This applies to girls mostly.
What's up? I haven't written anything in a while, and I'm not entirely sure why. My comedic juices ran out maybe. Or I was never funny to begin with and I'm realizing that harsh truth. At any rate, I actually do have a topic I want to write about. It's been on my mind for a while. It's something I wish I could change. But it's not up to me and I have very little influence on it anyway. It's kind of a serious thing, and I may share some personal stuff here, so please be kind.
It's about high school. And back biting, gossiping, and just being flat out mean. There's a reason they made a movie about it. It's quite funny, but painfully true.
So um, I was the shy, home-schooled kid in high school. I was so concerned about what kids my age would think of me, that for the most part, I didn't hang out with anyone outside family members. And we moved a bit while I was the high school age. Well there was one place we were in that was a little bit worse than the others. The girls would spread rumors, make up vicious nick names, and be flat out mean even to other's faces. It wasn't pretty.
But this experience taught me a lot of things I want to share with other girls.
1. A lot of the time, I let circumstances outside my control keep me from being happy. I couldn't control how people acted, yet I still would feel sad and hurt and alone. But that wasn't their fault, it was mine. I would say to young girls going through high school right now, please don't do this to yourselves. Do what you love, wear what you love, be what you love. You will be so much happier. I didn't learn this until after high school. but I did learn it. No one can stop you from enjoying every possible second of your life. It's a fight sometimes, but it is possible.
2. If I hear "news" about someone else, I will not spread it, no matter how I think it will go over. Girls, we struggle with this A LOT. We just love to talk, and that talking usually leads to talking about other people. But other people most likely don't like their business being discussed, and things can get twisted until the truth is lost in a mess of exaggeration. You never want to look at the people around you and feel like you can't trust them. So be someone other people can trust. Let the talk stop at you.
3. Be nice. When it seems almost impossible to greet some girls with a smile, do it anyway. Being kind always makes me feel 10 times better than the most elaborately planned vengeance. Not that I ever planned vengeance, ha. ha. Seriously, there are things I did that I'm not proud of in response to what went on, but there are also good things that I am so glad I did. As a quick example, there was one girl who seemed to dislike my very presence. So I made her cookies. Haha, at the time, my motives might not have been ENTIRELY pure, but the intent was mostly good. And I didn't even put laxative in them!!
4. Speak nicely. Don't just act nice, but keep your mouth in control. I still struggle with this a bit. But there is seriously such a difference in how people react to unexpected loving words as opposed to something sassy or sarcastic.. Since I don't speak loving words much, I notice the difference a lot.
4. As cliche as it sounds, you are NEVER alone. Even if you think not even your parents can understand what you are going through, you have a Heavenly Dad who loves the heck out of you!! And He knows exactly what is troubling you. ANNNNDDD, you can talk to Him literally ANY time. So talk to Him often. Don't let the harshness of life turn you away from real love and concern. Up until this point I was mostly saying "I", but now I am saying "you" because I am talking to whatever girl reads this.
Life can be happy, even in the rough, dramatic, painful time known as high school. I'm gonna be cheesy for a sec, but I know it's tough and if there is so much as one teenage girl who reads this and is going through some nasty crud, just know that I know how you feel, and things will be okay, I promise.
You can be happy :)
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
24
In honor of my aged-ness, I decided to type the top 24 life lessons I've learned.
24. NEVER assume there is toilet paper in ANY bathroom.
23. DO NOT believe your brother when he tells you to do some crazy stunt and promises you won't get hurt.
22. Always look both ways before emerging from a grocery isle at Walmart.
21. If you live in the desert, expect to trip over snakes.
20. Even if your number one activity is playing piano, you can still get injured. A LOT. Just check out my bruised shins and knees.
19. It's too popular to be your own person, now you have to be your OWN own person.
18. Laughing and crying sometimes feel like the same thing.
17. Never offer to give rides to large groups of people when you own a tiny car.
16. Don't tell your best friends about any physical deformities or weaknesses or intolerance's you may have.
15. Buy that piece of furniture in Junkees before you see it riding away in the back of someone else's truck on the highway.
14. Being a janitor actually ISN'T the worst job on the planet. But it's preeeeeettttttttyyyy darn close.
13. Never say what your favorite restaurant is. People will expect to eat there with you until you die, and it will no longer be your favorite restaurant, and you will probably die while eating there.
12. If you happen to share a room with younger siblings, make sure your beds aren't too close together. You WILL wake up suddenly by them whacking your face "in their sleep, they swear."
13. NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, use the bathroom after someone else who has just made it, um, smelly. Someone will inevitably be there waiting for you after you use it and they will think you did the stinky.
