Starting Again?

Well hello there people of the internet! Think about if people of the internet are their own species...that would be interesting...what would that be called? Homo Internetio...whats internet in latin? Hang on...need to google. Cue jeopardy music. Oh wait. The internet wasn't around when Latin was, was it? Um well now I'm rather confused. Answers.com says that net in latin is rete or retium but that sounds too much like part of the eye ball to me. Then they also said they have seen interete and interetium.You pick what you think it would be and tell me!

Wow. That was a weird tangent that I didn't mean to go off on. Welcome back to this blog that has terrible grammar, makes no sense, and has random tangents. I hope you enjoy.

Anyway...I was going to blog a lot more than I did during college. I had all these plans and ideas and then I got distracted by college life and don't remember anything I was going to say. So ignore anything I said I was going to talk to you about...unless you really want me to talk about it, in which case you should yell at me in the comments to talk about it. So yeah. Sorry for my inconsistency. I'm not going to make any promises that I will post more regularly but apparently I'm incredibly bad at those promises so I'm not going to do that. I will however post when I'm bored. Like right now...

So the point of this post is 1) to say I'm back and sorry for being so irregular but it probably won't change and 2) to ask how you would feel if I attempted to right random short stories here. I used to right random short stories in high school on my friends/families phone. It was really fun and since it was on a phone it could be short and didn't need to make any sense. I used to be writing a book until I stopped because I realized how terrible I am at writing (apparently that didn't stop me from making a blog though). But! I could still write some short stories and practice writing because even though I'm terrible at it I find it rather enjoyable. If I can find some of my short stories I can share them with you and stuff. I don't know. So yeah. I might do that.

Stay classy and don't forget that you are awesome. Yeah that was kinda lame. My bad.

In the Future: ...I don't know!

Fangirling

Do you ever get really excited when you are watching a movie or something you enjoy? Does it get to the point where you laugh at something that really isn't funny at all? When you look back are you ashamed? Yeah...me too. Well that my friends is called fangirling. At least that's what it is to me.

This explains it A LOT better than I did...

There are only a couple of things that will make me act in this manner. 

1. Multiple characters in Detective Conan
2. Pentatonix
3. Starkid

Anyway I was fangirling a while ago and then thought to myself "This is typically how girls act when they are extremely excited about something. So...how do the male species act?" Do they act all cool and are like "Yeah bro. That's my favorite band/movie/person/whatever!" Or do they just talk about how cool it is with their friends? Or do they giggle and squeal in excitement while watching their favorite thing in their room with no one around? I just can't picture it but I feel like they have to get really excited in some manner? How do they do it?! I don't understand! 

That's pretty much all I had to say about this. What causes you to fangirl? If you are of the male species how do you "fangirl"? If you are of the female species how do you fangirl? Let me know! Don't make me feel like the only one acting like an idiot! ...Stay classy and remember that it is perfectly normal to get extremely excited about something you enjoy. 

In the Future: College Observations, History of Nail Polish, Cologne in that order!

Communication (Part 2)

So I kinda forgot about last weeks post...I got a little busy and when I got home I was too exhausted to do anything. Since I feel like communication is really important we are going to continue from the last time I talked about this. So lets get to it!

Have you ever had this conversation?

Parent: "You all packed?"
You: "For what?"
Parent: "We are going on vacation!"
You: "Really? When?"
Parent: "Tomorrow. I told you that."
You: "What?! No you didn't."
Parent: "Sure I did." *walks away*

I don't know if I've had that exact conversation but I have had similar situations. So here's the point I want to make. Make sure you tell people important information. Also even if you tell them that make sure they actually heard you because many times people will be in shock or too tired to understand what you are actually saying. Does that make sense?

I don't know if I told you this but I'm not exactly the best at communicating. For example sometimes I will just make a noise. Just like a squeak or something. No, it's not just when I'm surprised. I will just make a noise to express my feeling. I don't know why it just happens.

In my last communication post I gave an example of a confusing conversation. After I published that post I got to thinking about and found some other confusing parts of it. So let's get into that shall we? We shall.

So this is that conversation:

"What channel is it?"
"What?"
"What channel is it?"
"I don't know what you're looking for."
"I don't know what's on."
"..."

