Stupid hair.

Can never be happy.
So people just auto-think that having thick, curly hair is good. Okay, fine. Long eyelashes are good. Sure, why not.
BAH.
I'm sure in certain ways they are,
But to me? Infuriating. Can't do anything with my hair because it's too thick to hold anything and on the rare occasion it DOES hold something, it's only for a short amount of time and it'll usually start flipping out, because it refuses to stay how I want it.
And imagine if the make-up crazed people all had really long eyelashes. Goodbye mascara. Unless you want it under your eyes after blinking once, it pretty much has to be abandoned.
Nygh.
Like I said.
Nice in a way,
In other ways....
Mind-numbingly infuriating.

Random I know. My hair was just really annoying me today.

Frosted Flakes? WTF?

Soooo. Now that Michael Phelps [AKA Mr. "12,000 Calories A Day"] is all big and popular, you know he has a lot of business opportunities.
Everyone wants him to go with them. As usual. Of course.
And, being an athlete, you'd expect him to go with something pertaining to the sport, or at least something somewhat health-conscience.
Right?
No, of course not.
He's going to be on a cereal box.
Which isn't so out of the ordinary.
Only thing is, the cereal box he's going to be on is Frosted Flakes.
Good old box of sugar being covered in an Olympic-medal winning swimmer.
Yep. That'll get the kids out of their A.D.D for sure.

Have we all just lost our creativity, or what?

Seriously? What is UP with all of the skulls-and-dragons people have as tattoos?
First: If you actually know me, then you should know how against tattoos I am ONLY because how horrible they are for your health. Imagine drinking a bottle of ink. Considering the fact that by getting a tattoo you're shooting ink straight into your blood stream...Well you can see where I'm going with that.
Moving on.
The radio station I listen to has this tattoo gallery on their website. I was looking through it just for the heck of it, and it's driving me nuts, the amount of people with nothing but skulls and dragons. Don't get me wrong - I like 'em just as much as the next person. But for something being permanently drawn on your body, I'd really like it to be a little more creative than skulls and dragons. Am I asking for too much here?
Granted, some people have some pretty cool ones. Some are just a little pathetic, and others a tad deranged. In any case, the vast majority seem to just pick whichever looks 'cool'.
Perhaps those were the people who were drunk when they got them done.
*Ahem* Now if only they weren't so poisonous to your system, I'd totally be all for tattoos. [Just not a load of skulls and dragons, if you haven't yet figured that out.] And since I'm already on the whole subject, I shall just go on with what I might get, if they ever come out with an entirely organic-based ink that would do no harm to you whatsoever. [Not likely.]

Music note - Tiny, black, back of the left shoulder.
C'est La Vie - Back of neck. [Means 'That's Life' in Italian.]
Tiny purple heart with spikes around the edges - Inside left ankle
Black flower outline with a vine or two going up - Right hip

And that's it. Simple enough. Wouldn't want a bunch of flashy colors, all down the arms and legs. I'm good with a few tiny things and that's it.
But for lack of that all-organic, not-at-all-harmful ink, I think I'll stick with the piercings.
Well, with getting them, that is.
Six earrings in each ear, and a lip ring.
That's the plan.

Broken and Beige

So I'm reading this book called Beige by Cecil Castellucci. And I'm liking it.
Only got like 50 pages left, so it'll be done tonight.
But I found this quote that I loved, so here it is.

"Oh, and you can touch anything or try anything on. I always hated when adults would be freaked out about me touching cool shit. I have a lot of cool shit. If you break anything, well, I'll be really bummed. But I'll still have plenty of other cool shit."
Now if only everyone in their 40's could be so decent.

Also.
Loooooving the song Broken by 12 Stones. I've listened to it more times than I could count in the past three days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHo-Iigrlfk
^ killer song.

Cause I'm broken
I know I need you now
Cause deep inside I'm broken
You see the way I live
I know I know your heart is broken
When I turn away
I need to be broken
Take the pain away....

Breaking Dawn quotes

Well yeah. So I loved the book, even though a few of my friends didn't. [Read it again, guys.]
In any case, I had my notebook with me all the time, just because I knew there would be a slew of quotes to keep. Sooo here are some of my favorites.
[NOTE: There really are no spoilers, so don't freak.]

