It's September, say what? Yeah, I know where in the world has this year gone. I hope you all had a fantastic Labor Day and relaxed if you could! I mean it's a four day week, who doesn't like a four day week?!?!
Well since its the beginning of September I need to update y'all on my New Years Resolutions so let's get started!
So, here's the key to dictate who there going.
Haven't even been attempted
In Progress
Completed
Also, if you want to check out the goals themselves or the first to months you can by clicking here, here and/or here. So, let's begin....
1. Start Exercising and Eating Healthier.
Can we just not talk about this one?
2. Either Cross something off my bucket list or start planning to (i.e. trips)
Pretty much in the same place I was in June, I just looked at the list and saw somethings that might help me cross this off by the end of the year but I don't think it will. You never know right?
3. Start Dealing with the aftermath of my big decision
I'm pretty sure everyone who knew I was ever an education major now knows that I'm not anymore. I also think I've answered the question so what are you going to do with your life now? about 10 bajillion times and the answer is ALWAYS the same which is I don't know. Can't I just watch netflix forever?
I worked on some this summer but it was just to damn hot to have a blanket laying on my legs during the summer. Hopefully I can get this one done soon.
5. Read 7 Books that aren't for school.
I only have 2 more to read before the year's over! I can do, I just need to figure out which ones and find the time to it.
6. Become More Organized.
I actually think this one is going to happen guys! I found a system and I'm hoping it'll work! Cross your fingers!
And that is how I'm doing. How are you guys doing sticking to your new years resolutions or goals? Also I'm thinking about during this feature into a link-up next year but I would need some co-hosts, I have tons of ideas and would love to hear others if you have any email me {emmatheblogger@aol.com} to talk about it.
I just want to start out by saying that I'm sorry this post isn't that great and might be a little boring. I didn't do a good job paying attention this week to Big Brother because my mind was else where with moving back into school.
Competitions:
For this week's HOH the house guests once again went head to head. Each pair would listen to song that would give a hints towards a competition. The house guest would hit one buzzer that either was the HOH, POV or Have and Have Not to say which competition they thought the clues went with. The last person to buzz in would be eliminated. The first person to buzz in would stay in for another round and choice the next to go up. In the Aaryn, scored her fourth HOH.
For their Have/Have Not competition they were split into teams of 4. They were sent into the back yard where their was a big black box. They had to go into the box where it was pitch dark. The team had to search the box and find a big key. Since they couldn't see what they were touching and would be hit in the face with feather and such. In the end Gina Marie, Elissa, Amanda and Helen were this weeks have nots.
This weeks POV was played by everyone except McCrae and Amanda. POV was Otev, my favorite one to watch. For those of you who don't watch Big Brother Otev is a speaking creature (changes depending on the season) who reads the house guest clues about evicted House guests. Then the house guests have to run through mud, water and other gross things in order to find an object with house guest name on them. The last person to return the object to Otev loses. This week Elissa won her first POV.
Helen.
After Elissa won HOH Aaryn had to nominate a replacement. For a few minutes Aaryn did debate back dooring Amanda but instead stuck to the status quo and nominated
Alliances:
The 3AM stayed strong and Helen unsuccessful tried to form an alliance between Aaryn, Gina Marie and Elissa.
Showmances:
McCrae and Amanda are the same.
Drama:
The day before the POV ceremony Big Brother gave the house guest alcohol and the topic of Wine Gate. Amanda and Aaryn ended up arguing about the series of events. Although the next day they were back to being friends.
Eviction:
Helen campaigned hard to get the votes to stay. And she almost did by convincing Gina Marie and Andy. But has almost every other week this season the house voted together (with the exception of Elissa) to evicted...
This week's player of the week kicked butt during the POV Competition and was strong enough to vote against the crowd. This week's player of the week goes too...
I'm sorry if this week's Big Brother Recap seems a little boring. This season has to be one of the worse seasons of Big Brother but I promise I will finish the Big Brother Series.
If your a Big Brother Fan who do you want to see go home next week? Who do you want to win? Who is your player of the week? Let me know in the comments below.
About once a month I have been explaining 5 things on my bucket list. I also find it interesting why people want to do certain things. Since I adding something new o my bucket list today I figured why not do an explanation for you guys with this months five. If you want to check out other ones you can here, here and here. And you want to check out the whole list you can hit the bucket list tab above.
As of right now I am in no shape to run a marathon but I want to start training so that one day I can run the half marathon. When I run it I want to run it with a group of friends and go all out running in tutus and with tiaras on our heads.
Again I have to start getting in shape but I've been seeing pictures all over my Facebook of people who have run the Color Me Rad and it looks like so much fun.
