Living with OJD: Updates and fifty things...

Ello, ello. So, now that I actually have an audience (kind of), I figured I better start making these with some better content in them. Before I get started with this REALLY LONG POST, I should thank all my new readers and commenters. You guys are amazing! Okay, so what I'm going to do here is I thought of 50 things that I'm going to talk about today. Why don't I just put these 50 things into 50 different posts? I don't know. So here we go:
1. My laugh - When I laugh (which is very often), I totally lose it. I can't breath and I snort sometimes, and I let out a high pitched squeak. So it's pretty embarassing, and everyone makes fun of me for it. (All those people shall remain unnamed, thank you very much!)
2. One of my many obsessions - I USED to be (not anymore, thank goodness.) terribly obsessed with polos. If you don't know what they are, they're basically shirts with collars. And yeah. Looking back at pictures of me, I was like OMJ (oh my Jonas!), why the heck did I wear them? They look totally ridiculous, so word to the wise, if you were them, just stop now.
3. When I stayed over at this summer camp for the whole summer, I really liked this guy, and he actually liked me too, so it was good. Unfortunately, I was on the girls side of the lake and he was on the guys. So every night for about a month we stayed up until two and we would both sneak out and he would swim across the lake and we would just sit on the dock and talk, sometimes until sunrise. He lived in California, so now we never talk anymore, but I really think that he was my first love. And I am still very much in love with him.
4. I have never (knock on wood) broken anything in my body. One year I had mono, and that sucked, but besides that, I've been a very healthy person bone and body-wise.
5. When I was about four, I got into the drivers seat of my mom's car when she was on the porch talking to someone and I drove all the way down the driveway. It was pretty awesome. And I remember it, too. I also remember getting punished pretty badly...
6. About a year and a half ago, me and my friends were at Wendy's and we totally got kicked out because they thought we were drunk. We were thirteen at the time..and we weren't drunk AT ALL.
7. I got detention for two weeks because me and this girl (who is now one of my best friends) got in a huge fist fight at lunch. She won.
8. It is physically impossible for me to leave the house without my cell phone. If I do, I can't get down my street before I realize it and I freak out and start hyperventalating and stuff until my mom brings me back to the house. Same goes for makeup.
9. From the time of fourteen years ago, to my estimation, I've watched the movie The Lion King between 3,000 to 5,000 times.
10. I used to love the smell of home improvement stores, like Home Depot. I was actually planning on working there, just for the smell.
11. When I was younger, I didn't want this mini Christmas tree in my room because I thought Santa would come into my room and I guess that just freaked me out completely. I made my mom put it downstairs.
12. I've been to New York, Maine, Canada, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida and I think that's it, but I'm not sure.
13. I love the show, The Office, and I seriously don't think I could live without it. When it was off the air because of the writer's strike, I bought all three seasons on iTunes and watched one of the episodes every Thursday night until it came back on.
14. I heard one of my uncles once say "It's raining cats and dogs!" and I went outside with a box of dog bisquits and sprinkled them all over our street until my mom came out and yelled at me. I ended up getting really sick.
15. When I was in first grade my best friend threw her arm back without knowing I was there, and she knocked out one of my front teeth on the playground. I remember it, it gives me shivers to think that I actually got down on the ground and looked around for my tooth.
16. I watch those scary ghost hunter shows sometimes to pretend I'm all brave when my brother has friends over, but I usually turn them off before the opening credits even start.
17. I made out with my boyfriend from summer camp on the roof of one of the counselors cabins just because that was the only place we could kiss without being noticed.
18. When I don't go to camp over the summer, me and my two best friends have sleepovers EVERY night and we stay up until four and don't wake up until two or three.
19. At the end of summer camp the year with my boyfriend, they had a pool party. I didn't want to swim because Lizzie (one of my friends from camp) had just curled it for our going away party after the pool party. But my boyfriend pushed me in. With my curly hair and expensive dress that later he promised he would pay for but I told him not to worry about it.
20. I have had someone call me on my cell phone 48 times in one hour, and every single time I just let it ring.
21. I am totally against drugs and drinking, so I never plan on starting any of that. I have too many friends whose parents drink and do drugs to fall into that stupid addiction.
