Blows everything out of the water

BOOM! And there goes everything you've ever known, all the knowledge that you built up and maybe even everything you knew about a person after they cheated on you. Well, maybe not to those extremes, but do you know the feeling?

Good luck, sailor.

It's one of those moments when you are thinking that life is going a-okay for you. Your job is going well, school is going well, your friends are acting pretty sane for the most part and you have food on your table. But then, out of the blue something incredibly aweful happens and turn it all upside down. Can you imagine how this might go down? I can, sometimes. I can see my life as a ship sailing along on the ocean blue, raising the flags on good days and on the bad days batting down the hatches and waiting for the squall to pass through. On the very worst days, when I hear of something that blows my ship apart, I think about what is left in the wreckage. I can see that I planned ahead and packed a floating box full of items that I might need to get out of this mess. As I'm treading water, I keep my lift jacket handy, with my flashlight and whistle ready to be used at the time of need. In my floating rescue box, I have my small little inflatable life raft and a few provisions. I have my rain jacket, a fishing line and another flashlight, but right now, I'm doing okay, since I'm pretty close to land!

When you feel that everything is about to blow on your end, try to grab a few things, or people that you know will be trustworthy enough to help you float in the water after the aftermath. You never know if you're going to need these things or not, but it might be good to have them.

A(B)C

I'm an a student with awesome algebra skills
Does this mean I'll be popular?
I'm a bouncing bubbly brunette
Does this mean everyone will think I'm smart too?
I'm a cute Caucasian chef
Does this mean that ill win that cooking show?
I'm a deaf & dumb clothing designer
Does this mean I'll be treated the same way as everyone else?
I'm an eccentric energetic engineer
But I'm also a girl, will I be paid the same?
I'm a flashy fun Filipino
Does this mean that I'll still be stereotyped?
I'm  glorious, gay and grateful
Does this mean that ill be shunned?
I'm hot handsome and hunky
Does this mean I'll be covered in babes?
I'm icy, ignorant and feeling immortal
Does this mean that I'm also anti social?
I'm joyful jubilant and jealous
Does this mean that i cant be normal?
I'm a kind hearted kindred spirit
Does this mean that I can't sometimes be naughty?



I'm lazy, a loser and lucky
Does this mean I'm still a waste of space?
I'm mad, meticulous and meandering
Does this mean that I'm also a menace to you?
I'm nice, noble and naughty
Does this mean that I suffer from a particular disease?
I'm open obvious and oppositional
Does this mean that I'm hard to work with?
I'm positive pleasant and particular
Does this mean that I shouldn't have any more friends?
I'm quaint quite and quite a sight
Does this mean that I'm different?
I'm radical, raunchy and reverent
Does this mean that I shouldn't be this way?
I'm shy, speechless and sorry
Does this mean that you can walk all over me?
I'm talkative tiny and can go off on tangents
Does this mean that you'll treat me like a child?
I'm a unit, universal and ugly
Does this mean I'm too big?
I'm a very versatile voluptuous being
Does this mean I'll have lots of dates?
I'm young and yellow bellied
Does this mean that I should be afraid everyday?
I'm zany, zesty and zoetic
Does this mean that I should be quiet and tame instead?

Hot Pad!

Crack your back if you're having a bad day! Yea... I thought I'd hear a few *Cracks* out there. Well, finally I decided to do something about my back, besides have someone else keep an eye on it for me. At my current job I have to lift a few heavy things above my head, walk thirty feet and put it down again lower than my waist. Well after about three trips, that starts to hurt my shoulder! A friend of mine helped me out and sent me on my way to make my own 30 second hot pad that I can lay on my shoulder at night.

You Need:

- A rectangle piece of cloth about 1 ft x 1.5 ft
- Thread
- Funnel
- 2- 3 cups of raw rice

Directions:
1. With the right sides of the cloth facing IN sew the cloth into a rectangle but only on three sides. On the fourth side leave an opening big enough for the funnel to fit into and turn the bag right side out
2. Place the funnel in the opening that you left there and pour in the rice. When as much rice will fit in there comfortably (Leave Some Room) sew the last corner together.
3. You have just made your own personal hot pad!

Best methods of use:
☺ Heat for 1:30 minutes before you go to bed and sleep with a warm compress on your aching body
☺ Heat for 30 seconds for your on again off again sports injuries
☺ Heat for 30 seconds and it will be cool enough to place on your head for headaches
☺ Really awesome for those cramps... ladies. Heat for 2 minuets and lay it on your tummy.

Warnings:
♠ You WILL smell like cooked rice after using this
♠ Your bed WILL smell like cooked rice in the morning
♠ IT IS REALLY HOT!  

Rainbow Cupcakes!

Excited for summer? So am I! It's time for parties and picnics and finding ways to impress your host!
This is the second time I tried this, the first time I didn't get the chance to have a hand in i, but I did most of this by myself!

