Conformity Sucks!

Looking at the title, you may be thinking that I'm some sort of rebel youth/hippie, but, no, (besides, I'm a firm believer that most hippies were conformist anyway... but that's a different story...) my belief that conformity sucks comes from a very different point of view.

When I was growing up, my family never had the car that everyone else had. We didn't have a mini-van, a shiny new pick up truck, a small white car, or anything like that; my parents always had something different. Sure, at few points in time, my dad drove a white Taurus, but it didn't really blend in. Whether it was a Bronco, an old truck, a Camero, or a big van, it was always easy to pick out my parents' cars in a parking lot.

Some might not like sticking out that much, but, for me, it was great. Nothing feels better than looking out at the school parking lot and knowing exactly where you mom is parked, or leaving a store and not mistaking a car near yours, or being able to pick your parents' car out of the ones approaching your destination when you're waiting to be picked up.

Unfortunately, between the start of my senior year of high school and the start of my freshman year of college, the unique car situation for my family changed. My parents started making payments for a silver F150 in february of 2010, and that summer, we were given a green mini-van. Yes, these are both pretty nice vehicles, and we are lucky to have them to drive, but they're pretty hard to pick out of a crowd. I'm not good with models of cars or anything like that, and to me, it seems like there are a hundreds of mini-vans and trucks that look like my parents' vehicles.

Usually, I can tell when my mom is approaching in her truck (or if she's parked) because of the bright blue handicap thing hanging from her mirror (yet another story for a different time...), but if I don't know where the van is parked, I usually have to look to see if its one of my parents or my brother who is driving (I don't have my licenses yet, so I can't drive...)

So, you see, when I'm waiting to be picked up by my mom from a set location and I don't have a phone, it gets kind of awkward walking all the way down to a vehicle that looks like hers just to find out that it's not...

as always, thanks for taking a small interest in my life :)

-andrea aka fred

Back to Blogging

Wow, so I didn't mean to go this long without posting, but oh well, I'm a busy college student, so I don't really care :P

Recently, I decided that even though I'm super busy with school (and I should spend more time on actually doing my homework...), I do need methods of basically getting everything in me out. Sure, I waste a lot of my time watching YouTube videos and playing games on Facebook while listening to podcasts, but I don't express anything doing that. With me being an introvert and keeping a lot of stuff in my head, sometimes, it's nice to ramble about stupid stuff, and I don't always have my friends around to do that with. This is why blogging and vlogging (video blogging to anyone who doesn't know...) are handy for me.

Yes, I know that very few people, if anyone at all, are reading these posts or watching my videos, but it doesn't matter. I don't do this to become the next famous YouTuber or to be discovered by someone who searches something random on Google, causing me to have a bunch of followers, I just do this to unload. Sometimes, there are just somethings that you can't be mad about on Facebook where you're friends with your whole family and it just takes too long to block a bunch of people (which I've never done, but I know some who have...), and you can only rant so much on Twitter before it's just too awkward... lol.

Sure, it might be a waste of time, But, it's a waste of time that I don't feel guilty about a few hours later :)

Thanks for reading my blog :)

-andrea aka fred

PS...I'm not super impressed by this post either; it's definitely not one of my best... Go start at my first one if this the first one you've read because it's a whole lot better lol