So I finished VEDA. I managed to only miss one day, and since that was due to my computer being an old lady I feel like that's pretty dang good.
I actually ended up enjoying vlogging quite a bit.  It took some getting used to, talking to a camera every day, especially on those occasions when I could not find a time to do so when nobody was home so I had to just deal with sounding like a repetitive, slightly narcissistic crazy person to my roommates. But I always love that feeling of discovering some new way of creating things that I've never tried before, especially when you find out that you're actually not completely terrible at it.  I know my videos aren't exactly youtube masterpieces, but I've definitely seen a lot worse out there, and people have told me they've enjoyed them, so I call it a success.
So I'm going to continue to make videos, probably 2-4 times a month.  A lot of vloggers give themselves a certain day to make videos on but I think I'm just going to make them when I feel like I have something to talk about, and give myself more flexibility for the times when my life is boring or I'm too busy.
Here's a link to the entire playlist of my vlog: clicky click
I appreciate any and all comments on the videos.  Thanks guys!

Hey friends.  As I said in my previous post, I'm Vlogging Every Day in April.  I've done three videos so far, and as I do each one I add them to the playlist linked below, so you can go there to see them all.  I'd appreciate it if you watched and "liked" them, and comments of course make me happier than a cat in a cardboard box factory.
Click here to go to the playlist

WELL IT'S STILL TRUE, KIDDOS!
However, two things:

1. I'm currently in the middle of yet again altering the course of my life, so once that decision is made I'll make a post about it for those of you who don't know what's been going on with my schooling (read: pretty much everyone except my parents and Caitlin). So that's on the way at some point this month.
2. I'm going to attempt totally succeed at doing VEDA=Vlog Every Day in April. For those of you who do not live on the internet as I do, a vlog is a video blog. (blog= web log, vlog= video log). Most people who vlog do so on youtube, but there are some other platforms around. Those two guys John and Hank Green I'm always talking about got their internet fame via their youtube channel vlogbrothers, which started off with them only communicating via video or phone calls for a year.  I've never vlogged before, but I thought I'd give it a shot this coming month. I doubt I'll be doing a whole lot of it after April is over, but we'll see if I end up liking it- who knows, maybe I'll be better at remembering to keep up with it than I am with this blogging business.  Anyhoo, once that starts up I'll post a link to those and then maybe at the end of April I'll link a playlist of the whole crazy affair. Not gonna lie, I'm kind of excited about it.

Okay, that's it for now. Stay gold.

EDIT: I started this post about a month ago and forgot about it, so this story is actually quite old but I thought I would finish it anyway. So here you go.

I'd like to start this post with a shout-out to my parents for their exemplary child-naming skills.  I may be slightly biased on the topic, but if you ask me, my sisters and I all have awesome names.  They're unique enough that we've never been in a class with four other people of the same names, but still not one of those crazy names that take people a while to process after you tell them your name.  You know the ones.  They tell you their name and you're like

I'm gonna start off this brand-spanking new blog with a rant: POLITICS.
Because I'm sure you all want to hear more about that.
But fear not, I'm not here to talk about my opinions on any particular people or parties or positions (oh good gracious that was a beautiful alliteration).  I'm going to talk about how much I loathe politics.
Like, the idea of politics is great.  The philosophy and all is fine.  But American politics has become so disgusting to me.  Basically I live in dread of presidential elections because it just turns people into hate-filled ignoramuses.
Now I acknowledge that this is not true of everyone.  But right now you're thinking, "Oh yeah, like me.  I am that exception."
No, you're not.
The worst is after every debate or when big events are going on, and everyone has to register their opinion on facebook (and the internet in general), and it generally consists of the supporters of each side/candidate tearing down the other side and talking about how their side was the clear winner of the debate or how the other person is so obviously an idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about.
It just wears me out that we're so pressured to be divided into two types of people, and that people are so unwilling to really listen to what everyone involved is saying and instead just work to find ways to tear their "opponents" down.  It's negative and destructive and STRESSFUL.
Especially for people like me who don't really identify as a Republican or a Democrat, as Conservative or Liberal.  I just have opinions, and some of them happen to fit with certain parties and others don't.  This also makes, for me, even more evident everybody on facebook's tendency to ignore what's actually going on and just insist that the people they support are flawless and correct in every facet of their existence.

So I've decided to attempt to run a blog again.  I have done this multiple times in the past and have ended up abandoning each one after a while.  We'll see how this one goes.
If you arrived here looking (for some reason) for my old blog, which used to have this url, it can now be found at malallorysoldblog.blogspot.com.  Just in case you wanted to witness the embarrassing and poorly designed disaster that was my old blog.  I wouldn't recommend it.
So let's get crackalackin', shall we?