Please don't be ignorant

I was just browsing the flair on facebook... and realized that every other piece of crap flair is "anti-Obama" or "anti-capitalism" or "I'll Keep my money, guns, and freedom. You can keep the change."

Clearly someone's still a little sour over the November election. Well, grab a tissue and get over it. Clearly someone doesn't realize that this country is NOT TURNING TO CAPITALISM OR SOCIALISM or whatever! Seriously. Take a look at the health care plans. Take a look at Canada's national healthcare. It works up there. Maybe it will work here.

I get how some people don't like "change". But considering the direction that everything took while Bush 2.0 was in office, I'm up for any kind of "change". If these people making the flair were content with the way the country and economy was going before Obama, they can go buy their own country and bring it down. Don't screw America over. Give Obama a chance. You assume everything he's doing is bad just because he's Democrat. I'm not saying that all Republicans are like this (maybe only the extreme ones), but it's sure making "republican" and "ignorance" sound like the same word to me.

No offense to all my republican friends. And you know my opinion and I are outnumbered here in AL. :)

MTV VMAs 2009

I'm a huge fan of the Video Music Awards that come on MTV every fall. Even though Tokio Hotel wasn't there this year (Best New Artist 2008 what what!), it's always fun to watch. You never know what will happen.

This year's VMAs were awesome. Simply because of two things: Kanye West and Lady Gaga.

It was the beginning of the awards show. The first award given (I think) was for the Best Female Video. Nominees were Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, blah blah blah. Taylor swift won. I didn't think she'd win, but I love Taylor Swift. Her video was awesome, so whatever. She was in the middle of her acceptance speech when Kanye "I'm-the-biggest-ass-ever" West interrupted her. He said he would let Taylor finish, but Beyonce had the most amazing video. How awkward for Taylor. And she didn't get to finish her speech. Thank God Beyonce is so classy and invited Taylor to finish her speech when Beyonce won for best video. Kanye should have been thrown out. He also needs to learn some manners and to shut up. So, Mr. Master of Douchebaggery, frankly no one cares about what you have to say.

The best part of the night was watching Lady Gaga. Genius!! Sheo's so weird and eccentric and I love her. She had many outfits that were crazy, including this black mess that she couldn't move her neck in, a flaming red Slim Jim looking outfit, and her feather headpiece (like Russell Brand said: "She's become an ESKIMO!!") at the end that made her face look like a nest and the perfect place to lay an egg.

Her performance of "Paparazzi" was so strange, I loved it. "Paparazzi" is my favorite Lady Gaga song. She sounded amazing during the performance, but then it got a little... as People tweeted, "Violent". She heads over to a piano, starts playing, gets up and starts "bleeding" all over the place. Then, she raises above the stage "dead". LOL! I wish I had the balls to be as different as Lady Gaga is.

Rant o' the week

I don't get it... I cook (darn yummy food too), I clean, I put forth effort to not look like a bum when I roll out of bed, and I'm fun (I think) but I'm STILL SINGLE. WTF? If God's making me wait this long, the boy better be darn good. OH EFF!

While listening to my current theme song, "Haven't Met You Yet" by Michael Buble, I can't decide if I feel hopeful or depressed. Both?? Yeah, both...

Michael Buble - Haven't Met You Yet

Oink Oink... Back to School!

I can't sleep so I'm writing a blog entry. The beauty of only having class on Tuesdays/Thursdays...

School started a little over 2 weeks ago. Thank God I was able to get into the last class I needed to graduate! So December 18th will be one HUGE party in Alabama. Best. Day. Ever.

The only crappy thing about only having class twice a week is that on those days, I am on campus from 8am til 3:30 or so. I know that doesn't sound that bad, especially for those of you who have a real job, but I haven't had to show up somewhere for that long without the incentive of an hourly salary since high school. And I didn't miss that. The worst part about the day is it starts at 8am with 2 and a half hours straight of Business Spanish. Then I have Masterpieces of Spanish Literature and finish with Spanish-American Civilizations. Joy. Oh well... every class day I struggle to stay awake through is one day closer to never having class again in my life. Sweet.

