Blog Everyday In May Day 12: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life...)
This is perfect because I think of this all the time.
I miss when I had my family, like a good ole fashion family. I have my family, don't get me wrong, I just miss them. Let me clarify this for you. The time was when I was 10 years old and younger.
I miss when my family had family dinners every night. I miss when my mom would sing to us on Sunday morning to get us up for church. I miss when my dad and I would play catch in the front yard. I miss living in a neighborhood. I miss when my parents didn't own a restaurant, bar and a motel. I miss, as my parents put it, "my parents old life". I miss going camping. I miss catching fireflies. Believe it or not I miss mosquito bites. All I have to deal with is black flies and they are worse. I miss my childhood, from age 10 and lower. I miss being within 20 miles from all my family.
Pictures from my childhood.
I wish I could go back a relive these moments, these memories, the ones listed above and in the pictures. I loved my childhood. Now I cry because I didn't grow up like the "other" kids.
I know I have fallen behind on the May Blog Challenge and I hope to get caught up tomorrow. I just got back from Ferris today. Yay for 9 hour drives! I already miss every one, but I am glad to be home with my family.
I just wanted to share with you all a little snapshot of what my year was like. This is no way my whole year because I did a lot this year, but just some things. I hope to make a bigger collage, or maybe a scrapbook soon.
I will be writing a post soon about my whole year this year, stay posted! :)
May Blog Challenge Day 6: If you couldn't answer with your job, how would you answer the question, 'what do you do'?
What in the world do I do? Other than saying I am a full-time student. I study. I learn. I teach. I live and I love. I express myself in laughter and sometimes even in anger. I capture moments in my mind and through technology that I think are those that people never think of. I create unlimited opportunities for myself.
May Blog Challenge Day 5: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don't have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member
Well If I had to choose one of the blogger friends that I met when I first started blogging I would have to choose Bree from The Thing About Joy. She helped me with my blog layout (before I made changes). Bree is super nice and extremely helpful.
I think her blog is so adorable and so is she! The thing I love about her to most is that she is easy going and down to earth. She is someone I look up to in the blogging world. Her blog post have made me laugh and some of them have even brought a tear to my eyes.
I envy that she is so motivated to be fit. I want to be that motivated. It's amazing what this girl does!
Here is a picture of her from her blog that I stole (Sorry!)
She is very pretty!
I know this isn't much of a post, but I am truly speechless on how to define Bree. She is just amazing in all ways!
May blog challenge day 4: Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it
Wow! I have so many favorite quotes. I do not know where to start or which one to choose from. Sorry for choosing two but, I couldn't pick between them.
"Do what you need to do, before you do what you want to do."
This quotes keeps me motivated at school. I have it hanging on one of my wardrobes I see it everyday. As I sit here writing this, I can see it looking at me telling me to do my three online tests. :S
"Ohana means family, family mean no one gets left behind. Or forgotten"
This quote is so precious and I love the way Lilo says it. I want this written on a plaque/board somewhere in my house. :)
May blog challenge day 3: Things that make you uncomfortable
I am thinking about what makes me uncomfortable and not a whole lot does. While most of us will say that going to the bathroom in a public bathroom or in someone else home, I wanted to think deeper, I wanted to come up with other things than that. I wanted to see what I can think of that really makes me uncomfortable.
Public Speaking
I fear public speaking so much. I have a hard time getting up talking. As much as people rip on me for talking a lot, which don't get me wrong I do, I cannot for the life of me talk in front of a crowd. I thought about taking a public speaking class here at Ferris, which is actually required I just got it covered by another class, to give me practice talking in front of groups.
Being a third wheel
No one likes being a third wheel and if you do I want to say that you probably the only one. I avoid it as much as possible. I am uncomfortable when two people are all over each other or all about each other and I am sitting there trying to not get in their way. I know most of my friends do not do it on purpose, but it happens and its uncomfortable.
Being with people I don't know
Don't get me wrong I love meeting new people and that is really the only way you get to know them is at first be with them when you don't know them. Say, for example, I am sitting in a room waiting for friend (because I am picking them up or what have you), I am very uncomfortable when I don't know their family or their other friends. Most of the time I will get to know their family, but when it comes to their friends and I am getting nothing but bad vibes I am uncomfortable.
Confrontation
If this isn't a bad/uncomfortable situation to be in. When someone comes up to you and calls you out on something or say assumes you did something wrong, uncomfortable! A million things run through your mind before the person even gets to the point as to why they are confronting you.
Crying in front of others
I say this only because I have a handful of friends who cannot stand to be around someone who is crying, which to me is very rude of them. So when I start to cry, I just simply get up and walk to a different part of the room or go into another room. If I need someone there for me I will bring them with me. Sometimes when tears just start falling and I cannot excuse myself, I get really nervous because I don't to make someone else feel uncomfortable because them I, myself will get uncomfortable.
There you have it! Things that make me feel uncomfortable. There is more, but they are more common things that people would think of.
Here is today's challenge: Educate us on something you know a lot about or are good at. Take any approach you'd like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic)
I honestly do not know what I am good at or know a lot about. Here's a picture of my dog.
Born in Grand Rapids, MI on January 5th. Cut myself from the
nose to the eyelid with a licenses plate (still have my eye and can see). Had my first teacher crush in 4th grade. Lived in my favorite house until I was 10
years old. Then I got the worst news of
my life. “We’re moving”. From that moment on, I will never be the same
again. My family and I packed up all of
our things and moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.. very tip I should add.
Left my best friend and all my family in
the place I still call home. Parents
bought a resort: restaurant, bar, and motel, in a little dinky town on the edge
of nowhere. Population 80 year around residence,
so no one there was my age. I was forced to grow up faster than any kid. 5th grade was the worst year in
school for me, I was the all famous “new kid”. Hated it. Middle school is where I met two of my best
friends ever, Joe and Rachelle. High
School was better and I changed my outlook on where I lived and sucked it up
until I graduated. I had to find
happiness in where I was or it was all going to go downhill. After graduation, I left the UP to go to
school at Ferris State University where I am working on earning my bachelor’s
degree in Advertising/Integrated Marketing Communications.
