My Love for Fingerless Gloves

Just another reason why I consider myself a bit of a hipster. After doing my "research" of fingerless gloves out of boredom the other day, I gained a great love for fingerless gloves. I've always enjoyed wearing a pear with a funky outfit to add some pizazz, but after looking at how many different kinds there are, I think I'm in love. 

Maybe next year, I'll wear gloves every day to school. Or at least, most days. I'll be known as that chic with the red hair and the gloves. Not bad. Let me open the doors for you into the wonderful world of fingerless gloves.

So what's so amazing about them? A lot of them are nice and cozy, plus, they're fashionable. As a bonus, they're fingerless, so you can still do things like hold a pencil firmly, text, type on a computer, all that necessary finger work to survive. If you did those things with real gloves on, it just wouldn't work. With fingerless gloves, everybody wins!

Right now, I own the grey and black striped pair in the picture above. Also, I took the normal grey gloves that came with the striped ones and cut off the fingers. It's not fraying yet. Maybe I'll do that to a couple more pairs of innocent gloves. Trust me, it's every pair's of gloves dream to get upgraded to fingerless gloves. It's like getting promoted, to put it in perspective for all you adults out there. =)

But there's more to fingerless gloves than the striped ones you see above! MUCH, much, more. I really could wear fingerless gloves for any occasion. Voila, mes amis. I envy almost all of these. I threw in a picture or two of the kind of fingerless gloves that I do not envy.

I love these! They're fall colors, just gorgeous! I can totally see myself sitting in my room reading a book with these on. I don't know why, but I just love the idea of that. 

NO. Don't even start with me. Actually, go ahead. Sequens aren't my best friend. I only own a couple things with sequens. Something about sequens just bothers me. They look so cheap and artificial and stupid. And they sparkle. Gloves don't sparkle, they're gloves. 

THESE, on the other hand, are adorable! Out of all of these gloves on this post, these are my favorite! They're fingerless, but because they're penguins, they have a little flap to cover your fingers just in case you aren't texting, typing, or doing anything with your fingers. I feel like if I had a pair of these, I'd name the left one and the right one and I'd make them little puppets when I'm bored. Yeah, I can imagine that. 

I didn't even know gloves came like this. So perfect. It's got those military style buttons by your wrist, too! Everybody wins!

I really envy these. I'm green with envy. (Get it?!) I love the little button, and especially the open space! I could wear these during warmer weather, possibly. 

These are also one of my favorite on the page. Penguins win, of course, but these are also something I'd wear any day. I couldn't really care less wether or not gloves are "IN" or not, I'm wearing them wether people like it or not. 

I could even go on a date, or to a school dance with gloves on! Heck yeah. I'm not a huge fan of lace, especially on underwear, but it's a dance! Your job as a girl is to be elegant. For me, it's to be elegant and wear gloves at the same freaking time! Score one for Sonja.

See?? These specifically don't keep you warm all that much, but if your job is to be elegant and pull of gloves at the same time, these or the ones above will definitely get the job done, and will absolutely add some pizazz to your outfit. 

Isn't it just magical? Gloves go with everything. 

WAIT--- 

It's not that magical. Pippin is more magical than this, because as you all (should) know, I'm obsessed with Pippin, even though it's not playing at the High School anymore. 

These gloves have magic to do, just for you. They've got parts to perform, hearts to warm. (Not necessarily miracle plays to play, though.)

Over the Top Lip Balm

I've been noticing something lately. Can someone please explain this to me??? If it's one thing that literally comes in every single flavor to exist on planet Earth, it's lip balm. Just something small to keep in our pockets when our lips get dry. I lose them all the time, which is probably why all the lip balm companies are still in business.

I think the people who come up with these flavors are getting just a little too creative. Honestly, I went to a Claire's store one time, and I saw a Cheez-It flavored lip balm. Ew! Who wants their lips to taste like Cheez-Its?!

I wasn't lying, folks. I've done my research to: 1. See all the wacky flavors I could find. 2. Share them with you for your amusement, and 3. To make my point. =)

Ready for a lot of crazy lip balm flavors? Ready or not, here's the wide variety of lip balm flavors that America has to offer.

This just disgusts me. Only in America, will you find Nacho lip balm. 

This one I can almost understand, since it's a candy and it's sweet, but this is one of those packages that bothers me more than the lip balm itself. Was it really necessary to cut out that much cardboard for a little product like lip balm? Honestly. 

