My Top Five Songs: First Dance At A Wedding
1) Kiss Me by Ed Sheeran
2) Little Things by One Direction
3) Wonderwall by Oasis
4) Look After You by The Fray
5) Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
My Top five Songs: To Fall Asleep To
1) Asleep by The Smiths
2) Last First Kiss by One Direction
3) Au Clair De Lune by Debussy
4) Diet Mountain Dew by Lana Del Rey
5) Long Way Home by Steven Curtis Chapman
My Top Five Songs: For Early Morning Jogs
1) For The Rest Of My Life by Usher Feat. Ludacris
2) Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor
3) Rock Me by One Direction
4) All I Ask Of You by Phantom Of The Opera Cast
5) Move by Mercyme
My Top Five Songs: For Taking A Shower
1) Give Me Love by Ed Sheeran
2) Beautiful by Mercyme
3) High Speed by Coldplay
4) Stole My Heart by One Direction
5) Fighter by Gym Class Heroes
My Top Five Songs: For Graduation
1) Boston by Augustana
2) Born To Die by Lana Del Rey
3) Never Say Never by The Fray
4) On Top Of The World by Imagine Dragons
5) Just Dance by Lady Gaga
My Top Five Songs: For Jammin' Out
1) Shake It Out by Florence + The Machine
2) Everything About You by One Direction
3) Payphone by Maroon 5 Feat. Wiz Khalifa
4) Want U Back by Cher Lloyd
5) U Smile by Justin Bieber
My Top Five Songs: For Annoying Erik
1) Baby by Justin Bieber
2) Just Can't Get Enough by The Saturdays
3) Oath by Cher Lloyd Feat. Becky G
4) What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction
5) Part Of Me by Katy Perry
My Top Five Songs: Acoustic
1) Somebody To Love by Justin Bieber
2) Set This World On Fire by The Janoskians
3) Halo by Beyoncé
4) Set Fire To The Rain by Adele
5) Darkside by Kelly Clarkson
My Top Five Songs: That Make Me Wish I Had A Good Singing Voice
1) Apologize by OneRepublic
2) Just A Dream by Nellie
3) That's What Makes Us Girls by Lana Del Rey
4) Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
5) Skinny Love by Birdy
My Top Five Songs: That Make Me Cry
1) Stay by Rihanna Feat. Mikki Ekko
2) Drops Of Jupiter by Train
3) Miserable At Best by MayDay Parade
4) It Will Rain by Bruno Mars
5) For The First time by The Script
My Top Five Songs: That Make Me Smile
1) Thrift Shop by Macklemore And Ryan Lewis
2) They Don't Know About Us by One Direction
3) Forrest Gump by Frank Ocean
4) Wings by Little Mix
5) National Anthem by Lana Del Rey
Friday, April 5, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
School project.
After reading the Top 10 Reasons Why Teens Leave Church, my Mom in her classic form, had me write a response paper to the article.
So, I writing the reasons he missed.
11) Because being a Christian is hard.
Between school, friends, sports, work, family, boyfriends (or girlfriends) and the necessary evil homework; most teens have a more than a full plate. So some teens, I think, feel that one more hard thing might just send them over the edge. So with this reason, it may be that once their lives clear up a bit young people may return to church and God; or it may take their life getting even harder to go back.
12) Because the world is different.
After being sheltered from the world for years and years of their young life, kids grow up. And they see the world and all it has to offer and wonder, "What could be so bad about this world that I've been warned about?" Because in contrast to the mission trips to countries without power lines and plumbing, 6am prayer breakfasts and the daunting Ten Commandments, the world can seem pretty great. You will be accepted for whoever you are, people have lower expectations, and there is no such thing as sin.
13) Because, "How do we know that Jesus is really God?"
Faith is difficult to muster up sometimes. And with all the various religions, or lack of, in the world young people can be confused with whether or not what they've been taught has any validity. Because how is one to really know for sure that Allah isn't the real God? Or that maybe there isn't a real God to begin with?
So, I writing the reasons he missed.
11) Because being a Christian is hard.
Between school, friends, sports, work, family, boyfriends (or girlfriends) and the necessary evil homework; most teens have a more than a full plate. So some teens, I think, feel that one more hard thing might just send them over the edge. So with this reason, it may be that once their lives clear up a bit young people may return to church and God; or it may take their life getting even harder to go back.
12) Because the world is different.
After being sheltered from the world for years and years of their young life, kids grow up. And they see the world and all it has to offer and wonder, "What could be so bad about this world that I've been warned about?" Because in contrast to the mission trips to countries without power lines and plumbing, 6am prayer breakfasts and the daunting Ten Commandments, the world can seem pretty great. You will be accepted for whoever you are, people have lower expectations, and there is no such thing as sin.
13) Because, "How do we know that Jesus is really God?"
Faith is difficult to muster up sometimes. And with all the various religions, or lack of, in the world young people can be confused with whether or not what they've been taught has any validity. Because how is one to really know for sure that Allah isn't the real God? Or that maybe there isn't a real God to begin with?
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Observation.
Fan Fiction.
Fan Fiction (most often shortened to the term fanfic) is wrote by young people. The teens write these stories about their idols. Such as Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and Justin Bieber. Fanfics can be about how Cody Simpson falls in love with a fan he met a the dog run or how Cody Simpson falls in love with Josh Hutcherson.
Seriously.
I've heard of a fanfic in which Harry Styles goes to Hogwarts and falls in love with Harry Potter.
Dead Serious.
And then there are AU fanfics (AU stands for alternate universe). In an AU fanfic Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee can be portrayed as normal old high school students. Or Edward Cullen can be portrayed as a drug lord with an obsession with cars. In AU's really they only thing that gives a fanfic reason to tie itself to a fandom is that the name of a character is the same as the object of following in the fandom in question. So I could write a story about a girl with circular glasses named Harriet Pottering and it instantly becomes a Potterhead story.
I kid you not.
There are two major websites dedicated to fanfics. LiveJournal and AO3. LiveJournal is mostly bands and celeb fanfiction while AO3 is mostly subfandoms such as, The Avengers or Anime. Both sites are fan-owned and fan-runned.
Every fandom has that one fanfic that everyone in the fandom has read and is so highly regarded that if you can't recount the entire plot backwards you are not a true fan. Apparently. For the Twihards it's Fifty Shades Of Grey. FSOG had such a wild reaction among the Twihards that it's now a published book being made into a movie. All based off of a Twilight fanfic.
Now each fandom has a rating. G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17. An example, Adam Lambert fans, called The Lambertinis, are rated R so the majority of their fanfics are also rated R. To be a considered a completed fanfic you must give your work a rating. Unfortunately most fandoms are rated above PG-13, making most fanfics unreadable in my case because of all the "smut" as the fandoms call "it".
With all that said, I think fanfiction is kinda extraordinary.
All these young people, write these novel length stories, some of which have one and sometimes two sequels. They dream up these crazy plot lines and complex webs of characters. They paint pictures of crippling pain and utter happiness. They give their characters their own feelings and share real experiences, some of which take quite a bit of bravery to publish.
So it's just kinda amazing that these young people have this subculture in which they write these stories and publish them. They read them. They edit them. They create soundtracks for them. They recommend them to other readers/writers. And no one tells them to. They do all this by their own free will. And they enjoy it.
It's kind of beautiful.
Fan Fiction (most often shortened to the term fanfic) is wrote by young people. The teens write these stories about their idols. Such as Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and Justin Bieber. Fanfics can be about how Cody Simpson falls in love with a fan he met a the dog run or how Cody Simpson falls in love with Josh Hutcherson.
Seriously.
I've heard of a fanfic in which Harry Styles goes to Hogwarts and falls in love with Harry Potter.
Dead Serious.
And then there are AU fanfics (AU stands for alternate universe). In an AU fanfic Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee can be portrayed as normal old high school students. Or Edward Cullen can be portrayed as a drug lord with an obsession with cars. In AU's really they only thing that gives a fanfic reason to tie itself to a fandom is that the name of a character is the same as the object of following in the fandom in question. So I could write a story about a girl with circular glasses named Harriet Pottering and it instantly becomes a Potterhead story.
I kid you not.
There are two major websites dedicated to fanfics. LiveJournal and AO3. LiveJournal is mostly bands and celeb fanfiction while AO3 is mostly subfandoms such as, The Avengers or Anime. Both sites are fan-owned and fan-runned.
Every fandom has that one fanfic that everyone in the fandom has read and is so highly regarded that if you can't recount the entire plot backwards you are not a true fan. Apparently. For the Twihards it's Fifty Shades Of Grey. FSOG had such a wild reaction among the Twihards that it's now a published book being made into a movie. All based off of a Twilight fanfic.
