New look…

So I decided that I suck at blogging. I have nothing interesting or witty to write, so why pretend I do? However I’m going to continue blogging…I’m changing it to photography blogging. Sort of tracking my photography, other photographers I’m into, ext. We’ll see how it goes. Maybe I’ll actually post more that once every 6 months

Ch-ch-changes!

Haha that might be my dumbest title yet! 🙂 

So this Saturday my younger sister got engaged to her boyfriend of about 4 years. So that takes the wedding count for next summer to FOUR for me! Yep that’s right four! I have my wedding…that’s still kinda weird…on May 30th, then my cousin/roommates wedding on June 20th (exactly 3 weeks later) then my friend susies wedding July 18th (4 weeks later) and then my sisters (2 weeks later). Oh did I mention I am in ALL of those weddings? So throw in wedding showers, bachelorette parties and my honeymoon and you have a very…very busy summer for me! And expensive! Don’t get my wrong I’m super excited, and slightly overwhelmed! It’s soo weird, I mean 3 people who are very very close to me are getting married at basically the same time as me! If you would have asked me two years ago what my life would look like now I can guarantee I would not have predicted this. 

The next year is going to be full of so many changes, this time next year I’m going to be living with a boy! haha I’ve lived with a boy for a year and a half in my entire life and I was 8. That’s it. Never lived with a brother or anything. It’s crazy to think about. A lot of my friends will be married. Things are just going to be very different. And surprisingly I’m not really worried. Normally change kind of scares me, but right now I’m just excited!

It’s official… I’m getting old

There has been multiple times this summer in which I have heard people say “that’s fire” or “he’s fire” The first time was at an friend in high schools open house, and he told Niko and I to get some punch because it was fire! lol which we thought was really funny. Now I have heard it a few more times, and the other day someone said it and I was thinking about it a little later and then I thought “It must be a kid thing” What the crap? A kid thing? That’s gotta mean I’m old. Then I sat in my car for a few minutes thinking about how old it made me feel to call teenagers kids… It’s weird

Hurricane Kokomo

I’m sitting at work listening to rain beating all over this little trailer that happens to be sitting ontop of a pretty tall hill that drops into a very scary pit of rocks, bricks, asphalt, concrete and wire hoping that this little guy can withstand the ridiculous amount of wind crashing into it. On a positive note, due to the huricanne hitting my little trailer there has only been two trucks in the last 2 1/2 hours, providing me with a relaxing slow day. Which allows me to blog one of only two blogs, I believe, for this entire summer. It seems that blogging takes a back burner during the summer. I don’t have hours a day that I am trying to procrastinate studying which ultimately leads to me blogging. That doesn’t mean that there has been nothing to blog about this summer. The exact opposite is true, this summer has been so full of ups, and downs, many movies, many hours spent with many wonderful people, concerts, many laughs, many tears, and not to forget wonderfully scary sleepwalking stories! 🙂 Summer is dwindling down, it’s pretty sad. A good portion of my friends will not be at Purdue this year which makes me pretty sad. I only have like 3 more weekends of summer vacation. In exactly 20 days I will be sucked back into classes, studying, exams, papers, unfortunately finding a job and then with all of these things comes more procrastination and ultimately more blogging. ha. Honestly I don’t think I will ever be a daily blogger or a good blogger that is, I’m just never going to be that commited. I say I’m going to do a good job, have blogs that matter, and then I end up just writing dumb posts like this.  Maybe one day I will have something important to say.

I’M BACK!!

My blog is finally working again… literally all summer it has not worked… and it finally does. So hopefully I will be updating more. I have been out of the blogging world for quite some time now.

I guess the thing to talk about to ease myself back into blogging ha would be the event of the summer… Derek and Lori’s wedding. 🙂  It was a wonderful day! Crazy, weird, but wonderful. They are married… it’s official. They are the first ones. I’m so excited for them, but I don’t think it will hit until they get back from the honeymoon and are living together! It’s going to take some adjusting to seeing Derek as a husband. It’s weird having married friends, and friends getting engaged (another friend of mine got engaged Friday) Everyone is growing up…it’s weird…. time goes by so fast. Micah Watson was in town today and I hadn’t realized it had been FIVE years since he moved. I was just getting my license when they left. Crazy. Before I know it half my friends will be married and having real grown up jobs!  weird.

broken :(

So I have not written a new post in so long because EVERY time I open wordpress and sign in Safari closes…I have no idea why and it makes me sad and very frustrated. So right now I’m on Niko’s computer so I can explain to my loyal 2 readers why it is that I have abandoned my blog. So if anyone could shed a little light onto why my blog might be broken it would be great if you could help me out!

Hopefully it is fixed soon and I will be able to get back into blogging!

