Hey look, I haven't posted in over a year, and I'm gonna come back with some serious heaviness. Cool.

I'm SO SICK of hearing about a "war on Christmas". Come on, now, do you really think that's happening? From the end of October all the way up to Christmas day, Christmas DOMINATES America. I could count on my hands the number of times I've seen a reference to Hanukkah and those very few times have always been in passing, and I've never once seen an entire commercial dedicated to this Jewish holiday. Come to think of it, the only movie about Hanukkah I can remember having ever seen is 8 crazy nights, and the spotlight was shared with --you guessed it-- Christmas. Nearly every TV show does a Christmas special every single year. There's a Santa everywhere you go. Christmas is displayed everywhere, while I had no idea what Kwanzaa even was until I researched it myself! Do you know what it is? Doubt it. Because obviously, if Americans cared as much about equality as we claim to, that would lead to knowing about things that are different, and that would of course, perpetuate the "War on Christmas," right? 

This leads me to a very important point: If a group is the dominant group that has always been in the majority, and has been the one to oppress other groups through history, you are not being oppressed when they ones YOU  have been oppressing come closer to equality. if the LGBT community gains the rights they should have always had, that doesn't magically take the rights away from the straight community, nor do whites somehow become oppressed because minority races are coming up in the world. So shut up. 

EDIT: This whole "merry Christmas" vs "happy holidays" thing is stupid. Saying "Happy Holidays" rather than something specific is simply polite. I don't assume that everyone celebrates the same thing I do, but I know that there are more than one holiday taking place during this particular season, therefore, saying Happy Holidays can apply to anyone. THAT BEING SAID, I also believe that a person who celebrates Hanukkah or Kwanzaa Isn't going to get snippy if you tell them Merry Christmas, just as we wouldn't be offended if someone from either of these faiths greeted us with a cheerful "Happy Hanukkah" or the proper greeting for Kwanzaa (It changes for each day, I believe). THAT BEING SAID (again, lol) I believe, personally, it is also polite to greet a person appropriately if you know what their religious affiliation is. If I knew someone was Jewish, specifically, I would say Happy Hanukkah in order to give a more personalized feel. This is just my own preference, though, not that huge a deal. 

Happy Holidays to all, and I hope my Jewish readers (lol, look at me pretending I have more than two readers) enjoyed Hanukkah earlier this month. 

Remember the point of the season, everyone: Be Kind and love one another. 

Gay Marriage

I hate seeing all these straight couples who have only been dating or a few years (and in most cases much much less) and on a whim, decided to get married, usually at a young age.
As a general rule, your marriage will not work out. I know there may be a few exceptions, but for most pf you, no. I don't mean to sound pessimistic or bitchy, but when so something so drastically life-altering at such a Young age, it's not gonna work. I can't completely blame you, though; our generation grew up idolizing girls like Ariel, who gave up everything for a man, and married him at sixteen, cuz she thought they were in love after she saw him ONCE and they NEVER talked. He thought he was in love because he found a girl who didn't say anything (dream on boys).
I've gone slightly off finger. My point is, we've grown up on movies of fast and young marriages, so subconsciously, that's what we think is right. And because these children are HETEROSEXUAL, they can marry whoever and whenever and for however long they want.
Now, what about those couples who have been together for YEARS but can't exercise the same right, simply because they have matching genitalia?
Recently, I heard of a gay couple who, after SIXTY FIVE YEARS together, were finally able to marry. Sixty-five years. Wow. And now, I see straight couples who have been together for so much fewer years (like, a year, sometimes less).

It just really frustrates and angers me that so many people are against gay marriage because 'it ruins the sanctity of marriage'. Well, first of all; religion is not supposed to have any impact on the law. I'm not naive, I know that America was founded on Christianity, and that there will always be found some degree of religion effecting law. I understand that, I just mean that there is SUPPOSED to be separation of church and state. 

Moving on. 

Second of all, if those two gay men I mentioned earlier are ruining the sanctity of marriage after having already shown that they can stay in a committed relationship for a billion years, then what is to be said about a straight couple my age, divorcing after just a few months? 

It really is the biggest injustice in my opinion. 

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had; Someone to live for, unafraid to say I Love You!!!

Movies I'll never get sick of watching.

1. Rent. I cry every. Single. Time.
2. Nightmare Before Christmas. It's been my favorite movie for eighteen years. No joke. 
3. Titanic. <3
4. Anchorman. HILARIOUS.
5. The ballad of Ricky Bobby. I'M GONNA COME AT YOU LIKE A SPIDER MONKEY!
6. Mamma Mia. Although, I think I'll  get sick of it before Astrid does. 
7. Sweeney Todd. 
8. Juno. 
9. Wedding singer. OH SOMEBODY SHOOT ME PLEASE! Ahahha!!
10. Oooh, The Notebook. <3
11. Pretty much any Disney movie. (NOT Disney CHANNEL movie. know the difference.)
12. Harry Potter. 
13. Now that I'm trying to think of movies, I seem to have forgotten every movie I've ever seen ever. 
14. KAY BYE NOW!
15. okay, fine. a few more. 
16. I got 89% on my math test. 
17. yup. 
18. I finally saw The Hunger Games. 
19. Not bad. 
20. But pretty slow for a two and a half hour movie. 
21. But I couldn't really expect them to be able to portray all the emotions and stuff from the book. 
22. not bad at all. 
23. Cant wait for the others.
24. My sunburn is healing. 
25. IT ITCHES. 
26. The cafeteria at my school closes at 1:30.
27. wtf?
28. I'm there till 8PM, I'd like to eat, thank you very much. 
29. Jerks.
30. Here's some Helpful Hints!
31. Here's Some More!
32. Bzzzzzz.
33. Kay, dis made me laffz.  
34. OMG ADORABLE!
35. I want this done with my body after all my organs are donated. Just so everyone knows. 
36. I'll stop now. Goodnight. :D

ANNOUNCMENT

It has been brought to my attention that there has been trouble with the commenting system. I'm pretty sure i've fixed it, so, ya know... comment. :D

It's a beautiful night, we're lookin for somethin dumb to do...

