So last weekend my friends and I were all sitting in the seventh floor lounge late at night on Friday talking and just messing around. Somehow we were talking about Halloween and how we went to this dance party and had a blast. So we all decided we would have a dance party in the lounge the following night and try to get as many people as we could to come. We all got up the next day and went to the mall together. On our way there I was talking to Crystle about how weird it would be if she had someone stare at her on the bus and be a creeper. And I was wondering what other people would think. So I decided that when people got off the bus and new people got on, I would creep on Crystle and see what people would say. No one new got on the bus, so we couldn’t do our plan. Anyway, we all got off at the mall, went in shopping, and walked around. Once we were done looking around and had bought 2 strobe lights, the fun filled night started. We sat down outside a shoe shop in some comfy chairs and noticed that the shoe shop had a mini merry-go-round for kids and thought we should ride it. So Crystle, Jim, and I all went into the store and got on it. It was the funniest thing ever because people kept staring and looking at use. We only managed to make it around 3 times before a woman who worked in the store yelled at us that there was a weight limit and that we needed to get off. So we decided to head to the food court. While in the food court, we noticed Crystle had a bag from Victoria Secret and began to mix the idea of the creeper and the Victoria Secret bag. So we decided I would go out to the bus stop and stand nowhere near everyone else in our group and get on the bus separately. Once on the bus I stood up in the middle and eventually took the seat next to Crystle. I began to look over my leg into her VS bag and seeing what was in there. I ended up looking into it, and sliding it over my way without her seeing. But when she would look back she would slide it back “thinking” it was the bus moving it around. After moving it towards me 3 times, I finally took it and stood up and went to the back of the bus. This stirred up the front of the bus because they began to think I left because I heard them talking about me but then conveniently Crystle noticed her VS bag missing. They began to look all over for it and then David came back and accused me of stealing it. By this point I had already stuffed it into my backpack and had been just sitting there quietly. David and I argued for a few and finally I walked back to the front where I was helping them look under the seats for the bag. While I was looking David grabbed my bag and opened it and pulled out the VS bag in front of the whole bus. People’s jaws dropped as I began to deny it all. I simply said I did not know what they were talking about; for how would I have taken the VS bag if David was holding it? We all began to argue back and forth while people on the bus began to get involved. Much to my surprise, there were actually 3 people on the bus who were supporting me. One guy told me to calm down and forget about it and just sit and chill. The other guy fist pounded me from across the bus saying it’s a public bus and I can do what I want to. And finally the girl told Crystle she should get off the bus and stop causing trouble. Everyone else was either in shock just sitting there, or they were whispering to their friends to not get involved. Very few people where actually talking. So after playing everyone with this massive show, we got off on the first stop. Everyone got off while I sat there and then jumped off the bus before the doors closed. I went behind the bus and crossed the street. Once David and Shawn thought I hadn’t gotten off the bus, they placed their bags down on the ground and turned around to go back and get me. While they were turned around I ran across the street and surprised the whole group by taking some of the bags they had laid down on the ground and running down the street. A few people were just staring, while one man tried to be a hero. An Asian man turned around and I was running at him. He threw his arms out and was going to tackle me once I got closer to him. I couldn’t help but stop and laugh, which meant everyone caught up to me and once they did they all gave me a hug. The people around began to realize that it was all a joke. The bus then drove by and saw us all laughing and hugging and they all realized it was all a set up. I even had a few people come up to me and shake my hand for how real it seemed. They thought we were amazing at keeping a straight face and making it so believable. We all started to laugh and walk down the side walk. It made out night!
