really enjoyed that movie.
Oh! There's another one! Sorry I can't really decide which is my favorite... "It was the first new century in one hundred years." I really like that quote just because it's true and has this sort of excitement in it. It is from the first introduction song of Detective Conan which is an anime. There you go. Officially done. :D

Okay now for my nominees!

1. ExperiencedNovice: http://experiencednovice.blogspot.com/  with Random Thoughts About Everything 
2. North: http://thisblogsnamewasstolen.blogspot.com/  with This Blog's Name Was Stolen 
3. Alison Corinne: http://thatalisonwonderland.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html with That Alison Wonderland
4. Mrs. Socks: http://rhymerhythmremedy.blogspot.com/ with The World's a Stage, and I Choose to Sing Upon It

Congratulations all of you wonderful people!

And my questions to you are:

1. If you could be any ice cream flavor what flavor would you be? (Keep in mind that the tastier you are the more likely you are to be eaten)
2. What is your favorite smell?
3. What is your pick-me-up? So what do you do/eat/whatever when you are feeling upset or sad to make yourself feel better?
4. Quick! What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear: marshmallow 
5. If you were a super hero what would your weakness be?
6. What is your favorite lyric from a song?
7. Favorite thing to do on an extremely hot summer day.
8. If you could create the name for the color of a crayon what would it be?
9. What is something you don't understand about the world (it can be anything you want).
10. What is your favorite planet? (For purposes of my questions we are going to say that Pluto is a planet since it's my favorite so if you want to choose Pluto you can!).
11. Explain your hopes for your blog in two sentences. 

Well there you have it! I hope you enjoyed this post. Stay classy and remember that you are a unique individual who is awesome and super duper incredible!

P.S. So this post has taken me way too long to actually write. So it is long overdue and I apologize that it took me five million years....even though you probably didn't know I was doing it. 

Mind Explosion

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Um...are you okay?"

"What? Oh yeah. I'm just studying right now. Well sort of. I can't really focus. There are so many things going on right now."

"Um, do you think maybe you could focus. I kinda really need you to focus right now."

"Um. Maybe. I'll try."

That is the current conversation with my mind on a daily basis right now. What am I talking about? Well there are so many things I need to do right now that I can't seem focus on any one item. I have to study for AP tests which are coming up. I have school in general going on. There are people being annoying. There are my cats that won't leave me alone. And then there is YouTube and Facebook and really just the internet in general.

At the moment I really need to study for AP Biology. I got this review book thing that you read through and it reminds you of all the information you have forgotten. I haven't actually started reading it yet though... I mean I looked at the first section and it just looks so gross! I mean really gross and boring. How the heck am I supposed to focus on reading that stuff?! I start reading and then I think about if I actually have homework in that class or I wonder what fun thing I could make. Instead of writing a super long paragraph of what is going through my mind (which is a lot at the same time) I will just write the thoughts that are going on:

Study, Thirsty, YouTube, New Song, Cat, Cat Video, Focus! Study!, Classical Conditioning, Bored, What Was That Noise, Study, Hungry, Candy? No, Study, Boooooorrrrrreeeeeedddddd, I Can Do This, Study, No I Can't, Be Positive, Understand What You're Reading, It's too haaarrrrdddd!, Don't Be a Wimp!, I'm Not!, Gosh dang it! What was that word? It was in bold print which must means its important, Thirsty, Dying, I need a break, Not Yet!, Ooooh Facebook Notification, No! Study!, Eye's hurt!, Focus, Hmm What Should I Blog About, Oh Hey! I finished the Paragraph...Wait...What was it about?, Ah Man! Now I Have to Read it All Over Again!

Well that's about it. I have nothing important to talk to you about today. Sorry I missed a Friday (I doubt you even noticed) but that's why I'm posting this today. I plan on writing a rather serious blog on Friday...maybe. We'll see how serious it really is. It will be about friendship because recently (actually all semester) I have been extremely annoyed with people and how they interact with their friends. So yeah, if you're interested in that you can read that. 

Speaking of friends my friend told me this so I thought I'd share it with you: YODO. You only die once. So you better make it count. I don't know if that is really all that funny to you but I found it rather humorous. Anyway stay classy and remember to keep you're mind on track, if you can...

P.S. The poll I took ended a while ago. The winner was "stay classy and (something random)" by a whopping two votes and the runner up was "Those are lame..." with one vote. If you missed out you can leave a comment! If you hated all the options tell me what you think I should have used. Basically just leave a comment! I might actually reply (I will "I promise (and when I promise I never EVER break that promise. Ever." ~ Rapunzel from Tangled (This is how my mind works...))).  

Poll Update

Okay so I had a poll for how I should end my blogs open for two weeks and I got one vote. So I'm going to try this again. I realize a lot of you probably didn't see it because I haven't posted anything in a while (I'm sorry!). I will have it open for a month this time. For the mean time I will end my blog posts the way the person that voted (thank you for voting by the way) wants and if I still don't really get an answer I will just stick with what they want. I don't think its fair to ignore that person's vote because nobody else voted so that is what is going to happen.