As if school isn't uninviting enough, Auburn is having a bit of a Swine Flu problem. Awesome. I have no immune system, so this semester should be soooooo fun. People in my classes are already sick with the Swine Flu, so I'm just waiting for the porky virus to take a hop and a skip to my desk a few spots away. I have heard rumors of the university thinking about closing dorms or even the school if it gets much worse. If they cancel school, I'm still coming to class, dammit! I've got a graduation to attend this December. After that, peace out!

On another note... you guys all know me. You know I love to cook things. That's what I do on Friday nights when I get bored. It sounds kind of sad, but it relaxes me. Recently I have been trying to cook for a certain guy I like. Mom said to write a blog like the Julie/Julia Project (the girl who cooked her way though Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child and wrote a blog about it). My blog, naturally, would be about finding my way to a man's heart through cooking. However, I think this guy is interested in someone else. So poo on him and me cooking for him. Thanks to his "man-whoreness", my blog was dead before it began.

Oh, Liz might find this funny... I had my car mistakenly towed from my apartment complex. I didn't have to pay for it or anything, but it's pretty funny that it got towed when it wasn't supposed to have been. Maybe it's karma for getting your car towed.

Let's see... randomness:
• I just turned 23. I'm officially old, because I remember when my sister Christina turned 23 and I made fun of her for being so old. Now it's my turn.

• FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS THIS WEEKEND!!! If we lose to LA Tech, I'm done being an Auburn fan. For real this time.

• I have just discovered the wonder of Target's necklaces... the pearls with ribbon kind. I've bought a million lately. I actually buy outfits to go with some of these necklaces. That's how much I love them.

• I went to the Ole Auburn Ale House (or for Mandi: "O-lee Auburn A-lee House"... tee hee)with a sorority sister for dinner and drinks tonight. There was an awesome Celtic group with fiddles and everything. I really want to go to Ireland now. Anyone coming with??

Tokio Hotel update (because I can't remember if I posted this before... deal with it): Album "Humanoid" will be released October 6th in the States. Single "Automatic/Automatisch" will be released September 22nd. WOOOOOT! Just a quick pic of Bill. Geez... I love his smile.
Ok... bed! This took way too freaking long. I have to get up sometime before 4pm tomorrow to get my football tickets. :)

"Please, sir, I want some more."

All I can say is.... wow. Wow wow wow. Why do I always like the weird/emo-looking guys??

Bill looks good.... yes the hair is different and the make-up is a bit crazy, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't jump him.

"They're ALIEN EGGS!!"

I officially fail because I managed to go through the whole month of June and almost all of July without updating. Oops. So you know this entry will be a bit long...

Random note: Tokio Hotel's new album will be called "Humanoid" and will (finally!) be released during the first week of October!!

Let's see... Since my last post, I finished my first "mini-mester" of summer school. I have good grades and I'm awesome.

I also have discovered how unintelligent the members of Auburn University's office staff are. I pretty much had a heart attack when I saw recently that the university sent back a loan without telling me and left me with a wonderful prize of a $5,000 outstanding bill. Just what I always wanted! Then the university canceled my fall semester schedule when that's the semester I graduate. I had to run to Auburn only to be introduced to the rudest man alive. I don't even remember his name, so he will be referred to as @ssman. @ssman, did not help me out AT ALL. He only made me so angry I cried. And that in turn made me even angrier. Thanks, @ssman. I appreciate it.

Anyway, now I'm left to get my exact schedule back on my own with no help from the university... even though the inability to re-register into one of those classes will keep me in school until May 2010. Lovely. But good news is I know the majority of my teachers for next semester and was able to re-register into all but one class... which I'm on a waiting list for. Go figure that it's the teacher I don't know.

My last free summer (unless I decide to get certified as a teacher) will officially begin with a trip to Seaside, Florida with my family on Sunday!! CAN'T WAIT! And one of my best friends is coming with us. Hopefully she'll be able to survive the chaos that is my family. At least I'll know that if my best friend can't handle my family, chances are a boyfriend/husband wouldn't be able to either. Here's hoping...

Now, you might be wondering where my post title came from. It's from the show Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel!!!! YEEEAAAAH!


