LOST REMOTES AND HOT ROOMMATE

Hot Roommate

Ever lost a remote? I think we all have so we all know how frustrating it can be. Usually we find it in the most obvious places like under the cushion or in the fridge. Well I have a more serious problem, my roommate has gone no where near either of those two objects. It simply disappeared, wait, that's impossible.

Here's the back story to this crappy situation. We have two TVs in my apartment, both belong to me. One is in the living room (the smaller one because the big one didn't fit) and the big one is in my room. Jason's wii is in my room because I forgot the remote to the little TV. Well I'm tired of it being in my room bc Wii time always seems to be the same time as bed time for me.

Solution: Go home and get the remote. SOLVED. I got the remote, brought it up to my apartment and now it is gone and probably forever. I remember exactly what happened because I have a photographic memory. I got home, then Jason came back from the pool and I gave him the remote saying "It needs batteries".

We Never Saw It Again

Where has it gone? Will we ever find it? I don't know. I have searched my room top to bottom along with my roommates. Its rather frustrating and both of them are positive I lied. Why would I lie about bringing a remote up? Maybe Martin should have taken some responsibility and brought his exact same TV up. what ever.

Hot roommate? Does Reynolds have a hot roommate? I bet that title threw you off. I am the hot roommate. It is over 80 degrees in my room, I feel like I'm on fire most of the time. I understand that I have two windows that the suns always in but that isn't my fault.

They don't want to put it under 75 degrees because of our electricity limit (if we go over we pay more) well guess what, I'd pay more to be comfortable and not sweating my balls off thanks.

That's about it, PS I'm pretty sure I failed my Spanish and English quizzes today proving that I in fact do not speak either language. you should see this thing before I press spell check.

your mom comments
mine,
  Reynolds

Parking Tickets & Cable Companies

I got a parking ticket from NIU today. Lemme tell ya, that really got my goat. FIRST OF ALL, it was lodged under the HOOD OF MY CAR so I didn't see it until over 24 hours later after driving quite a bit.


SECOND OF ALL - the citation was "IMPROPER PARKING"


What is that you ask? GOOD QUESTION. I certainly don't know what it means. I went to the parking services place and basically was like "WTF LADY?" And she explains that, "the officer felt that you were over the line"


EXUSE ME? The officer FELT?! So the officer can just FEEL like giving people tickets and give them to people? I really don't know how that makes sense. I was fine on both sides, that I know for sure. I may have been too far forward by a MILLIMETER...who knows. The front bumper may have been touching the yellow.


GOD FORBID.


But Okay, FINE. So I can either try and refute it by emailing so&so @whatever and it may take awhile. But if I wait longer than today to pay then it will be $10 instead of $5. So I gave the lady 5 bucks and walked out.


Whatever. I get it. The lady didn't give me the ticket. Some douchey rent a cop did. 


But the POINT IS that I pay $5000 in tuition EVERY SINGLE SEMESTER. They charge me $200 worth of COMPUTER LAB FEES. I could BUY a brand new printer and tons of ink for that. Not to mention that I NEVER EVER use the computer lab. I also pay for the health center which I don't ever use. How about you take that $5 from one of those extemporaneous, pointless, money wasting fees?


& Listen here coppers, I can't pull out of the parking lot without children darting out from all sides (WHERE ARE THE J WALKING TICKETS?) and it takes me 20 minutes to get down ONE BLOCK after I leave class.


But it's cool, I'll pay the $5 parking ticket...


NOW the other thing that's bugging me to no end today is the internet situation over here in Malta Illinois. We had this one internet company (which sucked) and they went belly up without telling anyone. We were left high and dry.


Now we have hughes net. $70 FRICKEN DOLLARS A MONTH for internet access that is SLOWER than dial up (don't you dare believe what they say that it's 10x faster. Not for one second.) We can NOT get mediacom, we can NOT get comcast, NO CABLE COMPANIES RUN CABLES TO MY SUBDIVISION. The town of malta (which is connected to my subdivision) can get all of this. My subdivision is WIRED to get cable internet. It's just not installed or whatever.


