San Francisco Nights Are Calling

I didn't want to make this announcement until I was 100% sure that it was happing, but it is indeed true. 

In just a little over a month, I am California bound (San Francisco, to be exact.).

My friend Joli has an Aunt that lives there and offered her and all her siblings a trip there when they were turned sixteen. Both of her other siblings had the chance the year they turned that age, but both decided to just not go, so Joli and I not only get to go before Joli turns sixteen, but we get to go together. 

We're taking a plane from St. Louis sometime between the Sunday before or the Sunday after June 13th. We're still figuring all the date stuff out. 

We're staying for two weeks, and we're hopefully going to do some really touristy things like seeing the Golden Gate Bridge, visit the Jelly Belly factory, and Joli wants to see some weird haunted house thing. 

Needless to say, we're both super excited about the trip, but, I at least, am starting to freak out about all the details. We're going without any parents, and neither of us have ever ridden a plane before, and we haven't started getting anything for the trip ready yet. 

But, knowing us, we'll do it last minute, and somehow everything will end up at least somewhat okay. I mean, adults are trusting us to go to another state miles and miles away without any supervision until we land from our four hour flight....What could go wrong?   

Adventure Bound (Summer Bucket List)

My friend Joli and I made this a few days ago. 

001. Get a sun Tattoo. 

002. Play 'Messy Twister'

003. 'Fluff stuff' fight. 

004. Make the 'industrial bubbles'. 

005. Set a dandelion on fire. 

006. Tie-Dye shirts 

007. Use a Photo Booth. 

008. Go to a concert 

009. Sing in the rain. 

010. Tie a note to a balloon and set it free. 

011. Do a drink prank. 

012. Carve our names into a tree. 

013. Propose to a stranger with a ring pop. 

014. Roll down a really big hill. 

015. Make homemade lemonade. 

016. Smash a pie in someones face. 

017. Hold a free hug sign. 

018. Write in a bathroom stall. 

019. Fill a pool with glow sticks. 

Weekend ramblings.

//Warm weather and clear skies....until the weekend, which is raining nonstop. 

// Cut my hair half it's old length

//My friends don't realize my bed is only big enough for one

//bringing out our inner child 

"They call me....Cup for shoes."

//I was so cute once...what happened?

//Molly sleeps very weirdly

//Oliver does too

Things You Should Know About High School (vol.1)

001. It's okay to have your own opinion. You don't have to agree with everything that other teachers or students tell you. However, disrespecting someones opinion just because you don't agree is never okay. 

002. It doesn't matter who you are; someone is not going to like you. And that's okay. No one said that every person has to fall immediately in love with you. The best thing you can do is give them your biggest smile, and don't take the mean things they seriously. And sometimes, that's hard. But that makes you a stronger, and better person in the long run. 

003. You get what you give. If you're nice to people, people are nice to you. Even if it's just the simple we-aren't-friends-but-I'll-still-compliment-you type of nice, it means something to someone. 

If you do your work, you will get rewarded for it. If you're always on top of everything, and one day you fall off track, teachers will let it slide. 

004. You are not defined by your grades.

You are not defined by your GPA.

You are not a statistic. You can't be represented by numbers. 

005. You don't have to be everyones best friend. You don't have to kiss up to everyone just to make them feel better about themselves. They matter. You matter. But you don't have to be a part of everyones group. If you don't have a 'group' yet, you. will. find. one. All it takes is time. 

006. It's cheesy, and it's the plot-line to every teen movie out there, but: You just have to be you. No one else is going to do it for you, and the sooner you start doing it, the more people will open up to you. 

007. Carpe Diem. Don't worry about little things. Wear a hoodie. Eat that second cookie. Smile. Again. Because, let's face it: most of our time is spent in school. You have to find a way to enjoy it, no matter how pointless or boring or terrible it gets.  

Introducing: Me

I realize how long this blog has been empty of anything really, truly substantial. I've taken these past twenty + days to try and think about what my writing style really is. What my strong point is, and what needs a lot of work.
Really, I could use more time. No one ever really figures themselves out so quickly, and I'm still working out a lot.

Awhile ago, I read this book called "Just One Day". It really wasn't a great book, but there was one thing that was said between two characters that really made me think. The mother and daughter of the story had been arguing for a long time, and finally this part came up:

"You need to become a new type of mother"

"But what about me? What do I get out of it?

"A whole new type of daughter." 

