So I have been giving it a lot of thought about what should be day # 4. I knew that I was going to do this pet peeve but I wasn't sure when I should do it. Now seems to be as good of a time as any.
Todays pet peeve just happens to be something that I think all of us do. I am going to speak real specifically about this as to not offend anyone. Todays pet peeve is "one upping". Like I said I really think that all of us do one up's from time to time and I am not blogging about you today. Today I am talking about those who cannot allow someone else to say anything without coming up with a story of their own to top it.
For those of you who may not know what a "One Upper" is let me define. A person can be known as a one upper or can be caught one upping. Other ways of calling this out would be "One upped or one up". Have you ever told a story about something that happend to you or a friend and the person who you are telling this story to says something to the effect of, "Oh yeah, If you think that was crazy let me tell you about..." Well my friend you have been one upped.
Let me make this clarify this in a narrited story. This is a story about two friends named John and Frank. John and Frank were talking one day catching up since the last time they saw eachother. John was telling Frank about taking his children waterskiing.
John: So Frank, last week I took our family on a vacation to go waterskiing at Lake Meed.
Frank: Wow John that sounds like a lot of fun! It reminds me of when I took my family to the Bahamas for 10 days.
John: Uh yeah, so all of my children are doing really great. Kendra got up waterskiing for the first time and my boy Sean is really getting good on the wake board. He is begining to do some tricks while he is riding that make my back hurt just watching. He is really doing great at waterskiing too!
Frank: Cool. When we were in the Bahamas our hotel had a boat we could rent for $175 an hour! We paid for the boat for the entire day to go waterskiing and wakeboarding. Because we had a driver on the boat all of us got to waterski at the same time. My wife and son Teddy formed the base of a waterski pyramid while my other two sons Ken and Glen got on our shoulders to form the second row, and then we had our 10 year old daughter, Mercedes, get on top to finish the human pyramid. The whole beach was going crazy and applauding for us. It was so much fun!!!
John: Uh, wow Frank that was amazing. I think I have to go now.
You see John now hates Frank for one upping him several times in one conversation and will never talk to him again. We really all do one ups now and again. I think it is natural to do. But to make a point of constantly being on top is just plain rude.
There was a great SNL clip that I was unable to find with LeBron James at some charity event and a person in the crowd one upping everything said regardless of how outragious it was. Sorry I couldn't find it, it was pretty funny.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Pet Peeves Day # 2
Ok now on to day two of my pet peeves. As a side note I was thinking about it this morning and I sure hope I will be able to fulfil my commitment to put down seven pet peeves that I have. I had a hard time remembering what I was going to put down for day two. That is not to say that I am any less bugged by the monstrosity that is the word verification.
I have been blogging now sense December 23rd and am trying my best to be a good blogger. I try to keep my blogs up do date and I try to read other peoples blogs as often as I can and make comments when I have the time to do so. I know that I have made at least 17 comments because of the word verifications that I have typed in the past. For some reason it keeps a log of all the words that you have typed in.
Word verification is the topic of my blog for today. Simply said I hate it. First of all these clearly are not words. Let me type all 17 "words" that I have been forced to type in just so I can leave a comment on one of my friends blogs. They are as followed: elsrxow, enuiyn, gtbtci, ikrtbeh, ivexeks, iweio, lbmaskq, mqerxcye, mtmobxz, nutlj, oaeayxvr, orzrtsdx, pwpktukr, rnmwoa, viasmkzw, wmppu, and zvscro. Are you serious?!!! Ticket Master does this same thing and I have always felt dumb for never knowing the meaning behind all of these words.
Argument# 1: These are not words. What if you were a foreigner using blogs to try to enhance your English skills and you had to type in words like these? Wouldn't you feel so frustrated that you would give up the language entirely because you know that you would never be able to figure out words like pwpktukr? Word verifications are stopping people from learning new languages.
