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.

Extemp is white, OO is blue

So today is Valentines day, and as I am a Christian homeschooler and thus do not have a significant other, I  honestly don't care that much. So instead of posting about love and stuff, I'll post about how wonderful I think speech and debate is.

Speech and debate tends to consume your life. There's not a whole lot of time for school when you have e-ring due on Wednesday and you need to rewrite your speech by Thursday and memorize it by the tournament next week. There are a lot of things that normal teenagers do while CHSADKs are watching speeches on YouTube and trying to find evidence about shark ITQ's. 

So why do we do these things? Why are we (to be blunt) such weirdos? There are two answers to these questions.

1. We're crazy. Straight up, we're insane. We have all the mental stability of Moriaty. I mean, honestly, what did you expect? We do the strangest things. While most people are watching video game walk-throughs and funny cat videos, we're watching the first place extemp speech from NCFCA nats two years ago.

2. We love it. We love making fun of ourselves. We love being done with e-ring. We wouldn't survive without weekly club meetings and the occasional tournament. I'm not entirely certain how we would make it through the summer without ultimate frisbee and speech and debate camps. We may not all be extroverts, but we still enjoy being with each other. The warm greetings before club starts, the excessive embraces between interstate friends on the first day of tournaments. Sure, we do weird, crazy things. But I'm sure I speak for almost all of us when I say that we would be very different people without speech and debate, but more importantly without each other.

So before you go dismissing us all as insane lunatics (although we may well be just that) think for a moment of the lives that have been changed through speech and debate. Not just persuasives and DIs, but through the friendships that have been made. Even though we're all different, we all like different things, we all share this one thing: speech and debate.

So though there are many reasons to vote affirmative, today I'd like to ask you to do so because you know the ways that Christian Homeschool Speech and Debate has changed you.

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.