Stay classy and remember to eat ice cream, especially during the summer because it's hot. Just don't eat a whole container everyday that can't be healthy. Basically give yourself a treat...

Random Friend Blogging

About a month ago I decided that I was going to post something every Friday because I really had nothing better to do. Right after making that decision I actually started to have stuff to do. "What?! You were being social? I don't believe you!" No! It's true. I had a birthday party to go to and then helped my friend make cookies and I can't remember what else but I really was being social. However, I don't think that will happen as much anymore so here I am blogging. Is it a Friday that I'm actually typing this? Maybe, maybe not.

Some of the posts might be rather short because I don't want to type five pages all the time and exciting stuff (that, my friends, is a word that will get your English teachers to yell at you whether you want them to or not) doesn't happen to me all the time. Whether you think it does or not it really doesn't. A lot of the posts might be about Kpop because the millions and millions of Kpop groups that are out there are ALL releasing new songs plus new groups are coming out. So if I have nothing better to talk about that will be what I talk about.

I have the best friend ever! Remember how I'm psychotic about having a pen name and not being able to figure it out before? Well my friend fixed it! Isn't that exciting! She is a super duperly smartical (I don't care if those aren't real words) person and you should go check out her blog. Yes, I have mentioned her before and said something along the lines of "really good at the whole blogging thing". Well it's true and when I asked her how she figured it out she said, "clicking around". Pretty awesome if I do say so myself. This means that I will actually respond when you comment! Isn't that exciting?! No? ...Well this is awkward.

I like scarves. They're really soft and warm and just really nice. Only problem is half the time I don't know what to wear it with. Unfortunate right? Yeah, I think so too.

So I was thinking that know that I don't have to put "Scooby" at the end of each post I should have some sign off thing (I guess its not really a sign off because I'm not signing off of anything but you get the point). I think I have one but I'm not really sure yet. I will stick with that one for now until I think of a better one. Might even have you vote. If you have any ideas you should let me know!

Have a fantabulous day and be sure to rub your face on a nice soft scarf.

P.S. I'm not really sure if this works as well anymore...

Copyright?

So I'm kind of psychotic about if I'm going to get angry messages from people when I post a picture or something or mention a book or post a video or anything else in that matter. Why? Copyright that's why. It confuses me so much and I'm not really sure what I'm allowed to do or say and what I'm not.

Because of these issues I thought I would share this video with you that pretty much explains my feelings on this matter.

Yes. That is how I feel and yes that was Darren Criss who is now Blaine in Glee. Now then this video is by Starkid who I have recently become obsessed with. They had Darren Criss before Glee and they have done some amazing stuff that is awesome and funny. Will you be hearing more about them? Probably.
~Scooby

P.S. So maybe my situation isn't quite the same as there's was. They took their stuff down because they did a musical on Harry Potter and had to make sure there weren't any copyright issues. They got so much attention which is why they got worried. Yeah I'm not taking this down and I'm not nearly that popular (I'm pretty sure the only people that read this are people I know).

Blog Talk

Well as you can tell from the title this post is going to be blog talk (although I don't really think I know what that is). In this post I am going to share some of my feeling as I have watched the stats grow and do there thing.

First things first viewers. So Blogger has this nifty world map thingy that says how many viewers you have from different countries. The top one, of course, is always America. Considering how I live in America that makes sense. What confuses me though is all the other countries that actually see it. Those tend to vary constantly and normally have only like one view. How does that work if you are actually reading it? I mean, if you speak another language? Does it automatically change the language for you or are you really skilled and can read English? I think it probably changes for you automatically but that makes me wonder if there could be a translation error? For example, if I say "mer" how does that translate? Basically if I make a word up (which I do frequently) how does that translate?

The whole translation error wondering on my part makes me think of this fun link I found while I was bored. Basically it is this website where you write something and it translates it into 20 languages and then back to your own language. It's like the game telephone that you play where you whisper something into somebodies ear and and then they pass it on and by the time the last person hears it the phrase is something totally strange that it isn't even close to what it was in the first place. It's very fun, especially if you write a very strange story. Click here to enjoy this amazing website. I think I might have fixed this by adding a translation thing on the side. I tried it and it was pretty cool.

Next is views. Now I tend to pay attention to the views of certain posts more than the total views the blog has. I noticed that my Micro Gum Packs! had a whole lot more than all my other posts. I'm pretty sure this is because of the pictures on it (you'd be surprised at how much people search for a picture of gum packs). So be expecting more pictures.

Just because it needs a picture and I hope you are saying this to yourself. 

Well there's my questioning this whole blogging thing. I hope I didn't confuse you (if anything I probably made you think I'm and idiot...oh well).
~Scooby

P.S. Sorry that it is so wordy and stuff.

