Recommended

I actually have blog stuff to talk about! I am thrilled to report that 20 Something Bloggers has made me one of their "20SB Staff Recommends" bloggers! It's really cool to be recognized for what I'm doing here since I don't get much feedback these days. I still love all of you who are still reading, whoever you are, but I'm excited that some new people might be reading my blog because of this. And p.s. welcome to anyone who's new to my blog!

Some other stuff, for anyone who uses Google+, there's a new little icon at the bottom of blogger blog posts (it's a little +1) that you can click if you like my post! So if you read a post, even if it's in reader, go and click it and maybe that will get me more people to write for! 

Oh and it's been a while since I've asked for facebook page likes so I'm putting that out there again! I try to post stuff there and if I got a bunch of followers I might be more inclined to be interesting. My tweets go there at least...

This week's Scrumptious recipe was for:

Irish Biscotti

It was made with Bailey's but ended up not tasting like it at all but was still delish. Yes, I said delish. Twice.

For anyone who doesn't know, I also have a recipe blog and I make and post recipes every Saturday. And they are guaranteed to be awesome, delicious and fairly easy to make!

I think that's it for this week so do me a favor and have an awesome week!

Digg Me!

Remember like two months ago when I told you all about my photo project and asked you guys for suggestions? Yeah. Well I didn't forget about it either! I will start working on this soon now that the weather is getting nicer. I was able to get a whole bunch of awesome suggestions in the 20 Something Bloggers forum so I have quite the task but I am excited to see how I do. ALSO since I have a handful more readers now, if anyone wants to leave me more ideas here or on the original post please do! 

P.S. Thank you to every one who has stuck around and everyone who's new to read my silly blog everyday. I can't tell you how flattered I am that anyone, much less people who are/were total strangers to me, enjoy what I have to say. If you want to get to know me better, leave comments, follow me on twitter, and/or "like" me on Facebook (see widget over there <----). I haven't plugged my Facebook page in a while, so now that there's new people, what the heck? Or go crazy and send me an email (also found in the sidebar though it's not a widget, just an image). I'd love to hear your questions/comments about my blog. 

Other news.

If any of you ever actually read this at blogyoureabouttoread.blogspot.com and/or comment on it then you may have noticed the little "digg" icon that is now at the bottom of my posts. It's there for you if you like any of my posts (or blog in general) SO much that you think the whole world should know about it. Okay so really it's more there so that you will help promote my blog for me for free. You can  sign up for a digg account or you can sign in with Facebook/Twitter.


Not much else but I'm thinking of re-vamping my themes again, now that I've been doing this for a few months and now know what I like and don't like. So watch or that! And I will probably mention it and announce it one Sunday once it's happened.  That's all for this week!

Oh physics...

Yes we are.

Yesterday Was Tuesday, Today It Is Wednesday, Tomorrow Will Be Thursday

Remember last week when I preempted a promised story for a guest post? And promised to bring you one this week unless something really important comes up? I seriously was  only kidding at the time about that and planned on having a story for you but then Stacey from CAPS (parentheses) and exclamation marks! tweeted me this video and told me to blog about it. I got home and watched it on my laptop and was like what the fuck? But didn't really think it was worth a blog post. Then I watched it AGAIN and lost my shit. Anyway, watch this first, and then we can talk about it. (Also I didn't feel like drawing today, but that's besides the point.)

Holy fuck balls. How much does my brain hurt trying to comprehend this one? My first response was that this song is basically the most boring 13 year old's journal entry put to music. "Today I did nothing remotely compelling, fun fun fun fun"

I'm just going to break it down, criticism by criticism. 

1) "Gotta get to the bus stop, gotta catch my bus, I see my friends" Why did she have to go to the bus stop when she doesn't seem surprised to see her friends who are picking her up instead?

