The Musings of a Teenage Dictator

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2010-04-20T07:49:00.000-07:00

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2009-04-30T13:12:00.000-07:00

Come Join My Network on Digg

2008-08-15T07:54:00.000-07:00

I really need to build a digg friends list. If you add me I will mutually friend you and I will always look at anything you shout at me. There is no promise as to whether or not I digg them but I will always look at them. Once a week I will shout something that I hope you will look at. Here is the link if you want to build your digg add me and I will try to help.

http://digg.com/invitefrom/davidondigg

Sassy water

2008-08-13T07:56:00.000-07:00

It is the recipe everybody wants Sassy Water!!!!

Make sure you check out the prevention site since that is where all of this flat belly stuff is coming from. They have recipes up on the site and some tips for people. I am not actually going to jump into the flat belly diet but there are some great parts of it. ANYWAYS There is the sassy water drink lots of it.

Sassy Water
2 liters water (about 8 ½ cups)
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 medium cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced
1 medium lemon, thinly sliced
12 small spearmint leaves.

Let it all chill and then drink it all in a day.

2008-07-28T06:49:00.001-07:00

Men like dogs to

2008-07-25T07:37:00.001-07:00

http://www.worldwidefido.com/favorites/?p=475

Look at my cute dog she is adorable.

Does this shirt make my face look old?

2008-07-23T06:54:00.001-07:00

Does this shirt make my face look old?

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2008-07-22T07:50:00.001-07:00

DOG

2008-07-21T09:34:00.001-07:00

I want zoey to win this competition so go here and vote for her pwetty pwease

She is back

2008-07-18T07:02:00.000-07:00

Landis comes back tomorrow and I could not be happier. Now I have a friend again since Chris is in Tampa, Adriana is in New Jersey, Will won't answer his phone(must have a new girlfriend) and the rest of my friends are people I run into and hang out with not people that seek my company or vice versa. There is Jared who I dig a lot but the day we were going to hang out I had to bail. My bad Jared. Lets see whats new I wrote two songs that none of you will ever hear. They aren't finished and I doubt they ever will be. I like em though and if you are really nice to me I will play you the instrumental. Will if you ever talk to me again you can write some bass to it and we can grab a jimbay an make some bum play it.

Dog eats corn

2008-07-17T11:25:00.000-07:00

Its a dog that eats corn check out the rest of the site here http://www.worldwidefido.com/watch/5132/zoey-loves-corn-on-the-cob

Dark Knight

2008-07-16T05:41:00.000-07:00

Last night I saw the new batman movie and it was of epic proportions. I am writing an article on it as we speak and I will put it up here or put the link to it up here once its completed. I had some good friends show up at the theater before us and they ended up being in an entirely different theater then us. I invented a new way to get free things, it is called the roller coaster. Check it out sometime.

oh and also check this site out for my work It is all about how to survive the olympics in China so clicky clicky and tour the site a bit

comments needed

2008-07-14T08:13:00.000-07:00

I wrote two super cool articles and by super cool i mean mediocre you should read them and leave comments http://buzz.yovia.com/world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/ and http://www.starvsstar.tv/wheres-bruno/

Back to work

2008-07-14T06:28:00.001-07:00

I am back at Yovia who welcomed me back with open arms and a smoothie. I am out on the internet today doing the internet thing. Yeah

Living

2008-07-10T15:58:00.000-07:00

So here I am alive and well. I survived my family who pretty much ignored my failure. My grandmother did tell me not to come back without my parents though...that bit stung. I am back in Jacksonville but to anybody who is thinking about coming over don't. While I would love the company and surely welcome any distraction from my white walls that scream boredom, tomorrow I get to clean house while my dad letures me a bit. Lets see I am not grounded but here are the new rules...mind you some of them were there before. These are what I remember.
1. No food in the room.
2.No lighting fires of any kind including candles or the new inscense I bought in the keys.
3.Nothing can be placed on the walls. No pictures or anything of the sort.

Those three rules sorta stick out in my mind. The only one that I am upset about is the whole nothing on my walls thing. Oh well we move like mid august over by Jarboe Park. It is that yellow house that we used to drink from the hose(if anybody remembers that) Well I told you guys we knew the lady and we do. We are renting her house as she is moving to new hampshire or something like that. My room is barren. All of my things(excluding books of course) have been reduced to a single moving box. Now take a moment to let that sit in. Jared this means no more adventures in my room looking for marvelous things. Sorry.

