Summer Fun

When I was a kid I enjoyed summer but always found myself bored because well as a kid the most I could do was go to my next door neighbors house a play... Don't get me wrong I had a lot of fun there but it got old by about 3 weeks into the summer... This summer however so far has been non stop...

As I said in my last blog I went to OA/HI to learn about Phi Theta Kappa and stuff officers of chapters should know... I also went to my friends wedding... I spent a week in NY and caught up with old friends...

Now my friend who is quite the adventurer (and if you click the link there you will get to his blog) took me to Delta quarries with my old man... It was a lot of fun... Apparently all my adventuring buddy (2nd chance-check out his blog already)does is find different cool spots... This should be a fun summer...

My adverturing friend and my boyfriend

The quarry

Look how clear the water is

On top of adventuring I will also be doing my LARP that I used to do and couldn't get to due to my inability to drive... It is a lot of fun... I basically get to go out into the woods and beat people with foam weaponry... It is a good stress reliever and I think a fun time... I play in NJ (oh look yet another link-click it) with a few of my friends, cigar freak (check out his blog too- JUST DO IT)...

Hopefully my summer does not go the way of my childhood summers and become dull dull dull by the time I am a month into it... Have a fun and safe summer everyone...

Crazy Busy

Ok... So it has been super crazy busy these last few weeks...

The first thing that made it so busy was going to my LARP... well it isn't MY LARP persay but I do go to it... It is always so much fun and I have missed doing it for the time I was not able to get there... My friends didn't dark side with me but I had fun kicking their butts as I am sure they had fun trying to beat me down... I know that the wording used doesn't make it sound fun because I am saying that my friends and I beat each other all weekend but it is... we use boffer weapons so that it doesn't hurt unless they are swung like a baseball bat... It was a great weekend with great people and I will be back at it over the July 4th weekend... YAY!!!

After the LARP I had work and then the end of the work week I pretty much went to NY... I don't make it up there enough but I did make it for my friends wedding... It was great and a lot of fun... I spent the week up there visiting with friends and my mom...

The town I come from

This is actually in the town I am from

On the walk to the town park

After Charlie the unicorn (obviously a nickname cause I am not that crazy) picked up my boyfriend and myself and brought us home I only got to spend ONE night in my own bed... It was off to OA/HI the next day... OA/HI stands for Officer's Academy/ Honors Institute... Basically sleep deprivation and learning about Phi Theta Kappa from the 10th to the 13th... It was fun... For those who don't know Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society of 2 year colleges... Unfortunately I have not put the pics in my comp yet but once I do I will put them in the blog...

Life has been so busy lately and now I finally get some time to relax till my classes start on Monday... sigh... Till next time...

Randomness

So it has been awhile since I posted a blog... This may get a little random(as the title suggests) due to the many thoughts that race through my head at once... Try to bear with me folks... LOL...

I posted a previous blog talking about Smart Cars... Well I recently saw one in a driveway while on the bus to college... I busted out laughing... It looked so ridiculous parked in the driveway... It looked like one of the kids in the house left their toy in the driveway...

The college semester ended about a week ago and still NO grades posted... I have been stressing out over what I got... I have also realized that getting your grades is 1000 times more stressful when you actually care about your grades... It is made even more stressful by the fact that I had a 4.0 GPA as of Fall semester and I really really want to keep it at that... Why is it that when you are going to High School for free and don't really want to get your grades you get them really fast but when you are in college and paying to go and WANT your grades they make you wait for what feels like an eternity... It is so aggravating...

I am ecstatic that I am getting to go back to my LARP this weekend... For those of you reading this that don't know what that means LARP stands for Live Action Role Playing... Basically I am going to a camp site for a weekend and beating people with foam weaponry... Great way to get your frustrations out... If you want to check it out click the link above... It is a lot of fun... I will be going with Cigar Freak, Charlie, and a couple other people that don't have nicknames...

Well I think that that is it... Thank you for bearing with my randomness to the end folks...

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is tomorrow and I felt it would be appropriate to write a blog about it...

