What bothers me. That's it.

               When people use common phrases incorrectly it bugs me. Today I heard a guy use talk the talk and walk the walk like they were the same thing. They are not.  Walking the walk means that you back up what you say with actions. Just silly.

               People who think gaming is just Mario and Call of Duty. You’d be upset if I said movies were just Bond and chick flicks wouldn’t you? It’s just annoying, nothing serious though.

               When a person thinks rap is only about violence, drugs, and sex. Go listen to Macklemore. Do it.

               I guess I really just think that stereotypes are pet peeves. There has got to be something else that bothers me… Puns. Puns piss me right off.

               Girls that know they are leading on a guy and continue to do it. Same goes for guys to.       

               Lastly there are try-hards. These people have their place. In my opinion that is Ranked play in whatever game they are playing. If you are playing unranked. Relax. People are not there to win, they are there to play and have fun. I’m a super try hard in ranked games, I’ll admit, but unranked/ not serious games, just have some fun. 

This just makes me cringe

Dropping them Truth Bombs.

               Three things you’d like to say to people.

               Ok, I’m going to address the three most important girls in my life with this.

               Samara, honestly you can just keep on doing what you are doing, like for real. You are showing significant growth as a person and I’m really proud of you. Scott’s one of the coolest guys I’ve ever met and I am super happy for you two. Maybe play a little less Sims though. Just for your sake. Otherwise keep being cool. Also the new hair it pretty good.

               Kim, you have got to get over your insecurities with boys. You are a kickass girl and people know it. Just because you have seen some people do things that make you question how you can trust a person doesn’t mean you get to hide the best parts of you from the world does it? Trust people. Get hurt. Learn from it. It’s good for you. I know I’ve told you this before, but I feel like I have to keep telling you until you do it.

               Lysa, it makes me sad that I haven’t seen you since you’ve been back in town this holiday break. I’ve tried twice though to get a hold of you and I’ve felt somewhat blown off. That sucks. You are my best friend and I want nothing but the best for you. You occasionally have to put a little time in maintaining friendships though. If nothing else I’d really like to hash out some details about me coming up to Edmonton. I’d tell you this in person, but that’s proven to be difficult.

               I swear if any of you comment on this rather than talking to me about it, I’ll be disappoint. 

The all time great of truth bombs.

Don't read this, go see Django.

Do you read, if so what are your favourite books?

               No, I used to read a bunch, and when I did I read quite a few John Grisham novels, Lord of the Rings and Calvin and Hobbes. I plan on reading some more Calvin and Hobbes next year. Gosh that was easy. Well, cya tomorrow!

               Nah, I’m just kidding. I’m gonna tell you all why you should go see Django Unchained. It’s absolutely incredible. I went in expecting a typical Quentin Tarantino movie. Well played characters by good actors, cool action sequences, foul language and well-timed humour. What I got was possibly the best movie made this year, which is saying something with films like Globe Atlas, Avengers, Skyfall, Dark Knight Rises, Ted, Spider-man, and Pitch Perfect all giving 2012 a really good showing. (Remember this is entirely my opinion.) Leanardo DiCaprio gives arguably the best performance of the year as Calvin Candy, who for lack of a better term is the textbook definition of evil. Jamie Foxx gives a great performance as Django as well. Will Smith was originally intended for the role, but frankly he wouldn’t have really fit it in my opinion. If you can stand the insane levels of profanity there is an exchange between Samuel L. Jackson and Mr. DiCaprio that is just incredible, and also pretty funny. Overall, great great movie, go friggen see it. SKIP LES MISERABLES. GO SEE DJANGO!

               Maybe I shouldn’t be so harsh and Les Mis. I haven’t seen it yet so I really don’t know if it’s good or bad for sure. I do know that it would have to be the surprise of the century for it to be better than Django though. My only pre-viewing bias that I’ll be going into Les Mis with is that I think Amanda Seyfried is a terrible choice by the casting. Why? Because Amanda Seyfried is really bad at acting. Even Anne Hathaway, who I’m not terribly fond of, is a good choice when compared to Amanda Seyfried. She’s just awful. The only movie with her I’ve ever liked is In Time, and frankly Justin Timberlake carried that movie. When the Boy Band star turned actor carries is totally outshining you, it’s time to re-evaluate your skills.

               Point of all this, Django is really good, I don’t think Les Mis will come close to being as good as it and it makes me really sad that nearly all my friends are going to disagree with me and dismiss this because Django is “Violent and has bad language.” This is why I don’t trust your opinions on movies. 

Seriously, if he doesn't win an Oscar for this I'll be pissed. 

Music Dude, it's Really Friggen Important.

               Day six: What musician/group has Is most important?

