Nail Polish

How the heck did someone decide to create nail polish? Were they just looking at their nails and thought: "Grrrroooooooossssssss! My nails look so normal...and flesh colored! I wish my nails were like Barbs nails."  I mean what the heck? Why did we suddenly decide that us girls (and some guys) need to make our nails different colors?

I paint my toenails because I think it makes my feet look gross but recently I have been looking at my toenails and thinking that it is really weird. Why do we think that rainbow colored nails are more attractive? I just don't understand. 

How did they make nail polish in the first place? Did they randomly take some paint and put it on their nails? Or did they put wrap their fingers except for their nails and then put their fingers in some dye? Like how the heck did the very first prototype (?) of nail polish come into existence? I don't know. Do you?

Why did they decide that they needed to make it super sticky? It's so hard to get the nail polish off of your fingers when it's so sticky! When I'm trying to get it off my nails because it's pretty much gone it takes way too long! And I'm getting a arm/hand work out while I'm scrubbing it off. 

Even though the nail polish is super sticky After one stinking day it chips! What the heck?! Don't do that! After like a week all the nail polish will be gone except for on my pinky finger and thumb. How does that work? I'm not sure. 

Waiting for the nail polish to dry is also a very annoying part. It takes soooooo looooonnnngggg! Plus if you do a lot of layers you can rub some of it off. Basically it's not completely dry until like 24 hours later. What the heck! I can't tell you how many time I have painted my nails three hours before I go to bed and then when I wake up the next day I have little patterns from my sheets. So confusing.

Sad but true

People need to make an easier way to paint nails. I can paint one hand just fine but once I get to the other hand all my hard work fails. It takes forever and looks terrible. With my uncoordination (not a word, I don't care, you get my meaning) with my non-dominate hand and unintentional girly hand movements because of the nail polish on that hand I just end up failing. Does that make sense? 

Whenever I do my nails in my room I always have the nail polish remover. By the time I finish my nails my room smells like nail polish remover and stays that way for the next day. Can we please find a scentless nail polish remover?! That would make me extremely happy. 

Okay I admit I got into a little bit of a rant and started to ramble. Now for my final point that I actually wanted to make when I started this post. Why do we feel the need to make our normal colored body parts different colors? Tattoos are the same way but that's a whole different topic. Before you know it we are going to be dying our whole bodies different colors! Wait a minute! Maybe that's why the Capitol people in the Hunger Games had different colored bodies. Weird. 

Well there is your rant for the day/week. Stay classy and remember that you don't need to make your body different colors to be beautiful! "You are beautiful in every single way!" (That's a song by Christina Aguilera if you didn't know that called "Beautiful"...and I gave credit to the author so you can't get mad at me!) Don't change yourself because others want you to or to fit in. 

In the future! The history of Nail polish, YOLO, fangirling, favorite characters! Get excited!

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?!

Bracelets :)

I make bracelets. I might have mentioned that in my very first post but I don't know how many of you actually know that. They aren't super fancy. They are really just a bunch of strings tied in a bunch of knots. They are more of friendship bracelet I guess. I make patterns and some with some neat pictures.

Now I shall show you some of them (sorry if the picture aren't the best).

 Those are regular pattern friendship bracelets. They are the ones I tend to stick to just because you can memorize the pattern and don't have to have the design with you all the time. It can be harder to find a pattern with exactly what you want especially if it has a TV show theme or something like that.

This is a alpha pattern bracelet. They take longer than the normal pattern friendship bracelet and tend to use more string. You can pretty much make one of these as long as you have a grid picture of what you want. I don't do these ones as much. I want to but once I start making one it tends to take longer and then I go to doing regular pattern ones again.

These are kumihimo bracelets. You need a kumihimo disk (if you want to know what it looks like just search it in Google images) to make these ones. For these I feel like the patterns are can be a lot of the same so I don't make many of those either. 

I also make key chains! It tends to be easier to make a key chain with an alpha pattern but a regular pattern would work too. Sometimes with the alpha patterns they are either too short or too long. It's okay if its to short because you can just add more rows. If it's too long...you can't really fix that. Plus they can be rather wide. But they are still worth making because you can just use it as a bookmark. Or if you glue on a magnet to the back of it you can use it as a magnet. 

