Miss Katie Mahood.

This babydoll right here has been in my life since second grade. Through thick and thin, good and bad, to the moon and back. <3 Always there, always supportive, always smiling.

 

  

So here's to my religious blog stalker! Love you.<3

Gossip.

Have you ever felt like everyone was staring at you and knew something you hoped they didn't? 

I've felt like that all week. 

Weirdly enough today I found out the feeling was right. 

Eerie?

The definition of beauty:

English, writing #10

Beauty is something that is not easily defined. It's not an attractive face, it's an attractive soul. It's not the glow of your skin, it's the glow of confidence. Beauty is something that is born, not created. It's everlasting and admired by all who can appreciate it. When beauty is found it's hard to overlook. It's capable of shining through anything that attempts to block it from sharing it's gift with the world. Beauty is not replication, it flourishes through originality. It's the physical, powerful portrayal of every good that lies within a heart and all the innocence and wonder it contains.

Day 1

This isn't as hard as I thought it would be. Yay willpower! 

Now watch me jinx myself.

I have a huge bruise on my chin right where I rest it in my hand. 

1. It's rather painful because I forget and try to assume the chin-in-palm position rather often and

2. How the hell did I manage to get a bruise on my chin the size of a baseball?! I've not recently been hit with any baseballs. What a mystery.

Lent.

Well, it seems Lent is just around the corner, as in less than 30 minutes away. I've never in my life actually held up Lent before. I always give something up and then forget about it, or most of the time just don't really care. So this year I've made up my mind that I'm going to be successful! I'm giving up sweets. 
Now this begs the question what classifies as a sweet? I mean there are the obvious: cake, cookies, ice cream. But what about things that aren't desserts? Are Pop Tarts a sweet? They're technically pastries I guess. And my Special K meal bars that have chocolate on them. Is that a sweet because there's chocolate on it? It's not a chocolate bar. I need to come up with a specific list...
Well I'm off to bed. Good luck to all those giving something up for Lent!  

April 3rd cannot come fast enough.

Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, 

Mr. Golden Sun, 

please shine down on...

meeee.

  

  

  

Dear Spring Break, 

I need you. Please come as soon as possible. Tomorrow wouldn't be too soon. I'm freakin' out. I need a week of worry free bliss. I need my best friend and a cruise ship and a beach in the Bahamas. I need water so clear you can see the bottom of the ocean. I need to be tan. I need happy.

Everyone's posting about Valentine's Day

So I figured I should state my thoughts. I went to dinner with my best friends tonight and it was the best way I can think of to spend any Valentine's day. My friends mean so much to me.<3 Chili's is our place (:

  

  

  

I love these ladies.

Clean out your life.

I recently cleaned my room. And I do mean CLEANED my room. As in accumulated 2 very large trash bags full of nonsense things that needed getting rid of, swept, dusted, organized, rearranged, and rearranged again. I have a beautiful wood floor, who knew! I can't tell you how good it feels to have a clean room. I'm pretty sure I haven't lived in a space this clean since we moved into this house when I was 4 years old. I feel like I cleaned my life. I feel like I can just take a big deep breath and sigh the most necessary sigh of relief ever. I just want to lay in my bed and be surrounded by the intense cleanliness. I never realized how much all the clutter was adding to my stress. It's not like I had a problem finding things, although I did find a number of interesting things while cleaning. But I just feel prepared to deal with all the other things cluttering my life now. I forgot how nice simplicity is. So from now on that's my policy. Simple.

If...

if i were a month, I'd be September.

if i were a day of the week, I'd be Saturday.

if i were a time of day, I'd be afternoon.

if i were a sea animal, I'd be a Sea Horse.

if i were a direction, I'd be North.

if i were a gemstone, I'd be a Sapphire.

if i were a tree, I'd be an Oak tree.

if i were a tool, I'd be a hammer.

if i were a flower, I'd be a lily.

if i were a kind of weather, I'd be a pretty sunset.

if i were a musical instrument, I'd be a harp.

if i were a color, I'd be turquoise.

if i were a fruit, I'd be a berry.

if i were an element, I'd be Oxygen.

if i were a food, I'd be nachos.

if i were a place, I'd be the Bahamas.

if i were a material, I'd be cotton.

if i were a scent, I'd be DKNY.

if i were an object, I'd be a fuzzy blanket.

if i were a song, I'd be something jazz and soothing.

A few of this years projects.

A sigh of relief.

I miss this. Give me sunshine.

For some reason I feel like crying today. Sentimental tears I guess. Not for anything in particular, but for everything. This year has been the hardest year I've ever had to face. Everything and everyone is so much different than when it began. Some for the better, but a lot for the worse. It's funny because I'm overall much happier now than in past years. I think I've finally settled into my own skin, which I see as an incredibly well-timed gift from God. I wish I could let people in on the secret, I wish I knew the secret. It's nice to not feel like a prisoner in my own life. Peace is... well, peaceful. And so very appreciated.

-Mandy Michelle 

Tragedy is inevitable, but misery is an option.

RESPECT, find out what it means to me.

