Hi guys. I hope some of my old friends are reading this. : P You guys are still willing to talk to me, right?

I neglect my DA like no other. Haha. Sorry.

So what have I been up to? Shows (currently we're doing "Oliver!" and I'm a soloist), watching The Office , My Life is Average (have you heard of it? GO THERE! mylifeisaverage.com), having amazing friends. I think I've been learning and growing.

What's new?? I miss talking with you guys. I hope you all are doing okay.

About the title, I have a friend who makes up hippie names for her friends. :]

Here is a Starbucks drink I recommend to you. Chai tea eggnog latte. On like black Friday my aunt ordered it and I ordered something else, but I ended up getting her order, and drank like over half of it before she tasted it. Then she realized it was hers and we traded. But hers was so good. Try it. I think it's only available 'til sometime in January or something. A seasonal thing.

Have a great day, and break, and Christmas, or whatever respective holiday you observe. Have a good day.

Hey! Guess what! It's my birthday! Woo!

It's raiiiining really hard!

And I wish I could draw something on Photoshop and update my gallery... The computer it's installed on has a big virus on it...and so doesn't work/it would take more effort than I'd like to give to get it to start and such. xD

I wonder if I can still use my tablet, though? On another computer?

Oh boy. School's starting up soon. It may have already started for you. I'd better be more diligent this year. I will probably have lots to do this year with school, plus all the stuff I'm doing on top of that. I'm kinda excited though.

Anddd I dyed my hair yesterday. It's darker. I pretty much dyed it 'cause I had highlights that were growing out and I didn't want to redo them.
(Sorry guys who are reading this, I'm sure my guy friends don't care xD)

Have a wonderful day!

A telemarketer prank. I got this from a note my friend wrote on Facebook, I don't think she was the one who did it though. I think she probably got it in an email or something. Poor telemarketers...this is kinda mean, but funny. I kinda want to be a telemarketer to hear the jokes and pranks. Guys, read this and laugh, but be kind to your telemarketers. Their days of work probably seem long every day. :]


Love Those Telemarketers!


I was at home the other night in the middle of my dinner when the phone
rang.

ME: Hello.

AT&T: Hello, this is AT&T.

ME: Is this AT&T?

AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T ..

ME: This is AT&T?

AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T ..

ME: Is this AT&T?

AT&T: Yes! This is AT&T. May I speak to Mr. Byron, please?

ME: May I ask who is calling?

AT&T: This is AT&T.

ME: OK, hold on. (At this point I put the phone down for a solid 5 minutes
thinking that surely, this person would hang up the phone. I ate my
salad. Much to my surprise, when I picked up the receiver, they were still
waiting.)

ME: Hello?

AT&T: Is this Mr. Byron?

ME: May I ask who is calling, please?

AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T .

ME: This is AT&T?

AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T .

ME: The phone company?

AT&T: Yes, sir.

ME: I thought you said this was AT&T.

AT&T: Yes, sir, we are a phone company.

ME: I already have a phone.

AT&T: We aren't selling phones today, Mr. Byron. We would like to offer
you 10 cents a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

ME: Now, that's 10 cents a minute, 24 hours a day?

AT&T (getting a little excited at this point by my interest): Yes, sir,
that's right! Twenty-four hours a day!

ME: 7 days a week?

AT&T: That's right.

ME: 365 days a year?

AT&T: Yes, sir.

ME: I am definitely interested in that! Wow!!! That's amazing!

AT&T: We think so!

ME: That's quite a sum of money!

AT&T: Yes, sir, it's amazing how it adds up.

ME: OK, so will you send me checks weekly, monthly or just one big one at
the end of the year for the full $52,560; and if you send an annual check,
can I get a cash advance?

AT&T: Excuse me?

ME: You know, the 10 cents a minute.

AT&T: What are you talking about?

ME: You said you'd give me 10 cents a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, 365 days a year. That comes to $144 per day, $1008 per week and $52,560
per year. I'm just interested in knowing how you will be making payment.