How did you read "What?" That's what I want to know because you can either read it as "What are you talking about" or "What program". Depending on how you say something it can mean something totally different. There was an example of this in Cars. When Lightning McQueen said "Yeah okay" to Sally (the blue car) and she was all like "Well what does that mean?" Do you remember that? No? Darn. Just watch the movie again and you'll see what I'm talking about. After all it is a good movie.

Alright now for the major ranting part of the post. Contractions. You know "it's"," you're", "don't", all those good things. Well I have come to learn that you aren't supposed to use them when writing a paper. Why? Because it doesn't sound as professional. That doesn't make any sense to me. In school we had to learn about how contractions work. It was one of the first things we learned. I don't know about you but I had a whole worksheet on how they worked and what "would" and "not" would combine to become. I probably had a test on it too! It was called phonics. So here's my problem. Why did we learn it if we aren't supposed to use it? It doesn't make any sense!

Okay now for a more serious matter. My pastor actually talked about words on Sunday (which actually reminded me about this post). Anyway he gave an illustration that he really likes and I kinda like to. Okay take a bottle of toothpaste and push all of the toothpaste out. You don't actually have to do this just imagine if you want. Okay now that all the toothpaste is out try to put it back in. How's that going? Not that well? Yeah. That's the point. You can't put the toothpaste back in. If you don't believe me then try it. Think of the toothpaste as words. It is really easy to let all of these words out but its a lot harder to take them back. Just think about the next time you want to say something mean to someone.

Well that's it for this long awaited post (just kidding). I just decided (literally like a minute ago) that at the very very end, so after this little paragraph I would list topics I plan on writing about. Just so you know and hopefully keep you interested so you come back! Stay classy and be careful what you say to people. Say one thing and you could loose a friend. Words are powerful. Use them wisely.

In the future! Nail polish, fangirling, and YOLO! What?!

Cat Collar Shopping

This is going to be a random post. After my post last week I think a shorter one would be kinda nice. So this is just some of the news that has happened in my life this past week.

Story #1:
So I saw my cat zonked out (that means sleeping hard core if you didn't know that) on my parents bed. So I went to pet him because he was so cute and I felt like petting him. When I get there I notice that a spot on his chest is lacking of some of his fur. Taking a closer look he has two scratches on his chest.

When I went to pet him he woke up and started licking and licking and licking and licking and licking it. I swear he's licking it SO much. Any way we are taking him to the vet because we want to make sure he's okay and we are leaving for vacation tomorrow.

Cutest fight ever :)

Sigh my stupid cat is once again injured and we think its from our neighbors cat. Not entirely sure but that's our best guess.

Story #2:
I went shopping with my friends expecting to get a boat load of clothes. That was a major fail. I didn't get anything and my friends each got one shirt. Total fail and somewhat disappointing for spending all day shopping.

Story #3:
I had graduation. Yes, I did graduate. Anyway not the point. We had to be at the school super early (and then we didn't do anything for an hour and a half...but that's not the point). With the robes we were supposed to wear all the girls got a collar to tape (the tape was like the tape you get for name tags) onto their robe. Well I forgot mine. Oops. Don't worry! That had extra ones and they helped me put it on (they had duct tape though...much more affective).

I think that's pretty much it for my update. I wanted to keep it somewhat short. Besides that though my friend invited me to help her with another project she is doing. It's this blog called Smiles No Matter :) and I think you should check it out because it is pretty awesome. Plus, you can read about my awkward moments in life (if that is any incentive).

Oh yeah. I'm going on vacation so there probably won't be another post next week. Sorry. Have a classy day and don't forget to keep your cat away from your neighbors cat! Sigh, stupid cat. 

Friendship

Sorry I'm late again on posting. I got home yesterday and was completely exhausted. Not to mention that this post took a lot longer to write then I thought it would. It is rather long. Anyway here it is! Enjoy!


What is friendship? Well that's a tricky question. It varies from person to person. This is what Google says the meaning of friendship is:

1. The emotions or conduct of friends; the state of being friends.
2. A relationship between friends.

Really helpful right? That's probably why we all have our own definitions of friendship. I don't really now how to put my "definition" into words or even a one sentence explanation. It's not just "Oh yeah I have friends that I hang out with sometimes." It's so much more. For me friendship isn't just about talking and hanging out with people. It's what you DO for that person. Do you help them when they need help? Do feel awful if you get in an argument and want to find someway to fix it right away? Do you stand up for them if others talk badly about them or do you join in? 