22. The only time I have failed a class in my life was in sixth grade and the class was home and careers. I was absent half the quarter with mono, so nobody really cared anyway.
23. I am currently learning french, but I hate my teacher, so I refuse to do any of the work. That'll probably be the next class I fail..
24. For my birthday one year my parents rented a hotel. The whole thing. We had EVERYONE in my family there. And all my friends and me stayed up all night telling scary ghost stories, and then we all felt really mad and tired the next day.
25. I have fallen up and down numerous flights of stairs, but the one I will always remember is the one where I was on my cell phone and the stairs on our porch had ice on them. I couldn't sit down for several days and I still have scars on my back, arms and legs.
26. I cried in fourth grade because me and my best friends weren't in the same class and everyone made fun of me for it.
27. I have, in one day, gotten 24 phone numbers when I went to this Canadian bar with my best friend Courtney.
28. I think the most that I have ever spent at the mall is $815 on a pocketbook, about four outfits, three pairs of shoes and some jewelry that I never ended up wearing. Whoops :/
29. When I was in kindergarten, my mom brought me to the YMCA where I took these swimming classes. In the last class we were supposed to do a back float or whatever I started crying because I didn't want to drown.
30. I dated a 19 year old when I was fourteen and I broke up with him because somebody else asked me to the spring dance.
31. I have stayed up for several hours watching one of my favorite shows, Little People, Big World.
32. My older brother is 17 and he got drunk once at a party and he called me from his friend's car and told me how much he loved me and he thought I did a wonderful job in a play that I had been in when I was five. Yeah..
33. I've lied about my age, numerous times.
34. I stole some gum from kmart without even realizing it when I was in fifth grade. I was carrying it in my hand and I just walked out.
35. Dated one of my best friends ex boyfriends even though I knew she still liked him. She got really mad when she found out and told him all these horrible, untrue things about me until he finally dumped me because he thought I had really bad toe fungus or something.
36. I started reading Harry Potter when I was twelve and I still haven't finished it. It's probably one of the most boring books ever. I put it down after the first half-chapter. I saw two of the movies and left half way through the third one because it was so boring.
37. Me and my best friend Jessica (we were four at the time) made up a language.
38. I have dressed up for halloween twice as Snow White and three times as a baby. I was lacking creativity greatly.
39. I am a huge Britney Spears fan, and as much as my mom hates me for it (she doesn't really hate me, but..) I look up to her and she is my idol. I don't know why, but she's pretty much amazing.
40. I have a 5,000 texting plan and this month (don't tell my mom..) but I have sent 7,000 so far. She'll be getting the bill in a few days, don't be surprised if I get grounded for a longgg time.
41. I am allergic to latex bandaids, and I used them alot when I was young, and I alway broke out, but I never assumed it was because of the brand of bandaid until a couple months ago.
42. I've only been to six real concerts before, and the first one was a Hilary Duff, followed by Shania Twian. Yep, you could say I'm pretty darn cool. I also went to two Jonas Brothers concerts (another one in the summer), a Metro Station and an American Idols one.
43. I had a locker next to my worst enemy for about half the year and then my mom called the school and made them switch her to another hall. It was really funny cause she thought it was the girl on the other side who hated her.
44. I slept on the beach about two and half months ago with my three best friends. I couldn't sleep, so I walked down in the water and it was absolutely amazing. From then on, I have desperately wanted to go to the beach at night with someone I love, and I keep thinking about my boyfriend from camp..
45. I won a hula hoop contest in my school when I was in second grade and I think the other girl who almost won still hates me.
46. I had to go to the principals office several times in eigth grade for some really stupid reasons like bringing a paper to my teacher and stuff like that. And every time I got freaked out because I thought I would get killed or something.
47. I used to write fanfictions and post them on my myspace, but nobody liked them so I stopped.
48. We didn't have to say the pledge in ninth grade, so I forgot it. I had to re-learn it and look like an idiot in tenth grade homeroom.
49. It feels really good to me when I beat someone that I don't like in a competitive sport, but unfortunately it hasn't happened yet. Except for once. And it felt gooooood.
50. Me and one of my best friends made a fake myspace account and made this guy who our other best friend fell in love with. She wanted to meet him, but he said he couldn't, and eventually she found out, but surprisingly she wasn't mad.

