Sweet Gum Trees: Assholes Of Nature

Yes, that statement is true. You may ask me, "Why?" and I will reply with a long explanation. I could essentially sum it up in a few sentences, in which I will try to do. So now we start with a few things about sweet gum trees.

While they sit there beautiful changing colors in the fall, they secretly give you thing finger You see, sweet gum trees offer only one thing to society, that's oxygen. I mean, oxygen is really important to the existence of life, but seriously? Only one thing? I mean, many other trees often supply us with fruit in addition to the oxygen.

On the other hand, sweet gum trees offer us this:

Little fuckin' spiky balls that hurt like HELL when you accidentally step on them. There have been many a summer while running around barefoot and I wouldstep on one of these rock hard things. Next thing you know, you sitting down examing your foot and figuring out what steps need to be taken to remove this thing from your foot (Not really...but drama is good for a story).

All in all, I think that the Sweet Gum tree needs to evolve to a point in which it offers us some sort of benefit other than oxygen.

Oh…

Where am I? What is this thing?

It’s been a LONG while since I have blogged. Mostly due to the fact that things have gotten bogged down in my life. I hope to implement it more soon! It can be so very easy to get caught up in life and forger those things that once made you so pleased to do.

Neil’s Big Thing For Today

If there is one thing that I hate more than commercials that will randomly spike your television volume, it has to be chain mail. I do have to admit, sometimes chain mail can be okay but only due to the fact that is has an adorable animal photo in it.

Sometimes I get chain mail from my old boss and sometimes I get chain mail from my mom. Either way I despise it most of the time. The next evolution of my hate goes to MySpace/Facebook chain mail. It has taken on a new form of evil in the “My 25 Random Things.”

I cannot handle them. They drive me insane. Instead of random things like it asks for people instead put obvious things. Being blonde is not a random factoid. Neither is the fact that your dog Tiffany has 3 legs. Anyone can clearly see that your dog has 3 legs.

I don’t know. Maybe my definition of random things is too obscure. Either way, I’m done with chain mail.

A Thousand Year Ago

Image by Bryan U. Click for more of his awesome work! I promise it's not all nose picking images.

After a long break, it's time to get back into the spirit of things around here. I'm only 50 posts away from celebrating my 200th post. Let's get with it. While you all wait in anticipation about what I'm going to post, let me warn you, it's not that great.

To start things off we are going to talk about immature things...like boogers. Yeah, I know. Big deal. I was thinking the other day, who hasn't picked their nose recently? I mean, people will always deny their picking of their nose in public, but behind closed doors, all bets are off. Now, I'm not talking about your fingers all the way up to your second knuckle. Sometimes, there are boogers that just blowing your nose cannot get out. 

What do you have to do? You have to get out that Kleenex and dig your way up there. I know it's gross, but remember this the next time that someone catches you getting that chunk of green gold outta there. They may be acting all high and mighty but just yesterday, they were doing the same thing. 

I had another great idea earlier this week but now I have forgotten it. I'm sure that something will come up soon. I might just do a montoge of all the awesome things that I have found around town. Ideas, ideas, ideas!

Loaf Of Bread

While sitting here wasting my days away in front of the computer, I have decided that I need to actually get out there and do something productive tomorrow. I’m not to sure what I am going to do, but it’s going to involve something outside in the fresh air. I mean, yeah, it may be 12 degrees in the morning, peaking at 25, but I’m going to do something about it. Undoubtedly, I’ll get fed up with the great outdoors, come back inside and play WoW.

This bring us part 2 of my plan, get friends. You see, I happen to be very reclusive, maybe for good reason. But in order to get outside, I have to set aside my contempt for 99% of the population and pretend to have a good time.

Part three of the plan puts me in front of paper. Either I will read some or draw something and hopefully come up with some sort of idea for a project. I need to generate a few things for my upcoming Jr. Review.

Those are just a few of my ideas. Nothing too interesting. I know it wasn’t too post worthy…but…it’s my damn blog and not yours.