Everybody shows their friendship in a different way. Some go with the talking route; so they give their friends a lot of compliments and openly say how awesome their friends are. Others take the actions route; helping their friends through their actions. There are a lot of other ways people can show their friendship. I prefer actions because I think its harder for somebody to do something for somebody without really caring. People can lie and get away with actually feeling bad for something. Actions are harder to fake. At least I think so. 

Every relationship requires a give and take. This is the same with friendships. You can NOT keep asking for something over and over again and never return the favor. Say you're at lunch with your friend and everyday at lunch you ask if someone will go across the street with you to buy lunch. Do you have that friend that always goes with you? Yeah, most people do. I happen to be one of those friends. Now say that same friend asks you to go with them. Do you go? I sure hope you said yes. I have been so annoyed when people refuse to help me even though I have helped them so many times I can't keep count (not that I would want to but still). For me personally I getting to the point where I was just done. If I wasn't going to get any help in return why should I return the favor. That may sound selfish but after always helping people it makes sense. 

Think back to the same situation I was just ranting about. If you go with your friend do you go to benefit yourself? Is the first thing you ask "Will you buy me something?" when you already have a lunch? Now who sounds selfish. I never ask that question. When I do think about myself it's more of a "Will I be back in time for class" type of question. If you're going with your friend just so you can get something for free I don't think that's a very good friendship. That almost seems like you are using your friend. Also not good.

I have had friendships where I have felt like I was being used. Those friendships don't last very long. If you have a friend who has a special talent and makes awesome stuff don't use them as a source to get free stuff. Once or twice is okay but you can't expect them to keep making everything for you. Especially if they are using their own money to buy the materials. Plus they can begin to feel used.

Everybody has disagreements from time to time. Everybody is different and has different ideas and beliefs which is going to cause arguments. However, you can NOT go up to your friend say something that makes them cry and then walk away happily. 1) That's just not okay. You are their friend you should not be making them cry. 2) You made them cry you should have to deal with it. When you walk away you cause other people to "clean up your mess" 3) That should not make you happy. If you are happy because you made a FRIEND cry you should really think about your friendship.

I had my last day of high school and either people are really upset because they aren't going to see some of their friends again or they don't really care because you make your real friends in college. I have an issue with both of these. Firstly, who says when you make your real friends. With that mindset of course you aren't going to have the best friends in high school. Secondly if you don't want to lose your friends then don't. Keep in contact. Make sure you hang out together when you can. Isn't that why we have all of these social networks? Or are they just there so you can complain to everybody and get grief? Or show how popular you are?

That's another thing. Social networks. How many friends do you have on Facebook? How many Twitter followers do you have/follow? Do you actually talk to all these people. Are you ACTUALLY friends or have you just heard of them because they are one of the popular kids in school? All my friends of Facebook I have talked to on a daily basis at one point in my life. I know every single person. I don't have that many and that's fine with me.

A while ago I told some of my friends "If they don't want to be my friend that's fine. I don't really care." Something along those lines and their reaction was something of "That's so mean!" First off, I didn't mean for that to be mean. It's how I feel. Going into high school I tried to be friends with them and I was shot down. That showed me that they didn't want to be my friend. Instead of sucking up to them and continually trying to be their friends I moved on. I already had friends. I already had my best friends. I didn't NEED anymore friends. Now if somebody wanted to be my friend I wouldn't shoot them down. I am willing to make a new friendship. If somebody shot me down already and then want to be my friend, sure I'll be nice and talk to them but I don't know if we will be actual friends in my mind. I'm not trying to be mean. I have a certain definition of "friend" and it's rather strict.

We were signing yearbooks this last week. One of my friends asked me if I had a lot of signatures. I said no and that I don't need a lot. I prefer my close friends to write as much or as little as they want. If they take up a whole page awesome. If they don't that's awesome too. If they do write a whole page it doesn't need to be entirely heartfelt. Whenever I take up a picture I always add a picture and just random ramblings just so I can say I took up a whole page. I don't need all these people to sign my yearbook just to say something nice and to wish me luck in the future. Besides half the time people always complain about how they never know what to say when people they haven't really talked to want them to sign their yearbook. I'm not putting them in that situation, they should thank me (just kidding). If someone wants me to sign their yearbook I will have them sign mine as well. Why? Because that seems like the polite thing.

