The calm after the storm... wait wasn't the calm supposed to be before the stom? Uh oh.

Yeah. So, how did you guys do for the holidays you celebrate? I got a new iPod touch. Good gift for me. I heart the Internet (God did that sound nerdy!) but mostly because I can listen to music for free on YouTube all I want. Well, until my dad finds out. But I have both my Touch and my new laptop (on which this very post is being written) so yes, technology is something I have profusely,but It HATES me. Seriously. I was trying to program my Touch to the Wi-Fi network at my dad's house but it wouldn't work even though eventually I did get it. The connection's still maddeningly slow, though. Whatever. You know, at first glance or even if you know me a little bit from Math class you would think that I'm "just a dumb blonde." But I'm not. I'm actually smart. I have a 120 or something IQ which is way better than the average American IQ of 98. And I'm just a kid, alibit an artistic one, so come ON America! We're supposed to be the dream country, the one that all the other countries envy (no offense) not the fat country that sits around drinking beer and sitting on his/her couch all day, a figure scarily familiar to a certain fat, balding cartoon on Fox that I know and love. *cough* Homer Simpson *cough*. All the artists, the musicians, the mathematicians (sp?), the scientists, the historians, the writers, and anyone else who is just smart, we need to be in the majority and make America smarter again so we really can be "Sic Semper Tyrannous" not to quote the guy who killed Abraham Lincoln but to show that we really can end tyranny, God forbid it should arise in this great country, instead of "Hey, get outta my way or I'll sit on you! I'm to lazy and fat to get up off my butt and DO something!" Seriously, who is THAT going to scare? We need to come together as a country. Just by bonding with your family or taking a little bit of time away from your TV (and I know this will sound highly hypocritical) or stop blogging about what we should do and actually DO it. Seriously, our soldiers aren't off in Iraq, away from their families over the Holidays and the New Year, instead of opening presents with family and friends, just to let us sit here. Those soldiers are so brave... If I wasn't such a huge consciousness objector I'd so sign up when I turned eighteen.think of something that needs improvement, in you, in your family, in your community, or even in the world, and try to do something about it. I hope I inspired you. Sorry if I was sort of borderline nagging. My cousin died in Iraq and I'm still *cough* slightly sensitive about that kind of thing. So, anyway, enjoy your holidays and be happy and healthy unlike me, stuck in hellish boringitude like always. Sigh. Oh crap, my brother's playing Halo 3 again and the gunshot noises are giving me a headache. Not that I don't like video games. I do. I'm just a pacifist and this game is sickeningly violent. Gotta go.