Swine Flu?! XD

Haha, this summer has been pretty good so far, (although i have yet to sleep in past 7 am.... :{ ) and i have been doing a ton of stuff! But today I came across something that was actually really funny, although a tad bit sad....in a way.

anyways.... I went to the doctors with my mom, (she was going in for a check up then we were headed to the cinema.) and I noticed as I was walking in all these signs posted everywhere talking about swine flu, and if you had experienced any of the listed symptoms to kindly put on a mask. this I found a little freaky, because it reminded my of something off of a movie where everyone gets infected by this rare disease and it spreads through the country. everyone is wearing masks and then the disease mutates and we all develop slight cannibalistic tendencies......

the point it, It was a little bit scary because it threw me off guard, (I thought the whole swine flu thing was over and done with) and the doctor was making such a huge deal out of this, everywhere you turned there seemed to be a box of masks and a sign.

Finally we make it into the office, and I was waiting for my mom to finish. I don't know how I came across this, but I was listening to my ipod really feeling my music and I randomly looked up. In front of me was the funniest/saddest/cutest pictures ever......
It made me laugh so hard when I saw it, because it was just so out of place in the professional doctors office, and "really?" I thought, "Winnie the pooh?" I ust had to take a picture of it, (sorry if the pictures a little bit off, it was my sisters cell phone...) But yes it was awesome, and I dubbed it, an Epic Win!




Oh and yeah, as I posted I think a couple posts ago, I am working on a painting, well i finished coloring it, so here is a picture on the updated version of it......

shes a coming along, and I hope I can pick up some acrylics and a canvas board soon! (I am soo excited to start actually painting it!) Painting will be the real challenge.




"We have an escaped convict in hiding in the country side near Christchurch, Dorset, England (true story). He has avoided police for over three months. They say he won't catch the swine flu because the pigs can't catch him!" -Anonymous-

Goodnight!

Friends

I have come to a realization, my life would totally suck, if i didn't have the friends and people in it that I have now. Friends are a huge part of my life, (in fact I just got back from a bonfire/BBQ/summer party) and without them nothing would be the same. Friends are so amazing, they are there to support one another, there to relieve stress, there to help each other out, there to talk to, there when your happy, there when your sad, and best of all there because they truly care about you.

I have such amazing friends and it is their little quirks, (like wanting to be beyonce, :D or teasing me to no end about how old men are disturbingly attracted to me, apparently) that make me smile, (well when Im not thinking WTHeck am I doing with these crazy people! :S) and love them even more. Even though they are all nuts, (isnt everyone?) they are truly the best people in my life. And Although I have two more years of high school I already feel sad about leaving, because I know that things will change and people will move on, I only hope that things will work out for the better and that each of them find the happiness I know they deserve. they have given me so much, I hope in the long run they get it back.

Here's to friends!

The Best Of friends
(By Jill Wolf)

the best of friends,
can change a frown,
into a smile,
when you feel down,

the best of friends,
will understand
your little trials,
and lend a hand

the best of friends,
will always share,
your secret dreams
because they care,

the best of friends
worth more than gold,
give all the love,
a heart can hold.....

GOODNIGHT!

My New Project!

Yeah! I have finally decided what my first major project for the summer will be. (Hint, hint, it involves the paint in the photo above. :) It all started the last day of class right before break when I went to go see what my marks were. I was talking with my french teacher who noticed the painting I was carrying, (my religion art assignment) and she really liked it, and started to hint I should make her something. I was like, "OK I guess" not really promising anything but not saying no either, and it is now that I have decided to follow through with this mini assignment. I asked her what she wanted me to paint, she, (to my great relief!) left it entirely open, so I was pretty excited. And today, (after reading Tuesdays with Morrie!) I was feeling rather inspired. So I drew. And this is what I came up with..... (be warned it is still rough, this is the first stage drawing...)

I drew this up thinking about my French teacher, she is really an amazing person, one f the most honest and compassionate people I know. She is also very religious and spiritual, so I decided to throw that component into the piece as well.

This piece has three different parts, Hope, Happiness, and harmony. the hope is in the butterflies, butterfly's are, (and always will be!) my symbol for hope. The are a symbol of new beginnings, growth and rebirth. they are beautiful to look at and are always the little spot of color that brighten my dim days. they are the hope. Then, there is the Happiness, (now comes the religious parts.) In my faith we believe that every Human being is called to happiness. We are all given a purpose in life, and that is to be truly happy. But, we are divided between what we want and what God wants, which sometimes makes us unhappy. But in the end we are always drawn towards that happiness. this is what that ball of light in the center of the painting is. It is the root of happiness on this earth, (and the little circles spontaneously thrown about, are also pieces of the large happiness.) Lastly we have harmony. my french teacher believes in balance, and is constantly balancing things. In this picture everything is balances, and moving in the same direction. The two major butterflies are opposite, (bringing in my own Ying-yang) and the the mini butterflies are all going the same way, and if you notice the positioning of the right side corners are the same and the left corners are the same, and the center of each side are opposite, this was all on purpose, to balance every piece of the picture.

