Year 3, Day 234

Hey guys. So today's song is No Church In The Wild by Kanye.

Today I was going to talk about the Chasing Life Christmas Special with was absolutely adorable and tugged at my heart strings, but I have a story about my absolutely ridiculous family instead. So my parents are divorced. I've never actually told you guys that, but I think it was easy to figure out. It was a really bad divorce too (which was also easy to figure out) and it's so rocky that the two sides of my family can not and will not interact with each other. This makes everyone living in the same couple of neighborhoods a little challenging because you can't help but run into people. Also the Fisher side is bitter because Sammy and I both basically disowned them and when I talk about my family it's almost always the Carswell side. So today my mom and grandma went shopping at Walmart for all the random stuff that goes in our Christmas stockings. My grandma does them every year, but this year she left it until the last minute (two weeks away is last minute?) and had to do it today. Well surprise surprise that my mom wasn't the only one out shopping with their mom, because walking directly towards them was my dad and grandma fisher. I wasn't there because I know better than to be out when he would (I have a sixth sense for avoiding people) but I imagine it looked a lot like those slo-mo car crashes in movies. Naturally my mom saw them first and not being able to full on run without causing a scene, she turned away put her head down and her hood up....my grandma was unaware of everything happening. My mom thinks she got away without being seen, but I highly doubt it knowing my dad. He is probably too butt-hurt to say anything (which is out of character for him) since the betrayal by me. And by betrayal I mean the part where I moved out of his house and he tried his usual bullying tactics on me, but I didn't let them work because I am the champion at playing his stupid little game. I'm hoping now that there will be no more holiday run-ins because seriously the last thing I need is for someone to start the fight about who's going where for Christmas. Do any of you have divorced parents who can be civilized? Is that a thing? Or is it always like two warring countries and I'm the borderline. I'm just wondering.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 233

Hi. Today I give you Rumour by Chloe Howl.

YouTube is such a good time waster. I realized that I wasn't actually subscribed to one of the YouTubers that I watch, and since they changed the formatting and everything, his videos weren't popping up in the recommended area. So I've been watching Tyler Oakley videos for the last couple hours. How upbeat and funny they are has helped to keep me awake, but now I'm stuck in that half awake half asleep haze where your eyes don't want to stay open anymore, and if it was too late to sleep three and a half hours ago it is definitely too late to sleep now. I still have another 3 and half hours until everyone else wakes up then one more hour until breakfast. I need to stay awake....maybe I'll go on tumblr for away, that's a pretty good time suck. I really should be doing more recipes but I'm so tired of those already haha! Okay I know I'm super boring and not interesting in the slightest so there is the song. Listen to it, do whatever.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 232

Hello. So today's song is Beachin by Jake Owen.

The rapping in this song is ridiculous. If you are going to do new country sir, then do not add in the rapping. First of all, you suck at it. Some people were made to speak their lines, some were not. For example Iggy Azalea has a voice bred for rapping (although that may just be my reaction to the accent that comes out a bit), whereas Miley Cyrus should never be allowed near that genre. I know that I can't rap worth a damn, so I don't attempt to. Second, don't ruin a good thing! If not for that part I would love the song because the chorus is so catchy. Ugh...I know genre mashing is second nature now, but sometimes I can't comprehend the results. Whatever, I'm done. No more ranting. It's too late for me to sleep now because I have to get up early so I'm gunna go fall into a black hole of YouTube.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 231

Hi. So today's song is Somebody Loves You by Betty Who.

