My favorite movies

When I was little, I loved watching cartoons and movies. My mom tells me to this day about how whenever she would put one of my favorite movies on, I would one, act out all of my favorite scenes, and two, ask her to play it over and over and over again. I still today love watching those movies. Two of my favorite movies were The Wizard of Oz and The Little Mermaid. You know how in high school, they still show movies but they have to be G rated. We would sometimes watch movies from my childhood to point certain things out for that class, and I would LOVE it because I had an excuse to watch those movies again. I am not too sure why those movies were my favorite, but I have more of a variety now than I did then. I’m talking about Aladin, The Lion King, and movies like that. I still enjoy watching those as well. I guess maybe a reason why they stayed my favorites, is because they remind me of how happy I was as a child. Sitting at home with my mom before pre-school and playing with her. They were really fun times. These days, I like funny movies and action movies. I like the occassional romance movie, but funny movies seem to catch my eye better. There really isn’t a specific reason why movies will become my favorite today, I guess I just really have to enjoy them, and feel like I won’t be bored if I watched it once more.

Word Bank Poem

He looks quickly

Mind over money

She dances slowly

Smelly, hot, sweaty

Run, crawl, glide

Articulate shiny feline

Step, strut, stride

Masculine hairy canine

Next to Texas

Endlessly aggresive

Blogging

Blogging. Wow. It just adds on to the stress that this class gave me. I am not really well with having everything time crunched even though it helps me get stuff done. I cannot write about stuff that I do not have an opinion on sometimes, so some of the blogs I tried to stretch as long as I could. They were still all very truthful. I do feel though that blogging helps people when they have something on their minds, but I already keep a journal for my psychologist. So by the end of the day, I have already run out of things to say. I find it more stressful to blog when this class requires so much already, and I have a child to attend to. I know I have to and shouldn’t complain, but it is very hard sometimes. I feel it worked my brain because I had to think hard about the topic I was writing about, and think of ways to expand my thoughts, but that is annoying to me. I do not think I will keep blogging after this because if I want to write something, I will write in my journal that I am writing for my psychologist. If it is something that I do not have to do, I am not going to do it because I have bigger responsibilities at home than to blog. But maybe in the near future if I do have time, I might possibly start blogging again. Maybe.

Sing, sing a song…

From the time I was two years old, I have been dancing. I have always been a musically talented person. I started dancing when I was two, and enjoyed singing all the time while growing up. I had big ambitions about being a singer, but I never persued much. I quit dancing in the fourth grade to try horse back riding. So my daddy bought a horse, and I rode for a year. I started back at dance when I was in the fifth grade. I danced until my eigth grade year because of my mom making me quit for certain reasons. Then, I stayed out of my dance studio and was on the drill team my freshman year of high school, and some of my sophmore year. I quit my sophmore year because the coach was a witch and was out to get me…no joke. I started back at my dance studio my junior year. I was excited more than anything to be back into dance, but the last two months of my dancing, I was pregnant. I knew I was pregnant while I was dancing, but I wanted to finish out the two months I had left, because dancing is my passion. After that my teachers said I could come back after I had my baby, even though it would have been in the middle of the year, but I could have caught up. I decided to not go back because I thought maybe if I ended up having to have a cesarean, then it would be even longer, and I thought I wouldn’t really have the time. I would love to dance again though.

Stress relief

Whenever I am stressed out, I like to clean. Cleaning for me is a way out of reality for some strange reason. I have to have everything always clean and neat. And especially, if I am stressed out, I become overwhelmed if things are not clean. Sometimes I feel like I have a control issue when everything has to be clean. I do not know if other people feel that way, I really do not care. But if some people do not like dirty environments, then cleaning would be a good thing to take the stress away. When everything is clean and neat, it gives me room to think clearly. If cleaning does not do the trick, then I usually listen to music, or go swimming ( if it is summer time or the pool feels good enough ). If not, then I may go work out or something. Also, I like to have an hour or two nap. After I have attempted cleaning, music, swimming, or working out. Because usually by the time I am finished with all the stuff that helps take the stress away, taking a good nap always reenforces everything. I have not really heard of any other techniques to try, but I do not know if something else would work. Even if it does, I am pretty certain that cleaning has to be at least one thing I do. Otherwise I will be stressed out even more. But since I am always neat and clean, it does not ever really get messy. But just in case.

Assessing ourselves

January. Wow, about a year ago, I thought January would NEVER come. This time last year I was about 2 months pregnant. And my baby was due January 12. She was born on January 6 by cesarean. So since January, I have probably changed the most I ever have in my entire life. It has been pretty rocky, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I don’t regret anything that has happened, or wish I could go back in time and change things, but I do sometimes wonder how my life would be right now if I hadn’t had my daughter. I have overcome being a mother, and I never knew it would be this much fun. It is fun watching her learn and grow. I wanted to accomplish losing all of my baby weight. Unfortunately, I did not. I still have about 10 poundsto go, but that is good compared to the 50 that I gained. I accomplished being a stronger and better person. I feel fine knowing I didn’t lose all my weight. I thought I wouldn’t be attractive, but I have more confidence now. And I know if I just continue working out and eating right, I will eventually lose all of it, if not more than that! And knowing that I accomplished being a mom, makes me feel really good. I thought it was going to be much harder than this, but in a way, it kind of came naturally to me. I enjoy it and it feels good knowing there is a little bit of my boyfriend and I in another human being!

