A Day With Facebook, Redbox, and Coughing

Here's how my day has gone:

10 AM -- Woke up to the house phone ringing and I figured I should pull myself out of bed. It's my dad calling to tell me that my stepmom has been standing outside my house ringing the doorbell, knocking, and calling my cell phone for the past 10-15 minutes. All to bring me my antibiotic. What a lovely lady. Also turns out that I slept for 11-12 hours last night and woke up fresh as a daisy. Oh you know how I do.

10-11 -- Facebook and bagel

11 AM -- Decided to pull myself together enough to go to Kroger to get a movie from Redbox and some sort of drink.

 11:30 AM -- One People magazine, Two Fuze drinks, and 2 Redbox movies [The Romantics and Charlie St. Cloud] later, I'm on my way back home.

11:35-2 PM -- Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, lunch, and The Romantics. Wow. Cannot even begin to tell you how much that movie sucked. It looked SO good [for some reason, I was in a romantic comedy mood. Maybe it's cause I've watched both Batmans, Inception, and A Few Good Men in the past 3 days] in the trailer and so I thought, 'Hey. Let's try it.' Started off good and all. Music was great. It was a decent movie until the end. Then they just cut it off and didn't even tell you what happened.
Who DOES that? That's just like Sleepless In Seattle when they meet up on the top of the Empire State Building and you never know if they get together. They just stare at each other for a good 5 minutes. It's almost creepy. If I were the little boy, I would've been concerned.
I need concrete endings, people.

2-3PM -- Finally got someone to work for me tonight. I tried almost EVERYONE and only one person could. God bless her. I was not about to infect the entire Tri-State area and Ohio.
Then I decided that I could start cleaning my room. Yeah. I got about 3 articles of clothing off the floor. Bring on that endurance.

3-4PM -- Facebook. And whatever else I did. Oh yeah. I read my book. Wow. Let me be an example to you of how fast the computer/TV can kill your brain cells.

4-NOW -- More Facebook. Realized that I'm starting to feel worse again. Woot woot! And, as I said on my Facebook status, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have killer abs by the time I'm through with this cough. 6-pack, HERE. I. COME.

That has been my day so far. I knew you wanted to relive that with me. Although I do want to say, kudos to God on blessing us with an absolutely gorgeous day. I had my windows open and everything. Thank you, King Jesus. [:

Oh! How is the Non-Awkward Week of Nay and Abby going, you ask? Quite splendid! Well. It's not like I've had much of an opportunity to be awkward considering I've been at home most of the time. But I think Nay is doing very well. If you know her personally, don't be afraid to congratulate her.

In other news, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Evan Rachel Wood, and Marisa Tomei are in town at Xavier University shooting their film The Ides of March. Yes. It is quite fortunate that I have family that goes to Xavier. While we have seen their personal trailers, we haven't gotten a view of any of the actors/actresses themselves yet. Well...some people have. We haven't.
For once, I feel proud to live in Ohio. And yes, that is, indeed, a pathetic reason to feel proud to live in Ohio.

Song of the Day: Preparedness -- The Bird and the Bee

While The Romantics was rather disappointing, I really enjoyed the music and this was the song they kicked off the movie with. LOVELOVELOVE. So spunky and different.

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Dear Eve...BRING IT.

Remember those times as a child when being sick was really fun? You got to stay home, you got the special treatment, if you were lucky and got struck with the stomach flu then you got Sprite or Coke, and if you were REAL sick then sometimes you'd get a present. Those were the days...
Now it's just a pain in the butt to get sick. All I want to do is sleep, for Pete's sake! And then if I stay in one spot for too long, there's the possibility of me going postal on someone. See what sickness does to us when we get older?
Oops.
Dear Eve,
When I get to Heaven, I'm gonna have a word with you.
Sincerely, Yours Truly.

Song of the Day: Ender Will Save Us All -- Dashboard Confessional
He is the epitome of greatness. This is not his best song, but it's up there and I was totally listening to this today. Love you, DC.
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Christopher Nolan, say WHAAT??