I gotta give credit to whoever thought of this clever idea for a flash drive. The only backfire is you could mix it up with your real chap stick. Right when you're ready with your PowerPoint presentation infront of your boss, you pull out a Chapstick instead. Busted. 

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Who on Earth wants their lips to taste like french fries all day? Eating them is one thing, but just having the salty taste sitting on your lips all day seems... unpleasant. 

What do I have to say? It's BACON lip balm. I just did a face palm when I saw this. 

Like the Mound coconut candy one, I can understand this, sort of. Now I really want to know how many candies out there have a lip balm accompanying them. What would happen if you just handed these out for Halloween instead of the real Tootsy rolls? I feel like it would end either really well or really bad. 

I guess there's only one way to find out. 

I don't see the logic behind this one. It's not embarrassing, like the bacon one, but still. I get that it's something that everyone loves to eat, but just because we love to eat them, doesn't mean we want to have that taste sitting on our lips 24/7. It'd be like eating a never ending cinnamon roll, with out the texture and just the taste. Ick. 

The packaging also annoys me on this one. I'm sure the people designing it where arguing whether or not there should be room for the Pillsbury dough boy on the cardboard. First world problems, people. We've got better things to worry about than the Pillsbury dough boy, I hate to brake it to you. 

This is almost as bad as the bacon one. In fact, I can't decide which one is more embarrassing. One is a breakfast food that the entire country is in mad love with and is a bit overrated, and another is a sugar coated marshmallow sold during pretty much every holiday season. 

I'm noticing a pattern in fatty cheesy foods. We've got Cheetos, Nachos, Cheez-Its, and Cheeseburger flavored lip balms. I bet you could find just plain cheese flavored, if you looked hard enough. 

Remember what I said about cheese flavored lip balm? You know, a couple seconds ago? I actually looked it up for the heck of it, but the closest I could get was pickle lip balm. It's not very close, but it's still ridiculous, almost as ridiculous as cheese lip balm, if such thing existed. 

This one wasn't a bad idea, I have to admit. It's one of the few I might actually buy out of all the ones I've listed here. The only one I like is Thin Mints, though. It's a classic. 

This is sad. 

I know, I know. This isn't lip balm. For those of you who don't know what spam is, it's meat it a can. I've tried it, and it isn't half bad. Vegetarians would hate it; I have a feeling. But how did this can of meat turn into the picture below??? 

It's green. And it's meat flavored. Have I made my point yet? I have one more. 

This doesn't make sense to me AT ALL. It's a movie! Not a candy, a cinnamon bun, meat, cheese, pickle, corn dog, cookie, bacon, cheeseburger, or french fries, but a movie. A movie does not have a flavor. It's called really odd marketing skills. Hm. Do they still sell this???

Hm. Odd, but cute. That's all I have to say. 

I think I've made my point, how the variety is getting just a little crazy. Just a little.

Stubborn Post Offices

This week is one of my good camp friend's birthday, and so I put together a little birthday present to send through the mail. I'm not going to say what I packed into the mail, because it's a surprise to him. Let's just say I totally went all out on this one. It took two padded envelopes, that's all I'm revealing.

I woke up on Saturday morning to finish the wrapping. Everything was wrapped in solid red, and I wrote on every single one a reminder to open the "Before" card first. You see, there was a before card and an after card. (The after card was mainly to explain my logic behind the selection of gifts, because to be honest, it is a really odd combination of things.)

I was very satisfied with myself when they were packaged in the envelopes and the address was written in rainbow in the center. 

Later on, I did my research, and according to the internet, the nearby post office closed at 4:45. It seemed unusual, but I made the mistake of trusting the internet. When we arrived to drop it off, they were closed. Then, my dad did some better research, and found that the next closest one closed in seven minutes. 

We left immediately and we were in a great rush. Of course, when we're in a great rush, when we get to the intersection on the road, there are three stupid people infront of us. My dad told me if you're the fourth in line to make a left turn, you can only make it if the three people in front of you are smart.

 I was exploding in the passenger seat, yelling at cars by their license plate. It went a little something like this:

           "Come ON A1B2C3!! Don't you realize the post office is closing?! I know you can drive faster than that! Push your foot on the petal on the right. It says GO on it!" 

That's me. Never drive angry, folks. 

My dad made a little plan. He said he was going to pull up right infront of the door, and I was going to run in before the inside doors were locked. Here's where it got really funny for me. My dad sets alarms for everything. So, of course, he has a 3:00 alarm ready to ring at any moment. (For those of you with iPhone's, it's the harp ringtone.) As soon as he pulls in front of the door, the harp starts strumming and I panic and rush in there as fast as I can. 

