One of Life's Most Important Questions

So everybody knows that it's my birthday in about two weeks. I say this because apparently even Gillette (you know... the razor company?) knows. So if they know, everybody does. Anyhoo, you may be wondering how I know that the Gillette el Razor Company knows that I am turning 18. Well I'll tell you. When I got home today I found a great little package in the mail. It was a razor complete with some gel! Hooray! Except... it was for a man. Yes. You heard me correctly. A man razor. With a complete guide of how to shave my beard 18 different ways.

Grand.

At first I thought it would be enjoyable to call and complain. I thought maybe I'd get another new razor out of it, only this time for a woman. Then I realized the coversation would probably go something like this:

Me: " Hello. I just wanted to call and complain that for my birthday you sent me a razor. For a man."

Gillette Complaint Center Person: " Oh... Okay, I'm sorry... uh do you want to send it back?"

Me: " Oh... no. I just wondered why you sent me a man's razor... did you think I was a man? Because this razor...is a mans... and you see I'm a woman. Did you not know that? I need a razor for a woman because I am one. So why didn't you send me a woman razor?!?!"

Gillette: "Does it really matter? It's free... and you have hair on your legs, and I'm pretty sure it shaves just like a woman's razor..."

Me: " Oh... ya. Yes that's true... oh. Okay well bye then..."

And I'd hang up in shame.

So then I started wondering: Why do I care? I shave. Hopefully every girl shaves... and so do boys. And they both use razors. So I should just use it and not worry about if it is a mans or womans razor. A razor is a razor. So I used it. And I figured out that it was pretty much the same. I didn't feel manly with using this new man razor. Nope. So that got me thinking and I came up with pretty much the most important of lifes questions ever.

WHY DO MEN AND WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENT RAZORS?!

They do the exact same thing. Shave. That's it. The end. So I posted my question of facebook. Apparently nobody else thought this was an important question, because I only got one response back. It said: "Women's razors have more conditioning strips. Men's razors generally have more blades." -Jason Chen.

(Thanks Jason for commenting by the way)  Another thing: They're different colors.

So great. I see why they are different. But WHY.

THIS IS WHAT I MUST KNOW!!!!

Why can't women have five blades and smoother legs, while men have a conditioned face? Is it not manly to have a conditioned face? Is it not womanly if we don't spend extra time shaving our legs when we could be doing it faster with five blades? Why don't we just combine all these great things and make the ultimate, UNISEX razor?! Everything you love in a razor combined into ONE! Conditioning strips, five blades, and it comes in an assortment of colors!

Wouldn't the world be a happier place?

I think so.

:)

What do you think?

Happy Birthday Aud, Brad and Emilee!

I know I just posted, but I had to share this important news flash: Aud, Brad and Emilee are officially 18! Hooray! As of today!!! :)
I have known Audrey since I was about three, because we danced for 12 years together and virginia tanner! She is the sweetest girl ever and I can always count on her to be there for me no matter what happens. We come up with the best ideas for fun things to do and usually they are totally random. She's so awesome, cute and funny! Sometimes when i'm with her my sides hurt because we laugh so hard! She is one of my best friends! :)
I've known Brad as long as Audrey ( because they are twins. duh). I didn't really know him as well since he didn't dance with aud and I, but sometimes he would impress us with some of his quality 5 year old dance moves. Which were pretty sick, if i remember correctly. He is an awesome kid, and he ends up giving me rides everywhere because The Marshalls live so close, and i'm a loser with no car! He is fun to be around and a great friend!
I met Emilee last year, and she is definitely one of the nicest, funniest girls I know. Because I have no social life and i'm in the IB program, I only have one class with her, but she always makes a point to say hi to me in the hall! She is so funny and when I get the chance I love hanging out with her! She is so much fun!!!
There you go! Those are the AWESOME people that turned EIGHTEEN today!!!
Happy Birthday Guys!

