More Than a Test Score

The following is a peek inside my mind when I had to go to the dentist many years ago to get 4 teeth pulled at once:

I hate dentists. I hate those chairs…and the tools….I hate that numbing shot they give me. So many needles! Ugh…I drool all over the bib thy give me because I can’t feel my lip…how embarrassing, and the dentist is cute too! Cute, yet evil.

And after:

I hate dentists. I hate my lips. I can’t feel them. I can’t feel my chin. Is my face swollen or is it just me? Ugh this gauze is so gross and…oh no….that guy is totally looking at my gauze stuffed drooling face…I think I can die right now. I have to eat yogurt for the next 24 hours. Ugh!

Contrary to my whiny thoughts after those horrible tooth pulling days of mine, this kid David kept is cool…mostly. What’d they give him, and why couldn’t I have it? I came across this video and realized it had scored 8 million views on youtube. It brought back bad memories of teeth-pulling for me, yet made me laugh so hard my braces almost came off (lolz)!

I guess they gave him laughing gas, and boy do I wish they gave me that when I had my teeth pulled. I can remember the torture like it was just yesterday. It comes back to me in vivid black and white in my dreams sometimes. Those endless yogurt-eating days, those unfortunate conversations with gauze stuffed in my mouth, and those horrible Angelina Jolie lip experiences! My teeth were always causing me trouble. They were too cramped, too late in getting loose, and too crooked coming in. This is why I still have braces as a 2nd semester senior in high school. My senior prom will be accompanied by my braces. My senior portrait has tiny metal plagues glued to my teeth shining brightly. Even my graduation smile is going to be bejewled by braces. When does it end??

Ironically, the first week after school gets out. Great.

I recently played scrabble with a good friend of mine who, of course, beat me.

Ahh, scrabble. The game that lasts as long as you like, works well with hot chocolate, popcorn (which was consumed in less than 10 minutes by the two of us), and practices your vocabulary.

Usually I’m the one on the team who can only find words like “good” and “star.” My friends can come up with “Exempt” and “Gawkish.” My 5th grade spelling bee was actually quite a tragedy. I was so close to finishing in first, but my fate came when that evil word-reader said “mopster” instead of “mobster.” I promise! I didn’t know what mobster was in 5th grade! My mom didn’t typically let me watch mobster movies on a regular basis. I thought “mopster” was someone who mopped, so I went with it…and failed. (more…)

What do you get when you add a moving image to a set of thoughts you spill out on paper?? A vlog! The type of media exponentially taking over youtube and homemade videos. I watch people talk about themselves on youtube on a daily basis. Okay, now that I think about it, if the previous sentence was taken out of context I would say you’d have a legitimate reason to call me a creeper (but come on, everyone’s doing it!)

One moment I’m trying out this new “vlogging” thing with a camera that weighs 10 pounds…

“Um, hi youtube. My name is Allie…um…”

…and the next I have my own Youtube channel, 88 subscribers, a MacBook Pro, and video editing super powers. Why is this so entertaining??

What’s a blog? You’re reading one, silly! A “Web log”, yes…but I like to call it “thought sharing.” We read thoughts everyday in all kinds of forms. I go home after a long day of doodling on my notebook…I mean school…and sit at my computer and hope to read other peoples’ thoughts.

Life. Events. Tragedies. Entertainment. Romance.
This girl’s cat just did a back flip!
That guy is stressin over college apps.
Oh goodness! Sue and Bob are totally flirting!

I LOVE reading thoughts. I love being able to say, “Wow. I’ve never thought of it like that before,” when going through the many’o'blogs I read per day. I watch people on Youtube talk about everything. I read it on Zinch. Thoughts and ideas are what we strive for in life, I think. Collaborating and combining everyone’s ideas and sharing memories so our brains are happy is just what we do. I thrive for more thoughts each day, because I want to be able to see all points of view.

See my point of view, tell me yours, and look at that guy’s over there. It’s the best kind of learning experience, I promise.

So. The inauguration has come to pass, and January is reaching it’s end. What’s next? February…the forever misunderstood short month of the year. All the other months have at least 30 days, but poor February only gets 29. And on top of that, every four years the calender feels the need to dismiss yet another day from February, leaving it with only 28 days!

February gets jipped. (more…)