i'm here to say... i have NO life.

The fact that I am actually blogging proves that my life is nonexistent.

I'm not really that sad that I don't have a life, it's just that when we do projects about our life, mine is usually very boring. Granted, I'm sure there are people out in the universe with lives more boring than mine, but in my opinion, my life is pretty damn boring. I believe that I can express myself well with the words I use. Majority of the time, my words aren't kind, but that's still a form of expression, right? My words are usually truthful, though. But anyway, what brought upon this realization of my horribly tedious life is Facebook.

Everything social seems to boil down to Facebook now days, right? Anyway, there are a lot of Facebook statuses that say how wonderful their day was and soon after that, pictures are posted. Because I live in Hawaii, you can imagine that many of these pictures come from the beach and even when they don't come from the beach, they are picture of people having fun with their friends. I have fun with my friends, but these people are having fun with their friends 24/7. But SNL is on now and because my life is so boring, SNL is the highlight of my Saturday night.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to do on the weekends, but as a teenager I'm supposed to "experience all that I can" or at least, that's what all the teachers say. That's probably why teachers are high school teachers. They want to try high school over again. But what the heck do I know. I'm just a unimaginative, uneventful, unvaried teenager.

BTW - Hunger Games is supposed to come out on March 23, 2012! YES.

BTWBTW - Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg and Andy Samberg all on the same SNL stage.

BTWBTWBTW - Jesse Eisenberg is funny. It's the whole SNL thing. Yeah. And Mark Zuckerberg can't act ... But he can invent the website that makes my life seem a little meaningless.

tests are never fun

I don't care how you phrase something. If you put it in test form, especially essay test form, it will be extremely displeasurable.

So tomorrow, our entire school day will consist of testing. We begin our day with World History where we will be tested on the cause and effects of the agricultural, industrial, and technological revolution. You see, we were supposed to have this test before we went on winter break, but it got pushed back because we had to watch a movie. Then we were going to have it yesterday, but we didn't get to finish the movie! So we watched. And now, since we had to review a day before the test and that day being today, we have our test tomorrow. Oh but wait! In our World Literature class, we were supposed to have a test on the Sophocles play, Antigone today! But we thought that we were going to have our World History test today so we told him that we already had a test today so he pushed it back to Friday! Now we have two test on Friday. But if you think that's it, I regret to inform you that you are wrong. We also have our Elementary Data Analysis quiz tomorrow. EDA isn't really all that challenging, but still, the fact that it's a quiz isn't pleasing.

That concludes my rant for this evening. I suppose I should just get myself a big, fat straw and maybe a soda of some sort and suck it up because as I have heard so many times, life gets hard and you just have to go through with it.

BTW: This just so happens to be my first post in 2011!

SIMP (Squirrels In My Pants)

Ha. That was just an extremely random title that I came up with. Go Phineas and Ferb! (And the squirrels too, of course.) Hey everyone, look who's back! ME! :D I apologize that I have not been blogging AT ALL for around, a month? Two? I was two busy not having a life. It's really time consuming actually. Nah, in all seriousness I guess I was just too lazy to blog... but here I am ready to talk about random crap!

So Christmas is over and it's the New Year. Everything just came and went too quickly. I don't think I enjoyed this holiday season as much as I should have. I mean sure, I really enjoyed and appreciated all the gifts that I got and all the time with family that I spent, but Christmas jut doesn't feel the same anymore as it did in the past. The lights don't bring that much excitement. Watching Christmas movies doesn't make me as happy anymore. Who knows, maybe I'm just becoming emo. Well, for now i just hope that one day, Christmas magic will come back.

Enough with the serious stuff. Well, I guess this topic is serious too, but not quite as much as the one before. I now realized that I do not type correctly. I do not. I don't use the home keys. Now I am trying my hardest to use the home keys and I'm typing at an incredibly slow pace. This is difficult for me. I never realized how much my fingers were jumping around the keyboard. Gosh, I think third graders type faster than the pace that I am typing at.