Ok what else is new? Ohh I have decided to learn to make two things before Landis gets back. Landis is my beautiful girlfriend for those of you who don't know. I am going to learn to make a buttermilk cake from scrath and I am going to try to make some merrange...how the hell do you spell that? I will toss the recipes up and some pictures of how they turn out. The buttermilk cake is for landis...well not that one just the knowledge of making it because the day before she gets here I am going tomake it for her since she gets back the 21st.

Better and Worse

2008-07-02T07:36:00.000-07:00

Lets see today is better and worse. It is another day closer to leaving this place that sounds like a plus right? Wrong. As I am in Miami my parents took the opportunity to clean my room. If I sound bitter that's probably because I am. Mind you they had given me ample opportunity to clean it and I have no reason to hold it against them. They found some pretty gross things in my room including but not limited to food (in various stages of decay), teacups, sodas, and some yummy mold. That covers the food items but what about those things that were not at one point edible? Well I had plenty of those things in my room that could(and did) get me into trouble. Lets see where should I start I had matches(and old favor tie of all teenage delinquents), flammable liquids of all sorts, spice balls(for those of you who don't know what these are, that is anybody but Chris and Devon. Spice balls are a secret blend of spices and flammable liquids that burns for ages and is cool enough on the bottom to hold in your hand. I doubt my parents knew what this was and just passed it off as another abomination.), lighter fluid, lighters, fireworks(in various stages of development), OH and whether they realized it or not napalm. The piece De resistance however was the assortment of beer bottles in my room. Now they did not tell me how many they found but I am certain it cant be more than 5 because I don't think Ive drank more than 5 beers in my room ever.

Now the worst part of all of this is not the fact that they are going to to check up on me regularly to make sure that I am going to be a good boy, or the fact that since my mom was in my room looking around there is more than likely quite a few things broken, it is not the fact that on Sunday I leave Miami to go back home just to get yelled at and come back Monday which is when I am supposed to go back to work...who knows how they will feel about this. No the worst part is that again I am the blemish on the perfect face that is my family. I am not sure why I am the family blemish when there are bigger pimples that I in this lovely tree. My entire family has this skewed idea of who I am they blame my declining grades on alcohol. They think I am some alcoholic...well seeing as how it is a trend in my family I guess that would be why they think it. Little do they know I have been drunk three times in my lie. Once in France(with my family), once in my own home with my friend Chris while my parents were out sleeping over somebodies house(they never drive under the influence I have lots of respect for that) and once at my friend Chris's house. Now one may say that for a 17 year old that's three times to many and you may be right. The problem is however, that I have drank quite a bit more than three times. I have gone to plenty of parties and sipped on a single drink all night long. I have had a beer on occasion at home. I do not have the right to do these things since I am 17 and I know this. Anyways the worst part is that all of these people now have this skewed idea of me drinking every time that i go out and worse than that this idea that I get drunk every time I drink. I do not like the sensation of being drunk it makes me feel out of control as if my actions are not my own.

Anyways a brief summary I am stuck in south Florida, that is until I go home to get yelled at just to come back in an 8 hour car ride with my parents(that should be fun) then I get to come back to south Florida where i get a week long lecture where my family takes turns telling me that I am a failure and that I will never amount to anything and make numerous references to other failures and then compare me to my cousin who overdosed and died. This is the first time that I feel like these lectures are appropriate to the offense committed.

Now in all of this if it sounds as if I am angry at anybody but myself I apologize. I hold a lot of resentment towards my family but in this I know that I and I alone am to blame for my current situation. It also may be surprising to you that I put all of this in a blog well at this point who is going to see it? My parents? They will never ever care enough to read my blog they know I have one and haven't looked yet. My work? Now that is a real possibility and I hope nothing ill comes of it but if it does then the worst case scenario I lose my minimum wage job. Mind you I do not in any way want to lose the job I love my job.

Loaded week in miami

2008-06-30T08:14:00.000-07:00

I am in the great land of Miami. Wel actually I am in hollywood but it touchs Miami and all that jazz so for the sake of simplicity I will call here Miami. Yesterday we left the Breakers which is the most ridiculous hotel I have ever seen. We stayed a night there and I felt extremely out of place. My aunt wanted to parade me in front of her associates as this perfect boy but alas scruffy goatee and long hippy hair do not fit into that vision. When you guys see me again I will be a tad better groomed. Don;t worry though I will still have long hair just an inch or two off basically at my shoulders.

