This is why I look like a crazy person

I’m not sure what it is. I’ve always been an emotional person, but lately my emotions are crazy off the charts. Before I get into this, I had a conversation with my mom about this recently, and we agreed that there are two types of emotional people: Selfish Emotioners, and Compassionate Emotioners (emotioners is not a word, I made it up, before anyone asks).

Selfish Emotioners are people who are emotional at the expensive of themselves. You know, usually those people who are angry because their boyfriend didn’t say the exact sentence concocted in their mind or something of the like. They tend to be the people that warrant severe #FirstWorldProblem hashtags. Everything that makes them happy or sad is because it benefits them.

The second type, Compassionate Emotioners, is what I think I am. These people hurt for a tragedy of someone else, or are happy when someone else is happy. They are the ones that want to help the Selfish Emotioners change their ways. 

So I have just been so temperamental. One minute I’m crying because I’m so touched by something and the next minute I’m crying because something is just so sad. It’s not even “happy crying” because I don’t necessarily cry when I’m happy, just when something is crazy beautiful. 

If you saw my last blog post, then you know I have a lot of sicknesses. Because of this, I don’t go out much. So maybe it’s my lack of human interaction, or maybe it’s all the movies and TV shows I’ve been watching, but anything makes me cry. I was watching Friends, Chandler and Monica got engaged. Tears. Went back and watched the season 2 finale of the Office, where Jim starts crying when Pam says she can’t be with him. More tears. Don’t even get me started on anything involving weddings or funerals. It doesn’t matter whose wedding or funeral it is, real or fake, it will get me every time. 

I went through a period like this back in high school, and I’m not sure what the story was there. I just remember watching Clueless for the first time in a long time and crying at the part where Paul Rudd and Alicia Silverstone are sitting on the stairs. It’s pretty pathetic, and I don’t expect many people to understand. It’s not a bad thing. It’s actually pretty funny. It’s like the Kristen Bell Sloth video on YouTube (look it up if you haven’t seen it).

So hopefully I’ll get over this weird state. If not I’ll probably just cry about it later.

This is why I live the way I do

Okay so this is a topic I've been wanting to tackle for a long time. But doing so in a video form was just easier for so many reasons. So if you are going to watch this make sure you turn up your volume, because the sound is really low for some reason, but then remember to turn it back down. Thank you!

This is why elections can be fun!

I have never been one to be crazy into politics. I thought it was important to pay attention, but I never understood it, never read too much into it, and never really cared. That might make me a bad American, but take a cold hard look in the mirror; chances are it makes you a bad one too. Yeah, I just called you out. So I’ve been careless when it comes to news and paying attention, or so I thought.

My mom has always been a journalist, so I grew up reading the newspaper and watching the 10 o’clock news. In fact, watching the news was the only way I was able to stay up until 10:30 as a kid. If I wasn’t watching the news, I pretty much had to go to bed, and God-forbid that happen (ironic, since that’s all I do now). When I dormed at college, I was in this little bubble, and the only way I knew about anything in the world was through Facebook, or the sad excuses of headliners on Yahoo News—which I still read. 

I’m not sure when it happened. It came out of nowhere. But one day I looked up from the kitchen table, and I was commenting about the GOP nominations. I, Marie Gonzalez, an actual young person, was reading the news paper. Not just the fashion sections either. I was reading the front page and reading articles about foreign lands and policies that don’t yet affect me. Also, awhile back, I downloaded a bunch of apps to my phone regarding the 2012 presidential election. And I use them! 

Now, I’m not trying to brag, or say I’m better than anyone else my age because I am apparently paying attention to politics and the news (snooze, as my dad calls it). But I am saying that I attribute my new found interest in the media to some weird sensation that this is the first presidential election I can vote in, and maybe that’s why I care. Before this gets too patriotic and too serious for everyone, this is the reason I’ve blogged about this: I have apps on my phone that give news about the election, and sometimes I can't see the full headline until I click it. So if you’re not into the election or news or anything, here’s a fun way to get into it. I take a headline and try to imagine what the rest of it says.

 

 So from 1-6 the top down (the bold are my add-ins):

1. Barack Obama hits Republicans over auto-correct fails

2. Obama Foreign Policy Crises May Become Dollar General Gain

3.Obama, Romney Should Tell the Truth About the Musical They Plan to Produce

4. Keystone XL: Obama's Critics May Be Muffled Once They Try the Beer

5. Rick Santorum slams JFK, emulates Pat Robertson in UFC Face-Off

6. Russia election: Putin shrugs off 'assassination in COD, Says Fight was Rigged

Happy news-ing!