Phobias!

So I'm with my friend Audrianna and she is doing a power point presentation on phobias. I love psychology and considering it is my major it makes sense. So I decided to do a blog about interesting phobias! By no means am I making fun of people who actually have these phobias, I find these interesting and if you have one that I list I'm sorry if I offend you.

The first phobia is called Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons. Okay so i saw this and laughed so hard. WHAT IS A WALLOON!? A Walloon is apparently a person who lives in Wallonia in Belgium. I honestly would like to know who actually has these phobias!
The second phobia is Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering. This one is pretty self explanatory.
The next phobia is Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being. This one I kinda have, I wouldn't say that I'm terrified of ventriloquist dummies and was statues or whatever but the do give me the heebie jeebies! Here is the last one I'll list, Chirophobia- Fear of hands, I find this one odd for the fact that everyone has hands with a few exceptions.

If you would like to see a whole list of phobias here is the a good site for the list http://phobialist.com/

FaeRiina

So my favorite books are books about Faeries. Ever since I read Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream I have had a fascination with Fae. I first read it when I was a sophomore in High School, and have read it several times since. Most books that have to do with Fae now follow Shakespeare's idea of Faeries. Of course each author adds their own touches and I love to see what people think and seeing the creativity that comes from them.

The next Faerie book I read was Tithe. Tithe is about a girl who is a changeling which basically means when a human had a baby Fae would switch and take the human baby to a faerie realm and put a fae baby into the mortal realm. and she is a Fae and doesn't find out until she is a teen. There are two more books in the Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale series. Its a darker series about Fae. One thing a lot of people do not realize is most Fae are cruel creatures and are not typically nice to mortals, they are seen as their play things and entertainment.

After I read Tithe I wanted to read more and now I'm in the middle of the Faeriewalker Series, the Frost Series, and the Iron Fae series. I know Fae are completely fictional but all those comics people get into and vampires all that is fictional too! How people are all crazed about Twilight, I am about Faerie books. I read other books than just books about Fae but the ones that have to do with the beautiful yet cruel creatures amaze and interest me like no other!

If anyone would like to know all my books about Fae I have read just comment and I'll do another blog about my favorite Fae books. I might do it anyway but just let me know! Also if you have any suggestions as to books you think I would like let me know! I'm always looking for another good read!

P.S. The title is one of my names I go by such as on xbox live. :)
Lyss

Playoffs!

It's time for NHL playoffs!!! I love Hockey! It's my all time favorite sport! Sadly my all time favorite team did not make it to the playoffs this year :( but I do have two teams I'm cheering on to win the Stanley Cupp! I'm mainly wanting the Washington Capitals to win and the Tampa Bay Lightning. I'm leaning a little more towards the Capitals due to the fact that Alexander Ovechkin plays much too hard to not have ever one a single cup! He's an incredible player, he's made goals that look completely impossible.

Washington has won their first two games so far and Tampa won their second game but lost the first. I can't wait to see how these playoffs turn out! The teams I definitely don't want to see win are Vancouver, New York, and Boston. Well to be honest I don't want to see any in the West devision to win because if anyone from the west should win it should be the Blues:)

Anyone else hockey fans???

LETS GO CAPS!!!

Lyss

So much to do!

I have had a lot going on lately and haven't been able to keep up with everything! I'm behind with school and stuff at home. I know a lot of my being behind is partly me procrastinating but the flu bug has been making it's way around my house and it just is dragging me down. Over this past weekend I had to make a run to the Urgicare center because I dropped a huge shelf on my foot and thought I broke it!

Luckily it isn't broke its just really badly bruised. But just everything is piling up and no matter how hard I try to work on stuff and finish things I'm not doing it fast enough. Right now I have the research project for English to work on and a philosophy homework assignment that is a lot to do. I also have an online class and an earth science class. I haven't been in class either due to being sick or some other problem.

Sorry for all my rambling about all I have to do! and for you guys in my group, sorry I've been absent! I promise I'll pull my weight!

Lyss