Posted in Blog

You know you’re pathetic when…

Posted on by Bri

All girls school. Two weeks. Not a good idea.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m having fun, my roommate’s cool, and I love my classes. But no boys? Uh-uh.

So we all went the movies on Friday. Everyone dressed up. Girls I’d never seen in makeup or nice clothes were suddenly dressed as if they were going to homecoming. I’ll admit I even spent a little more time on my hair and makeup. Yes, we were THAT desperate.

They carted all one hundred of us to Hancock (which was pretty good) in two big buses, like we were touring the city or something. When we got to the movies, we weren’t allowed off the bus for about fifteen minutes. Also not a good idea.

We all (yes, all) spent the entire time staring out the windows. When a cute guy walked by, someone pointed him out, and everyone else squealed and giggled like adolescents. Pathetic. Unfortunately, I can’t say that I didn’t take part. (Some of those guys WERE cute)

All guys pretty much look like supermodels to us right now. It’s horrible.

Nice recent blogs, guys, keep up the good work!!

Posted in Sports

Time for the old Nine Iron

Posted on by Scarface

I’ve decided to quit basketball for this coming year because of the time it takes up from school work. Even though I am a complete sports freak I am also a nerd, I have 3 AP classes next year: AP Calculus, AP Biology and AP Language. So don’t judge me for being into sports, I’m really smart in most ways. You all are probably thinking that this has nothing to do with sports so I’ll get to that part now.

I’ve decided to take up golfing in my spare time, not competitively but more as a relaxing sport. As a baseball player I’m already into swinging things so I’m not bad for a beginner. Anyway, I used to not think golf should even be considered a sport, it’s not physical or anything right? But after golfing for a few weeks, or even after the first few times I’ve realized that it’s one of the hardest sports out there.

Many people, including my former self, think of sports as very physically testing, that’s where all the strength is tested, pysically right? However, most people forget the other aspect of sports, MENTAL strength. So after my experience with golfing I’ve come to realize that it’s easily the one sport that demands the most mental toughness.

Imagine this: It’s the last hole of a tournament, you’re one shot in the lead, and you’ve just hit a ball on the green (right near the hole). Now you have to walk a hundred yards or so to the ball, all the way knowing that if you miss the putt you could lose. The ENTIRE grounds are dead silent, watching you and no one else, atleast in other sports there are distractions from you. You must read the perfect trajectory angle and perfect strength to put on the ball (much much harder than it looks). Think of the mental toughness it takes to harbor all that pressure and putt it perfectly, I’m sweating just thinking about it. My point is that it is one of the toughest sports because of the insane pressure it puts on you.

I’m ancious to know what all of you think about golf, so tell me. Do you think it’s a legitamate sport?

Posted in Music

Panda Panda PANDAAA

Posted on by Bri

In case no one read my blog a couple days ago, I will now be doing music reviews and blogs as well as regular blogging. So here’s my first, my top six favorite songs. I picked each for a different reason; most have excellent lyrics, always a plus, and some have just a great sound.

Ok, I admit it. Lyrics are the most important part. I’m including a quote from each song so you get a feel for it.

TOP SIX BEST SONGS IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD

1. Dare You To Move- Switchfoot
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

2. Hallelujah- Paramore
Holding onto patience wearing thin
I can’t force these eyes to see the end

3. Wasted- Cartel
And I’m 18 couldn’t wait to move out
It’s been 5 years and now I’m starting to doubt…
Whether all my dreams are just aimless stares
Looking off to someplace that isn’t there

4. I’m Like a Lawyer- Fall Out Boy
From a sour bottle baby girl
With eyes the size of baby worlds

5. If I Am- Nine Days
But it’s always too late when you’ve got nothing,
So you say
And you should never let the sun set on tomorrow,
Before the sun rises today

6. When I’m Gone (Acoustic)- Simple Plan
Life it’s what happens
While you’re busy making your excuses

Ahh, music. More to come.

