The opposite of love's Indifference

Those lyrics would be from the Lumineers who I am seeing in concert before 2013 is over, yay!
Anyways I just wanted to post a quickie saying that I've switched blogs, I now post at addingtoyourventures.blogspot.com because i wanted to change my format and I wanted to post more relevant blogs so I hope you've been having a great summer, and if you don't mind check out my new blog, I might be leaving this old one up or deactivating it I haven't decided yet when I do I will make a post, so until then
xoxo,
Casey

Strayed Away

Hi everyone and anyone who is reading this!
How are you?
No, really, how are you?
This is something I wished I asked people more often. I tend to get caught up in my own troubles, and when someone gets irritated with me, it become a very selfish time. I can't see that they might be dealing with something on the other side, all I see is that they hate me, etc. etc. etc. which is (by the way) never true at all.

Today that happened again and I realized I am not living life. There is a difference between dwelling and living. Dwelling is sitting there like a sack of potatoes waiting to be picked up and delivered. Living, is getting up, getting out of your comfort zone, going to try new things, etc.

I get so caught up in my expectations and what if's that I never truly allow myself to be happy with what I have, now.

Next week I am taking a break from all things related to the internet, and I am making myself a challenge.

- only text/phone calls
-no T.V. or internet (newspapers are allowed)
-no gmail or Facebook or blogspot and absolutely no tumblr
- every morning I have to run
- I have to step back from the day and remember all the good that happened, remember funny things that happened, remember something in the news, remember a picture I took, remember that really good run, remember to send gratitude to all my supporters (all in my journal)
- sending letters is wonderful and definitely alright!
-make a challenge once a week
(the whole first two weeks of July)
-play more games (board ones)
-get a job and pick up a few hobbies
-save save save for a new bike and new books and a new lens and a new camera (wow that was a lot)
-have a disney movie marathon with my buddies
-go out to eat (on me) with my friends or newer friends
-have a bombing 4th of July in the Nation's Capital
- Aim to eat healthily and aim to buy groceries and cook food with my family or by myself
-Aim to get outside, hiking, biking, swimming, playing with neighbors, soccer, sprinklers and slip and slide, washing cars, walking dogs?, whatever it is I will do it.

then the whole month of august I will start my new project to go amish for 30 days.

I just really need to find something to be passionate about, and I just think I know what that might be.
I need to treat my friends and family better.
I need to be grateful for now, what I have now, and what I'm doing now.
I need to make plans, not long term ones at all, short term all the time, because the longer I wait the longer I have to change my mind.
I need to run everyday, because I need to train for XC this fall, I love running and it keeps me happy, and it's like therapy. And I need to learn to do it alone. ( it's not like you take your friends to therapy with you)
I need to reach out to my aunt, who needs an explanation from me, because I sincerely trust her, and I don't know who else will understand.
I need to practice meditating before acting upon something in a way that I would regret.
I need to read read read read read.

Okay I don't know if this will help anyone but
fake it till you become it,
bye!!!
<33 Casey

Long Time, No....More Finals!

Hi , this is just a really really quick post,
School is over and I am leaving this blog, I will leave it up so I could come back and see it later,
but I have different plans for a blog, and my new one is right here!
I totally enjoyed my time on this blog, and can't wait to try out my new blog.
Have a good evening,
sincerely,
Casey

In a matter of time

Hello All!

I missed my blog so much. And this time off (although I am still off of tumblr and facebook) has been great. You know when someone makes you really angry, and then you step back a little bit, and say wow I've been here before.

My friend and I were supposed to go running at 4:30 today.
I called her cellphone about 4-5 times and I left a message. She never picked up or called back until
5pm when I finally called her and she said, "sooo,"the way she always answers the phone, and she said it was too late and I should have been at her house.

There seems to always be a lack of communication but I think it's more so that I am growing apart from her, we've been pretty good friends since 6th grade and 4 years later, we're better off seeing each other at our Middle School's reunions or at the grocery store than planning to get together. It is just really not working out.

But she made me realize three things.

1) I can get out and run by myself anytime and any day I want, I don't need to rely on her or anyone else. Running is therapy, not a get together.

2) I actually need to fix my hair (haha) and do my homework (oops!) so I shouldn't be running right now anyways.

3) I finally know what it feels like to be stood up kinda. I was really depressed last year and a little this year. And I've stood up a lot of people. It really stinks, especially when the other person is looking forward to it. I will never say no again.

