Catch Up 3: Everything Else

So, the past two days I covered everything from the holidays that I'd missed, today, I'm just going to finish it off with everything that happened between January and May.

First up: I learned to knit!

On my way back to Ames for the Spring semester, I stopped at a Barnes & Nobel, where I found a really cheap knitting kit on clearance. I had been talking to a couple people about how I'd kind of wanted to learn, so I impulse bought it on sight.

And I made a scarf!

After I started knitting grandma found this (very) old skein of yarn in a desk and gave it to me. I took me well over an hour, maybe two, to untangle it. :p

Then I started buying more stuff and started a new scarf.

It was done in just a couple of weeks!

I was pretty happy with it!

Then I got some ring looms to help me knit hats.

These were for Shaina, and she loved them. :)

There was a flock of Canada geese on central campus one day!

They just made themselves at home.

There was a lot of melting happening, so maybe they thought it was a lake?

In late January I came home for a family get together, (where I took no pictures) but since I was going to be home, and since we'd had so much fun at the last one, and since we'd already been planning to binge watch the brand new Netflix Series of Unfortunate Events, my cousins decided to throw another themed tea party.

It was not quite as themed as before. No real decorations or costumes.

A lot of it was just stuff they wanted an excuse to make. Like more scones. :p

And eat. :p

Some of the sandwiches had mushrooms on them.

And some had horseradish.

If you've read book 11, then you know why these things are appropriate. :p

I don't think the tea was themed. I just wanted a picture of my cup. :)

Peppermint cream cheese bon bons.

Peppermint being the themed ingredient. Book 3, the Baudelaires were allergic. :)

We also had cold soup. (See book 3 again. :p)

These were basically Little Debbie cakes with gummy snakes frosting'd on.

A nod to the Incredibly Deadly Viper from book 2. (And 13!)

And that was that event. Like I said before, I didn't take any picture at the family thing I'd come home for, but Jackson was with us too, and I did get a couple pictures of him. :p

He was getting swaddled. :)

So cute! :p

The next big thing might be news to you if you haven't seen me in awhile: I got contacts!

I've had glasses since I was 6, so this is kind of a big deal.

This was a picture I took to text to Shaina when I first got them.

The next event was another trip to Minnesota. I was doing a job shadow at my cousin Kyle's workplace, and Shaina and Sasha came along for the ride so we could visit Mandi and Co. Sadly, I again neglected to take many pictures. :( I did take a bunch this one night though. :)

Trinity decided to bury Shaina alive. :p

She wanted me to document it.

Shaina found it hilarious. :)

Then Trinity decided that wasn't enough.

She wanted to model.

And then she wanted my phone. :p

And proceeded to take pictures of everyone and everything.

Most of them were of the floor and halves of faces, so I pruned before posting. :p

Mandi knows what kind of kids she's raising: Goofballs. :p

Awesome goofballs. :)

My last big event was another job shadow, and I did take a few at this one. I was applying for an internship at IPTV. (PBS) I didn't get it, but I had fun that day anyway. :)

I sat in on two episodes of Iowa Press.

In the first episode they were interviewing former governor of Iowa and former US Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.

It was so interesting learning a lot of behind the scenes stuff!

They had these guys standing in the offices.

I think I remember them from PBS pledge drives when I was a kid!

And that's pretty much it. I didn't photograph much else. I am however photographing a LOT of things this summer as I am building a portfolio of my work, photography and otherwise. To do that I'm going to lots of different places and taking a ton of pictures, hoping I'll get just a few awesome ones I can show off in a portfolio. But that means I have tons of other pictures that don't quite make the cut that I can just post on my blog for fun! So stay tuned! I've got lots of stuff coming! I'll leave you with this one picture I took after I got back to Harlan this summer. :)

Digital Zoloft

This video post is going to be a bit different than my past ones, all these videos are ones that I have chosed because they just made me feel good. Whether I had a bad day and a video lifted me out of it, or it was just a video that made me smile and feel better about the world, these are all the videos I've watched recently that just made me happy.

I thought of the idea for this post the other day and I liked it so much that I decided it was worth making a logo for. I might even turn this into a series.

