Pokemon: Red vs. Ash

Today I would like to talk about a topic that no one really cares about. Red. not the color.. The character from Pokemon. I would like to explain why I like him so much. Let me start off by showing you this:

Alright. That's all for today...

No but really. Seeing this makes me understand how much I really hate Ash. He's a whimp. Everything that was said in this picture is true. I recently Pokemon Origins and for a while, it made me hate Red. In the first episode, they made him out to be as bad of a trainer as Ash. But by the end of the mini series which consisted of four episodes, he became the Kanto Champion and caught them all, while learning what training pokemon was really about. Well, all except Mew. But the last words he says is that he's going to catch it. And just having that determination is brilliant. Ash meets every legendary pokemon, rescues them, and even rides their backs. But never once does he try to catch them. In fact, he thinks that catching them would be the wrong thing to do. And he still expects to be a Master. Sorry Ash, but you're an idiot. 

That is really all I have. Sorry I don't update very much. It's hard coming up with things to write about. 

To all my Pokemon Fans out there, what do you think of Red and Ash? 

God bless you and God bless America. 

"Disturb not the harmony of Fire, Ice, or Lightning lest these three Titans wreck destruction upon the world in which they clash. Though the water's Great Guardian shall arise to quell the fighting alone its song will fail. Thus the Earth shall turn to ash. O, Chosen One, into thine hands bring together all three. Their treasures combined tame the beast of the sea." 

-Shamouti Prophecy

- Rachael A.

Why Am I Doing This?

To express my craving love for Miley Cyrus (that was sarcasm), I have decided to watch and review EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of Hannah Montana... Kill me now. I will do one episode every day for however many episodes there are. If I miss a day, I apologize in advance. I will also be comparing Miley then and how she acted to who she is now. Maybe we will be able to see what went wrong.
Episode One. "Lilly, Do You Want To Know A Secret?"
14 year old Miley Stewart is living her double life as a pop star, Hannah Montana. When she's at home, she's just a normal, unpopular girl that has normal friends and goes to school.
Okay, so her BFFFF Lilly, got two tickets to go see Ms. Montana in LA and she invited Miley. Well that's a problem, considering Miley is Hannah. See Lilly doesn't know that Miley and Hannah are the same person. Awkwardddd..... So Miley declines to going to the concert.
Enter Corbin Bleu. I used to have the biggest crush on him. But I think he's dead now? Turns out Miley Stewart has a huge crush on him too. I hated her for that. But I got over it quickly. Anyways, she rubs ketchup all over his hands and claims it's a moisturizer so that she doesn't look like an idiot. Too late for that. Uh oh... It's the "populars" AKA Amber and Ashley. In the fifth grade, I had two friends named Amber and Ashley. They always did the "ooooh tssss.." thing. Back then I thought it was cute. Now it's just annoying. Already in the first episode, you can tell that some stuff is gonna go down with these two girls.
Enter Oliver... OLIVERRRRR... (House Bunny reference). This guy is my hero. I love him so much. Not Mitchell Musso, the actor that plays him, but Oliver Oakin, the character. He goes through so much through this entire series and manages to stay strong. At least, I think that's what happens. We'll find out.
You know, for a 14 year old, she was a really strong singer. When I hear her now she sounds like she got younger compared to back then. Like she's lost some control.
Lilly sneaks into Hannah's dressing room and things get crazy. I don't really want to go into details but basically Lilly finds out that Miley was Hannah the whole time. Lilly is pisssssed. Of course she forgives her. But things turn around when Miley shows Lilly her "Hannah Closet." Lilly wants to tell everyone about Hannah and Accidentally calls Miley "Hannah." Now Miley is super pisssssed. Pretty much from what I can tell, Miley is just some tween that has a loud, heavy country accent that yells when she talks about her problems. You know, she was a really bad actress back then. I can see why her famous father was the only reason she got that role. Emily Osment was so much better. But you know is a really good actor? Her brother Haley Joel Osment. He was great in A.I.  which just so happens to be one of my favorite movies.
And of course, the episode ends with Miley and Lilly being salty with Amber and Ashley. Just awful. But things happen.
I just thought about something. If she's 14, shouldn't she be in high school already? Isn't that the age of a freshman? I don't know. Just a thought.
So now that the episode is over, here are my thoughts:
Lilly did not freak out enough when Miley revealed that secret. If that were me, I would be freaking out for days.
Miley Cyrus is a bad actor. Maybe it's because that was the first acting role she's ever done. She just needed practice. After all, that was filmed back in 2006.
It will get better.
It's hard to think that someone so sweet, young and innocent can turn into something so... vile and trashy. I think she's worse than Kesha.