To do rainbow cupcakes you need:
- Cupcake mix (and all ingrediants needed for the cupcake mix) Prepare before hand!
- Cupcake wrappers
- 4 - 5 food coloring choices

1. Divide the cupcake mix into 5 containers

2. Add food coloring to the seperate containers

3. Use a teaspoon to place one scoop of each color into the wrappers
     *If you are doing red white & blue cupcakes for the holidays, drop in two of each color

4. Bake the cupcakes exactly as you had prepared them. They will come out similar to this! The different colors will make a neat pattern... almost too good to eat!

Enjoy! Add your pictures to the comments below if your cupcakes come out better than mine! ♥

If It Means Alot to You - A Day To Remember

And hey darling
I hope you're good tonight
And I know you don't feel right when I'm leaving
Yeah I want it but no I don't need it
Tell me something sweet to get me by
'Cause I can't come back home till they're singing

La, la la la la la la

'Til everyone is singing 

If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear to you
That we can make this last
(La la la)
If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear come tomorrow
This will all be in our past
Well it might be for the best

And hey sweetie
Well I need you here tonight
And I know that you don't want to be leaving me
Yeah you want it but I can't help it
I just feel complete when you're by my side
But I know you can't come home 'til they're singing

La, la la la la la la

'Til everyone is singing

La, la la la la la la

If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear to you
That we can make this last
(La la la)
If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear come tomorrow
This will all be in our past
Well it might be for the best

You know you can't give me what I need
And even though you mean so much to me
I can't wait through everything

Is this really happening?
I swear I'll never be happy again
And don't you dare say we can just be friends
I'm not some boy that you can sway
We knew it'd happen eventually

La, la la la la la la

Now Every body's singing

La, la la la la la la


-Sent to me by a very lovely boy. ♥ We have a similar circumstance.

Compared

I feel honored
I feel scared
I feel as if I’m being compared.

You feel praised
You feel maimed
You too are being compared.

He feels called
He feels mauled
He believes that he being compared.

She feels empowered
She feels devoured
She feels that only cowards are compared.

It feels prepared
It feels impaired
It wishes that it was not compared.

You, Me and Your Worst Enemy

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

It's rude of me to question a saying of a wise man, but isn't it better to understand than to not like something if I don't understand it? As for this quote, I understand completely. Take Facebook for instance. Just today someone that I recently became friends with made a very rude comment to which I unfriended him for. His friends are mad for making the comment, and the friend that he tagged in the comment is furious. I'm assuming that the silent unfriending that is going on is speaking volumes to this character and he is chastising himself for such a comment. We have not become his enemies, but are giving him the fuel to judge his own self.

"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
- Yassir Arafat

Quite often we find ourselves with a new character in our life. Some how this character can be beneficial, as in can help you fix your car or knows how to save at the nearby grocery store.  These friends are handy and quite often indispensable. Here I should also add, be nice to everyone. Your kind gesture may turn their day around. However, when you are rude or inconsiderate, then you have made an enemy. You suddenly have a target on your back. Imagine that you're back in middle school, the breeding ground for gossip, false friends and first period gym class.  On your first day you bumped into the cheerleaders captians little sister and spilled her homework all over the floor. Suddenly you hear taunts and cheers of being clumsy, an idiot and so forth. But she doesn't say anything rude. Instead, she cleans up her homework, with your help and you both apologise and move on. You've made a ten second friend. On the other hand if you hadn't helped and let her be, why would you help the next it girl anyways, you've made yourself the target and no one will help you. You've found yourself with enemies when this was a chance to make a few friends.

"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself : an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
- Antisthenes

Words can hurt and they can heal. When they hurt, sometimes people feel that the best way to make that hurt go away is to pass on the hurtful words. Some girls are told that they are too fat, when they're as thin as a bean pole, and tell the next person in line that they are too. Some boys are told that they aren't tall enough to do a sport, so the pass it on to the next person saying that they're too dumb to play. Words hurt, when they shouldn't. Words some times kill too, they're our greatest weapon. The person that you allow yourself to hurt you, has become in control of you because you allow that comment to destroy you. Next time you hear a rude comment toward yourself, think about the person that said it to you. Often when I'm on the internet, I hear that the skinny girls need to eat more. When I see this I wonder about the subjects self esteem. Is she going to take this to heart? Who is really saying this to her? Are these people losing thier temper because they see a skinny person who happens to be that body type naturally and they're made because they're not? Or are these people her friends and have noticed an eating pattern in their friend and they're concerned? 

As a closing statement, if I was ever stuck on a deserted island with you, myself and my worst enemy, I would say my worst enemy is the mirror, because all I can see is myself. And what I see in myself sometimes is not the most postive person that I can be.