Point is, I have to use hughes net. Satellite internet. It takes me 6 HOURS to download a movie. For $70 a month!! Comcast has high speed internet (we're talking a movie in 6 MINUTES) for like $20 a month.
IT'S NOT FAIR. SO dear COMCAST or MEDIACOM or SOMEBODY, please just give me some damn high speed internet so I can at least do my homework.


I'm going to email mediacom right now. Right this very instant.


I'll let you know how it goes.


-Goose

THE (MIS)ADVENTURES OF REYNOLDS AND THE BABY HUMAN

Okay, let me first start by saying that unlike Suzanne I am not an English major. I wouldn't even consider myself a semi-good English speaker. Lets just pretend I'm foreign and except that I will make mistakes.


A little about myself. I am a broadcast journalism major, maybe. I have currently had 3 majors and ranked up 13 credit hours (only 11 transferred to my new school). So I believe this is a great accomplishment. I don't intend on being any sort of news writer, I want to be on the news reading words written by someone else and that will probably make me look charming and smart. I'm kinda like Ryan Secrest, but taller and more attractive.


Anyway last Friday an opportunity presented itself for me to baby sit my cousins (Charles and Kacie's) baby Gabe. He is so cute and just an all around fun baby. So I decided to accept this challenge because they needed someone to babysit and my only other thing I had planned was to sleep my day away.


Well, lets start by saying I have never changed a diaper. I wish I could go without doing this my whole life but I want kids and lets face it, someone changed mine I must return the favor. I have also only fed a baby once, and have never made a bottle. Okay so that's my back story.


This morning in art history I decided it was time for this boring class to be over so I said "Lets wrap this shin-dig up, everyone is officially asleep and some of us need to be awake soon" so we left early and I went to babysit. I was taught how to make a bottle, I never needed to make one. I also never needed to change a diaper, or make him stop crying because he never did. Babies might be the only type of human that enjoys my company, they just love me. Unfortunately not all babies are cute some are dirty and have lots of boogers. Luckily for me today Gabe is VERY cute and doesn't have many boogers.


The adventures were fun but did anything exciting happen? Like funny diaper changing stores? Nope. We just had a great time playing. Watching Oz (their dog) and Gabe play is really entertaining. I tried to get Gabe to walk but he wasn't having any of that nonsense, he has two perfectly good knees and two perfectly good hands to crawl on, who needs to walk? But when he gets on his little lawn mower thing he can run! NEVER IN MY LIFE!! I could not believe how fast this little human could go.


We also had a a little dance party, it was pretty fun. He was a great companion for the entire morning and it lasted longer than I had originally thought but it all worked out and I think we had a great time.


Mine!
 Reynolds (twin)

ENGL 375...Literature Analysis ??? Well no. Not really. (:

Um okay. I’m in ENGL 375. It’s American Literature some sort of significant year to another one farther down the line WHATEVER.

My teacher is British.

He legit used to teach in LONDON.

I don’t know if you understand the significance. My INCREDIBLY British teacher teaches AMERICAN literature. Thank God because it takes a crazy hilarious Brit to make American Literature interesting.

I mean, he’s having us read the Scarlet Letter. U G H. It’s fine and all and I GET IT. It screams America with a capital A. But it’s also lame with a capital L. No, it’s LAME with all caps. And bold. And italicized. LAME. Okay maybe not that bad. Just Lame will do.

No, I’m not going to get into all the whacked out themes these overreaching English majors throw out there. Maybe I’m just jealous because I feel like when they say stuff like “Oh I see an underlying theme of spirituality vs nature” I feel like they’re being pretentious (not to mention showing off how well they use Google) while the British teacher jumps around giddy-like with enthusiasm.

