No, this is not gonna be an emo post. It's just the song that i'm listening to right now :)
The Pussycat Dolls used to be my favorite group, and that's saying something, because I never claim to have a favorite music artist. However, since they haven't come up with anything new lately, I'm back to not having a favorite group.
Interesting thing though: lately I've been having this Evanescence thing where that's all I want to listen to on the bus to work. Just the song "Bring Me to Life" though. I guess I'm one of those people who likes a song and then has to listen to it over and over again for about ten days. The last time I heard that song (before the recent obsession) was back in February when I was doing it on Rock Band at a birthday party. It's a good song though. It reminds me of the EMP (Experience Music Project) in Seattle. That's where I watched the music video to that song for the first time. I miss that building. A lot of awesome possum things happened there, fo sho.
If you couldn't guess, there's really no point to this post. I'm just bored and feel like I need to type. I was going to go to Disney's Hollywood Studios today and get a picture with Jedi Mickey, since this is the last Star Wars Weekend! But, alas, I woke up too late to go and get the bus back in time to ride the other bus to Magic Kingdom (I work at 5pm today).
Wow, this is a nice computer I'm typing on right now. It's one of my roommates' MacBook Pro. Gosh. Someday I will get a Mac. Goodness knows I need a laptop.
Doo doo doo doo...hmm what should I write about today? I suppose most people use blogs to vent, but I can't really vent or rant on anything if i wanted to, because even though I'm pretty sure no one I know reads my blog, you never know who might come across it...
So I've got 62 1/2 more days left of my Disney College Program! Just a week and a day and I'm halfway done! Crazy huh??? I STILL feel like I just got here, that this is some kind of summer camp and all my roomies are bunk mates and we're all expected to have Crushes of the Week. I know of one girl who chooses a pretend "boyfriend" every day she works and so every time she sees him she gets little butterflies in her stomach. Haha! I guess if that's what you got to do to stay excited and happy during your shift, it's what you gotta do!
I can't say I've had anything of a similar experience. Most, if not, all of my roommates have already had one or two crushes, and even relationships this summer from people they've met at work! I don't understand it. Maybe it's because I'm naturally just really picky, but I have never seen anyone who would even be slightly desirable. Just the fact that they work at Disney puts me off a little. And the guys who seem "normal" are also the guys who want me to get drunk and go party at bars with them every week, which is not exactly at all my type. It's nice of them to invite me, I suppose, but no thank you.
I think I'm gonna save my College Program thoughts for the post I'm gonna write on Half Way Done Day, which is June 20th.
Okay, though, can I just say I have in my apartment about 5 countdown calendars, most of them right by my bed. No joke. I think it's just because every day I get to cross off 5 days, so it makes it seem like more time has passed than what really has. Not that I want to be done with this program that badly, because I LOVE being here! It's gonna be bittersweet when I leave for sure. It'll be less sad knowing that I'm going to be going to the better Disney park in Anaheim right after I get home.
I just miss people though! These people are nice but I feel like I can't make life-long friends here since I'm never gonna see them again after August, so why should I bother opening up to them if by the time we are super close, it's time to leave? That whole aspect makes it really hard when I'm sad or confused, because there's no one I can vent to, which makes me overthink and over-analyze reeeaaallly stupid stuff and there's no one to tell me I'm being stupid. Goodness knows I can over-analyze things to a ridiculous degree. At least I have a phone and can call people. I'm definitely blessed with a sister and friends who are really blunt and will tell me when I'm being dumb.
...Let's see, what else is there to talk about before I gotta go? I can't end on that note, because that's not happy...Umm...
So, I love my job!!! Oh, and I found out yesterday from my roommate who works at Dinosaur in Animal Kingdom that JOEY FATONE from N*Sync was at Animal Kingdom yesterday!!! I LOVE that Disney World attracts all the celebrities!!! I reeeally hope he decides to go to The Crystal Palace while he's here!!!!! :D :D :D
Anyways, I'll end on that note I think. Until next time!!! :D
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Star Wars Weekend = awwwwesome!!!!
Good gravy, where do I start with this? I'll start at the beginning:
A long time ago..
In a galaxy (or state) far far away (from the west coast)...
DAAAHHH , da da daaa, da da da da da da da da da da da *star wars theme*
I kinda wish I could put music on just this post. I probably can, but I don't care that much. Just as long as it's stuck in your head now.
