Comfort Food

If this is news to you then you obviously do not spend much time on the internet. I live for YouTube videos. Ok mainly the fan videos. There are some other things I go to YouTube to watch because you can find it no where else but YouTube to me is like Comfort Food without all the calories. Better for my health than all the cookies or brownies I could be eating, and cheaper too. I get laughs and enjoyment. I also make vids myself and put them on there. Note the one in this post was not made by me I am not that good. It is a good vid though. When I post vids on my blog they are either mine are ones I like from YouTube. Ok I'm not addicted but it is better than me posting on here about how good this certain brand of cookies is and how you all should go out and by them because they're so good. I'm trying to not eat out my emotions here. Music helps and well I find other ways. Hence the discovery of YouTube. It rocks! I know when enough is enough but check out the video because it is cool.

A New Song from a Great Band

One of my favorite bands, Within Temptation, is finally going to release their music in the US. What makes it even better is the new single and video can now be seen/heard. It's called "What Have You Done" and features Keith Caputo. It as usual for the band's music feature brilliant song lyrics. They are never disappointing where the lyrics are concered. And the video is brilliantly creative (if you can call that a usuable phrase) as always. I'm amazed yet again.

The Return of The Penguin

The Penguin is back after a long absence. This website has been a home of mine since it's start. It's a place I can't help but love. Why? There's intelligent conversation. I crave intelligent conversation about just about anything. That's what I find there. I must say all hail Ren for bringing it back. I have missed it. It's a place everyone should check out because it is better than all these other places that people seem to be living on like myspace and such. See the link in my links section.

My Life Soundtrack

Pretty cool....

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

Opening Credits: "You Live You Learn” Alanis Morrisette

Waking Up: "Move Along" All American Rejects

Falling in Love: "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" KT Tunstall

Fight Song: "Thoughtless" Evanescence

Breaking Up: "Hang" Matchbox 20

Prom: "Dancing With Myself" The Donnas

Life: "Broken" Linsey Haun

Mental Breakdown: "Breathe No More" Evanescence

Driving: "Closer” Lacuna Coil

Flashback: "Ghost of You and Me" BBMak

Getting back together: “Take My Breath Away” Jessica Simpson

Wedding: "You and Me" Lifehouse

Birth of a Child: "Someone's Watching Over Me" Hilary Duff

Final Battle: "Just Like You" Three Days Grace

Death Scene: "Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper

Funeral Song: "My Immortal” Evanescence

End Credits: "Black Balloon” Goo Goo Dolls

I Hate Being Sick

Being sick is the worst thing in the world. I absolutely hate it. It's no fun. It's the stuffy nose, cough, scratchy/sore throat. It's called misery. I personally blame it on lack of heat. The heater in my dorm is broken. Yes you heard me right I have no heat. The maintence at USC is really slack and apparently stupid. I'm getting worse by the hour it seems and this over the counter crap really isn't helping. I'm about to make my second trip to the Health Center in hopes that something will actually help. I'm miserable. I'm sick. I'm cold. I need help here. For once I'm actually seriously missing home. My two year old sister would take better care of me than this. She'd bring me lots of stuffed Elmos to keep me company but she would look after her sick big sissy. Goodness I miss that rugrat. Obviously I hate being sick. It makes me a very unproductive person. That's no fun. Being sick is in general no fun. So if anyone would like to offer any help I'd gladly take it.

The Death of My Daytime

Last week NBC decided to pull the plug on my favorite daytime tv to extend the Today show. It's hard to say goodbye to Passions. I've watched it since it's debut and to me it's the best soap out there. I unfortunately can't argue that with my mother. She insists that Y & R is better. Don't get me wrong, Y & R is good and I watch it on SoapNet. I can't catch Passions on the tube everyday but I do watch it on the NBC rewind at night. I've been rooting for a favorite couple. I have favorite characters. I'm in love with the town and the characters. Granted the writers need a little help somtimes. The story lines are a bit dragged out but they are good and they relate to an audience of people my age. The fanbase of the soap is amazing. Passions is an addiction of mine. There may be some good news for Passions fans like myself. Despite NBC pulling the plug another network may pick it up or it may go exclusively online. Those are good words to a die-hard Passions fan if something like that ends up happening in the end. The whole root of the problem is NBC does not listen to its viewers at all. They are endless petitions and other things that have been sent to the network to show the fanbase and why the ratings seem low. Most of these all carry my name attached to them. I'm going to fight for my daytime. It appears to be it's death but fans like me will not give up without a fight. We want to keep our show on the air no matter what it takes.

This is a fan made video embeded from youtube. It's based around my favorite couple from Passions Ethan and Theresa and done to the song "Lips of an Angel" by Hinder.

A New Semester Dawns

Tomorrow I start my second semester of college. Tomorrow I go right back into the real world. My major has been decided. My schedule is set. I look forward to all of my classes and my life in general. For what tomorrow brings we do not know but all we can do is make the best of it. The new semester is dawning and what I truly want out of my life is becoming clear to me. I live each day as to it's fullest. My focus is my education. My focus is living. I'm going to live. I'm going to be me. I'm going to get my education. I'm going to make my life count. By enjoying what I have and not what I think, may not, or plan to have I make my life a life woth living and full.

A New Year, A New Me, and No Resolutions

My first blog of 2007. It's hard to believe sometimes that it is the year 2007. But it's a new year! The number at the end is one higher and things in my life are definetely different. My major is different. My goals are different. Everything seems to have changed. I'm like a brand new me, a single brand new me but a brand new me. Yes I said single. It was a mutual parting of ways for me and my boyfriend so don't go thinking anything outrageous. We've decided to be friends and leave it at that. Then of course there is my new major I'm starting work on: European Studies. It seems I finally figured that one out but in a sense I am a semester behind. Oh well it won't kill me. I know where I'm going with my life and that's get this degree, go to grad school in the UK, and get a job as a researcher in some department over there. I won't under any circumstances be giving up my writing though. I still plan to publish my books when I finish them and write more. I'll just have the writing career on the side. There's so much I want for myself and I will have it. There's no use trying to stop me I'm too stubborn for that. So I have a new major. I'm working on similar but somewhat new goals. I'm single. It's a new year. Oh and no resolutions. I gave up on new years resolutions years ago. I finally figured out that I can't keep them after about two weeks anyway so there wasn't really any use in it. So now that it's 2007, let's see how this new year fairs for us. I already am making plans for my summer vacation. I can't wait. I'm just happy that I am happy with myself and my life as it is. If I wasn't what would I have to really look forward to other than agony and maybe death. So yes it is a new year and a new me with no resolutions and I'm happy with the world around me as it stands.