Features?

So lately I have been thinking about better organizing this blog and allowing there to be "features." I'm contemplating just a few to begin and making only a couple of them regular. Here are my couple of ideas and why I want to create them.

Music Mondays: I have seen someone's blog with "Miscellaneous Mondays," but I am constanly either listening to or playing music and I find that music conveys the things that I feel better than words do. Therefore, I want to start a feature that includes the things I love most! My idea is to share not only just songs and lyrics that are inspiring me, but also music videos and possibly new bands I discover. Obviously this feature would be published every Monday.

Flashback Feature: As most/all of you know, I work at a funeral home. Really, I swear it's not that bad!! My job is actually kind of interesting. I not only clean/answer phones, but I am the only one who can work the computer pretty much when it comes to making DVDs for services. Our DVDs consist of merely pictures and songs, and allows me to come across hundreds of old vintage photos. I have always enjoyed looking at them, seeing the old styles and such, but I always felt like it was stealing to post them. BUT, I think if I just let everyone know that they are not mine and I don't disclose personal information, that I can get away with it, cause my blog readers number about 4. And I'm pretty sure you guys aren't going to steal these pictures. This feature wouldn't be a regular one (predictable) because I don't make DVDs everyday. It's actually extremely unpredictable when they come in, but I have a lot to catch up on, so we can just see how much this one appears.

Outfit Posts: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know this one is like super cliched, but I love reading other peoples' outfit posts!! Also, I have recently aquired a few vintage-y pieces that I want to start incorporating more. I have also been inspired by Mallory's recent blogs about wardrobe trends. I don't think I will title these features outfit posts, but I want to do something similar. Any suggestions??



Here's a sneak peek into my very first Flashback Feature:

Isn't she so cute!!!


Do you think these are good ideas?? Any comments? Suggestions? They would be greatly appreciated!!

my day. my wonderfully beautiful day.

i had only one class left of my freshman year this morning and it is OVER!!!! I have 3 finals left and I'm done!! I will be studying (trying to) for most of the weekend. Then it will be SUMMER!!! I can't wait to not have anything to do, ever. It will be so nice to actually do the things I want to. I have a very long to do list over the summer and I also would like to save my money up for a couple of large purchases.

Here's what I would like to do over the summer:

-start exercising in any fashion at least 3 times a week. preferrably walking/jogging outside.
-read, read, and READ!!! I have an entire bookshelf of things that I need to read this summer that a guy from my old church let me borrow and i've had them for a long time.
-expand my music library
-spend more time outside
-hang out with my bestest friends!
-eat healthier
-practice violin and piano at least every other day
-read my bible more. I always use the excuse that i don't have time, but over them summer would be the best time to start getting in the habit

What I want to save up to buy:

i want to buy a new in dash for my car that has bluetooth in it so i don't even have to use my hands to answer phonecalls and also has an ipod input! the only thing is it is going to be like $200.....

i would LOVE to have a nice camera. mine sucks. i want to take pretty pictures!!!!

lastly, i want to buy a black pair of TOMS so i can wear them to work, cause i currently have white ones and i want to make them pretty!

kevin james is soooo funny







last night was AWESOME!! we got to stand like three feet from Josh the whole time!!! and then afterward we got to talk to the guy who is pictured on the left. he was super nice! anyway, it was a great night had by all!

today, i had my chemistry class. i got 10 extra points on the test we took wednesday because i took a survey to help my professer with his research and then i got an Outstanding General Chemistry Student award too! Woo!

when i got out i met my parents for lunch at McSalty's, which i hadn't had in forever. it was delish and now i'm at home just killin time before i go to work. 

next wednesday couldn't come fast enough!!! here comes summer!!!!

lackluster.

 so i have been neglecting the visual aspect of this blog for a while. no pictures just boring rants about my life, so today i am going to treat you to pictures i have found on weheartit.com that i liked. so here goes.

this past week, it rained A TON!! this seemed fitting.

story of my life.

this just made me LOL!!!!

i love these flowers. we used to sell them at the greenhouse. i think they are called blanket flowers and they are perennials!!! (that means they come back every year......yeah i'm a flower nerd)

once again. story of my life.

i appologize about the cuss word, but this is so true. especially to me.

this made me think of last nights message at church. i need to work on witnessing more.

HAHA!!! I WISH!!!!