That leads me to another point, and I'm sorry for all the writing guys I will be putting up pictures pretty soon.

Okay, but anyways that point is stop taking things so seriously, you have to breath and let things that don't matter go. All that build up is really bad for you! Like just breath and go for it. Ask a really stupid question, or trip in front of tons of people and laugh it off or make a joke such as, "I'm probably the only one who gets attacked by the floor!"

Bad things can be avoided. Also I need to start saying yes, taking more opportunities of things that scare me, I just said yes to something really big, involving this woman who is literally my inspiration. I think of what she would do, and it helps me to move on from things I shouldn't be analyzing.
Also another plus of this mindset, I found a typewriter and I started making a screenplay for a film I was inspired to write about this boy (I'll just let you wait and see) it will probably be finished by July. Also It is called, "Everybody here wants something from you."

So, wherever you are, enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
And don't be scared for Monday, be excited, it's the beginning of a new week. Full of new surprises and
opportunities! And make sure you tell yourself that the problems you face are just challenges and you might as well go for them! Get out there, and start saying YES!

I love you all!
Casey

Being Present?

It's been a while, hasn't it?


I've been putting off blogging and spending time developing what I will focus on next in my life.
But that's just the thing, the next, the future, the upcoming. We are all waiting for it. Maybe in hopes that it will be better than right now or better than before. Or maybe just because it inspires us, the unknown I mean, takes us to a place better or more intriguing than where we are right now.

Sometimes people make quotes that say ,  "Live for the Future!" or "Tomorrow will be better." and "Dream for a better tomorrow." While all of these mantras help people shape their lives, including my life, I don't think anyone should live by them.

I was reading a chapter from, "Don't Stress the Small Stuff,"  and when the author said "Be Present," I was so annoyed, quote after quote had told me to live in the past and live for the future, but the truth is neither of these places should be your dwelling. Why this, right now, is where you should be!

Considering those terms, next time you are somewhere, don't go on your phone, don't talk to one person by just saying hi, really reach out and ask, "How are you today?" And in those quiet moments, discover the people around you, for me it's at school, the dreamer looking out the window, the future lawyer debating a wild class discussion, the history buff professing their passion, making it hard not to want to feel passionate as well!

I will be taking a break from blogspot, facebook, and tumblr. I'm asking my dad to change all my passwords, and the only place I will be checking is my email. I need time off, to be present, I need time to take some photos, some film, go for runs, talk to old friends, and find myself again. Someone told me that disconnecting is the best way to do that. Also, I need to focus on maintaining good grades, which are slowly slipping away from me.

So Farewell to anyone who reads this,
I will be back,
Casey

It's never too late

I feel like my titles to my blogpost's are deeper than what I ramble about.

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Well, on that note, my title actually does relate to my posts. So today's topic is, it's never to late to make a goal for yourself, whether healthy or on your death bed.
I've been watching a lot of inspirational videos and listening to some pretty intense music, and just chats with my parents and peers. And they leave me at home, in my room, stuck in the moment, that I analyze too much, and I could die tomorrow and I just need to chill out. I think some pretty big inspirations are God, my friends and family, Nardwaur, Al Smith, and Henry Rollins.

Well that being said, March is almost over, and like in the picture, my trail is ahead of me, it's just a matter of me choosing the right path. Or even just choosing a path, and making the most out of it.

Goals

(by the way, you may call this copying, but I was really interested by some of my favorite bloggers use of roman numerals!!!!)

i. Make the Healthiest choice (for the body and the mind)
ii. Study more, and study harder!
iii. Practice Running every day. (even the smallest steps count)
iv. Write and Essay about something I wanna try and although it will be hard it's what I wanna do.
v. Start more conversations instead of ending them.

The number 13 is pretty unlucky

Tomorrow is the 13th of March, not that I believe in superstition, and it's not even Friday, but today was kinda unlucky and very awkward in some cases. However, with all of that aside, since I really don't like Wednesday's, I listened to a select few of my recently most listened to songs, that includes. . .

The Only Place // Best Coast
Is This It // The Strokes
Forever // The Explorer's Club
Go Outside // The Cults
Our Deal // Best Coast
When Did Your Heart Go Missing? // Rooney
Sad Dream // Sky Ferreira

Anyways, there are only eight more day until Spring Break!!
I really should be getting to bed now, but I have to do my English homework, and drink tea, and then I will try to get to bed around 9:30. (p.s. that rhymes!)

