When Spring finally..uh.."springs?" I get so excited every year. It seems like in the winter with shorter days and so much gloomy weather, I just sort of attach myself to the computer in some kind of hibernation waiting for warm summer weather.
Last summer I basically worked inside the whole time and I have to say it was one of the most miserable summers of my life. I'm not letting that happen again. Already yesterday I cut the work day short and went to play basketball...I'm going to make sure my summer isn't wasted away by a crappy job.
Obviously Summer is my favorite season, what is yours? I've heard of a few people that like winter, but I don't get that crap...what's to like? Everything looks dead, the days are short, and it's COLD... Let me know!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
You're grounding me?
You may have seen my tweet earlier today, "I'm 22 years old and I am grounded :("
Basically the conversation went like this,
Me: Really? You're grounding me?
Me: Yes, absolutely.
Me: I'm 22 years old!
I've grounded myself. Yes, in a rare and weird twist, I'm grounding myself. And here is how it's going to go down.
One month ago when I returned from California on february 15th, I set a goal of having a new job in one month, tomorrow I officially fail on achieving that goal so there is only one solution...ground myself. I have a tendency to stay up too late and that leads to me sleeping in and not having time to look for another job before going to my crappy job, instead I only have time on my days off. So starting tomorrow night the internet goes off and I go to bed by 1 AM, NO EXCEPTIONS...except weekends LOL!
In addition, I'm grounding myself from ANY and ALL unneccessary spending. This means when I'm at work and feel like snacking - NOPE. When I see a cool poster, item, whatever - CAN'T BUY IT NO MATTER WHAT.
This way, not only am I going to quickly secure a much better and higher paying job, but with no unneccessary spending, I'll be saving and paying off college debt much faster.
This is only phase one of my grounding. I'm already preparing harsher punishments that I'll be implementing soon if neccessary. If too much time goes by without getting another job, I will be totally eliminating my internet usage until I do. I've got other things in the works, so I hope I get another job soon, cuz while this whole thing is rather cheesy, I'm determined and if you know me, you know I'm pretty stubborn when it comes to these types of things.
Wish me luck!!
Basically the conversation went like this,
Me: Really? You're grounding me?
Me: Yes, absolutely.
Me: I'm 22 years old!
I've grounded myself. Yes, in a rare and weird twist, I'm grounding myself. And here is how it's going to go down.
One month ago when I returned from California on february 15th, I set a goal of having a new job in one month, tomorrow I officially fail on achieving that goal so there is only one solution...ground myself. I have a tendency to stay up too late and that leads to me sleeping in and not having time to look for another job before going to my crappy job, instead I only have time on my days off. So starting tomorrow night the internet goes off and I go to bed by 1 AM, NO EXCEPTIONS...except weekends LOL!
In addition, I'm grounding myself from ANY and ALL unneccessary spending. This means when I'm at work and feel like snacking - NOPE. When I see a cool poster, item, whatever - CAN'T BUY IT NO MATTER WHAT.
This way, not only am I going to quickly secure a much better and higher paying job, but with no unneccessary spending, I'll be saving and paying off college debt much faster.
This is only phase one of my grounding. I'm already preparing harsher punishments that I'll be implementing soon if neccessary. If too much time goes by without getting another job, I will be totally eliminating my internet usage until I do. I've got other things in the works, so I hope I get another job soon, cuz while this whole thing is rather cheesy, I'm determined and if you know me, you know I'm pretty stubborn when it comes to these types of things.
Wish me luck!!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Youtubirthday
Yeah, I definitely "borrowed" the term Youtubirthday from Alex.
Today March 6th marks 1 year that I've had the account alwaystextback. It's been quite a year, I've made friends with some of the coolest people, worked my way to becoming a partner, hit 600,000 total views today, and am just under 4,000 subscribers with 3,949.
So there's nothing really left to say other than THANK YOUUUUUUUU!! It's been such an amazing year and it'd have been nothing without every single one of you!! You all rock so hard and I look forward to many, many more years!!!
Today March 6th marks 1 year that I've had the account alwaystextback. It's been quite a year, I've made friends with some of the coolest people, worked my way to becoming a partner, hit 600,000 total views today, and am just under 4,000 subscribers with 3,949.
So there's nothing really left to say other than THANK YOUUUUUUUU!! It's been such an amazing year and it'd have been nothing without every single one of you!! You all rock so hard and I look forward to many, many more years!!!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Onion-esque
Tonight I finally saw "The Onion" movie and as a big fan of the videos/articles on their site, I got inspired to write a little story of my own...You like?
Normally Funny Man Disappoints
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - A cashier at the local Five-Dollar Store left work disappointed Thursday as an area man known for his humor didn't impress her. Nineteen-year-old Megan Woods said she was approached just after 4 PM by John Tankers who is known by store associates as "Johnny Jokes." The distraught cashier told the police "He's normally funny, but today I didn't even smile."
EBS News scored the first interview with Woods as she told the brave story of how she overcame this tragedy.
"As he approached me, I could see the look on his face, I knew he was going to try to tell a joke," Woods spoke softly. "He asked me if we take Hawaiian money and I told him no because we were in California. That's when he started laughing and saying it was American money, I was devastated."
Area police have yet to announce any formal charges for Tankers as they are still investigating this comedic assault.
