Final Freewriting Blog Entry

As I have come to the end of writing all of my freewriting blogs for about a month, I have discovered some good and bad things about my writing skills.  Either way, I have still grown as a writer, and out of the month of freewriting every single day has really helped me when it comes to knowing what things to say.  Now I know how to put words together and not have to worry about how they sound because I can always edit them later if they really need it.

When I first began my freewriting blogs, it was always hard for me to find something to even start writing about.  I would sit for at least ten minutes each time just trying to find a topic to start putting on paper. Now that I have written every day for the past month, it is a little bit easier for me to find what to say.  Sometimes I still have a little bit of trouble finding a topic, but once I find something, I know exactly what I am going to say, and I never have the moments where I just sit and forget what to say in the same sentence.  My sentences fit together nicely for the most part, and the only time that I have to pause is because I feel like I typed something wrong.

Since the blogs are not really a formal type of writing, punctuation has been something that I have somewhat forgotten about.  In the beginning, I would put commas in all the right places, along with apostrophes.  When I got closer and closer to the end of freewriting assignment, it is like I stopped caring about all of the punctuation, and did not care as much about what everything sounded like.  I figured that I would be the only one reading my blogs anyway, so as long as I could understand everything, that was all that mattered to me. When I do actual assignments, I still use punctuation, however.  I guess it was just strictly for the blogs that I had decided to quit.

Comparing how I used to write to how I write now, I would say that I am tons better now.  Ever since I have started freewriting, all of my words just fall out on to the paper, and I hardly ever have problems with coming up with something to say.  Even when I have conversations with people, I can say what I want better than before.  Freewriting has really impacted my life in a way that I never thought something could, and it was definitely one of the best assignments that I have ever had.

freewriting 3-1-14

The biggest problem that I always have whenever it is time for me to freewrite is finding something to even write about. I am an extremely indecisive person so it makes my life actually pretty hard sometimes.  The reason I can't make decisions is because I don't want to make anybody mad.  Even though everyone tells me that they will never get angry from a decision I make, I can't help but always end up making them decide for me.


Choosing something to eat is probably my biggest challenge. Ever time that my boyfriend and I are hungry and want to actually go out to eat, he always asks me what I am hungry for.  I almost always reply back with "I don't know, what do you want to eat". When he tells me "I asked you first.." then I just give him multiple choices and let him pick from those.


I understand that it is more frustrating to not get a specific answer, but I can't help that I can't make decisions. I am getting a little better at choosing what to do, but for the most part, I am still having a pretty hard time when people ask me what I want to do for the day or where I want to go.


Sometimes I feel like I need to have some sort of class that teaches people how to make decisions.  The fact that I can't make decisions unfortunately makes it hard to have fun with people.  Things will usually turn into an argument because I never decide something to do.

freewriting 2-28-14

Tattoos are one of those things that I feel like almost everyone will have by around 2050.  I just think that more and more people are becoming understanding of tattoos and that they don't make someone a bad person just for having them.


I actually read an article the other day that said they will eventually be coming out with video tattoos.  I personally think that it is a really dumb idea and that everyone would get tired of watching the same video over and over again that is tattooed on their arm or leg or wherever.  Then again, most people don't get tired of their tattoos of pictures or words.


I can't understand why people hate other people with tattoos.  It is just a judging problem that todays world has.  How I see it, is that people need to just do what they want and go through life the way that they want to.  If someone else's opinion matters so much to where you can't even do what you want in life, those people need to be erased from your life.


As of right now, I don't have any tattoos.  I really am wanting to get a few of them though.  The only thing that I am even scared about is the fact that it might not turn out the exact way that I want it to.

freewriting 2-27-14

As of today, it is exactly one month until I turn twenty.  I am really excited, but at the same time, I am kind of sad too.  The fact that I will no longer be a teenager makes me a little unhappy because most people say that being a teenager is the best years of everyone's life and to live life to the fullest and just have a ton of fun while I still can.  I can honestly say that I have made it this far in life without drinking any alcohol, smoking cigarettes or anything else.  Everything that is considered bad for your health, I have not done.

It isn't the fact that I am a lame person or anything like that.  The reason I don't do those things is literally because I am just fine without them and I can't see the point in harming my body, even one time, just to have a "good time".  Everyone that I have ever seen drink, always ends up regretting how much they drank because of all the puke that ends up on the floor, and on their face.  Hangovers don't seem like the funnest thing in the world either, and they definitely don't make drinking seem worth it.

Smoking can't even have a benefit.  It is just bad for you all the way around and there is apparently no fun in it anyway.  I guess it is supposed to calm people down when they are stressed out.  The only thing I can say to that is, get a stress ball, don't start smoking!  I like my lungs just the way they are.  For all I know, they're getting black from all the second hand smoke that I am around.

I know that it is best to live life and have fun while I still can, but I can have fun without drinking or smoking.  Most people don't think it is possible, but most people also fall into peer pressure at a young age and get started in early on all that bad stuff.  Thankfully, even if I were to somehow change my mind about doing all of those things, I don't have an addictive personality, so I think I would be one of the lucky ones that would not get addicted.  I would just rather not do it and be safe than sorry.

freewriting 2-26-14

For one of our assignments we are supposed to pick 5 of our favorite words and also define them in a way that we think that they should be defined.  So far I only know of two words that I am going to use and they are love and squish.  Now some people can understand why I would choose the word love, but squish on the other hand is a bit odd.