We then went back to the dorm and had a dance party in the 7th floor lounge. We had a huge speaker system, 2 strobe lights, a black light, and I DJed it. It was a ton of fun and we r going to do the sat night party in the 7th floor lounge every weekend. We partied from like 730-10 and then headed off to the EPCAT battle outside of Dx. The whole group of us went to Dx, but only 3 of use actually participated. The rest of us got food and chilled, watching the EPCAT people kill each other. Then we went back to the dorms and watched a movie. This concluded our epic night together. I think all of us hung out from 3pm until about 2am. It was a blast!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Randomness
Trash and such
I am not going to lie. There needs to be an easier way to take the trash out from the 7th floor of the Lee building. My roommate and I end up letting the trash pile up till we have 4 trash bags worth of trash piled y our door before we take it out because it is annoying to have to go down stairs and walk to the dumpster and throw your trash out every weekend. So chip and I usually let the trash go for a while until it gets ridiculous. Like tonight, its 3 bags stuffed full. I think they should have some kind of trash shoot that you could swipe your card on to open or unlock and then throw your trash in and it would fall to the dumpster. That would be so much easier! I also think it would be nice if the new elevators in this building would work. The new elevators have basically been messed up since they were installed. The other day while I was waiting for the one working elevator to come down, I asked the maintenance man working on the elevator what has been wrong with them and why they break down so much. The man replied with “Well they left some pieces off when they installed them and so now we are having to put those pieces on now.” I just agreed with the man, but once I got into the elevator it really hit me. We have been riding these elevators without all the required pieces?! Are you serious?! Hell, the other day I had to walk up 8 flights of stairs after going to schiffert. They had shut both down for at least an hour. I guess it is not that big of a deal if u live on the lower floors, but living on the top floor of lee sucks when the elevators are broken. Something I do like about living on the 7th floor is the view. Sunsets and sun rises are amazing to watch from my window, and yes I am sorry to say I have watch both during the week. I have had 3 nights where I don’t sleep at all, but otherwise I have been getting a good amount of sleep. Anyway, the sunrises and sunset are really cool looking especially since I can see lane stadium and castle which tend to reflect the sun off them. It is quite a site. If I could I would attach a picture, but sadly I don’t have one yet. Maybe in a later blog I will attach it.
South Park
So a tradition some guys on my hall and I have started is that for the new season of South Park, we are watching it in my room every Wednesday night as a huge group. I think we have about 8 people or so in my room; Sometimes more. This has grown from like 3 of us to people from slusher and vawter coming over to watch with us. It is a lot of fun and its gives us all one night to all hang out and see each other. It is also a lot of ours busiest days and watching south park and all laughing together is a good way to relax after the stress filled day. I really like the group of guys I ended up living with. Everyone seems really cool and chill and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. And on top of that I met Jessie and Crystle, who always come over and chill with all the guys here too and it’s a blast.
Homesickness
So I don’t know why but I have become extremely homesick in the past 2 weeks. I want to go home and get to see my whole family as soon as possible. I want to drive my car. I want to see my dogs. And I want to see all my friends who I haven’t seen in forever. I never knew I would be so homesick and wanting to go home but I have just had this feeling of not wanting to work and just wanting to go chill. Relax some and see my family. I really need that right now because I have been quite stressed lately.
Friends
For some reason I have a ton of friends who talk to me like crazy, ask for advice, and tell me I am amazing for always being there for them, but then they stop talking to me. They stop contacting me and act like nothing is weird. Then when I try to contact them saying how I haven’t heard from them in forever and all they say is how “the phone works both ways”. I have to say that is a phrase that bugs me the most. I know a phones works both ways and that I can contact you, but honestly you never tried to contact me. I don’t really know what I am complaining about right now because this is kind of random and I am up late so I am just starting to talk randomly. This was just some random thing that came to mind. It kind of bugs me too because they get mad at me for little stupid things like that, but when I get upset about stupid little things I am over reacting. I don’t get it. I guess that’s why I like the guys who I am living near this year because they are all really chill about stuff and never seem to get flustered about stuff. I think this is where I was meant to be placed because it has helped me to not worry so much about stuff in life and to just move on and life how I want to life. Not let others affect me to much in how I act in life. I think this is enough thinking for the night. Hope u enjoyed the few random things you read about and that I ranted about. Thanks for reading! :p I knows it is just because you have too, but I figured I would still thank you!
