One More Thing

I forgot to say that Independence Day [or 4th of July to many Americans] is on Saturday! 

My parents and I are either 

(A) Going downtown for the traditional fireworks. 

(B) Going to the beach for fireworks

(C) Watching the crazy people of our neighborhood set off fireworks 

or (D) all of the above. 

The problem with A is that downtown St. Petersburg is the CRAZIEST place in Florida whenever there's any type of event going on. Any festival, baseball game, fireworks display. There are people, literally, who charge 20 bucks for you to use a parking lot to park your car. 20 BUCKS! And also, there's always a whole bunch of drunks running around downtown during the fireworks, asking for money, beers, among other things. 

Not to mention the balloon artists! Those people are crazy! I was walking along the street after a festival with my parents, and one of them calls out to me, 'Balloons are great for 19 year olds!' 

Pause.

The dude must have been BLIND, because I, in no way, look like a 19 year old. My maximum age is probably like, 15. It was probably those shorts I was wearing. See, I have this theory. I like to wear short shorts to public events sometimes. I think it scares the public. The public needs a good scaring every once in a while. 

The problem with B is that the beach fireworks never end well. Someone always gets hurt. And with my luck, if we went, I would be that one person. 

And the problem with C is that the people in my neighborhood are crazy. And annoying. And very irresponsible with their kids. 

Now, I'm not one to say 'Never let your kids out of your sight!' or 'Keep them by your side at all times!' I hate it when those parents put little leash/backpacks on their kids. I HATE it. But some of the people in my neighborhood are careless about their kids. 

Take the people that live across the street from us as an example. Two parents, and their daughter. The daughter is 9. She's kind of annoying, but that is besides the point. The parents used to let her go to the neighbor's house, down the block. The neighbors are nice enough, and they let her walk their dog when she wanted to. Except when she did walk him [their dog], she took him 5 blocks away. I've seen her on a REALLY busy street. It's too far for a 9 year old to walk. It's too far for me to walk by myself. And her parents don't even care. 

They bought her a mini motorcycle. And they let her ride it on that same busy street. By herself. Without any adults around. A car could back out of a driveway and not see her, and bam. She'd be hurt, or even dead. And while she may be annoying, I would never wish her any harm. She's just a little kid. 

But other than the irresponsible parents and the crazy old woman a couple houses up from mine, this neighborhood is pretty boring. But I have a solution.

Someone needs to have an affair. 

And someone needs to have one now. 

Sorry for the extra long post. But I finally woke up, so I thought I'd post again. [=

Tired. Just Plain Tired.

It really is miraculous that I'm even typing this right now. I didn't even go to bed at an extremely late hour. The last time I looked at my clock before falling asleep was at 11:30. I think. Anyway, that's not really that bad, considering that I've be known to stay up until 1 o'clock reading. Really. 

Currently, I'm reading Catch-22. Don't you DARE judge me. It's VERY good. 

Normally, I would type a more in depth phrase to describe a book, but really, you don't know how much effort it took for me to just type 'normally' and 'depth'. 

A conversation from yesterday between my mother and I:

Mother: There were 'The Biggest Loser' tryouts in Tampa

Me: Yeah.

Mother: Where do the shoot the actual show?

Me: At 'The Biggest Loser' ranch.

Mother: Where's that?

Me: At an undisclosed location. Just south of Area 51. 

Mother: What's Area 51? 

And this is why my parents' chromosomes were EXTREMELY well distributed. I have my mother's practicality, and my dad's smarts. My dad's hair color and my mother's hair texture [which is really not that great, but whatever]. Etc, etc. 

Well folks, I'm going to go eat some enriched flour, niacin, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, monosodium glutamate, and lactic acid. [aka Cheez-Its] 

Books of Summer 2009: 15

Books of 2009: 32

Bye Guys! See you tomorrow! 

