Packing...

Tomorrow I leave on vacation!  I'm soooooooooooooooooooo excited!  I'm going to be traveling to Nashville, Tennessee for a day or two then I will be heading to Mississippi to hang out with some of my family that I usually only get to see once a year.

Packing seems to be one of the most stressful parts of the whole vacation.  Yes, it's more stressful then planning, picking out a motel, or deciding what to do.  Why?  Because you have to:

1) figure out how many days you have to pack for, 

2) Decide if you need any extra clothes with

 (in case you get dirty/ spill) 

3) You have to plan out outfits for each day (of course you

 don't have to plan them out in 

order... well unless you have a carry-on)

4) You have to check and make sure you have 

everything (usually more than once) so you can make 

sure you didn't forget your toothbrush, shampoo, ect.

:) haha I'm not complaining I'm just saying packing can be a super stressful thing... especially if you think your missing something but you just don't know what....

So anyhoo I thought I'd make a list of things that are usually a good idea to pack when your going on vacation. (Hey, maybe you could use this next time your going on a trip and your not sure if you have everything!)
-Clothes for everyday
     - And clothes for every weather ("just in case")
-Toothbrush
-Toothpaste
-Shampoo/ Conditioner/ Soap {if all else fails remember some kind of soap! :) }
-Makeup.... possibly??
- Those people that were suppose to come with you...
-probably something to do on the way such as;
     -ipod
     - camera
     -book
     -a working car radio

Did I forget anything?? :)

I'll try my best to keep you updated during my vacation but my next post may not be for a few days.

~Thanks soooooooo much for reading and checking out my blog!

A Poem.... Well Sort of....

Colored Pencils

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Colored Pencils seem to keep the world in tact.

How? Do you ask?

They're like paintbrushes painting a white canvas.

They can turn almost any bare surface into a colorful bright dreamy picture.

They can draw night or even a bright sunny day.

The Possibilities are endless with colored pencils.

And that is all I have to say!

Did that make any sense?  Haha not really...  Today so far has been such a wonderful bright and sunny day that I think it's time I go out and play!  Okay, okay maybe I should stop with the whole rhyming/ poem thing and just stick to writing.

It really has been a very beautiful day though, so I think it's time I get off the computer and go outside and enjoy this wonderful weather!  So, I guess this means that I'll "talk" to you later!

~Thanks for checking out my blog :)

Summer!!

Strawberries

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Summer has finally came upon us! (Although to be honest, for some reason it just doesn't quite feel like summer yet for me.) It's that time of year when certain parts of our gardens seem to take off at a sprint and turn from blooming flowers into fruit almost right in front of our eyes. One of these fruits are strawberries! They seem to turn from just a flower into the beautiful, shiny, red, and not to mention tasty fruit almost overnight! There is something about the red color of strawberries that seems to have a beauty that not many other shades of red can hold.

When I took this picture, I thought it looked like an okay picture on my tiny camera screen. After blowing it up on the computer though, I realized that there was something about the two strawberries on the right that I just absolutely loved! Maybe it's their red color, or the fact that they seem to stand out more than anything else in the picture. Whatever it is, there is defiantly something about them that makes me smile. Who knows, maybe I'm just a sucker for strawberry pictures...

Well anyhoo I hope you like the picture and you come back to check out more of my blog posts in the future :) Thanks sooooooooooo much for checking my blog out!

Picture of the day?

When I first started this blog I was unsure of what I wanted it to be about, but I think I want to use it to start posting pictures I've edited and maybe just talk about what I'm up to, and ramble on about what ever comes to my mind. I mean blogs are meant to let you talk about whatever you want the world to know, right? So starting today, I think I'm going to start posting more and I may possibly start a Picture of the Day section! Of course the only problem with that is for the next two months I will be traveling quite a bit. Which of course means I may have to start with just a Picture of the week... :) haha well I guess we'll have to see how it all plays out...

Perception is....

...Such a strange thing. Such as, for example, today I had a track meet and it was a home meet so it wasn't like I had never saw the track before. And yet for some reason it looked larger than it had the day before. Obviously it didn't get bigger, but because I had to run on it in a competition it suddenly seemed to grow. This wasn't the first time it had happened either though, at every track meet I have gone to this year each track seems to be bigger than our own. It wasn't until today when I noticed it all had to do with perception. Which is such a funny thing when you think about it, why do we do this? Picture things and expect things a certain way, and then when they actually happen, or we see them, they see seem completely difference (even if they aren't!) Anyways it's something to think about! :) Hope everyone has an awesome rest of the week and weekend... and for all of those competing in the Minnesota State FFA competition this weekend.... GOOOOOOOOD LUCK and have fun!!!

The Girl That Never Wins Anything.....

....Wins something!! Amanda and Travis Marsh are brother and sister who are both starting to break into the Country/Rock Music world. About a week ago they held a contest on Twitter in which the first 5 people to email them would win their cds. As you may have already guessed I was so excited to learn that I was one of the top 5!!

If you have never heard of them before you should most defiantly go check them out at their website: http://www.atmmusicgroup.com/or at their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/amandamarshmusic

Did You Know?

Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten

The first "False eyelashes" were made out of real human hair

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet

There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used

Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside

Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump

Switching letters is called spoonerism

In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second

Ants never sleep

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match

Coca-Cola was originally green

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles

Kermit the Frog is left-handed

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515

No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

French Manicure With a Hot Pink Twist

Step One: Apply two layers of clear nail polish to each nail

Step Two: Using white nail polish- sweep over the top of your nails

just covering the "free edge" (the tip of your nail)

Step Three: Using a pink nail polish with a decorating end,

(The one in the picture is from Migi Nail Art)

swipe a thin line just under the white swoosh.

Step Four: Once dry, go over the top of your nails

with a thin layer of skin color nail polish

(to tame down the other polishes a bit.)

Step Five: (Optional) Once dry, cover over with one more thin layer of clear and...

Bam! you have BEAUTIFUL nails!

Hope you enjoy this "French Manicure With a Hot Pink Twist" idea and give it a try :D

Castle - Wrapped Up In Death

Last nights Castle episode, just like all the other's, was AMAZING. There were so many cute and funny Castle and Beckett moments! The coffee prank had to be the best part of the episode! Without giving away any spoilers or anything else, let me just tell you that you should without a doubt go check it out if you missed last night's episode either on Itunes or Hulu.com!! :)

Summer Is Just Around The Corner....

...Well almost anyways. Summer is that time of year when we can take out those flip flops, sunglasses, swimming suits, shorts, and tank tops and put away all of our sweatshirts, long pants, and everything else that reminds us of those long cold winter months.

Of course summer isn't here quite yet. I still have the months of April, May, and little bit of June to get through until my official summer starts, but that doesn't keep me from wishing and hoping that it would hurry up and get here! Of course the fact that it's not quite summer yet, hasn't stopped me from wearing shorts almost everyday for the last couple weeks. :)

I can't wait to see the beautiful flowers blooming, hear the sounds of the colorful birds, and of course I'm completely and totally pumped for sunbathing and swimming at the beach!! Oh and I can't forget my yearly trip to Biloxi, Mississippi! I'm so ready and excited for summer to come that I have a feeling that these next two months are going to fly by!! :) (fingers crossed!)

Until then though, I guess I'm going to have to pretend it's summer by picturing myself under the hot warm sun by looking at photos of last summer...