Hey wonderful people of the internet!
Yesterday was an eventful day to say the least so let’s jump on into it.

Yesterday I got out of school at 11:00 a.m. because one of the many “senior perks” is leaving after finals. So at 11:09 I had my friend Erin in my car ready to meet up with our friend Teddy.
Shortly after meeting up at my house, changing, and playing with my new pet kitty we all hopped into Teddy’s car and headed to the zoo. We went to the zoo partly because I had never been to our local zoo and partly because everyone absolutely loves the zoo.

After that we decided to head off to the mall in search of some killer shoes for my friend (graduation calls for killer shoes). We did find them! However, not before I found 2 dresses, a shirt, and had formulated a hair brained idea.

So then my friend Teddy and I decided to head off to Black Diamond where I made the very first decision of my adult life. (My dad is going to be really mad about this, sorry dad.) I decided to get my belly button pierced. The pain of getting your belly button pierced is 100 times easier to deal with than a cartilage piercing, and 1000 times easier to deal with than the pain of your appendix on the verge of rupturing. Teddy held my hand and watched me get pierced through the phone screen so she “wouldn’t gasp and freak me out”. Probably because that’s just what best friends do. My piercer Zoe was really cool and super nice. I always love when a professional gets it into your mind that whatever you’re about to do won’t hurt near as bad as you think it will. (Like the time I got my appendix out and they were all “it won’t hurt”. I mean… It did. It was still nice to hear that it wouldn’t though.)

XOXO
NBNewlyPiercedNealie

Special thanks to Teddy for holding my hand and Zoe for being rad.

Everyone buy Ryan Mike and Ike’s because yesterday was his birthday.

Happy Birthday, glad you can hang!

XOXO
NBNealie

On May 22nd I had the honor of inducting a new member into my chapter of the National Honor Society. An NHS induction is pretty cool because everyone gets to dress up really nice and get recognized one by one on stage. The whole thing makes you feel very impotant and superior (until you go back to school the next day and feel terribly ordinary again). The whole thing takes about an hour, and the current members and new members have to show up an hour before to practice the whole thing. After I had done my part in the practice run through my friend and I (like the truely superior and scholarly human beings we have come to be through the many trials and tribulations of high school) went into the lobby of the auditorium to steal cookies. If we’re being honest that was my third favorite part of the whole production.

My second favorite part was that you have to be super dressed up and beautiful (or hansome). So I got to wear my favorite black dress and my favorite pair of black wedges (they’re totally my moms shoes… not mine). Plus our induction fell on world goth day so I felt my completely black ensemble was more than apropo.

Lastly my most favorite thing about NHS induction is that you can pick whoever you want to induct! The person I wanted t induct was taken… So I went with Grace! This was up there in the top ten best decisions I’ve made in my 18 years. Why? Well because after Grace’s name was called and we went on stage and I said the infamous induction line and gave her my stole Grace leans over and whispers in my ear on stage, “We had our own Pearl Harbor here today Ashley Katchadourian.” (Which you wont understand unless you watch The Most Popular Girls in School so look it up on YouTube) I lost it on stage and Grace forgot to hug me so we successfully created the most awkward induction pair possible.

This is Grace:

This is Grace and I after she made me laugh:

And afterwards I ate a legal cookie and had some punch. Basically it was stellar.

I will insert the link to MPGiS below. (WARNING: IT’S DEF NOT OKAY FOR CHILDREN/LANGUAGE SENSITIVE PEOPLE.)

XOXO
NBNealie

Hey so I’ve been doodling and reading books. Basically just trying to get back into the groove of me. I thought I’d share a few!

XOXO
-NBNealie

Hey so it’s prom day!
It’s my senior prom (prom #3 for me) and I’m pretty excited to look like I’m not homeless for a solid 12 hours (yay me).

Anyway as usual life is life and I bought a white dress. So. It’s see-through-ish (I just invented my own hyphenated word, score). The sob story is I had nary a pair of underwear that couldn’t be seen through the dress.

Now I look really homeless and I’m at target buying underwear.

Wish me luck on not looking this exact way at prom.

XOXO
NBNealie.

P.S. The target lady commented on my purchase awkwardly. Thank you human being for being as awk as I am.

XOXO
NBNealie

XOXO
NBNealie

So I while I was at work on Saturday this man came up to me and asked me what I was doing with the rest of my life. Okay. Big question coming from a stranger… I told him I was going into journalism with a minor in business at my first choice school. Shortly after all that jazz I was going to be an editor.

This guy literally laughed in my face and told me I would never make a living unless I did something with math. Naturally I was really hurt that someone had laughed at my life plan. After 18 years of trying different things, deciding what I would be good at, and then finally deciding on the one thing I could picture myself doing for the rest of my life… A complete stranger laughed in my face about it?

Due to the fact that I’m too sassy for my own good I said, “Sir all due respect, I’d rather live the rest of my life happy and penniless than have any sort of math based career. You can’t discredit all the creative jobs because we wouldn’t even be in this store right now without them.”

I haven’t quit thinking about that since.

Xoxo,
Nealie