Filed under: 'bout Bethany
20. Damn. Time goes by really fast. I feel like I graduated high school yesterday… and I’m about to round off my second year of being in college. Crazy. New york next week. Can’t wait! Keeping this short and sweet.
Filed under: Rate and Rave
I compiled a list of words people I know often misspell or use incorrectly. I am doing this for the good of mankind. Please do us all a favor and bookmark this so you can use it as a reference. No, seriously……… bookmark this. Now.
- Genius
How most people spell it – Genious - Unlike most of the other words on this list, I love when people spell this wrong. It brings my joy. The reason why is because most of they time they’re sarcastically calling me a “genious” because I said something stupid. I mean really, if you’re trying to insinuate that I’m stupid, at least do it while spelling correctly.
- Ridiculous
How most people spell it - Rediculous – Most people spell like they speak, but ridiculous isn’t one of the times it works. Please learn to spell this, especially if it’s your favorite word to type online and you say it to me frequently….Also, *news flash*… you’re not supposed to say it “rediculous” either… but I’m not even opening that can of worms.
- Through
- You’re / Your
- They’re / There / Their
- Hence
- Definitely
- Hehe / lolz / wowzers
What’s wrong with me? Actually, what’s wrong with my brother for seeing this first. The guy in the beginning is sweet, haha. Something goofy about the way he dances (more so than the other two) that’s oddly entertaining.
In other news. I worked from 9:30am-9pm today. I KNOW what’s wrong with me! I was supposed to get off at 6:30 but my boss offered some overtime, so I took her up on it. I need some extra cash for NYC on the 9th :-D
I found out Bush is good for something! Apparently everyone but me knew we’re getting $600 on our tax returns no matter what. Why didn’t anyone mention this to me? This is grounds for reelection (JUST KIDDING!… and yes… I know he’s not allowed to be re-elected). But I’m actually going to get something back! Which is sweeeeet. My dad did my taxes wrong so I’m supposed to get around $1200. Woop woop! Shopping spree.
I CAN NOT wait until New York! I can’t wait to see my family and shop and hang out with my sister and Bree. It will be a blast. Expect thousands of pointless pictures. When I’m there I’ll be like OOH COOL PICTURE! and then late be like, why the hell did I take that picture?
Anyways, I’m actually going to go to bed early tonight.
Filed under: You gotta see this!
Ever wonder who changes the light bulb at the top of the Empire State building? Well now you know… Fast forward until the last minute. Doesn’t that make you feel queesy?!
Filed under: Pictures, Rate and Rave | Tags: back in the day, blog, family, personal
Last night I found some old journals from 2002-2003 and read through them. Most entertaining and hilarious thing ever. Back in the day I had multiple xangas/myspaces that I catalogued ever single event that ever happened to me in great, unnecessary detail. I wish I wouldn’t have deleted them because I’m sure those would be comedic gold. I promise I won’t delete this one. I’m sure it will be great to look back on some day.
Anyways, the funniest entry from the discovered diaries was one from middle school when I went to Nazi Tree of Life Christian. Some background info: they were insane and had a vendetta against my family, so they took every rumor that floated around about me and called me into the office about it.
“Today I was in home ec class and Mrs Manchester came to take me to Mr Marrah [our principal]. He was accusing Stacey and Steph Pratt and I of smoking and “experimenting” with marijuana. How freaking ridiculous is that? Where do these people get this stuff?”
Seriously though, where’d they get that? Just to prove my innocence, 2 entries later I had my first kiss. I was definitely not smoking weed.
It’s Easter, so… Happy Easter. I didn’t go to church today, I feel guilty. I slept through my alarm. Who does that on Easter? I’m a bad pastor’s daughter. I need to start going more often.
Anyways, afterwards my mom busted out all these books and records about my family heritage and I found out my great great grandfather was a Brigadier General in the Civil War. He was the 3rd person to volunteer for the war and he was the captain of the very first group of black soldiers, 1800 to be exact. I thought that was pretty neat.
Anyways, I also found out he was born in Switzerland to the name Hermann Van Vasmer. He was of some royal blood there and lived in a castle, and left all that to move to the US and dropped that part of his name and changed our last name to his middle name, Lieb, which is my last name now (obviously).
There’s pictures of the “castle” … but it’s more of a manor and isn’t really what I picture as a castle. It’s not stone. Maybe my mental image of a castle has been jaded by Disney movies. In a letter he wrote to my grandpa while visiting it after it was sold, it says there were 70 apartments inside of it! It’s now a boarding house, which is probably like a modern day bed and breakfast. My mom and I want to go see it. Honestly, I just want a reason to go to Europe. If I’m ever rich, I’ll buy it back and move to Switzerland! That’d be fun to say I live in a castle. Anyways, it’s all really fascinating and I’m going to research it more with my mom. Should I change my last name to Van Vasmer? Bethany Van Vasmer.
