The Monster in the Shower

Normally, I don’t like to get all personal in my blog. After all this is a public website, and who knows what’s going to come back to haunt me in a few years. But this is an issue that I really want to bring to the surface.

A few days ago, I was standing in my bathroom brushing my hair and singing in the mirror. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been living in a one bedroom apartment by myself for a few months now. Anyway, so there I was, singing and brushing my hair, minding my own business, when all of a sudden I heard it. You know that “noise” you hear in your head, and all of a sudden you know that someone is in your shower. Don’t lie. I know you know exactly what I’m talking about.

This was the first time; I’ve had this experience since I’ve been living on my own. So just like any normal person, I quickly finished getting ready and ran off to work, hoping that I would soon forget about my over active imagination. But let’s not lie to ourselves here, my jobs boring and what else was I going to do for hours but sit around and think about the person in my shower who was going to kill me.

That’s when I started thinking. I knew that when I got home, the first thing I was going to do with check my shower. Don’t laugh, because I know you’ve all done it at some point in your life. It’s natural instinct. So we walk into the bathroom, stand in front of the shower and slowly pull back the curtain to find an empty tub just as you last left it. But, has anyone every thought about what they would do if someone was in fact in the shower? Because at that point you just set yourself up to be killed. The murder or kidnapper or whatever was in your shower, was perfectly content hiding, until you pulled back the curtain.

In reality, we would probably all scream and start running, but by the time you’ve unlocked the bathroom door and tried to get out, they already got you!

Next time, I hear a noise in that bath-room, I’m just going to leave it there. Eventually one day, the monsters going to get me anyway.

Rachel

Picture Perfect Pintrest

Unless you live under a rock, in which you shouldn’t be reading this, then you’ve probably heard of the new “internet sensation” Pinterst. In case you are the loser who lives under the rock, here is what you need to know:

Pinterest is a website based of the ideas of facebook, that allows users to search a catalog of millions of photos and then “repin” or share their finding with other users. Then everyone sits around the computer for hours “following” their friends by looking through their picture findings. Its pretty much google images with facebook friends.

I’m going to be honest, I have a Pinterst and while I’m not as addicted as others, I do log on daily. Mostly, because I’m bored and mostly because it’s fun to creep on your friends. Sorry Facebook, timeline is just making it to hard for me to creep conformability.

So I don’t have a problem with Pinterst and I thing it’s a wonderful idea. However, as I look through my friends “postings”, I can’t help but wonder if Pinterst is giving us a false sense of reality. Every time I log onto Pinterest, I find endless pictures of perfect weddings, perfect fashion, perfect houses, and lets be honest I’m an education major, perfect classrooms!

We all like to fantasize and admire what we don’t have. But this has taken “dreaming of the perfect future” a little too far. I don’t want to break anyone’s heart, but no ones house actual looks that perfect, and no one actual has weddings on private beaches. Unless of course, your daddy’s a millionaire or you have an uncontrollable desire to spend the rest of your life in death.

While I understand that everyone likes to look at pictures that please the eye and show off that perfect reality you always dreamed about as a kid, maybe we’ve taken it a little too far. So in a few years, when your getting married or buying your first house, do yourself a favor, don’t expect your life to be like Pintrest. The internet is not reality.

Rachel

Spring && Changes.

I'm not gonna even try and make up excuses for my lack of post lately. Nope, not gonna do it.

Well, it is finally getting warm outside, the grass in my backyard is starting to look green again, and I'm getting random cravings for sandwiches. In case you don't know what that means: Spring is on the way! And if we want to be really positive here, Summer will be here in no time!

I'm not sure what it is about sandwiches, but I only like them when it is warm outside and I'm wearing shorts. Obviously, I "like" them in the winter, I don't think my taste buds change with the seasons, but I always have a had a really hard time eating lunch meat and cheese, being held together on two pieces of cold bread in the winter. I never understood why, but it's just a strange mental weirdness about me.

So spring is on the way, soon followed by summer and that puts me in a rather good mood. When Rachel is in a good mood, she tends to remember that she has a blog that she enjoys writing in. St. Patrick's Day is also coming up, and it was around this time last year that I began this whole blogging thing. As a result, I decided that maybe it was time to force myself to bring it back!

As "Spring" productions, never understood why we call them that since they mostly take place in the winter, begin to wrap up and the theatre season is coming to a close, faster then I would like, I realize that for a few months (or weeks) I will have some extra time on my hands. Free time doesn't go over to well with me. Not sure why, but I always feel like wasting time is unproductive... Oh wait, it is.

Anyways, I decided that this spring, not only am I going to enjoy the nice warm sunshine, but I'm also going to try and spend at least an hour everyday doing one of two things.... 1) laying outside and blogging or 2) laying outside and reading a book.

I'll let you know how that works out for me! :)