Mums the word pt 5

I get a second chance! It's been a little more than a month and I'm really glad I get to see familiar face again, though perhaps glad isn't the best word to describe it. 'Proceed with Caution' must be the phrase for the night! However, I am still expecting shenanigans...epic shenanigans!

Will & Kate + 2 billion

This is going to be a long night! I have every intention of staying awake for the next 5 hours. If you need to ask why and perhaps if you live under a rock the reason I was staying up is the ROYAL WEDDING of course! I'm watching my live coverage on TLC who has been showing royal programming all week. There is less than an hour left before the actual wedding events take place. I have said it before I am fascinated by the British, and this is a monumental historic occasion, that I wouldn't miss!

Word Vomit - Android edition

Dear Android (my T-Mobile myTouch),

I fkn hate your fkn guts right now! I am so tired of putting up with your shit. I honestly want to just throw you against a wall right now, or take a hammer and break your stupid unresponsive system! Why do you do this to me? I have been kind to you, I haven't dropped much and I have been patient when you act up, but enough is enough!!! I hate the fact that I have to wait to make a phone call, or the fact the the home screen sometimes takes about 5 minutes to load. I hate the fact that I sometimes can't text because you decide to be unresponsive. I've only had you a little more than a year but I honestly don't know how much longer I am going to keep you.

I have so much hate for you right now, I don't even want to look at you! Don't bother ringing to get my attention, I don't want to pick you up, though the way you have been acting, I doubt you would even know how to ring properly anymore. Don't notify me I have a text message, because you refuse to allow me to the respond easily. Maybe a break will do us both some good, because after the update a few months ago you have been horrible. Maybe time apart will give you a chance to figure it out, or maybe I'll just find someone else.

Love,
Kylah

Weekend 2, Shenanigans 0

I've been spoiled! I've had amazing weekends, full of shenanigans nearly every time I've gone out. Up until this weekend that is. It's been rather disappointing really, yesterday my friend and I went out and were home before 1 am, but since it was a Thursday and we had never gone out on a Thursday before we figured it was just a slow day. But today, on Friday, when we usually do go out and find many others out as well, I am sad to say it was completely dead and I was home before midnight! I blame this specific weekend, since Easter is on Sunday I'm going to assume that people are at home with their families. I feel cheated. This can't happen anymore, it's horribe. This experience has just made me more determined to make my next night out epic!!!

Remember to breathe

Maybe perhaps it bothers me a little. It shouldn't, but it does. It is very possible that it could be nothing, that I don't have all the information. Yes, it is possible, but then again a lot of things are possible. If we are now speaking of possibilities, well then something else that recently happened could possibly develop into something amazing. Perhaps. But all this uncertainty and slow ticking clock is rather nerve racking.

Okay, I've got this...

Challenge fail - Day 10

I actually wrote this yesterday but I guess I forgot to press 'Publish Post.' I don't know which is worst, starting but not finish posts or forgetting to publish them. Oh well, not important...

91.Are you a morning person or a night owl?
Most definitely a night owl! Haha a night owl who occasionally turns into a morning person

92.Can you touch your nose with your tongue?
Yes I can

93.Can you close your eyes and raise your eyebrows?
Yes...is this supposed to be hard?

94.Do you have pets?
No, but I wish I did. I want a chocolate lab puppy

95.How many rings before you answer the phone?
Rings? Well I'm currently using Love Song by The Cure as my ringtone and I have to admit sometimes I want to listen to the song so I let the phone ring as long as possible.

96.What is your best childhood memory?
Best? I'm not so sure, but some of my fondest memories are from when I was on the swim team

97.What are some of the different jobs that you have had in your life?
They range from human remote control to working at the corporate communications department for the Hallmark Channel

98.Any new and exciting things that you would like to share?
New? yes. Exciting? kind of. Would I like to share? not just yet.

99.What is most important in life?
Enjoying/learning from the journey

100.What Inspires You?
 My cousin, or shall I say kids in general. They are amazing human beings that often get over looked. They have a very unique/good simplistic view of life. When they fall, they get back up, they know they can always try again, and that there is good in people. Let me strive to be 10 again.

All's fair in love and war?

