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Saturday, 07 November 2009

  • Busy people...

    I am one of those!!! Yes, I confess that I am one of those freakin busy people [and btw freakin is NOT a bad word whoever said that earlier]. 

    So we got the talk, no not the birds and the bees, the talk that we spend too much time chatting on the computer.  So I've adjusted and I've spent barely anytime.  I kind of like it.  I've got ninety messages in my inbox and I feel a little more free cos I'm not tied to computer and I've taken a hard look at my life.  Like, I have so much life ahead of me, so why do I waste so much of it on the internet with idle chat? Talking on the phone? Watching TV? Like, that is just WASTE!!! I mean COME ON!! WAKE UP!!! I could be sewing, playing the piano, doing school!! Playing with my siblings!! Out with my friends instead of just chatting!!! I mean reading is also a downfall cos I usually don't read anything worth remembering...

    So my goals are to spend less time on the internet - done

    Do productive things while not on the internet

    Make a living with music NOW to continue on through college

    Yeah...'Whoa whoa here I go, it's like I'm living for the first time.  Whoa whoa here I go, and I'm thinking it's the first time I felt alive'  To quote my favorite band Relient K.

    Life is too short to waste

    Currently: The Bird And The Bee Sides
    - Here I Go [Demo]

Thursday, 05 November 2009

  • Elopement vs. Marriage...

    Common stereotypes [or at least the ones in my head]

    Eloping: scandalous, thrilling, shameful

    Marriage [my definition in this post is the typical church wedding] : proper, right, the way to go

    Disclaimer: Now before ANYBODY gets ANY wrong ideas, I am not planning to get married to anyone anytime soon.  This is just stuff I've been thinking about. 

    My mom and I were talking about it yesterday and she was saying that she wants me to elope.  Like her mom did it, and she wanted to do it but they wouldnt let her, and she said I could and should.  So that got me thinking about marriage.  Is the whole getting married thing really that cool? Does it make a difference if you do it in a church or in front of a judge? I think not. So I will elope whenever I decide to get married and just run off and be scandalous!!

    Currently: Forget and Not Slow Down
    - Forget and Not Slow Down

Saturday, 31 October 2009

  • Secrets

    It's tearing me from the inside
    Shred by shred
    Words are coming out
    Threatening to spill
     
    my secret
     
    Its inside here
    Not for you to see
    I keep it locked up
    Only I have the key for
     
    my secret
     
    How do I tell someone
    Wont they all hate me
    Its not worth it
    Too many risks to take
     
    my secret
     
    One day someone will listen
    or not
     
    my secret
     
    Currently: Portable Sounds
    - I'm For You

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

  • City On Our Knees...

    TobyMac has a new song called 'City On Our Knees'.  I think it is just plain beautiful!!! Thank you toby for that piece of work!! Listen to it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFL2NDxF-CA ...

    Basically what I am getting out of the song is that he is making a city that EVERYBODY gets along.  I hate conflict really.  I dont understand why some people selfishly fight and argue over stuff.  I know thats the number one reason why relationships fail...

    ...Now the thing I am trying to figure out is where do you draw the line between holding a grudge and simply not hanging out with people who have hurt you in the past [avoiding being hurt again]?  I've got a situation that I'm thinking I need to rebefriend the peoples who were rude and mean. Its okay right now, but I know it will happen again.  Except I'm being slammed as one who is holding on to a grudge...

    ...which I'm not...

    I'm just confused, confizzled and con everything else

    Currently: Alive and Transported (CD/DVD)
    - City On Our Knees

Monday, 26 October 2009

  • I'm in a Midlife Crisis...

    Okay, just kidding, I'll cut the drama............

    ....but seriously, I am quitting my job.  Yeah, I can hardly believe it myself, I've been working there for a year and its my first job EVER and I guess I just imagined for the rest of my life I'd work there.  I'm also quitting my volunteer job at the hospital too that I've worked for three and a half years.  The reason I'm doing this is that if I'm every going to complete my dream of majoring in music in college, I've got to get serious especially before the music school auditions!! So I will have extra super more free time and I've got to use it wisely...and tell everbody that i'm quitting........

    ...But I'm ready for it.  I'm exhausted from running AROuNd and doing everything, and im not getting the piano practice done, thats for sure.  I knew I'd have to at some point and I've decided my last day will be on the 12th.  After my parents get home from vacation cos we dont need new crazy schedules.

    WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?

    Currently: The Bird And The Bee Sides
    - I Just Want You To Know

Sunday, 25 October 2009

  • Weekends can be a b*tch...

    Especially this weekend.  If we packed anything else into this weekend, I. Was. Ready. To. SCREAM!!!

