Netflix.

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40 days of beauty, boring, positive

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My positive of the day?

Spending most of my day on Netflix watching TV shows that are no longer airing.

I should’ve been doing my homework, but I ignored it for the most part.

That was about all I did today.

I have to go back to school tomorrow.

Not entirely looking forward to it, but. Oh well.

Not an exciting day.

Accepting change.

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40 days of beauty, change, expectations, family, movie

This isn’t necessarily a good example of “beauty,” but we’ll label it as such anyway.

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I think that I need to stop watching movies that are based on books that I love. I’m always disappointed.

First Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and now Hunger Games.

I won’t go into too much detail here because

1) I’ll just make myself even more ticked off

and 2) SPOILERS.

Overall, as a movie, separate from its book, it was okay.

As a book adaptation?

It reminded me of Voyage of the Dawn Treader in the ways it disappointed me.

Parts of it I enjoyed, but other parts were changed too much for my personal liking.

I dunno.

If I hadn’t read and enjoyed the books, obviously my expectations wouldn’t be so high.

It didn’t help that the line was really long since it’s the first weekend…

I think it depends on the person and your expectations, but it was a good night to share with my dad, at least.

We went out for dinner as a family, and then my dad and I went to the movie, and it was a good night.

Now I’m watching TV via Netflix and trying to wind down for the day. 🙂

Positives

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I’ve totally forgotten to update lately, haven’t I?

Oops!

All right, here’s the happy/beautiful stuff that’s happened so far this week, I guess!

Monday: Pretty boring, until I got to go to the pastor’s house with two best friends and have fun. We helped make dinner (which he appreciated because usually it’s just him cooking for a bunch of people on Sundays), and we also made Rice Krispie bars, which turned out awesome. We watched Captain America, and then we played Mario Party on the Wii (I lost the first time and did better the second), and then we watched Mega Mind, and then we went home.

It was so awesome.

I miss nights like those.

Tuesday: What did I do Tuesday? I went to the dentist, and then I got my hair cut (much shorter!! I can barely get it into a ponytail!), and that was about it. Oh, I went to the doctor that night because I’ve been having ear issues, but it’s nothing major.

Oh, AND Dad ordered us tickets for The Hunger Games! We’re going tomorrow night. 😀

Wednesday: I watched movies. That was about it. I went back to the dentist for a quick fix (the wire that serves as my permanent retainer came loose on Tuesday, so they fixed it Wednesday). And then I really didn’t do anything.

Today: Again, pretty much nothing. My sister and I did a little bit of shopping this morning (all I bought was some food, haha, although I looked at summer clothes), and I’ve been watching TV shows online the rest of the day.

All in all, it’s been a really good week.

I really need to do homework, though.

Hopefully I can get myself to finish a few things tonight and tomorrow before the movie…

That’s my week so far. What about yours?

Makeup??

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So, today’s “beauty” thing is kind of a negative tied in with a positive, in a way.

I got to go to my home church for the first time since Christmas break today, and it was great!

Several hugs, lots of good songs, good sermon…

And after church, three of us went to lunch and went to one person’s house for the afternoon with the intention of seeing their new cat (who is still very scared and hid under the bed all day) and watching a movie.

We ended up getting dragged into a Mary Kay makeup party.

And if you’ve been around here a while, you’ll know that I am not a fan of makeup.

Today’s makeup stuff wasn’t terrible, but I still wasn’t a fan.

I guess for having never put makeup on myself before (that I can remember), I didn’t do all that badly at it.

But I’m not going to start wearing makeup on a regular basis, or even really for “special occasions.” I just don’t see the point.

And when I took it off a couple of hours ago, the makeup removing cloth thingy looked disgusting.

When we were pretty much done with the “party,” the gal selling the stuff asked me something like, “So, being girly isn’t that bad once in a while, is it?”

 

Yes, actually.

Still stinks.

Too much effort, not to mention money.

So… that was kind of a thing that happened today.

It was interesting.

Fun stuff!

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So, today was good.

I slept in, for one thing.

This afternoon, I got a little bit of homework done.

This evening, a little while after dinner I (for which all four of us were here, which rarely happens), my mom and sister and I decided to go to the store and buy a new game, because we were bored and we wanted to play a game.

We got Apples to Apples, which we (all four of us for once!) played for about half an hour before I went to meet a friend.

My friend actually got to our meeting spot before I did, which almost never happens!

We talked for three hours.

It was awesome.

And the place we were at had live music outside tonight, so we could hear that from inside and it was great.

We had really good conversation, and we’re hoping to get together again at least once before I go back to school.

Today was a good day. 🙂

Now I need to go to sleep because I have church in less than 12 hours and then I’ll probably hang out with friends after church. 😀

Flawless: Being Me

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40 days of beauty, Flawless Friday, Francesca Battistelli, free, free to be me, home, me, positive

I almost forgot to blog today!

It’s 10pm and I forgot until I crawled into bed that I should blog today.

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Positive/beautiful thing of the day?

HOME.

We left a little later than I’d originally thought we would, but it worked out just fine.

