10 dates any girl will LOVE!

Having date trouble? Money issues? Confidence issues? Feel a spark and want to go on a date? Here you go:

1. Go to IKEA.
   Sure, this only works if you live in a city that has Ikea, because Lost Vagueus doesn't, but yeah, I definitely ripped this off from (500) Days of Summer, which is my favorite movie. I just find it fun and carefree to run around their set displays and play around with your date. (RC Willey will also suffice) (especially on free hot dog day.)
2. Fly a kite!
   It's an easy way to run around and flirt with your date. You can hold on to them while holding onto the kite, and do something that everyone can enjoy! Seriously, who DOESN'T like kites?! Plus you can have a picnic afterwards and be all summer-y and nice. 
3. This one isn't free, but it's definitely romantic: for $20 dollars per person, you can take a horse drawn carriage ride at Mt Charleston during the winter. Snow! Cute! Photo op! For 20 bucks a pop, it's definitely worth it!
4. With the right company, watching the airplanes with hot chocolate.
   On Sunset, there's the airplane watching parking lot, and you can watch the planes take off and land. It's a nice get away. Bring along a good playlist.
5. Going to the desert and lighting off fireworks
   Get the illegal ones, not the baby ones.
6. Ride Rollercoasters!
   There's Primm, Circus Circus, and the Stratosphere! Sure, it's not all that cheap, but fun, especially if you're a rollercoaster person. (HINT: I am.)
7. Know anyone with a convertible?
   Split gas money and drive to Red Rock or even Lake Mead. 
8. I always wanted to go down the zipline that's at Freemont Street! (Another hint)
9. Ride the Carousel at the District and walk around at night with some fro-yo! 
10. And RED BOX MOVIE NIGHT! <3
    You each pick a movie or two and make smoothies or something else delicious to drink or eat while you watch your movies, then decide which one was the worst and laugh about it!

The Day That I

The First Day That I

• Watched The Ring

Now, in a previous blog post (this one, it's good, you should read it) I mentioned my fear of the smashing 2002 blockbuster horror film, The Ring (And I want you to know, even IMAGES of Samara Morgan FREAK ME OUT, and the wikipedia page wasn't loading, and the stupid first 5 google images for The Ring were all of her, and for a good minute, I was staring at my screen in horror, and I'm blogging at almost 3 am in my dark room, and I'm scared to look anywhere by my laptop, in fear that she is, indeed, in my room, staring at me). 8/9ish years ago, almost to the day, maybe, I watched The Ring for the first time. I had been begging my mom for 3 months to let me watch it. I had always been fascinated by the horror genre of movies. I don't know why. I mean, sure, it was probably to protect my 11, almost 12 year old mind from the nightmares I would receive, but I did not give an eff. I wanted to watch that stupid movie. SO, my friends Andrea, Heather (also known as boyfriend stealing whore), and I went to Hollywood Video (RIP) with Andrea's mom, because none of us were 13 and could not rent a PG-13 rated movie. 

I'm not going to tell you all the ins and outs of the movie. I'm 104% positive everyone who reads my blog (besides Erin) has seen the movie. SO, after I got home after the movie was over, I got in bed, and knew I wasn't going to be sleeping that night, so I armed myself with my light, gameboy color, my plug in the wall gameboy color charger, my favorite gameboy games, plenty of happy happy la la land books, and probably only got 2 hours of off and on sleep every night for a week, and would take naps on the couch in front of my mom during the day time. 

I basically thought that some crazy bratty psycho biotch was going to crawl out of my tv in my loft and eat my heart and brain and make my skin all nasty and I was going to die. Dying < Living.

So, even though I was 104% sure I was going to die even 2 months later, I was still OBSESSED with scary movies. I didn't know what it was, but I always wanted to watch them. I would watch trailers over and over in hopes of one day watching that movie. Then, my parents got Cox Digital Cable. I could browse channels by genre. I would always read the info about scary movies. ALWAYS. And if they were on the movie channels we paid for, I could even watch them! 

The first movie I got to indulge in was The Hills Have Eyes. I was home alone, a freshman in high school, with no car or way of getting anywhere if I was too scared to be home alone at night, but then the impossible happened. I watched the whole movie without getting scared. 

Since then I have watched countless scary movies and have not been scared, (besides the Nightmare on Elm Street series, which I refuse to have linked on my blog) I've even watched The Exorcist and wasn't scared. I've laughed at scary movies when people die, as messed up as that sounds. 

• The day in 2011 that I watched The Ring

I'd like to say that I'm pretty BA for watching it again, but I'm not. I'm a scardy cat. I have to turn the television off during any and all video tap parts and that stupid phone call from the brat herself. It. Freaks. Me. Out. I have NO idea why. I had a scary movie day this week where I watched The Crazies, TWO George A. Romero (the Zombie LEGEND) zombie films (who also directed The Crazies), AND Devil, and didn't get scared. Try to watch The Ring, NOPE. I AM A GONER. I couldn't do it. It got to me. I won't be able to ever watch the sequel, which I haven't ever watched, and there's supposed to be a freaking third one coming out. And it's supposed to be in 3D. I mean, I wouldn't hate going on a date with a cute boy to hold their hand and freak out with. 

But yes. That is it. I hate the movie. With a passion. I hate how it gets under my skin, and is one of the only scary movies to do that.