               What the? Is this real? Like holy moly, the first five were like super easy and then it just opens up and hits you with the big guns. Seriously the first four were pretty easy things honestly. This is legitimately difficult. Do I go with the classic rock groups like Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd because they are the first bands I listened to? Maybe I go with something a little more modern perhaps? It’s hard to say something like that because maybe it’s just a person/group I really like right now. It’s not an electronic artist for sure though, I really like it, but I do not feel influenced by it. Which I feel is necessary to qualify as “most” important to me, that’s fair right?

               I mean, music is easily has easily had the most influence in my life about the way I think out of any other form of media. Even gaming hasn’t had the level of impact on my thinking that music does. That’s perfectly ok. Music really is probably one of if not the biggest influence on most people. Sure there are the film guys and game people and bookworms who would say the film, game, and literature influence them more, but they are the minority. Music simply speaks to the soul. It’s so easy for a person to connect to some kind of music that it’s simply commonplace for it to be SO influential.

               As a side note, I’m pretty much going to say the music that has the most influence on me is most important. Makes sense right?

                Alright, I’ve been thinking for hours now and just can’t come to a definitive answer. So screw you, I’m giving two.

    Macklemore.
This guy is a totally sick rapper, and I’ve only really listened through one album, but man oh man does he make you think, songs like Otherside, Wings, B-Boy, Contradiction, Ego, My Language, Remember High School, Soldiers, and White Privilege just blow me away. This ish makes me think. A lot. My personal favourite is Contradiction, and I recommend everyone listens to it, and really listens to it. I don’t care if you really aren’t into rap or anything, just think about what he’s saying and think about it.

   
Keane,
I connect to this music. I just feel like I can relate to their songs so easily. They get a huge boost for having Bad Dream in their repertoire because it’s my personal favourite song to this point in time. What makes me really love that song is just how I always mind myself drifting into this cool stupor of thought whenever I listen to it, like every time I listen to it I feel like I have a good idea. Unfortunately I don’t always right these down so a lot of them get lost.

               I really got to hand it to Lysa on this one though, when she first introduced me to Keane I kinda just brushed it off. They were ok, but not really worth my time then. Then I actually listened to like more than 2 songs and suddenly I realized what a terrible mistake I had been making by not listening to them. Seriously one of the best bands I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to and hopefully I’ll get the chance to see them live someday. I`d also really like to see Macklemore live, but that`s slightly off point. 

Travelling and I`m Really Shallow Apparently

               Five Places You’d Like to Visit.

Simply listing five places I would like to visit is slightly boring to me, so this is going to be a Top five places I want to visit for sure and since the challenge doesn’t say I can’t use fictional places I’m going to. Suck it Internet.

               Number Five! The Shire. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be all fictional places, just a couple that I’d really like to be able to see and experience. So no, going to New Zealand isn’t good enough. I would want to actually spend time with Hobbits and such; they just seem like really laid back and fun loving people. It would be like the perfect place to just kick back and escape the world for a little while. Plus there is the off chance you’ll meet a wizard.

               Number Four! Italy.  Like, come on! It’s Italy! Tonnes of culture, good food, art, the friggen Vatican! Despite what anyone thinks of the Catholic Church, the Vatican is just incredible, or so I’ve heard. Other countries in Europe would be cool as well, but if I were given the choice, I would go to Italy before any of the other ones.

               Number Three! New York City. A lot of people I know aren’t really city types. I am, I love the city, and New York is THE city. Go see a play on Broadway, (We’re assuming money is no object in this right? Because if not, the whole teleporting myself to an alternate dimension and finding the Shire is a bit too expensive for me.) Go to a concert at Madison Square Garden, maybe even see a Yankee’s game just to say I did it. Plus there are a lot of really cool museums and things to see educational and culturally. Plus, I have to find out if there actually is a bar name McLarens. I just have to know. Then there’s the UN, Ground Zero, places where some incredibly important events in modern history occurred, who doesn’t want to see that? Also Hot Dogs from a stand on the street, I want to eat that. Yes.

               Number Two! The Middle East. So long as I could assure that I would not be “beheaded on the Internet” to quote the always politically correct Jeremy Clarkson,  the middle east has some of the most interesting sites and cultures in the entire world.  That is literally where everything happens. It’s exotic, I would get to see places mentioned in the Bible (which would be awesome) and really get a better feel for what life was like thousands of years ago. Maybe I wouldn’t really know, but I would have a much better idea than I have now for certain. It’s the most important area for Ancient culture and history and I really want to see it!

 This is in Isreal! Isn`t it Beautiful!??

