Body & Soul

Reason 103: My Group Process class. I told you it's one big therapy session, right? Today we did Self-Revelatory performances. Basically, tell a story that has impacted your life. I don't go until Tuesday, so we got to watch 3 of the 6 performances today. Obviously, I can't tell you what they were. Confidentiality, understandably. But it truly touched my heart. I'm blessed to be in a class such as this. One story completely related to me. It spoke of a decision, and choosing desire versus what you know is best. It sort of makes me reevaluate my relationship with God, and I'm glad I could take  step back. Another, I had no connection to at all. It was such a strong story, and it weighed heavy in my heart. But it's like I saw a new side of this person. And I got a good few tears out of it, which was very cleansing. I'm glad I took this class. Honestly, truly. Can't wait until Tuesday, I'll do my best to tell our story well.

This song always does a good job of cleansing my attitude. Beautiful lyrics, great melody, and all the love for Jared Leto. 30 Seconds to Mars does good work haha

Part 2 Of My Confessions

Reason 50: So part 4? Yeah, more and more likely. But I have stuff to tell you. Basically, it makes Part 4 a lot better. A lot sweeter. This weekend was wonderful. Part 4 was just the marshmallow fondant on the blue velvet cake :)

  

PS: This song reminds me of running laps in the LMS gym.

These Are My Confessions

AKA Confessions for Someday

Reason 44: A huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Haha is that sad? I dunno. I'm just glad I could tell you everything. I got some of the best sleep I've gotten in a while. And I woke up in a good mood. Thank you for listening, and actually hearing me out. Today is the perfect amount of sunny and breezy. It's like the world knows how great I feel :)

I know I've showed you this or put it on the blog before... If I haven't, I dunno what I'm doing with my life.

Opened Up My Eyes

Reason 23: I'm ready to tell you. Let me know when you're ready to listen :)

PARDON ME while I jam to some Ace of Base ;)

I tried to come up with a video for today. I could've gone the Alicia Keys/Relient K/Kelly Clarkson route. But that was a bit MUCH. So here is some Jem & the Holograms (well, the show is actually called Jem), aka the best cartoon ever. It's from the 80's and it was the first cartoon to include "music videos" as part of the show. It began as a 5 episode series by the toy company Hasbro in order to promote their new line of dolls (which was competing with Barbie dolls at the time. This explains why there's so much pink in the show). It was so popular that it became a full series. OMG it's so good, and so is the music. And it's basically a must see. I have the first 2 seasons and some of season 3 on DVD hehe.

  

^Premise of this episode. Jem & the Holograms and The Misfits are rival bands. Kimber (girl with pink hair) is the keyboardist/lyricist from Jem & the Holograms. Stormer (blue hair) is the composer for The Misfits. Both feel unappreciated and go to some bar to cool off. They end up next to each other, and the crowd asks them to play together.

An Unnecessarily Long Introduction

A close friend of mine sent me a journal. Just a small book of thoughts and inspirations. In this journal, I saw his soul. That may be the cheesiest thing I've ever said, but I really don't know how else to say it. In one part he confessed that he used twitter to rant and ramble, and get his feelings out. But eventually, he decided to vent through "good old-fashioned writing". I decided it was about time I do the same. And I wanted to do the same for him, but I wanted it to be something positive. It's not true that "there's no reason to be sad". There is reason to be sad. But there's so much more reason to be happy. I believe we both needed a reminder of that. So I decided on 365 reasons to smile. It's my way of sharing the personal joys in my life. HOWEVER, I think most journals are about 200 pages (??), and postage is expensive and time consuming. SO I decided to choose this as my medium. I realize it will probably only be him and myself that ever see this, seeing as no one even uses blogger anymore (admittedly I prefer vlogs, but I lack the means to produce my own). That's okay. I just hope I can get through this with as much positivity as possible. I'll try my hardest not to be a preachy "oh-look-she-thinks-she's-deep" teenager. I'm also fairly sure that no other entry will EVER be as long as this one. -sigh- Here goes another way to use up my time.

Reason 1: Today, I am starting a new project. And with it, I start a new adventure :)