RaNdOm

So when I was little, I used to sit in the corner on a stool and eat chip dip plain pretending it was porridge and I was the three little bears.
Why is it called Bacon if it's fried?
If its a baked potato, wouldn't it get the munchies and eat itself to death?
If I lost weight as fast as I've lost my mind, I'd be a supermodel.
Why is it called Make-Up if your face is real?
Do aliens have to pay UFO insurance?
Better yet, do they have to have a Medical Degree to probe people?
You can make chip dip with Sour Cream, Celery Salt, and Parsley flakes mixed together.
It tastes good. Dolly Parton singing Puff the Magic Dragon... interesting mix. I still love you Peter Paul and Mary.
My friend burned me five cds the other day,... TRY COME AND FIND ME, COPYRIGHT PATROL!!!
Barry Manilow definately sounds like a type of melon,..maybe a derivation of cantaloupe.
How does B&N fit all that bread in those little cans?
And finally, in order for it to really be a Treadmill, wouldn't it have to be underwater?

The Accident.

So Friday was a day that many Automobile Operators dread.

I wanted to cash my paycheck despite the horrible snowy weather conditions that were occurring at that time. I was coming across a covered bridge near where I work. I was coming across the bridge and decided that the conditions were a little more slick than I had thought, so I pressed on the breaks to slow down a bit. Then, I felt a bang and I jerked backwords and my neck went in an odd position. I knew that someone had rear ended me.

I pulled up to a more appropriate spot and got out to assess the damage, still aware that my neck was hurting me still. The back of my car was demolished. I wasn't angry at anyone, but I was really upset about the car. The man who hit me asked me if I was ok, and we swapped info. A little while after, the police came along with the ambulance, and I was brought to the hospital for my neck. Come to find out, I had only strained it, but they gave me Vicodin and something called Soma to get rid of the pain.

So basically, I was stoned all weekend while I camped out on my Grandmother's couch. Nice. Today, I haven't had to take much of my meds, but I'm still a bit sore and I'm back home. As for my car, it's getting repaired, but it may take anywhere from 3-12 days, depending. I'm driving my dads car and he's driving a rental, because apparently nineteen is not a trustworthy age and people don't rent cars to people that young. So I'm emotionally drained, tired, and sick for my car. Just when I thought things couldn' t get worse. "sigh"

Drivers, Oh My!

So I've come to notice how bad some peoples driving is. Well, I hadn't just noticed,.. I just decided to bring it up at this moment in time. You got people driving way under the speed limit, people talegating, people who pull out in front of you, people who do not dim their lights, you name it, it's been done to me within the last week.

I'm curious as to whether or not people actually listen in Drivers Ed. It's fricken ridiculous how frusterated or frusterating people seem to be on the road, me included... at least on the frusterated end of the stick. It's so stupid how you are almost required to get angry while behind the wheel solely because of other people.

So let me remind all of those who drive out there that you are NOT the only people on the road and you need to be more conscious about who's around you and think about what you can do to make the situation better. Of course, I'm not excluding being the victim. Those of you who feel that you are victims of road rage and other people's terrible driving, feel free to express yourself, but try to do it in a non-violent manner, but sometimes it is understood that comments are hard to suppress. I'm a victim of verbal diarrhea myself. Please, everyone, can we try to make the road a better place?

Loads of Silliness

So everything's normal in the life of the Brittercritter... I am once again making humorous and somewhat crass artwork (I'm not sure how funny they really are, I just get on these hyper spurts).

My brother found a potato chip while snacking that looks exactly like Pac-Man, so now he is going to try and sell it on EBay and see where it takes him. I'll have to ask him when he gets back from College, we had to drop him back off today. I had to pluck yet another grey hair I found (rather one of my friends found) near the back of my neck, and I'm only nineteen!!@#@%%$%&%^$@$% The funny thing is that my hair was just dyed not too long ago, but I guess we missed that one, and no one noticed it before.

My sister's home for good now! YAY! No more jerky boyfriend for her (if I'm not on for a while, it's because I've been thrown in jail for attempted murder!!!) Haha. Anyways, so I'm glad she's living at home now where she is somewhat safe.

So yeah, another "normal" day for me. I guess I bring all this up because I find it humourous what all our perceptions are about what is normal. Every individual has their own little funny twist to life, and every family has it's little quarks. All of us think we have it the worst or the most bizarre, but as a wise person told me one time; whatever you have in life, there is always someone who has more, whether it be a worse situation, or a better one, or someone is always fatter, or thinner, or shorter or taller. No one can assume they have the short end of the stick, because they never really do. Things that I do may be totally outlandish to someone else, but they are always normal to me, and where I may do something a certain way, there will always be someone who does that same thing ten times more or better or worse.

