Summer "Vacation"

I'm back after almost 2 months!

My summer is practically over. It feels just like yesterday that I was coming home from Keene. That was the beginning of May. Now it's August, and I'm moving back to Keene in less than 2 weeks. DAMN my summer flew by.

I'm actually happy but most of all relieved that I am moving back to Keene. I haven't told many people this, but I lost $4,500 in financial aid through a scholarship and a loan. My parents expected me to earn $3,000 this summer then I found out that I lot $4,500. We all pretty much thought that I wasn't going to be back at Keene this year. We sent in an appeal and thankfully we got most of the financial aid back because there were a few mistakes made, but the bottom line is that I'm going back. That's all that matters.

In my free time (whatever I can get) I've been going to the beach a lot. Once with Leah, Kevin and Kris during the day, the next two times were at midnight or later with the whole gang. Aneudys, Leah, Kris, Kevin, Stella, Lindsay, Alyssa and I. I still need a beach day with just Allie and I though, hopefully doing that soon.

I'm spending all of my money on concerts... I went to see the Offspring on July 25th, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones on August 3rd, then I'm seeing Linkin Park on August 14th and Coheed and Cambria on September 28th. The Offspring concert was insane! The crowd was fucking nuts at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom and Justin, Ryan, Kevin Le, his girlfriend and I all had to move towards the back because it was so intense.

I'm thinking about doing a few projects. A few things that will keep me busy, aside from school or work. I think I'm going to start a new channel on YouTube and vlog daily. I think I'm going to start as soon as I get to school and do it every day that I am in school from then on. Why? Why not? I'm calling it Project KGB (tentative title) meaning Keep Garrity Busy. There are times where I am so bored that all I want to do is sleep, where I could be doing something that's not "necessary" for me to do like work or school work and I can do something like this which I think will be fun, I have always wanted to do it, and now I'm brave enough to actually do it. I really don't like how I look on video or in pictures sometimes (which is going to be funny if you read the next section) so this is going to be interesting. So look for that, if you want, once school starts for me which is mid-late August, not sure when I exactly want to start it. I think I'm going to cover a few things. Stuff that's going on in my life (obviously) like me trying to lose weight, how college is going, things that matter to me that are going on in the world, and basically I'll be covering a lot of stuff that I could cover here in the blog.

Another part of Project KGB is something that isn't very original, but I absolutely still want to do it. I want to take a picture of myself every single day. In my post "Changes" I talked about how much my life has changed over the course of my high school career. I posted a picture of me at the beginning of freshman year and at the end of senior year and the difference is astonishing. I want to see that process, how I change over the course of a few years. I am going to take a picture of myself every day for the rest of my college career. For the next three years, I'll take 30 seconds out of every day and just take a picture. I know a TON of people have done this on YouTube but I'm going to also. I'm not going to be like that guy who doesn't change his facial expression in any of the pictures for over 5 years though. A lot of pictures will be the same, but I don't care if my pictures are different. If I take a group photo with all of my friends, I'd prefer that over just me. Why? Because this isn't just about how I change, I will look back on these pictures and remember my past. Yes, how I've changed, but also what I've done over the years. That's the kind of nostalgia I got just from looking at one picture, imagine what it would be like looking at over 1000. I'm also planning on making a Youtube video with all the pictures too. Better than flipping through 1000 in a Facebook album, at least I think so...

One last part of Project KGB isn't going to happen for a while, but a while back Kris and I teased "Operation Awe-Sauce." That was an idea to do a podcast that Kris and I would host, with special guests like Allie, Kevin Le, Leah, Aneudys, and hopefully others. We haven't recorded any episodes since everyone had a ton of work this summer but I still have the idea in the back of my mind and I'm hoping to get it started maybe this December when we're all back in Nashua. Don't expect anything for a while, but the idea is out there.

Am I the only one who doesn't care about the Olympics? I don't even know what else to say about it, that's how much I really don't care about them. I compare the Olympics to high school. There will be the people who have a TON of spirit who watch every event they can, then there are the people who only watch one or two events (Opening/Closing ceremonies or a school rivalry game/Turkey bowl) and pretend, proclaim their love for the team. Mark me down as the person who watches 1 or 2 events. I love America, but I don't care about the Olympics that much. #sorrynotsorry

On a cuter note, Zach and Charlie are getting so big! They're such good puppies. They're a lot of trouble, that's for damn sure, but they're honestly really great. I was watching a video I posted of them the day we got them and they have gotten so big. They are getting their big-puppy voices too. Here's the video of them when we first got them, I'll post another video soon of them now.

OH MY GOD if this is what dubstep turns into, I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. Watch this video, thank me later.

He does covers of dubstep songs. Not the other way around, like dubstep versions of rock songs. This is so badass, I can't stop listening to this. You're welcome.

I'm gonna be honest, I think the Burnout games have the best soundtracks of all video games. Some might argue that the old-school Tony Hawk games have better soundtracks, but I never played the old school Tony Hawk games so I can't compare. In my next post I'll do another What I'm Listening To and post some Burnout songs that are pretty sick.

Damn you, Steam Summer Sale, for making me spend $30 on games at ridiculous deals. Bought Left 4 Dead 1, 2, Nexuiz, and the Half-Life Complete package which was 9 Half-Life games and Team Fortress Classic. Worth every penny.

Black Ops 2 is looking sexy. The new multiplayer trailer is out. I won't post it because not a lot of you will care, but I'm super glad I pre-ordered it. One of the best parts is the song. "Play For Real" by The Crystal Method plays in the second half and it is SICK. It's one of my songs on repeat right now. I'll post it in the next post.

I read an article on IGN and it is possibly the stupidest article I have ever read. It was called "5 Games That Would Have Been Better With Spoilers Up Front" and I was interested, not interested in spoiling the games for myself but to see WHY these games would be better. The beginning is how spoilers are such a big deal nowadays and they shouldn't. So I see the first title and it's "Braid" a game I bought a few weeks ago, have heard great things about, and am really excited to play. I hesitantly read the first line and BOOM instant spoiler. I was expecting a little build up like "Braid has been praised for it's gameplay mechanics with light and colorful graphics along with it's great story. This is where Braid really shines, in it's unexpected plot twist that _______" but no. The first line was "You _______________" and done. Then it goes on to explain the game, plot twist etc. I'm still going to play Braid but knowing that spoiler is absolutely going to take away from the experience. They spoiled Heavy Rain, which I already had spoiled for me a few days ago, Red Dead Redemption which I already knew how it ended (not much of a plot-twist spoiler) Metal Gear Solid 4 which I am PISSED that I know the ending of that, and Spec Ops: The Line, which I heard good things about, and the plot-twits sounds really interesting but I probably wasn't going to play it. The reason why I'm so annoyed with this article, even though I already knew 2 of the games' spoilers and wasn't going to play the third game, it's the fact that there is no point in me reading this. HOW am I going to get a better experience in any game if I know that a character dies, it was a dream the whole time, someone betrays you, etc. That's like wanting to watch the Super Bowl after you just found out who won. I know that I made the conscious decision to scroll down and keep reading the article, but there is no way that knowing these will make my experiences more fun. So I guess I am mad that I had those games spoiled for me, but I'm more angry that I got my hopes up wishing that reading that article would be beneficial.

Speaking of spoilers, I haven't seen The Dark Knight Rises yet, yet people on Facebook feel the need to spoil plot twists. One kid decided, after the midnight release, to post every spoiler and plot twist in one status "just to be a dick" his words, not mine. Other people are posting pictures of what happened in the movie too. I didn't realize I needed to watch the movie in the first week it was released before people start spoiling everything about the movie online.