Anyways, so I woke up early in the morning to get to Disney's Hollywood Studios about a half hour before it opened. I was going by myself, and I was a little sad about that at first, because I was planning on dressing up hard core for it. It turned out okay though. I just didn't dress up as crazy as I was going to. I wore a white shirt, skinny jeans, and my $9 flip flops from WalMart and a long, brown button up sweater type thing. I figured it could kind of pass as a modernized jedi robe. My hair was up in a bun except for a single, very long padowan braid coming down behind my left ear. Too bad I found out early in the day that a "real" padowan braid is on the right side. WHY that cast member felt the need to tell me it was on the wrong side, I don't know, but I wish she hadn't because I felt self-conscious about it the rest of the day. Oh well...
I got to the park and wanted to get a pass to see one of the 3 celebrities that were there that day (Billy Dee Williams-"Lando Calrissian", Ray Park-"Darth Maul", and the director of the Clone Wars movie). Unfortunately, I got there too late. Some people had stayed overnight to get there passes! It was crazy! So I told myself that it was okay that I wasn't gonna meet anyone, and that I could still see them in the motorcade parade thing they were gonna have.
I spent most of the day in line to see the characters. I saw Luke, Leia, Amidala, Vader, Maul, Wicket the Ewok, Jango Fett, Minnie as Leia, Goofy as Vader, Donald as a stormtrooper, and Jedi Mickey and his sidekick, R2MK (a red, R2D2 type droid wearing mickey ears). Oh, and I also met the Red Ranger from Power Rangers, but that was really random and it didn't really fit into the rest of my day, thematically, to be honest. I went on Star Tours twice that day. And I saw this cool celebrity talk show type thing where the host of the Star Wars Weekends, the guy who played Jango Fett in the movies, interviewed Ray Park and Billy Dee Williams! That was really cool!!! I was star struck, for sure!!! Oh, and of course, I saw the motorcade. I tell ya, some people are really geeky. There was a huge group that paraded in super legit looking costumes from Star Wars who were not Disney cast members, but an actual club/group who, I'm guessing, are part of some Star Wars club. It's called "Darth Vader's 401st Legion" or something. Yeah, that was a little bizarre...oh well. It added to the event :)
It was a SUPER fun day, to be sure, though! At 7pm, there was a show called "Hyperspace Hoopla" where there was basically a dance-off between all the characters, and that was suuper fun! My favorite part I think was near the end when Darth Vader and Queen Amidala were dancing together to a combination of "Break Your Heart" and "Womanizer." Haha!!! Awesome!! It made me kind of really wish there was a part in the Star Wars movies where Amidala and Vader are alive at the same time :)
All in all, it was a very good day :) I am officially an even greater fan of Star Wars than I was before June 4th. I definitely feel a little bit geekier anyway...
A long time ago..
In a galaxy (or state) far far away (from the west coast)...
DAAAHHH , da da daaa, da da da da da da da da da da da *star wars theme*
I kinda wish I could put music on just this post. I probably can, but I don't care that much. Just as long as it's stuck in your head now.
Anyways, so I woke up early in the morning to get to Disney's Hollywood Studios about a half hour before it opened. I was going by myself, and I was a little sad about that at first, because I was planning on dressing up hard core for it. It turned out okay though. I just didn't dress up as crazy as I was going to. I wore a white shirt, skinny jeans, and my $9 flip flops from WalMart and a long, brown button up sweater type thing. I figured it could kind of pass as a modernized jedi robe. My hair was up in a bun except for a single, very long padowan braid coming down behind my left ear. Too bad I found out early in the day that a "real" padowan braid is on the right side. WHY that cast member felt the need to tell me it was on the wrong side, I don't know, but I wish she hadn't because I felt self-conscious about it the rest of the day. Oh well...
I got to the park and wanted to get a pass to see one of the 3 celebrities that were there that day (Billy Dee Williams-"Lando Calrissian", Ray Park-"Darth Maul", and the director of the Clone Wars movie). Unfortunately, I got there too late. Some people had stayed overnight to get there passes! It was crazy! So I told myself that it was okay that I wasn't gonna meet anyone, and that I could still see them in the motorcade parade thing they were gonna have.
