CC: "no"

While helping out on register...

Me: "Hello. How are you today?"

Mr. Silent: .....

Me: "Do you have a discount card?"

Mr. Silent: "571-55,"

Me: "Oh actually sir you can enter your phone number right here." Then, in an attempt to provide incredible customer service, I tap "Phone #" on the keypad that is facing him.

Mr. Silent: "No."

Me: ...

Mr. Silent: "571-555-1234"
_____________________
No problem, sir. I will reach around and type your phone number into the keypad that is facing you, and clearly there for you to use. It's toooootally fine. :)

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A Thoughtful Plan

What am I thankful for? I don’t think I’ve ever really thought about this question until this Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, every year since I can remember, I get asked this question. Of course I always gave a wonderful answer: family, friends, laughter, a home, God. But for some reason, this year, I find myself thinking about this. I mean really thinking about it. What am I thankful for? What is the one thing that, each day, truly brings me comfort?
For some reason, when I really started to think about this, I found myself mainly thinking of things that I’m not thankful for. I’m not thankful for the stress that sometimes comes with having a time-consuming job and going to school. I’m not thankful for pain. I’m not thankful for injustice. I’m not thankful for change. I’m not thankful for seeing those I love get hurt. I’m not thankful for anger. So how can I sit, on the holiday devoted to giving thanks, and think of the one thing I’m thankful for?
I think the answer is that I can’t. I cannot give an answer to why these things are wonderful, but God can. God has allowed all of the struggles and trials and difficult times come to be for a reason, because as hard as it can be to admit, He is in control of all things. I was made in His image, and in Him I live and move and grow and have my being.
God allows all things to pass, good and bad, because it is all part of His plan. My life was chosen when God planned creation, and all events and circumstances are here to fit His purpose. God actually took the time and thought about me and my life! His plan includes where I will be today, next week, and next year. He knows exactly what I am on this earth to do, and that gives me so much comfort.
So that is what I am thankful for: a thoughtful plan. I’m thankful for God’s wonderful, complete, and thoughtful plan.

life

So a little diversion from the LOLs, but here are two poems that Kelsey and I wrote for an english project of mine. Comments are wonderful!

Pessimistic: “Vase”
Life is a vase:
wonderful to look upon,
accented with such vivid creativity,
and can hold so many beautiful things--
yet so easily destroyed, so very fragile.
it's easily jarred,
and even the slightest push
can knock it to the ground
and shatter its existence.

Optimistic: “iPod”
Life is an iPod,
press shuffle and see what you get.
Is it a mellow, happy, upbeat sing along?
Every beat has its own drum,
many diverse tunes,
long or short, many hidden messages.
Boom, boom, my ears pounding with the loudness
and all you have to do is listen.

No More Braces!

5 Truths on Humor

(btw, i reeeally hoped i spelled that title right. lol)


1-
People laugh at other people’s flaws, mistakes, downfalls, failures, imperfections, and shortcomings. It is just an unpleasant fact about society. It makes them feel better about themselves and fuels the human’s natural desire to be dominating over others.

2-
One must learn to laugh at himself. Chances are that if one can read, one is a human being. With that fact established, one must now understand that he has flaws, mistakes, downfalls, failures, imperfections, and shortcomings. Now realize those are funny! If one is teased about asking a question that is insanely stupid, go with it! Laugh at it! Find the humor in the situation. One will live a healthier and happier life if one does not dwell on the negative things about oneself and, instead, finding the absurdity in them.

3-
One must think as he speaks. Now most people will say that one should think before they speak, but to me, that is illogical. If somebody gives one the perfect setup for a joke or a witty answer, you cannot wait five minutes to answer. One must have their answers ready as a situation presents itself. If one comes to an improvisational roadblock, then one must stall. It helps to use phrases such as “Well what had happened was…” and “Here’s the thing.”

4-
One must find humor in everything. One must face facts: there is something funny about every situation and circumstance in life. If one can master the skill of laughing and finding the lighter side of situations, one will be a happier person. One will not be stuck in this gloomy, depressing, solemn anti-party that is today’s society. :)

5-
One must know what is not funny. Any super sleuth would find that the previous paragraph contradicts this paragraph’s focus. But the truth is, it is the truth. Not everything is funny to all people. One’s quick wit might find humor in the Spanish textbook saying a person in a wheelchair is “muy activo,” but not everybody will. The key is to keep the things that are funny, but not funny, to oneself. One does not know the lives and trial of others around them. Out of common mutual human respect, one must be conscious of what one is saying.

Discuss/comment/reply in the comments section!!! First cashier commentary is coming!

Epic Print

It’s a common situation: I’m sitting in front of my computer with Microsoft Word open. Tomorrow, a 10-page paper is due and my screen is blank. Not a single word is typed. Luckily, those 10 pages have to be double spaced. I go up to the Paragraph settings and change it, right?
No.
I will endure writing all of my pages with single spacing. Even if it seems like it’s taking longer. Even if it’s harder to read. Even if it makes me think that I have less. I will endure.
Now why would I want to put myself through that type of torture?
Although the paper must be ten pages in length, once an entire (yea, entire) five pages have been written in single spacing, the trigger can be set.
For, by only going to the Paragraph settings window, one can set the spacing to “Double,” click “OK and. . .
Rumble. . .
Rumble rumble. . .
CRASHHHHHH!!
By the mere click of a button, my paper has magically and magnificently DOUBLED IN LENGTH. That’s right. All of the time I spent writing the five pages seemed like a century in comparison to the five seconds it took me to make five more pages.
And I can relax and unwind with the subtle clanging of my printer, printing out two times the amount of pages I had only moments before.
That is what makes my printing epic.

The First

So this is the first. I'm not really sure why I'm doing this, cause chances our i won't have time to commit to this like I should. Not to mention I'm not really sure I will have many, if any, readers.

I lied twice in the opening of my first post.

I actually do know why I am making this: because it looks fun! My friend AnnaKelly stated a blog a few weeks ago, and I am kinda copying her. lol.

The second lie is that I won't have time to commit to this. I actually do have time, I just tend to be very lazy sometimes. I'm not quite sure when it started, but I developed this habit of not being as committed to things as I used to.

So I'm starting a challenge.
I'm going to post at least once every week for the rest of 2009.

Now what will these blogs be? Well, as the title suggests, I really think that laughter can be found it all circumstances. Laughter is a type of healing that needs to be taken advantage of. So that's what I will try to bring to each entry: some type of amusing commentary on a world event, a funny observation, or just interesting occurrences in my life as an American high school student with a part-time job at a wonderful grocery store.

So I really hope that the tens of hundreds of people who will read this enjoy themselves. I'm not going to promise much, except that I'm just out searching for the LOLs.