Ugh, I really don't know where to begin, but I equally don't know where I should end. All I will say right now is that my friend is making things really uncomfortable my asking me what I thought of people last night. I'm harboring a secret you see, so questions such as those are too be handled with great delicacy, or avoidance if possible! What's right, and what's wrong? I'm not so entirely sure anymore. Perhaps all is fair in love, war and weekend shenanigans...yes shenanigans indeed. These are the types of adventures that I can/will look back on and laugh/smile when I reminisce about my youth.

Challenge fail - Day 9

81.What kind of car do you drive?
A red (cardinal) 2010 Ford Focus

82.What are your best physical features?*
Oh wow there are so many, where shall I begin? Hahaha jk. I would say my eyes and lips

83.What are your best characteristics?*
I've fun loving, good natured, witty, and adventurous

84.If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation where would you go?
Australia, I'd love to scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef

85.What kind of books do you like to read?
Mostly fiction, I'm particularly drawn to female authors, but as to a specific genre, I don't have one

86.Where would you want to retire to?
Umm...didn't I answer this already? Well, I'm not sure yet, I still need to travel the world before I decide

87.What is your favorite time of the day?
Evening. When the sun has already begun to set and it's getting dark, but there is still enough light to play/work outside

88.Where did you grow up?
Calexico, CA - also known as Snoresville USA

89.How far away from your birthplace do you live now?
Haha unfortunately I moved back, but I'm dying to get out of here again!

90.What are you reading now?
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

*Oh wow, I was just having this conversation earlier with someone about how I was going to try to tone down my self confidence. Haha so the questions today are not helping me at all.

Challenge fail - Day 8

71. Do you sing in the shower?
Yes, most of the time

72.Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
I think I answered this already...Bed, Bath and Beyond

73. What do you do most when you are bored?
Find something to do haha. Read, search for things, do a cross word puzzle, etc

74. What do you do for a living?
Ehh...

75. Do you love your job?
Ummm, I want to

76. What did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to be a cancer researcher

77. If you could have any job, what would you want to do/be?
Work in children's advertising for Disney or Mattel

78.Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Egg

79. How many keys on your key ring?
Four, including a bike lock key

80. Where would you retire to?
I don't know yet, I feel like I still need to travel some more to answer this question

Challenge fail - Day 7

61.What time do you get up?
Umm it really depends on the day, and the time I feel asleep the night before

62.What was the name of your first pet?
Bobby, he was a blue beta fish

63.Who is the second to last person to call you?
My mom

64.Is there anything going on this weekend?
YES! Ducks playoff hockey game! :D

65.How are you feeling right now?
awake, slightly hungry, mildly anxious

66.What do you think about the most?
How fun it would be if everyone had super powers, haha I actually don't know the real answer to this question

67.What time do you get up in the morning?
9:40 am

68.If you had A Big Win in the Lottery, how long would you wait to tell people?
I don't know if I could hold off for more than a few hours

69.Who would you tell first?
My brother

70.What is the last movie that you saw at the cinema?
I think it might have been The Roommate back in Feburary (hehe cinema)

Challenge fail - Day 6

51.Have you ever won a trophy?
Yes, other than academic trophies I have a couple from swimming

52.Are you a good cook?
I like to think that I am. I like what I cook.

53.Do you know how to pump your own gas?
Yes of course I do, but I also appreciate it when others do it for me :)

54.If you could meet any one person (from history or currently alive), who would it be?
Jane Austen, she is my favorite writer

55.Have you ever had to wear a uniform to school?
Yup, from grades 4-9

56.Do you touch-type?
All the time

57.What's under your bed?
More like what isn't under my bed. Boxes of miscellaneous stuff, swim paddles, books, Nintendo 64, etc.

58.Do you believe in love at first sight?
Love, no...attraction/infatuation, yes.

59.Think fast, what do you like right now?
haha I don't know why the first word to come to my head was potatoes

60.Where were you on Valentine's day?
There was a Valentine's day this year? Haha I stayed in, and avoided all those mushy displays in stores

Smell-O-Vision 2.0

I had another strange experience today. However, I did not need to travel outside of my bedroom for it. When I awoke this morning, I was greeted by the scent of a certain cologne. This cologne I have not smelled in awhile, and the sweet mild scent danced around my nose for a couple of seconds before it drifted away. Again, this is not a product that is used in my home, and it is even stranger that this particular scent should be found in my room. What do you suppose it is? Why does it appear that I am being chased by the scents of products from my past?