Long Time..Really Long Time

Wow, it has been awhile since I've hovered the ol' cursor on the Blogger interface. The holiday season is approaching fast and so is the end of the school year! Thankfully, we only have one week left before the whole break thing begins. Hopefully, I should be able to find a little more time to blog. It should be fun! Now on to the real things I have planned.

Today while walking around after Megan and I's date, we decided that we wanted to venture into the mall and see what was going down there. We had just ate dinner at the new sushi place before we decided to venture out. If you have ever ate with me before, you know that I usually take about 3 sodas before I am through. While walking around, I decided I need to pee like no other. 

I make my way to the bathroom and come upon a realization of just about every mall bathroom that I have ever been in. Here is a brief list of things that I always notice:

1. The doors are always broken/malfunctioning.
2. They always smell as if someone JUST took a dump.
3. Followed by a TON of air freshener to disguise it.
4. The music is too loud.
5. Random clothing tags/stickers on the wall.

So there we go. I don't know why, but these few things seem universal. Although these things are common, there is only one like it in the entire mall. The rest are properly cleaned and maintained well. 

Where Am I?

Things have gotten a little hectic and I've just not made the attempts that I should to get a post put together. Mostly I have been working on homework and then just chilling out with my girl. I know that is hardly an excuse, but it's the only one that I have.

Today I have picked the topic of music reviews. These days music reviews seem to have gone of the deep end. On one hand, popular music has kinda of gone down the tubes. Some modern music just seems to require so little thought to make them that it seems absurd. So when people go to review these songs, they think that they are awesome. It's really easy to get caught up in the catchiness in a song and not realize that the song overall just sucks. So when people review the CD's, they automatically think that the whole CD is awesome due to those 4 songs that are pretty good. The rest of the time, you wait in between those songs for the good one to come on.

My comment about the simple concepts is not all encompassing. This comment is pointed towards songs like; Soulja Boy, Plies or any other modern day one hit wonder Top 40 artists. Their songs are outrageously stupid, simple and obnoxious after hearing them twelve times on your hour drive to see your parents.

On the other side of the spectrum, we have people that love indie bands. I'm not talking about indie bands like Death Cab For Cutie or Dashboard Confessional. I'm talking about bands that are a little bit more independent than those. Sometimes the critics of those are so caught up on having every song mean something, they lose sight that sometimes songs don't have to mean something significant. Sometimes they can make a song to express how they feel about something silly. Not every song on a CD has to have some sort of deep meaning or emotion behind it.

I love music of all sorts, but it seems recently that I have had to search wide and far in order to music that doesn't seem to be the result of recording a car crash. On the other hand, that does not mean that I do not turn on the radio and listen to a few pop songs. Sometimes you just want that mindless entertainment...kinda like watching a James Bond film.

I'm out. Time to go to class.

Slacker Of Posting

As I had explained earlier today, I had been a major slacker in the department of blogging. I know it's not necessarily a bad thing for all people, but it is usually an outlet. So I'm just here to speak my mind today. There are a few things on my mind that make me excited, so lets begin the list of excitement.

1. I recently got Netflix and I love it to death. I'm going to keep it for awhile and go through the 2 week trial period into payment. It's not only a little escape for me but it kind of keeps me up to date. If you know me at all, I don't often see a lot of movies. This is a way for me to keep in touch with movie land. I have a few favorites that I watch every now and then but I don't always see the cult classic movies.

2. The Office this season has been shaping up quite well. The episodes have really been showing some great character development beyond what was there the first few season. In season 3 and 4 we began to see beyond what we normally got with the first two seasons. It seems that they are delving deeper into the personal lives of the characters as well as keeping up with the office life as well. They do a great job of keeping the time spent on them balanced.

That's about it for now. Sitting here at Starbucks with a lot of talkative people, it's kind of hard to concentrate. Hopefully I get to blog a little bit later this weekend or this week.