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Odditities and Eccentricities

Thrift Store-ies #7

I know, I know, its been a while. I have been quite busy and to tell you the truth, I still am. But, I figured I could do one of these here in this late hour.

This is a good one. Behold!



Reed Rocket Nutcracker©! The hell? Do you really like nuts this much that you need the rocket edition? Yes, feel free to make a naughty joke. They run very freely with a product like this one. Take a look at this:



"Unique design cracks soft shell nuts faster, better and easier than before." I guess it works ok on most nuts, but not others. Believe it or not, someone tested this thing. Click here if you want to read it. It is just such a funny thing to read out of the corner of your eye. Plus, with the title mixed with how it looks...



I'd cringe if I was a guy at first glance. Wouldnt you?

Thrift Store-ies #6

Most of you probably wont know who this is, or just recognize him from some random meme, but this guy is Bob Ross:



And this is his Bob Ross© Master Paint Set:



With this set, you can get some awesome Bob Ross© professional equipment, such as:


I'm surprised it doesn't come with a Bob Ross© afro wig, crappy Bob Ross© 70's shirt, and a autographed life-sized Bob Ross© happy tree. BUT! You do get this:


$7.99 for all that AND a VHS on Bob Ross© Wet on Wet technique?! I'm sold!

By the way, google search his name and its almost the same pose every time!

Thrift Store-ies #5

This find I almost missed. It was at the front of the store in a small aisle. It must have been fate that lead me to it...

Or maybe...

It was...

His Eyes...


I must go. My people need me.

Thrift Store-ies #4

Goodwill is a pretty good place to go to find weird things, but sometimes you luck out and find something really awesome for a price that you think is cheap (probably because they dont know how to price jack at Goodwill). For instance, Michael found the tower to a Dark Tower board game. We bought it for $2.99 and we can sell it anywhere from $20 on a really bad day to $80 or more on a good day.




So, just say you see a PS2 for $6.99. Pretty good deal, right? Considering that I had to buy one at my local "first born son for a game" shop for $40 (actually the cheapest thing I bought from them oddly enough). You go up to it and see this:



Haha! Thats hilarious to me! What in the hell goes through the Goodwill workers minds when shit like this gets given to them? "Well, someone has to be desperate...$6.99!" Its not even useful for parts. If your PS2 is broken, just find a cheap one on ebay. Well, I guess its conveinent if you have a 1/3 of a disc.



It was there for like 2 weeks before someone bought it or a worker thought like a normal person for once and took it off the sales floor. It just boggles my mind how something so useless could be priced like that. I mean, I wouldnt make too much fun of it if they werent selling it for 7 bucks.



On a side note, I saw this white flower arrangement a few weeks ago and automatically thought about Lady Gaga. Wonder why..?

Pizz-etiquette

If you happen to have a Godfather's Pizza anywhere near you and you haven't eaten there, I feel so damn sorry for you. Their pizza is delicious and their lunch prices are amazing. Today, Michael and I felt like some awesomeness and went in for lunch.



It wasnt busy at all. An hour before usual lunch rush. There was a larger family with 5 children running freely, almost knocking people down and as usual, the parents dont give a crap. There was only one other family there. This one...



Little did we know that they were selfish pizza vultures. As soon as we paid, I got some potatoes to nibble on until they made my white sauce chicken pizza, but Michael went for some pepperoni pizza. Then this dude:



went up to the pizza, which was fresh out of the oven, no more than a minute ago, put his plate next to the pizza and took a whole half of the fresh goodness. Pretty rude, right? It gets douche-ier. He folds that piece up to make room for the other half! Thats right. He took the whole damn pizza. He wasnt getting it for his family to eat, we saw him eat the whole thing himself. DAMN! He wasnt the only rude one of the family, oh no. The second the kitchen doors opened with a new pizza, they entire god damn family would get up and hoard around it and take most of the food laid out.

Anyway, I walked up to the counter and asked politely if they could make another pepperoni, also mentioning the people who took the first one. The girl at the counter said that she saw that and another was already cooking. After a few minutes, we heard "Pepperoni!" from the kitchen. I grabbed my plate, knowing I can run faster than Michael and grabbed three slices just as the pizza hog went for the handle. HE WANTED MORE! Michael pointed out that if that is how he eats normally, paying the $6.99 for the buffet lunch is cheap compared to what they must spend on just house groceries. Luckily, only the one girl in the group liked chicken pizza and she wasnt a hog like the guys.