This is one that I started thinking about at the end of last semester. I go to school in city and when it hit me how different people grow up. And I've always wanted to make a difference in someone's life and maybe I could through the Big Brother/Big Sister program.
I'm one of thoe people that learning and studying doesn't come naturally but I really want to get my GPA up to a 3.0 and keep it there for the rest of my college career.
Get Something I've Written Published
I LOVE to write, obviously I write this blog and the post get published but when I say I want something I've written to get published I mean through a publishing company or newspaper so it will reach a larger audience. I'm always writing something so hopefully when I will see my name on book or in a newspaper.
Happy Monday! I had a pretty busy weekend and now I'm trying to catch up on other blogs and my blog and get ahead with some of my posts for this week. I also finished and emailed my first ever guest post for one of my favorite blogs, it will be published later this week and I'll make sure to let you guys know when and where!
Today I debated what I wanted to do and I think I'm going to share with you guys the story of how my car got his name. Yep, my car is guy.
A couple weeks ago I shared with you guys my lack of car knowledge and that Mama J was buy a new car. I believe I told you guys I had to get a few things lined up before her old car could become mine. Well I am happy to say that her car is "mine". I'm using quotations because its my car BUT she still owns it. When I move back to school the car will be coming with me! And I'm excited!
When Mama J got her new license plate, the man gave it to us and said, "Look you got Abraham," because the letters on the plate looked like an abbreviation Abraham. Since Mama J got a used car I suggested she name her car Good Old Abe because it goes with her license plate. However Mama J didn't like the name.
I continued to call the car Good Old Abe to joke with her. But she just kept saying no. Finally I decided that I would name my car Good Old Abe, because its from 2004.
And that's how my car got its name! Does your car have a name? Let me know in the comments below.
I've been blogging for about 1/3 of the year so far and I love it! But at the same time I'm terrified to tell people. My close friends know that I blog and some have even liked my facebook page because they want to read my posts. I know people who tell everyone and their mother that they blog but me I can't even tell my mother, my best friend that I blog. And that got me thinking, why?
At first I didn't want to tell too many people because I was scared that I would give up but I personally have fallen in love with blogging and don't see it ending so I think telling more people wouldn't be crazy.
So, why am I so scared to tell people that I blog? I think it might be because I'm scared they will judge me. Which is strange because normally I'm person that doesn't not care what people think about me. I live my life by the idea: I am who I am, take or leave it, it won't make me change.
Part of me does want to tell all my friends about my blog and hope that they will read and comment. But I want them to want to read so unless I know they read it I don't talk about it much, but if they do read blogging is one of my favorite topics.
In life you are always making new friends and that begs the question, how do you tell new friends that you're a blogger? Do you bring it up one day when you're hanging out? Or slyly inject it into a conversation and pretend that you forget you hadn't told me that you're a blogger?
I guess that is just some thing I've been thinking about pretty much since I started my blog. My question for all you readers out their is how do you tell people that your a blogger? Is there anyone that you always hide your blog from? Basically I would love to hear any story about telling people about your blog. Let me know in the comments below.
Last night I went on a solo movie trip to see The Way, Way Back.
Since the first time I saw the commercial for this movie I wanted to see. Not because of any of the big names that are in this movie but because I love styling of this movie. And this movie didn't disappoint me, I really enjoyed it.
This movie featured big name actors such as Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Anna Sophia Robb and Maya Randolph. I loved this movie because all of the actors played character I had never seen them play before. For example when I think Allison Janney I think of the West Wing but in this movie she played a drunk neighbor who couldn't control her children.
But the story was my favorite part of the movie. Duncan (Liam James) is a very awkward boy who is dealing with the divorce of his parents. Over the summer his mother, Pam (Collette), join her jerk of boyfriend, Trent (Carell), and his daughter, Steph (Zoe Levin) on a summer at the beach. When they first arrive at the beach house they run into Betty (Janney) who is already a little buzzed and her daughter Suzanne (Robb). While Steph is off enjoying their first night their Duncan mooping around the house.
Exploring town the next day Duncan runs into Owen (Sam Rockwell) playing a video game and cliques with him quickly. Without realizing it he runs back into Owen at the water park that Owen owns. Soon Owen offers him a job and Duncan begins to meet a lot of interesting characters including the park manager, Caitlin (Randolph), the life guard Roddy (Nat Faxon) and the man who has big dreams but never leaves the park because he's scared, Lewis (Jim Rash).
