Spring Fever

                                          

Hey Guys! Spring is finally here. (APPLAUSE) I could not be any more excited. I’m so happy! So in honor of Spring, I wanted to start a little series on here. All about Spring, flowers, rainbows, leprechauns, nice-smelly good things, and the countdown to summer. We will be going on an adventure. I wanted to start writing things that would help inspire people. Blog posts that would spark something in you guys. Something that would help you guys want to be different. But a GOOD different. Since we have all been diagnosed with “Spring Fever”, I’m hoping these posts will be the cure!

 ~And that’s the way the cookie crumbles~

Valentine's Day

     

Valentine’s Day is vastly approaching, and different people have different ideas on what Valentine’s day should be. Some people take valentines day as the day to make everyone else jealous like “Oh, look what I got!”, and some people take Valentine’s day as God’s judgment on their lives. When in reality, it’s just another day of the year. Nothing special. I mean yes I am single, but that isn’t why I don’t really care about Valentine’s Day. Would I like to have a special someone this valentines day? Maybe depends on who it is. But is that going to ruin the rest of 2014 if I don’t have a Valentine? NO. its just another day that people have felt the need to put emphasis on for some strange reason. Also, I feel that if you love someone as much as you say you do, you shouldn’t have to wait for a certain to prove it to them. Why do you have to wait for February 14th? Buy them all of these mushy-gushy stuff on May 23rd. It doesn’t matter. Even if I did have someone that I would be spending Valentines day with, I could never be one of those girls that demand certain things. Like even if its just a card, the fact that you care enough to even buy one for me is enough. It’s not that serious. 

I think that it’s important for girls to remember that even if you don’t have a Valentine this year, or next year, or for the next three years, your someone is coming. The person that you are supposed to be with will come at the exact moment that they are supposed to. Everything has a time, and I believe that if things happen before they are supposed to then we aren’t mentally or emotionally prepared for them. So enjoy being single on valentines day. Turn it into GALentine’s Day. Go out to dinner. Watch a new movie. Watch chick-flicks, but don’t sit there in your room eating a pint of Ben and Jerry’s crying because you think that no one loves you and no one will ever love you because we both know that’s a LIE! 

Take it as a learning experience. Learn what you want in a future Valentine, and become prepared so that when the right guy or girl comes you know exactly what you want and need. 

Dare to be different. Get all of your single friends and make this Valentine’s Day one to remember. As for me? I’m going out with one of my great friends, and we’re going to dinner and a movie!

I want to know how you guys are spending your Valentine’s Day. Tweet me or Instagram me with the #TLVDAY. Meaning TeenageLivinValentine’sDay. Love you guys and HAVE FUN! 

~And that’s the way the cookie crumbles!~

Goodbye 2013, HELLO 2014

Oh My Goodness. 2013 is practically over. (I’m writing this on Monday but it’ll be up on Tuesday night.) It just seems so surreal. 12 months. 365 days. 525,600 minutes. 31,557,600 seconds. If you’re reading this, it means that you’ve survived it. We have survived another year of heartaches, pains, loss, happiness, and basically everything in between. 
I don’t know about you guys, but 2013 hasn’t been the best for me. I mean yeah it could’ve been worse. It wasn’t horrible, but it definitely wasn’t what I was expecting. I felt like in a sense I let myself down. I didn’t meet up to the expectations that I had for myself. I wanted all of these different things to happen and some of them did, but for the most part it wasn’t the best year of my life. Because of that, I’ve come up with a few ways that I can make 2014 the best year of my life. 

1. LET GO OF ANY NEGATIVE ENERGY!
  If there is any that you feel is holding you back from being the person that you want to be, let it go. Whether it be people, music, surroundings, whatever it is, let it go. There is no point in letting yourself be brought down by things of less importance. 

2. ALLOW YOURSELF TO FULLY BE YOURSELF! 
This may seem self explanatory, but a lot of people seem to struggle with this. I know I did, at least for a little this year. At the time, when we’re pretending to be someone we’re not, it doesn’t appear like there is anything wrong with it because we are just so focused on getting other peoples’ approval. When we take a step back long enough to see the damage that our dishonesty has caused, we realize that it really wasn’t worth it. Maybe they would have liked us just being us, or if they wouldn’t have then they don’t deserve to be a part of our lives. That was something that I struggled with, and I just had to realize that if someone really wants to be my friend they will accept me and my true friends won’t mind that sometimes I’m a little loud, or that my laugh is sometimes obnoxious, and I may or may not be fluent in gibberish. That’s who I am. Accept me or not, that’s your problem.


3. BE CONFIDENT!
This year, I learned that everyone struggles with confidence. Not just weak, insecure middle school girls. High school boys, college girls, adults, even a 75 year old. We all have trouble with self-confidence. It comes with the territory of trying to find our place in this world. Yeah, it sucks not believing in yourself but the more that we tell ourselves that we are great and that we can accomplish many things, we will be able to. BUT, remember there is a fine line between confidence and conceit. So whether it’s about talking to that special someone you’ve been dying to talk to all year, trying out for a new sport, or just stepping out of your box and making new friends. Believe that you can accomplish great things and you WILL do great things. 

4. BE POSITIVE!
We all know those people that no matter what is going on, they always seem to find something bad about the day, or life. Even if we don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, that persons’ attitude rubs off on us. So the main way to be positive, SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVE PEOPLE! Easy peasy, lemon-squeasy? NOPE. We want to spare other peoples’ feelings so bad that we sometimes tend to put our own feelings on hold. Wrong! You have to be in a good place in your life to be able to accomplish what you want done in the new year, so if you aren’t in a happy place, you will not be able to reach your full potential. 

5. FORGIVE BUT NOT FORGET! 

All our lives, we’ve been told forgive and forget and for the longest time I actually believed that, but towards the end of this year, I realized that yes we need to be forgiving but we should not forget. If we chose to forget, then how are we supposed to learn from our mistakes?? So yes, forgive and don’t hold grudges, but remember what you learned from that experience. That way if anything similar happens in the future, you know how to deal with it. 

By no means am I trying to act like an expert, I just wanted to tell you guys how I plan on having a good year in 2014, and maybe it’ll help you guys have a great year as well.

So for us, let’s forget the pain and heartache of 2013, and embrace 2014 with open arms, a clear conscience, and a willing heart. 

For 2014, be the best year of our lives and treat us right! 

SO CHEERS, AND LET’S CELEBRATE!!

~And that’s the way the cookie crumbles~