               Number One! Seoul Korea. OMG he’s really saying that the number one country for Starcraft is his number one place to travel to. Yeah I am, for several reasons. Firstly, I’ve always wanted to learn about an oriental culture. Second, I hear the food is just amazing! Third I could do Gangam Style in Seoul and that would be hilarious. Fourth, yes I would love love love to attend a huge E-sports event and really be a part of it. Ideally it would be a Proleague final, cause it’s the biggest tournament in Korea obviously. I watch online and I hear crazy fan girls screaming for players, and I just need to know if they’re real. This is a culture that took a hobby and elevated it to the point of parity with traditional sports, there has to be something really interesting about the culture of the whole country to allow something like that to happen, and in less than a decade! Fifth, Asian girls be fine yo.

               Honourable mentions: Sweden, (Mix between European culture and E-sports, def attend a dreamhack event. Again, great looking girls there to.) London, (Soccer and Music and Coolness, plus then I could go to a recording of Top Gear and be made fun of by Clarkson! Whooo!) L.A. (Movies man, Hollywood) Peru, (Machu Pichu) France, (Food) India, (Culture+ Curry) Washington D.C (Sites and such)

Side note: I was going to put a picture of some fine Korean girls here to emphasis my point, but typing “Asian girls” into Google yields no so safe for work results. Don’t do that. It won’t turn out well. 

Source for pic: Google

Names and Crits

               This is a two part question for me, mostly because there is the name of the blog, The Critical Canuck, and then there is my Gamertag of  NaMeca Because I bloody well want to I`m going to go through them both. Also neither one of them is a really long story or anything so It`ll help make this feel like a full post.

               We`ll start with what most people are not so interested in,  “NaMeca” (Nah-May-the) is a simple and short phrase which translated means,  “the enemy.” I find it somewhat ironic that I`m always playing as  “the enemy” and a little funny that my opponents never know that they are playing against  “the enemy ” sort of. That`s really it, I just thought it was a nice funny name, and it  really isn`t that complicated, unless you ask how to pronounce it, and even then it`s still not THAT hard. NaMeca. 

               The Critical Canuck again is pretty simple if you think about it. I feel that it`s cool and short alliteration that gives a brief summary of who I am. I am a Canuck who is critical of things. That was the first thought. Then my gaming mind stepped in and said,  “you know, it`s totally possible to make critical into both a positive and negative word.”It totally is! You have the simple thinking on it that critical is negative, but in gaming you can have critical hits and critical misses. To briefly explain, a critical hit is essentially your character getting lucky and dealing more damage than they would normally would. A critical miss is when you are so unlucky that not only does your attack miss your opponent, but has a negative effect on you. Think about someone swinging a giant sword and missing their target, then the sword is so heavy it carries with the guy and he falls flat on his face. That`s a critical miss. When you meet a girl and things are going really well and you say  “Destiny” That`s a critical miss. Unless it totally works out, then it's a critical hit.  It`s really another way of saying, the worst possible thing that could happen. So really that`s what this blog is about, recording the critical hits and misses of my life. Highs and lows. That sort of thing. Also the critical hits and misses of those around me. I hope to record more hits to be honest, although the occasional miss is pretty entertaining.

               EZ PZ!

Unrelated Pic of Calvin and Hobbes, because frick yeah!

Sidenote: Frick yeah is totally a legitimate reason to do anything. See here for explanation. (Only watch the first 40 seconds, the rest is Day 9 random stories.)

Source for pic: Reddit

Fijian Titles are boring and Super Showmatches.

            I’m not sure if I should try and describe today in great detail or maybe just describe a regular day for me. I’ll do today, it’ll be way easier to remember.

            I woke up at about 10 am today, or something along those lines, I really don’t remember. It wasn’t important, because it’s Christmas Eve so I don’t have to go to work. My dad made me some eggs after that I sat down at my computer to do my daily check of sites. Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and Team Liquid. Nothing interesting really going on and still no word on what’s happening with Polt so we move on to double checking what the challenge is for the day so I can think about it. Nothing much to think about with this one, just try to remember what you do.

            Next I talked over with my brother about what games we are going to play over the next few days in our super hardcore best of seven show match to see who`s really better at gaming… show match. I think we settled on League of Legends, Smash Brothers, Halo, Starcraft 2, Mario Kart and a Super Mario brothers speed run. That`s only six games you say? I know, the seventh match will be another speed run that will only be played if necessary due to the extensive length of the game. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. We chose Wind Waker of Ocarina of Time because neither one of us have played it in a while so it will be less about who remembers the puzzles better and who is actually better able to play the game. I feel favoured in 3 of the games and two of them I am pretty sure Sam will take me down in, the speed runs though I have no idea who is going to come out on top there. Unfortunately Sam became quite ill today so we postponed the matches because he did not feel `` at his best`` so hardcore.

The change in art style helps Wind Waker feel a little more light hearted, which I thought was a welcome change to the Zelda Franchise. Easily Top 3 Zelda game. 

