1/11/11

Man! This is my fifteenth year of existence? Already!? I was born in 1996 and the fact that it's already 2011 is surprising. I guess you could also find it interesting or amazing that it's 1/11/11 today! No really, I actually did find that kind of amazing! I heard a lot of people were getting married today too! Even though it's a Tuesday and not a weekend! But if I was getting married I would like it to be this date or 11/11/11! (If I wasn't underage, that is!) I guess it's also kind of an easy date to remember too!

With someone who got married on a normal date like 6/17/10
"Hey when did you get married?"
"Oh um, some date in the year of 2010."

With someone who got married on 1/11/11:
"Hey when did you get married?"
"Oh um, just the best date of all time! 1/11/11! Nailed it!"

Heidi - Internet Sensation

Heidi is the name of this crossed eyed opossum. She is thought to be two and a half years old, and was abandoned outside an animal shelter! Poor little Heidi, her name reminds me of the beer Heinken! But it's probably more likely related to the famous story about the Swiss orphan Heidi. :) Experts aren't sure why Opossum Heidi is cross eyed - either because of her diet before she was abandoned, or because she is overwieght which is leading to fat deposits behind her eyes! Uh oh, I hope this doesn't happen to my fat dog Nikko! Anyway, people liked and thought Heidi's eyes were funny so an internet page was set up for Heidi's fans! I'm not going to lie - even I liked Heidi on Facebook and thought she was funny :)

LUCKY MAN!

WHAT?!?!? TALK ABOUT A LUCKY MAN! A man named Darco Sangermano was hit in the temple with a .22 caliber bullet while wandering Naples on New Years/New Years Eve. Supposedly Naples is a city in Italy famous for its crazy New Year celebrations, often involving firearms and powerful fireworks! I'd like to go to Naples one day for New Years! Or maybe not because this might happen...

The bullet went through the right side of Darco's head, went behind his eye socket, and lodged in his nasal passage! I have no idea how. Maybe he's going to have good luck for the New Year because - amazingly and thankfully - it did no serious damage! He was "bleeding heavily", said the ambulance driver, and was taken to a hospital shortly after midnight. Then an amazing yet funny thing happened. While waiting to be seen by the doctors... he sneezed the bullet out! That's the best New Year's story ever... and a really great one to tell to his kids!

The New iPod!

So I got the new iPod for Christmas and I have to say it's working wonders! I got Skype on my iPod and now I can webcam all my friends with my iPod! I have to admit it's pretty cool! I'm really happy I got it! You can webcam, play games and listen to music all with this little device that sits in your pocket! Mind blowing, isn't it? Oh, the progress we've made since my mom's day when the most amazing technology was Asteroids! I even tried using my webcam to call my mom in class today! She wasn't online ): Well that's the end for this post! Gonna go webcam my friend now! :)

World's Largest Cave

What?!? Caves are still being discovered?! I didn't know that! This cave Hang Son Doong (hee hee, I know it's a funny name) was discovered in Vietnam! Vietnam is said "to have some of the world's most spectacular caves." I guess most of them are unexplored too if they didn't even know about this gigantic thing! This cave is said to be big enough in places to hold a New York City block of skyscrapers! When I read that my eyes popped out of my head! The cave is in the Annamite Mountains and it contains a river and jungle! (The cave's name translates to "mountain river cave") IT EVEN HAS IT'S OWN THIN CLOUDS! INSIDE THE CAVE, PEOPLE! I don't know how people didn't find out about this cave before! Amazing!

ANOTHER PIRATE'S OF THE CARRIBEAN

Along with Batman, there's going to be another Pirates of the Caribbean too! The writers of Pirates of the Caribbean are really screwing up. They're writing a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean called: On Stranger Tides. The third movie was bad enough, thank you very much!! At least two actors had enough sense not to return, Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley. That should have just been a hint to not do another Pirates of the Caribbean!!! The writers of these movies are on crack or something now... they have no idea where they're taking this series. They should have just stopped at the second movie. Fourth movie now? Way too far!!!

OVER-PRICED GAS! (Happy New Year)

WAT! I THOUGHT GAS PRICES WERE FINALLY GOING DOWN! Well unfortunately I was wrong! Way. Way. Way. WAY WRONG! As you all know today is New Years - Happy New Years by the way 1/1/11! - and the gas prices are supposed to be heading towards FOUR DOLLARS for one gallon of gas! So if you have a 15 gallon tank like my mom, it's SIXTY DOLLARS TO FILL UP YOUR CAR. SIXTY! SIXTY, PEOPLE! I wouldn't say I'm necessarily happy, but pleased because I'm expecting people to get rid of those giant hulk sized machines of metal that they call "SUV's". I guess it could also be better for the environment too... maybe people will start getting electric cars! Oh well - we'll see. It's only the beginning of the year! Only 364 more days too go! Happy New Year again!

- Alex