Until tomorrow,
-Rachael A.

Look at that face.... *tear*

The Voice

It's so hard for me to listen to songs sung by a woman. I know why that is. I'm jealous. I can't sing to save my life. I was not blessed with a singing voice. Even if I took lessons, I would still be awful. There is no possible way I could be a good singer unless I had surgery, but that's not an option. I'm not that insecure. But still, I get upset and overwhelmed when I hear really good women singers. You're probably thinking, Oh Rachael, I'm sure you're not that bad! Has anyone ever heard you sing? Yes. People have heard me sing and they all said I sound like a 12 year old girl. Each time, it really discouraged me. It made me so mad that I don't even want to sing when I'm by myself. I'll try so hard to sing really well and just end up crying because I know I can't do it. God did not bless me with the gift of singing. But in the place of a voice, He put voice. No, not singing. He gave me the gift of using voice in my writing. If you aren't familiar with my writing, I like to add my personality into each post. I've been told that I'm pretty funny... Yeah, I'm hilarious. Deal with it. No but really, I like to add my witty humor and have conversations with myself in my writing. It's probably hard to understand, which makes sense... That was a contradicting statement.
But yes, I love writing. When i was young, I liked writing songs. Yes, I have always kept a journal (or diary if you prefer). It's important to write your thoughts out so that they aren't bottled up inside of you. It works for me. But maybe another method works for you. The point of this is to say that you shouldn't get jealous or upset because someone else can do something that you want to be able to do. But rather you should focus on doing what you can do. Or even better, learn how to do the things that you really want to do.

That's all I have for now...

-Rachael A.

Miley... Why?

EVERYONE knows who she is. I don't even have to say her full name for y'all to know who I'm talking about. Miley, Miley, Miley. Why are you so crazy? I'm not a Hollywood gossip blogger and I really don't care about most of the actors in Hollywood. But I feel like I need to express my opinion about Miley Cyrus. Why? Because it's my blog and I can write about whatever I want. 

So we all know that Miley is nuts. She used to be this really great role model that little girls could look up to. She was Hannah Montana. And now... she's a talentless, wannabe stoner that dresses salty (in a bad way). My theory is that she really is living a double life and this new Miley is the fake popstar while the Miley we all knew and loved is secretly back in Tennessee living with her parents. But that's probably just me. 
I think the problem with Miley is that she used to be this great person and a bunch of little girls looked up to her. Then when she turned crazy, all those little girls that looked up to her thought that what she was doing was okay. That's why people hate her. 
I hear a lot of people asking, "Well what does her father think?" Lucky you, I did some research. He is okay with what she is doing. At least, that's what he told the press. "I heard my little girl say, ‘I’m the happiest I've ever been in my life.’ That’s all I ever wanted to hear from her" So I'm guessing he's okay with it. He just wants her to be happy. And you know what? I'm glad that she's happy. What she's doing now, if that's what she likes, by all means let her be. People are still going to criticize her but she's over it. I'm almost 100% positive she doesn't care about what people say about her. And I admire that. I still don't like how she's acting. One day she'll look back and regret what she's doing. But until that day comes, keep on keepin' on. 
If people don't like how she is impacting their children, then don't let her. I don't mean tear her down and criticize her. Just be aware of what your children are watching and putting into their minds. It's very simple. Don't let the media raise your kids. Seriously.

In honor of Miley, "It's my mouth I can say what I want to."
- Rachael A.


                                               Is this not creepy?

