54. Don't hate ANYthing

 I am the youngest child in my family, I have two sisters and one brother. Somehow I got lucky enough to get the best sisters ever who have taught me so many things over the years. Lessons are hard to learn and really make permanent. One of the many lessons I learned from Michelle is that cussing is never cute, so now cuss words rarely exist in my vocabulary(that's a post for another day). If a cuss word even comes to my mind I literally expect her to reach over to smack me even though I know she's about 4 states away. One thing Angela taught me is that I don't hate anyone or anything. Anytime I said I hated something when she was around she would reply you don't hate anything which never led to a debate.

54. Don't hate anything
Hate is such a strong word. It has caused people to do things, bad things without cause. I never really understood the concept of hating something or someone to the point that you take it upon yourself to eliminate them from existence. There is so many other things in this world that we could use our energy on besides hating something or someone. Disliking something and hating it are two different things. Hate means you would like to see something suffer, hate means you have no compassion, and hate means your indifferent to the line between right and wrong. Hate is an ugly thing that can consume you if you choose to let it. Sucky people hate things. Sucky people hate people. Don't hate anything if you don't want to be a sucky person. Besides love is always prettier no matter how you slice it.

Deep breath....deep breath....sometimes I honestly want to go back to my 15 year old self and tell her that being older is not all that it is cracked up to be. I want to tell her that whatever is bothering her will be nothing compared to the problems she will have in 10 years. It doesn't get easier we just get better at dealing with everything. Kids stay kids for as long as you possibly can.

53. Unless I offer you my shoes don't try to wear them

I am not afraid to admit that my decision making skills are not the best. I seem to like to do things the hard way. If you graphed my failures next to my successes it would be a very one sided picture. I'm ok with the longest learning process we all will ever have to participate in which is also known as growing up. Living life means we have to take some unavoidable hard hits literally and metaphorically. The amazing thing is were all still here. As long as you got out of bed today and did something that could possibly be called productive then cheers to you because your still in the game.

53. Unless I offer you my shoes don't try to wear them
I will admit I've made bad decisions and I have no problem with accepting the consequences from said decisions. What does piss me off is when somebody tells me step by step what they would've done if they were in my shoes. I'm already fully aware of how bad the decision was I really don't need you to continually express every which possible way you would've done better if you had been in my position. If the words, "If I was in your shoes then I would've done.......," then you suck! Giving your thoughts prior to the decision is advice but throwing out your thoughts after the decision can't be reversed is just useless and patronizing. Do us all a favor is keep your imaginary scenario to yourself because guess what you have one huge benefit that I didn't have which would be my failed experience! Of course you wouldn't do what I did because you obviously already know it doesn't work! Unless your a lemming and have no learning curve then I hope your don't repeat someone elses failed experiment the exact same way and expect a different outcome. So please read this and continue trying not to suck I realize its a daily struggle.

I'm a mess but there is still hope that one day ill be less of a mess then I am today. That's really all I can hope for. Until next time!

52. Change my mind without insulting it

There are some things that are written in concrete in my mind. There are some things that are written in sand in my mind. Then there are some things that just float around in my mind with no place to go. Examples of some things that are written in concrete for me would be my name, my birth date, my family, my favorite color, or that I would never watch the Smurfs movie in 3D. Examples of some things that are written in sand for me would be my enjoyment of reality television, the idea of that college degrees are the smartest path to success, the death penalty is a justified punishment, or my strong dislike for the Toyota Prius. Examples of some things that continually float around in my head would probably scare you so I will leave those for another day. Pretty much every time I am introduced or re-introduced to information is a chance to change my mind. Small correction my strong dislike for the Toyota Prius is written in concrete. 