12. Being an adult is not as fun as you thought it would be when you were a kid who couldn't do grown up things.
11. No matter how old you get, loony toons will always be hilarious. Especially Wile E. Coyote.
10. In a lot of ways, children are braver than adults.
9. Liking a band that someone else already likes is so uncool, almost like wearing the same outfit as them to a party.
8. For some reason, whenever people list off reasons for why being a short person is handy, they always include the ability to hide in more places. Like we as adults play hide n' seek all the time or something. You short people can probably attest to this.
7. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to keep up on the latest technology. First of all, the cool stuff is in Japan. Second, you will go broke. Unless you are already rich, in which case you might be able to keep up and that's cool for you I guess. But vintage is cool now anyway, so keep your little 4th generation ipod nano and use that sucker up!!
6. Sometimes the things that cause the most anger are not the things you should be mad at. Such as the chair you stub your toe on over and over and over again.
5. There is ACTING cool, and then there's BEING cool.
4. No matter how hard you try not to, you will always fit into at least 5 stereotypes. It's a messed up world.
3. The internet is a lonely place.
2. Your car will drive you from point A to point B no matter what it looks like. You OWN your car, don't let it own you :)
1. Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
24. NEVER assume there is toilet paper in ANY bathroom.
23. DO NOT believe your brother when he tells you to do some crazy stunt and promises you won't get hurt.
22. Always look both ways before emerging from a grocery isle at Walmart.
21. If you live in the desert, expect to trip over snakes.
20. Even if your number one activity is playing piano, you can still get injured. A LOT. Just check out my bruised shins and knees.
19. It's too popular to be your own person, now you have to be your OWN own person.
18. Laughing and crying sometimes feel like the same thing.
17. Never offer to give rides to large groups of people when you own a tiny car.
16. Don't tell your best friends about any physical deformities or weaknesses or intolerance's you may have.
15. Buy that piece of furniture in Junkees before you see it riding away in the back of someone else's truck on the highway.
14. Being a janitor actually ISN'T the worst job on the planet. But it's preeeeeettttttttyyyy darn close.
13. Never say what your favorite restaurant is. People will expect to eat there with you until you die, and it will no longer be your favorite restaurant, and you will probably die while eating there.
12. If you happen to share a room with younger siblings, make sure your beds aren't too close together. You WILL wake up suddenly by them whacking your face "in their sleep, they swear."
13. NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, use the bathroom after someone else who has just made it, um, smelly. Someone will inevitably be there waiting for you after you use it and they will think you did the stinky.
12. Being an adult is not as fun as you thought it would be when you were a kid who couldn't do grown up things.
11. No matter how old you get, loony toons will always be hilarious. Especially Wile E. Coyote.
10. In a lot of ways, children are braver than adults.
9. Liking a band that someone else already likes is so uncool, almost like wearing the same outfit as them to a party.
8. For some reason, whenever people list off reasons for why being a short person is handy, they always include the ability to hide in more places. Like we as adults play hide n' seek all the time or something. You short people can probably attest to this.
7. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to keep up on the latest technology. First of all, the cool stuff is in Japan. Second, you will go broke. Unless you are already rich, in which case you might be able to keep up and that's cool for you I guess. But vintage is cool now anyway, so keep your little 4th generation ipod nano and use that sucker up!!
6. Sometimes the things that cause the most anger are not the things you should be mad at. Such as the chair you stub your toe on over and over and over again.
5. There is ACTING cool, and then there's BEING cool.
4. No matter how hard you try not to, you will always fit into at least 5 stereotypes. It's a messed up world.
3. The internet is a lonely place.
2. Your car will drive you from point A to point B no matter what it looks like. You OWN your car, don't let it own you :)
1. Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Habri-elle And weekly wisecrack number something....
That is my latest and greatest nickname for Gabe. Poor little buddy never actually gets referred to by his real name. Anywho, he has, da, dada, DAAA!!! Provided me with a new wisecrack!!
So he was in class at school where he goes every day and loves every second of it. And he was, wait for iiiiit, TEXTING!! *Gasp* oh no, not that!!! Let it be any other activity besides texting!
Anywho, his teacher caught him of course, which happens with all good kids committing lesser crimes than your average deviant. And she said something along the lines of "Gabe, you're gonna have to stop texting and give me your phone."
To which he replies, while holding a finger up to her and continuing his text, "Give me a minute."
She was laughing so hard, she didn't have the heart to get mad him and through her tears of joy she said, "no one has ever asked me to "give me a minute" before!"
Ahhh, the life of a class clown.
So he was in class at school where he goes every day and loves every second of it. And he was, wait for iiiiit, TEXTING!! *Gasp* oh no, not that!!! Let it be any other activity besides texting!
Anywho, his teacher caught him of course, which happens with all good kids committing lesser crimes than your average deviant. And she said something along the lines of "Gabe, you're gonna have to stop texting and give me your phone."
