My Favorite Things of 2012

In the year 2012, we were astounded by new things and of course, dealing with certain things in our lives. Anyways, I'm going to give you my top 10 favorites (I normally do not do these lists) in music (songs and albums) and movies. (You may be surprised by this!)

BTW, Merry Christmas to Everyone!

Music (Songs):

10) Kelly Clarkson- "What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)"
9) Fun.- "Some Nights" (I like this song, but it is so overplayed.)
8) The Wanted- "Glad You Came"
7) One Direction- "What Makes You Beautiful"
6) Pink- "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"
5) Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa- "Payphone"
4) Gotye ft. Kimbra- "Somebody That I Used to Know"
3) Jason Mraz- "I Won't Give Up"
2) Nicki Minaj- "Starships"
1) Taylor Swift- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

Music (Albums):

10) Sigh No More- Mumford & Sons
9)  Born to Die- Lana Del Rey
8) Making Mirrors- Gotye
7) Some Nights- Fun.
6) Take Me Home- One Direction
5) Overexposed- Maroon 5
4) Blown Away- Carrie Underwood
3) Red- Taylor Swift
2) My Head is an Animal- Of Monsters & Men
1) The Truth About Love- Pink


Movies (side note- I have seen a few of these):
10) This Means War
9) 21 Jump Street
8) The Lucky One
7) The Raven
6)  Dark Shadows
5) The Avengers
4) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
3) Step Up: Revolution
2) Pitch Perfect
1) The Hunger Games

Hopefully, you enjoyed reading these and may get inspired to do one of your own. Maybe they are all different than mine. Anyways, I hope you have a safe and amazing Christmas. I will probably update this thing after Christmas and New Years'. (If I can remember most of it!)

TTFN!

Even more stories to tell...

Hopefully, in the past few months you've watched my recent YouTube video on my channel. Because I haven't quite updated this thing in a while.

Let's begin with September 2012...


I usually don't remember much of this month so yeah.

Now onto October 2012...

As you know, I was friends with someone I mentioned in my blog. She & I are no longer talking. Basically, to make the story end somewhat easier, we are no longer friends. Took me off of Facebook, since she says I do that repetitively but whatever. Anyways, I took a few days out of my week to mail her a package with items she gave me in the three years we knew each other. The package contained some items and clothes she gave me such as a Nightmare Before Christmas hoodie, a Twilight t-shirt, a Vampire Diaries shirt; also had some in-scents that smelt like lavender. I never used them because I don't trust myself with anything that relates to fire. I also wrote her a letter containing some things I've been dying to say to her for a while along with giving her phone number back. I'm really glad to no longer have this person in my life anymore. She sat there and hurt me. Not physically, thankfully. Said lies and lies and didn't give one freaking bit about it. Well, good. I hope she's enjoying herself without me. Because I can now call myself a free person. Why is that? I can now do what I wanna do without her telling me. I hope she enjoys her herb garden and witchcraft, cause I sure don't.

I get to tell you about my camping trip. We had it on the 5th-7th of October 2012. 10/5/2012- I headed over to my Aunt's house to prepare for this weekend coming up. Since my sister is away at college, I was myself for this outing with my parents and my dog, Hyatt. We arrived and said our typical hellos and hugs to our relatives. Got settled in, and then headed to my cousin's football game later on. We also did meet most of our other relatives at the game. The game lasted for a good 2 1/2 hours, and I also got to meet my cousin's girlfriend and my other cousin's boyfriend. They seem nice from what I met of them. We left after and just hung out at my aunt's house. Since I knew one of my cousin's like One Direction, I made her a CD the day before with their newest track Live While We're Young, and I gave it to her. Her mouth dropped and she was ecstatic. Even my other Aunt (that was in the room) thought was that really genuine and sweet. Everyone came back and we chilled out until midnight then went to bed.

10/6/2012- A new day has risen over the mountain sky, and today my family gets to make breakfast. But before breakfast my other cousin had a rather nice incident to wake almost everyone up and it was a nice early time too (7:35 a.m. to be exact), to which she found a bug in her pants. LOL. Then went on a walk with my cousins and grandpa. We had a variety of items such as fruit, muffins, and juice. The main dish was chip beef for everyone except me because my dad made me a modified one with the same base but with Tofurky slices diced up. It was pretty good, without the exception of over peppering the dish. Chilled out for a little while and we got on with the usual happenings for the day. Lunch was around noon, and my other Aunt (that I mentioned yesterday) was on that so we hung out, got ready and lunch was served later on. Of course, my other cousin's boyfriend decided to come over and hang out. Played games, ate food, and hung out. Then later, my cousin's girlfriend decides to come over and I thought that was nice. We all tie-dyed our own shirts, jammed out to a playlist I made, ate, and hung out. Had dinner, and just sat outside all evening and did whatever. The night has now risen, and we sat by the campfire and my aunt read a book entitled The Relatives Came. It was very easy to relate to, since it was our camping trip. Afterwards, we just sat by the campfire and enjoyed the evening until bedtime.