The moment I run in there with my two packages, this big man is closing the door, and he's saying, 

           "Oh, alright, alright. But you're the last one, got it?"
I think he was having a bad day. I also think he noticed my beautiful rainbow lettering. I stood inside the door, and I held it open for my dad who was walking in. The same man approaches him, but this time, he's saying, 

           "No, no, no! We're closed! We're closed!" 

Then, my dad does the best thing ever. He announces pretty loudly, 

           "I'm with her. I have to buy her thing!"

I'm still inside, and I can just imagine the guard rolling his eyes. 

When we both walk in, another big guy behind the counter says in the exact same tone,

           "Guys, come on, we're closed! We're closed!"

All I know is that these guys seriously wanted to get out of there. All I wanted to do was send my rainbow lettered packages through the mail. I'm just an innocent little girl with big eyelashes and a big heart. 

I was laughing almost all the way home. Especially at the harp. Nothing says, "GO!!! Run faster!!" Like a soothing harp. 

One-Sided Chat Session

On Thursday night, I took my laptop out of it's secret compartment (shh!!) around midnight, to find that one of my cousins in college is considering on pulling an all-nighter. I've done an all-nighter, sort of. I slept for twenty minutes, but I know what it's like. I get how painful and exhausting it is. Since he's in college, I cheered him on. In my opinion, college is all about the experience. One of those experiences is making silly decisions, like pulling an all-nighter. (And listening to your younger cousin on Facebook.)

This is my way of cheering him on. I continued to have a one-sided conversation with him until about 1:00 AM which is when my fingers and eyes were officially hurting me. He signed off of Facebook around 12:30, but I kept going.

My dad read this on my phone, and he laughed. The only signal I need for it to be blog worthy. Freedom of the press, people. I love it.

(FYI: Jen is my oldest cousin who's out of college. Sam is my oldest brother who's a senior in High School. Aunt laurie is my aunt, his mom. I'll explain everything else at the bottom.)

You should know that I'm writing this exactly the way I typed it on Facebook, so I'm sorry if there are typing and grammar errors.

I'll start off when he told me not to get pregnant, when I was telling him about a guy I liked.

Nate: Don't get pregnant.

Sonja: i wont get pregnant!!!
LOL
any other words of wisdom while your pulling an all nighter??
so
hows it goin
whats it like to be in college?
you know i already have a dream college
UPenn
:)
i was so inspired when we went for college tours over april break
last year
sam got really intimidated
there were brick walls there
its like your own little town~!!!!!
can you bike around campus?
is that allowed?
is your campus in the middle of nowhere,
like with cows here and there?
or is it the kind right in the middle of a city
where you can walk accross the street
and BOOM
your in a city?
its kind of all one big city, you know what i mean?
the little village called college,
and the giant city surrounding it
so hows work?
:)
jen told me you have an on-campus job now
is it fun?