I requiring theme in these last two paragraphs is NEED. What I want and what I need is entirely different. But that's a whole different discussion.

If a friend tells you something really exciting what would your response be? Would you be extremely excited and want to know everything or would you suddenly change the subject because you've had a sucky day and don't care about the good fortune your friend has. I don't know about you but when I'm in a bad mood I at least pretend to show interest in my friends good fortune. Even when they change the subject on me.

I have been very lucky. I have amazing friends. Ever since we've known each other I think the longest we have ever been mad at each other is less than 24 hours. That's pretty impressive if you ask me. Now I'm not saying that I'm the perfect friend. I try but nobody's perfect and sometimes you're just in a bad mood to be the perfect friend.

Think about what kind of a friend you have been. Really think about it. Truthfully. Have you been a sucky friend? Have you done some things you regret doing (in terms of friends...focus on that right now)? How do you want your friends to treat you? Then treat them the same way. If you're worried about losing your friends then maybe you should think about how you're treating them.

It really bugs me when I witness people being stupid with how they treat their friends. I tend to be on both sides of every argument and it stresses me out when I see my friends in an argument. Why? Because I find friendship EXTREMELY important and it bugs me when people take it for granted.

Well I'm done ranting. I hope that made you think. If you have questions or need advice I'm willing to help just let me know. Stay classy and remember to cherish your friends because they take a lifetime to make and a moment to lose (yes I know, its really cheesy but its true).

Here's a fun song about friendship...with super heroes! I want to be your friend forever!

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...))).  

Cat Ate Tissue

So this is going to be a rather random post. I have all these short stories and stuff that I think you might enjoy (I don't know maybe you won't). One of stories isn't really a story its more of a "this bothers me" which I guess happens a lot...

Story #1
I don't know if you know this or not but I have two cats. One day my cats were very hyper (this isn't that uncommon for them). I knew this because I could hear them running around upstairs. Eventually I decided I needed to go upstairs to my room, so up the stairs I went. As I stepped onto the very top of the stairs and into the hallway my cat comes running out of the room right next to the stairs and runs right into my leg. I almost fell over! My poor cat seemed dazed at first and then ran into the other room again.

Story #2
I ate a cricket! Okay...it wasn't a plain old cricket it was a chocolate covered cricket. It wasn't that large either, it was less than an inch. Basically it was a little cricket stuck in the middle of a block of chocolate. Why did I eat a cricket? It was for my AP Psychology class! I can't really remember what the point of it was. Probably something to do with culture and the norms of each country or something along that line.

Before I actually ate it you had to get the courage to actually eat it. I know what you're thinking. "How long could that take just put the cricket in your mouth and eat it! I doubt you could even see the cricket!" Well the problem was that a dude next to me had a cricket whose leg was sticking out of the chocolate. So that was a little disturbing. I hadn't (is that a word? It seems so strange...) opened my cricket yet so I was hoping that I would have that same problem. Well when I opened it the first thing I saw was a cricket staring at me. I'm not afraid of crickets or bugs but seeing it staring at me startled me and caused me to drop the cricket. There was a huge crack in my chocolate so you could see the entire body of the cricket. Rather unsettling. Then of course everybody else around the room ate there's so I ate mine and it just tasted like cheap chocolate. It wasn't that crunch, there was a slight crunch but nothing that is terribly unsettling. I was going to take a picture of the chocolate covered cricket but then I couldn't because it startled me.

This is the pin I got. It's rather large...

The whole thing came in this nifty little package along with a pin! So I now have a pin that says "I Ate A Bug Club!" That happened. Anyway, I looked at the package and it had the ingredients on it. I tried to take a picture but you couldn't read them so I will just list them for you now.

• Milk Chocolate
• Salt
• Vanillin
• Many Other ingredients I'm too lazy to type out
• One Oven-Roasted Cricket

Not only did I eat a cricket, I ate an oven-roasted cricket! That must mean I was healthier than those people that eat just a plain old raw cricket right? You know...like almonds. I just find it funny that they put that there was a cricket in it in the instructions (because for some reason I didn't know that was going to be there) and the fact that it was oven-roasted. I wonder if that's why it wasn't very crunchy...