LtoR: Roddy (Faxon), Owen (Rockwell), Duncan (James) and Caitlin (Randolph)
Although his life at home isn't as happy because he has Trent making him feel bad about himself and his mother is changing into somebody he doesn't recognize.And meeting Trent's friends, Kip (Rob Corddry) and Joan (Amanda Peet), who are little on the crazy side. As Suzanne (Robb) says: "This his place is like Spring Break for grown ups."
LtoR: Kip (Corddry), Joan (Peet), Duncan (James), Pam (Colette) and Trent (Carell)
Although when he's not at work he begins to get to know Suzanne as the bond of their parents recent divorce and their dysfunctional mothers. Making Suzanne the only reason he wants to be at the beach house.
Duncan (James) and Suzanne (Robb)
With they help of Suzanne, Caitlin, Roddy, Lewis and of course Owen, Duncan has his both life changing summers of his life.
Duncan (James) and Owen (Rockwell)
This movie was so heart warming as you watch a young boy who is at the age where he is starting to try and find himself. Although, throughout the whole movie I had ideas of how I want the movie to end, non of which were actually true, I enjoyed the ending because of how realistic it was.
I'm so proud to say that today is my blog's 3 month birthday! It is a quarter of year old and I'm so proud of how far I've come with it.
Every month I have been doing a quick recap of the months stats at the end of other blog posts but instead this month I want to give you guys some stats, exciting news and some clues as to what is coming up this month!
- The Final Installment(s) of Adventures in Dog Sitting since Kizzy goes home later this week
- How My Car Got its Name
-Move Back Into School (Possible Dorm tour vlog, if not this month next)
- My Schools Leadership Conference
- Moving in the New Freshmen
-First Day of Classes for my Sophomore Year
- Possibly Seeing Some Family I Never Get to See
- Guest Posts on 2 of my Favorite College Blogs
-First Guest Post on My Blog
- Testing My First Pinterest Recipe
Exciting News:
Earlier this month I came to the decision that I would create a Facebook Fan Page. On my Facebook Page I put up a link with all my post and I give clues and updates about what is coming up on the blog! Make sure you like my page to stay up to date with the World According to Emma.
Instagram (My Instagram is protected but I will accepted you as long as you look real and aren't going to spam me. I really just don't like spam comments)
email: emmatheblogger@aol.com (If you have questions, comments or are interested in doing a guest post feel free to email me)
I'm so incredibly honored that there are people out there who want to read my blog! This month not only did my blog hit its first 1000 page views, but the number of pageviews doubled since last month. I want to thank my readers so much for reading and commenting, I love reading what you have to say!
What I want to know as the girl behind the blog is, what was your favorite post this month? What would you like to see more of? Are there any blog posts that other bloggers do that you would like to see me do? Let me know in the comments below.
This week I am totally fangirling over two people and I'm going to write about my love for one, actually 3 of them. Before reading this please don't judge me too hard for who I'm fangirling over. Actually I don't even know if I will be judge because they have grown up. You'll have to let me know in the comments if you think that they still have the teeny bopper feel to them.
Anyways this week I love...The Jonas Brothers.
I love how I am totally hard core Fangirling over Nick...
I mean look at Nick, he grew up to be so gorgeous.
Not going to lie Nick Jonas has always been my favorite!
I love Married to Jonas.
I love Kevin and Dani's relationship
I love that they are going to have a baby soon!
I love their new song and music video.
I still love Year 3000 ( I just broke out singing the song while I was writing this. Now you may judge me.)
I loved their Disney Channel shows. Jonas and Jonas L.A.
I loved when Nick sang Biggest Fan on the show, I mean he was writing it for me right?
I also loved the love song he sang in Camp Rock 2, Introducing Me, I never saw the movie just watch the music video for this song on repeat for hours.
Basically I love any song that Nick sang ever.
I love that the Jonas Brothers are back and I can't wait to see what comes in their future.
So what are you loving this week? Do you think that Jonas Brothers can no longer considered a band for Teeny Boppers? Let me know in the comments below.
Today I was helping one of my best friend's set up her own blog! She's still setting up and make it the way she wants but once she does I'll share a link with all you lovely people because my friend is an AMAZING writer and her blog is bound to be just as amazing.
While I was helping her I couldn't help but think about what I wanted to write about on my blog today. Then I found my inspiration in cup I was drinking out of.
This is one of my all time favorite quotes EVER! Its not only what the quote is saying but the memories behind the quote. My favorite English teacher in high school had this quote hanging in her classroom when I walked in Freshmen year. Those words stuck with me. That Christmas Mama J got me the mug and its my favorite one.
It got me thinking what would I do if I knew I wouldn't fail? What would I do if I had all the money in the world? What would I do if nobody could tell me that I was wrong? And nobody could stop me?