I am not going to lie. There needs to be an easier way to take the trash out from the 7th floor of the Lee building. My roommate and I end up letting the trash pile up till we have 4 trash bags worth of trash piled y our door before we take it out because it is annoying to have to go down stairs and walk to the dumpster and throw your trash out every weekend. So chip and I usually let the trash go for a while until it gets ridiculous. Like tonight, its 3 bags stuffed full. I think they should have some kind of trash shoot that you could swipe your card on to open or unlock and then throw your trash in and it would fall to the dumpster. That would be so much easier! I also think it would be nice if the new elevators in this building would work. The new elevators have basically been messed up since they were installed. The other day while I was waiting for the one working elevator to come down, I asked the maintenance man working on the elevator what has been wrong with them and why they break down so much. The man replied with “Well they left some pieces off when they installed them and so now we are having to put those pieces on now.” I just agreed with the man, but once I got into the elevator it really hit me. We have been riding these elevators without all the required pieces?! Are you serious?! Hell, the other day I had to walk up 8 flights of stairs after going to schiffert. They had shut both down for at least an hour. I guess it is not that big of a deal if u live on the lower floors, but living on the top floor of lee sucks when the elevators are broken. Something I do like about living on the 7th floor is the view. Sunsets and sun rises are amazing to watch from my window, and yes I am sorry to say I have watch both during the week. I have had 3 nights where I don’t sleep at all, but otherwise I have been getting a good amount of sleep. Anyway, the sunrises and sunset are really cool looking especially since I can see lane stadium and castle which tend to reflect the sun off them. It is quite a site. If I could I would attach a picture, but sadly I don’t have one yet. Maybe in a later blog I will attach it.
South Park
So a tradition some guys on my hall and I have started is that for the new season of South Park, we are watching it in my room every Wednesday night as a huge group. I think we have about 8 people or so in my room; Sometimes more. This has grown from like 3 of us to people from slusher and vawter coming over to watch with us. It is a lot of fun and its gives us all one night to all hang out and see each other. It is also a lot of ours busiest days and watching south park and all laughing together is a good way to relax after the stress filled day. I really like the group of guys I ended up living with. Everyone seems really cool and chill and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. And on top of that I met Jessie and Crystle, who always come over and chill with all the guys here too and it’s a blast.
Homesickness
So I don’t know why but I have become extremely homesick in the past 2 weeks. I want to go home and get to see my whole family as soon as possible. I want to drive my car. I want to see my dogs. And I want to see all my friends who I haven’t seen in forever. I never knew I would be so homesick and wanting to go home but I have just had this feeling of not wanting to work and just wanting to go chill. Relax some and see my family. I really need that right now because I have been quite stressed lately.
Friends
For some reason I have a ton of friends who talk to me like crazy, ask for advice, and tell me I am amazing for always being there for them, but then they stop talking to me. They stop contacting me and act like nothing is weird. Then when I try to contact them saying how I haven’t heard from them in forever and all they say is how “the phone works both ways”. I have to say that is a phrase that bugs me the most. I know a phones works both ways and that I can contact you, but honestly you never tried to contact me. I don’t really know what I am complaining about right now because this is kind of random and I am up late so I am just starting to talk randomly. This was just some random thing that came to mind. It kind of bugs me too because they get mad at me for little stupid things like that, but when I get upset about stupid little things I am over reacting. I don’t get it. I guess that’s why I like the guys who I am living near this year because they are all really chill about stuff and never seem to get flustered about stuff. I think this is where I was meant to be placed because it has helped me to not worry so much about stuff in life and to just move on and life how I want to life. Not let others affect me to much in how I act in life. I think this is enough thinking for the night. Hope u enjoyed the few random things you read about and that I ranted about. Thanks for reading! :p I knows it is just because you have too, but I figured I would still thank you!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
ranting....idk
We all have best friends. Those people we can go to and talk about anything and they will help us or talk to us. They will sit with us when we are bored, hurt, upset, happy, anytime! And they support us when we find something that will make us happy. At least that’s what I do for the people who consider me their best friends. My best friend here at Virginia Tech is Stephen and we have been best friends since like the 6th grade. We have basically hung out every weekend thru middle school and high school and even here we at least see each other once a day to do lunch or something. We have always been there for each other and we have never really fought, but for some reason the other day we got into a fight and didn’t speak for a day or two. But luckily we made up today. We got into a fight because I was going to visit an ex-girlfriend of mine and was going to rent a car on my friends UCarShare account. I told Stephen I was going and he told me I was wasting my time and having poor time management skill this weekend. That kind of bugged me when he said that because he