Story #3

When you go to blow your nose you normally grab a tissue. Well, at least I hope you do instead of just using your sleeve. Recently I opened a new box of tissues. You know how a tissue is really two thin pieces stuck together? Well now there is three pieces stuck together. At first I thought I just magically pulled out another one that first time. Nope. They are all like that. It really bugs me because now the tissue is super thick. I don't know if that's good or not but its throwing me off. 

Well that's it for this week. Thanks for reading. Sorry if it was lame or weird or whatever other complaints you might have. Stay classy and don't be afraid to try something new you never know what you can learn from it!

P.S. The poll is going for another two weeks! You should vote before time runs out! 

Communication

The definition of "communication" according to Google is:

The imparting or exchanging of information or news. A letter or message containing such information or news.

Basically we use it to talk to people to let them know how we are feeling, what we want them to know, to comfort them, or whatever else our silly little brains decide we need to say. It's such a simple thing yet can cause so many problems and misunderstandings. 

I believe that most of the arguments people get into is from a misunderstanding of what one person says. Think about your most recent argument. If it was about a difference of opinions. What probably happened (this is just my observation of what normally happens. Don't start yelling at me if I'm wrong.) was you tried to convince them that your opinion is correct and there's is incorrect. As you were arguing you were trying to find a way to make that person understand what is going on in your head. I don't know about you but when I try to do this I can never express myself in the way the would best express what is actually going on in my head. It is extremely frustrating. 

As humans we have become more and more used to communication and have created short cuts to make our conversations take less time. For example:

1. They're = they are (are we too lazy to say two whole words and we just made one?!)
2. lol = laugh out loud (too lazy to type three words out...pretty soon we are going to be making up our own abbreviations like "iduwyta" Translation: I don't understand what you're talking about (well that seems to explain everything extremely well)
3. it = anything in the world
4. he = Steve (but only if you know who you're talking about)

I recently had a conversation that went like this:

"What channel is it?"
"What?"
"What channel is it?"
"I don't know what you're looking for."
"I don't know what's on."
"..."

What is this it you speak of? You don't know? Then why didn't you just ask "Do you know what's on?" I don't understand! It doesn't make any sense!

I have noticed a lot of experiences like this occurring. Sometimes my friends won't even say anything just make facial expressions and wave their hands randomly and I will translate the meaning. How? Good at deduction I guess (honestly though, I have no idea). Recently I have done it so much that now my friends will be eating, mumble something incomprehensible, and then point to me expecting me to translate. Half the time I'm not even paying attention to their conversation and am talking to somebody else when they start waving at me and expect me to know why. I'm sorry, I don't understand mime. If I knew what you were talking about I might be able to make a reasonable guess but with no context I will either say "I don't know" or I will make something up.

Also I realize that sometimes things happen and you are annoyed and don't want to talk about it more than you have to. However, if you tell somebody at a large table where many conversations are occurring and then expect everybody to know what you said you are greatly mistaken. If I ask you about it later and you get mad at me because you already told "everybody" think about when you told everybody. Was I actually there? Was I actually in your conversation? Why would I be asking if I already knew the answer? It doesn't make any sense to get mad at me (or anyone else for that matter) because they ask you a question they know the answer to. If you have answered the same question many times for the same person, fine, you get at least tell that person that you already told them and if they say "No, you didn't" obviously they have poor memory or are just being mean.

I hate the question "Do you know...?" Because never know if they are asking you because they want to know or if they know and want to know if you know and if you don't know they will tell you (did that make sense?) It's a double sided question and half the time you answer wrong and then they get mad at you.

The of course there is gossip. Don't do it. Just don't. It may seem fun but I guarantee you that the person that it is about will eventually hear it and then it will just create more chaos then there needs to be. If you hear something from your friends brother that heard it from this guy that was told by this guy on his team that his girlfriend was told by her cousin that this happened stop and think. Is the source really credible? Yes? Do you even know who that person is?! Probably not. Plus what happens through that long chain of conversation is a game of telephone. I seriously doubt that the original comment will be told the correct way. Everybody interprets facial expressions and voice inflections differently. Plus some people probably don't care what happens to the person the rumor is about and could make it sound more exciting so their friends think they are cooler than they actually are.