I don't see how anyone could hate the word squish.  I mean, it is a super fun word to even say.  The fact that it literally means what is spelled out makes it even better.  When I hear the squish sound I just laugh because it is just a unique noise.

Love, on the other hand, I feel like is going to be a word that most of my classmates will use in this assignment.  I think that more girls will use it than guys just for the simple fact that it is more considered of a girly word, rather than a masculine word.

Masculine and feminine words are something that I never grasped in Spanish class in high school.  I think it is partially because I didn't really understand what we were talking about seeing how I was learning a whole new language.  In English, everything seems a lot easier to understand, so I don't really see why some people say that it is the hardest language to learn.  I bet that Chinese is probably the hardest language to learn.

freewriting 2-25-14

I recently decided that I wanted to start getting ready for summer.  Working out was my top priority, but a lot of the time when I work out, I give up really fast because I want immediate results.  So far I have been working out for about a month, and I am seeing a little bit of a difference.  A few days ago I decided that I wanted to start tanning as well, that way when summer comes, I don't burn every single time I am out in the sun, plus, when I am tan, my self-esteem gets a pretty big boost.  

Tanning helps with getting rid of acne, whether it be just by healing it, or just making it less noticeable from having a darker complexion.  One of my favorite things about tanning is that it makes my skin tone actually even, and because of that, I don't feel the need to wear as much makeup.  Since I don't wear as much makeup when I am tan, my skin gets even better because I don't have to deal with makeup clogging all of my pores and ruining my skin even more than it already was.

The only downfall of tanning is that it can cause cancer.  The way I look at it though, is that basically everything has been said to cause cancer these days.  In my health class from a few semesters ago, we were taught that a person would have to eat around a thousand pieces of bacon a day for months before it would actually kill them.  Where as in magazines and everything else, they strictly say "bacon causes heart disease".  Obviously it does, but not in tiny amounts.

Since I am a pretty pale person in the first place, I know that I am not going to tan every single day of the week.  I would like to, don't get me wrong, but I don't want to look abnormally dark.  When I get a decent amount of tan going on, I am going to quit and just wait for the summer sun to roll around. 

freewriting 2-24-14

One of the hardest things for me to do is to stay motivated when I decide to start something new in my life.  Working out should be something that we do daily, but as for me, I always seem to find excuses and think that I don't need to work out.  Every now and then, I'll get little spurts of energy to where I want to start to work out. I'll stick with my workouts for about a month and then once I feel good enough, I just quit doing everything that I have done.  I need to start actually sticking with my workouts instead of quitting when I feel like I feel and look good enough, that way I can continue to be healthy.

Some people are the same exact way as me with not staying motivated, and I wish that all of us could just find something that would help us out.  Unfortunately, everyone is different, and only some things work with some people.  I feel like if I start setting an alarm on my phone that is just for working out, I think that I might actually stick with it.  Then again, I might just hit the snooze button twelve times until I eventually just decide to do something else with my day instead of work out.

My favorite thing to work out, like most people I would guess, is my stomach.  I don't know what it is about loving the feeling of my stomach burning and hurting a few days after a workout, but I just love it. Maybe that's why I can stick to working out for a little while at a time.  I just wish that I could find something that will allow me to work out practically every single day for the rest of my life, or at least until I lose the ability to be able to work out.

freewriting 2-23-14

Cats are weird.  I have two of them and they are one of the most psychotic and hilarious animals to ever have, and I can't understand how so many people hate them. Ever since I was younger I have always loved how hyper and jumpy cats are.  The ones that I have now are constantly chasing each other around the house and literally body slamming one another.

When cats are hungry, they almost always play it off as if they want attention and that they love you more than anything in the world.  My cat Cali will sit on the bathroom counter as I am getting ready for school or work and she will literally climb my shirt and sit on my shoulder like a parrot.  The second I go to grab her food that way she can eat, she leaves me and will not come see me until she wants a nap.

Cats act like they have it so easy in life.  All they do is play, eat, drink, go to the bathroom, and sleep.  Maybe the reason everyone claims that they hate cats is because they are secretly jealous of the lives that they have.  Everyone that I have ever talked to always says that they wish they could be a cat if they could trade places with an animal.  Why though?  Some people don't stop to think that there are millions of cats out there, and some of which, are stray cats that fight to survive in the world.  I am obviously going to assume that everyone would trade places with a cat that has a nice home filled with people that love it, but still, some people don't think hard enough when they go to answer little questions.

