Turning a new (web)page

After much thought and consideration, I think it's time for me to blog about more than just Celebs and life in Hollywood. Now don't get me wrong, I still love Us Weekly, E!, and Chelsea but it's been a little difficult to keep up with everything going on because I have been student teaching. There is soooo much more I want to write about and share with all of you, I'm going to tweak the purpose of my blog a little. And since it's my blog, I can do that.

In the past weeks (or months) since I've posted a lot has been going on. I've gone through almost a whole semester of student teaching in the kindergarten and I have to say it has been the most amazing, life changing experience I've ever been through. It's so funny how 20 five-year-olds can drive you completely crazy one day and the next you just want to take them all home with you. I really believe that teaching is what I'm supposed to do and working with these kids has really shown me that. I have some great stories so if you want a good laugh, hit me up! It's amazing how these children have really changed my life. I only have 2 weeks left with them before I get my new placement and I can't even think about it without crying. They are awesome.

This past week was my Thanksgiving break-yes I got a whole week off due to my elementary school's calendar-and I got to enjoy some much needed time at home. I always work when I go home because my boss won't let me quit. I'm serious. I just come and go when I'm home and it has been so nice to pick up some extra cash before the holidays. Being home was a nice break from STW where I have been feeling a little trapped and cagey. I love this town but lately it's been sufficating me a bit. It was nice to go home and have a break from it all and spend some much needed time with my family.

Yesterday I spent my last football game as a student in section 329 with AH cheering on our Cowboys against OU. While we didn't win, I can't say I didn't have a blast screaming and highfiving with all the other students around me. It was a heartbreaking loss but I am proud to call myself a Cowboy.

I'm looking forward to the last month of 2010 with anticipation and excitement. I'll be better about posting and I'm putting my renewal check for Us Weekly in the mail tomorrow so sleep easy tonight knowing my life goal is to still work for E! News.

Peace, Tweets, and Christmas Treats.

Coke > LiLo

I have had many people ask me to comment on the Lindsay Lohan situation. This is what I have to say about that:

Lindsay Lohan is under people that change their profile pic everyday on my list of people I cannot stand. She needs to go to jail and stay there for longer than 3 weeks. Obvi rehab isn't working out for her so maybe the judge should get a real career and stop sentencing her to things that aren't working. SHE'S ADDICTED TO COKE. I don't think that's something you can go to rehab for and come out a month later never wanting to snort again. Now I've never personally done coke but as a human being that has a brain I would guess that it takes a little longer than 30 days to cut a drug problem out of your life. I thought she was going to turn her life around after she made that cameo with Chelsea on the VMA's but it turns out that she is still a loser. Sorry your lesbo gf Sam realized what a joke you are and left you in the dust (no pun intended). Stop dying your hair and being a crazy. Me and everyone else in the United States is over you. Thanks and see ya later.

Phew I feel better.

My favorite time of year

Ahhhh the Video Music Awards...who doesn't love them? I have already blocked off my whole Sunday next weekend so that I can sit down and watch the ridiculousness that will ensue. This year is especially awesome because my fav person of all time (besides Wayne...who will miss the VMA's this year due to being locked up) CHELSEA HANDLER is hosting. If you haven't seen her promo I highly suggest you take a look at it and enjoy a little piece of heaven.

Anywho every year I take it upon myself to personally pick who will win each category. Since I just started this blog 6 months ago I haven't had the opportunity to treat you all to my wisdom of who will win. However I'm turning over a new leaf and will be filling you in on who will be winning each cateogory. You're welcome.

This will be different than my usually blogging because I won't just who I want to win, but who will win. There is a difference. Every year I believe that someone else should have won certain categories but understand that all of America voted, not just me. So I have taken that into account. Keep that in mind when I disappoint you with my picks.

Welp, here we go...

Best New Artist: Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris-Baby
Best Collaboration: Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce-Telephone
Best Dance Music Video: Lady Gage-Bad Romance
Best Female Video: Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg-California Gurls
Best Hip Hop Video: Eminem-Not Afraid
Best Male Video: Drake-Find Your Love
Best Pop Video: Lady Gaga-Bad Romance
Best Rock Video: Florence + The Machine-Dog Days Are Over
Video of the Year: Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce-Telephone
Best Art Direction: Lady Gaga-Bad Romance
Best Coreography: Beyonce ft. Lady Gaga-Video Phone
Best Cinematography: Lady Gaga-Bad Romance
Best Direction: Eminem-Not Afraid
Best Editing: Rihanna-Rude Boy
Best Special Effects: Green Day-21st Century Breakdown
Breakthrough Video: The Black Keys-Tighten Up

Well there you go. Lady Gaga was nominated for a total of 13 awards which is more than anyone else in the history of the VMA's so I assume that she will need a small car to carry all of her moonmen out with her. But I fully support her and still feel as though she was robbed last year when Taylor Swift won best new artist.

