You're = you are
Your = Belonging to you; of you; related to you
Why do people not know the difference? I mean, I can understand what people are saying when they write "your" instead of "you're", but, honestly, figure this crap out. It's not that hard. Let me explain how these two totally different, yet, similar sounding words work.
Example #1
Tyson: Hello, Robert.
Robert: Hello, Tyson.
Tyson: How are you today?
Robert: I am good. How are you?
Tyson: Great! You're kinda gay, Rob. FYI.
I use the word "you're" because I'm saying what Robert is and NOT saying what is his.
Now, if I were to write "Great, your kinda gay." That would mean that I was saying Robert's "kinda gay", which doesn't make any damned sense.
Maybe people just don't know how to spell, or maybe they are trying to abbreviate the phrase "you are" by just writing "your", but little do people know that "your" has another meaning entirely, and, in turn, look like idiots. IDIOTS.
Sometimes, we abbreviate words in conversational writing (ex. gonna, doin, whatcha, u, peeps, lol, lolz, idk, stfu, rofl, roflmao, 8===D). This is fine because all those examples I listed do not have other meanings.
Please, for the sake of my future children and grandchildren and illegitimate children, do not ruin the English language any more than it already has been ruined. Please.
Click this link for a sweet vid
My keyboard is set on spanish because I used to have to write papers in spanish. It is annoying sometimes cause I don´t know where all the characters are sometimes. Anyway.
Back to the main subject. The year of Jubilee, or as I like to say The Jubilicious year.
The year of Jubilee was "celebrated" every 50 years back in bible times. Sins and debts were forgiven, prisoners and slaves were freed, and people in general were blessed. (SIDE NOTE: When you have a list within a sentence (ex. apples, potatoes, and beans) you can put a comma after the word that precedes the "and". That is called the oxford comma. sweet huh?)
This Year of Jubilee doesn't really happen anymore where we live, but I decided to do it in my own life. Nobody owes me money and I don't have any slaves (well, Robert is my love slave, but that is another story) and I don't have any prisoners. So, I've decided to forgive everyone.
Now, you are probably thinking, "Tyson, that is so sweet. You are amazing in every way." Well, duh. Just kidding. I thought about this idea one time when I was talking with my friends. Certain people always come up in the conversation and, even though I haven't seen or talked about those certain people for years, I only say and think negative things about them.
The point of this little blog post is to say that I'm not gonna think badly or talk crap about anyone anymore. Impossible? Possibly, but I think it's the right thing to do.
I got a job as a tow truck driver. Everyone is gonna hate me now. Nothing new. It should help me get through school though. Thanks for the support!
I am unemployed.
About 2 weeks ago I lost my job. I had been working for this company for 2.5 years and, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, they decided to can me and about 8 other employees due to budget cuts...or something stupid like that.
I got an email that day saying that I had some meeting with one of my co-workers at 3:30. So, we show up on time and our boss isn't there. We sit around for a couple minutes then he walks in with our HR manager. Uh oh. I figure something crazy is about to happen. My boss starts off, "Guys, we've had some budget cuts lately and we are forced to terminate a couple of positions and we have decided to get rid of your positions so we are going to have to let you go." I say, "You are kidding right?" Um, no. Then they have us read over what we will get for serverance and what we will do for insurance and blah blah blah. The other guy that is with me looks at me and says, "who are they going to get to do your job?" You see, I had job security cause nobody else could do my job, but they fired me anyway.
Now, I'm lookin for a job so if you know of any......let me know.
Every single day when I get to work, or when I'm at home, I check certain sites. Every single day. It's kinda like an OCD thing. I will be listing these sites today.
1. Facebook - I used to hit Facebook up a lot via computer, but nowadays I hit it up using my phone. Most of the time I get on Facebook when I'm in the bathroom or when I got downtime somewhere else, like at the Drs office or something. My favorite thing to do on facebook is comment on peoples statuses and pics. Why? Cause I don't really have anything good to say anyone so commenting suits me just fine.
2. Slickdeals - Slick deals is the greatest website known to man!! It has all kinds of radical deals on there. It has deals on everything from electronics to spatulas to boomboxes to cars to vacation deals. It's amazing. I bought a computer off of it once. I hardly use that computer though......maybe I should stop checkin this site out.
3. Whiskey Militia - Oh man. I've purchased many things off this website (I know my mom is gonna give me a hard time for this). It's one of those sites that has a deal every half hour. Most of their stuff sucks, but every so often they have some sweet shoes, or a shirt, or a sweater that I can rock.
4. Brociety - This is a cousin site of whiskey militia. They sell snowboarding stuff. I don't snowboard and I've never purchased anything from this site so I really don't know why I check it out. Maybe I'll stop.
5. Woot - They have one deal everyday and most of the time they suck. Well, they don't suck, but I don't ever need the item. I swear every other day they are selling a robot vacuum cleaner. Who needs a robot vacuum cleaner? Today's deal is a MyVu Solo Plus Personal Media Viewer. They sell crap like that all the time. Once again, I've never purchased anything from this site.
