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?????? bored May 20, 2008

Filed under: family,friends,fun,humor,music,school,Uncategorized — taktikphotography @ 8:13 pm
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  Yeah, I do not know how to play video games. Specially if they aren’t racing games. The picture is courtesy of my cousin Nicky, he just was getting “pay back” because I always bug him with pictures. :)

 

  Going down to my aunt and uncle’s place this Sunday again! YAY! That place is the bomb! The other weekend my cousin and I were watching “The Reaping” Sadly I had to leave right when it was getting good. :( My cousin and I never can watch a movie fully in silence, if it isn’t me asking questions to him, or vise versa, or him grabbing me when a movie comes to a scary part. That reminds me, I need to ask my dad if I can go to North Carolina with my aunt, uncle, and cousin for the summer for a week or so. That is just a recipe for crazy insane good times, probably alot of pillow fights, and trying to do morse code with flash lights. Hopefully I can go, I really want to, but I have to ask me dad.

 

  Well, as you can tell from this blog. I am really bored! Okay, now I am off to surf the net, skype, and maybe do some of my chores! Adios!

 

song for today’s blogs……”Rowboat” by Emily Hanes & The Soft Skeleton! *No not Amy Winehouse!* 

 

Love Like You Have Never Loved Before, Live Like Every Breath Is Your Last One, & Dance Like Nobody Is Watching! May 20, 2008

   Why is that certain music can bring you back to a certain time or point in your life? Some times when you are living that one specific moment, you don’t realize that you will never forget that time in your life. Those moments are in-bedded into our memory, life is not one big story, but it is all the little stories in the one big story that you call life.

 

Stories are to be made into books, that people will read; from the first minute you are born, not only are you given the gift of life, you are also two other things. You are first are given a clock, this clock does tell time, but not the time of day, but it tells the time you have left. After you are given your clock which you can not see, or tell how long you will live, you are given a book. This book is filled with blank pages, you can not take any pen to it and write what you like, or a novel you have thought up of. The only thing that is your pen, is the steps you take, the choices you have made, the people you have been acquainted to, the ones you have made friends with, others who are not your allies, and your thoughts and also speech. You can decided what is going to happen in your book depending on what you do and what you become. Every book ends in a similar way, everyone has to die, but what you die of or from or maybe something you did that caused you to die isn’t really up to you, but it is different from everyone else.

 

I have lead my life the way I thought best at the time. Do I regret my decisions once in awhile? Yes, I do I think back and say to myself I would have done this; whatever it is, differently. Would I change my decisions, actions, and words? Absolutely no, the things I choose, the things I did, and the things I some times regret saying have made me the person who I am today. I enjoy my life, I don’t know where it might lead I have learned that in the past few years. Trust me, don’t ever plan your life to far in advance, take each day as it comes, the only true way to make God laugh is tell HIM what YOU have planned for YOU.  Yes, decisions you have made and paths you have chosen to follow is up to you, but you never still truly know what you are going to do a year from now. 

 

Your life is a book, the steps you take in your life is the pen. It is up to you to write it, and figure out what kind of book will it be, and not in a sense of being a romance, adventure, sci-fi, and etc. but is it a book that will never be read, or a book that every library will have and a book that will be read over and over again through the ages. Your book, do what you wish. Do you want to be forgotten when you die? Or do you want your story to be told forever? I know what I want to do, do you? Do you know how your going to write your book?

 

  In my life there are things that I distinctly remember, and honestly wish that time in my life I could just go back and relive it over and over and over. One thing that has been on my mind for some time, is dancing. I used to love it so much, it was my everything, it was my passion, it was the one thing that I felt that made me who I was. A way to escape everything, just listening to the music, feeling rush through my body. Having the pure sense of joy keeping the beat and rhythm in my feet and body. Moving in such ways that only certain people could move, a certain poise, that mind blowing flexibility. I had danced for 11 years, I haven’t taken another step into a studio for four years now. 

