Quotes

 In highschool, my friend Kim used to create quote books of all our friends/teachers silly phrases and sayings, so when we came to college, we were full-fledged quote whores lol (and picture whores of course!). But, these are all my quotes from facebook, which have been on there forever and I was gonna delete them and I just couldn't. Too many good memories <3 Enjoy!


"He was all up in my kool-aid" - Casey

" i giggled and look away then i looked back and giggled again, theni looked away again. theni actually really looked at his um............Little Petey. " - Sara

"Is he pushing a human body out of his penis? Then he gets no say so!" - Sara ^_^

No tofu no! - Me

Stick a fork in it! Argghh - Kim

Prostishimmy!

Chickens eat corn... right?

"The highest role of the educator is the maieutic role of Socrates: to help the student come to himself not as a consumer of experience, but as a sovereign individual" -Walker Percy - The Loss Of Creature.

"You think that you see what's present... but you don't you never do... all you can ever see is the past. Look in the mirror, you see a person in the mirror who is younger than you are... because the light has to go from you to the mirror and from the mirror to your eye. So it leaves you, goes back to the mirror and comes back. So whenever you see yourself, you see yourself a little earlier. It's actually uniportant. It's nanoseconds. But the truth is: all any human being can ever observe is the past. You never see the present. And everything you look at is younger than it is right now. When you look at the universe, you are looking at a universe that is billions of years younger." Allen from Bobrauschenburgamerica by Charles L. Mee.

"I think of myself like a bottle of spoiled milk, because im white and chunky" - Nate from Beauty and the Geek

"I'm running in my head!"

"When potato chips attacked"

"You all chilly, chilly/shimmy,shimmy/everything else lol"

"If we were on Amazing Race you would yell, 'USE YOUR BOOBS'
and i would yell 'I CAN'T I DON'T HAVE ANY!!'"

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be" - Shel Silverstein

"Don't step on me little fire!" - best roomie ever lol. (sing this to don't cry for me argentina lol its fun ^^ )

"That's not Japanese at all!" ( When Kim said she wanted to name her baby Sookie and I thought she spelled it like Suki XD)

" Real love is like a ghost. Everyone is talking about it but no one has hardly seen it" - Hanazakari no Kimitachi e Episode 12

"I'm an airplane!" - Kim

"I dont know how far love is from me, is it the distance of a bus ride or the distance from the earth to the moon? But i wish real love will be mine one day." - Hanakazari no Kimitachi e Episode 13

"Adultry is like going out for some milk when you have two good jugs at home" - some random commercial on tv lol

"Beneath this mask there is more then flesh. Beneath this mask is an idea Mr. Crede and ideas are bullet proof" V for Vendetta

"Sometimes people do the wrong things for the right reasons."

"There's fireworks or deatheaters on campus, either one or the other" Kim XD <3

"Laurence, why are you slapping a monkey!" - Night at the Museum

"Ewww it's sour when the stuff comes out!" - My sister <3


And my newest quote....

You have to find out who you are, and be that
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others, 
Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*.

The search for the great american boyfriend....

Don't be thrown off by my title readers! I am not looking for the great American boyfriend XD However, the reason for this post is due to my hulu.com hunt tonight. So out of sheer boredom tonight, I found this show on hulu.com called "Genuine Ken: The search for the great American boyfriend" and wow... it really depicts how America has become shallow - not only to women but to guys (as this show depicts!) as well!

I mean the title does say it all: The marketing directors for Barbie are looking for the next real life Ken to make another doll out of. But as I continue to think about it, if you're looking for the great American boyfriend, wouldn't it be something a little less like Ken? All of the contestants are quite muscular (they make fun of the contestant who isn't muscular and pale) and have beachy tans and even some are past models! But when I think of the great American boyfriend I think of the typical college guy. Not muscular, just average in height, weight, skin tone, looks. If you want someone to represent America, shouldn't it be someone in that average category?

Let me give you some staggering statistics on America and the people who TRULY represent this country:

• About 2/3 men out of 100 men (about 68 men) are between 5'7" and 6'.
• About 2/3 men out of all American men are 5'10" .
• About 1/3 of them are outside this range, with about half of those on each side.
• So, about 1/6 are 6'1" or taller, and about 1/6 are 5'6" or shorter.
• The average American male shoe size - 9-12 (U.S. measure).
• The average American male has 17.6% body fat.
• An average American man weighs 182 lbs. .
• The average American male exercises 2.87 hours a week.
• The average American male has 12.4 inch biceps and a 39.7 inch chest.
• The average American spends $596 dollars on sporting goods and equipments each year.
• The average American spends $874 on vitamins and food supplements.
• The average American male runs one mile in 12 minutes and 17 seconds.
• The average American male runs 110 meters in 16.5 seconds.
• The average American man eats 193 hamburgers and 115 hot dogs annually. ( I thought the extra facts on guys were kinda funny so i kept them in lol. :))

And now for the women...

• The average American woman is 5'4" tall and weighs 140 pounds.
• The average American model is 5'11" tall and weighs 117 pounds. (And this is who our young children are looking up too!!!!! )
• About 80% of American women keep on saying that they're dissatisfied with their looks.
• On any given day, almost half of the women in the United States are on a diet.
• During 2001-2003, the average American female weight was 153 pounds.
• Up to 2006, the average American female weight was 159 pounds. These figures are enough to represent the increase in average American weight by year.

So while i was looking up these statistics, I also found this:

• Almost half of American children between first and third grades say they want to be thinner.
• Four out of five ten-year-old children are afraid of being fat.
• On any given day, one in four men are on a diet.
• Half of our nine and ten-year-old girls say that being on a diet makes them feel better about themselves.
• More than one out of three "normal dieters" progress to pathological dieting. One fourth of those will suffer from partial or full syndrome eating disorders.
• Americans spend over forty billion dollars a year on dieting and diet related products.
• Between five and ten million women and girls in the United States struggle with eating disorders and borderline conditions.
• One million boys and men struggle with eating disorders and borderline conditions.
• The number of people with eating disorders and borderline conditions is triple the number of people living with AIDS (664,921 people are living with AIDS).
• Eating disorders affect at least three times as many people as schizophrenia does (2.2 million people are living with schizophrenia).

Aren't these statistics insane? I mean, children as young as NINE and TEN feel that DIETS make them feel GOOD? They shouldn't even know what a diet is! Not to mention, people are becoming sick because of an image that we have placed in our society as the 'norm'. This not only affects women but it affects men too. Just to think, all i did was watch a few episodes of Genuine Ken which isn't even a publicly aired show (just something made by hulu) and I was wondering why I wasn't more fit like the stick thin girls working for Barbie corporation. But, imagine the children who watch countless hours of T.V. with celebrities who are mostly underweight so that they look "GOOD" on T.V. Is this what the world has come too?

P.S. - I didn't expect this blog to turn out this way BUT, i'm happy that it did lol.

The keys to being sucessful...

It's been a while since I blogged about anything and well my mind has just gone blank recently with any sort of idea except for one. This has been on my mind for a few days now, and I just thought it would be helpful any sort of relationship really - a realtionship between a boyfriend/girlfriend, a difficult friend or even a difficult parent/sibling/or other relative.

1.) Take everything one day at a time or even one moment at a time: This may sound silly but it works. If you keep your focus just on that day it helps to appreciate the moment just a little bit more. This motto gets rid of all future/past anxiety and just allows you to enjoy the day as it is.

2.) Everyone, no matter how perfect they are in your eyes, have their flaws: So accept these flaws and realize that's the reason why you cared for them so much in the first place. Most likely that flaw was there when you first met the person. Don't try to change this flaw (unless it's something super horrible that you just CANT deal with) but instead learn how to work around it.

3.) Give the situation to God/higher power/just give yourself a break: I know not everyone believes in God or a higher power and sometimes they just have themselves to believe in BUT i found out that one of most amazing feelings is when the situation or relationship is just lifted from your shoulders, even if it is just a temporary time. Just asking God/higher power to take control of the relationship and just let him take it where he sees planned is one of the greatest feelings you can ever experience. It helps in two ways because 1.) you're finally letting someone else take control of an aspect in your life which causes less stress and 2.) it allows you to see the relationship or situation with open eyes because you don't have to heal it. You're letting God do that task.

And that's it for today <3

A whole bunch of frustration...

I swear, my research class and this semester is going to be the end of me. I got to my class about 15 minutes early and sat down and some of my other classmates were there as well. So, we start talking about the 13 page study guide that was sent to us over the weekend for our midterm and don't get me wrong; it wasn't a huge deal to me that it was 13 pages, it was the fact that only 25 questions were coming from this enormous study guide. In my mind, instead of taking up her time to write up a study guide, my research teacher should've just said that it was going to be over all the chapters but ANYWAY.

So my research teacher finally gets to class and everyone is trying to convince her that we should have a take home test (which i agreed with this because i really have no time to study a crazy study guide which will probably be about 30 pages when i put my input in) or to cut down the study guide just a little bit since it's only 25 questions. Well my teacher flipped out on us, saying that we shouldn't be getting our MSW if we didn't want to know the material and yeah. Finally, the subject got changed and we started class after 45 minutes of this crazy discussion (productive right? Well it just gets better).

Well she finally starts to lecture and somehow the mid-term gets brought up again by her and she decides to include now that it's an OPEN NOTE AND OPEN BOOK test! I think every single student in that classroom wanted to just beat her with our research books. And she acted like she told us this before, obviously if we would've known, we wouldn't have made SUCH a BIG deal about the midterm in the first place!