6. Shirt.Woot - Same thing as woot, but it's a different shirt everyday. They always suck and I never buy anything. Shirts usually go for 15 bucks. Wow, I'm starting to see a pattern here.
7. TeeFury - It's basically the same thing as Woot.Shirt, but they have sweeter shirts. I just found this one and I'll probably be snatching a shirt from it sometime soon. The shirts go for 9 bucks so definitely better than gay woot.shirt. (not that there's anything wrong with that)
8. Time - After I'm done checking out my retail sites, I like to get the news. I read most of the articles from time.com. I check out the politics section and read the political blogs from Swampland (you'll have to check it out to know what I'm talking about). They have like 6 bloggers that right about politics. They are pretty good articles sometimes and I enjoy them. Most are liberal, but you have to read from both liberal and conservative to get the full picture. Stupid media.
9. Slate - Slate.com is a opinion section sort of site. I really like it and have been reading it for years. A lot of their stuff is liberal, but they will have some conservative articles every once in awhile. I read a good article the other day about a case in the Supreme Court regarding the strip search of a 13 yr old girl at school. My kids will be going to private school if this nonsense continues.
10. Digg - Digg is just a site where there are random articles that people "digg". The more "diggs" an article gets, the farther up on the list it moves. It has articles about everything, but it also is fairly liberal. Bunch of idiots get on there and digg up articles from huffingtonpost.com (super liberal site) and also digg articles about marijuana legalization. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me, but they sometimes have sweet sites about tech stuff or stupid people. Dugg for radicalness.
11. Newsweek - Basically the same articles from Time, but sometimes it's different.
12. XKCD - A web-comic that is pretty funny. I suggest checkin it out and see what you think.
13. Toothpastefordinner - I post comics from there on my blog a lot. Those cruddy little drawings with some smart alec or sarcastic caption. My style.
That's about it folks. I visit these sites every single time I get on the computer.
So, last week at our soccer game I got really, really mad at this dude for checking a chick teammate of ours into the wall. I got mad at him and it ended up with me taking myself out of the game (I didn't get thrown out). When I was younger I seemed to lose my cool a lot more. It could've been at any sort of social function or gathering and I would've found something to get riled up about. Nowadays, it seems like I only get mad when I'm playing sports. Oh, I do get mad in traffic, but only in Utah and in southern Idaho.
The funny thing is that I don't think I used to get as mad as often when I played sports. This has only happened since I have been down here in Utah Valley. I attribute this to the awesome people that reside in this great valley. I've never played with more poor sports, cheap shot artists, whiners, complainers, smack talkers in my entire life. I don't mind playing a little rough in basketball and soccer and whatnot, but the dudes down here take cheap shots at people and act like they didn't do anything. Then I have to say "dude, what is that all about?" then they start talking crap. This is where I get confused....did not this man take a cheap shot? Is he really going to act like he did not commit such an atrocity?
One time, I was playing a soccer game. Outdoor 11 on 11 style. Anyway, so this individual on the other team and I were both running toward the ball. Like this:
Now, as you can see, we are running neck and neck. We aren't close to the ball yet. Just running towards it. Well, this jerk decides to cut me off and put on the brakes. Like this:
I end up running into him and "fouling" him. Clearly this is a dirty play cause instead of him going for the ball he basically does the basketball equivalent of a flop. That dirty [insert bad word here]. Who flops in some no name soccer league?! Needless to say I let him break my fall. Later on in the game, he started to show off while my good friend Corbin was defending him. In my head I'm thinking "once again this is some no name soccer league" so I tell Corbin that the dude isn't that good. I say "dude Corbin don't worry, this guy sucks". The dude passes the ball and says to me "you are trash" so I tell him he is a piece of poop. We start running down the field and he tries to shoulder me kinda how some cornerbacks tackle people by running into them with their shoulder. Ok so we aren't even close to the ball and I notice this in a heartbeat. He tries to hit me with his shoulder and I use my Brazilian fighting skills to toss his dirty playin self to the ground. "Why do you do these things Tyson?" you might ask. Cause I can. That is why. I got to put people in their place. People who try to cheap shot me, or anyone for that matter, deserve to have me throw their aces to the ground.
I'm pretty sure I've never been this mad, this often, in my whole life. Only since I've been down here and playing sports. Do I have little man's syndrome? No. Do I like to play rough? Occasionally. Am I bad to the bone? Of course. Is Brad Ellis gay? Most definitely. Is Corbin Earl bald? Mostly. Does Robert Ellis pwn noobs on a regular basis? Affirmative. Are Utah Valley people super poor sports? Yes
P.S. Josiah Norm Lybbert was in attendance at this game and probably thinks I'm a dirty player because I beat his little, curly haired friend up. Please don't think these things Norm.
Also, here is a pic of my new girlfriend Chelsea.
She's soo hot. Don't be jealous guys.
