It's been awhile since I have come around...

Even though it has only been about 2 days.
But I have been so BUSY with school with a midterm on Tuesday and trying to finish a project up for next week. Also, we had a quiz tonight for my med/surg class that I completely bombed (which i am very mad/sad about) and I blame myself for not studying more. I mean, I probably only got 1/2 of that quiz right... sad I know. But it was meds that I suck at and now I need to focus on more for the next exam. I have an exam this coming Thursday and NEED to start studying pronto! Like now. =(
But I feel like I am always on the go go go. I feel like all I have been doing is reading and writing and researching and reading and studying.... ugh. I hate school. I am going to stop writing about school now because I just hate being negative and that is why I have a blog d

Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr

edicated just for school stuff but I just wanted to voice why I haven't been around as of late.
I miss reading all the blogs that are on my sidebars and miss seeing all the wonderful things that the blogging world can give... so I will take a break from studying now and look at all those wonderful blogs ...

Will you join me?

Until next time!

♥,

Happy Birthday, little blog of mine!

I feel so bad that I missed my blogs 1st birthday on Tuesday June 9!

It's been a long road to where I am now.
I don't have many followers but I have come across many, many GREAT and wonderful bloggers all around the country {and the world!}.

To those who do follow me: THANK YOU!

It means so much to have my very own little community and 'family' in the blogging world.

I have learned so much from ALL of you and have made me not only a better blogger but also a better person.

I have gone through MANY template changes on this blog and I'm happy with what I have now.

I like changing it every so often because I feel it isn't bringing out my personality or feelings I have at that moment. Or I get bored very easily with the font/color/template so I decide to change it once more. I wish I could just pick one and stick with it but I'm afraid that won't happen... anytime soon anyway.

I have some who comment every now and again and I love seeing that the 'effort' I put into the post doesn't go unnoticed. I also like to see the counter at the bottom of my blog keep going up and up and UP! I'm already past the 1,000 mark (and I know most of those aren't really people who read this blog but ya know... still makes me smile once in awhile.)

I really didn't start this blog to become famous or have thousands of followers (which I accomplished neither) and that is ok.

I wanted this blog to remind myself of who I was, what I liked and who I was becoming over the years. Even if sometimes my posts are just a random picture or a random quote or thought, I still want to have that 'recorded' somewhere for me to look back and see what my 20-something self was wondering or thinking or liking.

And if I happen to have children one day, I want to be able to have some kind of journal to tell stories about and have them see it and say "hey. my mom was an actual person who had feelings, who thought like I do at that age." I wish I had started one sooner because writing to me is a bit of a sanctuary and somewhat of a stress reliever of all the pains and sufferings that go inside my head and inside my heart. I have so many things I wanted to say but never had anyone to listen to them or even read them. In my teenage years I can say that I was somewhat depressed and in search for my true self ... and in someways I still am. But by not writing out the words or saying them out loud that were held inside I think I did a world of hurt to others around me that I truly treasured and loved.

I am a person who keeps a lot of things to herself, even now, and I think I have my younger version of me to blame because I never let out all that anger and hurt and depression out of my head. I was a rebelious kid (even if my parents and friends deny it... since I come off as a 'good girl' with my straight A's through high school and fitting in within the average group) and I hurt a lot of my family along the way since I decided to take many wrong turns in my life.

So in someways starting this blog a year ago I wanted some sort of relief from all that is held inside of me. I don't think I ever thought of it this way but yeah. It's a weight lifter off of my shoulders and heart because I can voice what I want to on here that I couldn't say when I was a younger girl.

Well, this post was never meant to be a self proclamation post but it did and I'm really not sorry for that! haha

I think I need these posts to help me out with things I hold inside and put in the corner. Because if they don't come out or I don't resolve them, I think I will be hurting others more than I hurt myself.

I guess you can say this is the very cheap version of going to see a professional psychologist!

So blogging world: Don't think I'm going away anytime soon! I have many more things I want to say and many more things I want to see, learn, experience through this little blog of mine. And if someday I have over 4 real followers I won't mind it whatsoever! ;)

Thank you all who do read this looooooooooong post and to all of you who do come read/see my blog regularly and aren't a follower I thank you as well! You are one of the reasons I keep this blog and don't make it private! Because if that counter stayed at 2 views... then forget about it! I would just go private! But seeing those numbers rise and rise, I figure I must be doing something right!

Thank YOU ALL again lovely followers and bloggers! You inspire me every day and I hope I can somehow someday return the favor!

Well this is cool!

I just added this new Zemanta plugin for blogger and I'm liking it.

Image by Lord_Henry via Flickr

It's something new and I decided that it would make updating my blogs {yes plural... why i do it... cuz i wanna.. hehe}. anywho, in very layman's terms this plugin helps you set up links to things you are writing about on your post.
Say for example, I want to write about Jennifer Aniston right? Instead of looking up pictures on google or yahoo or anywhere this lovely plugin called Zemanta does it for me. To the right of my

post is a little sidebar with all sorts of pictures that I can choose from like this one:

So all I had to do was click on it and it appears on my post!

Plus, it also does the link for me at the bottom of the image and i don't

Brad Pitt via last.fm

have to do the whole highlight, copy link, press link button, paste link and then it would show. Nope. Not no more! In addition to linking the pics it also links different words in your post like say Brad Pitt will be highlighted now because it gives me different sites to have the link to it... ok that maybe made no sense but if you add this plugin you'll know what I mean if you didn't get what I meant just now.

It definitely saves me time! Which is always a plus!!!

Also, for labels {i like me labels} it already gives you suggestions that you would only have to click on them instead of writing them all out!

Oh and one little last feature {that I know of anyway} is the link that can appear at the buttom of my post. It gives you different sites for anything you have posted {such as Jenn Aniston or Zemanta} so if your readers want to check out other posts about the same topics they can! So to check out more on Zemanta {and maybe Jenn} I'll give you some more links at the bottom!

Hope you get the plugin!

It's definitely cool and a time saver {calling all mom's and busy peeps in the world!!!}

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In need of a chuckle? Maybe a laugh?

Then go here.

You are bound to find something funny.

I did.

The one that accompanies this:

"It's so cute when couples have matching hairdos"

=)

{thank you to one of my daily reads for posting this site on her blog.}

I won!

I won these really cute CUTIES!

Thank you to Juliet at Yummy Diet Food!

Check her blog out here for many yummy finds like the cuties I have never heard of and much much more!

Will update when I get them in the mail!

Thank you to the people at Cuties!

AND a special thank you to Juliet for picking me and the other winners!

Can't wait to try this awesome fruit!

*Followers and fellow bloggers*

So I noticed a while back that I have a follower....



you know ... right there--->>>>>>>>

But I have no idea who it is... haha.

I am a fellow follower at other blogs like the ones to the right -->>>>>>>>

But to the one (and only) follower of my blog : thank you!

And to those out there who are not followers but yet come back and read : thank you, too!!!

I hope that I get up to 250 visitors by the end of the year!

So come on in and read!