I am very happy and lucky to say that Allie and I celebrated our 2-year anniversary on June 28th. It's very hard to believe that I've been with the most important person in my life for so long. She's my girlfriend, my support system, my sanity, and most of all my best friend. I've been told that she's out of my league... She totally is. I have no idea why she's interested in me (Most likely my rock-hard abs and devilishly handsome smile (most likely my rock-hard abs)) but I am very lucky nonetheless. We've been through a lot together. Good times, bad times, fights and moments we'll cherish forever. I feel so lucky to be with her. A lot of people tell us that we are the cutest, happiest couple ever, which we take as a compliment but it's not true. What is true is that there is no one else that could make me happier than she does. She is perfect in my eyes. I've never been happier than I have been these last two years and she is the biggest reason for that. I love her with all that I am, I always have, since I first met her and I know she  loves me just as much. I could go on and on about her. I could write a whole post about her (foreshadowing) but I'm going to end off on this: Alexandria Nicole Lafrenaye is the most important person in my life and I have never cared for anymore more than I care about her. I love you Allie :)

My next posts are going to be:
What I'm Listening To
and a Bucket List which I'm super pumped to post.

Thanks for reading guys, I passed 2,200 views on here and it's all thanks to you. I appreciate the support.

What I'm Listening To

I've been listening to these songs constantly lately. I can't seem to get them out of my head but I don't care because they're so good.

"Danny, Dakota, and The Wishing Well" -A Silent Film

I really like this song because it tells a story that takes place over years and years in just 4 minutes. It's a catchy song, cute story, and just overall a good listen.

"Midnight City" -M83

This has been playing on WFNX a lot lately but I still want to share it incase anyone hasn't had a chance to listen to it. I won't go into much detail since I already mentioned how much I love this video in my last post.

"Wake to Sleep" -Transfer

"Wake to Sleep" was played at Sony's E3 conference during an intro montage and it was fucking awesome. It has a different 'feel' than what I usually listen to, and has some pretty drastic changes mid-song which almost sound like entirely different songs, but its great.

"I Was A Teenage Anarchist" -Against Me!

There's really not much to say about this other than it's a really good song. The video is interesting but I don't really "get" it.

"It's Time" -Imagine Dragons

I gotta say this is probably my favorite songs right now. Every time I hear this on the radio I instantly turn the volume all the way up. The chorus is amazing, the end gives me chills and overall it's just a really happy song. This is a song I could listen to on repeat for days and days.

These are the main songs I'm listening to right now. I have a few others but if you want to check them out here's a link to my Spotify playlist with these songs and a few others. I know this sounds like some kind of plug but this isn't a sponsor, me trying to get more views, nor do I get anything out of giving you this link. It's just a bunch of songs, that's all. So if you wanna check it out, here's a link.
http://t.co/f1h6QRyP

WFNX, puppies, and the Official Nick Garrity Stamp of Approval.

I hate "Somebody That I Used To Know." There, I said it.
I also really don't like Fun's "We Are Young" or Avicii's "Levels." I like the bass drop in Levels but for some reason the 'chorus' that repeats in the entire song annoys the hell out of me.

John Carter was an amazing movie. I don't care what anyone says. I don't care how poorly it did at the box office. It was fantastic. But the thought crossed my mind that it would never get a sequel which I would love. I thought that since they lost close to $200 million on it. Why would they make a sequel to a movie that did so poorly and no one saw? Then again there are 3 Open Season movies so...there's hope.

I watched M83's music video fro Midnight City for the first time and I absolutely loved it. It's really amazing how a music video can tell a story so well without having to literally tell it in just a matter of 4 minutes. There's a plot, rising action, climax, and conclusion without without saying a single word about what's going on in the video and it's just the video with the song playing over it. That's what I love and miss about music videos. That's why VH1 and MTV need to play music videos instead of Jersey Shore. Wanna know what I want to do whenever I'm sitting with someone who likes and talks about Jersey Shore?
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ TABLE FLIP!
On a side note, I've always wanted to do that. If I ever lose an argument, a game, or something else, I just want to flip the table as I jump up and leave. Just walk away. It needs to happen.

WFNX is going off the air :( They sold themselves to the devil. The devil's name is ClearChannel. They couldn't afford to keep the station going so they laid off employees and they are going to turn into a different station. WFNX is no more. ClearChannel owns 800+ radio stations across the country including Kiss 108, Jamn 94.5, and two AM Boston stations. This is blasphemy. I'm so upset. Allie introduced me to to WFNX two years ago and I fell in love with it. Adam XII's final broadcast was really sad to listen to :( After he said his farewell he made sure he responded to every single supportive tweet, status or wall post he received either by liking them, retweeting them, or personally responding to them. I posted a status and tweeted him and he liked my status and tweeted me back. That is a class act, and it shows how much we, the FNX listeners, care about our radio and how much we loved Adam XII and how much he cares for his fans. The situation with FNX as a whole, not just with the individual DJs, is very tragic and the outreach of the fans has been overwhelming so I've seen. All I have left to listen to on the radio is WAAF and Rock 101. I don't listen to anything else. It's where I go to listen to new songs that no other radio station has for at least 3 months. It's very sad and I'm gonna miss it, especially because they are rumored to be going from awesome Alternative to country, Spanish speaking, or even talk radio. Rest in peace, WFNX. We'll miss you.

So this is huge news, but everyone already knows about it because it's 3-week old news, but I got two puppies! Their names are Zach and Charlie, Labrador/retriever mixes, 17 weeks old! I'll add pictures at the bottom if anyone hasn't seen them. They're growing really fast and have grown a lot. Zach, the Golden Retriever looking one is a lot calmer than charlie, the Lab looking one. Zach is definitely going to be a lap dog even when he's 100 pounds while Charlie is always going to be the troublemaker who always purposely gets himself in trouble just for the attention. Both of them are great dogs, they get along great, and I'm so happy we have them. There's never a dull moment in the house as long as they're running around. They're honestly really well trained even though they still have quite a few accidents around the house. They know that they're supposed to go out if they need to go, but sometimes they don't. They do know commands like come, sit, and stay and they're starting to learn their names, our names, and they get super excited and come running as fast as possible if they ever hear the word "treat." Over this past weekend my parents were away from Friday - Tuesday and I was pretty much the only one who took care of them, even with working 8 hour work days almost everyday. I was the one who fed them, took them out, gave them water and gave them a quick bath with Allie's help and overall, even though it was a lot of exhausting work, it was actually a bonding experience believe it or not. I feel like Zach and Charlie trust me more, like me more, and know me better now. Since my parents came home, there have been times where they'll both be calling them telling them to come or sit, and they'll ignore them and just run into my room just to see if I'm there and basically say hello. It's adorable and I really like knowing they like me.

Why does How I Met Your Mother always have sad season finale endings? It depresses the hell out of me.

The zombie apocalypse is happening. The CDC denies the existence of zombies but that just adds to the drama. Government conspiracy and CDC cover up. This is what we've all been waiting for. A naked man in Miami decided to eat a homeless man's face. After being shot he didn't even respond and continued to eat the man's face. He was finally shot enough times, after not even acknowledging the cop's orders, let alone his/her existance, he finally stayed down.

Zombies.

A 21 year old man admitted to killing his roommate and eating his heart and part of his brain.

Zombies.

A woman dismembered and decapitated her 3 1/2 week old baby with two knives and a sword, then ate her baby. After, she claimed it was an accident.

Lying zombies.

A man in New Jersey with a history of psychiatric issues, stabbed himself 44 times, took his intestines out and threw them at the police after barricading himself in his home.

Crazy zombies.

A toddler in Brazil passed away. Doctors had pronounced him dead. (I think you know where this is going.) During the funeral that day or the next day, I don't remember which, he sat up in the casket, asked for "some water" then laid back down and died again. People were screaming, they delayed the funeral, called in doctors to check him out thinking this was an act of God and a miracle, but doctors only scratched their heads and pronounced him dead...again.

Toddler zombies.
My years of zombie killing training are about to pay off! I think that everyone has dreamed of this, secretly or not. Who doesn't want to mow down a few zombies? I know that my fun games of Call of Duty zombies had a purpose.

Zombies.

