My Future Life.

The things I would do if  WILL do when I..
1) No longer live with my parents
2) Own Rent my own place
3) Have an income
4) Have children
5) Graduate from grad school.

I will dress my kid up in hilarious Halloween costumes!

When my kid can't walk yet...

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When my kid is still too young to know I'm dressing *it* for my own entertainment...


I will live here:
Large porch + lots of windows

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Put this stuff inside it...
Walk up/slide down

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H U G E  sofa

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Sticks + Frame

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Chair:

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Wall Decor

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Elmer glue + canvas (I'd probably add a pinch of sparkle to it!)

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Book Shelf

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Cant forget to have a f a t cat "running" around!

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You can view all of my someone else's super creative ideas that I stole on my pinterest page here: http://pinterest.com/malkent/

Ahhh someday... but for now, I've got 2 tests and a project due today. I better quit daydreaming! xoxo

September 11th, 2001

I was a sophomore in high school. 2nd hour. I was sitting in the front row of my biology class (assigned seating... obviously. Why teachers place the talkative, attention-seeking, know-it-alls in the front of the classroom is beyond me... but that discussion is for a different day...) praying for an escape from the interminable monotonous lecture.

What I would've given for a cell phone during that class. However, one student did and all of a sudden this quiet, smart kid in the back raised his hand. "Umm I just got a text from my friend in Mrs. Kinely's room that said a plane hit a building in New York and it's on fire so they're watching the news down there... can we watch the news?" The teacher kindly responded, "Absolutely not. If we have time at the end of class I'll turn it on but we've got a lot of stuff to cover."

Shortly after, a loud-mouth (also in the front row) interrupted the teacher to tell her that all the other teachers turned on the news, too. With a little more convincing, our teacher to turn on the news.

I vividly remember the words "Terrorist" and "Twin Towers" highlighted at the bottom of the screen. Me being the super-genius kid that I was, had no idea what either of those words meant. Apparently neither did my teacher because she said "oh gosh, it's nothing. You guys can watch it in your next class if your teacher allows it but I'm going to continue on with my lecture." She turned the TV off.

Although I had no idea what was going on the high-level of drama, gossip, and distraction from classroom activities was right down my ally. As passing period arrived, I remember a friend trying to explain to me what a terrorist is--I didn't get it.

3rd hour. World Cultures. News on. Glued to the news as we watched and re-watched the plane, and the second plane, purposely, viciously, and maliciously hit the twin towers. The tower fell. You could see people jumping out of windows. Chaos.

September 11th, 2001 

10 years ago

You can watch this video on youtube at 9-11-01

Here's to all the men and women that lost their lives. And to the men, women, and children that are still recovering from the trauma they suffered that day, and many years following. My deepest empathy. My most sincere prayers.

frumforum.com

911review.com

eworldpost.com

Stupid. Stupider.

The other day I saw the back of a company shirt that read:

Providing quality service since 10 years.

A company shirt. How embarrassing! Thanks to someone in an upper-level management position who didn't catch the error or didn't know the difference... oops???

After witnessing that poorly advertised company shirt I was motivated to dedicate an entire blog post to businesses that use poor grammar. And I will forever judge them.

"If YOUR single so am I" 

WetSeal

If you don't know what's wrong with this shirt... look it up. And feel embarrassed...

"Lets Go!"

Old Navy

Note: These t-shirts were designed for college teams. BAH! Kind of ironic.

"YOURSOCUTE" boots

Nine West

"Have your girlfriends tell you 'Yoursocute' when you show up to your lunch date in these remarkable suede wedge heel boots." 

This is annoying for so many reasons. 

I hate that they forced 3 words together.

I hate how they advertise for them.

I hate that they put YOUR instead of YOU'RE

Even if it was You're so cute... it's still stupid.

"WELCOME FREE WIFE CONTIL BREAKFAST INDOOR POOL & HOT TUB..."

No... it's not the lack of commas that is noteworthy here. Free WIFE! HAHAHA!

Now seriously... this is so sad. It should be sent to Jay Leno... 

Although this last example doesn't have a grammatical error... it's still disappointing... just in general

"I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me." 

JC Penny

Yeah... because girls are there to look pretty and boys are there to be smart. This shirt makes me sick. 

This shirt clearly was designed to make it to the JC Penny floor in the early 80's but somehow got placed  in 2011... sick. Just blah.  

Here's why grammar matters:

Please note: although I find poor grammar amusing, please don't judge my poor grammar. We can judge:

Old Navy

WetSeal

Nine West

Days Inn

JC Penny

But don't judge me! That's fair! Thanks!

*Some examples found on http://thegrammarvandal.wordpress.com