Encouraging Quotes

This is possibly the most encouraging thing I have ever heard. Okay, maybe thats a little bit of a joke.. haha.. you can laugh, its funny. But in all honesty, this is somewhat true. Life is overwhelming. Life is full of twists and turns and none of us know what to expect. But in the end, it all comes down to one thing: we die. There is nothing that you can do to avoid this, it just happens. So no matter how overwhelming life is, it will always get simple. So stick it out, and live it up, it ends the same way for everyone.

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college blog hehe

I realize that the ‘hehe’ in the title was creepy. But what the heck, why not add it. I’m tired and trying to blog and study is not working for me very well. Especially after a long weekend of no sleep and work for over seven hours today. Not cool. Anyway, since this seems to be all that is ever on my mind now, I figured I’d blog about it. So, college application statuses:

 EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: ACCEPTED.

And definitely NOT attending. No offense or anything, I mean I know the school is gorgeous and I know that people have a “good time” there if ya know what I mean, but that’s just not my idea of a good time, sorry.

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: ACCEPTED

Not sure. I love the school, I love the campus, and I love the whole feel of being at a mountain school. It’s a few hours away so I have a little breathing room, but it’s not too far that I can never visit. And its instate so its super cheap compared to other schools. But, it doesn’t have my major, just some classes to get me close so who knows, but it’s number one on my list as of right now, but I still have a ton of thinking to do.

 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: ACCEPTED

Okay, so in all honesty I have no idea why I even applied here. I don’t want to go but I guess its just nice to see a college acceptance. Like someone, somewhere always says “the more the merrier”. But anyway, I wasn’t considering it at all, it came in the mail and I was just like “oh cool” even though I didn’t actually care and then I just sat it on the counter and didn’t care about it anymore. But then I got a scholarship so I guess I sort of have to consider it… Maybe?

UNIVERSIT OF NORTH CAROLINA: DENIED

Well...... this ones a little awkward and self-explanatory. I will not be attending UNC. But in all honesty, I never did want to, it'd just be an accomplishment to get in. The school is great, but theres a lot of tools there. No offense to those of you there who aren't tools.

 VIRGINA TECH: ACCEPTED

Seriously, I don’t think I have ever been so excited to hear back from a college. I had NO idea that I would hear when I did. I got a text from a friend at 11:30 at night the day after I got rejected from Carolina. My heart was not even beating when I opened it because I was so nervous to get rejected again. And believe me, I was expecting to be rejected. VT is a really good school, and I’m still in shock from getting in. But I am beyond excited and really considering it, yay I love acceptances (they are a lot nicer than denials).

JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: UNKNOWN

I still haven’t heard back which is kind of freaking me out. JMU has an OT program that’s really competitive and so if I get in, its almost a definite. But I’m not sure I want to go out of state so I have no idea what I’m going to do and I’m tired now and out of thoughts about this.

Stumbleupon #3

MY LIFE. But seriously, this is. During the day at school, I do nothing. So that would be the large portion of my life spent distracting others as to not completely waste my time. When I do have work, I procrastinate. Critical thinking is not actually a part of senior year.Fourth period, I have teachers assistant. Which counts as a class, I mean I get a 100 if I show up, but in all honesty, I probably shouldn’t because all I do is distract the class. I get so bored just sitting there doing nothing. And I would do my work from all that procrastination except, I don’t have any work to do, because I’ve already done it in the two study halls that come before this one. So I distract others.

This is the most ingenious idea ever. Seriously, whoever came up with this is so smart. Every holiday, birthday, get well, anything that you could possibly give a gift for has a name somewhere on the wrapping paper. I don’t know where my life would be without stumbleupon right now. Seriously, this wrapping paper just blew my mind and if I weren’t running late for work and getting these blogs turned in, I would have bought it online. Maybe next time. Seriously though, coolest wrapping paper ever.

Stumbleupon #2

This picture is just beautiful. I'm not actually quite sure what to say about it, or how to describe my feelings about it, but I figured since I'm waiting for my cookies in the oven to finish I might as well blog away. So, the first time I saw this picture on stumbleupon I actually stumbled away accidently. But then I came back, and I made it my favorite and since then I have looked at it about ten more times. The picture is pure evidence of God’s amazing wonders. This tree stands out, in the middle of a lake. It is set apart from the other trees, it is little but magnificent. Sunlight is shining down, just on this tree but missing the huge ones around it. I think that this really speaks to I Timothy 4:12; Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. I feel like as young people we can related to much to this tree. It is an outcast in sorts from the rest of the trees, almost pushed away. Often times, we are discriminated against because we are young and our opinions seem not to matter. However, this brilliant light is shining down on the tree, magnifying its colors and showing its true greatness. God has plans for all of us, and instead of sitting back and accepting that others don’t think we’re good enough, we need to know that God’s light will always shine down on us no matter how small we are, and we will be able to do amazing things through him.

