June 3, 2011: A survival Guide

I should be asleep so I can get up early tomorrow for graduation practice and the senior lunch but I was trying to find my camera, which I cannot find. However, in the process, I found this journal and thought it would be a perfect journal for Delaney, Emmy, Nina and I for our traveling journal we will be doing this summer.
So I guess I’ll just discuss about my thoughts on what I’m feeling right now. It’s a mix of butterflies with excitement, nerves, and confusion. I keep thinking that I’ll soon wakeup and find myself taking more notes for Econ class. I’m really hoping that’s not the case.
This feeling though, is good! I’m ready to move on to a new place, create sort of a new life for me in college. Maybe meet a guy and fall in love for the first actual time. But who knows, a lot could happen or nothing could happen.
So since I know some of you reading are on the road to graduation, I thought I’d give you some tips for you in your senior year*.
1. If you have Schwabenbauer DO YOUR WORK! His class is honestly the hardest and he doesn’t accept late work! So DO NOT procrastinate! This could go for any teacher you have, just ask one of the graduated seniors or one of the kids that know the school fairly well, there is always that one teacher that you don’t want to procrastinate in his class.
2. DO NOT miss more than three days in the semester (unless school related). You will have to take both the Gov/Econ final if you do. From what I’ve heard it’s hard a crap! This also goes for any class you might have at a different school. You don’t want to miss too many days in the last year of high school because you might end up with some nasty consequences.
3. Take MAD notes in Hislops class. A lot of the stuff he, and I’m sure MANY other teachers talk about are always just in his stories and you want to be sure you write down as much as you can so you can study from them and get a good grade in any class.
4. SAVE ALL YOUR TESTS! If you are from where I am, save them mostly for Gov/Econ just in case you have to take the finals. However, it is a good idea even if you don’t have to take the finals. You make sure you have all the correct answers on them and sell them to the pathetic kids who missed more than 3 days. It’s a great way to make money and you feel great afterwards because you don’t have to take the tests.
5. When you are assigned a project such as a giant seventeen page paper or you have to create a business for Econ class, get started RIGHT AWAY! You cannot afford to mess up big projects your senior year since because it all comes down to your grades in the end.
6. GET RID OF POWERPOINT! It’s so boring and it’s way to overused! DO ALL PRESENTATIONS IN PREZI.COM! It makes them look better, plus no matter how many times you use it, it is always different and there are endless possibilities with it! Plus teachers get really tired of PowerPoint’s.
7. GET A JOB! Senior year might be stressful and busy but you are going to want to be saving up now! Trust me! Plus you can always have a little extra money to go out to lunch with friends when the school’s lunch is not looking very appetizing (which is usually always).
8. Star applying for scholarships AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! If you are a junior, start this summer but get your FASFA filed ON JANUARY 1ST! It’ll save you time later and also you get more opportunities for scholarships and grants, as well as work-study!
9. Start looking for colleges NOW! That way you can get a dorm right away (plus it’ll be better) and you don’t have to worry about wondering where you are going to go. If you don’t know what you want to study, go to a community college or a 4-year college close to home first and go and at least get your general’s out of the way, you can easily transfer to a different school and continue.
10. DO NOT SLACK! I’ve said this a shit load of times but I cannot stress how important it is. If you slack your grades will go down and you could be on the verge of not graduating, like a certain red headed friend of mine. Just keep up on things and try your best; it’s going to be hard as f*ck but it’ll pay off in the end when you walk across that stage to get your diploma. (Sound cliché I know but it’s true)

xoxo
JW

Summer Playlist 2011 Part One

1. Sexin’ on the Dance floor- Cash Cash ft. Jeffree Star
2. Attack Music- These New Puritans
3. Attack of the 60ft Lesbian Octopus- Does it Offend You, Yeah?
4. Bad Reputation- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Time to Pretend- MGMT
6. Figure 8- Lovers
7. Howlin’ for You- The Black Keys
8. Roll Away Your Stone- Mumford & Sons
9. Rolling in the Deep- Adele
10. Rain- Mika
11. Daylight- Matt & Kim
12. Cherry Bomb- The Runaways

June 1, 2011: Summer 2011!

An entire year has come and passed and I can officially say that I'm excited. I'm writing this nine days before my graduation from PHS. Boy, what can I say, I'm ready to get the eff out of this small town. I just hope this summer is going to be better than last summer, after all the big drama that happened. However, I have a feeling this is the summer that is most likely going to top all my other summers past...

So over the course of the year many, many changes have happened to me. For one, I have new friends. My old friends K, B, T, M and so on really let me down after last summers incident and then it just progressively got worse after the school year started. I hate the fact that I don't talk to them or even acknowledge them at school, but I think it's best that way.

Ofcourse I can't help but think about all the great times I had with them, but you know people, they change, or mainly you change and they don't. I feel like I have matured more than them over the course of the summer. Of course I still have my immature moments with friends, I do feel though, that I have grown up more as a person and they just haven't. Which is why it was time to leave that nest and move to a new one, which didn't take long to find.

This new nest is quite amazing, new friends, new life, new style, new way of thinking. I have felt myself grow as a person and I don't think I would've been able to do it with out this new niche that I have created. However, it isn't very long until I will have to create a new life for myself in the quite bigger city of Missoula, with going to college and all.

This year I have had so many experiences; good and bad, but all ending up to help me in the end. All of it leading up to this summer, the summer that will hopefully be the one to top all others.

This is...
My life to Welcome.
"I'm back Bitches"

The day had been warm, which was quite crazy after the freak winter had here early this spring. As it should be though, spring was finally arriving. E's dad was gone to Alaska for two weeks, which meant that D, N and I would be staying over for the weekend, and we were going to have a damn ass good time.
That night a breeze had drifted down by the lakes edge as well all walked down the winding path to Boettcher park below the lushcious green grass of the golf course. Our voices carried out in the emptiness of the area, we laughed and talked about what we were going to do for the rest of the night. We decided after we spend some time here we would be off to E's to make homemade alfredo sauce.
We got to the park, damp grass tickled between our toes as we walked over to the sandy area to get on the swings. We sat on them, pumping our legs back and forth, trying to see who could make it the highest. D sat on the grass and started playing her ukulele, struming "House of the Rising Sun" by Bob Dylan that she was still learning. It then turned to some random songs when she couldn't remember the chords for one song.
It wasn't soon that we were on the merry-g0-round with D playing her uke still and looking up at the stars, talking about boys, school, bible thumpers, pot, cocaine, alcohol. Between the time we were talking about that and talking about life in another galaxy on a planet just like ours, we ended up at the end of the dock, laying side by side. Philisophical words came out of our mouths as we started spurting out quotes, stanza's from poems, chorus' from songs. We tried to differenitate stars from satillites, pointing out constallations.
Music started and we were up into the grass, dancing like hooligans, like gypsies around a fire, Native American's praying for sunshine to make life grow. We would laugh, dance, sing; joyous moments.
Dancing in the grass, on picnik tables, around posts. We laughed and laughed, spun around in circles till we all feel on the ground and sighed. We created a bond. A bond that would be the start of the summer. A bond that would hopefully last us along time.
We had our cliche movie opening, some sisterhood of traveling pants, a secert harem of yah-yahs. We were ready for summer to start and our lives to begin. The only question was when?

I'm back Bitches

Hey everyone!!
My blog will be coming back up this saturday! Don't miss the first post of the summer!!

SUMMER 2011

Coming Back up Soon!

Unicorns and Hippies (Preview 2)

Hello again everyone!
I just keep coming back to give you all more previews of what's to come this summer for My Life to Welcome!

Here is part one of Episode One of mine and my friend Eryn's video blog Unicorns and Hippies! Look out for part two of episode one coming very soon! Also subscribe and watch out for our upcoming videos this summer!

EPIC (preview for the new blog!!)

Hey everyone!
I thought I would give you all a preview before I get back to my blogging ways of the summer!

So my English teacher came and told me and my friend, Mahonie, about this new facebook fad called "planking." I mean a guy in Austrillia even died from trying to do it on his balconey.

However for my friend Mahonie, she became a little bit obessed with it!

So here is a preview of what you can expect my friend to be doing and maybe me... haha! Enjoy our EPIC fail at planking...

Mahonie, pretty obessed with "planking."

Me... failing!