Anyways, now that I'm done my artistic rant, I have a few questions and would love your opinions on them. first I was wondering if I should paint it in black and white, or color? the other question was, does it look too busy? Thanks so much, I am off to go and get some rest, but will be back tomorrow for a very late night blog. (my friend is having an end of the year, vacation departure BBQ party. )

"may the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun, and find your shoulder to light on, to bring you luck happiness and riches, today tomorrow and beyond." _(Irish Blessing)

Goodnight!

A Sad Reality.

Today was an interesting day for me. Although it rained for most of the day, I have never felt so bright. It started off pretty normal, going to church, the priests retirement party, and shopping. Nothing so extraordinary, but it was amidst these things that I started to notice other things....

I was shopping in the grocery store going to get some burgers for my friends BBQ party, when I began to think about something my religion teacher said.(she has been the most influential teacher I have ever had and if she reads this she should feel super proud of herself for being exceedingly awesome. :) she was speaking to us on one of the last days of school, about how people today don't communicate like they used to. We have been so distracted by our own lives that we forget sometimes that others have a life too. She was saying to us how in our lives today, people have become so secluded that the only way we ever respond to one anthers presence, (I'm talking about those strangers in the grocery store.) is if we are bumping into each other, or if we are doing something negative.

While I was shopping this little class came into my head, and I decided to look around. What I saw was sort of upsetting. People everywhere were shopping around me, but no one was even paying attention to anyone else, it was all robotic, as if they really didn't want to be there but were there for necessity. People would be staring at someone then as that person they are staring at turns to look at them, they would turn away. or they would avoid aisles with more people in them because they didn't want to have to wait for people to get out of their way because they were busy. It was almost as if everyone had no care for anyone else, it was all about what they needed to do and nothing else. Then I looked back on my own past shopping trips and was really upset with myself. I had been no different.

I myself would be the one avoiding aisles, looking at the ground instead of in eyes, mumbling an excuse me as I quickly walked around someone, and trying to get in and out desperately without being noticed. I was just as bad. So I decided to do something. On my way to the check out line, I decided I was going to smile at as many people as I could and actually start to talk to some of these people. I got into line and was waiting, the cashier said her mandatory soliloquy of "Hello How are you today?" and I responded cheerily back and asked her in turn how she was, she smiled and said it was going great. then when she asked me if I wanted any bags, (which now cost 5 cents per bag! ) I said no, then turned to the random lady behind me and said, "It really isn't worth it!" who just laughed at me and said, "ya, I'll just carry it thanks, "

It was here I realized that there are so many different stories in the world if you think about it. Just look at yourself, how many things have you experienced in your life? How many stories do you have to tell when your with friends? You can spend hours at a time talking to someone about all the random things you have done in the past, and never get tired. Now, think of all the people in the world, so multiply the number of stories you have my 6.5 billion. That is our world.

The moral of my shopping trip today, no matter how many things that are going on in my life right now, I can't complain, because what I think is so difficult and depressing, some people find trivial. There are a lot of people, a lot of stories, never take anyone for granted, you don't know what they can be going through.

Now, I pass this onward to anyone reading, that when you go on your next shopping trip, make someone feel good about themselves, complement them, talk with them, or just even smile at them.

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the power to turn a life around." -Leo F. Buscaqlia

Goodnight!

My Plan For Summer

*sighs* Summer is here at last, but I'm not all happy and excited like most my friends are. Truth is, I love school. I know this probably sounds completely ridiculous, but I love school so much. I am the type of person that enjoys getting homework, being in fifty million clubs every day of the week, and working on top of that, I just don't know how to relax. I just dont know what to do with myself when I am NOT doing something. It's like a disease really, being unable to relax myself and just be. So I have decided that this summer I will make blogging my new obsession.

I have decided to plan certain events and things throughout the summer that I will immerse myself in. If I can do this then maybe I will be able to save my sanity. I made a little list of ten things that I've decided to follow through with this summer....


1. Paint a new picture to give to my awesome french teacher. (She asked me the last day of school after seeing my art portrait to paint her something she can hang in her house. I will definitely do this!)

2. Read every day. (Right now I am reading a book called Better than Chocolate, and Monday I'm starting -Thanks to Jessica from Log in and Blog in- tuesdays with Morrie which I am super hyped to start.)

3. Work out daily (I've discovered wen i am bored, i tend to work out more, so I figured why not? It's great and healthy and I am so going to work out daily!)