I would...
....send the scripts for a television series I've been writing to an agent so that it could actually be produced
...be honest with my feelings, even when I'm embarrassed.
...take classes that I find interesting and don't have to do with my majors, along with classes that have do with my majors
...I would move to a city and buy an apartment with a great view, I mean I would have my hit television show right?
...talk to people who look interesting, hoping to make friends.
...find world peace
What would you do if you knew you wouldn't fail? Let me know in the comments below.
Last night was the second live eviction of the season and now its time to discuss this weeks eviction. You can read about other weeks by hitting the links: week 1, week 2
***Spoiler Alert: I will be discussing events that have happened in any Big Brother up to and including the episode that was aired on July 11, 2013. I don't watch the live feeds so I will not be discussing anything that was not featured in the edit show!*** Competitions:
Sunday night's episode started with the second HOH competitions of the season. This week they were paired up together in teams of 2. The first member of the team would fill a measuring cup (about 1/2 cup in size) with BBQ sauce, they would then they'd run across a slippery path to a hedge, on the other side is their partner. They then had to transfer the BBQ sauce into their partners cup who would then run two table that held two containers. If they decide to filled up the smaller one it would release two bigger measuring cups (about cup size) that would help them fill up the bigger jug. The first team to fill up big jug the would have to decide between the two of them who would be HOH for the week.
During the competitions Amanda starts sliding on her butt. After competition during her DR talk she explained why with the logic above.
During the whole competition Elissa/Andy and Jeremy/Aaryn were neck and neck. After releasing the bigger cups Judd's team caught up fast. But in the end Jeremy and Aaryn were the winners.
When asked who was going to be HOH Jeremy jumped right in saying it would be Aaryn. He had 2 (1 of which was well reasoned) reasons for making Aaryn HOH. His good reason was that he could be in Aaryn's ear and encourage her to nominate who he wanted with out getting blood on his hands.
Aaryn's first job as HOH was to choice how would be Have nots for the week. Before chosing she called out the whole house asking who voted David out. When no one admitted to it she made Elissa, Andy, Helen and Candice have nots. Elissa, Andy and Helen had been have nots last week.
The other competition this week was POV. The POV was played by Aaryn, Elissa, Helen, Amanda, Jeremy and Nick. It was hosted by Gina Marie. Before the competition began they got a guest message from former Big Brother Player, Britney Haynes telling them that she needs help setting up her nursery.
The house guest then preceded to the back yard where there were 6 over sized cribs with over sized mobiles in over the crib. Each of the players had to jump out over their cribs run across the backyard to a big toy chest and grab ten different sized stuff animals and run back to their crib. The challenge of this game was to get all the animals onto the mobile so that it will be balanced without any of the animals touching the ground. Throughout most of the competition Amanda was in the lead but she just couldn't get the animals to not touch the ground. Elissa had the most trouble balancing her mobile. In the end Jeremy won.
After winning Jeremy was not a a graceful winner and that probably will kill his social game.
Nominations and BBMVP:
Like every week the Aaryn had a lot voices in her ear about who she put up. Right after winning HOH Aaryn was told by multiply people to put up Helen and Elissa because nobody would vote Helen out. It also would be a good move on Aaryn's part because by putting Elissa and Helen up she has the potential of breaking up a duo.
Helen tired to make a deal with Aaryn by saying that they should form a secret alliance. That way towards the end of the season Helen would put up Aaryn's friends so that Aaryn could vote them out but still have friends in the jury house.
When the moving company had a mini meeting they convince Jeremy to try and convince Aaryn to put up Elissa and Amanda because Amanda is the only person that is in the way of the Moving Company having full control of the house. When Jeremy approaches Aaryn with this idea she tells her that Amanda was the Mastermind of David getting evicted.
Put in the end Aaryn didn't surprise anyone and nominated...
Elissa
and
Helen
Once again this week Elissa was chosen by America to be BBMVP. As soon as she found out she went and told Helen. They debated between putting up Jeremy or Kaitlin. If they chose Kaitlin they thought that she could win and then they could back door Jeremy because they believed that Jeremy was a bigger target. In the end Elissa thought the backdoor plan was too risky and in the end Elissa put up...
Although Jeremy won POV and was able to Veto himself and was no longer on the block. Since he was nominated by BBMVP, Elissa had to put up someone else. She again debated between two people. Originally she thought Kaitlin because she is close to Jeremy and if she couldn't get out Jeremy why not get out his closest allie. Her other opition was suggested to her by Candice who wanted to break up the moving company.
