PUPPIES

Lost Cause for Paws is a new animal shelter opening in June 2018.  For all of your animal needs and animal adoptions go to 22 Hoco St. in Roxury, N.J. 07876.  I got my dog, “fluffy” there and she is my best friend.  She is irreplaceable and I love her.  She had all of her shots and everything she needed.

Al of their animals are up to date on on shots and have no past aggressive behavior, so if you’re worried about getting a mean animal, no worries.  Shakira (yes that one) will be there at the grand opening as a friend of the owner’s.  She won’t be performing, but she will be there support him and that’s very sweet.

If you go to their website and enter promo code “LCFP” you can get a 50% discount on all purchases made.  Whether it’s the adoption fee or pet care, you get half off your total bill.  That’s a fantastic deal!  What are you still doing reading this?  Go use the promo code!  AGAIN that's 22 Hoco St. in Roxbury, N.J. 07876.  You can contact them at 973-333-3333 or go to www.lostcauseforpaws.com

Next Semester

This semester is coming to an end and I couldn't be more happy because I want summer.  I want it to be nice out and I don't want to worry about doing homework every week.  Although I have enjoyed some classes this semester, I have a couple that I'm excited for in the Fall.

I'm taking "Public Relations" and I'm excited because public relations seems like a fun and interactive job and I want to get a better sense of what it would be like.  I don't have a problem with public speaking, so I didn't want to take a class on that.  I figured I would take this class because we learned about public relations in this class, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

I am taking Filmmaking 1 as well and that class seems very cool because I like making videos and fun stuff like that.  Hopefully the professor doesn't take the class too seriously like my professor at CCM did.  I took a film class at CCM and my professor was very informative, but he was way too intense for just making videos and movies.  Every little thing had to be perfect and had to be his way.  I know a lot about making videos with lights and cameras, so hopefully that will transfer over to this course.

It's a sad day when some people have to stop blogging because they grow out of it or become tired of it, but here's the thing about sad days...

this one isn't one of them.

Storytime

I guess I'll preface this story with a little background.  My best friend, Kevin, invited me to the Outer Banks with his family.  There were 3 or 4 families going because Kevin's family is very close with each other.  We were going to stay for a week in a beach house and basically just get drunk and chill.  It was a fantastic week, one of the best of my life so far, but the story is not about that week, it's about why my best friend is dumb. 

So the ride to North Carolina is about 8 hours and we took stops every so often for bathroom, food, etc.  The beginning of the ride is great, we're all singing along to songs and having a lot of laughs.  We're telling stories about school and memories from the past, it's just a good time.

We're about 4 or 5 hours into the trip and we come across this bridge.  This bridge is an extremely long bridge, like 20+ miles long.  A very cool sight to see because you're basically just in the middle of the ocean and you can see only water in both directions.  We've been on this bridge now, for about 20 minutes or so and one of Kevin's cousins says, "Hey, like where are we right now?" (meaning like which state are we in).  We all got it and were thinking about exactly which state we're in except for Kevin.  Kevin answers his cousin with, "oh we're on this bridge right here."  Everyone looks at kevin like this:

and starts hysterically laughing because that was the dumbest possible answer at the time.  We had to open windows to get air because we were all laughing so hard and sucking up the air in the car.  And even now, whenever I go over a bridge, I think about my stupid best friend. 

Early Semester End?

My philosophy class ends April 30 and my spanish class ends May 4.  Media Writing ends May 8 and it's my latest class.  My friends all end May 16 or something like mid May.  I'm not complaining for once, but I am a little confused as to why.  It makes sense for my girlfriend's school because she had off for Easter holidays and we didn't, but some of my friends just have longer school years.  That sucks for them.  Haha.

This can't come to soon either because mentally, I'm just done with this semester.  I have very little work to do across all my classes and I'm pumped to be done.  The only big thing in my classes is this press kit and even that, isn't difficult.  It's time consuming, but it's not difficult, it's actually kinda fun to be honest.  I wish I could do Dunder Mifflin (thanks), but alas I'm doing a pet shelter so it's probably better because animals.

