Another blog post about blog... posts. I need to stop doing that.

Just thought I'd drop by  for a bit and post a short blog. This is the real me. You won't be hearing from me often I'm afraid, as pen and paper are my priority at the moment*. Nobutsrsly. I wanted to make one last post before I turned 20.

I've never been a dedicated blogger, but I feel that blogging was the one thing that I've been doing consistently online through all my years as a teenager**. While every website, forum, and social network have evolved, the blog has always been here for me. I've jumped from one site to another, depending on where the crowd was. I've been a part of different communities online, but never stuck to just one. And even though I've transitioned between LiveJournal, MySpace Blogs, WordPress, and Blogger, I've made it a point to move all my old posts over to whatever new platform I choose to use. Even my embarrassing private ones. I want to make sure that wherever I go online, I'm able to access bits of my old self. I want to be able to use this as a time capsule. All my old old old posts are set to private because 1) no one wants to read about a whiny early teen and 2) I shouldn't have been revealing that much information about myself at that age to begin with. Maybe someday I'll look back at posts from today and realize that no one wants to read these either. But that will be just fine with me because every time I look back at old posts I realize "Man, I was stupid. I'm so glad I'm not like that anymore." I realize that even if I don't notice it, I have matured and I'm okay with the person I'm growing up to be. That said, if you're reading this, thanks. There really is no reason why you should be sitting down and watching me contemplate crap that probably makes no difference to you. You could've gone the rest of your life not knowing about my fangirlgasms, mishaps, and general nonsense. I really do appreciate each and every person that reads these posts. I know there aren't that many of you, but... if you took a few minutes out of your schedule to do it when you could have easily been doing anything else, that's saying something. I appreciate you.

Also, thank you blogging platforms. You've given me somewhere to vent when no one else was there, or when I was afraid to talk to actual people because I knew how harshly I could've been judged. What an odd thing to thank. Blogging platforms. As if they have feelings and shit. Haaa.What the heck am I even saying anymore? Thanks, internet. I can honestly say you made my teenage years.

Random tidbit of the [yester]day: I watched the Britney Spears episode of Glee and it was awesome.
Last coffee shop visit: The Coffee Bean in Hollywood, Ice Blended Pumpkin (Fall is an awesome month for caffeined goods)

* I'm kidding, btw. I don't even like writing all that much. Context.
** Okay, not ALL my years. I wrote my first blog post at 14.

HELLO SEPTEMBER.

First post of September and we're already twelve days into the month! Good job, Rey. Now,
let's take a look at the Things You Might Have Missed Since My Last Post (AKA "Things I post on Facebook/Twitter" AKA "ReyNews") in reverse-chronological order. Weeeeee.

• I got a haircut. Now I look like this:
  
• I was sick for a few days. It sucked.
• Somebody figured out what font point we'd need to use if we wanted to type out the word "helvetica" between Earth and the moon. It's really cool and really pointless. (Actually, it's not pointless at all. It's 282.6 billion points. But let's not get technical.)
• This video was posted. It's awesome.
  
• It reminded me of this video... which is also awesome.
  
• Apple announced some new products, which I'm not gonna type about because I want to keep this short. I will, however, talk about their new social network for music. It's called Ping. It's somewhat of a cross between Last.fm and MySpace Music, except you can only access it through iTunes. I upgraded my iTunes and got a Ping account, just to see what it was like. Don't really like it. Not enough to navigate through. It made me feel trapped. I don't like feeling trapped. Especially with social media. Totally defeats the purpose. I'll continue to use last.fm to share music (and for it's Pandoraness) for now.
• I posted a tweet about DFTBA artist Mike Lombardo, and he responded to it via video. Freaking awesome. This is one of the reasons I love some of these YouTube artists. I appreciate the ones that don't act like they're too cool to respond.