always treats me like some child who doesn’t know what he is doing and he acts like he is all knowing and the most perfect person and knows exactly what people are supposed to do to be on track in life. Which pissed me off because anytime he wants to go home to see his girlfriend, I support him in that and I just say “yea it would be good for you to get to see her” because I know he knows what he has to do and can do it without me hounding on him to do it. But anyway I rented that car and as I was leaving he told me about hidden fees I didn’t see and instead of the price I thought it was going to be, $75, the prices was going to be almost $175! So I called to cancel this reservation for the car due to “family issues” and it worked out all fine. But since the account I was using was a girl I knew, when I called in to cancel it with a male figures voice they put a hold on the account due to “suspicious activity”. And once we cancelled that, we planned on going to UVA for Halloween to seen some friends we haven’t seen in forever, so we had everything planned out and I was supposed to reserve the car for our trip. When I went to reserve it, I couldn’t. The online system wouldn’t allow me too, so I called them and the man I talked to told me that the girls whose account would have to send in a scanned picture of her driver’s license and sign it. This will take the hold off the account and allow her to reserve the cars again. So now the account is locked down until she gets back in town on Tuesday and can send them a picture or her license that she has signed. So now I think the girl is going to be mad at me, everyone who was supposed to come to UVA with me is pissed (Stephen being one of them), and the people I was supposed to visit are pissed because I couldn’t come. And on top of that I have to use my sister car to go pick her up in Roanoke on Tuesday morning, because I can’t use the rented car to do that. So now my sister isn’t very happy with me either. Basically the simple act of me trying to rent this car and my best friend treating me like I am a child caused this fight. This fight also started the other night when I was driving two girls I know to Roanoke and Stephen came along with me to help me navigate. On our trip back he ended up flipping on me telling me that he doesn’t trust me to drive and that he doesn’t want to die and that I need to focus more. This kind of bugged me, but w/e. So then when we were planning on going to UVA, Stephen was going to drive because im am not allowed to drive, for reason right now I am not going to share, and one kid was like “yea, my parents don’t care if I go as long as I don’t die”. Stephen immediately responded with “hah, oh no. I am driving. You won’t die.” I stood there and was like, in my head ofcourse, “are you kidding me? Did u seriously just say that?” I was so annoyed by that point. I am not a bad driver; I just push limits more than other people do. I go a little over the speed limit, I may change lanes close to someone, or something as stupid as listening to music loud. I am not bad! I have been in more accidents then Stephen, but Stephen’s accident was worse than mine. All my accidents have been slight taps. I have hit 4 people. All 4 times I slightly tapped their bumper and there weren’t even scratches on the bumpers. People stop shot sometimes. It happens. But Stephen’s accident caused him to mess up his whole rear bumper and some of his rear side panel. So I don’t think anyone has room to talk in this situation. We have both been in accidents and we have both been driving about the same time. Just because he thinks he is a better driver doesn’t mean he actually is. I don’t know why, but it gets to me so much when people judge me on who I am and what I do, when they have their own faults and shit just like me. Who are they to talk? I don’t mind a simple, hey maybe what this a little, that can get you in trouble. Ok, thank you for telling me. But when u just rip me down and treat me like I don’t know what I am doing in life and that I am going to fuck some stuff up if you don’t step in my way, it bugs me more than anything else.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Great Value
So am I the only one noticing that the brand name Great Value is taking over the grocery stores? i looked at the off brand and thought to myself that they couldn’t have been any good, but one day I decided to get a few great value products. I will be honest the only reason I got them was because they are cheaper and I was running low on cash. And surprisingly the products were really actually pretty good! I think that because they don’t have to spend their money on promoting their products, they can spend it on better ingredients and still charge less than the brand name products. I would really suggest, if you like poptarts which who are we kidding, everyone loves poptarts to try the great value poptarts. They are amazing! So u know how the brand name Poptart always have very little filling and it tastes like you are eating just pastry with a tiny bit of filling. Poptart has also started to cut back on the frosting. Well this kind of bugs me, which is why I now get the great value poptarts. They have a ton of frosting on them and they have a lot more filling then the brand name poptarts, which makes them so much better. It doesn’t taste like all breading and very little extra good stuff! Don’t judge me just because I like my poptarts to be sweet and sugar filled :-P but anyway, I was just noticing how this one product could start to basically take over the grocery stores, because if you walk down any isle in the store now you will see at least 2 products in that isle produced by Great Value. And since its so cheap too, me and my family joke how it is a “great value” which also helps the consumer remember the product and have the name get stuck in your head. Maybe it is just me, but I know the brand name is stuck in my head and I sometimes get great value items, not because they are cheap, but because they actually taste better than the other stuff. It is simply a bonus that it is also inexpensive.