    Yes, this post is about me being a whiner baby...no laughing at the whineyness so i'm warning you right now.  if you are allergic shutdown your computer this instant to ride your computer of it...

    Lets see.....

    1. funeral [sat morning]

    2. 4-H contest [sat morning]

    3. concession stand fundraiser [sat and sun all day]

    4. halloween party [sat evening]

    5. another halloween party [sat evening]

    6. theory test [sun afternoon]

    Try packing that into two days...then stupid me didnt go to sleep til midnight everynight and i had to get up at six...I was gone all day thurs, fri, sat and sun [today, actually i got home an hour ago]...

    ...so i'm exhausted and im going to bed and not waking up until tomorrow...

    I might wake up tho to call a friend or two....that always cheers me up...

    EDIT: Wow...yeah so i pledged to go to bed but i didnt...a little yoga, chocolate and a warm bath woke me up enough to practice the piano and watch a movie...I will go to bed soon-ish tho cos i do have to get up at six tomorrow!!  I talked to one friend and his coworker is calling him gay because he knits...Thoughts?

    Currently: Five Score and Seven Years Ago
    - Bite My Tongue

Saturday, 24 October 2009

Monday, 19 October 2009

  • My other other Grandmother...

    My grandmother is doing fine, she is on vacation, my other grandmother is fine, she is just taking care of my grandfather because he just had surgery and my other other great grandmother is dying.  She died two days ago.  I'm kind of glad she died because she's had a long long life and I think dying would be best for her.  She didn't get around much because she was old............

    She was 92 I believe, or she was last time I checked.  I want to live to be that old, I want to live to be older than that!!  I want a looooong life and I want my funeral packed to the gills...

    ...But don't we all?...

    Currently: This Is an Outrage!
    - Mile Away

Friday, 16 October 2009

  • Vacation!!! but not for me tho...

    My mom is on vacation.  that means PAR-TAY!!! Okay not exactly but its the perfect time to fill up my social calendar.  Yeah, thats right our dad is easier to get to do things.  He's gellin' like that.  I've been running AROuNd like a chicken with its head cut off since Thursday and i will continue to do so until Sunday............

    ............I'm tired from just thinking about it!!  But really starting thursday I went to work, got my permit, went to school, had a 4-H meeting, and then hung out with aron.  That was amazing even though we had a little encounter with the police. 

    Today I worked then spent the whole day at jessica's house to practice signing amazing grace for the talent show.  Then we had the talent show.  I'm exhausted.

    Tomorrow will be work and then a whole day out at a pirate day festival.  Kind of a renissance fair but pirates edition........

    ...............I can't wait for sleeping tonight because i NEEEED it

    Currently: THE E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)
    - I Gotta Feeling

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Currently: Viva La Vida
- 42

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

  • I would just DIE without...

    Without what? Everybody has something they claim they would die without.  But is that really true? if you really didn't have your ______ for a week would you die? Would you die without facebook? music? family? TV? texting?

    WHAT IS THE THING YOU FEEL THAT YOU WOULD JUST die IF YOU DIDNT HAVE? WOULD YOU REALLY DIE?

    Currently: Portable Sounds
    - I'm For You

Thursday, 08 October 2009

  • Princess Entry Round 2

    To me a princess isn't the lady who wears the fancy dresses and is the fairest in all the land and always gets the prince.  There is a reason they are called fairy tales.  A princess is the girl who truly cares.  Not the one who is as shallow as the makeup she wears.  She wouldn't be afraid to go out in public as herself, makeupless, in regular clothes and unprincesslike.  She would never be above wearing handmedowns and she would recognize that the world does NOT revolve AROuNd her.  She would be somebody that the media would respect and slandering her would not be her favorite hobby.  Prinesses don't need somebody to tell them what to wear and how to look like.  She knows that she is beautiful and she doesn't have to wear a size zero to prove that. She doesn't need to bare all to prove she has confidence.  Her confidence is inside and often nobody realizes quite how special she is.  Only the people who really get to know her, only the people to stop and take the time to recognize her for the princess she truly is.  She isn't her dress size, her boob size, her mental capacity...it is the inside.  it is how big of a bee she has on her watch.  Is it all about her or the world AROuNd her?
     
    A princess for the Xanga community I don't think could have too much of a public role other than the title.  I would imagine that princess duties may include assisting the Queen with whatever she is doing and I would hope that she would keep the title of Princess pure and not get involved with Xanga scandel and drama.  I could see her encouraging newbies who get ragged on by nasty comments, and giving mini hugs to the people that really have had one of the FML days. 
     
    The one stereotype is that a princess is recognizable by her ability to feel peas through matteresses.  We all know the only reason she could do that is because she was a size -28 and therefore there is no fat whatsoever to cushion such lumps.  Princesses aren't size zero or negative 28.  They are real women.  Being a real women doesn't mean that she has curves because some don't.  It just means that being a size zero isn't her goal in life. 
     