As promised I shall explain my plan. My family has been talking about consolidating all of the recipes passed down through generation and generation instead of the vast amount a faded (to the point they're unreadable) recipe cards. I have heard about the goal to do this since I was a kid, and now I have decided to do something about it. I am making a legitimate family cookbook. I've done the formatting and now I need to take and transpose all of the recipes into text on the computer, then organize it all by section. Then I have to start putting them all into the formatting within their sections, and decide if there is too many and I need another book. I already titled it to give room for four cookbooks, so it's not a big deal if I do have a lot, but it's just a very time consuming project. Not to mention that I'm putting pictures in the book too, which means I'm going to have to make every single item before I publish the whole thing. Safe to say that this will take me more than a year to do. So that's what I've been doing, and why I've kind of sucked lately at doing the blog. I wish I could say it'll get better, but I can't promise. I will try though.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 230

Hey everyone. So today's song is Angel by Shaggy ft. Rayvon.

Remember when I told you guys that I had a lot of Christmas baking to do? Well even I have underestimated the task at hand. As of right now (because it's not even finished yet) there are seventeen different items I will be attempting to whip up. The list has doubled in size these past two days, and that's only from talking to three people. My family, or at least immediate family on the one side adds up to eleven. Yeah that's right, think of how big my actual complete family is and if I had to bake for them....it would never happen. Most of it at least I have sorted. I've either made it before, helped someone make it, or have a bunch of recipes to choose from. Some though will be a challenge. Like dream bars. I don't know what those are, I don't know what goes in them, I've never seen them before in my life. Cookies, loaf, squares, fudge, cheesecake, popcorn UGH...at least my family gets quite the variety. I will show you a picture of all my creations when I do it. And I will have pictures to go along with my other project...I'll explain tomorrow.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 229

Hey. Today I give you Get What I Want by Bitter:Sweet.

Okay, judge me if you want but I have been watching Girl Meets World. It's absolutely awful and I hate it, just another attempt to reach an audience that is growing out of this kind of stuff, but I watch because of the old cast of Boy Meets World. The old show was on tv today so I got to watch that and I noticed an amazing parallel. So Girl Meets World is in its first season, and the episode I'm talking about the daughter told Cory that there was nothing left for him to teach her. Well he was hurt by that, but never really touched on it the whole episode, and it went on as normal with all the happy go lucky as always. The Boy Meets World episode was from....maybe season 6 or 7 from right before they graduated high school. Cory is the teen in this one, and he (along with Shawn) tell Mr. Feeny that there is nothing left to teach them. Can you feel the parallel yet? Well at that moment with Feeny's reaction you feel physical unease at the horror of such a statement. And then the entire episode builds and builds on that betrayal, making you feel as bad as the characters do. In the end, the whole ordeal was actually another Feeny lesson, but the way it was tackled puts me at a loss for words. It's something we just aren't getting from the new show because there will never be another character like Mr. Feeny. I'm happy the old gang gets to put those characters on again and live their lives, but what has been done to the legacy of the show hurts my heart. If I ever have children, they will be watching Boy Meets World, and they will learn from it and fall in love with it just like I did. So if you watch the new one, but have never seen Boy Meets World, I suggest you rectify that immediately.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 228

Hi. So today's song is 50 Ways To Say Goodbye by Train.

Sorry this is late, I had to wait until I could get some sound since my computer is now unreliable for the most part. I have however discovered that whatever was initially making the sound not work in headphones either is gone, so I can at least plug in to listen to stuff. Just in time too because all the midseason finales are this week for my tv shows and I only watch on my computer. This one I have some observations about the video that I need to discuss. First of all: David Hasselhoff?!? What are you even do there sir? And okay, I can only speak for myself, but I do not socialize in the grocery store. I either run in and try to get all my stuff as fast as possible, or I shove headphones in and put on a giant hoodie so no one recognizes me or tries to talk. I can imagine though someone who's been dumped trying to tell their story to every goddamn person they see while tears stream down their face....I'm not so sure about the death theories. Does that happen? If there is a horrible breakup do people actually pretend that person died?? That seems like a guy thing, because girls tend to bitch after breakup (I say that because I can say from experience that it's true.) So I just want to know if you guys have ever made up a horrible excuse instead of explaining things? Let me know, I'm curious.

Peace.