2008
10. Getting a job, making my own money. :]
9. Going to my first concert, seeing four amazing bands.
8. Getting my first puppy.
7. Julia turning 18, finally! haha.
6. Getting closer to my friend Ashley, we're besties now, haha.
5. Summer with Ahmed. <3
4. Our trip to Chicago.
3. Backyard camping in Ashley's yard for her birthday.
2. Hanging out at Tj's house! Wooo! haha. (Tj helped with this one)
1. I'll be turning 17 the very LAST day of 2008!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Natalie Is My Hero
Today, Mr. Patty told us to put "gadgets" onto our blogs and Justin decided to put YouTube videos on his. I looked up this girl "xnako" because this girl is my absolute favorite person on YouTube. Sadly though, you can't watch the videos anyway here at school.
Natalie has videos called "Life Of a Teenage Girl" and they're so totally random and weird. She's my hero because I've always wanted to make just stupid random videos on YouTube either alone or with friends; but I never have. She's also like really comfortable with being herself and it just makes the videos even more enjoyable to watch. I love seeing people not care what people think, I'm working on that more myself actually.
She has around 40 videos, her last one was posted like a month ago so I'm a little disappointed by that, but I can watch her videos over and over. The thing with YouTube is that if a video isn't "the most amazing thing" people think it's stupid, but there's so much more YouTube has to offer other than funny or useless stuff. But I'll admit, her videos are pretty pointless, haha.
Some of my favorites are her random fact video where she tells her viewers just crazy, out there, completely random things about her; a video about eating play-doh, and one about what she calls "ghosties." If you want to find and watch her videos at home, you can look for "xnako" or by "Oh Snap It's Nat" on YouTube.
So last Christmas I got a video camera. I guess it's a pretty nice one, only I couldn't tell you exactly because I've barely used it in the past year...but this year I asked for video editing software, and hopefully I'll know how to do more things with the camera. I could make my own wacky videos. :]
Natalie has videos called "Life Of a Teenage Girl" and they're so totally random and weird. She's my hero because I've always wanted to make just stupid random videos on YouTube either alone or with friends; but I never have. She's also like really comfortable with being herself and it just makes the videos even more enjoyable to watch. I love seeing people not care what people think, I'm working on that more myself actually.
She has around 40 videos, her last one was posted like a month ago so I'm a little disappointed by that, but I can watch her videos over and over. The thing with YouTube is that if a video isn't "the most amazing thing" people think it's stupid, but there's so much more YouTube has to offer other than funny or useless stuff. But I'll admit, her videos are pretty pointless, haha.
Some of my favorites are her random fact video where she tells her viewers just crazy, out there, completely random things about her; a video about eating play-doh, and one about what she calls "ghosties." If you want to find and watch her videos at home, you can look for "xnako" or by "Oh Snap It's Nat" on YouTube.
So last Christmas I got a video camera. I guess it's a pretty nice one, only I couldn't tell you exactly because I've barely used it in the past year...but this year I asked for video editing software, and hopefully I'll know how to do more things with the camera. I could make my own wacky videos. :]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Ugh!
Is it just me or does the week before a break from school go amazingly slow? Not only does time seem sluggish, but so do I. Whenever I know I'm going to be out of school for a while, a few days before I just shut down. I find it hard to focus on anything school related at all. Especially this year because to be honest, I'm not a fan of any of my classes.
To make things worse, we're reading this book, The Scarlet Letter...yeah I wouldn't recommend that book to ANYONE! Classic or not, it's awful; no offense to anyone who likes it. I just don't find anything about it interesting or attention grabbing. My friend Justin explained it nicely when he said "You can have all the energy in the world and then open that book and it's like, no, gone."
Anyway, back to the life being sucked out of me this week...it's almost over guys! I'm so excited for this week to end already. Although I have to work this Friday, just knowing I'll be free for the next two weeks makes my day. Not only are the holidays coming around the corner, but so is my birthday! A lot of people know this, but if you don't, New Year's Eve doubles as my birthday; it's pretty cool I guess. :]
I love moments like this:
Ashley: Are you excited for your birthday?
