Guess who got a smartphone?

Yesterday my mom and I got new phones. Happy birthday to me! (It’s in a week.) What had started out as a quick trip to Costco turned into a two hour trip after seeing the phone kiosk and deciding...

The worst nightmare I’ve ever had.

This might be triggering for some, and I apologize for that. When I was a child, I dreamt that my father was murdered. It was night, and I seem to recall I was searching through the house trying to...

Here’s my impersonation of all my blogs and social networking lately.

Sammy the betta fish.

Five years ago today, I bought my first betta fish. I named him Sammy, short for Salmon Roll. Sammy was my first fish who was actually mine, I’d had some rather boring goldfish and guppies as a...

One of the funniest music videos I’ve ever seen.

Armi & Danny — I Wanna Love You Tender This song was written in 1978, and ended up becoming famous in 2006 thanks to the internet. I figure that’s when I first heard it myself, and every so often I...

Animal Crossing: Wild World.

This has become my free time lately. I’ve started playing Animal Crossing: Wild World again after a very long hiatus. I decided to start over because I wanted to rename my town, which you can’t...

“I was doing fine until you came out here. Then you started talking, and I got lost.”

This is from an episode of the tv show You Bet Your Life, this version aired from 1992-1993. The first four minutes of this video had me laughing so hard. I don’t know whose expression is funnier,...

“I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.” — Mitch Hedberg

Before and after the birds realized I had food for them today:

Natural History Museum’s Pavilion of Wings.

Mom and I went to the Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum today. If you’re local, it runs until May. I didn’t take any pictures mostly because the place was full of annoying little...

Journal entry for 10/11/12.

Toward the end of last year, I started a private journal using a word processing program on my computer. It was some free program I’d never even heard of called Microsoft Word Starter, I’m just...

One of the nicest threats I’ve made to my parents.

Today my mom and I were talking about a few late relatives who’d been so against using walkers because they were afraid of looking like invalids, as if it’s only the walker that makes people look...

Pinterest pet peeves.

I’m not an addict, but I’m fairly active on Pinterest. So, like any other user, I’ve developed a list of pet peeves about other users. Most of these are fairly typical, but feel free to mention any...

Unusual deaths throughout history.

Death itself is not funny. But sometimes, the cause of death can be hilarious or just make you wonder. I was reading the list of unusual deaths on Wikipedia and decided to list some of my...

Internet addiction + procrastination = terrible.

Everyone procrastinates in some way. Some people mow the lawn to avoid doing the dishes, some people start a new game/book/movie to avoid homework, some people go run an errand to get out of making...

Waking up with a song in my head: EPIC SAX GUY.

Almost every morning, I wake up with music playing in my head. This morning’s music: Sun Stroke Project & Olia Tira — Run Away

How I reacted the last time our power went out.

One of my friends currently has no electricity, the whole neighborhood went out. It’s still daytime, so she can still do quite a lot, but still texted me to jokingly say how limited her choices are...

A letter to my 8-year-old self.

I wish I could write a letter to my younger self. I want to write a letter and address it to approximately 20 years ago, back when I was a carefree child who hadn’t yet started feeling stupid. As...

Bossy kids are hilarious, even in dreams.

Last night I had a dream about my friend Emmalina‘s oldest son. He’s 3 years old and at that stage where he’s quite bossy. I live in Los Angeles, Emma and her family live in Tasmania. I dreamt that...

Moods and overheard conversation.

Sometimes I have moments where I become very frustrated with everything and just want to delete myself off the internet. No reason in particular, it just happens. So I took a break from this blog...

Happy Valentine’s Day!

You can find this stuff at Sick On Sin: Shirt: Men // Women Buttons: Candy heart (Limited edition) // Zombie heart You’d think I’m an official model or something, but I just really like the company.

Waking up with a song in my head: Not much between despair and ecstacy.

Almost every morning, I wake up with music playing in my head. This morning’s music: Murray Head — One Night in Bangkok

Spotted at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

That’s not what they mean by handicapped parking, but… alright, that works too. I think my favorite part of this is the big rear view mirrors attached to the handles. Those are the things that kind...

Bad habits.

I kind of fell back out of blogging regularly, even despite filling a small jar with some writing prompts to look at when I want to write but have no ideas. I mentioned on Twitter that maybe I need...

One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…

Today I went and saw the house used to film the exterior shots in Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. I didn’t realize it, but it’s located approximately four miles from my house,...

What I’m watching right now.

“Well, it’s Groundhog Day… Again…” And Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an early Spring this year! Happy Groundhog Day, everyone.

There’s a cocoon on my back door!

I tried finding out what might be inside, but I can’t find anything through Google. Obviously a moth or butterfly, but I was curious to find out what kind. I was worried because my dad tends to...

A little about my foreign coin collection.

One of my penpals asked a couple questions about my foreign coin collection, and I got a little carried away while doing the research to answer her questions and decided I wanted to blog about it...

National Handwriting Day.

You can read more about National Handwriting Day at the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association website.

Complete with her dinglehopper and snarfblatt.

I took this picture a few years ago at Disneyland. It will forever be one of the funniest pictures I’ve ever taken. She looks like she’s about to pee herself out of excitement over something.

I’m not going to quote that Destiny’s Child song, that’s just too obvious.

One of my favorite things in the world is to hear non-Californians say my name, especially non-Americans. Every accent pronounces it differently and they’re all awesome. I had an Egyptian friend...