Do You Know What Time It Is?

I can't stop watching the news following opinions from around the world about what's going on. Do you know what time it is in our world? It's this time.




teehee. doesn't it just make you want to do the M.C. Hammer dance?

no but seriously. what's up, readers? it's going to rain here tomorrow. I know this because my head feels ready to explode. I'm a weather telling freak of nature.

i also want to publicly announce my junior high-style crush on john legend. for this song and this song especially. he's so dreamy with his musical talent. and he's darn good looking. so john legend, if you have your name set on google alerts, i <3 you times a million.

i'm disappearing for the weekend and will not have internet access until probably Sunday evening when I get back. the first 24 hrs are like the DTs. but after that, it's a nice feeling to not be handcuffed to the interwebz.

i want to go dancing. and not in the crap clubs here in motown. somewhere fun.

i also completed another goal today, that of spontaneously sending flowers. woo that.

also, this cracks my shit up. which ones did you have?

Gimme Your Stuff!

This is goal #39: participate in Gimme Your Stuff

"What's it all about?
Welcome to the cultural exchange blog where you can swap items of significance to your area with items from others around the world. A conduit for many an international cuisine to change hands. A place where you can trade a newspaper from South Africa, or a CD from Finland. A place where we take no responsibility for anything anyone else does. A place where we are Changing the world with other people’s stuff"


So I can swap just about anything really.... postcards, magazines, clothing, candy,photos, music, etc. I can find stereotypical American products, or even handcrafted Appalachian products (I am from West Virginia). I do some of my own jewelry making, soap making, and knitting/crocheting, so if any handmade items sound like something you would enjoy, just let me know!

I would like to receive.... well.. anything really. Something traditional to your area. I love photography, i love touristy products,books, magazines, bags... anything. I would just be excited to receive something!

I will only swap once every few months to begin with, just to see how this all works. :)

We didn't start the fire. Billy Joel did.

As I was watching the speeches last night, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" came to mind. And I think it is a really good representation of the spirit of things, with the history and change and everything. So I found this fun link that has the song set to images of what it's talking about as well as further information if you click on the lyrics. I have always loved this song. It is one of the few ones I can dance around like a total idiot to and feel good. I can remember about 67% of the lyrics, so I think this song will be the song I sing for my karaoke goal. So I'm going to learn the words.

Also, is there a way on blogger just to insert a video in the post? Bc I originally tried to just embed the youtube video but it wouldn't let me.

I spent much of my day watching people's facebook status change depending on their political leanings. And while I may not agree with some of the opinions, I'm glad people have them. I am notorious for my apathy. Several people have even commented on the fact that I actually seemed to give a shit this time, so twelve points to me. Things are going to change, good or bad, no matter who's in office. Even apathetic Andrea knows that. Although I may return to my original political standpoint of "Pro-Lazy, Anti-Pants."

And now for a list of things that make me happy:
-Bob Evans potato soup
-the fact that my lonely little neighbor friend seemed to have made some friends of his own!
-Jude Law in a sweater vest and glasses. yum.
-this spurt of nice weather we're having
-my new air freshener in the car that smells like cinnamon and cloves
-moonwalking (michael jackson style, not neil armstrong style)


Today is my little brother's 23 bday, so if you see him, give him a high-five and then kick him in the shins. He and I have always had a mean relationship, mostly me being mean to him until he was tall enough to beat the hell out of me. My favorite memory is one time, we were pretty young, I told michael we should play hide-and-seek and that he should hide. only i told him wear to hide. up in the dogwood tree in our, at the time, front yard. i made sure he climbed up good and high. and then i left him there and went inside and watched tv. mom says he was up there for over an hour, but it didn't seem nearly long enough to me. :)

does this explain me to you any better?? haha

wow

i know i just posted, but i think it is an amazing thing that our generation can tell their children that they were alive, that they voted, that they witnessed this moment in history. i'm proud of our generation, being able to look past gender, past race, to see that we are all the same, that we need to rally for us, for the future.

who knew an election would make this cold dead heart tear up?

Election Coverage makes me...

....want to go ahead and write my will. Is that awful? Or is it more awful that I'm going to talk about it on here?

I figured the will-writing would be easy to do, seeing as I have more debt than assets. I know I want all my books donated to the Sutton Public Library, unless there are any that anyone particularly wants. I would call dibs on my old falling apart copy of Secret Garden, it holds many memories of good times.

