30 Days of Blogging - Day 30: LAST FREAKING DAY!!

I'm so happy this is the last day!!

It's been a blast, and literally changed my perspective on many things, but I'm hella happy to have reached the last day.

In honor of the last day, this is going to be totally random.

Here, have a collection of little things that didn't manage to make it into the previous 29 days or have just come to my mind now.

1) A Pet Peeve

Drivers who ride on the bumper of the person in front of them to get them to go faster. I want you out of my general driving sphere. It's dangerous, it's distracting for the person in front, and I really can't help but think that you just haven't thought this through. If you are riding close to the bumper in front of you, and that person is focusing more on their rearview mirror than the road in front if then, what happens if something in front of that car forces them to brake surprisingly. They won't see it coming right away (because of you), they slam on their brakes, you are waaay too close to even process that they have braked let alone stop with them. You hit them, they hit someone else, the people behind you hit both of you, and there is a huge accident. BECAUSE OF YOU. Now tell me, were those 5 extra km/h worth it? If you say yes, I want you to hurry up and get so far ahead of me that I won't be involved in your pile up, please and thank you.

2) A Snapchat Story by John Green

http://moca468.tumblr.com/post/118336406561/fishingboatproceeds-capellacas-john-green

3) I Love Tumblr

This is just a fact. Moving on...

4) Twitterpated

;) Is something I might be at present... Twitterpation has a lot more nervousness associated with it than I ever imagined; it's uncomfortable in the happiest way possible and I haven't decided if I'm okay with that or not yet.

I feel like this, but reversed.

I want to have a fifth thing, but I'm suddenly drawing a blank on everything...

Oh well! Naught to be done about it.

This is where I leave you.  Have a splendid day! I'm first going to sleep, but after that I plan to have a splendiphorous day myself :D

30 Days of Blogging - Day 29: AFOMFT, Youtube Channels

You know that feeling when something becomes such a part of your life that you kind of forget there was ever a time that it wasn't there?

Yes?

Then you also probably know the feeling when you meet someone who has no idea that thing exists and suddenly it's like your brain stalls for a moment and the only logical explanation you can think of is that they must be from an alternate universe or something!

Yes?

I had that feeling today.  Re: Youtube

Not the whole site, obviously -- they would have to be living under a stinking rock! No, just some channels that are so integral to MY YouTube experience that it boggles my mind that there are people who watch youtube, but don't know these channels exist.

I will outline them for you now. If you get into any, let me know, we can nerd out together.

Vlogbrothers
Nerdy banter between brothers John and Hank Green. You may have heard of John; he wrote a book you may have heard of... The Fault in Our Stars! And Hank is my favorite nerd of all time. Hence...

Hank Green channels
He has many many channels. Right now, I will insta watch anything from his personal channel hankgreen or his gaming channel Games With Hank or sometimes if he posts anything on hankgames which has been taken over by John playing FIFA which I don't watch. I watch most of the things that appear on SciShow and I'm subscribed to Crashcourse, but I rarely watch them. Hank Green music is nerdily enjoyable for me, but those are usually on Vlogbrothers. His Snapchat is my favorite thing.

Friends of Hank Green
Their little community of friends has a lot of vloggers in it. Michael Aranda whatimdoingrightnow and whatimpwningrightnow, Katelyn Salem, Clair Grosvenor, Matthew Gaydos (also makes the DFTBA Warehouse videos), Jesse from Animal Wonders, to name a few. Good stuff over there in Missoula. I enjoy vloggers, in case you aren't catching on.

We the Kings band members
Not all of them actually, but I like Danny and Lindsay's daily vlogs, and occationally Charles Trippy's.

There are another handful of channels I will instantly watch, but those it doesn't surprise me when nobody knows about them. Really, I'm only surprised how anyone can watch YouTube and not now about John and Hank Green. It's a big site, I get that, but like I said, it has just become so commonplace to me now that I can't even fathom the world that doesn't include them.

Everyone has different things that suck all their time away. YouTube is mine :P

Have a wonderful day, Lovelies. Tomorrow is the last freaking day; I'm so excited!!

30 Days of Blogging - Day 28: Dear Me

There are only two days left! Wow.