freewriting 2-22-14

Sometimes things in life will not work out the way that you planned on them to work out.  The other night I was wanting to try to write one of my blogs from a tablet instead of writing one from a laptop like I normally do.  I got all the way to the screen where you can edit and revise everything, and then once I started to type, I discovered that it just was absolutely not going to work out for me. First of all, tablets are weird and awkward to hold in the first place.  There was not one comfortable position that I could sit and hold the thing.  Once I figured out how to hold it, I had to change how I was sitting yet again because I had to figure out how to type on the tablet.  It's not that I don't like to type on them, they're just not comfortable to mess with at all.   I eventually gave up with even using the tablet because it was causing more problems than helping me get anything done.  All I wanted to do was my homework.  I know that I can be a procrastinator, but for the first time in forever, that's all I wanted to do.  Unfortunately, all the problems from the tablet made me not even want to do my homework anymore, so I eventually just gave up and tried to surf the internet and calm down from all the frustration.  The internet stopped working out of nowhere so I honestly just gave up on everything for the night and just went to sleep. Since I was supposed to do a blog last night and didn't, now I am paying for it by having to write two different blogs tonight.  It's not like I have anything better to do because all my life consists of is work and school.  But sometimes you just want to sit down and watch TV an relax.  Tonight will not be the case, but maybe I can get all of my homework done tonight, and then tomorrow evening I can possibly have a night to just chill.

freewriting 2-21-14

Art has always been something that I love, but I never realized that I love even making flyers and stuff for my computer applications class.  I feel like design might actually be something that I want to do with my life. 

The other day in class, we had to make a lost dog flyer, it was one of the most simple things.  I never had paid attention to how easy it was to actually change so much about plain words on a piece of virtual paper.  It started out as just a few paragraphs with Calibri font, and then once we were done, we had pictures of dogs, a border, a huge title, and then even added color to other little words to make them stand out.  I guess since I used to dread doing stuff like that in junior high, I figured I would hate it for the rest of my life. Needless to say, I was incredibly wrong.  Now, I have been designing shirts on customink.com and have made a few that I really want to buy, and I feel like other people would really like the way that they look too. 

I'm not sure why all of a sudden I started to want to design things, but it really is fun, and it takes my mind off of a lot of stressful situations that I have had to deal with for the past few weeks.  Usually in my free time, when I am feeling creative, I will just draw. But now that I have something to do on the computer, I can have more fun than sitting and not knowing what to draw next.  Now I have options that are right in front of my face to choose from, and I actually like it a lot better because I can visualize how I want things to look, and I can copy and paste images together and morph them and so on.  For some reason when I draw, it is really hard to me to envision how I want everything to look, and therefore, I end up quitting when my picture is only half way through.

freewriting 2-20-14

I hate how money is basically what this world revolves around.  We need money to eat, drink, go places, get clothes, and so much more.  When we lend people money, it is like we are giving them a part of our life.  Depending on the amount we are giving away, we feel depressed, as if we are not going to be able to function properly without the money.  We never stop to think that the other person may or may not actually give back what he or she has borrowed.  Instead, we just usually feel guilty and feel bad for the person needing money, and so we go ahead and give it to them, or at least that is how I am.  I think that I am too generous at times, and I feel like certain people that I am close with take advantage of me to an extent, without even knowing that they are doing so.  Every time I let someone borrow money, I tell them to just pay me back when they can..even though I am always struggling with money.  Sometimes people forget to pay me back, and I don't have the heart to tell them that they still owe me money.  So as I sit in debt from medical bills, I am still lending money to people in my family, and even people outside of my family.  I need to start making a list of people that owe me money, and I also need to write down how much they owe me.  The only problem is that there are certain people that I let borrow money, and it has become such a habit, that they do not even stop to think of how bad I am struggling right now.  I feel as if nobody cares about anything but themselves, and I guess that's what you have to do when it comes to money.  I don't understand why money has to even matter.  I wish trading was just as equivalent to paying for things.  Life would be so much easier if it worked that way.  Unfortunately it doesn't, and I feel like poor people should have a better chance in the world.  The ones who have everything given to them really bother me.  People need to learn responsibilities and that spending money on every little thing that they "need" is not going to get them far in life.  They need to learn how to save money and how to even go about spending money in the first place.

freewriting 2-19-14

I feel like this world is just becoming a terrible place as each day goes by.  I don't understand how some people can be so cruel to other human beings, or even animals for that matter.  As I get older, the only things that I ever notice are the bad things that go on in the world.  Everyone always tells me that I need to start watching the news and that I need to be aware of what is going on in the world, but in all honesty, I could really care less, especially these days.  Nothing happy is ever on the news, and the only things that I ever hear about are murders, shootings, and some other sorts of life ending/threatening problems.  I don't see how anyone even watches the news anymore.

Half of the time I feel like the reason that people commit crimes is because they can either get away with it, or they will go to jail and then be able to get free food and health for the rest of the time that they are there.  There was something that I had came across on the internet once, whether it was true or not, I have no clue, but it said that there was a man who had robbed a bank for a dollar JUST so he could enjoy the benefits from being in jail.

Our country is so messed up right now that it is pathetic.  People would rather be in jail because they know that they will get free food for the rest of their lives and will not have to work toward anything ever again.  It is so ridiculous. The older people that get put in nursing homes get treated worse than the people who go to jail and prison, and I just honestly don't get it at all.  It hurts me deeply to see good people get treated badly, and bad people to get treated well.