Ah, the New Year!

So today marks the first day of the year two-thousand and eight. I have grown no taller, no nicer, more bitter, and possibly a little bit wiser. I am also having art withdrawal, seeing as though my mouse is broken and I can't draw on the computer with out it. And tomorrow, I have to go back to work.

Because it is a new year, it is also a great time to reflect. One should ask themselves, "What have I accomplished this year?". For me, I've accomplished making friends, making enemies, and experiencing a few different jobs which I have had the pleasure of liking and disliking. What about you?

As the year progresses, we can all think of different ways of solving the world, as I will continue to do. If anyone is interested in giving topic ideas in which you would like me to discuss, you can send me an e-mail: rowdyredneck16@hotmail.com

Pet Store Headaches!

Let me start off by saying this: I have many pets (1 hamster, 1 rabbit, 2 Anole lizards, and seven fish). With at least the types of pets I have, one would assume that I could go to a pet store and get the appropriate items to nourish, care for, and provide a comfortable living establishment for my animals. Unfortunately, the local PetCo doesn't feel the same way.

Frank and Jose, my two lizards, eat crickets. They like they're crickets alive. And I usually buy the crickets in bulk because theres two of them and they eat them up mighty fast. So in order to keep feeding them, I need to buy more crickets. Am I making sense so far?

Well, I hadn't bought crickets for nearly a week in a half because PetCo says they're out of them. I can understand it happening once in a while, but not when you go in almost every day of the frikken week! Besides, I don't always have time to go into town if I have to do other things. Contrary to what people may believe, I am a very busy person. So I finally got frusterated and went to the other small petstore in town (I usually don't have time to go because they close at five, and by the time I get into Keene its later, so I mistakenly go to PetCo)
Of course, they didn't get their shipment of crickets either. So their is nothing in the whole city of Keene, New Hampshire that can sustain a pair of lizards, which, may I state, I bought at PetCo.

So my question to you is this...How are these petstores selling animals and never having food for them when you go back to buy some? Further more, how are they feeding their animals? Or are they not feeding them and letting them starve? This little perdicament makes me think out of the box unto bigger and worse problems. I mean, come on people! If you sell the animals, have the food that goes with them in stock every once in a while. And if it's true that these pet stores aren't feeding their animals approprately, then they shouldn't be shopped at period. Lets come togethor and look into this as a people and see if PetCo is really where the pets go,..willingly.

Happy Post-Fetus Day for Me!!! and other things

So nineteen years ago today, I was brought into the world. I built no opinions, intellectual skills, or even a pyramid of cruddy diapers. I was just me, a new-born. Now, Dec. 16th, 2007, at nineteen I have done all of those things.

Now for the nitty gritty. My rant for the day is about vehicles with 4-wheel drive and crappy weather such as is today. In Southern New Hampshire, as I speak there is freezing rain, at least a foot of snow already having been fallen, and unsafe slippery roads. I'm a proud Toyota driver, and though I like to think it can do anything, it doesn't have four wheel drive and is a light car so it slips easily. Therefore, to ensure safety to myself and others on the road, I tend to drive a bit slower in unsafe conditions.

However, there are those with trucks and gas-guzzling SUVs with four-wheel drive that think themselves invincible and tend to not drive the speed limit, but quite a bit faster in bad weather. I wouldn't be as concerned, after all, survival of the fittest and if one is too stupid to think to drive safely, then kissing a snowbank or pavement maybe the way one should be positioned. But when one is driving unsafely in these terrible conditions, or any conditions for that matter, that person is putting other's lives at risk. I've had so many trucks and SUVs and such riding my tail in blizzards and freezing rain, and I even swirved to let one by just so I could keep my tail end in place. Anyone out there reading this, please be considerate and don't be so arrogant as to think that just because you feel you don' t need to take the extra percautions just to be safe doesn't mean everyone else feels the same way.

Religions and Such

Picture this; two men sitting next to each other, one singing Christmas songs and the other singing songs worshiping Hanukkah. Neither is getting into the other person's face and such, or claiming that the other is politically incorrect. The Atheists sing with the Protestants, the Protestants sing with the Catholics, the Catholics sing with the Jewish, the Jewish sing with the Buddhists, and the Buddhists sing with the Muslims.

In our modern day society, people are so touchy and fight to press their beliefs onto other people. For example, a duo of parents down in Massachusetts made a fuss over a school taking their kids to see the Nutcracker because they felt their kids should not go and see a religious play. Of course, refusing to sign the permission slip was simply not enough. They forced everyone else in that class to go on a field trip to a zoo. Yes, ridiculous, I know. Other examples are banning the Pledge of Allegiance from being said, changing Christmas to Holiday, and even complaining that the words "under God" are even uttered during the Pledge.

