March 2012
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I feel so tired right now.
I get frustrated with myself when I can’t be like the perfect Honors students that I am surrounded with in my Honors classes.
I wish I could sit down and write a paper in an hour like I see people doing,
but my brain just cannot process that quickly.
I genuinely can’t focus like they can or be like them as hard as I try.
I get my work done and I always...
February 2012
26 posts
It’s amazing how relaxed, safe, and at-home little walks and adventures with you can make me.
It’s like I’ve been holding in a proverbial deep breath, trying to keep it all together, and then finally I just get a chance to exhale.
I don’t let my guard down with many people,
but goodness, am I glad that I can with you.
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Drinking coffee reminds me of summer.
It takes me to a daydream of sitting outside on a breezy evening without a care in the world….
So this summery cup of deliciousness is going to give me the strength (and caffeine) to write a silly paper tonight.
I have my window open. That’s good enough for now.
That’s all.
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It's really good being home.
My stuff is moved around,
and the only things left that are mine in my room are my collage/bulletin board, some dresses that wouldn’t fit with my 395829 others at school, my little model Ford F-150 truck my dad bought me for my 16th birthday (yes, not a full sized one), my guitar, a million notebooks half-filled, and a teetering bookshelf filled to the brim with books.
But I think these...
Sometimes, I just wish that everyone would get off...
“We are going hunting for Popcorn the moonshiner and you are wearing that fur...”
– Amelia (via junkameliasays)
This is a Tumblr. It’s called Junk Amelia Says. All about my ridiculous, lovely, forever-quotable friend Amelia. She says things. I type them so she can have a record of what she says, and so that I can have them for blackmail purposes. You can follow it if...
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I really miss people tonight.
I miss my parents. They only live 2 hours away, but a lack of a car and touring with choir makes it difficult to get home often.
Hopefully I can go home next weekend, but I have this icky premonition that choir is going to ruin that somehow with last minute scheduling junk.
But more than that, I miss my friends and church family in Ohio. I haven’t been back...
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I'm not going to lie.
Each time I read a typo, I slowly lose my faith in humanity.
me: “is it lame that i am excited because that post on your wall got 5 likes?”
my friend Amelia: “wow. that’s a lot of likes for a little girl like you.”
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It's incredible
how God can take you from a struggle you used to have
and make it one of the most beautiful blessings you can imagine.
Loneliness to complete surroundings of beautiful relationships.
Thank you Lord for surrounding me with such arms of love in the form of the most wonderful friends and boyfriend a girl could ever ask for.
I hate cats.
But the movie The Aristocats is one of the best creations of this generation.
You may think I am kidding or exaggerating.
No.
I adore this movie.
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God is really cool.
This is a really late and awkward time to be writing about something sort of lengthy, but i was talking about it with some dear friends of mine in this random motel we are staying at in South Carolina tonight with our choir. Because it’s not the most high class joint in the world, we started talking about germs, and it just came to my mind and i started talking about how i had really had a...
Anonymous asked: Nothing has made me want to join Tumblr more than your recent post--the one that begins "I'm the kind of person". I want to LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE it! Should you ever have kids, you will make one heckuva Mama!
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I'm the kind of person
that will let anyone say pretty much anything to me, and I will get over it pretty quickly.
But if someone hurts someone I love, even if it is the smallest thing, my ghetto side will come out.
I will cut a fool.
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Good golly.
Finishing a song’s lyrics and melody completely is a really good feeling.
And one that I haven’t had in a while.
But I am having that feeling right now.
*emotions of happiness.*
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I’m drinking Cinnamon Apple Spice tea and listening to instrumental folk music.
Yep. Homework time just got a lot easier to handle.
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On watching part of The Bachelor for the first...
It seems completely ridiculous at first, and then you realize that real life operates with the same mentality, just on a smaller scale.
We allow self-esteem issues to infiltrate our minds, and translate that into how others see us. We want to be the one chosen, the last girl who gets the proverbial rose as it were, and so many will do absolutely anything to get there.
And it’s so sad, yet...
