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This is the first blog I've ever had! You'll have to bear with me because I'm still learning how to do this whole thing. I'll admit that it's bit of a mess right now. I started blogging for "The Soundtrack of Your Life" ![]() What you'll find here: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() WARNING This blog is rated GC and will contain offensive language, stories, and opinions. Please don't read if you're easily offended! My intentions aren't to offend anyone, so trust my warning and turn back now or forever hold your peace! ![]() Things I'll be using this blog for: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to hear from you! As I mentioned before, this is my first blog. I'd love to hear from anyone who reads this. Leave a comment, rating, or review. Let me know what you like to read about. Have a suggestion for me to write about? I'd love to hear it. The best thing about a blog is the exchanging of opinions between bloggers and readers. I want to keep us all interested. Plus, it's just nice to get a little love sometimes. Let's get to know each other. ![]() ![]() ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **
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Artist: The Gaslight Anthem Album: Sink or Swim Song: We're Getting A Divorce, You Keep The Diner [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Lyrics ![]() 30DBC: When you come down with a cold or the flu, do you stick to traditional methods of dealing with it, or are there unconventional remedies you use? I only slept a couple hours last night, so this probably isn't going to be a super long entry. I'm totally just going with the necessity prompt, which is 30DBC. I've spent way too many hours arguing and fighting just to avoid the inevitable. Ugh, whyyyy. I start school in a week too, so this is like the last thing I wanna do on my last free week. I got an email from one of my professors today saying that Version 3 of his book is preferred, but Version 2 is acceptable too. I wish he would've mentioned that before because Version 2 is like $180 less than Version 3. ![]() Anyway, the question today is about how we deal with things like the cold and flu. I'll be the first to admit, I'm terrible at being sick. Some people can just get into bed and sleep for three days until they're feeling better. I can't. My anxiety spikes at the thought of being bedridden even for just a few days. I'm basically just a huge puss bag when it comes to being sick. The cold is a little different than the flu. For that, I'll usually take a ton of cold medicine. I'll drink Nyquil like it's water because it helps me sleep and I can't do it otherwise. I drink orange juice and eat soup, toast, and crackers. Cold time is movie time for me. I'll watch 80s movies like Say Anything and Sixteen Candles. Colds don't really mess with my general mood much, unless they go on forever and ever, which they sometimes do. After a few days, I'm like, "Okay, this can end now..." The flu though... is horrible. I've only had the stomach flu before and that's really bad. I've had it twice and it consisted of terrible body cramps and vomiting. It's like withdrawal all over again! There's nothing you can do for it either. I couldn't eat or even drink water because nothing would stay down. I spent mucho time writhing in pain on the couch and screaming about my various ailments. I'm much more about preventing the shit in the first place. I'm super crazy about washing my hands and not touching my face when I'm out in public. My immune system is low, so if I'm around a sick person, I can just assume I'm going to get whatever it is they have. I really should take vitamins and eat better and drink more water, but I do what I can. Welcome to my Reality: What is your favourite quote and why? Editing this entry because I forgot the new WTMR would be coming out today and I found one I want to try out for today. My long running favorite quote is: āNothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.ā Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters I find this quote to be very accurate and true to the way I live my life. I try to let people rub off on me when I know them and talk to them a lot. I admire their strengths, their quirks, etc... and I let them integrate themselves with who I am. When I was younger, I had a lot of issue with dissociating myself and it got to the point where I didn't even feel like I was a person with feelings and opinions. I kind of felt like I was just ambling around aimlessly, hoping that things worked out, but I didn't have a genuine personality of my own. I found myself mimicking people's behavior a lot and I'm not sure why, maybe pinkbarbie can explain that to me. Pretty soon, I felt like I was just a collection of all the people I was close to in life. I moved past those people, but their personalities and traits stayed and carried on with me as I met new people and took pieces of them away as well. Some of my other favorite quotes: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On a Sunday morning the whole crowd assembled I've done some things that I'm not too proud of I've never left you, a deaf ear for longing Some hearts are gallows, I'm not here for hangin' around |
Righto, guys. This is the second-to-last day of the Blog Harbor 12 Days of Christmas challenge. Don't worry, I won't go getting all mushy on you yet. I'll save that for tomorrow. ![]() ![]() Notebooks are... Notebooks are pretty cool on here. It's a fast, easy way to keep up with what's going on with people. I guess it's similar to Facebook status updates or something like that. A lot of times people use their notebook to say what they're up to or what they've just finished doing. I'd like to think that the WDC newsfeed is probably a bit classier than the average Facebook one though. There's no fighting over ridiculous statuses- as seen here. ![]() The replies I did mostly replies to other people's posts for this one because I have a slight reading problem and didn't see until the end that I could actually just go start a new conversation in someone's notebook. Yes, they allow me to operate a vehicle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Welcoming new members This was the part in the challenge when I finally realized that I could go post on new members' notebooks and welcome them to the site. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Artist: Passion Pit Album: Manners Song: Sleepyhead [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Lyrics ![]() The Sunday News!: Pick a random article from the headlines and talk about it. Share your opinions and feelings about it. Encourage a conversation. What/Who made you laugh the hardest this week? Describe the situation. Sunday news is back on the table! Fun, fun, fun for us. Well, it's been a cold, snowy, windy day for me. I guess the weather isn't really a news story though, is it? When we used to do these Sunday news prompts, I'd always try to find something positive to talk about. There are so many negative things that we could just drag on and on about, but it's so depressing and makes me feel sad inside. Luckily, I stumbled upon this news story: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/4/7487541/want-fewer-highway-deaths-build-the-ani... and it fits perfectly in with my positivity thing and my own belief system, so that's what I'm going with today. I first saw this news story yesterday on Reddit, but I couldn't find the article again. I went to the Verge though, and this was on the front page. It's a different article, but it's the same news story, so it works for me. This is super awesome. Basically, on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, two of the Indian tribes have built 41 of these over and under passes for the wildlife to cross safely above or below the highways. I know that, as humans, we often feel that our needs for convenient travel outweigh the local wildlife's needs, but I think it's great that these tribes are trying to share the land with the animals in the area. I'm all for sharing with animals. I hate when people freak out about a shark being in the ocean. That's its habitat! It has to be in the ocean. When I was down in Florida, there were several shark sightings at one point one of the girls I knew down there said that they needed to go out there and kill the sharks if they spotted them. Why should the sharks have to die because humans want to invade their natural habitat? That's just horrible and makes no sense to me. Of course, leave it to Native Americans to discover a method of sharing the land. They're very in touch with nature, animals, and spirits. It's really a great connection they have with life and all things that are naturally in it. Plus, if it helps save the lives of animals and humans, it's a win-win for everyone. I know people who have hit deer before and it's very dangerous. People get into wrecks and die that way too often. I'd like to see more of these overpasses built for the animals. I laugh a lot, as I mentioned in my Funny Friday post. I went out with a few friends on New Year's Eve and we laughed a lot. I was sick that day and the next day a little bit too, but I felt good enough to go out and drink a bit, which was great because I thought I wasn't going to be able to. One of my friends is the funniest guy you'll ever meet trying to pick up girls. Every time we go out, I laugh the whole time because it just gets progressively worse the more he drinks. It starts out socially awkward at best and turns into full-blown pandemonium by the end of the night. He's notorious for accidentally hitting on a girl who is out with her boyfriend. The guy will go to the bathroom or something and he just happens to see her at the wrong time. He'll mosey on over with his awkward self and try to talk to her about something that he's interested in, like football, and then her boyfriend comes back and gets all pissy. It's bad enough that he'll ask us, "Do you think that girls single?" before he even tries. His attempts are really funny too and get more obnoxious as the night goes on. It starts with sweet attempts like, "Hi there, I'm Trevor. Is this seat taken?" to belligerently loud, "You're HOT, what are you doing tonight?!" ![]() And you said It was like fire around the brim Burning solid Burning thin the burning rim Like stars burning holes right through the dark Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes |
Oh boy, Day 10 means I'm up to speed with the Blog Harbor 12 Days of Christmas challenge! How cool is that? I've been looking forward to this one. Here's the challenge: As a tribute to the austerity of the number ten, fan ten different authors or items that you haven't already. (Refresher: to "like" an item or author, click the "+" at the top right between the email and print icons. The "+" will turn into a finger with a string on it to indicate you've made it a favorite... and clicking it again will turn the icon into a horn which indicates you're a fan. You can check to see which items you've already fanned - and who is a fan of you! - by clicking on the Fans tab in your portfolio.) Where I started There was a challenge a long time ago on the site where you got an MB or something for fanning people on the site. Before that, I didn't even know that you could fan members. I think most of the people I've fanned came from that. I favorite a lot of activities so that I'll