Nate: Type so much

Sonja: thats me :)
answers?
ok ill keep goin.
jen told me you have an on-campus
job now
is it fun?
we went to this bookstore in virginia at virginia tech
there were cows here and there
it was ridiculous
the bookstore was way to air conditioned
like WAY too air conditioned
i think
if the books had feelings
theyd be sad
yea
i dont think itd be fun working in a SUPER AC book store
in the middle of virginia
what do you think?
we went to IKEA today
that reminds me of aunt laurie
she says that you have to be careful when you go to IKEA,
because they have foofyploofpoofs
like that bowl that looks like a few flowers bunched up together
that looks really pretty
but really, its totally impracticle
shtuff like that
i got a chalkboard
did i tell you that i got sams loft?
its got a book case headboard and theres a SUPER DUPER SECRET
COMPARTMENT
thats where i hide my laptop so im typing right now
if it werent for that SUPER DUPER SECRET COMPARTMENT
i wouldnt be typing so much
how am i doing?
fast enough?
i can go faster
voila!
:)
:)
so hows it goin?
you know,
your not answering any of my questions
i feel like im talking to one of those teddy bears
that just nods
and nods
and nods
and occasionally,
he'll say,
"mmmmm"
very few words of wisdom speak back,
like this is only a one sided conversation
its ridiculous!
thats one of my new favorite words,
ridiculous
christopher walken used it in SNL on that bit
where the dude comes to his apartment asking him questions
and CW is all stupid
do you work part time?
full time?
no,
i work
part
of the time
there are just hours and hours of the night where im just
SLEEPING!
its RIDICULOUS!
i just quoted christopher walken.
mmmmmmhmmmmm
im your cousin
and im proud of it
you can tell all your college friends that your cousin,
one of the most amazing people on earth,
quotes christopher walken
but the coolest person (or one of the coolest) is your sis
JEN!
shes amazing
i love her
:)
i love you too!!!
your special
amazing
i still need to beat you at chess
and that day will come
i have an order for you
grow your hair out to be all cute and curly
girls like curly hair,
trust me
its IN right now
curly hair is IN
you read me, cousin
grow your hair out!
also,
i like ruffling my hand through it like a lawn mower
pretending that im mowing offf all your beautiful curly hair
but you probably wont let me do that
just like sam
whenever he gets a buzzz cut,
i like to ruffle my hair and feel the freshly cut lawn
its so perfectly
trim
yes!
actually,
no!
nO!
no!
forget you even read that.
its not perfectly trim.
because then that will inspire you to get a buzz cut,
and remember what your little cousin told you,
curly hair is IN
IN IN IN!
not out
buzz cuts are out
lame
its 11:53
are you still there?
doesnt matter
im gonna keep yapping away
like a dog!
no
not like a dog
dogs yap away with nothing to say
I,
SIR,
have much to say
wether it gets read by my older most amazing cousin ever
or not
do you believe in the creation story?
or the big bang theory?
or both?
how can it be both?
both rebecca and mom agree that it could be both, but i dont get
that
its either science or religion
and there shall be no war about it!
none, i say, none!
im not a hippie
your not answering me
are you even still there?
oh well
theres an ad on facebook
its got a picture of a weird lady with too much make up on
in weird blue lighting
she looks evil
like an evil smile on her face,
like shes gonna kidnap me or something
but her pink lipstick reads that shes not going to
shes just really intimidating in that picture
i dont like this ad
this person who created this ad really needs to work on their
marketing skills
because i dont think that scaring them away is a very good
aproach
the marketers arent wolves
we are the humans
wolves are awesome, you know that?
they love eating cheese!
we went to this place with wolves in 6th grade
the wolves ate cheese
and they howled
have you seen frozen the movie?
its not that scary
it was my first R movie
kinda pathetic
what most people dont understand,
is that the reason the girl lives at the end
is because she didnt make direct eye contact with the wolves
if you make direct eye contact,
the wolves take it as a huge threat to there pack
and they will kill you
until you die
and bleed
and stuff
it was a bad movie,
dont go see it
even if its on netflix
its a mad movie with unknown scientific information in there that
99% of the viewers arent aware of
whats your favorite season?
probably winter because you like skiing
there wasnt winter this year
just fall
and then spring
im really obsessing with pippin right now
have you seen pippin the musical?
go see pippin
its amazing
look up the music onlin
online
i love the song"glory"
and the finale
the finale is my favorite
im trying to make "magic to do" my ringtone
if i can make it,
itll be magical
are you magical?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I signed off around 1:00 AM~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And signed on the next day, to finish it up.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sonja: did you read it?
You should read it.
All of it
Please?
For your cousin
Who's typing with her thumbs in bed
Oh please?
That was my way of cheering you on for your all nighter
How did I do?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I think the only thing to explain is the foofyploofpoofs at IKEA. That's just my aunt's cute word for "cute but totally unpracticle things," like that plate I was describing.

Hope you enjoyed the ride. Nate, hope you enjoyed my messages.  :) I had fun typing up all of that.

Tips on Starting Your Own Blog

A couple days ago, a couple of girls asked me for help on how to start a blog of their own. After explaining it to them, I decided this was certainly blog worthy and I should share this with everyone, in case anyone is interested in the magical world of blogging.

Yes, I said magical.

Here are the official words of wisdom from Sonja Heels on how to start a blog.

Step 1. Ask yourself: Why do I want to blog? 


After you've figured out why you want to blog, whether it's just as a hobby and to have fun, or maybe you want to write about a specific topic, make sure there's a reason. You must blog with purpose! 

Step 2. Go to www.Blogger.com. Not tumblr, not WordPress, not webs, but Blogger. 


So why should you go to Blogger instead of all the others? I'll tell you why. Don't do tumblr, just don't. I don't have a very good reason, to be honest with you, but I've seen tumblrs. Actually, I do have a good reason. It's spelled weird, and people are going to get confused. There's my only good reason. I was also going to say that tumblrs sort of make fun of blogging somehow. I don't know why, but whenever I look at a tumblr page, I can't convince myself that it's a blog. It's just making fun of actual bloggers.