Okay, now I'm going to rant a little bit. A while back I saw one style of bracelets in particular that was being sold in stores (yes, the ones to the right). Then I figured out how to make it. They use a different kind of string but if I had that string I could make the exact same thing. Now I'm seeing regular chevron pattern bracelets being sold. Seriously? That is so lame! You can buy a like nine feet of string for 30 cents and you can make that same bracelet. I don't know why this bugs me so much. It's probably because I know how easy it is to make those. You can make cooler bracelets than what is being sold at the stores and you would probably save money (depending on how large you made your bracelet). You could make two of the bracelets in my first picture for the same bracelet at the store. Okay, this may seem silly to you but it really does bug me. Rant over.

How do I find the patterns and what not? Well I found two websites that have thousands of designs for each style on them (friendship-bracelets.net and braceletbook.com in case you were wondering). They also have tutorials. So if you are bored watching TV you can make bracelets while watching you favorite TV show (that's what I do). 

I have made some cooler designs (especially in the alpha pattern) but I gave those to my friends. They are a great way to show your appreciation to your friends.

I hope this was somewhat interesting and gave you an idea of something to do if you are really bored over the summer. Stay classy and don't forget to have fun this summer! 

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!

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.

Fun Fact #1

Attention! On the side left side of this blog there should be a place where you can vote on how you think I should end my blog posts. It will be up for two weeks so make sure you vote!!!

Now for the main event:


So I might be starting a sort of series where I just tell you a fun fact. They will be short and quick and I think that will be nice because you don't want to be reading a paper every time you come on this blog. Right? I think so. I found this awesome YouTube channel that gives fun facts everyday for the year. That's probably where this idea came from. Anyway instead of telling you what they said, just watch the video!

I don't know about you but when he was reading the song title I started to zone out and missed some of it. So I thought I would type it out for you. You're Welcome.

"The Sad But True Story of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation"

I also found the song surprisingly enough so if you are curious to know what the song actually sounds like here it is:

It's surprisingly short for how long the song title is. Well hope you enjoyed that. Have a fantabulous day and look out for strange lumberjacks!

Belated Holiday

I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh. You already knew that? Well congratulations smarty pants nobody cares. Just kidding, that was mean.

I realize I'm really late on talking about Valentines Day. I'm not even sure why I'm really posting about it. I don't have a boyfriend, never have. So why am I talking about it? Well I'm not actually going to talk about relationships and all that good stuff like most people do (you can relax now). Basically I'm just making a short little post to say I actually did "talk" about it.

I would like to say one thing though. If you are going to get mad at me because I missed the deadline think about this day. This is a normal day right? Right. This is a normal day where it isn't expected of you to do anything for your special loved one or somebody you care about or whatever. So just think of this day (and every other day that isn't Valentine's Day) as "A Normal Day Where I Can Be Even More Awesome Than Normal By Surprising Someone I Care About With Something Equally As Awesome To Show Them How Awesome I Think They Are." You can remember it as the longest holiday ever if you want. I'm not saying you have to do something on a normal day I'm just saying think about it. Why should we have a specific holiday for something we should be doing all the time? Doesn't make sense.

Sorry, started ranting. That was a lot longer than I thought it would be. So here is what I wanted to do. Below are two songs. I like them. They are cute and talk about love. If you don't like that don't watch/listen to them. It's as simple as that.

And now for our feature presentation:

There are many more but I will stick with just those two. If you really liked them you should go check out more of their songs and tell them I sent you! You don't really have to do that if you don't want to.

Have a fantabulous day and eat lots of food because food is good for you!

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.

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.

Catching Up

I'm back!! Did you think I had gone forever and would never come back? Well never fear I am back and ready to rant! Hurray for rants! Oh wait! Before I do that...have you forgotten who I am? Well I'm not really going to say who I am but I will catch you up on what has been happening in my life (even if you don't really care).

Let's see the last post is Fun Facts About Life (Part 2) which means school must have just started. Oh yes, that's why I have been neglecting this blog. Well let's get started then shall we?

