Day 29

Sorry I haven't been writing. It's not like I have a ton of readers anyway. I haven't had a bunch of time lately. I spend a lot of time at work now, but not working as much as I'd like. It's a slow build to get a steady clientele. I'm really hoping it'll pick up more and more.

 Anyways though, here's question 29:

Do you believe the end of the world will come to pass during your lifetime?

Honestly, it is very possible. I don't think it'll happen soon, but it definitely could happen later in my life. The signs are there, and things are slowly getting worse. God promised He would return, so I guess I just have to be ready when that time comes, if it does come in my life time.

Day 28

Sorry it's been so long since I've written. My computer was out of service, but now I have a new one. :) Yays!!! Here's a quick blog for you to read. :)


Describe a time in your life when you were lost (figuratively or not)


I don't think I've ever been physically lost. I've always have the ability to call my father and get directions if I couldn't find my way around an area. I guess I can say I've been lost in other way though. Lost in what I should do in my life, lost in the sense that I was not a Christian, lost in math anything. I am still lost in math, but everything else has fallen in to place since I gave my life to the Lord five years ago. I'm not saying things have been perfect, because they haven't, but I've had a guide in my life, that never lets me go. :)

Day 27

Name something you’ve always wanted that you will never ever have.

Superman. He's a person however, not a thing, but I am completely serious. I love Superman. I even have the tattoo to prove it. I actually wrote a note on Facebook a couple years back about how much I loved Superman and why, and I printed it out and gave it to my parents to convince them that it was a good idea for me to get the tattoo. Here it is:

"Over the years I am sure many of you have wondered why Superman is so important to me. What is the big deal about Superman? Well.... I'll tell you. Ever since I was a little girl I have known about Superman. I used to watch the Adventures of Lois and Clark and that is when my love began. Superman embodies all that is good. He embodies near perfection. And that is what I want in a guy. A guy who is perfect to me. Superman is also a reminder to me not to settle for anything less than what Ive wanted all my life. That is why I am always like "I love Superman soooo much". When I do call someone superman It means that I am truly deeply in love, and that is a scary feeling. I have only called one guy Superman.... ever. And he was far from perfect, but I was so in love that I found him perfect. Over the years I slowly became more aware that he was more like Bizarro than Superman (excuse the comic book lingo). And so my search for my Superman continues. I may already know the guy, I may not have even met him yet, but I know God has my Superman prepared for me, and I certainly can not wait to know who it is. In the meantime though I plan on working on my relationship with God so that I can be ready to truly be Lois Lane.

Im a geek, I know, but this is something important in my life that I want people to understand. When I say I want a Superman tattoo I say that because I want a permanent reminder to NEVER settle for anything less than the man I can truly call my Superman."

Yeah. I'm pretty dorky. :)

Drawing by Michael Turner (may he rest in peace)

Day 26

I have been so bad about writing lately, but it's hard with my computer the way it is. I really need to get it taken care of. Anyway, here we go:

Have you ever wanted to trade places with someone else for a day, week, or a lifetime?  If so, who was it and why?

I've always thought it would be interesting to trade places with a celebrity, or someone else who we think would "have it easy" because of their wealth. It's be interesting to see how their life is, and if it really is as simple as we think it is. I wouldn't want that for life though, that life style doesn't appeal to me. I would be happier just being able to afford what I need then I would be with more money than I knew what to do with. It seems like the more money people get, the bigger their problems seem to become. It's like, with me, how did I afford thing when I had a job that I worked at just on the weekends making only minimum wage? And now, when I have a better job, it seems like I can't afford anything at all. Granted, now I'm paying off student loans, but before I was paying for school, so it seems that things should be better. Maybe that's just me though.

Day 25 (a day late)

If you could start your life over from birth, what is the one thing you would change about yourself?

Really, there's not much about myself I would change. All of my experiences have created my personality, and I wouldn't change who I am now. I have a great family, so I wouldn't change any of that. If I were to change anything, I would be a natural red head. I should have been a ginger. Red hair runs in my family. I have the skin tone for it, and my hair has tons of red highlights, but it's not completely red. It should be! Some people may wonder why anyone would WANT to be a ginger, but I really love red hair. And, it looks natural on me :) .

See? Totally natural :)

Day 24

I don't like the topic for day 24, so instead I'm going to give you an update on my life! I started an even newer job this week and had a great first day, but things have slowed to a stop ever since. I really need to build a clientele at the spa I'm now working at. I have a small core clientele, but they're outside of the spa, and that's an issue. So my new project is building clientele at work. Yay! Until that happens though, it kinda sucks because I'm not busy, and I'm not making money. Boo!