Rest In Peace Fishies

Four Fish Friends

May 2009- September 2009

In early May, four beautiful fish were born to Mr. and Mrs. Molly Black Fish, along with many brothers and sisters. They lived for a short time in a small tank, enjoying life and loving to swim around, when five of the fish were put up for adoption because of the lack of space and care in their first tank. Mr. and Mrs. Molly Black Fish gave them up for adoption with happy faces, knowing that they would have a good life with their new adoptive parents. They were soon adopted by Mr. Eric Higgins and Miss. Whitney Baum, who took the all five of the fish. They soon started their new and improved life swimming around a big huge mansion of a tank, eating all they could hold and playing new games. They especially enjoyed the swimming in holes in the rocks game, and the getting pushed around by the current of the water filter game. The especially loved the latter, playing it whenever they could. They loved their adoptive parents very much, and their adoptive parents loved them back. They would often be seen talking to each other and following their mommies finger around the tank. The five fish would also get very excited and wag their little tails whenever they saw their mommy coming to the tank because that meant either food or attention. They didn't get to see their daddy very much, since he didn't really care about his fish children, but sometimes he would pop in and say hi to "the fish" when he came to visit Whitney.
They loved their Grandma and Grandpa also, especially Grandpa because he would play games with them like chase the finger. Aunt Gretchen was fun to look at and Uncle Ethan was fun to play pretend to bite the nose. However one day the whole family had to leave the babies at home and gave them some extra food and let them play with each other. Soon, the playing turned to biting and being mean, and they got in a large fight. Four died because of the fighting and the mean feeder fish came and ate them up. Only one survived the terrible ordeal.
They are survived by their brother Grandmas and Grandpas, their aunts and uncles, as well as their Mother and Father
We miss them.
( At least mother does. Father doesn't care about the fish we adopted. )
The funeral service will be completed tomorrow at four o'clock, for family only. All condolences can be made at the bottom of this post, or on facebook.

ps: I think i'm going to buy new fish... are there any that live a relatively long time? haha :)

Surprise!

I walked in the door of my bedroom today, feeling sad because I have ( as always) a bunch of homework. When suddenly I thought " Hm... I smell roses." An overpowering sent of roses. At first I thought that maybe I had opened lotion or something... and the smell was just perfuming the whole house. Then I turned around and saw...
THESE! :)


How pretty are those!? And they smell so good!
Why did I get these here flowers you may ask?
I have no idea. I'm pretty sure I haven't been wronged... or been mad at anybody in particular.
I'm just pretty sure, one of my best guy friends in the whole wide world is probably one of the cutest boys ever. ( And I have a lot of cute friends for boys. So that's saying something. )
He did it... just because.
THANK YOU ERIC!
:)

Things that I'd forgotten happen in highschool.

FRUSTRATION BLOG ENTRY
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Now. I've only been out of the high school scene for like... what. Three months? Right? Right. And I certainly haven't been out of touch with teenagers. Most of my summer was hanging with my friends. But somehow, in those three months I guess I forgot about the fact that people like to show off their body parts that... well... shouldn't be shown. Or maybe it's a newer thing? Maybe I just didn't get the memo that blatantly showing all of your chest and butt area is awesomely cool and fun and gets you millions of friends?
No? There wasn't a memo?
I didn't think so.
Well apparently some people thought there was. And to tell you the truth, I'm sick of it. Now if this is offending you, please. Stop reading. And then you won't have to worry about being mad at me. Because pretty much, this is a rant for me to get my feelings out on paper... er... I mean a computer screen. Anyways, I don't remember seeing this... MUCH of some of the girls and guys last time I saw them in school. (and that's not a good thing). With some people they seemed to have changed over the summer. As in completely.
Now, I'm not saying we all have to go around wearing baggy jeans and sweatshirts all of our lives, with our t- shirts tucked into our pants belted up around our chins. I'm just saying: have a little self esteem here people. I know we all usually wear fashionable clothes and sometimes stuff happens, or that shirt you girls thought was so cute, is just a teeny tiny bit lower than you noticed ( happened to me before!) . Or the guys have their pants lower and baggier because, hey. They don't want to look like nerds. All understandable.
I'm talking about the thinking " hey. lets go out and buy the LOWEST shirt I possibly find. so everybody can see my chest."
HEY! wake up call: I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT. You know what I think when I see that? I think that you have no self esteem so the only way you can get attention is to flaunt yourself at people. Nope. Not cool girls. Not cool at all. I'm not positive ( back me up here boys) but the only attention you can get for yourself is bad attention from unpleasant boys. All the boys around me that I am friends with complain about it. They don't want to see that. I'm pretty sure they'd rather you put something else on, and just be their friend rather than flaunt yourself at them. So stop. Like yourself for who YOU are. Not what you try to look like.
Now I haven't seen this as much as I have the girl thing, but I DON'T want to see guys butts. Sorry! Baggy Jeans: Fine. Lower jeans: Fine. SO baggy and SO low, I have to see a line that I shouldn't ever have to see? Not so fine. In fact, nasty. You're not a plumber. So put it away.
Get a belt. Or just pull up your pants.
Once again. I'm not saying the girls need to wear this:



Gorgeous as it is... and the boys don't have to look like this every school day:
See how unhappy they all are? I don't want you guys to look like this. I just don't want to see your body parts on parade.
Lets keep that at home.
Not at school.
Or at least when I don't have to see it.

Drinking the last dregs of summer in...