One last topic. So you know the website Youtube? Silly question, of course you do. Well, I guess you don't if you have not been exposed to the internet but that doesn't make any sense because how are you reading this now? Back to the topic. So there is this guy named Shay Carl and he makes these vlogs (video blogs) everyday and let me just say that he has the coolest family ever! He has a wife and four adorable children. He has two sons, "Sontard" who is probably the pimpest 6-year old right now and "Rocktard" who a little baby that i just so awesome. Then he has two daughters, "Princesstard" who is so cute and "Babytard" who is equally as cute as her siblings. Gosh. I spent nearly 15% (which is considerably a lot of time) watching Shaytard videos online. I'm hooked. It's like a TV show with mostly no commercials. This is the reason why I don't have a life. Thanks so much, Shay Carl :/

Well, that's all for today, folks. Hopefully you will be seeing more blog posts from me in the future and i will be using the home keys.

TTYL Biatches! (Was that how my closing went?),

Lauren

inspiring song

"Oh these times are hard and they're making us crazy. Don't give up on my baby." That's a line from a little song that'd I'd like for you to hear!

We all know that the economy has been better. This is pretty old news for us right now. But this song just reminds me of how horribly bad things were. It's not that they're not bad now, it's just that there was a time when it was worse; a time when people were saying "I've got a new job now in the unemployment line." I honestly don't really get what the song is saying besides the economic problem, but it feels like a hopeful song. Like if you were to play this song to someone who had recently lost their job, this song might give them hope. "Smiling but we're close to tears, even after all these years, we've just now got the feeling that we're meeting... For the first time." Now doesn't that just stuff you with hope? Well it stuffs me for hope. I'm not saying that listening to this song will get you a job, but it'll make you hopeful that one will come along!

Though, to continue what I was saying in my last paragraph, "hope" is not really a good thing sometimes. It gives a little bit of a false sense of security. It's something that you hold onto when there's really not much left. Saying, "I hope it doesn't rain today," isn't what I mean. I don't know. I feel like I'm going to far into a word. It's just a word right? They're just some letters that are put together. Like when you put the letters s-h-i-t together, you get "this." But then you use words to makes sentences like, "This is a good song," and that's how we as people communicate! Where would we be without words? Would we be stuck with primal hand motions? Would we hold our private parts and squeal to express our needs to use the bathroom? I know that sign language comes along, but it just seems hard to express things without words! Whoever came up with words is a magical being.

Well that paragraph just went all over the place! And unfortunately, I was reminded that there are only five more days of sweet, sweet bliss before I have to return to school. Yes, the italics was necessary. That is a word that I am never able to spell: necessary. Again with the words and the spelling of such words is just unfathomable. See that word! "Unfathomable" is just so much easier to spell than "necessary." Well this shall be my concluding paragraph and with that I say good bye, to you good sir or ma'am.

Oh geezus! I almost forgot! Here's a link to the song "For the First Time" by The Script. Good song. Listen. They have other good songs, too! They're the band that sings "Breakeven," one of their more popular songs.

happy holidays!

Well, it's been quite a while, hasn't it?

So it's finally Winter Break and for the first couple of days, it feel glorious but then, as the days go on, there are less and less things that are available for you to do. I mean I could blog every second of every day or watch sappy movies like The Notebook so that I could waste literally every tissue I have in this house. I could spend quality time with my dad who has so graciously taken two weeks off to spend his vacation time with me. I could read all of the books I said I'd read but hopelessly did not or I could read my textbook and study for the test that we're going to have once we get back to school. But I don't particularly want to do any of these things. I actually don't want to do anything which consequently makes me want to do something. It's sad because once I find something to do, I find it dreadful and boring so I don't want to do it and then the cycle begins.