see updates on them. It automatically does it when you post in a forum. Why it's good Fanning people is cool because then you can see what they post on the newsfeed. I've missed out on different challenges or things posted on the newsfeed because I somehow wasn't a fan of the person before. I think that every time someone fans me. I'm like, "How were we not fans of each other before? We talk all the time." ![]() The people Here are the people I've just fanned! š HuntersMoon ![]() Jeff ![]() Alexi ![]() Have a sunshiny day! ![]() The Run-on King PDG Member ![]() sunnystarr skeason ![]() Brandiwynš¶ ![]() Hanna ![]() Sum1 Is Home! ![]() But wait, there's more! I couldn't stop with just the ten though, so I added a few more that I realized I wasn't a fan of before. Here we go... Robyn is PUBLISHED! ![]() ENB ![]() Fran š š š ![]() Mandy ![]() Storm Machine ![]() ohsoquiet Andrew ![]() š Darleen - QoD ![]() Escape Artist ![]() embe ![]() That should... That should do it for now. I did an even twenty, so there's still a ten in there somehow. It's divisible by ten anyway. ![]() ![]() |
Day 9 of the Blog Harbor 12 Days of Christmas challenge and I'm almost caught up! If I can get my mind to focus for the next hour, I'll be good. Today's challenge is: To celebrate the number nine, send nine different WdC members cNotes. Bonus points if you send them nine separate cNotes and personalize each one rather than mass-mailing/copying one cNote to nine people. Welcome In an effort to follow the guidelines of this challenge, I sent a few personalized welcome cNotes to new members on the site. I tried to find people I'd never talked to or reviewed before because we are trying to get out of our comfort zone with this challenge after all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks for reviewing The next three went to people who have recently sent me helpful reviews. I'm always grateful for the reviews I receive and reviewing is an important part of this site to me. I like to give them just as much as I like to receive them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Awesome friends The last three went to some of my super cool friends on the site just to thank them for being supportive and fun. I've been trying to follow the rules of not sending things to the same people over and over, so here are a few I haven't used yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Artist: Passion Pit Album: Manners Song: Little Secrets [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Lyrics ![]() 30DBC: Concoct secret plans. Blog City: Tell us about your night routine. What is one thing you could never imagine changing about it? My concentration level is like zilch today. It's just shameful. I've been trying to do different things that I need to do on the site, but I keep having to walk away from it 'cause, fuck, I can't get anything done. Hey, it's Saturday, no one will probably read this entry anyway. Saturday's a flyover day. ![]() Most of my secret plans are concocted with people in order to present something in a better way to other people. I'd like to think I'm the type who owns up to their mistakes, BUT I want to do it in the best possible way. Meaning, the way that makes me look best. It's not uncommon for me to consult a third party to see if they can help me brainstorm what exactly I should say and how I should say it. I can't concoct secret plans right here or they wouldn't be secret anymore. I think this is Norb's idea of getting us to tell him all our secrets. You just worry about your computer situation. Let's try to concoct a secret plan so Norb has a laptop for school, yeah? My school offers discounts from Dell and stuff, but it's like 25% off at most. Electronics always mess up at the worst time. Nightly routines are a new idea for me. I don't have things I specifically do at night before going to bed or anything. I typically fall asleep anywhere between midnight and four in the morning, depending on what I'm doing. Sometimes I stay out all night and don't sleep until the next day. It doesn't affect me much. Having a routine I have to commit to every night freaks me out. I don't like to schedule things or even have regular procedure to follow because then if anything gets messed up, it's like a big deal. My father is huge on planning and making lists. I've been on car trips with him before; it's horrible. If we get caught in traffic, it's like an apocalyptic situation because we might not make it to check in at the hotel at the exact time he had planned. It's like, dude, chill out. The absolute worst case scenario is that you check in at the hotel later. I mean, who cares? Ahhh, that's all I've got. I'm not proud of this entry, but it is what it is. ![]() When I came down the dawn poured into me I shook em up, the walls came crumbling... |
Hello, Day 8. I'm ready for you. Can you guys believe I'm almost caught up? If I can finish this one up tonight and do Day 9 and 10 tomorrow, I'll be golden! I'm totally going random on this one as far as who I'm picking. None of it really means anything, except the bad ticket one. ![]() All the raffles! I like buying raffle tickets when I get some extra GPs. I think it's a nice way to support the different groups on the site and a lot of them are a ton of fun. I never know how to thank someone for buying me a raffle ticket though. You know what I mean? Like, I usually just hit the like button on their post because I feel like it would be annoying if they had thirty people directly emailing them like, "Hey, thanks!" Hopefully liking the post is enough and I've not been totally rude for the last year. ![]() Save the contests "Invalid Item" ![]() ![]() Good ticket, bad ticket Song Bird has a unique idea with "Invalid Item" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writer's S.O.S. Group I like "Invalid Item" ![]() ![]() ![]() PDG Christmas Raffle Finally, I have to support the PDG raffle, "Invalid Item" ![]() ![]() |