To which he replies, while holding a finger up to her and continuing his text, "Give me a minute."
She was laughing so hard, she didn't have the heart to get mad him and through her tears of joy she said, "no one has ever asked me to "give me a minute" before!"
Ahhh, the life of a class clown.
Imaginary conversation
It's been a while. Believe it our not, I have had a blog post in the making for about a month now. But I hit blogger's block. Or I'm in it. Or I have it? I've never understood just how to use that phrase. Anywho, this is what I am SURE you are all DYING to say to me. And this is totally what I would say back.
You guys: "Hey, Savannah!"
Me: "Yeah?"
You guys "You haven't written anything in a while. I've been really bored and have nothing to do because of it!"
Me: "Yeah, I know. It's pretty rough I bet. I'm going to try to get something reeeaaaal nice put together to ease your boredom, okay?"
You guys: "Okay GOOD. Because my life is swiftly spiraling down into a theoretical pit of despair."
Me: "Well, we just can't have that now, can we."
You guys: "No. No we can't."
Phew, I'm glad we all got that off our chests!
Okay okay. Sorry for the intense stuck-upedness I just displayed. I know you guys would never say that. OUT LOUD, HA!!
Okay, I'm really done now.
Annnnnnd, I still have nothing interesting to post, sowwy!! But I'm sure something really dumb will come to my brain soon. Also, I noticed that I started thinking my thoughts in blog post patterns, which can't be good, can it? So maybe I just needed to cool the jets a little.
Peace and blessings! (I almost accidentally spelled "blissings" which isn't a word, but I hope you have "blissings too. You can decided for yourself how to interpret that.)
You guys: "Hey, Savannah!"
Me: "Yeah?"
You guys "You haven't written anything in a while. I've been really bored and have nothing to do because of it!"
Me: "Yeah, I know. It's pretty rough I bet. I'm going to try to get something reeeaaaal nice put together to ease your boredom, okay?"
You guys: "Okay GOOD. Because my life is swiftly spiraling down into a theoretical pit of despair."
Me: "Well, we just can't have that now, can we."
You guys: "No. No we can't."
Phew, I'm glad we all got that off our chests!
Okay okay. Sorry for the intense stuck-upedness I just displayed. I know you guys would never say that. OUT LOUD, HA!!
Okay, I'm really done now.
Annnnnnd, I still have nothing interesting to post, sowwy!! But I'm sure something really dumb will come to my brain soon. Also, I noticed that I started thinking my thoughts in blog post patterns, which can't be good, can it? So maybe I just needed to cool the jets a little.
Peace and blessings! (I almost accidentally spelled "blissings" which isn't a word, but I hope you have "blissings too. You can decided for yourself how to interpret that.)
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
In my old age, which is now
As some of my close friends and fam know, I enjoy some good, old-timey crocheting. Scarves, hats, gloves, baby booties, blankets... I just loooove to crochet! (I don't know why, but I said that in a Julia Child voice in my head. It might sound funnier if you read it in that voice as well.)
Most of the time I receive some kind compliments on my work. To which I must humbly give most of the credit to the internet. I don't know why we even go to school anymore. But I feel like, and I'm trying to say this as humbly as possible, I've made some DANG CUTE crud!!
And everyone always asks me, "Do you just crochet, or do you knit as well?" And I tell them that I only crochet, because there are about 90 bajillion things I can crochet, and when I get to the bottom of that list, I will probably pick up knitting.
So I scan the internet often looking for new ideas, patterns etc to feed my never-satisfied crochet appetite. Until tonight. I have found something that brings to mind the phrase "all things in moderation" and makes me take a step back. It makes me pray that I never go TOO FAR with my crochet craze. It is really too amazing not to share with the world, and since the world obviously reads my tiny, one in a billion blog, here it is.
The best worst crocheted item ever
You're welcome.
And please stop reading the word "crow-shay" as "crotch-ette."
Most of the time I receive some kind compliments on my work. To which I must humbly give most of the credit to the internet. I don't know why we even go to school anymore. But I feel like, and I'm trying to say this as humbly as possible, I've made some DANG CUTE crud!!
And everyone always asks me, "Do you just crochet, or do you knit as well?" And I tell them that I only crochet, because there are about 90 bajillion things I can crochet, and when I get to the bottom of that list, I will probably pick up knitting.
So I scan the internet often looking for new ideas, patterns etc to feed my never-satisfied crochet appetite. Until tonight. I have found something that brings to mind the phrase "all things in moderation" and makes me take a step back. It makes me pray that I never go TOO FAR with my crochet craze. It is really too amazing not to share with the world, and since the world obviously reads my tiny, one in a billion blog, here it is.
The best worst crocheted item ever
You're welcome.
And please stop reading the word "crow-shay" as "crotch-ette."
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