Category — Just Plain Crazy

*sierra nevada – torpedo

*zen coffee from great lakes brewing company

*taki76

*sending me money. i will write you a personalized anything.

i guess i should write and share more quality stuff if i want my future to come true. online.

***addendum- while i’m in a quality-blog-writing mood: in light of my recent goals for excelhealth, i realize that in recommending a beer and a coffee and hiphop and sending me money doesn’t seem like it’d help one better oneself on the surface. but. coffee and delicious microbrews are a necessity of life in certain circumstances and i suggested these as unique or preferred alternatives to a main-stream miller lite or folgers. sending me money would actually significantly better the world. and i still recommend checking out taki76, a local funk & hiphop artist!***

also, my blogging will most likely get better this summer when i’m on teacher work sched – aka when i want, if i want! hahah!!!!

rightfully so, though, eh?! i’m on spring break. i almost had a meltdown today right before i left school. i was so done with it. i was planning on staying around the philadelpharea and takin care of some biz. well, it just so happens that my best friend found a good ticket, and long story short- i decided all within about 20 minutes. i had thought about it, but it was sort of a joke.

now i’m going. you know why? because it’s going to be “wintry mix”ing all up in this here place. and i want some 80′s and sun…even 65 and partly cloudy will be better than here. plus it’ll be awesome- different- exciting. and tons of fun to visit with me friend.

i’m sooooo excited. and now i have time to get more use out of the weekends surrounding the break. in fact, i’ve already helped my boyf clean up his house (the mess can partly be attributed to me), i’ve organized a lot of my stuff, and i’m planning on doing lots tomorrow. now we’re going to watch more movies, as we have been doing so much lately.

i’m so serious about how excited i am. finally, it’s awesome that i can be all spontaneous like that! i prefer calling it spontaneous to calling it impulsive (yes, it is a bit of both). but my BFF and i have always been like this- just ready to visit each other on a whim.

yay for living. yay for the universe combining in this manner. and more. to come. probably. soon. maybe. (now i’m definitely not going to get as much online managing does as i had wanted, but at least i’ll be relaxing and gettin some vitamin D!)

I highly recommend watching yourself some FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL. Just amazing. Basically the best thing ever. I can’t even explain how good some of the footage is: random old home videos, awkward instructional vids, tryouts, horrors and horrors.

Take a gander at this promo:

And here’s one example I really liked:

It’s from “Stairway to Stardom” – a show that features tryouts that every single person should watch.

I cannot urge you more to watch them. DO IT!

I found this on popurls today, under the heading “Secretary of BRAINNSSS!”

THIS IS A MUST-SEE “SECRETARY OF BRAIINNNSSSSS” PHOTO

I found hope on the internet: HOPE

I found a parking spot on the street by the restaurant where a friend and I went to breakfast.

I found myself laughing about this cake decorating communication mix-up!

I found myself bored with this particular blog entry. Alas. I am procrastinating and not focusing. Always.

i am going to do all my work today. instead of waiting until tomorrow night, and then freaking out. today.

can it happen? even i do not know.

i might need to ask for advice on yahoo answers like this kid who got help deciding which girl to date.

so maybe you can watch

and think about this, while my magic goes down. we can hope at least.

addendum update- did not get all my work done. forgot about doing it once i started doing errands, going to dinner, having fun. but i did, in a relatively surprising turn of events, do about an hour and a half of semi-solid work due to someone i was with being heavily preoccupied.

this lack of remarkableness tempts me to take down the blog post, but no. alas. i will leave this banal post up to show the un-glamorous side of my wildly successful, flashy, and fun life, so more people out there can relate.

lovies and huggies (i hate the word lovies).

it’s hard when i think my life is going well, and then seemingly insurmountable things come up and ruin that feeling. i’m not talking about normal things. but then again, i guess terrible or really difficult stuff happens to everyone. i mean, i guess i’m happy to have overcome some of my roots from the:

but it still ain’t easy. relatives getting really sick is not something that happens often, and always sucks. and then there are those 2 other huge things. i guess both of them will eventually get better. and one of them i can already see as a “blessing in disguise” type thing, but it doesn’t make me feel better. at all.

my question today is this- how do i make more friends? i love people because they’re funny. but i don’t have time to go find them. and most of mine seem to be gone. maybe i’m not making enough effort. it’s hard when i barely have any time.

call me! bye.

Amandoo is starting to feel something different in her life.

