Most the time my points are pretty silly and just here to hopefully entertain but today I'm going to try and be inspirational/motivating. I kinda doubt those are the right words that describe it but I wanted to talk about it anyway and I think it's kinda inspirational/motivating...then again I'm biased. Anyway here we go!
This is James Maslow...I want his puppy
So I was watching the last three weeks of Dancing with the Stars when it was on mainly because James Maslow was on it...and because for some reason I became obsessed with dancing and yeah. Anyway James got 4th (he should have gotten 3rd in my opinion but whatever) and when that happened I immediately thought how I would feel about it. Through my thought process I immediately hoped that if I were on the show I would do my best but not care if I won or not. Weird reasoning, yes, but here's why: It's all about the journey. I'm sure you've heard the saying "It's about the journey, not the destination" or something like that (for some reason my I'm having a major brain fart and can't remember what exactly it was but that's close enough). Well I decided that the destination is what motivates you and the journey is what you remember.
We will use Dancing with the Stars as an example. What motivates each contestant is winning the mirror ball that's where they want to end up, their destination they want to reach. The journey is all the weeks they fought to stay in the contest. All of those dances, the reactions, the hard work, that's what they are going to remember. Even if they didn't make it to the finals or even the 5th week, they are going to remember what they learned and the excitement, pain, and everything else they experienced. To me that is so much better.
If you don't get to a certain destination or goal that you were really fighting for don't give up. Look back on everything you went through and experienced on your journey. I'm sure there is something there that will make it worth it even if you didn't make it to the end destination. Did you learn something? Did you meet someone new? Did you do something you never would have done?
Well there you go. That's my attempt at being inspirational/motivating. It sounded a lot cooler in my head (which happens way too often for my own good). I hope you enjoyed it. Stay classy and remember the journey not the fact that you didn't reach your destination.
Well hello there people of the internet! Think about if people of the internet are their own species...that would be interesting...what would that be called? Homo Internetio...whats internet in latin? Hang on...need to google. Cue jeopardy music. Oh wait. The internet wasn't around when Latin was, was it? Um well now I'm rather confused. Answers.com says that net in latin is rete or retium but that sounds too much like part of the eye ball to me. Then they also said they have seen interete and interetium.You pick what you think it would be and tell me!
Wow. That was a weird tangent that I didn't mean to go off on. Welcome back to this blog that has terrible grammar, makes no sense, and has random tangents. I hope you enjoy.
Anyway...I was going to blog a lot more than I did during college. I had all these plans and ideas and then I got distracted by college life and don't remember anything I was going to say. So ignore anything I said I was going to talk to you about...unless you really want me to talk about it, in which case you should yell at me in the comments to talk about it. So yeah. Sorry for my inconsistency. I'm not going to make any promises that I will post more regularly but apparently I'm incredibly bad at those promises so I'm not going to do that. I will however post when I'm bored. Like right now...
So the point of this post is 1) to say I'm back and sorry for being so irregular but it probably won't change and 2) to ask how you would feel if I attempted to right random short stories here. I used to right random short stories in high school on my friends/families phone. It was really fun and since it was on a phone it could be short and didn't need to make any sense. I used to be writing a book until I stopped because I realized how terrible I am at writing (apparently that didn't stop me from making a blog though). But! I could still write some short stories and practice writing because even though I'm terrible at it I find it rather enjoyable. If I can find some of my short stories I can share them with you and stuff. I don't know. So yeah. I might do that.
Stay classy and don't forget that you are awesome. Yeah that was kinda lame. My bad.
What in the world?! A post not on Friday? Well that's new. You're Welcome. Just Kidding. Wow. That's a lot of really short sentences...
Anyway if you read the title and are confused let my try and explain what this post is about. I was nominated for the Liebster Award by Riley at Smiles No Matter :) (<-- click me!!!). So thanks for that Riley! You should check out her blog where she writes all sorts of inspirational stuff! It will make you smile...just like the title says.
*Warning! This is will be extremely long! Leave now if you don't want to read for a long time!*
What is the Liebster Award? Honestly I'm not entirely sure. All I really know is the rules and I will share those with you in a moment. However, I'm pretty sure that it is pretty much this fun little survey thing that also gives us a chance to explore the world of blogs! Hooray for exploring!
Okay enough of my random ramblings about pretty much nothing. Here are the rules:
Tell your readers 11 facts about yourself.
Answer 11 questions asked by your nominator.
