Embarrassing story

I am going to decide to end this blog on a funny note, or at least I hope you think it is funny. I am going to tell you a story about one of my most embarrassing moments that I have ever had. I worked at Panera Bread last year the last half of my senior year of high school. We have a drive-thru at the one that I worked out and I was operating the drive-thru with another kid but I was taking the orders while he made the food because he did not know how to take orders. Well this one guy ordered a Panini but it was taking a while to grill so I asked him to pull around and park in the parking lot and I would bring the sandwich out to him. The Panini was ready so I walked his meal out to him while I had my head set on incase the kid I was working with needed me really fast. I gave the customer his Panini and looked back towards the restaurant and there was a very long line for the drive-thru since I was not there to take orders. I start running towards the door of Panera in order to start taking orders so I am really hustling and I am almost sprinting by the time I get to the door. Well…..I thought the door was a ‘push’ door so I am almost sprinting and brace myself to just open the door by pushing it, but the door was actually a ‘pull.’ I body slammed into the glass door and my head set and  hat that I was wearing got all messed up and I looked like a mess. I think fixed my hat and head set and walked in to Panera and everyone in the restaurant was staring at me. I was so embarrassed so I started laughing hysterically, which is supposedly a good way to cope with an embarrassing moment (http://www.ehow.com/how_2384452_get-over-embarrassing-moment.html). Everyone has embarrassing moments so you just must always look on the bright side of it, which I like to say is the funny side because then you can laugh about it later.

My Bucket List

My Bucket List

1.     I want to go skydiving because I think it would be a really big adrenaline rush and it would be really cool to see the Earth from above.

2.     I want to get a star named after me. According to The International Star Registry people have stars named after them all the time and you can do it though their website. Even though a lot of people do this, I still think it would be cool.

3.     I want to be a Verified Account on Twitter.

4.     I want to go to Aruba and lay on the beach in the sun while Channing Tatum gives me a back massage.

5.     I want to meet every player on the Pittsburg Steelers Football Team. They have always been my favorite team so that would be a dream come true.

6.     I want to graduate college.

7.     I want to go bungee jump over Niagara Falls.

8.     I want to meet the lead singer of All Time Low, Alex Gaskarth.

9.     I want to go to Italy, France, England, Ireland, and Iceland.

10. I want to go back to the Azore Islands, Tercera to be specific, in order to visit the place where I was born.

11.  I want to be in four places at once, which you can accomplish at the corner of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.

12.  I want to learn how to play the violin and to relearn how to play the piano.

13. I want to go scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef.

14. I want to watch every Disney movie ever made back-to-back-to-back.

15. I want to dance to “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith at my wedding

16. I want to have enough money to afford this list.

http://www.starregistry.com/

Growing up :(

I never took it seriously when my parents said to cherish my childhood. As a child I always wanted to be older and tried to act older because I though teenagers and twenty year olds were so cool. I imagined myself being tall with luscious hair and having curves but none of those really happened. I am 5’4 and get mistaken for being 16 on occasion when I am really 19. (I guess when I’m older I will appreciate that but for now I do not.) Growing up is depressing. It is nice to have more freedom to make your own decisions but making important decisions comes hand in hand with more responsibility. I miss being a kid. I miss coming home to my mom asking if I want a snack, or coming home after field hockey practice and plopping down on the comfiest couch in the world that is in my basement. I miss those days when I did not have to worry about a job or making money and saving it. I miss seeing my best friends from home every day like I did in high school, seeing them on breaks is not enough. Don’t get me wrong I love Virginia Tech, but I miss not having so much responsibility. High school was hard but not as difficult as college. I took rigorous courses in high school but I was more disciplined then versus now. I also did not have to study for days and hours and hours for tests like I have to in college. One of the causes of failure in college according to the University of Alabama is that the student does not understand the amount of work that is required (http://www.ctl.ua.edu/ctlstudyaids/studyskillsflyers/generaltips/causesoffailure.htm). Growing up is a necessity in life but if I could I would go back to being a kid sometimes. I am looking forward to what the future beholds and what my life is going to turn out being like.

Movies

I love watching movies. I could sit around for hours and just watch movies. I do not watch any TV really, except for The Voice, because I do not have time and just do not have the patience to watch TV sometimes. I like every type of movie. I am a sucker for romantic comedies and love stories, typical girl stereotype I know. But I like comedies because I love to laugh, while sometimes I like to watch war movies or action films. Some of my favorite movies include The Notebook, Mean Girls, The Patriot, Troy, Braveheart, Pride and Prejudice, The Hangover, Tommy Boy, The Godfather Triology, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Stepbrothers, 21 Jump Street, and many more including the classic Disney films such as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, etc. Horror films are not my thing though. I will occasionally be in the mood for a good scary movie but I am such a baby and get scared at the littlest things. One movie that I especially like that is supposed to be a horror film is Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. It is more of a mystery which makes it more exciting to watch because I tried to figure out who the killer was. According to Filmsite Movie Review, “Alfred Hitchcock's powerful, complex psychological thriller, Psycho (1960) is the ‘mother’ of all modern horror suspense films - it single-handedly ushered in an era of inferior screen 'slashers' with blood-letting and graphic, shocking killings.” (http://www.filmsite.org/psyc.html) . This film lead to other horror films such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween , which are also considered classics. Overall, I could sit and watch movies all day everyday and be perfectly happy.