Posted in Blog

Say what you need to say

Posted on by Bri

As repetitive as it is, I really like that song. And it was playing on the radio on a really ironic day. But that’s not important.

So I hope that not speaking in two days is making you as crazy as it’s making me. I really do.

Anyways. I just finished watching Camp Rock (HAHAHAHA) With the Jonas Brothers, yes. JONAS BROTHERS. They are incredibly good looking, and as much as people are going to hate me for this, I actually like their music. Good beats, good lyrics, catchy tunes. I LIKE THEM.

Yes, that makes me a Jonas Lover. I don’t care.

You know, I hate how people get so stuck up about music. I have spent half my life pretending that I don’t like half of the music that I actually thoroughly enjoy. I mean, I’ve never lied that I like a certain band or something, but sometimes when I’m naming music I like, I leave things out. Like the Jonas Brothers. And Aly & AJ, who have really good lyrics. And Superchick, who, as lame as the name is, are actually very good. I’m sorry I missed them when they came to this town on tour. The town that I’m not telling you.

That’s not the point.  The point is that I hate it when people judge me and my “coolness” because of my taste in music. I hate it when people measure my inherent worth as a person on my taste in music. As great as music is, that shouldn’t be what makes or breaks a friendship. Really. If you don’t like it that I enjoy the Jonas Brothers, then you can either deal with it or shut up.

Posted in Issues

You’re All I Want

Posted on by Bri

So I’ve been racking my brain for a new Let’s Argue topic, but the only issues that I could come up with were gay marriage (overused), abortion (overused), the presidential election (overused), and religion (I’m not even gonna go there. Too much personal controversy for everyone)

But then finally I came up with a good one. It has to do with the fact that after working for 49 hours in the past two weeks, I earned 398 dollars but am only able to deposit 322 of it. Everything else was taken off for income tax.

This SUCKS. I got gypped out of 76 dollars. That’s 9.5 hours I was not paid for. 9.5 hours of painting nasty, gnarled nails, scraping soggy, half digested food into a bucket, breaking up fights, translating mumbling, getting yelled at, getting run over by wheelchairs, and cheating at a non-violent hangman. That’s almost three days of working that I could have slept in and wrote blogs on. That. Sucks.

So this week’s Let’s Argue topic; how do you feel about income tax? If you don’t like it, what are your suggestions to change it?

Personally, I think it should be eliminated. They can raise sales tax a little to even it out a bit, but I want to keep all the money I earn. ALL OF IT.

Posted in Politics

Life is what happens while you’re busy making your excuses

Posted on by Bri

-Simple Plan, When I’m Gone

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. And as everyone knows, this is often not a good thing. But I think that this time it’s ok.

I realized something during this thinking period. Our lives are consumed by fear and order. Out of fear we allign ourselves with other people who are similar in taste, ensuring that we are not alone, which we also fear, whether we realize it or not. Everything inside of us strives to be a part of a group, even if you pride yourself in being a non-conformist. Because then you’re conforming to a non conformist group.

Groups groups groups. We are all a part of thousands of groups. Republican, Democrat, nerd, jock, outgoing, loner, smart, dumb, right, wrong. What is with us?? Why are we so concerned with being one thing or the other? Why can’t I be moderate, both a nerd and a jock, both smart and dumb, and both outgoing and introverted? No, I always have to pick a side.

That’s one of the things that bugs me the most about the election. People make decisions based on whether the candidate is liberal enough or conservative enough. I know we have parties like Libertarian and Independent, but I also know that if I choose to vote for one of those candidates, I’m basically throwing away my vote, because there aren’t enough people brave enough to straddle the fence to ever get a third party candidate elected.

Here’s what I think we should do… get rid of political parties altogether. Not only will this give everyone a level starting ground (people won’t be biased to a republican or democrat), but it will also force people into actually researching candidates platforms, instead of writing off someone “Oh, they’re a democrat. They must be a crazy hemp smoking hippi who leads peace rallies against any kind of violence.” They would actually have to THINK about their candidates.

Of course, this would lead to an issue… how do you narrow down candidates for the final race? You can’t just have everyone running on the ballot!

Well. You know how baseball they have the national league and the american league? Do that! Separate the candidates into groups ACCORDING TO LOCATION, or some other nondenominational grouping, then have primaries like normal. The best two out of both “leagues” would be the final candidates for the final vote.

I probably haven’t thought this through enough, and I’m sure you’ll all have plenty to say back. This is just what I came up with when my brother told me I needed to update. So tell me what you think!

 

Posted in Blog

Last day of school (PART ONE)

Posted on by Bri

WARNING: THIS PAGE CONTAINS LOTS OF AWESOME PICTURES. IF YOU HAVE A SLOW COMPUTER, GO GET SOME BEETS OR SOMETHING UNTIL IT LOADS.

Yes, beets.

Ok, pictures!

  Craig and his “blue steel” getting into the car

 

One of the scariest pictures… sorry Ashley I just had to upload this one

Me and Bart… we kind of look related in this picture! He could be my older brother. With less fashion sense. (Got it at Wal-Mart Seger! WHAT NOW??)

I think it’s cute. Me and Cody here, him looking slightly pained. Neither of us have braces!

 

Aww so cute… Bart and Cody in Comp Lit. I have no idea what Bart is doing but Cody looks good.

 

Creepy stalker-ish picture. I was doing this to everyone. I like being odd. (oDd)

Me and Ben…. we kind of look related too!

 

Jack and new emo hair…. sorry but I miss the curly days. 

Posted in Movies

Burn This City!!

Posted on by Bri

I’m trying to break out of my previous no-blog niche. Sorry. And in an attempt to calm down my mind (I have an AP Human Geography test in a couple hours), I’ve decided to post something.

So in the past two days I’ve seen The Departed and Iron Man. I loved them both. So the name Bill didn’t really fit with Leonardo Di Caprio, but that’s not important.

The Departed, although I loved the intensity and anxiety, used the F word every other phrase. Seriously, it was almost a little over-done at times. Sure, it’s a strong word for certain situations, but The Departed may have overused it. A tad. But still, I really enjoyed this movie. I was tense the whole time, and the storyline tugged me along and threw me into unexpected walls, to my delight. I love when a movie isn’t predictable. The final scene was very well played out (Mark Wahlberg. MARK WAHLBERG!!), although the scene before that, at the abandoned building, was a bit much. I’m pretty sure the editors and directors were strung out on something and had blood on their minds towards the end, but I liked the majority of the movie too much to be too angry.

Iron Man’s movie reviews are dead on. Excellent cast, excellent action, excellent dialog, excellent movie. I saw it in theaters with my friend Rachel yesterday. I’ve never actually read the comic book, but I don’t think it mattered if you were familiar with them or not. I think they tied comedy with intensity very well, because I was entertained as well as on the edge of my seat the whole movie. Of course, the soundtrack was pretty good as well, which helped.

I would recommend Iron Man to pretty much anyone. As for The Departed, well, if you don’t mind cursing (and a lot of it) and enjoy mafia-style movies mixed with undercover spies, then go rent it.

Ok, back to last-minute revival of memory. Toodles!

 

Oh, I almost forgot. DO YOU SEE HOW MANY NEW COMMENTS THERE ARE??? YES!!!! My “Let’s Argue” seems to be a success, and the best part is that people who aren’t members of the site are checking back to converse and debate! NEW PEOPLE!! NEW HITS!! I AM REBORN!!!!!!!

 

Also, The Host, Stephenie Meyer’s new book, is one of my new favorite books. Check it out. Came out Tuesday. Excellent.

