Merry Christmas!

Have fun opening presents, listening to Michael Buble', and giving gifts. Take a moment and remember the true meaning (I don't care how cliche' that sounds) of Christmas if you have too. Read Luke 2, watch Charlie Brown specials. And don't forget to help clean up the wrapping paper after opening gifts. And thank your parents. They do a lot for you, not just at Christmas.

Vote affirmative. That can be your gift to me. ;)

Ten Thousand

This Wednesday, after posting my Taylor Swift parody, I broke 10,000 pageviews all time history here on Kitkats and Impromptu. Not specifically that post, but all my posts. I had been counting pageviews for a few weeks leading up to this. after I hit 9,000 I knew what the next big milestone was.

I was expecting something to change.

Maybe having so many views would bump up my confidence.

Maybe having so many views would mean to beginning of my internet popularity.

Maybe having so many views would result in confetti cannons going off and balloons falling from the ceiling.

New Years, however, is still two weeks away.

Nothing has changed. I still have frizzy hair and glasses. I'm still shorter than most of my friends.

I'm not saying I was defining my entire worth off of how many views my blog had, but I guess I was expecting a small bump in value from this huge milestone. But instead I just had to figure out which button to press to take a screen shot so I could post the above picture on Facebook.

Nothing has changed. I'm still going to sit here, figuring out what songs to do parodies of and what debate related lists to make.

There are people out there who count things in the millions. I'll be here counting the dozens and hundreds and hoping to write another post with the popularity of You Know You're a Christian Homeschool Speech and Debate Kid When...

Vote affirmative. Not that it'll change anything.

Happy Birthday!

Wait, what?

That's crazy. Impossible. Insane. Ridiculous. Inconceivable.

It's been a year? Yes, that is what it says.

It's been a year.

A year of crazy debate stories, long posts about tournaments, posts about writing, posts about trusting and speaking love, posts about the insanity of CHSADKs, weird spikes in the amount of views I get, amazing people and amazing moments.

Six thousand, one hundred, and sixty two views.

859 views on the post "You Know You're a Christian Homeschooled Speech and Debate Kid When..."

Fifty posts. Four Disney/Debate parodies. Twenty things I love about speech and debate. Kitkats, impromptu, and blogging.

But that's not what matters.

What matters is you.

Yes, you. My wonderful readers.

I couldn't have gotten 6100 views without you. I wouldn't have written fifty blog posts if it weren't for you. I wouldn't have kept going if it weren't for you.

Don't think that your view doesn't affect me. Every view I get makes me smile a little brighter. Every view I get makes me want to keep doing this.

Writing posts, making parodies, drawing stick-figures on paint. You make it all worth it.

Vote affirmative- then, every time you come back to this little blog with a weird name, that's exactly what you do. So, thank you very much.

Kitkats and Impromptu (ballots)

Ever since I started this blog (in May), I've been waiting to come across the perfect picture for it. Preferably the impromptu topic 'Kitkats.' I would take a picture of the topic and post it on here. Unfotunately, I never drew that topic. But then my super duper awesome friend gave me a Kitkat and I was struck with inspiration. Vote affirmative, for my extreme creativity.

Resolved : Hadley Jones Should Hereby Write a Blog

Resolved: Hadley Jones Should Hereby Write a Blog
For clarity in today's round/post, I present observation 1:

Observation 1: Definitions:

1. Blog: A really weird word that is the combination of two: web and log.

Observation 2: Inherency: AKA, what's happening in the status quo.

1. Hadley doesn't have a blog.

Observation 3: The Plan
Mandate 1: Hadley gets a blog.

Observation 4: Justifications

Justification 1: It will probably be fun.
Justification 2: It involves writing (duh) and I like writing.
Justification 3: I like making fun of the word blog and I figure it'd be ironic to do so whilst writing one.
Justification 4: Kitkats are delicious and impromptu is fun.

It is for all these reasons (and more) that I strongly urge an affirmative ballot at the end of today's debate round. Thank you, and I now stand open for cross-examination and any further points of clarification.