Nominate other bloggers (with less than 200 followers) to receive this award and make 11 questions that they have to answer.
Tell them that would have nominated them!
Sound good? Okay well lets get started with 11 facts about me you may or may not know.
My favorite musical group is a five person acapella group called Pentatonix. I don't think I have every been more excited or obsessed about a musical group. Ever.
I have two cats!
I used to play the piano.
I used to play tee ball. I was extremely little. The first year I was one of two girls on the team. The next year I was the only girl on the team. Then I moved on to softball.
All of my serious injuries have happened on a playground. Playground are dangerous!
I want to be a nerd. Maybe not so much of a nerd that I know whether or not Luke Skywalker is left handed or not, but enough of a nerd that I had played all the Mario, Zelda, and such games. Is that weird?
I have never finished watching a whole hockey game even though I have been to two of them and found them somewhat interesting. I just had to leave for various reasons.
Pretty much all of my favorite characters in anything either die, are evil, turn evil, or in the most extreme case "dies", turns evil, and then dies again. Actually I think another one of my favorites might have "died" three times and is still around. Man, my favorite characters go through a lot.
Speaking of favorite characters, I have a rule that my favorite character can't be a main character. That's probably why they all die.
My favorite colors are neon orange and neon green. No...they don't go together very well. It's kind of sad.
I am obsessed with erasers. I have at least a hundred if not more.
And now it's time for the question Riley has asked:
What is a topic that you can talk about for hours?
For hours?! Oh gosh that's a long time. I don't really talk about anything for hours that often because I say what I want to say and then I'm done with it. If I had to choose though it would probably be anything video related (like a movie, TV show, anime, etc.) just because you can keep watching it and having new things to talk about after watching a new episode or movie from the series. Plus if you have already seen it and you watch it again you can express your excitement or astonishment when you discover something you never noticed before.
What is your favorite movie?
Gosh that's hard too. I have this idea in my mind that each movie has their own aspect that make them unique which makes it kinda hard for me to pick a favorite. If I had to choose it would either be Tangled or How to Train Your Dragon.
If you could go anywhere in the world and with anyone, where would you go and with whom?
If I could go anywhere in the world I would go to the eastern hemisphere and I would go with my friends. Did I cheat the question by saying a hemisphere? Oh well. ...Oh alright. If I have to choose one specific place it would probably Australia or New Zealand and yes still with my friends. I don't think I am capable of picking one person to go with me.
Why do you blog?
Well I started blogging because I knew I was going to need to rant to someone/something and actually feel like I was being heard. I was in a rough patch because I had a question in my head that expressed my annoyance with the world. It was "Who do you complain to when you want to complain about everyone?" Yeah. I was really annoyed. So I made a blog. Why do I blog now? Well it keeps me sane and its not like I have anything better to do some days right?
If you only had five sentences left to say before losing the ability to speak, what would you say?
"I only have five sentences left in my entire life?! How is that even possible what kind of disease or malfunction am I experiencing? Wait! Could I just never end my sentences and always be able to speak? That would be nice."
*in my mind*
Sounds goo--wait! Why isn't any noise coming out of my mouth? Crap! I already used my five sentences! Gosh dang it!
If you wanted some really deep answer I'm sorry. I don't think I'm capable of providing one for you.
Who is your favorite character in fiction?
Um...probably Scooby Doo. If you couldn't tell by my alias. However, I have many many many many favorite characters many of which die. A lot of them also come from mystery related shows because they are just so awesome.
What is a song you could listen to on replay for hours?
Again. Hours is an extremely long time. That's like listening to a normal length song more than 30 times. I would probably get sick of the song after that long. But since I have to choose it would be Running Just to Catch Myself by Mark Schultz. It doesn't have an official music video but this is better than a lyrics video right? So the guy in the video isn't Mark Schultz.
I like this song just because its so much fun and the lyrics are actually rather funny. Not to mention its over 5 minutes so I wouldn't hear it as many times in one hour.
Describe yourself in 3 words!
I am weird. Oh wait did you want three adjectives? I don't do well with describing myself.
There is a snow day and school was cancelled--what do you do?
Realistically or what I wish happened? Realistically sit at home watching a movie, play a video game, maybe read, and of course sleep. What I wished happened is I would go sledding and build a snow fortress with my friends. Then go inside have delicious hot cocoa and apple cider. Maybe watch a movie or something. I don't know, the point is I would be with my friends. However, since it's a snow day I can't exactly drive anywhere which means I'm stuck in my neighborhood where I don't really know people.