Posted in Teenage Life

Like Death

Posted on by Bri

There are few things in life I find cowardly, because I realize that most anything takes at least an ounce of strength, but with today’s technology, humans are getting weaker and weaker.

And there is one thing that makes me angry above all else.

Let’s explore the lesser offenses. Number one, asking someone out over instant messaging, text messaging, or phone call. This is just weak. If you can’t ask them out face to face, how do you expect to date them??

But there is one thing that is even worse, even more cowardly. It is something that gets you first place in the competition for biggest jerk. Breaking up with someone over text messaging.

Not only is this cowardly, but it is demeaning to the person you are talking to, it sucks a thousand times worse, it’s more unexpected, and it’s all around the most awful way to do it. Getting dumped sucks enough without your refusal to step up and say it to their face. This is just wrong. This is just inhumane. No one deserves that, no one. At least be a man about it and say it to their face.

To those of you who know me very well, I must seem like a dirty hypocrite. Yes, I once broke up with someone over instant messaging. In my feeble defense, I didn’t set out to break up with him over it, and I wasn’t trying to avoid the pain (I’d broken up to him face to face before- long story), but the fact remains. Getting dumped over lifeless words on a screen S-U-C-K-S. No emotion, not attachment, no nothing. You take the last of their dignity away because you don’t even give them the chance to respond.

Let this be a lesson to everyone out there. Don’t do this. Being a teenager sucks enough without having to deal with the insufferable jerks that inhabit the high schools. 

Posted in Blog

ABE LINCOLN!

Posted on by Bri

I am SOOOOO sorry I haven’t been updating. It’s been like two weeks. Ouch. Myyy bad.

In my defense, again, I have been insanely busy. I also got a job as a nursery home slave. The actual job title is “Activities Assistant”, and the actual job description is “helping with activities for old people”. But what I have actually ended up doing with my time is serving nasty looking food, cleaning up the mess afterwards, taking people back to their rooms, and breaking up old people fights.

Yes, you read that right, breaking up old people fights. So yesterday, a fairly belligerant resident in a wheelchair and a usually even tempered old man in a walker nearly got into a fist fight. I’m not even kidding. They were this close. It’s hard to explain without using hand gestures and visuals, but I’ll try my best.

Basically, the lady in the wheelchair was kind of in the way of the door and was waiting for another old lady to get out of the way. The old man was in a hurry and snapped at her to get out of the way. The old lady, who doesn’t like anyone anyways, was not happy. There was another lady near her, near enough so that the old man’s walker couldn’t get through. After a couple more rude exchanges, the old man decides he just wants to get through, so he starts forward and tries to force his way through the two wheelchairs. Obviously, this doesn’t work very well, and his walker got stuck. Now the old lady is cursing, the old man is cursing, and I’m freaking out. It needs to be said that there are a couple nurses standing around, and they all just stand there gawking.

The old lady is now waving her arms wildly, and the old man is about ready to throw some punches. So since the people who are paid to take care of these two look on, I calmly explain to the man that I need to push his walker back a little bit so I can get them both out of there. it takes a couple seconds but finally I get them calmed down enough to push the old man back a minute, get the womans wheelchair out of the way and get to the door, and the conflict is resolved.

Or so you would think. As soon as the only lady is enough out of the way for him to get through, he books it to the door, and as he passes her makes another rude comment I can’t remember. This results in the woman yelling something at him riddled with profanity, which the old man replies to with a “shut up, woman!”, which offends the old lady greatly and causes her to return the phrase of goodwill. I get the man out the door, try to calm down the woman, who yells at another little old lady further down the hall. I’d just like to point of that the nurses were STILL standing there watching this unfold.

Geez. Three days on the job and I’m already doing every one else’s. Guess that doesn’t end in high school.

I’m never going into the medical field.

PS. The title of this blog is the answer an old lady gave when I asked her who the first president of the united states was. (We were doing word games, and that was one of the questions that came up)

Said, ain’t it?