I spent most of the day in line to see the characters. I saw Luke, Leia, Amidala, Vader, Maul, Wicket the Ewok, Jango Fett, Minnie as Leia, Goofy as Vader, Donald as a stormtrooper, and Jedi Mickey and his sidekick, R2MK (a red, R2D2 type droid wearing mickey ears). Oh, and I also met the Red Ranger from Power Rangers, but that was really random and it didn't really fit into the rest of my day, thematically, to be honest. I went on Star Tours twice that day. And I saw this cool celebrity talk show type thing where the host of the Star Wars Weekends, the guy who played Jango Fett in the movies, interviewed Ray Park and Billy Dee Williams! That was really cool!!! I was star struck, for sure!!! Oh, and of course, I saw the motorcade. I tell ya, some people are really geeky. There was a huge group that paraded in super legit looking costumes from Star Wars who were not Disney cast members, but an actual club/group who, I'm guessing, are part of some Star Wars club. It's called "Darth Vader's 401st Legion" or something. Yeah, that was a little bizarre...oh well. It added to the event :)
It was a SUPER fun day, to be sure, though! At 7pm, there was a show called "Hyperspace Hoopla" where there was basically a dance-off between all the characters, and that was suuper fun! My favorite part I think was near the end when Darth Vader and Queen Amidala were dancing together to a combination of "Break Your Heart" and "Womanizer." Haha!!! Awesome!! It made me kind of really wish there was a part in the Star Wars movies where Amidala and Vader are alive at the same time :)
All in all, it was a very good day :) I am officially an even greater fan of Star Wars than I was before June 4th. I definitely feel a little bit geekier anyway...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Disney Nerd Encounters
So I work at Walt Disney World. LOVE IT! As you can imagine, it takes a certain type of person to work here. It's true, a large majority of male cast members are gay, which to me, is not at all surprising (most fit the stereotype of happy, caring, and understanding and accepting of everyone, which...um, duh. Disney cast member). Many of the people who work in Entertainment (i can't say a majority, because I've really only seen/been around cast members from Magic Kingdom), seem to be pretty...okay, I'm not gonna be mean, truly. They're just...well, let's just say they act somewhat similar to high school diva "actresses."
Then there are all the people who just need a job. They're the ones that claim to love Disney oh-so-very much but know as much about it as the average person. They're average people...they're okay I guess.
And then there are the completely over the top Disney historian/geek/nerd/whatever you wanna call them. I knew they existed before I came here, but I've never actually met them. It's very weird, and definitely something I'm still having a hard time getting used to. All the ones I've met happened to be boys, I'm not sure why that is but there ya go.
The first one I met was during training at the very beginning of my program. WOW, he was annoying! As our quaint little group walked down Main Street and our tour guide asked questions, he answered every single one with this smug look on his face like he owned Magic Kingdom. It was sick. And then he took it upon himself to walk right next to me (or try to) during the rest of the tour and tried to impress me with his knowledge. Ew. He was a history major. I'm not saying that comes with a stereotype, but if history majors had a stereotype, he was it. Of course, I wasn't mean or rude or anything, but wow, I've never met someone who knew about Disney that much in such a make-me-mad kind of way. Goodness, if you are yelling the safety spiel to your peers in the stretching room of the Haunted Mansion (which he did before the cast member could: "Please drag your bodies away from the walls and into the dead center of the room please!" ), you have gone way too far. No one wants to hear that much geekness and that much sass at the same time. Me and my roommate spent much of our time hiding from him for the rest of the tour haha.
Second boy geek I've met was less annoying, but just as much uncomfortable. This guy seemed normal enough until he drove me home from West Clock (aka Magic Kingdom cast parking lot/bus stop). During our conversation, he told me about his love for the Disney Parks and how it came about and what he wants to do within the company and his career goal at the parks, etc. Well, you can only say "wow, me too" so many times before you sound like a broken record or something. But, for realsies, he sounded exaaactly like me. It was weird. No, it was not attractive (his smoking in the car didn't help the lack of attractiveness either). It was just weird. I kinda felt stupid because I didn't know how to contribute to the conversation. It wasn't like we had similar stories and I could share them because I could relate. Our stories were EXACTLY the same! Gosh, it was the most bizarre thing! But I didn't want to sound too excited or put any unecessary excitement in my voice as I talked to him because I didn't want him to think I was interested in continuing our knowing each other (he was very much hitting on me from the very beginning, and I was terribly uninterested). However, interestingly enough, he cooled off a ton once he found out I was from BYU. He likes a good alcoholic beverage every once in awhile, apparently, and he knew from past roommates what "those BYU kids" are like. Wow, that was a weird night.
