Day 10: Chapped lips are FASCINATING.

I dont have much to say today.
I spent all morning watching the Office, Alex called me to inform me that I had overtaken WhattheBuck in Dailybooth followers (that puts me at #3 :D) and I went to school. Now I am at work.

Jenn and I talked Lost theories while Coral contemplated killing us (she hates Lost and we insist on discussing new episodes in depth every week). Now I am just bored, tired, and excited to go home to my parents house tonight (again, for Easter, and to continue with manual car driving lessons). The excitement is not so much the going home part as much as it is the kitchen full of food I didnt have to spend my own money on part. xD

Oh right. I do have something to say.

I was on facebook today and suddenly I had the little red notification doo-dad thing pop up. I clicked on it, and it said this:

"Alexa Otero just answered the question "Would Kristina Horner lick their lips before going to a party to make sure they're not chapped? " about you. Click here to see more. [ Is this spam? ] 8:56pm"

Okay. Let me unpack this for you.
1. First of all, WHY do you care?
2. Of course I'd lick my lips. That's what human people do. We lick our lips if they are dry.
3. Why would I want to "see more"? Are you going to ask if I yawn when I'm tired? If I sharpen my pencil when it gets dull? If I eat food when I am hungry?
4. Why a party? Why that specifically? I would lick my lips in a library to make sure they're not chapped. I would lick my lips in a grocery store to make sure they're not chapped. That one is super convenient too, because if they ARE chapped, I could just pick up some chap stick along with my milk and cinnamon bun ice cream.
5. Yes, it's spam.
6. Also, how do you KNOW, Alex Otero? And if you're just guessing, what JOY do get out of guessing? Yes. I lick my lips. OOOoooOoOO. Doesn't EVERYBODY?
7. WHY DO YOU CARE?

This... this is weird. Facebook applications have always annoyed me; I'm not a zombie, or a werewolf, I dont want you to send me an easter egg or a growing mystery plant or an Edward Cullen, and I REALLY dont want your bumper stickers. But a chapped lip trivia questionnaire application? Too far, facebook. Too far.

Okay. Rant over.

Working on album stuff and I am very excited about it. I cant wait to be able to put a new song on our myspace at least. I've realized nobody has heard ANYTHING, not any sort of preview or anything, from this new album. It'll be 100% a surprise!

Today's Word: Unmed
The act of throwing up medication. -Jordiekins
(That one made me giggle. xD)

Status on the Office: Season 4, Episode 1

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Day 9: Office pranks.

I am going to give you a taste of what it's like to be me, at work.

Most days I rush off after school, racing the traffic and attempting to at least get there on time. (I commute 30-40 minutes to work). But SOME days, I find the traffic (for some unpredictable reason) opens as if the Gods are saying "Yes, Kristina, you may get to work on time today."
And my policy is, if I have at least 15 minutes when I get into town, I will stop and get a Jamba juice.

Now, yesterday was a particularly slow and boring day in the life of a box office associate, and after the day shift people went home around 5, my manager Coral and I were there alone for 2 more hours. I don't know how to explain Coral, really. She is the assistant manager, and one of my very good friends, and the only reason this job hasn't made me lose my mind (I've worked here for THREE YEARS). Now that I have watched enough of the Office (Update: Season 3, Episode 7) I can relate to you that together, Coral and I probably make up the Jim of our office. Like the time we reset everyone's monitors to be sideways when we knew we weren't coming in the next morning and no one that WAS coming in would be computer savvy enough to fix it. xD I'll get to that, though.

Yesterday, I was bored of facebook. I was bored of bloons. I was bored of freecell and god forbid, I was bored of proofing subscriptions (what I was actually supposed to be doing). So instead, I was staring at my Jamba Juice cup. After much pondering, I turned to Coral and asked, "Big strawberry or small blender?"

We decided after much debate that it could really be either, but we HOPED it was a big strawberry, because there is nothing cool or exciting about a small blender. In fact, I would go so far as to say a small blender would be kind of stupid, and a waste of everyone's time.