Normally Funny Man Disappoints
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - A cashier at the local Five-Dollar Store left work disappointed Thursday as an area man known for his humor didn't impress her. Nineteen-year-old Megan Woods said she was approached just after 4 PM by John Tankers who is known by store associates as "Johnny Jokes." The distraught cashier told the police "He's normally funny, but today I didn't even smile."
EBS News scored the first interview with Woods as she told the brave story of how she overcame this tragedy.
"As he approached me, I could see the look on his face, I knew he was going to try to tell a joke," Woods spoke softly. "He asked me if we take Hawaiian money and I told him no because we were in California. That's when he started laughing and saying it was American money, I was devastated."
Area police have yet to announce any formal charges for Tankers as they are still investigating this comedic assault.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
school and debt
As many of you know, my post-high school education has been very screwy due to some unlucky happenings. Because of it, I got into some debt, without much education to show for it.
That really sucked. Haha!! Now one BIG thing I want to do is being set back by the fact that I still have this debt. I mean HUGE thing. I've hinted at it and probably directly said it on Twitter numerous times, however I'm going to stop mentioning it so I can then surprise you when it happens!
But with that, I'm VERY proud to announce I've paid down my debt to....... $2,900!!
Now that might still seem like a lot of money and it is, but I have a good plan in the works of paying it off much more quickly. Plus we have the success of the chris brown video and that is certainly helping things out! My goal is to be DEBT FREE by or on April 17th, 2009.
I'm obviously beyond excited and will keep you up to date!! Big things are coming, 2009 is my year!!
That really sucked. Haha!! Now one BIG thing I want to do is being set back by the fact that I still have this debt. I mean HUGE thing. I've hinted at it and probably directly said it on Twitter numerous times, however I'm going to stop mentioning it so I can then surprise you when it happens!
But with that, I'm VERY proud to announce I've paid down my debt to....... $2,900!!
Now that might still seem like a lot of money and it is, but I have a good plan in the works of paying it off much more quickly. Plus we have the success of the chris brown video and that is certainly helping things out! My goal is to be DEBT FREE by or on April 17th, 2009.
I'm obviously beyond excited and will keep you up to date!! Big things are coming, 2009 is my year!!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Success?!
If you're reading my blog you probably already know that I put a lot of time into youtube. There's something special to me about creating a video and getting feedback. I get really excited when I put up a new video and I'm checking the comments and views every minute, the community as a whole and everything involved is just so great!
I'd consider myself a pretty average youtube, about 3,500 subs, I had 300,000 total video views...Not nearly enough to be a "celebrity," but enough to show I've put work into it.
But then Chris Brown beat up Rihanna.
I was still in California, and Alex said we should make a video with their mouths just talking about what happened before he beat her up. We came up with the song idea to use all their song titles and wrote that up then sat down for 10 minutes and filmed our dialogue. Alex edited it, and then we put up our videos.
The video went up, it was doing pretty good...it had like 2,000 views the first day, but then the next day it hit. Something happened and it was at 8,000 views, then 16,000, then 23,000. I couldn't believe after all the creativity and work I did with other videos, this was finally my "hit" video. Of course I can't complain, tho I feel bad because it was Alex's idea! When I was getting ready to leave early sunday morning, that saturday night I tweeted that it had 41,000 views, that was INSANE to me already! But when I got home sunday night it had 86,000 views! It more than doubled in a day!
Since then it continues to go up, sitting at 186,000 views. It's lead to a lot more subscribers, tons of comments, and almost 700 times favorited now. But now I have a new video up, and all the excitement is calming down as this 4th episode of Swingers isn't nearly as popular as the Chris Brown current news ;)
Regardless, I am so excited after almost a year of hard work on ATB, things are finally starting to pay off, I couldn't be happier! And of course as I've repeated many times, can't give enough credit to Alex: www.youtube.com/soaroftheconchords
I'd consider myself a pretty average youtube, about 3,500 subs, I had 300,000 total video views...Not nearly enough to be a "celebrity," but enough to show I've put work into it.
But then Chris Brown beat up Rihanna.
I was still in California, and Alex said we should make a video with their mouths just talking about what happened before he beat her up. We came up with the song idea to use all their song titles and wrote that up then sat down for 10 minutes and filmed our dialogue. Alex edited it, and then we put up our videos.
The video went up, it was doing pretty good...it had like 2,000 views the first day, but then the next day it hit. Something happened and it was at 8,000 views, then 16,000, then 23,000. I couldn't believe after all the creativity and work I did with other videos, this was finally my "hit" video. Of course I can't complain, tho I feel bad because it was Alex's idea! When I was getting ready to leave early sunday morning, that saturday night I tweeted that it had 41,000 views, that was INSANE to me already! But when I got home sunday night it had 86,000 views! It more than doubled in a day!
Since then it continues to go up, sitting at 186,000 views. It's lead to a lot more subscribers, tons of comments, and almost 700 times favorited now. But now I have a new video up, and all the excitement is calming down as this 4th episode of Swingers isn't nearly as popular as the Chris Brown current news ;)
Regardless, I am so excited after almost a year of hard work on ATB, things are finally starting to pay off, I couldn't be happier! And of course as I've repeated many times, can't give enough credit to Alex: www.youtube.com/soaroftheconchords
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