Sunday, July 22, 2012

Jesus & I would rather you reblogged that on Tumblr


Sometimes people on Facebook "share" cute, funny, or thoughtful images they have seen on other Facebook pages, but most of the time it's just crap.
  • Jesus doesn't care about your Facebook, if you are under the impression that he does I just don't even know what to say to you. 
  • "Like This Photo in 3 Seconds" and absolutely nothing cool will happen...except that you just gave some megalomaniac another click on his photo.  
  • A nice chunk of the political images I see floating around are either ignorant, misquoted, or just plain false statistics.  
  • No one is going to donate money to a dying baby if you "like" or "share" a photo.
I don't even mind  if they are occasional, I just scroll past them & roll my eyes.  If this is you then I'm not talking about you. I am talking to the people who "share" every single image they come across and fill up everyone's feed.  I think those people need to get a Tumblr, it basically exists specifically to spam things that 99% of other people don't give a crap about.  It will save all of our Facebook feeds and all of our ocular muscles.  Trust me, your friend's eyes will thank you.

Before you go ape on me you can feel free to follow me on Tumblr, where I post crap that absolutely no one but me cares about.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

some things never change (a hilarious photo blog of my youth)

I promised to post something funny soon but I'm just not on a roll with funny commentary these days.  So I hope that my childhood photos will hold you over until I'm feeling more clever.  

As I mentioned in my last blog my birthday is coming up.  I had planned to do a post on my birthday about a specific event but I can't find the picture that it requires.  I went through a TON of photos today looking for that ONE but I can't find it.  I know it exists, but obviously someone besides my mother has it.  However today whilst going though huge stacks of my childhood I noticed that 

some things NEVER ever change.

I still fight with my sister a lot.

But I also love the stuffings out of her so much that she makes this face of terror.

Pippi Longstocking is still one of my heroes.

I still have Peter Pan Syndrome (Never Grow Up)

I have always been a gamer girl.  Here's me with the original Gameboy playing black & white Tetris!

I am still a fabulous artist.

I'm still a computer nerd...though my computer and my glasses are both slightly smaller these days.

and I still make this "OH SHIT WHAT AM I DOING" face every time I attempt cooking or baking things.



However, some things do change...for the better.

such as, I would never ever do this to my hair or makeup anymore.
 (Yes it was Halloween, but the horns & fake tattoos were pretty much the only things "costumey" going on here...this is my teen angst phase)

I don't have to carry around a huge boombox anymore...I also don't wear ankle weights for fun. 
Yeah, I don't know either...

I wouldn't stand anywhere near that sign anymore.

Monday, July 16, 2012

shameless begging but it's for my birthday so it's cool.

My birthday is in 9 days, which means if you want to buy me things you should go ahead and do that! Here are some things that I really really want.

Here are my wishlists:
ThinkGeek Wishlist
Amazon Wishlist
Body Art Forms Wishlist

The following gifts would also be lovely:
Jon Hamm
cash
anything Hello Kitty/zombies/Alice/Joss Whedon related*
a unicorn
acrylic paints (preferably Delta Ceramcoat), canvas, glitter, fine tipped & regular black sharpie pens
fencing lessons
a swimming pool
water from the fountain of youth

giftcards for:
Barnes & Noble
Sephora
Ulta
Red Lobster
Rugged Wearhouse

That's all folks!

*Please nothing Toy Story, that ish freaks me right the hell out.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Do you ever get legitimately depressed because you know you will never have enough time to do all the things you want to do before you die?  I do.  Maybe I'm weird (okay, it is a fact that I'm weird), maybe it isn't something other people really think about constantly.

For me, it's books.  I get seriously depressed when I realize that I will never be able to read every single book in the world before I die.  Wouldn't that be amazing to have read everything?  Thinking about it gives me chills.

Anyway the point I'm trying to make here is that I have had to do some major cut backs.  I no longer subject myself to terrible books (like I did with the Twilight series) just "for the lulz".  I don't have time for that anymore.  Not that I'm getting super old, or dying (I hope), I just feel like there is something better out there. If I start a book now and it sucks, I just stop reading it.  Before this revelation I had only put down one book  in my life because it 'sucked and I couldn't get through it', it was one of the Sex and the City books...pure effing garbage.

When Maurice Sendak died I wanted to write a blog about "books everyone should read".  Then I started compiling a list and I realized that most people that I know would have no interest in most of the things I consider "must reads".  Childhood books are a horse of a different color though, I feel like those are easier to pinpoint.  Children's books are something that helps shape us whether it's something that we think about or not.  I can't think of a single person who wouldn't recommend getting a child a book that they, themselves loved in their childhood.

And so instead of telling you what books you should read I'm going to tell you the children's books that shaped me, because I am only an authority on myself and I have no place telling anyone what to do (except my kid*).

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Where the Wild Things Are
Pippi Longstocking
Peter Pan
Matilda
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Little Prince
Ramona Quimby (series)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

All of those books were staples of my childhood.  I can't imagine life without each of the characters.  I actually have plans for a tattoo of several of them.  Let me know if you can think of any that I'm missing or that you think all kids should read.

* sometimes I am hilarious.

Monday, July 9, 2012

red, white, blue's in the sky, summer's in the air & baby, heaven's in your eyes

Yesterday I decided that I was going to sit down and just finish the last two weeks of my school course work.  It took me 11 and a half hours but I am FINISHED with summer semester.  It felt so good to be free!  Then today I signed on because I knew I had to do the "Rate this course survey" thingie that they always send out so I did that and then I decided to check my mail & run my grades.  Everything was already graded & I MADE ALL As!!!  I am so proud of myself.  At the beginning of this semester I thought I was going to die because it was so much work and it was hard but I DID IT and I DID IT WELL!  I never once made all As until I got into college so this is always like a huge deal for me.  So YAY ME!

On to more interesting things...we are going on vacation next weekend!  Alden wants to go to LegoLand Discovery Center so that's what we'll be doing.  We haven't made plans beyond that but Six Flags has been mentioned in passing.  I'm just excited to be away from my computer and the house for a few days and of course spend time with my boys.

Then the week after that is my birthday!  Yes, I said "the week after that" because I'm awesome and I celebrate like a maniac during my birthday.  At some point there will be a dinner, and then there will be a party, and I will still be going strong at my lovely best friend's Ryan's CD release party on Saturday. It's going to be awesome. Yay party!

I'm so glad I survived school so that I can relax and have fun.  YAY SUMMER!

I promise a fun/funny post soon now that I don't have to think about coding 24/7.