Boy, have I fallen down on the job of blogging. It's been more than a week since my last post. Gee Wilikers. But I guess it's time I blogged again--considering I'm home sick.
Seriously. I feel like I have an animal lodged in my throat/chest. It's that nasty headcold that consists of everything and its mother--headache, sore throat, terrible cough.
AKA the greatest feeling in the whole world. It probably doesn't help that I'm watching Inception. The most confusing yet genius movie on the planet earth. Legit. The director Christopher Nolan is LEGIT. This man has written and directed Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, AND the new Batman movie coming out.
I mean, just look at his face! Doesn't that look like the face of genius??

Well. The odd ones are always the geniuses. No offense to those who are geniuses. Maybe you're not odd. Maybe you look awesome. Maybe--wow wow wow. Just gonna stop talking now. You get my point. MOST GENIUSES ARE ODD.
So I was driving by a Party City the other day when I realized that the tagline for it says "The Ultimate Discount Party Store."
.....Is there another Party store that isn't discounted? I'm just confused to the max. Cause I'm pretty sure all their party stuff is way expensive anyway. Lord only knows how much the REGULAR party store costs.
Why am I talking about this? It must be the drugs aka cough medicine. So sorry about my scatter-brained-ness.
If you haven't already noticed, I'm awkward. Like REALLY REALLY awkward. Or I can be. But I think my awkwardness is humorous so it's okay. Now I'm not like Nerd Lunch Table Awkward (though that's fine if you are) but I'm just like awkward like how I make this whole paragraph about awkward go on for a lifetime.
Anyway. My friend Naomi is also really awkward. So together its just this big bundle of awkwardness. Especially during Pre-Calc where we sit right next to each other. Good one, Mr. Rice, Good one.
So she Facebooks me yesterday and says:
"OKAY. hey. i have sort of a mission for you. and me. first one to lose, loses. okay don't be awkward for one week straight. ready. set. GOOOO."
Now some of you may think that's easy. But for us, that's like sprinting 8 miles to and from school uphill in the snow with just shorts and a tshirt on.
So stay tuned to hear how Nay and Abby's Non-awkward week goes. I mean...technically I've already lost. But since i skipped school today and didn't get a chance to officiate it, then I'm calling it a mulligan.
Heaven help us.
Song of the Day: Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
I figured since it was Valentine's Day, it was only right. I must say there's nothing greater than going into Target on Valentine's Day to watch all the frazzled men and women, young and old try to find something at the last minute for their sweetheart. It makes me chuckle. As does this song. Close your eyes and really FEEEEEEL this song. Channel your inner Bonnie Tyler.
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Fashion Friday with John Cougar Mellancamp

I think there's a reason I'm not rich. There's a reason I don't have a million and a half dollars.
Why?
Because God recognized that I would probably end up zapping all of the stores of their inventory because everything was so beautiful. Seriously. Sometimes I question why He didn't make me rich and then I realize that it's to save the world from me. Cause I would buy everyone out of business, if that's even possible. Wow. Whole paragraph was redundant. YES.
There are so many sites that just intrigue me with their vintage clothing and such. GAH I love 'em! And they're so darn expensive so I just have to window shop all the time. And watch Paris Hilton grab everything up while hearing her say 'That's hottt...'
I got this idea from the blog thebigmamablog.com and I just thought I'd use it for today since it's Fashion Friday and I've found a TON of great things that I just HAD to share with someone. Or else I was gonna keep posting these finds on Bre's wall and 1. She would yell at me. 2. The rest of Facebook would yell at me cause I would be blowing up their newsfeeds. Winwinwin.
FASHION FRIDAY (Yes, I stole that title, and yes, I'm telling you I did and no it's not Friday anymore--I became lazy and couldn't do it yesterday):
1. Flowered Messenger Purse.
Now this one could get tricky, just by the title of it. A flowered messenger purse reminds me some throw-bag from the 70's. Can't do it. But if you make it classy like this? You'll be winnin' at life.
http://www.modcloth.com/store/ModCloth/Womens/Accessories/We+Can+Tell+You+This+Clutch+Bag

2. Spring-y flower dress.
Honestly, I don't know why everything is flowers so far. I'm usually opposed to flowers since they are so over-used. But this is gorgeous and reminds me of summer. I SEE YOU IN THE DISTANCE LONG LOST FRIEND!
 