            Next we opened up presents for my Sister Katy`s birthday, then I made the drive into Lethbridge to go get some things I forgot at my house there, it was my brothers Christmas gift so I felt pretty obligated to go get it. Chug down a Red Bull while I`m out and I get back just in time to start the Tollestrup Family tradition of watching the entire LOTR trilogy (Extended edition of course) I grab my comp and play a few games of League of Legends while doing this, because frankly I really don`t need to focus all my attention on the TV to know exactly what’s going on in those movies anymore.

            At about four thirty I begin making deep fried chicken wings, we`re about half way through Two Towers at this point as well. I`m not so sure why I always get charged with making the wings, it`s really not hard at all to put chicken in flour and then in a vat of super-hot oil. I like it though so I don`t complain.

            That pretty much takes us to the present point in time, still half of Return of the King to watch and eat some cake. Then off to bed to prepare for the event that is Christmas. Going to be super awesome. Somewhere along the line I`ve had 2 cokes and a Red Bull. Slightly above average day for caffeine intake. Still have to wrap a couple presents though. That`ll be great, mostly because I have no idea how to wrap things right. Like I know it isn`t even that hard, but I manage to mess it up so much! Also there is another TL-EG proleague match. Thorzain hwaiting!

Source for pic: Google

Karua Siga (Second Day)

            Likes and Dislikes

               Both of these present similar challenges, it’ll be hard to list 10 things I like cause I dislike most things, but since I dislike so many things it’ll be hard to specifically list 10 of them. Oh first world problems. We’ll go with likes first.

               First thing I like is birds. EZ son.

Second we have Sushi. This is my favorite food, its tasty, and somewhat exotic. I think Foreign would be a better word for it. Best sushi I've ever had was at Ginza, a small sushi bar in downtown Salt Lake City. Super good. If you haven’t tried Sushi yet, stop being a pansy and go eat it.

Third on the docket we have, Coca-cola. This is the best soft drink. No arguments. It’s somewhat bittersweet taste combined with a healthy amount of caffeine make it my drink of choice. Although Red Bull has been making a strong showing for itself as of late.

I like Music, almost any kind these days. It just has to be good. Like it has to be apparent that the person making it has talent. Even country, a genre I used to despise I've grown accustomed to. I can appreciate the talent of it for sure. My favorite stuff would still be lighter rock, I’m no offciando on genres or stuff so whatever Muse and Keane are my favorites right now. I also really like Rap. Macklemore and Kid Cudi have been dominating my phone lately. Gotta love Kayne, Jay-Z, Lupe, Childish Gambino though. Also Snoop Lion in the latest Epic Rap Battle of history was awesome. Somewhat sacrilegious, but funny.

Man this is going to be a long post isn't it? Fifth is Calvin and Hobbes. I could literally read these all day and never get bored.

Sixth, The middle earth universe. Normally I would just say LOTR, but with the hobbit movie being a thing now I kinda realized that just saying LOTR doesn't really encompass everything. Tolkien is an absolute genius who created an entire world through his books. They’re timeless.

Seventh is movies. I really enjoy watching movies and I hope in the near future to learn a lot more about them so I can really appreciate them better. I also should start watching older movies. Like made pre-70’s I’m thinking. I just have a hard time getting into them when there are simply so many good movies coming out or have been made in the recent past.

Problem solving is fun for me. Not like doing countless word problems in math, but more along the lines of talking to people about their worries and helping them find solutions to their concerns. I find that (In the least sexist way possible) that girl tend to be more willing to talk about things like that so that’s mostly why I hang out with them over guys. Also girls are a hell of a lot easier on the eyes.

I guess I can use that as the ninth one as well. I like girls, no homo. They’re pretty awesome actually. I find them to be smarter, prettier, and more OK with you giving your opinion about what they should be doing about a said circumstance.  I find them significantly easier to get along with.

Lastly we have games. I really do love these. I hope that as time goes on that they’ll become a more socially accepted form of media and we won’t have to deal with idiots telling us that violent games cause tragedies. If a person commits a massacre and leaves a note quoting a famous book, absolutely no one is going to stand up and say, “We need to censor literature!” it’s just stupid. No need for rants though here.

Previously mentioned Vid, just enjoy. 

Well that wasn't too hard was it? Oh shi… I still have half of this to go. *Puts on some Skrillex.* let’s do this.

Things I do not like! Bad drivers for one! That doesn't even need an explanation.

Two: Whenever a person takes a predetermined judgement they made and refuses to allow new context to change that. You need be flexible enough that if new information is presented to you that you can change your position. I know I’m guilty of holding on to an argument that is already lost, but I am working on that.         

Third, the fact that some companies continue to push out absolutely garbage sonic the hedgehog titles rather than let the series die with what honor it has left. I know that you’re still making money (not sure how) but please oh please just stop it.

Fourth, People forgetting that I’m lactose intolerant. Come on now. Let’s be serious.

Fifth, Puns.