This week I am babysitting two children which is just oodles of fun for me. The children
(6 and 16 months) are cute no doubt about it but they are just so needy. I have no problem watching kids in fact I enjoy it, but my family solicited my services for an entire week tearing me away from not only work but my beautiful girlfriend that I miss more than I should. The thing that really irks me though is that they were not prepeared for my arrival. Now I do not like to impose and I used to eat whatever was available and just try not to be a bother, but thigns are different now I am what you might call a picky eater since I don't eat meat. They got me some cheese pizza the other day and I am sure that they will make sure I don't go hungry, but still it kind of bugged me that they brought me here to watch their kids without thinking of feeding me. Normally I would just go run to the store and buy myself some food but I can't with these kids.

Lets see being here is not all bad though besides the obvious reward of seing family and getting to hold a oure and innocent child, they are going to take me to the keys on friday to do some free diving. I have not been free diving since last summer and I have barely swam this summer. I am a tad bit out of shape and hope that I can get down twenty feet. Overall the trip is not a bad one its just that there is this huge feeling of me missing out on my summer. Sure its just a week but still...hmm i spose I am just being one of those melodramatic fools

ohh and I may get an ipod for my babysitting

Holla to all my vegetarians

2008-06-24T07:16:00.001-07:00

Today I found out that frozen vegetables actually have more nutrients in them then the fresh ones. Evidently from the day that they are picked they begin losing nutrients and thats uber bad. The full article can be found here...check it out

I also found a rad blog that has a whole bunch of tofu recipes on it which makes me happy the blog is here it is an amazing blog!

If any of you guys out there reading this(idk if there are any) have some advice I welcome it leave me a comment or send me an email www.guywithhats@yahoo.com or an im for aol salamndstron

Fare thee well world.

2008-06-24T06:19:00.000-07:00

I am leaving like Friday to go to Miami for like a week. I have to like babysit and like watch things. I am going to be like a full time nanny.

Work can be fun

2008-06-23T06:58:00.001-07:00

Today kids my job is to pass around and play this game. This game is actually pretty rad I got into it for a bit I think you guys should check it out

Tryign to track traffic

2008-06-23T06:16:00.000-07:00

Ok so all weekend I did not post so I will get to that today, but I am now trying to track traffic so hopefully the code in this post with let me track it

Today What I Do

2008-06-20T06:25:00.000-07:00

Today I have to get 25 different blogs to sign up to be part of the Yovia blog network. So far I have one me HAHAHAHAHA if anybody is interested in adding their blog to a social network for free, then just click the link. Yovia Network This is actually something I would highly recommend. This thing that I am asking you to do is not lame. Basically what happens is you are part of this network and somewhere on it there is a link back to you. The concept of mutual growth on the internet is rad. Ummm if any of you guys have like private blogs I would not add them unless they are ANON because the point of adding it to this network is to get more people to see your blog OR the point is to help David be spectacular at work so his boss gives him the raise he so desperately wants.

Morning

2008-06-20T05:43:00.000-07:00

Hmmm this morning I start to wonder why the hell anybody would actually go to my blog. Then I realized wait nobody does....funny stuff.

This morning I wake up and do my normal duties and go to take a shower. I get in the shower and I am just soaking there when I hear my doorbell ring. Now it rang more than once in an obnoxious way so I was pretty sure that it was one of my friends. If I had stopped to thing about it I would have realized that it was before noon and none of my friends were up. Anyways I get out of the shower and I was royally pissed so I did not put pants on. Mind you I had a towel on but still...shocking. I was going to open the door and just WHAM show my buddy the goods, but then I remembered a similar incident with a girl selling cookies.....I decided to cover up. Thankfully I put my "goods" away before I opened the door because it was an innocent comcast man trying to fix my internet(which I did not know was broken because I only live there when necessary) he kept trying to ask me what the problem was...all the while he is staring at me in my skimpy blue towel. I felt very exposed so I snapped and was like man I don't know what the hell the problem is I only live here. So he went on tinkering and I finally got to lather up.

See thats my point. Who the hell wants to read that? Again...nobody. Well if there are any nobody's out there leave me a comment so I know I am not alone...ohh and click that link in the blog under this so I can keep on working oh yeah.

Yovia Today

2008-06-19T12:56:00.000-07:00

Today for Yovia I would be eternally grateful if you clicked this link right here and made other people come to this page and click it to. WHy come to this page to click it? So my work sees my site driving traffic...lots of love to whoever clicks it leave me a comment if you do so I can personally thank you. Princess Bride Game I would be really happy if you could just go to the site and click around it a bit you know look at different pages...on a scale oh 1-10 I give this a 9 on the lameness scale...sorry

Braces

2008-06-19T06:56:00.000-07:00

Why are people so vain? I have a beautiful girlfriend and she went absolutely bananas when she got her braces. She is now refusing to smile in a failing attempt to hide them. We all know that they are there...she doesn't realize just how beautiful she is when she smiles. Now don't get me wrong I think she is always beautiful, but when she smiles her whole face lights up. She does not seem to realize that when she smiles more than her lips and teeth show that she is happy. She smiles with every part of her face when she smiles. Her eyes especially show her emotions when she smiles, but now that she is forcing herself not to smile she just looks sad. I think it is ridiculous that she is making herself look miserable because she thinks its a better alternative to her happy smiling face. Sure she has braces but trust me she looks better with braces then I thought possible...well sorry I wasted an entire post on my girlfriend...

