Countdowns

It’s been so long since I’ve blogged and there’s no real reason why I haven’t. I just haven’t been into it lately or my whole heart hasn’t ever been into it. I’m always on the computer, and always online. I’m constently checking Twitter and reading everyones tweets, but I never really update mine.

I want to know how everyone does it. Keeps their blog, twitter, and many of the other things they use, up to date. I usually don’t because I just don’t know what to blog or tweet about. I’m not a person that when something happens I think “Oh! I have to write that down.” I just never have been. If it’s something worth remembering, I remember it and don’t feel the need to write it out.

I know there are a couple of blogs out there that have list of topics you could blog about if your stuck. To me though, my blog is like a journal, only writing about this I want to get out. I’ve never been a person to keep a diary because I want to know what other people think and what they have to say about it. Especially if it’s something I need advice on and I’m not sure who to talk to.

I’ve been thinking for awhile about what to do with my site because it’s just been sitting here. I am never going to be able to close it or get rid of it. I know a lot of people get tired of their domain and get a new one, but I love mine. I’ve had it for so long that I can’t get rid of it. Sometimes when I’m bored I’ll just get on and change things on it.

I’m hoping to update a lot more now and keep focus because I miss talking to and hearing from all the great people I have become friends with online. Keep me motivated. Please?

So it’s been over two weeks since my last post and that is because I’ve really had nothing of interest to blog about. Well, there was one thing just at the time got lazy and then I don’t really know. I’ve been on the computer though, watching YouTube videos and everything. I’ve just been neglecting the site a bit.

I decided I wanted to get into the fall spirit with a new layout but I also wanted to have something up for Halloween so I just decided to make a Halloween layout and then once Halloween gets closer, I’ll work on one for just fall or Thanksgiving to have ready to put up when Halloween is over. I worked on the layout throughout the day yesterday and took my time coding it because I really didn’t like the coding the first few times I did it. I loved the scrapbook feel of my last one and I really didn’t want to take that down for that reason, so I decided to do another one. I wanted to put pictures of my baby cousin’s on it from a previous Halloween, but I couldn’t find any decent pictures.

A few days after my last blog, I went for my driving evaluation to see if I would be able to handle driving. We went on Tuesday (September 1st) and it was just a lot of things testing how my brain worked and responded to things, my hand-eye coordination, my reflexes and other thing to do with driving. The only reason was because even though someone just as a physical disability, it can sometimes affect the way the brain works. They said I did really well and there was no worry with that part and that I can easily handle doing a lot of things at once (like you need to do when you drive)

The next day we went for the driving portion and it was basically to see how well I could handle driving the car. It was all hand controls for me because that is what would be easiest. I honestly felt like I was playing a video game. I used a suicide nob for the steering and this like lever thing that you pull back to brake and push for gas. They said that I also did really well in that too and I could definitely handle it. Now I just have to go for my learner and it’s about a 6 month wait till I’ll get a schedule of when to go there and also when I can start drivers ed. Unfortunately though, for me, it will take about two years till I finally get my license, but I’m still really happy that I know I’ll have it eventually.

What I want to know is when and how did Twitter become such a big deal? I remember when I joined just to follow like two youtubers that I like and then all of a sudden, BAM, everyone was using it. There was a good amount of people using it then, but it wasn’t nearly the amount that is using it now and it’s not like it was a huge deal.

Now it seems everyone has one and they are like totally addicted, constantly updating it. I always try and use it a lot, but to be honest it’s not like the first thing I think to do when something happens “OH! Have to twitter that.” I try though, but I just can’t get the “Twitter bug” or whatever you want to call it.

There are some people though that make some stupid updates. Like c’mon, I don’t want to know that you’re going to bathroom. Keep that to yourself, it’s disgusting to be honest with you. If you don’t have anything worth tweeting about then don’t tweet anything.

And also the whole thing with celebrities. I’m not really complaining about this. I think it is cool when you can see what your favorite celebrity is doing and stuff, but now with them using it, it makes it like the thing to do now.

What really gets to me though is it’s like a game to see how many followers you can get and how many you can follow. Eventually that is why I protected my updates because I just had a lot of random porn ones following me or just some creepers and I didn’t like that. To me, it’s not just following anyone, follow people who you’re actually interested in reading their updates or even in the case of a lot of the blogger, to keep quick contact with people.

I’ve gotten a lot of request from some of the bloggers out there and I think it’s cool because I’ve found some people from site I didn’t even know were there till then and it’s like a good connecting place.

To me though, Twitter is just a trend right now like Myspace and Facebook . I think eventually it was slowly go dead. Then again, it has potential, unlike those other two networking sites, to become bigger.

Recently, (as in the last few days), I started watching videos of the live online show called Friday Night Cranks and they are amazing. Every Friday they do a live show on Stickam and make prank phone calls. They have people request calls by sending in a number and a senario. Some of them are really funny.

One of my favorites was when they called Apple customer support and the one host, Jared, said that he bought his son and iPod and it was filled with animal porn and he said “Now he’s dressed like a bear, trying to take advantage of his stuffed animals. I’m a bit concerned since he’s only four.” I was laughing so hard! They have so many others. If you go to their Stickam page you can view all their past shows. That’s what I’ve been watching for the past few days. Haha.

New layout! If you didn’t already noticed. I loved the Taylor Swift layout image but I wasn’t a huge fan of the layout itself. And I got inspiration for the three column layout from Liesl and also a tutorial on the rounded corners too. I liked it because I always have stuff for the side bar and it makes the page so long, but now I can have the stuff without that issue.

I just treated myself to ordering stuff online. I got me a pack of Pentel Rolling Writer® R100 and a Small Black 300 Line Page Notebook. Why you might ask? Because 1. I finally have a checking account so now I can order what I want without asking my parents to use their credit card and have them transfer the money from my savings account to their card and 2. I have an obsession with pens/pencils and notebooks. I’m actually planning on using the notebook as a journal and going to try and write in it everyday with thoughts and things I don’t want posted here. I’ve never had one before so that will be interesting.