I have successfully written 27 blog posts in the last 27 days and yet, here on day 28, I have no idea what to write about for the next 3...

I always knew this day would come... I just thought it would come sooner and that I would fail at this challenge. This is unexpected.

I just have to think...

Aha! Got it! Yeah, I got this :)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Dear Me of April 7th,

Hi there! It's you! Well, it's me... but I guess technically it's... us?

That's weird, let's just move on...

Hey.

I am writing to you from Day 28 of this challenge that you (probably) just wrote the first day of.

Can we talk about that?

(You can't answer because you don't even know I'm writing this so I'm just going to keep going as if you've said yes.)

Good idea, by the way.

Even though it really wasn't your idea per se, since you mostly started because Youtubers were getting into Vlog Every Day in April and you just felt left out and decided to do your own thing, but it was still a good idea.

But it's not going to go anything like you expect. Some of that is good; some of it will bum you out, but even those are good. It's all (mostly) good.

Allow me to debunk all the things you're expecting, since I apparently have a better perspective now.

You're thinking, "I will probably fail."

Wrong! I mean, I realize that is still a possibility, but I know what you're actually thinking, and what you're actually thinking is that you won't even get close to 30, but tada! Here we are! Day 28 baby!

You're thinking, "I will run out of ideas."

Well, yeah... that actually happens... BUT you still manage to write a post on something new every day. On the days when you don't have any idea what to write (cough every day cough cough) the idea will come to you randomly that day, or you'll use google (careful with that one, not all those ideas are the smartest), or you will blog about practically nothing, but it won't be nothing -- it will be something because you typed it and you hit post! Good job, sweetie!

You're thinking, "I will get the blog in before midnight every day!"

Hahahahahahaha allow me to remind you that you're strong suit has never been promptness. You will procrastinate and leave it til you're in bed every day, which most days is before midnight, but I have one word for you... Youth.  But it's okay, you will drop your need for perfection, and the blog will, at the very least, get done before you fall asleep. Huzzah.

You're thinking, "Maybe people will actually read my blog if they know I'm posting daily!"

Nah, that doesn't happen, and you're actually going to learn this fairly soon. Sorry darling, I know this is initially a let down, but I have good news for you anyway (once you're ready to look on the bright side). You will remember that you don't care; you weren't even going to make your blog public at the beginning! This blog and this challenge are first for you and then for whoever cares to read it. And if no one reads it, it does not mean that no one cares.  On the very bright side, there are some posts that you will be happy get buried in the middle for only a VERY diligent reader to find. It's better that way, I promise :)

And I have for you, some things that you haven't even thought of.

You will share about real things, and God things, and weird things, and nerdy things, and some things you love, and some things you don't, and some things that will embarrass you, and some things you wish that the right person would read, and SOMEHOW it all works together!

This will be more of a challenge than you ever thought and you will feel satisfied, and special, and ignored, and confused, and vulnerable, and weird, and happy, and tired, and proud, and like it was all worth it.

You will never want to do this again, but I suspect there will come a day when you forget that... Sorry future us.

You will have things on your blog ideas list from the beginning that you never write, even when you're out of ideas. And even though they are goodish ideas, they are either waaay too much work or not "real" enough when you are in the middle and tired of acting like this is easy.

It will be hard. At times.

But most of all, it will be yours, and you will have accomplished something that you set out to do. Did you hear that? You will finish this! You understand what this means, I don't need to outline it for the world to read, but girl you'd better be happycrying right now and returning my impossible high five or I will be very displeased.

I'm so proud of you.

Love, You from May 4th.

P.S. Yes, you did remembered to wish your big brother a happy birthday :)

30 Days of Blogging - Day 27: Crushing

There are only 3 days left after today!!! Is anyone else freaking out right now? Because I am! I have loved this and it has been an experience completely different from my expectations, but whew, I'm ready for a break! So close!!

Today let's talk about crushes. (As in the "I have a crush on insertname" variety.)

Maybe it's just me growing up, or maybe I've believed it all along, I'm not even sure, but lately I find myself really disliking the act of crushing.

Now that I've started this, I wonder if I can even put it into words properly...