10/7/2012- I woke up to hearing noises outside my tent and it turns out to be loud people talking yet so early in the morning. It was very cloudy, rainy, and gloomy outside. I loved it! Played with my cousins' Legos' and then we ate breakfast. It was a delicious breakfast, to be exact. After our tummies were settled, we had a Sunday service at my aunt's house (since they are a bit religious) and we all gathered in the living room to begin the service. She began reading from a book she had in the house, then my uncle sang songs, and afterwards we did an activity. Probably a favorite of mine. Everyone of the family members drew a name of a different person and we had to say two nice things about them. (Boy, did the waterworks come out on this one!). One of my cousins' drew my name, and he said such nice things that I was bawling my eyes out. He's a gem. (Really, he's that sweet! Then the activity continued). Then we all took the camping photo and prepared to get our stuff together to head home. We left around noon, said our goodbyes and hugs and I was headed home missing my family already. Came home that day, chilled out, and did whatever the day brought us.

Of course, I got hooked onto an artist most girls' like these days: Taylor Swift. I put whatever songs of hers' I liked (including the overly repetitive ones) and the ones off of the album Red. She's a pretty rad chick, even if I hate to admit it. Most people didn't believe me, but it's now time to believe.
Halloween went pretty well on 10/31/2012, as I went as Frankenstein. Candy was my lover, then it became my enemy afterwards.

November 2012...

I'm having my usual on and off days. Hanging out at home with family and Hyatt. I may have a deck soon outside. Which is going to be sa-weet! Anyways, Breaking Dawn pt.2 comes out 11/16/2012 and I want to see it! It looks really good. On 11/17/2012, it's my 20th birthday! I hope it'll be one to never forget as that day hasn't happened yet.

Time to close.
Time to end.
Time to love and cherish every moment.

CYA!
Lauren.

Want to know what happened in the shortest amount of time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ0SybULzo&list=UUKDCYZDS_KvzrCu3TrhzreQ&index=1&feature=plcp

<------ watch the video above and i'll catch you guys up instead of writing. I'm incredibly busy this summer and I haven't had the time to.

I promise I will write a blog soon.
I mean it! :D

Then Continues Into March then SPRING BREAK!!!!

Con't March.

Most of the days became good for me, some however did not. On March 11th, we had a Sunday dinner at my mee-maw's house with family. I brought two dips for an appetizer, one of which was a Spicy Bean Dip. It wasn't that bad to them. Got to see cousins, which was nice because it feels like forever when you haven't seen them. The next day I got some stories done and the day after I got a shiny white Maytag oven. I love it! :D A few days out of the month I could get out of the house as long as I was with family not anyone else. Surprisingly, St Patrick's Day wasn't that bad at all. I am not Irish, so I celebrated anyway regardless. That same night "Dazed & Confused" was on and it was AWESOME! Of course, one night this month I made dinner which was great to everyone! It was wild mushroom stroganoff and dessert which was Strawberry-Mango Crisp. YUM! Everyone loved it! That same week I attended my first group session in weeks! It was fun! Afterwards, I headed out with my BFFL to see The Hunger Games. I hadn't finished the book yet (I was only on Chapter 9) but overall the movie was great. Also, that weekend I had my group bingo raffle and it was fun! That Monday I was dragged to my sister's choir competition; it was a bit of a bore but I found it to be interesting for some reason. I brought my The Hunger Games novel and finished it that day. Brilliant! Every other day after that, I just had my usual days at home.

April (most of it headlined)

Of course, April Fools' Day wasn't as exciting as it would be since that day I had to go to over to my Nana's. The next day became even better, I headed out with my BFFL and her mom to the mall. So much fun! My BFFL also bought me stuff from this beauty store called Lush and the stuff is three bath bombs (you drop them into the tub and they fizz and change color) and a small tub of face cleanser entitled Cupcake. Also, that same day my doggy Hyatt has his Doggy 101 classes and he did surprisingly well at them. The day after, had to do chores before heading out to do some shopping and to get lunch. We went to find my sister's prom shoes (she eventually chose a black strappy heel- so cute!) That same week, I headed to the bay with family and it was long and tiring when we arrived. Most of the time down there, we hung out and did whatever. Came home on Saturday late, chilled out, and watched "SNL"; it was HILARIOUS! :D The next day was Easter and I received my usual Easter candy in my basket which was Peeps, a Chocolate Bunny, Starburst Jelly Beans and Reese's Peanut Butter eggs. Also that same day, we headed out to Mamma Lucia's for dinner and was dee-lish! I loved it. Had an alright night later on and all is well for this first somewhat two weeks in April.