 

  I still remember the feeling of dancing, the horrid smell of ruber floors that where never washed, only swept. A distinct oder to the shoes, that smelt bitter tbut then brought joy to know that they help me glide on the floor.  The wood bar that made me test my strength, flexability, and make me move in postions that would make a few people cringe at the sight.

 

Sadly that one fateful Summer everything that was me, was gone. I was ten when my Grandfather (Nugypapa) died, I was very close to him. I came over to visit every single day since I was like two to ten that is 2,918 day in a row I saw my grandfather. So maybe showing you a larger number you will realize that he was very special to me. The first time in 2001 he asked me if it was okay if he missed my dance recital. And then asked me to give a private show later, he never saw my dance. He had died before I could ever show him. I remember it as if it was yesterday, on the stage, in my purple dress, thinking my grandfather wasn’t in the audience and dancing to ”Beauty and The Beast” at the time of the recital he had not yet left me. But soon after my recital he was gone.  After his death all my memories of my grandfather had vanished as quickly as he did. But I did continue dancing four years afterwards, but ever since he has died my love for dance had quickly gone. The last time I stepped on the stage to preform, I remember forgetting my footing, and became off beat for all three songs, now when I look at the videos, I can see that my mind was not in the moment of dancing but thinking of my grandfather. 

 

My love for dancing is still somewhere in my heart, when I hear certain songs I would practice to I seriously stop what ever I am doing and dance. Those moments are forever embedded into my memory. When I stopped dancing is a descion I regret making some days.

 

  One thing I do have to say is this, it has been exactly one year from a very low point in my life. I am so happy to see how I have grown over this one year. I never made a bad choice in my life, just not the best choice there was.  But, I am very happy to report that I have reached the one year mark of a certain time in my life that took me through the worst time in my life, the most depressed I had ever been. Odd enough to say that I am happy it happened to me, because not only did I grow from it. I don’t think I could bare the thought of someone else in my position. Because I know that maybe someone else might not have been able to deal with it. They say the first cut is the deepest, but it wasn’t the first cut that hurt the most, it was the second, the third, and the fourth that hurt more then ever.  But now it has been a year, from that point of darkness, and lonelyness, and quite frankly it has taught me so much.

 

  Well, now my life is swell! Okay, it isn’t all that sweet and wonderful as it might look, but it is better then what it was. I have learned that life IS fair, it might not seem so at the time, but that is because there are better things in store for you in the future. When there seems to be nobody in the world that understands you, or loves you in a certain way *your family doesn’t count* there is someone that does. You might know them, you might not, but they love you with a burning passion, and so will you when you find them. :D

 

Understand life is short, don’t try to put life on hold, because time won’t stop. Hopefully what I told you in this blog will make you understand how life is short, and you never know when it is going to end. Also, you know that you might be making a hard choice at the moment, like for me it was to stop dancing, but know that in the end everything will work out as planned.

 

song for this blog is……..”1234″ by Feist.

 

p.s. Bible study was fun. We all wrote something nice to each other and read it later. Erin says I am over analytical. It is slightly true, I have to admit! The ride home from bible study was fun! Shy is cool, because she secretly is Russian and writes backwards F’s. HAHA! Kels is cute, because she tunes people out!

 

  

 

 

 

Story Of A Girl. May 7, 2008

     I have been thinking lately, which is RARE! No, not really I use my mind multiple times during the day. :D

 

How much music influences my life. It always have some relation to how I am feeling that day. It makes me happy, sad, and etc etc.

 

What else did I ponder about? Hmmm…… I was looking back on my life, and dang it the crazy things I did as a young girl. I wonder if I ever thought of “WHAT” could have happen.  I am trying not to boast about myself. Even though I have a feeling no matter what I say it is going to seem vain, it is not supposed to be vain. If it comes off vain then, cry me a river, I didn’t mean for it to be. 

 

What I am wanting to say is looking back on my life I did some pretty cool stuff, and accomplished a lot more when I wasn’t thinking of the “What ifs” I just did it, and whatever came out of it happened. Good or bad I would grow or learn what to do and what not to do the next time. 

Like Edison, how many light bulbs did it take him to figure out how to make that one? It is an argued question on the exact number but I will say at least one thousand tries until he figures out how to make a light bulb work and last longer then two seconds. He said something that has stuck with me.