I like the concept of crushes and all things romantically inclined, don't get me wrong! But I'm tired of wasting my time.

Crushing in particular I'm finding to be a time waster. Far more time than I care to admit to even myself is spent in the daydream-flirt-pursuit-disappointment-happy-repeat cycle of crushing; the unknown in particular fueling the need to put more time into figuring out if they like me to.

The frustrating dilemma that I'm running into, however, is that I can SEE the way out of this wasting time that I would rather put towards actually building into relationships (friendly or romantic, not even necessarily with the crush, just in life), but I'm too big of a chicken to do it.

The solution is simple... Ask.

Just like the quintessential schoolyard note: Do you like like me? [ ]yes [ ]no.

All I have to do is ask, and then I will know where things stand and I can skip the unknown part and use my time more happily.

But I'm held in place by this doubt of my, til recently, conviction that I want to be asked, not be the asker.  For years I have thought this, and I have built reasons that I'm having trouble sorting out if I still believe or not.  I've always known that I COULD be the asker, but I've oft wondered if I SHOULD be.

Dang.

If you didn't believe me when I said I'm too chicken, I hope you have no doubt now! Did you read what I just wrote? For YEARS, I have literally managed to convince my nerdy self that my chickeniness is possibly justified!!

Obviously, since I'm writing this post, I'm coming to realize my folly, but chicken is a really hard trait to break, let me tell you!

At some point soon, I'm sure I'll come to the end of my patience with myself in this, but today isn't quite that day yet; I'm sorry to report. There's just so much pressure! How do boys do this? Putting yourself out there royally sucks.

Hopefully, when I finally grow some balls, I won't screw it up.

Wish future me luck! She'll probably need it...

30 Days of Blogging - Day 26: 3D

Heyo! It's late (early), I'm tired and happy, and (hopefully) this will be a quick blog post. Hard to believe that there are only 4 more days!

Tonight I went to the theater and saw a movie in 3D.

Side note: I should not go to exciting movies so late at night. I'm sure I drove several tired friends nuts with my overflowing nerdy excitement. Oops.

Aaanyway, what I want to talk about is 3D. Specifically my dislike of 3D.

Don't get me wrong, I love the promise and potential of 3D movies!

The problem is just that they really aren't worth it to me.

Reason one: I'm already wearing glasses, 2 pairs of glasses on one nose is 1 pair too many.

Reason two: Not to mention that somehow when wearing my glasses and the 3D glasses the 3D doesn't get processed by my brain correctly and I can see double most of the movie.

Reason three: So wear contacts! No. I did wear contacts tonight, which admittedly is a better viewing experience, but contacts are a whole mixed bag of annoying for me. Took me nearly 20 minutes to put them in, because of my astigmatism (my eye is basically pointy) the contacts slip around the whole time, the prescription isn't quite right because I can either get the right prescription at the wrong price or right price with slightly wrong prescription, and they give me a headache.

Reason four: 3D just plain looks wrong to me. Maybe it's just my weirdness, but the picture looks more fake than if I was watching it in 2D.

Reason five: 3D is more expensive. And considering the reasons already mentioned, the cost just isn't worth it too me. Why am I paying more to have a less enjoyable experience?

So, long story short, I would simply RATHER see a movie in 2D.

So why do I do it? The problem comes in when my friends want 3D. Movie watching to me is a social thing; I'm not one of those people who enjoys going to movies solo.

So I do it happily, but I regret it later.

Especially when later I have to stare at a screen to write a blog post even though I have a headache and I'm still disoriented from switching between prescriptions.

But I'm still happy. It was a really good movie. And I'm glad I have nerdy friends.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 25: AFOMFT, Traffic

I'm so tired! My phone died at youth and it only now has revived. About time! It's not like it 2am or anything!! Except it is... I'm so tired.

This one will be a quick one.

I think traffic is beautiful.

I mean, with the exception of the times when it's really quite ugly, which surprisingly is remarkably rare when you think about it.

I just find it mesmerizing, even while in the midst of it, to picture the aerial view.

Pretty metal boxes hurtling at great speeds in a dance that's so complex in it's simplicity.

