What's Trendy?

In an effort to keep my public aware of my life, I thought I’d take a minute to talk about some recent trends that people have tried to introduce me to and whether or not those introductions have been successful.

Lost

Aldo told me from the beginning – you’ll love the show. For days into the first season, I had my doubts and thought the show definitely had its negative points (i.e. Hurley, Juliet, bad dialogue, some bad acting, Hurley, surreality and did I mention Hurley and Juliet?) However, I stayed the course and soon realized that the show was also intriguing and since then, I’ve been pretty much hooked. I don’t think I’ll go crazy not getting answers until January, but it’s definitely kept me on the edge of my seat.

As a quick comment, the finale was good, but not quite as “shocking” as I expected it to be. I saw Penny’s Boat coming from a mile away (I predicted it weeks ago to Aldo and Jim at Bakers Square) and the John Locke thing just wasn’t surprising (the group I was with guessed it right away). I’m definitely excited to see what happens in the next two and final seasons.

Webkinz

A few weeks ago, Bethany blessed me with my very own pet/baby: a Webkinz. He’s a cross between a platypus, a duck, and a kiwi bird. However, the website refers to him as a “googles” – whatever the heck that is. I named him Peanut and am already (hehe) having loads of fun dressing him, buying him food and getting him jobs. I have to admit – the game is pretty addicting. Bethany and I thought it would be a great idea for my Webkinz and Parker’s to “meet” in one of the rooms online. We finally found each other in exercise room 2,586, but their little Webkinz just wouldn’t stop to talk!!! Several times, Parker even left the room. I guess it was okay since rather than communicating with standard phrases, Bethany and I then proceeded to actually talk on the phone for 20 minutes!! If you don’t have one already, I strongly recommend jumping on that bandwagon. Does this make me a loser? Yes. Do I care? No.

Twitter

In short, the bane of my existence. We already have Gmail, Google Chat, Blogspots, Facebook, Myspace, AIM, AOL Mail, MSN, Outlook, Yahoo talk, cell phones, and texting. What else could we possibly need? Oh wait, I forgot. We need a way to CONSTANTLY inform the world around us of what we are doing. Why not have a play-by-play of our life? I know why we shouldn’t – because it’s just another thing to check and to plug in a username and password. In an effort to de-username myself, I plan to streamline things. I’m sticking with my blogspot and networking sites (for students from the Crew). I will never Twitter. Not because I don’t want to be trendy, but because I just won’t become a slave to yet another website on this sick little machine. What’s next? The mark of the beast.

Enough rambling. What “trends” can you just not get enough of? And which do you wish you could just turn off?