My Childhood Hurts : Mysterious Mondays 7/27/14

I've been rereading a bunch of my old books lately because who doesn't love felling old feels reopen? My summer reading has kinda been put on a hold because I can't exactly find the books I bought to read. You might be asking yourself "How do you lose books Natalie?" Simple: my family. After the whole movement of rooms in my house I basically packed my whole life into boxes. Not fun. Plus it kinda seemed like my parents were taunting me because almost all my friends are packing too but for college. Yeah rub it in my face parents. Grrr. Anyways I started to reread Percy Jackson and the Olympians series along with Riordan's series continuing his Percy Jackson series The Hero's of Olympus. Let me get one thing out there: I LOVE THIS SERIES. Let me tell you of how this whole obsession started.

 I started reading Percy Jackson on accident really. I was in 7th grade and reading at a 12th grade level already. (Go Nerds!) There was a program that my middle school had incorporated to "help" and "encourage" kids read called Accelerated Reading (AR). Really what it came down to was either you read however many points you needed to get or you fail English. Nerdy me had already read the Harry Potter books so passed every single damn test with an A+ because HARRY POTTER. I guess could count as cheating but oops too late now! My teacher held a contest to see who could reach their AR goal the fastest (another scheme to get kids to read) and we could sit on the teacher's chair for a whole day. Naturally being the nerd I was and HARRY POTTER, I won the first day the contest was indicated. SO her plan back fired majorly haha whoops. 

I had run into a dilemma though. (Again nerd moment) I had read all the books on the shelf except for one big one. (Dun dun duuuuuuuuun) It was Percy Jackson of course. I read that book in two days. And that began the obsession. Once I found out there was a squeal a couple weeks later I almost exploded with joy. And now here I am 6 years later still crying over Selena Beauregard's death and so frustrated at Rick's cliffhanger of Percy and Annabeth falling into Tartarus. Literally. 

To think that my childhood is going to end in October absolutely pierces my heart. WHY RIORDAN WHY. I'm not ready for those feels at all. This fandom is close to heart. I almost died when I read City of Heavenly Fire. Another feels that is never gonna go away. Books hurt me more than my real life yo. I don't know how to feel about that. 

Please don't leave Seaweed Brain.

Natalie xo

Mysterious Mondays: Dirty Dancing 7/21/14

This weekend I was horribly bored and had nothing to do so I had a movie night. One of the movies I watched was Dirty Dancing. As I don't always share all of my personal life on the internet I do share parts of it that I don't fully explain. For example those who have read my blog before or actually know me in real life know that I have a boyfriend named Ben. And that's about all my blog people know. What the real situation is that I do have a boyfriend but only my mother knows. My father isn't really accepting of the fact of me dating or that concept at all. He's really over protective to say the least. He suspects that I have one and knows who it is but doesn't day a word. It's kinda ironic because at school were inseparable. Like literally people know me and I don't know them because they know Ben so they talk to me. Granted sometimes my friends are afraid of Ben because he's kinda like my protector always standing by my side and he's not tiny but I don't mind. I love him for that. 

Because my dad doesn't like Ben because he suspects that he's dating me, in the movie Dirty Dancing there is a part where Johnny (Patrick Swayze) tells Baby (Jennifer Gray) that he had a dream where her dad approved of him and threw his arm around his shoulders. This moment touched me because once Ben told me the same thing about my dad. He really wishes my dad would approve of him so we could go out more. Oh the life of an new adult. Poor Johnny. I feel for you bro. 

-Natalie xxx

PS. Sorry for the teenage drama. After all this is the life of an ordinary girl. I found this picture that pretty much sums up the teenage mind.

Musical Mondays

Hello all! Good Morning and welcome to the new segment of my blog: Musical Mondays. Basically I'm show casing some of my favorite music of the week whether it be a band or just songs from my playlist at home. Music is important to me because it can get you pumped for the day, calm you down in times of distress, cheer you up, or just express what you can't seem to in words.

Today I'm going to be raving about one of my favorite bands, who I didn't know they were my favorite band until recently, The Strokes. I absolutely love them and their style of music. I found out their music makes me extremely happy and makes my mood from terrible to ecstatic and ready to conquer the day. They really help me put a gloomy ugly day to a cheerful one.

Here are some of my favorite songs by them:

This last song "Undercover of Darkness" has a special meaning to me because this is what got me through emotionally when my grandpa died. I had found out at school and thankfully Ben was with me because I kinda was in shock and then broke down completely. It was a huge shock. I had this song on repeat the whole day. Even today I have a hard time listening to it because it reminds me so much of my grandpa. Because of the upbeat beat I imagine him walking into the light and be sprinting behind him saying "Don't go that way" and him saying "I'll wait for you" like in the lyrics. I didn't know him that well but I know for a fact we would have gotten along so well. Distance sucks. 