Honestly, if public hangings, or stoning people to death were still legal, I feel like less people would commit crimes.  If they were to commit a crime, they would end up being tortured to death, and nobody in their right mind would want that.  These days, people could go on a killing spree and just end up with a slap on the wrist and then thrown in jail.  What happened to the days where you would be brutally punished for something like stealing?  If people knew what respect was, then maybe our world would be a better place.

freewriting 2-18-14

Reality television shows do not seem very realistic to me.  I think that basically all of them are scripted and are purely for entertainment purposes.  There are a few that might be real, but for the most part, some people need to learn how to be better actors.  Jerry Springer, for instance, can seem real sometimes, but then there will be the one guy that cannot keep a straight face, and then I just feel like the show is fake and that none of the stories are real at all. 

I remember watching MTV and MTV2 when I was younger and I would always watch Rob & Big.  I loved that show and I would watch it every single day.  One day, I decided to watch a finally or something of the sort, and Rob had admitted that their show was entirely scripted and that they would redo scenes constantly to make them as funny as possible.  Learning that the show was fake actually made me not want to watch it anymore.  Yes, Rob and Big are hilarious guys, but it made me not really know what I was watching anymore and it made me feel like everything that I had been watching before was a lie.  I feel like everything that they ever did on the show, they did not really do in real life.  The fact that I thought that they really did those things, was the reason for me watching the show.

I do not know why people crave reality shows, when they could be out making their real life as crazy and dumb as on the show.  I guess that most infamous people would get into a lot of trouble for doing something that a famous person did.  I am always hearing about a famous person getting in trouble for driving drunk, yet only go to jail for a few hours or days, and then can just pay their way out.  People who are not famous usually cannot afford to pay bail money, so I think that is why most people will stick with watching TV.  It is the only logical explanation that I can think of.

freewriting 2-17-14

It is strange that humans get along with some animals.  Dogs and cats, for instance, we let live with us and we just take care of them like we have known them our entire lives. Honestly if you really think about it, it is kind of weird, but yet one hundred percent normal for us.  The fact that most people don’t have conversations with their pets is kind of strange to think about too.  The most we say to them is “are you hungry?”  “Do you want to go outside”  “Good girl!”  “Good boy!”, and so on.  We never, or at least I do not do this; ask my animals how their day went.  How do we know if they want to have a conversation like that?  The only thing that I know that they want to do is to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, and then have me pet them. Some people really get in to having their pets be just like family, especially when it comes to talking to them.  I have seen people treat their animals like they are literally that persons child. They will dress them in baby clothes, carry them in their arms as if they were a baby, make faces at them, and also carry on conversations with them. I have never been one of these people, but I understand why they do it.  They just want their pet to feel loved and secure in their life that they have, but some people just go overboard in my opinion.  I probably sound like I don’t take care of my cats and dogs, but I do, and I love them to death.  I am just not going to be one of the people who have a deep conversation with my dog.  I’ll cuddle with her and pet her and ask her if she is hungry, but I won’t tell her “yeah so at work today I helped this really hilarious lady and she told me jokes and I laughed so hard that I got in trouble.”  That just does not make sense to me.

freewriting 2-16-14

I don’t agree that junk food makes people fat.  I think everything depends on the way that the person was fed when he or she was as child, and also that person’s metabolism.  When I was a kid, I was allowed to eat what I wanted, and also have some nutritional food with it. I was never one of those kids that was forced to only eat healthy food and was taught that junk food was really bad and that I was never allowed to eat it. 

I think that the kids that were taught that junk food is bad go crazy once they are out of the house and then eat only foods that are bad for them. They no longer want to eat anything that is healthy because all the want is to eat something that only tastes good.  Thankfully, since I was able to eat a mix of junk food and healthy food, I know that I am not going to go crazy and only eat junk food the second that I am away from my parents. In fact, I actually eat pretty healthy as of today. I eat chips and drink soda every now and then, but for the most part, I want to eat healthy, and do.  On the days that I do not eat healthy, I work out.  So it’s like a happy medium for me.

I am still skinny as of today.  In fact, all of the kids that I grew up with that ate junk food when we were younger, are still skinny today. I think it is because our bodies are used to having the junk food in us. I am not saying that is a good thing, I am just stating that I think that our bodies are used to it, so that’s why it has kept us skinny.

The people that I grew up with that were not allowed to eat junk food have gained weight.  Some of them have gained only a little, and some of them have gained a lot.  And this is where I said that I think everything depends on what the kid ate when they were little.  If my friends that ate healthy all the time were allowed to eat Pringles a few days out of the week, then I think that would have helped them with their weight. 

Once college comes around, people only eat what they can get or afford.  Unfortunately, that means McDonald’s and ramen noodles for the most of us.  Both of these are not healthy, but like I said, the people who are used to eating this way, aren’t going to have much changes in their bodies, unlike the ones who are used to having only healthy food.

freewriting 2-15-14

Why does warm weather makes people feel happy, yet cold weather makes us feel depressed?  I feel like it is the fact that most people like to be outside and that the vitamins from the sun give us energy, which in turn makes us happy.  In the summer, we get to play in water and run around without shoes and get tan.  In the winter, we have to wear shoes, play in the snow, and run the risk of getting sick from not wearing a coat. 

Staying out late in the winter can get you in a lot of trouble, as in car trouble and getting too cold.  I wish that my car would start when it was negative degrees outside, but I have had times where I would get it started for about literally two seconds, and then it would just die on me.  Unfortunately, this would always happen when I needed to be at work!  I end up calling in to work about once every two weeks in the winter, just because my car will not start when it is ridiculously cold.  All I can say is that I am thankful that I do not live in Antarctica.

