Frustrated

Today seemed to be the day for every rude person in the area to come into Lowe's. I got cussed out by an older couple because they had to return a water filter again. Seriously, if you're gonna get that mad about returning a water filter, grow up. I get that it is frustrating to get things that don't work, but there is no need to throw a big fit about it and cuss at everyone who is trying to help you. If you don't feel like you're going to be able to have a civil conversation with someone without pitching a fit, then don't leave you're house. It does nobody good, and it makes everyone who comes in contact with you have a worse attitude than they did already, or it could even ruin their day. That is just flat out rude if you ask me. Than this smart ellec of a man comes through my line having an attitude about everything he says. When I tried to help him cut some plastic with my box knife I state that the blade was dull, and he came back with another smart ellec that we sold them in the store, you know. No way. I had no idea we sold box knife blades in a hardware store. That totally never occurred to me (notice that this is sarcasm on my part). I mean really, who doesn't know that Lowe's has those. As you can see, I did not have the best day. It is okay though now that it is over and I can relax the rest of the night. I just hope tomorrow is a better day!

The Hunger Games Craze

I'm sure many of you have heard of the movie that recently came out called "The Hunger Games". The movie is based of the book with the same title by Suzanne Collins. I have heard talk about it all over the radio, magazines, as well as Facebook. For those of you who don't know, here is a link of the trailer for the movie .At first I honestly wanted nothing to do with the movie or the books since the hype of it is so big. I don't know, for some reason I don't like when that happens. I also could not see how the story of kids going into an arena to kill each other could be good at all. That sounds so depressing. It was not until a few days after I saw the movie against my will, that I decided I actually like the story, and now I can't get enough of it. In the past two weeks I have managed to read the first two books, and am currently on the 3rd one. The title for each book is "The Hunger Games", "Catching Fire", and "Mockingjay" in that order. You have to understand that this is pretty impressive considering the amount of homework as well as the hours I put in at my job. It really does not leave me much time to read for my own pleasure. A brief summary of the story is that it takes you into the life of Katniss Everdeen in the fictional world of Panem. The world is run by the Capitol, and there are twelve districts under it. Each year the Capitol hosts the annual tradition of the hunger games each capitol has to choose one boy and one girl to send to compete. The one person that wins out of the twenty-four gets blessed with enough food to last them a long while since food is scarce at this time. Katniss ends up going to the games in order to save her sister. That is where it all begins anyway, but it gets so good.
For those who were like me and thought the plot was too depressing, and maybe even somewhat crazy to even come up with, I recently learned that the author of the books got her idea for this story from Greek mythology. The story was that Minos forces the city of Athens to sacrifice seven boys in girls as punishment for past crimes, much like in the book.  I realize wikepedia is not the best site for sources, but I found that to make sense once reading the book and seeing the movie.
Even though the movie and book have a lot of similarities, there is so much in the book that the movie leaves out. This is understandable considering the movie is almost two and a half hours so adding everything else would have made it extensive to watch. Overall the reviews for both the film and the books have been pretty good. This site gives many good reviews of what people have said about the film. I am glad that they left some of the gore that is in the book out of the movie. There is some of it that would not be pleasant to watch. Overall I say that anyone who has any sort of interest in this story should at least try to watch the film or read the book. The story is more than just about kids having to go kill each other for the entertainment of the people in the Capitol, it is also about survival, love, and courage. I hate to admit that I am one of those people who loves this story. If the tickets for the movie theater weren't so expensive I would probably go see the movie a second time.

My Vacation!

This past week, Steven and I went on a cruise with two of our friends. We all left late Friday night and went and stayed the night in Tulsa, OK so we wouldn't have to get up super early in order to get to the air port on time. Then Saturday morning we got up and flew out of Tulsa to Miami. Once we got to Miami we got our rental car, went and checked in at the hotel we stayed in there, and then went sight seeing. We ended up having to walk over two miles in order to get to the beach. There were no parking spots any closer. The walk kind of sucked because Steven and I got blisters on our feet from our flip flops rubbing on our toes. They could have been worse though. After that we all went to eat, got cleaned up, and then went sight seeing some more. It was a fun day, but the fun was just about to begin.