January 2012
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“It’s not about sitting around drinking the wine, although after beating a monster, you are most definitely going to want to drink some wine. Most definitely.”
-my Humanities professor, explaining how the men in Gilgamesh have a friendship that differs from that of women.
Anonymous asked: When I get home tonight, I'm going to send you a picture of Caleb that I'm pretty sure you will enjoy immensely. It clearly demonstrates that he is no pretender, that at least since he was a toddler he's been a hipster. Mr. Chris
Human behavior oddities that i do not understand...
When people are obsessed with being perceived as hipsters.
I think as long as you are not being immoral, you should dress how you want, listen to the music you enjoy, and read books and watch movies that draw you in.
Doing things for the purpose of being thought of a certain way is silly.
Hey there.
I am procrastinating.
So you can send me questions if you’d like, because I feel like answering non-schoolwork questions right now.
That’s all.
Sometimes,
I act like a baby.
Like tonight. When I realized that, because of my procrastination, I have to stay up most of the night to get some homework done.
And I kind of get overwhelmed, and then I realize:
This is such an absolute privilege of a problem to have.
There are women all over the world who would literally give the safety of their lives or months of sleep just to have the opportunity to...
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There’s a video that’s all over the internet called “Jesus>Religion,” or something like that, and it’s all about how Jesus’ life made the necessity for religion and legalism a moot point, and I completely agree with it.
But I cannot bear to watch it, because it is the most poorly written poem I have ever heard. The phrases are so perfectly rhymed with the...
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I don't rant on social media, pretty much ever.
Not that I don’t do it in real life situations, because I do. But I am trying to get better about it. To be a sweet, bitterness-free lady about life.
So it’s weird that I would have an urge to start now.
Because everything in my life is so God-ordained and lovely at the moment, and I am so extremely thankful for that.
But I was thinking about something tonight talking to my dearest...
There's been a really good song stuck in my head...
And I really like when that happens.
And I’m learning that God’s love for me is not determined simply by how my life is going, because His love is unchanging and eternal.
But lately, how my life is going is really showing me His blessings and His love for me.
And that’s really special.
I want to seek Him, the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, above the blessings from...
Things I want to say to you.
you are so completely kindhearted that it amazes me sometimes. your integrity is always visible.
i love how we find the most randomly beautiful and perfect places and moments together.
i feel so safe with you.
you coloring with me in the middle of a restaurant full of practical and boring adults was a ridiculously lovely thing to me.
i’m sorry i ruined you trying to show me your special...
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For some reason,
while so sleepily working on homework, wrapped in my favorite fuzzy pink blanket, listening to a mixtape a pretty gosh-darn wonderful guy made for me,
I am thinking for some reason about how many times I went to butterfly pavilions as a child.
Why so many times, I have no clue.
They would flutter all around the humid gardens, and you would just wish and hope with all of your might that one...
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Tasks that I attempt at one in the morning:
Answering the question, “What is the purpose of human life and death?”
in a one-page double spaced response.
Yea.
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Great is Your faithfulness.
I’m taking a deep breath, and hoping that as I type, the words I want to say yet cannot articulate miraculously appear. I’m not one for writing down every thought that comes to mind, I have too much pride in elocution for that, but I think that’s all that I can do at this point.
I don’t even think I’ve fully processed how amazingly blessed I am.
My brain processes...
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Tomorrow.
:)
Life is more beautiful than it is anything else.
So let’s give it an optimistic shot.
Let’s give God the benefit of the doubt.
But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!”
Isaiah 43:1
December 2011
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn
My favorite feeling in the world
is when I feel really small and protected.
I think it might be from when I was a little girl…
My favorite times would be falling asleep to the sounds of many conversations that I didn’t understand, but knowing that these conversations were coming from people that I love.
I would try as desperately as I could to stay awake when my parents had parties or Bible studies at our...
That moment when you accidentally say, “shut the b**** down” to your father when really overwhelmed about your computer acting possessed,
and he laughs.
Good life.
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My cousin is getting ready to go to South Korea in the morning to see his girlfriend of four years, who he hasn’t seen in 5 months.