Later, Coral was trying to print something, and couldn't because of a backlog of things that had been waiting in the queue since Jenn, the manager, had gone home. Coral just let them print, assuming they were important. They weren't. What printed was FIFTY copies of a document we didnt even need, and instead of writing "I HATE YOU SO MUCH" and tacking it to the corkboard like Coral usually does when Jenn messes up the printer, we instead decided to staple all fifty pieces of paper to her desk.

We left the place at 8:30 looking like this, quite proud of ourselves:


Just another boring day in the life of "Kristina when she's not on YouTube or being a Parselmouth." Now you know the sad truth. I'm just an easily amused office lady.

Today's word: Tardisniffles
Resulting condition after watching an Russell T Davies-inspired season finale. -randomcherries

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Day 8: Birthdays.

Today I don't know whether I should feel elated or sad.

One of my best friends and my boyfriend (Sam Friedman and Alex Day respectively) are celebrating birthdays and I cant see either one of them today. It's my own decision that my best friends live so very far away from me, and usually that's pretty okay by me because I would never sacrifice the relationships I have with amazing people for mere convenience of friends who are a little nearer by, but it's really frustrating on birthdays. I have to send birthday tweets and text messages and post birthday videos; twiddle my thumbs and hope it's enough.

I'm missing both of them a lot today. It's only been 2 weeks since I last saw Alex, but I haven't seen Sam since early December. And before that, she and I spent basically every day together for 3 months. Gaaah.
I'm seeing her at LeakyCon and we've already decided that when we first see each other, other people probably shouldn't be within a 2 block radius. We dont want any casulaties in the insane hugfest that will commence.

Today is day 3 of zombies vs. humans but I dont think I am going on campus at all, so I am going to have to work extra hard tomorrow to make a kill so I dont "starve" and can continue to play.
I dreamed last night that I made like 3 awesome consecutive kills but then I woke up and remembered I am not that stealthy or skilled.

I have been power marathoning the Office. It's only 10 AM and I have already watched 4 episodes. I can't stop. I feel like I NEED Jim and Pam scenes. Hahaha. Not that I really plan on having a bad breakup (or any breakup) ever again, but I feel like if I did, Jim and Pam could help mend my broken heart. Well, maybe.
And anything Jim does to Dwight just cracks me up. I think one of my favorite parts so far is when Jim puts all Dwight's stuff in the vending machine and he has to buy it back with nickels. xD
I am on episode 2 of Season 3, and I am rather proud of myself because this is the fastest I have ever done a catch-up of a tv show I didnt already watch from the beginning on tv. In fact, it's really the only time. I attempted Arrested Development but I am still on Season 1. And Doctor Who I am putting on hold until I finish the Office.

I used to pride myself on not really watching much tv. Oops.

Today I work 3-8:30 and I dont think I am going to get out of bed until the very last possible minute.

Also earlier, I tweeted this:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @ISNOGGEDHARRY, I LOVE YOU! (You too, @nerimon. xD)
To which John Green replied:
@KristinaHorner wait wait. Happy Birthday @nerimon or you love @nerimon?

...it made me chuckle.

Today's Word: Destioni
Ravioli that you're destined to eat. -hayleyghoover
Hayley sucked up in order to get me to pick her word, and demanded special treatment as my friend. Little did she show, I think this word is TERRIFIC and would have picked it this time anyway. Don't you feel silly now, Hoover?

Subscribers: 16,783

Day 7: Killing machine (kind of).

I successfully made my first kill today:


I felt pretty baddass. Yesterday Alex told me I was the cliché blonde, getting turned into a zombie on the first day, but today I was sitting on the steps of Suzallo Library and saw a human walking by... I surprise attacked him and his nerf gun jammed and honestly, poor Jake Anderson never stood a chance. Be afraid, UW. Be afraid.

Yesterday I had my first 2 hour childbirth class. I know a lot of people have been snickering, thinking it's the type of class where you bring your pillow and your partner and practice doing contractions; IT'S NOT. The whole process of birth is this anomaly that no one thinks to start learning about until after they're pregnant, and that's silly. There is so much to learn. It's fascinating. I want to keep this blog G rated so I wont divulge much, but all my life I thought a natural birth would be terrible and painful and I would just want them to put me under and cut the baby out and that's that, but after just one day I have already changed my mind.
Not that I plan on having kids any time soon. I have SO much living to do first. God no, I am not mother material. But someday. :)

Not to awkwardly go from talking about having babies to this, but Alex and I have officially been dating for 2 months today. Not much else to say on the subject, aside from that it makes me incredibly happy and I miss him a lot today.

