Blog Reflection

So after many weeks of writing the blog comes to an end. It has been an up and down battle finding the time to blog. Overall I enjoyed writing and having a blog. I like how I get to release all of how I am feeling and thinking without overwhelming a person. Instead I just get to explain how I feel. I think that the free write was fun and I really liked the assignment. Getting started at first was difficult because I had never had a blog in my life. I couldn't figure out how to post at first but eventually got the hang of it. I think my only complaint was it was so confusing at first and I didn't understand the directions. I had some computer problems at the very end so it was hard to blog the last few days. I like writing for 10 minutes, I wont keep my blog but I will write every so often in a notebook, especially when I am stressed or upset. I would suggest keeping this assignment because it doesn't just help me become a better writer but also my anxiety.

This evening!

So right now I am at a library typing frantically and doing research for all my assignments. There is just not enough time in the day to complete everything! Luckily we are almost done and I get to go out to dinner and a movie with a boyfriend and his parents. Double date with his parents will be fun. I want something yummy to eat! I'm just ready to be done already! But when I get done with summer school I will get a short break and back to it. I am so ready to have my degree so school is no longer my life. Well I am done blogging for now! Talk to y'all later!

Fast and the Furious 6!

So today is the first day I have been able to get my hand on a computer with working internet but i have been keeping blogs on paper so i can just go at it when i actually could type it all. I went to the movies yesterday and saw fast and the furious 6! My boyfriend has been dying to see it for so long so i finally said okay i will go with you because it came to the palace and we were over looking at the apartments over there. Which i fell in love with! Any way I have seen a few of the fast and furious movies but this one was so intense because a character that was thought to be dead really wasn't. It was sad when two other actors died though. I like how it's all about family and working as a team. I love watching racing movies and i have to say the best one of the series that i have seen!

Where would you rather be?

Where would you rather be?
A beach

What do you smell here?
salt water, funnel cakes, ice cream, and fish

What can you hear?
waves crashing, laughing, birds chirping, kids screaming, music, flip flops

What do you see?
sand, water, waves, birds, kids, adults, surf boards, castles, wave runners, chairs, towels, sunscreen, swim bag, goggles, soda, food, ice cream, board walk, hotel, cell phone, ipod, radio, pony tails.

Stupid Computers

So I haven't been able to blog the past few days because of my stupid computer breaking. I guess its not broken but it can't access internet so it might as well be! I called the tech help people and they said I needed to be at my house so I could get the router information! To top it off I could barely understand or hear the technician lady. So she had me type RUN into my computer program deal and try to do all this wierd stuff and still nothing! At the end of the conversation where she was unable to help me because i wasnt at my home router she said have you had it longer than a year and i said yes she said she would have to charge to fix it when i got home. She said she was more than welcome to call in two hours. Than after i got off the phone i thought i haven't had it for a year until September!! Oh gosh!! BAD DAY!

Relaxation!

So today I am not going to lie I have been lazy and relaxed all day. And now at 8 I have decided to act like an adult and do some homework. I went to Hannah's nail salon for a lovely pedicure! I got some pretty red/pink fingernail polish (shellac)! The shellac stays on so much longer which is nice because I can go a month to month and a half with the same color and it still looks fine! It starts bugging me when the cuticle and the nail polish are not by each other so I start peeling it off and than I decide to go get a new color. After my nail appointment I went to get a Swedish massage! I love massages to begin with. I have a ton of stress knots so I like when they can get rid of them! I than came home ate dinner and took a lovely nap. Now I am awake to do some homework! I felt like this day really helped me focus better! Until you balance the check book I guess:) lol

Dressing up!

So today my blog is about dressing up! Odd topic I bet your thinking but I love to dress up! My boyfriend thinks I'm crazy for dressing up just to go into town to run an errand and go straight home but he just doesn't get how good it makes me feel! I feel like getting dressed up helps my confidence! I love to wear heels and dresses and my feet can't handle heels for very long so the errand running helps me! I feel like all girls need to have a dress up day a week! It just makes you feel beautiful and confident to strut your stuff! So I wore a dress today and got all dressed up just to go to the bank and back home but oh well!:)

NIGHT NIGHT BLOG

So I have only 10 minutes to write what is on my mind. Right now it is how sleepy I am! I finally got my mom out of the hospital! YAY!!! I'm so glad she got to come home! Taking all of her stuff out of the hospital room took forever! I luckily had the boyfriend there to help me out! Well before she was discharged today I got to go floating! FINALLY! I only floated for like and hour and a half, not long at all! HMMMM....im sleepy! I have so much homework to do tomorrow! I don't know what to talk about. oh how much I need sleep!  I can't even capitalize anymore because of how tired I am! I have to do a English assignment tomorrow and my psy homework. Luckily I did one thing that deals with my psy homework but I have a few other things to do as well! Well it's time to sleep! I will be in blogger mode the next few days trying to get all my posts in! I can do it! NIGHT!!!