School started and took over my life. How? Well with all the homework the teachers have given me and the clubs I decided to join. The classes are actually classes that you have to think in (unlike some of the classes people I know are taking so they are just cruising there way through school all happy with no homework). There are a couple of AP classes in there (I'm still not sure if that was a good idea on my part) and then government. Oh government. Government as you can probably guess is about politics and the US constitution and all sorts of that good stuff that I am clueless on and really don't care that much about (probably not good considering I live in the US...oh well). So I have been struggling a lot more than normal to keep my grades up in government and the AP classes which is rather frustrating and annoying. Oh! I almost forgot about zoology. We have very little grades in that class and we turned in this journal of our labs and what not and he graded it. Well the teacher is a lot more picky than it would seem. For example, he took points off on me for not coloring I drew in my notes while we were dissecting it. Normally I wouldn't care that much but the jellyfish was clear. CLEAR! How the heck am I supposed to color something that is clear? Sigh silly teacher.

Continuing with sill teachers...teachers are mean. They say, and I quote, "Make this the best year you can!" So I think to myself okay cool I will try to go to every event and just have a great time. But then the teacher follows up with: "Here's your homework." *falls off of chair* Seriously? I can't do everything if you keep giving me a ton of homework! Ugh.

As for the clubs well I am currently in Culinary Club, Anime Club, and National Honor Society, and Drama (kinda sorta...I will elaborate in a bit don't you worry). I helped my friend last year make an Anime Club and it's really pretty cool. They people are very interesting and have a lot of character that makes it fun to get to know them. In the club we really just watch animes so overall it's a good time. I helped some of my friends make a culinary club this year too. That's also a good club because you make good food and I really like food. I don't understand why anybody wouldn't want to join that club because it's food. Who doesn't like food?! National Honor Society is really easy there's only one meeting a month and that just tells you about volunteer opportunities. It's good for me that I sing at my church and get all my hours there so I don't really have to worry about that one very much. And then there is drama club. Okay. So I have gone to a meeting and helped with the set (for like an hour). I was going to do more but before I actually started going to meetings (well...a meeting) I was busy. I can't remember with what, probably school, but I was busy. Then I was going to help with the set (because I can't act so I'm going to help build the set) after school for a week!...but then I got sick...Oops. So Drama is the one that I really need to start doing more, don't worry, I am working on that.

Then there's work (there is a more detailed post about this I just haven't finished it yet...sorry). I close on Friday's and work in the middle of the day on Saturday. That is (was) my main homework doing time. Now I do like an hour of homework here and there...it's such a struggle. Then on Sunday I have church (which is good and am never going to stop going to) and youth group...so that means I have very little time on Sunday to do homework. (I think this paragraph was supposed to be about work and not be complaining about not having time to do homework...oh well).

Oh yeah, did I mention that I missed a week of school because I was sick? I didn't? Well I missed a week of school because I was sick. Luckily I didn't really miss anything and stayed on top of it while I was home (I also watched the Lorax =) it was fun...I really just said that so the smiley didn't have a double chin).

Now I am on fall break! Hurray! I have no idea what I'm going to do but maybe I will be able to post stuff and rants. We'll see what happens.

Well that's been my life for the last month or so. I probably forgot something but that's just how it goes. I was going to rant about some stuff or share stuff I have discovered throughout but well this post is already rather long so there you go.

~Scooby

P.S. Do you like the design? Yes, I like the holidays I might even post about them so there is your teaser to come back again...I don't know.

Fun Facts About Life (Part 2)

I know you have been anxiously waiting for the second part of this fun facts about life series (I guess this is like the sequel huh). If you missed the first half called Fun Facts About Life (Part 1) well lets see if you can figure out what to do (I'm very helpful I know). Now if you are saying to yourself: "I don't really care about these facts" or "I have nothing to do and somehow I ended up here and I am going to read this post that seems pointless so I actually do something" or even "I haven't been waiting for this post at all..." well I kinda figure that's the case. Enjoy anyway.

If you're not already mad at me for telling you these amazing facts about us then I don't think I've given the book justice. Do you think your different? If you said yes, your wrong. Apparently modern humans, so us, have little genetic variability. Isn't that nice? Fifty five chimps have more diversity than the entire human population. Makes you feel really special doesn't it?

I should note that he did explain why this is. There was something about a really big rift that we haven't explored that might have the answers. I wasn't really paying that close attention.

Want to know the reason we don't know what a dodo looks like? Well that's because after the last dodo died the director of a museum thought the stuffed dodo they had was getting unpleasantly musty so he ordered it to be thrown in a bonfire. Poor dodo (what a funny name). A dodo was the largest member of the pigeon family, in case you were wondering.