I have to do this thing for my Geography class where I keep a food diary for 7 days and then do a write-up on what it tells us about our diet... I am already feeling pretty terrible because although yesterday's breakfast was pretty okay (Special K cereal with strawberries) lunch was chinese take-out and dinner was Paggliachi's Pizza. :/
I know we're not supposed to purposefully eat better for the sake of the project, but one day has passed and I already FEEL like I need to eat better. I am going to actually cook myself something tonight. We'll see how that goes.
For the record, I really dont know how to cook anything.
Besides grilled cheese. And like.. big whoop.

I think this is all for today. I am sitting on the couch in the living room with my housemate Justin and it's pretty funny because he's still a human and I'm a zombie and we're adjusting to different species living peacefully while under the same roof. It's hard. I want to eat his brains.

In fact I am going to make him take a picture with me.

Look at that amicable diversity. :D
(This is totally just a product of being in the safe zone. If we were not within the block we live on, I guarantee I would be devouring him.)

Today's Word: Lactista
Spanish women who are intolerant to dairy products. -lalalaamichelle
(This made me BURST out laughing. Best word yet. xD)

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Day 6: The flesh of the living.

There are two things I want to talk about today.

1. Doctor Who.
2. Zombies.

Zombies: My school is taking part in humans vs. zombies tag this week, and today was day one. I dont normally get involved in school activity type things, but I live with the blood guy for Night Zero and am personally featured on the cover of the first issue, so how could I turn down a zombie game? I left my house armed with rolled up socks in my pockets and my orange bandanna tied securely around my arm.


The walk to school was terrifying, because day one only has one zombie, walking around unmarked so you have to really be on your toes. I passed a few other humans, but essentially made it to class with no trouble. After class, I left Bagley Hall and literally a few seconds later, while I was scoping out the crowd looking for suspicious people, this guy walked up, tagged me, and said with a smile "Welcome to the Zombies".
WHAT? I didnt even last a day! I never stood a chance!

Basically tomorrow at 6 AM I begin to feed on the flesh of the living, so if you're a human and you go to my school, watch the eff out for me.

Doctor Who: I watched the Season 2 finale this morning, and I dont want to spoil anything for anyone but I bawled my EYES out. Rosi has informed me that people bash Rose fangirls on the Internet so I wont say much more, just that my heart was ripped out and stomped all over and it's going to take me a while to get over this. Also, I love this show. So much. Thank you, Britain.

It's BEAUTIFUL outside and I am typing this up from outside on my college campus under a tree. Excuse me for being arrogant and posting a picture of myself, but lookeeee:


This summer is so filled with wonderful funtimes that the first inkling of nice weather is just overwhelming me with euphoric smiley goodness. That was a really wordy way of saying "I am happy and excited today". Haha.

I have three hours to kill here at school before my Birthing class (hahahaha) and I think I will watch the Office on my laptop for awhile before jumping into Season 3 of DW. My heart needs time to mend. Jim and Pam will cheer me up, for sure.

Okay, I think I am losing steam on this entry. I will share with you a funny comment exchange on today's 5AG video and then I am going to wrap this up.


Oh, subscribers. xD

Today's Word: Haripp
The act of pretending to be a wizard, specifically Harry Potter, while in the supermarket.
E.g. Person one: "Hey, wanna make this more interesting?"
Person two: "How?"
Person one: "Lets haripp!"
Person two: "ZOMG! YES! Accio bananas!" - lanna_lovely

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Day 5: Beverly Hills NO.

It is SUCH a beautiful day out, and I just have to sit here appreciating it through the window of my stupid box office. If I didn't like my coworkers so much I would hate this job on days like today.
On that note, I really like when work feels like I am on a sitcom.
... I had just typed up a story of something funny that happened yesterday at work, but I realized how lame it made me sound, telling work stories in my blog, so I deleted it. Just know that work can be fun, sometimes.

In other news.