    Currently: Collide
    - Collide

  • ...the Time Traveler's Wife...

    Imagine being married to a person that fades in and out of your life.  One second their there and in the next instant they've disappeared to who knows where.  Minutes, hours, or even days later they reappear naked.  This describes the life of Claire, the protagonist in the story 'The Time Traveler's Wife'...

    ...The book opens with young Claire at the age of 6 getting a visit from her future husband Henry at the age or 45.  This happens continually throughout her childhood until she is 20, she meets him in real time at 28 and he doesnt recognize her so that part is him getting to know her, and their whole love story through life...

    ...Comparing the movie to the book, the movie does a great job of portaying the book.  If you are into long boring confusing books then read the book first.  Otherwise watch the movie to get a handle on the story and THEN read the book and it'll make a whole lot more sense...

    ...I loved this story because it is a beautiful love story between Claire and Henry.  I think it kind of brings hope to those people who believe in happily ever after and true love.  Or at least that's kind of what I got out of it, besides the great storyline.

    HAVE YOU SEEN OR READ THIS STORY?

    Currently: The Bird And The Bee Sides
    - Here I Go

Sunday, 04 October 2009

  • Thriftiness and the Economic Downturn

    Actually this economic downturn hasn't effected me that much.  I have always been really tight with my money just because that is just me being me.  So really for me seeing all these new new ways to survive in the economy is just people now seeing things the way I do and I get lots of new ideas. 
     
    Personally it doesn't matter to me which theater we go to as long as we go to the cheaper one.  Quality has no factor in it.  If I can get ice cream on Mondays for 1.00 then I will do so instead of on Wednesday for 1.25 no matter how hungry I am for ice cream.  Do I really need that smoothie? will I really enjoy it? no, so I don't buy it.  Simple. 
     
    I buy things that I will enjoy or I spend it on other people which I do enjoy.  It is really ironic that way.  It makes me happier and I feel good spending on other people.
     
    Currently: Alien Youth
    - One Real Thing

  • Not Of This World...

    That's a phrase that a lot of Christians throw AROuNd.  It comes from the verse in John 15:19 that says 'If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you'.  Then in 2 Corinthians 6:14 it says 'Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?'...

    ...That has always confused me because I didn't understand how you could not be yoked with other non-believers but yet still expect to reach them with the gospel.  To me, the world isn't about winning souls.  It is about making a postive impact on people through compassion, understanding, loving and truly caring about people using the principles found in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.  Then later if God comes up then yay!! So how are you expected to reach people if you aren't supposed to be unequally yoked with them?  Today I found another verse that answered all my questions...

    ...1 Corinthians 5:9-12  'I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat'.  To me this verse basically says when it comes to not associating with people, he meant to not associate with hypocrites and people who call themselves holy who are quite not.  That doesn't apply to sinners who desperately need the good news of the gospel.

    Currently: Collide
    - Imperfections

Monday, 28 September 2009

  • Round One of Xanga Princess Contest

    So I entered the Xanga Princess Contest.  To introduce myself...

    Hi, I'm Mac_Libureet. I was asked to post a picture that explains my username, and this picture would be the best explanation I can give because my username is an anagram of my real name.

    CAD71569-434

    My favorite thing in the world is music.  I grew up with music, my passion is music, my future career will be music etc...In fact a common topic I blog about here on Xanga is music.  My other passion is making people laugh, by storytelling.  I love to talk, talk to people, hear people talk etc...I connect with people through talking and through music.  Also I strongly believe that knowledge is power.  I love learning stuff whether it is how to fish or baking or weird trivia or how to relate to people.  Then passing my knowledge onto others, my mind puts everything in simple terms so it is easy to teach people in terms they can understand. 

    1. Everyone wants to know why it is that you are participating in the contest, so in a few sentences will you please explain why you believe that you should be crowned Princess of Xanga? I don't think that I necessarily *should* be Xanga Princess. I believe that my place in this world is to serve others and not myself.  I am not an amazing person through what I do, I am who I am through G-d's making.  I joined this contest because the idea of something like this is sounds daunting so I decided to just go for it just for fun. 

    2. Please list three (3) things that you could improve about yourself giving a short explanation to each of the reasons.  1. Procrastination.  I procrastinate things because I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing or it seems like a huge task.  Then I end up rushing a project and knowing I could've done better on it.  2. Giving my time to the wrong people.  Right now I'm working on giving my time to the people that really matter, not the dead weight friends who waste my time.  3. Little white lies. Its just little unimportant things like telling my mother that class starts at 3:30 instead of 4:00 so that I get there on time, or saying adding one more to anything to make it a little bigger [I've stepped on this three times!!]...

