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Posted on June 1, 2011

On Memorial Day, I needed to make sure that my tire was fixed, in which I was stupid enough to lose my bike pouch with all my patches and wrenches out of my backpack a few weeks ago. I then had to walk about 2 miles away to Target and buy myself some new bike patches. Luckily my mom had some wrenches in her tool chest that were the right size for my bike. I did all that, and within 15 minutes, the patch was glued on and my tire was back on my bicycle all aired up and ready to go. I bike rode to the bus stop the next day since it was way too hot to bike to school. I did bike ride back though, because it would be quicker that way since I probably already missed the hourly bus. It was a scorching 95 degrees out, and I was sweating so much that I just decided to freshen up in the shower before my job interview at Sears. My mom dropped me off but I never got interviewed because I was never entered in the system. Well, I doubt I’ll get the job anyways. I might as well move on. After I left Sears I turned in some of my job applications at the mall. I made a tiny mistake on my phone number but that was corrected. However, on 3 of my applications, I forgot to correct it so I won’t be expecting a callback on those. That means that I just shot 3 chances of a job out the windows. Dang! I walked home shamefully thinking to myself that I put the wrong phone number on those applications. What more can go wrong!

Posted on May 31, 2011

My dad came to visit us this weekend. Sunday seemed to go by so fast for me, since that’s the day I actually got to see him. I figured I’d just blog about this since I get to see him a couple times a year. On Saturday, one of my brothers had his friend come with him so that’s why I stayed home that day. On Sunday, my dad came by around 11 and he drove us to the golf course and I learned to play golf. I was sweating a little bit after I swung that club around like crazy trying to hit the ball. I just couldn’t seem to hit it. My projectory angle was off, and for the most part, I was often too high than too low. My dad told me that I should do half-swings until I got it done correctly. It took on average about 10 swings just to hit it. I managed to hit the 50 yard marker a few times with the regular club. There was another club I used that hits the golf balls even farther than that, which gave me about another 50 yards. I was there for about an hour and I certainly had a fun time. My dad summed it up by saying, “It’s fun to play, but really boring to watch, right!” Afterwards, my dad drove us to my grandparents’ house and he talked to them for a little while. My grandma made some chocolate cupcakes and I tried one. I liked it. I think that will make a decent cupcake for my mom’s new shop. Who knows? Only time will tell. We also went to the movies and saw “Fast 5”. Nice action in that movie. There was some insane stuff in that movie. It’s worth watching because that ending is at the extreme, that’s for sure. Dwane Johnson’s a cool actor and so is Ludicris. Anyways, after the movie was over, we went back to where we were before and we stopped into a local pizza place and got some pizza. My youngest brother had a pasta dish and he said it was good. I had about 2 large slices of each of the 2 large pizzas. Well, that’s about everything. That’s the day in a nutshell. My dad had to go back home early the next day to beat traffic. I don’t think I’ll get to visit him over the summer, even though I was originally thinking about it, because I’m going to be busy with summer classes plus I need to help my mom with her new cupcake shop. I’ll certainly pitch in and help her out as much as I can. It’s not like I have anything better to do, right?

Later at 2 am, I was listening to my radio, and I picked up a hip-hop station out of Baltimore, Maryland. Not only is it a Radio-One station but it runs straight out of their headquarters (which is somewhere in the suberbs of Baltimore). It was a good night for DX listening. I also picked up WTOP, which is a newstalk station in Washington DC, as well as other stations. Well, that’s it. I’ll stop there.

Posted on March 28, 2011

On Saturday, I took a bike ride to West Windsor, NJ, and I flipped on their high school radio station, WWPH, and I heard one of the two guys that were on the radio saying that American Idol is a bad tv show to watch. How offensive is that? Not for me, but if this was a more powerful radio station, tons of people would start complaining about that kind of remark. Luckily it’s only a 10 watt station so that guy was lucky. It was a prerecorded show, which actually aired on the day before. Still, to hear all those radio shows looped throughout the day and that particular topic is brought up, it must be annoying to hear every time, especially if you truly enjoy watching American Idol as much as I do. Well, here’s what the guy said, “I just think American Idol is just overrated. All the good singers are voted off and the bad singers that look good are the ones that make it through to the finals.” Well, let me get this straight, American Idol is NOT overrated. I don’t need rude remarks like that. They are making improvements during each season. In fact, during the first round (the top 16 I think), the bottom 6 got to sing one more time and were then hand picked by the judges. There were 4 out of the 6 that made it through. Also, as with previous seasons, the singers are allowed one save, in which the person has to sing one last time to decide whetver or not he/she should really stay in the competition. Even if that save is used up, that does not mean that the viewers are dependent on the best looking person. They do listen to what the judges say and there has never been a crappy American Idol singer in the finals. Carrie Underwood made it big, and Adam Lambert did really well during the past season, even though he lost to Kris Allen. Kris Allen took a direction that attracted younger viewers in their tweens, and a YouTube friend that is also a big American Idol fan messaged me about that by the way. He had a voice that matched his looks, and it certainly was NOT a pitchy voice. He could sing, and he wouldn’t have made it that far if he didn’t. Also, there is no discrimination in the show at all. It doesn’t matter if a singer is gay, nor does it matter if a singer went the wrong direction with his/her songs because of race. The judges went through hours of decision making to pick the top singers that would stay in Hollywood, and there was a hundred of singers that made it in the beginning. I bet that they didn’t even get any sleep when they were making the final decision either.

