3 Awesome Things Discovered In The Last 10 Hours

For some reason, in about 2 hours I will have pulled an all-nighter. I blame it on Firefox's oh-so-rad StumbleUpon add-on, as I can (clearly!) spend hours upon hours hitting that Stumble button, excited to see what new and exciting corner of the web it'll bring me next. But more on that later, when we get to number 3 on my list of Supa Fly Things Very Recently Brought To My Attention. Number 3 is just the icing on the cake that was my Evening Of Discovering Super Things! So, without further ado, topping the charts we have...

1. ChaCha!
   ChaCha has to be the most brilliant idea in the world. It's simple: They have people (Guides) all over the country logging on whenever they have time, sitting by a computer with their special little ChaCha programs running. Then the rest of the country can think of a question, any question, and text it to ChaCha (242242). One of these Guides will receive the question and send an answer back. The answers can range anywhere from "What times will The Dark Knight [fantastic movie, by the way, in case you hadn't heard the entire rest of the country saying that] be showing at Park 12 Cobb Theater?" to "What's the funniest joke you know?" and beyond. Use your imagination. They get paid 20 cents for every message they send, so no question is too dumb/silly/lame for them.
   For example:
   
   My darling recently-broken-up friend's question: "Where can I find a decent guy?"
   ChaCha's answer: "Get all dolled up and go to Home Depot! Or go to a dog park. Nice guys are everywhere."
   

   OR
   

   "What is your favorite state?"
   "Kansas! Because that's where I'm from, and Hawaii because I want to go there."
   "What will you do when you go?"
   "Eat lots of good food and check out the hunnies on the beach!"
   

   Honestly. Can you think of a better idea than ChaCha?
   
   
   
2. eBay
   1 hour ago, I realized the highly addictive power of eBay. Also a brilliant idea. It's just something that holds such potential: "Ooooh, I can actually afford that!! ... Hey! That jerk outbid me! Well, I'll show him. Booya! Take that!" Don't worry Mom, I'm not doing anything dumb, I'm just saying that eBay has the power to become highly addictive. Like gambling. But fear not! I won't be gambling away what little money I do have.
   
   
3. This video.

Especially since our first marching show at Mississippi State this year will apparently be a Michael Jackson show, in which I will have to actually dance a portion of the Thriller dance. Yikes! I can only hope that I'll look as kickin as Darth Vader.

Summer is the bomb-diggety.

I love summer. Fantastic weather (rain or shine, either one works for me!), superb vacations, spending time with friends you haven't seen in months, and (for me atleast, as I have no job) just generally being able to spend the day doing whatever the heck I want. It's awesome. Sorry to those of you who have actual jobs and are contributing to the greater good of society. I don't know how you would feel if I told you how much time I spend doing nothing more than laying in the sunshine by the pool, reading. It's a good life! :)

On a side note, it is interesting how some things apparently just don't change... like the ice cream man! When I was a kid swimming at the pool, he would come flying into the parking lot, bells jingling, and all the kids would scream "The Ice Cream Man!" and run to their parents for money. And guess what? That exact same scenario still plays out every single day, 10 years later. Oh, ice cream man. What power you have.