Poetry

I came to school Monday morning, forcing a smile on my face, a fake tone of happiness in my voice. I felt like a porcelain doll about to crack from the inside, a scream begging to be let out. And then a disaster came leaving my painted on face shattered in a million pieces. It was three words. WE'RE DOING POETRY. My heart stopped. My eyes widened. My blood grew cold in my veins. Poetry. The word was vile. It was like poison on my tongue. Poetry will be the death of me. I hate poetry. How do you even write it? A cheesy rhyme scheme? How can you put the words together and make it sound beautiful. There is no format, no way to write it, you just do. My blood began to flow again, pumping faster and faster. Finally, a thought came. I've got it: "Poetry, poetry, is no fun. Poetry makes me hate everyone." Not good enough. The sound is childlike, pathetic. Again, I though. Rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, all these words raced through my head. "The big black bear ate the big black bug." So if thats poetry, its really bad. I kept thinking, trying to find something and it hit me... poetry comes from the depths of your soul. It is a volcano erupting; The idea begins to move and heat up and evolve inside of you until it bursts out leaving the inside of you showing to the world, all your thoughts and feelings exposed. It is like an IV, the words dripping down until it becomes a part of who you are. Poetry has no form, no way it must be, because poetry is you, it is the music inside your soul. 

elephant on toilet..........?

I googled "happy world people" for a blog, because I needed a picture. This would be a picture that popped up on there and to be quite frank I am a little bit confused. Number one, this is an elephant not people. Number two, I don't know why this is happy, I'm just a little disgusted and I am trying to hold back my dinner. And number three, what does this have to do with the world?! So seriously, google has some issues. I mean yeah I guess this could be a potentially cool thing but do we honestly have to mess with every part of nature. I don't know if this is fake or real, but if it is real, I must say that it is pathetic that we feel the need to tamper with human nature. Now I am just angry. Scientists, get a life. This is freakish.

shout-out to my foreign friends round 2

current list of my viewing countries:

United States

Canada

Denmark

Slovenia

US Virgin Islands

Netherlands

China
Naimibia
Jamaica

France

Croatia

Japan

United Arab Emirates

Russia

South Africa

South Korea

United Kingdom

India

Ireland

Switzerland

Germany

Sweden
Portugal
Hong Kong

I think thats really cool. Maybe you disagree with me, but the best part is that I didnt ask your opinion and so it doesn't actually matter what you think. I'm bitter right now, excuse my attitude. I don't actually know if the people in other countries can read this. Maybe on stumbleupon in countries like India and Croatia, it translates it into their language for their reading pleasure. Or maybe not. The reason I say that is because the boyfriend liked my blog with his stumbleupon account, and so now my blog is avaliable for the eyes of my fellow stumblers.



I imagine these counties a little something like this picture: the globe being my blog and these people happily connected by weird colored string because my blog gives them happy feelings. Either that or once they have enough people holding strings they are going to come and strangle me with their strings. Thats all I got for now, anyway I like foreign friends so share me with more!

something i hate...

I absolutely despise having math 7th period. In all honesty, having ap calc in general is too much stress. But having it the very last class of the day is terrible. If I have a test, I sit and worry and review till my eyes want to bleed, and then by the time I get to the test, the day of stress leaves me too tired to think. Stupid idea. I worried all day about the stupid test I had after sitting up and studying math for like FIVE hours last night. Normally that would be an exaggeration but not this time. I found out like 3 periods before the test that I needed a 100 to guarantee an A. But what do I end up with? A lousy 93 on the test, leaving me with a lovely 92 for the quarter. Turns out im like .4 points away from an A. All my hardwork down the drain, I should have gone to bed instead of studying. SCREW AP CALC YAY.

Stumbleupon #1

I found this picture on stumbleupon. Granted I've found tons of pictures on Stumbleupon, but this was absolutely gorgeous. I absolutely love when the sky reflects on the water, but the water around here is so dingy that you just get a nasty murky reflection and that is just not cute. However, this place is gorgeous. The lake is so clear and beautiful and the sky has a wonderful reflection. There is one thing about this picture though that bothers me. There is a rock sitting alone in the middle of the lake. That poor rock is sticking out of the all the beauty. It is by itself, lonely and pathetic. It is just sticking up begging for someone to love it. But I don't actually think that makes sense. This is a beautiful picture though, and I want to go visit this place because it is absolutely amazing.

The Wonderful World of Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon is the most genious website ever created. For those of you not fortunate enough to have heard of , you have not lived yet. Stumbleupon is a website where you picktopics of your interest and then you hit stumble. The stumble button brings the world to you. Seriously. Don't believe me? Go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/ and find a life. Stumbleupon has brought me face to face with some of the absolute prettiest pictures I have ever seen. It has shown me some of the most abstract buildings in the world, some of the strangest animals, fun games and music, and of course, the ugly dancer. But in all seriousness, Stumbleupon brings the world to your fingertips and its even blackberry, android and iPhone compatible yay! I have found things I'd never imagined on stumbleupon and now my life is complete. So, all I'm saying is try out stumbleupon if you want to be cool.