“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells, and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower, both strange and familiar.”

"It's real for us"

Youtube video that I am in where Harry Potter fans describe their HP experience in one word.
I'm the one who says "indelible".

Me and Pepper Ann

Summer List

1. Make it through my summer reading list

2. Make A’s in both of my summer classes

3. Keep going to the park and exercising

4. Get awesome outfit to wear to midnight showing of HP and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

5. Wear awesome outfit to midnight showing of HP and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

6. Hopefully find a good job (that I really like) by the end of the summer

7. Drink copious amounts of bubble gum mountain dew and raspberry powerade slushes

8. Go on picnics with friends

9. Have more adventures with friends

10. Maybe do something a little different with my hair (like feather extension, or maybe a streak of a different color)

11. Wear lots of skirts/dresses

12. Get second ear piercing

13. Wear floppy sun hat a lot

14. Enjoy the first summer in 2 years that I have not had to wake up early for a job that I hate

Summer Reading List

It's pretty short.
More may be added later!

(You can click on the picture to make it bigger)

Tennessee

Today is my birthday, and yesterday I spent my last full day as a teenager in Tennessee with two of my best friends and my Chaffee parents. It was a good day :) 

In my backyard

I hate it

I hate it when bad things happen. I hate it when bad things happen to good people. I hate it when bad things happen to the people that I love. I hate it when young people die. It reminds me I'm not as invincible as my young body sometimes thinks it is. I hate it when old people die. I just hate death in general. I hate it when animals are sick, mistreated, scared or unloved. I hate it when people act like animals don't deserve the same treatment and respect as a human being would. I hate it that some of my best friends live too far away from me. I hate it when people think that they're better than someone else.

I hate it when I have to pee and there's not a bathroom around. I hate being on my period. I hate it when the internet doesn't work. I hate it when I'm not able to read the books I want during school semesters because there's no time/energy. I hate not having money. I hate it when people don't change the toilet paper roll. I hate it when people don't keep napkins in their car (seriously, who doesn't have napkins in their car?!). I hate it when I go to Starbucks and there's already people sitting on the comfy couch. I hate that OPI and Essie nail polish are so expensive.

I hate when people post long rants on the internet. Who wants to read that? :p

April Showers

Ode to Nutella

It's official.
I am in love with Nutella.
I just thought you should know.

Bright Little Dandelion

Bright little Dandelion
Lights up the meads,
Swings on her slender foot,
Telleth her beads,
Lists to the robin's note
Poured from above;
Wise little Dandelion
Asks not for love.


Pale little Dandelion,
In her white shroud,
Heareth the angel-breeze
Call from the cloud;
Tiny plumes fluttering
Make no delay;
Little winged Dandelion
Soareth away.
-Helen Barron Bostwick 


This blog post would be way cooler if I had wrote that poem myself but I didn't. I did, however, take these pictures myself. 

There's a bumble bee on my left thumbnail! I learned it from this youtube tutorial!

One Day Without Shoes 2011

It's that time again!
April 5th was One Day Without Shoes! I was excited that I actually had plans to get out of the house for it this year, since last year I basically just stayed home and took pictures in my back yard. I got a better idea of how hard it is to not have shoes this year. I spent my day with Abbie, Tyler, and Lindsey and we had a great time! It was also Tyler's birthday too. Tyler and I picked up Abbie then we headed to Cape. We picked up Tyler's new glasses and ate at Olive Garden. We actually ended up putting our shoes on for Olive Garden, since its kind of a fancy restaurant and we weren't sure if they'd let us eat there if we were barefoot. But after that our shoes were off all day (well except for when we went to Goodwill. Abbie said it might not be safe for us to go barefoot in there. lol).
We did other fun things, like go to walmart for cake mix for cake mix cookies (we got stared at and even pointed at at wal-mart for being shoe-less) and we went to the mall and goodwill to buy me a jacket because it was cold out and I didn't bring one. Then we met Lindsey at Starbucks and went to downtown cape where a couple people talked to us about our bare feet. The first was a girl walking her dog who knew about TOMS and ODWS, the second was a woman who came out of a restaurant with her husband and came over and asked us why we were barefoot. She was super nice and told us we were doing something great after we explained it to her. Then we did other fun things like go to the Trail of Tears park and then a park that was in cape closer to the school and ended our night eating cake mix cookies and watching madea for tylers bday. It was a great day!
I really have more of an understanding on what it feels like to go without shoes. We walked on quite a few different terrains during the day. From grass to squishy dirt to gravel to pavement to woodchips that were on the playground under one of the play things. And let me tell you, its hard without shoes. My feet were so achey at the end of the day and I really don't know how people go without shoes all the time. I feel even more compassion for them now than I did before. I'm glad I did ODWS and spent it with my friends. I hope I have as good a barefoot day next year as I did this year :)

Here's some pictures from our day!

 

Vegeversary

January 28, 2011 I celebrated what I like to call my "Vegeversary". My one year anniversary of becoming a vegetarian! I didn't do anything special to celebrate, but it was still a special day to me.
*Insert celebratory dailybooth picture from that day here*

Yeah. I'm pretty proud. Maybe I'll actually do something to celebrate next year...like take myself out for bbq wings or maybe steak? Lol. Just kidding ;)