You're welcome

I've been listening to Halo music a TON lately. Halo themes, Halo dubstep, Halo soundtracks. One Final Effort is an amazing song. It's from either Halo 2 or 3 but it's fantastic. Definitely one of my new pump-up songs along with this:

I heard this on the radio actually. I didn't think dubstep would ever be on the radio but I found out that it's from a UMass Lowell station. Every Wednesday I listen to Drop Beats Not Bombs which is an all techno/dubstep show on  the UML station. They play a lot of nerdy songs like Pokemon songs straight from the old gameboy games and I look forward to it every Wednesday. Dubstep on the radio instantly gets the Official Nick Garrity Stamp of Approval. Only a few things get the coveted Official Nick Garrity Stamp of Approval. These include WFNX, dubstep, and Mountain Dew Coolattas.

E3 was this week! It was totally completely awes...oh wait it was kind of disappointing. I was hoping for more unannounced games like Watch_Dogs that are completely new and not sequels. I want NEW! I want FRESH! That's why I was looking forward to Nintendo giving more information about the Wii U. Although I  knew that they would probably announce Mario games which isn't new, the console itself is completely different so I had my hopes up. They didn't announce much about the Wii U other than the fact that it'll have the Miiverse or Mii Universe, like a PlayStation Network or Xbox Live where we can communicate with friends about games and such. Welcome to 2005, Nintendo! *sigh* I guess I'll wait for more new announcements on the console...

Kris came back to Nashua a few days ago, so the genius that is Kevin Le wanted to throw a surprise welcome home party for him. We all waited silently in the basement until Kevin Le brought him downstairs. We all yelled something different. I yelled "Surprise!" but I think I heard "Mozotov!" "It's a boy!" and "Happy D-Day!" too... it was awkward. Hence the name of the Facebook group "Kris's Awkward Party, Don't Tell Kris!" We even had a cake saying "Well this is awkward..." but it was a ton of fun, and it was really great to hang with the whole gang again.

I've been hearing "No Rain" by Blind Melon constantly. I used to hate it for some reason but hearing it at work at Home Depot (I work at Home Depot now, I like it a lot) and hearing it on the radio almost every day has made me love it. I find myself snapping my fingers along with it and humming along. It's catchy as the plague and I love it. (The song, not the plague. The plague gets the Official Nick Garrity Sad Face of Disapproval)

My biggest pet peeve: people interrupting me when I am talking. Just as a warning, if you ever interrupt me, I will probably have a murderous look on my face, aimed towards you. I don't care who does it, it pisses me off to no end. I have a thought that I am saying, please please please let me finish. I know that whatever I'm saying may spark a thought in your head but I beg you, please wait one god damn second to let me finish my sentence. That's it. I feel bad but Allie does it all the time and I get pissed. Not at her, I can't stay mad at her even if I tried, but I get mad at the fact that I was interrupted mid-sentence. She always thinks I'm mad at her but it was because I just want to finish my thought, no matter how important or stupid it is.

I keep getting Facebook requests for Mafia Wars. I quit that waste of my life that I called a game years ago, but I still get notifications for it. I didn't spend much time on there. Kris and I only got to around level 475, more or less. Is that bad? I can't get hooked on that game again. I refuse. No. It can't happen. No.

Honestly, I really like my blog. I like how I balance my writing (not just how I write once a month basically) but what I write about specifically. I like how some things I post specifically to Facebook, some things just to Twitter, and I like to bring a little bit of everything here. I like writing about some things only on the blog just because I have room to expand my thoughts and say practically whatever I want with some limitations of trying not to insult anyone. Anything I say on Facebook and Twitter I like to bring here to write more about it rather than repeat my status or tweet. I just think that writing for this blog is a good way to express myself and what's going on in my life without just tweeting or updating my status constantly. I don't know what else to say other than I prefer how this is more story-telling for me rather than posting a 2 sentence tweet or status.

Hey. You're face. I like it. It get's the Official Nick Garrity Stamp of Approval.

Live, Laugh, Shut the Hell Up

I don't get YouTube "likes." Why does almost every single video, whether it's a video with song lyrics on it, a Call of Duty commentary, or a Justin Beiber fan video, the people on the channel constantly ask for likes and subscriptions. Subscriptions, I can understand. It gets more people watching and interested in their videos but I don't understand likes. I have 2 likes on 5 or so of my videos but it doesn't mean anything to me. What's the point? Bragging rights? I don't and will never ask for likes because I just don't want to annoy people with that. If you like my video, like it. Dislike my video? Tell me. I don't want to ask or beg for likes.

I forgot how great Bullet For My Valentine is. I listened to them back in middle school then I stopped until now. I listened to "Hearts Burst Into Fire" and instantly added them to my Spotify. Dave (future roommate, will get to that later) gave me their entire discography for my iTunes along with all of Mastodon's so I can finally check them out too. Nick is a happy camper at the moment. Rock on! \m/ >.< \m/

I told Kris that he is about 8 trophies away from his Burnout Paradise platinum trophy. He already has 67 trophies of the 98 available, now he just needs 8 certain ones to get his FIRST platinum. His response? He said he didn't want to bother. WHAT?! Aneudys and I are offering to help you with these trophies and you say you don't want to bother? I refuse to accept that as an answer, Mr. Bartol. It's like you don't want a platinum. Do you not like platinums? You must not like puppies either, is that right? He's getting his platinum whether he wants to or not. I'm gonna help him get it.

Please take 30 seconds to watch this. This is how I feel right now. I'm the white stick figure, the black stick figure represents Finals week.

See how he won in the end? Yeah, I won the battle with finals. FINALS ARE OVER and I'm back home! Those poor finals never had a chance... Very glad to be out of Keene. I'm sure after 3 weeks of being home, I'll be ready to go back since I'll miss everyone and everything, but for now I'm very happy I'm home.

I played the PS3 game Journey. It took about 2 hours to beat. I fell in love with it! Journey is all about an anonymous mute hooded character. The entire game is played without any text, dialog, or names. The only thing you know is that you need to get to the top of the mountain with the shining top. The great thing about this game is the multiplayer where you can be playing and another random anonymous hooded character will hop in and go on this journey without you. You can "chirp" and make sounds by pressing the circle button to communicate with the other player but the real bonding aspect is how you both go on this journey together.

There was one part where I was with this one other player for about a half hour and as we were playing I got hit by an enemy pushing me back what felt like 300 feet in the game while the other player made it ahead safe. I chirped for him, I tried going ahead to catch up with him, but he was no where to be found. I had lost the player I was playing with for over a half hour and I was surprisingly upset that he abandoned me and just left be behind. I was taken back by the emotional effect that that one event left with me. I was so engrossed in the game and making the journey with this anonymous player, I grew some sort of attachment to him, even though I didn't speak to him, know him, or know anything about him. This all happened for a brief moment, but for that brief moment, I felt kind of lost.

That's the thing about Journey. It isn't necessarily a game. It's not a puzzle game, not an action game, it is more of an experience. You need to invest yourself into the scenery (because it is a gorgeous game, absolutely stunning visuals) and the music which is absolutely phenomenal. The ending was ruined for me because the intense music and the "magic" of the ending was cut off by loud rap music being played in the room, but I was still able to enjoy it by focusing on watching and playing. I can't recommend Journey enough. I feel like even though it's only a 2 hour game, it's worth the $15 easily.

My now ex-roommate Jason and I were talking about how he chews tobacco. We figured out that over the past 5 years he's spent over $3,000 on just chewing tobacco. He could have bought a motorcycle with that money if he didn't dip. I told him that I couldn't make fun of his because I waste my money on video games. I looked in my drawer and pulled out 6 games that I've bought but never touched. Figuring it out, lets say each game was $60 when I bought them, I had spent over $300 on just the games in my hand that I have never touched. Never played once. I even bought Jak and Daxter HD Collection a few weeks ago and I've only played 1 out of the 3 games. I started the 2nd but I've barely touched it. I've vowed to not buy any more games for a LONG time. I still want to platinum InFamous 2, play all 5 God of Wars, play all of the Assassin's Creed games, all the Sly Cooper Games, all the Jak games, etc. Bottom line, there is no need for me to waste any more money until at least September - November when Black Ops II and Borderlands 2 come out. And don't even get me started on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale... I'll save that for another post. I've talked enough about games for one post.

