I missed Topic Tuesday so here it is.
Prom.
Not only prom, but prom and how ridiculous it is.

Point number one:
Girl spend way too much money on this thing.
A girls shopping list for prom goes beyond the dress and shoes. Lets put into perspective actual prom costs for girls.
Dress… $250.00
Shoes… $35.00
Hair and Make Up… $80.00
Jewelry… $20.00
Nails and Toes… $55.00
Tanning/Spray tan… $55.00
That’s around $500.00 not even including your meal, your ticket, your ride, and whatever you planned on doing after prom. This thing is expensive you need to make sure you will at least enjoy it. Come on ladies. You did not spend all that money to show up with some tool bag and not enjoy your night!
Disclaimer, I’m so not trying to be sexist I just only have the female view point. Please guys also go to prom with someone enjoyable that won’t ruin your night.

Point number two:
Girls expect to be asked to prom in some far fetched straight up ridiculous way.
Guys panic about just asking you to prom. It’s a big deal to make a move like that, and you so selfishly want him to have it written by plane into the skyline? It’s sweet that he even wants to take you! Take it easy guys, if she’s too particular about that then maybe she just isn’t the chick for you or anyone until she chills out. I mean, cute little ways are great but why do you expect a guy to hang a banner across the Golden Gate Bridge for you? He’s doing his best obviously.
Disclaimer, it’d be totally cool if someone did that and you’d win best guy alive award for that. I’m just telling the ladies to be appreciative of how you ask and I’m telling you guys to just do your very best!

Point number three:
The amount of drunk teens that can be impregnated on prom night.
Lets all start with half of you go to parties that get busted on every other partying occasion. Have you learned nothing? And I know prom can be all sweet and perfect and you might be hyper aware of the musk smell and dim lights, but control yourselves. You won’t be any happier tomorrow if you get crazy tonight. I think it is in every female that wants to party on prom night’s best interest to invest in a chastity belt. Add that to the prom costs $$$. Just be responsible. Trashy prom stories aren’t pretty.
No disclaimer, seriously don’t get pregnant.

XOXO
Prom ready Nealie!

Hello darlings, today it’s getting personal because my blog is my diary. Various information may be changed to protect the identity of the people involved.

The summer after the 8th grade I became completely infatuated with an older boy and we would always be “talking”. But I had moved away from him and things were complicated so we never had the chance to date. Keeping someone happy from a distance over a long period of time is difficult.

When we got older he came down to see me a handful of times. That would make me happy but when he was away I had no way of knowing what was going on with him, and when I turned 16 our phone calls turned into arguments about why I hadn’t made the effort to come see him.

There was a simple explanation.
1.) I’m a bad driver… It’s a curse.
2.) I’m directionally challenged.
3.) I couldn’t even drive to my own fathers house yet, much less even farther than that.

Then I got a job and my time has been equally but stressfully split between regular classes, college classes, athletics, and work. In my down time I would try to entertain a decent conversation about how his day went or the weather or anything really. That is, until eventually I would become busy again or I would fall asleep mid-conversation from for lack of a better word, exhaustion.
That eventually became too annoying for him and we had more arguments than conversations and I found myself unhappy every time we talked. In fact I stopped enjoying talking to him at all.

So I Nealie finally put an end to all that unhappiness because I decided I’m above that. I’m an awesome person and eventually someone will realize that and love who I am.

I hope everyone else feels that way about themselves too.

XOXO
you’re perfect.

Take the good with the bad, smile with the sad.

Smile through your struggles this week. I hope your quote of the week keeps you going. It will certainly keep me going.

You’re all so special, each and every one of my darling readers. And I mean that more than anything.

XOXO
Your Nealie.

The first time I ever hung out with Maggie I doodled her pictures of all our inside jokes as I sat on her twin bed tangled in her mini mouse comforter and she straightened her hair on the floor. I knocked a tub full of markers on her floor approximately seven times and picked them up and we found it so hilarious we laughed until we cried and it became our biggest insider.
“All I heard was BOOM! sigh… DANGIT!”
That was the 8th grade, and we were 13 and 14.
Now we are juniors and we are both 17.
And that all started the best friendship I will ever have.
Best friend I couldn’t do one single thing without you. Sophomore year, to last summer, to now seems like a time that we’re growing up way too fast and it’s all new and exciting, and I would be scared, but I have you. ❤ It's Prom, then our friends Grad, then Summer 2013 where BAM you're 18, then we're seniors. And I'm so stinking excited to have all this fun with you because seriously we could walk ten feet from a parking lot to a public bathroom and make more memories than some people make in a whole life time. I'm super positive by the way that last summer was the summer we turned pretty. Everyone has one. That was ours. I basically got all sentimental looking at our old pictures and realized that as much time as we have it's going to go by fast. So this is me slowing down and saying I love you, bring it on life, and why yes, we CAN do absolutely anything.