Do you know how you get respect? You give other people the respect they deserve. Or in some cases don't deserve at all. Like for instance, a coach that acts like part of the team and fails to enforce any rules or structure to a practice. But they're still your COACH, so you still GIVE THEM RESPECT such as NOT running your mouth for LITERALLY an HOUR at what is called practice but should really be renamed to social time in a gym. I do not know any other way to deal with this situation other than being very angry but STILL SILENT and replaying the scene I would like to make with a dramatic outburst in my head, one that I will never follow through on BECAUSE I KNOW HOW TO HAVE A LITTLE RESPECT. I wouldn't actually subject 35 of my teammates to my bitching, even though everything I want to say to them is in no way off the mark of things that need to be said. Do you know why I don't say them? Because I hold no position of authority. They are all things a COACH should be saying, and should have said a very long time ago. And although it frustrates me to the point of not wanting to be part of that team anymore, one thing I'm good at is KNOWING MY PLACE.

Recently I've noticed that there are a number of people who do not know there place and do not have any respect. I'm not trying to play myself off as a saint here, I don't always deserve respect. But I do usually get it, even in the times where you wouldn't be wrong to deny me of it. Why? Because I give it to other people. And not just the people I decide are worth my effort. To everyone. Because I for one do not enjoy being disrespected. I like getting what I want, within reason, and if you're a polite person and atleast attempt to show respect in a situation, people are much more willing to work with you and like you.

STOP ASKING FOR THE DOOR TO BE SLAMMED IN YOUR FACE.

There's not a single thing more rewarding to me than leaving a good, productive practice. It makes me more happy than almost anything else, sometimes even winning competitions. Why? Because I got something done. IT'S CALLED TEAMWORK PEOPLE. LEARN THE BASICS OF IT. There's nothing that pisses me off more than leaving a practice that was -10% productive and annoying. I don't like doing crunches because 30 of the 36 TEAMMATES can't shut their mouths. It's a waste of my time. It's a waste of your time. It's annoying, and angering, and it's immature. Grow up.

There's a time and a place for joking around and socializing. I'm all for team bonding. But the middle of practice isn't the time to share your stories. Everyone has a cell phone. That's what they're for, people. Practice should be team bonding without talking. I love love love when my team just shuts up and works together and gets things done. THAT would be worthy of respect.

Someone please show me why I work so hard to respect the people around me. Because not getting any in return today, makes me think it's worthless. I guarantee you won't like it when my attitude towards you that you take for granted just disappears.

It's not hard people.

-Mandy Michelle

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." -Jackie Robinson

Mondays suck.

Attire: Cheer sweatshirt, skinnies
Entertainment: Good old Disney Channel, Sunny With a Chance
Horoscope:You love it when everything is balanced, and today gives you the chance to juggle every element of your life so that they're all weighted more or less equally. You should breathe quite a bit easier as a result!

This whole spring break diet is definitely not working out. I love nachos and brownies and pasta. Ughhhh. I need motivation. Apparently I don't dislike myself enough to change. I'm not a fan of disliking myself? I need another reason.
I feel like complaining. Mondays are the worst. It's the whole get-up-early-go-to-school thing. And then it was a nice 10 degrees and it took 7 minutes for my windows to clear up when I was already running late and then every single lane of the highway decided to go the freaking speed limit and I couldn't get around them. LIKE HELLO I'M LATE. I wish I could program my voice into my car horn and bitch at the people in front of me.
While I'm complaining, I'm terribly bored and everything there is to do that would un-bore me takes effort or moving or the exertion of energy of some kind. Which is just not acceptable on a Monday. And my wrist hurts. And I have cheer tonight. With a wrist in pain. Fml.
Okay I'm done complaining. I need to find a better TV show to entertain me.
I want fro yo.

-Mandy Michelle

Live with purpose.

Carrots.

Attire: cross country carnival sweatshirt, Soffee shorts
Entertainment: American Pie Presents: Beta House
Horoscope: You love it when everything is balanced, and today gives you the chance to juggle every element of your life so that they're all weighted more or less equally. You should breathe quite a bit easier as a result!

Did you know that there are negative calorie foods? It burns more calories to digest them than they have in them! I'm impressed with nature.

-Mandy Michelle

"I can resist everything except temptation." -Oscar Wilde

My Declaration of Independence

Independent of reality,
Soaring through the sky.
Gravity can't hold me down,
I'll take my chance and fly.

This atmosphere, it smothers me,
It grips me by the throat,
I gasp for air and sputter
And just try to stay afloat.

I need an escape, a path, a way,
An outlet to be wild.
The tension of the real world
Is no place to raise a child.

-Mandy Michelle

Hey there.

Attire: cross country carnival sweatshirt, AEO sweatpants
Entertainment: watching the Super Bowl halftime show, GO COLTS!
Horoscope: Try to reach out to someone new today. It almost doesn't matter who it is, as long as you're expressing something real and they are in a position to take it all in. Things are on the mend!

Hello vast world of bloggers!
I'm new at this. I don't have too much to say on this quiet Super Bowl Sunday. I spent most of the day cleaning and recovering from eating half a pan of brownies with Drew last night.(: We went to the Winter One Acts, they were great! Very entertaining. I'm thinking I'll try my luck at acting next year. We'll see.
Ugh I just ate an ice cream sundae and my tummy hurts. Hmm, so much for the pre-spring break diet.
Well that's all for now(: GO COLTS!

Stay classy,
Mandy Michelle

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on." -Robert Frost