Summer Expectations

I have some pretty great expectations for this years spring/summer season. (Where I live the two seasons kind of get blended together a bit, so I can basically count it all as one.) I know that I will be busy, but it doesn't matter. I still have hopes for those lazy weekends spent lying around in the heat. Sure, I will have just graduated high school and will be busy preparing for college and taking part in some other summer responsibilities; but, again, it doesn't matter. I have expectations and hopes and I plan to fulfill every single one of them. Or at least I'll try... Better to try and fail than to not try at all, right?

This summer, I want to...

• Read books. Lots of them. Read them inside next to a window with my favorite drink, enjoying the air conditioning. But also read them outside in the sticky heat enjoying the hot sun and, hopefully, a soft breeze. I want to read books that I've read a hundred times before and I also want to discover new adventures and tales that tug at my heart strings.
• Have movie nights on a Friday night, or even on a week night, and stay up way later than we would have when school was in session.
• Play hide and go seek at night outside when it's just starting to cool off, but the heat from the day is still inside of you and hasn't flown away yet.
• Go and see all of the great upcoming films on the big screen. I have very specific dates on the calendar prepared for nights like this and I'm saving up for it, because I know there will be many days with this planned.
• Run around outside without any shoes on. I want to be adventurous and not worry about mud or catching a cold. I kind of want to be, I don't know... a little reckless, carefree. Let's just go outside and do something crazy, completely unplanned. I want to have an adventure.
• Have a picnic. Just lay out in the sunshine snacking on food, taking naps, talking, maybe even reading. I want to lay in the shade, feel the warm in the air, and listen to the cool breeze playing through the trees.
• Eat watermelon. I seriously want to have a watermelon day or something. We'll go outside with a ton of chilled watermelon and just eat it. Best of all is that we can have a watermelon seed fight. After we're done, we can go swimming and wash off all the stickiness. Or have a water balloon/garden hose fight.
• Go on a long drive with all of the windows rolled down, listening to my awesome summer playlist that I an carefully planning out (you'll hear more about that later). It would be even better if we were driving to the beach, which is another one of my great ideas, by the way.

Summer is on it's way, I have plans, and I am ready.


“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

*facepalm*

(Please read this warning in a very fast, matter-of-fact voice.)

 

WARNING: This blog post is meant to be very over dramatic, a little sarcastic, and in not entirely 100% true. This post is based on true events but has been hyperbolized for dramatic effect. Please take the proceeding statements lightly and do not be concerned.

   I have an issue. I just recently went through a rather traumatic event and I may not be mentally, emotionally, possibly even physically stable for some time. I have a story to tell and I feel that it must be heard. I don't want to be alone any longer.

   Last night, I was out to dinner with my grandparents, my cousin, and my mother. We went to a restaurant where all they served was gourmet pizza. I was enjoying my time with my family eating wonderful food when, at 7:00 pm on the 60 inch television mounted high up on the wall to my right, appeared the one hour recap/summary episode for Once Upon a Time.

You have GOT to be kidding me. *facepalm* (Because this is the worst possible thing that could be happening right now.)

   Immediately I went into a panic knowing that I wasn't going to be able to watch it because I was in the middle of a family dinner; and besides, the volume on the television was muted and there was music playing in the background. I began to hyperventilate and I became very dizzy because I did not know where to look anymore. I knew that I had to avert my eyes. It was torture. There it was, on the large screen in my perfect view and I couldn't watch it. Worst of all, I knew that the premiere began in only one hour.

   One hour later, at 8:00 pm, the screen went dark and the familiar main title appeared on the screen, green with the all too familiar "enchanted spell smoke" billowing in the background. I didn't think I would make. There it was, the ONCE UPON A TIME 2014 SPRING PREMIERE being played on a MASSIVE SCREEN on my right AND getting reflected in the wall of mirrors in front of me and I couldn't watch it.

You have GOT to be kidding me. *facepalm*

   And so it began. There was Emma having breakfast with Henry, Captain Hook appearing looking all dashing and depressed, begging for Emma's help. Then there's Baelfire, the Charming's, Regina, and the WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST... And I couldn't hear their voices. I could only sit there, look on, and cry.