Those were the two first main encounters I've had this summer with Disney geeks. The last one is kind of exciting because it's the VERY first time I've met someone who tried to challenge my Disney bank of knowledge and NOT annoy me tremeeendously or annoy me or just weird me out or make me want to punch them in the face. This would be my roomie's new boy toy. It's also very curious because he can pull off the Disney geek thing in a masculine way, and I don't think I've seen that done before. It's possible, people!!! To him, I say, good on ya, mate! Now, my opinion of the last guy may be tainted by the fact that although he challenged me, I totally beat him at the Disney quiz-off we had all day yesterday. But still...
I've had a lot of people tell me that I'm gonna meet my future husband out here in Florida. That I'm gonna marry a total Disney fanatic like me and he's gonna get me an engagement ring shaped like Mickey and have Disney children named Huey, Dewey, Louie, April, May, and June. Ew. No. That is not what I want at all. I don't know if I'd be able to stomach dating a Disney geek, let alone marry one. My opinion is that if there is someone out there that I can love more than Disney, then that's a huge achievement. That's true love, right there.
So yeah, my opinion on Disney nerds: they're out there, they exist, but I am very content on keeping my distance from them.
p.s. April, May, and June are Daisy Duck's nieces, just fyi :)
Then there are all the people who just need a job. They're the ones that claim to love Disney oh-so-very much but know as much about it as the average person. They're average people...they're okay I guess.
And then there are the completely over the top Disney historian/geek/nerd/whatever you wanna call them. I knew they existed before I came here, but I've never actually met them. It's very weird, and definitely something I'm still having a hard time getting used to. All the ones I've met happened to be boys, I'm not sure why that is but there ya go.
The first one I met was during training at the very beginning of my program. WOW, he was annoying! As our quaint little group walked down Main Street and our tour guide asked questions, he answered every single one with this smug look on his face like he owned Magic Kingdom. It was sick. And then he took it upon himself to walk right next to me (or try to) during the rest of the tour and tried to impress me with his knowledge. Ew. He was a history major. I'm not saying that comes with a stereotype, but if history majors had a stereotype, he was it. Of course, I wasn't mean or rude or anything, but wow, I've never met someone who knew about Disney that much in such a make-me-mad kind of way. Goodness, if you are yelling the safety spiel to your peers in the stretching room of the Haunted Mansion (which he did before the cast member could: "Please drag your bodies away from the walls and into the dead center of the room please!" ), you have gone way too far. No one wants to hear that much geekness and that much sass at the same time. Me and my roommate spent much of our time hiding from him for the rest of the tour haha.
Second boy geek I've met was less annoying, but just as much uncomfortable. This guy seemed normal enough until he drove me home from West Clock (aka Magic Kingdom cast parking lot/bus stop). During our conversation, he told me about his love for the Disney Parks and how it came about and what he wants to do within the company and his career goal at the parks, etc. Well, you can only say "wow, me too" so many times before you sound like a broken record or something. But, for realsies, he sounded exaaactly like me. It was weird. No, it was not attractive (his smoking in the car didn't help the lack of attractiveness either). It was just weird. I kinda felt stupid because I didn't know how to contribute to the conversation. It wasn't like we had similar stories and I could share them because I could relate. Our stories were EXACTLY the same! Gosh, it was the most bizarre thing! But I didn't want to sound too excited or put any unecessary excitement in my voice as I talked to him because I didn't want him to think I was interested in continuing our knowing each other (he was very much hitting on me from the very beginning, and I was terribly uninterested). However, interestingly enough, he cooled off a ton once he found out I was from BYU. He likes a good alcoholic beverage every once in awhile, apparently, and he knew from past roommates what "those BYU kids" are like. Wow, that was a weird night.