2) Why is she so excited about a) that her friends are "kicking in the front seat, sitting in the back seat" and b) which seat WILL SHE CHOOSE?!? btw, there was only one seat left? Unless she's a total bitch who's like bitch, I'm riding shotgun I don't care that you were there first.

3) She can't really sing.

4) Ok so they're all in the car. She's 13 so she either has friends who are way older or no one should actually be driving. AND the three in the back seat didn't want to actually sit in their seats and are instead sitting/standing on the edge of the car, "cruising down the highway." Hey kids! It's cool to be unsafe while riding in the car with your unlicensed friend!

5) Seriously the thing about where she's going to sit is a repeated bridge? How hard is it to decide where to sit?!? and she's already in the damn car!

6) Now some dude seemingly unrelated to the rest of the video is rapping about where he's sitting in his car? Uhhh?

7) A list of my favorite lyrics:

Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends

Which seat can I take?

Fun, fun, fun, fun

Fun, fun, think about fun

My friend is by my right

Yesterday was Thursday, Today it is Friday. We we we so excited, we so excited. 

Tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards.

Such good songwriting here. And that's really who's to blame not the creepy Rebecca Black girl (she and her friends are seriously creepy looking when they look into the camera right?). Rebecca just wanted to be a singer, (I'm not going to touch the ridiculous bio on her website), and someone thought "Why not? Who care's if we have to use computers to make her sound at all decent?"

Well that's my pointless rant. I just thought it would be fun to jump on the bandwagon, maybe get some search engine hits... 

In response to my post of this video on Facebook, one of my friends posted this:

This one actually is a joke, from How I Met Your Mother, but very reminiscent of Friday. So if nothing else was good about this post for you at least you got that.

I'm Versatile. Who Knew?!

 NEWS NEWS NEWS! Ok, so I finally landed on a good theme for Sunday and dun da dun! It's Sunday News! (Yeah that's supposed to be a news paper and I think I did a pretty good job...) So like I have been, I'll report any blog changes or stuff I feel like reporting from my life on Sundays. I'll post this kind of stuff on other days if it's REALLY important. Such as... the "Blog You're About To Read" Facebook page that I made last week. W00t! And anytime you want to "like" it, I put a widget right over there <-- for your convenience. So if you're really reading and didn't just subscribe and move on with your life let me know with a 'like'! (P.S. I've REALLY fallen behind on my reading and commenting and I SWEAR I'm going to catch up SOON!)

Next up, I got my first official blog award!

How cool is that?! So thanks to LesleyRH over at Ireland Ever After for the award! [Check out her blog, or you'll totally miss out!] Sadly I don't get to just have it, I have to a) post some random facts about me, and 2) award it to some other blogs.

Random facts:
• I don't eat vegetables (with very few exceptions, seriously like less than I can count on my fingers).
• I have a weird obsession with Starbucks that has more to do with their merchandising than their coffee (but I like their coffee too)
• My favorite animated movie character is Wall-e :) .
• I like to cook but not when it's just for myself.
• My favorite food is lobster, then pizza.
• I collect coffee mugs and different versions of monopoly.

These were added to the collection this year. Awesome right?

My Versatile Blogger picks: [I feel so powerful right now]
The De-Student
Cotton
notacrazycatlady
CAPS (parentheses) & exclamation marks!
Was That Awkward
Rob of the Sky's Guide to Crap!

Yeah I think that will do it for this one! Sorry to everyone else, remember, it was an honor just to be nominated.

Other news!
This was on Conan last Thursday, he sent a random dude in the audience off to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and this was their conversation:

Conan: Don't you have a job or something?
Dude: Well I'm a blogger so not really.

Yes! Haha. Also, WHY NOT ME!?! Why am I still working a full time job after all the (2) months I've been doing this?!? Sigh.

Lastly, unless I think of something else I'm forgetting, like in every most Sunday newspapers (the NY Times thinks their soooo special) I will bring you the Sunday Comics! I've been doing this for a couple weeks just cause I had nothing else to bring to the table and that's actually where I got the idea for News day. Not the other way around.

