Certified Nerd.

Your grades in college are definitely important. I feel as if everyone would agree with this. I realize it myself, but sometimes take it to the extreme. I consider myself a nerd because I strive for A’s in everything that I do and literally cried over the summer when I received my first B. If I make a 92 I tell myself I should have made a 96. If I make a 96 I wish I would have made a 100. It seems I can never be happy with whatever grade I get even if it meets my exceptionally high standard. I am finishing up my fourth semester at San Jacinto College and am so happy it is finally over with. This last semester has been the most difficult I’ve had since becoming a college student. I had car troubles for two straight months, there were two deaths in the family, my partners in class projects at times literally stood me up when we had dates set to finish projects, I was very ill for about two weeks and I had one professor who was impossible to deal with. I am so thankful this semester is over with and I am looking forward to starting fresh with my upcoming winter mini. Congratulations to everyone for finishing out the Fall 2011 semester! 

 

By Miranda Jenkins

A magical thanksgiving

By Ashley Cruz

 Instead of the traditional thanksgiving at home, my family spent the holiday in Disneyworld where we created some very magical memories.

One of the most special moments for me was to watch my dad’s dream come true the day before Thanksgiving.

 My dad, as well as all the Cruz men, is a big fan of NASCAR. I grew up to the sound of men screaming from the living room every Sunday with the television so loud you would expect there to be a racetrack in the other room.

 It has been my dad’s lifelong dream to drive a stock car, and this Thanksgiving his wish came true at Disney.

 My mom surprised my dad when she told him he would be riding in a NASCAR stock car. He couldn’t believe it. The surprise only got better when my dad’s friend Mike who was with us, said he had upgraded his ticket so that my dad could drive the car instead. My dad could hardly believe it or muster up the words to express how excited and thankful he was.

 So, on November 23^rd, my dad suited up at Richard Petty’s Driving Experience in the WaltSpeedway to make his dream come true. After eight laps he had gone up to 122mph and created a very special memory.

 From the 16-hour drive straight to our resort, to the sound of cars zooming around a racetrack, to having our thanksgiving cooked and delivered to our room, to watching fireworks over Cinderella’s castle, it is certain my family had a very unique and memorable Thanksgiving.

Drinking + inking = BAD IDEA!

Thanksgiving is one of the most loved holidays of the year where you spend time with your loved ones and get awful tattoos. At least that’s what happens with my crazy family.

During this year’s thanksgiving my whole family did the usual: have dinner, drink, have dessert, drink, watch the football games, drink some more…well you know the pattern. Unfortunately, this was not the best choice for my brother in law. For him, this will be one of the most memorable holidays and not because of the good memories but because of the painful, bloody things he did…to himself of course. This is what happened:

As I said there was some heavy drinking for the day, my brother in law JR whom is 34 years old, has a wife and two beautiful kids was drinking a tad bit more than the others. He was outside catching up with some friends reminiscing on old times drinking more than a couple of “cold ones”. The afternoon turned into evening, the evening turned into night and eventually night turned into morning.

That morning everyone was in the living room (we had all spent the night at my mother in laws house) and when JR woke up and walked out of his room our jaws dropped to see a big red blotch on the right side of his shirt.

- “Are you okay?”

-“What’s on your shirt?”

-“Did you get shot?!”

Those where all questions we were all asking JR…we didn’t know what to think or say when we saw his shirt full of blood! To our surprise JR did not get shot or get attacked by some wild animal last night, he had just got a tattoo. A really big ugly tattoo.

He explained that his friend’s brother’s cousin’s neighbor came by the house last night and that he was one of the best tattoo artists in Houston and it just so happened that he had all of his equipment with him, so he decided to get a tattoo last night in the garage!

The tattoo wasn’t anything crazy or outrageous, but it was just plain bad. It was his younger kid’s name, which I guess is okay since he already had his older son’s name but the quality of it was terrible. At least he spelled his name right, and he could’ve stopped there but the guy did what he would call “shading” but to me it was just a whole bunch of lines running up and down. There is one part where there is a line that looks like Oscar the grouch’s uni-brow under his nipple area.

The worst part was that the tattoo artist had to stop because even though JR was very intoxicated he was in pain and crying like a little girl, he was bleeding everywhere and the tattoo didn’t even get done.

Good thing that he didn’t get his wife’s name because she was so extremely mad I could’ve sworn she was soon to be the ex-wife.

I don’t know whether to laugh or feel sorry for my brother in law for his poor decision but I do think he learned his lesson not to be drinking and inking at the same time.

By Lesly Delgado

Party in a parking lot!

What can be more entertaining than watching someone getting arrested on black Friday? More like a group of kids bringing the party to you. My plan was to go to best buy at 12:30am because I was so eager to purchase an Ipad and as I soon as I arrived the line was almost a mile long, but oh well I was already there. Anyways I was standing in between very mature couples and all I could hear was chitchat about their love lives and what not, until I saw a black 1998 Honda civic with blue lights underneath coming and parked right beside the line of desperate people. Three teens came out of the car one being a guy and two girls around the age of 17, I would say. The bass on that car almost busted everyone’s ear drums and they screamed at the public and raised their hands up for us to join them as they booty danced all over the parking lot. It was hilarious what these kids were doing, like where is your mother? Made me almost want to vibrate and get “jiggy with it”.

 

Everyone around me said how immature they were and how they didn’t even know how to smoke a cigarette. Yep those teens just wanted to feel cool and get all the attention. Hello that is why is called being 17, right? After all, laughing at those poor kids was pretty entertaining to everyone in the line, some people joined their party and danced all around the parking at 1am, and others decided to criticize their bad behavior. At least it took my stress away and finally got what I went for. A party at the parking lot on black Friday can’t compete with a party in a club on a Saturday night.