YOUTUBE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJxcjMXgmk&feature=related (power mat commercial)
This is that commercial for the Power Mat charging system thing. I love this commercial! I saw it on television a few weeks ago and I immediately had to look up the commercial on youtube to watch it again! I love commercials like this. Somehow it clicks with people more I think because it is so out there and unexpected to be seen on television, that people pay more attention remember the product because it was presented so differently than other commercials. I think more commercials should work on shocking people into remembering their product or making the viewer laugh really hard because I think you remember their products better that way. I honestly can only think of 2 commercials right now and it is because they made me laugh so hard! The Budweiser swear jar commercial and this commercial. I don’t remember these commercials because I drink or because I have the power mat thing, but because I laughed my ass off when I saw these commercials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvkEHQPHHg (people being punched)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvpVRdosNc (I threw it on the ground)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOvaCV6uQp8 (I’m on a boat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4 (jizz in my pants)
I have to say I love SNL! They have all kinds of videos which may not have a purpose but that are so damn funny! This is one of those videos which has absolutely no point, but is still so funny! There isn’t much I can say about these videos except that my friends and I quote Jizz in my pants, I’m on a boat, and I threw it on the ground all the time for no reason! These videos are all so pointless but they are so funny! And you can’t say you are not a fan of SNL. Especially with other videos like Dick in a box and all! They take some of the most random things in the world and make then funny. Its amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM (Charlie bit my finger)
This video isn’t very funny, or at least I don’t think. But apparently tons of people thought this video was pretty funny and like to quote it. I saw this video once and didn’t really ever watch it again till I was trying to find something to blog about and thought blogging about youtube videos would be cool. So I decided to do that. Now I basically need to blog another hundred words so that then I can blog about the other thing I am going to blog about. I figure to entries of five hundred words each is probably easier than trying to write about the same thing for all one thousand words and then just end up rambling by the end. There is one final video I wanted to comment on and it is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnMYZDsrJM
This video is about Obama and what he would be saying after being in office for a year. It is basically ripping on him that he isn’t doing crap and how he isn’t doing anything for anyone. I am not usually someone who likes to talk about politics or political things, but this video was kind of funny. I am not for or against Obama, so I am just kind of watching this video to laugh. I think its funny how no matter who our president is, we always make fun of him. No matter how smart or how dumb, we find things to mock him about and things he does that is stupid. And we also like to expose these faults because I guess it makes us feel better about our decision or its just to mock others who didn’t vote for what we did. I don’t really know. Well, that’s all I wanted to write about involving youtube and all, so now I guess your gonna have to read my next blog too. :-)
This is that commercial for the Power Mat charging system thing. I love this commercial! I saw it on television a few weeks ago and I immediately had to look up the commercial on youtube to watch it again! I love commercials like this. Somehow it clicks with people more I think because it is so out there and unexpected to be seen on television, that people pay more attention remember the product because it was presented so differently than other commercials. I think more commercials should work on shocking people into remembering their product or making the viewer laugh really hard because I think you remember their products better that way. I honestly can only think of 2 commercials right now and it is because they made me laugh so hard! The Budweiser swear jar commercial and this commercial. I don’t remember these commercials because I drink or because I have the power mat thing, but because I laughed my ass off when I saw these commercials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvkEHQPHHg (people being punched)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvpVRdosNc (I threw it on the ground)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOvaCV6uQp8 (I’m on a boat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4 (jizz in my pants)
