Happy Birfday to me!

Yep today is my birthday, and I got a letter from my Grandparents. That was literally drowning in scotch tape, Thank you both sooo much.  the cards are really sweet and the gold coins made my day, Movies here I come. thank you thank you thank you.

Random Fact

My mother's card has not arrived yet. sad panda. (she sent it it just had some issues.) 

Sometimes I have really blonde moments

Dear AJ James,

please open the iStopMotion box. Inside this box, you will see an iStopMotion CD and a manual. Take out the manual, on its back you will find a serial number. This serial number can be used as iStopMotion license.

Best regards,

Tino Tezel
Boinx Software Ltd.


>- If you are seeking help with a problem, please describe the actions you performed:
>
>I purchased your software at a local apple store, and can not figure out how to install the license. >
>
>- What happened?
>
>There is no license. >
>
>- What did you expect to happen?
>
>I expected there to be a license >
>
>- What version do you use?
>
>iStopMotion 2.0.

This is an e-mail I received after writing a complaint that I couldn't register a product, I think I expected it to say license instead of serial number, man i feel dumb. I do feel I should get bonus points for being annoyed by their bad Grammar. 

Random thought.

I should probably go with that feeling. 

Where have I been?

I have been running errands and working and fighting off the crazies. No like seriously, The crazies are effing every where. I finally received my Washington Drivers License in the mail today. Woot!!! I applied for my Passport which is odd to me. I don't want to apply for a damn passport, I want to purchase a Passport, so that I have the option to go wherever I want when ever I want. and honestly if I am paying a hundred plus dollars for a damn passport I shouldn't have to apply. Humph.... so yeah.

Random Quote: In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

  - John Adams

A Blog Dictated

I had an orange today, it was round like a ball, ha ha ha I said ball... the end

This doesn't have to make sense, but know that I am loling... 

Random fact, 

YouTube people know my stereotypes better than I do... 

Going Back

I was laughing at my self at work today because I wasn't doing what I wanted, but I was getting paid two dollars more an hour to do it. ha ha ha silly job. 

Random Fact,,, I am not Rich... 

Sometimes

Sometimes I read the comments and smile a little in spite of myself.

Sometimes all of my ducks are in a row. 

Sometimes I post blogs that have nothing to do with anything, just so I can mention folks like the Classy Ladies!!! 

Some times they make me smile. 

Sometimes, I write really short posts.

Random Fact:

Sometimes I say too much

Letter to myself

As I was perusing the internet and youtube specifically I came across a youtuber (that resembles a certain British Doctor at a truly alarming level if you ask me.) This video logger (or if you are cool and up with the Geek speak more commonly known as a Vlogger, see what we did there we are effing clever aren't we?) This Vlogger made a video asking if you  could go back in time and talk to a younger version of yourself, knowing what you know today, what ten things would you tell them... He suggested Ten years... so come with me now as we jump in our suspiciously Delorean looking TARDIS (Did I just mix a Doctor Who reference with a Back to the Future reference? Yes I did what of it?) 

The ten things I would tell my 19 year old self. 

1.) Trust me it does not matter how much you enjoy your Job, nothing is forever. 

2.) She is going to cheat on you, and you will break her heart. 

3.) Believe it or not there are a ton of people that care about you, try not to walk away from all of them, you would be surprised how much you miss them when they are gone.

4.) Something huge is going to change your world in two years, less than a month after your first day of Basic Training.

5.) While you are in Iraq on your second tour, in a specific building get off your high horse, that insurgent will shoot first. 

6.) For goodness sakes stop dating married women... Idiot. 

7.) Women are going to continuously mess with your head for the next ten years, all I can tell you for sure is that as of today, so far, It has all been worth it.

8.) Self confidence now and again will not make you look like an egotistical bastard, constantly mocking yourself will make you look pathetic. 

9.) Do the wrong thing now and again, in retrospect you have missed out on some amazing adventures.

10.) Keep tabs on your friends, you really will need them in the future, and it is far more sobering than I could relay to you, to realize that you are the reason you are all alone.

Basically your future is what you make of it... stop hiding.

Random Fact... 

I was turning 19 in 1999

Return of the Idiot

So I slept  majority of the day, I managed to get the court papers necessary to get my license renewed this Thursday. So that relieves a lot of stress from my current load which is never a bad thing. My raise was finally approved by the company today, and for a total of 2 dollars more an hour including back pay... hooray for that... oh how I will spend that money...  Oh and I found this picture which made me laugh...

Random Fact. 

I basically paid close to six hundred dollars for a single sheet of paper..LAAAAME

The Roommate Wars

My roommate and I had an argument about something trivial... I hate that.. I am not a fan of his, he is very aware of it. I really wish he would just get over his self... seriously... le sigh.

Random thought... Living alone in a cave looks more and more like a viable option everyday. 

Spidey in Technicolor

Today I am working 20 of the available 24 hours in the day. as I write this I am supposed to be sleeping... and instead i'm writing this. And spent most of the time before this filming and editing a crap-tastic video. 

Random Thought:

If you are tired and giggly Peanuts sound a lot like Penis... Just saying. 

Out of season

Tomorrow morning I will be heading to to southern Washington for an all day seminar on equal employment opportunities, A drawn out day of classes on Sexual Harassment... The fun part of these classes is that I actually have to retain enough knowledge to later be able to repeat it to my associates. (not unlike a mother bird partially digests food and then regurgitates it back for its young.) Luckily I have suckered someone else into actually driving so all that I actually have to do is stay conscious. We can hope anyway.  I bid thee adieu.

Random Joke 30 days past it's seasonal expiration.

Communist Weather Expert

A Russian couple walks down a street in Moscow when the man feels a drop hit his nose.

"I think it's raining," he says to his wife.

"No, that feels like snow to me, dear," she replies.

Just then, a minor communist party official walks towards them.

"Let's not fight about it," the man says. "Let's ask Comrade Rudolph whether it's officially raining or snowing."

"It's raining, of course" Comrade Rudolph says and walks on.

But the woman insists, "I know that felt like snow."

To which the man quietly says, "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear."

this post completely for this pic

I know you shouldn't bring a knife to a gun fight... but should you bring a knife to a lobster fight?

Random Quote taken out of context.

"the last male has left, it's Penis time."

Great Convos

It never fails that If i have two days off, the day that the day that I go back to work, there will be an amazing chat taking place right before I have to leave for a graveyard shift. this makes me a sad panda. 

Random Quote.

"in my pants, exactly where a one eyed, stuffed seal should be."

taken out of context, said by me. 

In my Spidey Pj's

It is currently eighteen minutes after midnight and I am in my pajamas. Which is perfectly respectable i suppose, until you take into consideration that I have been in my PJs all day. I woke up showered and got right back into them. Be thankful I am not naked. 

Random Annoyance,

My nipples itch... true story. 

Paid...Beeches

I sent the money to Oregon today, Priority mail, certified so that I would get a notice as soon as it arrived at the courthouse or whatever.... can I just say....Speed traps are effing LAME

Random thought, 

this is only today. tomorrow could be soo much more. 

Not the best day

Today was not the best day, Which is odd considering how stupidly happy I was for a vast majority of the day. long story short in order to renew my license I must send the state of Oregon, 559 dollars. yeah sooo not excited. On the upside directly after learning this I went to the movies and watched THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON which in my honest opinion is absolutely a fantastic movie.

Random Question:

Why do people stress over things that can not be predicted?

Or I could...

My brother that currently resides in Japan is home on leave, we talked on the phone for about twenty minutes where in we emailed each other different disgusting links. I think I might use the internet as a crutch. I'm off to watch a movie drowning in pink, and I am not even ashamed. 

Random Fact....

the answer is still 42 and the Rule of 34 is always in effect. 

The Now obligatory Skype-list Blog

     For those of you that read this blog that are not involved in YouTube, Stickam or Blogtv this blog will not make very much sense to you. Skype is an instant messenger service similar to MSN, Yahoo or AIM with the exception that it is about a thousand times better. 

     For those of you that are involved with some of the aforementioned Online community, By now you get the gist of what is going on, as far as I can tell Tara was the originator of this format, I could be wrong it has been known to happen. My first encounter of it was through Neechers.

Not all of these are happy, those who know i am talking about them, know why. 

These are in no specific order, though if you guess I will tell you yes or no. 

~ I missed your wedding because I couldn't afford to go, we have only talked once since then and it is killing me. I am truly sorry. 

~You were one of my first youtube friends and I am so glad that I have gotten to know you so well,  I truly hope that you are able to find the person you have been looking for. I spend our entire conversations hoping I am able to make you smile just one more time.  Viva le Pants-less Revolution

~You have an amazing eye and mind for film making, though your tardiness is highly amusing to me, I enjoy your friendship. Damn you and your Intro (LOL)

~I have only just started talking to the two of you on a regular basis, but I have really enjoyed our conversations "BAM! Balloon Animals"

~You are a sweet heart and totally like a little sister to me. and I will never again hear the word Babes with out thinking about the consequences. 

~You are the best Secret Santa ever, and I am so glad that I know you. I often wonder how many times you yell code tiger into your empty room. 

~ You are one of the few people on the planet that I attempt to answer every call, you are a sweet heart and I truly hope that you are able to find whoever it is that you are looking for, My life is forever changed in knowing you. 

~ I really don't like you and truly I only continue to talk with you because I don't want to be rude. 

~You kind of creep me out, which in and of itself is impressive, I wish you would realize that some of the things you say make a lot of us uncomfortable.

~I can not believe I have you as a contact, You were my first youtube crush and my favorite BlogTV host, I literally have had to fight the urge to randomly bloop you since you first babysat me on my brief excursion into the WoW universe, thank you again for resurrecting me so many times.

~You are an amazing musician, You and I had a moment in Seattle, of all the people I met that day i was most enamored by you, you are an incredibly charismatic singer and I look forward to the release of your first album... ps please effing write more songs... 

~The footage of your Birthday dance will forever live in infamy, I miss our tweet conversations while watching movies, oh by the way.... Bowie he is too old. 

~I have rewritten this three times as all of our inside jokes are more or less way too inappropriate, I am so blessed to have you as a friend, and I am so very thankful. 

~I miss our conversations and while you will always remain on a pedestal in my mind, a part of me can not get the image of you being upside down saying you ABC's backward out of my mind. 

~The two of you have re-claimed the throne of cutest online couple (after it was stolen by two obvious posers for a brief moment in time.) I hope the week ahead brings the two of you closer and that it is everything you both want it to be.

~you are an awesome person, Your accent is freaking amazing, I enjoy your wit, and look forward to more collaborations with you. What ever happened to that bum clip?

~I haven't given much thought to why we have stopped talking, your ego was always overly present, and you didn't hide the fact that it annoyed you that I didn't give in to your every whim, calling me Fadam in your blog was typical for someone as two faced as you. I expect nothing less.

Random Disclaimer 

I am sure that someone will feel left out. I didn't deliberately omit anyone as should be obvious by the less than pleasant tone of some of them.

Sleeping

I have the hardest time falling asleep, especially if my brain is aware that I do not have to work the following day. For example Sunday night I was up until a little past 6:15 Monday morning, in contrast last night, I began to pass out at approximately 9:30. I have no idea why, but it is rather amusing at times. 

Random thought to ponder:

Why do Gas stations lock their bathrooms are they afraid someone will clean them? 

How to road trip.

Editors Note: I didn't write this, a writer by the name of Leslie H did, back in '03, but it struck me as good advice. feel free to heed it. 

Driving at least once from Connecticut to California should be required for all Americans, but how to survive the trip is less understood. LESLIE HARPOLD offers timeless advice for a tiring journey.

They say you never really know someone until you travel with them, and there’s nothing like a road trip to reveal someone’s true Buddha nature. Much poetic waxing has been spent on the lure of the open road—with too little attention paid to the harsh reality of several consecutive days of living in a car. Before embarking on a road trip you must set certain absolutes in place. As someone who’s been on over 100 road trips ranging from 90 to 2,500 miles, I can confidently tell you that in order to experience any measure of success on the road you must heed my advice, outlined below.

It is the destination, after all

The question ‘If you don’t know where you’re going how will you know you’ve arrived?’ sounds like a chapter heading from one of those business books with a guy in a tie giving the thumbs-up on the cover, but I assure you this is practically the ultimate Zen koan of the road. Bear in mind ‘five days,’ or any other specified amount of time is as equally an acceptable destination as any star on a map. The primary reason is not so you will know when you’ve arrived, but more practically so you can gauge when to turn your ass around and head home. Not making it back in time for something important because somebody in the car demanded that we all stop for a tour of the Alamo can not only ruin an otherwise perfect road trip—but otherwise perfect relationships.

No bombshells

There is something intimate and hypnotic about riding in a car with others for long stretches of time. Riders may feel safe and relaxed—remember the position of car seats prevents easy eye contact, thus setting up a non-confrontational environment. Still, resist confessional urges—this is a poor time to announce you’d like to see other people, are gay, or are worried an embezzlement charge will catch up with you when you return from vacation.

Don’t try to corner rats

It’s a fact when rats are cornered, they attack. Stuck in a car for days on end is not the right time to try and find out if your boyfriend thinks you’re prettier than his ex, if your girlfriend really likes your mom, or what the guys from your band’s honest opinion is about that thing you do on stage with the jumping. 

Your hair looks fine

On the road even the most meticulous must let go of the expectations they have of their hair. Strange water, sample-size shampoos, the wind, and tiny mirrors all conspire to make your hair so willful it may seem like an additional passenger at times. Let it go. This isn’t about looking good, it’s about feeling something new; all new feelings worth their salt eventually mess up your hair. 

Driver controls the music

Passenger gets two vetoes per three hours or 150 miles, whichever comes first. No exceptions.

No bogarting the Twizzlers

Share and share alike. If your passenger is asleep you may eat their candy, but you must be prepared to make a pit stop to replace it within 30 minutes of their waking up. Road-trip snacks should not be underestimated. 

Motel 6, Ritz Carlton, or KOA?

Have a sleeping strategy everyone agrees on in place before you leave. 

The road wants what it wants

Some are inspired to be chatty, others find long car trips more meditative. Driver can call ‘Quiet,’ and it can last 30 minutes out of every 90 they are behind the wheel. Similarly there may be stretches of the trip where at least one person who is not driving needs to keep the driver company. You may resent this duty, but losing a little beauty sleep beats losing your head if the driver drifts off to sleep. 

The trunk is the only place for storage

It’s tempting to crap up the back seat with a bunch of junk for easy access, but the only items allowed in the car are snacks, a small cooler, camera, CDs (or a tapes if you still roll like that), one book or magazine per person, sunglasses, a map, and a light sweater. Otherwise the physical chaos permeates into the psychic space. Sounds a little new age, but I assure you this is old-school wisdom. 

You’ll never see those people again

This means it’s perfectly okay to let go, ask for directions, look a mess, visit the Mystery Spot, or play Journey on the jukebox. 

The medium is the message

On a road trip it’s best to do road-trip things. If you want to be fancy or you have a low tolerance for inconvenience, then the road trip is not for you. Exploring small towns, interacting with strangers to learn about wherever you are, and eating at roadside stands that sell odd fare like fried pie (Independence, LA) and broken chicken (Pike County, KY) all require a sense of adventure and a suspension of disbelief that four-star cuisine doesn’t demand.

Finally

To the woman who worries she’d be in over her head with her boyfriend because they bicker constantly: Chances are a road trip won’t work unless you’re both ready to adhere rigidly to the rules of the road. Relationships based on constant arguments are either meant to be marriages or sitcoms. So, unless your trip is part of a reality TV show where others can extract entertainment from your misery, my sense is no good will come of it.

To the guy who wants to live in a buddy flick, grab his pals, and ‘hit the road’: I have a feeling you’re also the same guy who wouldn’t be able to get over the hair rule. People who want their lives to seem like movies also typically expect to look the part.

And to almost everyone else on earth: Pack a bag, gas up the car, and get out of here. Don’t forget Graceland is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and every Tuesday from November through February; cell phones are to be used for outgoing emergency calls only; and every time you stop—even if you don’t have to go—at least try.

Random Thought.... if you drive a hybrid, and I say if you pay for the food i'll pay for the gas, can we go on a road trip?

The Rise and Fall

Dear employer; I am sure you are very excited to find out that you owe me more then two grand in back pay. Do me a favor, do not tell me you are going to give this money to me one day only to find out two weeks later that you still have not done the necessary things needed to get this done. It makes me all angry like... 

Signed me

     

Random Fact...

Wal~Mart... Is Evil.... I have proof. 

bed time

yeah its 7 pm and I am getting ready for bed... laaaame. 

random thought...

why do men have nipples. 

The Year of 29

Hooray it is January !!! Again for officially the 29th time that I can testify to. Though to be fair I spent the majority of the first in the womb. Last night was fun, I went to a club. Where I danced terribly, I am either terribly out of practice or just altogether a bad dancer,the smart money is on the fact that I am probably just a bad dancer. I watched a stupid drunk Guy get slammed into a tree outside of said Club, and I drove to and from the club without incident. For the Record diners such as Denny's are not likely to be the best places to get service on New Years Day at 2 in the morning. While I was randomly playing on the internet today I saw the above image, the idea behind it is that you can have it on your screen so that it appears you are actually working instead of slacking off... It made me smile... If you click on it you should be able to see it in a bigger ratio. 

Random Fact...

When a drunk head meets a solid tree it makes a loud hollow sound...