Dilbert again!

These will usually be Dilbert and/or Garfield because those are the ones that come to me in my e-mail. I will work on expanding that.

Happy Sunday!

I "Like" Demetri Martin's Doodles

I follow stand-up comedian @DemetriMartin on twitter, and when he started drawing pictures like this one:

he started tweeting the links for them. They're pretty awesome so check them out.


I found this:

on Tumblr. They're not real but, holy crap, they should be.  Someone start a petition to get Facebook to get these made. Just think about how useful the "Dislike" one would be for girls when they get hit on in bars. Originally found on 9 gag.

Burning Bulbs

I wake up one April morning at 1:30 am, to go to my overnight job, and two of the 5 lights in the apartment had been left on all night.

She would do this from time to time when she; came home, turned on entryway light, went into her room, shutting the door behind her, and eventually went to bed without bothering to walk the 15 feet to turn it off. She would also do this with the hall light by the bathroom and if she at any point in the evening used the kitchen, that light would be on too. The dining room and living room lights never get used by her since she would lock herself in her room anytime she was in the apartment since she was so busy hating me for some unknown reason.

On this particular day, she had left the kitchen and entryway lights on (as pictured). 

I had decided that I was no longer going to tip-toe around her in an attempt to salvage some kind of civil relationship since there's no reason to be nice to someone who hates me for no reason. Yeah it was awesome. Every time I attempted to patch up whatever I didn't-know-I-did-wrong, a couple of weeks would go by until she started giving me the silent treatment for, again, no reason. I'm sorry if you're not 100% happy with you're life, that's no reason to make our living situation so uncomfortable. Anyway, so when I got to work I updated my Facebook status:

Yep, went all the way back to April in on my wall to take a screen shot of this.

 This is a quote of one of my favorite comedian's, Greg Behrendt, in which he was making fun of himself for forgetting to turn off lights but then defending himself so he doesn't feel dumb about it. Every-time I wake up to a fully illuminated apartment this joke runs through my head and at least the comedy of that makes me feel less annoyed but not actually better. Due to this being the nth time that I was getting the silent treatment for nothing from her, I got fed up and needed to just get it out. Hence the status update.

I felt that this was safe way to express my frustration that would not cause any more tension. I didn't call her out to her face, or write it on the dry erase board (every time I asked her do to something that way she freaked out as if I had just screamed it in her face).

But I did it on Facebook... where she saw it... And I knew it was a possibility but I had chosen not to care... And I guess she didn't appreciate it. Even though I wasn't really calling her out.

By the way, I also loved how she would complain all the time about not having money but then regularly adds hours of lighting to our electric bill. No, it's not making our bill crazy high or anything,  I just don't understand how is the concept of not spending money she doesn't have to such a foreign idea to her... when she works in finance!!!! I've mentioned this before. Not to mention the complete lack of being green which is the actual reason it bothered me. I realize now that I failed to mention that before so I just sound like I'm ranting because I hate illuminated rooms.

So yes she saw it, and yes she overreacted and yes she decided to respond. And she did it just as passive aggressively. Her super-mature response to my calling her out on an immature bad habit was: Da ta da!: To turn on every light in our apartment before leaving for work which I would come home to.

AHHHH! WHY??!??

Awesome. I decided then that if she ever pulled something like that again I'm taking the light bulbs. Or maybe replacing them with a dimmer wattage. Cause she would probably claim that its unsafe to not be able to turn lights on. I still loved the idea and she never did that again but since she still left between one and three on a lot of nights I decided to execute my plan half-way. I left all the fixtures that had dome-y things over the bulbs, and removed one of the two they hold. In one of them I replaced the working bulb with a burned out one. I knew she would never replace it because she seemed to feel that apartment maintenance wasn't something she was responsible for.

I would say that I had my vengeance. I had to put up with her leaving lights on all the time and she lost hall light privileges.