My Blogging Experience

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! That's pretty much my thought process as I tried to figure out what I was doing.

Did you know that blogger changed their format? Well I did and it made my life so much more frustrating. Point Blogger.

First came formatting the blog and making it pretty. Now first you should know that my friends also blog and I follow their blogs. Keeping that in mind their blogs are very pretty therefore I want mine to be just as pretty. Problem is: I don't really know what I'm doing. I had to figure out what a gadget was (I'm still not entirely sure what it is but I have a pretty good idea...I think). Then I had to format it so it looks semi normal and that you can read the post and gadgets (Haha! Now I feel smart!) without the words being completely vertical. Point me. Well I decided to make my blog even prettier by going to "The Cutest Blog on the Block" which it says in the top left hand corner. Do you like it? I like it. However it was rather frustrating to figure out how to make it my template...even though they had instructions. I followed them and did what they said but at first it didn't work. Point Blogger. But after that I figured it out and would change the template to a different design that I thought looked cool. Then I would look at it and think to myself "why does it look like that? It looked so much cooler when it wasn't part of my blog! Ugh!" "Oh wait that looks cool...but it's for the St. Patrick's Day. Darn." "Hmm that's not bad...okay I'll just go with that because otherwise I'm never going to pick one." Then I had to figure out how to change the font and what color it was going to be. With that done my blog is now at it's current look. Hurray!

Next came the post. That wasn't bad I already had the idea of what I was going to write so that part was probably the easiest. Point me.

Then came the most frustrating part ever! I set up a gmail to make this blog and I put in my full name only to find out later that everybody could see my full name. I don't want everybody to be able to see my name (unless I know you then you probably already know my name). No offense I'm sure you're an awesome person I just don't want some creeper to find this and be like "I'm going to stalk this girl!" I'm sorry I find that rather weird and creepy. I realize that probably won't happen but I don't really want to take that risk. I guess you could say I'm psychotic that way. I googled how to change my name or make it so my name was there put people could only see the name I wanted them to see. I tried for like two hours only to fail. Point Blogger. So I had my friend, Daphne (that is a nickname if you didn't catch that), who is very smart with the whole blogging thing, help me. I don't really know how to explain how she helped except that I gave her my username and password thing so that she could do it herself. That was good because it wouldn't have worked out very well for me if she told me what to do. "Wait! Where is that?! I already tried that!! It's not working!! Ugh! Why is it so stupid!?" (that would have been my conversation to her, she would try to calm me down and be patient but I don't think I would have ever figured it out).

I believe that is all that occurred. I could be wrong and just forgot something that was really frustrating because I don't want to get frustrated again. So I believe this is the end of the post. I still don't have a catch phrase. Minus one point for me.
~Scooby

P.S. In case you were wondering Blogger won with 3 points while I had 1 point by the end of my experience. ...I lost to an inanimate object (actually I don't think it's even an object). Sigh.

Well Hello There

Well hello there! This is my blog, obviously. Now then if I know you, hello, if not, welcome person I don't know I hope you enjoy yourself. This post is going to explain why I made this blog and who I am. So let's get started:

Name: Steve
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Relationship status: Divorced twice, currently dating
Pets: A parrot
Hobbies/Activities: I collect leaves/I surf
Political views: Republican
Religious views: Wiccan
Where do I live: Australia
Reason for making this blog: I want to become famous
Can I write: I think so

Just kidding! That's not really who I am, it just goes to show how easy it is to lie on the internet (I probably shouldn't be saying that...oh well). Any way lets get down to who I really am:

Name: You can call me Scooby
Genger: I is a female
Age: um...I'll just say between 16 and 20
Relationship status: As single as one can get...I will probably end up being the crazy old lady with too many cats, but that's a story for another day.
Pets: 2 cats
Hobbies/Activities: I make friendship bracelets and I read/I play volleyball
Political views: Who cares?
Religious views: Christian. I'm not going to say I'm Catholic or I'm Lutheran because honestly, I don't think it really matters. I believe in God and that He sent his son to die on the cross to save us (that's kinda the shorter version but there you go).
Where do I live: America
Reason for making this blog: To rant about things that annoy me. To be able to vent with out people asking me questions and so I actually get it out and feel like someone might "hear" me. To make you laugh with my awkward moments and other nonsense like that.
Can I write: No, no I cannot (you've probably already noticed that). If you want a good read with proper grammar and what not I suggest you leave now if you haven't already.

Well there you go. That is me. I'll probably get around to making an "about me" section at some point and time but for now this is how you can get to know me. I think that's all you need to know about me. If I missed something...oh well I think you'll survive.

Wow. I really don't know how to end this. Maybe I should have a catch phrase or something? That way I can put it down and then you will know that the post is done. I have no idea what that could possibly be so for now good bye, have fun, and enjoy life.
~Scooby