But it was Christmas this past week and I got something fantastic! Have you ever heard of a Canon EOS 60D? Well I got one! See I'm not a professional photographer or anything even close, but I love photography and my dad does too so he got me one and I've been taking pictures of crap in my house ever since. Of course, it's not literally crap, but useless junk, but that is much to difficult to say all of the time and I'm talking like how I was talking in the last paragraph.

This break has been pretty rainy. My dad became the weatherman on Monday last week talking about the rain and the cold front and all of that stuff that I kind of pretended to listen to. But the good thing about rainy weather is that it's perfect movie watching weather! So recently I've seen "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" starring Cary Elwes. And it's funny because I recognized him from Psych when he played Despereaux, the art thief and I recognized him from Ella Enchanted when he played Edgar, that king dude. And now I'm convinced that I have to figure out why he talks the way he does in all the movies and TV shows that I've seen him in (and no, I didn't see Saw) so I've rented "The Princess Bride" seeing that it's like some sort of classic. But I am wondering why he speaks so theatrically. I mean, I know he's an actor, but not a whole lot of actors talk like that, you know?

I really have no idea what to talk about. This blog is really just a random collection of my thoughts for today. But I guess that's what all of our blogs are. I don't think any of us go all day thinking, "Wow, I wonder what I should blog about today!" Anyway, it feels nice to blog again. I really haven't done it in a long time.

when opportunity cost = procrstination... you know you're in trouble: a mini intro into econ. (according to my brother and his teacher) part two

this is totally funny and i just had to point out. 

in the less than 10 minutes it took me to type that last post up, i typed up 464 words.  <sigh>  if only essay writing could be as easy as writing down random thoughts.  not that i'm complaining an all, i love writing essays, but, it's been a stressful week and weekend, and i need sleep, but, i'm not a slacker.  i will finish my work. 

when opportunity cost = procrstination... you know you're in trouble: a mini intro into econ. (according to my brother and his teacher)

hi world wide web.  i'm back.  gwen the procastinator is back.  and this time, when i should be finishing up my fifth essay for world history class, i'm here, blogging. 

on friday, my brother, who's a senior, is taking an econ. class this trimester and was telling me about opportunity cost and how there was no such this as free.  (this all happened because my dad had a coupon for jack in the box where if you buy the burger you get a small fries and drink for FREE and how i was rambling on about how the world is conspiring against us and all... i've had a stressful weekend and when friday came around, well, it felt like christmas day.)  anyways!  opportunity cost.  at first i didn't remember what it was, though i learned about it in third grade when we had our mini society (we had to partner up with someone and create an item which we could sell to our teachers, parents, and peers on a big market day)  i knew i learned about it, but, it just didn't come to my mind.  anyways!  i finally gave in and asked.  opportunity cost is the value of the second best thing you could have chosen.  if that didn't make sense, think about this:  we all want something, but we can't have everything we want not even with all of the money in the world, because we only have 24 hours in a day, and time's irrelevent (i.e. "time flies when you're having fun"  but moves slower than a snail in the slow lane on the freeway) anways, whenever we do something, we give up what else we could do instead.  take for example now.  i'm blogging.  however, instead of blogging right now, i should really be doing my essay due tomorrow.  though i know i'm making the wrong decision (because i'm just going to have to stay up later therefore allowing me to sleep less) i needed a break from it all.  cost and worth are two very different things (quoted from "confessions of a shopaholic")  but it's true.  the cost of me blogging now is sleeping less, but, the worth of me blogging now is keeping me from going insane.  cost and worth.

but, back to opportunity cost =ing procrastination.  i have to type up about 300 more words for my essay on how women played a role in the feudal structure of japan.  (i've already finished to one about how geography plays a role in establishing a feudal society, can feudalism cross-cultures, is feudalism a medium of exchange, and how does a feudal society influence the establishment of an empire)  hopefully i finish by 1:30am, which is the normal time i (sadly) go to sleep these days.  wish me luck.