Diff'rent Strokes

    I thought doing a different-kinds-of-artists compilation sorta post would be fun and interesting (off-topic, but my little bro gets so annoyed when he tries to say 'interesting', because he can't, but he loves to use the word. "Intessu--innersta--itnesing--MOOOOM!"), so here we are! These guys' aesthetics are all so different, but super cools at the same time. Maybe you'll even be inspired...

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⬆This is a pile of junk, up there. No, really. These robots, engineered and constructed by Colombian artist Mario Caicedo Langer, are made of old broken cell phones, windshield wipers, pipes, circuits, scraps of metal, lights, wire, nails and bolts, and other pieces of electronic trash, and somehow they manage to be real robots that have blinking lights and moving parts. Aren't they fabulous-looking? Functional robots made of phones. Have we found new geek role models today? Mwah ha ha.

Tracker Guide

To feel like an honorary Boy Scout. Hopefully my Girl Scout troop will be going to Camp Glen Spey or something so we can camp out! I'd honestly so much rather be in my brother's Cub Scout troop than in mine. They get to make igloos and fires, and we get to rip paper. Terribly exciting, no? Use this for a reference guide! Opossum fingers bleed together, and house cat palms look like sloppy traced noses on mugs. Credits to sciencedaily.com, enjoy!

New Tights, Huzzah!

   So I was on Polyvore (what else is new, right?) and I saw an ad for We Love Colors, showcasing tights and kneesocks and the like. It was very intriguing, and I recalled that I needed to graduate from my ole Children's Place fall-apart tights, so I said HEY! and checked out their site. Two purchases later, my tights came! Just now! Check 'em out! I took a picture of them with ballet slippers which I will show later, possibly. OK, that's all for now folks. *mushroom animation*

Watch Out: MKTO

    Hey there, amoebas! I just felt like saying that word. My sincerest apologies for the blogly hiatus, I really try not to do that very often but sometimes I just forget... Great way to ring in the new year, huh? Evidently, I thought so too. Okay.
    So anyway, I was just on YouTube, watching my favorite 90s rap videos and also Weezer, when a few letters popped up onto the screen. Four, to be exact--MKTO. They are this cool two-person band that (as far as I've discovered) have a bunch of catchy songs that I'm enjoying! Hopefully they'll catch on pretty soon. I think their album (or videos) just came out at the beginning of this month, so they may be discovered... good luck to them! They both have real good voices. MKTO apparently stands for their initials; I think the first guy's name is Malcolm Something-with-a-K, and the second guy's name is Tony Something-with-an-O. All in all, pretty talented bunch! Keep your eyes out for these guys so you can feel like a hipster for knowing them before the masses! Here are the links to my two favorite songs:
Thank You and Goodbye Song. Knock yourselves out! Sorry for the superbly short post and weird stream-of-consciousness wording of it all, but right now I'm being reprimanded to go upstairs. So adieu, until later.

AYO UP HIGH fo' 2013

     Welcome, dearest amigos, to the magical wonderland we call "2013", where the so-called rapper Key Dollar-sign Ha writes slow ballads chock full of autotune, like that's supposed to enhance the mood or something (um... at least she tried?) and the world is (so far) not destined to end... whatever, some ol' quack will probably declare it the end of the world sometime in May. It happens, we get over it. Hopefully (hint, hint, folks) we will be exiting the realm of "swag", the irrelevant "YOLO", and the whole mobscene of One Direction.
      Today in Spanish we had to write our resolutions for the new year in our handy-dandy cuadernos de español, and I started to write about my running goals, and suddenly! I had an epiphany! Well, not really. More like a scoff over humans these days. I thought to myself, hey, it's great that we're willing to get stuff done and have a successful year for ourselves, but if we REALLY want to change what we're doing, I think we shouldn't have to wait until January. Like Earth Day, we should be improving our lives RANDOMLY, not only on a specific day where half of us won't even follow through with our resolutions throughout the year anyway. What's the point? How about we just try to modify whenever modification is necessary? It'd be much more approachable like that. So here are my RIGHT-NOW resolutions, which have nothing to do with the new year except, ya know, everyone wants to hear about goals for the upcoming 12 months anyway. So here we are! Sorry for the Jenna Marbles-esque rant... 
1. I would like to definitely run every single weekend without skipping unless I have legitimately NO time in my schedule to run. Wish me luck on that one, folks!
2. I would like to spend less time mindlessly playing Sudoku and Minesweeper (I know, I'm a major geek who may have puzzle issues). For real! You can lightly tap me with your elbow if you see me doing this...
3. I would like to eat more produce, because according to the Tarahumara, that is a major food staple that's great for running and, dur, overall health. And also eat more salads that aren't bland.
4. I would like to create a sewing area in my room and periodically rearrange my furniture because I *cough* may have a slight attention-span problem.
5. I would like to work on my Italian skills, because the Gekottys got a brand-spanking new Rosetta Stone Italian kit-thang that I really haven't been doing anything with. Oh, me. What if we  move to Italy on a whim then, huh? And we don't even know Italian? Prob-lem.
6. I would like to cook stuff that isn't only dessert or peanut butter and Nutella or mac n' cheese, enough said, yeah?
      That's about all I can think of! Be sure to share your resolutions through comments, and enjoy your new year!