A reporter asks Edison “How many failed attempts did you make before discovering the right way?”

Edison’s reply ”I never made failed attempts, I just learned 1,000 ways on how NOT to make a light bulb.”

 

Now what I am saying you never “FAIL” you just learn on ways that don’t work. Okay, I honestly go on with quotes from famous people about Failure. The big thing in common that they all meant was, if I had never failed I would have never had learned the right way of doing it. 

 

 I think I did some pretty stupid stuff back then, but now I have so many stories to tell. I know if you know me now you might think of me as different, from the person I was six years ago. I have done somethings some people have never done, or very few people have experienced. I am proud of that, I am less proud of my awards, plaques, trophies, ribbons, badges, and being in the newspaper a few times; then I am of my experiences.

  Yes, I had to work my tail off for the awards and stuff. I just don’t think it has given me a lot of things I can say “I did THAT” .  Becasue next year someone else will be rewarded the same. They are nice for college and other things but not as cool as saying that “I sat on a alligator and held its mouth, while being in a pit of 15 other alligators roaming the land.” The story goes more in depth but I won’t get into detail. Yeah, I bet that is a random fact you didn’t know about me.

 

I guess doing things that average people wouldn’t want to do, has always been apart of me. I have always said that I don’t want to die from old age, I would rather die doing something that not many people are doing. Because at least I had fun, and lived my life and not trying to preserve myself for old people in those museums they call nursing homes. I also say, they ”pretty” old people had no real fun in there life; they must not have had much expression since they aren’t wrinkled like a shirt. I encourage people to do some daring things in their life time. Get some wrinkles on your face, you will enjoy the story telling time of your life to people other then nice looking skin.

If you have a fear, go out there and conquerr your fear. Fear is nothing more then abstinence or courage. We all have fears, for the people who have told me that they don’t believe I have fears or any kind of afobia I won’t tell you them because they are pretty ridiculous when you hear them. (If you really need to know for some odd reason ask me, but not here on my blog.)

So for today’s blog in a nutshell……your life is a book filled with blank pages, it is up to you to pick up the pen and start writing.

Have fun with your life, you only have one.

 

Okay my lovely readers. Today I have a little list of songs for you since I can’t choose just one.

 Stolen-Dashboard Confessional

All Around Me-Flyleaf

Honey-The Hush Sound

Absoulutly (Story Of A Girl)-Nine Days

Don’t Touch Me (Throw DA Water On ‘Em) -Busta Rhymes *note-if your ears are sensitive maybe this song isn’t for you*

 

Thanks for reading! Much love to all my readers!

 

I Am Going To Do It! May 1, 2008

 

    Hey there my lovely readers! I know I have been pondering about what I should do for a new or upcoming blog that will be some what interesting. I have been racking my brain for ideas. Lots of things have come up for me to write about, but I don’t want to write about something just to write. I want my writing to have some meaning, or atleast things that are atleast important to me. As people know I love the Earth, and feel the need not only to make this planet cleaner, but I also care for the people that live on it. Okay, and lets not forget the Sea Turtles. I feel people should at least have house, clean water, and some kind of education. Education meaning acidemics, common sense, and life skills to survive. I would love to just bring food and clean fresh water to tribes in Africa and other countries. But you can’t just do the work for them and then when you are not there they not know what to do. You not only have to teach them let them do it themselves, and then maybe telling them a quicker and better way of doing it. Just give them the experience, giving the gift of knowledge is the best gift anyone could give.

 

I am known as a “Hippie” or “The Hippie” which I think is cute and all, but really that is not what I am. You might be wondering what I would consider myself; first of all, I do not labeling what so ever it is wrong. It gives people big egos, and it can do serious damage to others, and sometimes the people with the BIG egos are the one with serious mental damage. Since they don’t know how to grow up and know that they are not always going to be right, and they will never be the coolest; someone else will have beaten you to that title no matter how hard you try. So personally I say ban labels, but you really can’t, so if you must put me under one little category and label me only as one thing the big thing everyone would say would be “Hippie” or I prefer Enviromentalist. Not a Hippie, hippies do drugs, protest over wars, and have silly quotes. I would be what you might consider an Environmentalist.