Call me crazy. I’ve decided to give up facebook for the week. And it really is crazy. It’s only the second day I’ve been “off” of it (gave it up Sunday evening), and my life drastically changed for the better. I won’t give you the full story until I make it through, but here are some excerpts from my experience thus far:

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Monday

7:10 am – Instantly wanted to go on FB
7:11 am – This is what I would have changed my status update to:

Amanda wants to start her day every morning by watching and doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktgsn_G59os (please do watch it…oh wait…here it is):

2:38 pm – the minute that I’m free, I want to FB

5:16 pm – every time I get on the computer, I think of FB in the near future

8:30 pm – tempted at every chance, it haunts me in my url bar’s glance

Tuesday

Wow has it really only been one day off Facebook? Feels like forever.

But my life is already much better. Today I had time to do my work, create a final, make an awesome dinner- and get this- share it with real live friends! 6 of us ate food and laughed and talked together!

It’s almost magical. Of course the tendencies are still there. I should really clear my private data and browsing history so the taunting suggestion doesn’t pop up every time I get on the internet tubes.

My goodness though, what a difference a day can make!

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Yeah. It is that crazy.

I feel like I was much more productive today. Wow. And not even all that tired. Pretty tired, but that was from the 3 or 4 hours of sleep I got on Sunday night.

Stay tuned!

there’s always something and then there’s

– to complain about -positivity

-wrong -optimism

-about mary -about mary 2

there’s never any time. well, only if you don’t make time right.

life’s too expensive. this is true for most of us common folk, but if you are frugal, thrifty, and savvy, and only make necessary expenditures, there is hope.

there aren’t enough jobs. get more creative, or get more skills.

i’m really hungry, and that’s why i was freaking out and having a negative attitude. i mean famished. and i mean spiraling negativity. it’s all connected.

the life of work can merit segments of relaxation and play.

i don’t even know! how i could manage to have a “schedule” but i know it’d be really good for me to get on one. i might try one out the first week of december.

woo. so i’m still hungry. so i’m gonna get some food. and i think aim for it to be healthy for me!

The West Village Halloween parade is still on, but faced a $4,000 deficit this year because of the scary economy. I promise you I had thought up “holloween” before I noticed they used it. I actually found that article by typing “the economy ruined halloween” into google. Great minds think alike. Most of this great stuff is already out there, leaving little room for inventors- except for the technology geniuses. Sure, there is always more art and music to make. In fact, I am very proud to say I finally recorded my first ever rhyme scheme. Got some of Mrak’s nice beats, was inspired by my cousin rhyming on the other half, and I went ahead and did it. I still procrastinate and freak out and lack sleep like nobody’s business as far as school prep goes, but I am quite proud of myself. It’s not terrifically wonderful, but it’s a start. It’s a family collab and I like that most. Hmmm, let’s see. Other than that I have been too busy to blog, too busy to sleep, and a bit stressed almost constantly. I watched the Phillies and liked it, I love to watch “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and I think I want a job with foreign and international business language type stuff. You can see that I’ve already almost landed a job in that respect because of the lingo. But do I really want to add a statistic to the “nearly 50% of new educators leave the field within the first 5 years”? Maybe. We’ll see.

In the meantime, I hope you didn’t spend $60 on candy, which is apparently an average amount for an American to spend. Also, vote soon, and vote wisely. Otherwise I’ll have to be blogging from another country, as a fewjittif.

The wealth of information you can get for free on yahoo answers! I was recently very inspired by the answer to the question “how is babby formed? how girl get pragnent?” which inspired this video “How is Babby Formed Video” I also recently answered my first question: “Does it annoy you that everybody says teachers are underpaid? they make a solid 40-50K for crying out loud, and the work is not very hard, not to mention they get some of the most generous benefits in the country. Why is this misconception about teachers being underpaid so widespread? “ Obviously many people and many teachers quickly responded that duh, teaching is not a walk in a park, and if you are at all any good, you have to put in more than “time after time” and you also have to be a babysitter and magician and more. Most teachers also do not get that pay.

I am going to start finding random answers I really like. I have to be careful, as there could be hundreds of exceptional answers demonstrating humankind nowadays. Even the questions themselves can be pretty good!

Q: “Can you take a dog a shower with regular human shampoo?”
my favorite A: “you can use ivory dish soap or dawn dish soap for white dogs,the dawn rewhitens dogs unless they have tear or drool stains.” that, or rubbing dryer sheets on them to make them smell better!