But today's moral of the story, is talking verses doing.
I watched this video by ShayCarl, who made Shaytards, and who lost 100 pounds with his other channel Shayloss. Anyways I feel very motivated when I listen to him even though I'm not trying to lose weight. He just said some really deep stuff that my dad has been trying to get me to realize. I felt like he was talking to me, and however weird that may seem, it worked.

I don't know who, when, what, where, why, or how, but I will move toward change, in however many small steps it takes.

Hope you're having a great week, especially if you're on Spring Break already! (lucky!)
But, I feel like I get really happy around Spring, not only because of the weather, but because of the end of the school year, and the prospect of Summer!

I'm super duper excited for summer!!!! (I will be posting as much as I can)

Until then,
Casey

p.s. If your day wasn't so great, watch the video! What harm can eleven minutes do? Also cheer up! Because there is always darkness before the dawn!

One Day

One day, at 5 a.m., on Wednesday, your dad will come in your room to tell you it's a snow day.
One day, you might finish the project before the deadline.
One day, you'll tell him, the guy you've been crushing on since you were eight, that you love him.
One day, she'll see you for the person you are, not the person she wants you to be.
One day, he'll pass away, will you have made his last hours memorable?
One day, you won't wake up from the dream, it will be real life.
One day, you'll realize it's time to stop taking everything so personally.
One day, there won't be a tomorrow.
One day, your cant's will become cans.

One day is just a tomorrow away.
So try not to waste a day,
because maybe everything you needed to say
will be said.

Casey

Challenge

Okay, first off, do not judge me when I announce this. Secondly, if you have any ideas for me feel free to share.

So Summer Break starts after the first week of June. 3 months. And my challenge for myself which I know will be excruciatingly painful the first month, and hopefully much more inspirational in the second month, is to unplug.

I want to un-plug, for many reasons, I have goals, and I don't want technology holding me back.
Now, what is my definition of technology?
It Includes....
-Facebook
-Tumblr
-Blogspot
-Cell Phones
-Ipods
-Television
-Movies
-And Lights (now I live in a household with 3 other people so that might be a hard one)

But I am gonna try this for at least 60 days, I'm hoping to even go 90 days.

So here are some ideas, for those of you who are curious, or would like to follow me on this journey, or who would also like to try.

i. writing letters.
ii. getting into good sleeping habits so you wake up naturally at an early time
iii. keeping a journal to document
iv. visiting museums, and exhibits that are usually overlooked.
v. diverting your attention from digital, and using a film camera (this may be controversial, but I will be using film, and I won't develop it until the days are over, or my parents will develop it for me and I won't go with them, also taking a picture isn't exactly electrical)
vi. Calling people with a phone connected to your house, this is also controversial, but my parents like me to talk to my family over the phone even though I could send letters, also, I'm debating whether or not even using phones, because if I want to go someplace with my friends, my parents will have to be involved which is okay.
vii. Riding your bike, skateboarding, etc. (trying out different forms of environmentally friendly transportation)
viii. Painting, Chalk Murals, Drawing, Clay, Ceramics Classes, Bowling, Rock Climbing, Hiking, all fun activities with my friends where I won't have to be using my phone or computer or watching a movie or T.V. (I mean simply visiting the park nearest your neighborhood is great!)
viv. washing my clothes in the bathtub, and hanging them out to dry.
vv. Playing games, like scrabble, apples to apples, uno, card games, puzzles, sudoku, and other mind games that can be done without using A T.V. or a COMPUTER!!!
vvi. Exercising more, taking a yoga class, going to zumba with my mom.
vvii. Also apart of this I won't be buying anything new, so that means I could spend time thrifting (because it's not NEW clothing) and also it's recycling, and supporting your community all at the same time!

These are just some of my ideas, in addition I will be taking NAVY SHOWERS, and be trying to go on walks with my mom and dad in the evening.

And since I'm getting a typewriter soon, I will be writing an essay about this experience and how it changed or didn't change me.
Who knows what the future will hold to be honest, and I'm working a documentary and a couple of camps this year and I know I will be plenty busy so I may only be able to do this for one month, but however long I hope it will teach me something about myself, and maybe afterwards I'll even stop using certain things.

P.S. If you're like me and you need music to live, buy a ukulele or guitar or start playing that old piano in your basement, or even play your parents old records on a dusty turntable. Also use this time, if you're like me and in school, to finish your summer work, and still have time to read books that you've been waiting 9 long months, of 8 hours of a day, 5 days a week, to finally read.