So don't ask me why, but I've been watching a lot of old WWE videos on YouTube. I watched it religiously and I thought it was the most badass thing ever...then I turned 13. I watched it in 6th grade and I found one clip recently of The Rock making a surprise appearence and he starts insulting people in typical WWE fashion. The biggest thing I noticed was that as that one clip turned into me watching more and more, all of the episodes I used to watch, I notice every fake detail now that I didn't before. I believed that WWE was real and all the drama that came with it was too. I love catching when the wrestlers make a mistake in their moves or stumbling upon their words. I'm noticing the fake interviews look faker now and

I hate "Live, Laugh, Love." That is one of the lamest "deep" quotes I've ever heard. It's so over-used. Same with "Living Young, Wild and Free" it just gives a bunch of high school and college girls an excuse to feel like they're saying something meaningful in their Facebook statuses. You might as well just post a status saying "Over-used quote" and people will like it. I think people take it way too seriously by making it a life-style choice and you live for that quote. Kind of like YOLO where college where if someone is planning on doing something stupid like getting shit-faced or taking a street sign out of the ground, they use YOLO as an excuse. Same goes for these. I feel like they are just excuses for people to do whatever they want.

I have one simple goal for this summer. Not to get a job, not to spend time with my friends, those are going to happen anyway. My one goal, my one project for the summer, is to make a deadmau5 head for myself. I wanted to make one this Halloween but I didn't have the money or the time to make it. This summer, however, I'll make it, bring it to school, and use it on Halloween. It shall be epic. There shall be pictures. Hell, I might even do a few vlogs throughout the process.

Speaking of vlogs, I feel like vlogging would be fun. I have a few on my YouTube channel now but I feel like I have enough to talk about where I could possibly make a few videos? My only thoughts are the same ones I had when I started the blog: Who would pay attention? Who would care? Would I just be doing this so no one could see it? I also find it awkward to talk to myself into a computer. It is something I am potentially interested in but I still need to decide what I would do and if it would be worth it.

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Buddy

I woke up to Buddy growling and my dad yelling at him. I fall back asleep and I'm woken up by my dad calling a family meeting. I instantly knew what was happening. We never have family meetings.

Buddy has been growling at us, showing his teeth, becoming more aggressive, bit one of my cousins and almost bit my mom today (didn't break the skin but there was a mark) so my parents have decided to surrender him and put him up for adoption. We've been trying to teach him for over a year to not be so aggressive, not growl as much, and know that we are above him, but he never learned. He thinks in a pack mentality that my dad is #1, he is #2, and the rest of us are #3, #4, and #5. It was just a matter of time before he bit one of us and we would have to put him down.

As much as I love him and this makes me sad, I'm not gonna fight it.We're not putting him down because he would be great for one person (he barely gives my dad any problems) and not a family like ours.

I just said goodbye to him and saw him drive off. I feel like I've gone through more tissues today than I have the past two weeks that I've been sick. This has been really hard for me today since it happened so quickly.

Good news is that we're getting a puppy as soon as possible. As sad as it is to see him go, I know it's the best decision and I understand why we're doing it. It's been a good 2 years, Buddy. I'll miss you. Hopefully you can find a better home.

I missed this...

The last time I posted a blog post was about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I know the last one says it was almost a month ago but I'll explain. I posted a whole post about this semester's Humans VS Zombies game. It was probably like 5 pages long. I started it on my computer then continued it on my iPod. Somehow there was an error posting it from the Blogger app so I posted a completely blank post. All my work, gone. I got pissed and didn't feel like writing a whole new blog post after I put so much work into that. So I posted one, but had to take it down since it was blank -__- I'll touch on HvZ in this post though, even though its old news since its been weeks.

I've had my beard for what feels like 2 months. Probably a month and a half. I'm getting rid of it. It'll make Allie happy (she hates it with a burning passion.) I asked her on a scale of 1 - 100, how much she hates it, 100 being she despises it. She said a 70...then she said a 90...I kept it anyway. I like it! But I think it's time to get rid of it. We had a nice run, beard.
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I feel so naked.

POKEMON THE FIRST MOVIE IS ON YOUTUBE! I'm so happy. I can't wait to watch it.

I feel that since so many people hack their friends' Facebooks posting statuses like "I'm gay" or "I love the cock" that if someone actually seriously decides to come out to the world of Facebook that they are homosexual no one will believe them.

12 levels, 7 platinums and 875 trophies later, I've had my PS3 for one year. It's a very sweet moment to know that we've spent so many good memories together, like the PS3 blackout or when my first PS3's disc drive shat the bed. Maybe these aren't good memories but we got through it together okay? We have a special bond.
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I need to get  out more. That was just weird.

You can prevent yourself from crying while peeling onions by chewing gum. You can prevent yourself from crying in any other event by not being such a little bitch.

As some of you may know, I can't burp. It is physically impossible for me to. Instead my throat kind of "gurgles" (something you need to hear to believe me) but I did the impossible. I burped. It was tiny and quiet but it was a burp. I told Justin, Ryan, Allie, Virginia, and Twitter. No one believed me. I was left wondering if I was dying, dead, or just cured of my curse. Am I dead? Is this what heaven looks like? It's nice this time of year.

I've been saying YOLO a lot lately. Not necessarily because I like it, but because I like mocking people who like it. I'm adding #yolo to my tweets and saying it out loud just to sound stupid. It works.

My socks don't match today #yolo
Writing a blog post instead of doing homework #yolo
Just ate dinner #yolo

Yolo is stupid.

So Humans VS Zombies happened. Like 3 weeks ago. That was fun. Bottom line is that zombies won, I lasted 18 hours as a human, and it was hella fun. That's about it.

Only a week and a half until I go back to Nashua for the summer. Craziness. I'm ready to go home. I'm sick of the school work, sick of work, sick of the same routine every week. I need a change. I'm done with all of the stress that being here is bringing me. I just want to go home. I love the people here and I love hanging out with everyone but I just need a change of environment.

I finally see why girls do the duck face in their profile pictures. Just look at my profile picture, I look freaking sexy, right? Not goofy or ridiculous at all.

I forgot how much I loved The Offspring! I've been listening to them a ton lately and I'm feeling the nostalgia. They were my favorite band from 6th - 10th grade. Lindsay was disappointed in me, so she let me borrow a few Coheed and Cambria albums. The Offspring were dethroned and the rest is history. They're still one of my top 5 favorite bands, among Coheed, Foo Fighters, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and probably Stone Temple Pilots (I don't really have a 5th favorite so it's in the Top 4)

I've been listening to all of my music on Spotify and it's probably one of the greatest things to happen to internet music. (This is not a sponsor but if I got a little change for this plug I wouldn't deny it) I've been catching up on The Offspring, 90s music like *NSYNC and BSB, and wub-ing it up with some dubstep.

I love me some dubstep. Dave (potential future roommate) gave me about 110 dubstep songs including some hilarious and badass songs like Epic Meal Time or This is Halloween.

Nick likes dubstep?

So what did you guys do on Thursday? Do homework? Go to classes? Go to work? That's cool. I did homework and went to classes too. Then I went to a FUCKING CARNIVAL ON CAMPUS! My day is instantly better than yours was. We have rides, fried dough, free "South of the Border" dinner outside, and utter awesomeness. I went on all the rides including the Zipper. The zipper is when you're placed in a scary cage on an axis along with 11 other cages on what looks like a machine of death. This Machine of Death decides to spin which causes all of the Cages of Confinement to spin 360 degrees either doing front flips and back flips. At first I was completely against it. I didn't have the balls to do it. Justin goes on and I hear him scream "YOLO!" and it all went downhill from there.

Him screaming "YOLO" made me think "If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room." Damn, YOLO was actually good for something. I thought if I didn't do it then, there may not be another chance to, and I didn't want to regret not going on and hearing how much fun it was. I was convinced. I went on with Virginia. I was literally shaking with fear because I have never been to Six Flags, never been on a roller coaster that goes upside down, never been a fan of these rides, so I was terrified. I asked the people before me in line if they would judge me if I wet myself (jokingly of course) but I got into the Cage of Confinement and Misery, strapped myself to the Machine of Death and Destruction, and we were off.

I have never screamed so much in my life. At one point the Cage of Confinement and Misery and Pain back-flipped 6 times, then immediately front-flipped another 4 times. I was forced to let go of the handle bars (which looked like jail cell bars, ironically enough) and was forced to put my hands up on the ceiling of the Cage of Confinement, Misery, Pain, and Suffering. I looked over to Virginia, with my shirt flying up and my sun glasses almost falling off, and yelled "YOLO!" to which she screamed back "YO-FUCKING-LO!" and we screamed the rest of the time with a few more YOLOs thrown in there.

At one point as I'm screaming she says to me "This is actually kind of soothing!" ARE YOU CRAZY, V?! WE'RE ON DEATH'S DOORSTEP AND YOU'RE SAYING THIS IS SOOTHING?? YOU'RE NUTS!

After about 4 minutes the Machine of Death and Destruction and Agony finally stopped. I walked off of the ride still shaking wondering if I had survived. I did, barely.

It was fun. I wish I could do it again.

This was fun. Let's do this again sometime? The semester is almost over so I'll have time to write more. I pinky promise.

Happy Earth Day. Go celebrate by hugging a tree or something.

THE WAIT IS OVER!

FINALLY getting the motivation to write this new post. Feels good to blog again. Lots to cover since its been almost a month...

Starting us off, just got back from spring break. For the first time since being in Keene I wanted to leave Keene. I just needed a week away. I can't really explain why, but Keene was getting old, I was done with classes, and I just needed a change. I was stuck in the same routine every single day. Had the same class schedule, same work schedule, and practically the same eating schedule based around my work and classes. Everything was getting old. All I needed was just a week away to hang with my Nash peeps. Which is exactly what I did.

I spent my week hanging with all my friends back home. Played video games in Kris's basement, went to Kid's Cove for the first time to play tag, got Sarku with Lindsay, hung out with Aneudys, went to the Tilt'n Diner for the first time with the gang, visited Birch Hill and let Kris & Leah O.D. on nostalgia, went back to Birch Hill the next day to play hide & seek and to play real life Left 4 Dead among other things during the week.

I felt like a kid again, using sticks as make-shift pistols and fighting off imaginary and real zombies (Kevin Le and his lady friend Stella got turned into zombies) and I eventually got bit. Jake Nutting, Leah and Kris (the last survivors all got in Jake's car. Leah and Jake got out...Kris didn't. I grabbed his foot as he was half way out of the car so Leah and Jake left him to die. (Leah and Jake are jerks) so we hunted them down out of revenge. Zombies won. Boo-yah.

Speaking of zombies HOLY SHIT WALKING DEAD SEASON 2 ENDED! Intense. Not going to spoil anything but Herschel is a freaking badass.

Glitter is the Herpes of arts and crafts. It spreads easily, everyone can get it really easily, and its impossible to get rid of all of it.

I missed Buddy! And he missed me. I could tell. He missed Allie too. I was giving her a back massage and he jumped on my bed, then laid down right next to her cuddling with her. Good boy!

In game-related news, you all know how I like PSN trophies and how I was planning on Platinum-ing Skyrim? Well I finally did! 110 hours of my life are now gone and I can never get them back but it was hella fun. So happy to finally platinum it. So yeah I got my second Platinum...and my third...fourth and fifth...all in less than 2 weeks. I got Skyrim, Infamous only 2 hours later, Sly Cooper 1 HD and God of War: Chains of Olympus. 4 platinums in 1 week. Translation: Beast mode activated.

(PS planning on dedicating a seperate post giving my own personal review of Skyrim. I haven't talked much about it here.)

There's a mode in Modern Warfare 3 called Infected. It's exactly like Humans VS Zombies. Humans get guns, the infected get only a tactical knife. Melee an enemy, infect them. It's identical and I loved it. Speaking of, HvZ starts in less than 2 weeks!

I've been playing Borderlands a lot lately. You have no idea. I texted Ryan and Justin saying I wanted reinforcements to fight the 3rd boss at 9:45 at night. We played...and played and played. We plowed through the entire game starting at 10. We played until 4 IN THE MORNING! That's when we beat the final boss and finally shut off our PS3s. 6 hours of non-stop Borderlands carnage. Borderlands 2 needs to come NOW. I saw one of the bosses from Borderlands 2 on YouTube. He is this hooded figure named Nomad who holds a huge steel door as a shield. Best part is the front of the shield has a MIDGET TIED TO IT. His intro cut scene says "Nomad: Walk softly and carry a big...midget." It was 3am and I needed to try so hard to muffle my laughter so I didn't wake up anyone because I was laughing so hard.

Started God of War 1 and Uncharted 2. Not much else to say about that. Moving on.

When people hack other people's Facebooks, instead of posting "I eat donkey dick" or something like that they should just give them the Timeline instead if they don't have it. Now THAT'S a good hack. Cruel. Very cruel. But awesome.

Dear YouTube commenters on dubstep videos, enough with the bass jokes. Just drop it already.

I GOT NETFLIX BACK! I need to mentally prepare myself for long periods of time just sitting on my ass watching nothing but How I Met Your Mother and Arrested Development marathons. I'm so excited. I've missed you, Netflix! :'D I'm wicked pumped to start Mad Men too.

Michael Bluth: "Oh you got a new magic trick, eh?"

Gob Bluth: "Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money." *looks at little kids surrounding him* ".....or candy!"

Has anyone seen the show Auction Hunters? These two guys go buy abandoned storage units at auctions then try to sell all the stuff in it for a profit. A very big profit. First episode I saw they bought 3 storage units filled with stuff for just over $1,200. They sold everything they could and made a total profit of about $12,000. One question: Where do I sign up?

I finally bought new shoes. I was getting sick of walking on wet pavement and getting my feet wet because I had huge holes in them. 

I like my steak how I like my Pokemon: Rare.

I saw Nintendo Monopoly at Newbury Comics. 1) Awesome. 2) Not awesome. Why? The tokens you can use are Mario's mushroom, a power star, Samus's helmet and Zelda's sword among others. This isn't awesome because it's not ZELDA'S SWORD! NO NINTENDO MONOPOLY! BAD NINTENDO MONOPOLY! IT'S LINK'S SWORD! How dare you have the Official Seal of Nintendo on your box. Probably still gonna get it though. They also called Olimar's ship from Pikmin "Pikmin's Ship." Bastards.

WE PASSED THE PARTY BUS FROM PROM ON THE WAY BACK FROM THE TILT'N DINER! THE SAME ONE! It was amazing. I miss the party bus. :(

I haven't fed my Neopets in over 10 years...they're probably hungry. I should get on that...

"That's vibrator shaped! Stick it up your vagina! Hold onto it for later!" -Kris telling my character Lilith in Borderlands to do obscene things with a healing kit on the ground. How unsanitary.

I got back yesterday and all I want to do is go back to Nashua. I miss movie nights in Kris's basement, playing games until 3 am with everyone, not going to school, barely working, and just hanging with all my Nashua peeps without worrying about who goes back to college when and planning around that. There should be no planning. It should be one mass text. "Hey everyone come over now." And everyone does. That's it. No "Can't, going back to school now" or anything like that. I just want it to be the entire Nash gang just hanging out all the time. Is that so much to ask? That or everyone transfers to Keene. Any takers?

I went to get a haircut and one of the women who worked at SuperCuts looked exactly like the woman in Paranormal Activity 1 & 2 who gets possessed and kills people. I was kinda scared...if she came at me with scissors I would have ran.

I saw John Carter with Aneudys, Alan, Kevin and lady friend Stella. I loved it! Such a great movie! Too bad Disney spent $250 mil making it and it's only made $50 mil meaning they've lost $200 mil. I wish I could watch it another 600 million times so they can get a profit.

I've gained 20 pounds since coming to Keene. I walked into this year at 165 and I'm 184 now. I need to eat healthier and go to the gym. It needs to happen. That's so unhealthy that I need to crack down and change my diet and work towards losing the weight. Even if i lose 5 pounds by the end of the school year I'll be happy.

It was 80 degrees out today! It's March! It's still technically winter! No complaints. This is weather I can get used to. I just think that we're gonna have a brutal summer though...

I forgot how much I love writing these. Its kind of therapeutic for me. I don't know why but I was kind of in a bad mood earlier but after spending so much time on this I'm fine! I need to do this more often. I'll try for once a week (I know I said that before but I think I need to buckle down and do this. I make it sound like a chore but I love doing these.) Thanks for reading, everyone. Means a lot when I get good feedback from this and knowing people like these.

Now to stop procrastinating and finish/start some homework for tomorrow morning.

Changes

Kris made this awesome post recapping his entire high school experience and it was friggin awesome. That post got me thinking about how my high school experience went. It wasn't anything too spectacular. But it was certainly better than middle school.

I hated middle school. I dreaded going to school all throughout 6th - 8th grade. I've always wondered why I hated it so much but now I know. I was bullied a lot throughout middle school for being overweight. (To give you some context, I was 170 pounds in 7th grade...I'm 175 pounds now. I'm considered overweight right now. I broke 190 at one point, but I don't remember when.) I got into physical fights at school because kids thought they could beat on me because I was fat and couldn't defend myself. I got suspended twice for this reason. I got into I think 3 fights during middle school. Being bullied like that caused me to become depressed. It's pretty sad to think that I realized I went through depression all throughout middle school because I only remember cloudy and rainy days. That sucks. Three years of my life, in my eyes, are wasted. The way I see it is that I could have spent those three years like I spend my time now: enjoying everything. I try to have fun and make the most out of everything I do now.

I'm not saying this so people can throw a pity party for me. I'm not asking for sympathy. That was 5-7 years ago. I'm not depressed anymore, but it is still something I needed to work through so I thought I'd share. I haven't told many people that I was bullied or went through some depression. Maybe 2 people knew? I don't see the need to hide it but I've never seen the need to scream it from the rooftops for the whole world to know. I wouldn't consider this "screaming it from the rooftops" either. This is just me talking.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this in a post before but in 7th grade we got these agendas which were just calenders that we were given and required to use to keep track of our homework. The agenda was divided into weeks and every week there was a quote or interesting fact. One quote I saw, the only one I remember, is "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room." A lot of people laugh when I tell them this, but this is my motto. I think about this quote a LOT to this day. The way I see it is that I don't want to live with any regrets. Lame example, but if someone tells me to try some food I've never tried before, I'd rather try it and risk hating it and think its disgusting rather than thinking after "I really wish I tried that when I had the chance." That's my biggest point. For everything, not just food anymore. "I really wish I tried that when I had the chance." I don't want to pass something up and then never have another chance to try it. I don't want to live with regret and wish I did stuff I didn't. I'd rather say that I'm glad I did. That's why I want to try the World's Largest Rope Swing. Allie said "I'd die. That's scary. I would never do that." Not saying that's a bad thing, to be scared, but for me it's more that I want to do it and I don't want to always say "I wish I could do that."

I've changed a lot over the past 4 years of high school, and especially the past 7 years since middle school A few months ago I went into MS Paint and put two photos of myself back to back.

I was going through all of my Facebook pictures and felt like I had to do this. This is crazy to see how much I've changed in the past 4 years since the first picture was taken freshman year. I've grown so much as a person and I love it. I'm not embarrassed about who I used to be, but I'm proud of who I am now. I've become a better person over the course of these four years and I don't regret anything I've done. I've matured and I've learned to be confident in myself. Change isn't a bad thing. Everything changes. It's bound to happen. It's just a matter of how you handle these changes and work them to your favor.

#collegelife: Now with 96.5% More Wub Wub

NEW. BORDERLANDS 2. TRAILER. WATCH:

I needed to start the post off with this. This is epic. I barely played Borderlands 1 (I'm only level 12, just getting back into it) and I can't stop watching this. I've seen it about 15 times. I don't get it. Why do I love this trailer so much when I barely played the first? Either way, Claptrap makes the whole video worth it.

Speaking of Borderlands I've been playing so much lately since getting back into it. I've been playing with Justin, Ryan and (wait for it...) Allie! We played co-op and got to Nine Toes (Also, he has 3 balls) and thats as far as we got. I showed her the trailer for the second game and she said "We're getting that in September. Yup." 1) That's awesome that she wants to get it and play it. 2) Its awesome that she is willing to play the first game. 3) I <3 Borderlands.

Temple Run. SO ADDICTED! My high score's 7.6 mil. No big deal. My goal is to beat Justin's score of over 9 million. Challenge accepted. Add me on GameCenter (coheed1992) if you want to compare scores.

So yeah...the blogs have been kind of non-existant lately. It makes me sad.

I'm watching an infomercial selling the "ultimate 80's music collection" You know, one of those "270 songs on 17 CDs" infomercials. Where the titles of the songs scroll in white until the song playing in the back is yellow. The only time the song title and artist shows up in the scroll is when the artist says the title of the song in the song, then the video in the back changes until that video says that song title. Make any sense? But I'm watching for two reasons. The first being that I'm realizing that Market Basket plays nothing but 80s songs, and the second being that Colin Mochrie and Ryan Styles from Whose Line do a better job at infomercials than these people. Steve said they can fit more songs on less CDs too. Also, Billy Ocean looks like Denzel Washington.

God damn it, Kris! Ever since you told me you wanted to play Combat Training I haven't stopped wanting to play on Nuketown...

"Kix are like the handjobs of cereals. At first you're like "It's pretty good...but you know what I really want." - Donald Glover

My Girl Scout Cookies came in...They're half gone. Someone please take these away from me.

Last night I went to a presentation called "Orgasms for Everyone" with Ducky Doolittle, a sex educator. The presentation she gave was very...blunt. Yeah you could call it that. She didn't hold back because she's a sex educator so I wasn't surprised that she was more than happy to talk about or say anything. I actually learned a lot (without going into detail, I'm not as open as she is) and she was really funny. I can't really describe how the presentation was, not that I don't want to, its just something you really just need to hear yourself. (Diagrams were involved...)

I HAVE CONVERTED RYAN AND JUSTIN TO DUBSTEP-ISM! After showing them the Borderlands 2 trailer (With 96.5% more wub wub) and the Ephixa Legend of Zelda dubstep mixes, I have them both going from "Yeah I'm not a huge fan of dubstep" to liking it. Mission accomplished.

I want a husky so fucking bad. There are these two people that bring two huskies, one puppy and one full grown, on campus to play with them and THEY'RE SO FUCKING CUTE. I also spend my time watching Mishka the talking husky on YouTube. Someone get me one? Please?

Every time it snows, or Keene State thinks its about to snow, they spray this burnt soy sauce/teriyaki smelling shit on all of the pavement to prevent freezing. It smells disgusting. It sticks to my shoes so I keep smelling it even when I'm just sitting in my room. It flurried this morning. Flurried. And they spray the shit out of the campus. Supposedly we're going to get 6 inches within the next two days though so maybe the soy sauce will be put to good use. (I actually don't know what the spray is but it smells nasty.)

"Happy 51st birthday to anyone born on February 29th, 1804. You look terrible for your age." -Mayhem from the AllState commercials.