Inspiration is out there and it needs to be found. Me being thoughtful helps out so well. CYA next blog!

Just a Recap... In Case It Needed to Happen Again

Well, I haven't updated this blog since January and it is now March. Wonder what things come out to be next?

February Recap
Of course I did see friends at my regular group I go to on Fridays and my adult group I only see every 1st of month. Well, the adult we did on the 4th of Feb. was interesting since some people like to run their mouths more than expected. We went to TGI Fridays and had a nice time there. I tried their fried green beans with wasabi-cucumber-ranch sauce. Ah! To die for! My main course was a parmesan encrusted salmon with sweet potato fries. YUM! Afterwards, we headed to Barnes & Noble to browse around for a hour and a half. I got a new book (out of my comfort zone) entitled "Skinny" which I am already halfway through and if you're wondering what the book is about it's a girl dealing with anorexia. It's interesting of an book, I just really didn't want vampire books right now. Went home later on, and enjoyed myself at home with family. The next day on the 5th of Feb., was the Super Bowl, of course I don't usually get any of the football terms they are talking about but I watch it anyways. The commercials, on the other hand, were pretty funny.

The halftime show with Madonna was great regardless of M.I.A flipping the bird. That was a nice night to kind of remember. Also on the 10th of February I got to get of the house and head out to Arundel Mills mall with my best friend and some of her family. We chilled out before heading to the mall. Such a fun time! I'll never forget it! While going home that night, "Bohemian Rhapsody" comes on and I begin singing a little off-key then the chorus kicks in and I headbang like no freaking tomorrow. Her mom was like, "You can headbang in my car anytime you want." DING! A WIN! Got home about 10pm, chilled, headed to bed later on.  Valentine Day's of 2012 was interesting since I recieved my two boxes of chocolate and a beautiful card. It was a lovely day (pun intended.) I had usual day at home doing chores and playing with my puppy, Hyatt. He's getting so tall, it made me realize how small he was when we first got him. Anyways,  on the 22nd of February, I did something that changed my whole outlook on life. I wasn't going to even put this up here but might as well. That day I watched of my recording of "Glee" and it was heartwrenching (you have to watch the episode in order to understand) and MTV aired the "It Gets Better" special and all of these feelings came out of me. I typed a letter coming out to my parents, sister, and best friend. I felt good about it and have been better since. That same day my best friend chatted me about it and the happiest of the matter thought I was really brave for doing that. My parents on the other hand wouldn't be taking it so well. My dad thought I should wait, my mom didn't even like it to begin with and my sister wouldn't love me anymore if I was that. I don't have to wait, I'm 19, for goodness sakes! I will do what's best for me!

I went to group on the 24th of February, and surprisingly, no one knew I came out of the closet (only my best friend of who I trust.) Well, that same day, my nerves kicked in so badly, and two to three of my group members brought up certain subjects in relation to me coming out. Someone thought, "Are you okay?" I was fine, I responded. I wanted to talk to my best friend about everything but as usual she ignores me like she usually does. Thankfully, at least I have a shoulder to lean onto with the darkness consuming me. Got out of the house the next day (2/25/2012) and went did some shopping. Such a fun day! The 26th of February was the day of the Academy Awards and it was also nice to watch as well.

March Recap (so far)
Surprisingly, March began with some bad things and it continued to do that to me. Ever since coming out on the 22nd of Feb. I have been acting out more than I should (stealing money from my family is one example) I haven't regained my parents trust or anyones' for that matter. And I have been on house arrest (w/o monitoring bracelet) so I can't do anything I wanna do, which really sucks. On the 2nd of March, my sister decided on calling my grandmother and telling her all of the bad things I've done. I wish they would move on from the freaking situation! (they still haven't by the way.) Can I earn their trust and my life back? Maybe, I don't know. My grandparents came in on Sunday the 4th of March, and what was said was killing me inside. My sister had to tell everyone there that I am (insert sexual orientation here.) I was ready to run home and scream. I eventually didn't and everyone loves me regardless. They all think it's a phase and a complete joke. I was being serious! My grandmother thought it was my best friend that made me come out of the closet. (It was lies and she still didn't believe me.)  She said something that made hate her inside which was for her to move to Oregon and never come back. (because she thinks my best friend is a bad influence on me. I disagree.)

As I end this blog for now, I just needed to tell everything because I feel like I am lost from the world surrounding me since everything is gone and I just want to have a life ridding of the darkness and bringing the light back in. Hopefully, I can be off of house arrest and see everyone I miss at my group on fridays and my adult group on saturdays 1st of the month. Most importantly, I want to see my best friend again because I miss her like crazy (in a best friend kind of way) I hate not seeing her some days. With me being on house arrest, I wish I could see her.  Anyways, I'm gonna end it here. I will see you when I see you.

