Best Friends

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Jan 302016
 

Best Friends

10th grade
As I sat there in English class, I stared at the girl next to me. She was my so called “best friend”. I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. But she didn’t notice me like that, and I knew it. After class, she walked up to me and asked me for the notes she had missed the day before and handed them to her. She said “thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I wanted to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

11th grade
The phone rang. On the other end, it was her. She was in tears, mumbling on and on about how her love had broke her heart. She asked me to come over because she didn’t want to be alone, so I did. As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her soft eyes, wishing she was mine. After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie, and three bags of chips, she decided to go to sleep. She looked at me, said “thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

Senior year
The day before prom she walked to my locker. My date is sick” she said; he’s not going to go well, I didn’t have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as “best friends”. So we did. Prom night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. I want her to be mine, but she isn’t think of me like that, and I know it. Then she said “I had the best time, thanks!” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

Graduation Day
A day passed, then a week, then a month. Before I could blink, it was graduation day. I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn’t notice me like that, and I knew it. Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. Then she lifted her head from my shoulder and said, “you’re my best friend, thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

A Few Years Later
Now I sit in the pews of the church. That girl is getting married now. I watched her say “I do” and drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn’t see me like that, and I knew it. But before she drove away, she came to me and said “you came!”. She said “thanks” and kissed me on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

Funeral
Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my “best friend”. At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read: I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn’t notice me like that, and I know it. I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love him but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why. I wish he would tell me he loved me! `I wish I did too…` I thought to my self, and I cried.

 

Why Yankee Doodle Called It “Macaroni”

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Jan 292016
 

Why Yankee Doodle Called It Macaroni

An explanation of why Yankee Doodle called the feather in his hat “Macaroni”. Both the line and the song have more historical context than many people may realize.

Most of us sing “Yankee Doodle” with a focus on the tune rather than the apparently gibberish words:

Yankee Doodle went to town

A-riding on a pony,

Stuck a feather in his cap

And called it macaroni.

To a kid, the macaroni at the end makes it sound like Yankee Doodle was an ignoramus who didn’t know what mac and cheese was. But a kid doesn’t know a couple of key things about the song, including that:

  1. The whole thing was written to insult Americans
  2. The real meaning of macaroni is a multilayered insult for the ages

“Yankee Doodle” had many different versions, but we know it was sung by British officers before and during the Revolutionary War. And a macaroni was actually a specific type of person — the type of person to be mocked.

“Macaroni referred both to particular short-lived fashion for men in the early 1700s and to a certain kind of man,” professor Kate Haulman writes in The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America. “Often derisive, the term applied to elaborately powdered, ruffled, and corseted men of fashion, successors to the Restoration era fops and predecessors to the nineteenth century dandy.”

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Baking Soda Life Hacks

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Jan 292016
 

In this video from the Household Hacker, you’ll learn about all kinds of uses for everyone’s favorite ingredient baking soda.

Enjoy!

Here is an awesome list of baking soda life hacks and alternative uses to solve all kinds of common household problems! From cleaning your grill to making a natural air freshener. We’ve even got a few science experiments you can try using baking soda. Grab your sodium bicarbonate and let’s get baking!

Even though baking soda is extremely safe you should always be careful when dealing with chemical reactions of any type. Eye protection should be worn and a fire extinguisher near by. If chemicals will be handled then safety gloves should always be worn. If you’re a minor, make sure you have adult supervision whenever you attempt any science experiments.

Topics covered in this video:
1. Learn how to clean your grill using baking soda
2. Make a natural air freshener
3. Get rid of heartburn or acid reflux
4. Get stains out of Tupperware and plastic containers
5. Make your own black snakes fireworks with sugar and baking soda
6. Baking soda and ketchup prank
7. DIY Carpet Cleaner
8. Put out a grease fire
9. Get rid of shoe odor
10. Naturally unclog a drain with baking soda and vinegar

Baking Soda Life Hacks
 

Snowstorms In The 70s vs. Today

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Jan 292016
 

Snowstorms In The 70s vs. Today
Great comparison by Victoria Fedden:

Snowstorms in the 70s

  1. Hear on the 6 ‘o’ clock news that there will be snow the day after tomorrow. “Some accumulation,” the weatherman says. He talks about the snow for less than 30 seconds. Continue eating your Hamburger Helper.
     
  2. Go to the A&P in the morning and casually get some milk, a loaf of Wonderbread and some Velveeta.
     
  3. Check the shed to make sure the big red snow shovel’s still there and that the kids haven’t used it to build a fort in the vacant lot down the street where they like to play unattended for hours with all other neighborhood kids after school. It’s there. The end.
     
  4. Put the chains on the car tires, make a pot of soup and a batch of Chex Mix and pour yourself a drink. You are done.
     
  5. If it snows more than a foot overnight, school will be canceled. You will just somehow know that there is no school because you will use your common sense. There MIGHT be a phone tree. Keyword is MIGHT.
     
  6. Snow Day!! This means you can bundle the children within an inch of their lives and send them outside in whiteout conditions and 20 below temps FOR THE REST OF THE DAY while you stay inside, watch “As the World Turns,” smoke Eves, do your nails and wait for the snow plow.
     