Those were the two first main encounters I've had this summer with Disney geeks. The last one is kind of exciting because it's the VERY first time I've met someone who tried to challenge my Disney bank of knowledge and NOT annoy me tremeeendously or annoy me or just weird me out or make me want to punch them in the face. This would be my roomie's new boy toy. It's also very curious because he can pull off the Disney geek thing in a masculine way, and I don't think I've seen that done before. It's possible, people!!! To him, I say, good on ya, mate! Now, my opinion of the last guy may be tainted by the fact that although he challenged me, I totally beat him at the Disney quiz-off we had all day yesterday. But still...
I've had a lot of people tell me that I'm gonna meet my future husband out here in Florida. That I'm gonna marry a total Disney fanatic like me and he's gonna get me an engagement ring shaped like Mickey and have Disney children named Huey, Dewey, Louie, April, May, and June. Ew. No. That is not what I want at all. I don't know if I'd be able to stomach dating a Disney geek, let alone marry one. My opinion is that if there is someone out there that I can love more than Disney, then that's a huge achievement. That's true love, right there.
So yeah, my opinion on Disney nerds: they're out there, they exist, but I am very content on keeping my distance from them.
p.s. April, May, and June are Daisy Duck's nieces, just fyi :)
Friday, June 4, 2010
I LOVE being a cast member!!!! part one
So, basically, I work at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
I'm a CAST MEMBER! And I kind of got all tingly just from typing that out, because I'm pretty sure if I knew what I would be doing now about a year ago, I would be screaming out of excitement every day. This is seriously a dream come true for me. It's nice to have a JOB where I smile pretty much the entire shift.
So today I fully benefited from the perks of being a cast member. First of all, I woke up at 1:40 pm this afternoon (don't ask me how that happened, since I specifically remember looking at the clock and actually starting to do things at 9am). My roommate, Ashley, told me she was leaving in 20 minutes with roommate Jocelyn to go to Animal Kingdom. Of course, I wanted to go too, so I got ready to go and went! That's one of the best perks about being a cast member.
A typical conversation:
Actor 1: "Hey, you wanna go to a park?"
Actor 2: "Sure, why not?!"
Actor 1: "Ok! Let's go!"
That's it! We get in free, and it's no big deal! I LOVE that!
So we went to Animal Kingdom and got there as soon as a HUGE rain/wind storm hit. We were absolutely soaked! I had never been so wet from rain before in my life!! It was one of those moments you wished you had a boy with you so you could... well let's just say the rain was very movie-esque.
Anyways, we got to get out of the storm when we saw the soul-stirring show, The Festival of the Lion King! Can I say two things? First, I think every man should learn how to do a fire dance. Holy Hannah Montana. Second, I wish I could sing like a black woman. There is just something about a black woman's voice that is just warming to the soul and makes you want to go change the world. For realsies.
After that we went and watched It's Tough to Be a Bug. I screamed when the scary bug part came and I closed my eyes and definitely covered my face with both of my hands and whimpered until my roommate assured me that the spider part was over. We also went on Dinosaur where I screamed my face off the whole time. Goodness! I don't think I will ever get used to that ride!!! Sooo scary!!!
After watching Finding Nemo: The Musical and riding Expedition: Everest a couple times, the park was officially closed. But here's the exciting part! The cast members were having a special cast members only go at Kali River Rapids! We went on it once with a group of people from the Singles Ward and I got drenched. Like, we're talking, to the point where you couldn't tell by looking at me from a distance that I was wet at all (except my hair) because there wasn't a bit of dry clothing to compare the color of the wet part to. I. was. wet. WOW, I've never been so wet from a ride. But the good part of it was that at the end of the ride, and on our way out of the park, a lot of higher-up manager-type cast members gave all us cast members ice cream bars!!! I got a chocolate covered, Mickey shaped ice cream bar :D It was muuuuy bieeeennnnn :D
Other big perk of the day, and one of the BIG things I was looking forward to all summer: exclusive cast preview night #1!!!
So the big summer promotion: WDW's "Summer Nightastic!" is starting on June 6th! aka, this Sunday. Starting that night, a ton of new things will be happening in each of the parks. The BIG thing they've been talking about for ages is that the famous Main Street Electrical Parade has come back!!! It finally reached Florida after traveling across the United States from Disneyland in California and there was a cast members-only preview to watch it tonight!!!