We use communication all the time. Heck. We even use it when talking to our pets and our pets use it to communicate to us. Do we understand it? No, not always. Communication is an amazing thing and really helps us to get along but it can also tear people apart. One little slip or failure to filter what you're saying can cause you to lose a friend. With communication comes the responsibility of understand what is being said. If what is being said is misunderstood what was the point of saying it? If I say something and you ask me to repeat it and then I say never mind I guarantee that it wasn't that important. If I don't repeat it it wasn't that important. If it's a joke you missed it and it's no longer funny. If I have something important to say I will tell you.

Well this has been a long post and I got side-tracked. I wasn't going to talk about half of that and didn't talk (write? whatever) about what I wanted to so I will probably make another post about this. Hopefully it will be more humorous and shorter. Oh, sorry if there are a ton of grammatical errors.
  
Don't forget to stay classy and don't cause problems that can be prevented simply by closing your mouth.

Orthodontist

I hate the orthodontist. Now I know what you're thinking. "They aren't that bad." "It's their job! Give them a break!" "They give you a perfect smile which is both good looking and good for you." "Hate is a very strong word." Yeah well I have had to deal with them for nine years of my life. Did you read that right? Nine!!!! That's half my life.

For the past seven years I was nice to them. Okay not really but I put up with them and tried really hard not to hate them. This last year I gave up. I decided that it's too much effort to show that I don't actually hate them. Part of the reason I hate them is I have had braces for five or six (not really sure) of those nine years. Yeah. I'm a little annoyed.

One appointment was particularly strange because I was happy and then I was extremely annoyed because they told me I was going to get braces for the third time. Well before that I was trying not to laugh as they worked on my teeth because I thought of this video. Specifically the part about a fire because I could see and smell smoke as they scraped glue off of my teeth.

I have had pretty much everything you can think of. I had a retainer to make my mouth bigger because I had a small mouth (so if anybody says I have a big mouth I can blame my orthodontist which is nice). I had springs in my mouth that I would play with and sometimes they would get stuck so I couldn't close my mouth (that was really awkward in school because suddenly my mouth would be open longer than normal and I would be freaking out trying to fix the stupid spring). I have had so many canker sores that stuff that my be extremely painful for somebody else is normal  for me and doesn't bother me (one time the orthodontist said to use wax to fix it and I didn't understand why).

My third time having braces was probably the worst because it was in the very back of my mouth. The very back. The tooth that's farthest back in your upper mouth. Yeah. I had braces there which was the cause of bleeding and many canker sores back there (the bleeding was mainly because there was three centimeters of wire sticking into my cheek).

Before my third time I had full braces and then almost a year or two with a retainer. I got one of the invisalign retainers. When I got my third braces they took my retainer and cut it in half so I could still wear it at night.

I got a new retainer after the third time. I hate how they make the mold for them though. Using this gross pink goey stuff and put it in your mouth and then hold it there for at least a minute. Gross. Plus I have a huge gag reflex so half the time I'm gagging and can't breathe and they think I'm going to throw up, which I'm not I just can't breathe. So I'm gagging and can't breathe and they bring a trash can and I'm just thinking "That's not the problem! I can't breathe and a trash can isn't going to help me breathe."

Anyway after they give me my new retainer the lady tells me about cleaning it. I heard this when I got my first one but I didn't pay much attention to it. Then she asked me if I brushed my old retainer two times a day. I stared at her for a while and then just said no. Another lady in the background started laughing when she heard that and I don't know why. No, I'm sorry I'm not going to thoroughly clean my retainer twice a day I really don't care if it gets cloudy. I'm going to be wearing it at night so nobody is going to see if its cloudy unless I show them or they stare at my mouth while I sleep. Apparently I'm also supposed to clean it everyday in Efferdent or something like that but I'll probably do that once a month if I remember which I don't think I will.

That's my orthodontist experience I've also had one of the orthodontist say that I'm not as cool as another patient (it was a guy teasing the lady who was working on me that his patient was cooler than me so I guess it's not that mean but the lady didn't really defend me...). Maybe that helps you understand why I really don't like them.