For a list of all noms check out http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2010/categories.jhtml and judge for yourself. Peace, love, and free Weezy.

The end of an era

Well here we are b's and g's, the time is here. The time that there are officially no residents in 1532. For those of you who haven't been keeping up on my twitter(@maddmck...follow me), 1532 is the apartment that my best friend Amanda (@akhorn) have been living in for the past 2 years and that @hfwood got to experience living in this summer. We moved in almost exactly 24 months ago and tonight is my very last night. I'm still trying to decide how I feel about it.

As I've been packing up my things and cleaning everything out, I've had a lot of time to think. It seems like yesterday that we were hauling everything up the 3 flights of stairs and going to wal mart twice a day and here we are all moved out. Crazy how time flies. So many wonderful things have happened here-birthday parties, kitchen talks, tv watching, boyfriends, dogs, you name it its happened. While we may not have been known for thowing raging parties until all hours of the night (that was apparently 1531's job) we were always here if you ever needed a quiet getaway from all your roommates. You could always come to the tranquil 2 bedroom. I have to say that I will def miss it. As much as I have hated climbing up and down those dang stairs day after day, I have truely loved this place.

Not only does this mark the last night in this apt, it also marks a time when its officially time for me to accept I am a 5th year and am starting a new chapter in my life. I had the pleasure of attending Amanda and Wes Geier's wedding last weekend and enjoy some time with all of my best friends. On the drive home I finally realized this is how it is going to be. Everyone has started the next phase of their life and I am so incredibly excited and proud of each of these girls and cannot wait to see where these roads take them. It's time. Time for life to happen. Am I ready? Nope. Do I accept it excitedly? Yes.

So ends an era. An era that I have been comfortable with for the past 4 years and it's time for me to accept what's happening and do the best I can. I have one goal for this next year: go to Cali, meet a celeb, and start working for E! asap. Doi.

"Big crown I'm gonna win for my mama" -Teeghan

Well b's and g's it's time for my thoughts on a small little thing called pageants, specifically toddler pageants. As Hay and I sit here enjoying our evening full of corndogs, kum & go, and sytycd I realize it's time for my fav TLC show Toddlers & Tiaras. I feel as though I can admit it to you that this is my guilty pleasure. Being a pageant queen myself (Maple Leaf Queen '03 baby) I enjoy the thought of little girls getting all dressed up and being cute on stage. Well folks, if you think that's what this show is about, you are terribly wrong. Todd's & Ti's is more about the mother living vicariously through their young daughters because they're too old-and out of shape-to live out their own shelfish dream. It is just sick.

The first time you watch this show, you'll probably wonder what trailer park all of these families are living in, don't be fooled. That is just the "southern hospitality" that the judges are looking for. If these 1-4 year olds don't have an accent so thick you can't even tell what they're saying then they might as well have forgot their flippers (fake teeth worn by the contestants who are usually missing their baby teeth). Along with the flippers, these babies are expected to get spray tans, full makeup, and hair pieces. This is such a joke.

Another thing about these mothers is that they'd rather their family go in debt than for their children not have a glitz dress. As defined by a coach tonight, a glitz dress is anything with stones on it. Some of these dresses can cost up to $2,000. Are you serious?? That's more than my class this summer is costing my parents. What parent in their right mind would pay 2 grand for a dress PER DRESS and do 3-4 pageants a month. That's around $8,000 a month and that's just the dresses. That doesn't include makeup, tanning, hair extensions, shoes, accessories, the 3 other outfits they need for the show, as well as travel and entry costs. These children are 3 years old and their parents are spending most likely around $10,000 a month on them to do pageants. Seriously? I got my dress at JCPenny's for $20 and it had stones on it. Get it together moms.

I close with a convo actually heard on T & T's tonight:
Crazy mom: "Who's crown is it?"
Brainwashed daughter: "Yours!"
CM: "And who's gonna win it?"
BWD: "Me!"
CM: "You gotta win that crown for mommy because she wants it."

I have nothing else to say.

I just want my Cheerios

Well I have to admit when I let to readers vote on what they wanted me to write about I had already pretty much made the decision to write about Twilight Mania. It's just too easy to make fun of, I couldn't resist. And since I want to work for Chelsea Handler I figure the more of my material she has to look at the better, so here goes.