Brainstorming Places!!

1. Maui
2. Kauai
3. Florida
4. Alabama
4. Sequiota Park
5. Marshfield Cemetery
6. City Pool
7. Bell Ford
8. High School parking lot
9. Silver Dollar City
10. Gulf Course
11. Farm
12. Nursing Home
13. Hospital
14. St. Louis Zoo
15. Maui Aquarium
16. Molokai
17. Australia
18. Eifel Tower
19. Cape Code
20. Carolina
21. Alaska
22. Tahiti
23. Great Lakes
24. ANY WHERE IN CALIFORNIA

Favorite thing about summer

My favorite thing about summer is how the sun always shines so bright! It comes up so early and sets so late. I hate how in the winter especially, how the sun is barely ever out and clouds always cover it up! I just love being able to go outside and lay and try to relax. I haven't really had much time to do that this summer  though! All I do is work and do homework. When I do get free time  I try to enjoy that with friends and family. This summer I haven't been on one float trip! I'm supposed to go on one tomorrow but we will see if that happens. Life always ends up getting in the way of so much! Which drives me up a wall. I miss the good old days, like two years ago, where I could just go outside get a nice tan and work every once in the while. Well it was fun while it lasted I guess! I haven't even gotten in the swimming pool.. oh wait once. But It was dark outside so that doesn't even count. I'm so white! I need a nice dark tan! I feel like I need sunscreen when I walk out to protect me!

What I Like About Myself

So my blog this evening is what I like about myself. I got this idea from a fellow classmate and thought, man I really like that idea! So here goes nothing! I really like my mouth, odd I know but let me tell you why. I always great people with a smile. I smile even if I'm sad, upset, angry or just being a normal girl. I feel like my smile brightens up a room. Shinning my pearly white might make someone's day better is how I see it. I also like how I speak with my mouth. I can talk non-stop about absolutely nothing,  I bet you can tell with all of my other blog posts! I am such a communicator, I have thought about majoring in communication as well. I feel like if everyone just took a few minutes and talked to someone they didn't know it could really make a difference in someone's life. I think often times we as humans are always on the go and always think about ourselves that we forget to do small gestures for people. We all need to slow our role and communicate! I think that is nice to think about  something we like about ourselves and write about it! I am done for the night! YES!

Hospitals

So I have just gotten off work from the hospital and now I am back sitting with my mom! It has been a rough few days because I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Her hand isn't getting any better, it's getting worse. I am going to stay at the hospital tonight and than work tomorrow. Mom has a nice few because there is a cool firework show going off to the right of us! My back is killing me! I think I need someone to bring me a new back! If only that was possible! I hope this pull out couch doesn't kill my back! I have a feeling it will though! I am so tired and I have homework to do before I can go to sleep! I need sleep badly though!! hmmm I don't know what else to talk about!!! Oh boy I really got a lot to do and not a lot of time!! erg the real world sucks!!

What pops in your head when you listen to music?

So I thought this might be a fun blog idea. So I am listening to music for 10 minutes for a free write. Right now I'm listening to on your side of the bed. It's a sad song. It makes me like a divorce is about to occur. And a couple doesn't know how they got to where they won't cuddle or even talk. It's sad because they are both lonely and all they have are memories. It makes me wonder about an affair that might have taken place. The next one that just came on is Luke Bryan's  Crash My Party! I think this is such a fun romantic song! It's so sweet all about true love I think. I really like country music all about romance and love! I am such a girl! If a guy will leave his friends from a bar and go see a girl he really likes her (loves her). Call me Call me :) those words are so sweet cause he would drop anything to go see her. I feel like guys need to all be country singers..... just so they can get some cute romantic ideas! :) Next is a little bit stronger by Sara Evans. I used to cry my eyes out to this song! Don't you hate when an ex used to sing you a song and than it pops on and BAM all of sudden you have tears rolling down your face! If not your lucky! I feel like I connect songs with people and certain memories! I surly am not the only one who does that!

4th Of July

So my 4th of July was not how I thought it would turn out by any means. I spent it in the emergency room with my mom! She ended up getting an infection in her arm and  were not sure how. She is admitted now for it. After I took my mom to the er and got her settled into her room I ended up heading home ate dinner watched a few fireworks and headed back up to Cox today. Talk about a long busy 4th! I missed our parade in town, which I'm kinda bummed about but that's alright as long as my mom is ok! It was pretty nice weather yesterday! It wasn't to hot or to cold until later on at night it started raining. I was discussing with my best friend the other day about how we always remember what we do on the 4th for some reason! The Christmas's and Thanksgivings all blend together but the 4th of July stands out to us! I'm hoping that next 4th is a little better and no er visits but I'm just glad she's alright!

