One piece of advice from an old man: "Its better to be funny than pretty."

Its crazy how fast life goes, just 2 years ago this was me and the girls. Gosh I love them, and I love how I love hanging out with them. Its just fun. They're the funniest girls ever.

The reason why I put that as my post title is because I really liked it. Too bad though, looks like I ran out of luck haha. You know what is sad? I look at other people's flickr and blogging pages and all I think is 'wow, I am the biggest failure known to man'. Everyone is so freaking good at this stuff! Another thing, I did so many stupid things today. Including embarrassing myself in front of the guys working on the pool, and tripping multiple times whilst shopping with Jules. JUST DANDY! Ah! Why am I being so crazy weird today?! I don't know. I just don't. Being a teenager is so weird. What is this. I don't know. AH!

I realized something. Making and giving cookies to people feels so much better than making and eating them yourself. I'm going to do it more, yessir I am. If you want cookies call me. :) Oh and I realized another thing. Today I was talking to a friend about what kind of parent I'll be, and I realized I'm super excited for my kids. Except they're going to be like 'what the, we have the most insane mom on the planet!' but they'll get over it and we'll have fun. Oh another thing, sometimes I just wish I could see into the future and see who I'm going to marry. That would be wicked! Except life doesn't work like that really.

Just smile back

I'm coming to a blogger's block... I'm getting really picky about what I write about because I want it to be cool and I feel like I'm so boring sometimes. But I guess I realized, who am I trying to impress? This is my journal.

Speaking of journals, I got an idea from a YW lesson we had about journaling. So I decided to dedicate a little notebook to write down 3 things every day that I'm grateful for. I started yesterday and its funny because I kind of already have a new outlook on life! I'm like 'oh I can write that down, I'm grateful for that!' Its pretty cool.

I HIT ONE THOUSAND VIEWS ON MY FLICKR ACCOUNT YESTERDAY! I was so freaking excited.

So Julia and I were on the third floor talking sunday night, and we went to high five each other about something and we both missed so she hit my face. It was probably the funniest thing ever.

Heavenly Ever After

The Celtics lost the very last game by 4 points. That is a disgrace. But I am no longer spending anymore time on this or else I'll just get depressed. Anyhoozle-

Girls camp was absolutely incredibly phenomenal. It was insane. Brynn and I as YCLs had the best girls ever(FOURTH YEARS BABY!), and I felt like a mother hen. They were amazing and I honestly learned so much from them in the past week. Best part: testimony meeting obviously. Those first years just warmed my soul. Its beautiful how much they learned about themselves in such a short time, and it was crazy to see them spiritually growing so fast. Girls like these are the ones that will change the world, for sure.

Mega funny/amazing highlights:

- Freaking COCKROACH on the wall! We all bonded in screaming and practically crying whilst Jenny took up the courage to try and kill it. Most intense 10 minutes ever.

- During dinner we did an HSM type deal where I stood on my chair singing don't stop believing then one by one the other Lauren, Brynn, Julia, Tiffani, Sarah stood up too and sang together and everyone thought it was epic.

- Watching my little sister go up to bear her testimony for the first time ever and she said she loved me. I cried, she cried, and it was never ending haha. I love her so, so much.

- Watching my mother be hilariously crazy, but what else is new? This envelopes multiple costumes and crazy dancing. She is the best mum I could ever ask for.

- Pulling an all nighter and being absolute freaks. Jana, Tiffani, Brynn (partially), Emilie, Emi, and I were freaking INSANE I tell you, insane.

All in all it was indescribably incredible. I can't wait to be a YC next year!

Redeemed

Okay, the Thursday night game was amazing. I loved it. I made a mental note of things I wanted to say throughout the game:
- Wallace: you are such a thug. Nice job swearing and getting a technical foul. I hate it when players do that because you're basically just throwing your points away. Niiiiiice. But he did make a wicked 3 pointer.
- Rondo: I'm utterly in love with you please marry me.
- Kobe: such a beast. Seriously, he is so amazing its really unbelievable.
- Davis: you won my heart back after the last game, its all good now. Just stop acting so cocky.
- Pierce: you remind me of a black Adam Sandler, I don't know why.

Lately I've been having some crazy dreams. They're really vivid and luckily they include funny people but its just been weird because I don't normally have dreams like that.

SO EXCITED FOR CAMP. Being a YCL is going to rock and I'm pretty sure my girls are going to absolutely love Brynn and I. We've got some pretty sweet things in store for them. Holllaahhhh

One day I"m moving to China. Its official. Just you watch, it'll happen.
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DANCE UP IN KATY TONIGHT YEA YEA!

Hmmmmhmmmhmmm.

Picture explanation: no I wasn't run over. There was a sign that said 'Do not layover at this stop' or something so I decided to be a rebel and 'layover at this stop'. It took me like 10 minutes to decide whether to do it or not, even though there were no cars. Hahah. I just ran right after the silver toyota. It was CRAZY.

So it's been a week and a day since summer started for me. And I'm proud to say I haven't woken up later than 8 15 this whole time. SCORE! Being productive here I come! Maybe...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what my input to the world is. I just see all of these people who change the world and think 'I'm so lame!' I guess I shouldn't be upset that I can't live up to people like Nelson Mandela because hey, I'm 16. But I'm hoping one day I can do something impressive... really impressive. Something that will change at least a couple of people's lives. I just gotta figure out what that is first.

One more thing: say what you feel. Because people always appreciate it.

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Go listen to: Comes and Goes by Greg Laswell.

DISAPPOINTMENT TO THE MAX.

What the.

Celtics lost.

What is this world coming to.

Can I just say, I was so excited for this game and it was the biggest letdown ever. I didn't lose faith until the last 30 seconds, then I just walked up to my room to change into my PJs because I knew it was the end. No more hope. Wow, I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight...

Its okay, I still love you Rondo . And kudos to you Derek Fisher. And Davis... you bother me to no end so this relationship is O-V-E-R, OVER! That is all.

ps- Today I had my first dance class at an academy in River Oaks and I loved it. Loved it. I was scared out of my mind because the first part of the routine took me a while and I was nervous but then I got into it and I was like YES I love this instructor. She's great.

Waco (no, not pronounced 'wacko')

SO MUCH FUN, I can't even explain it. Funnest days of ma life right thur. No but seriously, amazing, absolutely amazing. I have not had that much fun in a while and it was such a great bonding type deal. I haven't been this sore in a while but it was SO worth it. I'm uploading my pictures (exactly 2,348 of them) onto Picasa to make a movie from the still shots. Its gonna be B-E-A-S-T. There were 3 girls, 6 guys and I'm pretty sure the three of us owned the boys in everything... yes, everything.

I love my life. It's official. I've decided I honestly am so blessed and I am so happy where I am right now. I'm really glad I've come to realize what my priorities are in life and I think the reason why I'm so happy is that I know everything happens for a reason and that we're given trials on purpose. If we do what we're supposed to, we can work through them. Its all about faith baby.