Sunday we got up and got our stuff together to leave the hotel. We then headed to our main destination, the cruise ship! It was a massive ship that occupied over 3,000 passengers. The ship we went out was called the Ruby Princess. Going through security did not take a very long time. That was good since we were all so excited to get onto the boat. Once on the boat Steven and I went to find our room. We found it on the Caribe deck. It was a really nice room. It did kind of throw us off that the beds were across the room from eachother, but we got our cleaning guy to push them together for us. After that we had to go to a safety thing so we new what to do in case some kind of accident were to happen while on the cruise. That was pretty boring. Then it was finally time to sail away! We went and sat on the very front of the ship to watch this. After that we went and settled in our room and got ready for dinner. The dining room was really fancy. We dressed nice, and were seated. Our waiter was a cool guy. His name was Romel from the Philippines. That night we got in the hot tub and watched the movie they played outside. It was "Real Steal". It was a really good movie.


The next day we were supposed to stop at an island, but we ended up not being able to get off of the boat because the water was too rough, and we had to take little boats to the island. That was a pretty big bummer. That whole day we did not do much but hang out on the boat, lay out under the sun, and watch movies in the theater on board. That night they had a magician show. It was really cool! The next couple days after that we got to get off on islands which was a blast! At the first island we all got really burnt, so the next day we took a tour of that island in order to keep from burning even more. While on the boat at night and the other days we had to stay on all day there was plenty to do. A couple nights there were comedians that were hilarious. We also did not go hungry at all since there was always food to eat. They also had amazing smoothies we got a lot. When we got back to Florida we went and watched the movie "The Hunger Games". I didn't want to see it very much, but it turned out to be pretty good despite the depressing story line. On the plane I started reading the book. There were a lot of details that were left out of the movie. That was my vacation! It was a really fun trip. 

Celebrities in the News

I don't know if it is because it is break, or because it has been a long, dreary day, but I could not come up with anything exciting to post about, so I am going with something simple. That is some celebrities that have been in the news lately! The first one that struck me as something interesting is the famous actor who plays the mean dad in the "Meet the Parents" movies, Robert De Niro. The actor cracked a joke towards Michelle Obama about possibly having a white first lady after the November elections. Even though it was taken the wrong way, De Niro stated that he meant no harm to anyone by saying what he said, especially not towards the first lady of the United States. He did formally apologize for what he said after her office stated that it was inexcusable and inappropriate. That is definitely one thing I would not like about being famous. If you say one thing that might offend just one person, it turns into a huge deal and suddenly your considered a racist. 
The next celebrity news I have seen recently is about country stars Lady Antebellum, also known as "Lady A" for short. These singers are going to put on a free concert for a school in Indiana that had recently been hit by a tornado. The cool thing about this story is that a rival school are the ones who got this concert to happen for this poor town that did not get left with very much after the storm passed. Many students stated that this kind gesture meant a lot to them. This concert is going to be put on during Henryville High School's prom. I find it very cool that a band is willing to put on a free concert when so many bands are not willing to do that because they feel they need more money than they already have. 
The last piece of news about a celebrity that caught my eye was that of Gene Simmons from the famous band KISS and Tommy Lee from Motley Crew talking trash on girl singers, Rihanna in particular. They bluntly stated that they are tired of girl singers going up there with all these dancers surrounding them as well as lip syncing a majority of their songs. They believe that no lip syncing should be allowed. They see it as dishonest and call it singing kareokee. To them they are being put out of business due to this, and they do not feel it is right since they believe that they have real talent. Lip syncing is something that I feel should not be allowed as well. If they are good enough to be that famous they should show it instead of faking it. 
Well, there is the news about celebrities I got for this week. I'm sure there are many more stories, some may be more interesting, but it is good to read up on some of it here and there every now and then even though it probably is not the most educational stuff to read.

I'm Officially an Aunt!