 

So now we have gotten that behind us, my bigger problem is I love to travel. If you really personally know me, you know that well I am dieing to go to India, Africa, and other parts of the world. For myself, to travel make friends, and well whatever comes my way. I don’t know, I have fallen in love with little children in other parts of the world living on their own. I do dream of adopting less unfortunate children when I am ready to start my own family, but just adopting two children won’t make a big enough impact. So I was debating with myself how in the world will I ever be able to afford to travel to different countries, and at the same time make an impact in this world. I figured get sponsored by some people, but then that still won’t be enough. This put my in a pickle, I needed to figure out what exactly type of game plan I can make. My dad the genius he is, suggested “Peace Core” I figured that means I will be weighed down with commitment to them.

 

So, I researched a little bit about the Peace Corps. they ask for a two year commitment. I thought it isn’t a bad deal, you get to stay in a exotic or whereever you want place for two years doing something that you love and can move on to another place for the next two years. I haven’t done full research, but there are alot of things teens can do, since you have to be 18 or older to join Peace Corps. I think it will be a fun experience. So I figured they prefer people with college degrees or at least some kind of education. So I am now starting to plan my life the way I think I will love and be best suited for.  Maybe not the route my parents invisioned for me. I think it is quiet funny, some girl who wanted to persue business and go to Harvard Business college now thinking of becoming part of the Peace Corps.

 

Right now I feel somewhat satisfied, knowing what I should be looking in to more and things of that nature.  It just makes me well extremely happy. :D I don’t think I have been this sure of what I wanted to do in and with my life before. Now I feel some sort of weird sensation of peace with me inside, like almost my heart telling me that I have to do it and I am going to do it, it is something I will enjoy doing.  So now, I just need to do extensive research and hopefully figure out everything while I go along.

 

The song for this blog is……..well a little more exotic in honor of my first Peace Corps. blog…………..”Din Din Wo” by: Habib Koite` and Bamada.

 

No point in reading this….Really, DON’T! April 21, 2008

Filed under: art,friends,school — taktikphotography @ 3:38 am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am extremly bored, solitare is starting to become my vice, since people on Skype are in Paris having fun. School is tomorrow, I am finally caught up with my History, THANK GOD! Now that I think about it, I have a quiz and two essays due by tuesday and I barely did any research for them. Oh well, they will just be posted late, good thing about being homeschooled I set my own sched.

 

Now that I have all this time to do nothing, but play solitare, surf the net, and I found out that I am horriable at painting but it is relaxing and fun. So that is basically what I have been doing, on my weekend. I have to say the highlight of my weekend was Friday night at Kelsey’s house playing Xbox live. Good times, I haven’t laughed so hard and ate that many pizza rolls in one night before.

 

I wonder how long will it take my this time to think up of a blog. I really don’t feel like I have anything to talk about, only my crappy weekend. I am still mad at myself for going to the beach, and like ten minutes AFTER I left my house, I get a chat from Paris and completely miss it. I know no one will understand the importance of the chat from Paris…….but I can tell you it made the whole weekend and probably week a bad one. I mean I am happy that I got a chat, but I am depressed that I missed it!

Well this blog was pointless……..I guess I am off to play solitare…..woo-hoo!

  Take care my readers!

   taK-tiK!

 

Beans need to be with Burritos! April 17, 2008

Filed under: art,books,friends,fun,humor,movies books,music,school — taktikphotography @ 3:18 am
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The title of this blog has nothing to do at all with the actual blog itself. It is an inside joke, and only a few people will understand. Anyways since that is not the point.