Sometimes little parts that the author doesn't mean to be so important really stick out to me. And that's why I'm becoming a whole new type of blogger. But that means that you'll have to be a different type of reader. 

I don't want to have to tiptoe on eggshells worrying that I'll offend someone when I talk about my views on marriage equality (which I am for), religion (christianity), or any other views I might have. 

I realized something. That's not what good writers do. As writers, it's our job to be honest about ourselves, or the entire author-reader relationship is fake. 

So, here's your new blogger: 

So, hi. In case you couldn't tell by my url, my name is Madalyn Elizabeth. I'm a fifteen year old high school student from the middle-of-nowhere located in Illinois. (Anyone who lives in Illinois would probably agree that it's kinda a big blob of nothing.) 

I tend to be a sarcastic type of person. 

Music is my one true love. 

Also, Darren Criss. (#Fangirlin')

I don't really like TV (it tends to be full of lies and idiots), however, I do have a soft spot for BBT, Glee, and Doctor Who. 

There's a good chance that I was born a mermaid, but was forced into the human life.....like 99% sure. 

i like to pretend that I'm good at things like acting, singing, and applying eyeliner. (all of which end up pretty bad) 

Grammar is not needed on my blog. I cAn cApitaLize whatEvEr i WAnt. And trust me, I will. Most of my free time is spent on either tumblr or netflix. What can I say, I live an exciting life.

I am a Christian lady, however, I believe in marriage equality. You can disagree all you want, but I won't change my mind. 

This is my blog, where I will put all MY thoughts and opinions. Sometimes they won't be the ones that people agree with, sometimes they will. No one ever said that you have to always agree with what I say. I think that's what makes blogging so interesting. There's thousands of people with different ideas pouring them all over the internet for people to see, and appreciate. 

So, welcome to my little corner of the internet. Hope you enjoy the stay. 

Happenings

Being Attractive

Also being attractive

Black light bowling

Friends being silly

Most important people I know

Dying my hair...again

Joli being a bad bowler

Terribly lighted pictures

Universe and You (Cover)

(Me on Guitar, my friend Emma is the vocalist) 

Things to smile about

Shoes. lots of them. 

Disney Movies

Tumblr 

Netflix 

This quote

Spring Break 

Movie nights 

chocolate. lots and lots of chocolate 

Doctor Who 

Pictures that define your life

your favorite songs

ect.

Isn't it strange?

You know what I've noticed?

How fast things seem to be. It's like I just woke up one day, and all of a sudden I was older and had all these things that i was expected to do, and you don't even see these things happen. They just do. And I don't understand how you can go from playing outside all day and enjoying all the little things in life, and then almost suddenly have responsibilities and basically be an adult, and suddenly the little things don't matter because you're thrown into this world where everything is big and in your face. The more you try to remember how good things used to be, life throws a little obstacle as if to say 'that's all gone now'. And then you look back and remember all the older people you looked up to as a kid, and they're all older now, and it makes you think that one day you'll be older too, and that's a scary thing. Because you remember how much energy and light they had in their eyes, and all of that's gone now, and you wonder 'is that going to happen to me?'. And I just read this book, and the main point of it was "The minute you're born you start to die" and it's made me feel so weird. 
I realize that thinking that way can't improve anything, but it really isn't all that wrong.
And now I'm in one of my philosophical moods that make me think of the past, present, and future, and I wonder things like 'is it all really worth it?' and the answer really isn't certain.

Music Inspiration on a Rainy Day

Game Freak (acoustic) by Ghost Town

*Close your eyes and open your mind*

Empire State of Mind by Halestorm 

*A concrete jungle where dreams are made of*

Circles by Cavo 

*Run cause I know you're alive, I know there's so much more inside you*

Eet by Regina Spektor 

*You spend half of your life trying to fall behind, you ease in your headphones to drown out your mind*

Mama Knows Best by Jessie J

*See I ain't no old rag doll that you can pick up and drop*

Ironic by Alanis Morisette 

*Life has funny way of helping you out when you think everythings gone wrong and everything blows up in your face*

The One That Got Away by Heather Traska 

*We'd keep all our promises be us against the world*

At The End of the Day from Les Mis. 

*At the end of the day there's another day dawning*

Caves of Ice by Desterey Smith

*This love with you is the best that I've ever felt*

Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine 

*But then it stopped and I was in the darkness, so darkness I became*

Off With Her Head by Ghost Town 

*And if you think I'm a mistake, just break it off*

Break In by Halestorm 

*You are the only one, the only one that sees me, trusts me and believes me*