Guess who is back?

2008-06-19T06:43:00.000-07:00

All right... I am back. I think I had a grand total of two strangers look at my blog...that makes me happy. Well I am going to try to update this everyday but more than likely it will be every week. If anybody cares enough to remind...or guilt trip me send me an email to guywithhats@yahoo.com with a title of guilt trip. Also if anybody actually cared enough to check up you have my eternal love. Leave me an ego boost comment telling me you missed me. Also I would like to point out that the real reason I have this blog is to express myself so maybe...just maybe it'll get weird.

Another note. Well I am bored on the internet quite often so I decided to try and and get a job that would be ok with that. I got a job at Yovia. Yovia is pretty rad but now I am an online advertiser...basically what I do already but I get paid...I get the luxury of only choosing to advertise sites that I actually like which is rad to me. Here are some sites that my work is affiliated with. I just want you guys to know that sometimes I am advertising but never untruthfully and never for anything I don't want to.
worldwidefido
TradeinGroups
PrincessBrideGame
PeterGreenberg
NatNAlex
StarVsStar

JVYFEOUNGR

2008-04-11T12:27:00.000-07:00

Anybody that reads this should go to this site and vote for my "Bad Arguments" memory so I can stay in my boss's good graces.

Music

2008-04-03T09:08:00.000-07:00

If anybody is into music at all they should check out this site. It is phenomenal. The whole basis is you write memories that you have for some reason tied to music. I love it here check some of mine out.

Lies

2008-03-19T11:43:00.000-07:00

I guess I lied about posting everyday...sorry. Springfest is coming up and I am super excited and once I get my paycheck I will find out if I can purchase a ticket for my friend or not. Still am having trouble selling tickets for freebird and the sick puppies show but ehh I will do my best.

Gay Marriage

2008-03-17T13:44:00.000-07:00

What is marriage? Is it the religious joining of a man and a woman? Or can it be a woman and a woman or a man and a man? At that point does it have to be a religious bonding? One could argue that that is what makes marriage different then a regular partnership. I would be fine with you saying that, but then are atheists not allowed to get married? Lots of questions from the 16 boy. Legally atheists are allowed to get married even though it is quite clearly against the common religions.

Well here is how I feel...oh did I mention that I am in no way homosexual?

Marriage is the promise between two people that their lives are to be entwined and that you will do everything in your power to make sure that your partner is safe and happy. I do not feel like it has to be a religious bonding though admittedly if you are a religious person this bond will be marked with some sort of religious event. I think that gay people can be just as religious as straight people and who are we as human beings to strip them of their right to join in a religious manner? Do we have the right to condemn them for being different? I really don't think so at all. If a gay couple wants to marry more power to them equal rights I say.

My biggest qualm with all of this is that I don't think that people should be allowed to marry wherever they want. That is to say that if I were gay with my friend MexiMelt then I don't think the Catholic Church down the street should be forced to marry us. I think that we should be allowed to be married but that no place of worship should be forced to marry a gay couple if it is against their faith.

Dats All Folks

Weekend of boredom

2008-03-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

Sorry to anybody who actually reads this for not posting over the weekend...so what happened? Let us see I hung out with my friends and my lady friends and thats about it. We did the normal thing listen to music and whatnot...we just sort of sat around waiting for something to happen. We tried to set it up so we could go to a show to see some people none of us have ever heard of but that fell through. I would classify it as a lame weekend if I were on the outside looking in, but since I was with friends that I really like it was an enjoyable weekend.

Sunday I got home and I was in trouble because I has soda in my room. I had to do lawn work which included mulching and pruning daffodils. It was super lame I did that for a few hours and was super hot and miserable. So my friends came over and we all went to the park on the pretense that I was helping my sister practice for her lacrosse game....HA

Relate

2008-03-12T12:42:00.000-07:00

A very close friend of mine h as a mother. Surprise. Her mom and I have known each other for I don't know 4 months? Yeah sounds about right. Well she said that she couldn't understand why the youth of today(meaning me) don't know how to open up to older generations(meaning her). I assured her that I knew how to carry out conversations with people older than myself.

