Big Projects in the Works

Hey guys,

            Today’s post is going to be really short and I apologize for that because I know I did not have anything last weekend but I wanted to let you in on a few projects that I am thinking of that are the reason that I have not been around. I appreciate that you guys are sticking around and I hope that you are still going to hang around while I organize and prepare a few really spectacular stories for you.

            The first story that is in the works is a fashion post. This will be like the pre-post to a swarm of posts that will be going up the first two weeks of July when I will be on a road trip down the west coast. (YAAAY!!!) Currently I am shopping for many new items of clothing that will be put into a series of outfits and I wanted to show you my ideas. My plan though, was to post the outfits after California and maybe have a video? after that. This would create for you guys a new form of entertainment as well as a new experience for myself.

            On top of that, I will also be posting a short but sweet post for you guys over my summer playlist. I am going to be creating it for my trip, but it will be a wide variety of good summer songs that I love as well as some other songs that are just good to have fun and dance to. I might end up combining this list with the fashion post, but like I said, nothing is set in stone yet.

            The west coast trip is the next story on the list and it is going to be an experiment, because I believe I am going to make it a video. On the same topic I have an idea for daily videos that could be cool, but I still do not for sure what I want to do. It might just be me in my hotel room talking for two weeks. We shall see.

            So anyways, that is what is in the works for the upcoming months. This weekend there will be two posts for sure and maybe one more but we will have to see. I hope you guys had a great weekend. I have a really busy week coming up this week so I won’t be posting probably until the weekend. See you guys later!

This is my fight song! Take back my life song! ~ Rachel Platten

Crossfit

Hey guys,

            Oh my god! Yet another insight into my life…I love to be athletic. As I told you guys before, I am in high school and one thing that I really love to do is sports. The sports that I participate in are Cross Country and Track and I’m pretty average. Actually, if I am being honest, I almost always am at the back of the pack. However, I do love to do it. Well, this year I decided that in hopes of getting better, I would start Crossfit. Oh my goodness! It is hard and I am sore and it is amazing. I really do recommend it if you want to get stronger or simply if you want to exercise, but you have to commit. It is a little pricy, but in my opinion it is worth it. That is really all I wanted to say so see you later!

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! ~ Kelly Clarkson

Spring Cleaning

Hey guys,

       I know I am a little late to join the party that is spring cleaning, but I had a revelation on Wednesday. So, a little info on yours truly...I am a sophomore in high school. Well, it was Wednesday and it was one of those days where everything was done and I got bored, so I started cleaning out my binder...then I moved to my computer bag...and I got to thinking. Why not just do everything. So, then I said "Hey, I don't have a blog for this week yet”.... and guess what? Here it is!!! Now, I am not just going to tell you about my spring-cleaning and leave you. I thought I would give you some tips!

1. Get rid of all papers that have no meaning to you and are not important for upcoming and current events.

This one is more for students, but it could work for adults to. I like to separate papers into three piles: don't need, graded, and current. Normally I throw away the don't need papers, keep the stack of graded papers somewhere I know I can find them, and organize the current papers back into my binder according to subject.

2.  Use different mason jars to organize your desk. 

I actually did not come up with this one on my own...My mom actually did this for me, but I am in love with it because it saves so much time from homework. I used to have to dig in a pencil bag to find a highlighter, now it takes me two seconds.

3. Go through your closet and anything you have not worn in the past month/year (with the exception of dresses and formal clothing) get rid of it!

I can't even tell you how many shirts have sat in my closet for countless months or even years, not being touched. I am one of the worst people. Because I continually say that I will clean out my closet, but I never do.

4. Organize your bookshelves.

I have an overwhelming amount of books that I probably have not touched for years...there has just been a stack growing in my room. What I ended up doing was creating categories: book series that are completely finished, book series I have not finished, book series I started and then finished on my nook, books for school reports, and finally books I have to finish or have not read yet.

 

5. Put your shoes in your shoe rack.

I also really struggle with this one. I change shoes at least twice a day so I often don't think anything of it and throw them on the floor. Well, let me be the first to tell you ladies. When you clean up a pile of shoes, it is a lot like cleaning out your purse. You have no clue what you will find.

6. Make your bed.

Honestly, it just looks neater and speaking from personal experience, it just looks neater.

7. Clean out your shower and your bathroom.

My main problem with this is hair in my shower and putting the things in my bathroom away.

Unfortunately I will not be at home this weekend to do my spring-cleaning, but I can promise you guys I will be doing my it as soon as possible. See you later!

‘Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth ~ Jason Mraz

New Name, New Style

Hey guys,

            I figured it out. First thing I noticed is that I use the word “so” in literally everything, therefor I am going to switch that up. Next thing is the title of this blog is going to change. It is now going to be called Random Thoughts and that way I can post whatever the heck I want and not have to create an entirely new blog. There is going to be at least one more post this weekend that I am really going to introduce myself to you and maybe that will start things off better. Let’s try this out, shall we? See you later!

Make a wish, take a chance, make a change! ~ Kelly Clarkson

My Dilemmas

Hey guys,

            So, I have  a few dilemmas that I would like to share with you regarding this blog.

1.     I don’t think my writing is that great. I need to figure out a better way to write posts that actually would keep you guys interested. Maybe I change the basis for the blog…I don’t know I will have to think of something. What if I pitched ideas on this blog and then had another one that I actually did things on…like I said I’m just brainstorming

2.     Pictures. So, if it is not already obvious…I get most of my pictures off of the Internet. There are two main reasons for that.

a.     Most of the pictures I want to post are just basic and non personal pictures

b.     I am not quite satisfied with my camera skills. I mean every once in a while I will get a photo I really like, but that is very rare.