That's all for today's Musical Monday. Thanks for sticking around and listening to my little story. I hope you all have a nice day of summer. 

-Natalie   x

Mysterious Mondays

So as it seems, I have a lot of time on my hands. And that means I should do something productive like at least blog once a week. I'm going to call this segment Mysterious Mondays because I really don't know what I will write about I'm just gonna write. I'm also thinking about renaming my other blog. My top name so far is "Pixie Ate My French Fries" or something a long those lines. But I don't know what exactly I'm going to write about. College life? Love life? haha not that one. Or should I just start making YouTube videos and promote them there? Decisions Decisions.  Oh! and I remade the style of my blog. Like it? I doooo. Well that's all for now folks. See you tomorrow!

 

PS: IT IS FLIPPING HOT

-Natalie x

Monday Quotes 7/7/14

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it” - Lloyd Alexander.

This quote really impacts me because there was a time in my life where books were and still are a huge part of my life. Books taught me how to love, how to respect, how to find the real me under all the armor put up to defend myself from the world. Falling in deep (deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep) love with characters kept me sane when I thought I was going insane. In a book there is knowlege passed on from billions of years ago that is still alive today. Life lessons, consequences, reactions, and events that changed the world forever. Books allow people to experience many lives in one lifetime. Books are amazing. I think I say this too much. Not sorry.

“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions” - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

When I read this, the first thought that popped into my head was "This should be posted in every teacher's classroom." The human brain is a wonderful organ that basically is what we call "us". Now I know people argue that we are more than our body parts and such but hey, I'm going to be a scientist so for now I go by the scientific point of view. The fact that when a person learns or has at least one new idea everyday is remarkable because those ideas will eventually build up and expand the way that person thinks forever. Like I said, the human brain is kinda awesome.

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” - Khaled.

This quote totally sounds like a movie plot. But I think that's why I enjoyed it. If you think about it, it's kinda true. And t fits every movie ever made. The first moive I thought of was "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights." Why? Because it is my favorite movie ever. I have a soft spot for dancing movies. I literally start twitching on the couch because I want to get up and dance to the movie. What a noob huh. Anyways, for those who havn't seen it, the american girl movies to Cuba because of her father's work. She meets a guy her age who is a fantastic Cuban dancer and asks him to join andancing competition with her. Yada yada yada they fall in love and what not. Point is, a few days in Cuba and her life is magically changed by this guy in the span of a few days. This was the nice lovey dovey upbeat version of the quote. Of course you can also think of "Lone Survivor" which is a more realistic way to think of the meaning of the quote. Oh how I hate army movies. Gives me chills.

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me” - Sean O'Casey.

This totally reminded me of "Twilight" (Please don't eat me. I actually liked it for some time >.<) Jacob was the sun for Bella when Edward left. On a personal level, that was what Ben was for me. My life was drab and gray and boring before I met Ben. I did everything I was told, I got good grades, I did what I knew my parents wanted me to do even if they didn't say so, I was the number one good girl who had no fun and didn't really know what making my own decitions was. I was sad. I was bored with my life. I was stuck. And then comes Ben with his huge smile and bad bratt attitude. He made me really laugh for the first time is months. He was my sun.

-Natalie 

HELP! A Greedy Ass Raccoon is Taking Over My Life!

My life has been taken over. By this these people. 

 Since this summer has been semi filled with stay home days I have undusted my Nintendo DS and started to relive my childhood. You know, after I charged it. Leave it to me leave my DS uncharged.

After (finally) searching all the cheats and ways to quickly obtain money in Animal Crossing (which is basically the point) I learned lots of new little secrets I didn't know about. Like if you bury a shovel, the next day it becomes a golden shovel which if you plant money with it YOU GROW MONEY. What the hell man! I could have already payed off my mortgage if I knew about this!!! Stupid raccoon, y u charge so much. Grrr Catching fish and insects only do so much man! This game takes dedication. I wish I could pay New Leaf but I'm in the "Doesn't have a 3DS corner" so mourn for me.

 Honestly my favorite part is dressing up my character. All the little clothes and are so cute! Thankfully I got a nice face in the beginning of the game or is literally start the whole game over. My face would probably annoy me to the point of madness. Little OCD of you couldn't tell. 

Anyways here are some pictures of my now discharged life from school (or prison since there are QUITE a bit of relations in them both)

 

Help a raccoon is controlling my life,

-Natalie