One of the last big creatures to go extinct was Steller's sea cow:

 

The assumed look of Steller's sea cow.
http://animalsnomore.com/extinct-animal-Stellers_Sea_Cow.php

It is related to a dugong (that's a fun name too).

A dugong. Pretty cool looking, actually.
http://seapics.com/gallery/Mammalia/Sirenia/Dugongidae/dugong-search.html

 The Carolina parakeet is extinct. This is because whenever they were hunted the would fly up but once the shooting was done they would return to the same place to check on their fallen comrades. The last one died in a zoo and was stuffed...but the zoo lost it.

The Carolina parakeet. So pretty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Parakeet

So apparently for the longest time the people who really liked the world's living things were the ones that killed them. I really hope that isn't true anymore. I really like my cats. I really like cats in general and I really don't want them to go extinct because they are so cool (along with all the other animals out there, don't worry I'm not one of those people that likes one animal and doesn't care what happens to all the other ones.

Well I hope you enjoyed these facts. Maybe you actually learned something! I know I did, although I don't think I learned what my teacher intended for me to learn. Oh well at least I learned something rather than nothing.
~Scooby

NalinA what?

Um...What did I just watch?

Well if you aren't familiar with what this is, this is kpop. What is kpop? It is korean pop music. Why do I watch this? Well it's good music and once you get past the strangeness and the language difference the songs are pretty catchy. I will find myself singing a kpop song at school (except I don't normally know the words so I will sing the tune or if there are english parts in it those will repeat 100+ times in my head).

Anyway somehow I found myself watching this music video by this group I had never heard of before (that tends to happen a lot though because there are a ton of groups and a ton of new groups that always come out too). As I was watching this song I found myself analyzing it and therefore decided I would share.


Okay so it starts with this dude in front of some wall with something on it that I don't know. Then the dude lights a lighter and lets it sit there. Firstly, why did he light that? Was he bored and pulled it out and lit it or what? Secondly, I never actually saw him close the lid when he put it in his pocket. When I first saw that I was like "Wait! Is he lighting himself on fire?! What's going on!" Well I'm going to assume he's not lighting himself on fire and that they just changed frames right as he closed the lid, but that really through me off.

Then it goes to this other dude drinking something strange....what the heck is he drinking anyway? Then these dudes in the back ground start to (I don't know how to describe it) abuse (?) this girl and he spins a coin and then beats the guys up (good for him...actual punching! Wow!) grabs the coin that is still spinning and leaves with his entourage. Now then he is very good at spinning that coin. I wonder how many takes it took them for that to work. Did he even pay for his weird looking drink? I thought that coin was to pay for it (although I don't think that would have been enough) but then he snatched it away. Um after looking closer I have come to think that some members of his entourage were also some of the dudes abusing the girl (look at one of the dudes jackets there is an 8 on it in the background and one of the first dudes to follow. Okay so maybe that dude wasn't the one abusing the girl but he was very close and was watching. Also it would have been easier for him to beat up the abuser but I guess that's the leaders job? Who knows. But where did his whole entourage come from? One moment there were like 4 in the background and then next minute there's like 50 people following him!

There are teams. Team Black Dragon and Team Red Tiger. I'm pretty sure they are rival groups and yet they end up dancing together? Weird. I don't know about you but if I'm somebodies rival I tend to avoid them. I definitely wouldn't dance with them. Plus they are doing the same dance...that means they must have coordinated together. Does that mean they don't really hate each or other? Or did both groups conveniently plan the same dance to do at the same time? Hmm...

Now we get to the lyrics. Oh boy.

"I don't know I don't know I don't know but I'm hot, hot." I thought you didn't know? So you're hot but you don't know? I'm confused....

"You know what you know what what you know what what I mean mean." What do you mean? I really don't know what you mean... It's like they knew somebody would get on there last line so they put this in to say to question it you know what I mean! Just like when you tease somebody about what they said and they reply "You know what I mean!" Unfortunately I don't know what you mean.

"Because everything about me is perfect." Um...a little full of yourself aren't you? As I have described in the last two paragraphs no you're really not perfect.

The best part is what they say after that though: "gugugaga gugugaga" They are speaking baby speak. Maybe they are telling babies that they are perfect, I don't know, but that is just strange.

I also remember him handcuffing some girl to himself. I don't know about you but if some dude came up to me saying he's perfect and then "gugugaga" I would run and hide. I wouldn't let him handcuff me to himself. That is a major creeper alert.