52. Change my mind without insulting it
You want to learn about politics sit in the middle of a discussion between a Republican and a Democrat. Want to learn about religion listen to somebody whose Jewish discuss it with somebody whose is Catholic. Debates are ideal forums to hash things out as long as they stay informative and don't turn into emotional personal battles. Whatever you adore about your cause should be enough to make others believe in it without disarming whatever you consider to be your opponent. There are tons of things that I believe in today that I may not believe in tomorrow. You want me to vote for you then tell me what you stand for; tell me what you want to accomplish without telling me what your opponents can't. Sucky people push their beliefs by any means including insulting other people's beliefs.


Short and concise?....ok short and choppy is a little closer to the truth. Actions speak louder then words so I won't repeat my statements about how I will get better or start blogging everyday. I am just going to post this and continue about my biz. Until next time :)

51. Put up a fight

March Madness is probably the best example of this, if you ever want to see a competition where it is possible for any no name team to win watch the NCAA tournament. Every year it never fails there are multiple games where I have to look away from the television because there are 2 points between the teams and 5 seconds left on the clock, so nerve wracking. I will always root for the underdog. It never fails, what can I say I like fairy tales and the ending is always more magical when the loser finally wins. So I cheer on the underdog and I respect them for showing up despite knowing they are probably going to lose. I admire them for giving everything they can possibly give up until the last seconds even when the score is 50-105. There is a huge difference between losing and quitting.

51. Put up a fight
Not until the fat lady sings, not until the buzzer sounds, not until your feet touch the finish line, and not until you have contacted everybody up to the tippy top of the totem pole should you stop fighting. Even when you know you are going to lose keep on giving it everything you got because even if the small possibility of winning is no longer there the knowledge that you gave it everything you could possibly give should be enough to soften the blow of losing. I have never been impressed by somebody who goes into the arena knowing they have no chance of winning the game or passing the test so they just show up and in other words give up. Nobody likes to lose, I mean seriously show me somebody who likes to lose and I'll show you somebody who has a deep problems with self-loathing. Sucky people are the ones who just show up knowing they have no intention of putting out any effort. They quit before they even step on the floor. Don't give up even when it would be easier for you too! Fight until the very end, then get up dust yourself off and move on to the next battle.

Anybody that has ever been to college can be divided into one or two types of students. Your either the type of student that gets A's in the first half of the class then slacks off from the second half. Or your the type of student that doesn't study the first half then spends all of the second half of class trying to bring their grade up. This quarter I am the second type and I am really stressing about my grades. I know its possible for me to get A's on all my tests and quizzes but I also know it is just as easy for me to fail them. Ugh why do we do this to ourselves? I think we like stomach ulcers....

50.Read between the lines

Time to bust out a little nursery rhyme(one of my faves actually).

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again

Now lets have a little talk about Humpty, any smart egg would not go sit on a wall for fun. It is just not a smart thing to do considering the fragile state that eggs are in. There has to be more to the story; like why would anybody let alone a breakable someone go sit on a high wall? Why would an egg try to sit anywhere when even with legs they can barely balance? Why would you name an egg Humpty? This rhyme leaves a lot of open ended questions and since Humpty is now in millions of pieces we will never get those questions answered.

50. Read between the lines
There is always more to a story. I repeat there is always MORE to a story. When you read a news story you should know that it is coming from someones point of view and they could purposefully or accidentally leave information out. When somebody tells you a story you should know it is coming from their point of view and chances are they are purposefully leaving things out so that they themselves or whoever they are bias toward in the story looks better. When I tell you something realize it is coming from my point of view which could be totally wrong at times and hard to follow. Read between the lines! Do not take everything you read, hear, or see literally. Sucky people are the kind of people that will read something dumb and incredibly false online then go around repeating it thinking its right then get defensive when other people laugh in their face. I'm not saying sucky people do this on purpose I am just trying to stop everyone from being that sucky person. Now take every bit of information you receive and analyze it yourself then get multiple sources before you go around spreading information to the masses. It will save you from being the source of some bad information. Trust me you don't want to be the source, the source is always the one to go to jail.