Another thing I would like to say, is or is American Idol not the highest rated reality show right now? I don’t know, I might be wrong. Maybe the fact that Simon Cowell left is getting too much through everyone’s heads. Maybe people are hating American Idol just because he’s gone! I mean, he actually used analogies to characterise people’s singing. He’s British so that made perfect sense. He was also very funny, he actually had more bad things to say than good things. Will American Idol ever be the same without him? I don’t think any judge could replace Simon. Maybe that’s going to change the voting turnout and maybe that will change the competition a little bit. I still believe that the best singer is going to win in the end regardless of the turnaround.

When that radio DJ goes in the professional world, he will ABSOLUTELY not bring that topic up again. If he does, he’ll probably get banned from his radio show and he’ll upset thousands of American Idol fans. Keep that in mind. I won’t be a critic, but I just wanted to throw this thing out there.

Posted on March 24, 2011

When my mom was waking up my youngest brother for school this morning, he told her that he didn’t feel well. I was hoping that he would stay at my grandparents’ but he ended up staying home because my mom was running late for work and so he was stuck with me. I almost feel like I’m being tortured when he’s around. In fact, I feel like I’m trapped in a cage. He makes me say stupid things, and to top it all off, he follows me, he spies on me when I am on the computer, and he turns electronic devices off, such as the stereo when I’m listening to the music. Oh my god, I HATE that! I really do. I just want to get away from him, so I did. At around 9:45 am, I had breakfast, I did the dishes, and then I packed lunch and I left. At 10:00, I was out the door and away from him. Now it’s all smooth-sailing now since I am at the school library. It took about 45 minutes to bike ride here but I made it, regardless of the weather conditions. It was very cold, I thought we were going to get snow, but I only felt like…a little bit of sleet, barely falling. By the time it hit my hand, I didn’t feel anything, that’s how light it was coming down. Well, I’m here now, and while I’m here, I’ll be typing out my cheat card for Physics since I got another test coming up. I’ll be allowed to use a 6*8 inch index card for the test, so I’ll need to be sure to type in a small font, that way I can get lots of information on it, haha!

I can study in piece now, YEAH! My mom took my laptop away, so being here at the library kind of makes sense anyways.

Posted on March 21, 2011

Since my mom is at work all day, and my siblings are at school, I’m by myself at home. I’m currently on CareerBuilder.com looking for jobs. I’m trying to look for a good paying job rather than a basic minimum wage job. I used to work for TJ Maxx and I also worked at a retail store on a military base. I have about 3 years of experience at retail and I am certainly not ready to seddle for a McDonalds job or a dumb job like that. I also have about 4 months of warehouse experience since for my last 4 months of retail I was stocking health and beauty merchandise. If I did a search for “warehouse jobs”, I might have some more success in finding better pay jobs than just a retail job. Those big retail companies seem to care less about how much experience you have unless you worked for their company in the past or have worked in retail for like….20 years. Wal-Mart is the worst, I still think they treat their employees like crap so there’s no use in getting me to work for them. I could go for a warehouse job that will care more about how much experience you have in getting the job done quickly and efficiently. I have those types of qualities so anybody can count on me to make sure everything gets out the door. Well, at least I try my best anyways. I’ll just have to keep posting my resumes and maybe a phone call will come up.

Posted on December 18, 2010

Today is the last day for my old cell phone to be in service, since my mom recently switched carriers. I was actually in the van at the time while my mom and siblings were at the furniture store. We went to a few places by the way so it was a busy shopping day for us. We celebrated Christmas yesterday though since we’ll be at my dad’s on the 25th. So while I was in the van I also managed to forward my old messages (mostly the messages that KC (kcjenner1 on YouTube) sent me on my cell phone). I also had about 6 or 7 pictures of my brother’s bedroom, my other brother, and my cashier screen at the gas station where I was for a week to cover someone’s shift. Believe it or not, I ONLY had 6 or 7 pictures on my cell phone but most people take a lot more than that, hundreds even. I rarely used my cell phone to talk to anyone, and because of that, I rarely took pictures either. Unfortunately I had already sent the pictures by the time my mom told me that it costs $10 every time a picture is sent, since the cell phone that we used didn’t have pics in the cell plan. I doubt it costs $10 per picture but rather a memory rate of $5 per MB, or something like that. I was foolish to do that because I realized that I couldn’t do that for videos because the video file size is too big. So I had to go to radio shack after I went to Chipolte, and I hurried in there while everyone else was in the dressing room at this one sports place to buy myself an adapter to plug my cell phone into the computer. I knew this would be the only way I could save my 2 only videos that I had of that national anthem message thing I heard on the radio last year. So I installed the drivers, and I also had to install “BitPim” and if you don’t have that program you should download it yourself. I was able to sort through it, I might do a video showing everyone how to use it on YouTube one of these days. Well, I gotta go, but I’ll share these videos with you right now. Check it out. I got the Lincoln-Sudbury High School station playing this. Notice the loudness of this radio station in comparison to the other station, there were two stations on the same frequency. The Lincoln-Sudbury one, at 7 miles away, is a 4 watt radio station with a HAAT of 225 ft. The other one is a 1,700 watt (now it’s 2,200 watts) with a HAAT of 450 ft. Gotta go. I have these vids as unlisted but here’s the embeds.