Argument# 2: Why do they twist these words and make it sometimes impossible to read? Seriously, sometimes there are words where L's and I's look virtually the same and you do your best to try and type in the word letter by letter and you still get it wrong! Why do they twist up these "words" so you can't even tell what letters are in it?
Argument# 3: Ticket Master uses this too. What if you mess up on the word, because of argument# 2, and by the time you actually type it in right the concert is sold out?
Argument# 4: Who cares? What can be so important that you have to type in an impossible to read word just to put your comment up? Are bloggers just trying to keep visually impaired people from commenting on their blogs? Oh my gosh, there is argument# 5.
Argument# 5: What about the visually impaired?
Ok so I am going to keep my word verification setting on for the next week so you all can experience what I am talking about. And for all you bloggers out there, do everyone that takes time out of their day to read your blog and leave comments a favor by removing the word verification setting on your blog. Thanks.
P.S. Adam, since you are my "English friend", can you verify that I am not dumb by letting me know that these really are not words? My spell check says they are all misspelt! Thank you.
I have been blogging now sense December 23rd and am trying my best to be a good blogger. I try to keep my blogs up do date and I try to read other peoples blogs as often as I can and make comments when I have the time to do so. I know that I have made at least 17 comments because of the word verifications that I have typed in the past. For some reason it keeps a log of all the words that you have typed in.
Word verification is the topic of my blog for today. Simply said I hate it. First of all these clearly are not words. Let me type all 17 "words" that I have been forced to type in just so I can leave a comment on one of my friends blogs. They are as followed: elsrxow, enuiyn, gtbtci, ikrtbeh, ivexeks, iweio, lbmaskq, mqerxcye, mtmobxz, nutlj, oaeayxvr, orzrtsdx, pwpktukr, rnmwoa, viasmkzw, wmppu, and zvscro. Are you serious?!!! Ticket Master does this same thing and I have always felt dumb for never knowing the meaning behind all of these words.
Argument# 1: These are not words. What if you were a foreigner using blogs to try to enhance your English skills and you had to type in words like these? Wouldn't you feel so frustrated that you would give up the language entirely because you know that you would never be able to figure out words like pwpktukr? Word verifications are stopping people from learning new languages.
Argument# 2: Why do they twist these words and make it sometimes impossible to read? Seriously, sometimes there are words where L's and I's look virtually the same and you do your best to try and type in the word letter by letter and you still get it wrong! Why do they twist up these "words" so you can't even tell what letters are in it?
Argument# 3: Ticket Master uses this too. What if you mess up on the word, because of argument# 2, and by the time you actually type it in right the concert is sold out?
Argument# 4: Who cares? What can be so important that you have to type in an impossible to read word just to put your comment up? Are bloggers just trying to keep visually impaired people from commenting on their blogs? Oh my gosh, there is argument# 5.
Argument# 5: What about the visually impaired?
Ok so I am going to keep my word verification setting on for the next week so you all can experience what I am talking about. And for all you bloggers out there, do everyone that takes time out of their day to read your blog and leave comments a favor by removing the word verification setting on your blog. Thanks.
P.S. Adam, since you are my "English friend", can you verify that I am not dumb by letting me know that these really are not words? My spell check says they are all misspelt! Thank you.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Pet Peeves Day # 1
I have decided that I am going to dedicate the next seven days of
blogs to seven of my pet peeves. Let me know how you feel about what I
hate. I am totally unsure of what I will be putting down for all seven
days so hopefully I have that many things to complain about. I do have
the first two or three down so here goes my first day of pet peeves.
I am watching American Idol for the first season. For the most part I
am kind of embarrassed to admit that I am quite entertained each week
and I have some of my favorites. It is entertaining to watch the
performances, successes, failures, and so on. I do agree with Simon
most of the time and think that he has a great sense of good and bad
singing.