So yes, this is just a sappy sweet best friends until we die don’t really care who doesn’t want to see it on my blog Maggie is my best friend soul mate no matter what just deal with it blog post about the best person I know.

XOXO
your best friend.

So welcome to Friday, it’s a lovely day and I’m one happy girl because I made it through a very long week. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I took exit levels (aced Em just sayin) and I also had an irritatingly long night at work being antagonized by my least favorite manager.
So I’m rewarding myself with Starbucks and retail therapy. These are two things broke teenagers are just not supposed to do. Of course I’m not a sensible girl though so I obviously can’t simmer down enough to care about that.

This brings us to the If We’re Being Honest post of the week:
Guys, I’m crushing on someone like a sad sappy 10 year old. Like a 13 year old wants Justin Bieber or Taylor Lautner or Josh Hutchinson, I desperately want someone I just cannot have. So…
Dear people I do know or don’t know or the people from the tons of countries that probably don’t speak my language,
For the first time in forever I found someone that interests me… And sadly I cannot have him…
XOXO,
Honesty Hour Nealie.

I’ve got not title for this and it comes in picture form so I hope that it loads for you guys, but I was thinking maybe a few of my readers needed to see it.

Boom. So fear no abandonment by anyone you loved (or love). Some people just belong behind you, in the mean time focus on the people sticking beside you.

XOXO

While reading John Green’s Looking For Alaska, and Tina Fey’s autobiography Bossypants I’m finding myself rethinking most of life in a way that The Grapes of Wrath and The Scarlet Letter never influenced me to. Since I’m using my new Kindle Paperlight I find the definitions to hundreds of words I should have already known due to the fact that they were given to me in a thick binder with no other instructions but to learn them to become successful in life, at the click of a button. Basically darling blog, I find it much better to wade in the end of the literary pool that I am comfortable in. I may be big on expanding my reading and writing horizons, but not to the point where I ever want this to become something I don’t enjoy anymore.
I guess figuring out the Labyrinth of Life in John Green’s story is all ill ever be interested in and even if it is I could be completely content with that, and while learning many things about loving myself and how to respond to the people around me through the eyes of the always comical Tina Fey I figured out that you don’t have to be a musty, grey headed, Harvard graduate to be able to tell an amazing story and quite frankly one of the best teachers around. Maybe that’s why people and I don’t get along. They’re missing all this perspective.

If you stuck around to read my little book rant then hats off to you, and if you didn’t (Then you wont even read my perfect insightful ending) that’s okay, this is my little world and I write what I feel and sometimes you vibe with me and sometimes you don’t.

XOXO
Thank you blogosphere

Winning Sesh Wednesday!

I’ve got loads to spew from my brain out into the interwebs. I had such a great day that I couldn’t even deem this a Whine Sesh Wednesday.

1.) I’m eating hibachi. This is my food for life. Take notes boys, the way to my heart is probably hibachi.

2.) You’ll never guess how A comes into play. So here it goes! I made my first A on a college English essay! That was such a fulfilling moment. I almost cried, I know how that sounds but I’m proud of myself. As silly as it sounds that sounds this seems like the first perfect step in the direction of journalism.

3.) Finally Maggie! I’m out eating with Maggie and the fam. I can’t even remember the last time I got to see my Maggie outside of school.:( So I did our hair and make up and here we are eating wonderful food.

And to finish things off I just realized that prom is the weekend after this one, and that summer isn’t too far behind.

YAY FOR ALMOST BEING A SENIOR!
Bring it on.

XOXO
The Nealie that’s lusting for the summer days.

Heyso, I know quote of the week is a little late but that’s because I was feeling uninspired today.

Your quote of the week is:

Insert drumroll here.

Today might not have been a good day, but you can get up and try again tomorrow.

-P.A. Sanchez

Consider this your challenge to get up every day this week (or forever for that matter) and push through the day you were given no matter what you’re facing.

Every battle given to you is one you were meant to handle.

XOXO
Just Nealie

Hello my darling misfits! ❤ It's Friday so congrats on surviving the week!

This morning I stumbled upon my lucky bracelet from my San Francisco trip. China town was the coolest.
Flash back Friday picture.

Bam Golden Gate Bridge.

I loved China Town so much that I bought 1000 souvenirs.
Including my lucky bracelet, which I don’t find that cute, but I do find interesting.
Bracelet picture from right now.

Bam, the lucky bracelet.

Anywho, I slip this bad boy on this morning and my mom tells me I get to drive the Pontiac today!
This makes me happy because it’s sound system is so much better than my poor baby car Natalie’s and my morning jam session is what keeps me alive all day!

And it was weird because I wrecked my moms car over spring break.
On top of that I did no school work today! I feel like tonight will be best night ever for some reason. So please enjoy your Friday night for the both of us darlings I’ll see you Sunday!

XOXO
LUCKY NEALIE.