First off, I don't get to say Happy Birthday/Merry X-mas to people because of my current religous standing (Which is why I normally say "Have a good one."), but I can/I'll allow myself to say this: Happy President's Day my fellow PFers!
^Mount Rushmore in South Dakota...Who are these men? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Rosevelt, and Abe Lincoln...or as Ellen DeGeneres called them: "George, his wife, Tom Selleck, and the Penny."
To me, today is a day in observation to our past Presidents (at least...I'm not fully sure if I want to celebrate George W Bush '~') and historical accomplishments for the United States. Plus it's officially designated during this day to be George Washington's Birthday, who would be 275 years old if he were still alive...which is beyond "over the hill," past the stream and a forest or two. He'd probably want an I Pod, the full ability to go out get tipsy with John Adams + company, and a little somethin-somethin from his wife Martha. (Don't be too scared from that image...she could've been cooking him a pie for all we know...)
I was kind of dreading this day 24 hours ago, because I didn't have it off and I wouldn't be able to hang out with my school-free friends over in Golden and/or Littleton. There wouldn't have been a non-detrimental way for me to ditch to join them, because I had to show up for a quiz and to turn in a couple papers. I got to say, Wow, this day was good!
Why (you probably don't care to ask) was this a good day for me?
I'll tell you why:
- I was having a pretty bad last week mostly because of all that was sadly discovered and pissed me off last Wednesday between a few factors/situations I really don't feel like discussing about here on this online setting. ~ Plus I had a really bad cold/flu while talking with hometown friends about these certain events. During that night I was attempting to churn out a long 8-page paper about a subject that required extensive online research that was really rough to make and had it's due date pulled sooner then later. Long story short, while being sick and being under some pretty ugly sets of emotions, I pulled an all nighter to get the paper done, which I then submitted online 4 hours before it was due. A few days ago, I went back to look at everything I typed while being under those circumstances, and was far from satisfied about the job I did. (Which bothered me a lot.) Well, today I went online and suprisingly saw that I got a perfect score (150 points / 150 points) and a set of great comments that really made the whole terrible Wednesday night worth it. I felt really proud of myself.
- Today while in a couple classes, I found myself earning some needed Extra Credit points through some discussions. Plus I made some sudden jokes that had the entire class laughing. (Then again, it was very easy to do because most of those people hardly watch the amount of TV/pop culture that I do...) And when I purposely make people LOL, it oddly gives me this small power/confidence that keeps me going.
- My room is now 85-90% clean, which is the best it's been for the last few months.
- I got a small call from one of the scholarships I recently entered in stating that I was a top 10 finalist out of 71 people who had also applied. And if all goes accordingly in my imagined perfect world, I might not have to pay for school at all next year. (It's a $5000 grand prize, and then two $2000 runner up prizes.) I'm really excited about this. I've been trying and trying to get some scholarships, but I have had a terrible streak at getting them. (I only recieved my first scholarship I ever applied to, and have had nothing but rejections for the next 40-some competitions/scholarships/contests since then until now.) ^___^!!!!!!!!
- I've been mostly eating whatever I want and sort-of doing whatever I REALLY want lately. I haven't felt this self-satisfied in a long time. I have had 5 fast food meals and several bars/bags of candy/peanut M&Ms in these past few days alone. Of course I probably have a few new spots of acne and an extra 15 pounds added to my body but I don't care, I'm friggen happy. Plus I got to hang around with my high-school buds the other night, who were true best friends by just alone letting me vent out my entire last week in a very fair amount of confidentiality. After that, we went out to eat and to a small apartment-party then back to a frat house where additional good times were made. (We got to see two girls make out and play some air hockey.)
And after I'm done with this site tonight, I'm going to start in on the new Zelda game that I've owned for more then a month now.
As you can tell, my life is well right now. !!!
(I’m just Kidding about the title!...with just the beads part…)
Yes! Following the illustrious and 100% meaningful day about US Presidents comes a holiday where girls/women flashing their boobs (breasts, jugs, tahs-tahs, buffers, woofers, Victoria’s real secret, fun bags, Simon & Garfunkel, Cheech and Chong, humps, peaks, hills, melons, ski slopes, Cleveland, etc.) gets them a strand of beads…
……Well, that’s just one detail. As stated in wikipedia:
Quote:
It is the final day of Carnival (English:IPA: [kaː(ɹ)nɨvəl]). It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent (Ash Wednesday)
In a compartive sense, it’s kind of like most Bachelor parties before weddings that could follow on the next day…one last fling before becoming committed to a wife, but this time it’s with whatever religious sacrifice a person makes… and the time length of this commitment could very well last longer then the marrige. (Hey it’s a little true here in the US… )
Also, it’s a night where a lot of people get drunk and party. (Gee, how can anybody forget this factor?)
