How old is too old?

So yesterday was Halloween. Yes, I know that just about everybody under the sun has blogged about Halloween already, but now it's my turn.

So every year when Halloween rolls around, It's time to pick out your costume for trick-or-treating. But nope, not for me! I'm "too old" for this...says my mother. Whether I think I'm too old or not, I don't know. I mean, all my friends do it. Why shouldn't I be able to? I did some hard core thinking and I realized that the last time I went trick-or-treating with friends was in sixth grade. SIXTH GRADE! I will admit that I have gone trick-or-treating with little kids I babysat for, but that's different.

So back to the friends trick-or-treating thing, they all got decked out in their costumes and got ready to go, but I just got to show up, costume-less, and give hugs and say have fun (and eat chili). But that's it. No candy for me, well, besides leftovers from my house. Again, I did some hard core thinking and I had an epiphany. Yep...I'm too old. I feel silly walking to houses asking for candy, just as I did when I was FOUR years old. That was 12 years ago, and for me to do the same thing 12 years later? Yeah...I am definitely too old.

When passing out candy, I really do feel bad giving it to the "big kids" when I could be giving more to the little kids that are having the time of their life walking from door to door getting the sugary sweets that will keep them up all night. It's just not right. Now I'm not at all directing this at any of my friends that I had the opportunity to go trick-or-treating with, quite frankly, I'm a little jealous that you probably had a lot of fun without me, but I am merely stating what I believe.

Although I miss getting to be whatever I wanted on Halloween, I will still always enjoy seeing those smiles on kids faces when you hand them their favorite piece of candy that they will most likely get to see twice that evening (once going in, once coming out). But they will never forget that time they were a clown, or a pumpkin, or Harry Potter. No matter how old you get, you can still have fun on Halloween...just maybe not in a way that little children do.

Will you have a happy Halloween?

Cell phone? Who needs 'em?

The answer to that question would be ME!! And just about every teenager in the United States of America. Cell phones have become the way of communication that has swept this nation. Whether it be texting or calling, it truly has spread across the USA. I have even seen kids in elementary school, walking around with their little hands just texting away.


My point is, unless you live in a bubble and have no access to the outside world, you either have, or have seen someone send a text message. If you have never sent a text message yourself, you are probably not allowed to, as said by your parents. Texting really is the way of communication among teens. We (teens) simply don't want to take the time to answer the phone and talk for a minute about what we could text in 2. I understand that doesn't make sense that we would take the longer route, but it really is just easier. If you are in a quiet location, you send a text. If you are in class (I would never...), you send a text. It essentially saves time just because you can do it anywhere.

Well...just about anywhere. Texting and driving = bad combination. I have heard of many horror stories where someone is texting while driving and they end up dead in a ditch. The only time I EVER text and drive is when sitting at a stop sign with no one around. That way I can sit there as long as needed to finish the text. When in the car with passengers, I usually just pass the phone to them and let them text for me.

So when my friend got her phone taken away, I started thinking about what it would be like without my phone for a day. I weighed the pros and cons and I determined my day would fall apart pretty easily. I use my phone to call someone in my family when I need something, to text friends for homework assignments, to text friends just for fun, to check Twitter and Facebook, to look at my schedule, basically to do everything. The only thing that I could think of that would be beneficial to not having my phone would be the relief of not checking it constantly when it's on silent, but that's about it.


My cell phone is my life. Cell phones are this nations life. They are a source for communication. Nowadays, they are even computers. You use them to text and talk.

Will you need your cell phone?

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Okojablome...

College. It's the place every highschooler wants to be. It's the place every adult wishes they still were. And it's the place little kids dream of. I mentioned in a previous blog about how I went and visited a friend up at her college, well this is part two.

When visiting my friend Rihanna, I met some pretty interesting characters. The one that is "good at treating the psychotic" (from previous post), is from Okoboji, hence, "Okojablome." She is perhaps one of the coolest people in the world. She has no inhibitions and is completely comfortable talking to ANYONE about ANYTHING. She is one extremely fun person I would love to go to college with.

Another person I met while visiting is her was her friend, "G" (Rihanna told me to name you that, she'll explain it to you). In her opinion, Mike and I are close to identical (in behavior, not looks). I personally didn't think it, but i will admit that he was a pretty cool guy, and definitely a person I would want to go to college with.

Her friend BRRRRRRR is next on my list. She is one of the most fun girls I've ever hung out with. We recently also got to take a trip to Wendy's and catch up a little (which made Okojablome pretty jealous). Once again, I would love to go to college with her.

One final friend is Megasauraus. She took to me as soon as I met her. I would have to say that she was probably the most outgoing at first meeting. I miss her a lot and I know we will get together again. And again, she would be so much fun to go to college with.

The point of this blog is, should I let my friends determine where I go to school? I have made such good friends and should I really use them to make my decision? I say, no. Even though they are so much fun to hang out with. I need to think about what school is best for me. My friend Rihanna just about picked a different school because her best friend goes there, she is not extremely happy with her choice and would never go a different way.

Will you go to a college for the right reasons?