GOODBYE, 2017

   HELLO! I know I haven't written in a long time. And I am not sorry. I've taken a break because I've been busy with school and stuff. Writer's block played a large part of it also lolol. 
   Anyway, I would like to take a moment to document my 2017 in a few words. This past year has been the year of learning for me. I've made mistakes, cried, laughed, and lived a little along the way.

What I did/saw/accomplished in 2017

in school

• completed my junior year of high school as well as my freshman year of college
• got accepted into two colleges & got offered $80,000 dollars worth of scholarship money
• worked hard & finished all semesters with a good GPA
• saw my last football season and sang the alma mater hand in hand for the last time at a pep rally
• increased my ACT score
• had my first cadaver lab
• finished the senior drapes in the yearbook

special events

• saw the Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017
• saw 7" of snow fall
• gained two new beautiful cousins, Hazuki and baby Claire Elizabeth
• became a bridesmaid
• applied for a job (which I should be hearing from soon omg OMG)
• my junior prom
• toured the University of Alabama
• saw Styx and Sara Evans
• got rid of my acne by using accutane (this is a very special event)

what I did on weekends

• got lost in Gadsden
• played games
• went to a haunted house and got chased by a clown
• made s'mores
• saw Christmas lights
• sang karaoke
• hang out with Abby and Kacie
• watch Netflix 
• football games of course
• church on sunday
• taking pictures
• ate at the Stranger Things diner and saw the arcade and police station where they filmed 
• did a lot of shopping
• I did way more I just can't remember sry doods

interests/hobbies i guess

• drawing. i suck at it but it is fun i gotta admit  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• YouTube (I am obsessed with Game Grumps)
• watching people play VR on Twitch TV
• Netflix (my favorite shows this year were Gilmore Girls, Stranger Things, Bob's Burgers, Criminal Minds, and Riverdale BUT NOT SEASON TWO)
• taking pictures (I got my first big girl camera for Christmas can you believe it)
• Spotify (details listed below)

I listened to 23,596 minutes of music

My top genre was pop punk

my top artists were:

1. The Maine 
2. All Time Low
3. Taylor Swift
4. Forever The Sickest Kids
5. Gavin Degraw

my top songs were:

1. New Romantics- Taylor Swift
2. 1979- The Smashing Pumpkins
3. Bipolar Baby!- Forever The Sickest Kids
4. Smooth Seas Don't Make Good Sailors- Neck Deep
5. 4ever- The Veronicas

click here to see the playlist spotify created for me based on my top songs

what I learned in 2017

• always be patient
• how to be more understanding by putting myself in someone else's shoes
• God has a plan better than mine
• be slow to anger and quick to forgive
• always be yourself
• life is precious
• let lose and have fun once in a while
• to listen to my parents

my goals/things I'm looking forward to in 2018

• get a job 
• save money
• lose weight (lol)
• graduate high school
• a senior trip??
• be more responsible
• get into nursing school 
• be more independent
• vote
• learn. always.
• drive to Birmingham
• stay in touch with friends
• Lauren getting married in August 
• learning more about the medical field
• to become more creative
• keep a good GPA
• get that scholarship from JSU

It's been a great year, but I'm so beyond ready for 2018, which is going to be SUCH an exciting year for me as things begin to change in my life.

Below are A FEW pictures from 2017 in order but a tonnnn are left out due to how long this post would be sorry peeps

Football From The Ashes

From the ashes arises another fall semester at my local community college. And Yes. I am very excited to be staring my second A&P course this evening. It is all for the better and will further my future, as I understand via my father, yet I am very not looking forward to it, contrary to popular belief (and the fact that I just stated that I was "very excited" to be starting it) which I think was a form of sarcasm.

Anywayyyyy so this Friday night is the Munford vs. Clay Central game and I just know in my heart we are going to lose. I say this because I try to be an honest person as often as possible, because people who are like "we are so totally gonna win go lions rawrrr!!!!!!!" have failed to acknowledge the ever-so-prominent fact that we have lost to Clay Central for many, many years NOT TO BE A DEBBIE DOWNER OR ANYTHING. Nevertheless, I am supporting my alma mater because it is my duty. Lilly and I are also taking pictures for the yearbook. I think she, Abby, and I are riding together because I'm awesome and really good at directions.

P.S.- Enjoy this picture I took of Mason the cat that has nothing to do with this post but I thought someone should look at him because look at him.

Life is strange

Links To My Favorite Funny Youtube Videos

This is a list of my favoritisttttsttststs funniest youtube.com videos ever. Of course, there are more videos on youtube that highly amuse me, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind. I hope you find the humor in them that I have found. Lol, or "laugh out loud".

The Unauthorized Documentary Series
by Matthew Gray Gubler

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 10 (I know where did the rest go)



The Lost Journal Series: A Dramatic Reading
by Eli McCann

Part VII

Part VIII

Part IX

Part X

Part XI

Part XII

Part XIII



By Chrisley Knows Best

"Find Your Friends At School, I'm Your Daddy" 

"Hillbilly Sh*t" 



By Drew Monson

"My Graduation Speech"

"IMMA DRAW YOU"

"Never Have I Ever"

"Dramatic Teenage Girls"



Random

"End Of Ze World" by birdman1278

Cheese Likes Cereal by Sushobhan Das

"The Entire Bee Movie Script But Im Screaming Every Word" by hunter1s1k


-Life is strange

Seventh Grade Bellringer

Yeah so this is from middle school or whatever when we had to write "bell ringers" which meant right as we sat down we had to do a realllllly annoying task like write "3-5 sentences on a recent event" like we did below. Pretty sure this entry is from my seventh grade English class. Shout out to Angie. 

Looking back on things like this make me question my morals sometimes. It also makes me realize that I will never be a good speller and that not being able to spell will hinder me in life IS IT SPELLED HINDER OR IS THAT JUST THE BAND.

Seventh grade was a very trying time for my social life as well as my emotional life because I was very lonely and so much the underdog it hurt and I got bullied on facebook but it is no big deal. Well back then it was but now I don't really care about it. Actually the bullying part took place in sixth grade. But its emotional toll continued throughout seventh. 

Toward the end of my seventh grade year I'd made some friends. I did this mainly by going up to them and really awkwardly asking if they liked Percy Jackson or The Fray or Daughtry DO NOT JUDGE ME those are really good fandoms to be in okay, I should know I had a tumblr. And if you had a tumblr. account everyone automatically assumed that you were an intellectual and not at all annoying. 

So yeah. I became friends with the people I am friends with today basically. My social skills have gotten a lot better WITHOUT THERAPY MOM. Whatever.

-Life is strange

Taking Weird Pictures With Abby

So today Abby and I took eleventy  billion pictures and got bit by eleventy billion bugs that may or may have been prehistoric. Anyway, here are our pictures. We took the glittery ones outside at an old mill by my house and the light ones were taken in my bedroom, because, like, we couldn't find an extension cord that would reach a quarter mile. 

Life is beautiful. But life is also strange.

Life is strange