Now each fandom has a rating. G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17. An example, Adam Lambert fans, called The Lambertinis, are rated R so the majority of their fanfics are also rated R. To be a considered a completed fanfic you must give your work a rating. Unfortunately most fandoms are rated above PG-13, making most fanfics unreadable in my case because of all the "smut" as the fandoms call "it".
With all that said, I think fanfiction is kinda extraordinary.
All these young people, write these novel length stories, some of which have one and sometimes two sequels. They dream up these crazy plot lines and complex webs of characters. They paint pictures of crippling pain and utter happiness. They give their characters their own feelings and share real experiences, some of which take quite a bit of bravery to publish.
So it's just kinda amazing that these young people have this subculture in which they write these stories and publish them. They read them. They edit them. They create soundtracks for them. They recommend them to other readers/writers. And no one tells them to. They do all this by their own free will. And they enjoy it.
It's kind of beautiful.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Random Ramblings...
Generation Y and Generation Z.
*gasp*
The teenagers and young adults.
*gasp*
The ages eleven to twenty five.
*gasp*
It's true, for the most part this generation is lazy, unrefined, directionless and uneducated. But there are some hiding, who truly are gifted. Kids who are gifted in math and words and music and loving others and singing and writing and listening and talking and leading and building and thinking and living. Those kids go to every day school. They sit at desks. They play dodge ball in gym class. They have cake at their birthday's.
But they are sometimes ignored.
Not by peers.
But by non-peers.
Usually the people most isolated have the most to give the world.
*gasp*
The teenagers and young adults.
*gasp*
The ages eleven to twenty five.
*gasp*
It's true, for the most part this generation is lazy, unrefined, directionless and uneducated. But there are some hiding, who truly are gifted. Kids who are gifted in math and words and music and loving others and singing and writing and listening and talking and leading and building and thinking and living. Those kids go to every day school. They sit at desks. They play dodge ball in gym class. They have cake at their birthday's.
But they are sometimes ignored.
Not by peers.
But by non-peers.
Usually the people most isolated have the most to give the world.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Quote.
"The thing I love about rivers is that you can't step in the same river twice."
From the Disney movie Pocahontas.
An Introduction To Myself: Part 3
I'm sitting on my couch. As I've mentioned before, I hate our couches. They are hard and leather and slippery and sometimes sticky and so nothing like the old black couch. I miss the old black couch. I'd come and sleep on it 90% of my nights because I liked it better than my own bed.
So, as I'm sitting on my couch, my hair is drying from my shower. I have this crazy, untamed hair. It's not long at all, only to my shoulders. But it's super thick. And takes eons to dry. And since I tend to lack common sense, I'm growing it out long again. Stupid girl. But it'll be an adventure. We'll see how long I make it before chopping it all off again.
So, as I'm sitting on my couch (that I hate) and my hair is drying slowly, I'm listening to Pandora radio. Currently it's on my One Direction channel and the song Boston by Augustana is playing. But only about five minutes ago it was on the Winnie the Pooh channel playing You'll Be Here In My Heart from the Tarzan movie. Because if you say you're too old for Disney movies you're lying.
So, as I'm sitting on this wretched couch, allowing my hair a generous amount of time to dry and listening to indie rock and children's songs depending on my mood, I'm also digesting Carb Smart Ice Cream.
Good Night.
So, as I'm sitting on my couch, my hair is drying from my shower. I have this crazy, untamed hair. It's not long at all, only to my shoulders. But it's super thick. And takes eons to dry. And since I tend to lack common sense, I'm growing it out long again. Stupid girl. But it'll be an adventure. We'll see how long I make it before chopping it all off again.
So, as I'm sitting on my couch (that I hate) and my hair is drying slowly, I'm listening to Pandora radio. Currently it's on my One Direction channel and the song Boston by Augustana is playing. But only about five minutes ago it was on the Winnie the Pooh channel playing You'll Be Here In My Heart from the Tarzan movie. Because if you say you're too old for Disney movies you're lying.
So, as I'm sitting on this wretched couch, allowing my hair a generous amount of time to dry and listening to indie rock and children's songs depending on my mood, I'm also digesting Carb Smart Ice Cream.
Good Night.
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