Oh those awkward moments with EXS... (EXS for a reason)

Well today I went to church with my best friend. This girl has been there when the mean boys broke my heart and when you can't stand your parents in high school. Well while at church today I look across the aisle and I see one of the boys the broke my heart and I couldn't help but laugh. I wasn't laughing at the fact he was at church, just that he was there and so was I at the exact time. I go to North Point and out of all the service times we picked the same one! Anyways it was really odd for me because I hadn't seen him since January and we didn't speak. It's the awkward moment when you see someone you really don't want to see or talk to moment. Well as we were walking out the door of church I saw him and the girl he was with and I sprinted to the door. I haven't worked out in I don't know how long but I booked it to the nearest exit! I was like just get out before anything can be said! It ends up they went out the same door I did! IRONIC!!! They were right behind me and I held the door open. I couldn't help but smile because I was trying so hard not to pump into them! I than sprinted to my car and left my friend as she was chuckling as she came to the car! Oh I forgot to mention they parked like two cars away from me! I don't love the guy anymore but I just don't want to see him and have the PAST reminder! I have a lovely boyfriend now but man those EXS can sure get to you! I think God really has a sense of humor and thought it would be funny to see how I would react! But all is well in my little life! :)

Im hard to love

I'll be honest, I'm hard to love. I am a little needy... okay a lot needy. I just like knowing that someone's always there. I push away people though. I try to run when things are going good. I guess that doesn't make since, me wanting someone to be there but pushing them away? Well that's me...I heard the song "Hard to Love" by Lee Brice on the radio and adopted it as my theme song. I have a wonderful boyfriend that loves me to pieces. In the beginning I pushed him away and wanted to break up  because I said the distance was to much. In all reality I was scared because I was a freshman in college. Than we went through a rough patch but now we are stronger than we ever have been. I have became so close to his family and love the guy to death! So now when I hear the song I still think of myself but I've found someone to love me!

My Credo!

I have done a lot of thinking about a credo that describes me. I looked at I believe list and than thought about who I am as a person and I finally settled on a credo. My credo is everything happens for a reason! I strongly believe in this for a number of reasons. I might only be 19 but a lot has happen in my life and saying this over and over has gotten me through a lot! God has always provided and I think he controls everything that happens so I rest comfortably knowing that!  

Waiting....

So I have to decided to do my 10 minute free write about waiting because right now I am patiently waiting! Well kinda sorta! I hate waiting! I am horrible at it, I like everything right here and right now! Maybe it's a girl thing, I'm not sure!
I need to go pick up pizza but I have to wait till 820 to leave so I have 9 more minutes left to write. hmm what else can I say about waiting! Well I am waiting on my boyfriend to get off work and come see me! Yay! We ordered pepperoni  and supreme pizza. I'm starving and I'm not really sure why! I ate Chinese for lunch! But still hungry! I'm starting to think maybe I should of wrote about pizza or food for that matter! It took Casey's an hour to make our pizza! I think that a long time to wait for pizza but it is pretty yummy! I got all my English homework done other than the credo essay! I still have a ton of work left on that! hmmmm who knows what my credo will be! I need to keep doing some more research for my credo! I was reading through people's blogs and I read some really good credo ideas! I have a lot of competition for a good one! I'm sorry this free write is so random! It's the weekend I guess you can probably tell! Oh gosh I just thought about work! I decided to work more this week and picked up Monday and Tuesday! Bad idea??? Who knows.. normally I stick on topic better but can't today! I'm still waiting to leave and on a phone call! I really hate waiting !!!!! hurry hurry hurry!!! This free write is becoming long! Two more minutes!! I'm thirsty but can't move I have to WAIT to go get a drink! Man I hate waiting... well hmmm I don't know what else to say! Yay! I'm done waiting!!!

Know Your Audience Analysis

As I was reading through the discussion board posts and going through my classmates blogs I was able to understand who my audience was better. I learned that a lot of my classmates are parents and first time college students. We all might be different but a lot of us answered some of the discussion questions alike. My favorite discussion question was "Do you take anything for granted?" For some reason I loved this question because I know that a lot of people do even myself. Many of us take our friends and family for granted but those are the people we are most thankful for. I also thought the questions that were general like: "what's your favorite season?" or "what's your favorite kind of food?" really shows that we can all connect to one another no matter what our ages. I thought that all the questions were extremely fun for an assignment and can really benefit us when we are writing so we can really connect to our audience!