… (Yeah, there’s probably some other major details/meanings behind Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday I’m skipping over…) …
As for myself : I don’t think anything is going to happen with me tonight because I have to wake up tomorrow for school and whatever else requires my world to be spinning upright. The couple places I know here in Denver that are going to have some sort of party have a set age requirement of 21 years old to just enter. And it’s kind of hard to do anything on a school night anyways. On top of that, I don’t think this year’s celebration has had as much hype found in the past few years. The Fat Tuesday after Katrina seemed far bigger while having a spiritual significance towards the affected areas the Hurricane hit, but now it seems to have toned down a lot. The holiday almost seems to have been overshadowed.
Last year I went to a small party, gave a toast before a couple dozen people who I mostly don’t care for or remember at this point in time, let some random girls feel up my pecs (…thought about apologizing right then and there), was given two things of beads, and left the place. I remember winding up at Wal-Mart getting a few things then coming straight home to get some Math assignments done. (Yep, that’s life for me. )
*Sigh* `_`…
I might as well go get some free pancakes at my local IHOPs …
Good Luck guys with whatever you do or don’t do on this day.
Coming Soon:
Allright,
I think it's time to play with & throw down the gauntlets with my own specialized version of MUM's THE WORD. Mostly no one who has been posting here on a frequent basis will be excluded or safe from this. And let's just say, even though there is a "mum" factor, names will be mentioned. All hell might even break loose with just this one blog, it could likely be very raw.
That's all the information I'm going to say for now.
Then sometime by the end of this week, I'll be playing a "nice"-opinionated round of Media Blitz featuring Britney Spears.
Britney Spears (The quarterback/biggest target of this week)
This girl is really overly *****d throughout the media now, more so then Anna Nicole Smith. (And she has more of a reason to have this sort of constant light shined at her.) I think it’s time that she be given some alone time without the paparazzi snapping at her. I’m also thinking about switching my stance and say that she truly does have a problem that isn’t going away until she has privacy + appropriate help. Yet again, no one from the press has talked to her first hand...
Otherwise this latest BS situation is Hokey-Pokey:
Britney puts one foot into rehab,
She pulls the same foot back out,
She puts the foot back in,
Then pulls it right back out.
She flees the rehab center,
While holding onto her superficial hair(and fans in the questioned air),
That’s what our crappy culture has been about!
HEY!
<---Howard K Stern Anna Nicole Smith, her burial, and etc.
Even though I think she was an all right model (not a role model, …just a model) and kind-of an overrated celebrity during some years, she was a nice as well as sometimes a beautiful woman. I’m really surprised Anna and her son all went “down” within just a year. I also have thoughts that the baby should be tested for whatever caused the death of her two family members and make her life out so she doesn’t die at an early age as well. For Grandma Smith, who I’ve seen Anna make her out to be more of an enemy then a parent via Entertainment Tonight video testimonials, I think she should respect her daughter’s wishes. Daniel needs to be left alone in his grave at the Bahamas next to his Mom. But besides that, from what media I’ve seen, Anna’s Mom really lost all her credibility for not being an appropriate and supportive grandparent to Daniel along with the fact that she let her daughter become a stripper/pole dancer at such a young age. Then again, I’ve only seen maybe 20 minutes of this whole celebrity ordeal.
It’s an ugly situation, and I would be finding myself barely able to sleep if I were one of the people in that family.
EDIT: It was just announced today that the Guardian of Anna’s Baby won the very “theatrical” court battle and was shortly after announced that both sides agreed to bury Anna in the Bahamas. The video I viewed was kind of interesting to watch. Anna's mother and the Guardian were walking out of the courtroom building arm in arm.
UK troops bowing out of Iraq
First off, YES the United States wasn’t alone in this war (a common misconception)…but soon will be.
I say it’s a fair move on Blair’s part, as the UK/US troops managed to stabilize a couple parts of the nation to where it could be safely turned over to Iraqi officials. However, I think this action is more along the lines of a more covert statement against the Bush Administration and the whole Iraq war. I don’t see a time table for US troops getting of Iraq until Bush is out of Office or something within the government branches transpires. There have been a lot of stories and times during this whole ordeal ranging all around the emotional spectrum. But at least Saddam is out of life & the mess he mostly created. And it’s not related, but the Global War on Terror is still making progress even if Osama hasn’t been found yet. (Although word is that he passed away sometime late last year from Typhoid disease.)
If anything else, I look forward to the announcement that most/everything in Iraq is stabilized again and the US troops can officially start coming home to their families and BBQs as the UK troops are going to be doing over the next 12-15 months.
