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Sophie 103.7's I love the 80s weekend!!!

Texting Proposal

The following is the proposal I am writing to my parents in attempt to get texting. I don’t even care if it’s unlimited, I just want to get something. Would you care to add any suggestions?

Texting Proposal

1. Nobody talks on the phone anymore. 
2. Instead of initiating a long phone conversation, a text can be used for a quick, to-the-point answer.
3. When I need to call to ask about a homework assignment texts are faster since the assignment is typed on the phone and sent and one does not need to take time to read the assignment for the other person to write down. You can view the assignment on your phone through the text.
4. Like number 3, driving directions or people’s addresses can be sent through text in a quick manner.
5. Mass Texting allows for communication among multiple people without disrupting their time since they may choose to reply immediately or when one has time. It is also a great way to send reminders to others or send event schedules. This is especially great for Core Team, ASB, and other groups.
6. Texting is convenient since most people will look that their text messages but are too lazy to check their voice mail. They can also wait to view texts on their own time and you will not disrupt them or take time to create a well-thought out answer.
7. Showers will be shorter because I would want to see my texts.
8. Texting is great when someone is in a noisy area and talking on the phone would be frustrating due to yelling and the repeating of “What? Can you say that again?” Or, in the opposite case, while in public one does not have to talk loudly into a phone (like in stores or the library).
9. In case of an emergency they are useful since they are quiet. (For example, a kidnapping)
10.  Texting would result in talking less on the phone. We wouldn’t need unlimited minutes for talking and it would even out on the bill.

Extra Notes

1. Even Tiffany and Sophie have text! (My younger cousins)

2. My driving instructor told me to text him whether I passed the driving test or not and I couldn’t.

3. For projects (like my Spanish video project) I was out of the loop on decisions that were made over text.

4. I should get it for my 18^th birthday! =)

 

Mary and Zach Hight really know their fashion. They sported this lovely jacket that inspired Marc Jacobs. What more could they come up with?

February 24th

He Ate My Heart

He ate my heart
He a-a-ate my heart

 
In physiology today we dissected a pig's heart! Lori was the perfect partner since we both like to go crazy and cut, poke, and stab everything up. We even made matching rings from (what we think) is the aorta. We haven't really been paying attention lately.

 

Towards the end of the period McDreamy and I (McSteamy) took photos in lab coats. Don't we look like hot seductive doctors?

Btw Zach, look what I found on my computer:

I think we should win......

Props to Kevin Tran for making an amazing video!

Be sure to look for my one word: "I." =]

Now that you've seen it, VOTE, VOTE VOTE! Click here for the site.

Julie Tracy

After a short Saturday work day and some time driving around on my own, it was lovely Simone Bagalso’s time. She looked so gorgeous in all of the outfits and photos she was in. I loved her yellow sunflower theme and how she incorporated everything with it from the centerpieces, the invitations, to her third outfit.

After the loveliness came the craziness, or at least, that’s what Mr. J. told me this morning. I haven’t really danced since homecoming and it was a workout! ha, it’s nice to feel those abs and thighs a working!

I love how almost every photo I use to blog about comes from Julie's flickr, which reminds me about yesterday. I always enjoy Core Team meetings, and the fact that Pat laughs at everything just makes things better. Oh, and I absolutely love his stories. Stephanie, Zach, Joe, Angellyne, Andrew, and I could not stop laughing when we found out the name of Pat's 5th-6th grade girlfriend has Julie Tracy as a name! That's right, Julie Tracy. 

 

first lookbook post

"There’s God’s will and there’s your will. They’re not always the same."

(via heckyeahmrvangrove)

Around the School

 

Gas <3

Jake's comfortable without socks on Bigg's couch during lunch

Kristine sleeps in Prosser's with my gum in her hair

  

It's hard to see the desk ninja. ;]

Lifehouse Skit

I heart Charisse

Change

"Screw your future."

I know I deserve it so maybe that's why my sobs aren't as loud. I have never have felt as such a bad daughter as this moment, the moment when my parents tell me that they're disappointed in me and that they don't care anymore. 

Never have I felt as such a failure.

I have always had a problem with waiting too long. I am always lazy. These things cause me to miss out on being the best of me, just like the girls in the book my mom read.

I always blamed it on my personality saying, "That's how I am," but that's not the truth. I have been lying to myself this whole time. It is up to me, it is my choices that cause me to do what I do. 

That's why today is the day when I will promise myself to change. No matter how hard it is I will change. And if I don't, well, screw it, I'll try again and I will change. This new chapter in my life will no doubt have many stumbles but I must persist. My will will do what it I will it to, but in order for that to happen, my mindset will change.

It will be hard but I'm glad Lent is starting on Wednesday. This Lent is going to push me to change. Maybe doing things for my parents can be easy to shrug off, but doing things as Christ will force me to make things work. 

So, here I go, making my family first, stop putting things off, and starting being the person I want to be.

I'll make a retreat post later, when my mind knows it I won't stray away. 

Ok, here goes. I feel like typing it down will make it more permanent. In addition to being a better person, starting Wednesday there will be:

• No Meat 
• No Internet
• Obvious exception is for school work
• Email is ok for non-pleasure. This way it won't be too hard. 
• Blogging is ok but no looking at my dashboard (except for the first page cause if I'm gonna post something I need to see the first page--duh.)
• Exercise at least twice a week

"Who knows, here goes..." -Roger and Mimi in "I Should Tell You"

Andrew and I like to open our legs.

Harmony

I don't understand.

I just don't understand. I spend lots of time thinking about why. Perhaps it's just my personality that makes me this way, how I think that everyone should just live in harmony. I know that my ideal world will never come into existence but can people just try a little bit more friendly?

I don't understand when people say they don't like someone they don't even know. Even before you've met them. I'm guilty of this but, I don't proclaim it as a huge problem. Just because someone is not the time of person you would normally hang out with, doesn't been you have to hate them. Maybe this is something I don't understand because I feel like I can be friends with most people. It may be because I try to see the good in people, and now, I also try to see people as their mother would. The first I learned from my mom and the latter I learned from Pam. These two women of great faith will influence how I try to perceive others. There has been so many times where I've met people that I had a bad impression of through others but turn out to really enjoy their company. I no longer want to make the mistake of seeing who someone is through someone else's eyes.

I don't understand when someone can hate so much and call someone "fucking bitch." Why would you go online and do that when you know that they will see it, when you're purpose is for them to see it? It's just going to make matters worse and cause the problem to be endless. I see this on my dashboard way to frequently for my liking.

I am no way saying that I have never done these things. I make mistakes and even though I try to learn from them, I still make the same ones. I wish that you too can see what I hope. I want the world to be happy, the ways a little child dances in the sun.

There are so many things that I don't understand, and those were just a few. I am sadded everytime this happens, or even when someone curses more than I am use to. I absolutely hate it when this happens and my respect for a person is lowered, especially church friend because I expect better from you. Respect may not be the right word, more like my view of someone is not as high as it once was. I get so disappointed. In a way I feel like Holden Caulfield, wanting to remove the writing on the wall, wanting innocence to remain. I am not going to stay a child, so I know I will not be able to see the friendlyness I want in the world. As the years pass, I know I will only encounter more corrruption, and I become distraught for I only want the world live in harmony.

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." -Thomas Merton

Today I had my very first experience of driving alone! It feels great to finaly get my license. Then during work day my mom went to school to get the GPA holder from the car. She left me a note, how cute! It says:

12:00 PM

Tracey,

We take the base of GPS and go to LA to shop for car. Take care of Travor. Eat and take medicine until we get back.

Mom & Dad