This first video just happened a couple days ago. I watched it, I loved it, I almost died. In a good way! This little girl is the physical incarnation of everything that is good and pure and innocent in this cold, dark, brutal world. Who knew a broken water heater could bring one so much joy?



This is a music video from the group World Order. I've liked them for years, but this video, a team-up with fellow J-Pop group SKE48, just totally brightened my who day when I watched it. It's just so infectiously upbeat!



This next video is just a clip of an adorable dog getting a new toy, but it's just so cute that I can't help but melt. It also doesn't hurt that the new toy is one one of my favorite characters from childhood. :p



Lindsey Stirling always brings a smile to my face, but this month it seems like she's been working overtime! She has put out two videos in a row that are just pure happiness.

The first one is a medley of songs from Beauty and the Beast, but the simple way that she chose to put it together, just filming herself and her crew as they set up while they were on tour, and then just completely goofed around, just set it apart. I especially love her costume choice for the end. Who else would choose a giant puffy teapot costume over Belle's iconic yellow ballgown? It was just too brilliant. :p



The second video made me smile just because of how brilliantly silly it is. For years Lindsey has played this weird character named Phelba on her second channel. Phelba is supposed to be the lead Stirlingite, Lindsey's biggest fan who is completely obsessed with her. She's always just been something she did for fun, like in vlogs and goofy videos, nothing serious, but in this video, her oddball alter ego makes her music video debut, and I loved every second of it.

I also loved that Lindsey chose to include four of her best friends in the video including a few other people from YouTube that I enjoy watching. I'm not that familiar with Blogilates, but I do watch Lilly Singh from time to time, and I my cousins and I usually end up binge watching iJustine and Rosanna Pansino videos every time we get together. It was just a lot of fun to see them all make cameo appearances. :)



This next video I'm sure you've seen, I shared on Facebook the day after it hit the internet, and it absolutely blew up. I know it sounds like I'm a hipster, but I am proud to say I say it when it only had a few thousand views and I said that it was going to go viral. I was so completely right. The video currently has over 23 million views, and these interrupting kids, their deadpan dad, and their frantic mother are pretty much internet sensations at this point.



Lastly we have a couple of videos from Cookie Monster and friends. They've been making a few appearances around the internet lately, and these videos were just so hilarious. Especially Cookie Monster. I loved how upset he got when people kept asking the dreaded "Veggie Monster" question.





I really enjoyed putting this post together, it even inspired a spin off post that I will publish tomorrow, so be on the lookout for that. Digital Zoloft will not replace my Internet Awesome posts, but I think I will bring it back occasionally, especially if I suddenly collect a whole bunch of videos that made me really happy like I did this month. :)

600! 2017! 1st!

This is my first post of the year! And it's also my 600th post! I don't really have much more to say than that, I just like marking my milestone posts.

If you've read my blog long enough, you may remember that I've marked other posting milestones on blog with videos of Cookie Monster. No reason for this, other than the fact that one of the things I first shared on my blog was a Cookie Monster video. Well, I don't have a REAL Cookie Monster video, but the other day Studio C released a sketch with a very fake Cookie Monster puppet, but despite its fake-ness, it was still hilarious, so, I guess to commemorate this posting milestone, here is Studio C's very fake, but very hilarious, Cookie Monster sketch.

Cookie Monstrous

So Cookie Monster did a thing. They seriously need to make a Sesame Street for grown-ups. Or at least one for families. Like the Muppet Show, but with the Sesame Street Muppets.



The outtakes are even better than the main video.

C Monster

I feel random today. I just watched a hilarious video someone shared on Facebook. It's a parody of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe."



Long time readers of my blog know of my love for the furry, blue, cookie-obsessed, resident of Sesame Street. He was always my favorite character when I was little and I still love him. Back when I first started my blog, one of the videos I shared in my very first post was a Cookie Monster video. Here it is again. Still hilarious. :D



After I watched Carly Rae Jepsen spoof, I started off on a YouTube nostalgia trip, looking up old Cookie Monster clips and I thought I'd share some of them here.

First up is this one that is pretty much Cookie Monster's Theme song.



I remember this next one from when I was a kid. I also remember the media storm surrounding this video and others like it where Cookie Monster encouraged healthy eating. People started claiming that Sesame Street was changing Cookie monster's character to brainwash kids into eating vegetables. It was pretty pathetic. The media's reaction, that is. The video is hilarious.



