Bucket List

I dream of going to Australia someday, but the spiders there keep me from that.

Be on the amazing race

Swim with/see a dolphin because it’s my favorite animal

Kiss and dance in the rain

Marry someone who will be a best friend to me

Graduate from college and teach

Write a book

Have courage to sing and play the piano in front of people

I want to go on survivor, but once again the spiders freak me out

Go repelling

Learn to surf

Hawaii looks really pretty, so I want to go there

Meet the whole Harry Potter cast

Spend a day with Jennifer Lawrence

Actually get muscles so I'm not seen as a weakling anymore

Go all over Europe

Visit the Harry Potter studio in London

Run a 1/2 marathon

Get good grades in college

Raft down rapids

Ride the biggest roller-coaster in the world

Spend an entire day reading

Have a Harry Potter marathon in one day

My Hero

To: A simple hero
From:  Someone who cares

I talk to you sometimes when I'm alone, did you know that? I like to think about what things would be like if you were here, sitting in the grass next to me. You'd probably be absorbing the beauty and trying to make sense of the colors all around us. I can hear you explaining your thoughts to me because I'm not one to notice the beauty in things on my own, the thought's almost funny to me. Why question beauty when there are other things to stress about in the world like why people come and go in life?

You're different.

Seconds aren't ever wasted in your world. Memories are created whenever you get the chance to make them, so moments aren't blown away and forgotten. I imagine you're painting sunsets and blue skies now, giving people left behind a sense of peace through beauty. Giving them a picture to store memories in. It's calming to me, and it makes me think. Thank you.

You give me hope and a reason to smile.

Even though tears come and go on your behalf, visioning you in the back of my mind brings a smile to my face; why cry when there's so much to be happy for? When I use to cry though, you didn't care. You would just wrap your arms around me to keep the world around us out. I was your little girl, and you wouldn't let anything harm me.

 Selfless. That's what you were. 

Taking care of people and bringing laughter to their lives was your forte. Everywhere you went emotions of happiness and excitement were left behind.

Then things changed.

Even though challenges came, you lifted your head and kept smiling. Overall appearance changed for you, but you didn't care. As long as everyone around you was safe, you were happy. Time ticked by, but you held on with every last breath, keeping your head held high. You stayed true to yourself until the end, until it was over and you had to go.

Now I'm here, lying in the grass and smiling as the wind gently kisses my skin. I'm smiling because I'm thinking of you. I think of you a lot you know. You're someone I never want to forget, and I never will. When memories course their way through my mind, I'll accept them graciously. 

Hero. That's what you are to me, and I'll love you forever.

Books...or Movies

QUESTION: Would you rather have to get rid of books and only have movies, or get rid of movies and only have books?

For me this isn't a tough question at all; I can't live without books! 

Personally, keeping books means holding onto movies as well because when I read it's like I'm actually watching a movie. I get so attached to the characters I read about, and I feel like I can really relate to them!

However, when I watch movies, I don't get as involved with the characters. Don't get me wrong I love movies, but it's harder to relate to the people because you're not imagining them yourself and feeling the emotion.

Reading is the perfect way to see the characters development and experience things with them. THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS WITH MOVIES. It's easy to you know the people on the screen, but do you really? #probablynot! 

Every living thing I come across when I read becomes a part of me! It's like the main people in my books become family to me; I can't lose them. Endings are my least favorite and favorite parts. It's bittersweet for me because ends are usually amazing, but they also mean it's time to move on. It's time to find a new book to read. It's time to get to know new characters.

Movies aren't very long, so it's hard to grow attached to those who make it what it is.

XOXO

~Rosie

I Ain't Scurred!!!

"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself"~Hermione Granger

Truth is everything scares me...but spiders probably scare me the most. Even typing about them right now is freaking me out! I'm scared of the fact that they're always around me. I hate how they have so many eyes and legs. They seem to find me when I'm most vulnerable. Can I just not talk about this now? It's freaking me out!

I'm scared of being left alone. I've never seen I am legend, but the thought of being the only life form left on earth freaks me out! Thinking about having no one to talk or cry to ever again makes me feel empty. When people leave me for more than a week it's like they're leaving me forever. Imagining that forever actually taking place just leaves a bottomless pit in my stomach!

I DON'T WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND!

Blogging is terrifying! It's easy for me to look through things I post and feel satisfied, but what does everyone else think? Do I sound dark? Do I let too much of my personality come out? Do I post to much, or not enough? Is my blog to dull? Seriously, it's so stressful and horrifying to me! I'm still trying to figure out why I let myself do this...

Life freaks me out to the max! Like where am I going to go from here? It's almost like once I graduate, I'm officially on my own! No more relying on mommy and daddy to help me make choices. No more just talking things through with teachers to get my grades up. And no more talking to the kids I've grown up with. It's so scary to think that I'll be a completely different person with new experiences in a year from now!

I'm scared of finishing things, like this blog post. That's why I'm just going to leave it here and like myself freak out about it later!

XOXO

~Rosie

Here Comes The Sun

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”~Albus Dumbledore 

I just really seem to love the sounds of being outside. I don't know if it's the cars passing by, airplanes flying around in the sky, or the simple sound of birds chirping away; it's all so peaceful and beautiful too! 

     How could I not be happy when the suns coming out?

With the sun beating down and blue blue sky up above, everything's perfect. I don't have the annoying sound of people ALL AROUND ME, and I can be in my own little world! 

It's almost like nature knows how to actually speak to you. It whispers to you through soft currents of the ever blowing wind as it wisps on by. 

When nature is angry, however, I'm still happy. It lets you know it's unhappy by sending in thunder.

If nature feels a little heartbroken, it cries the pain away with gentle drips of rain. For some this brings feelings of longing and sadness, but to me it's calming and beautiful. The gentle touch of rain on my skin seems to take away pains of the past; it's just me and the rain alone.

To make sure everyone's day is lightened, the sun comes out. It seems to take away every care in the world. It brings happiness to everyone, and gives a sense of hope as well. 

There's no need to be sad when the sun's in the sky!

 

Divergent Bricks

THINGS TO BE DONE WITH BRICKS:

1. Melt crayons through the rough edges 
2. Make house
3. Paint it
4. Crush food
5. Paint them orange so MUNCHKINS SHUT UP ABOUT THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD!!!!
6. Chuck it at a wall
7. Break a window
8. Revenge on someone who crushed you
9. Brutal back scratcher
10. Pencil/pen holder
11. Weight
12. Make a chair
13. Make a fire pit so you can roast mallows!
14. Grind it up and make sand for a sandbox
15. Write promises on it to make a promise
16. Put it on your shoulder instead of boombox
17. Knock your teacher out (NO MORE LEARNING)
18. Make a wall
19. Grate cheese
20. Lose a tooth
21. Knock yourself out (IF YOU'RE CRAZY)
22. Fry an egg
23. Anchor
24. Get you thinking
25. Just to stare at
26. Hide what's inside
27. MODEL
28. Prepare a model to model
29. Test tube holder 
30. BEING CREATIVE
31. Knock a cat off a fence
32. Put it on the gas pedal in a car so it will drive itself off a cliff
33. Put a letter in it and throw it 
34. Stand
35.  Analogy for burdens
36. Build a bridge
37. Scare fish
38. See how high you can stack them
39. Make music
40. Tape them to the bottom of your shoes to make you look taller

Hey 90's Kids!!!