Challenge fail - Day 5

41.What time is bed time?
Whenever I get tired, haha vague response

42.Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
No, I have not. But I do want to enter all my future daughters in as many pageants as possible. Haha kidding!

43.How many tattoos do you have?
Currently none, maybe sometime soon that will change to one

44.If you don't have any, have you ever thought of getting one?
Yes, and I've gone as far as sketching it out

45.What did you do for your last birthday?
For the first time in about 5 years I spent it with my family and watched Rocky IV :D

46.Do you carry a donor card?
Yes, my license has the donor sticker

47.Who was the last person you ate dinner with?
Like go out to a restaurant to eat dinner? That would be with my eldest cousin.

48.Is the glass half empty or half full?
Definitely half full

49.What's the farthest-away place you've been?
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

50.When's the last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
My aunt actually grows tomatoes in her backyard, I couldn't give you an exact date, but it was recently
-----------

On an unrelated note, today I got my nail dotting tools! I had wanted some for some time now, and on Sunday I finally ordered a set. I of course immediately tried them out and am happy to report that they work beautifully. I was able to put polka dots on my nails in no time at all. Why did I not buy these sooner, I do not know, but now that I have them, I forsee more intricate nail designs in my future :D

Challenge fail - Day 4

31.If you could change something about your home, without worry about expense or mess, what would you do?
I want a pool

32.What was the last thing you bought?
Sally Hansen nail polish (450 Fairy Teal)

33.Have you ever ridden on a motorbike?
Yes I have, more than once (hehe motorbike)

34.Would you go bungee jumping or sky diving?
YES!!! bungee jumping no, because it messes up your spin, but I am going to sky dive soon

35.Do you have a garden?
No, I don't, I wish I did though

36.Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
Yes, of course I do. Oh say can you see, by the dawns early light....

37.What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning?
Ugh, do I really have to get up?

38.If you could eat lunch with one famous person, who would it be?
The Dalai Lama, I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask him

39.Who sent the last text message you received?
My mom

40.Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Probably Bed, Bath and Beyond...but since I don't have any credit cards there is no fear of maxing them out

Smell-O-Vision

I often forget the kind of powerful memories smell can bring about. As I walked by the bathroom just now, I was taken back. The scent was nothing extraordinary, just soap, but never the less, it wrapped itself around me and held me tight. The memory itself was also nothing really memorable, just something I had experienced hundreds of times before, but I missed it. The smell of dove soap lasted no more than a second, but I wanted it back. The funny thing, is that we don't use dove soap, so what combination of toiletries mimicked the scent of the soap, I do not know. It just seems almost cruel, those moments which I had taken for granted all those years ago, are the moments I want back now so desperately.

Free parking

Monopoly? Yes please! I can easily say that Monopoly is my favorite board game (with Clue a close second). The new electronic version you say? No thanks, I like using paper money, and I don't care for the properties selling in the millions. I currently own three different Monopoly versions, The original blue Monopoly board game (with the then new bag-o-money playing piece), the Monopoly Texas edition, and for Christmas a couple years ago my mom bought me the entire Hasbro library vintage game set. These games, which include Monopoly and Clue, come in a box that resemble books, and look amazing when placed in a bookshelf. This is my go to Monopoly board of choice. Anyway...

Yesterday, I played a game of Monopoly with my 8 year old cousin. Now before you all shake your head at me for possibly taking advantage of an eight-year-old, she had my 18 year old brother, Dylan, advising her. My brother knows his way around a Monopoly board, as him and I use to have these day long monopoly tournaments shortly after receiving this game version. I know people who fight over the race car, and my cousins are quick to choose the dog, but I use the top hat....I ALWAYS use the top hat! It's my piece, though the thimble was once my piece of choice.

The game started off very badly, with me going to jail on 4 of my first 7 turns. After what seemed to be a three hour game, I finally bankrupted my young cousin, with the help of more than a couple lucky rolls which allowed me to avoid her three hotels on the orange color group (St. James Place, Tennessee Ave, New York Ave), which cost me $1,000+ both times I was so unfortunate to land there. At some point during the game I only had $8 dollars even after mortgaging some of my properties. I however did have two houses on all green properties (Pacific Ave, North Carolina Ave, Pennsylvania Ave), which cost her $400 each time she landed there, and she did land on North Carolina a couple of times. But it was on the final turn after I had safety passed that dreaded orange corner that she landed on Pacific Ave (with the addition of a new house) that she needed to pay me $900, and with her not receiving any income from her 3 hotels, she found herself bankrupt.