Bella:
The ultimate doom: Telling Renee. Early marriage was higher up on her blacklist than boiling live puppies.
"Its so inconvenient to be a mental mute!"
"You are killing my buzz, Edward."
"If I don't have a better sense of equilibrium in my next life, I'm demanding a refund."
"Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks."
"My shield has holes, Edward!"
"You are fairly ideal in every way."

Alice:
"Go to your happy place, Bella. It won't take long."
"You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails."
"Focus, Bella. Edward is waiting for you down there."
"Do you want to miss your plane? I'm sure you'll have a lovely honeymoon camped out in the airport waiting for another flight."
"At some point you're going to have to tell me what exactly is in Rio."
"I missed you too, Bella. So forgive me, and try to be satisfied with being the superhero of the day."

Edward:
"You may not notice me tearing the furniture apart, but it would probably scare them."


Jacob:
I didn't have trouble with my temper anymore, except when it got in the way.
"Say what you want, I still think Dracula 1 and Dracula 2 are creep-tacular."

Emmett:
"Hard to feel confident when you're surrounded by horse-sized wolves."

Carlisle:
"Try to find Alistair and tell him what happened. I'd hate to think of him hiding under a rock for the next decade."

Leah:
"I wasn't born a compassionless shrew."

Jake: "I guess things are going to be kind of boring now, aren't they?"
Edward: "I fervently hope so."

Haha. Er...I don't know you...

Luckily.
6 foot, 250 pound mail carrier.
A tad on the chubby side.
Doesn't like the mail carrier uniforms.
Evidently the shorts don't work for him. Supposed 'chafing and scarring' are included there. [Something I never wanted to know.]
His plan to fix this?
Have kilts be part of the mail carrier uniforms.
No, you did not misread that.
Kilts.
Yeah.
Kilts.
ARE YOU BONKERS, MAN?!
Oooh,
Not cool.
Funny,
A little nuts,
But really.

Uhm, crazy much?

So there's this lady in her 50's.
She's driving around with her granddaughter, who is 3.
No big deal, harmless bonding time, right?
Uhm. Yeah. Not so much.
Thing is, granny's letting the kid lay on top of the car while she drives.
No she wasn't going down a freeway or anything. She claims she was going at snail speed, and holding on to the kids leg. "It's fine, she's having fun."
Riiiiiight.
Needless to say she was charged with child abuse.

Too many people die.

So.
If anyone hasn't heard that comedian/actor Bernie Mac died last week...well he did.
Evidently he had some sort of auto-immune disease. Thus, of course he had some medication for that. Which basically means you're immune system can't fight anything off.
Then he got pneumonia.
And couldn't fight it off.
And therefore he died.
Which sucks.

How many cheerleaders can you fit in an elevator?

About 26.
Soo. There's this cheerleading squad.
And for whatever reason, they think it would be fun to see if they could all fit in the elevator.
26 cheerleaders in one elevator.
Hey girlies, you know that little blinkly light that comes on when you go over the weight limit? Yeah that means GET OFF.
But no.
They get stuck in the elevator. Half of them pass out. But they're all okay, no worries. No less brain cells than they had before.
Every guy's dream.
26 cheerleaders stuck in an elevator.

You'd think they'd know better.

You really would think a preacher would know better.
Of course not.
This certain one happened to be charged with road rage.
Yep.
Evidently he was just so excited to get to wherever it was he was going, that he wound up chasing someone with a gun.
Way to practice what you preach, dude.

Well that's disturbing.

Whoops.
No more riding the Lynx buses, for fear of having your head cut off.
Well at least if you were that one guy...
I swear I'm serious. That's what happened.
Some crazy Chinese dude actually...to the guy sitting next to him.... just... -shudder-
And the Chinese dude had moved to Canada, so like that wasn't weird enough as it was.
THEN
No, that isn't even as bad as it gets.
That was last week. THIS week, we hear that sir Chinese-Canadian crazy happened to be a bit of a cannibal.
So you can imagine how THAT turned out.
Nice, eh? [And yes, that was sarcasm, thank you.]
The world is screwed.

Random Renamer

Extremely helpful, or just really, really amusing.
http://www.babynames.com/Names/rename.php
I always use www.babynames.com for things like character names in stories. THIS however, is wayyy better. Especially considering you don't have to sit there and search for hours. You just type in your stuff, click away, and you've got your new name. And if you don't like it, you click it again. And there's your new new name.
Brilliant.