Don't use WordPress, because SonnysArea.com used to run on WordPress, so I have first hand experience. It's old school, boring, it doesn't like creativity, and you feel very limited. Not many good features. And if you can find a good feature, chances are that Blogger has the same exact feature only somehow, it's better on Blogger.

Don't use webs, because that's just for websites, not necessarily blogs. You want blogger because it's dedicated to actual bloggers like us.

And because it's powered by Google.

Step 3. Sign in with your Google account and get started.


Trust me. Once you've logged in, Blogger does half the work for you. They make it very easy, step by step, pick your name, pick your this, pick your that, and once you've got the basics down, you can use the new template designer to customize every element of your blog.

It's pretty smashing, if I do say so myself.

Step 4. Write your first post!


Here's the part where I rant on and on about how you actually have to write. It's not the SATs, so calm down. You can be yourself and write whatever the heck you want on here. It's your very own website. 
You don't have to write on and on and on (like I did in my Niagara Falls post, which according to me is one of the longest ones I've EVER written,) just a couple paragraphs will do. It doesn't matter!

Step 5. Spice it up!


Make your blog your own. Make it different from any other blog out there. It's yours, after all. Add a poll, or maybe a little "About" page all about you, and why you started the blog. Go to the gadgets part on the blogger website and explore all the different elements you can add.

To top this beginner blogger lesson off, I present to you a list of DOs and DON'Ts for blogging.

DO blog often! It's relaxing, and sooner or later, someone will start reading it. Then you'll have fans who look forward to the next time you post. It's like your famous! I used to have a bad habit of blogging very rarely, like almost less than once a month. Those were the days... now I'm trying for a couple each week.

DON'T post silly pictures or graphics or videos and call that a post. Please. Unless you're vlogging, which is blogging through videos of you blabbing away infront of a camera, please don't just post a video or just a silly picture and leave it like that. This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. If you're going to post a video, fine. But you have to actually say something about it. What do you think about it? Why did you post this on your blog, and not on Facebook?

That's where goofy pictures and videos with no additional text belong. Facebook. Not Blogger. Got it?

DO commit to it! This might sound similar to my last "do," but this is important, and it needs to be said. The main problem with new bloggers these days is that they do NOT commit!

Here's what happens. They get all excited that they're going to be a blogger, they set it up and it's all pretty, they publish their first post and tell everybody that they're a blogger now, and then they don't touch their blog ever again. I'm serious. Here's a perfect example.  This person had a great idea of blogging and speaking his mind through the keys of an antique typewriter, but now he's occasionally publishing poems and other things that he didn't even write. With no writing of his own to accompany it!! What's worse is that he posted them on Facebook as well. See below for why that's such a terrible crime in the magical world of blogging.

DON'T post on both Facebook and Blogger, like my example above. Pick one. Facebook or blogger. Facebook is when you like something and you want to share it and see how many thumbs ups you can get. Blogger is when you actually want your own voice to be heard, instead of someone else's.

DO make a goal for yourself. For instance, I want to publish more than 54 times, which is the highest number I've ever blogged for a year, even though back then in 2008, half the stuff I wrote about wasn't really blog worthy. A simple goal would be once a week, or maybe three times a month. This way, you commit to it and you don't end up with an empty blog and a sad face.

I'd also like to add a question that someone asked me the other day. She asked me how I come up with things to write about, and what my inspiration is.

Good question. :)

I kind of keep track of things that are going on in my family and in my life. I sort through them at the end of each week and figure out if anything is really blog worthy. It could be something that frustrated me during the week, and then it could turn into a rant, or it could be something unusual going on. (I realize that statement was very vague.) Basically, I keep track of things. If something hilarious just happened, I ask a couple people around me if they think it's blog worthy, including myself.


That's all I have to say about starting your own blog. Welcome to the magical world of blogging! 


Feel free to leave your blog URL in the comments so I can see your new blog. 

"That Awkward Moment When" Rant

I'm so sick of this. In case you haven't noticed, there's a ridiculous meme going around, mostly on Facebook. The meme is that someone will post something that goes a little something like this: "That awkward moment when ______________." People think it's hilarious. What about that awkward moment? Hm? Is it just SO funny how this person "cleverly" noticed that this moment was awkward? Almost all of the time, the moments that they point out on Facebook aren't even awkward to begin with!

I just don't get it.

I'll show you seven different examples of why I hate this meme. (I'm sure all you adults out there are saying to yourselves, "Oh, hate is quite a strong word. Mmm.")