Speaking of money, I have to spend some soon because I have having some major computer issues. My charger input (jack, whatever you want to call it) on my laptop is broken, and it has become increasingly more difficult to get my laptop to charge, and that is really bad. My laptop basically holds my life: photography and music. So my two options are to either spend a couple hundred to get the issue fixed, or buy a new computer. It wasn't an expensive machine in the first place, and I have a few other issues with it, so I think I will go with the second option. So, I have been computer browsing the last few days. I got it pretty narrowed down, now it's just a matter of affording it.

Sometimes it really sucks to be an adult. With more age comes more responsibility. Bleh. I'm only 20, couldn't responsibility have waited a few more years? I need to marry someone rich....

Day 23

What Lo-Fi or non-electronic / old-school things from the past do you still enjoy?

I love to read. It happens to be one of my favorite pastimes. I will forever be loyal to paper versions of books. There is something about the smell and feel of a book in your hand, especially old books. I don't know if I would ever be happy reading off a Kindle or something of the sort, it's just not the same. Yes, those things are very convenient, but I love owning hard copies of books. Books are something I collect too. I hate letting people borrow books because I'm insanely careful about keeping books in excellent condition. I have two copies of almost every Harry Potter book for that very reason, I read them so much that I don't want my special copies to get too much wear and tear. I'm a little bit crazy, shh.
I have been reading since I was about five years old, and I mean real reading. I was already reading easy books before then. My reading level has always been higher than average. In elementary school I was reading five levels above everyone else (a perk of being home-schooled in my early years). I have conquered books in a single day that most people would take weeks to read (Pride and Prejudice, for example). I truly adore literature. I do, however, get burned out sometimes and will go months, or sometimes over a year, without picking up a novel. It is more likely to happen after just finishing another re-read of the HP series, because after those books, it's hard to find much else immediately appealing.

Can you tell I love me some HP???

BOOOOOOK

Day 22

What was the most intimate or personal question you have ever asked someone, or have been asked of you?

Well, due the nature of it having been a deeply personal question, I actually don't even want to share it, lol. Especially since I have no idea who reads this, and I'm just not that open with people I don't know, and most people I do know. It is something to think about though. 

Day 21

Is there anything you, ‘just know’ and have no explainable or rational way to explain how you know it?

This is honestly a very tough question for me to answer. I have very good reasons behind everything I believe. Many people might say that my faith in God is irrational, but it is most definitely explainable, so that can't count as the answer to this question. However, I guess there is something I could use as the answer: I have a weird way of predicting how a situation will play out. I don't know how, but so often things will happen that I knew were going to, and they happen very similar to how I thought they would. It's not really a gift of foresight, but more of just intuition. I'm wrong fairly often too, so don't think that I'm trying to say that I can predict the future! I just get feelings about things, and it's a bit crazy, but they really will play out.

Day 20

What things do you enjoy most in your life?

I enjoy a good many things in life. It should be more of a question of what DON'T I enjoy, but it's not. I suppose for the sake of my "project" I will answer the question :).

Honestly, I would have to say music is the thing I enjoy most of all. I love singing and being involved in music groups. Nothing brings me more joy than singing an intensely beautiful song, especially if I'm singing it to God. Even just listening to music is an intense experience for me. Certain music makes me incredibly emotional, while other music makes me happy or calms me down. Some music even makes me cry form how beautiful it is (Eample of my cry music). I would have to say music is something I could never be without. I would rather lose my eyesight than my hearing any day.

I have been involved in music since as long as I could be. I started learning piano at five, and have been singing... I don't even know how long. FOREVER. I currently play the cello, and piano if I have to (I don't enjoy playing piano), and I am also involved in an adult choir and small women's choir.

I LOVE MUSIC!

Me as a baby!

Orchestra in high school (next to my bff!)

 

Video of me and my bff singing for an ITS charity performance, but my mic isn't working :(

Day 19

Who in your life has been the best positive influence on your life?

I talk about my sister a lot, and it's for a good reason. She has really been a huge influence on me. Yes, my parents raised me, and they are fantastic parents whom I love dearly, but sometimes it takes someone other than a parent to influence you in a way that doesn't seem as parent like. My entire family has been a positive influence on me; I have the best family anyone could ever ask for. They are supportive, loving, understanding: everything a family should be. My sister, however, has been the person I could go to when I felt I couldn't confront my parents. She has understood my struggles better than I think many people could have, because even though we are different, we are also very similar. A five year age difference hasn't impeded our relationship, on the contrary, I think it made it stronger (later on anyway). Five years is a good amount of space: I could still look up to her, but be her friend at the same time.

At our Japanese sister's wedding

Day 18

How would you classify your ideal living or working situation?