Summer lovin’

I think Indiana finally decided to not skip summer! I LAYED OUT today! Does everyone understand how epic that is? I was outside most of the day. I ran, layed out, played cornhole and football with Niko’s familia. Amazing! I heard it got up to 81 degrees! It’s about freaking time! I don’t think I could handle much more cold weather. So let’s hope this time the warm weather sticks, the grass stays green, and the leaves stay on the trees! 🙂 I hope tomorrow is just as nice! I highly recommend spending some time outside if it is. 🙂

Trendy

There are some trends that aren’t good or are just dumb. However there are some that benefit people so what’s wrong with being “trendy” if it is for a good cause? The One Campaign, going “green” and Product Red are all examples of the good kind of trendy. I’ll admit they are all trendy but who cares? If people want to buy shirts that promote being green or whatever, then great for them. As long as they are actually doing something about it. I’ll admit it’s hard to completely transition into recycling everything or making sure all the lights are off, or buying enviromentally friendly products (which are more expensive) but I’m working on it. And with (RED) I support it 100%. I’m not naive, I know that a lot, if not the majority, of the people buying the Red Products are doing it because it’s the new thing to do. But really why does it matter? In a perfect world everyone would donate money to charities, to help children dying everyday in Africa to maybe live a longer, healthier life. But our world is far from perfect. And if it takes buying a shirt or a bag or whatever from the GAP to get people to donate money than I say go for it. Do you think the mother seeing her child suffer from AIDS, or the child who is going to be left an orphan because there parents won’t be around, do you think they care where the money for there medication is coming from? Or what the motives of the doner were? I doubt it. They just see there child being given a chance that they may not have otherwise gotten.  I could probably go on and on in this post but I would probably lose your attention so I won’t. But like I said in a perfect world people would we wouldn’t have to worry about this, people would have compassion. They would not need compensation for there donations, but it’s not a perfect world. And also if by me wearing a shirt that says (2 Weeks) and someone asks what that means, that opens up a chance for me to explain the huge need there is for help in Africa to someone who may not even know.  So I say be trendy, if that’s what it takes, then be as trendy as you want.

It was a really good cloak

If you have ever watched a movie that impacted you so much you keep thinking about it for hours or days than you will probably relate to this post. Yesterday I watched the movie Crash with Niko, Joel and Meghan. I didn’t really know what it was about and Joel was talking about how epic of a movie it is and how we had to watch it. I was a little skeptical that it wasn’t going to be as good as Joel was claiming it to be. To say the least it blew me away. The movie followed the lives of several different people who led completely defferent lives, they were of different races, social classes, different backgrounds. One common thing they shared was that the characters showed weakness and strengths in equal measure. Every person has the potential to be good or evil, to be the hero or the villian. And this movie depicted that amazingly. But what really really got to me in the movie was the intense amount of hatred that so many of the characters had, and how real that is in our society. If you don’t know anything about the movie a major theme in it is racism. And if you know anything about me you know that is something I feel very strongly about. To judge a person soley based on the color of there skin is something that I will never ever understand. Not only to judge a person but to have so much anger and fear built up that it leads to hating someone because of there race just blows me away. This movie was so sad in that aspect yet so unfortunately real.
The movie will really will force you to be brutually honest with yourself. Everyone makes judgements of others based on appearances. I know I do it despite my best efforts not to. Race is not the only thing people make judgements on. You look at two people walking into a room, one- well kept, dressed nicely, hair fixed, the other- baggy, possibly dirty clothes, messy hair. Which one would you go up and talk to? We judge them completely different based on there outward appearance. You have no idea what they are like, what kind of a family life they may have. We base our judgements on people on one event, one meeting is all it takes and we think we have them pegged. Most of us probably don’t even realize we do this but we do.
I feel like I could probably go on for hours but I don’t want to give anything away so I won’t go into any detail because I feel that I might ruin it for someone if I do. But I do highly recommend it. Just know that it is not something that is easy to watch. It brought me to tears multiple times. I don’t cry a lot during movies so that is saying a lot. And I was so overwhelmed when it was over I really couldn’t even talk about it when everyone else was.
So if you are prepared to be wrecked by a movie I suggest you go rent crash. Then please tell me what you think afterwards

Ron Paul

I have never gotten really big into politics. I know that I should, and I try, I really have tried. I just can’t seem to dive deep enough into each candidate and each issue to feel I have fully informed myself enough to make a decision that big. I also find myself second guessing whether my vote really matters. I mean really…one vote? But what if every person felt this way…nobody would vote. If nothing else my vote means that I am taking a stand, it may not determine who for the next four years will be calling the shots in this confused nation of ours, but it does signify having a voice. We take for granted so much, at least we have the ability to put our vote in, to make a difference as to who is elected. So this is why in about an hour I will be casting my vote, hoping that this one vote will help make a change. I know that the candidate I am voting for has a very unlikely chance of ever becoming President, but does that mean I will vote another way? No. I’m not going to let others dictate my vote. So I encourage you to take a stand and go vote today.