We had to be seated by officials because, get this, they were filming that night with tons of cameras for marketing! Like, they are working on tv ads and stuff and i know for a fact i was in some of the footage! EXCITING! I doubt I'll be in the final commercial, since the footage of me was by a small electric caterpillar, but you never know I guess... I just felt like a movie star for a second, with all the camera lights and things!
Anyways, that's one of the many reasons I absolutely LOVE being a cast member :D
I'm a CAST MEMBER! And I kind of got all tingly just from typing that out, because I'm pretty sure if I knew what I would be doing now about a year ago, I would be screaming out of excitement every day. This is seriously a dream come true for me. It's nice to have a JOB where I smile pretty much the entire shift.
So today I fully benefited from the perks of being a cast member. First of all, I woke up at 1:40 pm this afternoon (don't ask me how that happened, since I specifically remember looking at the clock and actually starting to do things at 9am). My roommate, Ashley, told me she was leaving in 20 minutes with roommate Jocelyn to go to Animal Kingdom. Of course, I wanted to go too, so I got ready to go and went! That's one of the best perks about being a cast member.
A typical conversation:
Actor 1: "Hey, you wanna go to a park?"
Actor 2: "Sure, why not?!"
Actor 1: "Ok! Let's go!"
That's it! We get in free, and it's no big deal! I LOVE that!
So we went to Animal Kingdom and got there as soon as a HUGE rain/wind storm hit. We were absolutely soaked! I had never been so wet from rain before in my life!! It was one of those moments you wished you had a boy with you so you could... well let's just say the rain was very movie-esque.
Anyways, we got to get out of the storm when we saw the soul-stirring show, The Festival of the Lion King! Can I say two things? First, I think every man should learn how to do a fire dance. Holy Hannah Montana. Second, I wish I could sing like a black woman. There is just something about a black woman's voice that is just warming to the soul and makes you want to go change the world. For realsies.
After that we went and watched It's Tough to Be a Bug. I screamed when the scary bug part came and I closed my eyes and definitely covered my face with both of my hands and whimpered until my roommate assured me that the spider part was over. We also went on Dinosaur where I screamed my face off the whole time. Goodness! I don't think I will ever get used to that ride!!! Sooo scary!!!
After watching Finding Nemo: The Musical and riding Expedition: Everest a couple times, the park was officially closed. But here's the exciting part! The cast members were having a special cast members only go at Kali River Rapids! We went on it once with a group of people from the Singles Ward and I got drenched. Like, we're talking, to the point where you couldn't tell by looking at me from a distance that I was wet at all (except my hair) because there wasn't a bit of dry clothing to compare the color of the wet part to. I. was. wet. WOW, I've never been so wet from a ride. But the good part of it was that at the end of the ride, and on our way out of the park, a lot of higher-up manager-type cast members gave all us cast members ice cream bars!!! I got a chocolate covered, Mickey shaped ice cream bar :D It was muuuuy bieeeennnnn :D
Other big perk of the day, and one of the BIG things I was looking forward to all summer: exclusive cast preview night #1!!!
So the big summer promotion: WDW's "Summer Nightastic!" is starting on June 6th! aka, this Sunday. Starting that night, a ton of new things will be happening in each of the parks. The BIG thing they've been talking about for ages is that the famous Main Street Electrical Parade has come back!!! It finally reached Florida after traveling across the United States from Disneyland in California and there was a cast members-only preview to watch it tonight!!!
We had to be seated by officials because, get this, they were filming that night with tons of cameras for marketing! Like, they are working on tv ads and stuff and i know for a fact i was in some of the footage! EXCITING! I doubt I'll be in the final commercial, since the footage of me was by a small electric caterpillar, but you never know I guess... I just felt like a movie star for a second, with all the camera lights and things!
Anyways, that's one of the many reasons I absolutely LOVE being a cast member :D
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Haha, it's ANOTHER new blog...
I think I've started like 4 blogs now since I got a blogger account back in 2008 but there's practically nothing on all of them. I think I've decided that the reason is because I'd name the blog after a specific way I was thinking or feeling at the time, and when I go back to it, I don't feel the same way about it. Or something like that.
Well, anyways, to be honest, I've always thought the purpose of blogs to be completely stupid. When I first learned about them, my thought process was: WHY would you want to write journal-type things and have people read them?? Only drama queens. And WHY would you want to read other people's journal-type things? Only stalkers would know.
