This week went a lot smoother than the last few for Jessica and I. Although we seemed to be suffering from severe lack of sleep because this Friday night we were real cool and stayed home to watch a movie. Well, by about 8 o’clock we were both passed out on the furniture in our living room. We both agreed that it was very “senior citizenesk” of us.
I think what might have attributed to our tiredness was from the night before when the fire alarm at our apartment complex went off at three in the morning. Ironically enough when the fire alarm goes off here, no one takes it seriously. It is usually caused by some inebriated students who don’t know what they are doing. This alarm lasted for an entire hour. It lasted for at least twenty minutes continuously and then off and on for another forty. Once the alarm had continuously stopped ringing, we were hoping that that was the end of it, and we could go back to sleep. Unfortunately, we were wrong…dead wrong. As we both tried to fall back asleep the alarm would go off, but it would last for maybe a minute or even a few seconds. It was so loud that you could here it coming even before it started ringing in our room. Fortunately, by four someone had been able to fix the alarm system, but the damage had already been done. I think I can distinctly remember having a loud ringing noise in my dreams for the rest of the night.
Another dilemma that has come up in the apartment that is only natural this time of year is Halloween costume ideas. Now I take Halloween very seriously. My birthday is the day after Halloween so I like to go full throttle so that I can celebrate at midnight. This year I have come into a little dilemma because I have to top one of the most ingenious, at least in my opinion, costume ideas ever. Last year I dressed up like a Post-It. How you may ask? I wore yellow shirt, shorts and hat, wrote Memo on the back of my shorts and had a “To Do List” written on the front of my shirt. I brought a long with me sharpies and throughout the night all my friends wrote on me. It was fantastic! This year I am stuck between dressing up as graffiti, white shirt and just painting over it, or possibly a birthday suit. This would involve buying Happy Birthday napkins, plates, banner signs and hot gluing them onto a plain white t-shirt, as well as a Happy Birthday top hat. I love the idea, but I am still a bit skeptical on how it will all play out. Don’t worry though, I will make sure to keep you posted on what I come up with.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Oh YouTube
One evening this past week, Jessica and I decided to entertain ourselves for a bit by looking up random YouTube videos online. I am surprisingly amazed at how many videos you can find on the most random of subjects. There are videos for learning how to braid hair, learning how to dance, music videos and to be even more specific remixes of a popular rap song sung in children voices about dogs. Let me explain a little more.
As we were searching through videos online, Jessica randomly starts humming,
“Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to the floor?”
Bewildered by this random outburst, I question her as to where she had heard that. I automatically assumed she had gotten the lyrics of the song wrong because there had been a rap song entitled “Does your chain hang low” that came out a few years back that dominated the air. Jessica insisted that she had heard this before and typed into the YouTube search engine, “Do your ears hang low”, and low and behold there was a “child-friendly” remake of the song centered on dogs and their wobbly ears. Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Even better was a clip we found about a little boy named David who had just gone to the dentist’s office and was in lameness terms “high” on laughing gas.
I don’t think I have ever laughed harder than I did when watching this video clip. My dad is a cosmetic dentist, and it just seemed to fit to pass this video onto him. He said he had stitches he was laughing so hard. David at the Dentist
The last video that Jessica and I searched for was of this professional ventriloquist named Jeff Dunham, whom Jessica had actually seen live at American Airlines in Dallas this past summer. This man is a genius. He has various puppet characters named Peanut, Jose the Jalapeno and Achmed. The different voices that Jeff Dunham is able to create are unbelievable. He can sing at various pitches and in different accents. Jessica and I have both agreed that when he comes back in town from his world tour that we are going to be first in line to buy tickets. One video we watched was of the character Achmed, a skeleton Taliban terrorist sing his version of ‘Jingle Bells’ entitled ‘Jingle Bombs’. The level of inappropriateness this ventriloquist gets a way with is unreal, but is probably one of the funniest videos I have seen on YouTube. Achmed, "Jingle Bombs"
As we were searching through videos online, Jessica randomly starts humming,
“Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to the floor?”
Bewildered by this random outburst, I question her as to where she had heard that. I automatically assumed she had gotten the lyrics of the song wrong because there had been a rap song entitled “Does your chain hang low” that came out a few years back that dominated the air. Jessica insisted that she had heard this before and typed into the YouTube search engine, “Do your ears hang low”, and low and behold there was a “child-friendly” remake of the song centered on dogs and their wobbly ears. Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Even better was a clip we found about a little boy named David who had just gone to the dentist’s office and was in lameness terms “high” on laughing gas.