This blog really has no point. It is just be really lazy, not wanting to go to bed and read. I enjoy reading, but there are other things I wish I could be doing. Like blowing bubbles, blowing bubbles for some reason gets my creative mojo flowing. Plus, it is cute to watch my dog run around trying to catch and eat the bubbles. Today was fun, I went to the doctors and he said that I am doing much better in recovering which is always a plus. Today’s weather was absoulutly wonderful, the bad thing about it being so cold is that when you wake up in the morning the thought of leaving you bed which is warm due to you wrapped up like a butterfly in the caccoon. Also, then leaving your bed clothes to go into day clothes that are cold not as comfortable as your bedtime clothes. That is the only downfall to cold weather, other then that it is nice to know that when you step outside you won’t start sweating and blast the cars a/c. You can actually roll down your windows and drive turn off your a/c save some gas.

Well after the doctors I went to BJ’s and can’t resist and help myself to walk by the book section. Normally it is torture because I spend hours standing there reading books writing the names down for my “Get these books” list. Today I saw a book I have been stumbleing across lately on-line and always curious to see what exactly is in this book?!  If you have ever heard of the book “The Daring Book For Girls” I have to say, it may seem like it would only be a little girl’s book, it actually isn’t it has some good stuff inside! I have even done one of the crafts they have. It is a Mexican God’s Eye, it is fun and easy to make. Look at it if you ever stumble across it in a book store.

So basically today was a get back in touch with you inner child day for me. Blowing bubbles, arts and crafts. Just a fun day! 

Song for this blog is……..’Till Kingdom Come by Coldplay.

 

Who I am Makes A Difference April 8, 2008

Filed under: art,changing the world,family,friends,making a difference,music,school,youtube — taktikphotography @ 4:31 am

This video is one of the most inspirational videos i have ever watched. Please Watch it, it might not effect you as much it did me, but I please request, everyone who has watched the video and not only enjoyed it but felt touched please put this up on a blog post or on your myspace. Just lets get this video to go and get around to many people. People need to feel needed. Well, this video says everything. Please watch and enjoy, it won’t take to much of your time.

 http://youtube.com/watch?v=sN_LPTNQEqM&feature=bz301

Thank you!

 

Weird Wednesdays February 28, 2008

Filed under: humor,school — taktikphotography @ 12:39 am
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1-31-2008-0251.jpg  Okay, so today was well…..interesting. I have a few topics to talk about but I just want to warn my readers (if I have any) that well basically today was very odd. So here is how my day started, since I am almost a month behind in a History Essay which I thought would be a breeze it isn’t. I just started my research today! 

So the weather was cold when I woke up and it grew colder by the hour.  So after doing extensive research on the library’s computer my time had ran up which is only an hour. If you are doing research you need more time then just one hour. 

 So I figured I should do some catch up on my Great Expectations reading. (This version is the unabridged and I am half way threw it and on the 30 chapter.) So now the time was 3:30 *School’s out* there was a sea of people at the library and even in hushed tones, the room was roaring.

 I couldn’t have helped over hear a group of guys ‘high school age’ talking about how they could go to Tokyo, China and buy 30 pairs of shoes for the great price of only five dollars.

Now I understand that the room was booming with jibber jabber, but I did hear them say Tokyo, China. Now if you don’t know the importance of Tokyo, China I’ll let you on a hint; Tokyo is not in China, it’s in Japan. So I couldn’t help but giggle at this statement, who wouldn’t?

I mean it is pretty odd when you are focused on Pip and Estella meeting again at Miss Havisham’s house for dinner, and to hear that now Tokyo is in China. So Finally I hear one of the guys in the group laugh, I figured YES someone who knows. He said “Tokyo isn’t in China, Japan is in China.” last time I checked the two countries weren’t within each other. Then the same guy who made the comment about Tokyo, China said “No, Hong Kong is in Japan and Tokyo is in China.” I gave the guy a break, they might be dyslexic, nope. They concluded that Hong Kong is in Japan and Japan is in Tokyo and Tokyo is in CHINA! So at this time I was wanting to fall on the floor laughing so hard I couldn’t listen to anymore worried I would laugh and insult them. So maybe you can buy 30 pairs of shoes for 5 dollars in Tokyo, China. But you would have to find a way to be at those two different places at the same time.

So that is how my day became full of laughter and made it very weird. I hope you enjoyed reading my blog!

 

 
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