Alright alright, so the real reason that I filmed this video was for a class–my Advanced Multicamera capstone class, to be exact. However, I think it’s a total gem.
I’m not a very athletic person, and I ran around East Lansing with a camera strapped to my head, trying to see who would tell me why they loved to run…while on their run.
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You stay classy, folks.
I’m a nineties kid, and I LIVED off of Kenan and Kel and All That. So when Good Burger emerged, I was basically in heaven. Anybody else remember the bright orange Nickelodeon VHS tapes? They were the freaking best.
Anyway, here’s a list of 5 reasons why you should just drop everything that you’re doing today, take a nostalgia trip back to your childhood, and just watch Good Burger already.
5. Sinbad’s role in the movie as “Mr. Wheat.” That fro, that robe, that shocking realization that it’s Sinbad under the fro and the robe after you haven’t seen the movie for about 8 years. And I guess it doesn’t hurt that his character was a total jerk. I mean, am I right?
4. The Burger Mobile.
Come on, you knew you all secretly wanted that car. With the burger hood and the french fry windshield wipers. It was the coolest car of your childhood–and I bet it tasted good too.
3. Ed as “Grape Nose Boy.” Bloobity Bloobity bloo! You can’t hold back a smile when watching this clip of the movie. And I bet you can’t eat grapes without trying Ed’s…uhh…tactics. Or maybe that’s just me…
2. Googling what “Spatch” looks like now. I just did this right now, and I was freaking amazed. If you don’t remember–Spatch was the large, fly-eating bimbo that could barelyspeak two words. And now he just…well, take a look for yourself.
1. Ed’s Ordering Speech. “Welcome to Good Burger, Home of the Good Burger, can I takeyour order…huh.” I can’t tell you how many times my brother and I would say this line to each other, and just die laughing. There’s something about seeing your favorite All Thatsketch morph into the greatest movie of your childhood, and already knowing the lines when you watch it for the first time…or the second time…or every time…
So comment, reply, share, and let me know why YOU love the movie “Good Burger.” Happy Sunday everyone! Oh! And get your Good Burger fill by clicking here.
People have told me that I’ve changed a lot in four years…you know, I really don’t see it…. (ha. hahaha. ha. ha. ha.)
Anyway (DRUM ROLL PLEASEEEEE) here it is, the first of many posts reflecting on the fact that I have mere months left as a student at Michigan State University. I intend to keep this post short and sweet (I know, you’re all rolling your eyes and laughing at me right now) and share some important things that I have learned from each of my four years here as a student at MSU.
Freshman year: Freshman year was such a big one for me, because going away to school was such a big deal. I’m a homebody, and freshman year I was homesick constantly. But what I learned is that it’s important to get involved, and find something that you love to do, where you are. I started a blog, I tried out for two a capella groups, Sideshow with the MSU telecasters, and the Spartan Brass–and those decisions helped shape who I am today.
Sophomore year: Sophomore year, I learned that pushing your limits helps you to grow. That year I joined the Spartan Marching Band, I switched into a new major, I reached out and landed a job as a social media intern for MSU, and I made a ton of new and wonderful friends. Unlike freshman year, (and even junior and senior) sophomore year was a breeze.
Junior year: I would say that junior year had tested me–and my boundaries– the most. Junior year I struggled, I stressed, and I lost myself a little bit. But I learned that if you take a step back, stand up for yourself, and do what you love, you’ll be able to find yourself again. I started playing the ukulele, I took a week and visited my grandparents in Florida, I started taking more walks and, I called my mom more.
Senior year: While this year is not quite over yet, I’ve found that I have learned the most in these past few months. But the most valuable thing that I’ve found is that you can always find happiness. I mean, you can’t let EVERYTHING get you down! This year, I searched for (and landed!) a post-graduation job, found a place to live next year, and started looking for new cars… but being me, I still found reasons to freak out and dread my future post-college. So I thought about what I used to do that made me happy, and I started doing those things again. I’m beginning to take dance classes again, I’m blogging and writing in journals, taking more pictures, and reconnecting with old friends. I feel awesome, confident, and hopeful about whatever is to come.
