"a bunch of rocks"

While I'm sitting in the computer classroom today, rummaging through various blogs in every corner of the internet, I find one that particularly sparks my interest. Not for the actual text of the post, or it's comments for that matter, because they were related to ideas for people way more tech-savy than me. But the link that sparked their discussion is the same that sparks mine. The link to the original blog can be found here, but the picture I am talking about is here. Take it in any way you want, and may it spark whatever discussions/reactions you wish.

In my personal opinion, I find it incredible how many people feel impatient waiting for a few extra minutes for class to end, and I myself am certainly a culprit of this. But in the grand scheme of things, think about it. The time we spend in this world is way too short for us to not utilize it to it's fullest extent and appreciate every second of time we are given. And thinking about that, I am much less likely to complain.

Through finding this website, I'm compelled to finding more of these comics, so expect more links and posts about them!

oh, canada

So for the few of you that aren't aware, I'm basically obsessed with Canada.

People tell me, "You're crazy!! America is way better! We're awesome! God bless America!!!!!"

I understand a lot of people's love for America. Well hey, it's the country we live in! I can say that there are a lot of great aspects of America that I love, but what about the undeniable ones that many people don't? And honestly, I like America too! I just think Canada's better! Many countries don't like America. They claim that we get involved in everyone's business when we aren't welcomed, our government is corrupt, we only see one side of every issue in the media, etc. But, when it comes to Canada, what do they have to say? Even the most patriotic of my friend's only had to offer to this argument, "Well, Canada didn't create anything beneficial. [For goodness sake], even Canadian bacon is just heated ham!"

Actually, there are many great products that came from/were discovered by Canadians. Like the candy Smarties? Or how about the telephone? Zippers? Velcro? Zambonis? Basketball? Lacrosse? Hockey? Apple pie? Pictionary? Paint rollers? Kerosene? Instant potato flakes??? These are just few of MANY products from Canada. For a more extensive list, click here!


Not only do we owe a lot of gratitude for those inventions, there are more reasons to love Canada. They have the largest English population that never surrendered to anyone or withdrew from any war. So what if they don't have a strong military? So far, they haven't needed one? It was also rated on the GPI (Global Peace Index) 11th most peaceful country. Want to know where the good old USA ranked? 97th. To examine this list for yourself, click here

This is why I honor Canada so much. Even with it's proximity to the USA, it's been able to avoid all the corruption we've been nailed for. Canada and the USA are very similar in many ways, and they make great Allies. I find Canada a more peaceful, chilled out version of the USA. Plus, they talk really fun, eh?


People call Canada America's hat. Well let's think about it. Hats are cool and fun, and no one ever blames them! Go Canada!

waiting for the snow

It's almost one month till snowboarding season!!!!!

So I do a club called Snowbird.  I wait basically all spring and all summer and all fall for this time of year, and it's almost here!  The first Snowbird date is supposed to be December 6th at Alpine Valley.  Hopefully it sticks to that because i don't know how much longer i can wait!

Anyway, the reason I'm writing about this is because snowboarding is one of my favorite sports and i encourage everyone to sign up for it!  I believe it's about $60 to sign up and $50 every week you decide to go.  It's nearly every saturday and it's so much fun.

I just bought new gear and I'm pretty excited to take it out on the snow.  Hope to see y'all there! :)