3. Meteorologist necklace.
DUDE. Who WOULDN'T want this? It's got all types of weather on here!

4. Flower Girl Cardigan.
Okay SERIOUSLY? I'm on a flower kick. This is ridiculous. But this cardigan is lov-er-ly.


5. Pencil Flats.
OH. MY. GOSH. Loooooook at these! I mean, I'm not sure how well I would wear them or if i even would but I just had to post them cause they are freakin' BALLER, man.


So if this post seems long, it's really not. It's just those pictures are just so darn giant.

Song of the Day: John Cougar Mellancamp - Jack and Diane
This is classic. He's classic. This song is classic. It's so classic, classically fantastic that they combined this song with a rap of Drake's which is also fantastic. LOVE. And check out Cougar's hair.  Bahahaha. B-E-A-UTIFUL.

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National Make A Person Feel Uncomfortable Day...funny. That happens to be EVERYDAY OF MY LIFE.

Can I just say how much I LOVE bread? So when I tell you that my mom made Chocolate Chip Banana Bread the other day, you can only imagine how absolutely stoked I was. But when I went to get the bread out of the fridge, I swear, it was like she didn't want God to get into the bread. It was wrapped in two layers of foil and enclosed in an layer of wax paper. I actually couldn't figure out how to get into it. A loaf of child-proof bread if I ever saw it.
Great story, right?
YEAHHH.
So another snow day, cept there is no snow. Ice? Maybe. And I'm sitting here watching Ellen. Of course.
But I've realized that she plays the greatest music in the world on that show and that would be the greatest thing about that job is getting to dance to that music all the time. Legit--I would want to get hired just so I could dance to "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. WOW. Best band name in the world. So creative and....rhyme-y. Kudos to Marky Mark.
There are two things I love about the Ellen show:
1. The fact that she brings people like Amy Poehler on there.
2. The fact that Ellen does prank videos like this. HILARIOUS. I just love awkward people.

I really do love awkward people. I mean, what's life without a little awkward spice to it? Especially if you're awkward to people you're never gonna see again. For example, the other day my small group leaders Amy and Megan went to Subway with Kendra and me before small group. Megan being Megan decided to make the Subway worker feel 100% awkward. Maybe it was cause he was doing a good job. Lord only knows. This is how it went down [WARNING: not word for word but still awkward enough]:
Megan: What's your name?
Worker: Jacob
Megan: Jacob! Well, hey Jacob. Jacob and I are best buddies, aren't we Jacob.
Jacob [red in the face]: Yes.
Megan: I just love you Jacob. Jacob can you change my bread order? YES! You're the best. I just love you. That's why we're besties. Jacob do you think it's hot in here? Cause I feel the temperature rising.

I literally could not contain myself so I just sat down and hid in a corner and laughed silently to myself because I was so embarrassed. But in the long run, it's fun making people feel awkward. So I hope you make someone feel awkward today. If not for your sake, then for mine so that you can tell me about it and I can laugh. Although, I've googled it and I believe National Make Someone Feel Uncomfortable Day is November 19th. If it isn't, then it is now. That's going on the calendar.
Which by the way, if you've never tried yelling 'GOOGLE!' when you google something, it's quite a thrill. You'll feel hilarious, awkward, stupid, and proud all at the same time. Try it. In the office or at home or where there are plenty of people around so all they hear is you shouting from one room to the next "GOOOOOOGLE!"

Jesus Transition:
Jesus answers my prayers. And for that I am SO thankful. Something happened in the past day that really freaked me out and I prayed and prayed and prayed about it and I just got a call basically saying that Jesus answered my prayer. Thank you SO much, Father. So if you all wouldn't mind just keeping my family in your prayers that would be fantastic.
PS if this blog today reads weirdly or is just terribly transitioned or WHATEVER. I'm sorry. I feel out of it for blogging. Like I'm just writing and I don't care if it sounds weird. Like this past paragraph was just awkward and not understandable. WHAT. WOW I'm SO out of it.

Song of the Day: Eet - Regina Spektor
LOVE this song. So beautifully different. I could listen to Regina Spektor all day everyday. She's just so unique and not like anybody I've heard. Her album 'Far' is by far [no pun intended...except that wasn't really a pun at all...] one of the best albums I know of. On my top ten, definitely.

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