What is your favorite book, and why?
Favorite book? Oh goodness. I really don't know. Maybe Harry Potter because I think that was really when I got more into actually reading. Either that or the Pendragon series. That was a really fun series that I feel like not very many people actually know about. However, I really don't think I have a book that I've read multiple times.
What is your favorite quotation?
I don't really have a favorite quote that is inspirational if that's what you're looking for. Otherwise it would either have to be "They popped out of the snow! Like daisies!" by Mushu in Mulan just because its amazing how he says that. The other quote needs the previous remarks to actually make sense. So here we go:
"Zoinks!" -Shaggy
"Rikes!" - Scooby
"Jeepers!" - Daphne
"Jinkies!" -Velma
"... Dang! I still don't have a catch phrase!" - Fred
Poor Fred. I don't know why but that's the quote that always pops into my head because it's rather ironic. A quote about not having a catch phrase (or quote). ...Well I think it's funny. That's from Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword if you were interested. I really enjoyed that movie.
Oh! There's another one! Sorry I can't really decide which is my favorite... "It was the first new century in one hundred years." I really like that quote just because it's true and has this sort of excitement in it. It is from the first introduction song of Detective Conan which is an anime. There you go. Officially done. :D
If you could be any ice cream flavor what flavor would you be? (Keep in mind that the tastier you are the more likely you are to be eaten)
What is your favorite smell?
What is your pick-me-up? So what do you do/eat/whatever when you are feeling upset or sad to make yourself feel better?
Quick! What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear: marshmallow
If you were a super hero what would your weakness be?
What is your favorite lyric from a song?
Favorite thing to do on an extremely hot summer day.
If you could create the name for the color of a crayon what would it be?
What is something you don't understand about the world (it can be anything you want).
What is your favorite planet? (For purposes of my questions we are going to say that Pluto is a planet since it's my favorite so if you want to choose Pluto you can!).
Explain your hopes for your blog in two sentences.
Well there you have it! I hope you enjoyed this post. Stay classy and remember that you are a unique individual who is awesome and super duper incredible!
P.S. So this post has taken me way too long to actually write. So it is long overdue and I apologize that it took me five million years....even though you probably didn't know I was doing it.
So during my English class this last school year my teacher showed me this video. With AP results coming out soon I thought I would share this video with you. Personally I feel like they have taken way to long to get here but now that they are I feel like they caught me off guard.
After we watched the video we had a little discussion about whether or not we let exam results decide our fate. I can't remember exactly what was said but a majority of it was that that focus so much about your grades. If you fail an exam it isn't the end of the world. Something along those line! Let me know what you think in the comments!
I hope I helped a little bit. If I didn't I hope the video did. Stay classy and remember that I believe in you and don't lose hope!
In the future! Nail polish rant, YOLO, fangirling! What could those possibly be about?
So I kinda forgot about last weeks post...I got a little busy and when I got home I was too exhausted to do anything. Since I feel like communication is really important we are going to continue from the last time I talked about this. So lets get to it!
Have you ever had this conversation?
Parent: "You all packed?"
You: "For what?"
Parent: "We are going on vacation!"
You: "Really? When?"
Parent: "Tomorrow. I told you that."
You: "What?! No you didn't."
Parent: "Sure I did." *walks away*
I don't know if I've had that exact conversation but I have had similar situations. So here's the point I want to make. Make sure you tell people important information. Also even if you tell them that make sure they actually heard you because many times people will be in shock or too tired to understand what you are actually saying. Does that make sense?
I don't know if I told you this but I'm not exactly the best at communicating. For example sometimes I will just make a noise. Just like a squeak or something. No, it's not just when I'm surprised. I will just make a noise to express my feeling. I don't know why it just happens.
In my last communication post I gave an example of a confusing conversation. After I published that post I got to thinking about and found some other confusing parts of it. So let's get into that shall we? We shall.
So this is that conversation:
"What channel is it?"
"What?"
"What channel is it?"
"I don't know what you're looking for."
"I don't know what's on."
"..."
How did you read "What?" That's what I want to know because you can either read it as "What are you talking about" or "What program". Depending on how you say something it can mean something totally different. There was an example of this in Cars. When Lightning McQueen said "Yeah okay" to Sally (the blue car) and she was all like "Well what does that mean?" Do you remember that? No? Darn. Just watch the movie again and you'll see what I'm talking about. After all it is a good movie.