I can't wait for tomorrow! I'm too excited to do more fun summer stuff! Because you see school isn't going to be starting for... like... another month.
Right?
Right?
RIGHT?!
wait.
WHAT?!
school starts tomorrow? :(
Really... it's quite sad... and depressing. I had plans for this summer. And some of them got finished. But some didn't. Like: not at all in the least bit got finished! The only reason I can think that this summer went by so fast was how much stuff I was doing with all my friends. And my whole family. I've been so busy I didn't even write about everything I did. And now, I definitely can't give all the details. :( But I do want to remember some of the best stuff, so i'm going to write it down. If you don't want to read, feel free to skip it. Some of the best things this summer, among everything I did was:
Bear Lake
Randomly driving down with Bailey and Jared to Studio 600 ready to dance the night away only to find out it was old men wearing ugly Hawaiian shirt night there.
Driving around trying to find ice cream... and missing the turn off about five billion times
Going to Lagoon- Once with Aud, next with Erico.
Going to the Gardens and running around pretending to be a small child
Shopping. Millions and billions of times
Asking for rice krispie treats, eating frozen grapes and rolling down hills.
pretending like i knew how to park big cars.
movies ( especially the one with hugh jackmans butt... yum. hahaha)
hanging out until two in the morning. with people i hardly even knew.
calling people. texting people. that i REALLY didn't know.
making up new words.
playing the most fun games in the whole world simply because i was with the best person to play games with in the whole world.
shopping. with boys.
shopping. for boys.
dancing
jamba juice
wheatgrass!
doing ab work outs on my carpet
going to the smallest concert ever and head banging
jet skiing
going bowling.
randomly deciding to go laser tagging. and getting hopelessly lost.
laughing at the best jokes.
laughing at the dumbest jokes.
singing the worst i can in the best car in the world to sing in.
talking to people on the radio about why they're REALLY singing that song.
running around EVERYWHERE just trying to find where in the world some underwear could be!
finding it, and tie dying it.
doing something at least three times a week with my friends
and loving every minute of it!
How is that for a fun summer?! and i didn't even get half of it. :(
I'm so sad it's over, but i'm so excited for the school year - I just hope I have as much fun as I did in the summer time! I hope everyone else had a great summer too!

Hello Dolly!

Last night, my amazing Grandma and I went to the Hale Center Theater for a little trip to an AMAZING musical. Can you guess what it was? Let me give you a hint:

Hello Dolly!
Well, Hello Dolly!
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're looking swell, Dolly,
We can tell, Dolly,
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong.
We feel the room swayin'
For the band's playin'
One of your old fav'rite songs from 'way back when....

Yup! Hello Dolly! It was really amazing, and I love the Hale Center Theater just for the fact that you can see so clearly everything that's going on. Its a really small theater, and you really feel like you are in the play! Plus it's a theater in the round, so that adds to it a lot. I had never really heard of the story behind the fun music, and sadly the most I had heard the music from was WALL-E. ( which is an amazing show too. :) so cute!!!! ) But it turned out to be a really cute musical, and I can see how it stayed on Broadway for a long time. It put me in a really really good mood, and I went home singing it. It was a fun time, and I would go see it again and again! (and they also have REALLY GOOD COOKIES at HCT. YUM! )

My First Vacation of Summer!

So to kick off my summer vacation, My family and I went on a fun trip to Florida! (of course that was after I had some amazing adventures with my friends, one of which I need to continue... cough cough aud! haha). Anyways. We went for nine days and it was a ton of fun! Our first night we got to go to a Hotel and in the back of the Hotel was their own beach! So instead of swimming in the pool the first night we went to the ocean and body surfed ( it sounds alot easier than it really is! ) and explored on the beach. My little bro found a billion shells, and he swears he found coral ( which is actually just a big rock, but he's nine so we let him think what he wants. He doesn't listen to me anyways. haha) Then the next day we went to Kennedy Space Center, and got to see the new Shuttle, the Endeavor, up close ( meaning two miles away). we were planning to see it launched, and got up at three to drive down there, but they canceled it and said that they were scrubbing it 'til July. Sigh... i was really excited about it too! We then drove to Disney world and spent the rest of the trip there with my family, and my cousins. A caution to all who want to go to Disney World in the middle of summer: not a good idea! Unless you really like being sticky and deathly hot the whole time. we spent most of our time inside, or using misters to keep ourselves cool! However it was a fun time, and now i'm really bored back at home because there's nothing like Disney World here at my house! haha.

The Famous First Post

Alas. I have succummed to the pressure of obtaining a blog. And this is my first post. Yes. How exciting. I will have to figure this out and then write more.

:)