(this is creepy, isn't it.)

when i finish writing this i will buy that filing cabinet that's on my list and put it in there. but some things I am putting in the will are more of action type things that you all can know about. I want my body donated to medicine. Whether it's donor organs or to the med students to cut up. I don't want to be buried. I want to be able to help others. And I don't want flowers at my funeral bc nothing creeps me out more than funeral flowers. I want ppl to donate to charities. I don't care what charity, as long as it's something they believe in. And I don't want a super sad nonsense. I want a photographic slideshow of fun times. I want it set to bitchin music like the Bay City Rollers and Rusted Root. That is what I want, so if you are still reading this whenever it happens, please make sure someone knows.

I don't normally think about things like this, but two young women that are friends-of-friends have died in the past 2 weeks. One in a car accident and one shot. And it's times like this that you remember how precious life is and how little time we have here. I think this may be our one shot do to it right, to love, to share, to hope. I want to be the best me I can while I'm here. And we all know I have problems with that sometimes (or all the time). And that's partly why so many of my goals are doing things for others bc I want to give something of myself to others so that maybe they can pass that along too. if i can momentarily make life wonderful for someone else, then that's what i want to do. and thats why i want happy music and funny photos. i want people to laugh.

How about something less depressing now. I have started looking into Banned Books for my ten to read. I've been pleased to see I've read quite a few of them (my beloved Dr.Zhivago was banned!), some even in school, so ten points to you, b-county educational system. As of right now, I think I'm going to read:

-John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath (which frankly, i can't believe i've never read)
-James Joyce Dubliners
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
-Margret Mitchell Gone with the Wind (again, i can't believe i havent read it, esp for as many times as i watch it a year)
-Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
-Dee Alexander Brown Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
-Robert Cormier Chocolate War
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
-Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower 12/13/08
-Jack London The Call of the Wild

so if any of you have any of above books and would like to let me borrow them, well then i'll give you a cookie. they would also make excellent christmas gifts. *hint hint hint*

so. i guess that's all i've got on my mind right now. i have this song stuck in my head. it is a sad one, but very beautiful.

life's changing faster than I can keep up.

I hope I get to see TSO before the nation explodes.

It's election day. I swore I wouldn't pay attention to the coverage, bc the coverage won't change anything, and yet I seem to have MSN, CNN, and BBC News all open. I'm so stressed out already I've already made plans with a friend to go to Keglers and have wings and beer while we watch this mess unfold. This is the first time I've actually paid attention. Me and my left-wing views usually stay out on the fringe where no one can find us. This year however, I've gotten into more political arguements (with my family even) than ever. I think I'm going to need more than one beer.

In less stressful news, I'm twelve kinds of excited that I get to spend this weekend with the White family (especially Kellie, duh) AND get to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. You will remember them from this commercial.

Mom and dad got to watch TSO last year and mom described them as "death metal looking, but nice music playing." haha.

Also, I will admit to you readers, I miss my dog. I did not think I would. I planned to enjoy this weeklong vacation from Calypso, however sitting around last night, getting to eat all my dinner myself and not having half of it stolen, well I just didn't approve. But I guess she's having a fun time back home, fighting with Thor. I'm still trying to figure out how i'm going to put up my christmas tree this year and her not eat it or make it her new bathroom. This could get interesting.

And if you're wondering, I'm still taking the daily photo, I just havent been putting them online. Perhaps that should have been my goal.

Columbus, how I love thee.

This image sums up the greater portion of my weekend in Ohio. It was so much fun, I'm ready to move there tomorrow. Thanks for a fun time, Shainna!

Going out in Columbus is so much more efficient than in Morgantown. I think it is because you actually have real choices in where you go. The place where we were in the picture was the more interesting one we ended up in, complete with black and white movies playing on random screens all over the place and all the seating made of that green turf grass (look close at the photo, they are petting it. I am offended.) But it was such a fun halloween night. met some fun people. saw some great halloween costumes (olympic swimmers were big this year, although my favorite was Waldo (as in Where's Waldo).

Saturday we went to Cedar Point where I successfully reestablished my irrational fear of heights and clowns. I did ride several coasters, and am very proud of myself. The wooden ones that are older than my parents are officially more terrifying than anything I've ever experienced. And they still had the halloween stuff up, so we went through mazes and things with evil people jumping out at us. That is something I don't do so well with and actually socked one in the stomach at one point. I felt bad later, but he should NOT have been that close to me, haha.

But it was a great day. And thank goodness for this daylight savings time change giving me that extra hour to sleep in. My whole body is sore from being out and the rides jarring me around and sitting in the car for so long, but i think it was well worth it. I can't wait to go back to Columbus, and I think I'm going to try to do so more frequently. :)