So when the two group leaders meet they begin to "fight". Okay so they aren't actually fighting they are pushing each other. Eventually one gets shoved harder and ALMOST falls (even though he looks good when he falls too...sigh) and he's like "Oh no you didn't!" So he makes a hand gesture and everybody else begins to get in the "fight" as well. Once again they aren't actually fighting they are shoving each other. Lame. Then one leader stomps his foot and everybody falls over. "Oh no! He just stomped his foot! That's even worse than shoving! Everybody hide!" Seriously? So lame. Except for the other leader he wasn't intimidated...but I think he's going to need to get some new members in his group...they both are actually.

Is he having a dance off with a girl? I'm confused. Whoa!! Why is there a girl mixed in with this fight?! That's not okay! (She's even in the shoving war!)

Oh wait!! I think I understand now! The two teams were going to have a dance off and they each had to create their own unique dance. However when they got to the location and started their dance off they that they were doing the same dance! This angered them so they started the whole "You cheated! Not fair!" Well neither one liked being called a cheater so they started shoving each other. Then this girl comes along and is like "You all are lame! This is how you dance!" But she is doing the same dance as everyone else.

Hold up...why did that dude have a lighter in the beginning? You never see it again in the video.

Oh! How come there voices randomly get really high like they just inhaled a gallon of hydrogen? It's random and weird. Sometimes they sound like a squeak toy too. No me gusta.

So at the end...who wins? All we see are the two leaders finally actually fighting (but we don't see them actually land any blows we just see them make a cool "I'm going to kick/punch you" pose). And! They are in the same group...I hope they don't feel like that in real life because that could be really bad.

Okay so despite my making fun of it I think it's a catchy song. It just don't make sense. That was also a lot of ranting and might not have made much sense but I hope you enjoyed it anyway.
~Scooby

P.S. I'm still not smart enough to figure out how to fix the video size so bear with it.

P.S.S. They subs were wrong on the heads shoulder knees part....the person that did the subs can't type.

Fun Facts About Life (Part 1)

Over the summer I had to read a book for AP Biology. It is called "A Short History of Nearly Everything." I was told to read this book by the teacher that originally was going to teach the class (the teacher told everyone to read it). Well when I got to school I had a totally different teacher and the new teacher never even mentioned this book. Sigh.

Now this book wasn't very encouraging and I found a lot of stuff that (when I really thought about) isn't very nice. So I thought I'd share my findings and thoughts with you.

The third paragraph of the first chapter says "Imagine if you can, which of course you can't..." Why would you tell me to imagine something if you already know that I can't? That just doesn't make sense. It's like saying, "Hey! Can you see that! Of course you can't because you're blind!" Rude.

Did you know we have the genes to grow a tail? Well now you do! The genes just aren't turned on if that makes sense. (I think this is the most exciting thing I learned from this book.)

Apparently a common newt is "more genetically splendorous than we are, by a factor of five." Doesn't that just make you feel so loved? Well don't worry about it because later on in the book it says that it's not how many genes you have, but what you do with the genes you have. So I guess we are smarter than the newt. Well let's hope anyway.

The Earth is not as stable as we thought it was apparently. Isn't that comforting? Apparently it goes violently between periods of hot and really cold. Good to know that we are living on a planet that can't decided if it's hot or cold.

Now the book is saying that ice ages might occur because of a rise in temperature. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound good to me. With global warming and what not I would say we are due for another ice age.

I realize this has nothing to do with this has very little to do with this
post but it's a good movie and you should see it.
http://reelauthors.com/blog/screenplay/ice-age-4/

For two chapters now it has been talking about our ancestors and I'm pretty sure I was daydreaming through the whole first chapter. However I'm now in the second chapter and apparently we know more about other hominids than we do about ourselves. The Google definition of hominid is: "A primate of a family (Hominidae) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors." So we know more about our ancestors (which according to this book we don't know much about them either) than we do about ourselves. Good to know...I guess.

That brings me to another problem with this book. While reading this I have realized that the term "We don't know much" appears on practically every page. So we are a smart species but we don't know much. That's nice.
~Scooby

P.S. You might have noticed the "part 1" in the title. Yes I do have more complaints about this book. But I thought I would spread it out so you don't get a mean science overload.

