And you can be a superhero too!

yeah its been a while...and not trying to be cute or anything but ive honestly procrastinated writing a blog for the site...i spend the last 2 weeks visiting Emily in the Dominican Republic but im honestly too lazy to write about that right now so for the sake of conciseness ill just say it was the best trip ever and elaborate @ a later date...

I found a website in which you can do some pretty rad customization of yourself as a superhero so me and emily made ours to show you...here i be as "Johnny Kastle"...





Emily has informed me that this may be the name of a certain character in "Dirty Dancing" (i wont go into how I dont like that movie right now, thats a different blog for a different day) I thought I was being semi-creative and mixing Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four and Frank Castle (the Punisher) but ill change the name later...

here is emily as "Eliza Kastle"...



we are both natural heroes, i.e. we have rad fighting skills and nice intellect..."Batman"-style if you will...

THIS IS THE WEBSITE TO MAKE YOUR HERO OR VILLIAN AT. <---Click that Link to make your Hero!!!

Thanks to Bobby Wood of New Orleans, LA for finding this for us. If you send us your charcters via email or IM or something I will put your hero up on the site for people to see, maybe we will have a vote to see who is the best or something

to save you picture from the site its a little tricky but easy if you follow the 3 easy steps:

1) press "print screen" (most of you will have to press "FN+Insert" some will use "F12" just find the print screen button press it with "FN" or "Shift"

2) nothing will happen, you need to open your Paint application or a relative editing application and paste the image to there by using the menu or pressing "CTRL+V", if you did 1) correctly your image should pop up there

3) save the picture and send it to us @ comments@procrastinatorsparadise.com !

OR

you can send us facebook messages or leave a comment to this blog here with the saved parameters (click the save thing on the site then copy and paste it) and ill do all that for you

Song of the Moment: "Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi

i'm feelin this song a lot right now and i dont know why other than the fact that it gives me my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th winds during my workout...

oh yeah and its arguably (not really) Bon Jovi's greatest song you may argue this but whatever this is my song and my moment...

i'm a cowboy and ive got the night on my side...argue that and do some more push ups

Happy S.A.D.!

That's Single's Awareness Day for those of you who don't know what that's like ;-) I figured it would be appropriate to write a little Valentine's blog. If you know me, you know that I'm very much single. (perhaps I'll have to start writing a series of blogs about my non-existent love life...sound good? yes, no, whatever?) You also may know that for the most part this doesn't bother me. I like myself and I feel like I know what I want in a guy. I just haven't found that guy yet. And I firmly believe that settling should be an option for no one. You're worth more than having somebody just for the sake of not being alone.

I think that's the problem with Valentine's Day. It makes us want to be a part of the crowd and during this time, we are being sent the message that everyone in the crowd has some significant other. So more than seeking love on a day that was made for love (or the selling of gretting cards and numerous other commercial products, depending on how you look at it) we just hope to not stand out from the crowd. I think that's why this day used to bother me more when I was younger because I had to be in school around everyone trying to find someone to not stand out. Now it isn't nearly as bothersome...that is until I got a call inviting me to something tonight because the person calling me figured that I "probably didn't have any plans for [tonight]." Though that person had good intentions and (I think) meant nothing by it, the comment did cause me to do that mumbling thing that I do under my breath when I got off of the phone.

Truth is, because I have some good friends, I don't really feel at a loss for anything to do tonight. I may go see a movie with some friends, possibly stop by at the function my good intentioned friend invited me to, maybe cook myself some dinner, maybe pick something up (depending on my mood by this evening) and just enjoy the good life that I have. There's no point in whining about not having that "someone" because I know that if I did, I'd probably be complaining that I had to plan something for him and go find some sort of gift that meant something on a holiday that is incredibly commercial.

So if you have that "someone" cherish and enjoy the excuse to spend more time with him/her. If you don't, I hope you have some friends you can hang out with, or take a little time to pamper yourself...make dinnner, watch a DVD, make yourself a bubble bath and eat some chocolate. Or use this opportunity to do something nice for someone else. I've had a couple of friends that have sent me Valentine cards in the mail. (thanks Lauren and Laura!). Laura's was simple, but creative and I got a good chuckle out of it, so I decided I would share it with you. Have a happy day, no matter how you celebrate!

(in case you can't make it out, it says
"Limericks are crude
I can't send you food
Straight from the heart
It sucks we're apart
If I could I'd send you a dude")

I know why the caged bird sings...

It’s because there is absolutely nothing else to do when you’re cooped up in such a tiny space.  I mean I have tv, but there’s only so much of not thinking that I can take.  I need movement and human interaction.  I mean sure I could pester my host sister here and only understand half of what she’s saying, but I think I’d like to stay in good standing with my one connection to a Dominican social-life.  And after thinking in Spanish for a while, my brain begins to crash.  I want contact with the English-speaking world! Facebook, AIM, unlimited nighttime minutes! These are the commodities that I miss the most, the ones that connect me to home and to all you good people reading along with my international disconnect. 