I first heard about Twilight a few years ago when youngsters everywhere started posting about it on FB. I figured it was the next Harry Potter craze and having gone through the phase back when I was in Elementary school, I assumed it was nothing for me to get excited about. Boy was I wrong. As I walked around campus over the next few weeks I started realizing that people my age were reading the books. Not only were they reading the books, they were talking about it, posting about it, and yes, even making shirts. I mean are we seriously picking teams on who we like better where our choices are a vampire and a werewolf? First of all neither of these things actually exist. I don't know if people realize this but there are no such things as vampires with diamond skin and hot guys that turn into werewolves. Phew, I needed to get that off my chest.

As things usually do, I figured that the craze would die down once everyone read all the books and moved on to thinking the toothfairy was real. Wrong again. There I was minding my own business when I hear the words I had been dreading..."The Twilight Saga will be made into a movie. Bella will be played my Kristen Stewart, Edward played by Rob Pattinson, and Jacob portrayed by Taylor Lautner." Oh geez. At this point no one really knew who any of these people were, including myself. If I would have known that K-Stew was actually the princess of darkness and R-Patz was a spitting image of the folk here on library lawn I would have moved out of the country. All you have to do to get a part in Hollywood these days is to awkwardly hold your body in a hunched over position, not wash your hair for weeks at a time, and act like you don't care that you're making a million bucks a movie about freaking vampires?? I can do that. Hire me.

Aside from hiring the worst actors of all time to play supernatural creatures, you can't walk in any store without seeing shirts, hats, sunglasses, posters, and shampoo (yes, I am serious) that have one of the vamp/wolf faces on them. I would just like to do my grocery shopping in peace and not have to see Kristen's dirty scowl next to my Yogurt Burst Cheerios. No, I would not like to buy body wash that makes my skin sparkle like vampire skin, but thanks for making me hate Wal-Mart even more than I already do. And also if I fangs I would, wait who am I kidding? I would never want fangs. But the people to make plastic fangs seem to think most of America wants them seeing as how there is a whole aisle devoted to vampire gear.

Thank you Twilight, for not only taking away from my shopping experience, but for also taking up at least half of my E! News coverage. I don't need a 15 minute update every night that covers the exact same thing you covered yesterday and will undoubtably be covering again tomorrow. Now, I have to honest and say that I attempted to watch the first movie and then got distracted and couldn't finish it. I have yet to see the second but assume I will need to rent it before i go see the third installment that comes out next week since I refused to read the books. I need to see what all the fuss is about. If the movie is really as good as everyone says it is, I will personally retract everything I have written today and apologize to everyone who is a Twihard. So impress me Eclipse, because otherwise I don't think I'll be able to go to Wal-Mart anymore. And I really love those Cheerios.

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It was brought to my attention last night by a friend of mine last that I haven't updated in awhile. While I have known this is true for the last couple of weeks I haven't really been in the mood. I've been quite busy living the life of a 5th year and honestly haven't wanted to. But things are changing now. Mad is back.

As some of you know, 6 of my best friends and I went to Gulf Shores, Alabama about a month ago and had a total blast. I mean it's really hard to beat waking up at 10 every morning, putting on a suit and literally stepping right onto the sand. The days consisted of sun and ocean and the nights consisted of too many quoteable moments to even count. Minus the 12+ hour car rides there and back (although we had the Swagger Wagon) it was an amazing time. I couldn't believe it was over and it was back to the real world after only a week.

Once back in Stillwater I proceeded to start my new job working for HES at OSU and helping with New Student Orientation. I'm also nannying the cutest little boy ever named Collier and loving it. I started my summer class last week and so far so good. I got the little girl I'm tutoring yesterday and am looking forward to working with her. Overall I can't complain.

My bff Hayley is also living with me this summer. After her and our other friends graduated I really wasn't looking forward to a summer alone in Stillwater, but then Hayley got the OK to stay a few more months. Hayley and I spent last summer together and while this summer is considerably less ridic I'm loving getting to spend a little bit of extra time with her. She's gotten me hooked on SYTYCD and is now the husband to my wife. The only complaint I have is that we can't get Kum & Go to deliver directly to our apartment. You'd think after going everyday they would comply to our every request. I need to talk to Harry about this.

I've also taken time this summer to catch up on some reading I've been wanting to do for awhile now but haven't had the chance to. I read both of Lauren Conrad's books-"LA Candy" and "Sweet Little Lies"-and I just finished Candance Bushnell's "The Carrie Diaries". It's still up for debate what I'll be reading next but I have some new options to choose from. I highly suggest all three of the books I've read so far if you want some mindless summer reads that will entertain you for the entire week it takes you to read each of them.

Well I think that's all the updates from my life for now. As for my next post I'm leaving it up to my readers to choose.
A.) Twilight mania
B.) Sandra Bullock
C.) Top summer songs
D.) could care less and wish I'd stop blogging altogether

Those are your choices...now vote so I can write!