3.     Time. I know most of you are looking at that and saying you should have thought of that before you started the blog in the first place but you have to understand something. It took me a month after having the idea of a blog and coming up with the first two posts to actually create anything. Since then, I have been busy with sports and homework and just plain writers block. Part of that goes back to the fact that I think I need to open the blog up to more things than just entertainment

Those are just a few of the things I am struggling with…of course that does not mean I am going to stop blogging, I just might move some things around more. That is all I have for you guys today. Look for some changes and see you guys later!

I’m dying to live. Something’s gotta give. ~All Time Low

The Royals TV Show Review

Hey guys,

            So I discovered this TV show actually, the day it premiered. I really enjoy it and if you like drama, love stories, and basically just other families with bigger issues than yours, you will like it too.

              Characters

Queen Helena: So what I have figured out about her is she is just a cold hard witch. When her son dies, she doesn’t appear to give a care. All she really cares about is how the family looks and she never really shows any concern for how her children feel. She does not like that Liam is dating Ophelia and she actually calls in his ex-girlfriend to hit on him. Then with Eleanor, she regulates her social media and gloats about how much better she is then her.

Eleanor: I have not figured Eleanor out yet. She seems to be a good person when she supports Liam and Ophelia, but at the same time she has gotten herself involved in some pretty heavy stuff. Jasper is blackmailing her, she is a drug addict, and she often tries to sabotage her mother’s events. In her defense however, she seems to be one of the only ones who actually is grieving over the death of her brother. So I still need to figure her out.

Jasper: So, I think that Jasper is just trying to protect his image as a Brit, but he goes about it by blackmail and he has a significant disadvantage when he goes to blackmail Eleanor. However, I do not think that that is all there is to Jasper. I think there is a bigger story that has not been revealed yet.

Liam: First off, I have to say that the actor that plays Liam also plays Peter in Chronicles of Narnia and that made me so happy to find out. But anyways, Liam is one of my favorite characters because he doesn’t really care about the fact that he is a royal and he does not really want to be a royal. He is slowly falling in love with Ophelia and he has even said that he does not want the crown. So I like him.

Ophelia: Ophelia is interesting. I think that she brings in a little bit of reality into the family. She is introducing Liam to how the normal people live their lives and she has also befriended Eleanor. Other than that, I don’t really know about her or what her end game is.

Gemma: I don’t like Gemma at all. Her sole purpose in this show is to hit on Liam, but I have a suspicion that her and Jasper are going to end up together somehow. They both are going after two of the royals that are clearly not interested and both of them kind of seem like they would work well together.

So, I kind of lied. I decided to just spam you guys all weekend to make up for me not being around very much the past couple of weeks. Umm…I think the next one I am going to do is going to be a catch up on what I have been into recently. But, I have no clue if it will be up almost immediately or what. See you later!

Bring anarchy to the monarchy!

Red Queen Book Review

Red Queen Book Review

Hey guys,

So I read the book and I liked it! I truly and honestly found it very interesting. So for those of you who have not read it yet, I will give you a summary and then I want you to get off of here and go read it and then come back!

            Summary

Red Queen is a book by Victoria Aveyard. It is so good and I highly recommend it. Basically, the book is set in the future and it is separated by the color of your blood. So the Red bloods are just normal humans and they are under the rule of the Silver bloods that are people with special powers. Mare is a girl of Red blood and she ends up getting wrapped up in the Silver world and she goes on a very interesting adventure of trust and honesty. So go read it and then come back and see the rest.

             Characters

              Mare: Mare is very interesting in my perspective. She is very smart, but at the same time she can be very clueless. For a majority of the book, she is trying to stay ahead of the whole game. She thinks that she is smart by siding with Maven over Cal, but in the end, she just ends up making the worst decision and figures out that she should have been siding with Cal. I mean, I figured out about halfway through the book that Maven was going to be the person she shouldn’t trust, but even when she found out, she was so surprised. So yeah, she was interesting to me.

             

              Evangeline and the Queen: I don’t really have much to say about Evangeline and the Queen. I mean, the whole time they were pretty much the same. They did not like Mare from the start and they did not like her up until the very end.

              Maven: He ticked me off. I mean, I figured it out about halfway through that he was lying to Mare, but it still ticked me off. I mean he seemed to actually care about her and she obviously trusted him and then he just betrayed her. But his whole reason for betraying her made sense. He was the younger brother that did not get a choice on who he got to marry and had to live in his brother’s shadow. And that never ends well.

              Cal: Cal confused me. I could definitely tell from the beginning that he cared about Mare, but he just did not show it very much and Mare did not show her love for him very much, but in the end they kind of fell in love and I just don’t understand that whole love story.

              Plot

              I kind of really liked the plot of the entire thing.  A society is divided by the color of their  blood, and then out of the blue, one of the red bloods has powers and switches the whole game. However, the game is always switching and everybody has to fend for themselves to figure it out.

I’m so sorry guys, I just got busy, and then I had writer’s block, but I am going to be posting a lot this weekend to hopefully catch up with the game. I think I am going to post a review of the first few episodes of The Royals and then probably update you guys on my recent entertainment obsessions. I might also do a few other things if I can think of them. See you probably tomorrow!

I will never submit again. I will never stop fighting. ~Mare