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Wednesday, 16 July 2008

surfacing from a life without xanga

Hello xangans,

I plan on posting regularly in the coming days. I had been away on vacation for two weeks and at home on laziness for about a week. haha.

I miss writing and will be back later today/tomorrow with some material. Woo woo woo!

Friday, 27 June 2008

Office Max is crazy & photos

I've been shopping for organization materials/decorations over the past couple of days.

Basically, I'm an absolute kook - I love to clean! And I need boxes in which to properly store my things and my family's things.

Right now I'm in the middle of sorting through old junk from my closet. I got some boxes from Bed Bath & Beyond today because I had an odd combo of shoe boxes and sticky notes for organization before.

Below are some photos from my shopping excursions.

office max's boxes

Strange story: Today I stopped by Office Max to buy that beautiful blue box you see right there in the top right corner. There was only one.

The cashier was about to ring the item up. And as I was waiting to swipe my card, she said, "I can't sell this to you. It's on destroy." I was confused/mad as I asked, "What? What does that mean?" She said, "We're going to destroy it."

Without exaggeration, I shouted, "This is a beautiful box! How could you do that?" I was thinking, "Wtf, whyyy!?" She explained that the code was no longer on their listing because it hadn't sold or some nonsense.

(Weird-ass side note: as I was rereading the previous paragraph, "Bittersweet Symphony" was playing, and it was severely more dramatic with such a soundtrack! Glorious.)

You would think that if an item couldn't sell, the store would discount it, not destroy it "in the back room." I can't even believe they have a back room for destruction of merchandise!

I should have asked her to just give it to me. I'd take it off Office Max's hands - free of charge! No destroyer necessary.

more photos here...

Monday, 23 June 2008

Group friendships, defined and elucidated

Group friendships are sets of loosely knit friends. They require the presence of all group members for a get-together. Some members have a history of not clicking... and the meeting of such pairs would raise eyebrows. The main thing uniting a group friendship is that all are friends by connection.

A friend of mine who I have grown to love and care for was once part of a "group" I was in. When we told members of the group we were hanging out one day, we were met with shock. Even internally, it's understood that group members are not all friends.

But everyone maintains the status of mandatory invite. Exclusion is not acceptable, for somehow the fear of being left out encouraged a group of all-inclusiveness.

I have grown to disfavor group friendships for the unnecessary and uncomfortable meetings, the lack of real unity, and the maintainance of friendships for convenience's sake (who wants to be the person who has beef with a "secured" group member?). I have found such friendships to be unfulfilling and even unhealthy at times.
more: comfy friends, etc

Thursday, 19 June 2008

whatwhaaat

Oh myy goodness. I saw 71 comments on my Loving Day post and thought, "Something funky is happening here!" haha. The front page cleared up my confusion. :)

I fully intend to read all the comments. Thanks so much, guys! :) More later.

edit: An hour and a half of reading, whaaat! haha. I really appreciate your stories and comments. I responded to many of the comments, and even if I didn't respond, you can be sure I read them all in full.
are people creepy, or what?

A few years back I got into the habit of posting videos on my youtube account, mostly because a friend and I were bored.

Anyway, one video, entitled "Spy Cam!" has 146,791 views. And its sequel, "The Aftermath" has an also impressive 18,435 views. With a couple exceptions my other videos have views somewhere in the hundreds.

Why would a spy cam video attract so much attention relative to the others? Because spy cam videos are regularly raunch! haha.

Mind you, my video is basically the goofiest thing ever. My friend, Riana, is trying to spy on me while I'm on the phone as she says in the introduction of the video, but she is ultimately unsuccessful. She does trick me into thinking she's taking a picture when she's actually taking a video, though. hehe. Easy mistake for me to make.

I feel a little disgusted that the reception was so high due to the title (I am assuming it was because of the title). And the related videos on the side panel are equally disturbing.

I guess in hindsight it makes sense that such a title would attract an audience.

The people who are trying to spread the word on "The end of the internet in 2012" realized the use of youtube as a scandalous directory and have capitalized on it. They flash a picture of a woman in skimpy clothes (sometimes just a shot of her with a bra) on the screen for a second - just long enough so that it shows up in the thumbnail of the video, and their videos have some questionable titles like "Crazy SEX Positions: Snoop Doggy Style: LIVE (uncensored)". haha, that title is outrageous. They really went all out, for even the header to the right panel reads, "Click subscribe to see me naked LOL." Of course, they're only joking, but their tactic sure works.

Do you find it troubling that when you look through the popular videos on youtube, mostly thumbnails of women's chests show up? Youtube can be fabulously entertaining, but I find it a misuse to popularize videos for the sex of it all. I get it, youtube is free and sex is in demand, but there's something unnerving about the whole thing.