R.I.P. Betty

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes you are left in situations thinking "why did this have to happen to me?"  Sometimes your know people who you think are invincible, but aren't.
And Sometimes your best technological friend of the past three years, who has survived many dangerous hits and falls in the past, falls off a soft couch cushion and onto a carpeted floor.  And sometimes the shock of that short fall leaves that friend in need of rest- a rest that it will never awaken from.  And when that happens and you are left there, feeling lost and all alone in your apartment -when all of your friends and roommates have gone home for the holidays to see their families  -when your own family is hundreds of miles away... remember, that bad things happen to good people because they are the ones strong enough to handle it.

Good bye Betty, thank you for being a friend.

Also, this post might be a little melodramatic.

Also also, remember that a broken cell phone isn't the end of the world

(even if you are a starving college student that can't afford a new one)!

I'm going to take this as the start of a new wireless-communication-free adventure....

...that will last for an indefinite amount of time...

...where I will face perils unheard of among the greater part of young adult society for many years...

...I may or may not survive...

Born For This

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith,

for to have faith is to have wings.”

-J.M. Barrie

I'm learning to fly.

I have a high goal to reach.

It's scary starting out, but hope lifts me ever higher.

A Biblical Dilemma

Its been 12/21/12 for an hour and a half already here in Nebraska! The Earth may or may not have lined up between the center of the universe and a black hole, and the Mayan calendar might be finished, and Hostess might have gone bankrupt and stopped making Twinkies.... but I guess none of these things have meant the literal end of the world. darn.

BUT we still must endure to the end! And by that I mead there will be a lot of "I told you so!" and "ohmygosh, I maxed out my credit card!" drama to deal with in the next 24 hours.  I'm sure this drama will include a lot of Matthew 24:36 quoting as well, which brings me to the point of this post- or rather, my dilemma!

Matthew 24:36 (KJV)

"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."

Matthew 24:36 (CEB)

"But nobody knows when that day or hour will come, not the heavenly angels and not the Son. Only the Father knows."

Notice any differences? Maybe that one of them is written as a direct quote from Christ? Maybe that one adds in the little phrase "not the Son"? Here is the same verse from just about every English translation of the Bible you could think of (and probably some you didn't know existed). Read through it if you want, but most of them perfectly match one of the two listed above.

My dilemma is that today's most commonly read translations say the Son has no idea when the end of the world/second coming of Christ is, but every translation that presents the passage as a direct quote from Jesus (like it would have originally been recorded) doesn't say that!  Maybe all of the translators got confused because Jesus calls himself The Son of Man?  Did they forget that doesn't mean that He is the son of a man?  Jesus is the resurrected Christ, and the Son of God. He has gained all that his Father has. And I'm pretty sure he knows when he'll be returning.

That is MY belief though.  I personally prefer reading the King James version of the Bible, because I see it as the most accurate English translation from the original texts.  But I'm really interested in knowing what translation of the Bible YOU read, and why (or whether or not you read a Bible)? And how do YOU know if "the Son" knows when the Second Coming is? How can we discover truth?

(Ready, Set, ANSWER! Seriously, share some thoughts people!)

I'm Still Alive!!

Hey remember that time that I got busy with real life and had some computer troubles and then forgot to post anything on my awesome-sauce blog? Well I do, because that was yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, and pretty much all of October so far. But here is a little something to tide you over (warning, this post has about as much direction as my life currently does... which is none).

Firstly:

The General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was this month. President Monson announced the change in the missionary age: 18 for guys, 19 for girls. It was great, because every 18-20 year old girl at BYU had to completely re-evaluate her life. An now there won't be any freshman guys at BYU, and sophomore and junior girls. Things are going to be way out of wack next year. (And of course I need to decide if and when I'm going on a mission.  I really want to, so if anybody has an extra $10,000 laying around, I could put it to good use!)  :)

Secondly:

My friends got me hooked on Dr. Who again, just in time for the season finally. Stupid friends.... >.>

BUT my friends are also really awesome, because they had the awesome idea to RENT A PUPPY!!! From this super legit facebook page: Puppies For Rent! Ladies and Gentlemen, meet BENTLEY <3 the cutest darn puppy that you ever did see:

And in addition to renting a puppy, I also slid down giant slides of blue foam, went to a Divine Comedy tech show, carved pumpkins, trudged through the longest haunted house ever, watched approximately 10 hours of Pride and Prejudice in one week (not counting watching multiple episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries), and made plenty of trips to Wyview or the grocery store in the evenings- windows down, blasting the girliest music you can think of. Does life get better than this? Maybe. I mean, if I could have all of this and NOT have midterms, that would be pretty great.