In the summer, there are honestly only a few days out of the season where I am unhappy. Nice weather makes me love everything, even on days where I have to work.  I think that college students like the summer because we have the choice of whether or not we will go to college that semester. 

Last summer, I chose to go to summer school. I loved it, but I also felt like my summer was being wasted away because every single day I had to go to work or school, or even both.  I never had a day off and it was terrible, and that’s how I feel this semester.  My first day off of school and work for a month and a half is today.  So I decided that I needed to catch up on all of my homework.

In the summer, I have decided to not go to summer school, or at least not this year.  I have decided that I want to have fun and have multiple days where I can just relax outside or go to the lake whenever I want. 

freewriting 2-14-14

I have always wondered why little kids can find interest in almost every single thing that we put in front of their faces.  Bubbles, for instance amazed my little sister when she was three years old, and now that she is eight, she still loves them. Heck, I even love them still.  I know that fifty percent of the population still loves bubbles and just aren’t admitting it.  I am one of those people that will admit the things that I like because I could care less about what other people think. 

So what if I love bubbles? At least I’ll be the teenager having fun in the summer having bubble blowing contests, rather than the average teen that will be sitting outside texting, or on Facebook.  Now don’t get me wrong, I love to text, but only as long as it is my family or my boyfriend.  Other people don’t text me, just because I guess I am not enthusiastic enough for them.  But that’s okay because I have more time to do actual things instead of play on my phone all day.

Another thing that makes children happy is balloons, which is something that I also find fascinating.  Things that float are just cool, and the fact that one element makes balloons float in the air forever, until they pop anyways, is just awesome. We even have the people that will suck the helium out of the balloons and make their voices high pitched.  It is seriously one of the most hilarious things in the world in my opinion. 

I feel like some people would think that I am a child at heart and that I  am an immature person, but in all seriousness, I am one of the most mature people that I know, and I just make jokes is all.  I am not one of those weird people who stay inside all day and just stare at the wall in the darkness or some crap. I am an actual normal human being that likes to just have fun, and if that makes me need to like little kid things, that’s what will happen, and I am perfectly okay with that.

freewriting 2-13-14

Music is one of my favorite things in the entire world. I love all kinds of music and I love to just sit and listen or play it all day long.  I started playing the drums when I was in 5^th grade, and I think that is what started me loving music so much.  In high school, I decided to be in the school choir, and now that I am in college, I also play a little bit of piano too.  If I had a guitar, I would definitely learn how to play that as well. 

Playing music is almost like working out to some people. It’s like when you’re done playing it and you have successfully made a certain song the exact way that you want it, you’re just automatically happy.  Yes, sometimes it is hard to get everything the exact way that you want it, but it is also hard to work out the right way. Most people will give up once they feel their muscles burning.  With music, most people will give up after the tenth time of missing a note. 

The one thing that I miss about high school is band and choir.  I looked forward to those classes every single day, and I could care less about any of my other classes.  Getting up and singing for an hour was one of my absolute favorite things to do, and I still sing constantly because of the impact that choir had made on my life.  Every chance that I find different surfaces to tap on, I do that do, because you can drum on literally anything out there, and I think that’s why I find drumming so interesting.  When I’m feeling invincible, I sit down and try to play my piano, but I’m honestly not that great at it seeing how I am still learning.

 Practice makes perfect, and if you’re a musician, practicing every chance that you get will make you better and better that much faster.

freewriting 2-12-2014

I don’t believe that people who are overweight should be made fun of.  I also don’t think that it is okay for overweight people to make fun of skinny girls and call them disgusting and anorexic, just because they weigh less.

Although I am skinny girl, I get really annoyed when I hear someone calling another person fat.  It is just pure rudeness, and I don’t see how getting called skinny should be a compliment.  In 70 years, not one person, besides for the conceited ones, is going to care about the way anyone looks.  What will matter is the personality that is under the skin. Beauty is not just skin deep. In fact, beauty should not even come from looks.

I think that every single person, good and bad, have something beautiful and unique about them, and it is painful to watch people in this day and age to criticize someone over something as simple as what somebody looks like. The ones who work out, can still be overweight, and just because someone is skinny, that does not mean that they eat healthy or exercise regularly. 

I absolutely hate getting on Facebook and seeing pictures of bigger girls that have quotes like “real men like curves. Only dogs go for bones”.  I don’t understand how bigger women can make fun of the skinnier people, whether they are naturally skinny, or work to get fit.  Especially seeing how I am always seeing and hearing things about how annoying it is to get called fat or chunky and so on.  Hypocrisy is probably my biggest pet peeve, and I think that is why I absolutely despise everything that I have been talking about in this post.

People are ridiculous and really need to stop caring about what other people think. Most people, in fact, actually like the size of their body and have actually accepted that it is partially what makes them who they are.  The only opinion that should matter to anyone is their own personal opinion.  “If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree.”  

freewriting 2-11-2014

Most people think that Valentine’s Day is a stupid and pointless holiday.  I somewhat agree, but I also love it at the same time.  I can see how people think it is pointless seeing how it is just basically an excuse to get your significant other some random present. 