Anyway, these were just some pictures that caught my eye. Tonight is the Showbread concert!! YAYY!! Overall this day has pretty much rocked! I had a commuter student luncheon today, catered by Qdoba and it was delish (and free). Also, apparently I won an award for Chemistry today, and I went to the wrong location and didn't make it to the ceremony. But, hey! At least I won!!! I took my Chemistry Lab final and I feel semi-good about it. I don't think it will be too bad. Now I just have two lessons and 2.5 hours between me and Showbread!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Have a great week/weekend!

i'm sorry.

i'm sorry i'm not outstanding at anything. i'm sorry that i'm content in being mediocre. i'm sorry that i wasn't born into a perfect, prodigenous, famous or rich family. i'm sorry i'm just an average everyday person. i'm sorry i have to make sacrifices and they aren't the ones you would like me to make. i'm sorry i can't, i just can't, please everyone. and in the process of trying to i can't even please myself.

this day went from being pretty good and productive to sucky and terrible. just like that. i know i shouldn't, but i would sometimes like to get a little bit of recognition for the things i do. no i don't need to be awarded or whatever, and maybe i'm just being a baby, but i put a lot of work into things and i just get a little too jealous of people who do get recognition. maybe it's just attention. i have attention issues. i always like to be in the middle of the spotlight i guess. well, it's life. i just don't know what's going on in praise band right now. i took one week off and i feel like drew is questioning my intentions now. i wish he would just tell me why he's acting like this. i wouldn't have asked what time i needed to be there if i didn't want to be. UGH!!!! i'm so frustrated. i wish i could just get away. sometimes i feel like nobody would miss me anyway.

i'm really nothing. i'm nobody's anything. i can't do this anymore. i can't try to please everyone or try to impress people or even try to compete with people. i have to just be myself and be happy with who i am and i think that's the kicker. sometimes i just repulse myself. like today, i have no ambition to study or do anything. i just want to crawl into a little ball and sleep forever. and it makes me sick. it makes me sick that i could be great at things, but i'm not because i don't try. i hate this wretched feeling. i hate feeling worthless and useless.

i just want to be somebody!!! anybody but myself, today.

almost done

so i am almost officially done with my first year of college. WOO HOO!!!! i survived!!! :D actually i guess i shouldn't way that just yet.... anyway, i am super duper happy it's almost ove but i have a million tests to study for, which i am failing at doing right now 'cause i'm writing this blog.

tomorrow i have my Chemistry Lab final. really nervous about that. i need to STUDY!!!! i also have my Chemistry final to look forward to, my Alpha final and my Spanish final (EEEEEP!) so guess what i will be doing with most of my time the next week? no, not studying silly. what would give you that idea? no i will probably be procrastinating and playing music or something. well, right now i'm going to go have lunch with devin and then i'm going home to clean and study before church. sounds like fun, doesn't it! do you wanna come and we can make a party of it? yeah, i wouldn't want to either.

anywho, i hope that all of your endings of school are going great! have a good rest of the semester!!!

If true love lasts forever, then love doesn't die, it just becomes the living dead...

um so i forgot how much a truly enjoy Showbread. It reminds me of the summer before junior year. I first heard of them from Allison and Chelsea when we were in summer school and i was house sitting for a guy at my church who lived in Battlefield, Missouri. I had to drive 45 minutes everyday to summer school and Josh Dies serenaded me all the way. I also listened to them everyday on my way to work (after the house sitting job was over) and that's what i think of everytime i'm listening to them. Saturday, my brother did some yard work for J.R., the guy i house sat for, and we had to go pick him up and on the way out there i was thinking, hmmmmm, this reminds me of showbread, who knew that i would be going to see them live the very next week!!!! i'm so excited for it :) even if i must miss bible study.

Anywho,on a different note, i'm so sick of the rain. it's dreary and depressing. i am so busy and i am just so tired cause i swear that this weather creates drowsiness and also i'm so wore out from walking in the cold rain all day. WHERE IS THE SUN?!?!

also, today hasn't been too stressful, it's just been boring and dragged out. i have like and hour here and there to do whatever and i don't know what to do cause i can't get in my head what all needs to be done. so in other words, this day is sooooo unproductive. the only thing i've succeeded in doing was writing my spanish paper and taking my fit for life final which i failed.

also, tonight i have two rehearsals. i'm going to be so sick of music by the time it's done, but whatever. i'm going to try to make it as therapuetic as possible and also bring other things for in between, just in case i can decide what i need to do next.

well, i must say goodbye for now, although i have a lot of other things on the brain right now. i have to get to school to help print out/cut flyers for our commuter student lunch thursday. TOODLES!!!!

bum ba dum ba bum ba dum

i have had a really boring day. i have tried and tried and tried to get my stupid spanish paper done,but i'm just not good at focusing. people have been in and out today, but i haven't had anything to do......so what do i do? i blog, of course!!! :)

tonight, unfortunately, i can't go to church cause i have a rehearsal tonight, but i'm hoping it goes quickly so i can hang out tonight with karasyn and the gang. hehe. i am also excited to go to the showbread concert thursday!!!!!!! i have never seen them live, but i love their music, surprisingly enough. it's so much different than anything i had ever heard before and yet so catchy and awesome!!

well, i better not waste too much time on this  blog cause i'm supposed to be doing something productive.....still not really sure what that is lol.

anyway, i just wanted to drop in and say hi to the like 2 people who read this and let them know that i'm still alive, if you cared hehe :)

have a great week!!!