Ok,I'm not that stereotypical, I've grown a respect for blogs and bloggers alike since then. I still would not consider myself a blogger, but I like the idea of having something I can vent on and it's not gonna show up on a news feed (like facebook or myspace notes...gosh, those myspace emo poems written by classmates back in high school annoyed me so bad...)
Anyways, I wanted to title the blog something that (hopefully) would never change about me. Past blogs have been titled "Future Imagineer" and things pertaining to working for Disney, etc. Don't get me wrong, I would love to work for Disney, but I've been trying to convince myself that I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna do that, I have higher priorities, and there are other careers I could have that would be fun and would be a lot more practical to study in school.
The title actually came from something that hit me last year. I have always been a pretty chill person. I very rarely freak out because of stress or a dramatic situation. I think that, for the most part, people who feel sorry for themselves and think that their life is so dramatic and everything bad happens to them and they cry all the time usually just stress out about every day stuff that doesnt need to be stressed out about.
Actually, thinking back now, I'm not sure why this hit me last year. Maybe I was having a bad day or something. Sometimes I keep things in too much and I overthink them which gets me a little depressed. That's probably what it was. Well, anyways, it was a Sunday and my super amazing and outrageously beautiful friend Victoria was giving a Sunday School lesson and it was on one of my absolute favorite scripture stories. It was when God talks to Moses in the burning bush and then Satan after and Moses totally rips him apart by saying, "Who are YOU? I am a son of GOD."
Victoria challenged us to wake up every morning and before going out the door, to say out loud "I am a child of God, and I am STRONGER than Satan." Since then, that's kind of been my motto. I am a firm believer that it doesn't matter what is going on in your life. YOU choose what kind of day you're going to have. Personally, I enjoy good days. So I can have as many as I want. Because I want to.
So before I write any more posts on this blog, I'm gonna see the title and it's gonna remind me that I'm gonna have an AWESOME day today!!! I am a daughter of God and I am SO much stronger than Satan, and I'm gonna have a crazy good day today because I said so!
Well, anyways, to be honest, I've always thought the purpose of blogs to be completely stupid. When I first learned about them, my thought process was: WHY would you want to write journal-type things and have people read them?? Only drama queens. And WHY would you want to read other people's journal-type things? Only stalkers would know.
Ok,I'm not that stereotypical, I've grown a respect for blogs and bloggers alike since then. I still would not consider myself a blogger, but I like the idea of having something I can vent on and it's not gonna show up on a news feed (like facebook or myspace notes...gosh, those myspace emo poems written by classmates back in high school annoyed me so bad...)
Anyways, I wanted to title the blog something that (hopefully) would never change about me. Past blogs have been titled "Future Imagineer" and things pertaining to working for Disney, etc. Don't get me wrong, I would love to work for Disney, but I've been trying to convince myself that I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna do that, I have higher priorities, and there are other careers I could have that would be fun and would be a lot more practical to study in school.
The title actually came from something that hit me last year. I have always been a pretty chill person. I very rarely freak out because of stress or a dramatic situation. I think that, for the most part, people who feel sorry for themselves and think that their life is so dramatic and everything bad happens to them and they cry all the time usually just stress out about every day stuff that doesnt need to be stressed out about.
Actually, thinking back now, I'm not sure why this hit me last year. Maybe I was having a bad day or something. Sometimes I keep things in too much and I overthink them which gets me a little depressed. That's probably what it was. Well, anyways, it was a Sunday and my super amazing and outrageously beautiful friend Victoria was giving a Sunday School lesson and it was on one of my absolute favorite scripture stories. It was when God talks to Moses in the burning bush and then Satan after and Moses totally rips him apart by saying, "Who are YOU? I am a son of GOD."
Victoria challenged us to wake up every morning and before going out the door, to say out loud "I am a child of God, and I am STRONGER than Satan." Since then, that's kind of been my motto. I am a firm believer that it doesn't matter what is going on in your life. YOU choose what kind of day you're going to have. Personally, I enjoy good days. So I can have as many as I want. Because I want to.
So before I write any more posts on this blog, I'm gonna see the title and it's gonna remind me that I'm gonna have an AWESOME day today!!! I am a daughter of God and I am SO much stronger than Satan, and I'm gonna have a crazy good day today because I said so!
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