Seeing how I have a boyfriend, I love Valentine’s Day.  The hardest part about the holiday is trying to figure out a present for my boyfriend, but seeing how he is also my best friend, I know exactly what he likes.  The people who do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend on Valentine’s Day always seem to be whiney about the holiday, even though they say that they don’t even care that they won’t be getting any gifts that day. 

I have noticed that single people talk about Valentine’s Day more than the people who are in a relationship.  One of the cutest things that I think people give is either flowers or stuffed animals that are holding a heart.  Even getting crafty and making your own personal present is a really good idea.  The thought is really what counts for this holiday.  Most people I don’t think spend a bunch of money, so it is just cute little things that are being given, and that is perfectly okay, especially seeing how people can’t just puke up money. 

I have no idea what I am getting for Valentine’s Day from my boyfriend, but I know that whatever it is, will be super special and meaningful, and that’s what I love.  He could literally get me a piece of paper that says “Erika sucks” on it, and I would still love it because we are constantly joking with each other.  

No matter how much everyone supposedly hates Valentine’s Day, I love it, and I hope that more and more people can see that it is not just a stupid and pointless holiday. It’s the one day in the year that is literally meant to show people how much you love and care about them.

freewriting 2-10-2014

The game Flappy Bird has been around for a few weeks now, and out of nowhere it has been taken down from the market and we can no longer download the game to our phones, tablets, and everything else.  The game resembles the Mario games and although I haven’t read anything about what is going on with Flappy Bird, I have been told by multiple people that they are being sued for being too much like Mario. 

I know that the game looks similar to Mario, with the background trees, and the green tubes everywhere, but the concept of the game is completely different that the concept of Mario games.  I have seen a few different games like Flappy Bird before, so I wonder why those other games have not tried to sue flappy bird.  I am guessing it is because Mario is such a popular game.

All of the games that have to do with Mario are constantly being talked about.  I don’t think that the person who created Flappy Bird wanted to create any sort of chaos over the fact that it looks similar to the Mario games.  I think that they probably thought that it would be funny for people to open Flappy Bird, thinking that it would be just like Mario and then having them get annoyed and freaked out that it is completely different. 

Flappy Bird is a really addicting game according to a lot of teenagers and adults.  Since it is no longer available to download, multiple people have been selling their phones on eBay for thousands of dollars, and some people have actually been successful in selling their phones.  It’s crazy to see how far people will go in order to get what they want.  Since I have Flappy Bird downloaded to my phone, it kind of makes me want to sell it on eBay and make five thousand dollars off of it.  I don’t understand why people are willing to pay that much for a game when there are other ones similar to it, but if it is benefitting everyone, then so be it I suppose.

Knowing My Audience

Learning who the people in my class are was one of the most interesting things that we have done so far this semester.  I would have never thought that all of us are so different, yet the same, at the same time.  From everything that I read from my post, basically everyone who had commented on it said that they would definitely change something about themselves, or their lives, if they were able to.  The thing that I thought was pretty cool was that mostly everyone only wanted to change the decisions that they had made in the past, rather than their physical appearing and so forth.

From everything that I have seen, I feel like everyone has their own families with their own children, except for me.  I think that I might actually be the youngest person in my class, which actually makes me feel a little bit better when it comes to writing.  It makes me realize that it is probably okay for me to not know or understand as much as everyone else, seeing how I haven’t had as much experience as some of the other people.

On one of the posts, it asked what color everyone’s personality or mood always is.  Everyone was mostly really happy and calm.  I feel like that is actually a really good thing for a class because we all know that we are not going to get criticized or made fun of for something that we did wrong.  Also, it just makes me happy in general that mostly everyone is a happy person.

After knowing a little bit about each one of the people in my class, I have figured out different things about being able to write papers.  I feel like everyone in my class would enjoy something interesting instead of something that only contained information, but who wouldn’t? Also, I have realized that if I make a mistake, even though I might get corrected, it would never be in a rude way.  Everyone in my class seems like a really interesting and polite person, and if I could meet them in person, I think that we would get along great.

freewriting 2-9-2014

Most people would say that the mid United States wouldn’t be a fun place to live and that the beach is a lot better of a place. I disagree with them by 8 billion percent.  My favorite part the heart of the United States is that we always get all four of the seasons, and we don’t just get little pieces and bits of each one of them. 

Summers are pretty brutal sometimes, but they are always bearable.  Winters are the same exact way.  Springs are always cool because one day you’ll need shorts on, and the next, you will want to be wearing a hoodie and some sweat pants.  The fall is always lovely and my favorite part is that the leaves change so many different colors.  If you look at the trees at the perfect time, then you will sometimes find leaves that are all of the colors of the rainbow, all on one leaf. 

Although the beach is my favorite place to go on vacation, looking at it after a while might get boring, or at least that’s what I have heard from a few of my relatives.  If I lived on the beach, I would have no idea where to go on vacation, other than the mountains.  If I went to the mountains though, I would not be prepared for the cold because the beach is almost always a decently warm place to be.  Living here, however, I could travel anywhere and be prepared for whatever weather is going to take place. The only thing that I would not be prepared for is an earthquake.  But who is ever prepared for one of those anyway?

freewriting 2-8-2014

Something that I have never been too great at is writing papers. I have never understood how to just sit and type something up, or even physically write something, and just keep coming up with more and more ideas.  When I was in high school, I was terrible at writing papers, or at least that is what I thought.  My junior year of high school or so, my English teacher had told me that I really did have a talent for writing.