Oh, and the (what I am assuming is) the dad drank so much soda. In the 30 minutes we were there, he got up maybe 8 or 9 times to ask for a refill. This family just consumes and consumes. I feel so bad for the person who has to pay for all the food.

So, if you are reading this: please dont be a pizza douche. Leave some for the other people in the entire damned restaurant. Thank you.

P.S. I use the word douche a lot. I will try to use different words to describe the nimrods and assholes this world has thrown at me.

Thrift Store-ies #3

Ever since Guitar Hero first came out, companies have been trying to produce knock offs for cheap. To my knowledge, none have worked out. We have heard of these lame versions and even seen videos, such as this one:



I dont know for sure if that video was a full on prank or whether the family just wanted to get a cheap knock off of Guitar Hero. Well, a few days ago, we went to Goodwill, as we do, and found this:



Poor kid who got that a few years ago. "Sweet! Guitar He----What the hell?". I even find the art on the box ridiculously cheap.



If you cant read that, you get a massive 10 songs with it! Want to see the setlist for this wonderful plug and play game? (Mind you, they all say "as made popular by")
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Hotel California - The Eagles
Paradise City - Guns N Roses
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Master of Puppets - Metallica

Ok...I can see that being fun for the right price. So how much is it? Lets check online.





WHAT?! $50-$115...today? The lowest I found was about $20 but that site was all sold out. Ok, so there has to be something wonderful about it. I read the comments and almost all of them said something along the lines of "This is great for my 6 year old and its not as expensive as Guitar Hero." I don't know how much they bought there's for or how much it was when they bought it, but a six year old? What six year old likes those songs? I also read that the songs are even in MIDI format. I mean, COME ON! Guitar Hero 2 is going for $5 online...and even Guitar Hero 3 is going for less than $20. The guitars are pretty much free as well. We see stacks of Guitar Hero guitars for $2.99-$4.99 at Goodwill depending on which one we go to.

To finish this up, I personally would never spend that much for so little even for a child. I'm always open to hear what you think. Leave a comment if you have an opinion. ROCK ON!

THIS JUST IN! I looked for videos to show how awful it is and here are some I found.



I cant believe it, but here is a video of a member of one of my favorite bands, The Spinto Band playing it.

Driving Nightmare

So, living in the small town of Camas means that we have to go to Vancouver to pretty much do anything. The main street of Vancouver is Mill Plain Boulevard, which is where you go for every need possible. To get to Mill Plain, we usually get off at the 164th Street exit, which includes a YIELD area with its own lane for ease of merging. Note the all capped YIELD. I almost wish it wasn't the easiest way to get to Mill Plain because drivers in the Vancouver area are (pardon the language) douche-bags. As Michael pointed out, they are selfish. They think they are the only person on the road. These drivers love to completely stop at the YIELD area. Not just stop for a second, oh no, but for minutes even. Picture below is of said YIELD area.



I am actually surprised Google didn't catch anyone in the act, it happens that often. The reason I decided on this rant today is because I was stuck behind the most douche-baggy (is that a word) one of them all. This lady.





Mind you, you cant see it, but she is eating a sandwich while driving. FUN! Anyway, she stopped at the YIELD section and I thought "oh, great" but thought she would move. Then 15 or 20 seconds go by and there are 4 cars behind me. In the next posted picture, you will notice that it is an OFF RAMP from the HIGHWAY. Therefore, knowing the people who drive around here, I have a 50% chance of getting in a rear-end samba because of someone flying off of the highway.



You can ask anyone who has driven extensively with me that I do not like using the car horn...at all. After another 5-10 seconds after noticing the stacking cars behind me, I honked my horn. Her brake lights go off....and she goes about a foot before braking again. In the set of pictures below, I will show that its not like its a small merge lane. That lane goes for like 2 city blocks. Hell, its not even a busy intersection. There were several times she could go comfortably from the stop she was in.





I mean, Jesus! She finally goes after another 10 seconds or so to everyone's delight. She ended up driving in front of us (after a few botched merges into the far left lane) for a while. I really hope I don't run into her again (both literally and figuratively). So, if the 1 in a google chance she is reading this: You're a douche-bag, learn to drive. Thank you.