Free write to "This I believe essays"

As I read the essays on Ms. A's website I really didn't disagree with any ones essay. I think everyone believes things for a reason and every I believe essay has something we can all connect to. For me I connected to the essay about always going to funerals. Like the lady that wrote the essay, I had to attend a lot of funerals when I was a kid. For me they were close family members but I still hated them. It was always so sad. I remember walking up to my grandfathers casket and feeling his cold hands and crying. Even though I was only 8 It stuck with me like a horror movie. I only remember a few moments of my grandfather but his smile really was remarkable. I will always go to a funeral because even if it seems like a bother to me it could really make a difference to a loved one of mine.

Lauren

Credo Research

I'll be honest I didn't know what credo was so I had to Google it. I found that credo is a statement or belief that is stated that makes someone act. After reading the definition I had a duh moment honestly. I have a lot of motivational speakers. The best credo speeches are ones with heart. I love when someone can make me feel what they felt. I am an emotional girl ill admit it but when tears come to my eyes when I read or hear something than they have really impacted my life. I remember hearing in school "don't do drugs, there bad" but just telling students not to do something doesn't mean they will listen. I had a personal experience with a family member doing drugs and that shaped my life and I never did them. But what about the other students that didn't? Well luckily our high school brought a guy into our school that had went down a bad path and he had a wife and children and he got into a lot of hard drugs and he ending up having half of his face gone. When he was cooking meth a fire ended up starting and he got hurt. after that he decided to clean up his life! I thought it was a good thing for the school to bring in someone that had went through all that, even if it stops one kid from doing drugs than it was worth it!

Lauren

STRESSED! TO THE MAX!

As I sit in subway and try to eat my sandwich I become distracted of my long list of items on my list I have to complete today! I think that I might be a little to overwhelmed because I can barely even eat! I wish I wouldn't of over loaded myself with a new job, school, family, friends but I will get through it! I might have to have 8 cups of coffee to make it through but I will! My mind is fluttering with all different things. I'm thinking about how much I need a vacation at the moment but cant find the time for one! I hate cutting people out of my life and that's what I feel like I'm doing right now! I have to write for 10 minutes and its oddly enough calming me down.... I'll have to do this later on after I complete half my homework. I forgot to mention one of my midterms is tomorrow. I find it a lot harder to stay on task in summer because I want to go outside and enjoy the sun but I cant because of school! It's so stressful but I hear that the stress is worth it after you graduate..... I'm not going to lie I wish I was in high school again! I have an amazing life I shouldn't be complaining but this is a good way to vent and express how I'm feeling! I have officially reach my 10 minutes!

This I believe List

Well after reading everyone's blogs I see that everyone posted there ideas not just the one they picked to write about! I just wrote it on a paper so I will post it now!

This I believe:

1. I believe in God

 

2. I believe in love

 

3. I believe people are kind hearted

 

4. I believe everything happens for a reason

 

5. I believe animals have feelings

 

6. I believe I am in love

 

7. I believe I am loved

 

8. I believe you  can't make a person change

 

9. I believe cell phones complicate things

 

10. I believe in swimming

 

11. I believe in sports

 

12. I believe minimum wage needs to be raised

 

13. I believe people need to be more caring

 

14. I believe I took to many summer hours

 

15. I believe the best things in life take effort

 

16. I believe easily

 

 





This I Believe Freewrite

After constructing a list of things that I believe I have decided on one that really describes me. I believe that everything happens for a reason. I guess that's chessy in a way but I think its true. Just last week my cat of 18 years passed a way. I believe that chickaboo (named after chicken mcnuggets at Mcdonalds) came into my life for a purpose. When I was two I didn't know what that purpose was but now I do. She was always there to protect me. It sometimes felt like she was like my older sister but wasn't even humans! God brought her into this world and took her out of it and she was always there for me even if she was just a cat. Another example of things happening for a reason would be college! When I had graduated from high school I was so excited to be done! I had a great time in high school was very active in school but I was ready to move on and get started on life. Little did I know that I would want to be back in high school! I had decided to live with a friend I knew from high school... bad idea! Lets just say we no longer live together! As hard as loosing a friend was and moving out at spring semester it was the best decision for me! I moved down the hall in the dorms at MSU and met a life long friend. I ended up feeling so welcome in my new room! She introduced me to her friends from back home and I did the same. I am now dating one of her boyfriends best friends. I would love to say it never works out in life but it always does. It doesn't ever feel like it is going to but it always does!!

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ESFJ Type

Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging 

I am very liberal and like being in charge. I have known this for a very long time. In school I don't have a problem of voicing my opinion! My feelings get hurt very easily so when people try to correct me they just have to make sure there tone is respectful and not rude. I'm very easy to get along with and I like getting in groups with a variety of people. I think that as a writer this comes out in me in the way that I don't beat around the bush to show things while I write, I just kind of blurt it out. I would like to improve that though, not just in writing but in my everyday life! I think that in college being ESFJ is good and bad. I think its good that I voice my opinions but I sometimes find it hard to let other people help me on projects but it always ends up working out!