  7. Throw salt all over the front steps. Boil some water and stir up a few packets of Swiss Miss hot chocolate for when the kids come back in.
     
  8. Looks like you’re going to get two feet of snow with this one. Oh well. Stick your head out the screen door and take a couple Polaroids of the kids’ snowman they built since you forgot to buy film and flashbulbs for the Kodak Ektralite. Too much of a pain to take the pictures to the Fotomat to get developed, and who wants to see a bunch of pictures of snow anyway? It snows ALL WINTER LONG. Big deal.
     
  9. Ask some neighborhood teens to shovel your driveway for you. They gladly do this in exchange for grilled cheese sandwiches.
     
  10. If the electricity goes out, pile extra afghans on the beds and put all the food from the fridge outside on the back porch. It’ll keep just fine in these temperatures and the electric will be back on in a couple days. Nothing to worry over. There’s always the kerosene heater and the fireplace or the coal furnace in the cellar.
     
  11. Snow is now piled to the eaves of the house. There will be school tomorrow.
     
  12. Let the kids go sledding at night after dinner. Have an Irish Coffee. Go to bed early.

Snowstorms 2016

  1. Get a news alert on your smartphone that in ten days the blizzard of the Millennium is going to strike. Turn on 24 hour cable news immediately for round the clock coverage.
     
  2. Look for constant updates on WINTER STORM CHIONE. Look to see what everyone is posting on Facebook about it. Pretend you know how to pronounce Chione.
     
  3. Three days before the storm is supposed to hit the governor will declare a State of Emergency. It’s 70 degrees and sunny out.
     
  4. Rush to Whole Foods and buy $756.00 worth of healthy junk food. You cannot weather a blizzard like this without hemp seed ghost pepper non-GMO tortilla chips, and the kids won’t survive without vegan, fruit sweetened gummies.
     
  5. Charge all devices. This includes the five iPads you own, three smartphones, the laptop, both Kindles, and your fancy toothbrushes.
     
  6. Check to see if Anderson Cooper is wearing his casual clothes and if he has gone outside. If Anderson Cooper is broadcasting from outside, you are basically screwed.
     
  7. Yup. We’re all going to die.
     
  8. Brace yourselves. There are going to be a lot of Game of Thrones memes on social about this.
     
  9. Snowmageddon is definitely happening. It is all over the Internet. School is now closed two days before it is supposed to snow. You know, to keep the children safe from all the people rushing to Target and fighting one another tooth and nail for the last loaf of Ezekiel bread, organic 2% milk, and cage-free Omega 3 eggs. Because if we’re going to go off our Paleo diets for some French Toast, it should at least be whole freaking grain. (I think?) Whatever, screw it.
     
  10. There is a sugar coating of very fine snow on your flagstone walkway leading up to your meticulously restored craftsman cottage. DO NOT GO OUTSIDE. It is dangerous in these conditions. Oh my God, it is 33 degrees. Screenshot the weather app from your phone and tweet it. #brrrr #freezingtodeath #winterstormchione
     
  11. But wait!! At least you get to wear your Uggs! And your buffalo plaid!
     
  12. Receive an automated call at 4 in the morning that school is canceled basically until the end of the month because of the winter storm’s devastation.
     
  13. Check Pinterest for educational snow day crafts and activities to keep the children engaged and learning. Do not let them outside to play in the inch of snow that just fell because OMG frostbite.
     
  14. Take lots of pictures of the snow. Post to Instagram. The Amaro filter makes snow look like a photo from the Anthropologie catalog.
     
  15. Post all the same pictures to Facebook too. Complain about how bored you are, but then hashtag your status #blessed.
     
  16. Relent and let the kids outside. Bundle them up within an inch of their lives.
     
  17. Forget that you didn’t make them go pee first. Unbundle them and make them all go to the bathroom. Then rebundle them. By now an hour and a half has passed.
     
  18. Only let them stay out long enough to get some good candid shots of them building a snowman, even though you are the one who actually built the snowman because you needed it to look just so. Do not let them go sledding because they could get traumatic head injuries. You have read enough stories online about accidents like that and how they could have easily been prevented by just keeping children inside attached to screens all day.
     
  19. Is this hot chocolate fair trade? And oh my God, who can you hire to shovel this away? Does your landscaping company take care of snow removal? Because there’s no way you can figure out the ethanol powered, cordless, half solar snowblower you bought on sale for $900.00 because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
     
  20. There is at least four inches of snow. The electricity went out for five minutes. You have plowed through the bag of ghost pepper chips and you are sure the world is ending. Scroll through your phone looking for the best deals to Aruba this weekend.
     
  21. The day after the storm hits, the meteorologists will apologize profusely that they said there’d 75 inches of snow and ice and 89 mile per hour winds, even though you got maybe five inches total when all was said and done and it melted overnight. Blame climate change. The forecast models are very unpredictable. Shrug.
     
  22. Start packing for that Aruba trip you booked. 

 
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