This one I'd never seen, but it was apparently made to dispel the myth surrounding the last one. I loved Cookie Monster's line, "You members of media blow story WAAAAY out of proportion!!!"



This one I'd seen a long time ago, it was made for YouTube, on the channel RocketBoom. It also covered the whole "Healthy Monster" myth. He cracked me up with his list of things he eats. "Me eat meat, and fish, and veg-et-ables... bicycle, fire hydrant... Me monster. Me not picky."



This one I had to do some specific searching for, because I couldn't find it on any official PBS or Sesame Street channel, but a private user had uploaded it and I found it. When I was little I had a Sesame Street cassette tape, and this was one of my favorite songs on it. I probably still have that tape somewhere... I should look for it... :p



And finally, I found this clip. I'd forgotten about, but I had seen this when I was little. I was expecting him to figure out by the end that what he wanted was a pie, but once Guy Smiley walked in I remembered the ending. I rather doubt they'd have ended it this way for a current Sesame Street sketch. :p This is classic Muppet humor. :D

301!

My last post was post 300. I have made 300 posts on this blog! Actually it’s probably been a few more than that because there have been a few that I’ve ended up publishing, then deleting later, but the post count right now is at 300!
I was in the middle of posting all my Christmas pictures and didn’t want to interrupt the series just to do a commemorative post, so I am doing one now.
Actually I just found this hilarious video and wanted to share it. Since one of the first things I EVER posted on my blog was a cookie monster video, I though this would make a good video to celebrate a posting Milestone. A video from the good old days of Sesame Street, before Elmo took over, when Kermit was still one of the main characters, and the humor was still VERY “Muppety”. :)



Have I ever mentioned how much I love the Muppets? :p
Anyway, that’s all I wanted to say. This blog was brought to you today by the letter “C” and the number “301”. :)

100?!?

This post, the post that you are reading right now, is my 100th post! I can’t believe it! When I started this blog, I really had no idea what I was going to do with it, all I knew was that I wanted a place to write about what I was doing, and hopefully I would have things happening that I could write about. I never really thought about hitting a huge milestone like this. Well, it’s been about eight months now, and I definitely have a lot more to write about. Since that first post I have started art school, where every week new things happen and I am given artistic opportunities that I never would have had otherwise. And writing this blog has definitely been a great experience. People tell me I am a great writer, and through this I get the chance to practice and become better at it. Who knows, maybe writing will be a part of my career in the future. In closing I’ll leave you with this video I posted in my very first blog entry, back when I couldn’t figure out how to embed videos and I had to just post a link. It still cracks me up.

Cookie Monster Interview

Here’s to the next 100 posts! COWABUNGA!

And So It Begins...

I've been planning to start a blog for a long time now, but I've never had anything that I thought was worth writing about. Well, today I decided that I wanted to start one even if I had nothing to start with. I decided to just be myself and be random! I love random odd humor, so I thought, if nothing else I can just post something funny I saw on the internet that day, or some sort of quote that cracked me up. That's not to say that all my posts will be meaningless. I plan to write about the goings on in my life too, if any goings on should happen to go on.
Today, not very many goings went on, so I don't have much to write about. I did have a song stuck in my head all day though. If anyone wants it in their head too they can find it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0lk-GEhYdY&feature=related
Or the English Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzG96HRN3_E&feature=related
I'm thinking that the second half of the english version came about because Noah Cyrus and Frankie Jonas are trying to sound like their older siblings. That's just my theory though. I like the original Japanese version best. If anyone is curious about the movie the song is from they can find the trailer here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvOhbq0CHI&feature=related
Well, that's about all I've got for tonight. Keep checking back for more posts, I'll try to update pretty frequently, even if it's just to share a video, or something. I'll also work on the design of the blog in the future. Something more "Me" than any of the generic backgrounds offered. Before I go I'll link to a random hilarious video that cracked me up today. Enjoy. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuBqIrgKnNg&feature=player_embedded#!
Feel free to leave comments If anyone has any ideas for anything they'd like me to post, or want to respond to anything I did post.

"Me save you crumb." :D