            Sixth, anyone that all-in’s every ladder game of StarCraft. I know pulling all your workers and just running up my ramp wins a lot of games, but it doesn't make you any better. It’s just frustrating.

            Seventh, The league of legends community. I really like playing this game, its fun, engaging and competitive. Playing with such toxic people though makes it pretty hard. If you start playing badly, the wrong thing to do is call the other team f’ing fags and tell them to kill themselves. That’s just horrible and you are part of the reason that people can’t take gaming seriously. Grow up.

            Eighth, High School mentality.

            Ninth, Fanatics. Beliefs of any sort cannot be forced upon a person. Discussion is awesome, debate is good to sometimes. Forcing ideas on a person is not good.

            Last, People who do not like Calvin and Hobbes. Don’t talk to me, or else I’ll be forced to go all fanatic on you. 

It felt a little dark at the end there so here's the most awesome picture ever to make you feel happy. 

Source for pic: Reddit

Imatai Siga. (First Day)

               OK, I’m copping out. Like hardcore. I’m doing a stupid ole’ blog challenge thingy. Why? Because I honestly think that it’ll help me actually write here consistently if I have pre-determined topics to talk about. So let’s get this going. For anyone who’s interested the link to said challenge is here. So let’s get into it.

               Basic things about me.

               Name: Jonathan James Tollestrup

               Age: Twenty

               Citizenship: Canada/USA 

               Date of Birth: October 30^th 1992

               Height: 5 feet 9 inches

               … I could go on like this for quite some time, but seriously everyone that reads this knows me already. So let’s to something a little less basic. Just in case any of you dorks forgot though…

               I’m a competitive person, I think everyone knows that. Even in a game as silly and not serious at all as Mario Kart. I’m there to win. That’s one of the big things that makes things fun for me. Having something to measure myself up against to see where I am. Winning is also fun. In case you were wondering, it’s a lot of fun.

               Stubbornness is another word I’d use to describe myself. A stubborn competitor can be one of the worst kinds of people to have around when you’re playing games of any sort. If they (me) start off poorly and are losing, you’re going to see something called tilt. This is where I get really frustrated with a game but refuse to simply quit, I keep playing until I win. The longer that takes, the more agonizing it is for everyone around me. I am working on that though, accepting losses is an important part of life. I mean, even Pro-gamers rarely boast a win rate of 60% and up, so they have to accept loss as well.

               I speak three languages, one quite well and two pretty terribly. I speak Sarcasm extraordinarily well, but English and Fijian are pretty tough for me. Still I feel pretty comfortable saying that I have a larger vocabulary than 70% of the people I interact with. Right now it doesn't show so much because I've been stumbling over my words an absolute tonne lately. It’s mildly frustrating, but I just laugh at myself, because if you don’t know how to make fun of/laugh at silly things you do, you are going to be one sad panda.

               Looks wise I've always considered myself average to slightly above average looking, and I’m going to keep thinking that of myself until I’m like really old, so like 26 or something. Seriously though, thinking this about myself is super smart, it gives me enough confidence to be like, “Well I’m not BAD looking.” But keeps me from ever feeling overconfident about myself. Balance, perfect balance.

                              So far we have a competitive, stubborn, sarcastic and completely 100% average looking person. That all describes me pretty decently I suppose, but the one word I really think sums up my personality is reactive. I react to situations, I rarely initiate things, and unless I’m around a crowd I feel very very comfortable with. Generally though I find that reacting to things is the best way for me to go about stuff, I’ve always felt more comfortable with wingin things rather than taking time to carefully prepare a set plan for things. I just think I think well when I’m reacting. Take this blog challenge thing for instance, it gives me a topic, I react and write about it, EZ PZ.

               That about does it for me. Pretty good for Day 1. 

Proleague and dissapointment

               I honestly didn`t plan on talking a whole lot about Pro Gaming on this blog, but in the last couple of days two HUGE things have happened that I simply must mention.

The Tyrant Cometh!

               First off we have Lee Jae Dong a.k.a JaeDong (Super creative name I know) is moving over to team Evil Geniuses for the next year. Now Progamer contracts typically only last one year at max so this is pretty long. More impotantly it`s JAEDONG! This guy is an absolute legend from Brood War, the game that elevated E-sports to the same level as traditional sports in Korea.  Words simply cannot describe how excited I am to watch JaeDong come out to all sorts of events under the EG banner. This means that he’ll likely be attending at least MLG’s. so awesome! I mean come on, JaeDong is in my opinion the scariest and best player to ever play Starcraft that never received the title of Bonjwa. (To clarify, Bonjwa is a term given to certain Starcraft players who reign over the scene for an extended period of time. Kinda like a dynasty for a regular sports franchise.)

               The signifiganly larger piece of news that comes out is the teaming up of the two largest Non-Korean based Starcraft teams to play in the biggest and most prestegious league in all of starcraft, and maybe E-Sports. SK Planet Proleague. Evil Geniuses and Team Liquid. Pure Nerdgasm. The best part? Looking at the line-up, they could win it. The team is pretty strong on its own, but it has the inherit advantage of all the other teams playing in it having only played SC2 for a few months. This could be so incredible. It’s actually on right now so I’m gonna go watch it and then we’ll talk about what happens after.

               ….What. What just happened? First match of Proleague, EGTL facing off against KT roster and loses 4-0. KT roster who’s only notable player on the roster right now is Flash. Who is a big deal cause he’s the best player to ever play the first starcraft, and he’s playing SC2 really good as well. I actually expected him to win his match, but other than that I thought It’d be a stomp in the other way with EGTL coming out like 4-1. Wow. That is just embarassing. This could be a long year for these teams. On the plus side the four of the best players on the teams roster didn’t play tonight, three were out of the country and one was reserved for the sixth match, which wasn’t played because it was over before then. It’s a good thing they just hired a coach, cause man oh man are they going to need one if they want this to work. I really wanted to watch HuK play man…

  I just wanna watch this Canadian Nerd play some games

Sources for pics: Myeg.net (Jaedong) MLG (HuK)

I Don't Know Twilight and Why People are Stupid.

               Ok, so I debated a bit back and forth about whether I was going to write anything about this, and then someone involved with this did something I think to be so ridiculously stupid that I can no longer hold back. Just to preface or whatever. I also don’t apologize if I offend anyone because the one I’m likely to be meanest to put it on the internet and therefore I don’t feel bad in the slightest talking about it. If you put it up for the whole world to see then don’t be mad when they bloody well do.

               Love Triangles are just silly. Like regular ones that just occur because one girl (usually) attracts the attention of two boys who are somehow connected to each other like being friends, roommates, co-workers, or involved with an unending grudge match between mythical creatures if Twilight is to be believed. (That’s the initial connection between Jacob and Edward right? Doesn’t matter, anything to do with Twilight is irrelevant and silly.) Anyways, the point I was trying to get at, normal love triangles are silly, but tolerable. Entertaining mostly due to the fact that not all the parties involved really get what’s going on there. It’s fun to be on the outside and kind of laugh at the make bets between friends or whatever. It’s also ok because normally what happens is that one guy typically starts to just become the favourite. Normally you see one guy just simply pull ahead so to speak and the other guy backs down before it becomes too messy. This is normal. I think, don’t really know, just writing off the top of my head and that’s what seems reasonable.

               Now I’m saying this to emphasise how utterly ridiculous the love triangle I am currently observing is. I’ll start by saying what I think is “Standard” or normal about this (As far as love triangles go) First it is the ole’ two guys after one girl sort of thing. Lastly in my opinion it is already apparent who the better choice is, the whole favourite thing has already played out. That’s where the normal stuff ends.  

               What’s ridiculous about all this?

 One: Twilight references were immediately made therefore it is silly.

 Two: Obvious reasons for trust to be an issue make everything irrelevant. If basic trust cannot be established then it’s simply impossible to establish a healthy relationship. Also if trust is still there despite solid evidence that it shouldn’t then a person is in unreasonable denial and shouldn’t be considered reasonably able to make any sort of smart decision.  This can go either way and it does.

Three: Equal opportunity employment, sort of. When a girl realizes she has to make a decision between two guys this is what she should do. She first needs to ask herself if she has already made the decision in her mind and if she has then just go with that. If she hasn’t made a decision then she needs to give both guys reasonable opportunity to present their cases as to why they should be the one chosen. The most common reason for this to not happen is when one of the guys is the best friend. If you are the best friend and you know that something like this is happening be a good sport and let the other guy have his chance too. It seems stupid, but do you really want the girl if you have to deal with the constant thought that you only got her because you had an unequal opportunity? Maybe you would’ve got her anyway, but you’ll never know and that thought will stay with you as long as that girl is in your life.

               Ok before I go on I have to say this, I’m watching LOTR right now because the Hobbit is like 2.5 weeks away and I’m starting up the massive hype train for this event and if you look at Liv Tyler’s eyes at 1:08:00 and on in Fellowship of the Ring, you’ll notice that her eyes are like super dilated. Like the pupils are massive.

               Fourth: As I stated at the beginning, the reason I feel ok with writing this is because it was put up on the internet. As I always say, “If you’re going to do something stupid, don’t put it on the internet.” It still blows my freaking mind that this made it all the way to Facebook. Then again maybe not. Maybe people are caught up in all the drama and are actually enjoying all the attention it brings to them and are milking it. Maybe this is leading to the inevitable major emotional trauma for one guy. Maybe I think that’s just uncool. Maybe I think this whole situation is actually pants on head retarded. Maybe.