*Kicks the ball into lighter territory*
Jet Blues
Ouch at JetBlue airways keeping passengers in a plane for that long. And the flight attendants better have passed out some mini-junior pilot wings to those stranded people…they didn’t have any the last time I flew ...well I was actually watching a friend take off...but still... For this situation alone in some conjunction to their massive delays, I think they should sell out to United or some other airline. They’re going downhill. But it’s awesome to see there are some steps and examples being made of this situation (see their newly implemented Customer’s Bill of rights). …But then again, it could be fun to be trapped in a same airplane for hours while on the ground. You’d probably make a couple new friends and have the opportunity to play a very big game of Uno. There’d probably be enough gold-fish crackers to last that entire time….Unless you’re that anti-social and somehow hate munching down schools of those delicious snacks…
Oscars 2007
My hope is that my personally stated good films/actors win (pretty much like everybody else tuned in), and something other then the Queen wins best picture. Little Miss Sunshine was a fair comedy to say the least which is a dark horse for all its categories. The Departed was an excellent dramatic thriller which is now on DVD. I’ve still yet to see Letters from Iwo Jima, but might sometime later this year. And finally, Babel was a great movie that kind of echoed a theme or two from last year’s top winner, Crash.
I’ll be watching, I know some of the PFers will be watching. Ellen will be hosting, I like her. It should be a good night!
When’s the next round of Rosie v. Donald?
Whatever the hell happened to this hilarious Rosie vs. Trump situation? Did the Donald kick her fat ass apart? Or is Rosie clucking back on her show? (Notice the word “her,” because the whole thing doesn’t belong to Barbra Walters anymore)…
Carson Daly reaching 5 years on his talk show
Yes, he is still on the air @ 1 AM in the morning with his NBC show, Last call. This is his life post-TRL now. Kinda sucks, but he passes with me as good-OK, and the music is mostly awesome. This is the same program where bands such as Maroon 5 had their US TV debuts. I say MTV should pick up his show and chuck out the 5th disgusting re-run of The Hills/Laguna Beach every night.
Cheers to you Carson Daly! *Raises plastic bottle of root beer* Here’s to another 5 seasons.
I'm going to be leaving Popfusion... It's finally happening...
People don't like me here anymore.
It isn't the same here.
I just speak the truth or an opinion and people get mad at me or throw some stupid
smileys. :stupid:
Well. No. More.
I am better then most of you, and I have... I have... I have...
...school....and...and...a few other problems/thingies I have to go take care of...like my plants...and like my parents are supposed to have a talk with me...and I have a hee-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge assignment due very soon that I'm not like prepared for.(TRUTH MOMENT: it's only a one and a half page paper where it's strictly based upon opinions... it's so haaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrd... and I've it's been like assigned for 3 months now...) I'm freeeaking OUT, and I don't need this site anymore to add into my life! I am FED-EXING YOU ALL! That's right you guys are a one big ass KFED...and I"M BRITNEY SPEARS...no...I"M LIKE THE GIRL IN KATHERINE MCPHEEZ" VIDEO...YEAH I"M OVER IT AND YOU!
MMMMMMMMMMHMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!:::
...so...like
...yeah...
like....Bye...
I'll miss a couple of you.
(Just Kidding...*Hears dissapointment amongst some of the board*)
Sorry I could've resisted, but I decided to play ***** just a little bit + have a little bad humor at a little risk towards a few others... (I know...it annoys you a little bit... right certain older vet members who just might have a position on this site?...plus whoever else...?)
Nah, I'm not closing here for a long while to say the general. If anything, I'll eventually post less frequently, as past members do.
But c'mon, a couple of you kids don't need to overtly say you're going away via threads. I know a couple of you aren't necessarly doing it strictly for attention. (or so I'm nicely percieving...) You shouldn't need to make a huge exit; that just makes it even harder to leave this forum and to do whatever in life that requires time away from PF. I guarantee, 9/10 of you will eventually within the next 48 hours...or 48 minutes, you'll just spy on this site as a guest...which isn't really leaving the site. Besides, it's an internet site, not a physical stucture-place. (example: home, a workplace, or a school) You can easily come and go as you may with a simple connection to the an internet cable or modem. Then again, last I checked, there wasn't much to cry over here in PF-land. It's not as if you see these people on a daily basis in real outside life...*Shudders at that thought* If you're feeling that emotional about this site, you need to take a break. There are at least a million other sites you can go to, or better yet, get off the computer and go have or make some fun elsewhere. Then you can come back whenever you want. Life is better without this kind of uneeded drama.
This is just my nickel about these sorts of situations take it, leave it, save it, throw it in the well, or use it on a scratch ticket... Or if you hate it and despise me in some way, then the nickel might be just the right size to shove up one of your someplaces.
No, you're not Kevin (or a M.A.R.C.-what'shisname)...unless you constantly post about your most personal stuff regarding sexuality (and whatever he eventually got whiney about) in the lounge or elsewhere besides your own blogs/territories...post multiple pictures with your tounge sticking out...and then claimed to have posted your own "manhood" or anything of that nature for potentially millions to see. (NO KEVIN, this isn't a rip, and it DOES NOT REQUIRE A RESPONSE OR AN ESSAY) And remember, people like to be bitchey for their own reasons here. Don't take it too heavily; as for myself, I play with it.
You're doing just fine before and past this. ^_^!
Thnaks Travis, nice to hear that, tho Kevin is really funny when he makes his usual posts, I don't want to think of me as he. I just don't want people get the wrong idea about me