Fairytales.

I've been thinking a lot lately of love and fairytales and I'd just like to say that I believe in love and fairytale endings. I feel like the world today is getting so cynical and looks more at love as something for a time and not something that lasts forever. This is seen all over: in movies, in celebrities, and even in our friends who we come in contact with everyday. It frustrates me when I hear people talking about how love is finite, and can't be infinite. I agree that hearts will break and that's a part of life. Yeah, it's not fun but it happens. I may still be young and some would call me naive but I really think that there is someone, maybe even more than one possibility out there who I will fall in love with and he will fall in love with me and we will live happily ever after. Many would call this ignorant but I think that as long as both people are working towards the same goal then they can be truly happy together and stay in love with each other forever. It's upsetting that our society is becoming more and more set on the next best thing that sometimes people look at love like that. When you truly love someone, you don't think of anything as better than the person you love because they are the best, to you anyways. I heard some people talking about how many times they think they'll get married and many people look at this as the realistic approach but that's really sad. I just hope that when I fall in love and find that special someone who loves me back that I'll realize that this is the person who I always want to be with and we'll be able to live our fairytale. Life's as good as you make it, sometimes we'll have trials but it's all about how we deal with them that can bring people closer together or tear them apart. Attitude is an amazing thing.

Life Lately....

OH the things that happen in our apartment.

Good Mornin' Life

So today was just one of those good days from the beginning. I woke up and as I was getting ready I was just in a good mood. I even sat down to my computer and decided that I would listen to the song Good Mornin' Life by Dean Martin and that's sorta where it all began. I then had to go to English and I got an Analysis paper back and I got a 95 on it! I was pretty happy about that. Then I had to study for a child development exam that I had to take before 2 and I was thinking I got a grade way better than I expected. I have decided that days can be just as good as you want them to be. I was stressing thinking about today earlier this week when I was planning it all out but it turned out to be a great day and mostly because of my attitude towards it. I think it also has a little to do with the fact that the days are going by fast and soon I'll be back in warm Florida.

For right now though, I'm happy where I am. I was thinking about it the other day and I was even talking with one of my roomies and I was saying how I would miss them over the summer. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm so excited to be going home but it's weird to think that after living with these girls for 8 months I won't see them for like 3 months! haha I guess that just means I got lucky with who my roommates are... I mean there aren't many people who late on a Monday night will just jump around and sing/scream along with songs loudly in the kitchen, or on a Friday afternoon have a dance party in the kitchen standing on furniture with the back door wide open to the laundry room, or tie my shoes whenever they come untied, or add "your baby daddy" after anyone says "oooo", or watch/laugh at the same youtube video a million times and then keep repeating the joke, or watch 18 minutes of a how to do a weave tutorial and be honestly intrigued... I could go on and on... But seriously, in the roommate arena I think I would say I definitely made out like a bandit, and I didn't even have to steal anything! Crazy the things you come by these days...

Antsy

So basically I'm to the point where I am just getting so excited to see my family again. It seems like every time I talk to any of them on the phone I just think that I'll be there in a little over a month. That kinda sounds like a lot of time but I'm sure with tests, papers, and finals that it will go by superfast! :) I've also realized that I'm at such a happy time in my life and I just want to enjoy everything. This may have happened because I have been planning my future, in a way, by planning out which classes I'll be taking next semester as well as the one after and I can't believe that after only two quick semesters I'll be ready to officially start the Elementary Ed program. I feel like I'm getting so old sometimes but that's a good thing because life is for living and time has to pass to live. So this planning and getting excited about my major and future combined with the excitement of seeing my family soon have just made me such a happy person lately. Anyways, back to my family, I am just so excited to be seeing them soon. My little sisters are some of my best friends and my little brothers are just so funny and entertaining and I can always count them all to cheer me up and make me happy. I feel like the baby though is getting so old! I keep hearing stories about his accomplishments and I just can't believe I'm missing these but oh well I'll be there in the summer and will enjoy the "growing up" then. Anyways, I just can't wait to be in Florida and back with the fam!

Comfort Food

After being away from home for about eight months now I've realized the things that remind me of home. I realized most of these reminders in times of stress... like tonight. So, I just finished one paper analyzing an article for english and then yesterday and today I worked all day on another paper for child development which was analyzing what a socially competent adolescent should look like and then looking at the role of the family in it all, needless to say, my head hurts and i think i was going crazy. I then decided that I would make banana nut pancakes, which i actually haven't made in the eight months I've been out here yet (I mostly just make chocolate chip or plain). Just to tell you how insane I was going, as I was slicing the bananas i was thinking I should just slice the tips of my fingers off so I don't have to type anymore. Obviously i didn't do it, but I was thinking it. Anyways, as I was making them I realized that it was my comfort food, pancakes in general are my comfort food. It's not even that I ate then that much at home, it just for some reason makes me happy. I also realized during finals week last semester that country music is another one of my comfort foods. I know it's crazy but country music just reminds me of home and makes me happy. Anyways, for now these two things are my comfort foods, pancakes and country music. I guess I can't help it though ha :)

Parental Pressure

So I guess the title is misleading because neither of my parents actually pressured me into getting a blog. I was actually talking to my mom today and she was telling me about my siblings/cousins/aunts and uncles who all have blogs so I decided... why not give it a try? If I never post again then so what? who cares? right? So basically my blog is titled One of Ten because I am in fact one of ten children and I had always thought about writing some book like a biography of me and my family and I would call it One of Nine but have the Nine crossed out and Ten written above it. Since that's never going to happen, it's the title of this blog. I don't really know what else to put in this first post so this will have to do for now, plus I'm real sleepy so that's what I'm going to do.