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.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
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.
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.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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.
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.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
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.
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.
Friday, February 21, 2014
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.
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.
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