A new phone and a strange call

Yay! Today I finally received my LG Voyager in the mail. Had to order it twice and call Verizon customer service a few times, but it's here and it's great! Not only does it have a beautiful touch screen and full keyboard, but i love how the phone vibrates when using the touch screen.


The morning after I received this phone, my deep sleep was interrupted by an unfamiliar ring tone. My father called to ask what he said was a very important question: "How many states are in the United States?" I thought this was an odd thing to call about, but my answer was that there are 50 states. I thought that the answer to this question was common knowledge to just about every American that passed the 3rd grade, but I was very wrong. It turns out my dad was up against 5 people telling him that there were not 50 states in the U.S., but that there were 52. I couldn't believe my sister, her boyfriend, my dad's girlfriend, her father and a priest had no idea how many states our country is comprised of. I decided to take a little nap and then start an investigation of my own. Here is a map of the U.S. to prove the accuracy of my answer:
I questioned 6 of my housemates, 5 of them said 50 immediately and begged me to let her google it and when I refused to let her she said there were 52. I called my mother, and sadly both she and my step dad both thought that there were 52 states. My mother was completely convinced that she had gone to school for 12 years and that she was always taught that there were 52 states. Luckily, 3 of my younger siblings were home that day for her to question along with a few of their friends. All 7 children in the house were questioned separately and all knew the correct answer; So don't worry the school system is teaching children something. When you search online for the 52 states there are a surprising number of people who really think there are 52 states. My favorite thread would have to be this one. In conclusion, I think that I need to find smarter friends and family! I am joking, kind of.

The first day of my last semester

Today was the first day of my senior Spring semester of college, which was not fun at all. This inspired me to write a post about recent things I've heard that have made me laugh out loud. Hopefully this post will improve my day and yours.

• People in glass houses should not throw stones. Actually, throwing stones is bad behavior... i propose that people should not throw stones regardless of the housing situation. However, if you are trapped in a glass house and have a stone, you should throw it!

• I don't like kids, they are small, smelly and eat most of the world's cookies!

• How fast does a zebra have to run to look grey?

Now completely off topic, how do I know whether or not to use grey or gray??? What is the difference! I have found and crayon and it says that it is "gray" and if Crayola uses gray it must be right! I decided to use Google to find an answer to this gr(a|e)y dilemma. I Google everything (if i need to know what time it is i don't look for a watch i just ask Google and it knows). Google let me down though, so many results for grey and gray that it was impossible to discover the correct word for the color. For now I will let this topic rest, but my quest to uncover the truth will continue. One last joke to end where I started off, this joke was on Comedy Central Presents: Kyle Cease and my boyfriend thinks it's hilarious:

• I hate people at Halloween they don’t carve their pumpkin out, they’ll just like paint a face on it; you know what I’m talking about? But some people won’t even do that, they’ll paint a face, but it won’t even be on a pumpkin, it’ll be like on a piece of paper. But some people won’t even do that, they’ll take like a bunch of words and put that on a piece of paper, and it’ll be like an essay on Ben Franklin or some shit, you know? And then they’ll hand it in at school and it won’t even be Halloween! It’s like, pffft, nice jack-o-lantern, jacka**!

So I decided to start a blog.

As you can see, I have decided to write down my thoughts in hopes that they will entertain the web community or at least help me keep track of my thoughts. Anyone who knows me can tell you that I change subjects every couple seconds, so you have been warned that occasionally I will make little or no sense.

Here are some random things I discovered today:

1) I hate - actually I don't like the word hate so let me rephrase - I strongly dislike rrdtool. I change one little thing in the rrdtool update script and my entire database gets erased.

2) If you run cold water over an onion right after you peel it your eyes will not burn and cause you to tear for the next half hour. I learned this a little too late, but it is useful for future onion endeavors.

3) Bamboo never dies; and believe me I've tried to kill it! I left my bamboo tree at college over winter break with little water to drink and it was still alive when I got back. In fact, it barely shows again signs of neglect. Don't worry, I over-watered the plant the second I returned to ease its suffering. I wish that there was a pet out there that would be this resilient because dogs, cats and even fish are entirely too needy.

That is all for today!