But in the end Elissa decided to put up...
Making it that Nick, Helen and Elissa are all up on the block. Normally I know who I want to go home but this week I don't want to see any of them go home.
Alliances:
On Sunday Nights episode Helen and Candice were the two that got the closest to figure out all the members of the moving company. After a few minutes of discussing the two of them were able to figure out every member of the moving with the exception of McCrae. But I'm not hundred percent sure but I think that McCrae isn't a huge member of this alliance as he was when he was HOH. I hope that McCrae picks up on this and drops the moving company soon because I really would like to see him win.
Prior to Elissa nominating Nick she tried to make a 2 week deal with Nick where she wouldn't nominate him for eviction as long as he threw this weeks POV competition. When Jeremy won POV Elissa approached Nick again to see if he would vote for her to stay. When asked Nick was very squirrelly and wouldn't give her a straight answer. What Nick should have done is lie and say that he was keeping her, even if in the end he voted her out, that would have saved him from the block.
Some tension was forming between the moving company when even before the POV replacement nominee was announced Jeremy went to every member of the Moving Company telling them if Kaitlin was put up and Elissa stayed he would know it was because a member of Moving Company voted Kaitlin out and he would no longer trust them. Those comments did not sit well with the Moving Company and it seems that a lot them may be realizing that Jeremy isn't as nice as they original believed.
During Thursday episode the edited part was filled with last minute scheming including some from the Moving Company. They realized that they really needed to get rid of Amanda to keep McCrae's loyalitiy leaving McCrae in a tough situation. McCrae had to chose between his showmance and his original alliance.
Showmances:
This season is seems that every single person has a showmance. The two biggest one featured so far are Jeremy and Kaitlin who are not hiding their feelings from anyone, making them a huge target because everyone wants to break up a showmance.
The other showmance that was shown this week is Nick and Gina Marie. Gina Marie is quickly falling for Nick. I can't blame her, I think if I was in the Big Brother House I would have a slight crush on Nick. Although in a Diary Room segment Nick said that his feelings for Gina Marie might not be completely honest. And that he loves the fact that not only his showmance, Gina Marie, likes him but so does Jessie.
Drama:
The big piece of drama this week is the horrible comments that Aaryn has been saying things. She has been making racist comments towards Asians and African Americans. She has also made homophobic comments. Aaryn is not the only one who has been caught making inappropriate comments. Both GinaMarie and Aaryn have made the comments. This isn't a way to win the game, if anything its going to make a target of themselves when the players who is affected by comments become HOH.
Julie Chen the host of Big Brother discussed the issue on her other show, The Talk. I think her and her co-hosts handle this issue very well. Especially when they discussed how when they leave the house they will have consequences to deal with.
On Thursday episode Big Brother showed just how bad Aaryn's comments are effecting the Big Brother House. When Amanda went to confront Aaryn about what she had been saying in a very mature way, Aaryn laughed it out like the idea that anyone would take her comments seriously was the biggest joke their was.
Eviction:
Elissa, Nick and Helen were all confident that they were staying, but in the houseguest had to vote and the vote came down to:
Helen: No one
Elissa: Jeremy, Kaitlin, Gina Marie and Howard
Nick: Andy, Judd, Spencer, Jessie, McCrae, Jessie and Candance
With a 0-4-7 vote for...
Nick to be the 2nd house guest evicted from the Big Brother House.
During his post eviction interview with Julie, Nick showed that he was a good player by being able to tell Julie who from the moving company switched their votes. He also sees what a dangerous player Spencer is in this season of Big Brother. I personally am sad to see him go, I think he did have potential to win the game if he had a better poker faces and had lied Elissa when tired to form alliances. My Player of the Week:
The Player of the Week is the person that I think played the best game this week. They are players who figure out alliances or bad bold power moves. This week I chose...
I chose Candice this week because she was the first player to figure out almost all the members of the Moving Company. She also picked up on how close Jeremy and Nick were, convincing Elissa as BBMVP to put Nick up.
That is it for this week Big Brother Recap. If you are a Big Brother fan what did you think of this week's Big Brother? What did you think about the Wine incident? Who is your favorite player? Let me know in the comments below.
Also as you can see I tweet through the episodes, you can follow me and see what I think during the episode. My twitter name is Judy_Judy94.
XOXO,
Em.
P.S. One of my favorite college bloggers Lizzy is in a fashion contest right now with Dasani Drops called Dasani Drops #FlavorFy Outfit. She had to design a summer outfit using the color of the Dasani Drops flavors. I think her outfit came out adorably and I encourage all of you to check out her post and consider voting for her!