Gas Prices

The price of gas money is very outrageous now-a-days. When my Grandpap was growing up gas was 10 cents per gallon (http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html) . The average cost has been increasing rapidly over the years with some years’ gas being lower than other however, but those are exceptions. In 2009 the average amount of gas spent per month by an American family was $173.80, increasing to $368.09 in 2011 (Rooney). Gas prices in my hometown in Fredericksburg, Virginia are around $4.00, which I find outrageous. Before Obama came into office the gas prices were a great deal lower than they are now. I am not an Obama fan and do blame him a bit for the increase in gas prices but I do not think it is all his fault like others do. I think there were many factors that affected the price of gas such as the increase in demand for it as more people are driving and issues with the United States having to depend on countries overseas for oil and gas. There are solar powered cars along with electric cars that multiple people are purchasing in order to cut down on the amount of gas they use. Many citizens over seas bike almost everywhere they go. Their cars are also way smaller than most of the cars her in America. They do not own a lot of SUVs and diesel cars since they only need smaller cars to maneuver around the cities and narrow roads. In conclusion, gas prices are outrageous and hopefully they decrease soon.

Princess Adele

Once upon a time there was a princess hidden away in a castle. Unlike many other tales where the princess is usually being hidden away, she chose to stay here. Her mom who was the queen encouraged her to go outside but she would not. The princess was named Adele and she was a teenager. She would just stay inside the castle all day and night singing depressing songs because for some reason they made her feel as happy as a giggling baby. She did not live in an ordinary castle however, which is why she never left. Every room had a different environment. One room was a tropical rainforest where there were tigers and panthers and insects OH MY. Another room contained an arctic climate where there were penguins and polar bears. One room was underwater and it depicted the Great Barrier Reef with a ton of colorful fish and even Nemo and Dory lived here. In every room the animals could talk though, and Adele sang all of her songs to these creatures.  She had the power to adapt to every environment. Her most favorite room of all was her Hunger Games room. There she became Katniss and was the star of the show. She had to fend for her life and it was like she was in a video game. One day however, Adele decides to venture out of her extraordinary castle. She steps outside only to find that the world is animated. She then turns into a cartoon character and meets up with Mario and Luigi to rescue her sister, Princess Peach, from the evil Bowser. In each environment that they traveled through, they experienced surprise attacks from zombies. There was one zombie in particular that caught Princess Adele’s eye. She fell in love with him as he gained her trust and promised that he would not eat her. Adele then killed the rest of the zombies once she found out that she could set fire to the rain. She then said that she has been waiting to find someone like him for the longest time because her ex was a huge jerk. Princess Adele and the hot zombie lived happily ever after in her castle and had many adventures with the different rooms in her abode.

Hunga Games 2

I saw the Hunger Games in theaters Thursday night at midnight and it was awesome! It was very true to the book, which most books that are transpired into movies are not so that was very nice. There were a few events that were altered and a character that was missing but other than that it was pretty good. The Harry Potter movies are tweaked way more than this movie was which surprised me. The casting for the Hunger Games was spot on which was very relieving because in a lot of book to movie movies the characters are totally different than you had imagined in your head while reading the book. A number of movies based off of books are either totally different than the book or are way worse than the book. For example, I read the Twilight series and really liked the books so I was pumped when I heard a movie was being made based off of the books. The movies definitely did not exceed the quality of the books, which was very disappointing. So the producers of the Hunger Games did a fantastic job. According to an article in Today, “…The Hunger Games opened with a staggering US$155 million (S$196 million) at United States and Canadian box offices, the highest domestic opening for a movie that isn't a sequel, and established what may become one of Hollywood's biggest blockbuster franchises.” (Today) The success was unexpected by many people. The Boxoffice.com editor stated, “"Harry Potter had seven movies before it got to that point, and Dark Knight had years and years of building the Batman brand. This movie comes and hangs with them in the same league.” (Today) So the fact that the Hunger Games had such great success is amazing. In conclusion the Hunger Games movie did exceptionally well and I would definitely suggest seeing it!

http://www.todayonline.com/Entertainment/Movies/EDC120326-0000083/Hunger-Games-gorges-on-S$270-million-global-debut