I have other work for classes, but like not even worth mentioning because they're so minuscule.  The only class that I'm even semi worried about is Spanish and even then, I'm fine I think.  If I can get a 70 on the spanish final, I'll be happy.  While we're on this topic, why on earth do I need to take spanish class??????  Who's idea was that?  If I was going to Mexico, sure I'll learn some spanish, but I'm in New Jersey and not to sound arrogant and one like one of those "get out of my country" kind of people, but why would I need to know spanish here.

I always end up complaining, hope you enjoyed.

I bet you're happy we end the semester early too.

Garlic Dish

I don't think I have a favorite garlic "dish" per se, but my favorite food that has garlic in it is garlic knots or garlic bread.  Other foods use garlic as a little ingredient, but with bread, garlic is the main flavor.  It's also fairly easy to make and inexpensive.  Especially if you buy the frozen ones that are already prepared so you just pop 'em in the oven.

The weird part about garlic is that I think it's gross on like almost everything else.  My mom puts it on broccoli sometimes and there's like big pieces of it still on the broccoli and I won't eat it.  I just want the flavor of garlic, I'm not trying to ward off vampires.  I wish I knew how to garlic and other things like it to accent foods because I just add spices until I think it's good.

Garlic powder is another thing though.  I put garlic powder on pizza, burgers, hot dogs.  It's so good on like every barbecue food.  Specifically "Adobo" it's basically garlic powder with salt and pepper and it goes with every possible food item.  If you haven't tried it, do it.  It adds enough flavor to anything you put it on.  Think of something that could use a little bit of flavor.  You're probably wondering, "would Adobo be good on this?"  The answer is yes, it would be good on that.

Do you use Adobo?  What do you use it on?     

Almost Done

With the school year coming to an end, I really just don't want to do anything anymore.  It's getting nice out and the semester is basically over, so I just want to stay home and not come to class.  Which is dangerous.  It's really bad because I still have another year of school before I graduate.

I also need to find an internship that's at least semi-relevant to what I'm studying.  I could get an internship at my old job, but it'd be focused on business and marketing.  I'll ask if they have a specific program that could be different than the usual internship that they have, but I doubt it because I feel like I would have seen someone or at least heard about it. 

I always hear adults (even though I'm technically an adult, but I don't feel like one) say, "life has a way of working itself out", but I'm still stressed because I don't know what's going to happen to me after school.  That's why I'm stressing over an internship because apparently a degree isn't enough and companies are greedy and want me to have experience even though I was just at school for my entire life.  I like to think I won't just take the first job thrown at me, but I feel like I will if it's good enough.  Even if it's not my ideal job, I can get some kind of knowledge or experience from it.  But I'm freakin out man.  Hopefully everything falls into place eventually. 

You scared of the future yet?

Just Singin

I think it's a known fact that if you are even remotely happy, you'll sing in the shower or the car or just basically when you're alone and no one can hear you.  You're probably wondering, well what songs do you sing when you're alone.  That's a great question and I will tell you.  My music taste is very weird because I like a lot of different genres, but I mainly listen to hip hop/rap.  The weird part is that I can only listen to hip hop/rap through headphones when I'm walking or if I'm at home.  I can't listen to it in the car anymore because then I get sick of listening to the same playlist.  I have a compromise though.  In the car, I listen to my "classics" playlist and that's basically a lot of rock/old 2000's songs.  And I jam.  Oh do I jam.

SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN

If there was one song that I had to sing word for word, it'd be Piano Man - Billy Joel.  If that song comes on in a bar and there's karaoke, I'm in, I'm so in.  I'll grab my friends and we'll all sing it.  It's an absolute classic and everyone knows it. 

I will also sing just about any song off "Graduation"- Kanye West.  I know basically every song on that album. 

What's your go to karaoke song?