It Isn't 2010 Anymore?

Good Evening Friends. 
[hangs up sweater]

This blog comes to you in three parts, and I cannot decide which to talk about first because all three are awesome. I suppose we will start from the least life-impacting to the most life-impacting, and thats a difficult way for me to narrow this jones down.

• ITEM ONE: it has come to my attention that a lot of my blogs contain bulleted lists. Therefore this one will contain, rather, a unicorned list. [To keep things interesting.]

UNICORN ONE!

So the other day I was spending quality time on the internet's greatest sand trap, Stumble Upon. I'm not sure what that means. See also: internet's greatest ball pit. 

It seems that somehow after stumbling for a calendar page or so, I had not yet come across the greatest thing ever seen on the internet. This is objective of course, however now that I have found the greatest thing that I have ever seen on the internet, I feel moderately obligated to tell you all about it. Why the heck wouldn't I?

In case anyone didn't know this about me, I love Nintendo. Mario games, Zelda games, I just love that stuff. Super Mario Brothers for the NES is one of the finest pieces of my childhood, and I regret to admit that after my entire life to date, I have not beaten it yet...

 The last bowser pukes hammers okay? That's big league stuff. Very intimidating. 

Recently, Stumble Upon granted unto me this fine gift: Super Mario Brothers Crossover

Have you ever played Super Mario Brothers and thought, "Wow, if only I had a gun, I would rock that goomba's world,"? 

WELL THEN DREAM UNTIL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, YA LITTLE WEIRDO! 

Samus in the mushroom kingdom, dealing the pain. <3

Yeah. That's right. This game allows you to play the original Super Mario Brothers as other original nintendo characters. They all bring their original abilities to the game.

Can't reach that coin block? Don't worry, I'll get it with my SWORD.

This was my favorite I think. Just stabbing the coin blocks from above until they can line my bottomless pockets no more.

You can be Mega Man. And other people. It's the bomb.

 Speaking of bombs, Samus has always got the bomba.

 And missiles.

 I lied, this was my favorite way to finish off a coin block. Gun. It. Down. Or up.

ANYWAYS,

That was one of the awesomest discoveries of my week. [see also, "life"]

Now to more important things. 

Unicorn Two!

Someday I hope to understand why Blogspot does the things it does. Why did it let me write next to the last unicorn but not next to this one? Estupit unicorns. 

Unicorn Two is this: 

Davis College had been planning a trip to New York City for...like a really long time. 

It was scheduled for a Saturday, which is a day that I regularly work. 

Last Friday night (the night before the trip to New York City), I realized that I did not, in fact, work the following day. I decided to see if it wasn't too late to go on the trip to NYC, a place I'm generally disinterested in but had never been. 

It wasn't too late. 

So today, I went to New York City for the very first time. 

The first place we really saw was Times Square. The giant buildings and signs made me feel like I was some kind of  "Honey, I Shrunk The Tourist". 

The ads were massive. Lights and sounds everywhere. Also smells. 

Every single breath I took, different scents and air consistency took over my world.

So many humans all over the place. Everyone's talking. Everyone's moving.

I'm an easily overloaded person, mentally...

All of this coupled with the fact that I hadn't yet eaten breakfast or had any coffee added up to a very disoriented first couple of hours in the big apple. I just walked and stared. Listened and smelled. Followed Liz around cuz she had a map and common sense. 

After we ate lunch and hit up a Starbucks, I was just so overwhelmed with the place [in a good way], and every hour we spent there I grew to like it more. As a generally private person with disdain for large crowds of people, I cannot really understand what about that city I loved so much. I was just so happy to be there. 

 At the end of the trip, a guy in a cart sold Liz and I a pretzel for 4 bucks that tasted like burnt lamb. Then he sold one to Deb and Kyle for 3 bucks. I then felt like I had truly experienced the city.

I went to a NYC Starbucks, predictably. It was weird. Bar-guy tried to take drinks while cashier-girl was hard to communicate with and not paying attention, and then after there was solidified confusion in the air, a line of people came behind us. Luckily, my drink was uncomplicated and flawlessly ordered, created, purchased, and consumed.

The subway thought I was a piece of carnal gum and tried to chew me up. Apparently being the last person in a glob of friends boarding the subway leaves you at a higher risk for being squished by the doors.

I'm really, really happy that I was able to go, super glad that I went, and definitely looking forward to going back sometime.

UNICORN THREE IS GONNA BLOW YO MIND UP.






Are you ready for this?

Okay.





Remember that time my 16 gig iPod touch got stolen back in November?
If not, be informed that my 16 gig iPod touch was stolen back in November.

So within this past week, I was in the Broadway Cafe at Davis with some friends, and my friend Andrew casually said, "Hey Crystal. You want an iPod?"
 I casually said, "Yeah."

I didn't honestly think he was being serious, but not only did he actually give me his 32 gig iPod touch [because he had just gotten an iPhone, and didn't need two things that were essentially the same], he had been intending to pass it on to me for awhile.
BEST. DAY. EVER.

It's been so incredibly awesome having an iPod in my life again. Perfect.
I'm trying to figure out its name. I had settled on Lucy, but that's not feeling right. I don't even really think it's a girl. When I named Joel [my current ukulele] and Cooper [my first ukulele], I had a strong certainty about their names. This guy, not so much.
I'll figure it out.

But yes, those were the three unicorns I wanted to blog about today.

Extemporaneously, on the bus to New York City we watched the movie Tangled. I had heard a whole lot about the movie and hadn't seen it until then. It was pretty good. I don't know if it's quite worth all the hype it gets, but it was definitely better than I expected it to be.
However, on the way BACK from New York City, they showed some dumb chick flick. I don't know whose call that was, but I realized something.

In like any chick flick, or any movie really, in which someone gets married, they always have the groom randomly showing up while the bride is getting ready [or having some kind of life crisis on their big day], and she'll always gasp and say, "What are you doing!? Don't you know it's bad luck to see the bride before the wedding?"

Come on.

Every movie.

In conclusion, I have forgotten what year it is twice this week. Have a great day my friends.

Surprise, It's An Iguana

Ten Things That Surprise People About Me

1. I love winter, and generally being cold. (most people know this)
2. I hate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
3. I have never seen Star Wars.
4. I watched Aladdin for the first time in my life, this year.
5. I don't really like concerts.
6. I am not looking forward to having a wedding. Marriage yes, wedding no.
7. I know how to read braille. Only by sight. 
8. I'm allergic to nothing.
9. I hate lobster. I always have. I was thought to be allergic to it for far longer than I actually was. I played it up a little.
10. As long as we're on food aversions, I don't like caramel, cheesecake, or donuts. I do however like anchovies. A lot. 

If anyone recognizes the title of this blog and tells me where it's from, I will probably become excited and flail my arms. 

Or fluffy ducky.

Ideas

This post probably contains no significance to anything. I just need a place to throw down some ideas.

I think someday when I have a baby, I will write "ANDY" on the bottom of its foot.

 Also I was thinking today that if I ever need a prosthetic arm, I want a Buzz Lightyear arm.

Complete with sticker under the plastic flap. STAR COMMAND, DO YOU READ ME? 

I don't think I had any ideas today that weren't Toy Story related.