Wordless Wednesday: My Senior Prom

In a recent post by Allison, she put a prom-themed playlist and showed a picture during her prom, or grad, back when she attended. At the end, she challenged us to share our pictures. Challenge accepted. Let's get ready to travel back 5 years in time.

Most of the guys posing outside

My date and me making our entrance

Stole somebody's glasses for a pic. Thought it elevated me to baller status.

Gettin the party started

w/ Shedrick

Hey, you know her

with my sister

The chick in high school that I always wanted to date, but never got the chance

Frisco. The Man.

Chillin at the "after party"

Looking at these pics brings up a lot of stories. Maybe they will make for some good posts one day...

My Most Epic Wordless* Wednesday Ever

*I am actually going to speak a little bit, but whatever.

Remember this post? Well, I actually left something out that I did at the beginning of spring break.

While we are going back, remember this post also? Well I teased an "epic" WW post and one of my friends has informed that I am nearly considered a liar if I don't get around to posting it, so here it is:



Why is this considered "epic"?

Well, you can click at the bottom of this post on the tag "tattoo" to see that I've been talking about it for a while on here. But I've only had my blog for a year (as I type that, I think I realized that it's like officially a year old).

Yep, I just checked. Blog is officially a year old as of last Saturday :)

I posted stuff on myspace about it back in the day as well. Basically, I've wanted to do this for a long time.

Some of you have already seen this and you know the story. If you don't know it but want to know, just ask me (okarmmr@auburn.edu). For some reason, even though I've talked about it on here, I don't feel like explaining it on here.

And yes, it did hurt. Not excruciating pain, but annoying pain.

And I almost passed out at first. But I'll save that story for later...

Wordless Wednesday: (Some) Celebrity Crushes

Zooey Deschanel

Amy Adams

Mila Kunis

Anne Hathaway

Scarlett Johansson

And since the overwhelming majority of my followers are female, here are a few of my man crushes

As defined by urbandictionary.com:

"When a straight man has a "crush" on another man, not sexual but kind of idolizing him.

Many straight men end up having man crushes on Johnny Depp (I don't blame them)."

Johnny Depp (obviously)

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Anthony Kiedis

Wordless Wednesday: Band of Brothers

*I promise you guys, these are my legit brothers. We just have different dads...

**I thought I had some from when we were little. But I guess they've disappeared :(

***We live in different states (them = Cali, me = Bama) so that's why I have so few pics

My spring break, 2006

Greeting me at the airport after my HS graduation, 2005

Thanksgiving, 2007

Sacramento stop of Warped Tour, 2005

Jammin out when I stopped in Modesto during our cross country road trip, 2009

Raging Waters in LA, 2005

Their graduation (they are twins), 2008

WW (Sort of): Ten Things

So while not entirely wordless and not entirely pictures, it still sort of fits that category. But this post was inspired by a recent offering from Kaylalala at Cinnamon on Toast who was inspired by Lisa at A Day in The Life. These are ten things that are currently making me happy (though "currently" is debatable because most of these are stuff I am looking forward to)

10. Alice in Wonderland - March 5

If you aren't excited for this movie, I don't know what to say. Depp + Burton + classic story + 3D = Effing Magical

9. After trying to find some classic Alice in Wonderland footage from the Disney cartoon, I came across this. And I could not stop laughing.



8. And then when I went to show Frisco that, he in turn showed me this. And I almost cried from laughing so hard.



7. March Madness

I don't know much about college basketball, but it's fun to play in the brackets. And my uncle is a big UNC fan, so that's who I go for.

6. Resistance - The Tiesto Remix (I was a little unsure about this at first, but it has grown on me)



5. Netflix

Netflix has allowed me to watch this season of Heroes with my family in South Dakota over Xbox Live, get started and finish Arrested Development, start 30 Rock and various other movies that I have been meaning to see.

4. Spring Break

Yes, that is a picture of Lost going with my spring break plans. My family has moved and most of my friends have their break at a different time so I will be spending my break playing video games and catching up on shows. And thanks to the above mentioned Netflix, one of those shows will be Lost.

3. Meeting new blogging buddies (and reuniting with old ones)


2. Wrestlemania 26

Don't hate, it's our Superbowl. And it's about a month away.

1. Graduation

Granted, this is the one that is the longest away. But it is the one I am looking forward to the most. The countdown has begun.

