Snickity Snackity

I just remembered this funny story. I wasn't even involved in this hilarious exchange but I was told it and I have the right to retell it because it involves two of my closest friends.

During college two of my roommates, Choppa and Miss Lippy, had a class together, as we often did. This class (I believe history but am probably wrong) was in a very large lecture hall and came at the end of a very long day for Choppa. Choppa, was always really hungry by this time and would routinely get a bag of Cheez-It's from the vending machine to munch during her final class. Choppa (Cheez-It's in hand) and Miss Lippy would meet before class, sit together and commence learning. One day, Choppa was extra hungry and decided to get two bags of Cheez-It's. Other than this anomaly, events transpired per usual.

Choppa finished off her first bag of Cheez-It's and without skipping a beat, opened the second and resumed munching. Although this was not relayed to me, I'm sure Miss Lippy had some thoughts running through her head surrounding the double serving of Cheez-It's being inhaled by her dear and petite friend. Choppa did indeed finish the second bag of Cheez-It's and in my mind's version of this story, she straightens out the corners of the bag and pours the crumbs into her mouth*.

After finishing off two bags of Cheez-It's, wiping crumbs off her face, her chest and I'm sure her books, Choppa slowly leans back in her seat, throws an arm around Miss Lippy's chair, turns to her and says, "Woof, shouldn't have had that second bag of Cheez-It's".

What makes this funny is the fact that this hunger response and subsequent satiated reaction is coming from one of the cutest and tiniest people I know.

Guess what? In writing this I made up a word. The plural for Cheez-It is NOT Cheez It's like I have been using, it's Cheez-It crackers. Scrumtrulescent!


*please note this detail has not been verified

Tweens: WTF?

I was a prepubescent person at one point in my life, and a teen girl at another point of my life. I listened to music and preferred certain bands over others. I however, never looked like this:



The following is an excerpt from an article in the August issue of Rolling Stone. The article focuses on the Jonas Brothers (a uber-famous boy band whose fan based is primarily adolescent girls), it's titled, "The Clean Teen Machine".

"Suddenly, the lights go dark, triggering a roar in the 20,000-sear Cricket Wireless Pavilion that can only be described as primal. And it is, in a way. The neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of the bestseller The Female Brain, says the release of dopamine in a screaming teenage girl's brain upon seeing her pop idol is like "injecting heroin." Being with other screaming girls, she says, only makes the effect wilder.
"There's a thing in biology we call synchrony," Brizendine says. "Basically, one girl affects another affects another, and it becomes a domino effect building up to that level of hysteria. They are getting all these brain hits of dopamine, and also oxytocin, which is a love-and-bonding hormone. Teenage girls have so much estrogen, which just catapults the level of dopamine and oxytocin in the brain, creating this sort of ecstatic rush in themselves and others. It truly is a state of ecstatic love."

Wow!

Laughter is NOT Foreign

Ask anyone, it's not difficult to amuse me. My boyfriend often avoids getting his ass chewed by diverting my attention through humor and as much as I hate to admit it, he's often successful. I'm so easily amused that I find myself having a hard time relating to very serious people. I find myself uncomfortable when I'm experiencing a seemingly funny situation with someone, and they don't react in a coinciding manner. I know, I know, we all perceive things differently, but come on....laugh!

Anyway, I wanted to share this clip because one thing is universal (in my world at least): little kids with accents are cute and funny. Check this out and chuckle along with me.