I don’t think I have ever laughed harder than I did when watching this video clip. My dad is a cosmetic dentist, and it just seemed to fit to pass this video onto him. He said he had stitches he was laughing so hard. David at the Dentist
The last video that Jessica and I searched for was of this professional ventriloquist named Jeff Dunham, whom Jessica had actually seen live at American Airlines in Dallas this past summer. This man is a genius. He has various puppet characters named Peanut, Jose the Jalapeno and Achmed. The different voices that Jeff Dunham is able to create are unbelievable. He can sing at various pitches and in different accents. Jessica and I have both agreed that when he comes back in town from his world tour that we are going to be first in line to buy tickets. One video we watched was of the character Achmed, a skeleton Taliban terrorist sing his version of ‘Jingle Bells’ entitled ‘Jingle Bombs’. The level of inappropriateness this ventriloquist gets a way with is unreal, but is probably one of the funniest videos I have seen on YouTube. Achmed, "Jingle Bombs"
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Fro Yo Adventure
Unfortunatetly, college has gotten the best of Jessica and me these past two weeks because we have been so busy that even though we live together we have barely seen each other! This week I did not see her from about late Monday afternoon to midday on Wednesday. She has been working on a group project for her fashion merchandising classes that has literally taken up any free time she might otherwise have had. We decided that because of how busy we both were that we would set aside time once a week to do something just her and I. We agreed that no matter how chaotic our lives got we would have at least one meal a week where we would go out together for either dinner or desert, or preferably both.
Last week we decided to go to this new frozen yogurt (also known as “fro yo”) place called Yogalait, that is located right next to Chick Fil A and Central Market. (I strongly recommend trying this place out). A little word of advice, those of you out there who loving toppings be warned. I myself was completely overwhelmed with the copious amounts of toppings to choose from. Yogalait charges by the ounce, so customers can get as much yogurt or in my case toppings as they want! I guess you can say I went a little topping crazy because in my yogurt I decided to get a combination of raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, graham cracker and cheesecake bites and it was only three dollars!!!! Now for all the penny pinching college students out there, this place is a gold mine!
North Texas is infamous for having crazy thunderstorms, and the night of our “fro yo” adventure there was a “lightning” storm above Fort Worth. On the drive back from Yogalait, Jessica and I were so dumbfounded by the storm that we pulled over off of Hulen into a random parking lot to try and watch the storm. This ingenious idea of mine was not quite successful because unfortunately when we pulled over the direction in which the storm was covered by trees. It seemed that the only place where we could properly see the storm was on Hulen itself. We ended up driving on Hulen between 25 and 30 miles an hour on the overpass between West Vickery and the Walgreens off of Hulen. Now because this was later at night I felt no qualms about doing this. I know it was not the safest thing to do, but honestly if you had seen this storm you would have done the same thing. (Plus I looked and was being very cautious there were no cars behind me or next to me). Oh, and do not worry I had already finished my frozen yogurt before I started driving, no dining and driving for me.
Our first “fro yo” outing was very successful if I do say so myself. We witnessed one of nature’s greatest phenomena’s, as well as satiated our taste buds with delicious frozen yogurt (and toppings). The weekly outing continued this week with another trip to Yogalait, unfortunately there was no lightning storm, but just some much needed quality time between roomies and friends.
Last week we decided to go to this new frozen yogurt (also known as “fro yo”) place called Yogalait, that is located right next to Chick Fil A and Central Market. (I strongly recommend trying this place out). A little word of advice, those of you out there who loving toppings be warned. I myself was completely overwhelmed with the copious amounts of toppings to choose from. Yogalait charges by the ounce, so customers can get as much yogurt or in my case toppings as they want! I guess you can say I went a little topping crazy because in my yogurt I decided to get a combination of raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, graham cracker and cheesecake bites and it was only three dollars!!!! Now for all the penny pinching college students out there, this place is a gold mine!
North Texas is infamous for having crazy thunderstorms, and the night of our “fro yo” adventure there was a “lightning” storm above Fort Worth. On the drive back from Yogalait, Jessica and I were so dumbfounded by the storm that we pulled over off of Hulen into a random parking lot to try and watch the storm. This ingenious idea of mine was not quite successful because unfortunately when we pulled over the direction in which the storm was covered by trees. It seemed that the only place where we could properly see the storm was on Hulen itself. We ended up driving on Hulen between 25 and 30 miles an hour on the overpass between West Vickery and the Walgreens off of Hulen. Now because this was later at night I felt no qualms about doing this. I know it was not the safest thing to do, but honestly if you had seen this storm you would have done the same thing. (Plus I looked and was being very cautious there were no cars behind me or next to me). Oh, and do not worry I had already finished my frozen yogurt before I started driving, no dining and driving for me.
Our first “fro yo” outing was very successful if I do say so myself. We witnessed one of nature’s greatest phenomena’s, as well as satiated our taste buds with delicious frozen yogurt (and toppings). The weekly outing continued this week with another trip to Yogalait, unfortunately there was no lightning storm, but just some much needed quality time between roomies and friends.
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