So yes, that's my extremely long random facts blog, so I hoped you enjoyed it. If you even read it all.
Byebye!

Living with OJD: Raven Symone cancelled? OH NO.

RAVEN SYMONE'S TOUR WAS CANCELLED. Pretty much ruined my day.
Oh wait, no it didn't. I have a life.
Haha, sorry, I know that's mean to the people who actually like her, but seriously, don't expect sympathy from me. I really don't like her. She was cute on the Cosby Show, that's about it. I watch That's So Raven every once in a while, it's suuuuper lame. Of course, I guess it's nothing better than anything else on Disney, except for the Jonas Brothers. They're amazing. I called my best friend (hi Jessica!) and she was like "Yeah, well, you would feel the same way if JB cancelled a tour." I assume that's true. But oh well. It's RAVEN, people. Come on, get a grip. So yeah. Anyways, even though I don't like her, I do feel bad, esp. if anything happened to her or her family or something, but nobody knows yet. Her manager has yet to release a statement. Blahblahblah. Thanks to new commenters, I know there are a couple out there. Keep telling your friends! If you want a shoutout, email me: melaniehasOJD@aim.com. I have four shoutouts for today, so that's pretty cool. Hello to Jarrod, Marissa, Amber and Peter! Thanks you guys, you're awesome (:

Living with OJD: Updates/random..

Hi. So this is gonna be a quick one probably, I'm really tired. It's only like nine, but I got up super early so yeah. And I have to get up super early tomorrow morning too. Okay, just one thing to talk about today, and that is calling people. I am seriously afraid to call people. It's like an irrational fear, I know. But whenever I'm supposed to call someone I freak out. I guess it's because I think somebody I don't know is gonna pick up or I'm gonna have to wrong number or something. I have no idea, and it's totally random, but yeah. So I was just wondering if anyone else feels this way. And, I have two shoutouts to do (this is pretty cool, two people who I guess read these emailed me and asked for a shoutout, so if you're someone who reads this, comment me or email me: melaniehasOJD@aim.com) The first is for Kenzie, and the other is for Michael. Hi you two!! Thanks so much for reading these, I know they're stupid, but still, it means a lot. Bye!

Living with OJD: Quick update..

Hey everybody. I got home from rehearsal about an hour ago; we did a full run through. It was our first one, so it was pretty rough, but we managed. My feet, however, didn't fare so well. They're pretty bruised from my shoes and they're totally sore. But whatever, I'm getting used to it. So I don't really have anything else to talk about today, but if I think of something, I'll come back. This short one is to make up for the super long one yesterday. Sorry about that (:
xoxo, bye!

Living with OJD: Sims 2 and some other stuff..

Hello everyone. I just realized everyone is like, virtually nobody. But oh well. So, got a couple things to talk about today, the first being Sims 2. If you don't have this game, I'm assuming you've at least heard of it. Well, I get these couple days every once in a while where I'm like obsessed with it and this is one of those times (: I make random families and watch them for a while, then I make a new family, and so on. I got pretty far with one family, I just can't remember which one it is. So anyways, you know how you have to move around by moving the mouse to different sections of the screen? Well, I find that after I play for a long time I start doing that afterwards. And it gets super annoying! I go to scroll up on a page and I bring the mouse to the top of the screen expecting it to move up. I have no idea if that last sentence made any sense, but it's late. So, another thing; tomorrow is bring your children to work day or whatever. I'm too old to actually do the stuff, but one of my best friends (hi Noel!) is going, and so I'm just gonna chill with her I guess. I have to get up really early, which kind of sucks, but I can deal with it. Anyways, I remember I went one other time when I was like ten and it was really boring. My mom works in insurance, so yeah. Not exciting at all. And, the last thing I wanted to talk about was rehearsal tonight. I got back about two hours ago from possibly the most hot place I have ever been to. Our regular space was being used, so we went to this other place to practice our dancing. They didn't have air conditioning. So picture this: twenty people cramped onto a stage, skipping and trying to act happy and dancing and sweating. Not exactly my idea of fun. And to make things worse, one girl wasn't there so the directors had me step in to do her part for the night. I didn't have a problem with that, but it was just SO HOT. And the girl I was filling in for is kind of a dance freak. I mean, she trains and stuff, so she's really good and she knows all the moves and stuff; as opposed to me knowing nothing. But it was whatever. So we have to wear these heels called character shoes (if you're a girl who has been in a play before you know what I'm talking about) and I was really nervous about dancing with them but I didn't slip once! I was very proud (: But we went to WalMart afterwards to get some stuff for a party tomorrow and go figure, I fall just walking. Ughhh, my ankle is really bruised up and swollen, and we have another rehearsal tomorrow night. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do, but we'll see. So sorry this is really long, I know I rambled. Comment and tell your friends. Bye!

