This is a day late because I've been sick since last weekend and it's a little different this week. I only read one book this month as I'm back to school and that book isn't ready to be reviewed so I will be moving that one to next month. As for this post, I've been working on it for a couple months off and on so some of what I wrote may be a little outdated. And my punctuation, grammar, and capitalization are kind of all over the place due to this. I'm doing my best. And sorry this is so long. And I can't change the red text. Okay. That's it. Bye.
I mean . . .
Happy Tuesday everyone,
11,002 things to be miserable about
by Lia and Nick Romeo
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Daylight savings time - Needs no explanation it just sucks.Negative campaign ads - When an ad, may it be a company wanting you to endorse their product or a person running for office if it promotes itself by trashing the competition I am 100% put off. I will not endorse your product or vote for you. If you are worth endorsing/voting for you shouldn't need to trash the other guy.
Small talk - I am very bad at socializing especially with strangers which is where small talk often comes in. It makes me uncomfortable.
False pleasantries - This to me is the same as small talk.
Strangers who stare at you - I hate being stared out. I will fight you. I hate it more than I hate talking to strangers. So if you stare at me we will have words.
Learning the moon is not made of cheese - A true loss of innocence. It's like learning about Santa Clause or the tooth fairy.
Driver's licenses photo - My picture angle is up. As in taking the picture from a high angel with my chin tilted up. This is how I hide my double chin. Which I am semi proud to say is the only part of my body I am still insecure about. And you see the people taking my driver's license photo made me tilt my chin down. A big no-no. Here is an example of my good angle . . . And my bad. I forgot how bad it was.
All the books you will never read before you die - I've never thought about this before and I find it very upsetting.
Banned books - I want all of the books.
Losing your place in a book - I'm a spine bender so usually when I lose my place it's easy to find but still upsetting.
Pages that fall out of books also books with final pages missing - I bought a used copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and discovered that right when they get to the last round of the Triwizard tournament and on, was missing. It was rather upsetting as that was the most crucial part. Luckily I have a Kindle.
The ever growing number of bad books - I actually find the fact that there are so many bad books in the world very comforting as I want to be a writer of books. If this horrible book was published why can't my book be published?
Genius that strikes when you don't have a pen - This is such a huge problem for me. If I can't find a pen in time, whatever I was going to write will disappear. And my creativity is very stunted on electronics so I prefer to handwrite my creative writing. I bought pen key chains just for this reason. I have one on my bag and one on my keys. I also have stashes of pens everywhere.
Stolen pens - If anyone in class needs a pen or pencil I am incapable of saying no because I know it will not be returned to me. Once this guy next to me in math class asked for a pencil the second day in a row and he didn't give back the first pencil. And of course, I gave it to him without saying anything about the pencil he didn't give back. Then he went to the bathroom and came back smelling like poop. I did not ask for the pencil back.
Illegible handwriting - I have very illegible handwriting. Honestly, sometimes I can't read my own handwriting because I write so fast sometimes the letters don't even completely form. But hey studies have shown this is connected to intelligence.(I included an example of my handwriting and to clarify it is not my worst or even my average handwriting.)
Not being sure whether a title should be in quotes or in italics - Writing is hard. Why do I want to spend my life doing it?
The effect of spell check on spelling ability - I have always been a horrible speller due to the fact it was not taught in my school. I spelled words wrong for years before I realized I was doing it wrong because none of my teachers ever corrected me. I spelled sign wrong until I was 15. That's just one example I can clearly remember. I have another memory of writing the word "lose" as "loose" and my middle school English teacher was reading a paragraph I had written and she read the word to me and laughed and I just blankly looked back at her. She realized that I genuinely didn't understand and stopped laughing.
I recently got some sort of Grammarly situation on my laptop that helps edit my writing and I am realizing this is still happening. I still think a word is spelled this way when it is not. And I'm not going to learn how it is really spelled because of spell-check.
Knot noing how to spell - A writer who can't spell. It's like a depressed comedian.
February - I agree for the spelling. I like the actual month because that's my anniversary with my boyfriend but the spelling kills me.
Fear of wearing bathing suits - link. Wear. Them. Bikinis. Work.Anorexic women who shop in the junior department - I relate to this, especially when I was younger, as I've been overweight my whole life. As a kid, I had to shop in women's clothes and this was before there were a lot of graphic Ts out there. I was showing up to fifth grade in blouses. There are better sizing nowadays for plus size women but as a kid, I felt horrible that I couldn't shop with the other kids. It made me feel like society was telling me I was too fat.
I would also like to add that just because this is an anorexic woman and not a plus size woman as myself. I would like to clarify that just because we are on two different ends of the spectrum doesn't mean we aren't struggling with the same thing and can't feel a bond because of it. It took me a long time to realize that thin people can struggle with body issues just as I do. It doesn't matter what size you are you can still hate your body and your size.
The only fat kid in dance class - The only fat kid in anything, honestly. I was the token fat girl in my grade all of Elementary School. Then in Middle School, I was the token fat girl in P.E. There were two other guys who were big, one was Mexican and one was African-American. I was called twinky (It's not cute!) and the other two where fried chicken and burrito. I wasn't really the token fat kid in High School because I stopped allowing it. I did have to take P.E. my senior year because I couldn't pass the BMI or mile of the fitness gram. I'm glad for that actually because another senior was in my class for a little bit (before he went to ROTC) for the same reason and very long story short we're dating now.
Melted snowmen - As my boyfriend's couple name (special nicknames between a couple) is 'snowman' and mine is 'snowflake', this is very upsetting.
Forgetting you have an explicit screen saver and opening your laptop in public - Storytime. When I first started dating my boyfriend I had to take my phone to sprint and my screen saver was his butt. Not that explicit as he was clothed but you know it was still his butt. I apologized to the guy working on my phone and he said, "cool backpack." I took the picture at school so he was wearing his backpack. Slightly embarrassing but mostly funny.
Waiters who always hand the check to the man - Another storytime. I went to KBBQ with my boyfriend and our friend but I forgot that I had to pick up my sister so I had to leave in the middle and go get her. When I got back I playfully shoved my rice in her face and the waitress got really upset saying if she was eating that I had to pay for her. It was around fifteen dollars and I was already paying for my boyfriend and didn't have enough money to pay for her and my sister wouldn't eat anything that restaurant served so I was not going to pay when she wasn't eating. I told the waitress this and she argued that if she ate the rice I had to pay. I said she is just playing with the rice and the lady tried to tell me that she wasn't allowed. I get pretty pissed at this point. I tell her it's my rice I can do whatever I want with it, I wasn't going to eat it anyway and I am not paying for her. And she looked at my boyfriend. As if to say, "control your woman". He did the, "don't look at me" shrug with his hands up. Oooooh, she did not get a tip.
People with December birthdays who get only one set of presents - This is a big faux pas. The rules for December birthdays are,
- You may not give one present for both occasions. If my birthday was in a different part of the year I would get a present so don't try to short me because it's close to a holiday that requires a present. And if you're getting me a card with money in it then you best believe you have to get two different cards. My uncle comes down from L.A around Christmas time and brings me two cards with money in each and one is a birthday themed card and one is Christmas themed.
- The birthday present or card can not be Christmas themed. I know there is a lot of Christmas stuff everywhere. But no.
Roadkill - I get so upset when I see roadkill because it's human kind's fault! If man hadn't put a road here or created cars, these poor creatures would be alive. We took land from innocent animals and now their dead body is in the middle of the road. It makes me hate humanity.
(This picture is from a meme I really like. I love the little bread flowers)
Birds killed by helicopters - Birds were in the sky long before man. Is nothing sacred? Humans suck.
Small children sticking marbles up their nose - My mom still has the rock I put up my nose. I also put popcorn up my nose.
Puddles - When I was in high school whenever it rained my best friend and I would jump in puddles all over our school and kick the water at each other and we'd just be soaked from head to toe. it's one of my favorite memories of high school.
Not realizing you were on speakerphone - My other best friend was in the trunk (don't ask) of my boyfriend's car (before we started dating) while he and his friend were driving to his mom's house and I was talking to her on the phone and didn't realize I was on speakerphone and that the two boys in the front could hear me. So they heard in gory details about a really bad period I was having. It was very detailed and explicit and I was very embarrassed to have my crush here about it.
Your relationship with your father - How did it know?!
Being mistaken for a boy and angles from which you appear to be a different gender - link link link.
People who refuse to validate your feelings - As someone who deals with depression, this happens a lot. People think my feelings aren't valid because of it. I do often overreact or have heightened emotions but when people try to invalidate those feelings to my face I become even more upset. It's like when someone tells me to calm down. I was calm before but now I'm not calm because you said that.
Menstruation - This is when I checked the authors and it turns out it is written by a man and a woman who are actually siblings. This is an adult book by the way it has other sexual things that I have not included but have texted to my boyfriend. Is that too much?
