Too late??

Warning:  this post is about American Idol.  So all of you who are sick of the American Idol hype... turn back now.

I'm way excited for the finale this week!  However.  I'll be honest.  I don't particularly care who wins.  THAT'S RIGHT, I DID JUST SAY THAT!  I like Adam.  So sue me.  I know he screams too much.  I realize that.  He does have freakin' amazing skills, though.  I think Kris has a great voice, but I've never particularly cared about him either way.  Kris is humble... Adam knows he's great.  There are ups and downs to both, so whatever.  Not that it really matters, though.  I think Adam has it in the bag.

ANYWAY.  The real point of this post is that I want to know if any of you remember Ricky Braddy.  He was one of the wildcard options and didn't make it to the top 13.  HE WAS FREAKIN' AMAZING and I'll never forgive the judges for picking Jasmine Murray and Megan Joy (?!!?!?!) over him.  Although, even if he had been picked- he probably wouldn't have made it very far, since AI gave him absolutely zero screen time during Hollywood Week.

If you want to see him- just go to this website.  The contestants get better and better as the season goes on, so if he was this good during the Top 36, imagine where he'd be now.  That's all.  Over and out.

Think it's too late for me to vote for him now??

I have a love/hate relationship with technology.

Ready for some amazing news?  All of my technology has ganged up against me.   Let me introduce you to my technological things.

First:  my camera.

A Nikon Coolpix something or other.  Purchased in 2005.  Notice anything wrong with it?  Let me help you out.  The battery door is held together with duct tape!  Lucky for me, my awesome roommate Jenny gave me colored duct tape once upon a time, but still.  The duct tape resulted from it being dropped on the ground early in 2006 during one rockin' spring break trip.  It hasn't really given me anymore problems... until now.  About 6 months ago, it made a decision.  No more pictures outdoors.  Oh.  Okay.  Not like anyone ever needs to take pictures OUTSIDE!!  Anything taken outdoors just turns out super washed out and really ugly.  Great.

Second:  my phone.

A Samsung never-made-to-last-more-than-a-few-months.  Purchased in 2007.  Really... I mean 'purchased' in the loosest of terms because it was the free phone that came with the plan.  This is actually my second one.  The first one was dropped into the ocean in March of 2007 on... you guessed it... spring break.  The cons of this phone?  Well... it was the FREE PHONE THAT CAME WITH MY PHONE PLAN IN 2007!  What I mean by that... is that it works really well.  It's cute trick is that it likes to reset itself all of the time.  Sometimes I hear it resetting itself in the other room, but it's favorite time?  Whenever I'm texting.  Neat.  The other day I was in the middle of a text when it decided to reset itself, and somehow, it managed to take all the texts I had gotten in the previous 2 days, and delete them in the process.  Impressive.

Third:  my computer.

A cute Macbook.  Purchased in 2007.  I love this computer!  Except.  Except for it's... new friendship with my phone.  My computer worked perfectly, until... you guessed it.  It was dropped.  This sad event happened when I was sprinting through the airport trying to catch a layover after visiting my sister in NC in 2008.  My trustworthy backpack broke open and dumped it onto the hard airport floor!  Here are a couple of pictures of the damage.  

Here is the corner where it landed.  That part can't shut, and some... mechanics... inside are bent up, too.

There are three of these chips, but I  thought one picture would suffice.  Two of them (this one included) are along the bottom, below the keyboard, and one is up above the screen.

Since that... it has developed a few new habits.  Mostly it just makes funny noises occasionally.  I decided not to get it fixed because I found out how much it would cost.  Ouch.  It's a just-get-a-new-one sort of a cost.  Every so often it finds new noises to make, and always surprises me.  I can handle weird noises.  That's okay.  Chirp, whirr, gaffffunk, crank, and sigh all you want.  It's all been manageable, until this last Wednesday night.  Somehow my phone managed to teach my computer that cute little resetting trick.  Now, it does it all the time.  Wednesday night it reset itself 4 times in the hour I was trying to use it.  Lucky for me, it's only done it once while I've been writing this post.  Wonderful.  It's so cute when electronics work together.

So now what?  I can't buy new stuff right now, but as you can see... it's sort of time!!  Maybe I'll just find an Amish community and join them.  They don't have these problems.

Hmmm...

Well... I did it!  I finally chopped my hair off.  It's nothing like I expected it to be.  I'm not sure how I feel about it, cause I always feel like I made a huge mistake when I walk out of a salon.  Generally because I really hate how stylists actually style my hair.  It's pulled half-way up because it was... very fluffy earlier.  No thanks.  Maybe I'll post photos of it down if I like it when it's down.  If not... it'll never be down. :)

I tried to get some pics of the back so you could see the color.  They weren't terribly successful, but here they are, anyway.

So... there you are.  Done and done.  :)

One year older... and wiser??

Now... I realize that usually this song/phrase is reserved for people having birthdays, but... technically I am one year older than I was... last year.  And what is significant about one year ago in my life?  

                  GRADUATION

 

Graduation.  The day when- quite suddenly- one is expected to be an adult.  I have a lot of friends that graduated either this weekend or last weekend, and it's made me think a lot.  Looking back a year... where did I think I'd be now?

After I graduated I started the ever-dreaded job search.  After interviewing a few places, I decided that I wanted to take a year off, so I backed out of all of them.  So.  I did it.  I took a year off.

NOW WHAT??

That is a question that I, unfortunately, can't answer.  I'm currently staying with my aunt and uncle in Sandy.  Art and Katherine have been soooo amazingly nice for letting me crash at their house.  I've once again begun the job search game, but I'm not really sure what will come of it.

Did any of you know that this economy isn't doing so well?   Cause yeah... it's not.  Love the job market.

But I have decided one thing-  I'm going to do my best to stop stressing about the future!  I'll do everything that I can to figure things out, but after that... I'm just going to try to relax.  Things will work out, right?  Now the trick is I just have to keep telling myself that. 

And now... somebody we could all use a little more of in our lives: