My name is Veriria, thanks for visiting my website! What would happen if a rather sedentary person finally got enough motivation to actually work out? Well, you'll find out here! I'm conducting a 30-day experiment to see how exercising approximately 8 minutes a day and eating slightly more healthy than I'm used to will effect me at the start of the new month. I'm using a book titled 28 Day Fitness Program by Thorsten Tchirner, because I know next to nothing about creating an exercise plan. Care to follow my progress? This main page is now my journal -- If you were looking for my cartoon dolls, please see the link to the right.
I would definately NOT recommend seeing Pirates of the Carribean: At Worlds End in theaters. It was written like a bad fan fic, and didn't even end the story. Instead of answering all questions, and being a happy ending (or a sad one, which it could have been as well), it created more questions (especially WTF??? questions...) and was set up to continue the story on at the end.
Veriria on 05.30.07 @ 11:20 AM CST [link]
Thursday, May 10th
Where's the Beef?
I was able to read quite a bit on the first part of my run yesterday. Since I didn't have a book with me, I got a few different newspapers and read through them entirely. Now, I'm not one to usually read a newspaper. Its not a daily ritual to want to read all the crappy and generic news in multiple newspapers, but it was more of a "I have nothing else to do" thing. Anyways, I read some pretty funny and out-there stories, some of which were so funny I wanted to remember to post about them, so I cut them out and stuffed them in my notebook to remind me to write about them
1) "Science Fiction Sneaks Up" Make your own spatula or Spongebob key ring, the article says. This is the promise of a 30-D printer that may be seen gracing kitchen and family rooms in the next few years. They are like normal printers, but instead of using ink, they layer, in one case, nylon powder. With layers of the powder melted into place by a halogen bulb, they build 3-D objects.
2) "A Sweet So Sour: Kool-Aid Dills" This sort of grossed me out a bit -- people eating dill pickles which have been sitting around in Kool-Aid. I can't imagine wanting to eat something that tastes of pickle and Fruit Punch, but apparently kids and adults alike in Mississippi like it.
3) A letter from one of those "Dear Abby" sort of columns. A girl asked if she could get pregnant if her "breasts are underdeveloped"? Her boyfriend said no, but she just had to know for sure. I mean honestly! WTFmate? How fucking dumb (and how OLD) is this girl for real?
4) Prom Babies Another "Dear Abby" sort of letter, explaining why -- gasp! -- girls want to get pregnant on Prom night (whether or not they tell the guy they're having sex with) to have a baby to escape from going to college. Wow thats entirely fucked up, and I don't think they should be procreating if that is the case kthanx.
5) "My Generation" sung by...Who? A group of 40 British seniors (average age 78) called The Zimmers scored a YouTube hit, gleefully singing The Who's My Generation in a video that has been viewed by 1.5 million people so far since April 2nd. In it they smash guitars, re-create The Beatles' walk across Abbey Road, and hold up various signs, one of which said "I'm bored in old people's homes."
"We wanted to do something really epic to show that old people still got it." "We thought, 'Whats the most incongruous thing you could do with a bunch of old people? Well, lets try and break into the pop charts.'"
HILARIOUS! The singer is also 90 years old Search youtube for it, its adorable!
6) Where's the Beef? Someone or some people in Chesterton, IN (about an hour away from where I live) stole about $200,000 worth of meat in two trucks which also are estimated to be worth about $60,000 together.
lawls!
7) Thieves targeting air conditioners Someone or some people are stealing air conditioner coils from around Chicago. The latest were stolen from a church, and the replacement fees are going to be around $25,000. Why the FUCK would someone be stealing these? Do they have some funny scientific experiment that they can't fund, or what?
8) Student held in killing after video game dispute He killed one and wounded two others with a gun, after fighting over a Sony Platstation. Honestly, should we even be surprised anymore?
9) Library line lets callers check out erotica This isn't so strange, save for a little detail. In Vienna -- the City Hall has launched a "sex hot line" to raise money for the capital's main public library. Callers pay 53 cents a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian Era. Hehe! Sexy librarians, indeed.
Veriria on 05.10.07 @ 11:20 AM CST [link]
Tuesday, May 8th
Er...?
I find it rather, hmm...Upsetting? That I get treated as a better person as a blonde.
Veriria on 05.08.07 @ 01:02 PM CST [link]
Shiver Me Timbers!
Anyone hear about this girl who got denied her bachelor of science degree in education and teaching certificate because of a photo here on myspace? The picture showed her in a pirate hat, drinking out a cup (no clue as to the liquid in said cup), with the title "Drunken Pirate". I guess she was told on the night before she was to graduate (after 4 years of school) that instead of receiving her bachelor of science degree in education and teaching certificate, she would be getting a degree in English because of this picture.
Huh? How does that equal out? Sort of like 2+2=5, or an apple + orange = banana? !!!
Yeah. Fucked up. I read about it in the Chicago Tribune today while working on train 391. And I must say, whoever wrote this little article is an asshat as well. He/she contends because this woman, Stacy Snyder, was "unprofessional" in taking this picture and posting it online, and therefore should not be a teacher because of it. Seriously. WTFmate?
I was pleased to see she is suing the school for money for damages as well as her teaching certificate.
Which leads to my next question: Which story is worse? This one, or the boy who got arrested for a story he wrote, following the guidelines his teacher gave them in his creative writing class?
I don't know what it is, but the last few days...I've just been freakin' parched! I drink the same amount of pop (I know, bad for you...Hard to stop though) in addition to a lot of water. I haven't gone to bed yet, partially because of the fact that I'm so freaking thirsty. I tried twice to go to sleep.
Gotta call work to make my "bump" onto a new run. I got bumped off the one I had, but thats fine with me. It was a very busy train, and I'm more of a laid back person (although, I will miss the tips...).
I've still got to start working out again -- and start, for the first time, eating correctly every day. Haven't been able to do that yet, I don't have the tools at my disposal! Or I would, if I stayed at my moms every night...Which I'm rather dis-inclined to do.
I also want to get a new version of my website up and running...But I've been lazy. Maybe sometime in the near future I'll feel like working on it again XD