Vomiting - I detest vomiting to the point that I refuse to vomit. I would rather feel horrible for days than to get it all over with and throw up. It's very traumatic for me so I just refuse to do it and that's how I deal.
The triangle shirtwaist factory fire - I learned about this in my last history class. A factory of mostly woman caught on fire and all the exits were locked, the elevator stopped working and there weren't any fire escapes. Many women jumped out the windows of a very tall building as it took place in New York. There are gruesome pictures of piles of bodies on the streets.
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Polka-dots - IRainbows - Just. (Homophobic!)
Pug noses - Don't.
Walt Disney - Understand.
Greasy egg rolls - I love egg rolls.
Asparagus - I cooked asparagus today all by myself! (This part is old) I love cooked asparagus and my mom doesn't really make it anymore so I decided I needed to learn. I figure if you like or are craving a vegetable that you should eat it all the time because it's good for you. And I don't eat very healthy so if I like something healthy I think it's a good idea to eat it. Does that make sense? I'm ranting.
Broccoli - I also like broccoli although it is hard for me to spell. I like it cooked or raw with ranch. I want to learn how to cook broccoli next.
Waiters who tell you their first name - The fact that this is miserable really irritates me. Waiters and waitresses are people too! Just because it's their job to wait on you does not mean you are better than them. They deserve respect, for you to call them by their name, and a good tip. I hate people who are rude to waiters or cashiers etc. When my boyfriend (he works at Walmart) comes home and tells me how people were yelling at him I just don't understand why people do this. This is not how a decent human being behaves.
Dying from a disease you can't pronounce - I mean I don't think the person really cares how it's pronounced as they are dead. pronouncing what killed them doesn't change the fact that they are dead.
Giant squid - He's doing his best. Don't hate on him.
It started out with just one giant squid on the edge of some notes for this post... And it quickly escalated... They all have names.
Birds eating your garden - Let them. They deserve it. It's just like the cow tipping. They don't have much in their life. It's also like roadkill. Animals have more of a right to Earth than we do. Share your garden.
Clattering high heels - My mom wears heels for work so I associate the sound with her. I have a memory of waiting in my classroom for my mom so we could have a parent-teacher-conference and she felt rushed so she hurried down the hallway and I could hear her heels.
Freckles - It makes me so sad that some people don't like or are insecure about their freckles. People get freckles tattooed. Tattooed! And some people with natural freckles hate them. I think people with freckles are so cute. My sister has freckles over her nose and it's so adorable. It makes me so sad that some people hate something about themselves that other people love and wish they had.
Your inner thighs - I love my thighs. I have big thighs and I've actually never disliked them. Maybe because I'm attracted to big thighs on other girls. Either way, I love my big thighs.
Self-Expression - How could anyone think this is miserable? Self-Expression is so important to me. And I'm not referring to the book I wrote in middle school called "Self-Expression" that I just remembered exists in the depths of my dropbox.
Junk Drawers - I don't know I just really like them. I like the look of a ton of stuff. I don't know how else to word that. I have the two pictures on the sides saved in my phone just because it appeals to me. And I made this art . . . thing. And the little paragraph here is from a writing prompt I did a couple years ago. Also, I like cleaning out or reorganizing the junk drawer once in a while.
A Junk Drawer
(If I were an object)
My brain is a crazy jumble of stuff that is near impossible to sort through. I have all these ideas stuffed into one cramped drawer. A lot of things get lost in there including myself. I get lost in my head all the time. Most people call it daydreaming.Poems you were forced to study in high school English classes - I love poetry and I was always the best in the class at analyzing poems and literature in general. I have every print out of poems my teachers from high school gave us.
Backpacks - I'm obsessed with small backpacks so I have six of them (one not photographed). My main bag is a small backpack and I take it to school as well as using it as my usual bag. I like it because it's not too big and fussy but it can hold my notebook pencil case and a small book.
So my backpack has a key chain that's a backpack that has two key chains that are backpacks and inside the main backpack is a backpack pencil case and in the small backpack is a lunchbox keychain that can hold stuff.
The two small backpacks and the backpack pencil case are from a company called Yoobi. I think it's only at Target. They make really creative school/office supplies. I love them partly because they make cool stuff but also because. "Yoobi, pronounced “you-be,” means “one for you, one for me.” For every Yoobi item you purchase, a Yoobi item will be donated to a classroom in need, right here in the U.S."
This is how much I love backpacks. I wrote all of this.
