MEMORIES

So, I went to The Rock & Worship Roadshow in Indy...
BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE :D

 (My friend and I)

 <3

Seriously, never been to a concert before besides a tiny one in a church...and it was nothing like this. So much noise and bass and people. Never have I ever seen this many people gathered in one place with my own eyes (in real life)...I went with my friend because she offered to pay as a thank you for me helping her with homework. 
I'm so glad I got to go. I got amazing pictures and videos too!! I'm so glad I got to experience something like this :D I almost went deaf, but I definitely want to go to more concerts ;D I saw Family Force 5 too!! I love them. At first we got really high and annoying seats, but during the intermission thing, Elizabeth (friend) and I went walking around and someone had left and asked if we wanted their seats (they had seen the part they wanted to see, apparently) and we got them!!!! It wasn't super close, but amazingly closer than what we had had before. AND we got these seats just in time for the rappers, with their loud bass and jumping...it was a party.
I could go on and on about it, but something else happened the next day that definitely needs to be shown :D

DOCTOR WHO CUPCAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went to a friends house to catch up and bake....we ended up watching Doctor Who together and making these gorgeous beauties!!! 
They were so beautiful that I didn't want anyone to eat them...(we took them to youth group) but we got plenty of comments on them ;) us being the crazy Whovians, a lot of people laughed. But our fellow Whovians found them delectable in both taste and form :D

So, a lot of good things have been happening lately and I've been given many new opportunities and it makes me feel special :D 
ALSO I have started volunteering at my local food pantry and it's amazing, even though today was my first day. Every one is so nice and I love helping people. I even met an old lady who's last name was the same as my first name - Callie :D 

Also, I love that I feel the need to keep up with my blog. I've always wanted a successful blog, and maybe this time I'll make it work. AAAANNNDD I learned that ALLONS-Y, the words The Doctor says before going on an adventure, is French for "Let's Go!" :D
How clever. But that's The Doctor for ya ;D

ALLONS-Y (hehe)
&
PEACE OFF!!!!

~thatonegirl (Callie)

LOBOTOMY TIME

Alright-

So I must admit that my first post wasn't exactly what I expected it to be- intriguing, inspiring, funny, the works. But I guess I'll lay the blame on that I wasn't all that inspired that day (;

BUT I was going through my "Books of Knowledge", my notebooks of which I write all of the things I've learned- and I've decided to write about something that I've always been interested in, despite the horror of the whole thing.

Walter J. Freeman, the creator of the Lobotomy. 

Now, for those of you who don't know what a Lobotomy is, it's truly a horrific and inhumane thing. But me being the person who has always been fascinated with dark history, holds this as one of the most intriguing things I've ever learned about. 

A Lobotomy, or trans-orbital/ice pick Lobotomy (sounds creepy already, right?) is a matter of what they called "cure" for the mentally insane. 

On January 17, 1946, Walter J. Freeman preformed the first Lobotomy, In Washington D.C. - The patient is first rendered unconscious by electroshock (electrocution of the brain) and then Freeman took an ice pick (whats in the picture above) of which he places under the patients eyelid against the top of the eye socket - a mallet was then used to drive the pick on into the frontal lobes of the brain, and the sharp tip was moved back and forth. The process was repeated on the other side of the face. 

Now what really strikes me, is that this procedure was cutting the connections to and from the pre-frontal cortex - the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. 

These parts of the brain were used for planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior. So crazy or not, these people were basically brain dead. Freeman Lobotomized 19 children under the age of 18 - including a 4 year old. Mental illnesses usually cannot be confirmed until after the patient has matured, or in other words, are past 18 years of age. Some of these children may have only had ADHD, ADD, OCD....which means they weren't crazy, they were CHILDREN. 

It wasn't only Freeman who thought of mental patients in this low regard -

Dorothy Dix, early crusader for reform in prisons and asylums-

"They don't need any heat; they have no feeling." 

This kind of mistreatment happened all over the globe in mental asylums-  they believed that to cure an individual, it was necessary to undergo cathartic medical treatment, and to either catalyze crisis or expel crisis from the individual. 

Such medical procedures involved submerging patients in ice baths until they lost consciousness, or executing a massive shock to the brain. Means to expel crisis from an individual included inducing vomiting, or the notorious "bleeding" practice. They actually thought that draining "bad blood" from the patient would make them better; although this inhumane practice normally resulted in death or the need for lifelong care. 

Another example - Danvers State Hospital. 

Built in 1878 to house 500 patients had over 2,300 patients at it's peak in the 1940's. 

Danvers is the rumored birthplace of the Lobotomy.

However, this facility closed in 1992, with a plan to build condos stalled when it promptly burned down - I'm not one to believe in curses or ghosts, but it's quite interesting that the hospital was built on a plot of land once owned by John Hawthorne, the most unforgiving of the Salem Witch Trial judges (;   

All in all, Walter J. Freeman preformed over 3,000 Lobotomies and was labeled, "the traveling Lobotomist" - a fearsome title if you ask me. 

This is my knowledge on the Lobotomy, I hope I've made someone smarter today~ (does that sound conceited?) ~But anyways, this is one of my favorite things to research, although it's insanely creepy ;_; 

I've learned that the Lobotomy, in a modified form, in still done in rare cases of OCD at hospitals around the world - I hope I don't get Lobotomized xD

OCD lady right here, organized freak and grammar Nazi.  

That's all for today,

ALLONS-Y

&

PEACE OFF!!!!

-Callie (thatonegirl)

So...

Forth attempt on a blog happening right here...I don't really know what to say. But~ ALLONS-Y CHALLENGE ACCEPTED :D Hmmmm. Perhaps I should start with what I've done today? Well, absolutely nothing. At least nothing productive. Well actually, I think watching 3 straight hours of Doctor Who is actually productive, because, HELLO? Got through like 4 episodes. Soon I'll be done with all the episodes, and I'll watch them over again and the cycle shall repeat for the rest of my life. Because that's only what normal people do.

How about I tell you what else normal people do; Google. 

GOOGLING THIS------------------------

Alrighty, so according to Smosh, Beyonce wanted these photos taken down. I have no idea why.

Pfffft. Ok xD !!!

But, if everyone on the planet knows what you look like, then why do you care if they see photos of you like this? o: I mean, everyone's got to know that even the most beautiful people have goofy faces too. I would laugh my tooshie off if I saw a photo of myself looking like this~ and how did she make these faces anyways? I've been trying to do them in the mirror for ages. 

She must have been extremely enthusiastic. Or high. Or both. 

But anyways, If you're reading this Beyonce, you look beautiful no matter what you do~ and also, look at the muscle tone in those legs! That's something I could never dream of having (;

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Weeeeeeeeelllll, I have nothing really left to write about, nothing that itching to be typed. BUT I did learn something today :D Did you know~~~ that 1.3 Million Earths could fit inside the sun? That's a pretty massive star. But, not big enough to ever be able to create a black hole, like some stars do when they die. So there are much bigger stars out there than the sun. Also it would take 109 Earths to cover the diameter of the Sun. When you think about it, the Earth is pretty puny. 

I'M OUT~

ALLONS-Y, PEACE OFF! 

-Callie (thatonegirl)

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