So if you find yourself feeling introspective, I suggest you take a look back on the last four years of your life–you may be surprised with what you find (and, what ugly face you can dig up from your photobooth archives, ha!)
I’d like to thank Beyonce for my first online popular blog mention. Or rather, the photographer who captured the beautiful Beyonce making incredibly atrocious faces while dancing during her superbowl performance. Now, pretty girls taking pictures of themselves taking disgustingly ugly faces is an online phenomenon.
Personally, I think the meme is a great way for girls to have fun, be goofy, and let their inner-ugly out! I mean, we don’t have to be pretty all the time, right?
Earlier this week I posted on the subreddit linked above, as a joke, to have some fun and mostly to see how gross of a face I could make. Well, today I got a tweet here where I was told that my face may be posted on Heavy.com’s blog about the new internet phenom.
WELL LO AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS MY PRETTY UGLY MUG RIGHT ON THE SITE. It figures. Of all the things to get noticed for, it’s for one of my ridiculous faces. However, I totally can’t complain. I am incredibly flattered they chose to feature my face! They like me, they really like me!
GUYS, DOES THIS MEAN I’M FAMOUS?!
A photoshopped combination of some relevant news!
Hey guys! I’m trying out a new blog format, and I need your help! I’m hoping to write one blog a week on this site called The Weekly Grub that I’m making for a class. Each post will be my view on 3 relevant pop culture, television, or internet news pieces from the week. I’ve written two posts already, and I want to know what you all think! I would also LOVE any suggestions of news items to cover. Popular internet memes? The best and worst sports plays of the week? Ways to localize national pop culture news? Any suggestions are wanted! The link to this week’s blog post is here. It’s about the Super Bowl blackout, the Super Bowl commercials, and the end of 30 Rock–one of my FAVE shows. Any feedback is mucho appreciated!
I cannot express to any of you the amount of times I’ve wanted to tweet at work, update my Facebook status on the job, or comment on a funny YouTube video that I’ve watched during my lunch break. I mean, we’ve all thought about that, right? But what’s holding us back is the daunting office tasks of the workplace, the fear of dilly-dallying online to the point of it being a problem, and the fact that, well, work is a place for work–not for personal social networking. Or is it?
I guess I’ve been lucky–every job I’ve had has been in social media and those types of actions are encouraged, even if they’re only from a company standpoint. I’ve been able to quench my thirst for social networking throughout an 8-hour work day–at least partially– in this way.
And after reading Suzanne Vera’s post (which you can find here) about social media actually improving your productivity at work, I got a little excited, to be honest. I may approach my communications supervisor and share this blog with her–I’m sure she’d get a kick out of it, at the very least.
Suzanne writes about how social networking while working improves an employee’s ability to multitask, and how some scientists say that “a reasonable escape into the world of social media may be providing young workers with a healthy productivity-increasing mental break.” Now I know that’s only a maybe, but isn’t that interesting? Could it be that the very thing we’ve been told not to do is what could help us succeed? I mean, I’m grasping at straws a little bit here, but it’s intriguing!
Maybe we should think of our personal social media like candy–it’s good to have little pieces every once in a while to satisfy our sweet tooth. But we shouldn’t eat too much, or we could get a stomachache and spoil our appetite. Hmm. Food for thought?
It’s about 9:40am, I have a class in 40 minutes across campus in the Auditorium (1. Why I even decided that taking a class that was a half-hour walk away from my home was a good idea, I will never know) and it’s incredibly icy outside. So I, being myself, decide that it would be a stellar idea to drive my car to the end of my street, park it, and then walk from there–cutting at least 8 minutes off of my walking time. (2. That’s actually not such a bad idea.) However, I go to unlock my car, and the locking mechanism makes some gut-wrenching whirring noises, and grinds to a halt. I fiddle with the key-fob and put the actual car key into the lock. (3. How primitive, right?) However, the handle lies limp, and I’m locked out of my vehicle. (4. By this time, it’s about 10:00am, and I’m frustrated.)