Thrift Store-ies #2

Ok, so Michael convinced me to put just one more on here because the last one was kinda...depressing. This one is just bizzare. I will just get straight to the picture.




I have a few questions.

1. Who would give a taped up box of tampons to Goodwill?
2. Who is the Goodwill worker that thought they should be sold?
3. Who the hell bought them, because they weren't there when we went back the next day.

WTF. That is all that is going on in my mind. Its strange, yet funny. I cannot pick an emotion I feel to this one. I did start laughing the second I saw it. Now the question is, what do YOU think about it?

Thrift Store-ies

Michael and I have a tradition that after we go our for sushi, we stop at the Goodwill (or our local completely over priced, what they call "anitque" store) to see what we can find. I have quite a few pictures in my phone of the odd things I find there or odd people I see there, so I decided to put them on here for you to enjoy. I dub it "Thrift Store-ies".

This Store-ie occurred today in fact. We were just looking at power cords when a couple went by us, talking very loudly. Here is a pic I managed to snap of the lady in question: (Child's picture pixelized for its protection)






What I heard from this lady next surprised me. She pretty much yelled "If this baby I have in me is a boy, I'm getting rid of it.". The husband/boyfriend proceeded to ask "Wait. Why?!". She responded with "Cause I dont want no damn boy. I aint raising a boy". He said angrily "What the hell? I want a boy!". Her response is the kicker, one for the subject matter, and two for the fact she was saying it loud enough for the next few aisles to hear: "I dont give a fuck. If its a boy...its gone.".

This is the first time I ever was split on a subject. The first thing I thought was "Wow. Thats a ridiculous reason for an abortion!" I was almost full on anti-abortion for a second there. Then I thought "Wow, I'm glad that kid wont be raised by such a person.". Mind you, I'm not pro or anti abortion. I respect all opinions and reasons....except hers.

This first one was a little serious, but future ones will be much funnier. I just sometimes get amazed at the things people say around so many people. I hope you stick with me through these as I learn how to write the things in my head properly. I promise this will get better.

Cheers!

Don Bluth: Mastermind

I will start this off with a back story. When I was about 6 years old, I started having reoccurring nightmares involving my local swimming pool, killer whales, and dark blood filled water. I had them for years and they occasionally come back. To this day, my top fears are killer whales and deep, dark water. Fast forward to a few months ago. Michael (my boyfriend) and I were watching a lot of Don Bluth, whom we both loved as an animator. I grew up with Don Bluth classics such as Rock a Doodle, We're Back: A Dinosaurs Story, American Tail, and Land before Time (the first and only good one). He asked if he remembered correctly if Don Bluth had made a film called "The Pebble and the Penguin". I answered with "I believe so. I actually remember that movie now....vaguely.". So we went and found a trailer for it. Here is what we found:




Pause on 1:39. Yep. My heart sank. Memories started flooding back. I sat there, mouth agape, eyes watering up. Michael asked what was wrong with me. I said "Remember those nightmares I use to have as a kid?" He looked at the monitor and realized it. We found the movie and searched for that part to make sure that it WAS this movie that caused so much distress in my life. I watched the whole thing...that was it. I thought to myself, "How is it my most beloved animator caused me such mental duress?".


I haven't watched the movie in full yet. I think I may get to it eventually. The only other time than watching to see if it was the nightmare inducing movie I saw all those years ago is to edit that part out and upload to my account so you can see what I was talking about. Without further ado: the main cause for my fears in life.





Does that water look blood filled to you? Haha. I know it doesnt seem like much to you, but imagine your six year old self watching that. Im not scared of it at all anymore, it just surprised me to see what caused nightmares for years when I was young. I still love Don Bluth, just not this one film. Haha. So, go and enjoy some of his other films, as long as it doesnt plant a seed of fear in your head.

Cheers!

This is the first

This is the first entry into this blog. I have another one that I haven't written in for quite a while. I started it way back in high school and after reading, thought it was too...I dont know....stupid for others to read. In doing so, I decided to start a different blog that I hope will turn out more awesome than the last. I dont have a lot going on personally, so this will be mostly a blog about just things I just want to talk about. Usually odd and random things, so stick with me. Things should start to get good once I get a handle on the way this blog should go. So, here's to something odd happening in the next couple days!

Whitney