Last night I spent the night at Liz's house and aside from food and making fun of the movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua (her parents were watching it, sigh) we went upstairs and I showed her the first episode of Season 1 of Doctor Who.

Wait, hold on. I'm don't think I am done talking about Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Liz and I were listening kind of from the kitchen, and her parents kept cracking up after lines that I didn't see any humor in. There's a scene where an iguana is trying to escape from a store or something by hiding under a pinata and one of the employees is chasing it? That's the entire joke. Her parents were rolling! And in general, I'm finding there is a huge population of that world that is highly entertained by a talking and dancing dogs. This movie brought in $29 million, debuting it at number one in the box offices in the first weekend.
WHY AM I NOT AMUSED BY TALKING AND DANCING DOGS?
Sometimes I wonder if I am missing out on a simpler form of entertainment because I am so much harder to impress. SHOULD dancing dogs amuse me?

Dogs, cats, monkeys: when animals speak in movies, and the movies are not Babe, Charlotte's Web, or Homeward Bound - or a cartoon - I don't want to see it. I don't find it funny. Ahhh.
Similarly, I saw Bedtime Stories and thought it was a pretty okay movie, but they insisted on putting in this stupid guinea pig with big weirdo cartoon eyes that served no purpose other than to be funny, and it WASN'T, so it ruined the entire movie for me. RAWR.

Okay, I am moving on. So I showed Liz Doctor Who and I am proud of myself for spreading it on and I am happy she likes it. :D I am almost done with Season Two. Halfway there!

A few months ago I did a Parselmouths interview for radio with this girl I met at a Wizard Rock show named Abby. I really enjoyed this experience because she is blind and was using it as a learning tool for future radio shows she plans to execute. It was a lot of fun and we've kept in contact a bit since then.
The point of this story is that today she wrote on my facebook wall and I turned to Liz and asked her "Hey Liz, how do blind people use facebook? In fact, how do they use computers?"
Neither of us knew so we spent about 20 minutes on google learning about all of the different methods, such as brail keyboards and systems that essentially read anything on a webpage out to people. This was all making sense until we got to this sentence:

"Sometimes visually impaired people dont even bother hooking up a monitor to their computers at all."

We were both just like "What!?!!" and then a split second later said - "Oh, well that makes sense, they can't see the monitor after all."

But then we were both quiet for a few minutes while we both sat and contemplated the idea of using a computer without the monitor. It seems so - wow. I don't even know. It's STILL blowing my mind. Have any of you ever considered this? I just can't imagine surfing the web, checking email, reading wikipedia... without a monitor. This is literally just like - 100% data transfer from machine to brain with no visuals.
We rely SO MUCH on our visuals.
The craziest part is that I was reading a web forum about this and someone even replied saying "Hi, yeah, I'm on such a computer right now. It just takes getting used to."

People are walking around using monitor-less computers and interacting with us and we don't even KNOW. People amaze me. Every single day.

Today's word: Extubsas
To have a bad attitude after taking a bath. -VicMorrowsGhost (This word amused me because the definition is completely phonetic. Ex-tub-sas. Being sassy when you exit the tub. Hahhaa.)

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Day 4: Oh my car woes.

Yesterday I went back home to my parents' house armed with an overnight bag and a steel will determination to learn how to master a clutch.

It was horrible.

Friday night I set out with my dad, and it was so terribly reminiscent of learning how to drive a car in general when I was 15. It brought back all these memories in vivid flashing colors of the fights, the tears, the brake slamming..
I am 21 years old and I'd like to think I am a much more mature, level headed person than I was then, and yet it was EXACTLY the same. We fought. My eyes burned as I held back tears. I gave up and he gave up and we went in to eat dinner with my mom and brother and didnt talk about it for the rest of the night. I was ready to admit defeat, call up Ford, and tell them to give the stupid five speed to someone else.

Then this morning I woke up at 7 AM, went with my mom to her yoga class, cleared my mind, went grocery shopping with her... and then around 11 my brother asked me if I wanted to give the stick another try with him helping me this time. I am not a quitter, so I said yes.

