tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71179068415722205272024-10-04T22:22:35.489-05:00"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me.; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert CamusAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11778646573977309117noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117906841572220527.post-61000995999097590372013-04-10T17:52:00.000-05:002013-04-11T18:17:08.171-05:00

I remember several years ago when I was either in eighth or ninth grade, we had a massive ice storm around this same time.  The difference between that one and this one? The weather had been consistent leading up to the storm, and it took more than one single day for the ice to completely melt off. Today when I got off work I decided it would be the perfect day to take my mom's

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I didn't realize until a few months ago that I can have bad cases of anxiety.  Most often I'm stuck laying in bed at night unable to think because of my anxiety.  The solution I found, is something that I used to do a lot and I think is the main reason why I never completely realized I had so much anxiety at night: reading. When I was in the first grade we had these reading

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Today I decided that I would share my top 25 most played songs on my iPhone, even though my entire music collection isn't even any where near being able to fit on my phone.  I thought it would be fun to share, seeing as I just keep the songs that I really enjoy currently and the ones that I like to listen to when I go to the gym. And Run by He Is We This Is the Stuff by Francesca

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I feel that because of the nature of this post, I should at least put a warning out.  WARNING: This post expresses some of my views and opinions, you don't have to agree with me. I've had so many mixed opinions about Taylor Swift. When I was first introduced to her music years ago when I was in middle school, I loved her so much.  She was a young country artist just trying to make

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I've long since stopped listening to people who try to tell me that country music shouldn't be classified as music.  Instead I shrug my shoulders and try to keep my comments and opinions about rap music to myself. If you're like me and grew up listening to country music you can agree with me that the genre has changed quite a bit, no matter when you started listening, to the present. &

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For the last couple of months now I've focused a lot on forming new healthy habits.  It's been a rough start seeing as I've had to stop and start a few times.  It does however get easier to go a longer time before I have to stop for one reason or another, and the hiatus period is shorter each time, making it even easier to start again. Part of the reason why I have been focusing on

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When I was younger I would "read" the Wichita Eagle with my parents.  By "reading" the Eagle, I mean flipping through all the pages and looking at black and white and occasional colored photos.  Today I realized that it's much different when it comes to newspapers. For the last several years we haven't had any newspapers delivered to our house simply because we needed to cut costs

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I was in Kohl's yesterday when one of my favorite songs by Alex Day came on the speaker system.  What was so crazy wasn't the fact that I started singing along without even realizing what I was doing while shopping, but that when I realized it was Alex Day's song I couldn't believe the feeling of pure happiness I felt. (Photo Credit: Wikipedia - Forever Yours (Alex Day song)) It's

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The last couple of days have been wonderful just because we've started to get some rain in our neck of the woods.  The grass in our front yard has suddenly become a dark green and has made me realize that I need to start mowing sooner than I had originally expected.  The wheat is starting to look healthy and full of nutrients as it's still growing. With rain comes muddy

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It's amazing how fast time has flown since New Year's.  I nearly didn't even know it was April until today when I was forced to write the date down at work. With April, comes rain and a thing called B.E.D.A. (Blog Every Day, April). I decided that since I have been lacking the motivation and the spark of energy to write that I would participate again this year, and make sure that I post

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You know when you get kicked off a horse and you're supposed to get back on it? I wouldn't actually know what getting kicked off a horse feels like, but I know the jist of what the saying means. Doing something you've failed, or fallen track of again; aka, never giving up. Here I am, forcing myself to blog even though I haven't really felt like it in the last several weeks. Don't get me wrong,

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One of the most influential people in my life during high school was my youth leader.  She was always there for me when I needed to talk about things from church related stuff to the things I was going through during high school.  For the vast majority of my high school career I thought of my youth leader and the four other girls in my group as my family. Today we met at her house

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I thought I would post this today, because it was the first thing that made me really smile and laugh today.  Who knows, I might need to watch this again in a few weeks to brighten my day up or something. - Jessie

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(photo source: Citizens Advice Bureau) As a sustainability and environmental studies minor, I've been taking courses that have taught me in depth what being sustainable means and the environmental problems we are currently facing as well as the once we could be facing in the future years.  I get that most people will never spend over two hours doing reading, research and writing on these

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It all began with a text message reading, "how much does a can of mace cost?" that started my adventure last night with my brother. Our campus is really small, and unfortunately though we live in a safe city we've still got some problems of safety to worry about.  Throughout last semester we had a "visitor" who would appear at our dorm building late in the night wearing absolutely nothing.&

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I've been through quite a bit in the last three years.  I had my hip replaced my junior year of high school, I stumbled my way through senior year and began college.  Now, a time when I thought I had it all together is started to unravel at the seams. To keep the story some what simple, things aren't as happy as I sometimes make them appear in my life.  I have always been someone

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(photo credit: morguefile dot com) Last week for my literature and the environment class we had to read Thoreau's Walking. To be brutally honest, I didn't read the entire thing because I lost interest after the sixth page.  I did however gain a new look to the natural world from those six pages I did read. In general, Thoreau is writing that people are chained to their workplace and

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Like thousands of other people around the country and world, I watched President Obama's inauguration yesterday.  I was glued to the television for the entire morning and most of the evening watching the events with my roommate.  I found myself annoyed with the phrase "we're making history". I wish that everyone would say that to themselves every day, because in reality it is true.&

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Four years ago I was a freshmen in high school who could talk politics like an adult with my parents.  I watched as the election happened throughout the year and in some cases I probably devoted a bit too much time to watching the news and reading about the candidates and their platforms as they traveled the country.  Four years ago, I watched in my English class as President Obama was

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Every once in a while when I'm loading up on my music through iTunes, I take a risk and buy an entire album from a band.  I may have heard a couple of songs off of it but in general I've never had much to do with that band.  The last time I did this however, I took a leap and bought the entire album from a band I had heard of through Abby on YouTube called He Is We.   For the

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In the three weeks that I've had my iPhone, I have taken several photos of our dogs. Normally we only have the two small dogs around but since my brother is in town we've had to put up with two small dogs and the elephant that he claims is his dog Annie. In these weeks that my brother and I have been home, I've captured the dogs at various moments. Sadly, all of the photos make them appear like

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This coming Monday I will be starting my second semester of college.  With the new year and the new semester starting at nearly the same time, I've decided to make a list of some goals for this semester, hoping that maybe I can keep on top of things and complete everything on this list. complete and turn in every assignment, on time complete all readings form a study group for history

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The last few days I've been very contemplative about some things.  Most of the things I've been thinking of have been goals for the next four years.  Everything I had been looking forward to or working towards all happened in 2012.  It's 2013 and I don't know what I'm working towards now besides the general graduating from college in 2016.  Besides thinking of these things

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At the beginning of the semester I had a sit down with my academic advisor and he asked me if I had any goals for the next few years. I told him honestly I didn't have a clue what I was going to do with my life.  It was then that he told me I needed to start figuring some sort of goals out. As I welcome 2013 into my life, I'm not going to give myself a set of resolutions. Instead, I'm

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Let me make this clear, I am not actually moving, this blog however is.  I've made the executive decision to move Living a Life of Truth to WordPress.com.  What does this mean?  It means this, I will no longer be posting here, though I will not delete this blog quite yet.  My regular, irregular, posting will resume here though with everything that I've been doing, including

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