Em’s Blogtime Fun

      The times are busy!  I just got home from one of my jobs and my feet ache.  It was fun, though.  I sold a lot of fish and crickets and also got to snuggle a very, very cute guinea pig.  I named it Toady, even though it will get renamed later by its new parent.  Toady will never forget me, I can see it in his eyes.  He loves me.
      Over spring break I worked a total of 70 - 80 hours.  It almost killed me.  By Friday of that week, I was pretty sure death was not far.  With that week being so stressful and tiring, this week looks like a delicious piece of easy cake.  I don’t know what an easy cake is, but I am sure it’s good and well, easy.  I am only scheduled for 40 or so hours at both jobs combined this week.  That leaves a little time for homework and some time to do fun things.  I see myself making a few trips to the arcade…  What with the enormous paycheck I’ll be getting this Friday.  I am looking forward to all those cheap plastic toys I will win with my tickets at the arcade.  Last time I got a super awesome plastic boomerang and a blowup hammer with alien heads on it.  What’s cooler than that?  A lot of things, yeah, but it’s still pretty cool.
      Jumping back into schoolwork is a little trying after the ease of spring break.  It was nice never having to worry about homework or getting to class on time.  If I hadn’t been working every single day all day, I would have slept in until at least 5 PM every day, I know it.  That sounds so good right about now.  Sleep, how sweet it is.  I have a lot of homework to do tonight and tomorrow night.  A little overwhelming, but what can you do.  I think homework is a part of school or something.  Maybe it should be abolished.  I don’t think my professors realize how much time the arcade takes up and how little time it leaves for homework after going there.  And really, video games > homework always.  I would suggest turning homework into video games and doing it that way; you know, two birds with one stone.  But then I think back to days when I was a kid and my mom would bring home computer games like, “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!” and “Wacky Math Games!” and “Learn A Lot Play A Lot!”  I think they have to add an exclamation mark at the end of the titles because they know the game kind of blows by itself.  Have to add it to make it at least appear that it might be in some way fun.  There was this one game, though, that Mom brought home that was super fun and super educational.  It was called Math Blaster Mystery.  I played that for years.  You got to be an alien that traveled around a haunted house and did math problems to gain coins.  I forget what you did with the coins, but I am sure you bought cool plastic toys or something.  Or maybe delicious treats.  Whatever it was, that game was fun and taught me a lot of math.  I like being an alien.
                                                                  
      You know what else is good?  Cheddar Chex Mix.  I am eating it now, and it is so satisfying.  However, it also makes me a little angry.  You know when you reach into the bag thinking, ‘Wow!  This is so good.  I love those chex squares, I hope there’s a lot in this handful’?  And then you pull out your treasure and it’s practically 90% pretzels.  That makes me so angry.  Who even likes the freakin’ pretzels?  Not me.  I like them when everything else in the bag is gone and I have nothing else to eat.  So, pretty much only when I am desparate do I like pretzels.  Now, if they put in those huge soft pretzels you can get at the movies, that’d be another story.  You wouldn’t even need the chex or the cheddar.  Those soft pretzels are tops.  Did you know you can buy those in bulk at Sam’s Club?  I’ve gotten them before.  So good to be able to make a treat like that at home.  Tasty things are not just for movies anymore– they’re for always!  I like cheese on mine.  I also like them rolled in parmesan cheese.  We should send a letter to the Chex Mix company requesting that they get rid of the small, nasty pretzels and use the big soft ones instead.  Maybe they’d go for it.  Let me know if you want in.

      It is time for me to work on homework.  I have a test, a discussion, a paper, a reading, three art projects, and two stories to write by tomorrow-ish.  Tonight will be the best night of my life.  Late night homework is easily my most favorite thing to do.  Just kidding.  I have a bag full of pretzels now.  I think I will put them back in the cupboard.  When someone sees the bag they will get excited for cheddar chex, and then ha!  None.  Just nasty pretzels.  Joke’s on you.  I dislike pretzels.  Lemonade.

 P.S.  I added two new games to this site!  Look on the right side of the page under the ‘GAMES’ module.  Playyy them.  They are the best.