london.

If it weren't for completely wonderful friends and family, I would leave for London tonight.

I mean, I also need way more money than I have, but I can still dream. 

I honestly think I might live in England one day. 

Not just to study abroad, but as in actually have a home and a job there. 

I've been doing a lot of thinking about my future lately, and it's a definite possibility. 

I guess we'll wait and see, won't we?

country at heart.

Earlier this week, I went on a long walk around Mt. Pleasant with two of my friends. It was beautiful and relaxing... but it didn't feel like home.
It was then I realized that I missed seeing corn and hay fields every day. I missed the rural landscape I was used to. So that night, another one of my friends and I went on a drive and we both were so excited when we found a dirt road and corn fields.

Spending the whole summer in my hometown was difficult most of the time, because I was used to my independence and freedom during school and I missed my college friends a lot. But I did learn something last summer and that was how much I love living in a rural community.

While I was growing up I went through different phases of liking or hating my country roots. All through out high school, I hated it. I hated country music, I hated milking cows (I don't think I will ever NOT hate milking cows though), I hated the stereotypes that came along with being from my hometown, etc.

It wasn't until this summer that I realized how wrong I was to hate all of that.
While I won't live on a farm for the rest of my life, or probably not even in my hometown, I'll always be country at heart. I don't hate country music anymore. Lady Antebellum is actually one of my favorite artists, right along with We The Kings and Lady Gaga. I'm so proud to tell people that I grew up on a farm, because I know the meaning of hard work, and I don't mind getting a little dirt under my fingernails.

I might not look like your stereotypical country girl, but that doesn't mean a whole lot. I was made in rural America, and that's where my heart will always be.

Also, I secretly love demo derbys... but don't tell anyone that, I don't want people thinking I'm a major hick!

words of wisdom.

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE. 


remember this, my friends.




Elephant Love Medley from "Moulin Rouge"




PS. I love being back at Central. I love every thing about this place, even when I have to deal with stupid classmates and annoying professors.

7 things.

7 places I'd like to visit...


1) London. I actually plan on being there in a year from now. (HOLY SHIT.)
2) Berlin, so I can visit my German soul sister Kubie.
3) Rome.
4) Australia 
5) Moscow
6) Spain
7) Dublin, another place I will probably visit in a year from now... 

7 things I'd like to accomplish before I die...


1) Write a novel
2) Have my own family
3) Meet JK Rowling
4) Visit all the homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder
5) See a Broadway show
6) Be a good teacher. I know that's broad, but I can't really decide how to phrase it...
7) Direct my own theatre production


7 things that annoy me...


1) Ignorance
2) Blind hatred
3) Mean people
4) Really terrible music
5) Unappreciative people
6) My own anxiety 
7) Humidity 


7 things that make me happy...


1) Sunshine
2) Curling up with a good book
3) When I see an elderly couple holding hands
4) My friends and their ridiculousness
5) Good hair days
6) Michael Buble
7) Disney movies

7 movies that I love...


1) How to Train Your Dragon
2) Slumdog Millionaire
3) Tangled
4) Becoming Jane
5) Crazy, Stupid, Love
6) Aladdin
7) The King's Speech


7 things I'd like to own...


1) An old truck, for the country girl in me. 
2) A time machine
3) A dragon
4) A ukulele 
5) All the books I could ever think of
6) Another pair of Converse would be nice...
7) oh! A Hogwarts acceptance letter :)


7 favorite songs...

1) Haven't Met You Yet by Michael Buble
2) Hey, Soul Sister by Train
3) I'm Yours by Jason Mraz 
4) Skyway Avenue by We The Kings
5) Story of Your Life by We The Kings
6) Our Kind of Love by Lady Antebellum
7) Fearless by Taylor Swift

definition of a hopeful romantic.

I feel like I should have explained my name in a much earlier blog, but I guess it's better late than never!

Most people use the term "hopeless romantic" when they describe someone who believes in love, and cries at sappy movies and all that junk. Well, I don't think that's a very accurate term, for me at least.
By saying someone is hopeless implies that they have no hope, no faith, or no belief.
To call me a "hopeless" romantic is the very opposite of what I am.

I have complete hope that I will find love.
I have faith in love and it's abilities.
I believe in true love.

Like the awesome Hank Green said in his last vlog, "Loving each other is pretty much the most important thing we do. It's not just the reason the each of us as individuals exist, it's the reason why our species and our civilization exist. It's the only reason why we can do these marvelous, magnificent human things!"

And that's why I am a hopeFUL romantic.

optimism.

I am an optimistic.
A few days ago I was thinking about differences between being an optimistic and a pessimistic. Here is my conclusion:

It's easy to be a pessimistic. Even I will admit that if I stopped and thought about it, life can suck hard core sometimes. So, it's easy to just always think the worse of people and the world, because you don't have hope and faith.
To be an optimistic is difficult. You have to look at the shitty world and think "It will get better." You have to hope for the best, even when the world is telling you not to. You have to fight every day to be strong and happy. On most days, it's easy. Then you get days where you feel like giving up and becoming a pessimistic. Some people do, and it's because they are tired of being strong. Some people don't, and they keep going through life because they know life is worth all the trials and tribulations.

I'm not degrading pessimistics at all. I see them as optimistics that have led rough lives. I hope that one day they feel like being strong again and look at life in a brighter light.

saying and doing are two different things.

I have a habit of planning my future. I like to come up with goals for myself, and some even turn into dreams, that some people don't understand or like... but I don't care.

However, there are some things I have said before that I want to do, that I know never will happen.
For example:
-Kiss a Jonas Brother. Preferably Joe.
-Marry Charlie McDonnell. Or Rupert Grint. Or Darren Criss.
-Go on a magic carpet ride.
-Attend Hogwarts.
-Watch all of the Vlogbrothers videos. THERE ARE OVER 800.
-Stop my Mtn. Dew addiction.
-Start exercising.

Then there is the list of things I say I want to do, and have every intention of doing.
-Study abroad in London. 1 year and 1 month away!
-Write a novel, published or not.
-Meet JK Rowling and try not to cry when I tell her how much of an inspiration she is to me.
-Get a tattoo near my heart, or on my wrist, that reads "Mischief Managed."
-Learn to play the ukulele.
-See a Broadway show in NYC.
-Name one of my daughters Emma Hermione.
-Take my parents to Australia for a well-deserved vacation.

Now, enough bloggin. It's time to finish that dang Harry Potter fanfic. I've only been putting it off for 7 months... whoops!