It's basically the most amazing show ever on the most amazing channel ever. It follows three guys in their early 30s: Zak, Nick, and Aaron. Every other word they say is either "Dude" or "awesome". Thank God they are not like annoying surfer boys, but more like funny fraternity boys that have no clue about handling ghosts or anything remotely scary. Don't get me wrong... I love these guys. And Zak has arms I would kill to touch. I know they know what they are doing. They're not dumb. But their show is refreshing because they are candid and when something goes wrong, they don't edit it out like other shows would. They don't take themselves too seriously. Like the episode last week in Savannah, Georgia where Zak was scared poo-less by a cat in a tunnel. Or the episode a few weeks ago when Aaron was scared by a mounted buffalo head. I'm glad they keep these moments of comedy. The guys may look stupid, but I'm pretty sure I'd freak out too in those situations.

This next bit on Ghost Adventures is probably my favorite moment in the history of the series (ok, so it's only in it's second season...).

The crew was visiting a southern plantation and stumbled upon an attic-like closet in a bedroom. The closet contained A LOT of hanging gourds (Lord knows why... is that how you're supposed to dry them out??). Zak saw these hanging "things" and says "What the hell are those?? Ugh! They're ALIEN EGGS!!". He then states he's scared to touch them because something might hatch out of them. "Where are we?? Doesn't it feel like some kind of damn spaceship??". "Is this some kind of voodoo??" Oh Zak Bagans, I love you. I could quote you all day.

Ghost Adventures airs on the Travel Channel Friday nights at 9pm ET.

I'm sorry, you'll have to ask through my publicist...

So... what's been happening since my last little rant. Um, I'm still uber upset about the Tokio Hotel stalking situation. Those stalker girls are even crazier than I thought.
Tom Kaulitz of TH got black corn rows. Looks like he can't stand to look like his identical twin.
TH has designed a shirt for H&M for a celebrity line that benefits AIDS awareness. Awesomeness... I'm buying it as soon as it comes out on May 28th.
Tokio Hotel album (un)officially delayed til September. Bummer. (sorry lots of TH stuff)
I made all As and Bs this semester. Guess I really am good at foreign languages....

But on another note... I have to say that I am NOT Allison Iraheta that was on American Idol this season. Don't get me wrong, I love Allison! I wanted her and Adam to be in the Idol finale! But I had a random person in the Auburn mall tell me I look like her. Thought that lady was the only crazy one, but apparently not. Apparently, my mother's entire SCHOOL thinks I'm Allison. I went to help my sister teach one of my nephews' classes about Van Gogh and art. I went to lunch with my nephew Ryan... he and my sister stepped away from the table for a bit.. and these kids are sitting across and diagonal from me. Watching me.... creepy.

So, to ease my awkward feeling, I pull out my super cool phone and begin surfing the web for any Tokio Hotel news. Then I hear in a whisper: "Look! She's typing!". So then I figure a cell phone isn't the best thing to pull out in the middle of an elementary school lunch room, and I put it away. Now I'm super awkward... then I hear more whispers: "You ask her! No you ask her! YOU ask her!". Then I hear "Excuse me...".

I look up to see this group of 3 six year olds looking at me super nervously. Then they say "Weren't you on American Idol??". I said no, but there is a girl who might look like me. I don't think they believed me AT ALL. They continue to gush about how Allison Iraheta is their favorite. Then when it's time to leave lunch, I get up to go walk to my mother's classroom and bother her kids, when I hear someone call out "BYE, AMERICAN IDOL!". Ugh. This rumor is getting out of control with these kids...

Then, in my mom's classroom, I think I'm safe. No one will say I'm Allison. The kids in mom's class know me. They've met me. They know mom's last name is NOT Iraheta. So, I'm not Allison, right? Apparently not. They all look at me like I'm an alien with 2 heads and 3 arms (expression courtesy of my French teacher). My mom then catches one of her students (the one who really knows me and is one of my nephews' best friends!) saying to the other kids: "You know Mrs. Merced's daughter? The one with red hair? She was on American Idol. I saw her." Seriously, kid? How long have you known me?!

After fleeing the growing number of "fans" I have in my mother's classroom, I decided to walk to the lunch room for lunch with my nephew Avery. As I'm walking down the halls, I hear someone say "Look! There she is! Can we get her to sing a song??"

Maybe I should show up at the school talent show... And because of this and my celebrity due to Facebook videos, I'll be available only through appointments scheduled by my publicist. :)

You can see I don't look like her. I think, anyway...

CRAP! I don't, right?? .....