Broken Computer

THIS MACHINE IS OUT OF ORDER

YES - WE HAVE CALLED THE SERVICE MAN

YES - HE WILL BE IN TODAY, MAYBE

NO - WE CANNOT FIX IT

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED IT

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW WHO BROKE IT

YES - WE ARE KEEPING IT

NO - WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO NOW

THANK YOU

That, my friends, is what was written on a sheet of paper that was taped onto a computer in my school library. Obviously it wasn't working. I don't know why but I found it both funny and sad at what they put on the paper. It's funny because they really do answer all of the questions you could think of asking (if not all then most). However it is sad because they probably had to put that on the paper because people have actually asked them those questions.

Well I hope you enjoyed this short little post. I thought I would share this experience with you because it was interesting. Have a fantabulous day!
~Scooby

The Fort

Talk about ridiculous prices, creepy old guy, food, dressing up, Waugh and gift, and singing ladies plus magically appearing food and sneaky waiters and waitress saying thank you very much to every one and thanking us. Think of singing "please don't eat me" from dragon song in avpm while eating

So as I said in my previous post I had a Christmas party on the first with some family friends. Every year we get together and we trade off going to each others house. This year it was our friend who is really big into Christmas. When I was younger she would always buy us each at least 10 presents. She still does now just not as much because we got rid of the gift exchange part. Anyway this time she decided to take us to The Fort. The Fort is a very fancy restaurant where two people can easily spend over $100.

This be the place.

 So before we actually left I asked my parents if I needed to dress up. The response: "YES!" I couldn't even wear jeans! That's my life! If you don't know me I hate dressing up. It's a pain in the butt. My normal outfit consists of jeans, a T-shirt, and a hoodie (socks and tennis shoes as well). My hair is also up in a pony tail and no make-up is on my face. When I'm home and know I'm not going anywhere I will where sweats instead of jeans and slippers. Anyway they said I could wear some black pants I had but I really didn't want to because they always have cat hair on them and aren't that comfortable and I'm all about comfort. So I decided if I had to go to this place and dress up it was all or nothing. Since my parents wouldn't let me wear sweats I went with a dress. I even straightened my hair and put on some makeup (I used my friend's boots that I borrowed at one point and haven't given back yet....oops). I brought clothes to change into for when we went back to her house because I refused to stay in that outfit longer than I had to.

The food:
Well once everything started we got drinks (I got water because after looking at the prices of their appetizers I was afraid their drinks would be really expensive too). We got an appetizer that had three different kinds of sausage on it. The one I had tasted like chili to me. Kinda weird. Then we got our main meals (I got filet mignon) it was very good and like $40 dollars. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. The first time I got the menu I wanted to know if they had a kids meal because I would be fine with that. Well let's just say my father said no to that too. The food was really good though. I'm not a big steak fan but that was good stuff. I would eat that again. My father got a full rack of ribs and I kid you not the stack was as big as my head. There was a lot of food and that was good too. The vegetables were also really good which impressed me because normally I will pass on them at a restaurant.



The Atmosphere:
There was this Mountain Man there that would sneak up behind you and just stand there until you turned around. The only way you would know that he was there is when the people around you would tell you. At first I didn't think he was a mountain man...I thought he was a strange Santa Claus because he had the beard and everything except for the clothes. I was confused. He was rather creepy.



There was also this group of four ladies that would go around singing Christmas carols at each table. That was really cool. They were good too.

The Service:
The service was very good (probably part of the reason it is so expensive there). You got an appetizer menu and once you were done eating your appetizer they would take your dirty dishes and give you new dishes for the rest of your meal. I was really confused at first because they took my knife and fork. When we got our main meal they gave us a different knife that seemed rather sharp to me. You would also be eating and then suddenly see that more food arrived and be really confused as to how it got there and if a waiter/waitress put it there. It was magical. Like the tables at Hogwarts. Our waitress also kept saying "Thank you very much" after we ordered. It seemed strange to me because you are the one making us the food we should be thanking you (granted it isn't free by any means but your still giving us good food). Plus it was weird because she said it to every person and it got really repetive.

Other:
After we were done eating we were given this pieces of paper. Some of the said that if you went to their store you would get a gift. So we went to the shop and got a block of fancy chocolate. That was nice. On the paper the word "Waugh" was written which I didn't really understand why it was there. Maybe that is somebody's name. When I googled it there was an author with that last name and a Waugh school district and a bunch of other people.

The prices were ridiculous in my mind. You didn't get any more food than you would in any other place yet you spent at least $40 unless you were a vegetarian. If you're a vegetarian and you get their vegetarian dish that is $20. Vegetarians for the win!

