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.

Poll Update

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

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

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!

Random Friend Blogging

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Broken Computer Update

I hope this is who actually fixed it

So I got a question about what happened to the computer I talked about in this post. Since I haven't had time to figure out a way to fix my "don't want to publish my name to the world psychoticness" (sorry about that, I have a few ideas but I don't know if they will actually work or not) I thought I would just answer it here. For everyone that doesn't care to read too. Your welcome.

I honestly have no idea what happened to the computer it was probably just glitching or something because from what I can tell it seems perfectly fine now. The computer is fixed! Hurray!

Also I was really surprised that someone actually replied to that post AND asked a question. So thank you for that wonderful surprise.
~Scooby

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.