I hope you guys sympathize with me and not think I'm too crazy, because I'm really not!

 - Casey

A Decent Start to March

February, however hard it may be to spell, and however short it is, it's over.
And I'm mostly happy because I know I'm not gonna waste the next 4 months, and I know I'm not gonna regret what I do this summer.


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Two of the TED talks, I found a week ago, really spoke to me. Who knew getting a macbook would lead to this?

However one is called, "Sell you crap. Pay your debt. Do what you love." the other is "The method - By Failure, Fun, and Fire."

And to summarize, to sum it up these TED talks were about ripping up the life script everyone the world writes for you, also about social conformity, and learning from what may seem like the end of your world.

A lot of the times, people,  mainly teenagers, blow things way out of proportion, and it's not until later we realized how embarrassed  or ashamed we are of doing that.

For example I had a really bad Thursday night, was thinking about "pretending" to be sick, or taking a "mental health day," as my chemistry teacher calls it. ha-ha!! And like usual I made the excuse I'm depressed and I will kill my self, which is extreme, and I feel guilty for saying anything like that, but especially today in Math class, when our quiz was over, and by the way I really liked my group because one of my best friends was in it, but then again, we were talking about this college William and Mary, and my sister attended that college last year, but she left. Anyways, how they are the #2 college with the highest suicide rate.
I mean,
a) I didn't even know they made statistics about that?!?!
b) There was a kid in my sister's freshmen class, a guy, who killed himself, and they played "Yesterday" by the Beatles at the service.

It just made me think, wow, people really have these issues, and my best friend, that was in my group said, that's why my mom told me, "You need to know yourself before entering a situation."

Which is absolutely true, I mean I need to know myself, and know what I love and do it, to remain sane, make good friends, and have a good life. It is a key to enjoying your life.

Just like the quote in the pictures says, there is something beautiful on the horizon, whichever way you take this quote.

Personally, it means that don't hold a grudsge, or constantly get angry, because the sun when go up and then it will go down, and the horizon is freaking infitinte it's a never ending line, but you can't let stupid things in your life divert your attention and emotions for too long, because there is something beautiful on the horizon.

So if your day was bad, I'm sorry, but sometimes, the hardest storms, clear out to the brightest most illuminating rainbows.

Have a Great March!

- Casey

Today is Tuesday

Why, hello there.

Today is Tuesday February the 26th, and I just realized I've been writing the wrong date at the top of all my assignments. But, who cares? Because, in 22 days I'll be on Spring Break! Most of the time, I'm excited to be sleeping, but my family and I are lucky enough to go on vacation this year, and I hate to say so, but I really miss my sister (she's in college) you'd think I would have gotten used to this because she was a freshmen in college last year, but I don't know it's weird. And I kinda miss her sarcasm and mean jokes. I also miss sharing the chores!

Tuesday was very very rainy, also very windy. Sometimes it's nice just to listen to the wind, and not start your homework yet, I know what you're thinking, "What a lazy procrastinator!" But, honestly I really don't consider it procrastinating, I mean it's not like I'm searching for ways to get money or the best travel spots on my computer like my dad. (That's how he spends his free time).

I'm either listening to the cars pass by my street, or sitting in bed, warm and just listening to all the sounds around me. I think next year I'm going to give up my phone, but I will keep my ipod. I am also thinking about letting my mom have my laptop, but since I want to go backpacking, and since I might be taking a semester off to travel, I don't know if that would be a good idea. It's just I'm so tired of being reliant on stuff.

Like when I'm sitting in my bed, listening to sounds (and not really loud ones either), I come up with the best ideas. I've written down really rough drafts for a few screenplays and gotten more ideas for my documentary.

Everything is starting to take shape, which I enjoy because my ideas have been up in the air for who knows how long. Anyways, I should go do something, like write notes for this project that I'm getting a head start on and I really like my partner I know we can get an A. And don't say anything, I'm really not a grade slob. But there is something about seeing someone you know little about , and people talking bad about them, but then you personally seeing them at their best, seeing them being passionate about something that you simply don't care about.