Living with OJD: Music notes and book writing..

Hello. So I just got super frustrated and gave up trying to write the music notes for a song I wrote a little bit ago. I have this thing called Finale NotePad 2008 and don't get me wrong, it's awesome. You can hear what you've created and your sheet music looks very professional. But my problem is that I have a song in my head and the lyrics and music all fit, but when I put the notes down on paper it never turns out how I planned them. It gets super annoying and so I saved my one line that I completed and decided to write this instead. Speaking of writing, how many people out there like to write stories and books and novels and stuff? I do (: But one problem I have is I can never finish a story. I get about five pages down in a Word document and my brain stops working. I have one book that's about 80 pages long and I would LOVE to finish it, but I just can't come up with good ideas. I love Jodi Piccoult books (sorry if I spelled her name wrong!) and they're like 300 pages. How does she do it??? And she has such interesting plot lines. I can't think of very interesting stories on a daily basis. So this blog is kind of a writer's block thing, sorry about that. I just thought I would share my problems on here. It's better than kicking and screaming.

Living with OJD: Age differences

Okay, so hi. Today I've been thinking a lot about age differences and things like that, so I guess that's what we're going to talk about today. I'm 15, but people often tell me that I act a lot older and more mature than that. People are surprised, but they're usually fine with the age difference and we're friends or whatever. I've never been in a relationship with someone over eighteen, and I'm good with that, so it's never been a big deal. In theater however, there are a lot of people from the ages of 17-mid twenties, and I find that since I'm a little more mature than people my age, I tend to hang out with that group of people. So they all just expect me to be 17 or 18 and when they find out that I'm younger, they kind of ignore me. Not like totally snub me, but a little to that affect. I usually end up making people feel guilty about something they had said to me, and while I'm not the least bit offended, they feel like they can't talk to me anymore. Is there any way to fix this? Please let me know. If I can somehow change my age legally, that'd be the ideal solution. Probably not gonna happen though. So anyway, I guess that's it. I posted up a picture and an about me and stuff like that so if you wanna take a look there, that'd be super. Bye!

Living with OJD: My opinion of Myspace

Hi everyone. Okay, so by now just about everyone on planet Earth has a myspace, or at least you've heard of it, so that's what we're going to talk about today. I made my myspace about six - eight months ago, it got deleted and then I remade it. So I pretty much know how annoying myspace is by now. It's basically an over-rated race to see who can get the most comments on photos, blogs and your profile in general. Myspace has ruined too many friendships just by creating the dreaded top 8. In case you've never heard of it, here's how it works: you put all your best friends in your top friends and everyone else just goes under friends which you can get to by clicking a few times. People who think that they're your best friends get upset and hurt when they're not in your top, so word to the wise, hide your top friends. There are lots of codes out there to do so, so just go ahead and do it. Myspace has become something people DEPEND on for a social community. I'm not exactly sure why, but so many people (girls esp.) have such low self esteem that if you don't comment thier new pictures within a day, they freak out and turn anorexic or emo or something. I'm not a total hypocrite though, because I must say that Myspace has helped me keep in touch with old friends. I move a lot so I do count on Myspace to keep me up to date about what's happening at my old schools. So, it's not all bad I guess. Oh but don't even get me started on how many times a girl (or boy) has gotten raped by someone who pretended to be a young guy (or girl). It's terrible how much crime there is due to Myspace, but I think if you only add people you know and make sure you don't give out too much information about yourself, I think you can benefit from it a little more. So, basically, that's my myspace rant, take it or leave it.

