So This Is the Story All About How My Life got Flipped Turned Upside-Down

I know this is a really hackneyed saying, but I just found out my childhood is a lie.

What prompts me to use this trite and drastic phrase, you ask?

So I was just sitting on my bedroom floor, scrolling through my newsfeed, when my sister walked into my room: "Hey, can I borrow this? Oh, by the way did you know that Zac Efron doesn't actually sing in High School Musical?"

OMG WHAT?

Of course I didn't believe her, I mean she's my little sister... You can only trust those Directioners so much... So the skeptic in me had to look it up... And, alas, 'twas true.

I might need a couple days to really take in this information. I need to pull out my mourning clothes. Okay, first I need to buy mourning clothes. Guys, I honestly don't even know what to do, or with whom to converse about this tragedy.

This is worse than that time when Josh suddenly wasn't fat anymore. No, Josh, you need to be fat. Drake and Josh is the greatest show in the world. But I digress.

Ugh life.

 PS. I've known the entire opening rap for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air since third grade. At least I still have that.

Bonne Anniversaire à Moi!

Wanna know how great my birthdays are?

So today, I got home from school, and my seven-year-old brother ran up to my sister and wished her a happy birthday. Not only is it not enough that he can't remember what day I was born, it seems that I have the tendency to forget, as well. I think I must have asked like 3 classmates for today's date. But hey, I had a decent number of people wish me a happy eighteenth birthday! Just one year early, guys.

Reclaiming the Use of my Imagination

So I have A LOT of drafts in my blog. I have the tendency to begin posts, and then I don't have time to finish, so they are just forever stranded in the purgatory that is the drafts folder. I was just cleaning out my drafts and decided to publish this one, so here we go! (this is one is pretty old)

Last week was rough, for a variety of reasons. This morning, I was in a pretty bad mood to begin, and at around 8:03 pm today, the only thing I wanted to do was go up to my bedroom, watch videos of Regina Spektor, and eat strawberry yogurt. So that's what I did.
Whenever I watch Regina on YouTube, I feel the need to text my friend about it, so I did. Now, this person is never the type who says very much; the only thing I was expecting in reply was an, "oh, cool!" and that's essentially what I got, but with a follow-up: "I've had the oddest day today!" Naturally, I inquired what made this day so odd, thinking it would be something weird like chickens crossing the road or a baby panda working the ice cream counter or something. But no, it was a combination of every day, normal things that just seemed to make this person extremely happy, which in turn made me really happy, too! Suddenly, I was no longer in this horrible mood! It was even better than a snow day! So, here's a list of weird things that for some reason make me happy.

1) People mowing their lawns. Have you ever noticed how happy people are when they do this?
2) Pictures of bears. I love bears. And anyone that has anything to do with bears. I'm actually going to name my son Baruch so that his nickname can be Bear.

3) Old people. They're so full of stories! And so wise. Life is probably great once you hit sixty... years of age, not miles per hour...

4) People who do nice things. It doesn't even have to be directly related to me! I love seeing people being nice. Like when people hold the door open for others, or when someone drops their things and everyone picks them up. Or even those people that tell everyone to have a nice day!

I think people should just be nice all the time. Nice people are... nice!

"Smile, darn ya, smile!"

Malcontent Through Osmosis

I am now entering my final hours before I begin my senior year. Gosh, I sure am terrified. I still have two books left, a chapter of gov, and all of my AP French work...
Not to mention that it's an absolutely gorgeous day, but I can't enjoy anything under this stress.
The Pros and Cons of Tomorrow:
Pro: I get to see people I haven't seen in forever!
Con: I have to see people I haven't seen in forever
Pro: My modcloth package should be here when I get home tomorrow
Con: I have marching band when I get home tomorrow
Pro: We have stadium lights
Con: We still have marching band tomorrow
Pro: it's almost my 17th birthday
Con: it's on a Monday
Pro: we're seniors and spirit week is in september!
Con: SATs are coming up
Pro: no. there are no pros for standardized testing. con con con con con

HI

HEY SO IM TRYING TO START THIS NEW TREND WHERE EVERYONE HAS TO TYPE IN CAPS LOCK CONSTANTLY. THIS PERIOD IN TIME WILL BE CALLED "THE ERA OF SHOUTING." ALL MUSIC, ART, LITERATURE, ETC WRITTEN DURING THIS TIME WILL BE CATEGORIZED UNDER THIS NAME. IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT MAKES SENSE. CAPITAL LETTERS MAKE EVERYTHING SEEM MUCH MORE URGENT, AND WE SORT OF LIVE IN A PERIOD OF URGENCY. I THINK. I DON'T KNOW.

SORRY IF THIS LOOKS LOUD.

Things True Friends Do

You know how mothers always say that their biggest accomplishment is having a baby? Well I sorta feel that way, but with my friends. I like to consider myself a pretty sociable person, which leads me to have a wide variety of friends, and for them, I am forever grateful.
Someone told me it was National Best Friends Day today. While I don't think this is true, it's no excuse not to tell our friends how much we appreciate them. So what do true friends do?
In case you haven't noticed, lists are my preferred method of blogging. Woooo go me.

*clears throat*

1) Write terrible haikus, joke about submitting them to your school's literary magazine, but secretly really want to do it.
"Defenestration

The victims are as follows

Russian journalists"

2) Look people up on white pages and then go to their houses. I have to say that I'm guilty of this with a couple friends. It's not that we're that creepy, there's really only so much you can do at this age.

3) Nickname everyone you've ever seen. We have a name for everyone. Yes, even you.

4) Be there through tears. Are you a teenage girl? You will suffer through that moment in your life where all you can do is cry. This is where your friends come in.

5) Buy your other friend a goldfish for her birthday, name it after a senior boy, keep it in your locker, and then watch it die three days later. Needless to say, I'm not friends with this person anymore.

RIP Pooh Bear. Xoxo.

Other honorable mentions

6) Plan out your future. For example, I'm going to live in Chadds Ford, send my kids (Brynley and Penn) on missions trips, make Brynley take dance lessons, but never let her find out about lacrosse.

7) Pretend our lives are so much more fabulous than they really are. I'm best friends with Serena van der Woodsen. She's our school's "it" girl, but it's awkward for her because she has no one to sit with at lunch.

8) Fawn over videos of cute animals. A baby bear stuck in cabbage at the grocery store? Who needs math homework?

9) Have a correspondence with someone staying in the same hotel as you. Yup, we left notes for some people down the hall. And they wrote back.

10) Eat ice cream.

-----xoxo,

                D.

Hello, Summer.

Oh! So now I remember why I don't like summer! This calls for a list:
1) Mosquito bites. Dude, it's my blood; get your own. If you want blood so badly, next time think twice about being a mosquito.
2) The heat. Hooray for northeastern and mid-Atlantic summers. Not only is it not enough to be 90+ degrees all the time, the weather gods just NEED to torture us with extreme humidity. Oh, and it doesn't help to live in an area so fertile that there are plants everywhere. Dumb plants, stop torturing us with your humidity.
3) The sun. Seriously, you walk outside for like 5 minutes and risk getting skin cancer.
4) Lack of tv choices. New shows and new seasons don't start until fall. Need I say more?
5) Summer work. Summer was more enjoyable back in middle school when the most you had to do was read three books. Personally, I enjoy the social aspect of school. Summer is school without the social aspect. And bugs and heat and sun and lack of tv choices.