Happy Leap Day.

CHAWKLET!

So each freshman dorm has some sort of nickname...Randall Rats (represent!), Holloway Whores, Chlamydia Carle...I'm not a fan of that last one...you can put me down as Grossed Out Garrity.

It snowed in Ohio the other day. That same day it was 55 degrees in Keene. I was walking around campus with an unzipped sweatshirt on. Kris hates me now. Not my fault that you chose the wrong school to go to...Ooo I went there. But really I can't wait to fly out to Columbus. And by "fly out" I mean punch, and by "to Columbus" I mean Kris. On the bright side, he has caught on to the trend that Skrillex started and is using the word Bangarang to mean awesome. He has joined the Bangarang Train. For proof check his recently killed off then immediately revived blog.

My sister came to visit for the weekend because the 'rents went to Vermont to go antiquing. Nothing exciting happened this weekend, just watched Tangled and Wolverine with Alyssa, Allie and Carolynn and hung out in my room. Pretty boring weekend but let me just say that Wolverine was a great movie but Tangled was an awesome movie! Seriously I really liked it. I mean it's a Disney movie so it has to be good.

Yesterday was Valentines Day or as the majority of people saw it as, Singles Awareness Day. It kind of annoyed me seeing more Singles Awareness Day statuses compared to Valentines Day statuses on Facebook. I saw more statuses whining about being single and tweets about getting drunk than any statuses talking about the good parts of Valentines Day. I know that if you're single V-Day sucks! I've been there! This year was only my second year with a Valentine so I know that it's lonely when you're not in a relationship but it is a holiday that is meant to celebrate being with the person you love and not about whining. It's VALENTINE'S DAY and everyone calls it Singles Awareness Day as if it's a real thing. I guess my main point is that people should celebrate Feb. 14th for what it really is, Valentine's Day. If you don't wanna celebrate V-Day? Well Happy Tuesday to you. Sorry, it just annoyed me.

^^Unpopular opinion^^

I texted Kris saying "You know how feminists really annoy me right?"
Kris: "Oh, they annoy everyone."
So glad we're on the same page. #superbesties

I don't need to explain my view on feminists, if you follow my blog you know why I'm not a fan.

Ok remember when I posted the videos like Human Slingshot? Well that same YouTuber just posted this video. 1) it's fucking amazing. 2) I wanna try it. 3) I love the song. 4) I seem to fall in love with any Can't Stop Won't Stop song. 5) Enjoy.

I think that Can't Stop Won't Stop is starting to become one of my favorite groups at the moment even though they only have 1 5-track EP on iTunes and this new single. Not saying that's not an accomplishment, it is, but it's just that I've only heard like 4 of their 6 songs and I love them all. They are just such upbeat songs that get stuck in my head and get me pumped up. They instantly get me in a good mood and honestly just makes me wanna move. Like I could make a whole workout playlist based around Can't Stop Won't Stop. Yeah, I'm a fan.

Someone just made a Keene State Memes Facebook page. It made my night it's so funny. I even made one! It's so cool to see all these jokes that everyone says on one page for everyone. Genius idea.

"That Annoying Kid That Stalks Me and Follows Me Everywhere" who I mentioned a few posts back sat with us at lunch then leeched onto my group of friends for hours. Yes. Hours. Remember how he adds his "funny" two cents into everything? That was in full swing today. So at one point he was told there was hummus in the sandwich line. He jumped up very excitedly and went to the sandwich line. Then when he was gone I decided to let out my frustration. "WHY IS HE HERE, HE'S ALWAYS HERE, EVERYWHERE! GRAHHH!" So he comes back with a cup and says "I decided against hummus and went with a ice cream float. COOL STORY BRO! TELL IT AGAIN!

I applied to be an Orientation staff member. $800 and coming on campus 2 weeks early? Yes please. I just need a good enough GPA. If I get a good enough GPA I can be a desk attendant and apply to be an RA. Challenge Accepted.

Sarcasm: Because beating the shit out of people is illegal.

My Measuring Fair Trade teacher has been talking about fair trade chocolate all semester. Relevant to the course? Yes. The way she says "chawklet?" Not so much. Funny none the less.

CHAWKLET!

WWFD

Why do I always get my creative writing sparks at 1 in the morning like right now and I have an 8am? Who cares, I'm writing a blog post if I don't do it now who knows when I'll do it.

I have fallen in love with editing music. Audacity is awesome. My reasons for editing music shall remain confidential because they aren't just for fun. I started this as a personal project but got addicted. Thinking of the possibilities, I could edit songs to make anything I wanted. Mashing up songs I like. You know how life would be better if we lived with background music? I COULD MAKE MY OWN BACKGROUND MUSIC! Oh the possibilities...

Keene State College Class of 2014 has a petition to get William Daniels as a guest speaker at their graduation. Cool right? Oh right, it's pretty cool, because William Daniels is MR. FEENY FROM BOY MEETS WORLD! FEENY! I'm not even graduating with that class and I signed the petition. I'm going to that graduation not for my friends who are graduating, but for Feeny. Would it be extreme if I decided to take extra classes so I could graduate with them just to see Feeny?

I <3 Feeny

WWFD: What Would Feeny Do?

Allie and I watched Memento again. Allie's interpretation of the end was a lot different than mine and it definitely made me think a lot about it even a week after I watched it again. Christopher Nolan is my favorite director. Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. In the top 10.

Here's my Top 10.

1. Inception
2. Space Jam
3. Boondock Saints
4. V for Vendetta
5. Horrible Bosses
6. Memento
7. The Dark Knight
8. Fight Club
9. Scott Pilgrim
10. Any Nicolas Cage movie

I worked on Super Bowl Sunday. Guess who missed the entire game? Me. As I'm walking back around 9:30 I just got back on campus when I heard screams from 3 different buildings that were surrounding me while Allie was rapidly tweeting and texting me updates. I RAN into the student center to see the Giants had taken the lead and saw that I walked in with :57 left in the game. Oh what a disappointing :57 it was. I ate my sorrows away with bacon and pepperoni Dominos pizza and played a board game called Aluen Frontiers with Allie, Justin, Ryan, and Virginia spectating.

I have reached 4,000 tweets. I spent a lot of time wondering what my 4,000th would be. I asked Allie if I should have just said the word "Poop." and she shook her head in disappointment. I then got a tweet from @KrisConUnK saying "Make it about poopy..." I can't make this shit up...see what I did there?
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I beat Skyrim's main quest! Only took 40 hours, no big deal. It was awesome! Can't wait to keep playing, not just to Platinum it which I'm planning on doing, but because there is so much I haven't done. I expect myself to put in at least another 45 - 50 trying to complete everything. Skyrim is one of the few games I've played on PS3 where trophies mean NOTHING to me and I'm practically ignoring them because I don't care and I only care about how great the gameplay is. The only other PS3 game that I didn't care about trophies at all and just wanted to play strictly for the gameplay was Call of Duty 4 and that didn't even have trophies. Yeah, everyone needs to play this game.

In music news, I have found a bunch of new music that I wanted to share. First up is "Iron" by Woodkid. Some of you may know this from the Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer. It has a really intense beat with heavy drums in the background and a kick-ass video.

Next up is "Alive and Amplified" by The Mooney Suzuki. I was watching Fun with Dick and Jane and this came on during the robbery scene. It was really hard to find out what the song was because the chorus, without knowing the lyrics beforehand, sounded like "Turn me on and turn me on and turn me on and turn me on AYE, AYE, AYE-AYE-AYE-AYE AYE! AYE!" So all I googled was "Fun with Dick and Jane song turn me on" and found it. I won't say what the actual lyrics are so you can see if you understand them in the chorus at first. If not, google it. It sounds pretty clear after you find out what they are.

Last one. Super Mash Bros just released a new album! Mile(y) High Club is free on Facebook so you should go to their page and check it out! Probably their best album yet. You can never go wrong with mixing a rap song with the Rugrats theme or "Jump on it!" by Sugar Hill Gang with "Wild Wild West" by Will Smith.

