Talk to Text

I'm not sure exactly what this feature is called, but I'm going to call it text to talk. If you have an iPhone 5S, you know what I'm talking about. This feature allows you to talk into your phone and it will convert what you're saying to text. I am using this feature right now to write my blog. That's right, I am talking my blog. I very rarely write my blog in my cellphone because I prefer to write it on an actual computer. However, I feel like I should start "writing" my blog this way because it is so much easier to talk than right. The phone does a very good job of converting what you say into words correctly. However, it does make some mistakes. I always go back and edit my blogs anyway so it doesn't matter if I talk or type. It really doesn't take too much longer when I talk and then read instead of writing and then read. Maybe I will talk out my blogs more often because I find it so much easier.

Hugging

Everyone loves hugs, right? Since I'm leaving, when I see people for the last time, they want to hug me. That's normally no problem with me. I don't mind hugs. However, there always seems to be an awkward moment. Both of your hands are outstretched and you don't know which way the other person is going to go. Then there's that awkward moment where you move your hand above that person's hand and then they move it in front of your hand because they don't know which way you're going to go. Then you never know how long to hug the person. Do you pat them on the back or you just hug and then like go after a few seconds? It's quite the process. However, everyone enjoys a good hug and I look forward to hugging many people tomorrow as it is my last day at my school.

Prizes

There is a local sports store that has been trying to give away a $50 gift card for each playoff football game. No one has won it yet. You have to like their page on Facebook to enter in the contest. You have to guess the correct score of the game. It's nearly impossible to do. Someone suggested that they take all of the entrants that have the winning team and draw a winner for a $10 gift card. They did that and I won the gift card! I went to the store yesterday to get my prize and buy something. A store like this has the usual shirts, hoodies, and jerseys. It also has ridiculously overpriced novelty items that no one needs. I found a nice Dallas polo shirt I liked, but didn't want to spend a lot of money. I ended up buying a fat head of a Dallas Cowboys player. After my $10 off, I paid like $6. Not bad. Now I will have some sort of decoration for my new room! On the same day, I found out I won another prize. If you liked and shared a photo for TCBY, you were entered to win a 6 pack of ice cream sandwiches. They drew my name. I went to pick that up and found out a 6 pack is $12! That's a lot of money for 6 ice cream sandwiches. Winning stuff, especially through Facebook giveaways is pretty sweet!

Pot Holes

Another annoying thing about winter is the pot holes. I think the combination of snow and salt on the roads is what creates pot holes. Some pot holes in my town are probably 6 inches deep. That doesn't sound deep, but when your car hits it going a fast speed, it's not good! Pot holes are hard to avoid when you're driving. If you swerve into the other lane, more than likely other cars are coming at you. You might hit them. No matter what speed you hit a pot hole at, it's not good. I'm looking forward to driving down south because there are not many pot holes.

Colors

Did you know our brain only allows us to see colors we want to see? In other words, most of the colors we see aren't that color. Our brain is telling us to see it that way. Makes sense, right? No it doesn't. I just watched Brain Games and that's what the guy was talking about. A green leaf isn't really a green leaf. It's every other color. It's because of the way it reflects to our eyes that it shows up green. People who are color blind only see shades of gray and green. We don't see the same colors they see. It's very interesting and very confusing and my brain hurts from all of the scientific terms the guy on the show used.

Alone

Now that my brothers live away from home, whenever my parents go on their annual cruise, I am home alone. I used to always love to be home alone because it rarely ever happened. Now whenever I'm home alone, for lack of a better term, I get lonely. I need to get used to it in a hurry because in one week and one day I will be living in my own condo alone. My mom will be there the first two nights, but after that, I'll be all alone! Just having another body in the house is comforting to me. I won't even have that. I see a lot of TV watching in my future to keep me occupied.

Phone Calls

Today was the day I made a ton of phone calls. I had to call several places to tell them of my address change. One of the places was DMV to figure out how to get new license plates. Of course they are only open Monday through Friday. I called 4 different insurance companies about renters insurance. They all said exactly the same thing. "What is a convenient number I can reach you at in case we get disconnected." I found that funny. Then one of the ladies from a company asked me if New York was really as glamorous as she has seen on TV. I'm glad she was being professional. I got a lot of work done today. I still have a few more companies to call or switch things online tomorrow. Then there are four places I have to call on Monday since they are open on weekdays only. Slowly but surely, things are getting done!