While I was eating my meal I got a song stuck in my head. It is a Starkid song called "The Dragon Song." Before I share the video you should know that the only part of the song that was stuck in my head was when he sings "So please don't eat me." I was singing "please don't eat me" in my head while I was eating my meat. Sigh. How does that even happen? On the video I would go to 5:45 if you don't want to watch that much and actually want to know what I'm talking about. If you want to watch the whole video go for it!

That was my adventure at The Fort. Sorry this post was rather long.
~Scooby

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).

Thanksgiving!

So before I go off on a tangent I'm going to say what needs to be said.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gobble Gobble

Yes I know that's tomorrow but I probably won't get the chance to say it tomorrow so I'm saying it now. Deal with it.

So thanksgiving break for me started really at 8:20 AM Friday last week. Why such an odd time? Well I will tell you why. SDYC was this last weekend and I went to that (that stands for Southern District Youth Conference. It's this big conference (imagine that) where youth (wow strange that's part of the name too) go to worship and learn more about God. We left on Friday around 11 AM. Will you be hearing more about this conference? Well I would like to tell you more but I probably won't. I had a test first hour that day and couldn't make it up the day before because I was making up another test I would be missing. So I went to school for the first hour to take the test (AP Biology test...not fun) and then left.

I planned on getting a lot done over thanksgiving break. I had planned on making like 4 bracelets, reading a book, finishing with college, and doing all my homework in the first two days. I had also planned on blogging everyday. Well I finished 2 bracelets, read half my book, did some college but not a lot, and haven't even started my homework. Obviously I haven't been blogging everyday either. That sounds like something so simple to do. Just share a video or something dumb that happened and post it. Hurray! Easy peasy.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

Well turns out its not that easy. See some stuff happened in my life that caused that to happen. The main one is that iTunes hates me and decided to stop working. There was an update for my iPod so I tried to do that but I had to get the newest version of iTunes. So I did that thinking "Well at least I will be all updated." Then when I tried to update my iPod it said "Couldn't connect to iPod server." Well when I read that I was like what and just tried it again and as you can probably guess it still didn't work. Oh I couldn't sync my iPod either.

My look when it said it couldn't connect to iPod server.

 So I googled and everything I found was too smart for me to do or I didn't understand what they were talking about. So I told my father and he tried all this stuff and that didn't work so he emailed the iTunes people. Well when they replied they told him to try everything he already tried. Thanks that was really helpful...not. So my father downloaded the newest version of iTunes onto his computer and I was so impatient that I went and updated my iPod on his computer. Well I lost all my music, apps, and videos by doing that. I still have all my pictures though which is very strange to me but whatever. I got very frustrated when this happened because well iTunes on my computer didn't have any music or videos or anything because he uninstalled and reinstalled so it was blank.

Stupid Apple

My father found all my music and stuff though and put that on iTunes. Still can't sync my iPod though so I have an iTunes that is rather useless and can't use my iPod for anything I really want to use it for. So my father was on my computer for a good amount of time so I couldn't use it (I suppose I could have used his computer...oops).

I also watched the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I learned that I don't really like them because they are so gross and strange...but they are so good! I finished watching the third one today and well it took me 6 hours to watch the whole thing (I was interupted many times and had to leave the house to do errands...hurray (<-- read in sarcastic tone)). That was fun and I finished some bracelets during that time.

While I was doing my errands there was one dude that annoyed me. I was stopped because the light turned yellow and the dude behind me wanted to turn right. I was the only person in front of him and I was going to straight so normally he would have to wait for me to go before he could go. Well when I looked in my rear view mirror he was all like "You have got to be kidding me". That didn't bug me though because I tend to get that reaction a lot. What bugged me was that he started to turn his wheel and went up on the curve to get past me and turn. Really? Come on now.

Because of this dude I have decided to share this video with you about driving. Note: It is a series with 10 episodes and this is the fourth episode. It is probably my newest and shortest obsession. You should watch it. Anyway this explains the rules of the road because I think the world needs to be reminded about how to drive.

I found that quite amusing and maybe it will remind you to be careful when traveling. Enjoy Thanksgiving! 
~Scooby

P.S. REMEMBER THE RULES OF THE ROAD!

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.