    3. If you could change ONE thing about today's society what would you change, and why? I would like to change society's lack of respect for others.  The way we act on the internet, with each other, and how we treat our superiors.  We've bought into humanism believing that we are the greatest and the shebang and we *deserve* all this stuff, but really if we did something selfless for somebody else we would learn what it is to truly live.

    4. Five years from now where do you see yourself? I see myself just out of college, and starting a business teaching piano with wedding/funeral performances on the side.

    5. If you could change ONE thing about Xanga what would you change, and why? I would block all posts that talked about something negative.  There is too much negativity in this world and a lot of people on Xanga aren't helping.  I know a lot of people would just say that I'm just a hopeless optimist but I do believe half of the world's problems are attitude.

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    Vote for me at:  http://they-call-me-steffyjean.xanga.com/712696575/xanga-princess-pageant-15-spots-still-open/

    VOTING ENDS WEDNESDAY THE 30TH AT NOON!!

    Currently: Unbreakable
    - Wrapped In Your Arms

  • night out, myself and other deep thoughts...

    So tonight me and my brother went out to a friend's house I haven't seen in a while.  I haven't really interacted with my brother either.  He is one of those people that love to talk about whatever, and I can get talking with a few questions.  Then I can just sit back and relax while he talks and I act interested.  It works for me and we skip the awkward silences. 

    We haven't been out in forever with him, and we got home a little late, nothing new...but maybe it's his sense of humour or I really don't know what just something is about him that kinda bugs me.  No matter how nice he tries to be he just doesn't quite get it.  Like he wants to care and be there but he just barely misses the mark everytime.   I love to talk and I need someone to listen.  Not someone to listen until they get to the next point of talking.  That just kind of bugs me...

    ...Plus he's been called a nerd and he thinks thats the greatest thing since sliced bread like 'IM A NERD' kind of thing.  That gets on my nerves too, I can't stand when people label their personalities.  As in 'im a tomboy/OCD/perfect/amazing/cool/nerdy'.  Titles like that should be a given not self inflicted.  But that's just my opinion.  Honestly I don't want to tell people what I am I just want them to see it, but a lot of people just see what they want to see, not what is there or what I am trying to show them...

    ...that bugs me a lot.  and thats half of the not listening thing that my brother has...

    please.

    just listen.

    its all i ask.

    i am more than just a two dimensional stereotype.

    i am me.

    too complex for me to understand.

    too complex for you to think you understand.

    thank you for listening...

    Currently: Two Lefts Don't Make a Right... But Three Do
    - I Am Understood?

Sunday, 27 September 2009

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

  • Up

    Up was TEH BEAST MOOVEE UV 2009!!!

    No but seriously you HAVE to watch this movie because it is the best movie of 2009.  Seriously, I think its the best movie ever but thats just me because it fits everything I think a movie should be. It was funny, sweet, and kid friendly.  I cried three times the first time I watched it!! It was just that good!!!

    The basic premise of the movie [I will make a post about with spoilers if ya'll want] is Carl and Ellie.  They are married and they've been friends since they were kids.  As a kid Carl promised [crossed his heart] that he would go with Ellie to Paradise Falls, as that is Ellie's dream as an explorer. He actually starts the trip out there when the city wants to buy his house from him, so he flies his house away.  Because this is the house that he and Ellie have spent years refurnishing.  The one they played in for hours as kids. 

    My favorite characters were Russell and Doug.  Russell is the pesky little kid who gets stuck on Carl's porch so ends up going along with the adventure.  Doug is a dog they find in South America who has a collar attached that lets him speak like a human. 

    This is the perfect movie for all ages especially people with soft hearts.  It was three times better than Wall-E.  I could talk for hours on how great this movie is but I'll leave you here...

    Currently: Up (Single Disc Widescreen)

Sunday, 20 September 2009

  • How do we save Featured Grownups...

    Well Featured Grownups needs some people to participate and that will probably happen by promotion.  I'd say get a plug because those do work, and get members to spread the word.  I honestly think it is awesome and I'll tell my good Xanga friends about it.  Most things like this get popular because of word of mouth.

    HAVE YOU GUYS HEARD OF FEATURED_GROWNUPS? What do you think?
    featured-grownups.xanga.com

    Currently: The Time Traveler's Wife

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  • Teenagers are sorely underrated...now if we could just get them off of Myspace and into real life to help make a difference in this world...

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  • Mac_Libureet
    @thefantasticpamtastic - I used to use this to vent but I censor myself just a little bit more because too many people in my life now read this...
  • thefantasticpamtastic
    I joined Xanga because I knew people on here. I also wanted to write to vent.
  • Dare2BDiferentt
    Told you that post would be wicked.