There is one thing that absolutely drives me nuts about American Idol
and that is the retarded crowed in the pit. They can never clap on
beat and just don't know how to act at a show. But the worst of all is
the arm swaying. This is my pet peeve of the day. I absolutely hate
the arm sway. It happens every time there is a song that has a slower
tempo which wouldn't be appropriate for a little dancing, screaming
for the contestants, or singing along with the music. So what do these
little invalids do you ask? They stick their arms straight up in the
air and start swaying them side to side. They all do it too!!!! They
are bumping into each other because they all sway at different speeds
and they look like unsynchronized Temple of Doom Indians that piss you
off. I sometimes wish I had the laser from Congo that cuts through
everything so when they start swaying their arms I could cut them all
off for abusing the gift that God gave them. Seriously people, STOP
WITH THE ARM SWAYING!!!!!!!!!
Please check out this video of David Archuleta to see what in the world I am talking about.
blogs to seven of my pet peeves. Let me know how you feel about what I
hate. I am totally unsure of what I will be putting down for all seven
days so hopefully I have that many things to complain about. I do have
the first two or three down so here goes my first day of pet peeves.
I am watching American Idol for the first season. For the most part I
am kind of embarrassed to admit that I am quite entertained each week
and I have some of my favorites. It is entertaining to watch the
performances, successes, failures, and so on. I do agree with Simon
most of the time and think that he has a great sense of good and bad
singing.
There is one thing that absolutely drives me nuts about American Idol
and that is the retarded crowed in the pit. They can never clap on
beat and just don't know how to act at a show. But the worst of all is
the arm swaying. This is my pet peeve of the day. I absolutely hate
the arm sway. It happens every time there is a song that has a slower
tempo which wouldn't be appropriate for a little dancing, screaming
for the contestants, or singing along with the music. So what do these
little invalids do you ask? They stick their arms straight up in the
air and start swaying them side to side. They all do it too!!!! They
are bumping into each other because they all sway at different speeds
and they look like unsynchronized Temple of Doom Indians that piss you
off. I sometimes wish I had the laser from Congo that cuts through
everything so when they start swaying their arms I could cut them all
off for abusing the gift that God gave them. Seriously people, STOP
WITH THE ARM SWAYING!!!!!!!!!
Please check out this video of David Archuleta to see what in the world I am talking about.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
April Fools
So I think that everyone should know that I had a great time yesterday with my April Fools joke to everyone. I am actually quite surprised that more people fell for it than those who called me out on it. Now a little story about the blog. I decided to write this at the end of my work day and then sent out the text to everyone to check it out. Jennifer knew nothing about this blog and I asked her to read it immediately so people wouldn't be calling her and congratulating her about the news she knew nothing about. She thought this joke was totally lame and she was kinda mad I did it. Eventually she really liked it after hearing many of your messages. Apparently Erin and Adam think that everyone will be totally mad at me and Skyler and Elise were not amused at all. So to you I am sorry for your lack of a sense of humor.
So to officially clear things up we are not pregnant, but I am sure that God with his awesome sense of humor might punish me for this April Fools joke. Not that becoming a parent would be a punishment, well I think you all know what I mean.
So to officially clear things up we are not pregnant, but I am sure that God with his awesome sense of humor might punish me for this April Fools joke. Not that becoming a parent would be a punishment, well I think you all know what I mean.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Chapman News
Well if you saw my last blog and don't understand it, maybe this will help. Jennifer and I found out two months ago that we are pregnant and are expecting to have a little addition to our family. I am extremely nervous about becoming a Dad but excited at the same time. Don't get mad for us not wanting to tell anyone right away. We needed some time to take in the news for ourselves.
Our doctor has given us an October 20th due date and of course we won't know if it is a boy or girl for a few months. So yipee for us!!!!!!! I will be giving you all updates as they come to us.
Our doctor has given us an October 20th due date and of course we won't know if it is a boy or girl for a few months. So yipee for us!!!!!!! I will be giving you all updates as they come to us.
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