               To sum everything up, I am currently observing a love triangle that has grown incredibly old to me very quickly, because the reasoning and decision making of the people involved is equal to JYP’s Protoss versus Terran. For all of those who aren’t familiar with pro StarCraft that’s terrible. JYP used to have a 10% win rate in the match up. 10% as a paid pro. Unacceptable. The decision making with this love triangle is equally disappointing. I think the whole thing just needs to end. Frankly I don’t really think anyone should end up with anyone either, they’ve all acted like such idiots towards each other that none of them should want the other, but they do and in the end two people are going to be very happy and one person is going to be pissed off, and it’s prob gonna be the guy I’m rooting for. It’s all just plain silly. 

This is what I think about this now. Have fun destroying each other emotionally.

                    Last minute edit: I don't actually have any real negative feelings towards any of the people involved, I like them all as individuals, but recent decisions have been terrible in my opinion and this is my way of avoiding the situation of me blowing up in all of their faces about it and letting them sort this out for themselves the way it aught to be.

Source for pic: The Escapist

Peeps and Poor Flow

I got something I want to talk about but first a couple of things, remember that girl that rejected me on a date? We’re still friends, and I’m gonna give myself the credit on this one because after a solid week of zero contact I decided to be the one who “Re-breaks” the ice. Literally only took one text saying, “what’s up?” to set things straight there. This is a good thing. I mean, it would have sucked if I had in one swift move made it a weird awkward experience just to go see two of my best friends because their roommate was that girl who just wanted to be friends. Mostly because it would mean that I have no more maturity then the average high schooler and that is just not ok. It’s also good because I get to keep Kinna as a friend. (The girl who rejected me.)

               If only The girl who rejected me wasn't a pain to write, then I could use it as a permanent reference to her and it would be funny, maybe. Acronym? TGWRM. No still looks weird and doesn't flow off the tongue. Guess I’ll just keep using names. Boring. Also I realize that in my last post I purposely didn't use her name, but I didn’t really say anything that bad about her so whatever.

               Next up there’s Scott. Scott is the boyfriend to one of my best friends. Scott didn't get a very good start with me due to the fact that his younger brother and I did not get along in High School. I severely dislike his brother because he screwed over a friend of mine. Not really relevant why I dislike him though. We’re here to talk about Scott, so I wasn't a fan at first. Then I actually got the chance to talk to him a bit. He’s a cool dude, very smart and uses logic and reason. I’m sold, I know it really doesn't matter all that much whether or not I approve of him and such, but I have this feeling of obligation to the two Lybbert girls in my life to insure that the men that the marry are the absolute best the world has to offer them. I owe them that much. So it’s important to me that Scott is awesome. Yeah, words and things.

               You know what? This is enough to justify being its own post! Awesome, I’ll just write the thing I wanted to and put it up tomorrow and then I’ll feel slightly less terrible about being so inconsistent about writing these! Whoo!

              

 After a 5 min scouring of Facebook picture, this is the most normal one I could find with either Samara or Lysa. Kinda Sad. But Awesome.

Updates and Rants!

Life update! Not a whole lot going on right now except for one thing, and that’s all I really want to talk about right now, I just need to vent it out of my system before I do something regrettable. Hopefully I don’t do that right here, but here goes.

I like a girl. Hold on, I have to change my music right now, Metallica is just not helping me stay objective here and I need that right now. Where was I? Oh right a girl. I like this girl, and for the sake of time I’m not going to go about and describe her. I asked this girl on a date, mostly because we’ve hung out a fair amount I thought that things were going well. She said she had to check with her roommate about some plans but would get back to me, that is fine.

Fast forward several hours and I receive a text message from her with two purposes. One was to
“make sure we’re on the same page with our friendship” If anyone doesn’t immediately get this, it means I was being friend zoned. Second was to tell me that she would not be able to make a date, shocker! So I asked a girl on a date for the first time in years and it blew up in my face. Big deal. I decided to take a risk in my life by doing something I didn’t know for sure would work out and it didn’t, that is the way things go right? I’m just going to vent for a bit about what I think about all this.

What on earth makes a girl think that dating causes so much drama and awkwardness? If you have two rational and intelligent people both of those things are so easily avoidable that it seems silly that so many girls use this as a main point for why they should not date a guy but rather, “Just be friends” It’s seriously bogus. I mean, I’m not going to lie, 2 of my best friends are an ex-girlfriend and someone I asked out but got rejected. You know how awkward things are between us with regards to talking about dating and whatnot? Not at all. Why? Because despite the fact that I was in high school, I and all parties involved acted like bloody adults about it. Maybe that’s what I’m missing here. Getting past these high school ideologies requires a major shift in the ways that people perceive and understand their world. Maybe not everyone makes that transition as fast as I would think.

