Smiling is my favorite =)

So, William and Mary is my ideal school. My number one actually. And I just finished up the application. It had a supplement that asked, what is unique about you and makes you so colorful? They wanted it written in a 'blog-type' entry as in an 'about me' section on myspace or facebook. And of course they didn't want you to just brag about your self. They had a cute little you-tube video explaining all about it, and how those who review your applications don't look like John Adams or George Washington, but rather moms and teachers. So, this is what I wrote as my about me section:
I live every day to the fullest- taking nothing for granted. I don’t get caught up in the repetition and schedule of my boring day to day scene, but rather prefer to ‘stop and smell the roses.’ Actually, I prefer to stop and smell fresh cookies or a summer night, but that’s just me. I find inspiration in the simplest things- a good jog, a lazy beach day, my family and I could go on forever... But for the concern of other’s sanity, I will stop. For some reason I catch myself laughing when I shouldn’t be- out of embarrassment, pain or simply because I just can’t contain myself. I love to snowboard, travel to various countries, sew my own designs, and spend time with the people that matter the most to me. My friends make fun of me due to the fact that I watch the local math channel for my own pleasure and constantly sing at the top up my lungs, even though I have a terrible singing voice. (My mom, however, tells me otherwise, but I guess that’s what she is here for). I have a big family (and a twin bother that is my best friend!) and was brought up to be very loud and sarcastic. Although, I must admit, I do know when to be serious (again, my mom would beg to disagree). I can’t wait to grow up and make my dreams come true, because I want to have it all. I will one day be a ‘Doctor without Borders’ and hopefully travel to third world countries and help underprivileged people, with my ‘healing touch’. I hope to help as many people as I can through volunteer, an occupation in the medical field, and delivering the best medicine in the world- laughter.

Dreaming.

I was listening to my favorite band (well, one of them...) Ingram Hill. And they have a kinda-semi-new CD out called Cold In California. But seriously, I reccomend that everyone at least checks it out. What can it hurt? Anyway, they have this one song called Impossible and my favorite lyrics are, Everybody has to have some kind of thing... An impossible dream. And I love it because I have so many impossible dreams. Although they might seem impossible to everyone (mostly, my mom) and even myself at times, I know that one day I will accomplish what I want. I get so antsy thinking about what I have to do to get me to that point, but it will all be so worth it in the end. And I can not wait. I love to dream. If there was a job where you just get to dream all day, I would want to be it. I love thinking about the future and having a real job and traveling and falling in love (and all that sappy love stuff)- all total cliches, but I just can't help myself. I really want to fall in love so bad. But, I am so afraid. I've seen the best and worst of love. And it scares me. But that is not shocking, because I am afraid of so many things. Not a lot of people know that I am afraid of so much. I get anxiety and I actually started biting my nails when I was younger from it. I also twirl my hair when I get anxious (or bored, tired or mad). But, whatever. It's actually gotten a lot better than from when a was a wee little one. I was impressed with myself for having progressed. Haha. I am so tired and have to much to do. Like play with my puppy, homework, college stuff, and play with my puppy some more.

40 Things...

I'm making a list of forty things that has happened to me in the past month... whether it's infuriating, embarrassing, funny, whatever. Here it goes: 1. Got really sick from eating egg salad at the hospital when volunteering. 2. Made plans to go to New Hampshire. 3. Read a story to my nephew. 4. Went shopping with my brother’s girlfriend. 5. Went shopping with my mom. 6. Gave blood. 7. Laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe. 8. Went to my brother’s hockey game. 9. Took Zumba classes at the gym, and pretended I could dance. 10. Applied to colleges. 11. Got mistaken for my brother- and got in trouble for skipping my art class (that I don’t have.) 11. Worked on calculus homework for 5 hours with my friends Kelli and Jared. 12. Have yet to complete a full week of school (which is no surprise… cause I hate school.) 13. Went back to my elementary school to help tutor Spanish speaking kids. 14. Inducted new members into the National Honor Society. 15. Slept all day. 16. And then slept some more. 17. Procrastinated. 18. Applied to colleges. 19. Got accepted to Stockton (as my fallback). 20. Got a scholarship... the Dean's Scholarship? 21. Took the SATs. 22. Tried to convince my mom to let me get a tattoo. 23. Went shopping with my friend Kelli and her sister. 24. Went to Atlantic City with my best friend. 24. Got Christmas presents for my family. 25. Babysat my niece Abby, and got frustrated after she cried for 47 minutes. 26. Got pants pulled down while setting the dinner table. 27. Ate waffles for dinner. 28. Sewed a pair of pants to be 'skinny jeans'. 29. Re-arranged my room. 30. Got in trouble at work for something I didn't do. 31. Forgot to put my availability at work, so got zero hours. 32. Bought a bathing suit, heeeelllooo Caribbean. 33. Did calculus extra credit. 34. Measured the calc extra credit box wrong. 35. Left school crying. 36. Failed a test (for the second time in my whole life). 37. Thought long and hard about life. 38. Begged my mom to let me drive to New Hampshire. 39. Got a puppy- Lola! 40. Wrote 40 things I did in the month of December!

Movie Post!

One of my favorite movies is the 80’s classic Pretty In Pink starring Molly Ringwald. Ringwald’s character, Andie Walsh, is a poorer, less cool, but fashion obsessed teenager in High School. To be able to afford her thrift store attires and self made styles she works at a local music store with one of her good friends. The ‘cool’ kid from school comes to buy music, and Andie starts to like him. My favorite character is the protagonist Andie, because despite her unemployed, single father lacking money she is able to live her life like a normal teenager and not let her peers opinions affect her. I like her for being unique and being herself, and for the way she fell for the popular guy at school even though she knew he would get ridiculed. The plot is not like your average poor girl falls in love with rich guy cliché. It involves heartbreak and heartache before love. Pretty in Pink makes you laugh and want to cry along with Andie in her crazy hectic life. It reminds me of some of my friends, because a lot of my friends don’t care what the popular people think and continue to be themselves. They know that they will get talked about and made fun of, but they ignore it and carry on. I have seen this movie a lot of times, because it just sends a good message to be you and love it. It makes you want to not change for anyone, because you get more from that than changing to be your peers… Andie was herself and still got the guy. My best friend loves the movie as much as I do, but most others think it’s boring. I would recommend it to friends and strangers because it is a classic 80’s movie with a good plot and message. Enjoy!

Blogger's block...

So, I don't ever know what to blog about. I don't really have much of an imagination nor an exciting life... Which makes blogging a lot more difficult than it really is. Because I feel like certain 'blogs' kind of make you come across as a certain type of person person. If you were to blog about your accomplishments you're conceited and well, cocky; writing about your problems only makes you whiny and annoying; and talking about typical stuff (weather, school, sports...) is just boring. I have been completely slacking on blogging simply because I don't know what to blog about. I suppose I could write about my aspirations and dreams, but I already did blogs similar to that. And it seems that when I come up with a blog I can't wait to write up (or type, really) I forget it or realize it sounded so much better in my head. I guess I'll just have to ponder some more.... But, whatever I come up with will make an excellent post next time!