   Now here I am, sitting at home with my heart and my mind broken in two, waiting to watch the patiently and painfully waited for episode 12: New York City Serenade.

Feeling of the day:

And yes, this is absolutely a feeling.


Thanks for listening.
~M

Mind Dump

*This was not my idea. Credit goes to http://shouldvebroughtmyclogs.blogspot.com/2014/03/mind-dump.html , one of the most entertaining bloggers I know.

• I watched the Oscars last night
• So. Many. Emotions.
• Why do movies make me so emotional?
• I mean, I seriously almost cried when they showed the "movie heroes" montage.
• #potterheadforlife #theboywholived
• #imagingerinmydreams
• "...but they will never take our FREEDOM!!!!!!"
• "In Memoriam" montage? Tissues, please.
• I want to watch every movie I own right now.
• Watch ALL the movies!
• I need some chocolate.
• I should eat breakfast first.
•  Saying that I had walking pneumonia makes me feel like a zombie.
• Was I dying?
• Did people think I was already dead?
• I'm being dramatic. Just ignore that.
• I want to go shopping.
• I want spring to arrive.
• But if it rains, than let it rain forever.
• Sherlock is the best.
• "Honey, you should see me in a crown."
• I thought it would take me forever to watch the whole show.
• It's been about 3 weeks and I'm almost done.
• Apparently I had the time.
• Oh goodness, what time is it?
• Have to write, have to write...
• "Numbers, letters, learn to spell."
• I'm in denial.
• Breakfast? Good idea.
• Nutella? Amazing idea.
• Grumble, grumble, groan.
• "Cross my heart and hope to die, I'll see you with your laughter lines."

Update: My Life.

Here is little update on what is going on with my life... in the form of a list.

1. I recently turned 18. Yay! I can be tried as an adult if I choose to commit a felony! And I get to fill out all of my own paperwork. Thanks, Mom. I love you. :)
2. I have less than three months of high school left. Exciting and scary all at once.
3. I am heading up arts and crafts for my churches VBS this summer. This year is spy themed. Oh yeah. :)
4. I already have this years Halloween costume planned out and summer hasn't even started. I tend to plan ahead... like, WAY ahead.
5. I started pointe this dance season. It's the most exciting, exhausting, beautiful, painful, amazing, and terrifying thing that I have ever done.
6. We recently set up a 60" TV in my living room and updated our whole sound system. It's pretty stinkin' amazing.
7. My parents just had their 25th wedding anniversary. YAY! (The updated entertainment center was a result of that joyous occasion.)
8. After patiently waiting all this time, I'm finally going to be an aunt! I have a nephew due to arrive sometime this August. :) Praise the Lord, for He is good!
9. I am going to college at California State University, Stanislaus, beginning in fall of 2014. I plan to major in business, but I'm still labeled as undecided.
10. My new pointe shoes will be arriving on my doorstep today! This is now my 2nd/3rd pair. (I bought two.)
11. My sister moved to Oregon and I miss her dearly. Thank goodness for texting, Snapchat, and Skype!
12. I am competing in my first dance competition this March. I'm nervous and super excited!
13. My mom just got a new car. Her name is Madame Blueberry and she is beautiful... and she has a sunroof. THRILLED.
14. I'm taking Pre-Calculus this year even though it was optional. I didn't even have to take it, but I am. I'm kind of regretting making that decision, but I plan to make the best of it. It just better not mess up my GPA. I had a pretty close call first semester.
15. My oldest brother and his lovely wife gave me a laptop for my 18th birthday/happy graduation gift. My sister-in-law made it a little treasure hunt, and when I found it at the end, I cried. 
16. I have recently started watching Sherlock and am completely hooked on that show! It's just too good.
17. Heroes Reborn is coming in 2015. I just might have a heart attack.
18. I am aching to go on a roadtrip down to LA, Irvine, and Hollywood area. It's seriously killing me. Especially because my other brother and his lovely wife live in Irvine and I want to see them. They're pretty amazing. LET'S GO!