I was still home earlier than my last few trips.

Early enough to be able to eat dinner with my parents and still have time to hang out before I got tired enough to crawl into bed.

And then start blogging, haha.

But oh well.

The ride home was faster than others have seemed, maybe just because it was earlier in the day?

I don’t know, but it seemed to go by faster.

Which was nice.

We had some funny conversations, which was great!

And since it’s Friday (still, technically, here), I thought I’d share a “Flawless” idea.

Flawless Friday!

The other morning on my ride to class, the shuttle was playing this:

I’m free to be me and You’re free to be You.

^That part got me thinking:

Free to be me?

What exactly does that mean?

Who am I?

Shouldn’t I be the me that God wants me to be?

How do I do that?

It was really kind of confusing.

Have you ever thought about that?

I get to go home tomorrow!

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40 days of beauty, happy, home, positive, school, yay

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That’s my positive of the day: after stupid early class, I get to go home.

Of course I’ll have nearly five hours between class and leaving, but that’s no problem.

Er, wait.

It will be a problem.

Kind of.

I’ll be really anxious to go home and probably time will go really slowly…

But I’ll use at least a little bit of that time to finish cleaning and packing, so it should be okay.

And maybe do some homework…

It’ll all work.

I’m super-excited.

Classes today were fine.

We actually got out early from two of them! 😀

Now I just have Spanish, and we might not even have class.

Roommate and I are going to go, but I doubt we’ll have enough people there for the prof to justify teaching.

But who knows.

I’m telling myself it’s better to be safe than sorry.

I think we’re going to watch a movie for the rest of the night (and into the morning…).

I’m just really excited to get to go home—and to be home earlier than usual!

The last several times I’ve gone home, I’ve had to wait for people to come get me after work, and it’s been around 8 or later before I get home.

Tomorrow we’re leaving here by 2, so hopefully I’ll be home by about 4? Depending on traffic.

I might get home before my dad does! 🙂

So that’s my exciting thing of the day.

What about you? Big plans for the weekend or anything?

Just positive.

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40 days

In trying to find the positives for 40 days (Lent) and in life in general, I’ve realized that I need to make the choice every day to focus on positives.

I really realized it this morning.

I went to my Comm class, during which we mainly just talked in our groups, which was pretty fun.

On my walk back here, I decided that being positive is an active thing, not passive.

And right around the time I made that decision/realization, I walked past a woman pushing a stroller—there’s a children’s daycare area near my part of campus. She said “hi” and the kids waved at me and it was cool.

And it was positive.

Even though I have a bunch of things I could be worried about right now, I’m trying to stay positive and not worry.

My roommate and I are doing a project for Spanish tonight (whenever she gets back, and it’s already close to 10!), so we’ll present that in the morning.

Then after Spanish I have two meetings back-to-back for which I have to print a few things.

Then I’ll have a bit of a break (I may even go to chapel! I’ve been slacking there this semester…) and then my afternoon class, during which we will find out for sure whether or not we’ll have class Friday. I’m guessing we’ll get everything done tomorrow.

And somewhere in between and after all of that, we’re cleaning the room so that we’re pretty much ready to leave on Friday.

And then during my break, I have some things I have to do (including some homework).

And I could be worrying about all of that, but I’m trying not to.

It will all get taken care of.

And most of my Break should be pretty enjoyable.

But yeah, the most important thing I learned today?

Choose to be positive.

My Cultural prof told us a story multiple times of a friend of hers who, every day, would walk outside and say, “It’s a beautiful day” or something like that. And that idea stuck with her young son, who would also declare it a beautiful day, no matter the weather.

It’s all about attitude and perspective.

Shopping adventure.

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40 days

Positive/beautiful/happy thing(s) of the day?

Main one is the title of the post: we went shopping. And it was an adventure.

We have to make food for Spanish class on Wednesday (ridiculous, by the way).

So we’re making our food tomorrow night.

But we decided to buy it all tonight.

At 9pm.

Because I had to work and my roommate had a meeting.

So we went to the store and bought ingredients and it was really interesting and random.

But kinda fun.

And I bought ice cream! 🙂

And now I’m back avoiding homework.

But I’m pretty sure I got my early class’s homework finished last week, so I’m not too worried about it.

Tomorrow is classes.

Wednesday: classes and cleaning.

Thursday: classes.

Friday: Spanish, hopefully no afternoon class because he wants to be done on Wednesday, and then HOME!

I’m excited to go home.

I’m excited to just be done with school in general in May…

More hang out and planning.

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Positive/beautiful/happy things of the day?

Sleeping in. (Until 11! But I did stay up later last night, and we did lose an hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Savings.)

Listening to some of my home church’s services from last month.

Good laughs and conversation at work.

Not having a whole lot of homework for tomorrow–just a little reading.

Kind of figuring out rides for Spring Break.

I get to go home on Friday.

And I might not have my afternoon class on Friday!! 😀

Oh, AND I got to chat with my friend before work. That was awesome. And I might go to church with her and her roommate starting after Spring Break. 🙂