5 Reasons I'm The Luckiest Girl In The World

1. My Parents
They love me. I know they do. They're patient with me and they're perfect
2. My Sister
She's basically my lifeline. I absolutely love her. It doesn't hurt she gives me her old clothes.
3. My Boyfriend
He is perfect and he's sweet and he's caring and he has always been there for me.*
4. My Friends
I make it a priority of mine to surround myself with awesome friends, whether I deserve them or not.
5. Music
I found my passion at a young age.

*edit: he's my ex now. just saying.
*edit: I've replaced him

Annoyances 11-20

Sorry for the weird formatting- I typed this for a journal in school.

11

Useless products that are sold on TV because they’re a waste of time, work,

effort, money, and resources. Why see the world in 3-D when you can see it in

REAL D!!!

12

When I am in class and I do something, such as covering my ears to protect

from spoilers for a book I want to read, and the boys at the table over

laugh at me. It is NOT NICE.

13

People who mock me because of my height. Yes. I know I’m shorter than you, however

I’m taller than a lot of people. And you’ll never get to be this short again, so ha!

14

When I take the time to unlock my locker and three seconds later,

I close it. Without getting my band binder out.

15

When I finish my work in Spanish early and have nothing to do. That

is annoying. It is BORING.

16

When I have nothing to write about. It annoys me that I don’t

know what to write about for journals or blogging...

17

When people laugh at the faces I make.

I make faces. Get over it. :)

18

When I’m wearing something that ties and it come undone.

That is REALLY annoying because I have to constantly

be tying it.

19

When I do something to my hair (like put it in a perfect bun,

which basically never happens) and then I have

to take it out because I mess it up.

It is never as good as the first time.

20

Invalid questions. ‘Nuff said.

Forever and Always,

Love and BEST WISHES DFTBA!

Rex

Shirts, Compliments, And Polite Ways To Shut People Up

Hello, my lovely people! I guess I should say as a preface that I am sorry for taking so long to post! BUT there is much in store for this blog! Not only did I post yesterday AND today BUT I also re-designed the blog! I want to keep it this way for the week that I am in the big U (which is next week). My goal is to start blogging regularly again and even more than just once a week, so there's something for you to look forward to! Anyway, for the next two weeks I will be posting more AND I will be participating in Blog Everyday in April this year!

Anyway, this post contains THREE parts: fashion (skip this if you so wish), compliments, and mockery. 

PART 1: FASHION

My sister (my lovely sister) has wonderful style but she quickly outgrow her clothes and gives some of them to me! So, I can now say that I am starting to actually put effort into my fashion. Today I wore a flowery tank top that I ABSOLUTELY adore! And tomorrow I plan to wear this pair of pink pants I have now and this white polka dot shirt. I really look forward to it now! The fun thing for me is expressing myself and knowing that my fashion is perceived as unique. I like knowing that people understand my personality and character simply from my fashion sense. Many people don't feel the need to express themselves through their clothing but I feel like it's a good way to look nice and try to attract attention (not like in the stealing the spotlight way but in the small compliments way:: see in next part).

Fashion is not only and art but an everyday way of helping others form opinions of one another. The way a person dresses can really affect the way a person is seen.  The reason I'm trying to put my fashion in order is because I want to be someone people look up to for style in high school because my sister likes being that way and I like that idea.

PART 2: COMPLIMENTS

Recently a guy asked me if it was true that girls only remember the bad things people say to them and not the compliments. I told him this most certainly was not true. He asked me to list five compliments I'd gotten, which I gladly did. I guess for some it doesn't work like that but I have to say that when someone compliments me, I take it to heart because I realize that not everyone will like what I do, wear, or say, so I have to be happy when people do. This is the mindset I use when I enter something; when I perform in a show, or perform a song I wrote. If people like it, I accept the compliments and accept the criticism. I just found it interesting that that was something people said.

PART 3: MOCKERY

Here's a simple way to stop someone when they're mocking you. This is a technique I've found myself using lately. I swear, this is the easiest thing for you to do when someone mocks something you said. For instance, today during art I said something in a sing-song-y and the guy next to me mocked me. So I turned to him and said to him, and I am not kidding, "Don't mock me, please.". He looked at me for a second before just walking away. I swear that it works.

Remind me to talk about telling people to shut up and dance class.

Love,

Rex

Musicals, Cancer, and Advice

  These past few months have been crazy. Really, they have been. So we'll just have to glaze over those and move on to now and I'll try to go back through those months later. Anyway, let me just try and throw myself back into this and I can apologise quite more later. Yes. Sorry for having disappeared.
   This post will come in 3 Wonderful parts: Alice In Wonderland (as in the musical and me), and The Fault In Our Stars (As in JOHN GREEN!!!!:) ) and advice (because I've been watching Dear Buck and listened to Very Good Advice like 40 FREAKING TIMES today...).

PART 1: ALICE IN WONDERLAND


Yesterday, I had a concert band concert at Northwestern (which was lovely, by the way). Which meant that it was placed directly during the time at which I was supposed to be auditioning for a production of Alice In Wonderland Jr., which was obviously impossible. So, I recorded a video of me singing the audition song which I then sent the directors. And (lucky me!) I got a call back! Which is why I spent my afternoon (from 1-4) in a freezing cold auditorium, surrounded by semi-annoying actresses and entirely nice actors.