Honestly, with him calmly explaining things to me, he had me driving loops around the nearby grocery store in 20 minutes. I don't understand how a 16 year old boy can teach me so much better than a 50 year old man can. I think possibly that my father and I just weren't meant to be in a car together. Although, my mom said that my dad once made her cry while trying to teach her to ski, so I am inclined to believe this trend proves that the fault doesn't entirely lie with me this time. My dad is a great person, but I don't think teaching is his forte.

Anyway, the point is, I am going to work with Nick a few more times and hopefully by May 1st I will at least be good enough to drive the car home.

Also, I know in yoga you're supposed to completely free your mind of other things, but I couldn't help it: the 'soothing' music we were listening to in the background had all these really great vocal harmonies and I spent half the session obsessing over them in my mind while doing things like the downward dog. And then when the harmonies finally stopped and like, euphoric dream music started playing, I honestly almost fell asleep right there on my floor mat.

I am at work for 4.5 more hours (dont need a lunch break today because my co-worker Judy whom I call my work-mom gave me half her subway sandwich xD) and then I am going to spend the night at Liz's for some general fun-time and possibly working on a new tshirt design for the Parselmouths? We need something cool for people to buy and wear at Leaky!

Lastly, I got a comment from PadfootLover19 on my YouTube channel today that said:
"Hi! I totally get the long distance thing. My boyfriend lives in Oregon. I live here in England. But he's worth the distance :)."
I have gotten a few messages now from people who have England/Pacific NW relationships. It warms my heart. :D

Today's Word: Rateris.
A disease that causes a person to (unwillingly) morph into a rat. See also: giant rodents. - by Ariel.

Subscribers: 16,416.

Day 3: New words, yo.

I spent a lot of yesterday reading other people's blogs (ie. Hayley, Rosi, and Maureen Johnson herself) and it has made me realize I should start to be a better blogger.

Not that there was anything WRONG with how I blog, it's just that there is everything RIGHT about how THEY blog.

So hi. First I am here to pimp a blog I love/kind of help with but havent actually posted on in months. Basically if you love giraffes, you should go follow it. It's not a BEDA blog, but it's good anyway.

GIRAFFE BRANCH IS LOVE.

I love how many more comments I've been receiving on my blog since BEDA started. Blogging, until now, has always sort of been that thing everyone does and feels slightly guilty about because how many outlets of expression do we REALLY need (facebook, youtube, twitter, dailybooth, oh my). But this month is fun, it's like celebrating that EVERYONE is narcissistic and feels like their faces and opinions should be strewn as far and wide as they can be, right?

So basically, thank you for making this lovely little blogging community. I think this means I should comment more.

I am very excited because my download of the Office seasons 1-4 has JUST finished; I heard the little "ding!" as I was typing this blog. Now I can finally watch them and feel like I am not a human being walking around missing my left arm or something, like many people make me feel for not having watched the Office prior to now.

Tonight I believe I am going to go home to my parents' house for my first manual car driving lesson. Wish me luck. :/

Hayley does this cute little thing at the end of her blog where she says what's sexy and unsexy; I'm not going to BLATANTLY copy her, but I have an idea for something like this too. In the comments of my last blog, people were leaving me their silly word verification words. One person even went so far as to make up a definition for this new invented word.

So I think over the course of this month, we should invent a new sort of blogger's dictionary together. It'll give this blog a purpose for existing, and I'll even have something to show for the month of April when it's over.

Create a New Word Every Day in April. CNWEDA. Sinweeda? Sinweeda = the act of making up new words? Okay, clearly I suck at this, so that's where I need your help. If you follow me on blogger, you can try to translate your word verification word, unless it's something like Xjarnok in which case you could just go name the main character of your novel that like Alex Day. If your word verification sucks, or you follow me on Maureen's ning, just think of something at random! I'll pick the best one to be the following day's word of the day.

Today's Word: Blegonin.
A verb used to describe the process of noises and movements a person makes when getting the frog out of their throat in the morning.
Like, my science teacher asked me a question today, and I started to answer but I had the raspy voice of a grandpop. So do my process of coughing and what not, and after he smiles and says "What was that?" and I simply reply, slightly embarrassed, "Sorry; I was blegonin. I'm better now." - by Dana Vlahos.