Wordless Wednesdays: My Best Friend's Wedding

I got a lot of positive feedback from my last picture post, so I think I am going to try my best to get back into Wordless Wednesdays. Because I like pictures. And you like pictures. I mean, who doesn't like pictures?

So I have shared some pics from my bfff's wedding back in December, but why not go back and look at a few more?

The awesome shoes

I guess weddings turn into high school reunions

I don't know what's going on, but I like it

Hangin out afterward (fyi: that's the groom trying to bite the head of the bride)

Out of all the thousands of pics taken, this is one of my favorites (yes, jme, I stole this from your blog. I hope you don't mind because it just happened)

WW: Cali Beach Scene

This is one of my favorite pictures. It was at some beach in LA during my trip in 2005. Want to read more about my feelings for California? Check out my guest post at the lovely Lisa's blog.

WW: Different People

*So I kinda forgot about Wordless Wednesdays last week. My B. So I bring it back to you this week -- with a twist. You see, there will be words on this post, they are just not mine. Hence, I can still get away with it being "wordless" right? So whose words will they be? Well, none other than the winner of my first blog contest -- Jeanette! **Link to her blog is at the bottom. And on her blogs she does this thing where the title of her post is a link to a song. So this post is the same way. Enjoy it and enjoy her blog :)


When Mr. O announced he was going to have some kind of contest with a guest post as the ­­prize I was pretty excited. I was even more excited when I saw that it was movie quotes, ask anyone who knows me; I watch an unhealthy number of movies. I was pretty confident about my chances and when the day finally came that he announced the winner and I had in fact won I was ecstatic. This lasted about 5 minutes until it dawned on me that I would have to think of something meaningful to write about. Not that my blog is meaningless, I use it to share music and thoughts with people (along with hilarious comics), but I wanted to really make an impression on all of Mr. O’s readers, because you clearly have good taste.

I don’t want to say I’ve been procrastinating per se, that seems a tad harsh, but I’ve been opting to spend my time doing other things, like moving back to East Lansing, instead of attempting to think of something good to write about. So here I am, driving to Florida, being a good contest winner and writing my guest post (This comes after my Facebook chat with Mr. O where he said he would be offended if I worked on it while in Florida, what a nice guy!). Let me just say that I think mother nature has some vendetta against me, I drove in a blizzard on my way to Florida in March and when I took over driving in Kentucky around 1 a.m. I’m pretty sure I drove through a hurricane or something just as traumatic.

So here I am 5 hours behind the wheel, a short nap, several hours of Arrested Development, one red Amp, one Red Bull Cola, and one low carb Monster later, still with no idea of what to write about. So here is what you are going to get, my thoughts on road trips, blogging connections and life in general. Sounds like an adventure eh?

1. I love when I get a good iPod shuffle going. I don’t know how many people have read “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” but that is always what I think about when my music is perfect for the drive.

2. After working at the Michigan Department of Transportation for the summer I have way too much random knowledge about street slopes, cable guardrail and other random facts that could be used to classify me as a nerd.

3. As I said Mr. O and I have random FB convos, I for one think it’s great to make even more connections outside of just BlogSpot. We live in an age where it’s possible to have a glimpse into someone else’s life. I’m not saying caution be damned but it’s nice to have people with similar interest to talk to, mostly I just Mr. O feel bad about his lack of music knowledge ;)

4. I don’t understand how some people got their drivers license 65 mph in the left lane is NOT acceptable. Neither is driving exactly the same speed as me so that I cannot get around you. And semis should just not attempt to pass each other because that angers me more than anything.

5. “It’s a dog eat dog world out there.” How many dogs actually eat other dogs. How did that saying come about?

6. Why does the south have so many Waffle Houses? I mean I’m not complaining, I love me some waffles, but I just don’t know why there is practically two at every exit.

I seem to have hit my sleep deprived stupor. Now I’m just talking gibberish. Last but not least Mr. O has informed me that he would not post my entry without my normal inclusion of a song as the title. So today’s title song comes from No Doubt, both Mr. O and I saw them on their tour so I found it oddly appropriate, plus they are in my top 4 favorite bands so there’s that.

Well I hope this guest post wasn’t too boring and was semi coherent. I’d like to thank Mr. O for having a contest and excusing my lateness in getting this too him.

Shameless plug >>>>> jenziebenzie.blogspot.com

WW: One of those times I just had to run and get the camera

Wordless Wednesdays: Random Florida Pics

Also, don't forget to check out my first attempt at a blog contest. There is some stiff competition from some people... others, not so much ;)