Today while I was at that crazy thing called school(I actually went today and sat in the auditorium for HOURS) I saw my good friend...lets call him Mister Sub. Well Mister Sub and I always have great conversations when we see each other, and today was no different. We argued about why we should be in the middle east and why we shouldn't. Basically the main argument was is a good deed done for the wrong reasons still a good deed? I mean we are over there (in my opinion) with our own agenda, but does that matter? It was a question we never concluded and still I'm wondering about it. I mean sure we have our own reasons but aren't we still doing good? The everyday life example we came up with was this one; Mister Substitute(an older gentleman has already retired) is over encumbered and needs some help walking through a door. There is a pretty little lady by me and she sees the poor man struggling. I see that she sees so for that reason and that reason alone(to impress the girl with how kind I am) I go help him with his stuff. So to sum it up, I helped an older gentleman but I did it with selfish reasons. Have I done a good thing or committed a selfish act and not gotten caught?

Then we went on to talk about the role of children in a society. A mutual friend and holocaust survivor recently spoke at my school at I was touched by her words. Not by her experience in the concentration camp as much (though by no means am I belittling that experience) but I was much more impressed with her involvement in the French Underground many years ago. She was 16 years old...thats how old I am. I was talking to Mister Substitute about how guilty I felt since she was making such a positive impact on the world and all I do is mess around on the computer and hang out with my friends. He said that my day would come when I would make a difference in the world but I was not reassured. He himself was in the army at age 17 and fighting for freedoms. I feel as though I do to little to make a positive influence. So no that I feel guilty I will be trying to make a positive influence in some small way.

Anyways the point is that I can relate to parents and older people. Not only can I but I strive for it because while its sad to think about some of these people are living history and soon we will only be able to learn from textbooks and not from actual people which makes it so much more relevant. Truly the adults that I have trouble opening up to and relating wit hare adults that I fear will somehow contact my parents and tell them all the things I would prefer to keep secret. Thats understandable right? Well thats my random rant...later days

Work

2008-03-12T12:31:00.000-07:00

I got to keep my job. Thank you pure luck. I should probably get around to working on my www.squidoo.com/salamndstron website sometime today, but I seriously doubt I will. It was a fun day some friends and I went to this forest on the marsh and just looked across the water and sat. Very Zen. I got a new cell phone yesterday and for anybody out there reading this that knows me personally(not sure who would be since I have not yet told people about it...that is people that KNOW me) this phone will not die like the others...there will be no flipping of this phone, this phone is not to be used as a bowling ball, I won't be letting this one swim, and most importantly Justin I don't care how high you think it will go bottle rockets do not belong on my phone.

What happened today?

2008-03-11T20:19:00.000-07:00

Lets see today I was supposed to go sit in a room for a few hours because of FCAT thats the Florida standards test. Seemed like an odd reward for passing it already so I choose to go play WII instead. Then I was supposed to go to work, and I regret not going because now I have dissapointed my boss who is actually a really cool guy and almost lost my job. So that was a bad decision. Not much else happened today. Nothing crazy or unusual...oh a girl did tell me she was in love with me today.

There was one thing but you had to be there for it. We were riding past my school(while i was supposed to be there) and we saw some kids we knew walking towards the school. So I got on thecb radios loudspeaker(everyhoodlums car has one fyi) and shouted hey name and name get back to schoo. It was amusing. But the relly funny thing is the teacherf that was escorting them back to school from their field trip(oops) looks at me and recognized me...reprecusionssoon.

After all that was said and done I ended up hanging out with my good friend supercow and we got in his truck. We had a jolly good time honking his emergency canned air boat horn at people. Might not sound like fun but my good friend mister Taurus Baby got quite scared. I thought that was funny.

So if you feel like any part of this happened to you today...it did. Sorry to everybody I wronged today.

More eventful things in the future I promise

First Post

2008-03-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

Hi I am David and this is my blog I suppose...I am just going to put random things about my life(woohoo) and frankly I don't care if you read it or not...no it is not going to be ohh today I kissed my girlfriend and she didnt seem enthusiastict(no thats not from experience...i swear) or any of that. Mostly its gonna be random ideas...dreams maybe, and most definately stupid things that I do. So look here for updates I will probbaly be updating daily. OH i forgot to tell you guys my lame stupid, tenderfooted, green website is www.squidoo.com/salamndstron go to it enjoy. Or not you can hate it just give it some traffic.
See my friend Cree will help me out if it gets enough traffic...so go to it click links explore the net...love it or hate it.

David