I'm embarrassing

Maybe if I shared how humiliating my life is, you can all feel better about yourselves.  And you know I'm all about good self esteem...
But we'll start small:
On my fourteenth birthday my dad took me to the store to buy me my first cell phone which was awesome.  We picked one out and the lady that worked there was getting it set up when it somehow came up that it was my birthday.  We finished buying the phone and as we were leaving the store she called after me, "happy birthday!" And I said, "happy birthday to you too!" And then she started laughing and I realized what I had just said and I felt like slapping myself in the face.
That happens to me every year at least once.

Go, me! ;)

Grammar Nazi

Sometimes, some people's grammar needs to be corrected.  And most times, I correct it.
Sometimes, when I correct people's incorrect grammar or spelling, they call me a grammar nazi.  And this is one of my biggest pet peeves.

If you've ever called me or anyone else a grammar nazi, do you realize how offensive that is?  Nazis were a group in World War Two that harassed, imprisoned, and killed Jewish people among several others.  They were extremely racist and discriminative against the Jews as well as those who were mentally handicapped, putting outrageous numbers of innocent people in concentration camps where they were tortured until they died.  They ruined the lives of billions of people in what was one of the most horrific events in history.
All I did was correct you for misplacing a comma or using the wrong 'your'.  It's beyond offensive to compare that act to the acts of the Nazis, even if you're only joking.

Don't call people Nazis, okay?  It's not cool.

Thoughts on Humility

I don't think humility is something everyone understands fully.  To me, humility isn't the same as low self esteem.  Humility is realizing your weaknesses, but that's not all there is to it.  Humility is recognizing your weaknesses but also accepting him, and recognizing your strengths as well.  Self pity is a form of pride people don't often see.  Someone who is truly humble doesn't see themselves as being better or worse than anyone else; they don't compare themselves to others at all.  They see the strengths and weaknesses in others as well, congratulating and praising them for their accomplishments and helping them with the weaknesses through service.
To be humble, first think of people in your life and list the things that are great about them, whether it be talents you admire or qualities about them (physical or otherwise).  Remember that everyone is unique and has different amazing qualities.  Next, list your favorite things about yourself..maybe you like your eye color or your freckles.  Maybe you like the fact that you're patient or maybe you're very friendly.  Start with small things or obvious things until you can see all the good in you.  Then, recognize your weaknesses not as things you hate, but things you can improve on, or things that just might not be meant for you.  Life isn't about being perfect, it's about getting better day by day.

Crayons

So when people of multiple different ethnicities are coloring, and someone says "pass the skin color", what color do you give them?  Your skin color or theirs?  Or do you ask which one?  And is that racist?

This is why we should just call the colors by what the wrapper says.  Seriously, people.  It could go very wrong.

What I would name my cat if I had one:

I don't know.

Fandoms upset me

I have several pet peeves.  Fandoms are one of them.

You can hate on me for this but my opinion is very strong.

It's fine to like a tv show/movie/book/band/some other form of fandom.  It's fine to love it.  It's fine to say a certain show is your favorite show, or a certain book is your favorite book, etc. and for certain reasons.  It's even fine to love it so much that you set aside time to watch/read/listen to it, or do so with your friends or family, and so on.  That's just great.  That's what those things are there for.  However, when you start saying that this thing is your "whole life" or spending crazy amounts of time obsessing over it or analyzing things about it or never shutting up about it, that's when it turns from great to kind of pathetic and annoying.
Constant fan-made memes of your fandom are not interesting to see on Facebook.
Nobody appreciates it except the other people in your fandom who are as lost as you are.
Instead of making friends with the characters of your fandom, try having a real life and making actual friends with real people.
Remember that you are your own person.  Why be defined by a character someone else made when you can define yourself?

At the end of the day, it's just a tv show.  Just a movie.  Just a book.  Just a song.  It's made up and it's meant only to entertain people.  That's all it should be taken as.

The Goat Story

My friend told me this story and I laughed for about ten minutes straight because I have a sick mind.  This is a true story but I don't know the people that this story is about.

Once upon a time, this guy wanted to ask this girl to prom, so he rented a live goat (mistake number one).  He put a sign on the goat that said "will you goat to prom with me?" (This is my new favorite thing because I love puns.) He then left the goat unattended on the girl's front porch (mistake number two).
The goat wandered into her backyard...and there was a canal in her backyard...and the goat fell in the canal and died.  So then the girl finds this dead goat in her backyard with the sign "will you goat to prom with me?" on it, and she thought that was all meant to happen, and she was so creeped out by it that she texted him no.
:D
The end :)



P.S.  Shut up Chris, it's hilarious and you know it.
P.P.S.  rentagoat.com is a real website.  We looked it up.  And it's also not a good way to get that girl you've always liked to go to prom with you.