By:Jannette Marin

FUTURE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT…

As my last post i just want to thank Mr. Faour for everything. I encourage everyone to atleast think about interning with one of his programs because it could lead to a paying job in the field. I am one of those success stories. If it wasn’t for the oppertunity that i got, it would have never happened. I now work for 104.1 KRBE as a Board Op, and I am thrilled. Again thanks to Mr. Faour and his internship program i know that after UH the sky is the limit. The the only thing stopping us from becoming what we want, is US! Congrats to those who are leaving and keep pushing for those new comers!!!!

-MIKE V

Meningitis

I just paid $132 at Walgreens for a meningitis vaccine. Am I paranoid, or a hypochondriac? No, I’m merely complying with a new TX law that requires college applicants under the age of 30 to get the vaccine before being allowed to enroll in classes. The law that had been in effect before this applied only to students living on campus. This new law was signed by Rick Perry on May 27, 2011, as a result of the horrific outbreak this year which has claimed the countless lives of one dude who lived off campus….wait, one dude? Seriously!!?? I just shelled out the enough money to buy Rocksmith and Dark Souls because one guy bought the farm? I’m 29 years old, and I live very off campus. I don’t even make eye contact if I can help it, let alone touch people or drink or eat after them. Thanks Texas. For a red state, you sure have a ton of expensive, overprotective laws on the books. Way to keep government out of my life.
-Jacob K.

Keeping up with the Osteen’s?

 

                  Yesterday morning I heard of a brand new reality show on the works. One where cameras will follow the religious family that preaches in Lakewood Church, the Osteen’s. Do we really need to follow around more people that act crazy and conceited around? I really don’t think so and I really do not like the idea of a reality show that follows Houston’s own family of Osteen’s. They are supposed to be a religious family focusing on other things rather than turning into TV stars. According to them this reality show will help them spread their faith and educate others about their religion and church.

                 I personally think this is not true and very unnecessary. I am not a hardcore religious person,  I have to admit that I have sat through some of Joel Osteen’s lectures and I can say that he does have a gift for speaking. I enjoy hearing him and I will say that I even feel a little better after doing so. It just bothered me that this family is falling so much into the whole “reality frenzy” going on.
Some people believe that the Osteen’s are and have been since the beginning only for the money, and now I am starting to jump on that bandwagon. Maybe if the profits of their show go to charity or something they can shut all of us up, but I highly doubt that. I have very mixed about this project and it kind of makes me mad. I will definitely not keep up with this family.

 

By: Lesly Delgado

“…if you call in the next 10 minutes you will get 10 more for free!”

Being a victim of sleepless nights, I tend to be awake late watching tv. I have seen plenty of those late night informercials. From kitchen items to exercising gear and even the most nonsense things that you dont even think would exist. The comercials are always corny and very laughable. I often find myself watching them very entertained, not because I want to buy the products but because I wonder if there are people out there actually calling the 1-800 numbers to buy them. I wonder, who comes up with these things? Maybe there are persons who dedicate themselves to thinking new ideas of products that the regular person may need, maybe there is a full time job for brainstorming and inventing the products.
Take for example the “Shake Weight” its supposed to shape and tone your arms, by simply using it 6 minutes a day you will see “incredible results”. Wow! Seriously? If you have seen the comercial then I can assure you have laughed, you probably burned more calories laughing rather than using that thing that looks like a futuristic dumbell.
On the other hand, there are those few products that can actually work. Last year for my birthday I got the famous “Snuggie”. I laughed so hard when I opened the gift and thought I was never going to use it. Wrong. I have used that thing so much its already tearing apart. Who would have thought I was really going to put that thing to use!

 

By Lesly Delgado

Blue Man group !

By: Jannette Marin

Ok lets change this up a little bit…this past halloween my significant other and I decided to dress up alike, but we didn’t want to dress up in common costumes. The idea came from a few months ago when we to a trip to Las Vegas and saw the Blue Man group perform. So we decided to research their clothes and how they created the glossy latex look on their heads. Gosh! we looked and looked until we found Frankle’s costume shop and bought everything we needed from bold caps to latex liquid paint. Because I have shoulder length hair it was difficult to wrap it but I managed to do it and it took us 3  hours to finish!!! Before we stepped out on the night of Halloween we took this picture of our results, tell me what you think!!????

Jumper cables anyone?

For some weird, extraordinary reason Tuesday night was great. I actually fell asleep and the next morning I even woke up a little earlier feeling good. But my attitude changed as soon as I tried to leave. i was done getting ready I stepped outside heading for my car and it wouldn’t start. I have a beat up ford focus, and i can say i love my car because it takes me where i need to go and back, but Wednesday morning was a different story. It just wouldn’t start. It was 6:45 in the morning and just my luck my husband was already at work. Weird thing that he usually goes in to work at 11 am (he has the 2nd shift) but the previous night his boss had called him in to go in early. So I couldn’t call him, I was panicking and I called my mom.

Being the super mom that she is my mom said she would come over and help me.

I figured that my car just needed some jumper cables, and I thought to myself well this shouldn’t be hard, I have seen other guys do this. So after super mom dropped off my brothers in school and drove from Pasadena to Pearland we started to do some technical, mechanical, serious work on my car. It was just jumper cables right?

We could do it! Could we?

So we plugged in the jumper cables from my car to her car…and waited. Nothing happened. We switched the cables…nothing? So we just gave up we didn’t know what in the world we were doing, and I think if we would’ve kept on messing with cables and cars we probably burned down my driveway.

My neighbor, who has his own mechanic shop came over and helped us. Turns out both me and my mom had a super mega “blonde moment”, we didn’t know in order to use the jumper cables both cars have to be turned on…. oops!

By Lesly Delgado