Why are so many people renewing last year's New Year's resolutions?

The answer to this question is simple: people simply lose the initial ambition they feel when they make the resolution. As a result, their resolution is never achieved and they end up feeling obligated to renew that resolution.

So, for this new year my first resolution is: to be ambitious so that I can achieve my other resolutions!!!!

Happy New Year!

Why are the English so humorless?

Alright, so I walk a dog for an English lady (I've already written about this earlier). She's incredibly kind, very polite, and very friendly. This last week, her nephew, his wife, and their two sons came over from Great Britain. They're all very nice and great company, but they don't have much of a sense of humor. Now, going around school and town and wherever else, most people would tell you I'm funny in my own way- not hysterical by any means, but I do like an occasional good laugh. Well, I was sitting with these very kind English people and decided I'd like to spice up the conversation with a little sarcasm. Huge mistake.

No laughs- not even fake laughs. No smiles- not even fake smiles. Just the same straight faces. THE SAME STRAIGHT FACES!!!!!!! Holy cow- I was dying! They weren't even giving me smiles that tell me my joke was the stupidest thing they'd heard all day! And the awkward silence that followed about put me in my grave! Holy crap! They weren't offended, they just didn't think it was funny- and they weren't about to show it either.

So the entire conversation went by- me doing 85% of the talking (and I don't talk much, usually) and no laughter or smiles (besides my own). It was so weird! Anyhow, these weren't the first English people I've ran into, and they won't be the last either, but I've always noticed similar reactions from each of them- they don't laugh like we Americans do. Once again I don't want to sound stereotypical, but I'm beginning to think that the English are a little more dry than us. I mean, have you ever seen their so-called "comedies"????? They're stupid. There's nothing funny about them. I think they may just not be quite into humor like we are, and I think it's because of our different backgrounds.

You look at the average Englishman. His ancestors are probably, for the most part English.

You look at the average American. His ancestors can come from anywhere.

Americans are just a little more culturally diverse in their family backgrounds and in their actual society as a whole. Afterall, America is a cultural melting pot where the different cultures of the world seem to really mesh together better than almost anywhere else. And with those different cultural identities meshing together, we've just grown to be more and more humorous.

Teens and Sunday School.


So, I always find it ridiculous when parents and Sunday School teachers freak out because they can't understand why their teenage children and students are skipping out on their Sunday School classes. They go all up-in-arms with the funniest looks of confusion on their faces and worry that the missing teen may have a failing testimony or is "spiritually sick." It's so stupid. So, today I write this blog to each of those parents, teachers, bishops, coordinators, leaders, etc. who are categorized under this list of paranoid Sunday School people: let me tell you why your teens are skipping out.

It's really simple- Sunday School is BORING!!! Even the most religiously-oriented teens among us have had the thought of skipping Sunday School at least half a dozen times. It's because it's so BORING!! I mean, come on adults- what kid wants to listen to a teacher monotonously read out of a manual, make each of the kids read 6 or 7 verses of scripture that no student understands and no teacher explains, and sit with a growling stomach for an hour? I'll tell you that no normal kid does!

So how do you make it interesting? It's simple: don't read the manual, don't read so many scriptures (especially if you're not going to explain them in an interesting manner), have discussions with the kids, and BRING FOOD!!! Sunday School would still be painful, but at least it wouldn't be torturous!!!

Annoying Human Behaviors

Pepsi. Coca-Cola. Two great soda companies. Two even greater company rivalries that have existed long before I was born.

You wanna know what annoys me about this rivalry? It goes way further than just the two companies. It vibrates in the veins of each company's consumers. Yes, people who are worth little more to the company than the money they spend annually on their soda (which, in reality, ammounts into the hundreds and thousands of dollars).

The stupid thing is that people feel obligated to serve the company whose soda they drink and to boycott their company's rival. Now I know that Pepsi tastes sweeter than Coca-Cola, but come on! Isn't it ridiculous to drink water in a restaurant only because the restaurant only sells Coca-Cola beverages instead of your preferred Pepsi products? Isn't that just plain STUPID? It's worthless to be so dumb! And why do people pull that sort of bogus? It's because of stupid rivalries!

Now, I'm the Pepsi-type, a part of the new generation, but I'll still drink Coke or Sprite when Pepsi or Sierra Mist isn't sold, and still enjoy the drink! If I can enjoy it, so can everyone else. I mean come on people, DUH!!!

Boots, Boots, Stupid Boots

High boots. Low boots. White boots. Brown boots. Furry boots. Leather boots. Stupid, stupid boots.

So, there seems to be another new trend nowadays among teenage girls. The popular new style boasts of rolled up jeans and a pair of snow boots, and, of course, each girl adopting the new "look" is trying to get a pair of snow boots that are unique and outdo every other girl's pair of boots. It's ridiculous. It's stupid. It's lame.

I saw a few girls wearing their boots this past week and couldn't help wondering what on earth led them to wear, let alone accept, the stupid style. Why would a girl wear something so stupid?

The only logical explanation I could find was simply this: people are different. They see each other differently. They see themselves differently. They simply have different tastes. And they are free to express those different tastes as they please. With this I will say that snow boots are ugly, stupid, nerdy (I can't help but think of Napoleon Dynamite in his snow boots dancing across the stage), and just plain pointless. I see no reason to wear such stupid things when there is little to no snow on the ground, and I refuse to see them as "attractive" on anyone. They're just plain dumb, so girls DON'T WEAR THEM!!!!!!!!!!!