Since I am a douche and want to copy Hayley more, I'm also going to track my subscriber count all month. Wooo YouTube.

Subscribers: 16,336

Day 2: Fans rule.

This is the blog post in which I praise fans/general people on youtube.

I know this isn't the case everywhere, but I find over and over that the people in the nerdfighter/harry potter/fiveawesome community are some of the most amazing, wonderful people ever. The comments I receive daily on videos and my blogs and twitter are just - ahh. You guys are so great.

And maybe this is giving me a skewed perception of the world... because I doubt the general masses are as kind of supportive, loyal and helpful as all of you are. But if I enjoy living in this little bubble, so thank you.

An example:
It warms my heart when I go to read comments on a new video I've posted and see there is a comment that has been hidden because it already has 17 red thumb downs, and 5-6 comment replies saying things like "If you dont have anything nice to say, go away!"
I can't believe my subscribers would go so far as to look for mean hate comments in my videos and personally tell them off themselves on my behalf. I would never even have to READ mean comments if I didnt want to because my subscribers chase them away with burning torches and pitchforks. But, naturally curious, I usually cant help myself and click them anyway. Youtube has given me tough skin and seeing "ur so ugly get a paper bag 4 ur next vid, slut" just makes me chuckle.

But I am here to tell you about the HATER WHO CHANGED HIS WAYS.
I was reading over comments on "Mrs. Nerimon" and I saw this guy had left a few rather mean, childish comments, and as usual my subscribers had done their best to make him feel like an idiot. What's different about this particular situation is that a few days later, the same guy CAME BACK and left ANOTHER comment saying "Wow, I'm sorry. I realize I was out of line in what I said and apologize for any offense I may have caused."

And he wasn't being sarcastic!
So, comment cops, there IS hope in the world. We can turn haters in care-ers, one username at a time. :D

Also, I received this message on YouTube this morning:

"Sooo there's really not a point to this message, however I stumbled across your blog today and thought you might like something to reply to when you're bored at work. Anyway, have a good day and try not to be bored out of your mind.

Lindsey"

I am just overwhelmed with how sweet people can be. That people read in my blog "I'm bored at work and this is where I reply to youtube messages to pass the time" and so someone would think "Okay cool, I'll send her a youtube message then". *love*

I keep hearing about this infamous blogtv show Maureen Johnson held when I was at work (sigh) and I wish I didnt have such a busy life so I could join in the epic fun of regular blogtv hanging-out. :(

I suppose I will just plug Maureen's book and cross my fingers that school, work, album recording, and learning to drive a stick will all step aside and bestow upon me a bit of time with which I can do as I please. :D

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Two days of BEDA come and gone; this is easy. <3

BEDA: Day 1

Today is April 1st and while that means things like youtube being upside down, Alex pretending he and I took over vloglovers, and my mom and brother playing horribly mean tricks on my dad, it also means that it is Day 1 of Blog Every Day in April.

While many like Alex, whataboutadam, and others I am forgetting are polishing their webcams and .. other video-like things, I am instead cracking my knuckles and traveling deep within the realms of my mind to think of what sorts of things to blog about. I'm going to be keeping up with the things Maureen Johnson and similarly Alex are discussing so sometimes I think I will join in the discussions they bring to the table, but other times I'm sure I'll just carry on with this blog as normal.

Today's story:
My little brother just called me to inform me of the prank he and my mom are playing on my dad. Apparently they have driven his truck down the street to a nearby grocery store, and when he gets home from work, they're just going to let him think it was stolen and play along.
Knowing my dad, I dont think he's going to think this is very funny, hahaha, but they seem very excited about the idea.
I'm at work so I can't partake in the fun, but Nick promised to call me and give me a recap afterwards.

I spent my morning scrambling around to get my Ford Fiesta contracts and paperwork in on time and I am so excited for all of this. I get to go to a training session at the start of May (hotel included!) and when reading the fine print, I think they are also giving me a Sony Webbie Digital camera? All I have ever wanted in life is a camera with a flip-around screen, and today the heavens opened up and said "Sure, here. Have one. On us."

Here is the aformentioned vloglovers video:



Is it wrong of me to really, REALLY like seeing us in that itro? xD

BEDA, day one, down. Off to a good start?