Vehicles move like I picture water molecules do. The flow of the traffic as each individual unit moves in and among the flow of the others; towards the same goal, but following a unique yet nearly identical path to get there.

I don't know... It's a lovely thing to me.

You know what else is lovely? Sleep.

This countdown will continue later today.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 24: Erg. Also, Imaginary Friends.

I'm not feeling well, yet again! Why??

I am unhappy about this and feel gross and don't really want to do anything let alone figure out what to say today and generally all I feel is erg!

But I've kept this up for 23 days and I'm really not wanting to get so close to the end of this then fail.

So today is day 24 which means that this is the 7th to last post and we are still in the final countdown whether my head hurts or not!

So.

Hmmmm...

Think think think...

...I may have to turn Google again.

*googles*

Ooo! Okay, let's talk about imaginary friends!

I like this! Yes, here we go.

My only really solid memories of having imaginary friends when I was younger go as follows:
(I'm sure there were more, and my mom could probably tell you, but I don't really remember those, I only remember these.)

There were three of them.
I don't remember their names or their genders or their personalities.
But I do remember... that I only talked with them while I was sitting on the toilet.

We had a bathroom that was set up so that the toilet faced the bathtub, and my memory is that the three of them sat on the edge of the bathtub in front of me.

Somehow, it didnt cross my mind that that was maybe kind of inappropriate at all.

What can I say? Some people read magazines, I talked to imaginary people. And let me tell you, I feel like I spent an unusual amount of time doing so!

And I still (kinda) do...

That imaginary conversations in the bathroom thing is still a part of my life...

Only now, I'm in the shower, and the people are real people (even if my imaginings of them may not be) (AND SUDDENLY THIS IS REALLY WEIRD), and I imagine (and kind of do my part out loud) future scenarios that may or may not happen and how those conversations may or may not go.

OH!

No, the scenarios in my head don't involve a shower. To be clear: totally inane scenarios/conversations, I promise... Get your head out of the gutter; no, YOU get YOUR head out of the gutter!

Oh gosh, PLEASE TELL ME I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE!!

It's like day-dreaming, kinda.  It just happens to be a thing that I do while I shower.

...

Perhaps this was a post more wisely written while not sickbrained...

TOO LATE NOW! And I'm waaay to tired to write another post!

Well... This isn't embarrassing AT ALL!

...

...I'm gonna go now.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 23: Bucket List

...Sup?

Oh yeah... 8! DUHNAHNAHNUH!

Let's talk bucket list.

On my list live the following things:
(As always, not a complete list. Also, not required for happiness, just thing that if I have the opportunity to do, I will do.)

1) Travel to (almost) every continent.
I don't really include Antarctica, but the others, yeah, I'd mostly like to see those.

2) Musical Theater.
I was in the chorus of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat at 10, but I'd really like the opportunity to do something musical related again someday.

3) Build a Treehouse.
This one's pretty straight forward, I guess.  It is pretty straight forward, right? Anyone confused?

4) Get married.
Yep.

5) Go to VidCon.
Google it. I want to go someday. It's nerdy, I'm nerdy... The end.

I always run out of steam on these lists after five things!  It's bedtime, folks.  If you wanna leave a comment telling me things on your bucket list that would be pretty cool. Always looking for new ideas ;)

30 Days of Blogging - Day 22: Goodbye Church [Building]

9! DUHNAHNAHNUH!

Tomorrow we hand over the keys to our church building. It has finally sold.

It's strange, this feeling of happysad...

Goodbyes kind of suck no matter how much you're expecting them, you know.

And, in this case, this goodbye has even been hoped and prayed for for YEARS!

I'm looking forward to this next chapter for my little congregation. I know, from the last time that we were in this position, that these changes in routine really bring everyone together again.

It's going to be frustrating renting a space again, but I do love the space that we'll be in. It has such lovely acoustics :) and it literally brings us closer together. Get it? Because it's small!

God is doing something. We're just trusting. It's all for his glory.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 21: Geocaching

10! (This is the beginning of the countdown DUHNAHNAHNUH)

I just added an update w/ picture to Day 12 so check that out fo shizzle if you are interested in picturing my weirdness.