AT&T: Oh, no, sir. I didn't mean we'd be paying you. You pay us 10 cents a
minute.

ME: Wait a minute, how do you figure that by saying that you'll give me 10
cents a minute, that I'll give YOU 10 cents a minute? Is this some kind of
subliminal telemarketing scheme? I've read about things like this in the
Enquirer, you know.

AT&T: No, sir, we are offering 10 cents a minute for....

ME: THERE YOU GO AGAIN! Can I speak to a supervisor, please?

AT&T: Sir, I don't think that is necessary.

ME: I insist on speaking to a supervisor!

AT&T: Yes, Mr. Byron. Please hold. (At this point, I begin trying to
finish my dinner.)

SUPERVISOR: Mr. Byron?

ME: Yeth?

SUPERVISOR: I understand you are not quite understanding our 10 cents a
minute program.

ME: Is This A T &T?

SUPERVISOR: Yes, sir, it sure is.

ME: (I had to swallow before I choked on my food. It was all I could do to
suppress my laughter and I had to be careful not to produce a snort.) No,
actually, I was just waiting for someone to get back to me so that I could
sign up for the plan.

SUPERVISOR: OK, no problem. I'll transfer you back to the person who was
helping you.

ME: Thank you. (I was on hold once again, and managed a few more mouthfuls-----
I really need to end this conversation. Suddenly, there was an aggravated but
polite voice at the other end of the phone.)

AT&T: Hello, Mr.. Byron, I understand that you are interested in signing
up for our plan?

ME: No, but I was wondering ----do you have that "Friends and Family" thing?
Because I'm an only child and I'd really like to have a little brother...

AT &T: click...

Hey guys what's up???!

Haven't talked to you in a long time, have I? Tell me how you are doing. What's been going on with me?...

At present I'm tpying with one hand and holding in the other a baby guinea. They're like chickens, but they're not. My mom's not sure this one will live so I'm holding it and offering it food and water occasionally, because it has trouble holding its head up.

Gee I hope you don't find it weird that I'm writing to you old friends and stuff, since it's been such a long time. You should reply.

Yeah! I'm just sorta enjoyin summer, hangin' out, trying to get a tan and stuff. I've been in a couple of more musicals during the winter and spring: Beauty and the Beast, I don't know if I told you all I was in that one, and one called Honk!, Jr. I got my first named part in that show (my first one with that group, anyway) and had so much fun. (I only had like 4 lines, but it was fun to have a named character and lines and a mic and stuff, and it was a great chorus show. It was a really fun show anyway.) I got closer to friends and stuff over these two shows, also.

I also might possibly (maybe probably) have OCD. My counselor (yup, I have one) and doctor think I do, but I didn't think I did, but I've been learning more about it and seeing how I might indeed have it. I have to take medication for it, and I'm not supposed to take any other medication/medicine with it, and if I keep taking it, it means that I can't take pain medicine or cold medicine...like ever. Hmm....

Hope you guys are all okay, comment to me.

This was in 's journal. (And that might not show up as the icon, how do you do it again?)

> This incident happened recently in North Texas . A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke which she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken to the hospital and placed in ICU. She died on Wednesday.

The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis. This was traced to the can of coke she drank from without using a glass. Tests showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine and hence the disease Leptospirosis.

Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances. It is highly recommended to thoro ughly wash the upper part o f soda cans before drinking out of them. The cans are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned.

A study at NYCU showed that the tops of soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets (i.e).. full of germs and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to the mouth to avoid any kind of fatal accident.

Please forward this message to all the people you care about.
(I JUST DID) <-- (well, you know)

What else has been going on?

I have two new kitties. Their names are Sydney and Callie..

I was looking at some past journal entries and I, possibly, have been playing guitar for about a year. And I still am bad at it!!!

My cousin had a baby a couple weeks ago or something. And my brother's in Europe, luckyhead.

Bye DAers!