I don't know about anybody else, but my Spring Break started out with some awesome news. My brother and his wife had their first baby together on Saturday morning! His name is Hunter. and for being a newborn he is pretty adorable! It sounds rude, but most newborns are kind of weird looking at first. It could just be because he is my nephew, but he is a pretty good looking newborn. My brother and his wife had an extremely long night, and so did my parents. My brother and Stephanie, his wife, decided to go to the hospital at about 10:30 Friday night, and by about 11:00 they called my parents who drove an hour and a half to get to the hospital before little Hunter made his grand appearance. I got a phone call at about 2 in the morning, but did not feel like I needed to rush to the hospital since it is only about five minutes from our house. My parents only did because this is Stephanie's third baby, and I guess they tend to come out faster after one or two. I ended up going to the hospital at about 9 the next morning, and Hunter still hadn't arrived. When I got there my parents and I went and ate breakfast in the hospital cafeteria, then Daniel came and got my mom and me to go back and see Stephanie. While we were back there she was saying she was having pressure and it was time to push, so my mom and I left the room to go wait. At exactly 10 a.m. Hunter arrived to say hello to the world. We all joked with my brother about passing out, but he hung in there and made it through! By about 10:30 we all got to go back and meet little baby Hunter. My mom got to hold him first, and then I did. He did not cry the whole time up until it was time to get a bath. My brother took a video of him crying that is so cute. His little chin quivers every time he screams. 
Whenever they took  him back for a nap my mom, dad, and I decided to go eat lunch with Steven at this time since we could not really see the baby anyway. We went and got some Subway at the mall, then my mom and I shopped around for a little bit. We did not find much, but I did score a new pair of Nikes. They are really sweet shoes! After that we went back to the hospital. When we got back there Stephanie's other two kids were there. They are a bit hyper, but they are fun to be around. I ate snacks with her son and helped him color. Her daughter really wanted to hold Hunter. They let her hold him, but it was kind of scary because she is only five. I hung out at the hospital until about 6 when I decided it was probably time to go home and hang out with Steven. Tonight they are supposed to bring Hunter over so we can see him without six other people being around constantly. I am pretty excited to see my new nephew! I consider Stephanie's other kids my niece and nephew even though they aren't my brother's as well as Steven's nieces and nephews, but Hunter is the first real official one by blood. It is pretty exciting! I hope he likes me when he gets bigger!

Makeup

The other day I was driving to work when the people on the radio were discussing how much it costs certain celebrities to look good each month. The one person I heard discussed was Jennifer Aniston, most known for her role on the television show Friends as well as many, many other movies. They stated that it costs her $8000 a month to basically look good. What they meant by this is how much it costs her to buy things such as make-up. This number is ridiculous. It got me wondering why it costs them so much when it costs me so much less than that. It is just crazy to me. It also got me wondering how much the average woman spends on makeup as well. On this site I found it states that the average woman will spend up to $15000 on makeup in her lifetime between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five. It also broke it down by saying that each woman spends about $43 each time shes goes out and gets makeup, and that this happens about five times a year. Honestly, that seems high to me. That could just be because I do not wear all that much makeup. I wear mascara, foundation, and that powder that goes all over your face (I honestly don't know what to call it) on a regular basis. Occasionally I will wear eyeliner and eye shadow, but that is only occasionally. Each of these is approximately $5 each, so I assume I probably spend about $15 or maybe $20 every three months or so on makeup. The math of that is only about $80 or so a year, not $216, but that is just me. This video talks about how much it costs to buy all the makeup for someone's face. For those out there who feel you spend too much on makeup, this site compares the prices of makeup to help find the cheaper kind and where to buy it. I find it crazy that people will spend gobs of money on makeup, but that is probably just me being cheap. It also the fact that some people have the money to do that, and some don't. For those that do, spend freely! I hope some found this to be a bit interesting. 

Spring Break Has Begun!

So as many of you know, Spring Break has officially begun for most! The wonderful break began for me Wednesday night after my night class since I only have class two days a week. It is pretty nice! Some think that only having class two days a week makes break not as worth it, but that is totally wrong. Even though I only have class two days a week, I am also in online classes which puts my homework amount very high for each week. At least during Spring Break I will only have to worry about work, and not work and homework. This is somewhat true, but then again this year it's not, because I will be gone on a cruise the week after Spring Break which leaves me responsible with doing that weeks' homework over break. That week I will be free from homework as well as work! I can not wait! It is going to be such a relief. I imagine it will also be a blast. I have never been on a cruise before, but I have high expectations for it. From what I hear they are a really good time. I hope everyone else is excited as I am about break! We are having the perfect weather for it too. I say that now, but watch it rain all week of break so nobody can truly enjoy it as much as if the weather was lovely out like it has been the past few days. This weather makes me glad to be put out in lawn and garden during my time spent at my job. This blog is somewhat short, but all I have left to say is enjoy your break everybody!