Thirdly:

I have nothing else to say.

I Am A Girl

so I watch every Rom Com and Disney movie I can get my hands on

have a mini crush on every guy I meet

paint my nails obsessively

freak out over a broken nail

take too many pictures, especially of myself

cry

try on multiple outfits before deciding what I'm going to wear

wish on shooting stars and dandelions

have really long hair that can be found randomly around the apartment

still jam out to NSYNC

and the Backstreet Boys

and Taylor Swift

and some Justin Bieber.

I'm pretty convinced I want to marry Adam Young.

My heart literally melts when I listen to old love songs

or see cute couples

or read poetry

or see flowers of any kind

or falling leaves and snow

or anything classified as "cute"

or "baby"

or chivalrous.

I post on Facebook way too much

would wear a dress everyday if it was practical

continue to worry about my looks no matter how many times I hear they don't matter

or that I'm pretty

talk about boys, a lot

love pink and purple and lace and sparkles

compliment everyone on everything I love

Now I'm not saying this is ALL that I am.  I can watch some nerdy sci-fi, work hard, get dirty, ect.

But most importantly, I am a girl

and for this I make no apologies

Into the Woods

I went camping in Provo Canyon this weekend. It turns out that when you go camping in college with friends and without any "adults" you are left with a lot of important decisions to make. So here is a recap of the ten biggest decisions we made:

1. Before you go camping you can leave it up to chance that all of the poles are in the tent bag OR you can set up your tent once before leaving just to make sure you can.  I think we made the right choice this time.

Although we maybe didn't need to set it up inside an apartment and put two tables, a couch, and fan inside of it.

2. When selecting a campsite you can just pick whatever place pops up first in your google search for campsites OR you can carefully search for and select the very safe sounding campground that hasn't had any bear sightings this season.

It turns out the extra search won't matter because there are bears everywhere in the Utah mountains, specifically one mile north of Hope Campground three hours before our arrival. 

3. When you are driving to your campsite AT NIGHT along a winding, wooded, mountain road and you see a dark man walking in the shadows along the side you can either keep driving and avoid any chances of being murdered by a hitch hiker OR you could offer him a ride, find out he is a UVU student named George who is camping with a bunch of his friends a few sites away, and get invited to chill with them around their fire later in the evening.

4. You can have the boring traditional s'mores for you dessert OR you could go all out and toast marshmallows for s'mores, roast starbursts, and bake chocolate cakes inside oranges (here's how)!! You bet your bottom we went with the second option!

5. When roasting those marshmallows you can either wait patiently and toast them to a warm and fluffy golden brown "perfection" or you can stick them right up by the fire so they'll burst into flames and within a few second the inside will turn into a molten glob of heaven.

6. When in the woods you can act civilized and sit at the picnic table playing cards and staring at the scenery OR you can embrace your inner wild woman and climb a really skinny tree. I did both because the scenery is sooo worth staring at:

7. In the morning you can enjoy fluffy chocolate chip pancakes over the fire OR you can totally fail at making pancakes and substitute leftover hot dogs and s'mores for breakfast. (ok, technically we didn't make this decision ourselves...)

8. You can have warm sleeping bags and pillows for every camper OR you can have three sleeping bags for six people and pile on a ton of blankets to make up the difference. The blankets worked surprisingly well.

9. And while we are talking about the whole sleeping situation I have a legit camping secret to share. Now, you can be like 99.9% of the whole camping world and lay a tarp down beneath your tent to battle the dew but fail because the water gets between the tent floor and tarp anyways OR you can put the tarp down INSIDE, covering the tent floor, and actually be protected from the dew. Seriously, the dew soaks through the tent floor no matter what, but it won't soak through the tarp on the inside of the tent!

10. finally, you can bring your film major friend to record the whole camping process to turn it into a short documentary OR you can not bring your film major friend to record the whole camping process to turn it into a short documentary.  I'm sure it would be fun either way. :)

Bonus: what is the very best thing about camping with friends?
nobody gets to tell you what time to wake up in the morning.  Sleeping in until 10:00 a.m. is perfectly acceptable!

*A special thanks to my friend Katrina, half of these pictures are her's.

Pete-ing

What THE HECK are they doing on top of a refrigerator???

Its called Pete-ing. And this is how it started:

Once upon a time there was a boy named Pete. He and a friend were hanging out at a girl's apartment really late at night watching a movie with her, but because it was so late they all fell asleep. She fell asleep on the couch and Pete and his friend fell asleep on the floor. At one point that night the girl woke up and went to the bathroom but when she walked back into the living room Pete and his friend had vanished. She had the feeling they hadn't left yet so she walked around the corner into the kitchen and there they were snickering and crouching ON TOP OF THE FRIDGE, clinging to each other so they wouldn't fall off.

Well, later in life Pete married that girl and they lived happily ever after AND then they told me and some friends that story earlier this year and then we created this magical thing called "Pete-ing." (This is the part where I give credit to Jazlyn Wright and Catelynn Schroeder for developing the idea, while me and Vi Carlson made it a reality!)

This the the first recorded instance of Pete-ing since the original Pete sat on that first fridge (and Pete loves snacks so we thought we'd take some with us!)

And since then we've been Pete-ing every chance we get!!

So feel free to join in the fun! Let me know about any Pete-ing adventures you have :)

Simple Poem

...

now i see you and

you see me but

we don't see each other and

i like it that way.

...

Life would be a dream

Life would be so much easier if I was perfect.

FANGIRLING: Sophie Scholl

Today I'm "FANGIRLING" a little more seriously than usual, and I'm its over the spiritually courageous

Sophie Scholl

one of my heroes

At the age of 21 Sophie was executed by guillotine after being convicted of high treason.  Her crime was publishing some anti-war leaflets that were printed by the White Rose (a non-violent resistance group that encouraged people to passively resist the Nazis) in 1943 at Munich University.  Eventually a copy of the leaflet made it out of Germany and millions of copies were made and then dropped by plane over parts of Germany. Its was re-entitled The Manifesto of Munich Students. You can read it here. But its pretty boring and all political, and Sophie didn't even help write it, just spread it around. I suggest watching Sophie Scholl: The Final Days to get a better idea of her morals and courage. Its a German film I watched last year at the International Cinema that introduced me to who she was.

I just love that she had the courage to stand up and do what she knew was right even if nobody would stand with her.  "How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?"

So yesterday I said that I added this to My Happy Board Of Awesome Things That Are Awesome:

Just to clarify, something has to be REEEEEEEEALLY important to me to go on there.  Sophie's final words were "Die Sonne scheint noch" or "the sun still shines" (it even says so here). Even when she was in jail, on trial, and about to be executed she knew the the sun was still shining, there is still light in the world, and that things weren't over.

She also said "I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it." Ah, doesn't that just speak to your soul?

Back at School

Well, its the first Saturday since school started and what did I do all day?

slept in until noon

showered

ate 2 sandwiches

PINTEREST!

put a random braid in my hair

more Pinterest

and added this:

and this:

to this 

My Happy Board Of Awesome Things That Are Awesome.

Don't be fooled by its awesomeness, it is actually the least ambitious craft possible. All I did was cut paper to a regular photo size, put it in the frame, and write four words (for their meaning check out my Sophie Scholl post).

*Note that this list didn't include any homework, which I have plenty to do. Its not a likely addition either, although eating pizza might be.

HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYBODY!!!

Some End of Summer Lists

Things I'm kicking myself for not doing this summer:

1. Eating an Indian Taco

2. Going to Elitches, Angostura, or Bellmont

3. Peteing with Jazlyn

Things I feel like I will DIE without in college:

1. tent

2. stationary set

3. floating pool chair

The best things to happen to me this summer:

1. Being the first person to go Peteing (besides the original Pete of course)

2. Becoming best friends with Hannah and Violette

3. Going to Bishop Castle!

Things I absolutely NEED to buy with the money I don't have:

1. Owl City's The Midsummer Station

2. The Hunger Games on DVD

3. BYU All Sports Pass

My biggest secrets from this summer:

1. * **** ****** ******* ** ***** ****

2. ** ****** ** ********

3. * ****** ** **** ***** ****** *** ** ** ****

(Well they are secrets, so I can't ACTUALLY tell you! Sorry)

What would YOU add to these lists?

Can't Stop Watching

You know those times where you are so tired that everything is hilarious? Well I found this on the internet last night during one of those times. 

I watched it over and over and OVER.  The more you watch it, the funnier it gets:

At first its just funny because he doesn't see that the wall is glass and runs right through it

but then you notice that he ran right past a door that was already propped open for him

and finally you see that after he runs through the wall a big piece of the window falls on him and knocks him to the ground, like the window is getting its revenge.  I think that is my favorite part, even though the guy probably got hurt. Sorry for laughing at you dude, but thanks for being so funny!!

Girl With The Pearl Earring

Somebody told me that I looked like the girl in "The Girl With The Pearl Earring" by Vermeer.

What do you think, Twinsies??

I think my earing is a little too small, and my nose is a lot too big.

Icing on the Cake

Is there a better way to end your summer than being at an awkward dance entirely spent ignoring and avoiding your ex, and then a long car ride home where you get to listen to a 14 year old talk about the 6 girls that he has kissed before even getting into high school?

Um, maybe washing my face with sandpaper. Or eating this:

Can I go back to BYU now?

Noodles

See that giant gaping gash on my shoulder? That is the mark of betrayal!!

I have a friend who is always trying to convince me that her super soft, suuuuuuper cute cat, Noodles, is evil.  I never believed her because Noodles is so nice and always curls up in my lap when I sit on the   couch and plays with my hair and does everything other cute thing you would expect the perfect cat to do.  But the other day I was just sitting on the floor, minding my own business, (not even moving!) when out of nowhere something attacks me, viciously sinking its claws and fangs into my pretty little shoulder!

IT WAS NOODLES! HOW COULD SHE DO THIS TO ME!?!?  My entire perception of reality was shaken- if Noodles is evil, does that mean that Becky isn't my best friend? Is the United States even a country? Is the color blue REALLY blue!?
The truth is, I don't know.  This encounter has left me physically and emotionally scarred.  I fear that I will never be the same again...

P.S. 

I REALLY love this song and just fell in love with the video too. I watched it three times today. It makes me want to get up and dance :)

In case you wanted to stalk me

Its Wednesday! 

woo! Why is that so exciting? because Wednesday is Activity Girls day! I planned a whole activity all by myself (well, I had some inspiration from the internet) but I'm pretty proud of it. We are going to be holding our own Olympic games.  The girls are going to pick countries, design their own flags, and then wear their flags as they compete in the bendy straw javelin throw, paper plate discus, and blindfolded straight walk and a few relay races. Then they are all going to win gold (treats!) either gold frosted cookies or mini Reeses if I get lazy.

In addition to that awesomeness I also get to visit one of my friends who just got some sort of convoluted surgery on her ACL! She of course will be super excited to see me because I'm the coolest person on the planet. I'm also incredibly humble.

BUT the best thing about today is that

tomorrow is Thursday!

And that means that a new episode of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries will be posted! I seriously look forward to this every week from the moment I finish watching the episode on Monday. This obsession is probably unhealthy. Also, tomorrow is the rubber check race at the fair :) and free breakfast,  and dinner, and snow cones, and watermelon. AND the fair dance, but I never go to that so its not important.

aaaand I have to write a ten minute talk for church on Sunday, I should have known they wouldn't let me escape to Utah without getting up there in front of everyone again (if any of my LDS friends reading this feel like giving some feedback on what you normally do to prepare for a talk it would be greatly appreciated and you might move up the scale on my favorite person chart!)

but after Thursday comes

FRIDAY! 

and Friday means seeing two of my favorite people!
Bannah Harrett and Ciolette Varlson (names changed to protect identity). Here is a picture of us at camp:

mustaches also added to protect identity

There is a youth activity on the church ranch around these parts that includes good old fashion ranch work, a hay ride, service, a dance, testimony meeting... the works! and its an overnight, so that carries over to SATURDAY.

I know what some of you are thinking: "WHAT!? Gina gets to go to a YOUTH activity? Isn't she too old for that??" Well the truth is yes I'm too old but its OK because I'll pay for this opportunity in awkwardness. I get to be the crazy old lady college student who is trying to prove to today's youth that she is still "hip" and "cool." And just imagine how excruciating the dance will be! Ok honestly most of the awkwardness is probably in my head, but I'll still feel it! Luckily Ciolette put me on her "planning committee" or something like that so I have a legitimate reason to be there and a reason to be bossy if required lol I recently learned that I like being in charge of things :)

ANYWHO... like I said earlier I have things to do that are more important than blogging, so I'm gonna go do those things now...

How Utah Got Its Shape

WARNING: this post contains a run-on sentence!!!  (actually, there is probably more than one but I just really wanted to write about this and I don't have a lot of time so I'm just kind of writing like I talk which apparently is with a lot of run on sentences. Sorry!!)

So I was sitting in the living room eating lunch when I noticed that some show called How States Got Their Shapes is on and this guy is talking about how Utah became a state and rattling off all sorts of historical facts, and interviewing people and such... well the dude went shopping with a BYU student for food storage, and talked to some U of U guy in Salt Lake, and of course he just had to visit BYU and ask about "dating rituals" (thats really the term he used).  Some girl had to explain DTR and NCMO to the host of the show, oh and don't forget the MRS. Degree.  The guy asking about it seemed like he felt so awkward, but the students were perfectly happy talking about dating (of course). Silly TV show host, thats what happens when you visit the bubble.....

I realize I didn't actually say anything about how Utah got its shape so here is what I got: The Mormons (LATTER DAY SAINTS) moved out there when it was still part of Mexico, and then we won that war against Mexico and the U.S. owned all of that land, so the Mormons tried to form a huge state called Deseret but the government was like "NO" so they drew all of these lines on the map dividing the west and gave all of the silver mines to Nevada and all of the gold mines to Colorado and Utah was left with the space in between them. Thats the short version and if that isn't good enough for you then you can go look it up yourself.

BONUS: While I was writing this an episode about Montana came on. In case you were wondering, guns and gold got them the shape that they have (don't they kind of look like they took a giant bite out of Idaho? because they totally did).

My Favorite Song

THIS is my favorite song. Have a listen!

hahaha, ok maybe not so much THAT song as THIS one (the original):



And this one (my favorite overall):

And I don't even mind listening to this one (it even has a kind of cute video to go with it):

And even this one is almost bearable:

If I can love a song in so many different forms, its got to be my favorite, right? :) I know all of the words and could listen to it for hours and if I start to get sick of it I can just listed to a different version. Isn't it WONDERFUL!??? :)

But seriously, that first video makes me laugh A LOT when they are screaming out the music like a bunch of BA's even though they just covered a Postal Service song. And when they are all head banging together towards the end, it looks so choreographed and boy band-ish. hahaha :)

P.S. I'm pretty proud of the super simple HTML work I did to embed those songs! YOU GO, GLENN COCO!

FANGIRLING: The Princess Bride

A couple weekends ago my family and I went to a family reunion of sorts in Colorado.  To keep myself occupied for the (at least) 16 hours of driving included on the whole trip, I started reading The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, "abridged" by William Goldman

"Has it got any sports in it?"

"Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..."

"Doesn't sound too bad.  I'll try to stay awake."

 its the 30th Anniversary edition

Something you need to know: The book isn't really an abridgment. S. Morgenstern is some made up historian to some made up country but throughout the book the author adds in commentary in places where he pretends to have cut out useless information. I found it very amusing :) my mom just found it kind of annoying. I guess its your own personal opinion! They do this same kind of thing in the movie when they have the conversations between the grandfather and grandson interrupt the main story.

I'm sure most of you have seen the 1987 movie (at least I HOPE most of you have seen it, because it is spectacular and needs to be seen by everyone). For those of you that have seen it, you'd agree that its pretty spectacular right? riiiiiight?

Well prepare to be amazed because the book is EVEN MORE spectacular! 

Ok, maybe that isn't surprising since its a truth universally acknowledged that books are always better than movies.... but still, in the book you get the back stories of the characters: Humperdink's hunting obsession, Fezzik's childhood, the murder of Inigo's father.

And the ending in the book is way cooler than the one in the movie. Its kind of a cliff hanger, but basically the author sets it up so it can end however you want it to, which I totally LOVE. My version is a happy ending :)

BUT the 30th anniversary edition has a special surprise in the back: the first chapter of Buttercup's Baby (S. Morgenstern's sequel to The Princess Bride that Mr. Goldman has so kindly started to abridge for us). It picks up where The Princess Bride leaves off (so kind of getting rid of the cliff hanger ending) but then he tells just a few more stories of their adventures before leaving us in suspense and imagining our own endings and future adventures all over again.

In summary: This book is jam packed with love and adventure (I literally sighed and squealed out loud when reading it, maybe thats because I'm super girly or maybe thats because the book is really good). Its an easy and exciting read, and if you are too lazy to actually read it then you can watch the movie instead and still fall in love with the story!

Heading them off....

HEY WAIT!!!!!
before this song gets too popular and everyone starts hating Owl City again, I have something to say!

Good Time, by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen, is extremely disappointing :( I mean seriously, it has the lyrical value of a Rihanna song (and all of you had better follow that link in her name to see what I'm talking about because it took me FOREVER to find that picture again!!). And Ok, maybe its not quite that bad.... at least not the first half of the song, but the second half definitely is.

ANYWAYS, what I'm saying is.... Don't hate Owl City!! I know this song sounds way overplayed before you even finish listening to it the first time, but I want you to just forgive them. Go listen to Maybe I'm Dreaming or Ocean Eyes or All Things Bright And Beautiful (those are all albums by the way, not specific song recommendations, but I can give you those too if you ask!!). The wonderland that is Adam Young's music is waiting to sing you a sweet symphony of joy and wonder!

But I do have to admit, I don't mind listening to the song half as much while watching the music video as when I'm not watching the video. I'm guessing its because I get to look at Adam's wonderful, short haired, clean-shaven, face. He's never looked so gooood!

FANGIRLING: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Introducing a new series that will be appearing on my blog from time to time: 

FANGIRLING!

(Basically, this is where I will be talking about all of the really cool things I am obsessing over. Yay!)

So, the first installment of my fan girl series is about:

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

I love those silly, dramatic Jane Austen period romances, especially Pride and Prejudice. And I knoooooow, P&P has been redone so many times most sane people are probably getting sick of it, but you have NEVER seen a story told like this!  The P&P story we all know had been modernized (in a cool way) and told through a vlog started by Lizzie Bennet (with guest appearances from other characters in the story!).

New episodes come out every Monday and Thursday, which is awesome because it means I don't go crazy from anticipation like all of those other stupid series that make me wait a whole week in between episodes (my impatience is the main reason I usually give up on watching a full series).

BUT THERES MORE!!!!

Not only is it super relatable to hear the story like its being told to you by a friend (I mean, I really feel like she is a real modern person), but you can also keep up with the characters through other social media! You can like Jane, Lydia, and Lizzie Bennet, and their friend Charlotte Lu on Facebook see random posts from the characters pop up in your news feed through out the week. AND you can follow most of the character on Twitter (and yes, sometimes they actually respond to tweets):

Lizzie Bennet

Lydia Bennet

The Kitty Bennet (which is actually a cat that follows Lydia around everywhere)

Bing Lee (Mr. Bingley)

Caroline Lee

William Darcy

Charlotte Lu

and I'm pretty sure Jane has one too, I just don't have the link at the moment....

ALSO: Jane is on Pinterest and Look Book, Lydia has a Tumblr and recently started her own vlog, and the list goes on and on.... but what I'm saying is that I've NEVER seen a story told this way before, and I really like it LOVE IT <3 <3 <3  I'm someone who is kinda addicted to social media and the internet, so the fact that I'm surrounded by the story is pretty awesome for me.

The characters are seriously just like real people to me, only instead of running into them aroudn town youu run into in different places on the internet (Which is just like our real friends anyways, right? I mean, I have friends that I follow on Facebook, Twitter (sorta but not really haha...), their blogs, youtube acounts, and Pinterst. This is seriously the best modernization of anything that I've ever seen....... seriously.

anywho..... you should all check it out!!! They are up to episode 30 something now, I think...

:)

Things I Can Do

I can whistle

I can say my ABC's

I can paint my nails in a menagerie of colors, patterns, and designs

I can tie a cherry stem in a knot inside my mouth

I can integrate 2x

I can laugh at awkward situations

I can wear a dress

I can read music

I can hula hoop

I can forgive others quickly

I can have naturally blonde, brunette, and red head all at the same time

I can play chess

I can turn off the light, close the window, and touch the floor all without leaving the top bunk in my room

I can resist the urge to throw a hymn book at somebody's head

I can post witty Facebook statuses

I can listen to Call Me Maybe 20 times in a row and still not be sick of it

I can take pictures of feet

I can procrastinate like no other

I can recite a host of cheesy pick up lines

I can still sing every word of the My Life As A Teenage Robot theme song

I can play rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock

What can YOU do?
let me know in the comments? maybe? :)