For today, however, I would like to talk at you about Geocaching.

What is geocaching? Allow me to quote the website.

Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. 

Facebook has started this "One Year Ago Today..." thing (which explains why so many people have been talking nostalgic-like as of late on my FB feed) and turns out that exactly one year ago today is when I found my first geocache.

It was a tiny magnetic container stuck to the underside of a walking bridge.

Sadly, it has since been muggled (which is the smartypants term for when someone who is assumed to not be a geocacher harms/destroys a cache), but I still walk over that bridge all the time and smile.

I haven't tried to find many caches since, and I only have about a 50% success rate, but it is a really fascinating activity that I would wholeheartedly recommend everyone try at some point.

There are a TON of caches, literally all over the world.

As a reference, this is a screenshot of the livemap of geocaches in and around Grande Prairie.

Every green box thing is a cache.

There are 98 caches in this picture alone, and this whole picture is only a teenyteenytiny dot on the world map.

Try it. It's the most fun and most frustrating futile activity I've ever taken part in, and it's always a gamble what you're gonna get!

Things I wish I'd know (or paid more attention to):

- Start easy, start happy. Maybe with one in a parking lot (it's probably hiding in the base of a light pole).

- Download the app. Also, read the recent comments on the cache to see how recently it was found and if there are any hints.

- Don't trust the GPS on your phone. DON'T DO IT!! It is not very precise and it can only get you to a plus/or/minus amount of meters. I've spent far too much time staring down at my phone walking around like a goof because my phone can't decide if the GPS is pointing to the garbage can in the parking lot or the picnic table behind me or the fence over there or...

- Go with friends, but choose wisely.  DON'T take anyone who gets bored easily. DON'T take anyone who isn't interested (you will not be able to change their mind quick enough, trust me). DO go with someone who has experience, if you can.  And DO go with people you can frustrated with and still have a good time.

I personally think it's a blast and I look forward to more finds in the future :)

Toodles for now my lovelies! I can't believe there are only 9 more days!!

30 Days of Blogging - Day 20: AFOMFT, Random

Two-thirds of the way!!!

Also.... IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN DUHNUHNAHNUH!

For this special occasion (and also just because I feel like it), here are few of my random favorite things from today:
-- Frisbee Golf
-- Frozen Yogurt
-- Board Games
-- Graph Paper Doodling
-- My Church Family

That's mostly it. Five is a nice number of things in a list anyway. Goodnight world!

30 Days of Blogging - Day 19: Quote of the Day

"I'm weird. Well... you're weirder."
-- my mother, to me.

Yes. Can't you just feel the love?

Just joking :) I love my mother and if SHE hadn't qualified her first statement, I probably would have. 

And she tried so hard to keep a straight face so that made it totally worth it!

I am most certainly the weirdest person I know.  And my mother, apparently, agrees :D

I'll try to make a more thought out blog post tomorrow, but for now... Toodles!

30 Days of Blogging - Day 18: Creativity

Still sick...

Nearly forgot that I even had to blog today.

What to say, what to say, what to say?

Hmmm...

Did you know that I'm a very creative person?

There's a lot of forms of creativity that I couldn't do to save my life, but the ones that I can do I sure wouldn't enjoy living without.

I can crochet, knit, knook (knit with a crochet hook), sew, cross stitch, papercraft, and design. (And more, I'm sure, that I just can't think of.)

I can paint so long as it's solid things like walls or geometric prints, but don't ask for a flower or sunset.

I can draw so long as it's on graph paper or it's very simple, but even my stick figures don't look like stick figures sometimes.

I don't go a day without creating in some form, and I don't think I would want to.

Creativity is one of my favorite things.

That's all I've got for today. If you'll excuse me, I have more sickness to go sleep off.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 17: Cursive Typewriter

I've been sick today and I don't even think I could make a fancy blog post if I tried.

Instead I will just tell you that someday I want to own a cursive typewriter.

I didn't even know they existed til yesterday, but now I do, and I wants one.

They cost a pretty penny (or you know, more like 20,000 pretty pennies, at least), but they're so pretty.

And the cursive typing is enough to make my nerd heart sing in happiness.

