My eyes, my eyes! What'll I do for eyes?!

I'm full of news these days. For one, my mood has changed since last week. I believe my stress is very slowly easing up. I realized that it could have been somewhat related to midterms that I'm taking this week. Soon I should be very relieved that they're over!

In sports, people go through slumps. I thought in softball, you just got into hitting slumps. Little did I know, however, I was in a defensive pitfall. I sucked at fielding the ball, and my arm always hurt when I threw. Thank the Internet, I discovered this and fixed it. So now all is good with that!

Has anyone ever seen The Lost Boys? Amazing movie, right? Well, I watched it Tuesday night with my little brother. I was so excited because it had always been one of my favorites, and I hadn't seen it in like 10 years. So, I had my Jim Morrison T-shirt on and was hyped up after watching the best vampire movie ever (forget Twilight!). The next day, I got on yahoo, and one of the headlines said, 'Remembering Corey Haim'. I thought it was a coincidence they had a story on him the day after I saw the movie that made him really famous. Then I figured it out-- he died. I was distraught, and I thought it was somehow my fault he died. It was too big of a coincidence that his death was literally only hours after I watched The Lost Boys.

I still don't know how much blame I should put on myself, but I miss him! And I'm just getting to where I can accept it. I have to admit, I had no idea where his life was going currently, all I knew was him in the movie. But it's sad all the same.

Okay, enough rambling for now. I shall talk with you later.

Waiting semi-patiently for tomorrow

Tomorrow I get to eat some chocolate! And I have been craving it a lot lately. It doesn't help that I've got all this stress lately, like constantly losing softball games, chapters upon chapters of history homework, family issues (ahem... Bachelor!), and everything else. I'm trying not to complain, and I'm trying even harder not to break down crying. But whatever, it'll all be good eventually.

This week has been okay, the good balancing out the bad I guess. But it's important to remember that there is always a tomorrow, there is always another day to make yours. I've been making too many mistakes lately, but if I can manage to learn something from them and try not to repeat them, I think it'll all turn out okay.

How is everyone else? Don't forget tomorrow also, the new Sunday secrets from Postsecret. Goodbye and goodnight!

Ranting and dancing

Can I say just one thing? I HATE The Bachelor. I've been waiting to rant about this for a long time... Actually, just since last night. But it's horrible! My dad watches the show, and he turned it up loud so you can't hear yourself think. I really despise reality TV most of the time, but especially when there's this guy flirting and making out with 20 different girls. And towards the end of the season, when he gets to spend the night in a honeymoon suite with one girl at a time... It's sick. My grandmaw even watches it.

So enough of that... Today I 'traveled' to Hattiesburg, MS, about two hours north of my town, to see a flamenco dance performance. It was so fun, and they had all kinds of different dance styles. We saw salsa, samba, mambo, and tango. Not including these guys singing La Bamba. Oh what fun! It is very difficult finding a way to fall asleep on a school bus, however, on the way home.

The best part was when we came back to school and didn't have any make-up work for the day. That is always nice :)

Bands, Postcards, and Rain

Today I received some amazing news. My newest favorite band, Heavens to Betsy, has new music! I went on a retreat a few weekends ago, and I totally fell in love. They write and cover some wonderful Christian music, and they even redid some modern music exceptionally well. I've been waiting for the day when I could check out their myspace and listen to something new from them. It's great :)

The pic is the band with my youth group. I'm gonna be so proud to show it off when the band gets famous haha. Go to myspace.com/heavenstobetsy


Also today, I got a letter from a college in the mail, only it was hand-written! I think that's the coolest thing ever. If I ever had the job of writing to students from a college, I would want to write them all by hand. Unfortunately that might be me just asking for arthritis or carpel tunnel syndrome.

Yesterday I visited an antique store because I've been wanting to get something special for my grandma. She used to live in Italy, and she loves to tell stories of traveling and such. So I looked high and low and finally found two authentic and quite vintage postcards from Florence. They smell really musty and the print is sort of faded--It's great! I am wondering if I should write on them to her from me. I guess it would make it personal, but I would hate to destroy such a perfectly restored piece of the past. Any opinions?