P.S.S. Should I be mean and wait a month to post the second part to this? You know kind of like suspense to make you come back and get impatient because you want to learn more about mean science that this book told me about? Well I guess we will see right?

Sidewalks

I think people are confused. I keep seeing people walking or running in the middle of the road. I don't know why they are confused...maybe the name isn't clear enough. Because of this confusion I have decided to do my best to explain the true purpose of a sidewalk.

I'm going to break down it's name first. A sidewalk. It's not something you walk on the side of (I think this might be what most people get confused with). Sidewalks are very convenient. They are on the SIDE of the road so that you can WALK on them. I hope that makes it more clear.

The purpose of a sidewalk (you don't have to have a dog to walk on the sidewalk either)
http://www.picturesof.net/pages/100207-128817-601053.html

I was driving to work in my neighborhood when I saw these two middle school students (at least that's what I'm assuming) that were walking in the middle of the street. Normally when you are walking on the street and see a car you move out of the way because the car can, oh I don't know, kill you! Well maybe more like injure you but still. These students didn't move. They kept walking towards me (yes we were moving towards each other) while I was driving my car. I (Me! Not them, me!) had to move around them unless I wanted to hit them (I didn't go with that option mainly because it's too much paper work. Just kidding! I'm not that mean.). That's ridiculous. There is a perfectly good sidewalk that you should be using. We even have to shovel the sidewalks when it snows (by law where I am). Use the stupid sidewalk!

Another time I was in the passenger seat with one of my parents driving, I can't remember which but that's not important. Anyway I saw this couple walking their dog on the street. The couple were in the street. The dog (yes, I said a dog) was on the sidewalk. Wait. What? The dog was smarter than the couple! All they had to do was a take a step up onto the sidewalk. Is that really that hard?

Well that's the end of my rant about stupid people and sidewalks. I hope you enjoyed and I'm sorry but I still don't have a catch phrase (if you think of one and feel like sharing, please do otherwise I might never think of one).

Oh one more thing. USE THE SIDEWALK!!

~Scooby

P.S. You can still walk on it if it looks like this but I recommend admiring it first and taking a photo and don't smear it because that would be sad (yes that's a very bad sentence but I'm not a writer and you should know that by now).

That is pretty dang cool for a sidewalk

Volleyball

*Warning*

This blog contains a rant that won't be that exciting. I need to get something off my chest and this is the blog it's going to happen in. The grammar could also be worse than normal because of that...not to mention I'm shaking. Also because it's a rant it might not make that much sense.

I had tryouts all this week to see if I would make the volleyball team at my high school. Since I'm a senior the only team I could make is the varsity team. Well I didn't make the team (this is what the whole blog is going to be about so if you don't care, leave now. I warned you.).

I don't understand. I worked my butt off to make the team. New tests were added so that you would actually exercise over the summer and come to preseason camp in shape. Well I did those every day.
One of them was to run a mile. I woke up at 7:30 am every day to run that mile, and I still didn't make the time they wanted because I'm such an awful runner (thus the reason I ran everyday). I even ran the mile before preseason camp. That's a big deal because if you've been to preseason camp then you know that we do ridiculous conditioning (we ran 12 sets of stairs one day...and there are like 30 stairs to go up and then down) plus ab/arm/leg exercises in between. I ran a mile before that. That's a lot if you didn't already catch that.

In my gut I knew I wasn't going to make the team but there was still always a glimmer of hope so I would hold onto that. All day I was thinking about the bonuses of not making the team: More time to do homework, I could join the drama club like I've wanted to do (not act, because I can't but help make the set and such), I won't have to deal with the drama/politics (yes, there are politics believe it or not), I won't have to die during ridiculous conditioning, etc. However I never actually thought it would happen. I guess I didn't want to think about it. I tried to prepare myself for it because, like I said before, my gut was telling me otherwise. But it still hurt. Volleyball has been a big part of my life. I've been playing it for at least 7 years, 3 of those years I've played volleyball all year long. It's been an interesting adventure.

Elementary/middle school volleyball was good. I mean it wasn't that exciting because everybody made the team and we really weren't that good. It was still fun though. There also wasn't very much drama made me happy.

Freshman year was great. One of the best years of volleyball I think. All I have are good memories of it. It was a ton of fun. The coach is still a friend (I'm actually going to be student assisting for him) and the team was fun. There was pretty much no drama and if there was I didn't notice (something I'm good at doing even now). It was a great year.

