Changes

All right, I guess I'll blog.

Seriously, though, it's hardly my fault that I haven't blogged. First of all, some...changes have occurred, and I've been waiting for the dust to settle before I explain, but the dust is STILL settling, so here it goes anyway. Also, I've been sick and school just finished (or is it just starting?) midterms. Blech...

The first of these... 'changes' came back in November where some of you may (not) have seen my hair cut. I thought I liked it, but now I hate it-it's at an impossible stage where it's too short to pull back into a pony tail but I still have loads of fly-aways. I've been trying my best, but it's not too good. Anyhow, it's been 3 or 3 1/2 months now that I've cut it, so it's getting longer (although it sure is TAKING ITS SWEET TIME!!!) But another physical change is my face! (I know, so many jokes possible, but please, refrain)

Okay, besides the fact I look like a TOTAL goof, I got glasses. We did buy contacts, but for the past week or so, I've been sticking with glasses. It's only been three or four years since I've had glasses, but it was still hard to get used to...

Another change? MY PHONE!! It's been about one year that I've had my own cell phone, and I decided to upgrade to a Samsung Galaxy Prevail :)

Super snazzy, super awesome! It's considered a smartphone (a droid, to be more specific), and I LOVE it! It even comes with Swype, which I also love.

And I got a bunch of accessories, including (my favorite!) a puppy paws case... I know, but what did you expect from me?

And now for the third 'change': my career. Ever since I was 6, I've wanted to be a vet. It was my one true love-well, okay, ANIMALS were my one true love, but helping them was good, too, right? But things this semester have seemed to just fall apart, and I've decided to take my life in a different direction.

Because I love my mom and she taught me well, before I approached her with this, I decided to come up with a plan of where I did want to go. So I just took the next best thing-yoga. I took yoga in high school (twice, might I add), and I loved it! So I presented the plan to my mom, and officially changed my major to a Human Performance Management major.I looked into it, and it felt good. Needless to say, Momma Bear was a little shocked, but I was sure that was what I wanted to do.

Well, Momma Bear was sure I wasn't going to be able to live off of a yoga teacher's salary (although, in my defense, I wanted to teach High School or college yoga), but I, too, felt that yoga was not the right thing, however I liked the degree.

So I'm sticking with my Human Performance Management degree for now, until I find what to do with it (I will take a class where we find out what jobs we can do with it). I've though (and am still thinking) about other degrees, but that's where I am right now. Yeah, maybe I'll do something with animals on the side, like behavioral training or something, but we'll just see where life takes me.

Pan-Universal Be Who You Are Day

Hello! I have decided to post today about "V-Day". If you are anything like me, then sometimes this day sorta-kinda-maybe scares you. Luckily, we are not alone. The lovely Kristin Cashore, an author, also feels this way and has proposed "Pan-Universal Be Who You Are Day". I have 'borrowed' this blog from her, with many of her own words here.

"I also don't like this about Valentine's Day: it tries to divide people up into two neat categories. (1) People who are madly in love and happy. (2) People who are single, sad, lonely, pathetic, and deserving of our pity.

Seriously? It's so reductive! There are a gazillion kinds of people; there are a gazillion kinds of relationships and ways to live; there isn't one good, happy way to be and one bad, sad way to be. Stop being so unimaginative, world!"


Haha-love it! She's great. I totally agree with the different types of relationships, because everyone is an individual, no? And are we not all different in even the most tiny microscopic way? It's AMAZING!!!! So, here is her list of "people you can be on this day":


"

1. A person who is thinking about beginning a relationship but isn't sure.
2. A person who is thinking about ending a relationship but isn't sure.
   
3. A person who has decided to have a boyfriend and a shop on Etsy instead of a wife and a law degree, even though it will anger his mother.
   
4. A person who has decided to have a cat and an emu instead of kids, even though it will baffle her father (and also the emu might bite him. Though the argument could be made that so might the kids).
5. A person who is holding the hand of his lover who is about to have sex reassignment surgery.
6. Children eating lollypops.
7. A person who wants what she doesn't want and doesn't want what she wants and often can't figure out what she wants and often can't have what she wants and sometimes has what she doesn't want and frankly feels RATHER UNSETTLED MUCH OF THE TIME.
8. A person who's in love with the Ryan Gosling Hey Girl Library tumblr.
9. A person who's in love with the Rachel Maddow Hey Girl tumblr.
10. A person with a broken heart who is sobbing.
11. A person who feels that just because a relationship ended, that doesn't mean it failed.
12. A person who would love to think about Valentine's Day and his one true love, if only he hadn't just gotten out of surgery and can't move.
13. A person who loves Valentine's Day, wears pink, has heart socks, loves being in love, and has a big romantic day planned.
14. A person who is helping her toddlers make their first valentines.
15. A single parent who is trying to find the right partner. Also, a single parent who isn't trying to find a partner, because they don't want one. 
16. A person who's in love with more than one person.
17. A person who thinks he'll never find anyone who understands him.
18. A person who is recovering from a painful event and is nowhere near being ready to think about sharing herself with someone else.
19. A single person who loves being single.
20. A person in a traditional relationship.
    
21. A Cylon who fell in love and consequently messed up someone else's life by accident, because she didn't know she was a Cylon. Listen, these things happen.
22. A doctor and war veteran whose deepest love is a brilliant socially-maladaptive consulting detective who shoots holes in the wall when he's bored.
23. The third daughter in an early-20th-century aristocratic Yorkshire family who thinks she might be in love with the Irish revolutionary chauffeur, but it's confusing, because it would be an enormous blow to her family, and also, he can kinda be a jerk sometimes.
24. An author who might be watching too much TV?
25. An extraterrestrial named Blorkybeans (loose translation) who is enjoying her post-heartbreak intergalactic port city cruise more than she expected to, because it turns out she's good at making friends, even though her ex tried to convince her she wasn't. Anyway, he looked like a glorpyplotch. (That's like an extraterrestrial version of an octopus.)
26. Me.
27. You.

Did I miss anyone?"

These are seriously her words. Go check it OUT!!! Happy Pan-Universal Be Who You Are Day!!!

Updates

All right, I'm sorry I haven't 'tuned in' lately. My internet was down, and school has just been a mess! But there are changes coming...HUGE changes (because bleaching and cutting my hair wasn't enough). I hope all is well with everyone, and I'll be here when I get here.