I'M OBSESSED WITH HONEY BOO BOO CHILD. Her family is just so ridiculous. Here's a link. Almost everything on that channel is fabulous.

I REEEEALLY like bruno mars. totes. That word is stupid. So is Cray, adorbes, offish, and any other stupid cutesy shortening of a word. Also, I hate YOLO. like, before that, did everyone think we were cats and had nine lives? Go jump in front of a truck. go head, YOLO. Idiots. Moving on.

I start school a week from today. That's one of my grandmas' birthday. The day before is my dad's birthday.  This saturday is the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This month's theme is Cartoon Characters. I'm going as Alice in Wonderland (shout out to TALLIE!!). I'll post a picture next time I post on here.

I'm running out of blog-worthy things to talk about. I feel like I repeat myself a lot. It's hard to talk about anything different when NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING. just sayin'. I'll just start googling random questions. Let's start now! Google wont load... Actually, a lot of things dont seem to want to load tonight. Stupid construction.

• Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
• Okay, the book is City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, Book one of The Mortal Instruments. The line is: 'And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation.' OMG, that's hilarious. But it's a good book. Dont judge it from one weird out-of-context line. 
• Are you listening to music right now?
• Yes. Right this moment, it's Fantasy by Ludacris. I dont suggest you look it up if you're made uncomfortable by extremely explicit lyrics. Haa, after that shuffle took me to Colbie Calait. I have varied taste in music. 
• Where were you on Valentine's day?
• Home. I made homemade chinese food for Astrid, Brandon and me.
• What did you want to be when you grew up?
• A ballerina. Or an astronaut. Then I read Harry Potter and I wanted to be a witch. I wanted to be a vampire, then the whole Twilight craze started and I abandoned that dream. 
• Last one. I'm looking for a reeeeeeeally good one. Okay, I'll clear up the whole chicken and the egg thing (which came first). 
• The chicken clearly came first, because without the chicken, the egg wouldn't have been properly taken care of and would have never hatched. The chicken was intelligently designed by the martians. YOU'RE WELCOME.

I'm gonna go read now. GOODNIGHT!

Ideas

Every night, I lay in bed before I'm able to fall asleep, and I have brilliant ideas for blog topics. And then, the next day, I can never remember anything. I think I need to put a notepad somewhere near my bed so I can write ideas down when I have them. Because, really, they're always genius. But then, poof, gone. So then I come on here, and I open a blank page, and think that'll bring back some memory of something, but no. I just sit and stare at a blank page, until I get bored and close it. And that, my dears, is why I haven't blogged in almost a month.

I'm addicted to angry birds. Or, rather, I'm addicted to trying to beat my friends' scores. So, I guess that's a little different. I also play this game called My Shops on facebook. I rock that. I also play this real estate game where you buy a house and fix it up and then resell it. Because, I have a life. Haaaa.

I'm very critical.

I don't usually like Waffle House, but I had a chocolate chip waffle from there, and OH MY GOD YUM.

I wanna punch the doctor who performed my surgery right in his face. My scar looks terrible. Crooked, jagged and HUGE. My dad had the same surgery a few years ago, with a different surgeon, and his scar is only like an inch, and it's small and straight and neatly cut. I never thought I'd be jealous of a scar. I mean, fer rill.

I hate when channels play a set of shows, then think they can get away with playing the same set of episodes on a loop. BORING.

I went to a very ill-ventilated indoor flea market today. Because of that, paired with the 100+ degree weather we've been having, I sweated more today than I have ever. Just thought you should know.

I'm trying to make a relatively long post, to make up for a month-long dry spell.

My boyfriend bought a crossbow today. Who buys a crossbow? Then, he shot it in his house, luckily, it didn't go far enough through the box to hit the wall. His mom would NOT have been happy with us. Then he broke it, trying to set it up for me to shoot. Sooo, yeah, I didnt get to shoot the crossbow.

I got two pairs of CUTE shoes for twenty bucks. :D

I wanna learn to play an instrument. Probably the organ, since I've already taught myself some songs. But idk when that's gonna happen, if ever.

Adele's pregnant. That's gonna be adorable. :3

I don't like that in this age, kids' shows are mini soap operas.

I'm going to go to bed now.

And by that, I mean, stop typing this, play my game a little longer, take the dogs out, brush my teeth, put on pajamas, then lay down to read for ten minutes, which will turn into an hour. So, like last night, I may be up til like five.

GOODNIGHT!

Thought provoking post. :D

Is a day spent watching movies when you could’ve been working a day wasted or well spent?



If you spend the day alone in front of the tv, every single day, then yes, you are wasting time. If you spend the day with loved ones every now and then watching movies all day, no, I don't believe that is a waste of time. Even if you don't realize it, you're bonding with the ones you love. You may just be watching a movie, but really, how often are you really watching, and how often is the tv just background noise to conversations? So, although it's important to do things other than watch movies all day, it is also an important part of peoples' lives and families.

On another note, sorry for the short post, and also for taking so long to post at all. Tallie had surgery about a week and a half ago, and it's been a rough recovery. Spent a rocky week in the hospital, but she's doing a little better now. Ya know, in case you were wondering about my personal life.

Goodnight lovies!