Life has been going swell lately. I had a birthday party of epic proportions last Friday - which was just dandy - plus, Christmas break is right around the corner. Guess what that means? Over a week of sitting around and doing nothing. It will be absolute bliss.

Now, with that said, I feel it is an appropriate time to go off on memes and hot-topics that really make me pissed. In other words: I enjoy making fun of controversy and delivering proverbial punches in the gut to some of the more pathetic aspects of society. These may not apply to all of the following bullet-points, but it doesn’t matter. You probably already saw this coming anyway.

  • Shutup about The Golden Compass. Oh, it’s anti-religious? Really? Out of all the anti-Christian, anti-Mormon, anti-whatever movies you could have picked from, you simply had to complain about this one… and yet, 99.9% of the people who even see this movie don’t seem to pick up any of the aforementioned connotations.
     
    Alright; maybe if you have an extreme case of OCD - or if you’re just extremely over observant - you might be able to see some kind of remote connection to anti-religion. From what I last heard, though, people aren’t even sure if The Golden Compass actually contains intentional themes of the sort. Then again, I haven’t really looked it up. (Probably because I have better things to do… like watching paint dry.)
     
    In all seriousness, you’re entitled to your own opinion. You can be against this movie. Just don’t be pretentious and annoy other people in the process.

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  • FaceBook tends to somewhat annoy me on a regular basis. Today, I rejected about 150 application requests. One hundred and fifty. Friends, why must you do this to me?! To make things clear: No, I don’t really give a crap about your movie tastes. I don’t give a crap about the music you like, either. And, no, I don’t care about “Who’s hot and who’s not”. Oh, did you just poke me? Then I’ll be damned if I ever poke you back.
     
    I could go on for a while about this - but I think you get the idea.

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  • I am not 16 yet, therefore I am not able to handle dating. In other news: I am fresh out of the womb of my mother, and I am still being fed milk from a bottle. Because I live in a Mormon community, there is a huge, restrictive mindset that blankets the school as well as the rest of the surrounding area. Written all over it: “You cannot date until you are sixteen years of age”. What stops me from dating right now?
     
    Now, I will admit that I do somewhat agree with this policy. I know some people who, as old as they are, still should not date because they are too immature. On the other hand, specific age restrictions are pretty lame. We all grow at different rates. We all mature at different times. Why, oh why do we have the need to set limits at exact ages and increments?
     
    I am not sixteen yet. However, my birthday is tomorrow, at around six or seven in the morning (to be accurate). Hmm, I’m not feeling ready right now. On the other hand, when I wake up in about ten hours - BAM, I should feel a good and drastic change.

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  • Wait a minute, wait a minute… Did someone just say a bad word? While we’re still on the topic of Mormons, it’s a good time to discuss yet another annoying aspect of my life that I deal with almost everyday.
     
    Go ahead and walk into any of the public schools in a diverse city like L.A. or New York, and you will hear people cussing as if it’s an art form.
     
    However, if I was caught using a loud expletive in seventh-period English, then I would be in deep humiliation. I can imagine it now: Silence, a few gasping noises, and all of my friends staring at me.
     
    Before I go any further, let me be quick to emphasize that I am indifferent to almost all religions. I’m not ripping on the LDS Church; I’m even Mormon myself. It’s a great community with good values, but the problem lies where people take some of these values to an extreme and they inadvertently repel me from my religious upbringing. As you’ve probably noticed, this is where topics like crude language and dating really stand out.
     
    A few days ago in my Multimedia class, my friend Donald was reading my blog, and he just happened to come across a place where I used the word “hell”. I won’t go into much detail (You’re probably getting bored already, right?), but basically what followed was a half-hour lecture on why he was so surprised at me for saying such a thing, and why I shouldn’t cuss anymore.
     
    I think the best response that worked on him was, “I’m sorry you feel that way.”
     
    Then, I told him “Run for the hills, Donald! There’s a bad word! GAH!” And now, friends, it is my job to cover up his eyes if anything remotely offensive pops up on his monitor.

I digress… it should probably seem a bit awkward to discuss some of these things on my blog, considering who actually reads it. But you know what? It’s good to vent. I want my friends to know that I love all of them, and finally: Have a great Christmas. Or Hanukkah. Or Kwanzaa. Or whatever floats your boat.