How Do I Feel About Signing Up for Things on the Internet?



One of the sites that we had to sign up for...that I don't much care for...



Well, I know that technology is all around us, and I know in this class we are trying to get in touch with the things we can do on the Internet. There are some problems I have with this though, I only have one email account, so all of the stuff we had to sign up for, I used that email to do so, and now, I find myself having 100s of junk-mail things from these websites and its so annoying! 

Not to mention, some of the things (webspiration) we haven't used since we made them. And I know that (unless of course we still need  a blog for english class or college) I'm probably never going to use this site ever again, because if I have something to say, I'm going to post it on FaceBook where people I know can see it. To be honest, I don't read other peoples' blogs and I'm sure they don't read mine either; so, my point, if indeed I am making one, probably won't get across to the people I'm trying to make it to.

Yeahh...Winter (Blog for Feb. 4)

The only pictures I could find were of pretty FORESTS or MOUNTAINS!

So, winter is such a wonderful, beautiful time right? I don't think so... Yeah, sure when the snow first falls its white and beautiful. Usually in the woods or whatever, its still rather untouched and pretty. The roads are cleared and the snow is pused to the side and now its dirty and black-grey-brown looking.


With all the pollution and such in the air, I wouldn't let my nephew (if he was old enough) eat even the white snow (we all already know that yellow snow is bad XD) I hate the fact that during winter, Ohio seems to be grey and boring, and not to mention its cold. I wonder what a winter in Finland would look like...It would obviously be colder, but would it be prettier than it is here in Columbus/Grove City?

Winter is not one of the seasons that I like, and it seems to drag on forever, to be honest, I think fall and spring have more 'character' than winter. They are much funner to write about.

Love, Laugh, Listen

Music is amazing. There is an enormous number of genres: Metal, Pop, Country, Latin, etc. Each person has their own individual set of musical likes and dislikes. Personally, I tend to listen to most rock genres: Metal, Alternative, etc. I admire those people that can listen to almost everything, they can just scan through the radio stations ^.^ Music goes almost as far back as humanity itself. The instruments may have changed but the idea of music bringing joy or carrying a message within the notes is the same.

My first introduction to music was when I had piano lessons in about 3rd grade. I will always enjoy that I learned how to read music there. I have since then lost any bit of skill that I may have had and I'd love to learn again someday, but this time keep it up. I was in band for 6th-8th grade; I played the clarinet. That was fun, but I didn't have the motivation to continue on to high school band, mostly because I just don't think I'd enjoy it as a class. 

I love music and how different it can be, but still be the same. Music is something that nobody can really take from you and I love trying to find the meaning and see the hard work that the artist put into the notes and rhythms.

Why Not Eat Bugs?

Chocolate-covered Scorpions

To be completely honest, I am perfectly happy eating bugs the way I do now. I don't see them in my food, no eyes or larvae or anything, to me its just soup or peanut butter.

For those people that want to eat bugs I say that they should be openly available to those people. I support those of you that want to eat bugs, I don't mind. But for me I just really hate bugs, even just looking at them creeps me out. I think I'll go vegetarian before I resort to eating WHOLE bugs. (Peanut butter is fine for my protein resource)

I understand that eating bugs would be good for the economy and everything. But they already put them in my food so, maybe they could just put them in more sorts of food. Again, I'm alright with it as long as I can't see them.

And the whole "less diseases" thing, well, that's probably true. We are so different from bugs that we wouldn't get diseases from them like we can from pigs. Fortunatley, pork doesn't crunch, I don't think I could handle a bug crunching in my mouth, I can barely handle them being crunched when someone steps on one.

In conclusion, people that want to eat bugs, go for it. I'm gonna stick with what I'm doing now.

MetroCon

I'm going to try to explain the greatness of MetroCon.

A Con (short for convention) in general is basically when a whole bunch of people dress up as anime characters. What is anime? Well, it's, to say the least, Japanese cartoons. These Cons take place all over the world and they are a wonderful place for anime lovers to go and meet new people!

MetroCon is one of these anime conventions, it takes place in Florida. I had the chance to go there and experience first hand what MetroCon was like. A lot of people that live a substantial distance away usually stay in the hotel that is connected to the convention center in Tampa, Florida (That's where I stayed). We arrived after the Con had already started so, when we got to the hotel room, the first thing we did was get dressed for the Con. When we finished getting dressed, we went to the convention center. It was a wonderful sight to see. As soon as we walked in there were already other Cosplayers (People that dress up as anime characters, like we were doing.)

One of the things we did while at MetroCon was go to the 'Dealer's Room'; here you can buy various anime trinkets and such. You can also buy weapons like swords! lol ^.^ You can also buy rave things. A rave is the dance/party thing that most Cons have. A lot of people dress up with glow sticks and light up things, very gaudy attire. (Personally I think it looks kind of cool when they don't completely over do it.)

Another of the things we did was go to panels. Panels are just rooms where other Cosplayers do skits and such for the entertainment of their fellow cos-.....well....this is just really hard to explain....go to a Con for yourself and see the wonderfulness.

Thanksgiving!

For Thanksgiving, I go down to my great-grandma's (Mamaw) house. We've done this since before I was born. We just recently started leaving on Thursday and eating Thanksgiving dinner on Friday so everyone can get there. We usually have at least 12 people there. 

Unfortunatley, not everyone can be there, like my cousin. He is in the Marines and he can't always be there. We can't replace him with a new member to the family, but this is going to be my nephew, Spencer's first Thanksgiving. 

I can't wait for the dinner. Its always amazing...except for the preparation...Mamaw cooks the internal organs and feeds them to the dogs >.< but at least she's not being wasteful I guess.

^.^ 

Prader Willi Syndrome Video Response

There are certain people at school even that I've noticed aren't quite like the rest of us. They are "special" of course I don't mean that in a bad way. I do admit that I avoid contact with them, but that is only because I don't know how to say anything to them, or whatnot. However, if they were to say, "Hi." or something I would respond to them and I'd be kind.

It isn't something that a person is really born with but I've seen Alzheimer's disease and I've seen what it does to people. My Great-grandfather, whom I was very close to had it for a while before he passed away. It was really hard to try and start up a conversation with him expecially so when he saw something that wasn't actually there. But regardless I still loved him, he was still Pa-paw and up to the day he passed, he remembered me and that really made me happy.

If I were to have a child with special-needs I would of course love them and keep them. I would do what I needed to make sure they were as healthy as they could be. ^.^