So I do what I always do when I don’t know what to do–I call my mom. I’m frantically telling her that I broke my car, and I either have to go get it fixed or just buy a new one all together. (5. By this time in my life, my poor 12-year-old Honda had run into some major trouble more than a few times.) She tells me to go inside and boil some water to pour over the handle.
(6. Duh.)
In my frantic morning state, I completely disregarded that fact that, huh, MAYBE, just MAYBE the locks on my car had frozen overnight, and they were struggling to work through all the ice and the cold from last nights leftover precipitation. (7. Sometimes, I can be really thick.)
Well by this time, I’m beyond late for class, and I feel downright poopy. But I decide to spend my new-found free time wisely, by writing this blog.
Happy Monday errybody! Have you ever had a sucky Monday? Please share–because misery loves company!
I’m clearly an expert
We all make Christmas cookies–or if you’re like me, you eat a lot of dough when you’re supposed to be making Christmas cookies, and then you never get good at making Christmas cookies. Like, ever.
So today, because we’re all snowed in and have been teetering on the edge of being without power up here in Lake Ann, Michigan, my mom and I decided to tackle the cookie baking. We really expanded our horizons this year, got a bag of Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix, the makings for our homemade butter cream frosting, and started to bake. Now I mentioned before, that I am NO GOOD at making cookies that look good–but that doesn’t mean that they don’t taste alright. So here’s a list of tips on how NOT to make Christmas Cookies.
1. Definitely do NOT forget to use flour. Especially if you’re trying to use cookie cutters to shape your cookies. You’ll end up with dough ALL over your hands. You’ll try to take a picture of your hands with your phone, and end up getting dough all over your phone, and decide that the only way to get it off is to, well, eat the dough. Which all together isn’t an awful problem, except for that moment when you realize that you’re sitting alone in your kitchen licking your phone. #notashamed.
It was an adventure!
2. Definitely do NOT eat all of the dough. No matter how much your five-year-old self wants you to. You’ll get sick (I once got food poisoning from eating too much dough, seriously!) AND you’ll end up with only 8 or 9 cookies. No I’m not kidding, this batch really only made that many cookies, and I’m really disappointed.
3. Definitely do NOT commit to making shaped cookies if you don’t have a rolling pin. Rolling pins are ESSENTIAL in flattening your dough-canvas in order to make cookies in pretty Christmas shapes. You may have to resort to, well, other measures in order to acquire something that you can use to roll out the dough. Like this very nice beer bottle that I, uh, found.
4. Definitely do NOT wear socks if you have spilled flour all over your wood floor. YOU WILL SLIP, possibly while carrying a cookie sheet full of ready-to-bake Christmas tree cookies. Also, it’s probably not best to cook while wearing one of your favorite sweaters. There was flour, FLOUR EVERYWHERE.
However, despite all of my cookie cooking mishaps, I managed to produce a fine (very small) batch of sugar cookie Christmas trees. What are your Christmas cookie baking tips? And for more blogs, go to everydaybytay.com!
Blogging world, meet my dear friend Taylor.
You've met, actually. Multiple times. But that's neither here nor there. (She's the one in earmuffs. Not the small child.)
T recently got a super awesome big-girl job, so I thought I'd create a post solely dedicated to her and her awesomeness. (Well. Kind of.) So, without further ado, here are 30 things that run through Taylor's head on a daily basis:
I’m so proud to have called myself a member of the Spartan Marching Band. This last game was an emotional one, and these memories will stick with me forever. Seniors–I’ve got plenty more video from this day if you’re interested, just let me know!
And a special note to high school students thinking of joining the SMB: YES DO IT.
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