1. "That awkward moment when someone yells at you for clicking a pen, but you have to click it one more time to use it."

First of all, that's not awkward at all. That's called you being ashamed and feeling a little stupid for clicking your pen, and feeling worse that you have to upset the person even more by clicking it one more time so you can go back to using it. Second of all, let this be a lesson to all you pen-clickers out there. You know who you are.


2. "That awkward moment when you're singing a song and texting at the same time, and you accidentally text the lyrics to the person you were texting."

Again, that's not awkward. That's your brain not thinking about the message you're sending to your friend, because it's focusing on the song. This is why I don't listen to music that I know the lyrics to when I'm doing my homework or texting somebody. Take notes, people.

3. "That awkward moment when you don't know how to spell a word but you use it all the time."

Whoever came up with this one, you need to work on your spelling skills. Also, this isn't awkward! This is just writing down and publishing to the world of Facebook that you just realized that you can't spell a commonly used word. Big deal. Don't post it on Facebook. Instead, go look up the word on Google and spell it the best you can, and then let auto-correct do the rest of the work. You all know how Google almost always says, "Did you mean ___?" Take advantage of Google.

4. "That awkward moment when your friend texts you 'brb' and doesn't text back for five hours."

Whoever came up with this one, you, my friend, need a better hobby then texting. Why? The fact that you actually kept track of how long it's been since your friend has texted you is just sad to begin with. Also, welcome to planet Earth! The world doesn't revolve around you, because your friends have lives and have better things to do than to be texting you constantly. Yes, I text my friends, but if someone texts me "brb," I won't count the seconds and minutes and long, dreadful hours until they finally text back. I just keep my phone on me in case they actually do text back, and in the meantime, I actually do something instead of wait around for that piece of plastic to vibrate in my back pocket.

5. "That awkward moment when you say bye to someone in person, and then you both walk in the same direction."

How is this awkward? I would just laugh about it with the person I was talking to and just keep the previous conversation going. Simple solution.

6. "That awkward moment when you run over your own banana in Mario Kart."

For those of you who don't know what Mario Kart is, (and the only reason I know this is because my brothers used to play all the time,) Mario Kart is a video game where you race around different courses and tracks using different characters and cars. Of course, your goal is to get 1st place, so in this game, you can place things on the track behind you to distract the other players and give them a disadvantage. One of these items is a banana peel to make your tires slippery. Sometimes, when there aren't many other players to compete against, you will accidentally drive right into the banana you placed during the previous lap around the course.

Now that we're all on the same page, how is this awkward? (Noticing a pattern here? None of these are awkward!) Honestly. This just means that you could use a little more driving practice on Mario Kart, and you also need to remember where you put your own traps so you don't fall into them yourself.

Listen to me, I sound like a total gamer, like I know what I'm talking about here. I haven't played Mario Kart in years. Back in the day when playing this was a regular thing, my brother Ben was always the best at it. He even got this special plastic white steering wheel that you plug in the Wii remote into so you can actually get the sensation that you're driving.

Seriously, Nintendo? You created an expensive plastic wheel just so the player can feel like he/she is actually driving? I give up.

I'm getting off topic. Let's move on.

7. "That mini heart attack you get when you miss a step on the stairs."

This one doesn't even have the word "awkward" in it, and it still aggravates me. First of all, it's not even a complete sentence! My eighth grade English teacher taught us that a sentence has to have a subject, verb, and a complete thought. This just has a subject, as far as I can tell. The subject is "attack." But there's no verb, and there's nothing completing this thought! I feel like an old English teacher, yelling at the younger generation. Well, I am part of the younger generation, and I'm yelling at the rest of my generation.

What about that mini heart attack? Can you finish your sentence? This is probably a huge pet peeve of mine, but this is going on the internet anyway. Voila, my concluding statement to end this long rant:

Why do people always have to freak out and act weird when something unexpected happens? I know that's such a vague statement. For instance, if it started to snow in the middle of June, people would freak out and act weird. But in this "that awkward moment" context, I hope you see what I mean.

People don't know what to do, except to whip out their phones or iPods and post to Facebook what just happened. They also label every small thing that's unexpected "awkward." Another example: you almost slip when you're walking into school, and you keep walking. Once you meet your friends, the first thing you say is, "Wow, that was awkward." Or something along those lines. This is what my generation does, and I hate it! Whenever something not according to our usual routine happens, we almost immediately label 99.99% of those unexpected events "awkward."

There. My rant is complete. Hope I didn't bore you.