Living with OJD: Paris Hilton BFF?!

Okay, so I was on youtube and I was looking at WHATTHEBUCK?!'s account and he was talking about Paris Hilton on his new video. I guess she posted a myspace blog saying how she's in London with her rockstar boyfriend having the best time and whatever. The one thing he didn't mention (or maybe he did in another video, I'm not sure) is that she is starting a show on MTV called Paris Hilton BFF and they're holding casting auditions for it!!! WHAT THE HELL, PARIS??? That's all I have to say. Okay, well that's not all I have to say (: I think this might turn out to be like Tila Tiquila and her show. Basically where they do slutty stuff and then have this dramatic finale and then on the renuion Paris will tell them all that they're having a second season because their friendship didn't work out?!! I'm pretty sure that's how it'll go. But anyways...just wanted to let you know how screwed up Hollywood is (: Kay, bye!

Living with OJD: Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers

Okay, so you probably all know about the Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds Tour by now and what a struggle it was to get tickets. Most venues were sold out in minutes, and our local arena was no different. My mom was on the computer at 10AM when they went on sale and by 10:15AM they were sold out. We got two seats, not next to each other, but only a couple rows away. So we were fine with that, but I kept checking just to make sure that there weren't any more open seats. About a month or so before the concert, I checked the website and found two seats that were off to the side but really close to the stage. One of the tickets was a row behind the other, but they were relatively in the same place. So we bought them and then we had our delima: we had two crappy seats that nobody wanted. By the way, I wasn't going for the Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus parts, just her opening act, the Jonas Brothers! So anyways, we went to a basketball game a couple weeks after we got the new tickets and there was this guy who went up to the ticket person and asked if there were any more tickets for Hannah. She said no, but we decided to talk him about our extra tickets. So he bought them from us, and then his wife and daughter went I think. So back to the actual story. We went to the concert (me and my best friend; Hi Courtney!) and it was awesome. Seriously, it was a really great show, and I was suprised at how much I enjoyed the Miley and Hannah parts too. Jonas Brothers did the most amazing sets and I had a hard time believing that I was really right there. They were super amazing seats and at one point me and Court yelled Kevin's name and he turned and winked at us! I was so excited! He's such a sweetheart (: I went home that night not even believing that I had been there, that's how awesome it was. I seriously love the Jonas Brothers more than you can imagine, so that concert was just awesome. That was my second concert of theirs, the first being over in summer. I'm going again this summer and I'm so excited! Well, I guess I'll tune in with you guys later if I think of some other stuff to talk about...btw, this concert was in January, I just didn't have a blog then (:

Living with OJD: First blog...

Hi everyone! So this is my first blog, so I thought I'd just introduce myself and tell you some facts about myself. My name is Melanie and I'm a teen in the Northeast region of the US. I love the Jonas Brothers, and I am currently infected with OJD, obsessive Jonas disorder. I'm not suffering, I'm just enjoying every minute of it. My favorite tv shows consist of The Office, Life of Ryan, The Hills, Hannah Montana and some others I can't think of. I like the color green, I really don't know why. My favorite song currently is Fidelity and it's pretty amazing. I watch American Idol even though I hate it, it's very addictive. In this season (7th I think) I'm routing for David Cook, a very amazing intense rocker. I like movies like Juno and Superbad, but I'm also a sucker for Disney classics. I love Broadway and I personally love to act and sing (not saying that I'm any good, but...). I've been in a couple of community theater shows and I'm rehearsing for another right now. I'm pretty average I guess, I'm generous and I try to be kind and nice, but sometimes I flip out. I love to have fun, but that doesn't mean I'm a whore. I hate people who think they're better than everyone else. News flash: YOU'RE NOT. Oh man, this is so much better than a youtube! Haha, well that's pretty much me in a paragraph. This is kind of gonna be random posts about things that teenage girls deal with, so I hope you get a good laugh out of it (: I'll try to keep everything interesting, but there's no promises.
xoxo!