I mean... See for yourself!

http://moca468.tumblr.com/post/117131648086/karenkavett-alandistro-sarahalyse

30 Days of Blogging - Day 16: Zodiac

Perhaps my promise of silliness returning today was premature; what I have in mind is a little more on the serious side.

I have a confession (of sorts) to make.

A couple days ago when I googled an idea for what to blog on, the post I ended up posting was actually the second one that I typed up.

The first was in response to the prompt, "What is your zodiac sign and how does it match your personality?"

I thought, "Ha! This should be a goofy one! Why not give it a whirl?"

So I googled it. And I spent far more time on astrology websites than I ever have before.

Far too much time, I think now.

I was bouncing around between the websites and the blog post, making a list of all of the things that were true to my personality and the (admittedly, surprisingly few) ones that were not, when it just... started to feel uncomfortable.

I didn't understand it at the time so I just deleted what I had written and literally changed the subject, but I've had some time to think about it and I'd like to share what I've come up with.

Going into that post, I was under the mistaken impression that I would find mainly things that were wrong.

What, in fact, ended up happening is that a lot of it was shockingly right.

I found myself going from site to site just trying to find something that was false, and it was proving to be kinda hard.

I didn't (and really, really still don't) agree with the theology on the sites, but the bullet points about "me" were hard to argue with.

There was a lot of truth on those websites.

And the truths there wanted me to believe them, believe IN them.

But the Holy Spirit in my heart reminded me that I have witnessed real Truth, and those "truths" couldn't measure up to it.

The Truth I know is one that does not reduce "me" to a set of predestined bullet points, but one that sets the real me free.

A Truth that speaks of grace in the face of my real depravity; of the Truest form of love in spite of my real sins and shortcomings.

It offers me a peace beyond all understanding.

Those websites couldn't do that.  The truths there left me confused and burdened.

I don't like to feel that way, but over the last few days as I have reflected on those feelings, I'm grateful for them.

They have shown me that I have forgotten how lost I was before I was found; how hopeless I was before there was real grace.

Nothing in the world can offer me anything better than that.

Forgive me, God, for coming to this place of taking your peace and hope and grace and the security you offer though Jesus Christ for granted.  May I continue to be reminded that these are your free gifts to me, and my mother didn't raise me to be ungrateful.  Help me, Holy Spirit, to seek an attitude of thankfulness, not entitlement; to live gratefully, not expectantly.  Thank you for your mental protection when I go off unprepared for the spiritual war that I will face.  Thank you for continuously teaching me.  I love you, too.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 15: Spoilers

HALF WAAAYY!!!!

Whoop whoop!!

Can we talk about spoilers? Thanks.

Please, let's all (yes, including me) expand our understanding of what a spoiler is.

Just because you don't actually say anything about the plot does not mean that what you are saying is not a spoiler.

Don't say it made you cry, or that you didn't see the twist coming, or that the ending left you frustrated, or that it was the BEST movie/TV show/book EVER!

In fact, if you know that the person you are talking to is planning to watch/read whatever you are talking about, just don't say anything. Don't. Say. Anything. Don't even let your emotions show, just avoid the whole subject.

Whatever spoilery thing you say or do (even accidentally) will make that person go in with expectations that they wouldn't have had if you had just done nothing.

Have some patience; wait until they've had the chance to experience it as you did.

Please and thank you?

After -- if it's me anyways -- we can totally nerd out on our shared unspoiled experience.

This has been my public service announcement, tomorrow we will return to our normally scheduled silliness, I promise :D

30 Days of Blogging - Day 14: Favorite Thing on the Internet Right Now

That this video and this video became THIS VIDEO

And that that song is now being performed LIVE by a group of very, very talented people that I really hope I have an opportunity to go see perform someday if they ever do another tour (especially if they come to Canada)!

http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/116832393125/youtube-fan-adict-you-got-batman-entirely

The internet is an amazing thing sometimes :)

That's all for today, Lovelies. Whoohoo two weeks down! This makes me so happy!

30 Days of Blogging - Day 13: Never Have I Ever

Whew! Today was a long and busy one; full of good things, but even good things can be tiring.