         I still to this day don’t understand how, but I guess most people don’t realize their strong points.  Most people will notice their weaknesses faster than the things that are really cool about themselves.  I have always wondered why people are so hard on themselves and are always seeing the bad side of things.

         I don’t know if the world has always been this way or if it has just recently become this, but honestly we need to all switch our thinking habits. I for one have usually always been super optimistic about everything and can always find the bright side about every occasion or situation.  Every now and then I will have some off days, but that is one hundred percent normal in my opinion.

The people who are always upset and negative about things are the ones that I worry about.  Depression is becoming a bigger and bigger thing, especially in the United States.  Because of this, suicide rates are going up as well.  All suicide is preventable, and it starts with the person who is contemplating it.  If they are unhappy for any reason, then they need to cut out all of the bad in their life, that way they aren’t ending theirs.

freewriting 2-7-2014

One thing that I will never understand is the people who are just downright rude. I work in a jewelry store and some of the people that I work with, along with our customers are extremely arrogant.  Never in my life have I ever understood how someone can say “uhm can you listen to what I am saying? You’re not listening to me.” to the person that is helping them. I’m not saying that I am perfect, because I have had my fair share of mean moments.  I can tell you, however, that ever since I have worked in retail, my manners have improved quite a lot. 

Discipline is a key factor in being a sales associate.  When I see bad customer service, I just want to rip my hair out.  There have actually been times where I have gotten calls from women saying that they will never step foot in my store again because the manager was rude to them.  The only problem with that is that I don’t know whether the person I’m on the phone with is exaggerating, or if my manager really was awful to them.

Thankfully, almost every single customer that I have helped tells me that I have brightened their day somehow because I was really helpful and nice to them.  There was one time that I was helping a guy find a present for his girlfriend and when I was ringing him up he just stopped and smiled, and proceeded to tell me “you know, Erika, you are seriously the nicest sales person that has ever helped me. The world needs more people like you. Thank you.”  Ever since that day, I have been nice to every customer that has walked through our doors. Now, I’m not saying that I wasn’t nice to the others, but I’ve just made sure to be as nice as possible.  You never know how much a simple smile can mean to somebody. 

freewriting 2-6-2014

I feel like taking an English class is really important, especially in today’s world where everything consists of just abbreviations and acronyms.  Something that I have always hated was shortening my words while texting or even taking notes for that matter.  I just always feel like I won’t get the full effect when I read back over everything.

When I take notes, I never abbreviate anything. Ever. And unfortunately that slows me down quite a bit, but at the same time I just feel like I am learning a little better than I would have. I would abbreviate things weird in the first place. Onomatopoeia, for example, I would abbreviate as opia…and that will not get me very far unless I specifically remember what I was writing about. Lucky for me, I’ve known how to spell onomatopoeia since I was in the second grade, but who’s keeping track?

 Texting has always been something that I have loved, but at the same time, I absolutely hate it.  I am somewhat of a Grammar Nazi, but only on the things that I know should be a certain way.  If it’s something like a comma, I don’t mind at all.  Commas are weird anyway.  If someone said to me “k. c u then”, I can’t help but correct them and complain until they tell me in the correct form.  Everything also depends on who I am talking to.  I would never say something like that to my dad, especially seeing how he hates texting as it is. 
             Some people just shorten words because they feel like it’s faster.  I feel like it’s faster just to type them out though, that way I can understand everything and read it faster. As long as I understand what the person is saying to me, I guess I can’t complain too much. I am known for saying “lol” and using other acronyms, but those make more sense to me than saying “ur” for “your” or “you’re”.

freewriting 2-5-2014

This is my first blog for our 4.1 assignment and honestly I don’t know how well it is going to go as of right now. I can never find things to write about seeing how I am so indecisive at times.  I am really excited to see where these freewriting blogs take me for the next few weeks.  Ever since I have learned about Peter Elbow and everything on freewriting, I have actually been a lot calmer when it comes to writing essays and whatnot.  My favorite part is that we aren't supposed to stop typing, until we are done completely.  The hardest part is always finding something to say, but at the same time, my brain goes at a thousand miles an hour on a daily basis.  I’m actually a pretty quiet person and I think that it is caused because of the fact that my brain never slows down and I am constantly thinking. My dreams are even insane. I have actually researched a little bit about why people have really strange dreams, and all I have figured out is that it just depends basically on what the person thinks about during the day.  Dreams are one of the most interesting things to talk and to learn about in my opinion, just because they honestly only make a tiny bit of sense.  They only last for a few minutes, but it seems like hours, and everything going on in the real world always seems to correspond with the dreams.  The other day I had a dream that my head literally imploded, and the reason for it was because I had a massive headache that night.  I think that they’re one of the coolest things, and I am actually really happy that I have the weirdest and most insane dreams out of every single person that I know.  I guess that just means that I am an interesting person.  Also, I think it’s hilarious that I ended up talking about dreams, when I was planning on writing about freewriting.  I guess that just proves that freewriting gives you time to think!

I believe that there is something good in everything.