After our game my other cousin, her 10 year old sister, played against my brother, while I acted as banker. My cousin is very careful with her money, and she had us in stitches, laughing because she had her money to buy properties, but she also kept a separate pile she called her savings. Every time she would receive rent, money from chance/community chest, or for passing go, she would place some in her active stack and then say "this goes in savings." Haha I had never heard of anyone having a savings pile while playing Monopoly. Needless to say she was successful in her saving because at some point she had over $1,000 in her savings pile. However, sadly she fell victim to my brothers expensive properties and ultimately went bankrupt.

In true tournament play, my brother and I are set to play a game to settle the undisputed Monopoly champion soon.

Challenge fail - Day 3

21.Do you like to dance?
No, I don't dance...I can dance routine though

22.Would you ever consider living abroad?
YES!!! England, Italy, Germany, any or all those places

23.Does your name make any interesting anagrams?
Nope, none at all seem like made up words

24.Who made the last incoming call on your phone?
My friend, Maria Alicia

25.What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
The wireless drivers for my printer

26.Last time you swam in a pool?
Last July. I miss swimming, I should swim more often

27.Type of music you like most?
Alternative, basically anyone played on KROQ

28.Type of music you dislike most?
Definitely rap. I just can't get into it at all

29.Are you listening to music right now?
Nope, I only listen to music in the car

30.What color is your bedroom carpet?
Navy blue

Challenge fail - Day 2

Haha see! I already missed a day. I was pretty much babysitting the entire day and so at 3:30 am, here I am.

11.When did you last laugh?
I nearly peed my pants laughing around 11 pm

12.Do you remember why / at what?
I was watching my brother and 10 year old cousin playing Monopoly, she is hilarious, I will write a post about it later

13.What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Band posters and photographs

14.Seen anything weird lately?
Wow, unfortunately no I haven't (I can appreciate oddities)

15.What do you think of this quiz?
It's entertaining enough

16.What is the last film you saw?
I re-watched Shutter Island while babysitting

17.If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
I really love Chicago

18.If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
Buy? Haha, more like pay back my student loans!

19.Tell me something about you that most people don't know.
I consider myself shy

20.If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Super tough question, but I think I would like there to truly be equality in the world. Between men and women, and between race, nationalities, ethniticies, etc.

Challenge fail - Day 1

Recently, I've been debating whether or not to start a new 30 day blog challenge. But since a friend of mine started has started two and failed to complete them, and also my inability to finish mine in a timely manner, I've accepted the fact that they are a challenge. Anyway, I found this list and I will answer 10 questions at a time until I finish the list. There are 100 items so it should only take me 10 days but I make no promises. Shall we begin?

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
"be ours and she will be gone. She will be in the Field," - Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
 
2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, What can you touch?
The wall

3.Before you started this survey, what were you doing?
I was on the phone with a friend

4.What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The Wedding Planner

5.Without looking, guess what time it is
11:40 pm

6.Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
11:43 pm

7.With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
My tv, currently listening to a movie with Meg Ryan

8.When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
It was around 6 and I just wanted to see how cold it was...very cold

9.Did you dream last night?
I can't remember if I did or not

10.Do you remember your dreams?
For the most part I do, but I haven't recently

Perhaps...

I've been ridiculous lately. My behavior may be construed as reckless in some regards, careless at times, and impulsive to be sure. Though, as ridiculous as I believe I have been, it does not greatly exceed the limits of acceptable behavior. What I mean to say is that, I know that to some my attitude is in no way ridiculous, but it is different than what it has been in the past. In many ways, I like the change, it's never boring, I now have stories, and adventures. Although I have learned to take life less seriously, I am aware that there needs to moderation, I can't be ridiculous all the time or should I say, I don't want to be ridiculous all the time. So what you ask has brought on the change? What has made me throw caution to the wind? What has finally made me take risks? I thought about this for a while, and the answer is simple, I'm trying to miss you less...