My day is just about starting and ending for me again today.  I had the choice of staying at dad’s house or going with mom to work at the nursing home with her. Yeah…I actually told dad a few days before having mom making the recommendation herself of going with her instead of the plans of bike riding to his house at 1:30. I agree with going to the nursing home because I knew the client would like to talk to me and have a little fun.  Everything was great, then 1 hour and 22 minutes later at 9:12, shit just happened.  My mom asked me to vacuum the floor because there was a mess in the bedroom from the cat. She wanted me to do the front room and the hallway so I did. I went from sweep to sweep, back and forth across the hallway floor. Before I finished my last sweep, she wanted me to stop and to do the bedroom where the cat litter was. She told me exactly as put to do the rugs and nothing else. Yeah, she said “RUG’ S”!  Not rug, so I started to sweep the two rugs. Once I got back to sweep the other rug, the vacuum got caught on the that rug.  I tried to pull on it but the rug was getting caught even more until it flipped over. I turned it off, not realizing with my own eyes that the cat litter was on that rug.  I tried to pull on it and that’s how when the rug flipped over, the cat litter went spilling everywhere, and I wasn’t wearing my glasses either. I was capable of seeing the litter, since I’m just near-sighted, but the room was bright and dark so I JUST couldn’t see it. Plus I didn’t think of merely turning the vacuum off (until that happened). What would you do if your vacuum got stuck on something and didn’t realize what and if something bad was going to happen?  I mean, what if there was a sturdy shelf on your rug and you didn’t think any thing would possibly fall over but it falls over anyway. What if there was nothing on the rug at all, what would you be careful in NOT what to do if and when your vacuum gets stuck? Well, my mom told me to my computer off after that so I lost my computer privileges. Great! What in the HELL was I supposed to do? I’ve only used a vacuum cleaning 4 times in my life and this vacuum was faulty. I told mom it wasn’t my fault but she wasn’t listening. She told me it was all my fault but she wasn’t listening. She told me it was all my fault and now I couldn’t use the computer. Nothing I said to her helped and now she had to spend her time cleaning up the mess I did. “A mothers work is never done,” she said as I was hearing her from the other room. She ran back and forth, grabbing paper towels and I just had to sit there on the couch with no computer. This whole day sucks, in fact my whole life sucks.  I also have things going on and I have to always LOSE everything.  Some of the bad things I do makes sense. I do believe I get the proper punishments I deserve. It just seems like my mom is taking things away from me too much. Also, I was up until midnight Tuesday night doing my homework and my mom said if this happens again, all my stuff is coming out of my room. Homework comes before using Messenger, or anything else. My mom says that I’ve been chatting with this KC guy and she also told me that she doesn’t know who this KC guy even is and it needs to stop (I explained to her that he gives me advice and I learn from him). I explained to her who he is and I do get some educational information from him but she said it’s going nowhere. “IS this going to help you with anything?” I said “No.” My mom is right but I want to make choices to learn things like how businesses work because I even think THAT could in turn help me a lot.  I say that it could improve my aspect of internet marketing as well as programming code (since that’s what I’m doing at school, basically java code). Maybe I won’t use the computer that much and maybe I’ll decide I won’t use Messenger on it that much but I still want to have a little fun time every once in a while.  Come on, I only have two days when I’m not in school. On top of that sometimes I have to work on Saturdays. Of the 3 or 4 dyas that I work, and the 5 days that I go to school, I only have 4 or 3 days of doing homework with less than 2 hours of study time on the days that I have school as well as work. Yes, I do check my email every day in case you’re wondering, and I feel that I have to. I also get into the habit of responding to any emails I receive with every last breath of words that I compose. I obsess and obsess.  That’s the problem with me, I enjoy socializing with everyone that comes in contact with me on Theirtube and Gmail. Even if that person only responds with 1 sentence and I respond to them with 50 sentences, that’s okay. The problem is that I get so wrapped up into something that I just don’t know when to stop. That is why from this day forward, starting today, which is Thanksgiving, onward, if at any time I don’t respond, it’s no big deal because I’ll be too busy doing homework. It’s really no big deal if I don’t respond because I am a busy person. I may at least put in a few words like “Oh okay, thanks!” That way I can get back to my schoolwork with no problems. I only have one user, which is KC, that emails me occasionally so I’m not mad. I need to learn to control my computer time, just spend 10 minutes on the days that I have school.

FTW, and I MEAN it.  I’m sick of this shit happening to me, getting my stuff taken away and everything. I can do what the fuck I want. No one is fucking going to do this to me or else I’m just going to bitch about it. That’s that. Now what do you think I should have done. What should I continue to do or not do? Reply to the comments below.