Choose Your Wing-Man Wisely

So there's this boy. I really like him, needless to say. I mean, he's absolutely perfect for me. Seriously! He's an actor, which is always a plus! And he's genuinely nice to me, and I always find him funny, and I think he's cute and he says I'm pretty and...-sigh-.

Okay bat, sound god. (Inside joke)

My friend was going to be my wing-man, and our goal was that by the end of the night he would at least like me. A little.

But things went HORRIBLY wrong, and now he likes her and my whole world is CRUMBLING to the GROUND!! I mean, he said to me "you're, like, my best friend!"

Okay, so maybe my whole world's not absolutely crumbling to the ground. Not really. But it was still sad.

Being Sick Sucks

You know what sucks? Being sick.

You know what sucks more? Being sick for more than three days.

You know what sucks the MOST? Being sick for SIX days, and counting!

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You know what's awesome? Getting 32/32 on my Latin quiz, and 15/15 on the extra credit portion.

Chai Latte

Ingredients:

- 3 whole cloves
- 3 whole black peppercorns
- 1 tea bag (I use Chai, but any kind will work)
- 4 tsp sugar
- 1 3" cinnamon stick
- 1 cup of water
- 1 cup of milk

Heat the water up on the stove. When the water's warm (doesn't have to be boiling) add the cloves, peppercorns, tea bag, cinnamon stick and sugar. Stir it together and let it steep until the tea is the color you want. Strain the spices (and tea bag) out and add the milk. Heat it up to the temperature you want and enjoy!

Halloween Woes

Every year I try to come up with a really cool Halloween costume. I always want it to be perfect. This year, my friend is getting a bunch of people together to do a Justice League themed group. He's the Green Arrow, I'm the Black Canary (apparently they're married—I'm not going to get into my excitement about that part). Essentially the costume I'm putting together is going to be biker shorts and a black tank top, or combine those two into a leotard of some kind. On top of that I'll have a black jacket, black boots, and fishnet tights. I'll probably be adding nylons under the tights for warmth's sake.

At the beginning of this quest for a costume, I only had the tights and nylons. Today I bought a black trench-coat that I'll be shortening, and I found a pair of boots online. Here's where it gets annoying. Really this whole post could have been shortened into my complaints about online shipments and customer service representatives, but I wanted to tell you all WHY I want these boots so much. So I need them for Halloween.

Now, I was trying to place the order today. I put in all the information and hit "submit" and the page was trying to load. I sat there for like five minutes and the page hadn't done anything. I quit out of the server and tried again, and the same thing happened—it just sat there trying to load the next page. I let it sit for a while and made myself a chai latte (recipe to follow). Eventually the page loaded, but instead of taking me to the order confirmation page, it said something like "Your order number XXXXXXXX has already been received." I went to my account page and looked at my order history, and the order hadn't shown up. Grr. I called customer service and refreshed the page and the order showed up, but the number wasn't a clickable link, like it usually is.

I waited on hold for customer service for a really long time. They played "Ignorance" by Paramore so many times I think I have all the words memorized. Anyway, while I was waiting I refreshed the page, and another order showed up. When the service representative finally came on, she told me they were the exact same order received twice. I asked her to cancel one of them, and she said "I'm thorry, I can't canthel either of those orderth right now, becauthe the order identification number hath not shown up yet. That meanth the orderth are not in our thythtem yet. They should be in within the hour, and when they are I can give you a call back and we can canthel one of the orderth then." An hour. Fuck you, an hour.

I don't even know how long it's been, but I've been checking my order status and they haven't turned into clickable links yet (when they're links that means they've been processed and the lady will be able to cancel one of them).

I'm really frustrated right now, because I can't really start on any kind of project right now (like making a duct-tape messenger bag, or brewing some cream soda) because I'll have to stop whatever I'm doing and just let it sit there while I talk to the lady. I can't just leave the Cream Soda sitting there if I get into the bottling process, because everything has to be sterilized. I could start making a duct-tape messenger bag, but I don't have the duct-tape right now, so I'd have to go out and buy that, and I want to be home when she calls.

I don't want to get up and go to the bathroom either, because if she calls and I'm in the bathroom...I'm done thinking about that.

Basically I have to just sit here and talk about random things that I think people will find interesting.

You probably don't care. Unless you've made it this far through my post! In that case, I'm proud of you!

Now I'm going to go post a recipe for a chai latte. Read that one if you want, also!

I Need To Learn How To Read

Sometimes when I'm reading a book, the descriptions are lost on me. Sometimes I miss them entirely and I create new descriptions. That happened to me when I was reading Harry Potter for the first time (I think I've only read the first and last three). When I read the first three my reading skills were still developing, and I couldn't really process information. I'm pretty sure Harry was blond in my first mental image of him.

Sometimes I ignore the descriptions on purpose. Captain Holly Short will never have a crew cut. Never. Whenever I imagine her with a crew cut, her awesomeness level drops a little. And I don't know about you, but I find it hard to imagine Butler being 50+ years old, even though the book mentions it every twelve seconds. He's always going to be mid-30's to me.

And am I the only one who finds those white fruits with red insides freaky? The juice is described as warm and soft, and maybe sweet. Warm and soft definitely sound like human flesh adjectives, and after that, sweet just makes it terrifying. The faeries are EATING humans. But you know, I wouldn't put it past the Unseelie court.

I think every book should be published with a list of characters and their descriptions—and maybe even an artist's rendition—in the back of the book. It would make my life a whole lot easier.

On that note, I'm way excited for the Artemis Fowl movie, but I'm also not looking forward to it because then I'm going to have to see 50+ Butler and Crew-Cut Holly. And Mulch Diggum. I'm really not looking forward to Mulch.

The Tearing Up Pieces Of Paper Game

There is a game I like to play, called The Tearing Up Pieces of Paper Game. My uncle gave it a different name. It was some kind of combination of Taboo, Charades, and Buzz Word. I think. I'm not sure about Buzz Word, maybe that and Taboo are the same thing. Anyway, the game originally has three rounds (but more can be added). First, every player tears up a few pieces of paper and writes words down on them. Usually every player gets five words each or so, depending on how long you want the game to be.

ROUND ONE: Taboo

A player has one minute to describe the word or phrase he/she pulled out of the hat. Simple as that. Score is kept on the number of words each team guessed. (There can be any number of teams, any size). A round ends when all the words are gone.

ROUND TWO: Charades

All the words go back in, and the players take turns acting out the words in the hat. Score, etc.

ROUND THREE: Single Word Association

A player can only say one word—ONE WORD—to make their team-mates guess the word on the paper.

ALTERNATIVE ROUNDS:

Pictionary

...That's all I can think of.

XD If you have any questions or anything, you can like comment and I'll try to answer you :)

Oopsies

It's been a while since I posted anything at all, so...here's something.

ONCE UPON A TIME I suck. The end.