I mean I feel like I am literally living in a cage.  There are even pretty decorative wrought iron bars on all the windows, the kind you would want if, say, you were to have a pretty little bird cooped up for your personal enjoyment.  I just wonder, who exactly am I singing for here?  Because, oh, trust me, I’m singing. 

As most of you who know, and therefore love, me know, I am a fool for my music.  I mean seriously, if you people could see me when I get alone with a song I can belt every word to and a mirror to watch how foolish I can look singing it, that’s when I really let loose.  My nightly routine has become to shut the door to my little room (obviously I don’t want my host family thinking I’ve lots my marbles), crank up the fan (it’s like a hot box in here), and crank up the i-tunes (shuffle, anyone?). 

Now before you people think I’m becoming some sort of a recluse, rejecting the culture of the Dominican Republic and shutting my self away to just wait out the next few months (which is only slightly true, and I won’t say which parts), let me explain just why I am locked away in my castle tower (some may refer to it as a third story apartment, but the Disney princess in me prefers my terminology).

Every night as the sun starts to set, I find myself in a race with the on-setting darkness, hustling the ten blocks (and in Dominican a block has no significant standard distance, so it’s quite some while) back to my amarillo abode.  See, in a city where petty theft and nightly gang violence have presented some problems, walking along after dark is a big no-no, especially for a gringa like me.  So the solution and strongly practiced Dominican practice is to call a cab.  But that’ll run you about $5 bucks each way, plus the cost of whatever you plan to do.  So for a thrifty exchange student like me, I try to reserve the going out and being social (which is not only expensive but also a hassle seeing as how all of us live all over the city) to just once, maybe twice a week.

So as I sit here typing away to all of you my friends (very much lacking the means to actually connect to you) I have begun my new nightly ritual and cranked up the i-tunes.  Oh I’m also getting pretty good at computer chess too.  (As long as it’s on the easiest setting-that computer can get pretty tricky with its fancy moves.)

So farewell for now to you my friends back in the states, or wherever you may be with your fancy internet.  As for now, I am left to the sun, the beaches, and my personal nightly entertainment (hey, just i-tunes, remember?)

The world can see you now...

http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/

This fellow blogger site is sort of like post secret, in fact they reference to it to how they got their beginnings...it works in that people from all around find cameras, media cards, etc. that have been lost or discarded...the people that find these, if you are the lucky griever of a lost camera, post a picture or two on this site and where they found it at...its fun to look @ because you get to see into the lives of other people that we dont know, you know the same reason we all like postsecret so much...

they are a fairly new site so they are still growing

now if someone in France would find my camera it would be a joyous day...

thanks to Laura Stribling from Greenville, SC for sending us this site


(p.s. if you got to postsecret soon, people think that one of the secrets on there are mine, if you know me you may have a good guess if not im not telling if its mine or not haha)

Quotable

this is a blog that will be devoted to the best things that I have heard from you guys mainly, every now and then maybe a famous quote or something, but mainly you guys so the inaugural quote for this blog is from my good friend Jane Everett (Raleigh, North Carolina) in a conversation we were having about the South being greater than the North...



"If you stretch the Mason-Dixon line across the world, Bethlehem falls under it which means that Jesus was born Southern, if you hate the South then you hate Jesus too"

- Jane Everett, February 1, 2008

Scrubs Episode of the Moment: My Way Home

"My Way Home" is the episode of the moment because I am in the process of transferring back to the South hopefully and being in Philadelphia away from the comforts of familiarity and away from Emily and her going through some of the same stuff in the DR and others of my friends dealing with other crucial situations like job searching, distance, and relationships...

In this episode, JD has the day off but keeps getting sucked into staying around the hospital to help his friends out...

The episode plays off of The Wizard of Oz and does so beautifully...through hardships @ the hospital, Turk, Elliot, and Carla end up needing a heart, brains, and courage respectively and Ted's band (which is a real acapella group) does a nice rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for background music

Turk is in a contest with all of the surgeons to see who gets to assist in the hospitals first ever heart transplant using the heart of patient in a coma, in the process the parents of the patient become enraged and ask Turk for the truth, he tells them and in return for his honesty the reward him..

Elliot returns from her fellowship and Dr. Cox finally figures out how she has so many hot shot answers and puts her on the spot to direct a seminar after he finds out she hides answers and tips around the hospital (i.e. bedpans, tissue boxes, etc) ...

Carla freaks out about having kids after taking care of Jack (Dr. Cox and Jordan's son) for the day and realizing that she hates kids and doesnt understand how Dr. Cox and Jordan do it so well...

this is also one of my top 5 Scrubs episodes, im pretty sure this episode is from season 5, enjoy