First of all, let me say this. Atheists have each and every right not to believe in God, but they do not have the right to try and push God out of the minds of those who do believe. Second, if we can safely wish others a Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing day, whatever, then Christians have every damn right to be wished a Merry Christmas. Third, I never understood why everyone had to try and push their beliefs onto other people. It is because of this very action that there have been wars since the beginning of time. Is it really so important that everyone believe the same thing as someone else that it ruins the lives of others?

No one should be pressured. No one should be bound by the chains of belief. No one should be complaining unless there is someone else out there who is forcing them to shoot their beliefs to the ground.

Talk about freedom; it is my freedom to be able to say the Pledge, it is my freedom to celebrate Christmas instead of mere Holiday, and it is my freedom to say "under God" during the Pledge, just as it is everyone else's right not to do any of the above things. So please don't take away my freedoms of this Country just to better your own.

Controversial Spanking Topic

So I'm sitting here watching TV, and for some strange reason it was left on Boston News network instead of NH News network. One of the things talked about was how they were passing a bill around to ban spanking.

Now there are many different kinds of spanking; one can be spanked with a belt, a spoon, a rod, a hand (closed fists and opened fists), and so on. For the bill to be passed and approved, there would be absolutely no spanking of the sort.

I believe that it is not right to spank with objects. An open hand used only to surprise the child and make them aware of further consequences and without the intent to severely hurt should be allowed. Otherwise, it leaves the parent with less and less means of controlling their child. I think that our society is growing softer and softer with children, and it shows in a lot of the children you see in the grocery stores.

It is only right that foreign objects used in the assistance of disciplinary actions should be banned, for then it is used out of anger and with the intent to hurt. But to ban spanking all together is clearly an unwise choice.

Of course, for those of us in New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Texas,... wherever, this doesn't affect us. However, once passed in Massachusetts, the idea could spread to many other states within the country. And then, who knows, maybe other parts of the world as well.

In conclusion, just let me say this: Verruca Salt from Willy Wonka ("I want it now, Daddy!) can and shall be the ending result of child-rearing if spanking is banned all together. The people who have thought of this law should sit down and think of some serious guidelines, because next will be taking on a firm tone with a kid in public! I understand that some forms of spanking are harsh, but throw those ones out and keep the more reasonable ones.

Friends (and not the obnoxious tv show either)

You think that you are alone in this world. Sure you talk to people on a day to day basis, but you never, ever feel like anyone can relate. You feel like no one in this cold, unfriendly world likes you at all and that you may as well not exist at all.

And then you have those very few friends that show you compassion and prove that your very existance on this earth is extremely important and without you, their world would be a little different. Even if they never say this indirectly, you can feel it in the way they smile, the way they write e-mails, the way they cheer you up when all you wanted to do before is wallow in your own misery. People, these are true friends.

I've had a few that have brushed me off when I became of no use to them anymore. I've been decieved by parents, friends, government (like it or not we all have), you name it, it's let me and you down. But instead of making the mistake of griping about all of that as I have, learn to praise and appreciate those true friends that do the little things that prove your worthiness. And remember also, treat everyone you encounter as though it is their very last day on earth.

Thanksgiving Woes

So tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I am making the dinner!! It's exciting and nervewrecking at the same time! Meanwhile I got my toothpulled Tuesday and I'm on a 48-hour warm and soft foods diet! So I'm debating trying to eat Turkey anyways or eating just the soft stuff like an infant or really old person!!!

Meanwhile, lets discuss something since this is a rant page for me as well. Why stores need to be playing Christmas musice right now! They've been playing it since Halloween which is rediculous!

I'll tell you why. They have this theory where if they get the shoppers into the mood for Christmas early, they'll Christmas shop earlier. Although this tactic may indeed work, it totally takes away from the true spirit of Christmas,...you know, the one that comes in December.

Although this is cliche, I will remind everyone of what Christmas really is. Christmas is about Christ; his first coming to Earth, the birth of Jesus through the Virgin Mary,..you get the idea. It is also about families joining togethor and spending quality time. Yeah, gifts are nice, but it shouldn't be a commercialized spree filled with crowds, headaches, and music at Halloween!

One last thing; Generalizing Christmas. Now, I respect the fact that people have different religions and all, but why make such a big deal out of saying Merry Christmas? I mean, after all, if the stores can play Christmas music, they can say Merry Christmas. If they want to recognize other holidays that is fine, but it really isn't anything to have a heart attack over.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and I guess if I were Wal-Mart I'd be saying Merry Christmas now,..or excuse me,.. Happy Holidays!