Alright now for the major ranting part of the post. Contractions. You know "it's"," you're", "don't", all those good things. Well I have come to learn that you aren't supposed to use them when writing a paper. Why? Because it doesn't sound as professional. That doesn't make any sense to me. In school we had to learn about how contractions work. It was one of the first things we learned. I don't know about you but I had a whole worksheet on how they worked and what "would" and "not" would combine to become. I probably had a test on it too! It was called phonics. So here's my problem. Why did we learn it if we aren't supposed to use it? It doesn't make any sense!
Okay now for a more serious matter. My pastor actually talked about words on Sunday (which actually reminded me about this post). Anyway he gave an illustration that he really likes and I kinda like to. Okay take a bottle of toothpaste and push all of the toothpaste out. You don't actually have to do this just imagine if you want. Okay now that all the toothpaste is out try to put it back in. How's that going? Not that well? Yeah. That's the point. You can't put the toothpaste back in. If you don't believe me then try it. Think of the toothpaste as words. It is really easy to let all of these words out but its a lot harder to take them back. Just think about the next time you want to say something mean to someone.
Well that's it for this long awaited post (just kidding). I just decided (literally like a minute ago) that at the very very end, so after this little paragraph I would list topics I plan on writing about. Just so you know and hopefully keep you interested so you come back! Stay classy and be careful what you say to people. Say one thing and you could loose a friend. Words are powerful. Use them wisely.
In the future! Nail polish, fangirling, and YOLO! What?!
I bet you think I'm going to go on some rant about why people annoy me. Well I'm not...today anyway. Instead I'm going to share a song with you because it makes me happy and I really like it.
So I really just like the chorus. It reminds me of something but I can't think of what. If I figure it out I will tell you. But when I first read the title the first thing I thought of was:
Half the time I think that's how they are going to say it but I'm wrong. Oh well. Anyway I really like this group (this is Kpop again if you didn't know so they are speaking Korean) but there is normally five people but in this one there's four. That made me sad and curious so I googled it. Apparently the fifth guy broke his nose and had surgery and is in bed rest. I don't know how I feel about that but hey, at least the song is fun!
Thanks for reading! Don't forget to stay classy and remember that you don't always have to be serious. Take time to have fun once in a while. It will help keep you happy.
P.S. You have one more day left to vote on the poll on the side. <-- that way but upward too. I will tell you guys the results probably next week!
Okay so I had a poll for how I should end my blogs open for two weeks and I got one vote. So I'm going to try this again. I realize a lot of you probably didn't see it because I haven't posted anything in a while (I'm sorry!). I will have it open for a month this time. For the mean time I will end my blog posts the way the person that voted (thank you for voting by the way) wants and if I still don't really get an answer I will just stick with what they want. I don't think its fair to ignore that person's vote because nobody else voted so that is what is going to happen.
Stay classy and remember to eat ice cream, especially during the summer because it's hot. Just don't eat a whole container everyday that can't be healthy. Basically give yourself a treat...
Red and green are Christmas colors. When I see them together I automatically think "Christmas! Yeah!" It's just the way it is. Red and green are Christmas colors. Not purple or blue or macaroni yellow. But why not? Well that's the thought I had so I thought I would google it and save you the trouble looking for the answer.
So one website says there are two reasons for these two colors being the official Christmas colors.
Green was seen as the symbol of life before Jesus was born. They would cut down trees and put them in their house during winter to symbolize that they are still alive despite the harsh weather (Christmas tree history right there too...your welcome). The Romans would hang up holly wreaths during a festival called natalis solis invicti (“birth of the invincible sun") in order to welcome back the sun and warm weather. They celebrated these holidays on December 25th. There are also other pagan holidays that contributed to the colors but there isn't much more information about them.
Many of the traditions previously mentioned occur after the death of Jesus too. They are amplified when the green color is seen more as eternal life. Red was also added more with red berries and apples to symbolize the blood Jesus shed.
That's all I really want to share and is the majority of what I found. If you want more here (<-- click that word right there) is a website that you can hear more details that I got bored with because my music is distracting me from focusing on it. Well I hope you enjoyed that short little background on the colors of Christmas. I don't know about you but it makes me feel better knowing that there is an actual reason red and green are the colors and not just some random colors people decided looked cool together. ~Scooby