Me: Yeah, I guess.
Ashley: You guess?
Me: Wait...I can get into R rated movies by myself! wooooo!
Ashley: ...Wow...
To make things worse, we're reading this book, The Scarlet Letter...yeah I wouldn't recommend that book to ANYONE! Classic or not, it's awful; no offense to anyone who likes it. I just don't find anything about it interesting or attention grabbing. My friend Justin explained it nicely when he said "You can have all the energy in the world and then open that book and it's like, no, gone."
Anyway, back to the life being sucked out of me this week...it's almost over guys! I'm so excited for this week to end already. Although I have to work this Friday, just knowing I'll be free for the next two weeks makes my day. Not only are the holidays coming around the corner, but so is my birthday! A lot of people know this, but if you don't, New Year's Eve doubles as my birthday; it's pretty cool I guess. :]
I love moments like this:
Ashley: Are you excited for your birthday?
Me: Yeah, I guess.
Ashley: You guess?
Me: Wait...I can get into R rated movies by myself! wooooo!
Ashley: ...Wow...
This amazed me
In geography, we're working on this assignment in which we find information about a job we might want to pursue, where we might want to live in the future, and the average cost it is to live there. At first I found this assignment kind of difficult because I wasn't real sure where I wanted to live or what I wanted to do. Now I've always given thought to becoming an English teacher because that subject has always interested me in school; but I thought for this assignment I'd learn about another job I might want to look in to. Eventually I decided to move to Manhattan, NY and work for the New York Times in New York City. But when I looked up the average salary of an advertising assistant in Manhattan, I found out they only make about $27,000 a year; not that impressive if you ask me.
While scrolling down on this page with the salary, something caught my eye. Under a list of "Related Career Topics" I found: online survey taker. Ok, so for those of you who may not know what that is (and I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence here) an online survey taker is paid to take surveys sent to them from companies or organizations wanting feedback or help with whatever it is they sell or provide. Surveys could also be about random things too, though. And people actually get paid to sit at home on their computers just answering questions all day!? I didn't really believe it. I mean, the site (http://www.indeed.com/) said these people make about $168,000 a year; I wasn't buying it.
When I had asked my geography teacher if this could be true, he said absolutely. It just surprised me that someone with a degree in business could make less than a person working on a computer at home all day. Now I'm not sure if these jobs require any real talent, skill, or education, so I'll have to look into that. It's amazing how many jobs are out there you might not know about and how much money they actually make.
While scrolling down on this page with the salary, something caught my eye. Under a list of "Related Career Topics" I found: online survey taker. Ok, so for those of you who may not know what that is (and I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence here) an online survey taker is paid to take surveys sent to them from companies or organizations wanting feedback or help with whatever it is they sell or provide. Surveys could also be about random things too, though. And people actually get paid to sit at home on their computers just answering questions all day!? I didn't really believe it. I mean, the site (http://www.indeed.com/) said these people make about $168,000 a year; I wasn't buying it.
When I had asked my geography teacher if this could be true, he said absolutely. It just surprised me that someone with a degree in business could make less than a person working on a computer at home all day. Now I'm not sure if these jobs require any real talent, skill, or education, so I'll have to look into that. It's amazing how many jobs are out there you might not know about and how much money they actually make.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Just a little randomness.
I enjoy learning new things about people, especially if they're the most random facts that you'd normally wouldn't think to ask. So I decided since this is my first blog, I'm going to write a few random facts about myself.
- I love polka dots, hence the reason behind my background.
- My hair hasn't been it's natural color since maybe the second grade.
- I'm a New Year's Eve baby.
- I drink too much caffine.
- I like to sit upside down whlie listening to my iPod.
Now, I want to know about you guys. :] So leave comments on this blog with a few random facts about yourself and maybe start a funny conversation.
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