All this Death and Despair is really Gloomy

Really? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG THIS MONTH?!?!?!? We're up to 5 celebrities dead. David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and NOW Billy Mays. BILLY MAYS! That dude with the OxiClean commercials! And the Awesome Auger and Mighty Putty. Remember how he always started the commercial by saying 'Hi, Billy Mays here!'? He was awesome. 

Not to mention Tampa elections supervisor Phyllis Busansky. She was only 72 years young! 

Anyhoozle, I went to see The Proposal with my parents today. It was pretty hilarious. I almost started crying at the end though. *SPOILER* When Betty White was 'having a heart attack', I was ready to cry my eyes out. But then she was FAKING! Hilarious. And Ryan Reynolds, let me just say one thing. If you ever leave Scarlett, I am available. Any time.

I think this is the part of the blog where I'm supposed to say something witty and riveting, but honestly, my mind can't be bothered to spew anything of that sort. What do you do when the blog you're writing gets increasingly boring???? Use some spontaneous Bee Gees lyrics, of course! 

Tragedy

Here I lie

In a lost and lonely part of town

Held in time

In a world of tears I slowly drown

Going home

I just can't make it all alone

I really should be holdin' you, holdin' you

Lovin' you, lovin' you

Tragedy

When the feeling's gone and you can't go on 

It's tragedy

When the morning cries and you don't know why

It's hard to bear 

With no one to love you, you're going nowhere

There's your distraction for the fact that I'm really quite too tired to write anything clever today. [= Hope you enjoyed that. 

Books of Summer 2009: 15

Books of 2009: 32

Bye people! 

OH. I watched Borat last night. It was on the USA Network. Channel 32. Yeppers. It was........odd. I'm glad I didn't see it. Plus it's rated R, so that would've been a problem. It was kind of funny. But a stupid kind of funny. Okay, I'll stop babbling now. Bye for real now. [=

This Day Just Sucked

Michael Jackson just died. Holy cow. 

This day has sucked all over. First Farrah Fawcett, now Michael Jackson, geez. 

RIP Michael Jackson. I may not have been happy when you were acquitted and all, but I'm not going to hold it against you. You were always a great singer. You'll be missed. Hopefully Heaven will be a great experience for you. RIP. 

Oh Suburbia. How I Hate You So

Hello everyone. There's really nothing to do around my house. Or my neighborhood. So I'm blogging. YAY!

This is my first actual day of summer alone. Which is nice, because my parents are crazy. When they're gone, no one's here to tell me to make my bed or get off the computer. My mother likes to call me every hour or so, so I can't even go to the rec center or the library. Ugh. 

So here I am. Blogging. 

Thank you Blogger for having an Auto-Save. This is me writing, except it's now 3 hours later. I just love it when the Internet shuts off. 

I just wanted to say, RIP Farrah Fawcett. I never watched Charlie's Angels or anything, but I know how important she was to some people. And of course, her fabulous hair! She's with the real angels now, out of her suffering, and she will be missed by everyone. My heart goes out to Ryan and Alana and Farrah's family. 

I haven't really been doing much since Blogger auto-saved this. I've just been typing my story/novel/thing. And listening to this.

I'm really much too lazy. I should be out, doing something. Like everyone always says. 'Go outside and play, like a regular kid.' Nope. That just won't do. My brain doesn't work that way. And depending on your definition, I'm not what most people would call 'regular'. And you know what? IT'S TOO DAMN HOT. Okay? I'm not going to go out and 'play' when it's 96 degrees out. And the heat index? Yeah. It's 105-110 this week. I'm definitely NOT going out there. That's for sure. 

I finished Girl at Sea today. It was very good, as all Maureen Johnson books. Now I just have to read The Key To The Golden Firebird, and I'll have read all of her books. Exciting. 

Ok, I'm going to come out and say it. I love musicals. And actors in musicals. 

Especially:

• Aaron Tveit
• Gavin Creel 

Books of Summer 2009: 14

Books of 2009: 31

Bye people! See you tomorrow! 

Um..Hi There....

