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

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

10 Things You Should Do Before You Graduate

Kacie posing with her s'mores. 6.8.17

In the fall I will be entering my senior year of high school and over the past few years I have learned that I have never hated and loved a single place before ever in my life. They say that love and hate are such strong feelings that sometimes the brain confuses them, er, I think that's what they say. Who is they. I don't know. But that's how my high school experience has been going so far: a love-hate relationship. Mostly hate, but you get the idea.

The times which put the "love" in the love-hate relationship I have with high school are memorable and something truly valuable and yeah. Ok here's some things you and your friend and that guy you sit by in algebra who wears the Nirvana shirt should do. 

#1 Cartwheel down the hallway. Just once. "Just do it" -Nike

#2 Loan someone a dollar. This way, when you need a dollar, they are required to give you a dollar because of the IOU.

#3 Sit at a table with people you don't know. This leads the the most interesting conversations, including "that's not your seat" and "who are you".

#4 Make t-shirts and spell out something. I suggest the words "cRunK" and "LIT" and "xD"

#5 Join a club. I was in a ton of clubs. Also, run for an office so you can embarrass yourself in front of the school like I did a gazillion trillion times. It makes for good memories in the long run. 

#6 Wake up early to get breakfast before school. Or wake up late and get it anyway and just be tardy. Everyone has done it at least once.

#7 Play cards in class. Bring your deck and play in study hall, it's not lame. You will end up with 15 people wanting to be your friend afterwards. Or enemy. It's according to if you play your cards right. Hahahah. Get it. 

#8 Have a big sleepover. Invite all your friends!!! Order pizza and sweet and sour chicken and make brownies and watch The Lizzie McGuire Movie and play Just Dance and video your friend and make fun of her.

#9 Go to Waffle House after football games. Every school has that place. That one restaurant everyone you see for 8 hours a day goes to after a football game. Go with them, even if they beg you not to. Hop in someone's car. 

#10 Wear the band shirt to school. You know you want to. I did it. You might find more fellow fans. Or you might get beat up. Depends.

After I post this when I got to bed I will wake up suddenly at 4 AM enlightened with ideas in which would be absolutely swag and lit and cRunK and xD but by that time this post will be archived and I will not change it so there may be a volume two one day. Also: I have done everything to the greatest extent listed. It's important to embarrass yourself in high school. It builds character and teaches you how to deal with situations and people. Like that guy in 10th grade who stole your pickles off your tray in the lunch line NOT TO MENTION ANY NAMES.

Life is strange