Finances?

It's like, every time I am about to do something really productive or get excited about something, someone always ruins it. It just happened to me a few minutes ago...
I was about to work out. I never get to work out because I'm too tired from work or business meetings. I was motivated to work out tonight. I had a bunch of energy and I was ready. As soon as I was about to start, my mother comes in and tells me I need to partial pay for my contact lenses. Let me tell you a little something about my finances. The last paycheck I got said $387.30. I spent the entire thing on my laptop that I am typing on right now. The one I got today said $474.36. Not bad right? Well, my contacts cost $431.92. I already feel bad about spending my last check on this laptop. I didn't really need it, as much as I convinced myself I did. I don't really want to spend this check on small pieces of plastic to shove in my eyeballs. No. I have three pairs of glasses. I don't need contacts. I don't even wear them that much. I only wear them when I'm not breaking out, which is never.
I'm looking at buying a car soon. I thought I would have to wait until January, but I recently hit the jackpot. No, I didn't win the lottery (that would be nice though). A woman came into my work with her stupid Mini Cooper. She had three bags of stuff in her trunk. She said she was going to donate them, but she didn't really want to go down to the shelter, so we could have them. Okay lady.... Anyways, so we went through her stuff and found these two really nice watches. A Breitling Navitimer and a Cartier. The Breitling (according to my own appraisal) is worth anywhere from $4,000 to $8,000. The Cartier is worth around $2,000. Now why this lady would get rid of these watches I don't know. Maybe it's because she was recntly divorced and used the money to buy herself a new (crappy) car and get custom leather in it. They were his watches and didn't know how much they were worth. But that's just my theory.
The watches belong to me now (my precious) and I am free to do what I want with them. If it wasn't for them not fitting my wrist, I would have never known how much they were worth and had a pretty new toy that would get super damaged and be worth nothing within minutes. I'm not good with watches.
So the moral of this story is, keep your watches. They might be worth something....

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Outcast

No not the band. I've felt like an outcast my entire life. When I was in elementary school, if seemed like everyone had something like they loved to do. For example, one of my best friends loved sports. Other friends loved video games or music. At the time, those were hobbies. In middle school, it was understandable why people didn't like me. I dressed really weird. I wore the crazy colored pants with non-matching tops and shoes. I had serious problems back then. But when I got to high school, it only got worse. And maybe that's my fault. I did act like a hoe. It got me into situations I didn't want to be in or now regret. After I was homeschooled, I was isolated. Everything was downhill from there. It's still getting worse. I have very few friends. I can count the number of friends I have on one hand. I'm probably going to get comments saying, "Oh Rachael, I'm your friend!" No you're not. Stop acting like it. Stop taking pity on me. I don't want it.
I thought that going to a youth group would help me to be more social and feel accepted. But I think it made me feel more like an outcast. All I wanted was to immerse myself with people my own age and hopefully make new friends. That didn't really happen. I didn't want to open up to them, but I forced myself to. It's not that I didn't trust them. i trust people very easily. But I didn't necessarily feel comfortable telling some things. It's my own fault for opening up in the first place. I thought those girls were my friends, but they weren't. No one every tried to hang out with me or see how I was doing. I'm over it.
As some of you know, I'm involved in a business with my parents. And I love it there. But, it's just another place where I feel like an outcast. Don't get me wrong, I love being around the business. Unfortunately, I'm still just a kid in their eyes and they don't treat me like an adult. It sucks. But it's understandable. I still act like a kid and I don't really talk to anyone about adult things. So, that's my fault.
Even though I feel like an outcast a lot, I know there are still people that are willing to help me. Maybe I don't want help. Maybe I just want to figure things out on my own. Or maybe, what I really need is someone to help. I honestly don't know. The way I see it, I'm still a kid and have a lot of things to figure out before I start involving people in my problems.