Happy New Year, Bloggers! I'm Back! :D

Well, finally, 2012 has arrived and has brought me such good things; not really many since it's now January. Did everyone have a great christmas and new year? I surely hope so. It feels really weird to be writing on here again, I missed it so much. Anyways, I haven't updated since the day before my birthday last year and I'm going to tell you everything that I missed in the past months I haven't written.

November 2011 Thanksgiving- It was relatively good for the surprise of the matter, I had a nice time down in Fort Mill, SC with my family and extended family. Good food and good times were there on hand as they always are. Left a few days after and headed home since three of my family members had to return to the regular school/work week.

Christmas 2011- For some apparent reason, I didn't feel the excitement this year for Christmas as I usually do. I casually went down the stairs and saw all the things I was possibly going to receive. Anyways, I got a load of stocking stuffers such as candy and conditioner for my hair. I got a Motorola Xoom Tablet, a XBOX 360 game for Kinect, a Barbie (no joke about that) and that's about it until I went to my Aunt's house.I headed over to my Aunt's house for the usual Christmas party she has every year. I received new purple slipper booties and iTunes gift cards. Later on, we had the Adult/Kid gift exchange my family brought four gifts which were a mini cupcake maker, a lava lamp, and two other things I can't remember. We had the exchange and I received an assortment of Redskins merchandise such as a bottle opener key ring, a bottle holder, and a jersey bottle sleeve. Pretty nice, huh? We went home afterwards and just chilled out. It was such a long day and I was pretty much tired. The next day, we headed over to my Nana's for her usual Christmas party. It was my family and more extended family that lived around the state. I received so many gifts such as a stationery and pajama set. Ate dinner and had a wonderful time there.

New Year's Eve 2011/2012- Surprisingly, we had my aunt, grandpa and cousins come over for the New Year's weekend which was surely needed. I love them so much. They came and the whole weekend was so different than it usually was. Hung out, played the Xbox and did whatever was to be done. New Year's eve night we had more family come over for the time being and it was such fun for them to come over. Of course, I got to see one of my favorite performer's that night which is Lady GaGa. She looked stunning and performed amazingly well. She did "Heavy Metal Lover", "Born This Way", and "Marry The Night". Later on, she also dropped the 2012 crystallized ball with mayor Michael Bloomberg. Such a magical night for the ages! Went to sleep later on and all is well in the new year just beginning.

Christmas Party January 1st, 2012- The next day, my family that came went and headed home while we went to another Christmas party I usually don't like going to but whatever. Headed over to my Dad's cousin house for the Christmas party and we were the first ones to arrive. We brought cheese dip and ironically, Mac N Cheese and of course two pies for dessert. Later on, we hung out with our cousins and they got puzzles from us that were quite difficult for them. They each received one puzzle of this order- Apple, Diamond, Pink Rose, and A Moon. We helped them for the most of time while getting distracted by the TV since the Baltimore Ravens game was on. Continued to hang out for the most of the time until we left since we had to go see Hyatt. Went home and all is well on this day.

That's a lot to remember, huh? It surely was for me. Anyways, enough about family so I get to the serious stuff. Hyatt, on the other hand, is letting me sleep in the mornings and not so early as he did when he was just a little puppy. He's gained weight (15 lbs to be exact) and got all his shots that he needed including his rabies. If you're wondering if my best friend and I talking, then the answer of that question is of course, yes. We are still talking, even if some days I don't want to talk to her. We keeping having our ups and downs as usual. When I went to group on the one of the fridays in this month, she got an attitude over something so stupid which was playing "Red Solo Cup" for a friend and she had her music on her mac and I was like, Can you please turn it off? She was like, oh I don't like that song, and I told her to turn it off and leave. She got an attitude and left. Whatever, quit being whatever it is that you are and grow up! She continues to be an attention grabber as she always is. I also have been writing some stories since the new year began and I felt so good about writing them. I have so many ideas to begin projecting onto paper, so yeah. Anyways, I always like to leave my entries with something a little inspirational and I will do that.

We live in a world where everything that is cool is not necessarily the biggest hit to come out of it. You are what you are, if you want to change for somebody or something, then don't do it. You'll regret it later on. So, live your life and just enjoy it. I saw a video I watched yesterday and it was truly amazing. (There's a link below this entry.)

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ElvcAcg7yLA&list=FLKDCYZDS_KvzrCu3TrhzreQ&index=3&feature=plpp_video

See you all again soon and continue to enjoy every day as if it were a new one to experience.