That's why I love geometry now, that's why I'm excited about this project. I don't know I think I'm weird, but maybe that will fit into my film, the title will be very hard to come up with, I've already brainstormed a great idea but I don't know if it will fit yet. Hopefully I'll start my interviews over spring break and then be able to compile them, directors and producers usually hate editing because it's tedious, annoying and it can make or break your piece of work. However I'll be grateful when the time comes that I can say, I was editing this documentary until 2 a.m, I just couldn't get over what ______said at the end. Or realizing the best moments happen when the camera is off, and the lightbulb goes on.


I may not have talked about this but you have to find what you love and always do it,
I know for a fact that even if filmmaking and traveling and surfing and speaking up gets me little cash flow I don't care, I want to be able to do these things for 8 hours a day, being paid is a bonus, but at the end of the day If I'm doing what I love, then I'll never have any regrets, and I think a lot of people need to understand this. No offense to anyone, but if this was true I'm not sure we'd have any high school professors.

I ranted a lot, sorry.

The End Has No End.

After School Excursions // Thing to Do before Summer-Summer-Summertime

1. Go thrift shopping with my friends
2. Sing in Public 
3. Write 2 Songs
4. Get at least 4 interviews (have some meet up's at Starbucks) and a storyboard for my documentary
5. Go to the sky ferreira concert and the father john misty feat. adam green and binki shapiro concert
6. After School: go to old town for din din
7. After School: go long boarding to Baskin Robins
8. After School: Tie Dye Stuff
9. Redo my room, with beige paint, white drapes, and repainted thrift furniture
10. Buy a backpack, hiking boots, and a surfboard (plan 2 months out of every year to go backpacking)
11. Sell a lot of my crap that  I don't need
12. get a summer job
13. Study for finals with my friends: at the library, and at Starbucks
14. Visit a cool museum
15. Figure out "What Does Freedom Mean to You?"
16. Make A video on youtube.
17. Make a couple vids for Vimeo
18. Continue posting on here.
19. Take a picture every day
20. Do my picture project with diff. landscapes and a hand

THE END!

Just kidding, because the end has no end.

It's A Party in your Bedroom All Night Long

My disposables finally came in. Note to self, do not let someone shake the camera to try and take more photos, it messes up the film. By the way, these will be posted on my photoblog. Happy Birthday Julia!

Just saying I think food makes everyone happy, especially homemade red velvet cupcakes. YUM!

There's me in the middle, and I was holding water.

My friends  love balloons.

This was the birthday girl, she was so happy and excited and she still talks about it. This will always bring a smile to my face.

This is her "ducky" face.

Obsessed with TED

I have a sick obsession, with TED.

No, TED is not a person, or a movie about a talking teddy bear.
TED or TED talks, are what help me wake up in the morning, what gives me ideas and inspiration, what feeds my vast hunger for knowledge beyond the set in stone high school curriculum. It's like your sitting down low, the lights are on, even if you neck hurts from looking up, or your seat is squeaky, or you have a horrid coughing attack it's alright. You in a room with a bunch of strangers, people you don't know, people who have great ideas, and people who want to open up. I think TED talks should be called "Get Smart in 15 or so minutes!" Because, literally all of them, no matter how monotone the speakers voice was, how distracting it was that they were moving around, or how I might not have heard a word they said because of some thick accent from a country I can't pronounce, they all teach me something. All I want to do is see people breaking the bonds of normality with open minds and open hearts. I want to see people stepping away from troubles, and maybe that means stepping into failure, but the way they rise up from it, is simply magical.
I want to know what freedom tastes like, and I want to live with little possessions to my name.
Why you ask?
Because, in all honesty, who isn't yearning for the next product that the great minds at Apple will think up and create?
Who isn't waiting for the next big thing, I mean how flatter can T.V.'s really get?
Who isn't watching the fashion shows, and worrying about how much they eat, or what they look like to others.
I think you should be worrying about 3 simple things.
1) If you are happy.
2) If you are doing what you love.
3) If you've changed the world, whether massively, or you made the smallest peak in the mountain.

Also, you have to understand nobody is perfect.

Yesterday I was talking to my dad about these popular kids at my school, and how my neighbor (who I used to have lots of fun with) forgets she knows me because they are all her friends. But, no-one is perfect, and I can't blame her for the actions of her friends. Everyone in high school no matter kid or adult is gonna be a coward. Like seriously, everyone. So that kid who bullies your friend, well they were bullied their whole life by their parents. Don't worry about the people who don't care,  but don't hate them either, you've got to let them live their life because you don't know their story. However, thinking about it, I am still upset. But more-so upset with myself, because I could have spoken up, I could've talked to my neighbor, but I avoided it. I could've made friends with people, but I was afraid I wasn't good enough for them.

