Bluebirds and Birch trees

"All textbooks should be burned." -my Mom, Jan. 30, 2017.

 So much seems to have happened already this year. And although we have so much of it left, we've already seen so much.  I feel like I've suddenly grown-up, and even though I know I have a long ways to go still, I can't help but feel like it's not as bad as I've come to imagine.  Here I am, in my last year of high school, getting ready to land my very first job. Prepping to get a drivers license, and finally figuring out that I do in fact want to dye part of my hair.  It might sound normal to everyone who's already gone and done it all, but the fact of the matter is that for each and every person who's about to go and do it--it might be more than a little scary.  I find myself thinking more and more lately about the past, when I would play for the whole day with my beanie babies (you had at least one I'm sure!) and play dress up with my imaginary friends. But also, not much has changed since then.  I still play with my beanie babies because I did...

 Or not even that long. I hope to be graduating by this coming Fall/Winter as well as a good number of my friends, and if that alone is not enough to get me or you excited to work even faster than I have been, well then... Remember that you're Out on the Verge of it all! So keep going!

 Yes, a lengthly title. But before I scare you too far off with such a claim, hear this--I am a Christian, yet I dress up during halloween.  Some seem to think that because of my Christianity, that I would abhor the things which halloween stands for. Well let's get one thing crystal clear.  I do not partake in the rituals and things that have been known to occur during halloween. I am by no means opposed to those who simply wish to dress up, and go house to house for candy. On the contrary, I love to dress up, because let's be honest here-DRESSING UP IS FUN!  I seem to always have a number of costumes planned every year, yet I always manage to pair down to at least two. Because weather is a variable that nobody can fully account for. So now I always have one costume planned for if it is cold, and one for warmer temperatures. Yet if the forecast right now is anything reliable to go by, I will be falling back to my colder weather costume. This is the line up at the...

 I did it! I completed Earth Science, and with a passing grade! (That's always nice) And with that, a virtual celebratory tea is in order. So help yourselves! *I do not own these photos.

 So here I am sitting in my living room working on science, whilst sitting in a warm robe that looks like it was designed after the Victorian era of fashion. And in a lovely cranberry wine color as well. Needless to say, the combination of the two, and the very soon to be added third element of tea, is making me feel like I am in the 1900's to 1910's as far as the realm of education and living goes.

So it has recently come to my attention that a graduation date had been pushed back by a fair amount of time.. due to both me not doing as much school work as I could, and a lack of wanting to complete said schoolwork due to conflicting mind sets.  However. As a graduation date has been set back, my first verbal response was, "We'll see about that."  And to keep up with that challenge accepted mind set, I have now already done at least two days worth of school that I would have done on a normal day, all before lunch. And I don't plan on slowing down, unless it is to eat, in that case I don't really want to be reading about astronomy while eating ramen. (I eat like a stereotypical college student, what a surprise.)  So that being said. I may or may not do all that well during NaNoWriMo this year, but that doesn't mean I wont try my best. And although I had been offered by a friend do join in a competition, I fear that with what life is right now, simply wr...