I have to say I love SNL! They have all kinds of videos which may not have a purpose but that are so damn funny! This is one of those videos which has absolutely no point, but is still so funny! There isn’t much I can say about these videos except that my friends and I quote Jizz in my pants, I’m on a boat, and I threw it on the ground all the time for no reason! These videos are all so pointless but they are so funny! And you can’t say you are not a fan of SNL. Especially with other videos like Dick in a box and all! They take some of the most random things in the world and make then funny. Its amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM (Charlie bit my finger)
This video isn’t very funny, or at least I don’t think. But apparently tons of people thought this video was pretty funny and like to quote it. I saw this video once and didn’t really ever watch it again till I was trying to find something to blog about and thought blogging about youtube videos would be cool. So I decided to do that. Now I basically need to blog another hundred words so that then I can blog about the other thing I am going to blog about. I figure to entries of five hundred words each is probably easier than trying to write about the same thing for all one thousand words and then just end up rambling by the end. There is one final video I wanted to comment on and it is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnMYZDsrJM
This video is about Obama and what he would be saying after being in office for a year. It is basically ripping on him that he isn’t doing crap and how he isn’t doing anything for anyone. I am not usually someone who likes to talk about politics or political things, but this video was kind of funny. I am not for or against Obama, so I am just kind of watching this video to laugh. I think its funny how no matter who our president is, we always make fun of him. No matter how smart or how dumb, we find things to mock him about and things he does that is stupid. And we also like to expose these faults because I guess it makes us feel better about our decision or its just to mock others who didn’t vote for what we did. I don’t really know. Well, that’s all I wanted to write about involving youtube and all, so now I guess your gonna have to read my next blog too. :-)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Wow...Talk about an eye opener....
Right Image
Center Image
Left ImageWow…Talk about an eye opener….
I think all of these ads really catch people’s attention and makes them think a lot about other people they could possibly injure by drinking and driving. We are always told how if u drink and drive, that you could kill someone and/or possibly yourself. But rarely do people say you could just seriously mess up a life forever. The people who only get seriously injured are then forced to deal with seriously obstacles in life, much like the girl in the picture on the left had to. She was beautiful and was happy in life. She had everything under control and then while she was in a friend’s car they were hit by a drunk driver. This is what resulted from her being hit. She was not killed, but instead just seriously injured. This ties in with the middle picture because now after being hit, she can park in that spot, but that isn’t a good thing. Can u even stop to think about that? Every 48 seconds, someone gets hit by a drunk driver. This picture really makes you think about how much driving drunk can affect your life or someone else’s. Even some picture like the last one on the right can send a message to not drink and drive. Although I don’t believe the last picture is nearly as strong as the first 2, but it still sends a message. I think that so many people see these pictures and blow them off because they think they can be safe when driving a little drunk. I actually know an adult who told me he drove drunk once and made it home without any accident or anything. He was so proud of himself and I couldn’t believe him. I was so pissed that he risked something like that and was proud of it. I am always willing to be anyone’s designated driver if they call me because then I know they got home safe and they also didn’t hurt anyone else in the process of driving home. I am so disturbed when others only think about themselves and no one else. i guess I always think twice about driving anytime is because I have diabetes and if my blood sugar is out of control it is hard to control my actions, aka pass out or faint. This happens when my blood sugar is low and sometimes even when it is too high. This makes me worry and also makes me check my blood sugar each time I drive so that I know I will not faint or pass out and have that cause a major issue or accident. in this blog basically I just wanted to analyze these ads and how they affect people and get a message through to you. These ads use pictures and images which is one of the most effective ways to communicate information. Pictures help other understand because they can sometimes resurface a sensitive memory or something which will make them listen and understand where you are coming from. Maybe even a certain song or something being said as this ad comes up can really cause someone to listen and feel what you are saying. I always get hit hard with songs that are tied to sad memories when they are played in commercials.