               That would make sense generally. In this specific case though I can confirm that this individual displayed maturity far beyond a high school mentality. So where does that leave us? Maybe the maturity I saw was but a brief glimpse, when in reality the mind was still rooted in high school. This is the most likely reasoning. Another is fear. Fear of several things, an obvious one being the fear of what CAN happen when you trust another person and emotionally invest in them. Another fear is that if you spend your time on one person you might miss “The One.” This is just so bad though. I mean don’t people remember that general authorities of the church have said straight up that there is no such thing as a “Soul Mate”? Yes they have. Fear of what others might think of your relationship and how that could affect all of your other relationships. Fear of finding out the person you’re investing in could turn out to not be what you thought they were. Lastly there is the fear of losing that person as a friend if the relationship goes south, but as I stated before, intelligent, level headed people can avoid this one so easily that its silly to even mention it, however it is my belief that this one is the one that plays the biggest factor in most girls minds. It’s probably why if I name all my best friends the overwhelming majority are girls. (Dillon being the only guy to make that list if you’re wondering, also if you are reading this, you are also on that list. Hope that makes your day.)

               Ok, I feel better now. Thanks for reading and whatnot.

               Closing thought. Sometimes I wish things were simpler like in Calvin and Hobbes, those two had each other and they didn’t need anything or anyone else. At the same time though, I like all the confusion and chaos that engulfs my life now, makes things interesting. 

Still... This would be nice

Source for Pic: Google

Turn it On Again.

               Alright new blog time? Why might you ask? Well to put it simply, my life is a lot different than when I wrote over at my other blog. At first I thought I’d go back to putting stuff up there, but after some considerable thought I decided it would be better to simply start anew. Mostly because I don’t want to do what I was before, just randomly talking about things I was interested it was fun, but I want to try taking a new direction here. So what am I going to do? Actually talk about my life. That’s right; I’m going to use a blog to actually blog. I’ll give you a moment to go find the socks you are potentially missing right now. I’m going to do this because I want to be able to keep people that are really important to me informed about what is going on with my life, but unfortunately live in places that make it difficult to consistently talk and what not. So now you can simply read this and think to yourself, “Yep, kid’s still retarded.” Also I’m really going to go in depth, but since that makes me uncomfortable I’m going to break my own rule and make this blog private, for now, it will become public once I stop caring what people know about me. Side note, I went with this title as I feel like is accurately describes me. Just your fun fact of the day.

               So without further ado, let’s get re-aquatinted. My name is Jonathan James Tollestrup, everyone calls me Jonny though, despite my significant efforts to try and change that to just Jon. Something about Jonny doesn’t feel like a 20 year old you know? Oh yeah, that’s right I turn 20 next week. I currently work as a roofer in Cardston Full time as I try to put funds together so that I don’t get completely wrecked by Student Debt when I eventually go to school. I really don’t know what I’m going to take, but College still seems like the right place to go to help myself get ahead. Who knows though, more and more it seems like College might not be the way to go for certain careers, although most careers still are a lot easier to get into with degrees.

               I live in Lethbridge, Alberta on the West Side with 3 other guys, Mike Passey who is brother to one of my best friends, Landon Leavitt whose parents own the property, and Robin Lybbert and he’s 27 or so. Enjoy those pointless facts about them. They are good, but frankly I don’t see them that much, if I’m not at work I’m mostly over at my friend’s house, the residents there being Kim Passey, Samara Lybbert ( No known relation to Robin), Makinna Kristensen, Kennidy Anderson and Tehani Olsen. They are all really cool people to hang out with. That basically sums up my social life right now though. Well not really, but I’m going to do in depth analysis of each of my relationships with these people. (So much reading!)

               When I’m not working or being over at the previously mention females house I spend my time doing one or several of these things at any given time. Listening to Music, (Mostly Rap, Dubstep, Game/Movie Soundtrack and Classic Rock, although frankly I can listen to literally any genre at this point, even country.) watching Movies, Eating, Playing Games or Sleeping. I also write at here now as well. Yeah, I still play games, but I care even less if people think it’s a waste of time, because if anyone wants to compare it what most do with their spare time now, there is no significant difference. By that I mean people who spend insane amounts of time on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, FunnyJunk etc… If your one of the people that spend your spare time doing productive things, then power to you! That’s awesome! (No Sarcasm there, I’m serious)

               You know, there really isn’t a whole lot more to say right now is there? This pretty well sums up my life right now, aside from me digging my nails into my thoughts on particular people and things, and that’s not what I’m really I wanted to do with this post, I’ll start another one where we get in depth soon though.

               If you don’t mind, I’d really appreciate criticism, feedback and thoughts on the blog, hit me up on either Facebook, comment on this or whatever you want really.  

Obligatory Picture

Source for pics: Google