Sooo I slightly conquered my bad studying habit and did some productive studying today. Ok I had a quiz today so I was forced to do it so this really isn't a breakthrough. But tomorrow is a new day and I plan to get a jump on the studying I need to do for the rest of the quarter so I don't fail. I really do not have a back up career path so this kinda has to work out. Fingers crossed!

49. Hindsight & Foresight: the two superpowers WE all need to use

I have a really bad habit of not studying..ever. I don't know why but I sit down to study and everytime I end up on Facebook or Twitter or most likely watching random Youtube videos. So whenever I tell people im studying 80% of the time is spent doing something other then studying and then 20% of that time I might actually learn something that I need too. Now if I used my superpowers of hindsight and foresight then maybe I would not continually want to punch myself after every test I take where I should have done better. My powers of hindsight should tell that remember the last time I didn't study for my test and pretty much failed it. Then my powers of foresight could chime in to tell me that if I stop wasting time looking at pointless stuff and actually study then I might get a good grade instead of praying that I passed the stinking test.

49. Hindsight & Foresight: the two superpowers WE all need to use

"Hindsight may keep you from repeating the same mistakes but foresight could save you from ever making those mistakes in the first place."



Soo remember that time everybody warned you that you shouldn't do that thing because its going to blow up in your face then you acted surprised when in fact it blew up in your face? Ohh yeah you try to pretend that never happened but it did and you have nobody to blame but yourself. We all have those friends that complain to us about the boys they always take back even though they has cheated on them multiple times or only called once a year or just plain sucked. Next time your friend starts crying and telling you the same story you've heard 5000 times please remind them of their own powers they need to start using. Tell them next time he promises that he is a different person they should remember all the past times he sucked and realize that history repeats itself unless you stop it. So do not be a sucky person that never learns from their mistakes and never looks before they leap. Trust me all you will end up with are heartbreaks and skinned knees.

Ahhh this is my first post in a while so I will definently have to come back and shake some of the rust off. Anyway I am riding high off of my summer of vacays right now and trying to make it through another quarter of school. My mind is still in Vegas where I left it, pretty much the best vacay ever sooo didn't want to come back to GA. I am excited though to take my first cruise in a couple weeks though!!! I can't wait to have 5 days of just chilling, drinking, and eating with my sisters and friends. I already know that one is going to be one for the record books also.

48. Don't go fishing unless your want to catch something

You know when people are itching to bring up a subject when they find a way to relate into normal conversation. An example would be you're all talking about whales and girl 3 says," Whales are cool, I actually really want to go to Sea World. There is a Sea World in Florida, actually next month I'm going to Florida to hang on the beach and party it up. Were going to go to the same club as the Jersey Shore Cast....." She will continue on talking about her trip which has nothing to do with the topic we were originally talking about. I don't mind this conversation because I get she is excited about her trip and wants to talk about it as much as she can because that is normal. Now I would have minded if she kept bringing up Florida begging us to ask her about it and then acted as if she didn't want to talk about it. Don't bring something up unless you want to talk about. If you throw out the statement,"I flew on a private jet last night". Don't act surprised when somebody asks you why.


48. Don't go fishing unless your want to catch something
I can not stand it when people drop less then subtle hints begging you to ask them about something then they get all weird and say they don't want to talk about it. Reason one this bothers me is because I generally do not get into people's business unless they have a giant welcome mat down that I can't walk around. Because to say I don't care is an understatement. I honestly do not care about your boyfriend drama or whatever else your dying to talk about unless it directly involves me, that's not being selfish it's realizing I barely have space in my head for my own stuff so trust me I'm not really that interested in yours. So don't be a sucky person and keep hinting at something begging somebody to ask you about it then freak out when they do.

Ugh this quarter is going to make or break me. My posts on here are going to be sporadic since it's no telling when I'll have internet access and the only other thing i've had time to do lately besides studying is sleep. I'm actually kind of delerious right now as I write this....this is going to be a long 10 weeks :(