I've decided what I want to do with my life. I want to be a journalist. I recently decided I want to major in journalism. Allie actually recommended it to me that I major in it and I fell in love with the idea. I absolutely love writing, especially about stuff that is real and relates to me and what I like. This blog is a prime example. I suck at creative writing. I only like writing about stuff that matters to me and stuff that is actually real and happening that affects me. She also said I'm a great writer. I'm not saying I am or not, I don't know if I am, it's not up to me to decide that, the bottom line is that I like writing.

My dream job would be working at IGN.com. That would combine two of my favorite hobbies, gaming and writing. If I could write articles on gaming, write reviews, previews, do interviews, etc, I would love that. It would let me write about something that I love and that I am interested in. This is a serious aspiration of mine. After I graduate I would love to be a journalist, whether I'm at IGN or not.

Speaking of interviews, for my journalism class I'm in, I had my first interview I needed to conduct an interview with the director of the bookstore here at school on the affordability of college, rising tuition costs, etc. I conducted the interview which took about a half hour. This was my first interview I have ever done. Ever. After it was done the director said "Over the years I have done many interviews about this topic, and I gotta say, you had the best questions of them all. Are you a senior?" Needless to say I was very proud of myself that the interview went so well and that he really liked me. I was shaking I was so nervous before the interview but that interview soon turned into a conversation between two people which I loved. It was very casual while hitting the points I needed to to get some answers.

I miss my friends in Nashua. I want to go see Kris in Ohio now...I don't want to wait until end of March to fly out and hang out with him. I just wanna hang with Kris, Kevin, Jake, Erika, Leah, Aneudys and John in the Bartol's basement playing LittleBigPlanet and You Don't Know Jack! and making fun of each other, or having double dates with Allie, Meghan and Adam.

There's a job on campus during the summer from the day after finals to the day before classes start again that pays $9 an hour with 40-hour weeks which would equal some serious cash money but the only thing keeping me from applying is all of my friends back home. The only time I see them is over breaks and I don't want to go months without seeing them when I could see them every day. On the bright side Aneudys (and possibly Leah?) is/are coming up to Keene next week so that will be awesome.

I just miss everyone. Cue the sad faces.

And at 3 in the morning, I'm out of stuff to talk about.

Number 10 on my list is a lie, by the way.

Lots to cover today, kids.

What's up, Internet? I missed your faces.

Classes have started. I can already tell this semester is gonna be a lot harder than last semester.

First off, I'd like to say that Fox's new show Touch is amazing. I just watched the Pilot and I'm hooked. Seriously it's great to see Keifer Sutherland, not just back on TV, but with Fox. I missed him :'D Anyone who is interested, watch it RIGHT HERE! It's weird to see Keifer as someone other than Jack Bauer yelling the words "Damn it!" twice an episode. Its weird, but good.

All I wanna do is watch How I Met Your Mother but I don't have a Netflix account and The Walking Dead but it doesn't come back for another 2 weeks :(

To anyone who is reading this. Watch this video.

This right here. Love the song, love the video. I want to be friends with these people! I don't care if this video is actually promoting a clothing company and these people may all be paid money to smile and have fun. I can fake smile too! Just let me try this! I will GLADLY trade all my real friends for these fake hired friends so I can do that...
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No offense, friends who are reading this.

Another video, same channel, not about a clothing company. This is just full of awesome.

I will GLADLY trade all my fake friends for my real friends again and try this out.

Skrillex > Homework. It has been decided.

"Some people believe that dinosaurs were lies, fed to us only to cover up the existance of Pokemon" - @WTFFacts on Twitter. I'm not sure if I want to bitch slap or high five those people who think that.

Wanna know what's awkward? Seeing your ex-girlfriend's tweets in your Twitter feed when you're not following her. Yep. Awkward. I was like "We haven't talked in two years, since when am I following her?!" But someone retweeted her. All is good.

Story time. So there's this kid. He shall remain anonymous, but we shall give him a nick name. His nick name is "He who is FRIGGIN EVERYWHERE!" Or "kid" for short. So this kid stalks me. I'm pretty sure. Everyone I know is pretty sure of it. He always seems to be where I am. Anytime I go to the DC he's there and invites himself to sit down at our table. "Mind if I join you guys? *sits*" "....sure...." Thing is that it's not just the DC. He finds me in Keene, anywhere in Keene, and anywhere in Nashua. He found my friends and I at the Holiday Stroll and leeched onto us. One time I saw him at the DC with a few people. Not sure if they were friends since he just sits with us and none of us are friends with him. So we see him sitting there. Later we see the people leave and he goes and grabs another plate of food and sits with another group of people. An hour later, they leave and he sits with my group of friends at my table. Its not abnormal for me to spend a while at the DC but he asked what time it was and I said "3" and he said "Wow I've been here for over two and a half hours! It sure is fun leeching onto people and annoying them" I may have paraphrased that last part.

Not done about him yet. The most annoying thing about him is that he's one of those people who thinks everything he says is funny, so he has to add his two cents after EVERY SENTENCE SOMEONE SAYS! Literally he needs to say something after every sentence. It's never funny. Ever. Just leads to more awkward silence. It's even come to a point where if we see him we all turn our heads, get up to get drinks, get more food, anything to not attract attention to us as a table where he could just sit down with a group of us. Are we bad people? Some may say yes, but if you say yes, you have clearly never met this kid.

I have a theory. Every single dubstep song's bass drops at around :51 seconds. Maybe not exactly, but pretty damn close. I'm not gonna post 1000 links, but some examples are:

Bar9 - "Strung Out"
Skrillex - "Equinox"
Flux Pavillion - "I Can't Stop"
Alex S. - Nyan Cat Dubstep Remix
A few others but it's 2 am and I don't feel like looking for more. Instead this is what dubstep sounds like to your parents:

I actually showed my parents dubstep. My dad wanted me to turn it off instantly. I posted to Facebook that I made my mom listen to it and she said "I just found a little dubstep on the bottom of my shoe..." :(

The Wii U (The new Wii) is coming out this year. It's gonna be a first day buy for me. Definitely going to the midnight release and there hasn't even been a date set yet. Anyone wanna come over the next morning to try it out? I'll make a Facebook event. You're all invited. Except for the kid.

GOOD NEWS! Without the consent of Kris, I officially announced to a small group of friends what Operation: Awe-Sauce is. This is good news because they all love the idea and it is still in the works. More details to come about what it exactly is soon.

FAR FROM FINISHED IS ON SPOTIFY! I LOVE FAR FROM FINISHED! I FORGOT I LOVED FAR FROM FINISHED! FAR FROM FINISHED, I LOVE!

I kinda like that band...

The weather is so nice. It should be the dead of winter. But snow is melting, I don't freeze to death when I walk outside. I like this.

I've come to the conclusion, and this is a very bold statement, that:

Twitter > Facebook > Google+ > Herpes > MySpace.
No one likes MySpace anymore.
But I like Twitter a lot more than Facebook. I like being able to follow who I want instead of feeling obligated to friend some people from high school (or accept the kid's friend request...)
Another thing, having a lot of Facebook friends doesn't matter. It is more impressive to have more Twitter followers though. (I almost included Tumblr into the mix but I don't think that really counts since I have like 14 followers on Tumblr and its not exactly a social networking site)

Kris made a YouTube channel that we share where we'll post both of our vlogs. Instead of having them on our own separate channels, we have them united as one. Hence the name TheBlorgsUnited. We each have some videos on our separate channels though so check those out.

Kris's YouTube: youtube.com/TheHighestStakes
My YouTube: youtube.com/coheed1992
Our vlogs: youtube.com/TheBlorgsUnited

Hint: TheBlorgsUnited might tie in with Operation: Awe-Sauce...

One final note: Earth is the third planet from the sun. Does that mean all of our problems and pains aren't first world pains, but really third world pains?