Like I said earlier, when images are involved they spark something in our mind if it had to do with a part of our lives and I found that in this commercial this happens for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYBz2gjlEfA (don’t watch this video is you are at all squeamish) I think this video speaks to me so much because I have a huge passion for dogs. I have always grown up with dogs in my house and always had a connection with dogs and I don’t really know how to explain it, but having a dog was sometimes the best thing in the world to me because you could talk and pet and sit with relax with and they somehow can calm me down. I don’t want to sound like some freak, but it is true. I don’t think I could make it through life without my baby, Molly. She is a medium sized dog who is about 12 years old. I am not totally sure of her age because my aunt found her on the streets in NYC and gave her to me once she had all her shots and what not. She has been a huge part of my life and even now sitting here thinking of her dying is upsetting and bothersome. She is getting kind of old and turning gray, so I know the day is coming when I may not have her anymore. So when I see people treat other dogs and animals in a bad way or miss treat them, it bothers me. This is why I think this video gets me so much. I believe if you can touch someone sensitive spot in their heart, then you can really get them to listen to you and to take into consideration what you are trying to tell them. I never feel ads are to hurt us in anyway. Ads are simply to inform us of things in the world. Once we learn about them, we can chose to embrace them or to reject them, but I believe ads are meant to be informative and not deceitful. I am not really sure how to analyze these commercials other then tell you what I feel about them. I hope this is how we are supposed to analyze things, but if not, please comment or feel free to text me or tell me in class that I did this completely wrong and looked like an idiot. :-p
Monday, October 5, 2009
random stuff on my mind
I have no idea what I am going to blog about. I guess I will just blog about life and how I cannot wait to go home this coming weekend for fall break. I haven’t seen any of my family since I moved in, beside my older sister who also goes here, and am missing them all like crazy. I never thought I would be home sick but I really am. It is kind of weird! I have never been the type to get home sick. I used to go on basketball trips all over the US and even to Europe for a few weeks in the summer. It was one of the coolest things ever! I loved all the traveling and I almost enjoyed it more than being home because it added change and excitement to my life. When I was at home things were always the same, I knew what the house was like, and I had rules to follow. When we would go on basketball trips we would have a few rules to follow, but for the most part we would do whatever we wanted and I would get to hang with my friends all day long. This was really cool because my best friend, Spencer, was also on the team with me. And now I thought I would love college because it would be like a long trip, but I miss home. I miss all my friends, family, and even neighbors. Is that weird to miss neighbors? I don’t think it is weird because I have been best friends with since they moved in when I was in 6th grade. Anyway, it is weird being home sick after never being home sick all through high school.
I guess the next thing I will talk about will be how serious my health in life is and how I am going to need good health insurance to stay alive. I mean since I have been here at Virginia Tech, I have visited the hospital 3 times and will for a 4th time tom for my final check up. I have run up a huge bill for prescriptions and hospital stays and I am just lucky enough that my insurance finally reached the point where all that stuff is taken care of and I don’t pay a thing when I have to go. I thank God that we got to this point with our insurance before I began having all the problems I have had.
I am only at 427 words and have no idea what I am going to blog about. I am currently laying on the floor of the living room in my sister apartment with her dog, Abby, writing this. I am lay down because I cannot sit and haven’t been able to since Sunday morning. I had a cyst in my lower back, like right above my ass and it is a fucking killer. They had to put me on all kinds of pain killers and numbed my lower back. Then they took a scalpel and had to cut it open and drain it. This hurt like a bitch because when they told me they would numb it, I thought I wouldn’t feel it. Well I was way wrong! I felt it and it hurt! Well after I was all done with that, I went back to my sister’s apartment and fell asleep on her couch due to the amount of medication in my system. I ended up waking up around 7 or 8 or 9, I don’t know really, I don’t remember. So anyway, took more pain medication and ate a small dinner, then I went back to sleep till this morning when I woke up and had to get up and go back to the E.R. which was not going to be fun. While there they drugged me up some more and then had to change the bandages, so they did that. Then they put new bandages on it because it still seems like it wasn’t healed enough not to re-bandage it. So now I have more bandages on it and am again lying on my sister’s floor in pain. And on top of that I have another appointment tom to have it looked at again. Hopefully tom will be the final day I have to go to the E.R. for a good amount of time.
Even after that story I am only at 741 words. Ugh, this is so frustrating when you’re tired and feeling kind of sick. At least Julia let me have another day to do it. Having that time really helped a lot considering I feel asleep on my laptop last night trying to write this but couldn’t stay awake because of the pain killers.
Ok, so what am I going to talk about for 200 more words? I could talk about how I plan on buying some new DJ gear and going back to DJ at one of the biggest dances my high school called SuperDance which is one of the largest fund raisers in the area to find a cure for CFF.