It's Day 7 of the Blog Harbor 12 Days of Christmas challenge. I think it's actually Day 9 or 10 now. ![]() ![]() The shameless plugs I added three items to the "The Shameless "Plug" Page" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Activities, ooh la la I've never thought of activities much here, but I think that's because they could be anything really. I mean, so many things qualify as an activity, right? There's raffles, auctions, and tons of groups. For the purpose of this challenge, I decided to promote some blogging groups because we can never have too many bloggers or blogging groups, in my opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Contests for your noggin I don't participate in many of the writing contests here. I'm not sure why, but I have a tendency to miss the deadlines, even when I know when they are a month ahead of time. I'll have something half-written then realize the contests is fin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Artist: Heatmiser Album: Mic City Sons Song: Plainclothes Man [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Lyrics ![]() 30DBC: What does "funny" mean to you? Welcome to my Reality: What was your favourite memory of the Christmas Season? If you do not celebrate Christmas choose a special or important holiday/birthday that you have a favourite memory of. Weāre talking about what funny means to us today. This question reminds me of that scene in Goodfellas where Joe Pesci wants to know in what way heās funny. ![]() [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Thatās one of my favorite movies. My brothers and I were watching it in the backseat on a family trip and my dad was cracking up listening to it while my ma sat in the front seat saying, āThis is violent! There are so many curse words!ā ![]() To answer the prompt, I find a lot of things funny. Anything that makes me laugh or even gets me to crack a smile is kind of funny, to an extent anyway. It doesnāt take a lot to make me laugh either. Iām down for any kind of joke, but sarcasm especially seems to hit my funny bone. People tell me a lot that I have a good sense of humor. I think when they say that, theyāre either saying that I need to take something more seriously or theyāre cool with me because we find the same things funny. Stand up comedians are funny to me too. I really like the deadpan ones like Steven Wright, but my favorite ever is Mitch Hedberg. I know Iāve talked about both of them before and included a lot of their funny quotes in this blog. Life observations are really funny to me. Like, things Iāve noticed but put in a different light with a funny twist. I guess Iām just easily amused. As much of a Grinch as I might seem, Iāve had some awesome Christmas memories in my time. I remember playing outside in the snow, then coming in and having hot cocoa and sitting by the fire. Christmas Eve was the most fun for me because of the anticipation of Christmas day. After the 25th, you donāt have anything to look forward to anymore with the holiday. Itās just over. The 24th was great though because you had all the built up excitement from several weeks of hearing Christmas music and seeing gifts under the tree. We would usually eat a nice dinner and watch Christmas movies on Christmas Eve. We always watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special, A Christmas Carol, and either the Grinch or Rudolph. I always liked A Christmas Story and Home Alone too. I still watch those two around Christmas almost every year. Once I got to be eleven or so, I got super bah-humbuggy about the holidays and I didnāt look forward to them anymore. I felt like my parents were more stressed out around that time and that caused a lot of fighting, arguing, and general tension around the house; somehow more so than usual. There were a few year there at the end, probably from age seven to ten, where I tried to make it work and stay in the holiday spirit despite the general negative atmosphere of my house. Eventually I just gave up on that and I started hating the holidays because I saw everyone else who got to be excited and happy with no strings attached. The holidays are better now that Iām older though. They usually involve drinking and watching a lot of movies. My friends go to their parentsā houses a lot because thatās one of the only times of the year a lot of them see their family. We usually do something for Christmas in my family, but itās almost never on Christmas day. Itāll be several days before or after. At least thereās no awkward tension now, but Iām always happy when the new year starts and everything can chill out. Dreaming on the silver strand Waking up to plainclothes man You little bastard, little boy in blue Someone's gonna get to you And fuck up everything you do |
Alright, where was I? Ah, yes, Day 6 of the Blog Harbor 12 Days of Christmas challenge. Day 6 is going to be interesting because I haven't explored much of the items involved here. I've been looking forward to doing this one. The challenge is: To celebrate the awesomeness that is the number six, complete six surveys, quizzes, and/or polls from six different WdC members. I'll do a couple of each so I can get the most out of it. I don't think I've ever taken a quiz or a poll here before and I only remember doing one survey in the past. I need to get with the program! ![]() Polls ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quizzes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Surveys ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |