Is it ever to early to think you’ve fallen in love? This kind of is a really broad question, I know, but there’s just something that bugs me. This story isn’t about me, but I definitely have an opinion about this. I have this friend that thinks she needs to throw herself on a lot of guys. She also says she does not want to get hurt anymore, so she doesn’t want to think about commitment. The last few times she has, a bad outcome has come from it. Bad as in, the guy wanted to be just friends, or friends with benefits, and she just wants someone to be with. I feel really bad because she gets stuck in the most awkward situations and she handles things a lot differently than I do. I get frustrated when she comes to me. I feel like she comes to me to just hear herself talk. I don’t know. It just seems like that sometimes. She never seems to care or listen to what I say or think, she just does what she wants. AND IT NEVER HAS WORKED. I’m sick of it.
This last guy she’s kind of with, or at least she thinks she’s with him, seems like he could be a good guy for her. Perfect actually. They fit really well together. She’s so happy when they talk, blah blah blah, etc. etc. Anyways, she thinks something might happen, or that she expects him to only “be with” her. She’s really naïve though and it hurts me to say this. She met him and spent 4 days with him non-stop and she thinks they are going to start dating almost. The way he talks to her, it sounds like he really likes her. I would get confused and think they might be a thing too. Except for the fact that the last guy she was with talked to her in the same way, saying ‘baby” and “I like you” and all these things, and yet he “only wanted to be friends and he’s just naturally friendly and flirty to everyone”. Oh but she didn’t learn I guess. Yea this new guy is sweet but I don’t trust him and I don’t believe the fact that she’s falling for him. She’s desperate to find someone and anyone who comes along and shows her any type of attention she falls for it.
The other night she had a few drinks “of water” and was falling all over a bunch of guys. Nothing too drastic, and I was ok, in other words I was making sure she didn’t do anything stupid. Anyways, we’re with these guys and she’s flirting with like 3 of them, knowing what she’s doing, and they were all very caring. She might be interested in one or two of them if we didn’t hang out with them a lot, but we do. She’s worried if she does get interested with any of them then it would be awkward. Oh well I say. I don’t give a rats ass if it’s awkward. I told one of my friends today that if I want something I actually go for it and I don’t care about awkward conversations. This one time, in 10th grade I think, I told this guy I was crushing on that I liked him. Yeah it was really awkward, but I just had to, to find out what he thought about me. It turned out he already had a date to homecoming that year and that maybe later, if things change with the girl and him. Well, the next 4 years throughout school he was one of my closest guy friends. He still is. He goes here at Tech, and I care about him still, but definitely not in the same way. It’s definitely a friendship kind of thing now haha. My point of that little story was that I went for it, and I wasn’t afraid and o well, yea I didn’t like the outcome in 10th grade, but what happened after that I loved.
That year for homecoming I went with a guy and we started going out right away. We went out for almost 2 months I think. So for that point in my life, 10th grade, that was a long time. I was “heart-broken” when he dumped me right before Christmas. But AFTER THAT, Alex and I started dating a few months later. So in the end, not going to homecoming with my crush was a good thing. But I gave it a shot.
Some people don’t take risks, and I feel like it hurts them in the end. It certainly hurts her. She doesn’t know what she wants, but all she knows is that she likes “bad boys” and she can’t stay away. I think that’s a load of s*** because she could easily find someone cute and perfect for her if she wanted to. She just throws herself out at the wrong times. If she didn’t want to be with one of the guys we hang out with all the time, then why does she throw herself at them when she’s drinking “water”? She’s just asking for trouble. I don’t like when she does this. I have to deal with it. I feel like she takes advantage of me too, because she doesn’t care about my feelings about things at all. She’ll embarrass me in front of everyone if she could. Some people don’t realize that their actions affect how people think about them.
Some people may wear tight/small clothes, act “touchy” (as in a way of flirting), drink a little too much, sleep with too many other people, or even worse. I hope I never turn into someone like this because people judge you on everything. Yeah it’s not fair, but they do. If she doesn’t want to be judged as a person who never has a guy, she could potentially get judged for being someone who doesn’t want anything. People could perceive it as she wants to explore college like most people. And yet she doesn’t. So she can’t go around trying out all these different people and think something’s just going to happen.
Does anyone have any advice for me? Should I keep being there for her for all the “heart-ache” she gets after all the guys pretend to like her and then tell her just friends? Or should I just sit back and not care? It’s hard.. I’ve gotten both answers. I just don’t know what to do anymore. I know the guy she likes now doesn’t like her, but I can’t just tell her, should i? I really don’t know anymore.. Please help
Friday, November 6, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Pets in the family
So I said last week after commenting on Caitlin’s blog that I would write about my doggies and animals. Well at my mom’s house I have two cats. One is erratic and crazy insane. The other is turning into my mom’s little baby. It’s really funny, because Sylvia (the girl) tries to follow my mom around everywhere. She runs around and chases my mom and everything my mom tries to get she lies on top of so that my mom would pay attention to her and not what she’s looking for. I’ve found Sylvia in the middle of my mom’s shoes and jewelry before.
At my dad’s house there are 5 dogs. It is crazy all the time there; I absolutely love it. Two of them are pugs and they snort around all day. I love one of them because he just crawls up into your lap and snuggles with you. He also runs around with “speeds” as people call it. It’s when little hipper dogs run around places crazily. I always think he’s going to run into something but he never does. Little dogs can run into one room run around the bed and then run out around the whole entire house doing the exact same thing. It’s really funny to watch. Anyways, the other dogs. The oldest one, a golden-lab, is my baby. The story of when I got him is entirely my fault. One day my dad and I went to breakfast at this place called the Virginia Kitchen. We usually went on Sundays to this place, so I guess it was kind of a tradition. Well this Sunday, my dad decided to read the paper. I don’t remember what section it was that he saw it, but all of a sudden he showed this picture of this puppy and I said to him, “Daddy! I want to go see them!” My dad looked at me and said, “Ooook but we are NOT getting one! You hear me? NOT GETTING ONE!” I sulked but was fine with it. We went up to this place where the puppies were in Maryland. I sat down with all the puppies and they were all so loving and cute. Little white-lab/ golden retriever puppies are adorable. Anyways, this one plopped on my lap and wouldn’t get off. I fell in love and gave my dad a “puppy-dog” face and he ended up caving in. Kids most of the time get what they want if they give the right face and beg. It’s amazing how that works.
So we picked him up a few weeks later. He was and still is the perfect little dog (except not little anymore). The way he got his name was from a commercial I watched actually. I was walking around my dad’s apartment and the tv was on. All of a sudden a Guinness Beer commercial came on. I said, “Hey Dad, how bout Guinness?!” So that was basically it. That was really random way, but o well, it’s kind of a cool dog name. I liked it. Haha. I love that dog so much.
At my dad’s house there are 5 dogs. It is crazy all the time there; I absolutely love it. Two of them are pugs and they snort around all day. I love one of them because he just crawls up into your lap and snuggles with you. He also runs around with “speeds” as people call it. It’s when little hipper dogs run around places crazily. I always think he’s going to run into something but he never does. Little dogs can run into one room run around the bed and then run out around the whole entire house doing the exact same thing. It’s really funny to watch. Anyways, the other dogs. The oldest one, a golden-lab, is my baby. The story of when I got him is entirely my fault. One day my dad and I went to breakfast at this place called the Virginia Kitchen. We usually went on Sundays to this place, so I guess it was kind of a tradition. Well this Sunday, my dad decided to read the paper. I don’t remember what section it was that he saw it, but all of a sudden he showed this picture of this puppy and I said to him, “Daddy! I want to go see them!” My dad looked at me and said, “Ooook but we are NOT getting one! You hear me? NOT GETTING ONE!” I sulked but was fine with it. We went up to this place where the puppies were in Maryland. I sat down with all the puppies and they were all so loving and cute. Little white-lab/ golden retriever puppies are adorable. Anyways, this one plopped on my lap and wouldn’t get off. I fell in love and gave my dad a “puppy-dog” face and he ended up caving in. Kids most of the time get what they want if they give the right face and beg. It’s amazing how that works.
So we picked him up a few weeks later. He was and still is the perfect little dog (except not little anymore). The way he got his name was from a commercial I watched actually. I was walking around my dad’s apartment and the tv was on. All of a sudden a Guinness Beer commercial came on. I said, “Hey Dad, how bout Guinness?!” So that was basically it. That was really random way, but o well, it’s kind of a cool dog name. I liked it. Haha. I love that dog so much.
The time before all the fun
The time before all the fun
Have you ever been waiting for something so exciting to come, and it seems like it’s taking years to get there. Yea, that’s what I have felt this past week. I’m getting to see my boyfriend in the first time in I think three weeks, but of course it has seemed like a lifetime. I get to see him though tomorrow and it’s so exciting . Halloween is going to be so much fun. I can’t wait to see him. I hear college is the place to be around Halloween just because it’s so crazy. We had a game this week, actually tonight we did (I’m writing this on Thursday night) and we lost. It was so horrible. We lost in the last two seconds I hear, everyone was yelling. People were throwing things, and I’m sure tonight is going to be a rough night concerning alcohol. I’ve seen some crazy things happen after we’ve lost and it has not been pretty at all. Just go around DX at like 2 A.M. after a game. It’s hilarious, but it gets really annoying after about 5 minutes. For some reason, drunk people think that they need to yell F*** (and then the school that we just played). They would yell it over and over and over and over and over again.
Anyways, this week. It was the slowest week ever. I could not believe how slow it was. I would be in my room at like 2:34 in the afternoon and just stare at my computer screen. I was probably on Facebook and creeping all these people I never talk to, but it slowly past the time. It did not work whatsoever. Monday is always hard because it’s Monday and no one wants to do anything on Mondays. I know I don’t. Mondays suck. And having an 8 A.M. does not help. I have four classes on Mondays! UGH! O well I guess. I just take naps after my last class. That’s always nice. Tuesdays for me aren’t so bad though. I have one class recently. I’m supposed to have two but my class that’s in the nighttime was cancelled the past few weeks. That’s always nice; when classes get cancelled. That actually makes my day. So Tuesdays are good. But Wednesdays are a pain in my behind. I’m actually in pain on Wednesdays. It hurts me just to think about. I’m always so happy after 5 P.M. on Wednesdays, just because Engineering decided to make everything due at that time. After that I’m usually stressed free. So by this time this past week I was very happy. Thursday night we have a game so that’s something to get excited about (except for the fact that we lost but at the time, meaning Thursday afternoon it was really exciting). Then Friday, finally, it might come, sometime.
I can’t wait to see boyfriend! I see Alex around 3 tomorrow afternoon! Yay!
So now it’s Saturday and I got to see Alex yesterday! It was so nice. Have you ever felt like you’ve missed someone so much and yet it has only been something like 3 weeks? Yea in reality it isn’t a lot of time, but when you love someone this much, time like 3 weeks last forever. We had a lot of fun just hanging out. It was nice relaxing with someone I love after a hard week. It makes me so happy.
Have you ever been waiting for something so exciting to come, and it seems like it’s taking years to get there. Yea, that’s what I have felt this past week. I’m getting to see my boyfriend in the first time in I think three weeks, but of course it has seemed like a lifetime. I get to see him though tomorrow and it’s so exciting . Halloween is going to be so much fun. I can’t wait to see him. I hear college is the place to be around Halloween just because it’s so crazy. We had a game this week, actually tonight we did (I’m writing this on Thursday night) and we lost. It was so horrible. We lost in the last two seconds I hear, everyone was yelling. People were throwing things, and I’m sure tonight is going to be a rough night concerning alcohol. I’ve seen some crazy things happen after we’ve lost and it has not been pretty at all. Just go around DX at like 2 A.M. after a game. It’s hilarious, but it gets really annoying after about 5 minutes. For some reason, drunk people think that they need to yell F*** (and then the school that we just played). They would yell it over and over and over and over and over again.
Anyways, this week. It was the slowest week ever. I could not believe how slow it was. I would be in my room at like 2:34 in the afternoon and just stare at my computer screen. I was probably on Facebook and creeping all these people I never talk to, but it slowly past the time. It did not work whatsoever. Monday is always hard because it’s Monday and no one wants to do anything on Mondays. I know I don’t. Mondays suck. And having an 8 A.M. does not help. I have four classes on Mondays! UGH! O well I guess. I just take naps after my last class. That’s always nice. Tuesdays for me aren’t so bad though. I have one class recently. I’m supposed to have two but my class that’s in the nighttime was cancelled the past few weeks. That’s always nice; when classes get cancelled. That actually makes my day. So Tuesdays are good. But Wednesdays are a pain in my behind. I’m actually in pain on Wednesdays. It hurts me just to think about. I’m always so happy after 5 P.M. on Wednesdays, just because Engineering decided to make everything due at that time. After that I’m usually stressed free. So by this time this past week I was very happy. Thursday night we have a game so that’s something to get excited about (except for the fact that we lost but at the time, meaning Thursday afternoon it was really exciting). Then Friday, finally, it might come, sometime.
I can’t wait to see boyfriend! I see Alex around 3 tomorrow afternoon! Yay!
So now it’s Saturday and I got to see Alex yesterday! It was so nice. Have you ever felt like you’ve missed someone so much and yet it has only been something like 3 weeks? Yea in reality it isn’t a lot of time, but when you love someone this much, time like 3 weeks last forever. We had a lot of fun just hanging out. It was nice relaxing with someone I love after a hard week. It makes me so happy.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Lick
http://ydouthink.com/tvandradio.php
-Lick-
The anti-smoking campaign advertisements presented by “Ydouthink” are always very “out there”. They always have weird things that happen and they are always things that you would never actually see happen. In this add this girl goes around and literally licks everything, including her cat, a plant, a trashcan lid, the ground, a grill, a swing set, etc. (basically everything she sees). She even licks this dirty gross fly swatter that was in the garbage. This ad is so gross and disgusting and I always shiver when I see it, while saying “ew” in my head.
The purpose of this argument to tell people different circumstances that would happen to you if you smoked. In this ad the girl licks all these gross dirty things and then it says at the end of the ad, “isn’t smoking just as disgusting?” This is meant to compare smoking with disease-licking. In my opinion I totally agree with this ad and I think smoking is disgusting and is stupid. I can’t stand smoke, I always cough when I’m around people who do it, and I don’t hang out with anyone who does. That’s good that none of my friends smoke then.
The audience is basically everyone. Anyone who watches the commercial would see it. It’s probably mostly for younger people that may try smoking out because of all sorts of reasons. This company wants to show anyone who does smoke, or anyone who is thinking about trying it that smoking is stupid and very bad for you. They don’t go and say that smoking will kill you or give you cancer or rot your teeth, but to get people’s attention, they want to show extremes so they have commercials like this.
This has a few different appeals to it. It uses pathos/ethical appeals by saying that it’s gross to smoke and gross to lick garbage cans. You could argue that there is a little logical appeal to it to, because you would morally and logically not lick the fly swatter or trash can lid, so why would you morally or logically smoke? You wouldn’t.
The company that makes these ads, the anti-smoking company YDOUTHINK? has made so many ads regarding smoking being stupid. I picked this one (Lick) because I think it’s one of the most extremes, and when I see other commercials, I never pay that much attention to it as to this one. It’s just gross. I know I keep saying it, but it really is. GROSS!
The claim in this argument is the fact that smoking is stupid and it’s comparing smoking to how bad licking trash and a cat is. They don’t mention any type of poll or numbers to make it a stronger argument, so logically this argument is not that strong at all. There isn’t much logic to this at all. How are they going to compare smoking with licking everything. They can’t. But somehow, I’m guessing by emotional appeal, it still is affective and it still works.
I think another thing that makes the argument work is the fact that the video starts really close to the girl’s face, and then kind of spreads out. That way the reader, or in this case, the person watching the commercial sees what she is actually doing. It also starts really slow and then eventually goes really fast. It’s a cool technique, and they definitely get their point across.
So what do you think of this ad? Have you ever seen this ad before? I’ve seen it a bunch of times, but I don’t know if it influences you guys in the same ways as it does me. Should I have talked about a different commercial they offer? Or do you think this one is a good one?
-Lick-
The anti-smoking campaign advertisements presented by “Ydouthink” are always very “out there”. They always have weird things that happen and they are always things that you would never actually see happen. In this add this girl goes around and literally licks everything, including her cat, a plant, a trashcan lid, the ground, a grill, a swing set, etc. (basically everything she sees). She even licks this dirty gross fly swatter that was in the garbage. This ad is so gross and disgusting and I always shiver when I see it, while saying “ew” in my head.
The purpose of this argument to tell people different circumstances that would happen to you if you smoked. In this ad the girl licks all these gross dirty things and then it says at the end of the ad, “isn’t smoking just as disgusting?” This is meant to compare smoking with disease-licking. In my opinion I totally agree with this ad and I think smoking is disgusting and is stupid. I can’t stand smoke, I always cough when I’m around people who do it, and I don’t hang out with anyone who does. That’s good that none of my friends smoke then.
The audience is basically everyone. Anyone who watches the commercial would see it. It’s probably mostly for younger people that may try smoking out because of all sorts of reasons. This company wants to show anyone who does smoke, or anyone who is thinking about trying it that smoking is stupid and very bad for you. They don’t go and say that smoking will kill you or give you cancer or rot your teeth, but to get people’s attention, they want to show extremes so they have commercials like this.
This has a few different appeals to it. It uses pathos/ethical appeals by saying that it’s gross to smoke and gross to lick garbage cans. You could argue that there is a little logical appeal to it to, because you would morally and logically not lick the fly swatter or trash can lid, so why would you morally or logically smoke? You wouldn’t.
The company that makes these ads, the anti-smoking company YDOUTHINK? has made so many ads regarding smoking being stupid. I picked this one (Lick) because I think it’s one of the most extremes, and when I see other commercials, I never pay that much attention to it as to this one. It’s just gross. I know I keep saying it, but it really is. GROSS!
The claim in this argument is the fact that smoking is stupid and it’s comparing smoking to how bad licking trash and a cat is. They don’t mention any type of poll or numbers to make it a stronger argument, so logically this argument is not that strong at all. There isn’t much logic to this at all. How are they going to compare smoking with licking everything. They can’t. But somehow, I’m guessing by emotional appeal, it still is affective and it still works.
I think another thing that makes the argument work is the fact that the video starts really close to the girl’s face, and then kind of spreads out. That way the reader, or in this case, the person watching the commercial sees what she is actually doing. It also starts really slow and then eventually goes really fast. It’s a cool technique, and they definitely get their point across.
So what do you think of this ad? Have you ever seen this ad before? I’ve seen it a bunch of times, but I don’t know if it influences you guys in the same ways as it does me. Should I have talked about a different commercial they offer? Or do you think this one is a good one?
Sunday, October 18, 2009
CURRENT ISSUE. STATUTORY RAPE
JUST BECAUSE SHE HAS THE BODY, DOESN’T MEAN SHE HAS THE BRAINS
WHEN YOU LOOK AT A YOUNG GIRL AS SOMETHING MORE, YOU NEED HELP
The purpose of this ad is to inform people about having sex with girls who may look older than 18, but are in fact not legal. The ad is going far with this picture, because by her face she looks like she’s ten, maybe, but then her body looks about 15 years older than that. On a regular basis, most people do not look like that. This is an extreme example of what a girl would look like.
The audience for this ad is most likely towards people who are over 18 and are doing this to girls. Statutory Rape is increasingly a concern of today’s economy and many people get away with it. Guys sometimes don’t even ask they just assume that the girl is legal.
There is some emotional appeal to this, just because any woman that sees this, and has had someone rape them, can sympathize with it, especially if the guy got away with it. There aren’t really any facts in this ad, so it doesn’t really have any logical appeal to it. It does have ethical appeal though. The ad is very powerful and the attitude of the writer wants to let everyone know how serious people get ages wrong and for wrong reasons. The writer makes this statement with an extreme view on the current issue.
The company Copyranter created this ad, but Laurie Toby Edison, a famous photographer blogs about it. http://www.laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=494
This ad was for a nonprofit company against statutory rape (as probably anyone could tell).
“The net result, of course, since a picture is and always has been worth a thousand words, is to sexualize these teenagers, and underscore their attractiveness and availability while claiming otherwise.
This, we believe, is a nonprofit organization and an ad agency that have been so seduced by the dark side of sexualization of young girls that they may not even realize they are sending a message opposite to the one they intend” (Edison).
All the people that have commented on the blog really hate the ad. I agree with them, it is very offensive and creepy. I think it could possibly hit people hard though, because it makes such a strong statement. Yea it’s horrible, but in reality it’s supposed to be horrible. The company is trying to make heads turn when people see it and hopefully realize how dangerous it is. It’s not about children getting recognized, it’s about how girls as young as maybe 14 go out and look a lot older and guys take advantage of that because they think they are legal but they actually are not.
The only main fact in this advertisement is the fact that if you are older than 18 and have sex with a person (in this case a young woman or girl) that is under that age, then you are committing a crime known as statutory rape.
This is a social statement for the most part. It is not historical or cultural. It doesn’t have to do with race, religion, or any type of ethnicity. The people that get the most out of this ad are people who have an opinion on this issue. If you are on the side of “this ad is really great and educates people about this issue” or on the opposite side saying, “this ad is horrible and shouldn’t be publicized” then this ad is for you. If you have feelings towards this ad, that is exactly what the company wanted to get. I don’t think they wanted bad feedback, but this issue is too important to not be publicized about.
So what do you think about the ad? Do you think this ad is too aggressive? Do you think it’s just right? What kinds of problems do you see this ad getting, if it hit a really well known newspaper or news anchor that a lot of people read/watch?
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
answer
THE LAST BLOG WAS A LIE.. MEANING.. I JUST MADE IT UP..
SOMETHING SIMILAR DID HAPPEN.. BUT MOST OF THE BAD STUFF HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND WHO WAS DRIVING..
and she didn't randomly get those food... but she came into my dorm room and brought weird things like that, but on Sunday she did... not a few months ago.
And i went to the beach for "beach week"
the gps didnt work though, which was a pain
SOMETHING SIMILAR DID HAPPEN.. BUT MOST OF THE BAD STUFF HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND WHO WAS DRIVING..
and she didn't randomly get those food... but she came into my dorm room and brought weird things like that, but on Sunday she did... not a few months ago.
And i went to the beach for "beach week"
the gps didnt work though, which was a pain
Sunday, October 4, 2009
On the way to Myrtle...
This summer I went to the beach a few weeks after graduation. On the way down I had a traumatic experience. I feel like things like this just happen to me. Anyways, I started driving at three in the morning. I was so exhausted but so excited at the same time. My best friend decided to walk to the local Bloom just before we left so that we would have snacks for the trip. She thought it would be a good idea to get pepperoni and cheese sticks because she was really hungry. I don’t know why she would ever think that was a good idea but she said that’s what she was craving. She also picked up a half gallon of soy milk and 6 red bulls. I don’t drink red bull so when I saw that I got so pissed. Then we finally left, with me being in a bad mood.
Within the first 30 minutes we hit traffic and I do not know how. 3:25 in the morning, and there’s traffic?! These stupid 18-whellers felt like they needed to be on the road this early and get in my way. We sat on Fairfax County Parkway for a good 45 minutes before we finally got off, and we only had to go about 10 miles on the road. We finally got off and moved onto the next highway. This was my first trip on the highways driving by myself (meaning no adults were in the car), so I kind of got freaked out at first. Driving for long periods of time was something different too. And after all that crap I had to deal with, my air conditioning broke. It absolutely sucked and it was really hot in the middle of July. My friend decided to almost take off all her clothes but I yelled at her so she kept most of them on.
After this happens we finally think we’re on a roll and nothing else bad could happen. Well, that’s not true apparently. My G.P.S. decides to malfunction and break. It falls out of its holder and slides all over the place. My friend tries to put it back but it kept on falling! I was getting so aggravated because I was not giving all of my attention to the road and driving, but was focusing on this stupid machine. It even made me go off course and got us lost. Around the North Carolina and Virginia state border it said to turn on this weird road. Then it said we were on a random road somewhere in New York or something (it said I was driving on Rochester Avenue and I’m guessing that’s not in North Carolina). At one point the little car on the screen was in the middle of nowhere, “in la la land.” It wasn’t even on any type of road. I got so angry because I have no idea where I’m going. I’ve never been to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina before. I couldn’t just get right back on a random road and know exactly where I was going. Then I started to freak out, so my friend offered to take the wheel, so I was relieved and tried to find someplace to pull over. There was no where though. I seriously drove about 20 miles before I found some place worth getting out and switching.
She was nice and calm and started driving. As soon as she did, the road seemed to clear and everything went right for her. There was a nice breeze and it even got cloudy. I hated that. I just sat in the passenger side, pissed. She laughed and started pulling random food out of nowhere and eating it. I got jealous. Apparently earlier in the morning she also bought gold fish and Swedish fish and didn’t tell me. I stole the gold fish and blasted the music. That could almost change my mood and make me happy, and at the time it pretty much did. This entire story is a complete lie and I’m just trying to see if anyone picks up on it because I don’t know what to write about. We played and fell in love with the new Nickelback CD, Blackhorse, and some new Lil Wayne songs. “Fireman” and “Got Money” were two favorites. The band 303 was good to listen to too, but we barely did. I made this playlist right before we left and it seemed like we played the first seven songs over and over again. When I put my ipod on shuffle now I get so confused because I think this one song, like “Birthday Sex” will come after Pop Champagne” but really, all of a sudden some of the Lion King Soundtrack comes on. Sometimes I’m not expecting it, so I jump if the song has a loud noise at first and it freaks me out, like “I’m Not Your Boyfriend Baby.”
So, after she drove and everything was dandy for her, we stopped somewhere to eat breakfast. We were almost there, but she wanted to travel through Strawberry Town so we did. We stopped at this sketchy old house/restaurant and stayed there for awhile. I don’t know why she would ever want to stop there, because it was gross and creepy. We got out of there and finally got to where we were an hour away and finally I could see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. While she was driving she didn’t notice the gas tank though. It just about ran on empty because she didn’t notice. We barely made it to a gas station in time, but somehow with her luck we made it. If I was driving, we wouldn’t have. Anyways, we actually arrive in Myrtle around 10 in the morning on a Monday. I was so relieved and exhausted. I think as soon as we got to the house and got all of our stuff inside, I fell asleep.
Within the first 30 minutes we hit traffic and I do not know how. 3:25 in the morning, and there’s traffic?! These stupid 18-whellers felt like they needed to be on the road this early and get in my way. We sat on Fairfax County Parkway for a good 45 minutes before we finally got off, and we only had to go about 10 miles on the road. We finally got off and moved onto the next highway. This was my first trip on the highways driving by myself (meaning no adults were in the car), so I kind of got freaked out at first. Driving for long periods of time was something different too. And after all that crap I had to deal with, my air conditioning broke. It absolutely sucked and it was really hot in the middle of July. My friend decided to almost take off all her clothes but I yelled at her so she kept most of them on.
After this happens we finally think we’re on a roll and nothing else bad could happen. Well, that’s not true apparently. My G.P.S. decides to malfunction and break. It falls out of its holder and slides all over the place. My friend tries to put it back but it kept on falling! I was getting so aggravated because I was not giving all of my attention to the road and driving, but was focusing on this stupid machine. It even made me go off course and got us lost. Around the North Carolina and Virginia state border it said to turn on this weird road. Then it said we were on a random road somewhere in New York or something (it said I was driving on Rochester Avenue and I’m guessing that’s not in North Carolina). At one point the little car on the screen was in the middle of nowhere, “in la la land.” It wasn’t even on any type of road. I got so angry because I have no idea where I’m going. I’ve never been to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina before. I couldn’t just get right back on a random road and know exactly where I was going. Then I started to freak out, so my friend offered to take the wheel, so I was relieved and tried to find someplace to pull over. There was no where though. I seriously drove about 20 miles before I found some place worth getting out and switching.
She was nice and calm and started driving. As soon as she did, the road seemed to clear and everything went right for her. There was a nice breeze and it even got cloudy. I hated that. I just sat in the passenger side, pissed. She laughed and started pulling random food out of nowhere and eating it. I got jealous. Apparently earlier in the morning she also bought gold fish and Swedish fish and didn’t tell me. I stole the gold fish and blasted the music. That could almost change my mood and make me happy, and at the time it pretty much did. This entire story is a complete lie and I’m just trying to see if anyone picks up on it because I don’t know what to write about. We played and fell in love with the new Nickelback CD, Blackhorse, and some new Lil Wayne songs. “Fireman” and “Got Money” were two favorites. The band 303 was good to listen to too, but we barely did. I made this playlist right before we left and it seemed like we played the first seven songs over and over again. When I put my ipod on shuffle now I get so confused because I think this one song, like “Birthday Sex” will come after Pop Champagne” but really, all of a sudden some of the Lion King Soundtrack comes on. Sometimes I’m not expecting it, so I jump if the song has a loud noise at first and it freaks me out, like “I’m Not Your Boyfriend Baby.”
So, after she drove and everything was dandy for her, we stopped somewhere to eat breakfast. We were almost there, but she wanted to travel through Strawberry Town so we did. We stopped at this sketchy old house/restaurant and stayed there for awhile. I don’t know why she would ever want to stop there, because it was gross and creepy. We got out of there and finally got to where we were an hour away and finally I could see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. While she was driving she didn’t notice the gas tank though. It just about ran on empty because she didn’t notice. We barely made it to a gas station in time, but somehow with her luck we made it. If I was driving, we wouldn’t have. Anyways, we actually arrive in Myrtle around 10 in the morning on a Monday. I was so relieved and exhausted. I think as soon as we got to the house and got all of our stuff inside, I fell asleep.
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