If travel is not in my future, I would like to move out of state, preferably to Chicago. I have loved Chicago for a long time and have always wanted to live in a city. Probably not forever, but for a few years at least. A small apartment or flat would suit me perfectly. I would like to live in a good area, and not too far away from wherever I would be working (a fancy spa, of course :) ). After that I'll move to a smaller town after marring a wonderful guy and we'll live happily ever after with out 2.5 kids, 2 cats, and a dog. :)


None of that is probably ever going to happen. Maybe the marriage thing. We'll see I suppose. I'm certainly no where remotely close to that happening soon though. 

Day 17

What is the worst event in history to have ever taken place, in your opinion?  Could something like this possibly happen again?

I've never been much of a history buff, unless it's ancient history, so I don't have many things from what I have learned to choose from. However, I think it is pretty widely accepted that the Holocaust was the most awful treatment of human beings... ever. And I fully agree with that. That this is the worst event to have ever taken place in history, may be up for debate, but it's a pretty hard thing to argue against. The selection and attempted extermination of a people group is never okay. It's still going on to a certain extent in some countries. There are many places where they kill people for any religious belief other than one approved by the government. There may not be massive holding (well, killing) grounds for people like there were during the Holocaust, but people are being put to death every day around the world for being different. A mass extermination attempt could definitely be in the world's future. It's a bit scary to think about.

Day 16

Do you have a daily or weekly routine that you follow?

I am a very routine oriented person. I like plans. I like knowing what I'm going to do and when I'm going to do it. Nothing bothers me more than when people make plans and then change them suddenly; it throws off my whole day. My days are all pretty similar, as are me weeks. In general people are "people of habit", but I feel I this pretty clearly defines me. I'm terrible at accepting change, and have bad anxiety when things do change, unless it was something I had planned to change. This is not a good thing, and I realize it. I truly need to be more flexible. That's part of the reason I got let go from my last job: I didn't like all the changes they kept making to my job description, and I made my opinion known. Actually, I'm pretty sure that was the entire reason, other than that I found out a few weeks later that the office manager was pushing for her friend to get my job. Suspicious?.... yes. ANYWAY, the moral to this story is that I really need to be a more flexible person, and accept more things that come my way. :) 

I live by these

Day 15

What is your favorite chess piece?

I don't really play chess at all. I'm terrible at it. I used to play it on the computer when I was little because we had this chess game (Battle Chess) where the pieces would come to "life" and fight one another (kind of like "Wizard's Chess"). It was pretty cool. My favorite piece then was always the queen. The queen can do whatever she wants, basically. In the game when you used the queen to fight another piece she electrocuted them, I think. She was like the Emperor! Who wouldn't like her and her sweet lightning powers? For all their faults, the Sith use the force in pretty sweet ways. That is off topic. How cool would it be if they made a Star Wars version of Battle Chess? Ohhh, that would be so legit.

Screen shot of Battle Chess

Day 14

How long have you been able to live off the grid?  No e-mail, Internet, electricity, running water, etc.

Honestly.... I have never do that. I'm not much of an outdoorsy person, so I don't go on hikes or things like that, and when I go camping I still have my cell and most of the comforts of home. While I was in Scotland I didn't use my computer much, and couldn't use my cell phone, so the most I've been without either of those was just a few days. I am very much attached to my electronics and home comforts. It would be nice to get away from them sometimes, but I never have much of a reason to.

Day 13- Lucky Number

What is your lucky number, and why is it so lucky?

I don't really take lucky numbers seriously, or luck/bad luck for that matter. I'm not a superstitious person at all. I will walk under ladders, hug black cats that happen to cross my path, and have opened many an umbrella in the house. I chose 13 as my "lucky number" back in elementary school since it was supposed to be unlucky. I actually get placed with the number 13 often though, it's kinda funny. I've ended it up with that jersey number, music folder number, all sorts of random things. It always makes me smile. The number 13 has never brought me anything bad. It hasn't brought me anything especially good either. It's just a number. I also like the numbers 7 and 9. I like them for awfully silly reasons though; they are associated with two separate, yet fantastic, works of literary genius. Any guesses as to which ones? ;)

Day 12- Wanderlust

What is your biggest ambition in life?

I have mention a few times that I love to travel, and that I want to visit as many countries as possible. This is my biggest ambition as well as one of my interests. Some people want to change the world, some people want to save a life; I want to see the world. There is a reason I call my blog "Wanderlust": it's my favorite word, and one of my strongest emotions. As I've mentioned before though, I don't want to just go on vacations, I want to stay for extended periods of time. A few months at least (that's as long as you can stay without a visa). I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford to do this, but I certainly hope I can.

In the Dominican Republic

Japan!

Scotland