Today is the day.
- Rachael A.
(that rhymed)

Touchy Subject

So I recently had some time to think about things. Something I rarely get to do anymore. I saw an episode of Kids React and had mixed feelings about it. It was the episode where the kids were reacting to gay marriage. Before I saw that video, I was completely against gay marriage. I thought it was completely wrong and everyone that is gay should be condemned. But seeing that video, made me think twice. Not in the way that you're probably thinking... Those kids were accepting of gays, BUT they were not accepting of the people that were against gays. They were standing up for all of the gay people, but trashing the homophobes. That really made me think. If you're going to stand up for one person, you better be prepared to stand up for every person. You're contradicting yourself.
Another video I watched really changed my opinion. Gigi Gorgeous is a pretty popular YouTuber (500,000+ subs), and he/she is openly gay. He told his coming out story and how he handled it. He said that he once had this girl that he never met stand up for him. He said that you can't go through life on your own. You need someone there to help you through it. Not codependency, just a friend that you can count on to always be there for you. It made me realize that gays are people too.
Now on to the legal matters. I now think that gay marriage should be legalized. Used to be, there was a huge deal about interracial marriage and they got over that. I think you should in fact be free to love whoever you want. Now when people start wanting to marry animals, that is when the REAL problems will start.
Okay, I do understand that the biblical perspective on this subject is kind of tricky. Sure Genesis and Leviticus said some stuff about man and women and how God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. But Jesus, the only Son of God, the guy that died to SAVE us... Yeah that guy... He died so that we could be forgiven for everything. (Just so you know, as I am writing this, I am still thinking about how this ties in biblically.) So, Jesus did die to save us from our sin, but it doesn't mean that people should continue to sin. I don't know, that thought came to mind. But regardless, Jesus loved everyone. Prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers. So I'm guessing he probably loved gays to.
What makes me really upset about this whole dispute is how people treat each other. A while back, people used to make fun of gay people because they were gay, but now, people pick on and terrorize people that are anti-gay. That is so stupid. Yes, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you can't hurt someone just because of what they believe. And yes, I know that this has been going on for centuries, so don't try and give me your witty comments about all those wars back in them days. I already know. I'm not an idiot -___-

Tell me what you think. And please, nothing hateful...
Love all.
<3 Rachael.

Love All

You never know who you're going to meet. Who knows? The next new person you meet through a mutual friend could build a multi-million dollar business and want you in on the gig. Or they could be a potential mate. Don't underestimate people and respect everyone. Even if you don't think they deserve it. You must respect someone before they will respect you. Be the bigger person.

Love All.

All I Really Want

All I really want...
Is to be beautiful.
To be loved.
To be noticed.

All anybody wants...
Is to be loved.
To be appreciated.
To be recognized.

We all want...
To have fun.
To love and be loved.
To be cared for.

Why do we think...
People hate us?
We aren't good enough?
We will die alone?

God has a purpose.
Stay faithful.
Don't lose hope.

Wrecks

Now that I am working a full time job, I have to drive through the terrible traffic you hear about in movies and on television. Some days, the traffic is good and some days it's just awful. But I never complain. Mostly because I'm not the one driving. I used to carpool with one of my coworkers and business partners. He would always try to find the fastest route to work, but it would always end up taking a long time to get there. Whenever the traffic was really heavy, I'd look in other peoples cars at their expressions. They'd be mad and angry. I could picture them thinking, "Man whoever is holding me up is going to pay. I need to get to this job that I hate." From what I've learned about my commute, the traffic is only bad when there is a serious wreck. After a while, I thought about how ignorant most of the people that I share the road with are. Someone was just in a really bad wreck and could have died, and you're complaining about going to a place that can't support you and your family? I would like to say, "Now I understand where these people are coming from," but I really can't. How can someone be so caught up in themselves that they not care about another person in danger. I can say that I do understand why people wouldn't want to put themselves in life or death situations for another person, but not being considerate of a person in that situation is just... ugh. It makes me so angry. I don't like being angry. I age faster when I do that.
This is kind of a short post, but I wanted people to be aware for when/if they go into the working world. Be safe and don't drive when you're upset. It puts you and others around you in danger.

A P.S.A. FROM RACHAEL ALTERMAN
But seriously guys... Thanks for reading. God bless you and God bless america.