I believe that there is something good in everything. I feel like optimism is the best quality that people can have. The more optimistic people are, the better their lives will be. I can find something good in everything, whether it is somebody dying, or even a piece of grass. A piece of grass is green, and green is my favorite color, therefore, I like grass. that was actually kind of weird and funny. haha. when somebody dies, i believe that another person is born, so i think that it is a good thing and that the person who died is in a much better place. I think that cats are hilarious. My cat just jumped in a plant and is now eating it. Optimism i don't know what to say i don't know what to say i don't know what to say. I think that me not knowing what to say was a good thing because it helped me take time to think of this sentence right now. The weather is supposed to be really snowy tomorrow, which is awesome because i need a day off from work. I doubt it will even get that bad. If you can find something good in one thing, you will be able to find more and more good in more things. You will start to see the bright side of every situation, and then you will become a happier person all around. I think that if you believe that you have a lot of money and that it comes easily and frequently, then you will actually start gaining more money and less bills. I don't understand why money has to be such an important part of life. I wish that nothing is as expensive as it is. especially seeing how i don't make very much at my job. but on the bright side, since i don't get paid very much, i get financial aid for schooling, and i love that. I even get money left over after the semester is over sometimes. I'm really going to have to edit some of these words after the time is up. oh well, at least it will give me something to do. I feel like most people forget to be optimistic and that's why most people are so depressed in today's society. I don't know what to say I don't know what to say I don't know what to say i don't know what to say i don't know what to say i don't have any idea what to write other than i don't know. what is wrong with me? haha. I just laughed at the fact that i had no idea what to say for a good 3 seconds, and i think that is nice. If more people had help with being optimistic, like some sort of class or something, i feel like that would help a lot of people out and would actually help there be less violence in the world. Violence is all that i have heard about in the past few years and it's actually a really scary thing. This is possibly the one thing that i cant seem to find something good about, or at least not yet. Maybe it


540 Words

"I Believe..."

I believe that laughter is the best medicine.
I believe in Jesus.
I believe that there is good in every person.
I believe that technology is ruining people's lives.
I believe that dogs are also a woman's best friend.
I believe that gum helps people think better.
I believe that most bosses play favorites with their employees.
I believe that everyone deserves a little respect for something.
I believe that there is something good in everything.
I believe that negativity will bring on more negative things.
I believe that most people strive to get as much attention as possible.
I believe that some people fake depression.
I believe that people are obese because of lack of exercise.
I believe that cutting will not help depression.
I believe that love helps cure depression.
I believe that medicine messes people up more than helps them.
I believe that doctors really do want to help people.
I believe that everyone deserves happiness.
I believe that a lot of people are scared to die alone.
I believe that certain foods are good for calming.
I believe that running can be harmful.
I believe that animals help calm the soul.
I believe that procrastination gets the best of people.
I believe that math is pointless sometimes.
I believe that tanning doesn't cause cancer.
I believe that bacon isn't bad for you.
I believe that tattoos help boost self esteem.
I believe that a clean environment helps people get things done easier.
I believe that people can feel what others feel.
I believe that there is such thing as sympathy pain.
I believe that long distances don't make relationships hard.
I believe that Facebook ruins relationships.
I believe that technology makes people crazy.
I believe that people are addicted to food.
I believe that there is such thing as global warming.
I believe that the earth goes in cycles of warmth and cold.
I believe that blue is the color for being calm.
I believe that hondas are the best cars you can get.
I believe that ants are the strongest thing out there.

Jung Typology Reflection

The Jung Typology test really made me realize how differently I see myself than how I really am as a person.  I got the results ISFJ, which means that I am an introvert, I am sensing, I choose my feelings over anything else when making a decision, and that I am more judging than perceiving.  Basically, I agree with everything except for the fact that I am more judging, just for the fact that I would have never seen myself as that type of person.

Here are my scores:
Introvert- 67%
Sensing- 1%
Feeling- 25%
Judging- 22%

I actually laughed at my score on the sensing vs intuition because I am basically in the exact middle of the two.  My introvert score made me giggle as well because I am definitely not a social person.  It's not that I don't know how to talk to people, but more along the lines that I would prefer not to be in a crowd.  The fact that I work at the mall and have to deal with people all day long actually amazes me to be honest.  Also, I think this is unfortunately where I get my judging over perceiving, seeing how I have to listen to people complain all day long, instead of being really excited to be in the mall and shopping.

The test might not assist me in writing in college. Since I am more judging, I feel like I am going to make more and more changes to my papers because I will constantly be judging them and thinking about what needs to be changed, rather than just leaving the thing along to it's own perfection.  On the other hand, my score on judging over perceiving was fairly low, so this might not be much of an issue and only come at certain times.  I think that my introversion will definitely make things difficult if I have to be in groups at all, or if I have to present my work to the class at any point and time.

On the other hand, my 1% of sensing over intuition, makes me barely have a preference. Because of this, I feel like this will make me do well with assignments because I will most likely always know what is going on.

Love love love.

 

     Up until September of 2012, I had never known what it was like to have a boyfriend that doubled as a best friend.  Lee is my other half and I would do literally anything in the world for him. I love him more than words could ever possibly explain, and there is no better feeling than to know that the person you love with all of your heart, feels the same exact way.