How NOT to start off vacay: Part 2

Two posts in two days! I'm on fire!

So lets just say this is a continuation of part 1, and that before you fell asleep, thinking of blood loss and brain damage, you had allowed your friends to play with your phone, iPod, and camera because well, you're not using them and they asked nicely to look at the photos from your European vacation.  At that point if you're standing over a sink, letting the blood poor out of your finger and waiting for the end, and one of your friends comes and nervously says: "umm Caroline?" the conversation should go as follows:
"Yeah?"
"I don't know what happened, I'm sorry"
"What are you talking about?"
"I was looking at your camera"
attempts to block blood flow "Uh-huh"
"And I don't know what happened"
Finally looks up for wound "What happened?"
"I don't know, the camera shut off and said all your photos were gone"
"Oh."
"I don't know what happened"
Now, Before you wail on your friend and release a whole world of flupping grief on them take a step back.  It would look bad if you, a screaming bloody mess, started in on your friend on the first night of a week at the beach, not to mention you're 95% they actually don't know what happened and are sad about it.  Politely say it's okay, you don't blame them, then blame the tears now flowing down your face on the wound you've received, not the loss of the memories from your family vacation (in hindsight you should have uploaded them before you left for the beach).  Smile, tell them it doesn't matter, then cry yourself quietly to sleep (you wouldn't want to wake up any other guests!)

Besides, your sister did save a few gems

How NOT to start off vacay: Part 1

Like I promised I'm back with my little nuggets of wisdom, and this particular nugget comes from personal experience.
When going on vacation with your friends, try not to be too much of a bother.  Be polite, courteous, and most importantly, don't hemorrhage all over their house.
For example, if you are a silly child like myself, you will pack your shaving razor in your suitcase without any protection around it.  Not in toiletries bag or in a separate pocket, just lying in wait for your big mistake.  After making this first mistake, you will inevitably jam your hand into your bag and accidentally slice off a decent portion of your figure.  Yelling FLUP at the top of your lungs as you realise your fatal error.  Running to the bathroom, have the decency to politely tell your host that by no fault of their own, you are bleeding to death and may require some first aid.  Silently complain aloud to the nearest person that "it's really no big deal, I just wish it would stop bleeding".  If, as happened to me, the bleeding doesn't stop after two hours, you can start to panic a little.
That paranoid feeling you have that you're losing too much blood has a little bit of ground now and you can suggest to your friend that they wake up an adult who totally knows what to do in this situation.  If said adult looks baffled and apprehensive about your imminent death, it's appropriate to feel a little scared, while politely declining their offer to take you to the emergency room because you know it's rude to make someone drive you at 12 am to get one stitch and besides, your parents definitely don't want to receive your call at 1 am asking for your medical information.  Just suck it up and stifle the wound with layers and layers of bandages, then go to sleep and pray that you don't die of shock or blood loss over night, because that would be a huge inconvenience to your host, removing your dead body and all.

More Advice to come!

My Journey to the End

As anyone who has met me should and does know, I am an avid Harry Potter fan. Being such a fan, I am attending the midnight premiere of the movie when it comes out. I had it all arranged, the people the place the food the time, until I was thrown a curveball, the day after tickets went on sale, telling me that the movie was already in fact, sold out in Annapolis.
The day after Tickets went on sale
It was sold out
I had no ticket.
Panicking, I went on near maniacal rage trying to find a nearby theatre that would suffice and where I was least likely to get shot. Once I found it, I called in the troops and they all agreed to come with me, except I bought an extra ticket and have to find one more troop to take it. Just as I was beginning to calm down I read an article that said all movie theaters have not begun to sell tickets yet. This could mean that the Annapolis Movie Theater isn't sold out yet and I panicked and jumped the gun.
Flup. My. Life.
Only Time will tell how this turns out, however, and if Annapolis does in fact begin to sell tickets soon. Well...I'll figure out something...
This movie better be worth it

Strange things did happen here...

I have to interrupt my riveting Scott Chuck comparisons for a moment as I tell my readers (all 3 of you) about my new favorite series of books (not replacing Harry Potter though). My school;s book club decided to start reading the first book in the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins as our next book of the year. At first I was reluctant to start reading it because the premise of teens killing teens on live television seemed weird and gory, but I finally relented to reading on one snowy January day, when my power was out. I became obsessed with the book approximately one hour later, when I had already gone throu 1/4 of the book. A day later I finished the book and asked for the next two for my birthday. I won't give away any of the books spoilers or anything, but I could NOT PUT THE BOOKS DOWN. I finished the last one today and am sad that they are over, but decided to highlight their awesomeness to the world with a pro and (very small) con list.

Pros

1. It's a new idea (Like an incredibly high stakes Survivor)
2. It's witty (characters are actually funny)
3. Characters are likable
4. PEETA
5. Seriously, you won't be able to stop reading
6. It's fast paced and never boring
7. Suspenseful
8. It's just fun to read
9. Flupping awesome.
   

Cons (as if)

1. It played with my emotions and made me depressed for a whole day.
2. The main character is sometimes annoying/stupid
3. Gale.
4. Mental anguish

Anyways, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a reader and even if you're not a reader, read it anyways. That way when the movie comes out next year, you won't be wondering what the hell is going on. Hunger Games is offically my second favorite book series.

EVER. (mind blowing isn't it?)

Christmas Caper

I did this for thanksgiving too, and I rather enjoyed it so here is my holiday list of what is great and not so great about Jesus's Birthday

Pro's

1. Cookies!
2. Holiday Specials!
3. Snow!
4. Christmas Trees!
5. Decorations!
6. Secret Santa's! (the receiving end)
7. the Anticipation
8. Starbucks Seasonal Flavours!
9. Presents! duh...
10. Family!
11. Your still off school for a week!
12. Warm Fuzziness

Cons

1. Obesity
2. Holiday Specials (Rudolph has the worst lesson ever)
3. When it doesn't snow and your "white Christmas" is ruined
4. Fighting over a Christmas Tree, when your younger sibling wins
5. Cleaning up ALL the decorations
6. Fixing faulty lights on the house/tree
7. Secret Santa's, struggling to buy something for someone you don't know too well
8. The sadness after you've opened your presents
9. The increased sadness on the 26th
10. Pretending to like that sweater your grandma got you, being awkwardly enthusiastic
11. TOO MUCH FAMILY
12. School starts again in a week

Call me a Grinch, but I still love the holidays, the pro's are once again greater and more powerful than the cons. After all, 'Tis the Season to be Jolly

AW - a word

FLUP - I'm not a person who likes to curse or speak french alot, unless the situation merits such obsenities. Now, I have no problem with people who do like to curse like a sailor, but I'm just not one of them. When I was younger I would try "Frick" or "Freakin' but they just ended up sounding wrong to me, so I decided it was time to become semi-original. and by semi-original, I'm referring to the fact that I first heard the word "flup" a comedy from New Zealand, called Flight of the Conchords. As it turns out, I misheard Bret because of the accent and he was actually saying "Flip". So I guess I did make up flup. Kinda. Anyways you may have noticed that I use it in some of my other posts, and I thought it merited an explanation. To all you potty-mouths out there, I suggest you try it, it simply rolls off the tongue and children everywhere will smile at your lack of profanity.

"That post was flupping awesome!"