Resolution #3

Well, what do you know?  Yet another one of my new years resolutions is done!  It's only been, what, like four months?  ...Don't judge me.  I bet you didn't even do one.
     Now for the ceremonious crossing out of the item from the list:
     Find a new Chinese take out dish that I'll eat
     (applause, applause) Settle down, settle down everyone.
     I feel very proud of myself for this one, mainly because ever since I can remember I've been eating Chinese food every week of my life, and with a few exceptions I've always ordered Sweet and Sour Chicken.  Mainly this is because I'm just plain afraid to try anything else.  But, thanks to my awesome friends, I've discovered not one, not three, but TWO new Chinese food dishes!  Well, technically three, but I didn't like the third one.  So it doesn't count.
     The first new Chinese food is Tofu in General Tso's Sauce, or as I prefer to call it, General Tsofu.  The second one is Lo Mein noodles.  Om nom nom. Good stuff.  In case you're wondering which one I didn't like, it was Cashew Chicken.  I should have seen that one coming, seeing as I don't like cashews...
     In other New Years Resolution Completion in April news, over spring break I plan to make a start on my fourth resolution: writing a song.  In order to complete this one, I need to write lyrics, write and preform all the instrumentals, and (the part I'm most worried about) sing the song.  Seeing as I can play two and a half instruments, have lots of free time and enjoy writing poems, this shouldn't be too hard, right?  I'll be able to cheat a little with my keyboard, because I can set it to sound like other instruments.  Also, I have Rockbands 1-3 in my basement so I can practice my singing.  This should be fun!  After I finish the song I'll find some way to post it on this blog, unless it's horrible, in which case I won't.  
     Now all I need to do is come up with something to write about.  I've never actually written lyrics to a song before.  Just the occasional mandatory poem in elementary school.  


Violets are blue
And Roses are red
Bug me again James
And I'll chop off your head
<3

Interjecting My Opinion

One thing I've noticed about my writing on this blog is that I seem to make a noticeable effort not to offend anybody.  Actually, I'm pretty much the same way in real life too.  The easiest way to avoid offending people is to simply not interject your opinions about certain things; in other words playing it safe.  I'm all for this, but I need to go out on a limb here and address something that's really been bothering me lately.

Unless you've been living underground with the mole people, you've probably heard of the song Friday by Rebecca Black.  In the past few weeks, the song and music video have gotten over 82,000,000 views, and almost as many negative, rude and just plain offensive comments.  This thirteen year old girl is being ridiculed by millions of people on the internet in response to her auto-tuned singing and (for want of a better word) illogical music video that features thirteen year old kids driving and partying on a school day.

Now, along with seemingly 99.9% of the population, I don't actually like this song or the video.  Personally I'm not a big fan of teenager-sung pop songs, and I'd much rather stick to artists from before I was even born like ELO, Elton John, The Cure, Led Zepplin, things like that.  But that doesn't give me (or anyone else for that matter) the right to attack this girl and her song.  And I'm not talking about clicking the thumbs down button on youtube, I'm talking about leaving a comment telling Rebecca Black you hope she gets run over by a car or goes and cuts herself.

I also want to point out something interesting I discovered.  Rebecca Black can actually carry a tune.  In this video, while being interviewed on Good Morning America, she is asked to sing the national anthem.  And guess what? It sounds just fine!  Actually, it's better than fine.  It's just plain good singing.  I, personally, was impressed, and I recommend you watch the video too:

My opinion is that auto-tuned pop just isn't her genre and she would be better at singing show tunes and things like that.  Although really, auto-tuned pop isn't a great genre for anybody to excel at singing.  Unless you're T-Pain.  But he auto-tunes himself to the point where it's a trademark.  He's not trying to fool you into thinking he can sing, he just wants to sound like he is.

I digress... but in summary, PLEASE stop hating on Rebecca Black.  It's mean, offensive, rude and just plain immature.  She's thirteen for crying out loud.  Thirteen year old girls can be pretty emotionally fragile.  (I would know, I used to be one.)  If you don't like her song, just stop listening to it and move on with your life.

The 15 Minute Post

On a sunny, warm April day on which I do not have to go to school... I am sitting inside.  On the computer.  I just read 20 pages of MLIA.com and I need something else to do.  So guess what kids?  I just invented a challenge for myself.  I am going to give myself 15 minutes to write this blog post, starting at the end of this paragraph.  No matter what, I have to publish this in exactly 15 minutes.  The point of this for me is to help myself improve at writing in a limited amount of time, which my english teacher says I must learn for the SOLs and other things of a standardized regurgitational educational nature.  The point of this for you is just to laugh at how much I am about to fail.  Here we go!  The time is 3:52 pm, and at 4:07 I shall stop.

Pressure, pressure, pressure!  Oh gosh, what the heck am I going to say...

~tick, tock, tick, tock~

I suppose I'll just start by telling you a little bit about what just happened to me.  It was either that or start ranting about LOLplants.com, and that might not have gone so well.

Seeing as it is a very nice 84 degree (fahrenheit, thank goodness) day, I decided to open my curtains and let the lovely spring breeze roll in.  A few minutes later I walked back into my room to find that I stupidly left my binder open on the floor, and now all my valuable notes from health class about drugs, peer pressure and STDs are scattered throughout my room and quite possibly all over my front yard.

I have exactly ten minutes left.  I can't decide if I feel like that's a lot of time or hardly any at all.

~just to be honest, a full minute has gone by and all I did was take off my socks~

Right now I'm going to cheat a little bit and make lists of my three favorite and three least favorite things that have happened to me this week.

The Three Worst Things That Have Happened To Me This Week:
1 I wasted thirty minutes of my life reading LOLplants.com
2 On Tuesday night I had a dream where I was an elephant and I stepped on a squirrel
3 On Wednesday night the dream repeated itself, only that time I was the squirrel.

The Three Best Things That Have Happened To Me This Week:
1 My grade in geometry went from a 78 to a 90
2 I had a nerf gun fight in my friends basement.
3 I won the nerf gun fight

For the last three minutes, I am going to come up with as many smiley emotocon whatchamacallits as I can:

:)  :D  xD  :O  *<:-)  O__o   ^.^  -__-  (*_*)  D:  :{D  :P  :-(I)

and... time's up!  What?  You don't know what that last smiley is?  It's Homer Simpson with a doughnut in his mouth.  Yes, I actually did invent it.  You're welcome, internet!

Well that was... enlightening.  Just fair warning, I'll probably do this again sometime soon.  Eventually I'll get it down.  Something tells me you aren't allowed to draw pictures of Homer Simpson on the bottom of your SAT test.