Club freshman year was new. It was very hectic and by the end of it I needed a break from volleyball. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. The team was fun and it was a good experience.

Sophomore year was also great. It wasn't quite as good as freshman year but it was still a lot of fun. The coach was also a ton of fun and I'm sure I'd still be friends with him but he moved out of state. The team was also fun too. We also won our tournament which was awesome. There was a little bit of frustration of not getting the appreciation some people thought I deserved but I didn't pay too much attention to it.

Club sophomore year. Much more dramatic. Not quite as fun. I still liked the team but there was more drama and judgements and hatred. I don't do well with that. I just don't like that (more detail could come in a later post).

Junior year was not so great. For the most part I really liked the team. However there was a lot more frustration on my part because I wasn't libero and the girl that was became very...proud (this also leads to more frustration and anger now but I'll get to that). She became full of herself thinking that she is so much better than everybody else. Truth is she's not as good as she thinks she is or as good as other people think she is.

Club junior year was pretty good. I was still frustrated but part of that was because I was learning a new technique at passing (I was on a new club with a new coach) and it was frustrating because at times it wasn't working out. Also some of my frustration from the school year came with it because I felt like I kept being over looked and I never understood why. Overall it was good though. The team was great, no drama at all (which is what I like). The coach was also fun and always believes in you, which is great. At the time I was probably really hard on him because I was so frustrated and too proud to admit that I was doing something wrong.

As you might notice junior year is where everything went wrong. Suddenly there was a freshman that everybody thought was great but really wasn't and I was over looked. Now I have been cut from a team altogether and I don't understand why.

When the coach told me and my friend, who was also trying to be libero (there were a total of 7 people trying to be libero), she said it was a bad year to go for this position and that she didn't like having to cut people. Where I'm sure part of that is wrong I can't help but feel there is more to it. When I first thought about if she told me I was being cut I was going to ask for a real reason. A reason why they other players beat me. What I did wrong. But silly me I didn't ask. Because I was with my friend I didn't want to make a scene. The coach also seemed genuine about not feeling like cutting us and I didn't want to seem like I hated her. Now I wish I had asked. I want to know why, not numbers, I want to know what she saw in the other girls that she didn't see in me. She said that we couldn't have tried harder. That didn't help.

When I got home and told my mom (I just shook my head because I didn't think words would work out so to speak). She wasn't happy. She started saying that the coach made a big mistake. When I told her who made the team that made her even more mad. Mainly because one of the girls was on the team last year when she really shouldn't have been, blah blah blah politics and nonsense not going into detail. The other girl was the one that beat me last year. That made my mom even more mad. "She's made a big mistake," my mom said. The other girl which I hope becomes libero I don't really mind because she was doing good but I still wish it hadn't been this way. My mom also told me that my club coach said if I didn't make the team we were ripped off. My friends have also been encouraging me too. One friend even said she'd kill the coach if I didn't make the team. I haven't told her yet. Nobody else knows except my friend that was with me, my mom, the coach, and probably the people that made the team when I had to take the "walk of shame" (I tried to make a joke about that with my friend as we went to get our bags to take our stuff off and go home...probably not the best timing or best joke...oh well).

Everybody has been so supportive of me. I have such great friends and family. I'm so lucky to know them. As I was driving home I thought about how I was going to tell my father since he's at work until later this evening. Then I began to wonder if they'd be disappointed in me. It was then that I realized that wouldn't happen if anything they would fight for me. If anything this is what really makes me emotional. Not making the team, that hurt but thinking about my friends and family...I just can't help but get emotional (if you don't know me I don't cry very often and when I do people don't normally see it). If your reading this and I know you thank you for your support. I'm sorry I didn't make the team but I guess it just wasn't meant to be.

You should know that I'm not giving up on volleyball though. I hope I can be one of those people that goes to games and supports the team. I don't want to be one of those people that feels awkward around the people on the team or that hates volleyball. If it's okay with my parents I will do club again this year with the same team as last time and, if I can, I will play in college.

My rant is done if you read through the whole thing and are thinking "wow that was boring" I warned you at the beginning not to read it. Especially if you read my last post and thought to yourself "wow she seems like a ton of fun!" and then read this post I'm sorry if your disappointed but I needed to get this off my chest.
~Scooby

P.S. I also apologize if it doesn't make much sense or there are a ton of grammatical and spelling errors.