So yeah, this semester sucks. My classes suck and i seriously think i may just explode before i even get to graduation.

Two posts in one day :-D

I'm on a roll tonight! But in all honesty, a lot has happened today (so much that it feels like 3 separate days lol). But i have another drawing for you! So, my guy and I had lunch today and he got McDonalds in our student center (where i work haha but i was off at the time). He got his food and came to meet me since i already got subway :). At this time of the day, the employees at the registers of McDonalds mark the costumers initials on their receipt in order for the process to be a little bit easier lol and i noticed his receipt on the table. So i started to draw faces out of his initials (J.H.) and he and I (who i was trying to draw) ended up looking like an Amish cowboy couple lol. But i thought it was cute! Plus, he needed a picture of us for his wallet ;) so i made him put it in there lol. Did i mention that he's amazing for putting up with my corniness? :-D Here's the picture btw!

Welcome to the Nom Nom Cafe...

One day, i don't even remember how or when, i think it was when I first started to make cream puffs; I came up with the idea that I wanted to open a cafe. And of course since it's me, I had to name this cafe the Nom Nom Cafe. It's cute, it's original (or at least i thought it was until a few months ago) and it was something i knew that I'd probably never do but hey why not keep the options open huh?

(i'll get back to the Nom Nom Cafe after this portion about my class! lol) 

Well, my classes were just super horrible today. My research class has always been horrible and it pisses me off to no end. I mean, the teacher just reads right from her notes when she "lectures" and her lecturing is just so horrible. She starts "well the book talks about... blah blah blah" and then she moves onto the next topic " the book also talks about... blah blah blah". Not to mention she uses the same two examples for every topic! I think this woman (who has a Ph. D) has only done 2 research projects in her whole life time.

But today, we had a just speaker however and he was the Head of the social work department and he talked to us about Single System Designs. It honestly wasn't too bad, i read most of it in my book or had knowledge about it before hand, but at least it was reiterating what i had read and not just some random topic! Ugh... lol.

Anyway, after our guest speaker left, we had 30 minutes to do an in class assignment and then 30 minutes to meet in pairs to discuss this assignment. I mean i like the assignment idea BUT when the teacher doesn't give you personal feedback and your conducting an actual research project (going out collecting the data, almost like a thesis but i only have a semester and it's not so crazy) by yourself, it'd be nice if she actually helped us a little bit more and not have us rely on our peers so much.

So that class ended with me being all frustrated and then i went to seminar class where we spent an hour and a half going over simple child welfare terms such as safety, well-being and permanency. I can tell you that this is the third time that our class has gone over these terms since last semester (and it's with the same professor so he should know that!!!) and that was when i decided to doodle.

Now back to the Nom Nom Cafe portion of this blog. I came up with a doodle for the sign outside of Nom Nom Cafe. Now, don't be too judgmental but this is what i ended up drawing during my class lol. You probably can't tell but the O's have muffins in them :)

 And this is what I've been all semester... lol

O.M.F.G

I hate McDonald's. I always say i'm going to quit BUT i never do, so i guess it's kinda my fault that I'm still there. But seriously, when your assistant manager doesn't do anything because she has CRAMPS, that is a bit annoying. Especially when you're the only person on front line (which means that you have to get the drinks, make the fries, do register and hand out the food to people), it's kind of a pain in the ass if it's all your responsability. We weren't horribly busy today but i needed to do 4 different tasks for each costumer. It's a lot and it's NOT my responsability to do all of that by myself. Oh, and the other kicker is that she feels alright enough to be on the phone and get on the labtop she rented from the information station in our student center BUT she can't do her frickin job WHICH she is getting paid for. RAWRRRR. So for about 4.5 hours it was all me. She kind of helped when it got to be TOO busy, but O.M.F.G.

And even when the other manager came in to relieve her, i didn't get to leave until 5:30 (i was supposed to be off at 5) because this manager had to take a SMOKE break five minutes before my shift ended and she was only on the clock for 55 minutes when this occurred. UGH!

Oh, the other thing, when you go to McDonalds and order Ice Cream and the ice cream machine is broken don't blame the cashier. Usually it's not the cashier's fault that it's not working, usually it's the managers fault for not cleaning the machine before opening time, etc. I hate when people act like i'm the most horrible person in the world because we don't have ice cream. I only get your ice cream and prepare it for you. I do not tell the machine or my manager what to do.

Gr. The only good thing about today is that Dorian and I (or mainly me) had a giggle fest because of our first floor neighbor. Such a nice (and cute guy). If only he wasn't a smoker and druggie ( SUPER sad face), we could've hooked Dorian up with a guy! :-D lol.