4. Get hyped about Dominican Republic (I am leaving on the 22 of July and am staying a week, so I have made it my mission to hype myself for the trip and shop and pack and get ready.)

5. Hang out with my friends, (I notice that every year this happens you make friends with people in school and relationships are thriving and then come summer time everyone does their own thing and by the time you meet again in September everything about the person has changed and it seems like you don't know them, so I am going to make an effort to hang out with everyone before September :) )

6. Enjoy the sun! (I live so very close to the beach I have made it my mission starting Monday night to walk down to the beach every single day and enjoy the heat the sun and hopefully tan my awfully white legs, :S)

7. Begin every day positively and never go to sleep with a headache. (This is the new philosophy I want to apply to my life, where i begin each day with positivity and think of everything that will go right, as well as never go to sleep unhappy or unsure. this will be my steps to positive thinking.)

8. learn a song or two, (Recently I have re fallen in love with my piano, and I so would like to learn somemmore songs to play and perform when I do get back to school, oh and I would also like to change a song into an acapella piece for the annual Talent show at school, I am super excited about that.)

9. Write and Blog about my day every night. ( I want to start a sort of documentary for the summer. every night writing about something that has happened or something that caught my interest that day and share it will everyone. I will title it by day, starting that on Monday the First Official day of summer.)

10. Relax...for real! (as I have said before I am not the type of person who Just randomly relaxes for no reason, I just don't know how to do that. So, to cure my poblem I have decided that i am going to make an effort to really learn to relax and take everything easy this summer. Hopefully it all goes well, XD)

Anyways, what do you have planned for your summer, anything as interesting, *note sarcasm, lol* as mine?

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

GOODNIGHT!

Annoying Neighbors....

Ugh, I bet you we have all had that experience where there is just that one next door neighbor that just drives you up a wall. You do the good things, mind your business, work your own life, and even try to make the time and actually put effort into talking with this person/s. But, no matter how many muffin baskets you send this person has just put it into their mind to make your life a living hell.

Ever since we moved into this area, so about nine years ago, we have had problems with this lovely neighbor of ours. (I am going to keep this absolutely anonymous for obvious reasons.) No matter what anyone on the block does, they just want to make everyone's life more difficult. I swear this person must have the towns inspector on speed dial, because he is the first to complain when something does not meet his very snooty approval.

We live in a very rural area, so everyone one here lives on fair chunk of land, this person makes it their life duty to walk around the block scrutinizing everything. this person got our neighbors pot belly pig removed because he didn't think that it was a proper pet, everyday they walk their dog around the street and it has become trained to crap on our driveway, oh yes and the most recently, snooping on our property and calling the inspector because and I quote, "It was littered with garbage." Needless to say, the inspector came and didn't see any garbage around, (minus the couple bottles that the neighbors thrown into the forest or something,) But, for him to have seen that he would of had to walk through our backyard.

I really don't understand people like this and wonder what it is that gives them this satisfaction, what goal are they accomplishing by ruining other peoples happiness? Have you ever come by this? Had one of those annoying, prying, nosy, or slightly evil neighbors?


"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying." -Meryl Streep

GOODNIGHT!!!!

Finally its Here! (radomness)

Oh my goodness gracious me, I have finally finished exams and I can breathe! this week has been very hectic but it seems as though everything is working in my favor right now. *knock on wood.* the exams weren't as bad as I thought, and that Job interview I had, you guessed it... I GOT IT THE JOB! so its been pretty great!

Tomorrow I don't have school but I am going to say goodbye to all my friends and teachers for the summer. A few of my favorite teachers are leaving this year and it has been really upsetting because they taught me so much, one of them even inspired me into becoming a religious ed teacher. But, they were transferred to my cousins new school, (40 minutes away!) so during special events hopefully I'll be able to sneak a visit. so it isn't too bad i guess.



As for the summer I plan on doing some more blogging, hanging with friends and chilling at my new job. Major highlight will be in late july, Dominican Republic for a week! 4 star resort not paid for by me because it is a wedding, and I am an important guest, lol. Not really but whatever, its only a distant cousins of my mothers. :) Idont know what it is but i am just having such a giddy moment, watch, lol tomorrows blog will be absolutely depressing. Or, maybe the advice my teacher gave me about living in the moment is actually working? Maybe I am just seeing all the positive things in life? Who knows!

Anyways as you can probably tell I am rambling on about nothing in particular, so anyone have any ideas on what I should blog about tomorrow?
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Random Question: If you could create any flavor of chips, (that hasn't been invented yet) what would it be?

(me personally it would be brownie flavored chips because I am a choco-holic and love sweet foods. )


"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

- Groucho Marx

Goodnight!