I find it wrong that you see zillions of card for mom but maybe 5 for stepmoms and maybe 2 for a woman that was like a mother to you(like dad's girlfriend that hasn't officially become a stepmom or a female that if your mom died was like your mother) ... I think that this is sad... I always complained about it when I was younger and trying to find a mother's day card for my step mother... Now I have been with a man for 3 and a half years and I love his kids like they are my own... I don't need his daughters to call me mom(they both have mothers-bio) The problem is that most people don't think to say anything to those women because everyone only says things about Mom(biological)...

Please remember those that may not have given birth to you but love you like they did this mother's day and every mother's day after this....

Happy Mother's Day for any mothers, stepmothers or women that were like a mother to somebody and grandmothers!!!

Bum ankles suck

So... I have been on crutches for 2 days now and it completely sucks... You would think that we would have developed more comfortable crutches than we have... I mean HARD rubber where your hands and underarms go... WTF... A person who is not used to having to use them is faced with carrying their weight on the palms of their hands... my hands, wrists and shoulder and upper arms are killing me...

All the advances we make and we go backwards with crutches!!! I mean the old wooden ones (which I have also had to use) were so much more comfortable... At least they had a soft foam like thing where these metal ones have hard rubber... Are they trying to make them so uncomfortable that people take themselves off them early??? I mean that is not a good thing since they tell you to use them for a specific period of time... I am supposed to use them till the end of saturday... I don't even want to really use them after today!!! I will though so that my ankle heals properly and I will not have to use them again anytime soon hopefully *knocks on wood*...

Well till the next time folks... Live life don't just survive it....

Technology

Ahhh... Technology, it is supposed to make life easier but it usually just aggervates you more...

I remember when instead of checking my email box i checked my mail box... It used to be so exciting and make me so happy to get a letter in the mail... Now it is just the usual... Like my mail box (which never seems to have a real letter anymore) my email box is always crammed full with junk mail or spam as it is called on the web... I am not even sure that my boyfriend's kids know how to properly adress an envelope or where the stamp would even go... I miss getting letter instead of bills and junk mail...

I also remember when cashiers didn't look at me funny when I pay with cash... They always ask debit or credit when I pull out my wallet... I remember when my mom went to the grocery store and they asked her cash or check... I pulled my wallet out of my purse and the cashier said cash or credit... When I pulled out cash and said "Cash" she looked at me weird and didn't seem like she knew what to do... LOL...

That brings me back to my next point... How many times have you gone to a store and handed the person at the register cash and then realized you had the change on you??? What happened then??? The poor young kid at the register looked like their head was about to explode while the tried to figure out your correct change,right... I know it has happened to me on several occassions... Sometimes I like to see how long it will take them to figure out how much they should give me back and don't tell them for awhile... LOL... I have even had some break out their cell phone and use to calculator to figure out that I get $1.10 back...

If all the technology in the world were to fail then the people born after 1990 would have no idea what to do... I am sure they do not know how a card catalog works, how to socialize without a networking site or cell phone and how would they every know that for a $10.80 bill if I give you $11 then I get 20 cents back...

Technology, what would the world do if it all were to fail???

Smart Cars

So I have seen a few of these tiny cars that look like a roller skate with an engine in it... you know those silly looking smart cars that I and probably other people wonder how anyone other than a little person would be able to squeeze themselves into it at all let alone comfortably...

well i found myself walking home from work and I saw one of these pill boxes on wheels and started to think.... When did Matchbox or Hot Wheels start making real cars instead of toys... That thought in turn led me to another one... if either of the two aforementioned companies made a smart car toy you would probably require tweezers to play with it because the things are already so tiny...

I also thought how practical is that car... I mean if you get in an accident I am sure that your engine would probably be in your lap... Also where would you put the groceries after you go shopping??? I know that when I go shopping all the groceries would not fit in the passenger seat...

I also take trips to NY and NJ often to visit with family... not as often as I would like but still enough so that i had to wonder where the hell my suitcase would go... and not just mine but my boyfriends and his kids... then I had another thought...

Forget the kids suitcases where would the KIDS go??? As far I could tell there is no back seat... I guess this is not a car for somebody who has a family or is planning on having one... And I mean how dorky do they look driving down the street... I have expect that when I hear one finally toot its horn it is going to sound like a dogs squeaky toy or a clown nose...

Maybe I am alone is my thinking but personally I think that the smart cars are really quite stupid...