College Problems: #1

SPIDERS :(

So me and my little sister Sydney decided that this fall we would get an apartment by ourselves. We both go to ICC and play softball and lived 45 minutes away from East Peoria. Living on your own seemed to look a lot more fun and easier on the movies than in real life.

About a month ago we noticed that our apartment seemed to be infested with spiders, my BIGGEST fear of all time! And when I say biggest, I mean deathly afraid! We were killing about three to four a day and let me tell you these spiders weren't just some little, the size of a finger nail critters, they were larger than the top of a soda can! Supposedly the owners of the apartment complex sprayed every apartment for spiders a couple weeks ago, but after hearing this story you will agree along with Sydney and I that, that was hardly the case!

Last Thursday night Sydney and I arrived at our apartment late, just getting home from an away softball game. I went straight to the bathroom to hop in the shower when I heard Syd screaming. My stomach dropped and my heart started to beat a little faster because I knew right away what she was screaming about. When I ran out of the bathroom and to her side my eyes shot right to the monster that was crawling up our wall. I mean you couldn't miss this sucker! Don't get me wrong I’ve have seen big spiders because I live in a farm house, but this guy was HUGE and black and deformed, by far the ugliest spider I've encountered yet! So their we were, both screaming and holding onto each other with death grips. We were yelling back and forth at each other to go kill the spider before it ate us both. After about 30 minutes of debating who was going to kill it ( and no I'm not over exaggerating) we decided that Syd would smash it and I would be behind her holding a bottle of hair spray so just in case she missed it, I could freeze it death! So to make the story short Syd ended up smashing it and we ended up calling the manager of our apartment to get our home sprayed again because it was coming to the point where we were scared to sleep in our beds because they were against the wall and we didn't want to end up like the guy off the Geico commercial that got thrown around the room by a spider.

It has been a week since the Orkin man had came and sprayed and we have yet to see a spider anywhere in our apartment! Maybe it was the Orkin man or maybe it was because all of the other spiders saw what would happen to them if they were to come out. Note: Today is Wednesday and we just now got the dead spider off our wall, not because me and Syd did it but our friend was brave enough to risk her own life and scrap it off for us!

My Daughters Have No Mother. (text response)

           Max Mutchnick writes this article stating why he calls his daughter’s surrogate an oven. Many of his readers were annoyed with the referral to the surrogate as an oven. He makes his argument by stating that he truly meant no disrespect and admires the generous soul who carried his daughters for thirty-seven weeks. Max is gay and could not produce a baby with his partner, so they logged onto a secured Web site where there were pages among pages of girls, not women he adds. The website contains a headshot, a small video testimonial, and extensive medical history. He states that in the article you don’t even get to meet the surrogate mother. He also includes, “Fifty percent of my babies’ DNA would be purchased online.” This quote leads me to believe that he does not like the process of choosing a mother over a broad website, as the one he chose.

He makes the relation of diamonds to a donor you really like, “It’s a BUY NOW situation.” Although he was very excited, he was also scared once the decision was made. He makes a very strong point with the quote, “We’ll never know her. Our daughters will never kiss her. She is everything….and nothing.” After reading this quote I now understand the title of this article. He wasn’t meaning anything disrespectfully towards the surrogate mothers out there but he literally meant that his daughters will have NO mother since he is gay. It makes me feel bad for him because in the article he states that it drives him crazy, that he is sincere and feels bad his daughters won’t have a mother. Once you realize how sad and sorry you feel for him because you want his daughters to have a mom too, he concludes with a list of things that they do have and it makes all the sadness go away and replace that frown with a smile.

                                                              

                                                              The List

Doting grandparents

Lots of cousins

Fifty gay uncles

Two gay aunts

Clean sheets

Bubble baths

Kisses from morning ‘til night

Walks in the park

Laughter

Dogs that lick their feet

And two adoring fathers.

Movie: The Vow (Free Choice)

                If you have not seen The Vow, you must get out of your seat and go now! The lead roles are played by the heart pounding Tatum Channing and the beautiful Rachel McAdams, that right there should make you run for your keys and out the door. It has been a long time since we have seen a romantic movie such as the Vow. Tatum Channing who plays Leo works to win Rachel McAdams (Paige) heart again after getting into a car accident, which puts her in a coma. She awakens with a lot of memory loss and does not remember her husband and can only remember her life before she met Leo where she had a different fiancé at the time, Jeremy.

                I believe that The Vow is the new romantic movie to outdo. So, you’re probably wondering what makes this movie so different than every other romantic move out there, right? You literally find yourself captivated in the movie, so much so that you feel that the 2 hours you have just watched have just felt like a short 30 minutes. By the end of the movie I wanted to stay put in my seat hoping the credits would end and the movie would begin to play again. I think that a sequel could be made because it leaves you wanting to see more (I don’t want to spoil the end for the people who haven’t seen it, so I won’t say what happens).

 I Ladies on hold to your seat, because it could really happen to you! This movie was based off of a true story as shown in the credits. This isn’t another one of those fantasy movies, it truly gives you faith. I have never seen someone so in love with his other half. I left the movie theatre in hope and belief that someday I could find my own Leo. The Vow made me laugh, cry, and mad throughout the entire movie. I think that if a movie can make you feel all those emotions, it’s a darn good movie and well worth seeing.