Enlarging Your World

I decided that I was going to write about my best friend. I was looking at her myspace to see if she has posted any blogs lately, and she last posted one in 2006. The reason I chose to write on something so little and so long ago is this. I have known this girl since about Kindergarten, and she and I have been through thick and thin. I have been through a lot in my life, but this girl has seen it all. She knows a lot of people, and she is very friend oriented. She knows many different people who have been through many different types of situations.  She has been through really tough times, but she still has the strength to get through it all. A lot of harsh situations have affected her, and she is a really strong girl. I admire her for being able to go through tough times and stay secure about everything. I know I get insecure if something bad enough happens to me. But she just learns from everything and gros stronger from all the negative things that come her way. She inspires me and she has always been there for me. And it is just wierd to see her blog about things being so bad because it was so long ago, and she has grown up and changed so much since then. She is a really good person and she deserves nothing but the best out of this world. And although she has made some dumb decisions, she is still a great person. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=40654700

Connecting

I read Lisa’s blog from our class. The blog I read was stress relief. I felt that I could really relate to this blog not because of having such a time crunched life but because of the way she relieves her stress. I am the exact same way. Whenever I need to relieve stress, I clean. It is kind of an OCD thing, and it helps clear my mind. I feel like whenever everything is clean, I think more clearly. When I do homework, or have to write a paper or something, everything has to be clean. Lately, school, the baby, and keeping things up at home have been a little overwhelming, so I haven’t gotten much cleaning done lately, but I always will find the time to make the comeback and make sure everything is spick and span. Listening to music also helps too. Especially combining music and cleaning. Because then when I listen to music and clean, I do a game where I have to be done cleaning so much of something before the song is over. Some people might think that is wierd, but I don’t really care what anybody thinks. Dancing is also a huge stress relief. Dancing is my passion, and I have done it my whole life. So I think some of the creative things I could relate to Lisa about. Creative things such as music really soothes me. I also like to organize. That is something creative I also like doing. And yeah, I think that we could be friends.

Great Films

This movie is gross to me and scares me because it reminds me of serial killers. It reminds me of Jeffrey Dahmer. For one thing, I do not like watching movies like this because it reminds me of how crazy people are and that there really are people out somewhere in the world who are like that. I mean, someone had to make this movie, so it was obviously on their minds. This movie is also very boring to me because in ways I think it is pretty much predictable. Of course the girl wasn’t going to die. It made me feel sad for the people in the world who this really happens to. I think it sickening, gross, perverted, and stupid. I think its stupid in the fact that it was predictable, like I said. I don’t really have any other reactions. I wouldn’t watch this movie again, because it wasn’t really interesting to me. I am more of a action and comedy person. And the occasional romance movies. Other people might like it. And I also like watching movies that are up to date because SOMETIMES old movies have really cheesy acting, and stuff like that makes me lose interest. I understand in a sense it has a little action in it, but not my kind of action. Maybe one day I will learn to like older movies like this. But sometimes the way the movie is made makes me tired of it. But atleast I can say that I have watched it!

Soundtrack of My Life

Waking up: About you now by Miranda Cosgrove. It reminds me of watching Drake and Josh. It was catchy when I first heard it, so I put it on my list.

First day of School: Love and sex and magic by Ciera and Justin Timberlake. I have it on here because I like the song, and it reminds me ofthe gym because I sometimes listen to this song while working out.

Falling in love: September by Earth Wind & Fire. This song reminds me of a movie called Get Over It. I put it on my list because I liked it when I heard it.

Fight song: Freeze by TPain and Chris Brown. This song also reminds me of working out, but also the show Taking the Stage. I work out to it, and dancing is my passion, so when I saw someone could dance to this song, I downloaded it so I could too.

Breaking Up: Kiss A Girl by Keith Urban. I like this song because its got a comfty feeling. It reminds me of driving in the car with my windows down.

Prom: Holes Inside by Joe Brooks. This song reminds me of my old dance studio because I almost did a solo to this song. That is why I like it.

Life: Ready by Kelly Clarkson. This song reminds me of my break up with my boyfriend. I liked this song because at the time, it made me feel happy.

Mental Breakdown: Heartbreaker by Will.I.Am. This song reminds me of my old job at Pizza Hut. I would listen to this song on my phone on busy nights.

Driving: Unwritten. This song reminds me of The Hills. That is why I like this song.

Flashback: Best Days by Matt White. I like this song. But it doesn’t really remind me of anything.

Wedding: Ice Cream Paint Job by Dorrough. This song reminds me of my best friend because I was in the car with her whenever I first heard it. It made me want to dance.

Birth of Child: Shake It by Metro Station. This song reminds me of working out at the gym because I would listen to this while working out. It made me pumped.

Final Battle: Now You Know by Kara Dioguardi. This song reminds me of American Idol because Kara Dioguardi was a judge. I like it because I heard it when I was just downloading some of her music.

Death Scene: Take My Hand by Shawn McDonald. This song reminds me of my distant best friend Molly. She and I listened to this song a lot. Makes me miss old days.

Funeral Song: Right Round by Flo Rida. This song makes me think of Kid Kraddick in the Morning and my old job. Kidd Kraddick. I just liked it.

End Credits: I Love College by Asher Roth. This song reminds me of my best friends. I like it because it brings good memories.