I'm so tapped out that today I'm going to turn to google to give me a blog prompt.

*googles blogging challenge prompts*

Hmmm.... "What's one thing you've never done that most people have?"

Sure, why not.

I've never been on a date.

Ta-da!

Is this sad? Possibly.
Is it bad? I don't think so.

It just hasn't been.

The last time I was even asked out it was to the school dance and I was 11 and they (yes THEY) were 12. The two boys asked me at the same time while our grade 5/6 split class was walking to the school library. I thought they were waaaay too old for me and that I was waaaay too young to be dating.  I said no.

Gosh has it really been nearly 14 years?

I can easily say that a year hasn't gone by since then that I haven't wanted to go on a date.  But at the same time, looking back, I'm glad I didn't have the opportunity.  Well, maybe glad is the wrong word, but I feel a strange sort of gratefulness that I didn't have to deal with the complications of relationships before I had an understanding of emotions, and communication, and trust, and my value, and how to give grace, and basically just how complicated it can all be.

I feel like I have a decent grasp on it all now, but not a year has gone by since that fateful trip to the library that I haven't looked back and seen yet another thing that I have learned that will equip me for later.

But, you know, anytime now would be great; I can continue to learn in the field and figure it out as I go, I'm sure! :)

Latergators.

30 Days of Blogging - Day 12: I'm Weird, Episode 2

Et voila! We have arrived at Day 12!

Why is that exciting?  I have no idea, but here we are so lets enjoy ourselves!

On this grand(ish) occasion, I present to you...

3 [More] Ways That Emmi is Weird
(still, not even close to a comprehensive list)

1.  When I wear headphones, I play with the cord in my mouth
Gross, I know.  I don't MEAN to do it!  And when I notice I (usually) remove it.  And I don't like chew on it or anything!  I just wrap it around one of my canines and let it hang out there.  Why am I even telling you this?  Seriously, I'm an odd duck folks.

2.  I won't turn down your Facebook request, I will just let you hang out in limbo forever.

Sorry.  (This doesn't actually apply to anyone reading my blog, probably.)  Somehow it feels less permanent and insulting (even though they probably won't know) to just not do anything.  I'm kinda picky about the people that I'm friends with on Facebook.  So, yeah, I have 12 friend requests pending (presumably) forever. Hey! One of them is my Uncle! ...oops.

3.  When I'm bored (and even sometimes when I'm not), I put things on my head

Again, without thinking! Especially if it is box shaped, but I really will do it with most anything.  Am I holding a roll of tape?  On my head it goes.  Do I have a book in my hands?  Up on the head!  Have I just emptied a laundry basket or a fruit box?  You guessed it, it's up there.  This has become so commonplace that my family doesn't even notice it anymore.  A while ago, I had a whole conversation with my mom while I had an empty laundry basket on my head AND SHE WASN'T EVEN PHASED!

I keep telling people!  I'm weird; we all just need to accept it and move on :)  Everyone ends happy.

Byebye for now!

Edited on Day 21:

I just now had the thought to update this, but only after I had been sitting here talking to my dad for several minutes with a cucumber box on my head. Why is it on my head? Because it was empty and just sitting on the table between us. I saved it from it's loneliness, so I ask you instead, why not?

Yes, of course, I took a picture.  Yes, my eyes are slightly cross-eyed and my face is ridiculous.  Do you have any idea how hard it is to take a selfie while balancing a wide box on your head?  It is quite difficult.

I could have tried again (and gotten a better result, preferably in landscape form), but my dad was making fun of me and I had already interrupted our conversation (that was progressing just fine while I had a box on my head) to take a picture so I though it was wise to just leave it at this.

In case you were wondering, yes, I continued to wear it for quite some time :)

30 Days of Blogging - Day 11: Cool Runnings

Cool Runnings is a great movie!

That's really all I have to say :)

If you haven't seen it, I don't know if we can still be friends.

Just kidding! We can be friends, but know that at some point I will probably make you watch it.

If we're in that kind of relationship where
1) We even watch movies together, and
2) You don't mind me picking the movie.

If you have seen it, let's watch it together sometime anyway!

Just tell me when :)