It was funny the other night when my mom, who works at my high school, started texting me from my high school’s homecoming dance saying that the DJ sucked and how he wasn’t playing music that people could dance to and how no one was dancing and he even had dead air time between songs. She said how I should come back and do next years and how I should DJ for this coming years SuperDance. She was surprised by how bad this DJ was and how upset some of the kids were getting and felt bad for them because for the seniors, it is their last, and for the freshman you don’t really want them thinking that’s what homecoming is really like. I am really considering doing it. I tried being a DJ for our school radio, but didn’t like it. It is so different then DJing a party. When I DJ a party, I can chose w/e music I want, play it however I want, and play it whenever I want too. At the stations there were certain songs that had to be played and so you only got to play very little of what u wanted. And you also cannot get instant feedback about a song like you can at a dance. If people go crazy and scream, u did well. But if they kind of stop dancing and stand around, you better start thinking about a new song to switch to as soon as u can.
Well I think that’s enough blogging for this week. I managed to make it to 1150 words. That’s decent. Hope you enjoyed reading it. J peace.
I guess the next thing I will talk about will be how serious my health in life is and how I am going to need good health insurance to stay alive. I mean since I have been here at Virginia Tech, I have visited the hospital 3 times and will for a 4th time tom for my final check up. I have run up a huge bill for prescriptions and hospital stays and I am just lucky enough that my insurance finally reached the point where all that stuff is taken care of and I don’t pay a thing when I have to go. I thank God that we got to this point with our insurance before I began having all the problems I have had.
I am only at 427 words and have no idea what I am going to blog about. I am currently laying on the floor of the living room in my sister apartment with her dog, Abby, writing this. I am lay down because I cannot sit and haven’t been able to since Sunday morning. I had a cyst in my lower back, like right above my ass and it is a fucking killer. They had to put me on all kinds of pain killers and numbed my lower back. Then they took a scalpel and had to cut it open and drain it. This hurt like a bitch because when they told me they would numb it, I thought I wouldn’t feel it. Well I was way wrong! I felt it and it hurt! Well after I was all done with that, I went back to my sister’s apartment and fell asleep on her couch due to the amount of medication in my system. I ended up waking up around 7 or 8 or 9, I don’t know really, I don’t remember. So anyway, took more pain medication and ate a small dinner, then I went back to sleep till this morning when I woke up and had to get up and go back to the E.R. which was not going to be fun. While there they drugged me up some more and then had to change the bandages, so they did that. Then they put new bandages on it because it still seems like it wasn’t healed enough not to re-bandage it. So now I have more bandages on it and am again lying on my sister’s floor in pain. And on top of that I have another appointment tom to have it looked at again. Hopefully tom will be the final day I have to go to the E.R. for a good amount of time.
Even after that story I am only at 741 words. Ugh, this is so frustrating when you’re tired and feeling kind of sick. At least Julia let me have another day to do it. Having that time really helped a lot considering I feel asleep on my laptop last night trying to write this but couldn’t stay awake because of the pain killers.
Ok, so what am I going to talk about for 200 more words? I could talk about how I plan on buying some new DJ gear and going back to DJ at one of the biggest dances my high school called SuperDance which is one of the largest fund raisers in the area to find a cure for CFF.
It was funny the other night when my mom, who works at my high school, started texting me from my high school’s homecoming dance saying that the DJ sucked and how he wasn’t playing music that people could dance to and how no one was dancing and he even had dead air time between songs. She said how I should come back and do next years and how I should DJ for this coming years SuperDance. She was surprised by how bad this DJ was and how upset some of the kids were getting and felt bad for them because for the seniors, it is their last, and for the freshman you don’t really want them thinking that’s what homecoming is really like. I am really considering doing it. I tried being a DJ for our school radio, but didn’t like it. It is so different then DJing a party. When I DJ a party, I can chose w/e music I want, play it however I want, and play it whenever I want too. At the stations there were certain songs that had to be played and so you only got to play very little of what u wanted. And you also cannot get instant feedback about a song like you can at a dance. If people go crazy and scream, u did well. But if they kind of stop dancing and stand around, you better start thinking about a new song to switch to as soon as u can.
Well I think that’s enough blogging for this week. I managed to make it to 1150 words. That’s decent. Hope you enjoyed reading it. J peace.
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