BEDA Day 31 Last Day

That's right, I posted a blog for every day in August. That month sure did fly by fast. It was fun trying to think up things to blog about. Will I continue to blog every day after August. Probably not, but I just might blog more often than I did before I took on the BEDA challenge.

For my last blog of the month, I am going to post a video of one of the people I'm subscribed to on YouTube. No explanation is needed.

Just watch the video. At the end, let me know what your thoughts are. What were your thought during the video, after the video?

I hope you had a great month and enjoyed reading what I had to share.

BEDA Day 30 - Feeling Sick

Yesterday evening, I noticed a slight scratchy feeling in the back of my throat. At the time I didn't think much of it. This morning when I woke up, I noticed the scratchy feeling more and it felt like the beginning of a soar throat. Great, that's all I need right now is to get a cold or flu.

Usually when I get this feeling I start taking homeopathic remedies, to help reduce the severity of the cold/flu. I usually take a product called Flu Reduce by Healthy Relief. When I went to the store to buy some today, I could not find any. So I ended up getting another brand of basically the same thing. I was not about to go driving around to other stores looking for it.

As the day is passing by, I have noticed that the lymph nodes in my neck are starting to get swollen and tender. So it looks like I am at the beginning stages of a cold/flu.

I am going to continue to take the homeopathic stuff, keep hydrated, drink green tea and honey with lemon for the throat. Hopefully these will reduce the severity. After the cold/flu has hit, I will change to symptom reducing medication.

Any suggestions from you would be greatly appreciated.

That is my plan of attack and I hope it works. I just hope it doesn't get too bad, because I can not afford to miss one day of class, especially the labs.

BEDA Day 29 - It was a Good Day

Today was a good day. I woke up early, well, early for a Saturday, around 10am. Did the usual beginning of day activities, you know, email, myspace, twitter, stuff like that.

Got a call from my uncle inviting me out for lunch. We went to a Chinese buffet place. Never been to that particular one before, but it was good. After that we went to the movie theater. We ended up seeing Inglorious Basterds.

It was a great movie. I always like Quentin Tarantino movies and this was definitely a Quentin Tarantino movie. When we got in the theater, the employee that took our ticket warned us that it was a 2 hour and 45 min movie. I'm not one to see long movies, but this movie did not seem that long. It really was a great movie.

When I got home, I spent the rest of the day cleaning my apartment. I am glad that I have a studio apartment and it does not take a long time to clean.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

BEDA Day 28 - TGIF

TGIF and 1st week of school done. It was a short school week, but one none the less.

Tonight is the drawing for the Mega Millions Lottery. The jackpot is up to $333 million. Wow, how nice it would be to have $333 million. I bought my tickets for tonight, hopping I will win at least some money.



And if not, I also got some tickets for Saturday's Texas Lotto drawing. The last time I played, I won $13! Better than nothing, right.

That's it for today. Good Luck to those who are playing for tonight's jackpot!

BEDA Day 27 - School

The 2009 Fall semester started yesterday. This semester, which is my last, I am taking one class and two labs. It should not be a too difficult semester. There are a couple of things that I do not like about the labs. They are group presentations and formal lab report.

I've always hated doing presentations in front of classes. In high school and during the first year of college I would not like doing presentations because I would get very nervous. I do not get as nervous now as I have done many presentations in my college carrier, but I still dislike doing them.

The lab reports are another reason. In each lab, one formal lab report is due. This is a five plus page report and I despise with all my soul doing them. Well maybe not that bad, but still. The worse part is if your data comes out as not expected and there is no time to redo the experiment.

So this semester I have to do two group presentations, with 2 different groups, and 2 formal lab reports. Everything will most likely turn out ok, but I just felt like whining for a bit. It's my blog and I can if I want to.

BEDA Day 26 - Youtube Favorites List

Back to the Youtube favorites list.

This is a video from Barats & Bereta. They have a whole bunch of funny skits that you should watch. Make sure to visit their YouTube Channel.

Here is one of their latest skits.

Enjoy!

BEDA Day 25 - The Guild

If you are into MMO's or any online games, then you will like The Guild. It is a web series about the life of a group of gamers. It was started in the summer of 2007 with a small following and has grown large enough to have won many awards.

It has been picked up by Microsoft and is now sponsored by sprint. There are currently 2 seasons and a 3rd one being released on XBox live. Seasons 1 & 2 plus extras can be found at their YouTube Channel

All the episodes are so funny and I loved watching all of them.

Here is Season 1 Episode 1




Make sure to visit their website for lots of fun stuff too!

They also just recently release an uber cool awesome music video. Do You Wanna Date My Avatar. Here it is!!!

BEDA Day 24 - Elements

The Etsy Texas Crafters (ETC) August Design Challenge was to create an item using one or all of the classical elements, Earth, Air, Fire, & Water.

There are 31 entries in this month's design challenge. I am entry # 23 and feature all four elements.

My entry into the challenge is my Angels and Demons Inspired Elements of Science Illuminati Bracelet.

This bracelet was inspired by the book "Angels & Demons". Each color stone represents one of the elements of science used by the Illuminati.

Brown for Earth, Light Blue for Air, Red for Fire, and Blue for Water. The white stone represents the Light that the Illuminati strove to reveal.
Check out all the other entries HERE. When you are done looking at all the great entries, go to the bottom of the page and there will be a link to the poll where you can vote for your favorite(my entry, of course) .

Anyone can vote and only one vote allowed per IP address, but feel free to tell all your friends about the Challenge and ask them to vote, too!!!

If you vote for me, I will love you forever =)

BEDA Day 23 - Sunday

Today is the last Sunday before the Fall 09 semester starts. What's better than to spend the day with friends and family. Tomorrow is my grandmother's 71st birthday! Because I will be leaving for San Antonio tomorrow morning, I decided to have a cookout and celebrate grandma's birthday a day early.

Went to the grocery store to pick up a few items needed for the cookout, including a cake!

Grandma came over with some friends and her great grandchildren were there too. We had a great time with lots of food.

I spent most of the day cooking, now I have to get back to the kitchen and help clean up. Hope you had a great weekend!!!

BEDA Day 22 - Shopping!

My mom being a teacher and me being a student, we did some back to school shopping today. Mom starts work on Monday and my classes start on Wednesday. We spent most of the day shopping with a break for lunch with my grandmother.

We had lunch at IHOP. It is located right across the street from the mall so we walked and my grandma there. The IHOP here in Del Rio is ok, but it is not the best. The servers are friendly, but not very attentive to the guests.

After lunch, it was back to the mall for more shopping. While in the mall, I noticed that a stage was being set up with drums, guitars, and mics. Cool, some bands are going to be playing. So I take a seat at some chairs that were being set out and waited for the show to start. Mom went on to other stores while I rested a bit.

They were doing some sound checks and practice songs, and they sounded good(there were 2 bands). Now, before the show starts a guy comes out, gets on the mic, and starts preaching. Apparently this is a church band gathering of some sort. I still stayed to enjoy the music.

After mom was done looking around, we then went to the grocery store to pick up some items to make something for dinner.

It was a nice day, but my feet and back where begging for some rest.