Music

I never really understood what made music so freaking sweet, but it is. What I don't really understand, though, is why there are so many varieties of bad music. Why? Also, why must so many people enjoy these bad varieties of music? Country and Rap are both really really bad and yet people enjoy them. Then there are those people who enjoy both country and rap. This absolutely baffles me. Country and Rap have to be on the complete opposite of the spectrum from each other. Country talking about being a hick and living on a farm with a tractor, and then the whole beer thing. Rap talking about being a gangsta with a gun living in the hood with drugs, and weapons and death.. Yeah, I don't know about you but I don't see any connection between the two. Yet, there are plenty of people who enjoy both country and rap... Bipolar? Maybe just a little. If you know the answer to how people can enjoy those two extremes, let me know.

Rock, well... Somewhere somebody got music right. Of course not all rock is good. I will whole-heartedly say that Hinder and Breaking Benjamin and many many other "rock" bands are not good at all. In fact, they suck just as much as country and rap. Sad, but true. Apart from certain rock bands, many are really really good: The Strokes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, The White Stripes, and many more.

Point of this post? I was listening to music, and this is what came to me..

School/Loudonville

Reasons why I hate school:

1. Getting up in the morning.
2. Having to dress in something other than sweat pants and a t-shirt..
3. Brushing my hair?
4. Makeup..
5. Getting in my car, and it being absolutely freezing in the morning.
6. De-fogging my car/de-frosting my car in the morning.
7. Most of the students and teachers at school suck.
8. The Lunch is not good.
9. Busywork.
10. Homework.
11. Walking from building to building in the rain/snow/wind/heat (any extreme weather)
12. It's 7 hours long.
13. The teachers know everything about your personal life, including many things not any of their business.
14. Then they spread it to other teachers because Loudonville teachers can't keep their faces shut.

Why I hate Loudonville:

1. At Loudonville everybody is republican and narrow-minded.
2. There is no cultural diversity, whatsoever.
3. When I hear "Git-r-done" I want to punch a republican's baby in the face.
4. Everybody is old in Loudonville somehow even if they're not over the age of 50.
5. For such a small town, there are like 15 cops. WHAT THE HECK?
6. There aren't any good food places.. You get tired of pizza. You know?
7. There is nothing to do.
8. The coolest thing to happen to Loudonville is the Free Street Fair, and it isn't even that good..
9. Alumni come back to watch the football team get their asses kicked, and then look back on the days when it didn't suck so bad.
10. Tourists.
11. When you're in a hurry to get somewhere, you always get stuck behind a tractor, it's pretty much guaranteed.
12. The kids will all grow up to be republicans just like their parents.
13. The majority of going-ons in Loudonville are based on status.
14. Everybody is related, and that's just creepy.

I'll write reasons why I like Loudonville and School eventually. Needless to say, I don't want to live in Loudonville, and as soon as I turn 18... I don't think I'm coming back. I'm thinking Australia looks pretty nice. =D

What makes me smile.

There are many things that make me smile. Things like people tripping over holes in the ground, or over their own shoelace. There are also those times when people just say really stupid things, that makes me smile too. Mostly, though, I'm pretty sure it's just my boyfriend. Partly because he does the aforementioned silly things and he does plenty of other really cute things that makes me smile. Like sending me
<-- this picture while I'm at soccer or whatever else I seem to do with my life. He rubs my back when it hurts, and if I'm thirsty he'll go get my a bottle of water to drink even though I'll only end up drinking like 3 sips and then end up forgetting about the bottle. He takes me out to eat every single day for the most part and if we aren't going out to eat it is because we are either taking a nap or watching Fuse/The Science Channel. What makes me feel good down deep is we're so competitive with each other, but in the end... He always lets me win. Of course then he'll make a sad face and then say, "Why can't I ever win?" In which I can reply, "Because I'm the female in this relationship, and that's just how it works". In which he'll reply, "Oh, of course..My bad" Every now and then he'll win and I'll get mad, but it's always cute and it's never a fight. This whole not fighting thing with my boyfriend. Wow, well that is definetely something new. In all of my past "long-term" relationships my boyfriend and I would always fight like crazy. It'd be over something stupid, too. Like I'd think porn is bad and wrong, and it shouldn't exist. Then he'd think, well it doesn't hurt me directly (apparently) and I should just suck it up and get over it. But I WOULD NOT agree. I'd have to say Porn is a serious moral issue and people should fix it. Then we'd sit or stand or walk or whatever it was and fight about it for who knows how long. It was ridiculous, and now I realize (I had not then) that I don't have to put up with crap like that. There are guys out there who agree with many feminine issues, and they aren't gay! I do not have to feel bad about any of the morals I have, because I have found someone who respects that I have those morals, rather than tries to make me follow his own. This makes me so happy, I can't even explain. There are so many other things as well to this relationship that I had not had in my past. My boyfriend and I have so many interests in common. We like the same type of music, and if he doesn't like it.. He doesn't tell me it sucks. He goes ahead and listens to it with me, and sucks it up. I'll do the same for him. I can't recall that ever happening in the past. In fact, all I can recall is how my favorite band was The Killers, and my boyfriend (and I quote) saying as one of their songs was playing "What is this crap, this sucks" Yeah, well it happens, but not anymore. Not only do I not have to deal with a boyfriend who offends me by making fun of my favorite bands, I have a boyfriend who won't sit around for hours while I'm at his house playing video games. Instead, he'll sit around for hours while cuddling with me watching The Science Channel and Fuse. If I've had a bad day, sitting around always cures it for some reason or other. It doesn't help that I have the hottest boyfriend ever, of course. Cuddling with a really cute guy, well.. that just CAN'T be beat. =) Of course liking the same music, and liking the same tv shows isn't just it. We both run, and rather than having to motivate myself to run. He'll motivate me. This is something so new. Never in my life have I had an outside influence motivate me to work hard at running. Next track season will be so hardcore. I'm less than a second off the record, and now I have someone there to help me kick ass. Feels pretty good. All I have left to say is, I'm smiling just thinking about these things, and Oh am I happy. Of course there are many other things that make me smile, music, soccer, etc. None of these things can even come close to my boyfriend. Love you!