I can get over this, it will just take time, change doesn't happen in a day.
But three things I'm gonna try in addition to my previous three things are,

1) stop gossiping, or letting gossip happen, either say "I don't wanna talk about this" or bring something else up. But don't ever start it, it will come back around, because it's in the 10 commandments.

2) Tell myself I love myself, in the mirror, every a.m. and night, then for 30 seconds visualize who I want to become, and where I wanna go in 2 years.

3) Watch my top 3 ted talks every night to work toward my goals.

You have (waste)d a lot of time!

I'm listening to waste by foster the people
 this particular line from the chorus struck me as I was procrastinating,

"And every day that you wanna waste, 
That you wanna waste, you can
And every day that you wanna wake up
You wanna wake, you can
And every day that you wanna change, 
That you wanna change, yeah
I'll help you see it through
'Cause I just really wanna be with you"

(Foster the People // Waste)

1) not finishing my overload of papers I never did for history
2) not studying for chemistry or doing any chem hw which I don't think we had, but who knows
3) not studying for english, not reading the 8 chapters I'm behind on, and not filling out the sheets and not looking up my 40 something vocab words.

And I have Chemisty Block, and History Block.
and I might just cry, and no study hall.....
BTW, my english project is due due due on Thursday.


TOMORROW WILL BE BAD
 but on the bright side.....

i. I'm ordering my cameras and lenses so I can start my documentary.
ii. I'm finally getting a penny board.
iii. I think I'm going to paint this with my friend.
iv. I'm going to wake up at 5am to run.
v. I'm supposed to go ice skating but I don't feel like going anymore and would rather
plan a surprise birthday for my best friend Elijah.
vi. We have this awesome school tournament on thursday.
vii. I'm getting my disposables, possibly by thursday!

sorry for this rant,
it was needed for me to calm the heck down.

Casey

Some Songs

I've been listening to some great tunes lately, so I thought I'd share.

California Sunrise // Dirty Gold
Lanterns // Birds of Tokyo 
One Day // Sharon Van Etten
I Found You // Alabama Shakes
A Beautiful Morning // The Rascals
Miles Away // Years Around the Sun
John Brown // Heron
Someday // The Strokes
Flowers in Your Hair // The Lumineers
Heart it Races // Dr. Dog
It's Nice to Be Alive // Ball Park Music
We Only Go Backwards // Tame Impala
Busman's Holiday // Allah-Las
Four Provinces // The Walkmen

I have a strange taste in music, and I don't put labels on it.
Enjoy the songs, even if you don't know them or don't think you'll like them, they're all pretty decent.

It's been too long

Hi, everyone!




Wow, I started this blog around Thanksgiving with hopes that it would be successful documentation for me about my life. But, I've been slacking. Not only with this, but lately with homework as well. You see, I wasn't sure of having a future where I currently go to school right now, and I was going to switch schools, meaning junior year and senior year would be crazy. I found this awesome program, and out of high expectations thought I could convince my parents to let me go for a semester in junior year and one in senior year as well, and then even to graduate early and work as a volunteer in the Peace Corps. Yeah, I guess I didn't realize those expectations were a bit too high.

Now I still might be able to convince my parents to let me go during the Junior or Senior year however hard it may be with the workload I'll be getting I want to give it a shot.

This summer will be great and I can already feel it, but to stay in the present.
I'd like to post my goals.

i. Take more pictures.
ii. Get outdoors.
iii. Sing in the Spring Showcase.
iv. Visit a coffee shop with my friends.
v. Read more books.
vi. Make Heads List.
vii. Get up earlier, and go to bed earlier.
ix. Try something new. (surfing!!!)
x. Limit time spent on the computer, but make time for my blog at the same time.
xi. Embrace failure!
xii. Respond positively to things you don't like, don't wanna do, or things that are hard.
xiii. Send a letter to Wes Anderson.
xiv. Spend more time doing things I love, even if that means, "me" time.
xv. Run more!

So that is a pretty long list of goals and I don't expect to have all of them "completed" because change is a lengthly process, that no one wants to go through, especially not me, but I know it's needed. I hope you all are having a great Monday, but tonight brings me to the end of my great 4-day weekend and back into the long haul of homework for a high school sophomore, ha-ha.

I'll end with another quote

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. -Ella Maillart