I mean I’m not stupid. I could come up with some good shit too. I plot out what I’m going to spout off in class like the themes of “morality growing from sorrow and fear.” but I’m afraid that someone is going to be like “Um that’s overreaching” and it is. It always is. But that's what we English majors do, overreach. Pretending to like it is the hard part.

Point is, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the book to write a book. I don’t believe he sat down and was like “I WANT TO WRITE A BOOK THAT OUTLINES MORALITY GROWING FROM SORROW AND FEAR. OR MAYBE SPIRITUALITY VS NATURE. YEAH THAT’S GOOD.”

Nope. He sat down and was like “eh, here’s an idea.”

Believe me, we’ve met. He told me. Ask him yourself.

Okay so here’s the 311 (A little less than 411 and I like the band): I’m an English major, Communications minor. But really, I’m just looking for that Bachelors Degree. I’m hoping to get rich by being a New York Times Bestselling Author. Or Caldecott Award Winner, or Newberry or WHATEVER. Really, whatever. I’ll take anything. So I guess I have to get through all of the Scarlet Letter teachings out there for another year or so. Just in case I need that degree to fall back on.

& Screw it. I’m reading children’s literature from now on. That’s really what I want to write anyway.

OKAY yes, I’ve been planning on doing this for awhile. I’m going to read my old favorites while reading this deeply AMERICAN schtuff blahblahblah. I’ll chronicle that here too. I’m excited and convinced that it’ll be fun. Way funner than THE SCARLET LETTER.

Because children believe that you can use words like funner and adults won’t allow it.

I will.

So will Nathaniel Hawthorne. He said it to me that time we met.  He said, “Spending time with you is way funner than writing ‘The Scarlet Letter.’ To which I replied, “Oh Nate, you slay me.” (Yes I call him Nate).

MINE!

- Suzanne

The commencement, debut, inception, & INTRODUCTION of YOURS MINE OURS blog.

     Nope, totally not a crappy Dennis Quaid movie. Nope, not saying Dennis Quaid is crappy, just that one movie – YOURS MINE & OURS. Boo to that movie. Anyway, this is going to be an experimental blog of me, Suzanne and a Reynolds. Reynolds is only kind of sort of his name but I’m sure we’ll speak of this later.

     Anyway, I’m Suzanne. I don’t blog. Actually I DIDN’T blog. I guess this means now I do. Reynolds is the experienced blogger so bare with me.

     You might be wondering our relation. No, we aren’t related, we aren’t married, nor are we dating (wanna do the kiss?). We’re simply just best friends with a hell of a lot of good stories about our adventures. Right now we live several hundred miles apart. I live near Chicago, he near Athens. Whatever. Believe it or not we still have some hilarious adventures.

     We met at the Disney College Program in January of 2010 and instantly Reynolds was one of the best friends that I’d ever had. Like a brother or sister but one that you actually like. Don’t get me wrong, I like my real brother too, but generally speaking, people don’t like their siblings.

     So we decided to start this blog. For our adventures, then just for random stuff I want to say and random stuff he wants to say. We’ll figure it out as we go along. And if not, enjoy our attempts. (:

 Yours,

 - Suzanne 

     Hello everyone! This is Reynolds, I have slight experience blogging before but nothing major. Just 5 months in Orlando where I met one of my BEST FRIENDS Suz. 
 
     So Suzanne basically summed up everything, I hope that we create a hilarious entertaining blog for all and if not it will not be our first failure. Hopefully it will get better as we go along. Suzanne is the writer of this operation and I, well I'm the looks ;)
 
     After a while we will try to create some order to this blog, what she will write about and what I will. We will not always post together but thats why this is yours, mine and ours. Plus every so often we will give you the pleasure of one of our stories and trust me reading our blogs until we get good will be worth it when we tell you a story. 
 

Mine,
-Reynolds

Under Construction

But this will be the best.blog.ever.
Thanks,
Suz & Reynolds