Hello people of the Internet! [And Stella]

I haven't been on the computer for 6 days. Six DAYS! And I haven't blogged in a WHOLE WEEK. I have good excuses though.

EXCUSES:

1. I was dog/house-sitting at my mother's boss' house. And they have four cute little dogs who are just pistols. 
2. I've been doing a LOT of reading lately. I've read 12 books in 3 weeks. 

2.5: 12 books in 3 weeks may not seem like a lot for some people, but I feel that it is. I think my parents are finally getting annoyed of driving me to the library every three days to get new books. I told them I could just walk there. Or ride my bike. 

So yeah. Those excuses are golden. They came right from my own brain. 

My friend Chris's cousin thinks I'm funny. Either this person has (A) never been shown what actually funny people look and sound like, (B) no sense of what actually funny things are, or (C) has never met me. This person hasn't met me before, so it's a combination of C and something else. Everyone who has met me knows I just steal my jokes off the Internet, and I'm not really funny at all, considering none of my jokes are actually original. 

I'm really extremely bored. I was planning on going to the rec center pool today, but my dad decided to stay home from work today, so I couldn't. He does that sometimes. Randomly decides not to go to work. It's quite odd. 

Has anyone read the All-American Girl series by Meg Cabot? Because I have a question. In the first book, Jack, Lucy's boyfriend, is an artist. And he's older than Lucy. And his last name is Ryder. Right? In the second book, his last name changes to Slayter. And Mr. White, the White House press secretary turns into Mr. Green. And David's bodyguard goes from John to Rob.  I don't get it. 

Continuing with the All-American Girl series-theme.... Really? The faucet? You're really going to practice using the faucet? I wonder if it really works. If anyone is reading this and has no idea what I'm talking about, reading All-American Girl and Ready Or Not by Meg Cabot, and you'll understand. They're really good books too. 

Well, that's all the nonsense I can spew out for today, folks. See you laters! 

Well This Is Awkward

Don't you dare judge me about yesterday's blog entry. Don't you DARE. 

I spent a whole 5 minutes shuffling from foot to foot in Publix yesterday. This dude was coming in my direction, I went left, He went left, I went right, he went right, and it was all a big debacle. 

I've spent all of this afternoon watching clips from Hair on Youtube. I seriously would LOVE to go to the White House lawn with thousands of people dressed up like they're in the late 70's/early 80's. And everyone singing 'Let the Sunshine In'. That would be SO FREAKING AMAZING. 

Hayley (hayleyghoover) wrote a blog a few days ago titled 'Itunes Shuffle'. She asked us to put our Ipod/Itunes library on shuffle, and write down the first 10 songs that show up. Here they are:

1. MMMBop-Hanson
2. American Pie- Don McLean
3. Hero/Heroine-Boys Like Girls
4. Bring It All Back- S CLub 7
5. Don't Be Stupid-Shania Twain
6. Here Comes The Sun- The Beatles
7. Super Trouper- ABBA
8. Shelf-Jonas Brothers [Don't judge me]
9. Jessie's Girl- Rick Springfield
10. Jesus Take The Wheel- Carrie Underwood
11. Thanks For The Memories- Fall Out Boy
12. Circus- Britney Spears
13. Up!- Shania Twain
14. Lose My Breath- Destiny's Child
15. Gimme Gimme Gimme A Man After Midnight- ABBA

I did the first 15. Those represent my Itunes Library pretty well. A lot of 70's/80's/90's songs and some alternative. And country. That too. 

Has anyone seen any pranks by Improv Everywhere? It's hilarious. It's a big organization of volunteers that conduct public pranks. They had a whole bunch of people go into Grand Central Station in New York and freeze in place at exactly the same time. For five minutes. Then they just unfroze all at once. They had 16 people go to a food court in a regular old mall, and create a random musical. They had music piped in through the speakers. It was hilarious! The looks on everyone's faces was just priceless. 

As to not bore anyone anymore today, I'm going to go. See ya'll tomorrow. Maybe. I'm not really sure. Bye!