Hope - I think this should have been "False Hope" which is bad. I don't think hope is bad. I think it's good. I think it inspires and pushes people.
The food at Denny's - Denny dates are the best though! I love going with my boyfriend (left and top two he took of me) or my best friends (bottom) and it's really cool going at two in the morning. I even went with my friends after prom (right).Being awake at 4 A.M. - This was the original title of this post until I found, people who blog about their personal lives. I think this one is good and bad. If I need to sleep and I can't so I'm up at four A.M. that's bad. But if I'm up writing on a day I can sleep in and it doesn't matter then I think it's great. I often find inspiriting late at night or early in the morning if you're picky.
Reading in dim lighting - I read this in dim light. My boyfriend (I'm sorry I talked about him so much) was sleeping in my bed so I sat in this chair in front of my curtains and there's a light behind it so I turned that on and it gave me enough light to read.
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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. (The five stages of grief)Literature - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Graves, worms, and epitaphs (Shakespeare)
The death of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Shakespeare)
The ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang (also Shakespeare)
Denying they father and refusing they name (Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare)
Ravens quothing "nevermore"
The telltale heart (Edgar Allen Poe. Also I disagree but appreciate the reference.)
Death of salesmen (The google search is giving me mixed messages. Play? Book? Movie?)
Not knowing why the caged bird sings - (I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou)
Moby Dick - It turns out the copy of Moby Dick that I read and reviewed in the June book review, was not the full copy as you can see on the left so I will be reading the full version and reviewing that when I finish it.
Anger, pride, greed, gluttony, sloth, envy and lust (Seven Deadly Sins - The Bible)
The Waste Land - (I did a project on The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot in high school.)
People who think The Waste Land is a poem about New Jersey
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Some of these are a stretch and some are obviouse references.Beauty school dropouts (Grease. I grew up with it as a movie so I included here rather than in music.)
Anyone who puts baby in a corner (Dirty Dancing.)
Men nicknamed Ducky (Pretty in Pink.)
- I am so offended! Ducky was an amazing character!
Mice in restaurant kitchens (Ratatouille)
Rats in fast food restaurants - Downgrading.
Step mothers (Cinderella would agree.)
The book selection at provincial libraries - (Beauty and the Beast)
- Belle sings, "this provincial life" after going to the "library" that didn't have the best book selection.
Flotsam - The wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed up by the sea.people or things that have been rejected and are regarded as worthless.
Jetsam - unwanted material or goods that have been thrown overboard from a ship and washed ashore, especially material that has been discarded to lighten the vessel.
Also a band apparently.
Children left behind -
When mommy and daddy want to kill each other -
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I included links to youtube videos because listing the song made me want to listen to them.Not being able to get no satisfaction (I can't get no) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Being addicted to love (Addicted to love - Robert Palmer)
Giving love a bad name (You give love a bad name - Bon Jovi)
Whipping it good (Whip it - Devo)
Being welcomed to the jungle (Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses)
Sending out an SOS to the world (Message in a Bottle - The Police)
Total eclipse of the heart (Total eclipse of the heart - Bonnie Tyler)
Karma Chameleon (Culture Club.)
- When looking the song up I realized the lyrics are, "Karma Chameleon" and not, "I'm a chameleon".
Waiting to be sedated - (I wanna be sedated - The Ramones)
- Just realized that says waiting to be sedated but I'm leaving it.
Hard days night - (A hard days night - The Beatles)
Ticket to ride
Long and winding roads -
If you're wondering, I know these songs because I grew up with them. My parents are music fans. I clarify this because to me they're classics but I don't know if it's like that for everyone.
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The formatting of what I put into the music section really frustrates me. The first list I wrote as it was in the book. They were right next to each other bam, bam, bam. "Waiting to be sedated" however was by itself just randomly in the book. And the three Beatles songs were in a row separated by, "Day tripper" and, "Nowhere men". Why? Why is it like this? I really wish there was consistency here.I don't like that it's not in alphabetical order or organized into categories. Just some sort of organization.
I don't like that there isn't a preface of afterword about the writing process because that's all I thought about as I read it.
And two items on the list were repeated too close together to be dismissed. So that made me lose pretty much all respect for this book. Not to mention the fact that this repetition means there are not 11,002 things on the list.
Books of lists
The psychological effect of reading this entire book
[Insert outro here]Totally Ky
P.S here are some Grammarly edits that I found funny
Whip it well
I wanna be seated
Don't try to shoot me.
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